My cousin taught me how to fold fitted sheets really easily. You hold the sheet at one end, turn the corners from the other end inside out and fit them into the two corners at the end you're holding. Then you take one pair of fitted0-together corners and flip them inside out again and fit them into the last pair, so you end up with all four corners neatly fitted into each other. You can then fold the sheet very neatly and voilà! Folded sheets!

To go back to yesterday, here's the info, Paris in Spring, on the new LA Brennans restaurant:

Yes, it's at Disneyland. Called Jazz Kitchen.
1590 S Disneyland Drive
(downtown Disney district)
Anaheim CA
(714) 776-5200
www.rbjazzkitchen.com

And last but not least, Happy Fourth of July! Click on the New York skyline for a great fireworks show!

I loved how in the shirt-folding video, the third shirt shown was a red-sleeved baseball shirt, much like the Tubey TAR [Bomp!] shirt.

At last, now I know how to fold it properly. Thank you. Thank you.

Thanks Mama, copyied from their menu, this could be it:

Damn, now I'm getting hungry again, and I just ate! Of course, none of the Brennans restaurants are open today, or if they are, they're probably hopelessly jammed since this weekend there's a huge music festival (the Essence Festival) here in town. FYI, they serve that dessert at other Brennan's restaurants -- we had it at Mr. B's, one of the four desserts we split amongst the three of us -- with one a diabetic so could only take small tastes. I.e., more for me and Marge! Aw, shucks!

But wouldn't a stack of shirts be higher on the right side? Since there's that extra fold that doesn't go all the way across the shirt?

I need a bra shop for small-busted women. I have a helluva time finding bras that fit well.

Just rotate every other shirt so they stack evenly. Or half the stack one way and the other half the other.

How about a bra shop for women who are big around but don't need a D cup? It's almost impossible to find anything over a 38 in a C cup, but not everyone who's big around can fill a D cup.

When I go to fold some laundry (eventually), I'll have to try that technique and see if it's any faster.

My bras seem to gape at the front with the wire poking out. If that means that the cup size is too small, then I must be a C cup. I never thought that would happen.

On another note, I got my first ever pet today! (I'm a deprived child.) Finally, on my eighteenth birthday today, my bf got me a betta fish and it is so pretty. I decided to name it Lenny, so that way if I get a second fish, I can name it Carl. It's kind of disturbing though, because that makes my porn star name Lenny Albert, which really isn't that feminine or sexy. Oh well.

ETA: Happy 4th to all of the Americans here.

Dang! Why is my perfect job bearded lady at the circus? Better up those testosterone injections.

Welcome to Amelia Ex and congratulations to Jen and Mr. Ex.

Congrats to karatekate, too. Where are your wedding photos? You posted a link to the church on the Survivor MM and we've been eagerly awaiting you in your finery.

I'm just back from Hawai'i, where our new house is almost ready to be rented (finally!). We're planning to rent it out until the end of '06 and then move into it. I was with my sister and two nieces, and we had a blast.

Hi everyone! Just wanted to check in before Tuesday and introduce meself. I am a bit late to the TAR party, and only started watching last season (due to the forum banner ads) and now I can't get enough.

I live in Durham, NC, where the current hot topic is whether Coach K will be going to the Lakers. He'd be a damn fool to do it, IMO, but then no one's asking me. They never do.

Upthread I found this from Miri:


I just got a Frederick's of Hollywood catalog, and they are the only ones to explain this correctly. Measure under your breasts around the shoulder blades etc. This is measurement 1. Then add 3-5 inches (brands will differ, and if you start with an odd or even number it will differ as well.) This is the band size, and you can write this down and ignore it until it's time to buy.

Next, measure around the fullest part of the breasts. This is measurement 2. You subtract measurement 1 from measurement 2, NOT the band size, to give you the cup size. Most places don't explain this clearly, and if I followed their instructions, I'd be a 44 AA. And I don't think there is such an animal. Up until I got this catalog, I'd just been guessing, and then bitching that nothing fits. I would usually have kick-ass cleavage though. I truly don't know what the problem is with having your actual chest measurement equal your band size, rounding up if it's an odd number. Heaven forbid garment sizing make sense. How did they come up with this system?

Ideal Job Predictor? Screen name: Quiz Show Contestant. Real name: Spinster with Cats. It's like they're psychic.

ETA:

miri, they usually say to wear your best-fitting bra. But for a while, my best-fitting bra was a minimizer. Probably at some point, I should just bite the bullet and go to a real lingerie shop and have someone measure me properly. But then I'll lose weight, and have to do it all over again. Sigh.

Thanks for the info, I shall give that a try. I was using the band size for part two, so your instructions make a lot more sense. I found bra niverana a few years ago. A not too expensive bra that was comfortable and gave me good support (damn low boobage syndrome) - which, of course, means they stopped making that bra shortly thereafter. *sigh*

One thing I never understood is that they tell you to do this measuring while you are wearing a bra. Well, if you have a wrong sized bra on, couldn't that somehow effect the measurements?

Thanks for that link, Mama Tiger, it was entertaining (the narrator-voice occasionally tossing a 'hey, hey' into the ?Japanese monologue was amusing, as was the big red X informing you that jeans could not be folded in this fashion), but I think the extra sleeves sticking out would get caught on each other and annoy me (but I tend to roll clothes when packing and hang shirts in the closet at home, so YMMV).

A few people mentioned that they were identified as pirates by the profession site, so I thought I'd share the following story. I took part in a car rally on Friday (scavenger hunt/trivia contest, with a car), and we were supposed to come in costumes. Most people were pretty lazy and wore a wig or hat, but I (for once) had a good costume idea and decided to run with it. I transformed my cast (as of last week, a removable cast/brace thing on which I can weight-bear) into a wooden peg-leg, found a truly horrid '80s blouse complete with ruffles, a sash and beaded necklace at Value Village, and a plastic sword at the dollar store, added in a bandana and hoop earings, and voila!, instant pirate. If only there were extra points for best costume, my team would've won (not that I'm at all competitive, or anything...)

Now the problem with my bra is...

I'm just kidding. I'm a guy, after all. I don't even wear underwear.

The folding video was in Mandarin Chinese.

Ananayel thank you for that explanation! Because I just went to a web site that tried to tell me I was a 34AAA or something like that. Which...no. I'm small, but...no.

cool!

Not only that, but well ventilated and regimental!

I'll try this next time I need to fold fitted sheets, but I think you're going to have to make a video in order for me to really get it, Mama Tiger.

You're just fitting one end's corners inside the other end's corners, then bringing the two remaining corners together and fitting one set inside the other one. You have:

A...... B
-------
|.......|
|.......|
|.......|
|.......|
-------
C.......D

You flip corner C inside out and fit it into A, and C into B. You then have:

AC BD
-------
|.......|
|.......|
------- (folded center of sheet)

You then flip BD inside out and fit it into AC, so all four corners are folded into one. That way, you have a neat square you can fold up without a bunch of extraneous lumpy corners.

Does that help?

Hi everyone! This isn't my first post to the TAR boards, but it's kind of my first official post as a TARfly. I've loved the show all along, since day 1, but didn't discover this board until last year. This post is sort of my introduction to a community of people who love this show like I do, and not look at me weird when I bring it up--"I'm telling you, it's the BEST show! No, seriously, you have to watch it!"

And happy belated birthday mel42024!

That's exactly how my mom taught me to fold sheets, Mama Tiger. I always thought it was obvious until I tried to teach my husband.

For those paying attention, I guess now we know the answer as to whether or not M Darcy has to go up against Ken tomorrow. Oh well. He's posting on the Jeopardy forum, btw, for any interested parties.

It's almost TARSday! Whoo! (It's been far too long since we've been able to say that!)

I'm just praying that M. Darcy will be the hero who finally unseats the juggernaut that is Ken! I'll be watching and cheering her on!

Only 25-1/2 hours to TAR -- life is sweet!!

Thanks Meghan Jill. It was a rather uneventful day. Suffice it to say I had to work in front of a deep fryer for seven hours.

Only 24 more hours....but I'll be at work (at that stupid deep fryer) when it's on so I'll have to record and watch it at about 10:30. Wait, is it a hour and a half premiere?

Here, col1999 - it's not a video, but still shots of how to fold a fitted sheet.

No offense, Mama Tiger, I'm loving your diagram too!

Yes, mel, the premiere (yay!) will be 90 minutes long.

I'm supposed to go to my dad's for dinner tomorrow, and was explaining that I had to schedule dinner between Jeopardy and TAR, and I think he thought I was nuts - he obviously has a lot to learn.

No offense taken, invisiblegirl -- you can find anything on the internet these days!

Somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, someone is saying "Happy TARS day!"

Not that I was trying to be the first one or anything.

Well, I at least won't have to wait until after the whole show is recorded to watch it. The Regina CTV station is showing TAR at 10:30 EST. [Bill]Yessssss!![/Bill]

I am officially a TAR geek. I was just so sad that I didn't have anyone to watch with last year, except you guys of course, that I just spammed my friends with this:

Feel free to duplicate for your own use. Yipppppeeeeeeeee for tomorrow.

All this folding talk is making me feel vaguely guilty about just smooshing up my sheets and shoving them in the linen closet. Though not guilty enough to take the time to fold them, mind you. Smooshing them makes them softer. [/rationalization]

I do the same Arianrhod. But then again I only have two sets of sheets, one for winter and one for summer. When I wash them, I just remake the bed right after with the same sheets.

Happy TARSday everyone!!! I think it was usually miri who wished it first last year, but I just can't resist. Only 21 1/2 hours to go.

Heh, I just washed my sheets and remade the bed. But I do fold the fitted sheets by tucking each corner into the next when I do fold the darn things.

Completely stupid, random bitching here...There seems to be a TAR vortex in my room. I can't find my Philiminated shirt, and while I could find the envelope for the God is in the Tub shirt, I can't find that shirt either. What little friggin' elf is taking my shirts?!?!?!!? I did however find my goodie bag tucked into my college paperwork drawer while hunting for transcripts. Ah, good memories. Yes, the High-Poo Five cookie is now nicely crystallized for perpetuity.

Nope, mel42024 wasn't me. And I do the same thing with my sheets too!

Woo hoo! Happy TARsday, everyone!

There are two TARsdays this week, and every week for the rest of the summer!

No, no guilt, Arianrhod! After watching Martha Stewart demonstrate folding fitted sheets on TV one day, I attempted it myself, with laughable results. A few more tries and my rising blood pressure convinced me that life is too short to worry about my sheets. Now if they don't go directly onto my bed, they are sort of rolled up and smushed into a drawer. As God intended.

Topic? I called my mom tonight to inform her that TAR is back. CBS is the only channel she gets (gasp!), so she never really watches the tube, but she really enjoys TAR. In fact, I got her to tape it for me a couple of years ago when I was, ironically enough, traveling around the world (on a trip inspired by TAR). When I returned we watched the tapes together and I got to annoyingly gloat, "Been there. Been there. There too." Bratty? Yes. Fun? Definately.

mama tiger, you rock! I think you put more work into the diagram than it takes to actually fold the sheets. (And thank you, too, invisiblegirl for digging up an illustrated version!) I am also a smush-and-shove-into-drawers person when it comes to fitted sheets. I was just fascinated to learn that there is a way to make them look nice (and maybe even take up less room).

Oh, and I tried the new way to fold t-shirts. That is scary.

I wanted to wish everyone a happy TARSday with a song:

Happy TARSday to us,
happy TARSday to us!
It's most advantageous to go for it,
happy TARSday to us!

...especially since it appears we won't hear that particular tagline much this season.

Thanks for the song, Red Targetter. I sang it to myself and did a little happy dance. (Oh, come on. Surely I'm not the only one who did.) And tonight at 9:30, I'm going to dress my cat up in a little Phil sweater and do a happy dance in my chair to the TAR theme song. Oh, that was for The Apprentice? Well, I'm sure it'll work just as well for TAR.

Happy TARsday!!

And a Happy TARSday to all of you, too!

Great friend-spam, Hawkwild -- but may I point out that this year there are only eleven teams, as opposed to last year's 12? A minor and excessively picky point; blame the inveterate editor in me.

Loved the song, Red Targetter -- I, too, sang it while doing a happy dance in my chair! Not out loud, though; my dogs wouldn't mind, but my daughter, whose obsessive streak equals mine but, alas, in different areas -- although she enjoys TAR, but just doesn't live and breathe it as we do here -- would probably think her mother had gone hopelessly around the bend. She'd probably pull out her three-year-old birthday party line when I started singing to her: "No sing! No sing!" So I just sang it silently to myself, with Phil's voice intonining the appropriate line, and it sounded just fine!

Now the big question, of course, is: How do I manage to get any work done at work today? If I was home, I could do what I've been doing for the last couple of days and clean house -- excitement or emotional upset always work wonders on the state of cleanliness of my house; this time I've been doing a massive rearrangement, and I'm about 80% done but ran out of steam yesterday after another six hours of moving, putting away, sorting, scrubbing, etc. So if I could think up an excuse to (a) stay home from work today and, even better, (b) hop on a plane to Vegas before this evening, I would be so there! I do hope we get some great reports from the premiere party!

Am I babbling? Am I happy? Do bears shit in the woods? :-)

Ack! When critiquing others' writing, it helps to have correct spelling in your own!

Mama Tiger, I feel the same way. As it is, I've done nothing this morning except monitor TWoP and the CBS website, when I obviously should be going over submittals seeing as I have a meeting tomorrow morning. And to top that off, I'm taking off at 2 to go home and wait in gleeful anticipation for no real reason. But who cares??? WHEEEE!!! TARSday is here!

I can't fold fitted sheets, I can't program a VCR, and that Tivo thing scares me to death, although it seems really cool.

But this is not about me and my failures. This is about tonight's glorious premiere - the eyebrow, the sweater, the Philimination, the emerging of true hatred, as opposed to pre-hatred, and, hopefully a lot of face plants. Bring it on!

Happy TARday everybody from Down Under

I'm normally one of those people who loves watching the Olympics but I know this year I will spend that fortnight cursing them for delaying my oppurtunity to watch TAR5.

Guess I shouldn't visit the boards anymore........


Hah! Who am I kidding, I can't stay away from spoilers. Plus hopefully by the time it reaches my screen, I'll have chosen some favs. Can't believe I still haven't chosen a team to follow.

Both face plants and falling on asses would be greatly appreciated. People hurting themselves always makes me laugh.

I normally hate shows like [Insert Your Country's Name Here] Funniest Home Videos becuase of that reason. But for some reason when I see it on TAR I love it. Maybe it's because TAR doesn't have that non-funny funny man saying something stupid as they get injured.

I'm the same way. I watch it from pre-Opening Ceremony start to finish. I especially love watching Opening Ceremony so I can mock the national uniforms. I keep watching for something that beats the one year that Mongolia's flagbearer wore what looked like a satiny diaper and a cape, accompanied by a horned ceremonial helmet that put the one opera singers wear to shame.

But I'd trade in watching for diapers and capes to watch lucky yellow shorts any day!

Happy Happy TARsday everyone!!

I have been doing an hour by hour countdown since yesterday. I will be obsessively checking Tarflies for the accurate time remaining. I am so damn excited about this!!

Happy happy TARSday baby... [/bad Elvis impersonation]

So, yesterday? Mr. Ex WORE my God is in the Tub shirt, and GOT IT DIRTY. So he has been instructed that it really needs to be washed and dry before 9:30 because I have to wear it tonight, even though I'll just be sitting on the couch with him and ExJr. for company. Or maybe I'll be on the floor, so I can be a little closer to the TV, because you know when I see Phil say "The world is waiting!" or whatever equivalent phrase he uses this year, I'll have to run over and give my tv a hug.

I want to Curse ATV. They are not showing the amazing race tonight (instead they are showing a repeat of CSI), so because I don't have cable I will have to cross my fingers that my friend with cable will decide not to go camping and let me come over to his house to watch. grrrr

Aww, that sucks Omoo. You don't get ASN or anything? The show is supposed to be repeated on Saturday (I believe, but I could be wrong), so maybe it will be on then. If all else fails, there's always the tape swap help line.

Happy TARSday!

While finally perusing this forum again i came across the jobpredictor.

My real first name: lapdancer
My full name: lumberjack

Now I don't know about you but I should make a mint as a female lapdancing lumberjack.

Twop name: the speaking clock.


I've been looking back in the forum to see if there is going to be a TAR chat. There is going to be a TAR chat right? Maybe I'm not looking in the right place. I'll go mosey around some more.

JenEx, I feel your pain. Unfortunately, I have no Mr. Grrl to blame my T-shirt issues upon. Somehow, all the liquid softener didn't completely wash out of mine, leaving it all splotchy. I didn't notice it until last night, when I excitedly pulled my Tub T-shirt out of the closet. Always great when you realize that you simply must do laundry at about 11:15 p.m. Normally, I wouldn't care, if I were just watching by myself. But since I really need to make BraveLittleToaster jealous by wearing it tonight as we watch, it ought to at least look clean.