Hubby requested cranberry sauced for thanksgiving so I asked wait, can or real? And he was all real please.
So I looked it up and by gum if it is not the easiest thing that ever existed. I mean, even I can do this one! It is literally boil sugar and liquid, add berries and let em burst, then chill.
I grew up thinking cranberry sauce came only in the form of a bright red gelatinous cylinder. I really didn't even put together what a "cranberry" was. I can be slow on the uptake.
Agreeing with everyone else that a pinch of cinnamon, a dash of salt, and a hit of citrus (could be orange juice, orange zest, lemon zest, or lime zest if you're feeling tropical) really elevates it. I started bringing home made cranberry relish every year to our gatherings, and while most people prefer the wibble from a can, enough prefer the real stuff that I've been ordered to bring it annually for those who enjoy it.
I've also been assigned deviled eggs for the first time this year. I realize with a heavy heart this is because the person who previously brought them is no longer with us. But it's also a sign of trust from the husband's family that I'll do it in a way that is tasty.
I made cranberry orange relish last night. No cooking required. Soak a cup of dates and half a vanilla bean (I didn't have one so I used extract) in pure water the night before you're making this. Next day, put the zest of an orange (no pith, please, and I didn't have one so I used three Mandarins) in the blender with the dates and their soak water, blend into a paste. Add the orange sections, cinnamon, ginger, 2 cloves, allspice, and a little nutmeg (apart from the cloves I didn't grind my own spices; I used powdered) and a bag of cranberries. Pulse until it's a texture you like. Taste it. If it isn't sweet enough, stir in some maple syrup or honey. You can control the texture better in a food processor, but since you're not a cook, you probably don't own one. Enjoy.
The other day, I was telling my son about a bad movie experience. The experience was in Atlanta, and it was great fun. The bad movie was Q, it's awful. About a claymation wing-ed serpent monster in NYC. The fun was the audience, hooting and mocking the film.
Not much more to say about it. The details are that I "don't meet [his] emotional needs" and that he is "going to get them met somewhere else."
When I ask for a list of his needs so I can work to meet them, all I can get is a list of ways I have not supported him.
He is still angry that I did not sympathize more when someone said, "Men need more training in talking to survivors of abuse."
He is mad that I did not invite his mother to my birthday party because I do not want her anti-lgbt prayers at my birthday dinner. He is mad that I did not invite his sister who yelled at me at my wedding. He is mad that I am not "above it" and he is not okay with me treating people the way they treat me, "You should be above it," he said.
He says that whenever we fight I always turn everything around on him. Specifically, he is angry that I wrote to OK AG Gentry Drummond and said, "I have upgraded you from piece of shit to straight poo," because, he says, I ruined his future in government. My response was, "You gave me cold sores and ruined my body," so maybe he is right.
My husband has a history of relationship dysfunction due to bipolar psychotic episodes. I would not be surprised if getting married turns into "Oops, I was having a psychotic episode, my bad."
So that's that. The divorce should be a fun learning experience. Going to do it pro se and am asking for all property acquired including equity investments since I purchased our home believing I would be sharing the cost and I have paid the mortgage on each place for the past three years.
So stay tuned for the details. I'm sure there will be at least an update when I am served.
> The divorce should be a fun learning experience. Going to do it pro se and am asking for all property acquired including equity investments since I purchased our home believing I would be sharing the cost and I have paid the mortgage on each place for the past three years.
I'm sorry. And those reasons sound like he thinks you married his family as well. I've long since stopped believing in marrying the family. Mine are all Trumpers.
Group therapy is just one of the ways Wonkette is servicey, and thank Editrix for that.
We talked about our definitions of family and they are just fundamentally different reasons, though I have worked hard to meet his needs. I go to every event, I smile and am polite, and I pay for his mother's meals. But his mother is caught up in the evangelical stuff and runs to vote against my civil rights every chance she gets, and so I believe I deserve time to be free from that once in a while.
I will certainly be thanks wonk with a big donation this year.
I am so sorry to hear this. One of my oldest friends has a husband who sounds something like yours, and he did the same thing to her one week after her beloved father's funeral, which occurred 3 weeks after she found out her job of 30 years was being outsourced. She was already in a fragile emotional state when he pulled this shit. Men are scum. And then 6 months later he changed his mind when he realized how divorce would affect his financial situation after retirement, and the silly woman stayed with him for the same reasons. They still live in the same house but live almost completely separate lives, which is not what I call a marriage. Please get a very good divorce lawyer and a therapist who will help you move on from this disagreeable chapter.
Now I'm funemployed I play a lot of Risk vs the computer. A LOT. It's my default time waste.
I play against three computer players set to maximum difficulty. fuckface, weasel and assclown sometimes give me a good game.
However, I have discovered a new strategery. Sure, if you can win South America or Australasia do it, but if it doesn't look legit, just ignore that and play long game and go for North America. It only has three defendable ingress points. The trick is playing slowly and not trying to grab all the territory in one go, like you would with South America or Australasia. Just go slow, watch the fools beat each other up, and preserve your armies, making sure you get a risk card every turn.
Mmmmhmmm. I have not lost a game yet when I've managed to wrestle control of North America. It's great because you can play excellent spoilers against people trying to get Asia or Europe for little effort. So you can damage other people and get stronger yourself. It is a winning strategery. I've never tried this in the real, but I will next time I play people.
This has been your morning nerd board game informational splart.
Welp, starting off my new work schedule by....not working today. I really don't understand the reasoning.
I mean I do, but from the perspective of a non-managerial person, this would've been easier if we just switched off and kept our regular work weeks, but apparently that's above my paygrade. Oh well. I wonder if I'll get a call asking where I am.
Indeed we do. Our company was bought a few months ago and they hired a new manager after our old one quit abruptly. New management then fired two of our other workers, thus creating the current lack of coverage. The company is losing money and needs to keep solvent, so of course let's fire the low-level workers and not one of the half-dozen managers they just hired to do business things.
One of the easiest things to do to show you are "shaking things up" is re-arranging the schedule so that upper management sees you are Doing Something.
Once heard it described by a manager that "It gets people to stop being so complacent"
That was the office I was in where we had three ladies with kids so we all pretty much had our own schedules set firm by our former manager, whom got promoted out, and we REALLY wish she wasn't.
Within a year, all three of us were gone elsewhere.
"In a potentially worrisome sign for Israel, just 31% of poll respondents said they supported sending Israel weapons, while 43% opposed the idea. The rest said they were unsure. Support for sending Israel weapons was strongest among Republicans, while roughly half of Democrats were opposed.
"By comparison, 41% of people answering the poll said they backed sending weapons to Ukraine in its fight against a nearly 21-month-old Russian invasion, compared to 32% who were opposed and the rest unsure. When it came to Ukraine, support for sending weapons was stronger among Democrats.
A far-right outsider dingbat named Milei won the runoff in Argentina's presidential election. Trump and Bolsonaro have congratulated him, so we'll see how that goes.
OpenAI's Sam Altman, recently fired, has been hired by Microsoft.
And for those of you who like comedy, there's sport! Everton FC, one of the Premier League clubs, was handed an immediate 10-point deduction for financial irregularities, virtually guaranteeing they'll get relegated at the end of the season.
As hesavebread is not around much, and our Australian brethren are much too modest to mention it, I'll update you on the biggest sporting event of the weekend.
Despite the presence of Modi, in the stadium named after him, and being cheered on by over 100000 blue shirt clad fans, Australia beat India in the cricket World Cup. Breaking a billion Indian hearts in the process.
Honestly, the situation in Argentina seems to be really dire at this point.
Chances are, it will be much worse in a year.
Quite higher chances, that this guy will not be replaced after the normal election cycle; he will either flee the country before that, or establish a dictatorship before that.
I guess some other former POTUS would go "the most exciting moment in my life was when the WTC towers went down, and my building became the tallest in Manhattan" .
--- Asked if winning a Nobel Peace Prize or becoming President was the most exciting thing that happened to him Jimmy Carter responds, “when Rosalynn said she’d marry me — I think that was the most exciting thing.” (36 kB)
Good morning, folks! (coffees and breakfasts) Just dropping by briefly before I get ready to hit the road. I'm headed north to visit my brother and sister-in-law up in Nashville for T'giving. Wonking will be either a little spotty or very brief.
If Joe was not going to run again, he could have not left a legacy of fucking Biden's agenda. He could have decreased child poverty.
Hubby requested cranberry sauced for thanksgiving so I asked wait, can or real? And he was all real please.
So I looked it up and by gum if it is not the easiest thing that ever existed. I mean, even I can do this one! It is literally boil sugar and liquid, add berries and let em burst, then chill.
Hope it turns out
I grew up thinking cranberry sauce came only in the form of a bright red gelatinous cylinder. I really didn't even put together what a "cranberry" was. I can be slow on the uptake.
Agreeing with everyone else that a pinch of cinnamon, a dash of salt, and a hit of citrus (could be orange juice, orange zest, lemon zest, or lime zest if you're feeling tropical) really elevates it. I started bringing home made cranberry relish every year to our gatherings, and while most people prefer the wibble from a can, enough prefer the real stuff that I've been ordered to bring it annually for those who enjoy it.
I've also been assigned deviled eggs for the first time this year. I realize with a heavy heart this is because the person who previously brought them is no longer with us. But it's also a sign of trust from the husband's family that I'll do it in a way that is tasty.
Yeah, but it's not *real* real cranberry sauce without the ridges. :-)
A titch of citrus isn’t a bad idea. Like a sliver of orange peel.
I made cranberry orange relish last night. No cooking required. Soak a cup of dates and half a vanilla bean (I didn't have one so I used extract) in pure water the night before you're making this. Next day, put the zest of an orange (no pith, please, and I didn't have one so I used three Mandarins) in the blender with the dates and their soak water, blend into a paste. Add the orange sections, cinnamon, ginger, 2 cloves, allspice, and a little nutmeg (apart from the cloves I didn't grind my own spices; I used powdered) and a bag of cranberries. Pulse until it's a texture you like. Taste it. If it isn't sweet enough, stir in some maple syrup or honey. You can control the texture better in a food processor, but since you're not a cook, you probably don't own one. Enjoy.
Copied and pasted to my Recipe file, in case I ever come across a decent kitchen.
I recommend adding some brandy.
Question: Can we skip the berries and go straight to the brandy?
If you buy a big enough bottle.
The recipe I was following suggested half and halfing the water with the OJ and cutting back the sugar cause oj has that
So I will try it ^.^
We always had it when I was a kid, but it came from a can and was like jello. On the plus side, it had those rings to slice it easy.
We never ate it so no idea why my mom kept serving it. Even my dad would not eat it and he was a depression baby
The orange juice works in there.
JEN, why you no use the cranberry business recipe from wonkete?
https://www.wonkette.com/p/put-some-food-on-your-family-with-aunt-wonkette-s-real-cranberry-business
Because I R a bad cook so I went with the simplest thing I could find .
OR because I forgot about this. It was totally not that (it was)
It was tradition!
The other day, I was telling my son about a bad movie experience. The experience was in Atlanta, and it was great fun. The bad movie was Q, it's awful. About a claymation wing-ed serpent monster in NYC. The fun was the audience, hooting and mocking the film.
It's on pluto now. It's so bad.
Oh yeah, Q=Quetzalcoatl
Sounds like a great movie!
Stars David Carradine, so it's got that going for it. Which is nice.
HEY, ZIGGY!...
*waves frantically*
No, no! Kidding! Kidding!
It'll leave you breathless.
Plus a bonkers performance from Michael Moriarty.
I remember it as a pretty good film.
I love that bad movie.
I was rooting for the beast.
Group therapy: my husband is filing for divorce.
Not much more to say about it. The details are that I "don't meet [his] emotional needs" and that he is "going to get them met somewhere else."
When I ask for a list of his needs so I can work to meet them, all I can get is a list of ways I have not supported him.
He is still angry that I did not sympathize more when someone said, "Men need more training in talking to survivors of abuse."
He is mad that I did not invite his mother to my birthday party because I do not want her anti-lgbt prayers at my birthday dinner. He is mad that I did not invite his sister who yelled at me at my wedding. He is mad that I am not "above it" and he is not okay with me treating people the way they treat me, "You should be above it," he said.
He says that whenever we fight I always turn everything around on him. Specifically, he is angry that I wrote to OK AG Gentry Drummond and said, "I have upgraded you from piece of shit to straight poo," because, he says, I ruined his future in government. My response was, "You gave me cold sores and ruined my body," so maybe he is right.
My husband has a history of relationship dysfunction due to bipolar psychotic episodes. I would not be surprised if getting married turns into "Oops, I was having a psychotic episode, my bad."
So that's that. The divorce should be a fun learning experience. Going to do it pro se and am asking for all property acquired including equity investments since I purchased our home believing I would be sharing the cost and I have paid the mortgage on each place for the past three years.
So stay tuned for the details. I'm sure there will be at least an update when I am served.
> The divorce should be a fun learning experience. Going to do it pro se and am asking for all property acquired including equity investments since I purchased our home believing I would be sharing the cost and I have paid the mortgage on each place for the past three years.
DO NOT DO THIS.
Get a good lawyer.
He should not be able to loot you.
I am seeing one on Monday to consult. He isn't getting shit.
I'm sorry. And those reasons sound like he thinks you married his family as well. I've long since stopped believing in marrying the family. Mine are all Trumpers.
Group therapy is just one of the ways Wonkette is servicey, and thank Editrix for that.
We talked about our definitions of family and they are just fundamentally different reasons, though I have worked hard to meet his needs. I go to every event, I smile and am polite, and I pay for his mother's meals. But his mother is caught up in the evangelical stuff and runs to vote against my civil rights every chance she gets, and so I believe I deserve time to be free from that once in a while.
I will certainly be thanks wonk with a big donation this year.
He is a bipolar blameful asshole and this is what ruined his career in government.
Sorry to hear that. I honestly can't imagine what you're going through because apparently I don't relationship good so I've always been single.
Once the "pleasantries" are dispensed with, I hope you take him to the cleaners. The bastard.
I am so sorry to hear this. One of my oldest friends has a husband who sounds something like yours, and he did the same thing to her one week after her beloved father's funeral, which occurred 3 weeks after she found out her job of 30 years was being outsourced. She was already in a fragile emotional state when he pulled this shit. Men are scum. And then 6 months later he changed his mind when he realized how divorce would affect his financial situation after retirement, and the silly woman stayed with him for the same reasons. They still live in the same house but live almost completely separate lives, which is not what I call a marriage. Please get a very good divorce lawyer and a therapist who will help you move on from this disagreeable chapter.
Thank you. Thank you so much.
Oh gosh. And at the front door of the holidays. Strength and comfort to you.
You "ruined" his future in government? Sounds like bipolar delusion. I'm so sorry you're going through this. We're here for you.
That is the most painful part. Thank you Zyx.
Diane, you have my heartfelt sympathy.
That is miserable.
You are strong and will get through this, but to have to do it?
We've had our differences, but if there's any way I can be of assistance I am there for you.
I know. Thank you.
So sorry.
Hang in there.
Start getting your proof of payment for your mortgage together.
So sorry Diane.
That's awful. I'm sorry, Diane.
:hugs: so sorry Dianne
edit: felt weird "liking" that but mean it as supportive thing
Ugh.*nother hug*
I just want it to be over.
Bet ya do. Bet ya do. Remember, ya got pals here.
(Yeah, goes without sayng, but...)
Now I'm funemployed I play a lot of Risk vs the computer. A LOT. It's my default time waste.
I play against three computer players set to maximum difficulty. fuckface, weasel and assclown sometimes give me a good game.
However, I have discovered a new strategery. Sure, if you can win South America or Australasia do it, but if it doesn't look legit, just ignore that and play long game and go for North America. It only has three defendable ingress points. The trick is playing slowly and not trying to grab all the territory in one go, like you would with South America or Australasia. Just go slow, watch the fools beat each other up, and preserve your armies, making sure you get a risk card every turn.
Mmmmhmmm. I have not lost a game yet when I've managed to wrestle control of North America. It's great because you can play excellent spoilers against people trying to get Asia or Europe for little effort. So you can damage other people and get stronger yourself. It is a winning strategery. I've never tried this in the real, but I will next time I play people.
This has been your morning nerd board game informational splart.
We used to have Risk games that would last all night. I always won.
I do mine craft if I am lacking a book to read.
Survival but peaceful, for I just like to whack the rocks and build shit. Is very zen, like legos you can't step on
I only played on peaceful. Dammit creepers, stop trying to blow up my house! 😭😢
right?
Here is a great game where you can labor for hours collecting materials and building things!
WHOOPS, it got blowed up
I used to play 1v1 with my friend. If you held a continent for a full turn, you got rewarded with a bong hit of hash.
It was all fun and games until you laid next to the board, giggling about Finland for some reason.
We used to play Super Bomberman on the SNES for rips. It acted as a kind of equalizing mechanism. Same with Street Fighter 2 Turbo.
Welp, starting off my new work schedule by....not working today. I really don't understand the reasoning.
I mean I do, but from the perspective of a non-managerial person, this would've been easier if we just switched off and kept our regular work weeks, but apparently that's above my paygrade. Oh well. I wonder if I'll get a call asking where I am.
"I'm not working from home."
I always work from home, so I don't even get to say that. 😭
Do you have a new manager?
Indeed we do. Our company was bought a few months ago and they hired a new manager after our old one quit abruptly. New management then fired two of our other workers, thus creating the current lack of coverage. The company is losing money and needs to keep solvent, so of course let's fire the low-level workers and not one of the half-dozen managers they just hired to do business things.
that is why your schedule is all changed up then.
One of the easiest things to do to show you are "shaking things up" is re-arranging the schedule so that upper management sees you are Doing Something.
Once heard it described by a manager that "It gets people to stop being so complacent"
That it pisses people off was immaterial.
Yup. It's gonna be real interesting when I quit, assuming they haven't' sorted that shit out by then.
That was the office I was in where we had three ladies with kids so we all pretty much had our own schedules set firm by our former manager, whom got promoted out, and we REALLY wish she wasn't.
Within a year, all three of us were gone elsewhere.
Now I have my studded winter tires on. I feel invincible.
Living in the South, I don't bother with winter tires. If it snows, I stay home, read and drink hot chocolate.
It's various categories of ice that are more of a problem than snow.
My dog thanks you. The other is asking "what am I chopped liver?"
Morning all. ☕
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DISTURBING for practically anyone
Sam Altman's little sister from 2021
https://substack.com/profile/155704339-teen-laqueefa/note/c-43965704
Gross. Hope he enjoys his creepy fame.
Holy shit.
Also, BIG TIME trigger warning for survivors of child sexual abuse right here
I am one, so I like to help others.
WHOA
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WTAF
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I know.
YouTubeTV ... you will like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4cr_5vTOsw
Whar Rick Perry and Sean Spicer?
Amazing overall shift among Americans supporting Israel vs Ukraine war:
From Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-public-support-israel-drops-majority-backs-ceasefire-reutersipsos-2023-11-15/
"In a potentially worrisome sign for Israel, just 31% of poll respondents said they supported sending Israel weapons, while 43% opposed the idea. The rest said they were unsure. Support for sending Israel weapons was strongest among Republicans, while roughly half of Democrats were opposed.
"By comparison, 41% of people answering the poll said they backed sending weapons to Ukraine in its fight against a nearly 21-month-old Russian invasion, compared to 32% who were opposed and the rest unsure. When it came to Ukraine, support for sending weapons was stronger among Democrats.
Bombs kill terrorists.
Sometimes war is necessary to defeat pure evil. Tragic but true.
Bombs kill.
I blame Biden's age.
Another heart wrenching loss, Arab Israeli telling the story how his wife was killed on 10/7 ... and he barely escaped with their youngest baby.
https://twitter.com/Nadav_Eyal/status/1726355586583851512
Hamas is a self-proclaimed genocidal death cult. I do not understand how anyone supports them.
But but but liberation army ;-(
Station TWDR, here is the news.
A far-right outsider dingbat named Milei won the runoff in Argentina's presidential election. Trump and Bolsonaro have congratulated him, so we'll see how that goes.
Russo-Ukrainian War news: https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-november-19-2023
OpenAI's Sam Altman, recently fired, has been hired by Microsoft.
And for those of you who like comedy, there's sport! Everton FC, one of the Premier League clubs, was handed an immediate 10-point deduction for financial irregularities, virtually guaranteeing they'll get relegated at the end of the season.
As hesavebread is not around much, and our Australian brethren are much too modest to mention it, I'll update you on the biggest sporting event of the weekend.
Despite the presence of Modi, in the stadium named after him, and being cheered on by over 100000 blue shirt clad fans, Australia beat India in the cricket World Cup. Breaking a billion Indian hearts in the process.
I heard about that, of course, thanks to Auntie Beeb.
Honestly, the situation in Argentina seems to be really dire at this point.
Chances are, it will be much worse in a year.
Quite higher chances, that this guy will not be replaced after the normal election cycle; he will either flee the country before that, or establish a dictatorship before that.
The thing about democracies is they get the governments they deserve.
American "undecided" voters take note.
Two of his campaign promises were free trade in human organs and relaxing gun laws.
What could possibly go wrong?
Maybe in a year, somebody donates a brain to him.
He's already got an Abbie Normal one.
I guess some other former POTUS would go "the most exciting moment in my life was when the WTC towers went down, and my building became the tallest in Manhattan" .
--- Asked if winning a Nobel Peace Prize or becoming President was the most exciting thing that happened to him Jimmy Carter responds, “when Rosalynn said she’d marry me — I think that was the most exciting thing.” (36 kB)
https://twitter.com/KaivanShroff/status/1726335323658174549
Good morning, folks! (coffees and breakfasts) Just dropping by briefly before I get ready to hit the road. I'm headed north to visit my brother and sister-in-law up in Nashville for T'giving. Wonking will be either a little spotty or very brief.
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Missed the flag and one city. Next time around for sure...
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I took a stab at guessing the cities.
And did well, you earned a GOLD STAR!
(sticks an ice cream cone on his forehead) I iz a UNICORN!
Well, you might. (wink wink nudge nudge)