Author: Christine

Christine is an Avenger of Sexiness. Her Superpower is helping Hot Mamas grow their Confidence by rediscovering their Beauty. She lives in the Heights in Houston, Texas, works as a boudoir photographer, and writes about running a Business of Awesome. In her spare time, she loves to knit, especially when she travels. She & her husband Mike have a food blog at Spoon & Knife.

Amuse Me

The Bad Egg…

I can’t get it out of my head. I keep thinking about it now, ever since it happened. And it freaks me out every time I think about it.

Jason had a friend spend the night on Sunday night since there was no school on Monday. I wanted to make it a special night for them, so we ordered pizza for dinner and watched Shanghi Knights. The boys played Age of Empires II through the LAN (yeah for WiFi!) and had a really good night. I decided to make them pancakes for breakfast on Monday morning.

That’s when it happened.

I had all the ingredients mixed together, I had just added my milk, and the last thing to go in was the egg.

The egg that I can’t stop thinking about. The bad egg.

I cracked it on the glass measuring cup and dumped it in to my bowl without looking at the egg first, and I kid you not … as I saw it go in to the bowl, I realized that the yolk was black! Black! Ok, maybe it was just a dark green, but definitely on the black end of the color spectrum. Black! Thank goodness it slid under the other ingredients fast so I didn’t have to look at it, because otherwise I might have lost it right there on the kitchen floor.

I don’t think I have ever dumped something down my kitchen garbage disposal as fast as I did yesterday morning. I was doing the heebie jeebie big bug dance too – that dance you do when you see a really creepy bug that freaks you out. Eek!

The eggs were a week old, and the expiration date had not passed. It didn’t matter though – I pitched the remaining eggs in the trash, went to the store and got a fresh carton, and cringed as I made a new batch of pancake batter.

It took a lot of effort to make it through my breakfast taco this morning. I kept thinking about that bad egg. Veruca Salt can keep those geese that lay gold eggs for Easter – I seriously need an educated eggdicator! Don’t care how … I want it now!

Media Consumption

Personal Fab Five…

I have a confession. I’m musically clueless. I never know anything by the latest groups, or even not the latest, but the ones I shouldn’t have missed. I seem to stay a pretty steady 2-3 years behind the tunes. It’s sad, but true. But now I have Music Utopia at my fingertips. I seem to be able to access almost anything. (I am annoyed that there is nothing by No Doubt, but that’s the only thing missing so far.) I am having a blast with Listen.com!

Here is where you come in. Can you clue me in to your own personal Fab Five? The artists you just can’t live without? Or your favorite CDs – whatever works for you. I’m just in the mood to explore the musical world out there, and I need YOU to help guide me! I have very eclectic music tastes – I’ll listen to almost anything. It’s up to you to keep me from listening to Rick Astley and the Bee Gees all the time though, ok? (Although right now I’m listening to John Mayer, “Room for Squares”)

Won’t you share? Please? I’ve tried surfing blogs for playlists, but I can only find a few, and I’ve added all those groups already. So I really need you to share your music love!

Update: By the way – if you want to list more than 5, go ahead. I was just thinking of watching Queer Eye at the time I wrote this, so “Fab 5” came to mind! Share, share away!

Media Consumption

Sing Along Time…

So far, what I have seen of the Rhapsody Digital Music Service ROCKS! Every artist I can think of is available. From big names like Madonna and Sting to comedians like Stephen Lynch and Rodney Carrington. I already have a play list in my library that is a mile long. I have to test out how the CD burner feature works, and to do that I need to set up the software on the other computer. I will report back on that – but for now, two thumbs up!

Rob pointed me to eMusic, which allows you to download mp3s in a really neat sounding service. I didn’t find the same artist selection available though – and most of my music listening is while online and at a computer – and I want a variety of songs available to me.

I wonder if I can hook my stereo receiver up to WiFi somehow and play across the network. Something to research, that’s for sure!

Media Consumption

Squeeze…

I’ve found an amusing way to absolutely annoy the heck out of Jason. Whenever the commercial for those Skippy Squeeze Stixs things comes on, I sing along. It’s this annoying kiddy-rap commercial that comes on way too often on Cartoon Network. “Squeeze the Skippy, it’s the Skippy you Squeeze!” The second the commercial starts, Jason grabs the Tivo remote hoping he can fast forward through it. I sing along. He glares at me, and I laugh. Cracks me up every time. Almost as much fun as saying “Harry Potter!” with my fake British accent. He hates it when I do that!

On a completely unrelated note, I really want a pink phone like Faith’s. It’s too adorable!

Media Consumption

Should I Listen?

I went to Best Buy earlier to pick up a new headset for my cell phone and a new copy of Age of Empires II for Jason (I lost his first copy. It has to be here somewhere, but I haven’t been able to find it for two weeks.) While I was there, I spotted CDs for a free 14-day trial of Rhapsody Digital Music Service. Has anyone tried it? Is it going to be another nightmare experience like Jennifer’s whole BuyMusic experience? Any tips or info would be appreciated!