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Skriven 2008-02-13 14:08:44 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
   Kommentar till text 2349 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: BlueWave                                                 [1]
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Hi Ruth!

>>> Oh no!!!  another spoiled brat like ME????  (lol)  I think we should
>>> start a club  (grin)

>> > It's worth thinking about.

>> Now if xx considers that she's spoiled too, that'll make 3 so far (g)

> I'm sure there are a number of others here who could easily qualify as
> well.

hehe.. no doubt :)

>> > Yes, we're dealing with a lot we never thought, even a year ago,
>> we'd > not be doing so.  Had my latest blood check today.  Numbers are
>> still in > the normal range but a bit lower than a couple of weeks
>> ago. I'm about > half done now

>> That's great to hear... It seems you're tolerating it well, I hope
>> you're taking it mostly easy around your house.. When I was having a
>> bad time, I remember my mom calling me and saying, 'Just take care of
>> yourself so you can get better for you and your family... don't worry
>> about the house because "dirt wins anyway"' (bg)  She was right.. It
>> waited for me (g)

> As mine is waiting for me. (G) I'm glad I do't have to go thru a white
> glove inspection--mine's clean enough to be healthy, dirty enough to be
> happy as the saying goes.

haha.. great saying :)  And I'm glad you're taking it easy!

>> > Well, I'll do anything to keep you from smoking too much. I was on
>> my > feet too much Friday evening and Saturday & really felt it into

>> Ron and I were talking about it again today.. Last time I tried to
>> quit I had him hold the cigarettes and lighter.  That way I was aware
>> of when I was lighting up.

> Have him put them in the bottom, remotest corner of the deep freeze;
> that'll make you think more about getting one. (G)

LOL - quite an idea (g)  I hope he doesn't decide to start reading echos LOL

>> > I know; I was there when Robert was born. Rachel and David had funny
>> > reactions--hers was that "he doesn't look like an Aidan (the name
>> they'd > originally picked for him) and David thought that he looked
>> exactly like > my father. I got back to HI after spending 4 weeks with
>> the kids and our > neighbor told us she was pregnant.

>> Oh boy.. must have been a busy time then.  It's funny too, Lauren's
>> last boy looks like a spitting image of her father-in-law, and her
>> first looks just like Ron (g).

> Cute! Now there's a strong resemblence to David's side of the family; a
> couple of years ago they got a 3 generation picture and you could see
> the Walton side all over Robert.

Isn't that neat :) :) Yeah, we're are in pics, you can see the Italian side and
the Dutch side, really clearly (g).  My son and I sure look very much alike
(g).  When he was growing up, his eye doctor called me his sister once, I
thought I'd die laughing :)

>>> hahahahahahaha don't tell me you don't like Cilantro.. I hate it :)
>> > Steve hates it; I'll take it in small doses.

>> Ah, I don't like the smell of it at all ... but I like mexican food..

> There is a lot that doesn't use cilamtro; the trouble is, so many places
> are catering to the American corrupted taste of Mexican so they put it
> in everything.  Taco Bell is not even close to real Mexican food,
> despite what the public thinks.

Yes, really, I think we ate there ONCE about 20 years ago out of desperation
(probably nothing else around whereever we were), and said, bleh! It was
horrid, for sure!

>> > evening committments that I usually plan either supper or get
>> something > while we're out. Took out another freezer meal for dinner
>> yesterday but > will do something else tonight.

>> Tonight, I finally made a pot of meatballs, sausage and sauce with the
>> hot sausage I bought from the health-food store.. I ground the stew
>> beef I'd also bought there for the meatballs.. they came out great..
>> the sausage was nothing to write home about (g).  It was meaty, and
>> the meat had a good flavor, but it wasn't Italian Hot Sausage if you
>> know what I mean :)  I've got some ground port still, I may try making
>> some sausage myself.. I haven't done that in quite a while.

> Sounds good here. We're going to use hot turkey Italian sausage tonight
> with the pepper and onions; the mild turkey we'll throw into sauce.

That sounds great!  I also bought some ground turkey at the health-food store..
If I can find some casing I might try the same with that, or just make some
bulk sausage if I can't find the casings... could be great.. we had some of the
ground turkey as burgers the other night, and they were great so the sausage
seasonings should be good..

>> > We've had packers do it for the last 8 moves but most of them have
>> been > ones where we could not do it ourselves (to/from overseas).

>> That makes sense.

> It's also better, especially if you've got a good team. In AZ, it took
> almost 4 days to pack everything and load the truck; it was done in
> a bit over 8 hours in HI.

That was a good team in HI :) When we went from NY to KY, I think it took them
8 hours to pack up our house, and I was pretty amazed at that.

>> do > pack things like the computers, my sewing stuff, etc in their
>> original > boxes which the movers then put into other boxes--gives it
>> another layer > of protection.

>> It definitely would help, I can see that.

> Good to make sure nothing is substituted for the real thing as well.

True.. For us, it was more "don't lose this or drop this or you die" (g)... So
we took the computers and things like that in our car with us, leaving the rest
for the packers. I think if we move from here anytime soon, I'd pack up my
Embroidery machine in it's original box though and take that in the car as
well.  The commerical moving company won't warrantee or guarantee anything that
you don't let THEM pack.. which would be a problem I think. But thankfully,
we're not going anywhere soon (g).

>> >  I'll have my sewing stuf organised to the point where I
>> > know what's where and can get my sewing room set up faster. In the
>> > kitchen I'll have herbs and spices I want moved packed up so the
>> movers > don't have to deal with them. Then I'll hold out what I'll
>> use until we > clear quarters, toss or give away the rest.

>> How many times have you gone overseas?  That must have been neat :)
>> Well, not the moving, but being there must have been really
>> interesting.


> We went to Frankfurt in October of 86. From there we went to Berlin in
> October, 89. Came back in summer of 92, from AZ Steve went to Korea from
> March of 96 to March of 97.  In March 2001, we went to HI which is
> considered an overseas tour in most, but not all aspects of it.  So he's
> been overseas technically 4 times, me 3, as the 2 tours in Germany were
> considered separate times over, even tho we did it back to back. Lots of
> memories, both good and bad, friends we still stay in touch with, a
> desire to go back and visit (but not Korea) and food experiences we
> can't replicate elsewhere.

That is pretty cool - or sounds that way to me!  I remember my Uncle bringing
"stuff" from Japan for all when he was overseas, and that was always incredibly
interesting to all of us kids... He later was stationed in England and again
did the same.. He's still living in England with his wife who he met there a
long time ago :)

Take care,
Janis

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