KateP's musings

 We all met at the Marketplace at Guilford between 11:30 to 12.  It was a nice place for sure and this is what I learned about: ithttps://www.bing.com/search?pglt=299&q=The+Marketplace+at+Guilford+history&cvid=64fd0dda1e374d43a59e6afbf22aab7f&gs_lcrp=EgRlZGdlKgYIABBFGDkyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQABhAMgYIAhAAGEAyBggDEAAYQDIGCAQQABhAMgYIBRAAGEAyBggGEAAYQDIGCAcQABhAMgYICBAAGEDSAQk2Mzk1OWowajGoAgCwAgA&FORM=ANNTA1&PC=HCTS Stephanie and I arrived first and then the subsequently the others came I was hungry (nothing new) so I got a caprice sandwich and a milkshake and also got a hot chocolate abd coffee we spent the next few hours chatting and it was great (but we were cold).  Steph, who was unwell, went home midway. When we all left the rest of the group went to the stores and I headed home.  The drive south was easy, and I made it home just before 3.   I parked in visitor parking, checked my mail, and went in. Cooked spaghetti after finishing the sauce...

  The calm before the storm is now, according to my weather app it is 7 degrees out at this moment.   I'm glad I'm not leaving for Guilford until 11.   I can do a few things before then.   The storm is expected to begin around 8 a.m. tomorrow and continue through Monday night.    The weather reports are all over the place.   Snow ranges from 2 inches to nearly 2 feet.    I honestly doubt we'll get more than a foot of snow here, if we get any at all.   If Monday's weather is bad, I'll stay home, but I'll decide in the morning. Last night I went to the store again and now I wish I remembered everything when I went to Aldis the night before.   I could have just gone to Aldi's since it was next door.    I was going to get onions and Potatoes but realized I don’t need them this weekend. I've prepared a few things, including making sauce in a crockpot.    It will be ready by 4 p.m. this afternoon. Meeting the gir...

  Right about this time (4:45 Eastern) I would be either on my way or waiting for the others to arrive at our weekly Meetup at the diner in Guilford.   Unfortunately, everyone had other things they needed to do.   So, they will have it next week.   I hope.   I won’t be there though.   The next time I will see them is Mother’s Day weekend for the two Brunches each day.   One is at Gouviea Vineyards and the other will be at Faith’s home. Right now, it seems that Gil and Faith are working on the Book Club event.   It looks like Gil worked on it for most of the night last night and now faith is having a little bit of a probable adding a person. Today was pretty good.    I got all my work done before noon.   I had lunch from the Orchids café   Down the Street.   Then for the rest of the day I did some clearing out of emails, updating calendars. I got home at 4:30 and checked on Sky in the spare room.   I fed him and...

    We had a great time at the restaurant. We had our dinner.   I had New England chowder and    grilled Shrimp with angel hair pasta, with Sun dried tomatoes and spinach and lots of garlic.   Liz had her standard chicken Parm and had a dessert. We were there for about an hour.   We talked about the Grove Street news that we learned this week.   I am not sure if I mentioned this earlier, but my family home is up for sale.   It would seem the couple who bought the house and did an absolutely wonderful job with updating   the house , have separated.   Their friends that live down the street are moving as well.   Their reason is the family is getting bigger and moving to another part of town. We also caught up with family activities between our cousin in Asheville, the rest of the Rivera clan, and Cheryl’s family (My Niece).   It was still daylight when we left for home.   I fell asleep for an hour and that’s whe...

  So today by  katiegirl06460 July 3, 2024 Hey everyone .. another Random post. Today starts the busy holiday travel.  I hope that if you do that, you are safe and enjoy.  Personally, I think many left earlier around here. So my questions are: Will you travel? Where do you go?  Camping? Friends houses’ resorts beaches?   Do you work on Friday?  I am .   Next year it lands on Friday  so I may take Thursday off

  I got to My Sister and BIL’s house just about 1.   I was happily surprised to find not only Jr.’s family there but my nephew Adam and his family and my Nephew Rich!   It was fun watching the kids playing and having fun.     I was able to chat with Liz. Got to chat with Liz and talked about various subjects including the recent    animal sightings throughout the city and state.   WE also talked about the sneakers (she liked them).   I wasn’t pleased by two more things she was chatting about. The first one was some cute things I shared about cats.   She was questioning about the lost and found animal posts I had on my news feed on FB.   She wondered if they were local.   I state in state and that if my friends who may be in whatever town it is in.   It felt like a judgement.   She didn’t say anymore but the look on her face spoke volumes. She was also asking about the scholarship in Mom’s name.   I tol...

                                                                                                                                          December 25, 2020     Dear Debra:                   Hey just wanted to let you k...

  Wednesday was the beginning of the Holiday week for me. Liz and I began some of the phone calls that we needed to get done prior to the move were started that mid-morning. We worked on it for a couple of hours.   It was frustrating and aggravating. One of the issues was dealing with the UI.   We couldn’t discuss closing the current account on the house because it was under Mom’s name.   So Liz would later send me the death certificate and I forwarded to the address the woman gave me. Liz had to leave around 2 because she had a baking activity with a friend’s daughter at her home.    The rest of that day I crashed I think.   That was before I did some shopping. Thanksgiving morning was quiet.   I watched TV.   I believe Fantastic Beasts and Harry Potter was on that morning Just before I left for Liz and Nelson’s I stopped at the Store to get another quart of Ice cream.   I believed the one I had gotten the day before (that’s right I d...

Well I made it to class and did the best that I could.   It was SGT which means having partners,   I thought I was going to die but the most important thing to remember is to keep moving.   Luckily the weather held out for us to work out outside.   Everyone was saying it was going to start raining by 11. Meh. Alex let me know that he would be leaving at 11:30 so we would not be having our session today. So the next session will be Tuesday.   I promised I would walk when I got home.   We had a discussion after I used the in-body and that was highly disappointing.   What did I expect?   I had too many wings, I still swig the creamer and probably put too much in my coffee.    Not getting enough exercise.   My plan to go to the gym every day has been less than stellar.    So when I got home got some more water and went to the bathroom and took off for a walk. The walk was about an hour.   I ran into a classmate of min...

I had the best time yesterday.    I left here a little after 10 and headed to Killingworth.   Unfortunately some trucker from Unifirst was being obnoxious by blowing his horn at me.   Admittedly I wasn’t speeding but I may have slid into his lane inadvertently.   Not my finest moment. It was just about then when I realized I could get the phone map to play through over the Bluetooth and I didn’t have to hold the phone or keep looking over at it.   Then again the phone was going wonky throughout the day so a few of the aps didn’t work for me.   Like the map my walk and my pedometer wigged out on me too. The route to the farm was becoming familiar as it was close to my Nephew Jr. and his family’s home.   There were plenty of hills and beautiful homes.     I arrived to the farm shortly before the agreed time.   G, and a few others were waiting.   Eventually others arrived and we began walking around the pond.   There we...

Today is my first in person or live meetup since the pandemic shut down everything.   The Finding friends group will be going to Lavender Pond Farm and then to Niantic Boardwalk for an afternoon activity.   I am so looking forward to this even if my brother and sister are thinking otherwise.   I told them about it Friday morning and they didn’t think it was a great idea or they didn’t think it was a great idea for me to go back to the gym yet.      I haven’t been to Niantic and its right on the Connecticut River.    We have the option to bring our lunch or buy something there.   I will be taking pictures and taking precautions. The weather is absolutely beautiful for this too.   Its 60 degrees and sunny and will be in the 70’s today.   No rain at all.

Today is the day (originally) to celebrate the Mexican army winning the battle of Puebla?   Now its more about the culture of Mexico.   That includes the different foods of Mexico.      I plan on ordering Tacos for lunch later on today.   I love Mexican cuisine. Today is also my Great Niece Sophie Elizabeth’s second birthday.   We will have a zoom meeting at 6 pm tonight to sing Happy Birthday.   I even suggested the country needs to have a holiday and call it Sophie Elizabeth Birthday. This morning I have been finishing up blog entries that seem to be taking a lot of time to write (I worry that it doesn’t make sense) and watching TV.   I continued after the meeting and while I was cooking the stew meat. I am still scratching my head at someone who contacted me about the sewing machine ad I placed on FB’s Market place a while back.   First he asks if it is available.   Then he had the nerve to ask me if I was on crack ...

Yesterday was absolutely awesome!   I got Daimian’s home a little after 1:30 as many others were as well.   We spent the afternoon talking about everything.   Including Condo’s, and history of the holocaust and how some movies and TV shows take liberties with historical moments such as the Nazi Occupation.    We also touched on certain situations that happened early in the history of the group.   For those who didn’t know about it.   There were so many other conversations.   We also celebrated Paula’s birthday.(it actually .was on Friday so I need to update the birthday list). There was s variety of delectable foods.   I tried so hard to be good.   I had the salad and fruit salad unfortunately; I had a piece of cake and biscotti, and candy.   I was feeling guilty.   I thought I would be so prepared.   I had had some nuts and protein drink before leaving for the meetup. The meetup started breaking up after 2 and ...

Today is day three of the Edge fitness challenge.   I still am faltering despite making sure I work the program.   I am supposed to be getting at least 12000 or more steps a day. Since Monday haven’t reached those goals.   I almost did today as Alex wanted me to get to 14000.   I had already reach 9000+ by the time class started.   The diet is also been hard.   Despite the fact even or in spite of the fact I have been having my protein drinks at least before I leave the house.   I managed to flake on the diet by having pizza, or the candy.   I have had salads in the last couple of days either as a main element or in addition to soup, veggie wrap.     Even though I didn’t go to the gym yesterday I think I made up for it a little by going straight to the gym from work and doing cardio for 30 minutes and then taking the SGT 60 class.   What is the SGT 60 class?   Well the description is as follows : SGT is a 60-minu...

Despite the rain I had a great time.    I got dressed around 6 and headed to my sister’s.   When I arrived I had the pleasure of seeing my family in South Carolina.   After we finished with them we put make up on (to cover my sore nose) and to look the part of flapper.   I got the approval of my BIL.     WE took some pictures and then around 8:15 I headed to Middletown.    The drive to Middletown was okay but there were some spots the lights that were along the highway were not on and that made it a little unnerving because I was afraid some bambi or pet would run out in the middle of the highway.    Eventually I made it to the place parked and found the restaurant after reading instructions from GC.   The speak easy really was wonderful and it was exactly the way I read about speakeasy’s.   My group was towards (around the corner from the bar area and there were about 10 of us I guess.   Three husband...

Did you know that the song Joy to the World is the most popular Christmas song?    It heralds the birth of Christ and calls for all to celebrate the love and happiness it should bring.   I found this very interesting article on the origins of this song.   Love it. I was up at 6:30 that morning and thanks to a persistent Sky I made sure I fed the cats and went back to sleep for a little bit.    I did put the TV on but nothing really interested me.   The kitties went back to bed after I fed them. To be honest it was a fairly quiet morning.   I cleaned off the windshield of the car and it was much better and of course safer.   I would have to make time later to clean out the car. I was to be at my niece Cheryl and her husband’s home around 1.   I showered and dressed and started to leave for North Haven.   That is until I saw my neighbors next door.   Actually I saw the husband and chatted with him.   I hadn’t...

I was expecting the weather to be cloudy, cold and very windy and it was as the day progressed.   It started off sunny and 45 degrees.   It was pretty much the same in Killingworth.   This is probably a good thing.   I have heard from friends across the country.   They did get snow and it ranged from 8 in to a total foot.   I baled on the gym in the morning despite the fact I saw A on FB.   So he knows I was online and despite the fact I promised I can’t.   I have things I wanted to do before the day got away.   So I met with A this week at our normal time.   Tuesday I was very tired and we talked about.   He reminded me that I am pre-Diabetic (something I may not have shared with the Doctors this week) and the reason I was tired because of the sugar and breads I have been having.   He suggested that I can no longer have desserts or sweets of any kind.   No breads either and this entire are going to be tough A did ...

I will need to be careful today.   I have been up early and had a few cups of coffee and already put my foot into situations.   Even though team Lead Pat reassured me it wasn’t just me but several factors going on.   Short story-during a meeting I interrupted Super Bob while he was explaining something.   I wasn’t the only one but that’s not the point. The staff meeting today was basically about the move.   There was another incident in which an employee called police on another employee.   It wasn’t our team and he commended us for that but reminded us that space in the new building will be tight and to keep it professional and respectful. I found out later in the day what happened.   It involved two people that I have a lot of respect for.   The team lead put work on the other person’s desk and said person returned it with the word bitch written on it.   Team lead reacted strongly and instead of going to the supervisor or HR they...