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On 1/15/2019 at 11:28 PM, biakbiak said:
Peanut soup with collard greens and brown rice.
My grandpa made me a peanut butter soup the last time I visited him and oh my god! It was divine! Rich but divine! I wonder if it is the same as peanut soup?
Tonight my parents and brother are coming over for the annual anyone but The Patriots super bowl get together. I'm making wings, sausage balls and spinach artichoke dip. My mom is bringing Shrimp, taco dip, stuffed mushrooms and cocktail dogs.
I made some brownies and picked up the most generic football cookie cake I could find and my in-laws brought over some girl scout cookies I know I won't eat so I'll lay those out as well.
Go Rams!
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I caught the Asheville episode last night. I live there. Actually five miles outside of Asheville where home prices are a fraction of what they looked at and I have an acre of yard with a beautiful mountain view from half of the windows in my home. I'm pretty sure I know the area they were looking in as I have friends that used to live on that side of town but there is pretty much no yard and no view. The housing market is insane here. We have 1900 Sq Ft. Four bedrooms, 3 baths completely remodeled 1940's farm house on one acre and we'd be lucky to get $300,00 for it. If we wanted the same house with an Asheville address we'd have to spend double that. And still get no yard or view. I would like to live closer to town since that is where I spend most of my time but we would have to build to get what we want at an affordable price.
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I have three kids and have purchased maybe 30 jars of baby food in my life? It does all have added sugars and preservatives so I get it. It was literally nothing for me to puree up a stalk of broccoli or steam some sweet potatoes and mash them up. I'm done with the baby food stage but 'm sure her product would have been too costly for my grocery budget. I suppose if you are on WIC or food stamps it makes sense to buy the jarred food because I imagine they are free but I only bought them if I wasn't going to have access to a kitchen (hotel stay, camping, etc).
I liked the safe room people. We aren't in tornado alley or really anywhere where weather is a huge crippling concern (we get the rare couple feet of snow that's about it). But the survivalist in me really dug the product.
My husband has stinky feet/shoes and is always sprinkling powder in his shoes. When he takes them off he leaves a trail of white dust all over the house with his socked feet. I liked that idea.
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I liked Mystery 101 far more than the Ruby whatever mystery they aired last week. I like Jill Wagner and Christopher P. together and they were recently on the Deck the Hallmark podcast and had a great sense of humor about everything. I wanted to like the Ruby mystery because I like the main actress and I think the main actor is pretty nice looking :) but it just sort of fell flat for me. I think the mystery was better in the Ruby series as I wasn't sure until the end who the killer was where with Mystery 101 I had a guess pretty early and I ended up being right (but questioned myself throughout). There were times where I thought Jill's character made some pretty basic mistakes for being such a murder mystery buff especially when it came to the scene of her and the bad guy being in the woods at the end. I also didn't quite understand how the detective was able to track her down. I thought she turned off her phone so would the GPS tracking work? Overall I really liked this one. I wanted to get to bed early last night and kept saying I'd turn it off at the next commercial break but I never did.
I think I watched Saturday's Hallmark offering but like most of them lately- I can not remember who was in it or what it was about.
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I'm awful with names so bear with me.. I think the right chef went home. He's been circling the bottom of the drain for a while now and his comment about staying up late and winning RW's told me he was going home. I also think sick girl should have gone home since she pretty much didn't do anything but prep a little bit of her food. Or maybe be faced with a penalty of some sort next week (Amazing Race-esque if you will). I love seafood but not really at the lake. Where were the sliders? Kabobs (and I don't mean shrimp lollipops)? Grilled Chicken? I don't know??
Loved the story about the one chef's dad getting the key to the city. I really like him and the other black chef. I cracked up when someone called one of them by the wrong name and he said something like, "no, the other black guy".
That being said, our family isn't really into the beach and we have a favorite lake we vacation at about 2 hours away from us. We've already rented our place for this summer but this episode has me thinking of going to KY next summer (4 hours away). My husband has always wanted to rent a houseboat but I'm afraid our youngest is too young to enjoy it- she's 2 now. But damn! Those houseboats were sweet. Do you get to drive them if you rent them or do you have to leave them docked?
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I just saw this news on social media and I am completely heartbroken. She had such a wonderful spirit about her and was one of my Top Chef favorites. Seeing how everyone was so supportive and loving towards her is what this show is about behind the scenes and on. May she rest peacefully and know that she left quite a mark during her time here on earth!
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I'm really liking this show. A lot more than the Goldbergs actually. I've also loved Brett Dier for a long time so I'm glad to see him on this show. I've also always liked the Lainey character so this show is really hitting the mark for me. The tamagotchis this week were awsesome! I remember being addicted to mine when I was growing up in the 90's and I even found some at Target and gave them to my boys at Christmas and they are all about them! Coach Mellor and whatever the Principals character's name is (Tim Meadows) are also really great! I think this is much better retooled than the first version they came out with a few months back!
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I'm a Saints hater and am glad the Rams won but yea that was a BS non call there at the end of the 4th quarter! I am oh so happy though to see that smug ass Sean Payton have to take a seat!
So far KC has not shown up to this game but it's still fairly early. I think regardless of who wins (and god don't let it be the Pats) I might have to root for the Rams. I never knew Todd Gurley is from essentially my home town!
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There's no team I care about playing these games. Which sucks. I guess I'm going to have to pull for the Chiefs. My Patriot and Saints hate is very, very strong. I hate the Patriots the most though. I like Drew Brees well enough but man I can not stand their coach! Sean Payton just come across as a huge ass!
My dad called and asked if I was hosting them for a Super Bowl party again this year and I said, "you mean an 'Anyone but Patriots' party?"
Hopefully the Panthers can get their shit together in the off season- I'd love a reason to actually watch the Super Bowl in a positive way again!
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Just watched this and thought it was well done. I was a teen when JFK jr. passed away and remember being so upset! I read the gossip mags about him and swooned at all his pictures.
My grandpa passed away this past summer and I stumbled across a book he wrote for all of his grand children about his life (I already knew he was a cool ass dude but this book solidified it). I learned that he was a licensed pilot and he spoke about how hard it was to get the instrumentation cert. and detailed all the hours and tests it took to obtain it. JFK, jr had no business flying that night. At all. I can only imagine the horror of dying the way the three of them did!
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I'm just going to say that I'm glad Hallmark Christmas movies are over. I watch Hallmark and look forward to their once a week movies but their Christmas movies are just too hard to keep up with and they all blend together. Then I had the problem of finding podcasts related to the Christmas movies and I couldn't listen to the podcast without watching the movie and then I couldn't remember the name of the movie to figure out which podcast to listen to. It was like a hamster wheel. I'm glad it's over. I deleted 6 movies today that I never got around to watching and since Christmas is over I know I'm not going to watch them. 4 movies a month is plenty for me- maybe 8 if you add in the Movies and Mystery Channel but they air on different nights so it's easier to keep up with. With so many stations making Christmas movies it was like 8 new movies a week and I just can't. I stopped trying and stuck to TCM or old family favorites most of the time. I feel like it was more of a chore than an enjoyment this year and I was burnt out on Christmas far sooner than I should have been. Next season I don't even know if I'll try particularly because most of them I don't even remember.
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@bilgistic I'm just now catching up on threads- my kids go to year round school and have the whole month of December off so my time is limited these days.
It sucks that you weren't notified about the wedding but I did want to chime in with my own experience. I met my husband when we were 14- almost 15. We dated all through high school (much different than your niece's situation with the long distance deal and age gap). I went off to college at 17 and he moved to the beach to surf. I hated college and dropped out after a couple of months because I felt guilty wasting my parents money and moved to the beach to be with him. We both got pretty shitty jobs and made it work for a few months before deciding to move back to our hometown where my boyfriend could get a better job. During all of this my family legit disowned me for "living in sin" and "ruining my life" . His family was supportive. (Now not so much if you are familiar with my other posts on this thread). Anyway, we were engaged and married 6 months before my 20th birthday. We quickly moved away from our hometown for somewhere with more opportunity and had our first child 5 years later. By the time we had our 2nd child I was the branch manager of a local bank and my husband was part owner of a business. All without a college education but a desire to strive and provide on our own. We will be married 15 years this June and my family quickly got over their shit and couldn't be more wonderful. It doesn't work for everybody so I can certainly see the concern.
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I started watching Christmas Chronicles last night on Netflix and stopped about 15 minutes in because it was so cute and I wanted to watch it with the family. So, to echo most everyone else's sentiments it was really good and I'm glad I waited to watch it for family movie night. The kids and spouse all loved it and I even got a bit teary at the end. It reminded me of The Santa Clause, which my whole family loves and it's been a while since a movie has appealed to everyone in my house and this one really hit the mark!
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I stuck with Christmas in Graceland last night and it wasn't completely horrid. Yea- Kelly Pickler can't act and she looked a lot older than I remember her being. Being an Elvis fan girl back in the day I think that's the only reason I stuck with the movie and found myself going down a huge Elvis/Graceland rabbit hole on the internet last night. I wonder how many more hits their website got last night- In real life Graceland really did have a concert yesterday to start the Christmas season and gave a shout out to Hallmark. I remember back in the early nineties trying to go to Graceland with my family and tickets were way too expensive and the wait to get to the house was hours long and my dad wasn't down with that so we didn't end up going. This was back before the internet and online ticket sales, etc. so Graceland has always seemed like this unobtainable thing to me so it was really cool getting to see the real house and rooms being used for this movie. Other than that- I thought the business side of the plot was dumb, the boss was an ass. I'm not a country music fan but as far as acting goes I think Kelly should stick with music.
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In my world I get what Joe Gorga means when he says he doesn't have time to visit his father. My husband works long hours, attends all our children's sporting events, and he is renovating our home. When Joe G. says he doesn't have time though I have to question what the hell he is doing all day. Also- why can't Nonno go see them at their house? My in laws live 2 miles away and see our kids once a month and bitch about how they never see the kids. Nothing is stopping you from coming over! Side note- my husband and Mother in law own a business together (not for long though- they too are an Italian family and my mother in law is pulling the same shit Nonno is- trash talking us to everyone else in the family and trying to pit me and my sister in law against each other). I really don't look forward to watching this story line play out- hits too close to home.
They just opened an Ax throwing bar downtown- I may need to go check it out soon!
ETA: I get where Teresa is coming from and I really don't like her or her brother but I feel like he's gotten the shit end of the stick a lot of the times and I see it happening in my own life. My SIL is the queen bee and my husband might as well be crap in our Italian family so I can't hate on him completely. 2 weeks isn't that long especially when cars and phone calls can go both ways.
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On 11/8/2018 at 9:46 AM, Popples said:
I'm disappointed that Freeform isn't going to air Angry Angel again, however I just looked it up and it's OnDemand!
I really liked Angry Angel last year and still have it saved on my bedroom DVR. I'm thinking of changing cable providers and I hate that my DVR recordings will go too :(
I was hoping for some sort of sequel to Angry Angel but I guess I'm out of luck, huh?
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2 hours ago, mojoween said:As he gets hit with no flags thrown.
There were a LOT of bullshit calls made last night. Panthers still probably wouldn't have won the game but the Steelers might not have won by such a large margin if the refs weren't so obvious about who they wanted to win.
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Despite being sick with Pneumonia and Bronchitis I had a great time at the Panthers/Ravens game a couple of weeks ago with my dad. There were a ton of Raven's fans there (which happened a few years ago when I went to the same match up) and everyone was great- I've heard stories about other stadiums so I'm glad we have a very family friendly stadium.
The Panthers are looking awful tonight on TNF. I hope they can step it up because I don't know which team I hate more-the Pats or the Steelers.
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10 minutes ago, AnnA said:
So far this season I've been reading the comments without making many of my own because I agree with most of what has been said. However, I'd love to see more opinions about Kate. Does everyone like her? Is that why there aren't many posts about her? I'm not a Kate fan - never have been and never will be. I think she's good at her job but she doesn't handle her staff well and her interaction with the rest of the crew isn't great either.
I don't particularly like Kate either but coming off a Below Deck Med season with Hannah as Chief Stew it's going to be towards the end of the season until Kate starts really bothering me. I see little bits of it popping up here and there. She's very condescending and her relationship with Josiah is far from professional but I can't hate on her yet. She's actually working and from what we've been shown not taking 20 smoke breaks an hour.
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33 minutes ago, Neurochick said:
Why complain about the guys; the primary had sex with a woman up on the crows nest. I've heard the comment "swinging dicks" before, never thought it was offensive.
I didn’t think it was particularly offensive just that there was a lot of dick swinging going on this episode proverbial or otherwise and since I don’t think any of the females on Below Deck have dicks I did single the guys out.
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So, this episode we had Adrian offering up breasts massages, Ashton offering up regular massages in the back of the van after clubbing and attempting to hook up with Rhylee when she was going to sleep, Captain Lee talking about swinging dicks and the charter guests straight up having sex on the crow's nest. I think the only males that came off somewhat decent were Ross and whatever the male stews name is and even then I'm pretty sure there was some comment about Rhylee made by Ross that irritated me and I'm not even a, "I'm a feminist hear me ROAR" type girl but DAMN- all these guys come off looking like ass wipes!
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This probably belongs in the family thread but since I've been posting here about work....
We had the surprise birthday for my mother in law this past weekend. I've seen all my in laws several times since the proverbial shit hit the fan with no issues. Everyone putting on their happy faces and getting through the event. The party was great, I was happy, engaged, etc.. All of a sudden towards the end of the party my SIL comes at my husband (her brother) screaming, "WHY DON"T YOU LIKE ME". For one, this is not at all true. Secondly, not the time or place to discuss this. Mind you she was supposed to be the Designated Driver for her family and she is drunk out of her mind. I wasn't aware she had come at my husband like that but all of a sudden he told me it was time to go. I grabbed our three kids, took one look at my SIL and told her I was taking her three kids too. Her husband had no clue what was going on, why she was upset, she refused to speak to him. I told him I would take the kids until they could figure out what was going on. She was too drunk and out of control for her kids to see her like that. She ended up staying at her parents house that night and my BIL came over to our house. All the kids were asleep so we all just had a big sleepover but it was good because it gave us a chance to talk to him. It's not a big surprise but my MIL is running around straight up talking shit about us to them. Saying that we hate them and that's why she can't work at the company. And so on and so forth. What kind of mother seriously pits her children against each other like that? The BIL was astonished to hear the truth!
The in laws got their way. SIL will be working at the company. Why stoop to this level?
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I've tried to watch Christmas at Pemberly Manor about five times now and each time I can only make it about five minutes in. There's no obvious reason why but sometimes these movies grab me or they don't.
I'm also going through some major family drama right now and am facing my first Christmas without my pets and Grandpa so I'm feeling a bit like a scrooge so I'm hoping these movies start to pull me in soon.
I did really like Christmas Joy. My nit pick for that movie was that I live in the NC Mountains and we've had a white Christmas twice in 10 years. Charlotte is about 2 hrs. North East of us- ain't no damn way there's snow on the ground in fictional Crystal Falls, NC right outside of Charlotte anytime in the month of December- at least not how it was depicted in the movie.
As a long time Carolina Panthers fan though I liked that one couple made the stadium out of gingerbread and got 3rd place!
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I appreciate you all allowing me to vent here.
We had our meeting last night and it went as expected. At one point my MIL was screeching at us so loudly and abrasively that I grabbed my stuff, said we were done and walked out. She has zero respect for my husband or me for that matter. My FIL was there and waffled between being understanding of the points my husband was trying to make and yelling at us as well. At the end of the day- nothing has changed. My Sister in Law is still coming on board. I'm still pissed about it.
So, we have two different lines of work within our company. When my husband and his mother created this company it was Company A now with my FIL as an employee we are now Company A B- if that makes sense. My husband and FIL both do very different types of work- related but different. The work my husband does requires advertising to be a success and my MIL has never been willing to put money into advertising. That being said, if we left the company today my husband would be able to make just enough to keep us in our current lifestyle (which is not lavish at all)- hopefully, maybe. After last night my MIL is willing to spend money on advertising to appease my husband. So, I figure if we can stick it out for one more year- milk the current company for advertising to boost our sales we will be in a much better position to get the hell out of there. We are going to pull as much of the daily operations as we can from the main office in town to our house where my husbands end of the business is concerned. I'm going to start keeping my own record of what we are spending and making so I can be in a better position to end things. AND!!!! I discovered that my MIL is shady when it comes to some of this book keeping stuff. My sister in law is not going to get her hands on anything related to our end of the business. Period.
Anyway, we left last night at least speaking in a normal tone but to say the relationship is fixed would be huge lie. I went out today and bought the stuff for my son's birthday. She can pay me back or not. Or fucking figure out how to buy him something without me holding her hand to do it- did I mention that my in-laws are pretty shitty grandparents when it comes to spending time with my kids. They'll spend money on them but not time. We live 5 miles away and they see the kids once a month on average.
My parents and my In laws were supposed to celebrate my son with cake and ice cream but now my parents (my mom) doesn't want to be in the same room as my in-laws so I'm trying to figure out how to fit something in. It's still a mess. I've known my in-laws since I was 14 years old. 20 years!!
I have found a good resource online I hope to start utilizing soon called SCORE which has business classes and tutors all free.
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Her mouth was distracting to me this episode for some reason.
I don't know- I turned it off and deleted this episode about 20 minutes in. It was weird and really dumb.