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16 servings of cheap pilsner last night? Attracted to a 6” seafood sandwich you saw being ordered and need someone to talk to? Feel like something pasta-y, but not exactly? This is what terrorizes our nation’s workers every day. It is ever-present, in the back of our minds--riding on the train, up the elevator, in that meeting. But these are simply facets of the one great question. The answer to which must be provided before we can ever grasp contentment. What’s for lunch?
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YOU BIG EARLY-POSTING SPECIAL BIRTHDAY GREETING POST FROM MADAME PRESIDENTE RUINER!!
Jo is going to kick my ass for letting you beat me - of course, I couldn't have known you were going to post at 6AM!!
Happy Birthday, CSR!! Oh, and may I suggest bran - the 30s are kind of irregular.
And,
ATTENTION CHICAGO WFLers:
It has been brought to my attention that OldAssCSR will be in Chicago on January 19th. May I suggest, in honor of his and Ms. Jade's birthday (her's is February 5) that you join together for some lunch talk and cocktails. I've also heard that Jo may make a special appearance.
Happy 30th CSR! Welcome to the "nowhere to go but down" club.
Looking forward to your last hurrah next weekend.
For lunch I suggest fried mush, apricot slices and prune juice.
Your gift certificate to Big Boy is in the mail.
I almost forgot, it's time for you to get a bowl of hard candy and keep it on every desk and table you frequent. I recommend Werther's Originals.
WFLers all join in....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
YOU LOOK LIKE YOU'RE 30.......
AND YOU SMELL LIKE ONE TOO! (i don't know how you 'smell like a 30', but i'll leave that one up to your imagination.)
happy happy day of birth, CSR. age is a state of mind. so i should hope that, for lunch, you eat something scrumptous and special. on monday, i also want a report that you partied like a 20 and not 30 year old.
i ate cereal this morning and am drinking starbucks coffee (aka crack). will be eating out for lunch since we got paid today. not sure what i'll want though i'll need some suggestions.
Ethics you really did the ball on this.
Happy B day!
I'll just say "enjoy your 30's". Its the only time in life where you can have disposable income and be young enough to enjoy it properly.
That aside, make sure you get your teeth done (whitened, cleaned, and fixed), start putting on moisturizing cream on a daily basis(I hate my crow's feet), and welcome to the "I have to have a gym membership otherwise I will turn into a total fatass" time in your life (basically you're no longer maintenance free ... its like getting to 60K on a japanese car).
Cheers!
I would feel more sympathy if I weren't 32.
Happy birthday! And don't worry - you're a guy - you only get "distinguished". Girls get old. Fucking society. Oh, unless you're a metrosexual. Something about an old guy waxing his chest is just sad.
TGIF! Except that I have to dog-sit for my 'rents all weekend. Ah well. I could use a weekend off, I suppose. Any DCers want to come out & hot tub?
I had to send my message earlier in a hurry b/c the cab was there to take me to work, but what I didn't get a chance to mention is that, if you all go out in Chicago on the 19th, be aware that I'm not sure CSR can hang. When I was last in NY, we were meant to have some cocktails, but by midnight, he was pretty much wussing out. Now that he's 30... well... who knows?
Just a word of caution.
BTW, sorry 'bout the game last night, guys.
In my office they give baby showers when the women get new pets.
There is nothing wrong with maintenance. I think this Metrosexual bullshit has come to a head. First person that makes fun of men's pedicures will be a collection of my toes up thier ass. :)
That said, I'd have to disagree with the Dunkin Donuts\Starbucks comparison. Lets face it .. Starbuck's isn't cheap enough to be crack.
James, I don't know you, (and, we're happy to have you!) but if you wear striped shirts, just keep it to yourself.
Moving onto the one topic we've not discussed today: LUNCH.
Mine? Chicken salad (booooorrrring - red onion, celery, lowfat mayo), hard boiled eggs (2), and peach jello (sugar free) for dessert. The last one, I love. I love jello. Soooooo much. Love. Peach Jello is another of my key comfort foods.
Just added 7 cashews (halved) to the chicken salad. Quite an improvement.
whats so bad about stripped shirts?
Its the ones with nipple wholes that people make fun of :)
I'm having a shitty day. But it's still better than my 30th birthday. On that day, my then husband came home from work and handed me a large envelope. It was full of divorce papers, which was a big shock to me. But other than that my 30's have been tremendous. Better than my 20's by far. Have a great birthday, CSR! ANd I agree with ethics, if you are in Chicago, we should get the Chicago crew together for cocktails.
Jade, that 30th birthday sucked.
I'm depressed now.
Jade, that's terrible! I am tempted to throw you another 30th do-over party, with cupcakes and champagne! Or, if you'd prefer, Boone's Farm and potato chips - it's your day!
(birthdays are a big deal to me - though, I've got trouble remembering them. If I'm reminded, I make a big deal out of them)
OH MY GOD!!! That is the worst 30th birthday story I've ever heard. Ugh. You are definitely better off without that wanker!
I am having leftovers, leftovers, and more leftovers for lunch. Oh, and salad that someone brought in. Thai food from my lunch with crushboy last week (LaChoi should be proud - it's only 8 days old!), plus the salad (yummmmmmm - spinach w/shrooms, sesame seeds, celery & raisins & some sort of soy sauce salad dressing) & one sandwich wrap from our party on Wednesday. Sadly, I think the cake is all gone. :-( So dessert will have to be leftover cookies or M&Ms.
Leftovers!
Turkey kielbasa and grilled onions with garlic mashed potatoes (easy on the butter **sigh**). As a side, I took a recipe suggestion directly from OWFL and did my best with it. More brussel sprouts! Got some really nice plump ones from Whole Paycheck. (That moniker really doesn’t fly with me, as the Hyde Park Co-Op grocery stores are in truth just as expensive as, if not more expensive than, WF. Oy, I am NOT looking forward to going back to being a Jewel man **sigh**.) What the fuck was I talking about? Oh, I gave the Jade’s quartered-and-sautéed method a try. I had pancetta, and thought I had a can of water chestnuts. Nope. I did, however, have chestnuts! So I roasted and chopped them and tossed ‘em in there…with some water.
Happy birthday, CSR. I had no prob with 30. Then again, I’ve been 61 since I was 12.
Let’s get loaded.
I had a weird tuna salad concoction for lunch. Tasted pretty good.
I just had a small piece of 50% fat cheddar cheese and a hard boiled egg, to follow the chicken salad. But, I am fading. I forgot how hard this no caffeine thing is in the first week or so. Luckily (knock on wood) I haven't get the headaches this time.
http://www.suntimes.com/
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Wait, Baltimore is the fittest city? Why does that sound weird? Ethics, you know that city - is that true? Hm. And DC is #18 fittest? Not according to the butt in the seat next to me on the metro this morning.
Condoms to masturbate, eh? FYI - we don't do that. Tell her that, and if that doesn't work, go ahead and hit her. He should have blamed it on heroin.
Sorry. Seriously, it's amazing how you can make yourself deny what is so plain if you really want to believe the something else. Poor her.
Lunch lunch lunch lunch.
I was sent home from work today because my boss told me I have been working too much. I suppose I should be happy about this but I am kind of annoyed because I have stacks and stacks of work to do on my desk and it will only be worse come Monday.
The 30th b-day was bad, but I rectified it by having a blast on my 31st. I went to Florida to see my sister for a couple days and ended up riding a mechanical bull at one point. Don't cry for me Argentina, I have recovered. I was just putting things in perspective by showing that it could be worse.
Spoilsport, if your friend bought the condoms to masturbate lie she doesn't want to know the truth. Anything you say at this point against him will only turn her against you. The best you can do is be there for her when she finds more incriminating evidence that even the willfully delusional cannot deny.
Damn you're good, Jade.
Enjoy the early start to the weekend!
I totally agree. Although some people will deny all evidence.
"Uh, honey! What are you doing home! This is the cleaning woman! I tripped & my penis fell into her vagina!"
"Well, it's possible, I guess . . ."
Yeah, all you can really do is hold her hand when it finally happens. Only other option is yelling at her & then being cut out of her life. Ugh, what a crappy situation.
I know a girl who was a Jr. in college and announced to us (in context)that she showered with her platonic (male) friend and that, "Really, [they were] just friends." But, SS, I think your friend may be even more delusional/naive than that young lady. Walk her through the faulty logic of masturbation with a condom... maybe she'll arrive to her own conclusion? She's just not thinking because all she wants is to believe him. Me? I'd like to punch him for telling such a stupid goddamned lie. Bad liars piss me off more than anything.
And, all I know is what I saw CSR. Next you're going to tell me that you'll school me in Trivial Pursuit, but it's all talk as far as I can see. Oh, and please don't eat subway for your 30th bday lunch. C'mon. You're better than that - even if you can't hang.
As for Baltimore being fittest... er. If that's true, wow, we're all so fucked. Maybe by fittest they mean, heroin-addicted, illiterate, syphilis-having, teenaged mother?
I do love that city...
Ethics, if that is the "Men's Health" poll for the "fittest city" then I am laughing. They use "restaurants per capita" to determine that.
I hope Houston is always the fattest.
Dammit! Sorry, that's me with deleted message again. Will repost in a second as soon as I figure out how to make a link . . . .
Ok, trying this again: I knew I wasn't crazy.
Fat or Fit?
Hey, maybe the condom masturbater has carpal tunnel syndrome. Better safe than sorry!
Yes, it is. That's how I knew it was bullshit before assessing. Please. Dallas #4? There are enough coked up, anorexic southern baptist psuedo whores in that city, who spend their time not shopping for a new Louis at the gym, getting rid of any nonexistant fat left on their frames, to more than make up for the fat, spandex clad walmart shoppers out in the burbs...
The thing is, Baltimore is full of "junk food restaurants" BUT I will say, that chain fast food isn't as prevalent in B'more City. So, it's tastier junk food, just not necessarily acknowledged by the hacks at Men's Health.
I always heard Milwaukee was the US's fattest city. Which makes sense with all the cheese and beer there. Mmmmmmmm, cheese and beer. Maybe I need to drop my allegiance to Chicago and move to Milwaukee. I could be a slim little hottie in that city.
I'm eating lunch now. Last night I ordered in from Ranalli's, and they give you 1/2 off a sandwich when you buy one and each comes with a side and garnish. So, I ordered up a second one. Last night I had an Italian grinder with a salad and melon slice, today I am having the turkey grinder with a salad and pickle. Pretty good, too.
"...a Friday night visit to either reveals a culture that revolves around drinking and greasy food."
FREAKING OOOOO RAAAHHH!!!
I've got a couple of buddies who are trying to convince me to move to Mil-town. I've been kickin' the idea around. I like it a lot up there. Laid back. And cheap! Great bars, but I've had terrible restaurant experiences, except for the Friday fish fries!
I think TP might be working itself onto the conference agenda. Is there a lunch edition?
TP is so on. I'd be up for scrabble, too.
CSR, I have fond memories of your fiancee passed out, slumped over on my shoulder in the back of the cab, the night of Jo's 30th. Though, surely not as fond as the cab driver has of having Jo, passed out, slumped over in his lap.
I'm willing to admit I was wrong, when evidence of such presents itself. It just hasn't yet.
And, I dominate at TP.
I love jello. Seriously. Love. Steamed chicken and jello... mmm.. take me to the cafeteria at the old folks home!
Ethics, clearly you've never played TP with me. My friends in Bermuda call me Trivia Queen, so vast is my store of useless knowledge. Sigh. It's a hard life, being the Queen.
Welcome to Jack!!
i do not dominate TP unless it's the kind you have near the toilet. i use way too much.
and i am not going to comment on the masterbate with condoms thing...
SS: show her r kelly's trapped in the closet chapters 1 through 12. it is so ridiculous that perhaps it'll make her realize that her life is mimicking art. and there's even a chapter where he finds a condom wrapper in his bed and the wife tries to deny it but it's so obvious!
oooh, that gives me an even better suggestion -- whenever you guys hang out, you can do these subliminal things like have her watch the movie "unfaithful" or make comments about something indirectly related to cheating. perhaps that will sink into her clouded brain through the back door somehow.
i had a free lunch today, falafel salad. it tasty, but i was so hungry after 2 hours! so i stole some of ethics' cheese, carrots, and left over crackers that she left in the office kitchen. (which i just realized were from NYE...i'm slow!) now she says i can have her hardboiled egg. she's such a giving president!
jade, you rock even if your 30th didn't. i have always wanted to ride a mechanical bull.
dude, ethics, where's the link for that striped shirted dude? james should see it to fully understand...
I can only presume, LaChoi, you are speaking of this link, sent to me by work crushboy. Siiiiigh!
Look At My Striped Shirt!
Yep, LT got it! That still cracks me up, to this day. I have hated those shirts since before it was trendy to do so. Erg. Anger.
FYI, WFLers - Monday we'll be discussing conference scheduling. LaChoi, do you suppose you could help out with a survey of dates?
I am soooooo pleased with myself. Many, many thanks to James. I just got off the phone with someone in NYC. Somebody is going to be in troooooouble. Sorry, I can't publicly spill the details, but James, ethics, la choi and Jo should know what I am talking about. Hee hee.
CONGRATS, JADE!
And, nanner, nanner, naaaaannnnneerrrrr to whomever.
HeHe!! (if I could giggle like an Asian girl, I so would right now)
CSR and I are a formidable force in TP, and dare I say EUCHRE. The Chicago conference will indeed be a memorable one if you fools challenge us.
Woot woot! big ups jade! i knew that we could find a way to get that taken care of.
i'm getting too excitable today about the spring conference.
Well done Jade. The Lunchers take no prisoners!!
(We'll need to work on a name at the conference.)
I am so down for a euchre tourney. My favorite game EVER.
[ethics]
Fuckin funny!!! I couldn't tell you how many people this reminds me of! I personally have played Golden Tee myself but it was in a dive bar with nothing but old drunks like me ... and I wasn't wearing a stripped shirt
[Jade]
No problem .. hang 'em high like Clint does killer. I hope you have less heart ache. You should know I have a soft spot for sexy jewish womyn :)
Michigan is about Vernors, Euchre and knowing all the words to both fight songs.
I think that's all you need for street cred in that state.
I think that sums it up Jo, but I think you have to choose sides in the battle of the schools. You have to know both songs, but you have to have a clear allegiance to one or the other. You can't swing both ways.
You definitely have to choose a side. Euchre, Vernors...cherries maybe? strwberry picking? do they pick strawberries in other states? I think more Michiganders know about middle eastern food than any other state. Per capita I mean.
East Lansing has the highest number of Palestinians of any city outside of Israel, including other Arab nations. Meijer's is also crucial to Michigan, even if it is in other states, it is a Michigan store.
You Michiganders sure know a lot of little fun facts about your homeland. (Not that that will help you in TP.)
But, I know Edmund Fitzgerald.
Much to Jo's horror, I didn't know he was anyone special (let alone had a boat named after him!) until Jo told me. Well, he was singing the song and I was like, "HEY! I know a guy named Edmund Fitzgerald..." turns out, Ed's dad named a boat after his son (and him, Ed's a Jr.) when he was Chairman of the Board at NWMutual. Anyhoo... That's my only Michigan fun fact, if it even qualifies as such. But, I was feeling left out.
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