I would be remiss if I didn’t first mention that tomorrow is the return of Choose Your Own Blogventure day. So if you’re logging in to find out about what’s going on at the Daily Tannenbaum, what you’re going to find instead is part three of a story that originated at Nancy Pearl Wannabe and [...]
Archive for July, 2008
30 Jul
Whip It Up #4: Gazpacho
Do you remember that episode of The Simpsons when Lisa becomes a vegetarian? Specifically the part where she gets laughed at for serving ice cold tomato soup at Homer’s barbecue? That’s Gazpacho for you, the much maligned icon of the vegetarian diet that nobody really loves. When I was thirteen, I came home from summer [...]
29 Jul
F U, Hasbro. F U.
Life’s hard. There are few pleasures for us working stiffs, us desk jockeys who stare at a computer all day. I honestly don’t know what the working class did before they had the Internet on their desktops, and I don’t want to know. The point is that it’s 2008, and that means in between creating [...]
28 Jul
Empire State Games wrap-up
As expected, I was the only woman in my age group at the Empire State Games masters swim competition. I swam seven events, and had kick-ass times in all of them. So now, the question is: What do I do with seven gold medals? So pretty, they are, with the ESG logo on the front [...]
24 Jul
Whip It Up #3: Hungarian Goulash
This week’s WIU theme was “Old favorites,” which to me means something mom made when I was a kid. And since I don’t consider “taking out for pizza” an acceptable WIU entry, I scoured the annals of my memory banks for stuff that Mom used to make when the mood struck her. But between fried [...]
23 Jul
You know, I worked on an Ashton Kutcher movie once…
Mom, I love you, but I have to share this phone conversation from the other night. “Hi honey, how’s everything?” “Stuff’s good. I went on a date the other night!” “That’s great! Tell me something about him.” “Well, he seems like a good guy. I think he’s younger, but I’m not sure what his age [...]
22 Jul
Going for gold
Call me Noelle “Michael Phelps” Tannenbaum, because it seems I’m in line to win seven gold medals at the Empire State Games this coming weekend. And how is that possible for this girl who only started swimming competitively a mere four months ago? Default, baby! They just posted the rosters, and it appears that I’m [...]
21 Jul
The floodlighted night
I’m going on record here. I am the one person on the internet who didn’t really like the new Batman movie. Admittedly, I went in more interested in being air conditioned for two and a half hours, not because I was hoping it would be The Greatest Movie Of All Time. But still, I was [...]
18 Jul
Whip it Up #2: Vegan Mac & Cheese
The suggested topic for this week’s Whip It Up was Cheese, but since I decided to do an all Vegan Whip It Up, this was the perfect chance for me to try the recipe I saw on Vegan Dad recently. By the way, if you don’t know of him and you’re ever looking for some [...]
17 Jul
8. The _________ Animal Hospital
Micki and I had to go to the vet yesterday. She had thrown up all over the place while I was away on Monday night, and she wasn’t eating her food, and looking generally lethargic. She’s feeling better now that she’s been given some fluids, and we should get test results later today. In the [...]
