So...whats for dinner?

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  • bedo
    bedo Posts: 1,431

    Wow, red a lot of money for oysters! They're cheaper here. Your are such a good daughter. I hope that mine is as good as you when I am older.

  • susan_02143
    susan_02143 Posts: 2,394

    Red, you know.... You are so dedicated to your Dad's care that you are allowed to be grumpy when he is not being reasonable. In fact, he likes to be unreasonable I do believe. I have a rule: If I am making dinner, I get to decide what you are going to eat. Your Dad breaks my rule a lot! I think it is great that you have our kitchen table as a place to vent.

    Nance, the fact that you are laughing only means that you get it!

    Eric, great story of growing up in the desert. I think kids who "tinker" with electronics always ending up doing the most interesting things with their lives.

    Carole, I will never forget the year that "Uncle" Joe was staying with us on New Year's Day. He had to have Hoppin' John. His mama made him this dish. His superstitions required that he eat this dish on this particular day. So, we got on the phone with his sister who gave me an ingredient list. We went to the store to buy and then called Cheryl again and she walked me through making it just like his Mama. Joe was going through some horrible life things, but for just a bit, as he ate this dish made for him by a white woman, he was joyful. Years passed and we began to enjoy a New Year Day party at Genevieve's house. A New Orleans native, she made the best bean, pork, rice, and then finished the meal with a bread pudding with a sauce that is to die for! Not sure when/why we stopped being invited, but those are my New Year Day tradition stories.

    All your dinners sound marvelous. I did go to Costco yesterday thinking I might buy a special cut, but they were all just too big. I didn't have the energy to go elsewhere to buy some fish or whatever.

    Last night we tried a spot that I have read about. It is at the bottom of our street, and I have no idea why we haven't managed to get there before. It looks like a sub shop, but in the kitchen they make Indian food in addition to the Roast Beef sandwiches. The chef has a very well-regarded restaurant in Wellesley, and for some reason, opened this shop near me. They offer pizza, subs, etc, and then there is the "International" part of the menu. That is where we went! We ordered Tandoori chicken, spinach with paneer, dal and some naan bread. They have a tandoor oven!!!! In a sub shop! I am not sure I can describe this place, though the ambience would be familiar to Lacey. You walk in and there are four formica tables with banquet chairs and across the back is a counter where you order. Behind that is the kitchen with the cooks. We sat down and they offered us a yogurt-mint-pea soup in a foam cup with plastic silverware. And that was the level of presentation for the rest of the meal. But who cares? This stuff was good! The chef is from North India, so the food is not fiery, but instead is spiced complexly. Each dish was spiced differently, so we never got bored. If the chef cared to listen to me, I would like to be able to order a complete meal without having to order so many entrees, meaning, if I buy an entree, I should be able to order some some of the vegetables as side dishes. The amount of food was at least enough for six servings! Tonight we are having servings 3 & 4. I am trying my hand at naan bread again. For some reason, this simple bread has been elusive for me. Tonight I am going to get a cast iron fry pan screaming hot in the oven, rub the rolled dough with a bit of water, and slap it into the fry pan while it is on the stovetop fire, flip, then drop it into the oven again. If that is a fail, I will pull a naan from the freezer.

    *susan*


  • bedo
    bedo Posts: 1,431

    Yum Susan and so fun to read your post.

    I am thinking of resolutions, which I never make. But, I'm thinking that I need more excitement in my life. I may redecorate the office (haha boring) but really need to do more weight bearing exercise and switch out some of my sluggo activities, like not practicing violin, playing farmville with my Spanish speaking friends for something more productive. IDK, surely there is something productive that I can do when I come home and it's dark at 4:30 than snuggle with cats etc. I am plotting...

    Anyone have any New Years resolutions?

    Moon, have pickled herring in white sauce in a jar, can hardly wait to eat it. Also bought black eyed peas, greens and cornbread mix to make. Have less enthusiasm for that but hoping it will be good.


  • auntienance
    auntienance Posts: 4,041

    Susan/Red, indeed it was a wry laugh because I SO get it!

  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Posts: 2,484

    Susan - Is your sub shop anywhere near Cambridge (bet not)? DD's guy has a Blue Plate account (or a similar DD not sure which one). I guess it makes sense for him. Food sounds yummy though I've never had Indian food except for commercially made naan.

    Cabbage not so much except in cole slaw. My chicken stir fry may wait until tomorrow. My tummy has been a bit off today and just don't want to get in there and do stuff. Maybe scrambled eggs and biscuits - frozen of course or I do have canned lol.

    Everyone's plans sound great. Sorry Red that you dad was being a pickle. I like Susan's rule - I cook it, you eat it. Easier to say with guests and not your DF. Lacey enjoy that cherry pie. Oysters - you all can have my share and DH's too.

    Bedo - My resolutions are always the same. Get organized, eat better and exercise. I know not specific enough. I think DH would make me eat pickled herring with the goats.

    Eric - fascinating how one comes about their life's vocation. All from some radio tubes.

  • eric95us
    eric95us Posts: 3,345

    My mom is now much more nice than she used to be. I think age is mellowing her, or something. I can't talk to her on the phone anymore and I miss that. She doesn't wear her hearing aids (hates the things) and no phone in the world is loud enough to work for her. When I'm at her house, I have to use my "472 people in a lecture hall without a working sound system" voice that served me so well as a graduate teaching assistant. :-) It is the most amazing luck that her next door neighbor is a licensed home health nurse.

  • minustwo
    minustwo Posts: 13,797

    Ah fathers. i went through 10 years yelling so my Dad in CA could hear me from Texas. I was out there one week every month (thank heavens for a wonderful boss who let me work from there), and Dad wouldn't get hearing aids. He ate what I cooked, but I never cooked anything that I thought he wouldn't like. Not worth the arguments. When I wasn't there, he ate doughnuts, cokes, candy bars, peanut butter from a spoon - well you get the picture. He would eat take out for awhile until too many of his teeth were gone. Red & Nance - you have my complete admiration. I've been there and you deserve to vent!!!

    Susan - your meal sounds great. Lacey - will DH really drink the brandy? I keep saving things for best. Nance - I'm glad you're OK. The water looks scary. Eric - How neat that your Grandpa was there to work with you. There was no FM radio when I was a teen and my blocky, white, square, nightable radio was a tube type - probably bakelite. It looks like FM wasn't approved until 1961.

    Dominoes was fun. We played from 2:30 to 7pm, with a break for ham sangys, salads, strudel, sweet potato pie, cheese ball, candy, etc. etc. I'm in my jammies with a gin & tonic, and will shortly head to bed with a book. Houston does firecrackers for New Year's Eve (yes they're illegal, but...), so no point in going to sleep early.

    Growing up, our New Year's Eve tradition was lots of finger foods - including smoked oysters. I learned to love those before I was 7 years old & most of my friends still freak out. Then two tables of bridge - one for my parents & their best friends & one for us four kids. Those were some good times. When my son got to junior high, we always had his friends & their parents over here. Everyone brought hearty appetizers. Most of the kids jumped into the swimming pool at midnight & then stayed up all night watching movies. I knew where they were & they weren't drinking & driving. Most of the parents lived in the neighborhood so grown-ups usually wandered home around 2-3am. I am no longer that young!!!

    Black eyed-peas are soaking. Interesting note - I guess I've finally adapted to the Southern way. My Mother always made navy beans w/hamhocks. I'll make the peas tomorrow with no meat but onions, celery, tomatoes, chilies & lots of spices. Cole slaw will do for the cabbage requirement & it's already in the fridge 'marinating'. Like Nance, my main dish will be two broiled cold water lobster tails w/lots of butter. And unfortunately 4 or 5 delicious egg rolls left over from today.

    Happy New Year to everyone.

  • minustwo
    minustwo Posts: 13,797

    Eric - we cross posted. Funny about elderly hearing. After I'd been with my Dad awhile, my son always had to say, dial it back Mom.

  • eric95us
    eric95us Posts: 3,345

    My daughter tells me the same thing..."Dad, you're yelling". :-)

  • auntienance
    auntienance Posts: 4,041

    Joyce! Hello and happy New year!

  • minustwo
    minustwo Posts: 13,797

    Joyce - GREAT to hear from you. We've missed you. We'll look forward to stories about Michelle's daughter's wedding. Glad to hear Rick is doing OK.

  • moonflwr912
    moonflwr912 Posts: 5,945

    Happy New Year Everyone! May 2016 treat everyone better. May joys out way the sadness. May love grow.

    Much love.

  • eric95us
    eric95us Posts: 3,345

    Hi Joyce. I guess we were posting at the same time.

    I'm glad to hear about Michelle's family. Congratulations to their DD and I'm glad Rick has found another person to share with.


    I just finished mixing up 2 pounds of Mexican style chorizo...except I use ground beef instead of ground pork.


    And finally...

    HAPPY NEW YEAR. We all made it.

  • moonflwr912
    moonflwr912 Posts: 5,945

    Hers a pic of the oplatki. And in the interest if finding this pic, I learned something new. There is always always pink one in each packet. Never knew why. Well, found out it the one meant or the animals of the house as they were the first to welcome the baby Jesus. LOL. Wondering if I should tell my sisters who used to fight for the pretty one? LOL. ..image

  • Red, oysters are expensive here, too. The "r" months are good oyster months. I've begun thinking about Oysters Mosca lately so will be splurging in the month of Jan. This dish was first popularized at Elmwood Plantation, which is no longer there. The chef was a member of the Mosca family, which has a restaurant on the west bank of the MS river that has been there a long time. Rumored to be popular with Louisiana mafia at one time. The oysters are cooked Italian style in an aluminum pie plate in a very hot oven. Olive oil, garlic, parmesan cheese and bread crumbs. Served with French bread. We've had them a couple of times at Mosca's but they're very good cooked at home. I finally found the recipe a few years ago after considerable searching. The dish can be served as an appetizer but we have it as a main dish.

    My mother, aged 93, has become hard of hearing. I don't even bother to follow up on hearing aids because she wouldn't wear them. Her false teeth were made back in the days when false teeth were crudely formed and didn't fit well. Hers made her gag and she kept them in a cup. At some point she threw them away to make sure nobody put them in her mouth when she died.

    We have huge fireworks sales tents here. They "blossom" at locations before July 4th and before New Year's Eve. Last night the explosions and rapid pop-pop-pops began about 9 pm and didn't stop until after midnight. We went to bed before midnight and dh slept peacefully through the celebratory noise but I didn't go to sleep until about 1 am. So I made up for the lost sleep this morning. Amazing to think of the $$$$ spent by individuals.

    Bedo, I hadn't even thought about the concept of resolutions until you mentioned it! I think I've given up on resolutions. My main hope at the beginning of the year, especially since 2009 when HRT ended, is to slim down. I would like to improve my golf game to the way I played before I got so bad. How's that for a sentence?

    I did something really stupid yesterday that I will have to rectify tomorrow or next week. I stopped at an unfamiliar ATM at the bank branch I'm using now that my favorite little branch in Madisonville has been closed. I didn't park close enough so opened my car door. Inserted the card, punched the buttons. The ATM voice kept saying, "Take your money." I didn't see any money. Finally, the voice said I'd waited too long. Apparently it took the money back. I went through the whole process again. This time I pulled my car door in and saw the money. The door had been blocking my view. Reported the problem to a bank employee at one of the drive by stations. Checked the account this morning and it shows two withdrawals. Stupid act on last day of 2015.

    Hi, Joyce. Hope you do have time to come more often.

    Moon, funny about the pink wafer.

    DH introduced me to pickled herring in the cream sauce many years ago. We haven't bought it in a long time. Kinda forgot about it. I like it with crackers.

  • minustwo
    minustwo Posts: 13,797

    I like marinated herring in sour cream once or twice a year. I forget about it too, but will put it on my grocery list.

    My block has been mostly empty nesters or couples with very young children & we've only had things like sparklers for years. Not to mention fireworks are illegal in the city limits. Apparently one parent decided his grade school children were old enough for LOUD things like M-80s or Bottle Rockets. When the first whump-boom went off at 11pm, I really thought something had hit my house.

    Moon - thanks for the bit of history. Carole - hope you get your money back w/no hassle. Would you mind posting the Oysters Mosca recipe?

  • eric95us
    eric95us Posts: 3,345

    The dogs were loudly defending home and hearth against the evil forces of fireworks noise last night.

    I've got a cat that keeps trying to lay on my laptop... :-)

  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Posts: 4,860

    Hope everyone has a wonderful 2016. :)

    Carole, we buy a big block of organic latex from a place in California and replace it about every 7-8 years. It's less expensive than a mattress generally speaking, and we don''t have to do practice layabouts to see what will work. Fortunately, (and surprisingly, considering all of our allergies) neither of us is allergic to latex. :) My back reacts pretty much instantly to a mattress that is broke down and it seems that we can break them down surprisingly fast....

    To close out the year, yesterday we had a plumbing problem - the wax seal on the toilet in the guest bathroom broke. It was a slow leak. Also, I had been using those clorox bleach round blocks in the toilet - well, I won't do that again, as the bleach ate through the bolts in the toilet. Why do they sell things that destroy the stuff you are supposed to use it on???

    For dinner last night we had lamb chops, scalloped potatoes and purple cauliflower. Today is the day for cabbage and beans... :) I made chicken cabbage soup with baby lima beans. :)

  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Posts: 2,895

    Okay...I just wrote a long post which I will not revisit and must succumb to writing them in another site and copy/pasting to here If I don't want this to keep happening. Last night I lost one too. Where the F do they go??!!

    Apologies to the many folks (especially to Joyce) I addressed which I won't do again, and I also will not be re-sharing how our dinner went....

    I don't like this at all....sorry to be such a grinch on New Year's Day!

    Oh well...on to better, more functional things.....

  • chisandy
    chisandy Posts: 11,646

    Happy New Year, everyone! DH is working today and the next two weekends, so that on days when he has office hours he needn’t also round at his three hospitals. That’s one of his few resolutions. He’d been planning to sell his practice to one of the hospitals that was interested in it, but he crunched the numbers and realized that just flat-out retiring in a couple of years and letting his partner (and his associated interventional cardiologist who also covers for him and for whom he covers) buy him out was probably a better deal. He’s coming home for dinner (and football, of course), so I will be making black-eyed peas, kale and salmon for dinner, with the bottle of Veuve Cliquot he bought yesterday (probably first finishing off the two remaining glasses of last night’s bubbly--see infra, as they say in the law biz). His colleague covered for him not just when he was hospitalized but also when we were in Europe, so he’s reciprocating.

    Last night we hosted 8 of our friends for dinner at B’way Cellars down the street. So that I needn’t walk 1/4 mi. each way in the cold with bronchitis, he dropped me off, drove home, and walked back with DS. One of our guests drove me home. Parking was brutal--dinner got started half an hour late as a result. The cops were having a field day ticketing people who were trying to fit cars in anywhere they could, and even on our block there were no spaces. I had shrimp & mango ceviche, lobster bisque, grilled escolar over Tuscan beans, and flourless dark chocolate mousse cake (crust was chocolate & ground almonds). Some of the other dishes guests had were sausage-stuffed mushrooms, fritto misto, bourbon-glazed salmon, NY strip, pear-and-chevre salad, creme brulee and lemon curd cheesecake. DS was able to stay till dessert, as he had to work at his comedy collective’s fundraiser party. Of the 11 of us, only five made it back to my place for coffee and then midnight bubbly. We’d planned on a 2000 Dom Perignon (which we received as a gift from one of DH’s colleagues), but we couldn’t get the box open! So before leaving for dinner, I chilled a 1999 Perrier-Jouet Fleur de Champagne (another gift, the “flower bottle,” which came with a couple of little matching painted flutes), a Thienot, and a Mumm’s Napa 2006 DVX. We’d always gone through at least 2-1/2 bottles each New Year’s Eve. Well, this time we five ol’ fartz (four, actually, as one had a dicey tummy and opted for ginger ale) couldn’t even manage to kill off the bottle of P-J, which is currently sitting in the fridge along with the leftover wines from dinner (the restaurant dosed them with nitrogen, re-corked and bagged them to go).

    Red, oysters are a lot cheaper here--Whole Paycheck usually has them for a buck apiece to go, and sometimes Mariano’s supermarket oyster bar serves a dozen, shucked with accompaniments, for under $15. Fried oysters and bubbly are a match made in heaven. I so miss oyster po’ boys--never did get to eat one on my NOLA trip last Aug. Breaded/battered deep-frying and that insanely wonderful NOLA French bread are utter no-nos for me, alas.

    Resolutions:

    1. To introduce you to my guys. DH is Bob, and DS is Gordy; and to refer to them by name from hereon in. They prefer not to remain anonymous unless I’m revealing something embarrassing. Bob is an invasive, non-interventional cardiologist (does cardiac caths and temporary pacemakers, but not angioplasties or LVAD implantations); Gordy is an actor, improv comic, and comedy writer (IO and Second City-trained, with a BFA in theater). He is also an excellent electric bassist, the only instrument he plays. No grandkids yet (at least not that I know of--Gordy winces whenever I say that, but respects a good one-liner when he hears one).

    2. To eat more healthfully--which for me means no carbs other than non-starchy veggies, low-sugar fruits, low-net-carb breads (<4gm./slice) and cookies (Alyssa’s, <4gm each), unsweetened Greek yogurt, carb-reduced whole milk (FairLife), and 3 5-oz. glasses or less of wine per week. Also, minimize consumption of mammalian and processed meats. Also, limit said low-carb bread & cookies to one per day.

    3. To exercise more--walk at least 1/2 mi./day, take 10 trips/day up & down stairs--and if weather doesn’t permit, to use the treadmill and stationary bikes for their intended purposes rather than as clothes racks.

    4. To stay in touch with out-of-town friends & family more often.

    5. To rebuild my left hand calluses and play guitar & dulcimer daily--that will help keep the expected AI arthritis at bay.

    6. To write at least a song per month.

    7. To volunteer to sing at senior or convalescent centers that can’t afford to hire my duo. (Don’t tell my AFM local).

    8. To attend temple more regularly.

    9. To finish my solo CD and get our duo CD to the processing plant ASAP so we can release and tour behind it this spring.

    10. To be more honest with myself in winnowing down my wardrobe and organizing my pen collection.

    11. To take better care of my guitars, especially humidifying them.

    You’ll note I didn’t say “lose weight,” “get fit,” or “be more successful.” Much easier to focus on behaviors and actions than on results. If I do the work, results should follow--and if they don’t, then that’s still healthier than staying self-indulgent and sedentary. Especially on letrozole, which I started last night (not to mention the Medrol dosepak, of which I’m on day 3), gaining as little weight as possible is still a victory. Losing would be lagniappe.

  • Not only did I not remove the $200 from the ATM machine, but I left my driver's license at the bank! I just went and checked my purse. The bank employee asked for my driver's license and I sent it to her in the plastic jar. She must not have sent it back to me. There was a message on my answering machine from a woman asking me to call her at the bank but by the time I noticed the message indicator, the bank had closed. So New Year's Eve day was not a good day for me! I'll take care of it tomorrow with a trip to the bank.

    You're right about wording your resolutions, ChiSandy. Aim for changing specific behaviors. Good luck with carrying through on your goals.

    Dinner was good. DH cooked the black-eyed peas with lots of onion and with smoked sausage. Last night he looked up a recipe for Mexican cornbread. This morning he went to a local grocery and bought ingredients. Basically the recipe called for a cornbread mix, eggs, sour cream, cream style corn and diced jalapeno. He made it with no input from me. It was good but rather sweet for my taste. Cornbread eaters like their cornbread sweet or not sweet. I fall into the latter category. My salad was delish. I substituted Savoy cabbage, sliced, for lettuce and threw in quartered plum tomatoes, diced cucumber, a whole avocado diced. DH had diced sweet onion in his salad and I added Greek olives to mine. Mayo and white balsamic dressing. The peas were served over brown jasmine rice.

  • susan_02143
    susan_02143 Posts: 2,394

    Carole, Oh my goodness..... can it get any worse?

    I spent the evening coding, and then figuring out how much money I would get from our friendly Federal government monthly if I decide that I can no longer work. How depressing that was! Musicians don't make that much money after all, and there were many lean years. Thank goodness even when we made absolutely nothing, we put money into retirement accounts. I will start running some numbers to figure out how much capital we will bleed every month if I can't work anymore. I had planned to make duck and mushroom raviolis, but instead, I felt asleep. Neither one of us was all that interested in food tonight, so Mr. 02143 made a comforting bowl of oatmeal for both of us. Maybe the duck raviolis will happen tomorrow.

    *susan*

  • auntienance
    auntienance Posts: 4,041

    Carole, I had a similar experience but in my case, the atm wouldn't turn loose of the $100. It didn't come out far enough for me to get a grip on it, then snatched it back! Of course it was on a weekend, so I had to wait until Monday to contact the bank, then I had to wait until the end of the day for them to count the cash in the machine. Apparently, it was clear on the camera what had happened. Fortunately there was no sound on the recording because I let fly a litany of choice words when it wouldn't let go of my money.

    I too no longer make resolutions.

    I cooked black eyed peas in the pressure cooker with onions, celery and a piece of smoked pork. I then added them to a tomato, garlic, pepper, celery and onion mixture, along with some brown rice to make hoppin' john. We had that with a ham, a small twice baked potato casserole, vinegar and oil cole slaw and a cheddar biscuit each. It was all really good.

    I feel like I've been on a vacation this week --no appointments, no house guests, no commitments. I have the weekend to continue my slug-like behavior then I plan to be more productive. I suppose that's a resolution of sorts.


  • minustwo
    minustwo Posts: 13,797

    Lacey - what browser are you using? Did you switch? Or did you switch from a desk top/lap top to tablet? Etc. I've never had any problems with Firefox. Sounds like you should pose a question to the mods on the "problem" tread. I'll send the link after I send this.

  • minustwo
    minustwo Posts: 13,797

    lacey - here you go. "Post your glitches, errors, problems here". Link below. The mods are pretty good about following through. Seems to me maybe I've seen a similar problem discussed - maybe with Chrome? Don't know.

    https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/93/topics...


  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Posts: 2,895

    Thanks Minus. I've always posted from my Ipad, so not sure why the site eats my words pretty regularly now...especially long posts. Guess it is hungry......leaves me angry!

    I'll check with them.

    Our dinner last night was great, if a bit too filling. Tonight DH made himself a lobster sandwich and I made myself two open-faced peanut butter and cherry jam on whole wheat bread sandwiches. After "dinner" DH studied, then made part one of pizza dough while I hit the treadmill. It will ferment sliwly in the fridge and be used tomorrow when DS2 and DGF come over to exchange gifts with her since she was not here for Christmas. We figured pizza (she takes it plain, if course) should be a safe meal.

    I also do not make NY resolutions, but gifted DH and me two large bins to support our clearing out effort, and that needs to be my resolution.

    Chi, I love your Bob's gifts from colleagues....reminds me of DS1's holiday gifts which often get passed on to us since he and DDIL do not drink. However, they have yet to receive the Dom Perignon bottle which I hope comes our way.

    Carole, good luck tomorrow getting everything straightened out!

  • Lacey12
    Lacey12 Posts: 2,895

    HaHa...intermittent reinforcement....it posted like a charm just now....lulls me into deceptive thinking that it will work next time. Silly me!

  • chisandy
    chisandy Posts: 11,646

    FWIW, Lacey, I have no problems with this site when I post from my MacBook using Safari, but I often have trouble when I post from my iPad--mostly a terrible lag in typing. It can take me forever sometimes to type (and even longer to correct) a paragraph on the iPad--and it doesn’t happen with other websites.

  • bedo
    bedo Posts: 1,431

    Your dinner all sound luscious. I went to a New Years Day party and ate all kinds of things, roasted Brussels sprouts, .all different colors of fingerling potatoes, cauliflower casserole, tortilla chips with cheese and salsa. A bloody mary and some turkey (I can't remember when I drank hard liquor last or ate turkey, 5, 10,15 years? No clue) Don't know what got into me but they were good. Then went out and helped feed the horses, stole eggs from the chickens. It was great.

    Eric, I have done so many things in my life, maid, waitress 11-7 shift downtown Denver (the local "Greensleeves" who wore a green jumpsuit and gold chains kept telling me I would make more working for him this was with my common-law husband at 18 when we dropped out and he was a night janitor) paste up artist-an extinct job. sold candles on the street. RN at Mass General and Beth Israel, NP various specialties , worked on a farm, and I've forgotten some I'm sure. I hope soon the be known as a FIP (formerly important person) and travel to Asia and beyond, returning to see DGC when they arrive.

    So far to good with the resolutions. Practiced violin today, am looking for a weight training course, I MUST stop playing FARMVILLE 2!!!! As my excuse that all my "friends" are from Latin America and it is helping me learn Spanish has proven to be a fantasy, even to me. So, am working on reserving books on line at the library I think my resolutions will continue to evolve.

    Happy New Years to everyone.

  • specialk
    specialk Posts: 9,299

    My resolution has been the same for a number of years - it is to organize something each day.  That is a loose interpretation, so it can be applied to the sock drawer, the refrigerator, my purse, sorting laundry - a myriad of normal daily stuff - or anything!  It is a safe and useful, relatively "no fail" resolution, so I keep making it.

    Last night was soup and grilled cheese sammies for DH and DD, I was not hungry.  I need to make a grocery store run, probably today, as I am out of fresh stuff.  Now that we have the new fridge in the garage I can restock a bit.  I moved some things out there yesterday (resolution - check!) and it is nice to be able to see things in my kitchen freezer again!  The kitchen unit is a counter-depth side by side - the most useless of fridges - but the only one that fits into the built-in area of the kitchen that was designed by the builder.  The freezer is easily crowded so I have to organize it by shelves, but probably you all do this also - top to bottom is frozen fruit for smoothies, then veggies, then meats, then nuts, and the two bins hold frozen potatoes/rices, and miscellaneous.  I can now actually see what is on the shelves - it was a bit of a blur previously and I had no idea what I had!

    I sympathize with those with hard of hearing parents - both of mine had hearing issues - there was a lot of cross country phone yelling, and the TV was always crazy loud in their house.  DH is a bit hard of hearing due to years of flying military aircraft, so far his hearing confusion has yielded mostly hilarious results when his misinterprets what I am saying - I can always tell because he has the worst poker face and gets a WTF expression! 

    Red - sorry for your scare with dad - eeesh!  And in the weather!