[MtlMom]

Originally Posted by BillSPrestonEsq

You snub curry?!? I live on curry. I eat curry by large ammounts, sweet curries, spicy curries, chicken curries, beef curries, tofu curries, etc.

It's true. I don't like curry at all. It's the one spice that I just don't care for. Actually, I'm not a huge fan of anise either.

[BillSPrestonEsq]

Originally Posted by MtlMom

It's true. I don't like curry at all. It's the one spice that I just don't care for. Actually, I'm not a huge fan of anise either.

wow. Thats just one of my primary foods I eat. A life without a nice coconut milk based curry seems depressing to me. (I buy curry in bulk actually) Between curries, pintos and pastas, thats the vast bulk of what I eat. Which reminds me, I need to make some more chicken curry and rice to make as lunches. I don't think you would like my favorite dish at the Thai restaurant in town. It is a pineapple shrimp curry.

[MtlMom]

Originally Posted by BillSPrestonEsq

wow. Thats just one of my primary foods I eat. A life without a nice coconut milk based curry seems depressing to me. (I buy curry in bulk actually) Between curries, pintos and pastas, thats the vast bulk of what I eat. Which reminds me, I need to make some more chicken curry and rice to make as lunches. I don't think you would like my favorite dish at the Thai restaurant in town. It is a pineapple shrimp curry.

No, I won't be ordering that particular dish. *smile*
I love Thai food though. One of my favorite restaurants is Tooms Thai Cuisine. It always amuses me that Thai restaurants use the term "cuisine".

[Elizabeth]

Originally Posted by Mara's Mom

Ohmy! Which country would that be?

I am pretty much willing to go anywhere, though I have ruled out Kuwait, Iraq, Iran and a few others.

I don't remember where you currently attend. [/Dory]

A small Christian college whose name I shan't disclose...but I will tell you over PM, if you like.

We are using a John Piper book. I enjoy his thoughts, but usually not his writing style. These are short so his writing style is not so noticeable.

I have not read much of John Piper, but I once heard a sermon of his that was excellent. I shall have to remember this for next Lenten season.

Are you enjoying yours?

Yes, ma'am. It can be a bit disjointed at times, but I like having readings from the Psalms, somewhere else in the OT and the NT. I tend to stay in the NT if it's up to me, so I'm glad I'm getting into the OT more.

[Small]

Originally Posted by Mara's Mom

Blame shifter. *wink*

I was taught by the best. *Japanese wink*

I hate doing that, but sometimes it is necessary.

Well, if you hated it for reasons of courtesy, I was freeing you from that version of hating it. I hate it too, actually, but more when it is me replying, than when I'm being replied to.

I wonder if I have ever laughed mordantly.

When you watch Arsenic and Old Lace, all question shall be forever removed.

Iowa has been declared an official disaster by our new governor. There are powerlines down everywhere. Poles snapped off in the wind with the weight of ice-covered lines. With more snow expected today and tomorrow.

Oh, dear. That's no good, although it's better than Iowa declaring its governer an official disaster.

The weather radio went off yesterday with "Civil Danger Warning" flashing. People were told to immediately call 911 if they had no power and no other place to go. They have been told, but they don't want to leave their homes. Sound familiar? *sigh*

Again, I can only say "Oh, dear." It sometimes utterly bamboozles me that people can be so muddle-headed, but then, I also can be, and often am, muddle-headed.

Ew. That is almost ickier than seeing it all painted pink.

Is it all painted pink?

I bet in some cultures they wear their toenails around their neck or something. Like a shark or boar tooth.

Perhaps, but that would require those cultures to have an abundance of crushed, and otherwise removed, toenails, which would make them dangerous and quite plausibly unpleasant cultures in which to earn one's bread and set one's bed, as it were.

I bet they gold-plate theirs.

That is a good plan.

That said, I live far enough from...corporation limits, I suppose one could reasonably say, that in order to be a snow hero, one must have properly outfitted pickup trucks or tractors, that is to say, one must have a snow plow of some sort, and I don't, hence, I must wait until some dread day when I find myself earning my bread and making my bed beneath the overhanging fog of city smog, or, as the case will be, snow. At that point, I will do my best to lend an effective and charitable hand and shovel to the cause of my neighbors.

I have not. I should tell Mara to print it for me so that I don't have to sit at the computer even longer.

It might be a waste of paper, because while I would say the general gist of the two essays is high class and quality, my execution of the principle was not at all times first-rate.

The main trouble might be figuring out which one of them was nearer sincere.

She would definitely be impressed with the latter. He would be wooing her without realizing it.

I think it is those things that define perfect matches, don't you?

I have a story here that applies, but I'm not going to tell it. *snicker*

Will you whisper it into my ear via alternate routes?

Or is it one of those stories where you give me a pertinant question to ask another member of your family?

Let's be clear here. Vindaloo is "out" in the way of updates, but very, very "in" if presented before you on a plate. Dig in, Small. Dig in.

Oh. In that case, I'm going to have to double that poor guy's tip. I hope his manager isn't incensed by my capricious behaviour.

Hurrah on two counts. Hurrah for at least the mere existence of hot chocolate in your home and hurrah for your noble restraint.

Indeed. I forgot to finish the story, but since the ending presents me as a glowing, halo-stricken philanthropist, I shrink from sharing. *chortle*

Dory.

Reliable books concerning J. Newton.

HA. I love the male spirit.

One would think that my liberal dose of the Artistic Temperament would in many ways counteract it, but no.

I don't quite know what that would be like. [/crier]

I'm kind of shocked by it, actually. I don't see myself as an emotionally repressed person, and I don't think it's purposeful, if it is, it's entirely subconscious.

*grin*

I will finish my thoughts on that in light of Smaller's:

Thinking of the people I know who would do such things, I don't think it would be a matter of 'opening the field' for the girl, nor do I think that, if it were that, that's an appropriate way of 'opening the field', and 'opening the field' isn't even a very appropriate thing to do. By wearing his hat originally, and signifying this and that and perhaps a tertiary point, with her eyes, she is giving ample indication that he has won the day, and need fear no more from other hat-sharing wretches. To follow that up immediately with "Okay. Now I'm going to do the same thing over here to indicate that I wish you two to rumble for my hand." doesn't strike me as any sort of an appropriate move.

More to the point; if she didn't signify things in the first place, Chap 1 would be less likely to be out of sorts when she started wearing other people's hats, and if he didn't attach any significance to having a young lady wear his hat, he wouldn't care as much.

I don't think that the best, most low-maintenance and stress-free form of showing affection at any stage of life is to wear hats.

You are kind of on the inside track, aren't you? *laugh*

*modest*

Maybe.

We are forcing Mancat to be an indoor cat now. He keeps getting hurt. *pounds gavel*

Ach! That's unacceptable. His getting hurt, I mean.

We had a wonderful Lenten reading this morning. It was about God's wrath. The author made an excellent point. That it would be flat out wrong for God to not be wrathful. It would be like God saying that He did not deserve all honor and glory, an endorsement of our sin by default. We should be in awe of His wrath as much as His mercy, because it points to how deserving He is of our love and obedience. His wrath was not eliminated by the loving act of the cross, but literally poured out on it. His wrath was not exchanged for, or cancelled out by, His mercy. It was poured out in its absolute fullness. His mercy allowed it to be poured out on His Son and away from us.

I am doing a horrible, rambling injustice to the reading. *blush*

The infinity of all aspects of God is startling, sometimes, as is the harmony within the seemingly contradictory eternities; last evening at the youth group meeting, we were discussing a few different passages, having to do with some aspects of God/What God has given us, and all of the smaller groups returned to the main body confused and wondering about something. It was lovely to think that, again, there are depths we can't know.

I am going to be highlighting some hair this week. *flex*

*awe*

I painted Mara's nails last night.

Is this your discreet and tactful way of informing us that you're starting a salon, and shan't be online as often in the future? *wink*

We've been perusing old copies of Bride magazine that we got free from the library.

Oho!

Has Sophie been paying special attention.

Sophie has been designing clothes and wants to get a sewing machine (Mara does too) and buy some cheap clothes at Goodwill and deconstruct them and make them all kinds of cool that you can't buy anywhere unless you have thousands of dollars.

I like sewing things, although to be frank, I never designed clothes. I think it would be fun to do, at some point. my most ambitious sewing-machine project was a six-foot tall blue puppet.

We are just getting all kinds of Girly over here. *laugh*

Indeed.

I need some inexpensive ideas for a main dish for 36 people. Quickly.

Scalloped Potatoes and Ham.

I need to go check on the cat.

We converted Smaller's cat when she was struck by a car and acquired a truly massive gash on one leg. Such that it caused her intense pain, but it wouldn't kill her if we simply left it, at least not in any sort of humane time frame, so her surgery recovery time had to be spent indoors, after which it was winter, and she had no winter coat, and so she had to stay on, and has, to this day.

Originally Posted by Mara's Mom

In the spirit of Small...SING, ALL YE NATIONS!

Dag, yo.

Is it a likely match? *wiggles eyebrows*

I think so, because they have a sort of divergent cuteness. Like, originally, I thought the cuteness might undo the entire thing, because they're both frighteningly cute, but it is a different sort, so I think all is well.

She is even cuter in person. And quite a bit older looking actually.

Her previous profile photo looked considerably older than does that.

YES. I posted it for you and stuff. *flop*

Note the Paisley dish in the background?

It was terribly in fashion in the sixth grade to change the spelling of one's name. My friends Kim and Stephanie became Kym and Stefani. They also started calling their parents by their first names. *stare* I would spank Mara if she did that. I'M NOT LYING. *snicker*

I met a young lady several (far too many) times who changed her name from something decent to Davita, which might be an acceptable name, were it not for the fact that she used it to signify a person who was arrogant, and ill-tempered and even looked ill-tempered, a combination which never works together for the best makes the name seem awful, and conversely, the name intensifies all that could be reasonably corrected about the individual.

I doubt she was actually repugnant; it was many years in the past, but at the time, she did not make a good impression.

I seriously hope that people have changed their minds. The forecast does not look so good and it's not worth losing your life over. Or the life of someone trying to rescue you.

Some hours ago, I mentioned muddle-headedness. I do so now, again.

Mara and I have had discussions about her need to emphasize "like a brother". For her, I know it's a declaration to all who would want to read into her enjoyment or affection for a male friend. I think she feels safer that way. Even though it's really pointless in the end. *laugh*

I think that if people can't figure out that I have no friendship with a young lady which isn't platonic, they must be under the impression that I am a playa of the first degree. It really hardly bothers me.

Odd. Either way, I only use those pat phrases when it's truly necessary.

His back leg is injured. AND Ian accidentally stepped on him this afternoon. So now he's REALLY injured. We have quarantined him with all of the essentials. We'll see how he is in the morning and go from there. He is sleeping peacefully at present. Poor thing.

Oh, dear. Here's to his recovery.

I like your favorite things, but I'm out of time to comment on them. *sad*

[Godslilrosebud]

Originally Posted by Mara's Mom

OK, well, that's confusing. *laugh* Personally, I would say go with Rachelle as long as your parents are fine with it.

I'm thinking more and more I will do that.

[Mara's Mom]

Scalloped Potatoes and Ham.

Ooooh...good idea, Small.

~*~

Iowa is closed. Almost literally. Looooooong stretches of interstate are closed.

Our cat is much better.

I wish I had a hamburger.

GOTTAGO!

[MtlMom]

I wish I could give you a hamburger and open freeways.

[BillSPrestonEsq]

Originally Posted by Mara's Mom

Our cat is much better.

I wish I had a hamburger.

Two phrases that somehow look very, very wrong to me side by side. Makes me want to yell run mancat, run!

I know its horrible.

[Ring of a bell]

Originally Posted by BillSPrestonEsq

Two phrases that somehow look very, very wrong to me side by side. Makes me want to yell run mancat, run!

I know its horrible.

That is what I was thinking also! It was funny. EAT THE CAT! Umm. Yeah nevermind.

What would ground cat be like anyways? You would need a few cats to make a pound of ground cat. [/really really mean]


Haldo Mrs. D, I was just thinking about the one or two times we talked on the phone. I should call you sometime. For good times. Yes.

That is all.

Bye.
Nathan

[MtlMom]

Originally Posted by BillSPrestonEsq

Two phrases that somehow look very, very wrong to me side by side. Makes me want to yell run mancat, run!

I know its horrible.

Originally Posted by Ring of a bell

That is what I was thinking also! It was funny. EAT THE CAT! Umm. Yeah nevermind.

What would ground cat be like anyways? You would need a few cats to make a pound of ground cat. [/really really mean]

That is just gross. I think Mrs. D. should put you both on notice [/colbert]

[BillSPrestonEsq]

Originally Posted by MtlMom

That is just gross. I think Mrs. D. should put you both on notice [/colbert]

no harm was intended. My mind is warped and I know it.

[mtlmouth]

Hi, Mrs. D!

[Mara's Mom]

Hi, Raylor!

It's like almost a party in my blog except that I wasn't here.

Cat burgers. Oh, the irony. [/cryptic]

I am about to try something that has never been done before. *crosses fingers*

[MtlMom]

Originally Posted by Mara's Mom

Hi, Raylor!

It's like almost a party in my blog except that I wasn't here.

Cat burgers. Oh, the irony. [/cryptic]

I am about to try something that has never been done before. *crosses fingers*

*big eyes* a catburger?