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Post by NastyWoman on May 4, 2024 13:30:04 GMT -5
It is May right? Sunny weather with temperatures in the mid to upper 70s are supposed to have arrived. Sure that was true yesterday. But today wet stuff is falling out of the sky at a pretty good clip (in other words rain not just a drizzle) and the forecast is for ~0.8" - granted not much but the average for the entire month of May is 0.5"! And it is only 56° so I am wearing a sweater. in friggin' May when I should be thinking about whether I want to go down to the pool. I feel majorly jibbed!
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Post by NastyWoman on May 4, 2024 11:38:16 GMT -5
for the times they are a-changin' I thought you would get a little laugh out of this: As you probably have noticed I am giving away quite a bit of stuff through the local FB buy nothing group. As a result the offers from others show up in my feed. This morning someone offered 8 rolls of TP. My guess is they are moving but who knows they might just have been bored and looking for some cheap entertainment. Either way people jumped all over it with their "me, me, me" like their calendar is stuck on 2020. The pleas of "I can really use it" and "thank you sooooo much" were quite amusing and made me think they have been permanently thrown into TP hoarding mode.
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Post by NastyWoman on May 4, 2024 0:40:55 GMT -5
Uh...no. But, don't I wish! I'd be getting Gus trimmed every week! Speaking of which he's way overdue again. I really miss when he only needed to be done twice a year. Uuuhhm, you may have forgotten this but we agreed a while back that any new relationship you start needs to pass the board of YMAM approval first. we may come to slobber over him but there has to be a lot more than just a hot bod for any "him" to pass our approval. We won't allow just any guy, hot or not, to hurt you.
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Post by NastyWoman on May 3, 2024 17:58:26 GMT -5
I have been told by managers I needed to be more assertive. When I was, the same managers told me I was too aggressive. Yesterday when we were young. Those were the so-called good old days. It was what it was at the time and I did my best to get things to change. However I am sad that things have not changed far enough. At this speed my (imaginary) GGD will still have to fight the same battles
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Post by NastyWoman on May 3, 2024 17:34:23 GMT -5
I have never been called snippy by anyone.Aggressive? Yes but not snippy. BTW, I don't think I was any more "aggressive" than my male colleagues but sitting down to pee and standing up for yourself = aggressive
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Post by NastyWoman on May 3, 2024 15:30:01 GMT -5
Time to fess up about the scale of my book problem: I have 4 6-ft high bookcases filled to the brim and another 6 that have just 4 shelves each. These are much sturdier and the books are double layers on each shelf. Then there are a couple of shelves in my craft closet that have craft books/magazines. And this is after getting rid of box after box, after box, of books. And I regret buying none of them. Linus of the Peanuts may have his security blanket, I have my security books and, it turns out, CDs.
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Post by NastyWoman on May 3, 2024 14:34:48 GMT -5
Rukh O'Rorke you earn a great salary, and it makes me sad to see you so stressed out about money. I hope that the Rukh Inc check comes in, and that the garden takes off! NastyWoman when I moved from the US in the early 80s, there was such a thing as "book rate" ... it was very cheap to ship books at that rate, by boat. I don't know if that still exists or not, or if CDs would be covered in that rate. If not, it's OK if it costs to move the things you love and use and want to keep. It is not the cost of moving things I love. It is the knowledge that apartments in Munich are very unlikely to be anywhere close to the 1300sqf I currently have. I will have to pare my possessions down like it or not. Some things are easy like my dinner service. That is not going to move -> I've been wanting a new set for a couple of decades now. I don't even dislike it but I am so tired of it. I break very, very little for some reason and so I have this set with one plate with a tiny chip - but I have had and used it for about 50 years! I bought it piece by piece when I was barely out of college. Things with true sentimental value, like a large and very impractical basket, my mom gave me will make the move. No way am I leaving that behind. I have money set aside for this (very) expensive move but space will be the defining factor. C'est la vie...
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Post by NastyWoman on May 3, 2024 13:49:29 GMT -5
I may do have a problem on my hands!
Not only do I still need to reduce my books by at least half (and that is after getting rid of stacks and stacks of them) but I have a similar problem with CDs. Now in my defense, feeble as it may be, I have always had three CD collections, one at home, one at work, and one in the car, and they are all somewhat different. I mean you can't really go on a road trip without Willy Nelson singing on the road again or singing (at the top of your lungs) along with Janis Joplin's version of Me and Bobby McGee, Blues for a quiet night at home, or Gary Moore or the Scorpions at work, can you now? Those are different environments and there is so much more wonderful music. And now I have to get those collections down - once I am ready to face the music going out the door that is...
I have put 15 CDs in my latest Goodwill box. And my guestroom is almost ready to see guests again. Not quite but very close. My new flooring decluttering exercise is coming to an end and not a moment too soon.
Next up, my pantry. This week a fairly new (~one month old) can decided to split at the seams and leak all over the place. I cleaned it up but I also realized it had been a while since I last checked everything. That is the big drawback of buying food you never hope to eat - my earthquake stash- bought solely based on ease to open and, if needed, eat cold straight from the can. I just tend to ignore my stash but it is time to go through and give away/donate everything that is getting close to its "best by" date and get new food in place. Kind of an expensive habit but I like to eat and I don't think that will go away when the earth decides to rock and roll...
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Post by NastyWoman on May 3, 2024 11:18:29 GMT -5
One of the parents of a kid in the missy's 3K program committed suicide. We weren't close to the deceased, but we did know the parents of the deceased. The deceased wasn't all that much older than DS. And how is it fair that I was somehow granted the gift of watching the missy grow up...and yet my neighbor and now this parent were not given that gift. My life is not inherently better. I'm not more worthy.
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Post by NastyWoman on May 2, 2024 20:35:38 GMT -5
Ohhh.. Now I want to change my screen name to gatormomma. lol. Go for it. Have a bit of fun with your screen name
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Post by NastyWoman on May 2, 2024 12:46:22 GMT -5
Ever heard the expression "so mad that I could spit nails"? That is my current status - or more like I could drive a nail into someone's head. This weekend is when DD is supposed to travel to PA with sister's husband and my mom to visit my brother sister will meet them there. My mom has gone radio silent, no surprise, but not responding to DD is an issue for me. I will not tell DD to not go - most everything is paid for - but I am worried about the drive. I am sure mom will do her passive aggressive thing and just not speak to DD, which will likely send DD into a spiral. I have no issues with driving up to retrieve DD but if I have to because of some BS I may need bail money. I am used to this from my mom, but I refuse to let her treat my child that way. I'm down to ride! Good I was hoping you'd say that. I'm in too. I'll take on mom. That way no one can claim elder abuse. We'll just be two old broads fighting - and it won't be pretty for mom. I don't hold back when you mess with someone's (mental) health and I will fight dirty if needed
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Post by NastyWoman on May 1, 2024 22:02:24 GMT -5
From a bumper sticker around here: Jésus était juif.
But maybe the use of French would make this too difficult for MGT to understand - yet in English the concept itself it too complex for her.
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Post by NastyWoman on May 1, 2024 21:56:05 GMT -5
Today I decluttered the last of the corelle dishes. I also weeded the flower bed that is under the front window, coming up the walk to the front door was looking pretty pathetic with weeds. This evening I posted a free fountain on FB. It was a you load, you haul, must take all type of post. My phone has been blowing up, but a young couple is coming to get it tomorrow evening.
OMG!. I never give out my phone number on FB I select one potential recipient and tell them to send me a dm to arrange pickup details. I also tell them NOT to send me a dm unless selected. If they do anyway I will just ignore them. I've had only one person flake on me and not show up as arranged. But I just send them a message that the offer was now off the table and selected someone else. My stuff, my rules
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Post by NastyWoman on May 1, 2024 19:51:25 GMT -5
resolution I would have no problem with the owners "nickel and diming" their equity away, as long as THEY are doing the spending. It just is a sad fact that many elderly don't have the resources for their daily expenses. So if they eat up their house and get some comfort from it, fine. But we have way too few protections in place for vulnerable elderly and there are far too many predators out there for this to have an acceptable outcome. This is just the next predatory scheme after the early reverse mortgages (I have heard they are somewhat better now) and the buy/rent back schemes. Chances are there are more in the works but time will tell.
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Post by NastyWoman on May 1, 2024 18:50:59 GMT -5
Thanks, I'm good. You have to wonder how they come up with products like this. And how anyone would think this would be a good idea for them to use. I see a lot of sob stories in the future on finance websites I can definitely see a lot of people using this. We have many senior homeowners in our community who are overwhelmed by medical and home maintenance costs. They can't qualify for a reverse mortgage as their homes are already in poor condition, and they are living off their credit cards. This is the sort of a last-resort thing for them. But you are right that this product is a slippery slope to a bad destination - and we'll be hearing the howls down the road. I believe this is exactly their target group. However, this is also the group that is as a whole the least computer savvy and thus easiest to be hacked and/or scammed out of the little they have left of value. Remember all those elderly people who had to depend on their kids/family, younger neighbors, friends just to get an appointment for that first Covid shot? They are not going to realize they have been hacked until it is too late, or close to it, to rectify the problem. It is not the rich, or even the "comfortable", who are going to be hurt by this. There has to be a better, safer way to get them access to their equity
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Post by NastyWoman on May 1, 2024 17:01:03 GMT -5
So I rarely listen to adds on the radio (which I have on all day) but one caught my attention just a moment ago. It was for an Aven card. "Not a credit card but it works like one". What caught my attention was the fact that they said it was " backed" by the equity in your home and it was easy to use! Whatever can go wrong here? Your card gets hacked and someone spends the equity in your home? It is not enough that there are all kind of schemes out there to drain your bank accounts, now they have to be able to basically steal your hone from you as well - all because it is so easy to access your equity when you just have to have that pair of new sandals? SMH Want me to spend/use it for you? 😉 Thanks, I'm good. You have to wonder how they come up with products like this. And how anyone would think this would be a good idea for them to use. I see a lot of sob stories in the future on finance websites
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Post by NastyWoman on May 1, 2024 15:53:31 GMT -5
So I rarely listen to adds on the radio (which I have on all day) but one caught my attention just a moment ago. It was for an Aven card. "Not a credit card but it works like one". What caught my attention was the fact that they said it was " backed" by the equity in your home and it was easy to use! Whatever can go wrong here? Your card gets hacked and someone spends the equity in your home? It is not enough that there are all kind of schemes out there to drain your bank accounts, now they have to be able to basically steal your hone from you as well - all because it is so easy to access your equity when you just have to have that pair of new sandals? SMH
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Post by NastyWoman on May 1, 2024 13:45:45 GMT -5
If he could get it all done it would be wonderful. This country will be where it should have been all along. Thanks for this comment. It is the important elephant in the room that too many don't see. While I don't agree, that is irrelevant. The question is, "Do enough American voters want that America?" That is what this election will decide. We shouldn't let the character flaws nor Biden's age cloud that important issue. I am just confused about the fact that Biden's age keeps popping up in discussions. Yes, Biden is old but the baggy, saggy, sociopathic orange paint addict is just about as old and he is in far worse shape to boot!
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Post by NastyWoman on May 1, 2024 2:12:43 GMT -5
Very little done today - you can probably say nothing. Several years ago my printer cra*pped out. That thing is long since gone. Since then a friend has printed the very few pages I needed printing for me. During the sorting I found 2.5 reams of paper. You get one guess who now has all that paper Oh, and we also took a nice 7.5 mile walk today so, if not for the lunch we had afterwards, I would also have decluttered some calories, but alas
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 30, 2024 21:58:49 GMT -5
I always defined a porch as on the ground and a deck as raised. I raise you all the word patio And just after I had decided that my covered balcony was a perch. Now I have to incorporate this too. How about perchio?
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 30, 2024 11:52:58 GMT -5
Definitely a front porch. The roof cantilevers and overs the entire length. We bought the house in 2020, and the access stairs made no sense. The garage is way over at the other end of the house from the access stairs, and there was no walkway from the driveway over to them. Front porch renovated, finished Jan 2024porch garden spring 2024The porch looks great! I'm team definitely a porch and not a deck. 😀 Does that go for balconies too? If so I have a porch But I have no downstairs. I may be friends with my neighbor but I doubt she will take kindly to me taking over her deck
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 30, 2024 11:23:42 GMT -5
There would be some irony if the judges who decided it was constitutional for a President to kill people, were then killed for deciding that. 🤔 My understanding is they will send it back down to the lower court. Then, I believe there will not be a final ruling in this case until after the election, so that if Biden tried to take advantage of such a ruling, they could turn around and say it is unconstitutional. Meh, there is a couple of months between the election and the inauguration. If Biden should lose (shudder) he has those months left to dispose of the problem, for the good of the country, and he would be fine - doing his duty as the sitting POTUS. Take any criminal case against him to the courts and delay, delay, delay. He is old enough that this should keep him out of prison
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 30, 2024 8:55:18 GMT -5
Up and drinking coffee. It's not even 7am yet and I don't do 7am. Stupid parking problems at the doctor's. All this for a stupid annual checkup <grumble>
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 29, 2024 17:44:36 GMT -5
I must be the most disorganized person in the world - or I was before I retired (still close to first place now though LOL). Remember those days when back to school meant going to Target and get 10 notebooks/$1? And similar deals at Office Max for notepads, folders, binders, etc.? Well I always stocked up so the kids could just take what they needed. And, like a dope I took their word for it if they said we were running low. I knew they couldn't find anything if it jumped up and bit their nose. So I had a lot of excess. A few years back I gave, what I believed to be, all of that to a friend.
Boy was I ever wrong - today 4 (that is FOUR!) grocery bags full of that stuff was given away through the FB buy nothing group. It is out the door now but really who does something like this?
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 29, 2024 12:18:09 GMT -5
Another dark and dreary day. Not good.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 28, 2024 21:28:00 GMT -5
I just had dinner and now I want (coffee) icecream for desert. I have no coffee icecream or any icecream at all for that matter.So I am eating an apple and a plum and calling it fruit salad.but that doesn't do it. it doesn't do it at all. However, since I am not going to the store this week I see a lot of "fruit salad" in the near future
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 28, 2024 17:43:47 GMT -5
Cheer up Rip - if the Supreme Court sides with Trump and says it is legal for a President to do anything as long as it is for the good of the country - Biden can have Trump murdered and the Don won’t have any legal troubles - and neither will Biden. No War of the Roses here. Enter the era of the war of the (wo)men in Black - aka the Secret Service. Though the advantage goes to Biden as he, as Commander in Chief, has quite a bit of additional manpower at his disposal.,
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 27, 2024 19:15:16 GMT -5
My grandma lived a few blocks down from the BTK killer 😳
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 26, 2024 16:58:09 GMT -5
huh? within the last month, he has said ON RECORD that he has more than $175M IN CASH. i actually believe him. ergo, he can post his own bond. he does not NEED a middleman. of course, he might be lying. maybe? You do? I have come to believe (possibly erroneously) that tbe way he gets his wealth number is by adding up every penny he ever had, every penny he has right now, every penny he thinks he may possibly receive at any time in the future. Then take that total, add a vanity amount to it and and bingo, bango he is rich, RICH, RICH I tell you. But maybe I should not have attended Trump University? It may have distorted my math skills a wee bit
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 25, 2024 23:22:11 GMT -5
I missed this earlier. The part of the movie you are talking about was filmed in Cambodia, near the Angkor Wat complex. I forgot which temple complex* this was exactly but they are relatively close to each other. Absolutely worth visiting. But take some electrolyte powder to add to your drinking water. I have never been as hot and sweated as much as I did during the days I spend there! *Ta Prohm and it is within the greater Angkor Wat complex . I seem to remember it was separate. Either way - easily reachable from Siem Reap you didn't miss it. i added it. that's right. Cambodia. i remember now. i will PM you if i get super interested.right now, i am still trying to figure out where i am going to live! LOL! Sure. When you do I'll call in the troops. I have the best, most dedicated, travel agent in the world by virtue of giving birth to him
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