| valentine's day. |
[Feb. 15th, 2007|01:32 am] |
It's been forever. I have backdated entries sitting in my Yahoo Notepad, which I may or may not get around to filling in.
Valentine's day, today. It hailed and rained all day; I didn't go anywhere, but Carin went for a day of job training. She showed up in the early afternoon, disappointed. The job had promised no sales; they wanted her to do sales to her family. The job had promised that they would just be talking about products to people who already wanted to buy them, and would not be actually closing the sales themselves; it turned out to be the exact opposite. They were to hawk nineteen-hundred dollar Kirby vacuum cleaners. It's the fucking Cutco scam all over again. And they had her drive through the ice for that. I have an urge to harass them until they pay her for the wasted "training" day, but that would be sticking my nose in. Still sucks.
This evening, she blew up a large number of balloons and put them in her room while I wasn't looking, in homage to one of my favorite xkcd strips. We shuffled around in the balloons and played volleyball with them. It was awesome. For my part, I made pancakes. If I'd known they were this cheap and easy, I'd have been making them a long time ago.
Pancakes
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup milk
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 egg
- Spot of grease
Beat egg in large bowl. Add flour, milk, baking powder. Mix until no longer lumpy. Grease a skillet (I used olive oil, but my father uses butter.) Pour pancake-sized amounts of mix into skillet; cook on medium heat. Flip when you see bubbles coming up. Repeat. Carin was quite enamored of them; I have some ideas about how to improve the pancake process, though these were quite acceptable.
We didn't buy any soon-to-be-chucked plastic shit, so we may not have, strictly speaking, been in the spirit of the holidays. We did consume media, in that we watched the recent remake of The Ladykillers, which was first weird, then a bit of a downer... but that was on out gifty Netflix subscription. Still, for staying in and not putting on shoes all day, I think this was a pretty solid success.
I'm trying something new here--I'm going to link to comments I leave around the internet. As many of them are uneditable, they may contain embarrassing typos, factual errors and so forth. Given that I link back here when I comment, I may as well make a point of linking in the other direction as well.
A disclaimer, added because I just assured someone that I'm not intolerant of their religion, and because I write differently here than I do when I'm dropping comments. I may be rude, confrontational and indeed blasphemous in some of these comments. If you think I'm insulting you personally, whoever you are, please ask me--it's almost certain that I'm not.
Today's comments: Pharyngula 1 2 3 4 | Slashdot 1 2 3 4 5 6 | Telic Thoughts | Pandagon | Ezra Klein (from yesterday, but I'm pleased with it) |
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