Government Cheese...
"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." Lin Yutang
I went back to school at SVCC ( it was only 2 small buildings when I went lol) so we could stop going to the armory and picking up government cheese lol. I didn't realize what I would be missing lol.
"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." Lin Yutang
OMG! Are you kidding me!?! Mike Smith was my Art I teacher! He was teaching me around the time that myself and a friend decided we wanted to teach art. Long story short, after high school I changed my mind and when into Graphic Design, my friend didn't and is now teaching side by side with Mike. Wow...crazy huh? Ask him if he remembers me, I'd bet anything he does. And Bob Lane, yeah, he was my Algebra I teacher...great guy, even if he is a little scary looking...to an 8th grader anyway.
I will ask him. I do know that one of his students was teaching with him now. Bob Lane scary? hmm lol naawww just tall... maybe I've partied with him too much LOL.
Now, if you do ever see Mike again, kick his ass for not being supportive to his sister with her WLS. Said WLS NEVER works or it kills ya. As I sit here 160 lbs lighter. Can I tell him you had the surgery also?
"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." Lin Yutang
Wow...it's too bad Mike wasn't supportive. Actually, scratch that, it's too bad that WLS has such a stigma too it. You get a couple people running their mouth about things they aren't educated in and BAM! It's sticks and is trusted as fact.
Okay, anyway...getting off my soapbox. As far as telling him I had WLS too, while it would be funny, it wouldn't be true. I was fortunate in the fact that I had never really dieted or exercised and my body took too it pretty well and I was able to lose my weight like that. I am blessed, not everyone can.
Mike will be really pleased to hear you are working in an art field and probably a lil shocked we have chatted online. I kinda forgot we have been talking on an open forum. lol
Thank you...
"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." Lin Yutang
I live in Knoxville, Tennessee but grew up in a small town....Tazewell. I am very familiar with the government cheese....yummm. My aunt actually got it but didn't really like it....imagine that! We would trade her some of our garden stuff or some cured hawg...lol! Did you all get the gov. peanut butter? Yes, they had it too but we used that for no bake oatmeal cookies because we didn't like it as much. Made killer peanut butter cookies too! I believe all your theories about the cheese lmao!! We put that cheese in and on everything! Mac and cheese, spaghetti, burgers, grilled cheese with the gov. butter of course! It was also yummy! I don't think they have gov. cheese here in the big city. Where were you from in Tennessee? I came here after living on army bases and it was quite a culture shock! I mean these folks killed and ate hawgs, squirrels, ground hogs, racoons.....ewwww! They also threw not I shred of pork away at "hawg killin" time! They even cooked the lungs and heart with taters! We worked in tobacco fields and grew our own food too. I'm tellin ya, it was a shock to this poor army brat! Thanks for the laughs!!! Connie
Back home they say that the only part of the pig that you don't eat is the oink.
My mama used to even parch the hooves in the oven until they were black. She would then crush them into a powder. The powder was boiled in water to make a tea to drink as a cold remedy. Seriously.
We had to drink pig toenail tea.
I think they'd call that child abuse now.