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18265. arkymalarky - 1/18/2006 2:18:45 AM I am not surfing with my laptop while taking tickets for the ballgame. It took so long to do everything I had to do so I had to call and get someone to cover for me, so I'm going to work on a Friday night in a few weeks. We do one a year.
But I am registered for Tuesday and Wednesday night classes--Intro to Research and Public School Law.
And my car is licensed, and my hair is cut. The ordeal for registering the car and for classes was ridiculously convoluted and time consuming. 18266. wonkers2 - 1/18/2006 2:38:26 AM Tabasco is a more healthful substitute for salt, according to my doctor. And you shouldn't add enough so that the potatoes or whatever you add it to burn your mouth. 18267. wonkers2 - 1/18/2006 2:39:43 AM Mashed potatoes taste is a bit blah without lots of butter and salt. 18268. judithathome - 1/18/2006 6:58:47 AM Wonkers, there is no amount of Tabasco small enough NOT to burn my mouth...I am developing a sensitivity to peppers no matter how mild. It's like what happened to me with pineapple, a gradual thing. I used to be able to eat peppers and sauces made form them but over the years, they have built up to practically scalding my mouth, even in the tiniest amount.
So I will be using a little sea salt and real butter on these potatoes because I want to eat some myself. And thanks, Arky, for the report on how good they are! ;-) 18269. Macnas - 1/18/2006 12:20:21 PM "To the Right Honourable Mr Pitt.
Sir,
Never poor Wight of a Dedicator had less hopes from his Dedication, than I have from this of mine; for it is written in a bye corner of the kingdom, and in a retir'd thatch'd house, where I live in a constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles,--but much more so, when he laughs, it adds something to this Fragment of Life."
18270. Macnas - 1/18/2006 12:29:28 PM Finally,
"Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it." 18271. judithathome - 1/18/2006 2:54:46 PM Troubles with the mother-in-law, Mac? ;-)
18272. Macnas - 1/18/2006 5:36:45 PM Never, she's afraid of me and I can't stand the sight of her. So, we manage to avoid each other quite nicely. 18273. Ms. No - 1/18/2006 6:27:33 PM Keoni and I will just have to eat your share of the peppers and chilis in this world.
I was out the other night at this little hole in the wall Mexican restaurant that had the best salsa and I immediately thought of Keoni and how much he would have liked it. 18274. Ms. No - 1/18/2006 6:36:37 PM The whole in-law thing is kind of weird. I mean, it makes sense in a lot of ways but it's surprising how consitent the frictions are. It shouldn't be, I suppose....surprising, that is.
I look at my brother's past relationships and his now wife and realize that my mother could be kind of intimidating. She's smart and accomplished but young and beautiful. I think she's not matronly enough to put young women at ease. She's not one of those women that can't let go of their sons or has to be part of the daily life or all decisions or anything. Seriously, she'd be a great mother-in-law to have as far as I'm concerned, but I'm not scared of her so I guess my view is skewed.
Says the woman who doesn't ever bring her dates home to meet the family. ;-> 18275. thoughtful - 1/18/2006 6:45:48 PM Just keep in mind that in-laws are a temporary thing. I have none any longer and while the pain and the hassle they shared with us is gone, so is the love and support which is unreplaceable. 18276. RickNelson - 1/18/2006 6:49:33 PM Thanks arky.
Inlaws, for me, distance takes care of anything and everything, except--
My wife misses them, and her sibs, and all that goes with family and hometown. It's hard for her, and she can be troubled in a not flattrering way when she gets to missing them. It's when she's mad at some one of my family, here, that her tone gets out of wack with anything calm.
Yeeouch
But, we've got the boy, and boy, it's fun. 18277. Macnas - 1/18/2006 6:54:14 PM Strange and silly reasons why I don't get along with my mother in-law, mostly to do with the way she tried to bully my wife. She just got such a shock when I told her to cease, desist and go away (in words only an angry Irishman can do justice) that she has kept out of my way since.
And happily, no longer tries to bully or manipulate the Missus. 18278. RickNelson - 1/18/2006 6:56:22 PM Fabulous Mac.
And that support equates some good news for the Missus.
18279. Macnas - 1/18/2006 7:00:18 PM Well, my father in-law was a fine fellow, and I got on with him with no bother at all. He's dead with a long time.
Whatever feelings my Missus has towards her mother are her own and other than how it makes her feel, I have no thought for her mother one way or another. 18280. wonkers2 - 1/18/2006 7:06:01 PM Mac, As thoughtfully pointed out, the aggravation is temporary. But how temporary is temporary? I suffered an insufferable mother-in-law for more than 30 years. She's now six feet under, bless her mean-spirited soul! She was bad news from the beginning, but the last couple of her 89 years, after dementia set in, were a nightmare. 18281. Ms. No - 1/18/2006 7:19:15 PM Good for you, Mac and good for your Missus. I know a lot of people choose not to interfere in those parent child struggles, but to my mind the whole point of leaving your parents and cleaving to your mate means that is your first family. That is the person you have chosen forsaking all others and if that means you have to battle your parents or her parents then so be it.
18282. Magoseph - 1/18/2006 8:17:37 PM If you happen to have a busybody mother-in-law who discusses every bit of information she manages to get out of her son or her daughter, you have lost your privacy. A difficult mother-in-law becomes one when one of the spouses cannot stop to confide in his or her mother. 18283. Magoseph - 1/18/2006 8:22:03 PM I had one like that who would talk to the other siblings, aunts, uncles and grandparents. They in turn talked to their wives. Everyone knew everything about us and it just about drove me crazy. 18284. PelleNilsson - 1/18/2006 10:29:55 PM My position on mashed potatos is that it has to be made from potatos, not from some anonyous substance in a tinfoil bag.
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