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Grilled Bratwurst

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———- Recipe via Meal-Master ™ v8.01

  Title: Grilled Bratwurst

Categories: German
Yield: 6 servings

  6 ea Bratwursts                        12 oz (1 can) beer
  1 ea Onion; med., chopped                6 ea Peppercorns
  4 ea Cloves                              6 ea Hard rolls

Place bratwursts, beer, onion, peppercorns, and cloves in a 3-quart saucepan.

Simmer for 20 minutes.

Drain.

Grill bratwursts 2 to 5 inches from charcoal about 10 minutes, until browned.

Sprinkle with water to form a crisp skin.

Serve in hard rolls with Dusseldorf-style mustard.

Word Of The Day For Friday August 16, 2019

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Friday August 16, 2019

space cadet

PRONUNCIATION: (SPAYS kuh-det)

MEANING: noun: 1. A trainee astronaut. 2. A person who behaves strangely or appears to be out of touch with reality.

ETYMOLOGY: From Robert Heinlein’s 1948 novel Space Cadet. Why the second sense of the term? The book inspired TV and radio shows and comics and the term became popular. Eventually, the meaning shifted and now a space cadet is one who is spaced out or has their mind in space, probably as a result of drug use. Earliest documented use: 1948. Other words coined by Robert Heinlein that have become words in the English language are grok and waldo.

USAGE: “It seems odd to think of how [Kate] Bush was once popularly perceived: not with the reverence she’s held in now, but as a dippy space cadet with a penchant for saying ‘wow’.” Alexis Petridis; Kate Bush — Every UK Single Ranked!; The Guardian (London, UK); Nov 23, 2018.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Eminent posts make great men greater, and little men less. -Jean de La Bruyere, essayist and moralist (16 Aug 1645-1696)

Prayer Journal For Thursday January 20, 2022

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Thursday January 20, 2022

Dear God,

I want to get rid of my fat feet. I want normal feet. I want to have normal legs. I want a normal body. I want to be able to wear pretty women shoes instead of always wearing men shoes. I want to be able to war real socks & nylon stocks instead of wearing compression stockings. I want to feel pretty & normal instead of feeling like an ugly abnormal freak. I want to feel like I am wanted & worthy of marriage. I give it all to you to deal with. In your hands. Please listen to my prayer.

To God For Thursday January 20, 2022

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Thursday January 20, 2022

Dear God,

If I were able to wear women shoes, would I have had a more normal life? Would I have had a better sense of myself if I could wear really pretty shoes? Would I have been less depressed? Less angry? More confident? If I could ware pretty shoes, would I have felt more worthy of myself? Would I have had more prospects from people? More job opportunities? Travel more? Walk better? Keep up with my peers? Would I feel more normal? Would I feel more pretty? Can you answer?

Peek-A-BooBy: Tara Kimberley Torme

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Wednesday August 17, 2016

Peek-A-Boo
By: Tara Kimberley Torme

It’s Fall 2013
I’m at UBC

For a writing group
To get back to writing

I’d just found you again
By searching for you on Facebook

I was happy
I really missed you

Throughout the years
I thought of you often

I never forgot you
Or your father

I often wondered
Did you remember me?

Did you think of me often?
You meant the world to me

I added your friends on Facebook
I upset you by doing that

Then you unfriended me
I was sad and upset

At UBC
A flash of blonde hair

I thought it was you
I followed her

Throughout the SUB
A chance to say hello

To my childhood friend
And to deeply apologize

For stalking you on Facebook
That was never my intention

I’m not that type of person
I’m still very sorry for that

I hope you do forgive me. As
I approach the blonde woman

I take a closer look at her
Face and her eyes

It wasn’t you.