This Week In Blogs, Volume V
Hi Friends. Welcome to my new blog. It’s a hot mess, isn’t it? If you like the design, then I give all the credit to Pinky’s husband, who helped me out big time. Actually he did it all. I just supervised. And by supervise, I mean I drank beer and watched Juno and offered words of encouragement. He was done before with this fancy design before Juno’s third trimester. He’s good with the Word Press and the interweb, so if y’all need help with your blog, you can get in touch with him through Pinky’s blog. If something isn’t working correctly, that’s probably my bad. Let me know and we’ll try to get it fixed. After reading this post, I’d encourage you to take a tour of the blog. But first, let’s do our weekly blog review.
We’ll start in our nation’s capital with Anna from Blue Plate Special. Anna’s sister Meg wrote a heart wrenching post where she came clean about her gambling addiction. Well, not really, but she did admit to bidding on four items in the recent blogger bake sale, which is sort of like gambling, right? I mean, those are some expensive baked goods. I can see her on the phone with her bookie, saying she’ll take the VeggieGirl blondies plus two, with the juice running at five points a week. Or maybe she’ll bet the over on Tina’s Chocolate Pumpkin Loaf. In other BPS news, Anna has sworn off using cocoa powder in her oats after three unsuccessful attempts. I understand where Anna is coming from on this one. I put a leftover birthday cupcake in my oats the other day. My cupcake oats tasted okay, but then when I wanted to eat my cupcake at lunch, it was already gone. And then I had to explain to Kate where the leftover cupcake went. And it doesn’t matter that I put it in oatmeal, I still ate a cupcake for breakfast.
Speaking of Kate, I would like to thank Jenna and the Fitnessistitanissstasa for taking away what little counter space I had left in my kitchen. Thanks to the juicing habits of the aforementioned bloggers, Kate has now purchased her own juicer. Awesome. It also happens to be the same model that Jenna has, but Kate swears that’s a complete coincidence. I’m not buying it. So now Kate is making juice twice a day. She asks if I want some juice about five times a day, even though my answer is always ‘sure, as long as it doesn’t have any vegetables in it.’ This machine sounds like a lawnmower fighting with a 747. Oh, and this juicing robot/countertop stealer is the size of R2D2 and probably has as many working parts. So every morning when I come down to make my oats, it looks like someone has taken apart a ’67 Buick. This is what I mean
Sorry for the poor photo quality. I’m pretty sure that the juice robot ate my camera for fuel, so I had to use my camera phone instead. And regardless of the ingredients, the juice always looks like it should be dumped on top of celebrities at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards. I better stop. I could do an entire post on how this juice monster has impacted my life. So thanks Jenna and Fitnessistanissista!
Caroline at Banana Cabana had a blogger date with GraduateMeghann this week during GM’s trip to California. Caroline and Meghann checked most of the requirements off of their blogger first date checklist. Ethnic food – Check. Ice Cream/Frozen Yogurt – Check. All that was missing was a shopping trip at a crunchy grocery store (they tried but Trader Joes was closed). Banana Cabana is a new blog for me. Caroline wrote one of the funniest comments I’ve ever read the other day on Healthy Tipping Point, so I figured I’d have to start reading her blog. I’m sad that I just started reading, because Banana Cabana should’ve made my list of blog names that sort of sound like porn.
And how many more years do you think Meghann can squeeze out of the GraduateMeghann name? I mean, sure, she’ll always be a college graduate, but it would be sort of silly to refer to herself as such when she’s 47, right? I’d say she’s got two more years as GraduateMeghann. So if in two more years she still wants to use the GraduateMeghann domain name, I think she’ll have to go back to school for grad school. That would help her squeeze a few more years out of that name.
It was a good week in Hangryland. ‘She says’ made some Cadbury Mini Egg Cookie Bars. She has also taken on one of my pet causes: making seasonal holiday candies available year-round. So Ms. Hangry - I think we need to find like-minded bloggers who also want to support this cause. Maybe we can use blog revenue to hire a lobbyist. I don’t have any blog revenue, so I guess my contribution will be to come up with a list of candies that need year-round shelf space. So far I’ve got:
1. All Easter Candy: Peeps, Cadbury Everything, Peanut Butter Eggs (I know it’s just a peanut butter cup, but it tastes better when shaped like an egg), and everything in the jelly bean family.
2. McDonald’s Shamrock Shake - I know it’s not really candy, but it’s my list
3. Chocolate Santas - I never eat these, but they always look so damn jolly. I just like seeing them on the store shelves.
Mr. Hangry (Hangryman?) gave an update on his salad challenge. I don’t understand how these challenges work. Is there a prize at the end? Do you at least get a certificate of completion or a participant ribbon. I think if you’re able to eat a salad every day for two weeks, then you should get a prize. I propose a $50 bill and a Schwinn bicycle. It’s like hitting bucket #6 on the grand prize game. I’ll call The Bozo Show and see if that’s available. None of those little kids ever make it to bucket 6, so they have to have a bunch of bikes just laying around in the studio. If you didn’t grow up watching Bozo, this paragraph probably didn’t make any sense to you. Sorry about that. Hangryman had a Coneheads reference in his post, so I thought Bozo would be alright/less obscure, no?
Now we need to get serious. There have been multiple instances of trunk on blogger violence over the past week. Caitlin Tipping Point had to go all Rachel Ray on her trunk and cover it in EVOO in order to get it to open and release her groceries. Kelsey at Bites and Bowls was essentially assaulted by her trunk. I mean, her trunk literally punched her in the face. How does that even happen? Kate works with the elderly and swears that most bad things happen in threes, so I’m sort of scared that the trunk on blogger violence isn’t over yet. Kate is usually talking about old people dying in threes, but I bet it applies to trunk violence as well. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Matt at Brew and Bake gave me my first official free stuff. It was a blondie from Great Harvest. I’d show a picture of it, but I couldn’t find the camera and I got hungry. So instead, here’s a picture of the bag that it came in, as well as the note that Matt wrote on it.
If you can’t read that, it says “Because I don’t ever want to be called out on the internet for not bringing you blondies.” At least we know his heart is in the right place. I feel like I’ve really made the big time now. My first official free blog stuff. Damn. Maybe I should’ve given it away on the blog. Maybe next time.
Stock Up
Buitoni Wild Mushroom Agnolotti – At first I was a little jealous when I saw that the foodbuzz fairy visited much of the blogworld and gave this stuff to everyone. But then I learned that Kate has as much trouble pronouncing Buitoni as she does pronouncing Fitnessissta. So at least it was entertaining.
Chia Seeds – What the hell are these? Is this the same stuff that I plastered onto my Chia Pet? Because it clearly said on the box that you’re not supposed to eat that stuff.
Mix My Granola – I entered at least 17 comment contests to try to score some of this stuff. Stupid random number generator has it in for me. And I already had my mix picked out. It was gonna be gin, vermouth, and an olive. Or does it have to include granola?
Blogapalooza Surveys – I guess it is also being referred to as the Blogger Summit. I have heard more about this upcoming summit than I have heard about Jane Seymour’s tacky looking ‘Open Hearts’ collection at Kay Jewelers. Sorry about that tangent…back to Blogapalooza…whatever you want to call it, I’m so there. Wherever ‘there’ is. Y’all coming with me?
Kale Chips
Cocoanut Milk/Meat/Water. All things coconut.
Stock Down
the –ie suffex – as in brekkie, and Sammie. Ladies, we’ve already discussed this. Now we’ve added grapie to the list? Where does this end? As I say to my three year old neice…use your big girl words.
Sugar – Everyone seems to be giving up/cutting back on sugar. But didn’t y’all give up high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners already? What’s left?
Blogger’s Choice Awards – Stock down because I’m not winning yet, and Kath’s not winning yet either. What’s up with that? I’m losing to a blog about funny cakes. This cannot be. Vote for my other blog here and vote for KERF here. It we win, this one might make stock up in a future week
LOL - love the shamrock shakes “it’s my list” comment! Nice score on the free food! Sorry you lost all available counter space - I’m glad you included a picture - that thing seriously is HUGE!
I have tears streaming down my face from laughing so hard!!!
haha you never cease to amaze me! these always have me cracking up, i look forward to fridays so i can read these posts
I’m so honored! No, seriously, I am. When I first started reading these posts, I told my sister I was putting “be mentioned by the blogstalker” on my life goal list. Goal achieved!
Speaking of esoteric blogs, I thought you might be interested in this…
http://roguishcommonwealth.blogspot.com/2009/04/vesseljackers.html
You see, I have 2 friends here at school who got a summer research grant to study pirates. $5,000 to live in DC and study pirates. I shit you not. Anyways, they write this blog about their academic pirate musings, and when I showed them your Vesseljackers post, they felt so moved to reflect on it.
I’m with you on the Mini Eggs All Year movement. Why should these candy coated pieces of joy only be around for Easter? It makes me feel like I need to stock up on bags and bags of them, so I can savour them past Easter. Mmmm, mini eggs.
I’m a first time vistor/reader and just wanted to let you know how awesome I think this is! HAHA too funny
This is great! Thanks for the shout out!
I entered my name twice as many times into those granola contests and no luck! =0
I CANNOT BELIEVE KATE BOUGHT A JUICER!?!!!!!!!!!
My very favorite part of your roundups is the stock up and down. I laugh out loud when I read each one
I am so selfish that I got my free granola and still entered my name in every contest going.
Year Round Candy: I am with you! I will put it on the agenda for Blogapalooza.
I threaten Mark that Leng from Leng’s Salad Challenge is going to beat him up if he doesn’t eat his greens. It seems to work.
As always, dying laughing. I agree with Kath on the stock up/down. Your observations are spot-on!
I am dying for some mini egg cookie bars right now!
dude, that trunk nightmare SUCKED. and i had to waste EVOO to get it open!
glad to see you have a new blog! the design looks great
i can’t wait to meet you in real life!
oh, and i am still going to use sammie because i was using it first (i think). and i’m pretty square anyway.
Great to see the new blog up and running! I’d like to submit another year-long candy… any of the Reese’s Buttercup shapes. Hearts at Valentines, Eggs at Easter, Trees at Christmas. They always have a better PB to chocolate ratio (which for me means more PB than chocolate) than the regular cups.
So that’s why I’ve been getting all those questionable e-mails….
I’m gonna go vote for you guys right now!
I can’t stop laughing at your comments on the cupcake-oatmeal experiment. Nice blog by the way!
wait - you not only stalk the blogs - you stalk the comments??? I love it! I think stock was up on poached eggs this week too…
I would like to add that chocolate peanut butter candies also taste good in pumpkin, snowman, and heart form.
Nate i think you blog round ups are hysterical. I too entered the mixmygranola numerous times with no avail but I have to say you mix is hands down the winner in my book.
Love the blog - don’t love the use of the Food Network logo (copyrighted/trademarked) which I assume is without permission - probably not a great idea if you want to get free stuff!
You forgot the stock up on brown rice protein and raw food! lol Love the new blog/header.
That juicer is quite the machine. It would scare me too.
Ha! I first read the title as The Blogs Talker!
LMAO at big girl words! you are too funny!
I’m SO with you and Ms. Hangry on making some holiday candies year round!
I was wondering who this “blogstalker” was that was sending me all this traffic… I do have to say, I’m loving the lack of baby-talk names for food since you mentioned it. I hate when Rachael Ray does it, and I hate reading it in blogs!
I have a new goal in life. To be blog stalked by you!
The random number generator has it in for me too! I sadly didn’t win the mix my granola giveaway either.
I want to send you a bag of my favorite coffee.
I can’t believe you don’t like the juicer and the wonderful, wholesome, nectar it provides you and your wife. Whether or not it looks like puke, you should be drinking it and loving every drop! Seriously, it’s one of the best things you can be doing for yourself healtwise.
I think I can make it atleast three more years right?!?! If not I promise to throw in grad school!!
You’re my kind of guy
1) you think pb eggs should be available year around, I’m so with you. (I just but an orange reeese’s pb cup t-shirt yesterday)
2) you know who bozo the clown is, somehow you’re tapping into all my childhood hero’s
3) you think it’s cute when your wife can’t pronounce many syllable words; my husband pokes at me too, because neither can I
I love these! Soo funny!
Love the blog, hate the fact that you don’t include links to the specific post you’re referring to. Do you know how long it took me to find the Wendy’s post on Carrots ‘n’ Cake? (Totally worth it, by the way.) Help me out here … I’m supposed to be writing essays when I am reading your blog so the least you could do is help minimize the time I spend procrastinating!
…. my sides hurt. That was funny.
And here’s another blog trend: talking about famous health peeps like personal friends. Who is this Dave Farmar yoga guy? And the ever-so-slimey soup can creeper, Wolfgang, that gets the occasional shout out? The guy with the busting pipes on the protein powder… Jay or something? Add Dr. Weil, the faceless “Amy”, and “Barbara”, that cereal woman, and you could have one awesome dinner party. Or an awesome fight. Hmmm…
Hey Lee - My bad. I’ll try to do better. I did at least link to the post where Caroline left the funny comment on HTP. That’s at least a start. I’ll do better next time.
Way to go on scoring a blondie from Matt. Your now on your way for free products to start pouring in…
this is hilarious
That’s the last time I ever email you about balls.
So do you like your peeps stale? Really stale?
Shamrock Shakes are my favorite. I get the largest size available, drink till I get sick and keep the rest in my freezer for the entire year (I don’t ever defrost it or try to drink it again, it just makes me happy to know I have a Shamrock Shake in there). And yes, they do have Shamrock Shakes in Ireland (received confirmation from Dublin in March) And have you seen the website that keeps track of shamrock shake sightings: http://www.shamrockshake.com/
And the unopened package of Buitoni wild mushroom agnolotti is still sitting in my fridge. Eventually I will figure out what to do with it.
Don’t despair! Halloween is barely 6 months away! (i.e., when peeps hit the shelves again).
http://www.candywarehouse.com/halloweenpeeps.html
I spotted your Bell’s Oberon on Kath’s post last night. That’s my all time favorite beer, hope you enjoyed it!
Heather - What a coincidence! I want you to send me a bag of your favorite coffee too!
Adi - Don’t forget Old Bob and his hand rolled oats.
Sarah - That made me laugh. As did your comment on Hangry this morning. Balls still have a place on this blog. Recall that I need to figure out something to write about during the week.
Jessica - That is indeed the Oberon. It is a favorite of mine as well.
Very funny, well-written blog. I also work for a software company. We seem to have a lot of time on our hands in this business…
Competitive eating and distance running go together beautifully.
maybe you would get more free stuff if you just embraced the current trends more? for instance, just this morning on my blog i presented a raw, gluten-free, green monster with added juice extracts and chia seeds, topped with PB2 and mixed with probiotic coconut water, and now i have 16 UPS men at my door lined up with various chrome kitchen gadgets and boxes of frozen food in dry ice.
YES!
Nate,
Once again, you have me cracking up - more so than any obscene cake would ever do! Thanks for the laughs, and I’m so glad you discovered Banana Cabana as Caroline is one of my favorites!
How nice of Matt to send you blondie, but I’m still hoping you receive a batch from VeggieGirl soon as her’s are hard to beat.
Oh, and I’m partly to blame for the loss of your counter space as I sold Fitnessista my juicer. Sorry.
Congrats on the new blog! It looks fantastic and is hilar, as always.
Diana PS I did not use the word “sammy” all last week!
Hahahaha, just found this blog. Love it! It’s a good thing food bloggers can laugh at themselves!
I’m with you on the Cadbury mini-eggs. Did you know they sell them at Christmas time (aka October-January) they call them ornaments or something like that but the taste and shell are exactly the same.
Also, I agree on the Chocolate Santas but only if they’re Russell Stover or Hershey, the cheap knock off chocolate santas are terrible.
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thanks for the shout out– the name pronunciation kills me every time. hilarious
sorry for being partially responsible for the new juicer and juicing habits. it’s so delicious and good for ya though
have a great day and keep these awesome posts coming!
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Thanks for the laugh! So funny!
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