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auntlada

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  1. Burned popcorn is when everyone gets a break from work. The fire alarms go off, and everybody has to leave the building.
  2. I had a boss who constantly backed into angled street parking, which meant that her car was facing the wrong way on the street. This is not legal parking in our area. One of my co-workers notified the police, and the parking officer came and gave her a ticket. The rest of us were not unhappy about it, as no one liked her (what with her being crazy and just mean).
  3. I can read this in two ways. She is showing what she does with "food that is unethical." In this sentence, the food is unethical. Or she is showing "what I do with food" that is unethical, meaning that what she is doing with the food is unethical. I know which one she means, but I prefer to read it as the latter.
  4. We used to have a woman who always came late to morning meetings because they would start at 9, and she got to work (ostensibly) at 8:30, but she was always late to work and then had to spend time putting her stuff in her office and talking to people and doing the stuff you do when you get to work before coming to the meeting. So when she got there, we'd already started, and she would start asking questions about stuff we'd already discussed. We'd start the meetings at 9 so she could be there, but she was always 15-30 minutes late. Another guy who used to work here would take 30 minutes to answer someone's question about how to do something, but wouldn't actually tell them how to do it. I swear he started every answer with, "First, the earth cooled, and then the dinosaurs came."
  5. I love them, too, particularly if the necks are snug. I'm one of those people who hate when the necks stretch out and sag. That's uncomfortable to me. I don't like necks that are too wide because I feel like I'm always pulling them back over my bra straps. I have narrow shoulders. I hate boatnecks for that reason and also because, although I love turtlenecks, I hate where boatnecks cross at the bottom of my neck. It bugs me. Why do long-sleeved shirts have such short sleeves? They always end up slightly above my wrists. If they start out good, then the sleeves must shrink because they don't end up long enough. And the shirts are almost never long enough to tuck in properly. When I sit down, the tails come out. Of course, it doesn't help that my mother is convinced I wear petite sizes because I'm short. Technically, I'm short enough to wear petite sizes, but my proportions do not fit petite sizes.
  6. Look for detergent marketed to parents of infants. That's when we started buying unscented detergent and dryer sheets because the boy had very sensitive skin.
  7. Most of mine (if not all) do not have that. I think I have one that does, but it's actually a man's sleepshirt that I wear as a long-sleeve T-shirt. I have the problem most in winter with turtlenecks and sweaters that have the same pattern all around. If it has a tag on the side, I look for that, as I have determined that the side tags in women's shirts are on the left.
  8. Mine is shirts without tags. I understand why they aren't there -- because many people find them bothersome. Some shirts I have no problems with, but for those whose front and back look similar, the tags help me put them on the right way. I have to take my glasses off to pull shirts on over my head (yes, I did once break a pair of glasses because I didn't take them off), and without a tag, it's hard to tell which is the front. I have very bad vision.
  9. You are in your house, but one of your children has wandered off with your scissors and has no idea where they are now. The children would never wander off with a can opener. It might suggest work. If you don't have children, I have no idea where the scissors went.
  10. Finding that little perforated line is even harder now that I'm older. I have to take my glasses off and hold the bottle practically right next to my eyes to see the perforations. I hate the inner seals that won't all come off easily so that there's still foil left on the top of the bottle or jar. I know why they don't make it come off easier (I think): so that someone can't take it off and put it back on so that it looks like it was never removed. I still hate it.
  11. I don't know how it is everywhere else, but in my state, I'd check with the local chamber of commerce for a list of businesses. It will list ones that are not locally owned, but you can usually tell which ones are -- especially if you are in a smaller city or town. Of course, if you're in a small enough town, you know the businesses anyway.
  12. You have a very unusual cat. Our cats judge us for everything.
  13. I bought the Pam and Penny Howard books by Rosamond du Jardin for Kindle, along with The Luckiest Girl by Beverly Cleary, and reread them periodically. I also like Fifteen and Jean and Johnny by Beverly Cleary. They were all pretty dated even when I was a preteen and reading them, but I still like them.
  14. I always tell people carrot sticks are for holding ranch dressing because it's considered rude to lick it off your fingers.
  15. I'm farther north but caught in the same cold and snow system (farther north than @BookWoman56, but not far enough north to be used to a high of 3 degrees for the day). They asked everyone yesterday to turn their thermostats down and do everything they could to conserve power so we wouldn't have to have rolling blackouts (which would hopefully prevent the entire system going down). They first mentioned it on Saturday and asked people to set the thermostats on 68, don't do laundry, turn off lights, unplug small appliances you aren't using, etc. And then they mentioned it again on Sunday right before announcing that the system (a 13 or 14 state system -- I'm not sure of the exact number) had reached tier 3, which meant rolling blackouts of about an hour each. You would have thought they'd announced they were going to go door to door and take everyone's first-born child or that they wanted people to set their thermometers at 30. People on Facebook (granted, social media commenters are often crazy) were refusing to turn down their thermostats because they turned them to 68, they would freeze, their pipes would freeze, their pets would freeze, and their children would get sick. And of course they're mad at the city for not giving them much warning about shutting off electricity and refusing to listen when the city says, "Hey, we only got a few minutes warning from the power pool people ourselves. We'd like to give more warning, but we can't." And it's not like the city has a choice. All the electric utilities that are part of the multistate power pool are told when it reaches tier 3 that they have to cut so much power. It's not the city's fault it's so dadgum cold or that it hasn't stockpiled stuff for it to be this cold. (I don't even know how you'd do that, but people seem to want it.) It's like how they get mad we don't have snowplows. Most years they'd never get used. It'd be a waste of money. My biggest peeve is that I can't stop reading the comments.
  16. I am of course going with the idea that I am young and thin and my arms are perfectly toned when I wear this dress. There's a fairy godmother involved. It could happen.
  17. The best gift anyone has gotten me recently was when my husband and I had COVID. My sister-in-law in another state got us Panera Bread gift cards that we could use for delivery.
  18. Yay, @bilgistic! I'm so happy for you! (You can tell because I used exclamation points. I almost never use exclamation points.)
  19. @PRgal, that makes me think of Henry Cho and his routine about women saying words twice to mean something different (which I know is a generalization, but I have been known to do that myself) and his friend says, "Yeah, it was a date date. I spent money money." My peeve is that I do not have an eye for measuring depth, so my shortbread is twice as thick as it should be and taking a long time to cook and then may or may not be any good because of that.
  20. Because it is so cold outside (9 degrees, feels like -8), the heater is running almost constantly, and the air is so dry, much more than usual. The inside of my nose is dry and hurty. I've started using the saline nasal spray again and reminding myself to drink more water. I don't mind cold weather and don't want summer temperatures year-round, but this is too cold.
  21. We have a little bit of snow and are supposed to get more Sunday and Monday, but since the high Monday is supposed to be 6 (before the wind chill) there will be no going outside in it. Right now it's 13 and feels like -2. I've decided it's the extreme cold that is causing my general feeling of anxiety.
  22. I've always thought that the writers' strike seriously hurt Heroes. It wasn't the same show when the strike ended and the show started again. Particularly when it's been done before.
  23. I read Peter Robinson up until the most recent one. I read a sample of it and also found it too political. I hoped it would get better once it got more into the story, but I haven't been willing to try yet. I quit reading the Temperance Brennan books for a bit, but then started again. I quit after Cross Bones because of what I considered dumb assumptions by Brennan in the book about Jesus' family being rich and important. I eventually went back, but Brennan's behavior -- constantly running off on her own to investigate things that are properly the job of the detective, not the forensic anthropologist -- and the back and forth with Ryan still bug me. The main character making the same stupid mistakes over and over again are also why I just can't bring myself to read Steve Berry's books any more.
  24. I tried that once. I don't think I had crazy eyes, but maybe I did because the photo was horrible. My smile looked weird and awful. It was one of the worst photos I've ever taken. I find my best picture smile is a slight smile that makes the photographer keep telling me to smile. That's a photo peeve for me. I get my face set the way I know I want to look in the photo, and I'm not changing it, but the photographer keeps saying, "Smile! It's not that bad," or trying to get me to talk, which is just going to mess up the photo. I want to say that was in "The Mirror Crack'd" when Miss Marple was talking about the woman who died. She said the woman was like the woman who talked too much with no regard for who was around her because she only ever saw things as they related to her (or something like that). I might be wrong about the book, though, as I've read all of them numerous times. It was definitely Miss Marple talking, though.
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