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Apr. 19th, 2022 11:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichMy spouse's reclining chair has developed a flaw. I'm not sure what kind of flaw, as he can't really describe it, but nonetheless his chair, which is well over 20 years old, is no longer as reliable as it had been in the past. "So," I say "let's buy a new one. This one has lasted since before the kids grew up and moved out - I expect a new one will see you through until we're both too old to live on our own." My Lord, the drama! Give up the current chair! Am I kidding? It can be fixed. Sure it can. Absolutely.
I grin as I type this. It's like asking a 20 year old to throw out his stained, ripped, favorite T-shirt. I have committed blasphemy.
I can wait. Sooner or later after considerable mulling and a half-hearted attempt at finding what is broken, he will decide that a new recliner with better padding and working parts will be okay, and then I will escort the furniture-store-phobic man to however many stores it will take for him to find a comfortable chair. a new chair, and convince him that the cost is actually not outrageous. Not one he finds at a second-hand store that has an unknown previous life.
I tried cooking cubed butternut squash a couple of days ago and will never bother with that again. Even with a brand new veggie peeler (did you know that they can be right-handed only? I didn't until I started using our new one. Only the blade that a righty would use was sharp. The other side was dull. Grrr.) anyway, even with the peeler I ended up struggling and cussing, and lost some of the meat? Pith? the insides because I couldn't skin it well enough. The squash tasted great but in the future I'll just halve one and scoop out the seeds, and call it ready. I'd hoped that our holiday meal sharer, Sam, would try it but alas! No go. I'd originally meant to cook up candied carrots. He is willing to eat those. But he would not even sniff the squash. It's frustrating - I've never met a person who so painstakingly refuses so many dishes the rest of us consider normal fare. Egg salad, tuna salad, any green veggies at all, olives, pickles... well... it makes preparing SCA sideboards something challenging lemme tell you, although mostly I just make what I want to and try to ensure that there are two or three items I know he'd eat. Because watching him munch on commercial beef sticks and soda just plain squicks me out at events. On top of that, he's developed diabetes. I can't imagine continuing to eat meat & potatoes as regular fare after that. It makes me wonder how poor of cooks his parents were although his siblings don't seem to be as picky.
I developed a headache on Sunday and headed to bed by eight in the evening. I didn't surface until about 2am this morning (Tuesday). My head still aches but it is like a sore muscle ache and the rest of me feels fine. What a doozy though. We had a storm front come through and that seems to have triggered it.
I grin as I type this. It's like asking a 20 year old to throw out his stained, ripped, favorite T-shirt. I have committed blasphemy.
I can wait. Sooner or later after considerable mulling and a half-hearted attempt at finding what is broken, he will decide that a new recliner with better padding and working parts will be okay, and then I will escort the furniture-store-phobic man to however many stores it will take for him to find a comfortable chair. a new chair, and convince him that the cost is actually not outrageous. Not one he finds at a second-hand store that has an unknown previous life.
I tried cooking cubed butternut squash a couple of days ago and will never bother with that again. Even with a brand new veggie peeler (did you know that they can be right-handed only? I didn't until I started using our new one. Only the blade that a righty would use was sharp. The other side was dull. Grrr.) anyway, even with the peeler I ended up struggling and cussing, and lost some of the meat? Pith? the insides because I couldn't skin it well enough. The squash tasted great but in the future I'll just halve one and scoop out the seeds, and call it ready. I'd hoped that our holiday meal sharer, Sam, would try it but alas! No go. I'd originally meant to cook up candied carrots. He is willing to eat those. But he would not even sniff the squash. It's frustrating - I've never met a person who so painstakingly refuses so many dishes the rest of us consider normal fare. Egg salad, tuna salad, any green veggies at all, olives, pickles... well... it makes preparing SCA sideboards something challenging lemme tell you, although mostly I just make what I want to and try to ensure that there are two or three items I know he'd eat. Because watching him munch on commercial beef sticks and soda just plain squicks me out at events. On top of that, he's developed diabetes. I can't imagine continuing to eat meat & potatoes as regular fare after that. It makes me wonder how poor of cooks his parents were although his siblings don't seem to be as picky.
I developed a headache on Sunday and headed to bed by eight in the evening. I didn't surface until about 2am this morning (Tuesday). My head still aches but it is like a sore muscle ache and the rest of me feels fine. What a doozy though. We had a storm front come through and that seems to have triggered it.
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Date: 2022-04-20 03:17 am (UTC)I hadn't realized peelers are handed, but now that you say it it makes sense. (I've tried using mine left-handed, because I've tried lots of things left-handed because sometimes I'm better at that, and I just figured I was fumbling it.)
I found this site that lists left-handed peelers as part of a larger set of stuff; don't know if you can get it by itself. Interestingly, they also talk about how of course you peel toward your body, while I've always peeled away (conveniently sending the shavings into the waste bin). I always assumed that "toward" was more likely to get me cut. Hmm.
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Date: 2022-04-20 02:44 pm (UTC)I discovered the handedness of some peelers many years ago, since I go both ways. (Don't even get me started on how much I hate Y peelers! ;) I peel long skinny things away, but round and fat object like potatoes work better for me peeling towards. You're only going to get cut if you place your thumb where you ought not; it's fine as long as you keep it down on the underside of the veg, since you don't usually wrap the peeler around the end.
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Date: 2022-04-20 02:47 pm (UTC)I've read that partially nuking, roasting, or blanching can soften the skin enough to make peeling hard squash easier, but I admit I've never been motivated enough to add the necessary time for cooling to a handle-able temperature to try it.