And the answer is.....

cream cheese! That's right, turns out if you leave cream cheese in your fridge for a long time (there is a possibility that it's been in there over a year....) it turns out really, really gross.

So my goal with the "Name that movie" feature over to the right is to stump Laura. It's a new goal really, when puting a Newsies quote up there (Remember the hot tip I told you about? Nobody told the horse.") is never in a million years going to stump Laura. But this new one might- so check it out and hazard a guess!

Tip o' the day: Duh! Don't let things just hang out in the fridge for over a year!

Two bathtubs

Elliot roared into the parking lot, jumped out of the car and up the stairs two at a time. His wife got out of the car slowly, and went deliberately up the stairs behind him. By the time she was walking through the door, he had already turned the on water to the tub in the guest bathroom and was laying down the second of three giant plastic sheets. After they had had to pay to have all the carpet relaid in their previous apartment, she had insisted on the plastic sheets. She put her coat in the closet by the front door, stepped gingerly over the plastic to the kitchen. Pouring herself a drink, she returned to the living room and sat on the couch. Elliot had finished laying down the sheets and was now donning thick rubber gloves that ran past his elbows.

“You knew that movie was longer than 2 hours, didn’t you?” She admitted that she thought it be, and that it wouldn’t be that big a deal- so they got home a half hour late.

“Every six hours they need fresh water- I told you there can be give or take of 10 minutes, but not 30! Never 30!” He was now carrying large buckets from the kitchen to the master bathroom, to begin the transporting process. With the buckets full he walked slowly, deliberately, although still sloshing more water than usual in his haste, from one bathroom to the other. Running back with empty buckets for another load he ran like a madman, nearly slipping on the now slightly wet plastic.

“I just thought we could have a nice night out. You know, just you and me.”

“We did have a nice night out.” Elliot replied in between trips. “But we couldn’t have gone to an earlier show? A little extra planning is all it would take.”

She knew it was no use, so she remained silent, finishing her drink and observing her husband calmly from the couch as he made several more trips. When he was finished, carrying the last one by hand, he pulled the plug in the master bathroom, and quickly washed down out the tub. He then moved to the other bathroom to turn the off the water and retrieve clean towels to clean up any water spills.

His wife sighed and stood up to go to bed, as Elliot began picking up the sheets.

“I’m sorry,” he said. “But nothing is more important than the jellyfish. Nothing.”



This story came about as a possible explanation for our upstairs neighbors who seem to drain their bathtub several times at day, at all hours. Thinking that one couldn't possibly need that many baths, we resorted to more unusual possible reasons for this behavior.

Gross

I just found this in my refridgerator.

Any guesses as to what it is?

What to excitedly drive people crazy about next?

How went the concert, you ask? Was it as fabulous as hoped for, and worth all the hype?

Why yes, yes it was. They did a couple songs that I hadn't heard before, several that I had. And, I discovered a new favorite. Shannon is by far my favorite, followed close by Drew. Before it was that the other 8 were just there, pretty fabulous but none really stood out. At the concert I went to last year, I discovered that many times the voice sailing over everyone else that I thought was Shannon turned out to be this guy David. So I was pretty impressed with him. Well he left the group not too long ago. It seems that many of his roles were taken over by (dadadadum!) my new favorite number 3, Liam, who has always been in the group, I just never noticed his amazing-ness before, partly because he was overshadowed by Shannon & David. The Ten Tenors do a really great version of the Bohemain Rhapsody, and Liam was the man feature in that song. Although possibly my favorite thing he did was Nessun Dorma. This was one of the last songs they did, and I knew he was my new #3 before then, but that definately confirmed it.

Let's see, what else....so they really like the Beegees and did a few of their songs, in addition to The Boxer and a couple Queen songs. And of course, the opera and Australian folk songs.

So then after the show we are in the lobby debating about whether or not to stay for autographs. I know, silly question, why would you not stay, but I get shy & nervous in those situations. Well as we're debating they all come out and there's Shannon standing like 5 feet away from me. Well, ok, I have this here program, I'll just have Shannon sign it.

And then my mom says are you sure you don't want anymore? I'll go with you. Ok, well, Drew is standing right there, I'd better get his. Elaine says you should open your program to their page and have him sign there. I thought that a good idea, and so did so and got Drew's. And was then about to leave. And then I thought about getting home and only having 2 autographs. How dumb would that be? So I just got the rest.

Now, if you'll look closely, you'll notice that there are only 8 autographs on this page, plus the one on the front making only 9 tenors. Well, some of these are illegible really so I can't be sure, but I think it was a guy named Dom who I missed. I later was thinking about it and didn't recall seeing him in the lobby. He probably was there, I just missed him. Alas.

Tip o' the day: If you must paint your nails right before bedtime (and let's face it, sometimes there's no other choice) dry them as much as possible before sleep is really just the only thing left for doing. Then arrange your hands very carefully so while you fall asleep and the first little while your nails don't touch anything. Theoretically, by the time that you move in your sleep, the nails are dry, no harm done.