| Nicest thing anyone's done for you?
Posted: 2/8/2008 1:39:17 AM | OK. I've stirred up enough controversy for a while. Here's a topic that I hope will bring everyone a little joy.
What's the nicest thing anyone's ever done for you?
I'd have to hand this one to my Dad. He sent me to college and paid for it. When I decided I was going to major in philosophy, he backed my decision. That was awesome! (Of course, I changed my major later on, but still, that was amazing!) | |
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| Nicest thing anyone's done for you?
Posted: 2/8/2008 7:42:14 AM | Anytime someone has encouraged or inspired me to do something I doubted I could do. THAT is the nicest thing, and the best badge of a true friend. | |
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| Nicest thing anyone's done for you?
Posted: 2/8/2008 10:10:14 AM | Wow Robert, since Philo is what you major in when you want to get back at your parents for something, that is pretty amazing.
I had always wanted a set of All Clad pans. I know, I know, it seems weird, but I am a foodie and I appreciate quality equipment. Since I am a single mom and don't always have piles of disposable income, I figured it was something a long way off. I had mentioned this in passing to Muktar once, and for my birthday, he not only got me the full set, but the copper filled pans. It was one of a few things in my life that actually struck me speechless and was honestly just the nicest gift I had ever received.
Now if he had just not been such a deceitful twit in the long run, it would have been perfection. I still love the pans, but sometimes they are a painful reminder. | |
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| Nicest thing anyone's done for you?
Posted: 2/8/2008 10:30:46 AM |
Now if he had just not been such a deceitful twit in the long run,
Well...
it would have been perfection.
Oh, come on. Nothing is perfect.
I still love the pans, but sometimes they are a painful reminder.
Especially that big one with the skull shaped dent?  | |
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| Nicest thing anyone's done for you?
Posted: 2/8/2008 11:08:56 AM | Dang, Mom!
I am totally jealous. Copper All-Clad! OMG!!!
As far as Muktar goes, at least he got _something_ right!
I suppose you also have the full set of Henckel's knives, the 5-quart KitchenAid mixer,
the VitaMix blender, the Champion juicer, and the RoboCoup processor too?
My parents won out in the end. It turned out that phi was the perfect practical training for the career I wound up in--technical writing. Distill 500 pages of esoteric gobbledygook from yet another brilliant misanthrope into 5 accurate and coherent pages that an 8th-grader could follow, in a week, every week.
And y'all wonder why I'm so twisted?  | |
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| Nicest thing anyone's done for you?
Posted: 2/8/2008 11:37:03 AM | 5 quart cobalt blue kitchen aid
Henkels professional S, from 14" to paring.
Hate the VitaMix, I sold it.
I have a regular citrus juicer. I am not making any exotic juices. No damn wheat grass, you freak.
The Robot Coup Hobart is just too damn big. It's sexy sure, but I just can't justify it.
I have blown through 2 Cuisinarts, and my kitchen aid got stolen from the church kitchen. I know, go figure. I am married to my Pro Salad Shooter and adore my salad master, which is manual. And the Kitchen Aid makes sausage too. So I am just looking for a utilitarian processor for hummus and babaganouj and cranberry relish, which are the only three things I ever use it for. The kitchen aid mixer works better for dough and things.
My Oster Blender is the same one my mom got in 1957 for a wedding present and still works flawlessly.
I do have a professional range. And not the "home version." When you turn it on... it's like a flame thrower.
My big luxury item is the Europiccola EPC-8, La Pavoni Espresso Machine. Oh, and the variable size grinder, and the roaster... mmmm. Coffee. | |
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| Nicest thing anyone's done for you?
Posted: 2/8/2008 1:40:49 PM | Nicest thing anyone has ever done for me is forgive me when I made some hair-brained faux pas, blurted out something I shouldn't have said, or was just generally wrong.
It ain't a Kitchen Aid, but it will never get stolen or burnt out from overuse. | |
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| Nicest thing anyone's done for you?
Posted: 2/8/2008 8:19:51 PM | | Real recent nicest? I picked my grandson up from school a few days ago and he had a rose. The ones wrapped in plastic, and there was a little teddy bear inside and a big sticker that said I Love you plastered on the outside. My romeo is 7! Yep in the second grade and a third grade girl gave him this. When I asked him what her name was he said "Blaise" as in fire. So cool said I. I wish that was my name! So every day since then he has called me Grandma Blaise. Little woman pleaser! | |
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| Nicest thing anyone's done for you?
Posted: 2/8/2008 9:06:25 PM | Don't know if this was the absolute singular nicest thing that anyone ever did for me (a lot of people have done many gracious things along life's way), but here's one that I will always remember and also hope might inspire others.
When the inevitable divorce hit, for 4 months or more, a friend called me every M-F morning between 7:30 and 8:00 (much like a Seargent or Field Marshal!) just to make sure that I was moving. Most lunch hours he called to make sure I was staying focused on my job, and then each evening he called to just let me jibber-jabber for probably an hour each night. It was a gift of time and self that really helped at a moment that I really needed it.
Generally, I think no gifts surpass the sharing of time and self through most occasions and passages. | |
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