Yesterday, my life's like, 'Uh-oh, pop quiz!' Today it's like, 'rain of toads.'

Xander ,'Beneath You'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

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.


Calli - Jan 12, 2022 7:30:52 am PST #12049 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Mr. S has fallen asleep on the couch with Netflix running.

Who among us can't say the same?

Meara and askye, I hope you both feel better soon.

I have a video interview this afternoon. After agreeing to the interview, I learned that they both require in-person work and have no institutional vaccine mandate. So it's really more that I have a practice interview this afternoon which I can use to fine-tune my approach for places at which I'm willing to work.


-t - Jan 12, 2022 7:52:30 am PST #12050 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Big sigh on that, Calli. Good to have practice, I guess.

Hope your head is kind to you today, meara!

I am semi-vertical and working but not exactly awake. Hopefully I will wake up before too long. If anyone is wondering, I did not get out to pick up breakfast yet. Doing everything in the wrong order this morning.


Steph L. - Jan 12, 2022 8:10:00 am PST #12051 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I did not get out to pick up breakfast yet.

On Sunday we had one leftover mooshy banana from the previous week, so I used it to make a healthy "breakfast cookie" recipe for Tim, b/c he avoids added sugar as much as possible. The recipe has, in addition to the banana, some oats, cocoa powder, and a little peanut butter. So they *look* like no-bake chocolate/oat cookies that are awesome and super sweet. But these "breakfast cookies" (I have to use scare quotes, because they might look like a cookie, but they do not taste like one) are impostors. Fairly healthy impostors, but impostors all the same. I've started calling them "baked oatmeal pucks."


-t - Jan 12, 2022 8:20:49 am PST #12052 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Cookie monster would be disappointed in the pucks?


Steph L. - Jan 12, 2022 8:35:45 am PST #12053 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Cookie Monster would be SO disappointed.


meara - Jan 12, 2022 9:23:29 am PST #12054 of 30000

That is a disappointing cookie, Steph! The ingredients all sound good and yet….

I had a bagel this morning that was somehow very dissatisfying.

I’m signed up to try Botox for my teeth grinding, today. Anyone have suggestions on anything I should do beforehand? I know a few of you have had similar.


DebetEsse - Jan 12, 2022 9:31:01 am PST #12055 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Teppy, do you happen to have a recipe for this not-a-cookie handy?

We have some banana that needs a purpose.


-t - Jan 12, 2022 9:55:31 am PST #12056 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Good luck with the Botox, meara. No advice from me, just hope it helps.

I did get breakfast but I'm not sure it will be enough to get me through to my next opportunity to eat. Alas, I have no bananas to turn into pucks. I haven't finished my coffee yet, maybe that will leave me more satisfied. Cookie Monster, I'm gonna guess, does not need coffee.


Steph L. - Jan 12, 2022 10:01:27 am PST #12057 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Teppy, do you happen to have a recipe for this not-a-cookie handy?

Purpose that banana! [link]


EpicTangent - Jan 12, 2022 10:07:22 am PST #12058 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Call me crazy, but that not-a-cookie sounds pretty good.

My poor dog is so annoyed at me. I’m not fun

I've been feeling a little bad for my cat lately. She only comes to see me in the living room, never my room. But the stomach issues I've been having lately have led to me spending way more time in my room so she's been on her own quite a bit. Poor neurotic kitty.