Nov 10th Thursday

[cookielady]

Good SUNNY Morning! Yesterday was so dreary & wet that everyone seemed to be dragging butt and wanting to nap.

Yesterday was very good. First off...no cancer or at least so far. The big goiter the pathologist didn't see any cancer, but he wanted it verified by a big lad, so they sent if off & I'll hear about that next week, but I'm confident it'll be fine. Next stop was picking up over 100lbs of fruit for pies. Had lunch at Arby's then onto WM for some insulin. Had a nice time with my Mom. I appreciate her willingness to tag along and be my second pair of eyes.

Got home and wasn't here more than 5 minutes and Sue arrived. We got the decks cleaned and she hauled in all the boxes for me since I'm still not suppose to lift that much. We got it all bagged up in 2 gallon bags and into my freezers...for now. Going to take most of it over to Aunt J's freezer some day. We then got busy baking. My goal was to get the lil sandwich cookies baked off, but while I was rolling & cutting all those little circles, Sue worked on 3 other kinds of cookies. We got all four baked and ready for the finishing touches today. I mustered enough energy to make dinner and then mix up a batch of ginger snap dough for an order tomorrow.

Today my day is going to start at the bank. I was checking my emails last night & here Discover Card took out a double payment this month. Part of it was my fault, but their solution would take 3 weeks to get my money back. I don't have enough in my account to cover it. I looked up my account and the first payment went through but not the second, so I'm going to see if the bank can deny the second payment. Otherwise I'm pulling all my little stashes Thank goodness for that wedding order.

Then it's back home and start dipping & icing before starting rolling & baking sugar cookies. At least that's my plan now, but that can always change. Oh I have to bake off those ginger snaps and make a Str Rhub pie and 3 pumpkin pies for tomorrow morning. Slow but sure.

Have a good one all!

[ladyebug]

Is it already sunny in PA? It's still dark here in Texas.

Donna, what happened to your list of accomplishments yesterday? How are your feeling?

Well, nothing going on here. Made dumplings yesterday and soup for supper. John wants things clean and simple, so cooking is really inconsequential at this point.

Would love to make a white wedding cupcake recipe (uses white cake mix), but I would probably be the only one to eat it. Had one at church and it was yummy.

Well, going to make a quick trip to Wally World this morning.

Have a good day, Friends.

[Paula A]

How about make and freeze some? Then you can have one whenever you want or take some to church?

[boffler]

Good Morning...yes a bit nippy out there...yesterday was a typical dreary fall day here. Looking out my window at the beautiful color of a tree, a burnt orange color, full, beautiful. Nature and the wonders of the world area beautiful.

Another Drs. appt. today,,welcome to getting older, LOL

Elaine funny you should mention white cake like recipe, I have been searching for a good white cake recipe, have been in the mood for a good white cake like a wedding cake, with frosting made with Crisco and powdered sugar, would love to make one then cut it into individual pieces, wrap and freeze...I do a lot of cakes that way, right now I have a carrot cake and fruit cocktail cake in the freezer...But really have the taste for a good white cake..

Been getting a lot of Christmas shopping done via internet, pkgs. should start arriving soon...(Maye you did say we could even start using the "C" word because you had had enough election stuff...)

Stopped at Kroger's yesterday and they had house slippers that I liked so bought each of the men in the family a pair...and also they had a mini chopper on the discount isle and I bought that as a gift also...

After today should have a free week next week, so will reschedule by dentist appt. and also schedule an oil change...

You sound like you have done very well after your surgery....so how does that change your medication?

Well time to get moving, another 40 min. drive to the Drs. one way...will do stop at TJMaxx today to see what I can find...

Have a beautiful day.....find the positive in life and focus on that...

[boffler]

Here is Bethina's post from this morning...:
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Good morning a cold Thursday

Today, 07:15 AM




Good morning it's cold I want to stay in my warm bed!!

My day off yesterday was great!!

I got to my volunteer site in time to go on a field trip to McDonald's for coffee.

I came and rested made a frozen pizza for supper. Got ready for church. I didn't get to church my ride forgot me. I came inside and got in bed early and watched tv.

Time to get in the shower.
Have a great day!!!



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[cookielady]

I'm feeling great. She said I should be at 100% in another week, so I'm looking forward to that. I should have my "singing" voice back in another week or two...won't have this gravely bass voice. She upped me to 100mg of snythroid and in a month I'll have lab work and she'll determine if that's enough.

Elaine...that's white wedding cake recipe on FB is AWESOME!!!! White, dense, and moist...perfect combo.

[Mayebarnes]

Good morning

and it is the 10th , not 11th..( which is what the original post said... .Donna, don' t do that!!!.. I can't afford to give a day away!.)... and I do like your Good News.

Yes use the Christmas word... I am sooooo tired of Trump,Hillary.. AND still it is still being TALKED about.. I want to scream...GET OVER IT.. move on.
so will turn a deaf ear to the tv.. and listen to pleasant talk about cookies, trips. even weather ..
Sharon ,I do the same with carrot cake or whatever, cut into slices , wrap well and freeze..

will have to leave here.. we are dropping off one car at the garage to have all 4 tires replaced.. I will follow in our older car. then its on to Wally world. to get the items on the list .. ( things that Aldis do not have.).. a very chilly 33 right now.. sun is here tho'... winter coat time.. eventually in mid afternoon a trip back to the garage to get the car.. garage is only 3 miles away .yea.

I am getting house guests in 10 days... better get busy and check out the cobwebs and sticky places...

got my hair curled and cut last evening ... was fun having gddug Shawna and my Guest- grd-daugh. ,Rachel,working on me.. ( this young lady has called me her G-G ,since she was small).Shawna put perm in.. Rachel cut and set .

off to the store. see you later ... be well.

[Paula A]

made the white cake on Facebook and even used white vanilla but decided I do like using the whole egg in the cake. It turned out great. Oh, what did I do to make the font change?
At least I got logged in after a second try...
Maye, I am really tired of all the complaining about the election. I started wondering if these people always vote candidates that win? If so, then more power to them, but in my reality, you win some, you lose some. Get over it and get on with life!
You are the same person and can continue do the same good you always did. Spread goodness, not the negative hate I was reading yesterday. Ok, I Promise I am done with complaining.
Today is my last day this week. I took off tomorrow because everyone has some back up or is off themselves and I never take off Veteran's day. It is our first cooking day for the shelter and I want to enjoy it. We are making some sugar cookie bars and adding red, white and blue sprinkles to the top.
It got up to 74* yesterday! Door open and afternoon play time keeps everyone in a good mood on these darker days. The kids seem to have adjusted well to the time change.
Good luck with the bank, Donna. And I just wish we could get a whiff of that kitchen while all those cookies are baking!
Hope you all have a great day and stay/get healthy!

[maxie]

Wasn't it in the 80s last week? Sunny and burr today. Jon said parent meetings went fine. When he ask about some retesting the teacher said she didn't think it was necessary since his grades are good (thank you dad!) and she had seen an improvement in his homework (again thanks dad for doing it). He said she especially commented on his spelling. If she only knew the work that went into that! No school today and tomorrow so I have a quiet 4 days. Today I must buy groceries and tomorrow I have a meeting with the insurance company for a review. My son pays less in auto insurance than I do and I have never had a ticket or accident...knock on wood!! Have a clogged ear this morning and it is making me offside...bad news for a person who is losing their balance anyway. Sierra was here for supper and was telling me about the maybe transferring and the costs and when I reminded her we had told her mother we would pay half I got shut off...seems we are so bad here and so selfish and so mean that we are not allowed to even speak about money for school and mother in the same sentence. I mean she cut me off and said we are not to speak of her mother and money because we refused to pay when ask. If we refused then why is the offer on the table being ignored by mommy dearest AFTER SHE ASK? I saved it on my cell phone so there is proof and date when we agreed and how no response was ever made by mommy dearest. I know you get sick of hearing about our problems but, darn it, sometimes it is just so consuming. There are so many things we could tell her about mommy, so many things we did to help that woman, so many sacrifices made, so many problems she created for us all even Scott and yet we don't. BUT it is ok to say whatever you want and disrespect us because we are the enemy cuz mommy dearest says so. If Sierra transfers it will be north and out of our direction so we will not see her much and I am ashamed to say it will be ok with me. She is growing so much like her mother and it is not a pretty sight. But to end on a lighter note.. I am thinking I may run to Kohl's. I have a coupon and need to buy my sister's birthday pjs. Mom used to buy us new jammies for our birthdays when we were raising kids and you never bought anything for yourself. Every year we counted on those new jams and carried on the tradition when she was gone. We are always so surprised when we hand each other our birthday gifts! We both have December birthdays but always celebrate at Thanksgiving. Guess I will start my day...have a good one!

[cookielady]

Well.....an hour & a half later and several phone calls, we think we all have the problem solved and almost all the fees waved....except for the Stop Payment fee. Whew!!! Kind of screwed up my morning plans.

Paula...baking ginger snaps smell so warm & inviting. They just put a smile on your face w/o you even tasting them....but what fun is that?

Maxie....I know EXACTLY what you are feeling. It's MUCH easier to love from a far and have a one or two day visit once in a while, and in my Kathy's case, a one or two hour visit. It's so sad that she can't see her mom for what she is. Kathy had her birth mother on a pedestal or years and she's FINALLY fallen off.

[JoGee]

Good late morning.
No, I didn't oversleep, but sponge-bathed and washed my hair. Still have to work on the styling of it....had a bit of an odd cut last time, so it's difficult. I have some natural curl that does its own thing, but one slip of a cut makes it go in 17 directions. But it grows out eventually.

Seeing my oncologist/hematologist this afternoon. Need to ask about the CT Scan. That tube to my stomach was never there.....then near the end I noticed they mentioned two healed fractured ribs. I never had fractured ribs that I know of.
Then I'll ask about the reverse surgery. E goes with me to my appointments, and they pay better attention to me because of it.

Maxie, I've known people like mommy dearest. (Like, according to the gospel of my mom, I never could do anything right. Or, because we didn't live close by, my kids weren't "really" her grandkids.)
So rant on, that's what we're here for. It also probably makes us more thankful if we don't have someone like that in our lives at this point. 😉

Cookie, it doesn't seem like you've missed a step despite your surgery. Always on the go. I love your gingersnaps, but am losing weight right now. Need to lose more. E, too, is losing weight. *sigh*. Haven't had goodies around the house for some time.

Sharon, hope your appointment is a good one.

To everyone, have a good day! ☀️

[Mayebarnes]

Maxie, I like reading your book every day!!!!!!..... its a shame that Sierra has can't see mommy dearest that way she is...but life ain't always real clear....
Donna , glad you got the financial mess clear away.... an hour and half well spent!...
we did get the car tires on.. now thats ready for winter...
my nerves are slowly settling down as the Tv. has not been running steady today...

Paula... you can start to italize by touching Control and letter i at the same time.. (underline by doing control and U at the same time)..

will go check the kitchen,, see if the cake recipe got put there.. its long gone off my facebook.. since I have not been visiting there while all the politics was flying around .

see you tomorrow