The Rant Rave thread

Mougar wrote: Rave: Wine, stinky cheese, pate, wine, salad, pasta salad, beer, shrimp cocktail, wine, olives, dairy queen's dip, dumplings!, wine, bacon wrapped dates, other stinky cheeses, sangria, dairy daiquiris, and of course wine.

You forgot to mention dog hats. Thanks for being such a gracious host - good times.

Ahh, the puppy hat. Good times.

Thanks to everyone who came out!

Rave: MTV Movie Awards with Andy Samberg hosting
Rant: I have to go to work now, so I'll miss the rest!

Rave: I have strawberries on my roof! They're still tiny and sad and budding, but they aren't dead.

Carnivore wrote: [quote=Flexichick][quote=Mougar]Rave: I have strawberries on my roof! They're still tiny and sad and budding, but they aren't dead.

very cool. my raspberry bush, which i had given up on, seems to have grown quite a bit lately and looks like I'll get some berries this year (I got ONE berry last year!)
You both need to put some netting over them or the birds will have all your berries.
I beat the birds yesterday and got the first one, but yeah, those assholes would totally do it. In a week I'll also have cherry tomatoes, basil, thyme and a few other herbs.

Carmen wrote: rant: the dog has not been "lethargic" as the vet told me he would be and instead kept me up all night whining and banging his cone collar around his crate. I am never going to get any sleep with this dog.

I've never had a dog actually act lethargic or slowed down in any way after spaying/neutering, and I've had a handful from my own to fosters. Keeping them still was always the hard part. You can't explain to them "no, you can't go rough house with the dog next door b/c it might rip out your stitches."

I've also never had one come home with an e-collar, but I never had a boy puppy, which I've heard are most prone to chewing the stitches.

Baby animals are cute so we have trouble getting mad at them

Rant: garbage men have left one of our building's cans and contractor bags of trash for the third time! That stuff is getting nasty--dirty diapers and old food. Can I call 311 about this?

We've never had trouble with the bags and tons of people only put their trash out that way--this one is very light but apparently something very large. The trash guys not taking cans has become the norm. I think they just grab one and forget about the other. And when they do take them, they leave no where near where they started. Sometimes I have to walk several blocks in either direction to find them.

What really pisses me off is when they do take the trash (which generally happens while I take the dog to off-leash), someone else then dumps their crap in it. That's littering folks! I don't want your (untied) bag of dog shit or half-full coffee or worse, someone else's bags of trash, outside of my window. If you can't make it another two [short] blocks to a city can, don't have a dog or don't carry breakfast with you on your commute.

This is procrastination ranting, to avoid a school paper I have no interest in

Ain't that the truth.

Rave: six enormous blooms on my hibiscus bush this morning.
Rant: No word on the apartments I looked at this weekend.

those are beautiful, voodoo! I hope you hear something on the apartment(s) soon

Send him over please, flexi! I think I have swine flu. Or else Egyptian coughing cancer.