I'm glad you still have a job, msbelle. Good luck with Project Leprechaun.
Gimme some milk.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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 - Mar 07, 2023 7:59:46 am PST #21042 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
-t - Mar 07, 2023 8:44:36 am PST #21043 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Leprechaun~ma!
I apparently am getting a raise this year - 2% which I appreciate my boss not trying to say is a really good raise but it's better than nothing. They apparently don't want to announce a general merit increase because they are not giving them to everyone and I don't know how to feel about that. It's odd. The spin we are getting is that the Managing Director fought for any raises at all vs the owner since we had such a bad year revenue-wise and this is some sort of compromise. I don't know that I believe any of oit, honestly, but I'm not sure whether that matters, either, but it's weird.
Jesse - Mar 07, 2023 10:31:05 am PST #21044 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Plan is become wealthy and stop work. Looking for leprechaun at lunch.
That is a good plan.
Jesse - Mar 07, 2023 11:24:14 am PST #21045 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh hey, did I ever report back on last weekend's baking? The chocolate cake was a big hit, and they were OBSESSED with the bread! I mean, it was fine, but they really loved it. (It was this [link] including some buckwheat, so the color was cool.)
-t - Mar 07, 2023 12:34:14 pm PST #21046 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh good! I don't know if I've had buckwheat flour. I probably have some time or other, but all I can actually remember is the groats I have pretty often.
meara - Mar 07, 2023 1:26:27 pm PST #21047 of 30000
The bread sounds good—fresh bread is almost always worthy of awe in my book!
My boss has finally replied about the job with the mysteriously high salary range. Claims it’s not applicable exactly (bs) and that she has been told she can share the salary range but not in writing (more bs), we have a meeting Friday.
Jesse - Mar 07, 2023 1:32:06 pm PST #21048 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The bread sounds good—fresh bread is almost always worthy of awe in my book!
Yeah, it's easy to lose track of that. I haven't bought bread in a couple of years now! So my mother says, "ooh, it's so soft and delicious," and I'm like, "but it was supposed to be crackly!!" Still delicious, and honestly, soft is easier.
-t - Mar 07, 2023 1:46:31 pm PST #21049 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, the only bad thing about fresh bread is how easy it is to eat the whole loaf immediately and then you don't have any bread.
Sheryl - Mar 07, 2023 2:38:53 pm PST #21050 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
I've never made bread. Had some at a con where the con suite had a bread maker. I have recipes for banana bread and pumpkin bread, but haven't made either in a very long time.
Toddson - Mar 08, 2023 5:11:28 am PST #21051 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
There's nothing quite like freshly baked bread. And your house smells wonderful. Against the standard advice, I tend to hack off one end of a loaf and eat it still warm. With butter. Yum. And I've found bread dough is pretty forgiving; the worst you end up with is non-optimum bread. Unless, like someone I know, you put it to rise in a plastic container and put it into a warm oven to rise; then you end up with plastic and dough becoming one ... and possibly merging with the oven as well.