That cookbook has to be a joke. "Available in many, if not most homes and restaurants"???
Ugh, msbelle. They can't possibly want it all at once??
Gunn: We open a can of Machiavelli on his ass. Harmony: It's Matchabelli, Einstein, and it doesn't come in a can.
'Soul Purpose'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
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 - Nov 25, 2008 2:59:22 am PST #3207 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Theodosia - Nov 25, 2008 3:13:38 am PST #3208 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Generally, the gas company around here is very reasonable about setting up payment plans and so on -- both becuase of local law and a couple sad cases where poor people died from hypothermia when it was turned off in the winter. Your NYC gas company may vary.
But it seems to me that since part of the problem is that they didn't bill MsBelle correctly for 6. freakin. years. that they could afford to be a little flexible in how fast she pays them back.
Me, though, if I had the money, I might just pay it all in one go, to get out from under it.
Speaking of calling people and bargaining, a little -ma would be appreciated this morning as I have to call the unemployment people -- mostly that I get THROUGH to them, because I've been trying for most of 3 weeks now and becuase of the way they've scheduled call-ins, I'm supposed to call on Thursday or Friday and what with school, haven't been able to call before 4 PM... when the auto-message has been set that they're too busy, please call back next working day.
I've resorted to entering the wrong last digit on my SSN. But yesterday at school there was a 44 minute wait (I thought to try on my break) and by the time I got home and got through with the Junk guys, the auto-response was already up... even though they had extended hours until 6:30 because of the holiday week.
Cashmere - Nov 25, 2008 3:28:03 am PST #3209 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
This could have been Liv. She tends to keep toys in her pants.
Jesse - Nov 25, 2008 4:37:21 am PST #3210 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ugh -- the only things I have to do at work today are unpleasant, and I'm not in the mood!
Cashmere - Nov 25, 2008 5:02:58 am PST #3211 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Crap. My eldest sister's nephew died in an industrial accident. 24 years old with an infant daughter. He was a maintenance man at a foundry--he was crushed under a furnace he was trying to fix/move. Poor kid.
Fred Pete - Nov 25, 2008 5:06:53 am PST #3212 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
((((Cashmere and family))))
sumi - Nov 25, 2008 5:08:19 am PST #3213 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Cashmere - how awful. Lots of ~ma to your family and his.
lisah - Nov 25, 2008 5:08:32 am PST #3214 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate
oh, Cashmere, that's horrible. I'm so sorry for your family's loss.
Lee - Nov 25, 2008 5:10:02 am PST #3215 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Oh how awful, Cashmere.
Sue - Nov 25, 2008 5:10:06 am PST #3216 of 10002
hip deep in pie
Oh my god, Cashmere, that's horrible. I'm so sorry.