No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?

Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This  

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.


Consuela - Jan 25, 2014 4:14:44 pm PST #18117 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Chiffonade seems hard to me! But I might try

... so that's what you call it when I do that! I didn't know it had a name. And it's really easy, -t.

I never think to massage my kale, I figure cutting it up into thin strips is sufficiently tenderizing. Seems to work although it's never as good as the kale salad I had at Monk's Kettle last month. Man, that was awesome.


SuziQ - Jan 25, 2014 4:17:23 pm PST #18118 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I have never felt so alone. This afternoon sucked balls.


-t - Jan 25, 2014 4:19:08 pm PST #18119 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm sorry, Suzi.


Zenkitty - Jan 25, 2014 4:22:49 pm PST #18120 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Sorry, Suzi.

I'm never eating kale, just out of sheer contrariness, now. It's gotten too big for its leafy green britches, wanting massages.


Jesse - Jan 25, 2014 4:33:40 pm PST #18121 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ugh, sorry, Suzi.


Kat - Jan 25, 2014 4:38:43 pm PST #18122 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Oh, Suzi, I am so sorry.

I love kale. We usually get dinosaur or curly. Chiffonade is NOT the same thing as a chifforobe.

I also believe that tiny strips of kale makes it sufficiently not so bitter. That with hot viniagrette usually does it. NOM.


Consuela - Jan 25, 2014 4:42:03 pm PST #18123 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Chiffonade is NOT the same thing as a chifforobe.

Words to live by!


Kat - Jan 25, 2014 5:00:03 pm PST #18124 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Grace has a social studies project we have to do this weekend. So I called my mom to set up a skype (Grace has to interview an old person, essentially). My mom then tells me she is driving between hospitals because my dad is having heart problems.

Um. Thanks for keeping me in the loop. Had I not called she wouldn't have called me.


Kat - Jan 25, 2014 5:00:50 pm PST #18125 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Also it's easier to be irked by my mom than to worry about my dad. (Atrial firbrillation not being helped by his pacemaker/defirbrillaton).


Steph L. - Jan 25, 2014 5:07:57 pm PST #18126 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Yikes, Kat's dad, get good cardiac care! Kat's mom, tell Kat these things!

Suzi, that blows. I'm sorry you were so let down.

Finally, I need to ask, since I am a non-kale-eater: why does it need to be massaged? (I have been eating a lot of spinach in smoothies, though. I feel like Popeye.)