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Natter 74: Ready or Not

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msbelle - Sep 24, 2015 6:57:06 pm PDT #5908 of 30003

I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I helped a friend with a college project. They are doing a SNAP food challenge for a week - $31.5 for a week's worth of food. It is such a good exercise to do, hard, but good. Just doing it for a week is very limiting, but it does not let you have the advantage of building a pantry like you would over a month or two.

Still, we got a week's worth of food and were under budget by a few cents. I think I may do this at a point in the future, for the moment I am going to focus on whittling down the pantry and buying as little as possible.

Our groceries for $31.50:

1 whole chicken
1 can cream of mushroom soup
2 lbs brown rice
1 can black beans with jalapeno
1 bunch celery
1 large sweet potato
4 red onions
1 head iceberg lettuce
1 lb spinach
1 package baby carrots
salt/pepper
1 carton oatmeal
1 granny smith apple
cinnamon
spice package with 5 Italian spices not mixed

Burrell - Sep 24, 2015 7:34:03 pm PDT #5909 of 30003

Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Wow, that's a great exercise. I should try it with my students the next time I teach the food section.

aurelia - Sep 24, 2015 8:28:00 pm PDT #5910 of 30003

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Aww, I just read a thank you email from my grandmother. Her birthday was last week (89, I think) and I sent her an orchid and some chocolate covered strawberries. She said she'd never had chocolate covered strawberries before! I had no idea. Good thing she liked them!

Calli - Sep 25, 2015 1:20:46 am PDT #5911 of 30003

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

It's so nice that your grandmother could have a new, good experience at 89.

Kat - Sep 25, 2015 3:13:12 am PDT #5912 of 30003

"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

meara, it's a miracle that they found and returned your kindle. So good.

Living in Cleveland and commuting for weekends in New York sounds banana pants. Which is, of course, the point.

sarameg - Sep 25, 2015 3:50:14 am PDT #5913 of 30003

Got kids to school successfully. 6,8 and 13. Talkypants in the morning. My brain kinda hurts now.

Aaaand cramps hit halfway there, with a vengeance. Got to work and things are barfing all over the place. Today will be fun.

-t - Sep 25, 2015 3:56:08 am PDT #5914 of 30003

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Aw, grandma of aurelia. Love that story.

Do not want to get out of bed.

Dana - Sep 25, 2015 4:41:56 am PDT #5915 of 30003

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I did not realize my Friday morning meeting was an hour earlier. Whoops.

On the other hand, Boehner is resigning from congress! This was unexpected. I guess he got tired of fighting the nutsos.

Consuela - Sep 25, 2015 4:49:33 am PDT #5916 of 30003

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Boehner is resigning from congress!

The only bad thing about this is the replacement will likely be worse.

I think I'm finally over my jetlag: I did not want to get up at 6:15.

Tom Scola - Sep 25, 2015 5:01:22 am PDT #5917 of 30003

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Boehner was trying to stop another shutdown. This is probably a sign that he lost that struggle.

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