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May 2, 2014May 2, 2014cdibbs Leave a comment

Dear Fellow Bloggers,

I am sorry if I don’t respond much or write much over the next few weeks. I have taken on a production job for the next four weeks and the hours are very long and the days don’t end!!! My love will have to hover on the side line — my writing and blogging — but I must pay the bills with real money instead of the monopoly money floating around in my head. I will be keeping you all involved with the production as this will be the top subject I write about.

The production: Week One

Cal Lutheran University

First I have to say I love food, I can eat just about anything as long as it’s delicious and delightful in my mouth.

During a shoot a usual perk is free lunch. And because we were on a campus it was very convenient for the crew to eat in the cafeteria. NOW, this school is a private school. The cost in tuition isn’t pretty — $37,000 per year, and the meal plan is separate and just as ugly — $1600 – $6000 per semester.

One would think with those prices the food would be edible. Here I ask you, the readers, to think back to grade school or high school cafeteria food. YAY, it was that bad. At first sight everything seemed fine. High tech POS ordering system, organized areas for salad bar, cereal bar, toast bar, soup station, hot food area, sushi bar, and make-it-yourself-sandwhich bar.

I approached the soup and decided on the clam chowder, white as milk and thick as flour tasting like cream of sour mushroom. I spit the soup back in the bowl, in front of everyone — who I didn’t know any of ’em. I then heard from a fellow crew member the fries and chicken strip basket were microwaved, WHAT — Microwaved deep fried food. The pasta was under cooked and the caesar salad I ordered came with wilted lettuce — the chicken bites were made from processed meat, scary. I was not impressed, and we had to eat this “food” for the next three days. If I were homeless I wouldn’t complain, I’m sure. However paying $6000 for a semester worth of meals is well worth the chicken strips to come out crispy and the lettuce fresh!!

I wait with wonder for what the next university will serve us??

Fashion Expo

April 22, 2014cdibbs 2 Comments

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Take Me Down — An Essay by Corrie Dibble

April 22, 2014April 22, 2014cdibbs 7 Comments

I wake up every morning to the sound of blaring alarms. The lights flip on and the guards start their rounds, waking the dead with their screeching doors and microphone voices. Those who decide to rebel against the morning call for the showers and breakfast will find themselves in a dark, cold, hungry room. I have been there. However, it was not for missing breakfast but for strangling the new guy; it was gunna be me or him.
We are here because we have crucified the innocent, the weak, and the poor fucking bastards who got in the way. I will be here for the rest of my life, wasting away in this dump. I bunk next a man who is a crazy pedophile, and steals my porn magazines. He cuts out the pictures from newspaper articles of the children he molested, raped, and murdered. He pastes the pictures onto the faces of the whores who are posed on the pages. He likes the images of 6 year old girls. Poor fuck, he doesn’t know when it will come, but he knows it will happen. I will snuff his breath and choke out his life — he will be asleep, but I will wake him. He will know he is going to die. Justify my actions by knowing that I can never leave here, so what is the fucking point. I bet the mothers of those kids will thank me. Then again, I slain a whole family for their trip money; fucking idiots.
My actions that I vomit upon this world and that poor family will send me to my grave in this shit hole. The men next to me who are waiting their deaths are even more evil — Hitler’s sons. The news reports called me a monster, but I am angel compared them.

We rot in here shackled to our own guilt. Knowing that each day to pass will be even more dismaying, and I detest the fact you people on the outside have to pay money for my way — how do you live with yourself, how do you let the government take your money to support me? My tolerance for this place is beginning to dissipate, and I will kill again. You think you can reform me, don’t you know the time you keep me in here I am planning my revenge. I would rather die than stay in here one more day of my life. I can say that my jailed friends feel the same way. So we make a proposal: put us all down like the sick dogs we are. Euthanize us, give us the shot, and be done with us all.

Do you really need to carry the baggage for those of us serving a life imprisonment, or for those fucking shits on death row? We laugh at you, paying our way. Your money is not wanted, and it should go to your loving, fake family. Killing us will save you a buck. It will provide more space for criminals who think they actually have a chance to change and become an uptight, law abiding, horses-ass citizen.

I may be a murderer, but I know how to read. We have a library and I have done my research. There are over 3,000 inmates nationwide who are on death row. Some of these guys have been here for ten years waiting for their peach pie. There are over 140,000 inmates who have a life sentence without parole. Do you know what we have done to acquire such sentences, we are some sick bastards, and it’s ironic you pay to keep us alive. It is as if you are all waiting for the sadistic motherfuckers to get out and strike again. Your bleeding hearts will just bleed out. Just kill us already.
The price for the shot is $10.00. Think about it, you pay $60.00 dollars a day for 143,000 inmates. That is a total of $8,580,000.00 dollars each day per inmate for a lifetime. There is no end to this cycle. The day one of these guys leaves another one arrives. You people on the outside are so foolish for continuing to allow your government to tax you in order to save our sadistic asses.

It is time we all took control of our situations. The minute that the judge hits the gavel, The Man should take us to the morgue. Each inmate will then cost half the amount of one day in prison, and the tax payers will have to pay a one-time fee only. This will bring down the grotesque living expense from 8 million to 1.5 million. The criminals get what they really deserve, and you all can save money and put your precious kid through college; who will one day surprise you with a bastard son, and has dropped out of med school to open a medical marijuana dispensary.
It is now time that I take care of the situation with my cellmate. The others are waiting for me.

Holy Frittata

April 22, 2014April 22, 2014cdibbs 12 Comments

Fiesta Friday turned into Siesta Saturday… My honey and I started late. Work, work, work is all he does and I try to make the weekends a haven of relaxed house and easy days. We have a blast together, however because he is putting one child through college and supporting the other three — our time is spent doing activities that are low in costs. We trim dollars with home meals and coupons, although half the time they don’t work — it’s me, I don’t know how to coupon cut yet!! We hike a lot and watch movies, I cook new recipes, and we get silly — dance funny to the Monkeys and run around the house playing catch or hide and seek, adult version — use your imagination.

We love to get up late and have coffee and tea on the porch in the sun, walk the dog and eat food.

This weekend we made frittata, so delicious and so easy to make. Really, it is baked eggs with whatever you want to add. It can be vegetarian, vegan or meat lovers.

Heat the skillet super hot, and add your garlic, onions and peppers, mushrooms (any veggie is delicious and bakes well), meat, whatever you prefer. I use olive oil for everything or coconut oil. They are better in taste, and healthier for your diet.

Then I add some cut potatoes to the mix– about 3-4 little ones (I cut into quares and boil before adding them to the frying pan)

I beat the eggs in a separate bowl with a couple of tbsp of water — this fluffs the eggs.

Place the mixed ingredients from the frying pan into a casserole dish, then add the eggs to the HOT frying pan and sear for a minute. Add eggs to the casserole dish covering the other delicious items and top with cheese. Bake at 350-ish for about 20 minutes. I like to sprinkle parsley on the top and add salsa and sour cream.

Using an actual casserole dish (glass, porcelain) is better looking and sticks less to the bottom of the pan.

REMEMBER this dish can be prepared with egg substitute and fake cheese. ADD any and all spices you like at any time during the prep. The whole family loves to eat eggs this way, they are filing, healthy, easy and quick to make. From start to finish about 40 minutes until eat time!! A happy tummy equals a happy disposition ending with special thanks to the cook!!

INGREDIENTS:

Eggs – about two per person

Veggies: garlic, onion, peppers, mushroom, spinach, broccoli, potatoes, anything really

Meat: your choice

Olive/Coconut oil

Have fun!!!!