Friday Night, so VGNO!

I'm home here with 2 of 3 boys so and they are either sleeping or playing on their own computer so it's I've got some quiet time to participate in VGNO. I'd like to say a Belated Happy Birthday to Ann over at AnnagainandAgain, Sorry I missed the party last week.



Food, I've got the virtual snacks, so I'll get us something to eat. I'll try to keep it within the 4 food groups and that fat for those that count that as a group. Let me see. Some BBQ Chicken off my Hemi Orange Grill


and a side salad. I'm going to stick to the easy stuff, nachos and salsa?
Salads around here fall under, "do we have any..." and "yeah throw it in" Lately the boys are liking bell peppers. This is great but there is a downside. Did I mention we have skunks? yeah well I think the boys just might be competing with the skunks.
I'm sorry I'm talking about the boys again, sometimes that happens around here, I guess they are my little fan club. They call my name often enough 'MOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! he's blah blah blah' and 'MOMMMMMMMMMMMM where's the .....' oh wait you mean you hear that at your house too?

So back to the adult conversations I hear go on at these VGNO, in the last month we've found a new station to listen to here. It's all "classics" but the classics they are talking about fall in the 60, 70, and 80's, yeah that's all they play! So I'll be sitting here or out on the deck directing the boy traffic and petting zoo, when all of a sudden I find myself pulled into some kind of time warp. It's the weirdest thing and I'll even find my brain going back to some memory of being at my parent's home growing up, or going on a date with Hubbie. Tonight at supper I had a flash of being 5yrs or 6yrsold and being a bit of a stubborn child. I was in my room getting ready for school and uh these were the years where my mom would put the clothes that "she" wanted me to wear out. I hated her choices, I'm not sure that I hated them because they were not nice or just because they were "her" choices you know? So I dawdled, and dawdled and I hear (full name) being called from the kitchen, so finally I put on the dreaded clothes, walk out, and I'm hooking the hook on my buttons of my overalls and I look to the right, there on the kitchen counter are flames shooting out of the toaster. The song that was on the Radio? was the song that I heard tonight at supper.
This!

you know without youtube.com, I'd never know the right words to these songs. It says 1979 so that'a bout right for me being 6 or 7 ish.

Ok so back to the story,she used to tell us the toast wasn't burned it was "well done" when it was in fact burned. I was a "smartypants" then too, so I walk into the kitchen and say "uh I think the toast is well done now" well you should have seen my mother jump! She got the baking soda pulled the plug on the toaster put out the flames, and the fire that had started to climb up the cupboard doors. Dad of course took the wood down and sanded and re varnished all the "fire" off the cupboards eventually. I wonder how much longer I'll remember this?

So I could offer you well done toast to go with some, or just getting toast on this recipe I
found over at drinksmixer.com
Memory Loss recipe

Scale ingredients to servings
2 oz peach vodka
2 oz Jamaican dark rum
2 oz gin
2 oz apple juice
1 slice lemon
Pour the rum and the vodka over ice into the glass, and then add the rum. Then pour in the apple juice and squeeze the lemon on the top. Do not stir.

I just told Hubbie(he came home while I was searching recipes) this story too, he's the type of person that doesn't remember things or stories. Me?? I can remember the first day one of my school friends came to my school in grade 1, and say "Hi (second name)" :) She had heard my brother 1yr younger say my name and he had always called me by Just my second name. We did go to "head start" together but this was almost 1.5yrs later. Today I harvested her virtual farm. See with the Aid of FB I can easily go floating back to my childhood days. You know maybe I should drink more? Not everything is something I want to remember.

So if you're home tonight a Summer Friday night go on head over to Ann's and go Blog Hopping! You might even jog some of your own memories.