What's Up Tuesday!

Good Tuesday morning everyone.

Hmm, puppies, retirement, cars, Christmas shopping, snow!  It's exciting here today!

Yesterday I went to get our Christmas turkey.  Wanted a 10 ponder, wound up with a 12 pound 'fresh one'.  It says fresh, but it sure feels frozen to me.  The smallest frozen one was 18 pounds!

Later my DH had a great idea for a gift for our DIL.  As I was getting ready to head to WalMart to pick it up, she stopped by.  She said, she had some things to get at Walmart and would love to go along with me.  So off we went and I got 3 things I didn't REALLY need, and didn't get the gift for her!  The rest of the afternoon and evening was spent with our son, DIL and 2 grandsons.  No chance to get back to Wally World.  So I will be going this morning.

The last 2 weeks our temps have been 50's to 70's.  This morning - 24!!!  I'll wait til it warms up a little before I go out!  But no snow!  My Sis lives in NY, our daughter in OR, a son in AK, all have tons of snow and ice.  I LOVE NC!!

Everyone have a fantabulous Tuesday!

Good morning Nancy and Friends!

Nancy, you made my mouth water.  Pre-wls good bread with herb or garlic flavored oil was one of my favorites!  Sorry Derek is so stressed with work.  My older son's job is a different kind of stress this time of year - so many holiday parties to cater, but thank God business is good.  Unfortunately my younger son is also busy at work - ER nurse.  So when he's busy, it's bad news for someone else.  Daughter is not working, hoping to get a teaching job at the University this coming semester.  Well, I shouldn't really say she's not working as she's a stay-at-home-mom, always cleaning or cooking something.  She's made all her Christmas gifts this year.  Gabe "helped" her make dough ornaments for his teachers and the neighbors to include in gift baskets of homemade pumpkin bread, cookies, candy, cocoa mix, etc.

All my gifts are bought or made, and wrapped.  Now it's just a matter of putting everything in the baskets.  This year I made spice rub for meat, potato seasoning mix (to sprinkle on French fries or oven roasted potatoes, and a beefy-onion rice mix.  I'll include a can of mixed nuts and a box of candy in each basket.  One of my neighbors is a big Saints fan, for her I found a cute snowman ornament.  His body is a tiny football that has NFL, New Orleans Saints written on it and he's wearing a crystal black and gold scarf. 

I believe this is the first year I'm not making hundreds of cookies and several batches of fudge.  Time is short with the new job, planning and packing for London, and everything else going on.  Besides, I "had" to buy two tubs of frozen cookie dough from each grandson's school fund raisers, and George got suckered into buying one from his supervisor's daughter's school.  I know, TMI!  Time to wrap it up!

Tomorrow will be spent cleaning house and cooking a few dishes to take to my sister's for Christmas.  Don't know if I'll have time between now and Christmas to post, so I wanted to wish all my OFF sisters and brothers a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. 
Hugs and love, Debbie

I baked cookies and took them to work for some of the guys. They acted like they have never had a cookie in their life. lol I went on break and there was 1/2 a container left. I went on break  again about 2 hrs. later there was only 2 cookies left. I know some of them didn't get any and some was just piggies. Most of them are young so they probably don't get home made unless they go visit their Mom's or grandma's. I didn't have to worry about bringing them home. Well. tonight is shut down night at work.( Just for the Holiday) They are shuting my machines down first. YAY ! So I will only have to run them about 2 hrs. Then I will have to clean them up after that. So it won't be too bad. I only wish they would let me go home when I'm done. Nope I have to stay till 7 am. Well, that's about it .
I hope Eileen and Carla have  speedy recoveries.
Nancy that e-card was cute. Those singing Reindeer. lol
Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas. Have fun and be safe. Especially everyone with snow, walk carefully. No slips, falls or broken bones please.
It's just cold here and we won't have any snow. We may get rain Friday.Yuk. The old arthritis will be acting up if it rains. 
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.       Teresa M.

Good Morning Nancy and Everyone!
\Nancy I just love old houses. We used to have an arts and crafts bungalow that I adored. It was a huge maintenence issue and too small once we had our kids so we sold it about 20 years ago but I still think of it fondly. I truly believe in ghosts. We have a couple of them at the hospital I work in. I have seen one and have seen the antics of the other. Only heard about the third one. I have never seen them give anything back however. You might need to get more gloves.
George I hop eyour grandbeagle gets better. Sick puppies like sick kids are so sad.
Janet I hate wrapping presents. I used to love it and even wrapped my own when I was a kid after my mom taped the box shut. I loved to spend lots of time and make them really pretty and artistic. I guess it is the time that is different now. I have so little of it and everyone is just going to rip it off anyway. I invested in bags this year to make it quicker. I keep thinking that one year I will sew up some drawstring bags in Christmas fabric and make reusalbe (green) gift wrap. It seems much more economical and better fro the enivronment. It  is just that time thing again!
Margo--my work is usually very interesting since I am a nurse and no two days are the exact same. And working with people is usually rewarding and always unpredicatble. Well since my surgery they have pulled me out of the clinical area and my task now is to decrease (somehow) the  amount of money we are spending preventing falls. Now, falls definitely can't increase. We can't have patients hurting themselves. I just have to figure out how to do that for less money. Now somedays are boring as all get out as I do research on the computer. BLAH!
Annette, that is so sweet of you to take your client out somewhere nice. My son is currently being woo'd by geology companies. He is a senior in college. He calls me and is so excited when he gets to eat somewhere nice. He is so broke some weeks he lives on cheese sandwiched and ramen noodles. A change is a real treat.
A new car is a wonderful thing Connie. Congratulations.
My big worry today is the trip my SIL has to make from Chicago to Kansas City. They got 12 inches of snow Thursday and are expecting another 6 inches tonight. We are expecting 4 inches to start sometime tonight. He is driving from Chicago to our house starting tomorrow morning. It is about an 8 hour drive in good weather. Since my daughter flew home on Saturday he is driving by himself except for the granddog. He had a migraine the other day and still is not feeling up to par. I am so worried about the weather for him. He couldn't leave earlier because he just started a new job at a law firm and the office is going to be open tomorrow. He has no vacation yet.

Have a Merry Christmas and everyone be safe!

Cheryl

 Hey,   

Your little singing Christmas ditty was wonderful.  I sent it on to family and friends.....  What fun..

Millie

What a nice spirit here on the board today ( no pun intended Nancy).I too have been baking myself silly. 4 differant recipes of bundt cakes. Lemon poppy seed..pumpkin..orange cranberry .and tropical, then I am making mini bundt cakes, they are only a tad bigger than cupcakes and Ionly have 1 pan that makes 6 at a time. Ibaked for 5 hours lastnight andgot 2 recipes done.two to do tonight. Don't know if anyone else watches Little People Big World on Monday nights. Those family shows on TLC are my monday night staple. Any way if you do watch it you know the families good friend Mike. He died last night of a torn aeorta. I knew by the commercials that he had a heart attack, but when he died I just lost it, I sobbed all night in my baking. Think I need to go back to fiction shows, all this reality is getting to me. I feel like I lost a family member. silly girl. I loved the Christmas song Nancy, what fun. think I will minimize it and just let it play while I work. Guess I had better get to these nutritional assessments, they are not recording themselves.. Blessings.

afternoon nancy and my OFF family!!!!

well i just got home from work and wrapped yet one more gift i think rick needs...its a cap holder. he has sooo many mark martin cats its unreal!! he has one for every mark martin shirt he owns and then some...LOL

its still cold here but not as bad as it has been! we now have a weather advisory for rain/sleet/freezing rain/snow? its from 6pm til 7 am tomorrow. all i can say is it better be done by friday afternoon because i AM going to michigan to see my mom!!!! right mow its 26 and wind chill is 12 so its still bitterly cold out there.

have to make brownies for the potluck at work tomorrow. why i said i would is beyond me....oh well best to take them into work and have them eaten there i guess...

not much happening here right now have some stuff to do before christmas and then relax all day christmas except for the packing for michigan trip. still no company coming over for christmas far as i know. i asked rick if john invited himself over like he did thanksgiving. he said he mentioned it...if he had a way over i wouldn't care but I have to go get him and take him home again...NO THANKS!! i want to relax. so wel will see what happens there.

well i better get going here have to pick rick up and i suppose stop at the store for beer. just might have one tonight...lol

hope eileen is feeling better today and hope everything is ok with carla!!

so i guess this is it til i get back from michigan so i will say "MERRY CHRISTMAS" now to all my OFF family!!

peace, love and joy....

hugs