This was tweeted to me by @drakechicken, courtesy of @Wreaking_Havoc_. It’s one of the most awesome things I’ve seen in awhile.
I especially love the “morning wood” attachment. It would look like Edward Scissorhands had been around after I was done with this pillow.
Ahem.
I would take my Ryan Gosling husband pillow EVERYWHERE. Could you imagine being at a stoplight and seeing this thing in the passenger seat of a car? Or stuffed in a shopping cart at the grocery store? Maybe in a movie theater seat for date night?
Please, someone get to making this dream a reality!!
**Eye candy alert. I still can’t get over how hot Josh Duhamel is in person. I’m mentioning him, seemingly out of the blue, because he acknowledged me on Twitter the other night and it made me all goofy for a bit. Where’s his pillow with morning wood?!
I used to pride myself on being the queen of useless information, even after the little hummingbird was born. Now, I seem to be the last to know about things and kind of miss her floppy, I can’t hold up my head, baby days.
The hummingbird is full of zoom and will be 4 next month… excuse me… “WHY?! Sweet Baby Jeebus, WHY?!”
Ahem.
So, I give you my out of the loop news. It’s shit that I had no idea about until way after it happened. Translation…. could be a few days later or years later.
First up… my new girl crush, Angelica Duria. If only news weather people could be this awesome.
I came across a water bear on Pinterest. I’ve never heard of it before but now find them to be very odd and cool. These moss eating water bears can live in a dehydrated state for years. Tardigrades: Water Bears!
Have you come across any news (strange, funny, celebrity, science, quirky, etc.) you’d like to share? Email me at elle dot mommyhood at gmail dot com.
I wanted to try something new and a few times a month, do a post and give some blog love to others. I always love finding and reading blogs so if you want yours included or really enjoy reading a particular blog and want it added, drop me an email at elle dot mommyhood at gmail dot com.
*I almost pulled this post down because I didn’t like the way it worked out but it stays. I’ll go and drink a bottle of shut the fuck up now and let you read it. :^)
A while back, I asked you to give me some writing prompt suggestions and one of them was what has been my favorite and worst place to live. That’s a very easy one.
I feel weird telling you about my least favorite, especially if you live there but that would be Ft. Worth, TX. My in-laws live in the Dallas area so you can only imagine how awful that was with them being so close.
My favorite place, hands down, is SEATTLE!!!!! I LOVE the Pacific Northwest and have been homesick for it for years now. We lived there for about a year and a half, years ago but I miss it every day.
I’ve had some ask me what is it about Seattle that I like so much and I usually say it was everything. It just had the perfect combination of quirky, beauty, nature, entertainment, food, and everything else I ever wanted when it comes to where I want to live.
With my husband being in the military, we’ve lived many places and I will always be a California girl but when we moved to Seattle, it was the first time I really felt like I was home. May sound cheesy but it felt like the energy there along with mine really complimented each other.
Living there brought out the best of me. The me I know was hiding inside for years. I’m so horribly shy in real life but I even got the balls to study theater while living there. That and writing have always been my true loves.
My husband was gone for a HUGE part of the time that we lived there but I really flourished while living in Seattle, being mostly on my own. Just a few weeks after moving there, my hubby went on deployment and it was really hard to be in an unknown place by myself so soon but then I discovered one of the most awesome things a few days later.
I had such a love affair with Seattle the whole time I was there. I plan on moving there and making it our permanent home once the hubby gets out of the Navy in 3 or so years and I’m so excited.
I could still see possibly staying in Northern California but moving back to Seattle has been in my mind from the day we had to move from there.
In case you’re curious, I really don’t think it rains as much there as people think. I actually found it comforting and thought Seattle was one of the most active cities that I’ve ever lived in.
My MIL knows how much I love it there so seeing how tactful she is…*snort*… she can always find something wrong with our plans to move back there for good. And of course it’s my fault that my husband also loves it there as much as I do. She thinks it’s all my fault that he doesn’t want to move back near them in Texas and has told me in so many words.
So, in case I didn’t already make it clear HA, I had such a love affair with Seattle and it’s the only place in the whole world that I want to live. Well there and Ireland, but Ireland is a whole other story.
In case you need a reminder, Safe Haven is being released this week. I’ll be honest, I’m not really a chick flick kind of girl. Except for The Notebook… because of Ryan Gosling. I mean HELLO, Ryan! Yeah, my favorite Nicholas Sparks movie…. EVER.
In August, Relativity Media and Universal sent me to Southport, North Carolina to do a set visit and interview author Nicholas Sparks. I also met Josh Duhamel (hotter in person which doesn’t seem possible), and Julianne Hough (who is such a cutie).
It was my first time doing anything like this and I never would have dreamed that this was reality. It just blew my mind. Even though this isn’t my type of movie, I’m so going to see it. With the different shooting locations I saw, I just have to see it on the big screen.
But oh my, Josh. I can’t stress enough just how gorgeous this man is in person. He seemed like a kid at heart and us ladies that were there sure did enjoy the time with him.
Ahem.
Nope, I’m not in the below pic…. have to maintain my “secret identity”. But wow, being around him made me giddy and blush like crazy. I was a very happy girl.
The ladies at Relativity Media and Universal Studios (Dina, Liz, and Cecilia) were fan-fucking-tastic!
On the second day we were in North Carolina, we were part of a parade they were filming and there was rain… lots of rain, which delayed shooting but was so fun to watch. Example: The yelling lady.
Nicholas Sparks arrived when we were taking a tour of a house that’s in the movie. The guy was so kind and generous. We kicked back in a restaurant and Nicholas sat there eating hush puppies while being interviewed. It seemed surreal.
It could have been the wine I had for dinner because I thought later that night was the highlight of the trip. That night all of us ladies had a wonderful meal. At least I assume so. The wine was a flowin’.
After dinner, Liz was dying for ice cream. The rest of the group got on the waiting bus outside of the restaurant but a handful of us ran after Liz while she speed walked down the street a few blocks to get her vanilla ice cream cone. Some of us, especially me, was in hysterics.
Yes, it was the wine!!
I especially want to thank Dina for being so sweet and such a wonderful and very fun lady. And also for sending me to LA in December for the press junket for This Is 40. Thanks, Dina!
So, while I’m not a chick flick kind of girl, I’m known to watch them from time to time and I am definitely going to see Safe Haven when it comes out on Valentine’s Day.
Sit and stare at Josh Duhamel for a few hours? I’m in! You can go on over to What The Flicka? if you’d like to read the Q and A with Nicholas Sparks.
Candy flavored vodka? Oh, yeah! Bring it on! I’ve seen this around for a while but didn’t try it out for myself until a few months ago.
When my husband came home and saw all the mason jars I had, he looked confused. “You’re doing some canning?!” he said. When translated, it means “Where in the hell is my wife and what have you done with her?”
When I told him the only canning I’m doing involves making candy flavored vodka, that made much more sense to him.
I didn’t really follow a particular recipe with this. I used about half a cup to a full cup of candy and put it in the mason jar filled about halfway with vodka. Basically, I picked out all the orange skittles in the bag and that was how many I used in the flavored vodka.
You can use several different kinds of candy you can think of. Lemonheads, SweetTarts, Skittles, etc. I tried gummi Lifesavers but it turned into a big glob and tasted nasty.
For my flavored vodka, I used peppermints, orange Skittles, and lemon SweetTarts. I let the vodka sit with the candy in the mason jars for 2 days. Then I strained the vodka using a cheesecloth into clean mason jars and Voila!
It’s time to get your drink on!
My favorite ended up being the orange Skittles vodka followed by the lemon SweetTart one. The peppermint vodka was good but reminded me of peppermint schnapps which reminded me of high school and barfy times.
I had the amazing opportunity to fly to Los Angeles for the press junket of This Is 40 and interview Leslie Mann, Paul Rudd, and Judd Apatow. It was such an incredible experience.
The movie is hilarious and there’s one scene in the film that has forever made a lasting impression on my brain. It’s a scene where Paul Rudd is checking himself for hemorrhoids. I laughed so hard, I was crying. I’m taking my husband to see it today because it’s that good. I can’t wait to see the hemorrhoid scene again and this time, I’ll try not to laugh so hard so I can keep my eyes open and watch the whole movie.
Who knew I’d be this excited about hemorrhoids.
On to the interview…
Q: Leslie, were you worried about your daughters reaction to the film. That they would take it to heart and think this is how their dad sees the family?
Leslie Mann: I don’t know how (Judd) describes it, but to me, it isn’t our life. It’s more like everybody’s life. It feels emotionally that it’s truthful to what we go through, but it’s also truthful to what all of my girlfriends are going through right now and what they struggle with. We’ll sit down and have dinner together and have creative conversations about all of this stuff (in the film).
Q: In the film, the characters talk about how they would kill each other? Have you thought about that with your respective spouses?
Mann: I sometimes think when I’m home alone–because it’s rare that I’m home alone–I think, “What–where–wait, Judd has arranged for the kids to be out of the house, and he’s not in the house, so it’s easier for the hit-man to come in and kill me.”
Q: I hope it wouldn’t be the wood chipper as described in the movie.
Paul Rudd: That’s a really bad way to go. It’s certainly fast, but, I mean, you’re hoping to get caught if you do that because there’s a lot of clean-up involved.
Q: In the film, your older daughter is obsessed with Lost. How did that theme in the movie come about?
Judd Apatow: (My oldest daughter)Maude watched Lost in six weeks and was just crying and emotional. And Leslie and I were, like, “Well, she’s 80 in, should we let her watch the last 30? What do we do?” And she was so upset all the time, and it made me laugh because when I was a kid, we didn’t watch the entire series of Barnaby Jones in a month. It’s a new phenomenon, this absorption of television and the Internet. So, it seemed like a funny detail to put in the movie in terms of just not understanding how to deal with technology.
Q: Are there any memorable parenting moments you’ve had outside of filming?
Rudd: When (my son) was about three, he was going through that phase where he didn’t want my wife and I to talk to each other. And whenever we would just be at home and we were talking to each other, he would say, “Don’t talk.” And I remember saying to him, “Your mom and I are going to talk. We just are.” And he goes, “No, I don’t want you to.” And I said, “Well tough, you’re just going to have to get used to it. It’s good that mommy and daddy talk.” So then, we would continue the conversation, and he would just at this said, “No, stop talking. Stop talking.” We kept talking. He kept saying stop talking. We kept talking. And finally, he yelled, “Action.” And we looked at him, and he said, “When I yell ‘action,’ you’re not allowed to talk.” And I realize he’s been to too many sets that I have been working on. Then I started laughing so hard at that, and then he started laughing, and then he just went, “Cut.”
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