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Excellent. I want to see this. I’ve seen bits and pieces but never sat down and watched everything all the way through

I was talking about food, ingredients or brands that, according to you or your people, cannot be replaced. but if you wanna tell us inner dark secrets please do. I'm trying to go home to New Mexico for thanksgiving and get me some fry bread, according to Navajos you must use bluebird flour. https://images.app.goo.gl/FBPdXhkJUPRLfWgU6 I don't care, I just sent my friend Marcy a text that the very best cook must be on duty for my fry bread. I think it's been 12 years since I had any. Gotta get some mexican food too, and green chile dip! Going to visit my niece in prison, that's a new one for me. (that's not the whole purpose for the trip just while I'm there)

Had my first day at the new job, I got a little harshed on. My ego isn't as young as it once was. We only have 1 question where we type their comments. We are supposed to stay in first person "I went to the store, purchased a microwave, the microwave makes my bacon taste funny" but when they start talking about the installer or the person at the desk I'm not supposed to use gender pronouns. the person on the phone says "the guy came out and totally messed up my deck" I have to remember to stay first person for the person talking but I gotta change "guy" to "rep" or "installer" We had rando lasagna yesterday. Someone made it for the family after their dad passed away. The noodle to sauce ratio was out of whack. It wasn't bad, just not a lot of sauce but I could tell they used real ricotta. I have a friend who is italian and it's unheard of to use cottage cheese in place of ricotta. I don't like ricotta but I don't know that there's anything I'm completely opposed to. Yes there are things that I like the way my mom did them. I'm pretty sure though that most of my universe in cooking is a heinous crime to somebody or other. Other than "real coke" (not cocaine) I don't know of other things I can't substitute. I drink fake dr. pepper and fake mountain dew. Also must have krackel now, no other rice crispy chocolate bar will do. What are things that are die hard?

HE DIDNT GET OUT OF THE COCKIN-DOODY CAR! I love that movie. I watched it in France and I wanted to see how they would translate her "swearing" and at the end when she mispronounces Dom Perignon. They had her say it right and I was all "but that's the whole point, she mispronounces it" and my aunt's assumption was that the french never find it humorous to mispronounce champagne (cham-pag-knee) :D

wings is not dark meat! WANGS IS NOT DARK MEAT. Shh I like Church's too. I thought I would burst into flames going into a church but I been in 2 recently and I'm guessing Senor Higher Power was asleep. I was hearing Bow Chica bow wow music during the dark meat/thighs convo On the Brady Brides shortlived sitcom, Jan's husband lost points on the Newlywed Game because he refused to say his favorite chicken parts were breasts and thighs.

I just watched a cooking show where she was making biscuit dough and finally someone took rings off and rolled up sleeves. Actually said “taking rings off and rolling up sleeves because this is serious business” it drives me crazy when I see long sleeves during messy cooking. She put sweet potatoes in biscuits which is a criminal offense but her rings didn’t collect oooky crusties.

I gave up on Cher after she broke up with Sam Elliott in "Mask" Nope, I'm out. One does not let Sam Elliott get away. When he used to do the "Steak! It's what for dinner" or beef or whatever it was...I used to repeat "Sam! that's whats for dinner" Oh! I tried the Popeye's chicken sandwich, found a short line, the spicy is better than the regular. I can't say exactly what is different other than the pickles are "young", I don't know if that's right or not. Basically they still look like cucumbers, they're pale but they are pickles. I enjoy pickles.

Oh I wasn't saying they didn't do a good job, I liked it very much but Bradley doing a voice to sound like Sam Elliott I was like "just let Sam do both!" You do not know the eternal hatred I have for "Roadhouse". I was traumatized as a kid, YOU DO NOT KILL SAM ELLIOTT

Psst I wanted to kill Bradley cooper in the “Star Is born “ movie too, just have sam Elliott play both parts. Hell he can play lady Gaga too.

I liked Tom selleck In the western mini series he did with sam Elliott, the sacketts. Although that was mostly that I liked sam Elliott. Some people are my ride or die, like Sam Elliott. I’d see pretty much anything with him in it. The entire cast of freaks n geeks. I’d see virtually anything they do. Ok mostly just bill Haverchuck and sam weir. Lindsay weir. There are more. Adam Baldwin and the cast of firefly. Cast of chuck. Love them and I support them in all endeavors.

Didn’t mean to rankle anyone. I did say my reaction to Kevin and John Denver were irrational. I cannot explain where it comes from. Actually I can explain John Denver. The few times my mom ever had to have us “watched” as in babysitters, it was a neighbor. One day it was Mrs O’dell. And they were known for b.o. I remember being in a wood paneled room and it being rather stinky and John Denver was on tv. My guess is that’s where it comes from. Mr. o’dells name was “Digger” in my mind I picture him like pigpen from the peanuts cartoon, smudged face and a cloud of dust following him. I also have irrational annoyance with Nicolas cage but one of my favorite movies is “raising Arizona” I’m a conundrum wrapped in an enigma. Survived training week, graduated to taking phone calls and tried not to panic. I shall seek out some krackel, I like my ratio to be more chocolate than crispies.

I have irrational hate for Kevin Costner. I just don't like him. I also irrationally disliked John Denver, for some reason I was convinced he had very bad B.O. I know he was a hippie but I'm sure he bathed. But from a deep recess in my mind, before the age of 4, I swear every time I saw him on tv I could smell him.

I THINK I HAVE IT ON DVD! love it, loooooooove eeeeeeeet so much. I think I bought a copy for my sister. I did once look up Chris Makepeace and saw that he hadn't done anything but of course Adam Baldwin as the bodyguard. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE JAYNE JAYNE JAYNE (Firefly) and Matt Dillon was the "bully" who then had to go hire his own bodyguards to beat up Linderman (baldwin). I am sorry to hear about the iron issues, my sister was on iron before she passed but I have no advice. I await the verdict on krackel vs crunch Another 80's disappeareded actor was Ilan Mitchell-Smither from "Weird Science", he didn't do too much and I looked him up, he's a professor and did a cameo on the Goldbergs as a science teacher I believe

I saw my friend from my old job at the new job training (there's like 5 of us that migrated) So I was excited, cuz I has a fren! She's giving the scoop. So I did a bad thing this morning. My boss is in the middle of printing a huge mailer which means everything he prints has to print in order and all the sections have to stay together but it also means I have to wait hours and hours and hours to be able to print anything. So I had 2 tiny little things to print so I scooted them in before he got here. I had scooped 1 out before he got here but then some rando came to the door and he left his flyers for his presentation in his garage in florida and could I please, please, please print him 100 flyers? I got working on that and meanwhile my boss started his thing. Then he noticed my thing in the middle of his thing. I do this alllll the time, I swoop in and get my little stuff done quick, quick like a bunny, because waiting on him is forever and as you know my time is limited this week. I have to print a football program today that is dedicated to my boss' dad who just passed away so I mean my time is tight! So now I get a lecture that I've messed up his count (technically, if he just didn't pull my thing out and let his 2 things fall together then we wouldn't have this problem) if he literally lifted his top one out, that's a whole section, give mine to me and boom underneath is his other section. But he pulled mine straight out and let his peanut butter and jelly mix. I know it's still my fault for trying to squeeze in there but he also never announced "I'm here and I'm gonna start my mailing up again" I feel like Scooby Doo, "I woulda gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those darn flyers!" In other news the city finally came out and plumbed me! I've been waiting a month for them to replace the old galvanized pipes out at the water main and I seen digging!

I think I was successful in both the first day of training and the tax appeal. The Board of Assessors rolled back my value to last years assessment and froze me for three years. Meaning the amount they tax me on can't change for 3 years but that doesn't mean my taxes don't go up because the millage rate fluctuates. But it's fluctuating around a lower number which is good. Now in 3 years do they hit me with a $50,000 value hike? better not. They had my house listed as 3 bedrooms, I only have 2. My house at best is a starter home, no family is moving in with 5 kids. Yes, my neighborhood is going up in value and I want my house to do so also just not outpace me. With the roof, painting, the recent plumbing issues, I can't just maintain it much less improve it. 40 year old kitchen, kitchens are what sell houses. The only person whose gonna step in and buy my house is a flipper. They'll offer me $125,000 for it, put $25,000 in for a kitchen and bath remodel then sell it for $200,000. I can't afford to do what they could do in a short time. I desperately need paint. but you know I'll need an air conditioner soon or hot water heater or more plumbing. My house was built in 1928 its quaint but holy crap falling into a sinkhole. day 2 of training awaits!

This week gonna be hell, as if my life isn't hell as it is. Every day this week I have a training class for a new job. So I'll leave for work about 7 and I'll get home after 11 pm every night through Friday. I do have to leave regular job about an hour early to get there. Tuesday I have a hearing with the board of assessors appealing my taxes. For the last 5 years they keep raising the value of my house by about $15,000 to $20,000 which is great if I could sell it for that much...but I can't. I have done nothing to my house except a new roof in the last 5 years. That was because my insurance threatened to drop me because my roof was probably 40 years old. It didn't leak but they felt it looked sad. But I also have a 40 year old kitchen, they don't care about that. I also just had my big plumbing issue so I'm going in saying this is unfair, if I haven't done anything construction wise to improve the value of my home, I know it's going up with the neighborhood but they can't arbitrarily decide it's worth $30k more when no one has actually come to look since 2017. It needs paint, it needs windows. I have a huge crack in my living room ceiling (I don't think it's foundation, I HOPE!, I think it's from roofers stomping around when they did the roof) They have it listed as 3 bedrooms and I only have 2, hopefully I at least earn a "freeze" for 3 years where they can't hike my taxes. This years increase was for schools, I have no kids, aint gonna have no kids and I've paid school taxes for 30 years. I will be very tired by Friday.

I should never doubt myself. I went to get my cheap Halloween candy and I purchased terrible things. Everybody got the good stuff. I got peanut butter snickers. Which aren’t horrible but they aren’t the best thing I ever put in my mouth. And then the tragedy occurred ... I should never follow the instincts of uhhh how do I put this? Wives? Perhaps millennial chicks? I purchased white claw ... and it’s sucks. Hahaha I wanted the cherry one and couldn’t find it so I bought a variety pack. Double bad. Luckily I have a friend who can finish it. Maybe I’ll make a sparkly sangria out of it.

One of my least favorite candies. Chocolate covered vomit balls. My old boss used to love stale circus peanuts, he liked for them to get hard n chewy. he also likes peeps and mallomars. all things that are illegal to me. blech blech My dad liked those malted milk balls, I called em moth balls. nasty nasty nasty. I do need to stop by the store on my way home from work and pick up my half price Halloween candy. anything chocolate, I do usually get some candy corns for the popcorn mix I make and maybe some peppermint patties. I love me a peppermint patty. I like stale cheezy poofs. up to a point. chewy but not greasy.

I just got home from the memorial service and holy crap my neighborhood is crawling with kids. I swear in the last few years we’ve gotten hardly any. And I thought I’d be safe getting home after 8. The city puts out guidelines to take the kids between 5:30 and 7:30 and I know the bigger kids go later but usually it’s very dwindled after 8. The only candy I’ve got is a snickers blizzard and they’ll pry that out of my cold dead hands.

I know they're both basically rice crispies inside but I wonder if Hershey has more cocoa or more sugar? I've never thought of the difference before, sometimes I'm in the mood for nuts and I like a Mr. Goodbar. I know, as Americans, our "hershey" chocolate is lesser quality than european chocolate. I'll still eat it all but I don't love European chocolate and I know I'm used to what we get here. When we got those mixed bags of mini chocolate bars, I never liked the "dark" chocolate. We made my mom eat those. She was probably over there laughing at us "oh, no Brer Rabbit don't give me the dark chocolate" and loving it. I also made my mom eat the orange starbursts. anything banana flavored. Does anyone remember valentines candy that had jellies? OMG GROSSSSSSS! We would seriously bite them and if they had jelly inside, usually orange, I gave it to my mom. Can you imagine all the nasty half eaten stuff I gave my mom? Eventually we never saw jellies anymore and it was all creams, now I just avoid the raspberry. I like cherry, strawberry, I can even tolerate orange! I was kind of an asshole even as a kid, half eaten candy and I just confessed to my late sister fairly recently that when we used to have pickled okra in the fridge I would pull one out, lick it and stick it back in the jar!!!!! I hated the okra, too slimey, but I liked the brine and the hairy texture of the outside. That is truly a bizarre admission. It didn't bother her because she didn't eat the okra either but holy crap, my parents were eating all the stuff I licked!!!! We laughed and laughed. I hate bananas as well but I loved my grandma's nanner puddin. But I spit out all the nanners! I was just eating vanilla pudding! OMG what a dumbass.

I didn't like smarties either but I absolutely hated candy necklaces. why, oh, why would anyone want something around their neck that gets sticky????? I have a neck phobia anyway, cannot wear turtlenecks or choker type necklances, nothing can touch my neck. Anytime I see something gruesome on tv I grab my neck, have to hold it. Like a movie where somebody's getting a leg sawed off, gotta be holding the neck. I know the concept of Pez is mostly that it's a toy, I was always annoyed at the candy ratio. Pez wasn't big on my list just for sheer loading factor. I wonder what the difference is between crunch and krackel?

I didn't like candy apples because it was like getting half an apple up your nose, my face was too small to get a bite properly. I do think I lost a tooth biting into taffy once. I hated getting sticky and lord help me I don't want to touch a sticky child. My favorite thing in the whole wide world was a cherry tootsie roll. They're very rare. I do like a cherry starburst but something about that cherry was so good.

anything chocolate was always a big plus, m&m's, reeses, snickers, butterfinger, baby ruth. awesome. tootsie pops or bubblegum lollipops were good. didn't love the cheapy hard candies. gummy wasnt big when I was a kid and I know kids love them but gummy is so gross. I don't want any worms or bears. hate hate hate twizzlers. or fruit roll up type things, anything that can be construed as healthy. I do like candy corn but I like it with popcorn, salty and sweet combined. I remember my mom making homemade popcorn balls one year for halloween. Omg disaster! My mom burnt the shit out of her hands because she started mixing too early. Do you remember the "make your own" caramel apples? Sheets of flat round caramel and you wrapped it around your own apple? Tasty but never enough caramel too much apple. I only like green/sour apples. hate red apples.

I don't give out candy, I don't think kids trick or treat like they used to. We always lived in company housing so you literally knew every single house you went to, no fear, people let their kids roam alone. We were always a big target as well because in New Mexico people live so far apart, if you're not in a town, we were a group of houses (80 houses) all clumped together so parents all bee-lined to us otherwise you drove 2 miles to each house. Now people take their kids to the mall, pay $5 or whatever their kids go do the spooky mall stuff and go business to business. Or trunk or treat at churches, they bring the candy to the kids rather than the kids to the candy. And they call it a Fall Festival not trick or treat/halloween because, jesus, you know. Halloween usually wasn't very cold for us but my mom grew up in Iowa so she always dressed us up super warm. For some reason my mom had a wig thing. If you couldn't incorporate a hat into your costume then you had to wear this blonde wig she had. We kinda liked the wig for dress up (you could be Sandy from Grease!) but good lord was it hot and itchy at halloween. We steered away from princess characters because we didn't want to be forced to wear the wig. Plus putting a big old jacket on over your princess thing sort of defeated the purpose.

I’m making tortilla soup tomorrow. It’s soup! It’s chips n dip! It’s nachos! Could a more perfect food exist? They just opened up an aldi here. I’ve been to one in Texas. Don’t know how much I liked it but I’ll give it a try. Maybe they’ll have something new. I need to get back to cooking. Regular routine. Sleeping when I should. Blah blah oh my lord! I just sent a text to my boss by accident that I could be so fired for and deservedly so. I mentioned I wasn't sure if his father had passed yet. No updates this morning. That's bad enough but then I said I dropped a bottle of bbq sauce on my foot and it's possibly broken, no foot jobs. IT WAS A JOKE! I even confessed to the bbq sauce thing just ran straight to him and said delete don't read. I'm very flippant about my sister but that's how I deal, I understand that nobody else in the entire universe is as demented on the inside as me. He did delete it unread and laughed at me, but seriously people, I'm an asshole.