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

[Charade67]

Today has turned into a sad day. B and dh's university has experienced its first Covid death. He was a student and a member of the marching band. I don't know anything else about him, but it is just so sad to lose someone so young.

I think I'm going to invest in a little Keurig for my office for me to use. I really enjoy my tea. Might have to see how much they are, or maybe put it onto my xmas list. Then I could brew some tea anytime I want. It's the little things that can make work a little more enjoyable.

Sounds like a great idea for a Christmas gift. Hopefully there will be a good sale between now and Christmas. We have a small one in our office kitchen. One of the therapists uses it every day.

Dad spent yesterday back in the hospital again. Blood clot.....so the knee issue was put on the back burner. He is seeing the ortho sometime this afternoon.

So sorry to hear about your dad. Continued prayers for quick recovery.

I watched a video on YouTube that showed the parade. Looks nice. They also showed Earl the Squirrel popping out of the tree. I had never heard of Earl the Squirrel before….,LOL

I joined the UOAP group on Facebook and am learning a lot of stuff about Universal that I never knew before.

And another night light from that zoo lights that we are looking forward to seeing tomorrow night:

Cool light. I hope to have some fun ones after next Friday.

So the latest on my floor is tentative install dates of December 13-15. I am now wondering if I should even bother to put up a Christmas tree this year. I am so ready for this to be over.

 

[Lynne G]

Ah Charade, very sad to hear of a student’s passing. Unfortunately, the virus does not discriminate young or old. Sending my sympathy to the family and friends. So heartbreaking.

Ah yes, a quiet SANS thread lately. But understand, as it’s the time of year many are busy with the holidays. And travel. Yay to traveling now, Paris, Son and soon Schumi.

So if there’s not much to report, you get the weather news. Well above freezing this morning. 46 says the thermometer. Morning weather news guy said hazing this early morning, with clearing mid morning, to have a mostly sunny day, with rain predicted later in the evening. Thus, based on that news, will tell little one we should get to the zoo earlier rather than later. We both have weather radar on our phones, so while we are there, we will be looking at it every so often. At least the hot chocolate and food is inside tonight.

And so, with nary to report, it’s the last week day routine for me. Yeah with a restless bedmate, when DH asked me what I’m going to do tomorrow, I said sleep later. Well, he knows me well. We are both early risers. Difference is, on my off days, I still may be up early, but not move fast to get up.

Finally, with truly something about nothing, yes tea. You know I start Thirsty Thursday right.

So homies, throw back a drink, as can have a fond memories to remember, and enjoy a drink, or many.




Happy Throwback Thirsty Thursday homies!

And a good morning. Why yes it is.

 

[Pumpkin1172]

Very Early morning stop in!

Not much happening here either. It is mild here (not nearly as cold as it could be) roads are cleared and finally have my winter driving skills back lol. It always takes a day or two to brush up those skills.

Not sure what is in store for the weekend. Probably a quiet one. Dh is curling tonight as part of his regular league team he plays on. He is busy curling in a tournament all weekend as well. I will probably head down to the curling rink for Saturday night to watch a little bit, have the big supper and see if we can score some great prize in the silent auction. Last time we scored a great weekend getaway to take in an NHL game and hotel stay in the city.

Dad spent yesterday back in the hospital again. Blood clot.....so the knee issue was put on the back burner. He is seeing the ortho sometime this afternoon.

I will be sending many healing thoughts to you dad.

Well, I should go shuffle some papers.

Have a great day everyone...stay safe!

 

[macraven]

I believe you are the winner in the sans group for having the first snow fall this year

Stay warm!

 

[Robo56]

Good Thursday morning everyone





Hope everyone is doing well this morning.

Safe travels to Soniam.



Charade so sorry to hear of a student passing of Covid at your daughters University. So sad when someone so young dies.


Lynne hope your tea is hot and tasty this morning.


Pumpkin hope the roads aren’t to bad in your neck of the woods.


The sun is peeking through a little. We had some high winds yesterday and rain last night. Our temperature Is supposed to plummet tonight.

I made homemade pizza last night and some Apple Oatmeal cookies for dessert.

Hubby really likes those cookies.

Lori thank you again for the recipe. They are so good.

Not much planned today. Just going to be a chill today.

Have a wonderful day everyone.

 

[Lynne G]

That was a nice prize, Pumpkin. Hope you win something as good or better this time. Curling is not as popular where I am. Glad to hear warmer, so ice not an issue today.

Robo, good to hear from you, and hope you are feeling much better, enjoying a cup of coffee in your HHN cup.

Think I hear kids in the kitchen. If it’s little one, will either be a rice dish or pasta dish. Don’t care. I’m glad both my kids are good cooks. Lunchtime walk time. Yay, 65 out, no jacket and rocking those sunglasses. Hair tied up too, as too warm out to want it around my neck.

Hope this finds all in a most happy mood, and safe travels to Son today. Excited Son and family I bet. And for good reason! Yay! Travel day to vacation.

 

[soniam]

Thanks everyone. I made it! Eating a salad and holiday treat at Today Cafe. DH and DS won’t come until tomorrow night, since DS has school today and tomorrow. Getting used to hauling my purse, suitcase, and camera backpack through the airport and in bathrooms.

@Charade67 so sorry to hear about the student. Such a sad way to go.

 

[macraven]

Sonia, enjoy your solo day as once your dudes arrive, you will be busy nonstop I imagine

where do you plan for dinner tonight?

 

[soniam]

Sonia, enjoy your solo day as once your dudes arrive, you will be busy nonstop I imagine

where do you plan for dinner tonight?

I am meeting @J’aime Paris and Bobbie at Strong Water, so I might get dinner there.

 

[macraven]

I am meeting @J’aime Paris and Bobbie at Strong Water, so I might get dinner there.

Sounds like a good plan!
Have a great time with the homies!

 

[Lynne G]

Yum! Though like the old cafe’s menu better, I did enjoy my meal at the Today Cafe.

You could easily make a dinner at Strong Water. The chicken fingers and other items seem large, and everything I’ve eaten there has been delicious.

Yep solo is so nice. Can do or don’t do whatever you want. Though nice when family comes.

Woot!

 

[Pumpkin1172]

Not much paper to shuffle today.

Ran to HomeSense over lunch. There is a friends and family sale event happening at all the TJX stores here in town for employees. I had some coupons to hand out to others to use for 20% off...I get 30% off. I found out while I was out shopping, that employees get 30% off at all TJX stores. THAT could be dangerous lol. Ran to the store next to Homesense and picked up some xmas pj's for gd for her Christmas Eve box...along with a xmas book as well. AND found a few extra clothes that Grammie couldn't resist My cc is smoking a little bit after my shopping spree lol.

Today has turned into a sad day. B and dh's university has experienced its first Covid death. He was a student and a member of the marching band. I don't know anything else about him, but it is just so sad to lose someone so young.

I'm so sad to hear that.

I made homemade pizza last night and some Apple Oatmeal cookies for dessert.

Hubby really likes those cookies.

Yum!!!! Now I want pizza. Maybe we will do that tomorrow night for supper.

I am meeting @J’aime Paris and Bobbie at Strong Water, so I might get dinner there.

Enjoy your park days!!! How awesome is a meet up! I hope your meal is great. and you have a great time visiting other hommies from here!

Hope you win something as good or better this time. Curling is not as popular where I am. Glad to hear warmer, so ice not an issue today.

I know not many people like curling. I'm not a huge fan of it. My knees can't do it- hence why I don't play. It is not a huge sport here...but those who play it are HUGE die-hards for it. Sometimes watching a game is like watching paint dry

Well, I should run to the bank and do that bank run....and maybe hit the TJX that is near the bank and see if I can spot a new shirt or something for myself lol.

 

[schumigirl]

Today has turned into a sad day. B and dh's university has experienced its first Covid death. He was a student and a member of the marching band. I don't know anything else about him, but it is just so sad to lose someone so young.

Sounds like a great idea for a Christmas gift. Hopefully there will be a good sale between now and Christmas. We have a small one in our office kitchen. One of the therapists uses it every day.

So sorry to hear about your dad. Continued prayers for quick recovery.


I joined the UOAP group on Facebook and am learning a lot of stuff about Universal that I never knew before.


Cool light. I hope to have some fun ones after next Friday.

So the latest on my floor is tentative install dates of December 13-15. I am now wondering if I should even bother to put up a Christmas tree this year. I am so ready for this to be over.

That is sad to hear about the student Charade.

I believe you are the winner in the sans group for having the first snow fall this year

Stay warm!

Yes, we don’t want snow either mac do we……..

Good Thursday morning everyone

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Hope everyone is doing well this morning.

Safe travels to Soniam.
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Charade so sorry to hear of a student passing of Covid at your daughters University. So sad when someone so young dies.


Lynne hope your tea is hot and tasty this morning.


Pumpkin hope the roads aren’t to bad in your neck of the woods.


The sun is peeking through a little. We had some high winds yesterday and rain last night. Our temperature Is supposed to plummet tonight.

I made homemade pizza last night and some Apple Oatmeal cookies for dessert.

Hubby really likes those cookies.

Lori thank you again for the recipe. They are so good.

Not much planned today. Just going to be a chill today.

Have a wonderful day everyone.

Hope you had a lovely chill day Robbie…….

Thanks everyone. I made it! Eating a salad and holiday treat at Today Cafe. DH and DS won’t come until tomorrow night, since DS has school today and tomorrow. Getting used to hauling my purse, suitcase, and camera backpack through the airport and in bathrooms.

@Charade67 so sorry to hear about the student. Such a sad way to go.

Have fun soniam……

Not much paper to shuffle today.

Ran to HomeSense over lunch. There is a friends and family sale event happening at all the TJX stores here in town for employees. I had some coupons to hand out to others to use for 20% off...I get 30% off. I found out while I was out shopping, that employees get 30% off at all TJX stores. THAT could be dangerous lol. Ran to the store next to Homesense and picked up some xmas pj's for gd for her Christmas Eve box...along with a xmas book as well. AND found a few extra clothes that Grammie couldn't resist My cc is smoking a little bit after my shopping spree lol.


I'm so sad to hear that.

Yum!!!! Now I want pizza. Maybe we will do that tomorrow night for supper.

Enjoy your park days!!! How awesome is a meet up! I hope your meal is great. and you have a great time visiting other hommies from here!

I know not many people like curling. I'm not a huge fan of it. My knees can't do it- hence why I don't play. It is not a huge sport here...but those who play it are HUGE die-hards for it. Sometimes watching a game is like watching paint dry

Well, I should run to the bank and do that bank run....and maybe hit the TJX that is near the bank and see if I can spot a new shirt or something for myself lol.

I grew up opposite the Island of Alisa Craig where the granite is mined to produce the vast majority of curling stones made in the entire world. Another site is in Wales, but Ailsa Craig is world renowned in the Curling world.

It’s very popular in Scotland too, but too cold a sport for me.




Thank you to the ladies sending PM’s asking if I was still around…….Yep, still here. Appreciate the concern though…….

 

[Lynne G]

Hope all is well with you and family, Schumi.

Evening, and was a perfect warm night to be at the zoo. To get all in that holiday spirit, here’s some holiday lights from the zoo:


His tail was at the end of the part of the walkway.



Huge tree of these. So pretty.



Large rocks being used as screens, some gorgeous scenes to music.



Had an undersea area with lots of different colored jellyfish.

We had a great time.

 

[Metro West]

Morning all! Just wanted to pop in and wish everyone a wonderful Friday! It's been raining here nonstop since yesterday afternoon but its is supposed to move on out by tonight.

Everyone finalizing their Thanksgiving plans for next week? I have to get a couple of things from the store tomorrow then I'm all set.

We are having a holiday cook out at work today with hot dogs and hamburgers and assorted side dishes. It should be good...although some people groaned about a cook out right before Thanksgiving. In my opinion its never a bad time for hot dogs and hamburgers.

Have a great day!

 

[Robo56]

Good Friday morning










Lori, Bobbie68 and Soniam so glad to hear you all were getting together for a visit. Strong Water is a nice place to visit. Good beverages, good food and lovely staff. It is always nice to hear that Sans family members are getting together.

I joined the UOAP group on Facebook and am learning a lot of stuff about Universal that I never knew before.

Would be interesting to hear of some of the interesting things you read on there. I don’t do Facebook.

Robo, good to hear from you, and hope you are feeling much better, enjoying a cup of coffee in your HHN cup.

Good morning Lynne coffee is good this morning. Things are doing better with leg and foot now I have issues with a tooth. When it rains it pours at times.

Thanks everyone. I made it! Eating a salad and holiday treat at Today Cafe. DH and DS won’t come until tomorrow night, since DS has school today and tomorrow. Getting used to hauling my purse, suitcase, and camera backpack through the airport and in bathrooms.

Glad to hear you got in safely. Yep, solo travel is interesting. I solo travel most the time. I really enjoy it. A few others on the Sans travel solo too. It takes a little getting used to especially when you are used to having other family members helping with the bags.

Ran to HomeSense over lunch. There is a friends and family sale event happening at all the TJX stores here in town for employees. I had some coupons to hand out to others to use for 20% off...I get 30% off. I found out while I was out shopping, that employees get 30% off at all TJX stores. THAT could be dangerous lol. Ran to the store next to Homesense and picked up some xmas pj's for gd for her Christmas Eve box...along with a xmas book as well. AND found a few extra clothes that Grammie couldn't resist My cc is smoking a little bit after my shopping spree lol.

LOL.....That is so funny. Enjoy your shopping. My credit card has been on fire since September. Hope you find what your looking for.

Evening, and was a perfect warm night to be at the zoo. To get all in that holiday spirit, here’s some holiday lights from the zoo:

Beautiful lights at the Zoo Lynne.

Morning all! Just wanted to pop in and wish everyone a wonderful Friday! It's been raining here nonstop since yesterday afternoon but its is supposed to move on out by tonight.

Good morning Metro.

Everyone finalizing their Thanksgiving plans for next week? I have to get a couple of things from the store tomorrow then I'm all set.

Thanksgiving is pretty well wrapped up here.

We are having a holiday cook out at work today with hot dogs and hamburgers and assorted side dishes. It should be good...although some people groaned about a cook out right before Thanksgiving. In my opinion its never a bad time for hot dogs and hamburgers.

A cook out is always nice. It’s always nice when you can do special things at work. Have a good day at work.



We are in the 20’s this morning. Burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Up early this morning. I woke up Monday with a tooth ache under one of my back capped teeth. Thought it would pass, but last night the pain started in pretty bad. So I will be calling dentist as soon as office opens.

Hubby has a test early this morning and a visit with doc after. So as soon as that is done I pray I can get into dentist.

I do not like going to the dentist I do all the preventative care. I go every 6 months for routine exam and teeth cleaning. I was having sensitivity to that tooth on last visit and dentist had me change tooth paste. Did X-ray at the time and all was well. Will see what’s up hopefully this morning. Always something......LOL....life marches on.


Have a great Friday everyone

 

[Lynne G]

Hey, free meal at work, yeah. No complaints when burgers and dogs would have been from me, Metro. Besides that grilled meal is nothing like a Thanksgiving dinner.

Robo, oh no! Tooth pain is so painful. I hope you can get to the dentist this morning. Sending well wishes that you can get to the dentist soon, and stop the pain you are feeling.

Happy Friday indeed. Well, tried to sleep later but a restless bed mate is also a very noisy riser. As such, was up right after him. No matter, a different screen viewing, and a tea cup that needs a refill is on the table next to me.

And so odd, with that talk of lemon curd. I don’t think the kids read this thread or heard me talk about it. Well the kids were out and about yesterday, as stopped at that big mall to see what was going on. There’s a nice bakery near there. And kids stopped in there on their way home, and bought me this large piece of lemon curd on the dusting of very finely ground sugar cookie crumbs. Only my, was that perfectly lemon sour with just a sweet taste every so often. Could only eat half, so what was with my tea this morning? Yay, the rest of it, so nice and cold as was put back in the refrigerator.

And so, DH asked again what I am doing today. Um, relaxing? Some grocery shopping and when we went to the zoo last night, saw the gas level was close to way too low. Hence, a gas fill up is in my plans today. Besides those two errands, nothing else planned.

And a final hehe, before I get up to refill that tea cup. Kids said not far from the hunting store they went to the day before, there was road construction, with a narrow lane with high barriers on both sides. We call that type of construction, driving in cattle chutes.

A most fabulous Friday homies.

All the supplies for our Thanksgiving dinner are bought. So happy next week is a short one, and a week break for little one. Older one’s college only get Thursday and Friday off. Eh, will be nice to have that two day longer weekend.

And leaving on a final hehe. One of my brothers’ wife decided they would go to her side’s family lunch instead of coming to our family’s late afternoon dinner. Brother said, with her family’s meal’s time, we should be done in enough time to come to our family’s dinner. Bonus! Two nice meals, sounds like a most perfect Thanksgiving.

 

[Charade67]

Good morning everybody. For the first time in several weeks I have a Friday where I don't have to get up early and be presentable because someone is coming to do some work on my house,

Last night dh and I went to a show called Champions of Magic. It was really good. I would have enjoyed it much more if the couple next to me hadn't talked the whole way through it. Ugh, some people.

No plans for today except maybe a brief shopping trip to get a couple of things to decorate my office. We haven't decorated much in the past because one of the therapists didn't like it. Well, she is gone now, so I am going to put up a small tree and a few other decorations. I had purchased some clearance items after Christmas 2019, but then we were online only for 2020, so no point in decorating then. I'm going to find the stuff I bought and see what else I need.

Not sure what is in store for the weekend. Probably a quiet one. Dh is curling tonight as part of his regular league team he plays on. He is busy curling in a tournament all weekend as well. I will probably head down to the curling rink for Saturday night to watch a little bit, have the big supper and see if we can score some great prize in the silent auction. Last time we scored a great weekend getaway to take in an NHL game and hotel stay in the city.

Curling is one of those sports that I never understood. I think I was an adult before I even knew what it was. Hope you are able to get a nice prize this year.

I am meeting @J’aime Paris and Bobbie at Strong Water, so I might get dinner there.

Hope y'all had a nice SANS meetup.

My cc is smoking a little bit after my shopping spree lol.

Think of it as doing your part to stimulate the economy.

Thank you to the ladies sending PM’s asking if I was still around…….Yep, still here. Appreciate the concern though……

Glad you checked in. Hope all is well.

Evening, and was a perfect warm night to be at the zoo. To get all in that holiday spirit, here’s some holiday lights from the zoo:

Love all the lights.

Everyone finalizing their Thanksgiving plans for next week? I have to get a couple of things from the store tomorrow then I'm all set.

We are having a holiday cook out at work today with hot dogs and hamburgers and assorted side dishes. It should be good...although some people groaned about a cook out right before Thanksgiving. In my opinion its never a bad time for hot dogs and hamburgers.

I still need to get apples and milk, but will wait until Monday. Thankfully our friends are doing most of the cooking. Oh, I also need to get sodas for everyone.
Nothing wrong with a cookout before Thanksgiving. You need to eat lunch anyway, right?

Glad to hear you got in safely. Yep, solo travel is interesting. I solo travel most the time. I really enjoy it. A few others on the Sans travel solo too. It takes a little getting used to especially when you are used to having other family members helping with the bags.

I did my first solo trip last month and really enjoyed it. I wish I could do it more often.

Up early this morning. I woke up Monday with a tooth ache under one of my back capped teeth. Thought it would pass, but last night the pain started in pretty bad. So I will be calling dentist as soon as office opens.

Hope you are able to get to the dentist and get that taken care of quickly.

And so odd, with that talk of lemon curd. I don’t think the kids read this thread or heard me talk about it. Well the kids were out and about yesterday, as stopped at that big mall to see what was going on. There’s a nice bakery near there. And kids stopped in there on their way home, and bought me this large piece of lemon curd on the dusting of very finely ground sugar cookie crumbs. Only my, was that perfectly lemon sour with just a sweet taste every so often. Could only eat half, so what was with my tea this morning? Yay, the rest of it, so nice and cold as was put back in the refrigerator.

That sounds really good. Lemon is my second favorite dessert flavor after chocolate.

This afternoon B will be coming home for Thanksgiving break, so that means dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant. Tomorrow night we are going to a showing of the movie The Princess Bride. After the movie there will be a Q&A session with actor Cary Elwes. Should be fun.

 

[macraven]

Good morning homies!
One of our favorite days of the week for those that have jobs
at 5:00 today, your time is your own

(I remember those days where time went very slow until it was 5:00 !)
Have a great weekend

Every day is a weekend for me
Wait until you retire and you’ll quite enjoy not having a fast pace schedule

Turkey is one of my favorite meats and could eat it frequently.

But with the kids now out of the house and live too far away to come for a holiday visit, no turkey dinner do we fix
Sons live hours away from us and their job hours change by the week
Their place is a 24/7 work schedule and hard for them to get holidays off work

I love turkey but not enough to buy one and be eating it for a week for the two of us
Now our cats would love to live on turkey for a week
But don’t think our vet would agree with that ..
Lol



I like the dark meat and Mr Mac loves the white meal
And neither of us wants to eat turkey for days
So we compromise and will order pizza for Thursday !
It will go well while watching the football games on tv

 

[Realfoodfans]

Good evening all.

Sending healing thoughts to all those needing them and so sad to hear of a student passing Charade. Sad times for sure.

I’ve been AWOL as we’ve been continuing with work on the house here and then I had a severe adverse reaction to my third Covid injection. Had no issues after AZ but this was Pfizer last week and oh goodness was not good. Has been Yellow card reported. Recovered now but very tired this evening so will not be late to bed.

Lot of our friends are travelling now but it appears Europe is shutting down again. One friend is in Vienna but sorted flights to return on Monday before Austria locks down again. Perhaps we got it right here as we (so far) haven’t had a big spike in cases.

Em has gone to collect J from his friend where he has been from school for tea. His friend has additional needs too and they have become great pals. I’m sure she’ll be a while chatting to his Mum who is also on her own so L and I are watching Disney+ . Kev has the living room tv in peace and quiet!

I look forward to hearing all your Thanksgiving preparations and seeing pictures.

Take care all x