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Look what arrived today!!!!!!






Red velvet deliciousness


Thank you Elo! It's amazing!

Man oh man. What a hot mess of a cake. I am glad it at least still tastes good Here is what it looked like when I sent it...

OMG that is beautiful

S~V~S wrote:OMG that is beautiful

THIS. Love it.

Wowowow what a cake :O

I'll have pictures up sometime in the next 24 hours, when I feel like connecting my camera.

Thanks for the goodies Bass!

OMG - that cake looks AMAZING!!!!! *drools*

I got an amazing sweets package from Sockface today that I will post pics of tomorrow. It contains all kinds of truffles and cookies and homemade peanut butter cups/balls. And lots of mixed chocolates, omg.

Thanks!!

Yay, glad you like it!!

Sockface sent me all kinds of nice chocolates! Seen above.

The peanut butter balls and coconut balls are long gone, and a coworker destroyed the cookies (with her mouth, not with a hammer or anything).

Mongoose wrote:

Sockface sent me all kinds of nice chocolates! Seen above.

The peanut butter balls and coconut balls are long gone, and a coworker destroyed the cookies (with her mouth, not with a hammer or anything).

"She destroyed my balls with her mouth." - Mongoose.

Sorry Bea I've been busy and stressing cuz I just started a new job. Hoping to get stuff sent out soon!

It's all good sabie - I've felt bad I've not gotten yours out sooner too. Just need to pick up one more thing and then I'm all ready to pack and mail it!

You take your time sweets. New job is important. Not stressing is important too.

Thanks Bea! I appreciate it. I hope to get it out soooooon!

Mongoose wrote:

Sockface sent me all kinds of nice chocolates! Seen above.

The peanut butter balls and coconut balls are long gone, and a coworker destroyed the cookies (with her mouth, not with a hammer or anything).

The bag of cookies and coconut balls and Buckeyes were from me, made with love.

You got Buckeyes from Daisy?!?! Colour me jelly!!!! I'll bet they were sooooo nommy.

I was just thinking this year that I missed those at the holidays and might have to look up a recipe for them sometime soon....

Oh, they are called Buckeyes? Too wild.

I loved it all, Daisy!

Goosey - yes! those little chocolate covered peanut butter nummy? Totally called buckeyes because they look like buckeyes. Pretty much every person from Ohio can make them but me. I've, until now, never had much of a reason to make them as there's always been someone else who brought those to the party. I've been nostalgic off and on for them. I'm vicariously happy you loved them.

bea wrote:Goosey - yes! those little chocolate covered peanut butter nummy? Totally called buckeyes because they look like buckeyes. Pretty much every person from Ohio can make them but me. I've, until now, never had much of a reason to make them as there's always been someone else who brought those to the party. I've been nostalgic off and on for them. I'm vicariously happy you loved them.

They were MARVELOUS. I think I am going to be obsessed with them.

The most hilarious part is that I don't typically like PB in things, but love these.

Mongoose wrote:

bea wrote:Goosey - yes! those little chocolate covered peanut butter nummy? Totally called buckeyes because they look like buckeyes. Pretty much every person from Ohio can make them but me. I've, until now, never had much of a reason to make them as there's always been someone else who brought those to the party. I've been nostalgic off and on for them. I'm vicariously happy you loved them.

They were MARVELOUS. I think I am going to be obsessed with them.

The most hilarious part is that I don't typically like PB in things, but love these.

Mongoose, IMO they weren't the best example of Buckeyes out there. I felt like they came out kind of dry, not creamy enough. And my blind sister did the chocolate, so it looked fairly messy, lol. But we had fun making them and they came out ok, even if they weren't as fantastic as I was hoping.

Bea, they are actually really simple to make, just kind of time consuming.

It's funny that the two deserty things from "home" I'm most nostalgic about are buckeyes and peanut butter pie. Which admitedly is prolly REALLY location centric. I think it's an Amish recepie that was adopted.

goosey - welcome to Ohio

daisy - I've learned that *most* of the best food is really pretty simple to make but time consuming. It's a lesson that can be learned for all sorts of "convinece food" - it's better if you just give it time to do it from scratch. That said, in our world, sometimes time wins sometimes taste wins.

sabie - today I picked up the last thing. Hopefully tuesday I put it all together then BDH will get it in the mail tues/wed ish.

Why would anyone want to go to Ohio?

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Why would anyone want to go to Ohio?

Or get married there?

that's it you both are excuded from everything!!! never dismiss ohio love!!!!

Roxy sent this well before Christmas, and I am sending mine well after, but here is the awesomeness she sent my way:



Most of what I'm sending Roxy, she won't be able to post here.

thellama73 wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Why would anyone want to go to Ohio?

Or get married there?

bea wrote:that's it you both are excuded from everything!!! never dismiss ohio love!!!!

Epignosis wrote:Most of what I'm sending Roxy, she won't be able to post here.

I'm so curious now

Sabie.- your prezzies got.mailed.today!!!

Epignosis wrote:Most of what I'm sending Roxy, she won't be able to post here.

Or we just can't view it at work or school.

thellama73 wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Why would anyone want to go to Ohio?

Or get married there?

Or conceive there? amirite?

I don't have a picture, but Bea gave me some great stuff I got chocolates, a notepad, a keychain, taffy all good stuff. Thanks Bea!! Sorry It's taken me so long!

sabie12 wrote:I don't have a picture, but Bea gave me some great stuff I got chocolates, a notepad, a keychain, taffy all good stuff. Thanks Bea!! Sorry It's taken me so long!

Don't feel bad. We haven't exchanged yet either

Oh good it's not just me then haha. I've had a lot going on but I already know what I want to get just gotta do it soon.

Got some really cool illegal stuff from Epi today - will post picture tomorrow!

sabie12 wrote:I don't have a picture, but Bea gave me some great stuff I got chocolates, a notepad, a keychain, taffy all good stuff. Thanks Bea!! Sorry It's taken me so long!

Glad you got it ok! Glad you like i!!

Take your time I know you have 11tybillion things going on.

Roxy - can't wait to see picties.

So yay! The chocolate with sea salt and caramel are mostly gone, the fusilli pasta will be eaten this weekend and my art from Abigail will be framed by Friday. And I got an Elo cake mix to have my own Elo cake
Just let me say a few things about the CD. First I cannot believe the work he put into it. It is just so WOW!!! There are 8 wonderful tracks that include some of my favorites and a new favorite -Whipping Post, Breathe, Eleanor Rigby, What is and What should never be, The Trees, Wild Mountain Honey, Little Wing, and an original made for me called The Roxy Jam.
His musical talent is brilliantly amazing and that is not saying enough!

Thanks so much again Epi!

Roxy wrote:

So yay! The chocolate with sea salt and caramel are mostly gone, the fusilli pasta will be eaten this weekend and my art from Abigail will be framed by Friday. And I got an Elo cake mix to have my own Elo cake
Just let me say a few things about the CD. First I cannot believe the work he put into it. It is just so WOW!!! There are 8 wonderful tracks that include some of my favorites and a new favorite -Whipping Post, Breathe, Eleanor Rigby, What is and What should never be, The Trees, Wild Mountain Honey, Little Wing, and an original made for me called The Roxy Jam.
His musical talent is brilliantly amazing and that is not saying enough!

Thanks so much again Epi!

Hats off to you Rob. I did get to here The Trees, so I imagine the rest are good as well.

So today Annie and I got our package from Mongoose!!! It is five different packages of Victorian Hard Candy, including peach, watermelon, cherry, root beer, and citrus mix.

They look, smell, and taste amazing!!! Thank you so much, Alison!

Coulda sworn Rob posted something here.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Coulda sworn Rob posted something here.

Yeah, this:

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0DxQAJiGPYB

It's "The Roxy Jam."

I wasn't satisfied with vocaroo's handling of it, but oh well. You gets what you gets.

Thanks for not making me look crazy.

Thanks for posting. I enjoyed it.

Love The Roxy Jam Epi!!

Thanks for sharing it.

I listened to it with the new headphones I got for valenties day. They have kittah ears on them.

So out of curiosity, were we considering doing this again this year or are we too late for it now? I was thinking about it on my way to work yesterday and realized I hadn't heard anything...

Spacedaisy wrote:So out of curiosity, were we considering doing this again this year or are we too late for it now? I was thinking about it on my way to work yesterday and realized I hadn't heard anything...

I would join! I do think it is a little late to get started this year though.

I would be happy to do it again. Maybe a post Christmas gift would be even better

Happy birthday!!

DrWilgy wrote:Happy birthday!!

Is today your birthday, Adventurer Wilgs?

Nope lol

Happy beer day today!

I'm going to have a beer and join you.