It's not Thursday...

jenna8984

@misskittydanger I used to have a sofa table exactly like that in my entrance and I loved it! you can throw a basket with your keys on one end, but have a runner and pictures to make it look nice. I was sad that my new house had no spot for it (you walk in directly to a set of stairs) so I gave it to my friend.

MissKittyDanger

@jenna8984  I love the under shelf of it, because I have fabric boxes for hats, mitts, etc that would be great there. I never even considered a possible runner for it  great idea!

labro

@TwoDimes Leave him a voicemail saying you're craving ice cream and pickles and could he pretty please pick some up on the way home? 

@minskat30 I'm glad Raj is doing better today. I hope you get to take him home soon!

Swazzle

@minskat30 - You're the best pup mom ever! I'm so glad Raj is doing better today than he was yesterday!

KeptInStitches

@swazzle, glad you enjoyed dinner with your friend!

@untouchablets, you and I will both be decorating our trees tonight.

@lavenderfields, I'm so glad for your dad! Continued healthy vibes.

@jenjen047, I love your makeup trial!

@minskat30, continued vibes for Raj.

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Dinner at Panera was good. Picked up some new yarn - every blanket I have tried knitting lately has been picking on me, but I have faith in the new pattern (plus the Bernat Blanket yarn is delightfully squishy). Bell ringing went well, too - H and I were in an entryway so it wasn't cold.

Tonight H and I are getting out the tree and my nativity set. We don't have any good places for the nativity, so we're setting up the card table. Then we're wrapping Christmas presents (we're done. Be jealous.) and packing up a bunch to mail to MIL for her family.

jenna8984

@misskittydanger yea I had a few runners that I'd change for the season! the baskets below sound like a great idea too

MissKittyDanger

@minskat30  you guys are such cute pup parents, I can't wait until baby minskat gets to be around!  

wink0erin

I was so busy yesterday I never got to come back, but my home inspection went GREAT!!!!!

The inspector found nothing major. He was actually impressed with how well-built and solid the house is. No scary cracks, foundation is even, everything is in good condition. There are only a few things for me to request the seller to deal with (some leaking plumbing in one bathroom, having an electrician check one thing and label breakers, clean gutters out). The area I'm moving to usually has homes with foundation issues or signs of shifting due to the terrain so it's something I was a little worried about, but whoever built my future home did a good job! The appraiser was out there too, my insurance is dealt with, and so far so good on document fetching for the loan. 

I measured all the rooms so now I can start drawing layouts of my existing furniture (and the couch I hope to get after closing) in the space on graph paper. 

Went over to my parents last night and helped decorate their Christmas tree. It was nice to hang out. I'll post the pic in the Christmas thread. 

Tomorrow I am celebrating Hanukkah with BF and his family, so I'm excited about that. Latkes, mmmmm. 

@untouchablets Is fencing year-round, or is it in seasons? If it's a season type deal, then at least the inability to hang out as much is temporary. I've hardly seen BF in the past few weeks because I've been on the road for work and he's been reffing basketball games, but it's all ok. I think the majority of our hangouts are sitting on the couch watching Netflix for a couple hours. 

@CocobellaF Yeah wtf, how is it only Wednesday.

@lavenderfields13 YAY for your dad being cancer free!! What great news. 

@jenjen047 Your makeup looks great, and the brows are perfect! 

wink0erin

@minskat30 I hope Raj's recovery goes smoothly! He'll be glad to be home, the vet can be stressful for critters. Best wishes for the coming days/weeks. 

wink0erin

@TwoDimes I think reveal is the 14th. 

labro

@wink0erin I'm so glad the inspection went well!!!!! That's like the biggest hurdle next to getting your financing all approved! YAY!!

jenna8984

@wink0erin That's great!! How old is the house? I only ask because if others in the area have cracked foundations and this one is "new" it can still settle and crack. But if it's like 20 years old then you should be golden! I'm a total dork, so I did the same exact thing with furniture measurements and graph paper! haha

lavenderfields13

@wink0erin That's great news that the inspection went well!

AlPacina

@swazzle - Part of why I don't meal plan is because BF always ends up eating the stuff I buy to make meals out of. Like for instance, I'll buy nice deli meat so I can make roll ups, and he'll just come home and grab the bag out of the fridge and eat the meat straight up. Fucking hell.

@lavenderfields13 - The news about your dad is so incredible. Congratulations! I remember when I found out my dad was cancer free I would just smile and let tears well up pretty much once an hour for, like, a week.

@labro - Gnocchi is the freaking bomb. Both of those recipes look incredible!

@jenjen047 - Your makeup looks fabulous. How are you eating for free so often?!? I want free food!

@TwoDimes - If that's you without coffee, I think you shouldn't drink coffee because your bulldog face is ADORABLE!!!

@minskat30 - Raj is so lucky to have such a loving mama!

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I ALSO got my SS present yesterday, and it is so freaking bomb. I can't wait to show it off.

I watched the newest episode of The Mindy Project, and am SO HAPPY with the way the story is going (although I'm sure they'll change things later because true love always wins over personal happiness and fulfillment in cinema). And then I watched Elf, and basically recited the entire thing. It's bad. I need to learn to shut up when I'm watching my favorites.

My dog typically lies in his crate while I get ready in the morning, then he follows me downstairs so I can leave him outside for the day. He refused to leave his crate today. It was like he was thinking "Nu uh, I know what it's like out there". So he's inside, and there is supposed to be more rain storms. I guess Portland had a sinkhole show up yesterday and everything!

wink0erin

@jenna8984 The house was built in 1981, so I'm good! I'm so excited about the graph paper that I don't want to do any actual work today. 

jenna8984

@alpacina omg I feel your pain on the food situation. Can't tell you how many times I buy something that go together (chips & dip, cheese & crackers) and H eats just one item before I can get to it. Then I'm left with the other which is useless until I buy more of the other half! grrrrr

AlPacina

@TwoDimes - TK isn't accepting the fact that I wanted to change the color of my spoiler text, so I will just have to PM you!

@jenna8984 - YES! It's BS. The worst one was lately I bought some cottage cheese (yes, I know, people on here hate cottage cheese), which I like to eat with seeds or fruit. He found a recipe for fake ice cream that uses cottage cheese in the recipe, so he used some a couple of times to make his dessert. Then, when I finished the cottage cheese that I BOUGHT, he gave ME a hard time because he didn't have any left to make more of HIS thing.

jenna8984

@alpacina

wink0erin

@AlPacina Cottage cheese fake ice cream? I mean, I love cottage cheese... but I don't know about all that. 

jenna8984

wink0erin said:

@AlPacina Cottage cheese fake ice cream? I mean, I love cottage cheese... but I don't know about all that. 

right?! @swazzle 's puree banana ice cream sounds 1000 times better

Swazzle

jenna8984 said:

wink0erin said:

@AlPacina Cottage cheese fake ice cream? I mean, I love cottage cheese... but I don't know about all that. 

right?! @swazzle 's puree banana ice cream sounds 1000 times better

That's because cottage cheese is repulsive.

AlPacina

@swazzle - Yes, we know. You've told us.

@wink0erin & @jenna8984 - It is seriously delicious. It's just cottage cheese, peanut butter, and vanilla-flavored protein powder mixed together and frozen. He's lifting weights like crazy right now, so it's really just a bowl full of protein. . . I don't even notice there's cheese it in. I think it just adds creaminess to it.

untouchablets

@wink0erin the HS fencing season is in the winter, HIS personal fencing season is basically year round, gets more intense in the late winter/spring up until Summer Nationals in July, and then eases up a bit in late summer/early fall. But he trains 5 days a week year round and he still has tournaments on weekends once or twice a month in the slower part of the season.

untouchablets

@alpacina that actually sounds kinda good to me (sorry @swazzle, I LOVE cottage cheese)

jenna8984

@alpacina can't get on board. I even like cottage cheese but the thought of mixing it with peanut butter -hork !

AlPacina

jenna8984 said:

@alpacina can't get on board. I even like cottage cheese but the thought of mixing it with peanut butter -hork !

I can accept this. I was hesitant, for sure. I'll stick to regular ice cream, myself.

Plus, I think one serving is around 20 grams of protein or something.

jenjen047

@minskat30 - Aww poor Raj! You're the world's best mommy though and I'm sure he will be much happier to be at home! I'm sending vibes to all of you!

@jenna8984 - We have not booked our honeymoon yet. We fail. I think we are going to have to do a mini-moon the week after the wedding and then do a bigger trip in April, which is really something I wanted to avoid but it is what it is.

@wink0erin - Congrats on the house! When do you close? Also latkes....yummm!! I might have to make some tonight.

@AlPacina - I've missed this entire season of Mindy. I need to binge. Also we got a free week of Hello Fresh from a friend and then they messed up our delivery so I called and complained so we got a 2nd free week. Blue Apron actually wasn't free, I bought a Groupon so it cost $39. I forgot about that.

Also forgot to mention I got an email from one of my mom's friends saying how impressed she was by getting a thank you note so quickly after my shower (I mailed them out the Monday/Tuesday after my Saturday shower). It felt like such a personal victory and a mental f you to my cousin who got married at the end of June and still hasn't sent a thank you. I actually am tempted to ask him if he received my gift since I had it shipped directly to his house.  Is it too late for that? Also is it too passive aggressive?

Swazzle

@AlPacina - I was tagged in a discussion about it so I felt the need to reiterate my opinion. 

labro

AlPacina said:

@swazzle - Yes, we know. You've told us.

@wink0erin & @jenna8984 - It is seriously delicious. It's just cottage cheese, peanut butter, and vanilla-flavored protein powder mixed together and frozen. He's lifting weights like crazy right now, so it's really just a bowl full of protein. . . I don't even notice there's cheese it in. I think it just adds creaminess to it.

I'm literally throwing up right now.

jenna8984 said:

@alpacina can't get on board. I even like cottage cheese but the thought of mixing it with peanut butter -hork !

That word is also making me throw up!

Swazzle

labro said:

AlPacina said:

@swazzle - Yes, we know. You've told us.

@wink0erin & @jenna8984 - It is seriously delicious. It's just cottage cheese, peanut butter, and vanilla-flavored protein powder mixed together and frozen. He's lifting weights like crazy right now, so it's really just a bowl full of protein. . . I don't even notice there's cheese it in. I think it just adds creaminess to it.

I'm literally throwing up right now.

jenna8984 said:

@alpacina can't get on board. I even like cottage cheese but the thought of mixing it with peanut butter -hork !

That word is also making me throw up!