Look, all I want is some decent fried chicken. Is that too much to ask?
Wow, so much to respond to, I hardly know where to begin.
Ok, first, Taters WOOHOO!!! I’m glad it was just a nasty ol’ blackhead and not something evil. Though the extra eye or limb woulda been way cool. And, I’m glad you got it checked out. Never let that kinda thing go unchecked out, ok? We gotta keep you around here cause well, we lurve ya and we need our Taters. I don’t care what those Atkin’s folks say, carbohydrates are necessary. 
Oh, and I’m crossing my fingers over the job. And, since it’s the weekend coming up and I’ll mostly be barefoot, I’ll keep the toes crossed too unless I have to put on shoes.
Ashes[sup]2][/sup] beignets and pralines? That’s an awful lot of starch and sugar. But I gotta agree about that chicory coffee. I sometimes buy Luzianne coffee because of the chicory. It gets me hyped up for days but it is ever so good. Kalley why sure darlin’, I’ll be glad to pick up some beignets for ya. <snerk> Who are we kidding! The beignets and pralines wouldn’t make it outta the parking lot before I snarfed em down. Even if they did, it’s an eight hour one way drive from here to Nawlins and I’d need something to snack on, right? Specially after going through all those drive through daquiri places. Hmm… with enough beignets, pralines and chicory coffee in me, I could probably run home from Nawlins in an hour. Besides, I know several gentlemen of the burly variety in Nawlins and well, what with visiting them to and all while I was there, the stuff would probably get all cold before I got em to y’all. So, maybe it’s not a good idea to send me on that errand after all.
dangergene awwwwwwwwwwwww… YM said thank you. Be sure to tell him he’s welcome. Give the little rugrat a big hug from Unca Swampy too, will ya? Umm… you might always want to keep a close eye on him btw. I mean he did say die! die! die! as you were leaving and all. 
Lissla why do you want Mr. Lissar to buy you lumps of crystalized coal? Books are much better. Cats are questionable, however. How’d the move go btw? All settled in yet?
Bumba have fun on your trip. Wish I could get up to Etlanner to see ya while you’re here. If whoever’s seated next to ya on the plane starts to look a little pale, be nice and offer em your barf bag. It’s just good manners. Or, pull out your laptop and surf some porn while on the plane. Show it to the flight attendants. They’ll love it.
susan_foster have a fun day off! Eat the ice cream inside though. It gets all melty if ya take it out to the pool.
scout1222 Long Island Iced Tea is ok, but for sheer turning colors goodness, nothing beats several stout, tastes just like lemonade, Margaritas. This is fact based on copious personal research.
Oh, and I just looooooooooooooooves all of yas to pieces.
-swampbear (beignets, pralines and burly men, oh my!)
But Swampy, the old laptop is so old and so small that all I can get is geriactic midget porn. :rolleyes:
Kallessa: Yup.
Gotta run. It’s my turn in the shower. I know what you’re thinkin’ but if we were in there together we’d never get out of here in time.
Bye y’all! Bye to Young Master too!
Kallessa, my birthday is September 2 which occasionally falls on Labor Day but is also VJ Day every year (well since Dubbaya Dubbaya Two anyhoo). Don’tcha just think we September Girls are the cat’s meow?
Bumba, have a good trip and don’t forget to bring back presents for alla us.
Lissla, you’d think hubby could at least furnish a belly button diamond in light of your avocation, no?
Taters, good news on that blackhead, girl! Now, go out and buy you a good luffa brush.
Ex, I guess I shouldn’t tell you that I made homemade fried chicken for Mr. Anachi last night, huh? Ooopsie!!
Swampy, I loves me some Margaritas. Bar none the best poolside drinkiepoo.
Dangergene, step away from the chocolate!!!
Tupug (who has the Friday Feisties)
There is a zit thread currently perculating on this forum right now. I had to read it, get sick and then open MMP. What do I find? More blackhead/zit stories! I’d much rather read about poor Taters’ back blackhead than what I saw in the other thread, which is exactly like a car accident. You have to look.
Perhaps my baby will arrive on Labor Day. Wouldn’t that be a hoot? His Actual Due Date, though, is Sept. 19, which I’d ruther he’d wait for so as to build up more vacation time between now and then. I’m anticipating become a woman of leisure from Birth Day through New Year’s Day. (Ha! Woman of leisure! With a newborn! Ha!)
The most wonderful thing about today is … it’s Friday! Is it Friday there, dangergene (helpful bolding so that you no longer feel so vain for bolding yourself. You’re welcome). I can never remember if it’s tomorrow or yesterday, over thar where y’all live.
Swampy you’re mighty chipper this morning. Been withholding checks from your poor minions again? 
Thinking of you, I did actually get in a pool last weekend, our YMCA’s outdoor pool, which is a lovely pool indeed. I was just a teeny bit concerned about withdrawing my bulk OUT of the pool, though, so I just waded in the sloping kiddie end, enough to cool me off, then it was back to the deck chair and my book.
I plan to spend this weekend weeding my garden and paging through My Life by our esteemed Bill. I’ve already read the juicy parts, which aren’t terribly juicy, but you’ve go to hunt for them anyway, just cause they’re there.
Hi FCM!! Bet you’re just drinkin’ up that tropical heat!
No worries regarding Bumba winging his way to the ATL, I’ll be sure to take good care of him when I meet him in a few days (I’m all excited!)
Kallessa, it was in the stars and I guess your fate was sealed when you were born on Labor Day to become a labor lawyer. Some of the labor lawyers (litigators) I work with wear suits to work everyday, but most of them do “business casual” in the summer…to dadgum hot to wear suits!
swampy, don’t forget to check out the Bananas Foster at Brennan’s while in Nawlins! mmmmmmmmmmmmmm…more sugar.
fcm, so nice of you to drop in. Hope all is going well for you. Unbelievable that you spent all that time preparing to leave FL and what do they do? Send you RIGHT BACK! But I bet there are lots of nubile cabana boys in South Beach, eh?
Ex, what’s up with the fried chicken? Why not try to make it yourself? Or get the little woman to give it a whirl.
Taters, so glad to hear your “third eye” was not really an eye, or something worse. Be sure to take good care of the “wound” so you don’t get a nasty scar.
And regarding the suspiciously missing Shibb: what do you know about his obvious avoidance of the MMP, Rue? You guys are (were?) buds for a while there, weren’t ya? Did you two have a spat or something?
I sure am asking a lot of questions this morning
earthpuppy (questionable)
Ex I make some day-umn fine fried chicken. You’d think a burly man would wanna latch on to me forever just for that wouldn’t ya? I mean, I don’t even mind frying chicken even though it can get kinda messy and takes a while to fry. That’s the secret. Fry it slowly so it gets all nice and brown on the outside but cooks thoroughly. Chicken must be done all the way through.
Tupug I make a pretty day-umn good margarita too but I know somebody that makes margaritas that taste like the best lemonade you ever had. They will, however, cause temporary insanity. That’s how good they are. The good Mexican restaurant here makes good margaritas too. Wednesday is margarita night there. I go with some friends once a month on Wednesday night. This month it was Wednesday two weeks ago. Next month I’m thinking it’ll be the Wednesday night before my birthday on Thursday, just so’s we can continue the festivities which will start the Saturday before.
Did I mention that I’m being taken out to dinner on my bday? I get to go to the best Japanese place and have sushi. YAY!
-swampbear (that’s what day-umn sounds like when I say it)
Taters, I’m glad you’ve lost your enormous blackhead. Good to hear.
Ex, what’s with the fried chicken fixation?
swampy, Amaretto Sours are also very very good. I speak from lots of personal experience. Killer Koolaid is, too. I drink the girly-ist girly-drink ever.
I do think Mr. Lissar should get me a belly-button diamond. I’ll go wake hom up and tell him so. Thanks, Tupug.
Hooray FCM visited us!
Sorry, I’ve run out of steam on personal comments and bolding. Apologies to everyone I haven’t addressed personally, especially Kalley because she’s a lawyer and might hurt me. I don’t do well on the List Format.
The move was hellish, but we’ve got all our stuff (I think) and the cats are settling in nicely. Our new apartment is BEAUTIFUL- new bathroom and kitchen and everything. I’m thinking about painting the rooms fun colours- the reno guy did it all in cream- but Mr. Lissar says no painting until one month after we’ve moved.
I think garnet red for the bedroom, leave the hall and bathroom cream, do the kitchen in dark teal (lots of white cupboards and granite counter, light-coloured tiles) and I’m debating about the living room. It was going to be lavender, but that won’t go with the jewel-tones theme. swampbear?
I spent until Wednesday feeling absolutely exhausted.
I think this weekend should be our Yay We’ve Moved Party Weekend. Y’all are invited.
Where is Shibboleth? I’ve been wondering for a while.
Ooo, ear goo. Something I can relate to.
I was informed by an Ear-Nose-Throat doctor that “adults don’t get ear infections.” However, antibiotics make my ear problems go away. I was then informed by another ENT doc (the ear-nose-and-throat kind, not the Tree Herder kind) that the first ENT (still not a tree herder) was full of…um…poo.
So HE (second non-tree-herding-ENT) recommended the following to get Ear Wax out of my ears (I get a lot of it, like Katcha does. My sympathies go out to Katcha!) and keep them from getting infected:
- Purchase ear bulb. Blue thingy, made out of rubber, can be acquired at Wal*Mart or wherever for a couple of bucks.
- Flush ears out daily / weekly / monthly (whatever, depends on how bad my ears are) with a mixture of warm water and hydrogen peroxide.
- Once my ears are squeaky-clean, flush them out with a 50 / 50 mix of white vinegar and rubbing alcohol. This gets rid of the water in the ears.
Kallessa, was it you who had the water in the ears that wouldn’t come out? That was way back on page 1, sorry if I got the wrong person, but anyway, you may want to try the ear-bulb-flush-ear-out-with-alcohol-and-vinegar thing. It works GREAT for me to get water out of my ear. (Nothing else works, not straight alcohol in my ear, not the hair dryer thing, nothing.) AND it’ll also flush out all that icky ear poo.
Man. From vacations to ear poo. Rue, you’ve got some wicked cool threads, that’s all I gotta say.
-DogMom
Hey swampy, if you need any help heaping the evil let me know. I have a huge pile of evil in the back yard that’s going to spoil soon.
I’m sure it wasn’t something I’d done to scare off my pal Shibb, earthpup. Unless it was. I can be so casually heartless and I can’t be bothered to keep track of all the people I trample on throughout the day.
Hey! He should have had his family moved down with him by now, huh? Hey Shibb! Are you in the loving bosom of your family now? (Maybe asking him a direct question will flush him out.) But as long as he’s happy, that’s all I ask.
Speaking of “trample”:
It’s supposed to be super-fabulous this weekend, weather-wise. And we don’t, as a family, have any plans. So I made some. Just for me. Not big plans, I’m going on a short day-hike. There are two parks near-ish me that sound like they have good hikes. They are about the same distance from me and the hikes are roughly the same length. So I just had to make a decision.
The highpoint of one hike is a group of three 500+ year old trees.
The highpoint of the other hike is a tower they throw roadkill on to feed the vultures.
Germantown Metropark, here I come!
(Guess what Germantown Metropark has as its highpoint.)
In other news, the big Greek Festival is this week. I wonder if that would be any fun…
Thanks for the offer welby but I have readily available fresh evil at my disposal whenever I am in need. This limitless supply of evil has done such things as: placed several huge pool floats bearing the likenesses of Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff on the walls of somebody’s office as well as said somebody’s front yard on said somebody’s 40th birthday; cemented pink flamingoes into big pink buckets and placed them strategically all over the front yard of a certain sister-in-law just for, and inserted whoopee cushions under every cushioned seat in a certain sister’s house and also between mattresses and box springs. This evilness is, indeed, abundant.
OF COURSE it will be fun!!! I highly recommend it. If you recall, we had our Big Fat Greek Festival last month, and a large time was had by all. The food will be delish, the music and dancing is always fun (be sure to join in…and kids love it!), and if they do church tours like we do, it’s educational. We Greeks love to entertain guests…always lots of food and fun. You should really try to go.
earthpuppy (Opa!)
When you want fried chicken but you can’t get fried chicken it can be, like, a massive drag.
I think some of you people are missing the point. I do not want to fry chicken. I do not want my girlfriend to fry chicken (which would be kind of inconvenient at lunchtime anyway). I want to engage in an act of commerce in which I exchange money for chicken that somebody else has fried. Then I’ll eat it.
I should think that would be self-evident.
Well, there is this one Big Greek I remember, and it was festive. Oh! Like y’all didn’t think I’d come in here with a comment like that. Get over it. So There!
Rue how cool! A big tower where they throw roadkill to feed the vultures. They should charge admission to see that. Sounds like a good place for a Dopefest too.
Ellen I am in a good mood because I haven’t had to be the boss from hell this week. Everybody is actually doing what they’re supposed to! YAY! Guess nobody wants me to “accidentally forget” to sign paychecks again.
Lissla I would caution against painting any room in a soft pastel. They’re the kinds of colors that are very difficult to decorate around. I like the idea for the bedroom, but give consideration to painting the kitchen a dark color. Kitchens kinda need to be light and airy cause of cooking and stuff (you need lots of light for that, else you might discover that you accidentally used brussel’s sprouts (ICK!) instead of eggplant in that eggplant parmesan you were preparing cause both the Pope and the Queen of England are coming for dinner and well, I hear that Liz is allergic to brussel’s sprouts (ICK!) and you don’t wanna know about the after effects of brussel’s sprouts (ICK!) on the Pope). Stay with a light color for the kitchen. However a bold darker color (think a deep green) might look quite lovely in the living room. Hah! I’m one to talk. I paint with neutral colors and then accent, accent, accent. And yes, people do frequently comment on how tasteful yet masculine my home looks.
I like to flavor stuff with amaretto, but not too sure bout those amaretto sours. They sound girly. 
<snerk> earthpuppy misspelled Opal. <snerk>
Damn! All that evil will just go to waste then. Unless someone else needs a shovel full.
Hey Ex, you want Popeye’s or KFC? I’m only asking because I’m going to KFC for lunch and though I might bring some back.
Then I’ll take a picture of it and post it somewhere so that you can see the chicken that you cannot have.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!
See? I told you people I have too much evil.
KFC blows massive chunks and the nearest Popeye’s is on Hoosick Street in Troy up past the college, which is a hell of a walk from here.
This is a bad, bad situation.
Well, if you really knew anything about the Greek thing (and no, we don’t do it like that (not ALL the time (TMI)), you’d know that Opa! is the Greek equivalent of woohoo!
Really? Could ya say it like this then?
OOOOOOOOOPAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!