Post Punk Kitchen Forum

Parents really peas me off. Today was parent conference morning. Parents can come and have a few minutes with all their child's teachers. I sat there for 3 hours and saw exactly one parent--a nice woman who need a translator.

Parents just don't give a crepe. And I know their email addresses. I know these people are not all at work today because a great many of them work for the federal government. I guess they have better things to do than worry about their failing kids.

They aren't worried now, but come the end of the year, the crepe grades will be all MY fault.

Bah. I feel sorry for a lot of these kids.

Seriously, if "cream cheese" frosting from a tub can be vegan, so can cool whip.

Ah, the frosting kills me. People who bisque about vegan baked goods have no problem eating that crepe with a spoon.

(boy, I sound bitter and grumpy today. Good thing I'm sneaking out early to go buy Malice nail polish)

How IS it November? I don't understand because the weather has been great and tourism hasn't slowed at my work.

In other randoms, I am SO excited to have xmas this year with just me, my fiance, and our cat. It will be so cozy and lazy.

Nope, LW, I'm still impressed. I actually really liked the CivIII game play, but we only had it for my mac, and I feel like civ does not run well on Macs.

I'm excited about the game I'm playing now, because my partner has played Civ in its various editions side he was about 10. I have never known him to lose against a human player - even with a handicap - and he can beat the ai at deity level pretty regularly (although the ai sucks sometimes). Anyhow, this go round, I have torched 4 of his cities, including his second best AND I killed the only great general he generated (having generated 4 of my own), plus destroyed a pile of seige weapons before they could reach my territory. So I've held him off well- except now he has grenadiers and I'm still rocking mêlée units and the Mongolian special horse units.

On a vegan-relevant note, we joke that he should get a handicap of playing a vegan - or at least vegetarian game.

It turned out really well! Thanks for the suggestion and advice :) We had it alongside pancakes. It made for a pretty great breakfast followed by a long day of adventuring in a park.

I'm thinking of you both. I hope he has a wee soon and can go home!

I was searching for pictures of the Peanuts Thanksgiving episode. I found way too many pictures of people's pictures of their version of the thanksgiving meal of toast, jelly beans and pretzels.

I'll be on a plane in just over 12 hours, and I feel really unprepared despite the amount of work I've put into planning this trip. For example, I just found out that the trains from Newark to Penn Station are really delayed, so I might have to get a later train to Poughkeepsie and/or skip lunch. I bought a few things for snacking/emergencies, and hopefully they'll give me the right meal since I requested it immediately after booking and just confirmed it a few minutes ago. And I just discovered that the travel bottle I bought for my conditioner is cracked (and it's far too late for me to find an alternative). Flying is such a pain in the asparagus; someone needs to build a transatlantic bullet train.

I am running in an 80s 5k fun run on Sunday with some friends, and I have MOST of my outfit, but I meant to go out today and find a big sweatshirt that I could cut the collar off of so that it would be all 80s style (to go with my super blue eyeshadow, Barbie pink lipstick, sparkly leopard print leggings, and leg warmers) but I FORGOT and now it is late and I have to do stuff for tomorrow. BUTT STICKS.

I want to move to a place where "pro-lifers" don't forking exist.

I could really do without being physically sick, having a hyper dog and it lashing rain outside. Not looking forward to being dragged out into that rain for a long walk when I am coughing and wheezing.

The party on saturday went really really well. Everything was clearly marked when vegan, almost all the food was vegan anyway, and it was all delicious! The only comment I got was "wow, this pie is really excellent. Is it really vegan? Wow!" Yay! I had to laugh as one guy brought refried baked beans, two versions, one marked vegan, the other marked "emphatetically NOT vegan" (it had bacon). How amazing is that?

Then after a brief trip to Trieste (10 hours roundtrip) I now am the owner of 50% of my grandma's house. My sister own the other half, and hopefully the taxes won't be too complicated to sort out.

And now back to work!

Scenarios like this have kept me from running to the shelter to adopt a dog, as much as I love them. Cats allow you to stay in your pajamas all day.

Hope you're feeling better soon, daisychain!

you know what's awesome about waking up at 5:00 in the morning for no reason after getting about four hours of sleep? NOTHING. NOT ONE THING. whichever part of my brain controls my sleep/wake cycle, i want to gouge out its eyes.

So true, and I only flew a short distance! I planned and planned and planned for this trip, but you can't predict that your flight will be delayed for HOURS, therefore inconveniencing your airbnb host who is supposed to meet you at the apartment, and then needing to switch flights and go to LaGuardia instead of JFK because your original flight is getting more delayed by the minute. STRESS.

I'm starting to wish I'd decided to take the bus. Now it's too late, and it's gonna be a coooooold ride to work. I hate the first sub-freezing day. You never know what to expect.

Also, it was 65 on Saturday, so this 27 degree business is extra harsh. Forkin' Chicago, man!

Thanks x
I have to admit it is one of the only pitfalls of having a large, high energy dog. My last dog was a lazy little sod and only needed walking twice a week so he was a breeze when I was sick. He used to love curling up in bed with me all day.

Not feeling too bad yet so I put on a big pot of soup to have ready for the next few days. Hopefully I will be able to knock it on it's head before it gets really bad. Not in the mood for dealing with bronchitis while I'm a bit beaten down from depression.

I get really annoyed when I see this pin on pinterest that is all "an hour workout is only 4% of your day, no excuses"
Mother forker. Between working, commuting, cleaning, sleeping and cooking that hour is like 100% of my free time. Stop acting like it's no big deal, pin. I hate you.

Can I just run around the whole world to hug each and every one of you right now?! Hyper doesn't describe me right now!

Over the weekend, I met a dog called a CHIHUAWEENIE. It is a cross of a Chihuahua and a Dachshund. And basically it was so insanely adorable and I wanted to steal it, but I couldn't because that's not right, but YOU GUYS CHIHUAWEENIE.

I want one. I am thinking about puppies instead of grading. But puppies!

Those days when you didn't bring enough lunch/snacks to get through the day. >.< (+ don't have enough time to go and buy some)
One more class, then I can go home...

I'm attracted to Paula Broadwell.

My Nana had one names Cuddles, but we called her a Chihuachshund.

I'm not proud of what I just did. I work at a rehab. And the patients aren't allowed to have super unhealthy food, the doctor just likes them to have a moderate amount of sugar, no candy or anything. One of the patient's wives bought in a big bag of Halloween candy. And of course it was confiscated. I spotted two tiny little dark chocolate peanut chews. We do NOT have peanut chews in Louisiana. Every time I go into the store I look for them high and low, always to no avail. I had to personally confiscate these chews.