{"id":514,"date":"2005-12-25T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-25T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/?p=514"},"modified":"2005-12-25T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-25T16:22:00","slug":"rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/2005\/12\/25\/rats\/","title":{"rendered":"Rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Drat<\/b><\/p>\n<p>MERRY CHRISTMAS!!<\/p>\n<p>So, I sit down at the finally cleared off kitchen table to make sure I&#8217;ve got everything together to make the Christmas ham and other stuff. I get started with roasting the garlic for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/food\/recipes\/recipe\/0,,FOOD_9936_24963,00.html\">mashed potatoes with roasted garlic<\/a> and I pull out the aluminum foil and find I&#8217;ve barely got enough to wrap these two heads of garlic in&#8230; then I tie up the garbage before it starts to overflow and replace the bag, that&#8217;s the last garbage bag. THEN I discover that I have no heavy cream&#8230;.well&#8230;I&#8217;ve got some but it expired on Dec 3rd and when you shake it, it makes no sloshy noise that liquid in a container SHOULD make, and that&#8217;s just really gross&#8230;can&#8217;t use that, even if I&#8217;m not eating the mashed potatoes. Then&#8230;I think I&#8217;ll make the pumpkin roll I&#8217;ve been planning on since last Christmas&#8230;no flour&#8230;<br \/>Yeah, I think you&#8217;re getting the picture. <br \/>My list:<\/p>\n<p>Trash bags<br \/>Foil<br \/>Flour<br \/>Heavy Cream<br \/>Orange Juice<\/p>\n<p>Off I go assuming that either Jewel or Dominicks (both are like 5 min away, but in opposite directions) will be open until at LEAST 10am&#8230; I get to Jewel (my best bet) and there is only ONE car in the lot, and that car looks like it probably wouldn&#8217;t start in the summer without prayers&#8230;  UGH&#8230;. Off to Dominicks. There isn&#8217;t even a dead car in the parking lot there&#8230;ARUGH&#8230; So, it&#8217;s on to the gas station which IS open. I figure at the very least they&#8217;ll have the OJ and maybe I can use half &#038; half instead of heavy cream&#8230;.cream is cream right? This isn&#8217;t baking, it&#8217;s mashed potatoes. I should be OK, and we just can&#8217;t tie up the garbage until tomorrow, the pumpkin roll will just have to wait another day, and the foil&#8230;well, I guess I&#8217;m foil-less until tomorrow&#8230;not that I want to go anywhere tomorrow but I&#8217;ll live, and that&#8217;ll teach me to wait until Christmas morning to sit down and check my stock&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe that NEITHER major grocery store is open for even a couple of hours today&#8230;Piece of crap&#8230;BAH!<\/p>\n<p>So, Merry Christmas everyone! OH&#8230;.and I&#8217;ll probably be silent for a while here, cuz I got City of Villains today&#8230;. bwahahahah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drat MERRY CHRISTMAS!! So, I sit down at the finally cleared off kitchen table to make sure I&#8217;ve got everything together to make the Christmas ham and other stuff. I get started with roasting the garlic for the mashed potatoes with roasted garlic and I pull out the aluminum foil and find I&#8217;ve barely got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}