I remember when I was little, my mom would take me and my sibling to McDonalds in the winter with some other moms and kids, and we would spend like 2 hours in the playland. She worked nightshifts (still does, 2-4 nights a week for 21 years... don't know how she does it) and would take a nap while we played with our friends and the other moms watched us. Very fond memories looking back at it.
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She spent about an hour in the playland afterwards. She has a pretty solid fear of heights but she really likes to try to push herself, at school she'll go partway up the ladder to the slide at recess multiple times to try to conquer it. Anyway, we were eating and she looked over at the play area and said "can we go there when we're done, I think it would be good to work on my fear of heights." Sure, whatever. So, we did, and she spent about 20 minutes incrementally working her way up from about a quarter of the way to about halfway and then coming back down to calm down. I encouraged her to keep going up one step at a time.
Eventually, two younger girls arrived, about 3 and 6, and the three of them became instant friends. The youngest wanted to go down the slide and had no issues going all the way up but she was afraid to come down. Her sister said she would wait at the bottom for her but that wasn't quite good enough. So she said to my kid, "why don't you go up there and help her go down the slide, and I'll wait at the bottom?" My kid was like, "well....see...I'm kind of nervous..." but she went up about two more steps than she had before. Then, after thinking about it for a second, she was all LEEROY JENKINS* and ran up the rest of the way. After that she went down the slide about 50 times before we finally left. She was quite proud of herself.
*look it up on YouTube if you don't get the reference
Now the BIG question is.... Did she at least have chicken?!!
Don't worry I get that one!
I'm glad you got some quality time with your daughter. I just had to jump off a 10-meter platform into a pool for my swimming class. Wasnt fun at first but it got better.
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She did, but let me tell you, she is a heathen. She ordered a six-piece McNuggets and an Oreo McFlurry, and she dipped her nuggets into the McFlurry to eat them. She learned this degenerate behavior from one of her older siblings.
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That's pretty common here. I think they have some kind of "put Ranch on everything" indoctrination program in the preschools. It's one of the reasons I can't pass as a native Minnesotan.That is like my daughter dipping her fries in Ranch Dressing.
Back when I was in college, when we went to McDs for $.50 cheeseburgers, we would often get vanilla milkshakes (or whatever they were called at the time) and use a hot apple pie as a spoon.
That was some serious late night munchies!
mmm, the real fried apple pies. The ones that were hotter than lava when you'd bite into them.
McDonald's lost their way!!
Yes!!!
The deep fried hot apply pies were the best... Agreed...
Our youngest son used to use French's Mustard on frozen pizza.... Yuck... But he loved it... Ellios... Not the best frozen pizza.. if there even is such a thing as "good" frozen pizza... <eg>
Our youngest son used to use French's Mustard on frozen pizza.... Yuck... But he loved it... Ellios... Not the best frozen pizza.. if there even is such a thing as "good" frozen pizza... <eg>
Their is:
Homerun Inn frozen pizza. Hands down best frozen pizza that I actually crave.
Publix has it here!
It's expensive at $10.99 but worth it.
Once in a blue moon they'll have them at
2 for 1 and when they do, I buy a few boxes.
Ellio's isn't too bad. I had some a couple days ago. I buy a little bag of Hormel pepperoni that they have in front of the meat section and throw those on top of the Ellio's before baking.
Absolutely changes it!
I learned that in a YouTube video about frozen pizza!
We just buy pizza and freeze it. We warm it up in a hot covered pan with a splash of water in it (to create a bit of steam). The hot pan makes the crust crispy and the steam melts the cheese from above.
We will periodically get Pepe’s Apizza (New Haven style) and over buy, specifically so that we have some to freeze.
We will periodically get Pepe’s Apizza (New Haven style) and over buy, specifically so that we have some to freeze.
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There is a local outfit called Heggie's that makes frozen pizzas, mostly marketed toward small bars without a full kitchen. It's very good. You can find it at some grocers and gas stations too.
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I had an MRI scheduled for late morning so I got up and did a quick honing on my new razor, wanted to make sure it would take and hold an edge before taking it apart for further cleanup. It did very well and the extra curve made for a very efficient shave, since a straight stroke is essentially a scything stroke. Only thing I had to note was that occasionally the actual cutting angle is significantly different than what it would be with a straight edge. But the net result was a closer result on the neck and throat than usual, so the cleanup pass was really just a touchup. Pretty great.
Soap was Dolomiti, brush was the Paladin, and touchup was R41GS with a new Bic. Finished with Bog Water again.
Be well.
Soap was Dolomiti, brush was the Paladin, and touchup was R41GS with a new Bic. Finished with Bog Water again.
Be well.
Hey, Matt. What goes into your big water? You’ve been using it on and off for a long time. Did you post a recipe?
Congratulations to your daughter on helping another kid get to slide and sending prayers the MRI directs your medical team to do what your health needs.
Absolutely!
Absolutely!
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I think I did post it, but to save us both from searching for it: I made tinctures of yarrow leaves, lavender, and lemon peel using 150 proof grain alcohol. I think I put a bit of rosemary in with the yarrow. Once those were ready I just combined the liquid. Added a tiny bit of glycerine and some lavender and lemon essential oils to bring put the fragrance. I ended up topping it up with about an equal portion of grain alcohol at some point.
I called it Bog Water because I only filtered it mimimally so as to retain as much goodness from the herbs as I could, and as a result it has a hazy, greenish appearance.
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Hopefully nothing, in this case. For whatever reason when I had the one last year they didn't look at my neck...my new neuro just wants to rule out potentially catastrophic vascular issues, even though he thinks it's pretty unlikely. Seems prudent.
