I don’t have a lot of time this morning; it’s a travel day for me, and I must get an early start. I did want to leave you with this, one of my favorite “cooking” strips. Readers don’t have to wonder where I got this idea!
Cooking Lesson
By Jimmy Johnson
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357 responses to “Cooking Lesson”
Wow, Lily. You mean I know a model?? 🙂
Debbe 😉 One to get your weekend started…Happy Payday. But don’t forget to “Drink Responsibly”. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXt56MB-3vc
Ruth Anne…thanks for the baby pics….I have a soft heart for Meerkats..and really got hooked on the first three years of it…until the matriarch, Flower, succumbed to a fatal snake bite…I cried like a baby…..I was a praticipant in a thread under Animal Planet’s many subject devoted to Meerkat Manor. Don’t see it much, maybe in repeats….but as they said…when you start ‘naming them”….it starts getting emotional and personal….but, it is life.
Now…when my Mom had a bridal shop….the ‘craze’ was those ‘stinking’ high-low hemlines…I absolutely hated them….the hemline in front was about two inches below the knee and the hemline in the back was about an inch above the heel of the shoe….it was a rage back in the EIGHTIES…..then there was the ‘leg of lamb’ sleeves”….no taste at all. When I decided to move onward, strapless dresses were the ‘incoming’ fashion…hated them too. As all one could see in videos of the wedding ceremony and the reception were women constantly pulling up their dresses at the “borderline” of “sink or oops”…….
AND they still have strapless gowns….our seamstress would sew in a two or on inch elastic band around the waist line of the bridal gown to keep the waistline where it was to be…but if you didn’t have the bustline….well, there were bra cups sewn in….
I once made a comment that if a wedding couple would put the attention into their marriage as they did their “special day”…we would have had less “repeat business.” Some of those German weddings had 10 couples in them…..wedriculous…
I know after 14 years in bridal retail….I hate retail….then there’s stories about the men being measured for tuxes….my biggest argument was the waistline…”well I wear 36″ jeans and you’re measuring me at 40″…well, Southern IN Germans love their beer and their bellies show it….now, what would you like to see in the video….a vest, a white tux shirt, and then your pants just right above your “plummer’s butt”….I sold a lot of suspenders 🙂
Enough of that….ya should have seen my sheath, beaded, with embroidered Alanson lace, bare shouldered, with a collared neckline (think halter top)…wedding gown (it weighed 20 lbs. and the support bra and cups needed to give me a bustline….worked…it was a size 12…now I’m lucky to fit into a size 6 jean))…it came in black…I wanted to wear black, but….Mom said ‘no”…so ivory it was….15 years ago, it was a $1200 (retail) gown…guess who got it for nothing?????
It was more than a feeling………………………………….
Thanks, Llee. I can’t wait for it to get here
Ghost: yeah, about four times a year, The Man In My Life takes me to the HQ of his old firm and I try on like a billion outfits and get scrutinized by the execs while they make notes of how they fit me. I do get paid, but not a lot.
GR 😉 I never leave my house after “popping a top”…thanks for the link…..
…and then there was….Boston http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSR6ZzjDZ94
And every January, Super Bowl Sunday, the bridal shop would put on a style show. Various vendor selling their goods of photography, catering….and we had the show stopper. The style show would last about an hour…full of high school girls in prom dresses, bridesmaid dresses and bridal gowns….and guess who put together the music???
I always started out with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNw1ZPzqP9Q
This girls were always nervous, but I was down along the runway, showing them and keeping the beat to swirl and twirl to the beat….that was about the best time in that business I loved. At rehearsals, I would do my best to show them how to “strut” their stuff…if you got it…flaunt it…I would say….they would always looked down at me as I would signal them to…you got to “move it, move it, move it” and smile…and don’t forget to put your arm on your hip, stop, right leg extended at the end of the runway…do a sassy tilt of your head…and strut it….I loved doing it.
I think I’ve given toooo much informations here….say goodnight Debbe….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNw1ZPzqP9Q
Lily: Wife was an RN, ’53-’55 in Ann Arbor, pediatrics, MI, and ’74-’91 here, med-surg and maternity, n. MN, most of the latter as beloved head nurse. She had heart-warmers and others to tell, anonymous of course: ‘What happens in the hospital stays in the hospital.’ A small hospital volunteer who sees lots of folks he knows, I know that mantra well.
Ruth: Thanks for the zoo photos. Baby altricial birds are sure ugly. Those blackbird nestlings, BTW, are not our blackbirds but Turdus merula, European close relatives of American Robins, Turdus migratorius [24 adults = one pie; I’ve mentioned that here before]. The langur pictured is, I believe, a Hanuman langur. The one male to several female social structure omits some gory details, widespread among social mammals, first brought to widespread attention by Sarah Dr. Blaffer Hrdy, Ph.D. in a very readable but reliable book, ‘The langurs of Abu’ Harvard U.P. The rabbit is a European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, the only colonial species in the rabbit/hare family, from which all our domestic rabbits are derived. There will be a short quiz next time.
Heh, Debbe, I just stand there and slowly rotate as they tell me to. To them I am just a business tool.
Not that I wouldn’t have enjoyed what you describe. I am a bit of a show-off
Debbe 😉 Sounds like you might have had a possible career as a fashion show director. Dare I ask where you learned all that? 🙂
Lily, you had a photo up on your FB at one time, a sort of glam shoot from behind. Was that from one of your modeling turns?
Debbe, my do you bring back the nightmares! You and mom in the bridal gown, etc. business and me and mine in the floral business! Do you still have nightmares? I do, usually at least one a week where everything is going wrong, the wedding is huge, the decorations, reception, the flowers, the bride is a monster and I am standing in a giant fountain on a 24 foot ladder installing decorations!
We put on the bridal shows too, getting the gowns and models loaned, we did the floral extravaganza parts but ours were aimed at FLORISTS usually, not the brides themselves.
Idea was to inspire and teach the florists how to design and upsell weddings. In other words, I spent a lot of time teaching.
Houston has a monster bridal show and people would hire me to design their booths and flowers, then some flower poker would end up doing the work the bride bought, which seems dishonest to me, so I refused to take any such jobs after first year debut.
Nightmares, screaming nightmares! I have actually climbed 24 foot ladders in cathedrals to install decorations and stood in a four story stained glass ladder on one while tornado sirens went off in parking lot. My favorite was standing in second floor glass baptismal font up to my thighs in water while designing a giant hanging piece “backwards” while my designer stood in aisle giving hand signals! Don’t say prayer doesn’t exist!
Love, Jackie Monies
Ghost you mean the one of me in the silver lame dress? No, that was a couple of New Years’ ago.
Yep, that was it, Lily. Bet you were the Belle of the Ball. 🙂
“Flower poker”, Jackie? I get it. I like it. And not just be cause it reminded me of “pokies”. 🙂
Ghost, I was calling my dog today and thinking of you. (He is extremely cute and loving)
But it was because I was calling him by his “second” doggie name which is Pookie.
So, I am going, “Pookie, Pookie, stay, stay” and I go “Pookie? No, it’s Pokie”. Then I have to stop and spell to myself. Double O, Double O?
His first name is Dickens, because I rescued him on Christmas Eve and because I knew I would catch the Dickens for bringing another dog home, no matter how small.
Love, Jackie Monies
That’s OK, Jackie. I’m sure I’ve been compared to much worse than your cute and loving little dog. 🙂
Give Dickens Pookie a hug for me.
Ghost, I sure had a good time that night. I remember that one guy was trying to corner me and I agreed to meet him on the parking lot. I took off my shoes and ran around the building and got back in through the back door and hid with my friends. Moral: don’t try to dorner someone faster than you are.
dorner= corner, darn it
Another approach to climate science:
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/05/23/house-defense-bill-military-dreamers-out-climate-science-ban-in
Peace, emb
Jackie, Your story was so exciting, my hair practically stood on end. You have had such an eventful life! And you write extremely well. I hope you don’t really have such frequent bad dreams. Maybe now that you have shared the story of your floral designer adventures, the dreams will go away … psychological black magic?
Heh, I hope that nobody has dreams like I do. I won’t describe them, no need to darken anybody’s day
Charlotte, I will tell you part two of the baptismal font story. There is usually only 30-45 minutes at best to install these big, big weddings, so it is like an army. We got to this one and there was NO hook(s) as told by wedding consultant for church. We were NOT allowed to install any hooks or mar the exquisite woodwork which we’d never do anyway.
So, we TAPED the basket container which held soaked foam and water to the baptismal font glass which naturally the consultant said would be “drained” but was full of water. I yelled for Duck Tape and we didn’t have any in truck, no time to buy any but we had some floral
“strapping tape” which is about 1/2 inch wide. That is what held up five dozen gladiola’s and a lot of foam!
So my assistant manager and I sat in truck behind church and prayed it would last until they pronounced them man and wife. It held and we went to remove decorations. Pastor said it was the most beautiful décor he’d ever seen in his church and might they use them the next day for the Sunday services that were being broadcast?
What could we say? So my assistant manager prayed all night and morning until the broadcast ended but she couldn’t stand to watch it because she just knew the whole thing was going to come down just as he said, “Now let us pray.” And we would have killed one of Houston’s favorite ministers!
Love, Jackie Monies (and yes, my life has always been weirdly funny and dramatic)
I often have logical, well-plotted dreams, which are sometimes continuations of previous dreams…in Technicolor, no less. If I could remember them in enough detail for long enough to write them down, they could be screenplays. Or at least it so seems when I first wake up.
Lily, you’re bad. 😉
Ghost, when I have those I often just get up and answer e-mails or something for awhile because if I go back to sleep they continue right where they left off! Scary! Usually they are occupied by deceased people (who are back alive) NOT zombies. Totally detailed. I figured that was how the plot for “Lost” got written.
Love, Jackie Monies
I compose fantastic original music in my dreams and can’t remember it when I wake up.