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alfreda89 ([personal profile] alfreda89) wrote2008-11-19 02:43 pm

BIts & Pieces

Have saved a few things:

* Who would have thought it? Roasted barley tea is extremely nutritious. Georgette Heyer and Alton Brown speaketh the truth! And the tea tastes very much like coffee. I think I read once that it was a coffee substitute during WW2?

* Local folk -- I have my DVD of the Lyme documentary UNDER OUR SKIN back in hand, and it may be borrowed by folk of careful habits. It's "A dramatic tale of microbes, medicine and money" and worth seeing...if only to make tick checks mandatory on kids, dogs, cats and adults (don't forget in the hair!)

* HAD TO LOL DEPT. -- Saw a post on a political blog where someone commented that they'd been insomniac for eight years, ever since the birth of the first child. He's been sleeping like a log for a week, ever since the election. I think it's been part of my sleeping problem, too -- why we all thought we needed to be alert for the administration pulling a fast one, maybe that's hubris -- or maybe our ancestors would say: "Well, you've got a rattlesnake den somewhere on the property. If you can't find them and evict them, you gotta keep an eye peeled and a gun or hoe at your side..." ;^)

* OH DEAR UNIVERSE the January, 2009 Fine Cooking magazine has a flourless chocolate pomegranate cake on the cover! I sense buckling during the coming holidays.... And then there's the famous Pumpkin Cheesecake that [livejournal.com profile] sparkylibrarian introduced me to, and I tweaked to perfection (pecan crust adds a lot!)

* Third cat check -- even Maisie won't eat any of these cat treats I'd tried to interest Max in...she went so far as to return to food from this am that she'd ignored and eat it!

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2008-11-19 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you need an expert? ;^)
lagilman: coffee or die (Default)

[personal profile] lagilman 2008-11-20 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
I think you pretty much covered it all...

(I'm still sore after yesterday's session, but 'sore' beats the hell out of "I can't move, there's a steel rebar running from shoulder to shoulder" which is where I was on Sunday.... And yeah, I know. Regular sessions...)

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2008-11-20 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
I simply schedule every month and miss plays and really expensive dinners. I must have hand and arm work to get through all this....
lagilman: coffee or die (meerkat meh)

[personal profile] lagilman 2008-11-20 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
A) first I had to -find- someone in the new location, then b) I had to scrape up the cash after paying &^%$ taxes..

Expensive dinners? Wassat?

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2008-11-20 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
It's what we used to do every month or so before we became starving artists.

Those meercats look like bedroom slippers....