Pretty sure I've eaten more candy in the last couple of weeks than in the previous ten years put together.
I'm just waiting to see if I pass out. Long story.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
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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.
Jesse - Nov 21, 2016 10:22:42 am PST #2592 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
-t - Nov 21, 2016 10:28:13 am PST #2593 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have been eating a lot of candy.
For one thing, I found two bags of Halloween candy in the back of a cupboard that I probably bought on sale after Halloween 2015 and forgot about. They'd been through the heat of the summer and gotten all crumbly, so I stuck it in ziploc bags and tempered it with the sous vide process and somehow sampling to make sure it came out okay turned into eating all of it.
-t - Nov 21, 2016 10:38:54 am PST #2594 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm having shrimp and grits for lunch, and I feel like I need to explain to someone that it is not Shrimp and Grits, it's just grits that I have topped with "barbecue" shrimp, Tasty, but I'm fairly sure not what Nora, for example, would expect.
I'm very pleased to have figured out a successful grits making strategy, btw. It is not something I have had in my skill set.
Jesse - Nov 21, 2016 10:42:05 am PST #2595 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Maybe you mean grits with shrimp?
DavidS - Nov 21, 2016 10:53:21 am PST #2596 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dying on endless conference call.
Plus side: It's about an investor pitch where the investors are hot to trot, which means I'd get back pay for all the months of unpaid work I've done on this thing.
So...that's worth it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 21, 2016 11:03:21 am PST #2597 of 30002
"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
I was pseudo dieting over the weekend, but I don't think missing meals due to sleeping in has much of a net effect.
Steph, I would advise you to save the e-mail chain for the inevitable questions from the Editor-in-Chief. (For what it's worth, I tend to run into the opposite situation where my counterpart in Print Coordination raises questions about making major changes after something has been approved as is by the EiC or the Big Boss. She's technically the last set of eyes to look at outgoing products, but I wish she'd do a thorough review pass BEFORE it goes to the bigwigs instead of just rubber stamping at that point so she could raise these issues before things are approved as final.)
Calli - Nov 21, 2016 11:15:06 am PST #2598 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I just got my diet back to vaguely healthsome after the post-election eating of feelings. Salad actually tasted really good last night. OK, the bacon crumbles probably helped. Still--salad.
Fred Pete - Nov 21, 2016 11:32:20 am PST #2599 of 30002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Bacon has protein. Maybe not the healthiest source of protein, but at least not empty calories. And better than most of what I've been eating lately.
Steph L. - Nov 21, 2016 11:33:44 am PST #2600 of 30002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Steph, I would advise you to save the e-mail chain for the inevitable questions from the Editor-in-Chief.
I save all my work emails because I'm paranoid.
shrift - Nov 21, 2016 11:53:02 am PST #2601 of 30002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Only the eating-my-feelings diet.
Eating-my-feelings high five!