NJ Chicaa

@NJChicaa (122778)

United States

Joined myLot 9 years ago

"I'm growing older but not up" --Jimmy Buffett

Responses (34160)

NJ Chicaa's Responses

Spaghetti sauce do you make your own, or buy it in a jar?

snowy @snowy22315 (189257) • United States 19h

I am guessing the majority of my litters make their own, and why not? It a bit cheaper and healthier. I usually buy jarred..but I think next time I will make it homemade. If you buy it jarred, do you have a brand you like? I have...

15 responses •

15 people

NJ Chicaa I make my own (shocker) but I do sometimes keep a jar on hand for really lazy nights. Rao's is okay but I haven't found it worth the crazy price. Mine would win in a taste test and also taste/price test.

18h

•

1 comment

•

1 person

1975 Songs: Rainy Day People

Four Walls @FourWalls (74550) • United States 22h

Hooray, I survived my eye exam! I told the optometrist, however, that I’d rather have a mammogram. She was shocked, but I explained, “The mammogram is over in five minutes. I’m going to have a headache (from the dilation of the...

15 responses •

15 people

NJ Chicaa Slope

21h

•

1 comment

•

1 person

Gas prices are skyrocketing in California!

The Horse @TheHorse (226364) • Walnut Creek, California 12 May

How are gas prices where you live? Ours went way up a few months ago, but it may have been partially related to a refinery fire we had here. Then they dropped to pre-Trump levels. But now they have jumped again to the highest...

12 responses •

14 people

NJ Chicaa It was $2.87 this afternoon on my way back here.

12 May

•

1 comment

•

2 people

How do you feel when you come back from vacation?

Amber @AmbiePam (98084) • United States 12 May

How do you feel when you come home from vacation? I’m usually ready to come home by the time it’s over, but up until two years ago I hadn’t been on vacation in nine years. I’m actually going on a family cruise this year, followed...

24 responses •

22 people

NJ Chicaa When I was in Cozumel with my ex I never wanted to go. . . other than to see my cats. It was stressful for me to be worrying about other people caring for them. My one cat Sandy had such bad separation anxiety that I had to pay people to go sit with him for an...

12 May

•

1 comment

•

3 people

1975 Songs: Only Women Bleed

Four Walls @FourWalls (74550) • United States 12 May

First, I hope to see you later this evening. I mean that literally: it’s optometrist day, which means the eyes get dilated. But first, music! We’re going back to 1975, which is fifty years removed! ...

11 responses •

13 people

NJ Chicaa Slope

12 May

•

1 comment

•

1 person

1975 Songs: Old Tennessee

Four Walls @FourWalls (74550) • United States 11 May

First, let’s me wish a very happy Mother’s Day to all the moms, grandmoms, and fur moms out there. For those of us who remember our mothers today, may their memories be a blessing. Fifty years ago I was discovering rock and roll...

6 responses •

7 people

NJ Chicaa nope

11 May

•

1 comment

•

1 person

Mother's Day will be celebrated another day for us.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (43718) 10 May

Once again, health issues and strange schedules are causing my family to change plans for celebrating a day together. We did Easter late...and now we will do Mother's Day late, too. Oldest son, his oldest boy has an out of town...

20 responses •

20 people

NJ Chicaa I'm actually planning to make a key lime pie tomorrow. Funny.

10 May

•

1 comment

•

3 people

Five Years, 108,000 Miles, Ready to Go!

Four Walls @FourWalls (74550) • United States 10 May

This morning I saw a note in my inbox from the Honda dealership. It congratulated me on the fifth anniversary of buying Be Still (or Bestill), my 2020 CR-V. Yes, “Be Still” is a strange name for a car. Cars, by their...

18 responses •

18 people

NJ Chicaa My car is 5 years old and hasn't hit 18,000 miles yet.

10 May

•

4 comments

•

4 people

Anatomy of a trump negotiation (with himself)...

Mark-Paul @MarkPaul (282) 10 May

He starts by recalling and getting worked up over how in his childhood (when his father never hugged him) foreign countries imposed tariffs on the USA. To resolve those feelings of unresolved conflict, he arbitrarily imposes a...

trump negotiation

tariffs

disaster

1 response •

1 person

NJ Chicaa He is such a joke

10 May

•

1 comment

1975 Songs: Monday Morning

Four Walls @FourWalls (74550) • United States 10 May

As I’ve mentioned, there are a number of legendary albums that are turning 50 this year. This is one of those “watershed” moments that was released in 1975. This album changed a band (for better or worse…NJ Chic would definitely...

12 responses •

13 people

NJ Chicaa slope

10 May

•

1 comment

•

2 people

Tonight's Dinner Is Very Questionable

Jim Bauer @porwest (99801) • United States 9 May

I might even side with our @NJChicaa and deliver my own puke faces on this one. Fair is fair, right, and this one is completely off the cuff and entirely "outside the box." I can tell you, it won't even come close...

9 responses •

9 people

NJ Chicaa It sounds better than the 4th of July slop casserole but not by much. Poor Wifey.

9 May

•

3 comments

•

1 person

1975 Songs: Mamma Mia

Four Walls @FourWalls (74550) • United States 9 May

Can you believe this is fifty years old?! One of the wild and wonderful things about music is that some songs can sound so dated, and others are still fresh decades later. I think this falls into the latter category....

13 responses •

14 people

NJ Chicaa Yup

9 May

•

1 comment

•

1 person

My Culinary Experiment for Today.

The Horse @TheHorse (226364) • Walnut Creek, California 8 May

As you know, I like to try new foods now and then. With the price of food rising dramatically, I decided to go for a Marie Callender's discount special; two dinners for $5.00. The new thing I tried was mac and cheese with shrimp...

14 responses •

14 people

NJ Chicaa oh hell no to shrimp mac and cheese

8 May

•

15 comments

•

4 people

Who married you?

Amber @AmbiePam (98084) • United States 8 May

I’m not married, but my sister is about to celebrate her 20th wedding anniversary, and our dad actually conducted the ceremony to marry her and my brother-in-law. I thought that was sweet, but if I were to get married anytime soon...

18 responses •

20 people

NJ Chicaa A Mexican judge married us on the beach at sunset in Cozumel. The entire ceremony was in Spanish. . . and neither my ex nor I speak Spanish.

8 May

•

1 comment

•

1 person

1975 Songs: Listen to What the Man Said

Four Walls @FourWalls (74550) • United States 8 May

Happy Doctor day! Yes, it’s time for the pulmonary visit. Meanwhile, next door, my neighbor had a knee replacement…and was home about six hours later! It’s also time for another song from 1975. Hey, wasn’t this guy on...

10 responses •

11 people

NJ Chicaa Slope

8 May

•

4 comments

•

3 people

How in the world can we justify being number one in this? Why are we so wasteful?

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (43718) 7 May

A few months ago, I was reading a story about food insecurity/food waste, etc. Some of it was shocking and to be honest, I was ashamed--of us, in the United States. There is absolutely NO reason for us to be the number one country...

17 responses •

19 people

NJ Chicaa This is a real problem for me between living alone and my wildly vacillating appetite. I'm trying to do better but I have miles to go. I do often bring in extra leftovers for coworkers who I know will appreciate it.

7 May

•

12 comments

•

5 people

1975 Songs: Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul

Four Walls @FourWalls (74550) • United States 7 May

As usual, these are alphabetical until I get to the top ten. So how did we jump from B to H in a BH (Big Hurry)? That’s the way it goes in the wild world of my countdowns. And this countdown celebrates the wild...

rocky horror picture show

4 responses •

5 people

NJ Chicaa slope

7 May

•

1 comment

•

1 person

1975 Songs: Blanket on the Ground

Four Walls @FourWalls (74550) • United States 6 May

Hey, wasn’t this on my 100 favorite country songs list last year? Why, yes! Thanks for noticing! That means “Linda? NO!” as well. While I started listening to rock and roll in 1975, there was still plenty of...

classic country music

8 responses •

10 people

NJ Chicaa nope

6 May

•

1 comment

•

1 person

I'll Take a "Hundy"

Jim Bauer @porwest (99801) • United States 6 May

I am not sure why I sometimes call a hundred dollar bill a "hundy," but I do. Of course, hundred dollar bills have other names people call them. Benjis and Benjamins are a couple that come to mind. I have to make a trip to...

7 responses •

8 people

NJ Chicaa Work and then more work

6 May

•

1 comment

•

1 person

Ten Years Gone

Amber @AmbiePam (98084) • United States 4 May

Well, ten years ago my mother was welcomed into Heaven, and hasn’t felt pain since. She was only 55 when she died, but she got a lot of living in before she was diagnosed with dementia at aged 46. She accomplished so much, but she...

25 responses •

27 people

NJ Chicaa I'm sorry for this sad anniversary but happy to hear that you had such a good relationship with her.

4 May

•

1 comment

•

3 people