Peanuts

Recently, oddly late in the evening, I was driving home and passed a McDonalds.  And I had a sudden, inexplicable hankering for hashbrowns.  Which, due to the breakfast-all-day phenomenon, I can now get any time of day at McDonalds.  (IHOP did it first!) (But hey, hashbrowns!  We'll take it!)  As I had been driving awhile (and squeezing awhile), I decided to stop in instead of going through the drive-thru.  Then serendipity struck.

I ordered my hashbrowns and stood back to wait as what looked like a youth group came in.  And a young guy placed his order and added, "And she wants a Snoopy."  My ears perked up.  Whatever could that mean?  I want a Snoopy!

With The Peanuts Movie coming out, they have Happy Meal toys of all our good buddies!  And even better yet, when the cashier brought a pair of Schroeders, and the gent said that it wasn't Snoopy (although Snoopy was on the piano, and SPINS when you press the button!), she went back to the back, dug through the box, and pulled out every variety they had on hand.  Callou!  Callay!  I went home with a spinning Snoopy on Schroeder's piano, a bobblehead Woodstock, and a wheeled World War I Flying Ace.  And I thoroughly enjoyed my hashbrowns.

 

 We plan to see the movie over Thanksgiving.  So when I called my friend just to chat, she was excited for both hashbrowns and Happy Meal toys.  And she's headed to McDonalds today. 

Sports superstitions

The Cow-lover and I were "watching" (We were on the phone. She had the game on mute, I had the computer providing online updates.) the O's in the ALCS for the first time since 1997. They were not doing well. But we realized that neither of us had really watched an entire game so far this season, so we switched tactics.

We turned off our feeds.

We focused on conversational catch-up.

And the O's started to come back. 

We occasionally peeked over at the scores, and every time we did, the O's were doing better.

So... we don't get to watch the game.  Because reasons. 



source: Pearls Before Swine, by Stephen Pastis, 1/2/2011

Go Bawlmer birds!

Guess who?

Cow-loving friend, via phone: Guess who's on the cover of TV Guide this week?
Middle Frog: I'm going with Matt Bomer.


(For once, I didn't call him Bryce Larkin!  But he will always be Bryce Larkin to me.)
Cow-loving friend: Of COURSE you're going with Matt Bomer.
Middle Frog: Is it Zach Levi?

Cow-loving friend: You get one more guess.
Middle Frog: Scott Bakula?

It was Scott Bakula.  (Oh boy.)  Looking forward to seeing him on NCIS: New Orleans in the fall.