So...whats for dinner?
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auntienance, wow... I can see your point!
carberry, your daughter is adorable!
Michelle, I anxiously await the arrival of Moisturel from Amazon - thanks again for the recommendation.
I continue to copy/paste recipe ideas, etc. from this thread! Thanks everyone!
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I just got home, a few minutes ago....and a bit earlier than usual. I had to leave early to get my mom to the dentist for a checkup. The dentist was running later due to having to squeeze in an emergency patient. Otherwise, I'd have been home really early.
Tonight was cheese burgers.
Over the weekend, I looked in the chicken cookbook and decided to try a combination of things. I added some cornstarch to soy sauce and then marinated cubed chicken breasts in it. I cooked the chicken in a skillet. In my dutch oven, I cooked a mixture of peas, several leeks cut into strips a couple of inches long, a couple of small gloves of minced garlic, some asparagus sprouts, a small grated hot pepper and chunks of already cooked ham until the vegetables were cooked, but still slightly crisp...
Some brown rice cooked in chicken stock rounded it out. Basically, a bed of rice, and then a mixture of chicken and the vegetables. For something so simple, it was pretty good. For whatever reason, I wasn't feeling adventerous with the spices that night.
My dad was sort of a horse whisperer...except his was with race horses. He didn't go often, but when he did, he had some substantial additions to the retirement fund.
Lacey, DD helped clean out the cabinets last year around this time. She took pictures, (and showed them to her friends) of the dry and canned goods with "best by" dates before she was born (1998). The pantry was kind of empty when she got done. :-)
Bedo...this was in the mid 70s...so it's close..... After a small earthquake, some idiot put straw, some old "found on the road, dead" blown tires, sulfur, used motor oil and a lit road flare into an extinct volcano.... In the morning, when the evil smelling black plume was noticed, the National Guard was called out and the town was evacuated. The authorities were a bit peeved when it was discoverd the volcano was still extint. Despite their promises, the culprit was never caught.
Kara, some years I'm a scrooge too, although I try hard to not show it. Mostly I think it's my desire to relax a bit colliding with the 'Go, Go, Go' mentality. I say this, because my "scrooginess" is related to how busy I've been the past year...
Eric
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So sad about the shooting they had in Portland at the mall. DH and I go shopping there everytime we go to Porltand and was just there about a week and a half ago. I just don't understand how people can do things like this. So sad.
Laurie- Hope you are feeling better and getting some rest.
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Debbie - the mall shooting made the national news, so we heard about it. Why, why, why??? Such a tragedy!
I have a treatment plan and will start carboplatin on Dec. 26th. You can read the details on my blog (www.mch-breastcancer.blogspot.com).
It's 1:20...where is the cleaning service that was supposed to show up at 1:00? If they don't come, I'm going to cry!!!
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Michelle- It is such a tragedy and just found out this morning my nephew was working in a coffee kiosk less than 40 feet away and took cover my brother called and told me he is very shaken up and deceided to move back home. Just glad he is safe.
Wonderful that you got a good onco that you trust and like who has put a good plan in place for you. I hope and pray for the carplatin to kick ass and put you in remission. Did your cleaning people show up yet? They better or else they are going to have to answer to a group of angy women/and eric here from the dinner thread.
Where is everyone?
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Oh Debbie such a close call with your nephew....so scary! Glad everyone is ok. When the governors close all the mental institutions, people dont get the help and services that they need. It happened here in NY and we all lost our jobs and the people ended up out on the streets with one women killing a police officer.
Michelle I think the carboplatin is one of the milder (less side effects) drugs, so I hope it is very gentle on you but kicks the cancers butt at the same time. Love your blog with all the pics...that balloon ride looks like a blast.
Supposed to go for pizza for hump night but decided to stay in, lots going on this weekend and I am trying to kick this cold.
So tonights dinner is.....anything found in the fridge that does not have green things growing on top.
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Debbie - that is scary that your nephew was working in the mall. I would have been terrified to encounter that situation! And yes, my cleaning people showed up and did an awesome job. Not sure I like their "highly perfumed" products - may have to discuss it with them. Hubby thinks it's fine but we went out for dinner tonight and I could still smell it when we walked in. I think I have a hyper-sensitive sniffer these days...lol! Three women, two hours, mission accomplished. Now I won't have to hang my head in shame when JoyceK and her DH come tomorrow night for supper. They are bringing pizza
Carrie - thanks! Glad you like the blog with it's mix of medical crap and fun stuff! The balloon ride was fabulous and now I might even do the one that comes down our lake...spring sounds like a good time!
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The second casserole of chicken enchilladas and a pitiful amount of leftover beans for dinner tonight. Tomorrow is once again, treatment day [has it really been 28 days?] so no more cooking until Friday.
*susan*
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OMG, that IS scary Debbie.
Michelle~enjoy your dinner with joyce and her DH, I wish I could afford a cleaning company like Merri Maids. Oh well, now that the family has been painted I did a lot of cleaning while most of the furniture was put in the other room. It gets really dusty behind the furniture that is against the wall.
I'm having a hard time changing my avatar, nothing will download.
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Success, I think I just had to make it smaller.
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Deb- Had to laugh at the "family has been painted" haha I know you meant family room im sure. Love your avatar is that on your wall?
Michelle- I agree don't like the strong smells that cleaning people use. I have severe asthma so can't handle that. I do wear a light perfume (Light blue) that I love but can't tolerate strong perfumes. I would def let them know next time it bothers you.
Carrie- They closed Mental institutions? Wow that is just not right. They should be held accountable when some one dies because of there bad judgements. Have fun humping! lol!
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debbie,
Most mental institutions were closed about 20 years ago. They were warehouses that we just awful. The plan was to open group homes and re-home. But as often happens, the first part happened, and the second part didn't. That is why the number of homeless people grew so much back then.
*susan*
p.s. I can't tolerate any perfumes or cleaning solution smells. Makes me ill.
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I knew you'd get it Deb...you are one of my picture posting role models...along with Michelle!
I feel terrible for your nephew, Debbie. Young people starting out their adult lives should have the peace of mind that their workday is not going to be marred by random lethal shootings. I agree, Carrie, that the paltry effort to fund/provide needed mental health services in this country is a disgrace....and few families and individuals avoid being impacted by those decisions.
Had dinner at a mediocre Italian restaurant with my former work colleagues for their holiday party...chicken marsala, shells, steak tips and rice pilaf...all pretty tasteless, and the server must have also thought so since he ran around scooping plates as fast as his kegs could carry him! It was great to see my co-workers tho.....and brought them my Italian pizzelle cookies and a lemon cranberry bread to enjoy at school tomorrow. I spent spent today baking....and have a few more of those days coming up.
Michelle, glad you have your treatment plan in place. Will check it out on your blog.
Susan, good luck to you tomorrow!0 -
Michelle, glad your plan is in the works. Deb, I like your new avatar. Debbie, that is so scary. Glad he is alright.
I did enjoy the time with my daughter. I will post pics, we got a ofamily pic in. It was sad, but she was after all 90, and not totally unexpected. And, since this is real life, my daughter got engaged the next day at the Packers game. It was supposed to be on her birthday, but that was the funeral day. Life goes on.... Much love.0 -
Moonflwr - exciting news regarding your daughter's engagement! Congratulations to her and best wishes for many, many happy years ahead.
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Susan- Wow. come to think of it I havn't seen or heard of any place that is a home for the mentaly ill. I know that in Hawaii they have a lot of mentally ill or homeless because they were flown there from the Mainland because the weather is nice there and didn't know what else to do with them. so sad! Hope things go well tomorrow for you!
Lacey- Sorry your dinner was not that great but glad you got to see your co-workers.
Moon- Can't wait to see the pictures!
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Lacey - sometimes it's more about the company than the cuisine
Debbie - when we went to Oahu a few years ago, we were amazed by how many homeless people were living in the parks by the beach, on the west side of the island. They even had built clinics to take care of their health needs!
Moonflwr - that is such good news, now you have a wedding to look forward to!
Deb - very cute picture!
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I have Hawaii on the mind in the middle of the night (actually, morning now) and just booked the flights for our planned September trip to Kauai.
Back in the sixties/seventies Elizabeth Taylor's brother, Howard Taylor, set up a camp on the beach in Haena (the Tunnels Beach area). It was called Taylor Camp.
By 1972 there were 21 permanent houses at Taylor Camp. All of them were tree houses since local authorities would not issue them permits for ground dwellings. Some of these structures were quite elaborate indeed, with large bamboo pole foundations, clapboard siding, and windows facing the sea. In addition to the houses in the camp there was a communal shower, an open air toilet, a small church, and even a cooperative store which operated on and off until the camp's closing
Full article: http://www.pacificworlds.com/haena/memories/memory5.cfm
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Congratulations to your daughter Monica. Michelle, I hope your treatment does it's job and is easy on you. Susan, good luck with yours today.
Dinner last night was at one of our favorite Italian restaurants which turned out to be a bit of a disappointment. We went early to take advantage of their before six menu, which I like because the portions are much smaller. Apparently there were several large parties coming later because a lot of the staff was quite busy setting up tables. Unfortunately they put us in a room that had a tiled floor and the scraping of tables and chairs made for an unpleasant dining experience. Also, the food was a little disappointing. I don't know if they have a new chef or what. I won't give up on them just yet, I guess anyone can have an off night.
Trader Joe's today. Kind of excited because I haven't been in a long time. Three buck chuck, here I come!0 -
LeeA - I've been to Kauai twice and both times were magical. Where are you staying?
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The more I think of this young man, and all the other people in the food court, diving for cover as a loony gunman begins shooting, the sadder I become. You are right. We wish for our young people, and older people, that they not know the fear of being in the same vicinity as a shooter.
I am so sorry that anyone you know was in that space. I am so sorry for the people that we don't know who were in that space.
*susan*
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If health care is poor in the northeast, just imagine how bad it is in the south in general and in Louisiana in particular. Our politically ambitious Repub. governor, Jindal, has been busy cutting education and health care to balance the state budget. He just tried to close a mental hospital for juveniles in my parish (county) that has been open for many years. Somehow our parish president (a woman) managed to keep the hospital open. My niece (30 yrs w/3 children) has had mental problems since her teens. So I've seen the difficulties a low-income person experiences. The rest of the world who are supposedly mentally well-adjusted take the attitude: Just straighten up and become "normal." Psychiatric services are very expensive. Sorry for venting but this is a long-term frustration.
Michelle, I read about your treatment on your blog. As others have said, I'm very glad you have a treatment plan and hope it's effective and gentle.
Susan, same hope for your treatment.
I can't/don't want to imagine what it must be like to be present in a big public location when a shooter starts firing a gun. Awful. Horrible. What unimaginable anger and hatred must be behind such action.
On a happier topic, I took my mother shopping yesterday. She's handicapped and rides in one of those shopping scooters at the store. A couple of weeks shy of 90, she never drove a car and never rode a bicycle. It's stressful to take her out because she doesn't maneuver the scooter well and I try not to appear worried that she'll run into people and displays. She had a successful shopping outing and we picked up roast beef poboys for lunch from our favorite hole-in-the-wall poboy place. The owners cook the roast beef and pile way too much meat on the sandwich. We order ours "dressed," which means lots of mayo and tomatoes and lettuce.
Veggies are piling up in the refrigerator from the CSA. I MUST cook veggies tonight. The latest bag is sitting outside the carport door because it was cold outside and I didn't feel like dealing with them. Thank goodness we have only one more week of this membership! I'm ready to select my own veggies from produce depts. Sometimes a CSA can be too much of a good thing.
Most of the Christmas shopping is done thanks to online shopping.
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It is a strange and scary world we live in. In my line of work, I got to see the very worst of people and what some are capable of. I am very uncomfortable in large crowds and really dislike people being that close to me. That's why I could never do times square on new years eve or NOLA on Mardi gras (as much as I love new orleans). Don't know if that's an occupational hazard or not. I do know that I avoid underground parking and am wary on parking lots in general for that reason.
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Carole Before cancer I worked as a nurse for a non-profit rehab center for adolescents. these kids stayed in-patient for a least a year and sometimes more. the services they got were amazing, they would go to school every day, get counseling on a daily basis and learned skills that would help them deal in the real world. this org is always struggling to stay open. Most of these kids were getting health care for the first time in their lives...we had a lot of catching up to do with immun. etc. The theory was to identify problems early in a childs life to prevent future incidences. these kids lives were filled with so much abuse and turmoil I dont know how they put one foot in front of another to survive.
Ok done also:)
Auntinance I applaud you for the work that you did....I am sure you saw the worst of the worst.
Oh what to have for dinner?
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I agree it is so sad to think of those families that were effected by this tragedy, One of the ladies who was shot was a hospice nurse they called her therre "angel" she was always helping people and only 54 there stories really tough you.
On another note, there was a homeless lady the news reported on in Hawaii who when followed home was living in a nice condo and reportedly made over $100,00 a year. I remember her and she seemed to be mentally ill but did well. Not so for so many others who deal with illnesses though.
Carole- Vent away, I see how frustrating that is. Shame on your governor did he get reelcted this year? He needs to be booted out! Glad you had a nice day out with your mom.
Nancy- I get nervous in parking garages too and won't park next to vans at night, don't know why they scare me but they do! I also applaud you for the work you did.
Carrie-I also applaud you Carrie for the work you did for the non profit facilities to help the adolencents in rehab. there just isn't enough help these days to care for these young kids. Nothing compared to what you or Nancy did, but when I lived in Hawaii I was a "Guardian AD Litem" did that for a couple years, as sad at it was it was rewarding to know I made a difference in these young kids lives. At the time I had a young girl (16) who came from a terrible home, I took her to the mall (with permission) and bought her, her first school dance dress, shoes and a paid for her to get her hair done as well. She was so special we kept in touch for a few years and she grew up to be awonderful young lady, but have lost touch with her. I still think of her often.
Laurie- How are you feeling?
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Ok, gonna try to post the pics. first my family photo
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try againOk, I am doing something wrong. sigh
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Moonflwr - are you posting from an iPad...posting pictures seems to be impossible using Safari. If you are using a PC with Internet Explorer, make sure you photo is hosted somewhere on the internet - Facebook or one of the photo sites like Flickr, Shutterfly, Picasaweb. You can click on the inside of the picture, then right click your mouse and select "copy" from the drop down menu. Then come back here, click inside the text box, right click your mouse and select "paste" from the drop down menu.
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Michelle, I hope that plan puts everything to a complete halt!
Susan, I hope things go well tomorrow.
Debbie, I am so glad your son wasn't hurt and
Moon, yippee! I don't think my DD will ever settle down.
I just got home from work and have to relax before dd and dgd (grand dog) get here, so hello to everyone else!
I would like to warn you all that pouring cream of mushroom soup over thawed cod and then adding shredded cheese and baking it is NOT good. The frozen peas were the best part of the dinner last night.
Tonight is this black bean soup with sour cream and tortilla chips. I tried to make everything organic.
http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/black_bean_soup.html
I have blueberries and strawberries so I think I will make a smoothie for breakfast.
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