What's on your mind?
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IslandGal3 wrote: »A heart to heart with my dad this morning. No chance in hell I'll ever let him go into a home. We're together until the end. That is the way it's going to be.
Precious! 🤗
I know he’s thankful for you.3 -
stevehenderson776 wrote: »Not my Lee McRoy 😱
So glad you’re okay.. getting in an accident in the cold is one of my biggest fears. When it’s -40 and the windshield is blown out, you don’t get a lot of time for help to arrive
About 10 years back we had a snow steamer come off of Lake Huron down here and blow length wise down Highway 402. It dumped several feet of snow on the highway in a few hours in white out conditions. People who were driving anything smaller than a Ford F250 got stuck on the highway for almost two full days for some of them before they were able to evacuate everybody. It was shocking the number of people that were driving between cities with noting but their office worker clothes and no coats, boots, gloves, hats, etc. My buddy and I volunteered with our snow machines to take food (Bologna and mustard sammie's), water and blankets out to stranded motorists and mark their locations and situation for the emergency workers. If there weren't people out responding right away a lot of people would have just froze to death on the first night.
If you live in a cold clime you should always have appropriate clothes for a long walk in the bitter cold even if you don't plan on being outside of your car/your destination for longer than a minute. You never know when you might have to spend the night in your car or take a long walk through the deep snow.
Thanks. We were very well prepared with food, water, wiper fluid, wool blankets, hats, boots (goretex hiking boots and sorels, with an extra dry pair for each of us), fleece jackets, goretex shells, hats, at least six pairs of gloves of different weights for different uses, extra pairs of dry wool socks, shovels, and even a saw. I’ve lived in the Sierra for 30 years. We could have survived for days.
ETA — oops, I see you were responding to caco. I also used to live in MN. Survival up there is another matter completely. So freaking cold. The scary thing to me is that even if you have everything you need to survive, if you’re not wearing it when you crash, you might lie there unconscious and bleeding, freezing to death. I’m sort of paranoid and always overprepared. I’m a super cautious driver in a very safe Subaru AWD. Hitting a GMC Sierra that didn’t move an inch as my car crumbled is making me feel like I’d be better off in a truck. I’ve always loved Subarus, though.4 -
I'm the favorite right now; my dogs have been getting spoiled with all the leftover turkey.
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About how incredibly boring today has been.
About how my eyesight is getting worse (seems to me quickly) and I need to go see an optometrist.
About getting my heater fixed.
About getting my oil changed in my car.
About getting my expired car tag renewed.
About the strange pain I’ve been having in my shin and the weird nerve pain in different places.
It wouldn’t be bad except it’s on my mind all at once.5 -
honeybee__12 wrote: »About how incredibly boring today has been.
About how my eyesight is getting worse (seems to me quickly) and I need to go see an optometrist.
About getting my heater fixed.
About getting my oil changed in my car.
About getting my expired car tag renewed.
About the strange pain I’ve been having in my shin and the weird nerve pain in different places.
It wouldn’t be bad except it’s on my mind all at once.
I replaced my smoke detectors in my house today. ✅5 -
So I took my car in to have an oil change and winter tires put on...fine - the price is the price
they called me to say the break light is out "it costs $58 to replace"
...looking at the invoice, the bulb was $8 and the service $50
F that entirely!! I can change a lightbulb...(thanks to YouTube)
I thought the whole thing needed to be replaced - guess I'm dumb 😒8 -
Twas looking forward to walking early this morning. Darn you heavy downpours and possible flooding.1
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Kashmir_314_ wrote: »IslandGal3 wrote: »A heart to heart with my dad this morning. No chance in hell I'll ever let him go into a home. We're together until the end. That is the way it's going to be.
This is beautiful, J. Your Dad is blessed to have you! ❤️
Just do me a favor and don't be afraid to ask for help if (and when) you get overwhelmed. Taking care of yourself is equally important in this equation.
There needs to be more people like you in this world. My heart breaks every time I have to work in these LTC facilities and see the loneliness in my patients eyes. 💔
There was a picture recently in the news, of a doctor hugging an elderly Covid patient. Tore my heart right out. There are many many people in facilities(that word sounds so cold to me
) now that can't have visitors, and even before Covid struck, many people did not have anyone that came. Such a sad thing. During 2 brief stints of witnessing life in nursing homes locally, it always made me wonder where families were. It takes special people to work there to help make up for that.
My sister refused to place her dh anywhere else but home and both her kids gave her much grief about it. Thankfully she didn't listen and followed her own heart.
You have to do what your heart tells you. But always remember you're important as well and need to take care of yourself; never ever forget that extremely important part of it all.5 -
So my soon-to-be 88 yo neighbor came over yesterday. He and I have had our differences and still do. Anyways, he told me someone egged his house and dumped flowerboxes on his back deck. I felt bad for him and he couldn't figure out why someone would pick on him. I told him not to take it personally; probably some young punks who were bored and his dark backyard was a safe target. Next time I see him I'll have to remind him of some of the stories he's told me about things he's done that were much much worse.
I don't know why people have to do stupid thoughtless things at all; things that show they don't care about others or animals or the earth.
I've gotten into trouble in the early years of my own life but never in a 'slam the world' kind of a way.5 -
I don’t like to wish my life away but I cannot wait for this day to be over 😣
Not trying to be dramatic, just feeling stressed out about some work stuff9 -
So I took my car in to have an oil change and winter tires put on...fine - the price is the price
they called me to say the break light is out "it costs $58 to replace"
...looking at the invoice, the bulb was $8 and the service $50
F that entirely!! I can change a lightbulb...(thanks to YouTube)
I thought the whole thing needed to be replaced - guess I'm dumb 😒
What ?
Why you say this ?
What you did was a very smart thing !
You took the time to research and found that they were over pricing you and you took care of it yourself .
That ain't dumb !
That's smart in my book .2 -
So I took my car in to have an oil change and winter tires put on...fine - the price is the price
they called me to say the break light is out "it costs $58 to replace"
...looking at the invoice, the bulb was $8 and the service $50
F that entirely!! I can change a lightbulb...(thanks to YouTube)
I thought the whole thing needed to be replaced - guess I'm dumb 😒
No, you are not. This we know.3 -
Check my thread out. It will make you feel better. I promise you that. OMG. I kicked myself to the curb with the biggest bunch of horsesheet you've ever seen.
Where is that @KosmosKitten when you need her. If ever there was a day, today would be the day. Kosmos. SOS
I have an idea for a thread. Show us your mind.
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It's gone. Whew, what a relief.
Thank you, Moderators. Thank you. @4legsRbetterthan2 @psuLemon @ninerbuff @JustSomeEm2 -
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Diatonic12 wrote: »Check my thread out. It will make you feel better. I promise you that. OMG. I kicked myself to the curb with the biggest bunch of horsesheet you've ever seen.
Where is that @KosmosKitten when you need her. If ever there was a day, today would be the day. Kosmos. SOS
I have an idea for a thread. Show us your mind.
I exist. Not sure you want to see in my mind though. It's a dirty place. 3 -
Motorsheen wrote: »
Just leave all your office apps open all day. Most do this anyway.1 -
what if his name is actually pronounced John Hwick and thats why he keeps killing everybody4
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My mind is a blank3
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Pretty much how I feel:
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honeybee__12 wrote: »About how incredibly boring today has been.
About how my eyesight is getting worse (seems to me quickly) and I need to go see an optometrist.
About getting my heater fixed.
About getting my oil changed in my car.
About getting my expired car tag renewed.
About the strange pain I’ve been having in my shin and the weird nerve pain in different places.
It wouldn’t be bad except it’s on my mind all at once.
If it helps I’ve been driving dirty for 8 years 8 months. 🤷🏼♂️
Now that I’m back home I plan on renewing my license. Although it’s not really a renewal when it’s been expired that long.
As for auto tags, There are always farm tags. 🤙🏼2 -
honeybee__12 wrote: »About how incredibly boring today has been.
About how my eyesight is getting worse (seems to me quickly) and I need to go see an optometrist.
About getting my heater fixed.
About getting my oil changed in my car.
About getting my expired car tag renewed.
About the strange pain I’ve been having in my shin and the weird nerve pain in different places.
It wouldn’t be bad except it’s on my mind all at once.
If it helps I’ve been driving dirty for 8 years 8 months. 🤷🏼♂️
Now that I’m back home I plan on renewing my license. Although it’s not really a renewal when it’s been expired that long.
As for auto tags, There are always farm tags. 🤙🏼
also, because of Covid, the DMV is way backed-up and running behind.
the Five-Oh tend now to look the other way.3 -
Never mind. That’s some MFP hole time with that comment
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https://imgur.com/gallery/4ptEieB
^ dude got bit on the eyelid by a brown recluse while he was sleeping
makes me feel glad for my insomnia and early waking issues tbh3 -
https://imgur.com/gallery/4ptEieB
^ dude got bit on the eyelid by a brown recluse while he was sleeping
makes me feel glad for my insomnia and early waking issues tbh
Yikes, poor bugger0 -
https://imgur.com/gallery/4ptEieB
^ dude got bit on the eyelid by a brown recluse while he was sleeping
makes me feel glad for my insomnia and early waking issues tbh
Nooooooo!
I have brown recluses all over the place.
At one point they were dropping from the attic through the recessed lights.
So darn gross!1 -
https://imgur.com/gallery/4ptEieB
^ dude got bit on the eyelid by a brown recluse while he was sleeping
makes me feel glad for my insomnia and early waking issues tbh
Plus he's got Covid too. Bet he wishes the year was over with already. Poor guy. Looks scary AF0 -
^ chalk up a brown recluse bite to another covid death. WHEN WILL IT END! 🥺😭
I jest, I jest, sorta.1
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