I haven’t had lunch and my Internet at home isn’t working and I have no money for anything and I’m cranky.
Clearly, the solution is to start handing out (virtual) kisses. One per customer.
First!
Turkish delight is sort of light rose-flavoured fruit jellies or jujubes. A lot of people hate it. I quite like it in small quantities. I know a lot of people who tried it after reading The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe, and were terribly disappointed. We don’t really do rose flavoured candy in North America.
The Armenian bakery has baklava with rose syrup. It’s wonderful.
Now I’m starving. Lunchtime. I want to go across the street and get fries. Someone explain to me that I’m going on half-pay soon and I can’t afford to eat out. In a way that my stomach will understand.
I love Turkish Delight!
I’m actually pretty happy with my classes today. A handful of my students seem sincerely interested in the material. And I love it when I take a full five minutes to explain some point to them and am rewarded by an “Ohhhhhh!” of comprehension. That’s why I teach.
Good Lord, the stories in this thread are much too exciting to be reading in the office on a Monday. Thankfully I just let my last class out. It’s homeward bound for me.
First what?
Were you that excited about your first kiss that you ran away after yelling first?
Turkish Delight is supposed to be rose flavoured? Interesting. The only T.D. I’m familiar with is the chocolate-covered red jelly candy, which has a vaguely-strawberry flavour. I’m guessing that it is ‘not authentic’. 
Aaaah first kisses…my first First kiss was meh but my first kiss with MrEms-to-be was toe curlingly HAWT and I initiated it - envy his good luck. I knew right then he was mine
Other than that I have a doctors appointment this afternoon and packing to do and stoopid work is getting in the way
How you doin,Kytheria?
Next time you’re in Greektown, Sunspace, stop in at a bakery or grocery store. Look around for packages of Turkish Delight, or a jar/display with pink and yellow icing sugar covered cubes. Buy one.
Report back on whether or not you hate it.
When did FreeCycle turn into a beg-fest? I swear every one I’ve seen today has been a “Wanted” post: they want kid’s stuff, baby stuff, a trampoline (!), a couch & chair & loveseat, a king-size bed - give me a break! I thought it was about posting stuff you wanted to give away, not posting that you want someone to furnish your house and clothe your kids for you. Grrrr.
HEY! I resemble that remark!
The Turkish Delight you can get here in mass market form (I think Lowney’s or someone puts one out) is decidedly creative in its artificial flavouring. I tried a real Turkish Delight some time back, which I got at Sugar Mountain on Yonge (they sell all kinds of foreign sweets). It was a cube about an inch to a side and half as thick, lightly coated with powdered sugar, reddish/rose in colour beneath, a bit on the firm side, and … well, I didn’t much care for it. Sweet, but a bit like getting an unexpected mouthful of air freshener that someone just sprayed. Which is probably why the mass market stuff takes some liberties with the flavouring; it’s definitely an acquired taste.
SCL - I always see more “wanteds” than “offers” on Freecycle. Doesn’t seem to matter which one I go to, and it’s kinda surprising the stuff people are asking for. Complete XBox 360s, (relatively up-to-date) laptops, etc. It’s like there is a contingent of people who think Freecycle is loaded with rich people who just want to unload their used high quality possessions on the little people just to be charitable. I doubt any of their requests get fulfilled though – surprise, surprise. It’s the same crap on Cheapcycle, too, except because they allow money to change hands (though they don’t allow high priced items) you get people asking as much as they think they can get away with for merchandise worth half or a quarter of the asking price, and the rest of them all begging for the same merchandise with absurd lowballs.
Kytheria - Hi, I’m your 4 o’clock.
Ooookay. Yesterday it was chilly and rainy all day, and into the evening. The clouds were really low, over the tops of the mountains, and I should have gotten pictures because it was really pretty but anyway. I got up this morning and went down and got in my car and drove outside of the garage…
Snow! On the mountains! It looked like the snow line was maybe two or three hundred feet higher than I’m at. And I should have gone back for my camera but I didn’t. It was way pretty. And way weird, at least for me, though nobody else seemed to think so. It’s only September! General consensus around here seems to be that it’s going to be a heavy snow year, and after the fire most of us are a “Bring it on!” mood concerning snow, because even people who don’t like it know that we need it so it won’t be so damn dry next year.
Most of it’s gone now, but not all of it, and since the clouds are back I don’t think what’s left is going anywhere anytime soon. Especially since it’s supposed to get to the mid 20s tonight. Brrrrrrr! Lovely brrrrr, mind you, I don’t mind in the slightest.
I found out today that Idaho gives you a year to change your license plates, and now I know why; I can’t be the only person who comes here and waits to see if they can handle a winter before committing!
OK. I thought you were a guy. Sorry! I had to read and reread that before it dawned on me why I was confused. It’s me, not you. :rolleyes: I need a keeper…
whiterabbit–jealous, jealous, jealous. I loved living near the mountains (I went to college for a time in Boulder). I also LOVE cold weather and snow. It’s 90 again here today-after teasing us with 70s for a bit. I’ve got the AC on. I’m too frugal to have the AC on, but I hate being hot more than I hate paying bills.
Start increasing your sweater wardrobe. (jealous again). and I would worry a bit about that heat outage last week-hope that’s not a routine thing!
Well I think that the nickname issue has been resolved. All in favor for HoochieMama?
No, I don’t think the power thing was a regular thing, because it was planned, I just hadn’t been notified. And it’s getting too damn cold at night already to not have power.
I don’t want to think about human kissing because frankly it’s been too long since I got to kiss anybody, but I do think the snow was sort of a kiss from winter. And then I guess the real snow that arrives is like sex from winter, or something.
Oy, I need to find a new boyfriend!
HoochieMama it is! Or maybe Hooch. Welcome to the MMP! Chawklit offerin’s go to FairyChatMom AKA FCM or Moooooom. Beer offerin’s go to me and only me. Make it Miller products though since Miller Brewing is currently the provider of my income.
First kiss… no idea… at all… guess it musta been real special.
First kiss from ACBG? Hee! I instigated it. Couple thick TBone steaks, chocolate covered strawberries, chilled champagne, a hot tub… the kiss was just the start of things that night. 
Ok, speakin’ of which I need to get outta here. I read through the MMP so far, so appropriate appropriate comments wherever needed.
Here’s hopin’ FCD did well with his surgery today.
I got cornbread in the oven to go with the beef stew I made yesterday when I was sleepy and needed to do sump’n to occupy myself. Ol’ y’all know who will be here soon and hungry. I know I’m hungry.
Later Y’all!
How you doin?
Like you didn’t expect that from me.
OK, I was reading, and kept on reading past this, then realized I’m in really bad shape if this doesn’t make me react… 
So, at the risk of being repetitive, another “how you doin’? ;)” from the Old World contingent (Am I the only male Eurasian representative here? I think so!)
I’ll throw in some blown kisses at **Haze **(who instigated all this) and **Kyth **(welcome to the MMP!)
And **Roo **of course. Now where are you today, anyway? All this kissing happening, and you’re AWOL (and standing me up)
This just in: VWife’s double kneejob is tenatively rescheduled for Monday, Oct. 15th.