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To: Rambi who wrote (70098)	2/8/2009 2:02:14 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) of 71178

One thing I am learning is the value (or relative lack thereof) of a dollar. I am spending money like it's water ... and that is just for the basics. A cart of "startup" groceries ... $150, and I forgot salt and ketchup and didn't buy beer. Not a thing from the frozen foods section either ... currently I don't have a microwave oven, and I do want to (re)learn the art of cooking. I must dig up the old recipes for brioche (a sweet French yeast bread. I made a batch whenever I'd studied my brain into a charlie-horse and needed to do something strictly by hand. Making yeast bread filled that ticket for me, and a guy who bakes his own bread, Hello Ladies!! (giggle) I did drop big bux on a TV (46-inch lcd. My eyes aren't so good anymore, and I want to keep up with who's had what surgeries, yadaa yadaa. And a combo DVD/VCR which does the "upconversion" of standard DVD tp the so-called HD high-definition format. That and flatware and a shower curtain and that kitchen thingie into which one puts a cooking spoon "in play" so as not to spatter the counters... ah the joys of solitary domesticity. ~sigh~ But a friend GAVE me a laptop; can you beLIEVE it? It's a bit out of date (runs XP) and the built-in DVD reader doesn't read my photos DVDs, and the battery is toast, the in-too-long-and-scrape-it-with-a-butterknife-before-putting-stuff-on kind of toast. I came from a household where one DIDN'T waste food. I can't stand bread (or any food) that's had a part of it burnt darker than French-roast coffee beans, but if half that slice could be salvaged, be-garr we would do so ... or listen to Ma and Pa tell yet another downer of a story about how one treated food in the end stages and famine-y aftermath of World War II as seen from the loser's perspective. It still takes me an act of internal decision to not finish the plate that came from the kitchen of our local Family Restaurant with a calorie count in the deep four figures. I've lost weight this past month - and that is a GOOD thing; Bleonard once again could cast a shadow - and I don't want to pack it back on because I feel guilt leaving behind a few fries or half a stick of fried cheese. cheers js

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