Preparing to store your summer barbecue leftovers? Take a tip from the Very Official and Real Institute of Food Experts: Set aside a separate shelf in your refrigerator for leftover hot dogs, hamburgers and ribs. It’s neater and more convenient because you can just toss the items on the shelf without even looking, no really, just toss them in there, it’ll be fine.
Seems legit, Sharon H.
If your hot dogs can get in the fridge all by themselves, they might be past their sell-by date…
I’m thinking that its time to turn on the air conditioning
I have seen Huskies embrace this chill!
And hi to Ricky and Bibi’s Mom…hope you are well.
Thank you, Dulcie, I’m doing a bit better than I was all weekend, but I’m still very shaken. That’s partly why I put myself in “time out” here for a couple of days. It’s a little embarrassing to realize one is having what used to be called a nervous breakdown only after seeing the evidence of it online.
Is that puppy even real? What a kissable face!
Oh that wasn’t evidence of anything of the sort! But glad you are feeling better.
Thanks, that’s kind, Dulcie. And I know you’re sincere. But it was a breakdown, all the same. Reading between the lines, and from long experience of my various emotional disorders, I can see that I wasn’t coping. I realize, of course, I was hardly the only one in the world having these problems, and that others who suffered and are suffering had/have far more immediate cause. But I was shaken to the core, and am still working my way back to something resembling my own “normal.” Which I don’t think will ever be the same as my past “normal.”
Ok I am understanding a bit more now. It was something that went beyond the unfortunate provocation. I don’t pretend to know what you are dealing with emotionally but I have had a couple of wake up call episodes myself. I realized that telling myself I am coping is not actually coping so had to take my head out of the sand and re-evaluate my methods. Emotional healing requires so many tools and some days I look and find the toolbox empty. And I am also realizing that I may never get back to my normal either! Normal feels so very far away some days.
Again, I don’t pretend to know your burden – just want to say be good to yourself and take care. 💕
Thank you, Dulcie. I don’t think the pain I’m feeling these days is unique. I’m sure there are many who feel it even more deeply, and have reason to feel it more personally. But because of some quirks of brain chemistry, I just have less resilience than many people. Or fewer internal coping mechanisms. Something like that. It seems you have experienced this yourself, and you have my sympathy, too.
R&B’s Mom, you are all good from my angle. Trite as I am about to write— these really are unprecedented times. So! We have an incredible group here; all of you peeps are the best, let’s keep sharing our thoughts, support, emotions and yaaa, it may get rocky sometimes but heck, friendships go through ups and downs but!– we’re still friends.
Thanks, fkaWaldenPond! (Capitalization courtesy of copy-and-paste. Is that how you spell it?)
Philosophical question of the day (no answer required): ARE these unprecedented times? Or should we have seen this coming? Part of my struggle is with the feeling it’s the latter, and that I should have done more to avert it. What I could have done, I’m not sure. Nothing that would have tipped the balance all by myself, I suppose. But perhaps I could have done more.
I think we could have guessed that something might happen. But then again it might not have. It comes down to the right conditions at the right time… a “perfect storm” as they say. And yes, I think these things are unprecedented FOR US. In OUR time. That counts.
Yes, that is actually how I spell my moniker Ricky’s & Bibi’s Mom! 🙂 Well, one thing I am pretty certain about is (another trite expression coming)… you cannot change what you or other people have done in the past –but you and I, can react and act differently now and going forward. I offer this– give you and other people forgiveness. I am not a ‘religious’ person, truly. But the phrase that keeps coming back in my mind these past few days is this– and I had to search it to get it correct “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” I hope writing that doesn’t offend too many here. Lately, I am finding so many truths in our collective books, wisdoms, parables of the past. How’s this for a final trite saying…this ain’t homo sapiens first shit show rodeo, if you get my drift. Look to our history, and learn from it.
Oh yeah FKA…you got that right!
and be kind. 🙂
Really have to stop scrolling down in the morning–my brain goes SPLORT and I can’t continue working.
Based on the pudge-itude, chubby here has been eating like several kings.
The Very Official and Real Institute of Food Experts or VORIFE for short.
Stacked puppies!(there is a mug handle keeping the door open for air)
They’re like polar bear cubs that someone ordered from Blue Apron and put in the icebox to keep cool.
I’ll take one puppy, chilled, please. To go.
It’s the old (pick ethnicity/nationality) curse. “May you live in interesting times.”