Something About Nothing ... #12

[macraven]

I was wondering why you were MIA.....
glad you came back

If any of us needs paint, we know you are the gal to go to....

 

[Charade67]

I was wondering why you were MIA.....
glad you came back

If any of us needs paint, we know you are the gal to go to....

Several cans are some shade of beige. I don’t know what they were thinking when they painted the house. The shades almost match, but not quite. I jokingly call my house 50 shades of beige. We plan to repaint sometime in the future. Some of the cans were wood stain, which they obviously never used since the deck looks terrible. Most of the paint is so old it probably isn’t even useable now.

 

[pattyw]

Fast pass day

Been up before the chickens this morning

Good luck!!

I’m going to try to get in a little more sleep. We still have more work to do in the garage today.

Hope you get some rest today! Don't work too hard!!

Happy Saturday all!!

 

[Robo56]

Morning Mac, Schumi and Charade67 and pattyw

I met Tom in a very unromantic Explosives environment......... Never met him before and said to a male colleague I was chatting to in the office as Tom walked past, that’s the man I’m going to marry.........

That’s what makes it more romantic. Finding true love in unexpected situations has worked. Yours with explosives and mine with swords. It’s been magical so far. Praying you and your Tom and me and my fella our blessed with many more happy years together.

Also many happy blessing years to all our Sans family ladies and their hubby’s.

My first memory of fencing was watching Basil Rathbone in some movie or other..........love old movies! True classics.......although sometimes for the wrong reasons.........lol......

Basil Rathvone was a fantastic Fencer. If I remember correctly he taught Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power to Fence and he was a British military Fencing champ.

I do like old movies. Stuart Granger and Mel Ferrer had some really nice Fencing scenes in one of my fav old movies Scaramouche and Errol was great in Captain Blood.

Been up before the chickens this morning

Mac hope you were able to secure your FP rides for your trip to WDW.


I was up at 5:30 this morning. I need to get moving this morning. Have my big mug of coffee almost gone and that’s not motivating me yet.....LOL...

I had planned to go to farmers market this morning.

 

[keishashadow]

Waiting for the mr to finish rising & shining, then bacon sandwiches on tap with loverly tomatoes from my garden. Aaaah

Another pool party tomorrow, need to limp around and ahem, pick up the house.

Later Mission Impossible, not my cuppa, but the mr is a fan. At least there will be dinner first, then popcorn

We go from a long season of hopeful to a long season of maybe next year!



Absolutely! Because the more days you use them the less they cost per day! You must go often from a financial standpoint!




I hope they continue dating so you can get a preview of Star Wars Land! They have to let Mark Hamill and friends in!

If it’s any consolation, I always liked your team’s logo

Random thoughts .....throw about 5 ice cubes in the dryer with already dry but wrinkled clothes, run on high heat for @12 minutes & you’ll never iron again.

Fencing is a sport that I was always curious about, I love a good sword fight! I have a friend that can’t stand the sound of metal clashing though, so she’s a lot of fun at movies...you wouldn’t believe how many movies have sword fights in them until you have that one friend.....

I used to be a Tour de France junkie until we cut our cable 2 years ago & its a lot harder to follow on the Internet. I think it ends this weekend though so maybe I can find a recap of the last 3 weeks somewhere.

Love me some Mark Hamill!! One of my first crushes, along with Dirk Benedict from Battlestar Galactica. I must have had a thing for space cowboys!! LOL

Better space cowboys than space cadets lol.

I met Tom in a very unromantic Explosives environment......... Never met him before and said to a male colleague I was chatting to in the office as Tom walked past, that’s the man I’m going to marry.........

My first memory of fencing was watching Basil Rathbone in some movie or other..........love old movies! True classics.......although sometimes for the wrong reasons.........lol......



So glad things worked out well there with the new family in Jacksonville........you hear not so good outcomes at times, but sounds like you all have it worked out nicely!

Angryduck is a Mark Hamill fan........she’d love that!!!!



I miss onions!!!!

Lol........the only thing he hadn’t done was clean the new downstairs bathroom that had been fitted while we were away........but that was ok.......I prefer to do that on my own.

He’s always been tidy........although he has an office desk in another room that looks like a bomb site at times!! But......he has a system apparently.........I only dust and clean the floors and windows in there.......the office stuff is all down to him! I think he had friends over a couple of times, but you’d never know.........except for the amount of food that was gone........



Made it till 5am this morning........then bright as a button........

Watched an incredible lightning show last night.......very unusual for us..........calm this morning though and a little cooler..........

No real plans this weekend, going to try and upload pictures........thankfully DS is around to help me do that......I forget every time how to upload them from cameras to laptop........uploading them to smugmug is the easy part.

Friends little granddaughter is coming around this morning for the gifts we brought back for her.........very minion orientated again.........she’s not getting my new minion mug though........ may have to hide that one.

Some men are inherently neat, then there’s the rest of them

I’m a few trips back on smugmug uploads. Did u get series of emails from photobucket back-tracking on that crazy price increase? That ship has sailed for me.

I think I have the right day...……

Happy Birthday to one of Janet`s sons...…...if its not today...…..have a slice of cake...……



cake is a bit big!!!

Saturday again...………………………..

We have rain, winds and a lot cooler, should have kept the ironing till today.....still a bit muggy though.

Have a great Saturday...………………….

It was yesterday, thank you! Tomorrow we partee. I even bought a set of lawn jarts. Well, the type with weighted round bottom. Had the real ones with spikes. Had to hide them years ago when my boys got a bit too feisty with them...it’s all fun and games till someone loses an eye. Too bad I can’t remember where i squirreled them away.

That’s a funny first meet story. I picked my DH up in a bar . Honestly, I was moonlighting as bartender lol.

I just remembered i can't make fp until 7 est....

well, i'll be prepared for when that time rolls around.......

Hahahaha well, after that laborious morning hope you got what you want. I admit to not jumping thru the hoops. Often switch up parks day prior or same day and always get good ADRs. More difficult now with TS @ MGM & Avatar Land @ AK, did you snag anything in either? If not, keep checking, as FP+ changes so often; especially when u just need one slot.

 

[Robo56]

Happy Birthday to your son Keisha

 

[Lynne G]

Oh my, such a chatty bunch.

Last night, relaxed and watched some FPS game that older one was playing with his online friends. They are going to blow up the bridge, in a odd English like voice is what I heard every so often. But enough times, I could not get that out of my head, but was annoyed, and annoyed older one too when I had to comment on it.

Mac, hope ya got good fast passes. That is my Thursday chore, but I will be up at 4:30 am for work, so will have my phone ready. Have to buy the ticket first. Will do that on my lunch hour the day or two before. Makes me have to stop at GS to activate, but cheaper than buying from SOG.

Safe travels this week, Patty.

Morning homies! Chicken soup on the menu this morning. Tea ready, so breakfast time for me. DH got me up at 5:30, this morning. Said he was trying to be quiet. Yeah, in the shower at 5:45am.

Happy Birthday to Keisha’s boy! Let them eat cake!

Oh, and I met DH when he was a soldier in law school. Just saying, I know how to shoot a gun and argue. Eh, known him for over 30 years now. I feel old. I have a teen and adult kid, I am old!

Have a super Saturday, and a wonderful weekend.

Need to get my tea, and wake two kids.

 

[Tgrgrl]

Morning!

Mac- how did the fast pass go? Which ones are your must-do’s?

HB to Keisha’s son! I love me some cake photos, even ones with butcher knives & blood red icing.

Hope everyone has a fantastic Saturday!! I have to take the 7 year old to a creepy-crawly themed birthday party, complete with a hands-on demo with the ReptileMan, at 1. Yay! Snakes, alligators and spiders.....I can see those pretty much in my backyard anytime, whhhhy does it have to be entertainment!!! Ugh. Luckily, most kids parties around here serve adult beverages for the parents so I will grab my beer and sit in the corner. Oh and there will be cake....gotta have some cake......

 

[macraven]

Making fast passes was not a fun job for me.
Two hours and twelve minutes it took and I started exactly when it went live today.

I had no issue for 7 dwarfs at MK but looked at the site a few minutes ago and none are left for my day for that park.

I will need to do early entry hours for MK in order to get space mt and btmrr.
They were gone for the time period I needed.
Since I am park hopping, went with the park fp where I would be there the longest.

AK, just went with the two I like there.
Safari and Expedition Everest.
Doing two partial days for that park.

But did get my dining plan places set up in advance and worked my schedule around that.
Food is the priority this trip for the motherland.

Thank goodness for express pass at the darkside is all I have to say......

Belated birthday wishes for your son Keisha.
Mail me some cake.

Tgrgrl, get used to creepy crawly parties, it comes with having boys.
Drink beer and make sure no critters fell in it.


Robbie, hope your recovery from the surgery and accident has been good.
Wondering if you are back or close to 100%

Monyk, Mark Hamil is still alive????

Charade, just jump in and start posting.
Once we pass a page here, half of us are already on a new subject.

And to all the other homies here today, hope you have a laid back lazy day like i usually have....

 

[pattyw]

If it’s any consolation, I always liked your team’s logo

Thx!

to your son!

Safe travels this week, Patty.

Thank you!

uckily, most kids parties around here serve adult beverages for the parents

Wow- kids parties have changed... for the better!!

Food is the priority this trip for the motherland.

Much more important than rides! Save the rides (and drinking ) for the dark side!!

Off to help Kyle move the stuff that we've acquired to our storage unit! Cloudy here- looks like some rain moving in!

 

[macraven]

Oops I missed pattyw and Lynne and someone else looks like a few more homies
Sorry

I have been tied up and trying to do ten things at the same time

Buy what mom doesn’t ......

 

[Lynne G]

Tgrgrl, I think you missed her post Mac. Yeah, when my mom was mad at one of us 5, and could not get the bad kid’s name out, she quckily said all 5 names. We all ran. LOL

Beautiful night. Pizza. Felt like eating it. Maybe will walk around the block for water ice. Would be a sweet after dinner treat. Hmmm.

Enjoy tonight, and hope Patty got all the stuff moved before any rain.

 

[pattyw]

Tgrgrl, I think you missed her post Mac. Yeah, when my mom was mad at one of us 5, and could not get the bad kid’s name out, she quckily said all 5 names. We all ran. LOL

Beautiful night. Pizza. Felt like eating it. Maybe will walk around the block for water ice. Would be a sweet after dinner treat. Hmmm.

Enjoy tonight, and hope Patty got all the stuff moved before any rain.

Yep- as we were driving home it started to rain!! Phew!

My mom did the same! I used to laugh at that until I started to do the same thing! Only if I got really flustered I’d blurt out a cats name too!

Have a great Saturday night everyone!!

 

[Charade67]

Day 2 of the great garage cleanup. We had a storage cabinet that we were trying to get rid of. I put it on Facebook marketplace for free. Several people asked for it, but didn’t want to come pick it up. Finally the seventh person who asked about it actually came and got it. You wouldn’t think it would be so hard to give something away.

We also started going through storage boxes and found things we had forgotten about. We found old pictures from Disney and Universal from out first wedding anniversary. Anyone remember when Cinnderella’s castle looked like a pink birthday cake? We also found my wedding veil which I thought I had lost. B has already stated that she wants to wear it when she gets married.

Ugh! I somehow lost all of my quotes and now either my iPad or this site won’t let me redo them.

Robo - I love classic movies, but haven’t seen the two you mentioned. So cool that you know how to fence.

Keisha - Has photobucket dropped their fees to something reasonable? I’ve been using tinypic since it is still free.

Tgrgrl - Ick. No creepy crawly parties for me. I hate bugs of all sorts.

Lynne - My mom still calls my by my sister’s name. (Thankfully she has never called my by my brothers.) She also mixes up her grandchildren and she only has 2 of them.


My how I met dh story is very boring. We met at church. Speaking of dh, tonight is his last show of the community theater production he is in. Next week he and B start work on The Music Man. Right now they know they are in the cast, they just don’t know specific roles yet. Hopefully they will know by Tuesday.

 

[Lynne G]

Charade, glad to hear garage clean out is continuing with some speed. Yeah, we had some prior owner’s stuff in the garage when we bought our house, but all that is gone, and now is filled with DH’s stuff. Our house is old, and has a garage that current cars are a very tight fit. I guess when it was built, cars were still big, so maybe only was made for storage, so we are the third family to use it as such.

Reloaded twice as I peck away on my phone.

Good morning homies, Sunday has arrived! Overcast start, but no rain, and lower humidity, so happy homie here.

Ah, going to put on the tea. At 12:30am this morning, I told older one to say good morning to his online gaming friends, and hit the sack. I think I heard him come up the stairs about 1/2 hour later. Growled a holler at him, as I was awake, due to some close car’s alarm going off, piercing the quiet din of overnight.

Ah, tea is ready, the house has a lovely quiet morning sound. Street traffic sounds like dry roads. It is already a good morning.

 

[Robo56]

Morning Lynne

 

[schumigirl]

Morning Mac, Schumi and Charade67 and pattyw




That’s what makes it more romantic. Finding true love in unexpected situations has worked. Yours with explosives and mine with swords. It’s been magical so far. Praying you and your Tom and me and my fella our blessed with many more happy years together.

Also many happy blessing years to all our Sans family ladies and their hubby’s.



Basil Rathvone was a fantastic Fencer. If I remember correctly he taught Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power to Fence and he was a British military Fencing champ.

I do like old movies. Stuart Granger and Mel Ferrer had some really nice Fencing scenes in one of my fav old movies Scaramouche and Errol was great in Captain Blood.

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Yes, our best man made it sound very romantic how we met.....lol...….it may have been the most unromantic of settings, but it was a thunderbolt moment...….we`ve both been blessed for sure, and I`m sure many more years ahead too...….

I love old movies!!!!! And love the ones you`ve posted above too. Basil Rathbone is a favourite of mine for many reasons and yep, he was quite the swordsman and all round nice guy!! Loved a good party or two......Bob Hope does an ad-lib to Basil in an old movie called The Ghostbreakers……..there`s a load of thunder rumbling and he adds, Basil Rathbone must be having a party In Rathbones autobiography, he famously told the story of how he and wife were having breakfast outside one morning after a party and Errol Flynn rolled out of the bushes after having fallen asleep during the night, nodded to them and strolled off...…..love those old stories!!!!

I think we could pass a few afternoons watching old movies easily...…..

Waiting for the mr to finish rising & shining, then bacon sandwiches on tap with loverly tomatoes from my garden. Aaaah

Another pool party tomorrow, need to limp around and ahem, pick up the house.

Later Mission Impossible, not my cuppa, but the mr is a fan. At least there will be dinner first, then popcorn


Some men are inherently neat, then there’s the rest of them

I’m a few trips back on smugmug uploads. Did u get series of emails from photobucket back-tracking on that crazy price increase? That ship has sailed for me.



It was yesterday, thank you! Tomorrow we partee. I even bought a set of lawn jarts. Well, the type with weighted round bottom. Had the real ones with spikes. Had to hide them years ago when my boys got a bit too feisty with them...it’s all fun and games till someone loses an eye. Too bad I can’t remember where i squirreled them away.

That’s a funny first meet story. I picked my DH up in a bar . Honestly, I was moonlighting as bartender lol.

lol...…..I remember you telling me how you met before...…...anywhere is romantic if it`s right!!!

I like some of Cruise`s movies, but not a fan of him...…..will probably watch it when it hits the movie channels on tv.

Never heard a peep from PB......although after the scathing email I sent them I doubt they`d want me back...…..lol......it`s a poor site to navigate and smugmug is so much easier...……

Enjoy your pool party celebration today!!!! We have rain and high winds so it`s an inside day watching the Grand Prix from Hungary...….

Morning!

Mac- how did the fast pass go? Which ones are your must-do’s?

HB to Keisha’s son! I love me some cake photos, even ones with butcher knives & blood red icing.

Hope everyone has a fantastic Saturday!! I have to take the 7 year old to a creepy-crawly themed birthday party, complete with a hands-on demo with the ReptileMan, at 1. Yay! Snakes, alligators and spiders.....I can see those pretty much in my backyard anytime, whhhhy does it have to be entertainment!!! Ugh. Luckily, most kids parties around here serve adult beverages for the parents so I will grab my beer and sit in the corner. Oh and there will be cake....gotta have some cake......

Hate snakes!!!

We came face to face with our first real snake this past trip...…….the guy walking on the other side of it told us it was harmless!!!! It`s still a snake...…..I did kinda scream and may have cursed!!!! We were in Mount Dora and it was slithering across the sidewalk...…...eh no. I was off faster than I knew I could move...……

Tom went back to take a picture of it as it appeared again...…..

 

[Robo56]

Ok so here's the **UPDATED** list of the Sept/Oct travelers:

Tink: 9/18-9/25 UO; 9/25-9/27 WDW

Ckmiles: 9/23-9/28

Mac: 9/26-10/12; first 4 nights Motherland

Me: 9/27-10/6

Keisha: WLV 9/29- ; RPH 10/4-10/7

Robo: 9/30-10/11

Lynne: 10/1-10/4 Disney; 10/4-10/12- UO

Tgrgrl: on-call in area for meets!

Thank you for starting the list Pattyw

Hi Robo I love my darkside mugs too! My favorite is the diagon alley one with the dragon.

Yep, the mugs at the Parks are nice quality mugs that’s hold good amount of coffee. Hope you are having a good restful Sunday Tink

Robbie, hope your recovery from the surgery and accident has been good.
Wondering if you are back or close to 100%

Working on it. Hope you are doing well also. I’am really looking forward to HHN.

Robo - I love classic movies, but haven’t seen the two you mentioned. So cool that you know how to fence.

I love old movies also. I watched the “The Day The Earth Stood Still” the other day on Netflix. Kind of cheesy considering the capabilities of Sci-fi movies now, but still a favorite of mine.

In Rathbones autobiography, he famously told the story of how he and wife were having breakfast outside one morning after a party and Errol Flynn rolled out of the bushes after having fallen asleep during the night, nodded to them and strolled off...…..love those old stories!!!!

Morning Schumi

Great story about Basil Rathbone and Errol Flynn.

We named our last Sailboat “Swashbuckler” because of our love of Fencing and of all the great old fencing films of Basil, Errol, Granger, and Tyrone Power.

Going to have to get moving this morning to get ready for church.

Having son and family over this evening for steaks on the grill. Will let son cook them as he is the grill master for sure. He grills the best steaks. Always look forward to visits from our family.

Hope everyone has a lovely Sunday.

 

[Lynne G]

Lovely Sunday to you too Robo. Grilled steak dinner sounds lush, and so nice with family.

Afternoon Schumi. I give snakes a quick pass too. Will not look too close to see if poisonous or not. Hope your morning tea had some sweet accompaniment, like pound cake. Donut holes for me, with tea.

May go to the zoo then some shopping. Went to the grocery store the other day, but according to older one, there is nothing here to eat. Sigh. Boy, err young man, still on my money train.

 

[macraven]

This summer has gone by too fast for me

Almost August!


Hope all have a great day