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Thursday, November 24, 2005
Stuffed Turkey?
My morning started off so good, I was happily working in the kitchen, I had a thankful attitude, and I was happy. But.....I know those stupid buts...
I'm sorry but like I said above I am here to vent. I'm really pissed and I need to write about it.
I was up early which I do anyway, so I thought I'd get a jump on dinner because nothing was done yesterday. I made "our" traditional Family Rice Pudding, (Jessie usually makes this) Swedish Pumpkin bread (I used to make Otis Cafe Pumpkin bread) but my recipe box is missing....And my own take on Libby's Pumpkin pie. I made two dozen deviled eggs, or should I call them angel eggs?
So then I start to do the turkey. I'm careful, real careful about the germs when it comes to poultry. It's no big deal you just clean everything afterwards with bleach, right? I've got the homemade stuffing (my mother's recipe) and I'm starting to put it in the bird when all of a sudden I've got 4 faces looking at me (the three little ones ran to tell mom what aunt Pam was doing) and Ingrid's saying, "no, no, that's not how we do it!" so I say "this is how I do it." She's worrying that the stuffing will not get cooked clear through and everybody's gonna get sick with salmonella, she's worried the turkey won't cook clear through either!!! I tell her calmly that "nobody has ever gotten sick off my turkey. Never!!!"
Now she comes from a house where the turkey is put in the oven the night before at 200 degrees and cooks all night and most of the next day. I can understand why that might make somebody sick, but I cook my sucker of a turkey 350-400 degrees just as long a time as the package tells me.
She treats me like I'm some stupid idiot that fell off the turnip truck just this morning. Then she has the nerve to say, "oh well, that's okay, you can eat it, we won't" they are going to have stove top stuffing instead. Well that is so good for you with all the sodium and all. I mean three of the kids are vegetarians anyway. I wanted to take that damn turkey and throw it out the window. I still might. I mean after all I'm surprised she'd even let us have turkey in the house because, well geeze, maybe it's going to give us the bird flu or something. I don't know if she's seen that huge ham in the fridge yet. What she gonna do about that? Ham is an abomination after all, being from a pig and all.
Oh and rice pudding is made of milk and they all have allergies to milk, but hey not ice cream. They can eat a gallon in one sitting. What to add to make the potatoes mashed?
Now you see I think I had a right to get upset, of course I could have chose not to, but I lacked the strength at this time. I mean she gets up at 10:00 and nothing has been done for today. She walks by the kitchen and puts her head in and says "thanks for helping" I chuckle to myself. This might seem petty to everyone out there, but it's just one more thing here.
I had the best attitude all day until that thing with the turkey. I think the polite thing to do would have been for her to not say anything. Just not eat the stuffing. This is like when she upset the woman at the church potluck because she told them they shouldn't put pork in their beans! Whewwww, the Pastor had a talking with her. She don't go to that church anymore now.
This is like how everytime you wipe the counters you have to put the rag in the dirty clothes. You can not use the same rag twice, even if you put them in bleach water. When enough rags get used she will presoak them for 45 minutes before washing them. Can you image how much time is wasted in presoaking? Presoaking socks, towel's? I mean she leaves them sitting in there, I go to do some wash and the washer might have 5 pairs of socks in the basket soaking. She scrubs the dishes, I mean washes with soap and water "all" the dishes, then she puts them in the dishwasher. When she's not around I throw all those puppies in the dishwasher without that wasted step and they come out just as clean.
I am saving my money and getting the hell out of here. Emily is working now at Wal-Mart and she loves it. She's seeing lots of "normal" people everyday, lots of co-workers that she can laugh with and have a good time. She loves working the cash register and anything else they have her doing. (My thoughts on Wal-Mart at another time) But right now my daughter is happy, she's making money, getting out of the house and she's thriving again.
I'm working alot now too which is a good thing. I could work over 40 hours a week if they'd let me, but no overtime is allowed. I've got 3 patients/clients in Poulsbo, and one woman on Bainbridge Island. There is alot of driving involved but it's a good time for psyching up or winding down, also for daydreaming....which is a wonderful coping skill. Thank God gas prices are down.
I'm starting to calm down now, but someone needs to hold me back cause I still want to go and throw that turkey out the window!!! Should I? No I will not throw that turkey out the window. Maybe I should throw Ingrid out the window?! Hold me back, hold me back!!!
Oh and by the way, it was my birthday yesterday, I'm not ashamed to say I have survived 48 years on this planet and I expect that should I live another 48 they are going to be better then the first. Do I hear any amen's to that? If you don't say amen then say "here here" or "hear hear" or "Yeah Yeah" or "whatever" just say it and get it out.....I feel better now.
And even though I had to let off some steam, I am very thankful for many things. Many many things and many many people. ciao
First off before I give way to my anger and venting I do want to thank all the kind people who give to the nations food banks because without them we would not be having a Thanksgiving Dinner. They have supplied all the ingredients to make everything that is on our menu below.
Thank you thank you thank you.
Turkey with Dressing
Mashed potatoes with gravy
Sweet Potato Something or other
Swedish Corn Pudding
Green Bean Casserole
Deviled/Angel eggs
Garden Salad
Fruit Salad
Lime Jello
Cranberries
Pumpkin Bread
Norwegian Rice Pudding
Pumpkin Pie
Rolls
Thank you thank you thank you.
Turkey with Dressing
Mashed potatoes with gravy
Sweet Potato Something or other
Swedish Corn Pudding
Green Bean Casserole
Deviled/Angel eggs
Garden Salad
Fruit Salad
Lime Jello
Cranberries
Pumpkin Bread
Norwegian Rice Pudding
Pumpkin Pie
Rolls
My morning started off so good, I was happily working in the kitchen, I had a thankful attitude, and I was happy. But.....I know those stupid buts...
I'm sorry but like I said above I am here to vent. I'm really pissed and I need to write about it.
I was up early which I do anyway, so I thought I'd get a jump on dinner because nothing was done yesterday. I made "our" traditional Family Rice Pudding, (Jessie usually makes this) Swedish Pumpkin bread (I used to make Otis Cafe Pumpkin bread) but my recipe box is missing....And my own take on Libby's Pumpkin pie. I made two dozen deviled eggs, or should I call them angel eggs?
So then I start to do the turkey. I'm careful, real careful about the germs when it comes to poultry. It's no big deal you just clean everything afterwards with bleach, right? I've got the homemade stuffing (my mother's recipe) and I'm starting to put it in the bird when all of a sudden I've got 4 faces looking at me (the three little ones ran to tell mom what aunt Pam was doing) and Ingrid's saying, "no, no, that's not how we do it!" so I say "this is how I do it." She's worrying that the stuffing will not get cooked clear through and everybody's gonna get sick with salmonella, she's worried the turkey won't cook clear through either!!! I tell her calmly that "nobody has ever gotten sick off my turkey. Never!!!"
Now she comes from a house where the turkey is put in the oven the night before at 200 degrees and cooks all night and most of the next day. I can understand why that might make somebody sick, but I cook my sucker of a turkey 350-400 degrees just as long a time as the package tells me.
She treats me like I'm some stupid idiot that fell off the turnip truck just this morning. Then she has the nerve to say, "oh well, that's okay, you can eat it, we won't" they are going to have stove top stuffing instead. Well that is so good for you with all the sodium and all. I mean three of the kids are vegetarians anyway. I wanted to take that damn turkey and throw it out the window. I still might. I mean after all I'm surprised she'd even let us have turkey in the house because, well geeze, maybe it's going to give us the bird flu or something. I don't know if she's seen that huge ham in the fridge yet. What she gonna do about that? Ham is an abomination after all, being from a pig and all.
Oh and rice pudding is made of milk and they all have allergies to milk, but hey not ice cream. They can eat a gallon in one sitting. What to add to make the potatoes mashed?
Now you see I think I had a right to get upset, of course I could have chose not to, but I lacked the strength at this time. I mean she gets up at 10:00 and nothing has been done for today. She walks by the kitchen and puts her head in and says "thanks for helping" I chuckle to myself. This might seem petty to everyone out there, but it's just one more thing here.
I had the best attitude all day until that thing with the turkey. I think the polite thing to do would have been for her to not say anything. Just not eat the stuffing. This is like when she upset the woman at the church potluck because she told them they shouldn't put pork in their beans! Whewwww, the Pastor had a talking with her. She don't go to that church anymore now.
This is like how everytime you wipe the counters you have to put the rag in the dirty clothes. You can not use the same rag twice, even if you put them in bleach water. When enough rags get used she will presoak them for 45 minutes before washing them. Can you image how much time is wasted in presoaking? Presoaking socks, towel's? I mean she leaves them sitting in there, I go to do some wash and the washer might have 5 pairs of socks in the basket soaking. She scrubs the dishes, I mean washes with soap and water "all" the dishes, then she puts them in the dishwasher. When she's not around I throw all those puppies in the dishwasher without that wasted step and they come out just as clean.
I am saving my money and getting the hell out of here. Emily is working now at Wal-Mart and she loves it. She's seeing lots of "normal" people everyday, lots of co-workers that she can laugh with and have a good time. She loves working the cash register and anything else they have her doing. (My thoughts on Wal-Mart at another time) But right now my daughter is happy, she's making money, getting out of the house and she's thriving again.
I'm working alot now too which is a good thing. I could work over 40 hours a week if they'd let me, but no overtime is allowed. I've got 3 patients/clients in Poulsbo, and one woman on Bainbridge Island. There is alot of driving involved but it's a good time for psyching up or winding down, also for daydreaming....which is a wonderful coping skill. Thank God gas prices are down.
I'm starting to calm down now, but someone needs to hold me back cause I still want to go and throw that turkey out the window!!! Should I? No I will not throw that turkey out the window. Maybe I should throw Ingrid out the window?! Hold me back, hold me back!!!
Oh and by the way, it was my birthday yesterday, I'm not ashamed to say I have survived 48 years on this planet and I expect that should I live another 48 they are going to be better then the first. Do I hear any amen's to that? If you don't say amen then say "here here" or "hear hear" or "Yeah Yeah" or "whatever" just say it and get it out.....I feel better now.
And even though I had to let off some steam, I am very thankful for many things. Many many things and many many people. ciao
Happy Thanksgiving by the way.
¶ 11/24/2005 11:31:00 AM 5 comments
Sunday, November 13, 2005
kitty wompus again
Well I have been trying to get my blog to behave the same on IE as it does on Mozilla. It could care less what HTML's I'm using or anything else for that matter. I will just say to see my blog the way I intended it is best to use Mozilla.
Perhaps you will notice that I do have a different format. This is because I threw the other by the wayside because It would not hold photographs and my sidebar level on the page. My sidebar was continuously down at the bottom making it difficult to find my other links. Charles and Carl I even made the photo's smaller and it still didn't work. But I thought of you guys in the process ;-)
Life is going good. My job is doing well. Well parts of it. I have aquired more patients and more hours all of which is good. The sad part is that one of the ladies that I took care of passed away. I feel sad because I had only met her, I stayed with her for 4 days and 3 nights, but on the following thursday she passed away. I imagine it comes with the territory, the wondering if there was something I could have done, etc.... but she was very ill and they did not expect her to last long. This is supposed to be a consolation I must tell myself.
That is all for now. ¶ 11/13/2005 02:37:00 PM 2 comments
Perhaps you will notice that I do have a different format. This is because I threw the other by the wayside because It would not hold photographs and my sidebar level on the page. My sidebar was continuously down at the bottom making it difficult to find my other links. Charles and Carl I even made the photo's smaller and it still didn't work. But I thought of you guys in the process ;-)
Life is going good. My job is doing well. Well parts of it. I have aquired more patients and more hours all of which is good. The sad part is that one of the ladies that I took care of passed away. I feel sad because I had only met her, I stayed with her for 4 days and 3 nights, but on the following thursday she passed away. I imagine it comes with the territory, the wondering if there was something I could have done, etc.... but she was very ill and they did not expect her to last long. This is supposed to be a consolation I must tell myself.
That is all for now. ¶ 11/13/2005 02:37:00 PM 2 comments
Sunday, November 06, 2005
Where have all the flowers gone?
flowers spun,
summer is gone,
warm balmy breezes have blew by
The leaves are dropping
colors changing as they fall
the earth caresses them
in dewy drops
and moisture kisses
Sliding sun behind the mountains
gone much too soon for me
I strain my neck across the railing
kiss me once more before you leave
blinding rays with misty haze
the setting of the sun
~me
I know it sucks, but hey, it was there, I wrote it and
now it's done. I still take credit for it. I am responsible
for my ways, my errors, my mistakes and my bad poetry.
I have been informed today that my children have no morals,
I am a bad example, and christians shouldn't eat pork.
If I could take full responsiblity for the way my children
turned out I would, but it's not my doing. God gave them
brains and damnit they use 'em. I happen to think my
daughters are wonderful. Loving, caring, considerate, their
good to their mama, and their daddy, and a true pleasure to be with.
They have ideas and opinions, their inovative and creative and
and I think they have marvelous integrity.
But.....otherwise everything
is going along and we are all surviving. My sense of humor
needs a little lift. Anybody got any good jokes. Where is
Cliff when I need him?
Oh and by the way everyone, I was back looking at some
old comments made by you and well you have all touched
me deeply, made me laugh, made me cry and made me think.
Damn, I hate it when you make me think.....but yet,
I am grateful to the lot of you. xoxoxoxoxox
bridge
¶ 11/06/2005 05:24:00 PM 4 comments
flowers spun,
summer is gone,
warm balmy breezes have blew by
The leaves are dropping
colors changing as they fall
the earth caresses them
in dewy drops
and moisture kisses
Sliding sun behind the mountains
gone much too soon for me
I strain my neck across the railing
kiss me once more before you leave
blinding rays with misty haze
the setting of the sun
~me
I know it sucks, but hey, it was there, I wrote it and
now it's done. I still take credit for it. I am responsible
for my ways, my errors, my mistakes and my bad poetry.
I have been informed today that my children have no morals,
I am a bad example, and christians shouldn't eat pork.
If I could take full responsiblity for the way my children
turned out I would, but it's not my doing. God gave them
brains and damnit they use 'em. I happen to think my
daughters are wonderful. Loving, caring, considerate, their
good to their mama, and their daddy, and a true pleasure to be with.
They have ideas and opinions, their inovative and creative and
and I think they have marvelous integrity.
But.....otherwise everything
is going along and we are all surviving. My sense of humor
needs a little lift. Anybody got any good jokes. Where is
Cliff when I need him?
Oh and by the way everyone, I was back looking at some
old comments made by you and well you have all touched
me deeply, made me laugh, made me cry and made me think.
Damn, I hate it when you make me think.....but yet,
I am grateful to the lot of you. xoxoxoxoxox
bridge
¶ 11/06/2005 05:24:00 PM 4 comments
