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elfworks
10-09-2006, 08:40 AM
a cup of tea, some pumpkin bread, and yall.....


good morning everyone!!

hope your day grooves along in a pleasing way.

anyone have off today?


xo
Ervserver
10-09-2006, 08:46 AM
what kind of tea?
elfworks
10-09-2006, 08:47 AM
bigelow english breakfast tea.


xo
Santa David
10-09-2006, 08:50 AM
I'm on my second cup of Bigelow Chai tea. Yum! :smile:

Santa David
elfworks
10-09-2006, 10:14 AM
i have never been big on chai tea. too sweet for me. i like me tea nice and strong! ocassionally, i will add a little sugar to the bigelow cinnamon stick, but other than that... just black and hot!


xo
Ervserver
10-09-2006, 10:26 AM
I need a good jolt of diet Pepsi first thing each morning, before bedtime however I enjoy a nice cup of peppermint tea. Thinking of getting one of those pod tea makers.
elfworks
10-09-2006, 10:28 AM
dont know what a pod tea maker is. do tell.

i make my tea in my espresso maker. put the tea bag in the place the coffee grounds go. it comes out perfect!!! already brewed and the perfect temp!!

xo
Ervserver
10-09-2006, 10:37 AM
A pod is individually wrapped tea or coffee in its own filter for ease of use. You place the pod into a pod machine and flip the latch and then it builds up steam and forces hot water thru the pod and out into your cup. Takes like 2 mins. Many flavors of pods are available.
Christy Carol
10-09-2006, 10:44 AM
A pod is individually wrapped tea or coffee in its own filter for ease of use. You place the pod into a pod machine and flip the latch and then it builds up steam and forces hot water thru the pod and out into your cup. Takes like 2 mins. Many flavors of pods are available.

Be careful with those. I got a Black and Decker for Christmas last year and after about a month of using it the pods started exploding. It made a funny noise and no water was coming out so I opened it. Big mistake, it shot hot grounds all over my hands and neck and I got burnt. Needless to say it went back to Wal-Mart. I googled it online and found that the same thing had happened to others.
elfworks
10-09-2006, 10:45 AM
so basically the pod thing does just what my espresso maker does! grooovy.



xo
Christy Carol
10-09-2006, 10:46 AM
and yes, I had unplugged it first. I guess the explosion was from the built up steam.
elfworks
10-09-2006, 10:48 AM
fyi.... brand names bought at walmart are not the same as what you would buy at say BB & B. look at the model number. it will say XXXXXX-WM this means it is a cheaper version made especially for walmart.


xo
HolyNight7
10-09-2006, 11:04 AM
a cup of tea, some pumpkin bread, and yall.....


good morning everyone!!

hope your day grooves along in a pleasing way.

anyone have off today?


xoI work for the government but I'm working today. My mother who works for the Federal government had to call me from MD and rub it in that she was off today. Us local goverment people don't get Columbus Day although I am Italian and I think discovering America is pretty big and important.
mrshamm
10-09-2006, 12:41 PM
a cup of tea, some pumpkin bread, and yall.....


good morning everyone!!

hope your day grooves along in a pleasing way.

anyone have off today?


xoI work for the government but I'm working today. My mother who works for the Federal government had to call me from MD and rub it in that she was off today. Us local goverment people don't get Columbus Day although I am Italian and I think discovering America is pretty big and important.


I am a SAHM, so I never have a day off...lol. However, I'm not doing any Bridal Consulting today so I guess you could say I have the day off.
Ervserver
10-09-2006, 01:41 PM
and yes, I had unplugged it first. I guess the explosion was from the built up steam.

not heard of this, will cross B&D off my list.
mrshfromjersey
10-09-2006, 06:51 PM
I am on my second Senseo coffee maker. I have found the most wonderful coffee and tea pods for it. There is nothing like a fresh cup of blueberry crumb cake coffee. Go to www.coffeewhiz.com for info on individual cup coffee and tea makers
Ervserver
10-09-2006, 06:53 PM
was looking into Senseos, any complaints? I've read something about leaks
mrshfromjersey
10-09-2006, 06:58 PM
My last one leaked a little towards the end. I had it for three years and I used it every day. The key to a really good cup of coffee is to wet the pod before you put it in the coffee maker. The wet pod makes a better seal and the hot water is forced through it much better. Very yummy.
dvdelf
10-09-2006, 06:59 PM
no complaints, wondeful machine
HolyNight7
10-09-2006, 07:44 PM
Not a coffee drinker more of a tea totaler.
Ervserver
10-09-2006, 08:36 PM
I'm hoping Target has a BIG sale on them around Christmas
sheepsnot
10-09-2006, 08:53 PM
I was on the road with the most boring tech in the world. We had McDonalds for breakfast. Anybody jealous yet?
Ervserver
10-09-2006, 09:00 PM
I am if you had McGriddles
sheepsnot
10-09-2006, 09:01 PM
I did! So you are. 8)
Ervserver
10-09-2006, 09:05 PM
:evil:
HolyNight7
10-10-2006, 04:37 AM
I don't know everytime I ever orderd McGriddles there was always something crunchy inside them. I don't eat fast food anymore. Except at Arby's where I will usually order one of their Market Fresh Sandwiches and a diet soda.
sheepsnot
10-10-2006, 06:51 AM
Hopefully it's the bacon crunching, though a little solidified syrup ain't a bad thing.
Christy Carol
10-10-2006, 07:03 AM
Glad to see these positive comments, I was thinking about picking up a Senseo but hadn't found anyone that had used one. Sounds much better than the B&D.

Speaking of, I need to run downstairs and get some office rot gut coffee..and for some reason these goofheads switched to decaf!
Ervserver
10-10-2006, 09:43 AM
I don't know everytime I ever orderd McGriddles there was always something crunchy inside them. I don't eat fast food anymore. Except at Arby's where I will usually order one of their Market Fresh Sandwiches and a diet soda.



I've never noticed anything crunchy, I read in The National Enquirer once how a big flakey scab was found in a fast food sandwich. Apparently fell off the arm of the cook. I think it's on display somewhere now.
elfworks
10-10-2006, 09:52 AM
hey!!!! some of us are eating!

ick.


xo
sheepsnot
10-10-2006, 09:53 AM
That's an Olympic level of nasty! I'm fighting the gag reflex as we speak.
HolyNight7
10-10-2006, 10:22 AM
eeeewwwww big time :(
Ervserver
10-20-2006, 02:28 PM
Have an eggnog, settles the stomach
HolyNight7
10-20-2006, 03:28 PM
How about a headache?
Ervserver
10-20-2006, 03:41 PM
How about a headache?


no thanks, had one for 5 years and then sent her pakin
HolyNight7
10-20-2006, 07:44 PM
Hey I had one for 5 years too.
Ervserver
10-23-2006, 04:29 PM
I don't ever want a headache that long again
HolyNight7
10-23-2006, 06:12 PM
Me either although I would consider a husband who is also my best friend.
Ervserver
10-24-2006, 06:14 PM
Very hard to find anymore
HolyNight7
10-24-2006, 06:20 PM
I'm finding that out. Why are people so negative about marriage anymore. It's so sad.
Christy Carol
10-24-2006, 06:24 PM
I'm finding that out. Why are people so negative about marriage anymore. It's so sad.

You are right. I hate to say I am one but I guess in a way I am. The BF and I are as committed as two people can be except for that little piece of paper. We have both been thru 2 bad marriages a piece and I guess for now we are living by the old motto "if it ain't broke"...
elfworks
10-24-2006, 06:30 PM
i live with the hope that one day he'll come along, the man i love....


a friend of mine wrote a song ccalled TOO MANY MEMORIES. it has a line in it that changed how i live my life.

WHAT MAKES YOU GROW OLD IS REPLACING HOPE WITH REGRET.



no regrets baby.
xo
HolyNight7
10-24-2006, 06:31 PM
Sounds like sound advice!
Christy Carol
10-24-2006, 06:34 PM
Oh I bet he is out there. :) It took me years to find my Mr. Wonderful and now everyday is the best day of my life. I do consider myself very lucky and I don't take it for granted.
HolyNight7
10-24-2006, 06:47 PM
Well I'm hoping.
Ervserver
10-25-2006, 03:16 PM
I don't think I'll get married again...don't see any reason to. Life is good, romance is alive, I'm shacking up. :-)
HolyNight7
10-25-2006, 04:58 PM
Your living with someone?
Christy Carol
10-25-2006, 06:16 PM
I don't think I'll get married again...don't see any reason to. Life is good, romance is alive, I'm shacking up. :-)


LOL!! I agree with ya there brother!!!
Ervserver
10-25-2006, 07:37 PM
\"HolyNight7\"]Your living with someone?

no but will if it comes to that
HolyNight7
10-26-2006, 04:45 AM
I don't think I would do that.
mrshfromjersey
10-26-2006, 05:28 AM
The day before dvdguy and I got together, I said - out loud with him sitting right next to me - "I give up on men. I'm going to stay single and spend all my money spoiling myself". I was tired of having to make the first move (when did guys get so shy?) and I has SWORN that I'd never ask a guy out on a date again. I had been waiting for dvdguy to make a move for weeks. The day after I said that, I made the first move. DON'T GIVE UP HOPE. There are good guys out there. They are becoming rarer by the minute, but they are there.

Good luck!
sheepsnot
10-26-2006, 06:49 AM
(when did guys get so shy?)

Right after we kept being shot at for being forward. We aren't untrainable, you know. I can vaguely remember making my own decisions. Now I can't decide what kind of soup I want for fear of picking the wrong one.
mrshfromjersey
10-26-2006, 08:04 AM
That's funny. Does Mrs. Sheepsnot say "No soup for YOU"????
sheepsnot
10-26-2006, 08:28 AM
I remember one birthday being asked where I wanted to eat and when I picked a place we went somewhere else instead. I knew my days as a decision maker were officially over.
elfworks
10-26-2006, 10:01 AM
i dont think shyness is the problem.

;-)

xo
sheepsnot
10-26-2006, 01:36 PM
I am still trying to figure out what your original post had to do with Omar. Help me out.
elfworks
10-26-2006, 02:11 PM
THE RUBAIYAT.

depending on which translation you choose... a loaf of bread, a jug of wine and thou

xo
elfworks
10-26-2006, 02:22 PM
i believe this is fitzgerald's translation, but i wont swear to that. first thing i clicked on when i googled it for you. there are 101 verses. this, the most famous, tho not the only famous verse is 12.


XII
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness--
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
sheepsnot
10-26-2006, 02:31 PM
He was really popular with the Islamist traditionalists. He'd have a hit out on him if he was alive now.
elfworks
10-26-2006, 02:44 PM
He was really popular with the Islamist traditionalists. He'd have a hit out on him if he was alive now.

he would be hiding out with cat stevens.

:D

xo
Ervserver
11-01-2006, 07:38 PM
where in the world is cat? :-o
dominick
11-01-2006, 07:50 PM
I believe he goes by Yusef Islam or something like that. He's converted and is now blacklisted by the US Gov't for entry and from flying.
Ervserver
11-01-2006, 07:52 PM
Bummer....I like his music
dominick
11-01-2006, 07:55 PM
I can only think of two songs of his, Moon Shadow and Wild World. I like those songs, but that's all that ever gets any radio play and having been born in the wrong generation, I was never really exposed to any of his other stuff.
Ervserver
11-01-2006, 08:17 PM
Looks like he did/does some Christmas stuff


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3743196.stm
HolyNight7
11-02-2006, 04:44 AM
Are we talking Cat Stevens here?
dominick
11-02-2006, 07:46 AM
Yes.
HolyNight7
11-02-2006, 08:05 AM
Morning has broken. Good song.
Holiday
11-02-2006, 08:13 AM
I was a big Cat Stevens fan! Still love his music, but what in the world happened to him???? :-?
Ervserver
11-02-2006, 08:14 AM
Converted to Islam
dominick
11-02-2006, 08:17 AM
After a little reading, I found out that he has been singing under the name Yusuf Islam since the '90s and living in Great Britain. One of his albums' names was: A is for Allah. :| He just released a new album this year entitled An Other Cup. Apparently he credits some of his change to being hospitalized with Tuberculosis, and has been calling himself Yusuf Islam since the late 70s.
Ervserver
11-02-2006, 08:58 AM
His ex was on Letterman one night years ago.
sheepsnot
11-02-2006, 11:13 AM
B is for Buddha. C is for Christ. D is for Deity. E is for Erv. 8)
Ervserver
11-02-2006, 11:32 AM
8-)