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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 16, 2019 15:25:04 GMT -5
It turned into a raging dumpster fire pretty quick It's a shame though because I know she cares about the place. She just wasn't cut out to be part of a team. You can't be assistant manager if you can't be counted on to do your job.
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steff
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Post by steff on Sept 17, 2019 13:03:57 GMT -5
I have an aunt that brought me to tears this morning for all the right reasons.
Last week, I talked to my dad's sister, my Aunt B. This is the NOT crazy genetics side of my dna that keeps me semi normal. It's the "if you're a male, you'll have a heart attack & most likely die young" side. Seriously, every and I do mean EVERY male on my dad's side has died of a heart attack, often relatively young & with their 1st heart attack. My great grampa dropped dead at 32. My grampa had his first at 36, died from his NINTH heart attack at 72. (my grampa was one of Dr Debakey's first bypass patients) My uncle Ronnie dropped dead at 39. My dad at 54. And she told me that my Uncle Wayne died recently from a heart attack at 66. With Uncle Wayne it was "technically" a heart attack that he died from, but it was all connected to the long term effects of Agent Orange. He was on dialysis 3 times a week & finally said enough is enough, stopped treatment, then a couple of weeks later, had a heart attack & died.
Aunt B was having new floors put into her house, so she was finally having to deal with the boxes & boxes of stuff she had cleared out of Mamaw & Pawpaw's house years ago after PawPaw died. Mamaw died a year before he did. She was going to send me a bunch of pictures & handwritten recipes & recipe books. She was also going to send me a bunch of pictures of Mamaw & Pawpaw.
It should be mentioned that I'm an only grandchild on that side. So there's lots and I do mean LOTS of pictures of me. My brothers & I have different dads. We never describe ourselves as "half siblings" but we are. They never went to my Mamaw & Pawpaw's during the summer. But I went every summer, for the whole summer.
Some of my most prized possessions are my quilts that Mamaw made for me. when I was born Mamaw & her momma, my great gramma made me a Dutch girl quilt. For my 16th birthday, she made me a pink rose quilt. At 18, I got a patchwork quilt that my great gramma had made in the 1940's. When I got married, she made me a wedding ring quilt. But I always wanted my Aunt B's dutch boy quilt to match my dutch girl. Her dutch boy was also made by Mamaw & my great gramma in the '60s. While we were talking last week, we were talking about quilts & I mentioned that I had always hoped to inherit her dutch boy one day.
Now we get to the tears. The box she shipped me arrived today. When I opened it, the first thing I saw on top was a note that said surprise & under it was her dutch boy. I never really realized just how much I wanted it until I saw it. I burst into tears. It's as wonderful as I remember. There was also a big pile of church, small town & handwritten cookbooks. Along with a box of handwritten recipes. And pictures pictures pictures. I just bawled. Good tears. Pics to follow.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Sept 17, 2019 15:00:41 GMT -5
Those are the best kind of tears.
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Post by steff on Sept 17, 2019 15:21:24 GMT -5
I've been going thru the cookbooks and it's like hitting a weird & wonderful cookbook gold mine.
There's a 1949! Houston Independent School District Homemaking class recipe/housewife book. Tips on doing dishes, scrubbing floors & washing clothes (using a handcrank washing machine!). Measurement breakdowns & doubling recipe tips. Like "to feed 50 people~ 75-80 lbs of meat needed". There's a 1957 Texas Cattleman's Association cookbook. Also a 1971 Cattleman's cookbook. Pawpaw had a cattle ranch & was a Cattleman Association member.
A 1950 "My first cookbook" where I crossed out my uncle's name & wrote mine. LOL And the true gold, a 1931!!!!!! Picayune Creole Cookbook and a 1929!!!!!! Daughters of the Texas Revolution cookbook.
Along with every small town church cookbook, Ladies committee cookbooks, & county cookbooks. Mamaw has a recipe in almost every one of them. And it's always a cake, cookies, candy or canning recipe.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Sept 17, 2019 15:58:46 GMT -5
In going through my mom's things, I found her papers from freshmen year home economics. Subjects like how to be a good wife.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Sept 18, 2019 9:35:35 GMT -5
I've been going thru the cookbooks and it's like hitting a weird & wonderful cookbook gold mine.
There's a 1949! Houston Independent School District Homemaking class recipe/housewife book. Tips on doing dishes, scrubbing floors & washing clothes (using a handcrank washing machine!). Measurement breakdowns & doubling recipe tips. Like "to feed 50 people~ 75-80 lbs of meat needed". There's a 1957 Texas Cattleman's Association cookbook. Also a 1971 Cattleman's cookbook. Pawpaw had a cattle ranch & was a Cattleman Association member.
A 1950 "My first cookbook" where I crossed out my uncle's name & wrote mine. LOL And the true gold, a 1931!!!!!! Picayune Creole Cookbook and a 1929!!!!!! Daughters of the Texas Revolution cookbook.
Along with every small town church cookbook, Ladies committee cookbooks, & county cookbooks. Mamaw has a recipe in almost every one of them. And it's always a cake, cookies, candy or canning recipe.
steff, can you randomly post a recipe from this treasure trove once in a while? Just for fun? I'd love to see some of the recipes.
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Post by mollyanna58 on Sept 18, 2019 9:38:30 GMT -5
One of my greatest treasures is a letter my grandmother sent me with her chocolate frosting recipe.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Sept 18, 2019 10:09:16 GMT -5
Somewhere in this house is a quilt my great great grandmother made. It was with mom's things when we divided it up and I got it. I do know which room.
I also have a quilt that my grandmother made for me. I do know exactly where it is.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Sept 18, 2019 13:15:10 GMT -5
I have so many quilts my great aunt made. And a recipe book one of mom's cousins put together of her most used/requested recipes. She also has plenty in those kind of community cookbooks too. So glad you got such a great surprise Steff!
My dutch boy/girl quilts are embroidered instead of fabric.
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Post by steff on Sept 18, 2019 15:27:36 GMT -5
I've been going thru the cookbooks and it's like hitting a weird & wonderful cookbook gold mine.
There's a 1949! Houston Independent School District Homemaking class recipe/housewife book. Tips on doing dishes, scrubbing floors & washing clothes (using a handcrank washing machine!). Measurement breakdowns & doubling recipe tips. Like "to feed 50 people~ 75-80 lbs of meat needed". There's a 1957 Texas Cattleman's Association cookbook. Also a 1971 Cattleman's cookbook. Pawpaw had a cattle ranch & was a Cattleman Association member.
A 1950 "My first cookbook" where I crossed out my uncle's name & wrote mine. LOL And the true gold, a 1931!!!!!! Picayune Creole Cookbook and a 1929!!!!!! Daughters of the Texas Revolution cookbook.
Along with every small town church cookbook, Ladies committee cookbooks, & county cookbooks. Mamaw has a recipe in almost every one of them. And it's always a cake, cookies, candy or canning recipe.
steff , can you randomly post a recipe from this treasure trove once in a while? Just for fun? I'd love to see some of the recipes. my kiddo & I were going thru some of them last night having a good laugh. The church lady cookbooks from the 70's are quite a hoot. You can tell when society went from fresh food to cans cans cans and/or frozen veggies. Then coat everything in cream of something soup. lol Our favorite from last night.... Can Can Casserole 1 can cream of chicken soup 1 can cream of mushroom soup 1 can Carnation milk 1 can water chestnuts 1 can chow mein noodles 2 cans french fried onions 3 cans chicken Mix all ingredients together. Pour into a baking pan & top with 1 bag crushed potato chips. Bake until bubbly & your husband has a heart attack when he hears what's for dinner. (I added the last bit). lol
Later tonight I'll share the "Chinese food" recipes we found that left my kiddo shaking his head & wondering what the fresh hell food was like in the 70's. lol He just kept going "no...just no. No No NO!"
I'll eventually stop looking for recipes to laugh at & look for some real ones to share. I will add the the Cattleman's cookbook was seriously insulting to women in general. I had to put it down I got so mad at the "Grilling is for men, but even an uneducated woman or child can handle it in a pinch". yes, it really said that. Their instructions on getting to know the butcher, but never bother him on a Saturday, because "while a housewife might think Saturday is the day to socialize, it's the busiest day for men. If you need to ask questions, it needs to be done on a weekday. It might not fit your schedule to do so, but the butcher has much more going on than the housewife does." again, YES it really said that! This was in the 1957 Cattleman's cookbook. I am curious to see if the 1971 one changed it's tone a little bit.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Sept 18, 2019 15:41:25 GMT -5
I was learning to cook in the cream of x soup days. Partly explains why I still can't cook.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 18, 2019 15:51:23 GMT -5
Can you imagine what the SALT content was of that thing?! My grandmother cooked regularly with "cream of x" soup when my mom was growing up. To this day my mom refuses to cook or eat any recipe/dish that calls for it. I have my grandmother's 1960 Franny Farmer cookbook, among the delicacies are recipes for squirrel and raccoon. DH says he's tried both and in his opinion having a recipe would not have made it better.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Sept 18, 2019 16:35:04 GMT -5
Mom also taught me to cook with lots of Crisco. I no longer even have that in the house and am appalled at all of the recipes that called for Crisco.
Even the recipes I got from friends on how to make homemade creamy cheese soup start with a can of cream of mushroom soup.
Mom's tuna casserole had cream of mushroom soup and some other cream of x soup. No wonder I couldn't eat it.
However, mom made the best home made noodles on this earth and there is no written recipe for them.
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Sept 18, 2019 17:32:45 GMT -5
I just saw on TV about alarming photos on a cell phone. This is why my DD will not get her late H's cell phone so she could reup his FB. He deleted FB account. The only way to open it is to get a code to put into FB.
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Sept 18, 2019 18:03:49 GMT -5
A very weird thing happened. My GrS had bought a bottle of Heinekin beer. He put the bottle in his Dmom's car. We went on a charity walk then back to the car. He reached in to get his beer. It was still cold. The top blew off it spewing beer all over the passenger side of the car. It came rolling under our car when I caught it. The car had just had a $300 detailing. The rest of the beer, about 2/3 of the bottle was dumped into a parking lot drain and appeared to not have finished fermenting.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Sept 21, 2019 12:05:58 GMT -5
steff, when I travel, I always buy old cookbooks and cooking pamphlets from the towns and cities we go to. They represent history and people of those places. I have a great collection, and now, so do you. And the quilts are amazing. And what a handsome couple those two are! Strong people with the look of purpose in their eyes. I love those old portrait photos, when people took that sort of thing seriously and actually dressed nicely for them.
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Post by dogmom on Sept 22, 2019 6:55:45 GMT -5
Love old cookbooks and household tips books. Amazing what you can do with kerosene. Not that I would but...
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Post by TheOtherMe on Sept 22, 2019 8:48:52 GMT -5
Mom's answer for everything was WD-20.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Sept 22, 2019 9:39:08 GMT -5
Mom's answer for everything was WD-20. I had a small problem removing black rubber sole scuff marks left by service person. My son suggested WD 40. His reply was WD 40 is like aspirin ~ a cure all for everything Oh and it worked just took some doing to get rid of the smell
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Post by TheOtherMe on Sept 22, 2019 10:40:38 GMT -5
I could always smell WD-40 for days after she got some stain out or made something quit squeaking.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Sept 22, 2019 11:00:00 GMT -5
Dear soon-to-be-former-swim coach, It's taken you a month to notice I was gone. A month. After 11 years of steady attendance and support, I am moving on [officially, I change teams in December, when I renew my Masters registration; I also have a meet coming up where I registered under my current team, and don't want to bother changing it until after that meet is over]. After your humiliation of me at the last meet, I figured it was time to find support and a real team atmosphere somewhere else. Look, I get it. You're a champion yourself, so you focus on that in others. World and national records and top tens make a coach and a team look awesome. But it also leaves behind the people who are not at that elite level, yet or ever. I wasn't getting anywhere and I wasn't happy. And I was hearing a lot of snide remarks from people about how it wasn't fair that the "pure" swimmers had to make room for "those" people; "those" people being like myself, swimmers who also run, cycle and do triathlons, as opposed to team members who just swim. What right does anyone have to draw lines like that? Everyone pays the same coaching and pool fees! Bottom line, it was not nice to be there anymore. So I moved on to another pool and later this year, another team. It will come as a shock to you, but it should hardly be a surprise.
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Sept 22, 2019 19:00:28 GMT -5
Nancysummersip - That sounds like my tennis group. What a bunch of snide snips they are. I get it. They have a lot of money and connections and can/will destroy anyone. Because of them, I got a coaches discard. He knew tennis was my main emotional support in a hostile situation. I don't have the luxury of joining another team.
So far I have had 3 foggy mind things today. Very annoying. I recognize it as grief process.
I am pretty crabby. This afternoon I went to a talk at the heritage center. Wow, I could have gone to sleep so easily. I'm glad it was shorter than one hour. The least of it was I was out of the house for over an hour. Football, football, football crowd noise. Earlier tennis Laver Cup. It's the commentary.
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Post by Iggy aka IG on Sept 23, 2019 13:58:31 GMT -5
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Sept 28, 2019 10:17:58 GMT -5
Funny thing with swimming...I wear earplugs (to prevent earaches) and they are the type that block a lot of noise, though I can hear coaches' calls and instructions. But they didn't block the mean people. Go figure. I am used to getting bullied; it's been that way since I was a kid. My friend "J" (the one I had lunch with recently, along with his daughter), has been very supportive of this change. He does not swim, but totally understands the need to move on and move forward in life. He's the one raising his teenage daughter while his estranged wife cavorts with a boyfriend while lying about it to everyone, including her own mother. But even her mother has figured out the situation, and sides with "J". Next week, after my next race, I hope he can meet up for a friend chicken lunch afterwards (he told me about a place to check out for some of the best bird, and I want to do it to pay him back for all his support and kindness).
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Sept 28, 2019 17:01:12 GMT -5
Nancysummersip - I tell myself that those bullies have a low level of energy frequency and don't like people who have a higher energy frequency. In addition, it's a pass/fail test of Christian values displayed. They fail. I just try to move on. The sad thing is, too many people are drama people and don't just ignore them.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Sept 29, 2019 13:27:06 GMT -5
Dear friend "S", Thank you for the privilege of letting me take you to breakfast today. And it is your dearly loved and departed son's 27th birthday? We lost him eight years ago, the same year as my mother. Eight birthdays in heaven for our beloved Michael. You have found peace and solitude in knowing he is OK and you will see him again. I am so glad but like everyone who knew your boy, wish we had him back again. Parents separated from their children by death is beyond painful to me. I have no means to truly understand it, since I never had any kids. But you've taught all of us who know you the true meaning of grace and kindness.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Sept 30, 2019 18:53:48 GMT -5
Dear "K" --
Apparently you did not get the memo that you are not a supervisor. Please refrain from giving orders and trying to instruct others on what to do when it isn't in your job description. It is hardly appropriate for someone who comes in when they feel like it, takes off for lunch after only 90 minutes in the office and frankly, has only worked about 1/2 of this entire year so far. My sympathy ran out for you long ago. Some people really are sh!t magnets, I guess. Your life is just one ugly Lifetime movie meets Jerry Springer episode, with a hefty dose of extra drama thrown in for good measure. If it isn't your husband, it's your kids, or your house, or your car, or your illnesses. At least I used to like you, and admit you have a good amount of knowledge about our industry. But you're out so often that it's hard for anyone to benefit from anything you know.
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Post by mollyanna58 on Oct 3, 2019 19:27:42 GMT -5
Who is crazier - the lunatic or the people who try to argue with the lunatic?
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Post by Iggy aka IG on Oct 4, 2019 10:30:06 GMT -5
Who is crazier - the lunatic or the people who try to argue with the lunatic?
Which is why I stay away from certain boards.
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