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Post by weltschmerz on Jul 19, 2023 18:23:45 GMT -5
I own a cellphone and I keep it active for $10 a month. No internet on it. That's for emergencies, although I usually leave it at home because it's heavy. I didn't have it on me when I passed out in the street. A crowd gathered around around me. One lady went through my purse and called my son. Another called an ambulance. Another put her sweater under my head. One stayed with me until DS showed up and everything was resolved. No worries about a health emergency. A lot of places here you would die on the street before would help. Not all. I would help, but DH says I put us in harms way because you don't know what people would try to do. Sadly here some people fake emergencies so that the people helping are distracting, which makes them easy targets for criminals. That's terrible! The lady who rummaged through my purse to get my son's number didn't even take anything. I passed out because the doc doubled my epilepsy medicine, and I hadn't eaten all day. The paramedics even checked with the pharmacy to see if I was telling the truth. Yep, the dose was doubled. "I don't need to go to the hospital. I'll be fine. I'll just stay right here until my son comes and helps me home." One lady said "I'll stay with her until he comes from the West Island". It took a while. People here are pretty nice.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jul 19, 2023 18:26:38 GMT -5
Sitting in my home which still has no electricity/air conditioning. Heat index outside over 100 degrees. The throwing out of no longer frozen in the freezer and spoiled in the fridge begins. No way to cook it. Second time in seventeen months I have had to throw away refrigerated food due to power failures in Memphis. Last time I was without power for seven days due to an ice storm in February, 2022. I should bill the utility company for thrown away food. Do you have homeowners insurance? They'll usually pay for the loss.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jul 19, 2023 18:32:54 GMT -5
Sitting in my home which still has no electricity/air conditioning. Heat index outside over 100 degrees. The throwing out of no longer frozen in the freezer and spoiled in the fridge begins. No way to cook it. Second time in seventeen months I have had to throw away refrigerated food due to power failures in Memphis. Last time I was without power for seven days due to an ice storm in February, 2022. I should bill the utility company for thrown away food. Do you have homeowners insurance? They'll usually pay for the loss. I wish I had a way to help you, Tennesseer. Have you heard why it's off, or when to expect it to be back on? I'd be going crazy! My apt is really dark, even in the middle of a sunny day. Any time it's not sunny out, it's pitch black in my place, without a light on. Yuck.
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Post by giramomma on Jul 19, 2023 18:37:18 GMT -5
I didn't want to cook, so picked up Subway BOGO free 12" for DS and I for dinner. Now I'm too stuffed to move. I treated myself out to a nice dinner. Including desert. Time for meals was limited today, so I was starving and slightly over did it for dinner. I was really nice to have someone serve me, though.
Then all I could hear in my head was an Andi-like posting about how fat/stuffed I am
I think I need to get out a little more.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jul 19, 2023 18:38:13 GMT -5
My sister wears a lot of expensive clothes and gives me what she no longer wants. She's the CEO of a hospital. So, she usually gives me a lot of business suits with everything else. What the hell am I going to do with busiess suits? So, since today wasn't too humid, I decided to walk to the Salvation Army to drop them off. The bag was really heavy. I said to myself...."At least it will be lighter on the way back". Nope. Big mistake. I bought stuff there, hit the SAQ (alcohol store), where I bought a big bottle of Amarula that was on special, then I hit the Korean Market. That't my kryptonite. Don't ask. Anyway, the bags going back were even heavier. Next time, I'm taking the Old Lady Buggy.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Jul 19, 2023 18:40:13 GMT -5
I didn't want to cook, so picked up Subway BOGO free 12" for DS and I for dinner. Now I'm too stuffed to move. I treated myself out to a nice dinner. Including desert. Time for meals was limited today, so I was starving and slightly over did it for dinner. I was really nice to have someone serve me, though.
Then all I could hear in my head was an Andi-like posting about how fat/stuffed I am
I think I need to get out a little more.
I have hidden ice cream for later once I can move again.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2023 18:41:13 GMT -5
Our community association has paid a private, state-licensed, company to spray for mosquitoes weekly between May and October since God was young, maybe early 90's? So now a local freak is claiming the spray is killing pollinators (I can honestly say I've never had more bees of all varieties and butterflies) and then claiming we aren't spraying and that the directors (including me) are just stealing the $$ we claim to spend for mosquito spraying. I'm beyond tired, hurt, and angry.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jul 19, 2023 18:49:10 GMT -5
Do you have homeowners insurance? They'll usually pay for the loss. I wish I had a way to help you, Tennesseer. Have you heard why it's off, or when to expect it to be back on? I'd be going crazy! My apt is really dark, even in the middle of a sunny day. Any time it's not sunny out, it's pitch black in my place, without a light on. Yuck. Ugh. Right after I hit enter, for my above post, a severe thunderstorm warning came on my TV. I hope the power doesn't go out!
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Post by Cookies Galore on Jul 19, 2023 18:52:09 GMT -5
We had big, clonky work cell phones before I retired. They were extremely cheap. Then I did pay as you go phones until I moved here and it didn't get service. I eventually got with the times and have an iPhone and no landline. I do not miss that landline. I also have quiet hours on my phone so I can control when I receive calls that actually ring.Yes, only 3 people have access to me 24/7. Everyone else is blocked between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. My phone # is public info so I had to set some boundaries. Yup, I'm listed on the borough web site since I'm on borough council but I just keep my phone on silent and never answer unfamiliar numbers. Friend and foe can wait until I notice they called, lol.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jul 19, 2023 18:53:08 GMT -5
My sister wears a lot of expensive clothes and gives me what she no longer wants. She's the CEO of a hospital. So, she usually gives me a lot of business suits with everything else. What the hell am I going to do with busiess suits? So, since today wasn't too humid, I decided to walk to the Salvation Army to drop them off. The bag was really heavy. I said to myself...."At least it will be lighter on the way back". Nope. Big mistake. I bought stuff there, hit the SAQ (alcohol store), where I bought a big bottle of Amarula that was on special, then I hit the Korean Market. That't my kryptonite. Don't ask. Anyway, the bags going back were even heavier. Next time, I'm taking the Old Lady Buggy. I'm glad you made it home! I like Amarula. 😊 Enjoy!
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Jul 19, 2023 19:09:02 GMT -5
A lot of places here you would die on the street before would help. Not all. I would help, but DH says I put us in harms way because you don't know what people would try to do. Sadly here some people fake emergencies so that the people helping are distracting, which makes them easy targets for criminals. That's terrible! The lady who rummaged through my purse to get my son's number didn't even take anything. I passed out because the doc doubled my epilepsy medicine, and I hadn't eaten all day. The paramedics even checked with the pharmacy to see if I was telling the truth. Yep, the dose was doubled. "I don't need to go to the hospital. I'll be fine. I'll just stay right here until my son comes and helps me home." One lady said "I'll stay with her until he comes from the West Island". It took a while. People here are pretty nice. I believe that people are mostly nice in general, but Good Lord, a lot of them are pretty awful. I use to work with a young lady (we were both in our early 20’s at the time), who was in a bad car accident. For whatever reason, her immediate reaction to the trauma of the car accident was to jump out out her car and take off running down the street. The car wreck wasn’t even her fault, it was just a trauma response I guess, to take off running. Anyway, by the time the police and paramedics got there, somebody had gone through her wrecked car and stole her purse. What kind of person does something like that?! When DD flipped her car a few years ago, she had just gotten a big tax refund. After the tow truck driver turned her car right side up and drove off with it, I hadn’t even gotten halfway home with DD and my Grandbabies before she remembered that she had several hundreds of dollars in cash in her car. It happened on a Saturday evening, and calling to see where her car was being taken was a dead end. They took it wherever they took it, and she couldn’t get any information, let alone access to her car, until the next business day, Monday. First thing that Monday morning, her Dad took her to where her car had been towed to and impounded. And of course, the money was gone. When she flipped her car, people ran to help her, and stopped their cars to try to see about her and her babies. A couple of men went through her car and gave her anything they found that they thought might have been of value to her. So the easy answer is that maybe one of them stole her money. But NO. Her car was the same Honda sedan I use to own, just a couple years older. Her money was in the console between the front seats. Her car was smashed and upside down when those gentlemen went through it to try to give her whatever was in it that they thought might be valuable to her. One of the car doors popped open when the car finally stopped moving, even though the car was smashed, which is how DD was able to get herself and her children out of the upside down car. But that center console never popped open. Nor did the men that tried to help her, try to open it. If they had, everything that was in it, would have fallen out since the car was upside down, and there was more than just a lot of money in it. It’s fact that it was still closed and intact when her car was turned upright and towed away. The money disappeared AFTER that. But of course, there was no way to prove that, or that the money was even in the car in the first place. I don’t watch the local news much, but I am aware of a recent news story where a retired police officer was found dead in his front yard. That was a headline by itself, for a few reasons, but then it got even worse when a woman was accused of and charged with stealing from him while he lay dead in his front yard. From what I understand without actually reading the news stories, she stole from his person and from his home, while he was laying there dead. I just really can’t, with people anymore. I want to keep believing that most people are good, but I am constantly reminded that a lot of people are really, really horrible and sorry excuses for human beings,
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Jul 19, 2023 19:17:23 GMT -5
Our community association has paid a private, state-licensed, company to spray for mosquitoes weekly between May and October since God was young, maybe early 90's? So now a local freak is claiming the spray is killing pollinators (I can honestly say I've never had more bees of all varieties and butterflies) and then claiming we aren't spraying and that the directors (including me) are just stealing the $$ we claim to spend for mosquito spraying. I'm beyond tired, hurt, and angry. I am not too crazy about DGD1’s father, but one thing he said that I will never forget and have repeated myself….. He was BBQ’ing and I don’t remember what DD said to him, but his response was “Listen! I’ve been doing this since Jaws was a goldfish!” And idk why, but that was and still is, one of the funniest things ever to me.
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Post by Cookies Galore on Jul 19, 2023 19:22:24 GMT -5
Pink a part of electrical outages is the ‘electric grid’ isn’t great and moving to more solar and wind may be contributing to problems. Coal, oil , nuclear and natural gas power plants produce electricity continually except when plants are shut down for maintenance. Electricity from solar and wind are intermittent and need backups of other sources. Batteries are still not ideal for storage. But of course certainly the coal but also oil and nuclear plants are being shut down. Natural gas still going. So more dependence on solar and wind and fewer other sources leads to - outages Our co-op is 40% solar/wind and I can count on one hand the number of power outages we've had here in 23 years that lasted more than an hour or two. I can't think of any that were more than 1 day. Our borough switched to 100% renewably sourced electric (wind/solar) for all municipal-owned property in 2017. Zero issues. It's amazing how the lights stay on when there's no wind. /s We barely get power outages where I live. Longest since I've been in my house is 3 hours. Longest in our old apartment in town 5 miles away was 12 hours because of Irene (or was it Sandy?). Go 15 minutes down the road to my dad's house and you are likely to lose power for a day or two after a big storm.
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Post by Works4me on Jul 19, 2023 19:29:42 GMT -5
About 20 paged behind and may or may not ever catch up. Can any body tell me what I've missed? I'm just happy to be out of the worst if it and back with the living.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2023 19:39:34 GMT -5
About 20 paged behind and may or may not ever catch up. Can any body tell me what I've missed? I'm just happy to be out of the worst if it and back with the living. 😎 we are happy for you too
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Post by steph08 on Jul 19, 2023 19:41:55 GMT -5
Did my second donation. This one went much better and only took a half hour. I must have been sicker than I thought last Sunday. Plus this time I hydrated better and was dressed warmer. It's freezing in there. If I keep doing it for awhile I can get a decent chunk of change and I'm giving back. I want to get another tattoo though which means I have to wait four months after. So I'm thinking keep donating through to December. Get the tattoo for my birthday then start again in the new year. It feels good to do something. I feel less helpless from a medical standpoint. Drama - I must have missed what you are donating. I saw your first post and figured it was whole blood, but you said you did it last week and got paid, so I know that isn't the case! 😂 Is it plasma?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2023 19:48:03 GMT -5
That's terrible! The lady who rummaged through my purse to get my son's number didn't even take anything. I passed out because the doc doubled my epilepsy medicine, and I hadn't eaten all day. The paramedics even checked with the pharmacy to see if I was telling the truth. Yep, the dose was doubled. "I don't need to go to the hospital. I'll be fine. I'll just stay right here until my son comes and helps me home." One lady said "I'll stay with her until he comes from the West Island". It took a while. People here are pretty nice. I believe that people are mostly nice in general, but Good Lord, a lot of them are pretty awful. I use to work with a young lady (we were both in our early 20’s at the time), who was in a bad car accident. For whatever reason, her immediate reaction to the trauma of the car accident was to jump out out her car and take off running down the street. The car wreck wasn’t even her fault, it was just a trauma response I guess, to take off running. Anyway, by the time the police and paramedics got there, somebody had gone through her wrecked car and stole her purse. What kind of person does something like that?! When DD flipped her car a few years ago, she had just gotten a big tax refund. After the tow truck driver turned her car right side up and drove off with it, I hadn’t even gotten halfway home with DD and my Grandbabies before she remembered that she had several hundreds of dollars in cash in her car. It happened on a Saturday evening, and calling to see where her car was being taken was a dead end. They took it wherever they took it, and she couldn’t get any information, let alone access to her car, until the next business day, Monday. First thing that Monday morning, her Dad took her to where her car had been towed to and impounded. And of course, the money was gone. When she flipped her car, people ran to help her, and stopped their cars to try to see about her and her babies. A couple of men went through her car and gave her anything they found that they thought might have been of value to her. So the easy answer is that maybe one of them stole her money. But NO. Her car was the same Honda sedan I use to own, just a couple years older. Her money was in the console between the front seats. Her car was smashed and upside down when those gentlemen went through it to try to give her whatever was in it that they thought might be valuable to her. One of the car doors popped open when the car finally stopped moving, even though the car was smashed, which is how DD was able to get herself and her children out of the upside down car. But that center console never popped open. Nor did the men that tried to help her, try to open it. If they had, everything that was in it, would have fallen out since the car was upside down, and there was more than just a lot of money in it. It’s fact that it was still closed and intact when her car was turned upright and towed away. The money disappeared AFTER that. But of course, there was no way to prove that, or that the money was even in the car in the first place. I don’t watch the local news much, but I am aware of a recent news story where a retired police officer was found dead in his front yard. That was a headline by itself, for a few reasons, but then it got even worse when a woman was accused of and charged with stealing from him while he lay dead in his front yard. From what I understand without actually reading the news stories, she stole from his person and from his home, while he was laying there dead. I just really can’t, with people anymore. I want to keep believing that most people are good, but I am constantly reminded that a lot of people are really, really horrible and sorry excuses for human beings, I’m about 80% sure the cops and EMTs responding to a wreck I was in wouldn’t steal anything. All bets are off for bystanders, wrecker drivers, and hospital staff. If you are down, it’s pretty much like rats on garbage
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Post by flamingo on Jul 19, 2023 19:51:52 GMT -5
This has been a crazy summer of family medical issues. First, last month my sister was in the hospital (in a state none of us live in) for a week. She’s out and slowly getting better, so I started thinking the summer was looking up. Until this past weekend when my dad had an episode and we had to call 911 for him. He spent 2 days in the hospital, and now is wearing a cardiac event monitor, and very likely is heading for a pacemaker.
we all live out of state from each other, and it takes a 3 or 4 hour plane ride to get to each other. So it’s not super easy to deal with it all. I’m the one who has to deal with it all, too, so I’m not complaining, exactly, I’m just tired. I’m so glad I can afford to hop a plane and help whoever needs it, but woo boy, between this and my job that has me traveling everywhere, the last 5 weeks have wiped me out.
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Post by NastyWoman on Jul 19, 2023 19:53:46 GMT -5
Our community association has paid a private, state-licensed, company to spray for mosquitoes weekly between May and October since God was young, maybe early 90's? So now a local freak is claiming the spray is killing pollinators (I can honestly say I've never had more bees of all varieties and butterflies) and then claiming we aren't spraying and that the directors (including me) are just stealing the $$ we claim to spend for mosquito spraying. I'm beyond tired, hurt, and angry. I am not too crazy about DGD1’s father, but one thing he said that I will never forget and have repeated myself….. He was BBQ’ing and I don’t remember what DD said to him, but his response was “ Listen! I’ve been doing this since Jaws was a goldfish!” And idk why, but that was and still is, one of the funniest things ever to me. I am going to steal that one.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jul 19, 2023 19:58:47 GMT -5
Supper was Dragon Eye sushi, and now I'm enjoying Amarula on ice. I spent SO much money today! I need a handler when I go out. I haven't left the house much in the last ten days except to go to the pool. It's been too damned hot and smoggy with the wildfire smoke.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 19, 2023 20:08:09 GMT -5
Sitting in my home which still has no electricity/air conditioning. Heat index outside over 100 degrees. The throwing out of no longer frozen in the freezer and spoiled in the fridge begins. No way to cook it. Second time in seventeen months I have had to throw away refrigerated food due to power failures in Memphis. Last time I was without power for seven days due to an ice storm in February, 2022. I should bill the utility company for thrown away food. UGH! I am asking you this, because I know you lived in other places before you settled in Memphis, do you have any thoughts about why this is happening so frequently lately? I have lived in Memphis and the surrounding area my whole life, and I don’t remember this being an issue for most of my life. The first time I remember widespread power outages for days and weeks being a problem was during the ice storm in the ‘90’s. That one was understandable Imo. I lived in the hood at the time, and I didn’t lose power, so I was providing food and a place to bathe and rest for my friends and family that didn’t have power for days. Then, Hurricane Elvis in what, 2003? The first time I heard of “straight line winds”. My children and I were on vacation on the Gulf of Mexico when it happened. My Aunt, her daughter, and grandson had gone with us, and we got the call from my Uncle that the storm had tore the back of my Aunt’s house off, so we cut everything short and drove through that horrible weather, trying to get back home. My cousin and I didn’t know if our houses had been damaged too. Mine wasn’t, but I didn’t have power for almost a week. And it seems like eventually, it became almost “normal” around here to lose power for days and weeks after storms. Maybe 6 or7 years ago, one summer, Mister and I both lost power at our homes for over a week. Our homes were about 30 minutes apart. It started off with me treating it like an adventure the first day cooking us breakfast on my charcoal grill. Then when stuff started melting in my freezer, I cooked it too on the grill and gave away what I could, and tried to keep the rest cool on ice in coolers. Then we gave up and pretty much just wandered around, for a few days, literally carrying essentials with us in backpacks, trying to find restaurants that were open so we could eat, and figure out our next move for the moment, because power was out all over the area, and by then all the food I’d had, was spoiled. Then we moved here, in 2019. Yayyyy, all the lines coming to our house are buried, so we shouldn’t have those issues anymore. Except, we started having short power outages that lasted at most 20 or 30 minutes, and now it’s happening more often and for longer amounts of time. I have lived in the area my whole life, and none of this has ever been a thing until recently. And I am very curious about why it’s become a recurring, worsening problem in recent years. Burying the lines must not be the answer people have been yelling it was, since we’ve started losing power too, now. What do YOU think is really going on? The problem is MLGW is many years behind in trimming trees whose branches interfere with powerlines. There are some trees almost twice as tall right next to raised powerline. All it needs is a good gust of wind abandoned the tree branch will take out the powerline. Some tall trees also have very shallow root systems. Easy for the tree to blow over onto powerlines. All of the above have been a MLGW problem for years.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 19, 2023 20:10:57 GMT -5
Do you have homeowners insurance? They'll usually pay for the loss. I wish I had a way to help you, Tennesseer. Have you heard why it's off, or when to expect it to be back on? I'd be going crazy! My apt is really dark, even in the middle of a sunny day. Any time it's not sunny out, it's pitch black in my place, without a light on. Yuck. As usual, a gusty t'storm blew trees or tree branches into powerlines knocking out power throughout the city. Trees, wind and powerlines all the time.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jul 19, 2023 20:12:07 GMT -5
I’m about 80% sure the cops and EMTs responding to a wreck I was in wouldn’t steal anything. All bets are off for bystanders, wrecker drivers, and hospital staff. If you are down, it’s pretty much like rats on garbageI don' know if I told you....there was a major grocery store here which forgot to lock its doors one holiday. People were wandering in buying something and leaving money at the cash register. Nobody stole anything, Some people shopped and came back the next day to pay. globalnews.ca/news/5009788/no-thefts-reported-after-kingston-grocery-store-accidentally-left-open-family-day/
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jul 19, 2023 20:17:14 GMT -5
Did my second donation. This one went much better and only took a half hour. I must have been sicker than I thought last Sunday. Plus this time I hydrated better and was dressed warmer. It's freezing in there. If I keep doing it for awhile I can get a decent chunk of change and I'm giving back. I want to get another tattoo though which means I have to wait four months after. So I'm thinking keep donating through to December. Get the tattoo for my birthday then start again in the new year. It feels good to do something. I feel less helpless from a medical standpoint. Drama - I must have missed what you are donating. I saw your first post and figured it was whole blood, but you said you did it last week and got paid, so I know that isn't the case! 😂 Is it plasma? Plasma. We've been hemorrhaging money this year so it's fast cash. And I've always wanted to but never hit the required minimum weight till now. I like the idea I am helping someone by donating. I couldn't do anything for my mom or my.MIL. Maybe I can for someone else.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jul 19, 2023 20:36:17 GMT -5
Drama - I must have missed what you are donating. I saw your first post and figured it was whole blood, but you said you did it last week and got paid, so I know that isn't the case! 😂 Is it plasma? Plasma. We've been hemorrhaging money this year so it's fast cash. And I've always wanted to but never hit the required minimum weight till now. I like the idea I am helping someone by donating. I couldn't do anything for my mom or my.MIL. Maybe I can for someone else. Holy cow! Rasure says that the local plasma center she uses allows people to go twice a week to donate, and that you can earn up to $800 in the first month. money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/what-to-know-about-donating-plasma-for-moneyIN Canada, you get nothing for plasma or blood.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jul 19, 2023 20:40:15 GMT -5
Drama - I must have missed what you are donating. I saw your first post and figured it was whole blood, but you said you did it last week and got paid, so I know that isn't the case! 😂 Is it plasma? Plasma. We've been hemorrhaging money this year so it's fast cash. And I've always wanted to but never hit the required minimum weight till now. I like the idea I am helping someone by donating. I couldn't do anything for my mom or my.MIL. Maybe I can for someone else.You are helping someone. Remember that.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jul 19, 2023 21:04:34 GMT -5
Plasma. We've been hemorrhaging money this year so it's fast cash. And I've always wanted to but never hit the required minimum weight till now. I like the idea I am helping someone by donating. I couldn't do anything for my mom or my.MIL. Maybe I can for someone else. Holy cow! Rasure says that the local plasma center she uses allows people to go twice a week to donate, and that you can earn up to $800 in the first month. money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/what-to-know-about-donating-plasma-for-moneyIN Canada, you get nothing for plasma or blood. Up to $400 here but it changes depending on demand. It also depends on how much you can donate at a shot, quality and other factors. I'm little so I'll probably get about $50 each visit after my first two. However it may go up a little higher if I have certain antibodies. Being Rh negative I could be carrying the antibodies used to make Rhogam.
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Pink Cashmere
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Jul 19, 2023 21:25:49 GMT -5
I really don’t know how to just get out of my feelings.
One of my Mom’s best friends was a woman who I have memories of time spent with her and her family for as along as I can remember. I spent days and weeks at her house throughout my childhood. She was my Godmother and her daughters, I called my Godsisters.
From the time of my earliest memories, she lived with a man I will call J. My Godmother and my Mom met at a job they both worked when I was a toddler, but all my memories, my Godmother, E, didn’t work. J provided and took care of her and her daughters. He had 2 sons that were a regular presence in their home and I knew them too, even though I was younger than all of the children. But I remember the boys’ Mom’s name and have vague memories of going to her house to pick the boys up.
I could tell many, many stories about my Godparents, time spent in their homes as a child, and how they tried to help my Mom, and even me as a young adult. He is the reason that I know how to pop the clutch and start a car with a manual transmission, even if the battery is dead. Or actually, even if there’s not even a battery in it. I wouldn’t believe that was possible if I hadn’t actually done it myself, under his guidance. Having learned to drive a stick shift since that’s what my first car was, I also learned some tricks that didn’t work with automatic transmissions, thanks to him… and that knowledge came in handy more than once in my young adult years. It’s been many years since he taught me those tricks, and cars aren’t built the same these days, but I still value what he taught me back then.
Anyway, my Godmother died over 10 years ago. But her daughters still had and have a strong bond with him, because he helped her raise them, He is one of the best examples I have IRL of how a “step parent” can fill the role of a “real” or biological parent.
So, today is his birthday, and I learned from one of my Godsisters’ daughters, that he is having some health issues. And that makes me sad.
It’s a long, convoluted story that I might not have been clear about. But the bottom line is that he is a man that raised and took care of my Mom’s best friend’s children like they were his own biological children, and he did a lot of stuff for my Mom while I was a child, and some stuff for me as a young adult, just because his wife and my Mom were good friends from way back when. I love him for all of that, and just want him to be okay.
I am going to bed now.
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teen persuasion
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Post by teen persuasion on Jul 19, 2023 21:39:01 GMT -5
At work today we showed the Toy Story movie, and had a stuffed animal Story Time sleepover. Some of the kids even dressed in costumes! The stuffed animals stayed (not the kids ), and my boss and her aunt had a ball snapping pix of the adventures the stuffies had "sleeping" at the library: playing Mario carts, making snacks in an Easy bake oven, being naughty with the copy machine , curious George reading bedtime stories, and some of the animals couldn't sleep and were playing with Legos by flashlight. Tomorrow the kids come back to reclaim their toys and get a book of pix of the shenanigans. Summer Reading Program is busy, but fun!
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toomuchreality
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Post by toomuchreality on Jul 19, 2023 22:08:40 GMT -5
I wish I had a way to help you, Tennesseer. Have you heard why it's off, or when to expect it to be back on? I'd be going crazy! My apt is really dark, even in the middle of a sunny day. Any time it's not sunny out, it's pitch black in my place, without a light on. Yuck. As usual, a gusty t'storm blew trees or tree branches into powerlines knocking out power throughout the city. Trees, wind and powerlines all the time. Gotcha. Well, that sucks. Is your power back on, now? Just after 9PM MT, so probably 10 or 11PM where you are.
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