Giles: Helping out with the dishes makes me feel useful. Dawn: Wanna clean out the garage with us Saturday? You could feel indispensable.

'Dirty Girls'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

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


Burrell - Mar 15, 2012 8:32:53 pm PDT #26751 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I love the dinner round up around here. We eat well, we buffistas.

So the class went well! Only two other people there, but Thursday night is always small. But the routine was good, fit the time frame well, and we all got a work out. So there!


Typo Boy - Mar 15, 2012 9:27:04 pm PDT #26752 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Casual thought spurred by dinner discussion. How big a role prejudice plays in food taste. For example: I love chocolate. That includes chicken mole, and cocoa powder in chile. But: when someone puts chocolate on cheesecake - well that's blasphemy! And I suddenly realized that I can't really justify it - just how I was raised. Chicken breast with (unsweetened) chocolate mole sauce was an occasional treat from the time I was little. Watching the horror on my parents face when they encountered chocolate on cheese cake was also something I remember from when I was little. Its really that simple.


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 15, 2012 9:54:53 pm PDT #26753 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Dinner tonight was a salad, leftover rotisserie chicken, and stuffing, cranberry sauce, and fried apples from Cracker Barrel.

Lunch was actually the best meal of the day. My co-workers and I ate at Vox 306, a new bistro-style restaurant owned by the family that brought fine Italian dining to my hometown. We ate on the patio in perfect weather, and my prime rib flatbread with avocados and wasabi mayo was out of this world.


Cass - Mar 15, 2012 10:27:43 pm PDT #26754 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

How big a role prejudice plays in food taste.

I think prejudice is a stronger word than I would use. [edit: not that I am questioning yours.]

But do we feel comfortable with the things we were raised with? Sure. I think a significant number of people branch out from that but there is a reason that "comfort food" is very often food from our childhood and varies in each person and culture.

Oh, P's daughter, L, ate a slug last year while P tried to garden. So hopefully she'll be an adventurous eater. And her first breakup could be really horrifying to her mom if that's her comfort food. She also ate a few rocks.


Laura - Mar 16, 2012 1:36:23 am PDT #26755 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

DH decided we needed to eat out last night so I had blackened snapper, curried cauliflower and a baked potato. It was yum.

Hanging at airport. I checked my ranking on my March madness brackets and I am at 56th %tile. Not bad considering I base my picks on places I like to visit. Hence UNLV disappointing me.


Hil R. - Mar 16, 2012 4:15:32 am PDT #26756 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

But do we feel comfortable with the things we were raised with? Sure. I think a significant number of people branch out from that but there is a reason that "comfort food" is very often food from our childhood and varies in each person and culture.

Both my parents think it's really gross to have a glass of milk with a meal that includes meat. Neither of them keep kosher, but they grew up in homes with traditional Jewish food, where putting a glass of milk on the table with dinner just didn't happen. They've got no problems with, say, chicken parmesan, or a cheeseburger, but having a glass of milk with it would just be wrong.


Jesse - Mar 16, 2012 4:31:08 am PDT #26757 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I had a sandwich from Panera for dinner last night. I realize that I had bacon with every meal yesterday. Yay eating out!

I really want to go to Trader Joe's on my way home tonight and buy All The Things, but I should probably clean out the fridge and freezer first, right? Meh.


Kate P. - Mar 16, 2012 4:36:41 am PDT #26758 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Woke up last night with bad cramps that I thought might be contractions (I'm 35 weeks today, so it would be early but, as I understand it, not too dangerous for Sprog if I were to go into labor now). The fun part: M is out of town for the weekend. So I lay there for an hour or so trying to figure out what was going on and what I should do: call the midwives? call M? go to the hospital? Fortunately they passed (I'm guessing the issue was digestive in nature) and I was able to fall asleep again eventually, but man, I'm sleepy. And it's grey and rainy here and I just wanna stay on the couch and watch movies all day. t /whine


Amy - Mar 16, 2012 4:40:14 am PDT #26759 of 30001
Because books.

Have you had Braxton-Hicks contractions yet, Kate? It could have been that.

Can you call in sick for the day and take it easy?


Kate P. - Mar 16, 2012 4:45:07 am PDT #26760 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Amy, that seems like the other likely possibility. I thought that B-H contractions were supposed to be painless, but at my last midwife appt she said they could sometimes feel like menstrual cramps, and I've felt some mild cramps in recent weeks that were probably Braxton-Hicks. The ones last night were more intense, but from what I can tell, that's not unusual.

I'm saving up all my vacation/personal time for after the baby comes, so I'd rather not call in sick unless I'm actually too ill to go into work, but it sure is tempting today!