Wow.
Hi. Azakias fucked around with this message on 01-24-2016 at 10:07 PM.
If y'all do Facebook, look me up. Tamara Biediger. I'm pretty sure I'm the only one there with that albatross for a name.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
And Monica, I'm pretty sure that you work roughly within an hour from my house. I'm in Saginaw, these days.
Last good thing I can remember being in Garland was Apogee.... And that's been a few years. Still, at least it's not Irving.
Irving on the other hand.... you went there if you wanted to get shot for your sneakers or Dallas Cowboys jacket. There was no redeeming quality when I was younger.
I haven't spent a ton of time in Irving outside of my specific work destinations but it seems nice. Borderline swanky, even. Monica fucked around with this message on 02-11-2016 at 11:04 AM.
Plus Irving was kinda different "back in the day". I'm honestly kinda shocked that Irving Mall survived the 90's given the number of shootings and shit that happened.
Mesquite is... well... Mesquite. They don't participate in DART so their sales tax is a little lower and that's drawn people. It does tend tword the redneck end of the population (Mesquite High usually had at least one near-riot each year... the "Spic-Hick Fight").
A chunk of it really comes from where you're getting the data. Plano? (Cool-whip land, as in "Whiter than") Richardson? Frisco? (Where people from Plano went when Plano wasn't Cool-whip enough). Some section of Dallas? (North? Money. South? Poor. East? Minority influence changes every few blocks, as does the caliber of 'poor')
Of course, Garland is where the zombie menace starts, so it still has that going against it as well. 
And yeah, south Dallas can just be depressing. Sometimes I'll see homeless people sleeping on the sidewalks on my way in to work. We've ventured up into Frisco maybe once but that's about it. East Dallas seems to vary depending on whether or not you've wandered into some swanky historic neighborhood.
The food options here are way more intense than I ever could have guessed. In Oklahoma City you might have like 10 Vietnamese places, but then you get to Dallas and it's like "oh we have 426534634 Vietnamese places." In the beginning, I'd try to think of various taquerias as visual landmarks, but it turns out that's not really very helpful. Monica fucked around with this message on 02-12-2016 at 02:27 PM.
Sorry for the tangent. I'm not doing well with the suburban life. Obviously.
Have you taken a trip through Addison and looked at the food options in detail? TONS of shit of all kinds all over the place. Part of the reason there's a ton of Viet places is the large number of refugees that made it to Dallas ages ago. Most kinda congregated in SE Dallas, but they've since spread around a bit and I have yet to see a Pho place die unless it's just completely mismanaged.
Spend the rest of the year paying down debts and such and start house hunting next year. I need to get a yard for the wooly mammoth anyway...
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Azakias Model 2000 was programmed to say:
Sigh. I wish mine liked to cook.
It's pretty much the best.
This is when I am away at work, which is typically 4-5 days out if the week.
The family gets variety when I'm home, because I an not afraid of chicken, pork, or other non-beef products.
My boyfriend will cook six course meals if we have people over because he feels like it. I'm really spoiled.
He recently had surgery though so I get to do the cooking. We are trying out Blue Apron to teach me some cooking skills.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Karnaj's fortune cookie read:
What does Hamburger Helper taste like? I don't think I've ever had it.
We ate so much of it growing up that sometimes I still can't walk by it in the grocery store without gagging a little.
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Addy got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
That's pretty much my cooking except substituting with slightly healthier options like forms of salad and pasta (love dem carbs).My boyfriend will cook six course meals if we have people over because he feels like it. I'm really spoiled.
He recently had surgery though so I get to do the cooking. We are trying out Blue Apron to teach me some cooking skills.
Girl, for real. I've learned a lot just from dating/marrying my guy. He's constantly wanting to play around and experiment with new foods/make up new recipes.
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Karnaj thought about the meaning of life:
What does Hamburger Helper taste like? I don't think I've ever had it.
Its honestly not bad, as far as dinners out of a box go. We use ground sausage instead of actual hamburger because hamburger is bland and tastes like sawdust no matter what you use it in.
The trick is to keep yourself from falling into the trap of making it for every meal, or even weekly. It DOES get old fast and its so easy to keep making over and over again because it takes less than 30 minutes, most of the time.
At my house, its the equivalent of throwing frozen nuggets in the oven, when you don't have time to cook anything else. A quick way to put food into seven people.
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It has been ordained by Primus, that there will be a Chosen One who will use the Matrix to "light our darkest hour." That darkest hour may come sooner if Drysart keeps posting things like this:
I dunno what's wrong with you guys, I love Hamburger Helper. Cheeseburger Macaroni is awesome.
Yes, but the triple cheese variant is nasty.
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Mightion Defensor came out of the closet to say:
Yes, but the triple cheese variant is nasty.
Yeah. For me it's original, or nothing.
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A sleep deprived Drysart stammered:
I dunno what's wrong with you guys, I love Hamburger Helper. Cheeseburger Macaroni is awesome.
What's wrong with me is we ate it 3-5 nights a week for years growing up because we couldn't afford anything else.
