My Daughter Has a Problem

 

Have any of you every tried this dressing? My daughter, Lizzy, tried it when she was at a friend's house and came home raving about it. She's a real salad lover but this dressing puts her over the top. She loves her vinegar, for sure, so when she discovered this combination, it was all over.

Problem was, she couldn't remember the brand name. Her dad ordered what he thought was the right dressing when ordering groceries (Peapod). Nope! That's not it. She asked to go to the store several times to look for it over the following weeks, because she was craving it, but it was nowhere to be found. I even ventured to the grocery store myself on a whim to see if I could find what she meant. I brought home two types. NOPE! They were not the right ones.

Lizzy finally asked her friend WHERE in the world they bought the dressing. The IGA in Sag Harbor. So, Lizzy went with her own money and purchased a few bottles of the dressing. They are pricey at around $4.50 a bottle. Big Spender. But worth every penny in her opinion.

A few weeks back, I was in the garage grabbing something from the extra frig when I noticed a bottle of this dressing tucked away. I laughed to myself, thinking of Lizzy being a salad dressing hoarder. A few days later I spotted another bottle of dressing in a kitchen cabinet, which is only opened on occasion. It gave me another chuckle. Lizzy Lizzy Lizzy.

When we were both sitting in the kitchen, I opened the cabinet with the dressing tucked away, and I asked her about her new "hoarding habit". After a few laughs, she claimed that because she bought the dressing herself, she didn't want everyone else to use it up on her. I reminded her that she's probably the only one who even wants to use that kind of dressing. I'm a caesar dressing kind of gal. Caleigh likes Italian. Jennah doesn't even like salad, nor do the boyz. However, BJ probably does want to use the dressing sometimes, but she should probably share it with him since he buys ALL of her salad fixings to begin with. HAHAHA

Gotta love the salad dressing hoarders of the world!!

She's also been known to hoard her special shampoo and conditioner so that no one else uses it up on her. This must be a byproduct of having a mom who truly avoids having to run to the store for things when they run out.

P.S. This is written in good fun. I don't actually think Lizzy has a hoarding problem or a food problem... its really more about the fact that there are a lot of people living in our house and certain food items and other products can go rather fast. So please don't lecture me about how I am destroying my children's esteem by writing about them in this way.

P.S.S. I probably didn't even need to write the P.S. seeing as I think I only have about 2 or 3 readers here anymore. Three cheers for my faithful blogger friends. Holla!!

My Once-a-Month Blog Post

To think that only a few years ago I posted something on Kool Daze practically every day...

Well, it's September!!! Labor Day has finally come and gone. Where I live in the Hamptons, Labor Day is a marker for us. Its the big send off! Unlike Memorial Day, which marks the big parade of summer traffic coming into the Hamptons, which remains for a few months and swells significantly on the weekends, Labor Day marks the mass exodus. (Some do stay longer). During the summer months, if you choose to go out in public, you will notice a vast difference in the attitudes of people you pass by on the road, at the beach and in other public places. Plenty of the peeps are upbeat and relaxed and having fun, but there are enough of those who have this air of entitlement, who drive like maniacs and take advantage of every person they possibly can, to cause great annoyance. They are nasty and extremely full of themselves. They really believe that everyone must cater to their every whim and if you don't, you must be stupid. These people are rats. They truly make a relatively mild-mannered person want to throw up or punch someone in the throat.

My five older kids (and my husband) all work with these kinds of people, and the stories can be quite entertaining. Just a few days ago, Nate drew this chalk line for a person who thought it was ok to park like this in the village. hahah. Lizzy was telling us about a woman in her store who was trying on all kinds of clothes and coming out of the dressing room naked to find something else to try on. (In the woman's defense, she was European--haha). Terry had a client call him to DO SOMETHING about the MOTHS that had come into the house. Terry is a construction manager for a company that builds multimillion dollar homes, not a housekeeper. Those same people also wanted him to do something about the ticks. Haha, if only!! Jennah had a man strongly reprimand her for not responding properly when he said hello. He must have been the keeper of "proper store etiquette" and he was out to change the world, and get everyone back in line. Jennah, one of the most steady, reliable, hardworking teens you could meet, just smiled and said ok. Her coworkers couldn't believe she was so gracious about the whole thing. On the streets, I've seen drivers practically run down pedestrians because they are in such a hurry to get somewhere. It's CRAY CRAY!! In the drivers' defense, pedestrians can be awfully stupid in their attempts to cross the street, but I don't trust anyone when I'm crossing the street on foot.

I tell my kids that we live in an environment that is different than most other places in the country.  I want them to know that its unusual for a small community to be in this ultimate mode  of a competitive/survival mentality for 3 months out of the year. But that's what happens when you live in a small, country-like resort area that overpopulated with fast-paced, NYC and Jersey dwellers looking for parties and relaxation. They don't free themselves from the competition, and certainly not the entitlement. They probably become more entitled while being in the Hamptons because its VACATION for them, whereas its a regular work day for the rest of us. 

True confession: I don't mind it so much. Makes life exciting. Sometimes I get mad at a driver who may be behind me at a stop sign, honking at me because I've decided to wait a little longer in order not to run a pedestrian over getting to the next spot on a bumper to bumper road. I'm so glad I'm not an angry person (anymore).

Anyway, buh-bye crowds and bad drivers. TIME TO GO HOME!

Couldn't we at least have a really beautiful and quiet week to spend at the beach before school starts back? Right now its 70 degrees and flash flood warnings out there. POURING!! Booooo!