what are you doing right now?

[daisylu]

Dec 25, 2022 12:43:22 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

Dec 24, 2022 23:01:50 GMT -5 msventoux said:

She clearly doesn’t like children so maybe the rule should be everyone ignores her. Just because a dog is present doesn’t mean she has to be bothered. Penny was probably tired of being approached by the kids and expressed that clearly with the last one. Not a great outcome of course, but she’s apparently not used to that much stimulation. 

Do you have a kennel for Penny?  It would help to get one. Start keeping her food and water in it by the door of the kennel if she’s reluctant to get in it. Gradually move both towards the back of the kennel the more comfortable she gets going into it.  She only gets treats in relation to getting in/out of her kennel. Her toys go in her kennel. Eventually she will learn that the kennel is a safe place, not a punishment. My dogs always had kennels that were a sanctuary for them where no one and no other animals were allowed to disturb them. When they had enough of the household activity they would go in their kennels. Because it was a safe place they never threw a fit if I had to lock them in the kennels. 

The twins each have a kennel of their own. Neither is allowed in the other's. It's the one space in the house where only they are allowed.

I've only ever had 1 inside dog at a time, and they were all cage trained. They were like my children - they became accustomed to a schedule. They had a bedtime, and let me know it. If the kids became too much the dog would go to her "bed". The kennel was always a safe place, my last one would even shut the door to show she was done. I miss her.

[giramomma]

Dec 25, 2022 9:17:36 GMT -5 taz157 said:

Merry Christmas to me! Woke up with a fever (like 100.1 to 100.7 depending on which side of the temple) and decided to take a Covid test since my parents are headed this way. The fucker was positive. Called both parents to tell them. Dad is still headed this way while Mom decided to stay home.

Besides feeling a little acky and was chilly over night, I feel fine. 🤔

I hope you feel better soon.

[giramomma]

Dec 25, 2022 15:22:58 GMT -5 mathsplosion said:

And flight is canceled. If we were only going down for Christmas, we would just go home and tough it out. But I'm trying to get to a funeral 😔

I'm sorry for your loss.

[countrygirl2]

Been a good day. We are getting ready to go to his sisters and BIL's for a later dinner. Wish we could have eaten here, son would have liked to, but it's ok. It's an hour or more each way and nobody wants to drive really. And 6 of us have to jam into son's truck. He wants to take 2 vehicles, hubs doesn't. So we are jamming in the truck, LOL! Minor stuff

I made baked beans and we are taking cookies. DIL made some type of little cake to take and hubs and I got a plant. 

We are waiting on DIL so about ready to go.

[bookkeeper]

My prime rib is roasting, I just turned the heat down.  DH got home last night from the Christmas travel adventure.  We watched the Knives Out, Glass Onion and had snacks and wine for Christmas eve.

Dinner for 5 tonight, we all like beef.  The anticipation is building.  The house smells amazing.

[NancysSummerSip]

We had to turn up the heat. In Florida. This is just wrong. But it's been dreary and sunless all day. High of 47, so likely colder tonight. Maybe it's just as well there's no swimming tomorrow. I will head for the gym and sweat.

[taz157]

Dec 25, 2022 14:42:15 GMT -5 saveinla said:

Dec 25, 2022 14:39:13 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

At the hospital. T2 is sick and they've decided to keep her.

Hugs - hope it's nothing serious and she gets home soon.

Yeah that. ((((Hugs)))) andi9899

[taz157]

Dec 25, 2022 15:15:01 GMT -5 daisylu said:

Dec 25, 2022 11:45:01 GMT -5 taz157 said:

Because I tested positive, DH tested himself too and he’s positive. He had been down for a couple of days but attributed it to something else. Wonderful!

Oh no. I hope the girls avoid it!

Unfortunately DD1 has tested positive too. 🤞🤞🤞 that DD2 doesn’t get it.

[taz157]

Dec 25, 2022 15:22:58 GMT -5 mathsplosion said:

And flight is canceled. If we were only going down for Christmas, we would just go home and tough it out. But I'm trying to get to a funeral 😔

I’m sorry on your loss. ((((Hugs))))

[Opti]

Dec 25, 2022 16:38:49 GMT -5 taz157 said:

Dec 25, 2022 15:15:01 GMT -5 daisylu said:

Oh no. I hope the girls avoid it!

Unfortunately DD1 has tested positive too. 🤞🤞🤞 that DD2 doesn’t get it.

Hopefully all of you who have it have mild cases and will be recovered soon. 

[Opti]

Dec 25, 2022 15:22:58 GMT -5 mathsplosion said:

And flight is canceled. If we were only going down for Christmas, we would just go home and tough it out. But I'm trying to get to a funeral 😔

I hope you are able to make it somehow. Tough time of year for such a loss. 

[Deleted]

Dec 25, 2022 16:47:39 GMT -5 Opti said:

Dec 25, 2022 15:22:58 GMT -5 mathsplosion said:

And flight is canceled. If we were only going down for Christmas, we would just go home and tough it out. But I'm trying to get to a funeral 😔

I hope you are able to make it somehow. Tough time of year for such a loss. 

[teen persuasion]

It has been clear today!  Still some blowing and drifting around the edges, but no new snowfall for us.  They lifted the travel ban for my county, but it's still in place for counties south and east of us (and water boundaries with Canada on the other sides).

We are staying at home, to give the road crews and first responders time/space to do their thing, or hopefully get a well-deserved rest and time with their families.  Some thoughtful person with big equipment partially dug out the end of our driveway - they were probably working on the big drift.  There's a larger than normal snowpile before the driveway - if it were just plows it would be an even solid wall, not a big pile followed by a scoop-out behind our truck.  DH took a few trips out to work on clearing the weird drifts in the driveway, and DS5 did a bit with some prompting. 

The yard is wild - bare grass in spots, drifts in others like sand dunes.  One side of DS5's car is swept clean, but the opposite side is plastered with snow.  He was confused that the snow was all on the side sheltered from the wind, and there was bare ground with ridges beyond the car.  Wish I knew more about the fluid dynamics, so we could better site buildings/fences/etc to take advantage of it and have a less drifted driveway/walk, even roads.  Visibility is always relatively good in front of our house due to the trees blocking the wind, but the open farm fields almost always have B & D and need plowing even without new snowfall.  But the power companies hate trees under their lines.  Maybe hedgerows?

Waiting to see if I have to head in to work tomorrow, or they call a snow day.  DS4 actually has the day off!

[chiver78]

hugs to all of you that need them. may flights work out, and COVID cases be mild all around. 💗

I'm in a much better frame of mind than I was last night, thanks for the well wishes since then. ❤️ pups and I spent the afternoon with mooch, while M went off for family things that he opted out of. I think we both needed it today. oh wait, my mom called this am from my sister's house. she says to me, I wanted to use your sister's phone so we could put you on speaker, but her phone is in the bathroom and <BIL> is in the shower. I didn't tell her, but if I'd seen DSis's name on my phone screen, I wouldn't have answered the phone at all. 🤷‍♀️

pups are both out cold rn, I'm probably going to have to wake them up for dinner. and tonight will not be another 1am trip to bed. I'm off all week since work is shut down, so I'll be spending a lot of time outside (bundled up!) and working on myself and this house. I'd set a goal awhile ago to hang the gallery wall of frames in the main hallway this week. that will clear out the master shower where I'd piled those frames, and my parents and I can start dismantling whatever going on in the tub/shower surround in the main bathroom.

[susana1954]

I couldn't sleep last night, hearing the "drip, drip, drip" of the sink in my bedroom dressing area.  I have acute hearing compared to most people.  I survived but am tired.

It will be cold here again tomorrow morning (low 30s, I think).  Then it is supposed to finally warm up.  I think that's the 60s starting Wednesday.  I cannot wait!

For those of you that do your own taxes and belong to Costco, Turbotax goes on sale starting Wednesday.  I am so ready to look at mine.  I may actually end up doing an IRA contribution if substituting hurts too much.  Or a Roth one if it doesn't.

[jerseygirl]

Susana if the sink dripping noise bothers you, put a washcloth at bottom of the sink for the drips to land. You won’t hear the drips

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

I have to laugh.  My sister is dealing with her 2 youngest kids right now and it sounds like it is not going well.  She got up this morning to a kitchen that they trashed (MY kitchen) and had to clean it up before starting breakfast.  I’d have been sooooo pissed if I had to wake up to kitchen that was trashed after I went to bed leaving it clean.  Her kids leave the day after tomorrow.  I think she’s going to be relieved when they leave. 

Another sea day tomorrow and we hit Columbia, then the next day through the Panama Canal.

[ners]

Dec 25, 2022 14:39:13 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

At the hospital. T2 is sick and they've decided to keep her.

Hope she recovers quickly.

[TheOtherMe]

The gift DN3 left was not from his little family.  It was from DN, DN2 and DN3.  Apparently they didn't ask DN1 to go in on it.  

Anyway it was a very thoughtful gift which I very much appreciate.

The cats do not want to leave me.  They must be touching.

Apparently food that is in the wrong place is not to be eaten.  None of the extra two bowls of food were touched but the other two bowls were both empty.  If they starved, it's their problem.  There was more food a few feet away.  Stupid cats. 

[ners]

mathsplosion Sorry for your loss.

[Deleted]

I do not know how DDIL deals with all that laundry. I went downstairs to run a load of my stuff I wanted to wash plus what the girls wore during the hotel stay and there was a pile in the washing machine, one in the dryer and some giant piles on the floor. I told her if I had to deal with that much laundry I'd enter a convent. She did say she was behind in sorting laundry with all the Christmas stuff going on, but wow.

And I found out why she unplugs the treadmill. I'd finished using it and was talking to BF on the phone and DGS3 got on the treadmill, suspended himself on the rails and then turned it up to the highest speed. I managed to get him off with no injuries. And now he's screaming because his sister is playing with their new air hockey set with DS and he wants another turn.

I love these kids but peace and quiet when I get home tomorrow will be nice, too.

Dec 25, 2022 17:43:16 GMT -5 susana1954 said:

For those of you that do your own taxes and belong to Costco, Turbotax goes on sale starting Wednesday.&nbsp; I am so ready to look at mine.&nbsp; I may actually end up doing an IRA contribution if substituting hurts too much.&nbsp; Or a Roth one if it doesn't.

I guess I should have waited.  I got it as soon as it was available on the Costco site.  Most of the items I need to download from the brokerages won't be available till March (while all the helpful articles on taxes tell you to file early  ) but I've been putting in estimates so I could do a Roth conversion since investment results were bad and I'm in a lower tax bracket.  

[Deleted]

I expect there will be some residual fireworks and gunfire tonight as it's pretty mild outside - we don't have to drip water tonight. I got the laundry folded and stashed and made out menus for next week. I'll be pretty light on cooking this week as we have a local Democrat group get-together Wednesday, and dinner reservations for Saturday.

Last night was very special for us as our next door neighbors dropped by to exchange holiday gifts. They are relatively new to the neighborhood, only 3 years in, and we had a great conversation about life journeys, family histories, and other good things. Among us we span 53 to 83 years of age and share a powerful belief in the importance and power of community. We've lived here 28 years and it was so good to see a sign that the neighborhood sage will continue beyond us.

[Pink Cashmere]

After my pissy post last night, Mister and I ended up talking and laughing, so the night ended with me in a better mood. Even though we were talking about some serious stuff, Mister’s couple of drinks had hit him and he was talkative, but funny. He really does not talk a lot, so I enjoy it when he does get in the mood to talk, with or without him being tipsy lol.

We were talking about our “old folks” and I told him that even though my Mom is something different, she’s only 1 “old folk” and we have 3 “old folk” on his side. I was including his Aunt because she really doesn’t have anyone else to see about her but him.

And somehow, that turned to him saying something about how we could’ve gotten married this year. And I immediately almost choked on my drink and started sputtering lol. Of course he had to make verbal note of my reaction. Then he said I agreed to get married next year, paused, and said “look at you, looking like a deer in headlights”. I probably was. So then he got on a tangent about me being “OCD” (I am not!) and my need to prepare for stuff by getting my mind right and trying to plan everything. During the tangent, he started talking about how my “routines” are so important to me, and how serious I am about everything needing a place to live in our home and how I need for things to be in their places. And he said that if he took my purse off my dresser (a fairly large purse that’s not easy to miss), and put it on his dresser, just a few feet away, and in plain sight, I’d never be able to find it because it’s not where it’s supposed to be. That was hilarious to me, because while I’m not quite that bad, it hit close enough to home to be funny.

He kept trying to make it clear he wasn’t trying to start an argument, he was just sharing his perspective. And I did not get offended.

I eventually asked what all that had to do with getting married, and by then he had forgotten his original point lol. But he turned the conversation back to getting married. He mentioned how he talked about it last spring and my response back then was blurting out “if we get married, I want it to be in the spring time of the year” and he said “it’s spring right now……” and I was like “huh? WAIT A MINUTE!”. 

So to make the rest of the long story a bit shorter, we will probably get married sometime in spring of 2023. Maybe.

Anyway, DD and my Grandbabies came over this afternoon and stayed a while. I was SO happy to see them. I miss being around them all the time so much. Until I moved here with Mister, for the oldest 2 Grandbabies’ whole lives, they either lived with me or close enough that I saw them several times a week. 

DD seems to get a kick out of sneaking and eating food while it’s cooking when she’s over here. Mister was playing music, and some song came on that I like and I started dancing in the den and DGS started dancing with me. It turned out he was dancing with me to try to keep me occupied while DD was in the kitchen dipping in pots simmering on the stove. The look on her face when I walked in the kitchen and DD had a bowl she was eating out of and spaghetti noodles hanging out of her mouth, LOL! DGS said “well I tried Momma”.

Kiddo came over Friday and ended up spending the night last night too, even though I’d figured he’d want to go to his Mom’s house last night for Santa to come. But he wanted to stay here, and open the gifts his Dad had got him this morning, so he did. I felt bad, because I never even got a Christmas tree put up, and if I’d known he was going to spend the night here, I would’ve made sure to set the scene properly. 

Mister JUST left to take him home. I’m not judging, but when my children were growing up, they woke up at my house on Christmas morning, no exceptions. Their Dad could come get them at any time on Christmas Day, even in the morning, but they woke up that morning at home with me. But their Dad wasn’t nearly the kind of presence in their lives that Mister is with Kiddo, so I’m sure that makes a big difference. 

When Kiddo was leaving, I hugged him and told him thank you for sharing his Christmas morning with me. It would’ve been different had I known that was going to happen (I didn’t say that to him), but Kiddo didn’t seem to care. 

The teens haven’t come over. A few hours ago, Mister hadn’t even talked to them yet. I know Mister got them some nice stuff for Christmas, maybe they already have it, idk. I kinda feel like they could’ve come to see him today, even if they didn’t stay long, but I’m going to leave that alone.

[TheOtherMe]

Mister is right, Pink.  It is spring.  

[Deleted]

Pink Cashmere Yes, spring.

[countrygirl2]

Had a nice afternoon and dinner.

Her sister and hubs entertain all the time. We had a mix of Russian, Puerto Rican, Kazachastan, maybe Ukraine, not quite sure. The food was great, things we had never eaten before, but excellent. The company fun, they try to make sure we are included. Hubs, son, and grandson were playing dominoes, hubs had not before. He said little grandson held his own for awhile against the guys. He was having a ball.

We heard all kinds of music too. Just a nice evening, even my husband enjoys that bunch. They seem to come here and get good jobs too.

Time for my shower.


I forgot to say DD was treated well and enjoyed herself too. DIL's sister had been married before to a not so good guy, her stepdaughter was there too, so nice she has somewhere to be included.




 

[finnime]

Good morning and welcome to Boxing Day, or Monday if you will, glorious invisipeeps of Y Ma'am. I first heard of Boxing Day as a small child and imagined it was when people donned gloves and sparred a few rounds, a good outlet, I thought.

I hope health returns in force for everyone who is, or whose family members are, ailing.

I am sorry for your loss, mathsplosion.

Yesterday was a very good day with family and feasting and presents, too. As always everyone truly appreciated their Bombas socks.

[giramomma]

Pink Cashmere that is good news.

[giramomma]

I'm trying to sneak in some work before folks get up.

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Up and showered, TD is….not.  He has a very full schedule today and is still snoring.  I’ll give him a few min, do Wordle and dry my hair.  The dryer should wake him.

Oh, the beast has risen.