May I come visit? Please? I’ve only ever had foie gras once, and I fell in love instantly.
Up, haven’t puked yet, waiting and drinking tea. I’m off grocery shopping and probably doing lunch with my Mum, which will be fun. We have their permission to take the car to Indiana (State of Excitement) in a month. Presuming Mr. Lissar gets his license on Friday.
Watch it there, Missy Lissy. I moved away from that state, and wound up in a spot even less exciting. 
I tell anyone who listens that I’m a recovering Hoosier.
Hi all. Just a quick update as Noor is helping me type. Noor is doing better, although still a little poopy. She is back on formula now, but smaller amounts more frequently.
Bad news is both hubby and I now have the sh*ts! 
I got it last night - (TMI …) started out with vomiting and diarrhoea so bad I didn’t know which end to position over the toilet bowl. Ended up sitting on the loo and puking into the rubbish bin! Apparently it may be rotavirus, which is going around right now. Find out tomorrow when the results of Noor’s stool sample labs are ready.
So for the meantime, I am signing off to go lay on the couch and feel sorry for myself.
Yays, Boos and Hugs as appropriate to all.
Of course, I’ve made a point of having enough space for at least two guests in any home I haven’t shared. It’s one of the things I disliked about the tiny Swiss apartment, there was no way to have guests there except in sleeping bags.
Is “I have visitors” a valid excuse to buy some foie gras of the varieties we don’t get in Spain? I mean, “aux fines herbes” and “a l’Oporto” are findable there, but they had one with truffles that I’d really like to try. It’s amazing, how something I hate as much as liver can turn into such goodness.
Dotty, yay on Noor and ouch on you and the hubby.
It, too, shall pass.
What?!?
Or sharing a bed. Just sayin’…
Foie Gras! The Inhumanity of it!! :eek: Won’t somebody think of the [del]children[/del]geese? :rolleyes:
Dotty, Not to belittle your and hubby’s suffering, but I think this is in the category of “good news” – meaning, Noor just got a virus, and one that will pass, and hasn’t sustained any kind of protracted damage from the dehydration on that hot day. Hope you’re all better and soon!
McUne – you’ve never been to a beach!? You really should insist on it happening sometime. Of course, living at a (literal) walking distance from the Mediterranean makes me spoiled that way…
Ooh, that sucks, Dotty. Yuck.
Bob, I’m just adding to my list of Exciting Places in America that I’ve visited. So far:
Ames, Iowa
Waco, Texas
Little Rock, Arkansas (and all intervening space between Toronto and L. R.)
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
and in a few weeks
South Bend, Indiana
It’s an exciting list. I’m waiting for some of our friends to move somewhere really culturally interesting, or at least not in Iowa or Oklahoma or Arkansas. We only travel to visit people, and all our people live in places that get us stared at when we talk about our vacations. “You flew to Waco? For fun?”
I’ve had to share a twin bed a handful of times after age 11. Never got any sleep and not for a good reason. So excuse me if I pass.
Sharing a bed should only be done if the bed is big enough to be shared, neither person sleeps in the starfish position, neither snores like a coal locomotive approaching retirement and the notions about acceptable amount of bedcovers aren’t too antipodian.
LiLi, the one time I went to Illinois it wasn’t to Chicago. Oh, no. It was to Carbondale.
Good mornin’ Y’all! All caffienated here. What? This is my early mornin’ now.
Dotty I was kinda wonderin’ if this was some type of virus. Here’s hopin’ everybody in the Gumdrop family is well soon.
BBBobbio good luck on the exam! Oh and, just cause…
That roast I slow cooked whilst I slept looks sooooo good and smells soooooo good! It’s got a nice rich, thick gravy. I peeled and diced N.O.T. before I went to bed so I just gotta put em on to cook then mash up. The peas are cookin’ as I post. Gotta get the N.O.T. on soon and make some cornbread cause ol’ y’all who will show up betwixt 11:30 and noon to eat.
Heff we have completely different schedules these days. See, he’s the administrator for a home health agency and is usually at work between six and seven every morning. Thus, during the week, we’ve decided we can do stuff like have lunch. Should make weekends more special.
Elle I hear ya about cellphones. I want a phone. I do not need to take pictures. I do not need to text message. I do not need internet access. I just wanna make and receive calls. My phone is as basic a phone as I could find. It’s a flip phone and I liked the number pad on it cause the numbers are big enough and it lights up. It looks clunkier than those lil’ razor phones and such but I can see the numbers and I like that there’s a window where I can see the time without openin’ up the phone. I don’t wear watches cause I don’t like 'em, so it doubles as my watch. I never want it to die.
Ok, off to finish up cookin’. Later Y’all!
And just what’s wrong with Carbondale young lady???
Some of the most forgotten moments of my life are left behind on Illinois St., in the Towers, Lewis Park or Thompson Point.
**LiLI ** , South Bend? One of my best friends is from there, he still goes back every few weeks.
Elen I just saw an ad in either this month’s AAA magazine or Yankee magazine for just such a phone, and it’s marketed for the older user. Big display, no extras that aren’t absolutely needed to make a phone call. I didn’t study the ad, but I do remember seeing it. You might want to see if you can get a copy of either of those mags. It’s a full-page ad, IIRC.
Hey, I don’t demand any offerings. But I will take the name of a good brew if you got one. (Just make sure it wasn’t brewed in Israel.)
Next Monday? You’re on. gt, if you would be so kind as to update the roster?
I don’t fight over beerverages - now a nice chilled Mike’s Cranberry Lemonade, however, will bring out my scrappy side…
**Myndy ** - TA[sup]TM[/sup] never admitted to having the condition, but we all recognized the symptoms
**Ellen ** THANK YOU for all of the song titles, I can’t wait to go home and listen now. I love my music. 
Special1-Nope, never been to a beach/ocean. I live in Minnesota, so we have a ton of lakes, but never been to the beach/ocean. It’s always been my dream vacation since I was little, lol. Then I got married to a husband who doesn’t like to fly or travel much, LOL. The longer we are married though the more he is willing to try things so.
**Lissla ** you can come to Minnesota and go to the Mall of America!
LiLi, did you see my mention last night about liquid prenatal vitamins? They’re definitely available, and that might work a lot better for you than the horse pills. Something to ask your doctor about, anyway.
I’m trying to decide if I work on the job I set aside to do the other rush job, which is now actually due, but since I have another rush job coming do I want to continue working on this one or take a break since I’ll have plenty to work on this evening? Decisions, decisions. The house needs a dog-dehairing and vacuuming, and I have some yarn that needs to be wound into balls, but this job is late. Not that anybody cares but me, apparently. Decisions, decisions.
Now it’s getting personal. I grew up 30 miles east of there, in Elkhart County.
ETA: I plumb fergot. I bought Da RugRat tickets last night, and he’s coming to Mayberry 10 August. [Homer Simpson]Woohoo![/HS]
Where to start?
South Bend has a beautiful campus (Notre Dame–pronounced Noter Dame–not French way). And it’s within driving distance to Chicago… The less said of Carbondale the better, although the Shawnee National Forest is gorgeous.
My big brother is here, visiting. We spent last night planning The Trip–he is taking #1 son to Australia this Christmas. #1 son won’t have Xmas with us. (the first of Xmases where we will be going in different directions–and I finally don’t have to work the damned holiday. <sigh>). He is very excited.
I lurve the foxes–squeeing over here. And the kitten in the cup–too much for me.
Rainy here today-we need it. Work in the am. Oh, and the reason(s) I hate grad school–really just a passing exasperation. I’m getting good grades (for not my best work), but the reasons for the + or - 's are bugging me. Hard to explain w/o lots of boring detail, but essentially, the prof is commenting on stuff that isn’t in my papers! Gah. Like she says I can’t rely solely on my extensive knowledge of mysteries if I am a reader’s advisor in the future. And I never said I would or should! :rolleyes:
#2 son is introducing my bro to The Princess Bride. He’s never seen it! Inconceivable!
Ugh! This is turning out to be a [del]shitty[/del] crappy week. I am responsible for two projects that I have had no hand in from day one, have elements that are bound to go wrong, and my team leader and department head are in Vegas. They don’t pay me enough for this and I am already (counts: April, May, June, July) four months overdue for my review.
dots, so the whole fam damily has the crud. Time for some Pepto or sandy equivalent for you and dad.
swamps, how’s that dinner coming? Sounds scrumtious! :: opens CD drive hopefully::
I envy alla yas who have the new HP book. Yes, I got hooked, too. ::Hangs head in shame.::
Okay, I see an e-mail has come in which needs attending for up-post reasons.
Is it quit-o-clock yet?
Tupug
Puggy the cornbread’s (actually lil’ mini muffins) in the oven and should be done in about ten minutes. I’m sneakin’ back in to read and of course post. 
Everything else is done. It’s makin’ my tummy all rumbly cause the kitchen smells so incredible right now!
rigs grad school professors are noted for stuff like that. It’s all a part of makin’ you hate it so you’ll do good and get the heck out.
Ok, back to check on the lil’ muffins.
Later Y’all!
After last night’s encounter with the obese lady, I have lots of sympathy for this guy.
I don’t think they used the word mitigating correctly:
Mitigate:
- to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
- to make less severe: to mitigate a punishment.
- to make (a person, one’s state of mind, disposition, etc.) milder or more gentle; mollify; appease.
–verb (used without object) 4. to become milder; lessen in severity.
They way they used it should mean it made the release take less time.