profe51
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posted on December 25, 2007 07:16:45 PM new
Merry Christmas to all. I hope your holiday has been pleasant. The crowd is beginning to thin out to the hardcores and so I have snuck myself off to the barn office for some peace and quiet with the dairy goats and a dog or two. Tomorrow is the best day of the year as far as I'm concerned. It's the only day of the year when it's a full year till Christmas! 
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mingotree
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posted on December 25, 2007 09:31:28 PM new
"""It's the only day of the year when it's a full year till Christmas! """"
YES!!!!!!! No more Christmas music! No more people whining about Christmas!!!! Hopefully no more Christmas TV commercials...no more sappy meaningless "heartwarming" Christmas stories....no more Christmas specials so I can watch Boston Legal!
I had a quiet, peaceful, productive, fun four day vacation so let's always keep Christmas alive !!!! It IS good for time off work!
Long live Christmas!
Oh, and HAHAHAHA to anyone who maxed out their credit cards !!!!
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kiara
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posted on December 25, 2007 11:39:14 PM new
Merry Christmas to everyone. Somehow during the madness of moving I got overtired and volunteered to cook the turkey dinner and it was done on a new stove that I've barely tried out but everything turned out really good and we had a great day. I'm now living in the midst of a winter wonderland where we've had to shovel snow about a dozen times already and everyone tells me that winter has barely started. Yikes! 
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Helenjw
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posted on December 26, 2007 05:40:20 AM new
Just when I thought it was over we were invited to an after Christmas lunch... so once again I'll have to shuck my blue jeans and pay attention to someone's lingering holiday spirit.
I really need a barn at times like these.
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Helenjw
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posted on December 26, 2007 06:17:02 AM new
Kiara you are lucky that you didn't have this new computer based stove by Kitchen Aid. I read yesterday about someone with several people due to arrive for Christmas dinner but her new fangled stove was stuck in "Sabbath" mode...I suppose much like a personal computer stuck on "hibernate". The solution was not found in the manual, the Kitchen Aid office was closed and the service technician was in the hospital.
No Place to Cook the Turkey
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neglus
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posted on December 26, 2007 08:29:48 AM new
LOL Helen - I am pretty sure if she had been able to reach someone she would have been told to clear her cache and reboot.
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mingotree
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posted on December 26, 2007 08:30:41 AM new
""Just when I thought it was over we were invited to an after Christmas lunch... so once again I'll have to shuck my blue jeans and pay attention to someone's lingering holiday spirit.
I really need a barn at times like these."""
Helen, it's like drugs...just say NO.
Hi Kiara!
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Helenjw
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posted on December 26, 2007 10:25:58 AM new
Neglus....
Mingo, you should know that such advice has already been suggested by a Republican and proved impracticable.
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kiara
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posted on December 26, 2007 10:42:53 AM new
Hi Mingo - gotta love your relaxed attitude about Christmas while some of us get so stressed.
Helen, my new stove is all computer too and I questioned what Sabbath Mode even was after I purchased it but found it on Wikipedia. My book says to turn off the Sabbath feature and then press both the bake time and the start time pads for at least three seconds to clear it and you can cook normal again. I chose one model of stove and after it was delivered I noticed it didn't seem to go right up to the wall in the back and when we pulled it out we noticed our outlet was about an inch higher than the metal housing for the wiring on the back of the stove so we would have had to get the outlet changed to a lower position. We went back to the appliance place and they exchanged it for another model that had much more clearance on the back but it also has more bells and whistles. It's going to take me awhile to learn all the features on it and I read that there are problems with almost all models now and they don't last like they used to.
My most questionable gift was from an elderly relative who got me 'tummy control' panties and I've never had to wear anything like that. We were discussing gifts this morning and my partner asked me what was with those BIG panties I was holding up when I was opening my gifts and I said I didn't have a clue. He said I told her they were pretty and was I going to start wearing that kind now? But the lace is pretty on them so what the heck was I supposed to say? lol By the time I munch through all the cookies and chocolates, etc maybe I'll need them yet.
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Helenjw
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posted on December 26, 2007 11:08:58 AM new
LOL, Kiara! She probably has one foot in the nursing home.
It's good to know that your stove is not stuck on "sabbath". I've always relied on Kitchen Aid products and never had any problems. Maybe the fault was with the operator.
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mingotree
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posted on December 26, 2007 11:57:41 AM new
They don't REALLY use the word "sabbath" , do they !????
That's a joke, right?
"""Mingo, you should know that such advice has already been suggested by a Republican and proved impracticable.""""
Ya, but I have NO problem saying NO...it's the most useful, practical, economical, health saving, life-saving word a woman could ever use. It's too bad more won't use it.
They'd find true happiness at the end of the NO rainbow!
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Helenjw
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posted on December 26, 2007 12:58:48 PM new
"They don't REALLY use the word "sabbath" , do they !????
That's a joke, right?
No joke, Mingo ....someone asked if it had a "kosher" setting too.
Sabbath would be Friday for the Muslims, Saturday for the Jews and Sunday for the Christians. Does the stove hibernate for three days?
I could get accustomed to that feature.
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MINGOTREE
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posted on December 26, 2007 03:39:24 PM new
""No joke, Mingo ""
That's creepy!
Maybe they should just PRAY that it works!
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Helenjw
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posted on December 26, 2007 04:45:04 PM new
Apparently, you don't need to pray and Mingo, I kid you not....this quote is straight from the product description...
"The Sabbath mode feature makes it possible to use the range on the Sabbath and other religious holidays without having to turn it on.
Kitchen Aid Range
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mingotree
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posted on December 26, 2007 06:21:54 PM new
So really religious people can cheat!?
Sounds about right.
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Helenjw
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posted on December 26, 2007 07:18:54 PM new
From General Electric
The underlying principle being that it is permissible to use electricity that is already on but not to turn it on or off during the duration of the holiday. Observant Jews are thus prohibited from turning on or off the oven, or taking an action that causes the oven control display to change during the Sabbath or religious holidays.
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profe51
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posted on December 26, 2007 09:30:34 PM new
I wonder if that no working on the sabbath rule means you have to open all your sabbath beers the day before? Maybe the brewers are missing a bet by not coming up with a "sabbath cap", so the beers would open themselves on the sabbath and not be all flat from having been opened the day before. If I could get beers that would open themselves, and a decent cigar that would light itself, every day would be holy.
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mingotree
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posted on December 26, 2007 11:48:38 PM new
"""The underlying principle being that it is permissible to use electricity that is already on but not to turn it on or off during the duration of the holiday. Observant Jews are thus prohibited from turning on or off the oven, or taking an action that causes the oven control display to change during the Sabbath or religious holidays."""
My, my how devious....and ridiculous....well, ya, it IS religion
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kiara
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posted on December 27, 2007 01:00:38 AM new
LOL, Kiara! She probably has one foot in the nursing home.
Helen, how did you guess? 
Tonight I found out that two other female relatives who probably need them even less than I do got the same gift.
Remember that poster who used to be here and she'd tell some of us to put on our big girl panties? Hey, now I really have some! ROFL
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Helenjw
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posted on December 27, 2007 05:31:30 AM new
"Remember that poster who used to be here and she'd tell some of us to put on our big girl panties? Hey, now I really have some! ROFL"
Actually that thought occurred to me immediately when I read about your Christmas present.
Maybe since they share that big pantie concern, they can share a room at the home.
LOL!
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Helenjw
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posted on December 27, 2007 05:49:30 AM new
Profe, if you are able to engineer that concept you may soon be able to buy the state of Texas.
If GE and Kitchen Aid can do it, why not you too.
Read this article for inspiration.
From Wired...The Geek Guide to Kosher Machines
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profe51
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posted on December 27, 2007 12:41:07 PM new
I wonder if it's against old testament law to take off or put on panties between sundown Friday and Saturday? What if your panties are in a knot? Will god punish you if you untie them?
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profe51
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posted on December 27, 2007 12:42:32 PM new
Dont wanna buy Tejas Helen...it's a beautiful state, but it's full of all those TEXANS!
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kiara
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posted on December 30, 2007 10:01:27 AM new
Profe, are you talking about something like Sabbath Mode panties?
it's like drugs...just say NO.
I seem to be stuck in wimp mode and I'm kicking myself because yesterday we were invited out for New Year's dinner and at that moment I could have politely declined and it would have been so easy because I didn't want to go. If necessary, I could have used a ton of legitimate excuses because we're tired from moving and unpacking and we're in the midst of renovations and painting and have been trying to entertain somewhat in the midst of the chaos. Truthfully I'm fed up with all the holiday stuff and all the excess food and just want to get back to fixing up our house. Yup, at that moment I could have so easily just said no but instead I said "I'd let her know"......... why, why? Now I'm sitting here trying to get up the nerve to call her and decline the invitation.
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mingotree
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posted on December 30, 2007 10:59:13 AM new
Kiara, it gets EASIER with practice.
Just don't give a boatload of excuses...just say ""we're staying home to get some rest"".
That's the truth.
If they are FRIENDS they will understand.
It's an INVITATION not an OBLIGATION.
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roadsmith
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posted on December 30, 2007 12:43:23 PM new
I just got to this thread; it's funny! I too am glad Christmas is over; all those sappy TV specials really get in the way of real TV, I say.
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mingotree
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posted on December 30, 2007 01:17:20 PM new
Roadsmith, you mean (GASP) you don't watch that pukey "It's a Wonderful Life" for the gazillionth time with tears streaming down your face as your emotions are manipulated so you run out and max out your credit card on a wave of phony warmfuzzy feelings ?
Me neither.
"real TV" ? ...ain't no such thing!
Well, except for "Boston Legal"...I'm sure that's real......a lawyer who dates a midget and shoots paint guns at clients, gets arrested every other episode, declares he can multi-task because at one time he captained a space ship, two lawyers who have sex every time they get on the elevator, a cross dressing lawyer whose house is foreclosed on, a lawyer with a weird disease which causes him to jump and purr whose girlfriend throws him over for an alarm clock or was it a cell phone.........Now THAT'S real TV !
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coach81938
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posted on December 30, 2007 01:19:17 PM new
I'm with Mingo. No excuses necessary. "Thank you very much,but we want to stay in and relax." In my younger days, I wouldn't be caught dead home on New Year's Eve. Now, I have no desire to travel with a bunch of drunks (amateurs at that) on the road and go to a party with a bunch of people I barely know. After the craziness and stress of Christmas, I like to spend one on one quiet time with my SO...watch a movie, have some champagne.......
Happy New Year everyone! Hope you spend it the way YOU want to.
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roadsmith
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posted on December 30, 2007 02:26:17 PM new
Mingo: No, I'm with you on that sappy movie. I've seen it twice in my lifetime. One of my best friends, though, has her birthday on January 1st, and she has a tradition of watching that movie all the way through with a group of friends.
I just feel manipulated when regular stories on TV have to have a Christmas or Santa twist to them during December. Made-for-TV movies, that sort of thing, and even the regular sitcoms I used to watch.
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niel35
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posted on December 30, 2007 02:43:20 PM new
Two and a Half Men had a Christmas theme, but it was hysterical. Really funny show.
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