House report: Thursday

[electricland]

Hello, all,

Fed the hooligans Canadian chilli (i.e. with tomatoes and beans) on toast and an avocado and cucumber salad.

John went out to get one of the drills fixed. He has to pick it up and it's near Lee Valley Tools; so if anyone has an order, please inform. John also took back the stapler to Rona, who gave him cash no problem, and bought an air stapler which will be handy for vapour barrier and upholstery.

Dan and David finished the frame for the 1st floor bay window. If the duct man wants the duct in front of the bay window, may be a problem, but the lads seem to have figured out a fix. (When David heard about this at first, he grabbed knife and pointed at his wrist, but my new stainless isn't good enough to cause serious damage.)

Hooligans finished furring the 3rd floor room, and are moving the door of the second floor bathroom.

Have attached plan to date. Please put in comments, etc. wherever, but put your initials after them so that we all know where we're coming from.

Cheers to all. I'm going to have a nap--and you're not! H

As long as there are house reports, all is well with the world.

Went over for Indian food and accounting last night. My role was to take any bills where there was personal stuff for my uncle and subtract the personal stuff (plus tax) from the total.* We are just so exciting! J tells me we have spent perfectly hideous sums of money in the last month. It's all worth it though... right? Right?

*I did this in my head, partly for the practice and partly because my uncle's calculator is just weird and uses Polish notation, or possibly reverse Polish notation, which he was kind enough to assume I knew all about, but which just makes my head go 'splodey.

Comments

[raithen.livejournal.com]

your aunt is very mean with her nap taunting and yummy sounding food fed to others but not US!

:D.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

I knoooowwwww!

Especially the nap taunting. Urgh...

[lawgeekgurl.livejournal.com]

doesn't all chili contain tomatoes and kidney beans? the real test, though, is if it has spaghetti in it.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

in my Canadian world, all chili does contain tomatoes and kidney beans, but seemingly this is not so everywhere. According to the International Chili Society (http://www.chilicookoff.com/History/History_of_Chili.asp) (and who else are you going to trust?):

Nobody will swear that it was the first true Texas chili recipe, but they all say it was close to it:

Chili Con Carne
Cut up as much meat as you think you will need (any kind will do, but beef is probably best) in pieces about the size of a pecan. Put it in a pot, along with some suet (enough so as the meat won't stick to the sides of the pot), and cook it with about the same amount of wild onions, garlic, oregano, and chiles as you have got meat. Put in some salt. Stir it from time to time and cook it until the meat is as tender as you think it's going to get.

Perhaps we should have texaslawchick adjudicate this important question.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Have just realized from your spaghetti comment that perhaps you were kidding.

I'm slow, you know. You have to give me hints.

[lawgeekgurl.livejournal.com]

actually, I'm not. I put spaghetti in chili. Some people call that sacrilige.

[lawgeekgurl.livejournal.com]

also, kidney beans and tomoatoes

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, there I agree.

So, question: rice or toast? Or neither?

[lawgeekgurl.livejournal.com]

in chili? that's crazy talk!

spaghetti though is an entirely different story. :)

[electricland.livejournal.com]

well obviously not IN. The toast would get mushy. I meant underneath.

Spaghetti is just madness! What bad elements were you hanging out with as a child to make you do such a thing?

[lawgeekgurl.livejournal.com]

I didn't start it! Even Steak n' Shake makes it that way! Actually, I put it in the chili, they put chili on it. But same dif!

it's really very tasty.

[lawgeekgurl.livejournal.com]

as an aside, Steak n' Shake milkshakes are the best milkshakes in the universe. i'm just saying.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

do they have steak in them?

*is afraid*

[lawgeekgurl.livejournal.com]

no, they're the "n shake" part of the menu!

mmm..steak n' shake. Now I'm hungry. Plus, they have shoestring fries.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

ooohhh, that's important. When crankygrrl and I went to Le Biftheque as a reward for our hard work the other weekend they just had ordinary fries. I was a bit put out. What is the point of steak without shoestring frites?

[lawgeekgurl.livejournal.com]

indeed!

also good onion rings.

I am going to be forced to go out to the drive-through. Luckily, there's a Steak n' Shake not a block from me. Or unluckily, if you're talking caloric consequences. But I am studiously ignoring that in favor of hand dipped milkshake goodness.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

One can stand a lot of caloric consequences for the sake of hand dipped milkshake goodness.

Dammit, now I want steak.

I think it's time I went home...

[electricland.livejournal.com]

hm. I guess it would solve that eternal "Spaghetti or chili?" dilemma so many of us must face in painful solitude...

[lawgeekgurl.livejournal.com]

it's really a public service.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

*gasp* And I am one of them! You shock me!