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This one's for you, Mike. Thanks for the comment yesterday. =)

Shoe Debate

In another heated discussion over here, we disagree on shoes. Pressing, I know. One of us (it won't take much to figure out which one) thinks that since they still sell shoes like K-Swiss tennis shoes, and Doc Marten combat style shoes that this means they are still in style and acceptable to wear. The other one of us disagrees. So, we'll slap it up here old school style and ask you, our dear friends and relatives, and the occasional random person...

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Just so I'm clear, these are the K Swiss he has in mind, and


these are the Doc Martens he has in mind.


Anyone want to change their answer?

Dinner Conversation

As mentioned in the last post, we are entering the world of sippy cups. The one Cecilia used tonight has Ariel, Flounder and Sebastian on it from The Little Mermaid. On the side it says, "Life is the Bubbles" which I told John is a line from the song Under the Sea. John said he thought I was too into the Little Mermaid and referenced a recent conversation where I said I would name our next girl Ariel, a name he vetoed promptly, just like he vetoes every other name I suggest. He said he had seen Beauty and the Beast in the theatre, which came out in 1991. Let me mention that he was a junior in high school in 1991.

So I ask you this very important question...

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This should make Household Debates much more interactive. Cool. Now I have to pick a fight tonight. ;) Stay tuned.

An Even Better Place

The good news is we are getting a new kitchen. This project began last year when we wanted to add a dishwasher. Instead, I realized that the charming metal cabinet with attached sink and faucet that I liked so much when we bought this house became a thorn in my side. We can't just take one side of the cabinet near the sink out and replace it with a dishwasher because it's all one piece. Since our kitchen is only 10' x 10', getting all new cabinets last year seemed just out of our reach financially. Can't say the same about this year, though. =) Over the weekend we purchased cabinets that you assemble yourself. It's a pretty ambitious task in front of us, especially when you look at all those boxes sitting in the garage waiting to be put together, but I am so excited.

Soon gone are the days of dirty dishes piling up on the only counter space we have.

Soon gone are all our appliances and big bowls sitting under the island inviting Char to play,


and speaking of Char, this picture shows one cabinet door that has fallen off and we can't get back on, and we usually leave it off, except when company comes over.

Last time Char was here, he pulled it off; uncovered our secret. Then I tried to quickly put it back on, and didn't do it right, and it fell on Brian's toe. Sorry Brian. So embarrassed. As you can see in one of the pictures, we put one of the cabinets together already, except for the door.



We're going to try to put as many together as we can, then buy a DISHWASHER! and order countertops and try to knock it all out in a weekend. I told you we are ambitious. All this leads to a household debate. (how could it not?) One of us feels that if we are going through all this trouble, we should buy and put in a waste disposal in the sink, and the other one of us feels they are unnecessary and hard to install.

Household Debate Turned Into a Bet

After recently watching The Doors movie, and hearing last week that Lindsay Lohan just turned 21, I'm convinced that she'll be dead by the time she's 30. John is not so convinced. The stakes are that whoever wins gets to pick all the movies we watch for a year, and this is a huge deal because our taste in movies is so different.

With any luck, soon the world will include one less celebratard, and I won't be watching AI type movies for an entire year.

Where do you stand on this pressing matter?

Fiesty

Which is better; ketchup or mustard? Not honey dijon or anything like that, we're talking real yellow mustard.

Here's where I use my blog to be a brat and tell you that we also disagreed on whether the Sesame Street characters were Muppets, and if Kermit the Frog was on Sesame Street. The answers are yes and yes, in which case I was right twice. That one is not really an opinion type thing, so no need to debate, just a need of mine to tell you I won that one fair and square. I know my Muppets.

Another to ponder...

Do you consider "halfway there" to be the same as "living on a prayer?"

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Do you think John is proud of being from Poplar Bluff?

O.k. The real question is; Do you think you can be proud of something that defines you that you did not have a direct choice in making? Like, can John be proud of being from Poplar Bluff even though he did not make the choice to live there?

The Bacon Debate

Sometime last week I put up a post about yet another household debate, but then took it down after only a couple minutes because it seemed stupid. Not because I thought I had already lost, but because it is a long story, and there's no way to explain it without telling you who is on what side. I think Mike was the only one who saw it, and I thought no one had saw it, because really it was up there less than a half hour. Since then I have thought about the debate, and have explained it to a couple people, and I have deemed it worthwhile to try to explain again. By the way, the last household debate about the energizer bunny still needs to be solved; scroll down, and then comment.

The discussion went like this:

I made a soup out of a bone from the beef from the farm. The bone had some meat around it, and after cooking it, I smeared the marrow onto a piece of bread. I offered John some, and he declined because he thought eating bone marrow was gross. I said it was one of the best tasting things around. John said it couldn't taste better than bacon. I then said that marrow is a natural product, and bacon is not a natural product. This is where the heart of the debate lies. John says that fire is natural and smoking the part of the pig that makes bacon is natural and therefore bacon is just as if not more of a natural product than marrow. I say that smoking meat is a man made process, therefore, bacon is not a natural product. John says that fire is natural, it occurs in nature by lightning. I say that fire, in the sense of fire used to smoke meat, is man made. He is flabbergasted with the fact that I said fire is man made.

So what do you think?


ummm.... can you repeat the question?

Moving on...

Is the Energizer Bunny a girl or a boy? Talk amongst yourselves...

Another Household Debate

Even though I don't think disagreement will turn into an agreement any time soon, we might as well put it out there to ponder.

Which is better, the new baseball stadium in St. Louis, or the old one?

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Do you consider Martha Stewart to be a successful business woman?