Lesbian Gingerbread - A Chocolatey and Nostalgic MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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With the bag, I think it is a combination of compromise (between all three of us) and a tiny little power struggle (between sson and new wife). Personally I think the solution is to load up a dresser drawer with his clothes (nice new ones too) and eliminate any need to bring anything but himself. Same goes for his brother and sister as well, I likes to keep it simple.

Yeah, the autism thing was interesting but not entirely suprising. The visit to this neurologist was suggested by the school who suspected aspergers.

You know aspergers don’t you? It’s where you eat too many McDonalds cheeseburgers and they start coming out your as… er… never mind.

But the neurologist was almost passive about autism. He was much more interested in the hypotonia, general low muscle tone, larger than average growth, what’s going on in his head, what’s going on in his genes, stuff like that. Autism was put on the back shelf as soon as it was diagnosed.

Thursday’s the CT scan and EEG. Based on results for these the chromazome tests are next.

This all relieves his mother who was told he was below the borderline of IQ and was worried about his future. I saw right away the boy is very intelligent, he scored low on the IQ test because he was messin’ with it. Heck, at the neurologist’s office he answered every question with “I like peanut butter” just to throw the doctor off (until the doctor started playing back and including peanut butter related questions and started getting serious answers).

“You really want to know what his IQ is?” I tell his mother, “Then give him an IQ test in ‘his’ own environment, not a clinical standard environment.”

Meh, I could still be wrong, I’m a box maker not a doctor.

Thanks for the warm welcomes though.

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Evenin’ all! Welcome to all the new Cool Kids!

Taxi, this is golden syrup!

LiLi, my sister said when her son started biting, she just gently removed the nipple from his mouth and told him NO! After a few times, he realised that biting was not the key to getting more milk; rather it was a surefire way to get none!

HRH is finally asleep, although I had to give myself some time-outs through the afternoon, 'cause she was acting up so much I thought I was going to scream (and did, in fact, in the privacy of the bathroom, while she wailed through the door and beat her little fists demanding that Mummy come out). Sigh! The thing that really upsets me though is how she throws a tantrum and gets hyper-upset about laying down to have her nappy/diaper changed. Struggling with a poo-laden baby is not my idea of fun on any day! Any ideas, anyone? PLEASE HELP ME!!! :frowning: :frowning: :frowning:

Well, I promised hubby I would make lasagna for dinner, so I better go clean up the kitchen and make something resembling lasagna! At least HRH’s dinner went down well - 2-minute noodles mixed with flaked tuna and plain yoghurt! Who’da thunk it? Not me - I hate tuna (too many tuna mornays as a child)!

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I have added your recipe to the Mumper’s Recipe blog. And used your picture (but not your bandwidth). If that’s not ok, please let me know. :slight_smile:

Also the recipe for Lesbian Gingerbread has been added. I think I’m caught up again.

OH and thanks for the comments for those who have added them. As you make the recipes, post your review on the blog. :slight_smile:

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Hmm… looks like it’s not widely available here. Does anyone know a good substitute? Corn syrup? Molasses? Honey?

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I use honey.

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Ack! I’ve been sitting here relaxing all morning, but Steve the Affordable Computer Repair Guy just called and is going to be here a couple of hours sooner than expected! Not that I’m complaining, except it means I have to clean my office NOW! Ack!!

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OK, thanks! I’ll give it a try.

Our cat was so cute yesterday. We’ve got a little patio off the front of our house, and we let her out there (with close supervision) yesterday to sit in the sun. She loooooved it and rolled around all over the place. Which was entirely cute until we realized she’d turned gray from all the dust on the patio! :eek: When we went back inside we had to brush her out and then use the kitty bath wipes to try to get her clean. She does NOT like that! But we didn’t want her licking off all that dust and maybe ice-melting salt stuff. Poor kitty. Her fur still feels all dry and crackly since the dust took out all her natural oils. It’ll be a couple days before she’s back to normal. And we’ll have to sweep out the patio before we let her out again!

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Taxi, I usually sub dark corn syrup for golden syrup when I can’t find it. It’s not quite the same, but it gives the finished product a similar gooey-chewy-sweet consistency. (which is pretty rare, actually… I guess it’s our quasi-Britishness shining through, but most local supermarkets tend to carry Lyle’s in the same aisle as the Aunt Jemima and the maple syrup)

LiLi and Dotty, you should really reconsider my suggestion of getting the kidlets hooked on opiates. It’s just so much easier to deal with biting/tantrums when they’re all doped up, and just think how easy it’ll be to discipline them later on when they’re being frustratingly teenager-like… grounding takes on a whole new level when you can threaten violently unpleasant withdrawal symptoms, dontchaknow.

Yes, I’d make a terrible parent. Good thing I have no plans to raise anything but whiny cats.

Speaking of which… anyone want a cat? Please? The Morganism was up at 5am this morning, chittering at the birds outside (she makes a staccatto sound when she sees birds outside - I suspect she secretly wants to be a birdie). It’s cute, but not that cute at 5am. Grrrr.

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I got my refund! YAY!

Today I feel much more human, though I think it’s going to take a couple more days to feel all the way human again.

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HazelNut, -Thank You- for posting the recipe! It sounds so delectable, I can’t wait to try it!

Glad I asked! :smiley:

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Lyle’s Golden Syrup might be available. Check near the molasses or the pancake syrup. Otherwise, corn syrup.
Dotty, I think it’s just one of those days for our kids. I’m going to start drinking at three or so this afternoon. I’ll be snockered by the time Mr. Lissar gets home.

: ponders opiates:

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Oh, speaking of food, I meant to add - KeithT made venison Swiss steak for dinner on Saturday. It was tres yummy! And then yesterday he made pork-patty-gyros. They were really good too. We’ve been eating some pretty yummy food lately.

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Steve the Affordable Computer Repair Guy is hard at work in my office. The Idiots and I are staying out of his way Although the occasional exclamations of “Crap!” don’t cheer me up. :frowning:

But when he gives me his final bill, I’ll be MUCH cheerier. :smiley: Last time he was here, he diagnosed my problem – a damaged hard drive – took it back to his place, cleaned it up, mirrored it onto a new drive, and delivered my computer back to me, all for the whopping sum of $240. Including the new drive. You can see why I’m his fan!

Is it bedtime yet?

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Couple of things:

  1. I hate tuna as well. The smell, taste and texture of it. Bah.

  2. It’s been a long time since I had one in diapers, but you could try a few things. First, have a toy or two that ONLY comes out at changing time–keep it in the top drawer of the changing table or on a shelf nearby where HRH can’t get at it. A musical book or similar works well (I’d go out and buy a brand new toy and not show it to her until she’s horizontal). You can also try singing a silly song (that worked for my kids) or just razzing them:“oh, mommy gonna change you! She’s gotta get all that poop off your bottom!” nonsense talk but with a teasing tone so that you have their attention.

  3. If these don’t work, you might staple her to the changing table. The marks look like dimples after a few years.
    I made the pepperoni bread sans pepperoni today. It’s good, but IMO it needs garlic (IMO, the only 2 things not improved by garlic are ice cream and chocolate).

I’m making Mexican chicken for dinner. Am too lazy to post recipe. Off to read rest of thread.

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Howdy Y’all! Sneakin’ in a post durin’ lunch break. It’s cool here today. Only like 55 Amurrkin outside! :eek: I’m afraid there’ll be an iceberg in my pool.

nd_n8 sounds like you and current wife are on the right track. I was thinkin’ clear backpack too but I see Puggy beat me to it. Welcome to the MMP. Same goes for all you other new cool kids too. You’ve posted so you are officially cool kids and mumpers. You can join up real easy but you can never leave. You’re one of us now, forever!

Ok, gotta get back to the grind.

Later Y’all!

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No remedy, but you remind me of the daughter of a friend of mine. Her teeth started coming in early-ish, and she used them when she latched on to feed. She got weaned on pretty much the same day as she turned to see who had come into the room without first letting go … :eek:

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Heheh. Spread the lesbian chocolatey goodness!

No students today for my 12:30 class. Hmph. Guess I’ll get a copy of this week’s New Yorker and enjoy a leisurely lunch.

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Ack! Now my computer is gone off to the shop! Looks like there’s a physically bad spot on the drive. Again. :frowning: Which means I have to hope and pray that last year’s tax file that I managed to pull off the now-dead computer last night is in a usable form by this year’s tax software. Grrr…although Steve the ACRG agreed with me that just my expectation of doing my taxes was enough to make it die on me last night. :frowning: Stoopid computer. :frowning:

I definitely just want to crawl back into bed and pull the covers over my head and not come out again for a week or so…

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Okay, okay, so apparently I’m cool after all. Thanks, everybody! :smiley:

Just got back from my morning poetry class, where we’re talking about Louise Gluck’s The Wild Iris. Last class, the professor read the entire book out loud to us, which was an absolutely amazing experience. That woman has the best reading voice of any person I have ever met in real life, which is a little odd when one stops to analyze it, because she has a muddled, mixed-up cross between a New England and a Louisiana accent. But damn, she could make Vogon poetry sound profoundly meaningful and sexy. Anyway, today she asks us why The Wild Iris deserved the Pulitzer, and got a classroom full of blank stares in reply. Switching tacks, she asked us if we thought it was overrated and not worth all the hype. I was tempted to play devil’s advocate and say something like this:

Hawthorn, hawthorn, iris. Rose, daisy, birch, birch. Peas, God, John, garden, God, scilla, daisy, rose. Hawthorn, Hawthorn.

But I didn’t, cause I’m a good kid. Anyway, after a rocky start, we got around to a really interesting discussion involving Gluck, Milton, the Talmud and Harold Bloom (this prof loooooves Bloom. As far as I can tell, it’s her only imperfection).

So now I’m home and off to bed, as soon as I smoke one more cigarette. Maybe two. My last day of work is Sunday, so tonight I start training my replacement. Oh joys. And I talked to my brother last night and we finally settled my moving date. As of May 30th, I will no longer be a Floridian. Wooot!

Oh, and can anyone tell me how to do umlauts? I’ve had more than a couple of posts in the last 24 hours that required them, but I don’t know how.