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Post by scrapmaven on Jun 25, 2024 15:19:09 GMT
Good morning.
We have the nicest, most honest repairman here. He's such a nice guy. It'll be a quick repair. Then I have a dental cleaning. I hate going to the dentist, but I go every 4 months, because I love having teeth. This afternoon will be fun, since we have another family escape room.
Dh made pizza dough for dinner. We have fresh basil and that means margherita pizza. He'll make pepperoni, as well. We have some very campers who are looking fwd to dinner. I'll just sit and watch them eat. Harumpf.
What's on your menu?
What is everyone up to today?
May today be a delightful day for all!
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Post by leannec on Jun 25, 2024 15:29:41 GMT
Have fun in your escape room scrapmaven! I would do terrible at an activity like that!  .  I'm leaving soon for a hair appointment ... can't wait! My roots are out of control! I need to be blonde again!  I need to pick up a few groceries after that and then no plans ... Dinner is up in the air ... maybe I will see something at the store! |
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Post by cadoodlebug on Jun 25, 2024 15:35:42 GMT
Good morning! I will run errands this morning then stay inside to beat the heat. Dinner will be Sloppy Joe's. Have fun in the escape room, scrapmaven . So much fun! Day 3 –The Golden Circle of Iceland Last Part After leaving the tomato farm, we headed to Gullfoss or the Golden Waterfall, a natural wonder and one of the most powerful waterfalls in Europe. It was quite spectacular!    Last stop was the Great Geyser geothermal area in the Haukadalur Valley. Once off the bus we walked to an area where people were standing, ready with the cameras/cell phones. A lot of our group were standing on the other side from where DH and I were. After a few minutes we got quite the show and I snapped a photo at the perfect time. For the other people, they got a tad wet as the wind was blowing towards them.   This one cracked me up:  |
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Post by Tearisci on Jun 25, 2024 15:36:37 GMT
Happy Tuesday!
I feel energized and back at work after taking yesterday off. I just needed a mental health day and work is slow right now so it was a good day to take off.
I'm just about to head out to pick up my wine and grocery orders so dinner tonight will either be tacos if my parents come over or steak or salmon. Lots of options so I just have to see what I feel like later.
Hope you all have a good day!
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Post by sueg on Jun 25, 2024 15:38:55 GMT
Good afternoon all,
I missed you yesterday as my friend and her daughter came for dinner and stayed over. Her ex was in town to see the court appointed person who will report back on their custody/visitation issues. The place he was meeting this person was between the daughter’s school and their home, so they came her so as not to risk crossing paths with him. We had a simple but yum dinner - spaghetti bolognaise and then ice cream with fresh raspberry sauce.
After sending them off towards school this morning, I had an appointment with my GP to get a referral for the neurosurgeon I need to see. Good thing I saw her today, as just after I returned home, the doctor from the oral surgery clinic called to say that he had managed to get my appointment moved from next Wednesday to tomorrow at 8:30am!!!!!! I will have to be on a bus at about 7:10, to get to the hospital in time and find where neurology is located. He still hasn’t scheduled my next scan - the senior radiologist was looking at my original scans today to decide what’s needed. He did tell me that he is treating the blood vessel problem in my cheek as a separate problem from the lesion in my brain and that the next scan is for the cheek problem.
Dinner tonight is going to be won ton noodle soup with Asian greens. Simple, because I just have to put broth, won tons, vegetables and noodles into a pot and heat them up.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Jun 25, 2024 15:42:37 GMT
We have the nicest, most honest repairman here. He's such a nice guy. It'll be a quick repair. This is very sweet. A good service professional is worth their weight in gold. And if you get a reasonable price, an even bigger bonus. My dishwasher has been on a downward decline for months now. I finally went to unload it yesterday and half the dishes were still dirty. Greasy, slimy kind of unclean in many cases. As I was muttering curse words under my breath while rewashing everything, Jeremy was making some pretty snappy comments. I told him, by all means, he could step up and help me handwash all the dishes. He got up and left the house. When he came back, he let me know my new dishwasher will be arriving Saturday. LOL! God forbid he have to wash a dish.  He picked out a really nice one too. I'm pretty excited about it. When we moved in we bought this one and at that time, we were so strapped for money, we bought the cheapest dishwasher we could find at the scratch and dent place. It makes me feel super grateful that we've come so far since those days. I don't know what's for dinner. I picked a ton of basil out of my garden last night. I'm going to make some pesto today. Actually, I'm going to make LOTS of pesto today. I found a recipe for a pesto risotto with broiled zucchini. It sounded delicious. I also have a creamy beans recipe that I may make to go with it. I haven't been to the store. Yes, still. I will probably have Jeremy pick up a few things on his way home. |
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Post by scrapmaven on Jun 25, 2024 15:44:36 GMT
cadoodlebug , I love the photos and the stories. Next time you travel I want to go, too. Tearisci , it's great to see you feeling so well today. Woohoo. sueg , you had me a raspberry sauce. You are so wonderful w/children. Your friend and her daughter are very fortunate to have your friendship. I wish you didn't have to go through all of this medical science project stuff, but my thoughts are w/you and your doctors for easy healing.
@jeremsygirl, what did Jeremy buy? We have a Bosch and I love it. My basil and your basil can have a contest We almost have tomatoes. Then I'll make my bruschetta. I wish we lived in the same area, so that we could share.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Jun 25, 2024 15:47:28 GMT
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Post by jeremysgirl on Jun 25, 2024 15:49:33 GMT
I walked away for a few days and I totally missed brain lesion sueg. Are you alright? Is this what the neurosurgeon appointment is? |
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Post by lucyg on Jun 25, 2024 15:50:27 GMT
Making spaghetti and meat sauce tonight with the gentleman friend, using sausage handmade by another friend of ours. Plus olive bread made by his daughter, and salad. Also I am making chocolate croissant bread pudding. Dropping off some of everything to the friends we were supposed to have dinner with tonight, only they both got sick so we’re on our own. sueg, apparently I have missed lots of health news from you. I will backtrack to see what I missed. Take care! |
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Post by stormsts on Jun 25, 2024 15:55:07 GMT
Good Morning!
We had a brief but strong storm this am. Hardly any rain but lots of wind. Took a tree down in our yard and one in the neighbors woods. We will work on that when DH and I get home from work. He will have to use the chainsaw and I will drag it off.
I need to start dragging stuff out for our vacation. Leaving Friday morning so I need to get on the ball.
Dinner is looking like breakfast for dinner.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Jun 25, 2024 15:55:44 GMT
Happy Tuesday! Bright, sunny day here with a heat warning in place. Summer is officially in full swing. I only plan to step outside periodically to warm up (DH keeps the house as cold as a walk-in freezer).
I'll be sewing labels on quilts today and have to run to UPS to ship two of them to DD's friend. After I get all that done I'll figure out the next project I want to work on. For dinner I have some tenderloin tips thawing and will cook those on our cooktop griddle, along with steamed veggies for DH and a salad pour moi. Stay cool everyone and drink plenty of water!
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Post by jeremysgirl on Jun 25, 2024 15:56:50 GMT
Mmm...chocolate bread pudding. I love bread pudding and I love chocolate so together they've got to be great lucyg scrapmaven it is either a Bosch or a Maytag. He was looking at both and I'm unsure which he decided on. He was also looking a t a KitchenAid one. I swear he ruled that one out for some reason. |
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Jun 25, 2024 16:01:39 GMT
scrapmaven it is either a Bosch or a Maytag. He was looking at both and I'm unsure which he decided on. He was also looking a t a KitchenAid one. I swear he ruled that one out for some reason. Did he go with a third rack? |
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Post by lucyg on Jun 25, 2024 16:03:49 GMT
jeremysgirl: chocolate CROISSANT bread pudding. It is the bomb.
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Post by sueg on Jun 25, 2024 16:03:49 GMT
jeremysgirl and lucyg - this has all come out of a dental appointment at the end of April. Dentist noticed a blood blister like thing in my cheek and sent me for further test. I had a CT, which confirmed what Oral Surgeon had suspected - the blister in my cheek is due to a blood vessel problem - but also showed something in my brain. So then I had an MRI which basically confirmed the lesion in my brain, which is almost certainly a benign meningioma. They still can’t see the blood vessels clearly enough in the cheek problem to feel comfortable operating to remove it. The two things seem completely unrelated and both have probably been there for a long time, just the cheek blood vessels grew to be big enough to show and prompted the scan that showed the other.
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Post by lucyg on Jun 25, 2024 16:14:50 GMT
jeremysgirl and lucyg - this has all come out of a dental appointment at the end of April. Dentist noticed a blood blister like thing in my cheek and sent me for further test. I had a CT, which confirmed what Oral Surgeon had suspected - the blister in my cheek is due to a blood vessel problem - but also showed something in my brain. So then I had an MRI which basically confirmed the lesion in my brain, which is almost certainly a benign meningioma. They still can’t see the blood vessels clearly enough in the cheek problem to feel comfortable operating to remove it. The two things seem completely unrelated and both have probably been there for a long time, just the cheek blood vessels grew to be big enough to show and prompted the scan that showed the other. I knew about the cheek issue but not the brain lesion. eeeek! So glad it’s presumed to be benign. Best of luck for an easy fix! |
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Post by jeremysgirl on Jun 25, 2024 16:25:08 GMT
scrapmaven it is either a Bosch or a Maytag. He was looking at both and I'm unsure which he decided on. He was also looking a t a KitchenAid one. I swear he ruled that one out for some reason. Did he go with a third rack? Yes!!! |
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Post by scrappert on Jun 25, 2024 16:50:40 GMT
cadoodlebug , I was going to look through my pictures last night for my Iceland ones because yours have me wanting to go re-live them. No electric dishwasher in our house, just manual. That's the kid's job for the summer. Yes!! Not sure for dinner, we have more shredded chicken and thought about chicken tacos, or fajitas. We'll see. Well, plumbing for sink is done...  So we will be ready to drywall this side of the bathroom, you can see part of the drywall we did around the door on the left there.
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Post by rymeswithpurple on Jun 25, 2024 17:10:53 GMT
Hi all! jeremysgirl About 2 years ago, our fridge and dishwasher were both acting up. I loaded DH up with disposable flatware and dishes before I went to conference that year, and we got a new dishwasher about a week or so after I got back. I didn't expect them to also replace the fridge, but it was nice to have one that didn't rattle for 35 minutes every hour. They were free to us since we live in an apartment, but it was very annoying not having a dishwasher for a while. Today has been nothing but working on evaluation compilations. I have 63/274 sessions done. I need to still clean up the comments for the sessions, but getting the actual number data entered is much more time consuming than deleting rows that say things like "N/A" or "See previous comment." I'm hoping to have this part done by tomorrow evening, and then can spend the rest of the week cleaning up comments. I think it might be time for another cup of coffee. Stayed up to watch both the Calder Cup and Stanley Cup last night. What amazing games! |
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Post by sueg on Jun 25, 2024 17:13:04 GMT
jeremysgirl and lucyg - this has all come out of a dental appointment at the end of April. Dentist noticed a blood blister like thing in my cheek and sent me for further test. I had a CT, which confirmed what Oral Surgeon had suspected - the blister in my cheek is due to a blood vessel problem - but also showed something in my brain. So then I had an MRI which basically confirmed the lesion in my brain, which is almost certainly a benign meningioma. They still can’t see the blood vessels clearly enough in the cheek problem to feel comfortable operating to remove it. The two things seem completely unrelated and both have probably been there for a long time, just the cheek blood vessels grew to be big enough to show and prompted the scan that showed the other. I knew about the cheek issue but not the brain lesion. eeeek! So glad it’s presumed to be benign. Best of luck for an easy fix! The brain lesion was from last Tuesday’s appointment, after the MRI, but I found out at that appointment it was why he wanted the MRI. They know the cheek issue is some sort of blood vessel malformation, but are still not sure what blood vessels are involved. The (really very nice) young doctor said to me ‘I’m not prepared to operate without more information, and I’m a surgeon. Operating is what I love to do!!’ |
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Post by karenlou on Jun 25, 2024 18:08:20 GMT
I am just back from a retirement luncheon for one of my Vascular surgeons....There was a good turnout, and I got to see and talk with his former partner who retired many years ago!!
Dinner here will be Taragon turkey cutlets along with a salad and maybe some roasted fingerling potatoes.
jeremysgirl..YEAH for a new dishwasher!!!! We got a Bosch when we did the kitchen reno....It is SO quiet...and does an amazing job!!!
lucyg...I would LOVE some of that bread pudding!!!!!
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Post by taylortroop on Jun 25, 2024 18:19:18 GMT
We had a major wind storm this afternoon and a huge branch from our neighbours tree (the one that we had a major branch removed from earlier this year because DH was afraid it would come down on our garage) came down in the other neighbours yard. No idea how it missed our brand new fence but somehow it did. Crazy winds!
Tonight is my monthly alphabet supper and tonight is the letter R. We are going to Refined Fool, a local brewery which also serves delicious burgers.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Jun 25, 2024 18:23:13 GMT
They were free to us since we live in an apartment, but it was very annoying not having a dishwasher for a while. I told Jeremy he's responsible for dishes until Saturday. He just rolled his eyes at me...lol. It is annoying being without one. |
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Post by The Birdhouse Lady on Jun 25, 2024 18:32:52 GMT
Busy day today. We finished the tile last night and this morning I got the call that our flooring is in. We are set for install on 7/9. I am not looking forward to moving everything out of the rooms but am excited for the finish product. Dinner tonight is out with the 2 sister in laws. We are going to a place in Anchorage called Club Paris. It has been in business forever and they have really good steaks. Dh is leaving tonight for a quick business trip to San Diego. He's been rushing around this morning to get a haircut and get packed. Plus putting out any fires here in the office that might arise while he is gone. Another beautiful sunny day. I am loving it! lucyg that bread pudding sounds absolutely amazing!  |
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Post by scrapmaven on Jun 25, 2024 19:21:03 GMT
jeremysgirl, I give you permission to use paper plates and plastic utensils until you get the new dishwasher. If you're not used to hand washing it's a drag, especially when you've been working all day. I love the top(3rd rack) of my dishwasher. It's so handy. sueg, I just want them to do whatever is necessary to keep you safe and comfortable. Thank goodness this is benign. scrappert, I'm looking fwd to seeing the finished product. lucyg, by any chance do you have a recipe to share? Chocolate croissant bread pudding sounds incredible.
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Post by ntsf on Jun 25, 2024 19:26:37 GMT
leftover takeout again tonight.. dh is listening to a zoom at 7 and me at 6:30. so early dinner.
it is tropical air today.. warm and muggy a bit. I went to swim class, dh is reading.
now more phone calls, and more scrapbooking.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Jun 25, 2024 19:42:34 GMT
Look what we get when we hit the 10 year mark! It will happen at the same day/time you first joined. I was the 31st to sign up, at 2:35 pm on 6/25/14.  |
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Post by jeremysgirl on Jun 25, 2024 19:45:59 GMT
scrapmaven with the way I cook and the fact that I'm here all day, every day I manage to dirty so many dishes that my dishwasher can't hold them all and it is inevitable that I wash some by hand.
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Post by lucyg on Jun 25, 2024 19:54:32 GMT
CHOCOLATE CROISSANT BREAD PUDDING Adapted from a Marion Cunningham bread pudding recipe, when the local tea room wouldn’t give me the recipe for theirs. It’s almost as good as the tea room version. MC says it’s important to take it out of the oven while it is still “trembling” so it will be tender and soft rather than firm and dry. 3 eggs 1/2 cup sugar 1/8 tsp salt 2.5 cups whole milk 1.5 tsp vanilla 3-4 oz bittersweet chocolate, broken (dark chocolate is fine, too) 3 croissants, cut in 1” cubes (about 6 oz total) Preheat oven to 350F. In a mixing bowl, stir together the eggs, sugar, and salt. Put the milk in a saucepan and heat over medium-high heat until scalded (tiny bubbles form). Remove the milk from the heat and slowly add the egg mixture, stirring constantly. Stir in the vanilla. Place the croissant pieces in a buttered 11x7” baking dish (or whatever similar size you have that works) and mix in the chocolate pieces. Pour the milk mixture over. Add boiling water to the bottom of a 9x13” baking dish and put it in the oven. Carefully place the 11x7” dish into the 9x13”, making sure the boiling water comes about halfway up the sides. Bake about 20-30 minutes, or until the custard is barely set. Serve warm, with cream (whipped or not). |
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He picked out a really nice one too. I'm pretty excited about it. When we moved in we bought this one and at that time, we were so strapped for money, we bought the cheapest dishwasher we could find at the scratch and dent place. It makes me feel super grateful that we've come so far since those days. 
