Pop a la Mode

It all started while I was eating my egg roll.

Susan picked me up from work last night and convinced me to go to her favorite chinese restaurant, Chen Express, over in Mountain Brook. It’s a hole in the wall kind of place but I can always go for a good egg roll.

As we were getting situated at a table, a dad walks in with three girls probably around the ages of eight or nine. He was a typical Mountain Brook dad - black suit, tie, expensive shoes and looking like he didn’t know what to do with three girls.

After they order and the egg rolls are delivered, all of a sudden Susan and I hear a squeal. One of the girls is up holding her mouth. Her front tooth was really loose and evidently the moo goo gai pan had made it almost ready to fall out.

Come to find out the dad at the table - isn’t HER dad. She rushes over to him and begs him to pull it. He starts to wiggle it around and loosen it up. It just won’t budge. So finally he jerks; she screams; she bleeds and there is chaos.

Susan whisks her off to the bathroom and asks for some ice so she can rinse her mouth out with ice water. I’m trying to calm the two other little girls who are now screaming also. And the dad is trying to keep blood from getting on his very expensive suit.

I’m glad I don’t lose teeth anymore. It is a very traumatic experience. I’ll never look at an egg roll the same way again.

This is one of the coolest ad campaigns I’ve seen in a very long time.

Disney hired famed photographer Annie Leibovitz to shoot Hollywood stars as Disney characters. And the pictures looks amazing!

And the coolest part? You can win a stay at Cinderella’s castle at Disney World in Florida! From the article:

Each day’s winners will find a crash pad truly fit for a princess — containing a mosaic-tile floor in the foyer (using thousands of 24-karat-gold pieces) and a “royal bedchamber” larded with priceless antiques, Venetian glass sconces, hand-woven Thai rugs and a limestone fireplace. Stained-glass windows in the “royal sitting room” tell the story of Cinderella.

I love weekends where I can catch up on my Tivo! And believe me, there was plenty there. After the past few weeks, it’s nice to be able to lay on my couch without having to jump up and run anywhere. So what did I watch?

• Mythbusters
• The First 48
• Heroes
• Smallville
• The Dresden Files
• If Walls Could Talk
• Most Haunted

And if I think really hard, I don’t notice the pretty white dishwasher sitting in my dining room. Or the ugly dirty one in the middle of my kitchen. But the plumber is coming tomorrow! Woo!

 

While perusing the USA Today this morning, this headline just jumped right out at me: Report: For first time, more than half of U. S. women have no spouses.

I guess what’s so interesting to me is that the Census Bureau thinks this is really important. I also love the fact that then they give their own “reasons” as to why there are more single women.

Such as: marrying later, living longer as widows and are more likely than men to delay marriage because they delight in their freedom.

I can think of one reason - it’s what I witnessed in the mall today. A group of reasonably attractive men in business suits within my age range crowded around a game console playing video games during their lunch break.

That might be the better reason that a lot of us are still single - not much to choose from in the dating pool. 

Okay, fine I admit it - I love the new Kleenex ad campaign.

Kleenex shlepped a big blue couch all around the United States and asked people to sit and tell them about the last time they cried. There are people that talk about crying because they’re happy; crying because they’re sad; crying because they’re angry and crying because they’re hurt.

It’s amazing how much people opened up to a stranger in the middle of a busy street. Of course with a box of Kleenex by their side.

Me? I cry at every Hallmark commercial I see and now these commercials too. I’m such a sap.

More pictures! We’ve been having too much fun visiting them. Isaiah is such a joy and watching all the family with him is fun.

I have more pictures that you can look at after the jump.

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