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EarnestQ

EarnestQ

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Lynx said:
So today I learned two things.

1. If you make sourdough bread and you're going to make 12 times what the recipe calls for, either you need a larger workspace than a kitchen counter or you are really dumb. I don't have a larger workspace, so guess what that makes me! It was a battle to remember, trying to keep that stuff on the counter and catch tentacles as they oozed over the side and toward the floor. I caught everything and stuffed it all with flour to keep it from sliding down again, but I had to move fast there for a bit.

2. Even a guy with 32 loaf pans can run out of loaf pans if he is dumb enough to make 12 times what the recipe should have been.
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Thank you for learning that for me. Now if I am in the same situation I will just make 8 times the amount four times. :)

And if it is not doing four times it is not worth doing to me.
 
Lynx

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Well I usually do an 8x batch. But I recently got a 17.5 gallon feed bucket in which to mix the dough, and a boat paddle for mixing it up, so that gave me a bit of false confidence in my ability to manage such a large lump of dough.

I need a larger counter top, that's all. A much larger one.
 
Lynx

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MissCris said:
The temperature here seems to only do extremes- we go from plastic over the windows, electric blanket, miserable below zero weather straight to Why haven’t we gotten the swamp cooler set up yet weather.

For the past six weeks, we’ve been eating completely differently than we used to; no processed stuff (or, at least minimally processed), almost no dairy, only whole grains, no pork, no sugar (except the dark chocolate I won’t give up). It’s been good- basically like a Mediterranean diet, except it’s not a “diet”, we just changed the way we eat. There’s a crazy amount of fresh basil, olive oil and garlic involved in all this. Everyone in the house has more energy and only occasionally complains that they miss cheeseburgers. My husband has dropped almost 30 pounds. Me, I’ve lost a whopping four. And my skin is freaking out- two weeks ago, I had to go to church with a zit the size of Russia between my eyes. It went away during the week, and the next Sunday I woke up to find three new zits scattered across my face like those red pins people use to mark giant maps.

But, I feel otherwise great...and my face will eventually go back to normal, probably. It’s still a bit irritating that my face is trying to impersonate a pepperoni pizza when I don’t even eat pepperoni pizza anymore.

Morning is going to be interesting. By ‘interesting’ I mean ‘all out war’- there’s only one k-cup left, and two avid coffee drinkers in the house. It’s a grocery shopping day, so at least coffee levels will be restored to acceptable, but what if I don’t get to the last one in time? How can I go grocery shopping without first shocking my system into life? On the other hand, how can I in good conscience send my husband to work at 4:45 a.m. without HIS dose of caffeine?

Coffee shortages- the leading cause of marital discord.
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You had my attention at basil and garlic. :D

Coffee is not a thing for me so if I ever do get married we will not fight over that. Somebody could get hurt if we're down to the last bar of dark chocolate though.
 
egeiro

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MissCris said:
But, I feel otherwise great...and my face will eventually go back to normal, probably. It’s still a bit irritating that my face is trying to impersonate a pepperoni pizza when I don’t even eat pepperoni pizza anymore.
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My face usually looks like the last thing I ate because I still have not mastered this thing called table manners.

I like to think it's a gift, really.
 
EarnestQ

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egeiro said:
My face usually looks like the last thing I ate because I still have not mastered this thing called table manners.

I like to think it's a gift, really.
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A form of performance art, perhaps?
 
egeiro

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EarnestQ said:
A form of performance art, perhaps?
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In a nutshell. My life goal is to incorporate performance art eating with interpretative dance to illustrate a classic Jane Austen novel.

Now that's romantic.
 
cinder

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egeiro said:
In a nutshell. My life goal is to incorporate performance art eating with interpretative dance to illustrate a classic Jane Austen novel.

Now that's romantic.
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Long time no see, good to have you back.
 
egeiro

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cinder said:
Long time no see, good to have you back.
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It's good to be back! (Although it's probably temporary or sporadic)

Good to see some regulars here! It took 20 seconds to feel at home again reading familiar people's humor and unique spark!

How has the past year treated you?
 
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egeiro said:
It's good to be back! (Although it's probably temporary or sporadic)

Good to see some regulars here! It took 20 seconds to feel at home again reading familiar people's humor and unique spark!

How has the past year treated you?
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Glad to see that you're back in the fold. I don't really know you but I usually hang out in the Conversations About Nothing In Particular thread so maybe I will see you there. I've seen a lot of peeps come and go here but there always seems to be a core of regular contributors who I have come to know and care about.
 
cinder

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egeiro said:
It's good to be back! (Although it's probably temporary or sporadic)

Good to see some regulars here! It took 20 seconds to feel at home again reading familiar people's humor and unique spark!

How has the past year treated you?
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Pretty well, learning to do normal life. Going to job, inhabiting little cinder cave of an apartment, making decisions like whether I'm going to haul my laundry across the frozen tundra of the parking lot to the laundry building in the complex or load it into the car to visit mom and dad's washing machine. Yeah really exciting. But stable and reasonably comfortable is nice.
 
egeiro

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tourist said:
Glad to see that you're back in the fold. I don't really know you but I usually hang out in the Conversations About Nothing In Particular thread so maybe I will see you there. I've seen a lot of peeps come and go here but there always seems to be a core of regular contributors who I have come to know and care about.
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I remember you! You married some wonderful lady from here, didn't you? Back in 2016 or something?
 
egeiro

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cinder said:
Pretty well, learning to do normal life. Going to job, inhabiting little cinder cave of an apartment, making decisions like whether I'm going to haul my laundry across the frozen tundra of the parking lot to the laundry building in the complex or load it into the car to visit mom and dad's washing machine. Yeah really exciting. But stable and reasonably comfortable is nice.
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Ah, adulting. Adulting has hurt my face for the past decade. Good luck with that.
 
egeiro

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So I gotz married.

(By the time we got to the sunset photo I had already eaten my entree and main course meal so I look 3 months pregnant but I'm not.)
 
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Really beautiful pics! I just celebrated my 1 yr anniversary a couple of weeks ago :eek:
 
Lynx

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egeiro said:
So I gotz married.

(By the time we got to the sunset photo I had already eaten my entree and main course meal so I look 3 months pregnant but I'm not.)
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I don't know if this is the way a typical guy is supposed to think, but my first thought was, "She wore her wedding dress when she ate the entree and main course meal? And didn't worry a bit about getting a stain? Impressive!"
 
EarnestQ

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egeiro said:
Ah, adulting. Adulting has hurt my face for the past decade. Good luck with that.
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If nurses do their nursing in the nusery, and Baptists do their baptizing in the baptistery, do adults do their adultering in the adultery?
 
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