In other chicken-related confessions, anytime I'm at a nice restaurant and I see chicken on the menu/someone order chicken I scoff. Why are you a) in a nice restaurant ordering chicken and b) paying like $30 for chicken?
We have chicken like 3 out of 7 nights a week, so I always skip chicken at a good restaurant. But then I had it at a place here that is known for doing chicken well, and holy shit it was worth every penny.
We go to this one steakhouse near us pretty frequently when we go out and they have this chicken dish that I always order that they cook in truffle butter. I almost swooned out of my chair the first time I took a bite. (Of course, it probably has like 1000 calories or something but that's a separate issue, lol). Totally worth the $30 price tag.
I frequently find myself thinking "Who the fuck are you?" when someone with say less than 500 posts chimes in on something. This is particularly assholish on my part as I've actually only been posting here for less than a year.
ETA: MMM less than a year. I've been around MM and TTTC longer than that.
How are they supposed to build post count then? There is also criticism for starting threads when you're not "known" either. So I thought chiming in was a way to get people to know you better. Huh
Confession- I want my h to extend his leave for another 1-2 weeks just because I will be lonely without him all day long. I have my parents around to help and we don't need the money (it would be unpaid time off) but I feel guilty thinking that there are so many other women out there that can take care of a toddler and newborn all by themselves and I should just suck it up.
Just because they can, doesn't mean they want to!
But seriously, we had so many out of town guests when I was on ML (H's mom, sister & BIL, brother, and aunt - all at different times). As much as I liked that visitors could occupy the toddler, I also LOVED days when no one was there with them but me because when the magic double-naps happened, I was ALL ALONE!!
Post by jeaniebueller on Jan 22, 2016 12:48:05 GMT -5
I am having a really hard time deciding what alcoholic beverage I should drink tomorrow night when I am out. No beer because hangover. I usually drink rum and coke, but I am trying to watch carbs and sugar.
My RE added a new drug to repertoire. I asked the pharmacist if it would cause mood swings, and if I got rage-y at my husband if I could blame the drug. He gave me a strange look and might have backed away just a little bit as he replied, "Sure?"
@mrswindycity, thighs all the way, especially for anything that will be slow-cooked or tagine'd (minus dried apricots for you).
But while I don't generally order chicken at restaurants, I make an exception for chicken mole and for pad-Thai with chicken.
Eta: "tagine" is my lazy translation for "mijoter," basically, anything that sits on a stove over a low flame for a couple of hours or more. Is there an actual word for this in English??? I bet there is in Greek.
A decent amount of threads kind of suck these days. It's very heavy handed on the teaching tone and expert analysis.
Sometimes I wish I could ask for advice and be like, "I'm only interested in hearing from CheeringCharm , @marmee, chloesilverado , jeaniebueller and others who have kids age 7+ and are not insane. Kthanxbai."
I frequently find myself thinking "Who the fuck are you?" when someone with say less than 500 posts chimes in on something. This is particularly assholish on my part as I've actually only been posting here for less than a year.
ETA: MMM less than a year. I've been around MM and TTTC longer than that.
How are they supposed to build post count then? There is also criticism for starting threads when you're not "known" either. So I thought chiming in was a way to get people to know you better. Huh
No, you're definitely right, which is why I'm the asshole.
FWIW, I actually thought "I really hope juliette21 doesn't think I'm talking about her!". You have 600 posts and I know who you are!
In other chicken-related confessions, anytime I'm at a nice restaurant and I see chicken on the menu/someone order chicken I scoff. Why are you a) in a nice restaurant ordering chicken and b) paying like $30 for chicken?
True story: we were at my bachelorette weekend in Napa and went to Bouchon. My sister asked if they could add chicken to her salad. They were horrified.
She also snuck Squirt into the wineries to mix with her wine to make it "less gross."
Confession: I'm still surprised when people post something to the effect of how they don't like me.
I think maybe bc you go long stretches of being pretty kind and nice, and then BAM sometimes will have a day or whatever where you're dropping doozies again.
There are also some people that can take a joke and not take themselves super seriously... and others that um... can't. I generally am not out to be MEAN, but I also don't worship some posters who have some pretty aggressive followers.
How are they supposed to build post count then? There is also criticism for starting threads when you're not "known" either. So I thought chiming in was a way to get people to know you better. Huh
No, you're definitely right, which is why I'm the asshole.
FWIW, I actually thought "I really hope juliette21 doesn't think I'm talking about her!". You have 600 posts and I know who you are!
I really did think you were talking about me, so I was a little butthurt. Haha thanks for clarifying.
I am having a really hard time deciding what alcoholic beverage I should drink tomorrow night when I am out. No beer because hangover. I usually drink rum and coke, but I am trying to watch carbs and sugar.
Rum and coke zero? Better imo than rum and diet coke which tastes kind of gross to me. Do you like tonic water? It doesn't have that many calories so a g&t or a vodka tonic shouldn't be that much either.
I am having a really hard time deciding what alcoholic beverage I should drink tomorrow night when I am out. No beer because hangover. I usually drink rum and coke, but I am trying to watch carbs and sugar.
It took two whole months but I finally took both kids out, alone today. I've taken both to drop DS off at daycare or to my aunt's house. But not both of them for an activity.
I had grand plans for my maternity leave to do all the library story times. But being out with two kids sucks. It's not even fun.
I agree with this. I was a social studies teacher before handheld digital devices were as widespread as they are now and do you know how much easier and more enjoyable they would have made my class? Every day we wanted the kids to brainstorm ideas and then look up some info and do something with it. In the old days, this necessitated having to sign up for the computer lab and take ten minutes to walk up there and get settled. Now you can have them do it in a few minutes at their desks as a bell ringer activity and quickly move on to the part where they're actively working with the data and thinking critically about it. I can only see it as a big plus in making lessons more interactive and less "chalk and talk."
If kids continuing to look at their phone gets to be too big of a problem, you could always have them put them in a basket or something when they're done with the "research" portion of the lesson and give them back at the end of the period.
C'mon Becky how long have you been out of the classroom? This isn't working, have you seen the you tube clips, news stories, or teacher comments of the uprisings and power struggles regularly occurring when teachers try and do this, when kids don't know, trust, or like them? Aside from Kinder, 1st, and maybe second, classrooms of obedient children are really really rare .
Oh yeah I forgot about that! Oops. Let's amend this to if you are lucky enough to have a class of kids with sensible parents
When I was teaching, I was always struggling to get away from the set up of me imparting info to them (which must be so dull for them, I get that) so having them be able to look stuff up and then talk about it in pairs or small groups or even as a whole class would be such an easy and enjoyable way to do it. It really must open up so many new avenues to teachers. I am frankly jealous! Sometimes I think about this stuff and start itching to try again, lol.
A decent amount of threads kind of suck these days. It's very heavy handed on the teaching tone and expert analysis.
Sometimes I wish I could ask for advice and be like, "I'm only interested in hearing from CheeringCharm , @marmee, chloesilverado , and @jeanniebueller and others who have kids age 7+ and are not insane. Kthanxbai."
But that would be rude.
Or you could just put criteria:
If you have no idea how much juice your child consumes each day, you may enter.
If you were not phased by uncrustable-gate, you are welcome.
If you do not recoil in horror at the thought of your child wearing Garanimals in public, please come in.
BTW: I am just goofing around. Noone take this seriously.
I am having a really hard time deciding what alcoholic beverage I should drink tomorrow night when I am out. No beer because hangover. I usually drink rum and coke, but I am trying to watch carbs and sugar.
. But being out with two kids sucks. It's not even fun.
For me, it's just being out with the baby that is no fun. Â My preschooler is actually a hell of a good time especially in comparison. Â I can't wait until the baby is older and not so BLOB.
I feel like in a few months when the baby can actually sit up in the shopping cart my life will change for the better, lol.
I know food confessions are SUPER lame, but here's mine: yesterday I ate an ENTIRE carton of the new cinnamon bun Oreos. The sad part is I'm sick so my tastebuds are numbed, so I'll have to buy another carton to get the full effect.
I don't know what these are but they sound amazing.
Here is a really lame food confession. Yesterday my CW was talking about a new recipe she was trying except she was going to switch it from chicken thighs to breasts and basically in the middle of her telling me she thought thighs weren't good I interrupted her and was like YOU ARE SO WRONG, THEY ARE ONE MILLION TIMES BETTER THAN CHICKEN BREASTS and then went on for like 5 minutes. I completely overreacted...about chicken thighs. This is my life.
I wasn't sure my marriage was going to survive my wife's breasts over thighs preference. Luckily she has tastebuds and therefore has come around to my way of thinking.
Post by MadamePresident on Jan 22, 2016 13:08:40 GMT -5
I might get the opportunity to go with my husband to a work conference of his in Orlando and I'm kind of meh about going to Disney while we are there. The tickets are so expensive and I don't really get what makes it so exciting.
I know food confessions are SUPER lame, but here's mine: yesterday I ate an ENTIRE carton of the new cinnamon bun Oreos. The sad part is I'm sick so my tastebuds are numbed, so I'll have to buy another carton to get the full effect.
I know food confessions are SUPER lame, but here's mine: yesterday I ate an ENTIRE carton of the new cinnamon bun Oreos. The sad part is I'm sick so my tastebuds are numbed, so I'll have to buy another carton to get the full effect.
Where did you find these?
Walmart! I was surprised because usually I have to go to Target for the new flavors.
I am having a really hard time deciding what alcoholic beverage I should drink tomorrow night when I am out. No beer because hangover. I usually drink rum and coke, but I am trying to watch carbs and sugar.
When I cut out Coke I started just drinking rum (on ice). But just at home, cause apparently that's a weird thing to order out. So when I'm out I would get whiskey, which had the added benefit of impressing my majority male coworkers.
I am having a really hard time deciding what alcoholic beverage I should drink tomorrow night when I am out. No beer because hangover. I usually drink rum and coke, but I am trying to watch carbs and sugar.
Vodka and club, with just a tiny splash of cranberry or a ton of fresh lemons and/or limes. It's my go to diet drink.
I don't know what these are but they sound amazing.
Here is a really lame food confession. Yesterday my CW was talking about a new recipe she was trying except she was going to switch it from chicken thighs to breasts and basically in the middle of her telling me she thought thighs weren't good I interrupted her and was like YOU ARE SO WRONG, THEY ARE ONE MILLION TIMES BETTER THAN CHICKEN BREASTS and then went on for like 5 minutes. I completely overreacted...about chicken thighs. This is my life.
I wasn't sure my marriage was going to survive my wife's breasts over thighs preference. Luckily she has tastebuds and therefore has come around to my way of thinking.
LOL! This comes across a lot differently when you don't read the quote boxes first.
I might get the opportunity to go with my husband to a work conference of his in Orlando and I'm kind of meh about going to Disney while we are there. The tickets are so expensive and I don't really get what makes it so exciting.
With or without the kids? If I wasn't going with kids, I would not go to Disney. And even if you have the kids with you, there are about a million other touristy things to do in Orlando that don't involve Disney. (it is kind of magical though
Oh shit. I just remembered Peruvian roast chicken. I go to a restaurant in my neighborhood exclusively to get that and "salchipapa," which is basically French fries with cut-up hotdogs. Food loving is all about mixing highbrow and lowbrow tastes, isn't it?