The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[KBLovedDisney]

No coffee. Ever. No crutches.

You don't ever want to encounter KB without her coffee. This is just a subtle representation of how I am without it:

 

[Goofyernmost]

Didn’t Golden Corral go out of business? The ones by me all closed last year. Never went though.

Since I just had lunch there last Tuesday, I'd guess that they are still in business. Otherwise the food would have been cold and mildewed. However, I did wonder why my chicken was hairy. Just kidding.

To my knowledge they are still alive and well and from what I can tell popular. I think that they are franchised (I could be wrong) so if the owner had some problems, financially, they might have closed up for that reason. If the ones close to you all closed, it might be the same owner for all of them.

 

[Goofyernmost]

My township closes for Yom Kippur. Not all do.

They closed here in the heart of the Bible Belt (New Testament) which surprised me, but, I think it is great. Maybe, there is the occasional progress in humanity.

 

[Goofyernmost]

2nd grade class field trip, circa 1978!



I’ve never found a chain pizza worth a nickel. The worst mom & pop joint in Jersey is better than rubber cheese Domino’s.



A lot of people consider buffets dirty, and some are. And even the ones at Whole Foods are dried out and kind of nasty by dinner time.

We have a couple of good Asian ones (had lunch at an Indian one yesterday.)

We did Golden Corral several times (the first two times up on 192.) Then B got hired as a manager there. He lasted about 3 days of training, said he couldn’t believe the working conditions. We haven’t gotten around to going back since.

I have to say, it’s a great way to catch a cold, with hundreds of people at a time grabbing the same serving spoons over and over...



No coffee. Ever. No crutches.

Me too, however, I never would have made it without my heroin! Just kidding, again. I'm getting afraid to make jokes because we have a very serious contingency of readers lately.

 

[Rista1313]

Good Morning! Pouring rain here in Michigan today... I decided a mental health day was needed today. Got my mickey tie dye shirt and lounge pants on.... it's going to be a chill day!

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Good Morning! Pouring rain here in Michigan today... I decided a mental health day was needed today. Got my mickey tie dye shirt and lounge pants on.... it's going to be a chill day!

Overcast in PA. Wondering where the sun has been hiding.

 

[Goofyernmost]

 

[21stamps]

No coffee, tea, or soda for me.
Wait, I take green tea supplements now for the antioxidants.

I’ve already broken my new semi vegan semi whole30 diet... mainly because Starbucks sent me a challenge where I can earn 225 bonus stars in 8 days. How can I pass that up?

 

[Songbird76]

The like is for Birnbaum's. I always go to the coupons first

That's what I did, too!! We won't be able to use most of them because they are things we already have included in our package....like, we won't use discounts on restaurants since we got free dining plan. And same thing with Golf....our tickets include that. But I might use the one for Basin!

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

Overcast in PA. Wondering where the sun has been hiding.

We have it here

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Katiebug?

Yup, that one. Someone bumped it. Again.

 

[CoreNovawarAMM]

Didn’t Golden Corral go out of business? The ones by me all closed last year. Never went though.

Nope! They’re still around.

 

[Tony the Tigger]

Me too, however, I never would have made it without my heroin! Just kidding, again. I'm getting afraid to make jokes because we have a very serious contingency of readers lately.

A guy came into my store the other day. He looked to be in his early 60s. Started telling me about all kinds of musical experiences here in South Florida and turns out he is a very healthy 80 years old.

Then he said, “wait until you see my son.” He shows me a picture of a guy who looks late 30s, early 40s. Turns out he was 58 in that picture and over 60 today.

I was about to posit that he has probably never touched so much as a beer in his life when the man volunteered that his son was on heroin for many years!

There goes that theory.

I decided a mental health day was needed today. Got my mickey tie dye shirt and lounge pants on.... it's going to be a chill day!

Hoping for a day like that soon.

 

[KBLovedDisney]

Nope! They’re still around.

I miss theirs and Ryan's buttery bread rolls As a kid, I made a meal out of those. Did Ryan's go out of business?

 

[Songbird76]

What's he eating now?

He will eat Pizza (and it used to only be one sort of pizza from a particular brand, but now he'll eat other brands), he will eat some chicken nuggets, but he only likes one brand besides McDonalds, and the store eliminated them from their selection. He had a major blow up and then said he hates that grocery store. He will eat battered and fried cod, and he'll eat pancakes, and he'll eat a rice dish with peas. That's about the entire list. But we're going to work on that. We are getting weekly training now and one of the goals is to get him to try new things.

 

[Songbird76]

my god.. I just.. cant like that comment.

She sounds like a total nightmare, specially the punishing and ignoring you.

Yes, it was really awful, but I understand her thinking. I disagree with it, but in her mind, anything that someone chooses that was different from what SHE chose, she saw as a rejection of her. If I didn't do something the way she would, I was saying her way wasn't good enough for me, and therefore, I was rejecting her. And she told me when I started babysitting that it's very important that you never admit to making a mistake. Children have to believe you are infallable or they won't respect your authority. So in my mom's mind, if she backed down or changed her mind, I would think she was wishy-washy and I wouldn't respect her anymore and she'd lose control. So she felt hurt by the fact that I was becoming independent, because it meant that I didn't respect her and I rejected her way of doing things. It just never occurred to her that she was the one rejecting ME and MY way of doing things. She thought she'd always be the one telling me what to do and I'd do it, because of course I would recognize that her way was the right way. She couldn't imagine that there could be more than one "right" way. So I GET why she treated me that way, but I still feel like it was really wrong, and it really hurt. I tried many times to talk to her, but she would never admit to making a mistake, so we got nowhere. I've learned a lot about what I DON'T want to do when it comes to my kids. I'm sure I'll mess my kids up in other ways, but not letting them be themselves won't be one of those ways.

 

[Songbird76]

in other news, I have transformed into an snot faucet x_x

on the good side, I keep recovering VERY FAST from colds. family and friends usually go down for 2 weeks. I at most end ill for 5 days or 6..

The like is for the fast recovery, not for the snot faucet. That sounds miserable.

 

[Songbird76]

Son might find some veggies he likes and there is also soup and salad and ribs. On the children’s menu there is chicken breast. He might be ok.

Nope....he won't eat chicken unless it's in nugget form, and he won't touch veggies. Or soup, or ribs. There's not a single piece of meat I can get him to eat, other than a hotdog or battered fried cod. He won't eat a steak, or a pork chop, or a chicken breast, or a hamburger, or even bacon. None of it.

 

[Songbird76]

When are you going to invite all us over, for meatballs for dinner?

Well, let's wait until next week to make sure I'm not coming down with the crud first. DH is finally starting to feel better, but I'm not feeling so hot, today, so I think I might be coming down with it. I won't be up to cooking so much as a hotdog much less meatballs!!

 

[Songbird76]

My two cents: I think the company for @93boomer 's hubs "might" not have been able to do that. The reason is because with an area with so much damage, and in such a fluid set of bad problems popping up--even if they tried to find a motel, etc. prior to the crews heading down there--the motels may not have any power once the guys got there.

It's only my hunch, but I'm thinking that in these types of crisis situations, the guys are probably more on their own to secure lodging wherever they can find it--and the location could even move a few times, while they're down there.

(My thought here is that you and I naturally tend to think of normal circumstances, where a company may send workers, executives, etc. to meetings out of state--and they line up hotels and transportation for them, ahead of time.)

You see, this is why I have so much respect for these crews that head out into post-storm devastated areas. They really have to deal with a lot. They work some very long, hard hours, in some tough weather extremes.

My cousin spent 3 weeks in Puerto Rico last year helping to restore power there. Apparently the families there kind of "adopted" the guys because they were so grateful. They came every morning and gave the men food, made sure they had everything they needed...they treated them like family. He said he had a great experience there, and was grateful he could help, but they didn't even get everything back to working order. Those storms completely devastate an area..