Monthly Archive for December, 2005

Sold!

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on Thursday, December 15, 2005
in blogging and craftiness
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stitch markers!

I love the smell of transaction in the afternoon. I just sold two sets of stitch markers to MoeThatsMe. Everyone go over there and thank her for supporting my addictive yarn habit. mmmmm…yaaaaarn. You are all jealous, and now want a set. But for the time being TOO BAD…I won’t have time before the new year. I also have fabric to make at least 4 more knitting needle cases, which will also be on hold until next year.Busy day ahead now. I’m skipping out early…EARLY! Like say…20 minutes, to buy two goof gifts for the white elephant gift exchange at our lab party tomorrow night, then get my hair cut (trying a new place…WISH ME LUCK), then go to the monthly stitch and bitch where I will eat junk food for dinner and work on my father’s scarf*, and on my way home from that, pick up fresh rosemary and thyme, so that when I get home, I can make the butternut squash and apple gallette that I’m bringing the the aforementioned party tomorrow.

whew!

And wow, the cut/uncut discussion really got interesting in the comments of the previous post. Feel free to continue to wax poetic about your preferences for male fleshy coverings - it’s just way too entertaining to read.

and whoa…I am almost at 50,000 hits. Nice. I have no idea what I should do when it happens…some nice way to reward my wonderful readers…hmmm…any ideas?

Of course, who I REALLY should be rewarding is Erosblog. Guess which day my site was mentioned AGAIN there?

crock pot delight

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on Wednesday, December 14, 2005
in conversations, food and misc
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I should post this on my recipe site, but I’m too lazy to try to figure out amounts. This morning, I mixed chicken broth, soy sauce, lime and orange juices, ketchup, garlic, ginger, and brown sugar, and poured it all over chicken legs in the crock pot and let it cook all day.

OH MY GOD! The chicken pretty much fell off the bones when we tried to tong it out of the pot, but served over rice with a side of snow peas…mmmm…so good!

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blogger bitching

why has blogger taken away the timestamp editor? I NEED TO BE ABLE TO CHANGE THE DATES ON MY POSTS! It’s how I organize my recipe site. DAMMIT! so STUPID! WHY DID THEY DO THIS????

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please go away forever

Why is Howard Stern still relevant? Seriously, I don’t understand his popularity. HE INTERVIEWS STRIPPERS AND PORN STARS…EVERY DAY. While this may make him some kind of hero to guys, please, everyone, stop acting like he is at all socially relevant. He is NOT.

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say this over and over again all day, for fun!

Artificial!

Retractable!

Foreskin! (probably not safe for work)

and….THERE IS A VERY INFORMATIVE VIDEO!!!

Kev told me that I did not NEED to watch an informative video on the foreskin…I am HOME SCHOOLED!

another favorite (yet unrelated) Kevinism- “Emeril could probably squat on top of the counter and take a shit, and those people will STILL scream and applaud like crazy”

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email correspondance…or “what I do instead of work”

from Kev: VEGETARIAN - Ancient Indian word meaning “poor hunter”.

with Julie:

me - the myserious bump on my neck was NOT, in fact, polio. It was an ingrown hair. which Kev popped and dug out for me. and THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is TRUE LOVE.

Julie - But would he have popped it and dug it out for you if it were on your ASS? I think THAT is true love. ;)

Me - uummmm…yeah. we’ve both done that for each other.

wove….TWWOOOO wove…

Julie - Leads to Mawwiage. ;)

Me - Mawwiage is what bwings us hew today

a must-read

Published
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ESC
on Tuesday, December 13, 2005
in science!
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Everyone stop what they are doing and read this.

Now.

It’s an article about teaching evolution for anyone, no matter WHAT your background. And how to remove the “threat” aspect of it that so many people feel is there.

But this is at the college level. We need to do this for kids. For middle school and high school kids. So they know that science is NO THREAT to their beliefs! It’s just a way of understanding the world!

So go read now.

Please?

cookies part deux

Published
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ESC
on Monday, December 12, 2005
in food and photos
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another day, another big batch of cookies. I looooooooove the neiman marcus urban legend cookies. Surely you got that email 8 years ago. you know the one, with the man/woman who ate a meal at neiman marcus department store, and loved the cookies so much that he/she asked for the recipe, and was told by the waitress that it would cost “two fifty.” then the protagonist ended up with a $250 addition to their check instead of the $2.50 they thought it would cost. to take revenge, they spread the recipe across the internets.

total bullshit. check it out here, if you want to read the history. although interestingly enough, the recipe that neiman marcus posts on its website to combat the urban legend is NOT the recipe that got emailed to everyone and their sister. I make THAT recipe. Which is a HUGE recipe. and I make one and a half times the recipe to give me an uber-big batch. How many cookies is that??

6 1/2 dozen cookies laterabout 6 1/2 dozen. Ummm…minus 2. for…uh…”testing” purposes. yeah. for SCIENCE.

here’s a close up, for Yoli.
closeup of cookies

know what I hate worse than ants??

Published
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ESC
on Monday, December 12, 2005
in daily and misc
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mondays. bleah.

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sweet Jane St. Clair

We have a grad student doing a rotation in our lab who’s very sweet, and her name is Jane. Now I can’t get that damned song out of my head every time I say her name.

Jaaaaaaaaaaaaane, divided, but I can’t decide what side I’m on
Jaaaaaaaaaaaaane decided only cowards stay, while traitors run

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hypochondriac alert

I have a painful small bump on the back left side of my neck. I can’t see it in a mirror, and I’m not desperate enough to have someone in the lab check it out for me. It’s most likely a zit, but because it’s monday and I hate it here right now, I’m going to tell myself it’s malignant cancer which has already spread all over my body, with no cure.

Or it’s polio. mmmm…sweet polio.

Hey ESC, that’s not funny, my MOM has polio.

Your mom IS polio. Shut up.

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lab bitch

I hate to be the lab bitch, but seriously…

Last week, someone noticed that our broken glass disposal box was gone. Everyone was amazed…who would steal it? It was almost full, anyway!

The thing is, these are just disposable cardboard boxes. when they are full of broken glass, you seal them up and take them down to the facility that disposes of broken glass. We have a STACK of extra boxes that you just fold together to make a NEW broken glass disposal box.

But for a WEEK, while everyone discussed the fact that it got stolen, NO ONE GOT OUT AND PUT TOGETHER A NEW DAMN BOX!

Guess who had to do it?

yeah, that’s right. Jane found some broken tubes and needed a place to put them. Since she is a newbie, it fell to ME TO DO IT!

dammit. Those things are a pain to wrestle with.