Pass the ketchup! ( L O N G blog!!!)

Earlier this month I found myself in line at the grocery store purchasing 30 bottles of Ketchup. I shall explain!

Our family doesn't use ketchup like other family's do. Our family's ketchup usage is mostly used for burgers and fries, which, truthfully, we rarely eat.

Some of the folks at our Restaurant go ketchup crazy! I have had some guests put ketchup on the strangest things: in soup, on Roast Beef, Mashed Potatoes, mixed with their gravy..you get it. Anyway, the Restaurant is a ketchup friendly place, we have loads of ketchup on hand at all times! Heinz is our brand of choice. (Grandpa Jay used to work for Heinz, there is no other brand we would use!)

About once a month, I hear mom explaining to the cashier why we need so much ketchup..... "We own a Restaurant" ..."oh, really? which one?" ... blah blah blah... boring reason for buying 30+ bottles of ketchup...blah blah blah.....

So, earlier this month, Celeste and I decided to save mom a trip to the store, and buy the months supply of ketchup...

While we were walking towards the ketchup isle, I started thinking... There has got to be a better reason why someone would buy 30 bottles of ketchup at a time!!! I was brainstorming the whole time we placed our bottles in the cart. I knew that the cashier would ask! who wouldn't ask!

Celeste and I started placing 30, 14oz bottles of ketchup on the line. Single file, all in a row.

Right on cue, our cashier commented... "wow, thats a lot of ketchup... what do you do with all of it?"

Being fully prepared for such a question, I answered...

"Its' national ketchup month."

"ohh" she said.

"yeah, usually just hot dogs, and burgers, but were starting to get crafty."

small talk went on....along with some pauses, she was trying to figure out if I was joking or not.

"so are you guys roommates?" she asked, in hopes of making more sense of the mass of ketchups going through her scanner...

"ohh no, were sisters! it's a family thing!!! even grandma is into it!"

Now keep in mind, Celeste has never been part of a ketchup experience before, so she didn't quite know what was going to happen, she didn't know of my brainstorming... so this whole time, she was holding in her laughter... little giggles here and there, but all in all, she was a good sport.

After we paid(about $50.00 mind you), and left, I'm pretty sure our cashier half believed me....mostly because she didn't know what else to think...

I also started to elaborate on my brilliant "ketchup month" theme....

Perhaps I could have added....
"yes, this is our second purchase too..we have already gone through 50 bottles, and the months only half over"
"next month is syrup month"
"we had ketchup sandwiches last night, just bread and ketchup"
"the milkshakes were a bit odd at first, but you would be surprised!"

Needless to say, we had a great time. We found it quite entertaining! I'm sure that there was talk about it in the break room later on too!

I told Bryan of our escapades, and being the jokester that he is, he came up with loads of reasons for someone to buy numerous amounts of ketchup(or anything really)...
We decided that to get the best out of these reasons, that nothing else really needs to be said.

• Worlds worst water balloon fight
  
• Grandma's dying wish
• OCD, i have to have a new bottle every day
• A skunk sprayed grandma
• Religious thing
• Homemade makeup
• Re-painting the kitchen
• "I just LOVE jell-o"
• Hybrid car
• Slip and slide party
• Planting tomatoes
  
• My tv is broken
• Making ketchup puppets
• Gotta feed my horse

So, next time you have about $50.00 lying around, go and have some fun!

*** What would tell your cashier if you bought 30 bottles of ketchup?***

spring break / kitties

spring break was a lot of fun! it was also really nice to have our own little vacation right before mom and dad took their 2 week Hawaii trip.
heather, celeste, mom, dad and i left for st.g on wednesday night. thrusday morning mom, dad and gran left for vegas, then to hawaii for them! leaving me and the gals to grans house for the next few days!

we did a lot of swimming, eating, movie watching, sisterly bonding.....we had a lot of fun!





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kitties:
they are so cute! when we got back from spring break they all had their eyes open, and had gotten bigger! they are still a bit wobbley when walking around- i think that the grey stripedy is my favorite- i have named him Clarance, or Clancy.... i cant decide- they both fit him rather well-
the little grey(we call him "little grey") is already getting fluffy! like a big grey fluff ball-
the 2 little black ones dont really like being held, but each day they are getting better... they all seem to enjoy the company and loved hearing all the "ooooos" and 'Awwwws" when we visit-



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kitties - foot update - concert

Kitties-
last night our kittie* just had kittens!!! im so excited!!!

we have 5 baby kittens!! 2 black ones, 1 grey, 1 grey stripedy, and one grey/black/orange spots!!! i was worried that she would have her babies while my mom and dad were gone, but she lad them last night! they are so cute!!

i love them already!

im sad that we cant keep them though, so if your in the market for a super cute kittie, let me know!!! we can give them away in about 6 weeks or so!!!

i love watching kitties grow up!

*even though techincally our "kittie" is a grandma... (her babies from last spring had babies this year! happy granny-hood!) she is still "kittie" to us! she is so small compared to all of the other cats we have had.. and also, i cant remember her name.. i think kitties real name is Halley, but i can never remember it.. and neither can anyone else, we all call her kittie-^ this is my kittie last summer- sunbathing, and watching the fishies swimmin!

^i cant pass up a good opportunity to post a pic of kittie and me--- it took me quite a while to get kittie used to me, finally she was ok with sitting on my lap when we would watch the fishies swim--- she is a good kittie, she will follow me to the mailbox, and she will watch my car when im in the house.. when i say watch my car, i mean sit on my car.. its more her car than it is mine-- i like it that way!

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foot-
so things are looking up... about thursday night i started walking on my foot! ouch, but it was needed! i was glad too because we had a concert to go to on friday(see below!)..

today i went to work for 2 hours, and i hobbled around like a granny without her cane- celeste came in to be my backup, so as soon as i got tired, she jumped right in and saved my skins!

tomorrow i go to the doctor to see if he will take the remaining 2 stitches out.. i hope he wont! there is still a nice gap that isnt healing yet--

i will be going to work on tuesday for my first real shift, 11am-5pm... i hope i last, it should be nice and steady.. hopefully!

anyway i have pictures if anyone is interested-- its quite..um...gross! but who knows, some people might enjoy seeing my foot at its worst...

[have you ever had stitches or a wound that took way too long to heal???]
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concert

on friday Tyler Celeste and i went to the Avalon to see MAE!

while waiting in line i saw Blaine(**hi Blaine!**) and my new friend Allison drive up.. we waved them over, we got to enjoy the show in great company!

while waiting patiently for Mae, Blaine, Allison and i spotted the Keyboarder from the band Between the Trees

BTT put on a great show, so we decided it was mandatory to take a pic!



wooot it was fun!

compared to the last concert....this one was great! well, both were really good, but i must say, that not having to worry about a big orange blob really makes the show worth seeing!

so im super excited about the next show- not sure when it will be, but i am excited! im always good for shows!

music lover -

i love my music - what about your music???

(i used itunes)
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Total number of tracks: 4305 (plus 949 podcasts)
Total Length of Music: 10days, 12hours, 57min,43seconds (plus 3days,20hours,16min,28seconds of podcasts)

Sort by Song Title:
-First Song: A-OK : Motion City Soundtrack
-Last Song: 99 Luft Balloons : Nena

Sort by Time:
-Shortest Song: (0:06) Now, Stand back for your own saftey! : The Aquabats
-Longest Song: (30:05)This Dust Makes that Mud : The Liars

Sort by Album:
-First Album: Abbey Road : The Beatles
-Last Album: 40 oz to Freedom : Sublime

Sort By Artist:
-First Artist: Adventures of Jet
-Last Artist: Zero 7


Top 10 Most Played Songs: (**sufjan is part of my sleep mix..and i love his stuff!**)
1) Chicago : Sufjan Stevens
2) Decatur, or, round of applause for your stepmother! : Sufjan Stevens
3) Praire Fire that wanders about : Sufjan Stevens
4) The Upper Peninsula : Sufjan Stevens
5) Out of Egypt: Sufjan Stevens
6) In The Devils Territory : Sufjan Stevens
7) The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is out to get us : Sufjan Stevens
8) Abraham : Sufjan Stevens
9) we wont need legs to stand : Sufjan Stevens
10)A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the way in which Sufjan Stevens has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze : Sufjan Stevens

First five songs that comes up on Shuffle:
1) The Past is a Grotesque Animal : Of Montreal
2) Que Suerte! : Cap'n Jazz
3) Random : Lady Sovereign
4) Ghost : Neutral Milk Hotel
5) Lady Madonna : The Beatles

Search ....(**some of my artists and album titles include these words...)
"sex", how many songs come up? 9
"love", how many songs come up? 163
"you", how many songs come up? 568
"death", how many songs come up? 59
"hate", how many songs come up? 26
"wish" how many songs come up? 9
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that was fun! i need to listen to more music when i sleep...hmmm...

Power/feet/vampires

**power outage**

sunday night about 7:30pm the power went out, perfect timing too! it was quite an awkward home teaching session! dad went to the resturant to help fix things there, while mom,hoove and i got things ready...

we went upstairs, gathered blankets, pillows, pjs, lambies, toothbrushes..all the essentials.. hoovie and i decided that the girls should have a sleepover in the TV room, mostly because there is a fireplace there, so if it got too cold without the power, we could just flip the switch and be instantly warm... we played our DS' by candle light till i started getting sick from playing in the dark..

dad and celeste came home, with food in hand! yum! and we all settled down for the night!
at about 10:30pm the power came back on! ugh! right when we had just relaxed, almost asleep... the light in the tv room came on, and in the kitchen, and the hallway..ugh, lights on everywhere!
celeste made a mad dash and turned the off fast!! and we drifted back to sleep!

** foot update**

yesterday i got all but 2 stitched removed, and next monday ill go back to have them all removed...

i am able to walk on the ball of my foot, just not very far, and still i prefer to hop and crawl...

mom and dad bought me a cane, i made a request for a fun cane carved out of wood with a bunch of animals on it, but i just got a plain black one from walmart...

its getting better, but i hope to be walking by next monday--- poo poo!


**vampire weekend**

no...its not an event where everyone dresses up like vampires and walks the town all weekend long...(reminds me of zombie walks!!)

Vampire Weekend is a band, a pretty good band too! (myspace site!)

celeste, michael and i got to see them last night....

let me rephrase: michael and celeste got to see them, and i got to see a big blob of orange move up and down to the tunes of VW.... i must explain!!!

with my foot still being..um..not working.. i got to stand at the bar while michael and celeste got to enjoy the concert(with the rest of the crowd)-

i had quite a perfect place at the bar, i could see the stage, and i had somewhere to rest.. i was happy!

about 3 min before the show started this rather large fellow came and stood right in front of me, his girlfriend leaning on the bar like me, and because he likes his girlfriend, he stands right infront of ME, so he dosent block his girlfriends view.... he had a very odd, very bright orange polo on, and he kept jabbing me with his elbow, while he was trying to record the band with his cellphone- he would bob up and down for the most part of the songs, then he would just stop wipe his brow, and throw a couple of fist punches into the air and yell.."yeah" and "woo".. and on the songs that he didnt know(lameo! who goes to a concert, stands infront of an injured girl, and only knows 4 of the bands songs!!) he would kiss his girlfriend, and talk way loud... and lift up his arms to share that wonderful oder that he has been producing with all his bobbing, and fist jabs... ick---

anyway, long story short, if you have an injured foot and you decide to attend a great indie show, just make sure the the big orange blob dosent stand infront of you..it just might ruin your night!

but it really was a good show- and in just 3 days celeste tyler and i get to go to Mae

im very excited! its good to get back into the concert groove again!