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

[schumigirl]

Thank goodness our indoor dining is still back to normal....too darn cold to be outside.

Kyle has his birthday this month and we`ve just booked one of his favourite restaurants, only thing they asked was we restricted the table numbers to less than 12........not quite sure why as there doesn`t seem to be any restrictions in place anymore other than masks when you enter, walk around and leave. We`ll be looking forward to that.

We`re being assured we are all heading in the right direction now......

Feels like -3 outside according to the weather, it is cold now compared to a few days ago, winter warming dinner will be enjoyed later which is Steak Pie, a very Scottish dish with huge puff pastry on top....very lush! Diced braising steak slowly cooked all day and thickened before putting in large dish then add the pastry on top to bake......a firm favourite.

 

[schumigirl]

a frigid late morning hello all. Has taken me a solid day to re-pair my keyboard to my ipad. No idea what was up with that. A real pain to be plugging away without it for me, especially on a message boards.

Have been doing that 11 month dance via on multiple devices & iphone since pre 8 am today, trying to book my DVC reservations starting 12/4/22.

Difficult to believe an already ridiculous process could get any more trying. Gazillion $ company with the worst IT system with hapless employees telling me that maybe I’m “not lucky” Yeah, me and how many other posting here as to encountering the same situation for months. i’ve literally paid my dues to DVC, deliver on your promises.

i just have to say it…that would never happen at Universal

that felt good. Did manage to grab a studio, just not the type or resort I wanted. Carole can vouche how nice WL is that time of year. Oh well, maybe one of my waitlists will come through. There’s certainly worst places to be than AKJambo.

very few CS places open for inside dining here either. Not a problem for me as I never eat in their DR anyway. Was sure nice to see the Golden Arches of McD’s when I needed a clean bathroom when on the road In normal times Lol

Charade - you ok weather wise? have been watching that unbelievable hot mess on I-95 in Virginia. My understanding is starts just north of Fredericksburg.

incomprehensible that they haven’t started diverting people to the off ramps or even switch the northbound road over to southbound as they do for hurricane areas to move out the evacuees.

Those poor people. Cannot imagine being stuck in a vehicle for 17 hours For comfort measures…let alone if you have a baby, no food or water, gas is starting to run close to empty (for heat) & life sustaining medicine is waning. A real nightmare.

Heads should roll, how do they not have contingency plans for this? I’m sure all fingers will firmly be pointed at the new go-to scape goat in all things = covid.

Time to figure out which boots need donned to venture out to pick up two Rx at two different pharmacies. The one couldn’t get an order in for something for the mr. rather disturbing to be hear that both of their delivery drivers are off sick. Guess I’ll do the drive thru and hold my breath.

have a good day all! For those of you in the northern tundra, don’t forget those mittens.

lol....glad you got sorted out with somewhere to stay at least.....yes, WL blew us away with how beautiful it was....and good company too of course!

What a carry on though to get sorted, and glad you got your keyboard sorted too....wait, they told you you just weren`t lucky!!!! Crikey.......and this is Disney?? Yes, that would never happen at Universal........

Hadn`t heard about that road incident, but yes, they`ll blame covid in one way or the other......can`t imagine that. We got stuck on the M8 (main motorway in Scotland) once in blizzard, well, blizzard by Scottish standards. Complete disaster by the powers that be. But we were only stranded with everyone else for an hour or so. The police took control and then got lambasted for not waiting for approval to clear the roads.....crazy.

Good luck with your pick up......

 

[Lynne G]

Good luck going out in that cold weather, Keisha. Yeah, I guess some are sick. 12 of our football team are out due to virus. Shocking.

But yeah Son, I think almost all of our fast food places are not opening their dining rooms since the beginning of the shutdown. Will all the help wanted signs, I think many don’t have enough employees to open such dining. But most of our sit down restaurants have resumed, and now not even spacing among tables.

Glorious sunny walk. And yeah, was wearing gloves and my sunglasses. Think kids turned up nose on kitchen closet selections, so heard they are doing a Wendy’s run. Eh, I’d rather have the soup I made. Had pan fried chicken leftover, so nuked the carrots enough to make almost soft, then celery, salt and pepper, in slightly water downed broth, and yum, with toast and butter. Oh well. I may steal some fries. Oh and since a Starbucks is very close to that Wendy’s, thinking they are going to return with coffee too.

 

[soniam]

@keishashadow I am thankful I didn't have to try to book Thanksgiving next year for BWV DVC. My mom decided her health wouldn't allow her to go I don't know when we will go instead, maybe Spring Break 2023, and I need to bank our leftover points from our 2021 Thanksgiving trip. Still need to pay dues though. I have been lucky so far with the DVC site, but I have only had to book and bank once. We just got it in 2020.

@Lynne G Lack of staff makes sense. We were hitting Sonic drive-ins on our trips to and from North Texas/Oklahoma during xmas break. Usually, you can just go to the drive up/car hop spots where they bring the food to you, but they all had signs to only use the drive-through window. I suspect it was due to staffing.

Now that they have approved boosters for under 16 year olds in the US, we need to get DS his. None of the online stuff has been updated though, so it won't let me make him an appointment. Plus, most of them don't seem to have any/many appointments any, well at least for Pfizer. Hopefully, the drive-through no appointment mass vax centers will be open this weekend for under 16 boosters.

 

[macraven]

Are you in Florida? I am surprised that the dining room hasn't opened. A few of our restaurants have recently closed indoor dining due to Omicron and some shortly for Delta, but almost all had opened in summer 2020 and stayed open. Not that we have eaten inside much. We have mostly been doing to go food.

All 3 of our Taco Bell’s have been drive thru all 2021
Two of them have been remodeled and sit down dining will start ??? (Hopefully this month)

I live in Georgia

 

[schumigirl]

Now that they have approved boosters for under 16 year olds in the US, we need to get DS his. None of the online stuff has been updated though, so it won't let me make him an appointment. Plus, most of them don't seem to have any/many appointments any, well at least for Pfizer. Hopefully, the drive-through no appointment mass vax centers will be open this weekend for under 16 boosters.

I think that was our worry initially with the vaccines, would the red tape of uploading vaccination details to online data be able to cope, but to be fair, the NHS did a brilliant job of the whole thing once it was rolled out. We have all our vaccines loaded on to an app that we can access for travel and so on with our National Database.

Hope you get your DS appointment soon.

​

I`m winning the award for keeping my mouth shut......in real life it doesn`t happen very often.......




Dinner was lush......everything slow cooked like that tastes so much better.....full of flavour and beef melted. Creamy potatoes that have been riced went down a bomb too.....

Need to go buy a new chilli plant this year, the Birds Eye plant I had from last couple of years didn`t make it through Christmas, so will get to the garden centre closest to us I know had them this time last year, so hopefully pick one up, if not will wait till spring if I have to.

We have a real feel of -4 tonight, and Tom had to wander down to the man shed as our gardener had left his reading glasses there, and came in almost shivering.....he should be back soon as he headed down to take him the glasses as he doesn`t live too far away.

TV on soon, might watch some of an old TV detective show called Taggart......another favourite show.......

 

[keishashadow]

My mom decided her health wouldn't allow her to go

Aw sorry to hear. I’m sure you’ll think up something cool as a replacement. I wasn’t able to snag BWV for next year’s fall trip either. we bought in with idea to only book studios. Unfortunately, so many others seems to be of the same mind now too.

Lynne - hmmm, i love a good pot of soup but French fries would always win that showdown for me. Mr working late all week. Sent him to work with a hoagie. He can forage when he comes homes or I’ll make him a quick bacon sammie. No lunch here, day got away from me. After errands, Think I’ll polish off the rest of the spinach/artichoke dip for dinner, still have some nice pumpernickel to use as dipper.

carole - sounds like a lovely celebration for Kyle. We are decidedly going the other way here.

Generally, find ourselves a good 2 or 3 weeks behind the UK re covid. Did see on the tube this weekend that 1 in 15 people in London had been infected. Seems like a lot to me at first glance. Not sure how that stat would compare to comparable large city such as NYC.

In our state, they report by county vs city, generally. Pittsburgh only has 300,000+ people, majority live in the ‘burbs. our relatively small footprint of a county has a population of 1.2 million. Last week we hit nearly 15% of our entire tally for new reported cases…13,400 new ones.

Reported is the key there. Know many with mild symptoms don’t bother testing nor consult their doctors or health department. Of that big number we had, 46% were unvaxxed & 9% were reinfections. Wish I wasn’t a stats person at this point, hard to ignore.

happy thots, happy thots. did pull out the n95s I away for rainy day. making lemonade, at least it’s cold and they help will keep my face warm When out & about In the inclement weather.

 

[schumigirl]

Aw sorry to hear. I’m sure you’ll think up something cool as a replacement. I wasn’t able to snag BWV for next year’s fall trip either. we bought in with idea to only book studios. Unfortunately, so many others seems to be of the same mind now too.

Lynne - hmmm, i love a good pot of soup but French fries would always win that showdown for me. Mr working late all week. Sent him to work with a hoagie. He can forage when he comes homes or I’ll make him a quick bacon sammie. No lunch here, day got away from me. After errands, Think I’ll polish off the rest of the spinach/artichoke dip for dinner, still have some nice pumpernickel to use as dipper.

carole - sounds like a lovely celebration for Kyle. We are decidedly going the other way here.

Generally, find ourselves a good 2 or 3 weeks behind the UK re covid. Did see on the tube this weekend that 1 in 15 people in London had been infected. Seems like a lot to me at first glance. Not sure how that stat would compare to comparable large city such as NYC.

In our state, they report by county vs city, generally. Pittsburgh only has 300,000+ people, majority live in the ‘burbs. our relatively small footprint of a county has a population of 1.2 million. Last week we hit nearly 15% of our entire tally for new reported cases…13,400 new ones.

Reported is the key there. Know many with mild symptoms don’t bother testing nor consult their doctors or health department. Of that big number we had, 46% were unvaxxed & 9% were reinfections. Wish I wasn’t a stats person at this point, hard to ignore.

happy thots, happy thots. did pull out the n95s I away for rainy day. making lemonade, at least it’s cold and they help will keep my face warm When out & about In the inclement weather.

They report figures Janet, then you discover that they`re not quite accurate.....I don`t think anyone knows the true extent. Boris announced tonight we`re on the home straight......I`m going to trust him as so many specialists are saying the same thing. It`s not over by any means, but we`re on the right side. Everyone is reporting how mild it is, so that`s something......but, I tend to ignore statistics if I`m honest, they`re never completely accurate..........what`s that old saying............lies, damn lies and then there`s statistics

Apprently 63% of statistics are made up on the spot........not everyone gets that joke!!!

And as predicted we`re going to have to be double vaxxed and boosted to travel which is fine by me.....

Yes, looking forward to celebrating his birthday as no more restrictions are going to be implemented.

Might start making a pot of stock tomorrow, takes a good day at least for flavours to develop.......I know you know that of course.......lol......might start with my chicken in the morning...

Yes, happy thoughts all the way ☺

 

[Pumpkin1172]

Finally getting to do a quick stop in!!!

Finally cleared away the last of the papers from my desk. Gotta love those first few days back at work. Today was my first since the 23rd. I enjoyed every moment of it.

New Years was quiet. Delivered gd to dd and sil. Everyone was glad she was home. Gd was a little stinker and wouldn't even let me look, talk, sit, get anything for her lol. I guess she was tired of her Grammie At least when we left on Sunday I was able to talk to her without her little hand going up saying " No Gamma NO"

Tree and decorations are put away for another year. House is back to normal. My next challenge to myself is to reorganize our basement and especially my laundry/storage room!!!!
Hopefully I can start spending some little amounts of time each evening reorganizing and purging some items.

I only gained 3 lbs over the holidays. In all honesty, I felt like it should have been more...but now to start to get back to walking. I did purchase a gym membership to start walking. This winter so far has followed the farmers almanac prediction for our area....COLD and SNOWY. We will get a day where the temperatures are more tolerable, then the snow god pile more snow. Sigh. My motto to myself has been " at least I don't live where there are hurricanes, tornadoes or alligators"

Count down is at 44 days. Hopefully the variant will have seen it's spike and cases are trending down. So far...we are still going.

Well...it's home time.

Have a great evening everyone...stay safe!

 

[soniam]

I think that was our worry initially with the vaccines, would the red tape of uploading vaccination details to online data be able to cope, but to be fair, the NHS did a brilliant job of the whole thing once it was rolled out. We have all our vaccines loaded on to an app that we can access for travel and so on with our National Database.

I wish we had a county, state, or national database. We have no such thing in the US, and some governors have actually made it illegal. Who knows if those laws would hold up though. I was referring to the online appointments with pharmacies. They still all say only 16+ for boosters. I know it's only been a day, but these things are important for immune compromised people, which we luckily are not.

 

[Charade67]

Good evening everyone. Stressful day back at work today. No one checked my email while I was gone, I had 7 saved voice mail messages waiting for me to deal with, and several people wanting to schedule as new clients.

There was one bright spot today though. I was annoyed at having to spend money on a hotel when I went to Atlanta. (Shouldn't have had to make the trip at all if my sister had taken care of stuff 3 months ago like she was supposed to.) Normally I would have stayed at my brother's house, but he and his wife were sick last week. Well, I discovered that our flooring company had overcharged us. I went over there today with the receipt from our deposit and they credited my card for the difference. It was more than enough to cover my hotel stay.

Well, only 3 pound weight gain since before halloween. I’ll take it & run

That's not bad at all. I still haven't stepped on the scale yet.

Reminds me to catch the new HP special. Anybody watch it yet?

I want to watch it, but don't subscriber to the streaming service.

Came on here at 8 pm. Jury is decidedly out for me. Old movie is one of the mr’s favs.

I have never seen the old movie or even read the book, so I don't know how close to to book this series is. I saw a Disney version with Jackie Chan. I don't really remember too much about the movie and it wasn't that long ago.

Will Google the new Tennant show, usually like whatever he`s in.

He is such a good actor. I wasn't able to watch him in Jessica Jones though. His character in that show was just too disturbing.

But looking forward to a glorious sunshine lunchtime walk, and hoping before those clouds arrive, including weather guy says, snow showers. Sigh, yep, winter. And with more snow chances two days from today.

We are hearing rumors of possible snow again on Thursday.

Are you in Florida? I am surprised that the dining room hasn't opened. A few of our restaurants have recently closed indoor dining due to Omicron and some shortly for Delta, but almost all had opened in summer 2020 and stayed open. Not that we have eaten inside much. We have mostly been doing to go food.

Same here. Most of our restaurants have been opened for months. My favorite Chinese place is still take out only. Unfortunately it is just far enough away that by the time you get home with your food it has already cooled significantly.

Did manage to grab a studio, just not the type or resort I wanted. Carole can vouche how nice WL is that time of year. Oh well, maybe one of my waitlists will come through. There’s certainly worst places to be than AKJambo.

I am going very budget for my next trip. We are staying at All Star Music. I am trying to find out if there is any advantage to doing early online check in.

Charade - you ok weather wise? have been watching that unbelievable hot mess on I-95 in Virginia. My understanding is starts just north of Fredericksburg.

We are fine where we are. We are several hours south of the I-95 mess.

Now that they have approved boosters for under 16 year olds in the US, we need to get DS his. None of the online stuff has been updated though, so it won't let me make him an appointment. Plus, most of them don't seem to have any/many appointments any, well at least for Pfizer. Hopefully, the drive-through no appointment mass vax centers will be open this weekend for under 16 boosters.

I need to schedule my booster. It has been almost a year since my second shot.

Finally cleared away the last of the papers from my desk. Gotta love those first few days back at work. Today was my first since the 23rd. I enjoyed every moment of it

I can't say the same. I may have to go in on Friday just so I can catch up on stuff without having to answer phones and interact with clients.

I only gained 3 lbs over the holidays.

Congrats. I am afraid to step on the scale.

Okay, it's getting late. I should probably get some sleep. Good night!

 

[macraven]

Sweet dreams charade
I’ll turn the night off for you tonight

 

[Pumpkin1172]

Seen this and giggled a little lol. But it's definitely true. We pull out the big coats. Hoping to get a new one at the end of the season sale.
As I was heading out the door to get to the gym to get some walking in - I had to repeat my motto again .. I don't live where there are hurricanes, tornadoes or alligators

 

[schumigirl]

Finally getting to do a quick stop in!!!

Finally cleared away the last of the papers from my desk. Gotta love those first few days back at work. Today was my first since the 23rd. I enjoyed every moment of it.

New Years was quiet. Delivered gd to dd and sil. Everyone was glad she was home. Gd was a little stinker and wouldn't even let me look, talk, sit, get anything for her lol. I guess she was tired of her Grammie At least when we left on Sunday I was able to talk to her without her little hand going up saying " No Gamma NO"

Tree and decorations are put away for another year. House is back to normal. My next challenge to myself is to reorganize our basement and especially my laundry/storage room!!!!
Hopefully I can start spending some little amounts of time each evening reorganizing and purging some items.

I only gained 3 lbs over the holidays. In all honesty, I felt like it should have been more...but now to start to get back to walking. I did purchase a gym membership to start walking. This winter so far has followed the farmers almanac prediction for our area....COLD and SNOWY. We will get a day where the temperatures are more tolerable, then the snow god pile more snow. Sigh. My motto to myself has been " at least I don't live where there are hurricanes, tornadoes or alligators"

Count down is at 44 days. Hopefully the variant will have seen it's spike and cases are trending down. So far...we are still going.

Well...it's home time.

Have a great evening everyone...stay safe!

aww.....bless her, next time you see her she`ll be all over you I bet. I`m sure she can`t wait to see you again.

And you have a good countdown....44 days isn`t bad!

I wish we had a county, state, or national database. We have no such thing in the US, and some governors have actually made it illegal. Who knows if those laws would hold up though. I was referring to the online appointments with pharmacies. They still all say only 16+ for boosters. I know it's only been a day, but these things are important for immune compromised people, which we luckily are not.

Oh sorry, yes, I did realise that was what you meant, I was rambling. Our online appointment system is all connected with the NHS, so it works well which is what I was surprised about.

Yes, once they announced appointments were available everyone was pouncing on them, thank goodness!

Good evening everyone. Stressful day back at work today. No one checked my email while I was gone, I had 7 saved voice mail messages waiting for me to deal with, and several people wanting to schedule as new clients.

There was one bright spot today though. I was annoyed at having to spend money on a hotel when I went to Atlanta. (Shouldn't have had to make the trip at all if my sister had taken care of stuff 3 months ago like she was supposed to.) Normally I would have stayed at my brother's house, but he and his wife were sick last week. Well, I discovered that our flooring company had overcharged us. I went over there today with the receipt from our deposit and they credited my card for the difference. It was more than enough to cover my hotel stay.

That's not bad at all. I still haven't stepped on the scale yet.

I want to watch it, but don't subscriber to the streaming service.

I have never seen the old movie or even read the book, so I don't know how close to to book this series is. I saw a Disney version with Jackie Chan. I don't really remember too much about the movie and it wasn't that long ago.

He is such a good actor. I wasn't able to watch him in Jessica Jones though. His character in that show was just too disturbing.

We are hearing rumors of possible snow again on Thursday.

Same here. Most of our restaurants have been opened for months. My favorite Chinese place is still take out only. Unfortunately it is just far enough away that by the time you get home with your food it has already cooled significantly.

I am going very budget for my next trip. We are staying at All Star Music. I am trying to find out if there is any advantage to doing early online check in.

We are fine where we are. We are several hours south of the I-95 mess.

I need to schedule my booster. It has been almost a year since my second shot.

I can't say the same. I may have to go in on Friday just so I can catch up on stuff without having to answer phones and interact with clients.

Congrats. I am afraid to step on the scale.

Okay, it's getting late. I should probably get some sleep. Good night!

Yes, he was very creepy in JJ. I got bored with the show after a couple of episodes, but no, don`t like him as the bad guy.

He played a UK serial killer called Dennis Nilsen in a tv show, and he was alarmingly creepy in that too, but shows the acting ability he really has.

Glad you got the flooring company sorted out and hope you get some sleep.

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Seen this and giggled a little lol. But it's definitely true. We pull out the big coats. Hoping to get a new one at the end of the season sale.
As I was heading out the door to get to the gym to get some walking in - I had to repeat my motto again .. I don't live where there are hurricanes, tornadoes or alligators

lol....that meme works here too....just not to the same degree!!!

You`re a better person than I am, we have -5 as a real feel, but we are wimps and it was just too cold to walk.....for us! So, well done.




Got up a few times through the night and it felt cooler than usual, no frost this morning, but tomorrow is to be downright chillier than we`ve felt so far, might hibernate tomorrow too.

Plan to pop out today though, have a few things ordered we need to pick up, ordered some new cushions for the front room sofas and they`re ready and a new pair of lamps for the hallway tables. Stores don`t seem to be too busy this time of year thankfully.

Turkey, cranberry and brie grilled sandwiches for lunch today and made up my curry last night for tonight, has to be made the day before, so it`ll be chicken curry as it`s just the two of us tonight again for dinner....no one else likes curry. Love it....hot, spicy and fruity!

Have a great Wednesday ​

 

[Lynne G]

Gee, one time I am a little glad to be not commuting this morning. 30 degrees and freezing rain has been failing. But like Pumpkin, heard a salt truck go up our street late last night. There is still moving traffic heard, so that icy conditions are not too bad for travel. I still am glad I don’t have to worry about icy spots while driving. And yep, I have a big coat.

Yay Charade, nice when lower than expected price. Yeah, when I was gone, way too many emails to review, Yep, more snow chances on our Thursday into Friday morning. Where I am saying 2 to 4 inches. Not too bad. Winter Weather Advisory issued for that time.

Cool enough and with allergies, no windows open, and have had covers that make sleeping just right. DH was a bit restless, but I feel like I got enough sleep. I can usually fall back to sleep after he wakes me up.

And ah yes, wonderful hump of a day is here. Yay, why hello camel and friend:



Yay, that day of the week, Friday comes into focus. So happy this week is moving fast enough to yay, a Wednesday already. Not complaining. Fast weeks are a good thing most of the time.

And so, a good morning to all, and some more tea for me. An, still oh so dark, even with that freezing rain falling. But yay, a cloudy filled day, so weather high temp is 44. If I do get out, will be later in the afternoon. Usually the high of the day is then.

 

[schumigirl]

Love winter days when you spend the day baking and cooking.

Did get out this morning for cushions and lamps.....then some grocery shopping to save us going tomorrow when we`re due an icy blast. Yep, will invite some friends over for lunch if that`s the case I think.

Farmer dropped us off eggs yesterday, we don`t eat a whole lot of eggs but can`t tell him that as he`d be crushed, so I bake with them most of the time. Much nicer thing to do with eggs anyway, unless it`s poached for breakfast not our thing.

One friend dropped in for a cuppa this afternoon so shared some lemon drizzle cake with her......it was nice sitting by the window having some tea and cake and chatting for a couple of hours. I have tried some naan breads again tonight, hoping they`re not as heavy as last time, but will pop them in soon as made the dough much earlier today.

Looking forward to my curry tonight.......hot!!!

 

[Pumpkin1172]

Quick mid-day stop in!

Not much happening today. Work is work...shuffling a few papers around here and there.

happy thots, happy thots. did pull out the n95s I away for rainy day. making lemonade, at least it’s cold and they help will keep my face warm When out & about In the inclement weather.

I am having a heck of a time finding any N95's here. I wanted to have them for our trip to Florida - especially for the plane. We can't get on the plane home without a negative test - OR if you test positive while down there, you have to wait 10 days until you can fly home. Driving home from Florida is NOT an option for us. I don't care about testing positive while there - I could think of a worse place to isolate, but work wise...Dh will need to be home. We are taking his laptop to be safe just incase, as he could remote work if he really needed to. It would not be easy for him as he gets many phone calls a day to organize or trouble shoot his guys through.

There was one bright spot today though. I was annoyed at having to spend money on a hotel when I went to Atlanta. (Shouldn't have had to make the trip at all if my sister had taken care of stuff 3 months ago like she was supposed to.) Normally I would have stayed at my brother's house, but he and his wife were sick last week. Well, I discovered that our flooring company had overcharged us. I went over there today with the receipt from our deposit and they credited my card for the difference. It was more than enough to cover my hotel stay.

I am glad you found a bright spot about your situation. I read back a few pages to see what had happened. Sending you many hugs to get through that ugly situation.

Gee, one time I am a little glad to be not commuting this morning. 30 degrees and freezing rain has been failing. But like Pumpkin, heard a salt truck go up our street late last night. There is still moving traffic heard, so that icy conditions are not too bad for travel. I still am glad I don’t have to worry about icy spots while driving. And yep, I have a big coat.

I miss the days when work would come to me in the mornings. When our boys were small, I did the stay at home daycare thing. Horrible roads are NOT fun. Our roads here right now are terrible. People on FB are angry that the city hasn't been doing their job. Just soooooo icy and now compacted/ridge filled roads. Salt doesn't work when it's this cold, but they are usually out doing the sand/salt mixture to help keep the glare icey roads from compacted snow. Sigh. Good thing for winter tires and big coats

Did get out this morning for cushions and lamps.....then some grocery shopping to save us going tomorrow when we`re due an icy blast. Yep, will invite some friends over for lunch if that`s the case I think.

Farmer dropped us off eggs yesterday, we don`t eat a whole lot of eggs but can`t tell him that as he`d be crushed, so I bake with them most of the time. Much nicer thing to do with eggs anyway, unless it`s poached for breakfast not our thing.

One friend dropped in for a cuppa this afternoon so shared some lemon drizzle cake with her......it was nice sitting by the window having some tea and cake and chatting for a couple of hours. I have tried some naan breads again tonight, hoping they`re not as heavy as last time, but will pop them in soon as made the dough much earlier today.

It's great that life is slowly starting to come back. It's great you were able to have tea with a friend! Your dinner sounds delicious. We are having chicken pot pie for dinner/supper tonight. I have challenged myself to clean out my fridge freezer and use up those items to get into better order.

Well, I should go shuffle a few more papers.

Have a great day everyone...stay safe!

 

[soniam]

I am having a heck of a time finding any N95's here. I wanted to have them for our trip to Florida - especially for the plane. We can't get on the plane home without a negative test - OR if you test positive while down there, you have to wait 10 days until you can fly home. Driving home from Florida is NOT an option for us. I don't care about testing positive while there - I could think of a worse place to isolate, but work wise...Dh will need to be home. We are taking his laptop to be safe just incase, as he could remote work if he really needed to. It would not be easy for him as he gets many phone calls a day to organize or trouble shoot his guys through.

N95 is what DS and I wear on planes and movie theaters. He's wearing them at school now too. DH likes over the ear, so he wears KN95 on planes. I have only found them on Amazon. If you are getting actual N95, check the CDC website to make sure that the manufacturer is authorized and it's a valid part number. There are a lot of fakes out there. It doesn't guarantee that someone isn't just putting another maker's info on the mask, but it weeds out the lazy fakers.

 

[Charade67]

Good evening. Another fun day trying to get caught up at work. Normally it wouldn't be so bad, but I have a lot that needs to get done because of the new year. I may go in on Friday (usually off) to get caught up.

Seen this and giggled a little lol. But it's definitely true. We pull out the big coats. Hoping to get a new one at the end of the season sale.

Definitely true for southerners too. I got a new coat for Christmas a couple of years ago, but have only had to wear it once or twice.

He played a UK serial killer called Dennis Nilsen in a tv show, and he was alarmingly creepy in that too, but shows the acting ability he really has.

He has such an incredible range. I actually watched a few episodes of Duck Tales just to hear him as Scrooge McDuck.

Yay Charade, nice when lower than expected price. Yeah, when I was gone, way too many emails to review, Yep, more snow chances on our Thursday into Friday morning. Where I am saying 2 to 4 inches. Not too bad. Winter Weather Advisory issued for that time.

I think they are calling for a coating to an inch here. We could get anything from nothing to 6 inches.

Driving home from Florida is NOT an option for us.

I wouldn't want to drive to my home from FL. I can't imagine trying to drive to yours.

Dh wants to watch Boba Fett. I'm having difficulty getting in to this series.

 

[soniam]

Dh wants to watch Boba Fett. I'm having difficulty getting in to this series.

The first episode felt a little slow, but I thought the second episode was great. It was different than Mandalorian, which blew me away from the first minute.