Dishes Galore!

I've spent my morning reorganizing all of my dishes. Let me rephrase, not reorganizing the dishes I use everyday, but my dish-junkie collection.

I really need a china cabinet. I say this after parting with (much pain *gasp*) 4 other sets when we moved into this house. Of course my other addiction is serving bowls and plates. Luckily RTL didn't make me part with all my china and pottery children.

Why didn't I do this when we moved in? RTL did, but her mom has since sent us the rest of Mamete's wedding china. Which I had precariously balanced with the rest of the dishes, so I decided it was time. I also deemed it necessary to have a sugar bowl out for my morning tea. I thought I would have some small coverable container to keep a wee bit of sugar in and not the humongous canister. Out of all my addictions, not a single one. I guess I could have used a tupperware container but that's just so plastic. So I going to actually use one of my pretty pieces. But that involved the reorganization of The Dish Cabinet. After all that hard work I have decided that I need more dishes.

I can hear RTL now freaking out because I'm on the hunt for more dishes. My argument is that you can always use more dishes. Besides, the first set of dishes that her mom sent, most of it ended up in the trash because of the packaging method or lack thereof. I still shed tears over the horror of opening that box. *sniff* More dishes probably aren't necessary. We do have 2 basically complete sets of dishes. I should use the ones that we have more often. I also have to leave room for the ones at my mom's house. I've got my sugar bowl out and it's in use, so I'm just going to be happy about that.

Back to my scheming ways

Wait, I never stopped my scheming ways.

Anyway, now that drmellow has informed me that I should be putting honey in my tea instead of sugar, I feel that it is my responsibility to concoct multitudes of methods to introduce sugar into every topic of conversation. I'm thinking of creating a drmellow doll that will shout "Sugar is an ABOMINATION to the grit!" everytime you squeeze his tummy. *hee hee* Dress him all in black a la Johnny Cash. And boots! Gotta have boots.

I'm also going to concoct a grit and honey combination and see how that tastes. And we all know that even if it tastes like ick, I'm going to proclaim that it's the best stuff ever. Although, I'm not sure that you could really go wrong putting honey in grits.

I'm going to go start designing my drmellow doll now.

Only in Berkeley

When RTL came home today, the first words out of her mouth were "you have to come see this!" So outside we went with the camera and parked on our street is a truck that someone has painstakingly converted to look like a great white shark, head in the mouth and all. I was quite impressed with the detail of the scales on the side of the truck.





View the back of the truck here.
I've got another view of the other side of the truck where you can see the seats inside the "shark", but I have to fuzz out the license before I post it.