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Moring Andi.
I saw you stayed up late last night. Will you be leaving for a nap in a few?
More than possible. I just realized what time it is. What they heck am I doing awake.
You just had to say good morning to us. LOL
Good point. 🙂
Go to bed. Jeebus.
Good question — I woke up because there was a dog on my chest, licking my nose.
which dog? I hope it was the small one. LOL
I can’t believe you were up at this hour FM — after staying up so late. You didn’t go to bed did you?
Morning Andi and FamilyMan!!!!
Andi, I did another design for you this am. I hope you like it.
Happy Chanukah
Morning Refinish.
Morning!!! I have been uo since 3 am working on different designs. I added a couple to the democratic presidential hopeful section and one to the pro democrat section. I will post the links instead of designs since Andi is still on dail up. LOL
http://www.cafepress.com/refinish69/2270050
http://www.cafepress.com/refinish69/2271957
Now if only you could do a design that would remove all this excess food from my being. 🙂
you are welcome. I think they have a procedure called lypo suction. LOL
Andi has no fat to suck out. Well, maybe in her head.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
But that removes the fat around the bowling ball I’m carrying in my gut but leave the bowling behind.
What? Does kugel take 8 days to digest?
It’s not the kugel. It’s the amount that is eaten. LOL
And in honor of another jewish tradition, I’ve also turned into a pillar of salt.
We’ve now exhausted my bible knowledge.
I’m having the best cup of coffee of my entire life right now. Perfect. The next cup will just be chasing the high.
Take it from me – just see yesterday as an aberration and start afresh today. I do that every single day.
Howdy Second Nature!!!!
Hi refi – I wish you could send me some of your energy!
What’s on tap for today?
I am planning on doing some more designs, creating a rainbow chanukah section for the ruby slipper cafe, house work, laundry and some shopping. LOL I also need to do a podcast since I have not done one in a week at least. I don’t want to disapoint my fans.
I am one of your fans. Your podcasts are interesting, informative and fun. And I hear lots of new music!
Thanks!!!!
I like your podcasts too. And the CBs enjoy the music. 🙂
Thank you!!!!
Morning SN. How’s the dog poop express?
She’s holding up her end of the bargain, but we people aren’t doing our share.
And besides that my older cat has begun doing her business OUTSIDE of the litter box ever since I moved it into the garage and then moved it back to its regular spot.
Yesterday was an aberration — trying to ingest that amount of food on a regular basis would be a herculean effort well beyond my skillz.
Yeah, I used to think so too. Sigh.
an inflated idea of much you can eat or a deflated idea of how much I did.
Maybe I don’t eat that much more than you – but you sure move more than I do!
Right now the only way I’m moving fast is if I roll. On the bright side, I guess walking uphill ought to be burn a lot more calories given the effort I’m going to have to make.
Thanks SN – this it the exact thought I needed this morning. Its been an eventful week, both good and bad. I am often amazed at the serendipity of hearing or reading the right phrase when needed.
Hey there, redhead. Good to see you.
You have a big head right now don’t you? You and your pithy words 🙂
I didn’t know you had a lisp, maryb.
Good morning RF,
I thought about this for a while before deciding to comment, and maybe this isn’t the place to say it, but I am really disappointed in your portrayal in last night’s Cafe of Monica Lewinsky as a trailor trash slut. Any young woman who is manipulated by a powerful man is a victim, even though she was a consenting adult. And hey, I lived in a Texas trailor for three years and resent the hell out of the label “trailor trash”. Not to mention that my daughters and my wife as a young girl were called sluts. It pisses me off.
Take it for what it’s worth.
I do not apologize for my comment about Monica. She had a history of doing the same type thing with her teacher and others. She used her body and sex to get things. She also knew what she was doing especially if she sent the dress home to Mom to save it.
I am sorry if the comment bothered you on other levels but having grown up poor and having many friends who lived in trailers then and now, I know there is a difference between someone who lives in a trailer and trailer park trash.
I’m sorry too that your reply did nothing to address my problem with calling any woman or girl a slut, nor the trailor trash label. What about Park Avenue Trash? There is no such thing. It’s the same as as portraying West Virginians as toothless idiots or black mothers as welfare queens or gay men as sissy mary fags.
There are sluts and trash at all levels of society – both male and female. I did not make a racial slur, nor a homophobic slur, nor a state slur. I am sorry if the comment made during last night’s lounge upset you.
But RF, as I recall, Monica didn’t grow up in a trailer so, while you may argue that there are sluts everywhere, I would say that you DID fall into an ugly stereotype.
And see my comment below about Bill’s greater responsibility in the whole matter.
Super, is this why you left last night? I wish you would have stayed and said it at the time.
I didn’t think of what RF said as condescending to all women who might live in trailers — although now that I think about it I see your point. I did bother me because I think that this amount of anger at Monica let’s Bill off the hook. I agree with you, he was older and in a position of power and bears the greatest burden of guilt in the whole affair.
Maybe I should have said that last night, but I get tired of Bill and Monica and the jokes about blow jobs. So I just let it slide.
Yeah, me too. They were both adults who acted impulsively and selfishly. I’d feel differently if she was 18, but she was 25 – a big girl. I think they took advantage of each other.
I hate that any woman is labeled a slut because of her sexuality. Where is the derogatory name for a man who enjoys sex and sleeps around? Oh yeah, a player. Not quite as venomous.
It was a comment it was not towards all women nor towards all people who live in trailers. Read my comments I have already posted. I have never let Bill off the hook for what he did. Cheating is the worst thing anyone can do in a relationship or at least one of the worst as it is a form of abuse of trust and the love your partner has for you. I do not call men who cheat players. I call them sluts and much worse that I will not type in here. I have apologized and can we please move on.
Sure, I accept your apology. It was to me, right? 🙂
I was aback last night at the vitriol of your reponse. One minute you were all happy, and the next you were yelling about Monica.
And my point about Bill had nothing to do with cheating on Hillary (although I agree with you) it had to do with him having a sexual relationship with a woman in his office who was much younger and with whom he was in a supervisory relationship. No matter how much she may have come onto him — it was his responsibility as the boss to tell her to go away.
The apology was to anyone who was offended.
Well, it kinda a sucked (sorry) the happy outta me for the moment. I wasn’t sure how to look at it at first. That’s why I waited till today to say something. Besides, I’m always super hesitant to call out friends or people who would no doubt make a good friend in the real world. Certainly people who I know are politically on the right side. I’m far from perfect and I would never want to seem hypocritical. But Refinish apologized and that’s cool with me :o)
I wondered if the view of my toes so overwhelmed you that you had to leave.
Next time say something.
Of course, that was it! I spent the night swooning over your red toe polish ;o)
Thanks for mediating Mary. You have a natural proclivity for it.
I think I’ll get a nap.
See ya’ll later.
sweet dreams!!!!
Or did everybody leave already?
I just came in too.
Good morning everyone. I’m getting ready to roll out and bake some cookies to take to cookie decorating tonight.
I’m sure I’ve told you how much I HATE kitchen stuff. So if anybody’s around, come cheer me up 🙂
Cookie decorating? I would have never suspected you of such deviant behavior.
I know, I know.
You have a whole new impression of me don’t you? 🙂
I’m working really hard on an image of you in the kitchen in an apron, wearing heels, and a swirly skirt, looking like Donna Reed with freckles … and it just ain’t happening.
I can’t picture either of you in an apron and swirly skirt, but it’s somewhat more difficult with you.
Well I’ve never considered doing cookie decoration, let alone doing it for fun so you’re probably right (I also have never owned an apron and haven’t had on a swirly skirt since about 1962).
I do have an apron on. It took me years to appreciate aprons.
But the rest is pure illusion.
LOL Have fun cooking. I take it you are making sugar cookies or ginger bread since they are easy to decorate
I make TERRIBLE gingerbread cookies. They always come out hard as a rock.
These are sugar cookies (and don’t tell SN, but the recipe IS a junior league recipe). The woman who hosts the decorating party sends out the recipe and we all make a batch. They usually turn out great.
and then you all get together and decorate them? That sounds fun.
I have several Junior League cook books in my collection. They are usually old family recipes that are fantastic!!!
I have a cookbook from an Amish community and every recipe is by a Yoder or a Miller and they all start with ‘melt one stick of butter, and some heavy cream…’
LOL as do most of my cook books from the south. I have over 500 cook books in my collection.
Hi SN, I just happened to see your comment and saw the Yoder and Miller ref., which is straight out of my genealogical chart…..I come from a long line of Pa.’s Yoder’s and Miller’s, plus many others of course.
A lot of work goes into those cookbooks. A friend of mine in Kansas City IS in the Junior League and she worked on their cookbook. They had to test all the recipes. Sounds like hell to me, but she loved it.
I would love it, too, I love to cook. Which is hilarious because until my 20s I think the most complicated thing I ever made was a cheese sandwich. I dunno, maybe it’s a tossup between cheese sandwich and steak in the toaster oven.
You could join the junior league 🙂 (another of my ideas of hell).
Heh, I’m not much of a joiner.
Before you volunteer, you might want to consider all the gawdawful recipes the exist out in the wild (for example, my mother’s cold peas and carrots with mayonnaise).
mmmm that sounds GOOD!
well, that’s settled — you don’t need to ever invite me over for dinner; we’ll always just go out to eat.
Good choice. Unless you wanted me to order in pizza or Thai food.
How about Thai pizza? They’ve got a fantatic one at California Pizza Kitchen.
and you can buy them frozen in the grocery store too 🙂
I would never get the gig anyway, I have this irresistible compulsion to tweak recipes so I would never make them according to the instructions.
The ability to see what would changes would make an interesting variation of a recipe is another indicator of you cooking talents, right up there with dancing naked. :0
I suspect the Junior League frowns on naked dancing while recipe testing. Just a hunch I have.
I suspect the number of things the Junior League frowns upon is boundless.
What’s a/the Junior League?
Loosely speaking, they’re volunteer organizations for charitable service and volunteer work — I think they’re women only, but I’m not sure about that. I don’t know much about them personally, but I’ve heard that they are often kinda stodgy.
I wonder why they refer to themselves as “junior”
Junior to what? The men’s league?
Of course! Men do all the important work, dontcha know. Having boobies relegates us to being support staff at best — if we can work our way out of the scapegoat-and-object class, that is.
/exceptionally bitter about misogyny today
I can see that. Did something happen to bring on the bitterness or did you just wake up that way 🙂
I know the answer, if anyone cares – but I”m not volunteering otherwise!
Are you a member?
It used to be the case that junior leaguers were active only until they were 40. After 40, being no longer “junior”, then they become something like “reserve” status or some such, but lots of places that’s no longer true.
I do think they are mostly affluent. However, they have real teeth in their membership requirements, and members are tossed out without mercy: Those who do not work “outside the home” must volunteer 40 hours per month, in real designatetd volunteer postions. Those who work full time have only a 16 hour per month obligation.
Now, I can’t speak for every place, but for example, in one city I know of, those volunteers work in the ER of the large charity hospital, helping family members of victims, e.g. finding the families, getting them contacts, food, information, assistance. Another group in the same city works intensively with women who are parolled from prison, getting them clothing and help to get them jobs, e.g. GED classes, housing, etc. They do real service.
The idea is to involve women who otherwise might be involved pretty much in self-absorbed activities. I think that’s good. The exclusionary stuff isn’t as big a deal as it once was, but I’m sure it is a factor in some locations more than others.
(FYI, neither I, or any of my family members are now, nor have we ever been members of the Junior League.)
That makes sense. Thanks for the info.
naked dancing while cooking, stodgy is a good descriptor … 😉
Hiya Indy
Heya, Miss O. How’s things up in the great white north?
I’ll have to get out the lawnmower soon … :/
It’s 50F today.
How about you?
Exhausted.
rub your belly … 🙂
They are well-heeled women with a fair amount of snobbery blessed with an image of themselves as Lady Bountiful.
(Note: I feely admit that this is based on my personal experiences and other people may have a kinder view)
and can see that might be the case … 🙂
how’s the belly — any less stuffed?
No, that’s my impression too. Although I only personally know two people who belong and I like both of them. But they both DO have a lady bountiful attitude.
But now that I know, thanks to Olivia, that Eleanor Roosevelt was a member of the Junior League I may have to temper my opinion and admit that it IS a bit of a stereotype.
past experience does not predict future performance.
Polly Purebreds are boring. ;p
I have an excellent gingerbread recipe, if you want it sometime. Actually, I hate gingerbread, but Teach says it is good.
I like gingerbread in loaf or cake form, but not in cookie form.
I think the recipe would be wasted on me – but thanks for the offer!
It isn’t a cookie recipe. But you can make cookies out of it. Not to worry, I certainly don’t mind not typing in recipes!
Cookie decorating? Is this Jr. league stuff?
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
Well, even Hillary bakes cookies 🙂
My mom was a good basic cook but she never baked, so I have a natural aversion to baking. I don’t mind mixing up all the ingredients, but I hate standing around shaping and baking and cooling and baking batch after batch of cookies.
I prefer drop cookies. They go quicker. And I don’t work up a sweat with the rolling pin. It’s HOT today.
Hot in St. Louis, or in your kitchen? It’s 65 and sunny here – just perfect.
It’s in the sixties here and humid. So its hot inside — I guess I could open a window, but the humidity outside doesn’t appeal.
How about this one, maryb?
Received this morning from a woodland ally:
LOL!
This means I can use my reindeer cookies where the antlers broke off, I’ll just say they’re male reindeers. !
That’s right! Say they’ve molted.
🙂
Need I say it? I love today’s photo, Andi. Love, love, love today’s photo! Wag wag wag wag!
You make my day nearly every day — & frankly, if I were trotting through your woods today I’d jump right in there.
Wag wag! Drool!
Hope everyone’s enjoying the day & finding a bit of serenity & joy in the things you do.
Lovely picture, and wonderful dog picture!!
Yes! Absolutely!
That’s another gorgeous one, Andi. My idea of heaven. What a lucky pup!! That stream looks absolutely delicious (let alone luscious). A brilliant shot!
Thank you!
Isn’t that the greatest? She looks like she’s just where she should be & knows it!
Andi, please tell me again what camera you’ve used for these. Once I’ve stabilized a bit later this year I might set my sights that way. Goodness knows my own trusty little camera’s served me well, but it seems the technology’s come down in price a bit since that purchase & I can probably do a bit better than 2 megapixels for what I paid then.
It’s a canon sd550 (7 megapixel). I really like it but it was a bit pricey. Canon makes other cameras in the same series that aren’t as expensive though.
Bring your cookie sheets to the new cafe.