Hi all - my covid results are in. Those people in the labs are working during the holidays - bless them - totally. I am negative and do not have covid. I am super glad about that and that is my happy new year present to me. Covid negative. Yay! What a huge relief!

I had a very quiet new year here at the ranch. I got some great food from this local ( Read more... )

It is a beautiful day here in sunny California. Slightly cool and sunny. I took a walk this morning first thing. My friend M**** and I like to walk on Saturday mornings and talk on the phone. She lives on the other side of the country and we can keep up-to-date that way. It is nice and we both get exercise. We took a little break from it for some ( Read more... )

Got my appointment reminder to my email tonight. I was worried my appointment would be canceled but it was not. The mission is a go for tomorrow. Pfizer vaccine second dose. Yes. Very happy about it. My friend, J**** has an appointment on the same day so we are going to go together. They don't seem too worried about what time people show up so we ( Read more... )

So for dinner, we used the second of our coupon deals - this one from Living Social. We had Ethiopian food. I have never had this and it was quite a good experience. You don't get any plates or utensils here. They serve the food one one big plate, kind of like a buffet thing of all the delicacies and then you eat it with this very flat, spongy ( Read more... )

We went to the Claremont Hotel and ate at the Paragon Restaurant. I used my gift certificate which I won in a raffle at work. We ate loads of food and paid practically nothing for it. We tipped very well on what we would have paid, had we been paying but we didn't pay because I had the gift cert. Am I making sense? Anyhoo. Free lunch at the fancy ( Read more... )

Hawaiian pizza with mandarin oranges. So good! Extreme Pizza of Oakland.


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Tonight I went to an event planners dinner on Commodore Cruise Ships. They have these sessions so that we can sample the goods and see what they have to offer for events, meetings and gatherings. Lordy, we had the following for the buffet ( Read more... )

Fresh brewed chamomile tea, let it cool to just about room temperature and then ice it (as in iced tea). I had iced (mint) chamomile tea at a restaurant and it was delicious and recreated it at home. It is a nice night time cold tea drink that won't keep you up til all hours. Most iced tea is caffeinated black tea and will keep you awake. Today I ( Read more... )

I thought I would post. Wow. A moment to post. Heh ( Read more... )

Someone says in the supermarket (to the butcher ( Read more... )