Busy days and "Pizza Grandiosa"

in life •  6 years ago  (edited)

Perhaps someone may have noticed that I've been largely absent from Steem lately. I've powered up slightly and I've delegated everything ... of course, not to bidbot services but to curation pools that hopefully can do a better job than me on curating.

We have too much on our hands those days ... so I'm trying to focus on nothing but work, family, housework and maintenance. It's difficult for me. Anyway, here is a photo to illustrate the gravity of the situation:

Photo taken by tobixen
2018-12-18 21:39:01 localtime - full quality

Now this is a "pizza grandiosa". The english wikipedia article pretty much sums it up; it was introduced at 1980-02-11 in the Norwegian market, and was one of the very first frozen pizzas to be found in the super markets. The pizza became vastly popular and is still the most sold pizza brand in Norway, it's loathed and loved by Norwegians, it's our de-facto national dish. I did consider it as somewhat exclusive back in the 80s - partly due to the novelty, but also perhaps because I was a small child ... and children generally likes simple food. I still like it, but there is nothing exclusively with it ... it's just something cheap and easy to eat when one doesn't have time for something better. Some people eat Grandiosa at the christmas eve ... but personally I had never ever imagined that I would ever eat Pizza Grandiosa at my own birthday!

We've gone to Tromsø to visit my mother (now "granny"), hopefully I will have a bit more time for Steem now, I'm planning to make some posts on this town over the next few days.

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Sometimes, you do what you gotta do, @tobixen. We've used the term cardboard pizza to describe the frozen kind before, and yours looks like a particular brand we've had here (though now I'm not recalling it). At any rate, I do hope your birthday was enjoyable, and as far as being off STEEM goes, I think it's been going around like the flu or something throughout the month. I have not been immune to it myself, and yet, I wasn't the reason for any of it. Life has been happening left and right. Some of it not so good, some it very good, but all of it rather distracting. :)

Frozen pizza from the supermarkets comes in very handy now and then the we are busy. We are the same!

Happy birthday celebrations.

Welcome back and btw, happy birthday and enjoy the pizza 😉

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