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Pampered Chef--went to a party over the-sm

Posted By: Debra on 2007-10-03
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weekend. She made a broccli and chicken braid. Does anyone have that recipe?  Really good.


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I just had a Pampered Chef party.
My Pampered Chef lady probably has it.  E-mail me if you really want it and I'll try and get it for you.
I Love Pampered Chef too
Some of their things are expensive, but there are smaller items that I have that I couldn't live without. They have these great measuring spoons and cups I just got recently and a glas mixing bowl that I use all the time, you can even bake a cake in it.
My DH has decided to become a Pampered Chef demonstrator.

Does anyone have any info on this?  Is it a good way to make some extra money?  I said NO, he decided to do it anyway.


That is a great idea. Pampered Chef is awesome!!!
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Don't mind candles, Pampered Chef, or Tastefully Simple. HATE Mary Kay parties! nm
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Pampered
I am so curious; I love their stuff and buy it all the time through a "second party" who hands out brochures for the PC lady (I have never gotten to meet her) for a lot of us who never have time to go anywhere, but still want to purchase kitchen stuff. Why did you stop doing PC? Would you do it again?
Chef. nm
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This is exactly why I want to be a chef.

Had enough of this BS.


I hear ya about the Chef-Boyardee!

I don't even know how to spell it--that's fancy stuff right there!  I usually eat weeners and ramen!  I actually cooked a little roast beef and taters for the first time in MONTHS tonight!  I could eat better if I dumped my critters, but then for me, what would be the point of doing what I do?


It's hard, no doubt about it.  We have married friends back in Mass who TAKE HOME $75,000 each and each have excellent bennies. BUT, they live in a house they never get to LIVE in and they never sit down together to eat...always eat separately on the run. They've got a gorgeous yard that they hire someone else to take care of.  It's whacked...they've got a gourmet kitchen and NEVER USE IT!  When they want to take a vacation, guess where they come?  To my place here in the boonies!  How messed up is that?! 


We only get one go 'round (or at least that's what I believe anyway) and we are the choices we make.  I'm thankful I've been able to make the choices I have.  I just happen to choose the beef-flavored ramen over the chicken one, and the smell of grass and manure over asphalt and exhaust.    



Same here, I am thinking of becoming a personal chef. nm
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My husband is not a gourmet chef and I don't have a housekeeper... SM

So consequently, cooking falls to me and cleaning the house falls to me.  My husband helps, but let's be honest husbands can sometimes be as needy as the kids.


Minnie, do you hear yourself?  You have a housekeeper, your husband cooks, your kids are grown.  That's great for you.  It sounds like you work because you want to and that's great again, but most of work because we have to.  We don't have a choice and we have to find a way to make money and be a good mom and a good wife all at the same time.  It's hard.  My kids are a priority and my paycheck is a priority, but if one of my kids wants to sit down and talk to me for a few minutes, then I'm going to listen.  If that makes me unprofessional, then I guess I am.


That doesn't mean I don't get upset with my kids when they interrupt me for silly things.  I do and they know when I'm mad, but that isn't going to stop them from doing it again, because they are, after all, just kids and what is important to them, may not seem important to me, but it IS important nevertheless.  No, I don't have them trained like dogs with the wave of my hand, but they're good kids and I am eternally grateful that I can take them and pick them up from school and I always know where they're at and what they are doing and when they'll be home.  I'm not calling from an in-office job wondering why my kids are answering the phone.  I know their teachers and friends and friends' parents.  Sure, my production may slip from time to time, but I've learned to adapt and I'm willing to sacrifice for what I view is the best reason to be an MT right now.


Suze Orman had a chef on her show last week ..
The girl spent $35K to go to an 18-month culinary school. Now makes $7 an hour and with interest on her $35K school debt, she is paying back $119K.

At $7 an hour, she'll have to pick up another job.

Chef's make LESS than we do! LOLOLOL

I read that, too. I love to cook, too, but I wouldn't want to be a chef or caterer.
Working mostly evenings and complaining patrons. I don't know. There's this little yuppie deli downtown that I would love to open one very similar to. But would I want to do it everyday? Then again, I like gardening and canning. I could be a farmer and sell organic vegetables. Or I could sell homemade canned foods, but there's so much regulation there and worry about botulism. I also like writing. My true dream is to be a paid and published writer. I don't care about fame or fortune, just enough to be able to work a flexible schedule and support my family. My family says it's a pipe dream that everyone wants but few people get.
Do you have an I-party near you? OR....SM
try the web for homemade costume ideas.   A cute one I've always wanted to do was to hang cereal boxes all over the body with fake rubber knives sticking out of each onewith fake blood and go as a CEREAL KILLER.
new yrs eve party
we met at 2000 new yrs eve party. i went out with my brother & his friends that night b/c my friend blew me off and it was there that i met my husband. :-)
Also, who knows what the other party
in their recorded statement. I used to transcribe these things too and the one thing I noticed is that out of one accident, each party always blames the other guy and sometimes the statements vary wildly as to what happened. You might want to get your version on the record. Just be sure to speak clearly and don't talk over each other.
Yes were going to a party party
wait, I think that's backwards, LOL
Spa party help, please

I'm hosting a spa party at my house on Friday at 6:30 p.m.  I'm going to serve:


Vegetable pizza


Chips/Mexican dip (cheese, cooked ground beef, salsa in the crock pot)


Fresh fruit (strawberries, grapes, blueberries)


Lemon squares


Tea/soda/coffee


Would it be okay to use pale yellow paper plates, napkins, utensils, hot/cold cups with a white tablecloth and a vase of fresh flowers?  Can I move the chairs away from the kitchen table and serve the food there or should I put it on a table in the den where we'll be having the party?  Should I offer drinks as people arrive and wait until everyone is there before we eat or should everyone just get their food/drink as they arrive? 


I've never had or been to this type of party, so I'm really nervous.  Does my menu sound like enough, too much, yucky choices???  I thought it would be fun having a spa party, but it's made me a first-class nervous wreck planning it! 


I'm open to all ideas and recommendations.  Thanks.


 


Party...party...party......
Party...party...party....

Or have a party going on right behind them
Many of the ESL's I get must either choose dictation stations right next to congested areas or don't have a clue how their dictation sounds because they never play it back.  It's hard enough to understand them without loud personal conversations and bursts of laughter right near by, or the somebody loudly paging someone right through their dictation, or sitting right next to a phone that rings and rings.  This is the norm on most of the dictations I've been getting, and I'm really tired of it!  When I worked in-house people KNEW to be quiet when someone was dictating, and the doctors edited their dictations enough to hear what was going on the background.  This is one of the down sides of working off site - you can't grab anybody and say - "come listen to this, and then don't blame me if its full of blanks"!
We are not an outside party

We are directly under the physician. We are not BCBS or the government.


 


 


Having an engagement party for our son and his g/f!
YAY!
Wow, a party on a Monday? Can I come?? (sm)
I'll bring food too; I'm a good coo, I swear I am!.
I made this for a party once..sm

You may have already seen these, if not they are rather cute.


Purchase some plastic (deli type) disposable gloves.  These are made to touch food, etc.  Put a candy corn in fingertips (for fingernails) stuff rest with popcorn.  Tie top with colored black/orange ribbon, and put plastic spider rings (found everywhere at halloween) on top of glove after they are stuffed.  These are really kinda cute.


A party for our patients...
Every year, the staff in our clinic takes it on ourselves to throw a party for our patients. We all cook finger food, make snack trays, cookies, baked good, cheezes, bread, meat trays, the works. We have breakfast foods and lunch foods. We decorate tables in our lobby to spread this out on. We usually do this one day a week for the four weeks before Christmas so many patients will get to enjoy it. We have coffee, hot chocolate, orange juice, cokes and punch. We have fruits and dips....something for everyone, even diabetics. The patients are touched that we go to the trouble and we are touched by how much they love it! These patients have gone through enough suffering with their diseases and some are elderly and don't have family members. Some tell us this is their only Christmas!  We have been doing this several years now and the patients are beginning to tell us to be sure we appoint them to return on the days we are having our "Christmas spread." I just thought I'd share the Christmas party that means the most to me... and this is definitely it! Just the look on their faces as they are enjoying it is Christmas to me.
Party dilema...

Okay, 5 years ago, our family threw a huge party - a pig roast actually - with over 100 people during the course of the night.  My father-in-law said he wanted to do it again this year, but has since backed out because of his health not being the best and my husband has no interest in planning.  I would love to charge in and do it myself except for one thing - I have no idea how to roast a pig.  I was thinking of just having burgers and dogs as well as whatever sides people want to bring, soda, beer, etc and just turn up the music and have a blast.  My husband says you can't have a pig roast one year and turn around and just have hamburgers another time.   I think he's full of it!  Any opinions?  And be kind...he IS a great guy.  Just a party p**per when it comes to this.


Happy 4th!


Just was at a grad party and met one of my former MDs

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Do a kabob party!!! (sm)
We did a kabob party once. We supplied big bowls of all the things you would put on them including meat (chicken, steak, and pork) and then bowls of other stuff like cherry tomatoes, pieces of pineapple, mushrooms, green pepper chunks, onion chunks, etc. We marinated the meat and had it laying in the bowls already marinated. Everbody got their own kabob skewer and built their own and then carried it out to the grill where my husband grilled it for them. You could put on it whatever you liked. When we were done, we roased marshmallows too! That was the most successful party we ever did. We had everyone else bring a dish to go along with the kabobs and we supplied the kabobs. Hope that helps!
Late to the party, but B is right.
I have Office 2003, Teachers & Students Edition, and it does indeed allow installation on 3 computers in a household.

When you activate trial versions, you have no backup in case of computer/hard drive failure.

Also, you MAY be able to get physical media for pre-installed computer software from the manufacturer, but at the very least you'll pay shipping and handling, and probably a nominal fee for the CDs. Most now place the restore software on the computer's hard drive. It's up to the owner to back that up in case of emergency.
Homemade Chex party mix!
Made with real butter, lots of peanuts, Cheese-its or Goldfish. Rice and/or corn chex or Crispix; none of those nasty wheat chex. Used to mix up a batch and sit and type and and eat and then graze on it throughout the day
Autotext vs. third-party software
I have tested InstantText, SmartType and several other abbreviation Expanders out there. InstantText and SmartType are more expensive and I found I can have the added features they provide with PCShorthand which is about $100. The added benefits include things like adding other functions such as backspace to your abbreviations so the abbrevation "yo" will do backspace hyphen and then type "year-old" things like that. Also with PC shorthand you can have a suggestion window displayed and resize and position that anywhere on your screen so you have a suggestion window like InstantText and SmartType. Then if you build your list properly, you can quickly see which abbreviation to use if you need to and you don't have to remember exactly what abbreviation you used, which are the primary selling points of InstantText and SmartType, both of which are great programs. You can also transfer your autotext entries to any of the third-party programs. They do have a 30-day free trial demo (www.pcshorthand.com) and no, I do not work for OfficeSoft, just like their software and think it is reasonably priced.
Party Ideas for Preteens
Hi! my daughter is turning 10 next month. She wants to have an "all girls party" : ) and wants to have some games. I just don't know what games are still suitable for their age. Any ideas? Thanks.
How about a "Bah, Humbug" party? (s/m)
That was one of the best things I ever attended, one Christmas Eve when I was having a totally crummy X-mas season. A bunch of other gals I knew who were single (some by choice, some by circumstance, some long-term, some recently), but all of whom were stressed-out and bummed about the holidays, all got together and had what is still the best party I ever attended. Lasted well into the wee hours of Christmas morning, and then we all realized how lucky we were that we could come crawling home in rather intoxicated condition at 4:00 AM and not have someone (Husband, BF, significant other, father, etc.) getting on our case about it. Once the hangover was gone, I think we all appreciated our own situations and no longer felt depressed.
What does third party transcription provider mean?

Could be farwell party on Friday. If not, I would think
After 20 years, a big party should be in the plans. If not, they are lacking in manners and it is time for you to go to a new place in your life.
2nd birthday party for the dynamic duo!

Just way too much fun!  Especially when they both pushed their little cakes away and said PICKLES!


Next year they're getting birthday pickles.


Shower for first...diaper party for second.

It was lots of fun and I received so many diapers and wipes, which I was so thankful for.  It was much smaller and more personal. Not to mention, it was nice to have a party, even small, to welcome the second baby.


A party is about getting together, not what food is served! :-)
I say to make whatever food you feel comfortable with and encourage others to bring covered dishes to add variety. I have found those types of get togethers the most fun. Easy food, music, pool, games for the kids, whatever. Good luck! :-)
If it were my kid, I'd be very tempted to call off the party....
But I hope you figured something out. Let us know how you made out.
We just got done having our Super Bowl Party
My friend and I usually don't watch, I don't like football, but we always have a fun party. This game was actually exciting. And me being from NY, I was glad the Giants won.
engagement party? save your money. nm
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You talk about medical bloopers at a party
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Halloween party for 6 year olds
Any ideas for a Halloween party/slightly haunted house.  Food, games, spooky decorations?  Thanks in advance.
Favorite company Christmas party..

Do you have a favorite you went to?  I'd like this to be a positive thread, fond memories, that sort of thing.


I worked for a very large hospital for about 4 years.  Every year at Christmas, the company party was in the cafeteria (a huge, monstrous cafeteria and half of it was curtained/walled off for our party).  The party was during an entire 24-hour period on 2 different days.  We could sign up for 4 hours time (paid) to go in groups to the party during our shifts.  When we got down there, after showing our badge, the CEO would hand us a crisp new 100-dollar bill.  They would have tables and tables of all kinds of fantastic snack/finger foods and desserts.  The TVs were showing videos that were scanning the crowd the whole time.  There was a band that played some and upper management would put on silly plays, sometimes children's groups would come sing.  We really had a good time.  Everyone got to enjoy the party.  We went home with an extra $100 in our pockets.  Enjoyed good food and entertainment and got paid for it!  Then we were worthless the rest of the day in the office, hahaha, while we continued to snack on all the dozens of goodies that clinics and offices had sent to the us, the transcription department.  :)


Now, we don't get THAT working from home, huh?!  Hahahaa 


No, the problem lies with the party that doesn't SM

keep enough money to pay people. That's the bottom line. It is no one else's fault.


I don't contract with a hospital. I contract with an MTSO.


Now that would be a nifty party, wouldn't it! Coffee
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Now there's an idea - a candle MAKING party!
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..usually reading that either party can end the relationship at any time, but yours may be dif
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Funny... can I join the Bon Voyage party with a few of my own? Seriously though
it's so very hard to just leave a blank, we are so so so anal retentive in this profession, so beat down most of the time, because everyone wants perfection all the time (impossible) we have to lighten up on ourselves, take a deep breathe and realize that sometimes a "blank" is the best you can do.
Take it to a blog and spare the rest of us the pity party. nm
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omigod, thought U were serving this for NYeve party..nm
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