Benadryl and alcohol. Especially the alcohol.
Fahr ants are one of the few things about Cottonfield County I don’t miss. When I was at the former Lair last time for the faux burglary, there was a massive nest at the base of the front porch. F*ck 'em, let the bank deal with it. 
Good luck and sharp brains to those (like me) confronting Finals 
Cold around here with freezy breezes. Today’s a garden day, so it’s many layers and off to work for me!
(Bolding mine) Last Wednesday our landlord had a whole truck full of gravel delivered to our house, with no warning to us, which was dumped right behind my garage door in the driveway. I can only be thankful that I had already gotten my car out! So I know what it’s like to not have use of your driveway. It’s way more inconvenient than you’d think. (FWIW we complained and he had his landscaping people move all the gravel the next morning, rather than waiting til the weekend which was the original plan.)
Do they know that the person who abandoned the car were the owners, or could it have been stolen? Someone drove a truck into the reservoir by my house about a year or so ago and reported it stolen, but it turned out that it was an insurance scam–the guy’s cousin drove it into the reservoir.
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Congrats on the final and good luck on the math. I’m not good with languages (I took French and got B’s but it was very hard for me and I remember none of it) and I’m more afraid of math than actually bad at it. Once it’s explained to me, for example, I do quite well. But I get all sweaty-palmed and nervous whenever I know I have to do math… it’s awful. I got out of taking a second math course in undergrad by taking Deductive Logic.
It does feel like a punch in the gut, doesn’t it? Especially when you know what you meant but nobody sees it and insists that your thought process was X when it was really Y, no matter how many times you explain it 
Gradually I’ve gotten better at not letting it affect me by just reminding myself that it’s just a message board of strangers who don’t know me in real life. When I saw the title of the thread against me over there I opened it long enough to read most of the OP then closed it and never went back.
So were you driving in Boston or in Paris?
Nyquil and a hot bath. Try a benadryl if that doesn’t work. At least that’s what used to work for me before my insomnia got to truly epic scale. (Not that you asked for advice, so feel free to ignore this–just trying to help as one who’s been there.)
My complaint today… and it’s my own fault, damnit… I fell asleep in the bathtub last night while reading my Kindle and apparently let the bottom of it dip into the water. It’s frozen on the loading screen right now. I’m going to call Amazon and see if their customer support can walk me through anything, but I fear I’ve ruined it. sob
I read my Kindle in the tub all the time, and I fall asleep in the tub all the time (don’t worry–it’s safe. I couldn’t slide down if I tried–it’s a really short tub) but always before I’ve noticed when I was getting drowsy and set the Kindle down somewhere out of the tub. I kind of like having a mini nap in the tub before getting out and going to bed. I feel like I fall asleep faster once I get under the covers. But I messed up this time. 
Ack! That’s terrible! If you can indulge one more short anecdote: I was in summer day camp and we went swimming after lunch in a lake on the property. After swimming I got out and started putting my clothes on (over my suit), but they’d been sitting on the lake’s beach, and I’d left them on a fire and hill!!! I was about halfway dressed when I noticed the ants crawling all over me (I was also standing on the hill) and so I scrambled out of the clothes and ran for the water again to rinse off the ants. One of the counselors grabbed me and said “swim time is over” and wouldn’t listen to me about the ants, so I didn’t get to rinse off. I was getting bitten the whole rest of the day until I got home. Awful. Anyone who gets into fire ants has my sympathy.
Damn. This dumpster thing is getting very expensive fast…
OUCH!!!
Well, today has been a bit more productive than yesterday, thank goodness. Amongst other things I returned my single barrel tumbler and got a double barrel one and I’ve already filled it up with spoon rings and set it up to run for the afternoon. 
Now i’m contemplating a nap before putting my final presentation together for Thursday.
Well, screw getting a dumpster. I can get a U-haul for an estimated $50 for the day, vs. ~ $400 for the trash guys. There is an added benefit in that I loathe U-Haul, so renting one of their trucks to hustle a couple loads of trash is poetic justice.
Opal, just think of all the legal fun you could have with the day camp people today because they let you be eaten by fire ants. Torture, mayhem, assault, PROFIT!!!
Yeah, no kidding. Back in the '70s nobody cared if kids were in pain or danger; the rules were the rules.
Hey Opal, guess what I had for breakfast today?
This is my first time venturing in here, but I was feeling chatty today. Hey, y’all.
This is my first year making my grandma’s famous “surprise” Christmas cookies, so now that I’m done with class for the day I’m pulling everything together to make them. I worry mine won’t end up as sinfully decadent as hers, but I guess I can eat all of the mistakes. 
In some goofy sort of way, this almost feels like a step into adulthood. I’d help her make them when I was little and it seemed like magic. How could she take these dull ingredients just laying around in her kitchen and turn them into something so wonderful?
We’ve got some beautiful weather here today. Low forties, cloudy. It just looks like a day to spend in the kitchen cooking things for the holidays, you know? It’s too warm for snow, but that suits me fine. A little bit of thunder and a slow rain would help enhance the “baking day” feeling.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding: “That’s okay – I make you lamb.”
Lamb is delicious. Too bad (or good, perhaps) I don’t have a reliable source of kosher lamb near me; I have to cross into Maryland for it.
ETA @ Peeta: We might have snow tomorrow night.
Finished my paper. Now tis lunch time (chicken soup and ham salad sammich) while compiling my portion of the Flat Stanley project for my niece. He’s going to Spanish class tonight and then back to my mom for the rest of his week vacation in New England.
Sweetie is watching futurama. He just finished the episode with Fry’s old dog and it made me cry - again. I HATE that episode.
Oh, lamb sounds delicious, Scuba_Ben. I’m not Jewish, so its kosherness means little to me, but this happens to be one of my favorite recipes. The lemon and artichoke really just do indecently good things to the meat.
I’m cooking my pecans now for the “surprise” in the middle of my cookies and the buttery, nutty smell is finally wafting in here from the oven. One of the finest smells there is.
I was just going to ask what the surprise was, until…
Yay!
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The freaking Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade almost made me cry this year. :rolleyes:
I read this.
:sigh: The sump pump has quit again and the fumes have returned. I’ve opened up some windows and ordered my grandparents to come upstairs once they’ve finished their lunch. Fortunately, I’m much calmer about this today as I know that the guy will be here sometime today to fix it.
And now you know! They’re spread out on a cookie sheet and sprinkled with a bourbon and brown sugar mixture, then dotted with butter before they go in the oven. They’re so good on their own you could forgo the cookie part entirely.
Glad to hear you’re calm about it, at least. I can’t imagine it’s fun, though. We had an issue with the septic at my parents’ place some years back and I still remember the smell that backed up in there.
What? (I hate guessing! I suck at it!)
I can’t watch that episode. It will throw me into a suicidal depression. Well, maybe not quite, since my meds are quite good, but it will come close. I hate that episode, too! I would leave the room if I couldn’t persuade whoever was watching it to watch it later without me.
We had our office Christmas party this past weekend. The meal was wonderful. I had Steak Arcobasso, served medium rare. It was so juicy and tender, and as I cut into it, the warm red juices blended with the whitish sauce to create swirls of taste explosions. It was simply fantastic.
That sounds very yummy.
I had to look up steak Arcobasso to see how yummy it could be. Alas for me, the whitish sauce is a cheese base. More for you.
Ah, sorry, yeah, it’s not kosher. It is quite yummy, though. I swear, this steak was just so fall-apart tender, without being mealy, it was amazing. I was able to cut it with a fork.
In my youth, “yummy” sometimes trumped “but it’s not kosher!”. Ah, good times.
ETA: I want a grill, so I can grill yummy steaks.