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

[macraven]

You have been making a lot of masks and they look lovely.
That is very generous of you.

 

[Charade67]

Quick hello. I am on lunch break. Please help me, I am about to go mad. We have been having difficulty with a client’s insurance company. (One we have never dealt with before.) We finally got payment for 4 claims on Thursday. The insurance company paid with credit cards. Thursday night the therapist saw the charges on her Square account, thought we had overcharged the client, and refunded all of them. I asked her why she didn’t check with me first and she said that she didn’t want to bother me at home. So now I’m waiting for someone at the insurance company to call me back and let me know if I can just charge the same cards again or if they have to send me new card info.

Have I mentioned how much I need a vacation?

Tonight’s dinner will be a simple one of ham, mashed potatoes, and probably green beans. I have the ingredients for Dole Whip, so I might try that for dessert. We only have a tiny, single use blender, so I am not sure it will be big enough.

I need to get back to work soon but I will leave you with this. Remember the long, straight hair from last week? This is what it looks like now.

 

[macraven]

It looks really nice!

 

[macraven]

Disxuni.......you’ve missed roll call for a couple of months.
Time to phone home ....or come home!

 

[cam757]

It is Monday again! Back at work. Actually have some work to do today so that is good. Weekend was nice, stayed home yesterday and cut grass while DH did some DIY stuff. Had to replant my garden. I guess I planted seeds to early or maybe too much rain. Only thing that came up were the potatoes. Hopefully, they will pop up this time.

Starting my diet back today...booo. Pants have reached maximum stretch so time to do something about it. Salads from Panera for dinner. Brought a salad from home but I am going to skip it since DH is picking up salads for dinner.

Clairol shimmering lights . If you leave it on an hour or so, as good as any toner. Does have sulfates (gasp!!!). Only use it when the stylists make a boo boo & then once a month or so to freshen things up.

Used it to strip out the purple hue I wound up going down to MCO with for fall trip. Fascinating to watch it turn a weird fuscia shade then start to normalize. I thank my friends I met there who assured me it looked fine lol

Never heard of this stuff. I am going to check this out. I put a small bottle in my Amazon shopping cart.

I will say I never measure ingredients I just blob them altogether....but approximately if you don`t need extra for serving, which I always do always make up as we all like the extra sauce......

150ml pure maple syrup
70ml of sweet and spicy balsamic vinegar
3/4 tblsp dijon mustard
2 large shallots and 2 large garlic cloves minced down
2 tblsp olive oil extra virgin
salt and pepper to taste and cayenne pepper if you like it spicy.

Scrape the marinade off and sear on a griddle, then add the sauce in your cooking dish and roast in the oven covered with foil for 15 minutes or so, then uncovered for 5 minutes.

Leave for 5 minutes to sit.

Sounds good! Pork tenderloin is something I cook fairly often. I usually just wrap it in bacon with spices or brush it with bbq sauce. Will have to try your recipe.

@Charade67 - Dinner sounds good! Hope things at work are better this afternoon.

 

[keishashadow]

Robbie the correct size of elastic is unavailable here, so many making masks due to large health care presence. Such cute patterned material you have!

The insurance company paid with credit cards

Never heard of an insurance company using a credit card to pay a claim. Would think that might go against regulatory rules if not hippa type. Strange stuff

Never heard of this stuff. I am going to check this out. I put a small bottle in my Amazon shopping cart.

Hope it works for u.

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Happy Late Monday! Our dinner tonight is baked chicken breast, mashed sweet potatoes and green beans. Had a busy WFH day, waiting on one item to hopefully finish but could be tomorrow. Although my dh also WFH, we barely see each other during the day. It's nice to catch up with him, although I really can't have missed much

 

[Disxuni]

Disxuni.......you’ve missed roll call for a couple of months.
Time to phone home ....or come home!

I finally manage to come on and this is one of the first things I see! I've missed you! I've missed all my homies! I've finally come home!

Sorry for disappearing on you all. I always thought of you, but in times in which I'd have the urge to log in I'd technically be busy and in times I'd have a moment to attempt to log in I would keep locking myself out. Finally realized I need to just click "forget my password" to finally get back in and stop trying to log in when it clearly wasn't working.

From quick glance I see talk of recipes, puzzles, beautiful photos of deer (I always have plenty of deer in my backyard, but can never take beautiful pictures like that), and masks. I hope everyone is managing alright during these times.

Quick update - no gig as of yet (which I'm sure is no surprise), been working hard on school, been walking a lot and if not, I always bike on my stationary bike everyday. I haven't weighed myself in a few days, but last I checked I lost 7 lbs. Which I'm surprised considering I'm just casually attempting to be healthier / losing weight, not on a strict diet, or anything. I haven't really managed to do a hobby since my father always has an idea on how to keep me busy. I won't bore you with all the other details of what has been going on, so that's the gist!

Definitely planning to being on and updating more. Once again, I missed you all!

 

[schumigirl]

It is Monday again! Back at work. Actually have some work to do today so that is good. Weekend was nice, stayed home yesterday and cut grass while DH did some DIY stuff. Had to replant my garden. I guess I planted seeds to early or maybe too much rain. Only thing that came up were the potatoes. Hopefully, they will pop up this time.

Starting my diet back today...booo. Pants have reached maximum stretch so time to do something about it. Salads from Panera for dinner. Brought a salad from home but I am going to skip it since DH is picking up salads for dinner.



Never heard of this stuff. I am going to check this out. I put a small bottle in my Amazon shopping cart.



Sounds good! Pork tenderloin is something I cook fairly often. I usually just wrap it in bacon with spices or brush it with bbq sauce. Will have to try your recipe.

@Charade67 - Dinner sounds good! Hope things at work are better this afternoon.

Just bbq sauce is gorgeous on it......never wrapped bacon around it, only wrapped it round chicken, sounds lovely.....

Yes, diet is in the plans here too.......not going well though!!

Happy Late Monday! Our dinner tonight is baked chicken breast, mashed sweet potatoes and green beans. Had a busy WFH day, waiting on one item to hopefully finish but could be tomorrow. Although my dh also WFH, we barely see each other during the day. It's nice to catch up with him, although I really can't have missed much

awww, that’s cute!! We keep saying we have no stories to tell each other as we’re even more together than we usually are.....no afternoons with my girlfriends and come home with stories.......

I love sweet potatoes!!! Tom and Kyle don‘t like them, so it’s just for me.......



Bedtime here.......feel as if it’s been a busy day....but it really hasn’t been......

Volunteering tomorrow morning for a couple of hours with delivering packages......keeps us out of mischief......

Have a good evening......l

 

[damo]

Sure!!! The one I`m making tonight is a maple balsamic one....I add different things on different nights depending on what flavour we fancy....

I usually have 2 pork tenderloins around 450g each...marinate them for around 6 hours or overnight.

I will say I never measure ingredients I just blob them altogether....but approximately if you don`t need extra for serving, which I always do always make up as we all like the extra sauce......

150ml pure maple syrup
70ml of sweet and spicy balsamic vinegar
3/4 tblsp dijon mustard
2 large shallots and 2 large garlic cloves minced down
2 tblsp olive oil extra virgin
salt and pepper to taste and cayenne pepper if you like it spicy.

Scrape the marinade off and sear on a griddle, then add the sauce in your cooking dish and roast in the oven covered with foil for 15 minutes or so, then uncovered for 5 minutes.

Leave for 5 minutes to sit.

I vary it and at times use soy sauce and Chinese five spice and maybe a mango and chilli glaze. Pureed pineapple, muscovado sugar and soy with chilli is also lovely.......

Ok now I need lunch......lol..….

As I said we always double up the sauce as we love it. If I don`t have the sweet and spicy marinade I add muscovado sugar to whatever other balsamic I use....got to be a good one, one of the thicker styles.

My friend loves adding tarragon to this but I think it ruins it....not a fan with pork.

I`m looking forward to this tonight.

Sounds delish!!!! Anyone else have any good ones?

 

[Lynne G]

Not me, not a fan of pork, though I will do a center cut pork chop once in a great while, when little one is not home for dinner.

Burgers for dinner, baked beans and a freshly made salad, as needed some color with all that beef.

Just chilling, as dark out from the rain that came just before dinner.

Dix, nice to see ya post. Still sending good thoughts your way, that a good job offer comes around soon. Good luck with the rest of your classes this semester. My little one’s last day is tomorrow, then finals 2 days later. Many kids were annoyed, as scheduled before online was a very long weekend to study before finals. Oh well. Fall is still up in the air as to in person or not. Little one is hoping in person, as she really wants to be in an apartment.

Robo, so nice of you, and those masks look awesome. Sadly, no elastic found around here either. So we wash what we have.

Have a quiet and relaxing evening homies.

 

[agavegirl1]

Tried a new beverage last night. I think I prefer our traditional brandy old fashioned. This is a Skrewball peanut butter whiskey old fashioned.
We are going to try some of the other recipes and they are mostly dessert drinks. This whiskey is sweet and made for sipping.

 

[mckennarose]

Hi everyone, hope you all are well.
Good news! Hubby is NEGATIVE for the virus! Yay! He will go back to work on Wednesday. It's so weird looking ahead and how we will probably have to deal with this for at least the next few months.

@mckennarose Happy Belated Birthday!!

Thank you!!

Duck is a nice area. I have only been through a couple of times but my boss vacations there several times a year and loves it.
We have friends that have a place in Kitty Hawk so we usually stay with them a few times each summer.

Nice! It's such a beautiful area.

Sounds like you feel the same about Jersey beaches as I feel about Virginia Beach.Lol.

LOL! I haven't been to Virginia Beach in about 12 years. We stopped on our way to OBX and I wanted to take my kids on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel so they could see it. We don't normally go that way since it's a little more out of the way, but we did it for the heck of it.

Oh Gorgeous George was something else!!! How did we not know in the 80`s he was gay.....watching the wake me up before you go go video should have told us......lol....but I genuinely believe we were a lot more naïve back then.......

LOL! I never knew either.

I like your blonde look better..

Thank you! I love it and it's so much easier to maintain.

We thought our numbers were dropping, but after a few days of them rising, hoping we are due to drop again. And seems more folks are flouting the lockdown.....phone data is showing more folks are going about their normal business....crazy!! Just means they`ll extend the lockdown and maybe put more restrictions in place....selfish.

That's how they determined only 18% of people in our city were practicing social distancing, by cell phone data. Our city just renewed the rules they put out last month. It was set to expire on the 30th. The only change was our curfew was from 8pm to 6am, and now it's 9pm to 5am. So they only moved the hour. Everything else is still the same; no more than 4 people in a car, no more than 4 outside together unless they're immediate family, and I forget the rest.
Our cases are still rising, but not as quickly now. Not sure if it's due to less cases or less testing done or maybe both. Our local news said our tv station viewing area has around 6,000 cases and 250 deaths so far. PA in total has around 42,000 cases or something like that.

Going to do it in the oven so it`s still kind of crispy and not soggy....one friend I asked said just bung it in the microwave.....nah.....will try the oven....sounds so idiotic having never reheated pizza before.....lol......

Do you have a pizza stone? They're great for reheating leftover pizza and the crust stays crisp. We've also started doing it in the air fryer too, and it comes out good.

Lynne - Here’s the 500 piece we did last week. We are still working on the 1000 piece.

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Love that puzzle! Where did you find it?

Had visitors enjoying the corn I put out.

Sooo cute!

I was out for groceries last week and did do a little multitasking and did curbside pick up at Joann fabric for some Potter material and did find a one yard piece of Nightmare Before Christmas at Walmart.

I love the Jack Skellington one! Great job on the masks!

I need to get back to work soon but I will leave you with this. Remember the long, straight hair from last week? This is what it looks like now.

Love the curls!

Never heard of this stuff. I am going to check this out. I put a small bottle in my Amazon shopping cart.

Purple shampoo is a blonde's best friend. LOL! Just be forewarned.... it is a violent shade of purple! And it will stain your hands if you don't wash it off your hands quickly. I tend to use to very concentrated though, like on my dry hair and leave it on for a while. It depends how brassy I am. The Matrix Brass Off is another one and way more concentrated. It's a bluey-purple.

Our dinner tonight is baked chicken breast, mashed sweet potatoes and green beans.

We had chicken breasts and green beans too! My youngest made dinner tonight and she and hubby had left over homemade mac and cheese as their other side. I skipped it since it's wasn't gluten free. I love sweet potatoes though! She also made a gluten free funfetti cake in celebration of the "rona free" house.

Sounds delish!!!! Anyone else have any good ones?

I don't make pork tenderloin often, but I usually look for recipes on skinnytaste.com and I know she has some pork tenderloin recipes. Have you ever heard of it? She makes really great lower fat recipes and has a bunch on her site. I also have two of her cookbooks that my mom got me for Christmas.

Disney+ announced they're adding The Rise Of Skywalker on May the 4th. I guess I'll wear my new Star Wars t-shirt that I was going to be wearing to Star Wars Land in May. I even had reservations for Oga's Cantina that we were looking forward to.

Hope everyone has a great night!

 

[DisneyLifePapioNe]

Got another order in today!!!

 

[mckennarose]

Which ones do you like? I like the Mine Train one, and the Orange grove. (I don't remember their real names) What does Orleans smell like?

 

[macraven]

Do any of them smell like jambalaya?

 

[DisneyLifePapioNe]

Which ones do you like? I like the Mine Train one, and the Orange grove. (I don't remember their real names) What does Orleans smell like?

Yes orange grove is good the Fiji one is from Soarin also, I’m pretty sure that and banshee are the same, Yacht and Beach are the same and towards the top as far as a favorite, ice cream parlor is awesome and so is banana rum, ET is fun but not a favorite same with splash it’s nice to get a whiff but a little much for a entire day. Orleans is kinda like a fresh clean smell to me???

 

[DisneyLifePapioNe]

Do any of them smell like jambalaya?

I thought they had a Mardi Gras one before but I’ve never smelled it, maybe that did...

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Hi everyone, hope you all are well.
Good news! Hubby is NEGATIVE for the virus! Yay! He will go back to work on Wednesday. It's so weird looking ahead and how we will probably have to deal with this for at least the next few months.


Thank you!!

Nice! It's such a beautiful area.

LOL! I haven't been to Virginia Beach in about 12 years. We stopped on our way to OBX and I wanted to take my kids on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel so they could see it. We don't normally go that way since it's a little more out of the way, but we did it for the heck of it.

LOL! I never knew either.

Thank you! I love it and it's so much easier to maintain.

That's how they determined only 18% of people in our city were practicing social distancing, by cell phone data. Our city just renewed the rules they put out last month. It was set to expire on the 30th. The only change was our curfew was from 8pm to 6am, and now it's 9pm to 5am. So they only moved the hour. Everything else is still the same; no more than 4 people in a car, no more than 4 outside together unless they're immediate family, and I forget the rest.
Our cases are still rising, but not as quickly now. Not sure if it's due to less cases or less testing done or maybe both. Our local news said our tv station viewing area has around 6,000 cases and 250 deaths so far. PA in total has around 42,000 cases or something like that.

Do you have a pizza stone? They're great for reheating leftover pizza and the crust stays crisp. We've also started doing it in the air fryer too, and it comes out good.

Love that puzzle! Where did you find it?

Sooo cute!

I love the Jack Skellington one! Great job on the masks!

Love the curls!

Purple shampoo is a blonde's best friend. LOL! Just be forewarned.... it is a violent shade of purple! And it will stain your hands if you don't wash it off your hands quickly. I tend to use to very concentrated though, like on my dry hair and leave it on for a while. It depends how brassy I am. The Matrix Brass Off is another one and way more concentrated. It's a bluey-purple.

We had chicken breasts and green beans too! My youngest made dinner tonight and she and hubby had left over homemade mac and cheese as their other side. I skipped it since it's wasn't gluten free. I love sweet potatoes though! She also made a gluten free funfetti cake in celebration of the "rona free" house.

I don't make pork tenderloin often, but I usually look for recipes on skinnytaste.com and I know she has some pork tenderloin recipes. Have you ever heard of it? She makes really great lower fat recipes and has a bunch on her site. I also have two of her cookbooks that my mom got me for Christmas.

Disney+ announced they're adding The Rise Of Skywalker on May the 4th. I guess I'll wear my new Star Wars t-shirt that I was going to be wearing to Star Wars Land in May. I even had reservations for Oga's Cantina that we were looking forward to.

Hope everyone has a great night!

Skinnytaste.com is one of my favorites! I can serve the dishes to anyone, they don’t taste like diet food. I also love Emily Bites. She opened my eyes to bleu cheese deviled eggs. Those are a treat!

 

[mckennarose]

Yes orange grove is good the Fiji one is from Soarin also, I’m pretty sure that and banshee are the same, Yacht and Beach are the same and towards the top as far as a favorite, ice cream parlor is awesome and so is banana rum, ET is fun but not a favorite same with splash it’s nice to get a whiff but a little much for a entire day. Orleans is kinda like a fresh clean smell to me???

I'm trying to remember what Port Orleans resort smells like, lol! We've been to both French Quarter and Riverside, but never stayed there. We go for the biegnets and to stroll around. I may have to try that one.

I bought a bunch for my girls for Christmas and we have some here.
We have Banshee Flight, Haunted, Pirate Life, Mine Train, Key West, African Lodge, Polynesian, Orange groves, and Japan. Some I picked based on what rides they like and some for the resorts they like.

I haven't tried any of the food ones yet, but I'll keep those you mentioned in mind. I see they have bath bombs now, too.

She opened my eyes to bleu cheese deviled eggs.

OOOHH!! I love bleu cheese! I'll have to check it out, thanks!