So...whats for dinner?
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We have a dinner reservation for 7 pm at our nearby favorite restaurant. Two other couples will be joining us. Then back home and in bed before midnight!
Two AT&T technicians have been here several hours hooking us up with internet. We have a special deal for a year wherein we get our local phone service and internet for about the same price we were paying just for the phone service. We tried using the Verizon air card for our internet and that wasn't satisfactory at all. And proved to be more expensive than we had expected.
Minus, I'm happy for you. I hope you can enjoy some food during your hiatus.
Wishing us all a healthy and happy 2014!!!!
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Carole - we tried the air card for about 5 minutes a couple of years ago. Thank goodness Verizon got DSL out to us finally.
We are having a quiet night at home. DH has beginnings of a cold. Hope we can find a suitable movie but the Stars hockey game is on if he falls asleep. Making very festive (Ha) hamburgers and french fries. Took car dealer to get glitch fixed. Made stop at Lowes; bought new ceiling fan for DH to put up. Ours is old, too brassy for my taste. This more "woody" with smoky glass on globes.
Hope all have a Happy New Year with better health and many new recipes to try. Missing those we have lost this year. Hard to believe we lost Apple way back in January.
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Wishing Michelle were here to enjoy the feastivities.
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minus - yay!
A happy New Year to all! No plans for us - DD is packing and leaves tomorrow for the Keys and her new internship. She is 24 and this is really her first time leaving home - the internship in Clearwater was M-F, she was home on the weekends. She attended college locally so never left, and she is not much of a partier, so spent a lot of time with us. She is taking the dog, who has never known another home but this one! I am excited for her, but will miss them both terribly, so a bit sad tonight.
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Hugs Specialk! It's hard to let them fly away. But i know she is terrified AND excited! And so are you! LOL.
Joyce I am glad you have support to help with Michelle's loss and are supporting her DH at the same time. We miss her too.
Tonight we had Chinese at our local place. As good as always. Hot and sour soup and an egg roll with my sweet and sour chicken. Hey, why not it's News Eve! LOL. Yeah I know it's not good for me. But i don't eat it that often. LOL!
To all on the dinner board, Happy New Year! May 2014 bring good news and love to all. Much love.
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Minus good news!
Eric, the totem pole picture was taken about noon. I get up at 7 am for work and it's already light, so I don't know when it starts to get light. It's kind of like New England, I think. Also, yesterday was raining so I missed the sun by about 1/2 hour
I deleted the pic in case nosey-kins (my daughter, decided to find out my name and read my posts. I need Some Place without her snooping )
Santa brought me a present. The witty guy from the Christmas party, a hiking partner. he texted me and wants to do something,
And tomorrow hiking with the clinic doc.
Yes there really are 7 men to 1 woman here.
Whooo hooo
Actually I'll be gone in 5 months and am not really looking, but it is nice
May the old fly out the window with the old year and the New Year bring joy and happiness. And a bluebird to fly up your nose.
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Bedo. I thought it was the Bird of Paradise? LOL but if you want a bluebird, then that's what it will be... LOL
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Happy New Year everyone!
Minus What a great start to the new year! Wishing you lots more greasy fried chicken and egg nog.
Lacey That sounds like a perfect evening. We are always seeking out live music and lots of dancing. So hard to find a good entertaining night out, without it just being in a bar or restaurant.
Eric ahhhhh bare feet.....my flip flops are still out of the closet staring at me.
Started off the new year with a ham, cheese and spinach omelet, so strange in the middle of the week...feels like Sunday.
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Happy 2014! We spent a quiet evening at home...a change from my usual travels but a nice one. To avoid the crowds and expense we had a nice lunch at a local ale house...a lobster special. For New Year's Eve dinner I made chilled shrimp and sauce with a wedge salad and strawberries and dark chocolate for dessert. We almost polished off a bottle of champagne...not quite..lol!
Today I hit the gym for my new resolution...getting back on diet and exercise track!
Joyce: Glad you are keeping ties with Michelle's DH...that's special!
Laurie: Glad your getting through the last of that virus. I'm just now back to normal and it's been almost a month:(
Minus: Good for you!
Special K: Congrats to your DD...how great is that!
Enjoy your New Year's Day everyone...I don't want to watch nonstop football so I'm going shopping and maybe to a movie.
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Kaara, for a number of years I spent New Year's Day with several movie friends doing a movie marathon. We would go to at least three movies. It was fun. On Monday one of those movie friends and I went to see American Hustle. It was well done, and I enjoyed it. We had wanted to see The Book Thief, but it had already gone. I read that book and it was excellent.
Well, DH and I are all set for prosperity in 2014. We ate our cabbage and black-eyed peas today! My dad always said the cabbage was for greenbacks and the peas were for coins. DH cooked a pot of black-eyed peas with ham yesterday. They were super good. Today I cooked a corned beef brisket with potatoes, carrots, and cabbage. Cooked some brown rice to go with the peas and made corn bread. Everything was delicious.
I'm getting really excited about our trip to Australia and New Zealand. We depart on Jan. 9. Today I ordered a swimsuit from Land's End. One of our first outings in Australia is the Great Barrier Reef. DH has already started packing his suitcase!
Two bc sisters from Australia and New Zealand have PM'ed me offering to get together for coffee. That will be so special to meet them!
Missing Michelle and Apple as the new year begins.
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Carole: Your trip sounds very exciting...I've always wanted to go there...maybe someday soon.
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kaara - thanks! She is excited and nervous to begin this new adventure - she is driving as I type this, but she should be there within the hour. The poor dog just seems confused - he has never been away from home!
carole - where in Australia are you going? My dad was an Australian - from just outside Melbourne in a little town called Ringwood.
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Carole,
Australia/New Zealand as well as Alaska are on my list of places I would love to visit! Hope to hear lots of stories (and maybe a pic here or there)! Had really good luck with the Land's End swim suits before we went on our cruise. Was torn between 2 sizes so ordered 3 suits in each of two sizes and returned the ones that didn't fit to my local Sears (they have a Lands End section so can return there).
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Thanks Bedo.
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SpecialK,
Sending hugs your way! Did the drop off for 4 years of undergrad and cried a bit on the way home each time. DD then came back and lived at home for 1 1/2 years while she did her Masters and then moved 2 hours away for her first 'real' job!
We moved her there and I stayed for a few days to get her set up and then cried like a baby the whole way home! Yes... The entire 2 hours!
It's what we've wished for them the whole time they were growing up but, when the time comes to let them go, omg, it's just so hard!
My DD is doing well and yours will too! But, Mom to Mom, sending you a big hug as you go through this transition!
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seaside - thanks! The good thing is that she took her time completing her B.A. in college locally, and did the first internship an hour away from us, so she is really leaving home for the first time at the age of 24. She is intelligent and savvy, and has good street-smarts, so I am not that worried about her - I will just miss her. She is a hoot and is hilarious, so she livens things up. And the dog - he has never left home! Aside from escaping and playing "keep away" from DH 15 minutes prior to my last chemo - I had to drive myself there while he searched for the dog. It was the only time my blood pressure was high enough that they decided to give me some Ativan in the pre-meds! DH showed up about half way through so I knew he had made the capture! DD was none the wiser about this (this is her dog) until my SIL spilled the beans about 6 months ago, lol!
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Special and Seaside, I'm still in the preparation phase for DD heading off to school. She's soon to be 16.
Financially, her college is covered as long as tuition doesn't go too much more crazy.
Emotionally...well.....that's a whole different story.... :-)
My friend's daughters call themselves my test daughters. I've known them since before they started kindergarten. They are now in their mid and late 30s and say I was like their 2nd dad...but more protective... :-) The youngest "girl's" youngest son is now older than she was when I first met her. I feel a lot of pride and satisfaction when I see them....even more so when I ask for, and value, their advice. I'm hoping it will be the same with DD.
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SpecialK - I hear what you are saying. In her younger elem. school years DD wanted to study penguins; that would have been a separation. We still have a house full of penguin stuff though grad. weeding away. Mine lives about an hour away but in Ft Worth so traffic makes it seem longer. She did live away in dorm last 2 years of school (hour away the other way) so separation was a bit easier. Came home for about 5 months b4 moving to her own apt. LOL about the dog. I did the same thing when I moved to apt. I took one of my DM's chihuahua's who lived with me about 1.5 years then he went back home to her.
I think DD is planted for a while despite her wanting to move to NW. Company may be creating promotions and she likes the co. she works for, likes the business and the younger hip atmosphere. So she's waiting until late spring to make any decisions and wants to get her car paid off (Sept. or so) b4 making any moves.
Can't get in cooking mood. Have leftovers from yest (black eyes diff. recipe that DH loved) and spaghetti from NY Eve. Need to take down tree - hint DH carried the storage box in b4 he left for work.
Those of you in NE I have watched a bit of the news. Hunker down is right. OO and Midwest too.
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I can not imagine there being a day where I don't have my children right with me. Hugs to you all who have grown ones who have flown the coop. It means you did a great job! Yet our children are our world!
To share a memory I have with my mom. Our birthdays were a week apart in May and she and I would take off for a girls week alone once I hit my 20's. We would hang out just the two of us and do whatever we .wanted. One night as we sat on a balcony over looking the ocean, our feet up, wine in hand she turned to me and said. " You know, when I thought about having kids I thought about babies. How great it would be. I had no idea that this would be the best part of having a child." Pretty damn cool. It still makes me smile and I hope that one day I will be doing the same with my boys.
So yes, we are snowed in! I have had my neighbors son all day and have had three rowdy boys who do not know what a normal speaking voice is! Why do they yell so much? We have played ping pong, they have played a lot of basketball and many more things...tonight's dinner will be eye of the round roast cooked the old fashioned way of high heat, 2 hours off.
I hope everyone is staying warm!
Bedo- tell us more of your friend
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Laurie - I have a brother just 18 months younger than I am. Boys are different. My aunt asked my mom - does P. walk down the hall and just fall into the wall, and keep going. My mom said yes, he's a boy. I think aunt thought something was wrong with hers and there wasn't. There is a scene in Sixteen Candles where the younger brother does just that, maybe he's trying to open the door but it reminds me of DB. Are your boys able to entertain each other - in a good way? At least they will prob. sleep gooood tonight -yes? Love the story about your mom. My parents divorced when I was in HS and my mom and I mostly had each other; DB was more of a free spirit, I was the homebody kind.
I need to get motivated to make something new. No trips to Ft. Worth until end of Jan. so only what can be bought locally. Am craving good apples and store will only have the usuals here. I splurged on apples that ended up almost $3.00 for 2 apples - though they were big ones - when I did the Christmas shopping. I got one, DH ate the other 3. Wish I could remember what kind he liked the best but most likely by end of Jan. they will have diff. kinds anyway. I should look for some soup recipes though I think DH thinks that's not "real" food. He did like the "Kluski" noodles I bought at all places the Mexican grocery. We just have standard dry egg noodles and the frozen Reames kind.
Yes, I agree, Bedo needs to tell us more. Maybe in coded form. Lol.
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Well, the house is undecorated, the black-eyed peas have been eaten, and "the Holidays" are officially over. Time to get back to the gym and and leave the over-indulging behind.
The new year has me wanting to bake so yesterday I made two loaves of garlic rosemary bread and 3 loaves of tomato basil parmesan foccaccia, all destined for the freezer. Today, I'm making Cuban black beans (most of which are also destined for the freezer) but dinner will be chopped steak with a mushroom wine sauce. Sides will be a plain old baked potato or maybe some noodles, and a salad. One of my Christmas presents is a brand new 5 quart tri-ply stainless steel saute pan. Can't wait to use it.
We got around 3 inches of snow last night -- not so much but no one has plowed our street, so we've been in today. Unfortunately, I have to have labs done Monday when the high is going to be -1! That is the coldest high temperature here in 30 years. It just makes me hate January that much more. It's a depressingly long month that I can't wait for to be gone.
I still have this cold from hell, which has turned into a cough that causes me to lose sleep and my voice. Also, both DH and I continue to have perpetually runny noses. Oh come on, we're going on 3 weeks already! It seems to be the worst when I'm trying to cook. Sounds like a number of folks have been plagued as well. Hope yours went away faster than mine.
It was lovely to visit my DSIL and DBIL. I didn't have to cook or plan a thing. The meals were simple but delicious -- chicken noodle soup with fresh baked bread, milk braised pork roast with parmesan polenta, grilled strip steaks with roasted veggies and Cincinnati Chili! We relaxed in front of the fire, read books, watched movies and played games. Big fun!
Now I have to catch up on the mountain of laundry in my basket. Ugh.
Carole, your trip sounds fantastic. I would never be able to do that because I'm a terrible flyer. Would love love love to see the Great Barrier Reef!
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Saw a local story in the last day or 2 of how meat is being relabelled. All our cuts (well most) are being named something standard. One of them I kid you not was the culotte steak which I found out is a top sirloin (thanks Wikipedia). What made me think of this was Nancy's comment about the milk braised pork. Know I have a pork roast hiding in the freezer along with a whole chicken (why I bought that I don't know - hate to thaw the things). Pork is one of those things that I can never figure out what I have. Lucky the grocer here labels it with anything I can google.
So with that Nancy what cut do you milk braise? This must be a substantial roast, I can see it peaking out from underneath something else.
I never did get any organization of the freezer done. I still wish I had bought the small upright rather than the small chest freezer.
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just got the call, no school again tomorrow!
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Hope you get plenty of sleep tonight. Can DH fend off for you some or does neighbor owe you some time
?We had an unprecedented 4 days off from school last month - though I have no kids/grands etc. in school. That was a Thur/Fri then weekend, Mon/Tue. Luckily my DD was pretty easy to entertain when little, good thing since she was an only child.
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Luv, it was a loin roast that after browning, was braised in a mixture of whole milk and cream. The braising liquid was then made into a lovely sauce. Very tasty. SIL's was not, but it can be made in a slow cooker.
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I made this for my post-chemo "thank you for your support" dinner. Once you get past the appearance of the milk sauce, it is delicious:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/pork-loin-braised-in-milk-recipe/index.html
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Eric,
As much as we try to prepare them and ourselves for that moment when they finally fly on their own, it's like they are a little girl/boy when you drive away or they do. Latest holiday Walmart commercial slays me everytime... http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IeMB-czqeFw&desktop_...
Laurie,
Love the story of you and your Mom! That's the place that we, as parents, strive to get to. Kids are grown-up and have become good people that we not only love because they are family but, genuinely like! We're pretty snowed in here, too! Over a foot but no school scheduled for this week so no cancelations.
Nancy,
If you have the same cold that's making the rounds it's awful! Easily 3-4 weeks before it's over with! Hope you feel better soon!
Can't remember who was heading to the cape but the weather there is supposed to be of the blizzard variety! To you and all getting the brunt of this winter storm... Stay safe!
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Seaside - it was Susan going to the Cape.
Thanks Nancy and Susan for the recipes. Not sure what kind of roast is in freezer. Doubt it is "center cut" because I think it was a 2 fer sale; prob. basic pork roast. Milk sauce sounds like Texas heaven chicken fried steak cream gravy.
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Luv,
Thanks for the reminder! This thread moves so fast sometimes that I can't quite keep up!
Susan,
Since you're posting I'm going to assume that you made it to your destination and you still have power where you are! The snow here is of the light and fluffy variety so no big power outages. Will be interesting to see what happens when the winds pick up over night! Ahhhhh, winter in the NE!
Although I think Moon, being in Wisconsin, most likely has us beat in the winter department! We lived in MN for 5 years and cold like that I had never felt before nor since! My hat is off to the folks in the upper mid-west!
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Friend from church her DD and mine same age. Her DD, DH and year old child just moved from NC (think they've been there 3-4 years) to Minot ND (Air Force). I cannot imagine the adjustments one has to go thru. Her DH is from upstate NY somewhere so I bet he was a bit more prepared. Brrr.
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