Yes. My parents are in Delco and I am in Montco. I'll take him (them) anywhere though.
My mother is having the same problem. She is in Delco - 67, cancer survivor, diabetic, high enough BMI - Everything to put her into the current phase. She cannot find an appointment ANYWHERE within an hour's drive of her house.
She said even the places that have the green dots on the PA map, by the time she gets through filling out the necessary forms for that location and gets to the end, it tells her they have nothing available. She's spent hours and hours trying to find something with no luck.
Delco is goddamn shitshow. I’m here too - you can sign up thru Chester co, and they are supposed to start a hotline or some such thing this week. But my grandmother is in Lehigh county. Not sure if it will work, but Lehigh Valley Health Network is doing a good job. Try either mylvhn or 484-884-1767 for their hotline. I have an appt for her in mid February!
I'm so frustrated that google maps won't put my address on the map! It makes directing people here (delivery, BN members, appliance repair etc) a huge pain in the butt! I know I'm in an incomplete new construction neighborhood, but as I dealt with the same problem in my completed TH neighborhood for 5 yrs 3 months I have little hope they will fix it. Thankfully USPS has no problem and FedEx/UPS have only had minimal problems. That's the only bright spot. Yes we contacted them for both addresses. For the TH they said our address was classified as a business so they wouldn't fix it (I know that makes no sense). This time it's just radio silence.
Not to minimize the COVID vaccine frustrations (I have my own!), but WTF is wrong w/ jarred garlic? Ain't nobody got time for garlic chopping foolishness.
I read an article that said that most jarred garlic is produced in China using unpaid prisoner labor. The acid in the garlic causes the worker's fingernails to fall off and if they can't use their fingernails to peel the garlic they use their teeth.
OMG. Guess we're not cooking with garlic anymore, then. That's TERRIBLE.
Post by lilypad1126 on Jan 25, 2021 14:17:15 GMT -5
I was blow drying/straightening my hair a little bit ago and set off the smoke detector. Oops, LOL. I startled my H so bad he spilled his soda. I'm usually good at not that doing that (open a window, turn the fan on, etc) but my H closed the door b/c I was "making too much noise" and that's the recipe for disaster. And b/c our smoke alarms are hardwired, they are a pain in the ass the shut off. At least I'll look good on my video calls this afternoon/tomorrow?
I was blow drying/straightening my hair a little bit ago and set off the smoke detector. Oops, LOL. I startled my H so bad he spilled his soda. I'm usually good at not that doing that (open a window, turn the fan on, etc) but my H closed the door b/c I was "making too much noise" and that's the recipe for disaster. And b/c our smoke alarms are hardwired, they are a pain in the ass the shut off. At least I'll look good on my video calls this afternoon/tomorrow?
Wait, do you regularly set off the alarms? Maybe you need a new blow dryer. I’ve never set off my smoke detectors by blow drying my hair, even in an enclosed bathroom.
Post by lilypad1126 on Jan 25, 2021 14:30:32 GMT -5
Roc A Bee , I've only done it once before. I have a lot of hair (seriously SO MUCH HAIR) and my vanity is right under my smoke alarm. I use one of those all in one brush/blowdryer things and if I don't let my hair airdry enough before I start, it gets steamy.
ETA: I've never had a problem in any other apt I've lived in besides this one. So, maybe my smoke alarm here is just extra sensitive? Who knows.
I realized the other day that the 5yr anniversary of going very low contact with my family is coming up. Recently I’ve gained clarity and realized this was the best thing for my well being,..it took awhile to get there.
My mother is having the same problem. She is in Delco - 67, cancer survivor, diabetic, high enough BMI - Everything to put her into the current phase. She cannot find an appointment ANYWHERE within an hour's drive of her house.
She said even the places that have the green dots on the PA map, by the time she gets through filling out the necessary forms for that location and gets to the end, it tells her they have nothing available. She's spent hours and hours trying to find something with no luck.
Delco is goddamn shitshow. I’m here too - you can sign up thru Chester co, and they are supposed to start a hotline or some such thing this week. But my grandmother is in Lehigh county. Not sure if it will work, but Lehigh Valley Health Network is doing a good job. Try either mylvhn or 484-884-1767 for their hotline. I have an appt for her in mid February!
Thank you! I'll see if she can get something that way.
She's been trying via Chester County (which is where I live) with no luck. She's gone as far out as Lancaster with no luck.
I think I've been ghosted by 2 people on my Buy Nothing Group. They said they were interested, I said great, PM me for porch pick-up and now nothing. I said porch pick up in the original post.
Chrissy Teagan re-tweeted this image and people are losing their minds.
I feel like people need to step away from the keyboard. I use all those things at least occassionally, if not always, and I'm really not insulted. It's... salt. It's not that serious.
Funny, I’ve wondered/thought to myself that anyone who buys jarred garlic must not like to cook. It tastes like nothing.
There was a meme or something recently that said you aren’t Italian if you don’t at least double the number of garlic cloves in a recipe. Totally agree!
And I’m pretty sure the issue with the salt is that cooks use kosher salt. I only use that iodized salt for baking.
Chrissy Teagan re-tweeted this image and people are losing their minds.
I feel like people need to step away from the keyboard. I use all those things at least occassionally, if not always, and I'm really not insulted. It's... salt. It's not that serious.
Funny, I’ve wondered/thought to myself that anyone who buys jarred garlic must not like to cook. It tastes like nothing.
There was a meme or something recently that said you aren’t Italian if you don’t at least double the number of garlic cloves in a recipe. Totally agree!
And I’m pretty sure the issue with the salt is that cooks use kosher salt. I only use that iodized salt for baking.
I don't like the sour taste of whatever preservative is in there. I can easily go though a bulb of garlic in a day or two. I made pulled pork yesterday and used 1.5 bulbs. Right before the election Dr Biden posted her recipe for chicken parm and she REMOVED HER GARLIC CLOVE from her sauce after simmering. So many people were like, "Thank you so much and good luck! This looks delicious and we will address the garlic removal after the election."
TBH I do not use a lot of salt when cooking. Instead, and this is my dirty little secret, I use the powdered bullion. It's super salty and concentrated so you only need a pinch and it packs a flavor punch. This might make me a trashy cook but I care not. My Grandmom taught me and she was a kitchen maestro.
Post by starburst604 on Jan 25, 2021 16:46:13 GMT -5
I became much less discriminating about ingredients after DD was born. Frozen chopped onions and jarred garlic became my friends - quick and no tears, no smell on my fingers for days, yay! Then not long ago I read about how that garlic was harvested so I went back to fresh and realized that as long as I use my garlic press it REALLY isn't that much more work. Also, the smell of the jarred minced was nasty. I love the smell of fresh garlic.
But Kraft shakers of cheese, nope I cannot do. I buy grated romano cheese from the fresh cheese section and it's WORLDS better. My Sicilian grandmother would come to haunt me if I bought that.
Re: salt and lemon juice. Like others have stated I use table salt for baking, and have sea and kosher for other things. As for lemon, it's not something I use frequently so I don't really keep fresh lemons on hand. If a recipe calls for a tbsp of lemon juice, I'm gonna use the bottled shit I keep in my fridge. If I'm making something like lemon chicken where I'll probably use it as a garnish also, that's a different story.
My random is that we need to stop going to open houses until a year from now when we are actually ready to sell our townhouse and buy the new home. We went to a house on Sat. that checks off every single box, like every one. H thinks it's too close to the county prison though and granted as we pulled up we could see the barbed wire topped fence in the distance. I told him once the trees fill in we wouldn't see it lol. The realtor just texted me some pics of the back yard in summertime, with it's gorgeous inground pool and pool house. This house would easily be another 150K on the other side of town where H really wants to live and I'm just salty. It's even in our current elementary district which is hard to find. I don't care about the prison, I want it and I want it now! I'm going to work on him over the next year to give more consideration to this part of town, where we could have all the things we want without the monster mortgage. There's absolutely NOTHING wrong with the area other than being closer to the prison.
Took my elderly mom for her vaccine today and I did not engage when she told me how "they're lying to us anyway about all the covid stuff." I'm 90% happy she got it (although, honestly, puzzled that she agreed to get it) and I'm 10% feeling like "we should have saved that vaccine for someone who believes in science." Then I'm annoyed at myself for feeling this way. I hate fox news for brainwashing her.
Chrissy Teagan re-tweeted this image and people are losing their minds.
I feel like people need to step away from the keyboard. I use all those things at least occassionally, if not always, and I'm really not insulted. It's... salt. It's not that serious.
I don't use iodized salt or bottled lemon juice, but I use the shit out of pre-minced garlic and that Kraft parm totally has its place in certain applications (like on DH's grandma's spaghetti and meatballs, which is delicious).
I consider myself to be a fairly accomplished amateur cook and this bothers me not at all.
eta: Aaaaand now I apparently need to rethink using the minced stuff.
I love good food, but I also love the powdered parmesan cheese, lol. But only on two things I ate it on growing up - spaghetti and pizza. Any other kind of pasta gets shredded parm. Most pizza restaurants serve it on the table for pizza, so I don't feel like that's that weird? But spaghetti makes no sense other than the nostalgia factor. It just tastes more normal to me
I am running a low fever - it's been between 99.1-99.9 all day so far. I think if it gets any higher I'm going to get a COVID test, but I don't really have any other symptoms (beyond my norm - my stomach was slightly upset this morning, I'm tired, I have slight sinus congestion, but those are all almost daily things for me in general).
I've been around exactly 1 person other than my H in weeks, which an HVAC guy who came into our house last week. If I got COVID from him, I give up. I haven't even been inside a store since October!
I'm hoping I'm just being anxious.
Not to scare you and you’re probably fine but my parents friends who had otherwise been the strictest of strict, no outdoor hangouts, no grocery stores etc, got Covid from their house cleaner.