Filed under: The Department of Festivitas
Blue Velvet writes:
Depending on when you read this, what is everyone doing – or what did everyone do – for the New Year?
Not much here – just hanging out with some Cal Arts students who live in my apartment complex and watching these jokers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M4_XZ3FLHw
Happy New Year’s, all.
Candelabra would like to use his matches to light fireworks, but we’ve found that fireworks terrify Toaster. So Bwana just got some Fireworks Flowers and stuck them in Toaster’s head. It gives the house a festive feeling without scaring the dickens out of the little guy.
If we can stay up late enough we will toast the New Year with Dr Brown’s Cream Soda at midnight.
For now, we settle in front of the tv with seltzer and a big plate of S’mores and watch the Packers versus the Bears.
Go Pack!
Filed under: The Department of Festivitas
On Merry Toastmas:
bu-bu: Double bergamot? Dude. Awesome.
We enjoy a good Earl Grey — heavy on the bergamot and light on the sugar.
Blue Velvet : Exquisite taste in linens – thanks for sharing the site.
Probably the most boring toy commercial ever made: http://youtube.com/watch?v=cSZ_9QLUEQg
Toaster likes the new linens, too. He likes the canopy, it makes him feel like he’s camping out.
Bwana won’t let him make S’mores in bed, though. He says it’s a fire hazard.
Toaster’s Silly Putty is getting rather crunchy with all the toast crumbs that are getting stuck in it. Very hard to remove crumbs from Silly Putty.
Filed under: The Department of Festivitas
Cristiane writes:
Hope everyone in your happie home is having the best Christmas ever, and that everyone is festooned in Yankee gear, merrily singing songs and carols.
Thank you. We had a wonderful Christmas and hope you and your family did, too.
Bwana Claus got us all kinds of nifty stuff. (Toaster thinks the martini he left for Santa did the trick, but of course we know different.)
Teapot got not just Earl Grey tea but Double Bergamot Earl Grey. That’s like Earl Grey on steroids.
Candelabra got a link to a neat-o matchstick game. This means he will be on the computer a lot. Maybe he will want to blog about Bwana, too.
I got a spiffy new set of linens. From Italy:
Frah-jee-lay!
And Bwana found absolutely the best gift for Toaster: a 5 -pound box of Silly Putty! Toaster has been having a wonderful time bouncing wads of Silly Putty around the house and making prints of his favorite comic strips. At one point he got so excited that he stepped into the blob of putty and got stuck. Trauma and consternation ensued. But Bwana rescued him.
We love Bwana.
After playing with the Silly Putty for almost all Christmas day Toaster then turned his attention to the empty boxes that our gifts came in, plus the used wrapping paper. He played with these for the rest of the night and fell asleep under the tree.
Filed under: The Department of Festivitas
Filed under: The Department of Comfort and Joy
… everywhere you go!
Filed under: Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Things to Play With
Blue Velvet comments on It Grows on Trees?:
But Toaster can have his own font: Space Toaster
You called me “film savant” once. “TV Geek” is appropriate as well.
Toaster would be great on a tv show (Nickelodeon? The Cartoon Network?) but he doesn’t want to steal any of Bwana’s thunder.
Sheila comments on A Gustatory Christmas:
The Fountain is a neat gift, but the only person left on my gift list is my Niece and she wants a ‘Tickle My Elmo’.
To bad they don’t make a ‘Tickle Me Toaster’.
I love giving gifts that are multitaskers.
“Tickle Me Toaster” would be a fun toy. We’re going to have to get Bwana’s agent to work a deal with Mattel or Gund or Sanrio.
挨拶トースター.
(That’s “Hello Toaster” in Japanese.)
rc suggests:
you could dip toast into the chocolate fountain
If we get a chocolate fountain we are sailing origami boats in it.
If we can fold boats out of phyllo then we can eat them afterwards.
Filed under: The Department of Good Karma
Blue Velvet continues our Bovine Theme:
More cows, but I like the whole idea behind this: Heifer International – Meaningful Gifts
And this: Mosquito Netting for a Rural Village
Peace, all.
Toaster would love to get a water buffalo for Christmas.
Anti-malarially speaking, don’t forget the Nothing But Nets campaign by DP Show regular Rick Reilly.
Filed under: Things We Believe In
bu-bu comments on A Gustatory Christmas:
When appliances give/get appliances for a holiday gift, something’s amiss. That’s like Goofy (a dog) being master to Pluto (a dog).
I suppose I shouldn’t judge. I’m corresponding with bedding.
Take it from Toaster:
Life is a playground. Everything is a toy.
Life takes …
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Blue Velvet sends a bouquet:
Mattress, Candlestick, and Toaster, I’d like to you all for allowing me to indulge my sense of play, whimsy, and fun here. I dedicate this to all of you, and for all who post here:
Gosh, oh, golly ….
How perfectly sweet of you!
Such a wonderful video, it made Toaster cry ….
We thank you and all those who stop by to visit. We know you have your choice of blogs, and we are honored and humbled that you choose to read Champ_des_Rêves. You make Our Happie Home all the happier. And a special big wet one (well, I guess that’s a big papery one …) for you who take the time to drop a note.
I wasn’t sure at first if it was a good idea to start this blog, but it seemed to be a good counter to those who would tear Bwana down. I know I disappoint those looking for detailed and personal information about Bwana. Some mattresses are very indiscreet. But for me it is important to be loyal and true.
Thank you for the Willy Wonka video. In return, here is something for you, our Kind & Generous friend:
Filed under: Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Things to Eat, Things to Play With, Who Maketh My Spirit to Shine
Blue Velvet asks: Toaster, how about this?
Pop Art™ 2-Slice Toaster with Markers and Coloring Book
Wow! Spiffy diffy!
Grammie doesn’t like it when we play with Bwana’s food, but this is so cute maybe she’ll get one for Toaster.
If we don’t get a thing to make fun toast, then maybe someone will give us a toy that will make a Fountain of Flowing Chocolate Decadence.
This one only holds five pounds of chocolate, though. That’s like a single-serving around here.
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