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I spent Christmas Eve with my daughter, grandson and their little dog, Marley. Food, games, a ride to look at Christmas lights, ornament making and a few gifts opened. No booze. No drunks. No drama. Just normal family relations. This morning, the family is still sleeping as my daughter's responsibilities are finished for the feasting part of our celebration and now it's my turn to prepare to cook the Christmas dinner. I wanted to check in and thank you all for a wonderful year of support and learning. You are part of my gratitude list for today. Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas, (((G))) my Christmas turned out "ok" been on the phone talking w/loved ones who thought about me and called b4 i did them, lol......and like you said...peaceful....no drama....no booze....no drugs......no abuse........going to the pool tomorrow and am just gonna ENJOY my days off!!!!! HUGS and yes, grateful, I am for you and my other MIP'rs here.....
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I just returned home about an hour or so ago. It's quiet here. My daughter made sure I made it to my car safely and asked me to call her when I got home. She shared that she felt sad about my going home (even after I put her digital meat thermometer into the meat and baked the plastic (what'd I know?) but caught it before the meat was no good or the plastic dropped.) I asked my grandson if he wanted to come over one day this weekend (we usually spend "our day together" and some of that time he does work around my house to earn some pocket money.) "Yeah, Nana, I want to spend time with you but I don't want to work. I don't need money. I've got everything I could possibly ask for or need."
I'm very blessed to have them in my life and to have you in my life as well.
-- Edited by grateful2be on Thursday 25th of December 2014 08:16:44 PM
Merry Christmas Catherine!
If it makes you feel any better I had a fit of giggles over your baking of the digital meat thermometer.
We are blessed to know you as well!
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If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? (Lewis Caroll)
(((M))) I have a confession to make. After I melted her digital thermometer, I stuck a metal thermometer in the meat. Fortunately, my daughter found that one, too. "Mom, all you have to do is just check the meat with the thermometers. You don't leave it in the meat." She was calm. She was patient. Fortunately, she had one remaining thermometer that I wasn't able to mismanage. Tomorrow, guess whose Mom is headed to the store to buy her daughter replacement thermometers?
OK, weeping now. Visions of your daughter locking the remaining thermometer up in a special Catherine-proof cabinet next Christmas and telling everyone not to look at it and just 'act natural".
Thanks for the giggle
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If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? (Lewis Caroll)
I'm not used to these meat thermometer thingeys. I just stick a fork in the meat and if it "feels right," it's done. I learned quite a bit in my daughter's tech savvy kitchen today. I also couldn't turn on the TV and couldn't get the hang of talking to the equipment or waving my hand around it to turn it off and on. As my grandson and daughter checked messages on their phones and played games, I was busy wondering where my glasses were so I could put the minutes daughter bought me for Christmas on my Tracphone.
Now, the Beatles have come to pay a visit: "Listen, oo ah oo. Do you want to know a secret? oo ah oo. Do you promise not to tell? whoa ah oh, oh, oh. Closer. Oo ah oo...." We'll need a group for the early 60s, too. "Blue Hawaii" is now starting up and "Norwegian Wood."
Who needs drugs or alcohol? I can do crazy just on milk and my ginger supplements.
-- Edited by grateful2be on Thursday 25th of December 2014 10:58:46 PM
We can sure get into the fun of life with just tiny little nudges. Your roses did it for me. All I had to do was look at them and the first part of the sentence and was off and running.
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? (Lewis Caroll)
Trying to visualise what a "burner phone" might be. Mine has a torch, not a burner though, is it like a camp-stove and you can use it to boil water and cook food if you are stuck out in the bush? That would be pretty impressive, way better than a torch. But I suspect that isn't what you mean
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If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? (Lewis Caroll)
Merry Christmas, sister. So good to see you hear dressed in your beautiful and festive red leaves. You certainly have an artist's eye. I'd never see fallen leaves to be something to photograph or to photograph as well as you have here.
Merry Christmas, Mary. Right on time for anybody whose faith tradition is Christian. For us, this is just the second day of Christmas. We get to celebrate through January 5th. So, I'm very happy to receive your Christmas greeting on this - the second day of Christmas - when my true love didn't give to me two turtle doves. I didn't get a gold ring on the first day either, but I did get a silver Mother necklace with two children in a oval shaped pendant.
Melly - LOL! No, the phone is not what you'd think although some do come with flashlight beams. Grin.
Melly, it's a burner because they are so cheap. Because of their cheapness they are also popular for making criminal transactions on them and then just throwing in the trash. My company actually packages most if the phones for Tracfone and some of the other really cheap places - Cricket, MetroPCS.
A couple of years ago we had to repackage all thr phones we had in the warehouse because they discovered they wouldn't fit under the plexiglass window that liquor stores and gas stations have here in rough neighborhoods, and they figured they were losing significant money off one of their customer bases
I just use mine so that my daughter can track me and my grandson, too. I'm not a big cellphone lover. Too much echo when we're talking but still a good thing to carry for emergencies or when one has a daughter who notices her Mom is getting older and she wants to find me when I'm not at home. I refuse to pay more than $30 every 5 months or so on a cellphone. I'm a landline phone lover. I can hear better and it only costs me $20 a month to be able to call anywhere in the USA with no time limit or ticking minutes. I know. I know. I'm so "out of it" when it comes to phones, etc. That was clearly obvious at my daughter's where I couldn't turn on the TV, didn't know you don't bake meat thermometers with the meat, and couldn't figure out what piece of equipment to talk to when I wanted to turn off a gaming system and turn on something else. I'm happy with my little burner phone, a remote for my TV, and a laptop I don't talk to to turn it on.
Well, not anymore.
