I'm fairly certain I have a blocked tear duct. I'm really excited about it. I totally have time to go to a doctor and have him use a fishing line to pull some fucking tear booger out of my sinuses. Also, it hurts like hell.
In better news, this weekend is my neighborhood's chilli cook off. I fucking love that cliched suburban shit. I'm making cornbread casserole.
We are having one here at work. First prize is a two night vacation, so far I have 25 people signed up to make Chili.
Last weekend we went up to N Georgia and went to this apple festival in one of the towns. I was all excited because small town fair kind of thing, yay Americana old fashioned fun. It was such a ripoff. First you had to pay $5 to get in. Then everything was so overpriced. SST was dying to go on a camel ride and it turned out to be $7 to go around the little ring ONE time - literally 30 seconds. They had tons of craft booths and the "crafts" were all pinterest crap, like literally, a dollar store cake container with college logo stickers on it, selling for 20 bucks. No thanks. I did pay $6 for a funnel cake because I have been wanting a funnel cake for months and where else can you get a funnel cake?
Also: no apples! I mean come on, you'd think an Apple Festival would have all kinds of apple products. Couldn't find any, except for one stand selling apple dumplings for $5 each.
Verdict: old fashioned Americana fun is overrated.
OH and we also went to this little zoo up there. I wasn't expecting the San Diego Zoo or anything, but for the price they charged, I expected more than a petting zoo with some goats and sheep. But the kids had a blast so whatever.
The PCE part, though, is that all of the placards telling you about that breed of animal had some sort of mention of God and/or Jesus. And some clearly creationist crap like "God designed this animal to have blah blah." One of them was about whatever breed of sheep, this is where they come from, characteristics, blah blah, then, I shit you not, "Is Jesus your Shepherd?"
I'm fairly certain I have a blocked tear duct. I'm really excited about it. I totally have time to go to a doctor and have him use a fishing line to pull some fucking tear booger out of my sinuses. Also, it hurts like hell.
In better news, this weekend is my neighborhood's chilli cook off. I fucking love that cliched suburban shit. I'm making cornbread casserole.
Recipe? For the cornbread casserole, not the tear booger.
We just moved into our new house on Saturday and we've already met a bunch of neighbors. Apparently every year there's a block party, egg hunt, and clambake...and there's ongoing photography club, book clubs, and poker club. I'm digging the clichéd suburban shit as well.
Our cats have a lovely 2 story cage that they're kept in at night. Sort of. One cat has become a Houdini and gets out every night. At 4 am this morning I heard a "MEOW?!" purrr puurrrrr purrrrr And a large, heavy black body landed on me with a thud. I proceeded to get happy feeted with occasional jabs of claws for 15 min before she finally settled down to a dull roar of purring.
I went upstairs to let the other 2 out when we finally got up, and all the doors were shut and locked. How the hell did she get out? DH swears she was in there last night.
Last weekend we went up to N Georgia and went to this apple festival in one of the towns. I was all excited because small town fair kind of thing, yay Americana old fashioned fun. It was such a ripoff. First you had to pay $5 to get in. Then everything was so overpriced. SST was dying to go on a camel ride and it turned out to be $7 to go around the little ring ONE time - literally 30 seconds. They had tons of craft booths and the "crafts" were all pinterest crap, like literally, a dollar store cake container with college logo stickers on it, selling for 20 bucks. No thanks. I did pay $6 for a funnel cake because I have been wanting a funnel cake for months and where else can you get a funnel cake?
Also: no apples! I mean come on, you'd think an Apple Festival would have all kinds of apple products. Couldn't find any, except for one stand selling apple dumplings for $5 each.
Verdict: old fashioned Americana fun is overrated.
We have Applefest in my town. You've basically described it to a T.
ETA: except for a cover charge. Wtf with that??
The only thing you missed was Kettle Corn. That's worth it to me but I can walk into town, get my bag and GTFO.
Our cats have a lovely 2 story cage that they're kept in at night. Sort of. One cat has become a Houdini and gets out every night. At 4 am this morning I heard a "MEOW?!" purrr puurrrrr purrrrr And a large, heavy black body landed on me with a thud. I proceeded to get happy feeted with occasional jabs of claws for 15 min before she finally settled down to a dull roar of purring.
I went upstairs to let the other 2 out when we finally got up, and all the doors were shut and locked. How the hell did she get out? DH swears she was in there last night.
Our cats have a lovely 2 story cage that they're kept in at night. Sort of. One cat has become a Houdini and gets out every night. At 4 am this morning I heard a "MEOW?!" purrr puurrrrr purrrrr And a large, heavy black body landed on me with a thud. I proceeded to get happy feeted with occasional jabs of claws for 15 min before she finally settled down to a dull roar of purring.
I went upstairs to let the other 2 out when we finally got up, and all the doors were shut and locked. How the hell did she get out? DH swears she was in there last night.
Post by cattledogkisses on Oct 23, 2014 9:51:03 GMT -5
Our first nor'easter of the year is packing quite a punch. The power keeps flickering. Thank goodness it's not cold enough to snow, because we're supposed to get 6" of rain. That would be over 5' of snow.
Also: no apples! I mean come on, you'd think an Apple Festival would have all kinds of apple products. Couldn't find any, except for one stand selling apple dumplings for $5 each.
WTF? If our garlic festival can deliver garlic ice cream (in addition to garlic ALL THE THINGS) you should minimally be able to score an apple pie at an Apple Festival.
Our first nor'easter of the year is packing quite a punch. The power keeps flickering. Thank goodness it's not cold enough to snow, because we're supposed to get 6" of rain. That would be over 5' of snow.
I keep wavering on getting a super size down coat. If only I had a crystal ball that could tell me what's going to happen.
Our resident neurotic coworker just completely lost herself in the staff meeting this morning, spending about 2min in a shouting match with our boss. In front of everyone, including a student she supervises. Over a lousy committee invitation status. Awkward as hell, and it was glorious to see the meltdown in shared public glory for once. Just wish HR could have seen it.
Although I actually like the cold and snow, this is the time of year I love living in Georgia. We have had like 6 straight days of sun and 70 degree temperatures and the six day forecast looks like this Attachment Deleted
I'm having apple cake for breakfast in ttt's honor.
Just so you don't feel too sorry for me, we did make our way to an orchard and come home with all the apple things, including CIDER DONUTS. Which are all gone now
I'm fairly certain I have a blocked tear duct. I'm really excited about it. I totally have time to go to a doctor and have him use a fishing line to pull some fucking tear booger out of my sinuses. Also, it hurts like hell.
In better news, this weekend is my neighborhood's chilli cook off. I fucking love that cliched suburban shit. I'm making cornbread casserole.
Recipe? For the cornbread casserole, not the tear booger.
We just moved into our new house on Saturday and we've already met a bunch of neighbors. Apparently every year there's a block party, egg hunt, and clambake...and there's ongoing photography club, book clubs, and poker club. I'm digging the clichéd suburban shit as well.
Dude, is there a way to search Yelp or something for this? You dunno how much I'd sacrifice in a house for some true blue community.