I am in full-blown deep-clean mode around here. Aunt Grace arrives on Thursday for a...brace yourselves...TWO WEEK visit. I mean, I adore Grace, and she's an excellent house guest, but two weeks is a damned long time for anybody. Anyway, I've been doing my usual pre-Grace deep-clean. If today I can deal with all the closets and tomorrow I shampoo the carpets, then we should be in pretty good shape by Thursday. Wish me luck.
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You know, I'm usually pretty enthusiastically open-minded when it comes to the whole flavored vodka thing. I've enjoyed Sweet Tea vodka, Vanilla vodka, Citron vodka, Cherry vodka, Blood Orange vodka, Pear vodka, even Berri Acai vodka. But the thought of this one made me gag a little...
That's right, Peanut Butter & Jelly flavored vodka. How could anybody think this might be tasty? What am I missing?
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This is Jude and my new favorite website - Draw a Stickman. It's SO fun. Both of us keep playing it over and over. Silly fun and addicting. Consider yourself warned.
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On Saturday, Jude dragged me to see Wreck It Ralph. The theater was so crowded that we couldn't get two seats together, which to me was a deal-breaker, but he just looked at me nonchalantly and said "I don't have to sit with you, I can sit by myself." Well, la-dee-dah! So he sat in one row, and I sat about 8 rows behind him. No problemo. And as I was sitting there, surrounded by OTHER people's children, watching a movie I truly had no interest in seeing (okay, it wasn't the worst movie I've seen, it wasn't Space Chimps or the stupid Lorax or any of those dreaded Chipmunk movies - I mean those all made me want to stick forks in my eyes), it suddenly occurred to me that we are aaaaaaalmost there. Almost to the point where I can take Jude and a buddy to the movies and DROP THEM OFF. Just leave them there and go shopping or even, gasp, watch a movie I WANT TO SEE. It was a little shocking, and so exciting that it got me through Wreck It Ralph without throttling the little boy with the runny nose in the seat next to me who was whining throughout the movie.
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Proof that I have officially become my mother. This commercial made me actually sob...
What can I say?
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That's it for today. Visit Stacy and the other randomers.
That's definitely a different and unique Darth Vader costume. My 18 yoa teenage daughter watched Wreck-It Ralph and enjoyed it. Then again, she got to sit with the people she went with. There's definitely quite the variety of vodkas on the market today.
Posted by: Terra Heck | 11/12/2012 at 09:39 PM
I love that commercial. And, you know you are officially menopausal f you weep just a little during it. Yes, I did.
PB&J vodka? Is so wrong.
Love love love the Princess Vader costume.
Posted by: Michele | 11/13/2012 at 04:51 AM
I cry at that Subaru commercial too!!! Oh, and the Chipmunks movies have got to be the worst OF ALL TIME.
Posted by: Claire | 11/13/2012 at 05:52 AM
I'd be in big trouble if I had an Aunt Grace coming for a visit - my house is a disaster!
PB&J vodka just sounds so wrong on so many levels...
That's a bummer you and Jude couldn't sit together during the movie - if that happened to me and PN, I wouldn't have wanted to stay. We are sort of interested in seeing Wreck It Ralph, but looking forward more to Rise of the Guardians. :)
That commercial did caused a misty-eyed syndrome! :)
That Princess Darth Vader is AWESOME!!! :)
Still Drying Out, Birthday Schemes and Dragon Eye Cake, Dino Moves: RTT Rebel
Posted by: Stacy Uncorked | 11/13/2012 at 06:33 AM
I'm really glad my mom has gotten over most of her underhanded comments about the state of my house. Not that she doesn't toss one in there on occasion, she just doesn't do it so often.
Turbo really wants to see Wreck it Ralph. WE will wait for the DVD. We just don't get to the theater that often.
PB&J Vodka?! That is just wrong on so many levels.
Posted by: VandyJ | 11/13/2012 at 07:08 AM
Okay - the pink Vader in a tutu? IS EPIC. I also admit to wanting to see Wreck It Ralph. Yes, I am weird.
As for the PB&J vodka, yeah, it sounds pretty disgusting, but I think I can beat it. The last time I was in the liquor store, I saw a display of bubble gum-flavored vodka. HALF-GALLON bottles of bubble gum-flavored vodka. You know, I *might* - somewhere in the deepest, murkiest depths of my imagination - be able to see a use for bubble gum-flavored vodka. But an entire half gallon??
Posted by: Jan's Sushi Bar | 11/13/2012 at 08:10 AM
GAG GAG GAGGITY GAG Why would you even subject us to that vodkanastiness? I liken it to my husband wanting me to watch a video of a horse having a pimple burst on his butt. THERE IS NOTHING TO SAY BUT WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
I don't care for the flavors but I will try them usually. This one though? AIN'T HAPNIN.
Zoe and the boy want to see Wreck it Ralph. I don't mind. There are some (I'm looking at you, Chipmunks! Also, Hop!) I refuse to see but I figure I can make it though Ralph. I subject my dad to the others.
I am there (I think) with the oldest girl and seeing different movies. She's 12 in a couple of weeks and although NO, YOU CANNOT SEE THE RATED R MOVIE, she is at last able to go to a different one from me.
Posted by: Arnebya | 11/13/2012 at 08:57 AM
I love the stick man site - and since my boss is at the dentist I plan to spend several hours (ok, 20 minutes) enjoying it. Thanks for sharing it :)
Posted by: The Bug | 11/13/2012 at 09:18 AM
OMG Pink Vader makes me wish I had a girl!
Posted by: Julie@Momspective | 11/13/2012 at 12:16 PM
First off, I can't do the Vodka thing since college :-) Actually hard alcohol in general, but that's another story...maybe for another spin. But PB&J vodka? That is just wrong. Ugh!
Posted by: Alaina | 11/13/2012 at 05:22 PM
Love the pink Vader! And will be sitting in UT bleachers on Thanksgiving Day!
Posted by: Janice Adcock | 11/14/2012 at 10:10 PM