Unh hunh. Thank’ya vera much.

Off topic, but I just saw your Signature story of your second playthrough; that was a spectacular diary entry, it felt like listening to you talking about it! LOVED it!

After seeing your comment I revisited that thread. Been a LONG time since I last did so. I still retained a bit of ability to effective pen interesting lengthy narrative, it seems. That ability was already in decline when the thread was posted, but enough remained to get the job done. Of more interest to me is that I had not not yet finalized the relationship between me and my decrepit avatar. Notice that I speak in first-person throughout. I did not yet see my avatar as a fully separate entity and myself as merely the relater of his adventures. It begs the question, when did that transformation occur? I honestly don't know. Apparently more recently than I assumed. Certainly before I published those four YouTube videos early 2014. How long before then is the question.

To keep this post legit, I discovered one reasont this week's grocery bill is less than expected. Preparing yesterday evening's salad-supper, was surprised to find no mushrooms in the refrigerator. Scatterbrained as I've become, I assumed them misplaced. Searched the house several times. No luck. Was about to search the car in case they'd fallen out of a bag when it dawned on me to check my grocery receipt. Sure enough mushrooms don't appear on it. First time I ever forgot to buy them, or so memory tells me. What next? Maybe I'll forget to wear pants next time.

Today's brunch includes fruit snacks, bowl of fruit and Mr. Pibb.

I'll have to stop back in and see the updates!







Do they still make Mr. Pibb? I haven't seen it in the stores in forever!

Drinking one right now I got it at Walmart, there's places around Oklahoma that sell it from the tap too.

This brought back memories of my long ago childhood when the vast majority of sodas were still sold in bottles and soda bottle-cap collecting was a thing a great many of us kids did. They could be found lying around most everywhere in great variety in those pre merger days. Alas, the years have taken their toll. I no longer recall most of those old soda names. RC Cola was one I think. Lotta Cola. Is Nehi still around? Tons more.

We still have Nehi in Orange and Grape flavored. We also still have a Root Beer Drive-in stand here in Madisonville TN where the girls come out to your car with your food order and the Root Beer is served in frosted mugs. They have Root Beer floats, etc. I can't remember if it is Hires or A & W; but if you go once, you will go back every time you are in the area, they had the best Root Beer I ever tasted there! Every time we stopped in, they were busy; and not always with local license plates. I don't know if you can still buy them in the stores anymore, haven't seen them in the stores in a LONG time = but the drive-in stand still sold it.





I used to love Mr. Pibb!

Khajiit hates soda in the plastic bottles. When he drinks soda, this one usually does an aluminum can unless he can find a glass bottle handy. Khajiit got a thing of 24 of those Coca Colas hecho en Mexico, all in glass bottles. They use real sugar in those instead of HFCS. Taste awesome.

I had a bowl of fruit and a VERY large bottle of coffee (see picture in the Coffee thread).

Yeah, during the time I refer to in my previous post all soda bottles were glass. Double Cola was another brand back then, I think.

Oops...almost forgot to mention this will be a V8 for lunch day. Heating it and adding a few spices make it tolerable.

I prefer the real sugar and the glass bottles (but would rather have the plastic bottles than the aluminum cans because you can close them up and preserve the fizz.

Just ate a bowl of yogurt.

Fujis bought not yesterday but LAST Monday were bottom of the barrel. Edible but little more. Ate the last of those yesterday. Tasted tart, as a Fuji shouldn't. Only after adding sweetener was it enjoyable. Fujis bought yesterday "look" appreciably better. We shall see come lunch.

Been adding two sliced strawberries to my breakfast oatmeal. Nice improvement to an already yummy dish.

Yesterday groceries ran me circa $45, more than I've spent on food in quite some time but still within budget. (The receipt totals over $50, but around $6 of that is for a non food-related item.)

The extra amount is probably from all that great fruit. Around here Strawberries run at least 4 US Dollars for a pint. But boy is it worth it! I have been getting peaches, plums, and navel oranges lately.

I bought the $2.67 strawberry tub. Enough berries for two per day for a week's worth of breakfasts plus one snack-size serving. Fujis were on "sale" for $1 per pound, which made it very tempting to buy two per day rather than one, as I used to do before that became too costly. I resisted. Don't want to form bad spending habits. That sale won't last forever.

You got me hooked on those Fujis! I had never had one before. Hearing you talk about them caused me to try them = Mmmmmm!

I just bought some galas today, and had two already.

Cheese crackers and coffee .

Galas aren't bad at all. They were my apple of choice for a brief period before discovering and converting to Fujis. There are other apple types besides Fuji I now prefer to Gala, but they tend to be pricey.

A glass of water and some hamburger helper.

Splurged for lunch today at my Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet of choice. Everything tasted yummy. Chopstick usage was well-nigh flawless. What's more, I'd amassed enough stamps on my card for the meal to be free! Can't beat that.

Today's Walmart ticket ran $35.02, of which only around $31 was groceries. Can't beat that either. It helped that, due to dining out today, I needed one less can of soup and tuna than usual.

Last week's Fuji's were disappointing. The first eaten was yummy. The rest mediocre. Didn't taste as good as they looked. This week's Fuji's again look yummy. Time will tell.

I like to buy greenish bananas then stick 'em in the fridge when they reach a certain mildly green ripeness. This week's banana selection was already beyond the ideal stick-in-the-fridge stage.

Shrimp linguine with Alfredo sauce and andouille sausage:


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I'm eating cheese sticks, fried okra and chicken wings and Mr. Pibb to drink it all down.

I LOVE fried okra!

I love fried okra when its extra crispy (almost burnt)...MMMMM---that is a treat .

I like it extra crispy too, not necessarily burnt; but as long as the okra is cooked well I'm happy.

Just made and ate some shrimp and andouille sausage Creole. ‘Twas most excellent.

Mmmmm!

I had my morning breakfast of bacon and Starbucks coffee.

Mr. Grits has a work dinner so I got all of the leftover steak to myself. I couldn't decide between steak and eggs or steak and rice. So I'm having steak and eggs with rice.

BBQ chicken nuggets and Mountain Dew.

Steak and eggs is one of my top faves for breakfast!

Turkey and smoke gouda sandwich, ruffle potato chips, unsweetened iced tea.

Mac and cheese...the meal of the low income.

I had Sweet Tea and leftover Cheesecake Factory Bow Tie Pasta:

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homemade chicken orzo soup thickened with egg . . .

and a side of baguette slices to dip into it . . .

I'm full.

I just ate a salad, I'm going to try and watch my diet.

A diet chicken and ravioli TV dinner that used healthy (urk) green pasta and had so much spinach in the sauce that I felt like Popeye when I was done eating it.

So you got really strong and started talking like a sailor?

You know what forget what I said about the salad cause I'm eating a 5 meat pizza.

SPEW !!!!




BWAAHAA!!!!

I think you missed the point. The diet is just watching your food, and not eating it.

But watching food makes me want to eat it .

Andouille Sausage Chili with cheese, sour cream, and Fritos:


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Cheese Pizza and cherry flavored wine.

I'm cooking some buffalo chicken ranch stuff bell peppers for lunch.

Final verdict...FANTASTIC!!!

Pickle and coffee. A hearty breakfast .

The cool turn in the weather inspired Khajiit to make homemade chili with beans. It turned out fantastic!

The Season Unending has begun for me over at my side of the globe, and my Muay Thai trainers are now overseeing my diet.

Tis a harsh life, bois and boiettes.

Basically I can’t eat rice (AN ABHORRENT TRAGEDY IN ITSELF) post 6:00 PM (NO RICE FOR DINNER? UNBELIEVABLY BARBARIC!). So for dinner today, I only had like, Shabu-Shabu. Boiled stuff, basically. It’s the first time I ever ate that delicacy sad as a violin being played on a deserted ten-penny gentleman’s club. Do they even play violins at gentlemen’s clubs? Does life itself matter? Does it have meaning?

My morale is low.

I must break someone.