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Re: Ice-Cold Warrior artwork page — Tweeria 2.2b — Lazy Twitter RPG

Kelly — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:22:03 -0000

This is disgusting, sexist and reprehensible.

Re: alfred lives here: Welcome to the Gaybourhood...

Kelly — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:59:12 -0000

I probably wouldn't mind the orange and magenta houses, as long as they were at opposite ends of the block. Purple, turquoise, electric blue, golden yellow, crimson... oh, how I love color! LOL But I can understand limiting the number of cars that can regularly park on the property. I've lived in some places... well, those days are better forgotten.

I keep looking for the right piece of land, but the perfect place hasn't turned up. Yet. When the time is right and all the stars and planets are aligned in the correct orientation (gay, of course), the right piece of land will appear. :-)

Re: alfred lives here: Welcome to the Gaybourhood...

Kelly — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:16:00 -0000

My Spousal Unit has been trying to talk me into moving out to the "country" for several years now. I grew up in Chicago, lived in Denver, and now living in the small city of Albany, NY is "country" enough for me. Besides, I KNOW there are Zombie Ninja Cows out there in Rensselaer County. Oh, people who live out there deny it... but *I* know. They can't fool me!

I sure would like to live in the smaller, single-story, energy-efficient house the Spousal Unit has designed, though... my 53-year-old knees are not really fond of stairs, and my checking account absolutely abhors what it takes to keep this 4,600 square foot, 115-year-old Victorian heated in the winter. But the cows... man, they creep me out! LOL

I think I'd be OK if we could find affordable land with the correct orientation for solar panels in a suburban area. Sadly, most of the suburban-ish areas where there is land available have some pretty bizarre building codes (at least some far-too-large number of square feet, or of a certain design by their favorite builder, or even at least three bedrooms!) or are too far from work (I don't relish a 45-minute one-way commute) or are ridiculously expensive. So until the perfect plot of land presents itself, I guess my knees and checking account will have to remain sad. Bummer.

Re: Anne Dickens | The Day After Yesterday: 'I can fix that' ....... this post is for engineeringy-type people

Kelly — Wed, 25 May 2011 15:24:41 -0000

If by favorite you mean most disturbing, then I'm all over #7. I would love to have a room as bright as all those bulbs would provide, but I'm pretty sure I'd blow out my circuit board, start my house on fire, and burn down the entire neighborhood.

Re: Anne Dickens | The Day After Yesterday: The 'Strawberry-Gate Scandal' | Countryside bites butt

Kelly — Tue, 24 May 2011 19:05:39 -0000

I only find it limiting when I'm out at a restaurant that has no meals that are, or can be modified to be, vegan. But I don't go out to restaurants all that much. I'm a creature of habit, so I tend to have the same one or two breakfast meals, a few choices for lunches (generally frozen organic vegan meals from the health food store), and a few different choices for dinner. I've got a few favorite recipes that I've "veganized," but I'd rather make a peanut butter sandwich than spend 30 minutes cooking something. The only thing I really miss is GREAT pizza. I can get fairly good vegan pizza at the health food store (frozen) and from one of the local pizza joints (freshly made), but it's not a deep-dish, Chicago-style pizza. Fortunately, I don't live in Chicago anymore, so I'm not even tempted by pizza. I guess the bottom line is that I'm incredibly lazy when it comes to food. If it's readily available and one of the things I like (and it isn't one of the things that hates me), I'll eat it. Otherwise... meh. I've been know to eat a heaping handful of cashews for dinner, I'm just THAT lazy.

Re: Anne Dickens | The Day After Yesterday: The 'Strawberry-Gate Scandal' | Countryside bites butt

Kelly — Tue, 24 May 2011 08:36:54 -0000

Oh, yum! If I lived near you, I'd come by and pick up several punnets of strawberries! They look delicious!

As for foods I won't eat... well, I'm vegan (for health reasons), so no meat or dairy. Hate fish and seafood, very apathetic about beef and pork and lamb, rather like chicken and turkey; LOVE cheddar (the sharper, the better), Colby and mozzarella cheeses, can easily live without the rest. Sadly, all those things I like DO NOT like me in return. So. Vegan. I've yet to meet a fruit that I won't eat. I avoid mushrooms, Brussels sprouts, cooked cabbage and artichokes at all cost. Potatoes are my #1 favorite vegetable (might that be my Irish heritage?), and I also will eat any amount of corn, peas, green beans, sweet (green, red, yellow) peppers, carrots, and onions. I recently discovered that I like asparagus. Steamed broccoli is fantastic. Spinach is wonderful, as long as it isn't cooked. I would probably be bitten by a vampire if I did not consume that large amounts of garlic that I consume.

There are actually a lot of things that I love to eat... it's just too bad I hate cooking them. :)

Re: Anne Dickens | the day after yesterday: Reader's Homes ....... Part 2

Kelly — Mon, 23 May 2011 12:13:20 -0000

Oh no. No, no, no. I am not a domestic goddess! I usually do one load of laundry a week... my daughter is supposed to do the rest (towels, blankets, sheets... that sort of thing), but she's been a bit recalcitrant lately.

Re: Anne Dickens | the day after yesterday: Reader's Homes ....... Part 2

Kelly — Mon, 23 May 2011 07:05:22 -0000

I'm almost inspired enough to send some pictures of my house. Almost. But then I'd have to actually take the time to find the pictures I already have or snap some new ones. I spent the weekend doing tons of laundry, a wee bit of grocery shopping, and watching a lot of Stargate: SG-1. Oooh, I do so love Richard Dean Anderson.

Re: Anne Dickens | the day after yesterday: Naughty George has been hobnobbing

Kelly — Wed, 18 May 2011 20:23:59 -0000

I'll ask Meg if she's willing to give Izzie some lessons the next time she makes it to this continent! :-)

Re: Anne Dickens | the day after yesterday: Naughty George has been hobnobbing

Kelly — Wed, 18 May 2011 06:21:25 -0000

My kitchen mishaps are few and far between, as I spend as little time as possible in the kitchen. I thoroughly dislike cooking and baking. Why bother, when I can buy delicious cookies, cupcakes and pies at the bakery? And I'd rather eat a salad or sandwich than bother with anything more complicated. My daughter, on the other hand, loves to cook... and is really good at it. Apparently, THAT gene skipped two generations down from my grandmother. (*I* can cook delicious meals when I garner up enough interest (about three times a decade)... my mother could not.)

Re: alfred lives here: I am a neophiliac... Are you?

Kelly — Tue, 10 May 2011 06:29:19 -0000

hee hee hee Usually, I'm not one to run out and get the latest gadget as soon as it comes out. But with the Xoom, it was a total obsession... love at first mention. As I wrote on my Facebook status, "OMG, now I know how you Apple fanboys feel!"

Re: Anne Dickens | the day after yesterday: Osama Bin Laden sabotaged my blog ...... in real life

Kelly — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:20:47 -0000

I'm tickled pink that you like my art! Feel free to consider purchasing enough pieces to cover all the rooms in your country mansion. ;-)

Re: alfred lives here: I am a neophiliac... Are you?

Kelly — Tue, 03 May 2011 16:41:26 -0000

Yeah, I'm kind of a neophiliac. When the Motorola Xoom came out, I absolutely HAD to have one! :-)

Re: Superficial Gallery is Like Playboy — Read the Articles!

Kelly — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:31:36 -0000

Gosh, it's been a long time since someone called me "normal"! LOL

P.S. Sorry about the anti-spam message.

Re: Superficial Gallery is Like Playboy — Read the Articles!

Kelly — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:41:50 -0000

Hear, hear!! I wholeheartedly agree! I recently joined the forum... it's definitely the wackiest place I've found on the Internet in years.