Yes, I am an Oddball.

YAY two days in a row!!! Today's Prompt: What are the best/worst dishes at Thanksgiving Dinner? This is a good one, I adore food. All aspects of food: meal planning, shopping, prepping, cooking, serving and eating it I love it all. So best for me would have to be the mashed potatoes. With the turkey as a very close second. What can I say, I'm a meat and potatoes kind of girl - but also veggies because salad is delicious and so is broccoli and cauliflower and sprouts and....moving on. I'm not sure why but a mountain of creamy, gravy covered mashed potatoes just makes my heart happy. I think it's the ultimate comfort food. I love how versatile potatoes are in general but I especially love how many ways there are to make mashed especially. They are perfect when simply whipped with a little bit of milk, salt, pepper and maybe a pat of butter. But add a bit of heavy cream, a touch more butter, a heaping spoonful of sour cream and its almost an entirely different foo...

I am way, way behind on NaBloPoMo. Life and the election got in the way of me sitting down to write every day. I'm going to try to get back on track though so here we go: Today's Prompt: What was it like to be you in 2016? Wow, the NaBloPoMo folks really want you to be introspective, don't they? I could go sarcastic and say it was me-like and leave it but I think they were hoping for a little more.  I guess I would sum 2016 me up as frustrated. When I look back over the past year I find that is the emotion I feel most frequently. Frustrated with work, frustrated with our relationship and sexually. I've been frustrated with the kids all three of them (and only 1 of them is mine!), frustrated with myself. I've had my car for over a year now and still love it. So that's something no car frustration.   I know I shouldn't complain, so many people in the world have real problems that they can't control. Almost everything that upsets me is somet...

Today's Prompt:  If you could redo one moment in your life, what would it be and why? How would it change who you are now?   Rough one because there are quite a few moments that I would change in my life. It's awful to say but I would probably not having gotten back together with my sons father after our initial breakup. Who knows what could have happened or what I could have done during those years. Maybe I would have met someone else and settled down, bought a house and a car and a dog and had another couple kids with that person. Or maybe I would have packed up my baby and made the big move to Hawaii alone. Maybe I would have gone back to school. Who knows what would have happened really but there are days that a mourn the time wasted and chances lost. I sorta hate myself for being as stupid as I was. I had convinced myself that we were perfect together, that we loved each other more than anything and we would live happily ever after. In reality I knew bett...

Today's Prompt is: What Was Your Worst Thanksgiving Food Fail Boy have there been a few. I'm going to go with the year that the Turkey wasn't all the way cooked yet though. Luckily it was one of the years that I only cooked for my mom and dad so they didn't mind that dinner actually took place at actual dinner time instead of the traditional 2pm and the sides were all cold. Or if they did mind, they didn't say anything. Thanks Mom and Dad! In the years since I've mastered Turkey cooking and timing so that all the food is ready at the same time. I've also gone from just serving Mom and Dad to whole dinner parties of extended family and now P&H's extended families. I didn't believe my grandmother when she said that one day Thanksgiving becomes old hat but it's true. We're only a couple weeks away from it at this point and the menu is set and I'm not at all stressed about Turkey Day. Season the bird and toss her in the oven wait a fe...

Whoo hooo 3 days in a row! Prompt:   What fall shows should totally be cancelled already?   Oh dear...this is going to be a short post. I haven't watched any new fall shows. I've watched new episodes of Bob's Burgers, The Simpsons, Last Week Tonight and Transparent. But no new shows really. Oh wait, hold on there was one after on after The Simpsons a couple weeks ago called Son of Zorn, maybe? I only watched the first 10 minutes and it sucked. So that's my vote Son of Zorn is the show that should die. I'm sure there are quite a few others too but that's the only one I actually saw and know about.  I've been thinking of watching How I Met Your Mother on Netflix. I know it was a huge hit but I was never really interested in it while it was on the air. For some reason it's come up in conversation a few times this week so I thought I would watch the first couple episodes to see what the hype is about. I've also been thinking about giving Amer...

Day 2!! Prompt:  If you could be completely honest with no regrets, what would you say and to whom? Ooooh boy, this is a good one. I have more than a few things I'd love to say to people but don't because there would probably be fights and regrets seconds after I said them. Honestly none of them are very nice and I'm going to come off as a complete bitch in this post. Please keep in mind that these are only thoughts that I keep in my head. I've never (and probably never will) actually say any of them out loud because I'm not a bitch. Ok, fine, I might sort of be a bitch but I am great at self censoring and that has to count for something. To O: Please pick a career path, grocery store stocker isn't something you can do forever. Don't be a Republican. Don't listen to them, stop being open to their point of view. Stop loving all things deadly. Guns suck, even antique ones. I thought I was a better mom.... To the co-worker that sits to my left: Please...

About non-relationship stuff. I missed the first day, so I'm going to jump into the second prompt: When was the last time you did something brave? What happened? Hmmm brave...not a word I would use to describe myself. I'm not a shrinking violet but I don't consider anything I do to be especially brave. I don't run into burning buildings or towards any other kinds of danger. I'm not a thrill seeker and avoid rollercoasters and the like (although I do enjoy waterslides.) I wish I was a braver person, I admire brave people. In a way though, I'm thankful for the fact that I don't need to be brave. I'm a white girl from a suburb in the northeast of the USA, a really nice suburb at that. I've never been placed in a life threatening situation. I've never been attacked. I have never been homeless and there has always been food on my table. In my lifetime my country has lived in relative peace. Boko Harum and Dash are just names of "bad guys...