Operation Baking GALS update

Operation Baking GALS Round 3 was a success! Team Superfluous went crazy and sent one deserving soldier some fantastic goodies! Thank you to everyone who participated, your kindness and generosity was amazing!!!

Last Monday I sent out some Snicker doodles and Chocolate Crinkles... and to be festive some Candy Corn!

Here is Team Superfluous:

Theresa Evans-Wooten

Christine Busby of Please don't call me a Foodie

Carrie of Carrie's Sweet Life

Mary K of Alpine Berry

Randy & Val Monday

Morgan Cartusciello owner Four Corner Catering and Dessert in San Diego

Amanda Jagla-Onstott

Elizabeth de Saint-Aignan who made chocolate brownies, choc chip cookie bars, molasses gingersnaps and peanut butter cookies.

Kim Onstott of Your Place Gourmet

Jennifer Grimes of An Intern's Insanity

Nanette Taho

Barbara Cohen

Dolores Ferrero

Giraffes It is...

Because I really like this girl named Mary and I totally want to impress her, I will write about giraffes. This is how it will work: I will type whatever comes into my head about the subject of giraffes. Ready... Go!

Giraffes

Giraffes are my favorite animal. They are graceful and friendly. I once watched a documentary about a giraffe preservation in Africa. They would roam around freely. The house on the preservation had big windows and while you ate your biscuits and drank your tea a giraffe would stick its head in the window and you could feed it. Giraffe's have long necks. They like to neck. Their coat is colorfully brown and tan and it is cooler than wearing zebra stripes. I don't like zebra stripes as much as i like giraffe squares. How cool is it that they are so mod they get squares. God is Mod. Be careful when you are around giraffes. They might not see you and trample you. They are really strong so they could potentially kick the crap out of you. I once had a frou frou drink and they put a plastic giraffe on my glass. I kept it. And now I have it in my animal menagerie. I always feel like Laura in The Glass Menagerie. Because my mom is desperate to marry me off, and my mom has lots of animals and I am weird. When boys come to my house to meet my parents I think they get scared. Or they call my family Hobbits. My ex boyfriend said that about my family once and they were all offended. My dad said when we broke up that he thought my ex bf was a know it all! and not in a good way. My ex bf was tall too like a giraffe. But he would never stick his head through a window to get fed. Although he did like fast food drive throughs. So actually he would stick his head out the window to get his food. I think that counts.

The end.

Reader's Choice!!!!!!

I've been meaning to post something, but I also need to post my Operation Baking Gals Team Update. And since I do not have my pictures at work to post, I will write about that tonight.

I have a great idea, since I always blog about what I like, I decided to stop being Selfish Sabrina and ask YOU to tell ME what to write. Just throw out a topic and I'm going to free style write ala Mr. O'Brien circa 7th grade. No subject is off limits. So throw something at me and watch the magic unravel.

The fabulous life of....

Friday after work i went to a funeral. I got really dressed up. My co-workers were shocked. I even got a 'hubba-hubba'... i guess its better than getting a 'tubba-tubba'. Actually I didn't feel that dressed up, because in real life i dress up, i just don't try very hard at work, because who do i need to impress? no one.
The funeral was sad. I mean how do you talk about a funeral? It was very sad.
I saw a lot of people i hadn't seen in years...
For some reason a lot of people were under the impression that i had gotten married. Um no. Someone even said I was a fussy girl for not just sticking with one guy and settling down. Really? I felt like i was in a movie. Small town girl goes back home for a funeral and everyone questions why she is 31 and not married. So i compensate by saying, Well i just bought a house and I have a good job.... does that count? egads!


Shannon Tweaker had a party that night, and all my BFF's from high school were there. We talked about all the guys we used to date and how it was like kissing each other because we had all kissed the same guys. gross.


Saturday I met Ellen for a little flea market action. But this flea market was like a glorified garage sale. Although i did fill up 2 bags for $6 of totally awesome junk.


Saturday night i went out by request with Heather of the EO, you may have heard of her and Female K of K and\or K. Plus a bunch of other really rad ladies. Like one named Katie who i liked a lot and she doesn't know this but I'm kinda stalking her now via facebook. And there was Lana who is cool and Ellen of the flea market and McKenzie. We drank margaritas on the rocks and pointed at each other with our middle fingers.


Sunday i woke up feeling not so hot... and totally bailed on my cousins birthday brunch. sorry k.
So i laid on my couch, watched Super Troopers, read my book club book, got bored, made a 'jewelry area' in my bedroom, watched the leaves fall, decided not to rake them, cleaned up cat puke, did a load of laundry, made tilapia, talked to Shannon, baked cookies, watched Crazy\Beautiful, wondered why Kirsten Dunst never once wears a bra in that movie, baked more cookies, talked to my dad on the phone, laughed to be nice when he told me this joke:
Chelsea Clinton asked Bill, Dad what are your 3 biggest fears?
Bill said: Osama, Obama and Yo Momma.
Then i baked more cookies, packaged them up for the troops, clipped my cats nails, (but not near the cookies), got into bed, tried to read, fell asleep with the lights on, turned the lights off, decided i needed to check my email one last time, went back to bed.

TMI, but i learned from the best.

As fate would have it...

Never give the ONLY key to open something important to the girl who habitually loses her own keys. When I first started working at my job, I was given a set of keys. On that ring of keys was one small tiny key to the petty cash lock box.
They said to me, "You are the ONLY one with this key, no one else in the building has it. So it is up to you to guard it with your life."

All I could think was, Oh what joyous rapture to be the sole master of the "key".

Actually, all I could think of was:

a) I'm so going to lose this key

b) remember what happened to Enron

Let me just jump ahead, spare you the sordid details just to say that on the last day of school, I lost my keys. No where to be found. Kinda like John Mayer in his song Dreaming with a Broken Heart when he sings gone gone gone gone gone like 100x over and over and that is when you realize:

a) he really isn't that great of a song writer

b) I am so screwed!!!!

But as fate would have it, all was not lost. Apparently the desk that held the lock box, and the lock box that was bolted to the desk, went the way of the dumpster when they remodeled the Media Center. And thus no need for the "key".

And now the only important key that i need to keep track of is that ever elusive one to my heart.

That was so horrible, did i just write that?

Overheard in Media Center de Superfluous

Student: Library Lady, can you help me find a book?

Me: Sure, what book are you looking for?

Student: I'm looking for a book series about girls.

Me: Have you ever heard of the Baby Sitter's Club?

Student: No, what's it about?

Me: Oh are you in for treat! It's about these really cool girls who start a babysitting club and have all sorts of adventures and lots of cute boyfriends.

Student: Cool!

Next book series recommendation: Sweet Valley High!

Overheard at Casa de Superfluous:

Shannon: I swear when it's cold outside, ice cream melts faster!

Last night Shannon came over to hang out with me. This has been a bit of sad week. I got some news that a friend of mine\my family suddenly passed away on Monday. He was so young and it is always so sad to think about those left behind and the grief they now carry. I always wish there was more I could do. But it just shows you how fragile life is, and how very short. Embrace those that you love.

But last night was good for so many happy reasons:
a) I made dinner for the both of us, tilapia and peanut noodles
b) we went for a very lovely walk and got kinda lost
c) we went to DQ (hence the ice cream comment)
d) then we watched our favorite movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall. We heart Dracula!

It's nice to have good friends...