I am both impressed and highly envious of Trudy's huge and spacious residence.
Am presently sitting as far from the door to my studio as it's possible to be without being on the balcony, and I could still hit it with a shoe from here if I needed to, even though I'm a crap shot.
They were just packets of Mahatma flavored rice, Daniel.
...see, while everyone else was thinking 'mold!' and 'nacho cheese', here I had a startled moment of wondering what the hell the Mahatma was supposed to taste like, and why on earth anyone would make rice taste like him, and whether there were other flavours like Mother Theresa and The Buddha. Just a moment.
Also, I twice misread Omnis's
houselves
as housewives. And still thought it was a good idea, and that I'd treat her well and set her free if only she'd cook and clean and all that.
Am presently sitting as far from the door to my studio as it's possible to be without being on the balcony, and I could still hit it with a shoe from here if I needed to, even though I'm a crap shot.
My old place was 196 square feet. Total. This really feels palatial.
I happy doing all my own cooking. It would just be nice if there were someone else to clean up afterwards. (Growing up, we always had arguments about the cooking/cleaning rules. Some people thought that the person who cooked should also clean, because if you make the mess, you clean it up. Others felt that if one person cooked and everybody ate, then a fair division of labor would say that someone who didn't cook would clean up. I am firmly in the latter camp, but I live alone, so I've got to both cook and clean. House elves would be a very nice addition.)
I generally follow the "if you cook, you don't clean up" rule, but it can get pretty lopsided. My sister does all the cooking, and so never cleans up. So now she's become one of these people who uses 50 million plates/pans/containers for what she's doing because she's not the one cleaning them.
I'm in the latter camp, but since I LOVE cooking and really don't like cleaning it somehow seems unfair.
I happy doing all my own cooking. It would just be nice if there were someone else to clean up afterwards.
So me. We had the family rule of "I cook, you clean". Mom didn't fancy that rule as much when we started cooking... and that we were better cooks... but that's another discussion.
I'm in the latter camp, but since I LOVE cooking and really don't like cleaning it somehow seems unfair.
That's the thing, she likes to cook (and she loves the control), so it can be pretty unfair.
I got the cold Monday, gave the cold to The Boy on Wednesday, and if he gets better before I do (which is looking likely) I am going to be PISSED.
Yeah, that's me. Tom always seems to be sick for twice as long as I am.
Meh, I have not been feeling great all weekend long. Not that this has stopped me from enjoying 2 beer events- Cambridge Brewing Company's "Nineteen Beers for Nineteen Years" on Friday night and then NERAX (New England Real Ale Exhibition) on Saturday. They have always been on the same weekend, which is sort of an overload. Happily, next year, NERAX will be in March instead of May!
In other beer news, Tom just finished brewing his first all-grain batch of homebrew. This involves a lot of jerryrigged equipment- coolers, copper pipes, um... other stuff. He was talking about being pleased with "extraction rates" so it seems that things went well. He's like a mad chemist in there!
Boy. Everything hates me today.
We don't. (Do humans count as a "thing"?)
