I have no excuse not to go to work. My commute is 12 steps. I would like to take this morning off, though. We were short-handed at the restaurant, and I ended up working from 5 to 1 am yesterday. So now I'm achy and exhausted, and Monday is already being Monday.
Oh, Pacey! You blind idiot. Can't you see she doesn't love you?
Spike ,'Help'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
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.
Maria - Jul 27, 2015 4:42:09 am PDT #1775 of 30003
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
lisah - Jul 27, 2015 4:42:11 am PDT #1776 of 30003
Punishingly Intricate
(Autocorrect says you are lush, btw)
NICE!
Maria - Jul 27, 2015 4:52:08 am PDT #1777 of 30003
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
-t, I hope your mouth feels better today.
Rob was always the tuna noodle casserole king. His used either rice or egg noodles--depending on his mood--peas, canned tuna, cream of cheddar soup, salt, pepper, and corn flake crumbs on top. And now I want his tuna casserole.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 27, 2015 4:52:19 am PDT #1778 of 30003
"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
My mom never made tuna noodle casserole (her equivalent used chicken instead), but she does make the yummiest tuna salad I've ever tasted. Like me she hates mayonnaise, so uses the bare minimum required to hold it together.
brenda m - Jul 27, 2015 4:57:26 am PDT #1779 of 30003
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
My mom used to make tuna casserole using those dried chow mein noodles, eliminating the boil pasta step. The inside ones would get noodly and the ones near the top maintained their crunch.
shrift - Jul 27, 2015 5:29:00 am PDT #1780 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Monday is already being Monday.
It turns out that when you spend a weekend doing nothing but adulting, you want to stab everyone in the face on Monday morning.
Also, when people say they are going to come visit you in San Francisco, and I'm all, "I hope you don't think you're staying with me, because HA HA HA NOPE." Like, you do realize I haven't moved in yet?
I'm probably not going to kill everyone.
Probably.
Liese S. - Jul 27, 2015 5:31:36 am PDT #1781 of 30003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Aww, Maria.
It's funny, because I don't actually have childhood memories of tuna noodle casserole, Japanese upbringing and all. We probably would have had tuna noodle casserole with a side of rice.
This is one of my, "I got married at eighteen and we're both working as temps in factory jobs" staples. To this day, I cook the starchy, fatty Midwestern comfort foods in our household, and Dave cooks all the haute cuisine and healthy Asian food. Which lead to something of an existential crisis for me when we started to eat healthier. My mom is one of those people who expresses love through food to the point of neurosis, I am not, but it took some time to break those habits I'd inherited from her.
sj - Jul 27, 2015 5:33:26 am PDT #1782 of 30003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
The closet thing I've ever had to tuna noodle casserole is spaghetti with canned tuna in olive oil in a tomato sauce. A go to quick comfort dinner in my house growing up, which I make all the time now as well.
Jesse - Jul 27, 2015 5:37:24 am PDT #1783 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I might have to have a creamy pasta thing for lunch! Because lord knows I'm not cooking one at home in the summer.
And Liese's post makes me want to make my friend's starchy Midwestern Asian comfort food -- ground beef, rice, green beans, with lots of soy sauce. Maybe that will be dinner.
Jesse - Jul 27, 2015 5:38:15 am PDT #1784 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OH! I forgot the whole reason I came over here -- I was just emailed a photo of someone's computer screen, along with the question of if the document I sent her was a Word doc or a PDF.