Kristen posts a tribute to the 80’s every Wednesday that I thoroughly look forward to. In my opinion, the 80’s produced the best movies and music of all time and for me, life in general was just plain fun. This week, she highlighted the movie, Mannequin, featuring Andrew McCarthy (yes I had a little crush on him) and Kim Cattrall - who knew she’d become a sex symbol on Sex In The City?!
To answer your question Kristen, YES, I am a closet Mannequin fan. And I LOVED the hit song, “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now“. In fact, I wanted to play this song at my wedding recessional, but my hubbie vetoed, and as fitting as I think the song was, “I’m A Believer” by Smash Mouth worked out just fine.
So his sperm was used to artificially inseminate his girlfriend? So I pose the question again, is Clay gay? Thoughts anyone?
And NO, I do not follow his life, contrary to what a few of you (Gina & Edye) might believe. I just happen to subscribe to TMZ to get all of the latest Hollywood gossip.
A few years into my 30’s I was shopping at the grocery store. While grabbing up some peanut butter two teenage boys approached me. ”Excuse me maam?” <I look behind me as surely they’re not talking to me> “Could you tell us which is better for spreading, jelly or jam?” Before answering these 2 kids thoughts raced in my head all the while smiling and looking as confident as if I actually knew the answer to this question. I don’t think I ever really thought much about it to tell you the truth. Unfortunately my daughter has always been a picky eater and always turned her nose up at pb&j. I myself like only a thin spread of pb and a tad of jam/jelly. Personally I always bought jam, but only because that’s what my mom would buy, that is unless she made some of her own. We used to go to Plant City and pick our own strawberries and mom would make the best jam in the world. So really, I’m no expert when it comes to store bought jelly. Or jam.
Two seconds later I smile, point and confidently say, “why jelly of course!” I continued, “jam has real fruit in it which makes it more difficult to spread”. They smile, grab a big jar of grape jelly, “thanks alot maam”, and take off.
Looking puzzled after they left, I grabbed a jar of strawberry jelly and secretly put it in my cart so that I could double check myself later on. The next day I couldn’t wait to make myself a pb & jelly sandwich. I hurriedly spread a thin layer of pb. I open the jar of jelly and stuck the knife in. I pulled out the knife and some big BLOB of ‘jello like’ substance comes rolling out of the jar and kathunks on my bread. ”What the heck?” ”What is this stuff??” I took my knife and tried to spread some more. It rolled over to the other side, then the other and the other. I continued on until I just gave up. Might I add that for a person who only likes a thin spread of jam, this was an impossible task with jelly. I ended up with little mounds of jello all over my sandwich. Yuk. Then I immediately thought, “oh my gosh, I told those poor boys the wrong thing!” <sigh> It was as if I failed a test.
Here I am a mom in my 30’s. How come I didn’t know the difference between jam or jelly, or rather, which was the more spreadable of the two.
It’s been a few years since I steered two fine young boys in the wrong direction and I’ve made it my mission to figure out which is the better spread. It’s taken quite a while since I only spread a thin layer of jam the few times a year that I eat a pb&j, thus it takes about a year for our family to go through a jar of jam. (My husband and son eat pb & honey. Go figure.)
Today I finally got it right. The perfect taste and texture. No humps. No lumpy fruit. It’s spreadable. It’s delectable. It’s Smucker’s Simply Fruit, Seedless Strawberry Spreadable Fruit. It’s DE-LI-CIOUS!
The next time I’m asked the question, jam or jelly, I can 100% say without a doubt, “why Spreadable Fruit by Smuckers of course. Neither jam nor jelly!”
Well Goodmorning babe. I knew you would check in with me today and I wanted to surprise you with a post! I love you and I hope you have an awesome day!
