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Gee Cwillie,
I hope your neighbors don't keep the music on all year too. 🎼🎼🎶🎵🎵
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It is true, tradition here, after the stock show early to mid-January. They are kept up for tourism purposes.

https://nationalwestern.com/christmas-light-tradition/
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Lol. The National Western Stock Show!
I will wait for it.
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...and some don't put any up. I do have a wreath - gift from a friend of my dd's - up in the house.
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Decorations down? Not until after the National Western Stock Show.
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Some folks have everything stripped away by the new year in order to take advantage of their time off work, those are generally the ones who started Christmas in November.
Some wait til spring, because it's winter and they don't want to cope with undecorating in the cold
And some leave their lights up year round.....
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Christmas lasts until 12th night, that’s when you take the decorations down.
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Just checking in, as Christmas is over. When do you take down the lights and trees?
I was tempted to do that today, but no.
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CW I play microsoft solitaire too and I noticed that too.
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I play a lot of microsoft solitaire games and I am offended by the blatantly sexist ads they keep pushing so I did a little web searching and came across the reddit shittymobilegameads. OMG, some of these ads are for games that are so disgusting they are funny, and the comments are even better. My stomach hurts from laughing so hard.
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(((((hugs)))) cw and gershun -grief can hit anytime.
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I was puttering around cleaning and stuff today and suddenly my cat Daniel that died four mths ago just filled my head and heart. I felt this overwhelming sadness just for a couple of minutes and then it went away as suddenly as it came.

Like you said Willie. The mind is a weird thing.
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So I was lying in bed trying to sleep and Gordon Lightfoot's Song for a Winter's Night drifted through my brain and I just had to get up and try to find it on YouTube - I can't remember the last time I've even thought of that song and I've no idea why it came to me (other than it obviously being a winter's night). The mind is a mysterious thing. I've got my mom in my head too, those last days and hours. I notice that it's the full moon, maybe that's it.
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You are exactly right Cwillie!
A reduction in tolerating noises is what I was reading last night when I could not sleep.

Thinking that I should make the bedroom into a padded cell, the opposite is true...do not insulate oneself from noises.
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Send - generally I turn it off but sometimes I actually am interested in the topic or I'm waiting for the news or weather report. When it's a professor I can't help but feel pity for their poor students who have to sit through lectures from these people!
Plus I know that too much sitting alone in a silent house is really reducing my tolerance for noise and crowds (and noisy crowds 😉).
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CWillie,
Five minutes? You are much more patient than me. That is about 4 minutes longer than I can stand to listen lately.

As long as you are not talking back at them, cursing, yelling, and screaming.
Or even worse, still frustrated after turning off the radio. 🤔

Upspeak, mumbling, vocal fry, humming?
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Why oh why don't radio shows that include interviews of "experts" vet these people before putting them on the air??? I'm sick and tired of hearing obscure professors and others who mumble, ramble on incoherently for 5 minutes without ever really answering the questions, have repetitive annoying vocal ticks and are just hard to listen to and/or understand.
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Thank you Hallah.
The City will be bringing in real snow at several events throughout the holidays. And skiers returning home often dump their snow in various places like In N Out or gas stations. ☃️

I have never heard of that recipe. Guess you cannot eat it.

You gave me an idea. I could take the ingredients down to the white sandy beaches of Malibu. Mix in some sand, and make a snowman. I am sure this is not an original idea, and the practice of adding anything to beach sand is probably banned.
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Send, I know you mean real snow. In the meantime here’s how to make some fake snow:

Baking soda and conditioner. For this recipe, be sure to use white conditioner so your fake snow looks just like the real stuff. Start with 1/2 cup of conditioner, and use a fork to stir in about 3 cups of baking soda. This snow packs very well and is great for making snowmen!

I haven’t tried it so don't know how it will turn out.
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Snow-isn't that just frozen water?

Wish I had some snow.....
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I was mostly kidding Willie...........mostly.

I think with all the sh*t going on in the world these days people's tolerance levels have reached an all time high. Maybe that's why no one else seems to care.
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I could do all that Gershun and Geaton, but I don't want to be "that" neighbour, KWIM? And I can't figure out why it doesn't seem to bother anybody else.
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Cwillie, are there not noise ordinances or curfews where you live? If so, I'd say file a complaint. Make sure to video it, including the time of night and the volume of noise while standing outside your front door or side of your house that's closest to his. Ugh, why can't people just play nice??
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Willie you should just go out there and shout "Turn the effing music down!" Then add "but you have a Merry Christmas ya hear!" Then say "oh right, you can't hear cause you have the effing music too loud!"

Too harsh? 🤣
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I have a neighbour that goes all out for Christmas with both lights and music. I can hear the music in my bedroom, I'm willing to put in earplugs while I read but not when I'm ready to sleep. (yes,I know I complain about this every year).
This year I caught him outside and asked if he could kill the music by 10:00 (I'd rather it is even earlier but...). He replied "I could do that", and I thought whew, that was easy, problem solved! Soooo, the problem is not solved 🤬.
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There was an escape from a 'quarantine hotel' in Australia, trending news, whether or not you want to see it, you will be inundated with the news cycle.
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CWillie,
That will never do! Lol.
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I'm not sure what's up with google's algorithms but my search results are giving me a lot of Australian sites lately🤔
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CWillie, I hear you!

I have used the holiday cards; many of them were really quite nice, with beautiful holiday scenes.  My father's local Senior Center accepts card donations, so I'll be giving them some.  And some of the labels were lovely, especially the ones from the nature and military solicitors.

But I resent the religious ones; for all those solicitors know,   I could be a practicing Buddhist and have no use for the cards.  

What really, really irks me are the solicitations by phone, allegedly from first responders, attempting to get ME to solicit for them through their provision of cards.  One alleged breast cancer outfit contacted Dad and asked him to solicit in his neighbor for BC donations!  To echo words form an old song, "That'll be the day!"

I've gotten the socks as well, socks in patriotic colors and sized for a child.  They get donated to one of the charities.  

I think though that the most irritating ones are those which downgrade the pitch to the level of a child.   They're soooo insulting.   And much as I would support Toys for Tots and the Marine Corps' efforts,  they're probably the most prolific solicitor of any.   In addition, they won't accept anything that's not new.  If my father didn't make some of our toys, we made our own, out of cloth.  Why should I spend money to buy something I wouldn't buy for myself?

On a related matter, the other solicitors (online "banks",Costco wannabes, and some of the newer online spots with no phone number or no brick and mortar store),  are really offensive.   I received a credit union solicitation from one of those outfits, addressed to my mother, who's been deceased for almost 2 decades. 

When I called to give them a smart aleck response, I got stuck in a phone holding line.   I was going to tell them that I can't present their superlative offer to my mother as it would require special permission from the cemetery, but more importantly, I don't want to disturb my mother's casket.   I'll call back first thing some morning and put those idiots in their place.
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I'm tired of all the charities sending me stuff this time of year trying to guilt me into making a donation - In addition to the nickel prominently displayed to ensure I'd open the envelope I've got holiday cards and return address labels too.... last year I even got two pairs of Christmas socks! I don't need this cr*p, I don't want this cr*p and I'd much rather they put the $$ spent sending all this cr*p to better use. End of rant.
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