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Post by auntkelly on Dec 31, 2022 14:20:22 GMT
Our family went 1-2 in bowl games, and the two we lost were heartbreakers.
My Oklahoma Sooners lost to Florida State 32-35. Florida State was heavily favored and the game was in Florida, so I’m really proud of my Sooners. We have an awesome recruiting class coming in, so I am optimistic about the future.
My daughter’s fiancé is a NC State grad and they lost to Maryland 16-12.
My son is a Notre Dame grad and they beat South Carolina 45-38.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 29, 2022 15:24:00 GMT
Can you dish up your own foods? So something like the chicken pot pie, maybe take more of the filling and less crust? And I'd just be honest with him that it looks delicious, but you need to limit your carb intake. This is what I was thinking. Is he understanding when you do things like pick out all the veggies and meat and leave the crust? Is he responsive when you say things like "what you made tonight is delicious and it's low carb as well!" Generally people who love to cook want others to enjoy what they cook. My husband loves to cook. I've recently lost about 40 pounds and I don't want to gain it back. When he makes something rich, I'll say something like "This is delicious, it's really going to take all my will power just to eat a small portion." When he makes something healthy, like salmon, I say "This is great! And it's healthy! I'm having seconds!" He's gradually gotten to where the meals he makes are more healthy because he wants me to enjoy them.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 28, 2022 21:26:06 GMT
Delta is always my first choice and United is my second choice.
I used to fly Southwest back when they were cheaper than other airlines and always very reliable. I never really cared about not having an assigned seat. I will always try to avoid Southwest after three horrible experiences w/ Southwest in the past two years, the most recent being this week when my daughter's flight home to Raleigh was cancelled on Monday. Like tens of thousands of other stranded Southwest passengers, she couldn't get through to customer service to rebook. She ended up paying almost $500 for a one way American flight to Charlotte on Tuesday, then rented a car and drove on home to Raleigh.
I've flown Spirit airlines several times and never had a problem with flights running late or being cancelled altogether. It would never be my first choice, but I wouldn't hesitate to fly them again in a pinch.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 27, 2022 16:28:27 GMT
Yes!
My husband is at Sam's and he just texted me that their ribbon is marked down to $4.50 a roll. I told him to buy four gold rolls and three turquoise rolls.
My daughter is getting married in May, so I'm planning on using a picture from the wedding on our family Christmas card. I plan to have them all ready to mail early in December. This year I waited until the last possible moment to order photo cards and I was not pleased w/ how they turned out.
My husband and I are going to buy the bulk of our presents on Black Friday next year. We bought some presents this year on Black Friday, but not all of them. In years past, we found lots of great deals right up until Christmas. This year it really did seem like all the best deals were on Black Friday weekend, so that is when we'll buy next year.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 27, 2022 16:14:54 GMT
I'll start taking things down in a few days while I'm watching bowl games. I'm not in any hurry to get things down. The lighted garland on the mantel will be the last to come down.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 27, 2022 16:02:01 GMT
I did a major purge of my Christmas decorations last year. This year I am going to go through my decorations yet again and do another smaller purge.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 27, 2022 14:23:54 GMT
I’m not against regifting in certain circumstances, but it’s something I rarely do. I usually just donate unwanted gifts if I can’t return them to the store and exchange them for something I really want.
I try and put a lot of thought into my gifts, and if I don’t really like a gift, it’s generally not something I want to pass along to someone else. However, I would regift without hesitation if I thought someone else would enjoy my gift.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 27, 2022 5:40:01 GMT
The look on Beanie’s face is priceless. “Me? Naughty? I can explain. It really wasn’t my fault!”
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 27, 2022 5:20:04 GMT
I used to love Southwest Airlines. They used to be cheap and reliable. Southwest is now awful now and I will avoid flying Southwest at all costs. My daughter bought a round trip ticket from Raleigh to Oklahoma City on Southwest for $500. Her return flight today was cancelled, and the first day she can get out on Southwest is Thursday evening. That won’t work because she and her fiancé are hosting a party on Thursday. My daughter just bought a ticket to Charlotte for tomorrow on American. The ticket cost $448. Her fiancé will have to drive from Raleigh to Charlotte to pick her up. This is our third awful experience on Southwest in the last couple of years. But, is Southwest to blame for the cancellations? I mean, as far as I can see every airline is having a crisis due to this nationwide storm. What could they have done differently? Yes, i believe Southwest is responsible for the cancellations. My understanding is that the cancellations today had nothing to do with weather. I don’t believe any other airlines cancelled as many flights as Southwest did today. As others have noted, it has been impossible to speak w/ a human being at Southwest Airlines or get any rebooking help whatsoever. There are a lot of things Southwest could do differently, such as communicating w/ passengers and helping them to rebook cancelled flights. The New York Time is reporting that the United States Transportation Department is looking into Southwest’s “unacceptable” rate of delays and cancellations.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 26, 2022 22:48:03 GMT
I used to love Southwest Airlines. They used to be cheap and reliable.
Southwest is now awful now and I will avoid flying Southwest at all costs. My daughter bought a round trip ticket from Raleigh to Oklahoma City on Southwest for $500. Her return flight today was cancelled, and the first day she can get out on Southwest is Thursday evening. That won’t work because she and her fiancé are hosting a party on Thursday. My daughter just bought a ticket to Charlotte for tomorrow on American. The ticket cost $448. Her fiancé will have to drive from Raleigh to Charlotte to pick her up.
This is our third awful experience on Southwest in the last couple of years.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 26, 2022 15:05:27 GMT
My daughter and I had a lot of fun planning our gift to my husband and son. Notre Dame plays NC State at Raleigh next Fall. My son is a Notre Dame grad and my husband is a big fan. My daughter and her fiancé live in Raleigh and he is a NC State grad. He has four season tickets. I’m am going to pay for my husband, my son and myself to fly to Raleigh for the game. My daughter and her fiancé are providing a place to stay and four tickets to the game. I’ll buy the fifth ticket.
My daughter and I made two fake tickets to the game on the computer and wrapped them in two packages which we had my son and husband open at the same time. They were happy and now we’ll all have a fun trip to look forward to!
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 26, 2022 14:46:07 GMT
I don’t notice them. I do lots of online shopping, but I don’t think I’ve ever clicked on an ad I’ve seen on this website or any other.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 26, 2022 14:40:11 GMT
Wow! I’ll bet his grandfather is pleased to see he is a budding artist!
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 24, 2022 14:54:55 GMT
Christmas Cutie!
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 23, 2022 4:36:15 GMT
Well, if I die due to eating homemade goodies, my friends and family can say “she died doing what she loved.”
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 22, 2022 13:52:55 GMT
Thank you for remembering my daughter’s birthday!
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 21, 2022 18:52:55 GMT
The video is awesome. Such a special memory.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 21, 2022 18:28:51 GMT
I'll be praying for Steven.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 21, 2022 14:35:21 GMT
I’m sorry to learn of his passing. The timing is so sad.
I remember hearing my brother screaming at the television fifty years’ ago and going in the room just in time to watch the replays.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 19, 2022 22:52:14 GMT
i'm so sorry. i will say prayers.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 19, 2022 15:13:27 GMT
I'm sorry you are in such a difficult place. Sometimes its just so difficult to know what you should do. It is nice that you are thinking of your sister in law's best interest rather than your own. I hope you find peace w/ your decision, whatever you decide.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 18, 2022 15:18:19 GMT
To me, the idea of “Random Acts of Kindness” means that when I am the recipient of a random act of kindness, I play it forward when a situation arises where I can perform a random act of kindness for someone else.
For example, one time while on vacation I needed to mail an envelope full of documents. I stopped at a small local copy shop and asked if they shipped things. The man said “no” but he weighed the package for me, put his own stamps on it and said he would take it to the post office with his own mail at the end of the day. He wouldn’t even let me pay for the stamps.
That was a true random act of kindness in my opinion. I’ve tried to play it forward when various situations arise where I can help people in small ways.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 18, 2022 14:55:04 GMT
Prank phone calls were a favorite form of entertainment, especially when a friend spent the night. (Is your refrigerator running? Well if it runs by me, I’ll catch it for you).
Also, if you liked a boy, you’d repeatedly call his house and hang up as soon as someone answered.
Caller ID really took a lot of fun out of life.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 18, 2022 14:21:30 GMT
My Christmas dishes are Santa’s List by Fitz and Floyd. Dishes I take them out on the day after Thanksgiving and we use them through New Years.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 17, 2022 16:44:02 GMT
I watched the first two episodes of the second set and found it to be pretty boring. The one thing that I thought was interesting was how they came to live in Tyler Perry’s house. He says he wrote Meghan at the time of her marriage because he felt bad for her because of the way her dad was acting. In his letter, Perry said “call me if you ever need anything.”
When Meghan and Harry were worried about their security while they were living in Canada, Meghan says “let’s call Tyler Perry.”
So even though Tyler Perry has never met Meghan and Harry, he sends a private jet to Canada and provides a home for them to live in rent free for months.
I’m really not doubting that is how things happened, but I think the whole thing is just strange.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 17, 2022 16:02:50 GMT
A friend’s daughter in law is an RN (although she is not currently working). She is fully insured through her husband’s job. She recently chose to have her third baby at home w/ a midwife even though she was high risk due to the fact that she had to have an emergency C section with her first baby. She is both crunchy and religious. She seems to completely distrust modern medicine even though she is an RN.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 16, 2022 19:02:27 GMT
The bowl season will be a little sad this year due to the passing of Mike Leach.
There are so many great stories about Mike Leach, but of course my favorite happened while he was the offensive coordinator for Oklahoma in 1999. On the day Oklahoma played our arch rival Texas, he had one of our players "accidentally" drop a fake playlist in the tunnel both teams went up after the pregame warm up. A Texas graduate assistant picked it up and took it to the Texas coaching staff. Tom Herman, who was on the Texas staff, now says the coaches thought it might be a set up, but dismissed the idea because it was just too absurd that anyone would try such a stunt. Texas decided the playlist was real and set up their defense to according to the fake playlist. Of course, Oklahoma ran plays to the opposite side of the field, and were up 17-0 before the Texas coaching staff had a chance to regroup after figuring out that Leach had set them up.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 16, 2022 18:41:42 GMT
My Oklahoma Sooners play Florida State in the Cheez-It Bowl on December 29th.
BOOMER!
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 15, 2022 18:07:25 GMT
It would make a big difference to me as to why you were in the restaurant for two hours.
I almost always leave a 20% tip. However, if I was at the restaurant for two hours due to poor service, I might leave a lesser tip. On the other hand if I was there for two hours because I was visiting w/ a friend, I might leave a little extra.
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Post by auntkelly on Dec 15, 2022 1:49:24 GMT
I read, play crossword puzzles, exercise, study French and meet friends for lunch and/or happy hour. I have a lot of free time now that I am retired and the kids are grown.
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