taxi and KeithT, you make a really cute couple! Don’t you want to have a party somewhere between Wisconsin and New York? How about Ohio? We could have our very own MMP-Fest/Reception. Seems only fair.
Wow…lots of chocolate chip ideas! Thanks!
No, I am not either an alien. Yes, I thought of cookies, but 5 bags of various chips seemed like a bit much for just cookies. I’m trying to think of occasions when I’ll actually need cookies. They’re not coming immediately to mind. Although I have a chocolate cookie recipe that can be made one day and used a bit at a time (you just cut off pieces whenever you want cookies). I might see if that dough can be frozen. (Has anyone here ever frozen unbaked cookie dough?) Definitely going to have to experiment with the bark. There are chocoholics at work I can share with, as long as it’s not in great quantities.
I get it…this week’s popping theme is: Rue popping in and out of the MMP. Does this mean there isn’t so much stuff popping out of animals?
I am not reading that thread. The title was quite enough thankyewverymuch.
Work today was stressful, only because I didn’t get any of the things done that I’d planned to and tomorrow I have an endless series of meetings that I need to do stuff for (the stuff I had hoped to be doing today). So I get to leave the house before 6:30 so that I have at least an hour before my first meeting. It’s going to be fun, I can tell already. [/whining]
I have cotton sateen sheets with pretty high thread counts (can’t remember how many). I love them dearly. They are soft, but not slippery. Also, my futon covers du jour are fleece sheets. I like them a lot too.
If you would like to shove some turkey through the disk drive for me, that would be very generous, FCM, and I’d appreciate it a lot.
The library just delivered a bellydance workout video for me. After doing a bit of it, I am reaffirmed in my hatred of workout tapes. They just feel smarmy, somehow. Maybe it’s the glossy grins on the participants’ faces or something. I’d rather practice in front of my mirror, and do my sets of weights and crunches. I’m sure it’s excellent cardio, but I feel stupid.
Hi everyone. Nothing to report about the weekend really. We have snow and it is freaking cold. I seem to remember somewhere at the beginning of the thread that a lot of people got laid this weekend - sure fire way to keep warm here in Wyoming
taxi you guys are cuuuuute
I have a question to ask all of you knowledgable wunnerful cool kids specially those of you that cook.
I received and award card from work equivalent to $500. I wanted an iPod but out of the stores that accept the card online I can’t find one (I swear there is a point here) so I moved on to digital camcorder but none of them are exactly what I want then I thought put it towards a TV but I am happy with the one I have then I got onto Williams Sonoma & Sur La Table and I think I am in love with the Calphalon cookware sets. So my question is does anyone have any of this stuff and do you like it? And more importantly would you recommend it?
Hi ems! I have one Calphalon pan that I use A LOT. It’s got a non-stick interior, which I like (I’m lazy). It’s from one of their cheaper lines; got it at Tar-jay. My sister-in-law has had the original high-end stuff for more than 20 years and loves it.
I skimmed the jacuzzi thread. It’s just a bit o’poop.
Nasty as all get out, but not lose your dinner standard.
I think I may be somewhat hardened by 20 years of nursing, though.
Had a pt who swallowed 9 bags of crack and came to ER–he was given activated charcoal (to absorg the drug) and he proceeded to puke/poop his brains out. He was found to be spreading the poop all over the walls, because (he explained) that was alot of profit that he had swallowed and he wanted it!
I’ve worked with many nurses and yes, you all have an abnormally high tolerance for things that make the rest of us go “EEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww!”
So, my reaction to your ER story is: “EEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww!”
My cats open drawers, too. I thought it was because I wasn’t closing the drawers completely but I caught one in the act and as it turns out my polydactyl cat is actually dexterous enough to open the drawer from a completely shut position. I guess it’s a good thing his extra long thumb isn’t opposable or I’d be in trouble.
On a cat related note, I have a comfy computer desk chair but I am currently sitting in a hard folding wooden chair. Why? There are two cats on the computer chair all curled up in a yin yang pose. They are too cute to move or sit on.
Speaking of pans, I just got a nice round grill pan from Bed, Bath and Beyond. What have I made with it?, you ask. A grilled cheese sammich, of course. My grilled cheese has fancy grill marks. I ate it with my pinkies up.
Now for some TMI.
I still have my cold that started last Sunday. My dry cough has progressed to a nice rattley phlegmy cough. Unfortunately, the phlegm balls that I hack up only make it to the back of my throat so I must either swallow them or choke. Does anyone know if phlegm has any nutritional value or calories?
Wile E has taken the TMI lead. Gonna take some doing to catch up with that folks!
Supper was tres good last night. ACBG expressed his gratitude in a manner I deemed most appropriate. Of course, if we had been in public, it would have been most inappropriate.
Drae whacha gonna sing? “Oh Promise Me”? “I Love You Truly”? “We’ve Only Just Begun”? (ICK!) or my favorite wedding song, “Don’t Come Home A’Drinkin’ With Lovin’ On Your Mind”?
If you want a little help, take a really, really, really, really, hot shower. Much hotter than you can stand. Let the water beat on your back for as long as you can take it, and take deep breaths while you do, in haling the steam.
For some reason, whenever I do this, I find it much easier to get the snot globules to come up.
It’s a song called “Someone Like You” from the musical Jekyll & Hyde. It’s a very pretty song, one of my favorites, and if you don’t know that the character who sings it gets brutally murdered in the second act, then it’s a perfect wedding song.
Last night, my friends and I decided to play the State of the Union drinking game. I’m not feeling my best this morning, needless to say. But boy, that was fun. Of course, looking at Dubya’s face always makes me want a drink, but the true beauty of the night was watching Hillary Clinton make faces from the gallery. That one moment where she closed her eyes and shook her head, clearly thinking “this man is an idiot” had me diving for the phone to call my mom, who answered it already laughing hysterically. And who knew Congress actually booed the President occasionally? I’d never watched a State of the Union before, because I usually can’t keep myself from throwing things at the television.
Guess where I’m goin’ at lunch? That’s right–Target. The process of buying never ends, but we’re at the stage where we don’t realize we don’t have something until the moment we need it. Last night, I discovered we have no potholders.
Don’tcha just love that grill pan, wile e? I used mine again last night to grill a loverly tuna steak. I just seasoned it with a pepper/garlic grinder I have and popped it on the stove. It was totally num-nummy! I made Mr. Anachi have a taste cause he says he hates fish but had never had tuna cooked this way. He said he’d be willing to try it for a dinner next week. We’ll see. I also made roasted asparagus and red potatoes. You just toss the asparagus and taters (N.O.T.) in two tablespoons of olive oil and italian seasonings, garlic, and pepper. Then you stick some pans in the oven at 450 for five minutes. Then you put your taters in one and cook them for twenty minutes and your asparagus in the other and cook that for about twelve minutes. Remove, sprinkle with some shredded parmesan and eat. Very, very nummy.
ems, I don’t know about that brand of cookware but I recently purchased some Cooks hard anodized aluminum cookwear with non-stick surfaces. It works quite well on my ceramic cooktop. You can’t put it in the dishwasher but cleanup is a breeze. I think the Calphalon brand makes a similar style.
I read the Happy thread up till he gave the description then decided that was enough. I’m not squeamish about poop what with two children and various and sundry other lifeforms as evidenced by my POLC posts, but some stranger’s-left-in-the-tub poop isn’t my idea of a good read. So there!
I’m with you on that one. There is nothing I need to learn that is found in a thread with that title. Nope, not gonna happen.
I started sorting all the hand tools I have at home. While I can understand accumulating a couple of dozen screwdrivers over the years, how the hell does one get four box-cutters and 6 levels of various sizes? And I don’t even want to know what possessed me to get two power drills and a cordless one.
Oooh! Ooooh! I can tell you what happened and why you have extra tools of the same kind. What happened was that you needed to use one of those tools and you couldn’t FIND the damn thing, so, you had to go buy a new one. That’s what always happens to me. The next damn day you find the tool you were originally looking for.
I watched the State of the Union and was doing a lot of talking to the idiot on the screen. I wasn’t saying nice things. 'Nuf said there, I think.
speaking of stupid cat tricks (we weren’t? tough.) Smokey has developed two new ones. When I come home from work, she greets me on the stairs (normal for her) then (new trick) runs into the kitchen and starts rolling around on her back and mewing at me.
And she now will come to me when I whistle the theme from the Addams Family, jump onto my lap, and butt her face into mine…On reflection, she may be trying to stop me from whistling…
Mental note: stop staying up until 4 am. It’s just not worth it. Well, okay, it might be worth it if you’re in the Poly (student newspaper) office helping them out, but other than that, cut it out, 'kay?
:: yawns ::
Aaaanyway. Yesterday was a good day. I patched things up with the girl I asked out (well, it’s more like I prevented there from being anything to patch up), so it’s all cool there, and helping out in the Poly office is always fun. Today I have to go find the department heads for two departments to get them to sign off on my minors. Which means a) I have to actually find them, b) they have to be in their offices and/or around today, and 3) they have to be willing to sign off on the minor. I’m not so much worried about #3, although if one of the two dept heads knew how I feel about him, there’s no way he’d sign.
See, the head of the cognitive science department (for my philosophy minor) is a man named Selmer. And he’s an absolutely brilliant logician. He’s also an FDA Approved Grade A First Class Asshat. I cannot stress enough how much of an asshat this man is. He got into an email “debate” with my sociology professor, and he is just so incredibly ignorant of anything outside of his neat and tidy little worldview that you could slap him across the face with social phenomena and he wouldn’t see it.
Fortunately, he doesn’t know that I hold this opinion. And I’m not about to go in there and say, “O HAY SELMER, YOU’RE A FUCKING ASSHAT. YOU’RE IGNORANT, ARROGANT, AND YOU CAN’T DEBATE TO SAVE YOUR LIFE. oh, could you sign off on my minor? thanks.”
Also on the menu for today is the Career Fair, which means I have to print out copies of my resumé and get all spiffed up. But that’s for later, and I’ll let you all know how it went.
I did say in a manner I deemed appropriate. Making fun of orphans would not be deemed appropriate. Keep guessing.
My mother has a cat who likes to butt heads. She also has one that can open doors, which disturbs me cause the dang thing has opened the door to the bedroom I sleep in when I stay at mom’s, jumped up on the bed and woke me up by making mean cat growling sounds at me. Stoopid cat!
Psst, Sean, , I send you a little something via e-mail to remind you who’s going to win the Superbowl. At least, I hope I sent it to you; I used the e-mail in your profile.
I don’t know if it’s just me or what, but my quad shot Americano, grande sized, no room, seems very weak today. Actually, it has seemed week for quite some time. I think I’m going to have to go to straight espresso now. Somebody stop me, this isn’t good.
Yes, I thought of cookies, but 5 bags of various chips seemed like a bit much for just cookies. I’m trying to think of occasions when I’ll actually need cookies. They’re not coming immediately to mind. Although I have a chocolate cookie recipe that can be made one day and used a bit at a time (you just cut off pieces whenever you want cookies). I might see if that dough can be frozen. (Has anyone here ever frozen unbaked cookie dough?) Definitely going to have to experiment with the bark. There are chocoholics at work I can share with, as long as it’s not in great quantities.