Grits to Glitz

Bay and Amy have a whole passel of stuff to talk about, from drugging their doggies to dog-loving car salesmen. Wanna get high? Well, how about a helicopter tour? Or get the natural high of calling us at 44-222-96269!

• Mellow your dog (or yourself) down.
• Get yourself an exchange student!
• Take a helicopter tour of Las Vegas!
• We want our dogs to live forever, but they're aging, and that makes us sad.
• They predicted the Vegas Golden Knights would be horrible, but they weren't.
• Bay's baby boy doesn't work with jerks, but here's how to deal with them if you do.
• Ear plugs help.
• Is Consumer Reports biased? Maybe.

So much cake story deliciousness this episode, it should come with a high-calorie warning! Amy won a dessert contest with a beloved old family recipe! Bay isn't at all surprised! There's French bulldog auction action, and administrative professionals day stuff, and Bay's baby boy came home from his first semester away at college with some bragging rights about his grades. It's springtime, so that means more hummingbird talk! How many years have we been obsessed with hummingbirds? Well at least we've started a new obsession: HOCKEY! Call us! 44-222-96269!

• Apricot Nectar cake on Facebook!
• Go, Vegas Golden Knights, GO!
• Feed the birds! Best-1 Hummingbird feeder really is the best!

Can Bay get any more hick with the opening question? But seriously! Such a packed show! We talked about nasty HOA meetings and cute sea critters and trips to hilly cities and twisted ankles. We talked about dining in amazing places and Amy placed well in a basketball bracket thingie, woo hoo! How are Bay's new cats faring? Is she bullying them with terrible names? Maybe. You decide! Tell us the plural of hippopotamus! [email protected]!

• Prepare for an HOA meeting!
• Or just do a beehive hairdo!
• Cutest octopus video we've ever seen!
• Bring your lovah to the Welshly Arms hattub

We took a long break and then had too much to talk about! Amy took her exchange student to Disneyland! Bay adopted two kitties! Lots of chatting! Vocabulary Vixen drops by with a hint about when NOT to abbreviate shit! And who put this swim team report here? It belongs over there! Call us, y'all -- 44-222-96269!

• Stay in a pretty vacation place with VRBO!
• Adopt black kitties!
• Or just adopt bonded pairs of kitties!
• You're so good, go directly to Disneyland!
• Get glittery mouse ears! [Full disclosure: Those are not Amy's glittery mouse ears. She is special and unique, and we can't find the exact same mouse ears!]
• Get old-fashioned fountain treats with Bay at Phoenix Pharmacy and Fountain!
• Go funkalicious shopping in Highland Park!
• Meet Amy and Hanne in San Francisco at... Wait, no, don't, that's a little stalkery, y'all. But wave at them for Hanne's spring break!

FODDER! Man, y'all's minds go right to the gutter -- and that's why we love you. Hey! We're back! Sorry about the long break, but we were sick. But it's all good now, because we're seeing drone shows and wearing Christmas frocks and exchanging Christmas presents and ... Wait a minute, did Amy even say what she got for Christmas? Doesn't matter; she gets to go to Ikea! Write to us and tell Bay how her son should decorate his dorm room! [email protected] or [email protected]! Links: - Drones over Bellagio! - Festive holiday frocks modeled by beauteous Grits to Glitz hostesses! - Get mid mod chic Judy Lee vintage jewelry!

Amy got an exchange student! Bay visited Amy in Missouri! We ate a lot of food we liked! We drove a long way! Bay has PTSD because her boss moved the office from one place on Gay Street to another place on Gay Street! Do you like calendars and fun perfume? So Do Our Awesome Listeners! Please don't abandon us just because we almost podfade every October. Come to Bay's house for Thanksgiving at Christmas! That's an official invitation; RSVP as necessary to [email protected]. Call us at 44-222-96269!

• Get yourself an exchange student!
• Cutest cabin in Pacific, MO
• St. Louis Art Museum
• I know what you did last night
• How to deal with a bad contractor

Amy has had a terrible couple of weeks -- like, seriously, suddenly she has Bay's karma. From a favorite little restaurant suddenly taking a terrible turn for the worse, to a massive -- MASSIVE -- leak under the patio, it's all just, "Ugh." Bay, in the meantime, has turned to a life of crime. She stole a parrot. Well, a cockatiel. Does it count if the victim had 3 weeks' notice while Bay said things like, "I'm going to steal that cockatiel"? (Vocabulary Vixen may need to help us define the word "steal.") Stuff like that happened! Worry with us! 44-222-96269!

• NO, NO, NOT NOZOMI!
• The cave under Amy's patio
• Martini & Rossi Asti Spumante!
• This is what St. Louis will look like in a couple of weeks, *plus* Amy & Bay!
• Write a scholarship essay!
• Feed a parrot!

We're fine. We hope you're fine. It's been a weird month, and then stupid stuff happened in Las Vegas. Like every thinking person, Bay and Amy bounce between being sad and being, well, a little angry about that. It's OK; we'll all hug our dogs and be better someday. Speaking of dogs -- Amy almost owns a dog! Is the adoption final now? No? How 'bout NOW? Amy is programming stuff in Las Vegas, and Bay answers the phone really well in Knoxville!

• Las Vegas commissioner's GoFundMe for victims
• Find a [possibly hungover] dog sitter at Rover.com!
• Adopt a needy Frenchy!

Oh, y'all, Amy needs help feeding people! Not really; she figured it out. (Grocery stores deliver now, y'all!) Seriously, though, this episode bolts from entertaining friends to doing good things for rescued French bulldogs, past Bay's culinary efforts and right through the good that buying two pocketbooks can do a mother, and up to and beyond burritos and cool TV shows like Project Runway. We're back into PR, y'all!!! Tim Gunn is our hero!!

• Arf, arf! Aloha!
• Cute custom dog clothes by Deb!
• Two days to make a chicken thing?
• Best macaroni and cheese, EVER, Yankee Doodle!
• Entertain guests with cheese platters!
• Fly a DJI Spark drone and be the star of your own movie!

She ain't getting old! Dammit. Now, listen, we have a lot to talk about. There's Amy's startling new fashion obsession. There's a new Frenchie in our lives, and she snores. Bay's eclipse menu is more like a bridal shower, and we all want to go to St. Louis to see Amy's new foster dog. Finally, programmers, help Vocabulary Vixen out: How do you say the singular of "parentheses"???

• Project Runway's Season 16 - Should we hate the twins? (Bay doesn't.) (Yet.)
• Amy likes house dresses, but doesn't wear 'em to Walmart.
• The horror of Ta Ta Towels!
• ALOHA!!!!!
• She snores. We die.
• Where are y'all parking for the Great American Eclipse of 2017?
• French Bulldog National Specialty's gonna be in St. Louis!