The Post T-Day MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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A trip to Webs is definitely in my future someday, too, Shadow. Just the pictures have me slavering. Clearly I need to visit there someday with an empty charge card and a huge van to take home the yarn I buy. I didn’t go to Stitches East this year even though it was just up the road because I have more yarn than I know what to do with now (for the first time ever, Papa Tigs recently asked me, “Don’t you have enough yarn yet?” rather plaintively :smiley: ) and I knew I wouldn’t make it out of there empty-handed. But when I hit the lottery, I’ll be stocking up on the Buffalo Gold, Mooie, and quiviut, you just wait and see!

I spent the whole afternoon running errands. Lotsa fun. Not. :frowning: Except I scored that two-month supply of NutriSystem food from a freecycler, which came in two LARGE boxes and a big shopping bag. We’re going to inventory it this evening and see what’s there. The guy even included the program instructions! My kinda diet plan, free! :slight_smile:

Oops, supper’s ready. Later, gators.

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Aw, that’s nice, gt. Here’s the Reader’s Digest version:

  1. Had a wonky CA-125 level come back which means I have to be worked up for both ovarian and colon cancer. Colonoscopy is next Tuesday; pelvic US and mammo are in later December. Second CA-125 came back normal, so all this is just so much window dressing, but at least I’ll enter my 50s (in a few years, folks) with some baselines.

  2. 2 possible job opps. One is better than the other. Have heard from neither. Have long saga re third job option that came about around when Daughter went away to school which didn’t pan out, mostly because the woman who was supposed to hire me kept calling me Donna. Never believe that stupidity has a glass ceiling. :rolleyes:

  3. No change in marital front, which is mostly why I don’t post here. Not that I’m not interested in all of your lives (I truly am), but I feel STUCK and no fun anymore. If job option occurs, this will all change and I will need [del]my cast of thousands for my close up and heavy dramatic scenes[/del] some support.

  4. No other news that’s fit to print. Haven’t seen a RL girlfriend or gone out in over 3 months. Either no time or no friend (schedule conflicts). I consider this training for my retirement years when I live in a refrigerator box under the highway overpass, alone. I may share my can of tuna with the feral cats. I may not.
    How are you?

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Awwww, {{{Rigs}}} It will get better, hon, I promise!

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I know you’re trying to help and don’t take this the wrong way, but no pity, please. It’s my bed; I made it and here I am. I shall come about, somehow, but for now, I’m not great company.

That and I am strangely involved with gnomes at present… gardengnomes

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rigs good to hear that things are not so bad as it looked on the medical front. Hang in there about the job. I just know the good one will be there for ya. If it’s at all possible, schedule you a night out. Make some time for it. A get away is good from time to time and it looks like you could use one.

Maybe I’ll be in the refrigerator box next door. I’ll share my cheese and crackers and we can take turns buyin’ the sterno for heat. :smiley:

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Happy Monday everybody!

I’m very jealous you all have a holiday weekend coming up. No fair! I want one too! (You can all send any leftovers over this way if you’re not sure what to do with them, BTW :slight_smile: )

Work is busy… I’ll probably be fairly scarce over the next few weeks, since they’re going to shove a bunch of us into a small cold room with very bright lights and yell at us until we can agree on system requirements. If we’re lucky, they might order lunch, but I suspect that it’ll be stale bread and buckets of melted snow to drink given that our budget has been sliced and diced into non-existence (though if we behave ourselves, maybe they’ll upgrade us to tapwater instead).

Pity me.

In unrelated news, I came home to find the stoopid gas company dug up our entire lawn, and from the looks of it, disposed of most of the perennials I’d painstakingly planted in the side garden and uprooted another bed in the front. I just about burst into tears, because I’d just spent a whole day planting bulbs in those beds last month (not to mention the blood, sweat and tears it took to plant all the other stuff in those beds in the first place).

They did save the bushes, though I suspect they may not survive the shock of being uprooted and left exposed so long in sub-zero weather (the bastards couldn’t even be bothered to put them back in the ground, if you can believe that)… pissy message has been left with the construction company, long email with same info has been composed to be sent tomorrow, and photos have been taken for evidence (and to be attached to the email). We Are Not Amused.

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Deal. And I’ll steal the t.p. from the library and local municipal buildings.

Mahna–that sucks. As a fellow gardener, I am aghast at all that work being destroyed. Gah. :eek:

Off to watch The Savages. I’m on a movie kick.

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Thanks Shadow! You just saved me some effort there. I just looked briefly and thought I saw some individual serving sized Tofurky, so I might try that later just to test out the gravy.
Given that, I’m thinking tofu dogs will be the feast for the night, served with guacamole and salsa. Yes, I eat my tofu dogs with guacamole and salsa. Yum!
Oh yeah, and that yarn looks fabulous! I like the teal one on the right.

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Erm, possibly going on hiatus for awhile. Nothing’s amiss, just lots of work to do to stay self-employed a little longer…

Love to you all.

Pie

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Finally, I’m here. What a day. But first - to the OP.

We haven’t done Thanksgiving ourselves hardly at all these 25 years, so leftovers have been someone else’s issue. At my inlaws’ place, we typically eat early in the afternoon, then graze the rest of the day. So that’s what I’m planning for us.

I love turkey and I’ve made it several times just because. Since there were just 2 of us, I’d usually take half the bird and freeze it. I’ve been known to boil a carcass for soup or toss the picked off meat into gravy for hot turkey sammiches. Sides just get noshed on.

I had a terrible night. First, I dreamed that my daughter’s best friend was decapitated and someone was walking around with her headless body dressed in a wedding gown. :eek: That woke me up around 1, and it was well after 2 before I was able to fall asleep again. Then I had a mish-mash of a dream that included all of my socks being stolen, a golden retriever digging a hole in my yard, a bunch of big packages being delivered, and my boss was in my basement, leaning against a counter giving me attitude. I was upset about the missing socks and the lack of a lock on the basement door, so I decided to stack up all the delivered packages against the door. There was something about a shower and being late for work… anyway, I woke up exhausted.

I made an executive decision today to take Weds off. As it happens, I’ll be going to the dentist Weds morning to get my filling refilled. Tomorrow afternoon, I’ll be teaching 2nd graders about pulleys and mechanical advantage and I’ll get to meet all the monsters who torment my baby girl. :smiley:

I made a cherry cobbler, but I should have used twice as much cherry. Oh well…

Shopping after work/school tomorrow. Inlaws should arrive late tomorrow. For now, I’m tired - off to beddy-bye.

MWAH!

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I need a manicure. My nails are ick.

My life is sooooo hard…

<sigh>

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You posted that just to be first, didn’t you, FCM? :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley: Also, I always find your dreams very entertaining. Most people do not dream of both decapitated friends :eek: :frowning: and stolen socks in one night.

I figured those might be the issues happening in your life, rigs. Hope one of the jobs comes through soon. FWIW, it’s fun to hear from you even when you don’t think you have anything to say.

Hope you don’t stay away too long, Pie. But I know you’re struggling with the business. At least check in from time to time so that we know you’re still out there? Hugs.

I managed to break a dresser leg while moving it back into my room. :frowning: I think I’ll be able to fix it, but I’ll need help from my brother, I fear. The dresser is temporarily balanced on a paver with some cork coasters to make up the height difference. Seems stable for the moment.

I’ve got other stuff to move back into my room, but the dresser incident kinda took the wind out of my sails.

I’m stopping for the evening and will get up early to try to get more done before work.

Back later…

GT

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Glad to hear that you’re still out there, Rigs; been thinking of you and will continue to do so, along with many cyber hugs or anything else you would like.

Took a two hour nap today, after finally finishing the packing at work for the carpet installation. I sure hope that it goes okay and that everything is in tact tomorrow morning. I too didn’t sleep well last night, FCM although in my case it was worrying about the packing/carpet installation instead of bad dreams (and boy, do you have some doozies!).

I am going to have collard greens this year, which sometimes turn out good and sometimes don’t. Swampy, what’s the secret to cooking them so that they don’t get all nasty tasting? LOL I know some of you are thinking, “they taste nasty no matter what!” which is what I used to think too, until I got some couth, that is. :smiley: At any rate, any help with that would be greatly appreciated!

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What is it about cats?

I’m watching TV and hear hork hork hork coming from the bathroom. The bathroom! Linoleum! Atta girl!

So I get up at a good point to go check out the scene, not particularly worried what with it being the bathroom. Where has she horked? On the rug I step out of the shower onto so as to not freeze my feet. The one surface on that floor I’d rather she not hork on.

Cats.

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Just googled “Miracle Whip.” It felt like sweeping over a spoiler, after those references to Real Mayo (which isn’t real, but then, I must admit I haven’t had real-real mayo in years).

I’m feeling a bit green at the gills after that…

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We rarely do Thanksgiving here, so I don’t really deal with the leftovers. I did T-day last year for the family and it was a huge success. I made stock/broth from the carcass and bits and what not, and the meat was used mainly in turkey sammiches with Best Foods mayo. As was mentioned earlier, Miracle Whip is satan snot.

rigs, I’ve been thinking about you for awhile, so although I’m not glad your life isn’t going better, I’m glad you checked in. I really hope things start going your way soon. No, this isn’t pity; just genuine good wishes.

Tomorrow morning I have to go get another ultrasound completed on my throat. They want to make sure the nodules in there haven’t grown any since last spring. I’m not too worried, what happens; happens.

I’ve been having very vivid and disturbing dreams for the last couple of weeks. They constantly wake me up and it takes forever to go back to sleep.

Sunday night I had a very strange dream about dinner at someone’s house, an old friend, some military officers I worked with years ago, a lack of plates and silverware at the table, flying dragons, and something else. The last thing I remember is being INCREDIBLY pissed at my mother for how she was talking to me in front of all these people. I woke up still pissed at her.

There really isn’t much else going on around here. Going to my sis’ place for T-Day, where I’ve been instructed to bring green bean casserole.:rolleyes: I know a lot of people like it, but I can take it or leave it. I’d rather bring something else as a side, but it’s her menu.

My daughter’s car is still dead. They charged the battery on Sunday, but didn’t drive it enough to keep the charge up I think. At any rate, they parked it in the driveway in such a way that it is a real pain in the ass to get in out of the garage with my rig. We can’t move it until we charge it again. Unfortunately, our jumper cables seem to gave gone walkabout.

Sigh, she’ll have to get a new battery, I suppose. Unfortunately, her funds are rather limited at the moment because her hours have been cut way back. I’m sure we’ll end up helping her out, but our funds have been extremely tight too. I can’t remember the last time I struggled so much with bills.

Well, I should hit the sack.

Hugs and smooches to all.

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I have no dog in this fight, since I don’t especially like mayonnaise to begin with, but Cool Whip is to mayo… well, like picnic chairs and tables are to real wood furniture, or something. It’s the definition of the word “ersatz.”

Psst… post #10!!

:smiley:

Hope the job situation – and all the rest – work out for you. Glad to hear the medical scare is probably not for real!

:mad: :mad:
Perhaps an opportunity, though… I think you should insist that the Gas Company send over a gang of burly young men to re-do the garden for you. At a time convenient for you to sit on the porch and watch :wink:

Good luck there! And drop in every so often so we know you’re still alive, OK?

I haven’t been put on a plane, yet, so I guess I get to spend the rest of this week in the glorious mid-70’s clear weather that is Israel in late November :slight_smile: This means, however, that I will almost certainly be spending a significant chunk of next week on the road again. Oh well.

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ here. I am wide awake too. Guess that’s what goin’ to sleep at eight thirty will do for ya.

Hey! That’s my fantasy you’re wishin’ on Muppet! :stuck_out_tongue:

Herbs the secret is a combo of two things. First, you need a ham hock or some chunks of ham. Not huge chunks. Collards need that for seasonin’. Second, use a little over a tsp of sugar. Yep. Sugar. I start the water with the sugar and ham hock or ham chunks and get the water hot, but not boilin’. Then I put the greens in a handful at a time and stir 'em in so they wilt. Once all the greens are in, I let ‘em simmer ‘til done. About forty-five minutes ought to do it. Also, I cook ‘em the night before and reheat before servin’. Collards are one of those things that’s better if they’re cooked then reheated before servin’, IMO. Anywho, they’re never bitter with that method. That little bit o’ sugar helps with the bitterness but doesn’t add a sweet taste.

Dang! It’s awful early to give that much cookin’ advice. :smiley:

Ok, off in search of more caffiene and some brekkies.

Later Y’all!

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still blurf

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:dubious: Youse guyze up in Canadiastan had it last month. Think of it like eating your dessert first.