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Skriven 2009-01-15 17:00:51 av Carol Shenkenberger (26236.cooks)
  Kommentar till text 19686 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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 >  > Bluefish doesn't travel well and doesn't
 >  > freeze well. This stuff was probably same day fresh; I wouldn't
 >  > have recommended it on Sunday.
 >  CS> We can get it here quite fresh.  Seasonal though.
 > 
 > Got to be better than quite fresh to be quite good!

It was alive and in the bottom tank at the local Asian market?  We put it in
our cooler filled with water and they were still swimming when we got home to
do the dastardly deed.

You are right.  They do not freeze well or taste very good 2 days from the
water and dead as a doornail.

 >  CS> Same here, just one mistake that may not have been one.  Dindt handle
 >  CS> it as well as I should have but hindsight is 20/20.
 > 
 > I can see the cute flirtatious young girl breaking a boy's heart!
 > Turned him to evil drugs and self-abuse no doubt. Last time it
 > happened to me, it started 13 months ago, but the hits keep a-comin'.

Naw, he was fine I am sure, but I hurt him worse than was needful while
having that 'the way to hell is paved with good intentions' thing going on.
Simple really.  He loved me, I loved him as a friend.  I loved him *too* much
as a friend to do the worst thing i could have done to him which was marry
him when he asked when I knew there was no spark nor ever would be one.  To
this day I 'want my brother soul' back as a brother but have not heard from
him in 30 years.  He's a very successful rich guy now which i knew then he'd
be.  Were i cruel, I'd have said yes for his money.

He became what I think, is temporarily suicidal so I called his Mom (wince, I
didnt know what else to do!) so thats where I'll never know if I was wrong or
right.  I do know she came right down to make sure he was ok and stayed 3
weeks.  I do know he was drunk as a skunk when she got there and so bad she
had to take him to the hospital which didnt release him for 3 days.  His Mom
called me back to say he'd be ok and she'd miss having me as a DIL.

I know little more than what google shows (as successful as I could tell he'd
be).

My evil secret is sometimes when finances stress me, I kinda wish I'd taken
him up on the offer as I knew then he'd take care of me all my life and I'd
have been rich.  Meantime though, my life has been very rich taking care of
Don.

 
 >  -=> Carol Shenkenberger said to Nancy Backus <=-
 > 
 >  >  > And hey, hope the tests come back negative for the
 >  >  > lupus.. my sister just
 >  >  CS> Thanks!  Gotta wait to see test results.
 >  > When do you find out?
 >  CS> Feb unless really bad.
 > 
 > Holding my breath for you until Feb.

Good news for Don.  His cardio stress test seems to be ok.  Had it today and
we get the full results later but preliminary seems to show his heart is more
heathy than most his age (even non-smokers his age).

 >  -=> Carol Shenkenberger said to Jim Weller <=-
 > 
 >  >  CS> Mailed the box today.  Of all the odd requests, she wanted some
 >  >  CS> real grits.
 >  > For a German lady living in Singapore? I'd say so.
 > 
 > I should have asked you for a reference: I'm in Singapore now.


Hehehe.  Too late!  No time to ask her (she emails only once a week or so)
but on the off chance, tell me where you are staying in email and i'll shoot
that to her?

 >  CS> Wham.  Orders changed and she sitting in Japan with kids and hubby at
 >  CS> sea.  So, we met up and I took her grocery shopping at the comisary and
 >  CS> later at the japanese in town places and we matched up.
 > 
 > Funny how things start up. I wonder whether the kids' life paths
 > will be affected by the languages they learned.

More by the culture shift than the language I think?

 >  CS> in common' and teach new ones buy holding up an item.
 >  CS> My german was 'far from impeccable' (took 2 years in HS 30 years
 >  CS> back!) so you'd hear things like 'ein bitte tori with shmenji' as we
 >  CS> chatted along the isles.  (a bit of chicken and mushrooms).
 > 
 > Have you ever heard of a language called Europanto? It's kind of

Europanto or Esperanto?

 > bit silly. Ein pequeno poulet mit mushrooms!

I can follow that!  Also 'Uno tori mit beer und Bok Choy' (a dish of hers
with beer, cornish hen, and stuffed with bok choy and many spices).

 >  CS> By the time i left, she was fluent in english.  If i recall it right,
 >  CS> that took verbally about 8 months but longer for written.
 >  CS> Both of us suffer slightly at not knowing english name (if it even has
 >  CS> one) for many foods we saw in asia and cooked all the time.  Didnt
 >  CS> stop us from shopping!
 > 
 > As I have discovered to my chagrin, nothing prevents women
 > from shopping.

Hehe true!  One nice little befefit of retiring soon is I have a reason to go
clothes shopping.  I have little for the workplace, being never needed it.

                xxcarol
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