WTFriday!

Being the father that lets thier children explore (controlled) on the internet, I have no problem with them and YouTube (I changed thier settings so they can't see boobies). 

My 10 year old is now a makeup maven (like momma), and follows several makeup channels, including an awesome little girl with cancer that is so full of life, she glows. Stay with me, this is not the WTF part.

 

While stumbling across the internet, I found something that confused me. My 10 year old, however, said "Dad!! You haven't seen that?!? OMG?!?!", then my wife also reiterated the same feeling, meaning that apparently, I'm not up to par on my youtube virals. It's called the Cinammon Challenge. Seriously. Search for "Cinnamon Challenge" on YouTube, and you get this:

About 25,200 results

 

 

 

 

 

 

Challenges!

Between looking for a new house, and trying to make all the stuff that my wife has on Pintrest, I came up with a brilliant idea.

I have created a new board on my Pintrest account for blog challenges, so I can make stuff that you guys find on Pintrest, and post the results. 

Most likely, I will fail horribly. COMEDY GOLD. 

I already put a couple of ideas that I'm going to start on next week, so please feel free to send me links to pins, or mention me in the comments of any pins you would like me to add to the board and fail miserably at.

http://pinterest.com/sooperjeenyus/blog-challenges/

For the love of Pete, nothing that I have to buy stuff for. I'm broke enough as it is. 

WTFriday!

I stumbled across this next product in my interwebz searching. 

If you could have a glimmering moment of sunshine in your otherwise dismal cubicle sentence, how would finding a good sign at the bottom of your coffee cup. 

Here's why this product is brilliant. Rather than give you the impression that you're going to be blown away by your regular cup of half burned Folger's (because your company is "cutting costs", and they have to "sacrifice" and "trim the fat" by "getting rid of some luxury items" such as good coffee), the manufacturers make you wait until you have nearly drank the whole cup, because then you are 1000% less likely to strangle a co-worker.

I give you the "Minor Miracle - Our Lady of the Latte" coffee mug

Sometimes inspiration appears when you least expect it. For example, even a simple mug can confer a Minor Miracle— after you drink your morning coffee or tea, a vision of The Holy Mother materializes in the bottom of your cup. Take it as a sign — caffeine is GOOD. Don’t you think every day should start with a Minor Miracle? Beautiful giftbox packaging.

Epic.

It's Faturday!

In celebration of Beyonce and HOVA's new arrival, I Googled "Blue Ivy Recipes", and low and behold, there is a website called The Blue Ivy with recipes.....

Here is a yummy sounding Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato Soup recipe from them!

Serves 4

Ingredients

1 box chicken or vegetable broth 
1 medium squash (3 pounds)
1 medium sweet potato
1 medium sweet onion 
1/4 cup butter
1 tbsp ground nutmeg (or to taste)

Directions

1. Peel squash and sweet potato (Hint: If you are useless with a knife like me, use a potato peeler) and cut into 1" squares. Add to large pot.
2. Peel onion, cut as desired, add to pot.
3. Add broth, butter
4. Bring to boil, add nutmeg and simmer until squash is soften.
5. Blend with a hand mixer.

 

It's Faturday!

In celebration of Beyonce and HOVA's new arrival, I Googled "Blue Ivy Recipes", and low and behold, there is a website called The Blue Ivy with recipes.....

Here is a yummy sounding Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato Soup recipe from them!

Serves 4

Ingredients

1 box chicken or vegetable broth 
1 medium squash (3 pounds)
1 medium sweet potato
1 medium sweet onion 
1/4 cup butter
1 tbsp ground nutmeg (or to taste)

Directions

1. Peel squash and sweet potato (Hint: If you are useless with a knife like me, use a potato peeler) and cut into 1" squares. Add to large pot.
2. Peel onion, cut as desired, add to pot.
3. Add broth, butter
4. Bring to boil, add nutmeg and simmer until squash is soften.
5. Blend with a hand mixer.

 

I'm in line on opening day for this one....

I was derping around on the interwebz, when an ad for the new Pixar movie, Brave, caught my eye. Being a proactive parent, I clicked on the link to prepare myself for the barrage of merchandise and promotional items I am no doubt going to be begged to buy.

And then I was shocked.

A female lead. A powerful, dynamic, strong female lead in a movie targeted at children.

I mean sure, there are the Disney "Princesses" (Technically, not all of them are Princesses.....just sayin) but think about it: they are all somewhat dependant on a male counterpart. Hopefully this movie will not follow that pattern and give my girls a true heroine to look up to.

 

This is the coolest guy ever...

While I was searching for news stories this week, I came across a single headline:

"How exactly does a blind person cook food alone?"

Yes, please. Although I've never wondered this before, once the seed was planted, I couldn't resist.

Turns out Tommy Edison has a YouTube channel dedicated to showing us with vision how blind people do all kinds of everyday things.

Check this out....he cooks a hamburger and fries, burning himself less times than I usually do....WITH PERFECT VISION.

It's pretty neat and..HOLY HELL HOW MANY BEERS HAS HE HAD? (at 1:12)

 

MANday Choices...

Santa was good to me this year......

 

SooperRant Sunday

**WARNING - before reading this, make sure no kids are around. There is some naughty stuff.**

Went to the Amazing Arizona Comic Con this weekend. It was my first comic con and was awesome. Seeing all the cosplay and talking with artists that are passionate about their craft and love what they do is amazing. This is not about those people.

About 80% of the artists were true "comic" artists. They took revered comic idols and redrew them in thier styles, for instance, I bought this awesome print of Carnage, a Spider-Villain:

Check out more of Andy Carreon's work here.

And another awesome print of Venom, another Spiderbaddie. Can't find the print art online, but artist's website is here.

Here's the issue. For every artist with a cup full of talent, there were several that apparently thought the CON in ComicCON stood for CONtest to draw the best naked ladies.

Goldilocks.

Pikachu

Rogue. 

The last one really disappoints me. Rogue is a part of the X-Men, an ELITE GROUP OF MUTANTS. To objectify her just diminishes her awesomeness.

But, hey, guess what?

I am now a comic artist!

Signed prints of the above image will be available for $10 each.

You guys have so much talent, you could make your own heroes, expand on ancillary characters, or re-boot old icons. Why do you have to focus on Wonder Woman's breasts?

Here is truth in advertising:

Welcome to Dark Silver Studio, here you will find alluring women in dark places. Each beauty will capture your attention as she draws you to her side.

The best part?

Here's the artist:

Natali Sanders

In order to help out the awesome artists that decided that the breasts they DID draw were kept away from my kids' visions at the comiccon, I urge you to check out the following pages. Some of them DO draw the voluptous figures, but I didn't see any DISPLAYED for my kids to browse, so they get a thumbs up for that.

Big Chris

Jamie Tyndall

And my new favorite artist. This guy is crazy talented.

Jon Hughes

All in all, it was a geek nirvana. Looking forward to The Phoenix Comicon in March!

WTFriday!

Uhhhhhh......

The mission of Santa Barbara, CA-based BabyToupee and SmallHuman, LLC is to show that while parenting can be a great responsibility, it can also be a source of endless amusement. The company’s goal is to bring creative and fun products to market that make parenting a little more fun, all while bringing a smile to the face of their children. Life is too short to take seriously… have fun with your baby!

At over $20 bucks a pop.....I'll shave my dog and use that instead.

Jeez.......

If you are interested, here is the link.

The 3 Things...About Hands

My hands have been KILLING me lately, and it's hard to explain to people, so here are the 3 things about my hands

1. It's difficult to not look like a big wuss.

When my wife hands me a jar, I have to defer to my 10 year old daughter. When I shake someone's hand, I cry like a Belieber meeting their idol for the first time. Because, you know, it's cool to be "the guy that survived a heart attack but don't touch his hand or he'll cry."

"No, I'm really pleased to meet you......really." 

2. I never realized how much opposable thumbs are used in the real world.

My thumbs are actually the crux of my issues, and I'll be Chris Brown's new punching bag if I didn't realize how often the muscles of the thumbs are used. Opening a door? Check. Eating? Check. Blowing up "marital aids"? Double check. But that hurts so good.

3.  Nobody believes the only thing that doesn't make them hurt.

I'm a slacker stay at home dad, so when I tell people that the only thing that I do that doesn't make my hands hurt is play my Xbox, I generally recieve the same kind of look as if I told someone I had proof that Hoffa killed Kennedy on orders from Captain Kirk. It's true, however. I don't know if Microsoft had "ergonomic engineers" look at the controllers, but they work. Sucks for me, but I love me some Xbox even more now....

Somewhere, people refer to these as "hand pillows" 

That's MR. Susie Housewife to you!

My wife is a Pintrest addict. She spends hours sifting through other people's boards for neat stuff to "pin" to her boards. She even has a board dedicated to all the dudes she wants to get with....besides me.

So, when she sent me this recipe for homemade laundry detergent to save a few bucks, I decided to hitch up my apron and give it a shot.

I am going to break down the recipe as follows: (all prices are from Amazon.com, because I'm not let out of the house to go shopping.)

1 - 3 lb. container OxyClean - $9.39

3 bars - 16.5 oz (total) Fels-Naptha bars - $11.97 total

1 - 4 lb. box Borax - $11.59

1 - 3 lb. 7 oz. box Arm & Hammer Washing Soda - $8.76

1 - 4 lb. box Arm & Hammer Baking Soda - $8.39

1 - 13.2 oz Downy Unstoppables scent booster - $9.29

Total spent - $59.39. Crazy, right?!?! Who in their right minds spends 60 bucks on laundry soap?

Total weight - 16 lbs. 2.7 oz

Suggested usage - 1 tablespoon, which equals 1/32 of a pound.

Total loads by weight - 517.4

I'm never going to have to buy laundry soap EVER AGAIN!

by the way, you can follow my boards on Pinterest here. 

 

 

 

iMANginative....

This product absolutely, positively, without a doubt HAS to exist. Someone has to take this parody and run with it.

SooperRant Sunday - Another Open Letter

**DISCLAIMER** I have made fun of the "fairer sex" before in my blog and in public because, well, it's funny. I have used abuse jokes before, and my favorite is:

What do you tell a woman with two black eyes?

Nothing, you already told her twice.

So as you read, know that I'm not a hypocrite, but I do what I do for HUMOR. This rant is my opinion, but hopefully you share it if you believe I am correct.

Now on to the SooperReflection Rant....I think I'm going to like this.

An Open Letter to Rhianna

Dear Rhianna,

Over the Christmas holidays, I heard a rumor that I thought was unbelievable, but when researching, found in more than one source, so I take it as newsworthy (?).  

The situation has to do with your ex-boyfriend, Chris Brown, yourself, and Twitter. Although I don't take everything on Twitter as gospel, the "coincidence" of you and Mr. Brown posting loving tweets so close together cements this situation in my mind.

Love U more than u know!

— Chris Brown(@chrisbrown) December 29, 2011

Two minutes later, you posted this: 

I'll always love u #1LOVE

— Rihanna (@rihanna) December 29, 2011

I know it's vague, and not pointed to any one person, but this "coincidence" has made me lose absolutely any and all respect for you that I had left.Do you remember that this douchebag is the one that treated your face like the sides of beef in "Rocky"?

In case you don't remember, let me help you out:

But hey, I'm a dude. Why take my opinion to heart? My answer: don't. But I feel bad for the millions of abused women that looked to you for strength, who gave you their sympathy, who stood up for you. Jay-Z, the guy that you owe your CAREER to, even got mad when you wouldn't condemn Mr. Brown for what he did. I notice that you re-tweet a lot of Puff Diddy/Daddy/PDiddy/Puffy/Mr. Combs' tweets....he's the guy that immediately wanted you to forgive Mr. Brown.....strange.

I get "battered women syndrome", but the fact is you are talented and beautiful enough to literally HAND PICK any guy on the face of the planet. For you to even respond to the guy that threatened your career and your LIFE is inexcusable.

So, keep tweeting. I know I'm now a "hater", but I call it like I see it. You were a victim. You are now not a victim. You are weak.  Your comeback from the hell that your previous relationship was is remarkable, but you are throwing it away, and for that, you have lost my respect.

A Former Fan,

Brent Sieckman