Still in the doldrums here. The timing is still bad, nothing really on the job front. Looking and applying, but there isn't much going on right now because of the holidays.
Goof told me a few things about the silverback. Things that silverback did, and he even asked Goof for help on. Things that would kill his marriage and ruin his chances of future promotions. I'm still at the point that I want them to suffer. I even dreamed the other night that I met them in a public setting. What would he and his wife do, if I mentioned how much I despise the man and what he's done in front of wife and minister? Yea, I'm still a mean spirited person at heart. I'm not that decent of a person.
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Miserable Christmas
Let's just put it this way, there would be less stress and a more joyful Christmas if it wasn't for frigging Good Ole Boy Southerners who close in and protect rank. I'm not past the bitterness yet. Fricking 2 weeks before Christmas, a week before Stinky's birthday. May they all rot in hell, and everything bad happen to them. I understand protecting your skin, it's human nature, but again did you have to do it just before Christmas? Did the Silverback have the guts to show up? No he had to stay at home and not chance running across Goof. Do you feel good about yourself? Does it make you feel better as you make the office a pigstyle, so that the admin staff, and housekeeping complain that they don't like you because you have no manners and spit in trash cans and cups in front of everyone? How the hell are you going to do the job better when you failed the last time, and you have no decent business manners? The business manners don't mean anything because these are Good Ole Southern Boys? So the Boss Hoggs understand your need to chew tobacco and spit every 5 min during a meeting? My God no wonder this state is so rinky dinky screwed up.
Monday, January 26, 2009
January is a cold month
Wow the month has brought some very cold days. I'm sure there are more to come, no snow yet. It's been too cold for snow! What I feared is an ice storm. It may still be in the works. We had a nice mild weekend. It was rainy drizzly this morning. Chinese New Year is here! It's the year of the Ox! We had a subdued New Years Eve dinner. I spent most of the day in the kitchen though. I made Hoe Sea Soong, otherwise known as oyster, pork lettuce wraps, two steamed fish, shrimp, scallops, several different veggies, and a 5 spice poached chicken. Mom had sent me more dried oysters, and ginko nuts so that was a plus. We went to H Mart and picked up a couple of pounds of chai siu, and miscellaneous veggies, and the seafood. I didn't see any fresh fish I liked, so I had to change things around and just got two flounder. The scallops I picked up were that great unfortunately, the shrimp were alright. Head on nasty looking things. I wanted to make salt and pepper shrimp, but well the shrimp weren't that big, and I'm not that talented cutting the backs of the shells, removing the intestine, and legs without mutilating the small shrimp. So for the next two weeks we are supposed to celebrate CNY, but we won't. Come on, in Georgia? Sure thing. It's not like SF. I was thinking about how the last few years working, every time the phone rang, we would do our spiel, and include Gung Hay Fat Choy. Why? Well half the pharmacy staff was Asian. It was a given we were celebrating. Here, they don't have a clue. If I saw an Asian person at work it was very rare, and most of them were surprised if I said anything.
Last week, I went out to lunch with Neville's mom, just a basic mom gathering, we met at McDonald's and watched the Inauguration, while eating and complaining. Many things were discussed. Stinky had a bad month so far. He didn't concentrate on his grades enough and was kicked off the wrestling team. This made him realize for the first time, it's not just affecting what happens inside the family, but outside too. So he says he's really gonna try hard to get them back up as he really liked wrestling. He was pretty good too. As another incentive we are going to get him an Alienware laptop as a prize. Holy smokes those things are expensive!
We are also on a strict budget now. We've been enjoying the fruits of Goof's labors, and not managing it well enough. So back to saving and being thrifty. It's been hard, but at the same time, it's worth it in the end. Everything is on a strict budget. We have a certain amount to spend on groceries, and household supplies. Personal spending has limits also. We have a small allowance for each of us. It's better this way. We have some major purchases we need to make this year. Like a new stove, dishwasher, car repairs, cart repairs, and possibly a new tub and enclosure for Stinky's bathroom. We still need to repair the barn outside too. I'm scared about that, because we haven't figured out which fuse powers that outlet. I would love to make it bigger, but then that requires a new foundation. Just taking the old walls and roof off to put new ones up is enough I think. Plus we need new doors. So much to get done.
Last week, I went out to lunch with Neville's mom, just a basic mom gathering, we met at McDonald's and watched the Inauguration, while eating and complaining. Many things were discussed. Stinky had a bad month so far. He didn't concentrate on his grades enough and was kicked off the wrestling team. This made him realize for the first time, it's not just affecting what happens inside the family, but outside too. So he says he's really gonna try hard to get them back up as he really liked wrestling. He was pretty good too. As another incentive we are going to get him an Alienware laptop as a prize. Holy smokes those things are expensive!
We are also on a strict budget now. We've been enjoying the fruits of Goof's labors, and not managing it well enough. So back to saving and being thrifty. It's been hard, but at the same time, it's worth it in the end. Everything is on a strict budget. We have a certain amount to spend on groceries, and household supplies. Personal spending has limits also. We have a small allowance for each of us. It's better this way. We have some major purchases we need to make this year. Like a new stove, dishwasher, car repairs, cart repairs, and possibly a new tub and enclosure for Stinky's bathroom. We still need to repair the barn outside too. I'm scared about that, because we haven't figured out which fuse powers that outlet. I would love to make it bigger, but then that requires a new foundation. Just taking the old walls and roof off to put new ones up is enough I think. Plus we need new doors. So much to get done.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
December was pretty quiet
After Thanksgiving we just wanted a quiet Christmas. We put up the tree and the door wreath, and pretty much relaxed. Stinky made out as usual. We got him some gifts he likes, and I was able to get some pretty nice sweaters, shirt and tie for Goof. He got me a pretty big gift. A set of Global knives, and an 11 slot steel block. Now I have a Sankuto, 7" chef, 5" chef, carving, parer, and peeling knives. Of course I also have a pretty cool water sharpener that Egg got me too. I'm to spend the next few months figuring out if I need any more knives. I think I might want a cleaver. Haven't decided yet. Funny note, I only have one veggie peeler. I never thought about getting another as it's usually just one person peeling. Well during the Thanksgiving prep, I realized that I do need a spare just in case there are others willing to help out. I saw a pretty cute and innovative peeler at Target, so maybe I'll pick that up someday. My cutting boards also made an impression on the fellow cooks. I picked them up at Walmart. They are white 17" boards with Microban in them, but the best part, is that the width ends of the boards have black rubberized edges. What's great about these boards is that they don't slip and slide on the counter. I forgot about that extra advantage until Egg's wife asked about a towel under the board to prevent slipping. I just told her, I never use a towel with those boards, and sure enough she was pleased to find that she didn't need it. Mom says she wants a few of these boards too. Everyone was pretty impressed with my kitchen towel supply. Well, I have 24 at all times folded and placed around the work areas. The sink has a nice little plastic box they sit in. I think I need to pick up two more, one by the knives, and the other to be placed by the stove next to the utensils.
For Christmas dinner the guys wanted a ham, even though I had picked up two really nice rib roasts. So ham it was. It was good, and I cut the ham down and froze some of it for later use. New Year's dinner was the rib roast, and I had decided to do a low heat roast. Oh man it was so good. I made it in my cast iron pan. Seared all the sides of the roast, stuck garlic slivers inside, and coated the outside with salt and black pepper. Made garlic mashed potatoes, green beans, yams, bread, and broccoli. I have not made the fancy mac n cheese this holiday.
I'm still addicted to Mobwars. In fact I am getting up there in the ranks. Well not really, but I am doing well enough in the game, and holding my own. While playing this game and being involved with the game discussion forum, I got into a bit of trouble. There was someone who posted they were being picked on, and to make it worse, a guy was picking on this player, a woman! Oh my, that got me mad at the player. That's rather backwards. So I had responded to her post and I had the other player's character killed. Well not more than 24 hours later, the truth came out, the woman had been attacking the wife of the aggressor, and he was retaliating for his wife. Then many players who had helped the woman out were upset. I was able to get the woman's player info and I killed her character twice. I also wrote in the thread that I might want to kill her again for playing damsel in distress. She got offended with me because I wrote that. She then continued her reply of how I was an unhappy overweight white woman, who sat around eating dream pops. She was a healthy attractive woman who only ate organic, not a computer geek, and had 'fine ass husband' and son. She was going out to celebrate NYE in downtown Chicago. I think she outed herself by the words 'fine ass husband' She came across as immature, and shallow. I read the topic and responded back, that I didn't care what her opinion of me was, only that she learn how to play the game better, and politely, and when she was a stronger player she could come back and attack me if she wanted. This was not the response she wanted. She wanted mudslinging from me, and I didn't give it to her. A lot of negative weight and food insults were slung at me. I think she's got an issue with food and weight. So anyways, this woman was banned from the forum. She came back under another name and continued the harassment in forms of private messages and responses in the forum topics. Again the admin of the board removed her. So that was that. Oh then there was a mini war in the game. One group that I belong to were taking down another group. This lasted a few days, and it was a lot of fun. After a week it was over, and I remembered the woman and her insults, so for a few days, I would go and kill her character every other day or so. Well she waited until she was allowed back into the forum and she started it again. This time she was making vulgar attacks against me. Again the admin were chasing her around deleting messages and removed her again from the board. So she started to send messages to my facebook account. I copied the rude messages she sent me from the board and I reported her account on the basis of harassment. Since she's lost those avenues of harassing me, she started to punch my character whenever she was online. By the time I realized it, her character was dead. Well I finally got irritated. I camped out on her character's page, and every time she was online and her character was alive, I attacked it. This went over 100 times. I was frustrated with it all. Also there were other players who were getting the same treatment by her. So this has been the latest dramas in my day. Yea, I know, sad isn't it. It's too cold to do much outside, and this keeps me busy at home. Like housework is just so darn addictive.
For Christmas dinner the guys wanted a ham, even though I had picked up two really nice rib roasts. So ham it was. It was good, and I cut the ham down and froze some of it for later use. New Year's dinner was the rib roast, and I had decided to do a low heat roast. Oh man it was so good. I made it in my cast iron pan. Seared all the sides of the roast, stuck garlic slivers inside, and coated the outside with salt and black pepper. Made garlic mashed potatoes, green beans, yams, bread, and broccoli. I have not made the fancy mac n cheese this holiday.
I'm still addicted to Mobwars. In fact I am getting up there in the ranks. Well not really, but I am doing well enough in the game, and holding my own. While playing this game and being involved with the game discussion forum, I got into a bit of trouble. There was someone who posted they were being picked on, and to make it worse, a guy was picking on this player, a woman! Oh my, that got me mad at the player. That's rather backwards. So I had responded to her post and I had the other player's character killed. Well not more than 24 hours later, the truth came out, the woman had been attacking the wife of the aggressor, and he was retaliating for his wife. Then many players who had helped the woman out were upset. I was able to get the woman's player info and I killed her character twice. I also wrote in the thread that I might want to kill her again for playing damsel in distress. She got offended with me because I wrote that. She then continued her reply of how I was an unhappy overweight white woman, who sat around eating dream pops. She was a healthy attractive woman who only ate organic, not a computer geek, and had 'fine ass husband' and son. She was going out to celebrate NYE in downtown Chicago. I think she outed herself by the words 'fine ass husband' She came across as immature, and shallow. I read the topic and responded back, that I didn't care what her opinion of me was, only that she learn how to play the game better, and politely, and when she was a stronger player she could come back and attack me if she wanted. This was not the response she wanted. She wanted mudslinging from me, and I didn't give it to her. A lot of negative weight and food insults were slung at me. I think she's got an issue with food and weight. So anyways, this woman was banned from the forum. She came back under another name and continued the harassment in forms of private messages and responses in the forum topics. Again the admin of the board removed her. So that was that. Oh then there was a mini war in the game. One group that I belong to were taking down another group. This lasted a few days, and it was a lot of fun. After a week it was over, and I remembered the woman and her insults, so for a few days, I would go and kill her character every other day or so. Well she waited until she was allowed back into the forum and she started it again. This time she was making vulgar attacks against me. Again the admin were chasing her around deleting messages and removed her again from the board. So she started to send messages to my facebook account. I copied the rude messages she sent me from the board and I reported her account on the basis of harassment. Since she's lost those avenues of harassing me, she started to punch my character whenever she was online. By the time I realized it, her character was dead. Well I finally got irritated. I camped out on her character's page, and every time she was online and her character was alive, I attacked it. This went over 100 times. I was frustrated with it all. Also there were other players who were getting the same treatment by her. So this has been the latest dramas in my day. Yea, I know, sad isn't it. It's too cold to do much outside, and this keeps me busy at home. Like housework is just so darn addictive.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Enjoying the lifestyle
This weekend was fun filled. Stinky's been practicing his driving skills on the cart, and he's getting really good. We did the bbq thing with hot dogs and hamburgers on the 4th. Took a spin around the lake, and wondered where everyone was. Then went home and set off a few fireworks. We headed back to the lake and then we saw all the people! Carts and people everywhere. What I wasn't pleased was seeing dogs out. Fireworks people! Dogs don't watch fireworks like humans do. They don't necessarily understand what all the noise is about. We parked the cart off the path and headed up to meet Neville and his parents. They had marked a spot on the lake shore Thursday morning! Holy smokes! And to top it off, someone had moved their tarp! Seriously, next year I'm gonna have to stake out a spot too. So the fireworks show was lots of fun. I tried to film some of it, but it didn't come out as well as I hoped. What got us giggling and I tried to film that also was the traffic jam after the show. A sea of humanity and golf carts! I'm not used to seeing all those carts jammed up trying to get around. Goof, said it was like that when he took a quick drive to see the parade that morning. We decided not to get up early to see the parade, and I'm glad we didn't. Saturday was another fun filled night. Well it was for Stinky. We went to a drive in movie at the conference hotel above the lake. It was filled with golf carts and people in chairs. We thought it would rain, and we missed it. Unfortunately for Goof it was the movie Transformers. Very boring for him. Stinky was hoping to hang out with girls, but no go. We didn't do too much today, just hung around the house and did chores. I wanted to go to the library this weekend, but Sat, a T storm came in right after I left the house, so I just returned a book and jammed back home, missing the rain by 3 minutes. Today, I wanted to go, and just as I got ready... BOOM! Thunder started. Tomorrow I'm heading off to the library that's for certain.
I'm still working on my quilt, it's rather time consuming cutting the sewn squares into smaller squares. Hard to explain unless you saw what I was doing. Now comes the sewing again. When I'm done, I should have 80 blocks. Enough for two quilts, and then some. Then the placement of the blocks, and finally the quilting of the batting and back fabric. I have some smaller projects I need to get done this next two days. Have a friend that needs belly bands for her mom's dog, ASAP, and a pair of manly jammies for another dog person. I just can't seem to find many manly prints right now. Or we have different tastes. How manly is a male IG in jammies? You can only go cute, hilarious, and some what tough, but come on, the dog is wearing jammies! Moo, loves his jammies, but he's a sweet clown. He's not tough, nor does he want to act tough. This breed has silly, very loving males. The tough ones are the females with their outgoing personalities.
I'm still working on my quilt, it's rather time consuming cutting the sewn squares into smaller squares. Hard to explain unless you saw what I was doing. Now comes the sewing again. When I'm done, I should have 80 blocks. Enough for two quilts, and then some. Then the placement of the blocks, and finally the quilting of the batting and back fabric. I have some smaller projects I need to get done this next two days. Have a friend that needs belly bands for her mom's dog, ASAP, and a pair of manly jammies for another dog person. I just can't seem to find many manly prints right now. Or we have different tastes. How manly is a male IG in jammies? You can only go cute, hilarious, and some what tough, but come on, the dog is wearing jammies! Moo, loves his jammies, but he's a sweet clown. He's not tough, nor does he want to act tough. This breed has silly, very loving males. The tough ones are the females with their outgoing personalities.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
One step towards less fuel usage
We made the decision and investment in getting a golf cart. It took almost two years for us to finally get one. I think we are on the farther edge of average before finally making this purchase. I'm sure there are many residents who don't have a cart and never consider one as the cons outweigh the pros for them. I'm starting to think if you do anything within seven miles of home, it's worth it. I read a news blurb, that it's not unlikely to see $7-10 per gallon of gas in the next two years. This has got to get people demanding alternative fuel sources, and I'm not talking about corn. Food is expensive enough. Goof says he's probably going to take Das Panzerwagon to work more often when it gets very hot. The afternoon heat is just exacerbated with his truck sitting in the sun all day, versus mine which is lighter and reflects more heat. I have errands to run in the cart tomorrow. Registration, library, post office, and still take Stinky to school and back. He's getting the hang of driving the cart. We need a few items installed on the cart, and hopefully they will arrive before Friday. We plan on wandering around town, watching the parade, and the fireworks at the lake later that evening.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
I wouldn't get in trouble for this
So I was checking my food RSS the other day and I saw this pop out at me. http://www.bakeorbreak.com/2008/03/18/pecan-pie-cupcakes/
Wowie. I have been thinking about pecan pies lately because well I live in Georgia. The nuts grow out here. I want almonds, then I get them from California. Also since Easter is tomorrow, I was planning my Easter dinner of course. I decided to cheat, and not do a lot of cooking. Goof was given a gift certificate by a vendor, for Honey Baked Hams. Hey I like ham. I was able to order a half ham, two sides, and a pecan pie for our dinner. I decided to bulk it up with mashed potatoes, brown n serve honey rolls, yams, and baked mac n cheese. Upon reflection, there really isn't enough produce. The pre made sides from Honey Baked happen to be sweet potato souffle, and cinnamon apples. Goof loves his sweet potatoes, and well I'm willing to try them another way to like them. I just don't care for them canned in sweet syrup. I still think they taste best fresh baked plain, or mashed with butter, or even to make that ubiquitous candied yam dish with marshmallows, the yams again still have to be fresh baked. The texture just doesn't work for me in the can.
Oops back to the recipe. I am scared of making a pecan pie. Well for one it's not the season for pecans. It's spring so it's getting warm and the AC will come on soon. I don't want to ruin my holiday dessert without a trial run. As I perused this recipe, it looked pretty good. I mentioned it to Goof the other night, and he was intrigued by it. This morning his comment was, "You aren't going to get in trouble for making it." Yes, he loves his sweets, and he does have a liking for pecan pies. I might have to make this in another week or so. I gotta make sure Goof's blood sugar levels go back to normal after this meal. I think we are gonna be eating ham for 3 days, then the leftovers and bone will need to be frozen for a later date.
I was talking with Stinky last week about Easter dinner. Well actually just about holidays in general. I love them for the food. My family was never super religious. Holidays were paid days off that everyone got, and we would get together and have good food. So here I am with my little family still thinking in terms of big families with lots of food. I mean good Lord, I got an 8lb ham. This thing weighs as much as Lulu. Thanksgiving turkeys weigh as much if not more than Mingy. I could eat my dogs I guess is another way of looking at it. Stinky just laughs at me. He says it's pretty obvious that holidays are all about food for me. Hence the walking we must do to keep in shape. I know I'm out of shape from being at home. I'm not as active as I used to be working. So I needs to walk daily. My dogs need to walk daily. Skinny dogs like mine are supposed to have thin waists. Looking down at my dogs, their bodies are turning into long tubes. Like dachshunds. They are begging too many treats from Goof.
Wowie. I have been thinking about pecan pies lately because well I live in Georgia. The nuts grow out here. I want almonds, then I get them from California. Also since Easter is tomorrow, I was planning my Easter dinner of course. I decided to cheat, and not do a lot of cooking. Goof was given a gift certificate by a vendor, for Honey Baked Hams. Hey I like ham. I was able to order a half ham, two sides, and a pecan pie for our dinner. I decided to bulk it up with mashed potatoes, brown n serve honey rolls, yams, and baked mac n cheese. Upon reflection, there really isn't enough produce. The pre made sides from Honey Baked happen to be sweet potato souffle, and cinnamon apples. Goof loves his sweet potatoes, and well I'm willing to try them another way to like them. I just don't care for them canned in sweet syrup. I still think they taste best fresh baked plain, or mashed with butter, or even to make that ubiquitous candied yam dish with marshmallows, the yams again still have to be fresh baked. The texture just doesn't work for me in the can.
Oops back to the recipe. I am scared of making a pecan pie. Well for one it's not the season for pecans. It's spring so it's getting warm and the AC will come on soon. I don't want to ruin my holiday dessert without a trial run. As I perused this recipe, it looked pretty good. I mentioned it to Goof the other night, and he was intrigued by it. This morning his comment was, "You aren't going to get in trouble for making it." Yes, he loves his sweets, and he does have a liking for pecan pies. I might have to make this in another week or so. I gotta make sure Goof's blood sugar levels go back to normal after this meal. I think we are gonna be eating ham for 3 days, then the leftovers and bone will need to be frozen for a later date.
I was talking with Stinky last week about Easter dinner. Well actually just about holidays in general. I love them for the food. My family was never super religious. Holidays were paid days off that everyone got, and we would get together and have good food. So here I am with my little family still thinking in terms of big families with lots of food. I mean good Lord, I got an 8lb ham. This thing weighs as much as Lulu. Thanksgiving turkeys weigh as much if not more than Mingy. I could eat my dogs I guess is another way of looking at it. Stinky just laughs at me. He says it's pretty obvious that holidays are all about food for me. Hence the walking we must do to keep in shape. I know I'm out of shape from being at home. I'm not as active as I used to be working. So I needs to walk daily. My dogs need to walk daily. Skinny dogs like mine are supposed to have thin waists. Looking down at my dogs, their bodies are turning into long tubes. Like dachshunds. They are begging too many treats from Goof.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Tired of leftovers
Thanksgiving has come and gone. The leftovers are frozen. It was a great dinner. I actually timed it wrong. Well the turkey had ideas of it's own. We ate at 3pm instead of 4pm. Everything got heated up and served just fine. I still believe I need two ovens. When we remodel, I'm getting duel ovens.
Actually I was joking with Goof, when Stinky grows up and has a family if they come to my house for holidays, I'm planning on having a fridge in the garage that is only plugged in for the holidays. All the holiday prep stuff can go there. It's hard fitting all that food in to a fridge besides the usual stuff.
Now it's time to plan for Christmas. I'm slow this year. I haven't gotten the cards yet to mail out. One year I sent them out pretty early. I think my cousin said she got it the day after Thanksgiving. Well better than late. We used to joke about youngest aunt and her cards. She never got them out on time. She would be handing them out to the family on Christmas day. A couple of years ago, she sent email cards to everyone. So if she didn't have your email you were SOL. Most everyone I know has email. Well except for my friend in SC. We joke that she will get internet in another 10 years.
It rained for Thanksgiving. No running around in the cold. It was a lazy nap, and movie fest. The day after we stayed in also. I just couldn't see what the big deal was to go shopping. There was nothing that called out to me, 'buy it now'. Safer to stay at home away from all the crowds. A few years ago, my friend Beth and I went and did the Walmart middle of the night shopping excursions. Those were fun times. We would get together the day before Thanksgiving, and look through all the sale ads. We would circle items and mark how many we wanted and plan out our shopping route. Black Friday would see us up at 3am. I would head over to pick her up and stop off at Starbucks for quad shot venti white mochas. Oh the silliness of it all.
The last time we did it, I climbed shelves to get items, Beth threw items at people who were chucking things back. It was pretty crazy. We had hooked up with another woman, and divvied up our lists. This poor woman was getting a computer for her mother, and some guy gave her a black eye trying to take the computer from her. She kneed the guy in the balls I believe. I think someone slammed fingers. I can't remember. I think I had the easier time. Kinda hard for people to knock you over, when you're tossing items they want at them. Well, we couldn't find a sales associate and it was really hectic, so it was every person for themselves. I'm sure the liability was an issue, but then again, I really doubt the associates cared much as they were there at 5am the day after.
My mom got a laugh at our antics. Well we only did it for 2 years. After that it just got too difficult. Honestly there is only so much you can get at Walmart for pre teens. It's all about Best Buys and EB Games now.
I do want to go shopping, but for clothes. Stinky needs more pants, and I want to get some more fabric. He's grown about a foot in the last year. It seems like every time I turn around he's grown another inch. We've been marking the basement door since we got here. Every 3 months we measure him. Besides the fact that he's constantly hungry, his pants have turned into high waters. He started out at the beginning of summer a size 12 in pants, and now he's wearing 16's. Still skinny, but it's harder to find slim pants at this size. We have no problems finding the husky pants. I think they make more husky sizes than slim ones. He needs more belts. I figure if he keeps growing like this, he'll be wearing young mens pants soon. Problem again, very hard to find pants with a 26 inch waist.
Actually I was joking with Goof, when Stinky grows up and has a family if they come to my house for holidays, I'm planning on having a fridge in the garage that is only plugged in for the holidays. All the holiday prep stuff can go there. It's hard fitting all that food in to a fridge besides the usual stuff.
Now it's time to plan for Christmas. I'm slow this year. I haven't gotten the cards yet to mail out. One year I sent them out pretty early. I think my cousin said she got it the day after Thanksgiving. Well better than late. We used to joke about youngest aunt and her cards. She never got them out on time. She would be handing them out to the family on Christmas day. A couple of years ago, she sent email cards to everyone. So if she didn't have your email you were SOL. Most everyone I know has email. Well except for my friend in SC. We joke that she will get internet in another 10 years.
It rained for Thanksgiving. No running around in the cold. It was a lazy nap, and movie fest. The day after we stayed in also. I just couldn't see what the big deal was to go shopping. There was nothing that called out to me, 'buy it now'. Safer to stay at home away from all the crowds. A few years ago, my friend Beth and I went and did the Walmart middle of the night shopping excursions. Those were fun times. We would get together the day before Thanksgiving, and look through all the sale ads. We would circle items and mark how many we wanted and plan out our shopping route. Black Friday would see us up at 3am. I would head over to pick her up and stop off at Starbucks for quad shot venti white mochas. Oh the silliness of it all.
The last time we did it, I climbed shelves to get items, Beth threw items at people who were chucking things back. It was pretty crazy. We had hooked up with another woman, and divvied up our lists. This poor woman was getting a computer for her mother, and some guy gave her a black eye trying to take the computer from her. She kneed the guy in the balls I believe. I think someone slammed fingers. I can't remember. I think I had the easier time. Kinda hard for people to knock you over, when you're tossing items they want at them. Well, we couldn't find a sales associate and it was really hectic, so it was every person for themselves. I'm sure the liability was an issue, but then again, I really doubt the associates cared much as they were there at 5am the day after.
My mom got a laugh at our antics. Well we only did it for 2 years. After that it just got too difficult. Honestly there is only so much you can get at Walmart for pre teens. It's all about Best Buys and EB Games now.
I do want to go shopping, but for clothes. Stinky needs more pants, and I want to get some more fabric. He's grown about a foot in the last year. It seems like every time I turn around he's grown another inch. We've been marking the basement door since we got here. Every 3 months we measure him. Besides the fact that he's constantly hungry, his pants have turned into high waters. He started out at the beginning of summer a size 12 in pants, and now he's wearing 16's. Still skinny, but it's harder to find slim pants at this size. We have no problems finding the husky pants. I think they make more husky sizes than slim ones. He needs more belts. I figure if he keeps growing like this, he'll be wearing young mens pants soon. Problem again, very hard to find pants with a 26 inch waist.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
The day before the great mass eating
I've got all my prep work done. Rolls baked on Tuesday, pie crusts made, veggies chopped, and downstairs rooms cleaned. Wednesday, the stuffing, green beans, yams, mac n cheese, pies baked, gravy made, brine cooling. It's all done. Tonight the turkey gets brined and it will all go in the oven at varying times to cook. We've got 7 courses for 3 people.
Last night Goof asked about mac n cheese. His employees don't do mashed potatoes, but mac n cheese. Of course they also fry the turkey so there's no drippings for the gravy. Since he was expounding about jumping with both feet into the southern ways, he wanted that. Okay, we went to Kroger's and bought cheese. As he was looking at the wines, he asked me to grab some Tilamook. I looked around and couldn't find it. I told Goof no Tilamook, his response, "Must be a west coast item." So me being snarky, replied "Jump in with both feet"
I love Thanksgiving. What other holiday is about food and family? It's an over consumptive day. Lots of food, the choice to play in the crisp fall day, or lay about on the sofa napping or watching football. With a large family there is constant noise, most of the women in the kitchen either getting in the way, or sitting at the table helping as they can or gossiping. Kids running around trying to keep out of the way as the older male relatives sit around the tv watching sports or the teenagers watching a movie, or doing homework. Then the dinner is ready. Grown ups at one table, kids at the other. Some of us never outgrow the kids table. My mom and her siblings would all sit at the grown up table, and grandma would hold court. The cousins would all pile around in the family room, plates on laps or sitting at the coffee table, or the folding table. As we got older our spouses sat with us too at the kid's table. Joking and all, it was a lot of fun.
This will be the second year I've missed out the family dinner. We've made our own traditions. I did get use to making two turkeys for that day. I love eating at 4pm. I think it's a great time of day, plus I don't have to get up too early, and it still gave me plenty of time to roast the other for my parents house. I put the turkey in at 10 or 11am depending on the size, pull it out at 3, heat all my sides up, then put the next turkey in, eat at 4, then pull the turkey out at 7. Bring it over to my mom's house right after, and boy oh boy! We would eat about 8pm, and it would be just fine.
Most of my family never cared for turkey, well grandma's anyways. It took me being brave and effort in finding a decent recipe to please the family. I knew that it didn't matter if I failed as one thing was always certain. My mom's rib roast. It was not a family get together if not for the roast. One year we didn't have it, and mom just said cost. Well hell, every holiday is held at her house, and she does most of the cooking. So the siblings all chipped in. If someone brought something the receipt was added in and noted. It would then come down to dividing the amount by each person. If there was only two of you, then that was your share, like wise oldest uncle the stingy jerk would grump at paying for 5 people. Hey your penis in action. I always ended up getting money back. Same with mom, If you make 3 or 4 dishes the costs do add up. The diplomatic way to solve things in this economy.
Last night Goof asked about mac n cheese. His employees don't do mashed potatoes, but mac n cheese. Of course they also fry the turkey so there's no drippings for the gravy. Since he was expounding about jumping with both feet into the southern ways, he wanted that. Okay, we went to Kroger's and bought cheese. As he was looking at the wines, he asked me to grab some Tilamook. I looked around and couldn't find it. I told Goof no Tilamook, his response, "Must be a west coast item." So me being snarky, replied "Jump in with both feet"
I love Thanksgiving. What other holiday is about food and family? It's an over consumptive day. Lots of food, the choice to play in the crisp fall day, or lay about on the sofa napping or watching football. With a large family there is constant noise, most of the women in the kitchen either getting in the way, or sitting at the table helping as they can or gossiping. Kids running around trying to keep out of the way as the older male relatives sit around the tv watching sports or the teenagers watching a movie, or doing homework. Then the dinner is ready. Grown ups at one table, kids at the other. Some of us never outgrow the kids table. My mom and her siblings would all sit at the grown up table, and grandma would hold court. The cousins would all pile around in the family room, plates on laps or sitting at the coffee table, or the folding table. As we got older our spouses sat with us too at the kid's table. Joking and all, it was a lot of fun.
This will be the second year I've missed out the family dinner. We've made our own traditions. I did get use to making two turkeys for that day. I love eating at 4pm. I think it's a great time of day, plus I don't have to get up too early, and it still gave me plenty of time to roast the other for my parents house. I put the turkey in at 10 or 11am depending on the size, pull it out at 3, heat all my sides up, then put the next turkey in, eat at 4, then pull the turkey out at 7. Bring it over to my mom's house right after, and boy oh boy! We would eat about 8pm, and it would be just fine.
Most of my family never cared for turkey, well grandma's anyways. It took me being brave and effort in finding a decent recipe to please the family. I knew that it didn't matter if I failed as one thing was always certain. My mom's rib roast. It was not a family get together if not for the roast. One year we didn't have it, and mom just said cost. Well hell, every holiday is held at her house, and she does most of the cooking. So the siblings all chipped in. If someone brought something the receipt was added in and noted. It would then come down to dividing the amount by each person. If there was only two of you, then that was your share, like wise oldest uncle the stingy jerk would grump at paying for 5 people. Hey your penis in action. I always ended up getting money back. Same with mom, If you make 3 or 4 dishes the costs do add up. The diplomatic way to solve things in this economy.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Talladega
Last night Goof was in several long calls about end of month closing. After all that, he tells me that he was offered Talladega tickets. He declined them. What? He thought I would not be interested in the race. All the drunk rednecks. Of course I reminded him, it's like the tickets we used to get for the Raiders. Luxury box, baby. The tickets would be amidst drunk southerners. There is a difference between rednecks and southerners. He was given tickets to Infineon speedway a few years ago and we didn't go. Well, I had wanted to go, but he only had two and was going to take Stinky, but Stinky wasn't interested. Well, gee, father and son time is important, so I didn't make a fuss.
I'm waiting later and later to walk. Fall is here and I'm cold! Yea, yea, it's not that cold yet, but I don't like it. The dogs don't mind. I've been trying to prepare. I made a flannel jammie for Lulu, which didn't work out too well because the flannel doesn't have enough stretch. I have to rework the pattern for that. Yesterday I tried again with a different type of fabric. This one is a knit material with a raised stitch pattern. I learned that the medium pattern size does fit Mingy, and not Lulu. The material does not flatter Mingy. The next jammie will be out of this sweatshirt material I had picked up. It's fuzzy on one side, and I bet with time, the other side will be too. I hope it's got enough stretch. It should keep the doggies warm.
In 3 weeks, the IG national will be here. I'm excited about it. I am planning on going everyday if I can. Sorry, family, mom is excited and wants to see the show. Luckily it's close enough to home. I didn't enter in anything. Obviously I can't. Lulu's fixed, and I don't know anything about showing so Mingy just gets to watch. I don't know enough about coursing, also I would have to preregister the dogs. Who knows if they would even enjoy it, or want to race. I can just see it. Lulu and Mingy at one end in the box. Lulu bounding out of the box towards me in her characteristic bunny hop. Mingy confused running full out at me, and tumbling into a hole. Heart attack waiting to happen.
Halloween is coming. The holidays will be here. I am trying to decide if I want to decorate the exterior of the house. Goof thinks it will be good. I just wonder why. We don't care about the neighbors. It's not like they are gonna come over. We don't get a lot of trick or treaters either. It's just for us. I want to stuff the spider and stick that on the lawn. Hmm, fill that with newspaper and leaves. I also need to find the window covers. Something we saw last year and I want to get this year if I can find it, is a flicker light. Put that in front of the window and that will be pretty neat.
My goal this holiday season is to find each holiday's decorations and box them up separately. Goof kinda threw them in the boxes and now we are in a jumble downstairs. I need a new label maker. My $10 label maker just died. Well so it goes. Gotta get a huge label to cover the old ones off the totes.
I'm waiting later and later to walk. Fall is here and I'm cold! Yea, yea, it's not that cold yet, but I don't like it. The dogs don't mind. I've been trying to prepare. I made a flannel jammie for Lulu, which didn't work out too well because the flannel doesn't have enough stretch. I have to rework the pattern for that. Yesterday I tried again with a different type of fabric. This one is a knit material with a raised stitch pattern. I learned that the medium pattern size does fit Mingy, and not Lulu. The material does not flatter Mingy. The next jammie will be out of this sweatshirt material I had picked up. It's fuzzy on one side, and I bet with time, the other side will be too. I hope it's got enough stretch. It should keep the doggies warm.
In 3 weeks, the IG national will be here. I'm excited about it. I am planning on going everyday if I can. Sorry, family, mom is excited and wants to see the show. Luckily it's close enough to home. I didn't enter in anything. Obviously I can't. Lulu's fixed, and I don't know anything about showing so Mingy just gets to watch. I don't know enough about coursing, also I would have to preregister the dogs. Who knows if they would even enjoy it, or want to race. I can just see it. Lulu and Mingy at one end in the box. Lulu bounding out of the box towards me in her characteristic bunny hop. Mingy confused running full out at me, and tumbling into a hole. Heart attack waiting to happen.
Halloween is coming. The holidays will be here. I am trying to decide if I want to decorate the exterior of the house. Goof thinks it will be good. I just wonder why. We don't care about the neighbors. It's not like they are gonna come over. We don't get a lot of trick or treaters either. It's just for us. I want to stuff the spider and stick that on the lawn. Hmm, fill that with newspaper and leaves. I also need to find the window covers. Something we saw last year and I want to get this year if I can find it, is a flicker light. Put that in front of the window and that will be pretty neat.
My goal this holiday season is to find each holiday's decorations and box them up separately. Goof kinda threw them in the boxes and now we are in a jumble downstairs. I need a new label maker. My $10 label maker just died. Well so it goes. Gotta get a huge label to cover the old ones off the totes.
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