Too sarcastic for this world

( Uncle Buck, Tia, 30 years later she and her husband have to leave for a family emergency and Uncle Buck is still alive and once again the only person who can stay with the kids )

there's now a third post for prompts up at the 3-sentence fic community. the second is closed to new prompts, but still open for fills.
i'm only half-way through the second one & will not bother looking at the third. frivolous febuary is coming up soon and i actually have a decent idea this time.

( Peanuts, Linus van Pelt, happiness is a warm blanket )


and a prompt of mine was filled; The Golden Girls, Sophia, Her secret recipe.

some time ago (like 7 years) me & my brother got an olive garden gift card from someone. we had wanted to use it for these breadstick (bigger than normal breadsticks) sandwiches they had, but we ended up missing the boat on those & they never brought them back.

we went in for lunch on tuesday. it was busy, but we didn't have to wait for a table. the silverware comes wrapped up in a huge cloth napkin& i'm not sure if it's meant to be used, or just keep the knife & forks (2 of the same size for some reason) together. they have coke products so we both got cokes & ordered Lasagna Fritta for an appetizer because my brother really wanted it. he got the lunch-size eggplant parmesan (substituting angle hair for the spaghetti) & i got the soup, salad, breadsticks lunch.
he was not impressed with his food, the eggplant slice was small & they must put oil in the water when they make the angel hair, because the sauce would not stick to it. he said the frozen eggplant parmesan from michael angelo's is better.
my stuff was just OK. i had a bowl of the Chicken & Gnocchi and Pasta e Fagioli (both piping hot!) the gnocchi was little balls, not the pillows with ridges i'm used to. neither of us liked the Lasagna Fritta, it was hard to cut. however, the coke was some of the best fountain dispensed coke i've had in a long time.
but now that we've gone, we don't need to go again.

this was our first time at olive garden & can now weigh in on the red lobster cheddar bay biscuits vs. olive garden breadsticks.
my brother gives the win to the biscuts. the breadsticks had garlic salt on them and he doesn't like garlic. even less when it's garlic powder or salt. and he thought they had too much butter spread/margarine on them, which gave them an odd sheen. he said it was a good thing that we never got the breadstick sandwiches considering the way the breadstick were.
i barely give the win to the biscuits, because they have cheese. both are kind of dry, but if the breadsticks didn't have the garlic salt, i'd give them the begrudging win.

and we have an opinion on the cheesecake factory rolls (despite never have been there) because we got them from wal-mart once. we are both of the opinion that it is a dressed up wheat bread & nothing special.

if you haven't participated in a few years, it has it's own community now threesentenceficathon

First post opens: Saturday, January 17th
Closing to new prompts: Sunday, February 15th

As always, fills can be posted year-round.


if you want to participate you can fill as many prompts as you want. even if someone else already did. and you don't have to leave a prompt to fill one, i didn't start doing that until a few years ago.

found via sixbeforelunch

General reading themes this year:
i don't think there were any.

How many books did you read this year? Any trends in genre/length/themes/etc?
if you count the one i'm working on; 32. plus 1 short story & 5 DNF

What are your top 3 books that you read this year for the first time?
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston

What's a book you enjoyed more than you expected?
maybe we keep the dead close. it really had me drawn in the whole time.

( the rest of the questions )

1. What is one thing about you that you hate?
most everything.

2. What is one thing about you that you love?
i have a pretty good imagination. for better or worse.

3. If you had to change one thing about you what would it be and why?
i'd loose some weight. it would provably help my knees.

4. What is one word that you would use to define yourself?
basic.

5. Imagine what you would look like in a perfect world...what do you look like?
about 4 inches taller, better hair, thinner, feet that are not wide width or with a high instep, better skin, smaller nose, fuller lips, lower forehead.

more answers are over here.

this is a 4-book series that is a sequel to her The Seven Realms series (also 4 books)that i read several years ago. both series are YA fantasy.
i was reluctant to start these books because i was afraid i would not like them as much as the other books. i did like them, with some exceptions that i will get into in the spoiler section.

this series is set 25-30 years (there's a time jump) after the first books. there has been another war going on because a prince (now king) of another realm was mad that the woman who became queen in the last series had rejected him for marriage. he's had his brother killed to become king and has subjugated the other realms & he can't conqueror the queendom because it is 90% mountains and his army is really only good on flat land.

in the first series you could possibly handwave their ages and consider the main characters to be 20-22, but you can't do that in this series because they mention ages a lot. and it's Young Adult (which i rarely read), so all of the main, and most of the secondary, characters are teens.

( all kinds of spoilers )

there's more LGBT+ representation in these books in the first series (if that's what you're looking for in YA fantasy). in that one 2 very minor female characters are in a relationship. they get a brief mention in one of the these books, but in this series there are two young men that briefly spent time together & spend about 95% of the later books separated and yearning for each other.
there might be a transgender character too. the wizards/mages are referred to with he/him (it was the same in the first series too) but one is she/her. i probably should not speculate, if it's not what the author intended. but they are the only wizard/mage that i can recall being referred to with she/her.

These questions were originally suggested by the_heartless .

1. What were some of the smells and tastes of your childhood?
for smell; it seemed like every time we went to my paternal grandmothers house, it smelled like ham & dumpling soup.
for taste; here's a post i did about this lunch meat called chicken roll.

2. What did you have as a child that you do not think children today have?
freedom.
we could play in the yard with mom listening/looking out a window without a neighbor calling the cops because "they might get kidnapped." the nosy neighbor also why latch-key kids are not a thing any more.

3. What elementary grade was your favorite?
none.

4. What summer do you remember the best as a child?
they all blend together.

5. What one piece of advice would you give to your younger self, and at what age?
i have no idea.


more answers are over here.