Super Bowl Sunday

 My green lawn has turned into concrete.  Even the corral is covered in icy white this morning.  It's a chilly 32 degrees yet again, reminding me I'm not in Arizona any more.  That makes it rather hard to really want to get out and walk ... in the cold ... breathing like a dragon.  So I didn't ... it was an easy decision.  Maybe I'll try again today.

Instead, we hung out on the couch for a couple of hours, Mr. Cooper snoring away.  I have to keep a close eye on him because when he dreams, which he seems to do a lot, he pushes himself right off onto the floor.  Try as I might, I can't get him to sleep the other way around.

Here is my surprise of the year!  While Mr. Ed was running around Thailand for the last couple of months, he found a puzzle maker.  At least that's when we started talking about these puzzles.  Look what he sent to me!!  A QUILT puzzle.  Wasn't I surprised when he said to watch out for a package.  Sure enough, it is actually made in the U.S. and came from back East.  Isn't this a beauty?  I instantly thought I would glue it together and hang it on the wall.

And then I opened it!!  I think I lost two years of my life.  These pieces are 1/2 or smaller!!!!!!  I could hear him laughing!!!  Heavens to Betsy ... this will take me a lifetime to put together ... and a really BIG table.  The good news is the colors shouldn't be TOO hard to separate.  See, there really ARE nice people in the world.  I can't thank him enough, though you may hear me saying a few bad words once I actually start working on it!  I'll put up a big table today.

It being Super Bowl Sunday, I wasn't interested in doing much.  It doesn't help that those late nights always ruin the next day.  I did finally get up off my duff and make some Rice Krispie squares.  Here's my tip of the day.  Use fresh bought ingredients.  

The Krispies were left over from the last experiment that went trash-can badly, and the marshmallows had been stuffed in the pots and pan drawer for two months.  I don't know if it's me or them, but they tasted terrible.  Kind of like old Rice Krispies and stale marshmallows.  Who knew??

THIS on the other hand, tasted WONDERFUL.  Of course I had to cook this one first.  Okay, who knew you could steam/cook green beans in the microwave  for two minutes and they would turn out perfectly?  Not me, that's for sure.

So here we are ... white rice, without the tablespoon of butter because I accidentally dropped it in the beef mixture instead of the rice.  Krispie onions on top like the picture, but after I took it, I dumped the entire BAG on there.  Ground beef, sweet chili sauce and a second Thai sauce that I haven't been able to find anywhere.  If I did, I'd quit buying this dinner and make it myself.  YUM!

By the time the Super Bowl came around, I wasn't interested in snacks.  Poor Kansas City had no backing from anyone this year.  Truthfully, I watched for the commercials, not the game.  And they were just as bad as Kansas City was.  Seriously, what happened to the bull frogs, the geckos, the clydesdales ... the really GOOD, FUNNY commercials.  

Instead I saw big eyebrows flying around the sky, singing human seals, robot people with Duracell batteries ... nothing the least bit funny or entertaining.  In fact, I couldn't even figure out what most of them were about!!  If they think this stuff is funny, they need to go back and watch the super bowls of years past.

The only one even halfway cute was the clydesdale baby pushing the beer keg, and even THAT wasn't any good.  Apparently the advertising world has lost their sense of humor, because they all stunk like my black and white tuxedo wearing buddies.

And Halftime?  I didn't understand not ONE WORD that guy sang.  The only thing I can say about that was at least they were wearing red, white and blue.  Skunks I tell you ..... skunks!!  Heck even Taylor Swift could have done a better job ... and I don't even LIKE HER!

And so ends my critique ... my opinion of course ... of the worst Super Bowl yet.  I hope at some point the nation gets back to having a REAL sense of humor, and not worrying about offending someone ... back to a lot more laughing!!  It's good for you!

Today I'm in a panic because company is coming.  The Hotel is open, so Roomba better get to work!!  As for food, I have none ... so it's off to the store once I wake up.  Here's to a GREAT week!!!  And thank everyone you know that actually got up and went to work at their office this morning ... you know, like we have done for 60 years!!