There are cockroaches in Mexico big enough to own property.

Cordelia ,'Lessons'


Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


bon bon - Dec 11, 2010 12:43:28 pm PST #10425 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Do you think anyone at Johnson & Johnson stopped to consider that the customer base affected by the product discontinuation is going to include an inordinately high number of women caught short just as PMS hits?

FWIW, PMS and menstruation are at different times in the cycle.


Kathy A - Dec 11, 2010 12:46:36 pm PST #10426 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Oh, that TJs cheese sounds good. I love spreadable cheese.

Speaking of shopping for stuff, I picked up my mail after getting back from class, and found a very nice card from my department, which included a $75 Amazon gift certificate!

I laughed while I was reading the card, because out of the ten people that signed it, three of them made reference to Buffy, Dollhouse, or Doctor Who. I guess I have a rep as the go-to for genre tv!


Lee - Dec 11, 2010 12:55:18 pm PST #10427 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

It's TJ's label, I can't recall seeing it called Pub Cheese elsewhere.

Rondele also makes a pub cheese. I've seen it in Safeway, but I haven't tried it. [link]


-t - Dec 11, 2010 1:06:24 pm PST #10428 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Nifty! I've either only seen the Rondele garlic & herbs or I focus in on it and don't notice there are other kinds. Mmmmm, cheese.

That's really cool, Kathy! Both the g.c. and the genre tv rep


Kathy A - Dec 11, 2010 1:13:21 pm PST #10429 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I just realized I haven't listened to any of my Christmas music yet this year. I normally pop in CDs and listen to those on my commute, but since I'm off of work until the 20th, that's not happening. With nothing on TV tonight, I'm playing my iTunes Christmas songlist--Empire Brass, the Ronnettes, Bing Crosby, and now Karen Carpenter. I was looking at the list, and I've got ten hours worth of 200 songs. That's a lot more than I thought I had!


§ ita § - Dec 11, 2010 2:08:56 pm PST #10430 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Whoa. Bombing in Stockholm.

Whoa. For a second there I thought I liked a Christmas carol that wasn't one of my two exceptions or religious. But I finally got far enough in the lyrics of "The Holly and the Ivy" to the Jesus bit. Then I read the lyrics, and they're not really that cheerful or celebratory. Hmm.


megan walker - Dec 11, 2010 2:14:05 pm PST #10431 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Two exceptions?


§ ita § - Dec 11, 2010 2:21:20 pm PST #10432 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Do They Know Its Christmas? and Feliz Navidad.

I claim no thematic consistency. But one was omnipresent as I was growing up, and the other was a big moment in my teen years.

Watching The Princess Bride. I've almost changed my tagline ten times already, and they only just reached the shrieking eels. ♥


aurelia - Dec 11, 2010 2:37:26 pm PST #10433 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Geeks' most beloved holiday classics. [link] Didn't A Wish for Wings that Work predate Outland?

edit- Okay, maybe not. Looks like it was smack dab between the last Bloom County collection and the first Outland collection.


sarameg - Dec 11, 2010 3:19:57 pm PST #10434 of 30001

I am perhaps baking too much. Another batch of cookies. And there's this work party weds, and while I don't know that I'll make these for that, since I have another 2 batches to make before next sunday, but what the hell. Oh, and ingredients aren't particularly cheap. So I'm making expensive cookies. This is what, the third batch? I think I have the process and formation down now, which was the point of doing multiple rounds. Ain't pretty, but don't look like demented oozing hockey pucks anymore.

So. Oh, and I have a name for them. Neighbor Sarah's boyfriend, after hearing the ingredients, dubbed them Heaven and Hell cookies, alternately Heaven and Sin, he couldn't decide.

So let's see...I'm looking at making what, another 4 batches of cookies in the next week? Ahahahah.

And it gets really hilarious when you factor in that I eat maybe ONE from each set, for quality control, and that's more than enough for me.

Up tomorrow (maybe) another batch of some kind of cookies, buy some giftcards, get more fancy cocoa and unless it is really pouring, rake up my back postage stamp for the winter. To add to the 16 bags dotting our rear alley. And last load of laundry.

God, I want to take next friday off. Maybe I'll telecommute, though that means I'll still need to drop by work to leave the laptop, since I don't want to leave it in the house while I'm on vacation. At least I could bake and work simultaneously. Plus, cookie naming dude has a gig that Saturday night that'd be fun to go to, but that's also a crazy weekend.