The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
August 25th, 2009
Hey, do you want to hear the stupidest thing in the world? My kid, she is finally sleeping better on a somewhat regular basis. In her own room. Away from my body.
And I am UPSET about it. UPSET. Like she’s OFF AND LEAVING ME. God, it’s like I’m damned if I do, damned if I don’t. She can’t sleep away from me? Misery and the very real possibility of becoming institutionalized. She finally sleeps away from me? I’m practically in TEARS because she doesn’t seem to need me anymore. Jesus H, you guys. Parenthood is one gig that you literally cannot win, no matter what happens, and yes, I pretty much want to punch myself in the face for all of this, YES. PUNCH PUNCH.
This looks like a kid ready to head off to college FOR SURE.
Ahem. Moving on!
**** RIDICULOUS TELEVISION CONVERSATION BELOW. GO BELOW ASTERISKS IF YOU ARE SICK OF EFFING TRUE BLOOD AND HBO IN GENERAL, ALTHOUGH THERE IS SOME TWOP SNARKING, TOO****
I know I mention it like, um, every day, but I have serious concerns as to how I’m going to go on with my life once True Blood is over. SERIOUS CONCERNS. No, really. I have spent a bit too much time pondering the season and following stupid people like BonTempsGossip on Twitter, and becoming INTENSELY IRRITATED with TWoP recapper Jacob, who has decided that instead of keeping with the light, snarky spirit of Television Without Pity, he’d rather use the time to ponder life, the universe and whether God exists in broad, sweeping, painfully esoteric terms that have nothing to do with how amusingly irritating it is when Bill screams, “SOOKEH!” for the frillionth time. I mean, there’s COMEDY GOLD in there, and all Jacob cares about is talking about his personal journey while reading Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and waxing philosophical about God in whatever form. Yes, yes, there are Dionysian links to both, but GOD SHUT UP SHUT UP.
Television Without Pity has truly sucked the big one since the Bravo acquisition, and I can’t help but once again long for the days of AB and Evany with more than a wistful sigh. They were FUNNY and IRREVERENT, where as Jacob is … reverent.
Think I’m kidding? No no. An actual paragraph from what should be a hilarious send-up of Maryann and her stupid Dionysus-loving (albeit great) ass, but was instead a … oh Christ, just read it and try not to poke your eyes out with the nearest pointy object:
And then he … talks about Camille Paglia and how she affected him, which, if that isn’t the world’s biggest buzzkill, I don’t know what is.
Hey, Jacob? Get over yourself. This is not the Personal Journey of True Blood According to Jacob And His Feelings On God, The Universe and Everything In It, Which Weirdly Includes Camille Paglia, The Greatest Turnoff of All Turnoffs. I’ll stick with KDiddy, who has RETAINED HER SENSE OF HUMOR. Thanks.
And you know what else? Hung. It sucks. SUUUUCKS. Man, HBO, you really blew it with that one. Great concept, piss-poor execution. I mean, how is it that tired, rote ENTOURAGE is more fun than a comedic send-up of a reluctant male prostitute? How is it that I find myself caring more about Eric Murphy’s love life than whether Ray Whatsisface gets a new client? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE, HBO?
****END TELEVISION TORTURE****
Onto random bullets!
– I stopped refrigerating my butter at my father’s behest, and let me tell you, it’s BLISS. First of all, you use less when you’re not trying to desperately mash it into a wafer-thin English muffin, tearing the bread to bits in the process. Good butter freezes HARD, yo, and I found myself slicing it with a CHEESE KNIFE to get it to go on my muffins, which meant I was eating GIANT SLABS OF BUTTER every morning. This, as you can imagine, is not very good for the old Weight Watchers. I couldn’t even figure out how to explain how much butter I was eating, and you know, butter is not meant to be eaten sliced, like cheese. It just isn’t.
Plus! It doesn’t go bad, it remains soft and the best part? All these SALTY BITS end up on the outside of it, and it’s DELICIOUS.
– I’ve been nursing a dangerous pickled beet habit to the tune of $16 a week. A WEEK. For God’s sake, that’s what I used to spend on CIGARETTES when I smoked. You know, back before taxes hiked them up to $30K per pack. But still. $16 a week. Both days of the farmer’s market — Wednesdays and Saturdays — I’m plunking Sam in the Ergo and heading down to the Happy Valley farm booth, hands shaking, in desperate need of my fix. It’s DISGUSTING and EXPENSIVE and hey, does anyone have a pickled beet recipe I can snag?
– I saw an acquaintance who just had a baby at the pediatrician’s office the other day and … oh wow, you guys. She looked DEAD. And TIRED. And ALL BANGED UP. And while I know without a doubt that I looked PRECISELY like that for at least the first two months after Sam’s birth, I have to ask: is it the same with the second kid, or are you a *leeetle* more together because you know all the sleep dep eventually ends, and that at one time, in the not so distant future, you will sleep again, or at least learn to FUNCTION on so little sleep? Or — and I don’t know if I want to know the answer if this is the case — IS IT WORSE?
Happy Wednesday!
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1. katie | August 25th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
i have 2 babies–11 months apart and it gets better with 2. i remember not caring with the first, but with the 2nd i showered and actually did my hair.
2. Carla Hinkle | August 25th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Oh my goodness. That is a real, live, PERSON baby you’ve got there, lady. With the sitting and the smiling and the casual hands-on-her-knees. No wonder you feel like she’s about to go off to college! I think she is.
I think experiences of #2 vary widely … I remember having better perspective about the lack of sleep, and trying to pull myself a leeetle bit together because I actually had to do things in public like take #1 to preschool. On the other hand, #2 was a way worse sleeper than #1 so I was also 10,000x more tired. Since you seem to have had your poor sleeper first hopefully it will be all sunshine and roses for you next time.
3. beyond | August 25th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
oh her cheeks. they are kissable and munchable.
i have no idea, but it must get at least a bit better with baby2, at least you know what’s coming, more or less, and i think most parents are more laid back, mostly for their own sanity, maybe.
4. Elizabeth | August 25th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
I choose to believe that if number two ever comes along I will enter a hallucinegenic coma and won’t remember any of it anyway.
Jacob’s recaps of Battlestar Galactica were insane. Every single week it was like bible study on crack.
5. Sundry | August 25th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
One one hand, it’s way better, because you’ve done it all before and it’s not QUITE so unfamiliar and challenging; on the other, you may have JUST emerged from the Baby/Small Toddler High-Maintenance Zone and the experience of having your precious free time and predictable sleep-filled nights ripped away will be a Thing of Woe. On the third (mutant!) hand: newborn baby-scalp high. So, you know, it’s all a rich tapestry and shit.
6. cindy w | August 25th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Yeah, going through those first 2 months again is what terrifies me about having a 2nd baby. Even though we’re trying. Eek.
Oh, and I was a wreck about moving my girl into her crib when she was 4 months old. It seemed so giant compared to her tinyness, and the tiny pack ‘n’ play bassinet next to our bed. She slept great. I didn’t.
P.S. Room temperature butter is perfection.
7. HollyLynne | August 26th, 2009 at 12:08 am
I love True Blood because sometimes I get to see HOT NAKED VAMPIRE ERIC A**. No existential soul searching there.
I’m intrigued by the butter thing. Do you store it in any kind of special container?
8. Leah | August 26th, 2009 at 12:58 am
I can only imagine that it’s MUCH WORSE with two. Because right now all I have to worry about is the baby + me, but with two I’d have to worry about the baby + me + the needyneedy olderkid. How in the world could that be easier? HOW?!
But hooray for Sam sleeping! On her own!
9. Shana | August 26th, 2009 at 1:51 am
No, no, keep talking True Blood. It’s so bad it’s awesome. And I would be temporarily gay for Anna Paquin, who is lookin’ fiiiiiine these days. Is all I’m sayin’. (I do hate you for pointing out Eric’s Teeny Head, though. I can’t look at him the same now. DAMMIT, JONNA!)
10. Erica77777 | August 26th, 2009 at 2:33 am
@Leah & @Sundry (her 2nd hand): EXACTLY what I’m going through at present.
Me + 4 year old = FINALLY hit our groove, more independent child, REM-filled nights.
Me + 4 year old (now Much More Demanding due to significant loss of meaningful quality time with his mother) + 4 month old infant = all sorts of crazy. Trying to ameliorate new crazy (sleepless) life with frequent inhalations of baby scalp, but so far, crazy is still winning the game.
11. Cookie | August 26th, 2009 at 6:46 am
In sense the sleep thing is better because you know what to expect, and may even believe you know what your doing. On the other hand it’s worse because you never really have chance to recover. Just as your older child is starting to sleep through the night you’re all pregnant and not sleeping (and having no chance to nap) and then you have a newborn and your’re not sleeping. And if they drag out the not sleeping (17-months and counting)… Well, you’re just chronically sleep-deprived. But at least there is coffee.
12. Chaya | August 26th, 2009 at 7:11 am
I share your gripes about the True Blood recaps. Jacob is like every annoying grad student ever, rolled into one. Oh, for the recaps of AB Chao- I never even watched Everwood, but I read her recaps cause they were awesome.
I can’t contribute anything positive on the sleep front, since I have a 2-year old and a 6-week old. The newborn thing is easier overall than the first time, but now we also have a very loud and energetic toddler, so…still not easy. Also, I read your line that you “saw an acquaintance who just had a baby at the pediatrician’s office the other day,” as that she had the baby at the doctor’s office. Heh.
13. Kristin H | August 26th, 2009 at 7:21 am
For me it was better. Much better. And also, but no less important, pregnancy was better the second time around. Just knowing what to expect helps make it better, for me at least.
I also think it’s a balancing act on deciding when to have #2. Personally I wanted #2 to be close enough to baby #1 that I didn’t feel bitter about not sleeping again, doing diapers again, etc. If I’d had #2 when #1 was 4 or 5, it would have been like starting ALL over again. Whereas with them being 27 months apart, it was just like a continuation of what I was already used to.
14. AndreAnna | August 26th, 2009 at 8:11 am
I had two babies in two years and the second was much easier. On me. On my husband. On everyone. People scared me with horror stories of having two little ones so close in age, but it wasn’t hard. It really wasn’t.
It also helped that with my second vaginal delivery, the kid shot right out in three pushes and I didn’t tear. I literally walked from my delivery bed to my recovery room an hour after giving birth. It’s easier on your body the second time because it, like, remembers – “Oh yeah, I know how to do this.” Assuming things go smoothly, that is.
15. AndreAnna | August 26th, 2009 at 8:12 am
P.S. I’m not sure there’s anything more delectable that baby arm rolls.
16. Ali | August 26th, 2009 at 8:24 am
You have an idea of what to expect with baby #2, but sooo much more work with another kid in the mix. The constant juggling to keep them all happy is a little much. And, less opportunities to get a freakin’ good nights sleep. So yeah. I sound like a terrific mom!
17. Fiona Picklebottom | August 26th, 2009 at 8:32 am
I can’t answer your last question because you told me I couldn’t. I can tell you that if you ever hit the number four mark, you will be the WALKING DEAD for at least 3 years after the fourth pops out.
I’m with you on Hung. I thought, “Oh, that concept should be comedic GOLD.” Then I watched, and it’s tarnished brass. Pffft.
Butter doesn’t go bad? Really? This is FANTASTIC info, as I love real butter, but I’m not so good at PRE-PLANNING, so I never think to take it out a little while before I need it. It MUST go bad; it’s a dairy product. I SO DESPERATELY want to believe you on this, but I’m having trouble wrapping my head around it. Help me, convince me, MAKE ME A BELIEVER! It would make me so much happier with my butter.
18. Gaby | August 26th, 2009 at 8:53 am
It sounds like Jacob’s True Blood recaps are trying to be as theoretical as Doc Johnson’s LOST recaps, perhaps in an attempt to get the number of web hits that EW gets? But if that level of writing is losing the fun part of the show in the process, Jacob is dropping the ball. I think that LOST tends to lend itself to a bit of research/connect-the-dots theorizing, but even having said that, I find many of the reviews to be a little too deep for the sake of being deep; I cannot imagine having the patience for reviews similar to that on a show about…vampires.
19. Jennifer | August 26th, 2009 at 8:55 am
You’re a better woman than I for sticking with TWOP. I just find them all so insufferable and self-righteous – the forum mods, the recappers, the posters…all of it. Gah.
I discovered @BonTempsGossip the other day and it’s officially taken over my life. Every time he/she/it posts a new tweet I spend at least 15 minutes dissecting what it might mean. Clearly I need professional help.
Totally agree with you about ‘Hung’, BTW. So. Not. Impressed.
20. foradifferentkindofgirl (fadkog) | August 26th, 2009 at 8:57 am
I read you and I feel like we share the same soul. Except for the whole pickled beet thing. Gah! Growing up, my mom used to pickle beets all damn summer and then force me to try one every night at dinner. I am haunted by the memory! I can’t even LOOK at beets to this day! She probably could tell me how to pkckle them, but believe me, time is money. Keep dropping the coin for them.
This is me every Sunday in my house – “OMG, OMG, OMG!! There’s only *INSERT NUMBER OF REMAINING WEEKS* of True Blood left!! What are we going to do?!?!?” and then after that, we watch Hung, and my conversation goes a little something like this – “Why are we watching this? This show sucks ass. Blech. Show me the big one, then cancel this blech.”
21. Kate | August 26th, 2009 at 9:06 am
I can’t even read the TWOP True Blood recaps anymore because I find Jacob so annoying. I read the recaps on ew.com and mourn the decline of TWOP.
22. She Likes Purple | August 26th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Yeah, completely agree about True Blood. I don’t know what I’m going to do on Sunday nights once it’s in hiatus. Build a meat tower in my front yard?
Also agree about Hung. I gave up after two or three episodes. I don’t find him even remotely attractive. Not the actor, the character.
My only concern about #2 (or my big concern) is being pregnant with another kid. I needed more naps than the average bear, and I don’t know how I’ll swing that, truly.
23. kdiddy | August 26th, 2009 at 9:38 am
aw, I’m glad I can help you out on the True Blood front. It’s my pleasure, seriously.
I’m also with you on Hung. SO disappointing.
24. Kristen | August 26th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Jacob did/does (I don’t know; I don’t go on TWOP anymore) the “Doctor Who” recaps and … ugh. He was just awful. He did one season where it was all J. Alfred Prufrock this and Kant that and I wanted to die.
25. Swistle | August 26th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Oh I know. I also have a crisis each time I wean: I am CONVINCED I am doing the WRONG THING, to the point of WEEPING AND REGRET.
I keep MOST of the butter in the fridge/freezer, but also have a butter dish on the counter. It doesn’t go bad even in hot summer. Yay for easily-spread butter.
The second baby was easier-harder. It’s unexplainable in the same ways the first baby is.
26. Lisa | August 26th, 2009 at 10:28 am
Pickled beets? Really? I mean, I like ‘em just fine, but I can’t really imagine a pickled beet habit to the tune of $16 a week. Interesting.
Also? No one else has commented on the beets?
27. TwoBusy | August 26th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Dude, Entourage is back in a HUGE way this season — easily the best since the first. I’m actually looking forward to watching it every week, whereas over the past couple of seaons it had actually become something of a chore. What’s more: it’s making me laugh. A lot.
I don’t know if they killed of the previous season’ writers and replaced them with writers with an actual sense of humor or what, but… well, whatever: it’s BACK.
On a separate note, I was feeling inclined toward punching that TwoP writer in the sac just on the basis of trying to integrate “The Secret History” into articles about cable-based romantic vamping… and then I read the ekstasis paragraph… and now I NEED to punch him in the sac. Repeatedly. I’m not sure if he’d feel it or not, but I think in the long run it would be in everyone’s best interests.
28. Rayne of Terror | August 26th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Love beets, I grew them in my garden this year. Totally easy crop. I don’t know how to pickle, but I roast them in the oven with evoo and salt & pepper and they are delicious.
But my garden is going to pot right now because I had baby #2 13 days ago and was on bed rest at the end. So far baby #2 is a lot easier on me, but baby #1 was a DOOZY. Last night was bad for sleeping, but he seems to have an every other night pattern going and I can deal with that. My eldest is 4 3/4 and I think the age difference is really good because Henry is SO helpful. I call out, Helpful Henry can I have a hand?! and he comes running with a diaper or wipes or a glass of water for me. LOVE that.
29. Rebecca (Bearca) | August 26th, 2009 at 10:40 am
I thought the second one was way easier… but only after the first six weeks. The first six weeks near to killed me dead, but I was frequently resuscitated by inhalations of baby scalp, and by having my older child in preschool.
But now? LOVE having two. True story!
I am so sad about True Blood ending! Also, found Hung rather disappointing. Have you seen previews for the new HBO show – Bored to Death? Starring Jason Schwartzman? Looks promising!
30. Christine | August 26th, 2009 at 10:44 am
No words of wisdom on sleep deprivation for baby 1 v. baby 2. I am just here to gaze at your daughter: thighs! so chubby! and talk True Blood, because I literally squeeled when it came on Sunday and Tony looked at me like I had lost my damned mind. I will say that they really rallied after a painful dialogue between Bill and Soooooookeh, over Tara: “You’ll have to go deeper than you ever have before!” HAHAHA. But yeah, they bounced back. Also, seriously Lafayette has got the prettiest eye makeup ever. All the time.
31. Angie | August 26th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Two was easier at the beginning.
32. -R- | August 26th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Congrats on the improved sleeping! I am quite jealous.
B has been sleeping most of the night in his own crib since he was born, but we actually had a weird sleep thing last night where he would only sleep on my chest, so I brought him into our bed. I am praying this is a short-lived sleep regression or some kind of temporary teething thing.
33. laurie | August 26th, 2009 at 10:53 am
I took your advice and held off on the True Blood until I can watch the dvds. I used to love TWoP and I’m sorry the name doesn’t seem to still hold true.
Also, now I want beets. I rationalize all money spent at farmer’s markets as essential to my well being, and you have another MOUTH to feed.
Which, finally, my most important point: BABY! So cute, and so far away from college.
(I’m reading blogs again, and I even write in mine occasionally. I’m thinking this is a good thing.)
34. Cass | August 26th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Ugh, Jacob @ TWOP drives me crazy most of the time. I didn’t know he was recapping True Blood but I can only imagine. He does Weeds which is what, a twenty minute show? There’s 12-14 pages of him waxing poetically about Nancy and her issues. Newsflash, this is supposed to be a dark comedy. Chill out.
Please bring back the pre-Bravo days. And stop complaining that Criminal Minds is lame, because it really isn’t. Staring at Thomas Gibson is pretty nice too.
35. Christine | August 26th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
I forgot. Pickled beets! http://redfox.typepad.com/hungry/2009/08/beets-pickled.html#more
36. Dina | August 26th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
YES on the recent suckage of TWOP. If they’re not reading like amateur hour doctoral theses, they are word-for-word recaps of the show with no funny commentary. No witty asides. Even the forums have gone downhill somehow.
Try the Butter Bell…you put some cold water in the bottom and it creates a vacuum seal that keeps butter soft AND fresh.
37. monkey | August 26th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Jacob ruined the Battlestar Galactica recaps, too. In fact, they’re about a 1000 times more unreadable than the True Blood recaps are (because he would use just awful, awful quasi-poetry prose along the lines of “and then she was there, and she was, Cylon, beauty, Gaia, death. Baltar weeps and his tears turn to the blood they left behind.”*). And he also did the same thing to Dr. Who. But truly, the BSG series is the worst.
I suspect a lot of people feel this way because I’ve never seen the “you may not snark on the recap” notice at the top of any forums except for the ones on True Blood and the moderator redirection to “don’t snark on the recaps” is always on his shows.
*I am not kidding, that’s how awful it was. Meanwhile I’d just be there trying to figure out WHAT went on because wouldn’t you know it, Charter LOVED conking out right when BSG was on.
38. shriek house | August 26th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Are you kidding, it gets waaaaaaaaaaay worse with the 2nd, because “nap when the baby naps” becomes less an improbably nice idea and more an absolute imfuckingpossibility, because when baby goes down for a nap after a night of keeping you bolt upright, you then have kid 1 plucking at your sleeves and demanding glitter glue or grilled cheese sandwiches or something.
Sorry, feeling a little jaded this week wrangling two of them while on a double deadline.
And about the sleeping with-or-without you thing, I KNOW. Your life will be riddled with these little contradictions, but at least there is some sweetness with the bitter.
And oh? SHE IS SO FRICKIN ADORABLE I AM A LITTLE DROOLY.
39. H | August 26th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
I love love LOVE pickled beets but I buy them too so I don’t have a recipe for you. I wish I’d gotten my grandma’s recipe before she passed away because hers were delicious and it is HER fault that I love them so much! But they’re good for you so at least it is $16/week well spent, right?
I think the second baby experience depends on a lot of things – how similar/different the second is to the first, the birth experience/recovery period, etc. The fear factor is less, that’s for sure, but I’m not sure it is necessarily easier in every case.
I hear you about the butter but the other day it was so hot and humid that our butter turned to liquid and it was a mess.
40. g~ | August 26th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
In my experience, having the second was much easier because you’ve kind of been there done that and have a bag of tricks AND because you have another kid to take care of so you can’t wallow in it, ya know? Not that you wallowed…er…well, *I* did with *my* first. The exhaustion, the “this is not what I thought it was”, the OMG, my LIFE has CHANGED (not bitterly but I did have a hard time wrapping my brain around my new life)! All of those sorts of adjustments are already made. And I think (ducking and hiding) that it’s almost easier when they are closer together because you haven’t really regained your sanity and adding another one just adds a little more crazy to the mix. Looking back on it (and people have commented to me) that I seemd to just relax into parenting when my second arrived. Everything about parenting just kind of clicked. I knew what to worry about, the learning curve was not nearly as steep and I just automatically became more laid back–which was a *really* good thing. But I am fully convinced that every person’s experience is different and that, when we look back on all of our baby experiences, everyone has one REALLY HARD adjustment . Mine was going from 0 to 1, others struggle with adding a second or a third or a *gulp* fifth.
41. Corina | August 26th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
OMFG Jacob. Word to the nth power. Not only does he do this with True Blood and Weeds, and not only did he RUIN what could have been hilariously snarky BSG recaps . . . he does that same sort of overanalytical painfully earnest and learned trip with his recaps of Gossip Girl . . . a ridiculous show about highschoolers. On the CW. It’s infuriating, and yet I can’t stop reading just to see what crazy ass sociological/philosophical spin he’ll put on Blair being mean to Serena. Again.
But in its defense, not all of TWOP is horrid. The recaps of Supernatural are old school snarky/funny.
42. Penny | August 26th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
It’s worse. Sorry.
43. monkey | August 26th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
I’ll have to come back to mention that Battlestar recaps ran into 40 pages and he’d only just start on what happened by page 7. The first 6 pages would be stuff like “Baltar is snow, and he is death and he is the avenging right hand of a nebulous god. They weep for what they left behind and what they cannot bring forward and as he weeps for the promise of a syphilitic tomorrow, 6 holds his hand, his heart, in hers, together. She is his mitten, his manx cat, his powder puff.”
I mean, I don’t want it to be “And then they died, THE END” but I could do without…whatever it is that he does. Writerhea.
44. slynnro | August 26th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Pickled beet habit?
You are lucky you are married.
(TOO HARSH? You know I love you.)
45. The New Girl | August 26th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Don’t punch yourself in the face. I think that the hormone fluctuations can kill you, too. If she’s eating less frequently (i.e. not on a boob CONTINUOUSLY throughout the night) there can be a dip or whatever. I used to get weepy and angsty whenever my kid would change up her eating schedule.
I never made it through an entire episode of Hung but I am liking this season of True Blood, after the slow start.
46. kyslp | August 26th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Delurking to tell you that I would munch on that adorable baby all day if I were lucky enough to know her in real life. What a doll! Also, butter rocks and Hung was one of the bigger let-downs of my life. I will see it through the end of this season. (I am not a quitter!) Then I’m done. Any ideas on what to watch when True Blood is done for the season? I’m getting nervous.
47. samantha jo campen | August 26th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
I have a FEAR of leaving butter on the counter. Like, I baby sat for a family that left the butter out! in the open! in the heat! and I flat-out refused to feed the child buttered food strictly because of that.
48. jonniker | August 26th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
You guys, BUTTER WILL NOT GO BAD. I promise. The salt preserves it. True story. Leave a tablespoon out tonight to see what happens. You will be surprised!
HAHAHAHA, Slynnro, there are a MILLION reasons why I am lucky I’m married, and pickled beets is the LEAST OF THEM. The affinity for sauerkraut and kimchee rank much higher on that list.
49. Sheryl | August 26th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
PICKLED BEETS! Actually, these aren’t actually pickled, but it’s a quick work-around–instant gratification:
http://elise.com/recipes/archives/000320pickled_beets.php
But seriously….aren’t you pooping and peeing purple from all the beets? I’ve been for the past month. My steady diet of beets and blackberries is really making things interesting.
50. g~ | August 27th, 2009 at 7:14 am
So will non-salted butter go bad if left out?
Just curious.
51. jonniker | August 27th, 2009 at 7:45 am
g~: You know, I’ve no idea at all. I never use unsalted butter for anything, ever.
52. laura | August 27th, 2009 at 8:18 am
i have to say having a 3, 2 and a 6 m/o, um the more you have the easier! who new ! you just kinda have an idea how to do “things”. it also helps that my older 2 are bffs
how freakin awesome is that. anywho at least beats are healthy! as for butter, i love butter and my husband ALWAYS yells tooo much butter, ewww how can you eat that, as i smile 
with pure joy
53. Lori | August 27th, 2009 at 8:47 am
um… Kids I know nothing about so I can’t speak to that although yours IS adorable and quite possibly ready for college. (Like I said: Kids I know nothing about.)
However, I did just find my mom’s Pickled Beet recipe while cleaning out her house and I’ll share it if you do want it. You know, to help out with the addiction.
54. mar | August 27th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
love pickled beets! (i sent you an e-mail)
love butter! your fault that i will now have to go find fancy, expensive butter to try at your recommendation.
mmmm… *drool*
55. Maggy | August 27th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
I have never left butter out, but that’s because I have dogs. And I have memories of my childhood cat eating the butter off the table. And my sister’s dog once got into the butter and the sugar bowl in one day. Good thing she’s so cute.
Speaking of cute, that baby is delicious! My little one is now 3 months old, and I’m pretty sure he’s headed off to college any time now. You know, right behind the four year old, who’s off to study paleontology.
56. Kristabella | August 27th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Seriously? You can leave butter out? I’m so going to leave a little pat out tonight and test this theory of yours. Even if it isn’t the fancy kind of butter?
Also, Sam is just so freaking adorable! I want to squeeze those adorable cheeks! I can’t believe how big she’s getting!
57. Twitter Trackbacks for Jo&hellip | August 27th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
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58. Cassidy | August 27th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
So … I completely agree on the tv – keep it coming! LOVE True Blood. Do not love twop recaps of TB. Have completely given up on them this year. Sigh. Where did the snark go?? It is “without pity”, right? Sigh. Again.
59. Laura | August 27th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
COULD NOT AGREE WITH MORE ON TWOP POST BRAVO AND JACOB! I stopped reading the Battlestar Galactica recaps because they made me want to punch a wall. I love that you said Jacob was “reverent.” That is absolutely perfect.
60. Mauigirl | August 28th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Adorable picture of the little one! Hope you overcome your separation anxiety caused by her sleeping away from you! I guess each step away is hard.
I remember my grandmother never put the butter in the refrigerator. Maybe I should try that. I’ve been using the Land ‘o Lakes “Spreadable Butter’ which is regular butter with some canola oil mixed in to make it softer. Tastes good becuase it is butter.
61. ali | August 28th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
my gosh…there’s not much I love more than a post about butter and how shitty the recaps on TWoP are right now (i’ll stick with kdiddy too)….with bonus baby cheeks…sigh.
62. Lauren | August 28th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Damn, both you AND your commenters are funny. Monkey, I think you were channeling Jacob there, I hope you came out of the spell okay.
I’m already in mourning over the end of Season 2 and not being able to see Naked! Eric! for however long HBO decides to take to get True Blood back on. Jacob’s recaps are indeed painful. The first season recaps weren’t too bad, but this season he’s been trying SO hard to be insightful/philosophical/looky how smart.
I loves me some butter, but I can’t leave any out anymore, because Murray the Dog will eat it. I think he’s eaten at least two pounds of butter already. He can’t help himself, he’s a 2 year old Golden, therefore he’s an idiot. A sweet idiot, but an idiot. Much like Jason Stackhouse, actually.
63. Lauren | August 28th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Butter Bell? Must find!
64. Bamboo Clothing | August 29th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
I remember go through that with my first child. I’d like to say it gets easier but really, who am I kidding. It’s always tough being a parent.
65. Susan (Trout Towers) | August 29th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Good lord, you hardly remember to take the second kid with you when you go out.
66. Susan (Trout Towers) | August 29th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
I mean that in the sense that it is SO EASY and not at all completely brain-consuming like the first one and sometimes you even forget to WORRY.
Maybe because there’s no brain left by the second child?
67. -R- | August 31st, 2009 at 10:21 am
FYI, unsalted butter doesn’t go bad. My mom leaves it out, and it’s never been a problem. It totally freaks my sister out though (which makes it even more fun, in my opinion).
68. mar | August 31st, 2009 at 8:22 pm
okay, so i don’t tweet, but did you see this comment: http://letters.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/28/fired_for_pumping/permalink/fb042ea6fd905b7f673041dc7338032f.html ?
is she reading you? special snowflake syndrome?
69. Acaislim | September 1st, 2009 at 12:16 pm
All I wanted to say is what a cutie!
70. Amity | September 1st, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Well, I’m glad to see that I’m not the only person that’s not sold on Hung. I’ve been downloading it, and have watched about 6 episodes. I find myself leaving the room mid-show and coming back later to find that I haven’t missed much. Eh…
71. K | September 1st, 2009 at 5:07 pm
I had no idea that so many people were under the mistaken assumption that butter goes bad if left out. We have always had a butter dish on the counter (I freeze LOTS of it when it’s on sale so I have it on hand for baking.) This is shocking to me but I am glad you educated them (it will go bad eventually but that’s not for weeks and weeks.) Also your baby? CUTE CUTE CUTE.
72. haunted dolls | January 14th, 2010 at 1:37 am
I read and enjoy your blog.
73. DAVIDRosanne24 | April 22nd, 2010 at 7:45 am
I guess that to receive the loans from banks you ought to present a good reason. Nevertheless, one time I’ve received a financial loan, because I was willing to buy a car.
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