I can vouch that Ellen’s rum balls were awesome! Definately not too much rum… it gave them a good kick. The honey and toasted pecans really did the trick – they had a perfect consistency.
Atomic rum balls? Yes please!
Mike, that’s too funny! My husband and I are always making fun of those pedigree names that cats have – the ones with 3 or 4 names that sound very pretentious. So we have a joke that we should get a cat and name it Madame Fifi Kibblebuckets. Fortunately, for our current cat (the one in my avatar), we chose a less insane name. :)
Jen, that’s a ridiculous name – people need to think of how a name affects the person with it. I’m glad she could get it changed. I have a close friend whose wife was pregnant with their first daughter, and they spent the whole pregnancy joking that they’d name their daughter Luscious Dupree (which they thought would be the perfect hooker name). They never intented to really name her that (and I’m sure that baby Kate will be grateful when she grows up), but it was definitely funny. I suppose I could use it as another ridiculous cat name. :)
note: you can also edit a pic after the fact by renaming the one you used and naming the edited or resized pic to the original name.
I resized the Dali picture up thread. ( The Invisible Bust of Voltaire) to a width of 500 pixels.
heh that’s what happens when you let yer toddler name the cat.
I’m watching KCPQ 13 News, and the Weather Forecaster M.J. McDermott just did her “Pet Watch Forecast” where she features a photo of a pet that a viewer has sent in.
The pet in this segment was a tabby cat named “Pickle Toot Toot Beep Beep”. LOL!
Cooked my bacon last night. Oh my goodness. It really was the best bacon ever. It didn’t look like much coming out of the package, but it made the best BST’s (Bacon, Spinach & Tomato) ever. I maybe cook bacon in my house once a year at best, so if I am going to do it, I might as well do it right.
thanks again CJB!
this is my rant…i was just reading http://www.komonews.com/news/35852744.html and it really made me upset. I understand where this family is coming from because our family is experiancing the same thing…although not a boyfriend/lover. Yesterday we were subpoenaed to appear in court as witnessess for a criminal hearing against my fiance’s brother who we have a restraining order against and who has a rap sheet the size of webster dictionary. He is mentally crazy enough to have to take anti phsycotics but as he does not want to be put in mental court the court says that they can not place him there manditory. So the courts let him represent himself. At the hearing…. he embarressed himself by trying to act like a top notch lawyer right out of some tv show. the courts let this happen all the while laughing at him……as i sat at on the witness stand being cross examined by him…which was the most stupid thing i have ever experianced he was asking all sorts of random questions i looked over and saw the judge actually checking her email from where i sat and also reading up on gossip on the internet!! I am not kidding!!! i was soo disgusted!! But anyways the judge then let him out due to he had already served his time…this by the way was a trespassing case at our house. As they played the 911 tape you could hear my 6 year old daughter crying scared out of her mind as my brother in law tried to kick down the front door. Anyways long story short he got out the same day we had to testify against him by order of the city. So he gets out and goes down to my soon to be mother in laws on delridge to get his car that the police had confiscated at his time of arrest 75 days ago… in the mean time he steals 2 hunting knives kept in her garage..i know what your thinking her fault for keeping them there. Immediatly the police are called…they come down to the house and basically say sorry we cant do anything unless he uses them with force against anyone….can you believe this! she tells them this is STOLEN from me he is a CONVICTED FELON just released today and we know he is at the travel lodge in west seattle!! the police basically laugh at her and tell her its her own fault for leaving the knives out. So know we and the other 4 brothers who live in west seattle in there own homes with there own children and jobs have to wait until this crazy guy comes and tries to use a 8inch hunting knife on them before the police will try to confinscate the weapon!!! So my take on the seattle police…they wait for the crime to happen, they do not care about crime pervention they sit back and wait for it to happen before making a meager effort to help the citizens who work hard for there money and follow the laws!
Southwest also has a hot tub – costs something like 50 cents extra to use. Very close to pool’s edge :) It should be open again by now – its opening was lagging the early November pool reopening a bit because of some final touches.
Our Hoover WindTunnel is pretty good at picking up pet hair, but it is terribly LOUD. Also, it seems to be top-heavy & it often topples over & hits the floor with a big crash if we even think about stretching out the hose to reach something nearby. Lastly, the cord seems to continually get knotted up & twisted.
The 3M FurFighters sound promising. To date, the best solution we’ve found to remove pet hair from clothes is to use duct tape. It doesn’t seem to hurt the clothes & does a better job at removal than traditional pet hair rollers.
Thanks for all the great suggestions (& for the opportunity to vent about our Evil Vacuum)!!!
This came from a friend and particularily appropriate for this topic.
One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport.
We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded and missed the other car by just inches!
The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.
So I asked, ‘Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!’
This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call “The Law of the Garbage Truck”.
He explained that “many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they’ll dump it on you. Don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well and move on. Don’t take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home or on the streets”.
The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day.
Life’ is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so…………
Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don’t.
Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!
r26, you know what made me think you’re what my hubby calls a “proper person”: even if you and your kids were perfect, and you didn’t cut the guy off or do anything else offensive, you still were willing to accept the possibility that you weren’t aware that you did something to him. I want to hug you just for that.
Some people really are miserable and think that any inconvenience to them is someone else’s fault.
On the other side, though, I don’t mean to deem the guy a jerk, period, because everyone can go through stressful times. There’s even a possibility that he’s aware of what he did and is feeling horrible about it right now. You never know. Either way, I have serious doubts that he meant anything against you personally, and most likely he’s not loving life at the moment. I’m sorry that an action that he’s probably not even aware of had that kind of an impact on you. :(
Ah – the full moon is almost upon us. 91% full today. Being a Cancer (and believing in such hooey) I’m always irritable and short with people during this time of the lunar cycle.
Working in customer service – I can tell you that the full moon most DEFINITELY affects people’s moods. Callers are angrier. People are more curt. Coworkers get a bit more short tempered. I saw it all today and we’ll see more of it towards the end of the week (along with snow? I’m staying home!)
Breathe in and then out and then realize it will alllll be over soon. :) Props to your kiddos for being so well behaved. And props to you because we all know where most of the credit for well behaved children is due when it comes to grocery stores :)
I think West Seattle is mostly couples/families, HOWEVER, there are actaually lots of single gals that live here – I know many in various age groups. And yes, we go out in groups, as most of us are older (40’s and up) so hanging out in bars alone is not gonna happen.
I have met singles in the past – skating on Alki, walking down the street (really), and volunteering.
Also, here is a tip for you – lots of single women at the PCC wine tastings every month…good luck!
oh, the crankiness…we’ll have a table labelled in the corner for that…I may just join you..a friend and client (one in the same) asked me this morning if I was OK, because I seemed extraordinarily cranky today – lol..
One of those land use/constuction signs went up in the Rocksport parking lot a couple weeks ago…for the whole space from the nail shop through to Super Sup…:(
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Well our DVR is a rental from Comcast…another one of their scams. I’ll have to check out Direct TV, further. GHO, we have the same problem with bundling. It SUCKS. I wish there were a third company. Sooo frustrating. We have a neighbor with a HUGE radio tower. I hear it interferes with broadcast signals. I don’t see any dishes on our street. :(
Actually, he looks like a young Hugh Hefner after he got tired of trying to explain his idea to the other investors, and just wanted to show them where his imagination was going.
“I’m sure it’s difficult to approach a table of women” Finally, a female that understands the single man’s plight. Thank you, squareeyes. You’ve made me so happy, I feel myself tearing up…excuse me…
Where have you been looking and what methods are you applying?
WS does seem more family oriented. As far as I can tell, I’m the only single person on my block, the rest are couples/families. My girlfriends and I tend to go out most Friday nights to do the drinks/dinner thing around WS but I’m sure it’s difficult to approach a table of women even if we are sitting in the bar area. I’ve made it a mission to occasionally go sit a bar for a drink or a meal on my own and see if I can successfully strike up a conversation with whomoever is sitting next to me. Sometimes a bust, sometimes some great conversations.
really, yumpears? I’m not sure how that works either, but if you’re willing to share the name of your security company, it would be worth checking out.
Here’s some more ammunition. This article summarizes a study being published in the journal Pediatrics. It confirms the heavy financial and personal burden on families caring for an autistic child. That’s certainly been our experience.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MED_AUTISMS_COSTS?SITE=DCUSN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
JoB – I have a friend who will be bringing some clothing donations.
