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I'd love to try gefilte fish sometime. Does it taste pickled, or just spiced?

I find myself welcoming return of the Kelly's Ham ad every holiday meal season (except the Jewish ones). Even I can cook a ham but poor Kelly does make me giggle (& wince).

In addition to reheating leftovers, I always use my microwave to melt butter & chocolate for recipes. Much easier (even with the stopping & stirring several times) to put them in a big Pyrex measuring cup that can easily be poured from than to mess with perching a bowl on top of a pot of boiling water.

He probably won't be deposed until he's out of office, given the longstanding DOJ "policy" (which seems to have the force of law, for no good reason).

I was told that appliance manufacturers make the attached cords short so that they won't trail all over the counter/floor & cause accidents. So everyone has to add extension cords, which are often/usually longer than needed for the appliance in question, & trail all over the counter/floor & cause accidents. Good for the extension cord sellers but bad for everyone else.

I'm checking out "retirement communities" at the moment & am struck by the differences that I see among residents. Some are like Trumpy but more are like me, wearing blue jeans & trotting around without assistance. Sad thing is, he & I are the same age -- I'm not in great health, but I look at least 10 years younger than he does.

Today, someone speaking on my car radio said that a local politician had suggested that the city "unpause" some course of action. The substance of the story was immediately lost to me, since It's hard enough to follow the news as reported on a car radio while paying attention to driving & listening through traffic noise, without being shocked by mangled grammar.

I've never seen Ellie Kemper before & am shocked to find that she's an experienced actress with those chipmunk cheeks!

There are some new ads for Kohls Dept stores starring a woman whose cheeks look like a chipmunk's, all ending with her grinning into the camera while saying "This is how you Kohls!" Verbification always annoys me because it's so cutesy, & it's even worse when uttered by a beaming chipmunk lady wearing the same striped shirt every time. 🐿️ PS: I love real chipmunks.

Ky is flooded.

Dimity, narcissism is usually accompanied by resentment. The worst narcissist I've known was also wealthy & privileged -- you'd think his developmental years had been fraught with the tortures of the damned to produce such an adult. I'd feel sorry for the poor beasts if only they didn't wreak such havoc upon the rest of us.

My dad hired a succession of young women to help care for my invalid stepmother at home, most of whom had come to America from S. Korea to attend college in his neighborhood. Every one of them traveled with an electric rice cooker. He & I assumed it was an Asian custom, since they all ate rice at every meal -- but maybe it's just that younger people don't know how to cook without electric appliances? Perhaps not surprising, in a world full of machines that poach eggs.

My mother always cooked rice in a double boiler: put twice as much liquid as rice in the top pot & cover -- boil the water in the bottom pot until the rice in the top pot has absorbed all of the liquid with it. I learned from watching her & it's always been perfect.

Meanwhile, a French court has found far-right political party leader Marie Le Pen guilty of embezzlement, sentenced her to 2 years' house arrest, & barred her from seeking election to office for 5 years. Those guys can be so efficient!

Don't laugh -- in poor light, a Newfie looks just like a bear. I think they do it on purpose because, in reality, they're so loveable & cuddly that no one would respect them if they didn't look like big bad bears.