Want to buy a pizza?

Would you like to buy a pizza? What about pizza dogs? A cheesecake? Cookie dough? Every year we get slammed with not one but TWO food fundraisers during the same weeks in January. ARGH! I hate this. I really wish these programs would resort to the old fashioned fundraising of "give me a dollar (or five) to help me do X." Pretty please? With whipped cream on top? I hate that the kid has quotas for both programs and HAS to sell pizzas and pizza dogs and cheesecake and all the other unhealthy products in these two catalogs. Bleck. Would someone puh-leeze come up with school fundraisers that are NOT food based?!?!

In the meantime, if you want to buy a pizza or something similar we've got you covered. If you want to contribute $5 or $10 or more to support either the Botball Competition Team or the Boy Scouts and skip the pizzas altogether, well that would be super wonderful too.



PS -- I neglected to mention we also have candy bars for $1. HELP!

Novel twizzler

I read this book in a single day. One. Uno. Eins. Yep, ONE day from start to finish. That was yesterday. A week day, no less! Of course it helped to have 3.5 hours of semi uninterrupted reading time while in the waiting room at the auto mechanics'. (I was waiting for new tires that weren't in stock. Always fun.) And after the morning at the shop, I read a little more. Got some work done. Attended a thingy-ma-bobber at the high school. ("Thingy-ma-bobber" is a highly technical term for Overly Complicated 11th Grade Scheduling). Dinner. Load of laundry. Email and facebook checks. And then a little more reading. The book was cracked at 7:30am and was finished by 11pm, with a little life in between. Not a bad day at all!

It's been a loooooong time since I've read an entire book in one day. This particular book is a good choice for a single-day read because the entire plot takes place in the course of one day too. It felt like I was keeping pace with the action somehow. And, yes, I would recommend it if you are looking for something entertaining, well worded, intellectually stimulating, exciting and fictional. It definitely scores 9 out of 10 gobble gobbles.

My only complaint is that I was utterly exhausted by page 438. (There are 509 pages to read, by the way.) There were so many plot twists and turns I was beginning to feel like I was being jerked around. Like I was inside a twizzler instead of a novel by the way it was all tightly wound.  30 pages later -- at #463 -- I was ready to call it quits. It didn't matter if the last few pages tied up loose ends, I just wanted out. "Please, Mr. Brown, make it stop!" she cried. And what a great relief it was when the last 50 pages were skimmed and book was finally finished at 11pm. Whew!

So have you read the book yet? Did you have the same twizzler issue? Did you get whiplash from being jerked around so much? Or was I the only one?

If you haven't read the book yet, do yourself a favor and don't wait for the movie. Read the book. Twizzlers are cheaper if you don't have to buy them at the movie theater. ;-)

Moving on up

THIS is my new house. Go ahead and click on that link. Click and drool. G'head. Gorgeous, isn't it? Spectacularly wonderful even. Mmmm!

Drool all you want but I would like to mention yet again that you really don't need to enter the contest. Nope. Do not enter. DO.NOT.ENTER.THE.CONTEST. Get it? I mean, why waste all that energy and computer power by entering the HGTV Dream Home giveaway when, in the end, it will be mine? Hmm? I'm just protecting you from elevated expectations and unwarranted disappointment and depression when you don't win and I do. Isn't that nice of me? ((bats eyelashes))

Stay tuned for details on the housewarming party! :)

Giving life an extra squeeze

Yes, my friends, it's confirmed. We always knew there was some fun here but now it has been scientifically proven. At a staff retreat today we used the Myers Briggs type indicator which, as expected, categorized me as an ENFP. For the record, that's been the standard result for all three Myers Briggs tests I have taken. It's Extraversion, iNtuition, Feeling, Perceiving. Here's what the worksheet said about me:

• People oriented
• Creative
• Seeks harmony
• Life of the party
• More starts than finishes
• Most optimistic

Perfect, no? But wait. It gets better. For each type there is a phrase to describe that person. So an ISFP says "sees much but shares little," and an ESTP says "the ultimate realist." (Sooo not me!) Mine says....are ya' ready for this?....like REALLY ready?....here goes....mine says

GIVING LIFE AN EXTRA SQUEEZE

Yep. Squeeze life. That just makes me smile. Smile big smiles. :)

No matter what your type, you are invited to join me in the ENFP world for a bit and squeeze. That's right, just give your life an extra squeeze today. Squeeze like a hug. Squeeze like your lungs during a laughing fit. Squeeze like you mean it! Just squeeze! Trust me, your life will love you all the more for it.

**Squeeze!**

Just right

What? You think this template looks pretty much the same as the old pink turkey? You think I was pulling your leg with yesterday's post? Well, if you checked out this blog any time between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. last night you may have needed a hard hat because construction on the blog site looked like one of these at any given moment:



Click here, here or here to see these templates in full size. The last one was my favorite of the three. What's yours?

While the three templates all offered new and cool stuff for this blogger and the reader (that's you!), none of them felt just right. Like baby bear trying out chairs, tasting porridge, then finding a couple of beds before snuggling in to the one that was JUST RIGHT, none of these way cool templates felt JUST RIGHT. So I thought it would be good to start with a clean slate and build something similar but better. New year = new things, right? Make that JUST RIGHT.

Construction will be going on for a few days. Keep checking back to see the changes as they progress. And please let me know if there are any widgets or features or design ideas that you would like to see here on pink turkey as it gets pinked up. :)

Cheerio!

Editing in progress

Dear Reader,

I am getting creative with this blog layout and trying out new things. After all, new year = new things. :) Please don't be alarmed with new and funky templates in the interim. I promise to give you a heads up when I'm done. Oh, and feel free to leave comments about whether or not you like the new layouts, you're getting whiplash, or if there is a particular widget you've been itching to see on pink turkey.

Blog on!

Happy Days!

Happy New Year! Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Black Friday! Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Halloween! There have been a lot of holidays (or jolly days) since the last "official" post so I have some catching up to do. What? I missed a holiday? Oh yeah. Happy Guy Fawkes Day! Happy Bosses Day! Happy Boxing Day! And let's not forget...Happy Bouillabaisse Day! (December 14th, of course. But you knew that already, right?)

Anyway, somewhere between National Flashlight Day and Eggnog Day I received a gentle-ish reminder to blog, Blog, BLog, BLOg, BLOG! Apparently some pink turkey readers out there have been feeling a wee bit bereft with the absence of current posts. Sorry, my turkeys! Now that I know you are checking in I will try to do better in the posting department. Let's start now...

We are currently pet sitting for my sister and her brother-in-law while they are on a Caribbean cruise. The cat and hedgehog are here while sister and family are on a grand excursion. Yeah. They got the cruise and we got the pets. Can you say "short end of the stick?" They are due back in town today and, other than their pets, will be greeted with howling wind and temps in the teens. There has to be some sort of payback for a winter cruise and this is definitely it! But let's get back to the animals. The cat is sweet, gives us hugs, purrs freely and often, plays fetch (honest!), and likes to snuggle under blankets. The hedgehog is prickly, stinky, nocturnal and sounds like a coffee pot percolating when awoken. We might adopt a cat one day. 'Nuf said.

Ready for some updated pictures? (Hint. This is not the time to say "no.")


Drew and I went to separate New Year's Eve parties and we both took these 2010 glasses with us. Drew hung out with several friends and won the Who Stayed Up The Latest Contest by going to bed at 7:00 a.m.! The boys were playing video games, went outside to pop confetti guns at midnight and then they played more video games and more video games. On the other hand, I was at an adults-only dinner party and crawled in to bed around 5:00 a.m. We both had fun. We both also napped a lot on January 1st. And please note that picture above was taken well before I showered and got gussied up for the festivities!

Merry Christmas! This was taken as we were stepping out to attend the Christmas Eve service. We met my parents and sister and brother-in-law for church and it was a lovely time. My sister and I started out with a giggle when we saw the hymn It Came Upon A Midnight Clear printed in the bulletin. She reminded me that two years ago there was a misprint and it said HE Came Upon A Midnight Clear. Yup. So wrong but soooooo funny! This time, however, no typo. At least not there. Glory to God in the High Test was a different story. Hee hee.

Did you happen to notice that there was no mention of my brother in that paragraph above? He and his wife celebrated a quiet and travel-free Christmas this year, opting to stay home since their baby is due in the next two weeks. Yes, a baby! Exciting news, 'eh?! We missed them at Christmas but will see them soon when we head up to meet the newest member of the family.




On December 18th (National Roast Suckling Pig Day) we awoke to snow. Maybe I should say SNOW! It snowed for 22 hours straight and left us with 20 inches in the driveway. It was gorgeous but took a long time to dig out. The photos were taken from our front porch during the storm. And, yes, that is indeed a Christmas tree on our front porch. It looked much prettier with the [real] snow on its [fake] boughs. Oooh. Aaah. It was nice that the snow stayed around long enough for us to celebrate a white Christmas this year. Thanks, Mr. Snow! :-)

That gets you caught up on the last two weeks. We hope you had a terrific holiday season and are enjoying a grand start to 2010. See you here again soon!