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

[Pumpkin1172]

Friday morning stop in!!!

TGIF...it felt like a super long week! I decided to treat the staff with some Tim's this morning. Placed a mobile order, walked in to pick it up. Soooooooo much easier to preorder and pay. If anyone has a Justin Bieber fan - he teamed up with Tim's and came out with Merchandise...AND a couple of signature mini dounuts. Everyone comments about
" Bieb's Balls" they are actually pretty good. Anyone need some signature merch for a Bieber lover??? I can hook you up

Not much on the agenda for the weekend. Tonight we are decorating the Christmas twig we have lol. Tomorrow is to putter/clean the house and get started on some Xmas baking. I like to bake and give it away to friends and co-workers as gifts.

Well, I should shuffle the few papers I have sitting on my desk. Not much sitting here today...so that will give me time to daydream and look for areas to explore in Orlando.

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

 

[schumigirl]

Happy Friday. I have a day with nothing planned. I might wrap some Christmas presents and maybe a trip to the mall. The LL Bean boot mobile is supposed to be visiting today.

I'm feeling very adult today. I ordered myself some more socks and a sock drawer organizer. Yes, this is the excitement level of my life right now.

I just want my house to be finished. Hopefully that will happen next week.

I am so glad you were finally able to come back. Maybe we can meet next year. I am hoping for another September trip.


I like the warm, but not the rain. I am looking ahead to next week. If the forecast holds, it will be nearly 70 for our Busch Gardens Christmastown trip.

Guess I should get up and do something productive today.

Hope you get your home finished soon Charade…….it is nice to see everything done. It would be nice to say hello to you in September…..we’re often accused of being anti social as we don’t want to fill our calendar with meets with lots of folks, we do enjoy meeting some folks though…..so pop us in your calendar to say hello when you know your dates as we’ll probably be there most of September unless we change to all of October……still deciding.

Enjoy that sock drawer organiser……yes, I get it!

Howdy all! Just saying hello on this wonderful Friday from the office. It' supposed to be 82 today then cool down on Sunday...next week should still be very nice.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

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I agree Todd…..and we had the most perfect weather for our trip……it really was the nicest Nov/December so far……

Hope you have a great weekend Todd…….





Nah, don’t need an award for being up early, prefer a snuggle to be honest.

Such a busy day……laundry, laundry and more laundry…….and another covid test as per regulations of doing one within 2 days of returning home……crazy!! Got it posted off priority as requested.

Put our new Christmas decorations from the IOA Christmas store in what is now known as The Universal Tree……most of the decor is all from that store.

Doing takeout tonight again, might do takeout tomorrow night too……will start back proper cooking on Sunday. Wine and Christmas movies tonight…….

 

[Lynne G]

Yeah, the joys of return home, are not the most fun having to do laundry and felling jet lag. Don’t blame ya in the least to not cook at home until Sunday. And how nice, to have a Universal ornament tree. Funny, never got an ornament from Universal, but did get one from SW one year. May took a look into that Universal Christmas store this year.

Pumpkin, nice of you to share. No Timmy’s around where I live, but can now easily get the coffee to brew at home. Have some to use, including bullet coffee little one picked up the other day. Otherwise, we tend to buy only one flavor of Starbucks to use in our coffee maker.

Well lunchtime walk was not as wind blowing as thought, but glad did face jacket, as was close to 50 degrees by the time I returned. And little one made chicken in the air fryer, with some noodles, so I guess we eat our fair amount of pasta meals. Full though, so tea for me. Tomorrow will he errand running and I guess packing. We are thinking of sharing the check in bag, and both will have our backpacks. Not much to pack, given only 4 nights. And a hehe, older one again asked me to stock the kitchen before we leave. Um, make me a list, or at least give me an idea of what you want. Should not be much, as we do have quite the stock since shopping last weekend.

Friday afternoon. Why yes it is. Yay!

 

[Metro West]

I agree Todd…..and we had the most perfect weather for our trip……it really was the nicest Nov/December so far……

Hope you have a great weekend Todd…….

Thank you! Not sure what I'm going to do other than get my hair cut in the morning. Glad you are getting acclimated to your time zone again. I know it's hard. When I went to Maui in 2000 we went the weekend where Daylight Savings started and we lost an hour...on top of the jet lag. Very rough few days.

 

[Charade67]

I am very sad right now. I just learned that Mike Nesmith of The Monkees has died. Micky Dolenz is the last remaining Monkee.

 

[schumigirl]

Thank you! Not sure what I'm going to do other than get my hair cut in the morning. Glad you are getting acclimated to your time zone again. I know it's hard. When I went to Maui in 2000 we went the weekend where Daylight Savings started and we lost an hour...on top of the jet lag. Very rough few days.

I can imagine Todd, it is hard going this way. But, on a side note we`d love to visit Hawaii.....Janet is always enticing us with tales of it`s beauty.

I am very sad right now. I just learned that Mike Nesmith of The Monkees has died. Micky Dolenz is the last remaining Monkee.

I just read that. Tom is a big Monkees fan, I didn`t realise Mickey Dolenz was the last one.





Just finished some beautiful Thai food. Spicy hot red curry and a few other choice dishes we all enjoyed, and opened a nice bottle of white.....still haven`t decided what movie to watch, this is the start of our Christmas movie season. Christmas lights and candles all around and dim cosy lights.....perfect.

Bacon for breakfast......yoohooo.....mac......you`ll smell the aroma!!

Getting tired, so will have to fight dropping off to sleep now till bedtime. Not as easy as it sounds.........that`ll be us for a few days.....

 

[Metro West]

I can imagine Todd, it is hard going this way. But, on a side note we`d love to visit Hawaii.....Janet is always enticing us with tales of it`s beauty.

LOL...I would too. My parents went to Oahu in the 80s and I went to Maui in 2000. My manager at work is from Honolulu but you really need to see the islands if you get a chance. There are spectacular. It was an 11 hour trip from my home town to Dulles to LA to Maui.

There is never a bad time for bacon!

 

[schumigirl]

LOL...I would too. My parents went to Oahu in the 80s and I went to Maui in 2000. My manager at work is from Honolulu but you really need to see the islands if you get a chance. There are spectacular. It was an 11 hour trip from my home town to Dulles to LA to Maui.

There is never a bad time for bacon!

I`ve never heard anyone say anything negative about Hawaii, all positive. We`d love to see the many observatories there....stargazing is definitely a deep interest for all of us. It is on the list for sure.....along with many others for sure. Yes, we`d want to do it all.....lol.....

Yes, we`ve done many long haul flights over the years and they do still take an effect, especially travelling East.

Yup....bacon anytime is good!!

 

[Charade67]

It' supposed to be 82 today then cool down on Sunday...next week should still be very nice.

I really wish I could be there next week. The weather sounds perfect.

Hehe, I ordered a new kitchen trash can, Charade.

Adulting at its finest. I was happy when we got our stainless steel can with soft close lid.

TGIF...it felt like a super long week! I decided to treat the staff with some Tim's this morning. Placed a mobile order, walked in to pick it up. Soooooooo much easier to preorder and pay. If anyone has a Justin Bieber fan - he teamed up with Tim's and came out with Merchandise...AND a couple of signature mini dounuts.

That seems like an odd pairing and I think they could have found a better name. My husband loves Tim’s coffee. Sue brought me some when we met in October.

we’re often accused of being anti social as we don’t want to fill our calendar with meets with lots of folks, we do enjoy meeting some folks though…..so pop us in your calendar to say hello when you know your dates as we’ll probably be there most of September unless we change to all of October…

We can plan a brief meetup once you have your plans set. I’m fairly flexible for when I can go. The only day that’s bad for me is September 30.

I just read that. Tom is a big Monkees fan, I didn`t realise Mickey Dolenz was the last one.

The TV show inadvertently predicted this. I. One episode Davy and Peter are missing. Micky tells Mike that if he (Mike) we’re to disappear then Mickey would be a solo. The Micky starts singing the theme song as a solo - Here I come, walking down the street. I get the funniest looks from……

A little creepy.

In happier news - the flooring is here!!!



Its all in B’s room right now.

Well, I am stuck in my recliner for awhile. Caspian has curled up in my lap and gone to sleep. He never sits in my lap.

 

[soniam]

@Charade67 Yeah for flooring!! It's the little things in life that make us the happiest

Got one car plated and registered yesterday!! Scooter is back in the shop. Needs a fuel pump. Should have ridden it or added fuel stabilizer. Oh well.

Got my booster today and soothed myself with an eggnog shake at our local fast food burger place. Hopefully it doesn't hit too hard.

Going to do our Trail of Lights tonight in the big park in town where they host ACL Fest. It's a drive-thru again this year. Thought about bringing hot coco for the car, but it's in the 80s. The xmas train continues this weekend. I will pick up our gingerbread house kit from the children's museum, and we will decorate it at home. Hopefully we will get some xmas movies/shows watched, decorate, and build our Lego xmas sets.

 

[Charade67]

Woke up 2 hours before my alarm and can’t blame the cat this time. I wanted to sleep in, but have someone coming to replace my water line at 7:30.

Got my booster today and soothed myself with an eggnog shake at our local fast food burger place. Hopefully it doesn't hit too hard.

I need to schedule my booster soon. Dh loves eggnog. I’m not a fan. I just bought him a pint of eggnog ice cream from our favorite shop.

Going to do our Trail of Lights tonight in the big park in town where they host ACL Fest. It's a drive-thru again this year.

I wish we had something like that here. I miss the huge light displays. We used to go to one in Charleston, SC when my MIL lived there.

Going to try to get in a little more sleep before I really have to get up for the day.

 

[schumigirl]

I really wish I could be there next week. The weather sounds perfect.

Adulting at its finest. I was happy when we got our stainless steel can with soft close lid.

That seems like an odd pairing and I think they could have found a better name. My husband loves Tim’s coffee. Sue brought me some when we met in October.

We can plan a brief meetup once you have your plans set. I’m fairly flexible for when I can go. The only day that’s bad for me is September 30.


The TV show inadvertently predicted this. I. One episode Davy and Peter are missing. Micky tells Mike that if he (Mike) we’re to disappear then Mickey would be a solo. The Micky starts singing the theme song as a solo - Here I come, walking down the street. I get the funniest looks from……

A little creepy.

In happier news - the flooring is here!!!

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Its all in B’s room right now.

Well, I am stuck in my recliner for awhile. Caspian has curled up in my lap and gone to sleep. He never sits in my lap.

It`s funny how subliminal predictions come true at times.

Yes, would be lovely to say hello next year, we`ll get something organised if we stick to September. Hope the flooring goes well.

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Saturday comes around so quickly......of course just another day not at the office for some of us.....still love the weekend though.

In isolation till we get the results back of the covid PCR test we took yesterday, Tom popped out to post it though, well, you have to. Hoping to get the results today or tomorrow. Monday we have our Covid boosters to get in the morning, and a charity event in the afternoon for the homeless and then our village is having a little outdoor candlelight Carol service in the evening, weather permitting, if it`s raining it`ll be inside the church.

Woke up early again this morning, so decided to get up and do all the little jobs like cleaning out some of the kitchen cabinets and so forth.......finished laundry, washed the floors in rooms that have wood or flagstone floors and then it was still only around 9am. I`ll flag this afternoon sometime I`m sure.

Decided to have takeout tonight again, Chinese I think.....just Tom and I so we may choose a few dishes and just make a little buffet out of our evening, then our usual December Christmas movie run began last night with Trading Places.....might watch The Grinch. Yep, every December it`s tradition to watch the same old movies....maybe 12 of them....always ending with White Christmas and Alastair Sim A Christamas Carol on Christmas Eve....only this year we`ll be travelling up to Scotland that day, again weather permitting so we`ll have to fit them in before.

Time to go iron......yep, someone who still irons.......

 

[Lynne G]

Good morning Schumi, and Charade.

Hope the water line gets fixed quick Charade, as I guess nice for them to be early. And good it’s going to be the warmest day we have had in a while.

Hope those house chores include some tea drinking, Schumi. Our little town had the lighting up and caroling was had last weekend. I hope the weather holds, as sounds like a nice night. And we had Chinese last night. It was a little one and me dinner. As neither one of us could decide what to make for dinner. Had a mini buffet of it too, as older one usually is hungry when returning from his late night work. And all of us do not mind eating leftover Chinese food.

And I have no reason to be up early, just after being up early most of my life, I rarely sleep late. But yay, as tomorrow I will be moving faster, then this morning. Nothing like enjoying some park time from a flight that leaves before sunrise. Did book Mythos for an early lunch. So today, will soon know boarding number, and made a list of all have to do, as will pack late tonight, and put that last to take after I clean up. I like to take my own soap and shampoo.

And that’s our Saturday plans. Not much different than our usual Saturday plans, which are a more lazy type of day. Will be out early though. Gas station opens at 7 am on Saturday, as want to fill up tank. While airport is not that far away, best to always have a more full tank, in case delay somewhere. Plus, I do have to go places today, so best to get the tank full first. But as every morning I usually start, yep. That tea pot has already sounded it’s ready, and I’ve been sipping my tea. Quiet enough house, as I have no idea when kids went to bed, and DH has just left to go over his mum’s, as her birthday today.

Super sized, super stupendous Saturday homies.

And yay, Metro’s posts in the picture thread making me excited to see the holiday parade again. Will be nice if we can meet up to watch with us.

 

[macraven]

Have safe travels and loads of fun tomorrow at the Darkside Lynne!

 

[soniam]

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i was bummed that we skipped the Lambda variant. I was going to call it Loki

@Lynne G Have a great trip!

 

[schumigirl]

Had a mini buffet of it too, as older one usually is hungry when returning from his late night work. And all of us do not mind eating leftover Chinese food.

What a coincidence.

Except, we never do leftovers, just not something we enjoy.

Have safe travels and loads of fun tomorrow at the Darkside Lynne!

Been quiet on here........ Thank goodness for email!!





Full to bursting with our food.

Everything was hot and spicy and very tasty, put quite a lot in the trash as we were just too full to eat it all. But, what we had was gorgeous.

Watched The Grinch, such a good movie perfect Saturday night.

Plan to sleep late tomorrow and if we get our negative results back, will head out to do some grocery shopping, but not much else. Quite busy all week so a day of chilling out again as we still seem to be recovering from jetlag. Lazy Sunday works for my husband and I.

It is so cold here.....won`t win any competitions with how cold it is........but cold enough for us.

Last glass of red for the night coming up......

 

[schumigirl]

i was bummed that we skipped the Lambda variant. I was going to call it Loki

Like it........

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Certainly feels like this in the UK now........

 

[Lynne G]

To all those in those tornado areas, I hope all are safe, including MonyK. Prayers for those we lost in those storms. Way too many after 0. 60 so far. Very sad.

Thanks Mac. Will be enjoying that nicer weather soon enough. Guess I’d better pack soon. Did get luggage out of closet a few minutes ago.

Quiet enough night, alarm set, as giving time to get through security. I have pre check, but little one does not. Here’s hoping quick lines for both of us going and coming back.

 

[Charade67]

My new water line has been installed. Yay! There goes money that could have been spent on something fun. Boo! Thankfully the rain held off long enough for the guys to complete the job.

I haven't done anything productive today. I was going to pick up a few needed items from Walmart, but didn't want to go out in the rain. It can wait until tomorrow.

It`s funny how subliminal predictions come true at times.

The movie Back to the Future almost predicted the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series. It was only off by one year.

Decided to have takeout tonight again, Chinese I think..

nd we had Chinese last night.

I had Chinese last night too. I was feeling a little lazy, so I paid a little extra to have Door Dash deliver.

i was bummed that we skipped the Lambda variant. I was going to call it Loki

Seems appropriate.

I am home alone again tonight. DH has one more performance of the Christmas program tomorrow and then life returns to normal. On Monday B will finish exams and then come home for Winter break.

 

[Lynne G]

Yay mobile check in! Hopefully means no line, and room ready when we arrive.