Hello Lovely People,

I am exhausted, our Thanksgiving Day is over everyone has gone home, the dishes are done and I am done in.

Charlotte, glad to hear that you are up and about. Lovely posting.

Sheila, Turkey Stomp, that is really a neat idea. I wonder if our Y here has that.

Sunny are you back home yet?

I'll be back tomorrow evening, when we get back from Stevens Point.

Have a good Sunday.

Bluet

Hello,

Northern part of our state has snow, I think seeing it depressed me. Adam's baptism went well, had a nice time, got home last evening around 5:00 pm. Didn't feel like doing much, so I watched Noel on TNT with Susan Sarandon, Robin Williams, Penelope Cruze and a few other people. It was o.k., I wouldn't watch it again this year, but it was a good Christmas movie, it did make me shed a tear or two.

So Charlotte, are you feeling better? How is that thumb doing? I wonder if the strong antibotics made your body feel like it had the flu? Sometimes that happens to me when I take high doses of antibotics. I printed your 36 Christian Ways to Reduce Stress and put it on my bulletin board. It makes some genuine points. I forgot my camera when I went to Stevens Point, go figure, but the other grandmother said she would send duplicates of the pictures she took. She took a lot of pictures, so I hope she comes through for me. I am glad DH and the kids helped you Thanksgiving Day, that would have been way too much for you to handle, with not feeling well. If your like me, you must be kinda glad it is over for another year. It sure was fun though, seeing all the grandkids together.

Sheila, I am still tired, and I probably will try to stay up for the Packer game tonight. They never start those football games until 8:00, that is so late, it's 9:00 on the east coast, what are they thinking? I don't like to cook either Sheila, I had to do so much cooking for years when we had the farm full time, and I was a stay at home Mom, so the kids always expected home cook meals when they got home from school. I was happy to do it, but now I don't like to go near the kitchen, unless I am looking for something to eat for myself. We certainly have no problem with that this week with all the leftovers. I didn't make it through CSI last Thursday, I barely made it through Survivor. My eyes kept slamming shut half way through CSI, so I gave up and went to bed. So where are they going with breaking the team up and bringing in the blonde chick? I hate taking the turkey off the bone too, we had a twenty pounder, it is always such a mess and time consuming. We had way too many pies, it never fails, I ask the girls to being one and they always bring two each, perhaps, I will remember that next year and assign only two to pies and the rest to something else, because every year I wear myself out. My Mother-in-law didn't have the holidays at her house anymore, when she was my age, my Mom did though.

Well, I hope you all have a good evening and your Tuesday is special. Charlotte, you have a doctor's appointment Tuesday, right? interested to see what that doctor says about your thumb. Sunny, are you back yet? Sheila, hope your sisters finally called DAD.

Bluet

A rainy evening to you all!

Glad the baptism went well, Bluet. Did Adam cry? Did he have to wear anything special? Sounds like there were a lot of people in attendance. I hope that the other grandmother comes through, too, because it would be fun to see the photos. My granddaughter had two baptisms. The first one was in the PICU because she wasn't expected to live. They gave us special permission to have more than two people there so, in addition to the priest and her parents, there were about six other people standing there all scrubbed up and in surgical gowns. Then on her first trip to San Diego, she had another baptism with her mother's family, and a big party following.

I was wondering how that Noel was. I liked the cast, but we are addicted to that naughty show, Desperate Housewives. I was kind of bummed to find them splitting the CSI team up, but I guess they have to shake things up now and again. You can only show maggots and vomit just so much! :)

Charlotte, I'm so glad your family came through for you. It sounds like you've had a really rough time lately. I wonder if the antibiotics affected you like Bluet mentioned. I've heard they can do that, too. I hope the thumb is doing better--praying like crazy that it quits hurting and turns a nice pleasant pink again! Thanks for posting the stress reducers.

Well, I haven't been eating well (or maybe I should say I've been eating too well!), but I've been exercising over an hour a day, and drinking lots of water. I've got to put myself back on a more rigid eating schedule. We went to our last November dining thing today, and it was the best one yet. I had smoked shrimp rolls, a blackened salmon sandwich, and a "warm grappa brownie with vanilla ice cream." I have no idea what that is, but, man, oh, man, it was good. The restaurant was cold, though, and we were right by a window. It only got up to about 40 today, which is rather cold for us. I forgot to put my socks on last night when I went to bed (I use special thick socks), so I woke up cold and had to put them on at about 3:00 am.

So what's everyone done in the way of holiday decorating?? I thought about putting my village out, but haven't done it yet. Tomorrow we're wrapping some presents because our son is staying overnight on Saturday while we stay in a hotel in downtown Seattle, and go shopping and stuff. I don't want him to see his presents should he go snooping around. Okay, he's 26, but you never know!

Have a good evening, everyone! Sunny, are you back yet?? Hope you had an extra-wonderful time!

I'm Home!!!!
 

Good Afternoon,

Welcome back Sunny! :D

So glad you are back home safe and sound again. Sounds like you had a marvelous time. Did not know you were going to surprise you Mom and Dad, what a sneaky nice thing to do. ;) Do you like to drive, that you did all the driving? That is quite an accomplishment, clocking all those miles. So the boys are glad you are back, bet they'll stick to you like velcro for a few days, just to make sure you don't disappear again. We have missed your posts and your decorating for Christmas. Congratulations on your weight loss, way to go girl!

Charlotte, gee, I must have misunderstood something, I thought your roof was completely reshingled, am I understanding correctly, that you have torn it off again and put up trusses? I am confused. It probably would be a good idea, if you went to stay at the station's guest rooms, your health sounds pretty fragile right now. No getting sick for Christmas too. :( It is really nice to have friends that are there for you in the way your friends are at the station. You know Charlotte, I think, this is a poor time of the year to be on a diet. I know I gained some weight over the Thanksgiving Holidays, that food is just too good, now I have to get working on loosing it again, what a pain. :?:

Sheila, I am wondering if you are downtown Seattle on a little R and R and shopping? How much fun is that? :) A little get-a-way before Christmas. Oh, I just looked back and you plan that for Saturday. The baptism was good. Adam did not cry at all, he was very good. He had been up most of the night though and Daddy had to take him for two car rides, one at 1:00 am and one at 2:00 am, before he calmed down. The reflux is still a trouble for them. The doctor increased his zantax, hoping this will help him. He is still sleeping sitting up in his car seat in the middle of his crib, but doesn't sleep for very long at a time. DD and SIL, have not had a good nights sleep since he was born. Does anyone have any experience with this, do they eventually grow out of it, is it like what they called colic, when our babies were little?

When our first grandson was born, ten years ago, I bought a baptismal gown for a boy and one for a girl. The kids keeping passing them around and using the same ones. I thought it was a nice tradition to start for them, since we did not have one from my family or DH's family to hand down. I wanted the long ones that were old fashioned looking. That is a bautiful story about your grandaughter's baptism, Sheila.

I thought, if I am not too tired tonight, I would start getting some of my Christmas stuff out of storage and decide what and how I want to display it. I have a collection of santas that I always place on the fireplace mantel, perhaps I could start there. We'll see, I was way too crabby last night to try any decorating. *#:c)>.

How about that everyone, I remembered it was Wednesday all.......day. Have a good Thursday all, check with you later. Fatpuss, we are still looking for you!

Bluet

Hey, welcome back, SunnyD! Surprising your parents sounds like such fun! They'll have a good laugh over that for a long time. That's a heck of a long drive. I'm sure glad that nobody was hurt in all those accidents. And what an accomplishment to have lost weight on vacation--that's almost unheard of! Congratulations! :bravo: It's fun to be missed by your pets, isn't it? But also good that they liked their catsitter. I think I mentioned I used to catsit for a friend, and I never saw her cats during the two weeks she was gone. They ate the food, and I saw litterbox action so I know they were there.

Charlotte, I thought that most of your roof was done, too. What did Bluet and I miss?? Yeah, I've heard that steroids can really put on the weight, no matter how hard you try to keep it off. That's great that there's a place to stay at the station if you feel that you need it. What good friends you have!

I had a hard time getting this website to work yesterday so I was afraid to post. I hate typing and then losing it. You all know that feeling, right??

My DH took me over to the chiropractor yesterday (the drive lasts longer than the appointment!), then we ate lunch out, although we both had breakfast food, and then we wrapped some presents. He took a sick day yesterday because he had to go to the dentist, then take me across town, and the whole day was pretty much shot anyway. He works for a company where there is no sick leave recorded--he just says he's sick and they still pay him (he's salaried). Vacation time they do keep track of.

We got another white Omaha Steaks box in the mail. Aargghh! What am I going to do with Dad? And he said there's another one on the way before Christmas. I'd just managed to get a bit of room in my freezer compartment, too. Do you think it would be bad if I kept the Omaha Steaks mail from him for a while? When I asked him why he ordered more, he said the free ham got him. In addition to the free ham, there were more gourmet burgers (now we're up to 16!), 8 pork chops, and 8 chicken breasts. We still have more pork chops, a bunch of hot dogs, and I can't remember what the other box in Dad's freezer compartment is. Maybe I will send some your way, Charlotte!

SunnyD, those photos are wonderful! Love the one of your mom and dad in the car. :) And the holiday table looks so festive, and everybody looks so happy. I'm glad you had such a good time. Although your good time came with a price! Yuck on the bladder infection. I used to get those when I was younger--no fun at all. My daughter started getting them really young, too, and has to watch how long she holds it.

So. . .tonight's the night, Bluet! Thursday is here again. I know I'm looking forward to seeing what's going on in Las Vegas.

I actually finished our annual holiday letter and got all the Christmas cards addressed and stamped. I'm so darn early that I think I'm going to wait until next week to send them. Like being fashionably late for a party, I definitely don't want to be the first person to send Christmas cards!

My Dad is really hooked on catalogs and advertisements. He got a Gevalia coffee maker and some coffee in the mail today. He obviously didn't read the advertisement well because it's a 12-cup coffeemaker and he only drinks two cups in the morning. It's also a bit more space age than the one I got him when he moved into the addition. We'll see if he uses it or if it becomes a counter decoration.

Hope everyone had a great Thursday!

Hello,

Man are those people on Survivor ever getting snakey. Good old Chris is having himself one heck of a time. I have a feeling it is going to get very nasty from now to the end, and all for a million dollars. What a disappointment CSI was. Ours was a rerun, the first show of the season. Don't tell me they are going to show reruns now even before Christmas.

Sunny, what wonderful pictures of you and your family, thank you for sharing, everyone looks so happy. :) Are you serious, did you really have roast beef instead of turkey? Some people do do that, especially if they don't like poultry. Those bladder infections are really painful. I am glad you were able to conquer it on your own. I put up one of my little trees in the family room tonight, at least it is a start. It is new this year and I am not sure I like it yet, I'll look at it in the morning when I am feeling more alert.

Sheila, girl you are going to have to have the postal workers hold Dad's mail at the post office. He is getting out of hand with this buying frenzy he is on. How does that coffee thing work, does he have to buy a certain amount of flavored and specialty coffee a month? Today was pretty quite at the office, but then I forgot to run the program for printouts before ending the month, so now I have lost important information. I will have to call the programer tomorrow to see if he can retrieve any of it for me. In the fifteen years I have been running these month end programs I never ever forgot that step before closing out the month. Oh well, first time for everything. :(

It is very cold here this evening and we have had our first snow :mad: Bet you can guess what is going through my mind.

Have a good Friday everyone. Yea Friday!!!!!!

Bluet

Goood Morning...
 

Good afternoon, ladies!!

Charlotte, dang, woman, you are so rebellious! I had to laugh when I kept reading, the dr. said I shouldn't do this, but I did it anyway and had fun. I'm going to send you some of those surgical masks--wear one of those and everyone will stay away from you for sure! I do know how you feel, though. You want to be able to live your life or what's the point of life! Anyway, you be careful and take it easy. At least try to do (or not do!) some of the things they said, okay? :) And thanks for the roof clarification. We all needed that. Hope a lot gets done on Saturday.

You know, SunnyD, I've seem some incredible fake trees. And when I am cleaning up all the needles for weeks after taking down our tree, I keep thinking I want one. One of these days, I'll get one, and stick one of those pine-scented smelly things on it. I would miss the smell, but definitely not the mess.

Bluet, I was totally disappointed when I tuned in to CSI and discovered it was a rerun. What are they doing showing reruns during sweeps? Isn't it still sweeps? Maybe not. I'm betting most of December is reruns, too, darn it. You know, I haven't asked my Dad whether or not he has to buy coffee each month. Several times in the past year, he's signed up to get something free that comes with a subscription to some dumb magazine, and you're supposed to cancel before a certain date or you are automatically subscribed. Well, of course he never remembers to cancel, and then when the magazine comes, he's totally flummoxed. Luckily, he's been able to get out of it by calling up and denying any knowledge. And, frankly, at that point, he really doesn't have any knowledge of ever doing it so he's not lying!

So, I'm feeling pretty frustrated right now. My son called and when I reminded him about staying at our house this weekend, he said that he couldn't stay overnight. I was so upset! He thought he could leave the house at 10:00 pm on Saturday and come back at 10:00 am on Sunday. The dog can't hold it that long! Plus not having access to water will dehydrate the poor dog. After I told my son that wouldn't work, he ended up cancelling his Sunday morning meeting. But, of course, I'm all worried that he just said that, and he's going to leave the dog in the crate for 12 hours. Every time I think I can trust that kid, he does something to make himself untrustworthy. How am I supposed to have a relaxing weekend away when I'm going to worry about whether or not my animals and Dad are being taken care of? My DH said that he can just put it out of his mind, but wondered if I could. I thought about cancelling, but I was so looking forward to this. What to do, what to do. . . :(

Well, off to the post office and the bank. Have a great weekend everyone! I will start a new thread on Sunday, okay?

Hello,

I was out late Christmas shopping tonight. so I will sign on tomorrow and catch up with everyone. Sunny, I got a nice screen saver and wallpaper from your recommended site. Thanks a bunch! :-) You can tell I am not a real big fan of the Grinch, I thought you just accidentally spelled "beef" incorrectly. Hey, that can happen. Charlotte, Charlotte, Charlotte, I don't know what we are going to do with you girl. Gotta take better care of yourself! Sheila, just go, DS will come through for you, he is your son after all.

Bluet