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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.


-t - Apr 08, 2014 4:07:59 am PDT #24660 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Good call, you need to recover.

A moon and a cyclone! Wow.

So, my local patch website ran a recipe for "pancake bars" which is basically pancake batter poured into a 9x13 (or whatever the standard size is (this it totally a thing I should know! But I do not)) and baked. Which, on the one hand, is totally weird because aren't pancakes like cakes you don't need an oven to cook, hence the name? But standing at the stove flipping a whole batch so I can eat one serving and freeze the rest is tiresome, so I don't have pancakes very often these days. I figured I'd try it with the recipe on the bag of Atkins Baking Stuff and mix in some pre-cooked Jimmy Dean sausage crumbles. Came out pretty good! Will make again. Had a couple hot out of the oven last night and a couple cold this morning, both versions satisfying


sumi - Apr 08, 2014 4:21:34 am PDT #24661 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!

I'm glad the vomiting portion of your ick is done, sarameg.

Doubling the wow on a moon AND a cylone.

There has been much in the media about women asking for promotions and raises, I bet there are many online suggestions. Although, I think the ones on here have all been good.

Today, I am going to take my laptop to its to see if it can be saved. Wish me luck.


Steph L. - Apr 08, 2014 4:24:31 am PDT #24662 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Gah, I have one friend who is a good guy and I generally enjoy, but he is the weirdest food police ever. I posted on FB that I'm having an IBS flare, and then later posted that I made coffee cake. He replied to the coffee cake post "I'm going to have to revoke your IBS card."

Because...I shouldn't eat food? Ever? I honestly don't know if he's trying to be the annoying moralizing food police on purpose, or if he really thinks he's enlightening me as to how I'm destroying my GI tract. Either way, it's really fucking annoying. He's not a gastroenterologist (not a doctor at all, to be clear), and he doesn't know anything about my IBS (triggers, etc.), so I'm unclear on why he needs to be judgey.

(This is the same guy who once posited that, since I ate a scone after going to the gym, I "undid all the work I did" at the gym. Because, again, I'm getting the sense he thinks I just...shouldn't eat food. Ever.)


sumi - Apr 08, 2014 4:29:12 am PDT #24663 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!

That's annoying no matter what his intent is. (Also, even if you cannot eat coffeecake you could very well be making it to serve to others.)


Steph L. - Apr 08, 2014 4:31:30 am PDT #24664 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

(Also, even if you cannot eat coffeecake you could very well be making it to serve to others.)

I think my post was that it was tasty, so he cleverly Sherlocked that I must have eaten some and therefore don't have IBS. Or something.

But yeah, it's annoying as shit, and I've mostly just tried to ignore his weird food-policing comments, but I think the next time it happens I need to push back. I seriously don't think he's doing it maliciously; I think he just has this idea in his head that he knows what's best (for...everyone, I guess?) and spouts off his opinion where it's not solicited.

Maybe I'll go have some coffee cake right NOW!


-t - Apr 08, 2014 4:34:10 am PDT #24665 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

So, if you make coffee cake you are not allowed to have IBS?

From what you say, it sounds like he is generally anti-baked goods. Which I cannot condone, baked goods are our friends. And food.


Steph L. - Apr 08, 2014 4:43:04 am PDT #24666 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

So, if you make coffee cake you are not allowed to have IBS?

Or if you have IBS, you are not allowed to eat baked goods. Or food.

From what you say, it sounds like he is generally anti-baked goods.

I think so. Or at least he is of the opinion that *I* should not eat baked goods. And he is allowed to have that opinion, but I definitely didn't solicit it, nor do I want to hear it.

I think he's just jealous of my coffee cake.


-t - Apr 08, 2014 4:43:47 am PDT #24667 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That is what makes the most sense.


brenda m - Apr 08, 2014 4:45:56 am PDT #24668 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

So, if you make coffee cake you are not allowed to have IBS?

Well, problem solved then!


Steph L. - Apr 08, 2014 4:52:55 am PDT #24669 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Well, problem solved then!

I'm cured!

t does coffee cake dance