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Doing Happy Homemaker Monday so extensively helps keep me on track as it summarizes the past week and lays out a fairly concise plan for this week.
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with our host, Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom
This is always one of those dates that sticks with me! 28 years ago today, also on a Monday, my world turned upside down (along with thousands of others) when at 430AM the Northridge earthquake struck and we lost it all. Even after growing up in southern California and knowing about, as well as living through other major quakes, the memories of this one in particular are VERY vivid. I honestly thought a jet plane had crashed into the neighborhood from the violent way it all happened (I was literally thrown out of bed across the room and had bruises on the bottoms of my feet for a month), but I lived on a street near a DWP plant and what I thought I saw was actually the transformers on the pole tops all blowing one after another…
The earthquake occurred just after 4:30 am local time along a previously undocumented blind thrust fault in Northridge California, a suburb located about 20 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
The major shock lasted 10–20 seconds and its peak ground acceleration of 1.82 g was the highest ever instrumentally recorded in an urban area in North America and registered a magnitude of 6.7. It was caused by dip slip on a thrust fault—the overriding movement of one crustal block up and over a second crustal block.
This is what is left of the parking garage I would have been parked in later that day had it not been a federal holiday for Martin Luther King day.
The major shock lasted 10–20 seconds AND I am STILL after all these years flabbergasted by the things destroyed AND the things that survived that horrible day in just that short amount of time.
My car was totaled when the neighbors block wall toppled on top of it because there was no rebar supporting it, but my Princess House Brandy snifter bowl full of all the shells I’ve collected through life survived after it flew across the room and landed on top of a pillow under my roll top desk. The painter was coming that day to do the remodel on the kitchen so literally EVERYTHING kitchen related was on banquet tables throughout the house as we had just spent the weekend emptying EVERY single cabinet. We lost every last piece of our small appliances, glassware, dishes, crystal, china, food, etc… and yet life has moved on, things have been replaced and the memories remain.
This is the first piece of Princess House crystal I ever purchased and the ONLY piece I have left. Only God knows how it survived that day since NOTHING else did. In it are the shells that I have collected with my cousin Jenn throughout my life from the Galveston, Texas Gulf Coast. She and I neither one live there now, but do still have friends and family in the vicinity.
On another note today would have been Betty White’s 100th birthday – SEE MY GINGERBREAD POST to honor her later today.
This was one of my favorite magazine covers from her 98th birthday.
I’m keeping track of the words from the Compendium of UGLY English words calendar I was gifted for Christmas as a source of amusement. Some of these are roll on the floor laughing hilarious and others are just flat out gross! They do cheat a bit and only give us one word for the weekends. 😀 I’ll pick up where we left off last Monday.
- January 10 – MILDEW (noun) A white fungus that forms on damp organic material like clothes or rugs. Commonly found in old apartment complexes under that light fixture that always leaks when it rains.
- January 11 – NAUSEA (noun) Believe it or not, there’s a word for that queasy rumbling you get in your stomach as you stare into the dizzying abyss of your toilet following a night of heavy partying or cheap Thai food: nausea. If you’re feeling “nauseated” or “nauseous” and think that you situation can’t possibly get any worse, just know that you can.
- January 12 – DOUCHE (noun) A strong jet of water applied to certain body cavities as a means of cleansing, or a device used for this purpose. You probably saw it in a French Airbnb once.
- January 13 – PANTIES (noun) A woman’s undergarments and contender for worst word on this list next to moist
purely for its consistent pairing with the word “used” as in “used panties” and as in “with no time to spare and no other option,…
- January 14 – QUAFF (noun) To drink with enthusiasm (or the act of doing so). Often results in throbbing hangovers and a lot of missed calls from some guy named :Hot Anthony”.
- January 15-16 – SNOT (noun) A piece of mucus and/or a stuck-up person. Snot is the sound you hear when your nose is filled with snot and you attempt to breathe in. Try it.
We’re a bit on the dry side again, but still cold with highs in the low 50’s and night’s in the 30’s with foggy days so I am still enjoying hoodies and UGGs when I go out.
WOW, just such a big category lately. I’m still having trouble wrapping my head around people spouting “hoax” regarding the pandemic. No matter where you stand on vaccinations, saying that there is nothing going on is just crazy. The cult like mentality it takes to believe that the WHOLE world is perpetrating a hoax just baffles me. I pray that some enlightenment takes root soon. We need to be over this pandemic as a lifestyle.
Hot water, a banana and peach yogurt
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THIS WEEK’S TO DO LIST, PROJECTS & APPOINTMENTS
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WHAT’S ON THE DVR/TV
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Hidden in the Keys, Longboat Key Island by Sage Parker
Okay, I didn’t take this picture, but I thought it was quite funny that I needed to share it 😀
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MONDAY
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TUESDAY
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WEDNESDAY
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THURSDAY
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FRIDAY
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SATURDAY
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SUNDAY
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DINNER
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CHICKEN MADEIRA
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SEAFOOD EXTRAORDINAIRE CASSEROLE
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FRITOS NACHOS
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C.O.R.N. CLEAN OUT REFRIGERATOR NIGHT
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PROSCIUTTO STUFFED CHICKEN BREASTS
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ENCHILADAS SUIZA
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GERMAN APPLE PANCAKES
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DESSERT
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CHERRY CHEESECAKE BITES and DUFF’S ELVIS COOKIES
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- END OF WEEK CHICKEN
- BRAISED LAMB SHANKS
- OLD FASHIONED GINGERBREAD
- CHRISTMAS OATMEAL COOKIES
- HERB AND CHEESE POTATO GRATIN
- ITALIAN BOLOGNESE STUFFED PEPPERS
- CHICKEN CAESAR SALAD PASTA SALAD
- APPLE PANCAKES
- BAYOU BLEND CASSEROLE
- CHERRY CHEESECAKE BITES
- BALSAMIC PINEAPPLE CHICKEN
- SUN DRIED TOMATO PESTO SALAD
Quite an earthquake! we only had a small one here and I was anxious for quite some time after that.. the rumble it makes!
I’m with you with people who believe the pandemic is a hoax??? what worldwide??? geez !
Have a great week
Hello Lovie!
That’s SO crazy about that quake. I don’t remember that at all – but it’s very obvious why you do. It’s a blessing it was MLK jr day because that ramp was probably a lot less empty! And how sad about all of your china etc being out. To hear more about sink holes and other things these days – sure makes one wonder about stability anywhere you go. Just live in faith I guess and pray we’re watched over.
I don’t get the hoax about the pandemic either – like 6 million people have died (if not more – haven’t looked at stats lately). Baffles my mind.
I gave money to an animal shelter yesterday in honor of Betty and in honor of my MIL that passed away as she was a big animal lover too. I love your funny! I don’t know what leftover wine is either. And I can’t wait to watch Mrs. Maisel again! Yay!!
YEP, being MLK day and 430AM saved a lot of lives with no one on those overpasses or under them. Years later I had to travel that route as a commuter and it ALWAYS worried me just a bit. BUT, like you just said, live in faith! We have lived in the U.P. with blizzards, Texas with hurricanes and tornadoes, southern California with earthquakes, floods and devil winds and even here with snowmageddon power outages. It’s ALL about how you handle it.
In honor of Betty we’re trying to tame 2 sweet, but feral cats enough to get them to a friend who is a vet so they can be spayed and find good homes for. My recently passed FIL went to high school with Betty. She’s always going to be one of my favorite people.
The one thing I’ve learned is that there is something EVERYWHERE! We’ve done blizzards when we were in the U.P., rebuilt more than once after earthquakes, done floods and devil winds in the southern California mountains, done hurricanes, floods and tornadoes in Texas…. we’ve just learned to roll with the tides.
The Norwegian pepper cake seems interesting, I’ll have to check that out. I hope your week is great too!
Earthquakes seem so scary to me, I just can’t imagine. Glad you were okay all those years ago. How odd about the dish. I saw your gingerbread recipe, interesting as the golden syrup was what I was on the search to find prior to Christmas to make a Norwegian pepper cake recipe (very close gingerbread) and your recipe reminded me of that. As well as the fact I have heavy whipping cream in my fridge that I need to find a use for and soon. Hope you have a wonderful week!