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Okay, so... what you just described as new is my normal. Apparently this is not normal?
I feel like I did in 5th grade when I suddenly realized not everyone had stories writing themselves in their heads. (We got a writing assignment to make a story out of a magazine picture we were handed. Other kids were complaining. And I was like... "Wait, is this supposed to be... hard? Didn't a story just tell itself to you when you saw the picture?" ...which promptly cemented my status as even more of a weirdo than they already thought I was.)
(Thankfully, these days, I'm prefectly fine being a wierdo.)
Did it turn out okay?
I have this recipe for chocolate lava brownies from my mom that looks pretty much like soup when you put it in the oven, like no way is this going to turn into dessert and you must've done something wrong somewhere. Then a miracle occurs in the oven and it turns into chocolate decadence.
Non-complaint: Both kids visited for Late New Year's Day. The four of us ate hopping John (southern US black eye peas & rice dish), blue cornbread, & daughter's brownies. The watched The Boy & the Beast, an anime I've wanted to see. Son took Gilly the Collie on several walks and he & Bear the Lab basked in extra attention.
Complaint: In spite of correctly finishing the oral & eye drops antibiotics Monday, that horrid URI & eye infection was back yesterday. I called the office & of course no same day appointments left. The nurse told me to get back on the antibiotic eye drops (I'd already done so) & get an appointment Monday if I wasn't better. Eyes are looking better today but itch worse.
Oh itching eyes is *torture*. Hope you get relief soon.
Glad you had fun with your kids & could enjoy their visit, though!
...and now I have a new recipe to try, as I've never heard of Hopping John (probably because, on looking it up, it doesn't have some condensed cream soup included, which seems necessary for any Midwestern dish that doesn't fall under the nearly-all-encompassing label of "salad"). That looks really good!
It is hard to blow my nose after getting it pierced yesterday.
Yes, more-or-less - but I do tend to be hypercritical, at least when other people are eating the result.
Yes, we have a brownie recipe that is similarly - though perhaps not as extremely - unsettling.
Did you get a post or a ring? When I got mine pierced I got a ring I found it easier to keep clean ,and blow my nose then with a post .Once it healed I changed it out for a post.
I don't know what type of nose ring. I didn't think of asking. These are selfies of my nose ring and me wearing it.
I'm also attaching a promo pic of the nose rings I'm thinkingvof getting for when I can change the nose rings in 5 weeks. I think that is on Valentine's Day.
I had a nose(septum) ring about 28 years ago. During my 2nd biker period('95 - '02). Wore it almost all the time, but on formal occasions would replace it with the hidden keeper. I gave it up about 15 years ago and stopped keeping even the hidden retainer inserted. The hole eventually closed over. Also gave up all my other piercings except the gold one in my left ear lobe. That one has been in for 30 years, never removed. It gets questioned everytime I go for medical scans. It's solid gold, it won't be attracted by magnets, but might get hot with induced currents. Haven't had a problem yet.
Complaint: I finally finished my bottle of champagne. It was good, but it doesn't agree with me anymore. Made me uncomfortably woozy for far too long. I blame weak kidneys.
Took me three days to finish the bottle(by which time, even with proper re-corking had lost most of its fizz). Same problem I'm having with pot. I love a tiny, single, toot in the evening to help me sleep and feeling refreshed in the morning, but recently I end up with a pot hangover . Again, I blame weak kidneys, not flushing it out efficiently anymore. And because of heart/lung issues I'm coughing up phlegm for three days. I smoked pot during my Hippy period back in the '70s, back when it was illegal everywhere. Gave it up (mostly) when I got serious jobs in government and industry. Waited for 50 years to retire and for it to become legal here in NY. But now it's getting physically troublesome for me. (*Sigh*)
Ifound the ones you pictured to be a bit of a pain ,not physcically ,but actually cause without fail at some point they would come out with no warning ,just suddenly weren't there ,been using this type for about 15 years and only lost one .Just bought new ones for Christmas.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D2WVCGPN?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1
Can't really sympathize with you on the champagne or pot ,never drank much of anything and the one time I tried pot it didn't relax me it made me majorly depressed ,which made me decide it wasn't for me .Wanted to get my septum pierced ,but put it off since just pierceing my nose got me fired ......because the boss decided it wasn't in the dress code .Which was weird cause it was a Nail Salon and the only dress code we had was were our jacket .......she also said it would offend our clients ,the majority of who were proffessional dancerswho were pierced everywhere .....personally I think she just didn't like piercings .Got another job right down the street within 2 days ,so it worked out.Have a couple that I let close up ......
Even mediocre cheesecake is still cheesecake. I'd call "more-or-less" a win.
Ah yes, the cream soups, without which 75% of casseroles would cease to exist. It's like there's a law against eating them as soup. We have several favorites that use cream of mushroom.
I hope you enjoy making your own hopping John batch. The recipe I used was https://www.southernliving.com/recipes/classic-hoppin-john-recipe I substituted a 1 lb chub of Butterball turkey sausage for the bacon since Daughter has alpha-gal allergy. (Allergy to red meats, usually another bad result of tick bites.)
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The eyes are improved but I was miserable last night & this morning from the itching.
True, and what doesn't give us fatal food-poisoning probably makes us better cooks in the future.
I feel like I need that quote framed and in my kitchen.
Glad to hear you're headed in the right direction <3
And thanks for fhe link and substitution info. It looked like there could be a lot of variation, so it's good to know what recipe's a good one!
Tonight I searched as many places I could think of for my coffee cup so I can put it in the fridge to have cold coffee in the morning. I could not find it. Then I had a great idea, check the fridge. Of course I found it sitting there waiting for tomorrow for me to take it with me. It was already in the fridge the whole time!
I got a new clock for my bedroom. My other clock is small and battery powered. Also I could not read it when I'm waking up and want to know if it is time to get out of bed or not.
the new clock is usb c and can use the usb outlet on one of my power strips. Oh I better go to bed and get some sleep.
...+1
Amusement: just got a piece of mail for the previous resident, who hasn't lived here since 2004. It's a "hey you did business with us, you should give us your money again!" sort of thing... you'd think after 20+ years they'd give up. Makes me wonder how long mail will still be coming to the ex- here after the kids and I move on someday. He never updated several things you'd think he'd want to (like one of his retirement plans), so I guess the next people will someday be getting info on his 401k LOL.
Kittens.
This is complaining non-complaint.
Our Maine Coon Kitten Toby is up to the size of a normal large cat, and still has a good few months of growing yet to do. Anyway, he's getting used to being out in the garden alone now he's reached 7 months. He also comes back to the house every hour to check-in, show he's OK and then bounces off. He has also found a patch of burdock in the garden and manages to pick up burrs as he goes through. That's a pain, as we have to cut them out - he's a very long hair Main Coon and burrs get completely matted in his underfur in no time. However, the non-complaint bit of the story is that when he comes in he asks to have the burrs cut out, rolling to present the offending burr(s) and stays still until we've cut all of them out before he bounces off to find some more.
Cats are daft, but not half as daft as their humans.
Richard.
Oh how sweet!
My Maine Coon was diabetic, and he was so good for his insulin shots. He knew he'd get a brushing after, which he loved, so he'd very helpfully duck his head a bit so we could get his scruff better for the injection.
Oddly, the adoption info from the shelter said he hated being brushed. Sometimes I wonder if they gave us the paperwork for the right cat.
This is all adorable.
My gingers, have picked up a more habits, as I sit at my computers on the antique chair in my room, I am backed up to my bed. They walk over and poke me in my hair to remind me it is time for (bed, food, bath - mine in morning, YouTube Cat videos, brushing them, playtime, treats for them...). At least now they are on the flatmate's bed for the rest of the day.
I did have a lovely experience at the DMV this morning and renewed my license plates and got my first handicap placard for the van. Hopefully I will not need it every day.
So glad things went in your favor! "Lovely experience" and "DMV" aren't two things I see in proximity very often. Here's fingers crossed that it's a "have and don't need" situation for you more often than not, but I'm glad you have it for the days it will make things marginally less of a struggle.
non-complaint: New fuzzy socks. My feet are super picky... they don't like to be cold, but they don't like to be touched, either (mani-pedis and foot rubs sound like the ninth ring of hell) so it's hard to find socks that don't bother the daylights out of me after about an hour and a half. I have to put two pairs of these on for them to provide any sort of warmth, but they're soft, stretchy, don't make me sweat, and don't have bothersome seams. I can have warm feet all day. It's fantastic.
Somehow I missed this post until just now when I went back looking for something else. I gave Little Dude a belated hug and he was quite happy with it (he's having a great day today! yay!!)
And yeah, I'm weirdly obsessive about recording and preserving everything, and have been since I was a kid. Before computers, I wrote everything down, and took a lot of pictures once I had a camera, and borrowed my brother's old battery powered tape deck for audio. Then the computer came along, and word processing (even if it was nowhere near what Word can do now), and then Word and Excel, and then we got a camcorder and a scanner and I was pretty well done for.
One of my past lives, I must've been one of the librarians in Alexandria when it burned, or something. Even my backups have backups. But it does come in handy sometimes, and I've learned that trying to put a lid on it just makes me miserable, so I roll with it.
Complaint:
...remembering why I ditched Firefox years ago.
Every time I copy and paste something I am writing from it to Word to spell check (I have very comprehensive custom dictionary) it overrides my default font in Word (Arial) pastes in as New Times Roman instead. 14 pt .NTR is smaller than 14 pt Arial and the serifs in NTR make it difficult to read for my tired old eyes.
Also once again I had to sign back into the Daz site tonight even though I have the "Keep me signed in" box checked. For some reason FF refuses to save passwords even after it prompts to do so. My Norton password locker also does not work in FF as even after entering it's password for I get a "username password mismatch" error. The password works fine in Chrome but I have to worry that that will freeze up on me (which requires shutting down and restarting to clear as Chrome no longer supports Win7) which is why I made the switch back to FF (which still supports the older OS).
Yes still on Win 7 here and been trying as well as saving to upgrade my system for Win 11 but that appears to be moving further out of reach as memory and SSD prices have been skyrocketing as of late. Even the "backup" configuration I pieced together (DDR4 and AM4 motherboard with 64 GB memory) has gone up 500 USD since the holidays. I still have a ways to go to save up the funds needed for it and it's beginning to seem like a futile gesture at this point.
I feel doomed to having to deal with all this flakiness for the foreseeable future. My old system works fine for Daz and other "local" tasks, but being online has become an exercise in frustration.
@kyoto kid the sign out issue might be the Daz site acting out again, not FF. I have had that happen Intermittently on my tablet browsers, Chrome and Silk, the past week.
I sympathize on the difficulty of saving for a new computer. We need to get some other debt paid off before we can replace my non-working laptop.
Mum is at the hospital where the surgery will happen. Please pray and send good thoughts.
I forgot to clean my nose today.
Good thoughts for your mum.
Non-complaint: The weather it's delightful, had to go uptown and it's wasn't frightful. Laundry's all done, a beautiful day in the sun. Still lots of snow on the ground but it's melting, melting oh what a world, who would have thought a day like today could come and destroy all that beautiful wickedness.
Complaint: No energy. Breakfast at Burger King tuckered me out. The walk one block to the laundromat was a chore. After laundry, the walk across the street to the drugstore to pick up my prescription winded me. Then the walk a half block to the grocery store was a drag. Shopping wasn't too bad because I could lean on the grocery cart. But I must have been pooped out because when I ordered my Uber to go home, I put in the address of the grocery store as my destination. Brain fog.
Home now, lunch done, ready to lay out in my recliner for a couple hours to get some of my poop back.
An Observation: Early this morning, before catching the bus to laundry, I looked out onto my porch and noticed that I'd received part of an order from Amazon. It was a couple of 1.5 litre bottles of Listerine mouthwash. The problem is, it was apparently delivered late yesterday afternoon onto my porch, and the temperatures last night were below freezing. I don't know what original Listerine contains but there's probably something like a bit of alcohol in it, so it didn't freeze, but it did get orangely milky, or opalescent instead of it's usual transparent medium brownish color. When it warmed back up to room temperature, the cloudiness went away. Cool!
There must be a scientific explanation somewhere.
Ah ha! According to Google AI mode: