Everyday Chatting & Waffling {2024} Let's get to know each other!

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RAE!!! I am SO THRILLED that you are happy in your new town! Sounds like a wonderful place. I'm enjoying your pics.

Ginger... Thanks for the invite, but I just don't know that I have it in me to do 365 anymore.

Lynnie, can you help me out with that "First Unread Post"? I'm not seeing that when I look at your first post? I just go to the last page, but it would be awesome to go to the last post that I READ! These do get to be long threads. Which are wonderful. I love this group!
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Life is always a little crazy around me. I managed to hibernate a little, but I am back in crazy mode. I am pretty worn out, so I am trying to back off a little, but life will not cooperate.

I just finished my brother's partner's calendar (her Christmas gift). It has been hanging over me for quite a while. I am so glad to get it done. I still have to bind it, but the design and printing are done, at least. I thought I would do extra stuff, but I have changed my mind. I am getting tired.
 
FOUND IT! Thanks Lynnie. Realized that it disappears the minute you "read" anything else so you can't "go back" like I was trying to do the other day. That's why I couldn't see it. This is amazing. Learn something new every day.
 
Happy Saturday to all! It's turning colder here in Florida, but I know...not nearly what some of y'all will be experiencing. Stay safe and warm.
We are going to a Middle School Baseball game this evening at 8. Brrrrr. I will bundle and bring a crochet blanket to work on.
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Hi everyone! Just hanging out in mid-Missouri with the dogs, crochet and a roaring fire. It's a balmy 12 degrees here with snowflakes swirling around. We're having homemade enchiladas for dinner and will be watching my KC Chiefs beat the Dolphins in what will probably be a new record cold temperature for an NFL game. Hope everyone is staying warm and cozy!


 
If anyone is interested in the fun of taking a photo each day of the year pop over to Ginger's thread HERE.
You do not have to create a page with them all.... it can be just for fun which I have started to do. It will give me all sorts of photos that no doubt I will eventually use on scrapbook pages.
 
Anne-Marie, thank you for sharing that site with the prompts. I had never seen it before, and it looks like a lot of fun. :)

It's currently -8 degrees F. And it's not supposed to get much warmer. Today is a holiday for a lot of businesses, but not ours... so I'm at work. I always arrive early and my coworkers always arrive late, so I usually have about two hours to myself (which is when I get the most work done). I'm looking forward to my business travel to Tampa tomorrow. I'm ready to warm up!!

I spent the entire weekend hibernating at home, and I'm THIS CLOSE to having our 2023 vacation album done.
 
Happy Monday everyone, I love saying that now that I am retired.:)

My nephew & wife had a new home get-together yesterday and they announced that they are expecting! We couldn't be more happy for them and I will officially be a great-aunt on my side of the family. They told their parents (my brother & sister-in-law at Christmas with their presents - each a mug that says Promoted to Grandma & Grandpa!) so cute and will have to scrap it for them. They waited to tell the rest of the family until her second trimester.

We are still renovating, very long and daunting chore but can't wait until the house is ready to sell. We are on the list for a 55+ community that we have been eyeing for a couple years, hoping for a spring move if all pans out.

It is COLD here, some snow but brutally cold. Yesterday it was -55c with the windchill and today it is -38c with the windchill. They are saying it will likely be like this for the week. YIKES, I will be staying indoors, scrapping in between reno's; of course!
 
Hope everyone is have a good start to the new year. I just thought I would let you know that I am going to my daughter's home tomorrow to spend the rest of the winter. I will be there until sometime in March or maybe April. The weather is a little cold and snowy here right now and makes for getting out and going for a drive a little dangerous.
 
Happy Monday to all. The Saturday Middle School Miatchup was fun for the kids. However my grandson's team lost both. The second game went to a shoot out extra inning. And it was cold!!!
I cannot crochet or knit with gloves on. So on Sunday, I sat atop the work in progress blanket [which helped] along with several layers on.
More football tonight.
How I feel for y'all with those terribly cold and snowed in temperatures..

Stay Safe.
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I actually changed my siggie! OMG... first time in forever. Along with that came an ever so slight forum name change. Asked Ginger to tweak my name to Carla minicooper 452 so people who don't know me would know my name.
 
Deej, It sounds like a lovely, relaxing time crocheting and hanging out with the dogs. I am jealous :)

Thanks, Anne-Marie - I had not seen that site with the prompts.

Shana, that sounds SO cold. I used to work early or stay late to get things done. I could also work from home and get things done - I felt as though I was always working, but I am feeling as though I should have spent more time NOT working before I retired.

Karen, isn't it amazing being retired? I love it. I don't have as much time now I am babysitting, but at least I have time to be with my grandchildren. Congratulations on the addition to your family. You must be very excited. I love being in a retirement community. It is so much more peaceful and there is so much more to do.

Katherine, I hope you have a lovely time with your daughter.

Carla, congratulations on your new name and siggie :)
 
Boy have I been under the weather, or under the heated blanket as things may be. I had a doctors appointment last Thursday and since I was out and my pharmacy is in the same building I had my vaccines updated, both the flue and the covid. And they hit me hard. My arms felt for days like they would explode and peel the skin off. I just felt pain everywhere in my bady. Didn't help that it was cold, like really really cold for that time period too. When Canadians say its cold its cold. Cold enough the kids dad couldn't work, so at least he could drive me to my appointments that day, once we got a vehicle running. Or I should say he got one running.

I finally feel a small bit better today, I made it downstairs to the computer, which was a big deal.

I post all my layouts at Splitcoaststampers website. This week they chose me for the Featured Stamper this week!

"All week, everyone will be inspired by your amazing work - all you need to do is search on keyword FS884" I had fun going through all the CAS cards that were made from my various layouts over time. I have posted there since 2007, so lots to chose from. It made me happy. I needed that, and it helped.
 
Sherri, sorry the shots hit you so hard but glad you have some help to get around.
I know the weather has been extremely cold this year and it moved our way too.
I have not heard of Splitcoasterstampers, congratulations on getting the Featured Stamper this week, I will have to check it out!
 
Sherri, so sorry the vaccines did that to you. I have myself a bad cold, but that's all. I'm also glad you have help to get around too, so you can go places when you need to. Congrats on being the Featured Stamper- that's pretty cool! I haven't been to that site in ages!

For most of this week, I've had a lot of alone time. Hubby is working 11 am-9 pm (or so) shifts for an "exercise" he's supporting. Exercise is military code for playing war, LOL. And he gets to do another one next month! Argh! Today though, Eren came home early, so I've got them to pal around with until Sunday.
 
Happy Friday everyone.
I went to purchase an item today at Ashe Designs...and realized I have about 8 I'd forgotten to DL! Luckily all but one link was still above. The other one, I think discontinued or I DL it, and forgot where I put it!
Still cold by Florida standards here. Over this weekend, extra cold and they are stating that iguanas and lizards may fall from trees again. They look dead, but dormant. Now if an iguana falls on you, it can hurt.

I'm overwhelmed with the current Retirement Sale. I need to go thru my stash to see which items I have that are retiring and which ones I still need.

Oh dear Sherri on not feeling well with the vaccines. The only one that got me was RSV and my arm looked like it belonged to a different person!

Ane- yikes on 'exercises'...I get it. My prayers.
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Just popping in for a quick hello. I've been busy with unpacking/organizing and getting all appts and paperwork done for all the changes necessary when moving to a new province. We've been getting out to socialize, having gotten involved in games night every Thurs at a local club and Monday night is bingo. Plus there are luncheons and other get-togethers. I'm still scrapping but a little bit less these days. Once the weather is warmer I'll be out pursuing wildlife photography, I can't wait to start exploring Alberta.
 
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Just popping in for a quick hello. I've been busy with unpacking/organizing and getting all appts and paperwork done for all the changes necessary when moving to a new province. We've been getting out to socialize, having gotten involved in games night every Thurs at a local club and Monday night is bingo. Plus there are luncheons and other get-togethers. I'm still scrapping but a little bit less these days. Once the weather is warmer I'll be out pursuing wildlife photography, I can't wait to start exploring Alberta.
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Well, I've started PT for my shoulder. I can't remember if I told y'all about that. My brain is SO fuzzy lately.
Anyway, when I fell right before the wedding... apparently I jammed my shoulder a bit. They thought it might be a rotator cuff, but thankfully, after a mind-numbing MRI (OMG, I don't know how people go through those multiple times) it's just a muscle injury and/or slight frozen shoulder.
So, as I said, I've started PT for my shoulder. Second full session yesterday and I'm not in as much pain as I was on Wednesday. Oh man was she MEAN to me on Tuesday. LOL! Okay, she was mean to my muscles and my muscles were mean to me. I am a BIG baby when it comes to aching. I really sympathize with chronic pain sufferers. I have "some" of that. Arthritis and minor fibro, but nothing like what Sherri is going through and some others. MAN! But I'm a huge baby. I admit it. Give me HURT, not ache. Does that even make sense? Whatever. So, I'm being a very good girl and doing my PT at home and at work, three times a day and it seems to be paying off because she said my ROM is already improving several degrees. And today doesn't hurt as bad as Wednesday did. hehehe...
Have a GREAT weekend and STAY WARM!!!
 
Happy Saturday everyone, I had a busy week with reno's...the "work guys" have left now and I am finishing up the painting and organizing. I am sure it will take me another week or so to complete the painting upstairs but I am getting there. The one thing I am going to miss is my crafting room. I currently have upper and lower cupboards with a full laminate countertop as my working space. I decided that the house would sell better if it was restored to a bedroom so for now I will just have a desk to craft on (not that I have had time to paper craft anyways) but I will definitely miss it. I will be storing it all for when we move and hopefully I will have space for it or hubby can use in the garage.

In March I will be going to Disneyland with my son and his family. He recently starting working with a Florida based company and will require a lot of travel so they asked me to come along. I am so excited and my grandie wants me to go on all the rollercoasters...eeek what am I getting myself into??
 
Good evening all.

It's been a slow start to the new year here. All I ever do any more is work. I got a promotion the last week of December, which means that it is my circus and they are my monkeys. It's really just formalising what I've been doing for the last five years and making it a more stationary target on my back, as it was always my 'fault' when something went wonky anyway.

I am at a bit of a loss. I expected a lot of things in life to be different, and while I still love scrapping, I am having such a hard time of it lately, as all of my 'old things to scrap' are related to a relationship which ended really painfully (for me, anyway) and there is nothing new because I'm never going anywhere or doing anything any more. Partially because work is so overwhelming, partially because my mental health is suffering so badly I finish out the work week and just end up curled up on the couch the next two days until I start over again. I feel pretty cheated, and am having a hard time picking up the pieces.

I guess I will just end up getting more dog pictures from my brother and working with those to try and drag myself through. I accepted a CT invite to try and give myself new creative things to spark me and I feel like the battery's just dead. And then I feel bad, because I hate to disappoint my obligations, and then I circle back in on why I'm not worth having around and it's a bad deal.

My nephew has informed doctors he won't be waiting for the 15th, it's more likely to be a 5th of February kind of affair, so that's about all I have for good news.
 
Sylfie, I'm so sorry all this bad crap is happening to you at the same time. As a depressed person myself, I only wish I could cheer you up. I wish I could be there to help you feel better. You ARE worth having around, no matter what anyone else says. I am glad you have some good news about your nephew. Take joy in that. I will be praying for you! :)

I am currently fighting a bad cold hubby brought home from work. I always seem to have a worse time of it than he does when we get sick. I had to miss church today, which makes me sad. But at least Eren is home to cheer me up.
 
Sylfie, so sorry to hear that you have so much going on in your life right now but know that you are worth fighting for a happy life even if it is by yourself. I wish you all the encouragement to get a friend to talk to about your depression or perhaps some therapy can help. I will be praying you find it. BIG HUGs!
 
Good afternoon. I just caught up on everyone's posts. I always enjoy reading about what's going on in everyone's lives.

I think my last post was how excited I was to head to Tampa and escape the cold. I did make it to Tampa and it was overcast and rainy, but still about 50 degrees warmer than back home. I had to cut my trip short when my hubby took himself to the ER back home. I flew Southwest Airlines and their customer service lady helped change all of my tickets at no charge. It would have been perfect... except Mother Nature had other plans. I was mid flight to Texas when all of the connecting flights to Kansas City were cancelled due to weather. So I ended up at a hotel in Dallas to sleep a few hours before returning to the airport and heading out on the first flight. Our daughter picked me up at the airport and we made it back before Randy's surgery.

Long story short, hubby has kidney stones and one was the size of a marble. The blasted it with a laser and thought I should be able to take him home that day or the following day. But nope... that was Friday. Today is Sunday. He MAY be discharged tomorrow. He is reacting badly to the stent they put in to help flush his kidneys and is unable to manage the pain. He's also traumatized by seeing blood when he uses the bathroom (my daughter told him something along the lines of "welcome to the club." Ha... she wasn't very empathetic to him on that point). We've had a great nursing staff, and I need to come up with some sort of thank you gift for the main crew. He had JUST had his gallbladder out five weeks ago, and now this... I swear that man can't catch a break. I asked the doctor if we could have a punch card for each surgery, but apparently that's not a thing.

He's sleeping now, so I ran over to my office as I couldn't remote in. Apparently, our new cybersecurity person set the computers to require a password change while I was gone, and I had to do that in person. Ah the joys of technology.

Between my travel, my meetings, my crazy adventures getting back, and bouncing back and forth from the hospital to home... I'm tired. We are expecting another ice storm later tonight. So I'm at the office now to crank out a few things so I can hopefully work remotely tomorrow. The rest of the week will be above freezing temperatures, so I very much hope I can take Randy home. I've been so ancy being at home at night without him, that I've been doing projects instead of sleeping. Last night when I couldn't sleep, I cleaned out the fridge and the freezer. So, hopefully I'll pass out tonight... or maybe I'll rearrange my closet. Ha.
 
Shana @ kidney stones started the cascade of having my heart issues diagnosed just reading about them freaks me out. Hope he feels better soon.

sylfie: I’m so sorry you are feeling you are, I can’t offer any help as I’m there myself. Hugs. Life needs to be more than job.
 
Shana, So sorry to hear about Randy's kidney stones and I hope he is on the mend now after all that! My hubby was born with one kidney not functioning and had surgery when he was 8yo to divide into two functioning kidney's but he has been no stranger to a lot of kidney issues so I know all too well how painful and worrisome it can be. HUGS!

Sherri, continuing my prayers for you to be well again. One-day-at-a-time, HUGS!

Monday morning and I am still working on the house...painting, downsizing and organizing....will ever end?
 
Good morning, all, and Happy Monday. We had some more winter weather last night, so outside looks beautiful as everything is shiny and coated in ice. Most schools are closed today, and I'm working from home this morning. I talked to Randy about an hour ago and he thought he'd be released later today. So I look forward to bringing him home.

Sheri, sorry to trigger you. Sending you a hug!

Karen, the short answer is no... house work never ends. And the more I'm at home with this weather, the more I want to organize and purge. I may tackle the cupboards and drawers in the bathroom later today. Ha. Be sure to take before and after photos so you can see how far you've come and how much work you've done.
 
Good morning, ladies! I am hoping that everyone is staying nice and toasty. We had temps down in the 20's all last week and over the weekend (I am in South Mississippi so 20's is way colder than normal here), but the temp is rising today, and we are in for some rain this week.

Kent and I are having problems with our refrigerator, so I am looking at new ones. It is not an easy job as there are some really fancy ones out there! I don't need a real fancy one, just one that won't freeze my lettuce!

Ya'll have a great week and I will keep on looking for that almost perfect one!
 
Oh my sweet Syl... I wish you were "home" where I could HUG you. DANG-HIM! I'd like to THROTTLE him!!! (over and over and over again!) But enough of that. I wish I had that magic wand I always talk about and I could wave it and make all those pix and "memories" go away AND make you all "better" and not sad. But then again, they say that's what makes us stronger and you ARE STRONG AS HECK. Remember, you're Grandma's girl! Just think tomatoes. You got this.
CONGRATS on the promotion! You deserve it since you were already doing all the work and getting all the ........... "credit"? lol

Hubby's been fighting a cold here too, Ane... He'd BETTER NOT give it to me!

Sorry about your hubs there, Shana! Bummer.

So good to hear from you, Sherri.

Good luck with the continued house-work, Karen! Gitr-done!

OMGosh, Carla! I remember looking for our last fridge! YUCK. There are so many new options and I hated it. Ended up buying something we thought we'd like. Got it home. Hate it. Found out that, while it said that it doesn't show fingerprints on the front, (we thought great, no grands prints) it's not magnetic either! No way to hang their pix or drawings without TAPE! Okay, that's not a big deal, but really don't care for the layout inside. smh. Can't say that I'm thrilled about the idea, but it probably won't last another 10 years, so we'll have to get another one and I'll be much more selective now that I know some of these things!
 
Hubby is home! We made it out of the hospital before the freezing fog set in, so I was thrilled about that.

Refrigerator shopping is not fun. We ended up with one a few years back that was way too big for the space (in my opinion), but it was just what Randy wanted. However, I'm going to have to replace one of the seals that's starting to tear away, and I'm not excited about that. That tiny little rubber strip is spendy.

I'm back at the office, but I'm having a difficult time getting motivated. I have a HUGE event in two weeks that I'm responsible for, so I'd better find that motivation fast as there are still a million details to sort out. Have a great day, everyone!
 
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