Christmas Countdown - 2017

[Festive Spirit]

I am going to buy a Christmas candle and it looks like my house will smell like ginger bread.

Great choice of scent!

 

[Festive Spirit]

hey my friends. I hope You all are doing okay.
Did You start buying presents already, or are You maybe already done?
I haven´t started yet.....and only know what Kandice will get....yay me

Hi Track, I have not seen you for a long time! Have a great season.

 

[Festive Spirit]

Well the tree is done. I swear the lights are white and red, but they show as green and red on my phone. We haven't done any orher decorating for now, we need to get more stickers for those 3M command hooks.
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WOW!!!!!

 

[ILoveHolidays924]

She is just beautiful! We have two new kittens this year as well as three adult cats. I have four artificial trees up and so far they have caused minimal destruction to them courtesy of both a scat mat and air cans (Thank God for Amazon as those two items save my trees every year!). I am curious to see how the two new little ones will handle the live tree this week!

Thanks! We're the opposite with two adult cats and three kittens. We only have one trouble maker in the bunch but one is more than enough to handle. What is a scat mat?? I'm going to look into that!

 

[Edge612]

Morning MMC! Happy Thanksgiving Week! Here we go into the big week that changes everything. I was pretty much sick all weekend. Felt it coming on late last week and this weekend it hit me full on. Nose, throat, bit of a fever, etc. I think that it's gone through all the different parts of my body now so I am hopeful to be on the mend these next 3 days before Thanksgiving. Day 1 hopefully will go well and I do have a good amount of work to do. I know what everyone will be talking about these next 3 days at work is Thanksgiving. Have a great day!

 

[HomemakinGirl]

Good morning ~
Merry Monday!
It’s going to be sunny, windy & cool today, highs near 46 degrees. I have to make a Target run this morning. Back home afterward to clean the house for the holiday. Tomorrow will be my final food shop before Thanksgiving. I’ll pick up my turkey from the butcher Wednesday morning and then I’ll begin to cook, bake and prep whatever I can ahead of time. Can’t believe Thanksgiving week is finally here!
I hope everyone is well and has a wonderful day!

 

[Crown 84]

** CHRISTMAS SEASON DAY 8 **


Good Morning, Folks.
And thus we begin week two of Christmas Season 2017.
Yep. You read that right. A FULL WEEK of the Season is aready behind us and Thanksgiving looms just ahead, as our count will reveal.

Days to Thanksgiving: 3 (Now UNDER HALF A WEEK to go!)
Days to Christmas Day: 35 (FIVE WEEKS FROM TODAY!)

We're rolling, Guys!


It was a bit on the chilly side here yesterday, but really not too bad for the second half of November.
Today will see us top out in the upper half of the 50's, and the forecast shows a zero percent chance of rain.
We begin Thanksgiving week at a chilly 36 degrees, here.


Have a Marvelous Monday, Everybody.
And a great build-up to Thanksgiving Day!

 

[Edge612]

** CHRISTMAS SEASON DAY 8 **


Good Morning, Folks.
And thus we begin week two of Christmas Season 2017.
Yep. You read that right. A FULL WEEK of the Season is aready behind us and Thanksgiving looms just ahead, as our count will reveal.

Days to Thanksgiving: 3 (Now UNDER HALF A WEEK to go!)
Days to Christmas Day: 35 (FIVE WEEKS FROM TODAY!)

We're rolling, Guys!


It was a bit on the chilly side here yesterday, but really not too bad for the second half of November.
Today will see us top out in the upper half of the 50's, and the forecast shows a zero percent chance of rain.
We begin Thanksgiving week at a chilly 36 degrees, here.


Have a Marvelous Monday, Everybody.
And a great build-up to Thanksgiving Day!

Thanks Crown! Have a great Thanksgiving Eve Eve Eve!

 

[SnowflakeMom]

Well the tree is done. I swear the lights are white and red, but they show as green and red on my phone. We haven't done any orher decorating for now, we need to get more stickers for those 3M command hooks.
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Tree looks beautiful!! I can't wait to get mine up!

Morning MMC! Happy Thanksgiving Week! Here we go into the big week that changes everything. I was pretty much sick all weekend. Felt it coming on late last week and this weekend it hit me full on. Nose, throat, bit of a fever, etc. I think that it's gone through all the different parts of my body now so I am hopeful to be on the mend these next 3 days before Thanksgiving. Day 1 hopefully will go well and I do have a good amount of work to do. I know what everyone will be talking about these next 3 days at work is Thanksgiving. Have a great day!

Hope you feel better, Edge!! My Dad is fighting something very similar....the viruses are starting early this year!

 

[SnowflakeMom]

Merry Monday and the week of Thanksgiving!
We woke up with a light dusting of snow. I was surprised to see it.
I got my turkey yesterday and I just need to get a few more things for appetizers. I will finish it up tomorrow.
Hope you all have a great day!!

 

[Holiday]

Good morning MMC!!! It sure is Monday....BUT it's Monday of a Holiday/short work week! YAY!!

What a weekend! I got home from work Friday & only about 1/2 of the lights on my tree were working! My 1st thought was LUCY!!! But it wasn't her. The 1st strand of lights that some others were connected too went bad (I'm assuming a fuse) I unplugged that strand, added a new strand & wah lah - all was good again!

Friday night/Saturday it rained SO HARD! We had water everywhere!! I went shopping with the lake neighbor ladies on Saturday - I had to travel. It rained the WHOLE way there! As soon as I entered the town we shopped in, it quit! Didn't rain the whole time, which was great b/c it was a lot of in & out - small shops. Then we went to the tavern in that town (great food) - ate & watched the 1st quarter of the Buckeye game. It POURED the whole way home!! There were a couple spots closer to home where the road was covered in water. I wasn't sure if I should go through the 1 spot but I did & thankfully I made it. I was happy to be home!!
Yesterday Mom woke up from her afternoon nap talking gibberish. My sis was with her. She called my bro (my nephew just happened to be there too - he's a deputy so has some medical training) & the nurse to come. The nurse thinks she was having TIA's. We had Thanksgiving with my hubby's family yesterday so by the time I got there, she was much better. Although there were clothes in her washing machine & they got off balance, so the machine was making noise. Mom was pointing at her utility room door saying we needed to change the cookie's! Hmmmm! (when we bake cookies we always put 2 cookie sheets in at a time - one on the top rack, 1 on the bottom & switch them after 4 minutes - I assume that's what she was referring too, but ???) My SIL (RN) stayed with her last night. My bro said she was back to normal this morning. Mama, mama!

I saw on the internet yesterday the breeder we got Lucy from now has Soft Coated Cockers!! One of my best friends is a huge cocker spaniel fan & as you know, I'm a SCWT fan!! I emailed the breeder. I think my friend & I should get sisters. She has 2 girls left!!


I just think they're adorable!!

I think that's all from me this morning! Everyone, have a GREAT day!!!

 

[brent]

Good morning, everyone!

I hope your first weekend of the Christmas Season was filled with as much festive joy as mine. It was certainly a busy one, too! I wanted to get on here a few times, but I don't think I really had time to sit down.

The Christmas Party with Kim's group of friends - of course, they're mine, too - - - went well. We were supposed to have about 12 people. A winter storm of freezing rain, ice, and snow, really put a damper on that. Three people had to cancel due to awful driving conditions. Even so, it was a lot of fun. I really need to ease up on the difficulty for the Christmas Music trivia portion for them, though. There were a lot of confused faces. Most knew 3 of the 5 traditional songs, but very few knew the artists. For modern, I believe it was only slightly better.

Yesterday was a day of cleaning, watching football (disgustedly), and playing ultimate in the evening. The busy-ness is not stopping this week. Three different activities tonight. Two tomorrow, probably one on Wednesday, and two again on Thursday. On Friday, I will be flying to Pittsburgh with three friends for the Packers/Steelers game on Sunday night. Spending (American) Thanksgiving weekend by the Three Rivers should be pretty exciting. My hopes for the game are pretty low.

Have a great Monday, everyone! Hope your second week of the Christmas Season is wonderful. Merry Christmas!

 

[Festive Spirit]

Good morning MMC!!! It sure is Monday....BUT it's Monday of a Holiday/short work week! YAY!!

What a weekend! I got home from work Friday & only about 1/2 of the lights on my tree were working! My 1st thought was LUCY!!! But it wasn't her. The 1st strand of lights that some others were connected too went bad (I'm assuming a fuse) I unplugged that strand, added a new strand & wah lah - all was good again!

Friday night/Saturday it rained SO HARD! We had water everywhere!! I went shopping with the lake neighbor ladies on Saturday - I had to travel. It rained the WHOLE way there! As soon as I entered the town we shopped in, it quit! Didn't rain the whole time, which was great b/c it was a lot of in & out - small shops. Then we went to the tavern in that town (great food) - ate & watched the 1st quarter of the Buckeye game. It POURED the whole way home!! There were a couple spots closer to home where the road was covered in water. I wasn't sure if I should go through the 1 spot but I did & thankfully I made it. I was happy to be home!!
Yesterday Mom woke up from her afternoon nap talking gibberish. My sis was with her. She called my bro (my nephew just happened to be there too - he's a deputy so has some medical training) & the nurse to come. The nurse thinks she was having TIA's. We had Thanksgiving with my hubby's family yesterday so by the time I got there, she was much better. Although there were clothes in her washing machine & they got off balance, so the machine was making noise. Mom was pointing at her utility room door saying we needed to change the cookie's! Hmmmm! (when we bake cookies we always put 2 cookie sheets in at a time - one on the top rack, 1 on the bottom & switch them after 4 minutes - I assume that's what she was referring too, but ???) My SIL (RN) stayed with her last night. My bro said she was back to normal this morning. Mama, mama!

I saw on the internet yesterday the breeder we got Lucy from now has Soft Coated Cockers!! One of my best friends is a huge cocker spaniel fan & as you know, I'm a SCWT fan!! I emailed the breeder. I think my friend & I should get sisters. She has 2 girls left!!

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I just think they're adorable!!

I think that's all from me this morning! Everyone, have a GREAT day!!!

Morning,
Glad to hear you enjoyed your Buckyeye game and shopping even though it rained. Prayers for your mum. Could it be her meds that make her confused sometimes? Bless her.

Glad you got the lights to work. We put our tree up. I will take a photo when I can and post it. I really do not like my LED lights. I was meant to change them this year but never got around to it. I definatley need to swap to the traditional fairy lights next Christmas.

Thanksgiving week!!!! You must be so excited.

Oh goodness look how cute those pups are !! So your getting one? how precious!

 

[sugarmuffin25]

Good morning MMC!!! It sure is Monday....BUT it's Monday of a Holiday/short work week! YAY!!

What a weekend! I got home from work Friday & only about 1/2 of the lights on my tree were working! My 1st thought was LUCY!!! But it wasn't her. The 1st strand of lights that some others were connected too went bad (I'm assuming a fuse) I unplugged that strand, added a new strand & wah lah - all was good again!

Friday night/Saturday it rained SO HARD! We had water everywhere!! I went shopping with the lake neighbor ladies on Saturday - I had to travel. It rained the WHOLE way there! As soon as I entered the town we shopped in, it quit! Didn't rain the whole time, which was great b/c it was a lot of in & out - small shops. Then we went to the tavern in that town (great food) - ate & watched the 1st quarter of the Buckeye game. It POURED the whole way home!! There were a couple spots closer to home where the road was covered in water. I wasn't sure if I should go through the 1 spot but I did & thankfully I made it. I was happy to be home!!
Yesterday Mom woke up from her afternoon nap talking gibberish. My sis was with her. She called my bro (my nephew just happened to be there too - he's a deputy so has some medical training) & the nurse to come. The nurse thinks she was having TIA's. We had Thanksgiving with my hubby's family yesterday so by the time I got there, she was much better. Although there were clothes in her washing machine & they got off balance, so the machine was making noise. Mom was pointing at her utility room door saying we needed to change the cookie's! Hmmmm! (when we bake cookies we always put 2 cookie sheets in at a time - one on the top rack, 1 on the bottom & switch them after 4 minutes - I assume that's what she was referring too, but ???) My SIL (RN) stayed with her last night. My bro said she was back to normal this morning. Mama, mama!

I saw on the internet yesterday the breeder we got Lucy from now has Soft Coated Cockers!! One of my best friends is a huge cocker spaniel fan & as you know, I'm a SCWT fan!! I emailed the breeder. I think my friend & I should get sisters. She has 2 girls left!!

View attachment 40906
I just think they're adorable!!

I think that's all from me this morning! Everyone, have a GREAT day!!!

So sorry to hear that about your mom Holiday. My mom had a TIA this year that had her in the hospital for 2 days, and I believe she had an even smaller one the year before. She was speaking gibberish and didn't know any of our names for about 15 hours. So scary. She is ok now, with no lasting damage, Thank God, but that is always in the back of my mind now. It's a scary experience! Sending prayers for your mom!

 

[Holiday]

We had a similar issue with our dog, the dog food we were feeding her was high in chicken and we found out that too much chicken protein can upset some dogs stomachs. Since we switched her to a beef based dog food no more problems.

Funny you mention that - I was just reading about that. Our groomer told me a long time ago she stays away from chicken dog food b/c the chicken in their food tends to come from China. She sticks with lamb. I'm thinking it might be from her teething. I'm reading up on that! Just like babies! We noticed over the weekend she has lost 3 teeth for sure & 1 new one is popping through. We were celebrating - she had solid pooh all weekend (ha ha) & then this morning not so much. Darn!!! She's still on puppy food. I'll have to check out the ingredients. It's Royal Canine Developmental Puppy.

 

[Holiday]

Hello everyone! I honestly hope you are all doing well. :} It's been a while since I spent some quality time reading MMC posts and getting my personal dose of encouragement (I apologize if it sounds selfish but this is exactly how I feel visiting MMC). ^^

I'm nearly done with a first semester at the university which is crazy! Honestly, I don't know where did the time go. The semester though has been a lot of things: confusing, challenging, interesting, very busy (!), but rewarding overall. The thing that makes me the happiest is people I have met so far and friendships I have began to build that will hopefully last a lifetime. It may sound like a cliché to some people but for me it's a general truth. The teaching period for my master's course is over and I now have three exams left to sit. I will be all finished on 8th December which for me is super early. After that, I will be off until around mid January. I'm not going to Lithuania for Christmas, but instead I plan on working on planning my master thesis, studying Norwegian (I wasn't able to dedicate some serious effort to language learning so far which I feel very sad about and disappointed in) and perhaps reading some fiction (I'm really missing a non-academic read).

Sorry for a long post. I'm always very wordy. Why am I always so wordy?

My first exam is on Monday, so I hope for some inspiration to get some qualitative studying done over the weekend.

I wish everyone to enjoy the rest of November. Stay warm, merry, and drink a lot of chai lattes.

Best wishes!

Nice to see you Victoria! Good luck on your exam today! xx

 

[Holiday]

Good Friday afternoon everyone! I can't believe it is the weekend before Thanksgiving! I'm getting myself into Thanksgiving feast mode! My husband and I purchase a half of a grass fed steer from a local farm once a year (since it is the two of us it usually lasts us about 12-14 months--love having all of that beef and having so many different options in the freezer all year round!) and when we purchased it this year they had pasture-raised turkeys for sale as well. We bought one and threw it in the chest freezer thinking it would be perfect for Thanksgiving. I looked at it last night and it is 25 pounds!! It will take a whole week just to thaw him I bet! We always fry our turkeys in an indoor fryer, so we will definitely have to cut him up first as there is no way he will fit in there whole! So at least I can cross the turkey off my list (and the tons of leftovers we are bound to have!!) and start focusing on what side dishes to make!

LOL - you will have a FEAST!!

 

[Holiday]

Something is in the air at the office today ... this morning, I heard someone getting really excited about the idea of a Christmas sweater day ... this afternoon, some girls were floating the idea of having a Christmas decoration contest, with each contestant decorating his/her desk and the surrounding area. If this excitement keeps up, it's going to get festive around here as the Day approaches!

I love it!!!!

 

[Holiday]

No, we're coming home to have Thanksgiving with Nancy's mom. Still, it'll be a lot of fun!

Nice! Hope you are having a great time!

 

[Holiday]

Thank you so much everyone! Unfortunately, I did not get the test results today. Fingers crossed that no news is good news. Looks like I’ll have to wait until Monday when my doctors office re-opens. I will keep all of you posted.

Praying for all good test results TODAY!