Absolutely drained................

On Tuesday I had a hair appointment for a trim.  Fair enough.  I have a love/hate relationship with hairdressers and I hate paying a lot for a simple haircut.  However, I try to go on a Tuesday at this place when it's "only" $20 plus tax for a haircut and I leave a $5 tip, so it comes in at under $28.  Also I have now "trained" the hairdresser in the way I want my hair cut....LOL  Still, I always find the whole thing a little stressful.

After that hubby and I went for a coffee.  We then went to Home Depot to spend just under $1,000 on a new dryer.  Went with another LG one.  Getting free delivery and more importantly they are taking the old one away for us.  Hubby will strip out the electronics from the old one, as they will fit the new one, if need be.  It won't be here until next Tuesday, but nothing we can do about that.

Then we went to CAA to get some travel insurance for an upcoming trip.  That is where the s*it hit the fan as they say!!!  We got a woman who knew best and wouldn't listen.  Suffice to say by the time we left there we felt as though we had run a marathon.

We had decided before going to CAA that once we had sorted out the insurance we would go to Panera Bread for lunch as we have a gift card.  We walked into the store and just looked at the menu and neither of us could decide what to order, so walked out and went home for lunch.

We sat down in our chairs and we both said at the same time, we felt so drained with it all, despite not doing anything much all morning.

I have never felt so tired/old/drained in all my life.  How one person could make both of us feel so drained is mind boggling.

Hubby then had to call CAA as he has to talk to the underwriters for his travel insurance.  Good news his was "only" around $340 for 8 days, whereas mine went up $30 to nearly $80 for the 8 days.

The rest of the day was spent sitting in our chairs watching soccer on tv and staring into space..............

Have you ever left a place and felt totally drained and unable to make a simple decision like what you want for lunch?????

Drat.............

I hope this isn't going to be any indication of how 2026 is going to be moving forward.........

My dryer is on the fritz.  It's an LG dryer and I have had it around 7 years.  I have always had good luck with LG appliances, but this dryer has already had multiple electronic boards replaced, and it looks as though they have gone again.  So I may be on the lookout for a new dryer.  I don't expect to see much change out of $1,100 (13 % tax included )

I do like a glass door on it, otherwise no other preferences.  I know it would be cheaper to go without a dryer and just hang to dry in the house, but I am at a stage where "the easier, the better," is the way to go!

I was told to stay well away from Samsung, but if anyone has any recommendations I am all ears.......

Lazy Sunday...........

 I had a lazy Sunday yesterday.

Did manage to get a load of laundry done.  Popped to Costco to pick up a few bits and bobs, so I don't have to leave the house today.

I then alternated between reading my book "Fly Girls," and doing another 1,000 piece puzzle.  

Supper was a frozen PC Veggie Lasagna.  We had the regular size not the club size.  Enough leftover for hubby's lunch today.  It is really good.

Then we finished the day with watching the Netflix Show "Run Away," based on the book by Harlen Coben.  I will review that another day.

All in all a great way to spend a snowy Sunday.

What did you do on Sunday?

30 Foods That Are Normal In Britain But Nowhere Else

Beans on toast is a staple!!  Just plain no other things in it like onions or bacon.

Chip butty, lashings of butter, nothing else needed.

Marmite on toast, I will pass!!

Black pudding, used to like, wouldn't touch it with a barge pole now!

Jellied eel's........YUCK, YUCK, YUCK!!!

Crisp sandwich........I wrote about that just a month or two ago.......yummy!

Scotch eggs..........love them, haven't made them in a while......

Toad in the hole........love these, especially with gravy

Suet puddings are good, but not with the dried fruit in it.

Not sure if I have had faggot's before.........

Tripe and onion..........no, no, no..........seriously NO!!

Bubble and squeak, always loved that.

Mushy peas, love them with fish and chips.......

Steak and Kidney pudding........normally have the pie rather than the pudding

Laverbread, never heard of it.

Whelks, I may have had them but don't remember when.

Pork pies..........just love them

Pie and mash with liquor.........we would have gravy, liquor is a southern thing.

Fried bread, yum, had that as a kid

Branston Pickle..........nope do not like that at all.......

Bovril, always had a cup of that after swimming as a kid, or was it OXO..........

Heinz salad cream, haven't had it in years, always enjoyed it.

Cockles and winkles, had them as a kid

Monster Munch, loved those as a kid.

Cornish Pasty, love them, prefer them warm or hot.

Battered sausage, enjoy them as well.

Weetabix, hubby has two of these every day for his breakfast.

Mince Pies, are nasty!!!  Full of dried fruits, which I hate.

Pot Noodles, love them, ate a lot of them...

Bread and Butter Pudding, love that as long as it doesn't have raisins or sultana's in them

Well that was a walk down memory lane!

Pig of a week...

 weather wise.

We have run the full gamut of wind, snow, rain, freezing rain and sun.  December has to have been the snowiest month in a number of years.  We have snow coming out of our Ying Yang.  Normally it only snows like this starting the end of this month.  

So I hunted out the two puzzles I got for Christmas and made them.

The first one was only 500 pieces, and an easy one, so got that done in one afternoon/evening.

This one was 1000 pieces, and a lot harder, so I did this one over a few days.

Both will be donated.  I must admit, I do enjoy doing a puzzle.  Do you?

Books I read in December

 "The Good Daughter, by Karin Slaughter"

Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind…

Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father — Pikeville's notorious defense attorney — devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night.

Twenty-eight years later, and Charlie has followed in her father's footsteps to become a lawyer herself — the ideal good daughter. But when violence comes to Pikeville again — and a shocking tragedy leaves the whole town traumatized — Charlie is plunged into a nightmare. Not only is she the first witness on the scene, but it's a case that unleashes the terrible memories she's spent so long trying to suppress. Because the shocking truth about the crime that destroyed her family nearly thirty years ago won't stay buried forever…

Packed with twists and turns, brimming with emotion and heart, The Good Daughter is fiction at its most thrilling.

I think this is the first book I have read by Karin Slaughter?  It had my attention right from the get go.  What I liked about this book was the twists and turns in it.  You think you know where it's going, then it changes course or something else pops up.  There were a couple of things I guessed correctly but there were many more I had no clue about.  Some of the details are a bit blood and guts, so be aware if you're not into reading about that sort of thing!

You do need to concentrate when reading this book.  There is so much detail and the research that had to go into this book it must have been intense.  I borrowed this book from my daughter-in-law who is a lawyer and I could see why she is a fan of this author.

I do think I will be looking out for more Karin Slaughter books when I want to read an intense book.  

I have made a start on this book, I got it at Dollarama:

Fly Girls by Keith O'Brien

I am hoping to get back into my reading in January, I was too busy with other things during December to fit a lot of reading in.

I will say, I did pick up some neat children's books out of Dollarama recently.  Well worth checking out.

Happy New Year

 

I hope 2026 brings you good health and happiness.

🙂