"Hey John...comment ça và? Just popping in to see how you're doing :) Wishing you a great weekend!!"
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John M
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John M posted a status"Hoping for more than three hours sleep tonight. Hoping more for ice tomorrow. Hoping the most for whatever is going on with my head to stop."
John M posted a blog postHolding on
Some times, all you can do is close your eyes and reach down deep to that special place where cherished memories live. Hold on to it until the storm passes. Cling to it like a lover. If you are lucky, you have more than one of them.The wind and the waves will try to pull it out of your hands and make you drift alone without any hope. If that happens, you will be condemned to despair in total darkness without a reference point to help you find your way back. You might be lost.See More
John M posted a blog postTears
If each tear brings a little healing, why am I not healed yet?If each droplet that runs down my face cleanses me, why am I not clean?If a river of tears flow, why doesn't it carry me away to a better place?I've cried enough to heal the whole worldThere has been enough droplets to fill all of the oceansThe river has run long enough to crave out a canyon, yet here am IWhen will it be enough? See More
John M posted a status"The saddest thing of all is when you have to beg some one to save their own life."
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- The PRIMARY person in my life who has diabetes has
- Type 2 diabetes
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- July 23, 2005
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- 5.9
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- Oral, Shots, Diet and Exercise
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- 16 year Army Veteran, Swimmer, and Hockey player
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Holding on
Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:55pm 0 Comments 3 Likes
Some times, all you can do is close your eyes and reach down deep to that special place where cherished memories live. Hold on to it until the storm passes. Cling to it like a lover. If you are lucky, you have more than one of them.
The wind and the waves will try to pull it out of your hands and make you drift alone without any hope. If that happens, you will be condemned to despair in total darkness without a reference point to help you find your way back. You might be lost.
Hello again, John
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 2:29pm 7 Comments 0 Likes
Well hello there. Surprised to see me? I doubt you've missed me. You thought I had gone away didn't you? Are you that stupid?
Look at how powerful you are. Feel those tears? I made you do that. Look at your hands shaking - that is my handy work as well. I'm the reason you can't sleep at night. You can't even stop me with all those pills you take to try to control me. You are so feeble it sickens me.
Maybe if you pray to that God of yours more I'll go away. Its a joke you still…
Continue Really, I'm fine.
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 1:05am 4 Comments 0 Likes
How do you let go of some thing that feels like it has a hold of you?
Pay no attention to the sweat flowing down my forehead and dripping off of my chin. Really, I'm fine. My blood sugar must be low, I just need to eat.
I really do not want out of my skin more than I want my next breath. Really, I'm fine. My blood sugar must be low, I just need to eat.
My hands always shake like this, just like how most people bounce one of their legs. Really, I'm fine. My blood sugar…
Continue To Those Who Would Help
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 12:03pm 0 Comments 3 Likes
The scars on my wrists were a cry for help
The war in my mind shows I've seen too much
My struggle to live is a testament of my reality
Don't look at me with contempt in your eyes
Admit you can't imagine whats its like
Embrace the fact you'll never understand
Share your faked smiles with those who don't know better
Give me credit and do not patronize me
Save yourself before you try to save me
How uncomfortable are you when I am around?
Does…
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- At 7:52pm on May 19, 2013,
Linda G said… 
Hey John...comment ça và?
Just popping in to see how you're doing :)
Wishing you a great weekend!!
- At 9:15am on February 18, 2013,
lotsofshots said… 
- At 10:31am on December 27, 2012, Linda G said…
Ok John....here it is!!
Pastry (for double crust pie)
(unless you have a fav. already)
- 2 1/2 cups unbleached flour
(if you wish to use whole wheat, make it 1/2 with unbleached "white" flour)
- 1 tspn salt
- 1 tspn baking soda
- 1 cup shortening
- 2/3 cup of milk (or water)
Measure and blend dry ingredients. Cut in shortening with pastry cutter.
Mix in, till just blended, the liquid.
Fashion into 2 balls. One just a tad larger than the other, to be the base.
(To be rolled out on floured surface).
Tourtière
- 2 pounds of lean ground pork
- 1 onion (small to medium)
- 1/2 cup boiling water
- 1 garlic clove, chopped
- 1 1/2 tspns salt
- 2 tspns nutmeg
- 1/4 tspn black pepper
- a pinch of cinnamon
- a generous pinch of ground cloves
- 2 medium potatoes already boiled and mashed
In a heavy sauce pan/cooking pot combine ground lean pork
together with onion, water and seasonings. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly,
until the meat loses its pink colour and about half the liquid has evaporated.
Cover and cook (still over low heat) 30 minutes longer.
If you have not boiled/mashed potatoes...do so now.
Mix mashed potatoes into the cooked meat mixture.
Set aside to cool. Preheat oven to 350F.
Roll out your pastry and line a deep 10 inch pie plate.
Fill with cooked meat mixture.
Roll out remainder of dough to cover the tourtière.
Seal and flute edges. Slash the top crust (I draw seasonal designs).
Baste top pastry with a mixture of egg yolk whisked up with a little water.
Bake at 350 for about 30 to 40 minutes...till pastry is golden.
(I cover the edge of the pastry with foil for the first 20 minutes....to avoid scorching).
Serve with gravy, and favourite chutney or pickle.
- At 4:42pm on December 26, 2012, Linda G said…
Hey John....here's the Tourtière! Enjoy ;)
I always draw a little scene on it. This one also reads "NOËL"
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