2021: Think Positively for a Better Year!
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I'm sitting on music hold. The bank I use for the non profit "upgraded" their computer systems. Oh, joy! I tried to log on during the preview and couldn't get past the secret code because they had the wrong phone number (although they have NO problem calling me GEESH!) So I went onto the old system and put in the right phone number. Tried several more times to log into the preview. No go. Well, fast forward a week, just tried to log onto the new system. Once again can't get past the secret code. TWO new phone numbers neither of which bears any resemblance to the right one.
After being forced to upgrade both home and work computers at the same time this is feeling like the last straw! I just want to send all the programmers who muck everything up a bill for my time. Gnashing of teeth.............
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I really enjoyed my visit from my niece and her husband. It was brief, but we had a nice dinner out last night and time to chat afterward. This morning DH was up early to leave for his camping trip, so I was also up early. The vegan pancakes tasted like cardboard to me, but they both seemed to like them. Or maybe they liked the blueberry syrup I had made and the pancakes were merely a means to get the syrup in their mouths, lol. I sent the rest of the syrup with them when her mom and sister arrived to take them home for the next three days.
I spent the rest of the day relaxing, reading, and playing games on my iPad. A nice lazy afternoon and evening. Since I was up so early this morning I will probably go to bed early.0 -
Pam - I'm glad you had a nice visit! I'd love to see my sibs but who knows when I will.0
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Monday. Again!
I just drove to the printer's to drop off the next mailing and saw a sign outside a building I'd never noticed before:
More Than Just Friends
Assisted Living
Somehow I hope that's TWO businesses. LOL!
Every couple hours I think of something else I need to take care of for the cat show. Boy, my mental cat show "muscles" haven't been used in awhile. But I got in the van today and smelled "catnip" so I know it's coming.
Now I have to buckle down and work.
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Are you looking forward to the show or dreading it?0
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I'm looking forward to the show. We haven't done one in ages. We'll get to see people we haven't seen since before the pandemic. I started putting together a goody bag for my one friend who is a big help at the shows and has fallen on really hard times. She needs SO much more than any of us is capable of providing (MAJOR mental health issues, primarily hoarding) but I am hoping to provide a smile or two and continue trying to coax her back to physical therapy (my giving her taxi money).
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I imagine the pandemic has only made her mental health issues worse. Hearing things like food shortages and rationing toilet paper must make her feel she has to hoard more stuff. And the isolation must be harder too. I hope you have a great show and that seeing you cheers her up.0
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Interesting morning.
I fed the colonies, met Fran at the storage locker and loaded her, then went to the grocery store.
Got home, went in, realized I left my kindle in the van, and went back out. And there was a car parked behind me. No person anywhere. I told DH and suggested waiting awhile to do anything. Told him it had to be someone at one particular next door neighbor's house (by process of logical deduction).
Sat down to start catching up with my work emails. 15 minutes later DH is calling the police. A couple minutes later a cop car was out front. Apparently getting the car towed would be up to us (interesting). DH finally suggests they walk next door. Sure enough, it was someone over there (care giver or cleaning person or something). Asked where she could park? Hmmm.... in the neighbor's driveway (where you're working), or in the street (in front of where you're working).
I'm sure the cop wonders why DH didn't just walk next door to start with (as do I).
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That’s weird that a person would park in a strangers driveway. So when she asked were she should park, did DH tell her to park in her client’s driveway?0
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Today is our 48th wedding anniversary. Wow!
DH wanted crab cakes and asparagus for dinner. I voted for mac n cheese. So we had both. LOL!0 -
Happy anniversary our 49th is next month. Where did the years go.0
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Happy Anniversary! Your dinner sounded wonderful!0
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We’re going to a Friday the 13th party tonight. My friend likes to throw theme parties. This is the first one since some time in 2019. It’s not a potluck but I always bring a couple of things DH can safely eat. My friend tries to have a few items that are GF so what I bring rounds that out. I’m making a Caprese salad. I bought Jersey tomatoes at a farm stand. I got the Mozzarella and a Balsamic fig dressing at Whole Foods. It’s too hot to bake so I got him some GF brownie bites at WH too.0
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I went to a small Happy Hour gathering at a friend’s home last night, and I think I was over served, lol. I don’t feel hungover, but I did not sleep well last night at all so I’m tired today. After being alone since last Saturday I was enjoying the conversations so much that I didn’t notice how many times my hosts refilled my wine glass. I did switch to water for the last hour or more and drank more when I got home, but I know I drank more than I intended to last night. It’s fortunate that I don’t live very far from their home so I didn’t have very far to drive afterward. I wasn’t feeling drunk, but I probably was marginal to be driving. I haven’t done that in a very long time, and it really snuck up on me. And the scale reflected my indiscretion this morning, unfortunately. I know that will go back down pretty quickly so I’m not concerned about it but it is annoying and entirely my own fault.0
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Was your husband with you or is he still on his camping trip?0
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He’s still camping. I expect him home tomorrow night, but he leaves again on Monday for a 5 day mission trip. I really don’t mind him taking trips without me, but I do get tired of not having anyone to talk to. I think that’s why I was enjoying talking with my friends so much last night.0
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I did really well at my friend’s party. I made a Caprese salad for an appetizer. I ate what I wanted but only one helping. Dessert was a chocolate mousse cake. I left half the cake on the plate. I never leave dessert unfinished but I’d had enough and felt good about not finishing it. I had one glass of wine. I though about Pam’s experience with the host offering to refill my glass. I said no and switched to water. My scale was up a little but I probably had more sodium than usual. I should be back to where I was on the scale by Monday. One guest asked if everyone was vaccinated. Only one couple was not. They have medical conditions which influenced their decisions. The wife said some people have made them feel like pariahs for their choice. I respect people who don’t vax for medical reasons. I can’t say the same about the anti vaxers who have no good reason not to get vaxed but stubbornly refuse.0
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Helene, I’m glad my experience served as a good reminder for you. Like you, I have no issue with those who for medical reasons choose not to be vaccinated. However, I think that’s a very small segment of the population. What I don’t respect is the group that choose not to do it because they are protesting being told what to do by authorities. That’s just childish and selfish, in my opinion. And all of the false information that I keep seeing about the vaccinations by supposedly “informed” sources just infuriates me. I wish those people would be prosecuted for spreading false information.0
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It sounds like you two have had some enjoyable times.
I enjoyed lunch with the other volunteers Friday.
The state cancelled the use of the fairgrounds at the last minute and I was already out and about and didn't get the word. I did a lot of driving around, calling everyone else, and checking out empty locations before FINALLY finding out what was going on. They found a new location but we couldn't set up until Saturday morning. Since when we were "in the swing of things" it took us 4 or 5 hours to set up I can just imagine how long it will take first time back. I envisioned still working on set up into early Saturday afternoon. While people poked and prodded through our stuff. I finally called executive privilege and said we're not doing it. No one cried. We just went to lunch. LOL!0 -
I think people who could get vaccinated and aren't are beyond selfish. Forget caring about their own family members. Do they not care about kids? Do they not care about all the people with cancer and heart disease and who knows what else who can't get treatment? Do they not care about all the exhausted health care workers? Just themselves, I guess, and they think they're immortal.
DH thinks you should have to show proof of vaccination to get into a hospital, and absent a handful of medical exemptions, I can't say I disagree.
I still hope insurance companies and employers will start putting their foot down and get us headed the right direction. If insurance companies say "you're not covered if you're not vaccinated", and employers say "you're not working it you're not vaccinated" maybe we'll get somewhere.
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John Kelly
@jkelly3rd
In one of my kid’s classes, in Florida, the teacher told students she had cancer, recently finished chemotherapy and asked if more of them would wear masks the next day for her sake. About half were wearing masks. The next day, after her plea, still about half were wearing masks.0 -
That’s so sad that half of the kids still didn’t wear masks. I wonder how old they were? If the were in middle school or older, I would have expected 100% of them to mask up.0
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I’m enjoying a nice, cool, rainy morning today. It’s rare for us to have this kind of weather in August here in Texas. DH is off on his mission trip, so I’m having a very lazy morning and week.
My sister brought me an air fryer last week, so I’m exploring ways to use it. So far I’ve only tried some frozen popcorn shrimp, frozen French fries, and frozen fried okra. The shrimp and French fries turned out great, but I was less pleased with the okra.0 -
Dr. Vin Gupta
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Quickly getting access to monoclonal antibody therapy when you’re the fully vaccinated, asymptomatic Governor of Texas shows just how anxious and scared
@GregAbbott_TX
actually is of a virus that he constantly downplays.
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I’m enjoying a nice, cool, rainy morning today. It’s rare for us to have this kind of weather in August here in Texas. DH is off on his mission trip, so I’m having a very lazy morning and week.
My sister brought me an air fryer last week, so I’m exploring ways to use it. So far I’ve only tried some frozen popcorn shrimp, frozen French fries, and frozen fried okra. The shrimp and French fries turned out great, but I was less pleased with the okra.
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I’ve made grilled cheese sandwiches in my air fryer. I butter the bread and then put cheese between the unbuttered side. I put a toothpick in to keep the sandwich together. Otherwise, the top lice of bread blows right off the sandwich. The bread coms out super crunchy cooked that way. I think I had the temperature around 400. I probably cooked it 15 minutes, flipping the sandwich halfway through to brown both sides.
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