RETIRED: Target chit chat

So irritated with Target right now.

Hey all, just letting you all know that I will be out of commission for a while. I will try and check in here and there. Thanks so much for all your help and friendship!

I suppose you missed the post portion below, (or are really insensitive).

Glad you got it! I have 3 huge bottles of synthroid in my cupboard. I wish I could take it somewhere and they could give it to someone who can't afford it... Anyone know of a place that will take it?

This week I was building my daughter a window seat / bookshelves for all her new (used) books we got last weekend at Goodwill. Now, with all her books on the shelves, she still has a ton of open space on her bookshelves, so now she thinks she needs more books.

It wasn't my preference for colors, but lilac is her new favorite color (was blue last week, and pink before that), so it had to be lilac. Fabric, also her choice, is monkeys in karate outfits. She loves it though, she's slept on it the last two nights. It's 24"w x 67" l x 21" h, so it's perfect for a spare bed for her room. I wish I would have bought the 2" foam, instead of the 1" though.

I haven't been to T and tried a y GC deals. But I was wondering -- why can't you go through the line, buy the crap, use the coupons, and pay. THEN, go to customer service and say hey I didn't get my GCs give em to me now. Won't they fix it just like they would a price mistake or missed coupon?


So, Kalli, are you moving right now -- as in that is why you are driving?

Start early -- like a month ago. Learn to say no. What do you get behind and bombarded with? Seriously, start doing a lot of it way ahead. My cookies used to always get done early since I store the in the freezer anyway -- they don't freeze solid so you can take them out on the spur of the moment to serve. MMMM and they are nice and soft. I hate hard cookies. Ok, enough. There will be no cookies this year.

*snip*

Love the idea and love that you built it without an alcove or anything to put it in. I never thought about building one just because I like them! My girls would ADORE this in their room. Great job!

I am determine to do just that this year --- and I've started early I did not know you can do that with cookies. Just sugar cookies or what? Frosted or do you frost them after you take them out of the freezer? Sounds like a plan to me! There's never been cookies here but I'm thinking there could be cookies instead of other goodies if I could make it in advance and it was this easy.

In honor of my bday I am not counting WW points today. I've still eaten pretty normal/decent all day but we are having pizza for dinner and I promised myself I would just have fun, no blotting of grease off the pizza, eat however much I want etc. Though my appetite has definitely changed a lot and I get too full when I try to eat too much. My mom offered to make a cake complete with her homemade yum-o frosting (which has plenty of shortening, sugar, etc. in it ) and it didn't even sound good. Requested pumpkin bars with a little cream cheese frosting instead. They can't be quite as bad as cake right??

ETA: LTL7 - awesome job on your project for dd!!!

that is an Rx, right?
if so, if the bottles are still sealed and unexpired, some organizations that provide medical care overseas (Dominican, Haiti etc) might take it. also some states have laws allowing patients to donate sealed, unexpired meds to designated pharmacies/clinics etc that can redistribute.

here [ncsl.org] is a list of states and what they allow.

We could walk around looking for people with their outer eyebrows missing and start passing it out. What do ya think?

Seriously, though, missing the outer part of your eyebrows is one of the symptoms that almost all hypothyroid people have. Before everything kind of went to hell and I determined something was seriously wrong -- I kept wondering how I was plucking my eyebrows in way to far since I was being so extra careful not too. Never gave it a thought that it was a sign of something else. Just figured I was tweezer happy.

I watched this video: http://mmstream.com/kahiki_admin/...rocer.html
and at the end you can type in your address and they will send you a coupon for a free package of any Kahiki product!

Kahiki is in the frozen aisle of your supermarket and I've only found them at my local Harris Teeter where they are $4.xx

The tempura chicken (which is more like sweet and sour chicken) is my favorite and is the only Kahiki product I get. I personally prefer fresh veggies to frozen so I don't like the Kahiki meals and the Kahiki eggrolls are like any other frozen eggrolls or eggrolls from a cheap Chinese place - they don't compare to my homemade ones.

I did not know you can do that with cookies. Just sugar cookies or what? Frosted or do you frost them after you take them out of the freeze

I guess that depends on your definition of a sugar cookie. I think of sugar cookies are those round things with actual sugar on them. Mine are cut out cookies. Roll the dough, cut, bake. Yes, I frost them. Yes, they come out of the freezer absolutely perfect and you cannot tell the difference -- not with the cookie, not with the frosting.

I lay them in a single layer on a cookie sheet and freeze. They don't take long - maybe 20 - 30 minutes. By the time I have filled all my cookie sheets the first couple are ready so I can keep rotating and working. Then I layer them in ice cream buckets, plastic containers, whatever. I do put wax paper between the layers but I have done it without and it isn't necessary.

My son wanted them for his grad party instead of cake. I am ashamed to admit that my son is a freak of nature and doesn't care much for cake. We think he was switched at birth. I did a shiny glaze on his so I didn't want to layer. I got new pizza boxes and used those.

Since I live where it is usually below freezing from Thanksgiving on, I normally put my cookies in the garage rather than hogging up freezer space.

Most cookies will freeze just fine and nearly all dough will. When I would make chocolate chip cookies I would often make a huge batch of dough then freeze part of it. Roll the little round dough balls, freeze on a cookie sheet, then store them in a container. Take out dough balls - go straight from freezer to oven.

Okay, so I just had a moment. I had no idea that my eyebrows were related to my hypothyroidism... I was having the same thoughts as you - I even stopped tweezing my outer brows. DOH!!

Thx for all the tips...my 'sugar cookies' would be more of what you described with being cut out and frosted....that's what my mom's always called sugar cookies at least. I'd make whatever she always made

I got my recipe from my sister 25+ years ago. Then down the line, I lost the recipe card. Called her, got it again. Then a couple years later she called me all freaked out. She had lost the recipe --please tell her I had it. Yep, I did. That year for Christmas I cross stitched it and framed it for her.