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Phentex's Journal
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 " Happy Birthday TODAY Nov. 16 to peacefreak  More birthdays this week: November 19th texanwitch and driver8  November 20th graywarrior and nuxvomica  Post Milestones: lpbk2713 20,000 posts and 7 years at DU! :fistbump: NYC_SKP 38,000+ posts!  rug 7 years and 32,000+ posts!  Bake 18,000+ posts!  Warrior1 6000+ posts!   Congratulations everyone! Add your own here or PM me to be included in the next Milestones. :fistbump: "
" Birthdays this week include: November 7 Grantuspeace November 8 driver8 and dixiegrrrrl November 10 AtomicKitten Congratulations to the following: Vinca 7 years and 21,000+ posts stellanoir 8 years and 14,000+ posts :fistbump: Flaxbee 9 years and 10,000+ posts  Hooray everyone! Add your own or PM me to be included in the next Milestones. "
" It’s the mixed up, crazy week, Milestones first edition of November. Belated Birthday Wishes to: backwoodsbob November 3rd (I saw this one on the board)  and whistler162 November 4 Happy Birthdays TODAY to: WinkyDink and KittyWampus (who wants Kitty pictures) blueknight and JustABozoOnThisBus got a quick shout out here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu... "
" Congratulations to the following: Happy Birthday TODAY, October 25th, RedCloud !  Sorry I missed mysuzuki2 yesterday, October 24th More birthdays through the 31st include: October 26 emilyg and Paper Roses October 27 MrScorpio and has 48,000+ posts  October 28 handmade34 and meegbear October 29 pacalo October 30 Warrior1 and JustABozoOnThisBus October 31 RadiationTherapy Sakabatou has 24,000+ posts Rabblevox has crossed into the 1,000+ Club The Ultra-Appreciated XemaSab has 52,000+ posts!  I feel like I’ve forgotten someone. Please forgive me if I have and PLEASE add it here. See previous October Milestones... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu... "
" Congratulations to the following: Happy Birthday TODAY, Aristus! Hau`oli Lā Hānau! More birthdays through the 23rd include: mohinoaklawnillinois October 20 WCGreen October 22 yankeepants October 23 Also October 23: NewJeffCT DU anniversary - 8 years with 33,600+ posts! See previous October Milestones... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu... "
" Congratulations to the following: Happy Birthday TODAY, txwhitedove Here are more birthdays coming up this week… Rhiannon12866 October 11 ohiosmith October 12 - Modify every thread to include the phrase “Birthday Suit”  City of Mills October 15 SeattleGirl and ceile October 16 Bleated Birthday Wishes to Polly Hennessey October 1st! Post Milestone: Cruzan is 2 posts away from getting out of the 700 Club! Cheers, everyone! "
" Congratulations to the following: Happy Birthday TODAY, RushIsRot ! Tobin S’s birthday is coming up soon on October 4 Nytemare has 10,000+ posts and a 7 year DU anniversary on October 4 Taterguy has 24,000 posts and is racing to 25,000  av8rdave now has 10,000 posts California Peggy blew right past the 90,000 post milestone  It may or may not be Bucky’s birthday, so just keep that in mind when eating cake today.  There are lots of October birthdays coming up! PM yours if you don’t want to be left out! "
" Congratulations to the following: UrbScotty has been here 10 years and has more than 20,000 posts. one_voice had a birthday July 1st monmouth had a birthday July 10th and has more than 16,000 posts! csziggy celebrated her 34th wedding anniversary AND had a birthday on July 16th mysuzuki2 really did make it to 1000 grasswire has more than 31,000 posts Hooray for applegrove and her questions with 46,000+ posts LynneSin rocketed past 80,000 posts and so we’re not sure if she has time for her Ped Egg anymore. The wandering California Peggy with more than 89,000 posts will never compromise and reach her post ceiling! :fistbump: Say it with me: underpants…holy underpants! underpants has more than 100,000 posts! And a very special congratulations to rbnyc on her wedding anniversary today. She’s been here 10 years and has more than 15,000 posts. We are so happy she survived to tell her story and be an inspiration for all of us.  Her story: http://upload.democraticunderground.com/di... August is coming up. Do you have a birthday, DU or wedding anniversary coming up? PM me so you can be in the next Milestones. "
" Congratulations to the following: pacalo has a 7 year DU Anniversary and 14,000+ posts. And is doing an amazing job in one of the longer MFM threads. redwitch has 9000+ posts and an 8 year DU Anniversary struggle4progress did not struggle to reach 50,000+ posts in 7 years muriel_volestrangler has been here 8 years with 55,000+ posts and is still going strong mysuzuki2 blasted right out of the 700 Club and into the Amazing Race to 1000. You’re almost there! No one has a birthday in this month…yet. Feel free to add your own here or PM me if you'd like to be included in the next version. Happy DU Anniversary to Auggie! (Sorry for the delay!) June 9th Early Wedding Anniversary cheers to California Peggy June 12th - I am hoping she will post her lovely wedding photo for us. vard28 just passed 1000 posts denbot passed 2500 posts under his new name Congratulations everyone! Newbies: Welcome and please post here and tell us something about yourselves. If YOU have a Milestone coming up, send me a PM. Or add your own here. BOSSY MONKEY'S BIRTHDAY WAS YESTERDAY!
Hope it was fun!We lost power yesterday and even though I checked in here, I wasn't able to pull the Milestones together. So sorry! Bluesbassman passed 6000 posts and 6 years at DU! A few people posted their own milestones here... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu... This was a cute way for a few members to join the 700 Club: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu... Congratulations to all! June's almost here. If you have any milestones to share, please PM me.  Congratulations to the following: TuxedoKat – Happy Birthday today May 12th Applegrove Happy Birthday today and for 45,000+ posts Silver Swan 65th Birthday recently and 5 Year DU Anniversary Zephie 2nd Wedding Anniversary May 8th Heidi passed her 7 year DU Anniversary May 9th Sakabatou 22,000+ posts MissHoneychurch 33,000+ posts and 6 year DU Anniversary LynneSin 79,000+ and 10 years at DU You are all a fabulous part of DU! Don't be shy! Send me your birthdays, anniversaries and pmessage milestones or post them here! Special Thanks to Call Me Wesley for the Milestones Logo! I haven’t posted at DU in a few weeks. Did you miss me? I’ve been down in the dumps, but I’ve lurked here and I plan to make the olive bread and other things soon. I've been self-medicating with comfort food as much as possible.
My brother passed away recently. He was the first of our very large family, and was probably the best of the bunch, so it was a particularly difficult week. Your mind can’t process it and you aren’t sure what to do. Still, your body keeps going and eventually – you have to eat. And boy, does death bring out the comfort food! My Sicilian mother married into a family of south Georgia farmers. As this brother said in a wedding toast last spring, “It was the Sopranos meet the Dukes of Hazzard.” We are natural foodies -- all of us. Even in death. Pans of lasagna, sandwiches, sausage dishes, olives. The church ladies are an organized food army prepared for duty at a moment’s notice! I couldn’t put a bite in my mouth. But I was overwhelmed by the dessert table which truly looked like something Martha Stewart put together herself. Doilies of brownies and cookies and mini cheesecakes. Silver platters of cakes, pies, cannoli and fruit bars. Yogurt dip with piles and piles of fruit. I spotted a three-tier arrangement of chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal cookies and those little peanut butter kisses. These had been baked in mini muffin tins and they looked so cute. I couldn’t help it so I took a little plastic cup and filled it with the cookies. I would take them for later… when I needed them. The burial took place on the farm down south in the family cemetery just past the chicken coops. Everyone gathered at my aunt’s house afterward to talk and … eat. Turnip greens and mac and cheese. Chicken and dumplings, my sister squealed! FRIED pork chops, I squealed back! Butter peas and cabbage and green beans with ham. Dressings and squash casseroles. Gallons of sweet tea. Carrot cakes and strawberry fluff. Every possible inch of tables and counter space was filled with the outpouring of love from my extended family. My sister-in-law, in her state of mind somewhere between grief and exhaustion, looked around and said, “I should have gone first. Your brother would have loved this.” Online I’ve been berated for saying food is love. I don’t think I mean *all* food is love, but there’s no denying the love you feel when you are surrounded by the home-baked offerings of friends, family, and neighbors. Hey, Carla from top Chef agrees with me, lol! |
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