I'd Like S'more Please

So I know I haven't been online for a little while, I've been caught up with doing new things....

Now that I've addressed that issue lets talk about something delicious:

S'MORES!!!!!

One evening my boyfriend and I decided to take a stroll at our local walmart and we spotted a do it yourself kit. Again it came to light that no I have not tried yet another thing.

 I love chocolate and things with marshmallows in it and the imaginary taste in my brain said it would technically taste good so we bought one:

Although this do it yourself kit, it is pretty much done all you have to do is put it together. I did not take the lead on putting it together, we decided that my bestie Zack should do it since he had more experience with S'mores than I do.

Side note: as I was writing this and spelling out "S'mores" I started to wonder why they are called this and the who where what when of all of this business.  

Time for some wikipedia-ing!! 

First piece of information: National S'mores Day is celebrated yearly on August 10th in the United States!! HELLO they have a day for S'mores? WOW. I've missed out on travelling to the United States to celebrate over 20 National S'mores Days

 :(

I started daydreaming about who would create such a thing and imagined a bum who had no money putting together this cheap sandwich and warming it over a garbage can. Boy, was I wrong... I should have known girls (very smart intuitive girls) would have had a hand in creating a  

chocolate marshmallow sammy.

"S'more appears to be a contraction of the phrase, "some more." While the origin of the dessert is unclear, the first recorded version of the recipe can be found in the publication "Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts" of 1927"

The thing I took out of that most was the title of the publication "Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts" ....  Girl Scouts were tramps? But how could tramps create such chocolatey goodness? 

I definitely would like some more! S'mores are dang good. Real dang good. Messy but good- see proof below:

 

I was going to post all the different variations I found of s'mores but there were wayyyy too many and now I want a s'more... but here is some additional information about s'mores:

The word is in the dictionary! 

"S'more: a dessert consisting usually of toasted marshmallow and pieces of chocolate bar sandwiched between two graham crackers" (Merriam-Webster Dictionary online)

Wiki how has also posted how to make s'mores (campfire style) just in case you were unsure, pictures included: 

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-S'more

When I Googled "S'more" the results were the dictionary and several different s'more bakeries which got my attention until I quickly realized none of these places are close to me. Then it dawned on me that Zack taught me how to make s'mores and I didn't need no s'more bakery, I'm my own s'more bakery. I have yet to be taught how to make s'mores on a campfire due to never going camping until adulthood.

I will leave you with words that rhyme with S'more: 

"abhor, adore, afore, and/or, as for, ashore, backdoor, bailor, bandore, Bangor, bedsore, before, bezoar, bookstore, box score, but for, call for, candor, captor, centaur, chain store, claymore, closed-door, cold sore, cold store, condor, Côte d'Or, decor, deplore, dime-store, Dior, done for, donor, downpour, drugstore, Dutch door, encore, ephor, explore, eyesore, fall for, feoffor, fetor, Fillmore, first floor, flexor, folklore, footsore, foreshore, fourscore, French door, full-bore, Gabor, galore, Glen More, go for, ground floor, gun for, hard-core, hog score, ichor, ignore, implore, Indore, indoor, in for, inshore, in-store, Kotor, Lahore, lakeshore, lector, lee shore, lessor, line score, look for, Luxor, memoir, mentor, Mysore, nearshore, Nestor, next-door, offshore, onshore, outdoor, outpour, phosphor, psywar, rancor, rapport, raptor, raw score, Realtor, restore, rhetor, savior, seafloor, seashore, sector, seignior, Senghor, senhor, sensor, settlor, Seymour, signor, smoothbore, soft-core, sophomore, stand for, stentor, stertor, storm door, Strathmore, stressor, stridor, subfloor, swear for, Tagore, take for, temblor, tensor, therefor, therefore, threescore, Timor, trapdoor, turgor, uproar, vendor, what's more, wherefore, wild boar, woodlore, z-score"  (Merriam-Webster Dictionary online)

 

 

POSSUM OH POSSUM

What does this look like to you??

Last year, on a quiet Saturday at work my coworker informed me a possum gained access to her home. I struggled to think about what a possum looked like and since when did they immigrate to Canadia? I thought possums were from Australia or some desert like place...

My coworker and I discussed possums at great length. Firstly we discussed the difference between possum and opossum:

Wiki Answers said:

"The "possum" of North America is just a shorter name for an opossum, but true possums are different from opossums, and not related at all, except by virtue of both animals being marsupials.

• Possums belong to the order Diprotodontia and the suborder Phalangeriformes, while opossums belong to the order Didelphimorphia and the family Didelphidae.
• Opossums are found only in North America, although there is a "water possum", also known as the yapok, which is found in central and South America.
• True possums are found in New Guinea, Australia (including Tasmania), Sulawesi (Indonesia) and a few other small islands in the Pacific region. Although not native to New Zealand, the brush-tailed possum was introduced into that country over a century ago and has subsequently become a pest.
• The North American Opossum has a bare tail. All varieties of Australian possums have furry tails.
• There are many varieties of possums in Australia (and New Guinea), including Gliders and the Cuscus. There are more limited species of the opossum.
• Captain Cook's botanist, Sir Joseph Banks, named the Australian animal "Possum", referring to it as "an animal of the Opossum tribe" because he believed there was a physical resemblance.
• Opossums were named by Captain John Smith in 1612. He took the name from an Algonquian (North American Indian) word."

 So now that we had that cleared up....
 
I found out other things. Like: people have these giant rat like things for pets, there are many different types, they like people's homes apparently, they can be quite large and lastly, I decided I was petrified of them. 

 Luckily, my coworker's husband trapped this demon spawn and brought it over to show us- that is him above in all his glory (possum not husband). He was mean (again possum not husband). They hiss. It hissed the closer we got to it and if you touched his tail he did not like that. I did not participate in the tail stroking.

Possums are a weird rodent like animal. We looked at several pictures and informational websites to learn more... 

 photo credit: www.acuteaday.com

Ok so these baby possums aren't so bad...but then.... 

LOOOOOOKKKK

 

photo credit: www.neatorama.com

This apparently is a Cuscus- the largest type of possum on earth... This looks like a monkey. A very ugly monkey. 

Then we looked at realistic pictures of possums, the one's that come into your home and try to attack your animals. Here is a a video to demonstrate:

That possum is nearly as large as the cat. Imagine waking up on a Sunday morning to see this happening in your backyard. I'm not so worried about this cat- this ginge looks like he can hold his own.

I really didn't know that possums were drinkers either...maybe we could get along.

   photo credit: www.nithyananda-cult.blogspot.com 

 After I saw this one, I no longer had the urge to look at them...NIGHTMARES:

 photo credit: www.flickr.com

Never say never though because I saw this picture and enlarged it. I discovered they have molars...Molars. 

 photo credit: www.giantbomb.com

Take a gander at their "hands" they have five "fingers"... 

Wiki How talks about how to get rid of these molar havin', five fingered, black eared wearin' sickos. It can be found here: http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Possums

I posted the wiki how page out of genuine concern for anyone who has to deal with possums. I didn't even know they existed here until last year and saw one with my own eyes. If I saw one in or around my house I can't say what would happen to me. I read the wiki how thoroughly to prepare myself.  

Prepare yourselves not for a zombie apocalypse but a possum apocalypse!!!!   

  photo credit: www.zombiepossum.tumblr.com 

WHATCHU TALKIN BOUT WILLIS??

So I know this show is before my time. I wasn't even born. 

BUT

Man did I find out that I love Gary Coleman. This would have been my favourite show if I were alive. I'm obsessed. It doesn't even matter that this show is so old its still so funny and inappropriate sometimes- better than T.V today. 

I have only watch the first two seasons but I've decided that  

"whatchu talkin bout Willis?" 

will live on forever (even though I only recently discovered it's from this show). The above clip is one of my favourite ways that he says his catch phrase (the last time he says it in the clip). 

I have never known Gary Coleman as a child actor- only as an older washed up celeb from a show I never heard of. So naturally I stalked the crap out him and his costars. This is what I found first:

 

photo credit: www.thesmokinggun.com

 

 He looks cray cray here. He looks haunted.

Then I found:

photo credit: www.thesmokinggun.com

But I didn't find his mugshot (this is close enough):

 

 photo credit: www.washedupcelebrities.blogspot.com

So. All three of the happy chillruns from Diff'rent Strokes have all been arrested at some point in their lives. Gary Coleman for assault, Dana Plato for theft and forgery. And Todd Bridges accused of attempted murder.... I wonder what happened while the show was going on.

When I did all my stalking I found out how sad Gary Coleman's life had been after being on Diff'rent Strokes and how his parents took all his money and he tried to sue them to get his gold back. I learned that he is adopted and he has some sort of kidney disorder and that is why he's so small- thought he was a dwarf. I knew he was a security guard at one point (I never stopped to asked who would hire someone smaller than me to guard anything??). When I "researched" some video clips I found out he married a ginger but then I saw another clip of him on Divorce Court trying to get a divorce on tv....why on tv? I noticed in some interviews that he is not very forthcoming and tries to lead a "normal" life. I can't imagine what it would be like to live in the public for so long. He is very evasive with his answers and he seems not to want people to know much about him. But now he's dead and I'll never know. Wish I watched this show sooner and stalked him in real life and met him!

 

Now the other two aren't nearly as funny to me as Gary Coleman was on the show. I remember watching one of the earlier episodes when Willis is talking to his friend calling him "blood". I had to rewind that, didn't know they talked like that back in the day. I believed that was corrupted black kid talk of today! Makes me wanna call my family blood all the time. I read up about Willis too, or I should call him Todd Bridges- apparently he was big into crack/cocaine and decided it was a good idea to get high and try to pop a cap in someone's arse. He was acquitted and was not charged with murder. I am interested in reading his book called Killing Willis. I kinda like his song too....

 

 

Don't get it twisted folks, this is Will is spittin dope written for those sniffin coke. 

 

HAAAAA. This show is so popular it has a song. A song. A whole song with the chorus that says "Whatchu talkin bout Willis?" I don't like anything else but that line in the song.

 

I was disappointed to learn that Dana Plato is dead after I just started watching the darn show. Apparently, she's another druggie who likes to steal from video stores and forge scripts for Valium. So she's dead and so is her son. I got curious when I read her son died- surprise he committed suicide too!

 

Diff'rent Strokes taught me to hurry up and unshelter myself!

 

 I missed Gary Coleman's life people! This is getting really serious. I could have had a whole new outlook on life had I of watched the show sooner. OK. Maybe not but I would have laughed more. This is a great show and coming from someone who does not watch anything older than 1985 you should believe me. Or not. What's the worse that could happen, Gary Coleman die without you even enjoying his funniness as Arnold Jackson?

 

 photo credit: www.ok3.org

I can only hope I have a son as hilarious and creative in the mouth as this kid!