The Sour Cream Situation

This post was requested by my dear hubby, Steve.

Steve works evenings throughout the week. On Thursdays, he gets home at 7pm. So we usually have a late dinner. I like to find quick things to make on Thursday and Friday nights. So when I was drawing up our meal planner for the week, I chose tacos for this evening.

But Steve has a problem when I make tacos- perhaps some of you have had this problem too.

No, not that problem.

I'm talking about sour cream. More specifically, the problem of getting the sour cream from the tub and onto the taco. The problem is that sour cream is thick. So you have to shake it off the spoon and onto the taco. But usually what happens is you end up with one giant blob of sour cream in the middle of your taco and none on the sides. Sure, you could take the spoon and try to spread it around, but the crumbly ground beef would thwart your attempts to spread evenly. Also, you'd need another clean spoon before scooping more sour cream or else you'd get taco seasoning all through the tub.

Do you see what a horrible problem this is?

But tonight I came up with an ingenious solution. Hubby's reaction was: "You need to take pictures and pin this." I will be uploading photos onto Pinterest later, but I thought I'd share this with all of you in case you, too, are plagued by the sinister sour cream situation.

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Step 1: Put a dollop of sour cream in a sandwich baggie
Step 2: Cut just the very tip off of one of the corners of the bag.
Step 3: Squeeze the sour cream to that corner of the bag and through the hole you cut.

Et voila!

What I'm Doing in a Parallel Universe

This Friday marks 5 happy months since the wedding! Yay!

Even though we likely won't have the funds to take an anniversary trip, I've been planning one. You see, I'm in denial about winter coming. So it helps me to think about summer and beaches and sundresses and cocktails with fruit in them.

Hubby and I have only taken one trip together: our honeymoon in NYC. But we have several family members who love going on cruises, so I started looking around.

Bad idea. The more I read, the more I reeeeeally wanted to go!

I even found a cruise that we could take next August to commemorate our first year of wedded bliss.

For less than $3,000 we could go on a 5-night cruise to Bermuda! Woohoo!

I like to think that in some parallel universe, Steve and Tori are booking this trip and starting to purchase khaki shorts and shirts with colourful flowers on them. That sounds like much more fun than what we are currently doing: digging out scarves and gloves and bulky, itchy sweaters.

Oh winter, how I do hate thee.

Laugh to Keep From Freezing

The cold weather is here... and it's awful! I've found that laughing is a good way to stay warm. So here you go:

  This dog must be my kindred spirit, because this is exactly what I'm like in the water.

Something tells me that the pastor didn't quite think things through with the weekly sign...

...And he looks so sorry about it!

Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend...Unless They Are From a Vampire.

While normal people are currently entering hibernation-mode, thanks to daylight savings time and the onset of winter, there are some whose energy and vigour defies logic.

Yes, I'm talking about the Twi-blight err...Twilight...fans who have taken over the Internet. I haven't been able to go on Facebook or Pinterest this week without being smacked in the face with posters and photos of half-naked dudes who, I'm sorry to say, just don't appeal to me. Give me Hugh Jackman any day, but not these perfectly manicured boy-toys.

Anyways, as I was being visually assaulted on Pinterest while I tried to numb my post-nice-weather-partum depression, I couldn't help but notice in the bottom right hand corner of the Breaking Dawn poster how Bella is wearing a FREAKING ENORMOUS wedding ring!

Just being honest here: my ring looks nothing...not even remotely...like that. So I thought: what the heck does a girl have to do to get a rock like that?!?

Then I read a review of the movie and discovered that in order to get "a rock like that," I would have to marry someone who wants to kill me, let him beat me to a pulp on our wedding night, and then be pregnant with a monster that wants to kill me/beat me to a pulp from the inside out.

So I decided that I am happy with my own small-ish ring. And I withdraw my previous complaint.

Pinterest and Dirty Girls (+ 1 Lingerie-clad Cat)

Crazy Stuff I Saw on Pinterest

This Week 

Monday was Halloween, so there were some bizarre things appearing on Pinterest this week. Like these costume ideas:

These must be the best parents in the world.

Aren't you tired of all the "dirty girl" costumes there are? These girls sure are...

After Halloween things ... well, honestly, they didn't really get less strange.

I bet you didn't know that scientists have been working on making flying sharks for decades. Unfortunately, they forgot about the sharks' parachutes...

In case a woman in a bathing suit didn't attract enough attention... now she has a wolf mouth over her crotch. That can't be good. 

True story.

Put Some Hair On Your Legs

This morning I had a brilliant idea:


Me: Movember is so cool. Women need something like this for breast cancer.

Steve: You have the pink ribbon campaign.

Me: Yeah, but that's not as cool as Movember. We should have a campaign where we grow our leg and armpit hair for a month and people make donations to us in support of cancer research.

Steve: Yeah, I don't think that would work as well.


Well, ladies. Mark your calendars. I am instituting a new month of fundraising for women's health. This December, instead of putting on leg warmers, just let your leg hair grow!


Or you could just check out this video where gorgeous men tell you how to squeeze your double-bubbles.

The point is that for those of us in a perpetual state of lovey-dovey bliss, it's important to look out for the health of your partner. In the words of Winnie the Pooh: "If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day so I never have to live without you."

Put Some Hair On Your Face

Today's post is about Movember. This is the month during which men are encouraged to let their inner hairy beasts run wild in support of men's health.

My brother-in-law, Tony, e-mailed me yesterday to let me know that he is going to participate in this year's Movember. I have to say, I could sort of see this coming. A couple of months ago, we had a fun Skype double-date with Tammy (my big sis) and Tony. Tammy and I used eyeliner pencils to draw freaking awesome staches on our men.

Luckily for you, I had the foresight to know that I would want a picture of this in the future. So here you go:

I even gave hubby a uni-brow. Isn't he lucky to have me?

 And here is Tony's crumb-catcher.

So here is my pitch for Movember: If you aren't already supporting an awesome, hairy dude in your life, donate to my brother-in-law. He's a good guy and we want him to live a long and healthy life. Thanks!

http://ca.movember.com/mospace/1829772/