How vain are you?

HAHAHAHAHA, just went back to read the post where I got confused and it said "new WORK" area!!!! hehehehehhee

Last summer a friend of my moms came from Australia to see the US. He stayed at her house as a home base for all his trips. I think he very disappointed that it wasn't the Wild West here. Of course, his second full day here was spent in a hospital waiting room while I was having my bmx. After a few days he asked her but where are the ranches?  Lol. Yeehaw!

lol. Melissa, you are a cowgirl!  It's always been Northpark and paved streets for me. I grew up in Prestonwood area. When I got married I moved in to my husbands house in Dallas but near Baulch Springs/mesquite. That was totally country to me.  I've been to the stockyards in ft worth a couple of times now and watched the daily cattle drive through the streets.  Its all for show though. I told my mom she should take her friend there so he could have a real Texas experience but they never has time. I went to a rodeo in Oklahoma once and that was total culture shock. 

And Prestonwood is a whole different thing...my point is that "country" and education aren't mutually exclusive. My parents were school teachers, well educated & sophisticated. My granddad's family, besides being dust bowlers from the Panhandle, also held the record for having the most kids from one family graduate from OU. Most of them (out of12 kids) went on to become physicians and RNs.

TB90,

The show Pan Am... well they got the uniforms right as well as the strict grooming supervisors. The pilots were way too young! During the era that the show was set in, you still had many WW II and Korean War vets flying. They were far older than most flight attendants. 707's were great jet set work horses but not nearly as wide and comfortable as they looked on the show,not even in first class. I was thrilled when they finally retired them. As for all of the intrigue, I never saw a bit of it! We did have a great deal of fun on layovers and as difficult as a particular flight may have been, once we landed and the pax disembarked, those circumstances would never happen again! I feel very fortunate to have been able to continue my exploration of the world, which started in the Peace Corps, and get paid for it.

Caryn

TB90, I cooked Ethiopian yesterday. I've never used so many onions, even for onion soup. I made chicken doro wat, cabbage with carrots, potatoes & carrots, green bean stew & yellow split pea puree. No injera because the packages are huge, plus my butt doesn't need the carbs. Very good.

i have a huge closet full of kitchen stuff and a whole bookshelf of cookbooks. Baking is my love. I even aced macarons on my first try.

Melissa:  There is obviously a lot I could learn from you!  The dinner sounded amazing and notice how other cultures incorporate so many veggies and spices into their food.  That is why I love cooking ethnic food.  Tonight I am cooking Indian food and the number of spices out on my counter are (I just counted 12). 

I am not a baker, although I make my dough from scratch and make homemade doggie treats.  I have had too many disasters with baking and it is not nearly as forgiving as cooking.  But I make pasta from scratch, etc.  Your cookies look amazing.  You could definitely have a bakery out of your home kitchen.  Now if only we could taste them from that picture  

Mine too Caryn, but I just can't make it myself, and the package of them at the little Ethiopian shop must weigh two pounds. even if it freezes that is a lot of bread for one person. it is funny that on a thread on a cooking board I participate in, when people were talking about foods they loathe injera came up several times, but I think it is lovely.

I wasn't in the travel industry, but when I met my current DH (best one!!!) his previous wife wouldn't fly so we did a LOT of travelling in the first half of our marriage. I even felt guilty that we were spending so much but am SO glad we did it while we could. Cannot imagine the pain of flying on my poor body now.

Anyone remember "Coffee, Tea or Me?" LOVED that book!!!

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE REAL macarons!!!! Most people have no idea what they're eating when they have them! My DH's work party one Christmas had trays and trays of them and I ate probably 8 of them (tiny ones) and then someone gave away a box of normal sized ones to us. Last year I took a purse with me to the party to take some home and they didn't serve them!!! I had waited all the way through the buffet to get to desert and there they weren't!!!!

Delirium Pie,

I didn't realize that you had had lung surgery. Please make sure that your thoracic surgeon is really comfortable with the flight. Is your flight direct or non-stop? Non-stop would be best, so you wouldn't have the pressure changes involved in take offs and landings. Other than that, please, please walk around as much as you can to avoid DVT (deep vein thrombosis). If you can't walk around a lot, there are "in seat" exercises you can do that will help. Google it. Lastly, enjoy Hawaii! My initial Pan Am training was in Honolulu. Six weeks at a Holiday Inn near the airport (so long ago that the H1 freeway didn't go out to the airport yet!)

Caryn

DP,

I think you mean that your flight is non-stop. Direct means that there can be stops, but passengers who are going to the final destination don't have to disembark. You still have more than one take off and landing. Happy travels and as long as you take the recommended precautions you should be fine.

Caryn

you keep blaming chemo brain as long as you want! Actually, many people, especially if you've never worked for an airline, use the terms interchangeably .

Caryn

DP, was just going to suggest what barbe said about mld, especially when flying.  DO NOT BE brave about this - make sure your surgeon is ok with your flying.  Sudden ( and sometimes necessary when flying) changes in air pressure are HARD on anyone's lungs.  Your surgery is so, so recent.  Can you possibly "rethink" this trip?

Thinking of all participants, and volunteers in Boston today.  BRAVE people.  In case there is anyone who doesn't understand WHY the celebration is so vital to those of us in Massachusetts ( the MA after my name!) here's a brief explanation of Patriots' Day, and why the attack last year was SUCH a strike against a beloved tradition here, gathering at the Finish Line and then going as a group to the Green Monster ( known also as Fenway Park) to cheer on the Red Sox.  And the timing, last year, was when the MAJORITY of people are approaching the finish line, and where most of the people gather celebrating Patriots' Day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots%27_Day

And Caryn:  GREAT news about your PET scan.  Wish all the MO's were as wonderful.   

Morning all! Just been reading back because I haven't been arouund for a few days. I have my Daughter here and had a big Yard Sale on Saturday, needed some tome to get over it!

DP, I have everything crossed that you re fine for that flight!

Caryn, so pleared to hear about your Pet Scan too.

And I am with Caryn....Non Stop...the only way to fly! Unfortunately, for me, Aus is so far away from everything that it is hard to do. It takes about 16 hours Lax to Melbourne, but to go to Europe anything up to 30 hours with a stop over in Dubai or Singapore...it's the worst flight. I used to stay a few days in Dubai or Singapore in each direction just to make it less of a nightmare trip. Asia was easier with about 8+ hours travel time. I used to jump on a flight after work on my last roster day and have 4 days somewhere in Asia and then back with 1 day to spare, till I started my roster again.

Kay, I have pieces of Cedar scattered through my wardrobe to deter the moths. It smells great, not offensive at all and does the job. It is available in slices with a hole drilled to fit over a hanger or in balls that can be hung in little muslin bags, I bought mine from a haberdashery store, but I think they are available at hardware stores too.