Something About Nothing ... #12

[Squirlz]

Squrilz - How was the turducken?

I know it's a bit late for turkey advice, but we use Alton Browns method. Brine it in salt water overnight and then cook starting on a high heat and then bring down to low heat. We use a bag for a bit more wiggle room too. The best turkey I've ever had was a fried turkey. It's not what you would think and was amazing. It wasn't like fried food and the moisture was locked in.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We had lasagna since we're doing thanksgiving on Saturday. We tend to change holiday meal dates quite often and lasagna has become our tradition dinner for the real date. I'll get to have turkey day on Saturday with my parents who now live less than 2 hours away from me. We're just going for the day as we're tired of living out of suitcases and boxes for so long and can't handle doing it again quite yet. The plan is to go to Universal on Sunday. This will be my first time there with my husband since Kong opened so I'm hoping lines are short so I can finally do it! My youngest wont be able to handle Kong so I need hubby there to hang out with him while I go on it.

It was quite tasty! Tiny bit drier than I would have liked but we'll do better nest time.

 

[schumigirl]

Absolutely stuffed.

What a beautiful Indian restaurant that is......only been once before with a large group and found it a little manic, but tonight it was excellent.

Got in before the crowds and had beautiful meals.........hotter than anticipated but gorgeous all the same........wasn't impressed with their wine, but it was drinkable.........

Back home and jammies on.........both of us are laid along the settees like beached whales........so much food! And we shared an appetiser........couldn't have eaten one each. But, loved the curries......

Time for the movie Absolutely Fabulous......and some decent wine...........

 

[Lynne G]

Well, I've been black and blue done, tired feet and finger. Frosty paid a visit to us last night, left his nice coat of ice on my car windows. Cool morning.

Got little one to agree to see Moana with me today. We have been on a movie kick this fall. DS is waiting for the SW one. That one will be packed theaters, I am sure.


Up before the crack of dawn, had to get some wash done. Now the heater and the dryer are running. Yep, it is Sunday, and the routine begins tomorrow, so this wonderful long weekend now starts its reality check.

The sun is finally brightening the sky, it has been gray for so many days, we are now wishing for more sun.

And my DD said last night, getting excited for our trip. Yep, they will excited for some of the stuff I booked. We are now in the 20's.

So get those coffe and tea cups ready. Have a great Sunday all.

 

[macraven]

Lynne seems chipper today
Maybe it will rub off on me......


Except no shopping started for me yet


I need to buy cards

 

[schumigirl]

Except no shopping started for me yet


I need to buy cards

I need to get a wiggle on too.........have made a start but nowhere near where I should be.........but it's not even December yet so we're still ok.........

I know I mentioned to you in an email, but this year all of my friends and family have all decided, after realising just how much money we all spend on cards for each other........special individual ones can be at least around £5 each, so we all decided to put what money we would spend on cards to a charity that's special to us.........it's quite an amount of money when we all added it up.....only exception is my mum, who I will get a card for, but add the money on anyway. I thought it was such a good idea anyway and glad everyone felt the same........



Lazy day again today after a very late night last night.........watched the final Grand Prix of the season and we were very happy with the result......... March seems a long time away till it comes back around.........

We always put our trees up first Saturday in December........so this time next week we'll be all Christmassy........

 

[BagOLaughs]

Oh my gosh peeps... oh my gosh....

hello by the way. Sorry I've not been around much (and still have one day left to do on trip report (also gotta catch up reading other peeps)) but its been a bit manic. because...

We just booked our honeymoon to Hawaii! ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

We're going to be doing a load of hopping but the brief itinerary is fly London > LA > Maui, 5 nights Maui, then fly Maui > Oahu to stay 5 nights in Aulani! (OMG I'M so excited!!) Then Oahu > LA to go to 5 nights near Disneyland (also so excited about that too!) we'll also explore a bit of California too. Then back to London.

I've never been so excited in all my life. We will go back to California in the future but Hawaii. Its like a dream come true.

Also here is a picture of my tree. Should have waited until next week but couldn't help myself



Schumi - let me know what the Ab Fab movie was like, its on my list to watch!

We watched the new Ghostbusters on Saturday. God I wanted that movie to be good and it just wasn't

 

[Bluer101]

DS and DW put our tree up yesterday while I worked on her vehicle.

Getting ready to leave Wednesday for Universal. Joining up with pcstang and family.

 

[BagOLaughs]

Happy monday

 

[schumigirl]

Rachel, AB Fab was excellent.........not the strongest storyline, but Pats and Edina were exactly the same and had some really funny moments.......a good few laugh out loud moments.......

Dawn French has a small part as a TV presenter who doesn't let guests answer the questions.....definitely a spoof of the irritatingly annoying sycophantic Lorraine Kelly......can you tell I don't like LK.......lol........

We hated the new Ghostbusters too........truly awful.........

Congrats on the honeymoon......sounds lovely.....



Got day out with my good friend today......bit of shopping, bit of lunch but mainly a chance to catch up properly just the two of us.........looking forward to it.......then tomorrow DH and I are off out for the day........loving forward to that too......hope to get some Christmas shopping done there too.........

Ready for breakfast and big mug of tea now.........then heading out..........

Catch youse later..........have a good Monday.....

 

[Lynne G]

Yep, no snow but 27 degrees and ice on the car windows. Heated seats though, so tush was warm.

Have a great day catching up with your friend Schumi. Day of shopping with DH enjoyable too.

BagO. Honeymoon plans are fabulous! Lovely tree too. We saw many a car with one on their roof yesterday. It's that time of year.

Well, it is Monday, Cyber Monday, and I am not going to buy much. Almost all shopping done. I like to be done way before, as getting ready to leave right before the holiday is enough stress for me.

- with that I'm also having a big cup of tea. And yes, may the force of good thoughts be with all you homies.

 

[macraven]

Lynne, your smilies made me laugh , they are adorable

Cyber shopping, someday I should check that out for cat food deals

Our Christmas shopping is easy
Buy cards, insert checks, mail out this week!
Shopping completed

Schumi sounds like you have two fun filled days!
Take pics of the food for me
And have a fab time

Bagolaughs
Such a pretty tree!
Did it take long to put it up?
You will enjoy Hawaii a lot
We went twice in April as it has great weather then
Which month will you be going?
So many great site seeing places to go to and hope you see it all!

Out to do some errands today
Going to hit a new shopping center for son as he needs hiking boots

I'm sure stores will be busy, ugh
Hope to survive it

Hope the rest of the homies have a great week

 

[BagOLaughs]

Lynne Love the storm troopers pic... made me laugh.

Mac, hiking boots? Do you hike? I love walking although it can be a bit damp walking in the UK.

I'm going to hawaii at the start of May. Weather looks hot but not too hot then. I'm so excited, probably a once in a life time trip for us!

Schumi movie sounds good... I'll save that for one of the Xmas family nights

Thanks for kind messages about tree... but it's a fake Haha. But it's a really good fake if you know what I mean. It took a couple of hours to put up, it was a bit bigger than I expected Haha. But I love it. Treezilla

 

[pcstang]

DS and DW put our tree up yesterday while I worked on her vehicle.

Getting ready to leave Wednesday for Universal. Joining up with pcstang and family.

Packing now....heading out in the morning.

 

[macraven]

Safe travels homies

 

[Squirlz]

Packing now....heading out in the morning.

We're arriving Sunday, staying at RPR.

 

[kohlby]

Rachel - that sounds like a marvelous trip. HAve fun!

Enjoy your trip Bluer, Squirlz, and pcstanfg! Crowds were super low yesterday. We did 6 days the week after thanksgiving last year and all but one had super low crowds. (The Saturday that Grinchmas started was moderate). I hope y'all get low crowds.



We went to Universal on Sunday and though we walked in well after opening, Kong was a very short wait. 10 minutes was posted but I think took closer to 5. There was one scare actor but he really didn't look scary. He didn't jump out at us though as I had my 10 year old who looks younger with me. My 13 year old didn't want to be jumped out at so he made sure to walk through close to his little sister. Kong was okay but it would have been a lot better if I could have seen more. My eldest had no problems with seeing things though he has 7-8 inches on me. So - something for you other shorties to keep in mind. I'm hoping to sit on the other side of the car next time and then I can try to put it together in my mind. It's tough to follow the story when you miss half. We were able to renew the kids passes so it was nice to get that done before the rumored price increase. It was really nice to renew their passes under resident rate this time too.

The weather here has been nice but rather boring. Highs in the 70's and 80's and no rain. I've only seen four drops of rain since we came down here on Nov 14th and those weren't actually in Orlando.

I'm quite behind on Christmas shopping. I was hoping for some incredible deals on stuff I want to just magically show up in front of me or on the few sites I checked, but that didn't work out so well. I need to get focused and start getting gifts for those far away soon.

 

[schumigirl]

Lynne, your smilies made me laugh , they are adorable

Cyber shopping, someday I should check that out for cat food deals

Our Christmas shopping is easy
Buy cards, insert checks, mail out this week!
Shopping completed

Schumi sounds like you have two fun filled days!
Take pics of the food for me
And have a fab time

Bagolaughs
Such a pretty tree!
Did it take long to put it up?
You will enjoy Hawaii a lot
We went twice in April as it has great weather then
Which month will you be going?
So many great site seeing places to go to and hope you see it all!

Out to do some errands today
Going to hit a new shopping center for son as he needs hiking boots

I'm sure stores will be busy, ugh
Hope to survive it

Hope the rest of the homies have a great week

Yep, cheques in cards are super easy......I used to love to do that for some kiddies.......since we are planning on going up to Scotland this year for Christmas I am getting gifts for everyone........no cards for us this year.......

Hope you got your shopping done today........I try and avoid busy shopping days.........hate all the sales madness!

Lynne Love the storm troopers pic... made me laugh.

Mac, hiking boots? Do you hike? I love walking although it can be a bit damp walking in the UK.

I'm going to hawaii at the start of May. Weather looks hot but not too hot then. I'm so excited, probably a once in a life time trip for us!

Schumi movie sounds good... I'll save that for one of the Xmas family nights

Thanks for kind messages about tree... but it's a fake Haha. But it's a really good fake if you know what I mean. It took a couple of hours to put up, it was a bit bigger than I expected Haha. But I love it. Treezilla

Rachel, we have five trees and every one is good fake(except the outside one).......much easier to deal with.......we replace them every couple of years, except the great big one........that one will go when it's falling to bits

Packing now....heading out in the morning.

We're arriving Sunday, staying at RPR.

Have a great trip guys........hope it's a good one..........

 

[macraven]

Back home now

I did not do any shopping today but drive son to a mall south of us to buy things he needed

Main thing was hiking boots he needed

All I did was find a place to sit and play games on my phone
And that was relaxing
Lol

This is my type of shopping
I don't shop just do the driving and then out for a late lunch


Have no idea when I will out the tree up
First I need to decide where it will fit

 

[pcstang]

We're arriving Sunday, staying at RPR.

We leave Sunday, short trip this time. Are you coming in early or late?

 

[Lynne G]

All you homies going, have fun Bluers, PC, and Squirlz. Safe travels to ya too.
We will be heading south in a few more weeks. Yep, less than a month to Christmas. Just sayin' y'all.


Cool evening, but enjoying the dry, as we will be quite wet over the next 2 days. Rather have the storm come in the middle of the week, than the weekend though.