Something About Nothing..........#11

[Heluvsme]

Carole--- I am with you 100% on the Friends-Who-Smoke issue. I do not smoke, but if my friends or family do that is their business. I don't hate, I actually feel sorry, I can't imagine being tethered to such a physical need, I compare it to me needing my tea, or my CARBS... don't judge me, and don't take them away!

And Mikki... I saw on your profile you live in ICELAND?? OH my gosh, I guess you do have a different barometer for what is cold! Oh my goodness. I've been complaining about Kentucky's cold winter, here in land locked Kentucky, US, we've had a cold winter (for us), but it is all about perspective huh? Oh my heart goes out to you. I'm imagining your trips to Orlando, with the warm and downright HOT weather!

Well I am sitting here on the DIS, wasting time when I should be doing laundry. When I have to wear my Christmas socks in March, I KNOW it's time to do laundry!!

 

[schumigirl]

What is cold? I think our definition might differ

Good news from here, I have already gotten summer job it is at the same place as last summer.
It is a kindergarden(1-2 year olds) for disabled children, I love this job.

We may differ I agree, but we don`t live in Iceland so don`t expect your temps It was -1 with wind chill this morning. Snow gritters were out for icy roads couple of nights ago.....it had been beautiful last couple of weeks so it was a noticeable change backwards.
Congrats on the summer job.....I`m sure you`ll love it, very worthwhile

Carole--- I am with you 100% on the Friends-Who-Smoke issue. I do not smoke, but if my friends or family do that is their business. I don't hate, I actually feel sorry, I can't imagine being tethered to such a physical need, I compare it to me needing my tea, or my CARBS... don't judge me, and don't take them away!

Well I am sitting here on the DIS, wasting time when I should be doing laundry. When I have to wear my Christmas socks in March, I KNOW it's time to do laundry!!

In the absence of macraven.....I will welcome Heluvsme to our thread



Nice to have you along.........

Laundry is very overrated

Yep I don`t judge anyone......it would be a brave person that tried to take my wine away from me.....or tell me it was bad for me


Stuck in today waiting on a new fridge freezer to be delivered. We did get a new one in December....long boring story so I won`t bother.......it was returned.

It`s a spare for our garage as we need the extra storage. We are getting a better and bigger model than the one we ordered as they messed up......again, and it`s not costing us any more, so quite happy with that.

Should be here in the next couple of hours.

Time for another cuppa

 

[tink1957]

Hi

A big to Heluvsme...laundry can wait. It's so much more fun to visit with the homies on the darkside.

Carole...I'm with you...I don't want to impose my beliefs on others...live and let live is my motto. Just don't smoke in my house.

Spring has arrived here...the flowers are blooming and all the fruit trees I planted last year are in bud. I just love this time of year.

Congrats on the new job Mikkimus...it's wonderful when you can find work that you enjoy.

Sending hugs to mac...we miss you

Hope everyone has a great weekend

 

[schumigirl]

Hi

A big to Heluvsme...laundry can wait. It's so much more fun to visit with the homies on the darkside.

Carole...I'm with you...I don't want to impose my beliefs on others...live and let live is my motto. Just don't smoke in my house.

Spring has arrived here...the flowers are blooming and all the fruit trees I planted last year are in bud. I just love this time of year.

Congrats on the new job Mikkimus...it's wonderful when you can find work that you enjoy.

Sending hugs to mac...we miss you

Hope everyone has a great weekend

Wondered where you were, thought I might have to send out a search party

Our fruit trees are starting to bud too, it`s so pretty to see, although one of our apple trees has given up the ghost I think.....doesn`t look well at all. Pear and plum trees were all cut back last year so hoping for bumper crops of fruit this year

You have a good weekend too

 

[keishashadow]

This week has flown by for me. I'm making haluski today, anybody a fan? DH & youngest DS won't touch it & detest the smell of cabbage & onions that is now wafting thru the house. Funny how different people's taste buds roll.

Evening all........

I spoke to macraven yesterday......she's doing ok considering

Funny day today. It's passed so quickly and I've not done much.....can't believe our weather is still so nice......

Have a great week everyone

must be hard to keep a positive attitude going for such a long stretch.
Don't know how she's doing it.

Link to my cruise pics for anyone who might possibly be interested (ie Janet). We did have a major issue on this cruise and I just sent off a two page email to Carnival but I won't go into that here. I will say that I wouldn't book that cabin or that ship again, at least not until the drydock (theoretically this year). But overall, lots and lots of fun times!

http://s7.photobucket.com/user/marciemi/library/Carnival Victory 2014

I'm looking forward to checking out your album later today.

Kudos for the positive attitude & for not letting it ruin your vacation. That said shame on CCL, hope they make it right for you.

 

[Lynne G]

TGIF! I am so happy it is Friday, long work hours have become the norm now. Ugh.

Well, we had another night below freezing, but getting a nice day and nicer day tomorrow before the artic air comes. My bulb plants are now up a few inches. I love all the color spring brings.

I agree, doing the wash is overrated. I try to limit it to week-ends only. I swear my kids pile it up on purpose, so I have 6 or so loads to do each week-end.

Nice to see everyone! It's cool still, so have a cup with me!

 

[Heluvsme]

Thanks for the welcome, it's so nice and cozy here!

I really need this DIS break. Just a little story--- I have 2 kiddos... my daughter is a junior in high school and attends a public school. She does really well there and loves it!! My son is 13 and I home school him. He was born with some developmental challenges and learns very differently than what is taught in the public schools. Anyways... because I have 2 kids being educated in 2 different ways sometimes I feel like I'm always going and in "school mode." Well.... this morning my son and I finally wrapped up a very difficult unit. He's been learning about the Holocaust. I had put it off until I thought he would be able to cognitively grasp what actually took place. We took it slow. I bought books geared towards children, we watched movies, and mainly I paraphrased a WHOLE lot from history books. It was so trying. For us both!!

I don't want to bring anyone down and get too serious, so I'll stop. But really, I am so thankful I can come here and just get "lost" in thought.

And.... the good news---laundry is mostly done!
AND...... The weather is nice today! I find it so fascinating that Mikki lives in Iceland!! It's a part of the world I doubt I'll ever be able to visit, but I have always found it so intriguing. Talking about weather will always make me think of her now!

 

[Mikkimús]

Heluvsme we all need to just breath and unload sometimes and there is no shame in that.
Having a child with special need isn't easy. I am a support for a 11 year old girl who has autism and she is a handful or two and even three sometimes
You are doing a great job

Im working on a short film and the shoots had to be delayed because sunset isnt before 8pm, night scenes.

But on the weather, I have to admit I can stand cold, ideal is 45 to 65 degrees, when the heat climbs to 77 degrees or above(it happens) most of Icelanders are complaining about it being soooo hot.

 

[RAPstar]

50 days till vacation.

 

[schumigirl]

This week has flown by for me. I'm making haluski today, anybody a fan? DH & youngest DS won't touch it & detest the smell of cabbage & onions that is now wafting thru the house. Funny how different people's taste buds roll.



must be hard to keep a positive attitude going for such a long stretch.
Don't know how she's doing it.
.

Janet I had to google haluski........few different recipes online, but I could eat that I think.......then if it's got onions in I'll eat it cabbage not so much.

Yes, as you know it's been very tiring on her. She has a lot of strength

TGIF! I am so happy it is Friday, long work hours have become the norm now. Ugh.

Well, we had another night below freezing, but getting a nice day and nicer day tomorrow before the artic air comes. My bulb plants are now up a few inches. I love all the color spring brings.

I agree, doing the wash is overrated. I try to limit it to week-ends only. I swear my kids pile it up on purpose, so I have 6 or so loads to do each week-end.

Nice to see everyone! It's cool still, so have a cup with me!

I'll have a cuppa tea ..........DH due to fly in around 6 pm tonight so bottle of wine being chilled as we speak for tonight and I've done home made pizzas for us

With laundry, there's only 3 of us and my machine is on so often I sometime think I'm doing someone else's by mistake

Thanks for the welcome, it's so nice and cozy here!

I really need this DIS break. Just a little story--- I have 2 kiddos... my daughter is a junior in high school and attends a public school. She does really well there and loves it!! My son is 13 and I home school him. He was born with some developmental challenges and learns very differently than what is taught in the public schools. Anyways... because I have 2 kids being educated in 2 different ways sometimes I feel like I'm always going and in "school mode." Well.... this morning my son and I finally wrapped up a very difficult unit. He's been learning about the Holocaust. I had put it off until I thought he would be able to cognitively grasp what actually took place. We took it slow. I bought books geared towards children, we watched movies, and mainly I paraphrased a WHOLE lot from history books. It was so trying. For us both!!

I don't want to bring anyone down and get too serious, so I'll stop. But really, I am so thankful I can come here and just get "lost" in thought.

That is a subject you need a break from. We get lost a lot on here.........but we find our way back on track soon enough



Well my new fridge freezer is in place and working .........I was standing at the utility door into the garage and thinking it's far too nice to be in there, but my fridge freezer already in the utility room fits the space fine so it'll have to be out there.

On another tangent........53 days till I go to New York it's so close now!!

Hope everyone's doing good

 

[Lynne G]

OK Robbie and Carole, rub it in. Vacation for us is still counted in months! I keep thinking it will pass before I know it. Yeah right.

Carole, glad your new appliance is a good fit in your house. New is always nice to have.

Thankfully no sporting events this week-end. DD made the soccer team again, so we'll be in the travel mode starting next week. It seems soccer is now a year round sport. I'll have my jacket ready though, the fields always seem colder when you are watching the kids.

 

[keishashadow]

OK Robbie and Carole, rub it in. Vacation for us is still counted in months! I keep thinking it will pass before I know it. Yeah right.

Carole, glad your new appliance is a good fit in your house. New is always nice to have.

Thankfully no sporting events this week-end. DD made the soccer team again, so we'll be in the travel mode starting next week. It seems soccer is now a year round sport. I'll have my jacket ready though, the fields always seem colder when you are watching the kids.

I just broke 100 days'till we escape again

Can't get excited about buying appliances at this stage of the game. Was talked into a 55 inch VIZIO last Saturday.

Heluvsme - this house is a very fine house, good place to decompress

marci - great pics! luv how you hung the colors from the balcony. I've never seen the GT pool that empty, you must've beat everybody off the ship. the drinks looked good, how was the food?

 

[Niki Andiokno]

Hi all. Niki here making a stop in. I haven't been here in awhile. The past couple of years saw alot of stuff in my life. My Mom came to live near me after my grandmother died, she is doing well ( after breaking her leg badly last year), we rehabbed her house and finally sold it, turned around my law firm after some changes in insurance law about did us in, and battled AS. I am well now. My immune system is functioning and my spine is not too bad.

But, I have missed the homies. I am ready again for a visit to the dark side, so I want to check back in and stay in touch.

My dates are October 24 through November 1. I hope to go to HHN, and can't wait to visit Harry Potter.

Send my best to mac. I hope she remembers me. We live so close but lost touch. Sending her prayers.

I am so glad to be back to my home on the dark side. Hope to keep up with the nothingness.

 

[Niki Andiokno]

Mikki, I am a person of Icelandic heritage. Traced my heritage when my docs found the genetic defect. Voila! My Dad's family is from Iceland and migrated to Switzerland and Germany. I always knew my love of all things snowy was in my blood. We have had a particularly brutal winter in Chicago. I was about the only person I know who had no problem with the seemingly endless weeks of sub-zero temperatures.

I hope to visit your homeland.

 

[RAPstar]

I'm torn between splitting my TR for this next trip in half and doing one over here and the Disney part of my trip over there. Or doing the whole thing either there or here. I'll be more days at Disney, but I start at Universal. I think I'll split it lol

 

[marciemi]

Huge news...

We're moving. To Orlando. Soon. Royce will actually be opening a facility for Amazon in Davenport (maybe 5-10 minutes from the house we stayed in 2007). He'll actually be leaving for training in LA by mid to late April, then we'll meet up in Colorado for Matt's graduation week, and probably move down shortly after that. This was not really in the works and we'd said no to any moves for this year but they kept throwing different opportunities at him and we felt if we said no to this one that next year we wouldn't have a choice and would definitely be moving and it might be similar to one of the other choices this year (San Antonio, Miami, Atlanta, Wisconsin).

I'll keep you all updated - hoping to get a big enough house to have room for lots of visitors!

 

[Dee2013]

Hope all goes smoothly for everyone!

 

[schumigirl]

OK Robbie and Carole, rub it in. Vacation for us is still counted in months! I keep thinking it will pass before I know it. Yeah right.

Carole, glad your new appliance is a good fit in your house. New is always nice to have.

Thankfully no sporting events this week-end. DD made the soccer team again, so we'll be in the travel mode starting next week. It seems soccer is now a year round sport. I'll have my jacket ready though, the fields always seem colder when you are watching the kids.

Sorry Lynne........ well I'm still counting in months till our Orlando trip if that helps
Well done to the littlie making the team again

Send my best to mac. I hope she remembers me. We live so close but lost touch. Sending her prayers.

I am so glad to be back to my home on the dark side. Hope to keep up with the nothingness.

She'll remember you niki I'll pass on your good wishes to her.....nice to see you back here

Huge news...

We're moving. To Orlando. Soon.

Fantastic news Marci..............that sounds like a good move



Nearly bedtime here for us........had quiet day doing some gardening then a walk along the beach...it was cold but beautiful. All that fresh air makes you tired

Wine will do that too though

 

[keishashadow]

Huge news...

We're moving. To Orlando. Soon. Royce will actually be opening a facility for Amazon in Davenport (maybe 5-10 minutes from the house we stayed in 2007). He'll actually be leaving for training in LA by mid to late April, then we'll meet up in Colorado for Matt's graduation week, and probably move down shortly after that. This was not really in the works and we'd said no to any moves for this year but they kept throwing different opportunities at him and we felt if we said no to this one that next year we wouldn't have a choice and would definitely be moving and it might be similar to one of the other choices this year (San Antonio, Miami, Atlanta, Wisconsin).

I'll keep you all updated - hoping to get a big enough house to have room for lots of visitors!

woooohoooo! just think, florida resident rates are right around the corner

 

[BrinkofSunshine]

Huge news...

We're moving. To Orlando. Soon. .

I'll keep you all updated - hoping to get a big enough house to have room for lots of visitors!

Exciting! If you need any info/advice I'd be happy to help! I've been living here most of my life