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My parents' 43rd wedding anniversary was coming up and I wanted to make them a home cooked dinner since my dad's mom is not doing too well with dementia and he's afraid to leave her. He loves a Cape Verdean milk pudding that my mom makes so I figured flan would be perfect cake instead of our favorite bakery. Just in time for the Magic Chocolate Flan to pop up on CreateTv at least 3 times last week that I saw on Cook's Country. I made a test cake and shared with extended family for their thoughts as I really really hate flan-like desserts. I also refuse to pay $4 for a gallon of milk at my local grocery stores when it's $2.50 at Costco which I normally go to at the end of the week (plus I could give the rest to my grandparents who have no less than 5 kids at their home at one time so I know it would be appreciated). So I mixed my 2% Lactaid with some heavy cream after doing some crazy math conversions. I went to 7 grocery stores and couldn't find one jar of caramel sauce so I had to make my own. The extended family and neighbors loved it with only one person saying the flan part was too jello-y but she loved the chocolate part and her son loved every part.The flan came out light chocolate colored and my caramel sauce didn't look as pretty but tasted so great (I wish I had something to use it with as a topping!). My father says he really hates cheese, yet when he doesn't know, he devours foods with cheese (stuffed shells, french onion soup, calzones, Smartfood, cheesecakes, broccoli with melted shredded cheese, etc...). So I figured, even if he detected the cream cheese (which somehow escaped him with the cheesecakes or the freaking french onion soup on the cruise), he would keep on eating as long as everyone kept quiet. He did have huge seconds and my niece had thirds. So there we were: me not a fan of flan, my nephew, brother, and I somewhat allergic to eggs, my niece trying to do anything for more chocolate cake after I told her she needs to find someone to eat the flan part first, my mom adoring the chocolate part, a cousin popping in with her son, my paternal grandmother eating whatever we give her, and dad and SIL loving the flan part. So we had to start splitting and sharing pieces between my dad and SIL and the rest of us. Less than half of cake was left by the end of the night. I need to start making baked goods I enjoy eating other than no knead bread. And now I have 8 egg whites which I have no idea what to do with (I'm also allergic to the white part of eggs if raw) and I really don't want to make an omelet. Maybe I'll make a Cape Verdean (okay Portuguese) meringue cookies called Kisses.

Nope, a Massachusetts Catholic School. Made it to a top 25 college where the English Professors didn't mind me using either so never gave it a second thought. Maybe they were all in on it. Or my 8th grade teacher got tired of grading papers full of "I think" and "I believe" (all she had to do was to stop giving us pop quizzes about what we thought the symbolism was or what we thought the metaphor was!) and the professors just didn't care. On topic, when I was laid off, I rediscovered The People's Court with MM and it was one of the few things that got me up those weeks. My favorite so far is the firefighter who tried throwing a party then failed at blackmailing the owners of the hall by mentioning violations. It was fun to see him try to talk himself out of that when the emails were read aloud. I still rewatch that episode from time to time.

Back in the early 90s, my 8th grade teacher (who also taught English to the other grades) told me to stop saying/writing "I think..." and to find other ways to say it. And one of her examples was to say/write "I feel that..." So it's been a long conspiracy to make us all dumb.

Gina is going to be pretty pissed that someone stole her idea: Emojli is a social network composed entirely of emoji

I loved the looks that Jake and Amy exchanged during that call. I try to follow the 5 episode guide before quitting a show but this was getting hard. I was ready to drop this show because of Jake Peralta. It was becoming a chore to get through and this sat in my PVR for 2 weeks until I was bored enough to watch and couldn't move as my pets (parrots) were napping on me. Of course, I laughed so hard that they woke up and one started to laugh with me which just made the whole episode funnier. I have loved Dean Winters forever (Dennis Duffy will always be my favorite character) and delighted in scenes where he swooped in. And the look on Terry's face when he realized that he'd be spending the rest of his days with Gina was classic. I appreciated the teamwork instead of lone wolf approach to the case.

From what I remember, the astronaut was like a version 1.0 of the indogene human hybrid and the indogene got better at making the hybrids more human while Nikki was not breathing oxygen but something else. Nitrogen?

I started making their banana bread for my dad because has started to have more left over at the end of the week. The video is here Now I hate bananas like everyone on my mom's side so I've never tasted it but my dad seems to really like it. He's calling me more often about picking up over ripe bananas. And my mom accidentally ate one thinking it was pumpkin bread and she admitted that it tastes great. I think it's the light cakey texture that makes a difference to her.

I would think his family would excuse him for the alarm. It could have been a buglary or a fire. When the alarm company calls my dad on a Sunday he's had an electrical glitch, a pipe burst, and even a broken window from an attempted robbery. All things which are very important to leave wherever he is to go check it out. It's his livelihood. My parrot laughed a lot at this one so I must have enjoyed it. As someone who has 1 gay cockatiel and 2 bisexual cockatiels, that swan line really got me giggling.

I remember in the first season there was a talking head with Mitchell and Cam where Mitchell was talking about how after he came out to his parents, Jay didn't want to talk to him. I remember Mitchell saying how in the beginning Jay always passed the phone to the first wife whenever Mitchell called home from college. Then a recent episode featured Mitchell telling Jay about a great man telling him "I don't get it but if it makes you happy, don't ever let someone tell you it's wrong" (or whatever). So I just assumed that Mitchell's talking head was exaggerated memory because it was a sensitive time for him. I saw Jay loving and accepting his son even though it was a strange thing (to Jay). So I guess I am trying to figure out how his comments fit with the Jay we've seen lately. I'm just hoping it was a horrible communication skills paired with a highly stressed person which happens to me often with my style of humor. I was chatting with my aunt one Christmas Eve and the subject veered into her laid off husband. I casually mentioned that I hoped her husband was cooking great meals for her and that he better look sexy when she got home from work. I thought it was a funny comment to lighten the mood. All of a sudden she started berating me, calling me a horrible person, then goes on to insult my brother (recently laid off) and hangs up the phone. Then I got a call from another aunt yelling at me over what I said. Then I got the instant message from my cousin about what a horrible person I was. Before I got the inevitable call from my grandmother, I called and explained everything. The next day the aunt cornered me and told me she forgave me because I'm family to which I replied I was not sorry and repeated exactly what I said and went on to explain what I thought was self explanatory. Next time she had a crisis and called me, I told her I'd call her back when she was not as emotional (I learned my lesson). I kept wating for Jay to say something about how this wedding wasn't what Mitchell wanted anyways or something about how he figured Mitchell wouldn't want his friends there but it never came. Maybe my interpretation was wrong and tonight Jay will apologize for not understanding Mitchell again then take his own advice when he told Mitchell about letting anyone tell him it's wrong.