It's good to have cargo. Makes us a target for every other scavenger out there, though, but sometimes that's fun too.

Mal ,'Shindig'


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.


Steph L. - May 18, 2021 10:25:11 am PDT #6540 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

I want to say it was Copperbadge (who seems like a reasonable source for reviews)

He seems like a reasonable source for a whole lot of things. I love his cats.

I also have a butter dish on the counter which I'm fairly good at keeping stocked, so there's usually spreadable butter available.

We have virtually no counters, so we just buy the Land O'Lakes spreadable butter (which the grocery receipt lists as "LOL butter," which makes me grin every time).


JenP - May 18, 2021 11:08:06 am PDT #6541 of 30000

Like Jessica, I keep my butter room temperature.

Definitely. And I get slightly annoyed if DP is keeping it so cold downstairs that it gets a little too cold to spread just so. I keep it to myself, but I feel it could be useful to a defense attorney if needed, you know, ever.


Toddson - May 18, 2021 11:08:37 am PDT #6542 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

On the lighter side, here's the story of why He-Man has a green tiger. Necessity, yada yada ....


-t - May 18, 2021 11:10:35 am PDT #6543 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

It is too hot for me to keep butter out of the fridge enough of the time that I can't make it a habit. And in the winter time out on the counter is pretty close to the same temperature as in the fridge, honestly. My kitchen is never really comfortable temperature wise, for me or for butter.


JenP - May 18, 2021 11:16:29 am PDT #6544 of 30000

My kitchen is never really comfortable temperature wise, for me or for butter.

I am sorry about that. You should both be comfortable.


JenP - May 18, 2021 11:17:34 am PDT #6545 of 30000

Oh, in exciting news, I am getting my first professional haircut in two years in a couple of hours! Pixieland, here I come.


Dana - May 18, 2021 12:09:02 pm PDT #6546 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Butter sits out on the counter, toast gets fully buttered. I try not to pierce the toast.


Topic!Cindy - May 18, 2021 12:54:21 pm PDT #6547 of 30000
What is even happening?

Cindy, that's such a frustrating situation C. is in. And you can't just easily fix it as his mom.

Thank you Teppy and Calli! It IS frustrating.

If you have the kind of illness where you need juice, soup, ginger ale, and cross dosing of Tylenol and ibuprofen, I am your gal. Need to elevate this, ice that, cleanse the other thing, change a dressing, keep tabs on 5 different meds, some of which can't be taken within a couple of hours of each other, while some need an empty stomach and others need a full one? Hit me up. I'm a pro and have the homemade charts to prove it. I can pinpoint a fever with 0.5 degrees F, by touching my lips to your forehead.

Illnesses mothering can't fix offend me. They're scabs, and my shop is a union shop.

It sounds like switching back to Remicade is the best way forward;

I hope so, and if it is, I hope he can. The thing is, this vasculitis is rare (particularly for someone of his age/overall good physical condition). Had he been on it still, Remicade conceivably *could* have caused it (but he's been off for six months). Remicade is infliximab. Inflectra is infliximab-dyyb. The med change is the only notable change in anything in the past six months

(And I don't say this out in the wider world wide web, because I don't want want to feed the anti-vaxxers, but he had his 2nd Pfizer shot two days before his most recent infusion, so there's a chance some flukey reaction happened -- but it's just that both were back in March, so it's hard to say what caused this at all.)

Oh, in exciting news, I am getting my first professional haircut in two years in a couple of hours! Pixieland, here I come.

I haven't made an appointment to get my hair cut, because I'm in one of those stages where I don't know what I want to do with it. Your mention of "Pixieland" made me tingle though, Jen, as did Beverly cutting off six inches of her hair. I did the latter to myself about a year ago, but it turns out hair grows back.

I need to color, too. I look like a skunk.


lisah - May 18, 2021 1:35:38 pm PDT #6548 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

Well, I say "I have work," but I'm currently looking at Ruggable rugs online. Has anyone gotten a rug from them? I'm curious if they live up to their marketing.

We have 2 and I love them! Although we haven't yet put either in the washing machine. They spot clean well enough.


JenP - May 18, 2021 1:58:09 pm PDT #6549 of 30000

I can report happiness in Pixieland, Cindy. OMG, so much better.

Hmmm. I hadn't heard of Ruggable before today. Interesting!