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04 July 2008

Depressed and kind of lonely →[More:]
My husband is working. I don't have any invites to holiday barbecues. I'm sitting at home on this beautiful day watching my kids play Star Wars Lego's video game.

We usually have a little shindig at my parents' house but they are both ill with a respiratory bug.

My sister just called and told me to get the kids ready. She is picking them up to go to the grocery store for hot dogs and Wow chips and buying us a new board game at Toys R Us for all of us to play so we can have a little party of our own.

At least I have the Hot Dog Eating Contest on ESPN. It's on now. Tune in.

On days like these I feel like a friendless lazy slug. I should be at the beach or around a swimming pool with a hot dog and beer in hand. Who will come to my funeral? There is a world of interesting people out there having a great time and I'm inside watching the hot dog eating contest. *Cry*

:-)

post by: LoriFLA at: 11:33 | 55 comments

I wish I was watching the Hot Dog contest. Provide updates!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 04 July | 11:37

The eating has begun!

The announcer just said, "they attack those dogs like Lindsey Lohan attacks mini-bars." Hee.

posted by LoriFLA 04 July | 11:43

lol

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 04 July | 11:46

Joey Chestnut won the contest last year. He is also the Krystal eating champ and the asparagus eating champ. Joey Chestnut and Kobayashi are neck and neck.

"This is an extremely exciting and emotional day on Coney Island!"

posted by LoriFLA 04 July | 11:47

Asparagus eating champ? Bleeeeeeech!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 04 July | 11:48

Kobayashi is very calm. Chestnut is beginning to struggle a bit. The Mustard Belt is on the line. Less than two minutes as the clock continues to count. Kobayashi is in the lead.

"Bite for bite, jowl for jowl, whatever happens will change our world. Will the belt stay in America or will it go back to Japan?"

posted by LoriFLA 04 July | 11:51

The final 15 seconds!

posted by LoriFLA 04 July | 11:51

Go Kobayashi!!!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 04 July | 11:52

It's a photo finish. It looks like a tie.

posted by LoriFLA 04 July | 11:52

Never before at Coney Island have we come to a tie. "The most evenly matched game in a Nathan's hot dog eating contest!"

First one to the five wins! Go!

posted by LoriFLA 04 July | 11:54

That's insane!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 04 July | 11:55

ahhhhhhhhhh! go go go!

posted by stynxno 04 July | 11:55

It's a five dog eat-off!!

Joey Chestnut wins! The belt stays in America!

posted by LoriFLA 04 July | 11:56

Boooooo I wanted it to be Kobayashi!!!!!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 04 July | 11:56

RIGGGGGEEEEEEEED!!!!!!

posted by stynxno 04 July | 11:56

I know. I like Kobayashi too. He is an amazing eating machine!

posted by LoriFLA 04 July | 11:57

The doldrums have lifted after that exciting display. I feel like I can conquer the world!!

posted by LoriFLA 04 July | 11:59

holidays are by definition depressing

be cool

posted by matteo 04 July | 12:03

Not if you're getting paid to get loaded and loaf. I love my union.

posted by jonmc 04 July | 12:04

Speaking of hot dogs, we stopped by Crif Dogs last night and I had the "Chihuahua"- bacon wrapped hot dog with avocado and sour cream. Really good!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 04 July | 12:14

That was quite exciting to read, LoriFLA... you're a natural announcer!

I had the "Chihuahua"

Cannibal. ; )

posted by Pips 04 July | 12:25

Shh, don't tell Twinkie!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 04 July | 12:27

Crif dogs is OK, but this place and this place are waaaay better, as is Nathan's.

posted by jonmc 04 July | 12:28

Haha, thanks Pips. ESPN is repeating the contest. Just in case America did not get enough!

On Monday we went to see the Tampa Bay Rays play the Red Sox at Tropicana field. They serve foot-long Hebrew National hot dogs. Oh how I love a Hebrew National hot dog. Or Nathans or Sabrett. It doesn't matter. I was trying to find a regular hot dog. Where are the regular hot dogs? I don't' need a jumbo or foot long.

I did eat that foot long pretty quickly with my 8 dollar beer.

posted by LoriFLA 04 July | 12:42

My brother (skinny) once ate 3 foot longs at an Indians game and then bragged about eating a yard of hot dogs.

LoriFLA if you lived in the Chicago suburbs I'd have you and your kids over here for brats, beer and fireworks tonight. We live right down the street from where our village shoots them off, so all our friends come set up their lawn chairs here. There's still time if you charter a flight right now ...

posted by Kangaroo 04 July | 12:47

I think there may be a market for the "yardlong."

posted by Pips 04 July | 12:55

Glad to see the hot dogs cheered you up!

posted by Stewriffic 04 July | 13:02

My brother (skinny) once ate 3 foot longs at an Indians game and then bragged about eating a yard of hot dogs.

I once watched a dude I know buy an '8 foot beef stick.' If I ever tried to eat one of those, you'd find me dead on the couch with 5 feet of beef sticking out of me.

posted by jonmc 04 July | 13:07

Awe, thanks Kangaroo! I would be there with bells on!

We are walking up to the City Center to see the fireworks. That will be good. Oh, where is my sister with our hot dogs? I hope she didn't get stuck in race traffic.

Like jonmc, I'm on the porch too. I wonder if its as hot in NY. Probably.

posted by LoriFLA 04 July | 13:07

Well, we are supposed to go to my folks' house-but dad spent all night sick and part of that at the emergency room. Turns out it was just a bug, but still. No homemade ice cream :-(

BUT mom still wants us out there and we'll be going in a minute.

My unmarried daughter left to go to a barbecue-via a cute guy she has her eye on. From what I am observing he has an eye on her too. *giggle*

posted by bunnyfire 04 July | 13:12

My first ever Nathan's Coney Island chili dog. With cheese fries. Yum.

posted by essexjan 04 July | 13:14

Lori, it's actually nice in the Big Apple today except for sporadic drizzle. Jan, Nathan's is great, but Gray's Papaya is phenomenal. Stop by when you visit.

posted by jonmc 04 July | 13:20

Now this is what hotdogs are all about.

posted by essexjan 04 July | 13:28

I insisted that we stop at Gray's Papaya when we were in NYC because I had seen Bourdain rave about them. I was not disappointed. YUM.

We're headed over to my folks' pool when the boy wakes up from his nap. Weather's kind of crappy, though.

posted by jrossi4r 04 July | 13:47

Asparagus is awesome you people are crazy.

posted by cmonkey 04 July | 14:25

Oooh, hotdogs! I love hotdogs. I grew up on these and these. My grandpa grew up on these.

Asparagus is nice too.

posted by birdie 04 July | 14:35

LoriFLA calls the highlights! Inspiring!

I once watched a dude I know buy an '8 foot beef stick.'

Dude, most of us like to keep our eight-foot beefstick action private. I know I don't like my friends to watch.

posted by Elsa 04 July | 14:58

Asparagus is awesome

It's good with garlic, but it makes your pee smell nasty.

posted by jonmc 04 July | 14:58

I'm boiling a brisket to shred and mix with barbecue sauce for sandwiches. Mmmm.... shredded meat.

(I, too, enjoy the asparagus, pee smell not withstanding)

posted by Pips 04 July | 15:05

Not being able to smell asparagus pee must be one of the few genetic gifts i have.

i'm all for running commentary; there are few things it doesn't improve, like mediocre movies.

posted by ethylene 04 July | 15:14

but it makes your pee smell nasty.

A decade or more ago, I read the abstract of a study on this very subject. (Why? I honestly couldn't tell you.) The study determined that it's not quite that simple. They found:
- people whose urine smells after eating asparagus;
- people whose urine does not smell after eating asparagus;
- people who could smell the difference in affected urine.
- people who could not smell the difference in affected urine;

They designated each subject accordingly:
- smelly
- non-smelly
- smeller
- non-smeller
Me, I'm a smelly smeller. I shouldn't put that on my CV, right?

On preview:
Not being able to smell asparagus pee must be one of the few genetic gifts i have.

A non-smeller!

posted by Elsa 04 July | 15:16

Uh, or a non-smelly. Hard to know until... never mind. I'm not going to suggest that.

posted by Elsa 04 July | 15:18

A non smelly for all i know. i don't often occasion other urines, thankfully.

posted by ethylene 04 July | 15:22

I love smelling asparagus pee, because it means I've got to eat asparagus! YUM.

posted by goo 04 July | 15:23

It's good with garlic, but it makes your pee smell nasty.

Nah, asparagus just tries to give you a Hallmark card with a lipsticked kiss in it as it's leaving, that's all. It's the friendly, conscientious houseguest vegetable. That asparagus pee is a brief reminder of the joy that you shared.

posted by cmonkey 04 July | 16:07

Nah, asparagus just tries to give you a Hallmark card with a lipsticked kiss in it as it's leaving, that's all. It's the friendly, conscientious houseguest vegetable.

Same thing with hot peppers and the 'ring of fire?'

posted by jonmc 04 July | 16:45

And corn is a love letter to your toilet?

posted by ethylene 04 July | 18:27

and beans are a love song.

posted by jonmc 04 July | 18:44

Lori... I feel your pain. I spent the holidy holed up in the Crown Plaza at Orlando International, trying to write a test report for the testing that should finish up this Sunday. At least from the 8th floor, north side of the building I could see a dozen or more fireworks displays. I don't know how close you are to Orlando, but maybe we were looking at the same fireworks. I had the same feeling that I should be at a barbecue somewhere, and missing my honey too.

And add all that to the knowledge that a fellow bunny is feeling all this in relatively close driving distance (even though I don't have a car; the other guy I'm traveling with has the car in his name).

posted by Doohickie 04 July | 22:16

Ah, doohickie. You are still there? I was in Orlando on Wednesday (at Sea World). We could have met for lunch. I live and hour or so from Orlando (Daytona Beach). I would have come over today! My sister and I were thinking of going to Ikea in Orlando. Then we thought better of it. Ikea would be torture for the kiddos. Are you there for much longer?

posted by LoriFLA 04 July | 23:36

After the night we had, LoriFLA, with mobs of rude crabby people watching fireworks in the rain, your quiet night at home with the kids and a few beloved family members with a board game sounds like heaven.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 04 July | 23:58

I'm sure your fireworks were spectacular though, TPS.

It was a good day. I can't complain. The boys and my sister bought an Incredible Hulk board game. It was fun. And we did get to see the fireworks, which were awesome. My parents live right next to the park where they shoot them off. We parked at their house, walked to the fireworks, saw the 17 minute display and walked back and watched the Chicago Cubs on Tivo, or maybe it was live. It was a good day. I was more whiny than sad.

I loved how so many people were walking together in one area on the way home from the fireworks. I thought how great it would be if all of these people were out everyday, just walking. I wouldn't need to talk to them or get to know them, but just being around other human beings is nice. They wouldn't be allowed to be rude and crabby! ;-)

posted by LoriFLA 05 July | 00:09

I thought how great it would be if all of these people were out everyday, just walking.

That's what you think! And then you go out to walk around with all those people, and they are all CRABBY AND EVIL and they push other people off their feet (not me, a little lady near me) and run over other peoples stuff and curse and talk in shrill voices while you're trying to watch the fireworks and GAH!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 05 July | 01:26

Yeah, I'm still here Lori. Our testing finishes tomorrow (Sunday) and Monday we'll wrap up the paperwork and I fly home Tuesday. It's starting to seem really close.

The one thing that has bothered me this whole trip is that the other guy from my office that I'm traveling with... Well, I'm as liberal as the next bunny I suppose, maybe even more conservative than most. But being with this guy is like getting the Fox News loop repeated to me over and over and over and over. It's frustrating that a simple conversation always devolves into a judgmental political discussion. My brother is a conservative but we get along great. He can talk about things without sounding like a talking points memo. But this guy from my office, he simply can't keep his (political) opinions to himself. I can't wait to escape that.

posted by Doohickie 05 July | 11:12

Well that doesn't sound at all like my ideal human walking city, TPS. :-) There will be no shrill, cursing, or evil pushy people in my walking utopia.

I don't blame you, doohickie. Hopefully the time will go by quickly tomorrow.

posted by LoriFLA 05 July | 17:24

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