Go on with your from-scratch-cooking self! I am duly impressed, never having tasted cream of mushroom soup that didn't come from a can.
I am a large, semi-muscular man. I can take it. Don't hide behind Mal 'cause you know he'll shoot it down for you. Tell me.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Spike's Bitches 31: We're Motivated Go-getters.
[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.
JenP - Aug 22, 2006 8:29:54 pm PDT #9792 of 10001
Volans - Aug 22, 2006 9:36:06 pm PDT #9793 of 10001
move out and draw fire
ditto - and it sounds yummy!
We are in CODEL hell. The congressional delegation that arrived yesterday is the worst I've seen in 14 years of doing this job. Normally when the congressmen's behaviour (or their wives') gets really bad, you can remind yourself that they are in country for a purpose, promoting US interests, whatever.
This group is just here to party, and I don't even know why they chose here - half of them have never heard of the Acropolis and don't know why the embassy scheduled a visit to it. The other half have heard, but don't care.
They've only been in country 12 hours, and we've already had 4 phone calls at home, them pitching fits about various things. First one was that they wanted to go to a taverna or rebetica and drink and break crockery, but the breaking stuff is illegal in Athens now ("Hell it is!" said the head of the CODEL. "I built the Plaka! I know this city better than anyone!"). Latest one was that the hotel didn't provide salmon eggs at breakfast.
And then one of the spouses accused the embassy cashier of cheating her: "Excuse me, but I know how much per diem is here, and this isn't enough!" "Ma'am, it's disbursed in euros." "Well I know that! But I'm supposed to get $250/day and she only gave me €218!" "That's correct, ma'am. That's the exchange rate today." "I don't even know what 'exchange rate' means, and I don't care! I won't be cheated!" "Ma'am, the exchange rate between the euro and the dollar means that for every US dollar, you get about .73 euro cents." "What, they're taxing us?!?" "No ma'am..."
::headdesk::
And there's a whole bunch of boring government regulation stuff that I'll spare you - the gist is that Congress sets these laws for what official Americans can use government funds for, and then doesn't want the laws applied to themselves.
Seriously, this is worse than the time the CODEL got mad at me for the city losing power (back in Bucharest) while they were shopping. I'm going to write this all down for my book, later, when it can't be clearly identified which congressmen I'm talking about.
Sean K - Aug 22, 2006 9:57:23 pm PDT #9794 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Ai, Raq. How idiotic.
Oh, for people who are not on low sodium diets, feel free to salt that recipe to taste. I added salt to my portion.
Cass - Aug 22, 2006 10:27:01 pm PDT #9795 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
::waits for Hil to show up with competing injury::I tinted my brows tonight. Without blinding myself!
And I petted a shiny race car. But that's not competing, just pure giddy.
From scratch.Impressive!
We are in CODEL hell.::blinks::
People are that stupid? And that dumb? And that rude? Did I already ask about the stupid?
Though I was offered crockery to break in Athens. It was a long time ago. If I had been in a bad mood, it could have been theraputic but I was happy so I passed.
Jars - Aug 22, 2006 10:54:09 pm PDT #9796 of 10001
We are in CODEL hell.
Bwahahahahahahahh! I'm sorry, I know it's not funny. Except for how it is.
Are you guys being Punked?
Cass - Aug 22, 2006 11:21:47 pm PDT #9797 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Without blinding myself!Though it seems that I did wrench my back somehow. Not that I think it was from the brow tinting, just random rotten luck.
5 mg of Flexeril to the rescue. One hopes. I need a chiropractor to make me their bitch. Or be mine. Whichever snaps, crackles and pops me back into allignment, I'm game.
JenP - Aug 22, 2006 11:38:56 pm PDT #9798 of 10001
Argh, Raq, that's just... would that the stupid, rude, and I don't even know what could be forcibly smacked right the hell out of them.
Ouch, Cass. Hope the drugs work.
Cass - Aug 22, 2006 11:46:21 pm PDT #9799 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
and I don't even know what could be forcibly smacked right the hell out of them.I was thinking of what could be smacked into them. Or against them.
Ouch, Cass. Hope the drugs work.Thank you! The drugs might have started to work or I am starting to not care. Either way? Good drugs.
I am hoping to parlay them into interesting dreams soon. I could go for some interesting dreams tonight.
JenP - Aug 22, 2006 11:55:45 pm PDT #9800 of 10001
I was thinking of what could be smacked into them. Or against them.
You know, as long as there's smacking...
I was having interesting dreams not twenty minutes ago, but then something woke me up. Stupid something.
Cass - Aug 23, 2006 12:04:51 am PDT #9801 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Stupid something. Tell it to make you warm milk and hum a lullaby until you drop back to sleep.
Time for me to shut things down, clean things up and stumble aimlessly to bed. In the morning, I fetch me a billytea. In the hours between, I let the meds and upcoming rest work their magicks so that I am human when faced with the dear Aussie.