Bfth's Boring Blog

After a fun filled drive to get my son and bring him back home on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving ( https://bfthsboringblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/where-was-i.html ), I am OVER weather.  But the weather isn't over me.  Weather isn't over anybody.  No matter what people might say (or think), you can't change about it.  You CAN bitch about it (and I know I frequently do), but you can't make a hurricane go away.  MAYBE you can try to make it rain (seeding clouds has some success, but you need clouds), but you're not going to stop a snowstorm.  Because if you could, I'd be buying into it big time! I took my son back to college the Sunday after Thanksgiving (and if I can get it together, I will eventually have a post about the actual holiday) and it was, of course, raining.  In order to avoid the horrible trip that I had on Tuesday afternoon/evening, I insisted that we head to NY before noon. (Grumbling on my son's behalf, but...) There was expected traffic, ...

It's the first day of December.  It's World AIDS day.  I've written about it before ( https://bfthsboringblog.blogspot.com/2016/12/here-we-are.html ), but that was nearly 10 years ago.  And since the current administration seems to want to hide this day in a closet, I'm not one to do that, and especially as this year’s “theme” doesn’t everything need one is: Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response. I'm old enough to remember when AIDS began appearing. While news about the disease started making its way around in the 1980s, did you know that they very first case in America MAY have been in 1969 and that in 1976 an 8 year old died in Europe from AIDS?  (The child's parents also died the same year.) Sadly, very few people seemed to care.  It was a "disease of gay men."  (Because why should we care about them?  [Insert extreme sarcasm here]).  That was totally untrue, but...Maybe if we ignore it, it will go away?  (That always wor...

 Yesterday was an "interesting" day to say the least.  I had the day off so that I could do some last minute food shopping.  (I make a BIG salad that covers at least 2 meals.)  Then I had some "down time" before I started my drive to pick up my son.  I knew the roads would be busy, and that is putting it mildly.  Let's try to "map it out" shall we? Around 11:30, I left the Poconos and headed back to NJ.  I didn't want to do the long round trip drive in one go.  So I arrived back at the house around 1, which gave me about an hour to "relax" before the next two legs of the trip.  My son had a class that ran from 1-4.  However, he told his professor he would be leaving a bit early.  (Not early enough however.)  I said I'd pick him up around 3:15.  So I went to fill up my tank (not that I really needed it) around 2:15 with Waze  saying it would be the usual 45 minutes.  As I drove towards NY, I could see that it was ...

  My husband and I drove "home" to NJ yesterday so that we could attend a beloved annual event; Friendsgiving. It's an amazing, over the top (in the best possible way) event/party/gathering held by a family who live just a few doors away from us.  For us (more specifically me), it's a beloved tradition and a reminder of all that can be good in this world. These friends/neighbors moved onto "our" block when our son was about 5 and their daughter was the same.  We got to see the kind of people they are when we were invited to their son's 2nd birthday party.  It was held at one of those "kiddie" places (I believe My Little Gym) and because the weather had been bad (this was about a week before Christmas), for a while my son was the only guest in attendance.  So three little kids had full reign of the facility and had a ball.  It didn't matter that it was a small group, they had a wonderful time.  Others showed up and there was no fighting over...

 It's a rather gloomy looking day here in the Poconos.  Overcast, but thankfully not raining and not bitterly cold.  As matter of fact is was "warm" enough to put up some holiday lights outside.  Or rather to attempt to.  I purchased a strand of lights that are solar powered that I "draped" (and I am NOT artistic at all) over some bushes (prickly ones at that) by the side of the road.  I have no idea if they will actually work.  (Last year's attempt with other lights didn't, so say a prayer).  The only reason I decided to do this today was because the temperatures were in the upper 40s and who knows when that will happen again.  (Confession:  I'm a DO NOT put holiday decorations up until AFTER Thanksgiving in general.  However, in this bleak and too often cruel world that we have been thrust into, my new outlook is "if it brings you joy, DO IT!  Who cares what I or anyone else thinks about the timing...just DO IT!)  It's t...

I love cranberry sauce (even though I can't eat turkey).  I LOVE chocolate.  (Which is why it is such a sacrifice to give it up for Lent every year).  So when I heard of an "easy" dessert to make, chocolate covered cranberry sauce, I was all in.   I was all in all right.  I was all in a MESS. There are multiple variations of the recipe.  All call for a can of cranberry sauces.  All call for chocolate; be it dark chocolate chips or milk.  Some call for coconut oil.  Those that do say it is optional.  Since I didn't have any in the house I opted out.  Maybe I shouldn't have. I bought the cranberry sauce (no whole berry).  I bought dark chocolate chips.  I bought semi-sweet chips.  I bought milk chocolate.  I had visions of wonderful chocolate covered discs of cranberry sauce.  That is all they were visions... I decided NOT to wait until right before Thanksgiving to give it a go, as the recipes said they c...