'Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy.' 'Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.'

Jayne ,'Safe'


Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess  

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.


Toddson - Apr 15, 2020 6:12:02 am PDT #19825 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

If your milk goes sour, it makes good biscuits or bread, if you feel like using it up. I've done that on occasion. Also, once when the city was snowed in, in the entire milk section there was one lone quart of buttermilk; I took pity on the poor thing and took it home to make, yes, biscuits and bread.


Katerina Bee - Apr 15, 2020 6:43:30 am PDT #19826 of 30019
Herding cats for fun

Wow, you guys are shopping at stores stocked with toilet paper? Color me envious.

I'm going out for food today. We are out of eggs, bananas and frozen breakfast sandwiches. If I see bacon or sausages I plan to snag them.


Jesse - Apr 15, 2020 6:45:51 am PDT #19827 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I keep ending up with a lot of ingredients and nothing to eat?

The wooooorst!

I've been doing a good job of keeping a list of food to make and eat alongside my running shopping list. Also my supermarket has been really well-stocked with fresh produce, meat, etc., when I've been there. No frozen vegetables at all.

So now I'm going to make a bowl for lunch with carnitas (cooked weeks ago, frozen in portions), quinoa (also cooked weeks ago and frozen), kale, pickled jalapenos and that might be it. I am almost ready to go to the store!

Tonight maybe I'm going to make spinach dip out of a bunch of the baby spinach I overbought and crackers out of the flour tortillas ditto.


msbelle - Apr 15, 2020 7:07:58 am PDT #19828 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Toddson, is there anyone out while you are walking up the hill? If not, leave the mask off.


askye - Apr 15, 2020 7:08:06 am PDT #19829 of 30019
Thrive to spite them

msbelle-- I did point out we had lots of peanut butter. I wasn't upset by it more like mildly exacerbated, kind of shake my head and think "of course".

Today has already been a rollercoaster of ups and downs. Was anxious this morning, calmed down, then we discovered the trash wasn't collected. Although it was our fault, they changed the rules that all trash in the bin has to be bagged and Matthew either didn't know or forgot and put a pillow in there. This caused Matthew's mom to get anxious about what the neighbor will say and he was in his garage so I called over to him and explained what happened and gave him a heads up the trash can will be over full this one week and he gave a thumbs up. Now we just have to bag the pillow and make sure everything will fit in the trash can next week.

And my stimulus money is in my account. So I'm less stressed about unemployment. I mean I am still worried but thanks to the help I've received this month and the stimulus check if the whole process takes longer I should be ok or at least it's a major anxiety that has been relieved


Toddson - Apr 15, 2020 7:34:20 am PDT #19830 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

msbelle, there are always dog walkers ... they'll often cross the street to avoid me (mask or no), but I keep it on, if only to show that I'm trying. I'm coming in to the office every day, since I can't work from home. I do get things done, although I'm far from busy. My main contribution is to work with our accounting department to process and deposit checks that come in (yes! paper checks!).

One thing others might want to be aware of - I saw (somewhere) an item about how in offices/buildings that are empty, any water is stagnating. I've gone through our office and run water through our office coffee maker, emptied the reservoir for our CEO's Keurig machine and I keep the door of our office dishwasher open to prevent mildew. So ... don't know if anyone has an office where that might be applicable, but it's something to consider.

Of course, if stagnant water is in the climate control system, we may be in for a bunch of people coming down with legionnaire's disease (aren't I just a little ray of sunshine?).


Shir - Apr 15, 2020 7:36:08 am PDT #19831 of 30019
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

{{askye}}

They had to put a fence up around our county nursing home. Apparently one of th residents opened a window to a visitor. JFC. COME ON PEOPLE!

SERIOUSLY.

Sun is setting down, post-passover challah dough (my first try! well, as an adult) is rising. I've got 4-5 other tasks for tonight to complete, but then I'm finished. Only problem: I'm starting to feel out of spoons and Can't Evens.


Calli - Apr 15, 2020 7:53:34 am PDT #19832 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I go through a lot of milk for a single, childfree person who doesn't drink milk. But I make yogurt and eat that for breakfast most days, and that uses about two quarts every 10 days or so. The rest goes into coffee, mashed potatoes, etc.


amych - Apr 15, 2020 8:17:17 am PDT #19833 of 30019
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I'm sourdoughing, but I was already a near-weekly bread baker and being at home to check on a starter while it's getting established was a missing piece. I don't quite get the sudden mass brainworm to jump from "I never make bread and now I'm going to do the big commitment version"

We get a CSA box that also handles milk and eggs, and a meal kit, and we're pretty well loaded up on pantry stuff from the first few weeks of the big homebodying. Coffee is now a subscription from a local roaster. We do a store trip every 10 days or so to get the veggies that don't come from the farm, and cheese, and beer, and hummus, and to try to score in the TP lottery. Basically our habits aren't that radically changed, but it's only because our shopping is already bougie as fuck.


Sophia Brooks - Apr 15, 2020 8:18:19 am PDT #19834 of 30019
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I don't even use milk- I use heavy whipping cream in my coffee and for cooking, but I am one single child free person.

I had liverwurst and dill relish again today. I am pretty low on meat, so I too may venture out today- I also just want to take a walk.

I have an instructor who cannot understand that right now we cannot mail the certificates she has signed to her students- because they are in the office and they are not worth going in for! We have to get approval from the dean to enter the building! We can send them electronically to the students! She is just not getting it. Yes, I know she already signed them in the fall.