Now, I want a cheese omelette. I talked myself into melted cheese, and I have to say I didn't put up much of a fight.
Or maybe you could just be Buffy, he'll see your amazing heart, and he'll fall in love with you.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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.
DavidS - Dec 09, 2020 9:43:07 am PST #800 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
-t - Dec 09, 2020 9:47:05 am PST #801 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Nachos are festive, and with red salsa and green jalapenos very Christmassy!
I think I might have candles, Jess, but I suspect they are largely broken as I think I remember stepping on the box one of the times I was moving holiday things around this year...although I din't know if I have the spoons to even check by tomorrow night. Work continues to kick my ass.
juliana - Dec 09, 2020 9:47:16 am PST #802 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
My husband definitely felt ill from it both times, but it has to be better than shingles, from what I hear.
As someone who had shingles while in their 20's, I highly recommend getting the vaccine. It was only on my side, but I was essentially out of commission for 2 weeks. So painful. (It was not made better by the doctor who saw me - English was his second language, so he came out with "You have herpes!" Which was flabbergasting, if technically accurate.)
Solstice, Xmas Eve, and Xmas will all be comfort foods. Frozen apps from TJ's will figure prominently in the menus. (As will the latkes from TJ's for the next week, because I am All About The Celebratory Foods, Especially If They Include Potato And/Or Fried Dough.)
Hec, Scoma's is still open and does a good cioppino to go, if you decide you need it.
JenP - Dec 09, 2020 9:49:33 am PST #803 of 30000
Nachos are festive, right?
Darn tootin'. And with the jalapenos, guacamole, diced tomatoes, salsa, sour cream (for snow!), or some combination thereof, downright Christmassy, I'd say.
juliana - Dec 09, 2020 9:52:35 am PST #804 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
As an aside, I have to find a new doctor, and I'm dragging my feet. My experience with Kaiser doctors was... not great. I often felt like I was being humored instead of listened to, instead of being trusted as being the expert on my body and mind. I guess finding the new doc is my onerous task of the day.
Steph L. - Dec 09, 2020 9:52:56 am PST #805 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
God, I don't even want to think about Christmas dinner. I'm a little caught off-guard at how super depressed I am about the holidays. I've been all "Rah! Rah! Sure it'll be weird not spending the holidays with family, but it's what we have to do to keep everyone safe!!!" And I mean that, 100%. But under my enthusiastic support of science-based advice is this huge pit of being depressed as fuck about it, and I was trying to ignore the depressed part.
So what I want to do is ignore the whole goddamn holidays, but Tim wants to put up the tree and whatnot, so we're going to do that. But maybe I can talk him into ordering Chinese for Christmas dinner and watching Wonder Woman on HBO Max.
chrismg - Dec 09, 2020 9:59:29 am PST #806 of 30000
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
I've MADE latkes, and I'm very, very not Jewish.
What's the difference in dreidels?
-t - Dec 09, 2020 10:01:35 am PST #807 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ooh, I forgot about Wonder Woman
JenP - Dec 09, 2020 10:06:46 am PST #808 of 30000
As an aside, I have to find a new doctor, and I'm dragging my feet.
I'm doing the same thing with three doctor-types. None of them critical, because my GP is good, but... still. Well, one of them is a therapist, so that's not a role she's filling. I've been dragging me feet on that one for a while. Hope you get your onerous task done today. (Also, I think I have spelled onerous wrong for most of my life. Huh.)
I ordered three ornaments on sale from Macy's the other day, and the box came today but with a Christmas plate in it. The packing slip has a handwritten "3 orn" next to the correct item listing, but there's just a plate. And, I have to say, a really not attractive plate. I was a little insulted (not really). DP says he is pretty sure the person who packed up my order did not intend to insult my taste. I suppose not.
Shir - Dec 09, 2020 10:24:59 am PST #809 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
What's the difference in dreidels?
From Wikipedia:
Each side of the dreidel bears a letter of the Hebrew alphabet: נ (nun), ג (gimel), ה (hei), ש (shin). [...]. However, they represent the Hebrew phrase nes gadol hayah sham ("a great miracle happened there"), referring to the miracle of the cruse of oil. For this reason, most dreidels in Israel replace the letter Shin with a letter פ (pe), to represent the phrase nes gadol hayah poh ("a great miracle happened here");
I think I didn't know there was a difference until about 10 years ago (or, better put: probably never remembered that class in elementary school).
I also have somewhere in my house a dreidel that has on each side a symbol for Buffy, Angel, Firefly, and the logo of the org that made it. In case you had a free evening and had a difficulty to decide which random episode of which show to watch.