<p>wow, mootmom, I didn’t realize there were so many covers, I’m familiar with the Cale cover, as the Shrek soundtrack is one of my favs. It’s a wonderful song; now I’ll go back and listen to the original. This has certainly been a s***ty week all around, hasn’t it?</p>
<p>March 7 and we are forecast to get the biggest snowstorm of the winter. Blech.</p>
<p>And S is due home from Cleveland tomorrow. What a fun drive they’ll have…maybe Sunday would be better.</p>
<p>That’ll teach us to move daylight savings time up before it’s actually Spring. “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature!”</p>
<p>Hot chocolate, anyone?</p>
<p>^I’m thinking of driving to the Midwest for Easter…or not. Hope your family gets home safely, mommusic!</p>
<p>on a completely different topic.</p>
<p>Yesterday I went for the early morning walk that has subsituted for any serious exercise in my life. I went walking through one of the MANY upscale, cute, politically correct neighborhoods on the SF Bay Peninsula. And one of the house had Easter egg lights in the window. I mean two Easter eggs, each aboutout 2 feet high, plastic frames with colored lights in the appropriate pastels.</p>
<p>Easter egg lights?</p>
<p>I get Christmas. Love it. I like Hannukah lights. I like Diwali lights. I understood when people expanded the large garbage bag pumpkins and PVC pipe spiders to include Halloween lights.</p>
<p>But don’t you think this is taking it a little too far?</p>
<p>I mean, we are lighting every public holiday we can find. What if we start lighting our private milestones as well?</p>
<p>What if we start having divorce lights? Houses going through a divorce string purple, brown, and yellow lights, as ugly as possible. How about girls hit puberty lights, red, pink and purple? How about I lost my job lights? Blue and black. How about I need Prozac lights? Every possible color blinking on and off all different sizes?</p>
<p>It’s like traffic lights for the soul.</p>
<p>I must be missing something.</p>
<p>I’ve seen Halloween, Valentine’s Day and Independence Day lights (not just in stores, but on neighbor’s bushes :eek:). I think these alredy qualify as Prozac lights :D</p>
<p>Here there are plastic Easter eggs hanging in the trees. Some do have lights.
It’s going to look weird when it snows this week.</p>
<p>We lit the house with purple and white lights in honor of DD1’s big ending at her home-away-from-home for 4 years.</p>
<p>OMG. Graduation lights. Of course…</p>
<p>All red lights for when you’re at home and are looking to make some extra cash? Hey–this dovetails with the other thread looking for work-from-home ideas!!! ;)</p>
<p>Love it, astrophysicsmom. Harkens back to the days when I was a student in Boston, and the young men of Boston College would repeatedly steal the red globes meant to inform people where the fire alarm box was on the corner. Those red globes would end up in windows of apartments. ;)</p>
<p>Just had to share…</p>
<p>This morning I saw the strangest error message pop up on our office server: “Something bad happened…” and then of course the usual computer-speak that no one can understand. I’m still laughing about the software engineers’ attempt to communicate in “lay terms”. 
Luckily it wasn’t really very bad - or I would NOT still be laughing.</p>
<p>It’s reassuring that the economy is not yet so bad that people can still find the money to buy ticky tacky to put in their front yards & windows for every conceivable holiday. </p>
<p>K Mart’s motto–“If we sell it, they will buy.” As well as countless boxes to store it all in, I presume.</p>
<p>Here’s a hint, people: It all eventually shows up at Goodwill for about 1/10 the original price. :D</p>
<p>Sorry if that sounds like a mean-spirited rant. I’m just more a fan of all natural decorations (flowers, fabric, dried arrangements, cornstalks) than artificial, plastic, inflated, & neon. The latter makes me wish for a sedative. </p>
<p>Or a drink! SA to the rescue!</p>
<p>H and I have an empty nest this weekend, at least until college S is able to make it home through the snow. HS son is away at Latin convention. Whee!</p>
<p>I’ll have a drink too and smile because I’m not chaperoning a Latin convention this year . . . those Latin geeks are some wild and crazy kids (or maybe it’s just because there were over 1,000 of them . . . . :)</p>
<p>okay mommusic… we won’t ask what you’re up to!!</p>
<p>just back from my last day working at the New Orleans-themed Philadelphia flower show. I answer questions all day – mostly ‘where’s the bathroom?’ – but today I had five people come up and urgently ask: “Where can I get a drink?!” Must have been that Bourbon Street jazz. Don’t worry – I didn’t tell them about SA.</p>
<p>“Something bad happened…” <— HA HA HA!! I love the sense of … humor? Humanity? Whatever the person who wrote that had, they had it in just the right measure. It might almost be enough to make me smile… depending how bad the “something” was, of course.</p>
<p>Geek humor…gotta love it.</p>
<p>Coming a little late to carry out my mixology responsibilities.</p>
<p>We already have, as I recall, an ethereal drink for when LTS needs to be in a mellow mood.</p>
<p>But, yes, we require a stronger brew when it is time for her to ramp up with the pi$$ and vinegar. </p>
<p>jym has definitely come up with the proper name for the drink. Did you know, jym, that Moxie is actually a trademarked drink?* Kind of big in Maine. However, it needs a little boost for our purposes.</p>
<p>Herewith:</p>
<p>Moxie to the nth power
1 can Moxie
Dash Angostura bitters
Lime
Optional: (optional??!?) 1 1/2 oz. Anejo Rum
Fill rocks glass with Moxie. Add dash of Angostura bitters. Garnish with lime.
This provides non-alcoholic “Moxie to the nth” when, perhaps, chemo nixes the hard stuff. When the hard stuff is in order, start with the Anejo rum, fill glass with Moxie and add your bitters and your lime.</p>
<p>NOW you are ready to fight.</p>
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<p>astrophysicsmom, bravo</p>
<p>methinks momusic needs a blacklight, or maybe light up tassels?</p>
<p>jmmom-
Thats for real?? Already a “moxie” drink? Is it any good??? What does it taste like? Shall it become SA’s signature drink with a side shot of pi$$ and vinegar as needed?</p>
<p>[Moxie</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie]Moxie”>Moxie - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Lots of interesting facts in the wikipedia article, not the least of which is this one!</p>
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<p>Jym, you picked a perfect name for a drink to honor LTS - courage and aggressiveness says it all.</p>