Mandroid2.0 wrote:Stupid. Fucking. California Hippies. How can you mess up beef jerky?

...by plunging it through an organization that takes its administrative cues from Wal-Mart. I love what Trader Joe's wants everyone to think it is, but the result is some seriously sub-par products. I want Good, Fast, and Cheap, damnit...

John CIV wrote:This morning, Catherine, after bathing, put on some sweet smelling moisturising lotion and asked me as usual to rub some on her back. Then she went downstairs. When I got down she had just breast fed our baby and was putting him into his little basket. I noticed an un-rubbed in blob of the stuff on her arm and, rubbing it in to her skin with my palm, said she'd missed a bit. "That's sick", she said.

Did she think you rubbed throw up into her skin, or did you think throw up was lotion?

Skronk wrote:

John CIV wrote:This morning, Catherine, after bathing, put on some sweet smelling moisturising lotion and asked me as usual to rub some on her back. Then she went downstairs. When I got down she had just breast fed our baby and was putting him into his little basket. I noticed an un-rubbed in blob of the stuff on her arm and, rubbing it in to her skin with my palm, said she'd missed a bit. "That's sick", she said.

Did she think you rubbed throw up into her skin, or did you think throw up was lotion?

George had puked on her.

John CIV wrote:This morning, Catherine, after bathing, put on some sweet smelling moisturising lotion and asked me as usual to rub some on her back. Then she went downstairs. When I got down she had just breast fed our baby and was putting him into his little basket. I noticed an un-rubbed in blob of the stuff on her arm and, rubbing it in to her skin with my palm, said she'd missed a bit. "That's sick", she said.

*fact alert start*

Did you know that the suspected cause of peanut allergies in western youngsters is not exposure to peanuts as food, but the peanut oil contained in many nipple creams designed for use while breast-feeding. It is also possible (apparently) that early exposure to peanut oil (or peanuts) is the cause of other, non-peanut-related allergies.

*fact alert end*

Champion Rabbit wrote:

John CIV wrote:This morning, Catherine, after bathing, put on some sweet smelling moisturising lotion and asked me as usual to rub some on her back. Then she went downstairs. When I got down she had just breast fed our baby and was putting him into his little basket. I noticed an un-rubbed in blob of the stuff on her arm and, rubbing it in to her skin with my palm, said she'd missed a bit. "That's sick", she said.

*fact alert start*

Did you know that the suspected cause of peanut allergies in western youngsters is not exposure to peanuts as food, but the peanut oil contained in many nipple creams designed for use while breast-feeding. It is also possible (apparently) that early exposure to peanut oil (or peanuts) is the cause of other, non-peanut-related allergies.

*fact alert end*

Right. Cath was advised not to eat nuts all throughout her pregnancy in case of the baby being allergic. If they're officially advising that now, it's a strange thing to be putting in nipple cream...

I think his little barf was just a burp that followed through though. He can't get enough of the boobie juice. I've never seen any human being give such a flagrant display of utter satiation than when he falls off the magic mountain, laid back, arms aloft, milk dribbling from the corner of his mouth. I almost want to light him a cigarette.

dontfeartheringo wrote: House = completely primed, ready to be caulked and painted.

Want to come over and help me prime mine?

I have the hallway, living room and kitchen still to do - plus fix skirting in half the livingroom - and repair plasterwork where the builder decided to accidentally punch a hole with a door frame he was removing.

All this... then caulking and painting.

My girlfriend has it in her head that the second top coat will be on & dried by Sunday evening. I really hope it is too - but it may mean very little sleep between now and then.

Going to school plus working almost full-time means the occasional two-hours-of-sleep night.

Weeeeeeeeee

I've finally moved to Berlin and find myself in a very pleasant flat in Kreuzberg. My landlady and flatmate is a cool artist and lecturer, and the other flatmate is an Italian student who's currently in London, returning on Sunday, and she sounds like a good person too. I only arrived in Berlin on Monday night, utterly unprepared and disorganised, no idea where I was to live, so I am happy that I feel quite relatively settled. For once, the balls-out-it'll-work-out approach seems to have worked.

Now all I have to do is to work out how exactly I should do what I should be doing over the next four months, and book a cheap German language course parce que mein Deutsch ist très crêpe, pour favour. My typically slapdash research so far has found only pricey ones, and I am on the cheap. Sadly, the rent boy market is over-saturated, so my main potential source of income is stymied.

Generally, though, this city is ripping <pages Cranius>. I am suddenly overwhelmed by the wealth of stuff to do. "Stuff" is the only word wide enough to encompass this variety.

Still haven't tried currywurst yet.

Insert pun here about "from bad to wurst".

sparky wrote:I've finally moved to Berlin and find myself in a very pleasant flat in Kreuzberg. My landlady and flatmate is a cool artist and lecturer, and the other flatmate is an Italian student who's currently in London, returning on Sunday, and she sounds like a good person too. I only arrived in Berlin on Monday night, utterly unprepared and disorganised, no idea where I was to live, so I am happy that I feel quite relatively settled. For once, the balls-out-it'll-work-out approach seems to have worked.

Now all I have to do is to work out how exactly I should do what I should be doing over the next four months, and book a cheap German language course parce que mein Deutsch ist très crêpe, pour favour. My typically slapdash research so far has found only pricey ones, and I am on the cheap. Sadly, the rent boy market is over-saturated, so my main potential source of income is stymied.

Generally, though, this city is ripping <pages Cranius>. I am suddenly overwhelmed by the wealth of stuff to do. "Stuff" is the only word wide enough to encompass this variety.

Still haven't tried currywurst yet.

Insert pun here about "from bad to wurst".

Mein gott, Schparky! It is done, ja!

Kreuzberg has its very own Wikipedia entry!

This made me chortle:

Kreuzberg, located south of Berlin-Mitte, is one of the best-known boroughs of Berlin, famous for its nightlife and its political leftness as well as its problems with criminality, the drug scene and a very high number of immigrants.

I forsee a job selling crack to Communists!

Rimbaud III wrote:I forsee a job selling crack to Communists!

Suddenly, they seem to be taking competition quite seriously.

About time too. They need a bit of free market vigour!

The Anarchy Ja! graffiti around here is too cute. I will take photos. Kreuzberg appears to be where all the people with mohicans and large, smelly dogs have moved since London got posh.