"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 4/4/2013 5:16 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>>> On 4/4/2013 10:37 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>>>>> On 4/4/2013 12:34 AM, sf wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 20:09:40 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How is cooked chicken with no
>>>>>>> additives to it a bad thing? The chicken piccata and the
>>>>>>> Mediterranean
>>>>>>> chicken on skewers is fine. I'm not going to swear that the pulled
>>>>>>> chicken
>>>>>>> has no additive and it sure isn't on the South Beach diet plan but
>>>>>>> then
>>>>>>> she
>>>>>>> doesn't eat that very often either.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dang, Julie... you buy so much prepared food that it makes you seem
>>>>>> like a person who works 80 hours a week making a bazillion dollars
>>>>>> (plus big bonuses), instead of being a stay at home mom living on the
>>>>>> salary of a retired military man who is working out of state at the
>>>>>> moment.
>>>>>>
>>>>> It sure doesn't sound like she cooks anything. Let's just look at one
>>>>> example of a frozen Atkins meal. (I picked one at random from the
>>>>> Atkins
>>>>> web site):
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.atkins.com//Products/Froz...-Scramble.aspx
>>>>>
>>>>> Tell me this isn't "processed food".
>>>>
>>>> I never said that I didn't buy processed foods. And I said I bought
>>>> these
>>>> for emergencies. She has not eaten them yet. I bought two.
>>>
>>> Just what "emergencies" require frozen Atkin's dinners?????
>>
>> If we were to have gotten snowed in and couldn't get out. That didn't
>> happen. If I had no access to a vehicle and couldn't get out to get
>> food.
>> That did happen. But I had food. If for some reason I couldn't access
>> my
>> bank account because some thief hacked it. That has currently happened!
>> Thankfully we we have other food. But... No telling how long it will
>> take
>> to resolve it.
>>
>>
> Uh huh. Snowed in or no vehicle. Except you have a vehicle. And if you
> watch the weather you should know if it's going to snow.
>
I did not have a vehicle a couple of weeks ago. It was in the shop. And it
developed an issue over the weekend. The rental car place closes at noon on
Saturday and there is no way to get a rental vehicle unless... I can
somehow get to the airport. They do have them there. But I had nobody to
drive me there. That's a long drive! And it would be difficult for me to
drive back here as well. I was unwilling to pay for Shuttle Express to take
me to the airport. That would be the only other way. Well, there are cabs
but difficult to get here and very expensive. So yes, there can be
situations where I have no vehicle. I am not on a bus route here and my
husband is not home. He is leaving there in two weeks though.

As for the snow, it did snow here a few weeks ago and it was *not*
predicted. I have learned not to put much stock in what the weatherman
says. It also rained hard enough last night to flood under our house. At
the time, the rain was so loud that it was drowing out the TV. So I looked
online and weather.com told me that we were having light rain.

I try to always be prepared. I do keep extra food in the house. Food that
will keep. I don't really care if you or anyone else here likes or doesn't
like the food. Thinks it is healthy or unhealthy or processed or
unprocessed or what. You say that you eat at the club. When you eat at a
place like that, you don't know exactly what you are eating unless perhaps
you have spoken personally to the chef and know exactly how it is prepared.
They could be serving you stuff that is prepared elsewhere or comes frozen
and you might not know. You don't know what oils they use to cook with or
what they put in the sauce.

> Bank account hacked! Is there no end to the drama?! A few years ago
> someone hijacked my bank card and used it to buy a computer. It was easy
> enough to inform the bank I didn't make that purchase. They cancelled the
> transaction, cancelled the card and issued a new one. It was a minor
> inconvenience but very quickly and easily resolved. Need money? Go into
> the bank and talk to them. IF they are aware of the problem and IF you
> have non-questioned funds available (heh) they're not going to refuse to
> give you a couple hundred bucks.

They are aware of the problem and they are working on it. Seems to be a
slow process. Someone tried to buy a computer with mine once too.
Overstock.com contacted me then. The next time it happened, I think it was
a skimmer on an ATM. The fraud department contacted me for a charge of
$1.17. Nipped that in the bud. The problems this time occurred over a
course of days with the bulk of it happening in the middle of the night.
The first part was about $300 to more than one place. Those charges still
have not posted. At the time I just assumed that my husband had used his
card. He did say that his computer was broken so this would not be
unreasonable for a computer repair, perhaps a new computer or whatever else
he might need. Sometimes I am unable to contact him. There is a time
difference where he is at and he works nights. But the next night, I was in
the account when I saw the amount drop $600. I immediately did call my
husband and it wasn't him. But I had to wait until 7:00 when the bank
opened. The fraud department had flagged my account and was watching me.
But they didn't call me till later. Meanwhile I had called the bank myself
three times. One of the merchants also called me in the middle of all this.

I did not ask the bank to give me any money. It is being resolved. What I
must do is wait and see if the charges post. And if they do, I can file a
fraud claim. Three have posted. One has been refunded. They also added
something like $60 from I don't know where. I was told that they were
slated to post today or tomorrow so I still wait. We are not destitute but
this does put a kink in some things. And I can only just straighten those
things out as they occur.
>
> Your posts make it sound like you and Angela are out shopping all the
> time. You've said *many* times if she doesn't pick it out she won't eat
> it. Who is the boss in this family? Not to mention even when she does
> choose it she often goes EWWWWW. Well honey, so do you.

No. We are not out shopping all the time. We normally have a planned trip
to Costco and Target each week. That didn't happen this week. I had to
take her last night for the pre-pointe shoes and we went to the Costco
there. I also made two trips to another store, one of which was to drop off
things for the food bank. I can say, "Ew". Angela can say, "Ew". Even you
can say, "Ew". There is no law against that. I grew up with parents and a
brother who are all picky eaters. Brother even more so than any of the
others of this. This sort of thing is perfectly normal to you. So you grew
up in different circumstances? Okay. But that doesn't give *you* the right
to tell me how I should be leading my life or especially even how to raise
my child! Heck, you were even giving me dance advice for her! What are
your credentials for raising children? Last time I checked, that task fell
to me!
>
> One reason we couldn't get along when the RFC chat room was active was
> because we'd be talking about one type of food and all you said was
> "EWWWW, I don't like that". That's what you're teaching your little
> princess.

And then someone (not you) said they didn't like me doing that. So I
stopped. And then that same person complained because I wasn't talking.
Makes it kind of hard to talk when the others are just going on and on about
a food that I do not like. I was asked not to mention that I don't like
things. So what choice did I have?

And several times the talk turned to religon. With people telling me what I
should do...related to religon. And I did not like this. And I left. And
I never returned and chances are, I never will.

I had many enjoyable chats with Boli, Killikni and Blake and some others who
shall be named. None of them ever told me what to do or tried to make me
feel that I was wrong. If they did think this, they kept it to themselves.
But it got to the point where some of the others just make me feel so bad
that I just left when they came in.

I was also in a coversation once with a male who shall not be named here.
Now that I think of it, I haven't seen him posting lately. He's perhaps a
bit of an odd duck but we seemed to get along. This other person (who
perhaps may be a mod for the chat, not sure) told him to stop doing
something that he was doing. Something that I was amused by. So clearly
personality difference there. I haven't been back to the chat. So why are
you dragging up things that happened in the past? I sat there many times
listening to you talking about your problems (and I won't repost them here),
and I tried to be polite. And people here have said "Ew" many times when I
have posted a recipe or mentioned something that I ate. I just get the
impression that you somehow thing you are better than me in some way.
Whatever. You can think that. Doesn't mean that it's true.


> Sorry but it just sounds ridiculous. Let her starve until she can figure
> out what the hell she wants to eat. Even cats will eat to keep from
> starving.

See... Again you are telling me what to do. I did not ask you for help. I
did not ask anyone for help here. I made this post because Cheryl said to
me that it seemed like I ate a lot of processed foods. This in response to
my saying that I bought three different kinds of chicken at Costco. That
prompted me to look up what processed foods were. Because in my mind,
chicken that was cooked in olive oil and seasonings with no added
preservatives didn't seem like a processed food. Now I know that any
chicken, even chicken with no seasonings and oil that has been cooked is a
processed food.