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Having gone through this experience myself (twice!), I can verify that the most appropriate font for celebrating this joyous occasion is indeed Cooper Black. WELL DONE.
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Before a colonoscopy, or some kinds of surgery, lucky people get to indulge in what is tastefully known as "bowel preparation." That is to say, you are made to consume vast quantities of laxative products. Then you shit and shit and shit and when you are utterly limp from exhaustion and complete...
Yay! Made in Cleveland!
Baby Schadenfreude
Last night I evicted a baby! I am currently luxuriating at the hospital while Steve reads a Donald Westlake novel and the baby in question sleeps peacefully, if temporarily. This is a very nice hospital, it turns out, at least for the purpose we are putting it to. Here are some exciting details:...
This cannot be a coincidence: http://red.vox.com/library/post/estrangement.html
Comic novelty watermelon
I'm not sure why "vaguely put out" is my default expression in these photos. Maybe it's because I'm a sullen bitch! Possibly. That's a little more human, though I feel it fails to convey the full rotundity of my person. The light cast upon my glowing visage is extra clear and white thanks ...
Hurrah! I promise not to sing any creepy Maurice Chevalier songs.
Sentiment.
Last week I went in for an Level II ultrasound, which is the one where they check every part to make sure it's there. Fingers? Lovely. Brain and skull? Yes, right where they ought to be. Spleen? Oh, good, the right number of those too. This, it turns out, takes approximately one thousand years. ...
I remember you telling me the story of the father and the dashed jar of peanuts, mainly because my cold black heart wept a bit.
I think that today is a savory food baking day. Perhaps a quiche?
The Edge: once edgy, not anymore.
Dash it!
I ordered some things off the internet, as I do. This time it was a little pile of things from the King Arthur Flour catalog, to indulge the homemakerly baking impulses which naturally arise when it is cold and rainy for days and weeks on end. I was especially looking forward to the arrival of ...
This is indeed merely an inevitable consequence of fruit, summer, and the decomposition process.
To find out more about composting or testicular torsion, you can look at special medical books, or on the interweb!
Time flies like an arrow.
My composter has lately become home to many fruit flies. They are not hurting anything, but they make it less pleasant than it might be to open the container and add new scraps. Please advise. Is this just an inevitable consequence of (a) fruit and (b) summer? Perhaps also (c) being in an early ...
YEARGH, I meant "not decent".
No beans.
About three blocks from our house there is a small supermarket. It is somewhat dodgy and strange, one of a local chain of strange dodgy markets called Marc's. These offer "DEEP DISCOUNTS," apparently by virtue of opening their doors to a motley assortment of orphaned leftovers from more ordinary...
Slurry is also a reasonable thing to put on hot dogs, again because no Right Thinking Person would add not-horrible chili to cheap cased meats.
In truth, though, meat in a can is fairly awful, except for perhaps lump crab (which is still an inferior product).
Also, heretical does not necessarily equal decent!
No beans.
About three blocks from our house there is a small supermarket. It is somewhat dodgy and strange, one of a local chain of strange dodgy markets called Marc's. These offer "DEEP DISCOUNTS," apparently by virtue of opening their doors to a motley assortment of orphaned leftovers from more ordinary...
I confess to having occasionally "enjoyed" Slurry, but only when poured in a bag of Fritos, and mainly because it is a sin to put reasonably decent chili in Fritos.
No beans.
About three blocks from our house there is a small supermarket. It is somewhat dodgy and strange, one of a local chain of strange dodgy markets called Marc's. These offer "DEEP DISCOUNTS," apparently by virtue of opening their doors to a motley assortment of orphaned leftovers from more ordinary...
Hm... I have an small abundance* of leaves which I would be happy to bag and feed into your drum. No, I don't mean it That Way.
*(In that there isn't very much of it, but much more than I want or need)
In which I talk a lot about rot.
In a shocking deviation from normal practice, I got something done around the house. Yesterday I put together something called a back porch compost tumbler, which is a sort of drum on wheels that you can dump your scraps into and whirl around, then push like a wheelbarrow if you want to move it...
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