Couch 221: Definitely Spam!

Just heard that our county has been placed under a voluntary curfew from 10pm to 5am. What? Voluntary curfew? Seems to me that's already happening anyway.

Not for the people going out to bars and restaurants.

It really cheeses me off schools are closed but not bars and restaurants--which appear to be far more efficient disease vectors than primary schools at least.

Have to say, voluntary curfew is an oxymoron.

Yes, that's the word I was looking for. I've been awake since 2 am so I'm not thinking to clearly at the moment...

Our state doesn't have a curfew per se, but bars and restaurants now have to close at 10 pm (can still do carryout/deliver after that, just in-person service).

Do tell.

Is he (or she) a good one? How'd you meet?

Mmm, cheese...

I had the same thought.

That’s what cheese said!

Anything you can do, I can do feta!

(Except gaseous emissions and hoarding.)

i had to go back and figure out why y'all are talking about cheese!

i think i pissed off my prof tonight. i kept asking a question about what was expected in tonight's discussion and she kept answering it without answering it and i kept asking it again. i even typed in our chat that i didn't understand and "Artie=lost" which was quickly followed by 4 of my classmates typing "same" right in a row. i wonder if she was enjoying an early thanksgiving cocktail or two tonight. urgh. and she let us go two and a half hours EARLY!! oh i am SO over this class.



I realized tonight that I have been putting WAY too much pressure on myself this semester. I almost broke down and cried tonight when she kept not answering my question and I'm so tired I just got ****ing bullheaded and refused to stop asking.

I saw a recipe for a baked brie today, stuffed with fried onion and fig jam, wrapped in puff pastry, baked, then surrounded by radicchio leaves dressed with vinaigrette.

I never really thought of lettuce with brie. Strawberries, yeah. But yum, arugula and brie...

I cannot disabrie.

Remember the guy I met in line in the supermarket the first week of the pandemic? Him.

Plus im trying to not eat too much at night, so im kinda hungry. Partly for weight watchers, but mostly trying to avoid heartburn and weird dreams.

Dentist appt on wednesday, so i will probably stop at grocery store after (its in same mall as dentist) unless theres a line to get in.

Y'know I would really love to go spend a week with my brother and his wife and just spend the time cooking/baking with her. She is so creative and for her, it's all about the presentation. Everything she makes is just beautiful and delicious! We spent one Thanksgiving with them so I know it tastes as good as it looks. And she's always posting her beautiful creations on Facebook.

I gotta stop eating out of packages and off paper plates. im a grownup, damit!

I got my yearly box of german gingerbread from my brother on Saturday. I have been nibbling ever since. It's so delicious. He'd told me it was coming so I told L last week that I'd bring her some again, last year we split a piece during a session. She said "Just a bite!!" haha This collection includes boxes of these tiny gingerbread cookies, like the size of a silver dollar, so I'm gonna bring her 2 of those.

I love brie en croute. I usually make it topped with onions caramelized with a little balsamic before wrapping it with the puff pastry and an egg wash on top. I also make one with fig jam for a sweet variety, but I suppose any jam would be awesome. That's my go-to bring-to-a-party dish. So yummy and not that hard to make.

Love in the time of COVID

Yeah. Weird, huh.

"May you live in interesting times."

The arugula and vinaigrette practically make it a salad.

Working right after session yesterday wasn't as bad as it could have been. I told T that we needed to be careful, so we intentionally kept track of how overwhelmed I was feeling and slowed down 10 minutes before the end of session and talked about less-terrible things.

It was horribly, horribly awkward. But tbh I think it almost helped that I was alone in my car with T in a very small window on my phone, rather than at home in my bedroom with his face taking up my laptop screen (or even worse, in person). I mean, I miss in-person sessions in general but for this particular topic the less of his presence the better.

Aww

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K-I-S-S-I-N-sim card shopping

Amelia, my cat, went out exploring last night around dinner time. She came slinking in with what we think was transmission fluid all over her! We immediately got her into a bath and put some dawn on her and tried to scrub it off. In the meantime I was calling the emergency vet to see if we could get her in because I didn't know if she had ingested any. After filling out a billion online forms, the emergency vet calls me and tells me just to bathe her and there's nothing they can do. She is still a hot mess. We give her another bath, this time with vegetable oil and dawn because not so helpful emergency vet said that vegetable oil or olive oil would help cling to the transmission fluid. Yeah, right. I ended up with a wet, angry, oily, dish-soapy cat. We went through a ton of towels trying to dry her off but they were getting dirty so we kept going through more towels. She is still leaking fluid from her coat this morning, all over my bed and pj's of course. I fed though and she ate so I am reasonably sure she didn't ingest any of the transmission fluid besides maybe licking some off of her fur. She looks miserable. I am miserable. My beautiful cat looks like a drowned rat. I don't know what else to do to clean her! We found the pan of transmission fluid that she must have jumped into in my neighbors yard. It was right next to the fence. So she must have jumped over the fence and landed in it. That explains how it got on her belly. Poor Amelia!

Aw, poor Amelia! And what a mess...Hope she's OK.

I am supposed to be making a bajillion pumpkin rolls. I don't want to. Ugh.

I don't need "Serenity now!" I need "Motivation now!" Anyone have some spare to send my way? Maybe Art, you could drum some up?