How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious.

Wash ,'Objects In Space'


Goodbye and Good Riddance 2009: So long and thanks for all the fish.  

Every year we watch the Charlie Brown special, do the Snoopy dance, wish everybody a Merry Christmukkah, and thank our Secret Santas in the good riddance thread. Which is this one, in case you were wondering. Oh, and 2009? Don't think we've forgotten about you


Shir - Jan 06, 2010 11:13:28 am PST #366 of 549
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Shir we have Max in NY. Before he opened his stores here, Nilly helped me get things ordered from him for my ex-companie's office in (forgive the spelling) Herzigolia.

Ay, there's the rub: there are different menus for different countries. They claim foreigners have other culinary preferences. I claim that we're all human beings with taste buds, and they're just keeping the good stuff at home.


SailAweigh - Jan 06, 2010 11:23:28 am PST #367 of 549
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

They claim foreigners have other culinary preferences.

Well, our tastebuds do get trained pretty early by what's given to us and what's available. Hence, they should make Max Brenner available to us, earlier! And more European goodies, too! I'm actually starting to see a lot more variety in our largest supermarket here in Madison, they've seriously expanded on what they call the "ethnic" aisles. I may have to see what I can find there, now, because I know they've started carrying some of the more esoteric stuff I never saw before. Actual made in whatever stuff and not just Americanized versions.


Aims - Jan 06, 2010 12:52:44 pm PST #368 of 549
Shit's all sorts of different now.

javachick gives great gift!!Set starts here: [link]

Thank you SO MUCH!! I love love love it!!! Woohoo!!

javachick gave me the one in the middle. [link] The Wicked one. It's amazing. It has glitter in it and it plays "For Good". It's amazing.


Anne W. - Jan 06, 2010 2:32:49 pm PST #369 of 549
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

I had a wonderful surprise when I got home from work today--a package from Jilli! A package with glorious things inside. There were wonderful accoutrements for knitting, including a set of handmade stitch markers (they will come so very much in handy when I get back to working on my dragon shawl), and a retractable tape measure in a case that looks like a wee sheep (you pull on the tail to get the tape measure out).

There was also a scarf-to-be (a ball of a nummy looking shimmering black/green yarn) and an absolutely gorgeous scarf-that-is (silky black with gold trim and silver paisleys woven into each end and embroidered on the body of the scarf). I also got candy! There's an organic chocolate bar and some smoked salt caramels (which I will have tonight - salt + caramel = perfection, in my opinion).

Thank you so much, Jilli! I LOVE my gift, and I am warmed by the thought that clearly went into putting the gift together.


Atropa - Jan 06, 2010 2:37:35 pm PST #370 of 549
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Oh yay! I'm so glad that you like all your goodies!

I may have to go get myself one of the sheep tape measures; it was so cute!


billytea - Jan 06, 2010 2:43:09 pm PST #371 of 549
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

To chime in on the Max Brenner, we have him in Melbourne too. There was one on the ground floor of my old office building.


Anne W. - Jan 06, 2010 2:45:54 pm PST #372 of 549
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

I may have to go get myself one of the sheep tape measures; it was so cute!

It is ADORABLE! I saw one like it ages ago, and coveted it. I shall have to think of a name for him.


Java cat - Jan 06, 2010 3:32:55 pm PST #373 of 549
Not javachik

aurelia, it's pretty cold here, too, but: the first robins have arrived and the spring lilies have about 5 inches of growth already, just leaves so far, but they're coming. (Move to Nor Cal!)


aurelia - Jan 06, 2010 3:53:00 pm PST #374 of 549
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

That's tempting, Java. I don't know that I'd be able to keep a roof over my head there, though.


smonster - Jan 07, 2010 6:37:36 am PST #375 of 549
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Hallelujah. I mailed off my package this morning, so I hope my giftee gets it soon.

I will say, I try not to subscribe to stereotypical stuff about govt workers, being one myself, but the PO line was long and there was one counter worker and she just up and left for her break without a replacement. Once her supervisors figured it out, they seemed to be distressed and confused, but it took another 5 min to get someone to the front. I heard one of them say that the first worker had been on for 2.5 hrs.

I mean, it's been a long time since I worked customer service (16 years since I was a grocery cashier) but I can't fathom the kind of trouble I would have gotten into for closing down my register and walking away from a line of customers who had no one else to serve them. And apparently she didn't even tell anyone!

Yeesh.