<p>Your spouse is out of town for the weekend. The kids have overnight plans.
It’s a cold, rainy night and nothing’s on the calendar. After the week you had, you’re feelin’ rode hard and put up wet. How would we find you spending the evening?</p>
<p>And PLEASE: don’t post anything about catching up on laundry or knitting a norwegian sweater for your son’s K teacher. See thread title.</p>
<p>I’ll be on the couch with both dogs and a fire going. Flannel pjs. Beside me is a tall Canadian Club and Perrier highball with lots of ice. Maybe I’ll eat a big bowl of that so-bad-its-good Hormel chili dip with lots of cheese, Lay’s potato chips and Fritos scoops. In my lap will be In Style magazine (so not me) and I’ll be watching “What Not to Wear” or any cable show about celebrities having plastic surgery. After that, I’ll lose a few hundred games of Snood (who started that thread–thanks sooo much…) Then I’m going to sleep with all the windows open and three blankets on the bed.</p>
<p>Now surely there are those among us who can blissfully waste time in an even worse way…how low can YOU go?</p>
<p>I prefer velvetta, roi-tel and nacho cheese doritos. I would have a Coors lite in one hand and In-Touch magazine in the other. (It’s for people who find “People” high brow.)</p>
<p>I like to watch really bad old movies, I mean really bad. Like “Tammy Tell me True” I like the old Gidget movies also.</p>
<p>I could write a lot about guilty pleasures, food, music etc. But off the top of my head, that is what I would like to be doing instead of laundry, projects and other junk.</p>
<p>Oh, and game du jour, Word Whomp Whackdown.</p>
<p>Oh! You just reminded me! That IS my weekend! Everyone’s going to be gone. It’ll probably rain… Maybe the dog and cat and I will rent a movie that we want to see and the rest of the family doesn’t. And I’ll have to read at least one lowbrow mystery. And I’ll eat nothing but vegetables and whole grains. Maybe I’ll order plants off the internet…</p>
<p>LOVE seed/plant catalogs!! I had all heirlooms last year and one was really BAD–I think it was Purple Cherokee. Avoid! Best luck with Brandywine up here. Is there anything better than a fresh tomato?</p>
<p>I would probably go to a movie if there was anything I wanted to see ( I am generally fairly picky but I have been known to see movies starring George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones…not by myself however ) Or else I could rent something that I couldn’t rent if the 14 yr old walked in on it ( she gets nightmares from over hearing CSI and even the suggestion of sex is uncomfortable–in her parents presence anyway- I don’t want to know what her hobbity fanfics are about)
:eek:
I have some Pearl Jam dvds that I haven’t gotten to listen to cranked, because not only do I like it loud, but I have a hearing problem ( hmm) so loud to me, is deafening to everyone else. ( the dog probably wouldnt like that however) Dancing around the room is always fun.</p>
<p>After I watched * Women on the verge of a Nervous breakdown* or maybe Lost Highway then I would read a mass market paperback, perhaps even the whole way through. Something by Minnette Walters or Sarah Caldwell if I watched “Women” or maybe something by Terry McMillian if I watched “Lost Highway”.
If I got hungry- I would eat a whole bag of Paul Newmans popcorn and maybe even have two La Rossa beers! ( I am not gonna buy ice cream…nope)</p>
<p>I would probably fall asleep on the couch even if its really uncomfortable cause I hate sleeping by myself and let the dog up on the couch.
Oooh I do like the window open- maybe I will sleep next to the window and let the dog up on the bed!</p>
<p>With me it’d be a gin & tonic and playing mah jong with friends. </p>
<p>If no friends were available, I’d watch reruns of the Larry Sanders Show, Absolutely Fabulous, or Curb Your Enthusiasm. Once the booze had removed my willpower, there would have to be a batch of fresh hot chocolate chip cookies (& milk) for dessert.</p>
<p>But the very guiltiest pleasure I have is sitting outside in the sun & reading a good book, while all my responsibilities are forgotten…</p>
<p>Ezduzzit—I LOVED purple Cherokee. It was my all-time favorite of last year’s batch of heirloom tomatoes. My Brandywines–which were great the year before–went nowhere last year. it’s funny how one year something does well and the next it is a completely different experience. Even with the same grower and the same plant. It seems–in my hilly, cool, west-facing, sunny site–to be very weather dependent. The only thing that’s really reliable year-to-year are my volunteer grape tomatoes. (I let seed themselves the first year (got bored of picking such tiny things), and now I have volunteers all over the garden.)</p>
<p>Cold glass of chardonnay and Tivo’s of my favorite reality shows that my husband absolutely will have no part of…(The Bachelor, The Apprentice, Survivor)</p>
<p>My wife cannot STAND loud movies, so most of the time when we watch a DVD, I can only hear about half of what’s going on. So when she is out of town, I rent some action movie with lots of explosions, make some popcorn, and turn the volume up, Up, UP, UP, UP!</p>
<p>A crisp Sauvignon Blanc, followed by popcorn and “Pride and Prejudice” in the DVD player - I can read or play computer games while I watch because I know 2/3rds of the dialog by heart.</p>
<p>The couch, the critters, cookie dough (why bake?) and how about the VH1 marathon of America’s next top model?!</p>
<p>SBmom- the book in the sun is truly the best> maybe Jean Auel or James Clavell or Tom Clancy- somethign thick and full f details, but which I have read so many times, I can drowse in the sun and still know what happens next Acompanied by freshly brewed iced tea.</p>
<p>Digmedia: my husband and one of his friends claim that no movie is worth watching “unless the exploding helicopter count is greater than zero.” (I’m always stunned how many movies DO have exploding helicopters. There’s even an ER episode with one.)</p>
<p>Oh gosh. This is so unbelievably pitiful, but I can’t even THINK of guilty pleasure! I’ve been “on” for so long, so busy with sick family members, minor disasters, riding my last kid at home to get her homework done, etc. ad infinitum, that I’ve forgotten what a guilty pleasure IS!</p>
<p>Let’s see…who am I? where am I? Do I even exist apart from work? OK…lemon-coconut cake (I haven’t had any sugar in forever, it seems). Herb gardening books/magazines/catalogues with tales of the Middle Ages and how the herbs were used. At the same time, a bunch of only-read-em-in-the-doctor’s-office magazines like People. Some kind of liquoer (that’s not spelled right!!) - with hazelnut or chocolate, or maybe B and B. And the remote. I’d just click around and watched whatever the heck I wanted! Even American Idol! Even “Smallville!” And let 'em TRY and stop me!</p>
<p>dmd77: the cherokees came in with heavy, fleshy walls and NO juice to speak of. We threw them at trees. Not even the raccoons and woodchucks would eat them. Must be a climate thing.</p>
<p>To all you lovers of action films: when H tries to get me to watch, I just ask if there are any women in the movie that aren’t computer generated. If not, I’m not watching, even though there is nowhere in the house I can escape that damn surround sound. Name one chick flick for which you need a “home theatre system”!</p>
<p>When I’ve finished the Tivo’d reality shows its on to Blockbuster to pick up “Bridget Jones Diary, Four weddings and a Funeral and Crossing Delancey and When Harry Met Sally”…After the 10th time of each of these my husband said he couldn’t stand it anymore.</p>
<p>a Chimay (or three), a platter of sushi and whatever I can find on “On Demand” or a good book. I have a good “no guilt” plan… will normally go the the gym early in the evening if I have no kids at home, which makes whatever I eat/drink later in the evening “guilt free”.</p>
Acompanied by freshly brewed iced tea.</p>