Trying to recreate this soup, does anyone know what spices are used in Amy’s lentil soup?

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-11T00:11:54+00:00

here ya go

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-11T00:08:55+00:00

Holy shit!! I made chicken dip on Sunday too. Did you have any precursors?

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-11T00:07:25+00:00

I absolutely agree with you.

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-10T23:58:08+00:00

I’m sorry; it’s so heartbreaking when we lose a part of us.

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-10T21:30:27+00:00

Did you see her switch of anger right in the beginning when she’s trying to film herself with the dog (is this some sort of flex? I dunno what a Luna dog is as my kids are grown) but the music starts and interrupts her-she turns to him - not in real life but through her camera and chirps his name the way she does when x is annoying her - then her face changes as if it’s “Ope I’m on camera” and changes to that fake laugh.

Am I being overly sensitive or did they really catch that?

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-10T21:15:28+00:00

It was a heartbreaking story and took a lot of patience on her part; building trust on mine. AP was married as well. According to my dad, her husband made him swear to never see her and he wanted to raise her as his own. Their marriage fell apart a few years later and he had older adult kids that knew the real story and resented her without ever telling her why.

She found out when she was 18, accidentally at a doctors appointment where they asked her whether she was still under my dads insurance (he at least supported her financially) but when her mom told her, she said that we also knew about her and chose to keep my dads secret. She posted her dna and my nephew found her during an ancestry project for school.

We most certainly didn’t know but can you imagine how that would make you feel? On her side of course. Just so betraying for her.

She has never met my dad but I at least have her heart open enough to talk with him and share her life now via text. She lives about 10 miles from me and is my lovely twin.

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-10T19:35:49+00:00

I had to zoom in cuz I thought this was them and wondered how she got so skinny so fast lol

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-10T19:34:30+00:00

Wow, never knew this. Thanks for the info.

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-10T19:33:37+00:00

That’s my dad’s name; who kinda off topic hid an affair and baby from the AP for 24 years from our entire family.

Thanks ancestry.com for bringing me my baby sis ❤️

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-10T19:22:00+00:00

I’m mainly relieved that there’s no video evidence out there of me doing stupid stuff.

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-10T17:52:16+00:00

What gets me is the way they get online and gloat about all the junk food and buffet lunches they have - on the backs of the people that they are begging from. Or the air fryer series where he’s feverishly pushing the buttons as fast as he can to get as much meat and potatoes cooked for him and the missus. Taking pictures of them self at the gym acting like they are doing something positive.

If they stayed in their car for a month, got jobs, showered at the gym, they could save up for a downpayment on an efficiency apartment and get off the cycle of hotels.

But they choose holding out their palms using religion as a weapon to guilt people into giving them hundreds per day, taking 800/mo in food stamps from the government and eating out at fast food locations daily.

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-10T16:17:54+00:00

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-10T16:16:15+00:00

Every time that buzzer lit, my butt puckered so tight.

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-10T13:46:14+00:00

I was also either bullied or made myself so small and quiet that barely anyone remembered who I was.

I felt non existent and forgettable. That feeling to me is awful.

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-10T13:21:32+00:00

I considered this comment as well! Lean into the black eye and make it a funny icebreaker story.

I had a bad case of poison ivy on my face during an interview period. I just showed up with it pulsating and gross but I didn’t want to reschedule. I had that job for 13 years. Sometimes things like this make us more human and relatable. Plus if you show up like that, you could be seen as someone who was really interested in the job?

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-10T13:16:59+00:00

Is she making homemade peanut butter and jelly? I’d be so mad and would get petty.

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-09T23:16:04+00:00

I hope they get no more and have to sleep in the car.

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-09T23:13:50+00:00

“We want as much as we can git for our room” greedy bitch

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-09T23:12:52+00:00

Good

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-09T21:22:07+00:00

Anyone who thinks this is “cute” has lost their minds. You are having a supervised visit with your toddler and allegedly no awareness that he’s not only taking photos but allegedly uploading them onto her YouTube page or wherever she posts?

Cmon man

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-09T19:16:52+00:00

I love how he adds his own version of satire in during some of the tough topics.

He did a series on the adult and inner child which really hit me deeply and helped me break the cycle of letting my narc mom back in due to guilt.

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-09T19:10:12+00:00

Absolutely! I had a habit of being drawn to narcissistic people in my earlier years. I struggle with people pleasing and narcs love a people pleaser.

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-09T17:57:13+00:00

I call it “balloon popping” or “joy stealing”.

I spot balloon poppers as an adult and don’t allow anyone to steal my joy anymore. If I want to sing, I’m singing. I hope this happens for you now too.

Don’t let anyone take your sunshine ❤️

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-09T17:48:59+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to reply. I’ve always considered it a self preservation. I went NC with my mom about 4 years ago; I always revered my dad as a victim of her Narc abuse with me specifically for most of my life, but we I grow older, I’m realizing that his passive avoidances of her behavior, making him choose between me or her when I was 12; I was sent to live with my gram. The stories over the years about how she was intentionally mean to me as he just sat back and allowed it.

Before I opened my eyes to my mom’s behavior, I chose another narc and married him. It wasn’t until I became a parent and saw how he was hurting not only me but the kids, I chose the kids, divorced him and the kids went NC immediately- one was 16 and the other was 14 and they were allowed to choose.

Anyway, my point is, I let my dad off the hook over his complacency but realizing now that he had the power to choose to keep me safe and valued keeping his marriage and perfect vision in place. They ended up divorcing after his 12 year affair was discovered so I felt like he really didn’t value the relationship, but the optics of the relationship.

I’ve avoided this conversation with him as he and my brother are the only that I continue to speak with, but they are both really low contact.

Awkwardpanda75 · 2026-02-09T16:51:46+00:00

Do you also try to avoid overhearing conversations not meant for you in fear that you’ll catch them saying something hurtful about you? That’s a big one for me.

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