IPB Hour Episode Six
May 5, 2008 by Pookie
It’s time again, Gentle Listener, for another episode of the IPB Hour. In this week’s installment we stretch our metaphors for how we feel about the Flyers to ridiculous lengths, review the four second-round series that have just concluded, and spin our wheels while trying to convince ourselves that we don’t care about the Rangers.
You can download this episode or subscribe to the podcast here.
IPB Hour Episode Six; 29 min.
Good morning, IPB! I haven’t had a chance to listen to the podcast yet, but I am sure it is fabulous as always!
Good morning, Caitlin! How’s it going this fine day? Do you feel better having cancelled the root canal?
It’s going well, and yes, I feel considerably better having cancelled the root canal. After reviewing my own paranoid suspicions and sussing it out with Mags, I don’t think it’s necessary, so it’s off to find another dentist. Woo!
I’m trying to be positive this morning but man, oh man, is it dank and gloomy in Dallas. Seriously, it’s almost black outside. Yay for Texas weather.
How are you today, Pookie? Faring alright?
Good morning Caitlin! And good morning to everyone! It’s ridiculously beautiful here today. If I was still in school, I would totally be begging all my teachers to let me have class outside today.
So how did everyone make do without hockey last night? Are we all still emotionally okay? Can we make it two more nights?
Caitlin, I’m glad you feel better :) and I’m sorry the weather sucked. I think we may have stolen your sunshine. My bad.
So how did everyone make do without hockey last night?
It was terrible. I’ve been getting into this rhythm of waking up at 1am to watch the early game and now, because I slept instead, I’m kind of out of it. It doesn’t help that I haven’t really had anything to eat today. Major bummer.
So how is everyone today? Good, I hope.
Caitlin, that seemed very assy of me to write about how nice the weather is here today just as you were complaining about it being dank and gloomy in Dallas. Heh. I guess all y’all Stars fans are going to have to make your own sunshine today! :D
I hear you on the “sleeping too much” thing, Mags. I went to bed early last night and had the hardest time getting up this morning. Oh, and I took a nap after grocery shopping last night. I’m all sleeped up now. I’m ready for more OT marathons!
Schnookie, I can definitely make it two more nights. I’m worn out on playoff hockey and I definitely needed a break. I’m so spent!
I’m glad you feel better :)
Thank you again for all your help!!
Caitlin, that seemed very assy of me to write about how nice the weather is here today just as you were complaining about it being dank and gloomy in Dallas.
Ah, it’s okay! I’m glad someone is having a bright and shiny day! Wait five minutes in Texas and the weather changes, so hopefully it’ll change for the good.
I’m all sleeped up now. I’m ready for more OT marathons!
Hear, hear! Just… not in the Dallas/Detroit series, pleeeaaaase. I’ve recently discovered I am very emotionally invested in the Stars and I like, want to live.
Thank you again for all your help!!
You’re very welcome :)
And hey, if anyone is truly lacking hockey, I hear tell there is also a World Cup going on ;)
I hear tell there is also a World Cup going on ;)
Not on my TV it isn’t. And I’m enough of a dinosaur that I’m not interested in watching on my computer. :P (Hey, I’ve got regular TV shows to catch up on and some conference final previews to write — like Caitlin said, the break is kind of welcome! :D)
And hey, if anyone is truly lacking hockey, I hear tell there is also a World Cup going on ;)
Mags, I’ve been meaning to ask you, is there a way to watch these games in Europe? I just read about how hopped up Pommers is to be playing Roy and Canada, and I’ve decided I need to see this.
Not on my TV it isn’t.
Booooo! Booooo on your TV!
is there a way to watch these games in Europe?
Hey Gambler :) I get them in my extended sports package on Sport1 and Eurosport2, but you can also get them online via the iihf.com website.
Thanks, Mags! Hmmmm, do I spend the 6.95 for the game and risk my internet vetoing me? I think yes. Pommers just sounded so cute and excited on his blog! I think he was pommerdoodling!
Hey, I’ve got regular TV shows to catch up on and some conference final previews to write — like Caitlin said, the break is kind of welcome! :D
Seriously - I’m so behind on movie reviews that it’s not even funny. I got through two of six outstanding last night; not bad, and one had to screencap before sending it back. So I could use the next few days off with no hockey!
I think I should get PAID for this blogging thing. Hmph!
do I spend the 6.95 for the game and risk my internet vetoing me? I think yes.
I think yes too. I don’t get that game on TV and I’m DYING to see it, so whatever.
I think I should get PAID for this blogging thing. Hmph!
Yeah, I keep waiting for that to happen. Why isn’t it happening?
Yeah, I keep waiting for that to happen. Why isn’t it happening?
Good Lord, I don’t know. You’d think someone would start cutting us checks by now, huh?
You’d think someone would start cutting us checks by now, huh?
I know! If someone had told me last March that 500+ posts later I’d still be doing this pro bono, I never would have gotten into it. :P
I never would have gotten into it.
It’s a crazy, mixed-up world out there, that’s for sure.
And hey, the sky is lightening up! Woo! Oh yeah, and my garden has its first official vegetable: one of the jalapeno plants is growing a little, teensy jalapeno. Woo-hoo!
Oh yeah, and my garden has its first official vegetable: one of the jalapeno plants is growing a little, teensy jalapeno. Woo-hoo!
THAT IS SO EXCITING!!!! I’m thrilled for your crop success and your gardening prowess!!! And I can just taste the jalapeno popper now!
You know what’s sad? I hate jalapenos! I hate them a thousand times over. But we have a family member who loves them, so I figured they can have all the peppers.
It’s really sad when I’m like, “You’re really gross tasting, but grow, little plant, grow!”
my garden has its first official vegetable: one of the jalapeno plants is growing a little, teensy jalapeno.
I officially have a craving for tomato/jalapeno pasta now, which means I now know what I’m going to eat for dinner and I can stop being hungry. Thank you, Caitlin’s gardening skillzzzz.
It’s really sad when I’m like, “You’re really gross tasting, but grow, little plant, grow!”
I think that’s how Pookie feels about most of our garden, too. She’s not much of a veggie eater, but she’s still super-excited for things she loathes like beets and carrots. (Actually, she eats most of what we plant — onions, garlic, potatoes, tomatoes, herbs, peppers, hot peppers, peanuts, radishes, lettuce… Just not the root veggies.)
But maybe this will be the jalapeno that you love? :P
Wooo! Go Caitlin’s Jalapeno, GO! I looooove jalapenos! You can mail it to me when it’s ripe! Hee hee!
And I have to say, a tomato/jalapeno pasta sounds delish.
And I have to say, a tomato/jalapeno pasta sounds delish.
It is. Smells good too. At least, I think so, my sister thinks it is gross.
Heh! You’re welcome, Mags!
But maybe this will be the jalapeno that you love?
Perhaps, but unlikely. I’m not a big fan of tomatoes, yet we have cherry tomatoes planted. We planted Vidalia onions, but I know they won’t be as good as the kind you get at the farmer’s market, mainly because Vidalias really do the best in that red clay soil Georgia’s got.
We’ve got bell peppers growing too and something is trying to eat one of my bell pepper plants, so I’m out there every day, turning into Bill Murray from Caddyshack about that bell pepper plant.
Pookie, I will mail you some of the bounty for sure. ;)
In a pretty small bed we fit in 4 tomato plants, 2 jalapeno plants, 2 bell pepper plants and about 25-30 onions. Not too shabby!
Wow — it sounds like an awesome little farm you’ve got going there! I’m so glad that you were willing to cram as much into the bed as you wanted. Our first year with the raised beds we were totally unafraid of crowding our plants; in one 4 x 8 bed we had two tomatillo plants, three tomato plants and two zucchini plants. Then last year we were like, “No, no, we need to leave more space!” It turns out you can actually plant things a lot closer together than we thought. So now we’re planning to shoehorn all kinds of stuff into beds we’d previously thought would hold only, like, two potato plants or something. (Actually, some of our potato seeds didn’t sprout, so we decided to put in some bush beans. Of course, as soon as we’d earmarked the space for the beans, the potatoes sprouted. Oh well! They’ll just have to share the space!)
We’ve got bell peppers growing too and something is trying to eat one of my bell pepper plants, so I’m out there every day, turning into Bill Murray from Caddyshack about that bell pepper plant.
That is THE WORST! Even with our bunny fencing around the garden, we still spend a lot of our time staring obsessively out at the bunnies cavorting in our yard and freaking out that they’re going to get into the veggies somehow. And I spent much of last night studying up on beneficial insects to be ordering online and introducing to our yard to eat the pests. Yeah, that’s right — we’re going to be ordering ladybugs online. Damn aphids!
Mags, I make a raw tomato and jalapeno pasta sauce in the summer when we’re getting nice heirloom tomatoes, and I want you to know that this talk of your pasta recipe is driving me batty! I can taste the fresh sauce, but it’s still MONTHS AWAY! You’re killing me! :D
Morning all!
Caitlin, I’m so excited about your garden! Homegrown tomatoes are so so much better than anything you can buy so you may be surprised at how much you like your cherry tomatoes! For future reference, A&M has developed a type of sweet onion called the 1015 that may grow better here. Ookies, Dad was always ordering insects in the mail for his garden. My favorite was the Praying Mantis!
On the dentist thing, I can give you the name of my sister’s dentist in Dallas, if you want me to email it to you. I don’t think you’d want to drive all the way out here for mine, but he is great and gorgeous (extra bonus!). :)
My favorite was the Praying Mantis!
We were looking at the Praying Mantises online last night, too! We don’t think we’re up to needing those yet — it’s mostly just aphids right now that we’re dealing with. But two years ago we noticed the cats were staring at the window in the living room in a state of shock and awe, and sure enough, there on the screen was a praying mantis. They’re just so extraordinary! The one that night was almost the size of our cats; they’ve got a lot more “hunting bugs from the wrong side of the window screen” swagger with smaller bugs like moths. Heh.
And Caitlin, Myra’s right — your homegrown cherry tomatoes probably won’t taste anything like grocery store ones!
I don’t think you’d want to drive all the way out here for mine, but he is great and gorgeous (extra bonus!).
Oh, and having a foxy dentist really is an added bonus. My periodontist is totally smokin’, which is the only reason I’m willing to undergo gum grafting. :P
In a pretty small bed we fit in 4 tomato plants, 2 jalapeno plants, 2 bell pepper plants and about 25-30 onions. Not too shabby!
You go, Caitlin! Nice! 4 tomato plants eh? You guys are gonna be elbows deep in those things come June.
Then last year we were like, “No, no, we need to leave more space!” It turns out you can actually plant things a lot closer together than we thought.
Dude, we crammed so much shit into ours. I think I’ve mentioned before that I am not a very good gardener, so now that I actually have some space to plant, it’s survival of the fittest up in that mother. We’ve got 2 tomatos, spaghetti squash, lemon cucumbers, 4 kinds of peppers, corn, yellow crookneck squash, 2 kinds of basil, and potatoes. It’s a jungle in there.
Okay, Mags, I’ve been reduced to a quivering heap as I’m imagining jalapeno/tomato pasta. Please let me know how you make yours!
so now that I actually have some space to plant, it’s survival of the fittest up in that mother.
HAHAHA!!! I am so going to use that as my motto going forward! No more wimpy “conservatively following the planting guidelines on the seed package” for me! Your vegetable jungle sounds outrageously good, though, andrew! (Pookie’s been reading up on companion planting lately, and she stumbled across a suggestion to thin out the leaves at the bottom of your tomatoes to plant lettuce in the high summer. That way the lettuce is shaded, and you’re getting fresh “L” for your BLTs! I can’t WAIT to stuff our tomato bed to the gills with lettuces.)
Myra, thanks for the suggestion on the 1015 and the dentist! I’m glad to try the dentist, if you don’t mind shooting his contact info my way.
I’m so excited for my garden, too! We’re already deviously plotting ways to make more space for garden beds. Great. I’ve started another addiction!
I’m thinking the onions and tomatoes I will like more because A) I grew them myself and B) they’ve got to taste different than that bland crap you buy at the grocery store. I really wish there was a way to grow fruit that didn’t involve sprawling vines, but hey, you do the best you can.
4 tomato plants eh? You guys are gonna be elbows deep in those things come June.
Here’s hoping! I’ve been delaying planting some pole beans, so now I think I might have waited too long to plant green beans or anything like that, because we still have room in the beds. If I can reclaim my camera from a family member, I will totally take pictures.
I really wanted to plant zuchinni, too, but we ran out of room.
Good afternoon, everyone.
Oh, and having a foxy dentist really is an added bonus. My periodontist is totally smokin’, which is the only reason I’m willing to undergo gum grafting.
My dentist is not so much with the smoking hot, but he has a thick Russian accent that reminds me a ton of Ovie or Malkin. In this case, awesome accent is a reasonable substitution for smoking hot.
I’m so excited for my garden, too! We’re already deviously plotting ways to make more space for garden beds. Great. I’ve started another addiction!
WOO HOOO!!! Can’t have too many addictions! And isn’t it great how, as soon as all the plants are in, you suddenly start greedily eyeing all the space elsewhere in the yard, thinking of all the ways you could expand the garden even further?
(I bet you still have plenty of time to plant green beans, by the way. What’s the worst thing that happens? They don’t bear any bumper crops for you? Oh well! Lessons learned, right? :D)
In this case, awesome accent is a reasonable substitution for smoking hot.
I would totally take an awesome accent in place of hottitude in a dentist. That’s definitely a good trade-off.
No more wimpy “conservatively following the planting guidelines on the seed package” for me!
That’s the spirit! I figure the strongest plants will make it, and that’s okay by me.
Oh yeah, and I also have randomly sewn seeds throughout, for bug/bird/bee encouragement. They’re starting to sprout now too. Yikes.
Pookie’s been reading up on companion planting lately
Me too! I have my chaotic bed all put together so that the proper plants are next to each other. Or far away from each other!
I have my chaotic bed all put together so that the proper plants are next to each other. Or far away from each other!
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Our first year with the garden we literally didn’t do any research. We just planted stuff, and whatever worked worked. We’re trying to get back into that spirit a bit this year, since the more we’ve learned, the more we’re freaking out about stuff going wrong. We need to return to the “we just throw shit in the ground and see what grows” mentality!
Caitlin, I just left a message with my sister to get the dentist info, I’ll email you as soon as she gets that to me.
Gardening is totally an addiction. Both my grandmothers and my dad were great gardeners and their gardens always got bigger every year. My sister has been big into flower gardening but is just now starting to grow vegetables.
Andrew is right with four plants ya’ll are going to have tons of cherry tomatoes! Lucky!
Andrew, what are lemon cucumbers? Everything you planted sounds wonderful. All this gardening talk is making me hungry!
Okay, Mags, I’ve been reduced to a quivering heap as I’m imagining jalapeno/tomato pasta. Please let me know how you make yours!
I’m sorry! I went away for food shopping and cooking and then spent 15 minutes trying to convince Tom that eating vegetables won’t kill him and jalapenos really aren’t that hot. I’ll type out the recipe card and email you, ok?
Y’all and your hot dentists. My dentist isn’t hot, doesn’t have an awesome accent, but he likes me. So whatever.
Our first year with the garden we literally didn’t do any research. We just planted stuff, and whatever worked worked.
You know, that’s a great way to do it. I did a bunch of research this year, but I still told Tracie, “Whatever happens happens. I’m not expecting a damn thing.” That way, whatever we get is just peachy.
Andrew, what are lemon cucumbers? Everything you planted sounds wonderful.
Thanks Myra! I’ll take pictures eventually and you guys can laugh at my overcrowded shit.
Lemon cucumbers are just a variety of cucumber that are small and round and yellow…uh, like a lemon. They’re really good, they have a bit more flavor than a regular cucumber, like a little bit of a citrusy zest. Super tasty.
Oooh, everyone’s gardens sound so lovely (and Amy’s dentist sounds hot)! I’m really excited to put the yellow pear tomato plant a coworker gave me yesterday in with the hot peppers. Apparently basil grown with the hot peppers will give the peppers the humidity they want, and basil grown with tomatoes makes them taste better, and tomatoes and peppers are perfect bug attractors/detractors for each other! I’m going to call that bed “Teamwork Makes It Happen”. Hee hee!
Y’all and your hot dentists. My dentist isn’t hot, doesn’t have an awesome accent, but he likes me. So whatever.
My last dentist was hotter than donut grease. But since I’m deathly afraid of the dental chair I think I saw her like, twice. I try to take good care of my teeth so that I never have to go….I’m that bad.
I did a bunch of research this year, but I still told Tracie, “Whatever happens happens. I’m not expecting a damn thing.”
That’s the approach I’m trying to take. The problem is I think I’m learning that we did awesomely the first year because we had no bugs. But now that the garden is established, the bugs have sought it out. We didn’t have any aphids at all the first year. Now they’re eating our Habeneros down to nothing. We didn’t have wire worms, but since planting potatoes, there they are. So I’m stressing a little bit that we can’t be quite as laissez faire as the first go around. But I’m also trying to remind myself that we’re not growing this stuff because we have to, and whatever works will work and whatever doesn’t, doesn’t.
I went away for food shopping and cooking and then spent 15 minutes trying to convince Tom that eating vegetables won’t kill him and jalapenos really aren’t that hot. I’ll type out the recipe card and email you, ok?
The “jalapenos aren’t that hot” thing is hard to drum home, isn’t it? Boomer was so funny when she moved back East with us, because she was pretty convinced, having grown up on Midwestern food during the ’50s, that anything with the word “pepper” or “chile” in its name is hot. Including bell peppers. It’s been an uphill battle convincing her that she likes most of the allegedly “hot” things I make; sometimes it’s just best not to mention there’s a jalapeno in something. :D (And thanks so much for sending the recipe!)
“Whatever happens happens. I’m not expecting a damn thing.” That way, whatever we get is just peachy.
It’s like with hockey! If you go in expecting the worst, everything good that happens is a welcome surprise!
(andrew, the lemon cukes sound really good.)
I try to take good care of my teeth so that I never have to go….I’m that bad.
Awww, I’m sorry! There are specialised dentists for that sort of thing, but I bet you know that :)
Apparently basil grown with the hot peppers will give the peppers the humidity they want, and basil grown with tomatoes makes them taste better, and tomatoes and peppers are perfect bug attractors/detractors for each other!
All the plants you listed just reminded me of something I saw in the paper the other day in an article about getting kids to garden. Apparently, one of the best things to do is grow a “pizza garden,” where you can plant tomatoes, peppers, basil, and any other fun veggie-related pizza toppings. The kids learn not only about gardening, but also about cooking, so its a win-win situation.
My last dentist was hotter than donut grease.
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I definitely want to see pictures of everyone’s gardens! Maybe I’ll be inspired…..hmmmm. Probably not! I’m terrible at it, took after my mom. But I can cook!
Amy, a pizza garden sounds AWESOME! I keep trying to get Schnookie to grill a pizza but she strangely refuses. I’m fairly confident I’m competent enough in the kitchen to make dough and then put a pizza together, but… I’m lazy.
A pizza garden is SUCH a cute idea! And a delicious idea. :D
I have refused to grill pizzas because I’m lazy, too. Is that really so hard to understand, Pookie?
It’s like with hockey! If you go in expecting the worst, everything good that happens is a welcome surprise!
Exactly! And Pookie, I hear ya…the bugs make it so that you can’t take a laid back approach. That’s a drag. You guys seem to live in a fairly wooded area though, lots of wildlife and stuff. That can’t help! Luckily I practically live in a wasteland, there’s just fields as far as the eye can see, hopefully the bugs will stay away for a while.
There are specialised dentists for that sort of thing, but I bet you know that :)
Yeah, pain-free dentists? I gotcha Mags…They’re called “dentists that aren’t anywhere near my face.”
They’re called “dentists that aren’t anywhere near my face.”
ZING!
Luckily I practically live in a wasteland, there’s just fields as far as the eye can see, hopefully the bugs will stay away for a while.
That’s what I thought when we lived in AZ. The house was a new build, in the middle of the desert, with nothing but acres of ashphalt and saguaros for miles around. Then I put in one pot of pepper plants and one pot of tomatoes and BOOM! Tomato worms and aphids. Damn bugs!
Apparently, one of the best things to do is grow a “pizza garden,”
Awesome :D
Yeah, pain-free dentists? I gotcha Mags…They’re called “dentists that aren’t anywhere near my face.”
*sigh* Men ;) (no joke, men are more likely to be afraid of dentists than women). But seriously, I understand. And I’m sorry.
I have refused to grill pizzas because I’m lazy, too. Is that really so hard to understand…
Grilled pizzas just remind me so much of Sandra Lee.
Grilled pizzas just remind me so much of Sandra Lee.
She’s really been making a lot of them lately. Did you see the barbecue chicken one she made a few weeks ago that had sliced apples on it? Our collective shrieks of horror were loud enough that they probably startled our neighbors.
Grilled pizzas just remind me so much of Sandra Lee.
Did you see the one she made a few weeks ago that had like 8,000 apple slices on it?! Could that have been more digusting?!
Oops, sorry! Schnookie beat me to it! The last few episodes have been extraordinary.
Grilled pizzas just remind me so much of Sandra Lee.
Did you see the one she made a few weeks ago that had like 8,000 apple slices on it?! Could that have been more digusting?!
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew.
No kidding! It was apple slices and barbecue sauce!
You two really think alike! I did see that grilled pizza. It was nineteen kinds of wrong.
I was shocked last week by her No-Bake Wedding Cake. Who would spend that much money on undecorated bakery cakes and decorated cutouts to assemble a “cake?”
(no joke, men are more likely to be afraid of dentists than women)
That’s fine with me. And it’s not necessarily the dentist that is scary, it’s the pain that comes with visiting said dentist.
Then I put in one pot of pepper plants and one pot of tomatoes and BOOM! Tomato worms and aphids.
That is one thing that I’m sure we’ll have a problem with, tomato worms. We have lots and lots of moths, so I’m sure the worms are soon to follow. Squash bugs too.
No kidding! It was apple slices and barbecue sauce!
Are you trying to make me throw up? Listen, I know you’re bitter about your lack of tomato/jalapeno awesomeness, but that is no reason to deprive me of mine!
Who would spend that much money on undecorated bakery cakes and decorated cutouts to assemble a “cake?”
Oh my god, I KNOW! That was just RIDICULOUS! I would get it if it was a real cost-saver, but the cakes and the cookie things were SO expensive, and the end result looked like ASS!
Not only did it look like ass but it looked cheap!
Listen, I know you’re bitter about your lack of tomato/jalapeno awesomeness, but that is no reason to deprive me of mine!
Hee hee! :PPPPP
Squash bugs too.
I live in total denial about squash bugs. In fact, I wouldn’t know a squash bug if it kicked me. I refuse to worry about things that do bad shit to squashes. We have a big patch of dirt at the front corner of our yard, right up on the street, that abuts the most manicured and fussy yard in the neighborhood. So of course we use that spot for our pumpkin/squash patch. And for the last two years we’ve taken the benign neglect approach to pumpkin farming, in that we plant too much in the bed, let it grow to massive proportions, let the whole thing brown and wither with the disastrous effects of powdery mildew and who-knows-what-else, and then we end up with huge harvests of awesome pumpkins.
Our collective shrieks of horror were loud enough that they probably startled our neighbors.
That’s disgusting; utterly disgusting. The woman should be banned from TV. I bet her tablescape crap was enough to make you gag.
Myra, thank you so much! I greatly appreciate it. And hey - I bet your cooking is really good! I’m awful at it. I celebrated the other day because I made scrambled eggs without burning them, poisoning myself or reducing the house to ashes. That’s how bad of a cook I am.
I celebrated the other day because I made scrambled eggs without burning them, poisoning myself or reducing the house to ashes.
Have you ever charred anything in the microwave? Because if you haven’t, you’re a better cook than my sister. I can’t even tell you how often she calls my mother or me and asks me to talk her through making eggs. It is no wonder she’s so thin. She has a gift.
Have you ever charred anything in the microwave?
I charred EZ Mac in the microwave when I put it in without adding water.
They just said on The Ticket/Bad radio that they are going to show all of the Stars playoff games on the big screens in Victory Park with Ralph and Razor doing the commentary. Since we do not have Versus, I think we may have to check it out. Might be fun.
Ladies, I burn things in the microwave occasionally, it really isn’t hard to do because just a few seconds can kill ya. I take a very simple approach to cooking. If you want your hubbie/kid to eat their veggies, don’t over cook them and use some real butter (not too much) on them. Real butter can work miracles!
Ladies, I burn things in the microwave occasionally, it really isn’t hard to do because just a few seconds can kill ya.
It’s true! It’s easier to burn stuff in the microwave that it is to burn in the oven or on a stove, I find. The science of how a microwave cooks things is a total mystery to me, and if I’m doing anything more intense than melting butter or gently reheating something, I’m kind of lost with my microwave.
Since we do not have Versus, I think we may have to check it out. Might be fun.
Yay, that’s exciting! That sounds like something I would want to go to. If you can’t get tickets, just sit your butt outside the AAC!
Have you ever charred anything in the microwave?
I sure haven’t, which does make me feel significantly better.
I’m kind of lost with my microwave.
The microwave and I are bestest friends. I wouldn’t have survived high school/college days without a microwave - sad, yet true.
The microwave and I are bestest friends.
Hee hee! I’m actually a complete microwave nincompoop. I can’t even defrost things with it. Pookie and I didn’t even have one for the first 18 months we lived in our first house. We didn’t want to take up any counterspace with it, since we only use it for softening butter, so we didn’t have one until we got a microhood in our kitchen remodel. So there’s an element of cooking that you do WAY better than me, Caitlin!
And I think watching the Stars games on a big screen outside the AAC would be AWESOME!
Have you ever charred anything in the microwave?
I charred EZ Mac in the microwave when I put it in without adding water.
My brother once charred a camera in the microwave. At least I assume it charred before it melted, anyway. The worst thing about really burning things in the microwave though is that then it smells for ages.
Good morning/afternoon!
All your vegetable gardens sound delicious! I’ve never got into gardening, but maybe I could if I got to grow stuff like that.
I’m totally pommerdoodling for the Canada/US game! Nash/Getzi/Heater is one smoking line!
And only 46 more days until the draft and 56 until free agency. YAY :D
And I think watching the Stars games on a big screen outside the AAC would be AWESOME!
You’d still get the thrill of the crowd and it’s free. Free is good in impending lay-off-land.
Meg, every time I put something in the microwave now, I think of that story about your brother nuking a camera. That’s just remarkable! (I’ll take your word on it about the aroma. It’s bad enough at work when I go to reheat my lunch after someone zapped some seafood. I don’t want to know what a camera would smell like.)
And only 46 more days until the draft and 56 until free agency. YAY :D
Sheesh! The summer’s practically over already! :P
The worst thing about really burning things in the microwave though is that then it smells for ages.
Tell me about it. I wasn’t thinking one day and put one of those plastic melamine cereal bowls in the microwave. Burnt plastic smell for weeks.
And Meg, why did your brother put a “camera” in the microwave?
My brother once charred a camera in the microwave.
…A camera?
That’s gotta smell awful!
You’d still get the thrill of the crowd and it’s free. Free is good in impending lay-off-land.
Concurred! Hope you guys are doing okay! I wonder how they’re doing that - maybe one of the weekend games the Dallas internet folk could all go down there to watch a game together.
The summer’s practically over already! :P
I know! :P
I can cook pasta. That’s about it. Heh. Willie Mitchell was on the radio right after the end of the season, and they were asking him something about food, and they asked him if he cooks. Willie was like “Well I barbecue!” Hee.
It’s bad enough at work when I go to reheat my lunch after someone zapped some seafood.
Ugh, I hate that!
Ugh, I hate that!
Even worse than zapping food after someone’s been in the microwave before you with seafood is trying to boil water for tea in a seafood-contaminated microwave. I tried that once and ended up with shrimp-flavored jasmine tea, and promptly (as in “THAT AFTERNOON”) bought an electric kettle for my office’s breakroom.
…maybe one of the weekend games the Dallas internet folk could all go down there to watch a game together.
Sounds good to me!
We’ll know for sure about the job during the first week of June. They are sitting each employee down and offering job somewhere else or a package. :(
I’m absessing over hockey to keep my mind off it. Thank God the Stars have continued in the playoffs!
It’s bad enough at work when I go to reheat my lunch after someone zapped some seafood.
I can’t stand reheated seafood, if we have leftovers they get tossed. Yuck!
We’ll know for sure about the job during the first week of June. They are sitting each employee down and offering job somewhere else or a package. :(
That sucks so bad. I’m so sorry, Myra! I hope nothing but the best for you guys!
That is DISGUSTING, Schnookie! Poor you.
I was just taking a peek over at ModFan, and Mike Richards wears Chuck Taylors?!?! I think I might love him. Chuck Taylors are what started my long ago crush on Bertuzzi (before the whole Steve Moore fiasco, and when he used to knock pucks over the glass to little kids during warm ups). He was wearing them at a photo shoot.
I tried that once and ended up with shrimp-flavored jasmine tea
That is making me nauseous.
We’ll know for sure about the job during the first week of June. They are sitting each employee down and offering job somewhere else or a package. :(
Aww, Myra! I’m so sorry. Good luck.
Chuck Taylors are what started my long ago crush on Bertuzzi
So what you’re trying to tell me is that “wearing Chuck Taylors to a photo shoot” is not a very good measure of a hockey player’s lovability? :P
So what you’re trying to tell me is that “wearing Chuck Taylors to a photo shoot” is not a very good measure of a hockey player’s lovability? :P
Hee! I know Bert’s a thug and a shell of a man now, but back in the day, BSM, he was a piece! He was funny, he was on a Cop show filmed in Vancouver, he loved Nazzy, he was snarky to the media, and he was totally awesome to little kids. But I don’t like him anymore…you don’t have to shun me :D
WHOOOO! Gerbe signed with the Sabres this afternoon! And the team isn’t moving, despite what the Toronto Sun says! WHOOO!
Thanks for the sympathy guys. Because Hubbie is incredibly frugal we are in good shape financially (ie. no cable, small house). I’m just praying we don’t have to move. For all its stereotypes, I love this little suburb.
Back to hockey. I started off my day well when they did a telephone interview with Otter on the local news. It just cracks me up that he sounds like the sweetest little 12-year-old! They are interviewing Ribeiro on the radio right now.
YAY for little Sabre Gerbe! The Toronto Sun also says our new GM is a creep. What do they know!
The Toronto Sun also says our new GM is a creep. What do they know!
HA! They also tend to think the Leafs are Cup contenders. Clearly they aren’t the most reputable source of information.
Oh my goodness! Those non-WordPress ID icons are…dazzlingly bright, non?
Whoa! Are those replacing the ghostly bust?
Are those replacing the ghostly bust?
Pookie, I think so. I saw ‘em introduced first on my blog dashboard, but not on the sites themselves until right now.
Huh. How fitting is it that andrew’s little icon is teal?!
Pookie, you have your choice of snowball guy, dazzlingly bright icons or monsters to show up as avatars for people who aren’t logged into wordpress.
WOAH, what in the name of Baby Hockey Jesus is going on here?
I had no idea we control the default avatars!
Now you’re all monsters! Bwah-ha-ha-ha!
I don’t think I like the monsters.
I don’t think I like the monsters.
I like ‘em! Just seeing ‘em change over super fast confused me a whole bunch, though. Heh.
WHOOOO! Gerbe signed with the Sabres this afternoon!
But! But! The Sabres were wasting time! They were lowballing him! He was going to go back to school and then go UFA! The Sabres were trying really hard to screw him over! What happened?! (Suck it, TBN and some fans. You know who you are.)
How strange. My monster tree thing is kind of cute.
Hee! Zach has apparently finally learned how to not spit when he talks without his two front teeth.
The monsters are terrible!
After much deliberation, Schnookie and I have made the drastic and brave choice of neither monsters nor bright patterns. Caitlin, fear not! The bright patterns will be going away, I promise!
HA! They also tend to think the Leafs are Cup contenders. Clearly they aren’t the most reputable source of information.
HA! No kidding!
Caitlin, fear not! The bright patterns will be going away, I promise!
Heh! Neither one bothers me! It was just a shock to go from snowmen to bright to monsters! I feel all whiny and wrong now…
Ah, that’s better!
So, anyway, Zach no longer sounds like the Banana Grabber? How sad!
I feel bad allowing WordPress to assign avatars to those of you who have chosen not to have avatars or WordPress accounts or whatever. That seems sort of cheesy, even if it makes skimming long comment threads easier.
I feel bad allowing WordPress to assign avatars to those of you who have chosen not to have avatars or WordPress accounts or whatever. That seems sort of cheesy, even if it makes skimming long comment threads easier.
Well, at least now I no longer feel highly rotund and disproportional :P. Now I’m just…a green pattern.
I feel all whiny and wrong now…
No, no! It was more Schnookie whining than you, to be honest… :D She feels very strongly that you shouldn’t be assigned a picture; if you want one, you’ll set one! She’s always looking out for you guys!
Now I’m just…a green pattern.
And even the green pattern was but a fleeting moment of WordPress-enforced “self”-identification. Heh.
Aw, dang I just missed getting one! Oh well.
Speaking of disproportional, I actually. You know how your arm-span is supposed to be your height? Yeah, my arms totally miss the mark by a little.
Awww, Myra, I’m sorry about the job thing, but I’m glad you seem to be dealing with it ok.
Zach has apparently finally learned how to not spit when he talks without his two front teeth.
Awww, that is so cute! Waaaaay back (ok, 4 years ago) when I was in a car accident it took me MONTHS to get used to my new teeth. But then, I had braces to line everything up again.
skimming long comment threads
You SKIM?! Scandalous!
You SKIM?! Scandalous!
No, no! That’s not it at all! Skimming when you’re going back to find a comment from earlier! THAT’S NOT WHAT I MEANT! WAAAAAH!!!! :P
Heh. I was just thinking to myself how well Paulie was skating, and then he let Heatley outmuscle him and score. Whoops.
Mags, that’s pretty awesome you have fake teeth. You’re hard core. But sorry you were in a car accident.
No, no! That’s not it at all! Skimming when you’re going back to find a comment from earlier! THAT’S NOT WHAT I MEANT! WAAAAAH!!!! :P
Ooooooooh. Well, if you’re sure ;)
and then he let Heatley outmuscle him and score. Whoops.
Go Heater!
You SKIM?! Scandalous!
Skimming? On IPB? The nerve!
Paulie has some grand plan, I’m sure of it! He wouldn’t let Heater score unless he had a reason! A very good reason!
EEEE!!! Zach just scored!
I was just thinking to myself how well Paulie was skating, and then he let Heatley outmuscle him and score. Whoops.
I saw that. That was… not very good.
And it isn’t very hard core at all, Alix. Smacked my face on the dashboard :)
Sherry, your avatar is awesome! :D
And Paulie is probably just setting up a trap for Heatley somewhere down the road. You don’t just outmuscle Paulie and score without suffering the wrath of a young gopher army. Heatley’s going to regret this. Hugely.
ZACHZACHZACH!!!
And I’m sure you’re right about Paulie, Pookie. Clearly he’s just letting Canada get into a false sense of security, and then he’ll strike with his army of pancakes and pot brownies!
Ok, Alix, are you messing with me? Because on my internet feed Toews just got one…
Hmmm…I’m almost positive Pierre was crowing about Parise. Interesting…
Nevermind, it’s just a few minutes behind.
Speaking of Paulie, I have my Dad on the phone and he has the bright plan that he should the the Devils’ Captain next year. I’m not sure how I feel about that.
Ok! I’ll try to wait a minute before I screech things out :D
Don’t worry about it :)
I figure I’d stick with the whole ‘Senators are Storm Troopers’ theme :P
Come on Heater…how about another Hattie? :D Seriously, somebody explain to me what the heck happened that he decided to finally wake up all of a sudden. Come on.
I’m almost positive Pierre was crowing about Parise.
Oh, that’s just par for the course. Pierre is ALWAYS crowing about Zach.
And Paulie shouldn’t be the Devils captain as long as Madden’s on the team. (I can’t believe I just said that. Although I’m beginning to think the guys who have been snubbed for the C are better captains than the guys who are wearing it. See: Patty in 2006 and Madden this past season.)
And Paulie shouldn’t be the Devils captain as long as Madden’s on the team. (I can’t believe I just said that.
Schnookie, I said the same thing. It may be crazy, but at least we’re not alone in our crazy.
but at least we’re not alone in our crazy.
Heh. Safety in numbers!
Staffy has an assist :)
Why is Pierre still talking about the year Ward won the cup and got married? That is like so….two years ago. (It’s two right?)
Although I’m beginning to think the guys who have been snubbed for the C are better captains than the guys who are wearing it. See: Patty in 2006 and Madden this past season.
So some total shlub should get it this year to drive everyone nuts. Someone like… Zach! Just kidding. It should totally be Vish-Dog.
Why is Pierre still talking about the year Ward won the cup and got married? That is like so….two years ago.
Oh no! If Ward ever becomes relevant again, that is SO going to be his LLWS.
So some total shlub should get it this year to drive everyone nuts. Someone like… Zach! Just kidding. It should totally be Vish-Dog.
That is an amazingly brilliant idea. Give Brookbank the C and then watch Madden, Langer and Patty tearing up the league to prove what a mistake it was not to give it to them instead.
I’m sorry, Langer? Don’t you mean Morrow? :P
I’m sorry, Langer? Don’t you mean Morrow? :P
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Right! And Vinny. He fits into this somewhere, too.
Mmmm…Vinny.
Apparently Nazzy has been showing Pavol Demitra around Vancouver. I don’t think he’s pretty enough though. I would prefer it if Nazzy were showing Patty Marleau around instead.
Oh! It’s 5:00! See y’all later!
I’m sorry, Langer? Don’t you mean Morrow?
Hey, Hey, dream on sisters! We have him locked up! Don’t even go there! :P
Pominville could have chosen to play for either Canada or USA. He chose USA. Traitor! (In all reality, he probably gets more ice time with USA anyways).
I would prefer it if Nazzy were showing Patty Marleau around instead.
Only if Nazzy wasn’t grooming him as his replacement. Any word on what Nazzy’s plans are?