Wednesday

VarunaTT · December 2020

I'm only working a half day today, then therapy, then a friend is coming by to pick up the last few boxes to take to Goodwill for me. Off until Monday, thank goodness. K's mom is supposed to come by to pick up a box of random things I've found while cleaning. I'm not sure I'm up for it today, though I had wanted everything out before the 1st. The weather here is cold, dreary, and rainy and it's just messing with my mood.

No big plans really for the time off except to give me some rest and relaxation, hopefully. Meetings all this morning, then I'm out.

charlotte989875 · December 2020

I’m supposed to be off today but logged on to check some things and found problems that need to be rectified and will probably end up working longer than I should today. But at least I’m still in my pjs.

The baby has some congestion so now I’m convinced he (and I) have covid because we saw family on Christmas. We took all the precautions but I’m going to be paranoid until it’s better. Thankfully I also have therapy tonight.

CharmedPam · December 2020

Hopefully it’s not that @charlotte989875. I hope you get better very soon!

Sounds great @VarunaTT some R&R before the new year starts up!

WFH till 2, it’s not busy at all and I have to motivate myself to reload my cabinets. It’s been slow going getting eveything back into the kitchen because all the cabinets aren’t in yet. The reno had it’s up and downs all throughout and yesterday I had a plumber over to tell me all the work I needed. Even going the cheapest route (no undermount sink like I wanted) it is 3x what I thought I’d be paying. Long story short, I took out another credit line to pay it all. I can’t win with this house!

mrsconn23 · December 2020

DH is off the rest of the year. I work through tomorrow, womp womp.

It's also cold and rainy here. Blerg.

I'm hoping my podcasts come back with full slates in the new year since I'm going to be working so much OT. I also need to clean up my office. It's current state is not conducive to being productive since it's a mess.

Looking forward to a three day weekend because the next couple weeks are going to be pretty intense and busy with me working a ton.

Jen4948 · December 2020

I have a tremendous deadline early next week, when my company is launching a new website, so I'm going to work through the holiday and weekend and am giving up a lot of personal things to have the time available. So I'm looking forward to after that, when things will hopefully slow down to a normal pace.

@charlotte989875, best wishes for your and the baby's recovery soon!

mrsconn23 · December 2020

For those keeping score. Today's Hillary/Hilaria Baldwin explanation.

https://www.vulture.com/2020/12/hilaria-baldwin-denies-accusations-of-cultural-appropriation.html

This is so delightfully dumb.

levioosa · December 2020

At work and the coworker I have issues with is already being a lot. I swear she acts like she does ALLLL of the work. We don’t have any providers today so I’m hoping I might get some actual work done. Otherwise, SSDD. Feeling very unmotivated for the next day and a half of work.

kvruns · December 2020

Been very productive today, reorganizing kid clothes and books and grabbing any remaining baby stuff I’m finding and bagging up for a friend who is having her first in Feb. some of it was stuff I listed on FB to sell a while ago but anything that hasn’t sold I’m just giving her. Tired of having stuff sitting around

short+sassy · December 2020

I work a full day, today. Then I'm off for 4 days. Woo hoo!

3-day work weeks are the best! I don't know how I'm going to survive the looonnggg six weeks in Jan./mid-Feb. before I have a holiday again, lol.

Not too much planned. But I am looking forward to brunch on New Year's Day. My H and I are going to the Red Fish Grill because they have $3 bloody marys and $2 oyster shooters. They have a "Bayou Mary" with crazy garnishes...Boiled Cocktail Shrimp, Crab Claw, Raw Oyster, and Pickled Vegetables, Spicy Dried Shrimp Rim. I hope it is $3 also, but I suspect it isn't, lol. They also have alligator breakfast tacos that has alligator chorizo in it. I'm intrigued!

2020 was obviously a wild ride and, unfortunately, COVID isn't done with us yet. But, for me personally, 2020 wasn't a bad year and I'm extremely grateful for that.

I know I'm not the only one looking forward to the fresh start 2021 is bringing! With vaccines starting to be administered and the election over, I hope our world and our country starts to recover and heal again.

I have big plans for 2021 and am excited about the personal and professional growth it will bring.

climbingsingle · December 2020

This Hilaria Baldwin thing is so fucking crazy to me. You're going to tell me you can't recall which grades you spent in a different country? Or which years you vacationed there? Come the fuck on. It's already been proven that both of her parents worked/lived in Boston all the years she was growing up, and that she graduated HS in Boston. Just admit you lied! You faked a damn accent!

I will say that I spent a summer in the UK when I was 13. While I was there, I started speaking in a British accent, totally not intended. I just picked it up from the people I was around. But guess what? It disappeared the moment I got home! And I certainly didn't pretend to be British then for the rest of my life.

I'm working a full day tomorrow and a half day tomorrow. UGH.

MyNameIsNot · December 2020

I'm back to work today after being off Monday and yesterday. I work again tomorrow, and then 3 day weekend. 2 day work weeks are awesome! Christmas was good. We did the family thing with my side on the 24th, then spend the majority of the weekend relaxing in front of the fire. I made a prime rib that turned out fantastic. Sunday was my sister's birthday, so we went to this garden place outside of the city. We walked around for a while and then did the drive through light show at night. I was underwhelmed.

I'm trying to enjoy this week of being relatively slow at work and all, but I'm already chomping at the bit to start taking down decorations and doing my NY organizing. I do love the decorations, but one of my favorite parts is how clean and organized the house feels once we put everything away. I'm being a good sport, so we'll wait until Saturday to do that.

I've always thought of NYE as a amateur party night, if that makes any sense. We've been staying home and making fancy dinner for years; this year will be our normal tradition. I'm thinking surf and turf.

CharmedPam · December 2020

I’m with you, @short+sassy 2020 was a shit year in so many aspects but also wasn’t bad for me. I found a great group of zoom friends (hoping for IRL once we get there) and I met M and found love again and found out I could be loved again. So while the beginning sucked, it had a good end.

@climbingsingle, whenever I go back to Canada and see family/friends, I’m always told I come back with the Canadian accent (yes, Canadians you have one!) but yes it goes away after a few days. LOL.

short+sassy · December 2020

My H and I both get told we have Southern accents by our families back home. I grew up in CA, he grew up in OR. But neither one of us hear that AT ALL. Plus, people in NOLA don't really have what I think of as the "stereotypical" Southern accent. That's Georgia and the Carolinas (at least to me).

Every once in awhile, I'll hear an accent from myself on a few specific words. But that's about it.

When I first moved here, I thought the NOLA accent sounded similar to a NYC accent of all crazy things. My H said the same thing and I've heard that from other people also. But now I've lived here too long and don't hear the NYC accent at all anymore, lol.

And to Scott Bakula on NCIS: New Orleans. You promised us before the show first aired that you would not speak with an accent, but you have anyway. Please stop. Your accent is TERRIBLE. No one sounds like that anywhere. Though I still and always will have a crush on you, lol.

banana468 · December 2020

I'm only half paying attention to the Hilaria thing but I do not buy for one moment that she isn't lying. Just play into your heritage but also acknowledge that you ARE AMERICAN.

I will absolutely acknowledge my Irish heritage and have never been across the pond. I wish DH was more open to more Irish names for our kids and I definitely eat far more cabbage than him but come on now - admit where you're from! My mom has a cousin who went to boarding school for a year and totally rolled her eyes when she came back speaking with the British accent.

Jen4948 · December 2020

CharmedPam said:

I’m with you, @short+sassy 2020 was a shit year in so many aspects but also wasn’t bad for me. I found a great group of zoom friends (hoping for IRL once we get there) and I met M and found love again and found out I could be loved again. So while the beginning sucked, it had a good end.

@short+sassy. Although 2020 was a horrendous year, it wasn't completely bad for me either.

Some people I know, including friends, contracted and died from Covid. I also hate having to mask and socially distance (although I am religious about doing it!!!!!) and that places I used to love to go to are now closed (some permanently) and there are things I used to love to do that I can't do. I miss people whom I can't personally see.

But I too reconnected with as well as met lots of friends over Zoom, and I just started a great job. And Biden won. So it's mixed.

ILoveBeachMusic · December 2020

Hi all! We had our Christmas yesterday. It was a great day. The grandsons "helped" hand out presents. DS1 made awesome orange-cinnamon rolls for breakfast. H cooked a prime rib roast for dinner. I did the sides and dessert. It was a very busy day but great having family together. DS1 made the cutest pull toy dogs (wooden) for the twins. He put Christmas color ribbons/collars on the. Woodworking is his hobby so he made everyone's Christmas presents or DIL crocheted presents. They left this morning. DD and family will leave tomorrow. DS2 may stay for a while longer since he is still WFH.

I haven't really thought about goals for the year. I really need to work on healthier eating and more house organizing. We plan on redoing our master bath. My surgery recovery underlined that we need to make the bath room more accessible if we plan on staying here for a much longer time.

I think I could use a nap this afternoon while the boys are napping! I've been waking up way too early!

kerbohl · December 2020

I'm not following this Hilaria thing, but I've always been a bit torn on country. I was born and raised in Canada, but I was raised in a Dutch way. I don't know how to describe it. When I went to live in the Netherlands, suddenly the way I looked at the world and did things and how my family did things made sense. I also grew up surrounded almost completely with Dutch families - my school was probably 98% Dutch immigrants/children from parents born in the Netherlands, church was almost all Dutch people ... it wasn't until I started working that I met people who didn't know what oliebollen was. (Oliebollen is on my mind - it's a New Years thing, and the only thing that makes me excited for New Years).

But at the same time, when I lived in the Netherlands, I became really aware of all the ways I am very much a Canadian. I am really looking forward to moving back there again though, in 20 years. Sigh, so long to wait.

short+sassy · December 2020

kerbohl said:

I'm not following this Hilaria thing, but I've always been a bit torn on country. I was born and raised in Canada, but I was raised in a Dutch way. I don't know how to describe it. When I went to live in the Netherlands, suddenly the way I looked at the world and did things and how my family did things made sense. I also grew up surrounded almost completely with Dutch families - my school was probably 98% Dutch immigrants/children from parents born in the Netherlands, church was almost all Dutch people ... it wasn't until I started working that I met people who didn't know what oliebollen was. (Oliebollen is on my mind - it's a New Years thing, and the only thing that makes me excited for New Years).

But at the same time, when I lived in the Netherlands, I became really aware of all the ways I am very much a Canadian. I am really looking forward to moving back there again though, in 20 years. Sigh, so long to wait.

One of my mom's closest friends went to a Swiss boarding school for her last three years of HS. She said it was really interesting to learn about US history from a European slant. She felt it was a more factual account as opposed to the "rah, rah, we're #1" cheerleading that her son (he was my age) had. The last half of that sentence are my words, not hers. She was more polite than that, but it was the gist, lol.

History was my favorite subject in school. Now that I am an older, wiser, and more experienced person, it makes me sad to realize how brainwashing that subject is. Especially in the K-12 curriculums.

STARMOON44 · December 2020

banana468 said:

I'm only half paying attention to the Hilaria thing but I do not buy for one moment that she isn't lying. Just play into your heritage but also acknowledge that you ARE AMERICAN.

I will absolutely acknowledge my Irish heritage and have never been across the pond. I wish DH was more open to more Irish names for our kids and I definitely eat far more cabbage than him but come on now - admit where you're from! My mom has a cousin who went to boarding school for a year and totally rolled her eyes when she came back speaking with the British accent.

I’m literally foreign in that I was born in a foreign county to foreign parents and I cannot with this nonsense. When people ask where I am from, I tell them NJ since I’ve spent nearly my whole life here, and when I randomly drop a torch instead of flashlight or mate into conversation I laugh it off.

STARMOON44 · December 2020

kerbohl said:

I'm not following this Hilaria thing, but I've always been a bit torn on country. I was born and raised in Canada, but I was raised in a Dutch way. I don't know how to describe it. When I went to live in the Netherlands, suddenly the way I looked at the world and did things and how my family did things made sense. I also grew up surrounded almost completely with Dutch families - my school was probably 98% Dutch immigrants/children from parents born in the Netherlands, church was almost all Dutch people ... it wasn't until I started working that I met people who didn't know what oliebollen was. (Oliebollen is on my mind - it's a New Years thing, and the only thing that makes me excited for New Years).

But at the same time, when I lived in the Netherlands, I became really aware of all the ways I am very much a Canadian. I am really looking forward to moving back there again though, in 20 years. Sigh, so long to wait.

In Canada? It’s fascinating to me to learn there is such a strong Dutch community!

kerbohl · December 2020

STARMOON44 said:

kerbohl said:

I'm not following this Hilaria thing, but I've always been a bit torn on country. I was born and raised in Canada, but I was raised in a Dutch way. I don't know how to describe it. When I went to live in the Netherlands, suddenly the way I looked at the world and did things and how my family did things made sense. I also grew up surrounded almost completely with Dutch families - my school was probably 98% Dutch immigrants/children from parents born in the Netherlands, church was almost all Dutch people ... it wasn't until I started working that I met people who didn't know what oliebollen was. (Oliebollen is on my mind - it's a New Years thing, and the only thing that makes me excited for New Years).

But at the same time, when I lived in the Netherlands, I became really aware of all the ways I am very much a Canadian. I am really looking forward to moving back there again though, in 20 years. Sigh, so long to wait.

In Canada? It’s fascinating to me to learn there is such a strong Dutch community!

Yep! There's also a huge Dutch community in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There is even a Holland Michigan that has a huge tulip festival that I keep meaning to go to. Maybe in 2022! I think, in my area, it stemmed from the sponsorship program. Sorry for this possibly boring history lesson ... in the 50s there was a housing crisis and many people left the Netherlands. Canada set up a sponsorship program so that a church or family could sponsor a Dutch family. The Christian Reformed Church in Canada was very Dutch (still is I believe) and ended up sponsoring a lot of Dutch families. Many Dutch people were farmers, and they tended to go to farming communities, and southern Ontario has a huge farming community. The opa on my dad's side came here to farm, and the opa on my mom's side came here for family that had already come here.

The advantage is that there are a lot of Dutch stores around to service the community, so I can still get my stroop waffles and Wilhelminas pretty easily. And then get yelled at by my mom for preferring Wilhelmina peppermints over King peppermints.

short+sassy · December 2020

kerbohl said:

I'm not following this Hilaria thing, but I've always been a bit torn on country. I was born and raised in Canada, but I was raised in a Dutch way. I don't know how to describe it. When I went to live in the Netherlands, suddenly the way I looked at the world and did things and how my family did things made sense. I also grew up surrounded almost completely with Dutch families - my school was probably 98% Dutch immigrants/children from parents born in the Netherlands, church was almost all Dutch people ... it wasn't until I started working that I met people who didn't know what oliebollen was. (Oliebollen is on my mind - it's a New Years thing, and the only thing that makes me excited for New Years).

But at the same time, when I lived in the Netherlands, I became really aware of all the ways I am very much a Canadian. I am really looking forward to moving back there again though, in 20 years. Sigh, so long to wait.

I am one of those people, lol. I needed to Google "oliebollen". Oh, okay! We call them beignets (like the French) down here. But they aren't a New Year's style tradition. People eat them all year long, lol.

In the South, it's a tradition to eat black eyed peas on New Year's Day. In Germany, marzipan pigs are given as good luck.

ei34 · December 2020

@short+sassy okay now I have to hear the Nola accent..I didn’t realize it was comparable to a NYC accent. (Sidenote the “NYC accent” is changing. More and more NYC’ers don’t speak English as a first language and that effects a lot of pronunciation. For example, I sound like Fran Drescher and H doesn’t at all. The way we say words like “national”, “castle”, etc...super different even though when out of state we say we’re from the same place.)

I hadn’t heard of the Hilaria Baldwin thing until someone brought it up here yesterday. Just did some reading...how bizarre. And she’s full of it.

DS is feeling well. We suck at wound care and dressing changes, kind of wish his discharge came with a visiting nurse a couple times a day but the nurses in the surgeon’s office have been helpful.

charlotte989875 · December 2020

@VarunaTT I seem to remember you having curly hair and trying out newer products, by any chance was it LUS? I’m looking for some new shampoo/ conditioner and products but would love a recommendation.

VarunaTT · December 2020

charlotte989875 said:

@VarunaTT I seem to remember you having curly hair and trying out newer products, by any chance was it LUS? I’m looking for some new shampoo/ conditioner and products but would love a recommendation.

I looooove LUS. I have the liter bottles of the shampoo and conditioner, their intensive repair conditioner and their hair scent. I fall between a 2c and 3a curl. I have used all 3 of the styling creams. I really like the curly best. When my hair was super long, I did use the kinky/coily and liked it. The wavy wasn't enough to encourage the curly i wanted.

I have lots of fine curly hair, so products that didn't weight my hair down was a must. One of the best ways I found was to wash and condition, put the cream on in the shower, then wrap hair in microfiber towel,, then spray it down again [their ever lasting mister is awesome by the way], put the cream in wet hands, use the praying hands method and scrunch. The product is water activated, so you need wet hair. It sounds lengthy, but it was fast once I had it down. 2nd and 3rd days curls possible with rewetting and maybe a bit of refresher cream in wet hands too.

kerbohl · December 2020

@short+sassy I wish we could eat them all year long! I mean, nothing is stopping me I suppose ... it's funny that the best oliebollen I've ever eaten was in Canada. When I was in the Netherlands, they had kiosks everywhere around New Years that sold it, and they sold it in the grocery stores, but it's not the same as homemade. My dad makes it with beer and raisins and something apples. And then you dunk it into icing sugar.

Their feestbrood though was sold from Christmas until Easter, and I ate so much. It's like the German stollen, but the Dutch stuff is better. It's got almond paste on the inside. The last time I went, I bought a loaf and was eating it on the plane ride home. I may have looked like a crazy person.

short+sassy · December 2020

kerbohl said:

@short+sassy I wish we could eat them all year long! I mean, nothing is stopping me I suppose ... it's funny that the best oliebollen I've ever eaten was in Canada. When I was in the Netherlands, they had kiosks everywhere around New Years that sold it, and they sold it in the grocery stores, but it's not the same as homemade. My dad makes it with beer and raisins and something apples. And then you dunk it into icing sugar.

Their feestbrood though was sold from Christmas until Easter, and I ate so much. It's like the German stollen, but the Dutch stuff is better. It's got almond paste on the inside. The last time I went, I bought a loaf and was eating it on the plane ride home. I may have looked like a crazy person.

That was the one difference I saw between oliebollen and beignets. That the oliebollen sometimes has raisins. The pics I saw had powdered sugar, but I could see why dipping it in icing would be popular also.

Beignets don't have any other add-ons. Just dough, thrown in hot oil, put on a plate, and then buried in powdered sugar. I actually don't care for them, but that is an UO because most people rave about them.

Mmmm, I love croissants stuffed with almond paste. Though they are hard to find where I live.

I was on a plane coming back from Chicago and someone was bringing home an enormous pizza. Of course I would never say this to a stranger, but I was laughing to myself, "I can tell by the width of the box that your pizza isn't a deep dish. So I don't even know what you're doing." I think you were fine with Dutch feestbrood!

GBCK · December 2020

kerbohl said:

Yep! There's also a huge Dutch community in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There is even a Holland Michigan that has a huge tulip festival that I keep meaning to go to. Maybe in 2022! I think, in my area, it stemmed from the sponsorship program. Sorry for this possibly boring history lesson ... in the 50s there was a housing crisis and many people left the Netherlands. Canada set up a sponsorship program so that a church or family could sponsor a Dutch family. The Christian Reformed Church in Canada was very Dutch (still is I believe) and ended up sponsoring a lot of Dutch families. Many Dutch people were farmers, and they tended to go to farming communities, and southern Ontario has a huge farming community. The opa on my dad's side came here to farm, and the opa on my mom's side came here for family that had already come here.

The advantage is that there are a lot of Dutch stores around to service the community, so I can still get my stroop waffles and Wilhelminas pretty easily. And then get yelled at by my mom for preferring Wilhelmina peppermints over King peppermints

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Why can't I comment outside the box? Just assume this is my comment.
It's been a few years since I've been to the tulip festival, but, GO! It's super fun-or was when I was a kid (we had wooden shoes and the whole bit. of course, my dad's family is all names with 'van' at the front of them. :P)
The church situation in GR is...interesting, especially with how they've rebranded themselves as 'beer city'--they have a LOT of excellent beers now too. Unrelated to tulip festivals, but, hey, have both!)

kerbohl · December 2020

GBCK said:

kerbohl said:

Yep! There's also a huge Dutch community in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There is even a Holland Michigan that has a huge tulip festival that I keep meaning to go to. Maybe in 2022! I think, in my area, it stemmed from the sponsorship program. Sorry for this possibly boring history lesson ... in the 50s there was a housing crisis and many people left the Netherlands. Canada set up a sponsorship program so that a church or family could sponsor a Dutch family. The Christian Reformed Church in Canada was very Dutch (still is I believe) and ended up sponsoring a lot of Dutch families. Many Dutch people were farmers, and they tended to go to farming communities, and southern Ontario has a huge farming community. The opa on my dad's side came here to farm, and the opa on my mom's side came here for family that had already come here.

The advantage is that there are a lot of Dutch stores around to service the community, so I can still get my stroop waffles and Wilhelminas pretty easily. And then get yelled at by my mom for preferring Wilhelmina peppermints over King peppermints

000000000000000000000
Why can't I comment outside the box? Just assume this is my comment.
It's been a few years since I've been to the tulip festival, but, GO! It's super fun-or was when I was a kid (we had wooden shoes and the whole bit. of course, my dad's family is all names with 'van' at the front of them. :P)
The church situation in GR is...interesting, especially with how they've rebranded themselves as 'beer city'--they have a LOT of excellent beers now too. Unrelated to tulip festivals, but, hey, have both!)

Another reason to go! I hope they have dark beer.

I know a lot of people with "van" at the front of their last names!

kvruns · December 2020

Holland MI is so cool, I was there for a wedding (she married someone with Van in front of the last name haha). I’ve always wanted to go back but never made it even though it isn’t that far

charlotte989875 · December 2020

VarunaTT said:

charlotte989875 said:

@VarunaTT I seem to remember you having curly hair and trying out newer products, by any chance was it LUS? I’m looking for some new shampoo/ conditioner and products but would love a recommendation.

I looooove LUS. I have the liter bottles of the shampoo and conditioner, their intensive repair conditioner and their hair scent. I fall between a 2c and 3a curl. I have used all 3 of the styling creams. I really like the curly best. When my hair was super long, I did use the kinky/coily and liked it. The wavy wasn't enough to encourage the curly i wanted.

I have lots of fine curly hair, so products that didn't weight my hair down was a must. One of the best ways I found was to wash and condition, put the cream on in the shower, then wrap hair in microfiber towel,, then spray it down again [their ever lasting mister is awesome by the way], put the cream in wet hands, use the praying hands method and scrunch. The product is water activated, so you need wet hair. It sounds lengthy, but it was fast once I had it down. 2nd and 3rd days curls possible with rewetting and maybe a bit of refresher cream in wet hands too.

It sounds like we have very similar hair and this is SUPER helpful. My hair is really long now, but fine also and between a 2c/3a so I’m with you on products weighing it down!

If you workout each day do you just rewet and refresh? I definitely can’t wash it everyday it will get too dried out.

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