Helen Forbes

@SecretArmyPod Starting my serious looking this weekend so I can finally quit a dead end job. Wish me luck!

I’ve been out of work since Christmas. Took some time off to recover from burn out. Have been very mentally unwell. Started job hunting a few months ago. It’s been an intense and miserable time. Lots of applications and rejections! But this week I got a new job! 🥳🥂🍾

@ArBalwierz May his memory be for a blessing to all who knew and loved him.

Dzisiaj w nocy w swoim łóżku zmarł mój 95 letni dziadek. Jeszcze wczoraj sam zjadł przygotowaną przez siebie kolację. Tak trzeba żyć. Takiej śmierci każdemu życzę. Wieczny odpoczynek racz mu dać Panie.

@NightShiftMD A dental hygienist once told me she could always tell people who were depressed: they had way more tartar built up than others, meriting a cleaning ever four months instead of six. She was talking to me (clinically depressed) at my voluntary four month recall.

Floss or die.

@TedLetourneau @SamaHoole Was just coming to say that Schwartz’s smoked meat is the king of brisket. Lovely.

@SamaHoole It takes 12 days to prepare but Montreal smoked meat brisket is a slice of heaven.

Everyone worships the ribeye and walks straight past the brisket, and I've decided this is one of the great injustices of the meat counter. Look at what you're ignoring. Brisket is the cut that did the work, the muscle off the front that held the whole animal up, which means it's stacked with connective tissue and collagen, the stuff people now buy in a tub as a fancy powder. You don't need the tub. It's in the brisket. Cook it low and slow and that collagen melts into gelatine, the very thing that props up your own joints, skin and gut lining. Add the glycine in there, which most modern diets are starved of, and the iron, the zinc, the B12, and you're looking at a genuine nutritional heavyweight, not just a treat. And the fat cap. Glorious. A thick seam that renders down over hours into something silky. The bit the timid trim off and bin is the bit that makes brisket sing. Then the part that should annoy you. It costs a fraction of the ribeye. More flavour, more collagen, more actual nourishment, off one of the cheapest cuts in the shop, while everyone queues to pay triple for the prestige steak. And it feeds you for days. One brisket is Sunday dinner, Monday's cold cuts, and a pot of the richest bone broth you've ever made. It asks one thing of you. Patience. Salt it, put it in the slow cooker in the morning, go and live your life, come back eight hours later to something that fell out of the realm of gods. The machine does the work. You take the credit. So stop genuflecting at the ribeye. The best value, highest collagen, most forgiving elite cut in the building is sitting right there being overlooked for not being glamorous. Go and get brisket. Thank me in eight hours.

@AdamKinzinger It’s my ghost answering you now.

To all my Covid vaccine getters, I thought we were all going to die by now or something

@dieworkwear They both look fabulous.

what a great outfit!!

@RonFilipkowski What is shocking is that anyone is shocked by his buffoonery. I used to get stunned at his daily idiocies, now it’s ho-hum, what else is new?

I have shocking news to report: An hour in to the NATO summit and Trump has already make a complete ass of himself on the world stage again, trashing our closest allies for decades while praising Putin and Erdogan and ranting one lie after another.

@birgitomo Hello.

@LairdOfThManor Thank you! My proofreading brain appreciates this.

A small public service announcement from the Department of Things That You Should Know… It has not “peeked” your interest. Nor has it “peaked” your interest. …It has piqued your interest. You are not “phased” by something. You are fazed by it. If you’ve had a long day, you are weary. If you suspect someone is an idiot, you are wary. It is “due course”, not “do course”. “Per se”, not “per say”. And while we’re here, it’s “could have”, not “could of”, but that particular battle may already be lost. Thank you for your attention during this brief outbreak of grammatical housekeeping. This has been a @LairdofthManor announcement.🎩💙

@Bell I’ve been on the phone for 1 hour 25 minutes, 4 different people. After explaining why I cancelled my service, Randy the manager asked me if I wanted a Bell router. Now he’s told me he’s the highest person I can speak to. Won’t give me a supervisor name, vp name. @CRTCeng

On phone 14th time with @Bell who keeps calling for account that closed April 7, equipment return acknowledged Apr 28, final bill paid May 10. Collections keeps calling, takes 2 billing cycles for equipment return to be in system. Meantime, they’re destroying my credit rating.

@guyfelicella Yaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy I finally took a breath

Watching this game like my blood pressure personally depends on the outcome. 😬 Please win Montreal PLEASE

@HabsDiehardsMTL I hope you have the best time! I’m watching tv, I can barely hear the announcers with how loud you’re all shouting. We foule do our boys proud!

After years of waiting and working, I can finally say tonight that I will be attending a Habs playoff game.

@mmpadellan ✋🏼

SHOW OF HANDS: How many people are 100% convinced that trump is making boatloads of money off the Iran War? 🖐️

@josiahjdp Comment

Part 4 🍿 After I hung up, I sat for a long time with the phone in my lap, listening to the air conditioner rattle. Harold had been gone almost three years. During the funeral, Grant cried publicly and then argued with the probate clerk two days later over equipment titles. Harold had never trusted the shine in his son’s ambition. He once told me that while we were balancing invoices at the office after closing, “A man who wants to look successful more than he wants to be useful will mortgage his soul for applause.” At the time, I thought he was talking about some local politician. Now I knew better.

@CanadianKayMD That dress is lovely!

Great start to PEI Fashion Weekend with LolaBella designs. Quite the party tonight.

@RC_Andertweet @Smil3yAngel My younger daughter didn’t like peanut butter (?!?!?!?!) so I never forced her or gave her pb sandwiches. The week she turned 14, she asked me to make her a peanut butter sandwich, said she had a hankering. That 7 year thing is real.

@Smil3yAngel They say taste evolves every seven years or so. It's good to give old unliked foods another try now and then.

Last weekend I ate medium rare beef for the first time in my life, and loved it. I've never liked blueberries, however today, I've eaten half a pint since this morning. My taste buds and stomach are asking me who I am now 😂

@Smil3yAngel My dad didn’t just like no pink, he only ate steak (filet mignon, the rest of us cried) black and hard as shoe leather.

Last night I went to dinner at a Brazilian steakhouse. I ALWAYS eat beef well done. I don't even like to see a little pink in it 🫣 The beef they had was medium to medium rare. I paid a lot for this dinner so I figured I might as well try it. It was DELICIOUS!! 😋😋😋

@Smil3yAngel 8th winter here in Montreal. I love winter. This is not winter. Phark off.

There's white stuff falling from the sky!! It's April 19! Go away. Enough already 😒 #SickOfWinter

@omgsidewalks Yes. We played champ in the square of the t-junction near our house. Someone called, “sidewalk” as a car approached and we sidewalked until it passed. Be home for supper and then by dark, those were the rules.

Did parents really just let their kids wander the neighbourhood all day with no phone and just say be home before dark?? Be honest.