The Drop in Centre

[Brayon]

1 hour ago, Defiance19 said:

I hope everyone is having sweet dreams, and if you haven’t gone to bed yet, sleep well when you do. 

Goodnight..xo

Sleep Well, Agent D.

[Mikiesboy]

Decongestant has worn off...up to take another....

[Mikiesboy]

I'll try n sleep. Nite

[MacGreg]

1 hour ago, Mikiesboy said:

Decongestant has worn off...up to take another....

Just did the same. Damn Christmas cold. 

[Thorn Wilde]

Hope you both manage to get some more sleep, @Mikiesboy and @MacGreg! I'm getting up to bake gingerbread with my mum. Yay, time zones!  

 

[Mikiesboy]

3 hours ago, MacGreg said:

Just did the same. Damn Christmas cold. 

 

3 hours ago, Thorn Wilde said:

Hope you both manage to get some more sleep, @Mikiesboy and @MacGreg! I'm getting up to bake gingerbread with my mum. Yay, time zones!

oh that's nice Thorn!  i am up but maybe for a few hours and then a nap. had enough lying there. i think i feel a bit better.. not as fuzzy. but this cough can just go anytime.

[Mikiesboy]

Here's hoping you don't know one of these:

 

grinch    noun | GRINCH

Definition

: one who spoils the pleasure of others : killjoy, spoilsport

 

When Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, wrote the children's book How the Grinch Stole Christmas in 1957, he probably had no idea that grinch would soon enter the general lexicon of English. Like Charles Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge (whose name has become synonymous with miser), the Grinch changes his ways by the story's end, but it's the unreformed character who "hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!" who sticks in our minds. The ill-natured Grinch, with his heart "two sizes too small," provides us with a lively symbol of someone we love to hate, and his name has thus come to refer to any disgruntled grump who ruins the pleasure of others.

[Mikiesboy]

[Kitt]

Morning all.  I think I need a new anti-virus on my computer, I have managed to catch one of the colds flying around the forum. And here I thought I was gonna manage a cold free Christmas for once!  

 

Why do they call it catching a cold? I damn sure did not try to catch it! IT caught me!

 

 

Re opening gifts, doing family dinners etc,  our gang approaches it flexibly.  When we were growing up we went to Nan's (my paternal great grandmother). Huge family dinner followed by midnight mass, and then gift opening, Santa always came while we were at church. The little ones too small for church would bunk down in Nan's huge bed till the older ones got back and we would wake them. Then home, and repeat the process at Gram's (maternal grandma's).  Gifts first then food started around noonish and we would finish the dishes in time to go home and crash.  Each party had anywhere from 15 peeps and up depending on who was visiting the spouses families when. 

 

Now it is similar but on a much smaller scale as the families have fewer children and have scattered all over the country.  We flex based on who needs to visit spouse families and meals, while still having all the traditional dishes are smaller.  Used to be we store hopped looking for a turkey big enough to feed 20. Now its to find one small enough to feed 5 with moderate left overs.  While I like a good turkey sandwich, there is a limit to how long I want a bird staring at me every time I open a fridge!

 

Where ever and when ever you celebrate, I want all of you to know I love each and every one of you.

 

Oh!  And should you ever find yourself in NJ around the holidays (ANY holidays) know you all would be welcome at my table!)

Edited December 24, 2018 by Kitt
forgot to say the most important part!

[Mikiesboy]

24 minutes ago, Kitt said:

Why do they call it catching a cold? I damn sure did not try to catch it! IT caught me!

it has a big lasso this damn cold.   sorry you have it too.  it's been a killer.  i feel a bit brighter today but the first two days were awful.   and on that note .. i think i am ready for a nap xoxo

Edited December 24, 2018 by Mikiesboy

[Kitt]

I just got what I think is the biggest compliment of my life!  One of the neighbors stopped to say Merry Christmas as I was carrying out some trash. He was full of praise for my daughter, that she is a lovely lady and that I know how to raise children right!

[Kitt]

30 minutes ago, Mikiesboy said:

i think i am ready for a nap xoxo

Enjoy!  Is Mike still in bed? See if you can actually sleep some!

[dughlas]

1 hour ago, Kitt said:

I just got what I think is the biggest compliment of my life!  One of the neighbors stopped to say Merry Christmas as I was carrying out some trash. He was full of praise for my daughter, that she is a lovely lady and that I know how to raise children right!

I've met Wings and she is lovely and you did done good.

[dughlas]

Warm cozy naps to y'all suffering with colds and bright beautiful days for the rest of y'all. Blessed be.

[mollyhousemouse]

morning all

@MacGreg sorry to hear You also have a cold Sir

@Thorn Wilde the tree is beautiful hope the gingerbread turns out good

@Mikiesboy glad you are feeling better, hoping the nap helps too

@dughlas hello! so good to see you! 

@Kitt those kind of things are wonderful to hear!

 

Edited December 24, 2018 by mollyhousemouse

[Brayon]

An early Merry Christmas... Wanted to share this:

[Thorn Wilde]

3 hours ago, Mikiesboy said:

 

oh that's nice Thorn!  i am up but maybe for a few hours and then a nap. had enough lying there. i think i feel a bit better.. not as fuzzy. but this cough can just go anytime.

 

I have an awful cough as well. I'm otherwise well from my shitty cold, but the cough lingers. Always does. It sucks.

 

On a different note: Damnit, this shirt needs cufflinks, and I'm too embarrassed to ask my stepdad for some...  

[Brayon]

For those that track Santa AS of this Post, he was just over the South China Sea.

 

https://www.noradsanta.org/

[Kitt]

2 minutes ago, Thorn Wilde said:

 

On a different note: Damnit, this shirt needs cufflinks, and I'm too embarrassed to ask my stepdad for some...  

Put him on. I will ask for you! I am not shy.

[Brayon]

Forgot to say offically Good Day.

A little Yule carry-over magic for today and tomorrow.

[Thorn Wilde]

32 minutes ago, Kitt said:

Put him on. I will ask for you! I am not shy.

I asked, and I got some. They’re really nice. 😊

[Mikiesboy]

2 hours ago, Kitt said:

Enjoy!  Is Mike still in bed? See if you can actually sleep some!

He was and well he lets me, of course.

[mollyhousemouse]

i'm dying over here!

so we have this dog, Rubin, and he likes Phil's lap, but he doesn't like to share with His laptop.

so he'll climb up, and nudge the thing closed with his nose.

he's done it like 3 or 4 times here in the last little bit,

this last time, he closed it them started cleaning Phil's ear!

and he won't stop!  i'm laughing so hard!!!!!

[Mikiesboy]

1 minute ago, mollyhousemouse said:

i'm dying over here!

so we have this dog, Rubin, and he likes Phil's lap, but he doesn't like to share with His laptop.

so he'll climb up, and nudge the thing closed with his nose.

he's done it like 3 or 4 times here in the last little bit,

this last time, he closed it them started cleaning Phil's ear!

and he won't stop!  i'm laughing so hard!!!!!

i have heard a few of Rubin's escapades ... dog knows his own mind..LOL 

[Kitt]

LMAO!  Hazards of raising a lap pup.