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[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Sean, it's a state law and really? Not at all well advertised in the places that the people who "need" it are.
(Not sniping at you, mind. Just sayin', is all. I think it's a great law, but really there's very little behind it, other than when a baby is left to die, the news reports remind people. )
There is, of course, an age when leaving kids in the car makes sense. I spent a lot of my mom's grocery store runs in the car with a library book.
I always used to think I would be a terrible parent. These days, I think that at my worst, most impatient, broke and crankiest, I would still be a far better parent than a frightening percentage of people who have kids. Too bad it's unlikely that Hansel and Gretel will show up at my door so I could treat them better than their family did.
My heritage is all central European: there's mostly Czech, then Russian, and a lot of Polish. Interesting factoid: DH's father's family came from Budapest, and my mother's family hailed from Bratislava, which are not all that far apart. It's kinda cool that our old country roots are from the same neighborhood.
so I am going to make shepard's pie in potato boats for the potato party a neighborhood friend has every year. I am guessing I am going to have a lot more filling than I need... I am guessing the filling will freeze well.
because for dinner tonight I am making Lemon butt chicken and for sunday a tofu spinach pie.
Lemon butt chicken? Now I'm going to be earwormed by "Bertha Butt Boogie"...
Lemon butt chicken? Now I'm going to be earwormed by "Bertha Butt Boogie"...
Personally I prefer Nutty's Onion Butt chicken.
And while I prefer The Jimmy Castor Bunch's "Trogdolyte", I'll always have a soft spot for "Bertha Butt Boogie."
Mmmm, shepherd's pie. Costco had a good one, but alas: no more.
I quite like Boston Market's turkey pot pie.
vw called me before leaving for the doctor's (voicemail, I wasn't here) and sounded much better.
Glad to hear our bug's doing better. Hope she continues to do well.
As to the babies in cars - a while ago in the area there was a court case of a man whose little girl (3? 5? quite young but not a baby) had been left strapped in their van, in the summer, and died. His claim that he'd asked one of the older children (of 12 or 13 total) to make sure the younger one was in the house didn't do much good. It seems that neighbors had repeatedly had to tell him that he'd left one of the kids in the car.