Morning Sans family
Did a quick read through since I last posted. Sounds like everyone has been busy.
Nice idea for a bridal shower. You can do so many things with Tiffany. I loved choosing my dress......although in the end it was the very first one I saw and tried on......but mum and my best friends wanted me to be sure....so I got dragged round many more stores......but I knew.
We went wedding dress shopping yesterday. We had a wonderful time. She found her dress at the first shop we went to. It was located in my small town. It is a very nice family owned local bridal Salon. For her appointment we were taken to a large private showing room. I think there were 3 in the Salon. The room was beautifully furnished with a large dressing room for the bride. The bridal consultant sat with her and asked her likes and dislikes and then she went and pulled dresses for her. The consultant helped her in her dresses and then she came out and modeled them on the round riser in front of the mirrors.
The dress she chose is beautiful and I was so touched that she asked me along for her shopping day. My daughter in-law, her aunt and two bridesmaids were also there.
We went to David Bridal after just to look as she set had set up a time slot there also. There was no comparison. It was very rushed and the quality of dresses there were poor after what we saw at first shop.
I was surprised at how expensive the bridal veils are now. After I saw what was on offer at David’s bridal the ones we saw at the Bridal Salon
Were 100 times more beautiful and the design and quality were worth every penny.
The veil she chose at bridal salon matched her dress perfectly.
Have a lovely trip to see your dad and hope the weather isn’t too bad......and enjoy watching that baby!
We had a nice trip to see dad. There was a mishap on the way. Will share share below.
I always love spending time with baby Jude.
Been bothered all day by calls from those darn ambulance chasing lawyers.......oh we heard you`ve been in a accident??
We get the fake Microsoft called and fake Social Security calls here.
Back to reality now. Fun times at RPR-forgot how much I love the lobby smell. My shirt says "resting Grinch face"-Grinch loved it! I swear the best character interactions are always at Universal. Ended up with a Grinch zippered hoody too...and the boy loves his hogwarts face mask. Have to admit the UO facemasks are really comfortable! EP lifesaver with busy parks.
Sounds like you had a wonderful trip. Great pictures of the family.
We got a months supply from our butcher this morning with extra as it’s the festive season.......you know where we are..
LOL........We have a lot of bacon lovers here. I saw a picture at a restaurant my sister and I visited while up north. I took a pic of it and will post it below. Have to add it in as it’s on my phone.
No bake treats are so much fun! My favorite is peanut butter balls - peanut butter, powdered sugar, and rice krispies mixed and rolled into little truffles, then dipped into chocolate. The only problem is not eating them all! Have fun making them - the cherry and coconut one sounds especially good!
Those sound good.
Seems “someone“ ate two of the Mars bars that were in the goodie cabinet.....no Mars bar cookie tomorrow. So, it’ll be cherry marshmallow balls......and again, using condensed milk! Very healthy......
I think they can be frozen, so will make double and leave some for Christmas.
LOL......sounds like you have a chocolate loving ghost in the house.
Great evening at Chester Zoo lantern walk. Very limited numbers so was actually better than when we went a few years ago. I took a rucksack of goodies to eat as we walked round and hot chocolate when we went back to the car and it worked very well.
Beautiful pictures.
Second batch of cherry marshmallow cookies....although not really a cookie, so I hav eno idea whay they`re called cookies. They are soft and squidgy and oh so tasty. And very sweet thanks to the condensed milk. And my balls are bigger than average apparently.......
LOL.....They look good.
OMG! I just looked at the Facebook page for the motel where we stayed in Gatlinburg. This picture is from last night! That's our red car.
Wow.......that’s a big bear.
us, it’s our get the trash out, ready for the week day schedule. Little one will be doing her finals this week, older one still has classes. And, a meet up with my sister, as we need to go over, what we hope, is the end of the estate work.
Lynne hope your estate work is finalized without any issures.
So here I sit in the parking lot of the local urgent care. “Why is Charade at urgent care?”, you might ask. Today we decided to put up decorations. B and I were working on the inside of the house while Dh was working on the outside. Well, he accidentally hit himself on the head with a ladder. His head has been bleeding for about the last hour or so. I wanted to take him to the emergency room, but he resisted. He finally agreed to go to urgent care. We are waiting for him to be called in. He is still bleeding, just not nearly as bad as he was.
Sorry to hear of your hubby’s injury. Sending get well wishes his way.
Men tend to not want to go to doctor for anything. So good you talked him into going.
When Kyle was very little Tellytubbies were a huge thing, even for boys.......and Kyle has never been one to follow trends, but last minute he decided he wanted something from the Tellytubbies......y
Our granddaughter loved the Tellytubbies. LaLa was her favorite.
. I have an update, we won the bid on the house we wanted
so now we are waiting for the buyer of our house to do the inspection they put down the depost. I sent my deposit for the escrow on our house. Brian and Charlie are flying out tonight to meet the realator and do the inspection of the house. They will fly back home tomorrow afternoon. I have to take them to the airport in a couple of hours. It is only about 45 minutes from my house. Brian only has one personal day left so we had to be quick. He is going to take more video, pics and measurements. I will share some when he gets back.
Great news on your hubby’s job and your acceptance offer on your house in Florida.
We put up out little Superhero tree tonight.
Nice.
I'm off until Thursday and doing a staycation instead...at least I saved money for our next trip in September although being at home with Ebay and a serious Disney ornament addiction has not been good for my wallet
Great to see you post Tink. Yep, some of those ornaments are hard to pass up.
I called surgeon’s office re swollen hand, now have to wear the pressure bandage another 10 days. Squeaky wheel, I done got the grease.
Hope your hand heals up quick. You have had your share of medical issues this year. Hope things quiet down soon for you. Sending lots of get well wishes your way.
Delivery here is so delayed this season due to increase in online shopping. Many major retailers only getting pickups a few days a week
Warning. Don’t send anything through regular mail. Send it FedEx if you want your package to be delivered on time. I sent 2 small packages through regular mail. Also on same day sent to large boxes through FedEx. My boxes shipped through FedEx arrived on time. My packages through regular mail have still not arrived. I went to post office and showed them my receipt. She was rude and told me to be patient as FedEx is behind too. I told her my FedEx I shipped the same day arrived on time. I told her I checked the tracking and it is giving no information on what’s going on with the packages. She checked the tracking for me again and looked at me and said. “They are probably sitting in a container somewhere”. She blamed it on Covid and said there are people who shipped packages around Thanksgiving and their packages have not arrived yet.
Hey all. Should be busy day here, will be out of it for a few days after the general anesthesia tomorrow. Some people bounce right back, me, I tend to be a blithering idiot (yes, more than usual
for a day or two. Funny how the meds hit people differently.
Some people have a problem with those meds lingering in there system after receiving them. Sounds like your situation. It just makes me really sick. Finally found a wonderful young Anesthesiologist who came up with a med combo to help with nausea for me after last procedure. Works like a charm.
That’s elon’s Story and he’s sticking to it lol. making lemonade me thinks, do hope it didn’t set them back and they will be able to build on their mistakes. At least no lives lost
They had one fall off a ship too after returning. Elon just sold more stocks in his company Friday. So he has plenty of money.
Nice walk and a few chats with other dog walkers round a mere not far from us. Louie had to get in the water which others were surprised at in the cold weather! He had to have a quick shower when we got home.
He is a beautiful dog.
Oh I did laugh when my friends little granddaughter said about the moose things, Aunty Carole, we can`t call them that...thats a rude word.....lol...so we call them Reindeer balls
she`s 4.
LOL....that is so funny.
Only this week she read an article that explains people with his disability often are difficult to sedate! Yet nobody at the children’s hospital he saw seemed to be aware of it so she will print that off for his folder should he need it again.
Yes, families with children that have special needs are the best advocates for their loved ones when it comes to medical information.
Happy Festival of Lights to you too Lynne.
Keisha, you will be fine for surgery tomorrow!
Good luck with your surgery Keisha.
Never heard that bed bugs line before......lol.....
Old saying here. Mostly heard in the South.
My Aunt (my moms twin) always used to sing this one to us.
I woke up one morning and looked upon the wall , the bed bugs and kooties we’re having a game of ball,
The score was six to nothing the bed bugs were ahead the Kooties knocked a home run and knocked me out of bed.
Funny the things we remember from our childhood.
Stopping by to say hello! I've wound up being busier than usual as sales in my shop have gone way up due to the holidays, so it's keeping me busy. I'm not complaining, it's a blessing!
Glad to hear your shop is doing well.
I have my next medication jab today.... so far so good. I had a slight injection site reaction that cleared up so we're going to watch this one. I'll do my thigh this time to see if there's a difference.
Hope your site on this next injection does better for you.
Mac I think this will be a different Christmas for most. We will hold on to any element of enjoyment, family and peace that we can find. I think that’s why I’m struggling a bit with it all. We can’t make everything right and that’s always been my “job”.
Yes, it’s hard to make things right to easy with all that is going on, but finding the joy and in family and adding as much Christmas cheer as you can helps a lot.
For Christmas Eve we will head with my parents to the resort where we got married to a very lovely steak house. Since this has been a year of cooking a lot at home, mom and I figure we deserve a break and we can support a local business to boot. After dinner there is a river walk with lights and a huge tree so we can stroll and take in the sights. Should be a very fun but different Christmas for sure! Then Christmas Day heading to my brothers house for some ham dinner and a bonfire. Very excited to give the nephews their gifts!!
Sounds like a lovely evening planned.
Read UO closed down at 11:24 today as park is at capacity and won’t reopen later.
Only hotel guests can reenter the parks
Glad I’m not there today.
Me too, but that happened on a Saturday while I was there in September. It was according to a TM Covid capacity not regular capacity. Either way it wa a bit crowded and most of the crowd seemed to be in Diagon Alley or heading there.
Dh and I are at a university basketball game and there is a guy a couple of rows behind us who hasn’t stopped talking for the entire first half. It’s so distracting. I know way too much about his friends and family now.
LOL....
Christmas Eve we will have our main meal at lunch as are going to our church Crib Service with the children at 4pm. Limited numbers but we got seats booked - normally just turn up. Then home and Christmas Eve gift boxes for L & J. Included are sleigh bells we've had made with their names and the year on to join in a doorstep bell ringing at 6pm. Another new thing to get people joining together. Then we will eat supper but not decided on what that choice will be. Simple finger food.
Sounds very nice.
And so, some night time zoo for you:
Beautiful pics.
It’s funny, here the term “jag” is term used to describe a real jerk but in a good-old-boy sort of kidding way. it is usually followed by “off”...not to be confused with the more, ahem obscene phrase.
LOL......funny some terms that are used. I remember hearing term “dork” when I was a teenager living up north. I asked the person what that meant as I had heard people calling people they don’t particularly like a “dork”. I was told a dork is someone who swims to the bottom of the pool and farts and races the bubbles to the top. Needles to say I wasn’t expecting that response....LOL
Happy sunday all! Thanks for the kind wishes
. I am thrilled that this go-round was a relative breeze, phew!
GLAD to hear you are dong well. Sending lots of healing thoughts your way.
My sister took her van on our trip up north last Thursday. We were traveling on highway 63 when we heard a sharp crack. It was a area on her windshield the size of a quarter that cracked. The area is all wooded on both sides of highway. There were no truckers around. On closer investigation it looked like high powered BB pellet or bullet shot from a distance. Police were called and they said it could have been a errant bullet from a hunter or some kid shooting at cars. Either way. They would be on guard for any further reports. Needless to say we were a little shook up after. If it was a bullet and it came through the window my sister would have been shot. Police said that safety glass in windshields can with stand a 45 caliber shot. I begged to differ. Should know more when she takes it in for repairs.
The hotel we stayed at is a very nice hotel, but we had to move rooms 3 times. The first room they gave us a key to had stains on carpets and furniture. Nope to that one. Then the next room was nice, but on second day the hot water stopped working in sink. So onto room 3. I had them take me to available rooms to look over before we took another key. Third room was nice and everything worked.
We had a nice visit with dad. Did some cleaning at his house for him.
Had a visit to Albanese Candy Company and picked up a few things for Christmas Eve.
Every Christmas Eve we have our family here. We have a meal then unwrap presents. After presents we have dessert. We usually just let things flow as needed. I leave finger foods out for the everyone to enjoy as the littles are to hyped up for presents to eat to much at the sit down meal.
Went by the butcher shop Friday picked up a nice roast for today. Son and family coming over for dinner today. I still have not decided on Christmas Eve meal and Christmas Day meal. Need to get my meat order for those in this week.
I finished up some masks for my two great-nephews classes this week and made some Christmas masks for gift bags for everyone who was included in Bridal dress hunt. I’am going to make some masks for our neighbors and some for the kiddos to choose from on Christmas Eve then will close down the masks making for a couple of weeks.
Just need to wrap a couple more gifts.
Hope everyone is well and enjoying the Christmas
and lights.
