My food is problematic.

River ,'The Message'


Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

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


lisah - Feb 15, 2011 5:12:47 pm PST #23115 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

I need to not click the links.

Seriously. or read the comments for god's sake. ugh.


sarameg - Feb 15, 2011 5:13:17 pm PST #23116 of 30001

Sausage making at lisahs! Oh, that sounds so wrong.


sarameg - Feb 15, 2011 5:13:46 pm PST #23117 of 30001

I refrained from the comments. "Articles" were bad enough.


Trudy Booth - Feb 15, 2011 5:15:15 pm PST #23118 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Deff the SkyTrain to the subway, Dana. If you want to e me where their hotel is I can give you a route.

Re: Healthcare

My Mother, quite adamatly, sent notes to school saying "Trudy was home with me." As far as she was concerned it was nobody's business as long as she approved it. We most certainly could not afford doctor's appointments for silly shit.

Costco tends to have the cheapest drugs. And you don't need to be a member to use the pharmacy.

I have health insurance now! I am just the right level of broke to get the NYS kind that you pay for (as opposed to SUPER poor and/or have a child for the free kind) and saved up money to do so. I will likely only be able to afford it for one year.

Last week I got kicked in the nose by a crowd surfer. My first thought, my REFLEXIVE first thought as I reached up to see if it was bleeding was "good thing my insurance kicked in, it could be broken."


lisah - Feb 15, 2011 5:16:34 pm PST #23119 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

Sausage making at lisahs! Oh, that sounds so wrong.

It's a total sausage party here!

(Sleeping, snoring sausage party right now actually)


sarameg - Feb 15, 2011 5:17:50 pm PST #23120 of 30001

Ahahaha! I needed that.


SuziQ - Feb 15, 2011 5:18:23 pm PST #23121 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Now that I'm calmer, I have no idea how the parents of kids who actually disappear deal. I only had 2 hours of worry slowly building to near panic. And it has taken me 3 hours to not feel like I'm vibrating out of my skin.

I want to hug/strangle him.

I have never been brave enough to attempt home made pasta. I should suck it up and try, but I don't have any tools or even a tutor.


Vortex - Feb 15, 2011 5:22:05 pm PST #23122 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Yay! Ok, Vortex, what do you use to knead and cut? And what do you like about it?

I usually knead by hand, because I make it one portion at a time. I use my kitchenaid attachment to roll and cut the pasta.


sarameg - Feb 15, 2011 5:22:27 pm PST #23123 of 30001

My mother got maybe 2 uninterrupted, 4 total hours of sleep for maybe 2 years of my brother not showing up when he was supposed to and went grey at the temples and lost a scary amount of weight (she's 5'2" and was hovering under 90lbs at one point, which was not good for her.)


Liese S. - Feb 15, 2011 5:25:42 pm PST #23124 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I really want that Kitchenaid pasta maker, but I`m supposed to be eating less pasta. I`ve been working on making egg noodles by hand, because those don`t have to be pretty. The last batch was pretty good. I don`t think I have a good feel for what makes a good dough consistency.