Potential Christmas Present !

Hey Honey..

You know how they like board games ?

I have no way of knowing if we will get either of their names but this is a possibility.

It's at Cooking.com so I don't think there is going to be a run on it.

Maybe I should just order it anyway and set it back ?

Yes..I am one of those who start the Christmas Insanity early.

Hopefully , I won't be like my late mother.

She was gifted in hiding presents that they had bought earlier through the year, and she hid them very well.

So well that some of them are still MIA and she's been gone now for 30 years this past spring.

I kid you not.

Ciao,

Aunty Pol

Happy Friday ~ Bruce Of The Day ! ~

Guess who is in town this weekend for Splatterfest at the Alamo Draft House ?

Yep.

Le Sigh.

I am most like going to miss it so I will have to console mah self with an appointment or 3 at the Ice House and some sort or baked goods .

I wonder..Butter Pecan Cupcakes with cream cheese frosting..tappity tap tap goes the foot.

Butter Rum flavoring in the icing or not ....hmmm...

At least I have Freida..yes..I most likely have named the new appliance because I am twisted that way.

Don't forget for those of you that get the Food Network, Miss Ree has another episode tomorrow morning at 10:30 am central standard US time.

Have a great weekend, we all deserve it.

Ciao,

Aunty Pol

Foster Kitten Adopts Tiny Rescue Chihuahua

Foster Kitten Adopts Tiny Rescue Chihuahua

This is my happy place for the day .

Enjoy !

Ciao ,

Aunty Pol

Dying for Chocolate: Chocolate Covered Deep Fried Triple Double Oreos

Dying for Chocolate: Chocolate Covered Deep Fried Triple Double Oreos: This post is "reprinted" from DudeFoods.com with permission. What could be more awesome than Chocolate Covered Deep Fried Triple Double O...

Janet, dear Janet..why do I find your wonderful posts as I am starvin Marvin for lunch....You're killing me honey..and it's payday and I have a nickle or two to spend..sigh.

Just kidding.

Dying for Chocolate has become one of the top 5 blogs that I read first , of the blogs that I follow.

Space Paws, IBKC, Cranky Waitress, Here..Taste This round out this group.

I don't know that I would ever do this because SU just isn't that fond of Oreo's , but a gal can dream can't she ?

Mentally, my voluptuous ass has just expanded into the next zip code.

And in reality, I still can has cheezeburger , mebbe...it's payday after all.

Off to look for new Bruce pictures and to check out dudefood.com

Have a great weekend.

Ciao,

Aunty Pol

Retail Therapy !

I decided that if I could buy a new clothes washer through the Crazy Cajun and take care of the IRS issue...well..girl deserves a shiney, right ?
Ciao,
Aunty Pol

Harmonic Convergence

Ok..I know you will have to raise the hit the zoom thingy to make this bigger but it's worth it .

See..I am not the only one who mutters about " Harmonic Convergence.

Go to : www.dorktower.com

You're welcome.

Carry on.

Ciao,

Aunty Pol

Here Ya Go Honey

Problem solved.

The Lovely Bride .

OuR KrAzy kItChEn...: Save Room for Dessert...Cajun Cake

OuR KrAzy kItChEn...: Save Room for Dessert...Cajun Cake: AKA, dump cake, which is a rather unattractive moniker for such a delicious, yet easy, cake. Growing up in largely Cajun town of LaPlace, L...

I've never, ever seen a recipe for a dump cake with any sort of icing on it, much less what I consider your basic Coconut Pecan icing for German Chocolate cake so this caught my eye..

And then there is the fact that I am a total slut bucket for Dump Cake, especially Miss Jeri Lee's .

Warm out of the oven..it's good enough to go on a stoners list of complete munchies bliss.

It's that damn good.

Ciao,

Aunty Pol

OuR KrAzy kItChEn...: CHICKEN MILANO

OuR KrAzy kItChEn...: CHICKEN MILANO: CHICKEN MILANO 4 tablespoons butter, divided* 2 pounds chicken tenders 1 cup sun-dried tomatoes, chopped** 3-4 cloves garlic, minced 1 ...

Yup..more chiggin !

I might be crazy ( hush , I can hear you ! ) but this screams add capers to me.

Go check out this site..it's luscious .

Ciao,

Aunty Pol

Shugary Sweets: Chicken Kisses

Shugary Sweets: Chicken Kisses: One of my favorite dinners. Alyssa (my 12yr old) usually chooses this as her birthday dinner every year. It's so perfect on a fall evening,...

OMG..Lady Lisa...now with gravy even !

Estimated time for impact on voluptuous ass = 32 seconds.

I may have to make these fairly soon-ish.

Ciao,

Aunty Pol

Giant Rick Perry Chia head for sale | Rick Perry 2012 Campaign for President– News and updates

Giant Rick Perry Chia head for sale Rick Perry 2012 Campaign for President– News and updates

Never let it be said that your Aunty does not take an interest in all things political.

OMG.

Now if they came out with one for the Kinkster aka Kinky Friedman..SOLD !

Ciao,

Aunty Pol

I Told You I Was Stealing This !

I told you I was stealing this !

I have a friend who is a smart as hell attorney and a rarity..a regular dude. He and I share a love of all things Science Fiction/Fantasy amongst other things so when I saw this on his Facebook page I screamed internally:

" Dude, I am so fucking stealing this ...KThxBai".

Don't get me wrong.

I read a lot and there is a healthy dose of Urban Fantasy/Brain Candy/Trash.

I also read Churchill and have a degree .

I listen to Weird Al, Ozzy and Yo Yo Ma.

Abbott and Costello make me laugh till I have to pee , ditto for MST3K.

I rarely use spell check here but can spot an error elsewhere in record time.

I also have a phrase I use a lot and it is one of the most apt self descriptions I will ever use.

" I am easily seduced by a well turned phrase . "

Yes, people, especially kids have heroes and role models .

Hopefully they are more along the lines of the productive rather than the destructive.

And I say that with a straight face and a self professed love of all things Ozzy.

Because of this I try to be tolerant of their adoration of these vapid publicity whores, hoping like everything else they will fade away to the land of pet rocks and chia pets.

My parents didn't understand the things I read or watched on TV or listened to and that is how it is supposed to be.

It's called growing up and becoming self aware .

But the Kardashians, the Jersey Shores, The Real Housewives of Pick a City , The Kates with or without the Eights, the Baldwins, all of this ilk...

They are still here, in all forms of media.

Rather than letting them fade, they are being kept alive , much like a cockroach's ability to withstand Nagasaki.

Society in general has no room to complain about their existence until they own up to the fact that they as a whole are feeding the cockroaches.

We're not letting them pass away and fade away..we are creating the vacuum that allows the STD of the moment to dig in deeper to the trenches .

I thought that a couple of my co-workers were kidding when I showed them this.

They had no idea who the 1970's photo was on the left was , but they sure as fuck knew who she is.

And these co-workers are parents...yes....breeders of the next generation.

I weep for their tax deductions present and future additions.

This realization makes me grasp that being the age that we are might not be that bad a thing for SU and I , because by the time that ignorant 2.0 or 3.0 model tax deduction is old enough to do things that have a real effect in this world..SU and I will be long dead.

Big Dirt Nap.

WINNING !!

Oh..and you all did know that the photos are:

Left: Carl Sagan

Right : Snooki or as I call her current leader of the Vagasil Brigade .

We might be the only ones who will DVR this coming Sundays " 60 Minutes" and I don't care .

We will miss spending our Sundays with Andy Rooney.

At least he knows how to leave with dignity as a gentleman should.

Ciao,

Aunty Pol

Muffins That Taste Like Donuts ! ~ Oh Hell Yeah !

Set over to 350 degrees.

Ingredients:

1 3/4 c. flour

1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/3 cup oil

3/4 cup white sugar

1 whole egg

3/4 cup milk

Topping:

1/4 cup butter

1 tablespoon cinnamon

1/3 cup sugar

1 . Combine flour, baking powder,salt,nutmeg and cinnamon.

2 . Combine oil, white sugar egg and milk.

3 . Add wet to dry , stirring only to combine .

4. Bake in lined muffin/cupcake tin for 15 to 20 minutes.

While baking, melt the butter . Combine sugar and cinnamon.

Dip still warm muffins in the melted butter and then the cinnamon/sugar mix.

Let cool.

Note , because I am the way I am, I'd add a tablespoon of brown sugar to the sugary goodness for the last part..lol

Inhale.

Enjoy.

Ciao,

Aunty Pol

It's National Drink Beer Day !

Here ya go honey, this is for you and Double Oh Mullet !

Slainte !

Aunty Pol

OK..This made Me Smile.

Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Crazy Cajun.

Love ,

Us.

Dying for Chocolate: Cartoon of the Day: Chocolate

Dying for Chocolate: Cartoon of the Day: Chocolate: Rhymes with Orange by Hilary Price is one of my favorite daily comics.

Once again, Miss Janet of Dying for Chocolate hits the mark.

The truffles would have saved my sanity .

It had been a few years since our normal had occurred so we had gotten rather lax in our last quarter of the year paranoia. Long time readers know that Casa de Swamp has some sort of epic failure in the last quarter of the year , usually involving major appliance failure as in buying a new whatever.

Try as we might, the clothes washer went tits up.

It was a faithful servant in the almost 8 years we've had it, I know how long because we had to buy it the week Daddy died..yeah,I know .

The Crazy Cajun let us put it on his Sears Roebuck card and I paid him back.

God bless best friends with good or better credit is all I can say.

By the time we got it all sorted out as far as the actual water off the floor and all of the pantry stuff up on the counter because we use all the floor space dammit,...I was shaking.

Literally shaking with stress / frustration.

So I go next door to re-do my load of my clothes which weigh nothing at all.

As Miss Jeri Lee and I watched the game ( LOL ) ..I knew what I had to do.

I called the Crazy Cajun.

Good thing I had "calmed down".

Message: Hi .....It's me..can you call me or SU on either of our cell phones back. No ones bleeding or anything but we have a problem.KThnxBai.

Calm , right ?

I guarantee that you will get a call back if you leave a message like that but in my defense ..that WAS calmer than I'd been.

He calls me and I explain the situation and ask him to talk it over with his lovely bride because that is how I am ..and to let us know..we're good either way, I will just pull a plan B out of my a**.

Less than a minute later he calls back and we are on so SU and I go up to Sears Roebuck and look . I'd pretty much decided from the weekly ad that I had seen the one that I wanted ( could afford ) but yeah..guess who forgot the ad on the dining room table ?

Yup.

Me.

So we figure out finally which one it was and ..yup...it's out of stock.

Hello ?

The ad just came out today and it's out of stock and will take a couple of weeks to order?

I'm going to keep my thoughts on that to myself before I jinx the deal.

We find one that will work, ta-dah.

We will all meet tomorrow night at Sears Roebuck with the Cajun's son's truck and tote that sucker home. SU and the Cajun can install it ..they've done it before .

And I am sure that this will be okaywith the Cajun and his Missus ...but I am insisting on extended warranty..SU KNOWS this is no longer negotiable.

And since this is a front loader, I will have to replace all my cleaning stuff with HE .

And......

We got a letter from the IRS saying we'd underpaid 2008 or 2009 by $756.00 .

I will bring the form to the office tomorrow for my dude to look at , after all I work for attorneys.

It's a good thing I'd gotten a couple of bills paid off..

I'm ready to run away from home.

This week has to get better, it really does.

Ciao,

Aunty Pol

Name That Singer !

She had hits in the 60's, toured with icons and like many women was overlooked for her writing skills in favor of her singing because of her beauty.

Can you name this talented lady ?

No prizes..sorry..this is just for fun.

Ciao,

Aunty Pol

Happy Friday ~ Bruce Of The Day ! ~

Oh hell yea !
Excuse me while I lay my head down on my desk for a minute as I think I have a case of the vapors..!

Back now and all better.
Happy Friday y'all.It's been a long week with nothing special baked or to report which is fine in it's own way.
I did discover one thing today that I thought was pretty damn cool.
One of my favorite singers who is in her 70's now is releasing an album this coming Tuesday.
Yes, for those of you under the age of 40 , a lot of people your parents age still call them that so just deal with it and get over it.
She was primarily known for a few songs in the 1960's and contrary to popular beliefs is the one that wrote " Bette Davis Eyes"...not as many mistakenly believe to have been penned by Kim Carnes.
Can you guess who ?

I'll put her picture in the next post , I'm curious to see if anyone other than me knows who it is.

Have a great weekend...we all deserve it.

Ciao,

Aunty Pol

I Don't Think That This Is What They Mean By Leaves Changing Color..But I Could Be Wrong

I have a love hate relationship with this time of year.

I love the leaves changing colors.

I hate that for right now down here all that means is that the leaves on the trees have changed color...to brown which means the trees are either in a stress mode ( best hope) or dead ( reality).

I love that the temperatures are cooler...in the 90's rather than the 109's

I hate the time change.

I came home tonight and did the garden patrol looking for please no one need to be watered.

If we make only one itty bitty stop on the way home it is still 7 pm before we hit the driveway. I usually have to wait a few so he can get a shower and this is the drill. I understand it..He works with machinery and need to take a run through the rain room ( shower). It's like after a haircut, you have to get all of the hair off your neck. This means that if I have to water , I have to wait a bit. Down here , it is almost full dark by 8 pm.

This throws me right now, it really does.

Where did all of the light go ?

I am used to spending at least an hour watering what I can to save what I can.

In the dark ?

Oh hell no.

I looked around and realized that I really need to get out there now that the pulled muscles over the ribs on my right are better , and get the dead plants out of their pots ..and yes , it's going to take forever so that I force myself to slow down and not tackle it all at once , which is my usual mode so that I don't either aggravate the muscles , or do more damage and actually really tear them..yeah..it was that bad.

I think I will simply remove the debris and stack the pots till spring.

Some things that have survived need to be re potted and I guess the smart thing to do is buy bigger pots as I can and again stack them so that when I can repot the materials are all there.

But then there is still:

Prune or not and if so how much on the climbing roses etc.

Fertilize or not..help or hindrance with the season and weather ?

We've never had a damn near year long drought this bad in the state .

You know it's bad when you pay more attention to the fire reports than anything else and get used to the smell of smoke that just burns the hell out of your eyes and sinuses.

I am so glad tomorrow is Friday y'all, I really am.

Ciao,

Aunty Pol

Top Chef: Texas

The Dish - 'Top Chef: Texas' Hopefuls and Guest Judges Revealed! - Blog - Bravo TV Official Site

Once again, Houston gets the shaft.

Bastards !

GRRR !

Aunty Pol