Small Talk: The Prayer Closet

[Ancaster]

Happy first night of Channukah  🕯️

Merry Christmas  🎄

Happy Festivus   l

[oliviabenson]

🎄 🎁 Merry Christmas!

Happy first night of Channuka 🎁!

May you all have a cheery day!

Edited December 25, 2024 by oliviabenson

[CherryMalotte]

A very Happy Holiday season to all of you!

[badhaggis]

I hope you all have the merriest, happiest of holidays! 

[Minivanessa]

Apropos of the discussion a few days ago, this popped up on my FB feed today:

I hope everyone has had, or continues to have, enjoyable holidays. Even if the trees occasionally fall over and the ornaments go awry.

Happy 2025 to us all!

[BetyBee]

Today is my 47th wedding anniversary and a good day to reflect on all of the changes the world has faced over all of these years. I do feel that overall, my husband and I have been very blessed in our lives together. Wonderful kids and grandkids, some good friends to spend time with, an abundance of dogs and cats over the years. We are fortunate to live in a decent home with bills paid and a nice set of wheels to get around. We are in good health and that is a truly great gift. We've decided on an early dinner at Portillo's . Life is good!

[ginger90]

Happy Anniversary @BetyBee!!

[Minivanessa]

@BetyBee -  Happy anniversary!!  ❤️  ❤️ 

[AstridM]

5 hours ago, BetyBee said:

Today is my 47th wedding anniversary and a good day to reflect on all of the changes the world has faced over all of these years. I do feel that overall, my husband and I have been very blessed in our lives together. Wonderful kids and grandkids, some good friends to spend time with, an abundance of dogs and cats over the years. We are fortunate to live in a decent home with bills paid and a nice set of wheels to get around. We are in good health and that is a truly great gift. We've decided on an early dinner at Portillo's . Life is good!

Happy Anniversary!

[Mindthinkr]

@BetyBee Happy Anniversary and a marriage well lived. 
                             To many more years 🥂

[lookeyloo]

8 hours ago, BetyBee said:

Today is my 47th wedding anniversary and a good day to reflect on all of the changes the world has faced over all of these years. I do feel that overall, my husband and I have been very blessed in our lives together. Wonderful kids and grandkids, some good friends to spend time with, an abundance of dogs and cats over the years. We are fortunate to live in a decent home with bills paid and a nice set of wheels to get around. We are in good health and that is a truly great gift. We've decided on an early dinner at Portillo's . Life is good!

Happy Anniversary!  Mr lookeyloo and I were talking today about wanting what you have and hoping that is enough to be content and comfortable and secure.  We find ourselves there right now and are grateful.

[andromeda331]

Happy Anniversary! 47 years is incredible! Congratulations!

[sixlets]

Happy Anniversary @BetyBee & Mr. BetyBee!!  

[BetyBee]

Thank you all for the good wishes for our anniversary! It was lovely! ❤️

[Mindthinkr]

I wish everyone a safe and happy New Year’s celebration tonight 🎊

To a new year, less politics, many more adventures, joy, and good health to everyone…Cheers 🍾🥂

[Minivanessa]

Thanks, @Mindthinkr! Happy new year back at ya!

Edited December 31, 2024 by Minivanessa

[oliviabenson]

happy new year!

it was rainy and dreary. I had  no interest in going out anywhere. just got takeout and watched the ball drop. what an exciting evening.

Edited Wednesday at 12:56 PM by oliviabenson

[ChiCricket]

Happy New Year everyone! 

 

Edited Thursday at 02:28 AM by ChiCricket

[oliviabenson]

atm by me had no $ for 2 days. I'm glad I didn't go to the Laundromat because you need quarters and I had $0. would have needed to go home with dirty clothes.

[Minivanessa]

@oliviabenson - bummer about the lack of cash and dirty clothes. I hope you can get the laundry done soon.

On an unrelated subject - sleep. I read this online and cracked up because I can relate: "Sometimes I toss and turn a bit while I'm sleeping - and then there are times when I rotate like a gas station hot dog."

Which led me down a rabbit hole of memes and quips referring to gas station hot dogs. I'd never been tempted to have one of those, despite my many visits to gas stations on road trips. And now for sure they are forever a hard pass for me. Yikes.

 

[lookeyloo]

9 hours ago, oliviabenson said:

atm by me had no $ for 2 days. I'm glad I didn't go to the Laundromat because you need quarters and I had $0. would have needed to go home with dirty clothes.

Seems like NYC would get with the times.  Our laundromats take credit cards

[oliviabenson]

10 hours ago, Minivanessa said:

@oliviabenson - bummer about the lack of cash and dirty clothes. I hope you can get the laundry done soon.

On an unrelated subject - sleep. I read this online and cracked up because I can relate: "Sometimes I toss and turn a bit while I'm sleeping - and then there are times when I rotate like a gas station hot dog."

Which led me down a rabbit hole of memes and quips referring to gas station hot dogs. I'd never been tempted to have one of those, despite my many visits to gas stations on road trips. And now for sure they are forever a hard pass for me. Yikes.

 

tomorrow after work. I really am running low on clean clothes. what an exciting life I'm living!!!

[CalicoKitty]

Finally the smoke alarm chirping has stopped.  I was having to wear my ear buds all day and sleep with my noise-cancelling ear buds.  I have hard wired smoke detectors with backup batteries, and, for some reason, the batteries were draining very fast.  The holiday this week meant that I had to endure the noise for a couple of days.  I learned that when they were installed, they used wire nuts that were much to large, so the wires lost electric contact and used up the backup batteries.  I bought new alarms, and these have the push in type connectors, so they can't come loose, and I won't have to endure the constant chirping.  I have high ceilings, so I can't reach, even on a ladder.  The handyman also installed my Simply Safe system, so now I can relax in peaceful quiet this evening.  I was surprised how easy it was to set up.

[oliviabenson]

11 hours ago, lookeyloo said:

Seems like NYC would get with the times.  Our laundromats take credit cards

one by me doesn't.

[BetyBee]

Even in my small rural community, we get a card for the laundromat and put money on it (with a credit card). We mostly go there to wash large blankets. I hope you get your laundry done soon, @oliviabenson! I'm sure you will.

[oliviabenson]

On 1/3/2025 at 7:46 AM, BetyBee said:

Even in my small rural community, we get a card for the laundromat and put money on it (with a credit card). We mostly go there to wash large blankets. I hope you get your laundry done soon, @oliviabenson! I'm sure you will.

It would so nice if my landlord let us get small washing machines!  But nope. And  I’m trying to catch up on all my chores. It’s going!

[Absolom]

I'm home from the holiday trip and I've had the housekeeper, the gardener, the car detailer, and I've finished the laundry.  I stopped for groceries on the drive home.  Aside from running out to get a prescription refill that was sent in from the dr office yesterday, I'm set until Tuesday.  

[CalicoKitty]

Well, my Simply Safe experience lasted about 24 hours.  Everything was installed properly by an expert, and all was well when he left.  About an hour later the key pad wouldn't recognize the internet, so I moved things around.  That lasted about an hour.  Then the keypad said there was an error with the base.  Called Simply Safe and had that fixed.  A couple of hours later the base started flashing and making noise.  A door sensor had itself turned off.  I called them again and told them to turn everything off.  I took everything down that I could reach, took out all batteries, and I am now packing everything back up.  Their Customer Service was extremely nice, and they sent me a free return label.  I have to have the installer guy come back to get the monitors off that I can't reach, and then back it goes.  I am very disappointed, but I do not need anything else in my house beeping at me or needing attention.  I'm sure this works well for a lot of other people, but I had too many problems in a short amount of time.  Ah, well.  I'll keep looking for something that is more reliable for me.

[Absolom]

4 hours ago, CalicoKitty said:

Ah, well.  I'll keep looking for something that is more reliable for me.

Let us know if you find one.  I'm glad you had the persistence to just say take it back.

[sixlets]

For those in the bull's eye of this next storm, please be safe and take care of yourself.  Our snow totals are all over the place at this point.  Mr. Six has been on vacation for the last two weeks, and tomorrow would be his first day back since 12/20, but it looks like he'll be working from home at least one more day.  I love the man, but good grief 🫠