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*RJ*

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Still no mixing for me. :( I had a flat tire as I pulled up to work this morning. Thank goodness I wasn’t stranded on the interstate though. My boss and my son put on my spare for me. My Dad plugged and fixed it so I didn’t get home til late. Tomorrow is my last work day for the week. :thumbs: Then I am carving out some time to mix during my long weekend. I’m wishing I picked up the SM Dark Fire since y’all seem to love it. Next order maybe. All the recipes that sound good to me I never seem to have all the flavors. Substituting works.
 

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I am much less experienced that most of you, but at least I know to do a SFT of every flavor first. They may work well together but you will never know why (or which one you actually like better) I have been adding cookie and graham to other mixes and realized I have not actually tried them on their own (they are steeping as we speak)

Sft’s can be useful in some cases and useless in others.
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I usually buy two brands of each flavor in the event it turns out one of them is a dud. When I go to try that flavor for the first time I use both brands equally in the recipe. If that flavor works, I leave it alone. If sumpin’ aint right with that flavor then I do sfts on them. I mixed a Honduran Grapefruit recently using two grapefruits. It was unmitigated crap. So I mixed two sfts...each of the grapefruits. I’ll be testing them in the next day or two. If I find one of them is crap then I’ll try the recipe again using the other. If both are crap then that recipe isn’t meant to be and I’ll either mothball it or deep six it altogether. I’m doing the same with a strawberry recipe too.
 

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    Still no mixing for me. :( I had a flat tire as I pulled up to work this morning. Thank goodness I wasn’t stranded on the interstate though. My boss and my son put on my spare for me. My Dad plugged and fixed it so I didn’t get home til late. Tomorrow is my last work day for the week. :thumbs: Then I am carving out some time to mix during my long weekend. I’m wishing I picked up the SM Dark Fire since y’all seem to love it. Next order maybe. All the recipes that sound good to me I never seem to have all the flavors. Substituting works.
    Glad you didn’t get stranded.
     

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    Still no mixing for me. :( I had a flat tire as I pulled up to work this morning. Thank goodness I wasn’t stranded on the interstate though. My boss and my son put on my spare for me. My Dad plugged and fixed it so I didn’t get home til late. Tomorrow is my last work day for the week. :thumbs: Then I am carving out some time to mix during my long weekend. I’m wishing I picked up the SM Dark Fire since y’all seem to love it. Next order maybe. All the recipes that sound good to me I never seem to have all the flavors. Substituting works.
    Poor RJ.

    Yes, queue up some dark fire next time you order.
     

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    Example:

    I usually buy two brands of each flavor in the event it turns out one of them is a dud. When I go to try that flavor for the first time I use both brands equally in the recipe. If that flavor works, I leave it alone. If sumpin’ aint right with that flavor then I do sfts on them. I mixed a Honduran Grapefruit recently using two grapefruits. It was unmitigated crap. So I mixed two sfts...each of the grapefruits. I’ll be testing them in the next day or two. If I find one of them is crap then I’ll try the recipe again using the other. If both are crap then that recipe isn’t meant to be and I’ll either mothball it or deep six it altogether. I’m doing the same with a strawberry recipe too.
    It could be that the 2 grapefruits are crap when mixed together and both good as sfts
     

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    In 36 years of driving to the big city 60 miles round trip I’ve only been stranded on the interstate once, when I was in college. Knock on wood! :)
    I drive a 27 year old truck that I bought brand new. I baby that thing. I cannot imagine ever selling it. We’re buds. We’ve been thru too much together. But a couple years ago I decided to get AAA. I just knew the tired ole gal might leave me up a crick. Sure enuf, she did. So AAA paid off right out of the gate.

    I recommend AAA for the ladies. More for personal safety than anything else. A lady doesn’t need to be stranded alone anywhere. Not a good scene. If not AAA, then SW will work too. :)
     

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    I drive a 27 year old truck that I bought brand new. I baby that thing. I cannot imagine ever selling it. We’re buds. We’ve been thru too much together. But a couple years ago I decided to get AAA. I just knew the tired ole gal might leave me up a crick. Sure enuf, she did. So AAA paid off right out of the gate.

    I recommend AAA for the ladies. More for personal safety than anything else. A lady doesn’t need to be stranded alone anywhere. Not a good scene. If not AAA, then SW will work too. :)

    We got AAA for both of the kids while in college. One was three hours one way and the other is three hours the opposite direction now.
     

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    I mixed some more blackberry combinations. One is a three flavor combination, two are using rf blackberry, and one is RF blackberry solo at 4%. I am liking the tfa and blackberry jam combination but thought I’d try some more.
     

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    I drive a 27 year old truck that I bought brand new. I baby that thing. I cannot imagine ever selling it. We’re buds. We’ve been thru too much together. But a couple years ago I decided to get AAA. I just knew the tired ole gal might leave me up a crick. Sure enuf, she did. So AAA paid off right out of the gate.

    I recommend AAA for the ladies. More for personal safety than anything else. A lady doesn’t need to be stranded alone anywhere. Not a good scene. If not AAA, then SW will work too. :)
    We do have state assistance patrol...just a phone call away. And there is always Dad. :wub: But I have considered getting AAA eventually. I was glad to see my son came to be my hero today. :wub: And driving on the interstate is just like four lanes of Talladega. :lol: Never alone for sure.
     

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    We do have state assistance patrol...just a phone call away. And there is always Dad. :wub: But I have considered getting AAA eventually. I was glad to see my son came to be my hero today. :wub: And driving on the interstate is just like four lanes of Talladega. :lol: Never alone for sure.
    AAA is good and even better is to add their auto insurance. You get a nice discount if you use the app to monitor driving. It doesn't help me due to driving so few miles. Seems funny to give more of a discount for driving more.
     

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    We got AAA for both of the kids while in college. One was three hours one way and the other is three hours the opposite direction now.

    Put a GD on our AAA. Cut her loose after a couple of years because she burned through the callouts so fast. Left keys in the car, ran out of gas, once she called them because the car told her the pressure was low in one of her tires. Well how was she to know that going down from 35 to 28 she could still have made it to the gas station. She did go ahead and sign up herself.
     

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    I've been playing around with my new flavors.

    TFA Orange Cream is tasty but not very strong. Someone here suggested adding FA Orange so I got some of that. It's a nice vape now with 8% Orange Cream and 3% Orange. Not sure if the Orange Cream adds anything that I wouldn't get with Orange and a bit of Sweet Cream.

    Not having much progress with Kiwi. I suspect it might be best as a backup flavor. Put a few drops in some Strawberry juice and that might have some potential.

    I just made a small bottle using some already mixed Orange and Ginger juices. I think that one might be a winner when I get the ratios figured out.

    What I really want is to make a good vanilla flavor. I had some great vanilla back when I used premixed juice but I've never been able to make a good vanilla. I have several vanilla flavors now but I know they need to steep for a while and I'm not very good at waiting so I haven't tried yet.
     

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    good morning flavorers! I feel better today mostly because I called CVS to like, demand my meds and ask them to call to make sure they were on the truck or whatever. They were like, "We don't know." Them I went through the whole " You can dispense it with whatever you got." The girls said they had nothing then said they had 30 mg tablets,. THEN said she had 30s later. I as like you can dispense THOSE. Then the pharmacist came on and said I had an "outstanding" scrpt of 90s, and I could have three of those,. I was like :facepalm:; So she did,. Gonna call and hassle them more this morning

    You know, yesterday morning I was musing how in the bad old days everyone HATED lithium and gained tons of weight and stuff and I bet they all had thyroid problems that were not treated (or even diagnosed.) Because yesterday morning I was like, if this is what lithium does to my thyroid well I think Ii might ALMOST prefer to be suicidal. 46 percent of folk on lithium develop the thyroid troubles.. They SUCK but OMG do I fee much better.

    Thyroid thing may be worse than the teeth thing,.

    Yoga tonight, The husband is off for the day to torture himself with house stuff. I am just, well, as an official delicate flower I am like.... Lord please let people stop messing with my meds also CVS you could have TOLD me I had a prescript9ion in stock A LONG time ago. Sheesh.

    Anna
     

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    good morning flavorers! I feel better today mostly because I called CVS to like, demand my meds and ask them to call to make sure they were on the truck or whatever. They were like, "We don't know." Them I went through the whole " You can dispense it with whatever you got." The girls said they had nothing then said they had 30 mg tablets,. THEN said she had 30s later. I as like you can dispense THOSE. Then the pharmacist came on and said I had an "outstanding" scrpt of 90s, and I could have three of those,. I was like :facepalm:; So she did,. Gonna call and hassle them more this morning

    You know, yesterday morning I was musing how in the bad old days everyone HATED lithium and gained tons of weight and stuff and I bet they all had thyroid problems that were not treated (or even diagnosed.) Because yesterday morning I was like, if this is what lithium does to my thyroid well I think Ii might ALMOST prefer to be suicidal. 46 percent of folk on lithium develop the thyroid troubles.. They SUCK but OMG do I fee much better.

    Thyroid thing may be worse than the teeth thing,.

    Yoga tonight, The husband is off for the day to torture himself with house stuff. I am just, well, as an official delicate flower I am like.... Lord please let people stop messing with my meds also CVS you could have TOLD me I had a prescript9ion in stock A LONG time ago. Sheesh.

    Anna

    I'm glad you're feeling better today. Good luck with getting your prescription.
     

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