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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 19, 2022 19:11:39 GMT
We do 2 ways here.
1. Mayo version
Good white tuna
Finely diced celery
Lots of fresh ground black pepper
Real mayo
Fresh lemon zest
Lemon juice
Fresh dill
I start with tuna, add a bunch of black pepper breaking up tuna gently, adding in the celery and zest of one lemon, add mayo, finely chopped fresh dill (a lot!) and then add lemon juice and more mayo to get the consistency and zing I want. (We donât like super âwetâ mayonnaise-y tuna salad) we go for a lemon-dill taste over the tuna taste. We prefer on crackers, but often will toast bread and slather on.
2. Non-mayo version
Good tuna
Diced celery
Black pepper
Lemon olive oil or Mediterranean Herb olive oil
Lemon zest if one lemon
Kalamata olives chopped
A pinch of Greek oregano
Gently toss everything together in a bowl, and drizzle the oil inâagain I donât measureâitâs by taste! It isnât supposed to be super oily, just enough to hold it together. Serve on crackers or toast.
Iâve even added white cannelli beans to this and scooped it into butter lettuce leaf âcupsâ for a wrap or a side dish salad version. Itâs delicious!
And itâs sacrilegious to use pickle relish in tuna at our house! LolâŠnever ever do we do it (nor do we add it to egg salad!)
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 19, 2022 17:43:34 GMT
This is just a rant. DD40 called yesterday and let me know she is getting a divorce. They've been married 13 years and have two kids, 10 and 6. It has been a long time coming. Our family has felt she should have left him years ago. SIL hasn't had a job in 6 years, plays video games all night and sleeps all day. He does get some disability payments but it's not much. DD works full time while trying to go to school, and takes care of DGDs. They live 3000 miles away from me and the rest of the family. DD wants to move home. She can easily get a job (she's in the medical field) and she can temporarily move in with my ex. My ex's wife works PT and has very flexible hours and has offered to watch the two DGDs for free as needed. DD and SIL have already agreed on how to separate their property (they don't have much and live paycheck to paycheck). BUT good-for-nothing SIL has decided he wants custody of the DGDs. He says DD can move home without them and they can visit during the summer. What??? Of course DD wants to move the DGDs back home with her. This POS doesn't have a job and has made no effort to get one until just this week. No job, no healthcare, no money. DGD10 has an IEP and is in therapy. DD doesn't think SIL will follow through with either because he thinks things like that are BS. DD wants to keep things amicable but I don't see how that will happen. Stepmom and I would like to fly out, pack up DD and DGDs and fly them back home now. FTR we won't really do that because we know that would probably backfire on DD, it's just how we feel. But I am now worried that some judge will say POS SIL can have the kids and DD will be forced to stay there. She can't afford to live there on her own, the COL is astronomical. They were barely getting by as it was. I've already told DD to get a lawyer ASAP. Luckily they already have separate bank accounts and she is getting a different cell phone today (she is on a plan paid for by SILs mom). It just pissed me off that POS SIL has just now decided he wants to try and be responsible when he had years to do so and didn't! Stepmom and I think it's a ploy to get DD to stay. I'm afraid it's going to get very messy, very quickly. My heart aches for her and I want her and the kids home! I just needed to get this out. Rant over. Heâs not suddenly becoming âresponsibleâ heâs more likely trying to avoid child support. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 19, 2022 17:40:25 GMT
This is the first weekend since before Christmas that we don't have company or have plans that prevent me from being home. So today I am at home cleaning and just puttering around. And I absolutely love it. Same here. Iâm currently sitting on the floor of our walk in closet cleaning out and folding/hanging clothes!!!! We do have a dinner party to go to this evening so we are just hanging out at home before we go. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 19, 2022 16:15:39 GMT
I actually love my straight leg jeans from Lands End (Iâm super tall and love that I can get the inseam that works for me!)
I prefer the look skinny jeans for daily wear though.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 19, 2022 8:14:34 GMT
The pay isnât great. The perks are ok, but not amazing compared to the corporate world. But our elected officials seem to love their jobs, as they will sell their souls to keep them. It must be the power trip they love. Oh but the fundraising and perks⊠|
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 19, 2022 8:12:52 GMT
They are a part of a shifting culture that many conservatives feel like progressives are shoving down their throat, which is why the elect Republicans who will put a stop to more left wing policies. It's no wonder why so many conservative peas either leave the board or stop posting about politics on these boards. Plain gaslighting right here. No one bullied conservatives to leave here. They left because they turned into the âvictim snowflakesâ they called Democrats and liberal peas for years. Conservatives cannot ever hold themselves accountable for their own âinstead always blame others for their shortcomings. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 19, 2022 8:08:09 GMT
But those who vote for Republicans chose to do so. Â No amount of district gerrymandering or voter suppression laws are forcing people to vote for Republicans, they chose to do so. Â They chose to vote for bad behavior which I will never understand. Â I mean I could understand if the Republicans running for office actually offered the voters a genuine reason to vote for them over the Democrats, but they donât and as long as they win elections they never will offer voters genuine reasons to vote for them. Â I mean why do the work if they donât have to. Â You haven't listened to me. The voters who elect those Republicans think that stopping runaway Democratic policies, especially far left/progressive policies *IS* a genuine reason to earn their vote over a Democratic candidate. They want someone to act as an obstacle to ensure more balanced legislation is passed. Thatâs not what theyâre doing. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 19, 2022 8:07:33 GMT
I guess I have not made myself clear enough so you understand what my point is.  And I donât know what I can say so we are on the same page at this point. But I can tell you that Iâm happy with the elected officials I have voted for here in CA.  I guess because they are Democrats who are doing the job I elected them to do. Did you ever consider that people in red states who voted for Republicans are happy with their elected officials because they are doing the job they elected them to do? (i.e., stopping the Democrats from enacting policies they feel are far too progressive/present an overreach of federal power) Government, especially legislative government, is just as much about killing legislation as it is about passing legislation. There is more evidence that these red states are pushing THEIR narrative and agenda AGAINST those who they represent. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 19, 2022 8:05:21 GMT
It appears you really are that dense. Not surprised. You condemn dehumanizing people in one post, defend it in another, then call others stupid and dense.  Republicans and conservatives have been dehumanizing and condemning groups of people aggressively in the last 4-5 years. Entire groups of peopleâimmigrants, LBGTQIA+, anyone not âChristianâ, POC, women⊠Republicans/conservatives are fucking HATEFUL and with legislation, trying to literally and figuratively erase people. So you can just get off your fucking soapbox and STFU when peas here call out that bullshit. YOU DO NOT HAVE THE MORAL HIGH GROUND YOU THINK YOU DO. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 19, 2022 7:54:33 GMT
I havenât even opened the trucker thread. Is it a requirement that I read all 800 (or whatever) pages of that thread in order to see the answer to a question asked in this one? Where ARE all the peas who were so mad about the destruction of property at the George Floyd demonstrations? They're all probably still waiting for any of you to give a shit when the same damn thing was happening back in 2020 when riots broke out during protests that you agreed with. Burning buildings with people in them was dismissed back then and anyone that brought it up was demeaned and silenced. NOW you expect anyone to come and discuss this with you? Wow And btw OP, my answer to the question in the title of this thread is, theyâre mostly gone. We scared them off by asking too many hard questions. No, the ACTUAL issue is that you don't accept opinions or even verifiable facts that go against the group think, so they damn near ALL gave up. And "you" do SO MANY things like bring the subject of the 2020 riots to a trucker thread in the form of a question and when people answer, you work in tag team style to smack down the answer with such things as 'don't talk about the 2020 riots on the trucker thread'. Yeah, we "bully" them by making them substantiate their bs claims. You bully them by never accepting ANY substantiated facts or opinions and shame them for trying to be involved in the discussion. You bully them by calling them names, dehumanize them in so many ways, and shame them for not going along with THE ONE ACCEPETED narrative of the moment. Such a gaslighting liar you are. The only echo chamber narrative is yours. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 19, 2022 7:53:11 GMT
I havenât even opened the trucker thread. Is it a requirement that I read all 800 (or whatever) pages of that thread in order to see the answer to a question asked in this one? And btw OP, my answer to the question in the title of this thread is, theyâre mostly gone. We scared them off by asking too many hard questions. I have no idea where on that thread her answer is, but my guess - after the question why is it OK for unvaccinated white truckers to cross the border but not migrants and refugees on the southern border? Or, why are the conservatives not losing their collective sh*T over that? Cindosha referred to migrants and refugees with racial slurs, pixiechick defended her and accused everyone of dehumanizing poor cindosha. The answer was something along the lines of the liberals are mean, so the conservatives are not going to answer difficult questions. The conservatives don't hesitate to criticize President Biden over everything but crickets every time the Republicans do something horrific to destroy our democracy. They post their own gotcha threads and deliberately leave out critical information but get mad when they think liberals are posting gotcha questions. Basically, their expectation is they can do whatever they want but they expect everyone else to play fair, play by the rules and be nice. The Republican playbook - it's OK if you're a Republican. All of it reminds me of the criticism that Democrats were not sympathetic enough to poor unvaccinated Republicans. After their selfish refusal to get vaccinated, careless disregard for everyone around them, Democrats are supposed to ignore that and treat them with kid gloves. Cindosha referred to migrants and refugees with racial slurs, bragged about not wearing a mask, basically didn't care if anyone around her became infected with covid, we're all going to get it etc. In spite of all of that, the liberals are expected to be nice to her. And we're dehumanizing her if we say anything mean. That's my interpretation. But, I'm sure pixiechick will let you know why I'm wrong and why I'm a terrible person. Pay pixiechik no attention. Pretty much everyone here has resigned themselves in knowing sheâs just trolling for reaction and has ceased wanting or participating in honest conversation. Youâre not wrong in your statement. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 19, 2022 7:50:22 GMT
Where are the cries of "LOCK HIM UP!!" kwim!?!?!? Yep. I think I asked this last week...where are all of the "LOCK HER UP!!!" people now? They don't comment, so I take that to mean that they don't give a shit. Hypocrites. All of them. This same type of "gotcha" question was asked in the trucker protest thread. It was answered. And then the truth of the answer was dismissed and the people answering were demonized and bullied and the attempt was made to run someone off the board. THAT'S why no one will answer this very obvious question. They see how the actual answer will be received. Awww the widdle snowflake victimsâŠ.poor babies. Typical republicansâŠblame anyone else. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 18, 2022 13:09:07 GMT
omg, where does he get these attorneys? first Guliani. then Sydney Powell. with all the money he is raking in in non-campaign donations (that he has discretion over) you'd think he'd be able to hire some top shelf representation. Itâs not the point. He gets people who will be paid, theyâre not there to do a good job, theyâre just there to stall. He purposely ties people up into litigation (then doesnât pay his bills) to try to bankrupt them or settle because of the strain of legal fees. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 17, 2022 13:25:43 GMT
âProtected minorâ is what the IOC seems to be sticking with.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 15, 2022 8:10:35 GMT
ETA: I just read your post w/ the additional info. I think the photography session sounds like it will be a disaster. I would cancel it. unfortunately not an option. They can be civil to each other for one afternoon, I don't care if the rest of the week they spend avoiding each other. Why?  |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 15, 2022 8:09:17 GMT
it's just family photos, there is a meal, but I'm staying out of that one besides being ready to pay for our portion. My original hope was to ask the siblings to split the sitting fee cost, as this is a big family gathering. One sibling can pay, but is refusing to. Other siblings feel like they should be included in the big group shot, but not have individual photos of their family taken. There is bad blood between the 2 sides, and honestly I don't care nor do I want to get involved. I do think that there is some validity in saying if you don't want to pay the sitting fee, then please be a part of the larger group photo and that's it. The others are reacting to the sentiment behind why this request is being made and not as much on the request itself. If there is all this bad bloodâ-why on earth do you all want a family photo to commemorate it? |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 15, 2022 7:42:27 GMT
Hugs đ„Čđ„Čđ„Č
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 14, 2022 1:42:51 GMT
Eminem is one of my crushes. Wish there was more of him. Like this whole halftime of him. LOL Yaaaaassss!!! That would have been awesome!! |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 14, 2022 1:26:02 GMT
Who Dey!!!!
Go bengals !!!
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 12, 2022 0:25:26 GMT
Iâve been reading but refraining from posting. Saw these on Twitter. This trucker drove an extra 5 hours to get food delivered into Canada. Children being used as human shields. Interesting. Can that bridge hold all that weight??? My sympathies lie with that truck driver, and those who are unable to work because of this.  Using children as human shields is beyond reprehensible, and I hope whatever child protection agency that is responsible for them, is watching carefully. I would not be getting on that bridge. Especially with people like cindosha out there who would drive her car/push them out of her way. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 11, 2022 5:32:51 GMT
OF COURSE the village idiot thinks itâs funny that Canadian and American workers canât work. Actually, what I think is funny is your responses to my posts. We are all getting a big kick out of that over here. đ€Ł So are âweâ. We get to watch a pathetic human crash and burn on her lies, brainwashed narrative. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 11, 2022 5:29:51 GMT
It may have been five years ago but your opinions have not changed, so we are to believe that you would no longer move them out of the way if they were stopping you from getting to where you needed to go? Doesnât seem likely⊠In my opinion. I have never cheered for anyone to die. I have relatives and coworkers who are not vaccinated and that are people still in my life, why in heck would I wish death on them? Do I agree with them or even understand why...unfortunately no. Do I think the are selfishâŠabsolutely. Do I think they are patriots just fighting for freedoms being lostâŠnot a chance in hell. đ€·ââïž I have tried to not be rude to anyone here when giving my opinionâŠso âall of youâ is not cutting it in my book. Lucky for me I don't care about your opinion!! Sure you do. You come here to get your sorry ass and lies validated. You seek validation with every post you make. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 11, 2022 5:21:24 GMT
I see the village idiot has checked in. Funny how youâre ignoring the harassment of people of color, people wearing masks, lighting off fireworks between buildings in a city - some hitting buildings, the attempted arson and locking in of residents in an apartment building, and many other incidents. So, no. Not peaceful, you fucking dolt. Itâs an insurrection and an occupation. Good grief. Itâs so hard to believe that such a horrible person like you exists. đđ» What did I say that offended you? Oh , thatâs right, I have a different view than you. You must be a real joy to live with. đđđ I hope you donât have a husband or children, if you do, I pity them!! Youâre such a bitch. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 11, 2022 5:19:39 GMT
Arenât you predictable? Someone addressing the specific behaviors, of what have been stated over and over again on this thread as a minority of truckers behaving reprehensibly, is extrapolated to mean every single trucker, including those who are vaccinated and want nothing to do with this. Just so you can take an imaginary moral high ground where there is none. Typical right.
FFS. Itâs a peaceful protest, noisy but peaceful. Personally I think itâs members of the left or progressives who are infiltrating the protest and doing all the crazy confederate/nazi flag waving bullshit there. Your tin foil hat is tight. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 11, 2022 5:17:21 GMT
but still 2.5%, a fringe minority. Keep in mind, this started as an anti-mandate convoy (which was supported by many but still a minority). It's weird because most of the mandates are at the provincial level but these people aren't rocket scientists. It turned into an occupation with thousands of citizens stuck in downtown Ottawa. Businesses closed. Gas tank storage on the streets. People not getting health care services because the workers can't get downtown. Now they have a MOU with demands to dissolve our elected gov't and putting these cement heads in charge. WTF don't you understand about this? Their aim is to stop democracy. Ottawa police stated a few minutes ago that 25% of the truckers downtown brought there kids with them. Cowards. Police also said they are working with enforcement in Ohio because people are trying to interfere with their response. Do you not believe in democracy? Or is democracy only fitting if your team wins? The Trump special. Nope, its to stop the ridiculous mandates. RIDICULOUS MANDATES!!!!! Lookâ-sheâs frothing! đđđđđ |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 11, 2022 5:13:37 GMT
Oh my god. It's been reported by multiple outlets. But I guess not on the "special" ones you watch. Funny how you trusted the MSM to report what happened in Minneapolis and Portland, but not now. You are the walking definition of confirmation bias. I never trusted the MSM...none of it...I get my news from several different sources. Not just CNN, MSNBS, Fox or others. I do my research. âI do my researchâ Bwaashahahaaaaa |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 11, 2022 5:12:30 GMT
There are people there carrying confederate flags, and some people tried to light a building on fire and lock people inside of it. Peaceful? Race card? Really? How do you know that they weren't from the opposing side trying to make the truckers look bad??? You don't know that. Like I said, there are always a few nutters causing problems. But I don't trust the MSM to report a true story anyway!! Youâre brainwashed. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 11, 2022 5:11:19 GMT
Those same people wanted a crack down on the Occupy Seattle downtown demonstration in 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd killing. Crickets on the truckers doing the same thing. Typical hypocrisy from the right. It's OK for Republicans to protest for selfish "freedoms", but Democrats protesting for racial justice is unacceptable and needs a crackdown. A federal intervention for the mostly peaceful protest in Portland was justified, but no action needed for the truckers. The truckers are not rioting or destroying small businesses. You will have to tell me where the similarities are. And you are coo-coo if you think that the Portland or Seattle protests were peaceful. They still have safety warnings for those cities... Sure they are. Lots of businesses have closed, because of their presence, leaving workers without income. Their cargo isnât being delivered, causing higher prices for the rest. Itâs amazing to see such dumb comments coming from youâyouâre a horrible person. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 11, 2022 5:09:26 GMT
YupâŠbeing good humans and good members of societyâŠdefinitely points that should be give the blah, blah, blah treatment and dismantled very soon. Sounds about right to many I am sure - and then we wonder why we have so many issues. đ€·ââïž  I keep forgetting that the left is so good and the right is so bad!! And there are no BAD left and no GOOD right!!! At least you acknowledge how fucking awful, selfish, destructive and petty the right is. |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 11, 2022 5:07:26 GMT
GOOD!! That's the point of a protest, right??? Do you want to talk about BLM rioters trying to destroy a federal building and obliterating several small businesses during that time period??? Maybe Trudeau will quit being a dictator and listen to his countrymen... You are nuts. Trudeau a âdictator?â |
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