w00t!!!!!! I am now the proud owner of a brand spankin' new cast iron skillet!! I will use it to make steak for my man tonight for supper!!!!!!

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Si à travers nos veines coule encore le sang...
Si dans les jeux d'enfants on entend encore l'accent...
Si nous sentons encore l'espoir de nos grands-parents...
Si dans les voiles du large souffle encore le vent...
Y'a jamais eu de Grand Dérangement.

Make sure you season that skillet well before you toss that steak in there...else, the menu may change to shredded steak fajitas...

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Plug me into somethin'

If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.

No good deed ever goes unpunished

Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.

One of my favorite BBQ restaurants in the whole wide world - Shorty's BBQ in Miami. Been going there since I was a kid.

Shorty's BBQ

Might I suggest edamame? Easily prepared and very nutritious. We've been eating them like they're going out of style.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.