RE: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-12-07 Thread Martin
://www.legacyhomesavers.com http://www.legacyhomesavers.com/ _ From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Astromancer Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:00 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all ..And I'll take the leftovers... Martin

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-30 Thread KeithBJohnson
funny! why is that? at least you didn't say Eye of the Tiger! -- Original message -- From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keith, after reading this, I now have the Jackson 5's Dancing Machine stuck in my head... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: good luck and stay at it, and use us

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-30 Thread Martin
Keith, after reading this, I now have the Jackson 5's Dancing Machine stuck in my head... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: good luck and stay at it, and use us *any* time to help. Like Tracey said, this group has been a lifesaver. it's helped me through personal sickness, death, stress, job woes, etc.

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-29 Thread Astromancer
To be honest, Keith, I've been tryin to make my way back there since I came back to the city...as an adult I have more of an apprecation for the southern state than I did as a 20 year old... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's hard to get out of a rut. Just make one change and stick to it for a

RE: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-29 Thread Martin
://www.legacyhomesavers.com -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:29 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all Uggg! [EMAIL

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-29 Thread Martin
Thank you much, dear lady. You may want to turn away. Me going to trough can be...disturbing. Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You got em Martin wrote: I want your shares, okay? Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) wrote: me neither, but

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-29 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
Hey Astro: I love Chicago too. Up the temperature an make it an IT town, I'd probably be there. \About 10 years ago, I faced four deaths of loved ones in a row. I got on the Internet, started renting anime and movies, and never saw the light of day. Before the death's, I had a newspaper,

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-29 Thread KeithBJohnson
There is a really, really good, but little-known book that came out in the '90s called South of Haunted Dreams. It's a book by a Brother who takes a long motorcycle trip around the South. Like many of us, he's in that bifurcated state of hating and loathing much that was the South back in the

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-29 Thread KeithBJohnson
good luck and stay at it, and use us *any* time to help. Like Tracey said, this group has been a lifesaver. it's helped me through personal sickness, death, stress, job woes, etc. one thing that keeps me going is that i like to work out and learn new things. there's a weight room at my jbo

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-29 Thread KeithBJohnson
any scifi clubs or comic groups or something you can join in your part of town? -- Original message -- From: Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOL...I wish i had friends like you in Chi-Town...I virtually have no one I can truly relate to here...I feel like: NERD...ALONE...

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-29 Thread Astromancer
You've got to learn to roll with the seasons...I feel you on the isolation bit...my depression ruled me so much in the beginning, but meeting people like you online opened me up again...still fighting my way out of the house, but I'm getting there! Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L.

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-27 Thread Martin
I want your shares, okay? Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: me neither, but I feel not shame. Yuk!!! Martin wrote: A man who has never partaken of the chitlin... (bows head in sorrow) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I was a kid, i was notorious for

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-27 Thread KeithBJohnson
i just can't stand liver. Or venison, for that matter. Or any kind of wild game meat. My system is pretty much built now for chicken, fish, and lean beef or pork. -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] You poor,

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-27 Thread Astromancer
..And I'll take the leftovers... Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want your shares, okay? Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: me neither, but I feel not shame. Yuk!!! Martin wrote: A man who has never partaken of the chitlin... (bows head in

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-27 Thread Astromancer
(grinning widely) Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's always a place at table for you, pal. Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and I'm jealous... :( Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That we do. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i hear you, we'll need to hook up! --

RE: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-27 Thread Reece Jennings
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Astromancer Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:00 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all ..And I'll take the leftovers... Martin truthseeker_ mailto:truthseeker_013%40yahoo.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-27 Thread Astromancer
Okay...you got me on the mountain oyster and tripe...YEESH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: amen! Nor mountain oysters, tripe, or chicken feet (my dad says they used to boil and gnaw on chicken feet when he was a kid) -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-27 Thread KeithBJohnson
amen! Nor mountain oysters, tripe, or chicken feet (my dad says they used to boil and gnaw on chicken feet when he was a kid) -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] me neither, but I feel not shame. Yuk!!!

RE: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-27 Thread Reece Jennings
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:29 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all Uggg! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: amen! Nor mountain oysters, tripe, or chicken feet (my dad says

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-26 Thread Martin
Liver and onions... Thanks for the dinner plan for tomorrow, pal! Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oatmeal (gag!) Then I need an invitation to your grandmother's. Liver and onions is the bomb, dude! Cherio's and lowfat milk works to control my cholesterol... [EMAIL

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-26 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
love liver and onions. Anyone like it with bacon? Martin wrote: Liver and onions... Thanks for the dinner plan for tomorrow, pal! Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:cwbadie%40yahoo.com wrote: Oatmeal (gag!) Then I need an invitation to your grandmother's. Liver and onions is the bomb,

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-26 Thread Astromancer
Liver and onions over rice...(gurgle!!!) Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liver and onions... Thanks for the dinner plan for tomorrow, pal! Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oatmeal (gag!) Then I need an invitation to your grandmother's. Liver and onions is the bomb, dude! Cherio's

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-26 Thread KeithBJohnson
ack! gag reflex just triggered. Kind of a reverse-Pavlovian thing -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] love liver and onions. Anyone like it with bacon? Martin wrote: Liver and onions... Thanks for the

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-26 Thread Astromancer
YES Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: love liver and onions. Anyone like it with bacon? Martin wrote: Liver and onions... Thanks for the dinner plan for tomorrow, pal! Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:cwbadie%40yahoo.com wrote:

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-26 Thread Martin
(drool splattering on keyboard) Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: YES Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: love liver and onions. Anyone like it with bacon? Martin wrote: Liver and onions... Thanks for the dinner plan for tomorrow, pal!

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-26 Thread Martin
Dibs on Keith's helping! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ack! gag reflex just triggered. Kind of a reverse-Pavlovian thing -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) love liver and onions. Anyone like it with bacon? Martin wrote: Liver

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-26 Thread Martin
Moments like this are when I *hate* being on a med that requires you to stop eating after nine... Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liver and onions over rice...(gurgle!!!) Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liver and onions... Thanks for the dinner plan for tomorrow, pal!

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-26 Thread Martin
Chicken livers...there's Saturday dinner. Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just the opposite...I ate just about every meal with the zeal of a hungry husband coming home from work...I am fond of calling myself a proud omnivor, eating or at least trying everything that was

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-26 Thread Martin
There's always a place at table for you, pal. Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and I'm jealous... :( Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That we do. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i hear you, we'll need to hook up! -- Original message -- From: Martin [EMAIL

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-26 Thread Martin
A man who has never partaken of the chitlin... (bows head in sorrow) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I was a kid, i was notorious for not eating any food that looked unappealing to me, and definitely nothing that even faintly had an unpleasant smell. So I never touched pigs' feet

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-26 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
You poor, poor deluded man [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ack! gag reflex just triggered. Kind of a reverse-Pavlovian thing -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] love liver and onions. Anyone like it with bacon?

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-26 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
me neither, but I feel not shame. Yuk!!! Martin wrote: A man who has never partaken of the chitlin... (bows head in sorrow) [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net wrote: When I was a kid, i was notorious for not eating any food that looked unappealing to me, and definitely

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-25 Thread Astromancer
STOP! (growl!!) My empty stomach can't take it any more! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it was phenomenal. And i just thought of the homemade apple turnovers she used to make. That they started out with dried storebought apples (which really stink as they're being rehydrated in hot water) is

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-25 Thread Astromancer
...and I'm jealous... :( Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That we do. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i hear you, we'll need to hook up! -- Original message -- From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Happy Thanksgiving to you as well, and I thank you for the compliment.

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-25 Thread Astromancer
I was just the opposite...I ate just about every meal with the zeal of a hungry husband coming home from work...I am fond of calling myself a proud omnivor, eating or at least trying everything that was deemed edible in my household as a child...With the exception of oatmeal cereal and chicken

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-25 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
We usually go to my Mom's or my adopted brother's house, although some years, like when there has been illness or death in the immediate family, we eat at my mom's favorite hotel restaurant or I know this sound jaded, but she would pay a caterer to cook. What can I say, grief and depression

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-25 Thread KeithBJohnson
:) -- Original message -- From: Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] STOP! (growl!!) My empty stomach can't take it any more! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it was phenomenal. And i just thought of the homemade apple turnovers she used to make. That they started out with dried

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-25 Thread KeithBJohnson
I love oatmeal, try to eat it several times a week, especially because it helps lower cholesterol. Liver? Never had it--never will. My fav is all the people over the years who've tried to get me to taste their mamma's or grandmamma's liver and onions. The common refrain is, it doesn't even

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-25 Thread KeithBJohnson
i'd love to see pictures of that. what a really cool extended family you have! As for letting the permanent doldrums set in, i'm well aware of that. When i first moved to Atlanta (from Chicago), i left one job, got one i didn't like, and left that one. i was then unemployed for a while and i

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-25 Thread Astromancer
Oatmeal (gag!) Then I need an invitation to your grandmother's. Liver and onions is the bomb, dude! Cherio's and lowfat milk works to control my cholesterol... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love oatmeal, try to eat it several times a week, especially because it helps lower cholesterol. Liver?

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-25 Thread Astromancer
I hear you, Keith...Been trying for six years to climb out of my rut...Hey, How come you never told me you were originally from Chicago? Or for that matter, did I tell you Chicago's my home town? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'd love to see pictures of that. what a really cool extended

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-25 Thread KeithBJohnson
It's hard to get out of a rut. Just make one change and stick to it for a couple of weeks, then make another, and so on... I did it with working out, which helps keep me balanced. Now, if I go 2 -3 days without some kind of exercise, i miss it. When I do work out--not even super intense all the

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-24 Thread Astromancer
Sounds delicious...(growl!!!)...Excuse me... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i hear that. My mom's specialty was peach cobbler. She was the only woman in our family who made it just right:. she made the crust by hand, rolling out the dough using a big Welch's grape juice bottle as the rolling pin

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-24 Thread KeithBJohnson
it was phenomenal. And i just thought of the homemade apple turnovers she used to make. That they started out with dried storebought apples (which really stink as they're being rehydrated in hot water) is amazing... -- Original message -- From: Astromancer [EMAIL

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-24 Thread Martin
That we do. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i hear you, we'll need to hook up! -- Original message -- From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Happy Thanksgiving to you as well, and I thank you for the compliment. Myself, before and after the hamfest (bird decided to take

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-24 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
Belated Gobble Gobble Everybody!!! First the first time ever, instead of going out to somebody else's house, we cooked thanksgiving Dinner, so the pressure was on and I fell behind one wishing you a happy day. Except for a few mishaps it was a success. Chris decided he was going to make the

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-24 Thread KeithBJohnson
So Chris can cook, huh? Did he cook it in the oven, or did he deep fry it? Heck, last year I eschewed cooking any bird, and I got a bucket of chicken from KFC. it was great! what else did y'all cook? You're originally from Philly: are there any local dishes there that people cook for the

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-24 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
I Purchased a brined Bird because I heard they were moist. Chris put it in the oven after cutting slits all over it and stuffing the slits with fresh rosemary and garlic, He also made the stuffing without an recipe. He said, I know what I like. However, he did let me give him some hints

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-24 Thread KeithBJohnson
When I was a kid, i was notorious for not eating any food that looked unappealing to me, and definitely nothing that even faintly had an unpleasant smell. So I never touched pigs' feet (they looked gross and slimy). And having watched Mom clean chitlins, and been subjected to that horrid smell,

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-23 Thread Astromancer
Porkchops and gravy...(sigh) Boy, do I miss Mom... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i hear you, we'll need to hook up! -- Original message -- From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Happy Thanksgiving to you as well, and I thank you for the compliment. Myself, before and after

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-23 Thread KeithBJohnson
i hear that. My mom's specialty was peach cobbler. She was the only woman in our family who made it just right:. she made the crust by hand, rolling out the dough using a big Welch's grape juice bottle as the rolling pin (Even though I bought her a fancy one, she never used it). She always

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-22 Thread Martin
Happy Thanksgiving to you as well, and I thank you for the compliment. Myself, before and after the hamfest (bird decided to take awhile longer to cook, making himself ineligible for dinnertime), there has been football and more football. Pork chops and gravy...hey, I do live in the same

Re: [scifinoir2] Happy Holidays Y'all

2007-11-22 Thread KeithBJohnson
i hear you, we'll need to hook up! -- Original message -- From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Happy Thanksgiving to you as well, and I thank you for the compliment. Myself, before and after the hamfest (bird decided to take awhile longer to cook, making himself ineligible