I don't know what peppermint creams or chocolate huffpuffs are but I want some. Now.

My point is, he said "That's a blue state, isn't it?" as if you shouldn't patronize any blue-state business, Christian-owned or not.

Steph, you should move to Seattle just so you can join Saint Marks, because it's awesome.

Raquel did look far too attractive to have just given birth. Curse her!

I need to strap the baby in the carseat so that I can shower. Right now, I'm totally seeing the appeal of the baby papasans, and am planning on getting one posthaste, as I lack a place to set the baby in a semi-upright position while I Do Stuff.

Did he like the plush flesh-eating virus?

We just ordered it yesterday, and plan to have a group presentation next week. I'm sure he'll dig it.

I like your Big!Boss more than I expect to.

I have got to give the man props. He's mentally as sharp as ever, so he knows damn well that I'm no longer the church-y type, and therefore was damn well aware of that when he jumped in to get my back.

What, God hates everybody in Pennsylvania now?

I know, right? I think Church!Guy's implication was -- how DARE a "good Christian" like Big!Boss give his business to a godless heathen state.

Assmunch.

Well, we read Mr Wolf's Pancakes a while ago, and then this week we read Mr Wolf and the Three Bears. In the latter, Mr Wolf and his grandma prepare Baby Bear's birthday party dinner, but Goldielocks gatecrashes and wrecks everything. Goldielocks ends up in a pie. The book includes recipes for all the things that Mr Wolf and his grandmother made (including the pie).

edited to add:

ion, Church!Guy? What a twat.

It's odd hearing about people's experiences of living in a religious country. I mean, that kind of 'Yay Church!' attitude is something you just never encounter in Britain. It's something most people would find distinctly embarrassing and freakish - like saying you're a Train spotter, or write Gay Vampire Snuff Porn, or something. Weird. And of course here I'm in a society which is saturated with godliness, and signifiers of worship. But I've not had people being shitty to me about my own religion, as it happens. (Or, you know, agnostisim. Which isn't really a concept people often grasp here.)

Chocolate Huffpuffs are actually just rice crispie cakes - you know, where you get some cereal and some melted chocolate and mix them up and refrigerate them.

In memememe, I need some help with something. Would you guys mind if I posted about the work that is going in my creative writing portfolio? I need to come up with a title for it, that threads through all of the pieces, and I'm just coming up blank. I won't post the work ('cause that would take like 30 posts)...I'll just post short summaries on each piece.

Of course, vw.

Fay -- chocolate huffpuffs sound easy and delicious. Was Hufflepuss in the Harry Potter books named after them?

Also, peppermint creams -- my grandmother used to make my dad "bitter mints" -- which were dark chocolate candies filled with a peppermint cream. (She would make them for his birthday -- which would be tomorrow were he alive.)

Perhaps I should drop by my local Chocolate Shop and pick up some mint creams in memory of both of them.

Steph, I really like your Big!Boss.

"My coven has been spell-casting for him since this began. It's wonderful to see their power at work."

Yeah, I would have said something like that.

Steph, you should move to Seattle just so you can join Saint Marks, because it's awesome.

It is awesome. I think Steph should move to Seattle just because, but Saint Marks is indeed nifty.

Betsy, I'm sorry about the freaky hourly thing. It's not 'the industry standard' here at the Evil Empire.

Y'know, if I had had a math teacher like Fay, I probably would have liked math classes a LOT more.

Fay could have taught phys. ed. and made me like it. Higher praise there is none.

Y'know, if I had had a math teacher like Fay, I probably would have liked math classes a LOT more.

I'm enjoying Maths a lot more now than I ever did in school. It's nice to have the chance to revisit it as an adult. However, this particular lesson is a rarity - I need to find far more opportunities for doing this kind of physical learning in all subjects. It's totally The Way Forward.

Re: Hufflepuffs in Harry Potter - I presume that both are from the whole Big Bad Wolf Thing - "I'll Huff and I'll Puff and I'll Blow This House Down" style of thing. Um.