What's on your (PHOTO) Friday Menu?

Lean is good, so thanks for sharing. And glad the nice restaurant wasn't trying to smoke or cook the beautiful sushi-grade tuna!

Good morning ~ The flowers are so pretty and the cheese and crackers are adorable, especially that little olive! SO happy it's Friday, it's been good, but very busy week. Rob starts his new job today and they are having a little St. Pat's day thing in his honor to welcome him! He is so excited and l couldn't be happier, this change was definitely needed. I have a short day, but it's not a fun day as I'm meeting with 5 of my staff that were candidates but did not make the cut today. Meeting the kiddo for lunch and then shopping for our traditional St. Patrick's day dinner/movie tonight - Rueben's, potato chips and beer. Mine will be in a bowl and no beer. And we'll watch The Quiet Man - my favorite!

QOTD - I am mostly Irish on both sides, w/English/Scottish/Welsh and a little German. Rob is about the same w/more eastern European.

Accountability - tots

b- coffee, protein bar

l- lettuce wrapped sandwich or salad

d- Rueben in a bowl and few chips

s- yogurt, jerky

Have a wonderful St. Patrick's Day!!!

Don't envy you the feedback/let down conversations for candidates who didn't make it, though it's super valuable to them! Thank you for doing it. Never fun to be the candidate who moves forward through the process and then the communication just...disappears.

Yay for starting a new job today! With a bonus celebration.

Mornin' All!

well I really need to use today and the weekend to get my book read for my book discussion group on Monday morning and try to do at least a little work on my classes so I'm not so far behind. I'd planned to use this week (spring break) to get completely caught up - if not a little ahead - but because of everything going on it hasn't happened. Crap. This morning I'll be making a grasshopper pie for a party tonight. I'd signed up to make a dessert, but I didn't want to bake anything else this week - and this thing sounded easy (and no baking involved - yay!!). Plus an added bonus - if we come home with any of it, it shouldn't be a big problem for me. The only pies I really like are pumpkin pie and fruit pies. Things like cream pies and meringues just don't do it for me. I'll eat them, but I can take them or leave them. DH will probably have the thing devoured before I get the urge to eat any of it.

QOTD: on paper I am 50% Swedish, 25% Scottish, and 25% German. I've taken several DNA tests (I'm into genealogy), and they're all a little different but mostly in the same ballpark with each other, but I'm more like 65% Swedish, less than 25% of the other two, and have some Eastern European DNA in there. That is because my ethnic German great grandparents were from what is now Romania, but at the time they lived there their town was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. German families were encouraged to move out to the frontiers of the empire 200-300 years ago to keep a lid on things, I guess. Anyway, at the time they lived there, their region was very culturally diverse - Romanian, German, Ukrainian, Bohemian, Polish, Russian, Jewish - I have a little of all of that in my DNA, as well as in my list of DNA matches (i.e, relatives), so even though my great grandparents were mostly German, there was obviously a few marriages in their lines with some of these other groups (btw - the mostly Swedish explanation - you inherit 50% of your DNA from each parent, but NOT 25% from each grandparent. The DNA you inherit from your parents is random - you often get more from one grandparent than you do from another. That's why a sibling can have different percentages in their test results, as well as a few different DNA matches)

B: plain skyr with fruit, coffee with half & half

MS: protein shake

L: HUMMUS!!!! I don't want to end up throwing at least 50% of it out because it goes bad before I can fini****! Happens all the time...

AS: protein muffin?

D: not sure since I'll be at the party. I need to really monitor myself, or this could be disastrous...

This first is a picture of me that I stumbled across when I was looking for the other two pictures (which I posted below this one). I saw this and immediately thought "thank God I had a facelift - look at those wrinkles! YIKES!". But then I noticed the date. April of 2022. What? How is this possible? Maybe it was the date I posted the picture in FB, but not the date it was taken? Because April 2022 was a year AFTER I had the facelift. So then I noticed my neck. No turkey neck. Nope - this definitely after the facelift. Must be the stark lighting. I hate to think what I looked like BEFORE the facelift in stark lighting!!! I'm glad I had this done!

I've been writing about my mother and my mother-in-law a lot the last few days, so I figured I'd post pictures of them. The first one is my mother-in-law on her birthday last October.

this one is my mother. This is a photo of a photo that she has hanging in her kitchen. It was taken by some staff member of her independent senior living complex because they were putting together a booklet of all the residents, with their pictures and interests. I thought it was a nice picture of her.

have a great day, everyone!

Have you read The Forever Witness? Very good, very recent book that covers a lot of the aspect is familial DNA/crime solving includes some references to bear brook which I know you've been listening to.

oh wow - thanks for the tip! I'll put a hold on it at the library...

Good morning from Fairview, Alabama. Its adorbs here. I'm going to be brief on the chatter because of the photo dump coming behind it.

I did excellent on food yesterday and got in a work out. Had a fabulous time with old friends last night. They served corned beef and cabbage. I've always hated corned beef, but as a polite guest I tried it and I actually liked it. Phew!

QOTD. Heinz 57 right here. But my mother would like me to note I a 5% Jewish. This was outsized important to her, so my brother did the DNA thing and it proved she was right.

Todays food is eggs and bacon for breakfast. Crack chicken for lunch and a little rib eye and mashed potatoes for dinner. Don't tell Rog he's getting rib eye for dinner. He's going to be so excited.

Photo dump. First set is the amazing quilt. 1 of the quilt, one with me next to it for context of size. One of the key and one of the names. I really encourage you to find Madame Speaker Pelosi and see what she is doing if you can. And then to look for the four fig in black and let me know if you can figure them out.

second set is Skittles, the red mare, Nalah the donkey and Buck the buckskin They were so sweet and Roger had the best evening petting, feeding and loving on them.

Oh and one of my favorite quote at the exhibition and a special one for QJB. We don't have this is Southern California.

Excellent!

Loving everything about all of these photos! And that's a great quote. Thanks for sharing your journey!

Donkey pics!!!