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Post by giramomma on Jul 26, 2024 22:13:20 GMT -5
I know much more about waffle-stomping than I ever wanted to in my life.
I also figured out a way to put in stitch markers in my shawl. Because apparently I cannot cout past 300 with any degree of accuracy.
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Post by giramomma on Jul 26, 2024 22:13:53 GMT -5
I came here to tell y’all that DH came home with a pug puppy. He is black and we are calling him Oso. I already have 2 dogs. I did not want another one until these two were gone. Hopefully DH will find someone who wants him. Ohh. I would not be happy.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Jul 26, 2024 22:54:12 GMT -5
I know much more about waffle-stomping than I ever wanted to in my life. I also figured out a way to put in stitch markers in my shawl. Because apparently I cannot cout past 300 with any degree of accuracy. Waffle-stomping?
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Post by countrygirl2 on Jul 27, 2024 0:27:54 GMT -5
Met my goals today plus some. I washed some windows but need a taller ladder for the rest and many are behind bushes. Those haven't been washed often. Going to try ammonia and vinegar on them.
I was talking to my son this afternoon and he said he didn't know why but was really starting to feel bad. He said he just ached and started feeling awful. He has been traveling with work and wonder if he has picked up COVID, I know its out there. They say the newer strain is really bad. One lady we know was in the hospital and said she had been home 3 weeks and was weak as a kitten. I hope its not that.
I'm tired tonight but have the house cleaned back to the bedrooms and bathrooms. Most of the inside windows are washed and the ones on the deck on the outside. I forgot laundry detergent but am going to wash what curtains are there and put them back up. I want to wash the kitchen window but there is a corner sink in front of it and have to climb up there and get behind it to wash it on the inside. I always wanted a corner sink and now have one. My son even said he really liked the red and yellow paint together. He said I would have never thought that looked good but it does. He said don't change the color, I'm not as I like it too.
The driver called about 9 and said they would be there about 2 tomorrow and would call before they come so things are moving along. I'm going to go over tomorrow and see if I can get my bathrooms cleaned too and maybe wash some windows. I washed all my cleaning cloths tonight, need to dry them. I need to sweep down the inside garage door, I can't believe its that dirty, they must have never cleaned it. I'm going to vac first then sweep if needed. Son got the pilot light turned off on the fireplace log, that thing was putting out heat. So then we got the glass off and the panels. and I cleaned it and inside the fireplace. I think its been a long time since that was cleaned up too.
Lots of yard work coming up, but put that on the back burner for awhile. I really think one of the neighbors mowed my front yard for me. It's not overgrown. I need to take a hose and start watering the plants as its dry. I just can't do it all. I ended up with about 7 trash bags of odds and end from the kitchen cabinets. Son will have to put some in his trash can and maybe my neighbor here. I asked the park manager where do I get my trash cans from?
Getting late bath time and hair fixing time. I sweated a bunch today so need to wash it. Hubs will not be happy with no AC and no ceiling fans. I am not happy with the lack of light in the kitchen, hope hubs can put in some LED lighting for me. But I do like the house and once I get the landscaping the way I want it will be happy with that too. And our bedroom closet is pretty small, not sure how that will work. He can reconfigure it and make it better but still won't be big enough.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jul 27, 2024 0:38:08 GMT -5
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Post by finnime on Jul 27, 2024 2:43:27 GMT -5
Good morning, sweating and aching tired invisipeeps of Y Ma'am. Welcome to Saturday. I hope this day provides restorative rest to you. I hope all your problems have findable solutions. I hope all your efforts are rewarding. Apparently I got enough sleep yesterday. Today I'm up at a customary time. After missing yesterday morning sunrise, I did get the sunset and saw bikers pausing to look. Here is one peering over the side of the hurricane barrier: ![Biker with setting sun](https://i.imgur.com/nrwAIBT.jpeg)
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Post by finnime on Jul 27, 2024 2:46:37 GMT -5
I know much more about waffle-stomping than I ever wanted to in my life. I also figured out a way to put in stitch markers in my shawl. Because apparently I cannot cout past 300 with any degree of accuracy. Waffle-stomping? I'd like to know, too. It sounds like it could be fun.
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Post by obelisk on Jul 27, 2024 2:50:20 GMT -5
Going to enjoy "Whiskey Night" with long time coworkers friends from at least 15 years ago. This is a tradition when I happen to be in China. I travelled from Beijing to Shanghai to meet them for what is referred as "Whiskey Night". We just had an amazing dinner consisting of live seafood hot pot where you enter an aquarium and pick the live seafood you are going to eat. There is nothing like it in all my vast travels. Will survive the evening to fight another day. Be safe and have fun! Thank you, all went well and lots of fun all around.
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Post by obelisk on Jul 27, 2024 3:09:23 GMT -5
Shanghai is so beautiful! If first time there, take a nighttime boat on the river. The riverside buildings have such beautiful neon pictures and light shows DD and I each chose a building that we thought was unusual. Mine was the one with a Moibus strip running up, over and down the skyscraper. DD liked the one with the giant hole in the top We loved the French quarter Enjoy! Especially at night along the Bund. Thank you for the river boat suggestion, I will definitely look into this on my next trip.
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Post by giramomma on Jul 27, 2024 6:10:05 GMT -5
I'd like to know, too. It sounds like it could be fun. Um, no. It's where you poop in the shower and stomp the poop down a drain. Your welcome. DD1 came back from summer camp, and that was the hot topic this year. She thought it was so funny that she was loud in the story telling and the laughing that we woke up the missy. At which point I told DS that I never want to hear if he peed in a vent or do other things boys do.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jul 27, 2024 8:10:59 GMT -5
I came here to tell y’all that DH came home with a pug puppy. He is black and we are calling him Oso. I already have 2 dogs. I did not want another one until these two were gone. Hopefully DH will find someone who wants him. Exactly how far away are you from Council Bluffs Iowa? Asking for a friend of course.
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Post by giramomma on Jul 27, 2024 8:14:52 GMT -5
I came here to tell y’all that DH came home with a pug puppy. He is black and we are calling him Oso. I already have 2 dogs. I did not want another one until these two were gone. Hopefully DH will find someone who wants him. Exactly how far away are you from Council Bluffs Iowa? Asking for a friend of course. About 1.5 hours past me. 8 hours, give or take.
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Post by giramomma on Jul 27, 2024 8:15:41 GMT -5
I've got the tuition grant application all drafted out for the girl's school. I'll feel better when that gets off the plate.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jul 27, 2024 8:19:38 GMT -5
Exactly how far away are you from Council Bluffs Iowa? Asking for a friend of course. About 1.5 hours past me. 8 hours, give or take. Crap. Not going to convince Dh to drive that far. Oh dad.... I do not need another pug baby... But I want ALL the pugs. Gwen is evil she asked why not have them drive to us.
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Post by giramomma on Jul 27, 2024 9:18:38 GMT -5
Well, wish me luck.
Since my car was janky, I get panic attacks driving it. So far, it's been ok in the city. I should try to drive to my next retreat. Which will require going more than 30 miles an hour.
DH and I are going to go driving fast for a little bit to see how I do.
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Post by finnime on Jul 27, 2024 9:32:55 GMT -5
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Jul 27, 2024 9:56:39 GMT -5
About 1.5 hours past me. 8 hours, give or take. Crap. Not going to convince Dh to drive that far. Oh dad.... I do not need another pug baby... But I want ALL the pugs. Gwen is evil she asked why not have them drive to us. How about meeting halfway?
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Post by andi9899 on Jul 27, 2024 10:13:08 GMT -5
The Tullis house is still available. I really like it. It's just so far away from where I want to be! Bear in mind that I live in the city so I don't drive like some of you guys do. It's 13 miles from downtown KC. I don't drive all over like that. Plus, it's in the whitest neighborhood. I don't know what kind of people live there and I don't know if I'll have issues with people thinking I don't belong and calling police on me for every little thing. I realize it's 2024, but racism is very much alive today and I am very brown. Maybe drive there and go knock on a couple doors and ask about the neighborhood? Or better yet show up sometime this weekend when they will be out. I looked at a home years ago in a predominately black neighborhood. I did get quite a few looks going to the house and back, so I did wonder if they'd be mad if I bought the house. I suppose it should have occurred to me sooner as if was on or near a road named something like MLK boulevard. The house wasn't perfect but thy had put this really nice great room addition on in the back. You want me to go knock on the white people's doors? Do you want me to get shot? This is KC. Last summer a black teenage boy went to the wrong house to pick up a younger sibling. He rang the doorbell and the guy living in the house shot him through the door. No way am I doing that.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jul 27, 2024 10:14:17 GMT -5
Pink Cashmere My advice would be there for her when everyone goes home. She most likely doesn't know what she needs. Just listen to her. Take her a meal. Just be present and let her grieve her way. TheO said it perfectly. As trite as it sounds, just being there makes all the difference in the world. It really does. I heard too many of my aunts say once the funeral was over, they are all alone in their journey. That is when they needed people and didn't have them.
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Post by andi9899 on Jul 27, 2024 10:15:27 GMT -5
I'll be lucky to be a grandma at 67. I do hope to live long enough to meet a great grandkid. My grandma might live to see a great great grandchild at this rate. My grandma has one. We're having grandma's 88th birthday party next month.
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Post by resolution on Jul 27, 2024 10:15:54 GMT -5
My friend P is not doing too good. I understand, I probably wouldn’t be doing too good if I was her either. Within 4 years, she’s lost her Mom, then her 14yo Grandson 2 years later, and 2 years after her Grandson died, now she’s lost her husband. I’m not good with this kind of stuff, so I don’t even know what to say to her. So I just tell her that, that I don’t know what to say, but I feel so bad about this and everything she’s been through lately, and I love her and I’m here for anything she needs that I can do for her. Because I was single for so many years, I use to say that I’d never be any man’s ride or die chick. But years ago, she and I got so close that I was a ride or die chick for a woman lol, specifically, her. I might cuss and fuss and say“you know this is some bullshit, right?”, even as we were on our way to some shenanigans, but I was willing to go there for her, and did. She is a good person, and her husband was good people, so she has been bombarded to an overwhelming degree, with people reaching out to her, because they know her, or because they knew him. Everyone that knows them or just mostly knew him, is shocked that he died so suddenly. My heart is so heavy. I know she has to work through this herself, but I hate it that she has to. He was with her, providing comfort when she lost her Mom, and when she lost her DGS, and now he is gone too, after having been her real best friend in ways that me and her other friends couldn’t be, for about 15 years. Any of you that are willing, please pray for my friend P, send good vibes her way, or whatever other positivity you can send her way. Pretty please. I don't know if you have Kindle Unlimited, but when my friend's wife passed away unexpectedly, he read through this book and sent it to me to read as well so that I could use the advice to support his recovery. It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand by Megan Devine www.amazon.com/Its-That-Youre-Not-Understand-ebook/dp/B073XXYKLP/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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Post by resolution on Jul 27, 2024 10:17:21 GMT -5
I just came back from a celebration of life for my friend - who passed away suddenly 2 weeks ago. But he died doing what he loved best - biking in the mountains. He was just 53 and has a teenage daughter. It seems to make everything so trivial when you look at a life lost so early. I'm so sorry for your loss.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jul 27, 2024 10:19:41 GMT -5
I ordered two hard drives from Amazon. They will be here tomorrow. I have to get my genealogy off this computer. It's taking way too much room.
So today, I will spend with my dead people and maybe a nap.
My nose is looking better every day. That makes me happy.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jul 27, 2024 10:22:42 GMT -5
My friend P is not doing too good. I understand, I probably wouldn’t be doing too good if I was her either. Within 4 years, she’s lost her Mom, then her 14yo Grandson 2 years later, and 2 years after her Grandson died, now she’s lost her husband. I’m not good with this kind of stuff, so I don’t even know what to say to her. So I just tell her that, that I don’t know what to say, but I feel so bad about this and everything she’s been through lately, and I love her and I’m here for anything she needs that I can do for her. Because I was single for so many years, I use to say that I’d never be any man’s ride or die chick. But years ago, she and I got so close that I was a ride or die chick for a woman lol, specifically, her. I might cuss and fuss and say“you know this is some bullshit, right?”, even as we were on our way to some shenanigans, but I was willing to go there for her, and did. She is a good person, and her husband was good people, so she has been bombarded to an overwhelming degree, with people reaching out to her, because they know her, or because they knew him. Everyone that knows them or just mostly knew him, is shocked that he died so suddenly. My heart is so heavy. I know she has to work through this herself, but I hate it that she has to. He was with her, providing comfort when she lost her Mom, and when she lost her DGS, and now he is gone too, after having been her real best friend in ways that me and her other friends couldn’t be, for about 15 years. Any of you that are willing, please pray for my friend P, send good vibes her way, or whatever other positivity you can send her way. Pretty please. I don't know if you have Kindle Unlimited, but when my friend's wife passed away unexpectedly, he read through this book and sent it to me to read as well so that I could use the advice to support his recovery. It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand by Megan Devine www.amazon.com/Its-That-Youre-Not-Understand-ebook/dp/B073XXYKLP/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Megan Devine is also on Instagram. She offers prompts and lets people say what they need to say. She usually comments to the person specifically. She periodically does online support groups. I don't know what they cost. She also does support groups for therapists and grief counselors because they also have a heavy load.
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Post by giramomma on Jul 27, 2024 10:51:45 GMT -5
We did a trip to a quilt store. (You see what I did there). I was OK. I'll go driving again fast tomorrow.
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Post by giramomma on Jul 27, 2024 11:14:22 GMT -5
And also, this may be the first time in a long time where I have felt prepared about having family over.
Make no mistake, it's not great. But I'm not 100% embarrassed, either.
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Post by bean29 on Jul 27, 2024 11:25:15 GMT -5
Exactly how far away are you from Council Bluffs Iowa? Asking for a friend of course. About 1.5 hours past me. 8 hours, give or take. We could always fly. DH says he has a brother (possibly a sister too) available. He got it from a customer. We can fly standby as one of DD’s benes. We don’t use it very much. DH and I flew to DC 3 years ago to pick up my car. Other than that, every time I used it, I was with DD. In other news, we finally have plates on my car. DH says they did not charge him for the missing 2 years of registration. ![](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240727/d21d69666f4e365174c67c924521fa5c.jpg)
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jul 27, 2024 11:38:16 GMT -5
Currently sweating my ass off. I have the firepit going and have been shoving a lot of crap on it to get rid of it. I think 90% of my kitchen cabinets are gone now. Yay me. Also reading up on motorcycle licenses. I've sort of decided to start a bucket list. Getting my motorcycle license is number 1. There's a retired motorcycle cop on DH's family so I have a teacher. Woo hoo! Did you know that Medicare does not pay medical bills for motorcycle accidents? I didn’t.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jul 27, 2024 11:50:16 GMT -5
Dinner last night was fabulous. The bill was eye watering when we left, but we had an incredible view overlooking the water. Got the head’s up that the restaurant did seafood best.
We killed 2 bottles of wine between the 3 of us. For apps, I had crabcakes, TD had a strawberry salad and DS had raw oysters. For entrees, I had salmon, TD had shrimp stuffed trout and DS had halibut. Dessert was a flourless chocolate cake for TD, and DS and I both had berry pavlova. The entrees came with a cheese and chive soufflé, which I could have made a meal out of.
I posted the wrong link to the restaurant earlier. This was Chuckanut Oyster Bar, not Chuckanut Manor. I have a feeling that this place is going to go onto our special meal rotation.
Oh, and after we made reservations here, apparently someone at Silver Reef Steakhouse had been paying attention to social media. We got a call from the manager, not understanding what had gone wrong with their reservation system but we did have one. TD said thanks, but no thanks. The manager did know their system was f’ed up though. You’d think someone would do something about that.
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Post by cooper88 on Jul 27, 2024 12:07:59 GMT -5
I thought I was going to be in for the weekend. My grocery pickup yesterday left several items off that I got charged for. I went back and picked those up. I also underestimated the amount of mulch I needed for one bed, so I went and picked up some more. I was forced to pick up some sandwiches on the way home, though, so all is good! (They are in the same parking lot where I bought mulch and I was starving.)
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