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When we walked down to the lobby the concierge said “Can I help you ladies?”
I said: “Yes. This might sound strange, but I am looking for the Wienermobile.”
All three of us stifled back some laughter and he said “Actually, I know exactly what you are talking about and it was parked out front earlier.”
I was excited. When I woke up that morning I saw this from my hotel room window.
THE WIENERMOBILE!
I know. It is kind of stupid, but did you know that they don’t just let anybody ride in The Wienermobile? I know this because the commoners who were walking by (and by commoners I mean people who weren’t at my conference) weren’t allowed on. But the wiener lady let Laurie and I get into the giant hot dog!
We’re laughing like that because the wiener lady would not stop saying things like “Does one of you want to sit shot bun?” and “We’re all wieners” and “It is bunderful.”
Really. She did. And she did it deadpan.
And she didn’t stop as we drove around Houston.
To be frank with you it was fairly surreal.
The wiener lady gave me these stickers. That said “I tweeted from the Wienermobile”.
So I did.
And it was good.
When we got back to the hotel we ran into Tanis and took some more pictures because 1) It was a blogging conference and that is what we do and 2) IT WAS THE FUCKING WIENERMOBILE!
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1:33 am |
My sister-in-law is getting married in September. She has done me the distinct honor of asking me to be her matron of honor. It is in this capacity (and also due to the fact that we only live about 20 minutes apart form each other) I get to do awesome things like getting to taste different kinds of wedding cake.
Mmmm. Cake.
This is no joke. Some people might think going to the florist and the photographer and helping pick out music and stuff like that is a chore but I honestly enjoy doing that kind of stuff.
I used to work in event planning and I think if it had paid better I wouldn’t haven’t minded staying in that industry.
But that isn’t why I am telling you about this. I am telling you about this because today, while tasting cakes, I saw the most awesome thing I have ever seen.
A Ray Lewis carrot cake.
This is no joke. I saw the picture and I started freaking out. Here is why:
It looks exactly like him!
Fortunately, my mother-in-law, sister-in-law and future brother-in-law are used to me freaking out over stuff like this. I may have taken the wedding planner and the lady who made the cakes slightly off guard.
Kendall (from Kendall’s Cakes who made this cake) asked me if I wanted to keep the copy of the picture. I said yes please and then did what any good blogger would do and said “Can I put this on the internet?”
AND SHE SAID YES!!!
A Ray Lewis carrot cake, and it looks like Ray Lewis. This is a sports bloggers dream come true.
Oh, and I sampled the carrot cake and it was good.
And I don’t even like carrot cake.
Unless it shaped like Ray Lewis.
Evidently.
My birthday is in two weeks. I wonder if she can make one that looks like Warren Sapp?
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4:43 pm |
The Goon Squad has this thing at their school that is called “Star of the Week”. Each kindergartner gets a turn and when it is their week they make a poster of the things that they like and it gets hung on the wall all week and at some point the child gets to tell the whole class about their display.
Claudia is the star of next week.
We went to the craft store to get supplies this morning. I figured since we were already there we would get the stuff for both of the kids because Ian will be star of the week at the end of October. Why not just get his poster board too?
Our craft store is one of those huge places that has an entire section dedicated to poster board so there were many shades to choose from. I asked the kids which color each of them wanted.
Claudia (predictibly) chose the pinkest pink that ever pinked. It is so bright that I am still seeing spots. It is what safety orange would be if it was pink.
Then Ian said:
I want dark red – the color of death.
Those were his exact words.
His father would probably say something like “You can take the boy out of Tampa…” but I would say:
Metal.
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Posted by Goon Squad Sarah @
1:41 pm |
And this time in white!
Posted by Goon Squad Sarah @
8:35 am |
I received several requests from readers who wanted to know how I made Warren Sapp LOL.
I would love to claim tremendous wit or a really great joke. But here is the truth.
I’m not proud.
But on the other hand, if you were high brow you probably wouldn’t be reading me in the first place.
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1:32 pm |
