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

[Lynne G]

Schumi, the most common USA ones are Lipton and Tetley, but I prefer Lipton. The Lipton black tea is a mix of orange pekoe and pekoe cut black tea. I also do like an English one: Taylors of Harrogate’s afternoon tea. It’s a Darjeeling tea. Quite nice, and I do drink it later in the day. Lipton is the one I start with, that or Earl Grey.

Ooh almost time for that cool, but still sunny lunchtime walk. Woot!

 

[schumigirl]

Lynne, Liptons was the tea we first tried in America......it was so weak, we compared it to dishwater, it had no discernible taste of tea to us. But, the lady did say it was popular in America but Brits tended to not like it......never really seen it over here.

Not brands I’d use, but interesting you have Tetley over there. I can drink Taylor’s of Harrogate if I get it as a gift. I tend to buy all our tea online or from local suppliers. They really do have so much more choice and flavours. But again, each to their own with tastes and palates. Wouldn’t do if we all liked the same things......that would be dull.




Got another call from the internet trying to scam again.......I played along for a while and I’m sure he cursed at me when he realised I was playing him at his own game........told him he really shouldn’t lower himself to cursing.......he hung up lol........love to play along with them and the scam accident lawyers.

Time to think about starting dinner.......getting hungry......

 

[Charade67]

Quick afternoon drop in. It has been rather slow here for the past couple of days. I'm not complaining. I got bored yesterday and decided to clean the break room freezer. It was disgusting. I have no idea when it was last cleaned, but I found food with mid 2019 expiration dates. Also found stuff I couldn't identify.

Last night we finally started taking Christmas stuff down. We got most of it done. Still need to put away the big tree and take down the outside lights.

Oooh, good choice; especially now that you don’t have to worry about the am hassle to MGM for RoTR. Curious to see how it goes trying for aslot from resorts.

What was the hassle? Do we have to make reservations for RotR?

Don’t think they host any youth groups either...there are things you can never unsee, even at disney word lol.

That's good to know.

Our only concern is the GC who are taken all over by their father. Travelled to another area for the snow twice, takes them to see all his family, shopping etc. All unnecessary but what can we do.

How frustrating. Any chance he sill stop now that the restrictions have been tightened?

For my area in GA, the vaccine is set up by doctor groups based on the county they are established and my medical group does not have the vaccines.
It could be April or May for my medical group to vaccinate.

I have no idea what they are doing here, but know that I am not high priority. The husband of one of our therapists is a doctor who works closely with Covid patients. He has already received his first does and is scheduled for the second one soon.

Anything below 85F in Florida is too cool for me.......I was cold one night when it was 75F!

75 is perfect for me. Heat and I do not get along well. I just hope it isn't too bad when we go in May.

Well, youngest dd's boyfriend's father is positive for covid; he wound up in the ER yesterday where he got a test. So far he has a cough, fever and feeling tired. Her boyfriend went for his test this evening. I'll be calling my rheumy tomorrow to get his input on us getting tested, which I think he will probably recommend. I am having what feels like allergy symptoms, but it doesn't feel any different than other times my allergies kick up. We last saw dd's boyfriend on Saturday and she saw him at work on Sunday. The 14 day waiting game begins......

Oh no, prayers for everyone. Hoping for all negative results

There are chances of snow early next week. Eh, so far saying possible, so I am hoping my bet that snow does not arrive, is a winning one.

Our forecast is showing possible snow tomorrow morning. I'm not expecting much if any.

The mr grabbed some fancy chai tea for my Xmas stocking. I’m absolutely not a fan of it. didn’t want to hurt his feelings. After brewing it at his urging, choked down a cup Last weekend, so Funky

I have never tried chai tea, and now I don't think I ever will.

Almost time to go back to work. If I get really bored I might clean the microwave.

 

[macraven]

Charade I wish you lived next door to me!

I would pay you $50 an hour to clean my oven.

I handle my fridge ok so I don’t need help with that
appliance.

 

[schumigirl]

Quick afternoon drop in. It has been rather slow here for the past couple of days. I'm not complaining. I got bored yesterday and decided to clean the break room freezer. It was disgusting. I have no idea when it was last cleaned, but I found food with mid 2019 expiration dates. Also found stuff I couldn't identify.

Last night we finally started taking Christmas stuff down. We got most of it done. Still need to put away the big tree and take down the outside lights.

What was the hassle? Do we have to make reservations for RotR?

That's good to know.

How frustrating. Any chance he sill stop now that the restrictions have been tightened?

I have no idea what they are doing here, but know that I am not high priority. The husband of one of our therapists is a doctor who works closely with Covid patients. He has already received his first does and is scheduled for the second one soon.

75 is perfect for me. Heat and I do not get along well. I just hope it isn't too bad when we go in May.

Oh no, prayers for everyone. Hoping for all negative results

Our forecast is showing possible snow tomorrow morning. I'm not expecting much if any.

I have never tried chai tea, and now I don't think I ever will.

Almost time to go back to work. If I get really bored I might clean the microwave.

lol...the joys of clearing out an office freezer! Yes, I won`t reccommend the chai tea......

We`re the same Charade, not expecting much snow if any. Being right beside the sea, we get very little snowfall usually, even if 15 minutes inland have a heavy snowfall.

We`ve had a very wet May and a very hot May so far........I`ll always go for the heat, but I know what you mean.




Dinner over.......fish was beautiful and plates were all clean. No room for dessert tonight yet, maybe later.

Think it`ll be a movie night again, will rumble through the DVD`s and see what we fancy......

Wonder how @Disxuni is doing....haven`t seen her for a while.......

 

[macraven]

Yea Disxuni is missing !

I sent her a few messages but have not heard back from her since Christmas period passed.
Don’t remember when school started back for her.

 

[schumigirl]

Yea Disxuni is missing !

I sent her a few messages but have not heard back from her since Christmas period passed.
Don’t remember when school started back for her.

Hope she pops back in soon, I`m sure she`s ok but would be nice to have her say hello......

I was thinking of rpbert the other day....Robert, and wondered how his daughter was getting on, she was a jockey wasn`t she? He hasn`t posted for a few years now. I forgot to add him to the call out list last week.....

 

[macraven]

Yes he was very active in the sans years back
Wonder if his daughter is still in her same line of work with the horses

We watched her when she started her career and hope she has been a successful jockey.

 

[Realfoodfans]

@Charade67 no chance of him changing his behaviour. He is a narcissistic bully and will do whatever he wants when he wants. He lied in the family court and has caused untold damage to the children. But sadly these days the fact he claimed he would change his behaviour and do what was best for the children he was allowed more access - but that doesn’t happen. We are still waiting to take him to court over finance and I’m sure will end up back in court regarding the children. Em is amazing how she supports them but it is very hard work. When J is about 14 he will be able to say he doesn’t want to go but he says he wouldn’t want L to have to go on her own. It’s tough. Could write a book. Currently have 97 pages of notes of his bizarre behaviour.

Don’t think we will be late to bed. I slept this afternoon but tired now. Not a lot on tv and don’t feel like a film so old drama programme I think.

Heavy snow predicted for overnight so might not get to our butcher tomorrow but plenty still in the freezer.

Take care all x

 

[schumigirl]

Yes he was very active in the sans years back
Wonder if his daughter is still in her same line of work with the horses

We watched her when she started her career and hope she has been a successful jockey.

I remembered her name and surname too (good memory) and Googled her, can`t see anything Jockeywise after 2017/18.

I`d love him to pop back in and catch us up, yes we did watch her from when she started. He hasn`t posted in over 2 years, they were a nice family.

 

[Lynne G]

Yep, hope Dix is doing okay. Didn’t she say close to graduation? I can’t remember. Both my kids start back two weeks from now, the week of the federal LK holiday.

Which reminds me, after this full week back, and two Mondays from now being the holiday, I need to make a shorter week next week, and do a 4 day weekend. Woot!

But am thankful tomorrow is Friday.

And tea, Schumi, I agree Lipton is a very weak tea. Which is why I steep it with more bags than they say. I do like the taste of it though. Yep, to each their own. I guess I like it as my mum used that and she was a tea drinker. Never drank coffee. But on weekends is when I enjoy that Earl Grey. Both British teas I can order online, so it’s nice to not hunt for it in the local stores. But I do find some British brands in the stores, and go to a tea place in the City, where they bag what you select from their barrels of tea leaves. I’ve enjoyed my selections from there.

And so, talk of food. Thinking ham. As made chicken fingers for dinner last night, then chunked the left over for lunch. So three chicken meals? Eh.

 

[schumigirl]

There are good and bad Earl Greys too. Brand is so important though.

I love TWG teas, you can only purchase them from harrods in the UK last time I checked. Teabox, Good & Proper Tea and Fortnum and Mason are among our favourites. Teapigs is a good cheap and cheerful brand too. Very rarely do we use teabags though. I had an old aunt years ago who wouldn`t ever use any kind of tea bag as she said they used the sweepings off the floor for them.....lol.....

I did like the ones the hotel uses, Tea Forte.....for mass produced it was quite nice, they were the only American option we ever liked. And Twinings do some lovely ones too, but, you can pick them up anywhere.

I need to stop talking of tea.......




No snow so far......I think further up and West of us will get the worst of it, and Scotland will get it too. It`s cold though, we have a real feel of -2c according to my phone.

Still no room for ice cream, will leave it till tomorrow night now....and I`ve just been asked what`s for dinner tomorrow night.....I have no clue!

 

[keishashadow]

Twinnings for hot tea. Love all varieties I’ve tried. Go for lighter blend In afternoon, prince Edward & lady grey, hardto find here at times

iced tea is only liptons. As Lynne said, nearly double the tea bags needed as the size has shrunk over the years.

I have never tried chai tea, and now I don't think I ever will.

I tabled that for the day

Charade I wish you lived next door to me!

I would pay you $50 an hour to clean my oven.

I handle my fridge ok so I don’t need help with that
appliance.

I refuse to buy an oven without self cleaning feature. Get a kick out of how it incinerates stuff to ash...quickie with shop vac & good as new

 

[Sue M]

Schumi bleck I hate aspartame. Glad some drinks are now using alternative sweetener that doesn’t have that awful aftertaste. Just have to do some hunting around.

Lynne yikes -4 is too cold! Brrrrr
I just finished my noon cup of tea. I had 2 more bags left of my coveted Trader Joes Pomegranate tea left lol. I’m a coffee drinker in the morning, can’t get up without it, but after that it’s tea. I had it in my new Chip mug my youngest got me for Christmas!

Keisha of course bacon makes everything better! Won’t get an argument in this group!
Sounds like your mom is a strong lady. I happen to enjoy chai! I wish I didn’t loose the contact info, was at a farmers market and bought some homemade blend which was delicious. Would order more if I didn’t loose info. Yes, milk and sugar are needed!

Realfood hope you’re feeling better soon. Stay home and rest. Perfect op to catch up on shows or reading. Maybe someone else can go to the butchers for you.
I’m so sorry about everything you’ve had to go thru.

Mac that’s quite the system! I hope you get the vaccine sooner than later.

McRose it’s pretty hard not to get angry when you find out someone has been so lax, putting your family in harms way. And who knows how many others. It’s inexcusable.

Lynne I’m amazed at all the different brands of tea here. My pref for Earl Gray is Twinnings at the grocery store. But I enjoy flavoured herbal teas too. David’s has some nice ones.


Today was overcast, but no rain! Yay. I went out for a 3km walk around the neighbourhood with the dogs. Seems like others had the same idea. I saw a few others out too. My walking buddy is having hip problem so she hasn’t come out in awhile. It’s very easy to walk together but keep a distance between us because we don’t have sidewalks except for the perimeter road.
I think we’ll have sausage for dinner tonight. And a few sides.
Saturday is my youngest daughters birthday. 31! How did that happen? She and fiancé are coming for dinner. I miss her. We didn’t have Christmas or New Years together. Covid numbers are slowly decreasing here, mainly because I think people listened and didn’t have big family get togethers for Christmas and New Years. And none of the usual friend get togethers either.

 

[Lynne G]

Yep, me too Keisha. Self cleaning oven. Gets super hot, then wipe the ashes out, nice and clean. With the kids cooking for years, it is a nice extra to have in an oven.

Hey Sue, woot! Birthday weekend for your daughter. Yeah, no reason to have extended family. We usually get together for New Year’s Day, but did not this year. Phone calls and that’s was it. Was my mom’s birthday, so it was a good reason to bring all together to celebrate. But as the first year without her, no one felt like even trying to get together either. Yeah, we get cold for late winter. I feel like our coldest month is actually February. But compared to last year, we still are in double digits. We have had winter temps in the low single digits.

Ah, with my vampire kids having first meal lunch around 2:30, I’m almost surprised no one hungry yet. Little one will turn nose up when I say ham dinner. Maybe will cook a chicken breast in the pan with the ham. I for one, am not the type to force food when not liking it. She does eat bacon, but not a fan of a ham steak. So while I am not a restaurant chef, I don’t mind a separate protein when easy to do. My fry pan is large, so will be easy to fry up both meats.

Was a nice sunset, as no clouds on the horizon yet.

Have that awesome Thursday evening.
And a Woot!

 

[mckennarose]

Well, it wasn't too bad today. The wait time, in the car, was about an hour. Then we went straight into a room, both dd and I together. Quick vitals and the swab. Just like a flu swab. Then the doctor came in and spoke with us and gave us papers to take home, with a website to check for results. He said some get them back in 24 hours, some 2 - 3 days depending on how busy the lab is. The lab closer to our house was giving results in 7 days. So we wait.

And so, sending good thoughts that McK and her family do not get the virus, and father is getting better.

So far, so good for him. He has asthma and doing breathing treatments at home, his fever was lower today and he lost his sense of smell. It wasn't his first symptom and just started today, he said. No results for dd's boyfriend yet.

Aw, thank you. She has overcome adversity most of her life. If anyone can will themselves better, it would be her

Sending good wishes for a quick recovery to her!

McK, hope test is not positive, and just your allergies. It is sad how the actions of one can effect so many.

So many things to worry about. It must make you angry to hear of folks being so complacent, when you have been so careful.

Mrose, you have been extremely careful even prior to the first info to isolate.

it is sad with all the safety features you have done may have been compromised by one person.

The thing that gets me is that I know they didn't understand where I was coming from by not getting together with them for nearly a year, that my dd constantly refused going to their "large" family gatherings including Christmas where they had 15 people at their house, and feeling like they kind of rolled their eyes at us for being so "extreme". But I have a compromised immune system and I had to be extra careful, plus I'm on immunosupressants, so I can get pneumonia from a common cold. That's the frustrating part and what makes me feel like they just gave a "yeah, we're all fine, no one is sick around us" response when my dd would ask them every time they invited her over or to a family thing. Now they're scared and the cavalier attitude is gone. I do feel bad for them and the mother texted me yesterday apologizing.

 

[Lynne G]

Still sending good thoughts to you McK. Yeah, with my older one having asthma responses, and my DH having lots of issues, we too have limited to just my sister at times, and that’s it. Because of DH’s age, and his medical issues, he was just told he is on the list to get vaccine. Scary times, that is for sure. I am hoping the father recovers soon. And happy to hear he can be at home for treatment.

Dinner done. Little one was happy to see the chicken, ham was tasty with some baked beans tossed over it. Add some pan fried yellow peppers and tomatoes, and my dinner is a one pan meal, one pot meal. Score.

 

[Charade67]

Came home today hoping dh had taken the tree down. Nope. He decided to wait for me. Yay.
I am running the last load of dishes in our old dishwasher. The new once comes tomorrow.

I would pay you $50 an hour to clean my oven.

Um...I'm willing to clean the microwave, but not so sure about a regular oven. I'd have to be really, really bored.

@Charade67 no chance of him changing his behaviour. He is a narcissistic bully and will do whatever he wants when he wants. He lied in the family court and has caused untold damage to the children. But sadly these days the fact he claimed he would change his behaviour and do what was best for the children he was allowed more access - but that doesn’t happen. We are still waiting to take him to court over finance and I’m sure will end up back in court regarding the children. Em is amazing how she supports them but it is very hard work. When J is about 14 he will be able to say he doesn’t want to go but he says he wouldn’t want L to have to go on her own. It’s tough. Could write a book. Currently have 97 pages of notes of his bizarre behaviour.

That is just heartbreaking to read. It's always the kids that suffer. So sweet that J is already thinking about his sister's feelings and doesn't want to leave her alone.

I refuse to buy an oven without self cleaning feature. Get a kick out of how it incinerates stuff to ash...quickie with shop vac & good as new

When we bought our house we forgot to look inside the oven when looking at the house. It was awful. So much stuff burnt on. I tried to clean it, but gave up quickly. We ended up buying a new oven, but made the mistake of not getting self cleaning. We might replace it when we eventually do a kitchen renovation.

Saturday is my youngest daughters birthday.

Happy birthday to her.

He said some get them back in 24 hours, some 2 - 3 days depending on how busy the lab is. The lab closer to our house was giving results in 7 days. So we wait.

Hope you get results quickly.

No work tomorrow, but can't sleep late. I have one of my least favorite medical appointments tomorrow. I had the other least favorite yesterday. At least I got both out of the way for the year.

 

[schumigirl]

Twinnings for hot tea. Love all varieties I’ve tried. Go for lighter blend In afternoon, prince Edward & lady grey, hardto find here at times

iced tea is only liptons. As Lynne said, nearly double the tea bags needed as the size has shrunk over the years.


I tabled that for the day

I refuse to buy an oven without self cleaning feature. Get a kick out of how it incinerates stuff to ash...quickie with shop vac & good as new

I`ll bring you some Lady Grey next time we`re there at the same time, it`s in every grocery store here. Never tried Prince Edward.

Yes, self cleaning ovens are the best. We have a built in double oven and I do still give it a clean myself cause I`m a sucker for punishment apparently. The Aga however does need proper cleaning, but I stay on top of it, hate doing it though.

Well, it wasn't too bad today. The wait time, in the car, was about an hour. Then we went straight into a room, both dd and I together. Quick vitals and the swab. Just like a flu swab. Then the doctor came in and spoke with us and gave us papers to take home, with a website to check for results. He said some get them back in 24 hours, some 2 - 3 days depending on how busy the lab is. The lab closer to our house was giving results in 7 days. So we wait.


So far, so good for him. He has asthma and doing breathing treatments at home, his fever was lower today and he lost his sense of smell. It wasn't his first symptom and just started today, he said. No results for dd's boyfriend yet.

Sending good wishes for a quick recovery to her!



The thing that gets me is that I know they didn't understand where I was coming from by not getting together with them for nearly a year, that my dd constantly refused going to their "large" family gatherings including Christmas where they had 15 people at their house, and feeling like they kind of rolled their eyes at us for being so "extreme". But I have a compromised immune system and I had to be extra careful, plus I'm on immunosupressants, so I can get pneumonia from a common cold. That's the frustrating part and what makes me feel like they just gave a "yeah, we're all fine, no one is sick around us" response when my dd would ask them every time they invited her over or to a family thing. Now they're scared and the cavalier attitude is gone. I do feel bad for them and the mother texted me yesterday apologizing.

Good luck with the results, hope it`s negative.

I had a friend want to meet for a walk recently, I asked what she`d been doing, she said she had wandered around the indoor Mall a couple of times, and a few other things that were unnecessary and risky to me....but really, trying to make folks understand you don`t need to be doing certain things, is a waste of time. And the ironic thing is, her husband has some health issues and is 60 so really she is being careless and I told her so.

But, continued good wishes to you all.




No snow this morning but the rain hasn`t quit the whole night. Hailstones interspersed with heavier rain. But, it is the most miserable of days, so I`m glad we don`t need to go anywhere.

Breakfast was poached eggs on an English muffin, lunch various grilled sandwiches of choice and dinner is chicken breasts in a honey mustard sauce......as requested by my lot. I think I made it a little too mustardy the last time, it was fine for me but not for everyone else, so less mustard this time.

Little bit of housework and not much else. Going to scan some more pictures today, it`s taking forever but I`ll get there eventually.

Have a happy Friday





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[Realfoodfans]

Morning all. We have woken to snow covering the ground but not a lot yet. 70% chance of more today.

Coffee and grapefruit for breakfast and we will go shortly to the butchers. Will also go to a nice bakery nearby as I don’t like supermarket bread. They are in a little village called Bollington. It’s very pretty and a good community. It’s one of the areas we would move to but is set in a little valley so a lot of hills.

Hope all are doing ok and heading to peaceful weekends.

Carole - Kev is also scanning more photos today!