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This or That Thursday #3 #WritersLife

Posted at 12:34 pm by Mary J. McCoy-Dressel, on February 11, 2021

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Here we are with February’s first “This or That” post. Please join me.

Back in the day I played video games with my boys and loved it. Here are a few to almost give away my age:

Mario and Super Mario Bros.
Pac-Man & Ms. Pac-Man
Donkey Kong
Space Invaders or Asteroids.
Remember early Atari Games? Ping pong or Pong?

Do you have memories of any of these games?

Oh, boy, I had to look these up to remember. Here’s a link to one site. They weren’t like the video games of today. When married, we played a NASCAR video game. I wrecked my car more than I raced. It wasn’t fun to keep losing. About ten years ago, I played a video game with my youngest son. I haven’t played one since.

At school, when kids earned free-time, I’d sit with them as they played an age-appropriate computer video game. They made me play sometimes, but I didn’t complain. It gave me a break too! We had small class sizes in this particular job–Special Education. Our students had learning disabilities in reading and math. One sixth grade boy had permission to bring his Sims game. Personally, I had to wonder about that one. It was an earlier version, though.

Growing up in an era before video games, I played many board games. To name a few I liked:

Sorry
Parcheesi
Scrabble
Chinese Checkers
Checkers

We had the game of Yahtzee, but I never liked it–admittedly, because I never learned how to play. My older brother was nine years older than me, so he never stuck around to play games. That left my younger brother to be my opponent. We were opponents in many ways besides in a game, as we never got along as kids. Now we do. He’s all I have left other than cousins, and my boys, of course.

It looks like I couldn’t choose a “This” or a “That” and instead chose both. How about you?

Let us know your favorite.

Thank you for your visit! Stay safe out there.

PSA and FYI: New guidelines from the CDC say to wear two masks now. Count me in.

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This or That Thursday ~Food

Posted at 12:15 am by Mary J. McCoy-Dressel, on January 28, 2021

If you missed the first “This or That” post, you can find it HERE. Thanks for joining me! This week we have food choices. Last week we had weather. I may reduce this topic to twice a month instead of three times.

Mmm, the taco looks so good to me right now. About five years ago, I gave up eating red meat for health reasons. My eyes will enjoy the taco since my taste buds choose not to. I’ve eaten so much chicken over the past five or so years, I’m beginning to tire of it. For these reasons, out of the two images, my choice is the picture on the left.

I’m not perfect. I’ve cheated a couple of times with Stouffer’s frozen stuffed peppers, and bacon on a sandwich at a restaurant, pre-pandemic. I might eat them again if the craving calls.

I’m ashamed to admit, but I rarely cook real meals or prepare anything from scratch. Normally, my chicken breasts go into my Crockpot a couple times a week. Once cooked, I can use it for chicken noodle soup and other dishes–even a Caesar salad. I don’t consider this simple method as preparing a meal. All I do is season it with salt, parsley, paprika, celery seed, and sometimes pepper, thyme, or lemon, then I turn on the crock pot. Nothing to it. (Salt is to keep my low sodium levels up.) Sure, I fix a side dish like rice… Mostly rice and a vegetable. Each meal gives me leftovers. Easy-peasy yet BORING.

This pizza in our “This or That” image calls me because I’ve been craving veggie pizza for about six months. The last time I made “sort of” homemade pizza, I still ate red meat. At the time, I used Boboli Pizza Crust, jar pizza sauce, shredded mozzarella, fresh mushrooms, onions, green and/or red peppers, pepperoni, and black olives. Sometimes I used taco blend shredded cheese with the mozzarella. These ingredients, minus the pepperoni, may go on my next grocery list. So, if nothing else, my This or That post this week gave me another meal choice to think about.

Now it’s your turn. Your choice? Why?

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. ~Author Unknown The Quote Garden

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