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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on December 24, 2011, 03:32:22 PM
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Oh my.
The primitives seem to go all out for a holiday they don't do.
Lucinda (13,732 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
Christmas Dinner Menu
(or Thanksgiving in December at my house)
We are cooking for a neighbor who is a great friend, has helped take excellent care of me over the years, and claims to be a Republican, but we are working on him!
It looks like the menu is finally set for three of us:
Roasted Turkey Breast with Rosemary Butter
Dressing with Pan Gravy
Cranberries ~ (not sure how yet, some way that will work on leftover sandwiches)
Baked Sweet Potatoes with butter and Maple Syrup
Green Beans with Onion ~ (it's a dish Bill makes with beef stock)
Al's Baked Beans ~ he's bringing his amazing baked beans...they rock.
Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream
Cheesecake w/ Cherry Sauce (or an old fashioned Cherry Cream Cheese Pie - if the weather stays wet)
Coffee & Sweet Tea ~ no alcohol, our friend doesn't drink
Not particularly fancy or expensive, but it's things we all love, and we'll have plenty of leftovers for both households for a day or so.
I may still bake rolls or fresh bread, but we never seem to get to it, so I may not bother this year. I am still sort of lusting after those Bobby Flay Sweet Potato Biscuits though....AND they might be good as bread for the leftovers....
Thank you for all the suggestions on the other thread. There are several I am going to try VERY soon.
After having a very rough night last night, I decided to keep Christmas simple, and enjoy myself.
I hope Lu tries out franksolich's suggestions of souffle au crabe et au mais, casserole de saumon et de legumes, and cotes decouvertes a la Hongroise too.
Irishonly (2,575 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
1. Sounds great
My first thought was which one. My MIL sent us a prime rib which we are going to have on Christmas Eve. She also sent a ham which we will do on Tuesday when my daughter's boyfriend will be here. She also sent side dishes which I am very cautious about.
Not sure yet when these dishes will be made and which dinner they will be served with but
Scalloped corn
Scalloped Potatoes or 4 Cheese potatoes
Mashed potatoes
Baked Yams
Frozen Cranberry Salad
Watergate Salad
Pumpking Pie
Pecan Pie
Salad for me.
Asapargus
Lucinda (13,732 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
4. Lots of really good options for you! I want to make Watergate soon.
I wouldn't have had turkey, we like Mexican or Chinese as a rule for special dinners, but they guy we're cooking for chose turkey. So turkey it is!
Snarkoleptic (1,854 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
2. We're doing the traditional thing at my folks house on Christmas eve.
This leaves us free to do-
Enchiladas w/ beef, cheese, cilantro
Fresh homemade pico de gallo
Refried beans
Spanish rice
not sure about dessert, but it may involve my wife making her "jumbles" cookies, which are loaded with more stuff than cookie.
HopeHoops (23,718 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
8. Pizza.
No, seriously - v****e lasagna with mashed blue potatoes and mushroom gravy and freshly baked bread.
Well, pizza sounds a Hell of a lot better than Mexican or Chinese for Christmas.
beac (7,150 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
9. We tend to do a Thanksgiving-Reloaded meal for Xmas too.
The holiday dinners are the only times of the year when we eat mashed potatoes, stuffing, etc. so it's fun to indulge (and bulge, alas!) one more time before New Year's resolutions are made. Plus, I spilled most of T-giving's potatoes on the floor, so we didn't REALLY get out full measure of gluttony back in November.
Last year, I did break with tradition and made the v****e lasagna I gave you the recipe for. And I was sorely tempted by all the talk of crabcakes, but it's hard to be certain of the any seafood around here and mr. beac really wanted leftover "turk'y" (Quorn brand again) for sandwiches.
southernyankeebelle (2,605 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
10. Well my 5 yr old granddaughter and I made stuffing today.
2 loafs of american bread
2 cups paramsan cheese
tsp garlic powder
l large jar of apple sauce (sweet or unsweeten up to you)
2 or 3 eggs (break in the bread)
a couple of slices of white onion chopped finely
2 pieces of celery chopped finely
Add anythingelse you would like to it.
Mix all together. Get out your cupcake pans and spray with pam in each hole. Get a ice cream scooper and spray inside of that with pam. Scoop from the bowl stuffing and put in cupcake holes. Watch for them to brown pull out of oven then turn each one over let brown the other side. Pull them out check bottom and if it is brown pull tray out. Pull them out of the cupcake tin and put in a big bowl. Really delicious and my granddaughter had a blast making them. This will be a memory for her cooking with her yaya. She got to do it all by herself (except for the oven part).
Howler (2,381 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
11. Here in Howlerville
We are having
Prime Rib With Homemade Ajour sauce
Asparagus with Hollindaise sauce
scalloped patatoes (thanks to the good folks here)
Greenbean casserole.
Mac n cheese
Three cheese manicotti (We have a couple of Vegitarians)
Stuffed mushrooms
Stuffed penguin Olives (thanks to Lucinda)
cheese cake for desert
And Whiskey sours for the evening altitude.
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Here's my Menu:
Beverages-Corona, Wine, and Soda.
Appetizer-Cheese and Pepperoni, Vegetable Crackers and Vegetable Dip, and my MIL is making Antipasto.
Dinner-Ham with Pineapple, Mashed Potatoes, Green Bean Casserole, and I'll make gravy with the juices.
Dessert-Apple Pie, Pumpkin Pie, and my Cousin always brings NY Cheesecake.
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I'm not going anywhere for Christmas dinner, myself.
The neighbor's wife is bringing the leftovers later on in the afternoon, which should include turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, peas, sour cream, real butter, whole wheat rolls. The usual.
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Oh cool! you put the date the DOTY's Awards are announced in your sig.
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Oh cool! you put the date the DOTY's Awards are announced in your sig.
That's valuable real-estate there, my signature line.
I notice when I post the link to a story there, lurking primitives run to read it.
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Since it's just us three, we are having salmon, baked potatoes and honey glazed carrots. Maybe scalloped corn if I have all of the ingredients in the pantry. For dessert, red velvet cake.
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Pumpking Pie
Man, I could sure do with a nice, big slice of Pumpking Pie right about now.
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Probably a sammich from Subway.
Working tomorrow so a lower seniority guy can have Christams with his wife and kids.
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Probably a sammich from Subway.
Working tomorrow so a lower seniority guy can have Christams with his wife and kids.
You know, that's very odd.
I do that too--but not tonight--work a holiday so a family person can be with family.
It's something I derived from the parents, who used to send as many patients home for the holidays, and then work the hospital themselves, so the staff could have family time. (It was easy in a 35-40 bed hospital; dismiss all but 6-7 patients, and the two parents being R.N.s took care of things, including cooking, laundry and janitorial for about twelve hours--we had our own holiday a couple of days later.)
One doesn't see that much any more. I blame it on the "me, me, me" of the Democrats, liberals, and primitives.
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All those crude English words!
The cooking group has gone to absolute hell.
Must be another side effect of hippywife's demise.
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You know, that's very odd.
I do that too--but not tonight--work a holiday so a family person can be with family.
It's something I derived from the parents, who used to send as many patients home for the holidays, and then work the hospital themselves, so the staff could have family time. (It was easy in a 35-40 bed hospital; dismiss all but 6-7 patients, and the two parents being R.N.s took care of things, including cooking, laundry and janitorial for about twelve hours--we had our own holiday a couple of days later.)
One doesn't see that much any more. I blame it on the "me, me, me" of the Democrats, liberals, and primitives.
Work, the Jews, Buddhists and Muslims work for the Christians on our Holidays. The Christians work for the fore mentioned on their Holidays. Believe me the non Christian holidays add up far more then the Christian.
Been this way every where I worked for 40 years or so North and South. Only people that got left out were the non religious but they got Federal Holidays off, and their birthday if they wished.-----This was with full pay.
Today we will have Christmass dinner at the large Truck Stop that puts on a feed for $15.00 each a buffet that has all one can eat. We have done this before quite a few times, and New Years day also. Were I to try to make all the selections they have from prime rib to King Crab legs, steamed baby neck clams, fried clams with and without the belly's, Ham and every kind of fixings from grits to collards, It would cost me a months worth of food money.
Screw the cooking, hours in the kitchen and the waste of food that is not eaten. The entertainment is excellent for a people watcher. No problem with family fights, we are in public you know. No mess to clean up and no booze served to agate others. No kids running about knocking over tables or taunting the dogs, PRICELESS.
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Work, the Jews, Buddhists and Muslims work for the Christians on our Holidays. The Christians work for the fore mentioned on their Holidays. Believe me the non Christian holidays add up far more then the Christian.
Been this way every where I worked for 40 years or so North and South. Only people that got left out were the non religious but they got Federal Holidays off, and their birthday if they wished.-----This was with full pay.
Today we will have Christmass dinner at the large Truck Stop that puts on a feed for $15.00 each a buffet that has all one can eat. We have done this before quite a few times, and New Years day also. Were I to try to make all the selections they have from prime rib to King Crab legs, steamed baby neck clams, fried clams with and without the belly's, Ham and every kind of fixings from grits to collards, It would cost me a months worth of food money.
Screw the cooking, hours in the kitchen and the waste of food that is not eaten. The entertainment is excellent for a people watcher. No problem with family fights, we are in public you know. No mess to clean up and no booze served to agate others. No kids running about knocking over tables or taunting the dogs, PRICELESS.
Sounds good, vesta. But this year since my son has his kid for the holiday, we're going all out. Next year I'm going out to eat. I keep trying to persuade hubby to don his dress blues and take me to the mess hall, excuse me, in today's parlance it's the dining facility. The cooks, who never seem to get much credit imo, put out the most fantastic feast.
I've been delegating some of the cooking to others in the family as my hands and wrists are getting weaker with age and chopping up nuts and yams isn't as easy as it was before. Or I'm just lazier.
We are having spiral ham with glaze, yam casserole (with peaches, brown sugar, cashews, butter, topped with marshmallows), homemade cranberry sauce (with fresh cranberries, Gran Marnier, orange juice, orange and lemon peel and cinnamon), no green beans this year! I'll make some Sister Shubert's rolls. A good rose wine with dinner and for afterwards, a glass of port, for hubby and me anyway. The kids and grandson (natch) do not drink alcohol.
Yesterday inbetween parties and general chores I did manage to put together a ginger cream pumpkin pie. It has a homemade graham cracker crust with pecans and butter, cream cheese and sour cream, eggs and pumpkin for the filling and a topping of whipped cream with sugar, dark rum, and crystallized ginger. My daughter is bringing a chocolate cake. It's not typical Christmas fare, those desserts, but it's what we decided on this year.
For breakfast we had scrambled eggs and a slice of German marzipan stollen. THAT I bought.
I'm hiding out in my room because the living room tv is tuned in to cartoons. Waiting on daughter to show up anytime now so we can open gifts.
Hope everyone is enjoying their day thus far.
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Sounds good, vesta. But this year since my son has his kid for the holiday, we're going all out. Next year I'm going out to eat. I keep trying to persuade hubby to don his dress blues and take me to the mess hall, excuse me, in today's parlance it's the dining facility. The cooks, who never seem to get much credit imo, put out the most fantastic feast.
I've been delegating some of the cooking to others in the family as my hands and wrists are getting weaker with age and chopping up nuts and yams isn't as easy as it was before. Or I'm just lazier.
We are having spiral ham with glaze, yam casserole (with peaches, brown sugar, cashews, butter, topped with marshmallows), homemade cranberry sauce (with fresh cranberries, Gran Marnier, orange juice, orange and lemon peel and cinnamon), no green beans this year! I'll make some Sister Shubert's rolls. A good rose wine with dinner and for afterwards, a glass of port, for hubby and me anyway. The kids and grandson (natch) do not drink alcohol.
Yesterday inbetween parties and general chores I did manage to put together a ginger cream pumpkin pie. It has a homemade graham cracker crust with pecans and butter, cream cheese and sour cream, eggs and pumpkin for the filling and a topping of whipped cream with sugar, dark rum, and crystallized ginger. My daughter is bringing a chocolate cake. It's not typical Christmas fare, those desserts, but it's what we decided on this year.
For breakfast we had scrambled eggs and a slice of German marzipan stollen. THAT I bought.
I'm hiding out in my room because the living room tv is tuned in to cartoons. Waiting on daughter to show up anytime now so we can open gifts.
Hope everyone is enjoying their day thus far.
We had a meal in the Officers ward room one year, left the kids at home with Mother. The USS California a beautiful skimmer was decked out in quite the way.
What a production, the tables with cloth table cloths and ships china was set out. The servers had cloth napkins bright red as I remember and were more attentive then servers at a 2 star restaurant.
At that time smoking was allowed and just to pull out a cigarette a server would light it for you.
Opulence, so this is how Hubby lives at sea???? Hardly but it did make us wives wonder.
Do the Filipinos still collect shoes outside the officer cabins to shine in the night???
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DECK THE HARRS WIF BOWS OF HORRY...FA RA RA RA RA...RA RA RA RA...
Okay, now that's out of the way:
Everyone is nibbling on appetizers now...usual stuff of frozen BJ's bites, pepperoni, crackers, vegetables, and dips.
Dinner itself is prime rib, twice baked potatoes, sauteed mushrooms, and Caesar Salad.
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I am confused. :???: Why are these primitives celebrating a Christian Holiday? :???: I thought all things Christian was bad? :panic: Shopping at Wal-Mart was bad? :hammer: But every time we turn around we see them Shopping at the evil Wal-Mart and now they are celebrating Christmas... :fuelfire:
How is a person suposed to keep straight what they belioeve in and when they are just plain old out lying hypocrites? :censored:
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I am confused. Why are these primitives celebrating a Christian Holiday? I thought all things Christian was bad? Shopping at Wal-Mart was bad? But every time we turn around we see them Shopping at the evil Wal-Mart and now they are celebrating Christmas...
How is a person supposed to keep straight what they believe in and when they are just plain old out lying hypocrites?
Good question, madam.
The primitives are base materialists; they like our holidays only because of the presents they get, no other reason.
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I am confused. :???: Why are these primitives celebrating a Christian Holiday? :???: I thought all things Christian was bad? :panic: Shopping at Wal-Mart was bad? :hammer: But every time we turn around we see them Shopping at the evil Wal-Mart and now they are celebrating Christmas... :fuelfire:
How is a person suposed to keep straight what they belioeve in and when they are just plain old out lying hypocrites? :censored:
Don't forget the best part of the shopping at Walmart stories- their excuse as to how they ended up in the store in the first place.
I imagine a real life husband and wife primitive (if such a thing exists- not a guy and a sheep, a monkey and his uncle, or undergroundpanther and Calpig), who gets caught by one of the wife's friends who sees his car in the Walmart parking lot. After the friend phones his wife, outraged, the primitive wife accuses him of shopping at Walmart. His alibi would be that he was just stopping for directions to the local porn store so he can go fap. Relieved, the primitive wife rests easy.
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I'm shocked at the normal array of foods on display here :o Except for the mention of 'blue' potatoes(versus your regular 99 percenter Idaho at 2.99 a bag in Kroger's), that abyssmal excuse of a recipe for stuffing, and that last line up of over pompous ridiculousness called Howler's Xmas dinner, this could like your average menu of any good American on Christmas Day. I don't know whether to cry tears of pride or be a bit miffed the Dummies are slacking off this holiday season... :(
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So there will be three at Lucinda's gorgefest.
It looks like the menu is finally set for three of us
It looks like Lucinda will be there along with the neighbor. Al's bringing his amazing baked beans and Bill is making the Green Beans with Onions ~ (it's a dish Bill makes with beef stock).
Unless she's making the honoree bring food, she might run out of chairs.
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Screw the cooking, hours in the kitchen and the waste of food that is not eaten. The entertainment is excellent for a people watcher. No problem with family fights, we are in public you know. No mess to clean up and no booze served to agate others. No kids running about knocking over tables or taunting the dogs, PRICELESS.
I dunno about that Vesta. I truly enjoy cooking and spending hours in the kitchen is a labor of love. Nothing better than having the nieces come over with their families, carpet critters included, to enjoy a good Christmas meal. The doggies enjoy the kids and vice versa, the nieces enjoy a break from having to cook, good family time, and the best thing is the nieces will wash the dishes!!!
I always send them home with large "doggie bags" when they leave, the doggies are pooped and don't want their walk, we have good conversation and get caught up on what is going on, and I always like to play with the carpet critters.
That is what memories are made of.
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I swear I haven't sat down since Friday. I am exhausted. My son is home for Christmas which is wonderful but my parents, my brother and my in-laws came for Christmas. They have been here since Friday. I worked my ass off Wednesday and Thursday getting everything ready for them. I forgot I had a doctor apt (eye) Friday morning and it threw me off. I lost about 2.5 hours of precious prep time at the doctors office, plus both of my eyes were dilated all day so I couldn't see anything. I then ran to the grocery store (I hate crowds) then ran home and straightened the house up. I get to the point where I'm able to sit down and here comes my parents, brother and in-laws (my in-laws drove from Tulsa to Dallas Thursday, stayed at my parents then rode with them Friday).
Everyone is getting on my last nerve, mainly my brother and mother in-law. My brother is your typical DUmmie, self serving and thoughtless. I had a little political fight with him last night but I was the bigger person and apologized (he brought it up). My mother in-law is staying in MY bedroom. She sleeps in a chair (has for years for reasons unknown to me) and her favorite chair of ours is in our bedroom. Now you tell me, would you sleep in your daughter in-laws bedroom WITH your son and daughter-in law in their bed and be watching TV at 12:40 AM after your son and daughter in-law have literally waited hand and foot on your chair sleeping ass for three days? Not to mention she watches the stupidest shit that is on TV. I am exhausted and can't go to sleep because she is watching nostradamus on the history channel. WTF is up with people. She did this Friday and Saturday night too.
Anyway, back to the original subject. I made Ham and potato soup Friday night. Ribeye, baked potato, shrimp, salad and bread Christmas eve and for tonight's dinner I made Ham (the best ham I have ever eaten), funeral potatoes, green bean casserole, salad and rolls with cheese cake for desert. In between those dinners I made them different items for breakfast and made different dips and appetizers for lunch. The stress has me on a short fuse, I'm finding it all too easy to snap at people. Everything that everyone is doing is irking me.
By the way, it is now 12:54 and she is still sitting in that damn chair watching friggen nostradamus. My husband is sawing logs right next to me, seriously...what is wrong with people? :censored:
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I swear I haven't sat down since Friday. I am exhausted. My son is home for Christmas which is wonderful but my parents, my brother and my in-laws came for Christmas. They have been here since Friday. I worked my ass off Wednesday and Thursday getting everything ready for them. I forgot I had a doctor apt (eye) Friday morning and it threw me off. I lost about 2.5 hours of precious prep time at the doctors office, plus both of my eyes were dilated all day so I couldn't see anything. I then ran to the grocery store (I hate crowds) then ran home and straightened the house up. I get to the point where I'm able to sit down and here comes my parents, brother and in-laws (my in-laws drove from Tulsa to Dallas Thursday, stayed at my parents then rode with them Friday).
Everyone is getting on my last nerve, mainly my brother and mother in-law. My brother is your typical DUmmie, self serving and thoughtless. I had a little political fight with him last night but I was the bigger person and apologized (he brought it up). My mother in-law is staying in MY bedroom. She sleeps in a chair (has for years for reasons unknown to me) and her favorite chair of ours is in our bedroom. Now you tell me, would you sleep in your daughter in-laws bedroom WITH your son and daughter-in law in their bed and be watching TV at 12:40 AM after your son and daughter in-law have literally waited hand and foot on your chair sleeping ass for three days? Not to mention she watches the stupidest shit that is on TV. I am exhausted and can't go to sleep because she is watching nostradamus on the history channel. WTF is up with people. She did this Friday and Saturday night too.
Anyway, back to the original subject. I made Ham and potato soup Friday night. Ribeye, baked potato, shrimp, salad and bread Christmas eve and for tonight's dinner I made Ham (the best ham I have ever eaten), funeral potatoes, green bean casserole, salad and rolls with cheese cake for desert. In between those dinners I made them different items for breakfast and made different dips and appetizers for lunch. The stress has me on a short fuse, I'm finding it all too easy to snap at people. Everything that everyone is doing is irking me.
By the way, it is now 12:54 and she is still sitting in that damn chair watching friggen nostradamus. My husband is sawing logs right next to me, seriously...what is wrong with people? :censored:
Keep in mind that we love ya.
It'll all be over soon.
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I swear I haven't sat down since Friday. I am exhausted. My son is home for Christmas which is wonderful but my parents, my brother and my in-laws came for Christmas. They have been here since Friday. I worked my ass off Wednesday and Thursday getting everything ready for them. I forgot I had a doctor apt (eye) Friday morning and it threw me off. I lost about 2.5 hours of precious prep time at the doctors office, plus both of my eyes were dilated all day so I couldn't see anything. I then ran to the grocery store (I hate crowds) then ran home and straightened the house up. I get to the point where I'm able to sit down and here comes my parents, brother and in-laws (my in-laws drove from Tulsa to Dallas Thursday, stayed at my parents then rode with them Friday).
Everyone is getting on my last nerve, mainly my brother and mother in-law. My brother is your typical DUmmie, self serving and thoughtless. I had a little political fight with him last night but I was the bigger person and apologized (he brought it up). My mother in-law is staying in MY bedroom. She sleeps in a chair (has for years for reasons unknown to me) and her favorite chair of ours is in our bedroom. Now you tell me, would you sleep in your daughter in-laws bedroom WITH your son and daughter-in law in their bed and be watching TV at 12:40 AM after your son and daughter in-law have literally waited hand and foot on your chair sleeping ass for three days? Not to mention she watches the stupidest shit that is on TV. I am exhausted and can't go to sleep because she is watching nostradamus on the history channel. WTF is up with people. She did this Friday and Saturday night too.
Anyway, back to the original subject. I made Ham and potato soup Friday night. Ribeye, baked potato, shrimp, salad and bread Christmas eve and for tonight's dinner I made Ham (the best ham I have ever eaten), funeral potatoes, green bean casserole, salad and rolls with cheese cake for desert. In between those dinners I made them different items for breakfast and made different dips and appetizers for lunch. The stress has me on a short fuse, I'm finding it all too easy to snap at people. Everything that everyone is doing is irking me.
By the way, it is now 12:54 and she is still sitting in that damn chair watching friggen nostradamus. My husband is sawing logs right next to me, seriously...what is wrong with people? :censored:
As Tucker said, it'll all be over soon. H5, milady . . . and one of these . . . :-*
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I have slept since my rant, I'm over it. :-)
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Uh...move the chair?
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Uh...move the chair?
Uh...how do you do that withbout making her feel bad? I would rather bitch about on a message board and be over it the next day than to offend her.