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My son has a rash. It has been spreading across his body alarmingly fo the past day, and caused me some concern. After my mom got home from eating lunch with a friend (and in the privacy in my mind when I found out, I asked, "You have a friend?") I asked her to take me to an emergency clinic. Despite its name, they do NOT accept walk-in patients. As I was finding this out and preparing to leave, TGRR called me to say that my son had called him this morning, and he was making sure that I got my phone back. I mentioned that he had a terrible rash, and he advised me to get him checked out as soon as possible, good enough advice for any symptom with no obvious cause. It turned out to be caused by a virus, and there's nothing they can do except wait it out, so the trip to the ER was informative, but still rather expensive for my broke ass. My mom and I returned home to find their new dog had got into my room and chewed some things up, and had got up on the table and eaten my son's newest pair of shoes (replacements for the ones she chewed up before).

After my dad got home later on, I could hear her bitching about how I thought she knew nothing (she never offered me advice on what to do, and after we left the hosptial she even said that it could have been something), and how I'd never get as much money from my ex for child support as I 'was led to believe' (she's never even had to deal with such things, nor has she, to my knowledge anyway, done any research on the subject), and how 'not smart' I am (my dad replied, "She's stupid!") and a whole lot of other ridiculous nonsense.

Where do they get off? I mean, really? What gives them the right to say nasty things in a voice loud enough to tell half the city what they think, especially about people they don't know? I am including myself in this category, because they don't really know anything about me, and this suits me fine. I mean, sure, its probably very stressful on them for me to move back in with no job or other income, but why does she have to get all melodramatic? "Ohhhh, I just want my life to end!" Direct quote. "I can't afford to keep doing this!" After finding what her stupid dog had done, and aimed at me, I could just tell. It's her fucking dog, maybe she ought to train the stupid idiot, or keep her outside, or put her in a crate when nobody ss home, instead of blaming me for everything.

And it's like this almost every day.  I am getting so sick of this shit, and I have nowhere else to go. Well, One thought that keeps rolling around in  my mind is, "You want your life to end? That can be arranged."

This is really good, and I actually got this from my first ex.

Ground beef
Condensed cream of mushroom soup (as many cans as pounds of ground beef you are using [2 cans to 2 pounds])
1/2 as much milk as you would be using making the soup for real (1 can milk per 2 cans soup)
Rice (1 cup per 2 lbs meat)

Cook up ground beef. Don't forget to season well. Add cream of mushroom soup and milk. Let simmer on low for a while. The longer you do so, the better the taste will devolop. Stir frequently, so it won't burn. Cook rice and add just before serving. Enjoy!

So I had a molar pulled two months ago. It was a hellish ordeal for me because I metabolize the anisthetic quickly. And it makes me shake a lot, so I can't sit still. But anyway. When my dentist considered himself finished, I heard him say to the nurse "There's still a piece in there." Well, I wasn't going to do anything about it, they had to cut the bitch out while the numbness wore off and stabbed me in the cheek besides, so I was done with dentists for a while.

Today, I had half a big bag of Tostito chips, and just now I pulled a big piece of tooth out of my gums. I'm kind of relived, because I was worried that I'd have to go back to get it taken care of, and I already owe them money.

Yummies! SOO good to eat when you get teeth pulled...


Ingerdients:
2 1/2 - 3 pounds tomatoes
1 or 2 onions, whatever kind you like
8 cloves garlic
2 lbs carrots
oil
1 quart chicken stock
1/2 cup cream
Salt, pepper

Preheat oven to 375.
Quarter tomatoes, remove center parts and seeds. Peel and slice onion. Peel and dice carrots into small pieces, though if you have baby carrots, just use a meat tenderizer to smash them. Put vegetables into a large glass pan and add oil, making sure that everthing is coated. Salt and pepper it if you like. Put into oven and roast for 30 - 45 minutes, or until onions and tomatoes are carmelized.


Remove vegetables from oven and put them in the pot. Boil until it reduces by a third. Blender-fie, and let simmer for 20 more minutes, adding cream to tone down the spicy if needed. Enjoy thoroughly.

WHEN MAKING CHICKEN STOCK FOR THIS:

Use

1 whole fryer chicken
2 New Mexico chiles, roasted a few seconds over an open flame, de-stemmed and seeds removed
Hunk of fresh ginger
Black Pepper (lots)
White Pepper (lots)
Turmeric (1 TBSP)
1 orange, cut in half
1 1/2 garlic bulbs
Salt


Stick all that stuff in a pot and boil it up. Do whatever you like with the chicken when you're done. Shoot, put it in the soup!

Hokay, So this is my first day here, right, and I'm looking through old threads and whatnot, clicking links that I really shouldn't what with my fragile, naiive mindset and all, and I click on this one one....

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Offended    <------------NSFW
This one in fact. And so horrified was I that I came out of lurker mode to post about something possibly years old and pages upon pages back.

And now I can only think about the zombies. Yes, zombies.

I feel absolutely ridiculous, cuz I can't even walk down a semi-darkened hall without going "Hogosh, zombies are there???" I stood in the doorway of my bedroom fully five minutes to try and figure out why, with all the lights off, IT WAS SO DARK in one area of my bedroom. And I keep looking over my shoulder trying to catch the damn things sneaking up on me. The only thing that might walk out of thereright now is my cat, and I bet if he did, I'd jump out of my skin. I'm so distracted that I can't even type right, I have to keep going back and fixing stuff.


I just want to go to bed, and I can't even do that now. Curse you zombies. And curse you, me.

[1 tsp almond extract1 tsp vanilla extract]

Yummy deliciousness.
(Edited for perfection.)
Beforehand, make sure applejack (find it at your local liquor store in the brandy section), butter and shortening are very cold.
All crust ingredients are cold.
Crust -
2 3/4 all purpose flour
1 1/2 sticks of butter (6 ounces or 3/4 cup)
1 tsp salt
3 TBSP sugar 1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup of applejack minimum (substitute other liquid of choice) enough apple cider/juice (I used cider) to make it feel all velvety after you've finished adding the liquid.
2 ounces vegetable shortening
1 tsp almond extract
1 tsp vanilla extract

Filling -
3 to 3 1/2 pounds apples (Galas, braeburn, and fuji.)
3 TBSP flour
2 TBSP apple jelly
1 TBSP apple cider or juice
Sugar
Clear vanilla extract (not clear, but non--imitation works fine too)
Almond extract
Orange extract

To make dough -
Mix together flour, salt, and sugar in a large bowl. Cut into small pieces the sticks of butter, mixing into the flour with a large fork as you go. Mashing it in there works pretty good to get it more broken up. Add applejack cider or juice a tablespoon or two at a time, until texture is soft and holds together well and has a velvety consistency but not very sticky. Divide into two halves, shape into discs, wrap in plastic wrap and stick in the fridge at least an hour.

Note: The smaller you cut the butter chunks, the less stirring you have to do. It wouldn't hurt to have some of the butter be room temp, either.

Note: Apple juice/apple and orange koolaid type stuff works pretty good too as the liquid. The amount of liquid should be less than what I used, according to how damp a climate you live in.

To make the filling -
Peel core and slice apples. The smaller the slices the better. Coat each whole apple equivalent of slices  in 1/2 a tablespoon of sugar. Add to this a small amount of almond, vanilla, or orange extract, just enough to make all of the sugar damp but not enough to make it half-liquidy, about 1/4 teaspoon. Put apple slices in large colander over larger pot, put in refridgerator for  90 minutes Overnight. Take apples out, stir so that the apples on top get rotated with the ones underneath, and put them back in the fridge for another 90 minutes.  Take apples and put them in a large bowl, saving liquid in pot. mix into apple slices the flour, jelly, and cider or juice.


To assemble the pie -
Grease a pan (9 1/2" x 2" round, 8" x 8" x 2" square). Flour a clean counter top or large piece of parchment or wax paper. Take one disc of dough out, roll it until it is the thickness of 10 sheets of printer paper. Put dough in pan. Take apples and put down one layer of apples.  In center of pan put a pie bird or an aluminum foil cone. put remaning apples in, building a mound around the cone. Pour any liquid left over in the bowl the apples were in over the apples in the pie crust.


Take liquid in pot and set it to boil, but don't overboil it. While this is happening, rollout the second disc of dough. Cut out a hole in the center or lay strips around the aluminum foil cone. Press edges together. Brush reduced apple goop over top of crust. Preheat oven to 425 (you can do this while putting the filling in the crust), putting the pie back in the fridge if necessary. Put pie on floor of oven for twenty mintues to cook the bottom. Move to lowest rack position for another thirty minutes. Let cool for 4 hours before enjoying.

DO NOT put the pie on your oven's heating element if it has one. Obviously.
I hope it works out for you, if you use my recipe.