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Sociology > Depression |
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"Brianversion" |
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20 Aug 2005 10:09:40 AM |
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The food around here sucks |
It's all Pizza parlors. I have to drive 18 miles to get to a diner
which is now boring. I have to drive 9 miles to get to a grocery
store. I live with an 85 year old guy who doesn't drive or cook. So
if I don't feel like cooking or driving, I still have to. And Saturday
is church night for him, I drop him off, cook some food, then pick him
up an hour later. Damn, even if I wasn't depressive, I'd still be
depressed. And hungry.
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| User: "Contrarian" |
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| Title: Re: The food around here sucks |
21 Aug 2005 04:57:51 AM |
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Brianversion <brianguitar@gmail.com> wrote:
It's all Pizza parlors. I have to drive 18 miles to get to a diner
which is now boring. I have to drive 9 miles to get to a grocery
store. I live with an 85 year old guy who doesn't drive or cook. So
if I don't feel like cooking or driving, I still have to. And Saturday
is church night for him, I drop him off, cook some food, then pick him
up an hour later. Damn, even if I wasn't depressive, I'd still be
depressed. And hungry.
Hmmm... no freezer either I suppose. You know, you are
living what was once a "normal life" not so long ago.
In such circumstances I eat a lot of canned beans.
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but the edge is still Out there. Or maybe it's In... HST (1967)
when i got to the edge , i built a deck % (2005)
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| User: "BrianToast" |
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| Title: Re: The food around here sucks |
21 Aug 2005 11:57:24 AM |
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my freezer is small, but actually, I bought a lot of stuff for it yesterday.
This house/farm is 100 years old, used to pickle eggs in that wax for the
winter, big barrels of flour, lots of mice to ruin it.....I remodeled the
place. I just hate cooking EVERY day. Plus the guy I live with eats like a
bird, so it's not worth the huge meals I prepare. I'm just whinng, and
trying to configure outlook so I can get away from Google. Will this reply
show up in the right place? We'll see.
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http://www.brianmcg.com/
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| User: "Contrarian" |
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| Title: Re: The food around here sucks |
21 Aug 2005 10:12:13 PM |
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BrianToast <Brianguitar@gmail.com> wrote:
my freezer is small, but actually, I bought a lot of stuff for it yesterday.
This house/farm is 100 years old...
you have room to store unfrozen stuff.
I just hate cooking EVERY day.
crockpot & microwave?
what must you cook?
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but the edge is still Out there. Or maybe it's In... HST (1967)
when i got to the edge , i built a deck % (2005)
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| User: "Brianversion" |
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| Title: Re: The food around here sucks |
21 Aug 2005 11:18:27 PM |
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what must you cook?
Supper, whether it's a 4 course meal or a Pot Pie, must be prepared,
served at a certain time, and cooking makes me un-hungry. Then the
dishes must be washed, the coffee served, the TV program switched at
the proper time, or he ends up watching Cspan, which he no longer
understands....I am a caretaker 24 hours a day for a man with dementia
and I am here at a depression website. I have all the tools to cook,
plenty of room, plenty of canned, frozen and refrigerator food....It's
just most of the time lately, with no anti-depressant, I just don't
freakin' feel like playing mommy. But I'm commited, we live in a
beatiful but isolated town. I have no help (whine) and although I'm
burned out, I do my job. I need a break.
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| User: "Contrarian" |
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| Title: Re: The food around here sucks |
21 Aug 2005 11:48:51 PM |
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Brianversion <brianguitar@gmail.com> wrote:
what must you cook?
Supper, whether it's a 4 course meal or a Pot Pie, must be prepared,
served at a certain time, and cooking makes me un-hungry.
DAY BY DAY ENTREES ... or, The Rock Pile
Never doubt it, there's a long long road a winding
when you hate to cook. And never compute the number
of meals you have to cook.... [in any given timespan]
This only staggers the imagination and raised the
blood pressure. The way to face the future is to
take it as AA does: one day at a time.
This chapter contains recipes for a fair number
of everyday main dishes. Some of them aren't very
exciting. In facts some are pretty dull -- just as
a lot of recipes are in the other cookbooks but
the other cookbooks don't admit it. ....
... Many can be made ahead. Of course you won't do this
very often. When you hate to cook you keep postponing
it. But once in a while you wake up full of fire.
This is the time you can lump dinner right in with
the other dirty work you do around the house in the
morning.
LAST MINUTE SUPPERS - or This is the Story of Your Life
Dishonesty never got one anywhere, or at the very
least it's apt to trip you up when the last trump
sounds. So it is just as well to admit, straight
out, that few last-minute suppers taste as good
as the other kind.
The ones that do are the good broiled steak, the
good broiled chop, the superb omelette tossed off
by the superb omelet maker who loves to cook, and a
very few other things I can't think of nust now.
The authorities put immense faith in the Emergency
Shelf where the last minute supper problem is concerned.
But actually when you hate to cook it doesn't solve
very much because it's practically impossible to
maintain one. When you have a few choice goodies
around ... they burn a hole in your pantry shelf, and
you declare an Existing State of Emergency until the
shelf is empty.
Thus, in one way or another, you goodies disappear
and there you are again at a quarter to six... staring
at a pound of ground beef or a can of tuna.
Peg Bracken, _ The Compleat I Hate to Cook Book (1985),
revision of the c. 1960 best-seller. Long overdue for
reprinting, but many who truly hate to cook do it all
with frozen dinners and microwaves now.
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but the edge is still Out there. Or maybe it's In... HST (1967)
when i got to the edge , i built a deck % (2005)
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| User: "Brianversion" |
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| Title: Re: The food around here sucks |
22 Aug 2005 07:33:52 AM |
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And never compute the number
of meals you have to cook.... [in any given timespan]
This only staggers the imagination and raised the
blood pressure. The way to face the future is to
take it as AA does: one day at a time.
This rings true. When I used to have a regular job, I'd start worrying
on Friday about returning to work Monday. I still don't understand how
people can work 5 days a week at something they barely care for, as I
barely cared about being a surveyor. Yawn, it's land measuring and
snake and tick avoiding day. The good thing for me, for which I'm
grateful, is that the guy gave me this house and land for me to cook
for him, and all the rest, ie. bathing, laundry, mowing, cat feces
cleaning. The bad thing is the isolation in a town of 1600 whitebread
old New England money people. The good thing is I have nice vehicles,
and if I feel like driving 160 miles round trip, I can get to my old
home. I still keep my pdoc down state. The good thing is the manicured
landscaping I did here. The bad thing is no one ever visits to see it.
Yes, I would like some cheese with my whine.
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