Random DIY mixing and More

[vaper1960]

I’m glad you’re enjoying the lemon. I wish I could still vape it but other fruits have filled the void.

I'm really into berries right now, but still enjoy Lemon... sometimes simple flavors are better (lemon is also a great addition to other fruits... a little goes a long way)

 

[vaper1960]

I love butter mint. Next, I think it’s the mixed mint I use more often. Terribly complicated recipe... add drops, shake, sniff until it smells minty enough . If it needs a kick, add some menthol. I don’t think I’ve tried the last two. Maybe the peppermint? Honestly, I just look for the emptiest bottle in the mint section. Butter mint alone or with vanilla swirl (ala @classwife I believe?) are good enough for a soft mint. I need to try the white chocolate mint.

The only one I've tried is (PUR) butter mint... love it so much haven't tried anything else (unfortunately River Supply is closed for now)

 

[FranC]

and (PUR) Boysenberry preserves or (VT) Orange marmalade

LOL,not happening . I don’t like the Boysenberry Preserves (too sweet) and I haven’t tested the marmalade yet.

 

[FranC]

Which brand? I checked it out and interested... just forgot the brand.

WF

 

[FranC]

Mixing base worked! I mixed 100 ml each of strawberry biscuit and pecan shortbread and testers of three new ones! Sale at BCF right on time as I realized A few flavors have graduated to large. That was after a disappointing afternoon shopping for this year’s hanging baskets and lemongrass.

WooHoo

 

[FranC]

OMG I called my kid and sniveled some until I was like, "Oh JESUS be a mom," and he was like consoling but he was like "Maybe you should talk to someone."

I was like, huh, maybe I should. We get calls all the time how there are "Trained mental health professionals at the ready," who like, were here for our "COVID stress needs." So I was like, well, why NOT.

I don't trust anyone who says she won't give me her education when ask, after practically collecting stool sample, and I say, "Look I am an LCSW I just want to know your education level." Anyway, so like, after we went through all THAT I was like, "Fine, dude, do your worst." She asked me how I could help so I began to tell her..... then she HUNG UP ON ME. To be fair, there's kind of a lot to discuss. I called back on a different phone because she had my number "in case we were disconnected." I talked to a slightly NICER but equally anonymous woman who also wanted my dna, and I said I had NO desire to talk to anyone but a Supervisor about getting those calls wiped. She was like, "That will not be until Monday." She made a big production about "sometimes not being able to call back." I sighed, and asked with whom on the organizational tree of my insurance "Mental health triage" I would be speaking with and she was like, "I don't really know UMR has people all OVER the country." At that point I said I wished to not disclose anything further other than the fact I felt about 15 times worse and hopeless than at the start of the call, but I would have to find a better medium than this. I ended with, "However, I have no desire to harm myself or others,"

Like, dude, it TOTALLY made me want to kill myself more, but more out of like "MY GOD IS competence EXISTENT in this world?"

I get like, they were expecting "I am so terrified my parrot will die!!" and then they could give me deep breathing exercises, so maybe I was unfair to like, this woman but she had that MEAN DARN tone from the beginning. She wasn't expecting a complex exposition of how COVID-19 had brought me to my knees and paralysis over my employer. To be fair, after talking to her for ONE minute, I was like "I am going to have to do the OPPOSITE of what she recommends."

She hung up. I guess this means engage, ready fire.

I really wish I could allow me to off myself, but my code of assisted suicide does not cover me, personally. Not until the big A shows up, at which point I need AID ANYWAY but HOLY GOD, if my Creator allowed it, my Last Supper would be Fish Sticks in my mouth, (I like them and the Southpark joke makes me laugh, usually) but today they'd be swallowed with handfuls of benzos.

I would go out on a cloud of St. Elsewhere which is terrifyingly watchable because I lived here during it's time on TV only I was like 3, I think. It's all oddly familiar and RATHER LARGE.

Also cool to watch men and women punch each other and OMG their treatment of patients?????

I need a mental health show from that era, clearly. Or something with lobotomies.

Fran C I'm okay I was joking for the most part but NO I genuinely understand I am not taking FLMA for just my own protection, I probably shouldn't be working right now.

I mean, asking my pediatric patients if they would like mental health provider assisted suicide action plans--- yeah, that's not cool EITHER.

Enjoy the flavors, and I love Zazie, dude, and she loves me too but I was like, "Is this the BAD kind of internet love????" for a millisecond.

LOL

Anna

Wish there was something I could do to help.

 

[FranC]

I have menthol and
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I love butter mint. Next, I think it’s the mixed mint I use more often. Terribly complicated recipe... add drops, shake, sniff until it smells minty enough . If it needs a kick, add some menthol. I don’t think I’ve tried the last two. Maybe the peppermint? Honestly, I just look for the emptiest bottle in the mint section. Butter mint alone or with vanilla swirl (ala @classwife I believe?) are good enough for a soft mint. I need to try the white chocolate mint.

I bought that White Chocolate Peppermint because it sounded so good. What a mistake that was. Super sweet to me.

 

[FranC]

Good morning random folks Have you any plans this Easter Day?

 

[FranC]

I wear jeans all day every day and I finally figured out that I should be more comfortable stuck inside at home so much. So now I’ll be wearing my soft sweatpants instead.Sounds like a plan to me.

 

[Blitzdonlife]

Good morning random folks Have you any plans this Easter Day?

Playing around with a cart at bull city, may order some stuff, not sure yet. Rain is coming down hard this morning, glad I'm inside right now. Do I NEED more than two lemons? I have LA Lemonade, considering FA Lemon Sicily, hmmm... is that enough?

 

[Blitzdonlife]

Good morning Fran, looks like you're up early. Did you sleep alright?

 

[FranC]

Good morning Fran, looks like you're up early. Did you sleep alright?

I haven’t slept great since early last year. Lost hubs first (cancer) , 5 months later my bf died in a motorcycle accident and 3 months later I lost my 17 year old cat. It was a bad year for me.

 

[FranC]

Playing around with a cart at bull city, may order some stuff, not sure yet. Rain is coming down hard this morning, glad I'm inside right now. Do I NEED more than two lemons? I have LA Lemonade, considering FA Lemon Sicily, hmmm... is that enough?

I’m not a good one to ask. I can’t vape lemon.

 

[FranC]

I ordered just 4 flavors from BCF. Three I needed more of and just one new one.

 

[FranC]

@Bronze I did remember to get a small bottle of TFA Greek Yogurt to try.

 

[Blitzdonlife]

I haven’t slept great since early last year. Lost hubs first (cancer) , 5 months later my bf died in a motorcycle accident and 3 months later I lost my 17 year old cat. It was a bad year for me.

Ack! I remember reading some of that before, but not all in one year. Why these things cluster together I have no idea, but tragedy seems to strike in threes for me also.

 

[Blitzdonlife]

Time for coffee. Thank you coffee, my friend, never leave me!

 

[FranC]

Playing around with a cart at bull city, may order some stuff, not sure yet. Rain is coming down hard this morning, glad I'm inside right now. Do I NEED more than two lemons? I have LA Lemonade, considering FA Lemon Sicily, hmmm... is that enough?

If you want something different in fruits Huckleberry is good

 

[FranC]

Ack! I remember reading some of that before, but not all in one year. Why these things cluster together I have no idea, but tragedy seems to strike in threes for me also.

Keeping busy kept me sane. As sane as I get anyway

 

[Blitzdonlife]

Keeping busy kept me sane. As sane as I get anyway

Best thing to do sometimes.