Gah, I’ve been in such a fog today. I blame it on going back to bed for an hour after waking up at 5:00. I won’t be doing THAT again. Just wake up, Kim. The sun is up. You’re up. Stay up.
So, here are some mistakes/outtakes from today:
- Someone made a joke about “one million dollars” on a conference call and I was like “oh, are you…” then couldn’t remember the name of who I wanted to ask if they were impersonating. So I said, “Are you the guy who has Mr. Bigglesworth as a cat, and says ‘one million dollars’?” Wow, Kim. Still can’t think of the movie.
- I made cookies, but when I wrote the recipe down a few weeks ago, I wrote down baking powder instead of baking soda. I thought “this doesn’t seem right” when I was making it, but didn’t even check the recipe, sigh, so they turned out different. They taste okay but not as good as last time. (Edited to add: I shared this recipe with a bunch of people so that made me feel worse. Luckily, I shared it on google docs, so I edited it, and told them.)
Khali said they look fine to her
- I got a Mother’s Day card returned back because I used my sister-in-law’s old address instead of her new one. UGH, Kim. That’s a mistake from last week but I still felt dumb.
- And finally. This one is the most embarrassing. I saw an article about the guy who plays Saul on Homeland. Saul is one of my favorite characters so I clicked through (and was devastated he didn’t have a beard). So then I decided to go to Wikipedia and see if the actor who plays Saul, Mandy Patinkin, had been in anything else, and oh my gosh, he was in a VERY famous 80s movie that I have only ever seen once and I can’t believe I ever wondered if he’d been in anything else. If you are the first person to tell me what movie he is famous for without looking it up, I will send you a gift card! (sorry, Bobbi, you can’t play, xoxo)
Happy Monday! I’m hoping I don’t add more to this list. Maybe I’ll wake up tomorrow.
The Princess Bride 😀. Also, I know him from Criminal Minds and Dead Like Me. I didn’t know he played Saul!!
Also, you’re thinking of the Austin Powers movies, but I can’t think of the bad guy’s name!
I left half of the spices out of tonight’s dinner, so there’s that.
You are correct! Please let me know if you want a Starbucks or Amazon gift card 🙂 Is he good in those other shows?
Yes, Austin Powers! Still can’t think of the guy either!
Ha, how’d it turn out??
Dr. Evil!!
Bobbi! You’ve been delivering all night!
You can’t remember the name of the movie, but you do remember the name of the main character’s cat! Love it! 🙂
Saul was my favorite character in Homeland, too. I was going to say Mandy Patinkin was in that Barbra Streisand movie where she played a boy but I can’t remember the name of it, LOL!
Ha! So random, right?!
Oh my gosh, in that season where he was kidnapped I was like “DON’T YOU DARE KILL SAUL!” I had to look up to make sure he was in all seasons, to ease my heart. And I need to look up what movie that is!
Just pretend that you are on some dumb medication that messes with your memory and you can write off all mistakes, LOL. I know it’s frustrating to feel like you are making a cluster of mistakes, but it’s no big deal, really. Don’t be so hard on yourself, you are a wonderful person.
You’re right, it’s not. Thanks for saying that and I hope this post didn’t annoy you! I felt so mad when I messed up the cookies since it took so long to make them and we were exited about using the recipe again. But they must be okay, because someone ate a lot of them yesterday… 😉
No annoyance here, no worries. I get your cookie frustration; recently Jeff wanted beef strogonoff and I used a Betty Crocker recipe – it was a lot of work with chopping onions and slicing mushrooms and whatnot, and it was just blah. I was disappointed with the finished product AND how much work went into it. They can’t all be winners but it does suck when they aren’t, right?
Good 🙂 <3
Ugh, so yes, you get it exactly!!! It feels like such a waste! Then you are eating it cause you made it and it's just... yep, blah. It really sucks when you make an effort and it turns out that way. I feel like I take it harder since I don't cook or bake as much. I wonder if I f*cked up more often (because I cooked/baked more) if I'd be like "whatever!" ha.
You may already know this about Mandy Patinkin due to your Wikipedia-ing, but what was really jarring for me to find out about him is that he’s also been a major Broadway actor. I didn’t *really* start following Broadway until around 2016, so I wasn’t all that well-versed in anything Broadway-related (other than knowing a few huge shows, like Wicked and Phantom of the Opera) until then. I only knew Mandy Patinkin as Saul at that point, so it was WILD to me to learn that he started on Broadway!
I saw that! I didn’t see what roles he did! Was it some big ones?!
So have you watched all of Homeland? We still have two seasons left!
He was the original Che in Evita on Broadway, and he was the original George Seurat in Sunday in the Park with George! He got a Tony for playing Che, so that must’ve been pretty big.
I only made it through a few seasons of Homeland. Homeland was the show that made me realize I really only like to be entertained with comedies, not dramas. It gave me nightmares and stressed me out, and I was like, “I stress myself out based on my own life enough, thanks. I don’t need a TV show to give me that feeling.” Ha! The only drama I watch now is Chicago PD, and the only reason I watch Chicago PD is to hear whatever nutso address they come up with for the crime of the week so I can criticize them (“There is no such thing as West State Street!!!!!!”) or to see if I can identify where they shot the scenes.
Oh wow! That is really cool! He must have been great!
I totally get that about TV and I know other people like that as well. Ha, I’d be doing the same thing with Chicago PD. We watched The Thomas Crown Affair yesterday and I was all “No way he got from the museum to his office on foot” then showed Steven a google map of how far away they’d be from each other.
Oh my gosh, Mandy Patinkin is such a treasure. I knew him from the original broadway recording of “The Secret Garden,” and only later learned he was in things like “The Princess Bride.” He has such a kind face.
Are you going to finish that batch of cookies? And do you think you’ll try to remake them soon? I posted a recipe for beer bread on my blog years ago and left out or messed up the leavener, and my friend made it. I still feel guilty about it.
He does have such a kind face!!! I just love him! And I have only seen him in this! Lucky me, I have a lot of other things to watch him in 😉
Finish eating them? Yeah, for sure. Ha. They taste good, just not as good as before! I will probably remake them in two weeks – we are really digging them! Adding cocoa in to the dry mix seems so novel to us. Ha. (And gosh it’s so messy!)
I totally get that – I felt so bad about sharing this recipe with four people and having typos in it (I screenshotted in from someone’s insta story then typed it up). Luckily no one had made it. Was your friend totally cool about the beer bread?
I will never tire of Khali vs food pictures. CHUNK loves her food! 🙂
I hate those days when I just seem to be making mistake after mistake, even if they’re small mistakes. It just makes me want to go right back to bed and wake up the next day. There must be some sort of reason for it. Like maybe our brain chemistry is just out of whack and causing us to make mistakes we wouldn’t normally make? Or maybe we’re living through a global pandemic and things are CRAZY, haha. 🙂
I am glad you won’t because I keep taking and sharing them! She does!!! I need to back it off a bit 😉
YES! That is exactly how I felt! I just wanted to call it and get back in bed. Ha, wait… the global pandemic could be affecting me?! What?! No way! Hee hee. I definitely have one really moody day a week (that was actually Tuesday, lol) due to the pandemic and work stress.