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

[macraven]

Charade, will your kitty hide from the workers ?
Hope the carpet installation goes smooth!

 

[Charade67]

Right now he's on his climbing structure in front of the windows. He occasionally wanders over to the stairs to supervise the workers.

 

[macraven]

Cats are the best supervisors

 

[macraven]

It just does not seem right to have the ac on in December.

A week from now it will be switching back to heat for night time

Never did get to Publix today
But do have a bag of shrimp in the freezer so dinner will be that with some veggie sides

What are you having for dinner tonight?

 

[soniam]

Going to see Ghostbusters Afterlife finally at Alamo Drafthouse. I get the salad with chicken. Since I am still in vacation eating mode, I will be getting an adult peppermint shake and an adult hot chocolate with sugar cookies. Sounds healthy to me No cooking for me.

 

[Lynne G]

Had chicken burrito with black beans, rice and home made by little one, salsa for our dinner. Had to use up those tortillas from the other day in some way. Now all full. And relaxing.

Friday night, and I’m already in my pajamas. Hehe, gave little one a present early. Stitch character very fluffy slippers. She wore them out to pick up her Starbucks coffee. I’d steal them, as looks so fluffy inside the slide on slippers. But alas, they are too big for me. Her foot is a full size or more, bigger then mine. House feels a bit cool, so hot tea for me, not that iced coffee little one got. Older one made some hot chocolate. At least our home smells good,

Light from our little zoo’s lights from last year:


Hohoho. It’s beginning to look like Christmas, everywhere you go…..

Will post this year’s little zoo lights 17 days from today. We like how both zoos decorate for the holidays.

 

[macraven]

5 houses across the street from us had Christmas lights on day after thanksgiving

Many in our hoa go all out for decorations
It’s beautiful and they did a great job!

When do you put up a tree ?
Do you decorate outside of your house?

 

[Lynne G]

Oh we haven’t put up a tree in years. Ours is the fake kind. Bought a new one last year at a very good price, after tossing out the old one. We used to buy fresh when the kids were much younger, but went to fake awhile ago. The new one looks much better than the old fake one. I’ll ask the kids if they want to set it up this year. If we do, will be the week of Christmas. For some reason, never got around to it to even as late as Christmas Eve. On the other hand, my sister has her fake tree set up before Thanksgiving, though she didn’t start decorating it until yesterday. She also used to have real, and went to fake awhile ago too. She also upgraded her fake tree last year. She likes the pre-lighted ones, and her old one had a part if it’s lights go bad. We tried to replace the bad light strand, but the way they put those light strands into the tree, was impossible to replace. So she too found a good priced one after Christmas last year.

Ah, the sounds and sights of the holidays. I like it. Neighborhood has started to be light up. I put a wreath on the door. Has jingle bells on it. That way, you definitely know when someone opens the front door.

With that ever so early wage up, I’m fading fast. It will probably mean I will be up early tomorrow, but that’s okay. Will then be able to say good morning to older one. He’s not an early bird and does not like early work hours. But as it’s that time of year, he likes to pick up hours from worker slots that are open because of vacation taking. And so, he gets to start work the same time as my routine week day tomorrow. Little one, on the other hand. Is done her finals and is on break. I don’t expect to see her until much later in the morning.

Have a very good night homies. Lulled to sleep from those twinkling (so colorful) or blinking (somewhat annoying) holiday lights.

 

[Charade67]

Late night check in. Didn’t do much of anything today and have no plans for tomorrow.

What are you having for dinner tonight?

I was craving sweet iced tea, so we went to McAlister’s. I has a chicken salad sandwich.

Going to see Ghostbusters Afterlife finally at Alamo Drafthouse.

Would you believe I have never seen the original? Dh wants to see Afterlife, so I need to watch the original movie first.

Had chicken burrito with black beans, rice and home made by little one, salsa for our dinner. Had to use up those tortillas from the other day in some way. Now all full. And relaxing.

That sound really good. Nice light for tonight.

When do you put up a tree ?
Do you decorate outside of your house?

We usually put ours up early December. We didn’t put up the full size tree this year since we are having the floors done. I put up our little superhero tree yesterday. Will probably not decorate outside this year. That’s dh’s job, and he will be really busy these next couple of weeks. We also might have part of the yard dug up for the water line replacement.

I took a nice nap this afternoon, so I may be up for awhile.

 

[Lynne G]

Hope you got to sleep not too late Charade. Unlike little one who just went to bed about 1/2 hour ago. I expect older one to be up in about 1/2 hour. Then there’s me. Awake and can’t go back to sleep. Thus, got that tea pot on the stove, and ready for some tea. House does not feel cool, but a relaxing start with tea. Yesss.



Saturday morning homies. Yay! First one in December. Woot! And yep, where I am, that means sunrise is at 7:06 am. And so I get to see outside a very dark sky, letting rain fall. Good thing we are high enough above freezing, while still in the 30’s, that it’s just a cold rain. And weather guy just said the rain should end before sunrise. Then that cloud filled sky most of the day. Not a shabby 50 degrees high either.

And so plans? Um, did some grocery shopping at two places yesterday. Think I picked up eggs? Guess I will go out for picking up eggs. Other than that? Probably going to meet up with my sister, as DH borrowed something of hers, and I’ll return it. Oh, and a relaxing time should be most of the day. Perfect Saturday plans, yep.

Hope homies have a super happy Saturday, with the relaxing part being most of the homies’ Saturday.

 

[Metro West]

Hello friends! Wanted to stop in and say hi now that the weekend is here and we can relax.

 

[schumigirl]

Hello friends! Wanted to stop in and say hi now that the weekend is here and we can relax.

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Morning Todd…….hope you have a lovely weekend ahead and the weather is still fabulous for us…….we gave you a wave as we drove past where your offices are the other day……well, in your general direction lol……





Late night last night at the Orlando Informer event…….what a wonderful event that is! We rode the Velocicoaster at least 10 times and walked straight on most times, longest we waited other times was around 4 minutes, mainly due to lockers. Being in the parks when it’s so quiet was something special. And only needed to put our hoodies on to ride the Velocicoaster, it was not cold at all.

And met the lovely @NashvilleTrio there last night too…….it was so nice to meet her and her son and finally put a face to a name…….

No idea what we’re doing today…….will decide later…….

Safe travels today to @keishashadow and @Worfiedoodles

We had such lovely times meeting up with them both…….

Now to decide if I should go back to sleep or get up……hmmm.

 

[Lynne G]

Maybe just relax Schumi. Glad to hear you had a great time last night. Always nice to meet a Dis friend.

Safe travels Keisha and Worfie.

My tea was quite lovely. Had a blueberry muffin, as picked up muffins from the bakery yesterday. Older one did leave early, and will be home just after lunch. You know, the time little one may be finally awake enough to be ready to go out.

 

[Metro West]

Morning Todd…….hope you have a lovely weekend ahead and the weather is still fabulous for us…….we gave you a wave as we drove past where your offices are the other day……well, in your general direction lol……


No idea what we’re doing today…….will decide later…….

Good morning dear...I thought I felt someone waving the other day.

I think I'm going to do the auto show at the Convention Center tomorrow. Looks to be a lot of fun.

 

[Lynne G]

Sounds like a fun idea, Metro. Auto shows are great to see what’s new and concept.

Still quiet house. More tea. Ah yes.

 

[schumigirl]

Good morning dear...I thought I felt someone waving the other day.

I think I'm going to do the auto show at the Convention Center tomorrow. Looks to be a lot of fun.

Sounds like fun Todd…….

We’re heading off to New Smyrna Beach for a few hours…weather is glorious again, so plenty of sunscreen for us today again….have a great day

 

[Metro West]

Sounds like fun Todd…….

We’re heading off to New Smyrna Beach for a few hours…weather is glorious again, so plenty of sunscreen for us today again….have a great day

Have a great time...I haven't been to the coast since I moved here.

 

[Realfoodfans]

Good evening all. Hope those under the weather are all improving. Can only do our best to keep well and sometimes very difficult.

Mac we have got our trees out and decorated this week. In fact we have brought down all Christmas items from the attic that were ours and Em’s and Kev has put additional racking in the garage so in future we won’t have that task. The difficulty was my heavy Christmas crockery that I’ve collected over many years - called Christmas Village. Have 16 place settings from when we were four generations.

My tree in the lounge is all Disney and I’ve added four new figurines this year so it’s growing!

Em has bought a new pink tree for her room and it’s very pretty but I do like the traditional green.

J has her demoted tree in his room.

The tree in the kitchen/family room is full of children’s craft etc.

Today we had an early birthday party for L who will be eight in two weeks. Em hired a hall and a DJ party guy. He was very good but oh my the noise! Simple party food mostly bought in. So we are all ready for a rest this evening and it will be pizza for a quick meal.
Tomorrow we are going to a Heritage Steam Railway - it’s employed an outside company who tour the country with a “Polar Express” experience. Hoping J will not find it too much. We are taking dressing gowns as requested!

Off to watch Strictly Come Dancing (our version of Dancing with the stars). Up to the quarter finals now and three of the couples are really amazing. I’m particularly fond of the first male couple to ever appear as the “celebrity” is
a guy I’ve done a couple of baking days with when I did my foodie blog.

Hope you all have a peaceful Saturday evening x

 

[soniam]

Would you believe I have never seen the original? Dh wants to see Afterlife, so I need to watch the original movie first.

The original is pretty good. Some of the effects don't quite hold up, since it is so old, but it's still funny. The new one was just OK.

@schumigirl Hope you are having a great time!!!!

 

[Metro West]

Good evening folks. I hope everyone had a great day! I went to Walmart this morning for my weekly shopping excursion and spent too much again. I did have a great dinner. Thick cut NY Strip with green beans and garlic bread. Now I am full and ready for a nap.

Have a good evening!