My mouth is watering!!!!!

I bet you could do commercials... seriously.

((((((((Melody!!!!!)))))))))
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Melody, you are so nice with the recipes! I have started my shopping list: buffalo chicken sausage, veggies, Liquid Smoke (I have never used this!) and Peter Luger Steak Sauce. This should get me started on cooking better. We are re-doing our kitchen, and is is a mess right now, but I will try. I have to read the manual for my new stove.

I am 5'10" with my sisters being 5'3". I have always been the tall one, too. I adopted my daughter. She is 4'10"!!!! We have had a lot of fun with this.

Wow, you're tall. I'm exactly 5 feet 6 and one half inches. I got to this height by the time I was 12 and I stopped growing.

My mother, her five brothers and sisters, well, no one was over 5 feet tall except for my Aunt Sallie who was my height. I loved going there because I finally had somebody my size. But she was thin.

But my uncles. They never got beyond 5'2 inches.

Oh, and this is funny, when I was 28, I fell in love with a little guy. His name was Vinny and he was about 5'4. When my mother met him, she said to me on the sly "are you serious, this guy is a midget". She hated him. But I did meet Alan who was 6 feet tall.

Oh, I have a funny story that will make all of you laugh. Alan reminded me of it to tell a friend and he howled as I told this. This happened when I was 40.

When I was 40 years old, I had my first mammogram. Unfortunately, the guy calls me in and says: "there is something and it has to come out". Turns out it was something called a fibroadenoma. So I had to go back a few weeks later to get the results. So it was benign. So when you have a breast operation, they do follow-ups. and it's always the same thing. They put you in a room, you put on the green gown, you lie on the table, the doctor comes in, checks where you had the surgery, to see that you are healing....well the point is, after you do this 4 or 5 times, you know what's coming.

So one day, I had the appointment, they put me in the room, I put on the green gown, and I hear the doctor coming in, I look at him in his scrubs, so I opened the gown and said "okay, go ahead", and the guy starts screaming "Oh My God, what the h*ll are you doing?"" I jump up off the table, covering up my breast and I go "what's the matter??" and he goes "I'm the plumber". He ran out of the room.

Alan is still laughing his head off and this happened 20 years ago.

Melody

That may be one of THE very best stories I have EVER heard.

I can see why Alan is still laughing.

:)

Mel
 

Keep sending those recipes. :p

[COLOR="Blue"]So one day, I had the appointment, they put me in the room, I put on the green gown, and I hear the doctor coming in, I look at him in his scrubs, so I opened the gown and said "okay, go ahead", and the guy starts screaming "Oh My God, what the h*ll are you doing?"" I jump up off the table, covering up my breast and I go "what's the matter??" and he goes "I'm the plumber". He ran out of the room.


Mel,
You are so funny! I read this at work today and busted up laughing. You can bet my co-workers were very curious as to what I was sitting in my cubicle laughing about. :D

You are a great story teller Melody. I'm sorry for everyones mental pain. I do think that people who say hurtful things to others though have their own issues that they take out on others. Julie as for teaching kids about food. I think many families have negative ways of using food. Though my mom is my best friend and I want to be like her she did not show a good ex of how to nurish yourself. She is still anorexic and I'm recovered physically but like I said mentally still a battle. It has taken a lot of professional and self therapy to learn what nurishment is and that everyone is different physically and mentally. I hope to stop the cycle of negative food issues when I have kids. Food is not about being good or bad and you shouldn't feel guilty. Really this issue of pn has taught me that your health is your tool and path to life and the goals around it. If you don't have your health other things seem like nothing. Hugs to all.

Melody, I can't find the Buffalo chicken sausage here in Atlanta. I guess there are regional differences in what stores carry. Too bad for us!

Well, today I went to Cornell (I have another thread on that). The most amazing thing is any time you want to enter a building you have to show ID to a guy in a uniform. I got there at 8:40 a.m. and my appointment wasn't until 10 a.m so because I didn't have to fast, I figured, I'd grab breakfast.

Well, we are talking about a series of buildings here, and I don't know how anyone knows where they are going. I finally show my ID yet again and the guy says "you have to to to the basement to the cafeteria". I go in the elevator and I'm trying to find the basement button when a guy asks me "do you want the basement, the sub-basement or the sub sub basement?" I replied "you are kidding, arent' you?" and he points to all the buttons and sure enough there was a B button, a SB button, and a SSB button. I blurted out "I just want some eggs" and he laughs and he pressed some button for me. Then a doctor comes in the elevator as I was exiting and I go "how on earth do you people know where you are going in this place? and he goes "took me six months".

But coming home was a riot. I take Access-a-ride, and the guy pulls up, and I sit behind the driver and I immediately notice that his seat is all the way pulled back. I just scrunched back and sat quiet. When the guy next to me got out at his home, I moved to where he was sitting. Then I noticed why the driver's chair was pulled all the way back. I said "how tall are you"?? and he burst out laughing and said "I'm 6'8, why". I said Why?? my knees hurt from where your back was hitting them. We laughed. Then he goes "and I have a twin brother". I said "two of you and you're 6'8". Jeez.

So my next appointment is in September.

And if my doctor at Cornell finds any information about any PN drug, I'll be sure to let you guys know.

be well

Melody
P.S. I'm still eating the land of the giants zucchini

Oh that is funny. I wish you lived near me...my 80 year old mother grew a huge garden this year and had zucchini in all those sizes...seriously some of the biggest I have ever seen. She probably made 3000 zucchini cakes, which are delicious by the way......im kind of sick of zuchinni at this point. Last year she grew a 16lb cabbage! The huge metro newspaper here in Dallas/FtW ran an entire article with pictures of her garden and that darned cabbage.......
Tomatoes.......well she had some almost as big as my head :) We gave away more veggies than you could feed a small army with! It was great and everone enjoyed them so much!