The Happiness Thread

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  1. Cave Troll

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    This is adorably brutal. :supergrin:
     
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    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    Woo! I got a full week off of vacation! :D TO DO ABSOLUTELY WHAT I WANNA DO!!!
     
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    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    Know what else?? My Amazon order of the Switch and Zelda: Breath of the Wild are shipping! The latest dates are: Game, this Saturday. Console, next Monday.
     
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    Breath of the Wild is good. Hence the avatar. Congrats on getting a Switch. That shits hard to find at retail price with scalpers lurking about.
     
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    Turns out my cooking is marriage material.

    One bite and even I fell madly in love.

    I actually went down on one knee.

    And I said yes.

    I'm going to be so happy with myself.

    (But really, holy crap, my pork roast was actually really good and I'm having trouble processing that I made it)
     
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    Cave Troll It's Coffee O'clock everywhere. Contributor

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    You sound like someone who has never cooked before and
    turns out that they are really good at it.

    That is awesome that it turned out better than you thought. :supersmile:

    (Now I know at least me and Iain are gonna want some.) :supergrin:`
     
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    The reason I self-taught how to cook is partially to stave off marriage while I was in the military.
    Now that I am married... my wife doesn't like it when I experiment with food. To be fair 80% of the time, it is partially in-edible.

    :p It's still fun though.
     
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  9. KaTrian

    KaTrian A foolish little beast. Contributor

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    Puts one's accomplishments in perspective.
    I was over the moon today because I managed to bake oat cookies that were actually edible. :bigoops:

    It's fairly clear my hubby didn't marry me because of my cooking skills (meaning, lack there of).
     
  10. Iain Aschendale

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    The whole time we were dating, I did all the cooking. I like it, and she was still living with her folks, so I just assumed she didn't know much about cooking. After we got married, she started cooking and it's quite very really great. I asked her why she never cooked for me before and she told me that her mom told her to always keep a couple secrets for later...
     
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    Good advice. I didn't tell him I can't cook, so I guess that was my secret...
     
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    I'd never cooked a pork roast, so I am very excited at my level of aptitude—hopefully the next attempt is as equally as wonderful.

    I can cook very few things. I make pretty gosh darn good steamed gyouza. I can make decent yakisoba. Baked (yolked & covered in breadcrumbs) chicken or teriyaki chicken. And I can manage the meats at Korean Barbecue restaurants.

    Otherwise, yeah. Don't really know how to cook.

    And often I'm too lazy to make anything anyway—'cause when I'm actually hungry, the 6-14 minutes to prepare ramen (with the egg & vegetables & the separate boilt broth water) is way too long. I'd rather pop something cheap in the microwave—or just skip a few meals.

    I might make instant chazuke, with the packet mixture you just dump into hot water with yesterday's rice.

    But generally other than my very few accomplishments (fairly recently achieved), I'm notoriously known as someone who very well likely could manage to burn cereal.

    Also, I can't bake cookies. Never successfully made one, ever. I don't know how any one bloody does it.
     
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  13. Cave Troll

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    I think my dads secrete to cookies is not flattening on the
    cookie sheet. They may not look pretty, but they are not
    hockey pucks either. Though he makes them from scratch,
    and that also might be a factor.
     
  14. Wreybies

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    I got my package today!

    Let me explain:

    A couple of weeks ago the most random of thoughts popped into my head. I had a memory of an old cologne I wore when I was much, much younger. For reasons that probably have a lot to do with impending mid-life crisis, the thought stuck in my head, the memory of the fragrance. Not knowing if they even made it anymore I went looking online. A bit of research told that it's still in production but that the formula has changed and anyone who remembers the scent won't find the new scent to be the same. I chatted with @ChickenFreak about looking for vintage bottles because I had always been told that perfumes and colognes have a shelf life. She told me that yes, this can be true, but not always and it depends on many factors and that buying old perfumes is very much a thing these days, and that the only way to know would be to give it a shot. So I did and it came today. The cologne is Canoe by Dana. It's nothing haute couture or rare and it may even seem wickedly passé, but I don't actually care. I bought it for me. And it's wonderful. :)

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    That's not a name the elicits a pleasant smell... my canoe smells, well, bad.
     
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    Perhaps @ChickenFreak will come by and grace us with the language of perfumery - a language I do not speak - but Canoe is a very innocent smell. It's subdued and casual, friendly. Too many colognes for men today smell like sex. There's a time and a place for that, but I don't always want to smell like a deer in rut, antlers down and thrashing at the bushes. :)
     
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    like wet socks and wet dog and mildew

    tbh I don't use cologne much, I just have my own manly aroma of chainsaw exhaust, tree sap, and sweat ..... when i was much younger i used to wear Brut 33 .... mainly because they had Kelly le Broc advertising it IIRC
     
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    More like mildew, dead fish, and river scum. The Valley girls find it irresistible, and I ain't talking about the ones from SoCal.

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    Way to shit on my moment of youthful reminiscence, guys. o_O
     
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    I'm sure you smell great Wrey ... its just the idea of "canoe" as a cologne name.. especially as its not a sexy cologne so it's not going for the .. ahem... shape of a canoe ...
     
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    To help you regain your 'moment'

    I found this



    admittedly its from 1981 so you'd have been a very young man indeed
     
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    Actually, it's pretty much the right slice of life for me as regards this cologne. Canoe has been around since the 1930's. It was my first and only cologne all the way through high school. At some point when I joined the service I stopped wearing cologne altogether. It's funny that this commercial is as suggestive as it is. The smell of Canoe is anything but sexy. It smells like summer camp to me and the days before my groin took over the steering wheel. :-D
     
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    as I said I was a Brut boy .... because we know that wearing Brut helps you wind up with girls like Kelly Lebrock, of course in my formative years i looked just like the guy in the advert , but only in my head

     
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    Woohoo! I'm so happy that the vintage worked out!

    To throw around the perfumery jargon, just because I can, Canoe is a fougere, specifically an aromatic fougere. Fougeres tend to involve lavender, oakmoss, and a mild sweetener, with the addition of something woody and something green for an aromatic fougere. No sex, just a combination of nice smells that step firmly (but quite politely; I imagine a tip of the hat) away from scents associated with the feminine. They're particularly vulnerable to reformulation because (sniff, sob) oakmoss is gone gone gone from modern perfume.

    So if you're looking for more perfumes of the same general type (which I realize you're probably not; I assume that this was about the right smell, not something "almost, but not entirely unlike" the right smell) the word to use is fougere. If the guy at the men's counter says, "huh?" you know that it's probably the wrong men's counter.

    Interestingly, the nose (Jean Carles) that created Canoe also created Tabu for women. That one is indeed sex. You can tell by the words "musky" and "animalic" in the Accords list in Fragrantica. Canoe's Accords list has no such thing. I have a vintage Tabu mini in the classic violin bottle; I'll try to call that my quota of Dana bottles. (Because the last time I counted my collection I had seventy bottles and I don't know how many decants and samples. I slowed down significantly with that knowledge.) As far as I can recall, I've never dared wear it; a musk and civet and patchouli bomb that may have gone bad is more frightening than a fougere that's aged a little.

    Jean Carles also created Miss Dior, which, judging by the accords, I could regard as Canoe's similarly-innocent sister. Its general category is chypre, also a category vulnerable to the loss of oakmoss. So this is also a vintage target.

    Again, woohoo!

    (I throw in a link from Perfume Shrine about fougeres, just because.

    http://perfumeshrine.blogspot.com/2011/02/perfumery-materials-coumarin-tonka-bean.html
    )
     
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    My only real memory of Kelly Lebrock was from Weird Science.

    Random factoid:

    The dude who played Wyatt (Ilan Mitchell Smith) did only a couple more films and then went on to become a Lit. professor.

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