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Thanks everyone. I had a sad Christmas. I had plans to make something special for dinner but they stayed just plans.
Non-complaint: YouTube has been showing me ads for the new movie "Nuremburg" with Russell Crowe as Göring, so I finally watched the trailer, and will definitely watch the movie when it comes down to a reasonable price (reasonable <= $3.99). I know the story of the Nuremburg trials from school, and from the 1961 movie Judgement at Nuremburg with Montgomery Clift. But it also has significance to me because the Chief US Prosecutor at the trial was Supreme Court justice Robert H. Jackson from Jamestown, NY (my "uptown"). Jackson's house in Jamestown is now a museum of his time at the Supreme Court and the trial. Jackson is one of the three major notables from the Jamestown area, the other two being Lucille Ball, and Roger Tory Peterson(the bird book guy). Oh, and a fourth, Brad Anderson (newspaper comic artist of Marmaduke)
In my mom's family, it was tradition for a mom to give her daughter a basket of spice bottles when she got married in order to get her kitchen started. Well, modern times, by the time the married happened, I had more spice bottles than she did, so she asked what I wanted instead. I told her I wanted copies of her recipes written out so I could undertsand them. (Fun fact: when it says "a cup of bullion" it means PREPARED, not the crystals, which I learned the hard way.) She wound up going all out and doing a leather 3-ring binder with all the recipes in sheet protectors, and with a little history included on the ones that had it. I treasure that thing SO MUCH, and she keeps adding to it when the family gains a new favorite from the internet or somewhere. We're up to two volumes now.
She gave me one of those big Betty Crocker cookbooks this year for Yule because it came up in conversation a few months ago that I don't have one anymore (pretty sure the ex- took it). It's a lovely book, and I get where it's one of those "good to have' references, but I doubt I'll ever use it. Mom's is way better.
@TSashaSmith more hugs!
@SilverGirl Thanks for the recipe wishes. I know all the ingredients but not the proportions & I don't have Dad's gift for figuring them out. He was the cooking genius. When my mom left (I too had 1 of Those Parents), he went from "I've never cooked on anything but a campfire but dammitall, I can do better than undercooked shrimp!" to making his own recipes - often by reading the ingredients list on a can or box. Dad swore he couldn't figure out how to use a written recipe, that he didn't understand how they worked. I doubt that. The man was a master carpenter & painter who could not just read building plans but create them. I can still hear him quietly measuring & marking lumber, "5 foot, 10 & a half inches, a 1/16."
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Non-complaints: 1. Lovely gifts & not just from Daz. I got my Switch, but not, it turned out, bought from Son's girlfriend. It seems there was a conspiracy between Husband, Kids, & GF to deceive me until 12/25 about the provenance of my hope decor New Toy. Said Kids also replaced my very tattered Kindle Fire tablet with Nook tablet. (Fun, ironic fact: you CAN get Kindle app on your Android Nook tablet. Please don't tell Barnes & Noble.) 2. Son did come up and we ate London broil, snacked & watched old Rankin-Bass Christmas specials.
Complaints: 1. The game I got Son lacked the cartridge, and it was ordered from publisher's Amazon store. No trouble getting a refund, once I got past the AI bot, which rivals Gilly the Collie for ditziness. 2. I fear Husband may have caught my maladies. I have begged/ordered him to call VA if he gets worse in the next couple hours so he can get into their clinic & not have to go to local ER (only place to get VA covered care closer than 1-2 hours).
Dogs' Non-complaint: Son - our favorite human - visited to provide love & snuggles, plus tug-of-war & long hikes to keep Gilly happy & out of Bear's fur.
Dogs' complaint: humans said their lunch wasn't dog safe so we had to make do with kibble & dog treats
non-complaint: Belated Solstice celebration yesterday was awesome. Everyone among the living was there who we wanted to be there, and no one was there who we didn't. Bliss. Fabulous food, lots of laughter, everyone liked their gifts, and Little Dude held it together really well... though he did take himself off to the side for most of it. Thankfully the whole fam is good with just rolling with everyone's quirks and needs, so it works okay.
complaint: Today we pay the piper. Little Dude is pretty much 100% meltdown. Holidays are a lot of off-routine for someone who needs routine to keep level, so I'm not surprised, but... poor child, to have such big unhappy feelings. And there's no way his face doesn't hurt from slamming it into things to relieve the stress. I try to get pillows under him, or him to a mattress, but I'm not always fast enough or able... and Tylenol can only do so much.
(Also, taking a moment of self-pity because holidays are stressful and I could really use a chill day to decompress, and I am definitely not getting that.)
Fingers crossed for a reasonable bedtime and a better tomorrow.
I wanted to stay in bed longer, but my ride was on the way to pick me up for work. I need the hours to rescue my laptop and catch up on my TmObile bill.
Non-Complaint: Christmas was quiet for us. Flatmate did his laundry and fixed up an omelet for both of us and then Shepard's Pie for dinner. I put my Chirstmas Apple Pie on hold till New Year's Eve, due to some bug that had me sniffy, and wiped out. (I make the dough from scratch so my hands would be in it rubbing stuff together.) Friday was work for my Flatmate and laundry for me and a dentist appointment where two (?) teeth were repaired and capped. Their office had been fully booked and I was the only patient to show up, so I had everyone's attention. My weight has dropped to 159 lbs this morning. I see my doctor for my monthly check-in on Monday.
Kinda Complaint/Whine: My mouth/face is still a bit numb 24 hours later. They didn't use a needle but a brush to apply the numbing agent! But I treated myself to a Strawberry Milkshake afterwards.
Cooking Stuff: My parents were both great cooks of different types. Mom was raised in Missouri, Arkansas and New Mexico and learned cooking from scratch during the Depression where you caught your food fresh, grew it or maybe bought the flour, sugar and salt/pepper at a general store. A Mexican neighbor taught her New Mexican style cooking during the late 30s/40s from scratch. Dad's father had a resturant in Iowa until the food froze one morning during the Dust Bowl and he decided to move the family to Los Angeles. There he worked in engineering jobs. My grandmother, who had had servants, found herself cooking for the family. Dad had a girlfriend from Cuba and got a taste for Cuban food and in the military, picked up Asian, European, and Pizza dishes. He would look at a cookbook and not follow it but change the recipe immediately. The first cookbook I bought was Better Homes and Garden Cookbook (BH&G Cookbook), the red plaid one, 1971 edition and have two other versions of it, along with two Time Life series on cooking. My flatmate was a chef, ran a resturant, worked at a Wendy's, and he can look at the freezer/pantry and create a meal with whatever we have on hand, He consults my BH&G Cookbook often. The pages are tan/brown, crumbling, marked up, tabs broken, but it has the basics everyone needs. Of course it is pre-microwaves, Insta-pots, and all the other things we have today. When I was stationed in Gemany in the early 1970s, my mom wrote to me letters and one was in reply to one where I asked for her recipes. I have just three or four pages of her handwritten recipes, with odd little notes and stuff about them. That was the best inheritence I have from her, besides the two quilts her mother made for her when she had Scarlet Fever as a teen and was bedridden for a year in the 1930s.
@SilverGirl and anyone else, if you have one of these treasures of handwritten notes, recipes, pictures, ... I highly recommend scanning them into Google docs or some other online storage, just incase there is a fire, flood or other disaster where they are lost or destroyed. Just look at the images from California's floods today, or think of the fires Los Angeles had last January that were started by arson.
And give Little Dude another hug from me for being such a wonderful kid yesterday and hanging in there today for you. (Positive thoughts here.)
Mary
non-complaint: Little Dude slept a solid 8 hours and is in a great mood so far today. Fingers crossed it holds, but so far so good.
Complaint : My youngest daughter came up while I was in the hospital ,and has stayed with me helping me get back to functioning ,for almost 2 months ,for which I am so grateful !! ,However she left this morning to go back home ......and now the house feels empty and very quiet .........
I'm sorry. Wishing you peace and comfort.
We are here. Always @carrie58.
And as someone who is alone too much, may I suggest YouTube channels that have music for cats or bird/squirrel feeders that cats like to watch. The background sounds are soothing but not intrusive and if you turn to look the cats, birds and squirrels are fun to watch.
Thank you very much SilverGirl and memcneil70 ,......it's hardest the first day ,it'll get better I know ....just have to get use to the empty again .
Yeah.
I really did not expect to like this show. Mainly because I thought it was ridiculous that the twist was, Dr. Watson is a medical doctor. I don't know. I've never read Sherlock Holmes. Maybe Dr. Watson actually was a medical doctor. But I watched it anyway because, Morris Chestnut. I found it to be surprisingly good.
What I read was in jr. high (30+ years ago) and I haven't touched it since, but IIRC he had a medical degree and was a surgeon with the British armed forces. Honorable discharge and a pension after being wounded, I think?
Dr. Watson is indeed a fictional character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who is a medical doctor. He first appeared in the novel "A Study in Scarlet" and is known as the devoted friend and confidant of Sherlock
Yes, in the Afghan wars as I recall.
Thanks for the reminder. I have a fire stick now. I had to return my Xumo after I canceled spectrum. I have plenty of time this week until the next weekend to catch up on watching stuff on my fire tv stick. I got it on December 23 with some Christmas money I got on the 21 but couldn't get to Best Buy until the 23rd.
does Daz content make my HD look FAT?? ........ YES, yes it does !!! having to go to a 1TB drive, next stop 2TB
I don't feel well. I am going to go home and rest.
...hmm, I have to think about moving to a 4 TB drive.
Particularly after this month.
ETA (scrambled a bit spells EAT)
Mmm, home baked Cookies and hot cocoa. The cookies were baked by the wife of a friend who invited me to a get together for the Yule holiday. Great food, company. and libations. A very pleasant time indeed.
My main drive is a 6TB. I have two 5TB drives that I use as rotating backup (one lives with my parents as off-site failsafe, one is at my house, and I swap weekly). They're about half full. A LOT of it is family photos and videos and such.
The scales are definitely tipping toward the "I have most of what I need," but if I needed to I could recruit one of the spare 5TB externals I picked up at the beginning of the year with the thought that such things might skyrocket in price and you never know when something's going to fail on you.
You think you have a problem. I have a 16tb external hard drive just for DAZ stuff and it'd already almost half full.
...I got hit by the memory and M2 drive price spikes which moves my planned upgrade down the road significantly. Higher capacity HDDs have already started to go up in price as well. That's the last thing I would have expected. What next, motherboards, CPU coolers, power supplies, case fans?
That does make me feel better. Although I don't actually have anything I bought pre-Genesis installed. So V1-4/M1-4 etc. is all on disks somewhere. lol.
A Non-Storage Non-Complaint: Went to lunch today with my 6.5 foot tall BFF from highschool( from 6 decades ago). Having flown from NYC via Charlotte NC to Erie PA
a few days ago, he showed up at my driveway in a rented tiny little red car, in the middle of a snow storm. I'd planned to have him drive me to shopping in JC Penney's at the mall, and then to the uptown grocery store after lunch but gave up that idea because of the ferocity of the storm. We did make it to the far side of the city and the mall area and had a lunch that couldn't be beat at Olive Garden where I gorged myself on Seafood Alfredo, and breadsticks and a Margareta. Mmmm... carbohydrates & fat & alcohol & far too much salt.
We both remarked on the size of the scallops and lamented the days a half century ago when a scallop in your meanest roadside cafe was the size of a standard marshmallow, but are now the size of mini-marshmallows even at half-decent proper restaurants.
A similar fate to that of lobster tail that used to overflow a plate but are now not much bigger than a big shrimp.
Regardless of the damage done to the ocean fauna, we both greatly enjoyed our meal and had a great time catching up on our maladies, aches & pains, and exchanging news of who from our class has died this year. He drove me home through the storm and I wished him good luck getting back to his hotel in Jamestown.
Having given up on the idea of grocery shopping too, I'd compensated by buying another whole meal at Olive Garden to take-out. Mmmm, I'm having salmon, broccoli, and minestrone soup, and leftover Seafood Alfredo & breadsticks from now through the end of the year,
which is about when the storm will be over too.
On Friday, my friend has to drive 60 miles to the airport in Erie PA, through the worst of the lake effect snow area, still in the trailing edge of the storm. And probably arrive in NYC in the middle of the storm instead of the trailing edge. I won't envy his experience. I hope he enjoys sleeping in airports.
Complaint: I finally talked to my neighbor about helping me shuffle my printers but he declined because he's very sick with the flu. So, for the next week or so, I'm gonna' still have to tiptoe around two huge printers and a big box in the middle of my living room. At least I don't have to print anything yet.
I saw this picture on Facebook. They said it is a teddy bear, but I think it is a gorilla.