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Sans Souci

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I did a tabata workout. It was short and sweet, but just right for a Saturday.

I ended up sleeping in my bed last night. I love it too much. If a tree was blown over, it would have gone fallen away from my house (and hitting nothing), because of the wind's direction. I took my chances. I don't care for the bed in the spare room. lol

So, I bought this foundation and primer and I spent way more that I ever thought I could for make up. It is meant for oily, acne prone, sensitive skin. Everything I have tried just slides off of my face two hours later. It is supposed to be completely matte and keep your face matte all day. I have heard nothing but great things about it. It's a liquid that turns to powder. When I put it on, it was a beautiful finish. Three hours later, my skin looked like an oil slick. It works no better than stuff from the drug store. :mad: I am going to return it to Sephora. 👎🏻 Rant over. LOL
 

epcotisbest

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My hometown was half destroyed by a tornado in 2005. I was already over here at the time. So, my dad's side of the family was going to have a big reunion...my dad's family has a colorful past, I guess you could say. My g-g-grandfather was kind of a jack of all trades....preacher, fur trapper, stone mason (he built 3 of the churches he preached in, and his own home) and he was also secretary of State of Kansas for a while. He had something like 13 children, 8 living to adulthood. When I moved over here, I started doing genealogical research into my family tree and found these distant cousins. My g-grandfather had been married (or maybe not) to my g-grandmother, and fathered a child (my grandfather), but apparently he never knew about his son. (I know, scandal, right? Especially in the late 1800s early 1900s) So my grandfather lived with his mother's parents for the first several years of a life, when one day, his mom shows up with a new husband and says they are moving to colorado. He had a half sister that he was very close to, and on their way to Colorado, she got some illness and his mother and the new husband belonged to some religious group that did not believe in doctors and medicine. The girl died. So my grandfather had been ripped out of the home with his grandparents and watched his sister die...he ran away as soon as he was old enough. He eventually homesteaded in Wyoming. But as an adult, he went and looked up his biological father who was shocked to meet him, not having known about him....couldn't deny him though as he was the spitting image of him, and it turned out he also had a half brother. I discovered all this from the family when I was doing the genealogy, on a website. We visited the family and saw the house my g-g-grandfather built (the cousins still live there on the farm), as well as one of the churches, and we visited his grave. They planned this big reunion for 2005 and invited my father, who they hadn't seen in decades. My father had talked about nothing but this reunion for months. He always called me a couple of times a week, and he made sure to remind me every time that he wouldn't be able to call for a couple of weeks in August because he'd be at the reunion. Fast forward to the tornado....it was half a mile long and there was only warning about a minute or 2 before it hit the town...most people didn't have time to take adequate cover. People in the trailer park didn't have time to get out and go to friends' houses with a basement. The trailer park was all but destroyed...very little was left of it. My dad lived on a ranch 20 miles out. So when I heard about the Tornado, I was SOOOOO relieved that dad was at this family reunion because that meant he was in Kansas, FAR away from the tornado in Wyoming. Then my cousin sends me an email...she's worried, because she heard about the tornado and my dad never showed up for the reunion. I panicked, started trying to call...phone lines were down. I emailed everyone I knew that knew dad....had they seen him, talked to him, did anyone know if he was ok. After 2 days, I finally got ahold of him....he had decided not to go to the reunion because the truck was due for an oil change, and well, he didn't want to take the time to get it done before he left but didn't want to make a long trip like that without changing the oil first, so he decided to take a nap instead. He woke up, and half the roof on his trailer was gone and all the windows had been knocked out by hail stones....he hadn't even woken up. He "guessed they had gotten quite a storm at some point" . He had no clue a tornado had totaled his house...he had it insured, so he was going to get a new one. That's all he said about it...oh yeah, we must have gotten quite a storm here, and it ripped the roof off the house and broke all the windows, but it's insured, so I'll get a new one. I'm like...REALLY, dad? You slept through a TORNADO because you didn't want to drive into town to get the oil changed??? It was just...so totally my dad. Now it's quite funny since he was obviously fine, so it's just an amusing anecdote about my dad. I can just shake my head. But at the time, I probably yelled at him...I don't remember actually, I was so worried, and then so relieved he was fine.

Very interesting read. Thank you for sharing.
 

Songbird76

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Very interesting read. Thank you for sharing.
Absolutely. I love genealogy...I know that's kind of odd for most people my age...or, at least for my age when I started it. My mom had done some work on her side in the 80s and I wanted to continue that, but I really wanted to know about my dad's side. My dad was a walking encyclopedia...he remembered EVERYTHING. My husband jokes that my dad knew more about Dutch history than even HE does and he grew up here learning it. But my dad had a poor relationship with his siblings, his parents were both long gone....I saw my uncle once every year when I sold girl scout cookies and he lived in my tiny home town. My aunt lived 40 miles away and we saw her every other Thanksgiving. But I never even knew I had cousins on that side until my uncle died. Both my mom and dad were....unplanned, and showed up more than a decade after their siblings, so all of the cousins were much older than us and some even had kids our age, and dad's family were experts in holding grudges, so no one seemed to keep in touch with anyone else. So I really knew NOTHING about dad's family. But my dad knew so much...he had one name wrong....he had John and it turned out to be Jeremiah, but other than that, he knew distant cousins and their step parents and everything. It was amazing. All I needed was census records and I filled in everything he didn't know. It was crazy. My dad died almost a year ago...the 28th is one year, so I'm feeling kind of nostalgic about him...Another kind of amusing tornado story....my brother and I were both in high school. My dad would sometimes show up randomly to drop something off or whatever, and he never called first. You'd just hear his truck and our dog would start barking. So one day, there were tornado sirens going off and there were funnels EVERYWHERE....like, 6 or 7 of them, and we lived in a trailer house. So we grabbed the dog, we're heading out the door to go to a friend's house where they had a basement, and my dad pulls up. We're like " We gotta go! There're a bunch of funnels! We have to take cover!" and my dad's like "Oh....I'm really tired...do you mind if I use your couch for a nap?" and my mom is like "Are you serious?? There are multiple tornados!!" Finally. she decides she doesn't have time to argue...if he wants to die in a tornado, he's welcome to do it, so she tells him sure, and we run to the car. He worked nights, so he had to sleep during the day...so off we went, left him to take his nap and when we came home when everything had passed over, he was gone. He took his nap and then left for work. He really just didn't have much fear of bad weather, I guess.
 

epcotisbest

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More nice weather today so I decided to smoke some pork. Chose to do sliced pork for sandwiches instead of pulled pork. The main difference is the temperature you cook it to with sliced pork being ready at around 180-185 degrees internal temp whereas pulled pork has to go to around 200-205 for it to pull or shred easily.
This was very good, moist and tender. Used a Weber Coffee Rub and apple wood for smoke. Plenty for leftovers for a few meals this week.

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Sans Souci

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I was going to take a rest day, but I decided to do an hour long kickboxing workout. I also went out for a walk.

I watched Three Billboards last night. I have been wanting to see this, but I dislike movie theaters nowadays. There's always someone coughing without covering their mouths and someone who thinks they are in MST3K making commentary (plus, you can wear whatever you want). So, I deliberately avoided reading any sort of article about it until I could see it at home. But, wow, what a story. :eek:
 

epcotisbest

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Hello-

I was going to take a rest day, but I decided to do an hour long kickboxing workout. I also went out for a walk.

I watched Three Billboards last night. I have been wanting to see this, but I dislike movie theaters nowadays. There's always someone coughing without covering their mouths and someone who thinks they are in MST3K making commentary (plus, you can wear whatever you want). So, I deliberately avoided reading any sort of article about it until I could see it at home. But, wow, what a story. :eek:

We don't go to the movies much anymore either. Much prefer the comfort of home, with the surround sound on and some freshly made popcorn.
As for Three Billboards, I'm gonna guess that may be tonight's big winner. We have not seen it and probably won't because I read it is full of foul language, something that I have become increasingly intolerant to. It is just not necessary to tell the story. We started to watch something a little while back and the very first word in the movie was the F word. Stopped the DVD player right then and never found out what the second word was. Guess that is just me, but I don't want to hear it. I don't tolerate much violence in movies anymore either. Wonder if that is a sign of getting old and grumpy? Who am I kidding, I've always been grumpy!
 

Sans Souci

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We don't go to the movies much anymore either. Much prefer the comfort of home, with the surround sound on and some freshly made popcorn.
As for Three Billboards, I'm gonna guess that may be tonight's big winner. We have not seen it and probably won't because I read it is full of foul language, something that I have become increasingly intolerant to. It is just not necessary to tell the story. We started to watch something a little while back and the very first word in the movie was the F word. Stopped the DVD player right then and never found out what the second word was. Guess that is just me, but I don't want to hear it. I don't tolerate much violence in movies anymore either. Wonder if that is a sign of getting old and grumpy? Who am I kidding, I've always been grumpy!

Oh, yeah, there was a lot of swearing in it. I am the same way with violence, too. I started watching a series on Amazon Prime and I had to stop, because it was so violent. It was too bad, because the story itself was interesting.
 

Figgy1

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Good morning. With everybody underfoot all I've been able to do is some yoga. cleaning and lots pf cooking:grumpy::grumpy::grumpy: The road to get to the mall still isn't that great:grumpy::grumpy::grumpy: At least I'm dug out enough to go and get my nails done. That's in a different direction and while I'm out I'll take a couple of laps around a supermarket and Walmart. I hate winter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Sans Souci

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Good morning. With everybody underfoot all I've been able to do is some yoga. cleaning and lots pf cooking:grumpy::grumpy::grumpy: The road to get to the mall still isn't that great:grumpy::grumpy::grumpy: At least I'm dug out enough to go and get my nails done. That's in a different direction and while I'm out I'll take a couple of laps around a supermarket and Walmart. I hate winter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stay safe during the second round!
 

Sans Souci

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I did a workout with my gliding disks. It snuck up on me and my heart was racing towards the end. LOL

My husband left for Boston this morning and he's supposed to be there until Thursday night. He's trying to come back tomorrow now, because he's worried about his flight being cancelled since the storm is hitting both cities. He has taken Friday off and he doesn't want to spend his vacation day waiting to get on a flight home.

I hope this is the last storm of the season, but I know better...
 

93boomer

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I did a workout with my gliding disks. It snuck up on me and my heart was racing towards the end. LOL

My husband left for Boston this morning and he's supposed to be there until Thursday night. He's trying to come back tomorrow now, because he's worried about his flight being cancelled since the storm is hitting both cities. He has taken Friday off and he doesn't want to spend his vacation day waiting to get on a flight home.

I hope this is the last storm of the season, but I know better...
Good luck to him in his travels!!
 

Figgy1

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Hello-

I did a workout with my gliding disks. It snuck up on me and my heart was racing towards the end. LOL

My husband left for Boston this morning and he's supposed to be there until Thursday night. He's trying to come back tomorrow now, because he's worried about his flight being cancelled since the storm is hitting both cities. He has taken Friday off and he doesn't want to spend his vacation day waiting to get on a flight home.

I hope this is the last storm of the season, but I know better...
Thanks! He's on a 12:30 PM flight tomorrow. :)
Thank goodness. He should miss all of the BLEEP. Stay safe my friend
 

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