Yay for safe landings, and have a fabulous time!
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'Out Of Gas'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
JenP - Oct 08, 2011 4:40:50 am PDT #816 of 30001
Gris - Oct 08, 2011 4:47:24 am PDT #817 of 30001
Hey. New board.
I would like to make a delicious fall suggestion for you all. Last night I made a pumpkin pie (testing out recipes for Thanksgiving and, also, loving pumpkin pie) and had some extra filling that didn't fit in my crust. So I baked it alone in a crock, yum. This morning, for breakfast? Toast with cooked pumpkin pie filling spread on it like jelly. Utterly delicious.
Gris - Oct 08, 2011 4:49:24 am PDT #818 of 30001
Hey. New board.
Cereal to say that if you mix some of the cooked pumpkin pie filling with milk (about 2 tablespoons per serving), a little extra sugar, and a teensy bit of vanilla extract and heat it on the stove, you can mix it with strong coffee to make a pumpkin spice latte at least as good as Starbucks'. Yum.
DavidS - Oct 08, 2011 5:24:14 am PDT #819 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Speaking of pumpkin, I'll note that Trader Joe's was handing out samples of their pumpkin souffle last week and it was really delicious.
Hil R. - Oct 08, 2011 5:31:42 am PDT #820 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm discovering, once again, that hypoglycemia and Judaism don't mix too well on fast days. I'm way too dizzy to feel safe driving, so I'm trying to decide whether fasting or synagogue is more important today, since I can't do both.
le nubian - Oct 08, 2011 5:57:05 am PDT #821 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I would say synagogue is more important. Eat.
Hil R. - Oct 08, 2011 6:00:18 am PDT #822 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yeah, but I'd feel weird saying all the prayers about fasting when I'd already eaten. I can read some of the readings at home, I guess.
Pix - Oct 08, 2011 6:05:23 am PDT #823 of 30001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Isn't there something in the Torah about health, Hil? I can't imagine anyone could think you're a bad Jew for eating to avoid health risks.
Whee sj in London! Have so much fun, sweetie!
Guys, I had horrible, soul-shaking nightmares last night. I woke up already stressed out and sick. Not a great way to start a Saturday. Can anyone tell me something happy?
le nubian - Oct 08, 2011 6:09:49 am PDT #824 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Hil,
you are the best judge of what is best. I think of religion as serving community spiritual needs as well as individual. I am not sure on which pole your needs lie right now, but if it is fellowship, then I say go to the synagogue. If it isn't, then stay at home.
Can you consume some calories, but not eat food? Like in a liquid form? Would that still be fasting?
JZ - Oct 08, 2011 6:11:06 am PDT #825 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Is there any kind of bending-the-rules sub-rule about fasting when you're sick with something that fasting will make worse? I know that even the strictest fasting rules in Catholicism have very clear official exceptions for the very old, the very young, pregnancy, breastfeeding, and illnesses that mess with your blood sugar or require regular meds that have to be taken with food. The point is supposed to be focus and mindfulness, so if fasting is going to actively interfere with your ability to be focused and mindful then you're actually obligated to not fast and to smack down the guilt impulse if it rears its head.