Afternoon all.
Annie – Hope Royce gets well soon now that he has all the drugs. There’s still a good amount to do on the half bath. Yes, it’s the one in the hall just off the entry. It’s really just a powder room – no tub or shower, so it’s probably not even right to call it a half bath…Anyway, bf is being the perfectionist with all the wall-patching he’s doing, so it’s not going as quickly as you’d think. I’m going to start pushing him though by telling him I plan to paint it this weekend. With all the other stuff there is to do for the holidays, we don’t have time to be leisurely about this. I’m so glad you enjoyed the church tea last week and your church service this past Sunday. Our building does nice tenant lobby events like that – a summer ice cream social, a winter celebration, a breakfast buffet. It’s so nice your co-worker grabbed you to come along with her to attend. I bet your Christmas tree smells so good! Re meetings – none today, yahoo.
Dee – How’s your foot doing? Hoping it’s feeling better. I had a problem with plantar fasciitis a couple years ago and it was tough trying to stay off my feet, and I didn’t like having to ice it as was recommended. Honestly, your “friend” was being really pushy and obnoxious about trying to get you to sign on for a mission trip. What’s wrong with her??!!
I hope you found a way around having to sit at the same table with her and her dh at the company Christmas shindig. Re our hosting the Christmas Eve meal – I’d like to “shake up” tradition with something NON-traditional, but I think I’ve decided to go with a roast of some sort because it’s easy – season the outside and throw it in the oven or electric roaster, make gravy and possibly put together a sauce, voila. I might make lasagna also. That’s a bit more labor intensive, but it can be done ahead. Re the holiday parties I’ve got on the calendar – none are formal, so yay for that. BTW, my doc gave me a med for my asthma at my appt 10 days ago and it’s helped tremendously. I go back for a follow-up next week on Monday. I don’t know if this was intended to just get me past this bad spell, or if I’ll need to use this on a daily basis from now on. We’ll see.
Michelle – Sounds like all is going well post-surgery. How nice you’ll only have three days of work before your office shuts down for two weeks!! I’m sure you’ll have recovered enough by the time you return to work next week to get through those three days.
Terra – More strange sleep hours for you! What’s up with that??!!
I hope you enjoy the Christmas party today! Re the shoes – I’ve read that shoes that fit properly, especially athletic shoes, shouldn’t require “breaking in”. And you’ve already bought a size larger than your usual size. I think those just aren’t the shoes for you. Hope you can still return them. When I’m not sure if a shoe is going to work for me, I’ll try to only where it around inside the house for a short time over a few days to see how it feels.
Happy – Hope the bad night’s sleep doesn’t catch up with you during your very busy day today! I’m sure you’ll catch up on your sleep tonight.
Susie – Glad to hear your hubby’s procedure went well and he’s good for five years.
I sort of weaseled on getting that done…my annual physical was in April of this year, before I hit the big 5-0, so I didn’t schedule the procedure then, or even after my b-day in July. Looks like I’ll be scheduling it for April or May of next year… The suggestion you made about volunteering some time for an organization that interests me is a good one. I’ll have to do some thinking on that.
Ceejay – Yay for the leaves being picked up and gone! Tomorrow’s our last pickup, but we didn’t get out to rake (my doc didn’t want me raking due to the asthma) this past weekend, so we’ll be stuck with the leaves. My thought is to use a leaf blower to blow them all to the back of our yard by the fence. This area of our yard has arborvitae evergreen-type trees all across the back and there isn’t any grass under them, so nothing will be harmed with the leaves sitting there. If you have leaves on top of the grass and then it snows on top of that, the leaf mold that grows can kill the grass underneath. I don’t want that to happen. Re your saying about going to bed with the chickens to get up at 4 am (i.e., EARLY!), that reminds of a women at the office who when I see her at the end of the workday will say “Time to go home and feed the chickens.” She’s a city dweller and I’m sure doesn’t do that LITERALLY. So now I wonder where that phrase comes from…
Yeh, wouldn’t 2-day work weeks be heavenly??
Shad – You sound crazy busy at the moment, so you certainly won’t be bored!!
You mentioned Yorkshire pudding – I’ve been to a popular prime rib restaurant here in town, only a couple times many years ago, but I still recall them serving it with that. Hmmm. I’ll have to look into that.
--
Busy again this morning, so this entire week has been rather busy. Glad that I finished my performance self-appraisal Monday (the due date!), and today I completed my input for our department’s monthly report. Those are both icky tasks.
Let’s see, what else? Bf phoned two mechanics re the car on Monday. One made a better impression, and also gave a suggestion about starting the car that worked (woohoo!), so that one got our business. Even though bf got the car going, he took it to the shop and had them check a couple things to see if a real problem existed. Nothing found. But we already planned to have our brakes done, so we had that done as well. Yay.
I saw the movie “Birdman” last night. The cast and acting are great – Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts. It’s got 4 SAG award nominations. The story’s sort of wild, but I enjoyed it.
The calendar is so full of holiday stuff – this Saturday evening is our block’s holiday party, hosted by a couple across the street from us. Next Thursday is my employer’s holiday party – employees only, at a nearby restaurant from 3-7pm. We have a party at a friend’s house the following night. Bf’s family is gathering at his sister’s on Sunday, the 21st. My family’s gathering is the 24th at my house. We have another friend’s party on the 27th, which will also be a celebration for of the friend’s son’s b-day (bf is friend with both father and son). Supposedly bf and I are hosting a NYE gathering at our place… it’ll be a small gathering, since many people we know don’t want to be out on the roads on NYE. We can accommodate two guests in our spare bedroom and 2-3 others if they want to crash on our sofa or recliner. We’ll see… Gonna be a busy 3 weeks!
Tonight I have a hair appointment. I’d rather be at home…oh well.
Okay, I have to finally get this posted before another interruption comes along!! Buh bye.