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Several times now while researching something on the internet I’ve come across benefits of APPLE CIDER VINEGAR or ACV for short. So as I do with most things I go off researching ACV (instead of what my original search was for). I came across something so scientific that it went right over my head with a tailgate saying “boring”. Then I came across a 12 ounce once a day ACV drink recipe and made it. It had 2 Tablespoons of vinegar which I just happened to have a large jar of organic ACV. I have several times done plain shots of that ACV but I shudder every time so it’s not a daily habit. Who knew I was going to fall in Love at first sip. I was glad I only made one glass and I’m hopeful that down the road it has some benefit, I really don’t care which benefit. I know it helped a lot of people with digestive issues of which I don’t have. It supposedly helps with brain fog which I enjoy. We’ll see six months down the road.

This morning’s challenge was to multiply the recipe by five and make a picture so I can readily have a glass a day. All went well until I added the last ingredient before stirring. It was two and a half teaspoons of cinnamon which decided to land on top of the water and stay a dry powder form. I stirred it to make dust and have dry cinnamon powder stick to my stirring stick. Eventually some tiny lumps started to sink to the bottom, the water also started turning a tint of cinnamon. I never realized how impossible it is to work with. Maybe I need to blend the powder with a liquid before pouring it in.

Guess what while writing this I resolved my own problem. Next time I make this delightful drink I am going to use a cinnamon stick instead of that damn impossible powder that I dearly love in most cooking recipes.

Just for the hell of it I might mention that I have always had a variety of vinegars in my cupboards because I could actually put vinegar on anything and like it. There are many flavors from other cultures of vinegar which I have many. As much as I love coconut in all things, turns out that coconut vinegar is the only one I disliked.

Today was the 5th time in 2 weeks, that it has snowed here in New Jersey.
Enough is enough !

To make things worse, one of my neighbors has Covid-19.
I found out from his wife yesterday. We knew he wasn't feeling well,
but did not hear the diagnosis until yesterday.

A different neighbor lost a friend to Covid-19 last week.
He went to visit him in the hospital last week and his friend
died while my neighbor was en route to see him.
Now he is not feeling well, and has a persistent cough.
Yeah, I'm thinking he may have Covid-19 as well.

Hopefully, they will both recover, unlike my neighbor's friend.
They are both good people and excellent neighbors.
If either of them doesn't make it, I would miss that person.

In the meantime I have been shoveling not only my driveway & sidewalk,
but also both of theirs. The one diagnosed with Covid-19 has one double driveway
and a separate single driveway with 2 SUVs, one in the garage.
The one with the persistent cough, has a long double driveway with 4 vehicles, one
truck for his job.

You can bet next winter, I will be in Florida, if I make it through this winter.

I remember back when I was at school....we had a Weasley boy...who was the teachers pet and he always creeped the teacher...

The teachers pet...would always get the register for the teacher and do errands for the teacher..but he was also a wimp...so a loser in many ways...who would also grass up others and those types...always got up my nose...cause grassing was a big no...no in school

Don't tell tales to the teacher....US vs them mentality...Hey teacher leave them kids alone

When parents rap their children up in cotton wool too much and teach them to kiss a** to try to get ahead...it's not going to go un noticed by other students and back then....we did not have the number of snow flakes...the weak minded and emotionally weak...that we have now...not just in schools...but also in universities..

if you have any stories of teachers pets in your school...feel free to share them...or perhaps if you were a teachers pet...you could explain why

The day before yesterday, I was booked in for a covid test, to see if I had any remnants of the virus in my system. I kind of knew the answer to begin with, but it would be nice to have confirmation on my suspicion. (I spelled suspicion right the first time, look at me go, Henry!).. Anyway..

The result came back today. It was negative! . I do feel a lot better now than I did a month ago, that is for sure! However, there are some changes that I can report: Mainly, the cheese thing. You see, before I got sick, whenever I ate cheese, my body would reject it. These past few days, I have eaten pizzas with plenty of cheese. Before I got sick, even that kind of cheese would end up with me having a bad time. Now, nothing. To see if I was just lucky, I decided to eat two pizzas three days ago. Nothing. No rumbly stomach. No.. How can I put this.. Hurty-ouchie-passing-of-the-food.. I will try with a slice of cheese tomorrow, to see if I really CAN start eating cheese again.

Tomorrow is Sunday, and what better way to spend that day with some good, bloody entertainment! I am, naturally, talking about my Predator films. I am gonna watch them all in a row! 4 films, totaling 409 minutes, or just around 7 hours. My record of movies in a row is 8 Bond films. 18 hours straight! That was a long day, but a fun day! I am guessing that tomorrow will be a great day as well!

I doubt anyone has heard of the Chaffles going crazy on the internet but they are going crazy in my kitchen. I fell for another gadget, an itty bitty cheap MINI DASH waffle iron, perfect for one person with portion control problems. Two ingredients 1/2 cup of mozzarella cheese and one egg makes 2 chaffles.

There are about a gazillion chaffle recipes and so far they are DAMN TASTY and easy.

Oh and Mic there is a recipe to make a chaffle pizza crust - then load you toppings on it and there is another where you put all the ingrediants right in the pizza chaffle, however I have not tried either of those yet but I might. I also haven't tried any of the sweet recipies as I'm stuck on savory.

Hello to you all !
Here it is loadshedding going on now..
Who is not familiar with this "loadshedding" thing , want to clear for them , it's actually temporary power cut..
Feel a bit frustrating though..
Specially when it's a thunderstorm outside and you can not open the doors or windows because of the huge amount of flying dust , and inside the house the temperature and humidity level going high (humidity almost 98%) .. Just hoping that after the storm temperature may fall a little bit..
Oh !!!! The power is back...
A bit of relief... Let's put the phone on charger then

So today's Sunday. If you live a life according to the Bible, Sundays are for sleeping in, right? "Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made."

I interpret that as allowing myself to sleep in on the seventh day of the week, which is Sunday. So I did. Well, until the alarm system here howled because SOMEONE had forgotten to turn off night mode. I want to make it clear, that it wasn't me. It was my roommate's girlfriend, who opened the door to the balcony, in order to smoke a cigarette. I stayed in bed for about an hour after that, just relaxing. However, I haven't just been relaxing today. I went on a job hunt, again. I spend more and more time looking for a job, which I can keep for about 4 months, until my education begins. So far, I have found five I have applied for. We'll see what'll happen with those applications.

Next on the menu, was a bit of cleaning. I busted out the wet wipes, and got to work. Now, I know what you might ask: "Philipsen, why do you have wet wipes in your room? Are you doing something you are not supposed to do?" No, dear reader. I keep them in case my fingers get greas... Wait.. Let me rephrase that.. I keep them in case I need to remover spillag.. Wait, no.. That came out wrong.. Let me try again.. I keep them here in order to remove dust and other things from surfaces. Yes, that.

Once I had finished cleaning, I sat down in my chair, and booted up American Truck Simulator, just to play for an hour or two. I was almost finished with my first drop, when..

My mother called me to ask if I could assist her with some tech stuff. She wanted to open a link, but she had a hard time figuring out how to do it, so she asked me if I could come by and help her out. "Sure, I'll be over soon". Luckily it wasn't super complicated, and I solved the issue within two seconds, literally. My mother isn't good with computers, and my brother is a lost cause as well. He knows some stuff, but he's not someone I would trust with buying a new computer by himself. Anyway, successful help achieved, so I went home. Before I could head home, though, I had to buy some food and snacks for next week. I picked out a Black Angus ribeye steak, that I will fry up tomorrow or Tuesday, depending on what I am in the mood for. I did get some frozen kebab as well, so I could make that tomorrow, and then the steak Tuesday. I have potatoes in the fridge, so all I need is some sauce. I am thinking bearnaise. Oh boy, that steak is gonna be legendary. I also need something to craft into a salad of some sort. I might just go for the classic stuff: Lettuce, cucumber and tomatoes. Someday I will look into salad recipes.

Tomorrow is another holiday, which means shops are closed. Then tomorrow will definitely be kebab. I like it, and it's filling, so why not

A big HI to all from Indonesia!

Not a new kid on the.block ?? but haven't surfaced here for almost 2 years.

Just wondering how everyone is doing and would love to know you all too
Wonder if all the other friends from a few years back are still around..hi there if you are

Specifically in Ireland. I said no, purely because I have my sights set on my truck driving education in august, and because jobs like the one I was offered to apply for, is one of those call center jobs, that aren't really secure. The staff turnover in that job field is huge, because if people fail to go 110%, or if they fail to live up to their expectations, they are booted out. It happened to me in Portugal. I had accepted a job from a company called Staples, in their Lisbon office. Let me explain the entire process from hire to when they let me go.

On the phone, I was told the start date was two months away. All I had to do was send the flight info, and they would arrange pickup at the airport, an apartment in Lisbon and help with all other stuff. However, before I had the chance to book the flight, they called me again and said that the start date was one week away, and not two months. Alarm bells began to ring in my head, but I decided to go ahead and book the flight out, one week away. The day before I was due to depart, I had severe second thoughts, and I was VERY close to call it off, but my sister's ex-boyfriend's friend convinced me to give it a shot. So I did.

I wish I hadn't.

When I got to Lisbon, I had a wander around the airport, looking for my pickup driver, expecting the person to be there when I arrived. No luck. I even went to the place the email said to be at. I waited for about 15 minutes, still nothing. I decided to give it about 30 minutes, and if the pickup hadn't arrived by then, I would buy a ticket for the next flight back to Copenhagen, and abandon the job. 30 minutes passed, still nothing, so I headed over to the nearest airline, and asked when the next flight to Copenhagen departed. "Today is Tuesday, and the next flight to Copenhagen is on Friday".

Bummer.. I am not about to wait three days for a flight home, so I decided to head back to the meeting point. That's where I met a Belgian guy, who was also a new hire at the company. Ten minutes later, a French girl joined the huddle. About 30 minutes later, a full hour and 15 minutes delayed, the pickup finally arrived. "I'm sorry for being late, but I wasn't informed of your arrival until 15 minutes ago. Let's head to the car and get you to your apartment". Second alarm bell rang, but I decided to roll with it anyway. In hindsight, not the best thing to do.

We arrived at the apartment, which was excellent. Maybe they had redeemed themselves, with that. We got situated, picked out bedrooms and had a wander in the city. Lisbon is a beautiful place, for sure, with a lot of great food. The following day, we were picked up and driven to the HQ. We all worked for different clients, so we had to go to different offices. I was told, that I had to head to the waterfront, and there would be an office building, where I was going to work. I asked for the address, which they provided. When I got there, it wasn't the right building. I spent a whole day looking for this stupid office building, and when I finally found it, I had 30 minutes left before I was off. I did find it, which was a relief.

The training, which I was going to be receiving, was all over the place. I was promised an intense training period of three weeks, but the training was three days only, because they needed agents on the phones. I was assigned my own workstation and thrust into the job, after three days worth of training, that was mediocre, at best. I was not trained in procedures, which led me to give incorrect information to clients. When I asked for more training time, they replied that there were no time for that. After the three weeks, the manager told me that I had been unsuccessful, and that I was let go, even though I specifically told them, I wasn't ready to be put on the phones. Long story short: I should have gone with my gut, and called it off before I left.

The reason why I declined the Ireland job application, was 100% my bad experience in Portugal.

After lunch, I looked outside, and oh boy! Extremely heavy clouds came gliding in. 30 minutes later, the first drops of rain fell on the roof. Then it got louder and louder, until the heavens opened and the rain fell hard.

I love rain, particularly when I am inside, so I was enjoying it immensely. The drivers - well, not so much.

Apart from the rain, the day was good. I have some new airtox safety shoes. "What is airtox?", I hear you ask? That's an excellent question. Airtox is a safety shoe manufacturer representing a genuine and authentic pioneering experience in safety footwear - and it made in Denmark.

The shoes are VERY expensive, so the fact that I was allowed to pick them blows my mind. How was I allowed to pick them? Well.. My warehouse- and logistics manager was in the building the day before yesterday, and the topic landed on my current safety shoes. During lunch, I told him that I really needed some new safety shoes, since the ones I was wearing were illegal. How were they illegal? The steel cap was visible at the front of my right shoe, which is a huge no-no. He then said "Find the area manager. He has access to the web catalogue, and you can pick a pair through there."

So I did - and by chance the warehouse- and logistics manager was talking to the area manager. "Let's find some new shoes for our friend here. What would you like?"

I jokingly said "airtox would be sweet," to which my area manager said "That's not gonna happen. We're not allowed to pick them", the which the logistics manager said "Yeah you are."

That's how I was able to snag a pair of shoes that retail for 2380 DKK, or $350. They arrived yesterday, and boy are they comfortable! I would love a bit more breathing material, but overall they are fantastic! I can also feel it in my feet. They aren't as sore and aching as before.

Tomorrow's the weekend - and it's gonna be great!