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Reason # 302 why I hate this time of year (Jim and Larry test their theories) Arachnophiles come on in! Arachnophobes, beware,
it gets so dry here sometimes i just fill a barrel up with butter flavored crisco and soak in it while reading my Intellectual Devotional book. not only is my skin no longer dry but i also can slip into my clothes alot easier
Funny, I was just telling someone that the air in the building in which I work is really dry. I have two table fountains in my office that serve as de facto humidifiers because I have to refill them every day.And I'm a humidifier whore at home. I've got a hugeass one from Costco that runs pretty much all the time.
Is it worse because you're in the mountains or something, Sally?
Kevin...maybe I'll try that in the bath tonight...
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RA, I think that the elevation does have something to do with it.
Careful with the deep fried thing, Kevin. Heidi might be hungry.:)
when i was a kid people used to put pans of water on their radiators to humidify the rooms when it got too dry out. aside from being kooky and dangerous it worked. i have hot water boiler heat so my house is not so dry but if you have gas-forced heating it gets really really dry. then you have to try crisco or for the vegetarians in this group you can spray I Can't Believe It's Not Butter on yourself
We have radiators too, Kevin...but for some reason I still feel like I need the humidifier. I love when the air is so humid that I feel like I'm in a greenhouse.
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just some gigantic forced air machine.
At my parents house they have a humidifier hooked up to the central air system. It is like the Mauna Kai over there.
then you should move to ATL in the summer :)
for some reason, i am loving winter this year. maybe it is because i've become such a hermit. maybe it's because i like to hide. i like to be bundled in many layers and sit in front of the fire. i like all sorts of hot drinks in mugs. i had a problem with dryness, but i run a humidifier all night, like others do. i lived in florida once for a year, right next to the ocean. when i left, i felt like the whole world was so dry, it was painful. it is hard to describe how horrible it is to go from the wet shore of the ocean to the inlands...it is worse than the dryness of winter..
Oh yack, you people are insane. Summer humidity is ABYSMAL down here. It's just gross.
Erica, from one midwestern resident to another, I agree, winter is awesome. I could never live somewhere with eternal summer.I don't think I'd want to move to Atlanta. I agree with Mindy, southern humidity makes me angry and irritable. But that's different than humidity from a humidifier in a greenhouse. I'm not sure I can explain it.
Greenhouse humidity is pleasant and "natural." Southern humidity is fucking miserable. It smacks you in the face as soon as you walk out the door. It coats you like slime!*scratches Tulane off the law school list*
stepping off a plane in Central America is like someone laying wet towels all over you when you are fully clothed. you see people sitting outside in cafe's having a coffee or eating and you are like "holy crap, i can't even breathe let alone eat anything". ATL or ALA on a summer night can be like breathing in a sauna
I remember stepping out of the airport terminal in Austin in August and having my sunglasses immediately fog over. That, folks, is too much fucking humidity.The best place on Earth (that I've found) is on the side of Mt Haleakala on Maui, about half way up. The breeze is always blowing, and the temp is always perfect, with just the right amount of humidity.
I know a guy who works for $7/hr flying tour helicopters just so he can live there. No heat, no air conditioning.
I don't know. I think butter flavored Crisco tastes Wait ... where am I? Is it Sunday yet?
We're having icy cold fog these mornings, brrr.Yes, it's Sunday, Larry. What are you doing with that Crisco, anyways? You're not supposed to eat it like butter...
You're not supposed to eat it like butter...Then why on earth put butter flavor in it? Now I'm really confused.
Crisco is for baking, I believe, but should be avoided as much as possible. For example, don't grease your hair back with it, as it is impossible to wash out...
I'll remember that for sure.Did you know that if you heat Crisco up and let it sit for a while it turns back to its natural color -- black.
Black? Really? I would think it'd be kind of yellowy and sallow.I just know that it's hydrogenated, which is very unhealthy.
Butter-flavored Crisco is a two-birds-with-one-stone trick for pie makers. Whether to use butter (for flavor) or shortening (for flakiness)? Both! With Crisco Butter-Flavored Shortening!
Yup. Black and sticky.OK, now I'm extra confused. Are we baking or throwing stones at birds?
If it turns black, it's probably burnt. It gets pretty hot while baking in pie form, and does not turn black.
We are baking and throwing the black burnt pieces at the birds.
i use butter flavored crisco for sunscreen when i want to get a good base
Note to self: don't let Kevin sit on any upholstered furniture...
As Paul Simon so aptly said, "Slip sliding away ..."
But it helps with his leather pants.
Oh yes Jim. So true. So true. But it need not be butter flavored for that purpose.
Only when he wants to feel fancy.
i always have a craving for popcorn and i keep thinking i smell bacon frying while lying in the sun and reading rolling stone magazine when i do that
That's reminds me of how heaven has been described.
As kevin suntanning, smelling like popcorn & bacon?
I hope my heaven is different Larry ;D.
I hope my heaven is different Larry ;D.
c'mon jim, pull up a chaise and grab a magazine. geesh, what did you think it was going to be, bagels and lox?
I was picturing more of a Cubs winning the World Series atmosphere with beer and brats.
Well in reality the season hasn't started yet, so we still have a chance.
I always figure it's better to have lowered expectations of heaven. That way I won't be disappointed when it turns out to be something really mediocre. Example: Cubs winning the Series. (Sorry Jim. It's probably just me.)I mean that whole 72 virgins thing is so far over the top. I don't really get the attraction for that anyway. Experience counts in my world.
Larry said - I mean that whole 72 virgins thing is so far over the top. I don't really get the attraction for that anyway. Experience counts in my world.
I agree wholeheartedly with you Larry.
As for the Cubs it is a dream I need to keep alive.
I agree wholeheartedly with you Larry.
As for the Cubs it is a dream I need to keep alive.
i am a huge cubs fan (not an obese guy who is a cubs fan rather an enthusiastic follower of the cubs) and wrigley is baseball heaven. if it is like that, i am all for it. (and i will leave the crisco home)
Brats are good. Beer is good. Brats cooked in beer are good.
Just don't drink the brat soaked beer though.
Maybe you Cubs fan should just start with, you know, dreamin' you'll win a playoff game.:)
Well that is an accurate statement, but we used to dream of making it to the playoffs.
i prob got a better chance of being covered in crisco in heaven with a bacon sandwich
Or finding the winning Powerball ticket floating in a gutter.
::quick runs outside to check all the gutters::
Yeah, all I got was wet feet.
Yeah, all I got was wet feet.
Yet I'm still crackly and itchy.
I try not to shower every single day, and I try not to use the hottest water possible (how much I long to, the hot hotness feels so good)
I drink three or four large bottles of water a day. But that is not the problem. It is just so ding-dang dry out here.
When I lived in PDX (Have you noticed that I have an old-woman broken record thing about me about the two years I lived there, as though my life pivots around that time? Well it does.) When I lived in PDX I didn't need three kinds of lotion and four kinds of balm to get through the day. The moisture came in the air. I also didn't really use sunglasses for anything but fashion.
Here it is like eyeball kamikaze to step outside in January without the highest quality UV blocking shades.