Well. Then have we got a vacation rental for you...
Right here in York. Two master bedrooms (why two you ask? Well, we really don't know, we say), space for 12, pool, water views.....lovely really.
Yours to rent for a mere, eentsy, teeny tiny $12,000 per week.
Honestly, if you've got that jing to spare, we'd humbly suggest you buy a mosquito net or a goat or two. But it's just a suggestion. If you've got that much jing, you clearly don't need our advice.
We had what we now consider, a regular Saturday in January.
Before this year, a regular Saturday in January would have included:
It was taken this morning.....daffodils. In January. In Maine. Imagine.
Lance Dutson, a Maine blogger who runs the Mainewebreport will cover next week's federal trial of Scooter Libby, former Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
Dutson is a member of the Media Blogger Association, a group of about 1,000 bloggers that received the credentials to attend the trial. Dutson will share a seat with other members of the MBA during the trial.
If Dutson's name sounds familiar, it might be because he's the Maine blogger who was sued by a contractor for the state of Maine for criticizing an ad campaign. The suit was withdrawn after the contractor suffered a huge beat down by the blogosphere and even the maine stream media.
.... I'm getting over the debacle that was Monday night....I'm making positive progress in working through my seven stages of grief:
I've delivered the case of orange and blue wrapped beer to the tennis pro's house, the tennis pro who happens to be a Florida letter winner.
I've delivered our resignation letter from the club to the club President.
I've stopped uttering Tourette's-like f-bombs at random moments.
I've started uttering 'damn' at random moments, but without much venom, frequency or passion. Really. The damns are as ineffective as OSU's defense.
I've stopped throwing Buckeyes at my picture of Urban Meyer. It's no fun to pick on a guy who thinks pleather is still in style.
I've resumed throwing Buckeyes at my picture of Bill Belichick. This only has a little to do with Belichick's collaboration with Meyer, and more to do with the disaster that was his tenure with the Browns. In this house tt will never become unfashionable to throw things at Mr. Bill.
I've stopped the "Urban for Cleveland" campaign. Afterall, he and the SEC are made for each other.
I've started the "If You Give Us Back your Damn Buckeye, We'll Give you A Baby Gator to Carry in Your Purse" campaign for Shelley Meyer.
And the real proof that I'm getting over it?
I can finally offer heartfelt condolences to Florida basketball coach Billy Donovan on the recent passing of his mother, Lilly......wasn't little Billy cute?
This song has been stuck in my head ever since I listened to the Presidential Address last night.
First, I have to admit, this is not my grandma's recipe, but it's certainly someone's grandma's so the title isn't a complete lie. It's just good marketing.....
Flu season is upon us and I'm one of the early victims. I still can't quite shake the icky stomach, headachey, general achey, I'm so tired I sleep 15 hours a day feeling. Hubby thinks it's time for the doctor (no way, hosey, I don't like doctors), so before he insists, I'm making a batch of this specific recipe for chicken noodle soup.
It's not failed me yet. The friend who gave it to me called it her Jewish Penicillin. It's a perfect title. Leaving the skins on the root vegetables just packs it with vitamins and the ginger helps fight nausea.
Richard Lederer presents his lastest list of students' gaffes and botched spellings. Oh to be this creative:
Who said Florida's band was better? Ours can adapt on the fly. Forget Script Ohio. Meet Script OShit, performed by The OSU band at halftime of the BCS game, right after they played the Theme from Titanic. The only difference between our football team and that ship was that it took our team 29:44 seconds to sink and the landing was far less merciful than the deep, dark cold of the Atlantic.
This one's being passed around the Ohio internets at light speed (I've received it six times in the last 22 minutes) but in all fairness, I must point you to the MZone for the full story (and the place that I first saw the picture).
*The Best Damn Spellers In The Land
Frost on the roof of the shed. 16 degrees this morning, our lowest temperature of 2007. The unnatural green of the winter grass is muted by the silvery frost. Will it ever snow this winter? Or will we have to wait until July?
We got any number of very wonderful and exciting Christmas presents (some from readers of this blog) and while we appreciate all of them so much, there's one that we love just a little bit more than the others. It's the Red Whirley Popcorn Popper. It pops 8 natural servings of popcorn in less time than the microwave can pop a mini-bag full of chemical-laden fake corn (about a minute and a half on our stove. We use 1 tbs of regular old Wesson oil to make a full pot, reducing the fat and calories but not the taste.
Our red whirley came with a recipe book. We haven't tried any of them yet. But our whirley also came with my mom from Ohio and she makes this delicious caramel corn recipe:
Ingredients
2 cups butter
2 cups brown sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup Karo Syrup
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (mom uses a quick pour more)
lots of popped corn (6-7 quarts)
Place popped corn in a large shallow roasting pan (the aluminum foil turkey pans work well. We wash it and reuse it.) Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
Mix the first four ingredients together in a saucepan and cook for about five minutes. Add the baking soda and vanilla and stir until fully mixed. Pour the mixture over the pop corn and bake for an hour, stirring every 15 minutes or so.
Much better than Cracker Jacks.
Ohio State coverage is officially over until late August (with a possible return for March Madness, but don't count on it), and we hereby resume posting about random junk....
Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs on Tuesday unveiled a new mobile phone that downloads and plays music as well as a set-top box that allows people to stream video from their computers to their televisions.
Forget the phone, let's talk about AppleTV:
....the company will begin taking orders Tuesday for $299 video box, called Apple TV. It will be available in February.The gadget is designed to bridge computers and television sets so users can more easily watch their downloaded movies on a big screen. A prototype of the gadget was displayed by Jobs in September when Apple announced it would sell TV shows and movies through its iTunes online store.
The product could be as revolutionary to digital movies as Apple's iPod music player was to digital music. Both devices liberate media from the computer, allowing people to enjoy digital files without being chained to a desktop or laptop.
"It's really, really easy to use," Jobs told the crowd at San Francisco's Moscone Center before demonstrating the system with a video clip of "The Good Shepherd." "It's got the processing horsepower to do the kinds of things we like to do."
Apple TV will come with a 40-gigabyte hard drive that stores up to 50 hours of video. It features an Intel Corp. microprocessor and can handle videos, photos and music streamed from up to five computers within the wireless range.
Specs include:
The media hub will stream content from up to 5 computers around your home.
I'm not the only one excited. MSNBC reports that Apple shares jumped 5 percent on the announcements.It comes down to two:
1) It took Florida 90 years to win its first National Championship...now they have their second in 100 years of football.
2) Coach Urban, when asked about his National Championship jacket in the post-game interview: "Nike's been good to us...we have to be good to them."
This from the guy who earlier in the week said: This is the first time this Bowl has been played -- distanced itself from the other Bowls. We have an obligation to put a good product on the field. Make no doubt about it, this is a business trip and we will handle it as such.
Call me bitter or a poor loser, but college football is not pay for play. It's a GAME. It's fun (except for tonight when it was decidedly unfun). It is not supposed to be a business and to do or say anything that accelerates the decline to professionalism is wrong. With his two quotes this week Urban has clearly indicated that he sees this as a business, not a game.
Take the trophy. It's not worth that much.
Ohio State's Band is still undeniably better than Florida's.
Urban Cryer will hopefully remain true to his history and become coach of the Cleveland Browns next season. He's coached a beautiful game tonight.
GAAHHHH.
Daughter of a preacher man says JE*&())W FU%*$()*(%#(W* C)$*#N. Did we ever suck tonight. That was beat down of epic proportion.
Hats off to the Florida Gators.
....for Lee Corso's pick to win the game. In three chances, he has not picked the Bucks yet this year. He didn't pick us at Texas; he didn't pick us against Iowa; he didn't even pick us at home against TSUN. If he picks us tonight, we're toast.
Herbie just announced that this will be Anthony Gonzalez's last game as a Buckeye. Sigh.
The Ohio State University Marching Band has entered Ohio Stadium for every game in a precision drill that's unchanged since the early 1900's. Here's the The Best Damn Band In The Land and the Ramp Entrance.
5) Scarlet and Gray accessories look far better than orange and blue accessories, even if you are a Winter. Orange tends to make one look pale and it evidently causes you to wear silly hats.
2) Our O-H-I-O beats that crazy gator chomp:
3) The SweaterVest. No illustration necessary
2) Script Ohio:
And Finally, the Number One Reason The Ohio State University will beat the University of Florida.......we do not have a SuperFan:
We interrupt our Ohio State stuport for a quick public service announcement:
The village(s) of York is/are holding a blood marrow drive to help York High School senior Jason Durkin. He was just diagnosed with aplastic anemia.
The marrow drive is being held at First Parish Church (click link for a map to the church) on Wednesday January 10 from 4-8 pm.
Registration is $52.00 for each participant. The senior class has donated $2,000 (proceeds from their last, Kiwanss is paying for 50 people to take the test, the York Rotary has donated $1,000 to help offset the costs for those who can donate but can't cover the cost of the test.
Aplastic anemia is a condition that causes the bone marrow to stop producing enough red blood cells. Maybe if you're in the area, you'd stop and donate.
