My car surged. (It did not escalate.)

Random mutterings:

Of course it looks like rain will be falling when I leave work. The umbrella is in the car.

Does the walk to your right side pedestrian convention apply in countries that drive on the left?

Did it augment (to use Condi's term)?

Does the walk to your right side pedestrian convention apply in countries that drive on the left?

Well, in the UK, you stand on the right-hand side of the escalator to allow people to walk up the left-hand side.

Not the walk vs stand thing, though it might be indicative. The "I'm going down a heavily travelled hallway and someone is approaching me and we avoid collision by moving to our respective right sides of the hallway. Most of the time, anyway."

So here's what happened.

I figured I should bake something to warm up my apartment. I had that weird phillo dough crap in my freezer (I forget why) and some apples.

I took out the dough, let it thaw for a bit while getting laundry done.

SO I chopped up the apples, squeezed some lemon on them, spinkled in brown sugar and cinnamon, a bit of vanilla, and a pinch of nutmeg.

Then I went to unroll the phillo dough stuff, and it was loaded with sheets of paper which I kept peeling off and throwing away. Then I realized that was the actual dough.

So I folded the paperdough into oragami tart shapes, and went to stuff it in cupcake tins...and realized the tins were rusty.

So I put the paper cupcake thingies in the tins, they squished the oragamidough into them the best I could, filled with the apple mixture, put a quarter of a pat of butter on each, and now I'm sitting here hoping something edible, if not disasterous, comes out of the oven in about a half hour.

If nothing else, your apartment is going to smell awesome.

it was loaded with sheets of paper which I kept peeling off and throwing away. Then I realized that was the actual dough.

This is something I could easily see happening to me. But I laughed anyway!

I have apple tart filling surrounded by papier mache. It's sort of tasty.

The thing to do with phyllo is to separate the sheets (3-4 to a layer) and brush butter between the layers. Not the healthiest crust in the world, but mmmmmmmmmmm.

It still sounds awfully yummy to me, Allyson, just for the apple mixture alone. Damn, now I'm craving apple crumble.

ION, I am at work and have spent valuable company time ordering a new purse.

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It's in sage green, if the link defaults to a different color. These bags are not very hip nor styling, but they are long-lasting, way easy to organize (due to the 80 bazillion different pockets they have on the inside), and you can throw them in the washer when they get dirty.