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<3 - Derrick

OMG, Sarah. I totally failed at replying to your letter, and then you called me. You're a good friend. Sorry I've been MIA, but shit gets overwhelming sometimes. I'll try to talk to you soon. But I really appreciated your message! I hope you're well, *hugs* - Lo

good luck! - Sir Shuping is just sir

Amen to that, Sir Shuping. Plus I find cookies to be tastier than currency. #IAmLizLemon - Lo

I laughed so loud, I actually woke up the dude in the basement. - Lo

Wooo pig roast! - Adam Mills

(((Lo))) Hang in there, girlie. - Jenny

I was lonely last night. I think I'm just alone tonight :) - MiniMage

good luck - VALZONE#SCREWED

Great news, Lo. Point out to them that not having experience in baking (vegan) is actually good. No preconceived ideas about how it should be done. This with an obvious desire for learning has got to be a winner. - Lynne

I made the best dessert ever. - Bren

No, they're just sending letters to the Society, which owns the house, but the corporation is defunct... we're sorting it out, because the house is paid for and presumably worth more than the $20k total owed on it. So worst case, we pay that off, sell the house, and everyone profits. But I'm pretty sure the plan is to save the society and keep living here. - Lo

Rock on sweetie, one day at a time :) - Scott. Cat Herder.

Congrats, Lo! Keep it up! - Anne Bouey

Speaking of bake stoke, I should post pics of the stuff I've been making. I'm addicted to Joy the Baker's blog. After the chocolate cake, I made dark chocolate orange cookies with golden raisins, bacon maple kettle corn, herbed skillet cobbler with some golden plums I picked, apple pie with a lattice crust. I haven't wanted to get a job b/c I want to go to meetings, work on my recovery, and bake all day. Every day. Haven't done laundry in a month. - Lo

Yay I love "good hunting"! - Lo

Crossing everything. And you know where I am if you need to get away. - Mary Carmen

Thanks everybody! I'm a little bummed b/c I thought of an awesome way to address the interviewer's concerns about my lack of baking experience, but they are very specific about not wanting ANY follow-ups, so I'll have to just hope it was enough. At least I may be able to be a cashier or something, or this has me thinking about trying to get a foot in the baking door elsewhere if possible. It's nice to at least recognize that I have another passion, as they are hard to come by for me. - Lo

This too shall pass, etc, etc. - Lo

Not cool. - Derek Coward

Try not to get too bummed. Give them a call tomorrow. - Spidra Webster

You definitely can follow up, to show your interest and remember to do not show any weakness in that reply. ;) - ۳۰ مرغ Loves Y&#39;ALLLLL

Pics to follow as events warrant. - Lo

IT IS STARTING NOW. The cheese... the BACON. Oh sweet merciful heavenly father I don't believe in! - Lo

It's like McDonalds times ten to the twenty third power :D - Lo

I'm glad someone caught the Avogadro reference ;) I've always been a guy, in that I refer to myself with generically masculine pronouns and collective nouns. It does seem to trip some people up, though. Once a store manager described what he needed in an employee, and I said "I'm your man!" He said, "you're my woman, you mean." And I was suddenly very uncomfortable... :P - Lo

Happy big 3, 0, Adam!! Lo sorry you are ill, I got a flu shot a couple days ago and made everyone around me sick including my kitty...How did that happen...perhaps another f-shot gone awry? - Lit

I am nothing, if not well-educated. - Adam Mills

If you looked up "culinary overkill" in a dictionary that actually included the term, it would just say "See: Lo's soup." I made roux with double scalded milk, and grated raw potato into it, and sautéed mustard greens... ridiculous. The only mistake was not making enough. - Lo

I want the recipe. - Adam Mills

I had intended to make another batch today, but ended up being dead all day. Hopefully I'll get to it tomorrow, and if so I'll write down the recipe. - Lo

When it's almost cool I'm going to start the glaze... I have all the ingredients lined up... I need to put on a Depends undergarment, I'm so excited! - Lo

The smell is SOOOO good. I wish I could give out slices over FF! - Lo

I would gladly accept and say thank you. - Eric - Final Countdown

It is truly ridiculous how chocolatey this cake was. Normally when other people head for the milk, I only need a touch of water, but this had me hitting the milk hard. And happily I now suspect that I will be even more welcome with the boyfriend's housemates :P - Lo

There's a hospital around the corner, I wonder if I could just walk in and ask if anyone wants someone to read with them or randomly chat. They'd probably be all WTF? This is private property, lady. - Lo

It's my 30th birthday on Wednesday. Do something to surprise me/put a smile on my face. - Adam Mills

can we volunteer to be taste testers if we don't have recipes? - Steve C, Team Marina

We decided on the first one. I was trying to find something besides a bundt cake (partly since I don't have a bundt pan), but the reviews for it were so amazing, and I like the idea of coffee in with my dark chocolate. I'm pretty excited about it! - Lo

Mustard greens, spinach, zucchini, potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, spices, and half & half. Would be smoother if I had a food processor, but I'm amazed this is edible. I've never made anything like it before. Not the most delicious thing I've made, but probably the first thing that ever made me think, "Damn! I cooked this!" I really wanted it to be bright green, like would-freak-people-out green. Now my roommates won't eat it. :D - Lo

*sings obnoxiously* - Lo

Thanks sweetie! xoxoxoxoxox - Melly #FForever

Can't miss. :D - Steven Perez

Thank you, I will be sure to use that argument. Logic works on these math types. - Lo

sex! - Vezquex

Yay sex :P - Lo

Same happens to me all the time. This weekend I was all excited about making a practice pie for the apple pie contest next weekend. Last night I started feeling crappy and didn't want to make a pie, now I'm trying convince myself I should still enter the contest. - Heather

MVB, whatever the pharmaceutical companies were pushing at the times I've had therapy. I don't really feel like anything made all that much of a difference, but I wouldn't really know how to compare. I'm pretty convinced it's all thinking-driven. Which is why I'm paying attention to it. - Lo

I feel the same way. - Joe &quot;The Anvil&quot; Pierce

Hah! I'm so used to that feeling of inner panic. I probably don't do near as good a job at acting through as Joe. - Rahsheen

*offers coffee, donuts and a wacky dance* - Johnny

By the way, Johnny I appreciate the wacky dance. Lately I've been remembering how those always cheer me up no matter WHAT. - Lo

On a related note, boy it feels amazing to be walking around & feeling capable of doing things again. - Lo

In your interview I'd hammer in your enthusiasm for the product line, but more than that, I'd emphasize how reliable you are and to what extents you've to gone to for your job (use your trip as evidence). Employers like stability. - RAPatton

Oh, I should repeat: this is for a full-time retail position at a woman-owned, positive, ethical, hippie-ish sex shop: http://www.a-womans-touch.com/ I have intermittent retail experience throughout my work history, nothing in this type of store but I have a pretty decent history that shows I'm a reliable worker who gradually becomes indispensable. Every company I worked for, I was hired to do one thing but eventually did many things before leaving. I am afraid there will be stiff competition as it's full-time with benefits. - Lo

"Stiff competition" *snrk* - Adam Mills

The best part: "I don't want to ruin 1500 lives." - Lo

But if you have something to feed them to, that's okay. - Ordinarybug Heather

AAAAA, right?!? I guess contributing to the circle of life beats a senseless drunken-internet death in their hierarchy of morality... I see funny BOC ads now and then, but this one broke my mind a little. - Lo

I buy them and release them on my roses to eat the aphids. - amelia arapoff

Torrentz.com is a good place to start...but futurama totally deserves your money! - Louis Simoneau

Torrents can get you into trouble since you are not just downloading, you are uploading too, and that falls into unauthorized distribution, which is illegal in most of the world. It's what people get sued for. They never get sued for the downloading part...it's always the uploading or "making available". You would be better off and a whole lot less likely to get into trouble if you had a source that you could download from, without the need to upload, as well. Some place like http://stagevu.com where you have the choice of streaming or downloading, without even needing to have an account there. - April Russo (FForever!)

I have been open about what's been going on with the people I'm really close to, though not with everyone due to wanting to avoid massive shame bouts that come with judgment (shame is a big problem for me). This includes my new boyfriend, who told me he was okay with what was going on. I was stupid to accept this at face value, but he was also dishonest with me. - Lo

One day at a time, resentment and righteous indignation are never good ideas, the serenity prayer, and most of all this too shall pass are the four main things that everyone should probably learn, normies too. AA really got them right, and I have dutifully adhered to them entire time, even after I stopped going to meetings. It's kind of a kick to realize how fully I've internalized TTSP and how much it's improved my life. It and Taoism are how I beat my apparently genetic suicidal impulses. They still happen, but they don't even bother me. - Lo

:D w00t! - Jenny

Glad your feeling better. Here's a belated v-hug: (((hug))) - Sarah (or SCarla)