BBBobbio, you could be right. I will say, I prefer that to the pigs who toss their beer bottles along the side of our yard - I have to be vigilant when I mow.
Well, off to the kitchen with me. That sketty sauce won’t make itself!
I made roast cauliflower with cumin seeds last night. Wow! Roast cauliflower is amazing. And I made quinoa patties to go with it. They’re really yummy and crunchy. I’m already looking forward to leftovers for dinner. I also want to try black bean pumpkin soup soon. That sounds interesting.
And peanut butter cups are divine. PB M&Ms are even better. And the ultimate are the dark chocolate mini PB cups that Trader Joe’s has. There is no better combination than peanut butter and chocolate.
We had hardly any trick or treaters last night. Wow did we mis-read the neighbourhood!
After it got dark when we had a couple at the door we looked up the street and there were less than a handful of house wiht lights on. Oh well the ones that came got lots. There was a little army dude who was maybes 3 years old who said thankyou about 10 times as he went back down the drive to his mom as he was so happy with his haul - he got 2 handfuls as we just wanted rid of it. 
I am sitting eating Starbursts right now and I made mr ems take a bunch to work with him today. He was loving the dark chocolate Reeces cups last night.
Work has been busy again today for once.
That soup sounds delish taxi
Annoying miscommunication with a doctor’s office. I went in last week for a test. I told them I wanted the results forwarded to my doctor’s office and gave them the doctor’s fax number. I asked them how long it would take for them to send it. I was told it would only take three minutes. I was impressed thinking the machine must give instant results as part of the scan.
So today I called the doctor’s office to verify they had received these results. They had not received them. I called back to the lab and asked what was going on. The woman took down all of the same information I gave them last time. And I asked her again how long it would take for them to send this information. She told me the same answer - that it would be done in three minutes. I said something like “Well, that’s what they told me last week and it obviously didn’t happen. I just spoke to the doctor’s office and it never arrived there.”
She then said, “They probably didn’t have the results ready to send. That can take several days.”
This tipped me off that what we had here was a failure to communicate. I asked some more questions and clarified the point. When I asked them how long it would take to send the test results to the doctor’s office, I meant how soon will the results arrive at the doctor’s office. But the question they were answering was how long the act of transmitting the results over a fax machine would take - and they were not mentioning the fact that it was going to take them several days to get the results ready to be transmitted.
… not only does this company I’m now working for seem strangely sane, but the agency sends you a text message to let you know your invoice and timesheet have been received and when can you expect the payment :eek:
I keep waiting for the sky to fall down or the carpet to grow prehensile roots. Good thing the peeps from Basis are as prickly and pouty as Basis folk always are, or I’d think I had walked through a mirror.
But stay away from the Russell Stover ones. I bought a couple of Russell Stover peanut butter cups once. Big mistake. They were terrible. Ever since then, I stick with Reese’s.
I have my Arlo Guthrie music back. We can now have Thanksgiving this year.
What? Arlo Guthrie is perfect Thanksgiving music.
Ahh but Boyer’s (the folks that brought you the Mallo Cup) make an awesome peanut butter cup and my favorite is the Smoothie!
This talk of peanut butter cups is a bit ironic as one of the big news stories lately was that the price of peanut butter is going up (as much as 30% yikes!) due to a bad harvest.
Today was a fun day. I [del]spent[/del] wasted an hour preparing for a meeting I was asked to have at the last minute which ended out being cancelled. I told the person I was covering for that I could fill-in for the next cancellation if need be. le sigh
Supper tonite was an enormous sandwich made with half a pack of Dietz & Watson Southern Fried Chicken lunchmeat that expires tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed I don’t get sick “living on the edge” of expiration dates like that.
I’m sorry to hear about the home maintenance issues rosie,shortdrum & chance.
gotti, you have my sympathies about the stab-in-the-back courtesy of your doctor & insurance co. When I used to answer the phone for my company, I was always tempted to say “Mega Corp. Health Care denial” instead of “Mega Corp. Health Care” as I spent most of my time explaining why things weren’t covered.
Junior Captain those new-fangled facts machines are wicked fast, aren’t they?
That’s all I got. Remember, I’m pullin’ for ya, we’re all in this together.
Bri2k
**Brick **- I wouldn’t sweat the expiration date if I were you. The sniff test is the best way of telling if a food item is spoiled. As long as you’ve kept it wrapped tightly and properly refrigerated, I’m sure you’ll be fine. But just in case, can you leave me something in your will?? 
Sketties have been ingested - as soon as the rest of the sauce cools, I’ll be bagging it for the freezer. I know I’ve got at least 2 more meals, maybe 3. And some will be set aside for a lasagne next week.
Big plan for tomorrow is leaf vac/mulching. I should mop the kitchen floor, too. It’s looking pretty bad.
Off to knit…
Howdy Y’all! Met OYKW for dindin at that paragon of fine dinin’ known as Three Squares Diner (a couple of gore-mets we are! :D) and then we went to Walgreen’s and loaded up on leftover cheap chawklit. Bags of baby Snickers, Butterfingers, Milky Ways, Three Musketeers and Reese’s Cups! NUMMY!!! It’s all in da freezer except for two bags. I have a bag of Baby Three Musketeers in da fridge and OYKW took a bag of baby Snickers to his place. Talk about kids in a candy store. That was us!
Other than that I got nuttin’ tonight.
Laterz!
Still no power. This is absurd. I’ve read nothing, so I’m sorry. Hugs for everyone, whether you need it or not.
I feel bad for whining about my lack of fridge when poor ITD has no power. But it verily does sucketh. We’ve had warmed up cheap pizza two nights in a row!
The new one comes tomorrow between 10:15 and 12:15, which I think is funny for some reason.
maybe you picked up the sugarfree ones by mistake? those are completely inedible.
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I now pay $20 more per year for my insurance just for the pleasure of needing referrals?
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Up by $20 a year? Lucky you. Mine’s gone up by about $40 per paycheck. About a $1000 increase for the year. :rolleyes: :mad: 
:eek:
They say we’re saving money by having only two insurance carriers this year - United Health Care or Blue Cross / Anthem. The funny thing is that people in any given state have no option. In the Carolinas, our insurance carrier will be BC. Last year at this time, we had the option of BC, UHC or Aetna. As long as BC pays the doctors. I’ve heard nothing but horrors with Aetna.
So, I just checked my author’s page at Twisting the Hellmouth - a BtVS crossover fanfic site.
I’ve topped 500,000 hits on my stories.
Holy flurking snit! Half a million hits! :eek: Yeeha!
(Okay, so half the stories were actually written by my brother, but I take the majority in word count, reviews, and recommendations.) 
I find the thought of doing any homework right now particularly uninspiring. I think I’ll just go to bed.
I can hear Moooooom even now. “But she seemed so normal when we met her…”
Tonight, VWife slammed the back door on her left hand, and crushed her left ring finger from the outermost joint to the tip. Crushed, meaning the bone. She went :eek::eek::eek:, and I’m going :rolleyes::smack::rolleyes::smack::rolleyes::smack:
Two hours in the ER is such a wunnerful way to spend a Tuesday evening, and y’all give me hell whenever I call her Calamity Jane. She comes by it naturally.
Haven’t read updates. Will do so in a few.
Paid for vehicle. Got vehicle. Drove away. Hour later and in a different city, vehicle stalls and malfunction light comes on. Firestone is closed. Had it towed there.
Very annoyed.
love love love LOVE Arlo! Saw him in a very small concert at Bellamy Middle School in Chicopee MA a few years ago. It was a fundraiser for a soup kitchen. I’d give nearly anything to see him at The Church but members get first dibs and they buy up all the tickets before the general public even knows he’ll be around.
One of the benefits of being an unemployed full time college student. MA law requires that all full time college students have insurance so the school is required to provide it. My insurance costs less than $900 per year. Believe me, I don’t often complain about it. My ONLY problem with my insurance right now is that I paid a tiny bit more to go from a PPO to an HMO. I DETEST HMOs. Ever since I became an adult, I’ve paid the extra every pay period to get the PPO option. But, since I pay less per year than many people pay per month, I rarely complain about it.
I’m covered by the QCC insurance until the end of August 2012. After that, I’ll have to pay for the UConn insurance and I’m pretty sure that’s about $2300 or $3300 per year (can’t remember which).
Death has forsaken me. Such is life.