So...whats for dinner?
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Minus, that salad was made by my favorite aunt when I was a kid, only the flavors were cherry jello and whole cherries (from a can no doubt) instead of avocado. She also used pecans instead of cashews. I bet the emerald version is pretty!
I have cooked so little for the two of us lately, I love eating vicariously through others here lol! I especially appreciate your meals Minus because I would eat exactly the same way left on my own.
Tonight was simply leftover pork on buns with some barbecue sauce and corn on the cob that was past it's prime. Not terribly satisfactory but adequate. I have leftover pizza toppings that I will use in some calzones, possibly tomorrow.
Was the term "jumpups" from luvmygoats?
I often wonder what Susan is cooking up.
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Btw, tomorrow I call the realtor to set up a meeting next week. That will motivate us to finish up the few last things around here.
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Oh my Nance - that makes 'real'.
As for the jello salad, my Mother's favorite was raspberry jello with frozen raspberries & crushed pineapple & pecans. When my son was little we had strawberry jello w/frozen strawberries and sliced bananas.
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We got busy working on the house, Sharon had eaten a late lunch and wasn't hungry, so my dinner was a peach....really... :-)
I think my liking of peaches is genetic. My mom loved (only) peach yogurt and when she was able, she would make (only) peach jam.
What we are doing now are things that require a few minutes of work interspersed with a day of waiting--fixing where a doorknob dented the wall, fixing hairline cracks in the wall and similar stuff. When we are waiting on everything, we're cleaning up the "dust and debris" from the work and decluttering....lots of decluttering.
DD texted (the phone service is spotty) and said she's having a great time and has met a lot of people that go to school here but are home in the midwest for the summer.
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We were never into Jello salads--for us, salads were raw & based on greens and Jello was dessert. The only stuff we added to Jello was fruit, or whipped cream to make a sort of chiffon--both of which were to enhance it as a dessert. Might be a cultural-regional thing: I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. But when I got married (to a Gentile...48 years ago today) and moved to Seattle, we were introduced to the world of sweet pickles in tuna salad, Jello-based dinner salads, and casserole potluck suppers. (We also had a bit of embarrassment when, after Bob got his PhD and entered UW Medical School and I joined the "Medical Mrs."--hey, it was 1975--club, we were invited to a potluck and requested to bring a hot dish, our own dinner plates and glasses. Being grownups, we brought wineglasses...and it got sort of awkward when only water, lemonade and Hawaiian Punch were served. It was then I realized we were the only non-LDS couple in attendance; and I the only wife with a full-time outside job and a career other than motherhood). We do have a friend from central MI who makes his mom's family "green slime" jello-based salad: lime Jello, Marshmallow Fluff, Cool-Whip, walnuts, maraschino cherries, coconut and candied fruit. It is a terrific dessert, but it is always served as a side with the main course. And I am embarrassed to admit I like it.
Eric, glad your daughter's flight worked out in the end. (And smart girl--I always pack protein bars for when food courts are closed, when I sleep past the hotel free breakfast buffet, or when I'm too cheap to order room service (and don't want the waiter to see me in my nightie and bed-head). Tonight we were less than a mile from her: we celebrated our 48th anniversary at RPM Steak on Kinzie St. (When you're an an almost-keto diet, dinners out are either steakhouses, fish restaurants, or wing joints). We shared an appetizer of half a seafood tower: half a Maine lobster, 4 Pacific oysters, a king crab leg and two gigantic prawns the size of lobster tails. I performed "seafood surgery" and was able to split all the crustacean stuff evenly between us. Bob's entree was a filet mignon (to me, the most boring of steaks--tender but not all that flavorful), and mine a grass-fed bone-in ribeye. Sides were spicy broccolini and sauteed hen-of-the-woods mushrooms. Bob polished off all his steak, and I took most of mine home along with the veggies. Their desserts are awesome (especially the Pavlova and the "deconstructed Boston Cream Pie:" housemade donuts with sides of custard and hot fudge), but this time off-limits to me. So we shared fresh local strawberries & giant raspberries, cream on the side. They did throw in a cotton-candy chaser, which Bob nibbled and we took home the rest. Good thing--Gordy met us at our place after work (swing shift) to get a new asthma inhaler, so we sent the cotton candy home with him and Leslie.
Here's something dinner-related that would likely interest you, Eric. We've had the same cast-aluminum Broilmaster natural gas grill since 2004--and that one replaced the original we bought in 1987. We had it serviced in 2011 when there were spiderwebs in the venturis and the igniter failed to work, even with a new battery (we have an Aim&Flame for just those occasions).Lately, I've noticed (most recently, Tues, night when I was grilling burgers) that though both burners ignite, the flame was coming up only in the center--and flaring very high even with no food on the grill. And the thermometer died a couple of years ago (no biggie, I use oven & instant-read ones anyway). So yesterday I did some exploratory surgery.
First thing I noticed: what appeared to be peeling black paint in the lid interior threatening to fall onto food. Looked it up and found that's not paint: it's "schmutz" from years of smoke and carbonized grease; in the right amounts, like the seasoning on a cast-iron skillet; but if built up too much & not "planed" occasionally, unappetizing carbon flakes can fall onto the food or even back down into the burners. Next I went to clean the grease cup--nope, it was gone, rotted out over a year ago. Then the lava rocks--missing. No ceramic briquets either. Between the briquet rack & the burners, a metal mesh flame-buster...which was rusted and disintegrating. Then the pièce de resistance: the burner is shot. Like in "It's dead, Jim." Oh, it lights all right--but you know those weird high central flames I was talking about? They were coming out of a couple of big honkin' holes in the center of the "bowtie" shaped burner. And not the holes put there in the factory, either.
I was all set to throw in the towel and buy a new grill--this time shiny stainless with bells & whistles like infrared, griddle and side burner(s). Did some checking and found out that Broilmaster has a lifetime warranty against the chassis warping or rusting, and is easily the sturdiest gass grill out there. (And the only one still made out of cast aluminum). So I did the math and realized that buying all the new parts and paying someone to clean the inner lid and install the parts would still be cheaper than buying a new one of this model + installation. (Should have done that with the '87 grill--might still have it today). The grill guys are coming Monday. I haven't used half the features on the grill so I'm not disappointed that for the money, all it does is cook--on its regular burners. Oh, and outlive us all.
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Sandy, there are people who will clean your grill??!! I've got to get closer to civilization . . .
I've had that rusted disintegrated parts experience more times than I can count. This time we bought a Weber.
Happy anniversary by the way!
Filet is DH's most favored steak too. Not me, give me a porterhouse or ribeye.
When eating at a Chinese buffet, one of my favorite things (besides the canned peaches) is the not-quite-set jello with bananas. Other than that, the only time I eat jello anymore is when I'm prepping for a colonoscopy or when someone else has prepared it.
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Jello was dessert food in my family, too. Usually with canned mixed fruit. At one period in my cooking life, I made a tomato aspic salad that was good but I don't remember the ingredients. DH's brother makes a green jello dish that he thinks is great. I think it might be similar to the avocado and pineapple version mentioned.
Last night's dinner was mundane but satisfying. I used the Mix setting on the microwave/convection oven to cook bone-in but skinless (thanks to removing the skin!) chicken thighs with a can of golden mushroom soup dumped on top. A small amount of sauce was generated. Each serving was one chicken thigh and a few spoonfuls of sauce over steamed rice, the four-rice combo mentioned in an earlier post. Also a tossed salad. Even dh, not a chicken fan, made approving sounds.
Tonight will probably be a repeat of the chicken and rice, heated in the microwave and a side of steamed asparagus.
I don't think it was luvmygoats who spoke of jumpups. Wasn't it someone from Oregon? I can't dredge up the name.
I, too, like recipes. I would like a repeat of Lacey's baked cod recipe or the page where it was shared.
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illimae found the reference last time using the search function. I found her search result using it too - it was seasidememories! Here is the capture:
Here is lacey's cod post also:
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The hotel was just a "way point" to board the shuttle bus to take her up to Michigan where she is tent camping.
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Speaking of jello salads, my stepgrandma made hers with sour cream in it. She passed the recipe down to my mom and then mom passed it to me. I make it as part of a holiday meal or for cookouts like Grams used to.
Since we are having near 90 weather tonight is hamburger gravy over mashed potatoes. You brown and drain hamburger and then make a gravy from scratch or you can use two cans of beef gravy. Put the cook hamburger in the gravy and serve over mashed potatoes made from scratch or boxed mashed potatoes.
The Farmer’s Casserole I made yesterday was a hit with the hubby. Good thing I had made it early as there was a bad car accident across the street from my house. Woman became drowsy and fell asleep and hit the telephone pole. Broke it right off from where the pole was cemented in the ground. Telephone and electric wires were drooping very low across the street. They had to close most of my street because of it. Only ones that were allowed to get past the cop cars that were blocking the road were residents and they had to tell the cops where in the blocked area they lived. Had the phone company and electric company out in front of my house until almost 9 p.m. doing the pole replacement and repair work.
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I cooked supper for my DH, DD2 and DGD1 as well as myself. After sittING fir the germ machines. We took the kids to the library for story hour. Its been more than 30 years since i went to a story hour. Mostly the same except fir the Moms ignoring the boys who were running, jumping, wrestling, etc, while she sat on her phone. Most of the 20 kids were pretty good, but OMG, I had to restrain myself from "accidently" putting my foot in their way....LOL. Im tired now, but supper was great, i made enchilada casserole. Every bit was eaten, well except for the portion, my DD2 took home for her 3rd shift husband to be his lunch. Served it with, basically, taco fixings for a salad. It tasted pretty good. Although I had to get the last roma tomato out of the fridge, because DGD1 ate up all the diced tomatos i had put out for the salad. LOL.
Eric, when my DD2 was a flight attendant, i made sure she carried instant oatmeal packs, mac& cheese packs, and those cracker and peanut or cheese packs. Because, inevitably, they wouldnt get anywhere that didnt close 5 min before they arrived. And, most hotel rooms have hot water available, or a microwave.a silicone bowl and plastic spoon was alway good too.
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Thanks for the reference Special & Illimae. Moon - sounds like your keeping busy. I love library story hours. I thought I would do that when I retired, but I would not be willing to read with parents who let their kids jump & run & wrestle while I'm reading.
Apparently taking package items to reconstitute are an established pattern with flight crews. I understand even if there are close by restaurants, many eat in the room by bringing their own food & using the coffee pot.
I posted this cocktail on another thread, but thought it might be fun here too. I loved dreamsicles when I was young. Think of this as desert with no calories (LOL)
PEACH DREAMSICLE COCKTAIL
2 oz vodka
2 scoops vanilla ice cream
1 cup sliced peaches (fresh or frozen)
2 oz fresh orange juice
Combine all ingredients in a blender until smooth. Pour into a large glass or mug. Top with whipped cream & orange zest. Garnish with a slice of peach
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I sometimes end up in airports that are closed and have no power and the protein bars are a last resort. Every time I have to eat one, I think of David Bowie's Space Oddity "Take your protein pills and put your helmet on...."
For the "2nd to last resort", I carry $15 or so, mostly quarters, but some dimes and nickels. I added the dimes and nickels after I encountered a vending machine that would not vend unless it got exact change.
I do carry some instant coffee in what looks like tea bags and "nukeable" food for times when I am hungry but just don't feel like going anywhere to get something to eat.
I'm not sure if I'm even going to eat tonight. I've been outside most of the day working and it's 112F/45C in the "cool" shade of the back yard. The dew point is near freezing, so it's not as bad as it seems, but I am "waterlogged" right now.
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Second night of leftover ribeye & veg tonight. Gonna do the slow oven-reheat and then skillet-sear finish again. Last night I heated the stainless skillet first and then when I added the oil, flame city! Oops. Smothered it and went to plan B, the cast iron. Managed to air out the kitchen to keep from setting off the smoke alarm. Tonight I’ll put the oil in first, then heat till it shimmers, and then sear the re-warmed steak. Did manage to keep the interior mid-rare (gotta love instant-read thermometers)
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Cast iron forever! :-)
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chi, LOL! Ive done that. LOL. DGD2 stayed over night while her parents went to a wedding. Havent had her overnite since they moved back to WI in Feb. Loved it. And because Im feeling better, ive actually been vooking. Not much, and not fancy, but real food. Last night, Meatballs and gravy with brown rice and peas. Yes, this one was geared for the grand. LOL. Breakfadt was avocado and grapes for her. .e, i had coffee, cause we were going fir a brunch at the brewhaus with her Mom and Dad. I had the Monte Cristo. I got potatos with it, but took them home for leftovers. Lots if leftoverz for supper tonight.
Much love to all.
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Not sure what I want to do for dinner tonight, as Bob went and walked to Evanston for brunch (6 mi.) while I was here with the DirecTV guy who was installing a new dish to replace the storm-battered old one, and hook my DVR up to our network. Ate around noonish (2 eggs & bacon, coffee, "cortado"--dbl. espresso w/ dollop of milk foam) but not really hungry yet. I could eat but don't feel like pulling out my Invisalign, rushing through to "keep the coach from turning into a pumpkin"--you know, the feeling of knowing you're supposed to keep the aligner in 22 hrs a day--and then doing the whole brush & floss thing again. I've lost about 21-22 lbs. since March (and can un-self-consciously wear shorts again), but hope I'm not wrecking my metabolism by eating only 2 meals a day. Bob's tired, but not hungry yet either. Gonna storm again by 11pm. Tomorrow is supposed to be clear for the grill guy to come over to do his thing--but the heat index will be >100F. Was cooler by the lake today but not tomorrow. Oh, and ozone alert all weekend. Good times!
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Do this! This near our camp at Khoton Nuur in the very far west of Mongolia, close to the Chinese border in those mountains just behind me. Because in these parts, most of the male population smoke, I took up a prop for this photo--they got a huge charge out of it.
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WOW!!!! No way any of us can top that---to add that to a bucket list would be presumptuous as all get-out. (Closest I ever got was the stereotypical tourist pose astride a bored horse next to an equally bored-looking guy in Mongol dress along the Great Wall).
I am ready to eat the next thing that moves, ans Bob's still full, so I just ordered out for tandoori chicken and palak paneer--no seekh kabob because I had beef three days in a row. Drooling looking at the pix of samosas, naan, roti, biryani...but I'm sticking to my diet. Will make my own raita (plenty of yogurt, half a cuke and a healthy mint plant) if they don't throw in a side of it. If Bob gets hungry later he can have some of the chicken breasts.
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Lacey - thinking about you out at your brother's memorial service. Hope everything is going OK with the SIL. I know it will be a difficult trip.
Dinner was really lazy. Left over cooked pork loin cut in medallions heated in a Rosa sauce made with Raos & heavy cream with a little can of mushrooms tossed in and dumped over penne pasta. Salad tomorrow. Bagged salads work for me since I live alone. Each bag is two meals but at least I get some variety without having to throw away 1/2 of the veggies I might buy that go bad too soon. Found a delicious Dole kit - "Spinach Miso Crunch" - with baby spinach, baby red chard, carrots, Japanese miso dressing, cashews, sliced almonds & won ton strips.
Working on the plans for a trip to my brother's step daughter's wedding in LA in September. I think I'll fly in to San Francisco, have dinner with my son, then take a couple of days to drive slowly down Hwy 1 by the ocean, stopping along the way. Hoping the road won't be closed with slides by Big Sur.
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minus - I just did the Hwy 1 northbound (inner mountain side lane) drive from San Simeon to Monterey in May, the road was open. It had been previously closed by slides that took out some bridges. It is a crazy ass drive and requires focus for sure, but I was glad I did it - I took a friend who had never been before and she had fun taking pix out the window while I navigated the hairpin situation, lol! I had been a passenger before, years ago, going south (outside cliff lane), but driving it myself was a bit of a bucket list thing.
eric - "take your protein pills and put your helmet on" seems like good advice for every day... hope DD is faring well!
lacey - thinking of you.
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Thanks Special. I'll be driving South from San Francisco - so ocean side. I used to be very good at Hwy 1, but it's been a couple of years and before BC. Planning at least one overnight in Carmel & then to San Simeon since I've still never seen the Hearst castle. Was considering Morro Bay the night after my tour of the castle. Any recommends around there? Then on to Thousand Oaks/Westlake Village the next day for the wedding.
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I actually toured Hearst Castle with my friend on this trip - same day as the Hwy 1 drive! It was a beautiful and clear day even though it had rained on us earlier in the morning. As we drove north we saw the sunset just as we got to Big Sur - it was great! I was intent on getting off the cliff side before it got dark. I went to college in San Luis Obispo, spent quite a bit of time in Morro Bay, but a lot has changed since then. I had looked at the Estero Inn and thought it looked nice and had good ratings on TripAdvisor when planning the trip, but we ended up staying in SLO at The Kinney. That was a last minute decision but it was inexpensive, well located,and they gave a generous credit for breakfast included in the room price, and the food was really good!
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We did Hwy 1 (started at 101 at Astoria, OR) down past Big Sur a couple of times when Bob was in grad school and I in law school back in Seattle. $10 motels were a luxury for us: we tent-camped at state parks. The scariness of the drive (in our little Datsun 1200) didn't faze me back then b,ecause I had lots of practice on twisting mountain roads in the Cascades--in fact, it was fun except when being tailgated by logging trucks. But when we went to SF and the Monterey Peninsula when Gordy was a toddler, it did sort of creep me out. (When he was a baby, we flew into Monterey, stayed at the Lodge at Pebble Beach and took the cliffside drive up to the Bay Area; second time, we did the medical course first and drove the ocean-side down to the Inn at Spanish Bay). I miss Northern CA!
Last night the restaurant called: they'd run out of spinach and paneer (cheese) and didn't have enough time to make some more before closing time, so they asked if okra stew--sans potatoes--would be ok. Well, it was delicious but "fuego city"--there was no rice, and I couldn't eat the included naan (white flour) to protect my intestines. The chicken was similarly spicy--far different from the dry-ish mild style our usual South Indian restaurants make (this one is Indo-Pak), I did allow myself a small slice of low-carb bread--inauthentic, but permissible and somewhat protective. They also threw in a small salad and a free mango lassi...which smoothie sat on the table, taunting me, till Bob gleefully took it off my hands. Today I rinsed off the ultra-hot tikka marinade off the remaining chicken and will brave it & the okra again. (Or, grill having been fixed, defrost a burger or salmon portion and see what the grill can do--it's gonna rain tomorrow).
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DD made it home...tired but very happy.
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Hooray. We'll look forward to stories in a day or two.
Dinner was leftover pork loin bites with Rao, heavy cream, mushrooms & penne.
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eric - yay!
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Eric--hope she had fun! (And lucked out on the weather).
I have a fully-working grill again (with a clamp-on LED light on the way).
Speaking of cooking, I had a nasty "cookware adventure" with Amazon. Gordy & Leslie don't have good 8" & 10" nonstick skillets, so I decided to give them my gently used 8" All-Clad and 10" OXO Good Grips nonstick aluminum ones. They also need a stainless one for searing & pan sauces, so the plan was to clean up my 11" All-Clad stainless "French" skillet (curvier sides than a saute pan, but taller than a regular skillet). So I ordered a 10" stainless OXO Good Grips and a set of their aluminum nonstick 8" & 10" for myself (I'm giving the kids the spare 12" I kept in reserve but don't yet need), Put in the order on Sat., the set was supposed to come Sunday and the stainless one today. Sat around waiting Sun.--and then about 6 pm got a message the set would be delivered yesterday. Come Monday, the UPS tracking number kept saying "out for delivery" as I checked it every hour. The next time I clicked, though, it said "undeliverable, return to shipper." Went to the site, clicked on the item and saw "Sorry, this item was damaged and is being returned ti the shipper. Contact us if you haven't gotten your refund." Then up popped an e-mail from UPS: "Sorry we missed you, no adult was present to sign, will try again the next business day." Kept going round & round in circles to try to find where my refund would be, but no luck. Ditto no "contact us" link or button. Finally had to Google "Amazon Customer Service" to get a number to call.
First to answer was a sweet older guy with a gentle drawl, but when I told him about all the conflicting messages, he had no idea about which one was right or wrong or why. He asked if I want a refund or a new shipment. Seeing as how in the interim since I placed the order the #1 negative review was "arrived damaged," I said "refund, please." He answered, "OK, I'll e-mail you a return shipping label and you can send it back to us at no cost." I almost exploded. I asked through gritted teeth "How can I return something I don't have and never got?" He asked "Well, how could you tell it was damaged?" This time I yelled "BECAUSE YOUR WEBSITE TOLD ME SO!" He allowed as to how he was puzxled and put me on hold to "Logistics." (Uh-oh--anyone see John Oliver's piece on Amazon Logistics Sunday night)?
On came a young lady with a thick Indian, Pakistani or Sinhalese accent who asked me everything all over again, which I had to answer in excruciating detail--and explain even more painstakingly. Finally, after putting me on hold, she declared "The package was attempted to be delivered but was rejected by the customer." I had to avoid using the saltier part of my vocabulary when I replied, "That's a LIE! I'm the customer. I waited by the door all day. Nobody delivered anything." She paused and put me on hold again. Finally she said, "You can't prove it, but because you're such a good customer we're giving you an online gift card in your account." FINALLY.
Or so I thought. Woke up today to two texts at 9:37 am. First one said "Your refund has been processed and is now in your account.," followed by "We attempted to deliver the package today but nobody was there. Will try next business day." Oh, geez, not the stainless skillet too? I clicked on the tracking number, and got "Out for delivery today." Heeeere we go again. Called and this time was patched straight through to Logistics--again, somewhere on the Indian subcontinent. Again, a different young lady did not seem to understand a word I was saying, and kept chattering until I pinned her down. "Look, there were two parts to this order. I have the refund for part one. Thank you. But what's with the "attempted delivery" text that followed it? Is it or is it not out for delivery? She put me on hold for 10 minutes and returned saying "We don't know why you got that second text--it must have been about part one. Part two is definitely out for delivery today. We will have the driver contact you when he's getting near" (he didn't) "and will call you later to find if you received it." (She didn't). But blessedly, hot on the heels of the mailman, the Amazon driver came and laid a humongous box on my porch. Opened it, and sure enough, there was the stainless skillet, in a cardboard anti-theft bracket, lying on the bottom of the box...plus a small scrunched-up half-sheet of brown paper...and...AIR. It took seemingly forever to dismantle the cardboard, but thank goodness there were no dents, dings or warps.
Nope, from now on it's back to brick-and-mortar for me, unless delivery is the only way to obtain stuff. And I'm relegating Amazon to just e-books and groceries at Whole Foods. Amazon Smile's water charity won't be getting my money--I'll just donate directly.
Indian leftovers (again) tonight. At least I'm down another pound and a half this week--now several pounds lighter than my weight at diagnosis. My interim goal is to get my BMI down from "obese" to "overweight," and we'll take it from there,
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I will only buy on-line after exhausting all the local purchase options.
DD called last night and asked if we could get her at the airport because the roommate that was supposed to get her couldn't do so (car in repair shop). Sharon had an all night sneezing attack (allergies) and finally took some Benadryl around 3am, so I ended up going by myself.
DD said that she probably got 2 hours a sleep a night and I don't doubt that as she looked TIRED. Even a huge cup of coffee didn't seem to help. :-)
She got back into downtown Chicago yesterday around 2pm and her flight out this morning got changed from 6am to 7:30am, so she hung out with friends in downtown Chicago and explored until around she took a 4am Lyft ride (she wasn't sure about a 4am L ride) to the airport. She said the only annoying thing was TSA giving her 15-20 minutes of extra attention because they thought she was under 18 and was using an older sister's ID or fake ID.
Everyone else from DD's apartment complex took other flights, so they were only together while at the venue in Michigan.
One thing that DD did mention, with some pride, was that she got everything she needed for a week into a single normal sized and normal weight bag plus a small daypack while everyone else had to pay excess baggage fees for oversized, overweight or multiple bags. She said one guy in her group had a $249 round trip ticket, but had to pay $600 in excess baggage fees EACH WAY (!) and he still made trips to Walmart and Target to get more stuff. I think our backpacking adventures paid off in excess baggage fees. :-)
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Eric, that's why I fly SW whenever possible. 2 bags fly free, up to 50 lbs. each. I have to laugh about her friend's excess bag woes--I think kids traveling for the first time on their own often have no idea just how few outfits they'll need for a long weekend or even a week. There's always that "FOMO" feeling of "OMG, what if I didn't take enough? People will sneer if I wear something twice! What if something gets stained or torn or wet? Or why didn't I bring that one special outfit?" We managed to pare our bags down to 3 suitcases & 2 carry-ons between us for an 8-day Mediterranean cruise. We took entirely too many things with us on our first cruise--a 15-day Viking River Cruise. The biggest mistake--especially if you'll be in a city or suburb, is to bring full-size personal care stuff, one's entire vanity cabinet. Staying at a hotel? Leave the hairdryer home. Use the free shampoo, conditioner, shower gel and lotion. They'll even give you a free toothbrush, toothpaste & deodorant if you ask. Buy travel sizes--or fill mini-bottles--of stuff like sunscreen or bug spray that hotels won't have.
I know she was camping, so there were no hotel freebies (except for those in the hotel in Chicago where she stayed briefly). She sounds like she has a head on her shoulders...and has paid attention to her efficient military Dad!
So what acts did she see?
BTW, I ditched Bendryl long ago. Despite having pollen, mold and dander (other people's pets) allergies, I do fine on Zyrtec & montelukast at bedtime and a squirt of steroid spray in each nostril at bedtime & on arising. Allergy eyedrops too in the morning on a high pollen-mold count day. None of those will make one drowsy,
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