# I Decided To Start This Week's MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [November 10, 2014, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229 "2014-11-10T10:51:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [November 11, 2014, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/61 "2014-11-11T10:20:28Z")
Up, caffeinated, off to work. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2014, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/62 "2014-11-11T11:15:44Z")
Good morning!! I woke up unaided for no apparent reason, so I guess I’d had enough sleep. Not sure what the day holds - it’s supposed to be relatively mild and I have 2 things from my mom that really need to be planted, so maybe I’ll tend to that. Otherwise, dunno what I’ll do. Tomorrow will be more cooking and baking before the trip. And packing. And the pet sitter is coming over to get the keys. I supposed I could clean my desk… ^ Look - I made a joke!!! 😃 Happy Tuesday!! ---
**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:** [November 11, 2014, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/63 "2014-11-11T11:22:09Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. _YAWN_ 'Tis 47 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 78 for the day. Yes, I am up now on a day off. I got up just like I would on an irk day cause, well, tomorrow will be an irk day. Plus also, I put a whole chikin on to boil for chikin ‘n dressin’. ‘Tis now coolin’ off. Go Me! Plans for the day include the makin’ of said chikin’ ‘n dressin’ to go in da freezer for Turkey Day, makin’ death chikin for dindin, and makin’ some chawklit chip pee-kahn cookies cause **MOOOOOOM** done flung a cravin’ on me. **Grump** since fart blossoms are harvested from Satan’s own garden, they are indeed little balls of hell. **red** sounds like neither one of us would have problems passin’ an “emissions test.” 😃 **sari** don’t do what I did earlier. I walked down to the mailbox to get the paper and put some mail in the box. I then walked all the way back up the driveway just to turn around and go back to the mailbox to get the mail out cause, ummm… Veterans Day = national holiday = no mail today. :smack: I need more caffiene and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. I should also purtify somewhat just cause I should. If’n I am to spend the day bein’ a happy homemaker I should look the part. 😛 I don’t look good in pearls and heels so I’ll just do the best I can. Happy Tuesday Y’all! Happy Veterans Day to all the Veteran Mumpers! ---
**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:** [November 11, 2014, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/64 "2014-11-11T11:25:17Z")
Today’s going to be the last warm day of the year in the high country. I have called it. (After looking at the week ahead on Weatherbug, that is. The precipitation is about to get _real_.) ---
**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:** [November 11, 2014, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/65 "2014-11-11T11:32:51Z")
I just looked at the 10-day forecasts for here and Ocala. We’re going to a relatively mild week, then returning just in time for freezing rain. Oh joy! ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/66 "2014-11-11T12:38:26Z")
To all who have served, thank you! Today’s the day to see the girly doc again. With any luck, I can get rid of the hardware and go home to my house. Of course, I’ll miss having a chihuahua being attached to my left hip. 😛 ---
**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:** [November 11, 2014, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/67 "2014-11-11T12:38:50Z")
I always liked fart balls (as they were known in my childhood home, at least when Mum wasn’t in earshot). Shame I’m rubbish at growing them. I’m trying to be all domesticated again, and bakin’ bread. Hopefully it’ll be better than the last lot- I put too much sweetener in, and it tasted weird. It’s soggy and cold, and I have no irk, so there’s not a lot else to do. I may chutnify something later, or make soup, or attempt a sweet NOT pie. Or attempt all of the above in a sort of octopus multitasking manner. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2014, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/68 "2014-11-11T12:51:38Z")
One of these days, I’m going to be daring and try to make bread sans bread machine. Maybe. I lurves me some freshly baked bread, and I have some really yum bread machine recipes. Is hand-kneaded bread that much better? Overcast and dreary out there today. Maybe some sun later. Meanwhile, I should probably try to accomplish something. Right? To prove I’m not a total slug… ---
**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:** [November 11, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/69 "2014-11-11T13:51:14Z")
Not sure hand kneaded bread is much better tasting- it’s probably better for you though, 'cos you burn off half the calories kneading the stoopit stuff. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2014, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/70 "2014-11-11T13:58:52Z")
Yeah, but to get out the bread machine, I have to empty half of a cabinet… on my knees. Then I have to get up, pick up the machine, carry it 8 whole feet to the other side of the kitchen, then haul down the bag of flour from the top pantry shelf. Plus opening the fridge to fetch an egg. And pawing thru the spice cabinet for, um, spices and stuff. And walking to the sink for water. And there’s the reach alllllllll the way across the counter to the outlet. That seems to be a pretty rigorous workout, yanno?? Especially when I add the vigorous sighing and stuff. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/71 "2014-11-11T14:20:00Z")
We have a breadmaker. I love bread made in it, though we haven’t done it in a while. I think I’ll head downtown in a bit. There are a couple of things I’d like to do there. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/72 "2014-11-11T14:22:15Z")
Oh yeah, I have organized the green guest room, cramming some things in the closet and sliding some things under the bed. One box of books has been covered with a plastic bag and it now serves as a plant stand for the 3 spider plants that I’ve brought in from the front steps. The window is locked, but I’ve opened the curtain a little bit to permit some afternoon sun to shine on the plants. While I was organizing, I discovered that I’m missing the V book in the Sue Grafton series - guess I need to order it. We don’t want an incomplete alphabet! 😃 \*\*FCD \*\*is continuing his work on my sister’s scooter. It’s looking good - not something I’d want, but he still does nice work. I think she’ll like it. And so it goes… ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/73 "2014-11-11T14:26:44Z")
buh - lerf! ---
**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:** [November 11, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/74 "2014-11-11T14:32:51Z")
Chikin ‘n dressin’ is all made up. I’m lettin’ it get all cooled down before stickin’ it in da freezer. I have also put together death chikin in a casserole for bakeage later. I have four dozen regular chawklit chip cookies made. The first of the chawklit chip pee-kahn cookies are bakin’ as I post. There shall also be four dozen of those. When they’re all done and cool enough, Ima take some to OYKW’s orifice as a surprise. Hence the cookies sans pee-kahns in case there’s some with a nut (NON) allergy. Just slap a string of pearls on me and call me June Cleaver! 😃 ---
**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:** [November 11, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/75 "2014-11-11T14:38:57Z")
You can’t be June Cleaver without a frilly apron, too! ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/76 "2014-11-11T16:08:37Z")
Frankly, **swampy** , I see multi color glass beads as more your style. Or something earthy and bearish. 😃 I’ve never made bread in a machine but back in the dippy hippy years with kids in the house, I made all of our bread for a long time. As a single diabetic, I find that the bakery at the Kroger sto’ suffices. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/77 "2014-11-11T16:15:34Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I have also put together death chikin in a casserole for bakeage later. I had to explain “death casseroles” to a friend earlier this year. Apparently they are not a New England thing! ---
**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:** [November 11, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/78 "2014-11-11T16:59:23Z")
Back from cookie deliverage. The cookies were much appreciated as opposed to “appreciated.” 😃 Also, had an early N.O.L. with OYKW which was a nice surprise for me. Nuttin’ special, we went to Subway. > [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > I had to explain “death casseroles” to a friend earlier this year. Apparently they are not a New England thing! I had to explain death chikin to folks in OYKW’s orifice. See, as mentioned above OYKW suggested we go grab some N.O.L. I said sure but nuttin’ too big as we’re havin’ death chikin for supper. Natch, that raised a few eyebrows and an explanation was called for. OYKW also told everybody that I learned about this from some strange, dark place on the internet. A perfect description of the Dope is it not? 😃 I have sweet N.O.T. bakin’ away now to be turned into sweet N.O.T. casserole which will also go into da freezer and reappear at Turkey Day. A couple may get re-warmed for dindin. Death chickin, peas 'n carrots, sweet N.O.T., and rolls sounds good together, right? **red** I am wearin’ a gray tshirt, blue plaid pj bottoms, white socks and my robe. That sound more like me? ---
**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:** [November 11, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/79 "2014-11-11T17:36:43Z")
Is that how you dressed to go out in public?? Do you want to get your FAAAAAAAAABULOUS Card revoked?!?!? I just watched Frank Oz’s remake of The Stepford Wives. It was stupid. Don’t bother. I’m now having lunch. Dunno what’s next. Ah, retirement!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229/80 "2014-11-11T17:41:36Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Back from cookie deliverage. ::checks front door:: ::checks rear door:: Ummm, no, no your not! :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-decided-to-start-this-weeks-mmp/704229.md?page=5)