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

[keishashadow]

Charade -stay dry, hope the weather improves quickly for you!

There is a reason I have such a hatred of dentists.

That sounded nasty, especially as a kid. It’s a love-hate relationship for me. Mine called today, going to start the replacement bridge/two replacement crowns next Friday.

Whatever works, I’m nothing but flexible at this point, long as he brings it in before my mr retires end of May. Really going to miss that dental coverage

weird day here

surprised the mr, ordered him a generator. He’s been wanting one for years as our power does go out now & again here. Bought type you can link to a 2nd to do whole house. This one is enough to handle the major appliances.

It appeared ‘early, as in a full week’. Almost busted a gut dragging it off porch. Finally just sort of rolled it in end over end and collapsed Shocked they just dumped it there, no signature required

I refuse to look at the film on the security camera, pretty sure not my best angles there. Same as when I try on that bathing suit

should’ve just let it sit but had to run out & afraid a porch pirate would swoop in, especially as box revealed contents

 

[Lynne G]

Ah, a Thirsty Thursday is here, and cloudy with a warm start, with 48 out already. Rainy day, and an almost 20 degree lower high, with 58 degrees the high. Thankfully, the rain to fall shortly, will be a light rain. The bulk of the rain to from around lunchtime to fall all afternoon, and end right around after dinner. The St. Pat parade will be in wet weather. Good thing all the rain to fall is less than a inch. Weather guy said will be rain showers all day. So clearly our weather is thirsty this Thursday. And of course, more rain in our forecast, including a stormy weekend. But woot, as Friday will have us recovering nicely, to get ready for that cooler rainy weekend, with a high of 75. Thus, most likely no shorts today, but oh yes, shorts will be seen on that fabulous Friday.

And so umbrellas ️ to be on the ready. And oh, yeah is already at the ready for me. And a throw, as house feels a bit cool.

Good reason to be that Irish green today, as the patron saint Patrick means not only will you see a parade, but the Irish pubs will certainly be more busy today. We have several in the City, and I’m sure there will be a small crowd coming into the City for parade and a beer or two. The rain showers today should keep crowds down. Will see the parade on the local news, and you won’t see me in it or anywhere in the City. Still office sits empty. Saying maybe in April or May to return. Eh, has been 2 years so far. I guess life will start being more routine by Summer. We still have not eaten in a restaurant much, and wear a mask at times. Maybe some back to routine, will include some changes.

So, not much of news, but routine week day for me. Oddly, DH just asked what our retirement will look like. Well, will be him first, but I can see him waiting for me. Nine more years, at least, is what I am planning. Hoping by then, we have an empty nest. Well, it is nice to still have the adult kids at home, so no hurry for getting them out of the house. But as DH is older than me, I said, I don’t mind if you retire in the next couple of years. I guess we will see.

Most terrific thirsty Thursday homies.

 

[keishashadow]

Well, will be him first, but I can see him waiting for me.

Let’s hope so!

“…for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge…”

My mr in final stages of getting everything set up. An in person meet today with his union financial rep, another via phone tomorrow with his company to make his pension disbursement elections

dealing with SS online/phone was a true nightmare during the pandemic. Things got so screwed up, I also wound up with a ‘surprise’ early retirement, out of the blue.

Quite the surprise seeing a payment land in my account the same time he went out. Took 4 months to fix that mess

so, congratulate me, I was ‘early’ retired & now again un-retired

 

[Robo56]

Good morning Sans family and Happy St. Patrick’s Day.

Robo, good to hear from you, and happy to hear you are feeling better. Nice to share baked goods and sweets with neighbors.

Morning Lynne. Hope your daughters back is feeling better.

Yes, sharing baked goods with neighbors is really enjoyable. Always to nice to see the smile on someone’s face when they get home baked goodies.

I blinked and my girls weekend was over.

Nice to hear you had a fun girls weekend. Time does fly when your having fun.

Robo Good to hear you guys are doing well! Hope your baking came out well. I think tomorrow I will make my soda bread!
It’s going to be nesting season here soon for the geese. They are very nasty! But love seeing the babies! There’s a beach nearby that they love to flock to along the inlet.

Morning Sue. My baking came out good. Hope your soda bread is yummy.

should’ve just let it sit but had to run out & afraid a porch pirate would swoop in, especially as box revealed contents

It’s a shame we have to watch out for porch thief’s. There was a day when you could leave your doors unlocked. Sadly those days are over.

We have had some down pours in the evening last few days. Talked to my sister who lives in Harmony St. Cloud area and she said they got some rocking and rolling storms Tuesday night in their area.

The Ibis are happily walking around in the yard picking for worms.

It was pretty foggy when I woke up this morning and pulled back the shades. Now the sun is out.

I’am going to make some tuna and egg salad this morning. Already boiled the eggs.

A friend and I are going to walk along ocean boulevard and have a look in shops and have lunch. Not much else planned for the day.

Keisha and Mac hope the dental work is feeling better this morning.

Shout out to Schumi, Tink, Lori, and all our Sans family.


Have a wonderful St. Patrick’s Day

 

[schumigirl]

 

[Pumpkin1172]

Quick morning stop in.

Thank you to @Lynne G for the reminder it's Thursday. It's been a weird week - probably because I came home on Monday instead of Sunday. Went to the gym last night again, hoping to go again tonight...then tomorrow night sit at home and maybe enjoy a movie in.

It's another beautiful springish day here. It's warm....but not the spring warm where the winter cold is out of the air. But the snowbanks are melting and water is flowing around the city - so that makes me happy. And have I mentioned how much I love the time change, as we have daylight later in the day!

I am making chicken souvlaki in pita bread with tatziki sauce and greek salad is on the menu tonight. I'll probably whip up some garlic potato wedges in the airfryer as well, as my hard working boys need some extra carbs and filling foods or else as soon as dishes are done they are poking into the cupboards for food again. I wanted romaine lettuce this week. I looked at some last night at the grocery store when I was picking up a few things, but the price on it was extremely high It has actually tripled in price!!!!! I grabbed a bagged salad instead...but geeze. I hate to sound like an old lady...but yikes...the price of some items is getting ridiculous. It's like strawberries and other fresh berries. I won't buy them as the price is WAYYYYY too high. I am really craving some fresh fruits...but I just won't buy them with the prices they have right now.

Anyways...off that rant lol. I should start shuffling some papers. I actually have a pretty good stack of papers in front of me. Which could explain why our phones have been busy - which is a great thing If I know they are making money - I can hit them up for a raise

Have a great day everyone!!!!!

 

[Sue M]

Happy St Patrick’s Day
Robo yes my Irish bread came out very nicely! I was worried because the store only had light buttermilk and I’ve always used regular.

Husband has gone to our butcher to pick up a corned beef for tonight. Not enough time to slow cook so I’ll do in the instant pot. I did last year and it came out nicely.

A rainy day today. Yesterday we had sun/cloud. Guess we’re only allowed one day of sun here on the wet coast.
Heading out for pedi will catch up later!

 

[Charade67]

Nust driving by to say hi. I’ll try to post later when I am not so exhausted.

 

[Lynne G]

Yay, Pumpkin’s snow is melting, Robo is doing well, and glad to hear weather has been pleasant for you, Sue yay for getting a pedi, so nice to be pampered that way, and yay for a Keisha being the he woman, what a nice present, and yay for Charade having a full day of park fun.

Kids did some errands for me, said it was misty out. Yeah, saying rain showers until our sunsets. No shorts were worn. But she knows, surely shorts tomorrow. Lunchtime walk was musty too, and I even had my jacket on. Not a warm feeling day.

No corned beef here. Price of beef has been scary here too, Sue. Not sure what kids want, but maybe pasta or noodles tonight.

 

[Pumpkin1172]

We are not big St. Paddy's day people. Not my cup of tea. I totally even forgot it was until I seen on FB that it's today lol.

 

[schumigirl]

Charade -stay dry, hope the weather improves quickly for you!

That sounded nasty, especially as a kid. It’s a love-hate relationship for me. Mine called today, going to start the replacement bridge/two replacement crowns next Friday.

Whatever works, I’m nothing but flexible at this point, long as he brings it in before my mr retires end of May. Really going to miss that dental coverage

weird day here

surprised the mr, ordered him a generator. He’s been wanting one for years as our power does go out now & again here. Bought type you can link to a 2nd to do whole house. This one is enough to handle the major appliances.

It appeared ‘early, as in a full week’. Almost busted a gut dragging it off porch. Finally just sort of rolled it in end over end and collapsed Shocked they just dumped it there, no signature required

I refuse to look at the film on the security camera, pretty sure not my best angles there. Same as when I try on that bathing suit

should’ve just let it sit but had to run out & afraid a porch pirate would swoop in, especially as box revealed contents

Happy New Generator for your mister! I know he would be thrilled by that….and yes, we do need to see that video from your security system…….lol……

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Let’s hope so!

“…for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge…”

My mr in final stages of getting everything set up. An in person meet today with his union financial rep, another via phone tomorrow with his company to make his pension disbursement elections

dealing with SS online/phone was a true nightmare during the pandemic. Things got so screwed up, I also wound up with a ‘surprise’ early retirement, out of the blue.

Quite the surprise seeing a payment land in my account the same time he went out. Took 4 months to fix that mess

so, congratulate me, I was ‘early’ retired & now again un-retired

Yep, gimme dr Seuss anyday over that celebration……..I’m the Grimm……lol…….

And congratulations being retired again……we should have a party……any excuse…….

A friend and I are going to walk along ocean boulevard and have a look in shops and have lunch. Not much else planned for the day.

Shout out to Schumi, Tink, Lori, and all our Sans family.

Hey Robbie……..thank you for the shout out…….

Sounds like a lovely day…..spending time with friends is always lovely.

Nust driving by to say hi. I’ll try to post later when I am not so exhausted.

Hope you are having a lovely time……




Yep, we never celebrate St Patsy‘s Day…….I can call it that as my Grandfather was called Patrick and everyone called him Patsy……..seems some are offended at the shortening of the name…….phooey……

Still in Scotland, coming home tomorrow…….

Hope all are well.

 

[Lynne G]

Safe travels home, Schumi. Nice you were able to be back with family and friends.

Well no one felt like pasta, so while not everyone’s cup of tea, bacon and pancakes it was. Now some ice cream with for me, fresh strawberries. And some caramel sauce. Sweet treat, that we don’t always have dessert, but felt like it today.

And a hehe, said kids went errand running for me. They did my errands and then did some grocery shopping. Think normal stuff we usually get? Nope. But at least I know kids will eat what they bought. I may try the one item they bought.

Still lightly raining out, 54 degrees, but still feels cool with the wet everywhere. But as that laptop has been put away, a happiness starting. A beautiful weather Friday will be our Friday. Yes! While 48 degrees predicted when I wake up, a most perfect 75 degrees is the high. And glorious sunshine most of the day. Still saying we will be a rainy and a Pooh blustery windy weekend, with chances of thunderstorms. Sunday being more like normal temps, and not even 60 degrees the high on Sunday. But even with some rain, at least Saturday will still be the high of 72 degrees. Hey, any day in March that shows high above 70, makes a very happy homie. And a happy little one. She’s feeling much better, thank you Robo, and takes every opportunity to wear shorts if the weather is nice.

But yep, what does this Thursday night mean?


Woot! Woot! Woot!

Good night homies. May all those sugar plums be dancing in your heads, and a sound, restful sleep be yours too.

Ooh, wonder how Kfish is doing with her kids? We both have a son with the same name. Hope you and family are doing well, and enjoying some nice weather tomorrow, like us.

 

[Sue M]

/ Schumi safe travels home! Visiting your mom?

Keisha congrats on the generator. My area tends not to get power outs. But an area my friend used to live in seemed to get outages any time there was a breeze! And if I lived in Florida I’d def get one! Congrats on husbands retirement!

Lynne my husband retired around 6-7 yrs ahead of me. Personally I think its
better. Such a big adjustment so he had the space to figure it out. I think it took him a year to adjust.

Pedicure was great. I could have fallen asleep during the massage! Darn dog woke me again around midnight. Couldn’t get back asleep until past 3am. Ugh.
Have a zoom church meeting tonight, hope I can stay awake. Will make myself some hot tea. That will help.

Pumpkin, it’s not that we’re big St Paddy’s Day people but gives me the opportunity to eat some fav foods. I love corned beef and cabbage but its hard to find most of the year. Lol.

Charade WSW is always an exhausting trip. Not used to walking so much!

Great news from our government! Starting April 1 we don‘t need to test returning home This takes out so much stress from vacay. Don’t have to take a half day of vacay to drive somewhere to test, and worry. The entire trip I’m thinking in the back of my head, hope I don’t test positive and have to quarantine in a hotel room 10 days.
And now I can make day trips across the border to Washington. Trader Joes, Costco and Target here I come. Maybe Macy’s too lol. Always enjoy going to Costco in different cities. And different country. So many different things.

 

[Lynne G]

That is great news Sue. Hope your tea is quite nice, to keep ya awake. I’m fading fast, as have last week day routine for me tomorrow.

 

[macraven]

A quick drive by to tuck all the homies into bed

sweet dreams to all!

 

[schumigirl]

We are not big St. Paddy's day people. Not my cup of tea. I totally even forgot it was until I seen on FB that it's today lol.

Yes, I won`t celebrate it at all. Nonsense.......he wasn`t even Irish which most folks seem to ignore, he was born in Great Britain.

Info on the History Channel website if anyone cares.

Most folks in the UK use it as an excuse to have a drink which isn`t a bad thing in itself........lol......

Personally I think its
better. Such a big adjustment so he had the space to figure it out. I think it took him a year to adjust.

Great news from our government! Starting April 1 we don‘t need to test returning home This takes out so much stress from vacay. Don’t have to take a half day of vacay to drive somewhere to test, and worry. The entire trip I’m thinking in the back of my head, hope I don’t test positive and have to quarantine in a hotel room 10 days.
And now I can make day trips across the border to Washington. Trader Joes, Costco and Target here I come. Maybe Macy’s too lol. Always enjoy going to Costco in different cities. And different country. So many different things.

My husband loved early retirement straight away......and I loved having him retired too. Some do seem to struggle with it though.......nope, not us.......but we always spent an inordinate amount of time together anyway....joined at the hip us!!

Yes, our restrictions are lifted as of today in the UK. Although testing is still required to enter the USA for now, hoping that will be lifted too at some point. But, it`s a good sign International travel is returning to normal.




Have a good Friday

 

[Lynne G]

Friday, yay! Have to stop into my office today, as have some things I need to do, that can’t be done remotely. Will wait until after morning rush. But should not take long, so will be back online well before lunch. And then change into shorts. My lunchtime walk should be at around 65 degrees. But now, sunrise hard to see, with all the fog from all that rain yesterday. Foggy start. Hehe, as such needs a frog reminder of today:


So Friday, yay indeed!

Older one works today too, but he gets a later morning start. I should be back before he leaves too. Little one’s class is a test that has to take whenever today. I told her should do it in the morning, as the shortest day I have in my week day routine. Maybe we can go to the state park, as it’s open until sunset, and with sunset not until 7:10 pm tonight, we should have plenty of time to visit it with our such nice weather today. And it’s on the way to a burger chain place, that is known for its scooped ice cream shakes (not those from a machine). Little one has her eye on their mint chocolate chip shake, as they stock that ice cream flavor this time of year. Their burgers are okay, their fries are good, more like boardwalk fries, which we both like. So, since DH will be over his mom’s by lunchtime, and older one will not return from work until mid evening, little one and me will be the only two of us, around for dinner. Will see if she likes my plan. Asked her if she was going to travel with me to my office. I said you can go, if you are up. Otherwise, no need, but will pick up some iced coffee for her, as it’s on the way. Will tell her to mobile order it when I get closer to the coffee store.

And so, that ever so nice time to sip my tea in my mug, always starts on a Friday.

May your Friday be the most Fabulous Friday, and hope your weather gets you out to enjoy that sunshine. Oh, and it is a good morning.

 

[Pumpkin1172]

Friday morning stop in

TGIF, is all I can say. Did a mobile order today at Tim's and brought in some doughnuts and goodies for all the guys. Lord knows we all need a pick me up. It's been a crazy busy week here.

The souvlaki chicken pitas were awesome last night. Asked the boys if I could make it again...they said they would eat it again! So that's a win for me. Not sure what is on the menu for tonight. Maybe I'll grill some moose burgers. That seems like a good easy Friday night meal. Probably no gym tonight. I didn't make it last night. I was just too tired once I sat down.

Another beautiful day here. I noticed my lilac tree has started to pop some buds for leaves. THAT makes me sooo happy. I know that Mother Nature will bring at least 2 more kicks at winter with snowfalls yet....but seeing the buds popping out brings me hope!

Well, I should get to shuffling some papers. Not sure what else I am going to do to keep busy today. Might be a shredding and youtube watching day.

Have a great day everyone!!!!

 

[schumigirl]

Made it home after a shorter than usual visit to Scotland.....and funny pumpkin mentioned flowers......a load of our flowers have started sprouting including the
wild daffodils which are everywhere. Lavendar plant is budding which seems early and the pear trees too which is nice to see.

Lazy night tonight after a long drive home.......but out for dinner tomorrow night with some friends and the adult kids are coming along too. We love this new pub/restaurant we started going to and have gone several times now.

It was odd being back in Scotland as they still have the masks in all places.......much prefer not wearing them as we don`t need to in England.

Time for a mug of tea, then probably an early night.......

 

[Sue M]

Yet another grey drizzly day here. Maybe by Sunday the weather will change. This morning I went to the driving range with DH and did videos of his swing for him!

Tomorrow is busy. Having brunch with past work friends in Langley, over the bridge on the other side of the river and about 30ish min drive. Then back to Langley for a birthday dinner with family friends. My husband and the birthday boy had worked together for years.
What are the chances of having to drag out to Langley 2x in one day!

After my fav afternoon show, Escape to the Country I should go get a walk in with the dogs! Looks like the drizzle has let up.

Pumpkin Souvlaki sounds great! Going to a Greek place tomorrow for dinner. Trying to decide on that or Moussaka.

Schumi glad you had an uneventful drive home.