Runners that need some nutritional accountability
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@noblsheep Man I love those dumplings. I think mine would turn out terrible too. I believe if the weather permitted, I might be up to trying to make some with ground pork. But I'll probably be lazy about it and just go buy them from the Chinese fast food place. Another cultural question, Whats your traditional breakfast? We grow up with bacon, eggs toast, maybe grits, oatmeal and some have sweat rice. I watched a David Chang (Korean) show and noticed their breakfast isn't like ours. Up til then, I just thought everyone in the world ate the same breakfast. I can't believe you aren't a Apple techie! I like the google products. I had a google made phone back in the day when they bought Motorolla. (least I think they did). I loved the phone and still have it. Every time I get in it, I think I'd get another.
Maybe I'll just upgrade my ipad and keep the Dell. Although this AM it was a pain. Updated and stuck on rebooting. I am always weary that I'll have to call my favorite peeps in India.
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cold snap! wow it is hard freeze for a week here. I don't mind it much. I might have to find a way to get heat to my outside cat and thaw the dogs water.
I got a new canvas photo of Alex
I have him here with me in the cat study room.
Food.
I set chicken to thaw for Quilteryoyo's chicken and taters. mmmm! Bear will love the chicken.
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@swenson1I love the photo of Alex. I hope you enjoy the chicken too. I think it's good and easy for one person.
@noblsheep Thanks for sharing your traditions. Sounds great. Sorry you can't travel this year, even if it is a mixed blessing for you.
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I've heard good things about the Pixel. I'm only interested in it because of the camera. Like when I got my Galaxy 9+ the camera was leaps and bounds better than the Note 5 I had been using. Then DH gets the Note 20 (something I don't recall which model) and his camera is WAY better than mine. Hell, he has more megapixels than my freaking Fuji mirrorless.
I was going to enter this trail running photography contest but they said no phone photos. I'm like I bet you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a cell phone and DSLR/mirrorless camera except from looking at the metadata showing the camera. It was for a magazine & online so it's not like they need to print something HUGE. I have some amazing cell phone shots from trail runs but I never take my camera when running, just my phone. And I don't always take it hiking either.
Sorry. I could talk cameras and photography for days.
Anyway... here is an interesting article I came across this morning. I would like to see more research into this. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/why-it-was-easier-to-be-skinny-in-the-1980s/407974/2 -
Since I am in MFP, I am going to go log my breakfast. Baby steps. Depression has been doing much better the last few days but it did that last week too and then got me one day. Ugh.6
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swenson19d wrote: »@noblsheep Man I love those dumplings. I think mine would turn out terrible too. I believe if the weather permitted, I might be up to trying to make some with ground pork. But I'll probably be lazy about it and just go buy them from the Chinese fast food place. Another cultural question, Whats your traditional breakfast? We grow up with bacon, eggs toast, maybe grits, oatmeal and some have sweat rice. I watched a David Chang (Korean) show and noticed their breakfast isn't like ours. Up til then, I just thought everyone in the world ate the same breakfast.
Fast food? Ugh. As a hardcore northern Chinese person, dumplings are consumed straight out of the pot or not at all. I'd even take frozen dumplings over takeaway any day. (I'm kidding, any dumplings are better than none at all.) But in all seriousness, some frozen dumplings are actually pretty good. Do you have any legit Asian grocery shops in your area?
Re: breakfast. Another thing that varies around the country. Again, as a hardcore (lol) northern Chinese, it's mostly carbs of all shapes and sizes. Noodles. Mantou (white flour buns) with pickled veg and/or beancurd. Fried mantou, also with the above. Youtiao (fried dough) with soy milk. Jianbing, which are crepe-like things with eggs and youtiao. Shaobing (flatbread?) and lamb soup. Sauced meat inside the shaobing, and then with lamb soup. These things don't translate, sorry. And I'm making myself hungry. Also I really like having tea eggs as a part of breakfast. Those things, done well, are awesome, but a pain to do at home so I rely on breakfast stands on my morning commute.
In the south, where people eat much more rice, they have congee and rice noodles as well as other stuff I can't remember right now. In the Shanghai area, there's this thing called paofan, which is basically last night's leftover rice in hot broth and whatever greens one feels like throwing in. And the Canton area breakfast is an artform - all the dim sum one can imagine and all the time in the world to eat it, as it would seem.
Oh and loving the photo of Alex.
@quilteryoyo Thanks! I'm giving myself a project to do over the holidays so hopefully it will be a good use of downtime.2 -
@noblsheep all those sounds good. We poor American have no idea what real food is, everything fast food.
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I am rural and don't have immediate access to an Asian market. But Do make it to Dallas now and then or oklahoma city where there are many. You have a recipe to share with me? We bought a kumquat tree the last time we went to the market.
I had to ask my DD what tea eggs were. Sounds good. I may have to try them. Regular black oolong tea or something else?
Id agree on the dumplings. I had fresh ones at a Japanese Ramen place, (yes, japanese, chinese, koren american all rolled in to one here. It's not authentic most of the time). They were very good, I could live on dumplings i think.1 -
Lamb soup for breakfast sounds awesome! I would have a problem with all the carbs though.
My favorite Korean place celebrates lunar new year and in years past they have had dumpling soup specially on the day - I wonder if they are doing it this year.2 -
Oh boy, all I want to do at the moment is stuff my face with food. I'm doing the best I can to control it, but stress totally makes me lose my self-control. Ugh.
Been to the doctor this afternoon, he fumbled and prodded and compared one side to the other and made me sit up, lie down, turn one way, turn the other (at one point I wasn't sure whether he was trying to tune an old-fashioned radio or about to tell me to do the hokey-pokey) before announcing "well dear, I really couldn't say one way or the other but given your history we'll send you to the breast unit and let them have a look". So, at least I got my referral which is what I wanted, even if he didn't exactly give me any peace of mind.
Also mentioned I wanted blood tests and hormone checks, he was so intent on getting me out the door to get on with his phone consultations that the moment I said 'irregular cycles and hot flashes' he handed me the paperwork.
So, progress at least.
In other, more positive news, my Dad had blood taken for tests on Monday in preparation for chemo starting next week (he told me he didn't sleep the night before 'because needles' and claimed he had never had blood taken before even though his wife insists that he has and she was there!), an MRI yesterday and then the hospital phoned yesterday asking him to go in today. He thought it was for some other test, turned out it was for his first dose of covid vaccine!
@quilteryoyo I can't believe it's so long since your surgery, time is flying for me this year though I'm sure it has dragged for you. Hope you're sleeping a bit better.
@RunsOnEspresso hugs, depression sucks.
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@RunsOnEspresso I have the Pixel and love it. I'm surprised they won't let you enter pictures taken from a phone for a trail running photo contest. Who runs with an actual camera? I hope your depression subsides soon.
@eleanorhawkins I feel you. I tend to be a stress eater too. You have a lot going on, so try to not be too hard on yourself for your food choices. I'm glad you got your referral and hope you find out something soon. Also glad your dad got a CoVID shot and hope he does well with the chemo. The year seems like it has gone quickly for me too. I've had plenty to occupy my time...still don't have my to-do list done. I am chipping away at it though.
Today was so nice outside - sunny and 65°F this afternoon. If I didn't have restrictions, there are a lot of things I could have done in they yard or along the driveway today. I opted for a 2 mile walk with Tippy, sitting outside and reading a book for about an hour, then walking to mom's for a visit. Food wasn't the best today, but I was pleased to by back under 140 pounds this morning. We'll see what tomorrow brings.0 -
Hey all. Skimmed while I relax for half an hour before work.
Went out to the dentist this morning. Need 5 fillings. Joys. Sigh.
Then I went for a 20k bike ride along the coast walkway to the velodrome and back. It was a fantastic day for it. Warm and not hot with a slight breeze.
At the velodrome, mountain in the background.
Mountain!
Then got home and did strength workout. Almost skipped but I know I'm not doing it Thursday next week so didn't want to skip today.
Weight the last 3 days has been the same. Not worried. Just find it amusing.
DH has been trying to lose weight. He weighs in every Monday. And typically after his initial loss he's stalled. Typical. I explained yesterday how I weigh daily and track the trend and how that's more accurate. He's also stopped rolling his eyes every time I weigh food, and I kinda half expect him to start as well, because he can see how mine is going down and his isn't. Will see.
The next couple of days is going to be crazy. I'll be in bed at 1130 tonight, then have to be up at 630am for my long run before taking my oldest DD for her food challenge! Trying peanuts for the first time since she had a reaction as a baby. I'm excited because I doubt she will have a reaction!
Then Saturday, I'm doing a long run - 16k!. So will be up at 7am, to be out at 745.
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@Avidkeo Sorry about needing the fillings. I hate getting those. That's a very pretty place for a bike ride. Fingers crossed that your DD can tolerate peanuts this time!2
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Grrr lost my post...
Bean is good
I didn't cook
I know 4 word in Mandarin
I have friends (in school) that are from Nepal, I love other cultures
I bought an iPhone be here Friday .
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@swenson19d Sorry you lost your post! May I ask which 4 words? Hope you love your new phone! Which model did you go with?
Black or green tea are both fine for eggs, I usually use Lipton teabags because they're cheap, always lying around and easy to clean up. Does your kumquat tree have fruit? I think I've heard of people making beef stew with them. And if I could only eat one thing for the rest of my life I'd go for dumplings too.
I wish we were closer and I could just hop over to your place and cook something.
@rheddmobile Oh yeah I forgot that Korea does Lunar New Year too. (Japan used to as well but that was cancelled in the 19th century.) I had to look up dumpling soup, and was like ohhhhhh because we call it wonton soup over here and for some reason us hardcore northerners keep thinking that wonton and dumplings are different things. Kinda like how Eskimos have dozens of different words for snow or something.
As for the carbs, I think that eastern Asia food in general is just really carb heavy. Probably because grains are easy to grow and everybody used to be dirt poor so meat was scarce. My dad says when he was growing up kids only had eggs on their birthday as a special treat.
@eleanorhawkins Hugs. Congrats on progress. Congrats on your dad's first vaccine. Recently I've been eating all the food as well so today I decided to put a bunch of fruit on the table in hope that I'll reach for those first instead of going to raid the pantry.
@Avidkeo That looks like an awesome ride! Good luck on the peanuts.
Today is New Years Eve and I'm going to make myself the closest dinner to the kind we had at home as I can. Traditions need to be upheld. Will take pictures of that.
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@swenson19d Sorry you lost your post! May I ask which 4 words? Hope you love your new phone! Which model did you go with?
Black or green tea are both fine for eggs, I usually use Lipton teabags because they're cheap, always lying around and easy to clean up. Does your kumquat tree have fruit? I think I've heard of people making beef stew with them. And if I could only eat one thing for the rest of my life I'd go for dumplings too.
I wish we were closer and I could just hop over to your place and cook something.
I tried to teach myself Mandarin 8 years ago or so, no idea why, I had no one to speak it with. ni hao, xie xie, ma (mom) and if i remember right, ma (horse). I cant remember the accents on the ma or ma or ma and which is which. I might remember more if I saw it again. I still have intro learning CD's I keep thinking about getting out. I think I've learned all the German I want with no one to speak it with, least for now. But currently nursing school and violin is keeping me busy.
I got the 12 mini because YES! a smaller phone. I may hate it. I already "just remembered" I have pixel ear buds that will work but without all the features. oops. I just listen to school stuff or Crime Junkie podcasts, maybe music now an then.
The kumquat tree was doing so well for a while, so much fruit. Then it just died back and is now an 8-9 foot stick with thorn and no fruit. I'll trim it back and see if I can get it to be a tree again. No idea what happened. Alex was the first to eat the fruit off of it, so I think it was mourning his passing.
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swenson19d wrote: »@swenson19d Sorry you lost your post! May I ask which 4 words? Hope you love your new phone! Which model did you go with?
Black or green tea are both fine for eggs, I usually use Lipton teabags because they're cheap, always lying around and easy to clean up. Does your kumquat tree have fruit? I think I've heard of people making beef stew with them. And if I could only eat one thing for the rest of my life I'd go for dumplings too.
I wish we were closer and I could just hop over to your place and cook something.
I tried to teach myself Mandarin 8 years ago or so, no idea why, I had no one to speak it with. ni hao, xie xie, ma (mom) and if i remember right, ma (horse). I cant remember the accents on the ma or ma or ma and which is which. I might remember more if I saw it again. I still have intro learning CD's I keep thinking about getting out. I think I've learned all the German I want with no one to speak it with, least for now. But currently nursing school and violin is keeping me busy.
I might learn to love to cook if I had a cooking buddy haha!
German has been on my to do list for years, but right now Japanese is on the top of that list. If you ever want to pick up Mandarin again we could language exchange.
I'd love to be somebody's cooking buddy! No idea how that would work though.1 -
I need to go to bed but started reading and couldn't leave without talking about dumplings! Years ago I worked with a lady who was born on the mainland but raised in Taiwan. When we had potlucks at work or any special occasion Jean would make fresh dumplings. Like stay up all night making them so she could bring them in fresh in the morning! OMG they were so delicious! I also found out years later that she was vegetarian but made pork for all of us. Her mom also brought her seeds from a special Chinese hot pepper plant that she then grew and would make sauce from - spicy but SO tasty! We have lots of Asian markets and restaurants here but I have never had dumplings as good as hers!
Also she made little buns with black bean paste inside too. My daughter was small and absolutely loved them. She had no idea it was bean paste at the time and I'm pretty sure she thought they were chocolate!
She also taught me how to make Chinese knots and still have some that she made me for good luck.
@noblsheep - do they make soup dumplings there? These are rather round, with the dough twisted at the top and have hot soup inside. When dd and I went to Vancouver we ate at a dumpling house and that was a specialty. If I lived there I think I would eat there every day!
One of my favorite places to shop is the 99 Ranch markets - pretty much anything you could possibly want for cooking they have there. They are not close to me but I should drive there once we can get out more and check out their dumplings!
I wanted to take German in high school but my mom said it was not useful, take French which was totally not useful! Spanish would have made the most sense for living in CA.3 -
@shanaber I think Spanish makes the most sense in the US and here too. Tuesday at my MRI a woman waked in and was in the wrong place but spoke very little english. One kind woman just relied on her knowledge of a few words and told the lady "sietie"- my next life I'll spell better, 7 and pointed up. I could have done that but feeling that I needed to be fluent before even trying... so unhelpful. I wish the elementary education focused more are on music and languages (not 13 years of "English" class) when our brains could soak all that up. I think something so simple as learning a language young would fracture some of this, er what I perceive as ethnocentric culturism that is pervasive. I kinda muddled that avoiding outright saying that I think it'd help with self-righteous attitudes towards other people. Dont get me started so early on my perceived injustices of the world.
I really need dumplings in my life now. @shanaber I know what you are talking about with the soup dumpling. I saw them on a show (the extent of my cultural awareness is Netflix). Could absolutely live on them. Sooo @noblsheep what's the weather like where you are? I'm planing my retirement to various locations apparently with out the funds (day dreaming).
Food and people are important. not a whole lot else matters. I learned that watching Ugly Delicious, on Netflix..
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swenson19d wrote: »@swenson19d Sorry you lost your post! May I ask which 4 words? Hope you love your new phone! Which model did you go with?
Black or green tea are both fine for eggs, I usually use Lipton teabags because they're cheap, always lying around and easy to clean up. Does your kumquat tree have fruit? I think I've heard of people making beef stew with them. And if I could only eat one thing for the rest of my life I'd go for dumplings too.
I wish we were closer and I could just hop over to your place and cook something.
I tried to teach myself Mandarin 8 years ago or so, no idea why, I had no one to speak it with. ni hao, xie xie, ma (mom) and if i remember right, ma (horse). I cant remember the accents on the ma or ma or ma and which is which. I might remember more if I saw it again. I still have intro learning CD's I keep thinking about getting out. I think I've learned all the German I want with no one to speak it with, least for now. But currently nursing school and violin is keeping me busy.
I might learn to love to cook if I had a cooking buddy haha!
German has been on my to do list for years, but right now Japanese is on the top of that list. If you ever want to pick up Mandarin again we could language exchange.
I'd love to be somebody's cooking buddy! No idea how that would work though.
I doubt I could teach you any german. I usually just talk to the cats or occasionally answer dh in German just to annoy him. So if ya want you could share a weekly lesson here? something simple. or we could communicate email or however. I'd love to have a lesson.
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I wish that they would teach a second language in elementary school too. We had a daycare director a couple of years ago that was fluent in Spanish. She would teach the kids songs and they caught on right away. I just googled and there is a lot of differences of opinions out there, but it looks like pre-puberty is the optimal time for learning a second language and some say before the age of 6. I tried French in college. That was a disaster. Imagine French with a very heavy Southern Accent. LOL My teacher was Russian, but lived most of her life in Germany. I'm not sure where her French came from, but when she got mad at us, we never knew what language was going to come out of her mouth. LOL2
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I'm in a down mood today. After yesterday's gorgeous weather, it's a rainy mess today. Mom is going through my dad's clothes and giving them away. That's ok. For me, it's a little soon, but I know we are all different. She said that her and dad had talked about it and he wanted someone else to use them if they could. Sounds like him as he would give someone the shirt off of his back if that was the only one he had.
Anyway, yesterday she washed up his coats and jackets to give to my friend who lives in Nashville so he could take them to a Thrift Store he likes in Nashville - if no one he knows can use them. I was looking through them and saw one that dad wore A LOT. I asked her if she was giving away the coat that he wore all the time. She said yes. Someone else could use it. I sort of pretend pouted, but told her it was okay. The more I thought about it though, the more I just couldn't see that go. So, I called my friend and he is going to take it out of the stuff he has and leave it at mom's for me today. I don't know why I need that, but I feel I do. I talked to mom about it and she was sorry that she gave it away if I wanted it. I am going to go down later today and go through some of his other clothes to see if anything strikes me as something I would like to keep. I can't think of anything right now, but didn't think that coat would evoke such emotions either.3 -
Happy Chinese New Year everybody! Here's my one-person celebration meal.
The green thing is called Laba garlic, and I don't have enough chemistry to explain why garlic turns green when pickled in rice vinegar in the winter. And the black thing on the far right is called century eggs and was once ranked by CNN to be the most disgusting food in the world. (shrugs)
@shanaber She sounds like an awesome person! My mother would make dumplings for potlucks too and everyone loved them (although I do remember that she added salt twice on one occasion, but luckily they were pork and carrot so we got away by adding some more sugar). I don't think I've ever had black bean buns though, we usually use red beans, but I suppose they taste 90% the same. I've got some red bean buns in my fridge right now, I'll show y'all tomorrow.
re: soup dumplings. It's really amusing how badly these things translate across languages, because we don't think of those things as dumplings at all. They're a type of baozi - stuffed buns? anyway the ones with soup inside are great but I somehow manage to scald the tip of my tongue every time lol. They are usually found in and around Shanghai, not so much in Beijing.
@swenson19d I agree that Spanish makes sense. I lived in Miami for a little more than a year when I was 5-6, and picked up enough of the language to hang out with the neighborhood kids, and then moved away and forgot it all. When I visited Finland a few years ago, the landlady told us that all schools teach Swedish from the start, then English from grade 3, and most kids add a third foreign language around grade 9. Finnish people are really proud of their multilingual abilities.
The weather in Beijing is reasonable but the humidity here is always super low. It rarely goes under -10 C in winter, and summers go up to 36 C and not much more. But we get sandstorms in spring and the air quality is still bad sometimes, albiet getting better. Since we're one year out from hosting the winter Olympics, I'm guessing the AQ for the upcoming year is going to be amazing.
Cooking via zoom sounds like an awesome idea! I'll PM you.
@quilteryoyo From all the immigrant kids I knew when I was young, I agree that pre-6 years is about right if you want them to achieve entirely native pronounciation. Kids who came to the States later than that picked up the language just fine but usually had some sort of noticable accent.
LOL at the Southern Accent French. I had an English teacher from Malaysia in high school. Had no idea what the dude was saying half the time, his accent was so thick.1 -
@quilteryoyo - my nieces are multilingual, or were. Not sure how much they remember of their early languages. Their mom is from Luxembourg and speaks French, German, Luxembourgish but learned a bit of English in school there as a requirement. She also took Spanish at the community college when they were living here for a while. The girls from the time they were tiny spoke all of those but not Spanish and later learned Arabic because they grew up mostly in Dubai and the UAE. My SIL said with the Romance languages once you know one well, learning another is fairly easy, not sure I agree with that though. It was funny that they somehow knew we and their dad only spoke English and their Grandma in Luxembourg only Luxembourgish.
Also my dh was taught Spanish starting in kindergarten. She is essentially fluent and took the AP test for Spanish and got a 5 on it so didn't need to take a language in college. She ended up taking conversational Spanish for fun and took 2 years of Latin. I think it makes it so much easier to learn languages when they have that early start. Having her around when we went to Cancun and to Costa Rica made a huge difference 😁 Interesting though that she uses an interpreter with her Spanish speaking patients these days because she is not confident using it in the professional setting.
I need to get back to Duolingo and work on my Spanish some more! Have you all tried Google translate? I use it sometimes to text to my housekeeper or to write a note to our gardener. They both speak English but Spanish is so much easier for them. When I was working we had people all over the world (customers and support people) so the company used a translation program for our Help Desks that translated text messages to the what the user had specified as their local language. So I could type and see a message in English and the person in India or Africa or Mexico would see it in their chosen language. They were working on one for voice too but it was not implemented before I left.
Like @swenson19d - I think learning about different cultures and history is so fascinating. In some ways to see how much we are alike and also how we do things differently. I mean when I took world history it was mostly focused on the UK and Europe. Not really World History at all.
I thought of zoom too but then there is the big timezone issue. I think @noblsheep is 16 hours ahead of me and 14 ahead of you.2 -
@quilteryoyo Definitely keep anything you think you may want. Stuff can be donated later, there is no rush. I wonder where all of Alex's stuff is, what I might want to hold on to. His dad probably gave everything to crazy nd the stuff he had at her house, who know. I'm just glad I didn't send him all his clothes and belongings when he was in Georgia. The cat room is turning into a shrine to Alex. But if that's what I need right now, everyone else is gonna have to be okay with that. It was his bedroom for a while. Whatever you is okay, advocate to be okay right now.3
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@shanaber @noblsheep Well with the time difference perhaps we can do breakfast for lunch/dinner or something. I wanna try it even if it means a 4 am or 11pm call. Ill look for the PM. email is beheyb at gmail just in case.
@quilteryoyo or anyone else interested?
my new phone will be her any minute... I am trying to motivate myself to get kitten done so I can learn all about it.
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oh I came here to tell @Avidkeo I have rad report from xray. MRI probably tomorrow. It seems a word or two is left out. Osteoarthritis perhaps?and @noblsheep Yes 100 year old eggs are kinda gross. sorry. I saw a thing on how they were made ages ago and they are in my Chinese cookbook. I just dont think i could. Its too foreign. LOL!
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As a translator, I have to jump in here and say do not trust google translate or pretty much any other automatic translation tool for anything other than single words or very simple phrases. Machines are unable to read context, and automatic translations are generally notoriously appalling!
I was just jumping in to share some exciting news... I think I have a new job writing content for an online news site! Not going to let myself get too enthusiastic until I've done a few weeks and they've actually starting paying for it, mind. Been burned in the past and there are way too many kittens out there to get hopes up.
Still, the rush of adrenaline when you see your work published is still nice!
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@noblsheep - your New Year's dinner looks delicious - minus the eggs. I worked early on with a couple of guys who loved them, but no thank you!
So the company where we had the potlucks was very multicultural and a very close knit group even though we worked in 2 different locations. We had an awesome admin and she started asking everyone to bring in recipes for foods they brought to the potlucks. She typed them all into the pc in her 'spare time' and then made it into a cookbook (circa 1992!). We sold it as a fund raiser for a charity we all were supporting and it was overwhelmingly popular. So all this to say, I went to look up the bean paste recipe and it was with red bean and lotus seed paste. I really need to revisit some of these recipes!
I took a picture of the recipe:
@quilteryoyo - I have my dad's leather flight jacket that he wore all the time too. He passed away way too young in 1988. I think it still smells like him. He was a lifelong smoker (likely reason for his early demise) and I suspect that smell is in the leather. When I miss him and I still do, that jacket brings me comfort. I used to even wear it sometimes. It fit me when I was heavier. Also dd has the jacket from our neighbor, Hans who was like a grandfather to her. I think that connection is just comforting.3 -
Thanks for the support ladies. I knew you would understand.
As for learning to cook, I'd love to be on the zoom if I can figure out how to turn the camera on on my computer. It seems to be on the fritz. LOL
CONGRATULATIONS @eleanorhawkins ! That's great news! What type of content will you be writing?0 -
Congratulations @eleanorhawkins!! I hope it works out for you!
I do agree about the translators. I thought about it after I posted. I usually use it for pretty simple phrases and the first couple of times I tested it with a friend to see how it translated.1 -
Thanks @quilteryoyo @shanaber
Mostly Spanish news for expats, which at the moment will be a lot of boring and depressing covid stuff but I've done very similar work today so have a bit of a nose for quirky stuff. One of the first things I've done today was the arrest of an idiot shop manager who planned a fake armed robbery with another guy by text message and the robber dropped his phone as he ran away, leading the police straight to them. D'oh!
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quilteryoyo wrote: »I'm in a down mood today. After yesterday's gorgeous weather, it's a rainy mess today. Mom is going through my dad's clothes and giving them away. That's ok. For me, it's a little soon, but I know we are all different. She said that her and dad had talked about it and he wanted someone else to use them if they could. Sounds like him as he would give someone the shirt off of his back if that was the only one he had.
Anyway, yesterday she washed up his coats and jackets to give to my friend who lives in Nashville so he could take them to a Thrift Store he likes in Nashville - if no one he knows can use them. I was looking through them and saw one that dad wore A LOT. I asked her if she was giving away the coat that he wore all the time. She said yes. Someone else could use it. I sort of pretend pouted, but told her it was okay. The more I thought about it though, the more I just couldn't see that go. So, I called my friend and he is going to take it out of the stuff he has and leave it at mom's for me today. I don't know why I need that, but I feel I do. I talked to mom about it and she was sorry that she gave it away if I wanted it. I am going to go down later today and go through some of his other clothes to see if anything strikes me as something I would like to keep. I can't think of anything right now, but didn't think that coat would evoke such emotions either.
I’m pretty sure my mom never did clean out one closet full of my dad’s stuff. She finally asked me to do the other closets since she couldn’t handle it. My dad was three times as big as I am but I still wear his Sherpa coat sometimes. My husband, on the other hand, there were some clothes that would have worked for him but he just couldn’t bear the thought. Everyone is different I guess. Hugs to you.
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