Suburb Scraw

I just told my 20-year-old son that all my friends are going to see “The Guilt Trip” with their sons, and if he loved me, he’d go with me to see it, too.

I love when something random leads me to suddenly remember some obscure television show that I watched as a kid.

While watching “Christmas Vacation” tonight, it occurred to me that Doris Roberts has probably played more moms than just about any other actress, including the mom on “Angie”, a show that had only two seasons (from 1979-80) and starred Donna Pescow and Robert Hays, right before he played Ted Striker, the pilot with a “drinking problem” in the movie “Airplane!”

I’m guessing this show is not available on Netflix streaming.

houseofjules2:

I have a sickness and it’s called not being able to do anything halfway. Introducing THE PINK NIGHTMARE!

There are all kinds of things going on today for our holiday party at work. There’s a trivia contest, an ugly sweater contest, a cubicle decorating contest, and a huge potluck (homemade items will be judged for prizes) and the Secret Santa gift exchange.

The thing I’m most excited about is the Mini Jam. It’s like a Monster Jam Event (in which monster trucks face off in two different forms of competition - Racing and Freestyle), except it’s with diecast Monster truck toys, and one of the commentators from Speed TV will be here as the announcer, AND it gets filmed (for employees, not for the public). They build a new mini track (it even has a jump at the end!) every year.

These are the official rules of our Mini Jam:

1. Any truck running MUST start with a 1:64 scale die cast.
2. Die cast can be modified to add either flare or weight. This is not mandatory; stock die cast toys are allowed.
   a. Modification cannot extend past the outside edge of tires.
3. Like the REAL Monster Jam series, this is a single elimination tournament.

I had a few ideas for my truck, but as you can see, I went with THE PINK NIGHTMARE, which is a great name for a Mini Monster truck, don’t you think?! (SAY YES.) I don’t think my truck is going to win because I wasn’t going so much for speed (there’s a leg lamp attacted to the truck bed and huge bunny ears. It’s not exactly aerodynamic) as I was going for style, but as one of my co-worker/friends said, “WHO CARES!”

I put many hours into this whole thing from conception to completion and I’m happy with how it turned out, but as usual, I got 85% finished with it and was just over it. That was at midnight last night. This morning I woke up giddy all over again, so YAY.

There’s a “driver’s meeting” for everyone in the Mini Jam at 1pm so we can see the new track, and the Mini Jam starts at 3pm after the potluck/Secret Santa gift exchange.

Some days I still can’t believe I get to work here. Wish me & THE PINK NIGHTMARE luck!

MANY hours. She worked her butt off on this!

casajules:

The new crepe pans my sister bought just so happen to have been made in Germany. We’re using them to make Hanukkah blintzes later this week, so SUCK IT, HITLER.

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casajules:

Saturday was our “PIZZ-A PIE-A! NIGHT-A!” (aka pizza pie night; say it with a bad Italian accent), which means we made homemade pizzas and also homemade pies with pie filling (one cherry, one apple) we got at the Chicago Food Swap.

PIZZ-A: If I’m making homemade pizza with our cousin Eric’s magic dough recipe, I’m going to put my initial on it. (Never mind that both my brother-in-law’s and younger nephew’s names also start with J.)

PIE-A: My sister made hand pies with some apple filling she got at the food swap. I made a key lime pie (top middle picture), the finishing touch was topping it with the Door County tart cherry pie filling (bottom middle picture, if you couldn’t tell) that I got at the food swap. I don’t even really like pie, but key lime pie and tart cherries are a match made in food heaven.

Everything was ridic. We still have plenty left if you’re hungry.

This is how we roll.

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casajules:

The new crepe pans my sister got just so happen to have been made in Germany. We’ll use them to make Hanukkah blintzes, so SUCK IT,

haha!

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He says it in good times and in bad times, to people on TV and to people in the world he does not care for (but never any of us because he actually likes us).

casajules:

My brother-in-law, to someone on TV: “Suck it, bitch!”

My 17 y.o. nephew: “…the profanity!”

My brother-in-law: “What profanity did I use?”

Right at that moment I yelled to my sister, “Are you putting it on your Tumblr or should I???” 

She said, “I’ve already got it typed out!”

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Rudolph Redux

Alternate ending to the Christmas classic stop-motion animated special, “Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer”:

Santa: “Rudolph with your nose so bright, won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?”

Blitzen, whispering to Dasher: “He went to Jared.”

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I am in over my head with deadlines through this Wednesday, and when I sent a friend an overdue email response to a lunch date request, I got what might be my favorite reply ever:

“Gah! Keep going! stop writing me emails! Ha.  You’ll do it, you’ve got it. KEEP GOING!

Okay, 12/18, I’ll look up the times and find out, but probably arriving around lunchtime, RIGHT? 

Ok good luck, stop reading this even!”

I love my friends.

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