tRUMP says no more aid to Puerto Rico and Senate RETHUGS AGREE!!!

3) Why isn’t someone organizing Dems to repeat over and over...”full report”....Where are the marches on DC?

Gave up on Anderson a while back...

... then got more republicans in the House on Board.

When people found out he was hiding something his ratings ... SUNK !!

will all fizzle out.

... the Mueller Report.

Saponificating and I can't figure out why...


and... why in hell is that madman still living in the People's House???

and I still have 6 foot piles of snow around my house and it's cold outside (and I missed today's deadline for buying Ice Out tickets)


but... I do have 3 Camellia Sinensis plants sprouting and my algae cultures are starting to grow that makes me happy

I had a little business and would sell at farmers markets and Etsy.
Wish I could help you but I don't think I ever had a batch that didn't saponify. I guess it would have to be either that the soap wasn't at trace before you poured it into the mold or you were light on the lye, either because you miscalculated the amount or because your scale was off. I hope your batch just needs more time!

I substituted shea butter for another oil, could that be it? yeah, probably and I think it was the lye... pretty sure my scale is good

Each oil needs a different amount of lye per ounce. I used to use this lye calculator when I was developing a new recipe https://www.thesage.com/calcs/LyeCalc.htm

Shea butter also makes a soft soap unless you counter it with something that makes a hard soap, like cocoa butter. I usually only used 6% shea in my recipes. Feel free to pm me if you have questions, although I likely won't get back to you until tomorrow. Getting late for me.

that site is a gold mine for me... much appreciated!!

...your homemade soup was not saponifcating and I was wondering why the hell you would want it to do that -

That makes me really, really angry! I signed up for the protests (see link) two weeks ago when first announced to fight the report not being released. That will help get rid of some anger but it won't bring my dad back or make the moron drop dead. Life is NOT fair!

https://act.moveon.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response-events/search/

I also think of the good people we lost that could have done something for humanity.

Also, I'm pissed that the Senate doesn't want to help Puerto Rico.

I am sure of that.

He really hates the GOP too.

I'm so very sorry. I lost my dad last July but at least we had a little time to prepare.

I went to a beautiful play over the weekend, Marjorie Prime. It takes place in the future, and the first characters you meet are an elderly woman, Marjorie, with Alzheimer's and the robot constructed to look just like her dead husband, who has been given enough information so that he can talk with her, tell her stories from the past and provide some comfort.

Over the course of the play, Marjorie dies and her daughter has a robot made to look like her, and then the daughter dies from suicide and her husband has a robot made of her...eventually, the world comes to some sort of catastrophic end and all that is left are the robots repeating the lines they learned to each other. It sounds grim, but the final line of the play is, "How nice that we could love somebody."

And it is. Despite the grief.

I wouldn't mind a robot right now. I would take that offer. It wouldn't be the same but it may ease the sudden shock and disbelief. Nothing seems real right now anyway.

Decades ago, my fiancé shot himself in the head with a .22. He didn't die right away, and I remember seeing him in the hospital, unconscious, and knowing, knowing that he was dying. And at the same time, I saw him sit up in his bed and say, "Look what I almost did."

It's too much for the mind to take in all at once.

I'm so sorry you're going through this. What I remember from that level of grief is that it's like an alternate reality; like there's something between you and everyone and everything that you knew. At least that's what it was like for me. I'm not trying to make this about me; I'm trying to say there's a roadmap, if you know people who've been through something similar. People don't usually talk about it, but actually the club of people who know what this is like is huge.

I wish you hadn't had to join the club.

I read some articles about this last night and your description seems to be what I can expect to experience for a very long time unfortunately. This is the worst loss I have had besides lossing my little dog. If my "new" little dog (who just turned 16) dies soon I think that might push me over the edge into the loony bin since I am almost there already.

I would remind myself that this was the worst, and I was in fact surviving it. I would take another breath and survive it some more.

It wasn't that it consistently got better. It was more like there would be moments when I wasn't thinking about him for a while, and could have some moments of happiness. Then I would go back to grieving. Eventually the in between moments were longer and more frequent until life was normal again.

I hope your little dog hangs in there with you. Dogs are family, absolutely.

Brother committed suicide right before Christmas. Hurts. Woke up the other night and he was walking around my room. His bandana head scarf on. Every now and then I see someone I love and lost but not for a long time. Sorry about your father lost mine too. Miss him.he was a good man. My husband too, anther good man. Darn wrong ones leaving.

The night that my dad died I was still awake at 12:30 AM and heard a mans shoes walking around for about 30 seconds over my bedroom but the apt upstairs has been empty for a month. I saw a neighbor outside smoking and told him and he checked it out and nobody was inside at that hour (he told me he asked the people who were doing remodeling the next day when they were working and they said they aren't there at midnight). I think it was my dad. After my dog died I heard and saw things that she would do while alive for about a week after she died. It wasn't spooky but just unusual like she was purposely letting me know not to worry about her too much and she was still around and would be OK (I was NOT OK by any means).

I thought that ghosts came back to the place where they lived but my dad never lived in the upstairs apt. Do you think a ghost would go to a different location to assure the person they were trying to contact?

Sooner rather than later. Never had anyone or anything I loved die until my 12 year old dog died in September. So know how you feel. We don't have control of life or trump (until ballot box). Or do we? Where is our leader? We have none - which is so depressing.

I still can't watch her old videos...too painful 16 years later (I am very emotional and nostalgic). I was sure my dad would make it another 5 years. I am sicker than he ever was. I expected to die first and just wanted to live long enough to take care of my dog. I was totally unprepared emotionally and mentally for this shock. I wish it happened to tRump...he's the one who doesn't deserve to live.

I remember that feeling when my Dad died unexpectedly. You just live in this world of all consuming grief and disbelief. Eventually I found a secluded picnic table that I would go to think about my Dad and cry. It was a way to grieve but make that my place to do so instead of everywhere in my life. It helped contain that all consuming grief. I also worked on a memory board at the table. It all helped.

I have run out of tissues and am now relying on TP. My neighbors have been helpful and kind....I think I can get more from them. I don't know how the Hell I will be able to concentrate enough to do my taxes without screwing them up. Every year we would work on mine together and we had planned on doing it today of all days. I guess I can go to H&R Block if I am unable to figure the new forms out and am too depressed to attempt it.

Life really isn’t fair, Trump is President and is in the process of dismantling our country from the inside out, piece by piece. It seems that nothing stops him. Our country is now run by the American GOP mafia, whose only goals are to seize power and stockpile money. I’m sad to say I don’t know how this thing is going to end.

Again, I’m sorry your dad has passed, it sounds like you and he supported each other in these turbulent times.

Yes, we were able to complain about the GOP freely. My dad told me how much ne hates McConnell and the "greedy liars". He and my mom are Dems as were their parents and that makes 4 generations of Dem DNA. He was a good guy and a great dad and I am soooooooooooooo sad and all I can do is cry all the time...like right now. Woe is me.

Think what he would say to you for not taking care of yourself. I had a heart attack a couple of months ago and the absolute worst part of it was the scare and grief it put my kids through, especially my son. I thought I had gotten them prepared to just carry on after I die. It would be even more monumentally unfair if you let your grief prematurely end your life. Grieve and weep, but don't damage yourself. I'm confident, from your descriptions, that he would be very upset about such harm.

My family is stoical and I am very emotional and sensitive (I am the oddball). He accepted my emotions more than my mom and sister do. After a few days I will emerge from my self imposed seclusion. I will have to by Sunday...my parents 59th anniv and we will all go out to be with my mom to go to dinner at the restaurant they had planned on going to and we will support each other instead now.

Why do crooks get security clearances?

Why are Repugnants such cowards?

Why is a man who is morbidly obese, with poor nutrition, a sedentary life style, elevated cholesterol and I’m guessing diabetes still alive?

I’ve been pissed off since November 2016.

and an Eb3 bell plate for the end of Pictures At An exhibition.. as in GREAT GATE OF KIEV.

Jeesh... I've been doing this shit for 65 years.. one would think I know what I am doing...

Why can’t we call out people who if not trolls, are at least huge asses?

That it snowed here on April 1st.

Some are deserving a hahahahaha

You smart.. I like you!!!

why are americans so stupid?
Why r dems eating their own yet again?
Where are the massive demonstrations that should have started last weekend and still be on going?

Only year and half old but 6 months after warranty. Had to buy new one today, hubby wants us to install together ha ha...I can hear the cuss words already...

So I am pissed they build stuff so cheaply not to last. And that bugs me also from a eco point of having to throw things away...ugh!

Each and every day and night.