No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

Taco Bell ran a promotion during the World Series called " Steal a base, steal a taco ". If someone happened to steal a base during the WS then TB would give out one free taco today between 2pm and 5pm at participating locations.
Seeing as today was free taco day I packed up three of my clients in my car and drove off to our nearest TB.
We were sitting out at a stop light waiting to turn into the TB parking lot when I looked over and saw about 40 cars lined up for the drive thru and a line of people out the door and into the TB parking lot.
Wow. All for a free taco.......
I guess America loves free shit.

How disgruntled do you think the taco maker was this afternoon ?

We did not get free tacos, btw.


XXOO
Bunny

Good To Be A New Englander.

The Sox won the Series.
The Pats and 8 and 0.
The BC Eagles are 2nd in the NCAA.
and....
The Bruins are playing like they've got a pair. ( they're 6 and 3, btw )


Does life get any better ? Seriously.

I was jazzed beyond belief that my man Mike Lowell got the World Series MVP. I was for sure it would have gone to Beckett. They both had equally spectacular performances during the series.

Of course like true Boston fans Brock and I were trash talking A-Rod last night after the game.
Not sure if any of you heard this, but Slappy McBlueLips announced through his agent during the 6th inning of the game that he was opting out of his contract with the Spanks. I mean come on, can't he hang on to that for like, three more days ?
Does every Sox win have to be rained on by the Spanks in some fashion ? Ugh - totally classless.


After the sox win last night one of the news channels was interviewing Theo Epstein and in the background the fans were chanting " Don't sign A-Rod ! "
I can tell you this though......if Theo decides to go after Slappy McBlueLips and not re-sign Lowell Brock and I will personally egg Theo's car and let all the air out of the tires.




So now we settle in to watch the rest of the Pats season.




See ya at the Super Bowl !
XO
Bunny

P.S. Big Thanks to Jacoby Ellsbury for the free taco !!!!!

Random Stuff.

This* is hysterical.

* Ok, this link is apparently gone now, however, 1800 Muffins had a muffin they were selling
called "The Britney Muffin - The Nutty Drunk". It was a rum raisin muffin with nuts on top.

This is just nasty.

This looks delicious.

This makes me happy.

This worries me.

This is quite interesting.

These are funny...and apparently I'm the only one who thinks so.


XO
Bunny

Ignorance Abounds.

OK, so remember a few posts ago when I wrote that there was a lot of misinformation and lack of education regarding adoption ?

Check out this assclown !
And then here he goes for round two !



Brock and I both felt, and still feel, that adoption is the right thing for us. We have seemingly gone to the ends of the earth to make this happen. Nothing has fazed us to this point.


Not the individual meeting with the social worker.
Not the home visit.
Not the getting finger printed by CIS.
Not going to the Chinese Consulate in NYC.
Not the endless amount of paperwork.
Nothing.


However....what we fear the most is running into people like this on the street.


Feel free to write a response to him.
I'm still working on mine.





XO

Bunny.

Visions Of Sheet Cakes Dance In My Head.

The cake saga is finished. Thank God. My boss very nicely told " D " that her cake " had gone bad " and she's have to " buy a new one ".
My boss said that, by and large, she took the news very well. She understood that these things happen and was OK with buying a new cake with me today.
We found a lovely 1/4 sheet cake at the bakery today that fit the bill just fine.

By no means is this story over.......

My client " D " is married to another client, also named " D ".
" D " the husband wanted to order 24 pizzas for the birthday party.
( "D" and his sister's birthdays are only 2 days apart and they have a joint party every year. )
There are 11 people coming to this party, and they are all bringing food.
So, including D & D, there will be 13 people at this party.
My boss tried to convince the husband " D " that 24 pizzas was a little excessive for 13 people.
So " D " then told my boss that he would only order 11 pizzas, one for each guest.
My boss felt that this was still too much and tried to talk him down.
She got him down to 5 pizzas and tried to convince him that, with all the other food, 5 pizzas would be plenty.
The husband " D " is still not convinced, so his case manager called the pizza shop and asked them to only deliver 5 pizzas to them.
She also called his sister and warned her in advance to keep "D" from ordering enough pizza to feed a third world country.
The lengths we go to save people from themselves.

You think I'm finished with this story......fat chance !

Me and my client "D" ran into spouse "D" and his case manager at the supermarket this afternoon.
I had to laugh because "D" the husband's case manager was in an aisle trying to convince "D" the husband that oh..perhaps.. 25 bags of salad was too much for 13 people.
Seriously, he had about 3/4 of his shopping cart filled with bags of salad.

It gets better.......

I caught up with the other case manager back at D&D's apartment. We had plans to meet up and help our respective clients clean out their fridge. Which wasn't as bad as we thought, btw.
Guess what we found..........YOU GUESSED IT...ANOTHER FLIPPIN' SHEET CAKE !
( Are they trying to eat their way into a diabetic coma ? )



The cake read " Happy 42nd Birthday D.."

D was born in 1962.

You do the math.





XO
Bunny

Somebody Stop Me.

My baby clothing shopping seems to go in peaks and valleys. I am sometimes able to stay away from buying anything baby related for months at a time. Then I have weeks when I seem to go crazy, like this week.
Sometimes, when I am out with The Mister I'll pick up something and say " Gee hon, isn't this cute ?" To which he usually responds with " PUT THE ONSIE / DRESS/ PJs DOWN AND STEP AWAY WITH YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR !!! "
God love him, he really does try to keep me in check. Really. And it is not an easy job.
I never plan on these little peaks, they just seem to happen. I'm not sure whats going to happen if some of my purchases don't fit the wee one, or if they fit but are the wrong season. You may be seeing Bunny's big beautiful E-bay store one of these days.
At any rate, here are my latest purchases.

Lilly Pulitzer dress. I love the little palm tree on it.

I think this dress could have easily been $60 at the Lilly store, but I

got it at the Children's Orchard for $6.50.

Sticking with the tropical theme....little cropped pants

with a polo shirt. The polo has a pink flamingo on it.

Closer look at the flamingo.

Carter's footie PJs.

Lands End two piece outfit. I liked the frog on the top

and the little lady bugs on the bottoms.
Lands End stuff for kids is cute and seems well made.

However,I am not impressed with their clothing for

adults. I bought a sweater last year and after about 12 trips through the

washer it was faded, shrunk and was pilly.

I gave it to Goodwill.

Side note: I'm not impressed with Vera Wang for Kohl's either.

Vera does some really beautiful wedding dresses, but her

line for Kohl's is ill-fitting, shapeless and boring.

Shoes and handbags are cute though.

You may or may not know that I am obsessed with bowls. A wierd obsession, I know. I can't help it, I love bowls. Maybe I was a potter in a past life, who knows. I bought these from Crate & Barrel this week. They sort of match the Kate Spade dishes I have, which it the only reason I bought them. I'll post pics later.

I'm home from work today. I woke up not feeling too well this morning. Still having issues with the stomach and I also seem to be running a very low temp. I have this general feeling of Blah that I can't quite put my finger on.

So this means no Sheet Cake Sequel post for today. Perhaps I'll have more to the story tomorrow.

Game One of World Series is tonight at Fenway ! See you there, 8pm on FOX.

So CLAP CLAP CLAP !!! LETS GO SOX !!!! WOOO HOOO !!!!!

XXOO

Bunny

Don't Mess With My Cake.

So you remember the post from a few days ago about my client " D " and her massive sheet cake ? We all on the same page ?
OK, moving on.
The sheet cake was taken to a group residence on last Friday to be put in there freezer. Another case manager drove the cake to this house only to find that it did not fit in their freezer. I told you it was a big cake.....
What to do you ask ?
My boss told the case manager with custody of said cake to hack it up and give it away. She was tired of dealing with it. ( I don't work on Fridays, otherwise this would have been squarely my problem. ) So this particular residence got a nice little treat for the weekend.
Now Sunday when I went back to work I got two messages on my voice mail from " D " telling me that her cake had been " stolen ".

Fast forward to today. The residence called our office to say that they still had 1/3 of this cake left and no longer wished to keep it. So yet another case manager drove out to this residence to pick up the remaining cake ( this is one well traveled cake I tell ya ! ) and drove it to pizza night, when it was again hacked up and given out.

Turns out yet again that this party she was planning is not even this weekend, it is next weekend. Yeah, so the cake would have been super nasty by then.

" D " has no idea that her cake is now gone. My boss is planning on a little conference with " D " tomorrow to explain to her what happens when you go out and order cakes without help from staff. My boss is also going to tell " D " that she's going to have to buy a new cake under my supervision.

We're all about tough love in my office. There are no free roles of the dice just because they happen to be disabled.

This is not going to go well.
I may have another cake post tomorrow.
Stay tuned.


XXOO
Bunny