The 40 Year Old Popcorn

Saturday, my friends Morgan, Jeff and Sarah joined me at the movies for "The 40 Year Old Virgin." This is not a movie for everyone and it's rated "R" for a reason. But it is DANG-FUNNY.
Lately movie theaters have taken to popping their popcorn in advance, filling bags and putting them in a cabinet until later. Now, I don't know if they just forgot to rotate their stock or they intentionally gave me popcorn that was from 1965, but that stuff was nasty. It was fine for the first 1/3 of the bag and then... ICK!

Cinemark at Rivertown - you get the finger.

Seriously, I'm not going to leave the movie and get a "free refill". Fortunately my Mr. Pibb was enough to wash the taste away.

Oh - and if you are going to see Steve Carrell in his masterpiece. Go rent "Hair" first, so you will really appreciate the ending credits.

maybe it's just me...

betty's batter better

My contribution so-far is a cake. I make this really good cake with a boxed cake mix and some pudding. It's really good. It came out of the oven a few minutes ago and yes, I licked the beaters. I licked the spatula and the bowl. I think if they made cake batter in a tube this good, I would eat it directly from the tube.

Have you ever noticed that everyone calls that rubber-headed scraper thing a "spatula"? Truthfully, it's a rubber-scraper. A "spatula" is in fact the flipper-ooni thing you use to turn over hamburgers or eggs. I however, will continue to use the word "spatula" incorrectly until the rest of the world ceases the following:

Prevent-A-tive
It's really preventive.

Orient-A-ted
It's really oriented.

Meijer's
It's just Meijer.

and the rare, but still completely annoying:
K-mart's

I am willing to kill for less.


maybe it's just me?

The Pause that refreshes

Ok - so it's kinda hot outside here in West Michigan.
On Sunday I offered lunch on the grill to a number of people at CentrePointe Church. You know, brats and burgers, corn on the cob and whatever else we could get together. Based on the nodding and smiling, I thought it was going to be a pretty big crowd. So I dashed home and thawed out a couple more packages of bratwurst, including the cheesy brats (which I highly recommend)! So I had about 8 burgers and 20 brats. That's quite a lot of food. 5 people showed up. I have brats and burgers left over. Lots of them. They are still pretty good with the grill flavor and all.

I should also mention that I was defrosting a turkey. Did I mention that it's hot outside? Yes, I believe I did. The Turkey was from Christmas. I planned to cook that on Sunday. I let it thaw some more while I ate leftover and cooked the turkey on Monday. It takes a while to cook, so it went in as soon as it could after work. At about 9:30 PM it was ready. It had one of those little pop-up timers and I double-checked it with a meat thermometer.

I've been eating bratwurst for lunch and turkey for dinner since then. This I have decided is a good thing. I get grilled food at lunch time and then before bed I get a good dose of Tryptophan to help me sleep. I've been sleeping really well since Monday.

Now - for the title of this entry.
This evening, after a plate of turkey, potatoes, stuffing, and a touch of gravy, I decided to tweak the sprinklers a bit. I have those underground sprinklers and turned a few heads off around a couple of areas. I opened a couple of them up to water some flowers and tomatoes.

You close and open these guys with a little screw right on the top of the sprinkler head, as you start to loosen the screw, the head begins to sprinkle. As I adjusted this particular head, I was unwittingly unscrewing the whole top of the sprinkler. it popped off and shot up at me in the face. I quickly stood up and got 20 gallons of water per-minute at 60psi right up the shorts. Man! That was refreshing.

maybe it's just me...