# A-choo! The MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [March 24, 2014, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428 "2014-03-24T09:51:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/261 "2014-03-29T22:33:10Z")
I am on a weekend NOW. šŸ˜ƒ **rosie** , I saw someone wearing a Soft Kitty shirt yesterday and I thought of you. I wrote my [first fiction story](http://ryl.livejournal.com/860960.html) in a couple of years today. Well, technically I started it yesterday but I released it into the wild today. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/262 "2014-03-29T23:00:01Z")
Back from [del]pigginā€™ out[/del] dininā€™ at the good local steakhouse. We had the fried green tomato appetizer (hush, theyā€™re good!), sallit, ribeye steaks, baked N.O.T. with butter, sour cream, and chives, and some really good rolls. No dessert cause thereā€™s brownies and ice cream here at da cavve. Iā€™s stuffded! **Spaz** liked the story. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to mingle with the peasantry. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2014, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/263 "2014-03-29T23:23:27Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Supper will be caramelized onion chicken from the Comfort Food Diabetic Cookbook - itā€™s made with soy sauce, peach jam, and some yummy spices, and itā€™s served over rice. And Iā€™m thinking sugar snap peas on the side. I may shred some carrots into the sauce, too. > [@Bookkeeper](#): > > That sounds scrumptious! I tried making pot roast in the slow cooker yesterday for the first time - put it in about 9 in the morning on low, and it was literally fall apart tender by suppertime. Good onion gravy from the cooking liquid, too, although I was drooling over some recipes which used cream soups for the liquid. Way too much salt for my wife, unfortunately. I have been thinking about FairyChatMomā€™s chicken all week and found [this somewhat different recipe](http://www.chefdehome.com/Recipes/68/chicken-with-caramelized-onion-cream-sauce) on line and tried it today for supper (without the red chili paste, as I didnā€™t have any). We agreed that it was \*definitely \*scrumptious and the recipe is a keeper. I suspect it might also go well with pork tenderloin in place of the chicken. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/264 "2014-03-30T00:10:58Z")
**Bookie** right now I am stuffded to the gills but that sounds insanely good! I shall be doinā€™ this some time soon. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/265 "2014-03-30T00:39:13Z")
Thus another wild, crazy, nonstop day ends at da cave. I shall go join OYKW upon the bed to watch teevee or a movie. Not sure what heā€™s watchinā€™ in there. Nitey Nite Yā€™all! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/266 "2014-03-30T00:48:08Z")
One more afghan finished, and Iā€™ve started another. Guess itā€™s as good a time as any to log off and power down. _ **MWAH!** _ ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/267 "2014-03-30T01:00:44Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] Delta means donā€™t expect luggage to arrive. They do a bang up job livinā€™ up to their name. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=FairyChatMom] Guess that shows I donā€™t normally watch Channel 9 newsā€¦ [/QUOTE] We watch Channel 9 daily, but I fear itā€™s a different 9. I flew on US Scareways yesterday on a Scarebus. Follow the mergers over the yearsā€¦ America Worst and Northworst became part of US Scare, and now soon to be renamed American. It was at least an uneventful but unenjoyable flight. Stuffed to the rafters and they offered free gate checking of bags, so I happily took them up on it since we already had two checked bags. One of our favorite Faire performers flies to and from his home in Chicago each week when heā€™s at this or that .Faire. I have no idea how he can stand it, but by now, heā€™s probably got Ultra Admiral Chairman Executive Elite Super-Duper status so he at least gets a more comfortable seat. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/268 "2014-03-30T01:01:17Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **Spaz** liked the story. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to mingle with the peasantry. šŸ˜ƒ I know yā€™all in Jawjuh are just longing for bungalows, what with all yā€™allā€™s palatial residences. šŸ˜‰ Iā€™m going to work on this faerieā€™s skirt a little more before I turn in. What Iā€™m going to turn into is up for debate. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/269 "2014-03-30T01:19:18Z")
Pork minute steaks and potatoes fried in bacon grease with herbs for dinner, despite watching Hannibal Lecter cook long pig on recorded TV. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/270 "2014-03-30T01:32:25Z")
RT is home! We just watched Last Vegas and it was pretty good. Now heā€™s fiddling around on his keyboard and Iā€™ve just now remembered the laundry so I guess Iā€™m going to go check on that. I hope itā€™s bedtime soon. Iā€™m tired. ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/271 "2014-03-30T02:48:54Z")
Drove down to visit the parents for the night. No special reason other than to keep up my intention to ā€˜never have regretsā€™ when times come to pass. Will head home early tomorrow to get ready for work again. Sleep pattern still fucked up. Goodnight. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/272 "2014-03-30T03:57:24Z")
On the dark side, Canes lost, and we had a severe thunderstorm/tornado warning(it leaked in the arena.) On the bright side, Fox Sports showed our tailgate, and my Chinese chicken nuggets got mentioned( **gt** , you shoud see if they rebroadcast, weā€™d like a copy or link) > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Have you ever had Fireball in apple juice? \*\*FCD \*\*claims itā€™s quite tasty. > > And I will post pics - my sis wants to buy two of my pieces to be ā€œfabulous prizesā€ at a big party sheā€™s having in July. Rather than haul them all to her, I send her a link to Photobucket and she can choose from there. > > Pouring like crazy right now. I bet my yard is mega-squishy. But itā€™s not freezing and Iā€™m sure my flowers are happy. I see some gardening soon in my future. Yay!! We usually just shoot it. Itā€™s like a liquid Atomic Fireball.šŸ˜ƒ and still post, second choice is still good(I Stil have the 2 mugs, the Fairy Chat Monster, and the Canes doggie.) Yay for **RT** being home, sticky! Neat story, **Spaz**. I prefer a woman who can wipe her own bum, too.šŸ˜ƒ Night, **giggi**! **flytrap** , one time I picked up a pizza from a restaurant after watching a _Castle_ episode where the victim was roasted in a pizza oven. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/273 "2014-03-30T09:12:32Z")
For some mysterious reason, the alarm on **FCD** ā€™s phone decided we needed to wake up at 4:30. I tried and failed to fall back to sleep - partly because I was hot. OK, not hot, but itā€™s usually in the low 60s in here overnight, and this morning, it was nearly 70! Anyway, I gave up and got up. I may go back and try to snooze in a bit, but for now, Higgs is fed and Iā€™m up. Today will include some clay time. And I pulled a beef roast out of the freezer yesterday - I think itā€™ll get rotissed. Beyond that, no plans. Just another soggy day in Paradise. Happy Sunday! ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/274 "2014-03-30T10:14:45Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > For some mysterious reason, the alarm on **FCD** ā€™s phone decided we needed to wake up at 4.30. Maybe my psychic annoyance at only getting to bed at 4.30 my time spilled over- if so, sorry! Survived zombies, now for rugby. Exhausted before I start. Oh well, itā€™s sunny, and at least I ainā€™t workingā€™ Monday! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/275 "2014-03-30T10:25:09Z")
Good Morninā€™ Yā€™all! Up and caffienatinā€™. _YAWN_ 'Tis 49 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 70 for the day. Should warm up to the low 80s by Tuesday. Come on warm weather! **Spaz** I do sometimes gaze down on the peasantry from the turret and wonder what it would be like to mingle with them. Then I recall they donā€™t employ personal bum wipers. How could anyone live like that! Today is fifth Sunday breakfast (this is a tradition brought by the Lutherans) so I shall stop at the Pubic Stoā€™ and get some fruit and/or muffins to take. Plus, **MOOOOOOM** , Sonnyā€™s for N.O.L.! Glad you survived the zombies **Nuts**. Now I need more caffiene. Rumbly tummy wants sustenance so maybe a little cheese toast to tide me over might be good. Also, purtification for deheathenization must commence. I am Lector (not the cannibal kind) this morninā€™ at the Whiskypalian service. Happy Sunday Yā€™all! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/276 "2014-03-30T10:25:52Z")
Not only is it not sunny here - itā€™s still dark, and I can hear rain pounding on the chimney covers, so itā€™s coming down with gusto. At least we have a few days of sun aheadā€¦ theoretically. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/277 "2014-03-30T12:43:57Z")
Well, arenā€™t we all lazy this morning!! Iā€™m all dressed in grubbies for some studio time. Might as well - itā€™s too soggy to venture forth. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/278 "2014-03-30T12:50:36Z")
Lazy, **moooooom**? Speak for yourself! I was up bright and early this morning, changed the bedding and got it in the wash then scrubbed the kitchen floor (properly, not just namby-pamby mopping), hung the sheets outside to dry and put the second load of laundry in, and that was all before breakfast. Our clocks went forward by an hour overnight too. Luckily I had remember to change the clocks on the cooker, microwave and heating thingie, and everything else resets automatically so I knew when I got up at 8am it really was 8am. I am planning very little for the afternoon, in fact since itā€™s nearly 2pm I should consider having some lunch to go with the copious amounts of tea Iā€™ve been drinking today. There may be half an hourā€™s exercise later if I can be bothered, or maybe Iā€™ll just go back to the rest of that book. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/279 "2014-03-30T12:57:39Z")
\*\*BooFae \*\*- obviously you and I are functional this morning, but where are the rest of the slugs?? Probably dawdling over coffee from their breakfast in bed, waiting for Jeeves to draw a morning bath. THOSE Mumpers were the target of my scorn! And rightfully so, I believe! OK, to the studio with me - that clay wonā€™t mold itself! ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428/280 "2014-03-30T13:12:58Z")
**BLURF**. Happy Sunday everyone! Up and brekkied. Not going to do anything today but lounge around and watch hubby cook the Sunday Dinner I ordered up. It is warm and very windy. We had a good thunder storm last night. Have a good day all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-choo-the-mmp/684428.md?page=15)