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Weekend at Fluffies

I'm starting to like this concept.

WAIT, WHAT?!?!

(if you kill me, you will inherit negative a million dollars)

Plus, my corpse will not be fun. Runs in the family.

Rest assured that we would be counting on you to drive the whole way.

So you're probably the only safe one.

Weekend with fluffers?

^^^ Next great porn title.

You guys, I ate too much and had a very fun time and enjoyed my mojito as well. And then I came home and literally ate the home made hot fudge sauce I made over the weekend for dessert. Plain.

And now I'm going to bed because it appears that only one drink impairs my judgment.

i spent the afternoon/evening with the table is the table, and i had two vodkas and now actually kind of shitfaced drunk because i have become a total pussy in my old age.

you guys are awesome.

i went kayaking and came home and watched the second half of sytycd finale and now i sleep bc i am TIRED.

I made a BIG-ASS BATCH of great minestrone from scratch. I love me.

I only attempted minestrone once. EPIC FAIL. I should try making more soups. I can do it my own self. Really!

I found these notes you wrote if that'll help. They were rather moist:

FULFI BARE MAEKS A SOOP

1 THING OF WATER
HANDFUL OF THING
BOILED RAT
A BEAN
60 GALLONS OF JACK DANIELS

Get durnk on the last ingrediebelment. Cook rest in micronowave. Eat, puke.

That does look like a recipe for an epic failure. Which is, of course, the best kind.

Somewhat more seriously, here's a few recipes and general pointers via the LA Times the other day:

http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-summer-soup1-2008aug1,0,2001911.story?page=1

Experiment and go nuts. Just keep the broth light.

I overcooked mine. Too many beans. Very starchy. That looks good, Ned.

Those cooking directions contain an unnecessary comma.

I am a bear, not a dog.

i love soup! it's too hot to make it in my kitchen right now, though.

I overcooked mine. Too many beans. Very starchy.

Yeah, don't overload -- you want to give the soup something solid, certainly, but it should be a soup, not a heavy stew! Thus the need for a light broth -- they suggest chicken but I went with a good vegetable broth, which is lighter but also richer in taste.

do you make your own veg stock? i often find canned/boxed veg stock to be very salty.

It can be but there's some low sodium ones around which I've switched to that are very handy; used a batch of that last night.

Not sure if it is available in the states but Marigold swiss vegetable bullion is very good and not too salty.

oooh bouillon! even better - don't have to lug liquids back from the store!

Yeah, there's a couple of good bouillon options -- said batch of broth I made was from a small packaged variety. Beats out the old cubes by a mile.

All this soup talk is intriguing, but I'm probably never going to eat again. STILL full from last night.

Also, I had horrible insomnia last night and then this morning J came down with stomach flu. Fun all around at the R-C household!

aw, hope she feels better!

umm, she didn't have a cup of fluffy bear's soup did she?

anyway, internets peoples in far off lands are wishing her well!

Aw, you guys I'll pass on your good wishes. She'll love that.

oooh i just created an excuse to go for a walk (aka drop off fedex package). yay!!!!

weather is good today, hot but breezy, not too humid.

Sara, tell her to cowboy up. I promise I won't make her any soup.

Mmmmm, going on a walk for a package. Hey, maybe I can get the mail. Whoo!

FB, I will pass that on for you. She's holding down a bit of water and a few crackers, so that's an improvement. I have her all set up on the couch, complete with a pillow and blanket. The TiVo is set so she can watch all the Fairly Oddparents she wants and she has a pile of books to look at. If she felt well, she'd probably be delighted with all that.

My life would be a beautifully strange thing if I had Fairly Oddparents to watch when I was growing up. But I got Warner Bros. cartoons and Scooby-Doo so hey.

oh the ironing. i walked north about 14 blocks to the nearest fedex drop box. when i returned, there was a missed drop off attempt from fedex. odd. they already came this morning, so i figured that was it for the day.

Weird.

xp She watches old Scooby Doo episodes sometimes. Also, she takes Scooby Doo gummy vitamins occasionally. Her favorites are the ones shaped like a "Scooby snack." (btw, I like those gummy vitamins myself...)

Ned, you know it's not too late to watch Fairly Oddparents yourself, you know. It's kind of amusing.

tehresa - ps I liked "oh the ironing." Possibly because I'm tired enough where I actually thought you literally meant ironing until after I read through what you wrote twice.

it was a nice walk. i learned that things get drastically nicer about 10 blocks north. that first 10 blocks is kinda gross though. there was a dead rat on the sidewalk about 10 ft from a guy selling vegetables. yummmm.

That would put me off my vegetables for some time.

Okay, I'm actually afraid to go to bed tonight, because I don't want the b.s. waking up in the middle of the night for three hours insomnia thing to happen again.

Still... I'm tired. So....

hope you slept well!
i wish i could crawl back into bed instead of going to work today :(

sssssshush you'll wake her.

i had job interview number.... i've lost count... today. and several more lined up for next week. god this is tedious.

Hey folx, I really need a chatter thread.

HI Ms. M! How are you? This is definitely a chatter thread. (welcome!)

Hey you guys. Thanks for your good sleeping thoughts. I'm going to get the kids some food and go back to sleep! I'm still exhausted from the night before last's insomnia fest.

Oh! PS Nick - good luck with all those interviews... "several" sounds good (although yeah, tedious).

yay chatter.

Oh man, you parents are amazing. I kept my brother's four for a week last month. I thought I was going to die.

I start a new job next week and have literally no work to do. This is going to drive me nuts.

I'll have to change my user name in a bit as my work email is changing.

FOUR kids?! I only have two, remember! And they are getting older - J is the youngest and she's going to be 6 this month. Your brother is really lucky you were willing to take his kids for a whole week. WOW.

Sorry you're so bored at work... being bored like that can be stressful. What are you thinking about a new user name? I'm trying to avoid doing that, but my ISP is run by well-meaning idiots and I think I may have to switch as well.

I'm going back to sleep, but I'll check back with you all later...

Ages 3-8. It was "Camp Tia" and I'm afraid I'm a poor, grouchy camp counselor.

I'll just be Susan/Sam. I'm not really miserable these days. Just bored. (which is a horrible state to be in. Maybe I'll watch the LOST eps I missed.)

i imagine logins would work if you kept them, you'd just never receive webmails.

sara, so jealous of your sleeping.