I guess my actual tradition is pancakes, because the church I grew up in would have a pancake dinner for Shrove Tuesday
Yup. I do try to remember to do that, mostly because pancakes for dinner!
Does anybody else miss the Mayor? 'I just want to be a big snake.'
Xander ,'End of Days'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
brenda m - Mar 04, 2014 8:10:27 am PST #21403 of 30000
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
Jesse - Mar 04, 2014 8:36:45 am PST #21404 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
But I have defrosted borscht waiting for me! I could make biscuits to go with -- no eggs, but lots of butter, at least....
Maria - Mar 04, 2014 9:02:58 am PST #21405 of 30000
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
It's just I don't have the emotional resources to be there for her while she unloads all her misery and anxiety onto my shoulders.
Oh how well I know this. Just remember you owe her nothing. No money, no shoulder, no explanation. You can empathize but you're under no obligation to do more than that. Your sister's financial foibles were her own, and you do not have to take them over.
ION, I have no desire to work today.
sumi - Mar 04, 2014 9:17:55 am PST #21406 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
My co-worker pronounces paczki the same as Teppy's grandma.
She says that the texture of authentic paczki is chewier than the paczki we get here. (I wonder if it is a difference in the flour?)
sj - Mar 04, 2014 9:21:20 am PST #21407 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
My local market has paczki this year. I have no idea if they're authentic, but they were delicious!
flea - Mar 04, 2014 9:22:54 am PST #21408 of 30000
information libertarian
We were just told that the large meeting room "may or may not be available" for April-June due to a roofing project. Which basically means they have no idea. I can move my 2 monthly classes to the smaller rooms, but I have been planning a large public event for that room in May (which was free to be booked on the calendar) and there's really noplace to move it in the building. I have emailed the person they said to email, and the poor woman probably has no idea what havoc the construction will wreak when and is tearing her hair out.
Steph L. - Mar 04, 2014 9:29:51 am PST #21409 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
there's really noplace to move it in the building.
Put up a tent outside in front of the book fountain! Although you may be peed on by a homeless person.
-t - Mar 04, 2014 9:42:17 am PST #21410 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
But I have defrosted borscht waiting for me! I could make biscuits to go with
Ooh, you should make Little Ear Dumplings (I think that's what they're called. Starts with a V in Russian). I would have to look up the recipe, though.
Calli - Mar 04, 2014 9:44:47 am PST #21411 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I have a UP pastie defrosting in the fridge for dinner tonight. It's not Fat Tuesday specific, but it is the food of my people. So I'm looking forward to it.
sumi - Mar 04, 2014 9:46:29 am PST #21412 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
In Breugel's Carnival and Lent - carnival gets waffles and Lent gets pretzels.