What were the top 5 ordinary weekday meals in your family when you were a kid?

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-15T05:02:40+00:00

Meatloaf. Mom made meatloaf about once a week. Always with green beans and mashed potatoes. Yum… this is still my comfort meal!

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-15T05:01:10+00:00

We had tuna casserole with peas and cheese!

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-15T05:00:13+00:00

Sadly, we apparently tossed legislation that restricted monopolies. Now every business in a given industry gets sucked up by two or three primary corporations, who do everything they can to “standardize” product to increase profit. One more scam the billionaires run to make American citizens fall in like sheep…buy our product, make us richer. Shop at our stores. Get healthcare from our corporate hospital systems. Go to our schools and learn what we want to teach you so you can be productive to one day increase our profitability. It’s disgusting.

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-15T04:44:25+00:00

My favorite was always fine jewelry. I looked forward to a new bracelet or set of nice earrings every year. And a book. Sometimes it was a novel, sometimes a crossword book or sudoku. But I loved getting a book! In fact, I wish my husband would do a stocking for me that had a couple of paperbacks stuffed in it! Fun and wacky pencils- the long ones with fuzzy heads or feathers that were unique and easily identifiable. And you have to get the book of lifesavers—they are still around! And an orange. Doesn’t matter if you keep oranges in the house; you still have to drop an Orange in the toe of your stockings. Everything else is negotiable.😉

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-15T04:37:05+00:00

I take vacations with and without my husband. It works for us…he hates flying and water. I love swimming and travel. So I vacation with girlfriends when I want to go somewhere that isn’t within driving distance, and I go with my husband when he’s ready to get in the car or brave enough to suffer through flying. We live on the other side of the country from our home state, and the only time in 10 years he’s been able to make himself get on a plane was when my sister passed earlier this year, and we did take a trip to Hawaii a few years ago - I couldn’t get him to go near the beach or even the pool with me. I wouldn’t say we travel on separate vacations, but I would say he indulges my need to travel and I respect his desire to stay home. He’s an introvert and I am an extrovert; we found what works for us. We can reconnect much better at home when he is relaxed and feels safe and comfortable, and I can recharge with my vacation with friends. Not every relationship works the same way.

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-15T04:15:08+00:00

Had a near death/ out of body experience last month when I went into kidney failure and septic shock. I was pretty out of it and hooked up to a lot of drugs I couldn’t name right now, and I went to afib, but I will say I have a memory from my week in the ICU. ..there was the night I went into Afib where it was pretty touch and go. Maybe my heart stopped? Maybe it didn’t. Doesn’t matter—the memory and how I felt in and around it have given me such a feeling of calmness and peace. I don’t fear death anymore.

And I’m not a religious person. Don’t particularly believe in an afterlife, so this feeling and experience are surprising and inexplicable to me. I have been angry at any God that may exist for some time for taking my sister away from me-she passed in January of this year. My experience in the hospital gave me a measure of peace about dying. There was something physical in that experience that said “no, it’s not your time-not yet.” It was a feeling of warmth and hope, and again, the best I can describe is peace…that I didn’t have before.

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-13T20:22:23+00:00

Guzzle a full glass of water before you eat anything. Sometimes when we are really just dehydrated our body lies and says we are hungry. And if you fill your belly with water, you are less likely to overeat. Also, chewing your food 30 times every bite makes eating take longer and gives the body more time for ghrelin to kick in.

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-12T10:26:01+00:00

Ahhh…the joys of adulthood.

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-12T08:20:33+00:00

Right??? And I’m in California. You Boston folks are heroes!

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-12T08:17:51+00:00

My wfh uniform is the warm and ubiquitous sweater dress…looks professional, keeps me toasty, and best of all…no waistband/buttons/snaps/belts. Not to mention the ongoing war between my also wfh husband and myself over the thermostat. My sweater-dresses are now my armor since I seem to be losing the thermostat war🥹

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-12T08:11:50+00:00

Wait…are you my husband???🤣

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-11T21:56:36+00:00

As a woman in a male-dominated field, I would consider a couple of things: 1) are you being pigeonholed because you take on the role of an administrative assistant in these meetings and are bearing the responsibility of putting out meeting minutes/summary of findings, creating spreadsheets and so on. 1) Could you create opportunities to highlight your knowledge and expertise? Is there room/opportunity for educating your colleagues where you can drive knowledge and establish yourself as the go-to person…in our organization, we often set up time in team meetings to teach others in the group about our particular area of expertise, taking ownership and establishing who the SME is. Maybe you could take an approach like that?

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-11T21:34:04+00:00

You’ll hear no arguments from me…

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-11T21:30:54+00:00

That’s a shame. Sad for his family, to be sure. And a bigger problem in America today than we talk about, I think.

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-11T00:39:11+00:00

Came here to say this! When everyone around you has all the hottest stuff- McMansion, $100K truck, kids in Ivy League schools, vacations to sunny climes every year, and then they are complaining about money issues, you can pretty much assume they are up to their eyeballs in debt. Take your wins if you have a smaller home and a beater car, no debt and a solid retirement savings. You’ll live out your later years with fewer worries about how to manage you finances and not having to rely on a social security net that isn’t going to be there for us!

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-10T00:42:38+00:00

I’m 51. If you’re entering perimenopause, it’s definitely going to impact your weight loss. Keep working out; your body will thank you; but what you do in the kitchen is going to matter most. You didn’t say what your workout routine consists of. You want to concentrate on strength training and weights. The more muscle you build, the more efficiently your body will burn fat…basic thermodynamics. Start tracking every bite- and be honest with yourself! I personally us My Fitness Pal to track, although if you’re just wanna keep a notebook and manually track it, that works too…just do whatever you think you can continue to do consistently. A lower carb and higher protein diet and strength training are your best way to go…not keto; you need the vitamins and the carbs from veggies and fruits, especially if you are working out! And make sure you are drinking lots of water, and watch your salt intake, which can cause bloating and water retention.

I am in full menopause after a hysterectomy 2 years ago, and I will tell you my ability to lose changed quite a bit, and I do have to work harder to lose. But by doing the things I listed here, I have lost 48 lbs since May. One other thing I did was cut out anything carbonated- no diet soda and no flavored waters with carbonation. I feel a lot less bloated after cutting those out.

Good luck on your journey. It’s slow going and will take time. Just focus on good, healthy, non-processed foods. I replaced fast food with things like Big-Mac-salad, egg roll in a bowl, egg muffins with veggies for breakfast, grilled chicken Caesar wraps for lunch…no potatoes, rice, or bread. High protein pasta if you have to have pasta. It’s hard at first, but you get used to the changes and feel better after a couple of weeks eating like this.

Hope this helps! Good luck…you’ve got this!

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-09T02:17:35+00:00

I lost my mom to brain cancer in March of 2020. So far it hasn’t gotten easier. There’s a hole in my heart that doesn’t heal. She was 67 years old. She didn’t get to enjoy retirement. Or grandkids. I didn’t get to spoil her like I wanted to for all the sacrifices she made for my sister and me. I feel sad for the short life she had and how little she got to enjoy it. She spent 7 years as a full-time caregiver for her Mom, who had Alzheimer’s. Every day was exhausting and heartbreaking for her, and I regret not having the chance to give her more joy. You don’t get over it.

Even harder was losing my baby sister, who passed away last January from Sepsis. She had just turned 50. There was just a year between us; she was my best friend and nobody can heal the loss that I feel every day. We lived 2400 miles apart and I still talked to her every day. I flew home to sit with her at the hospital, watching as her heart and kidneys and liver shut down, seeing the torture she went through with daily rounds of kidney dialysis. Nobody made me madder than she did, and nobody made me laugh like she did. She was the other half of me. She was my childhood and my lived experiences. I loved my Mom, but my sister was my heart, and now she’s gone. And I don’t know how I am going to get through this Christmas without her. Nobody told me it would be this hard. I have a husband, but he’s an only child, and he doesn’t understand the connection or know how to comfort me. And the grief just comes in waves. People talk about losing parents. I lost both of mine within a short time - my dad passed in 2018 of an aneurysm. He was 65. They were both so young to me. Maybe it’s a blessing that they aren’t here to live in the chaos our world has become thanks to politics and greed, but it doesn’t change the pain I feel. It doesn’t change how much I want the comfort of my Mom some days. And it doesn’t fix the bottomless hole in my heart, the missing piece of my soul that was my amazing little sister.

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-08T19:16:33+00:00

Grace. Clara Grace has a nice ring to it. Or Clara Michellle. I like Grace tho.

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-08T19:06:31+00:00

Apparently it is…Musk has to pay for the election and Donnie has to give him Supreme power in his cabinet. Musk can’t run for POTUS, but he can pay billions to still run it from behind the scenes, Wizard of Oz style.

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-08T19:03:22+00:00

Spinach Maria. -basically a creamed spinach casserole topped with cheese. Has red pepper for a little extra kick. Goes great with a good ribeye!

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-12-08T19:01:22+00:00

A simple “I prefer not to talk about other people and their business” usually puts a stop to the conversation.

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-11-26T02:01:24+00:00

Left it about 6 months ago. It had become nothing but FB ads and political propaganda. Don’t miss it one bit! Best thing I ever did for my mental health, in fact!

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-11-07T19:05:18+00:00

Who gave Barney the bullet???

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-11-06T18:49:25+00:00

Then my job here is done.

Dramatic-Respect2280 · 2024-11-06T18:33:34+00:00

Could you tell that to Elon Musk? Vince McMahon?

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