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Donating Blood!!

Lisa — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:41:00 +0000

Is it wrong that I secretly like to give blood because they offer you donuts and make you feel like “you have to eat them” to bring your blood sugar up? I mean, you could opt for the Fig Newton bar and apple juice that is on the table next to the donuts but it’s not what they really recommend, right? As you meander to the waiting room with your blue bandage around your arm, the sweet old lady who volunteers Monday through Thursday from 2:30 to 5:30 smiles at you ever so sweetly behind the counter and says, “Here honey, have a donut.” How can you say no!?! She smiles a grin full of dentures as she watches you take that glazed donut dripping with melted sugar out the box and a glass of cold milk to wash it down. The proud look on her face says “it’s ok that you are about to go stuff your face with grease and sugar because you may have just saved a life!”

When you give blood you also give calories right? Like once that needle is pricked into your vein all the calories consumed for the day ARE GONE so you have to replenish your body with fried dough! Oh, another thing is that the blood bank people are really serious about you not working out the day you give blood so the guilt of not going to the gym that day also cancels out!

I LOVE SAVING LIVES!

Sorry We Missed You

Lisa — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:20:00 +0000

As I pulled up to my house tonight I noticed there was a little orange piece of paper in between my screen on my door. From afar it looked like a UPS slip. For the 30 seconds between the time I parked, got out of the car, and walked up to my door I thought I had a parcel waiting for me at the North Park Postal Office. But no. It wasn’t a parcel. It was a fruit basket. A note that said “SORRY WE MISSED YOU!” Please call Mon-Sat before 8pm to schedule another delivery. Well, I felt like some fruit so I called right then.

This was my conversation.

Fruit Basket Guy (FBG): Hello thank you calling. (BROAD)
Me: Hi, I got a notice that I have a fruit basket.
FBG: Oh yes. What is your delivery number?
Me: 4537. B52.
FBG: Ok. Well, you are lucky because you have been chosen to receive a free fruit basket to say thanks for being part of the neighborhood.
Me: What?
FBG: We are offering it right now as a special offer.
Me: And it’s free?
FGB: We will also throw in a free carpet cleaning service, you pick the room in your house and it’s on us.
Me: What does this have to do with fruit?
FBG: Any room you want, we will clean it.
Me: I don’t want my carpet cleaned I want the fruit.
FBG: Well, we use a 100% Chem-dry formula that will dry in 40 minutes or less.
Me: Ok what is this fruit or carpets?
FBG: We do both.
Me: Well I only want the fruit, ok?
FBG: OK. We will send you the fruit. All you need to do is watch a commercial on our carpet cleaning service and sign up for a free trial and we will bring you your basket for free.
Me: YOU ARE RIDICULOUS.

I hung up.

When I was a kid we used to get Harry and David every month. Harry and David, over-priced delectable fruit in a perfectly packaged box that was delivered via stork every month. No my parents did not supply this grandiose monthly treat to us…the person behind this was none other than Mr. SJ. I am using his initials to protect his identity even though I barley know the guy. Mr. SJ was a guy my dad worked with back in the 80s. In 1986 he bought us a year supply of Harry and David fruit for Christmas.
Here are Harry and David (Rosenberg)

When the year ran up, I think Mr. SJ just renewed it because he’d feel guilty if he didn’t. We were members of the “Fruit-of-the-Month Club” for the next eight years, even after he stopped working with my dad! Every month..even in July…the box would arrive with the note attached, “Merry Christmas from Mr. SJ!” It was incredible. It was the best fruit imagineable. Sometimes I would close my eyes as I bit into the mango that I had just unwrapped from the green packaging and pretend I was in Mexico.
Harry and David were even more popular to us Comrie kids than the Schwan ice cream man who’d randomly appear with free samples once a year. (Looking back on that Schwan’s was Sketchy with a capital S). They had damn good ice cream sandwiches though.

Anyway, when Mr. SJ cut off the subscription that we had now become very accustomed to my siblings and I were kind of pissed. I mean we felt sort of betrayed. What did we do to to deserve to be shunned by the guy we had met only once in our life? Did we mean nothing to him anymore?

Probably.

Picking Out Asparagus at Henry’s

Lisa — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:39:00 +0000

One should always examine their vegetables this way.

OSCAR FOOD

Lisa — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:01:00 +0000

My Mom and I had some fun with the Oscar Themed Food This Year.

From oscars

OJ SIMPSON IS GUILTY

Lisa — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:19:00 +0000

YES. He’s ggggguilty. TIME TO CELEBRATE!!!

From karma

What else is there to do then…drink Mimosas! 13 years to the day he got acquitted. If you don’t believe in karma….I hope you do now. The only thing we were missing this morning was a black glove to go with our mimosas.

From lisa

From karma

Also, I know I am behind on posting pictures from The Intense Individual Party….things have been a bit crazy. There are some amazing shots…. Our wonderful photographer Jackie Wonders

did a great job of documenting the night and I will be posting the pics in the next couple days. Until then…enjoy this epic photo from this year’s party.