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Pets / Re: Dear Cat . . .
« on: September 17, 2022, 09:56:26 am »
Dear Cocoa Bean,

Puh-leeze stop climbing onto my desk and hitting buttons on my keyboard or headbutting me when I am trying to WFH?

I am happy to provide skritches anytime, but inputting things at work before I am ready is no bueno!

Sincerely,

The Provider of Noms

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Food / Re: What's for dinner and/or dessert?
« on: April 09, 2022, 03:32:12 pm »
roasted potatoes with beef sausage

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Food / Re: What's for dinner and/or dessert?
« on: March 12, 2022, 09:21:41 am »
Chicken sofrito

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I have people in my family with life threatening allergies. Others claiming to have allergies just to avoid things they don't like really frosts me. I will happily make things without the stuff a person doesn't like. Just don't lie to me. I can and have called people out on this.

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Food / Re: What's for dinner and/or dessert?
« on: November 04, 2021, 06:01:13 pm »
Fried rice

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Food / Re: What's for dinner and/or dessert?
« on: October 10, 2021, 09:15:02 am »
Tri tip and roasted potatoes.

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Good News!!! / Re: The Update ... Post op
« on: October 08, 2021, 08:28:00 pm »
Wonderful, wonderful news!

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Life in General / Re: Miss Manners and the Birthday Bully
« on: October 05, 2021, 08:32:04 am »
I had a similar thing happen on my 23rd birthday, my parents called me up and wanted me to 'Come meet them at a restaurant for dinner!" I'd been up all night with my 1 year old, he'd had a sniffle. Got us both cleaned up and over to the restaurant, 1st hubby met us there from work.

Next thing I know, I have a sombrero on my head, whipped cream on my nose, and the Happy Birthday song is being sung. Cranky overtired toddler on lap, smelling like spit up and all. I am an introvert and am miserable with such things at the best of times, which this clearly was not, nevermind I had never cared for the restaurant in question to begin with. Somewhere there is a Polaroid of me looking remarkably like Yzma from Emperor's New Groove.

I refused to go anywhere near a restaurant, or anywhere else I could be surprised with my parents during my birth month for the next 10 years.  My parents did nothing but moan about how ungrateful I was for not enjoying the 'nice party" we'd had, and how I was a "grumpy grouch" for pointing out that if they'd wanted to do something nice for *me*, they could have brought me takeout at home and helped me console my sick baby instead.  ::) I would point out that doing people's dishes and vaccuuming is a fine (and inexpensive!) present. They even said grumpy grouch in baby talk.

Point is I agree wholeheartedly with Miss Manners. The birthday should be planned with the birthday person in mind.  Yeesh, is it so hard to be considerate?

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Food / Re: What's for dinner and/or dessert?
« on: September 29, 2021, 08:33:00 am »
Lasagna and brownies!

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Food / Re: What's for dinner and/or dessert?
« on: September 21, 2021, 09:12:18 am »
Shrimp chowder and sourdough.

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Entertaining and Hospitality / Re: What the heck is wrong with people?
« on: September 15, 2021, 11:58:43 am »
Sure, Miss Manners....let's reward atrocious behavior by giving the offender exactly what they want on a silver(?) platter!!!

There's sarcasm there, in case you missed it.

What I, as a coworker, would take from observing that is that the hostess is terribly ineffective at managing anything and will allow herself to be walked ALLLL over.  I would have lost faith in her ability to manage things at work.

Edited to add: 

"widdle fee-fees"   can I borrow that?

By all means do! I swiped it off Reddit so fair is fair!

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Food / Re: What's for dinner and/or dessert?
« on: September 15, 2021, 08:52:42 am »
Pizza or something else that will use up the marinara I made Monday.

PS: Turns out grape tomatoes are good in marinara sauce.

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Entertaining and Hospitality / Re: What the heck is wrong with people?
« on: September 15, 2021, 08:40:17 am »
Absolutely that frosting was contaminated with gluten, sounds like the neighboor was not actually celiac, just not eating gluten unless she feels like it.

Forget not offending this person, the cake should have been removed immediately when the candy was touched, never mind giving her a chance to go get a spoon and ruin the cake for everyone else. If she doesn't care about getting her germs all over the cake, I would not be prone to care about hurting her widdle fee-fees. Never mind that Neighboor was not invited in the first place and should therefore not have been let in the front door. Whatever happened to just saying, "Sorry Gladys, I am in the middle of entertaining invited guests!" and shutting the door?


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LOLs / Re: Pet hi-jinks
« on: July 20, 2021, 07:07:36 pm »
Thought of a new one to commit threadomancy with!

When our Maine Coon cat was 13, we acquired 2 kittens from a lady I worked with at that time. Badger had been an only cat prior to this (we did have dogs, who he got along with, but no other cats).

Badger decided to express his annoyance by learning to open the mudroom door ( he turned the knob with his paws) and shoving the kittens out the dog door with an air of "I have seniority, get out!".

The kittens would sit on the back porch for a few minutes and wait for him to leave the mudroom before coming back in thru the dog door. Otherwise he'd just shove them out it again.  ;D

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Family and Children / Re: Dear Prudence July 6 letter
« on: July 11, 2021, 05:52:42 pm »
Apologies all around but I have to say I do feel for the husband. He has been showing his displeasure/anger at the situation and his wife has downplayed it.  So yes he did finally blow up.  As far as the father..he is the type that you can ask a million times to play nice and he will pretend he never heard you. Until someone stands up to him...forcefully...he will never get it.  Then when someone finally does stand up to him he acts like the innocent party.

When I was a kid I was teased terribly by my cousins and uncle.  It was expected that you just put up with it.  When I got upset I was told I was oversensitive and didn't have a sense of humor.  No one defended me.  Then one day my father and cousin did this to my 8-year-old son upsetting him.  I WENT BALLISTIC. All that pent-up anger I had as a kid came out on the two of them....but more so on my father who I told was supposed to be protecting my son. I also told him if his grandson never wanted to see him again I would fully support that. Over the top--maybe, but it got my point across to my father. Asking politely never would.

I applaud you for protecting your son as I was not. Kudos!

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