Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 19: Calmly through the day

[MissConductUS]

I've started a new one. Please join us and share the boring and mundane things happening in your world. It will be calming for all.

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Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 18: Calmly through the day

Well ringing Dr was a waste of time. Nurse basically said coz she has had 2 sections she knew what it was like. Told me to not carry DS on left side and ring back next week if no better. 🙄

@sproutsandparsnips ✋ do I have a fellow Welsh speaker?

@picketingpanic

3yo asked for a chocolate cake. I went out in the rain to buy a supermarket chocolate cake.

If you have a microwave, you could have made a mug cake. My microwave gave up the ghostt he other day; I was all set to buy a new one when I remembered I have an insurance policy covering it; it's over 20 years old, and they're going to send me a replacement! The old one is being picked up tomorrow, and when they get it they'll send a new one out.

Welcome, @Fiercestcalm, and thanks for sharing your news. I am also a reader. The two subscriptions I pay for are the WSJ and the Economist. I found MN years ago after reading a brief article about it in the Economist. I have a bird feeder outside my kitchen window that is mostly there to provide cat TV. I live in the woods so the birds don't lack for housing. Oddly, traffic at the feeder is way down. It may just be because there is an abundance of food for them in the fall.

Lemons, sorry the nurse wasn't more helpful. Did you mention your concern about the hernia? I've done some more digging. They are pretty rare and more common with a midline (up and down) incision.

One thing I like about health care here is that if I don't like a doctor or nurse I can switch to another in the same practice or change practices completely.

Just home from the office where I went with half my face numbed from the injection. I have now two nicely fitting interim crowns.

It rained a bit, but I only got slightly wet.

I am glad Silkiecat is happy again.

@MissConductUS she decided it wasn’t a hernia based on the fact been on toilet fine. 🙄

Glad the dentist went well Prok

I spoke too soon on Silkiecat, as soon as tuna was finished, she started calling for dh constantly even when he was a few cms in front of her as he was working. Every time he has tried to sleep today she has howled the whole time.

Dh went to clean the silkies coop and found the brown girl silkie on top of the white girl silkie in the nesting box. Think they are trying to make baby silkies but they are both girls. They often sit on the eggs trying to make babies.

Prok, I'm back to the dentist tomorrow and then off to my other dentist on Friday. It never ends.

@Lemonsandlemonade, your nurse has reached new heights in questionable differential diagnosis conclusions. But they are pretty rare.

My DSis sent me a little film taken on the cemetery where our parents are buried. All graves set up with lights and candles in all colours for AllSaints (Allerheiligen).
Incidentally a day off work in areas which are traditionally RC, so we could not reach out IT department. They are in Cologne.

Interesting Prok we are an RC school, we had an INSET day today and a whole staff Mass. I didn’t because of stupid isolating

@HelenaJustina hope you’re feeling better what’s it like working in a RC school? The only RC school around by me was full of controversy as a child. I seem to remember several staff being sacked.

@MissConductUS the nurse in question has always hit a nerve with me.

For the Americans on the group I was watching pointless tonight ( a quiz show) and they had pictures of traditional thanksgiving foods. Sweet potato casserole was one of them. Made me wonder is that the norm in America to have that as part of TGiving feast?

Interesting question @Lemonsandlemonade. As a practising Catholic, I would say my experience of working in a Catholic school - a workplace which reflects my beliefs, morals, ethics, faith and values - gives me greater job satisfaction. A sense that I am serving the children we educate, the community we are situated in and God.

I’m feeling fine, I think I could taste some things today. As soon as I start getting negative lateral flows I’ll let myself out of my room (wearing a mask until the 10 days are up). Only 4 days to go!

Lemons, yes, most Americans will serve some form of sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving, and it's often in a casserole.

Regular mashed potatoes are even more standard. I have a fiendishly good mashed recipe made with butter, sour cream, and Philadelphia cream cheese. I'm willing to share it on request.

I saw a hare in the field behind my house today. Tried something new for dinner tonight which was reasonably well received, I lost 3 card games with ds and dh. Made the mistake of playing too enjoyable music while we played though as dd got into dancing to it and then didn't want to go to bed. 😉😆

MissConductUS I love mashed potatoes. All potatoes actually. If I was on death row I would request a jacket with butter for my last meal. What is your recipe please?

TopCats, I will post it later. I'm making pizza at the moment.

Lemons no, dw i'n Saesneg, ond dw i'n byw mewn Cymru. Dw i'n wedi bod yn dysgu Cymraeg.

Had a quiet day today as both children back to school but I’m still off work sick. Rather scary being alone in the house but great to be able to read a book in peace. Made some carrot and parsnip soup for tea and DD made a Nadiya recipe lime and croissant baked pudding for us all. Not a bad day!

I read “the gift” by Danielle Steele today - am
Trying to reread all my old books to decide which
Ones can stay and which ones can go - definitely a keeper - still makes me cry all the way through. Might read another tomorrow

Welcome, @Archersandlemonade, and thanks for sharing your literary news. I have hundreds of old books but haven't bought one in years. I just download them to my kindle instead.

@TopCatsTopHat, here you go:

Holiday Mashed Potatoes

From the kitchen of MissConductUS

• 4 to 5 pounds of potatoes, russet or Yukon Gold, peeled and halved
• 2 3 oz packages of cream cheese or one 8 oz package (low fat is fine)
• 1 pint sour cream (low fat is fine)
• Sliced or grated cheddar cheese, about a cup
• 1 stick (4 oz) butter
• 1 tablespoon sea salt, adjusted to taste

Preheat oven to 175 C. Cook potatoes in boiling salted water until tender (about 20 minutes). Drain and place in a large bowl with the cream cheese, sour cream, butter, and salt. Mash them until smooth (a hand mixer works well). The heat from the just-boiled potatoes will melt in the ingredients. Beat until light and fluffy. Put in a casserole dish and cover with sliced or grated cheddar cheese and bake at 175 C for 30 minutes.

Leftovers can be made into patties, coated in flour and pan-fried in butter. The Yukon Gold potatoes give the dish a hint of color.

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Note that measurements are American, but the recipe is very forgiving. If you can't get Yukon Gold potatoes any good mashing potatoes will do fine. Enjoy! These are amazing. Every time a holiday is coming up I get specifically requested to bring or serve these.

@HelenaJustina thanks for sharing that I can see how great that would be. Although I’m not religious myself my Grandma is. I see with her how much over the years the church has been a comfort to her and offers support when she has needed it. She has great friends from church even at the tender age of 93.

@MissConductUS thanks for the recipe will be trying that one. Pounds and Oz is usually what I use when baking cake. On the tv programme the casserole has marshmallows on the top.

@sproutsandparsnips da iawn am dysgu Cymraeg. Dw’in siarad Cymraeg one mae fy teulu ddim.

Wish I had time for reading! With DS at moment I am too zonked by end of a day.

We're blessed to have a truly great local classical music station here - WFMT. If I ever leave I'll have to stream it.

I do sweet potatoes without the marshmallows - peel, slice, boil them in salted water until tender, then add butter and molasses and coarsely mash. I sometimes add toasted pecans too, but sometimes the finishing touches get away from me.

That mashed potatoes recipe sounds amazing Miss I’m Irish Catholic and potato starch runs in our veins…

One of my daughters has always preferred sweet potatoes, even from tiny she would ask for ‘orange mash’, nutritionally sweet potatoes are so good for you that I used to make small portions and freeze them for her. Haven’t done it for a few years, must do.

Second day of DDs y11 mocks and she is refusing to go to school saying she had her first covid vaccine on Sunday night (against my advice to wait until mocks are over in case of side effects as she just had a bad bout of covid). Its her first mocks since moving school so hoping it doesn't go to teacher assessment as she may have no previous grades. Hopefully will just be a day of it. Think she had Pfizer and everyone else we know had side effects on second of that and none on first but could be as she has just had covid.

DS has just left for school, he has gone early.

I had no side effects at all in Pfizer, neither did DC1&2 (other than slightly sore arm at injection site) is she secretly not so secretly anxious/worried about a particular exam?