I’m planning a hate-fest that night. He can join me in spirit if he wishes. 
or should that be :mad:?
Koalas are mentholated stinky cuteness? That deters me not. I think skunks are absolutely adorable and I’d have one for a pet if I could.
The head of reference just walked by and snapped a rubber band at me. snerk
I first heard of it from watching Good Eats. According to the official site, it was first made in Baltimore. Is that not north enough for you? 
Anyway, you should be able to find it at your local grocery store.
Spaz - Skunks (descented) make absolutely adorable pets, at least if the YouTube videos I’ve seen are at all typical. Their claws do look a little vicious though.
Mahna[sup]2[/sup] - If it’s any consolation, Mississauga Transit isn’t much different. I try and get out of the office at the same time every day because I like to catch the bus that zips by at the end of the street about 7 minutes after 5, but often as not it’ll have already zipped by at 5:04, which means I have to wait another 5-7 minutes. (This is the Hurontario bus, one of the most major routes that runs from the waterfront to Brampton, which runs frequently during rush hour, so at least that one’s not too bad.) This route, however, also suffers from sardine syndrome during rush hour, too – and they are utterly retarded in how they manage that route. During the week they use standard-sized buses. On the weekend, they whip out the long reticulated buses – when they’re needed least. I just don’t get it.
Puggy/sturmhauke - I don’t believe I’ve ever seen that seasoning – and I do visit the spice section from time to time, as I always like to make sure I’m stocked up on the stuff I use most. From the look of it, it seems to contain either paprika or cayenne or something reddish. I’ve seen bottles of general-sounding “seafood seasoning” but it looks nothing like Old Bay – this stuff is mostly white with a few dark flecks of pepper and stuff in it. Perhaps it’s an American thing? 'Cos my north involves a border crossing.
VBob - YOU KILLED BAMBI? Well, I guess it can be excused if it’s in the name of saving another life. Plus, I suppose we as humans have to help out the evolutionary process by weeding out that whole “deer in the headlights” mechanism and replace it with a “RUN LIKE YOUR ASS IS ON FIRE” instinct.
Nava I must admit a tragic ignorance about figs. I can say that the supermarket local to my workplace sells fresh figs by the box, and I’ve seen 'em carry both green and black figs. Perhaps figs, like peppers, change colours as they mature? I know there are also many different kinds of figs, so maybe that has something to do with it, too.
::zooming by again::
Busy. I read it all though.
Yays, boos, and cookies!
Up and off to work. I did a couple of loads of laundry. Gordie actually slept a few hours last night.
Everybody have a happy Firday!
Such as sleep? 
We were maybe going to do something similar on Monday, except only for an hour or two. I’ll talk to my parents about upping it to afternoon and evening, maybe post-nap until after dinner. We’re working up to more than three hours apart from me right now. A whole day would be brilliant, but I think it won’t happen until sometime in spring.
On Valentine’s Day itself we’ll probably hunker down at home, watch tv, and do chores. It’s very romantic.
Glad that Gordie slept last night.
How’s the potty stuff going, Dotty?
Oooh! Oooh! Nat tried to say “cat” yesterday. He’s started pointing at things and saying, “dat?”, and I tell him the name. He can only say Mama, dat, and Da so far, but he pointed at Aerin, and asked, and I said “Cat”, he looked at me, and asked again, and I repeated. And then he said “d…caaa…t” We’re starting the road to “Will you just shut up!!!”.
He tries to pick her up by her tail several times a day. He’s lucky to still be alive.
Here ya go, Doggio, I’ll save you some time and send the link right now. Get used to these products, you will need them!
I’m up, gots me caffy in front of me, it’s sleazy and rainy today (but supposed to clear up again tomorrow, yay!) and the goggies are determinedly sleeping on my feets. They say “Weather is teh suxxorz, Mom, we wanna be inside wif you!”
Valentine’s Day sucks hairy monkey scrotum–on the other hand, Steak & Blowjob day has quite a bit to recommend it. I’m such a traitor to my gender I expect they’re gonna pull my vagina card one of these days…
My calves hurt, but in a good way… Daughter came by last night to pick up a package (she ships all her internet shopping to my house since there’s always someone home to get it) and she couldn’t stay off my elliptical machine. I think she’s going to be ordering one pretty soon, it really is neat and takes up like no room, but it gives a good workout and with a little ingenuity you can make it a whole body thing with dumbbells or resistance bands or just flailing about like an epileptic on crack. It’s all good…
Maybe I can finish cleaning that darned library/junk room today. The dust makes me sneeze, though, so I’ve been avoiding it while my tooth hurts. It’s ever so much better now so perhaps I can get off my duff and whip it into shape.
Happy Firday, y’all!
Rrthfdouneiunfoincd. I hate Valentine’s Day. Partially because I’ve had precisely one good one, and that was in 2002. All V Day is to someone who doesn’t have an SO is “Feel lonely. You have no one. Feel very, very lonely. See all those happy couples? You don’t have that.”
You would… 
Duuuuhhhh! 
Useless trivia fact #28573 – the Hebrew equivalent of the joke in the comic linked above, would involve an olive.
Mork, dude, where you been? 
I am happy to live in a part of the world where Valentine’s day is virtually unheard of. To the point I’m having trouble getting cards to send anyone!
Well, it’s been a busy day here – weekly grocery shopping, an hour on the treadmill at the gym, all sorts of chauffeuring duties with the kids, and cooking dinner (Chicken, rice & onion casserole, yum! :)) It’s finally time for chillin’ a bit! (it’s also 9 PM already :eek: )
No big fan of VD, err, Valentine’s Day either.
Here’s a few recipes that claim to simulate Old Bay.
It’s an icky, gray, wet day here. We desparately need rain, and it was at least decent enough to rain on a telecommute day so I don’t need to leave the house for anything. Sucks to be Invisible Tenant though - he’s got at least one rooftop job to repair a commercial air handler.
It’s hard to believe - seems like just a week or two ago that I’d booked our cruise and that it was just *ages *away, and now, in less than two weeks, we’ll be in Florida. Trying to make sense of the blizzard of options for shore excursions, on-ship restaurant reservations, events and whatnot. There’s scarcely an hour where there’s not something planned - most days, there’s just a three-hour naptime from 4 - 7 AM. I’ll leave the dancing until 4AM to the younger kids. I’m quite happy to see that the all-night dancing is far from our cabin.
Other than us, I already know two people on the cruise - someone from one of our brokerage/securities divisions will be giving some presentations on investing, and a local guy that we know will be giving country dance lessons. It’s a small world after all…
LiLi, if you and Mr Lissar can manage to get a little alone time sans kidlet, surely there would be better things to do in bed than sleep.
(and no, please spare me any sordid details… I don’t wanna know, lalalalalalalala)
Mork, I’ve never ever seen Old Bay here in Tronna or surrounding area. You can make your own pretty easily, though (more easily than you could figure out the logic of transit planners, that’s for sure).
I think I may be developing a sensitivity to fresh pineapple… I had some last night and then again for lunch today, and both days the inside of my mouth felt like it had been rubbed raw with sandpaper after a couple of bites. This sucks, because I happen to really really like fresh pineapple. 
Home early because I am exhausted. Class went well last night, but my worries about non-ficus Bernie, plus **FCD **talking in his sleep and general restlessness put me in the zombie mode today. So after I spent about an hour with Harry figuring out why my program wouldn’t run yesterday (we figgered it out - yay!) I bailed.
Incidentally, my glasses were laying in the driveway. Thankfully, **FCD **saw them as he was pulling up to the garage. I don’t know how I dropped them, but I’m glad to have them back.
Bernie is still dizzy. She tried to get up when I came home so she could go outside, but she only made it a step or two before plopping back down and peeing on the carpet. My sweetie came home early, too, so he and I used a bathtowel like a sling and lifted her to an afghan across the room. She’s been sleeping there, and I got out the carpet cleaner and took care of today’s and yesterday’s spots. I love my carpet cleaner.
I’m really tired, but I don’t want to nap, for fear I’ll be up tonight. So I’m doing laundry and reading the funnies I didn’t get to yesterday. I expect to pass the evening in a recliner knitting.
Another vote for I hate V-day! It was fun as a kid, and I think it should have stayed for kids. The diamond industry doesn’t need another excuse to aid guilt-inducing commercials. One year, I made heart-shaped cakes for my sweetie and me to take to our respective jobs. I wrote “Happy V. D.!” on them.
**doggio **- is Gordie named for the hockey great? I saw him play in San Diego 30+ years ago…
Time to check the laundry.
Great Og, I have no motivation today. Zero. Haven’t written a single review – didn’t even test anything out to review. I may still, but … I’m here instead.
Mahna[sup]2[/sup] - Nutmeg, cloves and ginger? Wow, those are things I’d never have thought to put on seafood. The rest sounds pretty normal and easy to whip up though.
Nooner - Oh, here and there. Mostly there, I suppose, but now I’m here. I should be there right now, really, but as mentioned, I am devoid of motivation.
**Mork **- if you’d like, I could send some to you. I don’t know what the ingredients are, but nutmeg, cloves, and ginger don’t sound right. I practically grew up on the stuff - then again, I spent my formative years in Baltimore.
I think tiny bits of nutmeg, cloves and ginger could be in there, but the main note I detect in Old Bay is celery seed.
Home. Tired. ALL DAY MEETING. On the plus side, it was actually productive. But exhausting.
Gotta find food.
Back later to reply to more.
GT
Ok, so work (nurse) kinda sucked, but at least I wasn’t canceled and I made some money. This nursing job I have is like being nibbled to death by ducks–pick, pick, pick. You follow the protocol and then, hours later (or several days later), you have to explain why you did X or go over what you did with several people. Usually because of stupid shit that is out of your control.
Example: a pt is added on to Monday’s schedule at 7pm on a Friday night. The scheduling office tells you the case is for 11 am. You tell them (they do the off hour calls to pts) to tell the pt to come in at 8 am, because she needs stat labs done day of surgery. You go home and live your life. You are called on Saturday afternoon and asked WHY did you tell the pt to come in at 0800 when the doctor wants the case to start at 0730? You say that you were given the time by scheduling (which the caller knows–caller is your boss) and that scheduling was given that time by the DOCTOR’S office. And then you get to explain it all over again to your boss’ boss.
I hate my job.
I can’t help it if the doc changes his mind as to the time he wants to get the case done. DUH. :rolleyes:
That happened last week. Lather, rinse, repeat for today.
It’s WARM! It was almost 40 when I drove home. The sunset was gorgeous. I plan on washing the car(s) tomorrow, just to be outside. I am so excited.
Last thing: I think a dinner of plain m&m’s mixed with roasted, salted peanuts is a good dinner, don’t you?
I’m wasting time at work to see if my boss can actually pay me today (for two pay periods. I have my job, but I really don’t want to try to find another one for obvious reasons). I’m not hurting for money right, especially since I got my deposit back from the Apt. I got it all back! WOO!
I’m heading over to my parents’ house after work. I think I’m going to go by the college first tho and pick up a few things. My mom and I are going to have a project night - I’ll be working on homework, but at least it’s fun stuff. I have to DRAW! a lot of cute guys for my website. I need to resist the temptation to commit to more than I can get done in the time, especially considering I’m going to have projects in my other classes too.
I also have two logos to design, and research to do for another class. I’m not real worried about that yet - I’ll work on it this weekend. And damn, I have the stupid film log too. At least I don’t have anything for photography. I have a feeling that’s going to end up being my light class.
I’m hoping to see my boyfriend too. He’s not sure what he’s doing this weekend. His ex-wife is been uncommunicative and he doesn’t know if he’s going to have his daughter or not.
It’s been icky out - raining really hard. I hate travelling in this weather and I need to get gas. Ick. Any my windshield wipers are worn out, but at least they actually work when it’s raining (as opposed to other times when they just streak the whole thing).
Oh, we already do plenty of that! :Prying hands off Muppet’s ears: Lots! Even with am exhausting toddler! It’s the other things, like"Watch movie uninterrupted", “Sleep through the whole night”, and “Go to Chinatown” that get displaced by having a baby. (I know, i could take Nat to Chinatown, but I am not taking a stroller on the streetcar. Nuh Uh. I refuse. Maybe when he can walk pretty well).
M&M’s are a fine, nutritious dinner, rigs, even without the peanuts. With the peanuts it’s pretty much the same as a sald.
Muppet, I never asked you what you and The Boy ate when you went to Shopsin’s.
Ditto
Yay. The work week is over. I actually got something accomplished today, but I had to stay til 6:30 to do it. grrrrr.
The weekend weather is supposed to be lovely - temps in the high 40s both days, maybe even hitting 50 on Sunday.
's’all I’s got.
laterz
Well, TGIFirday!
I’m finally starting to feel better, though not all the way yet. The inhaler is helping with my breathing although I’m still coughing. It’s just not hurting as much nor am I unable to catch my breath afterwards. ::shakes fist at cigarettes:: Now may I say how glad I am that I finally quit smoking?!
{{{{{{Rigs}}}}}}; wish there was something more I could offer! Be careful with those peanuts, though; that PCA recall seems to have exploded, unfortunately. 
The temps here are supposed to be moderate this weekend - 40s and low 50s even. Woo and hoo! FCM, I 'm thinking of Bernie and hoping that she’ll be okay.
I have no plans for the weekend other than resting and working on my crochet projects. Yes, that’s plural LOL I’ve got several of them ongoing now. I may do a bit of cooking and even baking, maybe. That will depend on how I feel tomorrow; I’ll have to go grocery shopping (to get some essential ingredients!) first. I love making stuff that we can eat during the week, especially stuff that I can take in to eat for lunch.
That’s all I got now too…hope everyone enjoys the weekend.