Mmm, crabcakes.
LOUNE, a real gentleman would have let her have it.
Nope, those are Samoas. 
King Crab = GOOD
Snow Crab = GOOD
Steamed Blue Crab = GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
Lobster, scallop, shrimp, abalone, clam, calamari, and assorted fishies = GOOD
Yep, I likes me seafood.
Welcome, McUne!! You are now officially a Cool Kid, but you’ll be even Cooler after you submit the requisite chocolate love offering to me. Because I’m nice, dammit! As hot as it is, chocolate chocolate chip ice cream would be a perfect love offering - I’m just sayin’ 
We hung assorted pictures, paintings, and prints in both guest rooms, so those rooms are officially done - yay! There are several prints I want in the master bedroom, but *someone * has yet to make frames for them. So our formerly mirrored wall is nekkid. At least for a while longer.
Feel better, Drae! I hope your assorted doctors can figure everything out for you.
Be cool, rosie! It’ll be fall… eventually…
And in case you’ve forgotten - MY BABY GETS HERE TOMORROW!!!
I did let her have it. Did you read past the part where she got whacked in the face with seafood?
And sososososososososososo fucking yummy.
I tried the pirok! It was good.
Sorry about your cake–there is so much food…I’m sure someone will eat it.
crab cakes, crab–YUM! Bring 'em on.
I made cold ham, green beans, and sweet potato biscuits for dinner. I do have some Southern in me…
Off to class. Ugh.
Thunder and RAIN here right now.
Apparently some sort of crime went down around my apartment building today. A large area is cordoned off with police tape. Placed here and there along the length of the footpath behind my building (where my balcony overlooks) are evidence markers – 5 of them aong the footpath, and at least one other that I could see across McMurchy Ave. (numbered #9) where the sidewalk on both sides of the street is taped off for a good hundred feet or more. There’s a cadre of police cars in the parking lot between the two buildings across from mine. There must have been some sort of foot chase. No idea what happened here though, but whatever it was it must have happened within the last few hours, as it’s in the process of being wrapped up. (They’re removing the markers and bagging/swabbing/whatevering the evidence as I type) I’m curious to see if it makes the news.
I have a feeling it might have had something to do with a fight that broke out a few nights ago with some pasty, shirtless white teen yelling at some other teens at the top of his lungs; the cops showed up to that party, too, but nothing serious seems to have gone down. Maybe now it has. MindWife says she didn’t hear anything, and considering how close those evidence markers are, it’s unlikely they’re shell casings; she would have heard gunshots.
Well, there’s my excitement for the day.
McUNE - I like that. McUNE. It’s like a Frenchman and a Scot trying to come to a mutually comprehensible way of saying “Son of a…” I see you’ve [del]escaped the clutches of[/del] taken leave of your welcoming committee and found the MMP. I hope you packed some extra free time, for as much as the Dope will become your addiction, the MMP will become your sub-addiction within the addiction. And we’re a chatty bunch. And cool. Mustn’t forget cool. The MMP is home to all things cool. Offerings of chocolate are gratefully accepted by FairyChatMom, and the rest of us will take beerverages, finger food, whatever you’ve got handy.
Mika, Loune, Tigs - I’m not crazy. I’m not! That ice cream truck is evil. Evil! A pure, unvarnished, swirling vortex of insatiable evil on wheels. I’ll bet if you looked in the cupboards and storage areas of that truck, you’ll find the undigested bones of children and small pets.
Herbs - I am glad my story was enlightening to someone today. Beware the Hello Ice Cream Truck!
Okay, I must consider what I’m to have for dinner. I have no idea right now.
Ceremoniously hands over two fresh baked chocolate chip cookies with three scoops of chocolate chip ice cream with hot fudge sauce drizzled over the top to FairyChatMom.
All of this seafood talk is making me hungry…mmmm…I love seafood.
Thanks everyone for the warm welcome.
Hee.
I just took a nap. It is uber humid here, though it’s finally got down to 51% but it was close to 70 earlier today. We just experienced a brownout though. :rolleyes:
Drae, you are worrying me. You’re in my thoughts.
I too prefer crab straight from the…er, crab as it were. When I went to my SO’s once they brought a bunch of live blue crabs and dumped them in the sink, then boiled them up and we ate 'em. Now I am from a veggie household and this is the closest thing to “still alive” I have ever eaten but they were So. Good. King crabs are yummy too. Love all you can eat crab legs.
Welcome McUne, and hi, LOUNE.
Ellen, is cute kids.
SCL your story made me ill. Fucking vultures.
Oh, and the party still seems to be going strong, how about I cook up some delicious cheese blintzes? I am not the greatest cook in the world but surprisingly I make really good cheese blintzes.
waves How ya doin’ hon?
Dies laughing over here.
HEY! I said HEY!
Class was canceled! <does Snoopy dance>
seems #1 instructor is ill. #2 instructor didn’t think quick enough on her feet to say that she would deliver her lecture tonight and he could take her slot next week. (these people are teaching me? I could teach them a thing or two…), I don’t care–NO CLASS!
We are supposed to be using this time to work on our projects. Yeah, I’ll get right on that!
And I like cheese blintzes. Yummers.
McUne–welcome to the MMP. We are all Cool Kids here. The only requirements are chocolate to FCM and posting mundane and pointless things (but we allow lots of leeway there). Beer keg down the hall; step over Swampy and** VB**–don’t wake them, they tend to sing.
Excellent choice. You’ve just earned a buncha super secret **FCM ** bonus points… but I’ve said too much. 
Oh, but they’re so cute when they sing.
Here’s a song I like.
The old guy in the jacket is Amitabh Bacchan, super-hit megastar who’s been around since the 70’s, and is my favorite actor.
The young guy is his son, Abhishek Bacchan.
And the girl is Aishwarya Rai, the one who married Abhishek - and is Amitabh’s Daughter in law.
Unfoirtunately there’s no subtitles but it is still interesting to see the master teach the pupil, so to speak.
Amitabh is also 70+ so it’s great to see him still on the dance floor. He formed a major part of my childhood movie watching.
ETA: I guess I can translate a little. In India a stretch is considered very sexy, most likely because it really emphasizes the body’s curves, etc. So she is saying
“Meri angrai na toote tu aaja!”
"Come quick, before I finish stretching.
And they are saying,
“Kajrare, kajrare, tere kaare kaare naina”
“O she of dark eyes, your eyes are so beautiful”
Kajrare literally means “she with kohl in her eyes”. Doesn’t translate very well at all into English.
Are the frozen crab cakes they sell at the supermarket any good? Being a poor ex-grad student living in Chicago, fresh ones are hard to come by.
Someone please explain to me why I have a sudden craving for McNuggets.
Personally I don’t really like the ones that I have tried; I got them at Sam’s club. It might have just been that brand though. And of course I don’t remember what brand they were, lol.
No, I’m afraid they’re crap.
Not as crap as McNuggets, though. Don’t do it! Don’t poison your body with McNuggets…
The reviews for Harry Potter 5 seem mixed, but we’re still going after work tomorrow.
I was going to go watch movies, but #2 son is watching some damned Star Wars prequel. (I don’t consider them to be real movies–if Luca had been more organized, he would have done those first!)
Do we need a beer run? There are more chips. Clean towels in the closet.
Here’s some clarified butter for the crab legs, a strawberry shortcake with fresh strawberries and chocolate shavings, and some more tequila.
Welcome, McUne! Don’t step on the cats, they do tend to get underfoot…
[cast of Rent]Wine and beer!!![/coR]