MMP: It's a FairyChatMom Birthday with Buttermilk Biscuits!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Today’s list of birthdays contains one very special birthday for all us MMP cool kids. Scroll down the list and see if you can guess which one it is. :smiley:

Birthdates which occurred on January 23:
1574 Lucas I Franchoys Belgian painter
1730 Joseph Hewes US merchant (Declaration of Independence signer)
1813 Franz Commer composer
1832 Édouard Manet France, Impressionist painter (Déjeuner sur L’Herbe)
1867 Herbert Bedford composer
1868 Juventino Rosas composer
1869 Carlo Felice Boghen composer
1869 Herbert David Croly US author (Promise of American Life)
1891 Antonio Gramsci Italian philosopher/marxist theorist
1893 Frank Carlson (Governor/Republican/Senator-R-KS)
1896 Charlotte grand duchess of Luxembourg (1919-64)
1898 Sergei Eisenstein Russia, film maker (Battleship Potemkin)
1898 Randolph Scott actor (Last of the Mohicans, Western Union)
1899 Humphrey Bogart actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny, African Queen)
1900 Mary Philips CT, actress (Farewell to Arms, Incendiary Blonde)
1902 Benny Waters saxophonist
1904 Theodor Schaefer composer
1905 David Newell Missouri, actor (Runaway Bride, White Heat, Dangerous Curves)
1906 Bob Steele Pendleton OR, actor (Duffy-F Troop, Big Sleep)
1907 Dan Duryea White Plains NY, actor (Pride of the Yankees)
1907 Hediki Yukawa Japan, physicist (Nobel 1949)
1914 Napoleon L Bonaparte French pretender to the throne
1915 Potter Stewart Michigan, 94th Supreme Court justice (1958-81)
1918 Gertrude Belle Elion New York City NY, biochemist/drug researcher (Nobel 1988)
1919 Ernie Kovacs Trenton NJ, comedian (Ernie Kovacs’ Show)
1923 Florence Halop Queens, actress (Florence-Night Court, St Elsewhere)
1925 Marty Paich Oakland CA, orchestra leader (Sonny & Cher, Glenn Campbell)
1930 William Reid Pogue Okemah OK, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Skylab 4)
1933 Arlene Golonka Chicago IL, actress (Millie-Mayberry RFD)
1933 Chita Rivera Washington DC, actress (West Side Story, Sweet Charity)
1940 Johnny Russell country singer
1942 Ivan Ivanovich Bachurin cosmonaut
1942 Willy Bogner Jr Munich Germany, director (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service)
1943 Gil Gerard Little Rock AR, actor (Buck Rogers in 25th Century)
1944 Jerry Lawson US singer (Persuasions-Under the Boardwalk)
1948 Anita Pointer Oakland, rock vocalist (Pointer Sisters-She’s So Shy)
1950 Patrick Simmons guitarist/vocal (Doobie Brothers-Minute by Minute)
1950 Richard Dean Anderson Minneapolis MN, actor (MacGyver, Emerald Point NAS)
1950 William Cunningham rock bassist/pianist (Box Tops-Letter)
1950 Danny Federici rocker (E Street Band)
1954 Rick Finch rocker (KC & Sunshine Band-Give It)
1954 Edward Ka-spel English singer/songwriter (Legendary Pink Dots)
1954 Our very own FAIRYCHATMOM (domestic/pottery goddess and collector of fine chocolates)
1954 Franco De Vita Caracas Venezuela, Spanish singer (Extranjero)
1954 Trevor Hohns cricketer (Australian leg-spinner 1989)
1955 Reginald Calloway trumpet player (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1955 Alexander O’Neal R&B singer
1957 Princess Caroline [Louise Marguerite Grimaldi] of Monaco
1959 Tyrone Power Jr Los Angeles CA, actor (Shag)
1959 Earl Falconer British reggae bassist (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1960 Misha Mck East Orange NJ, actress (Gerri-Me & Mrs C)
1963 Hakeem Olajuwon NBA center (Houston Rockets)
1971 Mark Grimmette Ann Arbor MI, doubles luger (Olympics-1994)
1974 Tiffani-Amber Theissen Long Beach CA, actress (Saved by Bell, 90210)

I would be remiss if I failed to mention that she is six months and six days older than me. Is that old or what? :eek:

Ok everybody, join me in song!
<AHEM> CLEARING THROAT <AHEM>

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HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY DEEAAARRR FAAAIIIRRRYYYCHAAATTTMOOOMMM!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
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In honor of this auspicious occasion, we should all go eat some buttermilk biscuits. How’s that rigs?

HAPPY MONDAY AND FCM BIRTHDAY!!!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FCM!!!

Here, have some calorie-free extra-fine truffles! And some in-line skates to assist in the running of the vacuum!

GT

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Dish me up a plate, I’m starvin’

:: munch, munch, schlorp, munch, gulp, munch ::

Ovh, mand, rhappy burfday :: munch:: FaihchryChratMomph :: munch :: !!

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Happy Birthday, FCMom!
I have a new chandelier for your present, and a call for you on the pinko phone…

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Happy Birthday, **FCM{/b]

scurries out of the MMP, back to the uncool kids’ table where she belongs

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Dang! twicks got away before I could give her a noogie! :smiley:

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HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY, BIRTHDAY. TO FAIRYCHATMOM WHO IS ALMOST ROYALTY IN THE MMP!!

Happy Birthday, I hope its the best, most exciting, sexiest, rewarding birthday ever and that you win the Powerball Lottery, and never have lift a finger again.

M

I have to go make a cheesecake… :smiley:

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Happy Birthday, FCM!

I’ve been so busy, I haven’t been posting much. I had Friday off, and went to the doctor for a diabetes checkup. I had to FAST for a blood draw. So immediately afterward I went to eat breakfast. Shopped all day. I didn’t buy much - a couple of shirts and a pair of jeans.

Saturday we had planned to have a garage sale, but we got much needed rain all weekend. So Tom and I went shopping on Saturday (it wasn’t raining much yet) and bought curtains! Tom finished painting the walls, and then installed them last night. Fabulous! It changes the room so much - as does the fresh paint.

Also grocery shopping and laundry - mundane but not pointless, at least…

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Happy Birthday, FCM!
Dang, that comma on my keyboard looks a lot like a period.

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Happy Birthday, FCM!!!

It’s a real honor to share your birthday with Tiffani-Amber Theissen.

Pass me some of those biscuits. Who has the butter? Shibby, didn’t anyone ever tell you not to talk with your mouth full? Slow down a little bit–I don’t want to have to give you the Heimlich!

picunurse, I hope you’re making enough cheesecake for all of us! Especially if it involves chocolate.

twickster, you get right back here. You are so a cool kid. You should hang out here more often.

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Happy Birthday, FCM!

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The envelopes get pretty soggy.
The cheesecake I shall make will be:

Mary’s Chocolate Cheery Cherry CheeseCake.

Pre-heat oven to 350 ° F

CRUST:

1 1/2 cups Oreo cookie crumbs, use food processor, about 18 cookies (Don’t lick off the filling!)
4 Tbs Butter or margarine

FILLING:
32 oz soft cream cheese (4- 8 oz packages)
1 cup sugar
3 Tbs flour
4 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 Tbs vanilla
1 can (21 oz) cherry pie filling

CRUST:
Mix cookie crumbs and butter (use food processor) Press onto bottom of 9 or 10 inch spring form pan. Bake 10 minutes

FILLING:
Beat cream cheese, sugar, and flour with either electric mixer or in food processor until well blended. Add eggs, one at a time, mix well after each. Blend in sour cream and vanilla, until smooth. Pour over crust.

Bake for 1 hour 10 minutes.

After removing from the oven, run a metal spatula around the edge to loosen the crust. Refrigerate.
Remove the springform rim when cool.

When ready to serve, pour the cherries over the top surface. Whipped cream is optional.

So, anyone who wants some will have to come to my house. FCM, sorry about celebrating your birthday without you, but, any excuse for cheescake… :smiley: And you are invited.

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I agree, Twickster is a cool kid! I feel cool just posting in the same thread with her!

And HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! FairyChatMom! While we have never met, I do cherish the one speaker-phone conversation we had c. 2001. (?)

I am, as we speak, enjoing a lovely zone diet Breakfast Burrito, or quesdilla, or something. It’s a tortilla loaded with guacamole, red pepper, tomato, onion, chopped turkey and cheese. Nuke til slightly warm, eat! You get to eat a cup of grapes with it, too. I spent most of the day (it seemed) yesterday making a veritable buttload of these things for darling husband and I to eat this week. I made two for us yesterday, too–so I made a total of eight of the blasted things and that’ll only take us through Wednesday! But I digress. I am LOSING WEIGHT. Five pounds so far, after just a week. It’s nice to see progress!

Nice job on the research, swampy. I like an educational MMP.

Morning everybody!!

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Happy Birthday, FCM! I’m sending you a plate of virtual brownies.

We saw Chronicles of Narnia over the weekend, and I got to yell! There was a couple with a wee tot, under a year, and although she wasn’t crying she was most certainly NOT interested in the movie. After nearly two hours of listening to her gurgle and coo and yelp, I hollered “Shut that kid up!”

The audience went “ooooohhhhh,” my family gasped (because I am so NOT like that) and the kid never made another peep. I’m all for gurgling and cooing infants, but not during the movies!

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Happy birthday, FCM! snogs hugely

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Good for you. I have a tendency to yell at teenagers in the movie theater. They may not have worked for the money to see that movie, but I did, and dammit, I’d like to hear it, too. I was a teenager once myself, but I knew that when the lights go out, you shut up.

This weekend, I painted my bedroom. All by my lonesome. And it looks fabulous. There was a small incident with a cat (Ol’ Primer Paws, as we call him now), but nothing that couldn’t be covered up. I still have to do the top section of the wall in a different color, but that won’t be tough at all. (She said before she thought too hard about all the windows and taping off the moldings and painting in between them.) I love the new color though–it’s certainly better than the BARBIE PINK it was before. It’s so green now, it’s like sleeping inside a pool table. And that’s pretty much all I did with my weekend. I didn’t even watch movies while I painted because the TV was under the ginormous plastic dropcloth that I can’t fold back up and is the same size as I am when I bunch it.

Oh, and …
Happy Birthday, FCM!!!

Speaking of cats (and I was, up there points), New Roomie went and put a deposit down this weekend to adopt a cat of her very own. His name is Chunk, he weighs twenty pounds, he’s only a year and a half old, and I’m reliably informed that he’s a real cat’s cat–he doesn’t give a damn about what you do as long as you leave him alone and maybe skritch him on his terms every now and then. We’re picking him up Friday. I’m sure Primer Paws will have a not-so-dignified hissy fit, but Khan and Chunk will probably slap him down pretty quick. I imagine poor Sirius will be low man on the scratching post once Khan realizes that the new guy is a friend to cuddle up with and go to sleep.

Come to think of it, I could really use one of those, myself. le sigh One thing at a time. First paint the bedroom, then worry about the mural in the living room and the distinct absence of a kitchen table, then lament lack of cuddle-buddies. Or something.

Oh, and I found my camera late last night, so hopefully tonight I’ll take pictures so everybody can see my cool green room. :smiley:

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HAPPY BIRFDAY, FCM!!!
:: Dances with wild abandon while tossing cute lil birfday confettis::
I’ll take one biscuit. They’s fat-free, ain’t they?

Satiddy, Mr. Anachi and I went to the Depot and picked out baffroom fixtures. First a new toidy, although it looks like an old-fashioned toidy, but it’s new. Then we picked out two shower heads…a really cool rain shower head for me and a really cool hand-held/slider bar shower head for Mr. Anachi. Then on to lighting fixtures. Found some I just fell in love with. Very retro crome and ribbed glass and very reasonably priced, too. That was all. We need to find some mirrors, too but I didn’t see any I liked there. I will check out the competition later. I’ve decided I want a chandelier to hang over the bafftub. I think that would look Jake. But not fcm’s old chandelier. It’s gotta be sumpin what’ll go with the lights.

Saturday night I made stuffed peppers for dinner. I use V-8 juice for the tomato sauce. It tastes really nummy and they were sooooo good.

It’s warm here today. I like that.

Tupug

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<cues Beatles music>

“they say it’s your birthday-
Gonna have a good time-”

<cues Christopher Robin’s voice>

“many happy returns of the day”

<puts candle in one special biscuit>

swampy --I dint know bout a burfday! We couda had cimanimon rolls and stuff!
I did indeed call in, and here’s an ironic twist to it all–#2 son starting vomitting!

That’ll teach me to play with destiny–I would have had to have called in anyway, with him sick. (what tense it that, anyway? Yeegods, what a sentence to type)

I blame the OD of gummi bears, but he does have a low grade temp…

Drae --green sounds so cool and serene for a bedroom. You can paint the rest, of course you can!

We want pics!
Lissla --I may join you in the nightly crunches.

Ellen --I am losing weight, too. Not doing the Zone thingy, but watching what I eat. (course yesterday I watched myself make and eat German Chocolate Cupcakes, but…)

Pug --ooh! Chandelier in the bath, dahlink! I love it. I think I would eat in there… :slight_smile:

twicks --come back! You’re a resident celebrity and all. Ivy , snakes , Sean and Magic were all asking about choo!

Spats --dunno what you did, but I felt time loop on itself last noc. Thanks, dude–it was great. Can you do it again, around my birthday? 'Preciate it. :wink:

#2 son is asleep. I couldn’t sleep last noc, after throwing the sheets into the laundry. So, Mamasan is tired today.

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Yay FCM!

runs around ina big circle, trying to make the font look bigger and colorful. Then just sits down and waves!

YAY FCM!

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LOOK at the BIG, COLORFUL letters in Arrmatey’s post!

:eek:
(that’s awe, folks)

ducks and runs