what are you doing right now?

[minnesotapaintlady]

Jul 25, 2022 8:57:54 GMT -5 TheOtherMe said:

The mountain lion is a gorgeous animal.

They are, but this one is a bobcat.  Much smaller...maybe 30-40 pounds. 

[bean29]

DH found his keys. He does not have Dementia, he just is not consistent where he puts them when he comes in the door. They were in a grocery bag with a personal size watermelon. He had checked, as had I, but he jut had that key by itself, so it wasn’t making any noise.

I ordered a pair of shoes from macys, decided I wanted them a half size smaller. Macys did not have, so I ordered from Zappos. Zappos was about 10 more, but placed order anyways. Then Zappos asked me to link my Amazon account. I decided to check the Amazon price, and they were $13 cheaper, so now I am saving 5 from my price at Macy’s. Amazon owns Zappos.

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Jul 25, 2022 9:44:57 GMT -5 bean29 said:

DH found his keys. He does not have Dementia, he just is not consistent where he puts them when he comes in the door. They were in a grocery bag with a personal size watermelon. He had checked, as had I, but he jut had that key by itself, so it wasn’t making any noise.

I also do not have dementia, and this is totally something I would do. 

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Trying to cut back on caffeine today, as I sit here with my 3rd cup of Earl Grey tea.

I've had so much in the past four days I can see noises and taste colors.

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Jul 25, 2022 9:47:44 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

Trying to cut back on caffeine today, as I sit here with my 3rd cup of Earl Grey tea.

I've had so much in the past four days I can see noises and taste colors.

And on that note, I'm going to make another cup of coffee. 

[finnime]

I hope you have a restful day, Drama.

[anciana]

Jul 25, 2022 8:52:47 GMT -5 soupandstew said:

Jul 24, 2022 21:21:25 GMT -5 countrygirl2 said:

DIL is back home, she said Texas was brutal. They went to the beach and her friend got stung or hit or whatever with a Portugese man of war, had to go to the ER. She said she was in horrible pain. Poor thing.

They decided since it was going to get at least 98 next week and rather then have him come home to that he can stay another week. Fine with us, we have no problem with him staying.  I keep telling son, I would not live up there without AC. But I understand son wants to get the house paid for, its worrying him I know. He has never owed money and it's more then we can help with this time. He could pay it off but it would deplete a great deal of his savings.

Those things are truly awful.  Ordinary jelly fish are bad enough, MOW are much worse.  Even stepping on a small piece of one washed up on the sand is agonizing.  I lived on Padre Island when I was young and we always had meat tenderizer in our beach bags as a first aid treatment.  

I'm glad you can enjoy your grandson an extra week 

I am curious, soupandstew, what is the first aid treatment using the meat tenderizer

[raeoflyte]

Jul 25, 2022 9:59:32 GMT -5 anciana said:

Jul 25, 2022 8:52:47 GMT -5 soupandstew said:

Those things are truly awful.  Ordinary jelly fish are bad enough, MOW are much worse.  Even stepping on a small piece of one washed up on the sand is agonizing.  I lived on Padre Island when I was young and we always had meat tenderizer in our beach bags as a first aid treatment.  

I'm glad you can enjoy your grandson an extra week 

I am curious, soupandstew, what is the first aid treatment using the meat tenderizer

I think any kind of bites/stings. We used it for bees/wasps.

[Deleted]

Jul 24, 2022 17:14:28 GMT -5 soupandstew said:

Jul 24, 2022 16:00:30 GMT -5 @pinkcshmere said:

Kiddo just told me again that his Mom says he can’t be outside for more than 10 minutes. He said the same thing yesterday. So I told him to go ask Mister if it was okay that he was still outside.

Mister seems irritated that I told Kiddo to ask him that. 

Ummmm, I’ve had more than enough child and baby momma drama. I’m not going to just take it upon myself to dismiss and go against what his children’s mothers have stated as law. I’m going to bring it to him instead, and let him make decisions and proceed according to what he says, so the mothers can’t blame me.

That is as far as rules strictly pertaining to the children. For issues that concern my household and how I run it, that is different, because I am the one and only Queen of my household.

Does Kiddo have any genuine health issues related to outside exposure that you know of?  Pollen allergies, asthma, heart condition making him unusually vulnerable to overheating, sun related skin issues?  If he does, his mother should have provided Mister and you with clear info on the health issue and how to respond to it.  FWIW, it sounds like momma drama that she's used to instill fearfulness into the poor guy and manipulate others.  Just saying

She tells Kiddo he has bad allergies. He’s played outside most of the day before when all the children were here. No complaints or issues afterward. I don’t think he goes outside to play at all at home. She tells him he’s allergic to dogs, but they live with a dog, and he stays in Newbie’s face when he’s here. I’ve never even heard him sneeze. And if his allergies were so bad, you’d think she’d make sure she sent allergy meds with him. She sends everything else, including soap, lotion, and food. We keep children’s allergy medicine here, just in case though. He hasn’t ever needed it that I know of.

He is also “allergic” to any kind of even mildly spicy food. And some other stuff I can’t think of right now.

Let her tell it, there’s always something wrong with him. She use to take him to the ER at least once/month for any little thing, but I think she’s stopped doing that now.

[Anne_in_VA]

This is going to be a very busy week as I have volunteered for vacation bible school this week as well as going to lunch with a friend tomorrow.  Yesterday at VBS I got so tired out that I slept over 11 hours last night.  

I need to do laundry today and crack some peanuts for DH to feed to the squirrels.  

[chiver78]

I've definitely left my keys in the door overnight. on days that I'm not running the A/C and the side door is open all day long, I usually just leave the keys in the door when I get back from wherever. harder to lose them that way. 


so I just finally got the invoice from the tree company - I was not expecting the PD detail to come in at $1100. um, is that normal? I had two officers, and I believe there was a 4h minimum (the work didn't take the full 4h...). 

[ken a.k.a OMK]

I've never heard of a PD detail for a tree removal. Here the tree people set up cones and block whatever area of road they need.

[busymom]

Jul 25, 2022 10:28:55 GMT -5 Anne_in_VA said:

This is going to be a very busy week as I have volunteered for vacation bible school this week as well as going to lunch with a friend tomorrow.  Yesterday at VBS I got so tired out that I slept over 11 hours last night.  

I need to do laundry today and crack some peanuts for DH to feed to the squirrels.  

      I've helped out with VBS when my kids were little.  It's fun, but I was always exhausted by the end of the week.  God Bless our teachers, who deal with many kids for weeks at a time!

[minnesotapaintlady]

Jul 25, 2022 10:37:34 GMT -5 ken a.k.a OMK said:

I've never heard of a PD detail for a tree removal. Here the tree people set up cones and block whatever area of road they need.

Me either.  That's how they do it here too. 

[chiver78]

Jul 25, 2022 10:37:34 GMT -5 ken a.k.a OMK said:

I've never heard of a PD detail for a tree removal. Here the tree people set up cones and block whatever area of road they need.

if you saw my street, it wasn't a 'nice to have' situation. the bucket truck was parked in the road after a blind curve that everyone flies around.

the officers actually told me at the end of the work that I could call the non-emergency line and request a speed trap setup. they were yelling at people all morning to slow TF down. 

[wvugurl26]

I'm not sure what normal rate is for PD doing work like that. One possibility is they didn't fill it from regular on duty officers and that it was offered up as an overtime shift. That could maybe explain why it didn't get filled on your original date. I agree that's a pretty steep addition to the bill.

[anciana]

Jul 25, 2022 10:26:53 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

Jul 25, 2022 9:59:32 GMT -5 anciana said:

I am curious, soupandstew , what is the first aid treatment using the meat tenderizer

I think any kind of bites/stings. We used it for bees/wasps.

My bad, I was thinking they were taking a meat tenderizing mallet to the beach. You are both probably talking about the powder 

[chiver78]

oh, it's definitely not regular shift officers. but I kind of want to call the town and ask about rates now. the invoice from the tree company just shows it as a line item, there's nothing from the town. I knew it wasn't included in the rate, but that's another 1/3 of the total cost. 

[Deleted]

Jul 25, 2022 9:59:32 GMT -5 anciana said:

Jul 25, 2022 8:52:47 GMT -5 soupandstew said:

Those things are truly awful.  Ordinary jelly fish are bad enough, MOW are much worse.  Even stepping on a small piece of one washed up on the sand is agonizing.  I lived on Padre Island when I was young and we always had meat tenderizer in our beach bags as a first aid treatment.  

I'm glad you can enjoy your grandson an extra week 

I am curious, soupandstew , what is the first aid treatment using the meat tenderizer

We used sand and salt water to scrub off the slime (hurts like hell when you do this-do not get slime on hands-use gloves or a plastic bag over hand!) and then rubbed meat tenderizer onto the area.  It helps, better than nothing until you could get to an ER.    Supposedly it's the papain enzyme in the tenderizer that counteracts the toxin.  They recommend mixing it with vinegar to make a paste but we never had vinegar.  Some folks say it works on bee and wasp stings too

ETA:  We also used gloves if we had to change a tire because you couldn't avoid running over jellyfish on the shore

[raeoflyte]

Jul 25, 2022 10:58:55 GMT -5 anciana said:

Jul 25, 2022 10:26:53 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

I think any kind of bites/stings. We used it for bees/wasps.

My bad, I was thinking they were taking a meat tenderizing mallet to the beach. You are both probably talking about the powder 

But my morning is made picturing the use of the mallet.

[Deleted]

Jul 25, 2022 10:58:55 GMT -5 anciana said:

Jul 25, 2022 10:26:53 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

I think any kind of bites/stings. We used it for bees/wasps.

My bad, I was thinking they were taking a meat tenderizing mallet to the beach. You are both probably talking about the powder 

I just saw this one    The pain of those stings is so bad you just hit yourself in the head with it!

[anciana]

Jul 25, 2022 11:06:12 GMT -5 soupandstew said:

Jul 25, 2022 10:58:55 GMT -5 anciana said:

My bad, I was thinking they were taking a meat tenderizing mallet to the beach. You are both probably talking about the powder 

I just saw this one    The pain of those stings is so bad you just hit yourself in the head with it!

Yup, use it as a proverbial 2x4 to knock the person out until you can get them to the ER as I hear the pain is horrible 

[Deleted]

Jul 24, 2022 19:17:41 GMT -5 The Walk of the Penguin Mich said:

Atmosphere is everything.  So is cost.

I was in the best shape I had ever been in my life when I joined a gym that had an obscenely expensive membership (about 5% of my take home salary).  I also paid each month, in person so my brain would associate that much money with the gym.  In addition, those people were largely professionals, who went to look out and not a pick up joint.  When I walked out, I looked like I had gone through the wringer…..and I had.

I once heard an interesting Planet Money episode about the business models of gyms. Most operate on the same model as Planet Fitness, the last place I used. Only a tiny % of members actually use it regularly. They'd be overwhelmed if everyone who signed up used it several days a week. They keep the infrequent users with non-exercise features such as tanning beds, massage chairs and in the case of Planet Fitness, free pizza one day a month, free bagels another.

The other is they type you describe- serious costs, committed users, sometimes even requirements that you be there regularly. I'd probably fit in there but (a) I'm too cheap and (b) I can't keep up with 30-something workout leaders even though I can do a lot more than chair yoga. I've found great on-line workouts and I think I'm in better shape than I was in the gym days.

[giramomma]

I met with the personal coach.

OMG. It's like the professional  finishing school I've needed for quite some time.

[daisylu]

Jul 25, 2022 10:58:55 GMT -5 anciana said:

Jul 25, 2022 10:26:53 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

I think any kind of bites/stings. We used it for bees/wasps.

My bad, I was thinking they were taking a meat tenderizing mallet to the beach. You are both probably talking about the powder 

That is what I thought too!   I've never heard of either being used for bites.

[bean29]

Jul 25, 2022 10:28:05 GMT -5 @pinkcshmere said:

Jul 24, 2022 17:14:28 GMT -5 soupandstew said:

Does Kiddo have any genuine health issues related to outside exposure that you know of?  Pollen allergies, asthma, heart condition making him unusually vulnerable to overheating, sun related skin issues?  If he does, his mother should have provided Mister and you with clear info on the health issue and how to respond to it.  FWIW, it sounds like momma drama that she's used to instill fearfulness into the poor guy and manipulate others.  Just saying

She tells Kiddo he has bad allergies. He’s played outside most of the day before when all the children were here. No complaints or issues afterward. I don’t think he goes outside to play at all at home. She tells him he’s allergic to dogs, but they live with a dog, and he stays in Newbie’s face when he’s here. I’ve never even heard him sneeze. And if his allergies were so bad, you’d think she’d make sure she sent allergy meds with him. She sends everything else, including soap, lotion, and food. We keep children’s allergy medicine here, just in case though. He hasn’t ever needed it that I know of.

He is also “allergic” to any kind of even mildly spicy food. And some other stuff I can’t think of right now.

Let her tell it, there’s always something wrong with him. She use to take him to the ER at least once/month for any little thing, but I think she’s stopped doing that now.

Why don't you suggest that your DH take him for allergy testing.  Maybe his Mom just wants to keep him inside, is afraid of him being outdoors.  You could ask her, but she might not tell you the truth.  

[weltschmerz]

Jul 25, 2022 11:02:21 GMT -5 soupandstew said:

Jul 25, 2022 9:59:32 GMT -5 anciana said:

I am curious, soupandstew , what is the first aid treatment using the meat tenderizer

We used sand and salt water to scrub off the slime (hurts like hell when you do this-do not get slime on hands-use gloves or a plastic bag over hand!) and then rubbed meat tenderizer onto the area.  It helps, better than nothing until you could get to an ER.    Supposedly it's the papain enzyme in the tenderizer that counteracts the toxin.  They recommend mixing it with vinegar to make a paste but we never had vinegar.  Some folks say it works on bee and wasp stings too

ETA:  We also used gloves if we had to change a tire because you couldn't avoid running over jellyfish on the shore

The only meat tenderizer I'm familiar with is baking soda.  
What tenderizer are you talking about?

[anciana]

Jul 25, 2022 11:51:00 GMT -5 daisylu said:

Jul 25, 2022 10:58:55 GMT -5 anciana said:

My bad, I was thinking they were taking a meat tenderizing mallet to the beach. You are both probably talking about the powder 

That is what I thought too!   I've never heard of either being used for bites.

Same here! I've heard of people using baking soda paste for bee/wasp stings but when someone mentions meat tenderizer, I think of a mallet 

[bean29]

So, DH has a problem with bringing home stuff he things is perfectly good and storing in our garage.  I really want to park my car in the garage so I can charge it easier, but He has a desk and credenza that he wants for his office in there.  When he brought it home he also brought 2 chairs that he thought were good, a printer and monitor that he brought to take to the for the lady, and a small refrigerator.  Monitors and Freon appliances cost $15 to , not sure if he was considering that or not.  But I took one chair to Habitat and one to the on Saturday.  DH gave me the 3rd degree about why I used his truck and I did not tell him I took anything out of the garage.  One would think he would know, because he uses his Mustang regularly and they were too close to his car for comfort.  He works on Sat am - usually late into day and is only open until 3 pm.  Habitat is also not open on Sundays, so we couldn't get there either.  On Saturday when I realized he left the truck home, I decided I was going to make a run to the .  I am not sure if he knew what I did and chose not to say anything, or if he has no clue.   

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Dad said mom is doing better.  They are going to start weaning her off more stuff.  She is aware he is there and has been opening her eyes.