Weekend update
Lynn
I'd start the weekend update thread.
Ours was a busy one. We got up early and headed out to the Dept.
of Revenue to renew my car's plates. This should have been an easy
thing to do, right? I never got the renewal notice in the mail but when
I called, they just said to bring in the usual papers and it'd be no
problem. Well...when *any* government agency says "it'd be no problem"
I've come to know there *will* be one! True enough. They run my plate
number through the computer and tell me I never renewed the plates last
year. Oh??? Then why do I have 01 stickers on my vehicle, a handful of
receipts and the canceled check? They tried to tell me it was not in my
married name. Had those receipts. They then tell me that the title was
never registered after I took my ex off and added Arvid. Had those
receipts too. They finally ran out of excuses and straightened
everything out. They did tell me that it was a good thing I never got
pulled over in the car since it would have looked like I stole it.
Lovely.
We then went to the Fantastic Sam's my friend manages for haircuts.
I was very sad to have to get about 2 inches cut off the back of my hair
because of split, dry ends. At least now I have all the damaged areas
from my last perm over five years ago cut off so it shouldn't be a
problem anymore.
Later that afternoon, the guys from the band came over. We had to
use our living room to rehearse this time. What fun that was...we all
barely fit! We'd warned the neighbors earlier that morning so no one
would call the police on us. I'm surprised we didn't blow some fuses
with all the equipment plugged in.
Today we went shopping for new jeans for Sara. That should have
been easy too but noooo... Poor thing got so depressed. She was
looking for flared legs and those are hard enough to find but we either
couldn't find her size or they were a foot too long. No way she'd let
me hem jeans so...the search will continue at the mall later this week.
We've never had this problem before, I don't know what's up.
We've been needing a new TV for quite some time. Ours had something
wrong with it that you had to slam your fist down on the top of it to
get the picture to come in clearly. I have bruises still from doing
this all the while we watched the O Town marathon last weekend. We just
happened upon a great sale at Wal-Mart for a Sanyo 25" with remote for
only $189! We hurried home, transferred money from the savings account
to the checking online and ran back out to get it. I no longer have to
wear my glasses to see it! Woohoo!
Oh and I got a call from my boss tonight...I should be going back to
work in the next week or two. Good thing too since I need to replace
that money we used for the TV!
So that's it...not all that exciting but a different weekend than
our usual.
Lynn
--
My mind wanders...but my body is too tired to follow.
kathry...@pharma.novartis.com
> So that's it...not all that exciting but a different weekend than
>our usual.
>
>Lynn
>--
>My mind wanders...but my body is too tired to follow.
Thank goodness you worked everything out with your car. Somehow, the people
at the DMV always seem t o bring me to tears. And congrats on the new TV.
Let's see. Our weekend was great. On Friday night, my youngest sister called
me up to confirm our plans for dinner the next night. I was trying to be
secretive, and wait to tell her on Saturday, but she could tell something was
up from the sound of my voice. So she said, "You're pregnant, aren't you?"
My response to every question she asked was "I can't say." So, she ended the
conversation by saying, "I know that you're pregnant, and I'm telling Monkey
(her name for her fiance)."
On Saturday, the painters came over and finally painted over the patches that
were put on the cracks on the wall back in mid-December. It is so nice to
have painted walls once again (and an absence of cracks). They somehow
missed the powder room entirely, but they left us a gallon of paint, so we'll
be able to do some touch-ups.
Then Stan had to go into the city for an alumni event. I stayed home and
cooked corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes. It was the first time I ever made
it, and I think it turned out pretty well. My sister and her fiance came
over shortly before Stan arrived home, and I was showing them the drawings in
the Mayo clinic book of what the baby looks like now, and how much it grows
over the next few weeks. (BTW, I need to write a letter to the authors of
that book. I was perusing the section on contraception- in the post-birth
section, which I really haven't read that much- and they state that NFP is
the same as rhythm, which it is not).
Stan came home, and we ate dinner. He said that he had never eaten corned
beef before (!?!), but that he liked it a lot. Then Stan and I went shopping
for a birthday present for our nephew, Adam.
On Sunday, we went to church, and we noticed that our little country church is
very full at 11:00 mass. The pastor had said around Christmas time that the
were considering adding another mass to the weekend schedule, and hopefully
they will be able to do that soon, because the place was SRO, and 9:00 mass
always seems to be just as bad.
After that, we went to my middle sister's house for Adam's 4th birthday. Adam
was proudly telling his Uncle Stan all about how he had diarrhea the night
before, but he still made it to the potty. The party was fun. Somehow, the
DeGraaffs always end up in the kitchen, and the Horns (my BIL's family) ends
up in the living room. We don't plan it like that, but it somehow works out
that way. Anyhow, the hors d'ouvres are in the kitchen, so if you ask me, we
make out better in that deal. We gave my mom a book of "Grandmother's
Memories" that we had planned on giving her at Christmas. After she
unwrapped it, Stan told her that it was from her next grandchild. So, mom
looked at Tori, who shook her head no, then looked at me, and squealed with
excitement. My grandmother was sitting next to me, and she didn't quite
understand what the excitement was about, so she asked me why my mom was
acting like that, so I explained to my grandmother that i was pregnant again,
and the biggest smile was on her face. I so rarely see my grandmother smile,
so it was really nice to see.
My dad didn't make it to the party, because he was working. So, we stopped
off at his store on the way home, and gave him his book. He seemed very
tentative in his congratulations. It's obvious that he doesn't want me to go
through another MC.
As we left my dad's store, we planned how to tell Stan's side of the family.
So, we called over to his grandmother's house where we knew that my MIL, FIL,
GMIL, and one of Stan's sisters would be just about to sit down for dinner.
Stan asked his dad when they were leaving grandma's because we wanted to stop
in and say hi... because we hadn't seen them in a while (meanwhile, we had
just had dinner with his parents last week, and my MIL and I went shopping
together). So, we stopped off at home to get the books for my ILs, and we
decided to call Stan's oldest sister (she's due in May with her third son).
Since Jen's husband prepares our taxes each year, we dvised a cute way to
tell them. Stan asked his sister if she could check with her husband on the
following tax question: If we were to have a baby at the end of November,
would we get the deduction for the entire year? Of course, we knew the
answer to the question. Jen answered the question, and Stan said, "That's
good, since we'll be having a baby at the end of November."
So, then we drove to my GMIL's house, and Stan's parents were still there.
Stan gave them the books, and my MIL said, "You're pregnant! We knew it!
That phone call was very fishy." Everyone congratulated us, and we sat down
to talk for a while. My other SIL had just left, so we called them after
enough time had elapsed for them to get home. Stan said to Karen, "You
guessed it, we're having a baby."
So, it was a fun weekend. We got to tell our close family - something we
didn't get tot do last time, since we were waiting to make an announcement on
Christmas.
--Kathy
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lissie...@no.spam.hotmail.com
let's see- friday night we went to DH's office warming party, and it was
really fun! he works with a lot of really interesting and intelligent
people, and i had some good conversations! i was also reminded of one more
reason why i really *like* my DH - he is socially adept! i had a LEB who
would get so sullen and hostile anytime we were social with my friends...and
it was so awful! it's so nice to be able to go out and not have to take care
of nik, you know! anyway, i digress...
saturday morning i went to breakfast with a friend of mine that i haven't seen
in ages, that was really nice, and then sacked out for most of the day! i am
deep into david weber's honor harrington series (space opera!!)! saturday
night we cooked ourselves a nice dinner and rented the movie "office space"
which was moderately amusing. sunday we slept in, i did some dissertation,
we took a long walk, and went for indian food with another friend we haven't
seen in ages!
so, it was a mellow weekend, and i really enjoyed it!!
- Lissie
Leslie Deak
On 19 Mar 2001 lissie...@no.spam.hotmail.com wrote:
> let's see- friday night we went to DH's office warming party, and it was
> really fun! he works with a lot of really interesting and intelligent
> people, and i had some good conversations! i was also reminded of one more
> reason why i really *like* my DH - he is socially adept! i had a LEB who
> would get so sullen and hostile anytime we were social with my friends...and
> it was so awful! it's so nice to be able to go out and not have to take care
> of nik, you know! anyway, i digress...
This is the primary reason LEB is who he is, and not DH. (!)
-Leslie
Leslie Deak
On 19 Mar 2001 kathry...@pharma.novartis.com wrote:
> Thank goodness you worked everything out with your car. Somehow, the people
> at the DMV always seem t o bring me to tears. And congrats on the new TV.
Two summers ago, we were transferring the title of the Jetta from BIL to
J and me. We called around to see what papers BIL had to sign, and we
brought *everything* they told us to. Well, I decided I wasn't happy with
that arrangement, and I decided we were going to the DMV while BIL and
FSIL were in town. (This, in reverse turn, had me out the Friday before
trying to get the cars inspected, and me having to replace a $250 exhaust
system THAT DAY.) Well, sure enough, we brought EVERY SINGLE THING the DMV
had asked us to bring, and BIL still had to sign one more piece of paper
to get the title transferred to us. I know that if I'd just waited there
for 1.5 hours and they'd sent me away because BIL wasn't there, I'd have
strangled someone.
Oh, yeah, and my address is wrong on my license. When I went to have the
address renewed and the license replaced, I handed the lady a utility bill
as address verification, and she managed to mangle the address. I didn't
notice until I left the place, and by then it was closed, and NO
CORRECTIONS WOULD BE MADE. So, it's still wrong. Since last July.
-Leslie
bar...@ncf.ca
writes:
>hi lynn! i'll jump in here...
>
>let's see-
I'm just jumping in with a test message.
Weekend? 5 movies on video between Thursday night and Saturday night.
Museum and dinner with colleague on Friday night.
Workouts on Sat and Sun.
-B.
Leslie Deak
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Lynn wrote:
> Since there's no other posts coming through right now, I thought
> I'd start the weekend update thread.
Well, at the last minute Friday afternoon, I bailed on the family trip to
NYC. I was supposed to take the shuttle, but I'd been OOT for two
weekends, and I needed some down time. Compounding the situation was that
DH wasn't going, 'cause he's coming up on the end of his quarter, and
needed to work all weekend. Well, he didn't. He played Starcraft all
Saturday, and didn't go into work until after noon on Sunday when I
started grumbling about how glad I was we stayed home from NYC so he could
play computer games all weekend. Grumble.
So, Saturday morning, I went to the grocery store for the first time in
weeks, and loaded up. I bought a cactus leaf on a whim for a recipe I saw
in Cooking Light. Made it Saturday night, and it wasn't so bad, though I
think a bell pepper would work just fine. After the grocery store, I made
colcannon and bread pudding, and puttered around, repotting some plants.
We watched a lot of basketball, and we eventually went out to a pool hall
for St. Patty's day. Oh, yeah, and BIL called to say he'd finally
remembered my b-day and a gift was forthcoming.
Sunday, we puttered until I kicked DH out to go to work (see above gripe)
and I finished scanning some w* photos for a project. Then I went out to a
couple local nurseries and bought some more (!) plants. My herbs aren't
growing too well (I started them from seed), so I'm supplementing with
seedlings. I think I overwatered a partridge-breasted alow this winter, as
the shoots came off in my hand when I was moving them around. Ack! So, I
stuck then back in the soil, as I hear they propagate easily.
Watched PSU beat UNC (yay!), which I picked in both my pools, and then had
a steak-mushrooms-wine-onions-rosemary-parsley dinner while watching the
Sopranos.
-Leslie
kathry...@pharma.novartis.com
Leslie Deak <ld...@me1.egr.duke.edu> writes:
>
>Oh, yeah, and my address is wrong on my license. When I went to have the
>address renewed and the license replaced, I handed the lady a utility bill
>as address verification, and she managed to mangle the address. I didn't
>notice until I left the place, and by then it was closed, and NO
>CORRECTIONS WOULD BE MADE. So, it's still wrong. Since last July.
>
>-Leslie
>
Thanks for reminding me... my license has had the wrong address for over a
year, and I really need to remedy that. Last year, Stan cahnged his address
when he renewed the registration on his car. I figured we'd do the same when
my car was up for a new registration. Well, wouldn't you know it, we sold my
car before it was due. Oh well, Stan's car needs to be inspected anyhow, so
maybe we'll go to DMV together and kill two birds with one stone.
Jocelyn
Lynn <ly...@inlink.com> wrote:
> Since there's no other posts coming through right now, I thought
> I'd start the weekend update thread.
<snip Lynn's weekend>
Our weekend was busy and bit insane. Saturday was DH's nephew's
Confirmation, and DH was his sponsor. The mass was supposed to start at
10:40 AM, and originally we were going to go down to MIL's house Friday
night after work. The last train to The Back Of The Great Beyond (which is
where MIL lives) was at 6:30 PM, though, which would have made it difficult
for me to catch. We decided to bag the Friday night train, and took a
Saturday morning one instead.
Friday night we just packed our stuff, hung out and watched NCAA basketball.
Saturday morning we got up at the crack of dawn to catch our 7:15 AM train
to TBOTGB. Once we got up and moving, it wasn't so bad, but boy, do I hate
getting up when it's still dark out.... We arrived at TBOTGB at 9:30, and
headed for the church for the Confirmation. The "church" turned out to be
the elementary school gymnasium - they're redoing the actual church, and
holding services in the gym until it's done. There were 50 or 60 kids being
confirmed, and thus 50 or 60 sponsors and what seemed like *thousands* of
parents, aunts, uncles, etc. there to see it. It lasted two hours, and was
without a doubt, two of the most uncomfortable hours I have ever spent in my
life (not to mention one of the most wildly inappropriate homilies I've
heard in a long time).
After the service, we went back to MIL's, where DH and I napped until it was
time to go to dinner. The whole family went to dinner in Philadelphia, and
then after dinner, DH and I, and DH's sister and BIL went to one of our
favorite Philly bars to watch the end of the Stanford/St. Joe's game. My
normally mild-mannered BIL almost got in a fist fight at the bar, so we left
as soon as the game was over.
SIL and BIL dropped us at MIL's house, where we discovered that, because of
some weird arrangements with who drove whom to the dinner and a mix-up with
the valet, MIL and DH's other sister were stuck at the restaurant because
DH's other BIL had MIL's car keys. This caused lots of yelling and gnashing
of teeth among all of the members of DH's family. Luckily, I stayed out of
the whole thing. ;-)
Sunday morning we slept in, had breakfast with MIL and then headed back to
civilization. We got home around 4 PM, had an early dinner, and watched
"The Mummy", which was not very good. Then we caught up on the NCAA scores
(I am doing *so* badly in my pools) and went to bed.
Now it's Monday again....
- Jocelyn
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Change not to net to reply.
Hillary Israeli
"weekend update" sort of thing - I don't want to be seen as a
whiner....but I'm going to go for it.
Saturday we went to visit my grandma-in-law who just got home from the
hospital. Long story short: she fell, badly hurt her back, went to the
hospital, where they decided she might have metastatic cancer and did tons
of tests, finally deciding nope, just a disk, and sent her home, still
unable to walk around due to horrible pain. She is primary caretaker for
grandpa-in-law, who has Alzheimers, so it was a big mess for the family,
all else aside. Anyway, we spent some time there (not the most fun, sad to
say) and then went home. Our phone rang, it was my brother - and it turned
into a huge mess. We had a disagreement. We ended the discussion. My mom
then called me and said somethign about my brother. I said we'd just had a
disagreement and I didn't want to talk about it. Five minutes later my
brother calls me screaming that I had nerve to run to mom and she'd just
called him and reamed him out. It turned into a whole re-hashing of
everything to do with their w*dding and my brother told me he basically is
on his wife's "side" as it were, and I should just get over it (he also
said I should not bother trying to communicate with her as she's not
interested....). I was very upset for many hours. THen it was Jacob's
bedtime. He went to sleep. He kept waking up though, and crying for a
couple of hours each time. It was a nightmare. No one got any sleep. He
finally nursed at about 4 am and went back to sleep and I lost it. Michael
found me crying in the rocking chair at about 5 am. I'd been thinking
about the whole SILFH thing, plus I was exhausted. Then Jacob woke up and
Michael and I played with him a little bit and of course I fed him and
then he fell asleep at about 8 am, so Michael and I fell back to sleep too
- we ended up sleeping til 11. Then we got up and accomplished
something: putting up the border in Jacob's room. Then we tried to go out
to dinner unsuccessfully (they quoted us a 15 minute wait, then said
another 15, then said another 15 so we left and went to the grocery store
and did some shopping); then we came home and went to bed.
It was quite the worst weekend I've had in some time. Today is so much
better. I plan to make chicken paprikas - I have two kinds of imported
paprika. I got an email from my brother which was at least civil and which
acknowledged that I have feelings. And I saw the "all your base are belong
to us" video/slide show thing, it was quite amusing.
-h.
--
hillary israeli vmd http://www.hillary.net in...@hillary.net
"uber vaccae in quattuor partes divisum est."
newly minted veterinarian-at-large :)
Donna
> Things are going ok here today. I debated whether or not to post a
> "weekend update" sort of thing - I don't want to be seen as a
> whiner....but I'm going to go for it.
I know the feeling (about not wanting to seem whiny) - I frequently complain
about my work to my folks when they call to chat, and recently after
detailing a
particularily ludicrous encounter they came back with a "Do you get out
much?
We think you're focusing too much on this." ;) Sort of a "don't cry wolf"
lesson.
I complained too much about the small annoyances, so when a doozie came
along, they were sort of numb to it's extreme nature. But back to you, no -
you
don't come across badly, just understandably frustrated. Sigh.
> ... I got an email from my brother which was at least civil and which
> acknowledged that I have feelings.
If the civility drops again, you might want to restrict your interactions
with him
to email for a while. Just explain how after having a phone argument with
him,
you'd asked not to discuss him with your mom, resulting in her calling him
and
his calling and yelling at you some more - all of which worked you up and
upset
your son. Given how protective he is of his wife's stance in all this (I'm
ignoring
whether she's right or wrong for the purpose of this post ;) he should
understand
how you need to insulate your son from the afteraffects of your
disagreements.
Sending good vibes for grandmom-in-law and best wishes for calm, even if not
perfect, interactions with family. :)
donna
san...@socrates.berkeley.edu
It started early on Friday afternoon -- we went to the law office to
sign closing docs, only to find the Wells Fargo closing officer
had messed up again. Grrrr. I was able to finagle some additional
clarifying documents for inclusion, should an argument about intent
ever come up, so we signed away our life. Gulp.
DH was totally stressed afterwards, so we took half an hour to
chill in a local park, and then he wanted to go home and blow
things up on video. I, on the other hand, needed some retail therapy.
So I went to check out car stereos, since I need to replace my
prior one. My faceplate got lost 15 months ago, and I've decided
it's about time to replace it with my overtime check from the old
job.
Eeek. In dash CD changers are running $500-$800! I could get a
single CD player, but I really like a changer for long drives
to visit the family. I had seen an Alpine in dash model, that
held 3 CDs, but it's now apparently discontinued (2 months after
I saw it. Grrr). So, no decision made, but I also had an ice cream
and bought 2 books, so it wasn't a total loss. :^)
Saturday I spent with a good friend, who wanted to celebrate
my new job. Out to breakfast, which included scrumptious pumpkin
pancakes. Mmmmm. Then off to the Spa Chair, and a pedicure
(so my feet look good for the Third Annual Girly Weekend in San
Diego). Then off to Nordstrom's for some browsing of their Shoe Sale,
where I found a fun pair of DKNY shoes at 35% off. I couldn't find
an acceptable purse at Macy's or Nordstrom's. Nice light lunch,
followed by a small frozen yogurt. Then home to DH, and a nice
evening with each other.
Yesterday DH went flying from 10-5, so I wandered again. Read
the paper thoroughly, then went out for a late lunch, and in search
of summer sandals. I found two pair at Payless, where they're
running a "buy one, second pair 1/2 off" sale. Bought some
chocolate and Cheetos, every woman's favorite weekend snack food.
Then another evening at home, watching a movie on the new dish,
and then our Sunday Fox lineup.
We're learning to shelter the house for the weekend, and leave the
stressful things for M-F. Today it's back to the d*mn business
details, and dealing with that stupid woman. Ugh.
Sandi
Lynn
> Bought some
> chocolate and Cheetos, every woman's favorite weekend snack food.
I had to read this twice to make sure I really was reading it right!
Saturday, after the DMV ordeal, this is exactly what I bought for
munchies as we were driving to our next stop. Oh and also some Robin's
Eggs, can't forget those. (Calories in Easter goodies shouldn't count.)
Arvid laughs at me when I tell him that it's an art to be able to eat
Cheetos at the computer and not end up with an orange keyboard! :)
Leslie Deak
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Jocelyn wrote:
> Sunday morning we slept in, had breakfast with MIL and then headed back to
> civilization. We got home around 4 PM, had an early dinner, and watched
> "The Mummy", which was not very good.
I thought it was just funny enough to keep me amused. I liked it better
than "Mission Impossible 2" which we watched this weekend. That whoe thing
was just ridiculous.
> Then we caught up on the NCAA scores
> (I am doing *so* badly in my pools) and went to bed.
I resign myself to the loss of that $5 a bracket at the beginning of the
tourney. My claims to fame so far are: Hampton over Iowa (I'm now Leslie
Hampton Deak in one pool), Gonzaga in the sweet 16, and PSU over UNC
(anyone else notice they were just playing uninspired basketball for the
last month?). I'm still getting my butt kicked, though not as badly as my
buddy who picked Texas for the Final Four. I've been pleased with the
astonishing number of close games this year, and am looking forward to a
strong Duke finish. <g>
-Leslie
Karen Simmons
> "The Mummy", which was not very good.
Oh, we loved The Mummy - in fact are awaiting The Mummy's Return, due
out May 2nd! My office manager has a HUGE crush on Brendan Frasier, so
it's mandatory that I see it with her, and then again with Kevin and our
Friday night "date couple".
I just thought it was so "Indiana Jones" in style - purely fun action
and camp.
Karen
Leslie Deak
On 19 Mar 2001, Hillary Israeli wrote:
> grandpa-in-law, who has Alzheimers, so it was a big mess for the family,
> all else aside. Anyway, we spent some time there (not the most fun, sad to
> say) and then went home.
Man. Hope she feels better soon, and that the family can pull together
despite this stressor.
> called him and reamed him out. It turned into a whole re-hashing of
> everything to do with their w*dding and my brother told me he basically is
> on his wife's "side" as it were, and I should just get over it (he also
> said I should not bother trying to communicate with her as she's not
> interested....).
Man. This sounds hard. I don't have any advice, but rather, a vent. I sent
BIL and FSIL a nice package with some "massage goodies" about 4 weeks ago,
and haven't heard anything about it. I don't expect a huge song and dance,
but a quick e-mail letting me know they've received it would be nice. And
it's not the first time they've ignored stuff we sent. Perhaps I should
give up? On top of that, they forgot my birthday. Again. For the third
year in a row. BIL called on Saturday and said they'd send a gift. I don't
need a gift--a cute e-mail would be fine. And THEN, they're planning their
w* for early September, after getting engaged right before our w* in early
September. I'm happy to share our wedded bliss with them, and think Sept
is a great time for a w*, but all these things combine to make me think
that they're just a little too self-involved sometimes. Could they
*possibly* look around and notice other people? (Oh yeah, they're the same
ones who opened our Christmas gifts early without us there.) Um, hello?
Okay, rant off. Back to Hillary.
> It was quite the worst weekend I've had in some time. Today is so much
> better. I plan to make chicken paprikas - I have two kinds of imported
> paprika.
Man, I can't imagine trying to calm a stressed baby while I'm stressed,
too. I hope you're both back to normal. I like to cook when I'm stressed
because it gives me a sense of control over something. I can create one
sense of order in my life, while everything else is whirling around me.
> I got an email from my brother which was at least civil and which
> acknowledged that I have feelings. And I saw the "all your base are belong
> to us" video/slide show thing, it was quite amusing.
I'm glad there's an olive branch, even though you might want to shove it
elsewhere. <g> I find that the above mentioned problems with BIL seem to
create the same fight with DH over and over, and I've tried to let it go,
but it does help when DH at least acknowledges that my feelings are
slighly valid, though he doesn't agree. This doesn't mean he's on my side
(which is what your brother seems to be saying to you). But it helps.
Okay. I'll shut up now.
Okay, where do I find this "all your base" thing?
-Leslie
Hillary Israeli
Leslie Deak <ld...@me1.egr.duke.edu> wrote:
*
*Okay, where do I find this "all your base" thing?
tee hee.
http://www.planetstarseige.com/allyourbase/index.html
Check out the "story" "intro" and "video" links. Too funny.
Jocelyn
Leslie Deak <ld...@me1.egr.duke.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Jocelyn wrote:
>
> > Sunday morning we slept in, had breakfast with MIL and then headed back
to
> > civilization. We got home around 4 PM, had an early dinner, and watched
> > "The Mummy", which was not very good.
>
> I thought it was just funny enough to keep me amused. I liked it better
> than "Mission Impossible 2" which we watched this weekend. That whoe thing
> was just ridiculous.
Well, I shouldn't say it wasn't very good - I *was* amused by it (and
Brendan Fraser's got very pretty eyes). I just thought it could have been
better, if only they'd decided whether they wanted it to be campy or
serious. The extra DVD stuff was interesting, though. I can't say I've
had any burning desire to see MI 2, but it sounds like I should avoid it
altogether.
>
> > Then we caught up on the NCAA scores
> > (I am doing *so* badly in my pools) and went to bed.
>
> I resign myself to the loss of that $5 a bracket at the beginning of the
> tourney. My claims to fame so far are: Hampton over Iowa (I'm now Leslie
> Hampton Deak in one pool), Gonzaga in the sweet 16, and PSU over UNC
> (anyone else notice they were just playing uninspired basketball for the
> last month?). I'm still getting my butt kicked, though not as badly as my
> buddy who picked Texas for the Final Four. I've been pleased with the
> astonishing number of close games this year, and am looking forward to a
> strong Duke finish. <g>
Heh heh - my boss had Iowa State *and* Providence in the final four (in
fact, he originally had Providence going to the big dance, but changed it at
the last second). Of course, I can't laugh too hard, having lost four of my
Elite Eight. ;-)
Leslie Deak
On 19 Mar 2001, Hillary Israeli wrote:
> *Okay, where do I find this "all your base" thing?
>
> tee hee.
> http://www.planetstarseige.com/allyourbase/index.html
>
> Check out the "story" "intro" and "video" links. Too funny.
Man, the video is just too much. I wish I had a T1 line at home to show
DH! That's hilarious.
-Leslie
Hillary Israeli
*
*On 19 Mar 2001, Hillary Israeli wrote:
*
*> *Okay, where do I find this "all your base" thing?
*>
*> tee hee.
*> http://www.planetstarseige.com/allyourbase/index.html
*>
*> Check out the "story" "intro" and "video" links. Too funny.
*
*Man, the video is just too much. I wish I had a T1 line at home to show
*DH! That's hilarious.
I know. It really really cracked me up :)
Jan A. Cordes
Hillary,
I'm sorry to hear you had such a funky weekend. Hopefully, today will
continue to be better.
Jan
P.S. Care to share that Chicken Paprikas recipe? I've been looking
for a good one. A LEBF used to make it and I never managed to
get the recipe from him.
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last few weeks, but haven't been able to post much.
On Friday evening, Arpan had a friend - Kavi, come over to play. They are in
the same class at daycare. Kavi's parents were going to a show that night, so
we said we would gladly take care of Kavi. We knew that having Kavi over
meant having some time for ourselves - Arpan and Kavi get along very well and
they can play without much adult supervision for almost half an hour at a
stretch. So the boys had dinner and then off they went to Arpan's room to
play. We enjoyed our quiet dinner - we were commenting how strange it felt to
be just two of us at the dining table. After dinner, DH went off to play with
the boys while I puttered around the house, called my parents in India. Then
we all played trains together. :-) By 9pm, the boys were really tired and
getting a little bit cranky, so I took them to bed and read them *lots* of
Thomas the Tank Engine stories. Kavi fell asleep very quickly, but my little
one stayed awake till Kavi's parents came at 11:30pm to pick him. Arpan was
*so* worried that Kavi's parents had abandoned him. I explained to him that
they had gone to see a play and that they would be back for Kavi, but I guess
he did not believe me. Because when Kavi's mom and I went upstairs at 11:30,
we saw Arpan wide awake, hugging his blanket and sucking his thumb. :-) (Yes
my 33 month old still sucks his thumb and needs his blanket - incidentally we
first saw him sucking his thumb when I had my ultrasound at 7 months
pregnant).
The rest of the weekend was very productive, we finally got all the ceiling
fans installed (we got someone to do it for us), cleared up a lot of boxes,
put up some pictures, organized Arpan's room, I sewed a valance for the
window in Arpan's room (I got this really cute fabric with trains on them). I
still need to put up a few more pictures in his room, but will do it this
week. I've also been thinking of buying some chalkboard paint and putting up
a chalkboard space in his room - has anyone done this before? Any comments?
Is it better to buy a chalkboard or to paint one on the wall?
On Sunday, we had friends over for lunch. It was nice to see everybody again.
Everyone enjoyed the food. I had made dum aloo (a potato dish) and shrimp
malai curry on Saturday. On Sunday I made pulao and some roti. And Nilanjan
picked up chicken curry and some a nice paneer dish from our local Indian
restaurant. So there was lots of food and everyone had a great time. There is
lots leftover too and I am very happy since that means no cooking for the
next few days. :-) They all left around 4pm, Arpan took a nap and we just sat
around and had nice tea (Indian Chai). In the evening, we watched 60 minutes
(we always watch this show) and of course our favorite lawyer show - The
Practice. And then it was bedtime and it is already Monday afternoon now.
I'm sorry I've been unable to post as much as I would like to, things were too
hectic around here... but hopefully this calm will continue for sometime, and
you will see my posts appearing again.
Medha
mie...@iwon.com.nospam
>Saturday I spent with a good friend, who wanted to celebrate
>my new job. Out to breakfast, which included scrumptious pumpkin
>pancakes. Mmmmm. Then off to the Spa Chair, and a pedicure
>(so my feet look good for the Third Annual Girly Weekend in San
>Diego).
Now that sounds fun. When are you coming down? Where are you staying? Do you
need some ideas for restraunts? What do you do on your Girly weekends?
Let me know if you need any tips, help, or anything, I'd be glad to help. I
know you'll be too busy to meet up, but I'd love to help with ideas!
Vicky Larmour
wrote:
>Ours was a busy one.
You said it!
Ours was a bit different from usual too. On Saturday we were both
signed up for a bicycle maintenance class at one of the local
community colleges. My PILs had signed DH up for it as a birthday
present and then it turned out the organisers needed one more person
to get the minimum number of people required for the course, so I
signed up too. We spent the whole day (10am - 6pm) working on our
bikes with the tutor helping and explaining what to do at each stage.
It was very interesting and useful and cycling home on our newly
serviced bikes was like a dream! We spent Saturday evening chilling
out with a video (some Babylon 5 that a colleague of DH's is lending
us) and an Indian takeaway. When DH saw how much food I brought home
from the Indian he asked me how many other people were joining us,
and then we ate all the food between us with only a tiny bit left
over (hey, we were hungry from all the bike work :-))
Sunday we slept in late and then did a huge heap of chores - sorted
out all the stuff that had been languishing on the table since we got
back from skiing, finally acted on the financial advice that we got
back in early February, etc etc etc. Productive but not very
exciting.
And now it's Monday and back to work!
Vicky
san...@socrates.berkeley.edu
>In article <995lqr$d4v$1...@agate.berkeley.edu>, san...@socrates.Berkeley.EDU () wrote:
>
>>Saturday I spent with a good friend, who wanted to celebrate
>>my new job. Out to breakfast, which included scrumptious pumpkin
>>pancakes. Mmmmm. Then off to the Spa Chair, and a pedicure
>>(so my feet look good for the Third Annual Girly Weekend in San
>>Diego).
>
>Now that sounds fun.
It is. :^) It started a couple of years ago so my sis, my mom and
I could have girly time together without the menfolk and cooking.
We've had it twice here in the Bay Area, where you can find some very
inexpensive (yet pampering) things to do. We typically get a manicure/pedicure
at a local salon ($26 including spa chair!), a massage ($25/hour at the
local massage teaching school), and once we gifted my mom a killer facial
(she doesn't like massages) and she was so relaxed afterwards that she
could barely walk. We also fit in some simple cooking, out to dinner,
and a trip of some sort -- last year we tried lunch on the Napa Valley
Wine Train, and spent some quality time in a local used music/bookstore.
Makeup and thrift stores also usually make an appearance. Heaven.
>When are you coming down? Where are you staying?
We're down March 30-Apr 2. and are staying at a hotel on hotel
circle drive.
>Do you need some ideas for restraunts?
Sure, restaurants and shopping are always good things. I think Friday
we're having lunch at the Coronado, no clue on Friday dinner.
Saturday morning mom and sis have facials scheduled, while I drive
to Long Beach for my best friend's baby shower. Sat. night we're
having dinner out, and seeing Forever Plaid. Sunday is probably
hang out by the pool day. Monday is probably shopping in the morning,
before I leave at 2-ish or so.
>Let me know if you need any tips, help, or anything, I'd be glad to help. I
>know you'll be too busy to meet up, but I'd love to help with ideas!
I had corresponded with Kellie about maybe meeting up, but time
is tight. Maybe dinner Sunday? Or shopping on Monday? My mom is totally
fine with newsgroup get-togethers; she met several of my online
alt-fashion buddies in 1997, when DH and I were planning the w*dding.
My sister might be a little more hesitant, but how hard can dinner
or shopping be?
Kellie? Whaddya think?
Sandi
Leslie Deak
On 20 Mar 2001 san...@socrates.Berkeley.EDU wrote:
> Sure, restaurants and shopping are always good things. I think Friday
> we're having lunch at the Coronado, no clue on Friday dinner.
Mmm. Coronado sounds nice. I only looked at it from afar, when I got of
teh tourist trolley (I was only there 3 days!) to run to the Pacific,
touch it, and run back in time to catch the next trolley so as not to be
late to meet my boss. We really enjoyed a dinner at Blue Point (Grill, I
think) in teh Gaslamp district. A little pricey, but *very* good.
-Leslie
Jennifer Angliss
Lynn <ly...@inlink.com> wrote in message
news:3AB5A239...@inlink.com...
> Since there's no other posts coming through right now, I thought
> I'd start the weekend update thread.
> pulled over in the car since it would have looked like I stole it.
> Lovely.
Yikes!
We had a pretty good weekend. Ours was fairly busy, too. I had Friday off
and got some odds and ends
done around the house. I also had my first go at making Cornish game hens
for dinner. They had been on sale at Safeway for some ridiculous price, so I
thought I'd experiment. They weren't as tough to prepare as I'd thought
they'd be, but they took a *long* time to cook. The recipe indicated 1hr 10
min, the package indicated 1hr 30 min, they cooked for over 2 hours and
*still* weren't quite done. At that point we were so hungry that we said
"forget it" and just skipped over the parts that weren't quite done.
On Saturday we drove over to our new neighborhood to see what was going on.
Our lot is still just dirt, although there is a fence along the back of it
now (we're on the edge of the development). A couple of lots on the next
street over have their basements dug and one is set up for the foundation to
be poured. One of the secretaries at my school is moving in on that street,
but it didn't look like her house was one of the ones getting started. She
bought her house about 5 weeks before we bought ours, so it looks like it'll
be a while before there is any more action.
After that, we went looking at futons. We want to put a queen-sized futon
bed/couch in our guest room and went to price them out. Fairly reasonable,
although we did find that our favorite futon store had closed the branch
closest to us. Fortunately, their Boulder branch was still open, which is
only about 20 minutes away.
Saturday night we had corned beef and cabbage. Yes, my "no red meat" DH ate
beef. He was even the one who cooked it. It was *very* tasty. I'd never had
it before, so it was a nice treat. We then played a couple of rounds of
"Sorry!" and "Pass the Pigs".
On Sunday afternoon we had DH's parents over to help us finish our corned
beef leftovers (next year we're either making less or having a party!). It
was nice to visit with them for a couple of hours. They also took the
opportunity to tell us yesterday that they are going to give us money for a
freezer when we move into our house. Yay! We are supposed to use any
leftover $ to stock it. Costco, here I come!
Sunday night we went to a surprise birthday party for one of DH's
co-workers. It was a fun little gathering, although the birthday boy was not
surprised (he was tipped off by the "don't come too early" comment).
All in all, busy and fun!
--
Jennifer A. from Colorado
Julie Hauer
>
> Since there's no other posts coming through right now, I thought
>I'd start the weekend update thread.
Boy do I have a lot to catch up on......
Last weekend, Matt and I drove up to New Jersey in order to get a bunch of
things from my parents since they were moving to Florida. However, as of Friday
afternoon, the buyers' appraisal hadn't come through yet. They had applied for a
VA mortgage and the appraisers are notoriously slow. My parents had been forced
to cancel the movers that were scheduled for this past week and things were very
up in the air.
Matt and I had thought we were going up to help my parents pack and to get a
carload of items. We ended up babysitting my nephew most of Saturday because my
brother had brought Kyle with him when he rented a truck to move his items from
my parents' house (he lives in New Jersey near the shore). To be honest, I
wasn't happy about this because he could have left Kyle at home with my SIL
while he did what needed to be done especially since she came to the house later
in the day with my other nephew. We came expecting to help my parents and not to
babysit.
After multiple delays waiting on my SIL and then my brother, we ended up going
out for dinner. SIL really wanted to go to Red Lobster. My husband hates Red
Lobster because he's allergic to shrimp, crab and lobster. Their plain fish and
non-seafood selections have improved lately but still aren't the greatest. We
waited 45 minutes for a table throughout which I was standing since SIL, brother
and kids had the only bench. We were seated and had our salads and drinks as
well as the kids meal that SIl ordered with the drinks but after waiting for
over an hour watching other people seated after us get their meals, we ended up
walking out with no entrees. The kitchen lost the order and neither the waitress
nor the manager was in the least apologetic.
SIl and brother and kids went home. Matt and I treated my parents to dessert at
Ponzios in Cherry Hill. The dog goes out in the backyard, eats his own poop and
vomits it up on the bed that Matt and I are sleeping in. I see this and yack up
my dinner right on top of it. The comforter goes straight into the trash. The
next day, we did a little packing and left for home.
I did some chores around the house on Monday. In a phone call from my mom, I
learn that my brother has developed a double ear infection, bronchitis and
possible pneumonia. Both nephews are sick. Matt is now sick with a bad cold.
Tuesday, Matt stayed home from work and I get a frantic phone call from my
mother around 11 am. She's crying on the other end of the phone because the
appraisal just came in on the house and she was unable to get closing changed
from that Friday morning. She had to call and reschedule the movers. The packers
were arriving that afternoon and all day on Wednesday with the actual movers
coming on Thursday. She desperately needed me to come back to New Jersey to help
her because she had errands to run that had to be done in person and someone had
to be in the house with the packers. My brother has been diagnosed with
pneumonia at this time. My dad is back in Florida and is unable to come back
until Thursday night. I agree to go back to New Jersey feeling terribly guilty
about leaving my husband who is running a fever and looking like death warmed
over. On top of that, this was the first time in almost three years that we'd
been apart for even one night. The last time was the night before we got
married. I know that's not a big deal to most folks here who hae even longer
separations but it was new for us.
I ran around doing laundry so I'd have all four of my maternity outfits ready to
go with me and in the meantime, cooked up a casserole and some other things for
Matt to just warm up in the oven so he wouldn't have to cook while I was away.
He drive me to the Metro and I went to Union Station to take the train to
Philadelphia. My mom picked me up at 30th Street Station adn she looked
absolutely haggard. That night, we stayed in the house. I have cat allergies and
finally figured out why my bedroom still smelled like cats close to a year after
my brother and SIL moved out of my parents house - the cat had kicked litter out
of the box and it was all along the baseboards behind where furniture was until
earlier that morning. I got to sleep finally about 1 a.m. and was up at 5 to the
sound of my mother emptying ice cube trays. It's better than an alarm clock and
I swear, I've never heard anyone empty ice cubes as much as my mom. She's done
this every morning for as long as I can remember. It used to not be quite so
early when I lived there!
Wednesday, I got to watch the movers and help prepare rooms for them to pack. I
was doing a lot of running up and down the stairs. I also got to disassemble the
computers and television hookups. The movers refused to touch the computers
themselves so I was doing some lifting that I shouldn't have - monitors really
are too heavy for me right now but there was no one else there to do it. My mom
was in the meantime running to all of the places that required her to be there
in person to close accounts like the cable company, the water authority, etc.
etc. Everything in the house reeked of smoke. My SIl was supposed to come and
pick up additional items from the house and we waited and waited and waited for
her. I also am hypoglycemic even when I'm not pregnant and I'm supposed to eat
at regular intervals. I had a very light breakfast (toast and juice) about 7 and
we were supposed to go to lunch at 2 when the packers left and I was really
hurting. I was so p.o.'d at my mom when we had to run to send a package and then
to the bank and then we had to go back to the house to check the messages in
case my SIL called to say when she was coming. I was really grouchy because I
was very hungry. Finally, we made it to lunch at 3 and I was not only grouchy
but dizzy and starting to get disoriented. We had lunch at diner and then back
to the house to help SIL load up her minivan with everything ranging from the
Encyclopedia Brittanica to an umbrella stroller to chips ahoy cookies. Mom and I
went to check into the local Hampton Inn and then back to the house to do more
packing of things the packers forgot like the shelves in my dad's closet and in
the hall closet. Finally, we went back to the hotel and off to Friendly's for
dinner. My salad had a hair in it so it went back and it was just awful. I ended
up losing it later that night. At 8:30, my mom went to bed and I was ready to
also except she was snoring and it was horrible like a very large rodent
drowning. I don't need absolute quiet but I couldn't handle this so I went to
the lobby and read "Arabian Jazz" until my eyes wouldn't stay open anymore. Got
back to the roomand felt ill and ended up losing dinner. That woke mom up so I
was able to get to sleep about 11:30 with no underwater rodent noises. At 2:30,
though, all the lights went on in the room because my mom could not sleep and
her nerves were awful. That was that and we were up for the duration.
Thursday was actual moving day. We were at the house about 7 to finish packing
and get things together for the junk man who was taking everything my parents
didn't want. I suggested to my mom that she not park in the driveway since the
house was at the back of a small cul de sac and once the big truck arrived, we'd
be stuck. She pooh poohed that and parked in the driveway. The big truck came
and we were stuck :) Not a big deal until later. We had a small mishap moving a
very lightweight hutch. It wasn't heavy at all but was too bulky for one person
so I was helping my mom carry it. She decided she had to put it down and twisted
as she laid down her half. What twisted on me was my shoulder where I managed to
seriously pull one of my lats. Not cool. I actually thought I tore it at the
time but lucked out. The movers were great but they were there from 7:30 until a
little after 3. The junk man came and went taking with him all kinds of actual
junk! I couldn't believe that he even had half used rolls of toilet paper on his
truck. If anyone in southern Jersey needs a junk man, let me know and I'll give
you his name. He doesn't even charge you to take stuff away! Today's main
problem (aside from absolute lack of sleep, back spasms and a pulled lat) was
that for breakfast, I was really stupid and had some yogurt and juice at the
hotel. We were stuck at the house with no food all day. At 3:30 (when we could
finally leave the house), my mom had to go to the water authority again to pick
up a certificate stating that the meter was read. I suppose I could have walked
to either McDonalds, Wawa or Gaetano's but I really was not feeling up to it. I
was so lightheaded and was almost blacking out. I used to walk to those places
all of the time when I was in high school but I just couldn't handle it and I
felt so wimpy. Anyway, my mom dropped me at Gaetanos when she went to the Water
Authority. I got a cheesesteak to go (the best in the world - they have the
franchise at Veterans Stadium these days I believe - I know they did as recently
as '99) and finally got to tear into it back at the room around 4. My mom went
to have her hair done. When she returned, we had to drive to Atlantic City in
the rain to pick up my dad at the airport. He looked terrible. He had laryngitis
and a horrid cold at this point. We all got back to the hotel and I got the room
to myself for a good night's sleep while my mom and dad got another room.
Friday morning we were all up at 6 in order to get the car packed up, grab a
light breakfast and had to the house for walkthrough with the buyers. No
problems and then we went to settlement. I spent that time at the nearby Drug
Emporium buying medicine for my dad. Found out that morning that my great Uncle
Herman died during the week. Now, of my grandmother's brothers and sisters, only
one of nine is left (my Aunt Berte). Thenkfully, my parents would be in
Jacksonville in a day or so to see her. We had a quick stop at a local bank to
get a certified check and headed south. I was dropped off at my house in
Virginia while my parents continued onward.
Friday wasn't over yet because my husband comes home, still very sick. He tells
me that the movers were there at 7:15 in the morning dropping off our furniture
from my parents (a 10' sofa, an entertainment unit, coffee table, painting,
children's desk, sewing machine, 4 bookcases, microwave and a full sized
freezer) I also get a phone call from my brother twlling me not to worry but he
has congenital heart failure according to his x-rays for the pneumonia. The dog
eats grass in the back yard and vomits (in the back yard) - the vet says to give
him some cabbage and increase his daily metronidizole dosage and that he needs
some Reglan. The dog takes it so regularly that we keep this in the house. I am
in bed by 9 p.m. and sleep through until 2 on Saturday.
Saturday, I haven't a clue what we did aside from washing my clothes (and our
towels!) because I woke up at 2, took a nap around 4 and was back in bed by 9.
We were supposed to go to a St. Patrick's Day party at my BIL's apartment but we
just weren't up for it.
Sunday, I woke up around noon. I have never been so tired in my life. I took a
late afternoon nap. Went out to dinner and we cleaned the entertainment center
and coffee table. We also vaccuumed and Febreezed the sofa since it reeks. We're
planning to get it reupholstered as soon as possible and that should take care
of the majority of the problem since the cushions will be replaced then too. I
was in bed again, very early.
Today I basically took it easy :) Matt took our "new" cast iron baker's rack out
to the back yard for me. I spray painted it with a fresh coat of rustoleum and
it looks *awesome*. It's living at the base of the stairs in our basement now
where I plan to fill it with cookbooks. That's as close as I can put a bookcase
to the kitchen. I also made a bunch of phone calls about a tub repair (the
porcelain in our hall tub is crazing and we've never used this tub at all),
getting our Smart Tag for the Dulles Toll Road replenished (Matt lost his credit
card at Dave & Busters last month so they needed a new card to be put on file),
making sure my student loan is actually paid off (It is! Less than 10 years from
graduation!), getting Matt's car in for some repairs and a couple of other
nagging little things. I also worked in the basement a bit, unpacking a couple
of boxes full of games and sports equipment. I moved all of the baby things into
the corner where our rough ins for the bath are. It's starting to clean up down
there. Matt also helped me to get the last three boxes out of our closet in our
bedroom. One box went in the trash, one was refilled with things for the
basement (to be unpacked down there - mostly games) and the third was unpacked
with things for our medicine cabinets, etc.
Later this week, BIL is supposed to come over and help us move the freezer (I am
not moving *anything*) and to pick up about a hundred albums my parents are
giving him from the 1960's: artists like Chet Atkins and Steve & Eydie. We also
are expecting an electrician to install our two ceiling fans and the blinds
people (YET AGAIN) to reinstall another defective blind that they removed two
weeks ago. I hate Next Day Blinds. They are very disreputable and they do not
tell the truth or do anything they promise to do.
This was very long and I am very tired and I am going to bed.
Julie (who washes our towels approximately once or twice a week, depending upon
how many times I do laundry - whenever I do jeans, I toss the towels in too)
Leslie Deak
On 19 Mar 2001, Julie Hauer wrote:
> Boy do I have a lot to catch up on......
[snip]
Oh. My. G*d. I'm glad it's over. Eat well, sleep, and be thankful *you're*
not moving anywhere anytime soon. I'm sure your parents were grateful for
your help.
> Julie (who washes our towels approximately once or twice a week, depending upon
> how many times I do laundry - whenever I do jeans, I toss the towels in too)
Stop with the laundry this week. I think you need an *entire* week to
recover from that ordeal.
-Leslie
Hillary Israeli
Julie Hauer <jha...@newsguy.com> wrote:
[list of travails]
ack. sounds awful. I hope you get some rest and relaxation...
Julie Hauer
says...
>Oh. My. G*d. I'm glad it's over. Eat well, sleep, and be thankful *you're*
>not moving anywhere anytime soon. I'm sure your parents were grateful for
>your help.
My parents were so grateful that they are picking up the tab for drop shipping
our furniture to us which was a few hundred dollars.
I'm doing my best to try and eat but most food is still making me sick and I am
not sleeping well (normal from what I hear for this stage of the game). What
Matt and I are trying to do is to finish getting OUR HOUSE unpacked from our
move last fall. I only have one box left in our bedroom and four in the computer
room. Whenever the blinds get replaced, the computer room boxes will be unpacked
since they are books and we have bookcases that go underneath the window with
the missing blind. The box in our bedroom is easy stuff that Matt will help with
tonight. There is a bunch of stuff that needs to have a place found for it in
our extra bedroom but it will mostly go into the morass known as the basement.
We do want to have everything unpacked before the baby comes because we know we
won't have the time or energy or inclination after she is born.
Don't worry - I don't expect to do everything in one day. I'm taking small steps
and not pushing too hard. Matt took all of our cookbooks down to the basement
this morning and I may put them into the bookshelf later today. I have to go
down there anyway to let the dog outside.
>Stop with the laundry this week. I think you need an *entire* week to
>recover from that ordeal.
I only do laundry when I run out of clothes. I only have four outfits and I
refuse to buy any more maternity clothes this time out until it gets good and
warm since everything I own has long sleeves. Laundry is so easy in this house
because our washer and dryer are upstairs where the bedrooms are. There's no
carting of anything up and down the stairs. It's also much easier since I broke
Matt of his habit of using two new towels each and every time he showers. That
happened right after we moved in together and we had to go to a community
laundry room and we were running out of towels twice a week. That's the primary
reason we registered for 12 sets of towels! We still go through them pretty fast
but nothing like that.
Speaking of towels, does nayone have any tips to keep towels from fading? We
have Fieldcrest Royal Velvet towels and have no compaints with our white ones or
the ones in "caribbean" (a bright royal blue) nor the hand me downs in a blush
rose color and a light blue. We registered for some in a peach color (peach
mist, I think) for our guest bath in our previous townhouse which had a very
difficult color scheme (mocha brown fixtures). They were mostly out for show but
the couple I washed (by themselves as I always wash new towels alone the first
time in case of color runs) faded to a light pinkish white. I returned that set
for replacement but the replacements also changed color. Any tips?
Julie
Hillary Israeli
Jan A. Cordes <j...@panix.com> wrote:
*P.S. Care to share that Chicken Paprikas recipe? I've been looking
This is adapted from the March 2001 issue of "Fine Cooking" magazine ("for
people who love to cook" - does anyone know if this magazine is ALWAYS
this good? I got this issue by accident or something, I'm not a
subscriber, but I really like this issue...). The original called for less
chicken and less of everything; I upped the chicken and mussed around with
proportions a little bit because I wanted more veggies and plenty of
sauce. Re: paprika, you can use all hot or all sweet or whatever; most
hungarians have their own preferences and usually use mostly sweet.
1.5 cups low salt canned chicken stock
4 T oil (I used canola)
1 c. chopped onion
5 T sweet paprika (imported, please!!!)
1 T hot paprika (imported again, please!!)
4 lbs chicken parts (I used breasts, thighs, and drumsticks)
salt and fresh ground pepper
1 1/2 large green bell peppers, cored, seeded, and chopped into 1/2 inch
pieces
2 medium-large tomatoes peeled, seeded, and chopped
1 cup sour cream (I actually ended up using a little extra at the end)
2 T flour
Put stock into saucepan, boil and reduce by half.
Heat the oil in skillet or saute pan big enough to snugly hold chicken
parts. Add the onion and cook over high heat, stirring often, until deep
golden brown but not burnt (took about 10 minutes here although the
magazine instructions said 6-8 minutes, then again I used extra onion...)
Reduce heat slightly, add the paprika and stir for a few minutes - this
develops the flavor of the paprika.
Season chicken with salt and pepper and put the pieces in the pan, skin
down. Brown well on medium high heat - I did about 10 min a side and
probably could have gone longer; magazine called for 7 min a side but
recipe was originally for 3 lb of chicken, not four, don't know if having
more chicken in the pan changes it...
Anyway, after chicken is browned on both sides, add the reduced stock to
the pan and scrape up anything stuck to the bottom and stir, stir,
stir. Reduce heat to low, cover pan, and simmer for about 15-20 min. Add
the pepper and tomato. The original recipe suggests adding water if pan
seems dry at this point - my chicken seemed to be swimming, though, so I
didn't add anything. It's also noted that hungarians would say the chicken
should "almost fry instead of 'swim'" - I don't know why my chicken was
swimming :). Replace lid and simmer until very tender - 25 minutes is what
the recipe said - I gave it 40 minutes - and you shoudl turn the chicken
once while cooking.
At this point, I had slight technical difficulty :) involving my son, so I
put the flame down to the lowest lowest possible setting and left it on
there for about an extra half an hour.
Then, remove the chicken from the pan (put in a separate bowl or plate or
whatever). Spoon as much oil from the top of the sauce in the pan as
possible. Boil the sauce for a few minutes to concetrate the flavors. Then
take your flour and whisk it into your sour cream (this stabilizes the
milk proteins so it won't curdle!); then whisk the sour cream into the
sauce. Simmer for about 5 minutes to get rid of any floury taste. Taste,
and add salt/pepper as needed. At this point I added in a little extra hot
paprika, too. Return chicken to pan and heat and coat chicken well with
sauce.
This turned out great. I left it sitting on the stove for about 20 minutes
(no flame) and then spooned off still more oil from the top (I also
blotted the top of the sauce with paper towel to remove oils - really,
that does work, just be careful not to dip into the sauce below the
oil). Then I heated it back up again and we ate it served over wide egg
noodles. You might also serve with boiled potatoes, or for a true
hungarian experience, galushka, or spaetzle-type dumplings.
I served cucumber salad with this:
2 medium cucumbers sliced VERY thin
1 T salt
1/2 small sweet onion, sliced VERY thin
4 t red-wine vinegar
2 T vegetable oil
fresh ground black pepper
3 T fresh dill, chopped fine
put the cucumbers in a colander, sprinkle with 1.5 t salt, toss to
distribute well. put the onion in a separate bowl and sprinkle with the
rest of the salt, and add about 1 t of the vinegar, and mix well. Let
these veggies sit 10-30 min, then rinse them well with cold water, and
drain - blot with paper towels to really dry them. Mix the veggies
together, add the oil, remaining vinegar, and a good grind or two of
pepper, and the dill. Toss it all well. Taste. Adjust vinegar if needed -
frankly, next time I'm going to use at least another teaspoon or possibly
two. Chill for at least 30 min prior to serving.
My husband's maternal grandma is Hungarian (although she was sent to a
concentration camp as a young teenager, and then lived in Austria and then
the US, so she didn't really grow up in Hungary, it is her cooking style),
and my husband tells me my cooking last night was very delicious, and a
good approximation of grandma's cooking :)
Megan
and hit the hay for a couple of hours - I had done the same the night
before as I arrived home from a visit to our warehouse north of
Manchester with a stinking headache - I had cadged a lift with one
of our managers and he unfortunately smokes in the car. Needless to
say I had had difficulty falling asleep due to having slept earlier in
the evening, so I was tired again Friday.
I got up about 9 and phoned my Mum while Neil went out to fetch pizza
from our usual place and some beer from the supermarket from him.
Good news from NZ, my mother was a lot better, having been very
depressed (with the inevitable alcoholic results) the previous weekend
about a meeting with her insurer's doctor. Luckily the doctor agreed
with my mother's doctors that she was seriously depressed and signed
her off for a couple more months - I don't think she is yet strong
enough to go back to work, particularly since re-establishing herself
after so long will not be easy. She has decided to give up her
chambers, partly because of the cost of keeping them up and partly
because she is planning on aiming for a less "high-flying" career when
she does return, so city-centre prestigious premises are less
important.
Mum was heading out with her best friend to buy some plants to
commemorate her best friend's twin grandsons (who I have mentioned
before) who were born and died a year ago this Saturday, so I chatted
a while with my grandmother until Neil came home and we sat and ate
our pizza, watched the box (Comic Relief was on), then headed to bed.
Saturday we had a long lie, though we woke fairly early, just
listening to the radio. I headed out to do some shopping while DH
played about on the computer and did some studying. The evening was
spent watching TV, plus I downloaded a whole lot of New Zealand 80s
hits from Napster (debating the morality of this with myself, I
concluded that most of them I owned on either 7" or tape (but all were
at my mothers) and that they were unavailable any other way these
days). I really enjoyed listening to them and pissed DH off greatly
playing them!
Sunday we did nothing! We stayed home as there was a big football
match on (we are only a short distance from the ground) -
WOlverhampton Wanderers vs West Bromwich Albion - a local derby.
Wolves won. We spent the afternoon listening to the sirens and the
police helicopter above us. Our usual Sunday evening in the pub
didn't happen as the pubs were all shut to prevent problems after the
game.
And that was our weekend.
Megan
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Lille kat, lille kat, lille kat på vejen
Hvis er du, Hvis er du
Jeg er sgu' min egen
- Piet Hein
Leslie Deak
On 19 Mar 2001 me...@nospam.com wrote:
> The rest of the weekend was very productive, we finally got all the ceiling
> fans installed (we got someone to do it for us), cleared up a lot of boxes,
I'm curious as to about how much that cost you. We're going to have to do
the same for a fan in our bedroom--there's no existing overhead fixture,
and there's another unit above us, which takes it out omy realm of DIY
projects.
-Leslie
Ranee Mueller
<Pine.GSO.3.96.101032...@tardis.tardis.ed.ac.uk>,
Hilary <hil...@tardis.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Speaking of towels, does nayone have any tips to keep towels from
> > fading? We have Fieldcrest Royal Velvet towels and have no compaints
> > with our white ones or the ones in "caribbean" (a bright royal blue) nor
> > the hand me downs in a blush rose color and a light blue. We registered
> > for some in a peach color (peach mist, I think) for our guest bath in
> > our previous townhouse which had a very difficult color scheme (mocha
> > brown fixtures). They were mostly out for show but the couple I washed
> > (by themselves as I always wash new towels alone the first time in case
> > of color runs) faded to a light pinkish white. I returned that set for
> > replacement but the replacements also changed color. Any tips?
>
>
> Does your powder contain bleach? That's the only thing I can think of.
> If it's definitely not that, then try rinsing them at a high temperature
> to set the colour better.
It could also just be the chlorine in treated water. Our clothes
faded much faster in OK than in the PNW, because of how water treatment
was.
Regards,
Ranee
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Ranee Mueller
(Hillary Israeli) wrote:
> This is adapted from the March 2001 issue of "Fine Cooking" magazine ("for
> people who love to cook" - does anyone know if this magazine is ALWAYS
> this good? I got this issue by accident or something, I'm not a
> subscriber, but I really like this issue...)
Yes! It and Cook's Illustrated are the best cooking magazines out,
IMO. Cuisine comes next in second place and Saveur sometimes has great
things, sometimes not, Saveur isn't that big on making sure they have
their facts right, though, and that bugs me. Bon Appetit has decent
recipes, but I really don't like how it has changed its editing and the
commercial content. I let my subscription lapse, I can get the recipes
at the website. Gourmet is much like Bon Appetit. The rest are fine,
but not too notable IMO. Fine Cooking, Cook's Illustrated and Cuisine
are the ones I get.
Hillary Israeli
Ranee Mueller <ran...@harbornet.com> wrote:
*
* Yes! It and Cook's Illustrated are the best cooking magazines out,
*IMO. Cuisine comes next in second place and Saveur sometimes has great
*things, sometimes not, Saveur isn't that big on making sure they have
*their facts right, though, and that bugs me. Bon Appetit has decent
*recipes, but I really don't like how it has changed its editing and the
*commercial content. I let my subscription lapse, I can get the recipes
*at the website. Gourmet is much like Bon Appetit. The rest are fine,
*but not too notable IMO. Fine Cooking, Cook's Illustrated and Cuisine
*are the ones I get.
I will have to check out those other two, then. I really like this issue
of Fine Cooking. You should try the chicken paprikas, if you're into that
sort of thing :)
Leslie Deak
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Ranee Mueller wrote:
> Yes! It and Cook's Illustrated are the best cooking magazines out,
Whaddya think of Cooking Light? Cook's Ill seems a bit complicated
somethimes.
-Leslie
Ranee Mueller
Cooking Light: The recipes are often good, the writing doesn't
thrill me. I like that they don't focus on making good recipes lowfat,
but instead focus on good lowfat recipes, if that makes sense. I don't
like it enough to pay for it, but if there's a good recipe from it, well
sure.
I don't often find Cook's Illustrated to be complicated, per se,
though I think they explain things in great detail. Making a peanut
butter sandwich can be written in an extremely detailed way, for
instance.
Jan A. Cordes
Jan
Gretchen Shah
"Julie Hauer" <jha...@newsguy.com> wrote in message
news:9982o...@drn.newsguy.com...
> Speaking of towels, does nayone have any tips to keep towels from fading?
We
> have Fieldcrest Royal Velvet towels and have no compaints with our white
ones or
> the ones in "caribbean" (a bright royal blue) nor the hand me downs in a
blush
> rose color and a light blue. We registered for some in a peach color
(peach
> mist, I think) for our guest bath in our previous townhouse which had a
very
> difficult color scheme (mocha brown fixtures). They were mostly out for
show but
> the couple I washed (by themselves as I always wash new towels alone the
first
> time in case of color runs) faded to a light pinkish white. I returned
that set
> for replacement but the replacements also changed color. Any tips?
>
> Julie
I remember from Consumer Reports that some towels are very susceptible to
fading. I think it was more the navy and forest green colors, though. You
could try washing them with a cup of white vinegar. It's supposed to set
the dye. I've used it on new blue jeans and it does seems to help.
Gretchen (who has those same "Caribbean" Fieldcrest towels)
Rose Bingham
> Gretchen (who has those same "Caribbean" Fieldcrest towels)
Me too! And my mom always said to set the dye with salt. So... maybe a salt
and vinegar wash?? :-) Uh, oh. Now I'm going to be craving those chips.
Rose
Robin
> Thanks for reminding me... my license has had the wrong address for over a
> year, and I really need to remedy that. Last year, Stan cahnged his address
> when he renewed the registration on his car. I figured we'd do the same when
> my car was up for a new registration. Well, wouldn't you know it, we sold my
> car before it was due. Oh well, Stan's car needs to be inspected anyhow, so
> maybe we'll go to DMV together and kill two birds with one stone.
>
We changed our addresses w/ the DMV when we moved a year ago (three
cheers for the VA DMV--you can do it online!) however we didn't get new
licenses we got these chintzy "new address" cards, printed on cardboard,
not laminated, that we're supposed to not lose for four years or however
long our licenses are good for!
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please identify it as such.
Leslie Deak
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Robin wrote:
> We changed our addresses w/ the DMV when we moved a year ago (three
> cheers for the VA DMV--you can do it online!) however we didn't get new
> licenses we got these chintzy "new address" cards, printed on cardboard,
> not laminated, that we're supposed to not lose for four years or however
> long our licenses are good for!
That's what DH has, though I think even calling the paper "card stock" is
generous. I was going to do it online, too, but I managed to
lose my license during the last phase of moving weekend, so I had to get
another one anyways. Found the license a month later in a hidden chamber
in the dryer (I'd stuck it in the back pocket of my shorts while moving).
-Leslie
Leslie Deak
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Ranee Mueller wrote:
> Cooking Light: The recipes are often good, the writing doesn't
> thrill me. I like that they don't focus on making good recipes lowfat,
> but instead focus on good lowfat recipes, if that makes sense. I don't
> like it enough to pay for it, but if there's a good recipe from it, well
> sure.
Yeah, the writing ain't great, but I like the recipes. I always try 4-5
recipes from each issue, and I can count on at least 2 good ones. (Last
night was Peruvian Chicken Soup with peanuts and sweet potatoes--yum!)
> I don't often find Cook's Illustrated to be complicated, per se,
> though I think they explain things in great detail. Making a peanut
> butter sandwich can be written in an extremely detailed way, for
> instance.
I'll have to pick one up to see if my impression's changed. One time, it
just scared me away!
-Leslie
Robin
>*
>* Yes! It and Cook's Illustrated are the best cooking magazines out,
>*IMO. Cuisine comes next in second place and Saveur sometimes has great
>*things, sometimes not, Saveur isn't that big on making sure they have
>*their facts right, though, and that bugs me. Bon Appetit has decent
>*recipes, but I really don't like how it has changed its editing and the
>*commercial content. I let my subscription lapse, I can get the recipes
>*at the website. Gourmet is much like Bon Appetit. The rest are fine,
>*but not too notable IMO. Fine Cooking, Cook's Illustrated and Cuisine
>*are the ones I get.
Fine Cooking and Cook's Illustrated are my favourites, and the only ones I
subscribe to (well, and Kitchen Gardener, but they've discontinued it =(.
Bon Appetit and Gourmet are too focused (IMO) on things other than cooking, like
travel. Ok, it's great that you went to a remote carribean island and while you
were there you had this fabulous fillintheblank that you're now going to give me
the recipe for, but that just doesn't interest me.
What I like is in FC and CI, how they tell you *why* they ended up with the
recipe they did. They typically take a particular item, start with half a dozen
recipes, and then tell you why they went with each element. It makes recipes a
lot easier to alter.
I didn't really like Saveur or Cuisine. One of them prints recipe cards that
duplicate the recipes elsewhere in the magazine. I understand the idea, but it
seems kind of like a waste of space. Plus, they don't include all the details
on the recipe card, so it wouldn't be a reasonable substitute for the full
recipe anyway!
My one complaint with CI is that they keep trying to convince me (and Fiji) to
subscribe. You'll note that I already do. It really irritates me that my
subscription dollars are going into trying to convince me as my alter ego (my
maiden name) and my cat to subscribe to a magazine that I already subscribe to.
Get a computer! Cross-reference addresses!
Ranee Mueller
wrote:
> My one complaint with CI is that they keep trying to convince me (and
> Fiji) to subscribe. You'll note that I already do. It really irritates me that
> my subscription dollars are going into trying to convince me as my alter ego
> (my maiden name) and my cat to subscribe to a magazine that I already
> subscribe to. Get a computer! Cross-reference addresses!
Oh, Sunset did this to me recently. I received a free subscription
to Sunset this year. Last week (after I've been getting it for 4-5
months), I got a card in the mail offering me 3 free months. Maybe I'll
mail it in at the end of this subscription year.
Ranee Mueller
> I didn't really like Saveur or Cuisine. One of them prints recipe cards
> that duplicate the recipes elsewhere in the magazine. I understand the idea,
> but it seems kind of like a waste of space. Plus, they don't include all the
> details on the recipe card, so it wouldn't be a reasonable substitute for the
> full recipe anyway!
I didn't notice recipe cards in either of them. I did see them in
Taste of Home, but didn't pay too much attention there, because not too
many of their recipes interest me. One of the things that _really_ bugs
me about Saveur (besides being factually impaired, their "falafel" was a
joke from article research to recipe) is that it's like the editor has
stopped taking ritalin or something. Too, I don't know, MTV, music
video, ADD, everything is so saturated with different images, text, etc.
Drives me crazy.
Robin
I really like the "how and why" that FC and CI focus on. That said, I
am swayed into picking up a CL every now and again, especially that
issue on lemon!
Robin
> Me too! And my mom always said to set the dye with salt. So... maybe a salt
> and vinegar wash?? :-) Uh, oh. Now I'm going to be craving those chips.
>
here that I like (Cape Cod and something else... Kettle Chips?) and none
of the grocery stores I've been to recently have had them.
Now I have a *serious* craving, and may actually have to go to an out of
the way grocery on my way home tomorrow.
Evil.
Robin
> Eeek. In dash CD changers are running $500-$800! I could get a
> single CD player, but I really like a changer for long drives
> to visit the family. I had seen an Alpine in dash model, that
> held 3 CDs, but it's now apparently discontinued (2 months after
> I saw it. Grrr). So, no decision made, but I also had an ice cream
> and bought 2 books, so it wasn't a total loss. :^)
>
Is there a reason you need an in-dash changer? I have an alpine 6 disk
"external" changer and it's great. I'd think they're less expensive
than the in-dash changers, but since I'm too lazy to go pick up my
crutchfield catalog I can't be sure =)
Jennifer
We
> have Fieldcrest Royal Velvet towels and have no compaints with our white
ones or
> the ones in "caribbean" (a bright royal blue) nor the hand me downs in a
blush
> rose color and a light blue.
No tips, but we have the caribbean ones too :-) Glad they don't fade! And
please do rest...you're weekends are exhausting me and I'm not about to
sprout a child!
- Jennifer in Delaware
Rose Bingham
>You're evil. Pure evil. There are only two brands of S&V chips around
>here that I like (Cape Cod and something else... Kettle Chips?) and none
>of the grocery stores I've been to recently have had them.
>
>Now I have a *serious* craving, and may actually have to go to an out of
>the way grocery on my way home tomorrow.
>
>Evil.
Oh. Sorry. <EG> I'm not craving too badly. My latest thing is A&W
Root Beer. I am thinking of running to the supermarket right now for
some. But then I'd probably have to get some vanilla ice cream too
and make a float.
I don't even know if my supermarket has S&V chips of any kind (and
when I get that craving I just have to settle for what I can get.
Beggars and choosers and all that.)
Rose
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Lynn
> Oh. Sorry. <EG> I'm not craving too badly. My latest thing is A&W
> Root Beer. I am thinking of running to the supermarket right now for
> some. But then I'd probably have to get some vanilla ice cream too
> and make a float.
OOOhhhh, it's my latest "thing" too. I picked up a 12 pack of diet
A&W on the spur of the moment last Sunday and I'm loving it! It tastes
great and no "diet" aftertaste. I loved the old A&W drive-ins, the
things in the malls these days are a poor substitute.
Lynn
--
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Jennifer
Ranee Mueller <ran...@harbornet.com> wrote in message
news:raneem-07E1F4....@news.harbornet.com...
> In article <slrn9bf9i7....@manx.misty.com>, hil...@hillary.net
> (Hillary Israeli) wrote:
>
> > This is adapted from the March 2001 issue of "Fine Cooking" magazine
("for
> > people who love to cook" - does anyone know if this magazine is ALWAYS
> > this good? I got this issue by accident or something, I'm not a
> > subscriber, but I really like this issue...)
>
> Yes! It and Cook's Illustrated are the best cooking magazines out,
> IMO.
I love Cook's Illustrated. We got it as a present this year, and it
satifies my scientist husband who likes the detail, and me, who isn't quite
as detail oriented but still enjoys the comparisons. I think the writing is
excellent and a lot of fun. I haven't had too much time to experiment, but
I really like how they dissect simple recipes to make them better....like
the spaghetti with olive oil and garlic one. Yum.
Ranee, what do you think of Food and Wine? I've subscribed off and
on...sometimes I find good recipes, although we totally botched the falafel
we made from there. It mostly makes me want to have time to throw elaborate
dinner parties.
- Jennifer in Delaware
Sara-anne
>> somethimes.
We got a Cooking Light cookbook (the Best of Cooking Light or something like
that) as a w* present. We love it! Everything we've made from it so far has
been pretty simple and very yummy! We've made the Greek Spaghetti several
times.
Sara
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Hillary Israeli
Robin <rob...@softhome.net> wrote:
*On 19 Mar 2001 19:14:35 GMT, san...@socrates.Berkeley.EDU wrote...
*> Eeek. In dash CD changers are running $500-$800! I could get a
*> single CD player, but I really like a changer for long drives
*> to visit the family. I had seen an Alpine in dash model, that
*> held 3 CDs, but it's now apparently discontinued (2 months after
*> I saw it. Grrr). So, no decision made, but I also had an ice cream
*> and bought 2 books, so it wasn't a total loss. :^)
*>
*Is there a reason you need an in-dash changer? I have an alpine 6 disk
*"external" changer and it's great. I'd think they're less expensive
*than the in-dash changers, but since I'm too lazy to go pick up my
*crutchfield catalog I can't be sure =)
If you're too lazy to pick up a catalog, surely you're too lazy to go
around to the trunk to swap CDs? I know I am.
Geri
>>> Whaddya think of Cooking Light? Cook's Ill seems a bit complicated
>>> somethimes.
>
>We got a Cooking Light cookbook (the Best of Cooking Light or something like
>that) as a w* present. We love it! Everything we've made from it so far has
>been pretty simple and very yummy! We've made the Greek Spaghetti several
>times.
I agree...well, about CL the magazine anyway (I don't have the
cookbook). I got a trial issue of CL and thought, "Eww...tasteless
diet food," but I was pleasantly surprised by the content so I
subscribed. I find them not psychotically low-fat (i.e. not to the
point that it usually ruins food) and with a decent focus on general
healthy living (as a former employee of several popular magazines, I
can honestly say this is something that is woefully absent from most
of them.) Now that I'm living with Mr.
"Gotta-Lose-Some-Weight-but-Don't-Wanna-Give-Up-Food," it's coming in
handy.
When I'm in Food Snob mode and want to delve deep into the mysteries
of something, CL is not where I go. But for everyday chow, it can be
helpful. ;-)
Josie Morgan
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Robin
>
>In <MPG.152303e2e...@news.newsguy.com>,
>Robin <rob...@softhome.net> wrote:
>
>*Is there a reason you need an in-dash changer? I have an alpine 6 disk
>*"external" changer and it's great. I'd think they're less expensive
>*than the in-dash changers, but since I'm too lazy to go pick up my
>*crutchfield catalog I can't be sure =)
>
>If you're too lazy to pick up a catalog, surely you're too lazy to go
>around to the trunk to swap CDs? I know I am.
That's the great thing about the 6 disks (or better yet, 10!) you don't have to
switch them very often! Besides, I have mine within reach of the front seat.
Julie Hauer
>My one complaint with CI is that they keep trying to convince me (and Fiji) to
>subscribe. You'll note that I already do. It really irritates me that my
>subscription dollars are going into trying to convince me as my alter ego (my
>maiden name) and my cat to subscribe to a magazine that I already subscribe to.
>Get a computer! Cross-reference addresses!
My complaint with Cooks Illustrated is with their end of the year compilation
which has all of the year's issues in a hardbound edition. For some reason, I'm
on their mailing list to receive this each year and I've never ordered one from
them! I don't like being sent things in the mail unsolicited. I know legally you
can keep it but they claim I ordered it. I usually just mark the box return to
sender and take it back to the post office (pain in the neck since it's too
heavy to drop in the box and you have to wait in line because of security
issues). This year, we moved so the box was forwarded. I didn't know what it was
so I ended up paying postage due on it to find out that it was yet another
hardbound edition. I called up Cooks Illustrated and complained about it. They
said I had to pay for it since it was opened. I said no. They sent me to
Collections! I ended up buying it just to get them out of my hair but I really
resent it.
Because of that, I did not renew my subscription. Love the recipes but I don't
need the marketing department at all. I'll buy the magazine at the bookstore if
I remember to do so.
Julie (who just received an invitation to buy the same hardbound edition of the
2000 Cooks Illustrated book in the mail yesterday and I'd get a free mini
kitchen radio for doing so)
Julie Hauer
>I remember from Consumer Reports that some towels are very susceptible to
>fading. I think it was more the navy and forest green colors, though. You
>could try washing them with a cup of white vinegar. It's supposed to set
>the dye. I've used it on new blue jeans and it does seems to help.
>
>Gretchen (who has those same "Caribbean" Fieldcrest towels)
I'm willing to give it a shot. I find it so interesting that the dark color
(Caribbean) isn't fading at all but the light peach ones did. We don't use
bleach on anything around here although my husband did use one of the Caribbean
towels to wipe up some Tilex. That one has bright pink blotches on it :)
Julie (currently just using Wisk)
Julie Hauer
>> Gretchen (who has those same "Caribbean" Fieldcrest towels)
>
>Me too! And my mom always said to set the dye with salt. So... maybe a salt
>and vinegar wash?? :-) Uh, oh. Now I'm going to be craving those chips.
Bad Rose! I'm trying as hard as I can to stay away from salt now because I'm so
puffy with water retention. Now you've got me craving those chips too!
Btw, thanks for the realtor suggestions which I forwarded on to my dad. I tried
to reply through e-mail but my mail server wasn't haven't anything to do with
that :(
Julie
Leslie Deak
On 22 Mar 2001, Sara-anne wrote:
> We got a Cooking Light cookbook (the Best of Cooking Light or something like
> that) as a w* present. We love it! Everything we've made from it so far has
> been pretty simple and very yummy! We've made the Greek Spaghetti several
> times.
I just bought that book, 'cause everything I've made from their "best-of"
series has been great. I haven't used it yet, but I'm sure as soon as I
get a chance, I'll page through it.
-Leslie
Leslie Deak
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Geri wrote:
> cookbook). I got a trial issue of CL and thought, "Eww...tasteless
> diet food," but I was pleasantly surprised by the content so I
I have only made one recipe from CL that was bland and yucky 'cause it was
low-fat (the applesauce choc chip cookies from Feb, I think). Blech. They
were okay as a "sweet" item, but if you were expecting chocolate chip
cookies, you were sorely disappointed. The other recipes I haven't liked
were just 'cause I didn't like 'em, not because they were lowfat.
I generally like them because I know I can pretty much cook safe meals out
of the mag and not worry about the "sin factor." As someone who's not on
the slender side (along with a family history of heart disease, high BP,
and cancer), any little bit helps.
-Leslie
Ranee Mueller
<rob...@softhome.net> wrote:
> You're evil. Pure evil. There are only two brands of S&V chips around
> here that I like (Cape Cod and something else... Kettle Chips?) and none
> of the grocery stores I've been to recently have had them.
My favorites are Kettle Chips and Tim's Cascade. Both local to the
PNW. :) Kettle chips are made outside of Albany, in OR and Tim's are
made here in WA. The blue corn chips made by Kettle are also wonderful.
Regards,
Ranee (who just found Emerald Valley Salsa in the Organic section!!!)
Ranee Mueller
<DROPbing...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I don't even know if my supermarket has S&V chips of any kind (and
> when I get that craving I just have to settle for what I can get.
> Beggars and choosers and all that.)
Make a request for Kettle, Tim's Cascade, even Nalley chips. They
all have S&V. I remember us discussing this a couple years ago. I
think it's weird that they seem so hard to get in some places. Those
were three local companies just off the top of my head, but none of them
is a small company. They distribute around the country.
Regards,
Ranee
Ranee Mueller
<jpo...@imagiware.com> wrote:
> Ranee, what do you think of Food and Wine? I've subscribed off and
> on...sometimes I find good recipes, although we totally botched the
> falafel we made from there. It mostly makes me want to have time to throw
> elaborate dinner parties.
I haven't looked at it in a long time. It was nice enough, then, but
again, I didn't really like the layout and the recipes seemed to be more
about impressive fuss than eating well. It's not that I'm intimidated
by a long list of ingredients, or complicated method, but sometimes it
seems like people just want to make things seem longer/more difficult,
just because. They call it innovation, I think it's just pretentious
garbage. When those methods or ingredient lists are necessary and
important to the finished product, they are wonderful, when they're just
thrown in there to impress, the finished product tends to be less than
desireable. I like the dinner party articles, though, I even liked the
pod people articles in BA, because I like the table setting, wine
pairings, etc. I almost never run a dinner party the way the pod people
do, but I like to take ideas from them.
Ranee Mueller
(Josie Morgan) wrote:
If I bought 5 of those products, I'd already have paid for 2
subscriptions. :) It's not a bad deal, though, if you already buy
those things. We don't usually.
There's a magazine web site which will let you try out a magazine for
3(?) months before charging you. If you like it, you can keep it and
they'll charge your card, if not, you can cancel. That's how I got to
see some that looked interesting first hand. I can't remember the
website, though.
Ranee Mueller
wrote:
> I loved the old A&W drive-ins, the
> things in the malls these days are a poor substitute.
We have one, I think in Port Orchard. I keep wanting to go, but we
never do.
aMAZon
Ranee Mueller wrote:
>
> In article <MPG.1523047f4...@news.newsguy.com>, Robin
> <rob...@softhome.net> wrote:
>
> > You're evil. Pure evil. There are only two brands of S&V chips around
> > here that I like (Cape Cod and something else... Kettle Chips?) and none
> > of the grocery stores I've been to recently have had them.
>
> My favorites are Kettle Chips and Tim's Cascade. Both local to the
> PNW. :) Kettle chips are made outside of Albany, in OR and Tim's are
> made here in WA. The blue corn chips made by Kettle are also wonderful.
I perked up when I read Albany, but then realized it's not
the one Ranee mentioned.
However, accoding to legend, it *was* in Saratoga Springs that potato
chips were invented. I don't know the important characters, but the
way I heard it, there was one very picky diner at one of the grand
hotels of the era (late 1800's?). He wanted fried potatoes, and wanted
them thin. The diner kept sending them back, saying they weren't
thin enough. The chef got annoyed, sliced the potatoes very, very
thin and fried them up.
The rest is history.
--
aMAZon
zesz...@worldnet.att.net
"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
san...@socrates.berkeley.edu
Robin <rob...@softhome.net> wrote:
>On 19 Mar 2001 19:14:35 GMT, san...@socrates.Berkeley.EDU wrote...
>> Eeek. In dash CD changers are running $500-$800! I could get a
>> single CD player, but I really like a changer for long drives
>> to visit the family. I had seen an Alpine in dash model, that
>> held 3 CDs, but it's now apparently discontinued (2 months after
>> I saw it. Grrr). So, no decision made, but I also had an ice cream
>> and bought 2 books, so it wasn't a total loss. :^)
>>
>Is there a reason you need an in-dash changer? I have an alpine 6 disk
>"external" changer and it's great. I'd think they're less expensive
>than the in-dash changers, but since I'm too lazy to go pick up my
>crutchfield catalog I can't be sure =)
Robin, you're right, they are cheaper if they're not in-dash. I
currently have one under the passenger seat, and it's been kicked
to death by anyone riding in the back seat.
I also tweaked my back a couple of times, torquing and twisting
to reach the cartridge under the seat. Add to that it's not at all
easy to change or update it while driving, and an in-dash seems
like a reasonable thing to think about....
Sandi
Jan A. Cordes
book/magazine. I just bought Cooking Light software to put on the
computer. It has something like 6 Cooking Light cookbooks on it.
It also comes with a coupon for a free subscription to Cooking Light.
Guess I'll take them up on that freebie now.
Jan
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Shawn & Joy Pennington
I've posted any kind of update in a long time. Two weeks ago this Saturday,
my brother came from Daytona for a visit. It was kind of cool having him
around, and even better that there is somebody in my family that seems to
like me :-) Plus, DH was home, so we set to work! DH & Bill (brother) took
the old tile off of the fireplace and put some new stuff up. It was loud,
messy, and took forever, but it looks great!! We also got some dirt
delivered and began filling the pond in our side yard, but we have quite a
ways to go. Plus, we spackled, sanded, and primed the dining
room...although we still have another round of primer before we can paint,
as it was *dark* green. I'm so excited, my home is starting to look like
a house!
I've also started taking Pilates on Saturday and I'm trying to dance during
the week, but that doesn't always work. We're overloaded at work, and I
find myself with stress headaches and not wanting to go to dance (like
tonight). Plus, I've been kind of emotional this week. I haven't posted
about this, but my mom and I aren't speaking right now. It happened in
February when I went home for DH's concert. Things were typical, and I just
decided I wasn't going to be verbally abused anymore. I didn't tell
anybody, I just got on a plane and came home. It was probably the hardest
thing I've ever done...and it continues to be difficult, not only for the
obvious, but because nobody minds their own business. I hear from all kinds
of sources how terrible I am...usually I can blow it off, but for some
reason, it's been tough this week.
Anyway, I guarantee that I'm thinking of all of you often & even lurking,
although I may not be posting much. I'm here :-)
Joy
Lynn wrote in message <3AB5A239...@inlink.com>...
> Since there's no other posts coming through right now, I thought
>I'd start the weekend update thread.
> Ours was a busy one. We got up early and headed out to the Dept.
>of Revenue to renew my car's plates. This should have been an easy
>thing to do, right? I never got the renewal notice in the mail but when
>I called, they just said to bring in the usual papers and it'd be no
>problem. Well...when *any* government agency says "it'd be no problem"
>I've come to know there *will* be one! True enough. They run my plate
>number through the computer and tell me I never renewed the plates last
>year. Oh??? Then why do I have 01 stickers on my vehicle, a handful of
>receipts and the canceled check? They tried to tell me it was not in my
>married name. Had those receipts. They then tell me that the title was
>never registered after I took my ex off and added Arvid. Had those
>receipts too. They finally ran out of excuses and straightened
>everything out. They did tell me that it was a good thing I never got
>pulled over in the car since it would have looked like I stole it.
>Lovely.
> We then went to the Fantastic Sam's my friend manages for haircuts.
>I was very sad to have to get about 2 inches cut off the back of my hair
>because of split, dry ends. At least now I have all the damaged areas
>from my last perm over five years ago cut off so it shouldn't be a
>problem anymore.
> Later that afternoon, the guys from the band came over. We had to
>use our living room to rehearse this time. What fun that was...we all
>barely fit! We'd warned the neighbors earlier that morning so no one
>would call the police on us. I'm surprised we didn't blow some fuses
>with all the equipment plugged in.
> Today we went shopping for new jeans for Sara. That should have
>been easy too but noooo... Poor thing got so depressed. She was
>looking for flared legs and those are hard enough to find but we either
>couldn't find her size or they were a foot too long. No way she'd let
>me hem jeans so...the search will continue at the mall later this week.
>We've never had this problem before, I don't know what's up.
> We've been needing a new TV for quite some time. Ours had something
>wrong with it that you had to slam your fist down on the top of it to
>get the picture to come in clearly. I have bruises still from doing
>this all the while we watched the O Town marathon last weekend. We just
>happened upon a great sale at Wal-Mart for a Sanyo 25" with remote for
>only $189! We hurried home, transferred money from the savings account
>to the checking online and ran back out to get it. I no longer have to
>wear my glasses to see it! Woohoo!
> Oh and I got a call from my boss tonight...I should be going back to
>work in the next week or two. Good thing too since I need to replace
>that money we used for the TV!
> So that's it...not all that exciting but a different weekend than
>our usual.
Susan Behr MacDuffee
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Shawn & Joy Pennington wrote:
> Plus, I've been kind of emotional this week. I haven't posted
> about this, but my mom and I aren't speaking right now. It happened in
> February when I went home for DH's concert. Things were typical, and I just
> decided I wasn't going to be verbally abused anymore. I didn't tell
> anybody, I just got on a plane and came home. It was probably the hardest
> thing I've ever done...and it continues to be difficult, not only for the
> obvious, but because nobody minds their own business. I hear from all kinds
> of sources how terrible I am...usually I can blow it off, but for some
> reason, it's been tough this week.
Joy,
I am sorry that you and your mom aren't speaking at the moment. I am
sending positive vibes to you. I have been battling with a decision that
I think will not please my family and it has been on my mind for a while.
It makes it hard to have a normal day, as I have been feeling a bit
depressed about the whole thing. Anyway, just wanted you to know that
I know how you feel. Also, we here at AN know what a great person you are
so don't let those terrible things you've been hearing get you down.
(((((((hugs)))))))
--Susan
Shelly
>Anyway, I guarantee that I'm thinking of all of you often & even lurking,
>although I may not be posting much. I'm here :-)
>Joy
May I just second this? I've been just swamped recently, and don't have as much
time as I'd like for reading/posting, but I *do* send those congrats and good
vibes, etc. - even if I don't have a chance to write it down. So, here's my
deposit in the a.n. vibe jar. :o)
Thanks to all of you who are sending/sent good wishes for DH and my mom - I
really appreciate it. It's good to have you guys to "talk" to.
--
Shelly
This address is rarely read - send e-mail to sawruck at scj dot com
Nantucketgrrl
As do we. They must be a very popular color!
They will now be another thing a good A.N'er has to have!
I'll think of you all as I am drying off.
Meg
Shawn & Joy Pennington
Joy
Susan Behr MacDuffee wrote in message ...
Gretchen Shah
"Robin" <rob...@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.1523047f4...@news.newsguy.com...
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:38:12 -0500, Rose Bingham wrote...
> > Me too! And my mom always said to set the dye with salt. So... maybe a
salt
> > and vinegar wash?? :-) Uh, oh. Now I'm going to be craving those
chips.
> >
> here that I like (Cape Cod and something else... Kettle Chips?) and none
> of the grocery stores I've been to recently have had them.
>
> the way grocery on my way home tomorrow.
>
> Evil.
We've got Cape Cod chips around here. There my favorite by far, no matter
what flavor you are talking about. Want me to mail you some? ;)
Gretchen
Gretchen Shah
> We've got Cape Cod chips around here. There my favorite by far, no matter
> what flavor you are talking about. Want me to mail you some? ;)
Ugh. I'm really not as illiterate as I sound. *They're* my favorite by
far.
Gretchen
Rose Bingham
wrote:
>>Gretchen (who has those same "Caribbean" Fieldcrest towels)
>
>As do we. They must be a very popular color!
>They will now be another thing a good A.N'er has to have!
Well, now I'm curious. I always have a 2 color theme in bathrooms.
Been doing this for as long as I had my own place. So... I have to
know if anyone else with the carribbean blue towels has them paired
the same as I do with the Amethyst (I think that is what they are
called) ones. Fieldcrest also.
Rose - who went so far as to have paint made to match the towels and
painted a border in those colors in that bathroom in Jamaica.
Rose
--
The mind is like a television set, when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound
Susan Behr MacDuffee
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Shawn & Joy Pennington wrote:
> THanks Susan, It means a lot!!
No problem friend. It really helps me to be able to "talk" to all my
alt.newlywed friends. I seem to be able to vent here before I actually
take my problems to my RL friends. This is such a supportive group. If
you want to e-mail me feel free. I could use a good sounding board atm too.
Hoping that things are getting better for you.
--Susan
Robin
> We've got Cape Cod chips around here. There my favorite by far, no matter
> what flavor you are talking about. Want me to mail you some? ;)
>
loss? Check. Need potato chips? Check.
I'm just lazy. There's actually a Kroger by my office which has them,
it's just that I usually go to another one because they're the only
store in the area that has *my* coffee.
And to add to the fun, there's *another* Kroger, this one by our house,
which has a way better beer selection than any of the others.
How can one chain of stores, all within a 10 mile radius, have such
vastly different stock?!
Nantucketgrrl
> So... I have to
>know if anyone else with the carribbean blue towels has them paired
>the same as I do with the Amethyst
No, but I have them paired with the yellow ones.
I have the amethyst ones in the other bathroom!
Meg
Julie Hauer
>Well, now I'm curious. I always have a 2 color theme in bathrooms.
>Been doing this for as long as I had my own place. So... I have to
>know if anyone else with the carribbean blue towels has them paired
>the same as I do with the Amethyst (I think that is what they are
>called) ones. Fieldcrest also.
We're only using one color of towel in our bathrooms (Caribbean in the master,
Peach Mist in the guest, Linen in the powder room and White for extra towels for
each bathroom plus assorted older towels in various colors for when we run out
of those or have dirty work that needs an old towel around the house).
However, in our master bath, all of our accessories are in an amethyst color -
something called Heather Prism by Croscill.
It sure beats our guest bath where we moved our old accessories from the master
bath. It's such a jumble in there because the shower curtain (natural amalfi)
and the rug (again natural amalfi but my husband accidentally washed it with a
dark purple throw rug so it's more gray instead of natural but looks really
cool) both go very well with the peach towels. The soap dish, wastebasket,
tissue holder, etc. are all in something called "Provincial" which is blue and
white with handpainted yellow flowers. It all goes "okay" if you don't look too
closely. We'd have kept those accessories in the master bath except when we
moved, we have two sinks in there now that are well separated and the pattern
has been discontinued. All we really needed was one more toothbrush holder but I
couldn't find one anywhere. Why having a non-matching toothbrush holder bothered
us still stymies me! I think if we find another shower curtain for the guest
bath that incorporates yellow and blue and peach (I found one but didn't like
the price), it'll solve the problem.
It's not a big priority on my list though since we have bigger issues. We just
found out that the bathrub is defective in that bathroom and needs replacement.
The builder is willing to take care of it for us under our warranty but it means
they have to completely gut the bathroom to get the old tub out and the new one
in. That means removing the tilework around the tub and replacing it, plus
taking out the toilet and cabinets since they can't get the old tub out and new
one in otherwise. This is not going to be fun and I have already started talking
to the builder on the phone to get this moved up the priority ladder. The
missing piece of siding trim and the dead landscaping that needs replacement
under warranty are not as important.
Julie
Gretchen Shah
"Nantucketgrrl" <nantuc...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20010324093935...@ng-cr1.aol.com...
Hey, this is what I did with our old bathroom! In the house, though, the
yellow doesn't work so we have a Grecian theme. The Caribbean blue towels
coordinates with a slightly lighter shade of blue on the upper part of the
wall. The bottom part is a beigey color that matches the marble trim tiles.
Separating with two will be a Greek key stenciled border. If I ever get to
it that is. On the walls are three pictures we brought back from our
honeymoon in Greece. The colors worked perfectly.
FWIW, we still have the yellow towels, although they don't really go
anywhere now. :( The rest of the towels are white. I figured that would
be safe when we were registering and had no idea what our decoration scheme
would be.
Gretchen
Ranee Mueller
<DROPbing...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Well, now I'm curious. I always have a 2 color theme in bathrooms.
> Been doing this for as long as I had my own place. So... I have to
> know if anyone else with the carribbean blue towels has them paired
> the same as I do with the Amethyst (I think that is what they are
> called) ones. Fieldcrest also.
I'm just so impressed that you have matching towels for a bathroom.
We just try to make sure that they match each other at any given time.
:) Most of our new stuff is blue or white. I like soft yellow, but we
don't have towels that color.
Jennifer Angliss
Friday evening my sister flew into town. She's a sophomore in college and
our spring breaks coincided this year, so Brian and I invited her out.
Amazingly, she chose to visit us in snowy Colorado rather than go with her
sorority to Cancun.
On Saturday we had a lazy morning, as my sister was tired, but in the
afternoon we all took Seamus down to the shelter where we got him because
they were conducting a microchipping clinic. We figured we'd get him chipped
as he likes to run out the door at nearly every opportunity. If I said it
didn't go well, that would be a gross understatement. We have never heard
sounds like that come out of our cat and hope to never hear them again. He
was howling so loudly and frantically that they had to take him into another
room because he was starting to stress out the other animals. They weren't
able to verify that the chip was in place because every time they got the
scanner near him he tried to disembowel it, so I have to take him to the vet
sometime this week to verify that the chip is there. Yikes. Poor Seamus
literally had the s*** scared out of him, so after all that, we had to give
him a bath (translation: *I* had to give him a bath). Fortunately, he
doesn't associate us with that experience, so he hasn't tried to claw our
eyes out. He also decided on the way home that riding in the car wasn't so
bad after all and was uncharacteristically quiet on the drive (he usually
complains quite loudly). Saturday night we stayed home and watched
"Ghostbusters" since my sister had never seen it.
Yesterday, we got up early. We went out to breakfast and then drove up to
Rocky Mountain National Park. It was quite pretty, although much of the park
is closed this time of year. We were prepared to freeze our butts because it
was cold and misty in town, but when we got up to the mountains it was sunny
and warm. Go figure. We ended up at my ILs for dinner, just in time for a
decent snowstorm. Since my sister has always lived in southern California,
she was pretty impressed by the snow.
My sis and I have some cool plans for the week, including going to the grand
opening of the first Krispy Kreme location in Colorado tomorrow and
snowboarding on Thursday (to burn off some of those donuts).
Anyone else have a fun weekend?
--
Jennifer A. from Colorado
Jen in South Florida
"Jennifer Angliss" <jent...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:NAKv6.5519$9i1.4...@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> Anyone else have a fun weekend?
Well... let's see... Friday we went out with friends to my new favorite
sushi place, yum! We rented a movie, Get Carter, but I slept through the
whole thing since it had been another rotten day at work and I can't even
remember why now.
Saturday was the annual Founder's Day celebration for my sorority and I'm
semi-involved with the alumnae group here. I keep up the webpage and send
out emails to remind of the meetings. So we had the annual luncheon at the
yacht club and I had a chance to catch up with a few of the people I hadn't
seen at the last few meetings. I had to stop at work on my way home since I
was paged Friday night that someone was admitted with a tube feeding and I
have to complete those assessments within 48 hours. As it turns out, two
people were admitted with feeding tubes out of 3 total admissions on Friday,
so I had two assessments to do. I ended up staying even longer, answering
the phones and trying to help some of the upset family members who are
ever-present at the nurse's station. When I finally got home, Paul had
picked up our taxes and I wrote out those checks and organized papers and
bills. We fixed dinner and went to bed early.
Sunday Paul played in his intermural football league from work and I read
the paper and picked up the house and did laundry. As soon as he got home
and showered, we headed up to West Palm Beach for the George Strait Country
Music Festival. We got there just as the first group was finishing up and
before long, Sara Evans (and Shawn - Joy's husband) took the stage. I have
to say, both Sara and Shawn were awesome! Most country guitar players look
like they're half dead, but Shawn plays like he's with ACDC! He makes it
look like he's having a lot of fun, so the audience has fun too. After Sara
Evans we saw Brad Paisley, LeeAnn Womack, Lone Star, Alan Jackson, and
George Strait. The festival was supposed to be in Miami, but they moved it
after we'd already gotten tickets - had to call in again and get new seats
and everything. But it turned out to be a good move, since we had pretty
good seats and were under a cover most of the day. We went last year to
Orlando for the same show and baked all day in the sun.
Today was another rotten day at work, several residents came down with
diarrhea and vomiting over the weekend and of course all the fingers were
pointed at the kitchen and dietary staff. I don't feel that it's food-borne
since EVERYONE would be sick if it was, more likely a virus of some sort,
but it was not a fun day for anyone today...
Jen
Susan Behr MacDuffee
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jen in South Florida wrote:
> Sunday Paul played in his intermural football league from work and I read
> the paper and picked up the house and did laundry. As soon as he got home
> and showered, we headed up to West Palm Beach for the George Strait Country
> Music Festival. We got there just as the first group was finishing up and
> before long, Sara Evans (and Shawn - Joy's husband) took the stage. I have
> to say, both Sara and Shawn were awesome! Most country guitar players look
> like they're half dead, but Shawn plays like he's with ACDC! He makes it
> look like he's having a lot of fun, so the audience has fun too. A
Sounds like you had a great time Jen. Was this show at the Mars
Amphitheatre? If so, I thought that it was a pretty decent place for a
concert. We saw Alan Jackson there a couple of years ago and I went to an
Easter Sunday church service there once.
That is so cool that you recognized Shawn too. I bet Joy is so proud.
--Susan
Leslie Deak
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jennifer Angliss wrote:
> complains quite loudly). Saturday night we stayed home and watched
> "Ghostbusters" since my sister had never seen it.
I'm glad you corrected that significant aberration in her upbringing. <g>
-Leslie, whose siblings have seen Ghostbusters, simply because I've
watched it enough
Jennifer Angliss
Leslie Deak <ld...@me1.egr.duke.edu> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jennifer Angliss wrote:
>
> > complains quite loudly). Saturday night we stayed home and watched
> > "Ghostbusters" since my sister had never seen it.
>
> I'm glad you corrected that significant aberration in her upbringing. <g>
Yeah, I don't know how she made it all this time without seeing it. DH and I
were quoting lines most of the way through the movie, we've seen it so
often.
"When someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES!"
Jen in South Florida
"Susan Behr MacDuffee" <sb...@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> wrote in message
> Sounds like you had a great time Jen. Was this show at the Mars
> Amphitheatre?
yeah, the whole moving the concert and getting new tickets was a pain, but
it was worth it to be under a cover instead of in the sun. It used to be
Coral Sky Ampitheater and that's what I had to look up to get directions on
yahoo.
> That is so cool that you recognized Shawn too. I bet Joy is so proud.
She should be, he's good at what he does. I watched when they were on Leno
and Shawn turned up bald, so I knew which one he was!
Jen
Susan Behr MacDuffee
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Jen in South Florida wrote:
> yeah, the whole moving the concert and getting new tickets was a pain, but
> it was worth it to be under a cover instead of in the sun. It used to be
> Coral Sky Ampitheater and that's what I had to look up to get directions on
> yahoo.
I almost typed Coral Sky and then remembered that they recently changed
the name of the amphitheatre. I hope to be there in July for a Dave
Matthews Band concert. Glad that you enjoyed the show and that you were
out of the sun :)
--Susan
Carol Kornitsky
(just like I call ProPlayer - Joe Robbie still ) :)
Old habits die hard :)
Carol
Shawn & Joy Pennington
Joy (who just found out DH is skipping out of town for her b-day in Sept)
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