No, the dog pictured above absolutely did not take advantage of the household chaos caused by a kitchen tiling DIY project to snatch a takeout carton containing a half-eaten club sandwich off the coffee table and strew crumbs and bits of partially-masticated food all over the rug. Why do you ask?
And the last thing on earth these two dogs would ever think of doing is invade a spare room when a door was accidentally left ajar to loll, drool and shed all over fresh linens a few days before company is expected.
Bastids!
Open thread to unburden your grievances, rage about NFL games, complain about sneaky bastard pets, insufferable coworkers, moronic neighbors, idiotic family members or whatever.
Baud
I’m skipping the Saints game. My heart has had enough.
Botsplainer
Over at Freeperville, that Sacco chick who tweeted is a brave truth teller who is getting picked on for being politically incorrect…
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3104247/posts
Cassidy
I am absolutely disappointed in how the NSA took over the country with there super ninjas and that war we have going in in Syria.
raven
4th and season for the Cowboys. The Red Zone rocks!
Corner Stone
I’m disappointed we haven’t seen any more drawings by your dumbest chicken.
raven
Yea, the 1pm games didn’t mean shit.
Corner Stone
I’m also a little disappointed the USG has decided to just flat out lie about killing all those civilians in Yemen who were attending a wedding party.
Corner Stone
I’m also disappointed the bullshit budget deal rewarded the DoD but fucked over the most vulnerable.
But somehow we had no choice but to agree to that then do OFA webmercials about extending UI.
Corner Stone
Maybe most disappointingly, I’m pretty spectacular at making Christmas themed foam crafts. But that hasn’t gotten me any action, to date.
Corner Stone
@raven: I hate it when the Cowboys play Washington.
I always kind of hope there’s like 15 turnovers and the team with the defense that scores the last TAINT wins.
Baud
And the Saints have earned the right to play in the wild card game. Good going!
SarahT
In no particular order: NYC City Council added eSmokes to the cigarette ban; My brother is a jerk; My husband has lousy aim; My Mom can’t afford the drug (Forteo) that could do wonders for her Advanved Osteoporosis, and I can’t afford to help; We still don’t have a dog.
Thanks a lot, Obama !
Corner Stone
51 TD passes for Peyton. Damn that’s just totes ridic.
Donut
@Cassidy:
Disappointed Ttroll is still disappointed.
Someone please alert the media.
raven
@Baud: Ain’t over says the Georgia Bulldog fan.
Corner Stone
I have to think that Dan Marino sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night and curses his luck for not being in the NFL right now.
srv
I have to give an extra $25 to Oxfam this season because Obama is letting Syrian kids get slaughtered. Courtesy bombs would have been so much more compassionate and appropriate, but we had to trick Vlad into implementing our FP.
And just no respect for Snowman, Darrell’s National Security ideology lives on.
p.a.
I replaced the broken chain used to hang my suet cage with waxed cord; the wax makes it weatherproof. I lock it shut with heavy duty double wire twist ties since the squirrels learned how to open it. They really can’t get at the suet, but they sure as hell try. Well, the feckers chewed through the twine and took the whole fracking shebang. It’s GONE. Suet, suet cage. Saw the string hanging and figured the cage was on the ground. Nope. I’m buying a bb gun. I hate those fuckers.
Omnes Omnibus
@p.a.: Why do you keep your suet caged?
Violet
I don’t have a pony. Thanks a lot, Obama.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Cause lil birdies can get through it and it’s harder for them fucking squirrels.
2liberal
i am in the process of badly losing the championship game in my FFL league, which is my money league. I will get my money back for the entry fee, my co worker will get a $200 profit.
Baud
@raven:
True, they haven’t locked up the wild card yet.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: Who knows why the caged suet sings?
Violet
I ordered something that was supposed to arrive via UPS on Friday. On Friday mid-day the tracking page changed to “Exception” in red lettering. The tracking info says, “Your package encountered a delay. We expect your delivery will be postponed by one business day.” No other info.
So wtf happened to my package? Get eaten by the dinosaur Jesus rode?
CaseyL
Well, the Seahawks-Cardinals game has certainly gotten off to an exciting start.
Baud
We’ll just treat this as a rebuilding year.
Josie
@p.a.:
You need one of these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEW9TG6Dcgg
JenJen
Bengals to the playoffs again! Let’s see if we can maybe win one of those games this time.
cckids
Not exactly a grievance, but kind of a pain; my Pomeranian has apparently developed body image issues. When going in or out of the sliding door, he will put his head, shoulders & front paws through, then stand there & bark. He seems to believe that his ass is too large to fit through the door unless it is open over a foot wide.
We’ve tried counseling him & showing him that his shoulders are wider than his ass, but he is impervious to logic.
eric
@Violet: it is called a Jesusaurous.
Josie
I’m supposed to fly out tomorrow to be with my middle son and his in-laws for Christmas, and I have a terrible head cold with an unending cough. How to win friends and influence people.
liberal
@Corner Stone:
If I had more time, it’d be really amusing to come up with a taxonomy of Obot excuses.
A recent one I bumped into was over at lawyersgunsandmoney. There was the usual excuse-making over what Obama has/hasn’t done, for a case where the claim was perhaps plausible (given the constraints imposed by Congress). So in the comments I asked, “OK, what does this model of presidential agency say about the TPP?” A situation where…the presidency actually has considerable power. (Yeah, Senate has to ratify, but AFAICT the executive negotiates.) I was expecting the usual excuse (“No one knows what’s really in the TPP, so THERE!”) but instead got “well, the entire establishment is in favor of the TPP, so how can you expect Obama to be against it?”
I’m totally OK with someone saying Obama is the best we can do, at least for now, blah blah blah, but don’t understand why it offends Obots’ tender fee-fees to point out that he’s a Clinton-retread/Rubinite/neoliberal.
Of course, one of the stupider Obot taxons is the Cacti/etc claim that only what the American poor have to deal with matters, and furthermore only their interpretation of it. So, presumably, illegal murderous invasions of foreign lands, various environmental catastrophes, etc etc, are off-limits for consideration.
Violet
@Josie: Careful with the flying if you’re that stopped up. You can burst an eardrum.
@eric: I’m sure that’s a Jee-suhs-a-saurus and not a Hey-sus-a-saurus, since Jesus would have been speaking in English.
liberal
BTW, anyone know why McCauliffe decided to reappoint McDonald’s health secretary?
sempronia
I’m at work now. I’ll be working on Christmas Day. Also New Year’s Eve. There is no such thing as overtime or holiday pay.
Why am I doing this job again?
Corner Stone
@JenJen: You may have a chance this year as my Texans won’t be there to stuff you.
Old Dan and Little Ann
My insane mental patient of a dog bit my wife’s arm the other night. Granted, he has almost no teeth left. My wife’s reality is that she was trying to move him. I, however, watched her pile drive his head into the couch with her elbow. She gets no sympathy from me.
geg6
I am now one-eyed due to Koda thinking that a great way to wake me up to get breakfast is to jump on my face, making sure one eye is under one of her paws. My left eye is puffed closed, with a possible scratched cornea (a small but painful scratch, but not serious, which I know about having once cut the damn cornea open of the same eye) and huge painful scratch on my eyelid.
I am rethinking the wisdom of allowing a dog to sleep in my bed, no matter how warm she keeps us.
Also, we have seen a pic of a 2 yo male black Lab that needs adopted. We may have three dogs soon. I blame Obama.
Carrie
Company Christmas party tonight during an ice storm…attendance is mandatory.
Just shoot me.
p.a.
@Josie: cool. And I can place a wood chipper in the path of the spin!
xenos
My biggest grievance is having to deal with liberals like ‘liberal’.
jeffreyw
Thread needs more sammich.
Gravenstone
Since when is John Kuhn the long snapper?
El Caganer
@liberal: Because his pistol gleamed in the sun.
Corner Stone
@xenos: It’s been a few years since we had to have one but let me see here…oh, here’s one!
Here xenos, you can have the paci my son stopped using at about 16 months.
Poor baby.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gravenstone: Brett Goode.
Corner Stone
Man, Palmer just under threw that ball by about 2 yards.
Josie
@Violet: Thanks. I’ve got some meds to take right before flight time.
JPL
I spent 7.99 on coconut oil to make fabulous vegan thumb print cookies and then baked them to long. I don’t care, they are going on the platter x-mas eve. bah
CaseyL
My only grievance is how University of Washington HR keeps resumes in limbo forever and ever. I’ve had a grand total of 2 actually get forwarded to the department doing the hiring, out of 13 submitted. If I don’t get the job, that’s one thing; but at least let the recruiter see the damn resume!
… and the Hawks intercept another Cardinal pass, short-circuiting another drive. So far, the Legion of Boom is the only productive squad on the field, for either team.
RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual
I hate Peyton Manning. That is all.
Corner Stone
Another grievance I have is that I used to really like Kimbo Slice’s little brother Ed Reed.
But that stupid old fool just needs to go away.
Gravenstone
@Omnes Omnibus: Odd, I heard “Kuhn”, and looked up to see number 30 standing in the middle of the line. Ah well, bad enough Kuhn is the emergency QB, figured maybe he was actually versatile enough to snap as well.
Corner Stone
Stop sucking Russell Wilson’s joint. That was a duck. His WR made a fantastic adjustment to catch that ball.
Baud
@liberal:
The only thing I heard is that he might be able to convince the GOP legislature to expand Medicaid.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gravenstone: Kuhn does play the up back position on punts.
brendancalling
Grievances:
My parents uninvited me from Thanksgiving, and while I’m blowing them off for Xmas, I still have to make sure my son gets a visit with his grandparents when he arrives. I guess I’m gonna need dental work afterward, because I’m going to wind up grinding my teeth down to stumps.
My client’s Masters of the Universe bosses tried to get me to spend the weekend writing a report about my past year’s activities. They made their demand wednesday, and want it tomorrow. So I did the least I could do, because until I’m FT and have benefits, I am NOT the company mule.
In a last-ditch effort to prevent a trip to the no-kill shelter, I purchased Feliway. Hopefully Poopcat will stop soiling the persian rug which he has decided is her personal toilet.
Gravenstone
I swear, this thread is enough to make a fella diabetic. What, with all the baked goods being touted.
donnah
Someone hit our parked car in a parking lot while we were eating dinner, damaging the left rear panel. Fortunately, they had the integrity to stick around until we came out, then we exchanged insurance info. This was Oct 30th. Their insurance company is the same as ours, so you’d think things would be handled quickly. You would be wrong.
The insurance company futzed around all this time. I took the car to the body shop for assessment two weeks before Thanksgiving, and they said they couldn’t take it until Dec 16. Jeez.
So I took it in last Monday, got a loaner car, and have been waiting ever since. They had estimated it would take 4-5 days. Now they say maybe this week, but with Christmas coming up, the odds are against that.
I hate shit like this.
maya
@geg6:
Warning: Lab’s GPS is default to exact center of any bed. Experience talking
CaseyL
@brendancalling: You might have to get the rug professionally cleaned. As long as it retains even a faint whiff of poop, the cat will keep thinking it’s a perfectly good litterpan.
Josie
@p.a.: Not very sporting, but effective.
Amir Khalid
How nasty do American sports team owners get? Malaysia has the really unpleasant Tan Sri Dato’ Seri* Vincent Tan Chee Yioun, billionaire owner of Cardiff City Football Club in Wales. Vincent Tan wants to fire the first-team manager, Malky McKay, who got the club promoted to the EPL — and, it is rumoured, replace him with former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson. This weekend he flew to Liverpool for Cardiff’s Premier League match. Tan saw the visiting Cardiff fans cuss him out all afternoon long. Then he saw a very rare outpouring of sympathy for McKay from both sets of teams and fans. He’s done much to earn their resentment: changing the home strip from the traditional blue to red, adding a dragon to the century-old club badge, proposing a change of the club name, and sacking a team official and replacing him with Tan’s son’s 23-year-old school friend. (The son’s friend has been refused a work permit, by the way, and must now leave the job.)
Tan is how holding off on the McKay firing after being persuaded by the Cardiff City chairman, although it still seems the likeliest eventual outcome. If McKay doesn’t go, after Tan so loudly demanded it, Tan loses face.
*Tan Sri and Datuk Seri are titles that go with the two Federal peerages conferred on Vincent Tan. I wouldn’t put it past him to be a dick and use the titles in Britain.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
The extended in-laws got G’s mom a cruise for her upcoming 70th birthday and he made a “Love Boat” joke that got the theme song stuck in my head.
I no longer feel bad that Annie clawed him yesterday while he was trying to put her into her carrier. Farking bastich.
IowaOldLady
I misread the post to think that Betty was doing kitten tiling. Hard to picture.
JPL
Gosh after reading some of the grievances, the fact that I’m a terrible baker is minor.
gogol's wife
@xenos:
You took the words right out of my mouth.
@Carrie:
How can it be mandatory? That’s a nightmare.
Gravenstone
@Amir Khalid: I think you can find a fairly direct correlation between the net worth of the owner, and how they treat the hired help. Plus, some of the richest seem to be utterly clueless, yet try to micromanage every single thing.
raven
Here’s my bummer, the Bear game is tonight!
gogol's wife
Betty’s dogs make me smile. Three good friends are coming for dinner Christmas Day. I had good news on a publication yesterday. So I’m not very full of grievances, except the one I share with xenos.
Comrade Mary
This is the rosemary in my back yard that I was saving for the turkey :-(
But at least I still have power, unlike a good chunk of the GTA right now.
FlipYrWhig
@liberal:
IIRC the primary response was actually, “Yeah, you have a point about that.” The secondary response was “That seems like a funny thing to attribute to Obama’s active choice.” But if you’re intent on feeling beset and beleaguered, enjoy it. Here’s the comment and thread.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
The hubs on my car are 56.1 mm, and the centerbore on the aftermarket steel wheels (snow tires) I got are 73.1mm. The guy at Tires Plus told me I need hub centering rings.
After a little time on the internet, I discovered that if you know how to properly torque the lugs rings are not needed.
I figured just to be safe, I would buy a set of rings, which evidently are only used on alloy rims and don’t work at all on steel rims.
Jackass.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@liberal:
It doesn’t offend, It just makes us point and laugh because you sound like a fucking moron.
La Caterina (Mrs. Johannes)
Cat digestive problems: Elvis just barfed in the (non-working) fireplace in the living room; Jinny’s diarrhea returned as soon as we finished the course of meds prescribed by the vet; Elspeth and Giles refuse to eat anything that’s good for them, insisting on dry food or canned with lots of by-products.
All my disposable income in 2014-15 will go to the Vet and the Dentist (I need 3 implants and a root canal!)
Thread needs moar kitteh, however.
raven
@GHayduke (formerly lojasmo): I was taking my sister up to Sault Ste. Marie to be with her fella that split the draft. We had a flat way up in Michigan and the rim was shot on whatever foreign car it was. I somehow located an older rim but the lug nut holes didn’t exactly match so I got a rat tailed file and made it work.
Cassidy
@Donut: yawn
geg6
@maya:
Oh, I know. He’d be our third. The late, great Henry was a yellow Lab and our dear Koda (whose GPS is spot on) is our 2 yo chocolate. My John has had two other yellow Labs before we got together. He’s a Lab kind of guy. I love my Labs, but I love all doggies and am not set on a particular breed or mix. Whatever I get is fine. Our Otis is a golden retriever, the big lug.
raven
@La Caterina (Mrs. Johannes): Sounds like YOU don’t need moar kitteh.
ruemara
@xenos: almost.
I’m peeved I have to go out now and buy cupcake liners for these cupcakes. And probably cream cheese for the icing, if I don’t make my own. And I ran out of eggs. And I had an apple for breakfast and an orange for lunch with a bowl of tomato soup, but all the baking makes me feel really fat. Plus no one else in this house will tidy. Damned roommate cat. I tape her to the vaccum after showing her the moves and all she does is cry. Nothing good is on tv. I don’t really feel like cooking dinner, and why am I only interested in tomato soup and mushrooms? Why isn’t sushi low carb? And I can’t stand low sodium wtf anymore. I remain unsure about couchsurfing when most of the people with open couches are guys. Why won’t my hair start? Do I have to hide the greys before I go to LA? I HAVE 2 MORE WEEKS OF VACATION-which is boring. Why can’t I take everything in this place, build a bonfire and just walk away? Stupid rules from The Man, keeping me down. Green Lantern is terrible, but I can’t see why Thor is considered a good movie.
Whew, that’s a lot of grievances. Thanks.
Botsplainer
@Carrie:
Show up exceedingly drunk and criticize everybody.
It’ll be the last time that it is mandatory.
eemom
I flouted Miss Manners and didn’t reply to my dumbass coworker’s FB invite for her holiday soiree that I’m not attending.
Fuck it. All that twat ever DOES is make unnecessary work for other people.
La Caterina (Mrs. Johannes)
@raven: It’s a Brady Bunch-style situation, we really did not MEAN to have six cats in the house. His three, my three, what can you do?
Bless the landlord- our lease says No pets, except for six (6) cats!
MomSense
@maya:
They sleep in the center–diagonally.
/corner of the bed sleeper
Jennifer
Grievances? OK: that stupid “cray-cray” used in place of “crazy.”
Also, too: I’ve been working on a book. I think I knew this intuitively, but writing a book is effing hard, and I had no idea how completely working through all the different things in my mind would so totally consume me pretty much all the time. Even when I’m sleeping, I’m working through things; I wake up and feel like I haven’t really slept.
Corner Stone
@FlipYrWhig: Good sweet Christ.
You really want people to read your posts in that thread?
Holy fuckballs.
raven
@La Caterina (Mrs. Johannes): Love it!
eemom
@efgoldman:
But we’re even purplier here in VA now with our totally awesome Dem full house: Gov, Lt. Gov, AG and pair of Senators!
bewleys
BRONCO’s WIN IT ALL!!
Peyton Manning goes above and beyond Brady, love it, LOVE IT!!
raven
@La Caterina (Mrs. Johannes): Love it! When we leased our rental house to the last tenants we sat and did all the paperwork, signed and then they said “Oh, we forgot to tell you we have a 125 lb dog named Goliath!”. 18 months later we took him for 6 weeks while they camped out west!
bewleys
@eemom: You are a DELIGHT.
elmo
No grievances here…
I’m married to my beloved.
Her gallbladder surgery went off without a hitch.
The surgery appears to have helped significantly – we had a fantastic meal last night in Alexandria, and it didn’t cause any problems.
I was up all night with a sick Great Dane, and he seems fine now.
Delivery pizza is FTW.
I love my job. And I think I’m good at it.
Nope, no grievances. I could continue to be upset at my brothers supporting Phil Robertson on FB, but I refuse.
Happy winter holiday season everyone!
Karen in GA
Banjo lesson at noon, just under an hour’s drive from me. I overslept, rushed out, got there in time — no banjo teacher. Scheduling mixup. That’s okay — I haven’t practiced much over the past week. I drive home looking forward to an afternoon of practice (which I enjoy the hell out of).
I get home, take out my banjo, I’m just about to start practicing, the phone rings. My sister that I’m not speaking to, demanding to know why I’m not speaking to her. I told her twice. She gets hostile over how stupid it is (stupid to her, not to me — way to convince me to let her back in my life). Gets weepy, says “Well, if anything happens, you just stay away.” Well, yeah, that’s kind of the point.
So I was looking forward to a happy afternoon, and ended up mildly annoyed for a good amount of it.
But Iggy the Wonder Schnauzer is adorable, Phoebe the World’s Most Affectionate Cat is doing okay, and after tomorrow I have the rest of the week off. Not too bad.
FlipYrWhig
@Corner Stone: Um, “liberal” invoked it as typical of something. People can read it for themselves. I don’t recall bragging about my participation. He bragged about his.
Mike in NC
@jeffreyw: Damn that is one good looking sandwich. After my last visit to the local Subway, I was on the verge of becoming vegan: they made me a pastrami sub that was made of the most disgusting inedible meat I ever tried to swallow. Like chewing on rubber bands. I’ll never go back there.
FlipYrWhig
@Karen in GA: I’ve made it my policy to minimize connection to my family. Not because we don’t get along or anything. We do fine. It’s just too annoying to have to keep score like that, who’s feeling what about whom and why it’s right or wrong. Feh. Misanthropy has its benefits.
Yatsuno
@Comrade Mary: Rosemarycicle?
Omnes Omnibus
Eddie Lacy is a beast.
Elizabelle
Not a complaint:
December 22nd. Second day of winter. Northern Virginia.
Just finished handwashing my car, in flip flops and shorts.
Thank you, Global Warming.
Now: resume winter weather. The car looks spiffy.
Corner Stone
@FlipYrWhig: For their sake I hope they haven’t eaten dessert yet. Not sure I’ve seen a more smug, smarmy and treacly filled thread than that one.
Gravenstone
@Omnes Omnibus: Certainly an element the Packers have been missing these last few seasons.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@ruemara:
Because Liam Hemsworth looks better with his shirt off than Ryan Reynolds does. Plus Hemsworth is handsome and charming, while Reynolds is smarmy and whiny.
Seriously, my 60-ish female boss raved about “Thor: The Dark World” but probably couldn’t tell you a single plot point, except that Loki was mighty cute, too.
CarolDuhart2
My grievance: aches and pains-I missed working overtime today. I got up and got ready to go, then the pains came and I no longer wanted to go. Hate missing the extra money.
FlipYrWhig
@Corner Stone: I know vitriol and bile are more to your taste.
Anne Laurie
@Violet:
My first guess would be, it was at the wrong end of an airport-related weather delay. One “joy” of our modern interlocked transport system, you shut down a few flights out of a hub airport and people all over the country have to wait on their packages. I’m just waiting for the CEO of Amazon or Walmart to propose that Xmas giving be moved to a season with more predictable weather.
@cckids:
Sounds like he somehow caught his (cough) sheath on the edge of the door, and he’s not gonna risk that happening again ever. Don’t know how he managed to do that on a sliding door, but I’ve known a few male dogs who developed severe aversions to the hole-in-the-door-style openings…
Gravenstone
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
That’d be Chris. Liam is the almost Mr. Miley Cyrus.
Corner Stone
@FlipYrWhig: As opposed to the “oh so self-satisfied” back slapping you and joe from Lowell, DMX et al were doing for about 100 comments? Have you finished your brandy and cigar in the billiards room yet?
Yeah, I’ll take a difference of opinion over that display.
No bullshit man, that was fucking disgusting to read through.
PurpleGirl
@La Caterina (Mrs. Johannes): Sorry your cats are feeling poorly, hope they are better soon. Cats eating preferences: Don’t know what to reccommend; when Rowdy had to eat prescribed food and didn’t like it my friends just left it out and hid the stuff he liked. Dental woes: much sympathy for you.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Gravenstone:
Sibling actors should be forbidden from working at the same time until one of them becomes famous enough for us to tell them apart. I realize that this would mean that at least two Baldwin brothers would not have been allowed to take acting jobs, but wouldn’t the world be better off if that were the case anyway?
FlipYrWhig
@Corner Stone: Far too long, it’s been. Sorry about Matt Schaub.
Karen in GA
@La Caterina (Mrs. Johannes): I wish I had answers. Sending “get well soon, as in ASAP” thoughts to the kittehs.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Does this apply to Cusacks and Gyllenhaals too?
FlipYrWhig
@Omnes Omnibus: You need a proper and orderly succession, like the Phoenixes. Otherwise you get Hemsworths and Deschanels and de Havilland-Fontaines and Sheen-Estevezes and it all falls to chaos and confusion.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Yes, it’s true — John Cusack and Jake Gyllenhaal should both be sidelined until their far more talented sisters get their due.
PurpleGirl
@MomSense:
They sleep in the center–diagonally.
The grayhounds in Peekskill tried that, sometimes they succeeded, sometimes not. The Doberman on the other hand would sleep next to me, aligning his spine to my spine. Living heating pads for each other, lol. (And he wait until I settled down before climbing onto the bed.)
shelly
Did some Christmas baking myself today. A few glitches. My honey whole wheat bread never rose cause the yeast had expired. And the Finnish pinwheel cookies I wanted to try this year….well, it was one of those annoying doughs that are so rich in butter that you have a five minute window to work it. You’re supposed to roll it out to an one-8th thickness. No, that is not gonna happen. Taken out of the fridge from chilling overnight, it’s like a rock. By the time it’s softened enough to even think about trying to roll it, it’s like glue. I guess those Nordic folks are made of sterner stuff than me. I changed it to thumbprint cookies.
But the Walnut Tassies, which everybody asks for, at least turned out okay.
Jamie
I live in SF, have a very qualified skillset for a techie geek, and am unemployed. In fact, underwater.
Feel free to point and laugh, but I don’t want to lose a household of stuff, leave my girlfriend (studying for psych) and a very sweet cat named Des. Me, I could live on the street SF is probably the best place to do that. But you don’t do that to a cat, and I don’t know what my girlfriend would do. She’s already teaching kids and on food stamps.
This is not a cry for help. But I understand why suicide peaks at holidays.
As a Santa, before Santacon started sucking, I can sing, “you better watch out, you better watch out, you better watch out, you better watch out…”
Corner Stone
@FlipYrWhig: He got his bell rung last year and was never the same QB after. Not saying he was Brady Jr, before, but he was remarkedly worse this year. Couldn’t look 3 yds past the line of scrimmage, got happy feet at 1.8 seconds in the pocket and literally, really, fell down a few times when someone got within an arms length of him.
Corner Stone
@shelly:
I’ll, uh, take a little Walnut Tussle. Oh, er, you said Tassie. Ok, I guess I’d be down with trying that too.
raven
Here’s our front door with the wreath and tree that the princess makes from the Chinese Tallow tree in the back yard.
shelly
@raven:
Love it!
Louise
Sheba the Wonder Dog ate herself sick a few days ago. We had to empty out a closet that flooded, and I forgot there was a bag with chocolate bars for Christmas stockings in there. She ate most but not all of the chocolate, then threw up all night.
The next day, she ate more chocolate, a small bag of Santa coins taped to a present for my niece. Daughter had left in on the kitchen table before taking it to the post office.
And today she broke into the beer-making kit I had bought for my husband. Luckily the plastic was apparently too strong for her, but she tore the package to shreds and spoiled the surprise.
She is *not* in my good graces today.
FlipYrWhig
@Corner Stone: Ah. I wondered what had gone wrong there…
The Iggles (my team) have gotten a surprisingly decent performance out of the lumbering Nick Foles, who someone I know aptly called a “Napoleon Dynamite-looking motherfucker.” But the franchise still has the ghosts of pass-happy coordinators past haunting it, or something, because they don’t use McCoy nearly enough, even when it’d be good for them. I don’t get that, but it’s been a problem since the Reid regime at least.
FlipYrWhig
@Corner Stone: One tassel twirling on each walnut?
raven
Oh yea, in terms of grievances. This is the back yard with the new steps and fencing. I’ve spent almost 5k and we are back where we started 7 months ago with the prospect of a year until the city tackles the sewer issue. Xin Loi.
Mike in NC
@efgoldman: The first time I ate at a Subway was when I was stationed in San Diego. It left a lot to be desired but they seemed to get better over the years. On the other hand, when I lived in Newport, RI, I ate at D’Angelo’s almost every day for lunch. Nothing like that in the South.
SiubhanDuinne
@Comrade Mary:
Makes a nice change of complaining from Rob Ford.
(BTW, that is a gorgeous photo. I copied and emailed it to my cousin up in Owen Sound, whose name happens to be Rosemary.) (But sorry about the turkey.)
Elizabelle
@Jamie:
Best wishes to you, Jamie. Resilience test. You are due for some luck. I hope it turns, soonest.
eemom
@Anne Laurie:
Hell, why not? It’s all a massive artificially constructed commercial fraud whose purported religious significance is bullshit anyway.
/Mrs. Grinch-Scrooge
Elizabelle
@raven:
Beautiful. I like the colors of your house. Kind of good funky.
SiubhanDuinne
@GHayduke (formerly lojasmo):
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“I’m sorry I can’t go out with you Saturday night, but I’m going to be busy torquing my lugs.”
Miss Bianca
No worries here – oh, only that the little Pupcake Baked by Satan decided that, in the absence of both me AND her favorite new chew toy, my roommate’s adorable puppy (who has departed the premises for the holidays), that she was going to jump on my bed, grab the teddy bear I had carelessly left there, and disembowel it. My fault, I know, and kind of a trivial worry, but it had great sentimental value to me and I was sorry to find pieces of its fur and fluff all over the yard when I got home last night…
burnspbesq
I’m disappointed in the educational system that left Corner Stone without the ability to count to 60, much less 218.
FlipYrWhig
@eemom: When you think about it, it’s all built on a logical foundation: the elliptical motion of the earth in orbit, ancient myths of heroes, an Anatolian bishop, Finnish sled-driving, Germanic tree decoration and Coca-Cola advertisements.
FlipYrWhig
@SiubhanDuinne: One person’s lug-torquing is another’s walnut-tussling.
Corner Stone
@Miss Bianca:
I’m not a violent person, but that is one dead fucking dog if it had happened in my house.
Corner Stone
@FlipYrWhig: If I could get someone close enough to affix ornamental decorations I would consider 2013 a very most good year.
Omnes Omnibus
@FlipYrWhig: …and a partridge in a pear tree.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jennifer:
Oh, yes. And “vajayjay.” And “booty.” Also, “binky,” “sippy cup,” “white stuff” (for snow), “wet stuff” (for rain), and probably many other cutesy baby-talk terms I have (mercifully) suppressed.
Karen in GA
@raven: I like. Lots of personality and warmth.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
This grumpy old Luddite occasionally appreciates Twitter
Dan Amira of New York Magazine telling Donald Trump “Your wife is waiting for you to die” is now my second favorite twitter exchange
Corner Stone
@SiubhanDuinne: There’s really a lot of sexual tension going on on this blog.
Betty Cracker
@efgoldman: Truer words were never spoken. At least at Balloon Juice.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
Joan and Maggie FTW! They are both wonderful!
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
Wow, that’s lovely.
How is she feeling these days? I think you were getting some MRI results back recently??
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@SiubhanDuinne:
I agree with the rest of your list, but a “sippy cup” is an actual thing, not just a cutesy nickname for a regular cup. (They’re those cups that have a lid kids can, well, sip through without making a mess.).
Betty Cracker
@raven: That’s beautiful!
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
You’re just glad to see me, aren’t you?
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
Oh, I know a sippy cup is a thing. I just hate the name.
/Scroogette
raven
@Elizabelle: She has a way with that. Spends weeks and months agonizing but is almost always right on. The dope next door painted his house purple and yellow 12 years ago and it hasn’t faded one bit!
Cassidy
@ruemara: I liked Green Lantern. Ryan Reynolds wasn’t bad although he’d be a better Barry Allen.
TrishB
@Miss Bianca: Is it worth fixing/attempting to fix? Last year my sister had a new puppy who did quite the number on her antique Steiff teddybear. Well, maybe antique is an exaggeration, however the bear was purchased in 1964 just before my sister was born, so there is that. My mom was able to find a place to send the bear for restoration and it came back looking pretty darn good.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
For some reason Kim Chee and dark chocolate sounded like a good thing to eat for a bedtime snack last night. My gut is going crazy.
Serious polyphony.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: Yea, the initial indication was spinal stenosis but her neuro doesn’t feel that this the cause of her pain so it’s back to an orthopod. thx
Oh, here’s a shot that shows a bit of the house from Haiti next door!
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@raven:
LOL. Our neighbors painted their house purple and green last spring. Or as she says, chartreuse and lime.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@raven:
I would have guessed it was from Miami, myself.
raven
BEAR DOWN CHICAGO BEARS!!!!
p
best pictures of your boxers you’ve posted, imho.
gotta love ’em.
Corner Stone
@p:
I still can’t believe Betty didn’t fall for my “boxers or briefs” comment the other day in the Presidential Q&A thread.
Oh well.
cckids
@Anne Laurie: I doubt that that is his issue; he’s got short legs, but not THAT short :)
Its probably more that if he has to squeeze through his back hurts; he has a disc problem. So if he even THINKS that he might catch that, he just won’t go through.
Plus, barking is sort of his entertainment; it lets him irritate the cats without chasing them.
Mr. Skin
@Josie:
That’s a damn hoot!
seaboogie
Retail front lines worker for the season, and I have NO complaints – it’s my favorite time of the year! Of course it helps that I am working in the sweetest little fine jewelry boutique (featuring the work of mostly local artists) in downtown Sonoma, CA. Lots of regular local customers who support the whole “Shop Local” movement doing their holiday shopping, and we take great pleasure in wrapping every box (including the gifts to self) extra fancy-like with a bunch of ribbons and bows and everyone says “Wow!” and leaves happy.
We are next door to a terrific little local bookstore that also giftwraps their books, and everyone is up and down the street with dogs and kids, greeting neighbors, treats for the pups….it’s really fun. Probably a solo Christmas for me, and yet I feel really fortunate and grateful for where I am, and for my far-away family, and friends near and far.
Rhubarb
@Comrade Mary:
It may yet be fine. Mine was encased in the horrible ice storm we had not long ago and it is. On the other hand, I’ve lost rosemary in Austin. Hoping for the best.
Corner Stone
@seaboogie: Any chance they/you have a website to view available galleries?