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Wishing all my Primetimer friends a very happy 2024!!! Wishing everyone health, happiness and success!

Same here! They’re the only people I watch.

Finally saw the movie over Christmas! In the movie, there seems to be only one Barbie of every Barbie ever made (ditto with Ken). What happens if one, say, Ballerina Barbie was destroyed by her owner (or an owner’s friend/awful sibling), she becomes Weird Barbie? Thinking too much? Probably, right?

For lunch, I had salad today that was sort of like a Niçoise - it had tuna, greens and hardboiled eggs, but no potatoes or beans. Then, for dinner, we ordered in Indian, a New Year's Eve tradition in my family! Dinner included butter chicken, saag paneer, garlic naan and pakoras. So yum (and so very full)! Champagne at midnight!! I think I'm going to nap for an hour before the ball drop (I have my alarm set for 11:30 pm). We were gifted a dinosaur shaped waffle maker over the summer and will be making that for brunch tomorrow (my son is STILL obsessed with dinos).

I wonder how many people's lists I'm on!!! I tend to like the people here. You guys are a lot more well-adjusted than on some Facebook groups. I've been shamed more than a few times there just by bringing up cultural-related issues when it comes to donor-conceived children (and I'm not the only one).

I often get the animal of the year the child was born, if they exist. Since the almost two year old was born the year of the tiger and there’s no tiger (yet), I’d get whatever. Do you have the mini (baby) animals?

Cuddle and Kind totally rocks. Every new baby in my family gets one! Which one did you get? My son has Max(imus) the cat and a few others, including a dog (he was born in the year of the dog).

Is anyone trying to put together a family tree? I have a good amount of info on my dad's side, but only the men. It's actually hard to get access to the women, thanks to millennia of patriarchal culture in China (kinship books basically only talk about men and the only kinship book I have access to is my dad's (male) line. I only know the maiden name of one of my great-grandmothers (my paternal grandfather's mom) and that name is Wong, so, well, good luck, honey). I've had AncestryDNA done, but it only showed 5-8th cousins. And because I'm female, I don't know for sure which side is which (it says "parent one" and "parent two"), though I think I can guess which side is which based on the origins of MY maiden name. And even if I had info, I would need a translator since I can't read Chinese. Not to mention the number of sources I'd need to go through if I WERE able to track down a few generations of the female line. As for my maternal grandfather's line, my dad doesn't think any records exist since he was a farmer. My grandfather may have been the first generation to attend school. Village scribes would have kept record, if at all, and since the Cultural Revolution was horrible and many documents, history and culture were destroyed, those records might not even exist anymore. :(. Wait, did I already mention this on another board?

There may not have been segregation laws but unofficial ones did exist, at least in Canada. There's a famous case of a woman who sat in the wrong section of a movie theatre back in the 40s, unaware that the main part of the theatre was for white people. Now back to the episode: This has GOT to be my favourite not just of the season, but probably the entire series. I don't know how much of it was true, other than the fact the princesses DID indeed go out for a night of fun on VE Day. I'm sure there were things that went on that the King and Queen never knew about, because, well, teenage girls will ALWAYS be teenage girls :) (but the mom in me was wondering about the very underage Margaret and her behaviour....)

I just found out about this show and have started watching. Surprised there's no separate thread/board!

Pizza is the cure-all. 😊. I’m the type who over does toppings. Fully loaded all the way. But my husband and I always disagree on toppings. I like veggies. Loads of it. My husband is always pepperoni, mushroom, bacon, green peppers. Sometimes he adds weird things like corn. I’m more like zucchini, eggplant, roasted red. Goat cheese. I will add meat sometimes (prosciutto - it’s one of the only versions of pork I eat. That and char siu), usually arugula and burrata.

@DearEvette😱😱😱😱😱 ohhhhh boy! At least she didn’t ask your other guests why they weren’t trying any of her things! Or basically plop a portion on their plates! Or did she?

Treat yourself to something! Get some ice cream (even if it's cold where you are), a cupcake. Maybe a nice dinner. Nothing wrong with dining alone. I did that many times before I met my husband. I was living with my parents, but they travelled a lot at that time, so I would go out. I thought I was "so grown up" getting to sit at the bar, sipping wine and having what I thought was a super-fancy meal. ETA: and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Nope, they're wild blueberries. I get them frozen at my local supermarket!

And Merry Christmas to all celebrating today! We had a wonderful Christmas Day baked French toast brunch (annual tradition).....

Yesterday we had an early Christmas dinner - turkey (well, breast, anyway), mash, stuffing, etc…dessert was a small birthday cake I found at the bakery (4” diameter!) since it’s my mom’s birthday on Christmas and she said she didn’t want a cake purchased the day before). Tonight (Christmas Eve) will be leftovers with a bit of salad.

Speaking of The Sound of Music, there’s a “super deluxe” recording featuring Christopher Plummer’s vocals! I’m not sure if it’s available in hard copy form yet, but it’s definitely streaming/digital purchase!

Too bad canned wine wasn't a thing back then. If it were, the aluminum pole would have been made with that. LOL

Whoa....God is Darth Vader? Ummmmm......

I think I've only seen ONE full episode of Seinfeld in my entire life, but HAPPY FESTIVUS!!! :)

With all the talk about "privilege" these days, I tend to keep my mouth shut unless I can sense it's the right circle. And even then, it's weird.

Speaking of deliveries, my building usually calls or messages me when something arrives and if something supposedly arrived but I never got a message from them, I know something’s up. Yesterday, I placed an order from Sephora for skincare products and it was for same day delivery. 24 hours later, I still didn’t have it. I checked my account and it had arrived. Turns out it went to a different building and I had to speak with Sephora twice to get a refund. The first time, it was on chat and they said to call the store it came from. The store then said there was nothing they could do and to contact the delivery service (which in this case was DoorDash). DoorDash couldn’t do anything since it wasn’t directly linked to my DoorDash account. Contacted Sephora again and finally got my refund!

We don't see Edward's kids, likely because Louise was under 2 and James didn't even exist in the last episode!

Whoa, that dorm drop-off scene was awkward. But Charles probably IS awkward in real life, so I didn't have trouble believing it.

I spent most of elementary school at a Catholic school, so of course, it was religious. We sang more 20th century, "commercially" type Christmas songs too, but it was mostly traditional and religious ones like Silent Night and Away in a Manger. Middle and high school was at a historically Anglican school, so again, more of a religious focus even though the student body was more religiously diverse than the Catholic school. I know that some non-Christian students were involved with the school's annual Nativity, whether it be the choir, as actors or as crew. As far as I was concerned, no parent of a choir member (the entire choir was involved, regardless) objected and asked for their daughter to be excused (probably because the kid wouldn't have joined to begin with).