what are you doing right now?

[seriousthistime]

countrygirl3, your mystery packages are intriguing.  I hope you eventually find out what is happening.  Are they all from Amazon?

The opposite happened to me.  I ordered a bra from Wacoal.  The confirmation said delivery might be delayed.  After about 10 business days I decided to check and it showed delivery about 3 days after I ordered.  My account showed I requested delivery to my home address, which was listed correctly.  I clicked through the tracking info and it showed delivery to my mailbox in St. Paul, Minnesota.  I don't live in Minnesota. 

So if any of you live in St. Paul and got a package with a lacy turquoise bra, I hope it's a size that fits you. 

[chiver78]

Nov 17, 2024 10:49:28 GMT -5 skeeter said:

Nov 17, 2024 10:30:34 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

This is me.  I'm not trying to control anyone by leaving cheese stick wrappers on the end table next to the couch. I'm just so bad about setting things down and leaving them.  I hate that, and I didn't used to be this way, but for whatever reason at some point I slipped into it. 

Does it really matter in the grand scheme of things?  After all, it is YOUR house and you should be able to do whatever you want to in YOUR own home and not be told what you can/cannot do by some control freak. 

expecting grown ass adults to throw out their own trash doesn't make Pink a control freak. wow.

[chiver78]

Nov 17, 2024 11:34:21 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

The twins were barking like crazy so I looked out the window. There was a lady trying to open my back gate. I went outside and she was trying to put two dogs she found in my backyard. A husky and a pitbull. I informed her that the twins were in the house and probably someone was out driving around looking for them. I guess that's one way to meet your neighbors.

How bizarre. did she think they were yours or something?

[chiver78]

I'm home from CT, and have inhaled a delicious toasted and dressed bagel from the shop near my friend's house. it took a lot of self control to not tear into the bag on the drive home, they smelled so good! but it was way easier to contain the mess of an everything bagel over a paper plate on a table than it would have been to eat while driving. lol...

my parents have already left, and I'm currently working my way through the newspaper. I've got a long afternoon of laundry ahead of me, and putting that one cabinet/drawer back together. Mom pulled up and re-laid the contact paper in the cabinet that got greased, yesterday. so that saves me a step. thanks, Mom!

[minnesotapaintlady]

Nov 17, 2024 10:49:28 GMT -5 skeeter said:

Nov 17, 2024 10:30:34 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

This is me.  I'm not trying to control anyone by leaving cheese stick wrappers on the end table next to the couch. I'm just so bad about setting things down and leaving them.  I hate that, and I didn't used to be this way, but for whatever reason at some point I slipped into it. 

Does it really matter in the grand scheme of things?  After all, it is YOUR house and you should be able to do whatever you want to in YOUR own home and not be told what you can/cannot do by some control freak. 

For the most part, I don't care, but I DO like having a neat house, so it does bother me to an extent. Especially when I can't find things...which is often.

I'm working towards being a minimalist, but it is sloooow going, especially with my mother working against me by giving me tons of crap. She doesn't get my not wanting stuff, but she is the most organized person on the planet, has a million of everything and it's all put away and she knows exactly where every single thing is.  My house would look like a hoarder house if I had all the stuff she does because I wouldn't know what to do with it.  She is getting better. I haven't been coming out to my car after work to find bags of clothes for the kids in the backseat anymore and last Christmas after getting advice from her sisters she just gave me mostly consumables.

[soupandstew]

Nov 17, 2024 0:07:21 GMT -5 countrygirl3 said:

Soup, I sure miss buying items like homemade tamales in Texas, I really like them. I have made them 2 or 3 times but it takes me 2 days, pretty labor intensive, but well worth it. When I make them I make 12 dozen. I miss going to Fiesta, I would select fish from the tank and have them cleaned, man, were those good. And they had things I like, like chicken feet, fresh liver, heart, and all the old fashioned foods even tongue. I miss all those foods, I could get a lot of it at the amish store, but they would sell out of those items quickly.

You are so right about the work involved in tamales.  We're lucky to have a family-owned small business that produces excellent ones, especially the chicken ones we eat.  A half dozen makes 2 meals for us.  I think you would be shocked at the cost of chicken feet and beef tongue here.  With everyone using chicken feet to make bone broth in a pressure cooker, the price has gone through the roof.  I was tempted to get a beef tongue last week, but it was $16.99 per pound.  It's just as well because we're only supposed to have red meat once or twice a week, and preferably no organ meats.  

[daisylu]

Nov 17, 2024 10:30:34 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

Nov 17, 2024 9:34:56 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

As far as anyone it could also be that they don't see it, see it but it doesn't bother them, or some level of mental/physical struggle that makes it difficult to impossible to tackle daily chores.

Lots of single people live in various levels of messy homes where the only person they're hurting is themselves.

But in a relationship or family where 1 person is left to handle all of the physical labor of keeping house that is a problem on a lot of levels and 1 I wish that wasn't so prevalent.

This is me.  I'm not trying to control anyone by leaving cheese stick wrappers on the end table next to the couch. I'm just so bad about setting things down and leaving them.  I hate that, and I didn't used to be this way, but for whatever reason at some point I slipped into it. 

Difference is that you are in your own home and are not expecting other people to clean up after you. Pink is in a very different situation. 

[minnesotapaintlady]

Nov 17, 2024 12:54:19 GMT -5 daisylu said:

Nov 17, 2024 10:30:34 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

This is me.  I'm not trying to control anyone by leaving cheese stick wrappers on the end table next to the couch. I'm just so bad about setting things down and leaving them.  I hate that, and I didn't used to be this way, but for whatever reason at some point I slipped into it. 

Difference is that you are in your own home and are not expecting other people to clean up after you. Pink is in a very different situation. 

But is Mister expecting people to clean up after him? (I honestly don't know as I haven't been following what's going on).

I was the same when married (also in my own home). I would get to it when I got to it, but seeing as Ex was as bad or worse, it wasn't a point of contention.  I wasn't expecting anyone to clean up after me, but if Ex had been a neat freak instead of a slob like me, he probably would have felt compelled to and been upset.

[andi9899]

Nov 17, 2024 9:27:23 GMT -5 swamp said:

I had a 6:30wakeup call from Lifeline.  My dad must have accidentally set it off and didn’t hear the call back.  But he says his hearing is fine. 

He is more stressful than my teens. 

I’ve decided that whenever I deal with shit like this my siblings are getting a “a friendly text just to update them on what’s going on with dad.”   

am I being petty? 

No. Raising your parents is tough. It's worse than your kids I think. The kids won't likely end up in the hospital if they fall. Parents can also sign themselves up for crazy stuff and kids can't. My parents give me way more anxiety than my kids ever did.