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

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

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."

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

It's a total sausage party here!

(Sleeping, snoring sausage party right now actually)

Ahahaha! I needed that.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

Is the attachment easy for one person to handle long strands? That's what I keep running into with the handcrank, I feel like I need three hands. Partially because the clamp won't fit my counter, probably, but the Kitchenaid attachment definitely wouldn't have that problem.

I first started making pasta because the price differential between eggs and flour and dried pasta made a significant difference in my minuscule food budget. I used an empty wine bottle as a rolling pin and cut the noodles with a cheapy knife I never sharpened, and everything I made was too thick and wide and floury, but pretty delicious. Getting a machine was such a step up, I feel kind of bad for coveting the Kitchenaid stuff.