Pet store kitty pics from Monday are here.
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Here are some great links to check out:
Tree Decorating 101, with cats. (thanks, Linda and Melinda!)
All cat owners need about ten of
these. (thanks, Donna!)
A ton of people forwarded this picture to me:
(Thanks, everyone who passed it on!)
The evil, eeeeeeevil Shannon passed on an email full of those creepy-ass cats with human faces. I’ve coded them so that the picture will pop up when you click on the link. They’re creepy as hell, did I mention? Don’t say I didn’t warn you!
Creepy Cat 1
Creepy Cat 2
Creepy Cat 3
(Thanks, Shannon! I think…)
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Okay, y’all. I need help. I’m looking for something to put atop my tree that isn’t a boring old angel or star. A cute cat tree topper might work, or a smiley face something might, too. I just can’t find anything online that I really like, so I’m asking for suggestions.
The Disney store used to carry a Taz angel tree topper with Taz wearing a leather coat, but they’ve stopped carrying them, and there’s only one eBay auction, and it’s going for 5 more days, it’s already $15, and I don’t want to pay $300 for the damn thing, which is what I’m sure it’ll end up at!
So, okay. Leave me suggestions in the comments, or email them to me. Hopefully one of you will suggest something that I really like. Or, more likely, a dozen of you will suggest something I really like, and I’ll have to buy them all. Please, please, please, though – no angels!
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Have I mentioned recently that Getupgrrl
quote-unquote rocks? Her quote-unquote commenters crack me up, too. I was going to post a comment about those horrid air quotes, but about fifteen people beat me to it.
Air quotes always make me think of Friends, and Joey trying to use them correctly.
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What sucks more than having to go from 565 to south Memorial Parkway? Why, having to go from 565 to south Memorial Parkway in the blinding rain, during rush hour, when it’s practically pitch black outside.
And I get to do it again on Saturday.
I am FUCKING tired of the rain. Rivers and streams are flooding and there was an accident in Athens this morning that had three fatalities and it’s 63 degrees outside, and I’m hot, and it’s supposed to get cold tomorrow, which means NO DOUBT we’ll have tornadic activity on top of the freakin’ rain and JESUS CHRIST.
A little sunshine, please? Is that too much to ask? And a few weeks without a single torrential downpour? UGH.
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From my comments:
ohhh i tried to make them [the roasted chick peas] and they taste good (not nearly spicey enough, i’ll use more next time) but how do you dry yours? just leave them out for a while? i tried paper towel but it didnt work too well, they started to shed — unless thats what is supposed to happen 😀 heh. also, do you toss them in oil then add the spices and toss THEN pour them onto the baking sheet? think i messed up there too, i mixed the spices and the oil together then poured it onto the beans directly on the sheet & tossed them up. some were soft others super crunchy… guess i’ll just have to try again! YUM!! 😀
Okay, this is what I do: I open the can, rinse the chick peas under cold water, and then I dump them onto a layer of paper towels. With another piece of paper towel I gently blot them dry, but I don’t go overboard. As long as they’re mostly dry, I’m happy. And yeah, some of them shed a little, but I just pick up the skin (or whatever you’d call it) and toss that.
Then I put the entire batch of chick peas in a tupperware container, dump in the oil, add the spices to that, then put the top on the container, and shake, shake, shake the chick peas for about thirty seconds. If no one else is around I might even dance a little, but that’s not required. Then I take the lid off the container, dump the chick peas onto the cookie sheet, and bake.
Voila!
Mo posted this in my comments last week, and I go back and read it every now and again, and it makes me laugh my ASS off every time.
Oh, I can relate to your freaky scaredy cat thing. One morning I woke up to find a VERY heavy hand lying over my face, covering my mouth. I screamed, sat up, looked around, and it was GONE! It had been my own hand, which had fallen into a dead sleep, so I totally could not feel it. Talk about CREEPY.
I was just curious that you seem to be an avid reader, but it seems that you always read fiction. Why? You seem to read very fast, so why don’t you take books out of the public library (I am assuming they have public libraries in Alabama) (Don’t mean to sound snobbish). Thanks.
I do read the occasional non-fiction, but yeah – mostly I read fiction. That’s just what I prefer, because I like to be told a story in a way that most non-fiction doesn’t tell them. Like I said, though, I do like non-fiction every now and then, but it depends on the author or the subject matter. I particularly like Rick Bragg’s
Ava’s Man and Haven Kimmel’s
A Girl Named Zippy is a particular favorite. I have at least one and maybe two books by Augusten Burroughs that I haven’t read yet, but I’m looking forward to reading them. I’ve read most everything Ann Rule has written. I don’t read political stuff because it mostly annoys me and I usually don’t read biographies or autobiographies unless I’m particularly interested in the subject and think I might learn something interesting about their life – or unless I’ve heard really good things about the book. My usual rule when reading a book is that if it doesn’t engage me by page 25, it goes into the donation box. With non-fiction, I usually only give it about 10 pages. Because if you can’t get my interest in the first 10 pages of a book about your life story, that’s a pretty boring life you’ve got going on, there.
I don’t take books out of the public library (and Madison has a really good one) mostly because I like to read a book when I feel like reading it, and if I have a book that’s due back at the library in two weeks, it makes me feel like I can’t take my time enjoying it.
(Of course, I don’t think it ever takes me two weeks to read a book, but it’s the principle of the thing!)
I like to add books to my wish list so that I’ll remember I want to read them, and when we get a little unexpected money, the first thing we always want to do is buy a bunch of stuff at Amazon. I look at my bookcase of to-be-read books, and it just makes me happy. I love books, and I love the fact that it would probably take me a year of reading to clear off that bookcase.
Plus, having a wish list full of the books I want to read makes it easy when Christmas rolls around and people want to know what I want for Christmas!
You (or Fred?) had a recipe (or instructions?) for cooking oat bran. I used to enjoy it, but when I tried to make it from memory, it tasted like ass. Could you post it (them?) again? Sorry I can’t be more specific.
Except for the
oat bran muffins recipe, I absolutely do not remember an oat bran recipe at all. I think that Fred just takes the oat bran, adds water, throws in a handful of berries, and cooks as long as the package directs. He might add some Splenda, too.
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Meester Boogers does his Donald Trump impression.
“Yer FIRED!”
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