Month: April 2013

  • christmas leftovers

    I’m back from fullfilling my chrismas gift of a massage.  I’m pleased the lady was 20 years into this and this good…she without directly manipulating adjustment was able to chrack my back.  I left there more pleased thoughthat stiffer brother can seea and later choose potential relif….he’s a fused neck vertebrae or two and finally now because a new to him reliable vehicle is in the driveway can perhaps consider real attention.  taco snack on the way back never hurts my feelings :D   and nor does hearing that this gift was not from the friend but mom directly was a detail I didn’t fail to overhear. :D .  it was interesting that the lady working with her husband office managing HER business  were trying this being their 21 wedding anniversary were out to a romantic dinner hoped for at home of  something perhaps. scallops  or perhaps that and steak..  I was able to learn in practice a new technique to isolate should muscles for  releieving tension which ammounts to the arrest position of arm behing the back in the small… this is dangerous as techniques to share because while it isolates that back muscles set, it alllso puts a LOT of stress on the shoulder joint which may be highly painfull to thouse with shoulder injuries… but remember I’m not without some intelligence and discression to appreciate learning something perhaps helpful in aiding a select group of people in new and far more powerfully comforting ways.  yes this is a blob of information because such is how life sometimes comes..in blobs.  I am enjoying my coffee with milk and brandy.  I slept about 15 hours and was stuffy still today or duh the cold may be leaving but the hell that is sugar control is shown in how much  a simple back after amidmorning potty turns into a wow 8 solid hours of sleep more atop seven?…something was up somewhere! 

    toastadas

    3.79 shells of jalepeno and corn

    1.19 usually but lately 84 cents  refried beans a pound canned

    79 cent half head lettuce

    79 cent 3 plum tomatoes

    1.66 (3 for 5) sour cream full fat second use

    1.39 medium pitted black olives

    2.25 8 oz store brand marble cheddar  3-4 oz worth cheese shreds

    84 cents can of red enchilada sauce

    perhaps 1/2 can but can not be stored  so will likely be wasted if not fully used store brand 10 oz sauce you just need about a teaspoon ish worth per toastado 3 is a honking meal’s worth for one.  toastadas are about 1 oz beans maybe two per disc maybe an oz cheese shreds a quarter of a dice plum tomato across 3 of the things two olives is sufficient for slice olive garnish and about1 oz lettuce ish depending on size of lettuce shreds mounding for 3 toastadas.. I mean the complaint isn’t that they’re not cheap but that you really have to get after a lot of ingredients that seem epensive  but $13 bucks in toastada fixings is enough for 2 full days of each meal toastadas burp. or 2 bucks a meal better than the average meal cost and within the 2 days lettuce shreds will keep without being ucky browned. if luck and proper storage occurs.  consider that at 1.49 a tostada at the taco bell this is 3.80 x 6 ordouble the cost and you get no tomato and sourcream or olive. for nearly double the cost.  this is something about economyy… there is some and remember I was pleased the letuce find was reasonable I saved 2 dollars over having to buy the ingredients in todays economy pricing versus typical array of procurement.  that perception of value and not wasting a half head of lettuce was a nice thing as cheese is typically 2.50, tomatoes  typically larger and 20 cents a pound more, sour cream 50 cents off, lettuce double cost,  and canned product 99 cents or more often 1.19 full price not on special.. I mean that’s economy. I caught a break 2 bucks off :D I’d not have mentioned that normally because most of the time I am too busy thinking that there is a huge bill coming and this piss ass savings doesn’t register on my horizon if I’m caught up in miseries… but ;) it should be notied I saved a good 15% off my yummy treat food :D   that’s a minor blessing and worthy of note :D 35 bucks in emergency this or that’s out this week alone…which is why most of us forget little blessing as we’d gloss over them thinking oh my god I used to pay 8 bucks for toastadas boo hoo hoo prices are sooo expensive wanh wanh wanh…when in reality i caught a modern day break ;)  

    I got a massage.  in fact many this month fiscally, a lot of excitement about lady or potential paydays….yeah I got neither in the end and a bill atop it lol but :D I had a lot of excitement and it was useful to read actual facts and figures :D and realize again today that momma loved us all enough to get a massage gift to her kiddos even if we’re stodgy nearly middle aged grumps. :D overly concerned with thises or  thats unrelating :D .  like economy.. blah blah moan.  lol.  there  little blessing out there if you try to smile :D   please do so.  may it be a toastada huge one.

     

  • smellin it up

    kroger refried black beans with onion and garlic

    market pantry large burrito shells

    ground beef forget which lean it was and salt to season

    -

    great value medium enchilada sauce

    kroger marble cheese shredded

    kroger sour cream

     

    chopped iceberge

    tomato – diced seasoned salt /pepper if you wish I used salt and salt free magic seasoning with a paul proudom.

    =

    I needed a skillet, wooden spoon,  plate, cookie sheet, spoon for sour cream.

     

    brown the burger, heat through the black beans same pan, add water if necessary, I did that and a dash or two of worcestershire sauce which is optional. stuff fold burritos on oiled sheet with a drizzle atop, cook til golden then poor enchilada sauce over allowing room for a pool… nuke melt cheese spoon of sour cream with lettuce shred and dice tomato for garnish serve.

    -

    it appears after a lil shrinkage to make the frozen micro wave burrito sized affair almost never you worry they’re lunch filling or you can make yours bigger but… trust put one or two of these out and you’ve a great meal going I needed 2/3 a pound worth as i was hungry which is a fatter burrito.  if you’ve big growing lads and lasses? 1 pounders. there is nothing like the feel of a home made baked chimichanga versus a boring burrito. mmmmm crispy.

    it may look like this… again you’ll have to imaging that as I’m wiping my mouth  and my phone wasn’t handy :D no picture for you but the idea ;)

     

    something like a rip off smellin it up around here? yes I can make refried beans from dried beans…aka scratch.  I however never have made a tortilla, I’ve made enchilada sauce but I haven’t butchered or even hand minced  burger yet, I have grown both lettuce and tomotoes but I haven’t milked the cow nor made the cheese/sourcream.  in case you were curious.

  • RE-dreaming.

    http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ9XqDXKpHF_EW1kdsVEXyGi2jeNRZujfha5dmgzD70XiyFRS1P

     

    fantasy rehash

    day dreamt paper-cut lovin’

    back in that day stash!

     

    with a doleful yowl

    let me near you so up I got

    claw/knead claw/knead OW.

     

    you know, sleep seems like a great idea on coffee so I did to the cat howlin to get in to suckle and knead I needed more wounds.  apparently.  then I got a chuckle my dream was like seeing the lines of badly rescanned tv or something somehow to make it a repeat of what already dreamed when first interested my gal pal what 20 years back.

    -

    picture is from onegai tsuinzu / please twins, bandai/usa character is karen pronounced funny…oriental r thing.  the show isn’t 20 years old so like um I’m not falling for my fantasy drawn by a man kinda thing different person. different person :D .

  • subject to.

    with a bloodshot eye

    I am told to food porn NOW

    liqour finds me shy

     

    I’m about spinny thanks to a bottle of sauce,brandy.   I want what makes  me face two monthof gets it together  rice and beans if you have to! and my sprit says brin gon anything but.  I’ve  just faced 3 and 3  woman and jobs go up in smoke.  oh do not worry Ihave other iron  glowing.  I have neither woman to hold nor jobto cuss up …ooops adore. and it’s  time  for bloodshot eyebrandy. food porn and showing off how waxed off I got with the nothing it seems  allows awhiff of bravado.rubber denial says I must tell you of the dream the strawberriedchicken thatwill. come true.  I don’t even LIKE strawberry all that mch so pardon me a few too many line about how I sell it  to you.  stra….strawberry.  cola’d come true with vinegar masked and all those flavors so true.  don’t you dare think a lil oops noosed my neck in loops as tomorrow I;ll doing loopde loops monkeys and rabbits.  feellllll free to sing your little shirley temple songs and thing wholesome cambells as I have a carcass that says soups stop the presses lemony chicken soup stooooooooooock!.

    why should I give a flip that a trained chef made a lemon of a gravy so I should make a stock of his ooops.  because. if I do not care to cherish others’ efforts why on earth should I expect pray screeaaam for mine to be?  ethics is a bitofa way mean cow that way.  and no, for the record I don’t want to care.  NO! I want my itty ego stroked fuck their lil boo boos kiss mine.

     

    how very very uncharitable!  if you want to sortaknow what picture to think why not dark har but the forgetable wife of family guy with more of meg’s hair.  would I have spent 30

     minutes dreaming of lewd encounters of the bird  grind if she was ugly? … kinda hardwired that way so like yeah.  at least until she moved seats from next to me to facing meand then I heard her raptor’s voice.  um. fantasy diapered. :D   but let’s face it sometimes it’s a pie to the face that say haha on you. me..whatever rhyme ruined.

    -

    am I a huge jerk? yeah. so what fuck you. I want mine and I’ll get it or someone and that includes me will have cause to rue..  am I assinine and mean enough to try to head and or hurt others? hell to the no.!.

    other things I haven’t the patience to discuss poetically is that upturned eye puffy face person who if she didn’t have on the colour cow versus  seer me steer I’d have remained even longer unclear which gender she was which attitude to try and beer.

     

    if you want food porn… ragin sex on the servin slate..  perhaps you’ddgrant me this moment off.  all I’vegot going is a bad attitude and my wrestles fate.    I might make a stock of what others would at first rue.  I’ve even the dream peking duck style chicken lemoned. mr pipped. and rotisseried through…. lemon chicken rice. something vegetabletoo.  I’m not out of aces though I just got caught flailing like a goodold goof. you keep your god damned pants on.  I’ll feed you sex on a plate.  you’ll get your proof.

     

  • phoenix food.

    I assundered a lil blog about being upset about some impugning of my cooking.  duh, I should watch my temper.  but today is here and

    grilled chicken salad:

    I have butter lettuce, mexican gray squash, parsnip, tomato and marinated grilled chicken tossed all nie and it has your choice of annie’s cowgirl ranch or french dressings :D

    marination was pepsi, strawberry jam as I ate up my yummy saintvi raspberry, worcestershire sauce and hot sauce…this round was something called colon cleaner…a horeraddish mustard with hot pepper versus a straight hot pepper thing.

    mmmmm

  • missing the spirit

  • what numbers say

    do the numbers prove anything?

    Federal Minimum Wage Rates, 1955–2012

      Value of the
    minimum wage    		   Value of the
    minimum wage    		   Value of the
    minimum wage
    Year Current
    dollars    		 Constant
    (1996)
    dollars1    		 Year Current
    dollars    		 Constant
    (1996)
    dollars1    		 Year Current
    dollars    		 Constant
    (1996)
    dollars1
    1955 $0.75 $4.39 1983 3.35 5.28 2011 7.25 5.06
    1956 1.00 5.77 1984 3.35 5.06 2012 7.25 4.97
    1957 1.00 5.58 1985 3.35 4.88      
    1958 1.00 5.43 1986 3.35 4.80      
    1959 1.00 5.39 1987 3.35 4.63      
    1960 1.00 5.30 1988 3.35 4.44      
    1961 1.15 6.03 1989 3.35 4.24      
    1962 1.15 5.97 1990 3.80 4.56      
    1963 1.25 6.41 1991 4.25 4.90      
    1964 1.25 6.33 1992 4.25 4.75      
    1965 1.25 6.23 1993 4.25 4.61      
    1966 1.25 6.05 1994 4.25 4.50      
    1967 1.40 6.58 1995 4.25 4.38      
    1968 1.60 7.21 1996 4.75 4.75      
    1969 1.60 6.84 1997 5.15 5.03      
    1970 1.60 6.47 1998 5.15 4.96      
    1971 1.60 6.20 1999 5.15 4.85      
    1972 1.60 6.01 2000 5.15 4.69      
    1973 1.60 5.65 2001 5.15 4.56      
    1974 2.00 6.37 2002 5.15 4.49      
    1975 2.10 6.12 2003 5.15 4.39      
    1976 2.30 6.34 2004 5.15 4.28      
    1977 2.30 5.95 2005 5.15 4.14      
    1978 2.65 6.38 2006 5.15 4.04      
    1979 2.90 6.27 2007 5.85 4.41      
    1980 3.10 5.90 2008 6.55 4.77      
    1981 3.35 5.78 2009 7.25 5.30      
    1982 3.35 5.78 2010 7.25 5.22      
    1. Adjusted for inflation using the CPI-U (Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers).
    Source: U.S. Department of Labor. Web: http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/flsa/.

     
    overlay this with some misleading facts…. at first glace this table says something ob that the largest increasee of spending power came during richard nixon’s first term as president of the usa, a republican/conservative who moved us of the gold stand.  the lowest point of of purchasing power also came within  another republican’s presidency 0 george w bush…  the longest run within stable  or the least change  of spending power seem to be within democratic years of jfk and johnson and the most years of no changes within an era of one party regeans of republican fame.
     
    perceptions of golden years or goatish years seem to still hail the fifties era of eisenhower as the best of times., perhaps this is because of the sixties social changes and vietnam “police action”…war…  the most prosperous years of actual spending power  have  all come during war in progress or coming quickly years with ONE possible exception where in 1197 we had an economic upswing but not particular war just a number of preparations for evacuations.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations#1950.E2.80.931959
     
    itstill amuses me that based against purchasing power  money went further than ever before and not again again since 1968 wherein  rfk was assassinated, martin luther king jr was too, vietnam was escalating as if no one protested that and

    BBC ON THIS DAY | 6 | 1968: United States erupts in race violence

    news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/…/2902487.stm

    Dozens of major cities in the United States are rocked by an escalation in the race riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King.

     
    as you can see money went further than before and ever so far since and quite a lot of people figured out they were pretty much …not happy about alot of things….
     
     
     
    the only time in the USA’s history that we were nationally debt free was 1835 during Andrew Jackson’s presidency.  wiki/whitehouse as picture and sources info.  by a fairer valueation of money and debt there was no time ever more expensive for this country than ww2
     
     
     
    this hold that the best increase in pay to match the rise in product cost like food was being a miner from1900 throu the ww1, or in transportation.
     
    http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/The-Rise-of-Organized-Labor.topicArticleId-25238,articleId-25181.html
     
    it would seem this was partially the influence of unions gaining teeth and membership to be a truer political force…this oddly was acheived at the exclusion of immigrants and most minorities.
     
     
     
    overall the longest period with the deepest decreases in debt came after ww2 which nearly erased war debts and a siginicant chunk of the new deal policies of the depression.
    n 35 andrew jackson erased all US debt no one before or since has acheived that.
     
    -
     
    —
     
    do these numbers prove anything? no not really
     
     
     
     
     

  • support for a social goal

    www.facebook.com/createpinoy

    such asks of you if you wish to like this page.  what is this page but a shot at advancing fillipino community…  I am not fillipino but this is a request from an old friend found here -xanga.

  • I be Jammin’

    I awoke to jam

    butter shaved and the sweets spread

    and bubblin’ bean soup

     

    until the last line lol that one above can read really really rudely…I’m very pleased y ou too now see filth and mirth.

     

    how can you just NOT?

    it’s so so possible to,

    to get everything.

    -

     

    a philosopher

    lives more like you would like to

    and can teach thus this.

    -

     

    the KISS method is for the intrepid

    to get what they want – something not decrepit

    opportunity yippee come to me

    damn it another bill whoopee!

    fortunes sometimes are but tepid.

    -

     

    this might just surprise

    it’s out in double quick time

    poetry month’s prize.

    -

     

    yes folk, I believe there’s about 30 poems no, not in 30 timed submissions but plopped out as they came and thus everything now forward is likely a bonus art farting.

     

    yes, the opening poem is my breakfast, home cooked joys, mom’s been soup,  @saintvi ‘s raspberry jam.  the rest of my month is bonuses and withdrawls…. I have a project of trash like half a fence of a yard’s worth of old fenc sections to go I burnt the other half.  I have mattresses to remove from the joys those roommates were and bless them that they made us get the rent in.  but lol there’s a few piper paying details to get to like the big shovel out of a house that threw away nothing now we’re on the last of it’s major dig outs save for our own stuff.  it is my last month of this year here. :D I even have community inscentive! if I don’t get it out the city will double charge me and fine me too to do it for me! lol wooo whoo!

     

  • old things.

    —

    edit

    there is an easier way to say this

    Eldridge

    From $196,990

    1,799 sq ft

    3br 2.5ba

    (harvest meadows, centex homes)  thus

    http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/america.htm#Colorado

    minimum wage $7.78

    197,000 / 7.78 = ~ 25,320 hrs or just under 13 years. $8.25 roughly is the price point for every cent saved from a job just over this areas minimimum wage saved for 10 years.

    ———————————————————————————–

    thus this side point to my goal of this blog which was to menti0n a comic episode from the dick vandyke show about planning and savings… where laura had heard that after nearly twenty years of savings just in time for mid-life crisis age  of her husband she bought him the fanciest sports car of his dreams with “egg money”  rob thought it was to buy him a short term gift and padded the account for that and got a sweater instead…comedy elapsed…on the show but not from this blog.

    also you will find below that I say minimum wage didn’t come into existance really as in change in importance from 1981 -1989 where it was #3.34/5 cents per hour  the following link showed how this was x years of purchase power decreasing and decreasing til  it finally was raised in  1990.. it is NOT important that these dates and time and wage points exist only that there is an ammount of money for work and from my pov when my childhood home sold in 1991 for 64,900 dollars it was a low  point in that market for sales  and also  a 14 year old home 2 bedrooms unfinished basement with a conversion to forced air heating from an all electric home which is about the only reason it sold as well as it did. the space for the 3 bedroom was framed just not finished at the time of sale. . it was amusing that this same home 3 months later was worth 4000 more  as this was a beginning in the rise of my areas aeconomic outlook… this allowed renovations to completely finish that basement and put in a sliding glass door to the back yard from the country kitchen  which with the third bedroom estimates at sale  for triple of what it sold for 22 years ago.  good investment for that person :D       but again please note it is what? still about just above 10 years at just above minimum wage for a home.  this means?  not much really changes.

    http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/….available on request………/

    thus from  the beginning of first grade through much of ninth grade, wages remained static…and there was a huge fuss about  “what minimum wage” no minim wage CUAHGE in nearly a decade and it finally changed a little the also remained relatively static for fifteen years (minus 2 changes)

    http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774473.html

    yes is is possible to  to considered that from 1981′s 3.35 through 2011′s 7.25 the rule money loses half of it’s value in 20 years and you see nearly a doubling of the wage but when shown a constant value of dollars halfway through 30 years you might see we’ve lost almost a dollar purchase power in that time.  yet prices are still still roughly the same model 20 years later….at least about 10 years 6%  above minimum wage or a person with two merit raises dilligently saving every penny forever.  well seemingly able to make the american dream of their own home….  well see nothing is simple yet attitudes are sure held dearly that it’s only lack of discipline that keeps people from their dreams while the answer retorted is that it’s rather difficult to get such a dream alone or wait a liftime out to begin living.

    so, here’s a picture comic to that effect.

    Not for Sale

    Zestimate: $195,455

    Rent Zestimate: $1,546/mo

     

    as a side note, if one examines the minimum wage table, it will show why in 1968 it is projected that we had more purchasing power then than ever before or since…. 0.68 six eight under the oh.  what was the most successfull era here?  republican nixon,  least successful in nearly 60 years? republican bush the 2nd.  largest years of change and adjust  73-81 stag-flation and the gas embargo years where in 8 years the minimim wage double to not clear purchasing power stability.

    if you would like a different bit of math and average?

    http://www.slideshare.net/RussellJWhite/then-and-now-1955-to-2010-10821744#

     

     

    —————————————————————————————

    I was on the subject again of what is different from now to times before?

    2010′s go ahead try to find a job without being online…unless you are just lucky that way.

    1980′s all you had to do was grab the paper from the macdonald’s counter…there used to be want ads.

    2010′s I don’t want minimum wage! I’ll go broke!

    1990′s I nearly finished highschool prior to the national or federal minimum wage coming into existance.

    2010′s it is possible just barely in the denver metro area to get a new home for about $200,000

    1960′s it was possible still to save $10,000 from work age to marriage…it was a brand new home and my mother’s FAVORITE story about how you had to watch those assholes forever leaving their wallets at home…. the home was paid for in cash and new cars all the time time she lost touch with the lady. oh and she saved it, and her mother made sure she picked on to marry just as well off just in case the math doesn’t add up to you. (paid rent while working and that was matched PLUS every cent the youngster herself added…yes it is illegal in the 2010′s to ask a minor to pay rent)

    2010′s it is not enough to get her number, if she doesn’t program your number into her ell on the spot or give you a CELL number, you are nothing.

    1990′s I was pleased to get a second phone line to my home.

    2010′s I had some visitors show up talented but broke.  I was aghast that they seeing the strain bought phones contracts phones 2 years before they bought food.

    1980′s I didn’t even know what a cell phone was….big brick or otherwise.

    2010′s a home costs about 200-300 thousand dollars with the exception of some very depressed areas and special situations. it is still about  ten years of what a person can make at minimum wage…there is no reason an enterprising youngster working hard and saving every dime with a support network can not put away the cost of a home in full prior to the standard accepted age of a man marrying at 26.  it’s fucking unlikely, but there is nothing terrifically different now as back before my parents were born….just more choices to be broke.  case in point the link below…the high comedy of the dick van dyke show where in laura wanted to get rob a great gift and he ruined the plan nosing into it.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0769914/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl