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Janelle Brown: Smarter Than Your Average Brown (Maybe)

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Elizzikra
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I hope it was delicious and she ate until she was satisfied, enjoyed every bite and didn’t give a fuck what anyone thought about it.

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Sasha888
Sasha888

"The author does specify if you are drinking it during the day, skip the pinch of nutmeg, for obvious reasons." Yeah, I know I should skip that pinch nutmeg on my holiday eggnog at the family gat

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heatherchandler

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26 minutes ago, Denize said:

Hush puppies are small, savory, deep-fried balls or elongated lumps of cornmeal-based batter. I haven't had one since the 1970s, but loved them then. Typically the cornmeal is finely ground, so they are not dry like coarse-grained cornbread & muffins

The hush puppies I’ve had are sprinkled with powdered sugar, so sweet and savory!  So good, usually eaten with something fried.

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ginger90

ginger90

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Mother’s Day, Grief and Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Mother’s Day was surprisingly emotional for me.  It just never has been a big holiday for me.  My children have always shown up for me and made me feel special everyday.  Especially since they became independent adults and weren’t home all the time.  

But this year was different 

All weekend I felt the grief so close to the surface.  And it was especially poignant when I made this simple pie. Our strawberry picking excursion combined with the fact that I randomly found rhubarb at the local farmers market made it feel like this pie was destined.  

Strawberry Rhubarb is a huge favorite at our house and maybe no one loved it more than Garrison. And that made this pie a little bitter sweet.  

I love you honey and miss you every day

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Elizzikra

Elizzikra

4 hours ago, ginger90 said:

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Mother’s Day, Grief and Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Mother’s Day was surprisingly emotional for me.  It just never has been a big holiday for me.  My children have always shown up for me and made me feel special everyday.  Especially since they became independent adults and weren’t home all the time.  

But this year was different 

All weekend I felt the grief so close to the surface.  And it was especially poignant when I made this simple pie. Our strawberry picking excursion combined with the fact that I randomly found rhubarb at the local farmers market made it feel like this pie was destined.  

Strawberry Rhubarb is a huge favorite at our house and maybe no one loved it more than Garrison. And that made this pie a little bitter sweet.  

I love you honey and miss you every day

That pie looks delicious. That post is heartbreaking. 

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mythoughtis

mythoughtis

On 5/21/2024 at 6:19 AM, Orcinus orca said:

Every "first after it happened" holiday will be hard.

Yes.  However Mother’s Day isn’t going to be any easier for her next year.    She has to celebrate it because she has five other children who want to do so- but it will always be a dimmer day than it would be otherwise.    Our younger son has been gone over a year, and this Mother’s Day wasn’t any better for me than last year. 

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Not Buyin It

Not Buyin It

On 11/25/2023 at 1:16 PM, Meow Mix said:

Janelle is really hammering on the word grounded lately.  I hope whoever speculated that she and Gabe and Garrison are going to go into the weed business together was right.  They could make good money and whatever you think about weed, it's at least better than ripping off people in her downline to sell that pink crap.  Weed's not my think (highly allergic), but others seem to be into it.

Military would never condone that. And believe me, they do find those things out.

 

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Not Buyin It

Not Buyin It

On 3/11/2024 at 2:55 PM, LotusFlower said:

It’s about RESPECT.  They didn’t respect his rules.  And he’s such a stubborn m-f that he decided to withhold his role in their lives until they apologized to him for disrespecting his rules and living “selfishly” (all his words), in addition to apologizing to Queen Robyn for anything and everything.

HE TOLD US THIS WAS THE REASON!!!  (Not yelling at you, Laura!  I just hate him so so much). 

Yep. All about "respect". The same reason he withheld the Sacred Pencil from those wives who, in his mind, were not worthy due to lack of "respect". Some husband, he.

Some father.

What a man's man.

 

 

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Not Buyin It

Not Buyin It

On 3/13/2024 at 7:07 PM, Scarlett45 said:

Focusing on work somewhat might be good for them. With the social media work they can preschedule things as needed, and if emotions get to be too much, it’s not as if they will run out of bereavement days. (Meaning they can focus on family/healing until they are more up to addressing their business)
 

 So many people don’t even get days for bereavement, between planning funeral arrangements, the paperwork, attending to the loved ones personal affairs it’s exhausting. And the people that do that are usually the ones most emotionally distraught. It’s so hard. 
 

 

Yeah. I was suddenly roped into the executor role for my father's estate. It ripped me up emotionally, tearing down and disposing of my childhood home while mourning (actually suppressing the grief because of the tasks at hand) the loss of my parents. I'm still feeling pain over it, several years later.

 

 

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Yeah No

Yeah No

On 6/1/2024 at 6:57 PM, Not Buyin It said:

Yeah. I was suddenly roped into the executor role for my father's estate. It ripped me up emotionally, tearing down and disposing of my childhood home while mourning (actually suppressing the grief because of the tasks at hand) the loss of my parents. I'm still feeling pain over it, several years later.

There is no right way to grieve, but when you have so many distractions and responsibilities it can make it so much harder to experience in any healthy way.  Losing my father 4 years ago was especially traumatic for me especially because it was at the beginning of the pandemic and he died of Covid.  Plus he was my only family member left and he lived 100 miles away in NYC at the epicenter of the virus.  Having to deal with clearing out his apartment, which was in my life for close to 50 years at the time and was a treasure trove of family mementos including my old baby clothes that my mother made herself and my stuffed animals and rattles.  It was incredibly difficult and heartbreaking.  And being a germaphobe it was also quite scary to have to be anywhere near other people at that time.

Although my husband says he is proud of the way I handled it, I feel like a lot of that was just perception and there's a whole lot I was suppressing just to cope with what I had to deal with at the time.  In some ways I was preparing for it and dreading it for years because my father was already 92 when he died, but somehow given the circumstances all that preparation was never going to be enough to make it any easier.  I know I'm going to have to seek therapy at some point to continue to process this monumental loss. 

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Quof

Quof

I "give" Janelle permission (she doesn't need it from me, of course) to do whatever in the hell makes her feel better, for as long as she wants to.

But I am so over the insistence on "making memories".   Why can't we just live our lives? We'll remember what we remember, rather than setting it as a goal.   It's like when your mom threatened "you'll have a good time whether you like it or not."  

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ChristmasJones

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I tend to think that when we lose something in our lives, something important, it heightens our awareness of that thing... it might have been something we just got used to, something we take for granted, the "way things are" - until suddenly they aren't that way any more...like having a home, until its lost in a tornado or house fire.  So for Janelle, "making memories" is in the forefront of her mind because she knows there might be a time when no more memories can be made.  I think this is a normal part of grief.   

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AZChristian

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Pub and Grill is my FAVORITE (affordable) Ramsay restaurant in Las Vegas.  They make their own ketchup for the fries, fresh every day.  It's the only place I dip my fries in ketchup.

When we were there the first time, the head chef (Scott) had won that position by winning Hell's Kitchen.  When I told the server I was a big fan, he came out of the kitchen and chatted with us for a few minutes.

We always go there when we're in Vegas.

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TurtlePower

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On 6/22/2024 at 11:53 AM, AZChristian said:

Pub and Grill is my FAVORITE (affordable) Ramsay restaurant in Las Vegas.  They make their own ketchup for the fries, fresh every day.  It's the only place I dip my fries in ketchup.

When we were there the first time, the head chef (Scott) had won that position by winning Hell's Kitchen.  When I told the server I was a big fan, he came out of the kitchen and chatted with us for a few minutes.

We always go there when we're in Vegas.

Went there all the time when we lived in Vegas. All. The. Time. 

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