Empress Sassy

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 22

Cupcake towers are becoming more and more popular today for showers and even weddings.  My niece had them today at her shower and I even had them at Noah’s birthday party.

It allows you to make different flavors of cake, icing and even decorate with different toppings and then arrange them in a tower.  Some are even more elaborate and are huge with a small cake at the top.

It’s easy to design, make and the clean up is great.  You can serve it with little or no mess and with kids they don’t waste hardly anything at all.

They can be colorful and match your decorations and like I said, they are even being used at weddings so you can serve each individual guest a cupcake.  This way you don’t have tons of wedding cake left over and it’s wasted.

It’s just a cool way to go and I really like it a lot.  The towers can be bought at stores for a cheap price and then, of course, you can buy the Mac Daddies that are really expensive too!

Pretty cool if you have kids and haven’t tried it yet, but also good for showers and parties too!

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 22

Some days are good, some days are bad.  We all have to do things from time to time we don’t really want to do, but isn’t that life?  Work commitments, family commitments, obligations to friends, but we do them because we want to be a good person to those we love and hopefully they will be there for us in our time of need.

Here is what I truly don’t get though.  If you TRULY don’t want to be some where or you TRULY don’t want to attend a function, to the point that you are going to show it on your face, let it come out in every, single action that you make during the event and act as if you have entered the world of doom, why do you even bother showing up?  Seriously?  No one really wants you to be there with this attitude so do everyone a favor and stay home.  Tell us you have a headache, tell us your sick or for pity sake tell us you just don’t want to come on this particular day because you can’t deal with the event.  Honesty is better than attitude.

No one wants someone at a party, get-together, event, that is going to make everyone else have to ask, “What is wrong with so-and-so” over and over to the point that it’s just ridiculous.

Me, personally, if I feel as if I HAVE to go, I have learned to make the best of it.  If you’re going, just go and be social and be what you need to be and don’t bring everyone else down. 

I have did the grumpy attitude and it just ruins the moment for everyone and you shouldn’t do that to people.  Just stay home.  Learn to just be honest and allow others to have a good time.

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 22

I’m going back up on the soap box about these showers.  Again, let me just preface this isn’t to bash my family or my niece, as I know we must do these things, as it’s tradition, but seriously.

When you entertain or throw one of these parties, it’s just a lot of work and it cost a lot of money.  I’m not even really talking about just a bridal shower. Entertaining is expensive isn’t it? 

Even if you want to entertain a small group of folks.  You have to have food, drinks, appetizers and then if it’s an outside event you possibly need the plastic dishware.  You also need the other condiments and items to prepare the food you are serving.  No matter how hard you try, entertaining adds up.  Don’t get me wrong, I love to have folks over; especially in the summer, but it is tough to do with today’s prices.

Now take the same concept and try serving 50 women and add games, prizes, drinks, cake, punch…..the list goes on and the price goes up!  It’s just crazy.  Again, I still think the new age thing to do would be take all these people and say we’re going to lunch OR not all these people, just the ones you TRULY want to spend an afternoon with (my how that list would dwindle) and do something really fun and different.  You’re about to see these folks at your wedding and the same concept is there; eat, drink, get a gift and be merry.  Why do we do it in advance before the big event?  It’s just silly if you ask me!

Oh well, the bill adds up, the parents pay and tradition says we must continue!  I say, buck tradition, break out of the box, give the parents a break and do something original.  This is what we should preach to the next generation. 

GO FOR IT KIDS!

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 19

I haven’t seen this movie yet, but I want to see it.  One of my best friends went without me.  It would be rude to say Jacob’s name on the blog so I won’t. 

I’m not a huge, superhero kind of girl, but for some reason this movie looks like it would hold my interest.  If anyone hasn’t seen it yet, I need a movie buddy since “someone” didn’t go with me. 

I really liked Ironman, but again, not the big superhero gal, I just like a lot of the folks in the movie as well.  Jacob said it was a pretty good movie (even though he rudely didn’t ask me to go!)  Matthew Goode is in it (he is such a hottie) and it also has Jeffrey Dean Morgan who I adored on Grey’s. 

Anyway, has anyone else seen it yet?  Just wondering. 

My luck it will end up on my Netflix list (well honestly it already is, just in case) but you never know I may get out to the real world to see it before it leaves the big screen!

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 19

a couple of girls at work have just started reading the first book in the Twilight series and they already love the book and are falling for Edward.

Oh, how I had forgotten how much I fell for Edward until they started talking about him again today.  Kari, do you still miss Edward?  Carrie, I would ask you but I know you still think about Fuzz Boy!  ha ha.

Books come and books go, but this was a series that just sticks with you.  I could easily read this entire series again, and I plan too at some point.  I have said it before and I will say it again, every woman needs an Edward in her life and if you’ve had a guy even close to Edward you know what it’s like.

I long to have an Edward (again) and I’m not ashamed to admit it.  Dime store novel or not, this author knows how to express the characters in a way to make you realize what true love can hold for two people.  Nicholas Sparks also has this ability.

Regardless, best of luck to the gals just starting out.  May you enjoy your lack of sleep once you are “sucked in” (pun intended) to Edward’s world.  May you enjoy every, single, word he has to say.

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 19

Aaahh the Wedding Shower, the gathering of women to celebrate the pending wedding day.  We are about to have one this weekend for my niece. 

No offense to anyone in my family, they know that I’m helping and going, but showers are just such a ‘girl’ thing aren’t they?  I mean men just go out, have the bachelor party, get drunk and call it a night.  Women do the bachelorette party and do the same, but then we always have to go the EXTRA step.  We have to gather together, make a cake, play bridal games and give gifts.  Not that the gift giving is bad, I think it’s the games that do me in!

I was given a task of coming up with a game.  You go to the web and you search under Bridal Shower games and they are endless.  Some are trivia based, and some are actual games that you have to play or act out.   Some include the bride, some the bride get to judge.  Again, endless choices. 

You don’t see men playing games at a party, can you imagine a shower just for men?  “OK, line up guys, next we’re going to take toilet paper and safety pins and make pretend tuxedos and the groom-to-be will judge the best look from a team.  Ready-set-GO!”  ha, ha, can you imagine?

All in all, showers have always just boggled my mind.  Most of the time the person in the spot light is uncomfortable and they at some point (before the event) say, “I really don’t want to do this.”  It’s just this tradition that we have created that can’t be broken. 

I’m all for the untraditional, let’s go out for lunch, to a movie or just an outing with a bunch of family members of friends and call that a shower.  Break free of the old fashioned tradition of toilet paper games!

I know, we can’t…………..it wouldn’t be natural.  Thus, I’ll be purchasing 30 rolls of toilet paper for my sponsored game tomorrow night!  Wish us luck!

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 16

Corned Beef and Cabbage!

Each year, thousands of Irish Americans gather with their loved ones on St. Patrick’s Day to share a “traditional” meal of corned beef and cabbage.

Though cabbage has long been an Irish food, corned beef only began to be associated with St. Patrick’s Day at the turn of the century.

Irish immigrants living on New York City’s Lower East Side substituted corned beef for their traditional dish of Irish bacon to save money. They learned about the cheaper alternative from their Jewish neighbors.

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 16

Just in case you want to toast your friends on St. Patrick’s Day, here on some toast to make you sound like quite the Irishman:

May your fire be as warm as the weather is cold.

Health, and long life to you
Land without rent to you
The partner of your heart to you
and when you die, may your bones rest in Ireland!

As you slide down the banisters of life may the splinters never point the wrong way.

May you get all your wishes but one,
So you always have something to strive for.

May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.

Here’s to your coffin…
May it be built of 100 year old oaks which I will plant tomorrow.

May your neighbors respect you,
Troubles neglect you,
The angels protect you,
And Heaven accept you.

May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future.

An old Irish recipe for longevity:
Leave the table hungry.
Leave the bed sleepy.
Leave the bar thirsty.

May you live to be a hundred years, with one extra year to repent.

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
Or remember what is best forgotten.

May you be in heaven one half hour before the devil knows you’re dead.

May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been,
The insight to know where you are,
and the foresight to know when you’ve gone too far.

May you have warm words on a cold evening,
A full moon on a dark night,
And the road downhill all the way to your door.

May God bring good health to your enemies enemies

May you never make an enemy
When you could make a friend–
Unless you meet a fox among your chickens.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY TO ALL MY FRIENDS!!

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 16

I thought I hated the word stick, but obviously I meant the word leaf!  Don’t get me wrong, I love yard work.  Honestly I do.  It just makes you feel good to get out in the yard, work up a good sweat and you can always see the results of your labor. 

Well not after the winter we’ve had.  I worked for three hours yesterday and can you say “drop in the bucket?”  That is what it looked like when I went back in the house.  Of course, it doesn’t help that I started on drunk neighbors side of the yard because his sticks and leaves were just a mess.  I had to clean his side up first because his yard looks like it’s my yard when you drive by and then when you go to my back yard; same thing his yard rolls over to my yard with a lovely visual.  I actually found beer boxes and beer cans under his leaves when I raked.  Can you get any more pathetic than this?  I guess it blew from his driveway, which is just a plethora of boxes and garbage from his deck.  Nice huh?  I’m currently in the works on designing a privacy fence to the biggest part that will block the view of his house from mine. 

I took advantage of the weather and worked in the yard, but again, drop in the bucket is what it resulted in being for my yard.  It will take me weeks to get it up to speed.  Good thing I actually DO like yard work I guess.

I’m still not sure which one I loathe more at this point; sticks or leaves………it’s a toss up.  By the end of April I vow to have my yard rid of both!

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 14

This is Tyler Perry’s play about Madea’s family getting together over a weekend to celebrate a funeral, wedding and a family reunion all in the same weekend.

This video version of this play is flippin’ hilarious.  I swear, I laughed out loud fifty times.  Tyler Perry’s character Madea cracks me up.

This family makes ANYONE’S family feel less dysfunctional!  It’s a great play and you can see why so many of his plays are becoming movies at this point.  Every character in this play is funny.

It’s worth renting for a good time and a funny night.