Vent Thread

@Gyro
 
@ᏰᎯᎠᎻᎬᎯᏒᎿ  
Sel likes all the wrong things.

@Gyro  
Honestly, I’ve found that the best pasta sauce is either entirely homemade…
 
Or you can make a really good cheater sauce by using a can of either generic tomato sauce or your favorite pasta sauce combined with a little tomato paste, some tomatoes, and then add some of your own seasonings- garlic, basil, bayleaf, etc. I like a little holy trinity in there too- sauteed onion, carrot (and/or celery), and peppers. Just go real easy on the seasonings if you have a pre-seasoned pasta sauce in there.
 
Also, if you find a sauce is “tinny” or rather acidic for your liking, add a pinch of sugar. I believe the sugar is a more southern tradition, whereas my family’s from northern Italy, but we still put a good pinch or 2 in there growing up. I vary depending on how a taste test goes. Ragu is definitely rather sweet. It wouldn’t need any added to it for sure, even with tomato paste and such added.

So it’s gonna be one of those websites.

@OliverHancock  
Ya, I lived in italy for several years growing up, and my dad has quite a bit of Italian heritage. We’ve always made our sauce from hunts unseasoned sauce. 2 cans of hunts, 1 mini can of tomatoe paste, half a can of water.
 
Generous amounts of garlic, basil and thyme. No onions, peppers or cellary in ours though. We go with a highly traditional marinara.
 
Though now that I”ve moved out…we usually use preseasoned hunts with extra garlic and several other herbs. My hubby tends to add onion to it. But he does not pepper, because I despise pepper in my tomato sauce.

@Gyro
 
Ahh, Hunts is one of the best brands for almost anything tomato-based. :) I got into them after seeing America’s Test Kitchen say their ketchup was the best.
 
Now for a vent:
 
My grandma wants me to go to Walgreens for her all the time. /)_-
 
Usually it’s not a problem and I enjoy doing it for her like once a week, maybe even twice. My back is killing me lately, though, so I can’t carry 16 liters of Pepsi and bags of chips for 3 1/2 blocks at once like I used to every week. I often end up going down for her like 3 or 4 times a week lately.
 
On top of all that, I have to buy her smokes too cause she’s broke. Partly my fault. I smoke her cigarettes and buy her back at least what I smoke, but usually more. Only had 1 1/3 cigarettes yesterday and 2/3rds of one the day before, but I was smoking like 9 a day for 3 weeks while my sweetheart was on vacation. (I know I fucked up, but I missed her. Gimme a break.) It just sucks though since they’re so expensive. I mean, the roll-your-own pipe tobacco and tubes are cheap, and she smokes those about half the time so that helps. But the rest are expensive. Cigarettes taxes are supposed to fund the healthcare system right? Where’s all that money going? They turned me down when I desperately tried/needed to commit myself to the mental unit a couple weeks ago at the hospital.
 
Seriously, I had broken glass everywhere, was having panic attacks all day everyday, there was broken glass everywhere, blood all over my piano, broken items, and I was so out of it I was just in terror and scared and confused. I walked to the hospital in a 70+ mph sustained wind derecho to get help and they just sent me walking home.
 
Fuck our healthcare system, fuck our taxes that don’t do what they’re goddamned supposed to, and fuck the tax-dodging sons of bitches in the 1% paying lower effective tax rates than their middle class secretaries.
 
Sigh
 
Okay, breathe Olly. Good. I’m going to go to Walgreens and then come back and do some woodworking. That’s always fun.

@OliverHancock  
I never realized just how expensive things are until recently. It’s ridiculous.

Anyone who sexually assaults someone in the military should be executed by firing squad.

my dad: you have to take a test thing because your driving instructor might have exposed you to covid
 
me:  

@OliverHancock  

 
ftfy U_U

Why do commercials always have unfitting music these days? They’re marketing to people in their 40s on an Advil commercial and they play some generic trap music with a big room house synth that sounds like Martin Garrix.
 
Then, the next commercial is for a video game with these cute looking robots kind of floating my there not doing much with slow dramatic shots, but they play aggressive rap music.
 
???????

@OliverHancock  
Classic Rock and Call of Duty. They nailed their commercials with that epicly.

me: gets dinner  
me: hyperfocuses on uploading  
me: forgets to eat dinner
 
just adhd things <3  
why does this always happen e_e

@dream  
You didn’t forget, the waffles were simply stolen.

@MagpulDynamicPie  
damnit–

@dream  
What you need is the fuit of champions, or else your bald head shall be smacked.

I need to lay off the booze.

i always feel like shit when my adderall wears off. i like it, it helps a lot and i’m glad i’m finally medicated for my adhd after going my whole life unmedicated, but god i feel awful when it wears off.
 

Gasoline costs too much.

Food costs too much.

A studio apartment costs too much.

living costs too much. it’s fucked up, isn’t it? we have to pay just to secure our existence, if you think about it.

A 4.5 acre 16 room home in California costs too much.

@OliverHancock  
That’s a lot of blood from some tiny scratches and a very 70s watch.