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Post by countrygirl2 on Oct 9, 2024 18:01:29 GMT -5
Going to pick up groceries. DIL and I are starting to just want to stay out of grocery stores. The prices are so high it just gets to me. Then I pick up lots of things I would not normally buy. I will go to the meat market for meat and go in for deli meats but most I can just order.
Need to stock up on Pasta Roni, the kids love it. I was going too order from Amazon but had a $13 shipping charge, uh, no way. So when I have to go in I will buy it.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Oct 9, 2024 18:03:08 GMT -5
Empress. I think its a huge compliment for your boss to tell you to apply for a position. High five girl!! Thank you. I'm just still in shock.
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Post by soupandstew on Oct 9, 2024 18:51:07 GMT -5
Going to pick up groceries. DIL and I are starting to just want to stay out of grocery stores. The prices are so high it just gets to me. Then I pick up lots of things I would not normally buy. I will go to the meat market for meat and go in for deli meats but most I can just order. Need to stock up on Pasta Roni, the kids love it. I was going too order from Amazon but had a $13 shipping charge, uh, no way. So when I have to go in I will buy it. Shopping without a fixed list wiilldo that to you every time. We plan our menus and make a list throughout the week. Then we check the store ads for specials and revise the menus as needed. If we planned something with chicken breasts and pork chops on are special, we do a swap. I also shop the ads for our freezer stash, like the lamb shanks they had last week. I never heard of Pasta Roni so I had to Google it and learned something new.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Oct 9, 2024 19:56:07 GMT -5
I was showing DH a pair of earrings on Etsy.
He decreed that after the 4lbs of earrings incident I'm not allowed to buy anymore earrings from now until the end of time.
I said yeah but THIS pair wasn't in the pile!
He was not amused.🤣
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taz157
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Post by taz157 on Oct 9, 2024 20:57:15 GMT -5
Huh. My big boss asked me today to consider applying for a senior billing specialist position. Apparently my willingness to learn how to use Excel for reports and to bring up questions about billing situations that according to my boss just can't be made up, makes her think I'd do well. And here I'd been thinking the last couple of weeks that I'm fraud who has no idea what she's doing. Can we tell I have a massive case of imposter syndrome? Guess I'll put in the app tomorrow. Too bad I'm on vacation next week but gives me a chance to read up the Excel for Dummies workbook I got out of the library. And buy a new phone because this one is seriously pissing me off! That’s an awesome compliment!! Even though I’ve worked in public accounting for nearly 14 years, I’ve definitely learned quite a bit at my current job. FWIW, I’ve found some useful Excel formulas searching YouTube.
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Post by andi9899 on Oct 9, 2024 21:24:07 GMT -5
I was showing DH a pair of earrings on Etsy. He decreed that after the 4lbs of earrings incident I'm not allowed to buy anymore earrings from now until the end of time. I said yeah but THIS pair wasn't in the pile! He was not amused.🤣 I think you should suggest that he pierce at least one ear and report back. Please and thank you.
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Post by giramomma on Oct 9, 2024 22:32:25 GMT -5
I lost my game of yarn chicken today. Also hopeful I have another 6 months (it was MRI day and no call today)
The person who tries to do my IV left a bruise on one arm as they went through my vein
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Post by finnime on Oct 10, 2024 3:56:15 GMT -5
I agree with NomoreDramaQ1015 and seriousthistime , azucena , bionut is engaged in a game she won't let you "win" but BT can lose. Make the call to see if the ER can provide a means to dentistry for BT. It has got to be truly terrible for her to be in physical pain on top of everything else. to you.
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Post by finnime on Oct 10, 2024 4:11:37 GMT -5
Good morning, able and responsible invisipeeps, wrestling with wasps, weather and menu planning while keeping up with others in the path of destruction from Milton. Welcome to Thursday. I hope in your world all is well this day and that recovery from illnesses proceeds quickly. I hope nothing stings you. I hope your DSis and BIL are unscathed by the hurricane, swamp , and your GF finds all remains undamaged, tallguy . I hope your trip is off to a great start, Pink Cashmere. Congratulations, empress of self-improvement ! Thats great news. You're overdue for recognition. Yesterday was a good day. I organized some pictures for a 2025 calendar and DH sent off applications for holiday shows for our photography business. The house remains clean. Today I'm bringing DD to Cambridge so she can work--she's actually in charge of the flu shot clinic--while I wander around for the day. It stopped raining just before we went to the beach yesterday. The rain clouds covered the sky except for at the southern horizon:
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Oct 10, 2024 4:21:57 GMT -5
Well, my mom in central FL is okay. She had power until around 1 am. I was pretty scared for her given the proximity of tornadoes.
Still waiting to hear from DD2 this morning. She is staying within friend inland. As of a text around 11 pm, she was still okay. Her apartment is only a couple of miles from the coast.
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Post by tractor on Oct 10, 2024 6:06:25 GMT -5
Grieving. We spent last night in the hospital as hospice eased my father's transition into his heavenly home.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Oct 10, 2024 6:16:53 GMT -5
Grieving. We spent last night in the hospital as hospice eased my father's transition into his heavenly home. I am so sorry for your loss tractor🥀
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Post by bean29 on Oct 10, 2024 6:25:23 GMT -5
Grieving. We spent last night in the hospital as hospice eased my father's transition into his heavenly home. Sorry for your loss. 🥀💔
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Post by NoNamePerson on Oct 10, 2024 6:25:46 GMT -5
Grieving. We spent last night in the hospital as hospice eased my father's transition into his heavenly home.
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Post by taz157 on Oct 10, 2024 7:08:30 GMT -5
Grieving. We spent last night in the hospital as hospice eased my father's transition into his heavenly home. I’m so sorry. 🥀🥀
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Post by raeoflyte on Oct 10, 2024 7:11:58 GMT -5
I'm so sorry tractor.
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Post by raeoflyte on Oct 10, 2024 7:13:31 GMT -5
Well, my mom in central FL is okay. She had power until around 1 am. I was pretty scared for her given the proximity of tornadoes. Still waiting to hear from DD2 this morning. She is staying within friend inland. As of a text around 11 pm, she was still okay. Her apartment is only a couple of miles from the coast. I hope you hear from her soon.
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Post by catsareme on Oct 10, 2024 7:14:31 GMT -5
Grieving. We spent last night in the hospital as hospice eased my father's transition into his heavenly home.
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Post by gs11rmb on Oct 10, 2024 7:20:47 GMT -5
I'm very sorry for your loss tractor.
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Post by steph08 on Oct 10, 2024 7:20:55 GMT -5
I am so sorry for your loss, tractor.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Oct 10, 2024 7:22:13 GMT -5
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Oct 10, 2024 7:26:01 GMT -5
Well, my mom in central FL is okay. She had power until around 1 am. I was pretty scared for her given the proximity of tornadoes. Still waiting to hear from DD2 this morning. She is staying within friend inland. As of a text around 11 pm, she was still okay. Her apartment is only a couple of miles from the coast. I hope you hear from her soon. She texted at 7:15 this morning. She is okay. They have power back where she is staying. It will be a bit before she can get to where her apartment is. Update: I am kind of shocked. DD got to her place, flooding was minimal, apparently just a couple inches. and she has power. In addition to being a couple miles from the coast, she is 6 blocks from a river.
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Post by cooper88 on Oct 10, 2024 7:34:12 GMT -5
tractor I'm so sorry for your loss.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Oct 10, 2024 7:41:22 GMT -5
Grieving. We spent last night in the hospital as hospice eased my father's transition into his heavenly home. Sorry for your loss Tractor. Losing a parent is never easy.
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Post by notagain on Oct 10, 2024 7:46:36 GMT -5
So sorry to hear this tractor
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Post by azucena on Oct 10, 2024 7:50:41 GMT -5
My condolences tractor.
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Post by soupandstew on Oct 10, 2024 7:56:19 GMT -5
I am so sorry about your father tractor
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Post by azucena on Oct 10, 2024 8:09:37 GMT -5
Hotline intake person must have done a number on the report bc it not only resulted in social worker visit but social worker needed to see teen within 3 hours of call. Ended up racing to meet them at church where teen had worked up the courage to join praise and worship band practice. Left worker outside and walked in to find teen singing her heart out. Yet another new social worker (6th one from the dept) only had to put eyes on her to confirm safety and didn't want to talk to her. Um, okay but you will hear me out. I was as polite as possible and at the end said that I appreciated how hard she works for all of the kids which made her a little teary eyed. Got an early morning call from prior social worker. She says she has fax confirmation that nut signed and faxed medical release two weeks ago to children's hospital. Okay but no one bothered to update us on this key step and I could have been attempting to call and shepherd it through. I gave her multiple neurologists numbers from our discharge papers. Numbers I had already given her 3 weeks ago but whatever. She attempted to tell me that we could maybe get release from teen's pediatrician. Um, not really bc we haven't seen her since April, she knows nothing about these seizures yet and it takes two months to get an appt. Apparently she hadn't paid attention to the new report and thought it was only based on tooth so I had to inform her of yesterday's missed appt. She half swore and said something like I've told bio that she has to stay on top of teen's medical needs and not block you. She also let slip that she'll need to talk to teen soon about siblings as the department has been informed of other things. Teen's mental health has plummeted these last 3 days in anticipation of this appt. Honestly so has mine, but unfortunately along with seizures teen is back to being self destructive. She challenged me on taking meds and other things last night and I said point blank that I'm not dropping her or standing by to watch the spiral. We are going to keep fighting together and we're leaving Friday to go pick out a college and come hell or high water I'll do my best to see her launch and even then she's part of my family and I expect to be white grandma to some beautiful black babies. This teasing earned me a reminder of she's not having any kids (in large part bc she's done so much childcare already in her young life and knows how hard it is and she's worried about perpetuating dysfunction) and she asked if I would finally figure out how to do black hair if there were grandkids.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Oct 10, 2024 8:11:45 GMT -5
I'm sorry tractor. It's a tough thing to lose a parent.
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Post by giramomma on Oct 10, 2024 8:20:33 GMT -5
Drive by post azucena It won't help you legally or anything, but there's a book featured in our book festival by someone named Mark Daley, "Safe: Memoir of Fatherhood, foster care and the risks we take for family." part of the tagline is "what happens when the longing for family crashes against the unique madness and beurocracy that often fails to consider the needs of the most vulnerable parties of all-the children themselves." As for nut, its not surprising. I think actually that parents not prioritizing their kids happens more often than we realize. It's just we pay attention more when the basics are met. I mean. DS used to tell me about it all the time when he'd hear stories of that at the kids' parochial school. There are things I will never understand about my mother after becoming a parent (and through my parenting journey, if you will). I have to let it go,. because you can't make sense of something that is senseless. That's the stuff that will drive you crazy. It sometimes help to understand the causes. You aren't likely going to get that in your position.
You are doing amazing.
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