I have an experiment for all of you. Okay, get up from your computer. Now sink down in the decorous-woman-wearing-short-skirt-picking something-off-the-floor pose. Kind of crouched, but (Important!) *keep your back straight. You should be sort of balancing on your toes, but almost kneeling.
Great. Now get up by pushing yourself up with your thigh muscles. Your back should still be straight- no leaning forward! Just go straight up as though someone’s pulling you up by a string tied to the crown of your head.
Now repeat twenty times.
No leaning forward! I saw that! Back straight!
Doesn’t that hurt?
I just did an entire dance class based around doing that. Except we were doing hip circles, undulations, body waves, and other complicated movement while doing it. And, you know, you have to make it look like you floated effortlessly down and back up without any strain at all.
An hour and a half. I’m going to hurt so badly tomorrow.
Hey, VunderBob - I’ll be down in your neck of the woods on Thurs! They’re taking 2 busloads of us to tour an F/A-18 squadron at Oceana, then lunch at the O-club, then to Norfolk to tour the Washington. Unfortunately, we’ll be herded thither and yon and there’s no way I could sneak away for a rendezvous or a drink or anything. But I thought you should know anyway.
Whenever I get herded tither, I get all rebellious and wonder hither but gettin’ herded yon has always been cool with me.
It’s cold here! Gonna get into the low 20’s tonight. ACBG is coming over in a bit. I may use him as an extra blanket tonight. Enjoy that little vision y’all.
Lissla I really want to know about Cat Pee On A Gooseberry. I might even call liquor store guy and ask him if they have any in stock. If nothing else, hearing him crack up on the phone when I say the name would be worth it. “Hey Tim! Y’all got any of that Cat Pee On A Gooseberry wine from Australia?” On second thought, he might not let me back in the store. Aw who am I kiddin’! There’d go half his income.
This is what separates the good from the great. Gold spray paint is so nouveau riche, a truly classic macaroni Nativity scene is done on cardboard, sprayed with silver spray paint, then covered with black tempra paint, thick enough that some can be ever so carefully stratched out to reveal the silver stars. The macaroni is then sprayed blue (for Mary’s clothes) brown (Joseph and the shepherds, the manger, and maybe a cow if you’re ambitiuos), purple (the Wise Men), black (everyone’s hair–this is the Middle East after all), white for sheep, and natural for the faces. Baby Jesus is gold. With glitter all over him. Mary and Joseph can both have gold halos, but Mary’s should be bigger. The Wise Men can have glitter on the hems of their robes, but no glitter for the shepherds! For true versimilitude, you may glue some straw to the picture–but not on Baby Jesus! No hay on Jesus, Mary or Joseph. The shepherds can have hay.
I think I may be channeling my first grade teacher! :eek: Is it any wonder I gave up on art when I was six?
I get the feeling that no one is following my instructions.
Vaguely Asian chicken for dinner tonight. Teriyaki type with fresh ginger. On rice.
The wine is in the fridge, and I’ll report back. I’m too nervous to give it to my inlaws because I’m pretty sure the one I saw reviewed was a '03, and this is a '04. So we’ll drink it and decide if it’s good enough to get another bottle. I got Brother-In-Law a bottle of Framboise. I don’t know if you can get it in the States, because it’s made a smallish (I think) Ontario winery, but it’s a raspberry dessert wine, and it tastes like fresh raspberries, only better. I think it’s Southbrook Farms.
Hey, I googled it and it’s “the first Ontario wine to be carried by Harrod’s”. It’s amazing stuff, and they have blueberry and blackberry too, although I haven’t tried them.
I thought it was Picasso that had blue periods. Van Gogh was just nuts, albeit brilliant.
Van Gogh did have periods where his paintings were heavily blue, although not monochromatic like Picasso. His periods are generally characterized by where he lived.
I just read and followed your directions. I like that feeling, although my knees are old and have many soccer seasons behind them so are a bit creaky. Also my balance is not what it once was. Thankfully I wasn’t trying to hold my glass of wine while doing that. FWIW I bet you’ve got a bitchin’ bod to go with all of that exercise. I hope your hubbys appreciate it.
I have had icewine, O Aphrodite. I love it, but Framboise is way cheaper, and almost as good.
The Cat’s Pee is pretty good. Not stunning, but I liked it. I can’t maintain my pretense of wine snobbery- I really can’t describe it or anything- it just tasted good.
I don’t think anyone is following my directions either! I know great art takes time, but if you’ve been spending this much time on a macaroni Nativity, you could be the next Martha Stewart.
See, I would do the macaroni art, but everytime I see elbow macaroni I become possessed. I have to boil it, combine it with a creamy cheese mixture, then bake it with some extra grated cheese on top. Then it’s too gooey for art so I have to eat it. Sometimes I put some cubed up ham and some mushrooms in it too. That makes it even more difficult to glue onto cardboard, so again, I have to eat it. I can’t help it. It’s an obsession.
I think The Little Woman just doesn’t want to know what Rue writes in his stories, as long as supper is on the table when she gets home.
How did snot come from… oh! Multitasking! Never mind.
I made my sister a Christmas present this year. Every time we’re playing cards she’s always asking “what’s trump?”. Even if we’re playing Go Fish. (And then I say “Yeah, what’s trump?” Vegas would eat me alive.) So I went to the craft store and bought a wooden cube about an inch anna half on the side. Then I took the woodburner the Little Woman bought a few years ago when she was making my brother his Christmas present for the “Make it, bake it, grow it or sew it Christmas” and burned the suits around the block. To make it look real nice I stained the whole thing. There was some sanding involved to reduce the threat of splinters.
Looking at it now, I should have used macaroni and spray paint.
I used the big bowl and spoon method to finish making the cocoa mix last night, and I even managed to get it into the festive jars VW bought without making a mess.
I have some macaroni art in my car. It’s a big macaroni heart on red construction paper with Happy Mother’s Day written on it. It’s from Lil Lestat[sup]TM[/sup] for Mother’s Day last year. He insisted I bring it to work and hang it in my cubicle. So far I haven’t been able to convince myself that my coworkers would think it was highly humorous that my 21-year-old made it. Am I a bad mom? I am not making this up. :rolleyes:
It’s only 39 degrees here this morning. I broke out my full-length wool Pendleton coat to wear to work today. It’s about 16 years old but looks brand new. Show’s you how often it gets worn down here.
Tuppy it was 27 degrees in south GA this morning. BRRRRRR!!! Course the good part is it’ll make all the pesty buggies like skeeters and wasps go away. Also, I like it when there’s frost on the grass. It makes cool crunchy sounds when I walk on it. And… I love gettin’ in the hot tub when it’s cold. It feels so good! Plus, I get to do weird things like get out of the hot tub all toasty warm, put on my robe and slippers and stand on my back porch drinking an ice cold beer. Some times I think ACBG is convinced I ain’t got just a whole lot of sense. Yet, he still hangs around.
VunderBob sounds to me like the VW is one slick cookie.
Well, we’ve warmed up to a whopping 50 degrees. Whoot! Whoot! Break out the sunscreen and let’s go to the beach!
Tonite I gotta make a peanut butter and chocolate cheesecake. We do this thing at work before xmas where each department has to feed the rest of the company some xmas treats on a designated day. Our original theme was “A Nutty Xmas” where everything was going to have nuts in it. But then some crybaby said but there are at least four people who are allergic. :smack: So the theme got changed to “The 19th Hole” which doesn’t have anything to do with xmas unless Santy plays golf in the summer. Who knows?? Anyhoo, I had already bought the stuff for the cheesecake so that’s what they’re gettin’ and they better like it! :mad:
Puggy, I just want you to know that I would appreciate those baking efforts. YUM.
I was out sick yesterday, but am now back at work. I started to get achy from lying around all day yesterday. I’m feeling a little bit better, but still not 100%.
Our department is having a potluck on Friday. There will be lots of sweets and fattening things, so I volunteered to bring a green salad.
