Lunch stop in Roanoke Rapids, NC. We should hit the hotel by 4 or so.
I don’t know how to do the quote thing but the series is “Safe” on Netflix starring Dexter not as Dexter of course.
I packed a few boxes and came across the Federal jury duty notice starting Jan the 3rd for two weeks. How to get out of it?
Ankle is hurting still I think I’m done for the day.
Sunny it’s crazy on the used cars. I got almost $11K for a Toyota Corolla with 107K miles. I did take very good care of it but I think I only paid like $19K something. It was 7 yrs old.
It’s 72 right now.
Me: < opens windows >
Gordie: You weaked the perimeter, now The Invisible Mole People are gonna get in.
Sorry about your friend, Unknown
Afternoon all. Well, I’m back. Left the St. Louis area about 7:35am and got back to the house at 2:15pm, with a pit stop at Golden Corral to break up the trip. Drivers and driving were good everywhere but Tennessee which seems to have a large percentage of knuckleheads holding licenses (red and our other Tennessee natives excepted, of course).
Have read all but absorbed little, will try to do better next MMP.
All y’all take care.
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Misnomer
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The Stainless Steel Rat
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FCMoooom
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Thank you all for the {{{{{{ much appreciated }}}}} hugs and words of support. You made it better. Mumpers are the best!!
Had several sweet hours with the grand babies Christmas Eve day, watched a Harriet open a few presents. The word here is ‘a few’. She opens one thing, plays with it for hours and then may open one more thing. Last year it took til the middle of January til everything was opened. Nice lunch there, a chicken coconut milk stew. Came home to take it easy for the duration.
Yesterday was a robe and jammies day. All I asked of myself was to get through the Christmas blues while not pretending to feel better then I did. Roommate and I enjoyed Chinese leftovers and fresh bagels and cream cheese fresh from the bakery the day before. No muss, no major effort, easy on us.
A favorite show of mine, “Call the Midwife”, streamed their Christmas special episode at 9p and that gave me something special to look forward to and enjoy. An hour and a half of favorite characters was like celebrating a London Christmas in their gentle, kind circle. It was worth waiting for and just the thing.
Boxing Day today will be more of the same~a robe day, mumper reading and binge some past Call the Midwife season favorites. I like Boxing Day~I got through the hard part of Christmas and can see the sunshine again.
Thank you, all my friends~there are none as good as Mumpers and you are all treasured on the frozen windswept prairies of Nebraska.
Which one was Nurse Call?
De-snowed the vehicles and took the Jeep on errands. Blowing snow on the snow-covered roads. Couldn’t find a 15W bulb for the hummingbird feeder, but got more 7W ones in case the one we have burns out. Couldn’t find ham hocks, so I got smoked ham shanks. We now have black-eyed peas, collard greens, and eggs.
Snake in a sweater made me think of shoe. 
I’m 51 years old and agree with @Filbert you deserve a second Christmas, if you’d be so kind to PM your address.
My gathering can canceled due to snow. Might be able to do some it tomorrow, but probably one of my friends won’t be able to make it. Funnily enough, it will be the only person who is still local who won’t be able to make it.
I think that’s wonderful. 
Every present gets appreciated.
I’m home again… I had a wonderful time with my son and his darling wife, plus, of course, their sweet pups, who generously allowed me to share the sofa.
The trip home was not exactly smooth. Seattle got more snow than expected, and there was a lovely combo of snow, ice, and wind. My son got me to the train station OK. The train was, of course, late, plus we had to stop several times for the crew to shovel off the switches. Got to my station, and…no Ubers available. I had to wait about 20 minutes for a bus that took me to my city’s terminal. After an hour in the cold, I realized my bus home was a no-show, and still no UBers, so I took a bus that got me about 5 blocks from home. Schlepping a large duffle, a backpack, and my new lumbar seat cushion made my back throw a snit fit, but what else was I to do? The roads are horrible–I couldn’t ask a friend to drive several miles to come get me.
VERY grateful to be home.
{{{{{Boo}}}}} That’s a retrospective hug, since I missed the sad anniversary. So glad you pulled through so we can all appreciate you here.
{{{{{Butters}}}}}
Sari, I thought of you, Echo, and Ripple when we drove by a dog park yesterday. There was a brown dog that turned out to be a white dog running incognito. He’d cleverly disguised himself with mud. I know Echo and Ripple would never be so naughty.
Can’t stand this. Off to run a hot bath.
Howdy Y’all! I got Christmas Lessons and Carols all officianted (is too a word, I just made it up!) and had leftovers for N.O.L. followed by nappage. The biiiiiiiiiiiiiig trash can has been hauled all the way down to the road for pickup tomorrow. More chillage ensues. All in all not a bad day. Oh, I am wearin’ shorts and a tshirt as I post. All y’all with snow woes, well, better thee than me. ICK!
Glad all you travelers made it back home safe and sound. I trust MOOOOOOM etc. are happily ensconced in their hotel for the night.
See y’all in the brand new shiny MMP tomorrow!
Thanks for the {{{{{ }}}}}. Highly likely I’ll need some more next year. Nice to have a soft berth to land when the going gets tough.
Sorry you had such a dreadful trip home~I would have jumped at the chance to drive those miles to fetch you home that last bit. Glad you had a lovely visit, complete with doggies.
My sister stopped by this afternoon and gave me a gift. I now can’t wait until August because it’s a ticket to a local performance by Wierd Al Yankovic!!! Whee. I saw him here once years ago. He gave a super performance that was all the more remarkable because his parents had just died. That was April of 2004.
Thank you! I’ve been on a movies binge today (first Lethal Weapon, then Die Hard, now Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), but I’ll definitely check this out later in the week.
Martini has been ingested, and poke loin and sweet N.O.T.s are almost ready.
You got it.
Neat!
He wrote my theme song 
Thank you for your very kind offer as well. I felt sorry for myself for a few minutes and then came up with a plan. I’m going to start the exchange again next year but this time I’m going to pick the best gift giver for me and everyone else will get random partners like everyone should.
I’m going to start sign-ups on Oct. 1, give out names on Nov 1 and hope everyone has time to shop and ship before things go sideways again next year. Do you think that will work, or would it be too early?
Thanks guys for the kind words for our friend. Killing someone changes people, some more than others. Our friend was functional, he was working and had a wife before he got drafted and sent to Nam. Many people were able to come back and cope, usually by packing the entire nightmare away in a corner of their minds, some relive it every day and night.
The military broke him, gave him disability payments and turned their backs on him. I honestly think that if he had gotten some sort of therapy when he got out he would be better now. A human being shouldn’t have to live like he is, its horrible.
Hubs took him to get ice and supplies and they stopped for lunch. Our friend has said he is going to sign up for meals on wheels but we doubt he will follow through. That would involve a stranger coming to his house every day. I told him that he could tell the driver to leave his food on a chair in his yard so he could watch out the window to see that the driver is gone before getting his food but sometimes he doesn’t listen as well as I’d like.
Boo, you are our friend. I think I speak for everyone when I say that something hurts you also hurts us. Never be afraid to ask for hugs!
The same goes for you nellie! I’m so glad you made it home safely, what a nightmare!
Asking the Meals on Wheels guy to leave it on a chair would be perfectly acceptable given the pandemic…
Eating leftover spaghetti that I cooked last night at 11pm. Bout to do a nap too.