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VaBelle35 · ‎03-10-2010

I am back from my day off, day out.

My prescription for my eyes didn't change, but I asked for standard bifocals vs progressives as the progressives don't really work for me and I don't wear them very often except when I need to read something when I'm out, I keep them in my purse.

I treated myself to new frames with my Costco rebate and because I want to keep the progressives and compare them to the bifocals

I don't have to do anything with my driving glasses or my 2 sets of computer glasses. I have to look in my file but I think I re-did all of my glasses last year.

I got out of the eye doctor in plenty of time to go to lunch at my favorite restaurant across from the salon.

It looks very cloudy out so I think it might rain. I may do some baking tonight.

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QVC Shopper - 1993

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momtochloe · ‎11-03-2013

@Honeybit wrote:
@momtochloe ref Galavant

Galavant is a strange hybrid -- a comedy-musical mini-series satire about knights in armor and wicked queens. It has had two seasons, each about six episodes. They always end the season with a song which basically says, "We hope we'll be back next season but in case we're not, we're ending it like this."

Parts of it are just silly, and parts of it are really clever -- the thing it reminds me of the most is Monty Python's SPAMALOT. If you don't like that kind of humor, you won't like Galavant at all.

To give you some idea, in the first episode the lady love of main character Galavant (as in Lancelot) is abducted by the lustful king. When Galavant finally fights his way into the castle to rescue her, he tells her, "He can offer you unlimited power and unlimited wealth, but only I can offer you true love." And she says (of course), "Well, you know, dear, I really think I prefer the unlimited power and wealth."

Season 2 was funnier, to me, than Season 1.

Oh my goodness @Honeybit can you hear me laughing all the way by you? . . . what a great line! . . . I have to see if I have a way to watch these episodes.

Monty Python will always have a soft spot in my heart for me as I used to watch it back when we didn't have the abundance of channels that we do now and though a lot of times the humor flew over my head I did enjoy watching them every Sunday evening.

They are also responsible for one of the all time greatest movie lines I ever heard. I had never seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail but I worked with a young man that could recite it chapter and verse and one day we were chatting and he played back a YouTube clip that I honestly thought I would whiz myself . . . I don't think I can post it here but it will stick with me and makes me smile every time I think about it!

Hope you are feeling better and better each day my friend and of course the fantastic Yazzy!

VaBelle35 · ‎03-10-2010

I ordered these shoes last night.

I have a similar pair from last year but they are starting to look worn. It's time to refresh the fall/winter work shoes.

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momtochloe · ‎11-03-2013

@VaBelle35 wrote:
I ordered these shoes last night.

I have a similar pair from last year but they are starting to look worn. It's time to refresh the fall/winter work shoes.

I beg of you @VaBelle35 do not wear these with the scuba dress as I am afraid you will have to call the perimedics for the WC's . . .

Gorgeous shoes, enjoy!

Honeybit · ‎07-17-2011

If you want to see a short video of the neat Food Hack for cutting and serving a watermelon that was on the Dr. Oz show, here's a link. The preceding ad is longer than the watermelon video. I LOVE this idea!

http://www.doctoroz.com/episode/food-truth-mark-hyman-reveals-truth-about-vegetable-oil?video_id=491...

(The watermelon thing has nothing to do with the "vegetable oil" part of the episode.)

momtochloe · ‎11-03-2013

@Honeybit wrote:
If you want to see a short video of the neat Food Hack for cutting and serving a watermelon that was on the Dr. Oz show, here's a link. The preceding ad is longer than the watermelon video. I LOVE this idea!

http://www.doctoroz.com/episode/food-truth-mark-hyman-reveals-truth-about-vegetable-oil?video_id=491...

(The watermelon thing has nothing to do with the "vegetable oil" part of the episode.)

@Honeybit my laptop won't load this video (don't take it personally, it doesn't like most videos as I bought it at a Fred Flintstone garage sale) but I did find some that were compatible . . . who knew a watermelon could be so versitale? . . .

Honeybit · ‎07-17-2011

How to Cut Watermelon

@momtochloe Found this by googling "Cutting Watermelon" -- simpler than the video.

momtochloe · ‎11-03-2013

@Honeybit wrote:

@momtochloe Found this by googling "Cutting Watermelon" -- simpler than the video.

@Honeybit that is the video I found . . . and of course I will not pay any attention to it as I just grab the biggest knife I can find and hack away . . .

Precision does not win you points in Casa mtc! . . .

novamc1 · ‎07-02-2015

Hi, folks. Mustang has asked me to check in, and I finally have time, but not enough time to catch up entirely with this prolific and fast-moving bunch of ladies.

. It has been crazy around my house lately.......making lots of sales of furniture and general household goods via Craigslist, and this morning, said goodbye to much of our largest and most valuable pieces of furniture after an estate-sale/auction company picked up the items and will auction them off over the next few months.

You don't know how much you can accumulate after (1) having a big wedding in the 1970s, with generous guests who gave you stuff that you never used and have stored for years; (2) living in the same home without moving for almost 38 years; and (3) having a penchant for buying and saving a lot of "stuff" that you don't wind up liking to own as much as you liked buying it.

Selling things is a lark for me and every sale is seen as a victory. (No wonder I went into real estate as an alternative career when I got tired of the first one.)

My sis, on the other hand, HATES selling things to fellow humans. She's a real estate attorney (who specializes in doing big commercial real estate settlements which sometimes bring her into contact with folks much like one of the current Prez nominees). Currently, she's doing some occasional residential settlements and hates the people in those even more......small transactions breed small minds. (Don't get the wrong idea......she doesn't hate people.........she hates what money sometimes does to their thinking. I fully understand.)

Mostly I've done business with great, friendly people, but when you do enough of this, you are bound to meet up with bad apples.

I have met a couple of flakes and cheats and crazies lately (such as one woman who needed another $8.00 to purchase the couple hundred dollars' worth of items I already let her put into her car. She was going to visit a nearby ATM and bring the $8.00 in a short while. Yeah right......she called and said she "just realized she was late picking up her college-age son from work and would get me the money tomorrow"..........yeah right.

Ain't seen that money yet......Waited two days, called her and left a message on voicemail saying she could "feel free to mail it to me" and recited my address. I know I'll never see that money, but I hoped my voice mail would at least provoke a moment of embarrassment. Husband reminded me that people like her do NOT get embarrassed.

He's right.....it's not like I've never met a crook before. I should have held back some of those items before letting her put them all in her car. Then I might have stood a chance of seeing the money.

Craigslist is a booming biz in the Wash DC area, and a great venue for selling things. I don't have much left to sell. Most of the rest will either need to be packed up and moved with us, or donated.

We do not know exactly when our new home will be ready because of some weather-related construction delays, so we're still in some limbo there, but my project for tomorrow (now that much big furniture is gone) will be to get moving estimates from local moving companies.

While you all talk blissfully about eating and cooking and buying cool new shoes, I can't participate in that, because I'm not doing very much of any one of them!!

Best wishes to all of you, especially when you face some of the heartbreaking or challenging life events that you have been reporting lately.