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Guilty Pleasures

Kitty is sharing her guilty pleasures when it comes to actors she likes to watch in movies, but can't stand to listen to when the start talking politics.  Check out her list and let her know who yours are.

New Feature -- Food Nostalgia

I am sure that it is not just because I am a Southern gal, that many of my fondest memories of growing up involve food in one way or another.  I am going to try something new here by sharing some of my food nostalgia from time to time, and when I do, to also request that readers here share some of their own in the comments section.  My hope is that in addition to learning that many others share similar memories, that I will discover some new foods, as I did when I married my husband and learned about his childhood favorite, Chocolate Gravy.  I learned when I posted the recipe for it that others shared similar family treats.

I am calling the first installment The Hot Light Is On -- Krispy Kreme Doughnut Runs.

When I was a child I lived in Charlotte and the Krispy Kreme was located on Independence Blvd.  I still remember my mom calling to find out if the "hot light" was on, and if it was, driving us across town to get hot, glazed doughnuts.  Later, as a college student at N.C. State, after have lived for a decade in a town without a Krispy Kreme, I rediscovered my childhood treat.  My friend Paul (who lived in the same apartment complex) and I would make many late night runs to the Krispy Kreme on Peace Street when working on papers or studying for exams. We would pick up enough doughnuts to share with his roomates and mine, which was a big order considering I probably ate three hot doughnuts on the way back to the apartment, and he ate about a half dozen.  Considering they literally melt in your mouth when they are good and hot, this is not a difficult feat.  When Krispy Kreme went national a few years ago, millions more discovered what I grew up knowing -- that there is NOTHING like a hot Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut.

Out Of The Mouths Of Babes

When we went to the beach last week, we visited my aunt and uncle who have a home there.  Luckily the week we went down was the same week their granddaughters were visiting.  One of them happens to be the same age as my older child.  Since neither girl brought anything to play with together and sunburn from the previous two days on the beach made the pool a no-no, after watching Ice Princess, my daughter pulled out her book, 1001 Things To Do When There Is Nothing To Do.  There are lots of ideas in the book for different kinds of activities you can do with little to nothing.  One of the chapters in the book has riddles.  My daughter read the various ones and we actually guessed a few of them.  When my daughter asked, "What do you call an annoying vampire?," my just-turned-five year old answered, "Ahm.  A blood-sucking freak?"   We just about fell out from shock, and after I finished laughing, I asked her where she heard that.  She said, "I don't know."  To this day, I have no idea where she got that.  By the way, the correct answer was "a pain in the neck." 

Tonight we saw "Sky High" at the theater.  I will post on it later when I have more time, but it is a cute movie that the family can see together.  I enjoyed it, although much of it is predictable.  There is one character that is named Magenta (which I think is a total ripoff of Violet from The Incredibles, by the way) who can shapeshift, but only into the form of a Guinea Pig.  Well at the end of the movie, Magenta helps save the day.  My five-year-old's comment at the end of the movie was that Glowing (her nickname for another character) and "Gerbil Girl" saved the day.  For some reason I am still laughing at her referring to Magenta, the Guinea Pig, as "Gerbil Girl."   Maybe you had to be there.

This Time, It Is The Heat

Often here in North Carolina, it isn't so much the heat, it's the humidity.  Well, this week it really has been the heat.  We drove to Walmart at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday and on the way passed two time/temperature signs reading 110 and 111 degrees.  At 5:30 p.m.  On the way home, around 7:00 p.m., it had cooled down a bit.  The temperature had dropped to 101.  Storms moving in should cool things down a bit more.  Did I mention that I am extremely thankful that my vehicle with the working air conditioning was repaired last week?  If I didn't, well, I am.

Slow News Day

This made me laugh.

Picture Of The Day

Via Lucianne.com.

Blogger Going To Aruba

Red of Scared Monkeys has been allowed to go to Aruba with Texas Equusearch to blog the developments in the search for Natalee Holloway.

Missing and Exploited

I just found this site fwhich carries news of missing persons, Amber alerts and related news from Scared Monkeys.

Oops!

Busted!  When your five year old tells you that her sister is being a "smartass" you know that you had better watch your language.  Not that I am saying I know this from experience or anything...

The Luau Party

I found the cute hula girl pinata in the picture above for my daughter's birthday luau and used it as a table decoration until the time came to hang it up and take a whack at it.  I would love to share pictures of the kids in their leis and sunglasses in the limbo line, but have a policy about not posting their pictures on the internet.  We had a great time in spite of the hot and humid weather.  The monster puppy, who I will post pictures of later, has chewed up most everything in the backyard (including the back of the house), so things were not as pretty as I would have liked, but I don't think the kids cared.  "Monster puppy" is a term of affection, by the way.  She is a sweetheart, but she does demolish most everything in her path. 

Since I am kid party blogging, I pulled up some pictures from a Dora the Explorer party two years ago.