The Babble Thread #1!!!

[Innocent One]

If puppy breath is their defense mechanism then we all know what a human baby's defense mechanism is! How can something so little so brand new so innocent have such stinky poop? And I would swear their little lungs are the size of Ohio with the pitch and loudness of their cries/screams/earth shattering whales! But.....when you look at them sleeping.....the stinky poop the Ohio sized crying and all melt and slip away.

 

[Innocent One]

LOL Yes I suppose you are right about some people needing "wide load" etc. posted on them. My other half will always find something for me to notice when we are out in public...I don't know why and I sometimes can't believe he notices some of the things he does. We grocery shop at Wal*Mart and the things you see are so interesting. Just last weekend he noticed an older woman who had sandels on and her long toes were sticking out over the front edge of them and her toe nails were damn near touching the floor. He said they were like weapons and could I deal with those toe nails under the covers in bed at night! Now mind you, he was going to make sure I seen this and he might as well have gotten on the PA system and just announced it to the whole store. So I am shushing him and was so embarrassed. He doesn't do it to pick on the person, he does it more so to get a rise out of me! If that same woman were to fall down because of tripping over her toe nails he would be right there to help her up and brush her off.

 

[Innocent One]

Speaking of pondering the mysteries of the universe... I just read an article on "Are Men Smarter Than Woman", well we women know the answer to that, but men would answer differently of course. The dang article never did come right out and say which is smarter by scientific terms or IQ testing, but a woman wrote the article!

As for your tomatoes, try a product called Seven Dust. It works great on keeping bugs/animals off your plants. Our tomato plants are like his little babies and are tended to daily. We don't have any squirrels around our yard for some reason but he did see a rat behind his shed and if you could have seen this 6'+ 200+lb man running from around the shed you would have thought big foot was going to appear from around the corner chasing him. So he goes to the local hardware store and buys traps and poison and brings all this stuff home...sets the traps and not 10 minutes later catches the rat...all is well...he sets traps everywhere (in case he has more rat friends) and goes out the next day and one of the traps is gone...dragged off by something big enough to drag it off and he won't stop worrying me to death about it! We live in the country for goodness sakes, I'm sure their are lots of things out there big enough to drag the trap off. Now he takes this big stick with him every time he goes to the shed.

 

[Guest]

Aye we have Sevin Dust out there. I think the squirrels are using it to dash into it to kill the fleas on their selves ! haha

We are also on variety number 7 of ant killa ! They just walking thru everything unphased undead UNGONE ! I think everything has become resistant to everything out there ! NOTHING is phasing anything nor killin it off either. We have ants out there by the hordes and minions they WONT DIE only way I get some of em gone is I give em a nice shot of 409 orange when they come trying to get on my kitchen counter top and that killzer em dead on the counter top at least but probably 5 million more of em outside somewhere. And the squirrels are like literally dusting them selves in that sevin dust !! Like I said they using it for their own personal flea powder or something ! They are not phased at all nor even remotely repulsed by any of it they are ENJOYING it ! GO FIGURE !

As for traps and poisons be very careful. RATS are a nusance but we seen peoples pets cats dogs and yes even peoples kids become brain damaged due to some rat poisons they got ahold of off a sick or dying rodent. Our inlaws lost 3 beautiful hunting dogs ..whom chased a few sick rats that had ..been so poisoned. The dogs all died of brain hemmoraging from chompin off the poisoned rats.

As for traps. Hubby used to trap bunnies in wisconsin where it is legal to do so. He never trapped before. He set the traps go to work and one day I heard SCREAMING. I never knew animals *scream* and yes bunnies scream in agony if caught in a trap..they would also be caught in rat traps so will the neighbors cats anything the size of whatever that trap can trap will get a leg severed in there and literally chew off their own legs to escape even the trap. . or die trying to. I have heard cats rabbits in traps. I will never let hubby have any traps ever again ! And he has not ! If something must die or needs to be removed I rather it be fast not some horrid long drawn out death. And after peoples dogs and cats dying that caught poisoned mice or rats..nope none of that is on the property either any longer. JUST SHOOT THE SUCKERS haha rats are ugly and need to DIE ! mice dont bug me though they CUTE a nusance also but that is what the cats are for and one can hope any mice they catch are not full of poison !

 

[Guest]

haha

Try having TWINS !

Double the loud double the stinky poop value !@ HAHA DOUBLE the teething pain ! Double the cost even to get MORE DIAPERS used by two same age by 3 minutes difference, using 2x the amt of diapers..cloth and store bought disposables !

We are kinda glad the good lord gave us the twins as first borns cuz we had that noobie parent syndrom and stupidity haha WE HAD NO CLUE by time we got thru every stage of their babyhood x 2 ..we were PROS as parents, when we had the one single born one 3 yrs later ! HAHA

And they look so innocent yesss especially when sleeping, nobody told US that our twin son would take his weeblos and use em as bombs upon his twin sisters head at 6mos of age. NOR that she would kick sand in his face in the sand box like he was some wimp when they hit 2yrs of age !

They still looked sooo innocent in toddler years, when we would ask em who spilled grape koolaide on our new beige carpeting. And that is when we learned we had the mystery child..yes that kid we never saw named NOT ME ! who did this..not me not me not me they even taught their baby sister to do that..so we are still looking for that mystery kid we never thought we had named..not me ! That brat gonna be spanked WHENEVER we find him or her for all the destructo things that were done over the years by..our innocent 3 kids ! HAHA

 

[Guest]

Now when I was growing up we had "Yahootie" who did everything bad in our house. Years later, I found out there was actually a musician by that name (although of course not the spelling).

 

[Guest]

hmmmmmmmmmmm

Are men smarter than women ?? *giggles*

Dont think so ! They assume they are in command in/at home cuz..we 'let em' think so.... HAHAAHHAAHAHAHAAHa muhahhahahahha

Seriously though I dont think gender has a flip to do with intellect. Like some just were given brains in this or that functionality; and others were given brains in some other capacity..and some just got..good looks and NO brains of any gender ! hehe

My husband would be labeled a basic C student in school with most subjects offered. Yet I have never seen some one that can enter someone elses homes to check out what they need fixing or remodeling, then come home draw some sketch of the remodeling plans and have it all down to a science of boards needed, size needed, amount of nails needed, amount of anything and everything per project all from some *sketch* he did on a slip of paper ! NOW how does he DO THAT ? If there is something amiss in a vehicle he will know exactly what it probably is and what it will probably cost to fix a truck car 4 wheeler boat you name it or saw, router, chainsaw, lawn mower etc. He is like some mechanical genius, with mathmatical wizardry right in the mix. By some standards he would be labeled *average intelligence* and he could care less about einsteins theory of relativity..but if einstein needs his home remodeled to code and for less, hahahaha einstein calls my man ! HAHAHA

Our son is a genius intellectually his iq so high its up there in the universe somewhere, he grasps everything and fathoms it even einsteins theory of relativity but he couldnt change the brakes in his bronco if his life depended on it (and our life does depend upon our brakes working) And he is NOT a social butter fly one iota, haha booksmart not at all people smart in that he just assumes everyone is somehow..beneath him bleh ego of intellect !! His twin sis is the one that takes after he daddy, the US Navy found she could even fix fighter bomber jets electronic wirings and had the tiny fingers to get in behind those *dashboards* that the male us navy men couldnt even reach with larger fatter male hands...so she doing it all your fighter bombers *turn signals brought to you by my lil girl ms fixit of jets and planes of the us navy*

The twins lil sis the nurse brainiac, so much brainiac, we had to quit giving the kids dollars for a's they brung home on report card..she made us BROKE. . yet for all her intellect I love it when she has a *blonde day* hahahaha MOM I forgot where I parked my car hahaha hahahaha She can do cardiac surgery np with the best of em never miss a beat fathom it all..yet ...can forget where she puts her darn car in a parking lot ! HAHAHA yes she is very blonde so I get a kick out of sayin..you having a blonde moment hon ?? hahah *ima brunette*


So intelligence I think is dolled out and measured differently for us all everyone has something somewhere they will excel in unlike someone else.

 

[Guest]

Ah yes airports and any major stores can be a sheer treasure trove of people watching people outlets. I always notice stuff all over not sure why that is but it happens all the time doesnt even have to be people. I just notice things often that no one else notices. . even to something as tiny as a spider on a rack of sweaters in a store ! HAHA Like ummmmmmm yall need to clean up ye store here before that black widow that snuck in here, over there on the royal blue sweater on rack 4, aisle 3 ladies wear, bites someone ! haha

I will notice birds nesting in the lit signs on store fronts at night !

I will notice as I drive past the hs once school begins in the fall teen fashion statements esp. that first couple weeks of school and it never fails.. some teenager walkin to the hs near us, will be one in some goth look with a ball cap on backwards, ruining the goth look with baggie pants, thinkin to myself..so what are ye trying to say here to ye peers or parents or anybody ? Are..you a goth rapper ..or a rapper gone goth ?? Are ye having a teen angst identity crisis or what ? haha

I worked in ladies fashions multiracial multi age size group and our staff was similiar they hired us by SIZES so that the customers could see US modeling the clothing by size charts ! Anyhow I would look at Lakeesha she at me and we say nothing out loud always trying NOT to be heard by the customer so we learned to read each others minds in there to the tune of..something like..:

ok she thinks she is going to fit her butt into a sz 7 sexy outfit ..right in ye dreams miss, you will just tear that outfit to shreds trying it on*reality check time*.. but hrmm cant tell em a thing and if for some reason big bold and beautiful wants to look like hootchie momma on a street corner by the out fit she just selected ...............we just ring it up but GAH ............................
WE NOTICE everything, when ya worked in fashions like some times a lady be really gorgeous nice shape everything even and she buy either the stupidest looking outfit for her age or shape or ..she be like the one your hubby seen in the store ..like get a pedicure PLEASE ya killin your own gorgeous looks here ..yes we notice if she is even 200% lovely and her nails finger or toes, look like hell ! HAHA Shoots the whole mood ! haha

And I still try to fathom MEN whom will wear sandals but have to have socks on too NOW WHAT IS UP WITH THAT ? My dad used to do that and I would hope not to be seen in public with him when I was like 16 and there dad be in his sandals and..socks ! HAHA After awhile I just gave it up no changing him. I am very glad my husband if he is ever in sandals which is seldom, he does not wear socks with em ! My guy is more a tennis shoe sneakers and workboot kinda guy anyhow even in july heat.

 

[Innocent One]

Well, he did buy the posion, but I asked him not to use it...instead to use the traps so the posion is put away. We live roughly a mile away all round from any neighbors (unless you go by boat) so I doubt a dog or cat dragged the trap away and after reading your graphic description of eating ones leg off...yikes...I am feeling sorry for the rat now!

 

[Innocent One]

TWINS! Its hard to say how I would have handled twins but breastfeeding would have been a bit harder. LOL
You had yours all at once...I waited decades between mine. 16...born in 89, 10...born in 95 and 2...born in 03 respectively.

16 year old is driving now and I have seen more gray hairs since too!
Lord help me...I have 2 more to go!

 

[Innocent One]

It is funny how what you do for a living effects how you notice things. Back 15 years ago when I first started out in the printing business I was what they called a conventional 4 color film stripper...that was before computers took over and you had to register the colors together so they came together on the press without being out of register...well still even today I will see something or read something and I will judge its register, think or even talk to myself about how good or bad the register is. Its just like you and the fashion business...you could tell weather that big butt was going to look good in that mini skirt. Is that whacked out or what?!

 

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Its just like you and the fashion business...you could tell weather that big butt was going to look good in that mini skirt. Is that whacked out or what?!

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I once had a friend say, "The only women who wear stretch pants... are the ones who shouldn't!" I always kind of wonder what people are thinking when you see them at the store and they are seriously plus sized which is not a problem at all, but they are trying to fit into Jr's sized and styled clothes. I'm not going to even try to say that size 2's are the only ones who should get to wear fun clothes, but my goodness. If your rolls are hiding your belt, DO NOT wear hip huggers and a belly baring baby tee. It doesn't make them look nearly as sexy as a well fitting outfit would but I guess some people are kind of in denial.

 

[Innocent One]

Here is one of the major denials.....

Welcome to McDonalds, may I take your order?
Yes, I would like a double quarter pounder with cheese, large fries, 2 apple pies and a large shake...oh and a LARGE DIET COKE!
Would you like to super size that?
Well hrmm...Sure I guess that will be fine, after all I am drinking that DIET COKE!

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE to eat but I pass on all diet drinks...they just dont taste good to me and I feel if I can cut calories somewhere else I can drink my soda with all its glory. And stretch pants.....hahahaha I wore them in the 80's along with the leg warmers (hey leg warmers are coming back in style) as a teenage but now....oh no no no!! Hell, my guess is in the next 10 or 15 years I will be wearing elastic everything! *giggles**

 

[imported_Xotche of Meade]

It does make you wonder what is going on in the minds of folks who wear clothing that doesn't suit them at all. And for that matter why they dare pick on someone elses attire or size.

Daily I attend aqua-fittness classes, (its awesome folks if you need a great work out that is very low in stress) and a majority of people who attend these classes are obese, aged, disabled or have injuries to knees,back ect.

For me, it doesnt really matter so long as your suit fits and it covers all the 'parts' go for it, get in the pool and enjoy!

Anyhow there is this very nice man in one of my classes, he's HUGE, and its a shame when I saw these other fat biddies poking a grin at him behind his back! Myself and one other lady are the only ones who smile or stand next to him, cheer him on and you know just give that extra wink another human being needs to keep going.

The shame of it is they actually brought the subject up in the locker room. Don't know about you all but all locker room gossip is the worst, ignorant travisty among my sex. Nothing is worse, then to listen to a bunch of gaggling misinformed idiots. Rarely do I find anyone who has touched a subject with some influence and actually draws in a decent conversation among fellows in a locker room.

I am not by any means an angry or violent type but when this one woman began to speak of him, I grabbed my things and S-L-A-M-! my locker shut, looked right at her, then walked to the shower, leaving them in utter silence. (ever want to put someone's head inside one of them tiny lockers and repeatedly slam the door over their ears?

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Now I see first hand why folks with obesity or other disabilities don't want to come out and even try.

 

[Innocent One]

It is a shame that STILL in this country people are judged by their weight, sex, race etc. Reminds me of when we were buying our first home and looking for a realtor. The guy who we used to get pre-approved told us about a realtor who would really take care of us and our needs...we said great, cant wait to meet her, then he said well....she is black, is that going to be a problem? I was so thrown off guard by what he said I just stood there looking at him. I asked why he would even ask such a thing and he said he had had problems in the past with people requesting black or white. I couldnt believe this! Of course Anne was an outstanding realtor and have passed friends her way since her time with us.
As far as over weight people...their are many who simply can not help the fact that they can not get rid of the weight, no matter what they do, but as in my last post...hitting MickyD's and stuffing it in with the diet coke...that I feel can be helped. Oh and on a side note....I am guilty of hitting the golden arches and stuffing that cheeseburger down with a regular coke!

 

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[Guest]

I remember you saying that you had been pretty badly beat up this year playing with your students. Did you start the water fitness classes as a result or were you doing them before? I had a friend who had taken them for a while and she said it was so fun but a major workout.

Now thinking of fitness and that friend. The two of us had babies close together so we would get together every day and do

Richard Simmons Sweating to the Oldies

and then we would have lunch. Thing is, we ate the most awful stuff - poutine or chicken nachos. Neither one of us lost a single pound in the months we worked out, but we sure did have a lot of fun!

 

[Guest]

TWINS! Its hard to say how I would have handled twins but breastfeeding would have been a bit harder. LOL
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I was actually a member of MOT for a few years(mothers of twins). Some of those mom's actually did breast feed the two at once. NOT ME too much commotion trying to juggle two babies at once. We checked with MOT and the pediatricians, doctors, etc. and what we did was rotation ! haha For one meal time they got breastfed ONE at time and the other got.. bottle fed same time since they always woke each other up, so one was always being held and bottle fed by daddy ! Gave him a chance to bond too and we just rotated twinsies, per meal times bottle breast baby a/ baby b haha ! worked for us. And ifn it was a time when daddy not home, ended up often being two with bottles in their mouths ..cheating with each of them with their bottles propped up on a mini pillow(yet extremely supervised making sure no baby was choking and so forth)... to give me a darn break !

Ya learn to cut corners and save time or work with twins. They were making their own bowls of cereal at about age 3 ..but I had to pour the milk on them fruit loops or cherrios ..cuz our son tried to get a whole gallon of milk into an 8 oz bowl of rice krispies, haha well he was only 3 and so helpful ! HAHA *need I mention the time he tried to microwave eggs ..in the shell for mothers day breakfast for me * hahahahaha think he was 6 then ! EXPLODING RAW EGG GOO yes fun stuff !!!

We waited 3 yrs after marriage to even dare to try for kids cuz of my twin gene being all over the generations on both sides of my family. (plus I wanted our first born to arrive for my dad's birthday..so they were very well planned).

WE just figured if anybody in the whole family any generation of child bearing years on either side was gonna twinkie twin, it would be us due to my gene pool. So we waited till we were sure we even wanted to BE parents and then waited to make sure we could afford everything x 2 just in case, then plotted for the baby or babies arrival to hit for my dad's birthday ! HAHA

So there I was coming home from the doctor that one day and had to say..umm honey guess what we are pregnant and ..it is two. *see husband faint even though he knew that risk was always there haha he sort of hoped maybe it not be 2 at a time ! muhhahahaha it is why we are not grandparents to this day ..our 3 kids PHER that twin gene none of em yet have attempted parenthood ! SCARED ! hehe Twins came a day early, thus a day before my dad's birthday, close enough ! HAHA

Oh no honey chil...after we risked to have a single born which we did after the twins, after baby girl cometh we were not gonna risk twosys at a time ever again in our lives ..snip snip haha NO MORE KIDS for us, esp when we would risk 2 at a time everytime ! HAHA WE done got us fixed up ! Those 3 were IT for us !

 

[Guest]

16 year old is driving now and I have seen more gray hairs since too!
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HAHA try two new drivers to insure at same time due to being same identical age and you as parents will not gyp one if that is all ya can afford to insure. So no matter you will slave extra work hours, to make it possible and to make it sure for BOTH twins to get to drive and to get insured, same time so one is not left out ever on anything, and then worry about both of em or some jerks on road worse drivers than even any new drivers are. I think hubby and I hit premature aging, when the twins hit 16 and driving due to worry and cost. That was class ring ordering year too X 2 GAH !!!

But I have to relay a comic episode of twins as new drivers. Since there were TWO of them and only one van of mine..and dad's truck was at work where dad was..I would rotate haha yes rotate who got to drive my van to a store or to school and then the other of them got to drive it home..cuz often if they needed to run to kmart whatever was same time same needs anyhow, and same class skeds albeit different classes. So I would make em take turns as to who got to drive ow per trip..and then we had the rotations turns too of who got my van all alone to themselves to go hang with friends alternating weekends or something.

Anyhow the twins had to go to walmart for some school supplies. NP ..Lisa takes it TO the store..Erik brings it home that way both got to drive the van ! So what does HE do while SHE is inside fussin over which outfit she likes better .. ?? Our son goes back outside and MOVES my van in the parking lot !!! Then sneaks back into the store. So when they are all done shopping as they exit he yells OMFG where is mom's van ..didnt you lock it ?? where the h is it ?? she freaks out gets on her cell phone*their cellphone* calls the cops..my mom's van was stolen..omg mom gonna kill me I KNOW I locked it ..!! She begins to cry in hysteria over my missing van..he begins to laugh his head off............cuz he knew where he moved the van ..in that parking lot. TO THIS DAY she will not forgive him for just being..a 16 yr old boy that moved mom's van..personally it made me crack up laughing but yes I had to yell at him anyhow cuz DANG IT SON..you bout gave your sister heart failure..comic but BAD BAD shame on you !! hahaha

My having a full sized van did have its drawbacks when I wasnt stuck hauling the entire hs band or their instruments, drawbacks for our male twin, for our son..he go pick up his date and the father of the girls would say ummmmmmmmmmm you not takin out MY girl in no traveling van sized bed...he'd come back home &amp; have to beg dad for his truck ! haha

 

[Guest]

hrmm I will probably DIE from that aspartine stuff but I dont get a choice much..well I DO. I can if I tried really really hard to give up diet pepsi but GAH never fails I usually fail trying that. I get too much caffine per day..via dt pepsi and ice tea..ice tea with sweet and low. Only time I use real sugar is in me one cuppa coffee per morning.

I do get headaches, doc says it is the combo, aspartine and caffine, all day long.

But with grandparents that died from diabetes, I went dt soft drinks years ago and never went back to the non diet soft drinks since ..and that was yrs ago. The doctor told me to get off the colas with sugar in em, go dt colas or preferrably do with out em totally GAH I NEVER succeed at giving them up though! sigh never ima sucha failure on that chore. Course for that matter I can cross the street and get run over by a semi sooooooooo such is life it ENDS ! HAHA Im in my 50s still doing aspartine and caffine. And so I "ain't" dead yet...YET !

 

[Guest]

Yeh and sometimes the worst offenders of gossipy bs esp in dressing rooms in stores, or locker room gym set ups are often those that should look in their own mirror first before degrading or makin fun of someone else too thin too heavy or too whatever colors they are. But yeh especially in gyms or rehab centers like excuse me the man or woman is here trying to work out their issues like YOU supposidly are in here for..so shut up ! HAHA YOU not perfect of girlish boyish figure either !

But some are like in further denial than others seen it in the store lots of times, someone that really is a 5xxxxx looks in the store mirror and some few of em really DO think they are still a size 9. ME I see reality in the mirror when I look there. lordy yes I can loose a few too, who cant, but I DO know Ima no size 7 no mo' ! HAHA

 

[Guest]

Ya know what is even sadder than say someone that may be trying to get into some outfit that would do their size no justice at all, is someone that is even in a bigger denial on the AGE issues.

I am sorry but if some grannie 3x even MY age comes in and is wearing some goth outfit at 80, or some barbie ken and skipper outfit that should be on nobody over the age of even 18 and I wont be caught dead in it myself even at my younger age than she is... hahah ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm sorry grandma get wit the program you should look like a grandma not a hiphoppin street kid, or in some 14yr old's outfit ala disco princess bare bellied tank toppy. levis in stiletto boots, with cowboy hat kinda wearing grannie umm, especially with the 4k of wrinkles on ye even if slim but OLD body at 80++ ! HAHAHAHAHA SO please any of yall even WAY older than me.. please look like elegant ..roxxors seniors ! IT can be done without lookin like you 80 trying to look 14 yrs old again !

 

[Innocent One]

Stop showing off G.v.P.!!

*Holds G.v.P. down while Bonami makes him drink a diet coke**

 

[Innocent One]

I wear a size 7!
shoe

 

[Guest]

yeh howdy why worry bout aspartine when that last can of pure natural pasta sauce I used/tried to use for making pasta sauce, had about killed us both last week with tomaine or botulism or whatever was wrong with it. GAH I mean like we were sick queasy, just off of trying to taste it by the spoonfull only, just to say..there is something majorly wrong with this can o sauce. We took it back hopefully the store, recalled the whole load of em with that same batch and lot number and due date on the cans but ..I doubt it.

 

[Innocent One]

Please dont tell me it was Ragu! And the same thng happened to hubby and his pudding cups. LOL He gets those hunt's pudding cups over where you get the boxes of jello and he opened it yesterday to eat after his lunch and it had a weird odor and it looked like it wasnt mixed up right. Not creamy but chunky.

 

[Guest]

hahaha I used to wear a size 7 shoe. It became an size 8 after I got taller one year like when I was 18 was 5'4 ..for some weirdo reason I ended up 5'5 at age 23 and my 7 shoe became an 8. . go figure. But my size 7 wedding rings still fit ..34 yrs old them rings. ..no the wedding dress will NEVER fit me again. Think I was once just too skinny too many yrs when youger, or something darn wedding dress was a sz 3 gah skinny once too skinny was always worried about gaining once..now PFFT WHO THE HECK CARES we all gonna DIE hahaha I gonna die eatin a mcdonalds filet of fish laden with FATTENING tartar sauce some year I dont care no mo' over a half a century old now as it is so pfft what I care now of rl dirtnappin been here a long arse time as it is ! HAHA

We had a lovely lady at church one year..sweet gal and she so wanted to have a baby. She was too skinny. Her doctor put her on a pizza ice cream and fat laden diet to help her gain some. SHE COULD NOT. It was so sad cuz she was not wide enough at all anywhere to bear a child and it broke her heart. They did adopt 3 kids but she never could gain to have one of her own...too skinny all over birthcanal everything on her thin as a rail.

 

[Guest]

ACK RAGU a sacralige NEVER !!

No for age years my family the italians haha would always buy HUNTS the kind with NOTHING in it cuz they italian they fixa uppa their own pasta sauces but yeh hunts bout the only one still making PLAIN NOTHING in it tomato sauce where one could perform miracles with it to do anything. My parents trusted hunts for over 40 ++ yrs of their marriage. WE been using Hunts since our marriage in 1971 never a problem EVER !

The expiration date was nov. 06 2006 so it wasnt old, it was somehow made incorrectly or the tomatoes used were BAD something was definately wrong with it..and it looked just like usual too nothing amiss but the flavor was BITTER as hell all baddddddddd lordy horrible one stinkin teaspoon full to taste it after it was cooking awhile..made me sick as a dog for 2 days !! THAT some serious something wrong there with it. We had 16 cans of it in 2 8pcks. tried another batch week later thinking maybe it was the gr beef maybe it was the minced garlic surely something else had to be the fault *or yes even me the cook* NOPE we did a second batch with nothing in it, let the sauce boil then simmer tasted and GAH insta turn ye stomach over ! We took em all back !

 

[Innocent One]

You are as old as you feel, but I do agree with you and women dressing their age...really men too...it is not a pretty site to see an older man with a speedo and gut hanging over it much less other unsitely things sagging. Oh the horror on the beach these days! I have wore a one piece swimsuit my whole life and still worry that it may show too much. My daughter wears those thong underwear and I have to wonder.....doesnt that feel weird!

 

[Guest]

OMG you said... they were.. HUNTS pudding packs ..and our sauce was HUNTS oh oh something is wrong then with THE COMPANY batches of foods and they been AOK plus plus safe, for DECADES nary a problem with a product of theirs ! OMG !!

 

[Innocent One]

OMG HUNTS sauce and HUNTS pudding! Company recall!

 

[Guest]

They SAID they were going to remove the entire palet of 8 packs of cans, with the nov. 06 2006 exp date on em, and lot batch number that those had on em, at Sam's, due to us gettin sick off of em. But hubby went back in there just yesterday to find Hunts new or different batches to maybe buy some since we are out, some he hoped to find with different dates/batch lots on cans but the same ones were still there.

I will probably contact Hunts cuz dang it our family been trusting their products for decades never and incident ever and I sure would hate that company to end up killin people or something..our luck their stuff is now made by outsourced places and people and the *(quality assurance watchdogs not there like they were) * or something. Pity too Hunts been a fine company for AGES sure would hate to see em get law suits filed on em or go bankrupt heck they may not even be aware what is going on..so I may write em been too good for too many decades to not try to bring it to their attentions. *might help em too*

 

[Guest]

I once nearly got run over by an elderly man in California whom was wearing them speedos.

It was my first trip to San Diego to visit our first born daughter. USN. Anyhow california is its own weirdo place haha no offence but I have never been any where where they have signs on elevators saying..in case of earth quake do NOT board elevator. I had to ask my child so umm what happens if you are already IN one and the earth then decides to quake. She says ..that is why we walk all the stairs mom, cmon up we go hahahah GAH her navy apartment was on the 5th floor ! HAHA

Anyhow so she takes me downtown for sight seeing San Diego is beautiful but there we were by some lovely beachy shoppes and resturants and the side walks have painted on them words like *pedistrian walk* *skateboard walk* *biker walk* I look at my child and say ..sure got a lot of discriminatory sidewalks here ! HAHA

Just about then some 80+ yr old coot in speedos in the WALK sidewalk come flyin at me bout run me over ..on his skateboard.

I yelled like some new yorker "GET IN YOUR PROPER LANE ya old coot !! as I flippeth him the birdie middle usa style "

SHEESH well at least I began to fathom SanDiegos discriminatory sidewalk laws, and that old coot was in tight shape so he didnt look lame in them speedos. But the man had to be over 80. I hate when grandpa is in better shape than any of us but dang it he BETTER skate board in the proper lane before he kills someone speedin in his speedos on his fricken skateboard like some 14 yr old ! HAHA

 

[Guest]

Mangos are messy.

 

[Guest]

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Stop showing off G.v.P.!!

*Holds G.v.P. down while Bonami makes him drink a diet coke**

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[Guest]

hey now at least it diet soda ..not hunts sauce, cuz that probably do ya in faster ! HRMM

 

[Innocent One]

*Whips up some skeddy with HUNTS sauce and slips in a little HUNTS pudding for desert**
*YELLING** G.v.P. dinner is ready!!

 

[Innocent One]

I just wanted to let you all know that last evening something happened to the C/A and it is so damn hot in this house! Its been close to 100 degrees everyday for over a week and this had to happen at the worst time! Oh you bet the AC guy is coming today...I only hope its this morning and not this afternoon! Ya know...having yer C/A fixed or even serviced is very expensive and hubby is not a happy camper.

Who else here just cant live without their AC??

 

[Guest]

Me! Spoiled rotten that way..hehe.

I live in Michigan and I can handle a blizzard without complaining (well maybe a little), but several days in a row over 90 gets me downright cranky! This has been a very hot and humid summer for us.

And yes..80 bucks minimum just to have them step into the house to take a look at the AC.

 

[Guest]

Between QZ and you, my words-per-a-minute-reading-capibility is growing

 

[Guest]

In honor of Shark Week, I spent a few hours making this:

 

[Innocent One]

Hrmmm...you tryin to say we be a couple of clucking hens?!

 

[Innocent One]

Let me be the first to say.....Its a Masterpiece! I have been watching some of the shows on Discovery this week and find this shark thing to be interesting. I am a Mythbusters fan and last nights show was a good one!
On a side note....the AC is up and running once again and I have stopped sweating my ar$$ off so come on everyone...you can come back to the thread...I have showered now!

 

[Guest]

i need to fix the tail and stuff... oh well lol

 

[Guest]

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Welp, vacation is over.

But we had a blast while it lasted. It was very hot, but no storms or hurricanes. I cooked each night and everyone left fatter than when they arrived, so I must not have done too bad.

Hawaiian night was really fun and the granddaughter was the hit of the ball. No argument from me.

We went and saw the wild horses on Shackleford Banks. They've been there since the 1500's when they were abandoned after ship wrecks.

The H.M.S. Bounty was in port and we took the tour. Yo Ho Yo Ho a pirate's life fer me !!

Oh well back to the normal life again. But before I go here's one more pic. We were able to get up early one morning and watch the sunrise.

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[Guest]

Awwwww - what a sweetie! How old is she now? And Welcome back.

 

[Innocent One]

Yes, she is a sweetie pie!
What I want to know is....where is the pic of you Ommadawn in your speedo?! And what...you didnt bring me back any taffy? Sheeshhh! Oh well, welcome back!

 

[Guest]

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where is the pic of you Ommadawn in your speedo?!

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Oh you are awful!!! speedos... *shudders*

 

[imported_Xotche of Meade]

The Complexity of Pizza.

Finding the right balance in toppings, amount of sauce and thickness of cheese, type of dough preporation and depth is crucial.

To find such a pie can only be captured by the local pizzarias within your community who undoubtedly may or may not have that gift of balance. The right pizza can only be deterimed by taste, consistancy and texture, any other values asserted towards a good pie is conceptual.

<font color="blue"> The Xotche Pizza of choice:
Medium hand tossed (with just a dash of corn meal on the bottom)
Pepperoni, It. sausage, mushrooms, onion, black olives and extra cheese
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This is my 'personal' pizza; but like so many other good natured, kicked back geeks, I can eat just about any kind of pizza. Just leave the fishies or pepperchini on the side please.

Buying pizza from a well known commercial market is so so and leaves little room to compensate for taste. Because they are commercial brands consistancy and texture are there due to mass production. Little Ceasars being my least favorite come in 3rd, Pizza Hut 2nd and Dominoes for 1st only because they have better variety.

I find that any frozen pizza is a waste of money and only useful for feeding children who have undeveloped pallets. Proof enough that kids will eat just about anything with cheese, including the nappiest of pizza products - pizza rolls!

In my travels I have tasted many, sampled various regions/cultures, and found the obscurest of pizzas. ( From the heart of Chicago, the streets of NY, the beaches of Miami, Greektown Detroit, Bourban St. New Orleans, Dallas, Tulsa, Denver, San Diego, Yuma, Las Vegas, Chinatown SF, the Rez, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Canada.) Anywhere you go, there is bound to be a pizza place or a menu/ flyer, coupon, advertisement, link or speed dial (hotels) to get a pie at almost any price range, size, quantity, pick-up or delivery.

Pizza is a concept food. I don't believe any other food has as many diversities as the pizza pie. The combinations are infinitive. Nor have I seen any other food have as many ways to process, freeze dried, frozen, dehydrated, in a box, in a bag, from a can and even on a rock. You can prepare it by oven, microwave, steam, fry, sunlight and in the fridge. Shapes, sizes, thicknesses, flat,puffed, inverted, rolled, layered, edged.

It should also have it's own bracket on our food pyramid because it fullfills all the catagories. You can develope a carbo-veggie pizza or a complete heart killer. Light, tasty appetizer still room for dinner or complete value meal all in one.

Lastly, pizza is an economic device. But I cannot take anymore of your time to read a written thesis on that portion of the complexity of pizza. Instead I will ask...."what do you want on your tombstone"?

 

[Guest]

shrooms I like to have mushrooms on a pizza and black olives and pepperoni. I sometimes like the thicker doughs or hand tosseds as they are called and sometimes I really seem to crave the skinny dough ones thin crust not sure why but the thin crusts [if done right] have their own unique flava that the plump doughs can never have.

Often if we had to order up a pizza due to time constraints, it will be from the pizza place just around the corner cuz they make em great. Not every store in a chain ends up the same way, depends on the managers and workers to do it right. The one closest to us is a Dominos but it is their staff that make em far better than anywhere else near by for the *fast food variety* of pizzas. We did try their newest hotstuff pizza with jalapenos on it, and think it is monterrey jack on it and it was yummy.

One of the best pizzas I ever tasted in my life was somewhere in the bowels of the bad bad leroy brown side of town in chi town, chicago like way down in there in please dont shoot me till I get to taste these peeps' pizza, area of town. haha OH man it was ..pizza to DIE for....haha people literally risk rl lives to even GO there but they do we did ..this was yrs ago cuz it was THE BEST hand tossed mades from scratch buy it there eat it there kinda pizza place.

Now one of our grown adult kids likes them ...sort of hawaiian pizzas YUCKY !!! I really do not fathom how people can even eat those..slathered in pineapple that not pizza that is some tropical desert or something that should be buried at sea. haha

Our best pizza is of course HOME made makin the dough from scratch like one does bread ..either rising the dough old fashioned way or cheating using bread machine..then smackin it stretching it to fit a huge cookie sheet size pan..then let it rise again. Then add our own toppings, cheeses then bake to perfection.

When we doing our own it will have black olives, fresh mushrooms, if we have the shrooms that is, pepperoni, ground meat be it a sausage or possibly hamburger, *depends on moods * chopped onion, and or course cheeses, grated and the shredded varieties. Sometimes we sneak a bit of olive oil and oregano LIGHTLY into the dough when the dough was made..and yes lightly corn meal the pan so it dont stick to it as it bakes.

( I also use cocoa, or even inst. choc milk powder to *flour* the pans if it is a choc cake I am baking, instead of flour in the pans when I do a choc. cake ..just cuz some book or recipe says flour pan who says it has to be flour ? One can even lightly flour a pan for pizza with a dried shake it cheese or...corn meal or lightly shook onto pan some oregano or basil or garlic powder even). Idea is to have something separating cooking thing, from pan so WHO SAID IT HAS TO BE FLOUR all the time ? hahaha

And sometimes, if I am not in the mood for the gr sausage on a pizza but hubby was it ends up on the pizza.. I eat the pizza and pick off the sausage which is why the cats sit by me..when I eating a pizza ! HAHA They hoping I might drop em some snack off my piece of pizza or the cats maybe hoping we would put anchovies on our pizza but we dont like those, so we never use em on a pizza, so the cats are out of luck !