20 Things I've Always Wanted To Say To You

Where I attempt to do this meme wherein you say 20 things to people but without saying who they are and, per this new twist somebody put on it, be positive and nice and friendly and shit. Instead of the usual ranting bully routine people usually use this meme for.

I shall endeavor, Ahem... (in best Pope voice, he proceeds...)



1. If you got that broccoli out of your teeth you'd be so pretty.

2. Um, no, we heard the fart, actually.

3. After seven vodkas you're absolutely stunning.

4. How many times are we supposed to fix the same damn problem for you, day after day after day? (EDIT) NO NO NO. Not it. Damn it. DAMN it.

5. You're better than the best drunk I've ever put on, you just only don't give yourself the chance to see yourself in that rosy hued mirror somewhere in my imagination between the ages of rocks and the tallies from the last horseracing season. My friend.

6. I'm glad you like where you live. I think it sucks to be you but I'm trying to be nice. SHIT!!

7. If I was thirty years younger, unmarried, and a GIRL then yeah, OK, whatever you say. Until then, Jesus dude, put a lid on it.

8. I wish this was ten things I like about you instead of twenty, because I honestly can't think of twenty. I mean, seriously.

9. You have the qualities of a bandage.

10. You don't need to hang on to the past, you're good just like you are. You're better than any of your memories.

11. I wish I knew that you knew that I knew that you knew just exactly how much I love you.

12. Please stop trying to kill yourself. Seriously, what the hell?

13. Don't have that second child. God, circumstances, and your own instability (which you hide so well) all point to the one beautiful child you already have as like, you know, IT.

14. I love it when you pull my finger.

15. And you, over there? You can pull anything I got.

16. Berlin does "Live To Tell" a hundred times better than stupid Madonna and you know it.

17. I'm different on the intertubes than a lot of guys. I don't have "blog-wives", I have blog-daughters, and that's how I like it - and why I like you.

18. In a word? Shutup. But you're better than that so...

19. You don't have to make fun of innocence to feel good about yourself. So why do you? I mean... your potential is much greater than what you give yourself credit for. Cough... coughcoughcough.

20. I know you don't like passive-aggressive. That's why you're so easy to touch off. But you're better than that so...

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Hey. I did my best. Live with it.

I Don't Know What I Made For Supper Tonight

I was going to do chicken-kabobs, but at the last minute I moaned (unto myself) "y'know the problem is sometimes the chicken is done before the veggies and you end up burning the damn veggies. Unless of course you sautee the veggies first just a little." So then I says "wull Jeez if I'm going to sautee these veggies so they're nice and tasty-bite-able when the chicken is done I may as well just put the whole thing in a wrap and cook it all together." So that's what I did.

Except I really didn't have a recipe or anything. I just kind of winged it, and it turned out to be grill-er-icious. I was just as surprised as anybody. But I guess all this cooking has kind of taught me some basics, enough to make me dangerous anyhow.

So here's the deal. I don't know what this is. I'll make it for whoever comes up with the best name. How's that?


Skinless, boneless chicken cut into small strips marinating in some balsamic vinagrette.


Boiling some fresh (organic) carrots. JUST FOR A LITTLE because you don't want them all gloppy after they're in their foil later. Just get them started so that they and the chicken arrive DONE at the same time.


Ditto for some orange bell peppers. Hmm... the theme is kind of orange-colored. Hmmmm. Anyway these are just started to sautee in some olive oil and cracked black pepper. Don't get them all the way soft, you're just giving them a head-start for later.


Fresh mushrooms from the produce dept., all chunked up. No pre-prep but the chopping.


Spring onions, just chopped into chunks. No pre-prep. They enter the foil like this, just like the mushrooms.


Ditto cherry tomatoes.


Here's the whole thing, chicken and all (discard the stuff the chicken was marinating in) sitting on tin foil just before I close it up and head it out to the grill outside.


Then, on a bed of fresh (organic) spinach lightly littered with feta cheese and sprinkled with more balsamic vinagrette, after 20-25 minutes at @ 400 on the grill you get this.


Recommended verbiage- 1 shot of vodka + 1 shot of blackcurrant liquer + 1 cube of ice.

Eat.

I have to tell you, it was great. But what the heck was it???? I have no idea what to call this.

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1 orange bell pepper
3 carrots
2 good-sized skinless, boneless chicken breasts
2 spring onions
4 fresh mushrooms
4 cherry tomatoes
spinach, peppered with feta cheese
balsamic vinagrette

The problem with blogs....

...is that just because you have one doesn't mean you're all that.

No, the train isn't forgotten

We're working on the scenery right now and once I get some spray paint more will be coming.

But I wanted to point out the greatness of Google...

Months afterwards, a fellow model railroad fanatic enters the site from a Google search and weighs in on my work.

That's right here in the comments.

As a newcomer to the hobby I am DYING for expertise, and this fellow seems to have done his homework. Problem is he signed on blank with no account. I just hope he comes back.