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Good morning everyone and Merry Christmas! PAhippo, welcome back!
What was the best thing that happened to you in 2022? (Thanks to Jezer for the question.) So many positive things..., the best is that I recovered from an illness using a particular way if eating.
Will you be enjoying a special meal today? What will you be having? I'll make a meat roulade, using bison. Never did this recipe. Plus different veggies with herbs and sesame seeds. All baked. And crepes with plum marmelade (no sugar added).
For what in your life do you feel most grateful? For all of it.
What are your top three positive qualities? Kindness, loyalty and creativity.
Do you ever look up old friends or classmates online? Have you ever reconnected with someone that way? Yes and yes.
If you could be invisible for a day, what would you do? It's personal.
Have you ever gotten really lost? What happened? No.
Today’s Questions:
What was the best thing that happened to you in 2022? (Thanks to Jezer for the question.) Finally went on an International trip after staying home with the pandemic for the last two years!
Will you be enjoying a special meal today? What will you be having? Roasted Turkey breast, Lithuanian sausage, mashed potatoes, green beans, gravy, sauerkraut, Lithuanian rye bread.
For what in your life do you feel most grateful? Having a home, family and being debt free.
What are your top three positive qualities? Sense of humor, creative, always seeing there is a light at the end of the tunnel (okay--sometimes it is a long tunnel!)
Do you ever look up old friends or classmates online? Have you ever reconnected with someone that way? No interest
If you could be invisible for a day, what would you do?
Have you ever gotten really lost? What happened? I was lost for about 30 minutes in Central Park (NYC). Having a map was not helpful. I just kept walking and hoping I would finally go the right way. I finally saw tall buildings! So I walked towards them. I was really far off and had to walk a very long way to Times Square. I had to laugh at myself!
Today in History: 336 – First documentary sign of Christmas celebration in Rome. Wow, that was a long time ago!
1809 – Dr. Ephraim McDowell performs the first ovariotomy, removing a 22-pound tumor.
1914 – A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas.
1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
Thanks for the History lesson Bay!
Quote of the Day:
“Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.”
- Jimmy Buffett
Today Is:
Christmas Day
A’Phabet Day or “No L” Day
National Pumpkin Pie Day
What was the best thing that happened to you in 2022? (Thanks to Jezer for the question.)…………Traveling again.
Will you be enjoying a special meal today?…………Yes
What will you be having?…………..Traditional Caribbean Christmas meal, sweets and drinks.
For what in your life do you feel most grateful?………….Food on our table, roof over our heads, traveling , my wife by my side. And parents who really loved and wanted me and my brother.
What are your top three positive qualities?…………..Good humored, good provider and I have been told by several family and friends that I’m a good person, so I’ll go with that one.
Do you ever look up old friends or classmates online? …………….. Rarely, but when I do is mostly for curiosity.
Have you ever reconnected with someone that way?……………No. I’m not on the popular social media circuit.
If you could be invisible for a day, what would you do?…………Seeing the fear, pathos and despair as Hitler realizes he lost the war.
Have you ever gotten really lost? What happened?………Yes, a few wrong turns.
Happy Yule, Happy Holidays, Happy Christmas, Enjoy your family, don’t forget to hug your pets.
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Today’s Questions:
What was the best thing that happened to you in 2022? (Thanks to Jezer for the question.) After a couple of medical issues we are still here.
Will you be enjoying a special meal today? What will you be having? Due to family oblications we had had our Christmas meal last week. Today it will be a movie (Avatar) and a big tub of buttered popcorn.
For what in your life do you feel most grateful? Definetly the wife.
What are your top three positive qualities? Reliable, trustworthy and
Do you ever look up old friends or classmates online? Have you ever reconnected with someone that way? Funny story. When we moved to the city we now live in 5years after graduating the neighborhood had 5 families from our high school, none of them were from our class.
If you could be invisible for a day, what would you do? Beat guess,something nefarious.
Have you ever gotten really lost? What happened? Never lost, often confused.
What was the best thing that happened to you in 2022? (Thanks to Jezer for the question.)
Hmm- Seeing Miss J, once here, and once at her place was lovely. Mrs J and I had a wonderful week on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica.
Will you be enjoying a special meal today? What will you be having?
We have had our yummy Christmas lunch here at home. Turkey, sausages covered in bacon, stuffing, cauliflower done in butter and sprinkled with paprika, brussel sprouts with chesnuts and bacon, balsamic vinegar and sage, parsnips in Parmesan, roast potatoes, gravy, Christmas pudding and clotted cream.
For what in your life do you feel most grateful?
Having, with my wonderful wife, such a lovely, intellegent and hard working daughter. Having enjoyed my working life, and now loving retirement in beautiful SW France.
What are your top three positive qualities?
I don't like blowing my own trumpet, but pushed I try to be kind to others, try to be positive and like to be fun.
Do you ever look up old friends or classmates online? Have you ever reconnected with someone that way?
One or two, but I live far from any of them.
If you could be invisible for a day, what would you do?
What was the best thing that happened to you in 2022? (Thanks to Jezer for the question.) In July, I finally found the right medical provider to help me with a chronic neck problem that began in March 2021. He is so caring and skilled, and I am finally getting better after so many months of terrible pain. I call him the miracle worker.
Will you be enjoying a special meal today? Not today. My family's get-together and big meal was last evening. What will you be having? At my sister's house we had lasagna, salad, garlic bread and some other goodies. It was a scrumptious meal shared with 11 loved ones.
For what in your life do you feel most grateful? Loving family and friends; good health
What are your top three positive qualities? Hmm. I would say compassion, empathy and my lifelong involvement in volunteer work.
Do you ever look up old friends or classmates online? I have a couple of times. Have you ever reconnected with someone that way? Nope. Couldn't find who I was looking for.
If you could be invisible for a day, what would you do? Maybe go swimming. I'd feel free as a bird because no one could see me in my bathing suit!
Have you ever gotten really lost? Yes; twice. Once on foot and once in my car. What happened? About 20 years ago, I was on my way to attend a baby shower, and I was given an incorrect address. I drove around and around looking for the home; even stopped at a police station and asked where it was, and the cops said there was no such address. Unfortunately, the invitation did not include a phone number, so I couldn't even call the person's home to ask where the heck she was. I hunted for about an hour and a half and then finally gave up.
The time I got lost on foot, I was with my sister and a friend hiking in a wooded county park on a very hot summer day. Vandals had destroyed the trail markers and we got hopelessly lost for a couple of hours. We finally ended up walking out from the trees onto a roadway and we recognized where we were. A passing driver took pity on us and drove us back to the park area where the rest of our group was picnicking. We were so embarrassed!
Thanks for the Sunday questions, Bay!
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Today’s Questions:
What was the best thing that happened to you in 2022? (Thanks to Jezer for the question.) Finding a contractor who did some long-delayed and much-needed repairs and upgrades to our house. I also enjoyed meeting Gella, his friendly and affectionate chocolate lab mix who accompanied him every day.
Will you be enjoying a special meal today? What will you be having? I served roast turkey breast wrapped in bacon, cornbread dressing, gravy, sweet potatoes, green beans and apple pie.
For what in your life do you feel most grateful? Mr. Bay had medical crisis in September that sent him to the hospital twice, with a month in a rehab facility, but he's home and doing much better now.
What are your top three positive qualities? Kindness, sense of humor, resilience.
Do you ever look up old friends or classmates online? Have you ever reconnected with someone that way? Yes, I'm snoopy and have looked up many old friends and classmates online. I've found a few, and whether or not I initiated contract, it's been good to know that they're still around and to see photos of what they look like today.
If you could be invisible for a day, what would you do? I like PJSaturn's answer. Also, I would enjoy going to as many concerts as I like without having to buy a ticket or wandering in and out of random houses just to see how other people live.
Have you ever gotten really lost? What happened? When I lived in New York City I was supposed to meet a friend who lived near Columbia University, but I took the wrong subway line and ended up on 125th Street, the middle of Harlem. As a young white woman alone in a black neighborhood, I was pretty nervous. But when I asked for directions everyone I talked to was kind and helpful. One man even walked me to the bus stop and told me where to get off.
Today’s Questions: What was the best thing that happened to you in 2022? (Thanks to Jezer for the question.)
Surviving another year!
Will you be enjoying a special meal today? What will you be having? We had Prime Rib, potatoes, California Blend Veggies and Rolls
For what in your life do you feel most grateful? Loved ones, home, a roof over my head, food to eat, life itself....everything really
What are your top three positive qualities? Optimism, Honesty and Empathy
Do you ever look up old friends or classmates online? Have you ever reconnected with someone that way? Last time I looked, found three people in my past were dead....decided it's probably just best not to look!
If you could be invisible for a day, what would you do? I am not saying, but boy would I have fun with that one!
Have you ever gotten really lost? What happened? No, not too bad....not since GPS and Google Maps....before that, I would just stop and ask directions the few times that I was lost.
[quote=Bayarea4;64641509]Welcome to Questions of the Day for Christmas Day, Sunday, December 25, 2022. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Capricorn. Some famous people born on this date include nurse and American Red Cross founder Clara Barton, hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, actor Humphrey Bogart, bandleader Cab Calloway, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, author Carlos Castaneda, singers Barbara Mandrell, Jimmy Buffett and Annie Lennox; actress Sissy Spacek and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.
Today’s Questions:
What was the best thing that happened to you in 2022? (Thanks to Jezer for the question.)
Selling the last rental.
Will you be enjoying a special meal today? What will you be having?
I made prime rib but I had to do a bird rescue while it was cooking and deliver a meal to sick friends. I got home to cold prime rib. That's okay. That poor bird was frozen to a friends fence by it's chin.
For what in your life do you feel most grateful?
My husband and good friends.
What are your top three positive qualities?
My kindness, my sense of human and I'm a giver not a taker.
Do you ever look up old friends or classmates online? Have you ever reconnected with someone that way?
Yes on Facebook.
If you could be invisible for a day, what would you do?
Spy on one long lost friend.
Have you ever gotten really lost? What happened?
Yes. The GPS took us to the Canadian border when we were in Maine. We had to go in and explain why we were there without our passports,. Then we had to do the same on the American side when we turned around. Today in History: 336 – First documentary sign of Christmas celebration in Rome. 800 – The coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome. 1000 – The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary. 1025 – Coronation of Mieszko II Lambert as king of Poland. 1046 – Henry III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement II. 1066 – William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, is crowned king of England at Westminster Abbey, London. 1100 – Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. 1130 – Count Roger II of Sicily is crowned the first king of Sicily. 1492 – The carrack Santa María, commanded by Christopher Columbus, runs onto a reef off Haiti due to an improper watch. 1559 – Pope Pius IV is elected four months after his predecessor's death. 1758 – Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.[19] 1776 – George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day. 1809 – Dr. Ephraim McDowell performs the first ovariotomy, removing a 22-pound tumor. 1814 – Rev. Samuel Marsden holds the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at Rangihoua Bay. 1815 – The Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continually performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance. 1831 – The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt begins; up to 20% of Jamaica's slaves mobilize in an ultimately unsuccessful fight for freedom. 1837 – Second Seminole War: American general Zachary Taylor leads 1,100 troops against the Seminoles at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee. 1868 – Pardons for ex-Confederates: United States President Andrew Johnson grants an unconditional pardon to all Confederate veterans. 1914 – A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas. 1941 – Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, appointed commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet on December 17, arrives at Pearl Harbor. 1941 – World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. 1941 – Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces. 1946 – The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor. 1950 – The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951. 1962 – The Soviet Union conducts its final above-ground nuclear weapon test, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit. 1977 – Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with its president Anwar Sadat. 1989 – Romanian Revolution: Deposed President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena, are condemned to death and executed after a summary trial. 1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union. 2003 – The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, stops transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing. 2004 – The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005. 2019 – Twenty people are killed and thousands are left homeless by Typhoon Phanfone in the Philippines. 2021 – The James Webb Space Telescope is launched.
Word of the Day: salient SAIL-yuntadjective
Standing out conspicuously; being prominent, or of notable significance
“The assignment was to write down the salient points from the article.”
Quote of the Day:
“Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.”
- Jimmy Buffett
Today Is:
Christmas Day
A’Phabet Day or “No L” Day
National Pumpkin Pie Day
Thanks Bay. I hope you all had a great Christmas. I had the little one from Friday night to late yesterday. There was no time to get back and wish you all a Happy Holiday.
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