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<p>Then I guess we will need my big pancake griddle, if we’re really going to have pancakes at the bear factory!</p>

<p>Rumbles at work don’t sound so good, I may be unemployed by February or whenever my contract runs out. Seems treatment is too toxic so FDA is perhaps putting a clinical hold on the entire development program for one of the compounds I’m working on. If that happens the company will have a lot of employees sitting around with nothing to do so I suspect that they’ll give my work to one of those people. Aw shucks. I guess it’s okay since I have been woefully unsuccessful at using the trek desk/treadmill set up at home. Stupid me, passed up an opportunity to go work for another company because I thought I was ‘set’ with where I was at. </p>

<p>At this point it is highly unlikely that D1 is going to return to MICA. She is not well enough to go back for the Spring semester and her one year leave will be over and out. I worry about what the future holds for her. Aspie girl, too, is distinctly uninterested in going to college. I’m not sure what she thinks she will do with herself. I think she avoids thinking about her future as much as possible and likes to pretend that she’s really just 10 instead of turning 18 next month. It’s hard to get her to practice driving and we have warned her that we are not going to keep driving her to the barn forever. She is happiest though at the barn. Doesn’t matter if its 20 degrees and she’s mucking out stalls. She just likes to be there with the horses. Manga girl seems to have sort of settled on RIT - I keep waiting for her to get on to the next thing and away from manga, but that doesn’t seem to be happening. I have told her that she can do a precollege program this summer, so we’d better get cracking on finding information for that.</p>

<p>Well better get off to work… bouncing out…</p>

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<p>Gmom, I hope that the job does not end, that would be too bad. I hope that D1 will find her way, I can’t imagine how difficult the waiting is for you. As for your Aspie girl, maybe college is not for her? Is there a horse program around you that she could intern at? Here, we have a couple of barns (or maybe educational facilities) that work with kids that have physical and emotional issues that riding becomes the therapy for (sorry about that grammar). If your dd could intern at something like that, perhaps it could strike a cord and give her an idea of a career that encompasses working with those lovely animals. As far as manga girl and RIT, the school is one of my dd’s favorites too. Do you know what type of summer program you are looking for? Good luck.</p>

<p>Colcon, as far as the cupcakes, I just fill with a chocolate cake batter, usually from scratch, but one could use a mix, if that was easier for you. The cupcakes are really pretty with some crushed peppermint on top!</p>

<p>As far as TJs. It is such an interesting place. People think it is health food sometime, but with all the candy, cookies and prepared food (the best frozen mac and cheese), it clearly is not all health all the time. There are a lot of organic products and if one is looking for those, there should be a list available at the front desk. I need to get away, as it is all too comfortable for me and working 3 days a week, makes it impossible to do anything else in more than a hobby basis. So, I do teach cooking classes and do parties about 3 times a month, but no real weekly clients–I need to do marketing! Colcon, I have really terrible arthritis; I take enbrel shots and everything, but the store was really good about that. I did have to do heavy lifting and checking people out and lifting the bags, but never carry really dangerous or heavy items for long hauls. I am sure it is part of why I am so tired.</p>

<p>I am so glad to be able to take the time to be with dd as she is our only. Her school also has the seniors leave in May to go do internships and get them out of the school to let the other kids get work done. Many of the kids like to go away. If dd can find an art related job somewhere else, I would probably go with her. She would love something in illustration or of course, animation (even if she is just shadowing someone), or something in makeup or food styling. So, if she travels I will go to! </p>

<p>I am looking forward to meeting you all, and by that time, dd should have an idea of where she will be going to school–at least I hope so.</p>

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<p>Stop !!! You people are taunting me with the Trader Joe’s. We do not have any around here. Stop!!! XD</p>

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<p>told you have to fix me!!
It is "convection"oven
Oxford says</p>

<p>Convection
n. the movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise, and colder, denser material to sink under the influence of gravity, which consequently results in transfer of heat.</p>

<p>Convention
n. a way in which something is usually done, esp. within a particular area or activity: the woman who overturned so many conventions of children’s literature.
(is this mean Margaret Wise Brown? wagwagwag but how come it is Ok to connect these sentences with colon: not semi colon;? huhhh?)</p>

<p>^ these words can not be mixed up, eh? now I can not LOL at fellow Japanese who believed the word “refrigerator” is “freezerator”</p>

<p>Gmom
if you are gonna haul griddle (seriously??) all I need is extension cord, yes?
you bring recipe and rubber spatula?
we can talk this over. hehehehh
can I say something stupid?
I could not see any reason why D1 can not go back to MICA to give a shot if she says she is ready.
there, I said it.</p>

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<p>redbug
It amaze me why TJ skips Florida entirely. I smell major conspiracy.
maybe that guy, who wrote “sick puppy” and Disney expose could explain it.
you wanna me to write to him and ask?
I write so bad and stand out like sore thumb, so them writes usually reply to me eventually.</p>

<p>go to the ones in Min. or Chicago. or if you could come here, check them out. </p>

<p>Good luck phillymom
I read in artnews magazine about a lady film maker who has bad arthritis but uses heavy old equipment only, non digital.
where there is a will there is a way, is one of my wise mentor told me. I fail to live up to that yet, but remember it now and then.</p>

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<p>I think up until now TJs has skipped Florida because there is no distribution center nearby and product is delivered on a daily basis. It is painful for Floridians and even more so for those snow bunnies that have retired from the north, where TJs reigns (well, maybe they just like to think so!).</p>

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<p>So just happens I was talking to my SIL and strategizing for the sure-to-be-difficult-xmas-reunion at my parents’ house and she said that TJs is opening a store in Naples in the new year. My SIL spent some time in California and is still suffering TJ withdrawal living in Florida. She has been known to drive to Atlanta to stock up.</p>

<p>Now Florida is a g-normous state…not tx or alaska but pretty big so Naples is as far away as Atlanta for some Floridians. HOWEVER, TJs seems to have an interesting way of trying new markets. they place one and get the frenzy going in other cities and then…like mushrooms they sprout and spread. I suspect Orlando and Ft. Lauderdale are next. They are usually slow at hitting the major cities since it is the suburban elite that are their best clients. There is hope that one will get as far north as Tallah or G’ville…somehow I think the panhandle is very, very unlikely. SHould they, however, suddenly figure out good grits and red-eye gravy, they may find a nitch market there. No, I am NOT going to make regional jokes about squirrels and road kill. Remember that I grew up in north florida.</p>

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<p>I was on TJ’s website and saw the one in Naples. Then when the “suburban elite” was mentioned, I now know why they opened one in Naples. Orlando woiiuld be cool, I drive there from time to time to stock up on Giordano’s frozen Chicago style deep dish pizzas. Saw the TJ’s in Minneapolis, but too far for D to bike to in this weather. There are a boat load in Illinois, but wouldn’t you know it, those relatives aren’t coming for Christmas!</p>

<p>Bears: you could have been saying it was a conventional toaster oven rather than a special singing and dancing oven - I didn’t really notice anything wrong!</p>

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<p>it DOES sing and dance, I mean, beeps when it is heated for desired temp. then you are supposedly start to time from then? it won’t work like that, or I don’t know how else to time it right without resetting everything: way too many buttons to push.
from left to right
bake, broil, conv bake, temp (with arrows) up down, toast (same arrows) darker lighter, 4-6 slice (of bread or pizza?) bagel (must be designed with NYC Upperwestside in mind -where the oven was originated then handed down to us) defrost, reheat, total touch R (registered trademark) 1234567 browning selection, clock, timer, hour, min, start and stop.
…
like, all I wanted was to heat up Gmom’s king’s daughter stuffing leftover for crying out loud.
I wish old toaster oven was still here…someone (not me, I swear!! baked Sculpy figurine in it, and someone else made fuss saying it is no longer safe to use for food, was put away in the closet, then lost during downgrading office move)
So I’d end up nuking everything or became wiz of the rice cooker cooking.
Do you know that it will cook ramen to nice scrambled eggs?
just have to watch out for that pesky teflon interior.
We did talk about it back in this thread I think, about kids’ personality: velcro or teflon.</p>

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<p>do anyone do “showtime”? the show is called “The Borgias”
What happened was that, I heard from my manga buddy this
<a href=“https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1475&bih=705&q=惣領冬実「チェーザレ」&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=1623l10938l0l13242l15l15l0l0l0l0l558l3284l0.8.6.5-1l15l0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=TIXfTrSeJ8j-2QXUl8mzBQ[/url]”>https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1475&bih=705&q=惣領冬実「チェーザレ」&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=1623l10938l0l13242l15l15l0l0l0l0l558l3284l0.8.6.5-1l15l0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=TIXfTrSeJ8j-2QXUl8mzBQ&lt;/a&gt;
have been all rage in Japanese adult-manga readers.
It is based on the life of Casare Borgia, written by this star shojyo (girls) manga artist turned into adult-manga (eek) bigshot because of the acclaim she got for this work.
There were some intellectual partners helping her on historic/fashion/ political correctness, which is not common practice in eh, period manga world. (ask Gmom’s mangagirl, she can tell you how so)
anyways, I googled “Casare” in English because I was intrigued enuff of manga character^ here you see.
and Gawk!
there was a TV show made already of course, with Jeremy Irons as his dad/ pope Alexander. now, to think of it, I did see this poster in the subway some time ago but dismissed it as “all that “Tudor” sex thing”
I have not even seen any episode of “Tudors” but simply judging from the posters: its captions, quality of costumes, the king’s buzz cut do and such.
<a href=“http://historicalhistrionics.files.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2011/09/the-tudors-henry-and-anne-half-dressed.jpg[/url]”>http://historicalhistrionics.files.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2011/09/the-tudors-henry-and-anne-half-dressed.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
so
long story short, there is a link you can see the one full episode of “the Borgias”<br>
I sat thru and and it’s weird… uncle Scar (the lionking) is at it again!!
Unlike the Japanese manga, the dad is the one really pulling the show.
<a href=“http://www.sho.com/site/order/preview.do#/Borgias_s01_e01[/url]”>http://www.sho.com/site/order/preview.do#/Borgias_s01_e01&lt;/a&gt;
And farther digging also taught me he (dad) is more of the weighed subject of “the Prince” by Machiavelli, not the son Casare, as Japanese manga fans are lead to believe (noted so in Japanese Amazon.com site) actually, Machavelli sort of said in “the Prince” Casare made mistake of counting on dad’s influence too much, when the dad is dead and new guy became Pope, he was canned (OK, he did not say it like that, I just skimmed the book when my kid was made to read.)
I also heard that Japanese manga “Casare” is translated in Italian every manga dialogue bubbles to Italian bubbles, and published there (!?!?!?!)
This whole thing brings me back to fammom’s post regarding language and culture.
We (not only manga lovers) are sucker of the Reneissance: cute guys in tights and tunics, girls with flowing silver hair and bloody murders. We’d eat up anything that is in season without understanding the sourse material and historical/cultural significance of it while some so-called specialists sure to misread or mistranslated something somewhere along the way, which became the base of next tier of new fad, which become something else all together.
so
what I want to know is, if anyone have seen the Showtime show or ^the episode (an hour and half!!) is this any good?
I don’t get to see things often and rather amazed by its artfulness of landscaping and costuming. must have spent pile of money making it, for what audience?
Who watch these shows?
I am now kind of having crush on this Casare (and the uncle Scar, of course)
I can’t see the new episode that supposedly coming soon, less make TV playdate with someone with Showtime.
I wish I haven’t started on it…</p>

<p>PS. I have not able to read manga “Casare” yet, it costs fortune per volume to buy and prospective render is still skeptical, for it is toooooo precious. ( hello— we are talking about manga, we are all grownups, like middle-aged, mid to late 40s, yes?)
I’d better hold off any judgment til I could get hands on it.
will report.
meanwhile, if there are any history or Italian scholar out there, please point me to better direction?</p>

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<p>As of today, dd has all her applications in and portfolios in. So far, every school that approves in person has accepted her portfolio. Today she went to Tyler, not her first choice, although instate for us, so of course, she does not want to go there!</p>

<p>Hopefully she will start hearing from schools soon. I would really like to know that she was going to at least some college before Christmas!</p>

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<p>darn dyslexia
It is C.e.s.a.r.e, “Cesare” pronounce “θe.sar” or “che-zah-re”</p>

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<p>phillymom that’s great. We are doing it till let’s see… up to march last year just to apply.</p>

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<p>phillartmom:
before Chrismas is rare. D started get offers in late Feb and early March. and the one from Cooper is close to April. She only got one offer before Chrismas which is SAIC.</p>

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<p>Talked to D yesterday and she was watching moives on line. Her roommate got a netflex account and borrowed her to use. She said she got all projects done and essays done and have nothing to do.
I asked her can I change her fly so that she can come home now? She said no. Still need to go to class/critique.
I maybe should be happy about she could have time to relax when everyone is busy. I almost questioned her why not use the time to make your web site better? but I did hold on suggesting that, in case she feel I want to manage her time again.</p>

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<p>no way!
she got come and help me cut bear skins or somethin’ if she got nothing else to do
help!
please!
calling for able bodied hard working smart adult-kids with commonsense who could cut fabric or sew for no pay but learning opps and candy cane joejoes!!
( this doesn’t count my own, obviously… why is that he can not cut out simple shape nor stick to the boring task more than 15-20 min at the time)
comes Friday my world will be in chaos.
owwwww can’t wait!! got finish the pile.
back to
heeelllpppp!!!</p>

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<p>Jeremy Irons is so intense, I wonder if he has ever made a comedy. That would be something strange! Then again, he was in “Eragon” and had some goofy lines like, “now we have to go learn from the elves”. Then there was “Damage” and all it’s crazy self destruction. Yikes…</p>

<p>He hosted SNL ages ago and it was a really great episode. I remember once, during something about singing cowboys, that Phil Hartman just turned to him with a look of naked admiration. I’d love to find that episode.</p>

<p>Bears, I bet D1 would love to help you and learn some new techniques. She’s still swamped with work though - too bad.</p>

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<p>G
maybe you can help me by watching
“the Borgias” over the holiday on demand and evaluate it for me.
I got sucked into
“behind the scenes” link and there was a screen test of the Cesare actor and Jeremy.
interviewed
“how do you feel about working with Jeremy Irons?”
new young actors are in awe, understandably. but how Jeremy do stuff around them is lovely.
And this is why I can not finish works… slipping out watching stuff till wee hours…
I posted the NPR link to Coppola’s talk in some film thread, and he said in there, to get youngum’s feel at ease, Coppola invited all “Corleones” to Italian dinner hosted by him.
when the meal was over, they are one family. Brando became someone they could related to.
speaking of the Godfather, the story was written the tales of Borgias as its inspiration.
now I wait sitting on my paws.
anyone else?</p>

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<p>bears…I’m checking Netflix. I’ll send you a message</p>

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<p>bears:
Use her this weekend and use as many time as you could made her agree upon. That is much better than watch movies in the day time.</p>