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Morning all! Up and caffeinating here. :slight_smile: And welcome to the new ones … can’t remember them all, but do recall Brownie and Soapy; mmouse, do you have a nickname yet?!

Not much on the agenda for today – a quick trip to Safeway and then I’m either going to read or watch movies until the Super Bowl (a quick “Go Pats!” for my daughter here; she’s a Tom Brady fan :)). Glad to hear that the new kitteh is doing well, FCM! He’s really a beautiful kitty, btw; hope things go well when you make the intros to the doggies.

Ya know Swampy, you do make church sound so … enticing, especially with the descriptions of 1st Sunday brunches. :slight_smile: And that 'nanner pudding. LOL Glad to hear that ACBG enjoyed his personal batch. :slight_smile:

And speaking of church, Mardi Gras is Tuesday which means that Lent starts on Wednesday. Anyone giving up anything for Lent, and what will it be? I haven’t thought of anything yet–I’m so attached to the “bad” things that I do, I guess. :smiley:

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:frowning: It means I’ll have to come up with some new Lenten specials. Yuck. I wasn’t ready for that yet.

TVMan was waking me up again this morning while I was napping. At first I tried a very loud SSSSHHHHHH, but that didn’t work. So I had to tell him to quit trying to talk to me if I was sleeping.

Also, my email is NOT fixed. Apparently TWC is going through an email upgrade and asked me to wait until later to try to send mail again. :rolleyes:

Now, since I’m awake, I’m downstairs contemplating breakfast and he’s upstairs trying to sleep.

Welcome Newbies! Sorry, just hadn’t gotten around to saying that before.

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THIS Wednesday? checks calendar Oh yeah. I guess if I’m actually gonna take on additional responsibilities (giving something up is so…givy uppy :wink: ) I’d better do it.

I hereby declare that for Lent I will actually follow my Solstice vows (my version of resolutions).

There, that’s done.

I swept the kitchen/dining room this morning and left all the sweepings in a big pile in the middle of the kitchen floor. I am being passive aggressive with the men in my house, oh yes I am.

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Goodness, I haven’t even thought about Lent yet. Probably due to sleep deprivation. I’m not sure if I’ll do anything big this year- I’m definitely not giving up the internet this time. Maybe I’ll try to take up regular daily prayer and rosary again.

Welxome to the new people! We love new people!

The baby has been sleeping since about eleven yesterday night. I got him up twice to feed him, and he’s still asleep. Thank goodness. Yesterday he was up all day except for ten-minute catnaps. The cats are a bad influence.
Attacks Husband and QD came over, cleaned, made dinner, held the kid, and AT brought me a pound of smoked cheddar. I love them. My kitchen is all clean and organzied, and it’s wonderful. And my livingroom is tidier. Actually, everything is tidier. I should rent her out.

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I guess I get the day off. I think I’ll go to Mass.

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Evening all. Nothing much to report. Hubby apologised to me for copping a 'tude with me yesterday (that was a first!), otherwise just baby, work, baby, so now it’s time for a glass of wine and some TV before sleep, then lather, rinse, repeat ad infinitum!

Welcome new kids! We don’t bite (well, Lunch does, but only if you ask nicely and never hard enough to leave a lasting mark!). As Moooommmmm likes to say, Dammit, we’re nice!

Okay, off to forage in the kitchen then pour that glass of wine!

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Morning, all. I was awakened from a sound sleep by the Idiots barking outside the bedroom window – which caused me to leap from my bed, because Papa Tigs had told me he was going to be out for a while this morning so I didn’t know if the Idiots had been shut outside or what. Turns out he’d awakened with a headache and was still home, completely oblivious to the Idiots. So I started the morning with a near-heart attack. :smack: Not my favorite way to begin the day…

Boo! Hiss! Them’s fightin’ words, you realize! (Why, yes, I do take Katrina personally even though I’d moved away from NOLA a month before she arrived, why do you ask?)

Your church sounds like a fun place, Swampy. Every time I turn around you’re eating or drinking with your fellow Whiskeypalians. One of these days I have to taste your nanner puddin’, too – a good nanner puddin’ is a thing of wonder! Only exceeded by a good sweet N.O.T. pie, of course!

I’m not Jewish, but I loves me some good gefilte fish. And latkes. And noodle kugel. And even matzo ball soup. Etc. Does that make me an honorary cultural Jew?

It’s about time you got a day off, CanineServant! They’re working you to death – this is just wrong!

If Dog is like other Bengals,Mooom, keep a close eye on the kitchen counters when he comes out of Durance Vile. One of our favorite Cloud moments was when Papa Tigs left a 2-lb package of chicken on the counter to prepare for dinner, and when he turned around Cloud had it on the floor and was dragging it across the kitchen towards the laundry room, apparently planning on having a BIG chicken dinner! :eek: :smiley: Just sayin’. :smiley:

I wanna be back in NOLA for Mardi Gras! Yesterday and today we would have been out on the parade route by 10 a.m., hanging out with our parade buddies – some folks we met at random who came in each year and parked their trailer a block away (hence having a free bathroom – very important at Mardi Gras!). And they’d collected an assortment of folks over the years, including the Swamp Rats, two little guys with about a half a mouthful of teeth between them who collected doubloons. We all had so much fun every year! I miss our parade buddies! Not to mention the many, many pounds of beads we would already have collected by this time…such a fun time!

Back to the salt mines. Envy me my exciting life.

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Forgot to add…

“Nobody’s perfect…”

(bonus points (brownie points? :p) for recognizing the movie :))

See, that’s why I don’t flirt with you, anymore, either… :smiley:

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I’m up early. The cats are out of gushy food, and annoyed about it. PetSmart doesn’t open for an hour, so I have to put up with it until then. Maybe I’ll escape the house early and go get a hot chocolate.

I had a weird dream last night about a bunch of people who used to be important in my life, but have since moved on. Two of them were people I went to kindergarten through high school with, one of whom had turned into a werecat in my dream. :eek: But she was a very **pretty **werecat. :smiley: I woke up feeling sad that these people aren’t in my life anymore.

I’m working on a neck wrap for the friend that took care of my cats while I was in the hospital. I should be finished early this afternoon. I’ll post a picture when it’s finished.

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Morning all! I am ever-so-slightly hungover - but that seems to be business as usual for me on Sunday mornings. Yesterday was fun! My apartment was invaded by Dopers and I was very grateful that they did not try to kill me and stuff me in my fridge or eat me or feed me to a squid. It’s funny when you meet people from online and everyone is thinking in the back of their minds that everybody else just might be serial killers. :smiley: Anyway we went and had seafood, and very nice seafood it was, and then chatted away about Dope gossip and babies and kittens and Africa and God knows what else. It was great meeting rigs finally, although she was sitting at the other end of the table and we barely got to talk. Boo.

I had to leave early because one of my friends - Mr Cheerio - called me and said that he was going to invite people over to my place for a poker game, in celebration of his recent birthday. :dubious: So I scurried home after dinner to find my friends sitting on the steps, actually on time for once. I think we played until 2am. I lost all my money in a ridiculous gamble - I had a straight on the turn, and was so sure Mr Cheerio was bluffing that I went all in, but the bastard had a full house! Mr Cheerio assured me that only I would ever call that bet reckless, because I’m such a conservative player. There was one hand where I had a full house and kept checking until after the river, in which I raised and everyone else called (I didn’t have a full house until the turn). We turned over our cards and the boys were squabbling over one-pair hands when I quietly laid down my full house. They almost fell out of their seats laughing. :stuck_out_tongue: Anyway, it was only $10 per person, and Mr Cheerio was adamant that we were only allowed $10 buy-ins once. Hopefully I’ll do better next time.

Anyway, I have stuff I should get done before I go over to watch the Superbowl at Minister Lad’s place. Have a lovely Sunday, all!

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ooops - I fell asleep there for a while.

Gefilte fish from a jar, meh. from the deli, okay. BUT homemade using my great gramma’s recipe? yu-um!!! and served with FRESH horseradish? cannot be beat. no sirree.
yeah there’s a card - it comes with the fountain pen when you turn 13 :wink:
eta - First on 12 without even trying! Woo Hoo!

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First on 12!

ETA: shakes fist at rosie

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::squeaky Mutley laugh:: hhhheehhheehhheehhee

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Mornin’ everyone. I’m finally up and caffienating. My back hurt too much to try and sleep anymore. My bed sucks, I always wake up with an extremely sore back.

I’m not Jewish, but I do appreciate some Jewish food, except for that fish stuff, that just sounds gross. Sorry…

Mr. Taters is going to a friends house to watch the Superbowl. He invited me to come along, but it’s going to be all guys, and well, it just sounds like the host intended it to be a “guy thing”. No bigs, I couldn’t care less about the Superbowl.

Not much else to report. The kids are still sleeping, so it’s relatively quiet around here. My son came back from the candlelight vigil for his school friend a little teary eyed, but he seemed okay after he’d been home a bit. He said there were well over one hundred people there, with more arriving. The parents of the boy weren’t at the vigil, but the boy’s sister was there.

I need more coffee. I keep yawning.

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Would it help if I descrived it as Fish Meatloaf? Because basically that’s all it is. If you like the white flaky kind of fish and you like matzoh meal, you’d like gefilte fish

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Ugh, no rosie, that would not help. You know it’s strange, I’ve spent most of my life here in the Pacific Northwest where fresh fish is in abundance. Because it was in such abudance, especially salmon, I grew up eating a lot fish. However, now I’m not really all that fond of fish. I’ll eat it, but I’m really, really, really picky about it. Especially salmon, goodness, we were just overloaded with salmon.

We ate it all the time because we always had salmon due to the fact that we fished…a lot. I also ate a lot of steelhead and trout, because again, we fished…a lot.

I enjoy a nice Copper River salmon that I’ve grilled, but that’s pretty much it.

I also loathe oysters, but will eat clams. I’m not overly fond of scallops either.

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OK, so I have find a way to get my mom to pull out the old fish grinder… maybe for passover this year… mmmm

She’s only 82- she can do it! :wink:

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At my grandma’s house, that would be UNO cards. That woman was an UNO fanatic! Who would also say:

You channeling my grandma? Oh, and flirt all you want, I know where my bread is buttered. :smiley:

Is there a nickname key or something? It took me weeks to place faces with names at my new job and now I feel like I’m going to have to relive that hell all over again here with UserIDs and nicknames. Are you folks mad?! :stuck_out_tongue:

If I may join in the madness, may I suggest Eek! for mmouse?

Soapy, yours I’ll remember. Have you ever tried duplicating your mom’s masterpiece gefilte fish? I tried to make my aunt’s latkes and I couldn’t get it just right. They’re so simple, but I know she did something special to them because I’ve never had anything close. So, I called her and badgered her for her secret. All she would tell me is that she grated so many potatoes and onions to feed our large family, she might have left some of her knuckles in there. :eek: She passed away last month, so I will never know the truth, but I’ll make them to her recipe anyway in her honor.

Always Bring Pie, maybe that’s why I never went for it. Those jars did scare me. For all the ways my family was particular about how things Must Be Prepared ®, they didn’t think anything strange of fish balls in a jar of sludge. shudder

Moooom, (and everyone else) thanks for the welcome, even though you’ve now associated me with a shlub and a shmuck! :stuck_out_tongue: How about you just think of me as a little elf that helps out around the house?

I have never been to Mardi Gras, nor have I ever been to NOLA. I think I may be missing out life. Although, I think I may be smoking my second to last cigarette, so there should be plenty of time left to rectify that. The panic is due to set in very soon. Hold me!

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Well, since you asked nicely… Sure! :wink:

[serious]Congrats on quitting smoking! And good luck staying quit of it.[/serious]

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I feel better already. And thank you for your premature congrats. This is a test to see if I can cold-turkey it before I head out for the Chantix (because I really don’t have the money for a prescription as I spent it all on cigarettes). I’m not sure if it’s gonna stick, but I’ll give it a shot. If there’s anything that will help it’s that I’m feeling to lazy to go out and get more at the moment. SO sighed and has begun to steel himself to the madness that is forthcoming. He may need to be held next. I’ll have him rocking in a corner in no time.