Daffodil Lane

my interpretation is that the forces of the universe are reinforcing my advise!!!!!!! but seriously... maybe it is just symbolism. i'd say from the what is posted here, that you already have the gold...

Okay, this is too weird, we had Chinese food last night too. This is the second time in two weeks both families have had Chinese food the same day.

Also weird, Jerry, Alex and I all had the same fortune (as each other, not as you). What are the chances of that happening?

Well I believe in the manufacturing of fortune cookies that they do all of one fortune at a time to streamline the process. Then they mix them up later so that they don't have anything like that happening. Looks like someone bought from an unmixed source. It's really tragic that my wife watches so much Food TV that I know the manufacturing techniques used to make fortune cookies isn't it?

I didn't answer your question sorry. The odds are pretty good that anyone eating out on any given night is going to overlap us. Unfortunately that's a negative by-product of our marriage. Dianne is a brilliant chef and I'm a guy that likes to eat the same 11 meals over and over and over and over. Unmodified, nothing new, the same exact thing every time. So I've stolen her will to cook, so on any given week we eat out at least 5 to 10 times.

But what percentage of the times that you eat out is it Chinese?

"Stolen her will to cook" is this the same lady who made all of those wonderful meals over my Thanksgiving visit with your family? Speaking as a bachelor who has had microwaved pizza and chips for dinner for almost a week. Be thankful that you have a goddess for a wife who knows how to cook meals that are fit for kings.

I put it at somewhere around a third. I love Chinese food, I would happily eat it everyday if I could.

I didn't say I wasn't thankful, my 11 meals are always very good(less than 1% failure rate, 2 weeks ago she made some homemade biscuits that tasted like sawdust, sadly it happens so rarely it's easy to remember them). The problem is completely on her side of the fence.

I have never had a bad meal in the 9 years that I have known Dianne. So I will attribute any so called "Failures" to freak material inconsistencies and a palate not use to the wide variety of culinary works of art served at your table. ;>

Why thank you! :o)

Actually I get bored with cooking his 11 meals over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. I like to try new things and luckily Alexis is willing to eat most anything too so it's nice, but sometimes it's a pain to have to cook two meals so we order out...a lot. And like Jamison said Chinese is his favorite. He'll always pick Chinese if given a choice.

11 meals is kind of limited. What are the 11?

I don't think there are actually 11. I think he just made that number up. He'll eat lasagna (made with only noodles, sauce, ground beef and mozzarella), spaghetti (made with only noodles, sauce and ground beef), chicken fajitas, chicken, roast, pork chops, steak, hamburgers, cheeseburger macaroni (which Alexis wont eat and I don't like that much either) or breakfast food. That's about it. Did I miss anything Jamison?

Oh and I forgot to add...basically dull and boring food.

What about a Loaded Bake Potato Soup, baked chicken salad, Toasted Cheese Sandwichs, ect?

Nope. He'd eat the cheese sandwich, but that's about it. And that's sad, because I make a mean potato soup! :o)

You left out Pizza. And some might suggest that the way I eat rice it should be counted as a separate meal unto itself. I didn't make up the number that's how many there are, oh yeah and fish from Long John Silvers. I would kill for some real fish instead of this crap they sell here in Maryland. My kingdom for a Long John Silvers!! Oh but we are talking about food you can make aren't we. Technically I like Philly Cheesesteaks too, but you really cover that under steak don't you.

Peanut Butter!! How could I forget the one food I eat more than any other!!

Long John Silver's, huh? You might like this link, then.

Local LJS's

Mind you I don't think they compare fish that were pulled out of the water, cleaned, breaded and cooked immediately over the campfire, but they're okay. And besides, where can you actually eat the fish you catch anymore?

Hmmm. The link didn't work. I'll just email it.

What about fried catfish?

He'll eat it occasionally, but not very much. We don't fry much around here though. I usually bake or broil fish.

I don't know, sounds like she's going to try and live with us forever. Not cool, she needs to make her own way in the world when the time comes. Prosperity can find her at her house. ;)

What was Alexis' fortune?

Don't know yet. We'll open hers when she gets up from her nap. :o)

Can I humbly point out that that's NOT a fortune. It's a proverb.
One of my pet peeeves -- these proverbs that go around in cookies posing as fortunes. They should be ashamed. Where did all the real fortunes go? :)

I don't know, I consider it a fortuate that I got a proverb that tells me what I want to hear!

"Cleaning up the past will always clear up the future."

Reminds me of a quote from George Orwell's "1984"

"Whoever controls the past controls the future. Whoever controls the present controls the past"

Very close indeed. But statements are true.

I agree.

Sorry, dropped a word, the statements are true.

You know, that's one of my personal peeves . . . bad fortune cookies. Most of the ones I've gotten lately should be renamed Proverb cookies. There is a difference between a fortune and a proverb, and someone at the cookie manufacturers needs to learn this difference! :)