Pinterest, how we really do love thee! You make us laugh with funny little ecards like this:
You send traffic to our blog from our pins like this:
And you inspire Ellen to complete projects like this:
Unfortunately, you also dupe Ellen into abusing her friends on New Year’s Eve with swill like this:
Erin: Oh sweet sprinkles, I had hoped I would never see the Kahlua Float Fail again. Champagne and ice cream?! Gack.
Ellen: All I can say is I was wooed by this lovely picture. And it would have at least presented better if you had some darn flutes instead of those tacky plastic cups.
Erin: But I had nothing to do with you using caramel jimmies instead of chocolate. To be fair, that picture looks tempting and you usually are pretty good at picking out recipes.
Ellen: It ‘s kind of a super power of mine . . .
Erin: That, and modesty.
Ellen: ANYWAY, the root beer floats I made for the kids were yummy.
Erin: It’s hard to mess up a root beer float, although I guess you could have used mint ice cream or something . . . you know, if Pinterest told you to.
Ellen: Funny. I do have to admit, I was Pintershizzed. Lucky for you, I wasn’t afraid to splash it all over my friends.
Erin: But you did have a recent tirumph. Those Crockpot Pumpkin Spice Lattes you brought to my Halloween bash were great.
Ellen: They WERE good and doesn’t Mary look adorable serving them up?
Ellen: But didn’t you hear the complaints that I used, gasp, caffeinated coffee? Apparently most of us are so old that we can’t consume caffeine after 2 pm. I have no such problem, but maybe I just cultivate a superior level of exhaustion.
Erin: I’m not sure that is brag-worthy.
Ellen: Well, that is not the Pintershizz anyway. THIS is where I, and I alone, got Pintershizzed.
Erin: What is THAT?
Ellen: That is the bottom of my crockpot AFTER I had already scrubbed it out twice. And I’m talking the bottom of the cooking unit. The warm and toasty latte that sloshed between the pottery crock and the metal heating part baked to a lacquer-like finish worthy of Chinese cabinetry. Apparently liquid doesn’t transport well in a crockpot.
Erin: That is an understatement.
Ellen: It took multiple cycles of baking soda and vinegar to get that nastiness clean. Hey, maybe I’ll get my revenge on Pinterest by pinning that disgusting picture.
Erin: I think you need to work on your revenge plots. How about we just tell people to follow us on Pinterest because we have a whole board of great libations?
Ellen: Fine. But I’m still pinning it.
You guys always crack me up and inspire me at the same time. Love you two!
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Kinda like being a hilariously disastrous inspiration. Thanks, sweetie. 😉 Ellen
2 words darling crockpot liners. Designed for that very reason.. just pull out the liner and poof clean crockpot.
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I just clarified in the post. I WISH a liner could have fixed that mess. THAT was the heating element. The thing you can’t even immerse in water. Blergh. Ellen
You ladies are so funny. I desperately need to try one of Ellen’s Kahlua floats (the first picture, of course).
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I would highly recommend the lattes instead. Ellen