So something bugged me today

[audette]

I know I'm late to the game, but to the OP - I've never heard a service member reply with a less than gracious response (awkward sometimes, but not snotty) to someone thanking them for their service. I'm a dependent, though, so I probably don't hear it as often as the active duty folks here.

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Sweet guys. Okay I'm going to attempt the jars. I know you will all be waiting with baited breath to see if I poison my SO.

kpol,I'm afraid of cake pops because they should be refrigerated due to the icing? This reminds me of the diet I think ML was talking about where you keep a can of icing in the pantry and eat a spoon full every day. I believe this just makes you shit your brains out.

I have thought about investing in a vacuum sealer for months now. I might just do this because I think bunt cake goes over over better vacuum sealed. AND BROWNIES. I saw one at costco the other day for 80 bucks.

[audette]

I sent a lot of vacuum sealed cookies. I froze them first, so they didn't get squished when the sealer ran, and then kept them in the freezer until I shipped them to keep them as fresh as possible. I did little bags of 4 cookies each. Yes, that was nutty. I was also baking them in mass quantities, usually making 10-20 dozen during a baking session.

So a couple intensive days - one baking, and getting the cookies into the freezer, the next vacuum sealing and putting them back in the freezer, and I had cookies to last for a bunch of care packages...

[brandienee]

My poor pilot H doesn't get any baked goods from me when he deploys... but he is too busy popping his flight suit collar and smooching the reflection of himself in his co-pilot's aviator sunglasses to notice. (LOL)

I know a ton of d-bag pilots. DH can sometimes be a d-bag, ugh. But he wouldn't be that way to someone he doesn't know, or has to work with. I think his response to the OP would be an awkward, "it is my pleasure". He feels embarrassed when people say this to him.

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Feb 25, 2016 23:40:35 GMT -5 brandienee said:

My poor pilot H doesn't get any baked goods from me when he deploys... but he is too busy popping his flight suit collar and smooching the reflection of himself in his co-pilot's aviator sunglasses to notice. (LOL)

I know a ton of d-bag pilots. DH can sometimes be a d-bag, ugh. But he wouldn't be that way to someone he doesn't know, or has to work with. I think his response to the OP would be an awkward, "it is my pleasure". He feels embarrassed when people say this to him.

Well my SO is a contractor. He's too busy rolling around in hundred dollar bills in his office to even open my cheapass care packages. 
I actually was very fond of pilots in Afghanistan. haha. On my birthday a few years ago they let me ride on the flight deck of a C-17 (or is it a cockpit? it was trippy and scary). They were really nice and all "Sorry we aren't chatty right now but we are trying to land". LOL. By all means, please land the plane.
on that note, I really enjoyed load masters who did safety briefings a la southwest flight attendants. Especially when they said "thank you for choose us as your preferred airline to fly with today. we know you have so many to choose from". OR "Please place your EPOS (hoods with oxygen) on yourself before assisting those freaking out and unable to do it themselves".

[pixy0stix]

I know a marine who HATES being told this. He never knows what to say, because what do you say when you've lost friends to war?

ETA: I clicked on the wrong board and didn't realize it. LOL! Sorry!