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Sep 15, 2008 Randomosity

This is what’s been floating around in my head for the past week. I need to clear it out to make room for more.

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I was making French Toast the other day, and we ran out of white bread before I got a chance to eat any (Pasta Boy can go through French Toast like you wouldn’t believe).  I thought to myself, OK, I love wheat bread, I’ll just make myself some with wheat bread.  Big mistake.  Wheat bread does not make good French Toast.  No amount of syrup could save it.  It was inedible.

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The best line last week regarding Sarah Palin came from Keith Olbermann, referring to this Q&A in the Charlie Gibson/Sarah Palin interview about the oft-repeated assertion that being governor of a state near Russia qualifies Sarah Palin to deal with foreign diplomacy.

GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions particularly in the last couple weeks does the proximity of the state give you?

PALIN: They’re our next door neighbors.  And you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.

Olbermann’s response?

I can see right into the headquarters of Chase Bank from my office, so on the Sarah Palin scale that makes me Alan Greenspan.

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I saw these on TV the other day and had to find them.  I just had one.  Why did it take until 2008 for someone to invent these?  The making and eating of multiple tacos has been revolutionized.  Viva la revolucion!

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The other night my husband was complaining that he had a shooting pain in his right arm.  After a bunch of tasteless jokes about how much insurance I have out on him and how rusty my CPR training is, he headed upstairs to go to bed.  He yelled back “Hey, turn the TV down.”  Thirty seconds later he came back downstairs and said “If I’m having a heart attack I didn’t want that to be the last thing I ever said to you…  I love you.”

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I took the kids to Olive Garden last night (sans The Ass – he hates the OG).  I wanted a sauce that wasn’t on the regular menu, the tomato and basil caprese.  It was on the unlimited pasta bowl menu, which was great, because for some reason stuff on that menu is cheaper than what I would normally order.  And of course I should have stopped after about half a bowl, but it was so good!  So I finished it all and was truly full.  Then the waiter came and took the empty plate and said “Refill?”  And even though I was bursting I heard myself saying “Yes, please.”  What?  Why?  Because it was free, that’s why.  This is the same reason why I have to stay away from all-you-can-eat buffets.  I don’t think I will ever get to a point, financially, where I will be able to turn down free food.  Doesn’t matter that I can afford to buy the food I want, to leave and come back again and pay to have the same thing again.  Doesn’t matter.  Free?  Gimme more.  I’ll find room.

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If Karl Rove says your negative ads have gone too far, it’s time to get out of show business.

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Last week the New York Post’s Page Six ran a little story about Joe Pantoliano and his charity, No Kidding, Me Too, which works to remove the stigma from mental illness (Mr. Pantoliano suffers from depression).  The title of the article?  “Crazy Advocate.”

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I woke up this morning to my daughter combing my hair with an eyelash comb.  I guess there are worse ways to be woken up.   Have a great week.

Originally posted on Selfish Mom

Tags: Charlie Gibson, French Toast, Joe Pantoliano, Keith Olbermann, No Kidding Me Too, Old El Paso Stand and Stuff, Olive Garden, Page Six, Sarah Palin, Taco