Something About Nothing ... #12

[Squirlz]

So hot today. Too hot to sit out and grill so we ordered pizza. Monday we are going back to Chicago for 3 nights. I didn't realize when I booked but July 4 is 10 years since I rescued Molly from her abusive relationship and began our life together, so it is worthy of celebrating.

 

[macraven]

You'll have fun in Chicago for the 4th.
And you have ten years to celebrate!

How long of a drive is it for you ?

 

[Charade67]

Another day gone and I don’t know where it went. I guess it didn’t help that I slept until almost 11:00. We went to lunch and then to the mall. I have a $10 rewards coupon to one of my favorite stores, but didn’t find anything I really wanted. We also checked out a local comic/SF/Fantasy store that is supposedly going out of business. They were only offering 10% off, so we didn’t buy anything. I also took B driving this afternoon and lived to tell about it.

While we were at the mall I realized that I need to get something to wear to a wedding next week. I have no idea what to wear. I’ll probably go shopping tomorrrow without the rest of the family.

Schumi - Dark Shadows was a creepy vampire drama from the late 1960’s. It scared me as a kid, but I watched it later as and adult and really enjoyed it.

Lynne - I am one of those who won’t go to Florida in the summer. (I lived through enough Miami summers.) I don’t do very well in extreme heat. We rarely take family summer vacations.

MonyK - Right now B is such a beginner that she is only driving in church parking lots. We were only out for about 30 minutes today. I think she was more nervous having me in the car with her than the driving instructor.

No shade in Toy Story Land? Another reason I won’t be going on the summer. Someone from our local news channel did a live broadcast today from Toy Story Land. It looks like it will be a fun area and have rides that I wont be afraid to ride.

Agavegirl - I have my husband underfoot for the whole summer. Probably the weirdest think is that I keep thinking that Fridays are Saturdays. I don’t work on Fridays, but I am not used to him being home all day Friday, so I keep thinking it’s Saturday.

Almost 1:00. I should be sleepy (no nap today) but I’m not. Maybe I will read for a little while.

 

[macraven]

Charade, with Mr Mac and I retired, I have to check this thread out to make sure I know what day it is.

And if I read the morning newspaper before I check in here, first thing I do is look at the date of the newspaper.....


Time or knowing the day of the week, is not important anymore to me......lol

The best thing about Mr Mac being home is he gets to be the one that feeds the cats at 6 am each day.


You are a good and brave mom to take your daughter out and teach her to drive.

I really tried hard to do that with my boys....
I took one son out once and he drove me nuts.
Kept playing with the radio as he needed music in order to drive.
(his words not mine)
Next day tried again and it was worse since he never paid attention to the road.

Told him from now on, ask your dad to help you practice driving.
He did.

Second son I went twice and called it one of the worse experiences since child birth.
We ended up screaming at each other.
So, his dad did the practice driving with him.

Third son, well, we only went out one time and that was for ten minutes....
He was awful.
About had a stroke when he was driving down the street and would look at me to talk ...
Had to shout, we are on the sidewalk

Think he ended up walking back home that day.
But his dad took over and worked with him to get the time in on the road.

In Illinois where we lived, the kids have to have a specific number of hours of driving down besides the high school class of drivers ed before they can go to the drivers license station to do the road testing.

 

[schumigirl]

Schumi. Memories are a sweet way to never forget those we lost. Have a good night, and yeah, we both speak English, just spelling and some words are different.

Ended up with ice cream for dinner. All were hot and not hungry. Guess we will have a later dinner, maybe when little one gets home from work.

Thanks Lynne. I do have to remind myself at times certain words don’t mean the same over there.......certainly wouldn’t use the word fanny pack over here I would get some funny looks!

Ice cream for dinner sounds good..........

So hot today. Too hot to sit out and grill so we ordered pizza. Monday we are going back to Chicago for 3 nights. I didn't realize when I booked but July 4 is 10 years since I rescued Molly from her abusive relationship and began our life together, so it is worthy of celebrating.

That is something to celebrate........hope you both have a lovely trip!

Another day gone and I don’t know where it went. I guess it didn’t help that I slept until almost 11:00. We went to lunch and then to the mall. I have a $10 rewards coupon to one of my favorite stores, but didn’t find anything I really wanted. We also checked out a local comic/SF/Fantasy store that is supposedly going out of business. They were only offering 10% off, so we didn’t buy anything. I also took B driving this afternoon and lived to tell about it.

While we were at the mall I realized that I need to get something to wear to a wedding next week. I have no idea what to wear. I’ll probably go shopping tomorrrow without the rest of the family.

Schumi - Dark Shadows was a creepy vampire drama from the late 1960’s. It scared me as a kid, but I watched it later as and adult and really enjoyed it.

Lynne - I am one of those who won’t go to Florida in the summer. (I lived through enough Miami summers.) I don’t do very well in extreme heat. We rarely take family summer vacations.

MonyK - Right now B is such a beginner that she is only driving in church parking lots. We were only out for about 30 minutes today. I think she was more nervous having me in the car with her than the driving instructor.

No shade in Toy Story Land? Another reason I won’t be going on the summer. Someone from our local news channel did a live broadcast today from Toy Story Land. It looks like it will be a fun area and have rides that I wont be afraid to ride.

Agavegirl - I have my husband underfoot for the whole summer. Probably the weirdest think is that I keep thinking that Fridays are Saturdays. I don’t work on Fridays, but I am not used to him being home all day Friday, so I keep thinking it’s Saturday.

Almost 1:00. I should be sleepy (no nap today) but I’m not. Maybe I will read for a little while.

I’m out at vampire! Unless it’s the old black and white Bela Lugosi vampire movies which I love as they are classics......... but others I find dull........so may give it a miss after all..........

Good luck with the outfit shopping........special occasion outfits can be difficult sometimes........

Charade, with Mr Mac and I retired, I have to check this thread out to make sure I know what day it is.

And if I read the morning newspaper before I check in here, first thing I do is look at the date of the newspaper.....


Time or knowing the day of the week, is not important anymore to me......lol

The best thing about Mr Mac being home is he gets to be the one that feeds the cats at 6 am each day.


You are a good and brave mom to take your daughter out and teach her to drive.

I really tried hard to do that with my boys....
I took one son out once and he drove me nuts.
Kept playing with the radio as he needed music in order to drive.
(his words not mine)
Next day tried again and it was worse since he never paid attention to the road.

Told him from now on, ask your dad to help you practice driving.
He did.

Second son I went twice and called it one of the worse experiences since child birth.
We ended up screaming at each other.
So, his dad did the practice driving with him.

Third son, well, we only went out one time and that was for ten minutes....
He was awful.
About had a stroke when he was driving down the street and would look at me to talk ...
Had to shout, we are on the sidewalk

Think he ended up walking back home that day.
But his dad took over and worked with him to get the time in on the road.

In Illinois where we lived, the kids have to have a specific number of hours of driving down besides the high school class of drivers ed before they can go to the drivers license station to do the road testing.

I’m with you on the days! Since Tom retired every day is blending into the next......in a good way though!! Thank goodness Kyle is at work as that gets me up early every morning.........we are morning people really.......not late night bods in general.........

Over here kids get their provisional licence at 17. But, professional instructor straight away........worth every penny! He didn’t need that many lessons and passed first time.



I love having Tom here all the time.........some friends I have said they couldn’t deal with their husbands hanging around all day........I laughed! I couldn’t imagine thinking that about my husband! Early retirement is good!!!

Dull so far today.........but it’s early..........hoping the sun appears soon.........

Breakfast is bacon and pancakes.......it is Saturday!

 

[macraven]

I’m putting my shoes on

Will be over for bacon!

You do have mayo don’t you?
I like mayo on my bacon

Slap it together on a slice of bread and I’ll make it disappear

 

[schumigirl]

I’m putting my shoes on

Will be over for bacon!

You do have mayo don’t you?
I like mayo on my bacon

Slap it together on a slice of bread and I’ll make it disappear

Wouldn’t be a home without mayo.........

Come on over..........


Almost time for the Dis to go down for it’s daily down time.........

 

[tink1957]

Good morning

A quick pop in before work to say hi...will be back after 4.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone

 

[Lynne G]

Squirlz, nice to celebrate, and congratulations on 10 years.

Charade, I guess growing up in our steamy and thunderstorms summer, we did not mind late summer trips.

Well, as you all know, I taught both kids to drive. Older one was testy at times, little one salty. Yelled more at the younger one. But older one was 18 when he tested, her 16. Since older one was an adult, he had no restrictions on when he drives. Little one, until she is 18, cannot drive from 11pm to 6 am. Well, unless they are driving then for work. It is so nice that the mom taxi has generally been totally retired now.

Hehe, I texted little one about that Starbucks deal, and she came home from work with coffee for me. Hey, sometimes she is a good kid. Of course, she paid for drinks with my gift card.

We will be over for breakfast, little one would eat both, Schumi. Her BLT sandwich is dry, she is no fan of mayo.

Tink, hope your work has AC, and your work time goes quick, so you can relax the rest of the weekend.

With that, DH got me up, and has just left, so tea is on, and kids are still sleeping. I guess I will make some eggs and French toast. Little one will have soup. Need to buy bacon. Eh, we can do without it this morning.

Hot and humid today, even hotter tomorrow. Pool time.

Enjoy this last day of June. It is Saturday, so stay hydrated and enjoy this summer weekend day.

 

[Monykalyn]

Morning
At lake this morning. Going to be a hot one and sunny-perfect for boating (before noon- don't want to be on lake this afternoon I think as I expect it will be busy). Probably pool time later, nap and then meeting friends from Iowa we haven't seen in years. Son is campaigning to come home with me tomorrow instead of up to grandpa farm.

Record breaking longest round of Uno last night (the card game) think it lasted nearly 2 hours. We are just too competitive to let it go but it was hilarious-had to stop the game once for a couple minutes as we were all laughing too hard. Even my 15 year old who can be "challenging". Teaching my father in law the game was hilarious too.

Typing on iPad so no quotes as it's a PITA on iPad, and I've already lost posts this am- so hi to everyone and have fun celebrating if you've a reason!

 

[Lynne G]

Lake time, sounds great MonyK.

 

[Charade67]

Good morning. I woke up earlier than I wanted to today. I'm trying to decide if I want to go shopping today. I don't really want to go to this wedding. I won't know anybody there. The bride and groom are some of dh's former students.

Funny story about having dh "underfoot". For his 50th birthday I got the crazy idea that I would make a video for him. I made a list of famous people he shared a birthday with and also famous events that happened on his birthday. I also had pictures for everything. Then I emailed several of his friends and asked them to send a video of a brief birthday greeting for dh. The plan was to edit all of this together into a video with music, captions, etc. The problem was that dh
s birthday is December 24 - a time that he is on winter break. During the school year he would get up really early each day to get to the gym when it opened at 5:30. This meant that he was usually in bed by 9:00. But... since he was on break he didn't need to get to the gym super early which meant he was staying up past midnight every night. I couldn't do the editing during the day (I had to work and he was always home when I was) so I had to try to do it after he had finally gone to bed for the night. (Keep in mind that video editing was one of the subjects he taught.) When I finally gave him the video I told him that if it looked like it was edited at 3:00 in the morning....it was. That was the last time I attempted to do anything creative.

 

[kohlby]

Charade, with Mr Mac and I retired, I have to check this thread out to make sure I know what day it is.

And if I read the morning newspaper before I check in here, first thing I do is look at the date of the newspaper.....


Time or knowing the day of the week, is not important anymore to me......lol

The best thing about Mr Mac being home is he gets to be the one that feeds the cats at 6 am each day.


You are a good and brave mom to take your daughter out and teach her to drive.

I really tried hard to do that with my boys....
I took one son out once and he drove me nuts.
Kept playing with the radio as he needed music in order to drive.
(his words not mine)
Next day tried again and it was worse since he never paid attention to the road.

Told him from now on, ask your dad to help you practice driving.
He did.

Second son I went twice and called it one of the worse experiences since child birth.
We ended up screaming at each other.
So, his dad did the practice driving with him.

Third son, well, we only went out one time and that was for ten minutes....
He was awful.
About had a stroke when he was driving down the street and would look at me to talk ...
Had to shout, we are on the sidewalk

Think he ended up walking back home that day.
But his dad took over and worked with him to get the time in on the road.

In Illinois where we lived, the kids have to have a specific number of hours of driving down besides the high school class of drivers ed before they can go to the drivers license station to do the road testing.

You tried three times so that's a good and brave mum too! I don't have the courage to take my eldest out driving yet. I think it's 50 hours of driving he needs and I hope to not go with him until he has at least half of that done. My county will do 6 hours of free driving instruction free too so we will do that. There's a driving school in town too that is supposed to be excellent. But it's $360 for 6 hours of driving so we will only use that if absolutely needed. (Meaning, if my husband is away too much to get child to point where I will go with him).

I am quite impressed with you too Lynne. Two of my neighbors have already called the driving school. (There are three 15 year olds learning to drive within about an 1/8 of the mile of me

Thanks Lynne. I do have to remind myself at times certain words don’t mean the same over there.......certainly wouldn’t use the word fanny pack over here I would get some funny looks!

I’m with you on the days! Since Tom retired every day is blending into the next......in a good way though!! Thank goodness Kyle is at work as that gets me up early every morning.........we are morning people really.......not late night bods in general.........

Over here kids get their provisional licence at 17. But, professional instructor straight away........worth every penny! He didn’t need that many lessons and passed first time.

I love having Tom here all the time.........some friends I have said they couldn’t deal with their husbands hanging around all day........I laughed! I couldn’t imagine thinking that about my husband! Early retirement is good!!!

I think the problem would be that my husband would want me to tell him what we have planned every single day. And if I plan too much, then he complains later he didn't get anything done. If I don't plan enough, then he acts bored. So, I like him working so I have one less person I have to coordinate activities for. We do get out a lot these days, but at least that's not planning all day. I wouldn't mind if he worked less though.

As for funny words, we had a student at my college from England and no one warned him about the word differences. His roommate decided to have a little fun with it when he asked for a rubber. (He was asking for an eraser. In the US, condom is the meaning one would apply to it). The roommate told him he couldn't find any and to go ask at the other rooms. Half our hall was female rooms so they really got their laughs as he went from room to room asking for a rubber.

Morning
At lake this morning. Going to be a hot one and sunny-perfect for boating (before noon- don't want to be on lake this afternoon I think as I expect it will be busy). Probably pool time later, nap and then meeting friends from Iowa we haven't seen in years. Son is campaigning to come home with me tomorrow instead of up to grandpa farm.

Record breaking longest round of Uno last night (the card game) think it lasted nearly 2 hours. We are just too competitive to let it go but it was hilarious-had to stop the game once for a couple minutes as we were all laughing too hard. Even my 15 year old who can be "challenging". Teaching my father in law the game was hilarious too.

Typing on iPad so no quotes as it's a PITA on iPad, and I've already lost posts this am- so hi to everyone and have fun celebrating if you've a reason!

I usually use my iPad for this website and it doesn't work nearly as well as the computer. I'm not sure why but it's been an issue for quite a while. There are few games I can tolerate 2 hours of. Normally, I get bored and annoyed if games last that long. Uno is my exception.


Not sure what we are up to today. Husband is in Beijing and will be gone for about 15 days. They've said he could come back early if they finished up early but my hunch is flights may be more expensive then so I'm preparing for him to be gone the entire time. Eldest child was in Georgia last I heard. I think they are driving up to North Carolina today. The kitten is settling in. She did a better job sleeping last night - not making me wake at 6 am. I'm hoping that's the way things will go from now on. I am not a morning person at all.

 

[macraven]

It’s hot and humid outside

Had to do a food run to Moes


Remembered it was Saturday due to the traffic out

 

[Lynne G]

Doughnuts and CF for dinner. Time for another dip in the pool.

Too hot, but hey, summer!

Yep, Saturday traffic here too, Mac.

 

[schumigirl]

MonyK.........the lake sounds beautiful.......hope you had a lovely day there.........love Uno!!!

Charade, we had a lovely time at an event where I knew no one there......go and have fun!!

kohlby..........I’m lucky Tom is easy to please........I don’t need to plan our days away..........we take each day as it comes......some days we do stuff, some days we don’t...........

Yep, driving lessons don’t come cheap over here, but most seem to utilise them. We did!!

Yes rubber here has a very different meaning to the States! Yep, rubbers here are erasers to you guys........some phrases from here can seem downright rude in different contexts.........



Had a lovely day in the garden..........made a huge batch of red wine sangria........loads of brandy, orange juice, lemonade and few other little ingredients.........and of course good red wine.........

Sun shone all day and it was warm........so sitting out all day was lovely.........grilled steak and shrimp with salads and pasta salad for dinner outside, and finallly came in around 10pm......

Now catching up on a Swedish tv drama with subtitles.......need to concentrate on it , but it’s fabulous!!

Do miss it getting dark at this time of night...........

 

[macraven]

Schumi
What time does it get dark for you?
We still have light after 9 pm

 

[tink1957]

Carole, I like the sound of your sangria...I feel the urge to sail across the pond and enjoy a glass or two except it would probably all be gone by the time I arrived

Lynne, to answer your earlier question...no ac in the garden center, we do have a mister and fans but working there is not for the faint of heart especially when it's 90+ out I love it though and prefer it to working inside.

Moes also sounds good mac...I need to find food.

I have a rare Sunday off tomorrow...whatever shall I do? Probably grill out and chill.

Have a nice night everyone

 

[schumigirl]

Schumi
What time does it get dark for you?
We still have light after 9 pm

Right now it’s 11.10pm and not totally dark..........this time of year it stays a little light all night and at around 3am it brightens again.........I do like the dark nights of winter.......

Street lights come on around 10pm. Astronomical twilight is only a couple of hours of darkness this time of year.......unlike miss mikkimus who have the midnight sun........never gets fully dark all summer........

Actually, just looked out and it’s fairly dark.........

Bedtime soon for us.........sangria all gone........

Bacon again for breakfast..........

 

[schumigirl]

Carole, I like the sound of your sangria...I feel the urge to sail across the pond and enjoy a glass or two except it would probably all be gone by the time I arrived

Lynne, to answer your earlier question...no ac in the garden center, we do have a mister and fans but working there is not for the faint of heart especially when it's 90+ out I love it though and prefer it to working inside.

Moes also sounds good mac...I need to find food.

I have a rare Sunday off tomorrow...whatever shall I do? Probably grill out and chill.

Have a nice night everyone

Yep........all gone Vicki.........I’ll make a new batch of course..........

You’re Sunday sounds good to me!! We’re doing the same tomorrow.........day doing nothing except grilling and relaxing...........not a bad way to spend a Sunday..........