what are you doing right now?

[raeoflyte]

I really lucked out and got a dog walking gig from rover.com but for a friend of ours. She was on the site, saw my profile and reached out directly. They live close and have a really good dog so it's perfect.

[NastyWoman]

Question to the cooks on this site: I have too many eggs to use up before I leave for Europe next week. So I ask Google if you can freeze eggs and according to several sites (Good Housekeeping, egglandsbest) you can if you slightly scramble them first. 

Has anyone here done this before and how where the eggs after they are defrosted? Scrambling obviously rules out my favorite method of preparing eggs (boiling) but do they still taste okay in an omelet or something or should I not even do the work required and just pitch the eggs?

[countrygirl2]

My hubs isn't to thrilled about it, but our behavior person suggested I get paid by the state for caring for our DD. I never did it because I felt it took funds away from others. But she said  you are doing it and can't do other things because you are so why not get paid.  I don't know, have mixed emotions.

But than I read about how much higher the cost of living is in Washington. Indiana is one that pays it as is Washington, I just pulled it up this morning and glanced before leaving and they are talking a $1,000 a week, what? I would think that would be for severely disabled. But as my son said, what can DD do alone? She can bathe, but I check her out every few weeks and shave her legs and make sure everything is clean. She can wash her hair but with psoriasis, I have to do that a couple times a week. She dresses herself and does better matching clothing. I have to remind her to go to the bathroom before bed, brush her teeth and cook her meals. He said could she go buy her own food, well no. She might be able if she would listen but I don't know, she cannot remember a lot of things. Her reading level is very, very low, she guesses at a lot of it. No concept of money so I guess she is reliant on me a lot. I have to make sure her hands are washed, sometimes they get pretty gross. And also have to clean up at times or supervise some bodily functions. She also could not order her meds. She gets to know the colors and sizes but could not order them. And I have to keep all meds locked up or she would be into any pain killers she could get to. We have all our meds under lock, one that is a closet with a keypad lock. She used to find the key to a lock box, this stopped that. Also though she can strip her bed, making it back up is almost impossible for her. So even though I don't feel like I need paid, I can see what I do. I have just gotten used to doing it all. I know why they are doing it, keeping them out of a facility saves the state a ton of money. Money for the homes, furnishing, hiring personnel and all the other things that go with it, so this saves them a small fortune for each one.  I might just look into it. 

[countrygirl2]

I freeze them. I have little baby food cups with lids made to freeze foods. I would drop one egg in each hole. That is shelled and freeze them, they are fine for using in baked goods I don't know about scrambling them I just do them raw.


I bought food for the blessing box yesterday and filled them. Going to put out the extra veggies I have, hubs said he won't use it. So I put some things out for those. I bought 4 dozen eggs plus lots of other things for it. I hope people get the items they need and not someone just taking it all.

[lurkyloo]

This is so bizarre.  I stopped the low dose beta blocker- not entirely intentionally, I just kinda passed out last night before I remembered to take it.  I had already decided to taper it down because I was definitely picking up some fatigue and depression side effects-but my cough also seems to have suddenly gone away, after a round of is-this-a-fever-wait-probably-just-BB-detox.  Searching, it looks like a cough actually can be a side effect of beta blockers.

Anyway, my brain seems to be working again and I’m feeling way better so I’d say that was a definite fail as a migraine preventive, even without the fact that I had two migraines in the 5 days 

[jerseygirl]

Countrygirl, NJ has program for Medicaid patients to keep them at home by paying someone for their care at home. Hours paid depend on needs . My DSis was much like your DD. She was appproved for 20 - 30 hours of care. IIRC, about $10/hr. So a few hundred month
I was paid but used money to help pay for her live in caretaker. I did care for her in addition to the caretaker. Money allowed me to manage cost of her caretaker and I was able to still do consulting
States with these programs really encourage this as disabled people do so much better at home rather than a facility. It might allow your DD to stay at home with a caretaker when you’re not able.

Along with the funding, the program has a social worker to help

[andi9899]

Dec 6, 2023 13:18:39 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

I'm gonna whine.  I have a bunch of vacation to burn and one of my customers is pushing to run two qual builds before the end of the year which is going to take a lot of my involvement and be all stressful and shit.  Not happy about it.  Especially since the scheduled run days are the next two Thursdays and I had planned on taking the next two Thursdays and Fridays off. 

Take the time off. Let them figure it out. If you got hit by a bus tomorrow they'd have to figure it out. If you have time, take it.

[andi9899]

Dec 6, 2023 14:15:22 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

Question to the cooks on this site: I have too many eggs to use up before I leave for Europe next week. So I ask Google if you can freeze eggs and according to several sites (Good Housekeeping, egglandsbest) you can if you slightly scramble them first. 

Has anyone here done this before and how where the eggs after they are defrosted? Scrambling obviously rules out my favorite method of preparing eggs (boiling) but do they still taste okay in an omelet or something or should I not even do the work required and just pitch the eggs?

Why not just make egg salad? Or do you not like it?

[andi9899]

I hate people. I have been after this insured to get me renewal information for weeks and they've been ignoring me. Today they finally give me about 60% of the information I need. I sent an email asking a bunch of questions. I got an email back. The answer is yes. WTF?!?!?! What doea that mean?! They weren't all yes or no questions!

And! They decided to haul cattle. I don’t know if this is new or not since I inherited this account from someone else. Live animals are usually excluded and I have to go to a specialty market to get it. These people don't pay their bills as it is. I really don't want to have to chase them on behalf of two companies. I was just going to put it with Progressive and let them chase them. Their previous Progressive policy lapsed and they owe them money. I just can't.

[minnesotapaintlady]

Dec 6, 2023 15:16:45 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

Dec 6, 2023 13:18:39 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

I'm gonna whine.  I have a bunch of vacation to burn and one of my customers is pushing to run two qual builds before the end of the year which is going to take a lot of my involvement and be all stressful and shit.  Not happy about it.  Especially since the scheduled run days are the next two Thursdays and I had planned on taking the next two Thursdays and Fridays off. 

Take the time off. Let them figure it out. If you got hit by a bus tomorrow they'd have to figure it out. If you have time, take it.

They legit cannot run it without me. I'm the only person in this facility trained to do aerospace first articles. If I got hit by a bus I'm assuming they would bring in someone from one of the other plants and it would probably be pushed out until January if they had to do that.  I've known this was coming for months, but I was crossing my fingers it wouldn't happen until after the first of the year.

I'm still going to take my days off, but I'm going to have to rearrange things and the end of the year is not going to be quite as laid back and stress free as I thought it was. 

Maybe I'll take the next two Monday/Tuesdays off instead...or the entire week of Christmas.  We're really running out of weeks!

[soupandstew]

Dec 6, 2023 15:52:40 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

I hate people. I have been after this insured to get me renewal information for weeks and they've been ignoring me. Today they finally give me about 60% of the information I need. I sent an email asking a bunch of questions. I got an email back. The answer is yes. WTF?!?!?! What doea that mean?! They weren't all yes or no questions!

And! They decided to haul cattle. I don’t know if this is new or not since I inherited this account from someone else. Live animals are usually excluded and I have to go to a specialty market to get it. These people don't pay their bills as it is. I really don't want to have to chase them on behalf of two companies. I was just going to put it with Progressive and let them chase them. Their previous Progressive policy lapsed and they owe them money. I just can't.

Andi, I have to say your insurance sagas are really interesting to me.  I have never before stopped to think about the commercial trucking industry's insurance needs and how it impacts hauling costs.  From now on, every time I see one of those stories about police trying to round up escaped cattle from a truck, I'm going to think of this one.  Just as a note, I have learned never to drive behind or alongside a cattle hauler because what comes out of the steers comes out of the truck too and it ain't pretty.  

[soupandstew]

I spent the morning printing out the next part of the author's tales - college and law school, plus summer adventures between terms.  I think I can get quite a bit of it pulled together tomorrow.  Then we are on to Harvard Business School, plus first wife and first 2 kids.

Friday I need to clean the bathrooms and start the weekly laundry cycle.  We're going to a nearby farmer's market Saturday morning and I am excited because it's been a long time since we did that.  I hope to score some interesting veggies for next week's meals-maybe Swiss chard, beets, butternut squash

We ran by the tamale place today to get a 1/2 dozen chicken with tomatillo to test before Christmas.  I talked to the owner at length and it was clear she knows her stuff.  

[countrygirl2]

I would be happy with just some money for her care to help us pay house insurance and taxes up there. Our premiums for the supplement just raised again, mine not too bad, hubs more. Just trying to keep even not make a profit. But it has and does take a toll on me, it cost me my job and career and at soon to be 78 how many years will I cost them?  It will be a lot more once I die for the state. I wish it weren't so, I don't want the state to have to pay for our issues, but its likely to come to that anyhow. Did for mom but only for 3 months, and his mom 2 or 3 years. Nothing for his dad, died at home, and mine killed on the job before he got SS or anything. To be seen, once there will sell a car so back to 2 and lots of other things. 

Hubs is condensing his tools down to his little tool trailer and a bigger one, he said he can pack them full. 

I'm packing, all our clothing and things in one bag. I have another smaller for meds and odds and ends to take, maybe another jacket. We may take our heavy winter coats or wear them. They are really too big, but they are Lands End and I got them for like 2/3's off. I might leave them up there and if I hit another sale like that get us two that fit better.  That is to be seen.

And I still have fingernails, I am keeping the sealer stuff on them, if I don't and get them in water, they are right back to soft again. I don't remember them ever looking so nice. Better not say that will lift a bag or something and there they will go. LOL!

  

[countrygirl2]

Son is doing the same, working some days he should be off because he can't. Again like MPL, they have known for a year.

[soupandstew]

Uh oh, I just got an email for a wine dinner on December 19.  The menu includes Spanish-style grilled octopus, smoked lamb ribs with pomegranate molasses, venison medallions, and a hazelnut-crusted dark chocolate torte.  I will get the wine pairings and DH won't-he prefers a cocktail or something.  

[Opti]

Dec 6, 2023 16:07:05 GMT -5 soupandstew said:

I spent the morning printing out the next part of the author's tales - college and law school, plus summer adventures between terms.  I think I can get quite a bit of it pulled together tomorrow.  Then we are on to Harvard Business School, plus first wife and first 2 kids.

Friday I need to clean the bathrooms and start the weekly laundry cycle.  We're going to a nearby farmer's market Saturday morning and I am excited because it's been a long time since we did that.  I hope to score some interesting veggies for next week's meals-maybe Swiss chard, beets, butternut squash

We ran by the tamale place today to get a 1/2 dozen chicken with tomatillo to test before Christmas.  I talked to the owner at length and it was clear she knows her stuff.  

I told myself I could not buy the fresh tomatillos at the Spanish grocery store because I was now in unpaid time off, so need to reel in my spend like crazy to live for another day ...  

I'd eat your food and help cook it. I'd want to read this Harvard Business School section. You live a cool life my friend. 

[soupandstew]

Dec 6, 2023 16:49:15 GMT -5 Opti said:

Dec 6, 2023 16:07:05 GMT -5 soupandstew said:

I spent the morning printing out the next part of the author's tales - college and law school, plus summer adventures between terms.  I think I can get quite a bit of it pulled together tomorrow.  Then we are on to Harvard Business School, plus first wife and first 2 kids.

Friday I need to clean the bathrooms and start the weekly laundry cycle.  We're going to a nearby farmer's market Saturday morning and I am excited because it's been a long time since we did that.  I hope to score some interesting veggies for next week's meals-maybe Swiss chard, beets, butternut squash

We ran by the tamale place today to get a 1/2 dozen chicken with tomatillo to test before Christmas.  I talked to the owner at length and it was clear she knows her stuff.  

I told myself I could not buy the fresh tomatillos at the Spanish grocery store because I was now in unpaid time off, so need to reel in my spend like crazy to live for another day ...   [img class="smile" alt="" src="//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/embarrassed.png"]

I'd eat your food and help cook it. I'd want to read this Harvard Business School section. You live a cool life my friend. 

Thank you!  I think the life I live now is in direct proportion to the chances I took over the years.  During my lifetime I have never shied away from challenges.  When you grow up in beyond awful, everything else looks like good, clean fun.  I've literally picked up aluminum cans from ditches to earn $$, washed other people's clothing, worn (and still wear) used clothing and shoes.  In return I have had the opportunity to work for amazing people, camp for weeks in a very primitive desert setting while doing intense physical labor, interact with people of every possible culture, and serve an amazing community of 6600+ homes.  The key lies in not being afraid to step off the diving board into the deep end and explore what the next chapter of life may be.  Yes, a person may crash and burn, but even in the burning there is learning.  I told my author guy that this year I've learned so much about what goes into making a readable story, something I didn't see happening a year ago.  

[azucena]

Dec 6, 2023 14:15:22 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

Question to the cooks on this site: I have too many eggs to use up before I leave for Europe next week. So I ask Google if you can freeze eggs and according to several sites (Good Housekeeping, egglandsbest) you can if you slightly scramble them first. 

Has anyone here done this before and how where the eggs after they are defrosted? Scrambling obviously rules out my favorite method of preparing eggs (boiling) but do they still taste okay in an omelet or something or should I not even do the work required and just pitch the eggs?

I usually give pre-vacation food to neighbor friends.

[midjd]

Dec 6, 2023 10:52:21 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

HI MID!

Hey there! Sorry for the post and run. These days I seem to only have time to lurk, and only on my phone (which is not the easiest to post from). But I have a bunch of vacation time to burn before 1/1 so I’ll try to show my virtual face more often!

[daisylu]

New phone delivered at 10 minutes to 5. 1 hour in doing the switch and says 2 more to go. It is usable, it just all has to download apps and files. I probably should have cleaned some of that up before I started the transfer.

[chiver78]

Dec 6, 2023 15:56:08 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

Dec 6, 2023 15:16:45 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

Take the time off. Let them figure it out. If you got hit by a bus tomorrow they'd have to figure it out. If you have time, take it.

They legit cannot run it without me. I'm the only person in this facility trained to do aerospace first articles. If I got hit by a bus I'm assuming they would bring in someone from one of the other plants and it would probably be pushed out until January if they had to do that.  I've known this was coming for months, but I was crossing my fingers it wouldn't happen until after the first of the year.

I'm still going to take my days off, but I'm going to have to rearrange things and the end of the year is not going to be quite as laid back and stress free as I thought it was. 

Maybe I'll take the next two Monday/Tuesdays off instead...or the entire week of Christmas.  We're really running out of weeks!

I feel this. I've had one site almost literally on fire for the past month, and another one where some forms I signed had errors (not detectable for anything I was reviewing) and my phone was blowing up all day that I was out with the pups - enjoying my day off. I logged in for an hour each a couple times this am, and I'm not happy about it. but, if the stupid site didn't drop pallets of packaged finished product, then maybe today wouldn't have been such a crisis. 

[chiver78]

Dec 6, 2023 17:56:08 GMT -5 azucena said:

Dec 6, 2023 14:15:22 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

Question to the cooks on this site: I have too many eggs to use up before I leave for Europe next week. So I ask Google if you can freeze eggs and according to several sites (Good Housekeeping, egglandsbest) you can if you slightly scramble them first. 

Has anyone here done this before and how where the eggs after they are defrosted? Scrambling obviously rules out my favorite method of preparing eggs (boiling) but do they still taste okay in an omelet or something or should I not even do the work required and just pitch the eggs?

I usually give pre-vacation food to neighbor friends.

same, or send it with the dogs if they are staying elsewhere. I do plan a little with my meals and theirs, to minimize waste, though. for example, this week, their starch isn't white rice as usual, they are helping me through the half box of tiny shell pasta I cooked off for my pot of minestrone. no way I needed that much, but I was doing a hundred things when I cooked. 

[Opti]

Dec 6, 2023 14:15:22 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

Question to the cooks on this site: I have too many eggs to use up before I leave for Europe next week. So I ask Google if you can freeze eggs and according to several sites (Good Housekeeping, egglandsbest) you can if you slightly scramble them first. 

Has anyone here done this before and how where the eggs after they are defrosted? Scrambling obviously rules out my favorite method of preparing eggs (boiling) but do they still taste okay in an omelet or something or should I not even do the work required and just pitch the eggs?

Don't boiled eggs last for at least 3 weeks to a month? How long are you off to Europe?

[chiver78]

I pulled out the laptop to check my schedule for Friday to give time options to a recruiter, and made the mistake of looking at my email for a hot second. I'm already over what tomorrow's going to be for me.      my boss still hasn't sent the unofficial "you haven't been coming to the office" email that is a prelude to the official HR one, but I feel like I'm probably still better off to move on. I'm not bringing LD back to daycare til after the holidays, but even if I found another job tomorrow, I wouldn't be starting til then anyway. hell, this spot, I interviewed around this date, and we couldn't get the HR paperwork done by holiday shutdown, so I had to wait to quit the train wreck til after the new year. that all sucked and was hella stressful. 

[soupandstew]

I pulled the plug on the wine dinner and we have reservations for 5:15.  

[chiver78]

Dec 6, 2023 11:45:34 GMT -5 The Walk of the Penguin Mich said:

Dec 6, 2023 11:06:05 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

it really was mind blowing when you got into the details. probably why it's such a good case study on what NOT to do.

It also very clearly shows WHY these rules were put into place.  The fact that it was not just one goof, but a system of goofs that all aligned at a perfect point.  

I've mentioned this on these boards before, so I apologize if you've heard this already.     

in pharma, we're required to take GMP Refresher courses periodically. for the unfamiliar, that's Good Manufacturing Practices, which are the FDA guidelines that rule our industry in the US. way back at my first adult job, right around the time I realized my asshole boss was laying the groundwork to fire me, I was doing my best to meet all of the compliance requirements. well, the only refresher class I could find before mine was due was a full-day new hire "History of the FDA" that came up as an option. check, sign me up! I fielded texts throughout the day from the boss about shit other people could have answered, so it was still a PITA. but, I wasn't delinquent in training! 

anyway, this 8h class......was the most interesting class I think I've ever had in industry about the regulations. it was exactly what you said - a detailed explanation about WHY we have the rules and Acts that we do. it started with the 1906 Food and Drug Act, progressed to 1938's Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act....then ventured into the disasters of Thalidomide and the Daikon Shield along the way. I legit wish I still had those slides, to share with some of the geniuses that deny the miracles of modern medicine and the guidelines we have to abide in this industry in order to make it available to the public that needs it. 

[andi9899]

Dec 6, 2023 15:59:50 GMT -5 soupandstew said:

Dec 6, 2023 15:52:40 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

I hate people. I have been after this insured to get me renewal information for weeks and they've been ignoring me. Today they finally give me about 60% of the information I need. I sent an email asking a bunch of questions. I got an email back. The answer is yes. WTF?!?!?! What doea that mean?! They weren't all yes or no questions!

And! They decided to haul cattle. I don’t know if this is new or not since I inherited this account from someone else. Live animals are usually excluded and I have to go to a specialty market to get it. These people don't pay their bills as it is. I really don't want to have to chase them on behalf of two companies. I was just going to put it with Progressive and let them chase them. Their previous Progressive policy lapsed and they owe them money. I just can't.

Andi, I have to say your insurance sagas are really interesting to me.  I have never before stopped to think about the commercial trucking industry's insurance needs and how it impacts hauling costs.  From now on, every time I see one of those stories about police trying to round up escaped cattle from a truck, I'm going to think of this one.  Just as a note, I have learned never to drive behind or alongside a cattle hauler because what comes out of the steers comes out of the truck too and it ain't pretty.  

At least it interests someone. I asked my CSR why my predecessor left after just a year. I was told she didn't want to do transportation anymore. I don’t blame her. It's a big hairy beast and it will drive you batty! Truckers are something else!

[toomuchreality]

Dec 5, 2023 9:31:50 GMT -5 soupandstew said:

Dec 5, 2023 7:48:27 GMT -5 toomuchreality said:

I have bright green, fuzzy, Grinch slippers and several choices of Christmas pants. One pair of pajamas with sheep on the pants. The top says " BAAAAA.... HUMBUG" above a single sheep.
Can I come too? PLEASE!😁

Everyone is welcome to come on down for New Year's Eve, complete with Christmas PJ's and fuzzy slippers.  It will be BYOB, everyone has to help man the garden hoses if bottle rockets start a fire, and you should know that celebratory gunfire is pretty common so an Army surplus helmet is okay too.  Also, bring your inhaler as the smoke from the fireworks is pretty overwhelming - the last two years much of Houston was enveloped in a smoke/fog combo the next morning.  For the traditionalists, I can do black-eyed peas with collard greens and smoked turkey wings for New Year's Day - it covers all all the bases for health and prosperity.

Dang. Growing up, we had Army surplus helmets. I should have saved it!

FYI- When my kids were little, we were invited to someone's 4th of July BBQ. (Drunks and druggies, I didn't know.) They shot off fireworks in their backyard. One landed in the neighbor's yard, behind his garage, and caught it on fire. No one did anything, they were scared of getting caught.
I didn't know them, or the area. It was before cell phones.
I grabbed my kids, and left!

My dad, uncle and grandfather were all firemen. I was told the man whose place was on fire, was too. I wanted nothing to do with that shit show! 🙄

Do they really shoot off guns?
Why?

I might have to pass on this get together. I'm a chicken! 🐓

[NastyWoman]

Dec 6, 2023 17:56:08 GMT -5 azucena said:

Dec 6, 2023 14:15:22 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

Question to the cooks on this site: I have too many eggs to use up before I leave for Europe next week. So I ask Google if you can freeze eggs and according to several sites (Good Housekeeping, egglandsbest) you can if you slightly scramble them first. 

Has anyone here done this before and how where the eggs after they are defrosted? Scrambling obviously rules out my favorite method of preparing eggs (boiling) but do they still taste okay in an omelet or something or should I not even do the work required and just pitch the eggs?

I usually give pre-vacation food to neighbor friends.

That's what I usually do as well but my two "egg friends" happen to be traveling this year as well. And while I like egg salad as andi9899 suggested -> 14 eggs* is a bit much for one person

*I have so many because I dropped an item from the menu for my holiday brunch this Sunday. I would be down to just 6 or so eggs otherwise. Most other leftovers went home with my guest as one and only rule for this brunch is that NastyWoman will not get stuck with leftovers -> she will hop on a plane shortly

[NastyWoman]

Dec 6, 2023 18:46:54 GMT -5 Opti said:

Dec 6, 2023 14:15:22 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

Question to the cooks on this site: I have too many eggs to use up before I leave for Europe next week. So I ask Google if you can freeze eggs and according to several sites (Good Housekeeping, egglandsbest) you can if you slightly scramble them first. 

Has anyone here done this before and how where the eggs after they are defrosted? Scrambling obviously rules out my favorite method of preparing eggs (boiling) but do they still taste okay in an omelet or something or should I not even do the work required and just pitch the eggs?

Don't boiled eggs last for at least 3 weeks to a month? How long are you off to Europe?

close to 7 weeks