Last week, a number of us were filled with crankiness. For some of us (I’m looking at you, Nava.), it was time to work on a career change. Others (Hi rigs!) screamed. Others just crawled back into bed (me, on Saturday).
This week, I’m declaring it time for a break from The House at Grrrrrr Corner because it’s Mardi Gras! Carnaval! Fasching! Fasnacht! Karneval! Time to shake, rattle and roll our way out of the blues.
Today it’s Rosenmontag in the parts of Germany, Austria and Switzerland that celebrate Karneval/Fasching/Fasnacht. (Well, except in Basel, where they celebrate a week later than everyone else. See?)
Some pictures to get you in the mood: Bonn. Somewhere in Southern Germany.Seligenstadt am Main My friends who live in an area where this is celebrated dress up and participate in parades that look a lot like that last set of pictures.
So, everyone get out those beads, put on a silly costume, cut off people’s ties, and jump up and down. We’re gonna have a great week! With pancakes! Yay!
So previously, I said that I would probably be majoring in Poli Sci and something else. Right now, I’m swinging back towards just majoring in Poli Sci, graduating next year, and starting a real career in the Democratic Party. Problem is, I’m not sure if the latter is feasible for me, although with luck I’ll find out a bit more this summer when I’m working for someone’s campaign. And unfortunately, as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, if I major in Poli Sci alone, it’s a VERY different plan from adding a major or minor, so I really don’t have a whole lot of time to decide. Right now, though, the prospect of being done with school after only two (and a half, counting this one) more semesters is pretty attractive.
Also, I want to get this cheese assortment, but I’m not sure how long it takes, so I can’t really time it to arrive home about when I do, so I’ll have the maximum amount of time to enjoy it. It’s a bit expensive, but I’d really like to try some cheeses more unusual than are found in the grocery store, and I don’t want to buy a large chunk of one kind, because I don’t know what I’ll like. Any thoughts on other options?
I’m willing to stay out of the House at Grrrr Corner this week, aided by oceanside negatively charged ions and hanky panky. Sounds like a very good idea! Not too sure about the pancake thingy–if I’m remembering back in the mists of time correctly that would be Thursday, yes? If I can find a good blueberry pancake I’ll think about giving it some belly room. Right now I’m all sugar highed on chocolate cake, wooooooo! It feels really weird when you go a month or two with almost no processed sugar then smack yourself in the mouth with a big old chunk of it–of course the coupla healthy bowls might have had something to do with it as well, tee hee… I’m SO gonna have a sugar hangover tomorrow! :smack:
Would it be uncool to repost my link to my picture slideshow from the previous MMP? I should be heading to bed so I can actually start my Monday being awake.
I’ll be turning the big five oh this year as well.
Hope you and himself have a great mini-vacation at the Ocean. We are heading to Long Beach in a couple weeks to do the same.
What is the deal with pancakes on Thursday?
I ask because I am having my 4 wisdom teeth carved out Thursday afternoon:( and will want something soft for dinner I expect.
MMMMM pancakes
Chocolate cake sure sounds good to me right now. Yay for bowls!
If I have my liturgical calendarical thingies in line, Maundy Thursday is the pancake day–but what do I know? I was a flunked Lutheran who detoured through the Jehovah’s Witlesses on the way to Neopagan atheism–but I do like blueberry pancakes, I must say…
Sorry about the wisdom teeth, those things suck! Bowls are good but they don’t let you smoke anything after an extraction, so perhaps some lovely tea is in order! Whee!
I loved Mardi Gras when I was younger - I grew up (for a couple of years, at least) in Louisiana, and when my family moved to California no one in the small town where we lived really celebrated it. I had a big box of beads left over from LA parades, and I managed to bring the tradition - flashing and all - to my high school. I’m sure the teachers wondered about all the beads - they were definitely well earned! That memory has well & truly cheered me up for today, at least.
I ordered cheeses from iGourmet once when I wanted to treat myself, and while it was expensive, it arrived very quickly, with the ice package and everything, and it was very much worth it.
Great OP, gt! - and just what I need to cheer me up today. I still have Teh Grr and at the moment I’m starting to wonder just why I’m staying with 'im indoors as I am seeing less and less reason to do so.
Cap’n, if you order the cheese then let me know if there’s any you don’ t like and I’ll help you out with them! I do love a good bit of cheese.
An unremarkable weekend was had here, made more pleasant by a text from a friend yesterday lunchtime with an offer to tea and cake. That became gossip, grumbling and general man-bashing. Definitely worth getting out of bed for!
Morning all! Up and caffeinating … yeah, I’m still having caffeine. Want to make something of it?! Uh oh … no more house at Grr Corner, sorry GT, and very nice OP, btw.
First things first: it’s Fat -Tuesday- not Thursday ::snorts at the pagans:: The last day before the fasting starts with Ash Wednesday for Lent. Well, that was the original idea, I guess. LOL Mardi Gras, whee!
Sleeps with Butterflies, the MMP simply stands for Monday Morning Post and it’s open to anyone and everyone, as long as you offer up the chocolate to FairyChatMom that is. We also talk about just about any subject under the sun, and we unload when we need to, cause that’s what we’re here for.
Well, I’d better get up and off to work. Happy Monday all.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ here. I need to get a move on soon and get ready for workification. Le sigh. I didn’t get outta there til almost eleven last night so I’s tahred still!
Great OP gt! I have Mardi Gras beads too. I think I’ll get 'em out tomorrow and wear ‘em. Oh and yeah, pancakes for dindin tomorrow night for sure! My church is not doin’ a Shrove Tuesday pancake supper so I guess I’ll have to do my own. I envision pancakes and burly butcher bacon.
SmartiePants what day exactly is your birthday? I hope I didn’t miss it! I need to sing real loud for ya.
What’s uncool is asking and then not reposting the link. What, you want me to go all the way back to my list of bookmarked threads and find last week’s MMP? :mad: The horror!!
Depends… Are you female?
I’m going to try to follow GT’s orders and leave the House at Grrr Corner for a while… take a walk in the fresh air and relax a bit… We’ll see how this works out later in the week!
Oh, and I dunno what that long word in the title is, but the real name for it is Purim! (Seriously, I think these are all just pagan and “religified” End-of-Winter / Equinox holidays.)
I slept all thru the night for once, and that’s a good thing! ReboSon and friend came over for dinner last night. I made King Ranch Chicken (I think that one’s in the blog already.) They scarfed it up, and had seconds on salad, too. I have a feeling those boys don’t eat many veggies.
I didn’t get a new electric skillet yesterday. I only went to Mal-Wart - and they had a giant choice of two. And they were out of the small one, which was really too small for us anyway. The large one was $40 and looked like a giant roaster! I want the Mama bear size. I’ll keep looking.
I think I need IV caffeine this morning, can’t seem to wake up fully.
And, yeah, Sleeps with Butterflies, the MMP is generally full of stuff that would have been OPs for really short threads. The OP is generally hijacked after the first few posts and then the conversation goes on in pretty much any direction.
I was going to go in to work a bit early, but I was up too late. So I guess I’ll have to be extra efficient this morning.
:: Dances out of the MMP, flinging beads at the crowds::
I have a question (well, more like a WTH than a real question) for the Jewish Mumpers:
Firday, I was checking out an old guy at a traffic accident I witnessed (he’s OK, BTW), and I saw a necklace with a Star of David on it when looking for medical jewelry. So, to make conversation while I looked for injuries, I said, “Oh, you’re Jewish?”
Yes, was the answer. There was another necklace with a tiny little canister and another Star Of David. Me, of course thinking medical, asked, “Do you take nitro?”
“No, (silly, implied) that’s my mezzuzah.”
“I thought those were supposed to be on your door frame.”
“Not when you live in a retirement community and they won’t let you put one up.”
How common is a mezzuzah around the neck, just so I don’t look like an idiot the next time I see one?
I don’t really know if it’s common, but I always wore mine around my neck, until one year the chain broke and I lost it. But my Grandpa had given it to me that way; that is, mounted on the chain. And he wouldn’t have done that if it had been downright wrong. Hmmm, maybe I should get one for my doorframe before I start working on the plumbing again…
I’m sure the teachers wondered about all the beads - they were definitely well earned! That memory has well & truly cheered me up for today, at least.
We also talk about just about any subject under the sun, and we unload when we need to, cause that’s what we’re here for. 
“I thought those were supposed to be on your door frame.”