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I can't remember if I've strained broth down the drain myself or watched my mother do it, but every time I make broth, I'm convinced that I'm going to do that, and I get very paranoid. Once several years ago when we were having a holiday dinner at some friends' house, DD was asked to drain a can of olives and put them in a bowl. She poured them into the strainer right in the middle of the kitchen over the floor. It was the funniest thing; we still give her a hard time about it. Wabbit, is this neuroma thing a lump or just a pain? Why can't these things just go away by themselves? Life is not fair. Maybe your lovely relaxing spa visit will convince this Morton twit that you are too young and fabulous to torture and it will leave. DH is now torturing his guitar (and my ears), and I don't mean just by playing it. He is twanging on the strings like he needs to hit something (which no doubt he does :smoking: ). Think I'll stay here in the den where it's safe. Kiwi |
I for one am not a reformed cleaner. DH says my inability to put ANYTHING away is just a "cute character flaw" (he exaggerates about the ALWAYS as well as the cuteness).
I once put water in a pan where the sauteeing garlic was getting too hot too fast. Had hot oil spatter all over me AND the kitchen. Was a mess. Don't aspire to broth, so have never poured it through the strainer inappropriately. I've made divinity on a humid day that was SO tough you could have set bricks with it. Hope you know that I'm your friend, but maybe NOT the best domestic role model I'm glad my DH can hammer something in his workshop when he's cranky. Having to listen to tortured-guitar could be up there with the Twinkie Defense, don't you think? |
my feet hurt
Still recovering from a forced march through the woods today in freezing cold weather, aka "family walk". It was dh's idea and no one really wanted to go but I figured I sure wasn't going to get any more energetic by lying around on the couch all day like I'd originally planned so we stomped around the forest and breathed in fresh air 'til we couldn't stand it any more.
Lush may hang out with those cleanies, but she still love us best. Painty, did you know that this group origally started out at "Messies Anonymous"? So we've all been domestically challenged for a looooong time. I don't think I've actually done the broth down the drain thing, but I get paranoid too thinking that I might. My specialty is leaving stuff in the microwave or (turned off) oven overnight and then discovering the remains in the morning. Nice. We just got this huge, giant electricity bill and can't figure out how we could possibly use that much. Of course it's All My Fault, as usual, but now we've got a sort of monitoring thing on some stuff to see what's sucking up so much juice. |
Ah, tromping through the woods--isn't that a proper German thing to do! Ja.
Oh yes, we have a family tradition of leaving things cooked in the microwave. DH sometimes leaves his oatmeal in there in the morning. That's nice and hard by dinnertime. It's too bad to get old and forget what you were going to eat, isn't it? :lol: Speaking of eating, we got back a little while ago from the in-law family dinner for DD's birthday (she'll be 17 on Wednesday -- isn't that unbelievable?? :fr: ) I am so stuffed I can't move. Lasagna, birthday cake, good lord it's too much my frail little frame to deal with HHHAAAHHAHAHHALOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLO as we used to say. Super Bowl in an hour. Not sure why, but I guess I'll watch. Supposed to be cheering for the Patriots. Lush and I can compete on who virtually cheers loudest. :rolleyes: :cheer: :cheer: :coach: :cheer: :cheer:GO PATS GO! Not that I care really. Kiwi |
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:cheer:RAH RAH REE KICK 'EM IN THE KNEE :dancer: RAH RAH RASS :dancer:KICK 'EM IN THE OTHER KNEE:cheer: Kiwi |
Patriot Victory!!!
And that cute little piggy wanting to be a Clydesdale. :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: Almost ready for a new week. The weekend was tooo short. I would really enjoy being retired and just playing. My puritan work ethic has clearly evaporated totally.-- and yet I'm in the "French" camp when it comes to the Babette's Feast attitudes. Ewe... there is a buzzing fly pop-up add that is EVEN MORE ANNOYING than the tight jeans butt was. Short post as a result. Have LOTS of books to read and knitting projects... WHY do I have to go to work and be productive? Don't answer that... I'm pretty sure my kharmic balance is out of whack!! |
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I feel so bad for Donovan McNabb. I really don't care about the team as an institutuion, per se, but the players seem very nice and McNabb's mom is so sweet. I was happy Paul was not my favorite Beatle because he just plain isn't cool, though "Drive My Car" was a good choice. Gretchen Wilson is a skank, isn't she? Black Eyed Peas should have done "Get it Started." I feel I ate too much...I should have skipped the bread. Poor Sugar, being forced to commune with nature is worse than having to watch a football game. What we do for these men. Wabby, I always love you guys best. I just can't keep my house straight without posting lists. I have to go see if ds14 is sick. He hates to stay home from school because he hates to make up his work... but he was sick, sick, sick last night. Have a good week. L |
I didn't watch it. I am uncool.
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I thought Paul Mc did a pretty creditable job for an old guy :s: . And I totally agree with you on Wilson. Didn't catch BYPs, I was too busy posting :cheers: :lol: Gotta run. It's music day. Although almost everyone is sick apparently; we're going all the way over there for only one lesson. Ta Kiwi |
hey tankasauri-------i was in Nova Scotia at the craft and gift wholesale show all weekend buying {ordering } stuff for the SHOP----does anyone know when i will be getting the shop because i am tired of waiting to find out----- i better be getting it cause i ordered 5000 dollars worth of pottery,jewellery candles and soap---------EFF. thanks for the soup tips darlings-----WORD on the strainer problems {at alot of the message boards i visit they say "WORD" if they agree with your post.HAHAHAH---they think they are so cool-----------------they obviously don't know HHs HHS HHS====my sister is flying to Hong Kong for a week-----business----her babysitter just called and tole me she has been ordered to bed with Double Pneumonia----it seems i may be doing more than whining about my shop this week....................
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Lush, you can post your housecleaning list here. I post my Leslie mileage (or lack of) here. By the way, no Leslie today. I've been feeling soooooo tired lately. Last night (4:30 am) our doggies started barking, and I told DH "I think someone is knocking on the front door", to which he replyed "no they aren't, SHUT UP Dotty! (the dog, not me), but there was someone knocking at the door. It was a man who said that he'd chased a prowler down our driveway and would we mind if he pursued him? Of course, there is nothing more exciting than a prowler in the night to DH and our Dotty dog, so they went off prowler hunting. I rolled over and tried to go back to sleep. They didn't catch anyone, but I think the prowler might have known the neighbor's teenage daughter.
Bagzie, what kind of soaps have you purchased for your shop? Will you post pictures so we can shop online? I didn't watch the Super Bowl. I watched some of the Supper Bowl on the food network. I've got my priorities straight. Did Paul M have any wardrobe malfunctions? DH traded in our motorhome on a used but ten years newer motorhome. Supposedly if we have a newer one we will use it more. Ha. Did you realize that Wabby, Sugar, Lush, Bags, Kiwi, Paint, and Peaches are listed in the Urban dictionary,did I leave anyone out? Peaches is not going to like her definition. :o Bagzie, I have a pink rhody blooming. purdy. Sugar, I bet you all looked just like the Von Trapp family in Sound of Music. Oh yeah, they were Austrian. |
I'm pretty sure they chose Paul because he wouldn't be having any wardrobe malfunctions. He wore a long sleeved red jersey. If his face didn't look sort of his age, you could have believed he was in his twenties.
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Do I have to go look? I was just there at the urban dictionary yesterday checking on the definition of dooced, which of course originates with my favorite blogger, who I actually have been reading since before she got dooced and the word was coined. Well, I'll surf on over there and check out our names right after I register for 52 weeks of Manolo Blahnik shoes at Godiva. Although what I'd do with pointy shoes I do not know. Sell them on eBay I guess. :dunno: Whew, don't ever order a "roasted garlic" pizza. I had one the other day at a restaurant called Evo. You could get raw garlic or roasted garlic. I was thinking roasted would be better until I started eating it. I'd forgotten what roasted garlic is like--I was thinking minced and sauteed or something. But I've done it myself, roasting the whole bulb. It makes the garlic sort of mushy. They put all these whole cloves of mushy garlic all over the pizza under the cheese so you didn't find them until you bit into one. I mean it wasn't vile, but I wouldn't get it again. And the gas, oh my lord the gas. :o Bagz, I'm so excited about your store. Hope you don't actually have to open the shop while your sis is in Hong Kong, that might be more than one person could humanly attempt. Good luck! Kiwi |
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