Rikibeth @ 18: As an also pregnant person, I'm inclined to say that it's a bit of both. I hear very often that sour helps with the queasiness (although I find chocolate *flavoured* things, like milk or ice cream are surprisingly equally as good), but that low blood sugar, or over-hungriness will increase your likeliness to throw up.
I bought How To Survive A Robot Uprising for my husband, and it contains some handy tips for escaping pursuing robots.
Provided there is enough sunlight and food for the tomatoes, there's no reason they shouldn't grow, and from my various journeys around the internet, I see people are growing all kinds of things inside.
I find my dog's hair everywhere - nasty, short, orange hairs bristling out of everything he lies on (he's a wheaten ridgeback, but the individual hairs look surprisingly orange), *what* a nasty scarf that would make.
I'm knitting possum pouches for a dear friend who recently did me a few good turns. She's an animal rescuer, and after some stealthy research I determined that such folks can always use cosy places for orphaned beasties to snuggle.
I was born in 1972, and had a smallpox vaccination (family moved to various tropical locations) and rubella vax when I was 12, but not measles, mumps or chickenpox. Despite my mother's best efforts in exposing me to all three, I never did catch any until I was in my early twenties when I caught chickenpox, and I really wasn't very sick at all. My doctor was all freaked out when I saw him the day or so before it appeared, my glands were all massively swollen and he urged me to run home and get ready for something serious. I think he was slightly disappointed that I was so well.
All three of my kids have had all their shots, but as I am currently preg again, I've been thinking about vaccinations again. Is there any indication that Anyone Who Knows knows to space vaccinations out more?
(And on the subject of rh, I am 0-ve, and all three offspting are +ve.)
Juli: It's a mystery to me, because I never have any idea where I am in a thread just by looking, I have to try to remember the number, or keep scanning back until I hit a familiar message.
On another, unrelated note, why o why do I pile up books under and next to my bed? Why don't I remember how much I hate rummaging under the dusty bed to to get them and put them away. I must have dug out a hundred books and herded them back to their shelves.
odaiwai, and the other bread bakers:
I use the bread machine a lot if I'm not bothered by the appearance (otherwise either the machine or I looks after the kneading and rising, and I braid it into a loaf and bake in the actual oven), because for the most part I care about the ingredients, not who provided the muscle. Also, the machine makes a "bgrr! bgrr!" noise when it mixes that makes the dog bark, which makes me smile. We all love the bread I make, which also makes me smile!
At midwinter celebrations I make a loaf of something I think I got out of a Moosewood book, with dried fruits and saffron, it is very good.
Right this moment, I have some dough for English muffins rising downstairs.
Gosh, reminds me also of a programme I heard on classical radio one afternoon: "The Romantic Organ".
Despite making plenty of box jokes myself (including the time I told a friend that I bought a jar of brown box* honey from the cute young honey dispenser at the health food store, and she asked if I had said anything to him about my own brown box), I just now got the joke about losing virginity but keeping the box etc.
*Native Australian tree, there's also a yellow box at least.
Boozy cherry idea contributors, one and all:
Thankyou for your help!
I remembered I also have a bottle of calvados I don't like, so I put up one bottle this afternoon, and I'll do another when I pick some more on the weekend. Into a 1.5l capacity bottle, I half filled with whole fresh cherries (not pierced, pits intact), added 1/3 cup sugar, and added the calvados, a smidge under 700ml. It's on the top shelf of my linen cupboard, and I'll slosh it around when I remember, and try it on my birthday, in April.
The next one, I'll jab the cherries, and cover with the plain old brandy, and compare the two. I read one recipe that called for half a cup of sugar, so I thought best to stick near that sort of amount, equal sugar sounds like jam (of which I have a pot simmering away as well).
CHip: what might come out of the stones? I vaguely recall that the pits are used for almond flavour, if so that's a plus (and if it's toxic, I know what my ex is getting for Christmas next year).
Xopher: Yes, I wondered how'd they be, soused. I heard a nice recipe on the radio the other day for prunes steeped in port, with a vanilla bean added, that I think I want to do, too.
I just want to run something by the keen eyes of ML:
I have a lot of cherries, and a large bottle of rather ordinary brandy (that I won in a raffle!). If I take a large bottle, and half fill it with cherries, and then fill up the bottle with the cherries and leave it for a while, agitating occasionally, will I end up with something delicious to drink? Should I stone the cherries? Add some sugar?
Robert @ 30 and David @77:
I was firmly in the Anti-zombie camp after being enzombied twice - twice! - between the gates and the bank in Orgrimmar, and took to patrolling angrily on my paladin busily curing people whether they wanted it or not, on the basis that they were a public nuisance. So relieved it's over.
Fallen yellow plums smell like my very earliest childhood memories, as do crows cawing sound like.
One particular brand of rose incense smells like a favourite bookshop from my teens.
I had a happy long lost scent return to me unexpectedly. My grandmother's bedroom had a very distinct smell, and I always loved spending time in there when I was a small girl: I learned to sew on her treadle sewing machine in there, and spent hours rummaging through her drawers full of old coins and admiring her amazing rosary beads. She died a few years ago, and just a short while ago I noticed after I'd used a tissue, that it smelled like her! So I think really *I* smell like her, but I can't smell it until it's not on me anymore? Does that sound right? But it was a wonderful feeling, smelling my beloved Nana again.
#673: I'm coveting that stole myself, trying to think how many people I can make it for to justify buying it for myself.
Re plastic bags - we keep all the ones we bring home and they get used to double bag smelly garbage, pick up dog poo, and transport items short distances. I usually have a fabric shopping bag inside my handbagbag for small numbers of items, but mostly I carry a bag big enough to carry home several kilos of shopping anyway. I really love these bags: Envirosax.
I used google to search on your email address, and found all but one of the things JK posted within a minute or two, so my guess is that's what he did, too.
When I was a nursing student on a hospital rotation, the infections person told us that they had taken samples from the pump packs of antibacterial handwash on the wards, and found it full of bacteria: the mechanics of washing your hands is what gets the germs off. Warm water is better too, than cold. We were told to think of our hands as having planes, and to make sure you washed them all, sides of fingers and all (also to rinse off from fingertips to elbow, so that if any bacteria is left on your skin, it ends up on your elbows where you can't paste it all over Mrs Whatsit's open wound).
Re transferring bacteria from one place to another: I used to always lick a cotton bud before using it in my ear (I don't know why, but note I say "used to") until the time I had a sore throat, did it, and ended up with a painful ear infection.
If it's good enough for hobbits, then it's perfectly fine behaviour, in my opinion.
Re cucumbers: several years ago I told my cucumber hating son that we would be having slugs and cucumbers for dinner, (after about eleventy million questions of "What's for dinner?", I think) and he replied "But I don't like cucumbers!" in an appalled tone.
What's a TLAP?
I don't have a pattern, was going to *ahem* Google one, as I am currently in the grip of a glow in the dark embroidery cotton obsession. I'm doing a sugar skull embroidered tshirt for one of my sons, and a jack o'lantern door hangy whatsit for a swap, and am like the weasel in Foghorn Leghorn cartoons looking for a new glow in the dark project :)
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