1. I must be the only person here who has never had Boston Cream Pie and has no desire to have any in the future.
2. PUMPKIN is friggin' awesome. It's healthy!
3. Coffee cake is only really good if it's a Drake's. Twin-pack in cellophane. Gettin' squished in my lunch box.
4. I voted for German Chocolate because it's "chocolate" and there's no plain old regular choc layer cake on here. But I've never had GC and after looking at photos, I want to change my vote. =(
@LikeChai: THIS is why I voted for German chocolate. I've never had it, but there is no decent CHOCOLATE representation here! Where's the chocolate mousse cake? Death by chocolate? This was a disaster from the get-go.
@Oceanic: THIS was the exact conversation I had with my roommate last night. She thought maybe it was his mother's and he carries it around all the time (like the letter he wrote). I said maybe there's a silversmith on the Island. Or maybe they had jewelry parties?
@NewsBunny: Yes, I am THIS COLD. I'm one of those freezing-all-the-time people. After existing for 28 years in New England you'd think I'd be used to by now, but no. I'm Queen Frostine.
The phrase "over the moon."
@UrbanAchiever: But you have to pronounce it "Spikuh."
@pantsless economist...access RESTORED: "If you're not usin Spikuh, you don' have a blowout!"
OK, the appendectomy scars anecdote made me "aww" out loud.
Co-ed showering will be the norm in the future. Just look at Starship Troopers.
This is too much! 2009, I'm done with you.
@ThatParticularDisaster: As someone who suffers from anxiety and panic disorder, knowing that young people "die of natural causes quite often" freaks me the fuck out. My father died of a heart attack at forty, though I think it was drug-related. Can't all the young people deaths please, please, PLEASE be drug-related so I don't kill myself worrying???
Let me grab a Pantone swatch book so I can be prepared the next time someone asks me what "color" I am.
@wealhtheow: I make fun-shaped pillows and other little doo-dads like magnets, patches, and ornaments. I have a billion ideas but never any time to implement them. So I'll just have to live a little light for a while, but I'm also excited about more sewing time!
#groupthink
Well, this certainly sucks.
I saw a job posting on craigslist this weekend for MY job. I did think perhaps they're hiring an additional person, or maybe one of the other team members is leaving, but I got the call tonight...I'm done.
I was a contractor/temp, which made me incredibly disposable. I did great work, but recently I effed up and forgot to send a couple of important emails. And I didn't really get along with a couple of people in the office.
I feel okay. I'll find something else. Probably try to do some freelancing from home so I don't have to be around so many people. Also, I have no excuse not to work on my craft business. That's a good thing! My personal work is, of course, very close to my heart and I've been neglecting it lately.
So does anyone else have any shitty termination stories? Anyone else really dislike offices and people and would much rather work in a fortress of solitude?
#groupthink
Ooo! I knew a Natasha. She was very petite, with long blond hair and freckles. She masked her daintiness with black eyeliner and dark red lipstick. She wore JNCOs with a wallet chain, did drugs, drank, and had a mom who didn't care who was sleeping over. My best friend used her as an excuse. She would sneak around with her boyfriend and then go to Natasha's basement in the middle of the night. Then the "I'm sleeping over at Natasha's house!" lie would be partly true.
This shit needs to be rearranged into a grid, printed out, and hanging on my wall.
@BlondeGoddess: Don't worry; your cat's just making sure you're safe.
@truckasaurus: Yep - I have several pairs of atheist-type friends who refer to themselves as "married" and NOBODY chimes in with, "actually it's a 'civil union' because it wasn't in a church!"
It's just bigots making excuses because they don't want to look in the mirror and face the fact that they actually are wrong, and are bigots.
Maybe some sheltered youth just didn't know what the condoms were for:
"What do you do with these?"
--"You put your prick in 'em!"
"Oh!" (gets out a thumbtack)
@Benevolent_Dictatrix (patently absurd): I was thinking something along the lines of...
@BabyJane: It's beginning to smell a lot like Christmas
Ev'rywhere you go;
Take a sniff in Illinois zoo, trying to sell you
Reindeer poop on necklaces aglow!
