Ray's House of Love (Volume II)

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Maryn

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How's today? I'm sick of cold weather. (High near 50.)

Okay, I'm going to Target, Best Buy, Lowes, and maybe some other places if I don't run out of steam. Anybody need anything?

Maryn, shopping sales
 

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We got our name back - and it's all spelled correctly. Woo!! :)

Welcome, Pandora.

I haven't noticed many of the overly opinionated threads, either, but I've been making a concentrated to stay out of the actual writing threads for a little while. I found that they were making me too paranoid and every time I wrote any sentence at all, all I could hear was "INFODUMP!!! TELLING NOT SHOWING!!! DELETE! DELETE!!!!"" until I couldn't write anything at all.
 

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Welcome, Pandora!!!
Maybe we could talk about the price of eggs in China.
 

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Hey, HOLers. Towel boy reporting for duty. Snorkel found and functional, so with the upturn in weather, it's time for water sports. Hot tub cannonball...
 

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He's your new best friend.

I'm not spreading this around just everywhere, but for my friends here: Ben & Jerry's is having Free Cone day, limited flavor selection, donations to each store's charity accepted but not required. I had mine, tossed a few bucks toward the town's Little League. A good deal all round!

If I'd realized we'd be using the hot tub today, I'd have shaved my legs. Sigh...

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We had one Ben & Jerry's here and it just didn't open one day. Closed at the normal time one night, and just stayed that way. I believe all of the furniture and everything else is still in the shop. It's very depressing, especially on Free Cone Day.
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How's today? I'm sick of cold weather. (High near 50.)

Okay, I'm going to Target, Best Buy, Lowes, and maybe some other places if I don't run out of steam. Anybody need anything?

Maryn, shopping sales


Ditto. Got very warm here on Sunday and now they're predicting a bit of snow :Headbang: on Saturday. Sigh.

I love hardware stores even though I don't have a house to buy anything for. I just like wondering around Menards, or Home Depot sometimes. We have Lowes up here too but I keep forgetting to check them out.
 

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For the love of dog, people - why can I not make a decent grilled cheese sandwich????? Butter, bread, cheese - I don't think I'm missing anything. I've been craving one all day, and this one is fairly substandard. Boo.
 

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For the love of dog, people - why can I not make a decent grilled cheese sandwich????? Butter, bread, cheese - I don't think I'm missing anything. I've been craving one all day, and this one is fairly substandard. Boo.
Lose the butter and add Worcestershire Sauce or, failing that, mustard.
 

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Bacon.

'Tis the answer to all cooking-related issues, and a whole bunch of non-cookning ones as well.
 

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We had a coupon for Tim Horton's (we're near Canada--are they everywhere in the US, or only Up North?) and Saturday I had a panini with cheese, bacon, and tomato. Kind of a heavy lunch for Miss Salad here, but it was real good. And amazingly enough, it held me until dinner, unlike a salad.

Writerly question: In something I shared with my RL critique group, I used the word asshat. Not one person in my group knew the term. In your experience, is this a word people know? Their suggestions for replacement led to an interesting dinner table discussions when The Kid was over, on the differences and nuances in the definitions of asshat, asshole, and asswipe. We all should have been linguists, huh?

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A quick survey yields a 3/3 positive response to the question "Have you ever heard the word "asshat"?"
I was also offered "assclown" as a substitute should it be needed.
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It seems to me like people who know asshat are all fairly active online. My critique group gets online, but in a somewhat conservative, information-gathering and emailing way, rather that being a part of any online community. (They won't even check out AW, ferchristsake!) None of them has Facebook, is a member at IMDb, or ever simply plays or amuses themselves online.

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my husband uses asshat on a regular basis. And assclown. but he is active online at Fark - well he reads fark, I don't know if he posts much.

I like asshat. I get a mental image that is - well - amusing.

Sassy- not feeling so sassy today.
 

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I like both words. They serve their purpose when you're looking for a word to describe a particular type of ass(bleep).

I also use the word "douchebag" but some folks don't care for it and think it's degrading to women. (namely, my mom) Personally, as a girl I find the word hilarious and it fits my needs just fine when the word "jerk" simply won't do.

 
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