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[wombat]

Yesterday I'm gonna...come across some Tim Tams, and buy them partly because they were mentioned here.

I noted on the package that they are actually made in Australia, rather than being an American imitation, so since I could be sure it was the real thing it seemed worth a try. They are intriguing. They are not quite like any American cookie. The chocolate tastes different, the way American and European chocolate are consistently differently, but not quite like either. The texture of the cookie is light and crunchy in an excellent way. I usually think that a sandwich cookie dipped in chocolate is repulsive overkill, but apparently there is a way to do this right, even when both the cookie and filling are already chocolate too.

And then suddenly discover that I have an awful cold. How can your throat go from fine to hurting almost instantaneously? I have not had a cold for over a year and a half since I started working full time at home. This is what I get for deciding to get out of the house and work a few hours a week somewhere where human beings are walking in and out all day breathing germs on me.

These points are related because, when you're sick you're allowed to have cookies for breakfast, right?

[Doc]

In fact this could be to your advantage. The optimal way of eating a tim tam (so I'm told because I don't really go for it myself) is to take a bite out of each end and then use as a sort of straw to suck coffee or tea, the hot fluid melts the filling as you suck. I mention this because I'm sure hot fluids are good for a cold and obviously you want to use the best delivery mechanism available.

[linnea]

...sign my name and officially become a landlord.

heh...lord...heh-heh-heh

Dayum! That's pretty cool.

Today I am baking a delicious chicken. I thought about making the Ruuuude Chicken dish from the first cookbook (I pre-ordered the Cookbook Vol. II and it still hasn't shown up yet because of a Problem), but I decided that I wanted chicken today, not tomorrow (Ruuuude Chicken is brined overnight). My plan is to make some chicken today, use the carcass to make stock, and then make the rest into soup. Awesome.

[greenkoolayd]

Today I am baking a delicious chicken.

save me some! 

[theinevitable]

arrive home after days in philidelphia, NYC, and baltimore. on the way home I saw a truck hit a deer, and saw a VA license plate that said "Zyklon." I spent the rest of the trip fantasizing about beating on the dude driving the zyklon-mobile.

spent a ridiculous amount of my new year's eve on the subway making sure the girlfriend got back to where she was staying safely. I think my round trip was 2.5-3 hours. Part of this is because I picked a stupid train on the way there, but that was the fun part of the trip (sitting on the subway with my girlfriend on new year's eve) and not the unfun part (riding back alone, between men who were yelling at each other, and trying not to look at the puke in the corner).

all in all, I probably could have planned my whole trip a lot better, but it was fun.

[pmcd9]

Trying not to look at the puke in the corner gets a can.  I can relate to that.

[theinevitable]

these loud teenagers in front of me said "when she puked, it looked like someone opened a campbell's soup can."
That was the perfect image.

[dejavroom]

Maybe get a credit card? I hope a cage doesn't fall on me as I walk into the bank...

[smick]

Maybe get my spouse back... maybe?

[greenkoolayd]

Maybe get my spouse back... maybe?

oooof.

[jaydub]

Mother-in-law doesn't want to return her to your clutches?

[smick]

Hah, no.   Her father had some medical problems so I shipped her to him back on the 23rd.   

Her mother was actually visiting us at the time.   She had also signed us up to work a homeless breakfast on Christmas morning.

Mother in town, and scut work looming, she skipped town.  "SO LONG, SUCKERS!"

Anyhoooo:  Her father is in much better condition, so assuming this morning goes well, she'll follow through on her plane tickets home.

[greenkoolayd]

Hah, no.   Her father had some medical problems so I shipped her to him back on the 23rd.   

Her mother was actually visiting us at the time.   She had also signed us up to work a homeless breakfast on Christmas morning.

Mother in town, and scut work looming, she skipped town.  "SO LONG, SUCKERS!"

Anyhoooo:  Her father is in much better condition, so assuming this morning goes well, she'll follow through on her plane tickets home.

i almost thought there were circumstances involved........

[bluemoon72]

...beg for money modern style, via peer-to-peer lending.  Anyone who wants to help fund my request for a $9,650 loan, currently at 16.5% interest to the lender over 3 years, feel free.  You can do so for as low as 25 bucks! 

My credit rating is 717 (Prosper shows it at 760, but I have no idea where they got that from).  I can't get a loan by myself right now through traditional sources due to the coming divorce.  Our shared mortgage payment of $1679 counts against me, giving me an artificial 47% debt-to-income ratio.

http://www.prosper.com/invest/listing.aspx?listingID=440803&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=system_event&utm_source=borrower_listing_created&utm_content=view_listing

[jay-ell]

I might know a guy. Let me get back to you.