“I’ve got a pocket, got a pocket full of GLEE.”
Juicy Pear or Booger?
- Beanboozled game
I’m going to offer you two jelly beans: one tastes like refreshing, juicy peach and the other like vomit. Which will you chose? Unless you’re absolutely nuts, you’ll chose the peach. But what if the two looked EXACTLY ALIKE?!? You won’t know if it’s peach or puke until you bite down into it and it’s already too late.
The evil beans!
My reaction to Rotten Egg!!! It was SO gross, haha!
Our picnic spread complete with fruit salad, magazine, iphone and Beanboozled.
- Miracle Fruit
Speaking of flavors – ever heard of Miracle Fruit? It’s a wonder berry that makes any bitter or sour foods taste SWEET! The berry contains a molecule called ‘miraculin’ which bonds with the taste buds on your tongue and temporarily distorts the sweetness receptors, making them respond to acid instead of sugars. Just think of the possibilities – sugar-free fruit tart? Sweet! Whole lemon? Sweet! Spicy tacos? Sweet! Nom nom. You can buy it in tablets here. Wiki: miracle fruit.
- Geeky Gizmos
ThinkGeek.com – I’m obsessed with that site! Tons and tons of affordable tchotchkes for the lovers of the unusual; a great place to shop for gifts for others & yourself! Personal favorites: Austronaut Ice Cream, game Pentago (‘easy to learn, hard to master’!) and the LED shower light, which makes your water look blue if it’s cold, and red if it’s hot. I have one on my kitchen sink and it’s awesome – especially in the dark. They also have the above-mentioned Miracle Fruit tablets – I haven’t tried those, but I’ve heard people tell me they work.
Get down with your evil self!
If you’re into mischief like myself, TV-B-Gone in a must-have. This inconspicuous key chain device gives you the power to turn on or off any TV in the area. Fun fact: I met the inventor, Mitch, a couple years ago and helped him assemble a few hundred TV-B-Gone’s with a handful of other kids. We all got TV-B-Gones as a gift. The gadget hasn’t left my pocket since: I have randomly – and stealthily! – turned on & off TVs in pizza parlors, post offices and other government establishments which shall remain unnamed, causing havoc and talk of poltergeist in every single one! It works especially well when the TV is on full volume. *evil smirk*
Just be sure to keep a serene expression and walk out silently, before busting up in mephistophelean laughter…
- Indian summer in New York
My Californian-born husband didn’t know what an ‘indian summer’ was, so I had to explain: it’s an extended summer, a period when warm weather lasts well into the fall. Indian summers are very common in New York and are my favorite season! It cools down at night but the days remain warm and sunny enough throw picnics and go swimming!
- Anticipation of autumn
You know how I said Indian summer was my favorite time of the year? I lied. It’s autumn. October is god – crisp air, skies of intense turquoise blue and the contrast of red and yellow leaves is simply breathtaking. I feel a little guilty wishing for cold weather in the extended warmth of NYC’s September. Each day as the fall draws nearer, I find myself secretly looking forward to wearing my new suede boots, textured colorful tights, and girly coats.
Autumn to me is very romantic; partially because it reminds me of my favorite band Type O Negative and their album October Rust. It makes me want to take long walks through Bensonhurst, hoping to bump into my first husband, Peter Steele (we got divorced because he refused to move out of his mother’s basement).
- Peter Steele
Need I say more? Watch the colorful, pseudo-lesbian and enticingly voyeuristic video to see what I mean!
Type O Negative: My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend
Deerlings: share your weekly glee with us!
getting stuff in the make! like a sweater, note pads and tea!
I’m too chicken to try those jellybeans! My brother had a box of those Harry Potter Jellybeans and some of the flavors were Puke, grass and booger! How does someone know what booger tastes like! haha!
I think a grass jellybean would be quiet tasty!
However, the chance of sticking a rotten egg flavored jellybean in my mouth is not something i want to chance.
And ThinkGeek rocks.
That’s so funny that you like Type O because I always thought your Mark man looked like he should be in that band!
I never much liked jelly beans in the first place so I don’t think I’ll be chancing a puke flavored one. haha.. I love the thinkgeek site, I love geeky stuff. I’d love to have that remote thing! I can’t wait for Autumn. “Autumn in her flaming dress,
Of orange, brown, gold fallen leaves.” I love driving around aimlessly looking at the leaves in the cool Autumn air and listening to my favorite band Type O. You and Pete huh.. quite the height difference! lol
I wonder if I can find those beans in the UK…I’m sure it’s possible. Though I wouldn’t be telling people they were playng Jelly Bean Roulette. And so with you on Autumn, autumn is a beautiful season! Summer for people with a low tolerance to heat is hell.
My weekly glee has been Josh Groban, just failed my driving test again so am needing serious glee and the TV gadget has just had me giggling at the meer thought of using it at work while the football is playing! Thank you for the link I may have to get myself one
EE! I LOVE Think Geek. I just bought my “geek” 5 grab bag mystery tee shirts for his Fall wardrobe pick me up. Hopefully they are decent.
Where did you get those nasty beans??? I need some!
Cute ass Bento Boxes!
sushi, rice, and soy sauce galore! haha
you should see the bento box i posted in my journal! cute as all hell :)
That jelly bean game is horrible! I need it! lol!
TV-B-Gone is genius! My parent’s TV is on constantly, I’m sure I could drive them crazy with it! I’d also be tempted to take it to the gym with me since there are about 20 TVs there! :)
ohh, i’ve totally had those jelly beans, but when the Harry Potter ones were out. i was fortunate enough to get vomit…gross!
oh yeah, and i have heard of of that miracle fruit! it’s some type of berry, but reeally expensive. i want to try it though!
I LOVE Think Geek too! I am a huge nerd so of course I love all their products. I’ve bought some great gifts for my math/science teachers too, including this mug with a caffeine molecule for my caffeine-addicted chemistry teacher.
My weekly glee? I bought a set of Stabilo colored ink pens – they’re so amazing. My friends got their pens in Germany and Finland, so I was pretty excited when I learned my local craft store (in the US) started to sell them. I’ve always been a sucker for pens. I remember when the gel pen craze started when I was only in elementary school, fun times.
Totally reminds me of Bertie Bots Every Flavor Beans.
haha i saw those jelly beans on that discovery show how its made, amazing :’)
I love jelly belly beans! and Type O Negative! and Autumn!! haha. I’m really super excited for Halloween to get here and a chance for me to wear my favourite coat! lol. :P
♣ Samara
*picks nose* Booger is salty.
♣ Rachael
Mark went through a goth stage and really did resemble Peter Steele and Marilyn Manson for a while. People would actually stop him on the street to tell him he looked like Marilyn, haha. Now that his hair is short and blond again, he doesn’t look much like either of them – too bad!
♣ Aether
Your comment made me look forward to fall even more! The driving part especially. And yeah, Steele is 6’7″ and ’250lb of low-grade meat’ as he himself put it, haha! Gotta love that guy’s sense of humor. :)
♣ Clara
I’m sure you can find the beans online. :) And Josh Groban?! I love hearing about ridiculous crushes like that!
♣ Teiva
My very thoughtful sister gave them to me! But I’d bought similar ones (Bertie & Blott’s) at a pharmacy last year.
♣ Elizabeth
The miracle berry tablets on ThinkGeek are $20 per pack, and you only need to eat half a tablet for it to work. I wonder how many tables per box though, hmm.
♣ Stephanie
I’ve never heard of Stabilo – must try them! I’m a big color ink pen enthusiast as well! Actually, anything stationery related. ;)
LOL oh Doe ha ha if you like indian summers you should come visit me In Tucson they are our fall and that weather sometimes lasts through the end of November if we are UNlucky (in my opinion) And in late march what would be a regualr summer somewhere else starts and lasts through mid-May when hell decends upon us. I would not recomment an AZ summer to a girl who has lived in Russia and NYC you’d probabaly die i nearly do every yr. and I was born here.
Suzanne C. Reply:
October 12, 2009 at 4:43 am
I tried bertie botts in grass once. It was fascinating..and gross i’d do it again but not on a regular basis. If that miracle friut was affordable it’d be the best diet i’d bake sugarless (and no gross substitutes either) cupcakes and brownies and eat them for dessert with a tablet. I bet there’s loads of calories in the fruit since we havn’t heard of all the celebs doing that.
I’m dying for that shower light! And that ice cream is fun i had it in elementry the teacher passed it around. They sell it at the U of A planatarium here. And one last thing you make me laugh with your T.V. mischief.
I tried bertie botts in grass once. It was fascinating..and gross i’d do it again but not on a regular basis. If that miracle friut was affordable it’d be the best diet i’d bake sugarless (and no gross substitutes either) cupcakes and brownies and eat them for dessert with a tablet. I bet there’s loads of calories in the fruit since we havn’t heard of all the celebs doing that.
I’m dying for that shower light! And that ice cream is fun i had it in elementry the teacher passed it around. They sell it at the U of A planatarium here. And one last thing you make me laugh with your T.V. mischief.
While I realize that this post is old, I haven’t read it yet, and I’m pretty sure they totally stole that Bean Boozeled thing from my family!!!
We took a mini family vacation to the jelly belly factory (right!!! best vacation everrr) and it was right after they had come out with all of those gross flavors. Me being the lovely sister that I am, offered my brother a jelly bean from the taste counter. One of them in my hand was peach, the other was vomit, and knowing my brother always picks things on the right side, put the vomit one on the right. When my brother ate it and ran to the bathroom to go spit it out my dad had laughed and said I ‘bean’boozeled him! They made my mean trick into a game!!!