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

[schumigirl]

Oh and Schumi, turtle cheesecake is a cheesecake topped with chocolate and caramel drizzle, with pecans. Common to see turtle chocolates around here, as that is a chocolate piece filled with caramel and chopped pecan pieces. Tasty both ways in my book. I like that combo flavor. Sweet.

The sun is shining brightly. And high today, fitting for Winter time, is 41. Sunglasses and my winter jacket for lunchtime walk.

mac already filled me in, but thank you.




So, had a new router delivered and new dvr boxes for 3 rooms in the house......now we have to connect them ourselves.....glad my husband is technically minded, almost done.

Had a lovely salon appointment, saw my original stylists new baby, well he`s 3 months old now and gorgeous! Love a cuddle with a little one......he`s so tiny.

Change of dinner plans, having shrimp and oysters again......lovely treat for dinner, our fish guy called and said he had loads, so I popped off down to his seafood hut and bought a lot off of him.

Tom is thrilled lol.......I`ll eat on my own tonight I think! They`re having roasted cod with baby potatoes.

Freezing outside and now the rain has started.......

 

[Charade67]

I am so very bored at work right now. We are supposed to have a little office lunch just after 1:00. I need to remember to go by the grocery store when I leave today. I almost forgot to buy apples.

Starting off my diet early. I was going to wait until tomorrow to start eating bad, but we picked up some "awful" sugar cookies. It's the soft ones from the grocery store with the brightly colored frosting that you suspect uses advanced "technology" to be made. How the heck do they get them that soft and have such a long shelf life I don't know why I can't resist them though.

Ah, the downside of the holidays. I have been given way too much junk food this week.

Came home, all said hungry. Wasn’t watching the knife carefully enough and ouch. It did stop bleeding, but will keep putting antibiotic on it, and change bandaid for a few days. Dumb me.

Yikes Lynne. Hope it isn’t too bad. I still have a small scar on my pinky finger from where I foolishly sliced onions without using a finger guard.

Be careful with the knife. I rammed a small knife into the palm of my hand once while cutting an avocado. The entire tip of the knife disappeared into my palm between my thumb and forefinger. I had to have stitches and had loss of nerve for a while. It's fine now though. Hope your isn't too bad and heals quickly.

My hands are hurting from just reading this.

that’s a very good idea! Always felt for those with BDs near Xmas often getting a bit short-shifted. Sounds like he will have a very special day thanks to you.

I try to be sensitive to this since I have a December birthday too. It’s so much worse for him though.

Just got word that our floors are done. Woo hoo!!!!

 

[Lynne G]

Wahoo! Charade’s house is now fully new floored. Great news. Yeah, at least it was more like a nasty paper cut. And I’m not anemic, so it stopped bleeding after a few minutes. Yeah, when I was pregnant with older one, I tried to slice my finger off too, and ended up with stitches after slicing a watermelon. You can’t tell where that slice was. The only finger you can tell is when my dad smashed my finger tip closing the car door when I was a teen. Nice, deep scar from that one. But I have full use and feeling in it, thankfully. Hoping this one, which has already scabbed, will not scar. Put more antibiotic on it and bandaid, just to keep it clean, and at least not as sore too.

Generally quiet day. And will have a shorter day tomorrow. Yay. And with this glow sun, walk was nice. And dinner time movie. Spidey viewing. Yay!

 

[Pumpkin1172]

Finally getting to make a quick stop in!

I have lots of little things to tie up a few loose ends at work. Last minute spreadsheets of information and all that jazz. Those bean counters are always crunching the numbers. I am trying to leave early today, have a few things I want to get done today before the kids arrive. It's those little last minute things to pick up. Once those are done, I can finally relax.

Weather is mild, but of course it started dumping snow. We are probably close to 7- 8 inches so far...and it's still falling. Kids are leaving soon, and road reports are stating the highway is not in great shape. Hopefully because they are leaving after lunch crews will have done a good scrape and spread of salt. I will be on high alert until they get here. Then we get sent back into the deep freeze again for Xmas. Christmas is one of two extremes in our province - either it's warm and raining...or it's - 40F or colder OH well, it's live in the north.

@schumigirl - the seafood sounds delightful. We don't get many " fresh" items. We might do a seafood night yet. We might be at the mercy of getting what's left. Enjoy your seafood tonight

@Charade 67 - Yahooo!!!! to the floors being done!

@soniam - yes...the downhill slide into the holiday treats has started. Dd has already asked if there will be a beverage, goodies, and everything else is ready for them lol. So I guess we are starting today too. I have done baking, but not indulged yet....but I did bring in a tray of baking into work here which has already disappeared

@Lynne G enjoy that movie! Ds went last night and said it was really good! I can't wait to go. We probably won't to see if now until after the new year.

@macraven Enjoy your time with your ds and dil! I LOVE any meal that I don't have to prepare myself. I'm sure they will enjoy anything you make for them. And FYI...my own family dislikes turkey meals - I LOVE them. So glad I married into a family of turkey meal lovers lol.

Well, I should get the last spreadsheet for the day completed, and a few more papers entered into other systems. Such dry work lol.

Have a great day everyone...stay safe!!!

 

[Lynne G]

Hope all stay safe in your family, Pumpkin. You do get very cold temps. We get a crap shoot for our Christmas Day, snowy or teeth chattering cold, to cold and rainy, to short sleeve wearing. But from the forecasts, think our toss was a good one. Saying 54F will be the high. Yeah, pants, but yep, short sleeved will be worn. Though I’m going to wear my buffalo plaid pants with my black T shirt. Holiday weekend, yay! And yep, should certainly be partaking of this week of gluttony. LoL

 

[soniam]

So far, they are predicting 82F for us on xmas day. It's been a fairly warm winter so far. It won't stop me from drinking hot cider, hot coco, and gluhwein though

 

[schumigirl]

Any public announcements over there about masks coming back to UOR from the next few days onwards?

I checked but can`t see anything online......

 

[soniam]

Any public announcements over there about masks coming back to UOR from the next few days onwards?

I checked but can`t see anything online......

I found a link, but it's blocked on the DIS. Someone said that Carly Weisel also posted it. A FB group I am in posted something official from either Twitter or FB that it starts Friday for everyone indoors.

 

[schumigirl]

I found a link, but it's blocked on the DIS. Someone said that Carly Weisel also posted it. A FB group I am in posted something official from either Twitter or FB that it starts Friday for everyone indoors.

Ah I don`t have FB or twitter so wouldn`t have seen them, and some news agencies we can`t read out of the USA, but I thought it would have been officially announced today somewhere.

I did hear the 24th too it would start.

 

[soniam]

Ah I don`t have FB or twitter so wouldn`t have seen them, and some news agencies we can`t read out of the USA, but I thought it would have been officially announced today somewhere.

I did hear the 24th too it would start.

I think that's UO's official announcement. I must not follow their FB page. I have Twitter but rarely look at it. I first read about it on a thread here on the DIS, maybe in News or TPAS.

EDIT: Here's the thread.
https://www.disboards.com/threads/universal-requiring-masks-starting-12-24.3864161/

 

[schumigirl]

I think that's UO's official announcement. I must not follow their FB page. I have Twitter but rarely look at it. I first read about it on a thread here on the DIS, maybe in News or TPAS.

Thanks Soniam.........I did bring up UOR Twitter site to read, but didn`t see anything earlier.

To be honest, I hadn`t looked elsewhere on the Dis as I expected it to be here, but guess not. So it has been announced finally officially?

 

[SkyGuy]

 

[schumigirl]

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Thanks SkyGuy........

 

[macraven]

If you see a post that has sections starred out, just walk away from that post

too many nice peeps get infraction points when they continue to ask ways to get around the Disboards rules
or pursue the conversations

but it’s now been posted that masks will be required in two days
So it’s not a big deal as UO has released the new info

 

[schumigirl]

Finally getting to make a quick stop in!

I have lots of little things to tie up a few loose ends at work. Last minute spreadsheets of information and all that jazz. Those bean counters are always crunching the numbers. I am trying to leave early today, have a few things I want to get done today before the kids arrive. It's those little last minute things to pick up. Once those are done, I can finally relax.

Weather is mild, but of course it started dumping snow. We are probably close to 7- 8 inches so far...and it's still falling. Kids are leaving soon, and road reports are stating the highway is not in great shape. Hopefully because they are leaving after lunch crews will have done a good scrape and spread of salt. I will be on high alert until they get here. Then we get sent back into the deep freeze again for Xmas. Christmas is one of two extremes in our province - either it's warm and raining...or it's - 40F or colder OH well, it's live in the north.

@schumigirl - the seafood sounds delightful. We don't get many " fresh" items. We might do a seafood night yet. We might be at the mercy of getting what's left. Enjoy your seafood tonight

@Charade 67 - Yahooo!!!! to the floors being done!

@soniam - yes...the downhill slide into the holiday treats has started. Dd has already asked if there will be a beverage, goodies, and everything else is ready for them lol. So I guess we are starting today too. I have done baking, but not indulged yet....but I did bring in a tray of baking into work here which has already disappeared

@Lynne G enjoy that movie! Ds went last night and said it was really good! I can't wait to go. We probably won't to see if now until after the new year.

@macraven Enjoy your time with your ds and dil! I LOVE any meal that I don't have to prepare myself. I'm sure they will enjoy anything you make for them. And FYI...my own family dislikes turkey meals - I LOVE them. So glad I married into a family of turkey meal lovers lol.

Well, I should get the last spreadsheet for the day completed, and a few more papers entered into other systems. Such dry work lol.

Have a great day everyone...stay safe!!!

We`re very lucky pumpkin in the UK to have many areas that we get the best seafood from. Where I grew up seafood was in abundance and mum and others bought it fresh off the boats, great memories. We`re lucky to have a similar set up here, but we don`t get things like giant scallops on this coast.

Hope the family have safe travels and get to you without incident. Have a wonderful time with your family.......

 

[soniam]

Can any of you detect the differences between these two lists of symptoms? One is for a big allergy issue that happens here in Austin in the winter caused by "cedar" trees. Technically, they are junipers, but people here call them cedars Also, who has ever heard of winter allergies The other is for Omicron. I can see a couple of slight differences, but basically, I think they are telling us that it's pretty difficult to tell the difference between allergies and omicron, especially if you get sinus problems with your allergy symptoms. This just made me laugh.

Common cedar fever symptoms:

• Extreme tiredness
• Sore throat
• Runny nose
• Itchy, watery eyes
• Stuffy nose
• Frequent sneezing

Most Common COVID-19 Omicron variant symptoms:

• Runny nose
• Headache
• Fatigue (either mild or severe)
• Sneezing
• Sore throat

https://www.kxan.com/weather-traffi...s-want-you-to-know-the-symptoms-to-watch-for/

 

[schumigirl]

Soniam, those symptoms are about 50% of my friends for most of the year........lol........yes, very confusing and then you read common cold symptoms and you think......doh!!!



Ended up having an earlier night than planned, so up even earlier this morning than usual........did make use of the time though and got a few jobs done quietly, although the kitchen is well away from any of the upstairs rooms, I`m sure I wouldn`t have disturbed anyone......well, think I annoyed a fox when I put on the back outdoor lights to see what the weather looks like.

For some reason I have a long list of things to get today, so need to pop out to a few places and then we`ll be done. We plan to watch White Christmas and A Christmas Carol with Alasdair Sim which is the definitive one for us......nothing beats this version.

Dinner tonight will be Chinese, but not take out, will make a few dishes from scratch and we`ll pick at them, I will buy filo pastry for the duck spring rolls, don`t know anyone that makes that type of pastry from scratch, every other pastry yes. Just hope I can get some decent ginger.

Croissants for breakfast today and plan to make roast beef soft hoagie style sandwiches for lunch, I do need mustard though.

It`s almost here

Happy Thursday ​

 

[Lynne G]

Sounds like a busy day, Schumi. After scaring that fox, what was the weather looking like? We are clear with the temp showing 26 degrees. And with this still early days of Winter, it’s very dark out. We get a sunny morning then a partly cloudy day. But a cooler one. 38 degrees is the high. Meals sound delicious. But our egg rolls will not be with duck. Steak or just vegetables are ours. And yep, I buy the dough to wrap them in. We ended up with soup last night, as was late because of movie viewing.

Was a decent movie. Was nice most cheered when the prior movies’ actors arrived on screen. Parts seems a bit almost boring, but overall, was enjoyable to watch, and on a big screen, was good to be back to movie theater viewing. Older one I think enjoyed it the most. He’s been a comic book fan since young.

And so, it’s the last day of routine week day routine for me. Yay! Tomorrow will be a mostly lazy day. Older one works the entire time the store is open tomorrow, but at least he does not work any time this weekend. And both kids are happy to see the Chinese place we order from is open tomorrow and Saturday. I can see us ordering maybe Saturday for an early lunch, as we gather for dinner, usually.

And double yay yay:


Thus,


Yes, a Merry Christmas to all the homies.

 

[macraven]

Not many more days until Santa brings you presents

Let’s see who gets the bag of coal this year, just kidding

 

[Lynne G]

The presents are all wrapped and ready, Nac. No coal given. Though in years past, I could find that coal candy, but can’t find it for years now. Did pick up a coal bar of soap for my DH. Hehe. But he’s on the nice list. LoL

Tea? Why yes, and more of it this morning.