texasmama Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 I'm baking potatoes and chopping the bit of brisket we kept and drowning it in bbq sauce to make bbq beef potatoes for the males in the fam tonight. If I had my Instant Pot, I could just throw dirty potatoes into the pot and it would wash them and cut off the eyes, bake them, and them apply the bbq beef, all in 5 seconds. I can't wait to get my Instant Pot. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 BTW, I got a pm from someone with a zero post count asking about my son's puberty. Ummm, no. Reported it as child s#x perp spam, and the person was deleted. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 (edited) If y'all have any prayers or good thoughts you could send dh's way, they sure would be appreciated tonight. He just came home - waaaaaay early and said that "P" gave her two weeks notice today. Which means his entire department is down to just him and the other lady who has been mostly out sick for the past month. He is still trying to do the work of two full time people, plus everything the sick lady can't do, and in addition closing down a warehouse and making sure everything is transferred or disposed of properly. He went out for a walk in some pretty crappy weather. :( Edited April 11, 2016 by Susan in TN 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Done, Susan. (((Susan's dh))) That is a lot of stress. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 If y'all have any prayers or good thoughts you could send dh's way, they sure would be appreciated tonight. He just came home - waaaaaay early and said that "P" gave her two weeks notice today. Which means his entire department is down to just him and the other lady who has been mostly out sick for the past month. He is still trying to do the work of two full time people, plus everything the sick lady can't do, and in addition closing down a warehouse and making sure everything is transferred or disposed of properly. He went out for a walk in some pretty crappy weather. :( Ugh, I am so sorry. He will be in my thoughts. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornblower Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Sending good vibes to your dh, Susan. That must be very stressful for him. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Openhearted Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 :grouphug: Susan's dh and prayers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Openhearted Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Lynn, I hope you and your family are feeling better, and that you got a nap in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornblower Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Found out an American friend - well, more like a long time acquaintance/someone I've known for years now & whom I normally see once or twice a year but we keep in touch online etc & have some big things in common, but there are lots of things I don't know about her - is very ill. When I first met her she was very vibrant, taking at least one major trip a year & her trips were huge adventure type things, riding horses across a desert type thing. She worked in law enforcement. I've been emailing her every couple months & each month it's been worse & worse news. She's been progressively worse the last couple years; a series of small things, some surgeries, consults with specialists out East, but it's been cascading & now she's been in & out of hospital for a year because she keeps getting sepsis. She gets sick, goes into ICU, they give her abx in IV, eventually she goes home, continues IV abx, recovers. A couple months later, wham, again. She's just under 40, I think. She's been told to get her affairs in order & make plans for all her animals because it's possible the next bout will be fatal. Too much consecutive damage and she's getting weaker and they can't figure out how to make the infections stop. Kind of hard to know how to respond to an email like that. :( 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 How horrible, hornblower. I'm so sorry. :grouphug: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Openhearted Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Hornblower, that is terrible. I'm so sorry for your friend and hoping and praying for a miracle. :grouphug: to you both. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Hugs to Hornblower's friends and Susan's dh and Lynn.... I read Vegan Under Pressure this afternoon about using a pressure cooker to make vegan food. I realized that I have some vegetable problems. That said, the cookbook had a good variety of meal options, and I liked the thought of 6-8 of the recipes. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 At dinner tonight, dd9 announced that they are forming a band (dds9, 7, and 13) and will call themselves "Earth, Wind, and Fire." Me: Uh, honey, that band already exists. Dd9: WHAT?!?!? I worked SO HARD to think of that name! It's the greatest name EVER! Me: I'm sorry - maybe you could call yourselves "Dirt, Breeze, and Spark." She was not amused. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 (edited) If y'all have any prayers or good thoughts you could send dh's way, they sure would be appreciated tonight. He just came home - waaaaaay early and said that "P" gave her two weeks notice today. Which means his entire department is down to just him and the other lady who has been mostly out sick for the past month. He is still trying to do the work of two full time people, plus everything the sick lady can't do, and in addition closing down a warehouse and making sure everything is transferred or disposed of properly. He went out for a walk in some pretty crappy weather. :( Oh, man! :grouphug: Edited April 11, 2016 by ikslo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Can someone explain this task card thing to me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Found out an American friend - well, more like a long time acquaintance/someone I've known for years now & whom I normally see once or twice a year but we keep in touch online etc & have some big things in common, but there are lots of things I don't know about her - is very ill. When I first met her she was very vibrant, taking at least one major trip a year & her trips were huge adventure type things, riding horses across a desert type thing. She worked in law enforcement. I've been emailing her every couple months & each month it's been worse & worse news. She's been progressively worse the last couple years; a series of small things, some surgeries, consults with specialists out East, but it's been cascading & now she's been in & out of hospital for a year because she keeps getting sepsis. She gets sick, goes into ICU, they give her abx in IV, eventually she goes home, continues IV abx, recovers. A couple months later, wham, again. She's just under 40, I think. She's been told to get her affairs in order & make plans for all her animals because it's possible the next bout will be fatal. Too much consecutive damage and she's getting weaker and they can't figure out how to make the infections stop. Kind of hard to know how to respond to an email like that. :( :grouphug: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 ((Susan's dh)) ((Hornblower's friend)) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Oh & I HATE cooking. The only reason I would even think of the instant pot is if it really really made my life super duper easy. I don't know if there are vegan instant pot recipes that don't require chopping and slicing and crushing and dicing and mincing? Chili I guess? But I keep thinking I could make that in a Le Creuset in the oven (it has a slow cook function) but I never have. I can't remember the last time we've had chili because I'm so lazy. Someone posted a recipe recently in the chat section which was just dumping a couple cans of beans & some other stuff in a pot & that sounded doable.... Realistically I have to consider that I'm really not likely to use it. I need a cook. Dd bakes. Nobody here really likes to cook. I keep encouraging ds to become something useful like a vegan chef or a registered massage therapist. (useful to ME, you see...) but so far, he's not biting. Yay! My "I hate cooking" sister! Cheers! :cheers2: How are you feeling, Lynn? Thanks! Still scratchy throat, headache, hanging in there. BTW, I got a pm from someone with a zero post count asking about my son's puberty. Ummm, no. Reported it as child s#x perp spam, and the person was deleted. :ack2: :blink: :eek: If y'all have any prayers or good thoughts you could send dh's way, they sure would be appreciated tonight. He just came home - waaaaaay early and said that "P" gave her two weeks notice today. Which means his entire department is down to just him and the other lady who has been mostly out sick for the past month. He is still trying to do the work of two full time people, plus everything the sick lady can't do, and in addition closing down a warehouse and making sure everything is transferred or disposed of properly. He went out for a walk in some pretty crappy weather. :( :grouphug: Lynn, I hope you and your family are feeling better, and that you got a nap in. Thank you! Both boys have been fever free this afternoon. I didn't get a nap in, but I'm hoping to go to bed early. I didn't hit quote, but prayers and best wishes for Ikslo's SMIL and for Hornblower's friend. :grouphug: 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 (edited) At dinner tonight, dd9 announced that they are forming a band (dds9, 7, and 13) and will call themselves "Earth, Wind, and Fire." Me: Uh, honey, that band already exists. Dd9: WHAT?!?!? I worked SO HARD to think of that name! It's the greatest name EVER! Me: I'm sorry - maybe you could call yourselves "Dirt, Breeze, and Spark." She was not amused. Oh, Susan! You made me laugh out loud! Edited April 11, 2016 by KrissiK 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Hugs and prayers for Susan's dh and Hornblower's friend! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 I bought new coffee. I've been drinking McDonald's Breakfast Blend every morning because it's good. But I decided to branch out a bit and got McDonald's Columbian.... Supreme... or whatever. So I had to brew a pot when I got home. It's good. McDonald's has good coffee. Just sayin'! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Oh Hornblower, I am so sorry. (((Hornblower and Friend))) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Horn blower your friend is in my thoughts. :( How very difficult. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 (edited) I'm excited about Jean losing weight. What have you all done to lose weight? This whole ice cream and sedentary thing isn't working for me. :blink: In the past I've had luck with fitness and Whole30. NO OTHER DIET HAS MADE A DIFFERENCE! No low carb, no green tea, no pills. Nada. I did well on the grapefruit diet as a teen. I could try that again. In the future I want to try that 12 hour fast thing and juicing. Don't scold me. I don't care. Okay, share stories. I'm desperate. Eta: I don't intend to lose weight pregnant. I've just been trying to get in shape for 5 1/2 years and I'm tired of it being so hard. I want some good ideas for a few months from now. Edited April 12, 2016 by Slache 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Openhearted Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 It has been dark, dreary and rainy here all day. I have been ready for bedtime since noon. Just one more hour and the children can be put to bed. Then.....blissfulness* Apparently, blissfulness is not a word, but y'all know what I mean. :) 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 If y'all have any prayers or good thoughts you could send dh's way, they sure would be appreciated tonight. He just came home - waaaaaay early and said that "P" gave her two weeks notice today. Which means his entire department is down to just him and the other lady who has been mostly out sick for the past month. He is still trying to do the work of two full time people, plus everything the sick lady can't do, and in addition closing down a warehouse and making sure everything is transferred or disposed of properly. He went out for a walk in some pretty crappy weather. :( Found out an American friend - well, more like a long time acquaintance/someone I've known for years now & whom I normally see once or twice a year but we keep in touch online etc & have some big things in common, but there are lots of things I don't know about her - is very ill. When I first met her she was very vibrant, taking at least one major trip a year & her trips were huge adventure type things, riding horses across a desert type thing. She worked in law enforcement. I've been emailing her every couple months & each month it's been worse & worse news. She's been progressively worse the last couple years; a series of small things, some surgeries, consults with specialists out East, but it's been cascading & now she's been in & out of hospital for a year because she keeps getting sepsis. She gets sick, goes into ICU, they give her abx in IV, eventually she goes home, continues IV abx, recovers. A couple months later, wham, again. She's just under 40, I think. She's been told to get her affairs in order & make plans for all her animals because it's possible the next bout will be fatal. Too much consecutive damage and she's getting weaker and they can't figure out how to make the infections stop. Kind of hard to know how to respond to an email like that. :( Hugs and prayers. :grouphug: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Blissfulness is too, a word. I fell asleep in my car in the driveway. Until the UPS driver came and woke me up. :scared: 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 My day had all the things, apparently. Testing went pretty well, except a couple of the dc needed extra time for the math section. (Especially the one who doesn't know her times tables yet. However, she is resourceful and drew her own math manipulatives -- lots and lots of rows of circles -- to figure out the answers.) Then ds15 had a baseball game. And the battery in our van died when we got there. So we waited for AAA -- at least we got to watch the game while we waited -- and got that taken care of. (Our team lost by one run. I think. I really never know what the score is.) We stopped for pizza on the way home. We got some cheap $5 pizzas that the kids like. Dh was sweet and insisted that we stop at another pizza place so that I could get a gf pizza. While I was waiting for my pizza, ds15 came in and told me that we needed to get some water. Someone had thrown a cigarette into a flower bed and there was smoke. (It was a flame that was smoldering and a bunch of smoke. On a windy day.) The lady working in the pizza place gave me a bucket of water and ds15 and I put it out. Other than that, the day was pretty normal. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Junie the firefighter!!! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 John asked how to be an elephant so I showed him and now he's praising Hitler. I did something wrong. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 There was a fire lit by teens setting off firecrackers in the greenspace near our house years ago. It wasn't just smoldering. It was actively burning. (Though we live in a wet area so it was still under control.) I called 9-1-1 and reported it. They took so long getting to it that I ran down to my house got buckets for me and the kids and put it out, and they still hadn't arrived. Then I called them back to tell them "never mind. I took care of it." The dispatcher was snippy with me but I was snippy back because honestly, I did not want the greenspace to burn down and our houses around it. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 (edited) John asked how to be an elephant so I showed him and now he's praising Hitler. I did something wrong. I didn't think elephants sounded even close to a bunch of Nazis. I pull my lips in and make a high pitched hrrrrrrrRRRRRRRR sound. Sounds nothing like "Heil Hitler". (Joking of course. The elephant trunk is a hard animal motion to pull off.) Edited April 12, 2016 by Tsuga 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 I was mistaken about the baseball score. (I told you I never know the score!) They needed one more run -- not to tie the game, but to keep the mercy rule from being implemented. :huh: We lost 12-2. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Oops, Junie. (I'm not laughing at how badly you misinterpreted the score. :lol: Oh, wait. . . I am!) 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Oops, Junie. (I'm not laughing at how badly you misinterpreted the score. :lol: Oh, wait. . . I am!) :lol: I know. I don't even try to keep track of the score most of the time. I'm too busy counting heads. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 I'm drawing a flow chart driving schedule for myself for this week. Never a good sign. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 :lol: I know. I don't even try to keep track of the score most of the time. I'm too busy counting heads. Spoken like a true mother of six. :) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 I put a little smoldering fire out on the side of someone's house by stepping on it and then emptying my water bottle to make sure. I then knocked on the door to let the owners know and they looked like they might murder their teenage son. I didn't mean to tattle. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Blissfulness is too, a word. I fell asleep in my car in the driveway. Until the UPS driver came and woke me up. :scared: I have a crush on my UPS driver. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 I have a crush on my UPS driver. Mine was very clearly amused at finding me "sawing logs". 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Hornblower, I was just thinking of your friend. A few years ago, my sister had some very difficult health challenges. I didn't know until later that she had written good-bye letters to each of my children. Just in case. :crying: She has been doing better in the past year. She said that she tore up the letters when she realized that she was going to get better. I hope that the doctors can figure out what is going on with your friend and help her to get better, too. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 (edited) I have a crush on my UPS driver. I will see Dr. McDreamy Dentist tomorrow. Thankfully, a kid had a cavity. :leaving: Edited May 25, 2016 by texasmama 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 (edited) I made Krissi's dressing. Edited May 25, 2016 by texasmama 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 I'm excited about Jean losing weight. What have you all done to lose weight? This whole ice cream and sedentary thing isn't working for me. :blink: In the past I've had luck with fitness and Whole30. NO OTHER DIET HAS MADE A DIFFERENCE! No low carb, no green tea, no pills. Nada. I did well on the grapefruit diet as a teen. I could try that again. In the future I want to try that 12 hour fast thing and juicing. Don't scold me. I don't care. Okay, share stories. I'm desperate. Eta: I don't intend to lose weight pregnant. I've just been trying to get in shape for 5 1/2 years and I'm tired of it being so hard. I want some good ideas for a few months from now. Breastfeeding for 34 months was the best weight loss plan I was ever on. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Sorry, Slache. I forgot about your weight loss question until Ikslo quoted it. Water aerobics classes helped me to lose weight. I wish I could find a class I could consistently attend. I will tell you that the gf diet is not good for weight loss. Nope. My mom has done well with Weight Watchers. And she says that her brother goes on a "soup diet" whenever he needs to lose weight. It doesn't matter what kind of soup -- just soup instead of regular meals. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 :grouphug: For all those going through hard times right now. I had an eventful afternoon. My old cat came squinting up to me this afternoon and I knew immediately that we had a problem. Sure enough, she lost her graft. I thought she might, because it looked loose to me from day 1 (but better loose than tight.) So then it was rush out the door to find out if she still had a big old ulcer there. Thankfully, it looks like not. There is ulcer, but it is small and on both edges where the graft pulled away. So she hurts, but at least for now it looks like the eye is going to be okay. Sigh of relief, and now I get to be even more uptight than I already am. In other news, I channeled my frustration and exacting angst into my writing, and did a beautiful rewrite of the action scene from yesterday, and am also really beginning to delve into the main character's alter-ego, which is always a dark, disturbing and very interesting trip. I'm sitting at 22,700 roughly at day 11 of camp, so I'm right on target for my 50,000. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 (edited) Sick kids. :( Booyah....so did not want to booyah on this. Edited April 12, 2016 by kbeal 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 I like the idea of writing books, but the only ideas I ever come up with are either sappy or stupid. Or both. For now, I use the excuse of "I don't have time." It's sort of true, but mostly it's just an excuse. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Sick kids. :( Booyah....so did not want to booyah on this. :( Maybe it should be a "Hope they get over it quickly" booyah. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 In other news, I channeled my frustration and exacting angst into my writing, and did a beautiful rewrite of the action scene from yesterday, and am also really beginning to delve into the main character's alter-ego, which is always a dark, disturbing and very interesting trip. I'm sitting at 22,700 roughly at day 11 of camp, so I'm right on target for my 50,000. This has always fascinated and baffled me. The whole character thing. I wish I could write! Dh has worked on a children's story off and on over the years for our kids. It is a good story, well written, a little bizarre, but interesting. I don't know how he does it. Maybe some day he will get it finished. :) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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