As someone who takes passport photos, not that your feelings aren't totally valid, but, a lot of people are like this and I am so perplexed by it? Like, who sees your passport photo? Customs officers and airline staff? Who spend all day looking at passports, and if they ever gave a shit about what individual people looked like stopped caring approximately 23 years ago?
This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?
Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'
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.
flea - Mar 08, 2019 1:31:14 am PST #5720 of 30019
information libertarian
Calli - Mar 08, 2019 1:40:45 am PST #5721 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Congratulations, Scrappy!
My first passport photo was one of the better photos I've taken. Which was a bummer in that four strangers ever saw it. If only it had been my drivers license or work photo.
Jesse - Mar 08, 2019 3:32:58 am PST #5722 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's such a good point, flea! For most people, it's much fewer than see your license. And my license picture is terrible.
Jesse - Mar 08, 2019 4:22:39 am PST #5723 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Today is one of those days that I'm glad to be in meetings for most of it, because I am a Bear of Very Little Brain today. The only possible problem is a 2pm with the new ultimate boss, where apparently the goal is to show him we are awesome. zzzzzzzzzzzz
meara - Mar 08, 2019 5:22:19 am PST #5724 of 30019
I have been procrastinating some stuff all week and need to get it done today, so I am jealous Jesse. Especially because I slept like crap last night and feel gross.
Laura - Mar 08, 2019 5:44:15 am PST #5725 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
I worked hard all week so today I am working on my next month's worth of menu planning. Looking at recipes is fun for me. Having it layed out in a calendar with the recipes and shopping lists ready to go makes it so easy. It will take me all day today to plan, but then the next 4 weeks I won't have to do any planning. Just see what is on the menu that day. And it keeps us on our diet!
Theodosia - Mar 08, 2019 6:37:16 am PST #5726 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
That is way too organized for me, but then I eat about 5 or 6 different meals in all, leavened by the occasional takeout (which is mostly from the same 5 or 6 restaurants). But then you're cooking for several people and I just have to please myself.
There was just an article about people who eat the same thing for lunch every day -- for years on end, sometimes. I kind of identified with it.
Theo, were you hanging with Oracne? Did she tell you she texted me on Sunday, thinking I was you?
Yes, it was Victoria, though she didn't mention texting you. :-) She is an excellent person to go tramping through OSV with, and the grounds were largely deserted, so the interpreters were unusually chatty and unrushed. (If any Buffista visiting wants to go with me, let me know -- it is my Happy Place.)
sj - Mar 08, 2019 6:47:58 am PST #5727 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I try to make a meal plan at the beginning of the week, but, inevitably, life takes over on at least one of the days and I don't feel up to making what I planned.
Amy - Mar 08, 2019 7:08:59 am PST #5728 of 30019
Because books.
I try to make a meal plan at the beginning of the week, but, inevitably, life takes over on at least one of the days and I don't feel up to making what I planned.
Also me. Which is why I try to keep a bag of frozen tortellini and frozen broccoli in the freezer because I can make it quick, toss it with olive oil and parm, and voila. Dinner.
sj - Mar 08, 2019 7:11:39 am PST #5729 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Yeah, I can make any of a number of pasta dishes in the time it takes the water to boil, and ltc will actually eat them without telling me they're "icky". Scrambled eggs with a veg on the side is also something she'll eat. So, we fall back on that a lot too. I would prefer a fritatta, but she won't actually eat the eggs if there is anything in them.