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nothing beats anaconda for me. And there's only one of those beautiful women in that video. First saw it at the second job. It became painfully obvious that I was straight in that moment.Yeah I'll be the first to admit there's no macho involved here, I am 100% bonafide wimp when it comes to spice.Probably won't like this, thenScint gets all the cookies today. That's one of my favorite PMJ covers.
(After Careless Whisper, and Thriller, and I Still Haven't Found what I'm Looking For, and Vonzell Solomon's sublime Every Breath you Take, and about a dozen others I'm too lazy to list.)
hur hur hur
*giggles*
had to go back and watch the video again.
Hnnnng.
Dem hips.
Unsure about thighs but still.
Hnnnng.
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naturally.
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Given that it seems like we *have* to have around four days of horrible muggy sticky weather (the sort which drains you of all energy and leaves you in a permanent sweat even if you're just lying around in your underwear doing nothing but complaining weakly) leading up to it, this Thursday's promised thunderstorm had better be a solid brass stonker.I was promised a thunderstorm today.
It only rumbled in the distance.
Its going to be an overcast night so no serious cooling down.I'd cry from exhaustion but its to hot and muggy to be able to so.
I'm sorry. Ill see if I can get it heading in your direction tomorrow.
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Given that it seems like we *have* to have around four days of horrible muggy sticky weather (the sort which drains you of all energy and leaves you in a permanent sweat even if you're just lying around in your underwear doing nothing but complaining weakly) leading up to it, this Thursday's promised thunderstorm had better be a solid brass stonker.I was promised a thunderstorm today.
It only rumbled in the distance.
Its going to be an overcast night so no serious cooling down.I'd cry from exhaustion but its to hot and muggy to be able to so.
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Our weather has been about perfect, somewhat humid, sunny, and 80s with a round of thunderstorms when things start to get really dry.
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I love my country! :D
I've always loved your country, too, for poutine and Moxy Fruvous if nothing else, but this is golden.
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Apparently Walmart remembered how I quit 20 years ago.
OK, I don't blame them for not hiring me. I left in a blaze of glory. I wouldn't do it today, but it's a great story. I'll type it later. It's LONG.
In other news, I was pushed into a panic attack by B$@!%zilla today. And her parents. I spent an hour on the phone with my best friend calming down.
And my computer broke.
My luck just keeps getting better.
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I love my country! :D
I regret not visiting it when I lived closer to the border. Toronto is on my bucket list.
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Apparently Walmart remembered how I quit 20 years ago.
OK, I don't blame them for not hiring me. I left in a blaze of glory. I wouldn't do it today, but it's a great story. I'll type it later. It's LONG.
I look forward to it. When we were all laid off from my first tech job, Hi wrote a detailed and accurate and very, very public email to the entire company about the shortcomings of upper management.
When they tried to hire us all back a year later, he was mysteriously not on the invite list...
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Apparently Walmart remembered how I quit 20 years ago.
OK, I don't blame them for not hiring me. I left in a blaze of glory. I wouldn't do it today, but it's a great story. I'll type it later. It's LONG.
I look forward to it. When we were all laid off from my first tech job, Hi wrote a detailed and accurate and very, very public email to the entire company about the shortcomings of upper management.
When they tried to hire us all back a year later, he was mysteriously not on the invite list...
This is why I love Hi.
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I remember when I quit Ace Hardware, I just stopped showing up and after a week of missing shifts I get a call from the manager "Yeah, I noticed you've missed a few shifts the last week" (they scheduled me for four hours EVERY DAY so I missed 7) "Uh yeah, I quit" "So, you won't be coming in for your shift tonight?" "Um, no".
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On the plus side, Tala go a job there, and I have three interviews coming up. We now need to find an apartment.
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That joke does not compute, gran.
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I love my country! :D
That defenitely cheered me up!
(our thread about moisturizing me also cheered me up by the way. Sometimes all you need is some dirty humor)
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I love my country! :DThat defenitely cheered me up!
(our thread about moisturizing me also cheered me up by the way. Sometimes all you need is some dirty humor)
Water was involved so it would be clean by now...
It was water, right? RIGHT?!!
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I wonder what we're doing today.
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I wonder what we're doing today.
Dont know.
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I wonder what we're doing today.
Same thing we do every day, Pinky. Try to make over the squirrel!
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nothing beats anaconda for me. And there's only one of those beautiful women in that video. First saw it at the second job. It became painfully obvious that I was straight in that moment.Yeah I'll be the first to admit there's no macho involved here, I am 100% bonafide wimp when it comes to spice.Probably won't like this, thenScint gets all the cookies today. That's one of my favorite PMJ covers.
(After Careless Whisper, and Thriller, and I Still Haven't Found what I'm Looking For, and Vonzell Solomon's sublime Every Breath you Take, and about a dozen others I'm too lazy to list.)
'Anaconda' is the tops. I watched 'WAP' this morning, and it was alright, but nowhere near as Minajnificent as the above. However, given that it annoys a certain individual who claims that facts don't care about your feelings and whose name may or may not rhyme with Gwen Gapspearo, I'm still going to wholeheartedly support it.
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This morning I was apologized to. A legit apology, unlike the half hearted b$%+&%!# I was given two days ago.
I'm very wary and still on guard, but I also am not one to hold a grudge against willing repentance. So...hopefully it goes well.
We still have to find a place by the end of the month, even if its a real turn around. I miss my dog and my brother will only watch him that long.
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This morning I was apologized to. A legit apology, unlike the half hearted b$&~#*+* I was given two days ago.
I'm very wary and still on guard, but I also am not one to hold a grudge against willing repentance. So...hopefully it goes well.
We still have to find a place by the end of the month, even if its a real turn around. I miss my dog and my brother will only watch him that long.
Wow.
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Somehow I feel duty-bound to grump about politics every morning; FaWtLers have started expecting it.
Anyhoo, this morning's my concerns about the
(a) It expires, and living wage workers suddenly find themselves with a multi-thousand-dollar tax bill they can't afford, or
(b) Congress makes it permanent, and Social Security and Medicare are effectively ended, thereby destroying said workers' retirements.
And that's the thing that kills me: Unsustainable tax cuts to buy votes during an election year are nothing new; I remember complaining about them in the 1980s.
Yet they still work. The general public doesn't see through the smoke and mirrors, and just says, "Ooh! Extra money! I'll spend it! And vote for the guy who gave it to me!"
And that saddens me every time I see it.
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It turns out I'm waiting for the robot pergola people to finish with their thing which should only take a couple of hours. Then we get to start our patio under the pergola.
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Yeah I'll be the first to admit there's no macho involved here, I am 100% bonafide wimp when it comes to spice.Probably won't like this, thenScint gets all the cookies today. That's one of my favorite PMJ covers.
(After Careless Whisper, and Thriller, and I Still Haven't Found what I'm Looking For, and Vonzell Solomon's sublime Every Breath you Take, and about a dozen others I'm too lazy to list.)
How am I just learning about PMJ for the first time? This is so completely up my alley.
Whelp... I know how I’m spending the next 2 hours of my life.
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This morning, after my run, I started to make banana pecan muffins.
Because I buy new bananas when we're down to just 2 or 3, because Teensy Valeros eats at least one a day. But Whingey Wizzard won't let him eat the new bananas until he eats all the old bananas, and he thinks if they have even one tiny brown speck, they're spoiled, so his solution is to not eat ANY at all until the old ones are so mushy that I bake with them, and then start in on the new ones.
So I made the batter, was starting to fill the tins, and realized I hadn't added the crushed pecans. So I put all the batter back in the mixing bowl, added the pecans, and was refilling the tins, when I noticed the two eggs sitting out on the counter. And had to dump all the batter back into the bowl to add the sodding eggs and start again.
Then while they were baking, I ran over to school to pick up a couple of things from my classroom before our online inservice meetings this morning, realized the water level in the turtle tank was low, started filling the pitcher in the sink while I rummaged in my supply closet, and came out to find my entire countertop flooded. Because I'm an idiot.
This is what I get for trying to do anything at all before coffee and a shower.
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This morning, after my run, I started to make banana pecan muffins.
Because I buy new bananas when we're down to just 2 or 3, because Teensy Valeros eats at least one a day. But Whingey Wizzard won't let him eat the new bananas until he eats all the old bananas, and he thinks if they have even one tiny brown speck, they're spoiled, so his solution is to not eat ANY at all until the old ones are so mushy that I bake with them, and then start in on the new ones.
Those brown parts are awful (i.e. those that get on the actual pulp (flesh?). Try to convince him to cut the brown parts away and eat the reast as it isn't mold that could taint the whole banana.
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Those brown parts are awful (i.e. those that get on the actual pulp (flesh?). Try to convince him to cut the brown parts away and eat the reast as it isn't mold that could taint the whole banana.This morning, after my run, I started to make banana pecan muffins.
Because I buy new bananas when we're down to just 2 or 3, because Teensy Valeros eats at least one a day. But Whingey Wizzard won't let him eat the new bananas until he eats all the old bananas, and he thinks if they have even one tiny brown speck, they're spoiled, so his solution is to not eat ANY at all until the old ones are so mushy that I bake with them, and then start in on the new ones.
You're not helping.
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Or just stick with banana bread. You can never have too much banana bread.
I have some bananas that have turned... too hot for baking today, though. Maybe tomorrow.
Pfft. It was already 80 here when I woke up at 5:30.
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Pfft. It was already 80 here when I woke up at 5:30.Or just stick with banana bread. You can never have too much banana bread.
I have some bananas that have turned... too hot for baking today, though. Maybe tomorrow.
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And yeah, kids and fruit never gets easy. Impus Minor loves fruit salad, so I buy a canteloupe and a honeydew, dice them up, put them in a big bowl... and he eats around 1/3 of it and lets the rest rot. Impus Major insists on having grapes and cherries in the house, and again, around 1/3 of them rot.
I hate wasting food, especially since I'm getting the organic $3-$4/pound variety, but it's not like I can buy half-melons at the corner store (I know some places do that, but not the corner store), and the cherries come pre-packaged.
But better that they're actually EATING fruit, considering they're teenage boys, so I just have to keep looking at the bright side.
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Somehow I feel duty-bound to grump about politics every morning; FaWtLers have started expecting it.
Anyhoo, this morning's my concerns about the ** spoiler omitted **
Thing is ** spoiler omitted **
*grabs newspaper in pajamas and bathrobe, and shakes it menacingly* now get off my lawn!
Our expenses have gone through the floor since the shutdown started, so we don't particularly need a tax break. Getting one that we're almost guaranteed to have to pay back come February? No, thank you! Not on your life!
(And yes, the PITA will be figuring out the extra amounts in our paychecks and putting all that aside for the inevitable betrayal...)
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*grumble-grumble-social politics-grumble*
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Also freehold come save me.
Its 95 degrees F inside the house.
Is it at least cooling off at night?
Cheap grad student air conditioning: The moment the outside temperature drops below the inside temperature, open every window in the house. If your animals/neighborhood permit it, open the doors as well. Leave the whole thing open until you're going to bed. Even then, if the neighborhood permits it, leave as much as possible open.
In the morning, the moment the sun starts peeking up (20-30 minutes before sunrise) close everything up. The doors, the windows, the curtains. Seal yourself up like an albino vampire.
In Davis I dropped my summer electricity bill from $300/month to $30/month doing just that, and it kept the house under 80°F for virtually the entire summer, even during the 100°F+ heat waves. Here in Albany, the insulation is much worse, but it still keeps the house under 80°F for at least 3-4 days after a heat wave starts.
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I will point out that the change also only affects those who have made less than 130K (maybe 137K, but whatever) so far this year. If you are already past 130K, there is no SSI withheld anyway. The medicare 1% is small enough that it is unlikely to make any difference to someone at that income level.
But for someone making less than 130K a year, four months of extra money may, I repeat may, make a difference in getting by to the end of the year. Having to pay it back will hurt, but the 0% interest loan is going to be better than any CC, HELOC, or commercial loan.
That said, it really just seems like a backdoor to scuttle the programs. I would not mind seeing them dismantled, but I would rather it be a straight forward discussion, not political chicanery.
I have zucchini bread in the fridge, but bananas all seem to get eaten around this house.
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For f-sake...
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I only like *underripe fruit*. If its hard and sour, I love it.
When they are sweet and soft, I dont like them at all.
I taste kinda like me.
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I only like *underripe fruit*. If its hard and sour, I love it.
When they are sweet and soft, I dont like them at all.
I taste kinda like me.
Hey, do you like sweet potato pie? If so, any tips on making one?
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