Laura Holt

For us it's roundabouts. Used to be relatively uncommon and now they seem to be part of any new road's game plan. And I agree with you this is not the way to go with the kind of people who seem to be on the road now. "Rules are for suckers" kind of drivers.

My SIL had been trying to fire an employee for the past year for various infractions but had no success because nothing ever rose to a fireable offense in the eyes of HR. Until last week when he verbally and physically assaulted an employee in another department. HR had dragged its feet BUT all the complaints had been kept on file. It's too bad that they had to wait until another employee was actually hurt in order to do anything though 😡. But in any event I think @RealHousewife this is exactly what happened in your situation as well. One complaint won't do it (usually) but I am betting there was already a file open on this guy.

One of my favourite memories of driving with my late sister was the way we would go around and around Robin Hood's barn in her efforts to avoid making left turns. Makes me smile now, at the time it could be a little maddening!

TDVDS adjacent - I saw an episode of Mad About You this week that had "Alan Brady" on it. Carl Reiner was awesome and they did a few little nods to TDVDS, they had Jamie crying just like Laura at one point, and then at the end Alan Brady was trying to get Paul to trip over the ottoman. I think the episode would still have been funny if you'd never seen TDVDS, but less funny than it was if you know what I mean.

This is the one! Yes, I couldn't put my finger on the episode where I felt Phoebe crossed over into mean girl territory but this was the one. I am guessing we were supposed to see this as flaky Phoebe being unaware of boundaries and what is better left unsaid but that's not how she came across to me.

I liked Mike but by the end of the series I wasn't too crazy about Phoebe. I can't off the top of my head come up with specific instances but I have this memory of feeling that Phoebe was not so much flaky as bitchy.

Brown Butter & Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes - this definitely sounds good - well anything would sound better than celery mashed potatoes! but seriously I'd actually try this some day.

I didn't link the recipe my husband found because he didn't end up trying it. He opted to make celery mashed potatoes instead. It was not good...

I know Pioneer Woman gets a lot of flak for some of her recipes but I have to say at least when I look at her stuff it's mostly ingredients I will actually have in the house! That said a few years ago when we moved I went through my cookbooks and got rid of most of them when I realized I looked through them but I never actually used them. Good old Betty Crocker is now my go to for basic recipes (and for reminders of how long to cook a roast and at what temp). Mostly though my recipes are in a file folder for the ones I use again and again. If I want to be creative I'll go online but they can be so tricky. My one rule of thumb for online is if the writer says "family favourite, my kids stand up and cheer" it's probably not very good 😄!

Our Canadian history in elementary school focused on the 4 Fs - fur, forestry, fishing and farming. In high school the Canadian history course I took ended with confederation! Honestly, looking back this was truly pathetic.

Moishes kosher dills are the ones I dream about and are so hard to find.

Along the lines of hosting for Christmas we're now having my niece and her family stay with us. They were going to have to try and find hotel accommodations for their family of 5 because of reasons too complicated to go into here. Always drama at the holidays.

Definitely true for many members of my family, not however, for those who served during WWII. You remind me though of another reason why Remembrance Day may have been less important to many when I was growing up. We saw a very unpopular war being fought every day on the news. And Canada, along with a few other countries, became a destination for so-called "draft dodgers".

I think that's a good point, the further you are away from seeing active military members the easier it is to forget that there even is a military. Until something happens of course. Canada didn't have a draft and was only very peripherally involved in Vietnam but I do feel that there was a lot less attention paid to honouring veterans and those who died serving their country back "in my day". I think, at least in part, the renewed interest in remembering these wartime sacrifices came as the men who had fought during WWI all reached an age where at each ceremony there were less and less of them. And now, of course, this is happening with the men and women who served during WWII. Whatever the reason(s) I am glad it is happening and that schools are making sure that children know more about these past conflicts than I did at that same age. ETA: Also, and I can't say this is true for all of course, but the two men I knew best who were veterans of WWII, my grandfather and my FIL, both never talked about the war until the very last years of their lives. It was something they had put behind them. I think if this is true for others who served that may explain, to some extent, why more veterans of that war now attend the ceremonies and are speaking out about their experiences.

Another day another book banning, Florida School District bans a Steve Martin book

They aren't paper here in Canada, more of a felt type thing but as of last year whatever the material is apparently it's now bio-degradable. I usually take the stick pin out of mine and attach it with a small safety pin. One too many stabbings!

With news that the strike has tentatively been settled I am anxiously waiting for some indication as to when we can expect to see new episodes of Young Sheldon! As noted upthread the longer this takes the less Sheldon and Missy are going to be able to pass for 13!

I wondered if anyone had mentioned this episode! I just saw it for the first time and, yeah, my top 5 episodes are getting harder and harder to choose now!! Millie, if he fell off a mountain and they ever find him, I'll never speak to him again.

My granddaughter's school is having their Remembrance Day ceremony today (as the 11th falls on a Saturday this year and tomorrow is a PD day) anyway she was chosen to lay the wreath as she has members of her family currently serving overseas - and also because she's a sweet little angel 😃 who they could be reasonably sure wouldn't be silly about doing this (not something I can say with confidence about my grandson!). Anyway this got me thinking, I honestly don't remember there being any thing done for Remembrance Day back in the olden times when I was in elementary school. Oh we had the minute of silence at 11 and I am fairly sure they played taps or had someone recite In Flanders Field but that was it. We never had speakers come in or have any real focus on wars or loss or the veterans as far as I can recall. Certainly no one way laying wreathes or anything like that at any school I ever went to.

Ok, this is me today. My husband recently retired, which is fine, but he has decided to take an interest in cooking. Dear god. We can't just have mashed potatoes with dinner tonight, he's looking up recipes with names like browned butter mashed potatoes with garlic. I'm sorry but during the week this is not happening. I am trying to decide whether I should let him loose in the kitchen (this has not gone well in the past) or whether I can distract him - "hey honey tell me more about that Rolling Stones concert you went to that time"....

I only see the ads on my Amazon Fire and they've been a bit better for me, at least in terms of not covering the whole screen! But there is an absolutely disgusting one for toenail fungus that makes me feel sick whenever it shows up.

Your post gave me the courage to turn on the TV 😄.

The other day they aired Trading Christmas and what a reminder of how good Hallmark Christmas movies used to be. Well known actors, good plot, characters you actually care about. A movie I wouldn't hesitate to watch with someone who would normally turn their nose up at a Hallmark Christmas movie 😀.

Very windy here today and the temp has dropped significantly since this morning. I am expecting a snowfall but hopefully nothing major as with the wind we're having it would end up being quite a storm.

I've never had this happen out in the wild but growing up we used to live on the flight path for Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses and them knocking on the door was a regular occurrence. The Mormons were better because they were recognizable while the JWs mixed it up and even came solo once in awhile so you could never be quite sure unless they were clutching a religious tract or two. Got to the point where my mother just never answered the door.