Good morning....it is Sunday!
Good morning everyone.....
Brrrr 32 degrees with mixed snow and sleet....very dark outside! Lovely isn't it!
I am going to try hard to get some of my Christmas Cards written out. My hands were too bad to do more then one yesterday! I don't have a printer anymore so I can't make address labels or return address labels. Everything will have to be hand written. I thought I had more labels then I do. Oh well.
Tonight is our catered in Christmas dinner at 5:00PM. I don't like eating that early. I guess I will go for a little while. I will bring containers to bring the food home. At least I will be there right?!
Nothing else planned today. Wishing you all a good day!!
I will stop in as I can later. I love you all!!
Prayers for all your sweet OFF Family and their families. Special prayers for those *****quested them.
Lots of love and many hugs....connie d
Connie...have you ever tried soaking your hands in the hottes****er in kitchen sink and then squeezing a sponge til the water gets cool? My dr said it works great for sore hands and also carpel tunnel. I know how it is to have sore hands!!! If you like....forget my card...I understand... 
Well today I am going to TRY and wrap all those gifts...BLAH!!!!! I do not have the get up and go to do it!!! My heart is not in it right now but time is running out!!!!!! Friday is coming fast!!!!!! I did go over to my office to get the scotch tape I forgot to buy....lol. Making an attempt...yeah right!!!
Right just put pork roast in oven...jacked it up with injector stuff...smells good already!!! First time for doing it this way. I wanted to wait and get a prime rib roast but he wanted pork roast...men!!
Went to Bingo last night...first game THREE chances one card...no winner...no chances til last game...still NO WIN!!!!! Why can't I win?????? Guess I am only supposed to donate my money for others that don't need to win!!! GRRRRRRRR
It is still nice here temp wise but overcast...supposed to get windy and have guts 40-50 MPH gusts. YIKES!!!!!! Saw out west they had some snow and also tornados last night. Not good.
Well sitting here is not getting those things wrapped. Sighs........
Thoughts and Prayers for ALL that need them!!!
HUGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Hello Judy....NO I will not forget your card....but ....thank you!!
I have soaked my hands that way. I also have a hand waxer that gets really hot. I use that a lot. Nothing lasts long enough. I keep doing it anyway!!
Go ahead and wrap the gifts. They can be done quickly. One less thing for you to be worrying about!!! I love wrapping gifts. I used tot do it for other people all the time. Can't do it anymore. I know what you mean about not having your heart in it. They could tell me it is Easter and I would believe it!
Let me know how the injector thing in the roast worked. Maybe I could eat roast again!!!
Sorry about Bingo ...I really thought you would win something!!
I need to check on Cindy P....they had all kinds of bad weather where she is. I hope they are okay. Usually I hear from her by now.
Prayers of you and your family...much love and hugs...connie d
Connie....OMG I found out you do NOT have a candle lit while wrapping presents near by!!!!!! Good thing I caught it fast enough!!!!!!!!!!!! Piece of paper that I set over on the table flipped over right on top of the candle!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!! Soooooooooooo setting my drink aside to do the rest and also blew the flame out!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!! Never again!!!!!!!!
The roast smells sooooooooooooooo good!!!! Hope it tastes good too!!! I know the turkey did when he injected it. But this is a different type for meat. We shall see. I will let you know.
OK break over....back to wrapping gifts...only half done...back hurts doing this stuff...still have family to also. Yippeee.
HUGSSSSSSSSS
Connie...I am trying to eat the roast right now...dummy did NOT put it in the cooking bag like he was supposed to do!!!!!!!! I am mad as hell!!!!!! If I had known he didn't do that....wasted all that injection juice he put in it!!!!!! SIGHS..........Oh well. It is tender...tasteless but tender.
Six more gifts to wrap...yuck!!!!!!
Love you too!!!
HUGSSSSSSS
Judy,
I triple hate wrapping gifts and love when I can get my grandkids or my daughter to wrap for me. Since my daughter is acting a fool, I am wrapping the kids gifts myself and they are not pretty. LOL....
I am not sure that your tenants deserve any attention to detail with the way they act.
Your pork roast sounds delicious. Since switching to vegetarian, the only thing I miss is pork...bacon to be more specific. I bought bacon last weekend for the kids and fried it up for them for breakfast but was very good and didn't even lick my fingers. The kids have decided that on the weekends they come here, they are going to eat only fish and vegetables...they said that it's going to be their contribution to the environment. So, no more buying bacon. Yeah!
Maybe next time you will win the big pot at bingo...my sister goes to the senior citizens with her friends to play bingo and she wins all the time but it's just little trinkets. I told her I was going to take her with to gamble and she laughed.
Connie and Ladies,
Tonight is our grandchildren's church play/party. My daughter has the lead part because she has an incredible memory and because the lead part has three solos and she also has an incredible voice (she doesn't get that from our side of the family). She is eight and is playing Mary and the kid playing Joseph is a teenager and she made sure that we understood that they got the parts because of their voices and not because they are boy friend/girl friend. How funny. During the first song, she is wearing the dress that I made for her and she is singing all by herself with the boy off stage. Then he comes out and sings his solo and they sing together...this sets the virgin birth story up....they then get into costume and sing two more songs during the story.
Anyway, we are going to go out to eat and then we are heading down to the play. Her school play is on the 19th and she has a solo in that one too. She and some of the girls in her class will also be doing the dance of the sugar plum fairy ...this will be fun to watch. They all have been working very hard in their ballet class.
DH's company party is this coming week and it's at the country club; I hate going to his company party because the owner of his company is a big drunk and we end up eating and then leaving because everyone there gets drunk and you know how that goes. Of course the human resource person made a huge deal about having to offer a vegetarian option for Ken and his wife (us) and Kenny said he almost said forget it but he gets his bonus and we really don't want the bonus held for any longer than it is already held...
After DH's party, we have two more and they are with friends, so we can go in casual...I hate the holidays for the simple fact that we have to come up with formal wear...I hate wearing hose and I hate wearing regular bras and uncomfortable clothes and all that jewelry. You know?
I started making Christmas cookies and pumpkin rolls...I make them for our family and friends because when we ask what they want, they say, your pumpkin roll and your sugar cookies. I have all the sugar cookies baked and in tins in the freezer and next week, I will decorate them...I put that off until the last minute. Also, I make this really good pumpkin bread and apple muffins that DH gives to the guys in his office that are under him...His office party (a potluck) is next week too so I am making a pan of dressing for that. I made some dressing for them last week because my husband said one of the boys in the office kept asking when I was making dressing for them so I made a pan just for the heck of it and DH said the kid ate almost the entire pan by himself...makes me wonder if he hasn't learned how to budget his money and is really hungry before pay day.
Well, let me get off here and head back to the kitchen...I have a pan of soup cooking and even though we won't eat it until tomorrow, I want it to be delicious.
Ladies, I hope you guys stay dry and warm...if you are having the storms we are having, you might want to invest in a canoe....
Hello Jeannie....that Christmas program sounds like it will be wonderful!! You sure have a talented family!! I wish I could be there to watch them perform!! I love the dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. It is a favorite!! Those little ones are so cute!!
Oh yes....I have attended many formal company parties. I actually always enjoyed getting dressed up and all the bling that went with it. We loved to dance and it was always so much fun. I am sure you will look stunning and make a lot of women jealous!! I never cared for the drunk part either!! The bonus always makes it more fun. WOW...I remember those days! Have a great time!
YUMMY sugar cookies....my favorite Christmas cookie!! Yours must be amazing if people ask for them every year!! I am sure it is all great!
Dressing is always a hit. I always was requested to make it too. Now both my daughters have the knack. They do a great job.
Enjoy your soup tomorrow!!
Much love and oodles of hugs....connie d
