OT: My Vent for the Day

You have 2 choices. Take a cold shower or arm yourself with lots of wipes and use those. They work in an emergency and I used a ton of them when we were waterless after the hurricane and I didn't want to use my stored drinking water.

Happy Stitching

Lucille

When I was out of hot water and still had to get to the office, I didn't have any "baby wipes", etc. So -- I boiled water on the stove in a tea kettle, mixed it with cold water in a dutch oven so it was warm, and used a wrung-out washcloth and a wee bit of soap, which I was careful not to dip into the pot. To rinse off I took another washcloth, dipped it and wrung it out, and wiped down as well as possible. I kept on with rinsing out the "rinse" washcloth in the sink, and then dipped it again in the warm water, etc. Not fun, but it worked better than I had expected. . .

Oh dear - but trust me, it's worse to lose it in the winter...

I'm not sure you would say that if like me, you were stuck in a hot house with zero electricity, zero water and zero patience for 3 days.

My friend, in her desperation, got into the water she had put into her bathtub to use in the toilet. She didn't wash in it because it really wasn't particularly clean, but she soaked herself for a few minutes. Then she just left it where it was to continue to use it in the toilet. My dopey bathtub wouldn't hold the water so that wasn't an option for me.

Thank whoever had the original idea for baby wipes for saving me from smelling up the world.

I'm stuck in with a sore throat and a sinus infection. Antibiotics and other meds are making me slightly nauseous, but not as yucky as I was those few days. Lucille

Oh dear - poor thing. NO WATER sucks, no hot water is bad at any time but worse in the winter.

Cheryl

Not as bad here as where you are. Our winter isn't exactly like yours and the ground rarely gets that cold. Cold water from the tap is lukewarm in winter and warm in summer.

Bad Girl, adding to your own message.

I'm so bored and I'm sooooo sick of TV. Not a decent movie to watch and everything and everyone is caught up with the extravaganza going on in LA. I'm just so sick of it. There has to be something more important going on in the world.

I suppose I'm going to be forced to watch Law & Order SVU for the 100th time or the Cooking Channel.

L

DD, having been told we aren't watching more CSI, is watching Arthur. Please note, I am not stitching

So sorry about your boredom. That's how I get for about the week before I get my blood pumped up - can't really do much, and end up watching tons of bad tv. If you haven't seen it - try "Cake Boss" - I think it's on one of the food networks - hysterical. Very, very NJ. Especially the episode when he's doing the cake for a "social club" - right out of the Sopranos. I think the bakery is in Hoboken - and they do some amazing stuff. DH loves this show - the cakes are fabulous, plus you get all the hysterical stuff of a big Italian family owning both a retail bakery with this huge custom cake business. Last night we saw an episode in which they made a cake to look like some recently discovered largest mammal ever - for the new exhibit at the Museum of Nat History. Awesome.

ellice

Does your cable station get Ovation TV? I got sucked into watching a program last Friday - started at b'fast and it was so good, I continued to putter in the kitchen area for as long as I could. (After all, it was a holiday and I wasn't working!)

The program I watched was "Classical Star" from the UK - five people ages 12-19 at instrumental camp, competing (but not cutthroat competition; I thought it was encouraging competition with an ideal, giving your best performance) for opportunity for recording contract. And learning about their instruments, musicality, presentation, etc. etc. Very well done, IMHO...and absolutely nothing like "American Idol."

've also enjoyed "Bathroom Divas", from the CBC.www.bathroomdivas.com It's very hit or miss, but when it hits, it's really good!

Sue

I do watch it when I remember. I saw him a couple of times on the cake challenges on the Food Channel. He was hilarious and as you say, definitely "NooJoisey" style. No matter what they say, he takes their criticism and throws it right back with his attitude.

The last one that he won was doing a wedding cake with the brides directing what they wanted to four decorators. Naturally, she got what he wanted, even substituting pink flowers for the red she asked for. When they said something about his flowers, he told them he does the best sugar flowers on the planet and they were wrong. I agree he does turn out some awesome cakes and much to the chagrin of the judges, the bride-to-be chose his cake over her original idea. They said she was railroaded.

But they decided that his was best, even though more traditional then they thought they wanted.

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> I've also enjoyed "Bathroom Divas", from the CBC.>

I don't get either of them. BBC I can get, but the programming is so erratic that it's hard to follow anything. They seem to be hung up on Chef Ramsay lately and him I can live without.

Lucille

DS is currently in to all things Gordon Ramsey. The crew watched about 5 straight hours of Hell's Kitchen. Pretty strange show....

Cheryl

Lol, I haven`t switched on the local channel I usually watch running up to the news at 6 knowing that the MJ thing will drive me to distraction! What is the matter with people - he was a child molester at best. Reminds me of the stupid fuss over Diana ! Don`t all these people tearing their hair out have elderly parents-relatives-friends they could visit and make a fuss of -

I kind of, sort of, liked his music (with and with out his brothers) when I was younger. And have great memories of a best friend who thought he was the cutest guy on earth and helping her write fan letter after fan letter one summer.

But the adult was so messed up (to be polite about it), I ignored him as much as possible. And why is Jesse Jackson, who is not related, hanging around?

I just feel sorry for his children and his siblings and his mother. And any cop on that beat today

C

I admit to liking his music a little too and I think he was very talented. But as he got older, and weirder, I no longer wanted to hear about him or see him. Thriller was wonderful, but after that for me nothing came close.

Jesse Jackson I know from New York before voice coaching, when you couldn't understand a word he said. He was a troublemaker then and nothing has changed. The other winner, Al Sharpton is just purely and simply an a-hole. They manage to stir up trouble and frenzy and I would love to know who funds their trips.

Lucille

We actually saw that show. I don't watch that much on Food Network - or, let's say I don't watch the amateur competitions. But, the pro stuff - we do watch. The cake was gorgeous. I do think he does beautiful flowers. The judges are always kind of a pain.

ellice

I am in agreement, they are an embarrassment.

I hate Hell's Kitchen. DH loves it. Evidently it has even been a topic of discussion in hockey locker rooms. HK - very contrived - though the most recent season at least had a fair amount of the contestants actually knowing something about cooking and commercial kitchens. In prior seasons it's been just ridiculous, and an exercise for Gordon to be outrageous. OTOH, I do like Kitchen nightmares, the UK version. He & his crew genuinely do step in and revamp some restaurants - he has good ideas, and advice. It's interesting to see, especially here with the US restaurants, how people react. Kind of like with What Not to Wear - you're on this show because your restaurant - or your presentation - is so extremely poor that your friends/ colleagues have put you there. Then people argue with the advisors because "it's not my style" or "I want xxxx on the menu" - well if your idea was working reasonably well - you wouldn't be here. It's a big hubris thing to some extent.

OTOH, Gordon's "f Word" is an interesting program - in one of his restaurants in London, brings in a team of amateurs - who then cook the menu, and win something based upon how many meals/deserts are actually paid for. It's pretty good, and not so rude. Then there is a celebrity challenge - some celeb will have a cook-off of some favorite recipe with Gordon, and a panel will try the 2 items - frequently Gordon loses. Does have some interesting recipes come up!

Ellice