VJohnson
Lovin' The Homestead
Going out to dinner tonight. Yay!
frustratedearthmother
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Tortilla (low carb) burgers.
flowerbug
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lasagna, presentation was ... but i would not let it go to waste, will eat the other half tomorrow.
Mom made two large glass pans of it, then she made two small glass pie dishes full and as she was taking one of them out of the oven she somehow managed to dump it down the front and side of the oven and in a very compact neat pile on our freshly wiped down wood floor. some of it i was not going to rescue but with a clean spatula it came off the floor and was put into a bowl. i made sure not to get anything that was questionable (like the chunks i had to pry out of the greasy oven hinge ...). we've been getting a lot of good laughs out of it since then. as she said that if she doubted i was the family dog before this she doesn't now.
if something like that had somehow happened in this room there's only a few spots on the floor that are as clean as the kitchen floor. i would not probably have been able to rescue it.
i got it cleaned up and the floor wiped back down again in a ten minutes. it was a bit of a mess sure but the glass pie plate didn't break and there was no blood or even burns (she did get some on her foot). i've done a lot worse (broken glass of various kinds and the one time i was making pepper spray to use on the cedar trees and the glass carafe i was using cracked and broke - so besides the glass all over the place i had half the kitchen wood floor covered in several gallons of hot steaming hot sauce which included other stinky things that i hoped would deter deer - i was really surprised by how that all cleaned up).
after a break to give my back a rest from doing dishes and cleaning that up i had to finish up the rest of the dishes and some more cleaning up and so, yes, i'm whupped... sleep will be here eventually, but i need to unwind for a bit first.
the contrast between our personalities is pretty wide when such things happen. to me, i don't get mad or super upset, as long as nobody got hurt and there wasn't blood involved it's doesn't register on me as a horrible thing at all. i just get on with cleaning up the mess as efficiently as possible and if i can find some humor in it i will. Mom will swear and be all bent so my being able to just deal with it and laugh helps talk her down from the ledge. we did laugh quite a bit this evening. she said it was only the beginning of her decline (i've been here nearly 20 years she's been gradually declining in various ways for much of the past 10 years, but she's still doing better than almost all of her friends that are still alive so i think it's going ok) but i told her that if she gave me any trouble i'd just call in the big guns. she laughed and said who's that? my sister. she agreed with me and laughed a lot about it, and then of course she said she'll have to tell my sister about that one.
ok that's the story of the evening...
p.s. the lasagna was good, a bit of woody finish, but good... (no, i didn't taste anything off about it at all - i just can't help trying to find humor in things if i can )...
Mom made two large glass pans of it, then she made two small glass pie dishes full and as she was taking one of them out of the oven she somehow managed to dump it down the front and side of the oven and in a very compact neat pile on our freshly wiped down wood floor. some of it i was not going to rescue but with a clean spatula it came off the floor and was put into a bowl. i made sure not to get anything that was questionable (like the chunks i had to pry out of the greasy oven hinge ...). we've been getting a lot of good laughs out of it since then. as she said that if she doubted i was the family dog before this she doesn't now.
if something like that had somehow happened in this room there's only a few spots on the floor that are as clean as the kitchen floor. i would not probably have been able to rescue it.
i got it cleaned up and the floor wiped back down again in a ten minutes. it was a bit of a mess sure but the glass pie plate didn't break and there was no blood or even burns (she did get some on her foot). i've done a lot worse (broken glass of various kinds and the one time i was making pepper spray to use on the cedar trees and the glass carafe i was using cracked and broke - so besides the glass all over the place i had half the kitchen wood floor covered in several gallons of hot steaming hot sauce which included other stinky things that i hoped would deter deer - i was really surprised by how that all cleaned up).
after a break to give my back a rest from doing dishes and cleaning that up i had to finish up the rest of the dishes and some more cleaning up and so, yes, i'm whupped... sleep will be here eventually, but i need to unwind for a bit first.
the contrast between our personalities is pretty wide when such things happen. to me, i don't get mad or super upset, as long as nobody got hurt and there wasn't blood involved it's doesn't register on me as a horrible thing at all. i just get on with cleaning up the mess as efficiently as possible and if i can find some humor in it i will. Mom will swear and be all bent so my being able to just deal with it and laugh helps talk her down from the ledge. we did laugh quite a bit this evening. she said it was only the beginning of her decline (i've been here nearly 20 years she's been gradually declining in various ways for much of the past 10 years, but she's still doing better than almost all of her friends that are still alive so i think it's going ok) but i told her that if she gave me any trouble i'd just call in the big guns. she laughed and said who's that? my sister. she agreed with me and laughed a lot about it, and then of course she said she'll have to tell my sister about that one.
ok that's the story of the evening...
p.s. the lasagna was good, a bit of woody finish, but good... (no, i didn't taste anything off about it at all - i just can't help trying to find humor in things if i can
)...
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VJohnson
Lovin' The Homestead
Ratatouille, pasta and Italian sausage tonight.
Mini Horses
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Made myself a hamburger...was good!
frustratedearthmother
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Me too!
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Baked potatoes. You can lose weight eating them regularly
flowerbug
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no matter what anyone says it is always about calories in vs. calories burned.
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They are filling and fairly low calorie. Work well for me. My bloodwork improved as well. If I'm eating them, I'm not eating worse stuff or getting as hungry.
Mini Horses
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The potato is not the calorie devil, it's all the toppings 
I like potatoes. They're "satisfying".
I like potatoes. They're "satisfying".
