What's on your agenda for today?

We can get them, HTH; they're just expensive. Just? I don't "do" bananas. Allergic to something in bananas.
 

Will go out 'shopping' to stock up on some xmas staples -- chocolate, butter for baking, ice cream, even chips I must admit, juices, nice coffee, some frozen entrees, and a few last minute gifts, you get the picture. Its cool but sunny and nice today.
 
Got home yesterday and then we had to drop off the dogs and then go back 20 miles to Wal-mart and buy groceries. Came home and collapsed in front of the TV and watched Mike and Molly reruns. :) I'm still not unpacked but have to go to the big City with hubby to see his surgeon today for a check up. Then we'll use the gift cards my daughter gave us for Hometown buffet. I know lots of people hate that place and my kids and grand kids don't like it either. John and I love it so that's where we'll be eating today. Hope to have time to check back on the forum tonight. Tomorrow we have to go the other way to a city and check in on our grandson who just moved back from college with his new wife and living with his mom. They both are going to finish college (I hope) down here instead of up north. His mom is nervous about this, I hope they don't all kill each other. :) Hopefully, they'll go get along well.
 

Note to self...never be out of vodka...
What fun I got to go and take a drug test. Peeing on command isn't easy and it's raining buckets outside. Did get the tree put up and the presents sorted.
 
Drug test? Is this from the cattle call interview? Did I miss something? Did you get the job?

Oops. Forgot to mention that I'm done with the !#$%^&*! Christmas cookies. I even made a batch of white chocolate gumdrop fudge.
 
Went to the gym already. The rain returned during dinner last night. Stayed away while I walked to the gym and back, but now it's pouring again. Guess we'll go out for coffee later. This is cleaning day and we need to be out of the house while the cleaners come in. I like to make it as easy for them as possible and make sure everything is tidy and out of the way.
 
Since I'm still up and its almost 4:30 a.m. here, I guess I'll be doing some sleeping later on today. Don't know what's keeping me awake either.
 
The rainy season has returned. :p Good that temps are cooler and makes bike rides more pleasant and better to be outdoors in the middle of the day, but bad because the swimming pool and sea are chilly.

Guess we'll go on a bike ride today. Don't want to risk going out in the kayak when there might be a thunderstorm.
 
Plan on being lazy and lounge around till it's dark ..Its 44c today ..outside hubby went out to check the temp in the caravan even tho it's under a shelter it was 43 in the van ..Its suppose to be cooler tomorrow,but only a day or two and back to very hot again
 
Hubby went to mass this morning at a Catholic chapel which is about 25 mins drive away. But it's very near the office for the mobile phone network we use and I needed to renew my data package for the next 30 days. So I took the car and we met up afterwards for cappuccinos.

Had something different for lunch - shrimp, pineapple and potato salad in a mayo mix. Heading out on our bikes around 4 to go to dinner. We need to be back to the house before 6pm as we have no lights on our bikes. Hope the rain holds off. We got a bit wet yesterday in the showers, but not much. And not complaining as it's warm rain.
 
I could swear I posted yesterday. Drat. If anybody "sees" Shalimar before I do, would you let her know that I posted the recipe for amaretto cheesecake in the recipe thread?

Nothing going on here except that my daughter and her crew have already eaten almost all of the Christmas cookies. Am I going to make more? Nope!
 
Hi, Vicky...if you're bored on the first day of your vacation, then whatever you do...don't retire!

I have some things to get done but am saving some for tomorrow, some for Wednesday and some for Thursday. I swear I'm gonna get Weaver's Bottom from sitting on my dead center. Almost afraid to stand up for fear of my butt having grown roots into the sofa cushions. Yawn.
 
Stuff like this scares the bejebus out of me. I know I'm going to go stark raving mad when I retire.. I've already pushed it off two years... I keep saying 2016 is my last.. but I'm not so sure
 
I thought I was done with this crap...national emergency...there are no Shopkins Season 4 to be had...
Does anyone remember the Cabbage Patch Doll craze many years back? Or Ghost Busters? Or Ninja Turtles when they first went mainstream...pun intended...I used to have a secret supplier...a toy store in the middle of the hood. If your car didn't get stolen before you got out, they always had EVERY hot toy of the season. It was great, they had supply because so many folks were afraid to go down there. Sadly they turned into a liquor store a few years back.
 
QuickSilver said:
Stuff like this scares the bejebus out of me. I know I'm going to go stark raving mad when I retire.. I've already pushed it off two years... I keep saying 2016 is my last.. but I'm not so sure
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I have to say, for anyone who likes to stay busy with goal oriented work task, enjoys the interactions with at least one or two co-workers, I don't recommend full on retirement unless you have plans to fill that time constructively be it with a part-time job, volunteer work, or some hobby that you find very fulfilling. For some after a period of time of nothing but free time without some sort of goal oriented routine you absolutely will go stark raving mad. Some people aren't suited for full retirement, that's just a fact of life and then there are those who thrive on doing nothing, but, one must determine which type of personality they are as reentering the job market isn't as easy as it once was after retirement.

Again, retirement = perfect for some, not so much so for many others who relish getting up and heading out to a day at the office or to whatever work environment they were used to heading off to most days. Cutting back seems a good compromise as we can all use some time to relax, though some people just prefer to keep going full steam ahead to they are no longer physically able like my great-grandfather who worked well past 97 and I'm sure my dad wouldn't have ever retired, he was already past retirement age, but still working full-time and had he not died of cancer I'm sure he would have worked well into his 90's if his body allowed.

Nothing wrong with retiring, serves many well who find better things to do with that time away from the hustle and bustle or didn't like their work and or co-workers or just want to devote more time to family and friends, self, travel or whatever floats tickles their nose hairs. :D
 
Spot on, AprilT! I didn't think I'd ever see the day when I'd miss cleaning other people's toilets, making their mirrors streak free or scrubbing the gunk off the top of their cooktops:) Today I was even giving serious thought to looking for a fast-food job. Yup. It would suit me well because I wouldn't waste any time at work eating; I loathe fast food.

QS, time for you to investigate things that will hold your interest. Don't retire without a plan!
 
Fureverywhere, you are the first one I've come across who knows what Shoppkins are. They've become a big part of my life in the last year or so. :) Anyway, I didn't even know a season 4 was out. My daughter-in-law told me they can't find season 3 in Sweden and since she hasn't come over to the US for work in awhile she hasn't been able to get any. So I went out and bought 2 or 3 packs of season 3 and then when i went to my daughter's she'd bought a bunch of them including a little bus thingie with some in it. Anyway, I'm suppose to get all this wrapped and mailed out and I haven't even wrapped them yet. I'm going to do it tonight and mail them tomorrow and hope they get there before the 3 of them (son, DIL and granddaughter) go back to work and school. Yesterday I talked to my granddaughter on the phone and asked her how many presents were under their tree and she said "Not one present" and then she said "If we put them under the tree the dogs eat them!" :)

Today I got my husband and grandson to put another dresser in our bedroom as I'm hoping to get more organized. I have to use my bedroom as an office too and it gets pretty full of stuff in here. (Which is why, I think, I don't sleep well at night) I'm taking everything out of a file cabinet and stuffing it into another file cabinet and putting the empty one of our local Facebook buy and sell page. By the new year I want all traces of me becoming a messy, hoarder, pig, packrat, out of the picture! Yesterday I found boxes of new boots under my bed that my daughter gave me last year because they didn't fit her just right. I just sold one today on Facebook and I'll probably take photos of the others and put them on tomorrow. I've heard a lot of clutter under your bed can keep you awake at night. I also heard knifes or other weapons under a bed can cause marital discord. (I'm not saying it's TRUE, just saying what I read). Last year I took a nice sword collection my son-in-law had given my husband out from under the bed and put it in the back floor of our closet.

This is the agenda thread so I'll say tomorrow, I hope to go to the post office and mail the box to my granddaughter, pick up a few things we need from Wal-mart and then come back home and sort through more stuff to get rid of. :)
 
Linda-helpful hint, they do have some of Season 4 on Amazon with a pack or two available Dec 25th. I decided my girl has enough stuff, so for her March birthday I'll have to rustle some up. They'll probably be to Season 12 by then...somebody hatched a great gimmick there!!!!
 
Linda, I can so relate...am now in the process of downsizing from a 7 room 2 bath house, with a studio, to a 258 sq. foot area.
Annie, your days sound so wonderful.
Georgia...your Christmas cooking is making me drool. All I have accomplished is creme de menthe fudge and peanut butter fudge. Going to try and get some cookies made. Nothing fancy this year, though.
Perhaps some Christmas music will get me in the spirit....
 

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