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Went to the mall today to pick up some Christmas cards. All I can say is the economy must be picking up.....it looked almost like Black Friday. Santa Claus was doing a booming business. Of course, it was a gloomy rainy day, so that might have had something to do with it.
 

Started out to be a so so day but it has improved, my mornings are not always good but I do better
as the day progresses. Went to a concert here this afternoon, a mens' choir - they were very, very good.
Going to go a pour myself a glass of wine now, fetticine alfredo with shrimp for supper.
 
jujube said:
Went to the mall today to pick up some Christmas cards. All I can say is the economy must be picking up.....it looked almost like Black Friday. Santa Claus was doing a booming business. Of course, it was a gloomy rainy day, so that might have had something to do with it.
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I saw that too the other day jujube, I really thought I'd been asleep and woken up on Christmas Eve, Everywhere was packed with Christmas decs and shoppers...wow, and only November!

Today is my day off..and it's been raining all day, so I've been doing very little because I had an absolutely exhausting day yesterday....I find that I spend my days off these days recovering from the previous day..not good.

However the good news is that my daughter and s-i-l are flying in next week from their home in Spain, just for 2 days, and we're going to have an early family Christmas dinner at our favourite restaurant. :DThey can't come to us over during the festive season because it's the busiest time of the year and both o/h and I are both working up to and including Christmas Eve, and then back to work 2 days later , so we can't go to them either...sooo I'm looking forward to their visit even for the very short time they're here :D
 

tortiecat said:
Started out to be a so so day but it has improved, my mornings are not always good but I do better
as the day progresses. Went to a concert here this afternoon, a mens' choir - they were very, very good.
Going to go a pour myself a glass of wine now, fetticine alfredo with shrimp for supper.
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Tortie, apart from your morning...the rest of your day sounded glorious...I'd love to have that kind of a day. sounds like you had a wonderful relaxing day. :D
 
Pappy said:
Rainy and overcast in Flori-duh this morning. Got together with some friends for breakfast at Izzys. Not much going on this afternoon. Talked to my daughter on FaceTime and her siblings are having a dispute over Thanksgiving dinner. I think the kids could work it out if my son-in-law, daughters husband, kept out of it. Hope it works out for them. My advice was, until they start acting like adults, tell them you are going out and they can do what they want.:confused:
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Good advice Pappy, it's funny how holiday celebrations seem to bring out the worst in people sometimes isn't it?
 
Good morning, everybody. I have my own laptop back, and it seems to be working just fine. So far. I don't want to jinx it so will say nothing more:)

I have a cheesecake in the oven. It will be delivered this afternoon and refrigerated until the customer leaves tomorrow for a three-hour drive to her family's place. Fingers crossed that it will arrive there in good shape...I "strongly suggested" that it would be safer travelling in a cooler.

When this one comes out, another one goes in. When that one is done, another goes in. Those will be delivered tomorrow.

Will y'all please face the East for a moment of silent prayer that they are all absolutely perfect? Heaven knows that I need all the help I can get!

It's a lovely, sunny day here, even if a bit cold, but nice enough that I bundled up early this morning and drank my coffee on the patio. Hollydolly, I'm sending you some virtual sunshine for your day off.
 
Ha!! Nice of you georgia :D..but it's getting dark now and it's still raining...only coming up to 4pm, ,,very depressing getting dark so early in the autumn...however...I have turned East ( I promise you) lol...and praying that your deeeelicious cheesecakes come out absolutely mucho perfecto... :D
 
It's 7am here on the east coast of Australia, and I've already been into town and had my hair cut. I have a lovely hairdresser who opens at 6am during Summer.

Expecting a repair man here to fix a leaking shower - the shower itself isn't leaking, but the wood around the door near the shower has swollen, so it must be leaking behind the wall somewhere. Hope he can get it fixed without having to take off the wall in the neighbouring bedroom.

Supposed to be quite warm here today - probably somewhere around 30 C. It gets a bit warmer where I am though, I'm down in a valley and don't get too many breezes through.
 
Ooooh granny jo....how I wish I had a hairdresser who opened up so early...bliss it would be to have my hair cut or blow dried just before going into work.. :D


Good luck with the shower repair

Enjoy your Australian summer.., we currently have 8 degrees here ( 8.30pm), dark and rainy..
 
Pappy said:
Talked to my daughter yesterday and everything has calmed down, somewhat. Her son, the one that has a dispute with his sister, won't be coming. Oh well, his loss.
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Oh well, at least the celebrations won't be disrupted with bad feeling pappy..that's one good thing..
 
Just did my good deed. I left a comment on the Ronda Rousey site telling her how inspirational her book was. She probably needs some positive words herself. I didn't know anything about her. But such wise words from someone so young. I've been getting so down about searching for work. I just keep replaying the morning I got fired...wish I had boxing glove then. But I realize dwelling on those jerks isn't hurting them, it's just keeping me from growing forward. They're bastards and big corporate will spit them out too eventually. Oh and I wrote a PS that I have a special fondness for bullies too. Time to get back on the horse.
 
OOh Fur..I'm sorry to hear you got fired..I'm sure I'd be the same as you, and replay it over and over in my mind, but you're right you must, tho' it's difficult, wipe those idiots from your mind and move on, because it's just causing you stress, and not them..

I've come across these types of people many times, and you're right Corporate Karma will drop a boulder on their heads sooner or later..
 
Corporate Karma is wonderful! A company that I worked for was "employee owned" except that it really wasn't. The founder's kids inherited from their dad and drove it into the ground. By that time I had already retired, but all those people who never should have had their jobs in the first place and who made life difficult for the mere mortals? They fell like dominoes! When the company was finally bought out, it was nearly worthless, and the people who thought they had golden handcuffs found themselves with absolutely nothing. The employee stock options yielded very little, the profit sharing...what profit?

I was lucky to have retired when I did, but there's life after being let go from a job, especially after being let go from a bad job.
 
I came up with a revenge fantasy. One of the places with my resume is children's services. Tough job but I'd be up to the challenge. The manager that I hate the most was rumored to be going through a divorce. I was imagining being the social worker that has to evaluate him and his wife in a custody dispute. How satisfying to make him squirm...of course I would be professional about it;)
 
LOL of course you would fur..;)..and wouldn't that have been the best Karma in the world ?

Today I've been running around doing all sorts of errands. Collected my distance sunglasses from the opticians after they'd had to repair the arm when it broke off still under guarantee so no cost.

To the surgery to collect a couple of prescriptions...there's never enough parking there so I had to park outside on a double yellow line while I dashed in to get the scripts, and just pray that those 3 minutes wouldn't be when the traffic warden would come along and slap me with a ÂŁ70 ticket...*phew* got away with it.. :D

Picked up the groceries from the supermarket..then had to drive to a collection point to pick up a parcel for my o/h after they'd delivered it a day early when we were both at work and not the day we specified.

It's been one of those days where my phone hasn't stopped ringing...at one point I was on the landline and the mobile at the same time this morning...*sheesh*:rolleyes:

Good news is that the hospital called and my long awaited MRI scan is booked for next week...*yeaaah*! .
 
Sunny today but cold enough for a fire...what could be better? I had a mug of tea sweetened with honey and simply enjoyed the lazy crackling of the fire. We went out earlier to run errands...post office, grocery store and such. It should be a relaxing Thanksgiving..dinner out with my mom and her hubby. We have a rather quiet life, but it suits us both. It's wonderful being retired..each day is a blank slate to fill as you see fit...well mostly.

Holly, congrats on getting your MRI scheduled. Yay!

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Thank you Karen....even tho' I have a very good idea what they might find, and I won't be happy if it is.. ...I'm still happy that they're gonna get it done and we can get on with the business of trying to get it fixed.. :)

definitely cold enough for a fire here...on days like this it would be great to have a big open fire with crackling logs like you...but I have to just be satisfied with an imitation fire and GCH.. ...still very warm indoors tho currently with no heating on, our house is very well insulated.. it's about 9 degrees here now..

Up at 5am for work in the morning for a 10 or 11 hour day ...gonna be at a venue tomorrow where the heating is unpredictable so I'll have to wear lotsa layers... :eek:nthego:
 
hollydolly said:
Thank you Karen....even tho' I have a very good idea what they might find, and I won't be happy if it is.. ...I'm still happy that they're gonna get it done and we can get on with the business of trying to get it fixed.. :)

definitely cold enough for a fire here...on days like this it would be great to have a big open fire with crackling logs like you...but I have to just be satisfied with an imitation fire and GCH.. ...still very warm indoors tho currently with no heating on, our house is very well insulated.. it's about 9 degrees here now..

Up at 5am for work in the morning for a 10 or 11 hour day ...gonna be at a venue tomorrow where the heating is unpredictable so I'll have to wear lotsa layers... :eek:nthego:
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I totally understand about the MRI...but I'm with you on the let's get the problem fixed. :)

Our fireplace is in the family room/kitchen area and is soo cozy...but a cord of wood will last a couple of years as we don't get a lot of really cold weather here.

Sounds like you have a full day ahead..my goodness. I feel so lazy now..haha. Take care, Holly.
 
We came home to a green yard and green on the hills around us so we are happy about that, after the months of drought. It's raining on and off now.

Today we went into town and I picked up something called "Shopkins" that my youngest granddaughter likes. They are quite popular with the younger set and they keep coming out with different ones all the time. Sort of like they did beany babies, only these are tiny plastic replicas of almost anything you could imagine shopping for. These are good because they are light weight and we won't spend a lot on postage to mail them to her for Christmas. Her mom said there are some Wayside School books that are the first English chapter books that she's really enjoyed so I ordered those from eBay yesterday. Everyone else gets cash and or lottery scratch-off tickets so I guess I can say my Christmas shopping is done.

I hope to be able to just stay home for a few days now. Our Thanksgiving company is coming on Saturday so tomorrow I'll just be getting things ready around here and maybe relaxing some. :)
 
Where's Hollydolly? I hope she isn't letting a little thing like having to go to work interfere with posting here!

Linda, green in California. Green is good! I hadn't heard of Shopkins, but there aren't any little ones in our family anymore. Hate that those cute little kids grow up:(
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Hollydolly where are you? Come back!
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LOL...sorry georgia...sadly yep the workhouse is getting in the way, very busy period at the moment leading up to Christmas, so I'm working very long hard days. leaving the house around 7am and not getting home until 8.30 or 9pm. By the time I've got a few things sorted it's bedtime, so not much time for the forum ..:gettowork:

Pappy you didn't see me post on another thread at lunchtime today chikadee ( your post is showing 1pm UK time) at that time I was absolutely knee deep in more work than should be legal for one person *yikes*.......but I did post on the games about 6.30 am this morning before I left for work ...oooh I s'pose that might have been your early morning by the time you read it.. :D

Anyway folks...it's 11pm...I'm on my virtual knees here...off tomorrow and Monday tho' so I'll pop in after I've caught up with the chores. Supposed to be storming tomorrow...big hazardous weather warnings being given out for tomorrow so I'm glad I'll be home ...nite nite Gerogia, pappy, and everyone hope you've all had a good day .. :eek:fftobed:
 

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