Saturday, May 8, 2010

A sleepover and Mick and Mimi...

Mother's Day weekend has started very well. I had a Friday night sleepover at my girlfriend's house. Just me and Michelle in our PJs, with George Clooney (an older movie, Out of Sight). Then we were joined by our friends; pizza, wine, homemade nachos, and chocolate cake. All of us together having a good time. It was a good old fashion sleepover. What could be better? And as the evening wore on, and we each lay sprawled on a couch (she has two couches so we each got to lay on one). We found ourselves watching old sitcom re-runs. How could we ever have though Monica and Rachael's hair was cool in the early shows?

And then...towards 1:00am came the highlight of the evening...something I have never seen before...Mick and Mimi and their fabulous, cheesy 15 minute party with the Bullet-express. This is the greatest infomercial ever. Done in a sit-com style with a host of strange (over-acted) characters, we remained entranced for over an hour, not quite believing what we were seeing. We even watched the follow up infomercials. There's dinner,where Mick and Mimi have their family over and bore wow them with their dazzling chopping, shredding, blending, juicing appliances. They proceed to make really bland food (but very well chopped and fast) with tons of grated cheese. Here's their recipe for meatloaf...."Ground Turkey, onion, some rosemary...and ketchup and sugar on top. Imagine the flavour! The whole meals is  made in less that 8 minutes.

And that 's not all! In the magic bullet ad they make breakfast for their hungover friends; including, Berman the hungover fat, bald guy, Hazel (the weathered old hag with the fake cigarette), and a couple of newlyweds. It begs the question, why are all these strange people at Mick and Mimi's house first thing in the morning? Are they swingers? Anyway, they go on to make all kinds of goo as well as frozen drinks and it only takes 3 seconds! Fantastic! I really want a magic bullet. I even asked for one for Mother's Day (though I think Mark draws the line at getting me some form of blender as a gift...good man!). But think of all the "frozen beverages" I could make....strawberry daiquiri, pina colada, margarita, bellini, bushwacker and all in only 1, 2......(long pause)......3 seconds. Fantastic! Onwards to Mother's Day! Do like Hazel...I'm not sure what I mean by that. But I do look eerily similar to her (without the fag) first thing in the morning...

2 comments:

Wendy Flawn said...

Brings back the Prisoner Cell Block H days of Oxpoly and the late night runs for chocolate to set us up before it started from the 7-11. Remember the song? Sadly I remember at least half of it I am sure!

Wxx

Victoria said...

Ha...that made me laugh. I do remember those days! And I remember prisoner cell block H...and "Queen Bea". I wish they'd repeat it here..."On the inside the sun still shines, and the rain falls down. But the sun and rain are prisoners too, when morning comes around"...and I remember the rest!