Pancakes
waffles
or
French toast?

Hillbilly teeth are bad for your health!
Story here on the Consumer Product Safety Commission website

Apparently with the upcoming wedding, projects around the house, and sheer lack of creativity, I'm not able to keep the room running as I would like.

If anyone else would like to "host" the community, do speak up... or if you think of something you'd like to post here, feel free :)

When you were a teen, did you have your own room, or have to share?  What was your room like? 
We moved around a bit, but the room I had the most attachment to was from my teenage years.

It was just barely big enough for a full sized bed with a foot walkway on one side, a couple of feet at the bottom, and MAYBE 3 feet to the other side.  I was on the 2nd floor and had a little window that cranked open, swinging out.  There was a window-unit air conditioner (MAN that thing was loud).  The wall alongside the foot of the bed was staggered to make room for a closet for the adjoining room. I filled the weird space with my stereo and my dad built a table-top to fit the deeper "well" and then mounted shelves above.  I thought it was the coolest thing.  I painted it white, and my walls were yellow... the bits you could see between the Queen, Rod Stewart, and Aerosmith posters.

I had an alarm clock loud enough to wake the dead, but not me :)  I used to set it for 11:50 pm so I could get up and watch the Midnight Special.  One morning I woke up really bummed that it didn't go off and I'd missed it... then I'd look around.  I found it on the floor, covered in pillows and a blanket. Apparently it woke up my Mom, on the other side of the house, who couldn't figure out how to shut it off!  It would also pick up the CB broadcast of the guy next door. I'd be just about asleep, listening to my favorite radio station, when it would BLARE OUT  "Breaker 1-9, this here's the Bottlecap!"  I wanted to drag him to the floor and smother him with pillows and blankets.  ;)

I'd lie on the bed and sketch out my dream room (with beaded doorways, a lava lamp (OH how I wanted a lava lamp!). My cat Rickey would come lie near my feet - not really close to me (what, a human? don't be silly) but not too far... it was my hideout when my heart was broken... my refuge.  When things got bad, I'd spend hours up there, trying to sort it all out. 

I loved my room.  I wonder why I don't love my current "room"  ... maybe I'll paint it yellow and put beads up on the doorway :)

I think I found this by surfing a friend of a friend... but at any rate, I found myself on this website where a guy posts "things my girlfriend and I have argued about." I was reading, chuckling, shaking my head, and thinking... man... that's... umm... I can really relate!  and I can add a couple and maybe you can, too. 

An ex and I used to argue VEHEMENTLY over how to stack the skillets in the cabinets.  
Imagine 3 skillets - 8" diameter, 10" and 12".  How do you stack them? 
He preferred the tidy, child's-stacking-toy method, biggest on the bottom, then nestle the 10" inside it, and the 8" inside it. 
But, I protested, this means the bottom of the metal pan is resting on the non-stick coating, scratching it. The pans will last longer if we stack them the other way - smallest to largest.  This made him CRAZY and yet I firmly argued that my goal was to keep the pans longer, not make the cabinet "look" tidy, because you keep the door closed, anyway.

Post divorce I bought a holder so all the skillets stand on edge, vertically.  My mom solved the problem by putting paper plates between the skillets.

Another argument was also kitchen-oriented.  You have a 9" pot, and you can choose between the 8" burner or the 10" burner.  Which do you choose?  I can't even remember which way I argued now, but it was wrong, whatever it was :)

Of course, none of it had to do with the skillets or the pots, did it :) I feel I've come a ways since those days.  i hope!

Ironically, I made this post on the same day that knight_paladin and I choose and booked our wedding day.  Wish him luck ;) 

icubud wrote today about the magazines he's subscribed to and I had a major flashback.

In my room, lying on my stomach, feet in the air, music blasting, reading the few issues I could afford to buy with my own money - Circus, Creem, Rolling Stone, 16, and yes, I confess - TigerBeat. ahhh, the hours of squealiness looking at the pictures and memorizing my Crush's favorite foods and other such nonsense!

I also read my parents' magazines like Psychology Today or Reader's Digest, but the ones I have fond memories of are the entertainment rags :)

Were you a magazine-reader as a teen? What things held your attention?

Hello All

My name is Leeza, Lee to most every one and I am new on this list. I was looking to make more LJ friends and this community seems perfect. I really do prefer decent chat.

:o/ so let me know it there is anything else you want to know.

~Lee

I have about 12 hours to myself and a mountain of books just calling at me, "read me! read me!"

What book are you reading now - or you would be reading, if you had the time?

Happy New Years, everyone!

I spied this on aunt_barb's LJ and thought I'd post it over here because the questions weren't the usual drivel
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If you post this in your blog, please leave a comment on this post. To participate in this blog game, copy and paste the above list into your blog, and bold the items that are true for you. If you don't have a blog, feel free to post your responses in the comments.

In the last few years I have had occasion to end relationships with old friends. For assorted reasons, we had grown apart to the point where - for me, anyway - it was not worth the effort to try to maintain/salvage the friendship. I don't mean that the relationship had necessarily turned from friends to enemies, but that other people, distance, interests, and life had changed me/them so much that the basis the initial relationship was built upon no longer existed.

Of course, the ending of a friendship is not usually an easy thing to accomplish, and more often than not winds up with confusion and hurt feelings. Essentially, one person is being "fired" and can't understand why; they think everything is just fine.

Anyone out there have this experience - from either side? What happened? How did you handle it?

Do it the old fashioned way, don't just find an auto-generator ;)

How many 3+ letter words can you make from your first name?  you can use your id if you want to remain anonymous..
I suppose you should only use a letter as often as it appears in your name, too...

1. Name something people hate to find on their windshield.
2. Name something a man might buy before a date.
3. Name a piece of furniture people need help moving.
4. Name a reason a younger man might like an older woman.
5. Name something a dog does that embarrasses its owner.
6. Name a kind of test you cannot study for?
7. Name a sport where players loose teeth?
8. Name something that gets folded?
9. Name something a person wears even if it has a hole in it?
10. Name something that gets smaller the more you use it?

I'll answer in a comment so the questions are easier to copy :)

Do you like to cook?  If so, what's one of your favorite meals to prepare? 

I am a bibliomaniac, at least in training. I am 27 years old and I own over 700 books which are cataloged and on my shelves in my current home. I am pretty sure I have a few boxes of books that still reside with my parents as well.

I buy books as if there is nothing but tomorrows which will need to be filled with reading. In my personal library, over 120 books are labeled "unread" but I am planning a trip out in the next day to find at least one specific book that I must have NOW.

So, now, the catalyst for some conversation...

I buy books used. I do this partly because the book once had a home and I want to see it have a home again, partly because I don't want to see the paper go to waste any longer, partly because it is much easier to afford my habit if I buy books at a used sticker price.

But, I am not supporting the living authors I have come to love through my addiction. For some authors, I can justify this (even though other people probably wouldn't agree with my justifications). For others, I do feel guilty. Unfortunately, books are expensive, and I couldn't come to love them if I had to wait to afford new books.

Is it wrong to buy only used books? (I only buy books new when they can't be found at resale shops and I need to read them for say, a book club.) Why is it wrong?

Is it justifiable to only buy used books? Do you see this as an economical move, an ecological move, a expanding taste move?

Link: The Which Spice Are You Test written by jodiesattva on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

I was clicking around friends of friends and saw a conversation somewhere (my apologies, I've no idea where) about theme songs.

What are some of your favorite tv theme songs?

Happy Days
Welcome Back Kotter
The Muppet Show
Chico and the Man (miss you, Freddie)
Fairly Odd Parents

Let's not leave out the instrumentals:
Night Court (love the bassline)
Hawaii Five-O
Six Feet Under

Yankee or Dixie Quiz

*Note that Sheryl protests the name of the quiz, but that's what the quiz-writer named it.

My Score:  80% (Dixie).  That is a pretty strong Southern score! 
I guess that means my mom will continue to let me in the house.  She told me once she wouldn't let me back in if i started talkin' too "yankee". 

NOW - if you were writing a quiz like this, what terms are common or native in your area?

For instance,
Do you pronounce "wash" to rhyme with "gosh" or "warsh"?
Do you pronounce "iron" with one syllable "arn" or two like eye-urn?
What do you call a hot dog with chili sauce on it?  I always knew them as "chili dogs" but around here they're called "coneys".

x-posted to my LJ

Pass this on for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.







Lightness aside, do get your exams.

I'm calling for pizza - what brand, crust and toppings do you like?

... and I need something chocolate STAT - seriously, the lives of millions are at stake.