WBRepo-Ship of Thieves-Remember the Magic Pt 15

[scottishwee35]

MORNING MARILYN... :hippie:

(AND OF COURSE OUR DEBORAH!!! :flower3:)

GOOD AFTERNOON :surfweb::cutie:

I was tidying up my bedroom and sort out make up, jewellery for next week:yay:

Here's the latest installment of my mouse/mice saga. I haven't seen any activity/evidence for quite some time, until last night. Tyler was asleep, I was ready to head to bed soon too. I was relaxing on the couch with one guinea pig stretched out on me. I heard what sounded like paper crinkling. At first I thought it was just the other guinea pig ripping paper in his cage, but I looked over and saw him half asleep, lying down. I listened closer, found out where the sound was coming from, it was coming from underneath a piece of furniture next to the guinea pig cage. I was too freaked out to deal with it, so I ran out to get a packet of poison and tossed it over that way. :rotfl2: This morning, I told Tyler about it, and showed him where the poison packet was. When we came home tonight, the whole packet was GONE! I looked under the piece of furniture where I'd heard the sounds and saw the empty package with all the poison gone. WOOHOO!!! Those suckers are gonna DIE!

Later after Tyler was in bed, I was cleaning the guinea pig cage. As I stood up to get more supplies from the kitchen, I saw a mouse walk (not run like you usually see them do) over to one of Tyler's backpacks and CLIMB INSIDE! :eek: I'm not sure how fast the poison works, but since he wasn't moving very quickly, I'm thinking he's on his way out. I did NOT want him to die inside his backpack, so I took the whole thing outside and just dumped it out. :rotfl2: I didn't see the mouse, but it was dark outside, so I'm sure it fell out (probably ran back inside the house, with my luck).

GROSS!!!!!!!!!!! :headache:

wow I enjoyed to read your story....

Scottishwee35

[HollyTyler]

GOOD AFTERNOON :surfweb::cutie:

I was tidying up my bedroom and sort out make up, jewellery for next week:yay:



wow I enjoyed to read your story....

Scottishwee35
Deborah, a co-worker told me I should write a blog. Mouse Adventures on Gordon Avenue. :rotfl:

[EllaEnchanted]

Holly, I'm so glad the rat poisoning is working. At least you know that they'll be all gone soon and you can disinfect and feel better about no more unwanted critters in the house. YEAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! You beat them!!


Ian, Friday can't come soon enough for you. This has been an especially stressed time for you. One week of vacation next week is the best medicine. Enjoy!


Hi Deborah, pack everything and it won't be long now. You'll have so much fun and we'll all meet on your last day and you can tell us all about your trip.


Hi everyone!!! Happy almost Friday.

[EllaEnchanted]

Hi Kathe!!!

Shopping and food... two of my favorites...

We found a tea place up in Ballston Spa... we're going to try it soon... :goodvibes

Ballston Spa is where Karen lives. I hope you enjoy the tea but it's a good thing that you don't know what she looks like.....you might want to trip her by accident if you see her. hahaha.:laughing::laughing:

[EllaEnchanted]

I LOVE seeing all the birthday wishes by everyone. Thank you all so much.

The celebrating is not over. Me and John have our dinner out on Saturday night. Le Bistro is the restaurant at our local winery. I'm so looking forward to it....just the two of us. Nice!

[HollyTyler]

Holly, I'm so glad the rat poisoning is working. At least you know that they'll be all gone soon and you can disinfect and feel better about no more unwanted critters in the house. YEAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! You beat them!!


Well, actually, I think the battle has just begun because I have no idea how many are there. It just makes me so angry. BUT.....there IS a good side to this. The deep cleaning and disinfecting I want to do when they're gone will make my house look so nice and homey. :goodvibes

[HollyTyler]

Ballston Spa is where Karen lives. I hope you enjoy the tea but it's a good thing that you don't know what she looks like.....you might want to trip her by accident if you see her. hahaha.:laughing::laughing:
Send her a picture! :rotfl:

[EllaEnchanted]

Send her a picture! :rotfl:

Oh that's funny!!! hahahaha.....:lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:

[HollyTyler]

Well, I have to spend my lunch hour going to Walmart to pick up 3 prescriptions because we're too darned busy after work every day! :rolleyes:

[Tink rules]

Good morning all!

I'm so relieved that it's Thursday! This has been an incredibly stressful week and it's not even over yet. All of the people I work with thought that it felt like Friday because the stress has been so bad.

Today we have presentations on benefits, so I'll see what that's like.

On a sad note, my old team is not behaving very well. Inappropriate behavior and shall we say coming across with petulant defiance. I
amazed by it. I'm amazed by the sense of entitlment. These people honstly don't understand that the new owner has abolutely no obligation to give them a job, and that first impressions are important. I'm sad, but oh so relieved that they don't report to me anymore, and it's not my headache to deal with.

I am so looking forward to being off from work next week.

:hug: :hug: Things work out for a reason... maybe you were their calming voice... but like you said before... they are pups and unfortunately come from a very entitled (or they think they are...) generation... :sad2:

Excuse me!! :eek: Favouritism!!



Work doesn't sound a happy place to be at all at the moment Ian. A week off will do you good.

HEY... I put YOU first... ;)

GOOD AFTERNOON :surfweb::cutie:

I was tidying up my bedroom and sort out make up, jewellery for next week:yay:



wow I enjoyed to read your story....

Scottishwee35

Deb... Lunch on the 29th is very casual... leave the good jewels at home... :)

Ballston Spa is where Karen lives. I hope you enjoy the tea but it's a good thing that you don't know what she looks like.....you might want to trip her by accident if you see her. hahaha.:laughing::laughing:

Short... long hair... has no front teeth? I thought I saw her yesterday... :eek:

I LOVE seeing all the birthday wishes by everyone. Thank you all so much.

The celebrating is not over. Me and John have our dinner out on Saturday night. Le Bistro is the restaurant at our local winery. I'm so looking forward to it....just the two of us. Nice!

:love: :love:

Send her a picture! :rotfl:

Oh that's funny!!! hahahaha.....:lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:

Holly...

You don't know how I can get in people's hair... don't tempt me... I'm likely to go up and tell her exactly what I think of her... :lmao:

[Tink rules]

GOOD NEWS!!!

My nephew Brian got accepted to LSU!!!! It's his first college acceptance but he's not sure if he'll go there or not... he has 8 other schools to hear from...

I found out on FB... So I went and ran and got the phone and called him (semi jokingly yelling...) "YOU GOT INTO COLLEGE AND YOU DIDN"T CALL ME??????" to which I got... "Aunt Shell... go check your voicemail... I called you first..." (I had misplaced my phone last night...) :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[HollyTyler]

GOOD NEWS!!!

My nephew Brian got accepted to LSU!!!! It's his first college acceptance but he's not sure if he'll go there or not... he has 8 other schools to hear from...

I found out on FB... So I went and ran and got the phone and called him (semi jokingly yelling...) "YOU GOT INTO COLLEGE AND YOU DIDN"T CALL ME??????" to which I got... "Aunt Shell... go check your voicemail... I called you first..." (I had misplaced my phone last night...) :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Great news! Congrats Brian! :goodvibes

[granmaz]

GOOD NEWS!!!

My nephew Brian got accepted to LSU!!!! It's his first college acceptance but he's not sure if he'll go there or not... he has 8 other schools to hear from...

I found out on FB... So I went and ran and got the phone and called him (semi jokingly yelling...) "YOU GOT INTO COLLEGE AND YOU DIDN"T CALL ME??????" to which I got... "Aunt Shell... go check your voicemail... I called you first..." (I had misplaced my phone last night...) :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Well done to Brian.:thumbsup2 (What uni is it??)

[gydell]

GOOD NEWS!!!

My nephew Brian got accepted to LSU!!!! It's his first college acceptance but he's not sure if he'll go there or not... he has 8 other schools to hear from...

I found out on FB... So I went and ran and got the phone and called him (semi jokingly yelling...) "YOU GOT INTO COLLEGE AND YOU DIDN"T CALL ME??????" to which I got... "Aunt Shell... go check your voicemail... I called you first..." (I had misplaced my phone last night...) :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Good news on the college acceptance! Does it have to be LSU?:scared1:

[HollyTyler]

Will somebody please wake me when it's 5pm so I can go home? :rolleyes: I've had absolutely nothing to do since before lunch. I even finished all the filing this morning. BOREDOM!!

[EllaEnchanted]

Well done to Brian.:thumbsup2 (What uni is it??)

I believe LSU is Louisianna State University.

YEAH for Brian. At least he'll have options....that's a good thing.

[nskjerven]

:rotfl2: I'm trying to kill him (THEM)! At least we're finally seeing results! :thumbsup2 The saga continues........Later last night, I went to the kitchen for something and saw a back end and tail just slip under the STOVE! :eek: So, what did I do? Yup, grabbed another poison packet and threw it in that general direction and stayed out of the kitchen. ;) This morning before we left home, Tyler and I both heard crinkling sounds from under the stove, so that poison is getting eaten up too! AND I found the packet I'd thrown in my bedroom is GONE too! I'm wondering how many of these nasty critters are there. I've live there almost 4 years and NEVER had a single mouse, until our nasty neighbors we had recently. :mad: Now I'm wondering where the bodies will turn up. GROSS!!!

I told Tyler we're going to have to pull everything out of the living room, disinfect like crazy, and do the same in all rooms of the house. I'll feel yucky being in the house until then.

I think they will want to find water then crawl away to a dark place and die.
Don't look for them - it will be gross when you find it if you are looking or not just assume it's dead :sick: and gone :thumbsup2

Deborah, a co-worker told me I should write a blog. Mouse Adventures on Gordon Avenue. :rotfl:

GOOD NEWS!!!

My nephew Brian got accepted to LSU!!!! It's his first college acceptance but he's not sure if he'll go there or not... he has 8 other schools to hear from...

I found out on FB... So I went and ran and got the phone and called him (semi jokingly yelling...) "YOU GOT INTO COLLEGE AND YOU DIDN"T CALL ME??????" to which I got... "Aunt Shell... go check your voicemail... I called you first..." (I had misplaced my phone last night...) :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Great news!!!!! and Congrats!!!!

I'm still waiting to hear from my nephew to have him tell me that his son was born (6 weeks old now) I have to say I'm a bit pissed off that he and his wife didn't make any effort to call and tell either myself or my other sister :sad2:

Family strife....

Keep your fingers crossed my job search has fired up in the last few days.

Had an interview yesterday will meet with the CEO Monday, also have a phone interview tomorrow for another job. I'm hoping for the first one to come thru - it's part time consulting (read high hourly rate) and it would be in the same space I'm used to technology :thumbsup2

[iankh]

Had an interview yesterday will meet with the CEO Monday, also have a phone interview tomorrow for another job. I'm hoping for the first one to come thru - it's part time consulting (read high hourly rate) and it would be in the same space I'm used to technology :thumbsup2

I've got many appendages crossed for you!

[EllaEnchanted]

I think they will want to find water then crawl away to a dark place and die.
Don't look for them - it will be gross when you find it if you are looking or not just assume it's dead :sick: and gone :thumbsup2





Great news!!!!! and Congrats!!!!

I'm still waiting to hear from my nephew to have him tell me that his son was born (6 weeks old now) I have to say I'm a bit pissed off that he and his wife didn't make any effort to call and tell either myself or my other sister :sad2:

Family strife....

Keep your fingers crossed my job search has fired up in the last few days.

Had an interview yesterday will meet with the CEO Monday, also have a phone interview tomorrow for another job. I'm hoping for the first one to come thru - it's part time consulting (read high hourly rate) and it would be in the same space I'm used to technology :thumbsup2


All the pixie dust and positive thoughts coming your way that you get the one you want pronto. We have more cruising to do....hahaha.:laughing:

[iankh]

Today was my first day of staying away from the Internet completely while at work. No news, no nothing. I read my personal email on my iPhone during lunch.

We also had our annual benefits enrollment employee sessions today. It was of course different, because of the timing with the acquisition of our company last week.

Essentially we have all been hired en mass at the new company. The goofy thing is our year is a calendar year and their's begins in April. So, come March we will be going through an enrollment process all over again.

They are counting our hire dates at the old company towards our seniority. So that works out well for us.

A change was our 401Ks. We are all vested in our company matching, and we don't lose the matching from our old company, but when we go into the new plan in April, they have a stepped vesting over 5 years. The good thing about them counting my seniority is that I started with the old company in April of 2005, so I have 5 years this coming April.

The benefits are sort of comparable, but the PTO isn't not so much. At our old company I was able to carry over 10 unused days into the new year. For 2010 I can carry forward the 10 unused days I have in my PTO bank, but come 2011, the new rules apply which is a carry over of only 5 days. That's going to cramp my vacation plans a bit.

Another goofy rule that none of us are clear about is that we think we are not allow to accrue more than 10 days in the bank, so when you accrue 10 you have to use them or lose anything over 10. It would mean being forced to take days off based on the accrual rather than when you want to. I suppose they don't want the liability of more than 10 accrued days at a time.

None of us are sure about this rule and are not quite clear.

The other bad thing for me, is that due to the goofiness of my title change back last winter when I went from being a manager to a strategy role, I no longer qualify for a bonus.

Still, I think our executive team did an great job of negotiating and taking care of us when the sale was negotiated. That's the think I'm going to miss the most. Our leadership team had been really decent people and I'm going to really miss that.

It really is what it is, and I consider myself extremely fortunate to have a job, and extremely fortunate that I was kept on. That seems to be a mantra for most of us in our office these days.

We're all just a bit exhausted at work and a bit shell-shocked from this week.

[Tink rules]

Great news! Congrats Brian! :goodvibes

Well done to Brian.:thumbsup2 (What uni is it??)

Good news on the college acceptance! Does it have to be LSU?:scared1:


I believe LSU is Louisianna State University.

YEAH for Brian. At least he'll have options....that's a good thing.

Don't worry Gydell... he probably won't go there- his first choices are Texas A&M and Penn State... I took him to see Siena while he was up here visiting... beautiful school... fills out all the requirments in what he was looking for in a school... but my sister took that one out of the running... I think she was afraid to have him too near ME for 4 years... :lmao: :lmao: (ohh... what influence do I have??? :rolleyes1 If I haven't screwed up any of the kids in the last 22 years... (I love being the crazy aunt...:hippie:) :rotfl2: :rotfl2:)



Will somebody please wake me when it's 5pm so I can go home? :rolleyes: I've had absolutely nothing to do since before lunch. I even finished all the filing this morning. BOREDOM!!

Holly... wake up.. you're late for going home... :rotfl:


I think they will want to find water then crawl away to a dark place and die.
Don't look for them - it will be gross when you find it if you are looking or not just assume it's dead :sick: and gone :thumbsup2





Great news!!!!! and Congrats!!!!

I'm still waiting to hear from my nephew to have him tell me that his son was born (6 weeks old now) I have to say I'm a bit pissed off that he and his wife didn't make any effort to call and tell either myself or my other sister :sad2:

Family strife....

Keep your fingers crossed my job search has fired up in the last few days.

Had an interview yesterday will meet with the CEO Monday, also have a phone interview tomorrow for another job. I'm hoping for the first one to come thru - it's part time consulting (read high hourly rate) and it would be in the same space I'm used to technology :thumbsup2

Many good thoughts... pixie dust and everything else thrown in for good luck!!! You need any references???

I've got many appendages crossed for you!

Isn't that quite painful?

Today was my first day of staying away from the Internet completely while at work. No news, no nothing. I read my personal email on my iPhone during lunch.

We also had our annual benefits enrollment employee sessions today. It was of course different, because of the timing with the acquisition of our company last week.

Essentially we have all been hired en mass at the new company. The goofy thing is our year is a calendar year and their's begins in April. So, come March we will be going through an enrollment process all over again.

They are counting our hire dates at the old company towards our seniority. So that works out well for us.

A change was our 401Ks. We are all vested in our company matching, and we don't lose the matching from our old company, but when we go into the new plan in April, they have a stepped vesting over 5 years. The good thing about them counting my seniority is that I started with the old company in April of 2005, so I have 5 years this coming April.

The benefits are sort of comparable, but the PTO isn't not so much. At our old company I was able to carry over 10 unused days into the new year. For 2010 I can carry forward the 10 unused days I have in my PTO bank, but come 2011, the new rules apply which is a carry over of only 5 days. That's going to cramp my vacation plans a bit.

Another goofy rule that none of us are clear about is that we think we are not allow to accrue more than 10 days in the bank, so when you accrue 10 you have to use them or lose anything over 10. It would mean being forced to take days off based on the accrual rather than when you want to. I suppose they don't want the liability of more than 10 accrued days at a time.

None of us are sure about this rule and are not quite clear.

The other bad thing for me, is that due to the goofiness of my title change back last winter when I went from being a manager to a strategy role, I no longer qualify for a bonus.

Still, I think our executive team did an great job of negotiating and taking care of us when the sale was negotiated. That's the think I'm going to miss the most. Our leadership team had been really decent people and I'm going to really miss that.

It really is what it is, and I consider myself extremely fortunate to have a job, and extremely fortunate that I was kept on. That seems to be a mantra for most of us in our office these days.

We're all just a bit exhausted at work and a bit shell-shocked from this week.

We miss you during the day... someone has to pop in and deal us some wisdom and advice...

Considder yourself lucky to have a job... & tell them that you need that extra time off next November for the Henzel "Family" Reunion Thanksgiving... :grouphug:

[iankh]

Considder yourself lucky to have a job... & tell them that you need that extra time off next November for the Henzel "Family" Reunion Thanksgiving... :grouphug:

Thanks Deb.

By the way, it's the Eastwood Manor Thanksgiving ... it sounds so much less denominational.

[Tink rules]

& more multicultural.. :goodvibes

We do have culture, right?

[LuvBaloo]

Poor Shaelyn. Hope she feels better today. When mine were young, as long as they weren't very ill, I used to love cuddling up for the day on the settee watching TV with them.

Ended up staying home with Shaelyn again today, and she's doing much better. Got some good cuddling time. Watching the new TinkerBell movie now. The girls keep cracking up, its great!:cool1:

GOOD NEWS!!!

My nephew Brian got accepted to LSU!!!! It's his first college acceptance but he's not sure if he'll go there or not... he has 8 other schools to hear from...

I found out on FB... So I went and ran and got the phone and called him (semi jokingly yelling...) "YOU GOT INTO COLLEGE AND YOU DIDN"T CALL ME??????" to which I got... "Aunt Shell... go check your voicemail... I called you first..." (I had misplaced my phone last night...) :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Congrats! and :lmao::lmao:


Keep your fingers crossed my job search has fired up in the last few days.

Had an interview yesterday will meet with the CEO Monday, also have a phone interview tomorrow for another job. I'm hoping for the first one to come thru - it's part time consulting (read high hourly rate) and it would be in the same space I'm used to technology :thumbsup2

Good luck, but I'm sure you don't need it! Kick some butt!:goodvibes


It really is what it is, and I consider myself extremely fortunate to have a job, and extremely fortunate that I was kept on. That seems to be a mantra for most of us in our office these days.

We're all just a bit exhausted at work and a bit shell-shocked from this week.

Sounds like the worst is over, and you've survived well. Will Sukie be covered on your new benefits?

[katypop]

FYI!!!!

ANYONE DOING THE EBTA... THE EXCURSIONS ARE UP ON DCL'S WEBSITE...

Thanks Michelle! I noticed this a few days ago, and have been busy reading up on all of the excursions. Rather expensive, but I will book something at each port as I don't want to wander off all by myself and I do want to see lots while I have the chance. Of course, I'm hoping Nan and Will might be aboard and want to join me in some sightseeing :wizard:

Here's the latest installment of my mouse/mice saga. I haven't seen any activity/evidence for quite some time, until last night. Tyler was asleep, I was ready to head to bed soon too. I was relaxing on the couch with one guinea pig stretched out on me. I heard what sounded like paper crinkling. At first I thought it was just the other guinea pig ripping paper in his cage, but I looked over and saw him half asleep, lying down. I listened closer, found out where the sound was coming from, it was coming from underneath a piece of furniture next to the guinea pig cage. I was too freaked out to deal with it, so I ran out to get a packet of poison and tossed it over that way. :rotfl2: This morning, I told Tyler about it, and showed him where the poison packet was. When we came home tonight, the whole packet was GONE! I looked under the piece of furniture where I'd heard the sounds and saw the empty package with all the poison gone. WOOHOO!!! Those suckers are gonna DIE!

Later after Tyler was in bed, I was cleaning the guinea pig cage. As I stood up to get more supplies from the kitchen, I saw a mouse walk (not run like you usually see them do) over to one of Tyler's backpacks and CLIMB INSIDE! :eek: I'm not sure how fast the poison works, but since he wasn't moving very quickly, I'm thinking he's on his way out. I did NOT want him to die inside his backpack, so I took the whole thing outside and just dumped it out. :rotfl2: I didn't see the mouse, but it was dark outside, so I'm sure it fell out (probably ran back inside the house, with my luck).

GROSS!!!!!!!!!!! :headache:

:eek::eek::eek:




Kill him, kill him, kill him. and don't show us pictures either :snooty:



:scared1::scared1::scared1:


Good morning all!

I'm so relieved that it's Thursday! This has been an incredibly stressful week and it's not even over yet. All of the people I work with thought that it felt like Friday because the stress has been so bad.

Today we have presentations on benefits, so I'll see what that's like.

On a sad note, my old team is not behaving very well. Inappropriate behavior and shall we say coming across with petulant defiance. I
amazed by it. I'm amazed by the sense of entitlment. These people honstly don't understand that the new owner has abolutely no obligation to give them a job, and that first impressions are important. I'm sad, but oh so relieved that they don't report to me anymore, and it's not my headache to deal with.

I am so looking forward to being off from work next week.

I'm sorry you've had such a stressful week Ian :hug: but it does sound like things will work out for you :thumbsup2 Your old team was made up of mostly youngsters, right? They just haven't learned the same life lessons yet, to make them realize how lucky they are. They will learn!

GOOD NEWS!!!

My nephew Brian got accepted to LSU!!!! It's his first college acceptance but he's not sure if he'll go there or not... he has 8 other schools to hear from...

I found out on FB... So I went and ran and got the phone and called him (semi jokingly yelling...) "YOU GOT INTO COLLEGE AND YOU DIDN"T CALL ME??????" to which I got... "Aunt Shell... go check your voicemail... I called you first..." (I had misplaced my phone last night...) :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

:laughing: Congrats to Brian :thumbsup2 He's lucky to have such a proud Aunt :hug:



Keep your fingers crossed my job search has fired up in the last few days.

Had an interview yesterday will meet with the CEO Monday, also have a phone interview tomorrow for another job. I'm hoping for the first one to come thru - it's part time consulting (read high hourly rate) and it would be in the same space I'm used to technology :thumbsup2

This is great news Nan :thumbsup2 Sounds very promising ::yes::

[nskjerven]

Thanks Michelle! I noticed this a few days ago, and have been busy reading up on all of the excursions. Rather expensive, but I will book something at each port as I don't want to wander off all by myself and I do want to see lots while I have the chance. Of course, I'm hoping Nan and Will might be aboard and want to join me in some sightseeing :wizard:


This is great news Nan :thumbsup2 Sounds very promising ::yes::

::yes:: did you see the chocolate factory in Barcelona??? It's on our list :thumbsup2 What else looked interesting?

thanks for the crossed limbs and luck :thumbsup2

[Tink rules]

You know Nan.. we usually only cross those limbs when we gotta go... real bad!!! :rotfl2:

[nskjerven]

I like the new tink

and it was an appendage not a limb huh? :rolleyes1

[EllaEnchanted]

Thanks Deb.

By the way, it's the Eastwood Manor Thanksgiving ... it sounds so much less denominational.

Ian, that was Shelly not me. I called it the Eastwood Manor Special Turkey Day Celebration in my siggy.

Shell, are you making note of the change.....very good.:hippie::hippie:

It's a very good thing that you have next week off Ian. I think you might need a good lie in.

[Tink rules]

Got it Deb... :thumbsup2

and Nan... don't you cross your toes when you've gotta go real bad??? :lmao:

[Tink rules]

Hey Nan...

The new tink sort of makes it look like she's wrestling a snake or something... luckily for us...it's just garland... ;)

[granmaz]

Ian, hope you have a good Friday, a restful weekend and that things oimprove at work next week.


Keep your fingers crossed my job search has fired up in the last few days.

Had an interview yesterday will meet with the CEO Monday, also have a phone interview tomorrow for another job. I'm hoping for the first one to come thru - it's part time consulting (read high hourly rate) and it would be in the same space I'm used to technology :thumbsup2

Hope this happens Nan!!!

[iankh]

Welcome to Friday!
Your Gateway to the Weekend!

I'm hoping to return to some sanity today. I am off all next week, although I'm going to take my laptop home and I'm going to have have to be on a few conference calls and just make sure things are moving along.

It's sort of sad that lately the brightest and happiest thought for me has been that I get to use my NEW Nesco Roaster next week!

Busy, busy, busy weekend coming up at Eastwood Manor. Tomorrow is going to be a MAJOR grocery shopping day, and this weekend I start making preparations for Thanksgiving.

I have a project plan and there are some dishes or components of dishes that start this weekend.

I also go back to leading my Sunday WW meetings after a 2-week hiatus.

I'm really looking forward to returning to some sort of routine after 2 weeks of disruption.

[HollyTyler]

I think they will want to find water then crawl away to a dark place and die.
Don't look for them - it will be gross when you find it if you are looking or not just assume it's dead :sick: and gone :thumbsup2

I hope they just disappear, but I'm starting to wonder when they'll all be gone! GROSS!!!



Keep your fingers crossed my job search has fired up in the last few days.

Had an interview yesterday will meet with the CEO Monday, also have a phone interview tomorrow for another job. I'm hoping for the first one to come thru - it's part time consulting (read high hourly rate) and it would be in the same space I'm used to technology :thumbsup2
GOOD LUCK! Something's bound to come through for you soon! :goodvibes

[HollyTyler]

Today was my first day of staying away from the Internet completely while at work. No news, no nothing. I read my personal email on my iPhone during lunch.

We also had our annual benefits enrollment employee sessions today. It was of course different, because of the timing with the acquisition of our company last week.

Essentially we have all been hired en mass at the new company. The goofy thing is our year is a calendar year and their's begins in April. So, come March we will be going through an enrollment process all over again.

They are counting our hire dates at the old company towards our seniority. So that works out well for us.

A change was our 401Ks. We are all vested in our company matching, and we don't lose the matching from our old company, but when we go into the new plan in April, they have a stepped vesting over 5 years. The good thing about them counting my seniority is that I started with the old company in April of 2005, so I have 5 years this coming April.

The benefits are sort of comparable, but the PTO isn't not so much. At our old company I was able to carry over 10 unused days into the new year. For 2010 I can carry forward the 10 unused days I have in my PTO bank, but come 2011, the new rules apply which is a carry over of only 5 days. That's going to cramp my vacation plans a bit.

Another goofy rule that none of us are clear about is that we think we are not allow to accrue more than 10 days in the bank, so when you accrue 10 you have to use them or lose anything over 10. It would mean being forced to take days off based on the accrual rather than when you want to. I suppose they don't want the liability of more than 10 accrued days at a time.

None of us are sure about this rule and are not quite clear.

The other bad thing for me, is that due to the goofiness of my title change back last winter when I went from being a manager to a strategy role, I no longer qualify for a bonus.

Still, I think our executive team did an great job of negotiating and taking care of us when the sale was negotiated. That's the think I'm going to miss the most. Our leadership team had been really decent people and I'm going to really miss that.

It really is what it is, and I consider myself extremely fortunate to have a job, and extremely fortunate that I was kept on. That seems to be a mantra for most of us in our office these days.

We're all just a bit exhausted at work and a bit shell-shocked from this week.
Sorry about all those changes Ian. It's a tricky situation, but like you said, at least you still have your job. Hang in there! :hug:

[scottishwee35]

Today was my first day of staying away from the Internet completely while at work. No news, no nothing. I read my personal email on my iPhone during lunch.

We also had our annual benefits enrollment employee sessions today. It was of course different, because of the timing with the acquisition of our company last week.

Essentially we have all been hired en mass at the new company. The goofy thing is our year is a calendar year and their's begins in April. So, come March we will be going through an enrollment process all over again.

They are counting our hire dates at the old company towards our seniority. So that works out well for us.

A change was our 401Ks. We are all vested in our company matching, and we don't lose the matching from our old company, but when we go into the new plan in April, they have a stepped vesting over 5 years. The good thing about them counting my seniority is that I started with the old company in April of 2005, so I have 5 years this coming April.

The benefits are sort of comparable, but the PTO isn't not so much. At our old company I was able to carry over 10 unused days into the new year. For 2010 I can carry forward the 10 unused days I have in my PTO bank, but come 2011, the new rules apply which is a carry over of only 5 days. That's going to cramp my vacation plans a bit.

Another goofy rule that none of us are clear about is that we think we are not allow to accrue more than 10 days in the bank, so when you accrue 10 you have to use them or lose anything over 10. It would mean being forced to take days off based on the accrual rather than when you want to. I suppose they don't want the liability of more than 10 accrued days at a time.

None of us are sure about this rule and are not quite clear.

The other bad thing for me, is that due to the goofiness of my title change back last winter when I went from being a manager to a strategy role, I no longer qualify for a bonus.

Still, I think our executive team did an great job of negotiating and taking care of us when the sale was negotiated. That's the think I'm going to miss the most. Our leadership team had been really decent people and I'm going to really miss that.

It really is what it is, and I consider myself extremely fortunate to have a job, and extremely fortunate that I was kept on. That seems to be a mantra for most of us in our office these days.

We're all just a bit exhausted at work and a bit shell-shocked from this week.

Ian, I am sorry to hear this and always something is it?

you need a break next week....;) so I too... but I am working tonight that is my last day and on break until end of November....

Scottishwee35

[scottishwee35]

Ian

I didnt had the bonus this year :sad2: my work have the profit now and I wonder will I get the bonus as :santa: always busy at December as I am sure Marilyn know about M&S busy month in December....

Scottishwee35

[scottishwee35]

I start not well last night and feel got the cold...

I went to hairdresser this morning and I feel very tired and feel sleepy...

I got haircut and colour...

I went to boots and bought tablets called Nurse for quick cold and flu...

My mother in law came this afternoon and she questioned me about New York as I feel awkward...about going to New York.:confused:

As it won't be long now as my 5 friend and I flight out next Tuesday morning...

I feel guilty to leave husband and kids...

Scottishwee35

[granmaz]

Ian

I didnt had the bonus this year :sad2: my work have the profit now and I wonder will I get the bonus as :santa: always busy at December as I am sure Marilyn know about M&S busy month in December....

Scottishwee35

Yes, very busy, especially the food hall!!!:eek:

I start not well last night and feel got the cold...

I went to hairdresser this morning and I feel very tired and feel sleepy...

I got haircut and colour...

I went to boots and bought tablets called Nurse for quick cold and flu...

My mother in law came this afternoon and she questioned me about New York as I feel awkward...about going to New York.:confused:

As it won't be long now as my 5 friend and I flight out next Tuesday morning...

I feel guilty to leave husband and kids...

Scottishwee35

Rest this weekend and get better Deborah, in time for your trip. AND, don't feel guilty. Hubby obviously doesn't mind so you should just look forward to it and ENJOY!!

[LuvBaloo]

I start not well last night and feel got the cold...

I went to hairdresser this morning and I feel very tired and feel sleepy...

I got haircut and colour...

I went to boots and bought tablets called Nurse for quick cold and flu...

My mother in law came this afternoon and she questioned me about New York as I feel awkward...about going to New York.:confused:

As it won't be long now as my 5 friend and I flight out next Tuesday morning...

I feel guilty to leave husband and kids...

Scottishwee35

Don't feel guilty! Ian obviously knows how much you've been looking forward to this trip!
Take care of yourself this weekend, so you are healthy and feeling great for your flight on Tuesday!:dance3:

[Tink rules]

Welcome to Friday!
Your Gateway to the Weekend!

I'm hoping to return to some sanity today. I am off all next week, although I'm going to take my laptop home and I'm going to have have to be on a few conference calls and just make sure things are moving along.

It's sort of sad that lately the brightest and happiest thought for me has been that I get to use my NEW Nesco Roaster next week!

Busy, busy, busy weekend coming up at Eastwood Manor. Tomorrow is going to be a MAJOR grocery shopping day, and this weekend I start making preparations for Thanksgiving.

I have a project plan and there are some dishes or components of dishes that start this weekend.

I also go back to leading my Sunday WW meetings after a 2-week hiatus.

I'm really looking forward to returning to some sort of routine after 2 weeks of disruption.

Ian... I checked that store you don't like... you wouldn't have been able to get your roaster there... so now you can really stay away... but they did have my lizzy fruit for $4 less than the other stores so sorry... but I promise not to send you any of the lizzy cookies cause I bought the ingredients at walmart... :rotfl:

I start not well last night and feel got the cold...

I went to hairdresser this morning and I feel very tired and feel sleepy...

I got haircut and colour...

I went to boots and bought tablets called Nurse for quick cold and flu...

My mother in law came this afternoon and she questioned me about New York as I feel awkward...about going to New York.:confused:

As it won't be long now as my 5 friend and I flight out next Tuesday morning...

I feel guilty to leave husband and kids...

Scottishwee35

Honey... take care of yourself.. and why are you guilty??? You have lunch with some great friends on the 29th!!! :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[Tink rules]

Ok.. the question is...

WHY AM I AWAKE??????


Things are turning I guess... for the better??? I'll let you know if it lasts... :rolleyes:

[Tink rules]

GREETINGS....

IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN...

I WILL BE SENDING OUT THE LIST OF ADDRESSES FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO BE ON THE :santa::santa::santa:CHRISTMAS :santa::santa::santa:CARD EXCHANGE...

IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY ON THE LIST (MEANING YOU DIDN'T GET ANY CARDS LAST YEAR AND WOULD LIKE TO THIS YEAR (KAZ....) PLEASE EMAIL ME AT mbelauzon@hotmail.com

THANK YOU VERY MUCH... & HEY... HAVE A MAGICAL DAY...

[nskjerven]

Keep your fingers crossed my job search has fired up in the last few days.

Had an interview yesterday will meet with the CEO Monday, also have a phone interview tomorrow for another job. I'm hoping for the first one to come thru - it's part time consulting (read high hourly rate) and it would be in the same space I'm used to technology :thumbsup2

GOOD LUCK! Something's bound to come through for you soon! :goodvibes

Thanks and it looks like it has.

I just had the other phone interview it went well. I hope to hear back soon from them.

AND

I go in Monday morning for the high-tech client job to meet the CEO and most likely walk out working on their needs :thumbsup2

Now the dilemma might be if the 2nd job turns into an offer also :confused:

The 2nd job is an offer for employment rather than contracting. So there are real trade offs on each side...

consulting - more money less hours and total control of my time (which means no real worries over the kids schedule/needs) and vaca when ever I want to go (like the TA cruise in April) not reliable and on and off work no benefits, invades personal life/time with family

employement - less money more hours and fixed schedule regular paycheck, beenfits and *easy* work so I don't have to juggle it at home EVER

I've contracted for 13+ years now hard to figure going back in an office everyday but....the work really is a no brainer when someone does all rainmaking on your behalf.

Now if Paul could find something all would be well in our house again :thumbsup2

I start not well last night and feel got the cold...

I went to hairdresser this morning and I feel very tired and feel sleepy...

I got haircut and colour...

I went to boots and bought tablets called Nurse for quick cold and flu...

My mother in law came this afternoon and she questioned me about New York as I feel awkward...about going to New York.:confused:

As it won't be long now as my 5 friend and I flight out next Tuesday morning...

I feel guilty to leave husband and kids...

Scottishwee35

DO NOT FEEL guilty - As others have mentioned Ian is fine with it and it is a hard job being a mom (& wife) sometimes we women need to get away and have girl time. I went on the Tortola Cruise too ;) I know what you mean about the MIL making comments mine did too :mad:

[granmaz]

Nan, I don't understand all about your job prospects but I am sure you will work it out and all will be for the best for you!!!

[gydell]

I start not well last night and feel got the cold...

I went to hairdresser this morning and I feel very tired and feel sleepy...

I got haircut and colour...

I went to boots and bought tablets called Nurse for quick cold and flu...

My mother in law came this afternoon and she questioned me about New York as I feel awkward...about going to New York.:confused:

As it won't be long now as my 5 friend and I flight out next Tuesday morning...

I feel guilty to leave husband and kids...

Scottishwee35

Hope you feel better soon!

Don't feel guilty about anything - just have fun. The kids and dh will be just fine and probably do things that they couldn't do if you were home!

[iankh]

Thanks and it looks like it has.

I just had the other phone interview it went well. I hope to hear back soon from them.

AND

I go in Monday morning for the high-tech client job to meet the CEO and most likely walk out working on their needs :thumbsup2

Now the dilemma might be if the 2nd job turns into an offer also :confused:

The 2nd job is an offer for employment rather than contracting. So there are real trade offs on each side...

consulting - more money less hours and total control of my time (which means no real worries over the kids schedule/needs) and vaca when ever I want to go (like the TA cruise in April) not reliable and on and off work no benefits, invades personal life/time with family

employement - less money more hours and fixed schedule regular paycheck, beenfits and *easy* work so I don't have to juggle it at home EVER

I've contracted for 13+ years now hard to figure going back in an office everyday but....the work really is a no brainer when someone does all rainmaking on your behalf.

Now if Paul could find something all would be well in our house again :thumbsup2




It looks like things might be turning for you which is wonderful to hear!

[iankh]

I am finally at the end of a week that feels about 3 weeks long. It has been such an emotional roller coaster this week.

The more I talk to people around the office, the more it seems that we are all feeling very similar and our perceptions are very similar.

And now at last, I have a week off next week!

[katypop]

Rest this weekend and get better Deborah, in time for your trip. AND, don't feel guilty. Hubby obviously doesn't mind so you should just look forward to it and ENJOY!!

Don't feel guilty! Ian obviously knows how much you've been looking forward to this trip!
Take care of yourself this weekend, so you are healthy and feeling great for your flight on Tuesday!:dance3:

Deb, just wanted to join in with everyone else and wish you a very speedy recovery from your cold :sick: Rest up and feel better, then go and have an awesome trip :cool1: You will have a great time, and Ian will enjoy hearing all of the stories about your adventures when you get home!

[katypop]

I am finally at the end of a week that feels about 3 weeks long. It has been such an emotional roller coaster this week.

The more I talk to people around the office, the more it seems that we are all feeling very similar and our perceptions are very similar.

And now at last, I have a week off next week!

:cool1::cool1::cool1: Ian, YOU MADE IT!!! Leave work behind and let the fun begin :woohoo:

[katypop]

::yes:: did you see the chocolate factory in Barcelona??? It's on our list :thumbsup2 What else looked interesting?

thanks for the crossed limbs and luck :thumbsup2

Of course I want to do it all ;) but I am kind of thinking about the Caves and North Coast in Madeira, Jerez and Arcos de la Frontera in Cadiz (sherry tasting, yum!) and Montserrat in Barcelona. This would take up most of the day, but then I'd still have the evening to explore Barcelona :thumbsup2 Of course I want to do the Rock tour in Gibraltor, just not sure how I will manage this one yet, on my own or with the tour :confused3 I know it's cheaper on your own, but I won't take a taxi all by myself...now if I had someone to share it with :rolleyes1

[Tink rules]

I am finally at the end of a week that feels about 3 weeks long. It has been such an emotional roller coaster this week.

The more I talk to people around the office, the more it seems that we are all feeling very similar and our perceptions are very similar.

And now at last, I have a week off next week!

Change is always stressful... you made it and we are all proud.. :thumbsup2 So... lets eat... :goodvibes

:cool1::cool1::cool1: Ian, YOU MADE IT!!! Leave work behind and let the fun begin :woohoo:

Listen to Kathe... she's very wise... :hippie:

[gydell]

Of course I want to do it all ;) but I am kind of thinking about the Caves and North Coast in Madeira, Jerez and Arcos de la Frontera in Cadiz (sherry tasting, yum!) and Montserrat in Barcelona. This would take up most of the day, but then I'd still have the evening to explore Barcelona :thumbsup2 Of course I want to do the Rock tour in Gibraltor, just not sure how I will manage this one yet, on my own or with the tour :confused3 I know it's cheaper on your own, but I won't take a taxi all by myself...now if I had someone to share it with :rolleyes1

Skip the chocolate factory - it's a waste of time!

Do the tour of Gibraltor - it cost the 3 of us $70 and took us everywhere! We got off the ship and walked down the long line of cabs and found a driver we liked(the cabs towards the end of the line you can bargain with more) Don't do the DCL tour because you miss some of the details and the buses can't get to all the places so you are spending time walking that you could be seeing! This was our favorite stop!!!

Cadiz is wonderful - if you have time do the double decker bus tour. It takes about an hour and is excellent. The bus stop is outside the port and cost about $5. You can hop off and on as you want but we did the entire tour and then decided where we wanted to get off.

[HollyTyler]

I start not well last night and feel got the cold...

I went to hairdresser this morning and I feel very tired and feel sleepy...

I got haircut and colour...

I went to boots and bought tablets called Nurse for quick cold and flu...

My mother in law came this afternoon and she questioned me about New York as I feel awkward...about going to New York.:confused:

As it won't be long now as my 5 friend and I flight out next Tuesday morning...

I feel guilty to leave husband and kids...

Scottishwee35

Deborah, I hope you feel better quickly! :hug:

Don't feel guilty about leaving Ian & the kids, you've been looking forward to this trip for a really long time, it's going to be so much fun! You deserve the break! :goodvibes

[HollyTyler]

I am finally at the end of a week that feels about 3 weeks long. It has been such an emotional roller coaster this week.

The more I talk to people around the office, the more it seems that we are all feeling very similar and our perceptions are very similar.

And now at last, I have a week off next week!

Woohoo!!! Enjoy the week Ian, you definitely need it! :goodvibes

[HollyTyler]

The mouse traps I set last night went untouched.....well, that's not entirely true, the cheese is GONE from each trap. :headache: Tonight I'm trying peanut butter again. As Tyler was sitting on the floor putting his shoes on, we both watched in shock while a mouse ran across the floor right past him! GROSS!!!! I keep finding empty poison packets but also still mice. I'm wondering how many are here. Tyler's hoping a bunch of traps snap overnight because I told him I'll give him $5 for every mouse if he disposes of each one for me (I have plastic gloves for him to wear). He'll also have to be the one to check the traps in the morning because it just grosses me out. I told my mom about all of this when we were at the Christmas parade tonight. She told me they're in the walls and that I'll have a hard time getting rid of them. I almost cried. I think I need to get an exterminator. But I wonder what more they would do, other than put out poison and traps? This is just disgusting. :sad2:

[HollyTyler]

Super busy day at work today, which was nice because the time flew by. My mom came to town, picked Tyler up from day care, and we all met up at the Christmas parade downtown (and fireworks afterwards). Had a blast, and am super tired.

Tomorrow we're going to kids' day at the Festival of Trees to see what Christmas activities are going on, and will also spend time swimming and rollerblading at the YMCA. :goodvibes

[LuvBaloo]

Happy Friday!
It was long crazy day at work, but actually felt good to go to work. Shaelyn is back to normal. It hit her hard and fast, but she's bounced back quickly too!

Tonight was "midnight madness" for our local downtown stores, so we all went to do some Christmas shopping. We got the girls their ornaments for this year (they get a new one every year :) ) and I got a snowbabies dancing with polar bears one which is very cute. And we even managed to get a couple Christmas presents bought plus we got some ideas.

Ian - I hope you enjoy your weekend of Thanksgiving prep :goodvibes

Michelle - we want in on the Christmas list again ::yes::

Holly - I recommend calling an exterminator to get information and prices. Christmas is coming and you really want the classic line to be true (not a creature was stirring not even a mouse ;) )

Nan - you sound positive about the job choices :thumbsup2 Hope you get what you want.

[Tink rules]

Gotcha Shannon :thumbsup2

& I always get Snowbabies ornaments for my nieces every year... I kidded with them once they hit 18 that I was done... (they didn't go for that!!! :rotfl:)

[LuvBaloo]

Michelle - you can't quick once you start a trend! You'll be buying snowbabies forever :goodvibes (and you'll be loving doing it!)

[Tink rules]

If they stop making ornaments & I'm in trouble... :rotfl:

This is the one I'm hoping to get this year...

http://www.giftcollector.com/ProductImages/95000/95334.hr.jpg

[HollyTyler]

Happy Friday!
It was long crazy day at work, but actually felt good to go to work. Shaelyn is back to normal. It hit her hard and fast, but she's bounced back quickly too!

Tonight was "midnight madness" for our local downtown stores, so we all went to do some Christmas shopping. We got the girls their ornaments for this year (they get a new one every year :) ) and I got a snowbabies dancing with polar bears one which is very cute. And we even managed to get a couple Christmas presents bought plus we got some ideas.

Ian - I hope you enjoy your weekend of Thanksgiving prep :goodvibes

Michelle - we want in on the Christmas list again ::yes::

Holly - I recommend calling an exterminator to get information and prices. Christmas is coming and you really want the classic line to be true (not a creature was stirring not even a mouse ;) )

Nan - you sound positive about the job choices :thumbsup2 Hope you get what you want.
Shannon, glad you had fun shopping! :thumbsup2

I plan on talking with an exterminator today. We have one in our neighborhood, 2 houses down. :thumbsup2

[HollyTyler]

Shortly after I went to bed, before I fell asleep, I heard something in my room, sat up, and sure enough, a little mouse ran out.....but fortunately, he ran right towards a trap, so it was only a little while later when I heard the SNAP! We checked the rest of the traps and found another one in the kitchen and the tail of another, so one is running around with no tail. GROSS!!!

BUT.....at least we got 2. Lots more to go, I'm sure, but it's a start...and I'll go talk to the exterminator neighbor today. It was so disgusting though, and I almost threw up disposing of each one. Everybody told me it wouldn't be bloody, but these were. I seriously can't eat breakfast because it was so disgusting. :sad2:

[iankh]

Big doings around Eastwood Manor today. THE project plan has been printed off and will be invoked today.

Today is mega grocery shopping for Thanksgiving. Actually not that mega since we bought the nonperishables a few weeks ago.

Today is also the pilot test for the Nesco Roaster. Well a dry run, even has I write I have it fired up, with an oven thermometer inside of it so I can assess the temperature calibration, and then manually make adjustments based on the temperature markings and what the thermometer reads.

I woke up this morning as it out of a long dream that was this past week. Many of my co-workers were quite upset. A colleague who sits in the cube in front of me was told that she is expected to "always be on" and monitoring and responding to emails. Which to me seems quite stupid. There is vast difference between being busy and being productive.

I mean, I'm not opposed to hard work and long hours and weekend hours when there is a reason for it, but as a matter of course it's just ridiculous.

I really don't see how sending emails and generating work discussions at all hours is productive. Rather I view it is a bit unorganized and disruptive.

I'm not all that sure that Blackberries have really contributed to the quality of life for corporate mankind.

There is also the point that just because one can send an email any day or hour one likes, means one should send an email any day or hour one likes.

It seems to me like there are no social or privacy boundaries in this respect.

I mean, one probably can poop on the floor, it doesn't mean one should poop on the floor.

[EllaEnchanted]

I'm just sitting here sipping on some Korbel Brut champagne....getting ready for an evening out to dinner with my baby. Hair is done, make up is done, evening bag is packed and tiara is in place. I just have to put contact lenses in and evening clothes on then I'm ready to run out the door. We're going to our local winery, Le Bistro, restaurant. It will be our first time at the restaurant. They just opened. We love the winery so it should be nice. Pictures to follow later.

[nskjerven]

Of course I want to do it all ;) but I am kind of thinking about the Caves and North Coast in Madeira, Jerez and Arcos de la Frontera in Cadiz (sherry tasting, yum!) and Montserrat in Barcelona. This would take up most of the day, but then I'd still have the evening to explore Barcelona :thumbsup2 Of course I want to do the Rock tour in Gibraltor, just not sure how I will manage this one yet, on my own or with the tour :confused3 I know it's cheaper on your own, but I won't take a taxi all by myself...now if I had someone to share it with :rolleyes1

Skip the chocolate factory - it's a waste of time!

Do the tour of Gibraltor - it cost the 3 of us $70 and took us everywhere! We got off the ship and walked down the long line of cabs and found a driver we liked(the cabs towards the end of the line you can bargain with more) Don't do the DCL tour because you miss some of the details and the buses can't get to all the places so you are spending time walking that you could be seeing! This was our favorite stop!!!

Cadiz is wonderful - if you have time do the double decker bus tour. It takes about an hour and is excellent. The bus stop is outside the port and cost about $5. You can hop off and on as you want but we did the entire tour and then decided where we wanted to get off.

Kathe: Gydell makes a good arguement for sharing a cab (I wanted to anyways) I'm now brave enough to go without DCL so the rock adventrue for us sounds good. the sherry tasting isn't up "our" alley and I'll have to look into the rest of your suggestions. I do know we are going to want to go to the Park in Barcelona - Willie had a great time seeing it last time and I know he'd love to revisit that. :thumbsup2

[HollyTyler]

Three mice down, not sure how many to go, but I'll keep setting traps until they're GONE! Turns out cheese was a flop because they figured out how to take the piece of cheese without triggering the trap. :headache: So I switched to peanut butter and that did the trick. :thumbsup2 The good thing is that I'm getting over my mouse phobia and can almost pick up the trap and get rid of it without almost throwing up. When we went to the store to buy more (yes, I know snap traps are reusable, but no way am I doing that, yuck!), we found a live trap. It can hold 4, so we'll see how it works. Guess I'll have to take a long drive to release them, but we'll give it a try! :thumbsup2

[LuvBaloo]

Michelle - that ornament is cute!

Ian - I agree that expecting staff to be continually on is just wrong. People need downtime.

Deb - have a great time!

[iankh]

I had a very interesting email from my grandmother today:

"Hi Ian,

Hey, how is life going? What are you doing that you love just now?

I hear that there is lots of snow in Washington mountains; sounds as if skiing will be wonderful this year.

I need your help in choosing a Christmas gift for you this year. Please send me a list with some details (size, color, source if clothes) other details if it is something else. It may take a little work on google but at least you will get something you like. The sooner that I get the list the better.

I miss you.

Love,
Granny"

I found it surprising, that she sent me an email, considering that she's:

a) Dead since 1963
b) Didn't speak English


I think that being dead she had time on her hands and apparently took night courses in English.

It appears that there is some new email scam afoot. They probably want people to respond so they can validate that it's a valid address.

Not quite sure what their nefarious intentions are.

[EllaEnchanted]

Here's me and John out at the birthday dinner tonight. It was very nice. We bought some wine and mulling spices too. I love the smell in the air for the holidays. John warms the wine with the spices in the crock pot. He adds sliced almonds and fruit. It's so good.


Can you find my hidden Mickey?


http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/bdaydinner2009009.jpg


Here's John:


http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/bdaydinner2009011.jpg


Can you find John's hidden Mickey?


http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/bdaydinner2009013.jpg

[iankh]

Here's me and John out at the birthday dinner tonight. It was very nice. We bought some wine and mulling spices too. I love the smell in the air for the holidays. John warms the wine with the spices in the crock pot. He adds sliced almonds and fruit. It's so good.


Can you find my hidden Mickey?


http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/bdaydinner2009009.jpg


Here's John:


http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/bdaydinner2009011.jpg


Can you find John's hidden Mickey?


http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/bdaydinner2009013.jpg




Deb,

You are looking quite quite wonderful!

[tink1963]

Here's me and John out at the birthday dinner tonight. It was very nice. We bought some wine and mulling spices too. I love the smell in the air for the holidays. John warms the wine with the spices in the crock pot. He adds sliced almonds and fruit. It's so good.


Can you find my hidden Mickey?


http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/bdaydinner2009009.jpg


Here's John:


http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/bdaydinner2009011.jpg


Can you find John's hidden Mickey?


http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/bdaydinner2009013.jpg



Deb,

You are looking quite quite wonderful!

Deb, I have to second what Ian said. You are looking marvelous. I'm so proud of you. You are doing great. Hope the birthday dinner was nice for you and John.
My guess is in the picture, lower corner, is what looks to me like a mickey balloon.

[EllaEnchanted]

Deb,

You are looking quite quite wonderful!

Deb, I have to second what Ian said. You are looking marvelous. I'm so proud of you. You are doing great. Hope the birthday dinner was nice for you and John.
My guess is in the picture, lower corner, is what looks to me like a mickey balloon.

Thanks you guys....that's so nice of you both to mention. I know that I have a long way to go, but I know now that it can be done and I'm determined to get there no matter how long it takes.

We did have a very nice time and dinner was delicious. Good guess on the hidden Mickey V....it does look a little like him.....but nope that's not it.

Keep guessing. One hint....they are both very small and hard to see....one on me and one on John. John's is even harder to see than mine....but keep looking.

[BubbaGrump]

Yours is at the top of your blouse and johns is his ring????

[EllaEnchanted]

Yours is at the top of your blouse and johns is his ring????

Ding Ding Ding....we have a winner....YES Bubba mine is on the top of my blouse and John's is NOT his ring....but you're very very hot. Keep looking at John's hand. It's very hard to see in this pic....but it's there.

[EllaEnchanted]

Give up yet? It's really hard to see. Look at the face of John's watch. It's Mickey only he's upside down. ;)

[EllaEnchanted]

Mine is a Swarovski crystal pin that's in the middle of all the beads on the blouse.

John is wearing a Mickey watch where Mickey faces him....with his hand like that in the picture, you see Mickey upside down.

They're both small and hard to see, but you did great Bubba!!! Tequila shot for you!!

[LuvBaloo]

Kaleigh was just happily singing "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down". Its on a CD I've been playing in the van this week. She has asked why I don't give them a spoonful of sugar when they get medicine :lmao:


Deb - glad you enjoyed your day :goodvibes

[Tink rules]

I had a very interesting email from my grandmother today:

"Hi Ian,

Hey, how is life going? What are you doing that you love just now?

I hear that there is lots of snow in Washington mountains; sounds as if skiing will be wonderful this year.

I need your help in choosing a Christmas gift for you this year. Please send me a list with some details (size, color, source if clothes) other details if it is something else. It may take a little work on google but at least you will get something you like. The sooner that I get the list the better.

I miss you.

Love,
Granny"

I found it surprising, that she sent me an email, considering that she's:

a) Dead since 1963
b) Didn't speak English


I think that being dead she had time on her hands and apparently took night courses in English.

It appears that there is some new email scam afoot. They probably want people to respond so they can validate that it's a valid address.

Not quite sure what their nefarious intentions are.

did you tell her you already have a Nesco Roaster? :rotfl:

Here's me and John out at the birthday dinner tonight. It was very nice. We bought some wine and mulling spices too. I love the smell in the air for the holidays. John warms the wine with the spices in the crock pot. He adds sliced almonds and fruit. It's so good.


Can you find my hidden Mickey?


http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/bdaydinner2009009.jpg


Here's John:


http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/bdaydinner2009011.jpg


Can you find John's hidden Mickey?


http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/bdaydinner2009013.jpg



SUCH beautiful people... I think I'll see if I can have lunch with them next week...:goodvibes

Kaleigh was just happily singing "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down". Its on a CD I've been playing in the van this week. She has asked why I don't give them a spoonful of sugar when they get medicine :lmao:


Deb - glad you enjoyed your day :goodvibes

Yeah mom... how come??????? :flower3:

[HollyTyler]

I had a very interesting email from my grandmother today:

"Hi Ian,

Hey, how is life going? What are you doing that you love just now?

I hear that there is lots of snow in Washington mountains; sounds as if skiing will be wonderful this year.

I need your help in choosing a Christmas gift for you this year. Please send me a list with some details (size, color, source if clothes) other details if it is something else. It may take a little work on google but at least you will get something you like. The sooner that I get the list the better.

I miss you.

Love,
Granny"

I found it surprising, that she sent me an email, considering that she's:

a) Dead since 1963
b) Didn't speak English


I think that being dead she had time on her hands and apparently took night courses in English.

It appears that there is some new email scam afoot. They probably want people to respond so they can validate that it's a valid address.

Not quite sure what their nefarious intentions are.
Well, that's just crazy!

[HollyTyler]

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/bdaydinner2009009.jpg



DEB! Look how great you look!!!!

Glad you had a nice time! :goodvibes

[Tink rules]

Hey Ian... didn't your mom email you for your "holiday" list last year???

[HollyTyler]

Kaleigh was just happily singing "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down". Its on a CD I've been playing in the van this week. She has asked why I don't give them a spoonful of sugar when they get medicine :lmao:


Deb - glad you enjoyed your day :goodvibes

:rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:

[katypop]

Skip the chocolate factory - it's a waste of time!

Do the tour of Gibraltor - it cost the 3 of us $70 and took us everywhere! We got off the ship and walked down the long line of cabs and found a driver we liked(the cabs towards the end of the line you can bargain with more) Don't do the DCL tour because you miss some of the details and the buses can't get to all the places so you are spending time walking that you could be seeing! This was our favorite stop!!!

Cadiz is wonderful - if you have time do the double decker bus tour. It takes about an hour and is excellent. The bus stop is outside the port and cost about $5. You can hop off and on as you want but we did the entire tour and then decided where we wanted to get off.

Thanks for the tips Gydell!

The mouse traps I set last night went untouched.....well, that's not entirely true, the cheese is GONE from each trap. :headache: Tonight I'm trying peanut butter again. As Tyler was sitting on the floor putting his shoes on, we both watched in shock while a mouse ran across the floor right past him! GROSS!!!! I keep finding empty poison packets but also still mice. I'm wondering how many are here. Tyler's hoping a bunch of traps snap overnight because I told him I'll give him $5 for every mouse if he disposes of each one for me (I have plastic gloves for him to wear). He'll also have to be the one to check the traps in the morning because it just grosses me out. I told my mom about all of this when we were at the Christmas parade tonight. She told me they're in the walls and that I'll have a hard time getting rid of them. I almost cried. I think I need to get an exterminator. But I wonder what more they would do, other than put out poison and traps? This is just disgusting. :sad2:

:hug: Holly, I'm sorry you are having such a horrible time trying to get rid of those rodents! Wish I could wave my magic wand and make them all dissappear :wizard:

Kathe: Gydell makes a good arguement for sharing a cab (I wanted to anyways) I'm now brave enough to go without DCL so the rock adventrue for us sounds good. the sherry tasting isn't up "our" alley and I'll have to look into the rest of your suggestions. I do know we are going to want to go to the Park in Barcelona - Willie had a great time seeing it last time and I know he'd love to revisit that. :thumbsup2

Nan, I hope we can share the rock adventure too! I would definately share a cab with you guys, I just won't do it alone, not quite that brave! The bus in Cadiz sounds like fun too.

[katypop]

Kaleigh was just happily singing "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down". Its on a CD I've been playing in the van this week. She has asked why I don't give them a spoonful of sugar when they get medicine :lmao:


Deb - glad you enjoyed your day :goodvibes

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

And how did you answer her Shannon?


Deb, I'm glad you enjoyed your day too :goodvibes You do look great!

[HollyTyler]

FOUR mice down. But.....it's got to be more than that because those are just the ones snapped in the trap (also a tail from another one). I put out 6 poison packets and 5 of those have disappeared. So I'm assuming at least 5 mice took them, so that would be at least 9 mice! :sick: I hope I'm making a dent in their family. At least they're closer to being gone. I'm really hoping the ones that ate the poison found their way outside before dying.

[HollyTyler]

:hug: Holly, I'm sorry you are having such a horrible time trying to get rid of those rodents! Wish I could wave my magic wand and make them all dissappear :wizard:

Thanks Kathe. This is my first time dealing with it, so it's all new and very unpleasant. I told my dad about it on the phone today and wanted to cry, it's just so gross.

[HollyTyler]

About this time last night, I was hearing mouse squeaks coming from under my stove. I haven't heard or seen anything today (other than the ones dead in the traps), and I usually see them start running around by 9 or 10pm, so I'm cautiously optimistic that there aren't many left.

[gydell]

I had a very interesting email from my grandmother today:

"Hi Ian,

Hey, how is life going? What are you doing that you love just now?

I hear that there is lots of snow in Washington mountains; sounds as if skiing will be wonderful this year.

I need your help in choosing a Christmas gift for you this year. Please send me a list with some details (size, color, source if clothes) other details if it is something else. It may take a little work on google but at least you will get something you like. The sooner that I get the list the better.

I miss you.

Love,
Granny"

I found it surprising, that she sent me an email, considering that she's:

a) Dead since 1963
b) Didn't speak English


I think that being dead she had time on her hands and apparently took night courses in English.

It appears that there is some new email scam afoot. They probably want people to respond so they can validate that it's a valid address.

Not quite sure what their nefarious intentions are.

Very strange!

Deb - you look fabulous!!!

[HollyTyler]

Another fun day today (except for dealing with the mice). After breakfast, while I dozed on the couch for a while, Tyler was thrilled that I told him he could take over all my fish tanks on Fish World because I never play it anymore. He had fun getting rid of all my stuff and decorating a couple tanks all over again. We went to lunch at a place called the Pita Pit (very yummy!), then went to the Festival of Trees. I wanted to bid on the Disney tree (which comes with $900 of Disney games and toys and stuffed animals and decorations, etc.) but the bid was already up to $300, WAAAAAAY out of my price range.

We came home for supper and then headed to the YMCA for roller blading and swimming for a couple hours. :goodvibes Tyler can finally swim (a little bit)! He went about 15 feet each time he tried. He wants to go on the water slide so badly, it's great motivation for him to push himself to swim farther and farther because to use the slide, they require kids under 10 to pass a swim test all the way down one lane and then swim on their back coming back. I doubt I could even swim that far.

Then we got our Scout popcorn so we can make our deliveries tomorrow, then he played more FishWorld before bed. :thumbsup2

[Tink rules]

Hey Holly...

Just a thought.. if you do have to get an exterminator... you might want to try talking to the landlord of the house next door since your problems came from their tennants... maybe they'll help out with it... :rolleyes:

[HollyTyler]

Hey Holly...

Just a thought.. if you do have to get an exterminator... you might want to try talking to the landlord of the house next door since your problems came from their tennants... maybe they'll help out with it... :rolleyes:

Thanks Michelle. :thumbsup2

[granmaz]

Deb, your'e looking fab!!!!:thumbsup2

I had a very interesting email from my grandmother today:

"Hi Ian,

Hey, how is life going? What are you doing that you love just now?

I hear that there is lots of snow in Washington mountains; sounds as if skiing will be wonderful this year.

I need your help in choosing a Christmas gift for you this year. Please send me a list with some details (size, color, source if clothes) other details if it is something else. It may take a little work on google but at least you will get something you like. The sooner that I get the list the better.

I miss you.

Love,
Granny"

I found it surprising, that she sent me an email, considering that she's:

a) Dead since 1963
b) Didn't speak English


I think that being dead she had time on her hands and apparently took night courses in English.

It appears that there is some new email scam afoot. They probably want people to respond so they can validate that it's a valid address.

Not quite sure what their nefarious intentions are.


Well that is very odd.

[iankh]

Back in the saddle again. I'm leading my two Sunday morning WW meetings this morning. I had a bit of a break there for two weeks when I couldn't lead the meetings because of my normal work.

The Nesco Roaster Affair

Yesterday I had a bit of a disaster with the new Nesco Roaster. It has been a ecommerce that's been going on for over 3 weeks.

The item I ordered was (and still is) mislabeled and represented on the site. I decided I would keep the model they sent me, but only pay for the lesser value model. It took 2.5 weeks of phone calls to get a $30 credit issued.

Yesterday, I decided to test the roaster's temperature calibration using an oven thermometer. It was about 100F degrees off. Not trivial. I had really had it.

In the morning during our shopping trips at Costco I bought a Hamilton Beach 22 quart roaster for only $39, half the price of the Nesco. I took the Nesco back to Carson Pirier Scott to do the return, rather than doing it via UPS.

It was quite a big deal at the department store, since they could not pull up the right information, all because of the $30 credit adjustment that had been made to the price.

The people in the store's customer service were excellent, and finally refunded my money, but they refunded the entire retail value of the roaster, ignoring the fact that I used a 10% discount code when I bought it online, and ignoring the fact that I had been given a $30 credit.

They way they were looking at each other I think they were fully aware of what they were doing, because they had become pretty fed up with the incompetency of the ecommerce staff they had on the phone.

I was extremely calm and polite through everything.

So in the end, I had paid $89 for the roaster, and had received a $30 credit to my credit card, paying a net of $59. After the transaction yesterday, they refunded $98 to my credit card, and I still had the $30 credit, so I had in all been refunded $129 for something I originally paid $89.

I bought a new Hamilton Beach Roaster at Costco for $39, which ended up costing me nothing. As a matter of face, I came out with $1 more in my pocket than when the whole incident started.

Good old Carson's, they are one of my favorite department stores. The ironic part of the story is that normally they don't carry big items like roasters, but yesterday, in the store they had a big display of them because of the holiday.

My temperature calibration tests are compete with the Hamilton Beach, I've determined that it runs 25F degrees hotter than the markings, but that's OK. I understand that, better than being over 100 degrees under what the markings say.

So, now the electrics testing portion of Eastwood Manor's Thanksgiving is competed. This afternoon begins the first of the food prep.

[granmaz]

Ian, you do have some adventures don't you?:lmao: At least you were paid for that one. How funny.

[HollyTyler]

Back in the saddle again. I'm leading my two Sunday morning WW meetings this morning. I had a bit of a break there for two weeks when I couldn't lead the meetings because of my normal work.

The Nesco Roaster Affair

Yesterday I had a bit of a disaster with the new Nesco Roaster. It has been a ecommerce that's been going on for over 3 weeks.

The item I ordered was (and still is) mislabeled and represented on the site. I decided I would keep the model they sent me, but only pay for the lesser value model. It took 2.5 weeks of phone calls to get a $30 credit issued.

Yesterday, I decided to test the roaster's temperature calibration using an oven thermometer. It was about 100F degrees off. Not trivial. I had really had it.

In the morning during our shopping trips at Costco I bought a Hamilton Beach 22 quart roaster for only $39, half the price of the Nesco. I took the Nesco back to Carson Pirier Scott to do the return, rather than doing it via UPS.

It was quite a big deal at the department store, since they could not pull up the right information, all because of the $30 credit adjustment that had been made to the price.

The people in the store's customer service were excellent, and finally refunded my money, but they refunded the entire retail value of the roaster, ignoring the fact that I used a 10% discount code when I bought it online, and ignoring the fact that I had been given a $30 credit.

They way they were looking at each other I think they were fully aware of what they were doing, because they had become pretty fed up with the incompetency of the ecommerce staff they had on the phone.

I was extremely calm and polite through everything.

So in the end, I had paid $89 for the roaster, and had received a $30 credit to my credit card, paying a net of $59. After the transaction yesterday, they refunded $98 to my credit card, and I still had the $30 credit, so I had in all been refunded $129 for something I originally paid $89.

I bought a new Hamilton Beach Roaster at Costco for $39, which ended up costing me nothing. As a matter of face, I came out with $1 more in my pocket than when the whole incident started.

Good old Carson's, they are one of my favorite department stores. The ironic part of the story is that normally they don't carry big items like roasters, but yesterday, in the store they had a big display of them because of the holiday.

My temperature calibration tests are compete with the Hamilton Beach, I've determined that it runs 25F degrees hotter than the markings, but that's OK. I understand that, better than being over 100 degrees under what the markings say.

So, now the electrics testing portion of Eastwood Manor's Thanksgiving is competed. This afternoon begins the first of the food prep.
Wow Ian, nothing ever seems to go smoothly for you! But what a great deal you ended up with.....very nice! :thumbsup2

[HollyTyler]

A relaxing day so far. :goodvibes I've been lounging around, dozing on and off on the couch while Spongebob was playing and Tyler was building different creations with Legos. Now he's into a movie on the Disney channel, "Princess Protection Program". After I get out of the shower, we're headed out to deliver popcorn on our way to the movie theater to see Disney's "Christmas Carol" in 3-D at the IMAX! :yay: Then we're hoping to get a little time at the pool at the YMCA before I drop him at his dad's. :thumbsup2

It's another beautiful, sunny day! People were wearing shorts yesterday! We had t-shirts and the windows down in the car. Very nice!

[ibouncetoo]

Don't anybody faint...but I've actually done a little housework this morning! I found my kitchen! Now I can stock it and start cooking and packing lunches! I think I had about 25 packets of plastic forks and napkins from assorted 'to go' ventures. :sad2:

Saw New Moon yesterday and enjoyed it (especially as I am "Team Jacob"). I was AMAZED at the number of little kids in the theater. We were at an 11:30AM showing and the number of kids under 10 was surprising. I'm thinking mom couldn't get dad to watch the little ones while SHE came to the movie! Goodness knows there were no teenagers available to babysit as they were all at the movies.

.

[CustardTart]

Here's me and John out at the birthday dinner tonight. It was very nice. We bought some wine and mulling spices too. I love the smell in the air for the holidays. John warms the wine with the spices in the crock pot. He adds sliced almonds and fruit. It's so good.


Can you find my hidden Mickey?


http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/bdaydinner2009009.jpg


Here's John:


http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/bdaydinner2009011.jpg


Can you find John's hidden Mickey?


http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/bdaydinner2009013.jpg



Just wanted to say how absolutely stunning you look, Deb!!!

It was Richard's birthday yesterday and we spent it with his family in a lovely old Oxford hotel...

[LuvBaloo]

Well, its a tense Sunday morning for us as we watch to see if the Lions make it to the Grey Cup. Its really not looking good as they have a mere 10 points to the Alouettes 31, but there's still lots of time left to turn it around.:goodvibes

Kathe - I never did answer Kaleigh's question about sugar with her medicine, but I'm sure she'll ask again some day.

Kaz - Happy belated Birthday to Richard!

Holly - Princess Protection Program has been popular at my house. Here's some trivia for you - both girls in the movie were on Barney when they were kids and are friends in real life. Thanks to 2 girls, I'm very familiar with Selena and Demi :lmao:

Ian - I enjoyed your story of the great roaster mess up :lmao:

Jackie - good to know you enjoyed the movie. I'm off to see it this evening. I finally watched the first one last weekend and wasn't too thrilled with it. I enjoyed the book much more.

Well, its half-time now, and I'm off to cut up the snacks for later. I don't need anything now as I had my new favourite version of pancakes already today (pancakes with peanut butter in the batter, then banana slices and walnuts added to them on the griddle, so they cook right into them, top with a little margarine and eat! No yucky syrup needed :goodvibes)

[ibouncetoo]

Jackie - good to know you enjoyed the movie. I'm off to see it this evening. I finally watched the first one last weekend and wasn't too thrilled with it. I enjoyed the book much more.
)

I think you'll enjoy New Moon more than Twilight. Liked this director better and the story follows the book very well. While this was not most peoples favorite book of the four, I think they did a good job. It's hard to turn a book into a 2 hour movie and make everybody happy, but most the audience seemed pleased with this one.

[LuvBaloo]

I heard the budget for New Moon was quite a bit bigger than for Twilight. I never expect to enjoy a movie as much as the book. I think so much of these books was about her emotions and that's hard to put into the movie.

[iankh]

Well, its a tense Sunday morning for us as we watch to see if the Lions make it to the Grey Cup. Its really not looking good as they have a mere 10 points to the Alouettes 31, but there's still lots of time left to turn it around.:goodvibes


Is that the Earl Grey Cup?

[EllaEnchanted]

So I picked up a tee shirt at the winery last night and it says:

"Men are like grapes....if you stomp on them, keep them in the dark and wait for them to mature....you can turn them into something you would like to have dinner with!"


Me and John both laughed so hard. I had to have it.

[Tink rules]

Back in the saddle again. I'm leading my two Sunday morning WW meetings this morning. I had a bit of a break there for two weeks when I couldn't lead the meetings because of my normal work.

The Nesco Roaster Affair

Yesterday I had a bit of a disaster with the new Nesco Roaster. It has been a ecommerce that's been going on for over 3 weeks.

The item I ordered was (and still is) mislabeled and represented on the site. I decided I would keep the model they sent me, but only pay for the lesser value model. It took 2.5 weeks of phone calls to get a $30 credit issued.

Yesterday, I decided to test the roaster's temperature calibration using an oven thermometer. It was about 100F degrees off. Not trivial. I had really had it.

In the morning during our shopping trips at Costco I bought a Hamilton Beach 22 quart roaster for only $39, half the price of the Nesco. I took the Nesco back to Carson Pirier Scott to do the return, rather than doing it via UPS.

It was quite a big deal at the department store, since they could not pull up the right information, all because of the $30 credit adjustment that had been made to the price.

The people in the store's customer service were excellent, and finally refunded my money, but they refunded the entire retail value of the roaster, ignoring the fact that I used a 10% discount code when I bought it online, and ignoring the fact that I had been given a $30 credit.

They way they were looking at each other I think they were fully aware of what they were doing, because they had become pretty fed up with the incompetency of the ecommerce staff they had on the phone.

I was extremely calm and polite through everything.

So in the end, I had paid $89 for the roaster, and had received a $30 credit to my credit card, paying a net of $59. After the transaction yesterday, they refunded $98 to my credit card, and I still had the $30 credit, so I had in all been refunded $129 for something I originally paid $89.

I bought a new Hamilton Beach Roaster at Costco for $39, which ended up costing me nothing. As a matter of face, I came out with $1 more in my pocket than when the whole incident started.

Good old Carson's, they are one of my favorite department stores. The ironic part of the story is that normally they don't carry big items like roasters, but yesterday, in the store they had a big display of them because of the holiday.

My temperature calibration tests are compete with the Hamilton Beach, I've determined that it runs 25F degrees hotter than the markings, but that's OK. I understand that, better than being over 100 degrees under what the markings say.

So, now the electrics testing portion of Eastwood Manor's Thanksgiving is competed. This afternoon begins the first of the food prep.

The QM just sets everything at 375 and sticks a meat thermometer in... 50 + years of trying works pretty good...

So I picked up a tee shirt at the winery last night and it says:

"Men are like grapes....if you stomp on them, keep them in the dark and wait for them to mature....you can turn them into something you would like to have dinner with!"


Me and John both laughed so hard. I had to have it.

Love it!!! :rotfl2:

[nskjerven]

Is that the Earl Grey Cup?

:lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::l mao:


I'm with you :thumbsup2

For those that were concerned I'm back on track now - Picked up my bottle of Coconut Rum tonight at Bev Mo :thumbsup2:hippie: all is good.

Wish me luck working (hopefully tomorrow morning) I figured I better have the rum waiting for me tomorrow night :rotfl2::rotfl2:

[Tink rules]

Did you let it slip to the new people that you are much more accurate with rum in your system?

[HollyTyler]

So I picked up a tee shirt at the winery last night and it says:

"Men are like grapes....if you stomp on them, keep them in the dark and wait for them to mature....you can turn them into something you would like to have dinner with!"


Me and John both laughed so hard. I had to have it.

I love it! :rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:

[HollyTyler]

:lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::l mao:


I'm with you :thumbsup2

For those that were concerned I'm back on track now - Picked up my bottle of Coconut Rum tonight at Bev Mo :thumbsup2:hippie: all is good.

Wish me luck working (hopefully tomorrow morning) I figured I better have the rum waiting for me tomorrow night :rotfl2::rotfl2:

GOOD LUCK!!! I'm sure you'll do just fine! :goodvibes

[HollyTyler]

2nd day, no sight or sound of any mice. Still cautiously optimistic. Tyler told me "They're probably just hiding until you put the traps away". :eek: Not sure how many there were, but I know we got at least 9, so hopefully that's it. YUCK! I'll wait another couple days and if I still see no sign of them, I'll start disinfecting every room.

Disney's "Christmas Carol" was AWESOME!!! We've been to IMAX movies before, but this was our first 3-D movie. VERY COOL! There were quite a few scary parts, which Tyler even admitted, but he told me he still loved it. Then we stopped at the YMCA for about 1/2 hour of swimming before his dad picked him up.

[EllaEnchanted]

:lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::l mao:


I'm with you :thumbsup2

For those that were concerned I'm back on track now - Picked up my bottle of Coconut Rum tonight at Bev Mo :thumbsup2:hippie: all is good.

Wish me luck working (hopefully tomorrow morning) I figured I better have the rum waiting for me tomorrow night :rotfl2::rotfl2:

Knock 'em dead. Just remember that it's temporary. Paul will be in demand again very soon. In the meantime, be social and have fun while doing a fabulous job.:cutie:

[EllaEnchanted]

2nd day, no sight or sound of any mice. Still cautiously optimistic. Tyler told me "They're probably just hiding until you put the traps away". :eek: Not sure how many there were, but I know we got at least 9, so hopefully that's it. YUCK! I'll wait another couple days and if I still see no sign of them, I'll start disinfecting every room.

Disney's "Christmas Carol" was AWESOME!!! We've been to IMAX movies before, but this was our first 3-D movie. VERY COOL! There were quite a few scary parts, which Tyler even admitted, but he told me he still loved it. Then we stopped at the YMCA for about 1/2 hour of swimming before his dad picked him up.

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH no sign of any mice. Let's hope it stays that way and this nightmare is over. Keep the rat poison on hand just in case they come back.

I'm so glad the movie was awesome. It's John's favorite story....he's such a scrooge. hahaha.:laughing::laughing:

[EllaEnchanted]

Just wanted to say how absolutely stunning you look, Deb!!!

It was Richard's birthday yesterday and we spent it with his family in a lovely old Oxford hotel...



Thanks Kaz. It was a very nice time.

Happy Birthday to Richard. So glad you got to spend time with family in a beautiful setting.

[LuvBaloo]

Is that the Earl Grey Cup?

::yes:: Earl Grey's cup ::yes::


For those that were concerned I'm back on track now - Picked up my bottle of Coconut Rum tonight at Bev Mo :thumbsup2:hippie: all is good.

Wish me luck working (hopefully tomorrow morning) I figured I better have the rum waiting for me tomorrow night :rotfl2::rotfl2:

Kick some butt!:goodvibes

2nd day, no sight or sound of any mice. Still cautiously optimistic. Tyler told me "They're probably just hiding until you put the traps away". :eek: Not sure how many there were, but I know we got at least 9, so hopefully that's it. YUCK! I'll wait another couple days and if I still see no sign of them, I'll start disinfecting every room.

Disney's "Christmas Carol" was AWESOME!!! We've been to IMAX movies before, but this was our first 3-D movie. VERY COOL! There were quite a few scary parts, which Tyler even admitted, but he told me he still loved it. Then we stopped at the YMCA for about 1/2 hour of swimming before his dad picked him up.

Glad you enjoyed the movie! A friend told me the beginning was quite scary; her 4yo niece refused to stay in the theatre after the first 10 minutes. What did you think?

[LuvBaloo]

And in case you wondered, I really enjoyed New Moon! ::yes::
although one of the group I went with hadn't read the books and she had to ask a few questions. Definitely a few things that didn't make sense if you hadn't read the books. And Jacob looked good! ::yes::

[ibouncetoo]

And in case you wondered, I really enjoyed New Moon! ::yes::
although one of the group I went with hadn't read the books and she had to ask a few questions. Definitely a few things that didn't make sense if you hadn't read the books. And Jacob looked good! ::yes::


::yes::

While watching Twilight I was wondering how that 'little boy' was going to be able to mature enough for the next film. Lots of time in the gym seemed to do the job! There was an audible teenage reaction when he took his shirt off, which made the adults laugh.

.

[LuvBaloo]

There was that same audible reaction in our theatre too at that scene followed by a chuckle.
When we left the theatre one of my friends said we should all be arrested for having those thoughts about a 17yo! :lmao::lmao:

[granmaz]

Nan, best wishes for today.

Me? I'm off to jury service. Hopefully I won't be picked, but I think I will be, so I will be quiet for a few days.:lmao:

[Tink rules]

Ladies... you dirty minds!!! Lusting after man candy... :rotfl2: :rotfl2:

Nan... good luck today!!! (Don't tell them about the rum...)

Marilyn... mention you know us... that will get you out of most anything.. (although we're not quite sure about some foreign jails...:rolleyes:)

[Tink rules]

Not that anyone's wondering... being I'm awake before Ian... (well... I'm online before him...)

I did sleep... 5 hours starting around 1 am... need to go and get a little bit more... hoping to get turned around for this weekend... I must drive to Jersey for an all important DISMEET!!! :dance3: :dance3::dance3:

[iankh]

Disney's "Christmas Carol" was AWESOME!!! We've been to IMAX movies before, but this was our first 3-D movie. VERY COOL! There were quite a few scary parts, which Tyler even admitted, but he told me he still loved it. Then we stopped at the YMCA for about 1/2 hour of swimming before his dad picked him up.

We have tickets to the 3-D IMAX Christmas Carol tomorrow afternoon, down on Navy Pier.

[iankh]

Nan - Good luck today!

[iankh]

Busy day. I've started some cooking. Sukie is polishing all the silver (OK, plate). We managed to find the salt cellar and it's spoon. He's polishing that too.

The turkey is due to be delivered today. Brining starts tomorrow.

I'm trying to get done small things today. Currently I'm doing the reduction of the apple juice and wine. I bought a half gallon of fresh pressed apple juice. To that half gallon I add 750ml of German wine.

This all simmers to a reduction of 1 cup. Rather sweet and tasty. It is in this reduction that the root vegetables are roasted (carrots, parsnips, sweet potato and rutabaga [swede for our friends across the pond.]).

It is roasted in the reduction with butter, until it is tender and a bit carmelized.

Very nice.

[HollyTyler]

Glad you enjoyed the movie! A friend told me the beginning was quite scary; her 4yo niece refused to stay in the theatre after the first 10 minutes. What did you think?
For a 4-yr old, absolutely too scary. Maybe even so for most 5 & 6 year olds. Tyler's 7 1/2 and was quite scared too, but didn't want to leave. I'd say it's best for kids 9 or 10 and up, but it depends on what they're used to watching. Hope this helps!

[HollyTyler]

::yes::

While watching Twilight I was wondering how that 'little boy' was going to be able to mature enough for the next film. Lots of time in the gym seemed to do the job! There was an audible teenage reaction when he took his shirt off, which made the adults laugh.

.
:rotfl2:

[HollyTyler]

There was that same audible reaction in our theatre too at that scene followed by a chuckle.
When we left the theatre one of my friends said we should all be arrested for having those thoughts about a 17yo! :lmao::lmao:
:rotfl2:

[HollyTyler]

Nan, best wishes for today.

Me? I'm off to jury service. Hopefully I won't be picked, but I think I will be, so I will be quiet for a few days.:lmao:
Oh good, now I might be able to catch you again on FarmVille and FishVille! :rotfl:

[HollyTyler]

We have tickets to the 3-D IMAX Christmas Carol tomorrow afternoon, down on Navy Pier.
I hope you both love it as much as I did! :goodvibes Let us know!

[nskjerven]

Did you let it slip to the new people that you are much more accurate with rum in your system?

not yet ;)

Knock 'em dead. Just remember that it's temporary. Paul will be in demand again very soon. In the meantime, be social and have fun while doing a fabulous job.:cutie:

thanks and ::yes:: I'll keep the temporary thing in mind, but I suspect with private high school fees coming into play soon for Molly it will be a long temporary thing :sad2:

::yes:: Earl Grey's cup ::yes::



Kick some butt!:goodvibes



Glad you enjoyed the movie! A friend told me the beginning was quite scary; her 4yo niece refused to stay in the theatre after the first 10 minutes. What did you think?

thanks and when I do I'll tell them you told me too :laughing:

Nan, best wishes for today.

Me? I'm off to jury service. Hopefully I won't be picked, but I think I will be, so I will be quiet for a few days.:lmao:

thanks and I bet they'll let ya go soon, so get back here and chat with us :thumbsup2

Ladies... you dirty minds!!! Lusting after man candy... :rotfl2: :rotfl2:

Nan... good luck today!!! (Don't tell them about the rum...)

Marilyn... mention you know us... that will get you out of most anything.. (although we're not quite sure about some foreign jails...:rolleyes:)

ok and thanks

Nan - Good luck today!

thanks

and now I'm off :woohoo:

[LuvBaloo]

Nan, best wishes for today.

Me? I'm off to jury service. Hopefully I won't be picked, but I think I will be, so I will be quiet for a few days.:lmao:

:goodvibesHopefully you get a quick case if you're stuck doing it. I personally think it would be interesting to do it once just to see what it is like.

Not that anyone's wondering... being I'm awake before Ian... (well... I'm online before him...)

I did sleep... 5 hours starting around 1 am... need to go and get a little bit more... hoping to get turned around for this weekend... I must drive to Jersey for an all important DISMEET!!! :dance3: :dance3::dance3:

Michelle, we are always wondering about you! ;):goodvibes:goodvibes
Hope you got back to sleep :cloud9:

Busy day. I've started some cooking. Sukie is polishing all the silver (OK, plate). We managed to find the salt cellar and it's spoon. He's polishing that too.

The turkey is due to be delivered today. Brining starts tomorrow.

I'm trying to get done small things today. Currently I'm doing the reduction of the apple juice and wine. I bought a half gallon of fresh pressed apple juice. To that half gallon I add 750ml of German wine.


How long does the reduction take?

For a 4-yr old, absolutely too scary. Maybe even so for most 5 & 6 year olds. Tyler's 7 1/2 and was quite scared too, but didn't want to leave. I'd say it's best for kids 9 or 10 and up, but it depends on what they're used to watching. Hope this helps!

Yup, Shaelyn would be fine and Kaleigh would hide her face at the scary bits. She is currently in an "over-reaction to anything scary phase". Not so much that it really scares her, but that she feels she must say she's scared and snuggle up.

[LuvBaloo]

NAN!

Have fun today!:dance3:
Drink rum AFTER work :goodvibes
I'll have some in your honour tonight ::yes::

[iankh]

How long does the reduction take?




It takes about 4 hours to simmer it down.

[granmaz]

Oh good, now I might be able to catch you again on FarmVille and FishVille! :rotfl:

I'm sure you will!!!

Well I was picked, for a case that should last most of the week, then we will see from then. Overall experience interesting and better than I thought, but the case is disturbing.:sad2:

[1Grumpy John]

Just wanted to say how absolutely stunning you look, Deb!!!

It was Richard's birthday yesterday and we spent it with his family in a lovely old Oxford hotel...

Happy Birthday Richard only a few days late

[nskjerven]

NAN!

Have fun today!:dance3:
Drink rum AFTER work :goodvibes
I'll have some in your honour tonight ::yes::

I'm home for lunch a little nip wouldn't hurt would it ;)

Okay after hours I'll postpone and we'll celebrate in unison


I'm sure you will!!!

Well I was picked, for a case that should last most of the week, then we will see from then. Overall experience interesting and better than I thought, but the case is disturbing.:sad2:

On come on you know that means we have to hear all about it. No names but all the gorry details of course :woohoo::cool2: ok maybe not all but most of 'em :rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:

[granmaz]

On come on you know that means we have to hear all about it. No names but all the gorry details of course :woohoo::cool2: ok maybe not all but most of 'em :rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:

Can't tell you anything I'm afraid. Honest, not sure you would want to know.

[granmaz]

Is work going ok Nan?

[scottishwee35]

Hi Everybody

I am so sorry that I have not been catch up your news as I am very busy...

Now I will be flight out tomorrow :dance3:

I will catch up when I come back:thumbsup2

Scottishwee35

[granmaz]

Deborah, have a fantastic time. Enjoy the mini meet too.

[granmaz]

Someone please become my neighbour on Countrylife, then I can expand my ranch.:worship:

[Tink rules]

not yet ;)



thanks and ::yes:: I'll keep the temporary thing in mind, but I suspect with private high school fees coming into play soon for Molly it will be a long temporary thing :sad2:



thanks and when I do I'll tell them you told me too :laughing:



thanks and I bet they'll let ya go soon, so get back here and chat with us :thumbsup2



ok and thanks



thanks

and now I'm off :woohoo:

Anyone feel like we've just sent our first born off to school for the first time??? :hippie:

I'm sure you will!!!

Well I was picked, for a case that should last most of the week, then we will see from then. Overall experience interesting and better than I thought, but the case is disturbing.:sad2:

I guess you weren't menacing looking enough? I told you to snarl at the Judge...:rotfl2:

I'm home for lunch a little nip wouldn't hurt would it ;)

Okay after hours I'll postpone and we'll celebrate in unison




On come on you know that means we have to hear all about it. No names but all the gorry details of course :woohoo::cool2: ok maybe not all but most of 'em :rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:

She's writing a book... best seller... then she's moving permanantly onto DCL and will hold court with each of us who comes to kiss her ring while she is seated next to Mickey... (giving autographs...) ;)

Hi Everybody

I am so sorry that I have not been catch up your news as I am very busy...

Now I will be flight out tomorrow :dance3:

I will catch up when I come back:thumbsup2

Scottishwee35

Yup... and Deb and I will be back with all the gossip!!! :banana:

Deborah, have a fantastic time. Enjoy the mini meet too.

:dance3: :dance3: :dance3: (we will try to send her home in the same condition she arrived in... :rolleyes1)

Someone please become my neighbour on Countrylife, then I can expand my ranch.:worship:

I'll send the Plankman over... :thumbsup2

[HollyTyler]

:goodvibesHopefully you get a quick case if you're stuck doing it. I personally think it would be interesting to do it once just to see what it is like.

Me too! Never been so lucky though.

[HollyTyler]

I'm sure you will!!!

Well I was picked, for a case that should last most of the week, then we will see from then. Overall experience interesting and better than I thought, but the case is disturbing.:sad2:

Oh, sorry it's a disturbing one. :guilty:

[HollyTyler]

Someone please become my neighbour on Countrylife, then I can expand my ranch.:worship:

OK, OK, since I suckered you into FishVille, I guess I'll let you drag me into CountryLife! :rotfl2:

[nskjerven]

Is work going ok Nan?

it was ok today. slow not a ton of hours and since I bill hourly that's a bummer. I suspect in the next few weeks it could ramp up quickly fingers crossed :thumbsup2

[gydell]

Hi Everybody

I am so sorry that I have not been catch up your news as I am very busy...

Now I will be flight out tomorrow :dance3:

I will catch up when I come back:thumbsup2

Scottishwee35

Have a great time!

[HollyTyler]

OK Marilyn & Nan, you guys twisted my arm hard enough and sucked me into CountryLife! :rotfl2:

[nskjerven]

OK Marilyn & Nan, you guys twisted my arm hard enough and sucked me into CountryLife! :rotfl2:

you were there before me ;)

[Tink rules]

I'm resisting... but Planky's being a nudge... :rolleyes1

[LuvBaloo]

Hi Everybody

I am so sorry that I have not been catch up your news as I am very busy...

Now I will be flight out tomorrow :dance3:

I will catch up when I come back:thumbsup2

Scottishwee35

Have a great trip!:cool1:

[LuvBaloo]

Marilyn - sorry you ended up on jury duty since you didn't want to:flower3:

Nan - I gave up on Facebook, it was acting up, but glad to hear day 1 was okay :thumbsup2


Howdy everybody! It was a busy day here, but I was able to start and end my work day early to make it half of Kaleigh's soccer practice, then a yummy beef dip for dinner and back to watch Shaelyn's soccer practice! I'm so glad to see them having fun.
This time I got smart and stood up and did some simple walking backwards and forwards in a small area to get some exercise in while watching Shaelyn's practice since I knew I'd be too tired to get it done at home tonight.

Off to bed now :goodvibes

[iankh]

OK, now the pressure's on. Some serious cooking going on today. Plus this afternoon we're going to see "A Christmas Carol" in 3-D at the IMAX down on Navy Pier.

[HollyTyler]

you were there before me ;)
OK, so I'll blame it all on Marilyn. ;)

[granmaz]

OK, so I'll blame it all on Marilyn. ;)

Of course!!!

By the way, how are your ranches doing?

[HollyTyler]

Forgot to mention, last Friday I was able to wear a pear of jeans to work that I haven't been able to even zip for a very long time. :thumbsup2 My weigh in yesterday was 11 pounds down, and I can finally see a difference in how my clothes fit. I'm wearing a shirt today that I haven't been able to wear in a very long time because it was tight and would show my belly rolls. It now hangs the way it should. :thumbsup2 :yay:

[HollyTyler]

Of course!!!

By the way, how are your ranches doing?
All my ranches? On CountryLife? I think I only have one........unless I'm confused. :confused3

[HollyTyler]

By the way, Hello Marilyn! :hug: Looks like we're the only ones around right now, and I'm actually headed out for my lunch hour. :goodvibes

[iankh]

We are doing lots of videos this year for our Eastwood Manor Thanksgiving. We completed the first of the series yesterday,"Polishing the Silver."

You can view it on Facebook or below:

http://iankh.smugmug.com/Holidays/Thanksgiving-2009/10426276_Fd3AN#722777037_8dgsS-A-LB

[nskjerven]

it was ok today. slow not a ton of hours and since I bill hourly that's a bummer. I suspect in the next few weeks it could ramp up quickly fingers crossed :thumbsup2

got the email for a call back interview on the other job. I'm going over there @ 5pm. Now perhaps my concern comes into play. Do I want a part-time contract job with high stress or a full-time employee job low stress :confused3 I'm leaning toward the FT job - but I have to be interviewed and offered it of course and then I'd have to leave the contract that I've already started working on :rolleyes1 not the easy part:mad:

OK, so I'll blame it all on Marilyn. ;)

thank you I hate the blame :rotfl2: now go feed your cow some clover. I'm saving for that bee hive

OK, now the pressure's on. Some serious cooking going on today. Plus this afternoon we're going to see "A Christmas Carol" in 3-D at the IMAX down on Navy Pier.

sounds fun :thumbsup2 With me working a few of those niceities that have been cut out will come back for Xmas - big relief :upsidedow

Are you around to talk with me tomorrow on the job stuff? I'd love to have a devil's adovcate and you are kinds devilly :eek:

Of course!!!

By the way, how are your ranches doing?

got to go and get my clover I hope it didn't spoil yet :idea:

[LuvBaloo]

Popping in to say hello!

HOLLY - Great non-scale-victory! You are doing great again!:cool1::thumbsup2

Nan - good luck with whatever you choose to do!


Hi Marilyn, Ian, Michelle, and everybody else who will be popping in!:goodvibes

[iankh]

Are you around to talk with me tomorrow on the job stuff? I'd love to have a devil's adovcate and you are kinds devilly :eek:


I'm around all day, cooking but around. If you call, call the land line, not the cell because I don't get a signal in my house.

[gydell]

Forgot to mention, last Friday I was able to wear a pear of jeans to work that I haven't been able to even zip for a very long time. :thumbsup2 My weigh in yesterday was 11 pounds down, and I can finally see a difference in how my clothes fit. I'm wearing a shirt today that I haven't been able to wear in a very long time because it was tight and would show my belly rolls. It now hangs the way it should. :thumbsup2 :yay:

:thumbsup2

[ibouncetoo]

Hey boy, thought you were going to the movies?

Dianne called last night, her girlfriend cancelled their Thanksgiving dinner (the mom is sick), so she's bummin'. I told her to jump on a plane and come on out, but I don't think that will be happening.

I'm hoping for early release tomorrow and VERY early release on Friday...we'll see what happens.

Nan, hope you get the offer and have two jobs to choose from! :thumbsup2

Holly, great job on the weight loss....I'm at day two of bringing my lunch to work. It's a start!

.

[gydell]

http://www.raysontheriver.com/images/rotrthanks.pdf

This is our Thanksgiving meal. We leave there and head to Auburn for the game on Friday. Then fly out Friday night to Florida and cruise on Sunday followed by a couple of days at WDW then to Birmingham for a couple of days. I then get 3 days at home before heading to NC to visit family for a few days(trying to keep them from coming to my house for Christmas). Then home to try and enjoy a few days before Christmas. How much longer to 2010???:rotfl2:

[granmaz]

Hi Shannon.

Forgot to mention, last Friday I was able to wear a pear of jeans to work that I haven't been able to even zip for a very long time. :thumbsup2 My weigh in yesterday was 11 pounds down, and I can finally see a difference in how my clothes fit. I'm wearing a shirt today that I haven't been able to wear in a very long time because it was tight and would show my belly rolls. It now hangs the way it should. :thumbsup2 :yay:

Woohoo, well done Holly!!!

All my ranches? On CountryLife? I think I only have one........unless I'm confused. :confused3

I meant yours and Nan's ranches!!

got the email for a call back interview on the other job. I'm going over there @ 5pm. Now perhaps my concern comes into play. Do I want a part-time contract job with high stress or a full-time employee job low stress :confused3 I'm leaning toward the FT job - but I have to be interviewed and offered it of course and then I'd have to leave the contract that I've already started working on :rolleyes1 not the easy part:mad:



thank you I hate the blame :rotfl2: now go feed your cow some clover. I'm saving for that bee hive




got to go and get my clover I hope it didn't spoil yet :idea:

It will be great if you are offered the FT job, but as you say then you have to make a decision. All the best!!

The bee hive is fun and clever.

I haven't noticed any crops dying, unlike FarmVille!

[granmaz]

I bought a sheep in Countrylife, but only harvested wheat today. You feed the sheep and it grows a fleece!!! So cute. Then you find a neatly tied bundle by it's side ready to sell. I think it is so funny.

[iankh]

Hey boy, thought you were going to the movies?

Dianne called last night, her girlfriend cancelled their Thanksgiving dinner (the mom is sick), so she's bummin'. I told her to jump on a plane and come on out, but I don't think that will be happening.

I'm hoping for early release tomorrow and VERY early release on Friday...we'll see what happens.

Nan, hope you get the offer and have two jobs to choose from! :thumbsup2

Holly, great job on the weight loss....I'm at day two of bringing my lunch to work. It's a start!

.

Dianne is welcome to come to Eastwood Manor! She shouldn't be all on her own.

[IrishCowboy]

subscribing

[nskjerven]

I'm around all day, cooking but around. If you call, call the land line, not the cell because I don't get a signal in my house.

might reach ya tonight or tomorrow my interview is at 5pm my time, so it would be late to get you today ;)

Hey boy, thought you were going to the movies?

Dianne called last night, her girlfriend cancelled their Thanksgiving dinner (the mom is sick), so she's bummin'. I told her to jump on a plane and come on out, but I don't think that will be happening.

I'm hoping for early release tomorrow and VERY early release on Friday...we'll see what happens.

Nan, hope you get the offer and have two jobs to choose from! :thumbsup2

Holly, great job on the weight loss....I'm at day two of bringing my lunch to work. It's a start!

.

thanks Jackie :thumbsup2

And as Ian said Dianne should be at the Manor for Tday :thumbsup2

Hi Shannon.



Woohoo, well done Holly!!!



I meant yours and Nan's ranches!!



It will be great if you are offered the FT job, but as you say then you have to make a decision. All the best!!

The bee hive is fun and clever.

I haven't noticed any crops dying, unlike FarmVille!

Thanks Marilyn, ::yes:: I like the graphics on this game cute :upsidedow

Dianne is welcome to come to Eastwood Manor! She shouldn't be all on her own.

Lucky Ducky she could go this year and give us all the lay of the land for next year :thumbsup2 Kinda like a scouting agent for the good seats ;):lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:

[nskjerven]

subscribing

Who are you and why have you joined our thread?:confused3:rolleyes1:snooty:

[EllaEnchanted]

Hi Friends....Gobble Gobble....Turkey's coming. I love Turkey day. I love Turkey and all the trimmings and being with family and friends....well next year, this year it's just me and John with the kid and Ray.

I'm feeling washed out and exhausted. I can't stay awake. I don't know if I'm coming down with a bug or doing too much without steroids....I've been pushing myself on the exercise bike and using bottles of water as weights doing extra arm exercises. I'm not sure what it is but I just wish it would go away.

Shell, I'm still coming to lunch with you and Barb and Deb. Nothing could keep me away. Besides, I don't feel sick....just tired.

Ian, I used to get the job of polishing the silver every year at mom's house. The last year that she cooked we got that tray that you put in the sink with hot water and I think some baking powder. All the silverware got done all together and very quickly. It really works. I wonder where that silverware set is now. I'll have to ask my brother since he cleared out the house because I could not.

Nan, go with your gut. I know you have already done all the pros and cons. Now just sleep on it and then you'll know what to do. It sounds like you're leaning toward the full time job. That's probably very wise in this job climate.

AND WHERE IS MONICA??????????????? I hope she is ok. I know she was having migrains again.

Holly, awesome job getting right back on program again. At least you know what works and any time you stray, you can come right back and make it work again.

Jackie, you too. So happy to hear that you're brown bagging some healthy choices for lunch. Also, I hope Dianne decides to attend the Eastwood Manor Extravaganza for Turkey dinner. She'll have a lot of fun and good laughs. Did you hear our table on the Tortola cruise? Ian says it's tenfold at Turkey dinner.

Gydell, WOW....do you ever stay home? It sounds like such a good time. I'm so jealous. Enjoy your delicious dinner.

Shannon, I'm so glad the girls love soccer and that you have found a way to get your exercise in too while watching.

Marilyn, I'm glad you got on the case. It makes it so interesting. Sorry that it's such a bad crime. Remember to have an open mind before judging.

Kaz, it's going to be so worth it when all the work at home is done. It teaches you to have patience until then.

Kathe, where are you? It's been a couple of days. I bet you're really busy with work and home.

Deborah, I know you won't read this until you get back home. By then we'll have already had our luncheon meeting. I'm sure it will be a good time and I can't wait.

Hi Bubba, Hi V......Happy Gobble Gobble day. What are your plans? Where are you going to eat Tom?

Speaking of Tom, I used to always tease him as a kid that we were going to have him for dinner on Turkey day. He knew that I was kidding, but he used to get so flustered. haha. Sandi says he's doing well now. He's working as a travelling salesman. I'm not sure what that involves. I'll get more details in January when we see Sandi before our cruise. At least Tom has a job. Sandi says he loves it. I hope it lasts.

OMG people....I'm cruising in a little more than one month. I'm already packed and ready to go and I can't wait....to be in my favorite place in the whole wide world.....5122.

Well I'm one pound up from my last weight before Godiva chocolate cake and birthday week. That's not so bad. It was worth it. I'm back on program, strictly sticking to eating good points. It'll come right back off again except that Turkey Day is the day before weigh in. That's not so good. But I'll be very careful about what I eat and how much I eat. We won't have any leftovers since we're going out so that's a plus. If I gain another pound it'll be ok. It'll come right off the following week. It comes off a lot faster with exercising so I'm not worried.

The hardest part about losing weight is that I never know what size I am anymore. But as long as the sizes keep going down, I can deal. :hippie::hippie::hippie:

[EllaEnchanted]

I just watched the Eastwood Manor - Polishing the Silver video. OMG I laughed so hard. I told John he HAS to see it. He said he'll check it out tomorrow. He's down for the night already tonight. He gets up at 5:00 am so he turns in early. Thanks Ian for doing this and sharing it with us. It's the next best thing to being there.

Nan, by now you should be getting out of your interview. I'm sure it went well. I thought about it for you and I would take the road less stressful. That's the FT job that you just interviewed for right? Less stress and a steady paycheck will go a long way. Whatever you decide, I'm sure it will be the right choice for you and the family. Good Luck!

[EllaEnchanted]

Is anyone having problems with FB lately? For the past few days, everytime I click on something it says....Ooopppsss Error. I gave up.

[HollyTyler]

Holly, great job on the weight loss....I'm at day two of bringing my lunch to work. It's a start!

.

Thank you!

Keep up the good work of taking your lunch to work, that makes such a big difference I've found. :thumbsup2

[HollyTyler]

I meant yours and Nan's ranches!!



:rotfl2: Oh! Well, that makes more sense now! :rotfl2:

[HollyTyler]

http://www.raysontheriver.com/images/rotrthanks.pdf

This is our Thanksgiving meal. We leave there and head to Auburn for the game on Friday. Then fly out Friday night to Florida and cruise on Sunday followed by a couple of days at WDW then to Birmingham for a couple of days. I then get 3 days at home before heading to NC to visit family for a few days(trying to keep them from coming to my house for Christmas). Then home to try and enjoy a few days before Christmas. How much longer to 2010???:rotfl2:

Wow, what a whirlwind! Sounds exhausting, but fun! :goodvibes

[HollyTyler]

Who are you and why have you joined our thread?:confused3:rolleyes1:snooty:

Uh oh, here's that bully Nana again. :rotfl2:

[HollyTyler]

The hardest part about losing weight is that I never know what size I am anymore. But as long as the sizes keep going down, I can deal. :hippie::hippie::hippie:


Deb, what a wonderful problem to have! I can't wait to reach a point where I need smaller clothes. :thumbsup2 Don't worry about your point up and Turkey Day, you're always great about getting right back on track, so it will be gone right away. :goodvibes

[EllaEnchanted]

Deb, what a wonderful problem to have! I can't wait to reach a point where I need smaller clothes. :thumbsup2 Don't worry about your point up and Turkey Day, you're always great about getting right back on track, so it will be gone right away. :goodvibes

Holly you will get there and it won't be long now. I can tell you that without the activity it's slow and steady. But with the activity added it's easier and faster. The real difference between me and everyone else is that I don't go out much. So if it's not in the house and I'm not going out....I can only eat what's here. Then if you add the fact that I didn't do any activity for the past 7 years and have just recently started....that also makes a big difference for me.

[HollyTyler]

We are doing lots of videos this year for our Eastwood Manor Thanksgiving. We completed the first of the series yesterday,"Polishing the Silver."

You can view it on Facebook or below:

http://iankh.smugmug.com/Holidays/Thanksgiving-2009/10426276_Fd3AN#722777037_8dgsS-A-LB
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:: rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[ibouncetoo]

Who are you and why have you joined our thread?:confused3:rolleyes1:snooty:

Irishcowboy is the DISer who keeps the master list (of links) to the DCL meets threads. He's subscribed on all the meets threads I'm on. I think it's so he will be aware when each group moves to a new thread, he can provide the link on the stickey.


I'll be back to catch up as soon as "Bones" is over.....................


.

[Tink rules]

Of course!!!

By the way, how are your ranches doing?

I have to go check and see if Planky's is dead yet...

All my ranches? On CountryLife? I think I only have one........unless I'm confused. :confused3

ONLY one???? I'm sure by NOW you have at least 3... :rotfl:

We are doing lots of videos this year for our Eastwood Manor Thanksgiving. We completed the first of the series yesterday,"Polishing the Silver."

You can view it on Facebook or below:

http://iankh.smugmug.com/Holidays/Thanksgiving-2009/10426276_Fd3AN#722777037_8dgsS-A-LB

Mom wants to know just how many forks you guys have?:rolleyes1

Popping in to say hello!

HOLLY - Great non-scale-victory! You are doing great again!:cool1::thumbsup2

Nan - good luck with whatever you choose to do!


Hi Marilyn, Ian, Michelle, and everybody else who will be popping in!:goodvibes

Hi Shannon!!!

[Tink rules]

Dianne is welcome to come to Eastwood Manor! She shouldn't be all on her own.

Ohhh wait... that's cheating... oh... forget it... Cheri got there first... ;)

Hi Friends....Gobble Gobble....Turkey's coming. I love Turkey day. I love Turkey and all the trimmings and being with family and friends....well next year, this year it's just me and John with the kid and Ray.

I'm feeling washed out and exhausted. I can't stay awake. I don't know if I'm coming down with a bug or doing too much without steroids....I've been pushing myself on the exercise bike and using bottles of water as weights doing extra arm exercises. I'm not sure what it is but I just wish it would go away.

Shell, I'm still coming to lunch with you and Barb and Deb. Nothing could keep me away. Besides, I don't feel sick....just tired.

Ian, I used to get the job of polishing the silver every year at mom's house. The last year that she cooked we got that tray that you put in the sink with hot water and I think some baking powder. All the silverware got done all together and very quickly. It really works. I wonder where that silverware set is now. I'll have to ask my brother since he cleared out the house because I could not.

Nan, go with your gut. I know you have already done all the pros and cons. Now just sleep on it and then you'll know what to do. It sounds like you're leaning toward the full time job. That's probably very wise in this job climate.

AND WHERE IS MONICA??????????????? I hope she is ok. I know she was having migrains again.

Holly, awesome job getting right back on program again. At least you know what works and any time you stray, you can come right back and make it work again.

Jackie, you too. So happy to hear that you're brown bagging some healthy choices for lunch. Also, I hope Dianne decides to attend the Eastwood Manor Extravaganza for Turkey dinner. She'll have a lot of fun and good laughs. Did you hear our table on the Tortola cruise? Ian says it's tenfold at Turkey dinner.

Gydell, WOW....do you ever stay home? It sounds like such a good time. I'm so jealous. Enjoy your delicious dinner.

Shannon, I'm so glad the girls love soccer and that you have found a way to get your exercise in too while watching.

Marilyn, I'm glad you got on the case. It makes it so interesting. Sorry that it's such a bad crime. Remember to have an open mind before judging.

Kaz, it's going to be so worth it when all the work at home is done. It teaches you to have patience until then.

Kathe, where are you? It's been a couple of days. I bet you're really busy with work and home.

Deborah, I know you won't read this until you get back home. By then we'll have already had our luncheon meeting. I'm sure it will be a good time and I can't wait.

Hi Bubba, Hi V......Happy Gobble Gobble day. What are your plans? Where are you going to eat Tom?

Speaking of Tom, I used to always tease him as a kid that we were going to have him for dinner on Turkey day. He knew that I was kidding, but he used to get so flustered. haha. Sandi says he's doing well now. He's working as a travelling salesman. I'm not sure what that involves. I'll get more details in January when we see Sandi before our cruise. At least Tom has a job. Sandi says he loves it. I hope it lasts.

OMG people....I'm cruising in a little more than one month. I'm already packed and ready to go and I can't wait....to be in my favorite place in the whole wide world.....5122.

Well I'm one pound up from my last weight before Godiva chocolate cake and birthday week. That's not so bad. It was worth it. I'm back on program, strictly sticking to eating good points. It'll come right back off again except that Turkey Day is the day before weigh in. That's not so good. But I'll be very careful about what I eat and how much I eat. We won't have any leftovers since we're going out so that's a plus. If I gain another pound it'll be ok. It'll come right off the following week. It comes off a lot faster with exercising so I'm not worried.

The hardest part about losing weight is that I never know what size I am anymore. But as long as the sizes keep going down, I can deal. :hippie::hippie::hippie:





Deb... relax in the car on the way to lunch and we will have the bubbly ready to help you get ready...

& I do believe that Monica is getting ready to leave for her Thanksgiving with her mom's family... she'll be back... :flower3:

I just watched the Eastwood Manor - Polishing the Silver video. OMG I laughed so hard. I told John he HAS to see it. He said he'll check it out tomorrow. He's down for the night already tonight. He gets up at 5:00 am so he turns in early. Thanks Ian for doing this and sharing it with us. It's the next best thing to being there.

Nan, by now you should be getting out of your interview. I'm sure it went well. I thought about it for you and I would take the road less stressful. That's the FT job that you just interviewed for right? Less stress and a steady paycheck will go a long way. Whatever you decide, I'm sure it will be the right choice for you and the family. Good Luck!



I made mom get out of bed to see it... :lmao:

Is anyone having problems with FB lately? For the past few days, everytime I click on something it says....Ooopppsss Error. I gave up.

Yup... it's screwy again... I lost a whole tank of fish yesterday... they didn't even get to die first...

Uh oh, here's that bully Nana again. :rotfl2:

Tell him he's lucky it's not Monday... :scared:

[Tink rules]

HEY BUBBA!!!!

I PROMISE NOT TO TELL YOU WHO WON DANCING WITH THE STARS...

BUT (S)HE WAS REALLY GOOD... :banana::banana::banana:

[EllaEnchanted]

HEY BUBBA!!!!

I PROMISE NOT TO TELL YOU WHO WON DANCING WITH THE STARS...

BUT (S)HE WAS REALLY GOOD... :banana::banana::banana:

Don't tell....it's recorded and I didn't watch it yet.:eek::eek::eek:

[Tink rules]

Mums the word!!!!

I won't tell... nope... not me... :rolleyes1

Planky, however can be bribed on Sunday... ;)

[Tink rules]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY

Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody... it's a classic!!!! Enjoy!!! :goodvibes :goodvibes

[iankh]

Mom wants to know just how many forks you guys have?:rolleyes1



Just dinner forks, or both dinner and salad/dessert forks? Also do you want to know silver or silver and flatwear?

If you count all of them we have 52 forks.

[Tink rules]

Actually she just wants to know if she'll have to go dumpster dig like she does after she counts the real silver that she has... (it's an annual tradition to do the silver count and then go grab the old flowery kids umbrella with the hook on the end so you can sift through and find the forks before they go bye bye... :upsidedow)

[iankh]

Actually she just wants to know if she'll have to go dumpster dig like she does after she counts the real silver that she has... (it's an annual tradition to do the silver count and then go grab the old flowery kids umbrella with the hook on the end so you can sift through and find the forks before they go bye bye... :upsidedow)

We've never counted. To my knowledge we've never lost any, although the big pain is when the flatwear gets mixed in with the silver.

[iankh]

I was just looking at the cost of real silver for a service for 8 as opposed to plate. We're definitely too poor for solid silver. I won't spend that much on a cruise, let alone forks.

I suppose one would expect to get such things as a wedding present.

I bought the 2 sets of silver when I lived in the UK. I thought is was very odd that that they do not do service for 8. I think they do service for 6, 10 and 12, whereas here in the US, it's either 8 or 12.

I bought 2 service for for 6's during a holiday in Edinburgh.

[Tink rules]

I don't think she'd worry as much with flatware... but the silver... (lucky me... I'm the only one in the family that knows it's REAL!!!)

& you've inspired us to take out the good stuff tomorrow and use it... Luckily I know how to count to 10 cause there's only 2 of us and we won't need as many forks!!!




BTW... the season HAS begun... the QM has purchased her very first container of many of egg nog... she has the Seagrams VO out on the counter... and she will be VERY happy while cooking tomorrow... :hippie:

[Tink rules]

I was just looking at the cost of real silver for a service for 8 as opposed to plate. We're definitely too poor for solid silver. I won't spend that much on a cruise, let alone forks.

I suppose one would expect to get such things as a wedding present.

I bought the 2 sets of silver when I lived in the UK. I thought is was very odd that that they do not do service for 8. I think they do service for 6, 10 and 12, whereas here in the US, it's either 8 or 12.

I bought 2 service for for 6's during a holiday in Edinburgh.

I do believe her good stuff was a wedding gift... then again... she only paid a couple of $ each for her Hummels too...

&&&& our Nativity came from Woolworths and we still have the .37 price tags on the bottom of the 3 wise men... :thumbsup2

[granmaz]

Someone was asking about Monica. Deb maybe? Anyway I seem to remember that she was going away somewhere for a family Thanksgiving - getting all the family together. Not Maryland at her sister's but more north I think with older family members. That is all I can remember.

[Tink rules]

Someone was asking about Monica. Deb maybe? Anyway I seem to remember that she was going away somewhere for a family Thanksgiving - getting all the family together. Not Maryland at her sister's but more north I think with older family members. That is all I can remember.

She's gone to Michigan to visit with her mother's family... :grouphug:

[Tink rules]

Ian... I have found the solution to next years turkey roasting... if the new roaster doesn't work as well...

Dishwasher Turkey...

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/item_uEwLleqyvWrWXiXGeinwRO

(of course a disclaimer... this does come from the NY Post... :scared:)

[LuvBaloo]

That dishwasher turkey recipe is too funny!:lmao:


I'm feeling tired and lazy and decided to take a quick check in here, before getting back to work. This afternoon, I'm going to get my exercise by moving around a bunch of 4ft x 4ft x 17mm boards and cutting them up. Since each panel weighs 40 pounds, I count it as exercise!:thumbsup2

[iankh]

Ian... I have found the solution to next years turkey roasting... if the new roaster doesn't work as well...

Dishwasher Turkey...

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/item_uEwLleqyvWrWXiXGeinwRO

(of course a disclaimer... this does come from the NY Post... :scared:)

It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever read. I'm surprised there wasn't a recipe in the NY Post for Alien Abduction Turkey.

[iankh]

This has been a long day and the hardest. I find making stuffing to be very tedious and I hate making the base for the gravy.

We did have one disaster this afternoon. I am brining the turkey this year. I've never done this before. We had a brining catastrophe. I didn't have Sukie on hand to hold the plastic brining bag. Let's just say that a one point, the kitchen in Eastwood Manor resembled the wave pool at Typhoon Lagoon. A gallon of salt water splashing down the counter and onto the floor. The only good thing was that I wasn't up the specified 2 gallons yet.

So, I had to start all over again. Wash the turkey, drag it back down to the fridge in the basement, make the brine, cool the brine and then start again.

This time Sukie helped. The brining bag is huge zip bag, but after that was sealed we also tied the top. And we tied the top. And we tied the top.

By the time we were done, the whole thing resembled some bizarre act of poultry bondage.

[tink1963]

It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever read. I'm surprised there wasn't a recipe in the NY Post for Alien Abduction Turkey.

I haven't check this out yet, but I think the Alien Abduction story is scheduled for tomorrows Post.:rotfl2:

[gydell]

Believe it or not the fixing turkey in the dishwasher does work, so does fish! Showing my age. it was a phase years ago to cook in your dishwasher. It's great for steaming veggies too! I had forgotten all about the dishwasher until this article!

[EllaEnchanted]

This has been a long day and the hardest. I find making stuffing to be very tedious and I hate making the base for the gravy.

We did have one disaster this afternoon. I am brining the turkey this year. I've never done this before. We had a brining catastrophe. I didn't have Sukie on hand to hold the plastic brining bag. Let's just say that a one point, the kitchen in Eastwood Manor resembled the wave pool at Typhoon Lagoon. A gallon of salt water splashing down the counter and onto the floor. The only good thing was that I wasn't up the specified 2 gallons yet.

So, I had to start all over again. Wash the turkey, drag it back down to the fridge in the basement, make the brine, cool the brine and then start again.

This time Sukie helped. The brining bag is huge zip bag, but after that was sealed we also tied the top. And we tied the top. And we tied the top.

By the time we were done, the whole thing resembled some bizarre act of poultry bondage.

OMG this is just so funny.....I'm in pain from laughing. I can just imagine the two of you in the kitchen with the turkey....so so funny. I can't wait for the turkey bondage video to be posted....please tell me you did get this on video. :rolleyes1

[EllaEnchanted]

Take a look at the netbook I just bought today from Best Buy. This will be our travelling computer. It only weighs 3 pounds and we can leave mine and John's laptops at home. It was our pre-black Friday purchase. We got it for a great price.


http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Gateway+-+Netbook+with+Intel%26%23174%3B+Atom%26%23153%3B+P rocessor+-+NightSky+Black/9605125.p?skuId=9605125&id=1218130491532

[EllaEnchanted]

Now I have to go try on clothes and find something nice to wear out to dinner tomorrow that fits. Everything is too big. Hehehe. Actually that thrills me and it lets me know that I must be doing something right.:lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:

[HollyTyler]

Ian... I have found the solution to next years turkey roasting... if the new roaster doesn't work as well...

Dishwasher Turkey...

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/item_uEwLleqyvWrWXiXGeinwRO

(of course a disclaimer... this does come from the NY Post... :scared:)

Yuck!!! Wouldn't the turkey be soggy?! :eek:

[HollyTyler]

It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever read. I'm surprised there wasn't a recipe in the NY Post for Alien Abduction Turkey.

:rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:

[HollyTyler]

Now I have to go try on clothes and find something nice to wear out to dinner tomorrow that fits. Everything is too big. Hehehe. Actually that thrills me and it lets me know that I must be doing something right.:lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:

That's great Deb! :yay:

[HollyTyler]

Well, I'm not making any progress on cleaning. I know I'll have Thursday evening through Sunday at 5 to clean, but wanted to get a start tonight. All I've done is dishes. I seriously think I need an intervention. This is ridiculous.

A neighbor just came over to ask me to sign a card she got for another neighbor whose mom fell & broke her hip & died today, and I was horrified for her to see the house. There are literally piles of crap on every surface. I need to get it taken care of this weekend. It's ridiculous and I have no idea how I let things get like this. :mad:

[HollyTyler]

Ian, love the new video! :thumbsup2

[HollyTyler]

There was an awesome pie in the kitchen at work today, made by the wife of one of the lawyers. Apple pear crumble pie. Oh my gosh, it looked soooo good! BUT......I somehow managed to defeat that temptation. I hope I do as well tomorrow at dinner. I've read the Thanksgiving dinner tips on the WW website, and I'll read them again before heading out of town tomorrow and will try my hardest. :thumbsup2

[nskjerven]

We've never counted. To my knowledge we've never lost any, although the big pain is when the flatwear gets mixed in with the silver.

I've lost some of our everyday where and I'm sad since the pattern isn't made anymore :sad2:

News on the job front: Had my 2nd in house 3rd interview today completed a request for a background criminal check (I'm screwed huh) expecting an offer on Monday. Still debating but tending towards the job rather than contracting again :thumbsup2

[HollyTyler]

I've lost some of our everyday where and I'm sad since the pattern isn't made anymore :sad2:

News on the job front: Had my 2nd in house 3rd interview today completed a request for a background criminal check (I'm screwed huh) expecting an offer on Monday. Still debating but tending towards the job rather than contracting again :thumbsup2

Woohoo! Sounds good Nan! :thumbsup2

[LuvBaloo]

Believe it or not the fixing turkey in the dishwasher does work, so does fish! Showing my age. it was a phase years ago to cook in your dishwasher. It's great for steaming veggies too! I had forgotten all about the dishwasher until this article!

I have actually heard of doing fish in the microwave before

OMG this is just so funny.....I'm in pain from laughing. I can just imagine the two of you in the kitchen with the turkey....so so funny. I can't wait for the turkey bondage video to be posted....please tell me you did get this on video. :rolleyes1

::yes:: we need to see the turkey bondage :lmao::lmao:

Now I have to go try on clothes and find something nice to wear out to dinner tomorrow that fits. Everything is too big. Hehehe. Actually that thrills me and it lets me know that I must be doing something right.:lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:

:cool1::yay::thumbsup2:cool1::banana:

There was an awesome pie in the kitchen at work today, made by the wife of one of the lawyers. Apple pear crumble pie. Oh my gosh, it looked soooo good! BUT......I somehow managed to defeat that temptation. I hope I do as well tomorrow at dinner. I've read the Thanksgiving dinner tips on the WW website, and I'll read them again before heading out of town tomorrow and will try my hardest. :thumbsup2

:thumbsup2 :yay:

[Tink rules]

It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever read. I'm surprised there wasn't a recipe in the NY Post for Alien Abduction Turkey.

I'm sure that's coming tomorrow for the leftovers...

This has been a long day and the hardest. I find making stuffing to be very tedious and I hate making the base for the gravy.

We did have one disaster this afternoon. I am brining the turkey this year. I've never done this before. We had a brining catastrophe. I didn't have Sukie on hand to hold the plastic brining bag. Let's just say that a one point, the kitchen in Eastwood Manor resembled the wave pool at Typhoon Lagoon. A gallon of salt water splashing down the counter and onto the floor. The only good thing was that I wasn't up the specified 2 gallons yet.

So, I had to start all over again. Wash the turkey, drag it back down to the fridge in the basement, make the brine, cool the brine and then start again.

This time Sukie helped. The brining bag is huge zip bag, but after that was sealed we also tied the top. And we tied the top. And we tied the top.

By the time we were done, the whole thing resembled some bizarre act of poultry bondage.

:rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:

Now I have to go try on clothes and find something nice to wear out to dinner tomorrow that fits. Everything is too big. Hehehe. Actually that thrills me and it lets me know that I must be doing something right.:lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:

Ohhh I envy you!!! I'm just about getting into my cruise size...

Yuck!!! Wouldn't the turkey be soggy?! :eek:

I'm afraid that it would have spots on it because I forgot to add the jet dry... :lmao:

[Tink rules]

Well, I'm not making any progress on cleaning. I know I'll have Thursday evening through Sunday at 5 to clean, but wanted to get a start tonight. All I've done is dishes. I seriously think I need an intervention. This is ridiculous.

A neighbor just came over to ask me to sign a card she got for another neighbor whose mom fell & broke her hip & died today, and I was horrified for her to see the house. There are literally piles of crap on every surface. I need to get it taken care of this weekend. It's ridiculous and I have no idea how I let things get like this. :mad:

Fishville.... Farmville... Countrylife... :rotfl:

There was an awesome pie in the kitchen at work today, made by the wife of one of the lawyers. Apple pear crumble pie. Oh my gosh, it looked soooo good! BUT......I somehow managed to defeat that temptation. I hope I do as well tomorrow at dinner. I've read the Thanksgiving dinner tips on the WW website, and I'll read them again before heading out of town tomorrow and will try my hardest. :thumbsup2

:thumbsup2:thumbsup2

I've lost some of our everyday where and I'm sad since the pattern isn't made anymore :sad2:

News on the job front: Had my 2nd in house 3rd interview today completed a request for a background criminal check (I'm screwed huh) expecting an offer on Monday. Still debating but tending towards the job rather than contracting again :thumbsup2


Have you told them just how much vacation time you will need?:rolleyes:

[Tink rules]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OO7WbmARD08/SS4Fi9aeRPI/AAAAAAAAJwI/GHZ7KaRVFTI/s400/disney+thanksgiving.jpg

To All of Our Good Friends...

We Wish You a Very Blessed Thanksgiving

[nskjerven]

Fishville.... Farmville... Countrylife... :rotfl:

Have you told them just how much vacation time you will need?:rolleyes:

Yaaaaaaaa no It is really something to consinder. Having not to ask for it for 13 years I have enjoyed but having someone PAY me and have the time off THAT is a BIG DEAL:thumbsup2


http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OO7WbmARD08/SS4Fi9aeRPI/AAAAAAAAJwI/GHZ7KaRVFTI/s400/disney+thanksgiving.jpg

To All of Our Good Friends...

We Wish You a Very Blessed Thanksgiving

Nice enough to copy :flower3:

[EllaEnchanted]

Gobble Gobble.....Happy Turkey Day!!! I'm thankful for all of you and more of Ian's videos. Eat, Drink and Enjoy today! Cheers! :cutie:

[EllaEnchanted]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OO7WbmARD08/SS4Fi9aeRPI/AAAAAAAAJwI/GHZ7KaRVFTI/s400/disney+thanksgiving.jpg

To All of Our Good Friends...

We Wish You a Very Blessed Thanksgiving



Worth repeating. Thanks Shell.:love::love::love::love::love:

[granmaz]

This has been a long day and the hardest. I find making stuffing to be very tedious and I hate making the base for the gravy.

We did have one disaster this afternoon. I am brining the turkey this year. I've never done this before. We had a brining catastrophe. I didn't have Sukie on hand to hold the plastic brining bag. Let's just say that a one point, the kitchen in Eastwood Manor resembled the wave pool at Typhoon Lagoon. A gallon of salt water splashing down the counter and onto the floor. The only good thing was that I wasn't up the specified 2 gallons yet.

So, I had to start all over again. Wash the turkey, drag it back down to the fridge in the basement, make the brine, cool the brine and then start again.

This time Sukie helped. The brining bag is huge zip bag, but after that was sealed we also tied the top. And we tied the top. And we tied the top.

By the time we were done, the whole thing resembled some bizarre act of poultry bondage.


Don't know if you did at the time, but I'm :lmao::rotfl2::lmao::rotfl2::rotfl:

[granmaz]

Happy Thanksgiving to all our US Friends.

[granmaz]

Sorry, got to get to court. No time to reply to other posts. Love you all, have a great day.

[CustardTart]

Happy Thanksgiving to all our US Friends.

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s84/cheztaylor/Greetings/thanksgiving.jpg

Have a tip top Turkey day, my lovelies!!!

[CustardTart]

This has been a long day and the hardest. I find making stuffing to be very tedious and I hate making the base for the gravy.

We did have one disaster this afternoon. I am brining the turkey this year. I've never done this before. We had a brining catastrophe. I didn't have Sukie on hand to hold the plastic brining bag. Let's just say that a one point, the kitchen in Eastwood Manor resembled the wave pool at Typhoon Lagoon. A gallon of salt water splashing down the counter and onto the floor. The only good thing was that I wasn't up the specified 2 gallons yet.

So, I had to start all over again. Wash the turkey, drag it back down to the fridge in the basement, make the brine, cool the brine and then start again.

This time Sukie helped. The brining bag is huge zip bag, but after that was sealed we also tied the top. And we tied the top. And we tied the top.

By the time we were done, the whole thing resembled some bizarre act of poultry bondage.

Please, please, please say that's there's footage of your turkey film noir!!! :rotfl2::lmao::rotfl2:

[ibouncetoo]

Happy Thanksgiving!


Thanks for the Thanksgiving wishes from our friends across the pond!


I woke up today fretting about work and remembered I didn't have to go today! YEAH! And tomorrow will be a great 'get caught up day' because there will be no one there to bother me. And the handful of us who are there can take a nice looooooooong lunch, if'n we want. Odds are pretty good our GM will just send us all home in the early afternoon.:thumbsup2

You can all officially be jealous of sister Dianne, she's dining at Eastwood Manor tonight. I tried to tell he she needed to bring a green bean casserole,:rolleyes1 but she was too smart for me.

I need to check today's movie times and find a film the three of us can agree on. I'm hoping either "A Christmas Carol" or "The Blind side" will be accepted. I don't think 2012, Ninja Assassin or Zombieland set the right tone for the day. :upsidedow

Enjoy your day, my friends! :grouphug:

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[katypop]

Just popping in to say....

HAPPY TURKEY DAY!!!

:rainbow::rainbow::rainbow::rainbow::rainbow::rain bow::rainbow::rainbow:


Hope everyone enjoys their day with family and friends! Hoping to get back on later to hear how everyone enjoyed their day, and maybe view a video or two ;):laughing:

[HollyTyler]

For anybody watching the Macy's Thanksgiving parade, don't forget to watch for the Sailor Mickey balloon! :dance3:

[HollyTyler]

You can all officially be jealous of sister Dianne, she's dining at Eastwood Manor tonight. I tried to tell he she needed to bring a green bean casserole,:rolleyes1 but she was too smart for me.


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I'm jealous! I'm sure she'll have a great time with tons of laughs! :goodvibes

[HollyTyler]

OK, off to hop into the shower and go pick up Tyler to head out of town.

[HollyTyler]

Oh my gosh I was just checking to make sure I have room on the memory card for pics today and found a video Tyler did of our messy house that I had NO IDEA he was doing! LOL! Listening to his narration, his point was to show people how messy our house is! :rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2: Nice. :rolleyes:

[ibouncetoo]

For those of you on facebook...there are new installments of "An Eastwood Manor Thanksgiving"

Hopefully they will be showing up here for those of you not on facebook...

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[LuvBaloo]

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To All of Our Good Friends...

We Wish You a Very Blessed Thanksgiving

Copying this one! Enjoy your holidays folks!:thumbsup2

Sorry, got to get to court. No time to reply to other posts. Love you all, have a great day.

Hope the case goes quickly!:goodvibes


Gotta get to a meeting!:sad2:

[iankh]

OMG this is just so funny.....I'm in pain from laughing. I can just imagine the two of you in the kitchen with the turkey....so so funny. I can't wait for the turkey bondage video to be posted....please tell me you did get this on video. :rolleyes1

Nope, no video of any of the turkey preparations so far. There will be video later when I get ready to do the roasting, but I don't start that until about 2:00 pm or so.

[EllaEnchanted]

We're back from dinner. I'm full but not overstuffed. Dinner was delicious. We like this place so much better than last year and we're glad that we're going back for Christmas. Unfortunately, I just realized that we didn't take any pictures of me and John all dressed up. Oh well. Here's the pictures that we did take.


The outside front door.

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The entry way when you step inside.

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The kid and Ray....neither one got dressed up.

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The bar and dining room with a real fire burning.

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http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/TurkeyDay2009020.jpg


Outside on Lake Harmony.

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[EllaEnchanted]

We told the kid that we're doing Chicago next year so he might want to make plans with his mother. She would have to visit PA and stay in a hotel room. She is not allowed in our house.....long story. They could visit and go out to eat. The kid is fine with that.

It was irrelevant to Ray....it went right over his head. He'll stay at Mrs. Bush next year and have a nice meal and not even know the difference.

Eastwood Manor....it's a go.....we're ready and set for next year. This week I'll make ressies at the Crown Plaza at the airport. YEAH!

[EllaEnchanted]

I'm jealous! I'm sure she'll have a great time with tons of laughs! :goodvibes

Ditto from me.

[EllaEnchanted]

Now I'm settling in at home. I'll check facebook while watching the Raiders lose to the Cowboys....then I'll take a little football nap so I don't have to witness the slaughter.;););)

[CustardTart]

Eastwood Manor....it's a go.....we're ready and set for next year. This week I'll make ressies at the Crown Plaza at the airport. YEAH!



:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: I'll be making mine soon too... :thumbsup2 Waiting on the flights being released - about another month to go for that, I think...

It's gonna be so much fun!!! :dance3: :dance3: :dance3:

[nskjerven]

Looks like a great place Deb :thumbsup2 Very Peaceful:lovestruc

[Tink rules]

Just in case you were wondering... Magical Mouse Radio on Live365 is playing the Candlelight Processional and also lots of holiday Disney music right now...

you'll have to google it... I can't put the link here...

[Tink rules]

Happy Thanksgiving to all our US Friends.

Thanks!!! Would you like a Turkey Sandwich? :goodvibes

Sorry, got to get to court. No time to reply to other posts. Love you all, have a great day.

didn't you tell them that it is a FEDERAL HOLIDAY and you couldn't POSSIBLY go to court???


You can all officially be jealous of sister Dianne, she's dining at Eastwood Manor tonight. I tried to tell he she needed to bring a green bean casserole,:rolleyes1 but she was too smart for me.

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Jackie... please have Dianne post a review of the dinner at Eastwood Manor... I hear it is a respectable establishment and that we might be interested in making reservations to dine there next Giving of Thanks... ;)

Now I'm settling in at home. I'll check facebook while watching the Raiders lose to the Cowboys....then I'll take a little football nap so I don't have to witness the slaughter.;););)

I got to sleep at 9:30 this morning.. so I got up at 1 and then took a nap for an hour... hoping to sleep at a regular time tonight so I can drive down on Saturday... it's supposed to be cold, rainy, and blowing snow for the next two days... oh happy happy joy joy!!! :banana:

[katypop]

Sorry, got to get to court. No time to reply to other posts. Love you all, have a great day.

So Marilyn, how was your first day in court? Hope it wasn't too bad :hug:

[katypop]

I'm jealous! I'm sure she'll have a great time with tons of laughs! :goodvibes

Ditto from me.

Me too!!!

[katypop]

For those of you on facebook...there are new installments of "An Eastwood Manor Thanksgiving"

Hopefully they will be showing up here for those of you not on facebook...

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Yes Ian, please don't forget about those of us who are facebookless :flower3:

Jackie, how was your day? What movie did you end up watching?

[katypop]

We're back from dinner. I'm full but not overstuffed. Dinner was delicious. We like this place so much better than last year and we're glad that we're going back for Christmas. Unfortunately, I just realized that we didn't take any pictures of me and John all dressed up. Oh well. Here's the pictures that we did take.



Looks like a really nice place Deb, glad you enjoyed your meal. It's nice to know you can count on a great dinner for Christmas too now. Was this your first time dining there?

[katypop]

I got to sleep at 9:30 this morning.. so I got up at 1 and then took a nap for an hour... hoping to sleep at a regular time tonight so I can drive down on Saturday... it's supposed to be cold, rainy, and blowing snow for the next two days... oh happy happy joy joy!!! :banana:

Well, the sleep obviously put you in a good mood :banana::laughing:

I hope you do sleep well tonight Michelle. Enjoy your weekend, and keep that snow to yourself ;)

[katypop]

News on the job front: Had my 2nd in house 3rd interview today completed a request for a background criminal check (I'm screwed huh) expecting an offer on Monday. Still debating but tending towards the job rather than contracting again :thumbsup2

Woohoo :cool1: Good luck Nan :wizard:

[katypop]

I'm looking forward to my day off tomorrow. Having a girls shopping day. I know I won't accomplish much shopping, but I'll have fun and hopefully get some ideas for Xmas presents for my daughter and my son's girlfriend who are sharing the day with me.

We're also going to visit my great nephew who was born about a month ago. I've only seen him once and very briefly. He is my niece's son. When my neice was born, she seemed fine and healthy, but 3 days later had seizures and had to be rushed to a children's hospital and was put into an induced coma for a few days. She spent a couple of weeks in the hospital and was on medication for about a year. They never did find anything wrong with her. She was gradually weaned from the medication and has been fine ever since. Well, her son, my new great nephew, started having seizures 3 days after he was born! Same thing, they've run all sorts of tests but are not finding anything wrong. He is home now and will be on medication for a while. Very scarey, but we all know how everything turned out so well for my neice so that helps.

My son still hasn't found a job:sad2: He is looking into some retraining opportunities though, and his girlfriend has had two job offers this week! They are both for part-time positions though and for very similar shifts, so she will have to choose just one of them.

Serenity is doing something new just about everyday! We really notice a change since she is staying with us for half the time. She adores her dada and he adores her :love: So nice for me to see :goodvibes

I know I've missed a number of posts, but hi to everyone :grouphug: Hope everyone's keeping well!

[Tink rules]

Well, the sleep obviously put you in a good mood :banana::laughing:

I hope you do sleep well tonight Michelle. Enjoy your weekend, and keep that snow to yourself ;)

Well... they did say the snow was going to be north and west of Albany... isn't that where you live???

I'm looking forward to my day off tomorrow. Having a girls shopping day. I know I won't accomplish much shopping, but I'll have fun and hopefully get some ideas for Xmas presents for my daughter and my son's girlfriend who are sharing the day with me.

We're also going to visit my great nephew who was born about a month ago. I've only seen him once and very briefly. He is my niece's son. When my neice was born, she seemed fine and healthy, but 3 days later had seizures and had to be rushed to a children's hospital and was put into an induced coma for a few days. She spent a couple of weeks in the hospital and was on medication for about a year. They never did find anything wrong with her. She was gradually weaned from the medication and has been fine ever since. Well, her son, my new great nephew, started having seizures 3 days after he was born! Same thing, they've run all sorts of tests but are not finding anything wrong. He is home now and will be on medication for a while. Very scarey, but we all know how everything turned out so well for my neice so that helps.

My son still hasn't found a job:sad2: He is looking into some retraining opportunities though, and his girlfriend has had two job offers this week! They are both for part-time positions though and for very similar shifts, so she will have to choose just one of them.

Serenity is doing something new just about everyday! We really notice a change since she is staying with us for half the time. She adores her dada and he adores her :love: So nice for me to see :goodvibes

I know I've missed a number of posts, but hi to everyone :grouphug: Hope everyone's keeping well!

Hey Kathe... do they have BlackFriday up there too? Or do you have yours back in Oct?

[nskjerven]

Hi kathe

sorry to hear of your GN seizures that must be scary:sad2: what's his name we'll keep him in prayers :thumbsup2

Thanks for the congrats on the pending job offer BUT - It will mean no TA :sad1: Pretty freaked out about the being tied down part, but we need the money so for now I think I need to take the work :guilty: