Sarahndipity
holy cow.
To make up for the prom hair, I’m thowing on a little black dress, black tights, and red ankle boots. Hopefully the cute outfit and heinous hair balance one another out.
Did I just say ‘cute outfit’…? ugh. I need a beer.
The monkey is not impressed.
Going out tonight….and I accidentally did my hair like I’m going to a prom.
Yay me.
I’m basically just reblogging this so my dad can see it.Real Time with Bill Maher: New Rules, 11/14/08.
“New rule: the rest of the world can go back to being completely jealous of America. Our majority-white country just freely elected a black president — something no other democracy has ever done. Take that, Canada! Where’s your Nubian warrior president? Your head-of-state is a boring white dude named Stephen Harper — and mine is a kick-ass black ninja named Barack Hussein Obama!”
If you can't extort your family, who can you extort?
- Me: Hey, is mum around?
- Little Bro: Yeah, but you can't talk to her, she's making pie.
- Me: Ask her what kind of pie.
- LB (to mom): What kind of pie are you making?
- *mum talks*
- LB: Apple.
- Me: Ask her if she'll make me one.
- LB (to mom): Sarah wants you to make her one.
- *mt*
- LB: No.
- LB: They're for a hockey fundraiser.
- Me: How much is she selling them for?
- LB (to mom): How much?
- *mt*
- LB: Ten bucks.
- Me: Do I get a family discount?
- LB: For you, twenty bucks.
My (very strange) guilty pleasure
So sometimes, when I’m the only person in the entire office building at night (because sometimes I’m super cool and still at work at 7:00 on a Friday), I go into the lunch room and look inside all the bags and containers in the breakroom fridge. I don’t ever touch or steal anything, I just look and see what’s in there. I would never go through anyone else’s office, or desk, but for some reason I’m a-ok investigating what everyone else brings to eat. I’m a strange one, I know.Zach Galifianakis
I used to have this as my AIM away message (without the source), and a few of my friends thought I actually did this when I’d get bored.
(via theshalom)
In honor of all the Denny that was in Grey’s tonight. I missed him.Ok…I love Denny as much as the next person, perhaps even more so, but I do.not.get. what’s going on. At all.
I think it’s possibly a set-up for an Izzie mental illness/terminal illness storyline…Maybe? Because seeing and touching and feeling dead people (especially when you don’t want to) is defs not normal, even in the Grey’s universe.
This is true. I just couldn’t help thinking at the end there, when McCrazy started making out with ghost Denny, what would happen if Alex had walked in right then? Would he have seen Izzie making out with the air?! awkard, to say the least.
I was all set to start brining a turkey tonight (for a Thanksgiving potluck tomorrow)
… until I read Harold McGee’s recent piece in the NYT, “Miracle Cure or Just Salt Water”:
ONE big November decision is behind us, and another looms. Thanksgiving is only a couple of weeks away. So: to brine or not to brine? Mainstream food punditry maintains that brining the turkey practically guarantees a moist, tender roast. I agree, it does. But I’m still a no-briner. […]
Instead of trying to avoid what’s pretty much inevitable [the dryness of the turkey], I try to make the best of it. My current approach takes its inspiration from the world of barbecue and its ways of dealing with well-cooked meat. In particular, pulled pork.
Roast an unbrined turkey as you wish. While the turkey rests, make a delicious pan sauce from the drippings. Keep it runny. When it’s time to carve, start with the breast. Either slice it very thin, to an eighth of an inch or less, or cut thick pieces and pull them to shreds, to create as much surface area as possible. Then turn and coat the meat thoroughly with some of the pan sauce, and keep it warm while you carve the leg and thigh.
Unlike casual last-minute saucing at the table, an extended and intimate bath gives the sauce a chance to penetrate into the meat’s smallest crannies and seams. The meat fibers may have been cooked dry in the oven, but they end up on the plate with abundant moisture clinging to them.
I really like the sound of that — shredded, moist turkey in pan sauce. So the goal of tomorrow is make the very best gravy ever.
Dryness=not a problem with deep-fried turkey.
Dryness is definitely not a problem, but the fact that you are deep-frying the turkey is in and of itself a problem.