Sorry

 Forgive me for not being more active on here. Some of you know my little sister had stage 4 cancer awhile back. She went through chemo and radiation treatments and has been cancer free for three years. But the radiation has destroyed her insides. So basically all the tissue and organs are dying. She had an irreversible colostomy Monday . Yesterday she was back in surgery because of necrosis. Tomorrow she will undergo yet another surgery and they said this is the last one they can do. If it doesn’t work, there is one more surgery that is highly risky. There is other radiation damage in her body so none of this looks good.

I may lose my sister this year after losing my daughter and my “son” last year.

So if I am not saying much, now you know why.

Much love,

Lia

Canned Soup

I am not a fan of canned soup, at least not these days. I used to like it when I was younger, but that was when you could  buy a can of soup and there would actually be something in it besides water and four sad little noodles floating around in it.  And it used to be cheap. I can remember when a can of soup was about 30 cents and sometimes depending on what kind of soup it was, they would put it on sale for 10 cents a can.  I think that was back in the 70's and 80's.  This was Campbell's soup or sometimes the store brands which were usually just as good.  Then the prices started going up and the quality started going down and before you knew it, you were paying a dollar for 2 carrots and a green bean in some water and they called it soup.  Now a can of Campbell's soup is almost two bucks and there is just one bean and one carrot in it and it doesn't taste good.  The only kinds that haven't changed are the cream soups, cream of mushroom, cream of chicken, cream of celery and on and on.  Most people don't eat those as soup, they usually used them to cook with.  I have pretty much stopped buying Campbell's brand.  I tried Progresso for awhile and it was pretty good, but now it has gone downhill also. I guess they will blame that on covid like everything else.

I prefer to make my own homemade soup.  My granddaughter loves my beef vegetable soup and she would eat it everyday if I let her.  Also I make a mean chicken noodle soup and I make that anytime anyone in the family is sick .  If  my chicken noodle soup won't cure you, nothing will.

So back to canned soup. I recently started shopping at Aldi's because of their prices. You can't beat them on most things.  The only downside to Aldi's is they do not have much of a selection and they don't always have the same things in the store from week to week. So if you find something you like, you may not find it again the next time.  I don't know if Aldi's is nationwide or just in the southeast, but they are worth checking out if you want to save money in this day and age.

About a month ago, I was in there and I saw this soup and it looked like it might be good. So living in Florida, I always have my pantry stocked with non-perishables (because of hurricanes) and now I have my pantry stocked so I can feed an army  just in case the SHTF as it looks like it might.

I had gone over to Merritt Island with my granddaughter today and we ate lunch over there so neither of us was very hungry this evening, so I decided to just have soup and sandwiches.  And since it was late in the day, I didn't have time to make homemade soup, so I opened a can of the soup I bought from Aldi's.   WOW, it was delicious.  And it was mostly stuff and very little broth. Real soup. The only thing it needed was a bit of pepper.

 I can't believe it.  Funny, it was much cheaper than   the name brand soups and it is imported from Germany.  How in the world can it be cheaper when it is imported?   Anyway, I hope they keep this soup around, because now when I want to buy soup, I will forgo the name brands and get my soup from Aldi's.  

And that is all I have for today!

Lia 3/14/2022

Whose bright idea was it ?

 Whose bright idea was it to have women start shaving their legs??  It had to have been a man who suggested because no woman in their right mind would ever decide to put themselves in a position to have to do this ever few days.  Then again, there are lots of women who are not in their right mind so there is that...

I wrote about this before as some of you may remember and normally I don't like to repeat myself (well, that is not exactly true in my old age now that I can't remember what I have said and what I have thought about saying!).

What prompted me to write about this subject again is the aggravation of it all.  And now that I am old, I can be a grumpy old lady about some things.  A few months ago, I decided I just wasn't going to shave my legs again.  I've been doing this since I was around 12 years old when I suddenly became embarrassed about having leg hair since my friends had started shaving their legs and I was the only one who didn't. That is a long time to be shaving something that was meant to be there or nature would not have grown it there.  As a matter of fact all body hair is meant to be there. I mean, if we actually evolved from monkeys as some tend to believe, then we should have hairy bodies right??  

I  used to swipe my dad's razor to shave my legs and then I had to be sure to wash it off real well so he didn't know I had used his razor. I'm pretty sure he would have kicked my butt if he found out because he was very picky about who used anything that belonged to him.  I don't even know if they made women's razors back then.  Maybe they did, but if not, someone came up with the idea to make women's razors which came in  all different colors and styles.  They used to be relatively cheap and worked well, but now you have to remortgage your house every five years to be able to afford them!  Yes, that is a bit of an exaggeration, but they are way over-priced and the blades are so dull you might as well not even bother. Men's razors on the other hand have better sharper blades so I opt for men's razors most of the time and so do my daughters.  

Anyway, to get back on track.  I decided not to shave my legs a few months ago.  But I ended up shaving them after a couple of weeks because once you shave them for so many years, you don't have leg hair anymore, you have leg whiskers and leg whiskers are annoying too lol. But I compromised on my decision by only shaving the bottom of my legs since most skirts and shorts cover the tops of the legs.  Oh, the hair on the top of the legs is more like hair, so no leg whiskers there. 

This morning I decided I was going to shave ALL of my leg, from top to bottom.  Let me tell ya, it wasn't pretty so it is a good thing I have a strainer in my bathtub that catches the hair.  After I was done, I went to clean it out and I swear I think I pulled out a whole gorilla!  

So maybe it is true that we evolved from monkeys...

That's all for today.

Bye,

Lia   3/4/2022