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KittyMom4

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  1. My thoughts exactly. And, when they do get reshuffled next week if Ben and/or Liz is on his new team, you don't think they're going to also feel he's a liability? He did himself no favors by spilling to them at the challenge. Same same same! I get so frustrated when the "strong' ones, aka, the ones who are capable of surviving, get voted out. I know it is a mental game as well as a physical game but I would like to see an actual Survivor, not the social butterfly or sneaky liar, win.
  2. My recording cut off right before they announced who was going home but I didn't need to watch to know who it was. He was very sweet and I think he has talent but he just couldn't get it right here. Whoever mentioned Sabrina's hairstyle, I'm with you, it's odd. Of course I can't stand all the hair that is flying around on these bakers, I wish there was a rule that it must be pulled back at least.
  3. @TattleTeenyI also had a peeve regarding a medical issue that disappeared but did not receive any message telling me to move it.
  4. Yes it does. I got through a tough situation last year by reminding myself that while it seems bad now, there's a reason, it will pass and I'll be better for it. I am. Those dark days are rough though.
  5. @Anela Sending you some good vibes, you are not alone.
  6. My permanent peeve, semi-related: People who plan events based on one person's schedule. Which means everyone else has to change their schedules and obligations to accommodate. This mainly family based but I have also seen it with friends and coworkers as well.
  7. Same here! I have tried various apps (either free or subscription based) and I haven't found any of them easy to use or user friendly. Most of them are a pain in the ass to even set up. I've used an excel spreadsheet for YEARS, its easy, I can track the way I want to track and I can easily change any part of it to fit what I need. My daughters tease me for being old school but it works and it doesn't constantly nag me with notifications and reminders.
  8. I know exactly what you mean, it's something I've always pondered as well. I think it has been hitting me harder now that I'm a few years out of retirement age and I start reminiscing about the coworkers that have come and gone. Some were great friends for a time and then one of us moved on to a new position/department and eventually lost touch, kinda sad, but it is the natural way of things.
  9. @Calvada adding to your hospital theme: Having had daughter in the hospital ER for 24 hours last week I can attest that ER's on TV are much nicer than ER's in real life. On TV they are bright, spacious and staffed with attentive, readily available nurses, dr's and attendants. The one my daughter was in was dark, overcrowded, noisy and they only time we saw a dr/nurse/attendant is when they checked her vitals*. *This is not a hit on anyone in the medical field, thankfully my daughter was not in need of constant observation (and even more thankfully she is home and doing well), I'm just pointing out the big difference between a TV show ER and an actual ER.
  10. LOL, my sister started sending me pics of her nephew's (on her husband's side) new baby 3 years ago. After the first 3 or 4 months I said "Gee, she's cute and all but I don't know her and likely will never meet her so you can save the pics for those that do." She understood. She's not even that close with the nephew and his wife but I think she likes the attention of telling people she's a great-aunt. Kinda weird but that's her.
  11. Same. Most times I have my true crime shows on as background noise while I'm doing my housecleaning. Last weekend I turned on ID to "Someone you thought you knew" and started picking up my living room. I hear a voice from the TV and thought "wow that sounds like a guy I work with" so I turned to look at the screen and there he is! Turns out it was a local case from 2003 that I vaguely remembered (husband had his wife killed - by her BROTHER) and my coworker is a retired Sheriff (who now works in the private sector) that worked the case. I asked him about the experience and he said he actually shot over 3 days in NYC, for Dateline or 20/20 (he couldn't remember). and he is talking to an off-screen male producer the whole time, yet when it aired, they edited it so it looked like the female anchor was actually interviewing him. The case was sad, thankfully the brother and the husband were both convicted.
  12. This. She has annoyed me since the first episode, her over the top cutesy grins and smirks drive me insane. I have not been impressed with her baking or decorating skills, but she seems to think she is the cat's meow. Sing it!!! That thing was a hot mess and not deserving of a top 2 placement, middle at best, but bottom 2 would have been more appropriate. As soon as someone starts saying "it's in my wheelhouse" or "I do this all the time in my shop" my eyes roll. Then they think they'll take this "skill" and to the next level in the middle of cameras all over the place and baking equipment they are not familiar with. No. Stick to what you know and what you can accomplish in the time given. I do think Justine plays up the accent in front of the judges. When she's working on her cakes her accent is much less pronounced, in front of the judges she is pulling her aaaaaaa's like a taffy maker. Her cakes may taste great, but if I went to her shop to pick up my order and it looked like that sign cake I'd walk right back out. I haven't been as impressed with her skills as the judges have been. I don't get it.
  13. Me too, I don't think he got the gist of the 'whimsical' aspect of the challenge. His cake was beautiful but kind of plain, glad he's still in it. Nope, I'm a chestnut lover as well. My mom used to roast them in the oven on Christmas day and my siblings and I always looked forward to them. It's probably an acquired taste, like boiled peanuts in the south. I tried them several times and don't get why a wet peanut is supposed to be tasty. I think the idea of the upside down/smushed cake was kind of interesting, I don't think many of the executed it well but without ever having done one before how would they know how much icing to use? I was hoping Sharrod's cake would look better than it did, and I liked is color scheme because he was tying it into the whole Wonka theme, but it did miss the mark of "holiday".
  14. My Grocery List Peeve: I have slowly trained (it's taken 2 years) Mr. KittyMom4 to write what he needs on a notepad we keep in the kitchen. I use my store's app to build my list so it's always with me, and I check the paper list daily. I will even ask him "Hey, anything else you need that's not on the list?" Sooooo, when he either doesn't put it on the list or doesn't tell me and I get home and he says "Oh we're out of this item." It takes a lot for me to not put the reuseable grocery bag over his head and tie it in a knot.
  15. Where I work (retail) our campaigns are all finished by June of that year, if we waited until December we'd be out of business. My youngest was almost denied a HS diploma because she skipped too many gym classes her senior year. I had a meeting with the AD and we worked it out but jeez-louise, seriously?
  16. I will give PW a thumbs up for being simple in her cooking, my main struggle is with the calorie content for a lot of what she makes, delicious, yes, healthy, no. (I also follow a woman on TikTok who makes delicious looking stuff but its very heavy in cheeses, sour cream and butter. Something I'd make once in a while but not too often.) Betty Crocker is a good one! My eldest daughter gave me The Weeknight Dinner Cookbook: Simple Family-Friendly Recipes for Everyday Home Cooking by Mary Younkin for Christmas last year, it's fabulous. It uses staple pantry items, and the best is she uses dried spices. No but I just found it and will start listening to it! I tried listening to the podcasts you mentioned and gave up quickly as well. A friend of mine recommend one that I can't think of right now, two young women discussing crimes, omg, it was horrible. Their voices were grating and they giggled throughout. I got through 3/4 of an episode and gave up. I hope this is solved in my lifetime as well.
  17. I have an 'as needed' prescription for a nasal spray to deal with seasonal allergies, so I may need it in May/June but not need a refill until Sept/Oct. I wanted to use the online ordering system through my Rx but when I get the text notification to reorder there is no 'skip this month' the only option other than placing the order is "stop notification", which means I have to call it in the next time. So frustrating. Many years ago, when my youngest was in her early teens, she got hooked on the cooling show, Barefoot Contessa hosted by Ina Garten. In December of whatever year she did a holiday show and in it she featured a "Christmas Morning French Toast Bake" or something along those lines. Anyway, my daughter wanted me to make it for our Christmas morning, so I took a look at the recipe, wholey moley, it had about 20 ingredients and a dozen steps to making it, but what got me was the 2 tbsp of Grand Marnier liqueur it required. At the time I was living paycheck to paycheck and I did not have $50 to spring on a bottle of alcohol that I would only need a little bit of. Needless to say it didn't happen and she was disappointed but we laugh about it now. My pet peeve today is trying to find a true crime podcast that doesn't have 2 hosts yucking it up with each other while telling the story. I want a narrator, not a commentator. Not to mention it is usually not a topic that is meant to be light-hearted.
  18. Quoting @UsernameFatigue Personally, my house is pretty neat and tidy. In fact I am such a fan of true crime that I have actually thought when leaving my house "If my house was on Dateline, would I be happy with how it looks?" Surely I'm not the only one? Lol. You're not the only one. I actually did a deep cleaning of my bedroom after I saw video of a crime scene in a bedroom and the room was a disaster. Stuff stacked on dressers and nightstands, clothes piled on a chair, and random dishes and water bottles around the room. Mine wasn't as bad as the one on TV but I thought to myself "would I want my room shown in court looking like this?" It is now neat as a pin, crime scene video ready!
  19. Same. For me though, my resistance to being thanked or called a "vet" comes from never having served during a war time. I got out right before Desert Storm and my entire unit went right after I left. I feel guilty if someone thanks me because I basically sat in an office and helped new arrivals to the base fill out paperwork and directed them to their barracks, chow hall and duty location. I'm glad for my time and am proud to call myself a Marine, but don't thank me for serving.
  20. @nokat, not dissing anyone, just pointing out that I do not worship teachers just because they chose to be a teacher. I'm sure we all, in some way, were shaped by them, however, I felt I got way more life experience and interpersonal skills during my time in the USMC than in school. I chose to go into the military, I learned quite a bit but I don't expect to be thanked or given hero status because of my time served.
  21. I'm probably going to take heat with this one but, for me, this applies to teachers. You chose the profession, you went to school for it, you did at least a year as a student teacher, probably a few as a long term sub as well. So please quit whining about how you are underpaid and underappreciated. You knew what the salary was going in, you were aware of what the job entailed and you MUST know that your pay and your school system is taxpayer-funded. Teachers are no more of a hero than any other profession that deals with the public, please don't expect me to bow down in deference to you.
  22. Gosh no worries @TattleTeeny, I just wanted to clarify that he does ask. Story time: The worst situation that happened was when he met with the female homeowner to figure out the problem, it ended up being really bad and the estimate (with detailed explanation on paper) was close to $1,000 for the repair. She didn't blink an eye and agreed to the cost and booked a date for him to come back and do the work. That night he got the screaming mad husband calling him and accusing him of taking advantage of his wife's "stupidity", his words. He cursed my husband out, called him a scammer and a shyster and said he was going to report him to the BBB. My husband hung up the phone and canceled the repair date. Two weeks later he gets a call from the husband, apologizing, and asking to rebook the date as he'd gotten estimates from 2 other repair places and both were almost double the cost with added work (that wasn't necessary). When my husband arrived on the repair date, the man brought him coffee, and offered lunch, couldn't have been nicer and more humbled.
  23. My husband will ask the person booking the appt if there will be anyone else involved in the decision making, 99% of the time its not a problem, it's the 1% that can be tricky so he tries to nip it in the bud early.
  24. So, just to give a perspective for the other side of this argument:. My husband is a self-employed repairman. To do an estimate he may have to get on your roof or into a cramped attic space or crawl space. He will then spend the time explaining to the customer what is wrong, what needs to be done and then the pricing involved. What would happen in the past is that he would do all of this, explain it to the customer only to get a call from an irate spouse (both men and women) who wasn't present wanting to know how it could possibly cost that much. Thankfully it doesn't happen often but he prefers to have both homeowners present so they both understand. Not defending misogynistic repair people, just offering another side to the story.
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