Dang it, if people keep talkin' egg nog, I'm gonna hafta go to the grocery store. That ain't gonna make my doc happy. James, I'll buy egg nog year round!
Butch, if you lived closer I'd send you some *real* eggnog - homemade, which imo is the only way to have eggnog you can drink. Unfortunately, the homemade stuff has a two day shelf life, so even if I overnighted it packed in dry ice, that wouldn't leave much time! I should probably post the recipe here for interested parties.
Hi Kelli! You've been missed!
Woohoo! Got an email telling me to expect a package from Lou Malnatti's.
ohhhhhh. God, I miss being able to go get that stuff. Georgia has no culinary equivalent. (Okay, there's Coke, but that's ubiquitous, and there's Chick-fil-a sandwiches, but I deconstructed them and figured out how to make my own so that I can have'em for cheaper/slightly healthier. No can do with Lou Malnatti's!)
Oh heckydern, now I've done found another flavor I'm gonna have to have a 236 of. That is now
Banana cream pie
Cinnamon roll
Butter pecan
555
& now
Maple pecan
& I'm just starting on tasting my BF order. Got a bunch more to go. James is gonna be out of bottles again & I'm gonna stay broke!
Did I mention this Maple pecan is scrumptillyioucs.
I'm with you, Butch, Maple Pecan is on my mainstay list now. Excellent stuff.
Last week, i had won a contest on FB with Jwraps, got my wrap in yesterday and put in on today!! Pretty pleased with it!! Filled with MBV Butterscotch, always!!!
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Looks great, Cheryl, congrats!
I did as well. I have yet to win a contest on FB or Mod Envy, but I have won twice on Rainbow Clouds. Once for a tank that I gave away to a new vapor at work and also for an iTaste EP Pen that I will also no doubt pass on to someone who needs it.
Which reminds me, I need to restock my MBV business cards at work. I ran out and I only got two or three with this last order which won't go far. Being a call center, we have a high turn over rate and I am always passing out those cards to some new vaper out in the smoking area. lol.
If you put a note in the comments of your order, they'll toss some extras in for you. I try to remember to do that more often than not, because I'm forever getting asked "what flavor is that?" and "where can I get it?"
We would probably be in good shape if all those sideline commentators would actually get off their asses from posting comments to news items and actually help do something about what they are .....ing about! I cannot tell you how many times I have heard and seen people complaining about those people that were elected info office but didn't actually vote then have the nerve to blame everyone else but themselves. Like all of the complaining in the world is going to make a difference when the only action you are taking is sitting on your ..., drinking whatever it is your drinking and complaining. These people need to wake the hell up and get off their sorry butts and actually take part in what they are complaining about, otherwise, just shut the f..... up!
Like all of those people that are complaining now in my county that the commission has made vaping only were smoking is allowed, all they had to do was take a few hours out of their day and show up to the hearing and be heard. At the start of this was the meeting to schedule a Public hearing, there was only 1 person there, ME, now I am certainly not the only person that vapes in this county and after the commission had past the ordinance passed, out comes the arm-chair warriors .....ing that the ordinance passed, I mean REALLY, geeez! Ok, done with my mini-rant for now, don't need to get my blood pressure up.
Need to go re-watch Peanut!
You're 100% right, Dusty. Participating in the political process takes a lot of effort, and it's easy to get disillusioned/sick of it/tell yourself you don't have time, but when you tune out, bad things happen.
The part I highlighted above is the one thing that has always ...... me off. I always vote. If you don't vote you have no right to complain.
All to often I'm not really voting for anyone, I'm just voting against the other guy because I really don't want him to win. It would be nice to have someone to vote for every now and then. But unfortunately most of the time neither party has anyone worth voting for, I just vote against the one I like the least.
Ok off of my soapbox.
Vape on everyone.
The trouble with that system is, if you're just holding your nose and voting for whoever you dislike least, chances are you don't know how they feel about the things that are important to you... like vaping, for instance. Check out third party candidates. Ask them what their views are, and if they say they don't know much about the issue, take 5 minutes to educate them. And most of all, make sure you know who your local politicians are. I normally vote a straight ticket (I research exhaustively, but on the federal and state level, a straight ticket is usually what makes sense for me), but not when it comes to the local guys... in that case, I'll vote for whoever listens to *my* issues and gives me some respect. And yes, that means sometimes I'm voting against the people I know and work with in the local party meetings, if the person I have coffee with one saturday a month is planning on putting the stuff I care about on the back burner but the guy on "the other side" took my phone call/answered my email.
It takes effort to put people in office who you actually can stand, but for the price of a few minutes here and there, you can usually find at least *one* person you respect on the local level who has a chance of getting in... and if you keep the pressure on them, those guys will do the right thing - they got elected for $5-20k, not 5 billion, so they're not as tied up in money. But that can only happen if you say something, and then do something. Everyone in politics counts on the populace being way too busy to care, *especially* on the local level, which is where most of governing happens.
I ran for school board a while back, and the biggest plank of my platform was a very carefully thought out plan that would have allowed us to hire more teachers without having to take that money out of ancillary staff (school bus drivers, janitors, cafeteria workers, etc). This was probably the most pressing issue at the time, because class sizes here are ridiculous (I won't bore you with the reasons why, that has to do with building codes, believe it or not, which are/were not in my purview!) But teachers are routinely teaching 50 students in a class from elementary through high school... so I figured out a way to fix that without raising taxes or anything like that (It turns out the money is all there, it just needs some rejiggering - and broke folks like me are pretty good at rebalancing things!) Further, I convinced three other members to join me in this plan. We plastered the district with "vote for us and we'll fix this issue, here's how" flyers and signs.
We got soundly drubbed. *The evening of our defeat*, I kid you not... what's all over the news but b
ing about class sizes and "WHY WON'T THE SCHOOL BOARD FIX THIS OMG GOVT SUCKS SO BAD!" Well yes it does, when you don't bother to educate yourself about the candidates. Enjoy those class sizes, folks.
Don't mean to change subject but we made an offer on a house today
in Arizona. HATE the Missouri humidity.
http://www.prestigeproperties005032...1745-Chicago-Ave-Kingman-AZ-86401/KJM/885396/
Fingers crossed for you mcol!
Does it taste anything like a pecan spinwheel/roll?
A little bit, but there's not much pastry element.
Nope never have . I have never been one to eat sweet stuff .I never ever do deserts, that is why it seems so strange to me that I am crazy for desert vapes............still don't want to eat the stuff though.
I'm the same way, not wild about eating sweet stuff (I'll have a cookie or something once in a while but I don't crave them) but it's 90% of what I vape!
Chair guy came out today and fixed my power chair... god bless those guys, working on a Sunday before Christmas in the pouring rain. Guy just went ahead and replaced the batteries with fresh ones for me. It'll take about 20 hours to charge up fully but that's no problem - I've got the manual(s) till then.
