Blogging: Back with a Vengence

I'm Baaaacck!


Back in the saddle again.  Getting back on that proverbial horse.  The hardest part of doing something is simply just DOING it.  So here I am.  DOING.  The journey of 1000 steps begins with one step.  Here I go...

It's been quite a while but I've decided to start blogging again.  I've been trying tons of new recipes and acquired some nifty new kitchen gadgets, including big blue mama (my dutch oven) which I'd love to share with you.  I have some new addictive hobbies concerning all things yarn related and would love to feature current projects in crochet and loom knitting.  I love crafts of all kinds.  Crafts for kids and crafts for grown ups too!  While I'm here I should let you know I have recently purchased a sewing machine and would like to channel my 8th grade home ec teacher Idona Kellog to teach myself how to finish some easy sewing projects.  To top it all off, I have three adorable clever little girls that are full of rambunctious hijinks that would lend itself to sharing a story or two.  So sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.  This here's gonna be the wildest ride in the wilderness.  Yehaw.

Painful Timewarp - Attack of the clones...

So... um... forgive me reader, it's been many months since my last confession... many MANY months. I don't know where the time has gone but I whole heartedly blame my toddlers. The oldest one has started preschool, the younger two are endless balls of dare-devil energy that tends to feed off each other at a frenzied pace. Another possible reason for my prolonged absence is the all time classic "painful time warp" as explained in great detail here:

Original Painful timewarp story here

Anywho... I thought I'd pop in a try to start to blog again. The glass half full crowd could say either I'm 3 months early for the 2010 resolutions, or for the half empty bunch I'm 10 months late for the 2009.

So many amusing things have happened whilst I was away, I shall try to share them with you in the next coming months. Now go out and say seven "Weshaboigens"... all has been forgiven my child.

So Why WeShaboigen??

 Note: My blog used to be called "Weshaboigen"

So my sister asked... So why WeShaboigen, what's that from? So I thought I would share it with her and you. It has something to do with stale snacks, not the beautiful fresh snacks pictured here, but a plate of snacks two weeks old and twice frozen... But first, some background. I keep a white board on our fridge at home. Now while most people would keep a shopping list or a time efficient things to do list, I keep wacky and strange phrases that have been uttered by family members. When the white board gets full, I'll transfer them to a hard copy and start over. So at any given time a complete stranger could walk into the house and be totally baffled by the sayings on our fridge, which has the most hilarious collection of our favorite inside jokes.

So we work together, my hubby and me. We have a very frugal boss. She buys plastic flowers instead of real ones, and if the receipt doesn't say Walmart, you've payed too much. Well she's found a way to be frugal on snacks too. She goes to the local supermarket and collects the week old pastries, too old and decrepit to sell to the public and brings it to work where she promptly refreezes them and it is there they lie in wait for us. On snack day morning she proudly defrosts them and makes a beautiful display on a flowery plate and ceremoniously places them in our break room. After a few years of these most of us have learned to stay clear of the snack plate, but there always seems to be the newbie or just plain person that is too hungry, and slowly the stale snacks disappear over the course of the morning. When our boss comes back and sees the almost empty plate, I'm SURE it only reinforces her idea that stale snacks are a good thing.

So one day as everyone was standing around the snack plate, gazing at the obvious staleness I said out loud... "We should boycott". My hubby, walking by quickly at the time misheard me and said back... "WeShaboigen", what the heck is THAT? No, I said We should BOY COTT... the snacks I mean... "OK, WeShaboigen"! he says back... and a new white board phrase was born. We use it now anytime we want to make a statement that we are standing up for the little injustices of the world. So go ahead, say it... it just rolls off the tongue... WE SHABOIGEN. Oh, and always buy fresh snacks

I'm new here

So, one of my good friends told me I should become a blogger, and I don't even know where to start. So here I am at the deep end of the pool without my flotation device... well unless you count my uncanny ability to become completely buoyant due to, I think, in fact to my larger than average breasts, which allow me to bob up and down in the water without the aid of hands or feet. It's quite the stupid human trick - but very impressive to the casual observer. So here's I am, sitting cross legged in the pool while others must get by the "old fashioned" way by "swimming". I hope you enjoy your stay here and just sit back and let the wackiness wash over you.

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