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11777. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 10/26/2004 3:10:18 PM Speaking of WalMart:
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Wrong imbeciles, you're advertising with them and therefore, supporting coercive programming and unbalanced propaganda. 11778. PelleNilsson - 10/26/2004 4:07:42 PM The election invades every thread. How I wish it would be over. 11779. RickNelson - 10/26/2004 4:17:18 PM Read in Poetry the last three poems I found online. One's a song. 11780. wonkers2 - 10/26/2004 4:17:39 PM Welcom back,
Mac! 11781. judithathome - 10/26/2004 4:27:55 PM The election invades every thread because it is what is going on right now and it will hold sway for another week or two. You can't expect people NOT to notice or speak of something this serious.
You are lucky...you live in a country that is sane. 11782. RickNelson - 10/26/2004 4:30:36 PM I don't know about their sanity judith, they wear those funky hats. Funky hat people, I just don't know...
LOL 11783. judithathome - 10/26/2004 4:57:10 PM Well, we all have our little slips.... 11784. Magoseph - 10/26/2004 10:03:13 PM I united the two arrows on my ballot today. It was very easy and it took two minutes of my time from my car and back. I was given a form to sign, a ballot to mark, and an envelope to seal.
Absentee voting has been practiced for years around here down to an art, I understand. 11785. arkymalarky - 10/26/2004 11:52:29 PM Don't know what the crowd will be like where I vote. It's a tiny town (just over 100 people) and voting is generally a relaxing social event, but we used to go 3 miles across the bottoms to vote in a little community building before turnout dropped off, so it may be crowded this year. I've never seen such a level of interest everywhere. Certainly not in 2000. I wish the student I lost a pizza to that year was still around for me to recoup. 11786. wonkers2 - 10/26/2004 11:59:51 PM I voted last week absentee and my wife voted today. We also got our flu shots free without having to wait in line at the Oakland County Public Health facility. We heard the lines were long last Saturday, the first day the vaccine became available. 11787. judithathome - 10/27/2004 3:38:00 PM Going off to the doctor this morning to have my echocardiogram results explained to me...it looked good to me but the letter with the results advised going to my doctor to have it explained. Two areas were "moderately abnormal"...lucky for me it wasn't a brain scan! 11788. Magoseph - 10/27/2004 3:43:10 PM 
I never saw a chocolate pie before--did you? Do you have a recipe?
11789. Ms. No - 10/27/2004 4:52:34 PM My Aunt Doris makes chocolate pie at holidays. In fact, it's not considered a proper holiday unless she makes her chocolate pie. It's one of the things I'm really looking forward to this Thanksgiving. Not that the pie is so incredible --- it's excellent pie --- but just knowing I'll be there with my whole maternal family and that we've all been thinking about this same pie and the woman who makes it and remembering other times we've eaten it together and those who aren't with us anymore and the new crop of kids --- my nephews -- who will be eating it for the first time and starting their own life-long memory. 11790. Ms. No - 10/27/2004 4:53:57 PM Magoseph,
That, however, is a gorgeous specimen. Where did you find it? Do you have a recipe for it? I'm assuming those are pistachios and cherries on top. 11791. Magoseph - 10/27/2004 6:06:06 PM Here, Ms. No:
Parler Paris 11792. judithathome - 10/27/2004 11:27:14 PM I think thiose are red currants. 11793. Magoseph - 10/27/2004 11:53:25 PM More about the chocolate pie, the man who made it and where to eat it.--Everyone knows Ladurée has the best macaroons, and Pierre Hermé's new shop on rue Bonaparte (number 72) has a "Cérise sur le Gateau" worth admiring (if not indulging in). L' éclair au chocolat at La Maison du Chocolat (19, rue de Sèvres) everyone says is "light as the wind" and Poîlane at 8, rue du Cherche Midi makes the best Tarte aux Pommes.
But I've never had a Tarte aux Chocolat quite like this one. On top, it was decorated with fresh "groseilles" (red currants), chopped pistachios, a log made of a thin layer of white chocolate rolled into shape and bits of gold leaf. The pastry bottom was flaky, but held together in a solid way, so you could pick it up with your fingers and it wouldn't fall apart. The chocolate filling was creamy and not too sweet. The texture was perfect.
We all agreed, it was the best. And who made it? Eric Brunet at Au Bon Panneton, 105, rue Saint-Charles (at the corner of rue de l'Eglise), 15th, 01.40.59.84.70. 11794. Ms. No - 10/28/2004 1:17:38 AM Ah, red currants, of course. Far more likely than the pedstrian cherry of my heart. ;-> 11795. judithathome - 10/28/2004 2:55:18 AM Update on my health:
The doctor's visit was quite a trip! First off, I was going to a new doctor because my beloved one quit so I wasn't sure what I'd get when I showed up. Really nice guy, around 50, serious and very tall. Right off the bat he asks me in a rather perplexed tone...why did you HAVE this test? So I explained about Women's Health Month at Curves and all the screening they were doing...he interrupts me right there and says an echocardiogram is NOT a screening test, it is a test given only when something is seriously wrong and then he asks me who paid for this, anyway?
I'm thinking I'm going to be changing doctors pretty quickly. I said "I did!" and then he starts to settle down and we talk back and forth and finally he tells me it is literally the best echocardiogram he's ever seen...because by the time they order them, you see, there is usually a lot wrong. Anyhow, he gradually came around to discussing it with me and he said I am perfectly fine. He also said I shouldn't have had this done. I asked what he might have done had he been a lay person, a 61 year old woman with high blood pressure whose father had died of a massive heart attack even though he was a daily walker and healthy and not overweight, and a woman who had just heard a presentation about how one out of two women die of heart disease and how a test like this could show early problems if there were any...what would he have done? He replied he could see my point and then he said "Sixty-one? You look incredibly younger than sixty-one." So now I like him...ha!
So the upshot is I am fine and there is nothing to worry about. He made a copy of the thing for my records and said since I had taken VIOXX so long it might be a good idea to hold on to the results, just in case. 11796. judithathome - 10/28/2004 2:56:19 AM MsNo, cherries come on individual stems. Something to keep in mind when looking at red fruit. ;-)
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