THE SATURDAY SOUP #11 - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - A Soup Recipe #LifeUpdate #SliceOfLife #SoupRecipe #ACatNamedZuzu

 

THE SATURDAY SOUP

ELEVEN

A SPOONFUL OF MY LIFE

THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

AND A SOUP RECIPE

Welcome to The Saturday Soup! It's a floating feature I hope to post once a month, but if I can't find the time there's no pressure. I will be giving a life update and sharing a soup recipe.

PREVIOUS SATURDAY SOUP

I am linking up with The Sunday Post, hosted by The Caffeinated Reviewer.

THE GOOD

My birthday is next week, and although I said I wasn't going to have my son buy this $13.00 Wegmans bakery cake, the size of two cupcakes, again because of the price, I caved and told him that's what I wanted. It's my second favorite chocolate cake; the first being from a local annual Ukrainian festival. Those church ladies sure know how to bake! I told him to buy the cheapest bouquet of flowers to offset the cost. Ha ha. I didn't realize the candle was crooked until I uploaded the photos. Oops...

This is what I have chosen for my birthday book!

THE BAD

Zuzu was shaking his head and scratching at his ear, so my son took him to the vet. It was $268 for the office visit, an ear swab for a bacterial test, ten days worth of ear drops and a week's worth of an antibiotic. Yesterday, four days after his last ear drops, he has started shaking his head again. Ugh. I can't figure out how he developed a bacterial infection in the first place when he doesn't go outside. I looked on Chewy and the ear drops require a prescription. I hope when I call they will just refill his ear drops and not make us pay for another office visit.

THE UGLY

Discus has started putting two large ugly ad sections above AND below the comments. If you want ad-free commenting it's $18.00 A MONTH now! This is for blogs averaging 350K and below. They couldn't do some lesser levels for blogs averaging 100K or less and 25K or less? I would bite the bullet and pay $4-$5.00 a month, but not $18.00. When you delete the widget the comments don't revert back to Blogger comments. They are just gone. For me that means about ten years worth of comments. There's an edit that gives a choice of where you want the ads and I chose below only, but as you will see when you scroll down it doesn't work. I'm still trying to find out if there is a way to import the Discus comments to Blogger, but I haven't found anything yet. I'm going to remove the widget on Monday, regardless of what I find. I have asked on Reddit, but haven't gotten any responses.

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I loved the Discus' single comment notifications. I am so sad.

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How many of you have ad blockers? What ads do you see below? Are they as ugly as these? I get really random irrelevant ads because I always block cookies on websites I visit.

MAPLE CREAM SWEET POTATO SOUP

WITH CHEDDAR CINNAMON SUGAR TWISTS

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I first came across the Half Baked Harvest website on Instagram. I have three of her cookbooks as ebooks.

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In a couple of weeks I'll post another Saturday Soup and let you know what's up with my heart surgery.

Are you excited for Halloween?