Posted by Stamper_WI on 2/10/10 6:54pm
Msg #322294

All dressed up and nowhere to go

That snowstorm there is messing up my schedule here

Reply by oldhippie_IL on 2/10/10 7:07pm
Msg #322299

I here ya!

Hope something starts moving soon! Wouldn't want to be there, we had enough here in Chi-town.

Reply by Notarysigner on 2/10/10 7:14pm
Msg #322301

on a positive note..... nowhere to go

Sometimes it's good to have an excuse for not working, ... besides being lazy! LOL

Reply by BrendaTx on 2/10/10 7:19pm
Msg #322305

Oh I love an excuse not to work!

Just don't get enough of them.

Reply by trnsa_IL on 2/10/10 7:30pm
Msg #322312

Feb has been pretty slim pickin's...and...

I have cooked dinner every night since last Thursday. Yesterday my 19 yr old commented that I sure was in the "mood" to cook lately, and that he LOVED it! I just laughed so hard...the thing is I have been HOME enough to be able to cook for my family every night, and I LOVE it! Saturday I cooked up a pot of homemade potato soup, a pot of homemade chili, chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, and heart-shaped sugar cookies with homemade "red-hot" icing. I have enjoyed every minute of it! (glass raised high, diet pepsi, of course) Here's to spending time at "ease"!

Reply by Susan Fischer on 2/10/10 8:15pm
Msg #322320

Time to chop goodies for the salad, time for biscuits,

time for reading stories out loud; time to try to teach the old cat that the brand spankin' new hand-vac not only gets lots of hair, but FEELS ~really~ nice...

Raising glass (Glass Mountain, '03 Merlot, CA,)

Reply by Claudine Osborne on 2/10/10 9:08pm
Msg #322330

Re: Enjoy..

This quiet time has given me the opportunity to go to the hospital and be with my new grandaughter on her birthday! I can also have the time to enjoy this precious baby and assist Mom & Dad. It is nice to relax!

Raising a glass of Ferrante Jesters Blush (local wine)

Reply by LKT/CA on 2/10/10 9:21pm
Msg #322332

Re: Feb has been pretty slim pickin's...and...

<<<Saturday I cooked up a pot of homemade potato soup, a pot of homemade chili, chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, and heart-shaped sugar cookies with homemade "red-hot" icing. I have enjoyed every minute of it!>>>

Let's see....I am 26 hours 31 mins. and 1,825.33 miles away. I think I make it to your place in two days. What's for dinner? And as a token of my appreciation, I will clean your house from top to bottom, paint it inside and out, replace the roof, details your cars, change the oil and rotate all the tires. You have a piano? I'll tune it for, ya! heehee!

Reply by trnsa_IL on 2/11/10 2:12pm
Msg #322428

Wow! I must say that is an offer I can't refuse!

Have you been reading our "to-do list"? It is too funny that almost everything you mentioned is something we are working on getting done! =)

As for what's for dinner...I am thinking about either homemade vegetable lasagna (broccoli, carrots, and zucchini grated and sauteed with garlic, onions and butter layered with noodles, homemade cream sauce, and freshly grated monterey jack cheese, baked to perfection, and served with a fresh green salad sprinkled with almonds, green grapes, and red grape tomatoes with your choice of raspberry or red wine vinaigrette dressing and garlic bread) or sweet and sour meatballs (hand formed meatballs of hamburger, onions, bread crumbs, italian seasoning, and pet milk, browned in the oven then smothered in a sauce of brown sugar, ketchup, and a touch of vinegar, simmered to perfection in a roaster and served with homemade mashed potatoes, southwestern style corn, sugared carrots, and rolls.)

I can't seem to decide, maybe I'll let the guys choose...

Oh, and for dessert...definitely one of my homemade cheesecakes...how about turtle (chocolate cheesecake, caramel, and pecans layered over a chocolate crumb crust topped with more pecans and drizzled with caramel)?

Hey, I do have an empty futon in the basement....

Have a great day!
Tonya

Reply by Stamper_WI on 2/10/10 11:29pm
Msg #322350

Well I went

LSI told me 8 got canceled. She was happy the day was done and that it seemed like EOM

Reply by Jones - Chelley on 2/11/10 12:56pm
Msg #322420

I couldn't wait to get here!!!

I was snow-bound since Monday. It was cool the first day to work from home...but after day two when my honey made his way up the stairs to what I now call, the dungeon...and joyfully asked, in his knowing voice, "what's for dinner?". I had to pray really hard that I didn't poke his eyes out. I may have been home...but, I was just as busy as being in the office but had to fight with bad phone service, a computer that kept freezing because of bad reception...none of my contact numbers except the ones memorized...all the while contending with countless..."hey Ma's" from the next room. Did it look like I was Martha Stewart??? June Cleaver had to be on something that made her happy all the time...really! My cats even had this shocked look on their face, kinda like they were thinking "hey...what are you doing here?". They bellowed outside my door for the entire day for two days, because I would not grant entry. I learned my lesson that first day because...when I let them in, they were all over my computer, keyboard...my lap...my head...my paperwork...chasing one another and tagging the desk like it was the safe zone...yikes! So...they were grounded from the dungeon. Today...it took me about two hours to drive a 25 minute trip...but I am in the office and I have a new appreciation for my little corner of the room.

Reply by MistarellaFL on 2/11/10 1:54pm
Msg #322424

Chelley that is what many of us deal with daily!

It is hard working from home!
I got a lot more office work done when I had an office outside the home, lol.

Reply by jba/fl on 2/11/10 2:01pm
Msg #322425

Re: Chelley that is what many of us deal with daily!

"I got a lot more office work done when I had an office outside the home, lol."

And I got lots more daydreaming time outside also...LOL. Am so tired of hearing: "Well, you're home.... (fill in the blank) so....(another blank)"

Reply by Jones - Chelley on 2/11/10 2:11pm
Msg #322427

I never thought of that

Oh...you deserve an extra pat on the back then....no, two extra pats on the back! lol The cats were worse than my 16 year old!

Reply by Yoli/CA on 2/11/10 2:38pm
Msg #322431

Re: I never thought of that

And, this is probably why so many women work outside the home - to keep sane. Not so much to help with another income. It's worth paying for child care and working outside the home if we can just get away, if only temporarily, from all the superwoman expectations we face practically on a daily basis.