The middle agers group. (Upper 30s,40s & 50ish folks)

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  • cgrout78
    cgrout78 Posts: 1,628 Member
    Youtube is even worse. I'm addicted to watching pasta grannies videos...
    https://youtu.be/uNAcuS1FGlU
    AliNouveau wrote: »
    Sorry! 🤣😂
    I'm now bored and looking through cookbooks for some fun things to make. Cookbooks are the devil

    omg what IS that?? some type of pastry thing with a sauce??? i don't even care, it looks fattening and unhealthy and like it should be in my mouth
  • cgrout78
    cgrout78 Posts: 1,628 Member
    oooh what movies? I'm looking for ideas for this weekend :) I want to do haunting of hill house and the bly manor one, but not sure what else is out there. We binged on Lore last weekend and that was weird and creepy.
  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
    Youtube is even worse. I'm addicted to watching pasta grannies videos...
    https://youtu.be/uNAcuS1FGlU
    AliNouveau wrote: »
    Sorry! 🤣😂
    I'm now bored and looking through cookbooks for some fun things to make. Cookbooks are the devil

    Hahah well now I feel the need to check this out
  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
    I wouldn't enjoy that. I don't think I'd survive, haha. Here in Georgia, everything pretty much shuts down after an inch or two of snow.
    balanc41 wrote: »
    Of the snow, not 70 degree weather, haha
    balanc41 wrote: »
    Snow has finally hit!
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    Yeah it wasn’t fun to drive in last night. Could only go about 40 tops on the intestate. Took me over an hour to get home last night.🤣

    @balanc41 do you have snow tires? This reminds me I should make an appt to get mine put on
  • balanc41
    balanc41 Posts: 1,508 Member
    cgrout78 wrote: »
    oooh what movies? I'm looking for ideas for this weekend :) I want to do haunting of hill house and the bly manor one, but not sure what else is out there. We binged on Lore last weekend and that was weird and creepy.

    Hill house was good! I heard bly manor was not as good
  • balanc41
    balanc41 Posts: 1,508 Member
    AliNouveau wrote: »
    I wouldn't enjoy that. I don't think I'd survive, haha. Here in Georgia, everything pretty much shuts down after an inch or two of snow.
    balanc41 wrote: »
    Of the snow, not 70 degree weather, haha
    balanc41 wrote: »
    Snow has finally hit!
    5hs8opr0zguh.jpeg
    178ozhi0hb2o.jpeg

    Yeah it wasn’t fun to drive in last night. Could only go about 40 tops on the intestate. Took me over an hour to get home last night.🤣

    @balanc41 do you have snow tires? This reminds me I should make an appt to get mine put on

    I have never used snow tires but maybe I should 🤣
  • FutureFit2020
    FutureFit2020 Posts: 128 Member
    Mmm no one's ever hit on me on this site. I suppose putting up a pofile pic of my fat cat's face might not be very sexy. Speaking of that, I'm still pondering @Diatonic12 's comment, about it being homey and pleasant here. That's probably being we're all boring old farts here, being middle aged and all that.

    My daughter nearly baked me a carrot cake (assignment in school, but it was optional), however when she realised there's actual carrot in carrot cake, she bailed.

    Sensible girl. Don't waste your pudding on veg! :D
  • FutureFit2020
    FutureFit2020 Posts: 128 Member
    AliNouveau wrote: »
    Good morning all - happy Friday eve! Slept completely through the night last night for the first time since I can remember so maybe I'll be good and switch from coffee to water earlier than I usually do:)

    @AliNouveau - that sounds delicious. I don't think anyone around here offers meal kits. Are they like those mail order-all the ingredients and directions included you do the cooking meals?

    @cgrout78 - good homemade mac and cheese is definitely one of those comfort foods that I'll splurge on!

    @forestfreek - I'm glad I found this group for the same reasons you mentioned. Kinda prefer to keep my fitness and Tinder goals separate 😂 (JK!)

    So this kit comes with steaks or ribs, I chose steaks. It's for two people so you get two twice baked potatoes which you just reheat in the oven, asparagus, bread, salad and cheesecake. I added another dessert that is their classic signature dessert and a bottle of wine. We always figure these restaurants are trying to might as well bulk up the bill. They give you step by step directions for everything. They even give a little container of oil and salt and pepper, a container of steak spice and salad dressing. I'll post a pic when I get it tomorrow. I really enjoy cooking but these kits are kind of fun. I got a grocery store one the other day

    Steak seems risky as it's easy to f*&k up if you're not a confident cook though and then you've probably spent quite a bit! I'm a vegetarian but I occasionally make them for my husband and I spend the entire time staring at it willing it to not overcook :D
  • FutureFit2020
    FutureFit2020 Posts: 128 Member
    I wouldn't enjoy that. I don't think I'd survive, haha. Here in Georgia, everything pretty much shuts down after an inch or two of snow.
    balanc41 wrote: »
    Of the snow, not 70 degree weather, haha
    balanc41 wrote: »
    Snow has finally hit!
    5hs8opr0zguh.jpeg
    178ozhi0hb2o.jpeg

    Yeah it wasn’t fun to drive in last night. Could only go about 40 tops on the intestate. Took me over an hour to get home last night.🤣

    I live in the UK. It literally snows every year and every year people look into the sky in confusion and then the trains stop working. Every year. Every damn year.

    We had to get salt/grit airlifted in from other better prepared countries in the past.
  • FutureFit2020
    FutureFit2020 Posts: 128 Member
    And it's teeny tiny barely there snow btw. And still.
  • Diatonic12
    Diatonic12 Posts: 32,344 Member
    Copy. Copy that. ;)@forestfreek
  • IndyRick1
    IndyRick1 Posts: 3 Member
    Well, I'm a little past middle age, but sure would like to have a new friend or two on here to help along the way---total noob!
  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
    AliNouveau wrote: »
    Good morning all - happy Friday eve! Slept completely through the night last night for the first time since I can remember so maybe I'll be good and switch from coffee to water earlier than I usually do:)

    @AliNouveau - that sounds delicious. I don't think anyone around here offers meal kits. Are they like those mail order-all the ingredients and directions included you do the cooking meals?

    @cgrout78 - good homemade mac and cheese is definitely one of those comfort foods that I'll splurge on!

    @forestfreek - I'm glad I found this group for the same reasons you mentioned. Kinda prefer to keep my fitness and Tinder goals separate 😂 (JK!)

    So this kit comes with steaks or ribs, I chose steaks. It's for two people so you get two twice baked potatoes which you just reheat in the oven, asparagus, bread, salad and cheesecake. I added another dessert that is their classic signature dessert and a bottle of wine. We always figure these restaurants are trying to might as well bulk up the bill. They give you step by step directions for everything. They even give a little container of oil and salt and pepper, a container of steak spice and salad dressing. I'll post a pic when I get it tomorrow. I really enjoy cooking but these kits are kind of fun. I got a grocery store one the other day

    Steak seems risky as it's easy to f*&k up if you're not a confident cook though and then you've probably spent quite a bit! I'm a vegetarian but I occasionally make them for my husband and I spend the entire time staring at it willing it to not overcook :D

    Hahah get a meet thermometer. It'll make it perfect every time. I used my meet thermometer more for testing the doneness of bread though. Hmmmm
  • WildColonialGirl
    WildColonialGirl Posts: 15 Member
    Hi everyone! New here, 45, from Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Recently had a scare with my heart and am making some big lifestyle changes. We just lost our dog, who was my biggest reason to exercise, but I’m walking in our neighborhood anyway.

    Sorry about your dog @WildColonialGirl losing a pet is really difficult. If you want to walk a dog (and do some good) you might have a program near you for helping people who can't walk their dogs because of terminal illness, old age or shielding concerns during Covid. Locally we have something called the Cinnamon trust who pair people to do this. If you google you'll probably find some "borrow my dog" pages local to you

    I’m going to look into this. I volunteered in a shelter for a few years a long time ago. It was the highlight of my week. I was in an apartment and couldn’t have a dog.

    One of our neighbors walks his two dogs with his cat following behind. I wish our cats (we have two) would be amenable to that.

  • topofmountains
    topofmountains Posts: 7 Member
    Hello .. getting back into things.. 42 .. need friends to motivate :)
  • LunaTheFatCat
    LunaTheFatCat Posts: 237 Member
    Moooorning! Woohoo we made it till Friday. Bloody cold here but blue skies, so will deffo get a walk in later.

    Welcome @cab010506 we are fairly similar in our stats. Well done for losing 6kg over 7 weeks, that's great going!
    Welcome @topofmountains too. I'll send you both a FR.
  • brianm1979mfp
    brianm1979mfp Posts: 4 Member
    Hi guys! New to the community!! Feel free to add me!
  • slimgirljo15
    slimgirljo15 Posts: 269,456 Member
    Good morning middle -agers.. :)

    Woohoo for the weekend 🥳 have a good one.
  • balanc41
    balanc41 Posts: 1,508 Member
    Hood morning y’all! Hope it’s a great day!
  • forestfreek
    forestfreek Posts: 5,770 Member
    Good morning everyone!
    Happy Friday 🤗
  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
    Hooray for Friday!!!
    Ever have crazy dreams? Apparently I'm the head of pasta promotion for my area and some crazy gun owner wanted to hire me for something. His manager had no clue what the job was either. So does anyone want to hear about pasta I'm a pro apparently
  • cgrout78
    cgrout78 Posts: 1,628 Member
    AliNouveau wrote: »
    Hooray for Friday!!!
    Ever have crazy dreams? Apparently I'm the head of pasta promotion for my area and some crazy gun owner wanted to hire me for something. His manager had no clue what the job was either. So does anyone want to hear about pasta I'm a pro apparently

    ok, now I'm just hungry for pasta....LOL. I have had a few doozies the last few days, but I forget them about 5 minutes after I wake up.
  • FutureFit2020
    FutureFit2020 Posts: 128 Member
    AliNouveau wrote: »
    Hooray for Friday!!!
    Ever have crazy dreams? Apparently I'm the head of pasta promotion for my area and some crazy gun owner wanted to hire me for something. His manager had no clue what the job was either. So does anyone want to hear about pasta I'm a pro apparently

    I've certainly always been a promoter or pasta! My dreams are very very vivid, but I also have lucid dreams sometimes which are quite interesting. I look around and feel quite impressed with myself and what I can conjure out of nothing :D
  • balanc41
    balanc41 Posts: 1,508 Member
    I don’t ever remember my dreams. No matter how hard I try.
  • Versicolour
    Versicolour Posts: 7,164 Member
    I have extremely explicit and “real” dreams nightly. Always have since I was a kid. I can feel pain in my dreams (I had a dream of being shot once and could feel the bullet actually going in, although with less pain than I’m sure one would experience in real life 😜), taste food and feel emotions.
    Freud would have a hayday with me, I’m sure. Lol.

    I have also had some very real dreams. Not nightly, but pretty frequently. I can say I've been shot, but I do sometimes fly (flapping my arms - it's a dream, it works there okay) and I can feel the exertion in my muscles
  • AliNouveau
    AliNouveau Posts: 36,287 Member
    I can remember dreams I had as a child! I have a very active dream life that I often seem to remember. Last night's was just bizarre. I even got up off a chair because someone sat too close and I was concerned about social distancing. I often dream these days I've forgotten to take a mask with me. I'm crazy when I sleep apparently
  • _canadianbakin_
    _canadianbakin_ Posts: 413 Member
    edited October 2020
    Good morning! Weatherman is calling for snow. I know it happens every year but this is early for BC. Who has fun weekend plans ?