Something About Nothing............ #14

[J'aime Paris]

Lori....the kebabs look fabulous! yes, I can see why your DH wants them again....everything tastes amazing off the grill for sure.

I love moroccan food......I think it`s another cuisine where it takes time for the flavours to develop......I`m a fan of food that`s not seen as quick and easy.....but so tasty and as long as cinammon is in there, you can`t go far wrong.

I do have plenty of counter space, but hate leaving things sitting out....my friend that passed away always used to wonder why my kitchen was always so tidy....hers looked like she had no workspace left at all......lol.....but, I just wasn`t keen on it. Seems ideal for a lot of fast food which we don`t really eat.

It`s funny you mention low stock in IKEA, we popped into a garden centre today and their furniture stock is still low. Better than last year, but much less than usual. I think Covid is still having an effect.

Love your friends son shirt!




Busy day again today.......long walk this morning along the waterfront and the weather is baking hot again.....laundry was dry in less than an hour outside. It`s been lovely just sitting outside again after a few days of rain.

Benefit is, everything looks greener than usual. There has to be an upside of living in a rainy country. Trees are fuller and we do need to get someone to give them a good cutback. Our gardener doesn`t have the tools to do what an arborist can do, they`re just too tall. Will look at that at the end of the summer.

Grilling outside tonight, spicy pork steaks and some marinaded chicken thighs. Lots of salad and a side dish I`ll make soon.

Yes, the greener the better! Our lawn looked positively ill during the month of June when we had no rain.

Wednesday morning stop in!

Busy evening last night. Had to go out and do some grocery shopping. The cupboards were looking a little bare. So they at least have a few items again. By the time we picked up a few items, whipped up some supper and paid bills, it was almost time for bed.

My brother-in-law and his gf are finally able to travel now, and they are visiting this weekend for a couple of days before they fly across the country to go visit her dad who has been sick. So we are looking forward to seeing them...but I'm also looking forward to being home for the weekend to just relax and putter around the house and yard with no real agenda. We are needing a little down time. We are under another heat advisory again. Not nearly the temps we experienced earlier, but still warm. Just our regular hot Canada/Alberta weather.


I don't want to be one of " those" people that use an airfyer for absolutely everything I just didn't want to heat up the house at night before bed lol. I'm NOT an early morning person to get up and bake when the house is cool lol. I also prefer baking in my oven - but that's just me!!! Maybe over the weekend I can whip up a bunch of muffins to freeze and take out as needed.

So much fun!!!! I hope that change over of phone systems goes seamlessly.

Those looked very yummy and amazing!!! I might have to think of trying something like that over the weekend!!!! Going to put that on my list of weekend meals

Ds got his second shot yesterday. He was anxious to get it done...and just wants to have life go back to normal. Poor kid....he missed out on soooo much in the last 16 months at such a pivotal time in his life. Hopefully he can start to relax now and enjoy his summer and get to spend as much time as he can with his friends before everyone starts to go their separate ways.

Well...I should get started shuffling these papers on my desk , and get some invoicing done. Have a great day everyone!!!!!!

Nice you'll have family to visit! A good catch up for sure!
Hope your DS does well with his second shot.....these kids certainly deserve to live a normal life...

I think the supply lines are behind as stores’ stocks are low at many places, Paris. Glad your kabobs were a hit. They looked delicious.

Pumpkin, always good to have relaxing days. And glad to hear of family travels. Aww, hope DS is okay after getting his second shot. For what it’s worth, I thought the second shot was easier. Glad he will be protected soon. And yeah, felt bad for all those graduations that had to not be, or much different than planned, and disruptions of many students’ scheduled plans.

Ah, poor AC has been running most of the morning. Lunch was a salad, as not feeling much to eat. Snacking more kinda day. And phone warns of thunderstorms again for the next 24 hours. Lunchtime news said chance of rain again around dinner time. And we are tracking Elsa, as still enough of a storm, that will give us rain as it travels along the Northern Atlantic coast. Shore news has posted warnings of rough surf and sea. As long as the storm stays more and more out to sea, the less rain bands will reach where we live. But for now, saying we will get rain from Elsa. At least thankful not a snow bearing Nor’Easter.

It seems as though inventory is still low at many places.
Hope that is fixed sooner than later.....it's hard to support a business that is unable to stock items to purchase.

Finally getting my wisdom teeth taken out hopefully next week. I'm changing dentists cause the one I've been going to only has a surgeon my insurance covers in Allen (which is like an hour drive from me), so I'm going to one that I already verified I'd be able to get it done closer to home.

And I'm so ready for vacation I can taste it.

Good luck with the extractions!
Hope you'll get that vacation soon....






DDs pants for dental school finally came in, so we dropped everything to pick them up in Milwaukee. Now they have to be hemmed up a bit. Regulars are too short, and longs are too long, lol!

I decided to have them altered at a place 5 minutes from here, rather than run back into the city again. Normally I don't mind, but we have a mind blowing amount of construction happening on our interstates currently. Driving on those roads has turned into a NASCAR type event!

Then DD and I went with my dad for lunch. He was in the area picking up a chair that was being repaired, and popped over to say hello. Well, why not?? Two days in a row out to lunch....feeling a bit spoiled!

DD is supposed to be meeting friends for twilight golf around 6pm. Not sure if that's gonna happen, as it's raining currently. They will play in a bit of rain, but not if it's heavy or storming.

I'm off to the grocery store in a bit. Luckily, that can be done rain or shine.

 

[Charade67]

Sat down to post about an hour and a half ago and fell asleep. Didn't realize I was so tired.

I have a fun new insurance problem. We have client who has a Medicaid plan. A little over a month ago she told her therapist that she got a full time job back in September, a job that came with insurance benefits. This made the work insurance her primary plan. I was able to re-file some of the claims with the correct plan, but there are 17 claims that are past the date when claims can be filed. Today I discovered that the Medicaid plan had sent some of these claims the the employer plan and the employer plan paid most of those claims, but they paid the Medicaid plan not the therapist. There are a few more outstanding claims, and once those are paid I need to sort out who owes what. I think the therapist has been overpaid, but not sure by how much.
Every time I think insurance issues couldn't get any worse, something new happens to make me crazy.

The kababs turned out great! I was fairly proud of my grilling skills...

Yum! Those look really good.

The trip to Ikea was a great day!

I have only been to Ikea a couple of times. Unfortunately the closest one is over 3 hours away.

Ds got his second shot yesterday.

Yay! Hope he is able to spend a lot of time with his friends before summer is over. B gets her second shot on Saturday.

He wants to save to be able to go to school for as an aviation mechanic. There are only a few places here in Canada to learn that trade...so he will need to save some $$$ to do it.

Best of luck to him, I hope he is able to get into the school of his choice.

Finally getting my wisdom teeth taken out hopefully next week.

Ouch! Hope everything goes well.

I think tonight is going to be a pizza and Loki night. Tomorrow we have tickets for Black Widow. We have been waiting a long time to see it.

 

[Lynne G]

Aww, new great niece born today. An over 8 pound kid. Niece and baby are doing good. My niece will have the house full, with now three kids under 5. Sweet named after my mom and her sister, both whom are no longer with us.

Ended up with cheesesteaks. Easy meal, as the steak meat only takes a few minutes to cook. And some cheese, fried onions and sautéed red peppers, and dinner with a not too hot feeling kitchen. One pan, thank you.

Phone has been busy with its weather news flashes, extreme weather alert to expire in 8 hours, flash flooding warning to expire in 24 hours, and a buzzing one, thunderstorms watch to expire in 12 hours. Yep, that time of year, humid sticky days with those awesome Summer thunderstorms in the evenings.

Sigh, I’m with Pumpkin, ready for the weekend. But stay thirsty, as oh well, it will be Thursday tomorrow.

 

[Charade67]

Aww, new great niece born today. An over 8 pound kid. Niece and baby are doing good. My niece will have the house full, with now three kids under 5. Sweet named after my mom and her sister, both whom are no longer with us.

Congrats on the new family member. What a sweet way to remember family members.

 

[macraven]

Well I made it here before midnight
Ahem ...... and where is our night light ....

(This time I had a flash light with me)

it has been a very warm day where I am but temps have now dropped to 75.

Hope all the homies have a good night and not in the path of the awful weather that is happening to many

 

[Lynne G]

Eh, no night owl here.

But always up before the sun.

It’s already 73 out, so I think that AC has been running from the early hours. Will be a warm day, with random rain chances most of the day, with rain predicted to be falling in the later evening and throughout the overnight.

And so, a Thirsty Thursday is here. And always a tea drinking morning for me, and some rain to see today, so we are certainly thirsty this Thursday.

Have a totally terrific Thirsty Thursday.

And hope MonyK has fun in Vegas. And sending well wishes to those that need some, and a hug or two if needed as well.

Good Morning homies.

 

[schumigirl]

@schumigirl it is time for them to start living again. We are not pushing too hard for him to hunt down a job yet. We want him to be able to enjoy the summer. After summer, he is planning to get a job. He wants to save to be able to go to school for as an aviation mechanic. There are only a few places here in Canada to learn that trade...so he will need to save some $$$ to do it. Things change...but that's his plan for now. Dh is hoping by fall, there might be a spot for him on one of their teams that have big projects starting in the fall.

DH is an EARLY morning peep too. If I can sleep until 8:00 AM...I am a happy woman on the weekends lol. Then be able to sit with my weekend coffee and bailey's and do a little scrolling...then get to puttering and putzing and whatever we have planned.

I do like a little Bailey`s now and again........

Best of luck to your son, such a good career to get into for him. One of Kyle`s best friends joined the RAF as ground crew and did his Engineering degree through them and now he is way up in the ranks, we`ll always need aviation that`s for sure.

Yes, the greener the better! Our lawn looked positively ill during the month of June when we had no rain.



Nice you'll have family to visit! A good catch up for sure!
Hope your DS does well with his second shot.....these kids certainly deserve to live a normal life...



It seems as though inventory is still low at many places.
Hope that is fixed sooner than later.....it's hard to support a business that is unable to stock items to purchase.


Good luck with the extractions!
Hope you'll get that vacation soon....






DDs pants for dental school finally came in, so we dropped everything to pick them up in Milwaukee. Now they have to be hemmed up a bit. Regulars are too short, and longs are too long, lol!

I decided to have them altered at a place 5 minutes from here, rather than run back into the city again. Normally I don't mind, but we have a mind blowing amount of construction happening on our interstates currently. Driving on those roads has turned into a NASCAR type event!

Then DD and I went with my dad for lunch. He was in the area picking up a chair that was being repaired, and popped over to say hello. Well, why not?? Two days in a row out to lunch....feeling a bit spoiled!

DD is supposed to be meeting friends for twilight golf around 6pm. Not sure if that's gonna happen, as it's raining currently. They will play in a bit of rain, but not if it's heavy or storming.

I'm off to the grocery store in a bit. Luckily, that can be done rain or shine.

lol....the UK is nothing if it`s not green!! We have plenty of rain to keep it that way......

Sounds like a lovely day yesterday, glad you got the trousers sorted for DD, and nice time with dad too......

Sat down to post about an hour and a half ago and fell asleep. Didn't realize I was so tired.

I have a fun new insurance problem. We have client who has a Medicaid plan. A little over a month ago she told her therapist that she got a full time job back in September, a job that came with insurance benefits. This made the work insurance her primary plan. I was able to re-file some of the claims with the correct plan, but there are 17 claims that are past the date when claims can be filed. Today I discovered that the Medicaid plan had sent some of these claims the the employer plan and the employer plan paid most of those claims, but they paid the Medicaid plan not the therapist. There are a few more outstanding claims, and once those are paid I need to sort out who owes what. I think the therapist has been overpaid, but not sure by how much.
Every time I think insurance issues couldn't get any worse, something new happens to make me crazy.

Yum! Those look really good.

I have only been to Ikea a couple of times. Unfortunately the closest one is over 3 hours away.

Yay! Hope he is able to spend a lot of time with his friends before summer is over. B gets her second shot on Saturday.

Best of luck to him, I hope he is able to get into the school of his choice.

Ouch! Hope everything goes well.

I think tonight is going to be a pizza and Loki night. Tomorrow we have tickets for Black Widow. We have been waiting a long time to see it.

Hope today is better for the workload.....certainly seems frustrating and time consuming.......

Aww, new great niece born today. An over 8 pound kid. Niece and baby are doing good. My niece will have the house full, with now three kids under 5. Sweet named after my mom and her sister, both whom are no longer with us.

Ended up with cheesesteaks. Easy meal, as the steak meat only takes a few minutes to cook. And some cheese, fried onions and sautéed red peppers, and dinner with a not too hot feeling kitchen. One pan, thank you.

Phone has been busy with its weather news flashes, extreme weather alert to expire in 8 hours, flash flooding warning to expire in 24 hours, and a buzzing one, thunderstorms watch to expire in 12 hours. Yep, that time of year, humid sticky days with those awesome Summer thunderstorms in the evenings.

Sigh, I’m with Pumpkin, ready for the weekend. But stay thirsty, as oh well, it will be Thursday tomorrow.

Congrats on the new baby in the family. Always nice to see the family grow.

Well I made it here before midnight
Ahem ...... and where is our night light ....

(This time I had a flash light with me)

it has been a very warm day where I am but temps have now dropped to 75.

Hope all the homies have a good night and not in the path of the awful weather that is happening to many

I was still awake at midnight last night.....could have kept you company and shone a night light.....your temps will be back up in no time.......




Lovely to hear of all the various meets being planned between everyone for September/October.....always fun to meet up with most......

Up early as usual, and out for a long walk as it is gorgeous today after the rain of last night. Headed down to the seafront which was so beautiful this morning and walked for over 8 miles today.....and my tootsies are complaining a little now......

But, to walk along this coastline is lovely, especially when it`s as warm as it is today. I was glad we were out so early.

Will be grilling out tonight again.....got a choice of meats with various flavours, teriyaki chicken will be in there somewhere, I do need to make up that marinade up soon and get the chicken in it. And usual mix of sides and salads......takes time, but home made is worth it.

This afternoon might nip out and head to a garden centre to see if they have any new garden furniture.....we don`t really need any, but it`s nice to have a change.

Lunch is shrimp and I`ll make up our cocktail sauce, different from the US cocktail sauce and will have that with salad......

And Thirsty Thursday is here........

Happy Thursday ​

 

[Charade67]

Good morning. I'm off to see what new fun awaits me at work today.

 

[macraven]

Morning homies !

hope it’s a good day for all of youse

my weather is fine now and hope it stays that way

headed to Publix for groceries this morning

 

[Lynne G]

Pick up some chips for me Mac. LoL

I actually don’t like food shopping. But will have to do some tonight, rather than after work. See, if little one goes with, she gets what she likes. If I take older one, we are accused of buying nothing she likes. Ah, nothing like family food forays.

 

[macraven]

Ok getting chips for lynne
Glad she did not request ice cream as that melts to fast

 

[schumigirl]

mac…….I could do with some more olives if you’re shopping……I’m down to the last few here



Perfect Thirsty Thursday afternoon in the sun………pink gin with lemonade, ice, slice and cherries…….didn’t bother going out after all, it’s far too nice.

So some more garden and chill time

 

[J'aime Paris]

Sat down to post about an hour and a half ago and fell asleep. Didn't realize I was so tired.

I have a fun new insurance problem. We have client who has a Medicaid plan. A little over a month ago she told her therapist that she got a full time job back in September, a job that came with insurance benefits. This made the work insurance her primary plan. I was able to re-file some of the claims with the correct plan, but there are 17 claims that are past the date when claims can be filed. Today I discovered that the Medicaid plan had sent some of these claims the the employer plan and the employer plan paid most of those claims, but they paid the Medicaid plan not the therapist. There are a few more outstanding claims, and once those are paid I need to sort out who owes what. I think the therapist has been overpaid, but not sure by how much.
Every time I think insurance issues couldn't get any worse, something new happens to make me crazy.

Yum! Those look really good.

I have only been to Ikea a couple of times. Unfortunately the closest one is over 3 hours away.

Yay! Hope he is able to spend a lot of time with his friends before summer is over. B gets her second shot on Saturday.

Best of luck to him, I hope he is able to get into the school of his choice.

Ouch! Hope everything goes well.

I think tonight is going to be a pizza and Loki night. Tomorrow we have tickets for Black Widow. We have been waiting a long time to see it.

Insurance stuff makes my head hurt...

Have fun seeing Black Widow!

Aww, new great niece born today. An over 8 pound kid. Niece and baby are doing good. My niece will have the house full, with now three kids under 5. Sweet named after my mom and her sister, both whom are no longer with us.

Ended up with cheesesteaks. Easy meal, as the steak meat only takes a few minutes to cook. And some cheese, fried onions and sautéed red peppers, and dinner with a not too hot feeling kitchen. One pan, thank you.

Phone has been busy with its weather news flashes, extreme weather alert to expire in 8 hours, flash flooding warning to expire in 24 hours, and a buzzing one, thunderstorms watch to expire in 12 hours. Yep, that time of year, humid sticky days with those awesome Summer thunderstorms in the evenings.

Sigh, I’m with Pumpkin, ready for the weekend. But stay thirsty, as oh well, it will be Thursday tomorrow.

Congrats!!!!!! New babies are the best gift!!

Eh, no night owl here.

But always up before the sun.

It’s already 73 out, so I think that AC has been running from the early hours. Will be a warm day, with random rain chances most of the day, with rain predicted to be falling in the later evening and throughout the overnight.

And so, a Thirsty Thursday is here. And always a tea drinking morning for me, and some rain to see today, so we are certainly thirsty this Thursday.

Have a totally terrific Thirsty Thursday.

And hope MonyK has fun in Vegas. And sending well wishes to those that need some, and a hug or two if needed as well.

Good Morning homies.

We are at a chilly 57 right now, and no sun for warmth yet.
A hot coffee morning for me!

I do like a little Bailey`s now and again........

Best of luck to your son, such a good career to get into for him. One of Kyle`s best friends joined the RAF as ground crew and did his Engineering degree through them and now he is way up in the ranks, we`ll always need aviation that`s for sure.






lol....the UK is nothing if it`s not green!! We have plenty of rain to keep it that way......

Sounds like a lovely day yesterday, glad you got the trousers sorted for DD, and nice time with dad too......





Hope today is better for the workload.....certainly seems frustrating and time consuming.......






Congrats on the new baby in the family. Always nice to see the family grow.





I was still awake at midnight last night.....could have kept you company and shone a night light.....your temps will be back up in no time.......




Lovely to hear of all the various meets being planned between everyone for September/October.....always fun to meet up with most......

Up early as usual, and out for a long walk as it is gorgeous today after the rain of last night. Headed down to the seafront which was so beautiful this morning and walked for over 8 miles today.....and my tootsies are complaining a little now......

But, to walk along this coastline is lovely, especially when it`s as warm as it is today. I was glad we were out so early.

Will be grilling out tonight again.....got a choice of meats with various flavours, teriyaki chicken will be in there somewhere, I do need to make up that marinade up soon and get the chicken in it. And usual mix of sides and salads......takes time, but home made is worth it.

This afternoon might nip out and head to a garden centre to see if they have any new garden furniture.....we don`t really need any, but it`s nice to have a change.

Lunch is shrimp and I`ll make up our cocktail sauce, different from the US cocktail sauce and will have that with salad......

And Thirsty Thursday is here........

Happy Thursday ​

Beautiful skies for your walk Carole!

Good morning. I'm off to see what new fun awaits me at work today.

Best of luck!

mac…….I could do with some more olives if you’re shopping……I’m down to the last few here



Perfect Thirsty Thursday afternoon in the sun………pink gin with lemonade, ice, slice and cherries…….didn’t bother going out after all, it’s far too nice.

So some more garden and chill time


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I think you forgot to make a 3rd....you know my love of pink gin cocktails! LOL!!






Mac, please grab me some Fritos scoop chips while at the store!!
I forgot to buy them while shopping yesterday. Luckily, I pass the grocery store almost daily while out and about.


Chore day for me. Dry cleaning to drop off, bank stop, big dog needs extra brushing, vacuum must be run due to extra shedding, make dog food, clean bathrooms, check that guest bedroom is ready for tonight.

We will leave around 4 pm today to pick up DDs friends for the Brewers game tonight. They want to tailgate before the game. Tailgating is almost a bigger deal than the actual game around here. DD is bringing our corn hole game and her cups table along for the pre-game festivities.
Anyone else do tailgating before games??

Bernie Brewer is our mascot, and goes down a slide at the stadium after we score during a game!



And these are our racing sausages, that run a race during every home game. Sometimes they have 'little' sausages run too....it's cute!!


"Chorizo", "Hot Dog", "Italian", "Polish" and "Brat".

 

[Charade67]

Mac, get chocolate.

 

[schumigirl]

Lori, I should have known…….

Now I need to go pour a third glass……..

Sounds a busy day for you and hope you have the best time tonight, sounds a lot of Fun…….although you have to explain tailgating as a fun thing to do…..here I’d report you to the traffic police for doing that……lol…….

Like the running sausages………

 

[macraven]

Added Fritos scoop chips and olives
Green or black?

and chocolate!

 

[schumigirl]

Added Fritos scoop chips and olives
Green or black?

Green please, stuffed with jalapeño and garlic if you can get them……

 

[macraven]

Green please, stuffed with jalapeño and garlic if you can get them……

Ok added more to the list...

 

[Charade67]

Slow day at work today, but the phones should be arriving this afternoon. I forgot my munch this morning and now it is pouring rain and I just heard thunder. Not sure what I will do for lunch.

I actually don’t like food shopping.

Neither do I. If I ever come into a lot of money I am going to hire someone to do it for me. And cook my meals too.

Insurance stuff makes my head hurt...

It’s making me crazy. Guess it’s a good thing I work for mental health counselors.

Anyone else do tailgating before games??

I’ve tailgated a couple of times, but not very recently. Haven’t been to a sporting event in a while.

although you have to explain tailgating as a fun thing to do…

It’s basically a picnic or cookout before a sporting event. Often done in the stadium parking lot.

I should get back to work. Hoping the rain lets up soon so I can get some lunch.

 

[Lynne G]

Hope the rain lets up for you Charade, as yep, almost lunchtime. We had done very light rain around 10 this morning, but so far, looks dry enough for my lunchtime walk.