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Is anyone else irrationally annoyed by the revamp of googlemaps? The fact that you no longer have separate search boxes for "what you want" and "where you want to find it" bugs the hell out of me. I would imagine they're trying to make the service more intuitive, but I mistrust the thoroughness of search engines to begin with (ever tried using googleblog? Now there's a fucking train wreck) and all this does is budget in more potential for user error if we happen to fail at remembering search terms.

Also I found myself infuriated by my post-it notes, because they're the kind that are meant to go in a dispenser and thus every other note has the sticky bit on the wrong side.

I might be, I don't know, a little bit irritable this week.

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Oh hey, look how ugly Delicious is now, too!

What the hell, man.

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So.

We're having a party for R and the Ratpckers' birthday today, so we're having a Gumbo Party tomorrow night (hence my need for the Broken Wrist Gumbo recipe, which I am reconstructing from scratch). R said, leave a list of ingredients you need on the kitchen counter and I'll get them. I planned to cook it tonight, fridge it, and reheat it in the crockpot tomorrow.

ANYWAY.

I came home and of course he had not gone out yet, because he and I are both like that. Eventually I sent him and one of the Bluesmen off to the grocery store. That was around...mm, 5:30. It's now seven o'clock and he has not yet returned. What difficult, nay, impossible-to-find ingredients were on this list? I WILL SHARE WITH YOU. This is verbatim:

1 Red Pepper
1 Green Pepper
1 Onion (Yellow or White, NOT RED, Vidalias are nice)
1 pack of andouille sausage
1 bunch of celery

I'm kind of afraid of what might have happened to them. I very firmly told them NO OKRA, but they might have gone looking for it anyway.

God, I didn't specify bell peppers, they're going to come back with chilis and jalapenos.

I should be packing. I'm just too tired to move.

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So.

They came back from the grocery store with:

1 red pepper
1 green pepper
2 yellow peppers
1 EACH yellow, white, and vidalia onion
2 packages of smoked sausage (the andouille DID throw them)
1 bag of cooked shrimp

AND ALSO
2 tubs of ice cream
1 cantaloupe
2 whole pineapples
1 bunch of bananas
2 boxes of berries
2 tubs of hummus
3 bags of pita bread

AND YET ALSO:
1 gallon of Bacardi rum
1 gallon of mango caribbean rum

Plus fried chicken, which they got for me but which Bluesman ate on the drive back.

I sense a lot of fruity drinks in our future.

Anyway, I've put the gumbo to bed. I made a roux, put the trinity in, added creole spices, tossed in the meat, added the peppers diced, and then added water and chicken bouillon. Well, I put in the shrimp last because it was cooked already.

*collapses*