What are you doing today 2023

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A quick trip to a grocery store. It’ll be busy with folks like me getting last minute items since the stores are closed tomorrow.

Going to attempt once again to make a Bread Pudding just like they served at the Mirage in Vegas. It was Steve Wynn’s mother‘s secret recipe. Even though it was considered poor man’s food, I loved that pudding.
 

Jules said:
A quick trip to a grocery store. It’ll be busy with folks like me getting last minute items since the stores are closed tomorrow.

Going to attempt once again to make a Bread Pudding just like they served at the Mirage in Vegas. It was Steve Wynn’s mother‘s secret recipe. Even though it was considered poor man’s food, I loved that pudding.
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Poor man’s food jules ?

it was luxury if we got a chunk of that from an auntie or neighbour
I loved it …..it was quite an expensive cake/pudding then, with all the dried fruit,eggs etc and sugar and a drop of brAndy……
 
charry said:
I loved it …..it was quite an expensive cake/pudding then, with all the dried fruit,eggs etc and sugar and a drop of brAndy…
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There was no fruit in the one I liked. I’ve tried some with raisins - yuck. Just items like eggs, milk, sugar, stale bread and a few spices - basics most folks have in the kitchen. I’ve had the same bottle of bourbon in the cupboard for 10 years. A couple of tablespoons isn’t going to deplete it much.
 

First thing needed to be done inside on 2023, is packing the Holidays decorations away on Monday. Then Wednesday it'll be back to regular groceries.

However, today, the last day of 2022 and a Saturday has to go out again for just one hour. Amazing in it's own as the buses were plentiful so no waiting and very few people out and about.

Happy Hogmanay! Welcoming the Bells quietly me, daughter and kitten. Happy that we've survived 8 months after losing hubby... The shopping's done with replacement for two wrong controllers for XBOX ONE. Went to Iceland to grab extra goodies including prawns and dip plus oven cooked and battered prawns and dessert, Apple/Cinnamon Pie Bites for tonight, making egg salad sandwiches later on, currently enjoying Piña Colada! CUINY (abbreviation definition See You In Next Year) Slangavar!
 
My sister & I were supposed to visit some elderly friends today, but they decided to cancel out of concern for Covid. They know I had it a couple of weeks ago & they know I tested negative after I recovered. And I told them I would test again before my visit, but they're concerned because I brought food to my other friend who has Covid & they're afraid - which everyone has a right to be.
And, although my sister tested negative, she babysat for her grand kids & her son's parents both tested positive, so she cancelled the visit, too.
They're not trusting the vaccines or the tests.
 
After yesterday's party the house is quite clean so DH & I are enjoying a do-nothing day. Higgins (Roomba) is vacuuming as I type this. Will put on noise canceling headphones and settle down with a book (Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow) while DH watches football this afternoon.
 
Well it's almost 7.30pm now, we've had Biblical rain.. and flooded roads everywhere, even on the arterial roads leading to the motorway I aquaplaned.. :eek::eek:... drove to the hospital to visit with ex.. he's so far away in an Acute Medical Unit within the depths of the hospital, where they all have their own rooms.. thankfully.. but it was so far from the entrance I wished I hadn't put heels on.. I walked what seemed like miles of corridor, and several floors..

he's very poorly.. :(.. I stayed with him all afternoon , answering questions that the nurses had. No consultants on, just Emergency junior docs covering A&E because it's not only the weekend its New Years weekend which is a Holiday.. further to that I suspect A&E will be pretty busy with drunks tonight.. so all hands on deck will be down there.

It also means that due to the holiday which includes Monday he won't get seen by a consultant until Tuesday to decide what's to happen with him further..

Drove home in the pitch Dark and torrential rain.. very scary driving through the woods where there are no lights, and the roads were flooded.. but a cuppa tea and I'm ok again..
 
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Finally got unpacked and everything washed and put back where they belong. Plan to take down Christmas decorations and tree tomorrow. The gifts for my niece and her husband are still under the tree since they did not get to come due to having the flu. Probably just need ship their gifts as I doubt they will be coming anytime soon. No big New Years Eve plans. Just me and the dog. I may order a pizza or just find something in the freezer.
 
win231 said:
My sister & I were supposed to visit some elderly friends today, but they decided to cancel out of concern for Covid. They know I had it a couple of weeks ago & they know I tested negative after I recovered. And I told them I would test again before my visit, but they're concerned because I brought food to my other friend who has Covid & they're afraid - which everyone has a right to be.
And, although my sister tested negative, she babysat for her grand kids & her son's parents both tested positive, so she cancelled the visit, too.
They're not trusting the vaccines or the tests.
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They are useless those tests win…..we used them last year and they all had different results !
 
@hollydolly Sounds like you had a harrowing experience on the roads, but I'm glad you visited ex. He was probably happy to see a friendly face.

It rained all morning here, but the sun's out now. Yay!

DD and DGD wanted to go to our favorite fun store, but they always include going somewhere to eat, too. Bleh. The place they wanted to go to closes at 4 today, and the fun store closes at 5, so it was a no-go for me. They went out to eat, and we're going to go to the fun store on Monday when neither DGD nor I have to work.

After work tomorrow, DD and I need to go Walmarting. Need. Really. My list is as long as my arm and there are some things on the list that can't wait until Monday.

New Year's Day? Croissants still need to be made. If people would just quit buying and eating them, I wouldn't have to make so many! LOL I'll be there at the butt crack of dawn cranking them out.

And chocolate chip cookies. They keep buying them, and I keep making them.
 
Jules said:
How much do they charge for your croissants @Georgiagranny Here they were on sale of 6 for $5.
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They're $7.49 for a dozen of the large ones; $3.99 for a dozen of the smaller ones; $3.49 for 4 of the large ones.

It amazes me that people will pay $3.49 for four of the large ones. They could buy a dozen and freeze what they aren't going to eat right away. Go figure.
 
StarSong said:
You're a good woman and a loyal friend, @hollydolly. Your ex is lucky to have you in his life.

Hoping 2023 is very kind to you, my friend.
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Well right back at you Star... no-one could have been a better friend to me than you, this year. 🤗 🤗 I wish you and your family everything you , hubs and family deserve.. every health , & Happiness for 2023..
 
Georgiagranny said:
They're $7.49 for a dozen of the large ones; $3.99 for a dozen of the smaller ones; $3.49 for 4 of the large ones.

It amazes me that people will pay $3.49 for four of the large ones. They could buy a dozen and freeze what they aren't going to eat right away. Go figure.
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that's a great price.. Croissants are expensive here.. 4 will cost around £3 or more.. a dozen would be very expensive..
 
I meant to tell y'all that I was today years old when I learned that our deli manager and Retired Lady are both refugees. Very surprised because their English is absolutely flawless. Deli manager's family fled with her and her siblings when she was just a baby from Cambodia during the Pol Pot regime. Retired Lady and her family escaped from Bosnia in 1992. First they went to Germany, then I forget where, then Canada, then to the US, living in refugee camps for a couple of years before finally landing here.

I discovered this when Retired Lady and I were talking about having enough breakfast pastries baked, and I said in German "something sweet in the morning chases away trouble and sorrow" and she laughed because she speaks German! She learned other languages along the way, and when they came to the US she didn't speak English. There was a German lady in the bakery where she first started at Kroger so when she had a question, she'd ask in German. She learned English from her German colleague.

Believe me, I have nothing but respect for those who speak more than one language...my German?
Ich habe mehr vergessen, als ich gelernt habe! (I've forgotten more than I learned!) I can order a meal or find a hotel or a bathroom in French, Spanish and German and can speak a little German when my brain gets triggered by something (a phrase, a word, a song). Sometimes a phrase just pops into my head, like "I'll be right back" or "I'm going home now"...no explanation how that happens because there have been few occasions so no need to speak German in almost 40 years.

Most Americans have no idea how lucky we are that we haven't experienced the devastation of war in our country. Retired Lady said that being in refugee camps was "not comfortable"...and that's gotta be an understatement for sure.
 
@Georgiagranny, I know like 2 words in German and just enough in both Spanish and French to get my self into really big trouble. I would love to speak French fluently but there’s no call for it in S GA.

spending my new years Eve in my snug house with candles lit and I’ll probably read myself to sleep just in time to get woken by the fire crackers, haha.
 
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