Friday + weekend randoms

[msmerymac]

I got tickets to see Ronan Farrow speak about his new book - Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators. So excited! I was supposed to see him talk about Me Too with Tarana Burke last year, but he had to cancel (I still saw Tarana Burke, though). 

[pixy0stix]

I'm going to make and eat a "pumpkin stuffed with everything good" this weekend. I sincerely cannot wait.

[msmerymac]

Oct 11, 2019 9:37:07 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

I'm going to make and eat a "pumpkin stuffed with everything good" this weekend. I sincerely cannot wait.

I love them! Are you doing anything different than the "standard" recipe?

When I can find pre-roasted chestnuts (sometimes at Trader Joes, though usually not until later in the year) that's a good addition.

[pixy0stix]

Oct 11, 2019 9:46:07 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

Oct 11, 2019 9:37:07 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

I'm going to make and eat a "pumpkin stuffed with everything good" this weekend. I sincerely cannot wait.

I love them! Are you doing anything different than the "standard" recipe?

When I can find pre-roasted chestnuts (sometimes at Trader Joes, though usually not until later in the year) that's a good addition.

I think I'm just going to stick with the standard of bread, cheese, cream, garlic, and bacon. At least for this first one. I'm envisioning at least 2 more this year.

[tacokick]

Oct 11, 2019 9:46:07 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

Oct 11, 2019 9:37:07 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

I'm going to make and eat a "pumpkin stuffed with everything good" this weekend. I sincerely cannot wait.

I love them! Are you doing anything different than the "standard" recipe?

When I can find pre-roasted chestnuts (sometimes at Trader Joes, though usually not until later in the year) that's a good addition.

Look for the chestnuts in the kosher section if you have one. I find them there year round!

[eponinepontmercy]

pixy0stix,what kind of pumpkin do you use for that?



DH and I are supposed to have a fun weekend alone at home, but he woke up with the beginnings of a cold. I hope we at least get to go out to dinner tomorrow night for our anniversary.

[glw]

Oct 11, 2019 9:37:07 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

I'm going to make and eat a "pumpkin stuffed with everything good" this weekend. I sincerely cannot wait.

I had never heard of this but it looks amazing! Do you use a special 'for eating' pumpkin, or just a regular one you'd use for a jack-o-lantern?

[pixy0stix]

Oct 11, 2019 10:52:37 GMT -5 eponinepontmercy said:

pixy0stix ,what kind of pumpkin do you use for that?

Oct 11, 2019 10:53:55 GMT -5 glw said:

Oct 11, 2019 9:37:07 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

I'm going to make and eat a "pumpkin stuffed with everything good" this weekend. I sincerely cannot wait.

I had never heard of this but it looks amazing! Do you use a special 'for eating' pumpkin, or just a regular one you'd use for a jack-o-lantern?

I use a pie pumpkin, so a smaller not jack-o-lantern pumpkin.

[NitaX]

I'm hoping to do a whole lot of nothing this weekend. I was in Nashville earlier this week and am tired beyond belief.

Oh, and it's gonna be 63 degrees in the M!!! YAY Fall!

pixy0stix, don't post snow pictures. You can keep that! LOL

[Pom]

It's raining and Maddow's new book came this week. Reading and napping planned, for the entire weekend.

[Patsy Baloney]

I'm camping this weekend and the high is 55 degrees, low in the low-40s. Whew! Hoping that 30-degree-rated sleeping bag wasn't a huge lie.

[Saudade]

It’s blizzarding

The interstate is closed north and west.

We’re supposed to get 8-15 inches.

I’m supposed to be at work tomorrow, an hour north of here. There they are supposed to receive 1-3 feet of snow.

I’m over this and it’s just beginning

[taratru]

pixy0stix That sounds so good today. Hmmm....I love them and they are so easy.

I'm only 26 essays into the 97 I have to get finished, like HAVE TO, by Monday. I keep putting them off and it's torture. I loathe grading. I think DH is going out of town tomorrow, so that will give me time to just camp out and crank.

[ChillyMcFreeze]

Pom Sounds like an awesome day.

My parents are coming through town tomorrow on their way to Rachel Maddow's book signing. My dad is seriously IN LOVE with Rachel, so my mom got tickets to the event in Atlanta for his early Christmas present. Romance is still alive.

[pixy0stix]

Saudade, no thank you please. We had snow yesterday that promptly melted, and I'm already over winter.

[Saudade]

Oct 11, 2019 13:29:31 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Saudade , no thank you please. We had snow yesterday that promptly melted, and I'm already over winter.

I'm east of you so I'm sure this is part of the system that you already got. 

It is supposed to return to the 50s late next week. While that would be nice, there is *so* much water here that the melting snow will only create more problems. The farmers are fucked from a late planting and a super wet fall. Last I heard they were unable to harvest a lot of the corn for being too wet too soon, around 40% moisture. 

[StrawberryBlondie]

Oct 11, 2019 12:46:57 GMT -5 Saudade said:

It’s blizzarding

The interstate is closed north and west.

We’re supposed to get 8-15 inches.

I’m supposed to be at work tomorrow, an hour north of here. There they are supposed to receive 1-3 feet of snow.

I’m over this and it’s just beginning

Thankfully, we're not supposed to get anything measurable. I'm already over winter and it's been less than 1 day.

[mbcdefg]

My neighbor is doing his annual pig roast today and it smells so GD good.

[ChillyMcFreeze]

It's National Coming Out Day and a college friend from my sorority just introduced himself to Facebook with his name and pronouns. I'm weeping with joy for him.

[winecat]

I'm guessing that one of the new trucks at the kitchen is a Trumper.

**TW**

A guy from another truck who I thought was a decent guy went all in on women ruining men's lives by accusing them of rape/sexual assault.

This industry is shit sometimes.

[cville]

You know how, because some men are the fucking worst, they will randomly DM you or try to friend you on insta? Anyway, lately every single asshole who does this to me has salt and pepper hair and many of them also have beards.

I cannot figure out what I have done that has made my *private* insta so appealing to older lumberjacks/aging hipsters. Who I decline and block.

[winecat]

I just saw that you can buy prints from some of the drawings from the GBBO: www.tomhovey.co.uk/thebakedprintshop.

[pixy0stix]

It drives me up a fucking wall when dh can't get google home to do what he wants the first 5 times he asks it.

[wawa]

Oct 11, 2019 19:06:14 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

It drives me up a fucking wall when dh can't get google home to do what he wants the first 5 times he asks it.

Is this like when I watch h fight with the self checkout?

[kilgrave]

4 Noses Pump Action pumpkin beer is better than Tommyknockers pumpkin beer. This disappoints me somewhat as my favorite beer ever is brewed by Tommyknockers.

[Saudade]

Oct 11, 2019 13:42:32 GMT -5 StrawberryBlondie said:

Oct 11, 2019 12:46:57 GMT -5 Saudade said:

It’s blizzarding

The interstate is closed north and west.

We’re supposed to get 8-15 inches.

I’m supposed to be at work tomorrow, an hour north of here. There they are supposed to receive 1-3 feet of snow.

I’m over this and it’s just beginning

Thankfully, we're not supposed to get anything measurable. I'm already over winter and it's been less than 1 day.

Update: my team happened to be in FM and I got on the plane to get to GF early since the weather was worse up there. Yay for no driving or losing out on work hours Boo for 50mph crosswinds when landing on the runway

Downside: we’ve been flying over the whole fucking state in this shit and just landed at STP.

[atarianna]

My work deadline is quickly approaching and it seems I will be working this entire (holiday) weekend. Ugh. At least the weather will suck here.

[mrsukyankee]

My weekend is going to be far busier than I want.
Sat:
- hockey match (which as captain means I have to organise everything)
- go to kitchen shop for second meeting
- hockey player birthday gathering at a pub
Sun:
- start organising for packing w/H
- begin to pack
- order boxes for bigger items
etc.

[cattledogkisses]

There was a shooting at a church just a few doors down from my brothers house this morning. He was home at the time and heard the gunshots. I don’t even know what to say anymore.