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Post by karen54171 on Nov 30, 2020 13:18:40 GMT
Whether you are regular poster or a lurker, we encourage you to talk with us. We do talk about books, but also about our lives, and Weight Watchers. We are women who are spread around the country, and eventually you will learn you we are, and what books we like to read. Don't be intimidated, just pop in and tell us who you are, and what you are reading now.
This is a thread we had on the WW 50 Year old board, so even though most of us have moved beyond our 50's, I am keeping it here. Some prefer to post on Facebook, but for those who may also like to post on something that resembles our old format, I decided to start this. Although we were brought together by our love of books, and we love to share our ideas about books and authors, our friendship has grown, and we know a lot about each others lives. We are spread across the country, and that adds a bit of interest as well, learning about other people's way of life through the "book" they write on the thread.
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Post by karen54171 on Nov 30, 2020 13:55:17 GMT
Good morning. Windy today, but typical temps for this time of year.
Gareth, that's right, silly me, thinking you would jump into Black Friday shopping!!! I don't recall seeing anything on the news about how Friday turned out to be, did you see if there were the big crowds that usually come out for that? I have used Almond milk, for awhile 2 of the grand kids drank it, so I drank the left over milk, so if I have to have milk, which I don't care for, it would be that kind. How did the recipe turn out, I bet it was good?
Robin, the son in law that passed was Jerry. Jeff is married to Sarah, the younger of the 2 DD's. He was 48, he would have been 49 in February. There will be so much to get straightened out, eventually, with all of his finances. Sounds like the mortgage was in just his name, which upset me when she first told me. I did know about the kids getting his SS, but I warned her that it might not be much, I am sure it is some kind of percentage. I wish she would get professional help with all of this, what with him supposedly not having his VA health insurance right now. My DBIL said, last night that with him being a Vet, that doesn't matter, so she has a lot to dig into. I am sorry you had a grave side service yesterday. The description of the lady that passed sounded like how my DMIL was. Her mind was totally gone, but she hung on for a few years, so sad. So I know what you mean about how it would have been a blessing if she had passed earlier. The pizza's we had were excellent, and hot. The place we got them from is very well known in the area for their pizza's, so it was a no brainer. There was some left over, so everyone got to take some home. I love cold pizza! One of these days I really really have to get back to my WW program.
Terry, again, thank you. This is proving there are angels all over our lives, some of us are just luckier than others that the angels are not needed as much as others.
Carol, AMEN to your discussion on abortions, etc. I have always felt that when push comes to shove, it is what that women wants to do with her baby, it is not my business. Good luck as of today!!! Hopefully it won't take too long to get the bathroom all done. Thank you,
Pinky, this death is some how almost harder to get used to, since it was so unexpected, and fast. So it will take her a long time to dig out of it. The girls seemed to be doing pretty good last night, when they were here, so hopefully, over time, they will come out of it ok. DGD, Ruby, who is 13, told me that it is now up to her to keep an eye on her Momma, for her eating, since Dad used to do that, what with DD having had that bariatric surgery. I told DGD that that would be excellent for her to do for her Mom. I like the Almond milk, it is what I get when I need milk, otherwise I do not keep any kind of milk in the house, as I just do not care for milk, but that is my preferred milk. I can imagine it would not work on certain things, like cheerios, lol. Yay, on getting your trees up!!! My DS, who was here yesterday with everyone, just loved my tree, but she did say she has no desire to get hers up, as her DH asked her if she wanted him to bring it up from their storage area in the basement, she said no, she just does not care to do it right now. I told her it is probably depression, from all of this. Also, I said, now that I have the tree the way I want it, I may never take it down!!! I can not see having to do that big chore, not the way I feel right now.
Hi to Anngie and Marsha. I thought yesterday was Monday!!!
Need to clean up the kitchen, it took a hard hit with everyone here, and all the pizza boxes, so I need to do a dumpster run this morning, otherwise not much going here. Waiting for DD to get an appointment set for the funeral home meeting; she asked me to come with her, and her DMIL will be coming too. Also need to look over my budget for December, as I spent a little too much this weekend, so there will be some adjustments to be made.
Have a nice day everyone.
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Post by RobinS811 on Nov 30, 2020 14:15:15 GMT
Karen, glad they all liked the pizza, I was hoping there would be extra for everyone to take home. We always re-heat the extra pizza. Sometimes there are reasons to have a mortgage in only one name. Hopefully her name is on the deed. If she keeps paying the mortgage, they will not say anything to her, and hopefully she can manage to do that. Sorry I mixed up the names. So Jerry was a year older than my DBIL was. They were having all sorts of financial problems when he died, and if DSIL was working, it was very little. She did start to work afterwards. Their oldest just finished his first year of college. The other 2 were 17 and 15. It will be good for your DGD to help out her mom with eating, but let her know that if it is too much for her, that someone else will help out, or you will figure out another method. I know my nephews all felt responsible for their mom, but she managed. I am sure it will be a tough road ahead for the family, and I know that we all are pulling for them to manage OK.
I heard that in-store shopping was way down, less than 50% of last year for Black Friday, but on-line shopping was way up! I can say that when I was driving to the cemetery yesterday, there were fewer cars on the road, and it was the return of the Thanksgiving weekend. I was about a mile north of the big mall, and the parkway branches off to one that has a mall exit, then where I was going. Normally that area would have a lot of traffic, but not yesterday at all. The funeral itself was too long for being outside, but I guess what is to be expected. For the rest of you, is it so common now for all kinds of people to speak? They had 5 all together, my friend, his sister, his DBIL, and 2 of the grand children. And, everyone only tells the good stories, or some funny ones, but no one talks about the time that she went out and put chlorine in the pool because she knew my friend was inviting some friends over to swim. She apparently didn't want us in the pool.
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Post by pinky on Nov 30, 2020 14:52:45 GMT
Nice morning although a bit cold but for this time of year it is to be expected and could be alot worse. Yesterday was cold with the wind coming out of the north at a high speed. The weather here looks very mild for the next week plus. So glad of that.
Karen--I am not surprised it seems harder----unexpected plus now you are worried about your DD and DGD's----it is just so much to take in. My DSIS (who just lost her DH) lost her first DH when he was was 39 from cancer. They had a 13, 12 and 11 year old children. At that time, in 1975 and into the early 80's they received money and had their college education paid for. Surely worth looking into, I know that was a long time ago but they must still have some sort of help. That is sweet of Ruby to be thinking of her Mom and wanting to help.
Robin---that is what I heard about in-store shopping being down too. I haven't heard but I bet online shopping was up.
My plans are to go out in the office and do some filing for the guys this morning and I have PT at 1:00. I should do some cyber Monday shopping as well as the grandkids gave me some good ideas. Maybe do some more decorating when I get home but we will see----I may just take it easy and read, depends on how I feel. Sometimes I come home from therapy tired out and the next time I feel great----I haven't figured out what the difference is.
Hi to all!
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Post by carol2 on Nov 30, 2020 15:16:02 GMT
I've been to funerals where there have been several speakers. I remember one where there were 4 speakers. 3 of them spoke briefly, but the 4th was the woman's son and he just talked on and on. What I don't care for is asking people to say a few words if they want to. I have been to a couple of services where no one wanted to talk which is embarrassing. I think like weddings, funerals have changed. One of my friends thought it was horrible for people to laugh during a funeral and didn't think people should mentioned funny things that the person had done or said. Everything was supposed to be solemn.
Karen, oh my, 48 is so young.
Well, the guys are here destroying my bathroom. I have no place to go today so I'm hanging out in the front part of the house. I will be gone some tomorrow.
Ir got down to 30 last night. Only supposed to be in the 40s during the day. I guess we're having a few days of winter. It's hard to believe it'll be December tomorrow.
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Post by gareth on Nov 30, 2020 17:53:37 GMT
Busy morning. First thing was going to WM After getting everything unloaded I walked. After breakfast I picked up DH's prescription and went to the shopping mall. First time since the pandemic. It was just in and out at one store for what I needed. Then on to to the car dealership since the check tire light was on. All's good now. DGC are coming this afternoon to get our exercise bike. We never use it so since they will they may as well have it. They're all on WW since DS was diagnosed diabetic. DS has lost 22# and the rest of the family has done really well too. Nice they're all doing it to support DS They all needed to lose weight too so it's a win all the way around.
Karen, did your DSIL have a will or life insurance? Have you had a chance to try the robo vac yet? The overnight oatmeal was HORRIBLE! Everyone's tastes are different since our friends love it. I didn't like the taste of the vanilla almond milk for one thing and the other was the texture of the oatmeal. We both agreed we like our oatmeal cooked. I'll throw out the rest of the milk since I'm afraid using it in any recipe would alter the taste. Btw...leftover pizza reheated in the air fryer comes out just as good if not better than fresh. I do 390Âş for three minutes.
Carol, I feel for you. I hate having repairmen under foot. Just think how nice it'll be when it's done!
Hi to everyone! Gotta run....
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Post by mikendanni on Nov 30, 2020 17:59:38 GMT
Karen – I’m so very sorry about dsil. What a terrible shock for dd, you, and the family. I can’t even begin to imagine what you all have gone through these past few days. I'm glad you had a nice Thanksgiving with him - i hope that will be what you remember in the future.
Not going to do many personals, 5 days is too many to catch up.
DD was ready to get a ride home with Boss’ son but he never answered her texts. She texted him twice Tuesday night and got up early Wednesday in case he texted her in the morning but nothing, so we ended up going to get her. Quick turn around because there was a storm following us back home. Then about 4:30 I got a text from my boss to say his son’s car wouldn’t start and he was just leaving Madison, so in the end it was just as well that she never heard from him.
DS finally got his covid test results Friday – negative – but I don’t know if that was real. He is still getting over this bug, he was congested, cold symptoms, a headache, lethargic. No fever. Ddil had cold symptoms too and no taste but apparently she’s had trouble with taste for some time now and she thinks it is allergy related. DS is going to the office this week but keeping his door shut and no in-person meetings. Nobody else at the wedding has reported being sick so it seems like if they had Covid someone else would have been sick, so maybe it was just a cold. Who knows. Better to be safe than sorry. We missed them at Thanksgiving, and ddil’s family didn’t end up doing any family gathering either.
Robin – I’m glad you liked the Costco beer battered cod. I find that when I go out for fish and chips I compare it to that as in this isn’t as good as what I could be eating at home (like when we went to Applebees for dinner the night before ds’ wedding).
Our Thanksgiving dinner was good but I missed having company. In the end, the turkey breast and sides was enough for 2 meals for the 3 of us and there is enough turkey left over for one person, no other sides are left (leftover night tonight - whatever you find in the fridge you can eat). After the pumpkin and apple pies were cut and served, I cut both up and froze the leftovers in single pieces. I won't eat it if it is not sitting on the counter in front of me, and it will slow down dh and dd if they have to go in the freezer and defrost their pies. I made 6 chocolate tarts so those we managed to finish. We had a very quiet weekend. We thought about driving down to leave some chicken soup on ds' porch but in the end he said they did not have sore throats so we decided it wasn't worth 3 hours of driving.
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Post by carol2 on Nov 30, 2020 20:30:51 GMT
Gareth, sorry about the oatmeal. I've never made the overnight kind though I've seen recipes for it. I always just fix mine in the microwave. I don't like the vanilla almond milk either. I like vanilla in my coffee, but use the plain almond milk and vanilla flavoring.
Marsha, your small Thanksgiving sounds nice. I think next year I'm going to just get a turkey breast. If turns out we have more people, I'll get 2.
I got a bill from the radiologist who read my mammogram. I was surprised since I've never had to pay that before. I got all my paperwork together and was ready for a battle. I was on hold for 30 minutes, but it turns out whoever submitted the information left off my insurance info! I've gone to the same place for years so that really surprised me. I blame it on Covid since that's the excuse everyone uses now for everything.
I don't think black Friday wasn't as big as it has been past years. There were pics of people lining up early in front of Best Buy, but not as many and they were distanced.
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Post by Anngie on Nov 30, 2020 20:52:27 GMT
It’s pouring rain all day today. A real mess.
Karen, I remember many years ago we had an insurance policy (I want to say it was through his work) that stated if DH passes before me and we still had a mortgage, it would be paid in full. Are you thinking she could have health benefits through his service? That would be great. How sweet of DGD to be thinking of her mom. How is DD2 and her family doing? Were Jerry and Jeff close as BIL’s?
Marsha, wouldn't you have thought boss’ son would have sent her a text to update her? Kids! How did you end up making the chocolate tarts? Glad to hear DS was negative. Unfortunately, colds, flu and sinus infections are still with us. I’ll bet our wearing masks will help with that too. We’ll see won’t we.
Gareth, I’ve never had almond milk but our nephew’s son is vegan and that’s all he’s ever had. I once heard that protein in almond milk is high but calcium is lower than milk. Not sure if I was told correctly or not. Was the overnight oatmeal the kind that sits in the frig overnight or do you mean it cooked in a Crockpot overnight? I’ve tried both.
Pinky, I say take it easy and read! Decorate tomorrow!!!
Carol, I agree, I hate it when people are asked to “say a few words” at a funeral! And I’m embarrassed for the family when no one does. And then, of course, someone will stand and really shouldn’t have! Sorry about the bathroom destruction but it sure will be nice when it’s finished!
Robin, it’s been my experience that yes, people will speak on their own, and sometimes the family will even ask someone special to say a few words. And yes, it’s only good memories! Speaking of funerals — there was a mass here with 130 people in attendance. The church holds 600. Anyway, apparently most went on to a reception at a local restaurant. Well, you guessed it, at least 10 are Covid positive (probably more by now). It seems the church did a good job being responsible, it was later at the restaurant when masks came off and no distancing that was the culprit. The family could have easily had a private mass and a reception at a later date.
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Post by mikendanni on Nov 30, 2020 21:06:34 GMT
Anngie - Boss' ds never responded to any of dd's texts so as far as she was concerned he had no plans to bring her home. I don't know whether he was out drinking at his fraternity the night before, or perhaps he chatted with dd's former boyfriend who is a fraternity brother who maybe told him not to get back to her, or maybe his form of anxiety made it overwhelming for him to think about sitting in a car for 2 hours with someone he barely knows, I don't know, but in the end we were glad we had gone to get her rather than her coming home with him so late, in the dark, in the rain. She would have been a bit of a wreck sitting in her apartment all day waiting to hear from him.
Carol - the downside of doing a turkey breast I found was that there were very little drippings. I cook my turkey in one of those roasting bags and I am used to a lot of drippings which I use when reheating the turkey.
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