To-Do List For The Weekend

1. Mail a gift
2. Clean this house, top to bottom
3. Call an old friend
4. Organize kids clothes, organize my clothes
5. Make muffins
6. Order supplements
7. Catch up on my TiVo queue
8. Make a Cape Cod pack list

Why I Love Saved By The Bell

1. Zack's "asides" moments
2. Admit it, you sing that theme song randomly at least once a month
3. Slater's tank tops and jeans
4. A12...don't we all wish we had one
5. The Snow White and the 7 Dorks episode...."at first I didn't like all this drama, but now I trust you, so kiss me mama!" -Slater
6. Zack and Kelly's Prom
7. I would've hated to be at Bayside and not one of those guys...they ran the school! They were in every club (glee, student council, etc), had a band (Zack Attack), and dominated all the sports teams.
8. I still have my VHS tape of the Saved By The Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas I taped from tv. That video montage at Kelly and Zack's wedding was a tear jerker!
9. What I didn't like: Tori, the motorcyle girl. Ugh, she was randomly in episodes during the last season, and not even at graduation. Good riddance. She was butchy and awkward.
10. Who I did love: Violet Ann Biggerstaff. Or Bickerstaff. I don't know, but I loved her. Tori Spelling at her greatest.
11. Zack's cardboard cutout of Kelly in her volleyball uniform
12. Kelly reminded me of my older sister when she was in high school--pretty, cheerleader, squeaky clean, hotly pursued by the boys
13. The awkward brunette twins that never have any lines
14. "The sauce-a you can have, but the secret, she's-a mine." -Screech
15. I also really liked the Stacy Carosi character. Those Malibu Sands episodes were good.
16. They all got really great offers for college, but Zack (with his 1500s on the SAT), Kelly, Slater (what happened to his Iowa wrestling scholarship?), and Screech (valedictorian who got accepted to so many schools) all ended up at Cal U.
17. The Buddy Bands video
18. SBTB dealt with heavy social issues--remember the caffeine pills (sure you do), the Kapowski family financial struggles, the oil spill on campus, the drunk driving episode with Mrs. Turtle's car, and the homeless man they befriended at the mall during the Christmas holiday?
19. "In one word, would I do dope? Nope." -Zack
20. "Pick you up at 7:00?" -Slater, "No, I'll pick YOU up at 7:00" -Jessie
21. I would have also fallen for the charming Rod Belding. What a disappointment.
22. Loved the songs- Did We Ever Have A Chance, the rewritten School Song, and Friends Forever
23. Although it is always made fun of, the "I'm so excited, I'm so excited, I'm so, so scared!" scene still brings chills and tears for me.
24. I read this article about Beverly Cleary's one condition for the new Ramona and Beezus movie...that it be timeless and not include any trendy clothing or current gadgets. I immediately thought of SBTB...think Zack's HUGE cell phone, all the Z Cavarrici jeans, Zack's huge basketball shoes he wore every day, well-all the clothes. Also, tons of references to what we now would consider early 90's pop culture.
25. I also didn't like that manager from the Max, Jeff. What a homewrecker. That Zack and Kelly break-up episode at the costume ball was brutal. Zack Attack singing, "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" (Slater and Jessie duo...they weren't really singing, right?)

What I Bought From Drug Emporium

(my new favorite store, by the way. little rock is so lucky)
1. Chia Seeds
2. Sucanat
3. Hulled Hemp Seeds
4. PB2 Powdered Peanut Butter
5. Metromint Waters (cherry mint and lemon mint)
6. Spirulina Powder

Movies I Watched This Week At My Parent's House

1. Twilight
2. New Moon
3. Remember Me (triple dose of Robert Pattinson)
4. The House Bunny
5. The Man in the Moon
6. Elmo in Grouchland

What R Got Today

1. Camo pants
2. Gray trousers
3. Fall jacket
4. Superman t-shirt
5. Batman t-shirt
6. Blue, collared button-up shirt
7. Lots of kisses
8. 3 compliments on his getting-curlier-every-day hair
9. Ice cream
10. Robot jammies
11. 5 poopie diapers. Unbelievable.

Old To-Do List I Just Found

1. Mail Kate's gift

2. Wrap Megan's gift

3. Floors

4. Organize drawers in bedroom

5. Email Jenni

6. Order cupcakes

7. Buy juice, bread

8. Clean out trunk

Vegan Dinner Menu

1. Pinto beans
2. Mashed potatoes
3. Portabella-Seitan stroganoff
4. Green beans
5. Manicotti

What My Daughter Won't Eat

1. Cookies

2. Well, most desserts (she does love ice cream, though)

3. Vegetables (willingly will only eat sweet potatoes)

4. Bananas, raspberries, blueberries

5. Anything with chunks of any type

6. Mashed potatoes

7. Anything green colored

8. Raisins, craisins, any dried fruit

9. Beans

10. Oatmeal

11. Chocolate

Things That I Don't Like

1. Buzz words

2. All of these Charlie St. Cloud trailers

3. Well, and Zac Efron

4. T-shirts that are too short

5. 6 hour car drives

6. When people play the victim

7. Car alarms

8. The commercials when you are watching something on the internets

9. When fruits or veggies are secretly rotted in the inside

10. My dog licking me

11. My itchy head. Could I have head lice?

12. R constantly throwing his cup on the ground from his high chair

13. Those sandwich board advertisers for restaurants that take up the whole sidewalk

14. Runny noses
15. Commercials that scream at you
16. Commercials (mostly furniture & car places) that showcase a lady with bad hair and clothes who thinks she's pretty hot
17. Terrible kids menu options
18. Air blowing into my face
19. Dry contacts
20. Thinly-veiled marketing strategies
21. Bad font choices
22. Fake Southern accents
23. Being between sizes
24. Not being able to sleep when you desperately want to
25. Smugness
26. Mealy apples

What's In My Two-Tiered Fruit Basket

1. Kiwi

2. Apples

3. Sweet potatoes

4. Bananas

5. Spaghetti squash

6. Two bags of M&Ms

7. A russet potato

8. Two fancy cookies

Road Trip Snacks

1. Mounds bar- nevermind, can't find it
2. Almonds
3. Dried fruit mix- blueberries, cherries, cranberries, plums
4. Ayala's Herbal Water- lavender mint, ginger lemon peel
5. Organic Valley lollipops
6. Water and Cheerios for W
7. Milk and steamed baby carrots for R

Clothes I Like

1. Tank

2. So pretty

3. Fun

4. Vegan bag

5. Shorts

6. Dress

7. Shirt

8. Necklace

9. Dress

10. Suit

11. Blouse

12. Another dress

13. I love dresses

14. Jacket

Today's Weirdness

1. Master bath toilet seat fell off

2. Guest bath bathroom flooded

3. My friend's toddler hid from us at their house for 30 minutes without us being able to find her

4. The orange juice I always buy tasted really weird

5. I ate a jam and cheddar cheese sandwich for breakfast and one with my lunch salad

6. Strange and scary wind storm and rain storm during the kids nap

7. I got a bizarre text from someone who clearly dialed the wrong number

8. There was a bug in my house

9. W ate all of her lunch without any coercing/discussion/pleading

10. The storm caused a car alarm to go off in the City Museum parking lot for like an hour. This is not that uncommon, but it was super annoying.

Ways My Neighbor And I Have Helped Each Other Out Lately

1. She gave me 2 eggs so I could make cookies

2. She bought me some blueberries at the grocery store

3. I bought her husband some socks at Target

4. I borrowed her food processor

5. I borrowed her mini food processor

6. I gave her some bulgur wheat and a veggie burger recipe

7. I "watched" her baby this morning

8. She made me some cake balls

Dance Dates From Back In The Day

1. Sophomore homecoming- Chris Beaumont

2. Junior homecoming- Bryce Molder

3. Junior DBS Winter Formal- Cal Boudreaux

4. Junior Prom- Jared Hankins

5. Junior DBS Spring Fling- Bret Walker

6. Senior Homecoming- Kyle Judice

7. Senior DBS Winter Formal- Brian Guice

8. Senior Prom- Chris Moore

9. Senior DBS Spring Fling- Sam Glover

10. U of A Sigma Nu formal in Memphis- Graham Hale (I also took him to a Delta Zeta semi-formal. My college Greek days only lasted a semester)

Grocery List (Schnucks, Whole Foods)

1. Eggs

2. Applesauce

3. Red Pepper, Orange Pepper

4. Sweet Potatoes (4)

5. Spinach

6. Celery

7. Avocados (3)

8. Yeast

9. Butter

10. Bulgur Wheat

11. Carrots

12. Tofu

13. Pinto Beans

14. Panko bread crumbs

15. Pasta sauce

16. Sour cream

17. Apples

18. Ravioli

19. Loaf bread

20. Onion

21. Blueberries

22. Heavy cream

23. Vanilla

24. Sugar

25. Broccoli

Things I'll Probably Never Do Again

1. Eat meat

2. Be a bridesmaid

3. Smoke marijuana

4. Have a baby

5. Wear hotpants

6. Get married

7. Be a kamp counselor

8. Lactate

My Favorite Pizza

1. Woodfire Vegetable from Brixx Pizza in Wilmington, NC

2. Quatro Stagioni, Vegetarian (sp?) from ZaZa's in Little Rock, AR

4. My homemade veggie pizza (I'm completely serious. It's good)

5. Pear and Gorgonzola- California Pizza Kitchen (my sister-in-law also makes a good one)

6. Anything from Satisfaction Pizza in Durham, NC (I think I've gotten pineapple both times I went)

7. Angeli (no chicken) from Il Vicino in Clayton, MO

8. Cheese from Patsy's Pizzeria in NYC

9. The Greek with pink sauce from Damngoode Pies in Little Rock, AR

10. Socrates' Revenge from Dewey's Pizza in University City, MO

Things I Don't Care A Lick About

1. Where LeBron James plays basketball

2. Tiger Woods or his sexual escapades

3. Exercise (I'm saving that for 2011)

4. Big Brother (the show)

5. Sun damage

New Recipes In My "Food" Bookmark

(you can click on all of these to access the recipes)

1. Overnight Oats

2. Swiss Chard Couscous

3. Veggie Burgers (I'm working my way through the ones in the comments section)

4. Pink Lemonade Pie

5. Blueberry Banana Cake

6. Little Veggie Burgers

7. Strawberry Milkshake (my husband loves a strawberry milkshake)

8. Crispy Potatoes

9. Coconut Cherry Ice Cream

10. Yummy Salsa

11. Healthier Bomb Pops (Bomb pops are super nostalgic for me...getting teary-eyed)

Cars I've Driven (in order)

1. My Mom's old Crown Victoria. White. Total cop car.

2. My favorite car ever...my first car- dark gray perfect condition 92 Honda Accord. Didn't last long because I totalled it, but I would kill to have it back.

3. Bimini blue Ford Tempo (sorry, Jenny)

4. Brand new (98) gray Ford Escort. Very cute car. That car took me all over the SEC in college.

5. My little sister's red Jeep Cherokee--we randomly decided to switch cars. She got the Escort, I got the Cherokee.

6. My current, 05, black Volkswagen Passat. Also, love it.

Proof Of My Somewhat Redneck Upbringing

1. I've been to many a "field party"

2. The floor of our old Datsun was deteriorated and you could see the road through the floorboard

3. Our glass door didn't lock well, so we would put a piece of wood in the track to keep it from opening.

4. We kept a frequently-used fry basket pan on our stovetop and used the same grease over and over and over and over again.

5. Tick checks=Every night

6. We had a propane tank in our yard (I would argue that this isn't white trash at all, but I've been told that it is very country..."oh, we're so fancy with our gas")

7. When I was a toddler, I was in a bad car accident with my mom. I was carried to safety by some Hell's Angels.

8. We kept an empty tub of Crisco on our counter for grease

9. We followed the high school basketball team's bus in our car on the way to games (hey, if they did it on Hoosiers, it's okay by me)

10. I've had to spit out the buckshot while eating meat

11. One of my Dad's best friends always wore a cowboy hat that was decorated with some sort of stone and turkey feathers

12. Our kitchen used to be taken over every morning because of calf formula preparation

13. My school was cancelled on the first day of deer season

14. I looked forward to events such as Toad Suck Daze and The Broiler Festival

15. There were no traffic signals in the town I grew up in

16. My brother had a crush on our (distant? not so distant?) cousin

17. Drove the haytruck when I was little enough to barely reach the pedals

18. We could put a letter in the mailbox with a quarter on top instead of a stamp

19. I've gotten to many places by riding in a truck bed on the tire well

20. My dad used to buy flannel shirts and wear them in the winter, then cut the sleeves off to wear them in the summer.

21. Grew up swimming in creeks and swimmin' holes. Table Rock Lake was like really fancy for us.

22. A gun cabinet was part of our living room decor.

23. Some of my uncles- Bud, Bobo, Wimpy, and Leon, and I have a cousin named Tommy Two (instead of junior).

24. There is a memorial in my grandpa's yard because some lady who lived there during the civil war killed two soldiers with an ax.

25. Our first matching living room furniture set was bought out of the back of a trailer.

26. We had a tin shed in our yard. (Dad built it)

27. I have referenced "bought air."

28. We used to pick walnuts and sell them.

29. More yard decor... three foot tall milk cans

30. My favorite article of clothing during freshmen/sophomore year were my jeans passed down from my dad that were stained with cow placenta.

31. Mom and Dad would go to field parties and leave us sleeping in the car.

What's In My Bowl

1. Spinach leaves

2. Avocado

3. Edamame

4. Green bell pepper

5. Celery

6. Sauteed mushroom

7. Crumbled lentil burger

8. Garlic

9. Honey

10. Yellow onion

Animals W Likes In The Order That She Tells Me

0. Elephant (had to add a zero here, because she amended her list, and I didn't want to redo the numbers)

1. Hippo
2. Lion
3. Dinosaur
4. Pygmy Marmoset
5. Rhea
6. Dog
7. Puma
8. Sun Bear
9. Sea Turtle
10. Baby Duck
11. Ava Cat

What's In My Homemade Lentil Burgers

1. Black Beluga Lentils

2. Eggs

3. Sea Salt

4. Onion

5. Toasted bread crumbs

6. Extra virgin olive oil

What I Actually Accomplished Yesterday

1. Cleaned the toilets

2. Did laundry (I always do major laundry on Mondays so that I can iron and fold at night while watching The Bachelorette)

3. Put together an impromptu vegan buffet for my surprise family guests

4. Spent the evening with some good friends the Murphys

5. Cooked some chickpeas

6. Did W's nails

What I Want To Accomplish Today

1. Clean out my car

2. Clean out my dresser drawers

3. Trim my children's nails

4. Make muffins or scones

5. Wash my car

6. Try out my new Shark steam mop

Brochure's In Counselor Emma Pilsbury's Office (Glee)

1. Loose

2. Toxic Shock

3. Congratulations, You're Pregnant

4. Do I Have Aspergers?

5. RADON: The Silent [Killer]

6. Yuk! My Privates

7. My Mom's Bipolar And She Won't Stop Yelling

8. Proper Wiping Easy As 1-2-3

9. Why Is There Blood

10. Autism The...

11. I Still Breastfeed, But How Old Is Too Old

12. Help! I'm In Love With My Stepdad

10 Most Fatal Occupations (list taken from listverse)

1. Cell phone tower workers

2. Commercial fisherman

3. Pilots and flight engineers

4. Lumberjacks

5. Steel and iron construction workers

6. Refuse collectors

7. Farmers and ranchers

8. Roofers

9. Electrical power workers

10. Truckers

Things About My Husband That Make Me Jealous

1. Kid-free lunches with his friends

2. Being in the car without kids during the day

3. Going to Cardinal games (esp. when it's in green seats or luxury boxes)

4. He eats whatever he wants...usually guilt-free

5. He's typically good at whatever he does

6. He gets to leave our house every day and gets paid to do so

7. He has more freedom in his schedule than I do

All The Songs That Start With "A" In My iPhone

1. About a Girl, Nirvana

2. Absolute, The Fray

3. Accidental Babies, Damien Rice

4. Acrobat, U2

5. Adrian, Jewel

6. Again, Jackopierce

7. Aint Going Down, Garth Brooks

8. Aint No Love, David Gray

9. Airplane, Indigo Girls

10. Alibi, David Gray

11. All Apologies, Nirvana

12. All At Once, The Fray

13. All I Want, Joni Mitchell

14. All My Friends, Counting Crows

15. All The Right Reasons, The Jayhawks

16. All The Time In The World, Beth Nielsen Chapman

17. All The Way, Indigo Girls

18. All The Wild Horses, Ray LaMontagne

19. All Work and No Play, Van Morrison

20. Along For The Ride, Jackopierce

21. Amazing, Aerosmith

22. Amazing Grace, Maple Street

23. Amen, Jewel

24. American Girls, Counting Crows

25. Amie, Damien Rice

26. Amesterdam, Coldplay

27. AMY, Ryan Adams

28. Amy Hit The Atmosphere, Counting Crows

29. And It Stoned Me, Van Morrison

30. Anderson's Luck, Jackopierce

31. Anesthetized, Jackopierce

32. Angel, Aerosmith

33. Angel Standing By, Jewel

34. Angels Of The Silences, Counting Crows

35. Angelyne, The Jayhawks

36. The Animals Where Gone, Damien Rice

37. Anna Begins, Counting Crows

38. Another Horsedreamer's Blues, Counting Crows

39. Answering Bell, Ryan Adams

40. Argument With David Rawlings, Ryan Adams

41. Army, Ben Folds

42. As I'm Leaving, David Gray

43. Astral Weeks, Van Morrison