Why I will never be a housewife.
Mar. 9th, 2007 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixie*shakes hand around* My fingers are all numb and tingly after hemming a pair of jeans. Getting a tiny needle through denim is hard work. (And constant work, at least for me. Would it kill people to sell "short" lengths of any kind of pants? Would it? I could totally keep them in business!)
On a similar home ec. topic, I always forget exactly how much I hate baking cookies until I do it again, at roughly six-months-to-one-year intervals. They sound like such a good idea, but very few things are worth that amount of effort and frustration. But at least I have a box full of chocolate chip cookies now. That's nice. (...Even if store-bought ones actually taste better. Sigh.)
On a similar home ec. topic, I always forget exactly how much I hate baking cookies until I do it again, at roughly six-months-to-one-year intervals. They sound like such a good idea, but very few things are worth that amount of effort and frustration. But at least I have a box full of chocolate chip cookies now. That's nice. (...Even if store-bought ones actually taste better. Sigh.)
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Date: 2007-03-10 04:49 am (UTC)Do you know anybody with a sewing machine? Because if you stick a heavy-duty needle on it, it'll hem jeans in like three minutes. *Love* technology.
They sound like such a good idea, but very few things are worth that amount of effort and frustration.
Um... you aren't making them from scratch are you? Because there's just no call for that. In fact, there's really no good reason to cook the packaged-dough-in-a-roll at all before consumption...
Greetings from Salmonella Land!
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Date: 2007-03-10 05:12 am (UTC)Why yes, yes, I did make those cookies from scratch. The slice and bake ones tend to taste like cardboard, IMO, and they only get rid of the mixing-and-forming-little-balls half of the work. You still have the scraping-them-off-the-cookie-pan part to deal with.
And besides, we had a bag of chocolate chips sitting around.
Greetings from Salmonella Land!
Indeed.
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Date: 2007-03-10 06:10 am (UTC)Yup, you need a honkin' big denim/canvas sort of machine needle thing. They make them especially for that stuff. They cost a few bucks, maybe? Joann's or whatever would have one, if you look pathetic and ask a salesperson. And once you get the needle set up, it's just a matter of sewing in a reasonably straight line once around the cuff, and you're done!
Why yes, yes, I did make those cookies from scratch. The slice and bake ones tend to taste like cardboard, IMO, and they only get rid of the mixing-and-forming-little-balls half of the work. You still have the scraping-them-off-the-cookie-pan part to deal with.
What, I like the lazy kind! And.... psst.... you may, in fact, not be Martha Stewart. Just sayin'. Some things just Aren't Meant To Be. Don't worry, we still love you! Have a cookie! From the store! : D
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Date: 2007-03-10 07:30 am (UTC)What, I like the lazy kind!
They taste like cardboard!
And.... psst.... you may, in fact, not be Martha Stewart. Just sayin'. Some things just Aren't Meant To Be.
The cookies were not actually my idea. Mom came home a couple weeks ago with a bag of chocolate chips and said, "I got these for you to make cookies with!" To which I immediately said, "Ack, no," but eventually gave in today, mostly to cover the stench of this really rank salmon we tried to have for lunch (but gave up on because it...was not good. Then again, vacuum-packed salmon in lemon and dill marinade...what were we thinking?).
Don't worry, we still love you! Have a cookie! From the store! : D
Yay!
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Date: 2007-03-11 11:23 pm (UTC)Mmmm, gooey cardboard....
The cookies were not actually my idea. Mom came home a couple weeks ago with a bag of chocolate chips and said, "I got these for you to make cookies with!" To which I immediately said, "Ack, no," but eventually gave in today, mostly to cover the stench of this really rank salmon we tried to have for lunch (but gave up on because it...was not good. Then again, vacuum-packed salmon in lemon and dill marinade...what were we thinking?).
Your cooking schemes scare me. But it's your own fault, really, for thinking that salmon + dill = food. Fools! Go buy cookies and pretend none of this ever happened!
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Date: 2007-03-12 03:25 am (UTC)But it should've been tasty. If it were (relatively) fresh, it would've been tasty, I think.
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Date: 2007-03-10 07:57 pm (UTC)HEATHEN
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Date: 2007-03-10 08:00 pm (UTC)Would it kill them to make tall ones, either? There should be a store called
"We Recognize That Not All Females Are Exactly 5'6" And 120#." I'd shop there.
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Date: 2007-03-11 03:42 am (UTC)