THE AWESOMENESS LIST
It’s been a while, folks.  Some of you are still with me.  I have no idea why, but it’s appreciated.  I changed my monthly 10-Things list to the more casual “The Awesomeness List”, in the hopes that I’ll do more lists more often to feed the blog-starved.  And if I don’t…oh well.  I’ll be on Facebook is anyone needs me.

5).  RUNPEE.COM
Transformers 2:  2 hrs 23 mins.  Harry Potter:  2 hrs 33 mins.  Benjamin Button:  toofuckinglong.  Public Enemies: I want those hours of my life back! 
Long ass movies + the Dunkin Donuts coffee I sneak in = I gotta pee! 
Now RunPee.com tells you the best time to go pee during recent movies
so that the next time you ask “What did I miss?”, the answer will
literally be “not much.”  Having to explain Shia LeBoeuf’s mom getting high on pot brownies in Transf2 is just not worth my breath. 

4).  KATHY GRIFFIN “MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST”
Summer just wouldn’t be summer without America’s favorite fiery redhead.  K.Griffin’s best D-list moment so far has been getting boo’ed off the Apollo
stage for doing the “Octomom’s-lips-look-like-a-pussy” joke. The
audience died in stunned silence, the band played her off, Kathy
ran off the stage and got chewed out by the Apollo manager saying “You
disrespected the house!”  She fled Harlem in shame.  My heart stopped for her.  But my heart also
went out to her.  Haven’t we all been boo’ed off the stage (of life)
before?  It happens.  Sometimes we get over-brazen and do that pussy-lips joke, or
that bitchy xanga entry, and the wrong audience shits all over it.  We
get the heat, we take the heat, and we turn the heat around.  We get thru it by
talking more and more about it till we’ve justified our bitchy controversial
existence. Everybody else can go straight to hell. Or suck it.

3).  MY DIJON-MAYO RED POTATO SALAD
It’s the talk of the town this summer.  I’ve made it three times in the
last month, and it’s truly a crowd-pleasing tasty bbq/picnic staple. 
RECIPE:
- Boil red potatoes (leave skin on), then cut into bite-size pieces.
- Add chopped Celery and Red Onion.
-
For the sauce, one heaping cup of mayo and 3-5 spoonfuls of dijon
mustard (Grey Poupon will do). Play with the mustard-to-mayo ratio and adjust for taste. I
like it really mustardy.  It’s what makes it special.
- Optional: Add fresh chopped dill for another dimension of flavor. Add some roasted chicken and it’s a complete meal.

2).  MARIAH “OBSESSED”
MC is back with a scathing summer single that’s a thinly-veiled job at
Eminem. But for those of us whom Eminem is less obsessed with, the song
applies to our real life stalkers.  You know the type…trying to act all incognito yet they know every detail of your life, but we see right thru them like they’re bathin’ in Windex.  Other kakakiller lyrics include:  “”You a mom and pop, I’m a corporation, I’m the press conference, You a conversation.”  Mariah may not hit #1 with this one, but it sure is fun.  Especially when the obsessed stalker gets slammed by that bus!  Get Obsessed here.

1).  JULY BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR THE HUBBIES
As someone with a November birthday, I’m grateful to have a hubby and
close friends who celebrate b’days smack in the middle of the summer.
Last year’s July hubbies birthday bash was a controversial yet
undeniably fun summer slutdown. This year’s celebration changed up the
pace, with a backyard bbq at our friends’ awesome NJ house. Aaron and I
hosted a party for our hubbies bubbyMichael and Gary, and welcomed
friends old and new for a gay ole time, NJ-gay-housewives style. No
tables got flipped, but I did prance around like a
party-prostitution-whore-hostess. Take a look:

We were popping bottles all night, saying you can have whatever you like…

Large backyard deck.  Not my house, but feels like home.  This is how we roll in NJ.

Birthday hubbies, Michael and Gary.

Me and the bubbs.

Me and the sun-ripened girls.

A package of Nathan’s mini-weenies and a roll of Pillsbury crescent rolls go a long way.  These little piggies went all the way into my tummy.

My devourous Spinach-Artichoke Dip, baked to a golden oozy gorgeousness.

Backyard BBQ included these chicken-veggie skewers that Aaron and I spent an hour making.  We made almost 60 of them. 

I cranked out a few batched of cookies and brownies.  The brownies, I baked in mini-muffin tins and they came out amazingly!

2 kinds of Birthday cake:  Strawberry Shortcake and Banana pudding cake.  As cake was being passed, guests were asked which cake they wanted.  I heard the word “OR” and I scoffed.  There’s no OR in CAKE!  Give me both OR give me death.

The party was a lot of work before, during, and after.  But in the end, another July birthday success!