So instead of doing THAT, I've been making stupid lists in my head. Of course.
New Ideas for Blog Names For The "Baby", Who Is Four.
1. Ramona Quimby.
2. Sally, because it is her favorite name in the world.
3. Cindy Lou Who, because she still looks like this character from How the Grinch Stole Christmas:
Even though she acts more like this character from another classic work of children's literature:
6. Mama's Darlin'
7. The Teacher's Terror
1. Actually, just writing that amused me enough. Har!
How Looking At Pictures This Morning Of My Oldest Child - The One Currently At Summer Camp - Made Me Feel
1. Gutted
2. Proud
3. Weepy
4. Verklempt
5. Sentimental
6. Like singing that annoying "Sunrise, Sunset" song from Fiddler On The Roof.
Some Delicious At-Home-With-Kids-On-A-Weekday Lunches I Have Yet To See On A Restaurant Menu
1. Beanie-weanies
2. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
3. Kraft Dinner with a can of drained tuna dumped in it
4. Last night's supper
How Expired All Of The Pectin Was In My Cupboard, In Reverse Chronological Order
1. August 2008
2. May 2006
3. October 2005
4. December 1998
Things I Would Call My As-Yet-Unwritten First Novel, Based Entirely On This Post
1. How Expired Was My Pectin
2. Fear And Loathing And Lunchtime
3. Crybaby: Tales Of A Sentimental Mother And Her Annoyed Children
4. Dictionary Snob: How I Became THAT Guy
5. My Youngest Kid Thinks She Could Beat Up Your Honour Student
51 comments:
HAW! How Expired Was My Pectin! Thank you for reminding me to check mine; jam-making is also in my future.
This whole post is golden. And I'm glad I'm not the only one to sit sniffling, looking at photos of my happily-sleepover-camping daughter.
I LOVE How Expired Was My Pectin. And my vote is for Cindy Lou Who.
Ha! My name vote: Junie B. Jones. :)
Pectin expires? Oh dear, I wish you hadn't said that.
Bratty Mc Brattypants is my fave.
Giggling all the way through.
Wanted to guffaw here in the comments about How Expired Was my Pectin but can't now because I also wanted to be original.
Instead I will comment about the guy who cited Webster's.
Except I also have a commitment to not curse (in print, anyway) and I can't find a better word for a--.
This is turning into a list of comments I almost made.
Love your lists, especially the last one. And what a pedantic idiot that Webster's guy is.
That guy with the dictionary doesn't know anything about colloquial Canadian flora classification.
How about the-child-formerly-known as-The-Baby?
okay i am hooked. the lists did it .. i am a list freak;)
bratty mcbratty pants ... reminds me of something the guy in back to the future said. lol
I love that the dictionary guy's screen name ends with "MFA", that really cracked me up!
The Baby is correct: Sally is an awesome name. That's the pseudonym I chose for my second daughter because that is the name she bestowed upon her Most Beloved Baby Doll.
Sallies are great girls :)
Oh yes,
Junie B could be your baby as Jennifer said. I think it suits her.
Oh dear! How Expired Was My Pectin! Just almost woke up baby in sling with my chuckling.
I actually saw PB&J on a restaurant menu once, and it was hilariously expensive!
I have to admit, I had never before heard of the Webster's Third International Dictionary. But good to know!
My parents used to call me Cindy Lou Who, so I vote for that one. Are you even taking votes, or is it a totally arbitrary decision? Which would make sense, since it is YOUR blog, after all. But heck, what's a blog without all of our opinions, anyway?
"My youngest kid thinks she could beat up your honour student" should become a bumper sticker. Seriously.
Ramona Quimby has the advantage of actually aging, unlike many other fictional characters.
I love your lists. And Sally was one of my fav names too when I was little. I used to pretend I was twins, and I would draw two identical pictures and sign one "Sally" and the other "Cindy." Yes that was weird.
However, I am casting my vote with the other commenters who said Junie B. Too cute. She can't be Ramona because YOU are Ramona, in your pic, and she would have to be Ramona Jr and she wouldn't like that.
Did you want votes?
My in-laws have a country house which is used by all the kids in the family every-so-often, which means that everyone brings food every time they go out. Last month I cleaned out the refrigerator & found four bottles of very expired ketchup, among other things. No pectin, though!
Wow. Expired pectin. You're my hero. I think I have some expired junket. You want maybe I should send it to you?
I vote for Max, because that is Anja's dog-eared, crinkle-paged favorite. She has loved it since she was just 12 mos. old, the weirdo. She gets especially excited about the wild rumpus pages, because Mom and Dad provide amazing, rumpus-style sound effects, the likes of which you cannot begin to imagine.
I think everyone is so taken by the mention of pectin because it is very close to pectorals.
I LOVE that you have 11 year old pectin.
We stayed at a hotel with P and J (and KD minus the tuna) on the restaurant menu.
I felt rather ridiculous ordering vegetarian wraps with Wasabi mayonnaise or me and P and J for my kids. But they were HAPPY.
This whole post made me snort.
What is an MFA, exactly? Based on his comment I have a pretty good idea, but my idea is not one he would be prone to brag about, so I'm assuming he means something else.
I'm pretty sure I mentioned to you how much I LOVE and ADORE and AM CRAZY ABOUT Ramona Quimby, back when I first saw your profile picture, but thought I would mention it again.
And finally, I misread "Sally" at first and thought you were saying her favorite name was "Sadly," which reminded me of when my daughter named her doll "Corridor". And now I feel gutted, weepy, etc.
In looking up "corridor" to make sure it was spelled correctly, I found myself wondering if there is an online Webster's Third New International Dictionary (Unabridged). Do you know an MFA I could ask?
Ha! We made strawberry rhubarb jam a few weeks ago and didn't think to check the pectin's exp. date. I slit the packet and squeezed it into my boiling sugary strawberry-rhubarb pot and a solid clear rectangle plunked out.
Much panicking and fishing out ensued, all other packets were checked for the least expired gel and more was added. Now our PB&J lunches are also a game of "let's see what expired pectin may or may not do to us".
Ed Bremson, MFA. Hmm. Maybe he's just a troll trying to be funny. For which he gets a big fat FAIL.
If I weren't being a much cleaner-mouthed girl these days, and if you didn't have a clean blog, I'd have a really good idea what "MFA" stands for.
But my mind isn't that dirty, so I don't.
And I LOVE "How Expired Was My Pectin!" Sounds like a very high-falutin literary classic. With jam.
I reckon that you should seriously think about printing out that final book title as a bumper sticker.
Reading these great lists was so much more fun than doing any of the things I should be doing (for example, making plum leather out of the 10-or-so gallons of plums in my freezer from last year's harvest.) I love all the lists.
Are the puffballs about four or five inches in diameter, with stiff stems on the little bits of fluff? If so I think I know the ones you mean, and I think they're definitely different from dandelions. Not to mention that neither name is really a specific botanical designation. It's like the difference between potato bugs, pill bugs, sow bugs, roly-polies (which are all regionally-differentiated names for this little isopod.)
Re: your comment over at my blog--before I saw your comment, I actually got curious and did a Google Image Search for "puffball," which brought up lots and lots of pictures of giant fungi. I guess I just wasn't paying very close attention when I read about puffballs here before. Thanks for clarifying.
A puffball - technically - is a type of round fungus that releases a cloud of spores when stomped on. They are VERY enjoyable.
Puffball is also a colloquialism for a gone-to-seed dandelion, and you may call your dandelions that as much as you like. We call ours "Wish Dandelions."
You are so brilliantly funny.
My vote for the name - Ramona Quimby!
Hey - at least you had pectin. I didn't know it expired because I've never bought any. Although I would like to make strawberry jam. I LOVE strawberry jam. Too much.
Personally, I like Cindy Lou Who. "Why, Santy-claus, why??"
I like #6.
Sally suits her mighty fine as does Cindy Lou Who and yes she does resemble her quite a bit!
I think my eyes are going b/c I didn't see "Sally", I saw "Salty" and thought, "great name!". So, I'm going with "Salty" as my vote.
I'm jealous of your expired pectin. I went to make jam and had NO PECTIN. Oh the horrors.
My vote is for Cindy Lou--SO SO many people tell me my T. looks like Ciny Lou Who, so I"m partial to the name.
Love these lists. Too funny.
Pectin expires? Shit.
And I'd go for Ramona. Of course, I almost called my baby Gassy McFartsalot.
Bratty McBrattypants is funny, of course, but I think you'd regret having to type the whole kaboodle out every time you mentioned the darling child. Her Highness, maybe? :-)
*mffft* So that's what they teach in an MFA. Pass the dandelions and kites, please.
I think Panera Bread has PB&J. I also think it's $4.
I heart this post. It feeds my attention deficit disorder perfectly. I am sated, so thanks.
Can I vote for Sally? It seems fitting that she'd get to pick. ;-)
And hear I am reading and chuckling at your post instead of all th ethings I should be doing. BTW you can use lemon juice in strawberry jam instead of pectin, it does work and doesn't hurt the flavour at all.
That puffball comment gave me a hearty laugh. The internet is so bizarre. I'm also pretty sure your website is the best place for Pectin humor on the world wide web.
Oh Sunrise, Sunset is one of my favorite nostalgic songs. My Dad wanted it sung at our wedding and I have had it run through my head as I look at pics of my kids who are entirely too grown up. *sniff*
Bratty McBrattypants made me laugh out loud.
"Sally" is a great name for the baby. And I agree, YOU are Ramona!
My little "Cangri" is Max, 1,000,000% and I wonder why I didn't choose that nickname for him!
As another commenter noted the name her daughter gave a doll, mine named a teddy bear "Conditioner." I smile every time I hear her calling him.
Cindy Lou Who
Well, his profile does say he likes to help people! How helpful of him to drop by!
I gotta say, I'm going for Cindy Lou Who!
Wow, just imagine the comments if you'd said something about Esperanto.
I'm going to make blueberry jam and now I'm wondering if I should have bought some pectin...
Whoa, that's some ancient pectin.
I vote for Sally. That's what we call Alice about 65% of the time. I have no idea why. On second thought, we have taken Sally. I vote Ramona.
I think that this post was an excellent time investment.
Is an MFA by chance a mother f***ing a**hole? ;P
I love the novel titles...
I think it should be Fear and Loathing AT Lunchtime... and I think the final one should have a parenthetical addition: (and she`s probably right).
Just my two cents. For what they`re worth (which is exactly two cents).
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