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Mid summer so we had ratatouille. Heat index here is 103 so its probably gazpacho tomorrow. Got to use the tomatoes while I can get them....
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Oh dear! just been down the shop AND cadburys chocolate have a new bar out NO! do any of you remember "space dust" thats what we called it here anyway you bought a little packet and sprinkled it on your tongue and it crackled??? well they have this space dust in the chocolate some genius idea! also it has jelly popping candy shells in it! its just yummy and i feel 7 again eating it!!
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lamb chops and salad its the hottest day of the year today 27degrees BUT back to pissy rain this weekend well i guess thats it summer is over? doesnt last long here have decided im moving somewhere hotter stuff this for a summer! we may get rain now until next year and thats why Ireland is soooooooooooo green!!!!!!! Its is beautiful BUT too much rain here whod have to be half mad to live here?????
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ill choke down a couple of salami sandwiches i suppose . appetite still skewed .
looks like i will go to chicago after all . miscommunication with son . i thought he was shortening my stay . he was actually implying that a longer stay would help him make an appointment . ill miss edna but these kids need me right now . they just lost their other grandpa in fla . since austin has his ears covered i dont mind saying this . the other grandpa was a wuss anyway ..
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Broiling is done in the oven, grilling on a bbq outside.
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Kaz in your part of the world broiling means grilling. Over here grilling means doing it outside on the BBQ. Confusing isn't it?
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So im still confused does broiling mean grilling?
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In the mood for a good old homemade burger and fries....also, made my grocery run today and they had the most excellent deal on fresh cherries...I bought a boat load of those and have already been chowing down on a bowl....we don't have them long down here, and couldn't pass up the price....heading for my evening cup of coffee for now...just got Mama all fluffed up again and she has eaten, so time to put my feet up for a few blissful moments...ahhhh...my favorite time of day.
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Maybe just the big spider that lives with Captain.
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Dinner - um - maybe some hotdogs that always puts a smile on Moms face.
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I have an electric stove and I used the broiler..
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When you guys say "broiled" what do you mean? grilled?boiled?roasted?
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We had broiled haddock, rice pilaf and broccoli...
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I cant nap? never have and now they are saying its bad for you?? they say 30mins is enough?
No i avoid napping as i always feel sick when i wake up? i sleep at 3am until cat wants out usually 4am then i get up at 11pm mum dosnt get up until 1pm? so i guess i sleep alot! well what the h*ll else is there to do?
Your life sounds idylic but all that and a man would suit me just fine! as ive said i hate being single i havnt been on a date for 5yrs not because of mum as shes ok alone for a few hours BUT im broke and cant afford to go out and my friends are broke too? so i just dont get a chance to go out but i must make an effort i have one friend who has a job!! i must go out with her some night!
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No ashlynne i didnt take it that way i know youre right i just have to wait until shes ready for a home and i have the money to get out of here!

Check this out you will love it!! its an ad for freeview tv here but its sooooooo cute

google freeview cat and parrot ad! its hilarious and anyone else who loves cats!! it will make you smile!
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Susan your spider episode is absolutely hilarious!

Kazz I've only known a**holes who are out for what they can get but I think that comes from choosing the wrong men. Spending a lifetime dealing with narc Mommie Dearest, it was drummed into me to jump through hoops of fire to please, give, give, give and it must have been so obvious to those who would take advantage - pretend to care and suck up anything and everything they could get.

At this point I can't bear to be touched by anyone, male or female and I love the single life, just me and my fur kids, peace and quiet in the country, mistress of my own little domain. Although I deal well with humans (though I don't like many of them) people seem to find me nice, funny and easy to get along with (my showtime face to the public at large ... and many of them shouldn't be!). I'm sure, on reflection, many of us have traveled this road.

Kazz I'm sorry if I came across mean about placing your mother. Only you can know when she'd be better off (and so would you) if she were able to receive care 24/7/365 in a structured nursing setting. My mother went to a lovely NH 18 months ago when I could no longer do it all, stay awake 24/7 and, with a hip replacement and bad back, I was unable to pick her up of the floor.

Only you will know when the time is right. Such a move will set you both free. She will have care around the clock and you can visit, perhaps regain a mother/daughter relationship long gone or, if there never was one (as in my case) just be there so she might find some happiness.at the end of her time.

Oh, where was I? Oh yes,dinner. Chicken, baby red potatoes fried over with onions/red pepper and some left over rutabaga (or swede as they call it in the UK)

Lived out here for 18 months but fresh air continues to knock me out. Been outside most all day and I'm knackered (there's a britishism for you lol - I grew up in the UK) and I need a nap. Usually nap early afternoon but I had to wait for the lawn tractor to be picked up for repair..

Don't have a couch big enough to nap on and if I go to bed I'll sleep for hours. Never ever had new furniture so maybe before winter I'll splurge for a sectional.
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Was going to have salmon steaks BUT have just read the posts "what grosses you the most" am not so hungry now! UGH!
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possibly the biggest spider in the bunker still lives over here in my corner . id say hes mastered the concepts of diplomacy and peaceful coexistance . catch flies and respect my buffer zone and strike range .
gotta be careful with ednas PIA . i clipped ednas bangs out of her eyes yesterday and a scathing letter was left for me today . it was left for me and any interested staff to read . i just wadded it and threw it in the trash and edna seemed satisfied with that but she wasnt . later i saw her fold it up and put it in her purse . shes quite pissed about it . nurse warned me to be careful cause edna and i need each other and PIA could make things rough . i understand . i also understand that pia has made the same number of enemies as ive made friends in the last 6 months . easily 25 people , some of them pretty powerful .. guess ill get the old spinecracker 2000 meat cleaver over here in the corner tonight . pia's sons are every bit as emotionally unstable as she is . aint nobody gonna start no s*it in this bunker.. am i right big spider ?
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Ashlynne not all men are the same ive met some great men and some a**holes as im sure the same goes for men too! Im no fool either ive learnt with relationships that i now know what i dont want which makes dating easier! i can suss out an asshole a mile away! i married rich it didnt make me happy i walked away with nothing because being free from him and his abuse was more important than money! if any guy i meet is looking for a nurse with a purse then he wouldnt be interested in me im no nurse and have fck all money hed just have to like me for me! I like a guy who makes me laugh and lets me be me and who is fairly easy going lifes too short to argue had enough of that sh*t with my ex! And ash less of the "our age" im still seventeen! really age is just a number you are as old as you want to be im very young still and havnt grown up since high school!! the young guy down in the store is 19yrs old and he fancies me!!! so not bad at my age!!!
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No ashlynne i hear you! im just not in a position right now to leave here but hopefully will be soon then we will have to talk about mums future?

No i dont intend to be any kind of a martyr if mum was easy to be around things would be different BUT shes so negative and hard to please always was so i cant do anything to make her happy and yes it will be a home by the end of the year as she cannot live alone. I was away today shopping when i came home she had the shower running so waters been running for about 6 hours??
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When i was expecting my first child over 45 years ago i was hospitalized for a month because of high B/P. I was in a ward with 7 other prenatal women. they advised me to tuck my bed covers in tightly at night because bugs came in and would climb up the covers and into bed. to this end they also closed all windows despite my protests because smoking was still allowed and I hated it. Next morning no insects and everyone happy. That night I saw the bugs in the early am and recognised numerous cockroaches. So we complaine to the Sister (Charge nurse) and she sent a porter in with a can of insecticide and we all fled caaying our plants because rumor had it the spray killed your plants. Spraying did not do a thing so early the nect moring when they were scurring everywhere I went to the bathroom and hijacked one of the conical glasses we were required to pee in each morning and scooped up half a glass of writhing roaches and come 8am i was stand in Sister's office glass in hand. I put the writhing mass down on her desk and politely requested she do something apart from sit there with her mouth open. Later that morning a proper exterminator arrived and from that day forward we never saw another roach. Unfortunately I still had to endure the smoking! In due time I gave birth to a healthy baby girl.
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I'm sitting here laughing at Cap's epic spider battle. So much for philosophy...DIE YOU LITTLE SH*T...DIE! LOL

I was cleaning the wee little apartment I had when my young daughter and I were living alone for a while, and was in the bathroom sweeping and such. I stopped for a moment, and in the silence, I heard, "scritch...scritch....scritch...tappity...tappity"

I'm thinking, "What the heck is that??" - so I start investigating. Nothing behind the door. No water dripping in the sink or behind the toilet or in the bowl. So I pull aside the shower curtain, and there in the bottom of the tub is the biggest freaking spider I've ever seen in my life. This thing was about 2 steps down from a tarantula as far as circumference of the legs, and pretty darn hefty in the body, too. I'm *not* a spider fan, and having a small child in the house, I was NOT letting this thing out of the tub where it might end up biting her (or me!). So, being armed with only my cleaning supplies, I grab the nearest thing I had available - my Pledge furniture polish spray. I sprayed....he ran....I sprayed....he ran again - up over the side of the tub and onto the floor...now I REALLY sprayed him, because he was headed my way, trailing lemon-scented foam behind him, running blindly in my direction because he was covered in the stuff. I emptied the entire can on his nasty butt, and still he kept coming.

He finally stopped at the bathroom door, having successfully backed me out of my own bathroom and into the kitchen, where I was looking for a big knife to use to end his pursuit. When I looked around the corner again, he had finally collapsed, legs splayed out, body flattened, and no sign of life whatsoever.

He fought the good fight until the last....when he went to spider heaven, smelling lemony-fresh and very, very shiny.
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Happy travels, captain...you need to start a thread about your adventures with those spiders. I don't want to miss an episode!!! rip big spider
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goin to see my aunt.
vilhelm grimm 2014 .
its a slow century b*tches , cut me some slack ..
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so i was back in the bathroom this am. you cant make this s*it up .
little spider has been assigned the task of wrapping up a good sized water bug . big spider is working a web that extends to the crapper and my bare azz . he got too close to suit me , i knocked out a couple of his lines . he fell to the floor and took off up the side of the toilet with confrontation in mind . he was moving quickly and i much appeared to be the target . big spider is dead , little spider has plenty to eat for a while . im not sure what all the lessons are yet . big spider and i were allies against the hated house fly . im a trust but verify type of person . he breached our alliance . little spider ; choose your battles wisely or just dont eff with beard clip guy . whatever you want to take from it .
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im sitting in the crapper this am , me and the spiders meanmugging each other when i saw an adult spider run what i percieved to be his / her own single offspring out of the adults web and back into the kids own smaller one . there was some furious arm waving from the big one for a few moments . the smaller one retreated to his web and the big one cruised the block wall working on the bigger picture . what a trip . im taking parenting 101 here from a d*mn spider . i felt like a third grimm brother only with much less material to work with .
it did remind me of me and my youngest son . if i let you destroy me ive failed as a parent . back up into the world a little bit till you can play by some fair rules . bluntman is doing great . hes really a h*ll of a good young man ..
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i make s sexist jab every now and then based on generalizations or bad experiences so wth ? of course women can take a swing too .
later in life one has to think about whether a partner is a liability or an asset . i think all relationships , even friends , is based on what each has to offer in a " trade pact " for lack of a better term .
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Ash- my elderly neigh or told me same thing about elderly men.
many years ago...they only want someone to take care of them LOL!!

Yesterday I made my version of chicken cordon Bleu. Today is left overs with corn on the cob and broccoli.
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Oh and the old guys who want to get near us just want a cook cleaner and housekeeper - money would be nice too they don`have any.. Older women are just viewed by old men as a nurse with a purse.
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Kazz you may loathe me for saying this, but mama has to go to AL or a NH, asap no ifs ands or buts! For anyone taking on care giving it only gets worse. You give up your home, your job, your life and go into a numb 24é7 h*ll. All I can say it stop it!!! The person you care for will be far better off in AL or a NH. Be a martyr if you like but the stress and burnout will kill you very quickly.

You seem to have a little `sunshine`for another poster here (as he seems to have for you ... yay!) and power both of you!. It is your choice,however who`s going to take care of Mommie Dearest while you go visit in another countryÉ

.Time to put her in a NH and get a life, if that;`s even possible;e at our age,.
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