Talk Amongst Yourselves [NOT 19/12/20]

19/12/20 brightersideoflife 28
image of Dennis Nedry from Jurassic Park holding his case of money and laughing
So happy before the unfortunate dilophosaurus incident

Hi friends! Sorry I missed the NOT yesterday. I had the kind of day where I was working on so many emergency fuck-ups at work that by 2pm I was like “YOU KNOW WHAT I UNDERSTAND WHY NEDRY SOLD JURASSIC PARK SECRETS IF HIS JOB WAS LIKE THIS.”

Having rewatched that lovely movie last week for the umpteenth time, I would argue that both he and Samuel L Jackson are very overworked and had there been proper staffing, he wouldn’t have been an easy mark for stealing dinosaur embryos and causing the death of many people.

Anyhoo, I ended up doing a 13 hour day and was pretty much braindead by 6pm and wasn’t willing to do anything else on a computer.

How’s your weekend going so far? Anything nice happen? Cooking anything good today or tomorrow?

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28 Comments

  1. awww i just made a post about you going missing too
    (ive asked to have it removed)
    anyhooo……. tomorow for breakfast or lunch..im making bastard bubble and squeek
    (bastard coz im using eggs instead of spuds)

  2. We are making pizzas as a family tonight & then decorating cookies.  Last week my gingerbread house looked like something from a Tim Burton movie so I may get banned from the cookie thing. 

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  5. We had scallops dredged in whole wheat flour, sauteed with a crisp white wine, capers, a dash of Worcestershire sauce, some grainy mustard, and garlic. Basically I threw stuff in a pan to make it a sauce and called it good enough. 

    • This is uncanny. Last night for Meatless Friday I made baked scallops au gratin for the first time this winter. Not exactly heart-healthy but one of my favorites and since the cheese and the scallops are so hearty and filling you don’t need a lot to serve two. Sadly, the Faithful Hound had to subsist on a little cheese sauce I poured over his kibble. He seemed to enjoy it.

  6. With the snow I have transitioned from the Jimmy Stewart character in “Rear Window” to the Joan Crawford character in “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane,” because of the bum leg. Not that The Better Half has transitioned into the Bette Davis character, he’s much more like RW’s Grace Kelly character, but I look out the windows with our 270-degree view and think, “I could hobble down to the sidewalk but there’s no way I could maneuver along that little unpaved path at that intersection, or that intersection, or that intersection…”
     
    Long complaint regarding my frustration with being sucked into the maw of medical-insurance-industrial complex that I’m almost sure could have been resolved weeks ago. But hey, when you’re one of the few “blessed” with great private health insurance they have to keep you on the line to pay for everyone else who doesn’t have it, even though it should be a human right available to all, like in the other civilized nations with whom we share the planet.

  7. I’m spending the night at my parents’ house tomorrow night so that they can take me to drop off my car for service before work on Monday. Then one of them’ll have to pick me up here so that I can get it on Tuesday morning before work. Then on Wednesday morning I’m going out there again for a dentist appointment before work.
     
    After that, I get two blessed – and fully paid – days off, the first of which I plan to use up by doing a whole lotta nothin’.

  9. We’re watching season 4 of Nailed It! and laughing like loons. Taking a break to pick up kids from work, now.
    I worked on the blanket for Oldest’s girlfriend’s Christmas gift for a couple of hours and realized that I need to make another dozen pieces to fit it all together properly, so I’m working (slowly) on those. 
    Dinner was leftovers… mashed potatoes and “slop”, which is cooked ground beef, cream of mushroom soup, a splat of sour cream, and 2 cans of green beans simmered together. It tastes great, but it  looks like something the cat left on the rug.

  10. oh fuck me.. woke up in the middle of the night again


    good thing im a well adjustested non murderous specimen
    *as a side note…im also a really good liar*
    /me is damn near leslie nielson spec for keeping a straight face

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