A social thread

[AGirl]

Let's talk about anything here beside Obama and Clinton!

[texastoast]

1. My garden is in

Roma tomatoes, butternut squash, Kentucky Wonder green beans, fennel, crookneck squash, purple potatoes, green onions, rosemary, Italian parsley, yerba buena, bullhorn peppers, cherry peppers, purple zinnias, sweet pea flowers, oregano, marjoram, hybrid crossvine, giant sunflowers, sweet mesclun mix, and cucumbers. I think that is it.

Now what do you want to talk about?

[AGirl]

5. Well.. I am looking for a job still, i need money badly and i am

excited because I am meeting someone online, we've been talking for 2 years and we love each other, but he said we can't do long distance relationship because he tried that and it doesn't work but we still care about each other alot and i really wished I could be with him. :(

[texastoast]

7. Hmm

So you are looking for a job. Maybe there is a job in your fella's town (I'm under the assumption you are AGirl). :) You might be able to work and find out if the relationship is a go.

[AGirl]

9. humm...I am shy and have anxiety, so i am always scared to go to the interview..

:( I am trying to work on it, but i am also addicted to the internet, but I am not fat and lazy though! I am not those kind of people.

[texastoast]

13. I have dental anxiety

And I learned that my dentist can no longer give me the little helper before I go in to get grinding work done. (Thankew FDA.)

So on the way to the office I stopped and bought a bottle of vodka and took a couple of swigs before the procedure. Not too much. Just a little to take the edge off.

But for a job interview, you would need to probably add some breath mints. :)

[AGirl]

16. I have social anxiety and is on medication...

but i have thought about the idea of being drunk, haha, it would reduce my anxiety i am sure..

[Maribelle]

40. Oh, sorry AGirl.

Do you get anxiety attacks?

[Whisp]

43. I just started some meds for anxiety as well...

I think they are making a difference but it's really too early to tell - will have to wait - some effects supposedly almost immediate, some after a couple weeks, and some after a month.

[Georgie_92]

74. I have GAD w/ panic attacks, I am on meds too.

It's not fun.

[Whisp]

22. I love cucumber, mayonaisse and onion sandwiches. mmm. nt

[texastoast]

29. Yes!

And here's another one. Real butter, fresh tomatoes, salt and pepper. On white or wheat.

[Whisp]

33. my mom used to put sugar on home grown tomatoes

and I remember that as being Such a Treat. bite into it like an apple and get squirted.

back then off the vine tomatoes tasted soooooooo good - maybe it's my aging tastebuds - but food has lost so much of it's natural flavors.

[asjr]

36. Try it with cream cheese instead of mayo.

really yummy!

[Whisp]

41. sounds great, will try it. love cream cheese....

I sometimes make these wonton things I call 'hobos'.
cream cheese and crabmeat mixed up with a bit of cut up marishino cherries.
place a bit on a small square wonton, wrap it up and deep fry it

they look like those little sacks at the ends of sticks in cartoons, so that's why I call them hobos'
they are just great!
and for dipping I really like Sweet Chili Sauce.

[asjr]

49. My daughter makes terrific won tons using

crab meat. Darn, I'm getting hungry.

[JayFredMuggs]

73. I want to make some of those sandwiches

Sounds fine to me

[MattBaggins]

26. I am so jealous

I have a tiny backyard with a dog and two little kids. I barely had enough space to put in two blueberry bushes last year that my wife promptly mowed under.

[texastoast]

42. I hear you about the mowing thing

I have to barricade anything I want to have a chance to grow. Even then with stakes and red flags tied to them, some vines have fallen victim.

Do you have a fence to hang baskets on? It keeps the dog peepee off the plants and lots of veggies are happy enough in a container (if you water them every day in hot weather).

[polichick]

2. Wrong forum - you people should be banned!!! :)

[redqueen]

3. McCains skeeves me out.

It's superificial and meaningless, I know... and there are PLENTY of substantive reasons not to support him... but even if I was some thoughtless apolitical idiot, I still wouldn't like him, cause he just skeeves me out. The shape of his face, the fact that his upper lip doesn't move when he talks, the alligator arms... it all gives me the creeps.

[texastoast]

8. LOL

He IS creepy. And that, ahem, "trophy" wife thing. Just goofy.

[redqueen]

53. Oooh is she a trophy wife?

She's very mannequinnish.

Ah, I'm so superficial! :P

[Whisp]

81. he reminds me of some strange mollusk deep down in the Marietta Trench.

[Lucky 13]

4. It's a beautiful day in Vermont. Spring is coming!

[MattBaggins]

30. Speaking of Vermont

Northern NY here. I was driving around today and saw someone with taps still on his maple trees. He is going to be in for an unpleasant surprise if he tries to boil that down now.

[Lucky 13]

59. Don't know a thing about maple tree tapping...

... but I can tell you they were tapping maple trees and boiling it down to syrup this past weekend at a farm near here. It was like Maple Festival weekend or something. They passed out samples too and it was pretty good.

Are you not supposed to tap this late or something?

[MattBaggins]

60. It should still be cold enough

It is the proper time for it this year, just seems unusually late for my area

[Lucky 13]

72. So you can only do it when it's cold enough?

What happens if you tap it in July?

[hfojvt]

6. "The walls are certainly looking very perpendicular today."

Nobody alive is without a perfectly equisite collection of ironies.

[redqueen]

10. What is that quote from?

I like it.

[hfojvt]

51. It's from "What do you say after hello?"

by Eric Berne of transactional analysis school (I'm Ok, you're ok). The other one about the collection of ironies was a paraphrase from Vonnegut's Jailbird. Berne's footnoted comment as a humorous answer to his title cracked me up when I read it, but it has never gone over in practice. The standard response is "Perpendicular to what?"

[redqueen]

52. Hmmm... I thought the answer went without saying...

to the floor, of course! Well... provided it's not some weird slanty floor.

The Vonnegut I recognized. <3

[grantcart]

11. so did anybody have a rough day yesterday ?

:grouphug:

[texastoast]

14. No, but I did last week

Does that count?

:grouphug:

[grantcart]

44. certainly

I was thinking that the OP got kind of a rough treatment in a thread yesterday.

[texastoast]

62. Lots of us have since around the first of March

But then I've been hitting that ignore button, and I'm much happier.

[JuniperLea]

12. We should all be talking about McCain...

And how he doesn't have a snowball's chance...


If he miraculously wins, something is more than rotten in DC! My dog should be able to beat him! Hell, my dog's poo should be able to beat him!

[redqueen]

56. I did... but only about superficial stuff....

and yeah, losing to him would drive me to drink.

:wtf:

[Hawaii Hiker]

15. Ok, who wins in a 15 round boxing match

woo-woo guy or orange bang head guy

:woohoo: :banghead:

:woohoo: in a split decision, LOL..

[Maribelle]

17. My husband and I have 34 ...

baby mahogany trees, varying in size from 1/4 to 2 inches.

[helderheid]

19. that's a whole lotta tiny trees!

[Maribelle]

24. Yes, a mini forest. And more could be on the way.

We have their beautiful mommy on the side of our house, and planted 45 seeds from her first pod.

[texastoast]

21. Great!

Since my neighbors clearcut their two acres of pines, I'm going to wall them off with a bunch of green giant thujas. I planted my Arbor Day trees and all 10 live oaks are doing well in pots. I'll donate those.

[Maribelle]

27. Live oaks do well in my area.

There are a lot of them around.

[texastoast]

34. I'm going to be in Austin on Saturday

fighting the TransTexas Corridor. I'll bring them if you can meet me. Or course, I have no idea where you live.:7

[Maribelle]

39. Sorry, I live in South Florida, way down the end of the peninsula.

Thanks for the offer though! That was so nice of you.

[helderheid]

18. My little girl has the stomach flu and is home with me today. We watched Mr. Magorium's Wonder

Emporium together. Great film. "Your life is an occasion. Rise to it!"

[Maribelle]

31. I hope she feels better soon.

The stomach flu is so yucky.

[helderheid]

35. She's doing MUCH better, thanks!

:hi:

[Whisp]

50. good to hear!

I remember when mine was little and when she got sick I used to sing this to her:

Pussy caught the measels on the first day of spring
the first day of spring
the first day of spring
Pussy caught the measels on the first day of spring
The poor, the poor, the poor wee thing.

We'll make her some soup from a chickens wing
a chickens wing
a chickens wing
we'll make her some soup from a chickens wing
the poor, the poor, the poor wee thing..

We'll send for the doctor with his pills and things
pills and things, pills and things
we'll send for the doctor with his pills and things
The poor, the poor, the poor wee thing.

And all night long we will rock and sing
rock and sing, rock and sing
and all night long we will rock and sing
The poor, the poor, the poor wee thing.

[helderheid]

55. that is so sweet! I may need to adopt it!

[redqueen]

57. Aw, I hope she's all better very soon.

The poor dear.

I liked that movie too... but my kids didn't. Go figure!

[helderheid]

63. thanks! My kids loved it but hate the fact that I bawl through half of it. :)

[Whisp]

79. haha! reminds me of reading Charlotte's Web to my girl.

I'd cry and she didn't like that much. heh.

[helderheid]

82. me too... I'm so sensitive!

:P

[AZBlue]

83. I have the stomach flu too (but had to work)! And, I'm watching Wonder Emporium.

Great minds think alike! ;)

[Whisp]

20. hi AGirl. good idea for a thread.

hope this doesn't get bumped to the lounge tho. we need some patching up time here.

I'm kinda shy and nervous too. so there's THAT that we may have in common. ;)

[AGirl]

23. thanks, it sucks being nervous. Exercising helps.

[texastoast]

61. I agree completely

A good workout makes the whole world a better place. Well, tolerable at least. Those endorphins are like magic.

And meditating. Shutting down the mind. Make it know who's boss. Thirty minutes of that a day is almost as good as a workout. I don't make the time to do it nearly as much as I would like. It's better if I'm consistent with it.

[shaniqua6392]

25. My tulips and hyanciths are up about 3 inches now.

Exactly one week ago, they were covered with snow. This has been the longest Michigan winter I can recall. My snow shovel is still on the porch. I feel that I will be challenging the God's if I dare put it away! Thanks for your brilliant suggestion to talk about something else besides O and C because I am sick to death of it all. I am beginning to envy those people who never pay attention to politics and never vote. Scary.

[texastoast]

65. I got a hyacinth bulb

and a small forcing jar for Christmas. I FINALLY got to take the bulb out of the fridge about 2 weeks ago when it did just begin to sprout. It is in full bloom now in the kitchen and smells absolutely incredible. It's hard to do bulbs down here.

[Whisp]

80. I really enjoy looking at seed catalogues - perks me up.

my yard isn't the greatest for growing stuff - we have a dog and most of it is very shady (the dog, too sometimes). So it taken me years to get some perenial ground cover going. I've planted so much stuff in it over time, some stick, some don't. Very cold climate here so don't have the vast menus other zones do.

Love digging around in the mud and watching my babies grow.

[BlueIdaho]

28. The sun is shining!

Here in north Idaho we've had over 15 feet of snow this winter, its nice to finally see the sun and think we might actually have a spring this year.

Good idea for a thread AGirl!!!

[MattBaggins]

32. How about my biggest pet peeve of all time

People that slap elbow macaroni, tomato sauce and ground beef together and have the audacity to call it qulasch. You can even ask them how much Paprika they put in it and they look at you dumbfounded. Anyone that makes that crap and calls it gulasch should have their pots and pans confiscated. Maybe even jail time should be considered.

[Whisp]

37. the gulasch I occasionally make is

with egg noodles
round steak cut up in small chunks (but cooked long to make tender)
paprika HAS to be in gulasch, otherwise as you say - it's ain't gulasch.
and a blob of sour cream on top when serving.

num nums.

[MattBaggins]

45. Egg noodles is fine

Serving Gulasch on top of a noodle is perfectly fine. Beef is an acceptable choice in meat although mutton or pork is tastier if one likes them. I can never pass up recommending making a spaetzle as a noodle choice though. Not difficult at all and just so much better suited to Gulasch.

[texastoast]

38. What if we add

Chili powder and Velveeta chunks? Can I get community service?

[MattBaggins]

47. I love that stuff

that yummy gooey artificial taste. Hmmm.

Just call it cheesy chili mac not gulasch.

It's like slapping a piece of fried chicken on a plate and calling it lobster.

[redqueen]

58. Now I want to look up a good recipe

and try it. I've never tried to make that.

Thanks for the inspiration. :)

[Symarip]

46. I'm listening to The Aggrolites on my Ipod

At work. I'm sure I could be doing something more constructive. Sometimes, you just don't feel like doing shit behind the desk, y'know?

I just moved to the DC area from San Diego so I'm still going through withdrawls. All I have some days are message boards and my Ipod chock full of crap no one around here has ever heard of. I still can't believe Oingo Boingo never broke out of Southern California... Sheesh.

[knixphan]

48. That baby in the beginning of 'Altered States'...

...is Drew Barrymore.

[redqueen]

54. Sweet.

That info might come in handy someday. I don't know how... but you never know.

[Seabiscuit]

64. Did you all see the amazing Elephant who could paint a self-portrait?

Absolutely amazing.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LHoyB81LnE

:-)

[Jed Dilligan]

66. I got $600 in totally unexpected refund checks from credit cards

while I was down south working last week.

[Symarip]

67. So...

Where are you taking us to dinner?

[Jed Dilligan]

68. I know a Pho place in SoCal where $600 would feed almost 100 people

[Symarip]

70. Dude

I just moved to DC from San Diego. I've lost a metric shit ton of weight because this area lacks any decent Asian and/or Mexican eateries.

[Jed Dilligan]

71. That's a tough move in my opinion

but I hate the cold and I would die without good Asian food!

[texastoast]

75. Niche market!

America needs Mexican food. Open a taco stand. That's one of the reasons I can't leave Texas. I just gotta have good Mexican food.

[irish.lambchop]

69. I leave for Croatia the end of May and will be

there for a month - am SO looking forward to it! Then I'm in Ireland until the G.E.

[texastoast]

76. You be careful

I heard Croatia is pretty, but I just can't see it being prettier than Ireland. Wish I had a trip to Ireland to look forward to.

[CTD]

77. Beer is good.

Especially good beer.

[FlyingSquirrel]

78. Kids are out on spring break.

They're staying up late at night. Playing video games most of the day. Sure are missin' out on the nice sunny weather we're finally getting. Maybe I'll kick 'em out of the house tomorrow.