<p>Happy b’day cottonwood!!</p>
<p>And mafool…err… I don’t think we have a massage chair. But we <em>have</em> trained the marmots to shake the naughahyde booths to awaken those who overindulged in partying.</p>
<p>jym–we do TOO have a massage chair! It’s been mentioned a few times, as far back as 2007.</p>
<p>Don’t take away our Naugahyde massage chair! :D</p>
<p>Maybe jym doesn’t have a key to the secret massage chair room?</p>
<p>no key needed. Just cheeze doodles to bribe the marmots</p>
<p>That’s right, mafool. They’re always sitting in our best chairs, but a few cheez doodles will persuade them to hop right out. :)</p>
<p>Hmmmm. I wonder what this key goes to? :eek:</p>
<p>LOL you guys. I need a massage (see the “When will he start to pack” thread), and the unplanned trip to the dermatologist to have DS’s mole with bad biopsy result removed tomorrow. Please toss the marmots a whole bag o’ doodles, but save a few for me. Stress eating…</p>
<p>oh, jym626, we can do MUCH better than doodles for you!!! What’ll it be? Those marmots are maniacs in the kitchen.</p>
<p>whaddya got, mafool?? Anything with chocolate will do just fine,though low fat would be appreciated too (is that posible?? what can they whip up?) Oh, and please wake up the barkeep. Time to start the liquids.</p>
<p>no calories in the food here at SA!</p>
<p>Cholcolate almond torte, perhaps? With pillows of freshly whipped cream? And raspberries?</p>
<p>Or, what would you prefer?</p>
<p>Real almonds= good. Marzipan or almond flavoring= yuk. A chocolate raspberry torte with whipped cream and almonds will definitedly do the trick. Or shall we call it a start…</p>
<p>I want the pillows of freshly whipped cream. Slide a chocolate torte underneath - hold the almond. I’ll sit and ponder my mystery key while savoring dainty forkfuls. Forks full?</p>
<p>Describe this mystery key to us, jmmom. Perhaps, since we check inhibitions, manners, and personal items of any value at the door, this might be the key to the lockbox?</p>
<p>That torte sounds good…</p>
<p>I was thinking finely chopped or ground almonds…no need for flour then. Basically butter, excellent chocolate, almonds and eggs. Hazelnuts would would work, too.(Makes that breakfast bar I had on the way into work seem insufficient somehow.)</p>
<p>Yummmm…chocolate & whipped cream…chocolate mousse?</p>
<p>I’m feeling better today–the Pandora’s box of “college major” angst that was opened by S is now (temporarily) closed again. I have a funny feeling it will be reopened next semester, though. </p>
<p>Maybe that’s what that key goes to? Quick, lose it!</p>
<p>Speaking of chocolate and nuts, today I had the best ice cream cone I’ve ever eaten - one scoop stracciatella and one scoop hazelnut. It was amazing!</p>
<p>jym, have one … guaranteed to get you through the packing anxieties. :)</p>
<p>Hazelnut or pistachio gelato in Boston’s Little Italy…world’s best frozen treat!</p>
<p>We’re gonna be there in a week (Boston.) Now will we make it to Little Italy?</p>
<p>Mmm, I don’t know mommusic…I’ll give you “Western Hemisphere’s Best” …Mine was in Bruges - certainly the best I’ve ever had in our half of the world! I actually considered adding a scoop of pistachio as well, but that seemed just a bit overindulgent.</p>
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<p>That is <em>so</em> what I have to work on…</p>
<p>This morning, I was at a board meeting where people were going over the coming year’s budget and someone pointed out that we had no deaths in the last year, so the amount spent on flowers and plants this past year shouldn’t be used to budget for the coming year’s expense here.</p>
<p>I said, “Let’s just send get well cards to anyone who is sick and tell them they have to get well soon as we don’t have money in the budget for them to die this year.” I was joking, of course, but it didn’t come off very funny as it turns out there is someone who went on life support last week (lung cancer) and likely won’t survive. I far too often open my mouth before I think.</p>
<p>But this is supposed to be a place to share happy stories, so I’ll end with the news I just got about a cousin being promoted to principal at her high school, a school where she still has a child enrolled. I already emailed her a congratulatory note, but I’m thinking of writing again and asking her what she’s going to do if a teacher sends her son to see her. Would this also not end happily (my writing her to ask, not the kid being sent to her)?</p>
<p>Renee-
I had to look up stracciatella. It sounds wonderful!! And I LOVE hazlenut too (remember our dicussion of Nutella?!). But I had to laugh at the other possible uses of the term stracciatella. pparently is is also a form of mozarella cheese and Italian Eggdrop soup!! I am guesing you didn’t have those in your ice cream! :eek:</p>