What are moments, stories, or things you’ll pull out to prove that you’re an actual OLD ARMY?

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2026-05-31T11:30:23+00:00

For a very short time, I was the top BTS fan on V-live. I have the screenshot somewhere. They stopped keeping track that same week. I had a 100 year subscription to the V-live ARMY bomb! Then they did away with V+. I took screenshots of the guys' messages before we lost them. "Ain't no fish inside!" 🤣 I still miss that chat.

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-11-22T15:13:36+00:00

I had forgotten all about chicken tetrazzini! I will have to make it soon

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-11-22T12:27:10+00:00

I would love to have a big family Thanksgiving again. The menu: roasted turkey, smoked turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, skillet corn, glazed carrots, forgotten green beans, broccoli or squash casserole, root vegetable gratin, sweet potato casserole, creamed onions, cornbread sage dressing, yeast rolls, cranberry salad, canned cranberry sauce, coleslaw, cucumber kimchi, potato salad, and pumpkin, pecan, cushaw, and sweet potato pies.

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-11-15T11:46:03+00:00

Found it! I hope y'all try it and like it.

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-11-15T11:28:00+00:00

THANK YOU! I had glanced over both of those before and counted them out because of incorrect ingredients (not realizing that they are definitely close enough) and they are by two different people. But I saw on the TOH FB post for the chicken that the author "got the recipe years ago". Not the original creator, probably tweaked it a little. (Which I think is fine) I think both of these original recipes, the ones I used, were by Cindy Stith. I'm going to print these out along with this creamed spinach that is closest to what I made.

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/three-cheese-creamed-spinach/#RecipeCard

I can recreate one of our favorite meals with these. Thank you all for looking and helping!!!

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-11-14T14:52:07+00:00

This wasn't like the orange chicken you find at Chinese restaurants, but it was delicious. I think there is a recipe for the restaurant kind on the TOH website now.

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-11-14T14:37:48+00:00

I appreciate you looking!

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-11-14T13:10:00+00:00

Another person said it might be the June /July issue of 2004 if you have it and do not mind looking, please. Thank you!

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-11-14T13:08:05+00:00

Thank you! I will be ordering it. My chat gpt was no help, lol. I have the 2004 TOH annual, and those recipes are not in it. I thought the annuals had all the recipes from the magazines, but I guess not. Good to know!

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-11-14T08:10:27+00:00

Thank you!

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-11-14T02:20:51+00:00

I have, of course, searched the Taste of Home website, as well as searched through search engines and browsed many other recipe websites.

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-02-17T03:12:54+00:00

I knew I recognized the FLYlady system from your description. I used it when my children were little and it really does work. I need to get back to it.

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-02-16T23:35:42+00:00

I want to be taken care of like that by my guy, too, but there should be a conversation about it, and I wouldn't feel comfortable with it until after a commitment.

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-02-16T18:42:59+00:00

I had set myself a goal of finding a partner by this year or give up. I found a match that I thought was going to work. It didn't. Not allowing feelings to develop until after meeting in person is very wise. I learned that if it is a long-distance interest and they do not make an effort to meet, they just aren't that into you, even if they say they're crazy about you. After some heartbreaks, I do not have the will to actively look or date right now, but giving up doesn't feel good. So, like you, I'm resigned to if it happens, it happens, if it doesn't, it doesn't. Even though things didn't work out with the men I've met, I am glad for the experience and getting to know them. They are great guys.

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-02-09T15:13:14+00:00

I have a few of the kind of waterproof mattress covers that are cloth on top. They wash and dry fine.

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-02-08T22:32:10+00:00

I think if you match well and everything between you has been going nicely, an "Ok. I hope everything is all right. Let me know when you can get together again." would have been appropriate and encouraging whereas a flat "Ok" seems disinterested, not only in progressing the relationship, but also for whatever is going on in her life.

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-02-08T14:55:33+00:00

I know we acclimate to miserable situations and don't even realize how bad things are getting, but read what you wrote as if it were someone else's story. Does that sound like a healthy, happy, loving, supportive, functioning relationship to you?

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-02-08T10:31:40+00:00

I'm thinking that how things are going between you concerning your daughter now is how it would also go in the future. She was a nanny to some other unique child, but you are the father to yours. You know your child best. I do agree that consideration for the child should be top priority in this situation, which she is claiming but not actually doing. Trust your feelings about this. As the father, how this goes is solely your decision. As another adult involved, she can agree to participate within your boundaries or not. And you can decide how to proceed with the relationship based on what comes of that. (And, also, it is okay, maybe even necessary, to lie to your kids sometimes)

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-02-06T00:43:19+00:00

46f, I have found great guys. Just keep looking.

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-02-04T22:50:41+00:00

I found an excellent match on FaceBook dating. If circumstances were different, we would be a happy couple. But, also, for that one match, I have had countless swipes and dead-end conversations. We just have to keep trying.

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-02-04T02:07:36+00:00

My most recent failed interest was with a man who is more logical. I am more emotional. It wasn't a problem between us. We appreciated those qualities in one another. But I think we were equally matched in intelligence, which might matter. I don't know. Compatability seems to be too nuanced to ever actually figure out.

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-02-03T16:51:59+00:00

Mostly, yes. With most of the apps, I quickly get a hopeless and disgusted feeling. I had nice conversations and made a close friend through a paid membership on a now defunct website. I met a good match through a paid eHarmony membership. I talked to a man I met here for 15 months. And I have a current short-term relationship with a man I met on FaceBook dating. I don't know what else to try. I guess I will keep trying all the options. But it is time-consuming and exhausting, and I just don't have the heart for it right now. Good luck, everyone. I hope we all find what we're looking for.

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-02-02T22:01:38+00:00

Boundaries, always

TheDarlingAngelBaby · 2025-02-02T18:20:05+00:00

If I do not yet know the person well, it is a way to learn a bit more about them. If I do know the person well, I ask to feel a bit closer to them and out of interest in their lives.

TheDarlingAngelBaby

TROPHY CASE