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For some reason I came into the office today. I got here at the crack of 9 and will be leaving in about 30 minutes. We've been working on a huge project since the first of November that needs about 25MM in financing. We are almost fully funded for this and our strategy has been playing out nicely. We may yet live to see another day here at Portal Capital. :thumbup:

Today, we'll take the kids to the Saturday Market downtown, where I'll give the boys $20 and tell them to buy something for their mom and step-mom. I always enjoy watching them make their purchases. They are so different. Kellen will take his time with it, carefully weighing his options before purchasing. I even watched him successfully talk a vendor down once because he didn't have enough money. Coop, on the other hand, can get rid of the money fast enough. This child must never ever go to Las Vegas.

From there, we'll take the boys to Urban Farmer at the Hotel Nines, where they boys will have hot chocolate and we'll have adult beverages. And then it is off to church for the 5pm xmas eve service, which makes my mother very happy. She and I have fought for over 20 years on religion, but I'm thankful we both have reached a place where we respect each other's beliefs and views. All she asks is we go for Xmas with the kids. That's not asking too much and I kind of enjoy the service around the holidays.

Dinner at her house afterwards. Will be interesting to see how the interaction goes between us and my sister. We have been riding her pretty hard over the last few weeks because she is really in a bad spot. We think she is putting herself before her kids and her oldest child needs some help. We are begging her to get him some therapy to work through some issues, but she hates us for suggesting that and has been very angry with us. It's been pretty bad all the way around. I'm sure there will be some drama.

And then it's off to Detroit in December for a week, every man's dream come true. :excited: Fly out on Christmas Day and back on New Years. 7am flight on New Year's Day. What could possibly go wrong with that? :mellow:

tl, dr

/Guster

:don'tcare:

img/ cat doing something funny

 
Merry Xmas Eve to everyone. Had today off. I did run to Walmart to pickup some stuff of dinner tonight and breakfast tomorrow. Also stopped to pick up some fresh cod at the local grocery store, then to the little bakery for cookies.

Tonight, me and my wife will have a modified traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve dinner. Homemade potato and cheese pierogies, fried cod and aspargus. When I was a kid, even up to a few years ago, this was a big family dinner. It would be my immediate family along with my uncle and his family and my aunt and her family at my grandparents house. This meal was one I looked forward to all year long. It would consist of homemade pierogies, fried fish, meatless cabbage rolls (holubsi), boiled cabbage and mushed peas (kapusta and peas) and flat bread. Between my grandma and my mom, their would be close to 600 pierogies made. Great aunts would stop by to pick some up.

This was a tradition brought to America by my great grandparents, celebrated unbroken from the 1920s until about 2004/2005 when my grandma had a stroke. Since then, it has broken up. With my cousins having their own families and my sister and her family living in NC, it was too hard to keep together. My parents are celebrating with my sister this year, so it is just me and my wife. This is all fine as it will be nice and low key. I still got the homemade pierogies.

Well, anyway, I know this is getting into the Guster length without the payoff, so I'll just end it with Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.

 
For some reason I came into the office today. I got here at the crack of 9 and will be leaving in about 30 minutes. We've been working on a huge project since the first of November that needs about 25MM in financing. We are almost fully funded for this and our strategy has been playing out nicely. We may yet live to see another day here at Portal Capital. :thumbup:

Today, we'll take the kids to the Saturday Market downtown, where I'll give the boys $20 and tell them to buy something for their mom and step-mom. I always enjoy watching them make their purchases. They are so different. Kellen will take his time with it, carefully weighing his options before purchasing. I even watched him successfully talk a vendor down once because he didn't have enough money. Coop, on the other hand, can get rid of the money fast enough. This child must never ever go to Las Vegas.

From there, we'll take the boys to Urban Farmer at the Hotel Nines, where they boys will have hot chocolate and we'll have adult beverages. And then it is off to church for the 5pm xmas eve service, which makes my mother very happy. She and I have fought for over 20 years on religion, but I'm thankful we both have reached a place where we respect each other's beliefs and views. All she asks is we go for Xmas with the kids. That's not asking too much and I kind of enjoy the service around the holidays.

Dinner at her house afterwards. Will be interesting to see how the interaction goes between us and my sister. We have been riding her pretty hard over the last few weeks because she is really in a bad spot. We think she is putting herself before her kids and her oldest child needs some help. We are begging her to get him some therapy to work through some issues, but she hates us for suggesting that and has been very angry with us. It's been pretty bad all the way around. I'm sure there will be some drama.

And then it's off to Detroit in December for a week, every man's dream come true. :excited: Fly out on Christmas Day and back on New Years. 7am flight on New Year's Day. What could possibly go wrong with that? :mellow:

tl, dr

/Guster

:don'tcare:

img/ cat doing something funny
At least I don't have to do this. I don't know if you saw my FB post about giving my boys a $20 a piece. They picked out a mistletoe decoration (so they could give their momma a kiss whenever she stood under it awwww), a picture frame that says "Friends" and then the $19.99 blender that was really $129.99. Yes I'm that out of touch with how much stuff costs. :bag:
tl, dr

/Guster

:don'tcare:

img/ cat doing something funny
:lmao: Have a great Christmas Eve/Christmas, GMTAN.

By-product of divorce-have Christmas at 4 separate houses tomorrow. Ex's-->my house--->gf--->gf parents. Good thing is I'm with my daughter for the first three.
:goodposting:
Merry Xmas Eve to everyone. Had today off. I did run to Walmart to pickup some stuff of dinner tonight and breakfast tomorrow. Also stopped to pick up some fresh cod at the local grocery store, then to the little bakery for cookies.

Tonight, me and my wife will have a modified traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve dinner. Homemade potato and cheese pierogies, fried cod and aspargus. When I was a kid, even up to a few years ago, this was a big family dinner. It would be my immediate family along with my uncle and his family and my aunt and her family at my grandparents house. This meal was one I looked forward to all year long. It would consist of homemade pierogies, fried fish, meatless cabbage rolls (holubsi), boiled cabbage and mushed peas (kapusta and peas) and flat bread. Between my grandma and my mom, their would be close to 600 pierogies made. Great aunts would stop by to pick some up.

This was a tradition brought to America by my great grandparents, celebrated unbroken from the 1920s until about 2004/2005 when my grandma had a stroke. Since then, it has broken up. With my cousins having their own families and my sister and her family living in NC, it was too hard to keep together. My parents are celebrating with my sister this year, so it is just me and my wife. This is all fine as it will be nice and low key. I still got the homemade pierogies.

Well, anyway, I know this is getting into the Guster length without the payoff, so I'll just end it with Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
:thumbup:
 
Just did the bulk of my Xmas shopping at Costco on Xmas Eve. Crowds weren't too bad either. Suck it, Rite Aid!

 
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For some reason I came into the office today. I got here at the crack of 9 and will be leaving in about 30 minutes. We've been working on a huge project since the first of November that needs about 25MM in financing. We are almost fully funded for this and our strategy has been playing out nicely. We may yet live to see another day here at Portal Capital. :thumbup: Today, we'll take the kids to the Saturday Market downtown, where I'll give the boys $20 and tell them to buy something for their mom and step-mom. I always enjoy watching them make their purchases. They are so different. Kellen will take his time with it, carefully weighing his options before purchasing. I even watched him successfully talk a vendor down once because he didn't have enough money. Coop, on the other hand, can get rid of the money fast enough. This child must never ever go to Las Vegas. From there, we'll take the boys to Urban Farmer at the Hotel Nines, where they boys will have hot chocolate and we'll have adult beverages. And then it is off to church for the 5pm xmas eve service, which makes my mother very happy. She and I have fought for over 20 years on religion, but I'm thankful we both have reached a place where we respect each other's beliefs and views. All she asks is we go for Xmas with the kids. That's not asking too much and I kind of enjoy the service around the holidays. Dinner at her house afterwards. Will be interesting to see how the interaction goes between us and my sister. We have been riding her pretty hard over the last few weeks because she is really in a bad spot. We think she is putting herself before her kids and her oldest child needs some help. We are begging her to get him some therapy to work through some issues, but she hates us for suggesting that and has been very angry with us. It's been pretty bad all the way around. I'm sure there will be some drama. And then it's off to Detroit in December for a week, every man's dream come true. :excited: Fly out on Christmas Day and back on New Years. 7am flight on New Year's Day. What could possibly go wrong with that? :mellow: tl, dr/Guster:don'tcare:img/ cat doing something funny
OH my GOD!![/Les Gold]
 
To the card recipients-

Please feel no need to add me to a card exchange thing. THis was a fluke and is unlikely to be repeated.

and if I did not send you one its just because you were not on the Secret Santa 2011 list sent to me by Bronko.

 
Got my card today too!

Though, since it says "I can't wait to meet you!" on it, it won't be going on the coffee table with the others.

Also, I finally picked up my SS package from UPS. It's from strykerpks. :excited:

 
Merry Christmas to all the GMTANers, hope Santa is good to all of you! Thanks to all of you for the laughs throughout the year!

 
Tonight, me and my wife will have a modified traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve dinner. Homemade potato and cheese pierogies, fried cod and aspargus. When I was a kid, even up to a few years ago, this was a big family dinner. It would be my immediate family along with my uncle and his family and my aunt and her family at my grandparents house. This meal was one I looked forward to all year long. It would consist of homemade pierogies, fried fish, meatless cabbage rolls (holubsi), boiled cabbage and mushed peas (kapusta and peas) and flat bread. Between my grandma and my mom, their would be close to 600 pierogies made. Great aunts would stop by to pick some up.This was a tradition brought to America by my great grandparents, celebrated unbroken from the 1920s until about 2004/2005 when my grandma had a stroke. Since then, it has broken up. With my cousins having their own families and my sister and her family living in NC, it was too hard to keep together. My parents are celebrating with my sister this year, so it is just me and my wife. This is all fine as it will be nice and low key. I still got the homemade pierogies.
Mmmmm, homemade pierogies. Growing up, there was a Ukranian church a few blocks and the little old ladies would sell them at the church bazaars.
 
Well that was really freaking weird. Usually Christmas Eve starts around 8 or so. I don't know WTF I'm going to do the rest of the night.

Anyway, my BIL & SIL and their two boys show up around 2. Cool. Nobody wants to drink. Uncool. I decided to pour one for myself anyway. My other SIL shows up around 3:15 and says to me and her brother that we should leave and go hang with her husband. :mellow: We both just sort of look at each other, and, oh okay. They live 5 minutes away, no big deal. He was sleeping on the couch when we got there. Slightly awkward. We're there for 40 minutes or so and my SIL shows up home, tells us we need to leave because my boys want to open presents. Weird. :mellow:

I really wish I didn't have this chest infection, I NEED a stoogie and other stuff.

 
Well that was really freaking weird. Usually Christmas Eve starts around 8 or so. I don't know WTF I'm going to do the rest of the night.Anyway, my BIL & SIL and their two boys show up around 2. Cool. Nobody wants to drink. Uncool. I decided to pour one for myself anyway. My other SIL shows up around 3:15 and says to me and her brother that we should leave and go hang with her husband. :mellow: We both just sort of look at each other, and, oh okay. They live 5 minutes away, no big deal. He was sleeping on the couch when we got there. Slightly awkward. We're there for 40 minutes or so and my SIL shows up home, tells us we need to leave because my boys want to open presents. Weird. :mellow:I really wish I didn't have this chest infection, I NEED a stoogie and other stuff.
I called my local pub to see how late they are open tonight... no answer, so looks like they are closed :kicksrock:I'll be staying in, drinking heavily and making stupid live bets on the bowl game :thumbup:
 
Watching MST3K Santa Conquers the Martians...aka the Road House Xmas episode. Merry Xmas to all the GMTAN peeps. :banned:

 
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Tonight, me and my wife will have a modified traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve dinner. Homemade potato and cheese pierogies, fried cod and aspargus. When I was a kid, even up to a few years ago, this was a big family dinner. It would be my immediate family along with my uncle and his family and my aunt and her family at my grandparents house. This meal was one I looked forward to all year long. It would consist of homemade pierogies, fried fish, meatless cabbage rolls (holubsi), boiled cabbage and mushed peas (kapusta and peas) and flat bread. Between my grandma and my mom, their would be close to 600 pierogies made. Great aunts would stop by to pick some up.This was a tradition brought to America by my great grandparents, celebrated unbroken from the 1920s until about 2004/2005 when my grandma had a stroke. Since then, it has broken up. With my cousins having their own families and my sister and her family living in NC, it was too hard to keep together. My parents are celebrating with my sister this year, so it is just me and my wife. This is all fine as it will be nice and low key. I still got the homemade pierogies.
Mmmmm, homemade pierogies. Growing up, there was a Ukranian church a few blocks and the little old ladies would sell them at the church bazaars.
:thumbup:
 
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Well that was really freaking weird. Usually Christmas Eve starts around 8 or so. I don't know WTF I'm going to do the rest of the night.Anyway, my BIL & SIL and their two boys show up around 2. Cool. Nobody wants to drink. Uncool. I decided to pour one for myself anyway. My other SIL shows up around 3:15 and says to me and her brother that we should leave and go hang with her husband. :mellow: We both just sort of look at each other, and, oh okay. They live 5 minutes away, no big deal. He was sleeping on the couch when we got there. Slightly awkward. We're there for 40 minutes or so and my SIL shows up home, tells us we need to leave because my boys want to open presents. Weird. :mellow:I really wish I didn't have this chest infection, I NEED a stoogie and other stuff.
I called my local pub to see how late they are open tonight... no answer, so looks like they are closed :kicksrock:I'll be staying in, drinking heavily and making stupid live bets on the bowl game :thumbup:
One of the benefits of having a local bar owned by a degenerate Irish gambler in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, he makes the bartenders stay open until 4 on Christmas Eve :thumbup:Alas I am sick as a ####### dog :thumbdown:I am somehow always sick at ChristmasMerry Christmas all!
 
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Tonight, me and my wife will have a modified traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve dinner. Homemade potato and cheese pierogies, fried cod and aspargus. When I was a kid, even up to a few years ago, this was a big family dinner. It would be my immediate family along with my uncle and his family and my aunt and her family at my grandparents house. This meal was one I looked forward to all year long. It would consist of homemade pierogies, fried fish, meatless cabbage rolls (holubsi), boiled cabbage and mushed peas (kapusta and peas) and flat bread. Between my grandma and my mom, their would be close to 600 pierogies made. Great aunts would stop by to pick some up.This was a tradition brought to America by my great grandparents, celebrated unbroken from the 1920s until about 2004/2005 when my grandma had a stroke. Since then, it has broken up. With my cousins having their own families and my sister and her family living in NC, it was too hard to keep together. My parents are celebrating with my sister this year, so it is just me and my wife. This is all fine as it will be nice and low key. I still got the homemade pierogies.
Mmmmm, homemade pierogies. Growing up, there was a Ukranian church a few blocks and the little old ladies would sell them at the church bazaars.
:thumbsup:
I'd like your pierogy and fried cod recipes.
 
For some reason I came into the office today. I got here at the crack of 9 and will be leaving in about 30 minutes. We've been working on a huge project since the first of November that needs about 25MM in financing. We are almost fully funded for this and our strategy has been playing out nicely. We may yet live to see another day here at Portal Capital. :thumbup: Today, we'll take the kids to the Saturday Market downtown, where I'll give the boys $20 and tell them to buy something for their mom and step-mom. I always enjoy watching them make their purchases. They are so different. Kellen will take his time with it, carefully weighing his options before purchasing. I even watched him successfully talk a vendor down once because he didn't have enough money. Coop, on the other hand, can get rid of the money fast enough. This child must never ever go to Las Vegas. From there, we'll take the boys to Urban Farmer at the Hotel Nines, where they boys will have hot chocolate and we'll have adult beverages. And then it is off to church for the 5pm xmas eve service, which makes my mother very happy. She and I have fought for over 20 years on religion, but I'm thankful we both have reached a place where we respect each other's beliefs and views. All she asks is we go for Xmas with the kids. That's not asking too much and I kind of enjoy the service around the holidays. Dinner at her house afterwards. Will be interesting to see how the interaction goes between us and my sister. We have been riding her pretty hard over the last few weeks because she is really in a bad spot. We think she is putting herself before her kids and her oldest child needs some help. We are begging her to get him some therapy to work through some issues, but she hates us for suggesting that and has been very angry with us. It's been pretty bad all the way around. I'm sure there will be some drama. And then it's off to Detroit in December for a week, every man's dream come true. :excited: Fly out on Christmas Day and back on New Years. 7am flight on New Year's Day. What could possibly go wrong with that? :mellow: tl, dr/Guster:don'tcare:img/ cat doing something funny
Sounds pretty awesome to me. Have a Greg Christmas GB.
 
Tonight, me and my wife will have a modified traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve dinner. Homemade potato and cheese pierogies, fried cod and aspargus. When I was a kid, even up to a few years ago, this was a big family dinner. It would be my immediate family along with my uncle and his family and my aunt and her family at my grandparents house. This meal was one I looked forward to all year long. It would consist of homemade pierogies, fried fish, meatless cabbage rolls (holubsi), boiled cabbage and mushed peas (kapusta and peas) and flat bread. Between my grandma and my mom, their would be close to 600 pierogies made. Great aunts would stop by to pick some up.This was a tradition brought to America by my great grandparents, celebrated unbroken from the 1920s until about 2004/2005 when my grandma had a stroke. Since then, it has broken up. With my cousins having their own families and my sister and her family living in NC, it was too hard to keep together. My parents are celebrating with my sister this year, so it is just me and my wife. This is all fine as it will be nice and low key. I still got the homemade pierogies.
Mmmmm, homemade pierogies. Growing up, there was a Ukranian church a few blocks and the little old ladies would sell them at the church bazaars.
:thumbsup:
I'd like your pierogy and fried cod recipes.
I'd like someone to cook me some pierogies.
 
Tonight, me and my wife will have a modified traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve dinner. Homemade potato and cheese pierogies, fried cod and aspargus. When I was a kid, even up to a few years ago, this was a big family dinner. It would be my immediate family along with my uncle and his family and my aunt and her family at my grandparents house. This meal was one I looked forward to all year long. It would consist of homemade pierogies, fried fish, meatless cabbage rolls (holubsi), boiled cabbage and mushed peas (kapusta and peas) and flat bread. Between my grandma and my mom, their would be close to 600 pierogies made. Great aunts would stop by to pick some up.This was a tradition brought to America by my great grandparents, celebrated unbroken from the 1920s until about 2004/2005 when my grandma had a stroke. Since then, it has broken up. With my cousins having their own families and my sister and her family living in NC, it was too hard to keep together. My parents are celebrating with my sister this year, so it is just me and my wife. This is all fine as it will be nice and low key. I still got the homemade pierogies.
Mmmmm, homemade pierogies. Growing up, there was a Ukranian church a few blocks and the little old ladies would sell them at the church bazaars.
:thumbsup:
I'd like your pierogy and fried cod recipes.
I will pm you the pierogie recipe when i am sober also when i am not on my phone, possibly tomorrow morning, the fried cod was basically fry magic and then some other stuff my wife tossed in. She did do an egg wash that had some pepper, garrlic, and franks red hot in it. I bought a fresh cod loin that we cut into pieces, she tossed the pieces into the egg wash for a bit tumbled them in the fry magic/other spices then we pan fried in 1/4 cup of canola oil(cast iron would be good here but i dont have one)
 
Tonight, me and my wife will have a modified traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve dinner. Homemade potato and cheese pierogies, fried cod and aspargus. When I was a kid, even up to a few years ago, this was a big family dinner. It would be my immediate family along with my uncle and his family and my aunt and her family at my grandparents house. This meal was one I looked forward to all year long. It would consist of homemade pierogies, fried fish, meatless cabbage rolls (holubsi), boiled cabbage and mushed peas (kapusta and peas) and flat bread. Between my grandma and my mom, their would be close to 600 pierogies made. Great aunts would stop by to pick some up.This was a tradition brought to America by my great grandparents, celebrated unbroken from the 1920s until about 2004/2005 when my grandma had a stroke. Since then, it has broken up. With my cousins having their own families and my sister and her family living in NC, it was too hard to keep together. My parents are celebrating with my sister this year, so it is just me and my wife. This is all fine as it will be nice and low key. I still got the homemade pierogies.
Mmmmm, homemade pierogies. Growing up, there was a Ukranian church a few blocks and the little old ladies would sell them at the church bazaars.
:thumbsup:
I'd like your pierogy and fried cod recipes.
I'd like someone to cook me some pierogies.
Here is the 'secret' family recipe...this comes directly from my grandma's cookbook. The Cheese and potato and cottage cheese recipes are all I have ever had. I have seen other fillings. Once my mom did a sauerkraut filling that would have been really good however, she used a Martha Stewart recipe for the dough and it was horrible. I know some people deep fry their pierogies or fry them in a pan, but the only way that *I* will eat them is to boil them and melt butter over them. Doing this a frying some cabbage to make a different type of halushki is also acceptable...I may not be a beer snob as I have no problem with big breweries or a food snob until it comes to our family recipe!Cheese & Potato PerogiesDough3 cups flour (sifted)½ tsp. salt¼ tsp. baking powder3 eggs beaten¾ cup milk ----------Warm milk & butter (NOT HOT) before you put it in the mixture4 tbs. melted buttermix and kneed on a floured surface, cover andlet rest for ½ hour5 lb. potatoes cooked1 lb. Colby longhorn cheese shredded1 stick buttersalt & pepper to tastemake ahead of time and let it get coldUse a 3” round cookie cutter, fill with 1 tbs. of potato mixture, fold in half moon shape and crimp very well.Place on a floured towel. Use 2 dough recipes to 5 lb. of potatoesUse a large pot of boiling water and drop in approximately perogies at a time when they come to the surface time for 15 minutes in a medium rolling boil (DO NOT BOIL HARD). Take them out and place in a pot of cold water then drain. Pour melted butter and fried onions on top.Dry Cottage Cheese Mixture1 lb. dry cottage cheesepinch sugarsalt & pepper1 eggMash with a potato masherUse 1 dough recipe for this and you will get 3 dozen perogies
 
Merry Christmas to all in the GMTAN! I'm with my wife's family. 59 people just on her dad's side so we're holding it in her uncle's bar. Presents should last four the next 4 hours or so. At least we have lots of booze. Tis the season I guess.

 
Merry Christmas to all in the GMTAN! I'm with my wife's family. 59 people just on her dad's side so we're holding it in her uncle's bar. Presents should last four the next 4 hours or so. At least we have lots of booze. Tis the season I guess.
:thumbup:We have about 75 people coming over to our house tomorrow. Copious amounts of booze and 5 cases of beer. Merry Christmas GMTAN! Looking forward to a fun 2013
 
75 people get about 1.5 beers each I guess? Ouch.
Case of beer (cheap, yeah that's the way I roll) a Growler of pretty good beer, and 3 bottles of wine...and now the 24 hour marathon of "A Christmas Story"....and it's just me and my wife...oh, we exchanged gifts already, yeah, I out kicked my coverage
 

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