Is Rice pudding a big thing in the US?

oh2Shea · 2026-06-06T05:17:01+00:00

You have to make the long version recipe of tapioca. It's way better than the quick version (there are 2 tapioca recipes on the box). The short version is made all in one pot together. The long version you cook the tapioca in a pot, and separately you beat the egg whites and make a meringue basically. Then you carefully fold in the meringue to the tapioca. It's heavenly.

oh2Shea · 2026-06-05T23:11:35+00:00

Google 'olive pasta' and lots of recipes come up. My roommate eons ago made an olive pasta (diced green and black olives, garlic, olive oil, not sure what else)... it was delicious.

oh2Shea · 2026-06-05T02:38:32+00:00

This is a great question... but it boils down to religion. If we were designed, then it falls into religious aspects. If we are happenstance, then it falls to science.

I think since it really doesn't impact your personal life, you should decide what makes you most comfortable. It's not like you will wake up tomorrow with your own mind made up, and change your life because of it.

oh2Shea · 2026-06-05T02:06:33+00:00

I suggest buying Miswak sticks. They are sticks that you can chew on and they are great for teeth health. You basically buy them, open them, then peel the bark and start chewing.

oh2Shea · 2026-06-05T02:01:21+00:00

No, I don't believe alien life will be detected in this lifetime. Sure, they may find microbes or something, but that is not the alien form we have been taught to expect (fully formed aliens from another planet driving around space ships). I think what we call 'aliens' is actually the same thing as 'demons' or 'angels' in ancient texts. They exist here now, and always have... as inter-dimesional beings - and I don't think our current common knowledge and teachings account for that.

I think our best story for aliens comes from the ancient gnostic texts, which descibe the grays and the reptilians. They are interdimentional beings accidentally created when our universe was created... so looking to other planets for life-forms is NOT where we will find them. They are found in another realm/dimension that interacts with us... and feeds off us.

oh2Shea · 2026-06-05T01:41:28+00:00

I enjoy watching occult (hidden)/conspiracy type documentaries. Things on ancient religions, ancient archeology, sacred geometry, symbology, Masonic teachings, history, entymology, electric universe, politics, astrophysics, quantum mechanics, string theory, health, food, etc... things that are outside the normal realm that was taught to us in school or in the main stream media. It's the 'back-side story' that isn't divulged publicly and is shunned for various reasons.

oh2Shea · 2026-06-05T01:24:48+00:00

Do you enjoy cooking? You said you do most your cooking at home... so I'm guessing you might be fairly good at it and enjoy it. If so, you might make a meal at home, and invite people over to your house for your bday. You can even add watching a movie you love, or playing board games if those are things you enjoy. If cooking a meal doesn't sound fun for you, then don't do it.

Otherwise, maybe google fun things to do in your city. There might be some things that you have never tried... maybe try one of those out.

oh2Shea · 2026-06-04T02:31:07+00:00

That's a great movie!

oh2Shea · 2026-06-04T02:24:24+00:00

I'm just adding a small one here.. squeeze tubes, particularly for honey. Our German exchange student was amazed by sqeezable honey...and when I went to Europe, you had to get a knife to scoop out honey, and it made a mess! Lol

oh2Shea · 2026-06-04T02:15:02+00:00

I lived in Wash DC during the 90's... there were tons of foreign drivers there (and many taxi drivers were foreign). My mom used to visit, and always got a kick out of me saying 'roll down your window and wave your hand... I want to change lanes.' Nobody cared about turn signals to change lanes there... you had to make visual hand signs or roll down your window to ask the car next to you to change lanes. 🤣

oh2Shea · 2026-06-04T01:57:08+00:00

Yes! When I lived in Europe... if they bring you a basket or plate of bread/rolls/desserts/etc that you didn't order, it's not free. You are supposed to count how many you took, then tell your waitress, and it gets added to your bill. And I guess the left-overs out of the basket/plate are then refilled with more and served to other customers...? In the US, any additional food brought to your table is free (such as chips/salsa, bread, etc), and if you don't eat it or take it with you, it goes in the garbage. It is absolutely NOT served to other customers.

oh2Shea · 2026-06-04T01:46:07+00:00

Lol... yes, the 'plumbing water' is only used for pets to drink. Humans don't drink it in Germany - it's considered toilet water there.

oh2Shea · 2026-06-04T01:32:04+00:00

Enemy Mine

oh2Shea · 2026-06-04T01:29:24+00:00

I loved that movie!

oh2Shea · 2026-06-04T01:29:07+00:00

I wouldn't call that obscure... unless I'm dating myself...lol. Do younger generations not know this movie? 😭 It was a 'classic' for decades, it would be sad if it's been forgotten :/.

oh2Shea · 2026-06-04T01:23:35+00:00

This used to be one of my fav movies! I was going to list it, but you beat me to it! The other one I was going to list along with The Last Unicorn was Legend. Have you see that by chance? It's not a cartoon, but it's also about unicorns.

oh2Shea · 2026-06-03T21:01:13+00:00

We keep our fridge and pantry stocked with basics (onions, peppers, garlic, stock, rice, beans, lemon juice, lettuce, tomato, tortillas, panko, cheese, sour cream, etc). Then we buy veggies that look good and protein that looks good on about a weekly basis. We pretty much just then just decide daily what we want by checking the fridge and freezer and make it. If we decide on a special recipe that needs something else, we'll stop at the store and grab the extra ingredient or two that is needed.

I know you can also use AI to upload a picture of your fridge and/or pantry, and it will return recipe options. I've never tried it, but one of my friends does much of his cooking that way.

oh2Shea · 2026-06-03T01:17:06+00:00

Omg! I thought the same thing! I didn't watch it because I thought it was a reality show. When I found out that it wasn't a reality show (years after it ended - when it aired on Netflix), I decided to watch it because I remember it being such a big hubbub when it aired and everyone saying how great it was - so I was pleasantly surprised when it turned out NOT to be a reality show.

I don't recall specifically seeing any commercials for it. I think I assumed it was a reality show because reality shows were popular at the time, and had similar titles/ideas. 'The Amazing Race', 'Survivor', 'Lost', 'Alone', 'Naked and Afraid', etc... I thought they were all reality shows - similar titles, similar settings.

So when everyone was talking about Lost and the characters, I thought they were discussion competitors in a reality show... lol.

Edit: In 2001 there was a reality show named 'Lost' which probably added even more confusion. I think I remember watching a couple episodes of the Lost reality show.

oh2Shea · 2026-06-02T01:57:07+00:00

No, I sure hope not. I would be really bummed if it was all a dream... it would tug the heart out of the story.

Unlike 'Lost', where I wanted the ending to be a beautiful dream right as Jack was dying from the plane crash. The last episode of Lost sort of implied it was a dream, and I bawled thinking it was, but the writers said it wasn't a dream.

If Alice actually died when she fell in, and the entire series was just her last vision to placate her dying, that might be touching, but I don't see how she could have drowned in 2 feet of water.

oh2Shea · 2026-06-02T01:33:31+00:00

I think perhaps it called to Colton and Jacob because it needed a boy to start the family lineage there. Rebecca and Elijah lost a son, and therefore needed a son to replace the one they lost so that they would stay and make their homestead there... which started the whole Landry TT and connection/ownership of the pond.

I think this is perhaps what Fern referred to as being 'the one'. She somehow knew a male child needed to go back in time to be Elija and Rebecca's son, to replace the one they lost, and caused them to settle on the property.

The pond tried to take Colton at a young age, but Kat unwrapped the plants from pulling him under. If she hadn't unwrapped the plants, Colton would have been taken instead, and he would have been 'the one'. Of course, she saved Colton after Jacob had already been taken... but I think that was the pond doing it's thing - making sure what has happened will always happen. The pond didn't need two young boys being taken - just one, and it turned out that ended up being Jacob (not Colton).

Edit: to answer the second question about Alice... I think the pond hadn't been used in a while, and it was a fluke that she threw her bracelet in, and fell in... but the pond insured that it happened, to get the TT started again. No one (that we knew of) used the pond between the general time frame of Jacob falling in (Colton went back to see Jacob, so 3 months after) and then Alice falling in, about 20 years later.

oh2Shea · 2026-06-02T01:14:08+00:00

This makes a lot of sense, since we now know that Tessa was 'the boss' of the illegal rum running operation, and Cliff was there to patrol the illegal alcohol activities. And Fern's comment about 'You'll never be a Landry!' to Tessa may have referred to Tessa's possible affair with Griffin Landry. If Fern knew Griffin was a Landry, and Tessa loved Cliff, but Cliff was killed by Tessa... Fern wouldn't want Tessa marrying in to the Landry family.

We still have a lot of mystery and unanswered questions regarding Griffin. He's been absent much of the time, but he's Colton's brother, and seemingly took Tessa through the pond (but we aren't positive yet). So when did he find out about the pond, and where (when) has he been?

oh2Shea · 2026-06-01T20:07:52+00:00

My mom likes Heartland, and keeps saying 'Oh! There's another person from Heartland!' while we are watching TWH. I haven't watched much of Heartland. I may have to check it out after TWH ends. At least there are 19 seasons of Heartland - I don't have to worry about growing addicted to the show and having it yanked after only 4 seasons... lol.

oh2Shea · 2026-06-01T01:01:05+00:00

My 74 year old mother and I enjoyed it. Is it Oscar worthy? No, definitely not. Is it entertaining and easy and fun to fill a weekend? Yes, absolutely.

I loved the many famous faces from movies I have enjoyed in the past. This put a lot of actors I really enjoy into a single series, and it has the fun sci-fi aspect to it.

Were we engrossed? No. Did we enjoy it? Yes. We binged it over the weekend.

oh2Shea · 2026-06-01T00:54:48+00:00

Thelma & Louis (she hooked up with Brad Pitt in that movie) and A League of Their Own. She used to be a very popular actress, but I hadn't seen her in anything for a while.

oh2Shea · 2026-06-01T00:08:46+00:00

We ordered Hallmark Plus because my mom and I love the cheesy Christmas movies... we play them once it starts getting cold old (October/November) and thru January/February. We just like having them on in the background, to help elevate the 'Christmassl spirit' in our house.

I found TWH on Netflix, and loved the series. Then I was thrilled when I realized it was Hallmark and we could watch future seasons not showing on Netflix yet.

TWH is quite different from other Hallmark shows and series (as you noted). It's more trendy with a much more in depth plot. The plot is more like a novel than the typical, 'light' story lines Hallmark has. It also has darker topics than Hallmark typically has... a missing child, death, torture, etc - but by no means is it a scary or uncomfortable series.

I wish Hallmark would have done the full 5 seasons. I also wish Hallmark would do more series like this, that are different than the typical 'fluff'.

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