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

[Sue M]

Just want to say yay! Got my hair colour done today! I feel like a new woman!

 

[macraven]

Hooray for Sue!


I plan on wearing a hat in case I do not get a hair appointment before I go to Orlando.

 

[Pumpkin1172]

Doing a quick stop in!!!

I hope everyone is well!!!!

Such exciting times watching the Space X action!!!! I was glued to the tv at times over the weekend. Other than that, I had to step away from all social media. As an emapth, it was just too difficult to process everything going on. I'm still needing to exercise extreme " cloaking" to protect myself. My heart goes out to everyone.

I'm just giddy to see new videos about the opening of Universal!!!! Even though our boarder is not even open yet, and we have zero plans to travel anytime soon, seeing Universal open again ( and hopefully Disney soon ) gives me some hope that some normalcy will return. I can dream and plan vacations in my head again!!!! One of my happy places will be returning!!!!

I'll join in on the soda talk....I'm a gingerale fan!!!! lol Pick me to be the odd ball I will drink Coke Zero if no gingerale though. I rarely purchase it...because if I do, that is all I will drink lol. So I will rarely buy it.

Tonight it's tacos in our house. It's very windy and bitter cold again...but the sun is shinning. So I'll take the sun shine. But with the wind, I can't bbq, so tacos it is for the family, and I'll have a taco salad...one of my favorites

I hope everyone has a great Taco Tuesday!!!!

 

[Lynne G]

Yay, Sue doing tacos tonight. Sending good thoughts your way, Sue. And yeah, I am with Mac, I wish I was all blonde again. Hopefully before my trip as well.

We did tacos too, with peppers and since was asked for bacon, why yes, so it was a chicken, green and red pepper bacon and cheese taco. Yum.

 

[Sue M]

Sue, I think I read just 27 or so CF would be closed, but rest are doing take out or opened their dining room. I don’t know which 27, and we don’t go to the one close to us, as last time we ate there years ago, made us not want to ever try again.

Funny how a chain can differ I took my family to the Olive Garden near my moms and it was awful. Generally we enjoy Olive Garden but I’ll never go back to that one.

Sunday right?
Been reading to catch up, sounds like travel plans for some coming together. Will be interesting to watch the opening of Universal.
Weather has been perfect this weekend. Went to lake and stayed at MiL saturday night. Lake busy with boats but our pontoon was fine handling the waves. Tried out our new raft-like a lillypad but inflatable. even got the doggy on it. He liked watching the geese swim right on by, good thing his life jacket has a "handle" on his back to keep him from trying to "retrieve" a couple birds!

And we are leaving Friday for Florida. Went ahead and decided to use the timeshare weeks. Marriott Harbor Lake has the most amenities open including the big pools. Flying oldest down for a week, and DH and the boy are flying back a couple days early-DH has a golf tourney and son has Freshman band camp. I think DH wants to try to go to Universal too-will be interesting so we will see. Three of us have AP's. Will wait for after the first week probably and see what is up. Have one of the DD's friends come stay at the house to watch chickens and dog, and make a some money.

And long interruption later I think it is time for bed. Did manage to contort myself enough to get a pedicure done.
Stay well and good night sleep! will try to remember the eggs for whomever has the bacon!

hope you have a great trip!

Yes, a Monday is here, and the start of June has below average temps to start the work week, then mid week, the heat says lets get this summer started. 72 is the high today, Wednesday’s high, 91.

Sue, hope you got more sleep in today, and nice to give a ride to DD. I don’t know,about CF closing, more than I just read. I would think the ones in FLA may not be the ones closed.

Schumi, yeah, I like most pizza, and while not fond of bacon on it, will eat it anyway. A place has an all meats pizza, and bacon is one of the meats it adds. Now that is a huge piece of pizza. I tend to order only plain cheese.

With that, tea in hand and the start of a work week. While we move to a less restrictive time, at the end of this week, still no date for return to office. But commuting or not, time for another short week. With all the heat coming at the later part of this week, need to get my bathing suit out, and enjoy some Friday pool time.

So yep,



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Good Morning.🕶

That rain looks like earlier today here yuck. We had some sunny days, now back to rain. Supposed to clear tomorrow and Thursday supposed to be brilliant!
Yes I did get a better sleep! Thankfully! 91 will be hot! Pool time will be nice.
I tend to order a plain cheese pizza or add pepperoni. But no thanks for pineapple! Lol. I think we’ve all had the pineapple on pizza conversation before lol. Hard no for me!

Just finished lunch.......had prosciutto and few other little bits, including the nicest olives I’ve tasted in a long time.

Time to go sit outside now the fog has cleared.......that was weird. When we went out it was thick, but as we drove home along the coastal road, all we could see in front of us was a thick bank of fog over our little village and up into the woods behind us......very sinister.

Beautiful now though.........

love love prosciutto and olives. Yum. I love the marine fog. We are up a hillside and look down on the ocean inlet. When the fog rolls in we’re above it. Looking down it looks like a blanket over the water. It’s so strange being in the sunshine, then driving down the hill to be socked in!
it is very sinister looking when the fog creeps into the woods! The tv show X-Files was filmed here I think because of the rainy, foggy atmosphere we get.

Nooooooo

I clearly told my keeper DH that if anything went south on this marriage, I was planning on be a widow vs a 2 times divorcee
It’s dead at PIT

I’m with you, Noooooo! The closest CF to us is Seattle area and it’s always a must when we go there. The fish tacos are a fav.
That airport is so empty wow! It’s odd not seeing any planes, funny now it’s a novelty to see one, when it used to be so common. Safe travels.

Today has been such a Monday. I was woken up at 5:00 by the sound of the cat being sick. By the time I got back to sleep it was almost time to get up. Caspian has been sick several times over the past few days, so I thought it best to take him back to the vet today. She couldn't find anything physically wrong with him, so she gave him some medication that should settle his stomach. She said that if he continues to vomit then she would want to do an x-ray just to make sure there aren't any internal issues. She also sent us home with a couple of cans prescription food for digestive issues. Caspian, who normally doesn't care much for wet food, ate that stuff like it was the greatest thing he ever tasted.

The humans in the house had spaghetti for supper. We usually just have a meat sauce, but tonight I decided to do meatballs instead. Dh came into the kitchen, looked at the food, and asked, "Spaghetti and meatballs?" A few minutes later B did the same. I somehow managed not to make a sarcastic reply.

I think WaWa is actually a northern based company.

Yes, Star Trek Next Generation. I would love to do a meet up, but will not be going to HHN. Dh would be happy to go though.

I wanted to do it earlier, but our temperatures kept dropping.

I read that it's only temporary. Our closest Cheesecake Factory is 2 hours away.

Have a great trip. Hope you have good weather.

The only time I have ever heard my cat purr is when he is kneading.

I don't think I've ever seen an airport that empty.

Time to relax for the rest of the evening. I'm thinking about making some cookies.

Oh poor Caspian. I hope it’s nothing serious. Hmmm spaghetti and meatballs sounds yummy. Something I haven’t had in a long time due to dietary restrictions. But I can have pasta on occasion if cooked al dente.
No meet up for me either although it would be fun. Going (maybe) to the motherland early Aug if all my ducks line up!

Yeah, I am not fond of Diet Coke, much rather have Diet Pepsi. Sugared ones, I rarely drink. Rather have water or lemonade than regular soda.


Ooh, Schumi is thinking sweets, me,

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Yep, a Tuesday is here, and Mac’s day she has Taco Bell food.

And, for those thinking about the parks,
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Hehe, but either way, celebrate today, a Tuesday is here, and the weather is going to be 10 degrees higher. Heat pump of tropical weather is coming, along with gusty thunderstorms chances, for the next 4 days.

Ah, time for another up of tea, cereal and maybe a tastykake. Easy week day breakfast.

So, homies, welcome to an overcast start to this Tuesday, and,

Im not much of a soda drinker, but when I do, it’s Coke Zero If they made a diet version of Ginger beer I’d be all over that. Mostly I drink Perrier. With a squeeze of lemon or lime. Whatever’s on hand.
I finally had a Tastykake a few years ago out of curiosity. Some east coast friends were always talking about them. So when I was meeting them in Orlando they brought down some for me to try!

Your lunch hour is probably over now.... I’m late but I have an excuse
First had the monthly spray treatment inside and out for bugs and then installers arrived for window replacement

They are still here working.

Back later!

yay for new windows! Hope it all went well.


Must say it was very exciting getting roots done. Then she did a Demi on lower half cause it’s been so long since last colour and it was getting a touch yellow y. I’ll never take the simple pleasures for granted again!
Rainy drizzly day here.
I thought the tile guys were coming today but must have gotten my weeks mixed up. Texted contractor and it’s next Tuesday!

Happy Taco Tuesday.

 

[Sue M]

Doing a quick stop in!!!

I hope everyone is well!!!!

Such exciting times watching the Space X action!!!! I was glued to the tv at times over the weekend. Other than that, I had to step away from all social media. As an emapth, it was just too difficult to process everything going on. I'm still needing to exercise extreme " cloaking" to protect myself. My heart goes out to everyone.

I'm just giddy to see new videos about the opening of Universal!!!! Even though our boarder is not even open yet, and we have zero plans to travel anytime soon, seeing Universal open again ( and hopefully Disney soon ) gives me some hope that some normalcy will return. I can dream and plan vacations in my head again!!!! One of my happy places will be returning!!!!

I'll join in on the soda talk....I'm a gingerale fan!!!! lol Pick me to be the odd ball I will drink Coke Zero if no gingerale though. I rarely purchase it...because if I do, that is all I will drink lol. So I will rarely buy it.

Tonight it's tacos in our house. It's very windy and bitter cold again...but the sun is shinning. So I'll take the sun shine. But with the wind, I can't bbq, so tacos it is for the family, and I'll have a taco salad...one of my favorites

I hope everyone has a great Taco Tuesday!!!!

Yes, I agree. Very hard watching the images on tv lately. But watching the Space X was very exciting. I think I held my breath watching it go up.
Selfishly I hope our border opens for August for our WDW trip I’ll be interested to see how it goes at the parks. I saw some vid from Universal today!

 

[Lynne G]

Yeah, Sue, with chain restaurants, it can be hit or miss, as we won’t go to our nearby Olive Garden either. I can do better noodles at home. I do like their salad dressing though.

Quiet evening, how nice is that?

 

[Charade67]

Tonight has been much better than this morning. I had someone come by to look at my sofa. She says she wants it and can have someone pick it up next week. Dinner was tacos and then we went out for ice cream.

Just want to say yay! Got my hair colour done today! I feel like a new woman!

Yay! I finally scheduled an appointment for a haircut, but it's not until July.

Such exciting times watching the Space X action!!!! I was glued to the tv at times over the weekend. Other than that, I had to step away from all social media. As an emapth, it was just too difficult to process everything going on. I'm still needing to exercise extreme " cloaking" to protect myself. My heart goes out to everyone.

I have hidden the local news from my Facebook feed. I don't want to completely ignore what's going on, but it just seems like that was all I was seeing.
My husband has been doing one of those silly Facebook challenges. This one is posting pictures from movies that had an impact on him. Someone actually criticized him for posting frivolous stuff "in light of all the serious stuff going on right now".

Oh poor Caspian. I hope it’s nothing serious.

Thanks. He seems okay. Maybe a little more lethargic than usual. I'm going to keep an eye on him for the next few days and see how he behaves.


Speaking of cats...

 

[Sue M]

Charade hope he comes around soon. Eatting is a good sign!
People in internet hiding behind their screens, seems to be more of a problem these days. Frivolity is sometimes what we need right now, it can’t all be doom and gloom.
Love the cat meme! Reminds me of another with after a few days the cat is yelling get out of my house human!

 

[Pumpkin1172]

late night check in!

I did some priming on a piece of furniture to upcycle tonight since no walking around with the cold winds still howling. Dh calls my projects "firewood" jokingly but he's always on the lookout for the next good score

@Charade67 wow...I can't believe people. The FB game your DH was playing sounds like it would have been a good way to pass some time and take a break from all the craziness of world for a few minutes. I sure hope that the lady takes your sofa. It just makes selling things so much easier!

@macraven I hope the window installation went well!!! Anything new is always a bonus

@Lynne G I agree with chain restraints as well. They can be hit or miss. Your tacos tonight sounded delicious .

@Sue M I hope for you that the boarder opens soon. At some point it will need to open again.
I'm glad you got your hair done. 2 more weeks until my haircut. I can't wait!!!! People are just so happy to be able to go to restaurants and do a little more shoppy again. It has been nice.

Well, I think I'm going to watch my last episode of Outlander then I'm all caught up on that series.
I'll leave the light on for anyone who can't sleep or for @schumigirl who will be appearing soon ( and maybe with bacon or scones )

 

[Sue M]

@Pumpkin1172 i forget you’re an hour ahead! I’m looking at the time thinking- whats she talking about, it’s only 9:00 lol!
It sure does feel good to have some things open again! Today was the first day for my colourist to be open. I phoned a few weeks ago to be put on the list! Your almost there, 2 weeks will fly!
I had no restraint, had to watch Outlander right away. But I didn’t have school to get in between me & Jamie lol! Enjoy!

 

[macraven]

It’s now Wednesday and we are half way to the weekend.

Not that it makes a difference in my life but a lot of homies here have day jobs and weekends are the time they can call their own and relax.

When we bought our house, there were 5 windows on the second floor, that had seal damage causing clouding in between the bottom section and extra moisture in the upper panes.
It was something we knew had to be replaced eventually.
Now we have a clear view and air tight panes.

Next project we will do is have rooms repainted but no rush to do so.

I have no idea how people lived in the South before ac was available.
Hot and humid today and won’t be any better until late October.
No real complaints as I can handle this weather much better than when I lived in Chicago and north of that city.
I swear there are only two seasons in the north where we lived.....
Winter and the 4th of July .....

Reading back a few pages here, looks like a lot of the gals are getting their hair colored or cut.
I’ll be the rebel and stay with my plans of wearing a hat to UO.
Hair appointments for the decent places are so booked up.
I’ll be lucky if I can get in mid July.
Lol
I’m guessing that Kfish’s daughter is sleeping thru the night since there has been no late night posting by her here.

Now I need to read back and play ketchup on all the posts I have missed today.
Do not expect me up at the crack of dawn later this morning.
Ain’t gonna happen.....

Sue, think you are 4?hours behind me
I’m on est.
Close to 1 am now and you are probably getting your nightly news channel now.

A very big hug to all the homies.
If I called all of you out by your name, and missed one poster, it would pain me.

So to all!

 

[schumigirl]

Sue...glad you got your hair done, it always feels so good. We have diet ginger beer over here. It`s quite nice but for cocktails, it`s the full fat stuff.....no saccharine taste afterwards. Never understood the love Olive Garden gets. We tried it once.....most artificial tasting sauces I`ve ever tried....yuk....never again.




Hey pumpkin......yes, it`s been hard to switch off from all that`s going on all over right now. I`m glad I don't have Facebook or any of those social medias......this site as much as I do. Tom loves ginger ale......we always have a stock of that in at home, not only as a mixer, but occasionally he likes just a glass.

Yes, it`s lovely seeing everything begin to open up.....yes, nice to dream and look forward to whenever that might be. Coming from another country is certainly an added worry......

Yes, we have bacon this morning .....no scones sadly......may need to do some baking at the weekend as the weather sucks right now!




Lynne......oh you`ll definitely be blonde again by your trip! And glad to read you got your hotels sorted for your trip......




Charade......people like that have no sense of humour. In dark times sometimes humour is a welcome relief. I agree with Sue, folks say things online they wouldn't say to your face.....snidey remarks and some people`s opinions are best ignored.




mac.....yes, us ladies one by one are all getting hair sorted out......I`ll wait patiently.....lol.....can`t imagine living with no aircon. One girl from the Club Lounge told us her grandmother lived somewhere in the middle of nowhere in maybe Alabama, she hated going to visit as there was no aircon......nope, not for me!

Yep, we are also waiting on our decorator but like you, no rush. He`s going to be busy with all the folks he had booked in before all this hit. So, he`ll get to us when he can.




And we have Wednesday again......

Our bad weather has hit so we have heavy rain, high winds and just generally a gloomy day. Won`t change much the whole day, so no plans to go out anywhere. We did have bacon and pancakes this morning. Kyle has the day off today, so plenty of time to enjoy a lovely relaxing breakfast together.

Making a curry for dinner tonight. Hot Madras......Kyle will have mac n cheese.....lunch is grilled sandwiches and I wished I made chicken noodle soup yesterday for today....it is a bit winter like outside, our trees are all swaying in the wind. And all with a high of 52F.

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[Lynne G]

Hehe, ah that camel reminder just has to sneak in here to say, woot! A Wednesday is here, and over the hump of today, Friday is here. That means, woot! My Friday will be one where I am enjoying the pool. With 90 the high temps for the next three days, pool time. Hot, humid and thunderstorms. Yep, tropical type weather we get this starting time of year. The three H’s are our usual summer: Hazy, Hot and oh so Humid. Like today.

But alas, I heard rain in the earlier morning, and still wet sounding when I woke up. Quiet now, the storms, with damaging winds are to arrive around dinner time or early evening. Eh, no need to go out, and water the flowers. Or wash the pollen from my car. Thank you rain. Here is hoping the roof guy does not get wet checking out our roof. We thought it was a good time to replace our roof. So, another house expense. But hey, I will be quite an old lady by the time the roof needs replacing again.

With that, what was a gray view out is now a sunny one, with a bird tweeting loudly, as he must be in the tree just outside my window. And if you look in my window you will see me with a cup of tea, typing away on screens. Ah the joy of a work week. Some day, I will be the retiree not caring exactly what day it is.

And no hair salon appointments available yet. I asked for a day and time when they open. I hope it is the day or close to the day when that happens. I am so ready to be pampered and not have white hair.

Later homies, and



Ha ha

 

[Sue M]

Mac glad the new window installation went well. We replaced all our windows quite awhile ago. We still had the original single pane! Made all the difference.
We are on Pacific time, 3 hr difference.

Schumi I’ll have to look out for the diet ginger beer. I had no idea they had diet. Don’t know if we have it here yet.
Oh I really hate high winds, makes me so nervous watching the trees swaying.

Lynne it’s not hump day without your camel! Nice the sun came out! It looks like the sun is peeking thru the clouds here, so may turn out to be a decent day here. It’s 7am, sad to say I’ve been up since 3

Daughter back to work and it’s Mr’s golf day so I have the day to myself!
Since it looks like it will be a relatively dry day I think I’ll do some laundry and hang outside to dry. And attempt my Irish friends bread recipe. It’s a soda bread made with buttermilk and whole wheat.

Happy Hump Day!

 

[schumigirl]

That is one ugly camel!!!!

Rain has stopped but it’s so cold here! Although it is a bit of a relief from the high pollen we’ve had last few weeks. It is getting a little lighter outside.

A warming curry will be just nice tonight.

Grocery pick up day tomorrow......always a highlight of the week at the moment......

Planning another exciting night in front of the tv ahead.......

 

[Lynne G]

Ah, Schumi sharing a high wind storm. Wind sounds like an airplane is outside the house. Boom, something went down in the wind. And rain now beating against the window. Love a thunderstorm that shakes the house. Not. Ah, with most storms, will be out of here in less than an hour.

 

[Charade67]

Quick lunch break post. I am dealing with my nemesis (Anthem) again.

We are supposed to be going into phase 2 on Friday. I am looking forward to being able to eat inside a restaurant again. I’m also hoping that the zoos will be allowed to reopen. I just want to go do something that isn’t here.

 

[macraven]

It’s 90 and hot
No more outside flower tending for me today

 

[Lynne G]

Sun came out like nothing happened 10 minutes after the storm cell moved on. Very hot and humid out still.

Thinking mixing bacon and cheese with the burger meat, and make burgers for dinner. Rather than fries, baked taters sound good. Then fresh corn, as some left over. Ah, another summer type dinner planned.

Hope all are enjoying this Wednesday, the first week of June. 3 and 1/2 months from now, hoping Universal does have HHN this Fall.