I end up adding little bits and pieces like dried friuts, nuts, and dark chocolate chips until its 3000 cals. per serving.
The baking aisle ain’t my friend.
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I believe there are natural lifters that can be successful on a very conservative surplus. That they are the exception, not the rule. I was lucky, there were a number of older (45+) former strength and track guys that looked out for me. I was taught you start with your all abs-in lean weight (pool ready/not stage ready) and add 10% body weight max during a ‘bulk’. My goals were always strength/performance/comp. so my bulk periods were always 18 -24 months. Lean periods were 6 - 8 months. I look great lean, it’s fun, but there are things I can do with just a little extra weight that would be very difficult to recover from lean.
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I like to think Bandit is just @simo74 as a dog.
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That does look a lot like bed time in my house when the kids were a bit smaller.
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Things that piss me off…
Being a dumbass and not thinking decisions through, thoroughly, before acting on them!
Last Sunday my wife said “Do you want to go to Costco?” Normally I would realize the day of the week and say hell no, but that particular day my brain must have been preoccupied with something else because I blurted out “sure!” I mean, I like Costco alright, it’s whatever.
Later that day I entered the Thunder Dome they call Costco on Sunday at approximately 2pm…Everybody off work, church is all let out, and people are getting ready for the upcoming week. It’s my fault, and that’s what pissed me off even more, because I couldn’t blame anyone and because I didn’t just abort the mission as soon as I entered the store and saw the carnage with my own eyes.
Kids, for whatever reason very HYPER kids, EVERYWHERE! Running, shrieking, yelling, walking with their heads down looking at their phones, slamming into you/your cart, all carrying some form of food sample, spilling said samples all over every aisle so they were slick/sticky/smelly, etc. Parents creating even more noise/chaos yelling at, or for, said kids. Parents arguing about the kids, whose job it was to corral the kids. Kids climbing on the shelving, behind the pallets/on the tops of them like little chimps, most of the time knocking off multiple items thus creating more sticky/smelly/slick mess. Some decided games of TAG YOU’RE IT played at full sprint speed were a wonderful decision, except when said kids would slam into you, your foot, your back, cart, etc. Parents threatening their kids but even I could tell they were hollow threats and thus meaningless; hence continued bad behavior. Men looking utterly defeated by their kids/wives, trying to disappear into whatever aisle will grant them a few moments of reprieve from their “loving families”. Maybe a place to cry? Who knows.
But yeah, shit like that pisses me off. Please, for the love of god, never go willingly on the weekend! Try to, if possible, go during a weekday. If you can’t swing that, maybe try for like a Mon/Tue night. I will never repeat my mistake, EVER.
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Holy crap. How could management be this dumb?
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Sounds like they wanted to do layoffs once they succeeded “Encouraging more digital adoption by nudging customers to go online to self-solve,” thus eliminating the need for staff.
I made some oxtail braised in tomato sauce and overfilled the pan so it bubbled over.
I apparently didnt clean the oven sufficiently bc I ended up smoking up the house baking bread.
Ended up spending 3 hours scrubbing the oven
I’m pissed at myself
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Well, at least you didn’t burn the house down. Bright side! 
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Related confession re thing that pisses me off: twice now since I decided to reestablish myself in private practice I’ve lit the salmon on fire while finishing it off with a quick broil. There’s just a lot going on and my ADHD is flaring.
Pisses me off that I’m not as cool and organized as I’d like to be. Pisses me off that the house smells so badly after husband has bravely extinguished our dinner!
I am pleased, though, that the salmon is still always yummy.
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You just invented tomato smoked bread!
Put some guac on it and sell it to the hippies!
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My wife had it at 39. They rolled her in and took out HALF her thyroid. A week later her doctor’s office called and told her the tumor was malignant. Hence she had to go back in and have the other half taken out. So the pathologist screws up the first diagnosis and I have to pay for two surgeries. I take her in at 4:00 AM for surgery number two and the lady at the admittance desk asks me if I am going to pay in full. I reply, “Oh, yea, I forgot my attaché case with the money in it in the trunk of my car!” She did not find that funny. I did not find her funny either.
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#metoo… Steak and eggs are faaaaaaar better
I use amazon all the time…always receive items within a few days
this time i ordered an item thru amazon and its being shipped via USPS and its been two weeks
DOGE needs to shut down the post office
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They’ll never get the message.
When a hiring manager asks you to apply and interview for a position, then doesn’t hire you for it.
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That must be a thing. My neighbor has told me about that happening with her several times at the same company.
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Dealing with this right now too.
I lost the lug-nut key for my car (wouldn’t recommend), and I need to change out some suspension components. Needless to say, I can’t take the wheels off until the new lug-nut key arrives… via USPS…
Happened to me twice in about 2 years.
Like i wouldn’t have applied if y’all didn’t ask me to…