Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?

[JenniferS]

Maybe the cough syrup isn’t totally out of my system.

My turkey is done, but I’m pretty sure I roasted it upside down.

My friend Andrew: Couldn’t you tell?

Me: Apparently not. It was only when I stuck the meat thermometer in and kept hitting bone instead of breast that I realized maybe I goofed.

See friends, this is why I usually buy the pre-stuffed Butterballs. Not even I can mess them up.

Doesn’t matter. I flipped it and put it back in. It’s not for a special occasion. It’s just for a meal or two, and then turkey sandwiches for Mike for work.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Maybe the cough syrup isn’t totally out of my system.

My turkey is done, but I’m pretty sure I roasted it upside down.

My friend Andrew: Couldn’t you tell?

Me: Apparently not. It was only when I stuck the meat thermometer in and kept hitting bone instead of breast that I realized maybe I goofed.

See friends, this is why I usually buy the pre-stuffed Butterballs. Not even I can mess them up.

Doesn’t matter. I flipped it and put it back in. It’s not for a special occasion. It’s just for a meal or two, and then turkey sandwiches for Mike for work.

I don't remember where, but I can swear that I remember reading an article that encouraged people to roast their turkeys upside down. That way the moisture would stay more toward the breast and not the bottom part. So maybe you just reinvented something.

 

[Lilofan]

Maybe the cough syrup isn’t totally out of my system.

My turkey is done, but I’m pretty sure I roasted it upside down.

My friend Andrew: Couldn’t you tell?

Me: Apparently not. It was only when I stuck the meat thermometer in and kept hitting bone instead of breast that I realized maybe I goofed.

See friends, this is why I usually buy the pre-stuffed Butterballs. Not even I can mess them up.

Doesn’t matter. I flipped it and put it back in. It’s not for a special occasion. It’s just for a meal or two, and then turkey sandwiches for Mike for work.

Brown bagging lunch at work is the way to go to save money for me. I did it for many years and drank the Keurig coffee supplied at work while most of my peers spent $10-15 per day going out for lunch and multiple Starbucks visits during the day.

 

[PUSH]

*imagines what it's like to have time at work to go out for lunch*

 

[JenniferS]

They let you choose? Mine says I must have them to drive. I have prescription sunglasses, and when I change into those I even feel like I'm risking my life in the 2 seconds in between pairs.

I have four pairs, all different Rx, depending upon the time of day.

Sometimes your optometrist reports to MTO that you need them, but it’s kind of on the honour system for the rest of us.

If you have an accident and you’re not wearing your corrective lenses, trust me, your insurance will find out in no time. Honesty is the best policy.

 

[JenniferS]

I don't remember where, but I can swear that I remember reading an article that encouraged people to roast their turkeys upside down. That way the moisture would stay more toward the breast and not the bottom part. So maybe you just reinvented something.

Yup, Bestie just told me the same thing.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

*imagines what it's like to have time at work to go out for lunch*

Yeah, me too!

 

[JenniferS]

Brown bagging lunch at work is the way to go to save money for me. I did it for many years and drank the Keurig coffee supplied at work while most of my peers spent $10-15 per day going out for lunch and multiple Starbucks visits during the day.

Our kids make fun of us, but we have always brown bagged it for lunch.

I’ve always worked in the kind of job where I can’t put a note on the door and close down to go grab lunch; so pre-Skip/Uber Eats, brown bag was our only option.

Mike and I have been together 38 years, and I can count on one hand (literally!) the number of times we have paid for delivery. I’m just too cheap.

At least half of the time, Builders provide a Keurig and a small fridge; not just for me, but for the clients as well. On the sites I’ve worked that didn’t have them, I just bought my own. Still cheaper to buy a Keurig than to spend stupid amounts of money at Timmie’s or Starbuckie’s every day. Did I mention I’m cheap?

I also have a microwave oven that I shlep to those sites where a mock kitchen is not part of the trailer/presentation centre.

 

[PUSH]

I have four pairs, all different Rx, depending upon the time of day.

Sometimes your optometrist reports to MTO that you need them, but it’s kind of on the honour system for the rest of us.

If you have an accident and you’re not wearing your corrective lenses, trust me, your insurance will find out in no time. Honesty is the best policy.

I've had to look into a machine when getting my license. I don't know what it does, but it's something with your vision.

 

[PUSH]

Our kids make fun of us, but we have always brown bagged it for lunch.

I’ve always worked in the kind of job where I can’t put a note on the door and close down to go grab lunch; so pre-Skip/Uber Eats, brown bag was our only option.

Mike and I have been together 38 years, and I can count on one hand (literally!) the number of times we have paid for delivery. I’m just too cheap.

At least half of the time, Builders provide a Keurig and a small fridge; not just for me, but for the clients as well. On the sites I’ve worked that didn’t have them, I just bought my own. Still cheaper to buy a Keurig than to spend stupid amounts of money at Timmie’s or Starbuckie’s every day. Did I mention I’m cheap?

I also have a microwave oven that I shlep to those sites where a mock kitchen is not part of the trailer/presentation centre.

I have a microwave and mini fridge in my classroom. It's too much work to walk to the workroom and use theirs.

 

[Lilofan]

I have a microwave and mini fridge in my classroom. It's too much work to walk to the workroom and use theirs.

The pizza place near my home have teachers coming there 1x a week. A teacher calls in the order to be ready at exactly 12 noon. The teachers sit down at their reserved table at 12 noon , food and drink is immediately brought out and 30 min later the teachers leave and drive back to their school 5 minutes away.

 

[PUSH]

The pizza place near my home have teachers coming there 1x a week. A teacher calls in the order to be ready at exactly 12 noon. The teachers sit down at their reserved table at 12 noon , food and drink is immediately brought out and 30 min later the teachers leave and drive back to their school 5 minutes away.

Glad they can do that. We'd never be able to make it back in time. Also, there's no time to call in an order before lunch time. My first moment without kids is lunch time.

 

[PUSH]

Someone I went to high school with just posted a picture of their kid "reading" a book and saying how smart he is. It's taking everything in me to not be a teacher and tell him he's not actually reading... he's memorized the words and is looking at the pictures to know what words to say. That's a really bad reading habit. And I'm very passionate about teaching kids to read the right way.

 

[Lilofan]

Glad they can do that. We'd never be able to make it back in time. Also, there's no time to call in an order before lunch time. My first moment without kids is lunch time.

The teachers call in the order a week in advance and eat at the pizza place every Friday. At least you can eat in peace without distractions hopefully. I know one thing from my family who are retired teachers about another item like nature calling. If you take a bathroom break during a class , one other teacher or other staff has to cover the class while you go quickly to the bathroom. Because like the saying goes - when the rat is away, the mice will play ( if left unsupervised ).

I know in my grade school days my friends and I were a rowdy bunch when I was a student. That all changed when the principal sat in on our class towards the back to evaluate our teacher's work performance.

 

[PUSH]

The teachers call in the order a week in advance and eat at the pizza place every Friday. At least you can eat in peace without distractions hopefully. I know one thing from my family who are retired teachers about another item like nature calling. If you take a bathroom break during a class , one other teacher or other staff has to cover the class while you go quickly to the bathroom.

I'm lucky that the staff bathroom is right across the hall from me. If I have to go, I find a time where students are working on their own and dip out without saying anything. Otherwise it's chaos. It's a toss up whether they notice if I'm gone or not. But if they do, there's always a handful standing outside the classroom looking for me.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

while the cat's away, the mice will play

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[Songbird76]

That's the way I feel about how it has happened. The human race has always been easy to con. Some of it is not harmful, like eating carrots, and some of it was and is harmful.

Except for my time in the service, where they forced fitness upon me, I have been overweight (or as the medical people like to say to further shame us into being thin, "morbidly obese") all my life. Not your 600 lb. life overweight, but above what they like to call healthy. I know that it really means that we eat to much and not always healthily about that they are right. At my age it is dangerous to make statements like this but all the people I knew, my age, that have passed away, were slim and trim, some in their 50's, yet I still am alive. Kinda makes one wonder.

I don't believe in being stuck on one thing, like no carbs, unless it helps to control Type II diabetes, is all that healthy. I have a daughter that is strictly no carb isn't thinner (she's not anything other than middle age fluffy) but she is sick all the time has colds every other week and has no energy/stamina. In other words any extreme is not good for anyone. Plus it worries me the amount of cholesterol she takes in daily. That to me is more unhealthy than being a little on the large economy size.

I think that I eat relatively healthy, just probably more then is essential. I like somethings and not others but I have been willing to try most everything once. Even went to a buffet once that had pigs ears available. I tried them mostly to gross out my grandson, but it makes those "magically" over sized, taste like ham, Turkey Legs seem like a gourmet meal.

Everyone is different, every body has a built in regulator that makes it easy to be thin or easy to be overweight. My son in law, or human garbage disposal as I call him, makes me faint just watching him and what he eats. They have three mostly grown kids and he will eat his meal and whatever is left over from the kids plates or anything within reach and he, as my mother used to say, "is so thin you can read the lords prayer through him!" Makes me kinda angry because I love to eat and if I did that I would be making money on one of those 600 lb. life programs.

That's exactly it. And what's fine for one person is bad for another. I use more salt than my husband does, but he has the high blood pressure, where mine tends to be low. They tell you that salt raises blood pressure, but if that's true, why is mine lower than my husband's? My weakness is sugar. I love chocolate and cake and whatnot. But I also LOVE veggies. Last night, my daughter and I did a tray bake with potatoes, carrots, zucchini, broccoli, red pepper, and chicken. (My husband was with our son at a chess tournament, so they didn't eat at home.) It was very healthy and relatively low carb, but it was my "cheat day" so I had some chocolate hazelnut cheesecake for dessert. I eat a lot of vegetables, but I'm also overweight and have been since high school, even though I ate pretty healthily in high school. I exercized every day, and my mom was on a strict diabetic diet, so all our meat was baked or broiled, not fried, we ate vegetables with every meal, and we didn't have dessert most of the time...I was still overweight. I don't think I CAN be thin without starving myself or otherwise going to extremes. If working out every day and eating a healthy diet didn't do it for me back then, I don't think it's possible. I'm just not made that way. The messaging can be really damaging because the extremes aren't healthy, either. If you have to starve yourself to be thin, then thin is not healthy for you. This whole "one size fits all" when it comes to what's healthy is so false.

 

[Songbird76]

Someone I went to high school with just posted a picture of their kid "reading" a book and saying how smart he is. It's taking everything in me to not be a teacher and tell him he's not actually reading... he's memorized the words and is looking at the pictures to know what words to say. That's a really bad reading habit. And I'm very passionate about teaching kids to read the right way.

But....how can you tell? How old is the kid? My daughter was reading at 4 or before, and I know it was reading, because she could take a book she'd never seen and read the words. I taught her to sound things out. We taught her the alphabet when she was two and she could sound out short words like "mom" and "Dad" her name, etc. I caught her reading a book to her brother when they were supposed to be napping. And when she was in first grade, I caught her reading a book and she had sounded out a 5-syllable word in it. It had a CD with it, where you listened to the book on the CD and read along....except she wasn't listening to the CD, had never listened to the CD. So she was absolutely reading, not looking at the pictures. When we were in a drug store and she was just 3 or 4, there was a shelf at eye level with adult toys, and she was looking and says "Look! That says play!" Yes....yes it does. Some kids do read really early.

 

[Lilofan]

That's exactly it. And what's fine for one person is bad for another. I use more salt than my husband does, but he has the high blood pressure, where mine tends to be low. They tell you that salt raises blood pressure, but if that's true, why is mine lower than my husband's? My weakness is sugar. I love chocolate and cake and whatnot. But I also LOVE veggies. Last night, my daughter and I did a tray bake with potatoes, carrots, zucchini, broccoli, red pepper, and chicken. (My husband was with our son at a chess tournament, so they didn't eat at home.) It was very healthy and relatively low carb, but it was my "cheat day" so I had some chocolate hazelnut cheesecake for dessert. I eat a lot of vegetables, but I'm also overweight and have been since high school, even though I ate pretty healthily in high school. I exercized every day, and my mom was on a strict diabetic diet, so all our meat was baked or broiled, not fried, we ate vegetables with every meal, and we didn't have dessert most of the time...I was still overweight. I don't think I CAN be thin without starving myself or otherwise going to extremes. If working out every day and eating a healthy diet didn't do it for me back then, I don't think it's possible. I'm just not made that way. The messaging can be really damaging because the extremes aren't healthy, either. If you have to starve yourself to be thin, then thin is not healthy for you. This whole "one size fits all" when it comes to what's healthy is so false.

The message to me was what's my numbers? Going to Quest getting blood drawn annually then meeting with my PCP. Cholesterol , sugar, iron etc numbers, don't lie , neither does BMI. That was my come to Jesus moment then I made not easy moves in my diet exercise and stress controlling. I discovered swimming years ago , now I lap swim daily at dawn then I voraciously eat a big breakfast to start my day. I dropped from 190 to a lean 140 over the years but one thing about regular intense cardio exercise is that I need to up my calorie intake to not drop more weight . My numbers are all in range over the last years but it is a commitment for life. Even at WDW, we look to stay in the resorts with a gym like Coronado, Contemporary and AK Lodge. Saratoga has the largest fully equipped gym on property. At Casita 4 at Coronado it has a 20 yard lap pool so that's a bonus . One thing about exercise is it is like an additive drug but its a drug I will gladly take.

 

[Songbird76]

The message to me was what's my numbers? Going to Quest getting blood drawn annually then meeting with my PCP. Cholesterol , sugar, iron etc numbers, don't lie , neither does BMI. That was my come to Jesus moment then I made not easy moves in my diet exercise and stress controlling. I discovered swimming years ago , now I lap swim daily at dawn then I voraciously eat a big breakfast to start my day. I dropped from 190 to a lean 140 over the years but one thing about regular intense cardio exercise is that I need to up my calorie intake to not drop more weight . My numbers are all in range over the last years but it is a commitment for life. Even at WDW, we look to stay in the resorts with a gym like Coronado, Contemporary and AK Lodge. Saratoga has the largest fully equipped gym on property. At Casita 4 at Coronado it has a 20 yard lap pool so that's a bonus . One thing about exercise is it is like an additive drug but its a drug I will gladly take.

I hate working out. I do it, but I hate it. Right now, mostly I walk for a couple of hours. I have bad joints, so I can't do a lot of intense workouts because I get a bursitis flare up. But I got really frustrated...when my kids were just little little, I started working out every day. I was doing a cardio party from Beach body. I was eating really healthy, had cut out most of my sugar intake, reduced carbs, and after 3 months of this, I had only lost 10 pounds. Meanwhile, my husband wasn't even working out at all, reduced his carbs and lost 40 pounds in half the time it took me to lose my 10. Then one day, I went to go down the stairs, took one step and felt a sort of pop and there was this excruciating pain and I had to sit down on the top step. I could hardly walk for 3 weeks. My doctor thought I had torn a muscle, but it turned out to be bursitis in my hip. It's never really gone away completely, though most of the time, I'm ok. I can walk now, and I can ride my bike, but I can't do anything that involves squatting or lunging, and I can't do anything that involves suspending my right leg up, like side kicks or front kicks. I physically can't do it. And when I have a flare up, I can't even get my pants on and off without sitting down and using my hands to pick up my right leg. I always have problems to this day with standing up when I've been sitting for longer than 15-30 minutes. I have to put my weight on my left leg and slide my right leg under me and then walk slowly. It takes a few minutes before it's properly aligned and I can actually walk, and then I'm perfectly fine. So I can not do the regular workouts that I used to do. But I try to walk a couple of miles on the days I don't have to work. But even at the height of my working out and healthy eating, I just couldn't lose much weight. I can't get down under about 230 pounds no matter what I do, so now I figure there's very little sense in working so hard for no results when I don't get to enjoy my life. So I take my walks, and I eat my veggies, but I allow myself some junkfood, too. It's just not worth making myself miserable to be "thin" when it doesn't seem attainable.