Meow, Baby!

Top Model recap lateness!

We get hit w/ more of Alexandria's asshattery. She really is just a foul mess.

Ugh! Stupid pointless Cover Girl make up instructional video. Blech! The hamsters were grouped into 3 teams of 3 & randomly chose "creative director", "talent" & "writer". And whoa betide Monique & Molly as they were stuck w/ Stank Ass Alexandria. Alexandria pissed and moaned and was horrible horrible horrible to Monique & Molly. To no one's surprise they did not win this challenge. The winning team was Kasia (so cute!), Mikaela (BLAAAHHHH!) & Brittani (also adorable!)

For the photo shoot, the hamsters were posing at the zoo w/ a baby jaguar in Rachel Zoe's faux fur. Blech! Faux fur :P But baby jaguar was freaking adorable! Pig tailed Hannah got winning photo. She does nothing for me. And packing it up was clueless Dalya. Meh.

Next week: mud pit!

Nearly There

A day late for the Top Chef recap.

The final three: Antonia, Blais & Fathead. One of these things is not like the others. Can you guess?

I loved loved loved this Quickfire Challenge: the chefestants had to assign each other a quickfire twist from seasons past. God I love how these cheftestants try to fuck each other over! Fathead assigned Antonia the using only canned and dried foods dish, Antonia gave Blais the make a hot dog dish & Blais chose the one pot dish for Fathead. All was well until Padma came prancing back to the kitchen...one more twist! The cheftestants chose in reverse order and Blais had to cook one handed, Fathead could not use any utensils and Antonia had to cook Siamese twin style tied to recently booted chef Carla. Antonia came up w/ a curry coconut soup w/ canned shrimps & sausage, Blais made a Thai seasoned hot dog & Fathead had a braised pork shoulder and cabbage salad. All these dishes had issues but someone Fathead won. GRRR! No!

For the Elimination Challenge, they brought back another of my faves: cook a guest judges' last meal. As Fathead won the Quickfire, he got the privilege of assigning the guest judges to each of the cheftestants. Fathead chose Michelle Bernstein, Blais got Wolfgang Puck & Antonia was paired w/ IRON CHEF Morimoto (squee!). Poor Antonia, I'm sure you all can see where this is going. Blais won w/ his spin on Wolfgang Puck's favourite last meal of spaetzle and strudel. Hmm mmm! I love spaetzle! Wolff's Biergarten puts gravey on their spaetzle, so delicious! Fathead failed to make Michelle Bernstein's request of fried chicken crispy. And Antonia could bring it home w/ the miso soup, white rice & sushi at Morimoto's behest.

Aha! But there was yet another TWIST! The bottom two of Fathead & Antonia had to go head to head in making a single bite of food to determine who will get to the finale. Now here is where I had a problem w/ the show. If they were planning this the whole time, then they could served poop on plate for the Elimination. Anyways, going on to fight for the title of Top Chef was Fathead.

NOOOOO!!!! Sexist bullshit!

Zero

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Little white lies; we all tell them to keep from hurting someone's feelings or use them on our children to keep them from learning things until later on in life.

What are the Top Ten lies that you use?

Ugh, no! Does not happen ever. Lying is useless

Happy New Year

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The TT questions are brought to you by Berleen, the color of April Showers and the number 93888..

*We will now be publishing updates for Thursday Thunks on Facebook via the InsanityCafe fanpage. Please "like" us there to get your TT reminder!

1. If all the world is a stage, where are the audience sitting? In my mind

2. Taken from InsanityCafe Forums: If ghosts exist and are around us now, what happens if all life on Earth is destroyed? Would ghosts remain or also be destroyed? If ghosts are energy and energy on the planet is destroyed, wouldn't it destroy ghosts? There's no such things as ghosts

3. How do you know you live in the real world? I don't, I might be part of some one's dream....or nightmare

4. What the best/worst April Fools Day joke that has ever been played on you? Same question for one that you have played on someone else. April Fool's Day is the Pagan New Year

5. If you could pick the last year of your life, which would you pick and why? 99 on the eve of my 100th birthday, just for the irony of it all

6. April showers bring May flowers. Have you ever been stuck in a rainstorm? Yes, best one was at an outdoor concert & my undies were stuck to my butt on the car ride home

7. Grapes. Green or red/purple? Seeded or seedless? None! I hate grapes...blech!

8. Someone knocks at your door asking where your neighbor lives, calling your neighbor by name, do you point them in the right direction? Yup, that'll teach you to illegally bred cats, you fat jerk off!

9. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can, What can you touch? My fluffy Squeaky kitty

10. When did you last step outside? What were you doing? Yesterday from my car to the house

Have a great day. Or not. See you next Thursday.

Why isn't Spring Yet?

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1) Who is your best friend, and why? A combination of SB and my college roommate. I had always heard that yr S.O. should be yr friend as well and it's true. SB knows everything about me and has stuck around. Roomie was my 1st true friend.

2) What was the last good book you read? "Conversations w/ a Fat Girl" by Liza Palmer

3) Do you know how to tell the difference between edible mushrooms and poisonous ones? I don't eat mushrooms & as far as I'm concerned they're all poisonous.

Stop the Presses

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Today we ripped off a blogger namedLeo from the blog Leonine's Journal. He was tackling a meme that his blogging site, Live Journal, hosts. It has 5,000 questions. He did a hundred. So, we will break it up into parts. Link back to us at Sunday Stealing!

Sunday Stealing: The 5000 Question Meme, Part Two

Cheers to all of us thieves!

26. Who has done something today to show they care about you? Squeaky slept next to my pillow all night

27. Do you have a lot to learn? Yes! I'm woefully ignorant of many things

28. If you could learn how to do three things just by wishing and not by working what would they be? Speaking and understanding perfect Spanish, sewing & driving stick

29. Which do you remember the longest: what other people say, what other people do or how other people make you feel? Feel

30. What are the key ingredients to having a good relationship? Honesty & humour

31. What 3 things do you want to do before you die? Swim in Lake Como, zip line in a rain forest & seeing Stereolab live

32. What three things would you want to die to avoid doing? Having a root canal, having my parents die & losing my looks

33. Is there a cause you believe in more than any other cause? Pro-Choice! Keep abortion safe & legal!

34. What does each decade make you think of: '70's pre-school

'80's stark reality

'90's cynicism

2000's starting over

35. Which decade do you feel the most special connection to and why? The '90's when I was thin and the music kicked ass

36. What is your favorite oldie/classic rock song? Holy crap! I can only pick one....."Funnel of Love" by Wanda Jackson "Battle of Evermore" by Led Zeppelin & "The Rain, The Park & other Things" by The Cowsills

37. What country do you live in and who is the leader of that country? La-La Land & I'm in charge, bitches!

If you could say any sentence to the current leader of your country what would it be? It's nice to meet me

38. What's your favorite TV channel to watch in the middle of the night? VH1 Classic

39. What Disney villain are you the most like and why? Maleficent because that bitch can turn into a dragon & her fucking name little means EVIL

40. Have you ever been a girl scout/boy scout? Yes I was a girl scout for 8 years, I quit because I didn't get to go to Europe

41. If you were traveling to another continent would you rather fly or take a boat? Fly....1st class

42. Why is the sky blue during the day and black at night? Why ask why?

43. What does your name mean? Susan is a Latin derivative of the Hebrew name Shoshanna which is a lily

44. Would you rather explore the deeps of the ocean or outer space? Ocean, under the sea

45. Word association

What is the first word that comes to mind when you see the word:

Air: conditioning

Meat: box

Different: strokes

Pink: cloud

Deserve: happiness

White: out

Elvis: Presley

Magic: hat

Heart: chain

Clash: the most important band in the world

Pulp: Fiction

46. If you could meet any person in the world who is dead who would you want it to be? Joe Strummer

47. What if you could meet anyone who is alive? Margaret Cho

48. Is there a movie that you love so much you could watch it everyday? Breakfast at Tiffany's

49. You are going to be stuck alone in an elevator for a week. What do you bring to do?

50. Have you ever saved someone's life or had your life saved?

E-I-E-I-O

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I am personally an animal lover. I love animals of all kinds.

What are your top ten favorite animals?

1. Kitties
2. Manatees
3. Octopi
4. Butterflies
5. Hedgehogs
6. Spiders
7. Pigs
8. Rabbits
9. Chipmunks
10. Woodchucks

Mad Hamsters

Another late recap, my apologies. On w/ The Top Model!

And Alexandria has once again is alienating the rest of the hamsters in the house by being a complete and total asshat. Oh the drama! Oh the ratings!

For the challenge, the cheftestants had to walk in a runway show w/ flame retardant gloves on their hands because they had to hold FIRE. Hmm, sweaty hamsters! Sara was a hot mess (literally!), Hannah looked lost & Kasia kept making fish lips. Duking it out for 2 dresses from the runway collection were Alexandria, Brittani & Dalya but Dalya managed to inch ahead of the competition.

For the photo shoot, the hamsters had to act in a commercial for "Fierce Roast" coffee portraying s-e-x-x-y secretaries ala Christina Hendricks' character from "Mad Men". Sara started bitching and moaning about how participating in this challenge goes against her strident feminist beliefs. Um, hello? Yr on Top Model, the U.S.S. Betty Friedan left ages ago! One point of concession though, for some reason the hair and makeup folks did not give Sara a wig for the shoot. That seems unfair. Best "photo" of the week went to Kasia and her curvy hot ass. Love her! And yet again, Alexandria was being a diva bossy bitch on the set which landed her in the bottom two w/ Sara's wigless butt. Good bye Sara! You seem like you have some sense, go home and get an education.

More bitch faces, next week!

I've got the Conch

Sorry for the lateness of my Top Chef recap....I've been in a lazy funk.

For the Quickfire Challenge, the cheftestants were paired off in teams of two. Of course, the boys and girls were paired off w/ each other. Really sick of the sexism on this stupid show! Anyways, the teams had to make 50 dishes that looked and tasted exactly alike. The boys made pasta w/ pork Bolognese & the girls made a beef tenderloin over salad. And the girls won 50 g's! And of course Fathead was completely sour grapes about the whole thing.

For the Elimination Challenge, the cheftestants had to make an upscale dish for a private party that must include conch. Here's the kicker: they had to go diving in the ocean for their own conch. I would love love love to do that! It looked amazing. The shitty part was the cheftestants had to cook on open grills. Whomp whomp! And Fathead won w/ his banana leaf wrapped grouper w/ pineapple & conch vinaigrette. Say what?! How is grouper a conch? Shouldn't the conch been the start of the show? Blergh! And packing it up was Tiffany and her cold chowder.

Home stretch!

Same Ol' Same Ol'

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The TT questions are brought to you by Berleen, the color of falling snow and the number four thousand eight hundred seventy three..

1. Would you try a dog food flavored jelly bean? What about skunk spray or vomit flavored? No no no no, couldn't even pay me to do that.

2. Are any keys on your keyboard worn off? Nope just dirty

3. Why are the lids on coffins nail/locked/sealed? Are we afraid they are going to get out? Nope grave robbers, I'm looking at you Ed Gein

4. True love. Define it. Someone you actually enjoy seeing first thing in the morning before showering or breakfast or (in SB's case) coffee

5. Where is the strangest place you are ever fallen asleep? The floor while trying to watch Doctor Who

6. A doctor walks up to you and says "I will change anything you want... big or small... doesn't matter how much it costs, I'll do it for free!". What do you have him fix or change on your body? Lipo on my gut!!!

7. The last picture you took - share it. Well, if it's not something we would probably find in Bud's recent photos. Haven't downloaded anything new.....so bite me

8. Blue or black ink. Your preference? Blue, it's rare like O- blood

9. You are walking down the sidewalk on a city street and you see a little girl, about 3 or 4 years old, she asks you if you can tie her shoe for her. What do you do? Tie her shoe, I'm not a monster

10. What channel numbers are ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX for you? 10, 13, 6, 8

11. Did/do you have any marriage deal breakers? Children, we both agreed on zero for us

Brain Exercises

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1) Brainstorm the plot for a novel. The one I have banging around in my head is sci-fi slic of life piece. Think Jasper Fforde + Curtis Sittenfeld. Not that I would be imitating their styles mind you!

2) How long would it take you to get to your best friend’s house on foot right now? 3 or 4 days, she lives in Vermont

3) Which of your relatives would you have liked to have met when they were your age now? My mother's parents, my maternal grandfather died unexpectedly at age 42 so no one outside of my mother really knew him. Plus, I would like to see a time when my grandmother was in crazy in love w/ someone.

Spring Meme

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Today we ripped off a blogger named Leo from the blog Leonine's Journal. He was tackling a meme that his blogging site, Live Journal, hosts. It has 5,000 questions. He did a hundred. So, we will break it up into parts. Link back to us at Sunday Stealing!

Sunday Stealing: The 5000 Question Meme, Part One

Cheers to all of us thieves!

1. Who are you? Phairhead

2. What are the 3 most important things everyone should know about you? Know it all, stubborn, lovely

3. When you aren't memes like this one what are you doing? Reading, expounding, living

4. List your classes in school from the ones you like the most to the ones you like the least (or if you are out of school, think of the classes you did like and didn't like at the time). Loved English, American History, Econ & Spanish. Hated math & science

5. What is your biggest goal for this year? Losing weight!

6. Where do you want to be in 5 years? Alive! I'd like to be a better position at my current place of employment and a finished house and a nicer vehicle.

7. What stage of life are you in right now? Not a child but overwhelmed w/ responsibility

8. Are you more child-like or childish? A little of both

9. What is the last thing you said out loud? Hey

10. What song comes closest to how you feel about your life right now? "Louder than Ever"

11. Have you ever taken martial arts classes? Nope, no interest

12. Does your life tend to get better or worse or does it just stay the same? Up and down like the wheel of fortune

13. Does time really heal all wounds? It can't be measured by our unsophisticated calenders

14. How do you handle a rainy day? Depends, if it's a week day, then I'm at work.....weekends tend to feel gloomier when it's rainy

15. Which is worse...losing your luggage or having to sort out tangled holiday lights? Luggage! Lights can be handled, lost luggage is beyond my control

16. How is (or was) your relationship with your parents? Good, even if they are too intrusive

17. Do you tend to be aware of what is going on around you? Painfully so

18. What is the truest thing that you know? I can't control everything

19. What did you want to be when you grew up? A writer or an actor

20. Have you ever been given a second chance? In a manner of speaking, yes

21. Are you more of a giver or a taker? Giver

22. Do you make your decisions with an open heart/mind? My gut

23. What is the most physically painful thing that has ever happened to you? Gall stones & the recovery was just as miserable

24. What is the most emotionally painful thing that has ever happened to you? Loved ones dying

25. Who have you hugged today? SB, 'natch!

My So-Called Angst

As many of you know, I am obsessed w/ Netflix streaming. To my surprise and delight, all 19 episodes of this amazing series were available straight to me while I languish on my comfy couch. I even got SB hooked into it a bit. His major complaint was that Angela was upset w/ someone and also too many people wearing overalls.

Yes, Angela was emotionally over wrought teen but there was a complete and brutal honesty w/ the show. It was real. The characters wore the same clothes all the time and they weren't from some ridiculously expensive designer. They showed lower middle class as it really was & the school was dingy and over budgeted. My favourite part was the music. When was the last time you saw a teen queen loudly singing and dancing to "Blister in the Sun"? Is it possible that most high schoolers have not even heard of Violent Femmes? I don't want to know, the answer will terrify me.

The last time I was so excited by a show was "Freaks and Geeks". Again another powerful look into what life is really like, not that airbrushed idiotic problem of the week shit. Though I do have a soft spot in my heart for "The Facts of Life".

I'm dying for a show to come back and not give me a distorted view of high school.

"My parents keep asking how school was. It's like saying, 'How was that drive-by shooting?' You don't care how it *was*, you're lucky to get out alive."

St. Patrick was Italian

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!


What are your Top Ten favorite things that are green?


1. Lawn trimmings

2. Easter grass

3. My favourite cocktail dress

4. My Doc Marten's

5. My kitchen walls

6. Pine trees

7. Moss

8. Shamrock Shakes

9. Basil

10. Mint

Random Number Generator

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The TT questions are brought to you by Berleen, the color of melting snow and the number 456..

1. There is a song out there about you... it's on the radio, the video is on TV (just not MTV) and everybody in the world knows this song is about you. Who sings it? Stereolab or Kimya Dawson or They Might be Giants

4. Have you ever sneaked..snuck...snucked...what is the right word? into a movie? I attempted to sneak into The Hand that Rocks the Cradle and totally got caught!

3. Déjà vu; meaning "already seen", is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation, even though the exact circumstances of the previous encounter are uncertain and were perhaps imagined. Thoughts on what it is? Have you experienced it? Every once in a while I get an eerie feeling

2. Stick it to me, baby. What is the last bumper sticker you saw and why do you remember it? IDK some anti-choice bullshit!

10. Ever wonder what fish think about? Eat, sleep, poop....eat, sleep, poop.....eat, sleep, poop

8. If you could paint President Obama's fingernails any color, what would it be? Clear glitter

7. Do you have seat covers on your car seats? What do they look like? No seat covers

6. For the rest of your life you can eat one spice and one spice only (on whatever food you want, of course), what spice do you choose? Basil

9. If you could slide down a rainbow, which side would you slide down? Willy Wonka's factory or Candyland

5. So a mom is suing her kids' preschool because it failed to prepare the child for the kindergarten entrance exam... did you eat paste in preschool? No, that shit stinks sooooooo bad! Blech!

Hair Raising

Top Model Time!

Make over time! Freaking love this part of the season! Unfortunately, they really didn't change much w/ the hamsters. Mostly just highlights and a few extensions. Brittani had my fave look for sho'! Dark Louise Brooks bob, I proclaim thee ADORABLE. Alexandria spent a long time bitching and moaning about how her weave was supposed to look. Diva bitch! And pretty little Molly got a jacked up weave, she was supposed to look like Lady Godvia and it looked more like over cooked spaghetti.

For the photo shoot, the hamsters were paired off into four groups of 2 and one group of 3 dressed in haute couture. It was really difficult to pick a dud out the pack. For serious, they all looked stunning. Bitchface Alexandria was crabbing and being a major pain in the ass. She claimed her lip was swollen and hurt. That bitch's lip didn't look any different to me. And somehow she ended up w/ best photo of the week.....w/ a warning about stank ass attitude. And packing it up was Dominique & her empty head.

Runway lessons next week!

It's Getting Hot in Here

It's Top Chef recap time!

Some time has passed since we last saw the cheftestants, Blais grew a douchy beard. He looks like a molting werewolf.

Anyways...for the Quickfire, the judges are assigned a protein and had to cook head to head w/ the chef that won their season. Which means Antonia & Blais had to double up w/ the lovely and talented Stephanie Izard. Love her! Oh my geezers, Hosea looked absolutely gorgeous!!! Surprisingly FatHead won against Mike Volt, SAY WHAT?, and won the Quickfire over Blais. I'm really scratching my head over that one.

For the Elimination Challenge, the cheftestants had to cook for Bahamanian royalty. And I thought to myself, "There's a king of the Bahamas? That doesn't sound right." Turns out, it was a figure of speech. It was just a dude that has been dubbed the King of Parties. Whilst, cooking away in the kitchen one of the fryalators caught on serious fire. This would have thrown off my game & such was the case w/ poor Antonia. Yes, all three gal cheftestants ended up on the chopping block. Pun intended. And Carla was sent home. I've never been a big fan of hers but, fuck, don't ever serve raw pork to anyone at any time. And winner was FatHead. Are you kidding me?! Blech...

Is it almost over yet?

Non-Stop

It's Tuesday and I'm already wiped out!

The weekend was super packed w/ lots of goings ons. Friday night, I went to a Wine, Whine & Dine party. I only knew 2 people there including the hostess but that did not stop me from having a good time. And not a forced good time either, this was GEN-U-WINE. I came home at 2 am.

Saturday, I got my hair did.....at 9 am. Ugh! I felt like poopity poop but at least I looked fabulous. I unfortunately did not get a nap in before we went out again to our friends' home for "boiled" dinner. The corned beef was sooooo delicious, I think it was the cloves that did the trick. Another late night.


And yet, my old tired body did not want to sleep in. Grr!

Pi Day, or March 14th (3/14), happens to be SB and mine dating anniversary. That's right, bitches, we celebrate 2 anniversaries! We had kicked around the idea of going bowling before going out to eat. But something about going on a date to the bowling alley in the early evening on a Sunday seemed depressing. It's much more fun to go to 11pm Rock n' Bowl. Bring on the black lights, classic rock & cold Coors Light!


Anyway, we headed off to The Standard. I've great things about the food & service and it seemed like the perfect spot for a special occasion meal. We stared off w/ a Manhattan for him & a glass of Prosecco (sparkling white wine) for me. SB was highly annoyed that his drink was $10. Agreed! Since I'm trying to slim down for the wedding, I forewent the fried yummy apps for a pecan, endive & bleu cheese salad. It was great but there was sooooo much of it. I probably only ate 1/3 of it. I also a little taken aback when our server asked if I wanted the rest of the salad in a doggy bag. Uh....not so much, thanks. SB had shrimp lollipops in a panko & coconut crust. SB proclaimed it tasty, though he was worried about poking his eye out on a skewer. For my main, I had lamb chops, a baked potato & broccoli. Now, normally you can only have one side but I really wanted more veggies. I expected a charge for the extra food but $5.50 for broccoli!? Come on! SB wanted braised baby short ribs but they were all out :-( So, he settled on a black pepper crusted filet w/ garlic mashed potatoes. SB really likes his crust! I took dessert to go. I like the idea of snuggling up on the couch in my jammies w/ a sweet treat.

Chocolate cream tartlette, think about that while yr driving to work!

March Meme Madness

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1) How many different kinds of glue are in your home? Gorilla glue, epoxy, Elmer's glue....I think that's it

2) Would you describe yourself as spiritual, religious, or something else? Something else....yes I believe in God & an after life but I'm not party of any organized religion

3) Do you have any friends who are/were homeless? Not that I'm aware of

The Sunday Thief

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Today we ripped off a blogger named Fridge from the blog Buzzing Fridge. Buzzing Fridge's last post was in 2010. He states he got it from Toast. Since we've got Toast's pick (Fridge never shared one) we thought that we'd post it. Toast has had a blog since 2003, but when he reinvents it, he deletes his archives. So we have no idea where Toast got it. It's 50 questions, so we will do it in three parts. Had we had found the old blog, we would known where Toast got it from. But, it was probably stolen there as well. So, of course, that will be as far as we go. Tracing back our theft's thieves might take some time. Link back to us at Sunday Stealing!

Sunday Stealing: The Burnt Toast Meme, Part Two

Cheers to all of us thieves!

17. Who would you like to show up at your door to say they love you? My dearest closest friend

18. Last furry thing you touched? SB's chest

19. How many drugs have you done in the last three days? Tricor, Vitamin D, Yasmin, Zyrtec

20. Do you miss film or does digital work for you? I miss 8mm, something comforting and sweet about old fashioned reel to reel movies

21. Favorite age you have been so far? Now is great but I really liked 19 as well....young, thinner, in love

22. Your worst enemy? Myself!! Truly, bad ugly voices in my head

23. What is your current desktop picture? Random background that I did not choose

24. What was the last thing you said that was funny? I don't know exactly, made some dorky joke about "Star Trek: The Animated Series"

25. If you had to choose between a million bucks or to be able to fly what would it be? Money!!!! That way I could buy a really fast car, it would feel like I was flying.

26. Who can't you say “no” to? Dessert

27. The last song you bought or downloaded? The new Stereolab CD

28. What time of day were you born? 6 am, last time I got up that early intentionally

29. What’s your favorite number? Why? 3 because it's perfect

30. Where did you live in 1987? w/ my parents in Schenectady, NY

31. Are you jealous of anyone? Only people who are breezy and confident no matter their size

32. Is anyone jealous of you? I have no idea

33. It's been almost a decade. Where were you when 9/11 happened? At home, I put together my lunch and was watching an ER rerun on TNT

The Return of the Thunk

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1. Charlie Sheen is an idiot and will probably end up with his own stupid reality show that will get 40 million viewers the first day and then people will fall asleep and quit watching. What person, celebrity or not, would you watch every eppy of a reality show if they were the center of it all? Sutan Amrull from Rupaul's Drag Race & Top Model fame. Love him!

2. We all pay bills and wish we didn't have to. We all work and wish we could just lay around all day doing nothing. We all have those grown up responsibilities that we wish we could give to an African Elephant. Besides all the things the African Elephant got from you for the day, what is something from your high school years that you miss most of all? Angst & a flatter stomach

3. Sometimes we want to grow wings and fly. Whats the farthest you've fallen? I have no idea, a foot maybe

4. There is square bread, wheat bread, circle shaped bread, bread with nuts in it, funny named bread. When you open a bread bag, do you twist it when you are done or put the metal tie thingie back on? (And did you know that if you look at that metal tie thingie, it has a day of the week printed on it?) Twist, too lazy to do it the away and I always looks those plastic twisty things.

5. Some spoiled little brat (hey.. my opinion) called 911 on her teacher because he shook his own desk to get the students attention in the class. (I know, right?) Think back... what clever ways did a teacher of yours use to get the attention of the class or a particular student? In 4th grade, Sister Immaculate Heart slammed the classroom door so hard, the glass in it shattered everywhere.

6. Artwork, pictures, notes, appointments. How many magnets are on your refrigerator? Too many!

7. Cats are fluffy, dogs are soft, snakes are leathery, fish are wet. What is an animal that you have held or petted that you don't think many people have had the chance? Oh no, I don't not pick up strange creatures

8. I'm coming to your house to paint your kitchen. I'm bringing the paint. What color should I not have with me? No, not the kitchen! I like the colour that it is already. You can paint the guest room ruby red.

9. Snow falls down, sometimes sideways. It still ends up on the ground. If snowflakes came in all different colors, which color snowflake would fall the fastest? Black

10. We caved... well at least I did. Are you glad Thursday Thunks is back? YESSSSS!

Have a great day. Or not. See you around.

Flowering

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The daffodils and tulips are starting to grow in my part of town.

What are your Top Ten favorite flowers?


1. Lily of the Valley

2. Lilac

3. Hyacinth

4. Roses

5. Tulips

6. Gerbera Daisy

7. Gardenia

8. Lavender

9. Black Eyed Susan

10. Begonia

The Buzz

Top Model recap, bitches!

Alexandria is proving to be this series biggest bitch ever! Woo whee! She put raw chicken in a plastic bowl in the fridge w/ aluminum foil "protecting" it. Hey dummy, have you heard of salmonella? Dalya gave Alexandria a lecture on raw food prep and then Alexandria made some threats about making Dalya's Top Model stay a living hell. Sounds fair!

Therapy time! Haven't had that since cycle 2 when Camille got called out for being a big phony faker. Good times. Good times. The hamsters had to draw self-portraits of their inner critics and then confront them. Kind of hard to Jaclyn seriously w/ her baby talk voice. Then they all got jewelry. Um...OK?

For the photo shoot, the hamsters did beauty shots (tight close ups of their faces) wearing jewelry soaked in bee pheromone & then had live bees dumped on them. It looked kinda cool actually. I loved loved the make up, white faces and black/greenish/blueish lips. And as a precaution all the hamsters had nose and ear plugs in. Top Model is all about safety.

In a Top Model 1st, Ondrei withdrew from the competition because of unresolved grief from 2 brothers passing away before taping for the show. This has been the only time Tyra(nt) has approved of a drop out hamster. Best photo went to Hannah, I agree it was a great photo. She had GIGANTIC tears sliding down her bee coated neck. However, off the photo set, that stupid hamster constantly wear pony tails. Why has no one told her she looks like an idiot or a "lesbian" from a porno website. Alexandria, give us a hand! Packing it up was Nicole who photographed 35 at age 20. Yipes! Not good.

Next week: make overs!

Roots

I don't know about last week's Top Chef. The challenge seemed a bit sub par for the cheftestants' caliber.....except for Fathead Mike.

On w/ the recap!

For the Elimination Challenge, the cheftestants had to make a dish w/in the time constraints of the Ellis Island Ferry crossing the Hudson. PLUS they could only use ingredients found in the ferry cantina. I'm sure you can imagine what was found; Cheetos, hot dogs, nacho cheese glue. Huh, Blais magically had an MRE kit in his chef bag....weird. Man, he's been working on my last nerve. At least he's a worthy competitor. Tiffany made nachos (not really stretching her imagination on this one!) & microwave popcorn w/ dried fruit (EW!) She totally got called out on a lack of creativity. Blais made a hot dog w/ A LOT of stuff on it, the judges liked his flavours. Fathead made a "soup" of nacho cheese and hot dog buns....no really he did. & it looked like red vomit. Needless to say, Fathead did not win. Antonia made grilled cheese on raisin bread w/ apples slices & because she used the hot dog grill, the sandwich had a whisper of porkiness. DANG!!! I should make that right now except for the hot dog juice. But Carla was the ultimate winner w/ her orange and papaya salad w/ carrot & rosemary salad. Blais was totally sour grapes about this! Pissing and moaning about Carla not cooking anything. True there was no heat involved, however, the judges went ape shit for her flavour layering. Plus the fruits and veg were fresh. So suck on that!

Upon landing at Ellis Island, the cheftestants were greeted by their families. AW! Slightly surprised that Antonia's little daughter was not present. MAJORLY surprised that Tiffany's fiancee was nowhere to be found. That clinches it, she's boning annoying Ed from her season.

Anyways, the cheftestants were each given a personalized dossier about their ancestry. Turns out Antonia and Fathead are half assed relations. Did anybody else think it was weird that the cheftestants' families were judging the food? Just me? Oh OK. Antonia and her braised veal and risotto. So much yum right now! And packing their knives was NOBODY. I saw this coming a mile away. Yes it was a non-elimination episode. And all the cheftestants are on their way to the semi-finals.

SEMI-FINALS!

Frozen Meme

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1) What keeps you up at night? Fear of failure, nuclear war, abuse of children and animals

2) What’s the last music you purchased? (online, on CD, whatever) I downloaded (for free!) "Not Music" by Stereolab. They are definitely an acquired taste. My top three fave bands.

3) Describe the house in which you grew up. My parents still live there, though they have made some great and amazing improvements. When I was younger my house was white w/ dark green trim. I had my own room w/ an ugly gold rug. My brothers shared a room, & as was the custom at the time, had a "mural" wallpaper of the "future". Yellow & orange linoleum tiled kitchen floor. Brown "colonial" family room w/ a splash of wood paneling.

Hung Over Meme

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Today we ripped off a blogger named Fridge from the blog Buzzing Fridge. Buzzing Fridge's last post was in 2010. He states he got it from Toast. Since we've got Toast's pick (Fridge never shared one) we thought that we'd post it. Toast has had a blog since 2003, but when he reinvents it, he deletes his archives. So we have no idea where Toast got it. It's 50 questions, so we will do it in three parts. Had we had found the old blog, we would known where Toast got it from. But, it was probably stolen there as well. So, of course, that will be as far as we go. Tracing back our theft's thieves might take some time. Link back to us at Sunday Stealing!

Sunday Stealing: The Burnt Toast Meme

Cheers to all of us thieves!

1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought? Ugh! (one too many shots last night)

2. How much cash do you have on you? ZERO! Went out last night.

3. What’s a word that rhymes with DOOR? More more more

4. Favorite planet? Neptune

5. Who is the 4th person on your missed call list on your cell phone? Mummy & Pops

6. What is your favorite ring tone on your phone? Alien machinery, sounds like cybernetic beings plotting something

7. What shirt are you wearing? Cute pajama top w/ owls planning a Hoot-Nanny

8. Do you label yourself? No, I defy definitions

9. Name the brand of the shoes you’re currently wearing? No shoes, did have on my Merrill hiking boots before

10. Bright or Dark Room? Dark

11. What do you think about the person who took this survey before you? I have no idea

12. What does your watch look like? I don't wear one, my Curious George watch is sitting in my jewelry box being lonely

13. What were you doing at midnight last night? Drinking

14. What did your last text message you received on your cell say? "Aww you'll figure it out"

15. Where is your nearest 7-11? Idk...western Mass

16. What's a word that you say a lot? Awesome

By the Way

I was checking out some of the message boards for "The Office", I find this show hysterically funny and brutally honest. I started noticing a bunch of whiny bastards complaining how un-funny the show has become, a mere shadow of its once former glory. & I thought "What the fuck? Why are you watching a show you hate? Is just so you can have cannon fodder on the boards?" Which led me into a discussion w/ SB & I came to a startling conclusion. It's useless having debates. People become so defensive by the oppositions statements that they become even more entrenched in their beliefs. I know this to be true, I've done it myself w/ anti-choice proponents.

And on a completely unrelated note, why the hell was Corey Haim left out of the "In Memoriam" portion of the Academy Awards? Hello, "First Born" "Murphy's Romance", "Lucas"? "Lucas" for Christ's Sake?! Morons!

Spring-a-Ding-Ding

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Spring is in the air!


What are the Top Ten things you love about spring?

1. Waking up at 6 am and it's light out

2. The melting of the stupid snow

3. The smell of the earth

4. Knowing it will soon be summer

5. Shorter skirts and Doc Marten's

6. Planning for vacation

7. Shaking off the seasonal depression

8. Lilac bushes

9. Boot camp outside

10. Walking around barefoot

Candid Camera

I happened to be slumming around on one of my fave sites, Television w/out Pity, & I saw that newest cycle of Top Model had started.

Yee haw! This winter is starting to look up!

Thankfully this time around, Tyra decided to do away w/ showing casting week. Great idea! Too ponderous and full of fake drama. Lots of cute dumb hamsters, some bland. A few freaky looking chicks. And a whole lot of bitchery!

First impressions: love Kasia, the "plus size model". I believe she's an 8 or a 10. Stunning, love it! And she seems like she has half a brain. However, she's 25 which is long in the tooth to break into modeling. As ageist as that sounds :-( Also like weirdo Sarah, she looks like an alien. However, she needs to cut that rat tail she sporting!

For the Challenge, meta met meta. The hamsters had to walk in an Alexander Wang run way show, on a 12 inch plank over water in a gigantic plastic (hamster) ball. I never laughed so hard as when 3, count 'em, 3 hamsters slid off the platform into the water. They all got critiqued but there was no winner and no prize.

For the photo shoot, the hamsters were photographed while getting their hair and make up done before the Wang show. Heh heh Wang. Meh. I hate this concept. I don't see how you can look yr best and think about being a hamster ball in front of tens of people. So are these truly candid shots or were the hamsters supposed to pose? Weirdness.

Best photo went to Molly, one of the many blonde hamsters. But I actually like her looks, very fresh and cute. Getting the boot was Angelia and her regular pretty but not model pretty photo. I called this earlier in the episode. During Angelia's talking head, she kept blathering on about what an amazing model she is.

Game on, bitches!

Floundering

Top Chef recap time!


For the Quickfire Challenge, Paula Deen was in the kitchen w/ Padma. My first thought was, "Well it shouldn't be hard to impress Paula Deen. Just deep fry some butter & throw some gravy on it!" Heh heh. And essentially that was what the challenge called for, make a dish created in a deep fat fryer. Mike I, the fucking scumbag, stole his idea of a chicken "oyster" served on an oyster shell from Blais. And he tried to justify his reasons for his thievery! Ugh! Paula Deen remarked that she has the same hair style as Blais 1st thing in the morning....AWESOME SAUCE. Ha! Dale delivered a flavourless steak wrapped oyster & Carla's spit ball hush puppies were on the bottom. Poor Antonia, she totally would have won except she forgot to plate two dishes. So Blais' idea executed by Mike won. Needless to say he did not thank Blais after he won. Dick.

For the Elimination Challenge, the cheftestants had to pick a piece of seafood and a dish for a gala. I marvel at the task of making food for 250-ish people. That is something I could never do. In picking a seafood, the cheftestants have to take a booted cheftestant as well. Most of the cheftestants avoided the white shrimp because they were attached to Marcel. Mike I chose first and got Tiffani (YEAH) and brown shrimp. Mike as the winner of the Quickfire chose the order in which the cheftestants could pick their protein. Poor Tiffany got the shit end of the stick w/ Marcel. He was very bossy in the kitchen. I also noticed that Tiffani made most of the Mike I's dish, including the sauce that the judges kept praising. C'mon Mike! A little credit where credit is due. But thankfully Blais won. Revenge is a dish best served cold! And getting sent a-packin' was Dale. Wha-wha-what?! All right, I admit Dale's dish did suck monkeys' balls & he has a shitty personality but I think the judges want the ladies to stay in the competition longer. Tiffany has just been making absolute poop for several weeks now.

Final 5!