The pool may be a major culprit in the electricity use, too. Pool pumps are notorious energy hogs.
Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.
'Touched'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Ginger - Sep 16, 2014 7:43:35 am PDT #6274 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Ginger - Sep 16, 2014 7:49:05 am PDT #6275 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
From an article about the opening of a Jeni's ice cream shop:
Both locations will serve grass-grazed ice creams, frozen yogurts, and sorbet, often made with local ingredients.
Now I have a vision of a pasture with herd of pint containers munching away.
Steph L. - Sep 16, 2014 7:59:26 am PDT #6276 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Jeni's ice cream shop
They started in Columbus, OH, and pints of their ice cream are sold in fancy shops around here, priced more dearly than platinum. In -- what year did Avengers come out? 2012? -- I bought a pint for my birthday and quailed at the price: $11 for a pint.
It was good ice cream, quite obviously premium, but not worth $11 to my philistine taste buds. But it was my birthday and I had heard raves about Jeni's, so I gave it a shot.
Tom Scola - Sep 16, 2014 8:02:31 am PDT #6277 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
how could this much water possibly be invisible?
California is pretty dry right now.
Burrell - Sep 16, 2014 8:29:35 am PDT #6278 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
My head turned "grass grazed ice cream" into bowls of ice cream with grass sprinkled on top. Not yum.
$11 a pint sounds like a lot, and that's coming from someone who happily pays our neighborhood ice cream shop $7 a pint.
Jesse - Sep 16, 2014 8:32:28 am PDT #6279 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I know it's not PC, but I really prefer the cage-raised ice cream.
I have so much work to do! I don't wanna! Blah.
§ ita § - Sep 16, 2014 9:16:14 am PDT #6280 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I spent the night having (relatively mild, considering) anxiety dreams about not being able to make a big bang artist check in, and that I'd have to drop one author. But it turns out I don't have to show them anything until the 28th, so I just need to buckle down. But this one author is giving me anxiety attacks just thinking about her story. I can't seem to fit all her canon of a scene into one frame, oddly.
::deep breaths::
Going to call UCLA again. What is *with* those people? They contacted one of my references, and she tells me she gave them solid feedback and recommended they hire me, but for all their "let's get everything started!" attitude at my last interview, they are either really drawing this out, or think that I don't need to be told I didn't get the position. By the time you check resources, I think you owe the candidate an explicit "no." I just don't want to push their hand...but I need to know. I have to make plans.
Think good thoughts!
::dials::
hippocampus - Sep 16, 2014 9:25:54 am PDT #6281 of 30000
not your mom's socks.
thinking good thoughts, ita!
I can hear babies crying for miles. Like Suzi, it depends on the cry.
Kat - Sep 16, 2014 9:29:51 am PDT #6282 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Any news, ita?
I like Jeni's but agree it's way overpriced. They sell it here at the Gelsons for $12 I think.
-t - Sep 16, 2014 9:32:20 am PDT #6283 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Good luck, ita
I know it's not PC, but I really prefer the cage-raised ice cream.
More butterfat?
I heard Jeni (I think, someone with artisanal ice cream) on the radio last week or so. I didn't catch the part where she said what madew her ice cream so good, though (I mean, I think they teased that they were going to talk about that next, and then I parked, something like that).