YAY sofa!
Very convincing. Makes me completely want to put myself under government control. Please take me to where you can make me unconscious and naked.
Riley ,'Help'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Nov 07, 2009 1:26:18 pm PST #17776 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Calli - Nov 07, 2009 1:30:03 pm PST #17777 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Congrats on the sofa, Jesse, and the stoneware, Barb.
I've spent the day baking, as I'm providing the dessert part of a progressive dinner tomorrow. Venison mincemeat pie, Kahlua brownies, and cheesecake with cherry topping. My apartment smells wonderful.
Jesse - Nov 07, 2009 1:33:08 pm PST #17778 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ooh, that sounds excellent, Calli.
Barb - Nov 07, 2009 1:37:59 pm PST #17779 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
Mmm... yummy, Calli! I saw you mention the venison mincemeat in your LJ and was intrigued. It sounds really interesting.
Calli - Nov 07, 2009 1:46:36 pm PST #17780 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Venison mincemeat is an old family tradition. Mom thought her great-great-grandma Baker brought the recipe over from England back in the 1800s. We've had it at Christmas and Thanksgiving as long as I can remember. Last year we'd run out of the last batch my late mom had made (you get ~12 quarts per batch, which make 12 pies). So I tried my hand at it. It came out just like Mom's. The recipe's here, if you'd like to try it. It's an all-day process, though, and then some.
Sue - Nov 07, 2009 1:48:04 pm PST #17781 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Yay love seat.
Barb, I love that dinnerware- I love all the colours. My parents are buying me some very plain white dinnerware for Xmas. But I have some much odds and sods pottery I wanted something neutral to work with.
brenda m - Nov 07, 2009 1:54:53 pm PST #17782 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Mincemeat with actual meat? Huh.
Wow, Four Brothers is a really bad movie. I'm watching it because Mark Wahlberg and also the Mercer thing, but even half tipsy this is bad.tivo gives it two stars. I am skeptical.
(Though there just was a great line. "You don't pay a ho to like you. You pay her to leave." Not that I get what if anything it has to do with the plot, but hey.)
Okay possibly more than half tipsy.
Jesse - Nov 07, 2009 1:56:12 pm PST #17783 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I wish I had beer or wine, but not enough to go out right now. I will make myself a cheesy cocktail.
Lee - Nov 07, 2009 2:03:48 pm PST #17784 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Speaking of cocktails, I have a question for cocktail people--what should I buy to mix with a) Three Olives triple espresso Vodka, and b) Seagram's sweet tea vodka (individually not together, obviously) that I could buy at Trader Joes or a regular grocery store?
Barb - Nov 07, 2009 2:07:51 pm PST #17785 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
I'm watching Across the Universe and loving it as much as ever. I'd love to spend a few days/weeks just hanging with Julie Taymor and watching her operate. I adore her visual sensibilities.
And Sue, those colors just utterly sold us. For the past seventeen years, our everyday stoneware has been a pale green southwestern design from Noritake that has been fabulous and held up amazingly well, but we were just ready for a change. But yeah, if I had a lot of bits and bobs of pottery, I'd probably do the same thing in terms of getting something neutral to use as a backdrop.