My sister is visiting for my birthday. Today, we went out to brunch, where I got a vegan cronut; then we went to Findlay Market, where I said hi to one of my students who was working there; and went out for Ethiopian food. We were going to go out to a wine bar afterwards, but my knee is hurting, so we're staying in and watching Trainwreck instead.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
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.
Hil R. - Nov 14, 2015 4:39:53 pm PST #9124 of 30003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
-t - Nov 14, 2015 4:45:59 pm PST #9125 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Other than the knee, that sounds pretty dang good! Many happy returns, Hil.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 14, 2015 4:47:09 pm PST #9126 of 30003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'm going to guess because the general stank of other dogs masks whatever identifying pheromones they're actually looking for until they get in close?
sarameg - Nov 14, 2015 4:47:30 pm PST #9127 of 30003
Just put away money B gave me for TJs food I picked up. Way over reimbursed me. I'll rake his leaves tomorrow in retaliation.
-t - Nov 14, 2015 4:58:29 pm PST #9128 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don't think so, Matt. From what I understand, dogs are really good at identifying different scents in parallel, one doesn't mask another.
I would think they just like it. They can sniff each other from farther away, but why not get in close to the source if you can?
Steph L. - Nov 14, 2015 5:30:58 pm PST #9129 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
went out for Ethiopian food
How was it?
Hil R. - Nov 14, 2015 5:37:48 pm PST #9130 of 30003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
How was it?
Pretty good. Not quite as good as my favorite Ethiopian place in NJ, but I'd definitely go there again. (It was Emanu in Pleasant Ridge.)
Hil R. - Nov 14, 2015 6:15:21 pm PST #9131 of 30003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Oh, and my sister said that the cronuts at Happy Chicks were better than the one she had at the place that first made them. They only have them here on Saturdays, and they do different flavors each week. This week, they had orange chocolate chip and blackberry.
Lee - Nov 14, 2015 7:09:18 pm PST #9132 of 30003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
So I got a cinnamon broom from TJs today. First hung it on basement door,basement side. Too strong.
I found that the too strong smell went away very quickly, so I put mine in the garage/laundry room for a day or so, and then put them a few different places.
Oddly, I just realized that cinnamon brooms may actually get me to TJs tomorrow, even though the holiday cookies wouldn't have.
Burrell - Nov 14, 2015 7:21:09 pm PST #9133 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Cronuts are those croissant/donut mash-ups, yes? I've never seen one but I picture it like a koign amann (which I only know about because you can buy them at TJs).
I found some good news out of my undergrad. [link] I have a tremendous amount of respect for her.
She sounds very interesting.
So there was this weird thing this year where some Washington grocery chain came and bought out all the Albertsons markets in California and then they went bankrupt and now they are closing and trying to sell them all. So fricking weird. I suspect there was some sort of fradulent, or at least very suspect, business going on but the news reports just present it very matter-of-fact. Anyway personal upshot is that the closest market to our house, which used to be an Albertsons, is now closing and not slated to be bought by anything else, so we will have a big empty box lot instead. Not happy about that.