Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up.

Cordelia ,'End of Days'


Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - May 14, 2010 4:48:32 pm PDT #29487 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

They had a sale on eggs at Safeway, buy one 18 egg carton for $3.49 and get a second one free. Basically ten cents an egg.

OMG, is that some kind of San Francisco thing? I only ask because years ago, I was visiting a friend out there, and she had 36 eggs in the fridge for the same reason! I made some awesome devilled eggs that weekend. With a variety of flavors.

Anyway, in my awesome Friday news, I just remembered that I told myself that if I got a job before the end of the month, I would buy this 4-pack of services at this spa I've been to for $200. Fifty bucks a massage! And I have a year to use them. AWESOME.


Sophia Brooks - May 14, 2010 4:49:01 pm PDT #29488 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Lucky is a cutie petunia!!!


sarameg - May 14, 2010 4:49:47 pm PDT #29489 of 30001

That's a pretty good deal. My Y offers 50 minute ones for $60, and you figure that is subsidized somehow. Disclaimer: I've never had a massage, so don't know what is reasonable!


Jesse - May 14, 2010 4:53:02 pm PDT #29490 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Usually they're at least $100 at a decent place. This place is just OK, but usually they are $95 for an hour. This is $50 for 50 minutes, which I feel fine about.


brenda m - May 14, 2010 4:55:01 pm PDT #29491 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Anything less than a dollar a minute is a deal. Usually I'm comfortable with 60 - 70 for an hour, up to say 110 for 90 minutes. (And the extra thirty mins is so worth it.)

Lucky! A couple of weeks ago there were dogs on the highway in Chicago like three days in a row. The last day it was this dog running on and off the Eisenhower for hours. The traffic copter had pretty much given up caring about traffic to just follow the dog. Then I had to leave for a flight and didn't find out what happened.

A week or so later they did an update. He's okay! And in foster care. And the named him Eiserhower. And I was all "I could call him Ike!"

And then I came back to sanity and realized I don't have the time or space for a dog that size with that energy, and I've lived with runner dogs before and I can't take it.

But it has made me decide that once I get back from Mexico I'm dog hunting.


brenda m - May 14, 2010 4:56:34 pm PDT #29492 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

This place is just OK, but usually they are $95 for an hour.

Hah, yeah no way. I guess what you save on mani-pedis on the east coast you pay in massage.


Sophia Brooks - May 14, 2010 4:56:48 pm PDT #29493 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Does anyone have a good recipe for "chicken leg quarters"? They are on sale for very, very cheap, but I am a breast woman. I am usually OK when I first cook the leg, but subsequent re-heatngs make me feel like I am eating my cat.


Jesse - May 14, 2010 4:58:24 pm PDT #29494 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Hah, yeah no way. I guess what you save on mani-pedis on the east coast you pay in massage.

Not in Boston! It's all BS up here. I'm going to try the $30 mani-pedi place this weekend, and see if it's at all reasonable. The regular crappy places here are $35.


shrift - May 14, 2010 4:59:50 pm PDT #29495 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Sorry to hear that shrift. Didn't mean to gloat.

Oh, I didn't have a Zmayhem-type week, or anything. I've just overcommitted myself, my workload at the job is robust, my allergies are hellish, and people are being Very Wrong on the internet.


sarameg - May 14, 2010 5:00:36 pm PDT #29496 of 30001

Scanned (still in frame) picture of my first meeting with Miss P: [link]