The Happiness Thread

It's a huge thing! I hate eggs and don't use them much either, so I completely understand the revelation. I think I finally got it down when I was making cream puffs. They require lots of yolks but it doesn't matter if they're not separated properly. A huge fritata would also be good practice.

You did it once, so you have proof you can, and you can do it again. Go Izzy!!!!

 

I worked with this dude in a kitchen once. He was a few fries short of a happy meal, sang badly at the top of his lungs all morning, even at 4 AM. We prepared large breakfasts for international tourists at a hotel. So, for prep, we'd have to crack and immersion blend something like three hundred eggs. Watching this dude crack eggs was like watching a professional percussionist drum roll for twenty minutes without a break. Blew my damn mind. He was a fucking automated egg cracking machine.

 

This episode of this game, always cracks me up.

 

Dude, that's like, totally easy. The hard part is separating the bits of shell and scraping all the gooey bits off your palm and fingers into the bowl.

 

You've described my usual method of cracking eggs with both hands.

 

Congrats on learning to do it with just one then!

ETA: It's like all those people in the cooking thread bragging about how they "plate" their food. Anytime I don't floor, sink, or dog my food, I count it as a success.

 

One time I got some leftover mashed potatoes out of the fridge -- nice homemade ones, too -- and I noticed the butter had separated out on the top. I thought, "I'm going to be healthy today!" and went to pour that excess butter out. Successfully trashed the entire container of perfectly good mashed potatoes. It's really all gotta be up after that incident, eh?

 

You've earned a theme song! Play it loud and proud!

 

When I was going through a drawer at Mom's I found a vintage Waterman fountain pen, in its box! Even still has the converter in the box! I bought cartridges for it, cleaned it out, and whoo hoo lookie what I'm taking notes with today!

 

Well, if it's a hipster off you want...

Spoiler

 

wow! I am truly jealous.

 

You guys and your fancy pens, and all I have here is a multi-hundred dollar electronical tablet computer. Guess I'll just have to make do.

 

you youngins and your fancy technology, in my day we just had the the pen and paperwork to work with and we liked it! We also has computers with just one color, green and it was perfect,

 

Some of us use both, plus an iPhone. It's not an either or. But for note taking I'm not digging out a device, entering my ID , bringing up an app, typing, and saving when I could have just scribbled my note and moved on to the next thing in my WIP. Been there, done that, life's too short.

 

I don't miss the blue inkstains on my writing hand, the cramped thumb, or my elementary school teacher telling me I have terrible handwriting.

In fact, we started with pencils and were only allowed to move on to pens when the teacher determined we had pretty enough writing and I was the last one to move from pencils to pens. Tablets couldn't have come soon enough, in my opinion. I've been scarred for life!

 

Pfft. You whippersnappers with your crt screens and input/output devices. Why in my day all we had was thousands of punch cards and you got to watch your program come up on a set of nixie tubes. Those were the real days.

 

Pretty!

Yeah, damn and blast those newfangled plastic cartridges...

 

Confession time!

So that super awesome boyfriend I've been dating for a while and who got to Sweden last night? Well, just happened to be @LostThePlot

@big soft moose was apparently right - and we now know who won first season of Writers Forums Bachelorette

 

Yes. Yes

 

I did not have sexual relations with that five story blue penis.

 

At first I wasn't impressed, but then it started to grow on me.

but... but... he told me he loved me...

 

I did not have sexual relations with that Hooligan.