MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish
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Dianarose--The smallest thing a CT can find is 10 millimeters by the most sensitive machines. Bone scans don't actually show a lesion, it shows an increase in the use of the marker. The size of the actual problem area can't be measured by a bone scan. There is no test that will show microscopic cancer except pathology reports. And I love the pie eating contest as an opening event! Oh, my what a mess that paint must have made. I can see how you don't find it amusing yet, but I bet you'll be at least smiling about it after the shop is done and open. Every new business has it's share of start up mishaps!
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My boss of over 2 yrs (the owner) came in today. She didn't say goodbye, thanks for all your hard work, or anything. I looked around and said WTF am I doing here and packed up my stuff and left. She is the most ungrateful person I know. Lesson learned, how not to treat my employee's.
Nativemainer- How do you like this heat? I will be happy to see some cooler temps next week.
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Diana, glad you left! Make sure to take pics to share with us as you get the new place ready.
Val, sorry about the fridge
Hope you get a long run out of the new one.
Waiting for hub to pressure cook his ribs. About 10-15 minutes of that then he grills for just a minute or two to crisp up sauce. I drool thinking about his ribs, I've never tasted better anywhere. Had steamers to start us off. New fish shop opened near us so we decided to give them a try. Very good. We used to try lots of sauces with butter or garlic or wine, etc. then one day he just reduced the cooking liquid a bit and we used that. Best sauce ever!
I still smell like Coppertone from being at the bay beach earlier. Does anyone NOT like that smell? To me, it's just summer. I's actually a knockoff but smells just like CT and works well so I'm happy!
Hope you all are enjoying the holiday weekend as much as possible given your circumstances. Hugs.0 -
Congratulations Dianarose.........0 -
Dianarose - You're free!!! Goodbye to bad rubbish right?
Great button Loral!
Marlegal - Good ribs definitely take talent. You've got my mouth watering thinking about them.
Was a perfect beach day here. Not really a beach goer myself but if I were that's where I would have been!
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Marlegal, I do love the smell of Coppertone! I just got back from an impromptu trip to the beach - when I was putting it on I just smiled from the memories that rushed in.
Dianarose - so exciting about your own bakery opening soon! A pie-eating contest sounds like a great way to introduce yourself to the community. Sorry about the paint incident, especially sorry about your dress! I can't believe your boss didn't say anything to you - what a biyotch!
Had to smile about the Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest. I actually like to watch that, too, because it's so gross! Call me sick, haha. I forgot to watch it Thursday so my son recorded it today so now we can get grossed out on our own time.
Hi Val! I hate having a sudden bill like a new refrigerator - hopefully the appliances are at least on sale for all those holiday episodes!
barsco - my mouth is still watering thinking about the donut truck, lol, but now I'm thinking about those ribs, too!
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Barsco, thanks for the compliment a while back.
Diana, I can't believe that woman's shop was a success with that attitude. Maybe it won't be now that you're taking your recipes with you! Not that I wish her failure--bad karma, if I believed in it! Loral, love the button, though.
They sure don't make appliances like they used to. Whose parents had a fridge (ours was Coldspot) that lasted twenty plus years? We've lived here 18 years and have replaced everything.
Now replacing tissue expanders for new foobs is something I look forward to! 16 months is too long but they've held up well. I guess those are a form of appliance...0 -
lol Jeannie, I guess they are some kind of software!!! And I agree with others who commented on your awesome smile/happy face.
HNS, exactly...you smell that smell and you smile with memories - you got exactly what I was trying to say!
Barsco, it's just so funny how we wind up with simple being better....dry rub ribs with spices and let sit for a couple hours. Dump ribs, beer, bbq sauce into pressure cooker. Let it go for a while. Remove ribs, reduce sauce. Coat ribs again in that sauce and grill for just a few minutes to crisp up and get some char marks. Beautifully simple and finger licking good! And the beauty of pressure cooking is that 99% of the fat melts off/disintegrates.
Sorry for long food post...you guys know that's not my usual style, but I'm having lots of yum yum moments this weekend and apparently needed to share!!! lol
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Oh my, I am so drooling over those ribs. I love meats cooked in the pressure cooker. Some people are afraid to use one for fear of it blowing its lid but I never was. Used a large canner as well for everything under the sun. Loved doing that though lots & lots of work in the preparation. (cutting potoatoes, etc) There wasn't much I didn't can or a jam I didn't make. Now I only make Strawberry jam & sold my canner & all the jars & supplies a couple of years ago.
The smell of Coppertone reminds me of when I was young & lived at home & used to 'tan' with my Mother. Oh, my, I miss her... We'd listen to the radio & I'd tell her the words to the songs & she'd laugh........ fun times. I remember once I sent for the words to Jumpin' Jack Flash by the Rolling Stones from a radio station in San Francisco when I was 16 & when I read them to her she was shocked - I still know every single correct word in that song & think of her & 'smell' Coppertone whenever I hear it... sigh....
Dianarose ~ I am not shocked by your former boss being that way. When I quit a job I'd had for just a couple of years when I was in my early twenties for a better job with the State of Mi, on my very last day I went into my boss' office to say goodbye but before I could speak she said, "I hope your new job is lousy." I replied, "It won't be." And walked out without saying goodbye. What a bitch! She'd tried to get me to stay, I was a bookkeeper, & she offered me a substantial raise but I didn't like her & there was more advancement in working for the State. Argh!!
Well, must get to bed. Early to rise to head north.
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(Hi E~)
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We stayed with a family in Brazil years ago who didn't have much, but they had a pressure cooker! My oh my, she was a good cook. We introduced her to chocolate chip cookies and she slid to the floor in rapture!
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Dianarose--Don't mind the heat, but the humidity is another thing all together! That I could do without. Former boss is a jerk and ignorant. Good to say goodbye to.
Nothing like the smell of sunscreen to say summer!
That rib recipe sounds very yummy!!!!!!
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marlegal - DH has inherited a pressure cooker from his mom. Never thought to use it for ribs - I usuallly boil them before grilling. Might have to try the pc method.
Val - what a great memory to have of you and your Mom. One of my fav's is that Mom would always sing and dance with the grandkids - usually kid songs. Her love of children was immense.
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With al the memories going on here. you would think it was "memorial" day. Glad to read about everyone having a good weekend. Seems like the cancer worries are taking a backseat to having fun, which is good. My Coppertone memories include just laying out in the yard as a kid to going with my best friend to a private lake assoc. beach club and playing "Light My Fire" on the juke box there. Also "Hanky Panky" by Tommy James & the Shondells. Also "Tighten' Up" by Archie Bell & The Drells and "Cool Jerk" by the Capitols. (Uh-oh, I feel an urge to You Tube coming on.)
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I am still using my 40-year-old Presto electric pressure cooker. Mostly nowadays since it is only the two us, I use it for stews and pot roast mostly. But back in the younger years I used to use it for ribs, sweet & sour pork, etc.
Carol
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Eli - I LOVE YouTube. It is so much fun to put on TopTracks by an artist and it just plays through automatically. I did John Denver recently. DH has a pianist he loves from one of those Zen-like satellite channels. It is great to put on, some romantic some very soothing. His name is Kevin Kern. What did we do b4 we had the Internet?
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luvmygoats, I admit I am a Google-holic, but back before internet and probably ten years before that, really, I had a social life that I not only would not even miss the internet, but I only rarely watched T.V. back then. I know I take to the internet because I have a flighty brain that likes to jump here and there and the internet just enables that.
But back to your actual question, as for music, well we just had to make due with vinyl and 8-tracks, didn't we? And those new-fangled cassettes.
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I wish I could have a map with "pins" for the location of everyone who ever came onto this thread. Just on this page is WA, ME & FL (and if Meece checks in, CA) so virtually the four corners of the continental U.S. are covered. Kind of amazing. Then, of course, we have Momine as our international correspondent. Wonder how rajkumari is doing?
It was nice to hear from ReginaR!!!
Dianarose, All I have been seeing lately is the CRONUT. (Croissant + Doughnut.) Have you tried making one yet? Anyone try eating one yet?
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Well, here's Oregon to add to the mix.
Saw Lone Ranger on the 4th (it was my bday & I had promised myself months ago I would go see it on day #1 since it was the birthday.) I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!! I guess it's been getting some bad reviews but I can't understand why. Then yesterday I saw The Heat with Sandra Bullock & Melissa McCarthy-pretty darn funny, but pretty darn baaaaaad language. Unfortunately we all seem to have become somewhat immune to that. The movie would have been hilarious enough without all that, but that said, I still liked it. I'm thinking I need me some pretty boy movie so contemplating White House Down this evening with Channing Tatum! Yeah! That's what I'm talking about---some ribs!!!!!!
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Are you talking about Channing Tatum's ribs now? You get a six-pack with those. Almost a meal.
After the main course comes the dessert. Pick two.
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Happy Birthday, EPH! Just a couple days late. May party mode continue on.
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Happy belated EPH, I had one piece left for you...0 -
You ladies and your suntan lotion memories made me think of when I was a little kid about 5 yrs old. Late 60's. Mom was home with us in the summer and we would play in our little baby pool and mom used to lay out in a groovy bikini, sunning herself with cocoa butter. It came in a little jar the same size as a shoe polish jar. She would also cut the grass in her bikini sometimes with a push mower that spuun around in a circle. She had sunglasses that had interchangeable lenses in different colors, they were big and round, pefect circles, and I loved playing with them and changing the colors. Oh and she was always getting stung by bees for some reason! Always hearing a "smack! Ouch!" Every so often lol!
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Yes, Channing's 6 pack & Antonio for dessert! I am one happy woman!!!!
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Happy belated birthday Eph! Sounds like you made it a good one.
Eli - 8 track tapes! There's a memory........ My parents used to have a stereo/bar combo with a fake fire in the bottom portion of it. My friends and I would pop in a favourite tape, lay on the floor watching the fake fire and talk about whatever teenage girls talk about. There was never any booze in the bar - but it was pretty cool anyway.
I convinced DS to come with me today to pick some fresh cherries, rasperries and strawberries. He was kind of dragging his heels but there was not much else happening this lazy Sunday afternoon. By the time we were done he was happy that he came. The owner mentioned that we were welcome to eat a few as we picked. Well........ give a teenage boy open invitation to eat and you know what happens. The farm is just down the road from us so we could go every day if we choose to do so. Fresh fruit - sooooo delicious.
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Love the button !!!! I am going to have a face book page for the bakery. I will post pictures. My nephew is going to set it up for me.
I am upset with my older sister right now. She has not been there for me since this bc crap started in 2004. I took the first step and let her know what is going on and that there is a good chance it is genetic so she can take precautions for herself. Even though she hasn't been there for me, I couldn't not tell her. My brother informed me that she has posted stuff about my bc on her face page that I asked her to keep private and she is doing it for attention for herself. Pisses me off. My brother said he was going to post asking her to take it off as it is not for everyone to know. Dam her, she hasn't changed one single bit. I did what is right and now I am done with her again.
Jeannie- getting rid of the dam TE's will feel so great. I can sleep on my stomach again and you will be able to soon as well.
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Eph- I didn't read back far enough. Happy be-lated birthday !!!
Cronut- hmmm, I will have to look that one up..
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Happy belated Birthday, Eph!
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Dianarose - the cronut has been one of Yahoo's trending stories all weekend. Croissant/donut cross. I've never had one or seen one. Texas you know we only know donuts and in some places kolaches. So glad old bakery job is DONE. Old boss so much her loss. When will she realize it? I will be awaiting your pics with great anticipation. Sorry your sister has not supported you and posted private things. I'm not on social media though I do know this site is public. DH has a facebook account but only to check a few things. I have to have coaching to even sign in. Even DD limits her's severely.
HLB - loved the story about your mom mowing in her bikini. Don't remember sunglasses with changeable lenses.
Barsco - yum berries/cherries just down the road. I would gorge myself. Glad you and DS got some time together.
Eli - I remember having to call the reference librarian to ask for addresses. I think that is one job that is endangered.
Happy birthday Eph. I was just reading an old Womans Day with an article by Katie Couric bemoaning the increased use of vulgar language. I agree with your assessment.
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Haven't heard of the cronut myself - but just checked it out on YouTube. They do look kinda yummy!
Dianarose - I am sorry that your sister has shown time and again that she thinks of herself before others. I agree that you did the right thing and now it's time to put her out of your mind until she decides to mature.
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Happy belated birthday Eph!
We saw the Lone Ranger last night and I liked it too! Of course they missed their opportunity for the line that was trademark when I was a kid....."who WAS that masked man?"
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Barsco, not sure, but I think I heard that line at one point. No worries I plan to see it again soon & I'll check!
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Eph - thinking you meant to address your last post to Chachamom. Made me think for a bit though as to what "line" you were referring to. lol
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