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A friend just called to say she may have accidentally exposed my son to ringworm, via her daughter at yesterday's half-birthday play date. Being a new mom and never having had it myself, I dutifully went picture hunting so I can keep my eyes open for any suspect spots. Now I itch all over!! My mind is blowing every little sensation into a full-fledged itching fiesta, and it's everything I can do not to scratch myself raw!

So far, my son seems fine, but the other kid he went to play with yesterday has some funny spots on his face, so I'm not terribly hopeful that we're going to escape it. I guess we'll just have to sit back and wait.
 
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My boyfriend found two kittens living in the roof at the hotel that he works at. Teeny tiny and obviously starving and abandoned. Called Animal Control and they said that since they were under a pound, they'd just euthanize them. We found a home for one, and kept the other. This is Bianca Blue Button at ( four & six weeks old )

Does anyone in here do weightwatchers? I really need to lose a lot of weight but was wondering if the program catered okay to a vegetarian lifestyle? If so how does it do that? I was on it as an omni but never as a veggie girl....tips thoughts?

Thanks a lot!

Amanda
 
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( I found this Engrish at the 99 cent store the other day. Speedy Shooter! )
 
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Hello, I just became a member! Stopping by for a quick hello!

I've been a vegetarian since November 07 with a few slip ups at the beginning but since December 07 completely meat free!

In answer to nintendo_ my weight has stayed the same. I actually feel more energized being a vegetarian and much healthier. But I need to eat more fruit, veg (like everyone really!) and substitute protein more then I am doing but it's so much easier to go for the cookies and not the pack of nuts and raisins!  I can't live without Quorn 'bacon' or as we have nick named it 'Fakon' :D

The Japanese food looks amazing I keep meaning to get the things I need to make sushi (vegetarian sushi of course) and stuff!
 
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Current Music: Nine Inch Nails

Cheers, everyone!

I recently moved from my own, well-equipped kitchen to one with minimum utensils. In these few weeks I've -almost- learned how to use the gas oven, and am slowly adjusting to the thought of cooking with old, battered and sometimes partly broken pans, using kettles as bowls etc. However, the biggest challenge in my cooking and baking is the lack of an electric mixer. As I'm only staying here for a few months and my own equipment is waiting for me in my country, I don't want to buy one.

So now I need your help. Do you have a good cake recipe that doesn't involve beating eggs? A kick-ass cookie recipe where you don't have to blend everything in a Kitchen Aid? Simply mixable icings? Anything else apart from the obvious (read: brownies) you'd like to share? I can whip cream by hand, but that's about it.

Thanks in advance! I promise to post the results here ;)

To everyone who thought that "formulastic" was something an amazon.com reviewer wrote deliberately and cleverly, here is the entire review:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R1W185T1101GRB/ref=cm_srch_res_rtr_alt_1

This wasn't Danielle Steel best. It was formulastic . It starts with famous actress Carole Barber who clings to life and memory after a bomb explosion. Throughout the novel over and over again. She explains she doesn't have any feelings for ex-husband Jason. Yes we get it!But she has feelings for a person who refused to leave his wife for her. Go figure! At the end you kind of left hanging. Bypass this novel

The community is now set to FRIENDS ONLY, meaning your posts will automatically be locked. Should you want it to be public, you will have to manually change the setting. Be sure that it's a post that may be public before unlocking it. A post that has to do with any sort of download or request for a file to be shared MUST BE LOCKED! Too many posts that should be locked have been left public, this was the best recourse as it's very time consuming to have to comment and wait for the original poster to edit.

Randomly, I have been watching the series from the beginning and am halfway through S5. I never tire of this show. There are a few eps I don't particularly care for, but overall it remains one of my favorite things.

Here is a video my boyfriend took yesterday of some baby bunnies at the petting zoo. Video is two minutes long. You can ignore the voices in the background. The sort of screeching noises are from the resident peacocks trying to impress the females (peahens.)
( Video )

Meh, I dragged myself to Einstein Bagels in order to try and get some work done. Sundays are just lethal for me these days. I take Saturday off resolutely and then have trouble getting started again on Sunday. The pace that I have to set for myself during the week requires a bit of build-up.

My program went on a cruise together on Friday. I know most people brought dates, but I was still like "who are half of these people?!" It was really nice to see some people who I haven't seen in weeks, and the view of the Chicago skyline from the middle of Lake Michigan was amazing. I took some photos, but I'm so flaky about updating online things lately that they may have to wait. I need fewer things to do, not more.

Sometimes I'm really, really glad I don't own property. Just cleaning my apartment is enough for now, thankyouverymuch. I'm not ready yet.

I sure was pleased in September when everyone else had gone back to school and I was still enjoying my summer, but now that I won't finish this quarter for a few weeks and still have summer quarter to deal with I have lost my thrill at the U's shifted schedule. The weather is cooperating today and representing "early spring when everyone is still in school."

Um, who wants to come take notes from this pile of library books for me. Wake me up when you're done?

Oh yeah, a couple more things. j and I went to the Chicago 'green' festival yesterday. It was food free-sample insanity, but overall a bit underwhelming. Cleaning supplies, pet stuff, and bath+body products were underrepresented. We walked almost a mile indoors at a very sloooowww pace (we know this thanks to a free pedometer we got near the door).

But I found 20 bucks on the street yesterday and nobody was around to have dropped it so that was pretty awesome. I want to take that as a sign my luck is turning. I hardly feel guilty finding someone's twenty while walking around Chicago's "Mag Mile' either. They were probably using it to blow their nose. ;)
 
Current Mood: soy-licious
Current Music: Pandora- Deepak Chopra station

ok, first the bad news from my walk by the river today - I didn't see the ducklings!

now the good news - ( baby moorhen! )

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Oh dear God. I got laid last night, & the guy had such a big dick it was like re-breaking my virginity. We had sex three times, & each time I had to push him off after a little while as he has epic stamina & I was getting seriously chafed.
I foresee a painful crotch tomorrow...
And my legs are still shaking from having more orgasms than you can shake a stick at.
 
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Current Mood: satisfied

Yesterday I met a number of new foals.  This little one was the most mischievous of the bunch (and also had the most relaxed mother, so I could stand close enough to film without worrying either of them).

( A foal which oddly enough looks rather seahorse-like... )
 
Current Mood: happy

I believe this is from Penn Jillette:

Luck is probability taken personally.

Can you get more elegant than that? I don't think so.

Did you notice we've changed a bit? We've got a bit wider, got a snazzy new homepage (featuring some great photos from our fantastic customers) and best of all, we've made it easier to browse about and go shopping!( More )

 

I dearly hope, Jess had a great birthday.

I had a lovely time, I hope Liquid Sunlight was... enjoyed...
must dash to work.
 
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Right, so, you devotees of Peale and "The Secret" - I assume you all feel nothing but scorn for the folks in Myanmar and China. They obviously brought this on themselves because they didn't visualize success hard enough.

And they obviously didn't pray hard enough for whatever God could have thrown in with some help.

Damn those self-centered, godless people.