My mom makes a pumpkin pie that's way better than anything you can get in a store, so that's been my preferred birthday "cake" since I was a kid.
Who died and made you Elvis?
Cordelia ,'Storyteller'
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 14, 2015 6:45:58 am PDT #5334 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
meara - Sep 14, 2015 6:51:29 am PDT #5335 of 30003
I love pumpkin. Perhaps I am basic at heart. Or Midwestern. Something like that. I would choose pumpkin pie over most fruit pies any day. And over pecan, or most cream pies. (I haven't hard sugar cream pie in a long time so I'd probably try that if I had a chance, but I digress). I do also love yams and sweet potatoes and butternut squash and all those orangey fall veggies. Roasted or creamed or baked....yum.
Jesse - Sep 14, 2015 6:54:50 am PDT #5336 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't know why, but I have to emphasize that most stuff is pumpkin SPICE flavor, not pumpkin flavor. People were all up in arms last year that the PSL doesn't have pumpkin, but that's not the point! The point is nutmeg, etc.
That said, pumpkin ice cream is the best.
tommyrot - Sep 14, 2015 6:55:26 am PDT #5337 of 30003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I like pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread, but that's it. Perhaps if I still drank coffee I'd like the pumpkin stuff at Starbucks.
Steph L. - Sep 14, 2015 6:58:55 am PDT #5338 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I would choose pumpkin pie over most fruit pies any day. And over pecan, or most cream pies.
Yaaaasssss.
I don't know why, but I have to emphasize that most stuff is pumpkin SPICE flavor, not pumpkin flavor.
That is true, and my love is for pumpkin, not just the spices. (Though pumpkin *without* the spices is just sad.)
I do also love yams and sweet potatoes and butternut squash and all those orangey fall veggies. Roasted or creamed or baked....yum.
Oooh. It's getting to be time to make butternut squash enchiladas. Nom nom nom.
Steph L. - Sep 14, 2015 7:01:14 am PDT #5339 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
My fellow newbie editor called me, and I talked him through his problem (downloading articles from our online system, which honestly isn't hard, but isn't exactly intuitive). I really don't like talking to strangers, but since it was a functional call with a specific goal, and I didn't have to just make small talk, it was fine. Dude was very grateful.
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-t - Sep 14, 2015 7:06:35 am PDT #5340 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Gold star, Tep.
Turning off the alarm and going back to sleep on a Monday morning is the best.
Dana - Sep 14, 2015 7:13:29 am PDT #5341 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Who are all of you people that don't have to work today?
Maria - Sep 14, 2015 7:14:05 am PDT #5342 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
Popping in to say that Steph needs to remember this when she feels like she's a failure at her job. Why would they recommend that you mentor someone if they didn't think you were capable and doing a good job? We will be here to remind you the next time the demons rear their ugly heads.
tommyrot - Sep 14, 2015 7:14:08 am PDT #5343 of 30003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Who are all of you people that don't have to work today?
I am at work but currently have no work to do. Which is good, because I can't brain right now.