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message 11701: by Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd (new)

Terri | 19576 comments Thanks, Lia. :D


message 11702: by Kimber (new)

Kimber (kimberlibri) | 785 comments Mark wrote: "http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/2...

I got 9/15. 5th century riddles."


12/15. Kicking myself for a few.


message 11703: by Darcy (new)

Darcy (drokka) | 2675 comments Mark wrote: "http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/2...

I got 9/15. 5th century riddles."


12/15


message 11704: by Gretchen (new)

Gretchen (eab2012) I have hit the beginning of a potentially a nasty reading slump. I haven't read more than a picture book in a week. I spend my time in the waiting room searching Pinterest because I can't focus on a book. I have been spending naptime decluttering my house. I have such first world problems.


message 11705: by Bobby (new)

Bobby (bobbej) | 1375 comments Darcy wrote: "Mark wrote: "http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/2...

I got 9/15. 5th century ridd..."


13/15. Not bad for an auld fart!!


message 11706: by Linda (new)

Linda (ladylawyer8650) | 1702 comments :-) at you, Bobby. The scenery sounds beautiful.


message 11707: by Mark (new)

Mark | 1885 comments Well I am back to work at the alnwick garden for a shift this saturday.


message 11708: by Mark (new)

Mark | 1885 comments Brian wrote: "Mark wrote: "Well I am back to work at the alnwick garden for a shift this saturday."

Looks like a beautiful place Mark!"


It is mate.


message 11709: by Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd (new)

Terri | 19576 comments Gretchen wrote: "I have hit the beginning of a potentially a nasty reading slump. I haven't read more than a picture book in a week. I spend my time in the waiting room searching Pinterest because I can't focus on ..."

I know this slump. Have gone into it numerous times in 2014. beating it now though.
So if you do find you can't maintain interest in books there is a light at the end of the tunnel. It comes back. :)


message 11710: by Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd (new)

Terri | 19576 comments Mark wrote: "Well I am back to work at the alnwick garden for a shift this saturday."

Must be nice to be back at work, Mark?

Did none of those interviews pan out?


message 11711: by Mark (new)

Mark | 1885 comments None of them Terri. Had one today which may lead to some casual work.


message 11712: by Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd (new)

Terri | 19576 comments Sorry to hear. It's their loss. Hope this one does happen for you.


message 11713: by happy (new)

happy (happyone) | 2782 comments Bobby wrote: "happy wrote: "My wife and I drove donw to Phoenix area for a wedding over the weekend ( about a 10 hr drive ), beautiful scenery. Wonderful weather while we were there, but on Sunday, Winter decide..."

Oh, no - I didn't realize - It was just a quick trip


message 11714: by Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd (new)

Terri | 19576 comments *tumbleweeds*

Wow where is everybody? Super quiet in here today. :) Are you all at work or snowed in without internet...or the one I hope for the most...that you are all buried up to your ears in a good book!


message 11715: by Kimber (last edited Feb 26, 2015 01:03PM) (new)

Kimber (kimberlibri) | 785 comments Terri wrote: "*tumbleweeds*

Wow where is everybody? Super quiet in here today. :) Are you all at work or snowed in without internet...or the one I hope for the most...that you are all buried up to your ears in ..."


Lol...was wondering that as well. Usually when I check in around this time I have 20 plus notifications. Today there are 6.


message 11716: by happy (last edited Feb 26, 2015 01:07PM) (new)

happy (happyone) | 2782 comments I am catching up with my reading from the mini vacation :)

Now, I've got to catch up with the reveiws.


message 11717: by Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd (new)

Terri | 19576 comments happy wrote: "I am catching up with my reading form the mini vacation :)

Now, I've got to catch up with the reveiws."


Oh, well that is good to hear. Go read some more. :)


message 11718: by Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd (new)

Terri | 19576 comments Hi Kimber,
Yeah, that was the same with me. Only four threads that had red 'new' on them. I should go catch up on my reading too. I don't think I am going to finish Heartstone before March 1. Which is when I want to start Plague Land.

So I better try and get as much read as I can before I pause it.


message 11719: by Gretchen (new)

Gretchen (eab2012) The twinkers have me running all day. I started a new workout routine which has me in too much pain to type. Why is their pain required for gain? Again, I have such first world problems.


message 11720: by Dawn (new)

Dawn (caveatlector) Damn you guys talk a lot. I was only gone three weeks!!

I am back home now and it will take me a couple days to catch up.
Morocco was an experience, Spain was beautiful, Portugal was awesome and London is starting to feel like home. You have no idea how excited I was to get to the M&S at Gatwick and have a tea kettle in the hotel!!!


message 11721: by Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd (new)

Terri | 19576 comments Oh how exciting!! You're back!! Can't wait to hear all about it and see some of your favourite photos.

Glad you and sis made it home safe and sound. :)


message 11722: by Dawn (new)

Dawn (caveatlector) So nice to be home.
I will be sifting through the photos this weekend and I'll post the best ones to FB!


message 11723: by Dawn (new)

Dawn (caveatlector) So nice to be home.
I will be sifting through the photos this weekend and I'll post the best ones to FB!


message 11724: by Dawn (new)

Dawn (caveatlector) So nice to be home.
I will be sifting through the photos this weekend and I'll post the best ones to FB!


message 11725: by Dawn (new)

Dawn (caveatlector) So nice to be home.
I will be sifting through the photos this weekend and I'll post the best ones to FB!


message 11726: by Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd (new)

Terri | 19576 comments Wow, you really are glad to be home. :D


message 11727: by Darcy (new)

Darcy (drokka) | 2675 comments Methinks GR was so happy youre back it posted your reply 4 times hehe
Welcome back!


message 11728: by Dawn (new)

Dawn (caveatlector) Frick, I should know better than to hit that post button so many times! :)


message 11729: by Alicja (new)

Alicja (darkwingduckie7) | 657 comments Darcy wrote: "Mark wrote: "http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/2...

I got 9/15. 5th century ridd..."


Woo hoo!!! 14/15... and the one I missed, I still don't see it.


message 11730: by Darcy (new)

Darcy (drokka) | 2675 comments I wish I could treat a cold or other like malaise in the way they do with demons on shows like Supernatural. Find a suitable vessel (human you've no real attachment to), befriend them momentarily and when they're in the midst of a full-blown belly laugh, release the beast - it leaves through your mouth and enters the other's.
This one has been housed in me far too long...


message 11731: by Jane (new)

Jane | 3480 comments Release the genie from the bottle, so to speak, eh? :)


message 11732: by Darcy (new)

Darcy (drokka) | 2675 comments Indeed!


message 11733: by Allison (new)

Allison | 1704 comments Alicja wrote: "Darcy wrote: "Mark wrote: "http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/2...

I got 9/15. 5t..."



Oh man I forgot to do this!


Got 14/15 too. Very first one wrong!!


message 11734: by Kimber (new)

Kimber (kimberlibri) | 785 comments Darcy wrote: "I wish I could treat a cold or other like malaise in the way they do with demons on shows like Supernatural. Find a suitable vessel (human you've no real attachment to), befriend them momentarily a..."

MMMMmmmmm Dean and Sam........


message 11735: by Gretchen (new)

Gretchen (eab2012) I don't get the new recommendation system (the ones that appear in your news feed, not the tab). If I rated a book one or two stars, chances are I don't really want to read another book like it. I like the Amazon option where you can select not to get recommendations based off something you didn't like.


message 11736: by Dawn (new)

Dawn (caveatlector) I just turned off those recommendations. I have better luck with friends and groups personally.


message 11737: by Jane (new)

Jane | 3480 comments Dawn wrote: "I just turned off those recommendations. I have better luck with friends and groups personally."

Ditto!!

The recommendations on the right--top and bottom--are weird enough sometimes and often have nothing to do with one's book title referred to. Also, I wonder if they just have a running loop or recommendations [which could be anything] and just keep repeating it.
I haven't suppressed them because sometimes I might find a good suggestion.


message 11738: by Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd (new)

Terri | 19576 comments I have just found out that the American dish, Fried Chicken Steak, is not actually a chicken dish.....

Thankyou Pioneer Woman cooking series for that moment of enlightenment.


message 11739: by Gretchen (new)

Gretchen (eab2012) I love Pioneer Woman.


message 11740: by Ace (new)

Ace (aceonroam) | 19 comments Terri wrote: "I have just found out that the American dish, Fried Chicken Steak, is not actually a chicken dish.....

Thankyou Pioneer Woman cooking series for that moment of enlightenment."


What about buffalo wings?


message 11741: by Kimber (new)

Kimber (kimberlibri) | 785 comments Ace wrote: "Terri wrote: "I have just found out that the American dish, Fried Chicken Steak, is not actually a chicken dish.....

Thankyou Pioneer Woman cooking series for that moment of enlightenment."

What ..."


Chicken fried steak is steak that has been breaded and fried like chicken. Buffalo wings are chicken wings that supposedly originated in the town of Buffalo, New York.
Even if that was sarcasm I hope it helps :D


message 11742: by Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd (new)

Terri | 19576 comments Yeah, Buffalo Wings were always confusing to me too. :)


message 11743: by Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd (new)

Terri | 19576 comments haha. Many have fallen for the buffalo wing trap. Don't you worry. :D


message 11744: by Ace (new)

Ace (aceonroam) | 19 comments Terri wrote: "haha. Many have fallen for the buffalo wing trap. Don't you worry. :D"

I'm eager to look up the chicken steak now. I'll let you know if it cooks up ok.


message 11745: by Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd (new)

Terri | 19576 comments Yes, let me know how you go.


message 11746: by happy (last edited Mar 01, 2015 10:44PM) (new)

happy (happyone) | 2782 comments Alton Brown of Good Eats/Cooking Channel fame is on tour and stopped in Salt Lake last Friday. Good show, and he is funny!

Made a gallon of chocolate ice cream in 10 seconds using a CO2 fire extinguisher and some 10 gallon water bottles as well as baking two pepperoni pizza's in his own up sized easy bake oven that he supposedly designed in 8th grade, in 3 1/2 minutes - didn't get any samples, our seats were way up in the nose bleed section :)


message 11747: by Simona (last edited Mar 02, 2015 12:06PM) (new)

Simona | 1453 comments Kimber wrote: "Chicken fried steak is steak that has been breaded and fried like chicken...."

Well, it does help me. So there's no chicken in Chicken Fried Steak. Curioser and curioser.


message 11748: by Simona (new)

Simona | 1453 comments I have just realized that Cotoletta alla Milanese (and Wienerschnitzel!) IS Chicken Fried Steak.
The foundations of my culinary world have been shaken.
I'd better lie down.


message 11749: by Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd (new)

Terri | 19576 comments Over here, this Chicken Fried Steak dish is commonly known as just Crumbed Steak.


message 11750: by Ace (new)

Ace (aceonroam) | 19 comments Simona wrote: "The foundations of my culinary world have been shaken.
I'd better lie down."


That's hilarious...


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