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Things that frustrate us all

KimMH said:
My older son never met a food he liked. Candy-now that’s a diff story. He’s 30 and still spindly as a bean.
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There is a little girl across the road that he plays with, she hasn’t started school yet and she’s already taller than him.

He does eat when it’s his favourite, bacon pasta, and not a morsel goes to waste. Sausage and chips too. And crumpets. Anything else is hit and miss.

It’s so frustrating when he’s adamant that he doesn’t like something, like gravy, and then he’ll try it and it becomes his favourite for a short while.

The other one will try anything, i have to drag, literally, his face from the fresh fish counter. The more gnarly and aggressively primordial it looks, the more appetising he finds it. I can’t win.
 
Butters said:
There is a little girl across the road that he plays with, she hasn’t started school yet and she’s already taller than him.

He does eat when it’s his favourite, bacon pasta, and not a morsel goes to waste. Sausage and chips too. And crumpets. Anything else is hit and miss.

It’s so frustrating when he’s adamant that he doesn’t like something, like gravy, and then he’ll try it and it becomes his favourite for a short while.

The other one will try anything, i have to drag, literally, his face from the fresh fish counter. The more gnarly and aggressively primordial it looks, the more appetising he finds it. I can’t win.
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That does seem to be the way it goes.

Grammy called me Hoover because I ate everything leftover from my brother's plates - I had a terrible time understanding my son just wasn't a foodie. My baby bro who also never ate has two daughters who have never finished a full plate in their lives and he and their mother were a lot less worried about that. :shrug:
 
RandyS said:
The coming of Summer.

1. I HATE the hot weather
2. I HATE that my SMUD bill will go up now that I'll need my air conditioner nonstop
3. I HATE that my lawn will turn brown and with Sacramento on water rationing there's nothing I can do about it. We only get two days a week to water the grass and with my disability I'm not always able to do it on the assigned days.
4. The excessive heat causes the surrounding fields to catch fire and burn to the point that the fire dept. can't keep up with it which only makes the Sacramento valley hotter.
5. The excessive heat causes me to vomit up almost every meal so eating can be an "adventure".

We need to abolish summer forever. The only thing to do really.
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Since in my country only hospitals and airports have air condition we've developed a lot of tricks which should work for you, too:
1. hot weather is a perfect excuse for eating lots of ice cream
2. there are many tricks to keep your place cooler: air it during the night when it's cool. When the sun comes up, close all windows and doors and close the shutters/blinds.
During the night, hang up wet sheets in front of the windows - the evaporating moisture will cool the room down some 3-4°. If you feel hot, spritz a bit of water over your head with a spray flacon /nebulizer. The finer the droplets that rain down on you, the colder they will feel (be warned - fine spray can feel icy and give you quite a shock. If you have heart probs, better wrap a wet towel around your calfs instead).
3. plant trees. Their shade protects your lawn and it'll stay green much longer.
4. no remedy against human stupidity, I'm afraid. These fires often get started by glass shards and other trash. And by idiots smoking.
5. try ginger. Any form of it helps against sickness. It doesn't make a difference whether you drink ginger tea, eat ginger jam, cook spicy chicken wtth lots of ginger or eat candied ginger in milk chocolate (my favourite)
 
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rhubarbodendron said:
Since in my country only hospitals and airports have air condition we've developed a lot of tricks which should work for you, too:
1. hot weather is a perfect excuse for eating lots of ice cream
2. there are many tricks to keep your place cooler: air it during the night when it's cool. When the sun comes up, close all windows and doors and close the shutters/blinds.
During the night, hang up wet sheets in front of the windows - the evaporating moisture will cool the room down some 3-4°. If you feel hot, spritz a bit of water over your head with a spray flacon /nebulizer. The finer the droplets that rain down on you, the colder they will feel (be warned - fine spray can feel icy and give you quite a shock. If you have heart probs, better wrap a wet towel around your calfs instead).
3. plant trees. Their shade protects your lawn and it'll stay green much longer.
4. no remedy against human stupidity, I'm afraid. These fires often get started by glass shards and other trash. And by idiots smoking.
5. try ginger. Any form of it helps against sickness. It doesn't make a difference whether you drink ginger tea, eat ginger jam, cook spicy chicken wtth lots of ginger or eat candied ginger in milk chocolate (my favourite)
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love these ideas- will definitely try this summer!
 
KimMH said:
love these ideas- will definitely try this summer!
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I do too. I already eat alot of Ice cream. There are times when that's a more effective treatment for my stomach acid than the pill my doctor gives me for it.

I never heard of ginger as a cure for stomach problems. I'll have to try it.
 
Butters said:
I was speaking generally, I’m fair skinned and burn quickly so can’t enjoy the sun as the sun seekers do, but I do notice the difference in everyone else when the sun is out, in contrast to the low grey perma cloud we often have. Everyone beams.

I think you’re in the same part of the country as me, it’s been great to see Morecambe alive this weekend, an early Christmas for the ice cream vans.
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I'm on the Blackpool side of Morecombe Bay, but I spent most of the weekend working. On the plus side work has AC. ;)
 
Blackpool Tower, Yup. Piers, yup. Beach with the tide out, yup. The Big One! YUP! :D

Fish 'n' Chips, no way in hell.

Oh, and I refused to walk on the glass block in Blackpool Tower. After that, I come to find out that the tower is approximately half the size of Eifel Tower. Oh, no. Wouldn't be going up there!
 
I'm glad you do! :) I know some that do and some that can't stand it. :shrug:

My current, long-term frustration: there are so many things that I would love to make a career out of but I most likely will never have another career. I guess there's a reason I'm getting the benefits I am right now. :(
 
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