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10 December 2009

What bad thing happened to you today? What good thing happened? I'll go first...→[More:]
Good: Turned out a pile of the lightest, laciest crepes ever with no trouble whatsoever. Whoohoo! This cooking schtick is a breeze!!

Bad: Promptly lost my cooking mojo and turned a saucepan of rice into pure carbon. I've no idea how I'm going to get it off the bottom of the pan - steel wool does nothing. *sigh* At least there's crepes for dinner...

So, how 'bout you guys? What ups and downs have you had today?

post by: ninazer0 at: 02:45 | 28 comments

Good: I got my first MeCha Card! it sent me wishes of cool weather - and literally as I read that line a massive electrical storm broke open the sky! I think they must be magics.

Bad: I am tired, have so much work on, and no matter how much of it I get done, there is still so much left to do. SIGH.

posted by jonathanstrange 10 December | 05:30

To remove carbon from your pan: put a couple inches of water in pan, add a big handful of baking soda and a big sprinkle of salt. Boil. Allow to cool. The burnt things will flake right off.

I'm not going into the whole good/bad thing right now lest I fall into a spiral of bitchiness out of which I cannot crawl.

posted by Specklet 10 December | 07:06

Good: I didn't oversleep for my exam

Bad: this is today's forecast

Heavy Snow / Wind High 27° F Precip: 100%
Windy with snow showers this morning. A steady, sometimes heavy, snow is likely this afternoon. High 27F. Winds WSW at 25 to 35 mph. Snow accumulating 6 to 10 inches. Winds could occasionally gust over 50 mph.

posted by kellydamnit 10 December | 07:07

Good: I had a croissant, warm and buttery from the oven, spread with blackcurrant jam made by Specklet and TheDonF for breakfast. It was so delicious I had another.

Bad: Upstairs sleazo has started bringing junkie hookers home with him again.

posted by essexjan 10 December | 07:11

Good: The neighborhood house tour is starting tomorrow finally and I'm leading two tours, one Friday and one Saturday. We've sold over 1300 tickets so far; we were worried that the economy would slow it down but people are still willing to spend $20 to tour our little neighborhood.

Bad: It's cold here. It was up to 58F yesterday and now it's only 23F. At least the wind storm is over.

posted by octothorpe 10 December | 07:58

good: the birthday gift my sister sent in the mail (and then came back to her, and then she sent again) finally arrived. so she can stop worrying about it.

bad: hurt my back doing absolutely nothing. walking down stairs, getting up from sitting, bending down, picking up my kid = excruciating. I know this is a warning sign from my body to GET IN BETTER SHAPE YOU IDIOT.

posted by pinky.p 10 December | 08:00

Good: Finally getting my shit together nad having lunch with a real live human being and leaving the house for once.

Bad: SO. COLD.

posted by The Whelk 10 December | 08:23

Good: My brother is coming to visit for a few days, YAY!!!

Bad: It's 3 degrees out and windy. Bitterly cold. Why do I live in Chicago??????

posted by Kangaroo 10 December | 08:30

Good: holiday cards have been shipped from printing place. That means that we should get them tomorrow and have them mailed out on Saturday. Yay!

Bad: I am behind in my work. Well, not technically, but I am trying to do 50 hours of work a week for the first 4 weeks this month so I don't have to work the week between Christmas and NY (this is completely OK with my boss as long as I can do it.) At the moment I'm on target for getting 3 days off. Need to up the pace.

posted by gaspode 10 December | 08:58

Good: house is warm, cat is snoozy, work is kind of progressing.

Bad: weirdly, almost *exactly* the same as gaspode's Bad. Minus the boss. Trying to concentrate work due Dec 30 into the space before Christmas.

posted by altolinguistic 10 December | 09:39

Good: It's Thursday, which is the start of the weekend for me and is sorely needed.

Bad: My car key is stuck in the ignition. Again. (Pops is on his way to come work on getting it out.) And the toilet at my house is running too long again.

posted by sperose 10 December | 09:40

Minus one bad: Pops has come and gone and gotten the key out and suggests it may be due to the fact that my key is quite worn.

posted by sperose 10 December | 10:19

Good - It is supposed to get above freezing today!
Bad - Still frigging cold. The kind of cold that you spend most of your time just staying warm.

posted by danf 10 December | 10:34

Good- slept pretty well last night and had a cuddle session with the bunny on my pillow this morning.

Bad- Forgot to approve an important file yesterday and have that panicky "I f-ed up" feeling.

posted by rmless2 10 December | 10:53

Bad: Had to yell at the scale this morning and alarmed the dog.

Good: Had a meeting with a co-worker conducted mostly by sock puppet. Hands, the talking hands, not fake user names. You know, puppets.

posted by rainbaby 10 December | 11:16

Bad: Fry the cat viciously attacked me and I have bleeding bite marks up and down my outer dominant hand and forearm as well as minor scratches elsewhere as I detached him. No idea why but he's been hissing at my nephew and he didn't like my work gloves at all. I wonder if they smell like other cats or something. I'm diabetic (slow wound healing) so if he isn't outgrowing this phase I really don't think I can keep him.

Good: If it happens I'll post it. It isn't lunch yet.

posted by dhartung 10 December | 11:55

Good: I get a free lunch at work today for actually contributing very, very little to the project.

Bad: Not into giving presents. I envy all spouses who can get their other half to do all the work.

posted by Melismata 10 December | 12:02

Bad: Car had a flat tire this morning.

Good: I filled the tire at the gas station nearby and it held air so I could get to work. Found a tire place near my office that I can take it to after work.

posted by amro 10 December | 12:30

Good: Free holiday lunch at work -- prime rib, horseradish sauce, potato, roll, carrots, pumpkin pie and my bonus check.

Bad: I seem to be diagnosing myself with mental illnesses and also have been worrying a lot that I have screwed/am screwing up my kids. I have an intense fear of screwing them up which is probably screwing them up.

Ever since I read this article this morning I am entertaining thoughts that I have PTSD, or have in the past because my memory is so poor. I am pretty certain that I don't have PTSD but this is what crazy does to a person. I also started to read about healing your brain with mindfulness and other science-y cool stuff about "rewiring" and healing the brain.

Bad: My dog shreds things (slippers, stuffed animals). My floors have bits of fluff all over them. God bless America.

Good/bad: I am invited to a snobby charity thing on Saturday. I am going with a good friend but am slightly stressing what to wear and am not happy that I have to hobnob with these people.

posted by LoriFLA 10 December | 14:15

Bad: Tuition went up, financial aid went down, and I'm freshly unemployed.
Good: Graduation has been pushed up to June, I'll have more free time to devote to other things, and I can get some awesome job at a bike shop when they all start hiring in the spring.

posted by aniola 10 December | 15:17

Good: I got a lot of errands done today, including (I thought) every last lick of my modest Christmas-gift shopping.

Bad: Walking across town, then shopping, then walking back tweaked my pinched nerve. The last few blocks home, I was hobbling. And I forgot to buy one lonesome little gift, though I was in that shop buying other things, so I have to go straight back tomorrow.

Good again: The various food-related good news (crepes! Croissants! Prime rib!) is making me peckish. I think I'll make myself an especially nice dinner tonight.

posted by Elsa 10 December | 16:32

Good: I got a new job at work.

Bad: I am apparently a political pawn in a power struggle in this new position.

Good: Although I am transitioning to the job, it is not really final yet.

More Good: I found out a second position is open and that they are rather interested in me as well.

Bad: Now I have to make a decision as to which job I want.

Good: Now I have to make a decision as to which job I want.

Is that clear?

posted by Doohickie 10 December | 22:08

Bad: My old laptop overheated and shut down (I'm at a fedex now).
Good: I saw Lynn Redgrave's one woman show.

posted by brujita 10 December | 22:19

Good: I guess it's simply enough that Fry's visit to the vet went swimmingly -- he was curious but calm and welcomed the vet tech's petting (but he sensed that the vet was going to DO SOMETHING and we had to disassemble his carrier to get him out). I have now attributed his freak-out to another unsupervised catnip incident -- a toy he almost destroyed. Funny how it mostly seems not to affect him in controlled access. That boy was HIGH though.

posted by dhartung 10 December | 23:51

Bad: My insomnia is getting worse.
Good: My son's girlfriend got her period.*

* Things get a little weird when it's the parent renting out the spare room.

posted by Ardiril 11 December | 02:07

Good: got my H1N1 flu shot today

Bad: can't think of one bad thing :-)

posted by deborah 11 December | 02:40

Bad: No contract at work, thus no bonus, thus possibility of a strike. Need two new tires on the van. Christmas is fast approaching without said bonus.

Good: I have a date on Saturday night!

posted by redvixen 11 December | 21:19

Good: Had a nice coffee with jonathanstrange today, and visited my mum.

Bad: Can't really think of anything!

posted by nicecupoftea 12 December | 06:59

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