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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 30, 2023 18:09:11 GMT -5
Mom’s gone until tomorrow y’all! We can get into all kinds of mischief now! I jest, I jest! 😝😝😝 I can still reach this board from my phone. Sneaky mom moments only work if you don't give away their existence. Trust me, I know
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 30, 2023 17:32:20 GMT -5
Anyone who has ever watched a loved one die slowly from Alzheimer’s or dementia would be 100 percent pro euthanasia. They put animals down when their lives are a misery. We’re animals too. It has been available since the mid80s at least in the Netherlands. It started with a "gedoog" policy, which basically meant it was not covered under the law but it was not prosecuted either. Later is was formalized under the law. And despite what all the nay sayers voice as their biggest fear, we have not taken to killing off our old or sick people. When my mom was very sick from lung cancer she told us and her doctor she did not want euthanasia so her treatment was focussed on pain control and it was never brought up again. My grandmother had my sister and me promise we would "pull the plug" rather than let her linger. Grandma (oma) died in her sleep at age 99. Oma knew she could count on my sister and me for her right to die. I was just living on the other side of the world so less a available. Even before I made my decision to move back it has always been my plan to move somewhere where euthanasia was available if I ever am diagnosed with a disease that will take away my quality of life
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 30, 2023 16:20:24 GMT -5
Mom’s gone until tomorrow y’all! We can get into all kinds of mischief now! I jest, I jest! ::Heads off to find TLooney:: Should I shake a can of baby formula do you think that will get her to come out? Wasn't there something about chickens as well? All I seem to remember was that at one time Walmart was involved as well.
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 29, 2023 18:17:57 GMT -5
Tonight's weather is super weird. We've been in the mid- to upper-80's all week and now Mother Nature is flipping the switch with low's in the upper-30's by midweek. The plants are so confused; crape myrtles are dropping leaves and putting on new ones and blooming all at the same time. I think we will experience a lot of power outages over the next day or so because so many trees have dead limbs or are totally dead and will come down on power lines when the north winds hit. DH served the cauliflower crust pizza tonight and it was really good with lots of flavor and a good texture too. Liked for the pizza not the (potential) power outages
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 29, 2023 15:02:45 GMT -5
Running late headed to a football party, but just wanted to say the Queen concert was AMAZING! There were people there going nuts from ages10's to 80's. Freddie definitely lives on in that man.
Would it be weird if I hung an Adam Lambert poster on my wall at 54? DS1 saw them in concert years ago shortly after Adam Lambert joined. He is not taken to praising easily but he raved about Adam. His big thing was that Lambert did not try to "be" Freddie but as himself he was the perfect person to take on that role. I have not seen them in concert, only on tv (youtube? I don't remember) and I must say I fully agree with him Signed, Huge Queen fan forever NastyWoman
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 29, 2023 14:51:00 GMT -5
Would give Pence more credit if he hadn't bothered. Anyone worthy of the office he occupied had to know it would have been horribly wrong. Morally, intellectually, legally, and constitutionally wrong. The fact that he tried to find a way around those is a failure in all four areas. It may not be a complete failure, since he ultimately did not fold, but neither is he a paragon of strength, honor, and virtue. I don't blame Pence for reaching out as dealing with a screaming yelling Trump constantly must be very hard. While he was probably hoping an official answer would stop Trump from pressing the issue, it did help him clarify the legal ramifications to him if he did illegal things like Trump expects of all his minions. He was employed by an abuser who called for his death because he wouldn't illegally steal the election for Trump. 2017 felt five years long to me, can you imagine the agony of working with the screaming angry toddler that is Trump for four years? Many in Trump's orbit turn crazy, i.e. Rudy G., Michael Cohen etc. Maybe Michael snapped out of it, or maybe self-preservation did it for him IDK. But Pence lived a very high stress existence as VP. Ok. But let's be blunt here for a moment. Many of us, knowing only what the loser was like based on media releases - in other words what his campaign allowed us to see, knew in 2016 what an unqualified POS the loser was. Pence had a front seat to that what was kept hidden. Do you really like think the loser was any more palatable in the privacy of his campaign? Yet knowing all that Pence voluntarily aligned himself with the loser. And when the loser just kept getting worse he did not resign from his post either. There is neither pity in me for Pence being in a "high stress existence" nor admiration for ultimately saving his own skin by doing what the law required of him. All this stress was of his own making IMO.
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 28, 2023 21:42:32 GMT -5
Let's just say we disagree about these points. His refusal to speak up about the loser kind of puts him in a group of cowards rather than those with "integrity" and as far as being a "Christian" goes - let's no even talk about his rather vile (IMO) position regarding women. He might be less of a MAGA zealot than most of the others but he is a zealot nonetheless Yes -BUT - he was Trumps toady right up until it mattered most- on J6. Up until then he was a useless background player, but by refusing to do Trumps bidding and certifying the vote, he gets some admiration from me. Imagine the relentless pressure Trump subjected him to, trying to make him comply. The enormous backlash he got from the MAGA lunatics. Remember how they brought a noose with them to the Capitol specifically for Pence. Remember that his family was there with him, and how he refused to let the secret service cart him off site to a safe space because he was afraid they wouldn’t bring him back so he could certify the vote? So I give him some credit for that. How much easier it would have been if he just done what Trump wanted, but how much more chaos would that have brought to the transition? However you seem to forget that he actually consulted conservative lawyer and former federal judge about the legality of refusing to certify the votes. Michael Luttig strongly advised Pence against doing so. It is my personal opinion that Pence's actions that day were far less a matter of him wanting to do the right thing but rather a case of protecting his own hide. And it is too big of a leap for me to give him credit for having some basic survival skills
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 28, 2023 18:48:18 GMT -5
Can anyone tell me what the POTUS is allegedly is accused of? If he received a $5M bribe in 2016 that should have been relatively easy to proof and would have been uncovered during the losers time in the WH. It was not for the lack of trying they have not uncovered anything. I actually went to the trouble of reading the linked article and I can't say it clarified anything for me at all. What in the hell are we spending money and time on in the House? To b we spend all that time and money under the loser's regime investigating HRC - and failing to find any crimes there as well I may add. Tennesseer do you still have that fake article? Maybe you could repost it, I never saw it and it sounds like a hoot. We can all use a good laugh here.
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 28, 2023 18:37:54 GMT -5
I respect Pences integrity, although I disagree with him on most policy. He’s one of the rare politicians who claims to be a Christian and actually is. The GOP is not receptive to that right now. They want a loudmouth who will own the libs. Let's just say we disagree about these points. His refusal to speak up about the loser kind of puts him in a group of cowards rather than those with "integrity" and as far as being a "Christian" goes - let's no even talk about his rather vile (IMO) position regarding women. He might be less of a MAGA zealot than most of the others but he is a zealot nonetheless
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 28, 2023 16:33:35 GMT -5
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 28, 2023 16:10:39 GMT -5
more than half this board, i would wager. If that is true, and it well may be, that is proof that there are quite a few of us old fogeys who definitely are not all that conservative
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 28, 2023 16:05:21 GMT -5
Cogito, ergo sum. Last night Descartes had me wondering whether I actually AM? First there was the beef/butter thing while cooking and then last night, while browsing for something to watch, I stumbled across something called Baby cages on Amazon. It was about German child soldiers who became prisoners of war after D-Day and was basically about an effort to re educate/deprogram them from nazism. The documentary was not really all that good with very little content. However, and this is where my "am I" moment came in, I realized that I had never once thought about what happened to those German POWs at the latest stages of WWII. Where were they kept (a lot of them in France according to this documentary), for how long, where did they go afterwards? What happened? I have known for a long time that those on the eastern front were send to places like Siberia where many disappeared forever and others started coming back to Germany in the mid-fifties. But again an "am I" moment: not a clue whether there was a difference between those who hailed from what at the time was USSR controlled East Germany and those from the west? It is not so much the fact that I don't know what happened that I find disturbing. It is the fact that I never wondered about it. Am I really that intellectually lazy? So here I am, at 72, with a mini existential hiccup
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 27, 2023 21:09:39 GMT -5
For truly kosher guests, serve fish or vegetarian food. The kosher rules are more than just meat and not mixing dairy with meat. The school DH worked for had strict rules about properly washing fruit and vegetables. Produce couldn’t be served unless it has been washed and checked. I got in trouble for bringing a water bottle into a kosher dining room since it might have been washed with the same dish rag that touched non kosher meat or grease. Fish has to have scales and fins -> that means no eel for instance. The thing is I am well aware of most do's and don't s I just never once thought about butter and beef. I don't do beef well so there is no danger I would ever serve that. As I said useless musings from my side - something that happens when I am doing mindless work and which I then in turn inflict on all of you
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 27, 2023 18:59:11 GMT -5
LOL debthaven. Your retirement plans sounds like you are using a stop working version of using nicotine patches Still good for you on the cutting down on work
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 27, 2023 18:34:01 GMT -5
kosher rules aren't that much different than major allergy accommodations to a competent adult*. a kitchen that can accommodate food allergies can be a kosher kitchen with advance notice, and vice versa. *I'll own this audacious statement, and await whatever rains down. 😜 Mostly true but I would not be able to be 100% nut free for instance. One of my favorite dishes to serve is chicken satay with peanut sauce served over rice with a Thai style cucumber salad. And while my Tom Yum Kai is quite tasty - I definitely prefer Tom Yum Kung (hot and sour chicken and shrimp soup resp.) so I may make one or the other based on the guests. And no second set of pots/pans/dishes/etc. in my home either. Fortunately my friends are not that strict. Nor will I serve a combination of dishes where they can only eating certain items but not others
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 27, 2023 17:49:31 GMT -5
In my endless list of useless musings a new one just popped. Years ago I was told that a cheese burger is not kosher - at least not one made of actual beef. Something to do with cheese being made of milk. So I was browning a batch of beef for stew. While I mostly use EVOO for browning meat I like to use butter whenever I prepare beef. Now that has to be totally non kosher as well right? I never even thought about this. Good thing I am not Jewish or brave enough to serve beef to friends. I better research all ingredients next time I have friends over for dinner. I know enough to stay away from certain foods and always ask if there are allergies to consider but I never thought about it down to this level. Live and learn they say. I just am a truly slow learner it seems.
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 27, 2023 15:26:46 GMT -5
And so would I. Me too! Maybe we can gang up and start haunting all those MAGA ***holes? Good times to be had after all
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 26, 2023 18:19:41 GMT -5
Well, this is a day I'll never get back. Two days ago my kitchen sink clogged up but really strangely. It was fine while I was using it but sometime during the night it "spit up" on me and then drained again before I got up. There was all kind of gunk which smelled like pond scum left behind. I tried to unclog the sink with baking soda and vinegar and it was running again only to repeat the same nasty thing during the night. I did not think the problem was in my unit but I contacted a plumber who was doing a bathroom remodel in this building. I explained the problem and told him that if it was in my unit I needed it fixed by him but if it was not then I would need to contact the management company ("MC") and use their plumber. Well he was here at 8am, checked, and confirmed that the clog was indeed in the shared pipes. He refused payment despite being here for close to half an hour. I contacted the MC andafter that I just sat around. They send a plumber and it took him several hours to remove the clog. Since it was a shared pipe problem the bill goes to the HOA but I have been on my rear end for most of the last couple of days. I doubt I took a 1000 steps in both days combined. As I said - time I'll never get back but at least it was a cheap waste of time.
Kitchen sink and counters have been disinfected so all is well again
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 26, 2023 16:04:25 GMT -5
You would think they would make this alphabet soup easier for this group to comprehend. I work with it and it's hard to get sometimes. That is a concern for me as I get even older. And the older I get and if there is a whole bunch of small print to read I get a bit dyslexic. Reading instructions if the print is too small gets to be a problem. That is exactly my beef with all that medicare crap. It is at least 10x more complex than going through plans for regular (work related) open enrollment yet it is, presumably, designed for a section of the population that faces cognitive decline over time. I stuck with the HMO I already had prior to retiring but in part that was because also because I have no plans to become old, old in the US. Before that time I will be back in Europe
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 26, 2023 15:41:34 GMT -5
What kind of wife can’t ‘forge’ her husband’s signature?? One that ended up divorced? I was never able to forge xH signature. It might have something to do with the fact that I am a leftie and he most decidedly is not. My ambidextrous DS1 found my signature easier to forge than his father's. He fessed up to that long after the fact - when he had graduated college and had flown the nest
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 25, 2023 15:02:23 GMT -5
Nope, not off base The Walk of the Penguin Mich. Knowing that something is very unlikely to happen again is not the same as feeling it. Even if on an intellectual level you know it is not airline dependent your gut will say "yea but..." For what it is worth, Malaysia Airlines is a very pleasant/good airline to fly with.
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 25, 2023 14:18:47 GMT -5
So one of the flights I'm looking at to get us to Bangkok is Malaysian Air. I can't believe the visceral reaction I have about thinking of booking a flight on this airline. Logically, I know it's all emotional but yikes! I hear you. I can still remember the first few flights we booked on KLM after that horrific accident on Tenerife - and that was in 1977 for crying out loud. I am not afraid of flying but occasionally I still am relieved just to be off the ground
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 25, 2023 11:41:59 GMT -5
Waiting for Uber to the airport. Had a great time in California Waiving a bit north at jerseygirl. I am glad you had a wonderful time here in NorCal. Safe travels home.
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 24, 2023 17:50:16 GMT -5
she should be declared in violation of her plea deal, and put on trial. just like Hunter Biden. Did Hunter Biden violate his plea deal? I thought the judge rejected his deal. Now I do believe any of the Jan 6th defendants and those on trial here in Georgia need to face re-sentencing if they decide to disclaim what they said under the plea deal a d there has to be a minimum mandatory prison sentence for that.
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 24, 2023 11:57:32 GMT -5
The loser really should rethink his cheapskate ways and start paying his lawyers - on time IMO. This is starting to look more and more interesting. If this keeps up he will claim that he had no legal representation for his efforts to overturn the election and "we the People" deprived him of his right to have legal representation. Too bad for him that his NY case is based on him claiming to be stinking rich and he will have a hard time claiming that he could not afford a lawyer and "we the People" should have provided one for him.
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 23, 2023 12:55:51 GMT -5
Congratulations to Mister. I hope his time of pulling double duty at work comes to an end with this promotion as well.
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 22, 2023 20:22:43 GMT -5
So today I took the second tv box and the remote back to Comcast and my cable is officially cut. I had made an appointment to make sure I would get it done exactly the way I wanted it. That really worked out well. Originally I wanted to keep my unlimited internet subscription. But the guy who was doing this decided to look up my internet usage and it was consistently only about 50% of the lower usage plan. I am rather a person of habit and I had been only streaming for most of this year. So I decided to go to the lower plan and saved another $30/month for a total reduction of approximately $130/month - without changing anything.! Not bad if I do say so myself - I should have done this a long time ago but whatever, water under the bridge and money in my bank account going forward.
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 22, 2023 19:25:01 GMT -5
You know you are an adult when one of the more exciting finds when cleaning out a house is a six piece unopened set of Tupperware. Are you an adult when you head out on an autumn walk and all you want to do is shuffle your feet through the leaves? In that case you are a well rounded human being who knows that to be an adult you do not have to kill of the little kid inside of you IMO.
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 20, 2023 17:55:58 GMT -5
No, because I order as soon as I can. So I usually have a stash. This is how I avoided jumping through hoops about getting a vacation override for the world cruise. When I left, I had 9 months of meds and took 6 months with me. I ordered this batch sometime in June when we got back, but didn’t start then until Sept. The other thing I discovered on the ship was that I had a 90 day supply of each (x2) but ran out of BP meds first. Those I KNOW I took daily, which means that I think I got shortchanged on those since we were on the ship 178 days. Do you see an Endocrinologist? Maybe you could call and explain that you suspect you either your prescriptions were filled incorrectly, or you unknowingly took the wrong medication. It might be good for the Endocrinologist to be involved in getting your meds back to the correct level in your system. I take Synthroid, and I am off the record admitting to taking different doses of my pills based on how I feel, not necessarily how it was prescribed. So I am supposed to take 88 mcg 5 days a week and 100 mcg 2 days a week. I have been taking the 100 mcg maybe 3 days a week now, and I am almost out, but I have a lot of the 88mcg meds left. My Endocrinologist wants me to take it exactly as prescribed so she can calculate out what I should be taking. I am forgetful, so some days I don't take my meds and then the next day I take a bit extra. I also intentionally take less or none if my IBS-d is acting up b/c I think (and Dr.'s have admitted it is true) the Synthroid can make diarrhea worse. I had a large stash of Meds from the Pandemic too b/c they wanted everyone to have an extra large supply of meds. I do have a 90 day supply of 75 mcg Synthroid from before she adjusted my meds the last time. I guess I will take my own advice and message her and ask her to fill an extra prescription of my 100 mcg meds. And that is the second reason I use that weekly pill box. It is rectangular and, unless there is a little one at my house or I am travelling, the box sits on top of my water glass that hold my toothpaste and brush. Makes it harder to ignore those pills, though fair is fair, I have been known to take it of the glass, set it aside and promptly forget to take the pills. Still I am reasonably good about it.
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 20, 2023 14:42:28 GMT -5
I think how people feel and react when we die says a lot about how we lived. My Grandmother’s husband was crazy. Not mentally ill, I don’t call people with mental illness crazy. He was just a terrible person in a lot of ways. At his funeral, his nieces and nephews tried to say nice things about him. Finally, his brother, who was a Pastor, spoke and the first thing he said was “I’m going to just tell the truth. *Nickname* was HELL”. I don’t remember the rest of what he said, but I remember that part, because it was true, and I was shocked that the preacher in the family was the one to say it. At one point, I had tears on my face and my cousin that was sitting next to me whispered Are you CRYING?! I giggled and said “girl hush, it s a funeral, I can’t help it.” None of us were really sad, even though my Grandmother had been married to him since before I was born. I don’t think my Grandmother was even really sad.
That was pretty much the weirdest funeral I’ve ever been to. That is a really sad statement. Not inappropriate mind you, but sad. I truly hope that when I die I have lived my life in such a way that people are at least a bit sad that I'll be gone forever. And a bit happy that they have known me as well. I better watch myself as I age so I won't become one of those nasty old biddies. An old biddy sure - but not nasty.
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