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energeticTopic: Retro Rules!
It was a nice weekend, nice and stormy and nice and rainy, and included in all that niceness was some nice hail, both days.
We went to the Multi-cultural show at Victoria park on Sunday. it was cool. There's plenty of stuff there, lots of food, plenty of vendors selling shiny jingly and sparkly stuff. I got a blue hippy skirt that was made in Tibet from recycled other things. It needs to be washed and aired out as it smells a bit like it travelled a great distance in a cargo hold to get here.
There was plenty of ethnic food, and some that I could eat. The Mexican place was selling grilled corn and pineapple. There were plenty of places selling marinated and grilled meats on skewers. There was rice and veggies everywhere. Dave and Dan had some jerk chicken. I told them they should eat jerk anything because that makes them cannibals. That's the problem with Dave and Dan: no sense of humour!
After we had dinner at my mom's. My brother and his crew were all there. Amy wore her pendant that we made. She's going to send me a picture of it, and then i will post it for all to see.
I finished another pair of socks! They are quite colourful, to say the least! next I'm going to attempt a pair of knee socks in a very basic colour such as grey or black. I can never find knee sock that actually go up to my knee. If I knit my own I can make then several inches longer than the pattern states; like four inches longer. They must test these sock patterns on someone with stumpy legs. Or something. I might also try one of those special German sock yarns, the ones that make their own colourful pattern as you knit because of the way the yarn is dyed, when it's knit properly it makes stripes, chevrons, little dots, and other patterns. Long ago i had a dream in which I was knitting with what I thought was variegated yarn. However -as i knitted -the blobs of colour knitted up into a wonderful floral pattern with roses and lilies. I think the day might come when yarn can be dyed so it knits into prints; they've already got the stripes and chevrons.
I've also begun work on my home page redesign. I started it about a year ago and gave up in frustration three times. I have decided to forget about CSS, it's far too difficult. I'm going to stick with simple DIVs and SPAN and stick with the simple HTML that I know and can use with some success. I don't know why they make this all so complicated.
Two things that I found today: How to make a sesame street YUPYUPYUPUHUH puppet: http://www.instructables.com/id/Yip-Yip-Costume/ Remember those two little aliens who constantly went YIPYUPYUP Uh Huh uh huh whenever they looked at anything? Remember how they freaked out when the telephone rang? And how they hid their faces in their lower jaw? Okay, so maybe a few people are still having nightmares over these critters, but for the rest of us, we can now make our own little yupyups
Also, here;s a little peek at some long gone breakfast cereals for children back in the golden age of sugar sweetened turn the milk purple goodness! http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/food/sfl-retro-kid-cereals,0,1195000.ugcphotogallery?track=retrocereal Like Calvin's "chocolate frosted sugar bombs" Only these are real. Everyone remembers Quisp, the cereal marketed by a weird alien, And Sugar Crisp with its hip happening beatnik bear, later updated to pimpin' bear is now called "golden crisp" and still has the sugar bear, only he's not called sugar bear. My favourite was the old "crisp critters" with the special pink elephants. While many of these old boxes are nostalgic looking, the cereal inside often tasted like sugar coated sawdust. The funniest one bay far has got to be sugar jets:
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One bite and the kids will be jetting around the house all day, until they crash! I love the way the kids are flying...I've never seen a better depiction of the morning sugar buzz than this box...and its recommended by betty crocker, a fictitious personification of a person who never ever existed!
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This one is wrong on so many levels... Those "loggs" look like what the cats leave behind in the litter box. I think we can understand why this cereal is no longer with us!
Unfortunately, there's also no "SmurfBerry Crunch" I think I remember my brother eating this and getting some nice bright purple crunchy logs the next day.
Fruity Pebbles isn't on the list because it is still being made and sold. As a bonus it's 100% gluten free. If you buy it in the health food store in the Gluten Free section it's three dollars more than in the regular grocery store.
If you really want to enjoy the same sugar rush as you did as a child, many of these are available through this on line store: http://www.hometownfavorites.com/shop/htfg.asp They have Quisp and KaBoom! With the marshmallow bits. Of course if you really have a Quisp fetish you can buy it directly from the Quisp site. Really, there's a quisp.com site found here: http://www.quisp.com/
And that's all for now. After lunch I am going to p[lant some more things in the ground. That's what i do...I plant things in the ground and watch them grow. Maybe i'll do another photo album of my garden. Like this one from two years ago: http://lincatz.tripod.com/mygarden
Later!
