I've actually been noticing how long it takes me to use shampoo and conditioner, because I'm only washing 3-4 times a week, and I'm alternating two kinds. I'm like an inch down in one of the bottles, and I've had it two months!
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Oct 12, 2007 5:18:58 pm PDT #6423 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Liese S. - Oct 12, 2007 5:22:53 pm PDT #6424 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I'm so glad that our pleiades is taking care of our meara.
I am the sort of person that can use a CostCo type store effectively. I have (or had, and will have again shortly) a big freezer and a lot of pantry space and a willingness to buy products in bulk, remember where I put them when the first batch runs out, and use it all.
But then I am the sort of person who buys meat in bulk at the supermarket and comes home and rebags it in serving sizes before freezing it. And marks it, and builds a menu plan around the frozen protein I know I already have. If you are not this person, don't buy in bulk.
Liese S. - Oct 12, 2007 5:23:34 pm PDT #6425 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, and I vote for orange for the walls. We might end up with red sofas, but if we do, it'll go with our black and white walls.
lori - Oct 12, 2007 5:25:59 pm PDT #6426 of 10001
Costco is not only about bulk - good prices on DVD sets, housewares, books, electronics. And car tires and contact lenses.
JenP - Oct 12, 2007 5:26:08 pm PDT #6427 of 10001
But then I am the sort of person who buys meat in bulk at the supermarket and comes home and rebags it in serving sizes before freezing it. And marks it, and builds a menu plan around the frozen protein I know I already have. If you are not this person, don't buy in bulk.
I envy this. I wish I were this person. I use Costco primarily for toilet paper, paper towels, dish and laundry detergent, random gifty things, and party-type food. Well, and all the stuff I pick up along the way.
Lee - Oct 12, 2007 5:29:23 pm PDT #6428 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Costco is not only about bulk - good prices on DVD sets, housewares, books, electronics. And car tires and contact lenses.
And prescriptions too.
Liese S. - Oct 12, 2007 5:30:13 pm PDT #6429 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
It's an acquired skill.
But seriously, man, there's nothing better than blearily tumbling to the freezer, shaking out a pre-measured bag of ground beef, and firing up a super quick home cooked meal because you've got the stuff all lined up and don't really have to think about it. But still, home cooked!
JenP - Oct 12, 2007 5:32:20 pm PDT #6430 of 10001
Exactly! This is why I want to be that person! It's the actual acquiring of the skill that I have trouble with. Planning ahead with food has just never been a strength of mine. Or, OK, I haven't ever stuck to it enough to get very good at it.
amych - Oct 12, 2007 5:34:08 pm PDT #6431 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I, um, plan and premeasure and label and date and freeze and make up a schedule and then decide to just do something easy instead and find the nicely premeasured and dated frozen stuff when I have to clean out the freezer after the next big power outage.
It's not the planning skills I lack. It's the post-planning skills.
Scrappy - Oct 12, 2007 5:35:15 pm PDT #6432 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Lori--We can't hang doors tomorrow. The cabinets need another coat of paint. You are very welcome to come over, but there will be no work for you to do--which might be even more fun for you!