Hey folks, welcome to the new whine/general topic thread. Feel free to use this thread to discuss anything that is on your mind. Caregiving- related stuff, life after a loved one's death, your own emotional wellbeing. Whatever..........anything on your mind.
Very true! So many fake reviews. Imagine getting a random package delivered because it is protocol to ship out a package for a review to be legitimate.
Crazy, huh?
It’s interesting to learn the behind the scene facts. Agatha was a very private person. Reading her autobiography would be fun.
Her literature was well known and she certainly sold tons of books!
She only gave one rare interview to a student at a university. He simply knocked on her front door and she spoke to him.
Apparently Amazon sellers are shipping out packages to random addresses in order to accumulate reviews.
These sellers are doing this to get higher ratings, so they are saying that only 60 percent of reviews are legitimate.
They pay people to write fake reviews. They send out less expensive, inferior products to the random addresses.
Nothing surprises me. I don’t take anything at face value anymore.
I haven’t but it sounds like I should read it! I will. She was a fascinating woman.
She grew up in a very interesting era. She had a privileged life, didn’t she?
I plan to watch the next episode of this series that they are doing on her.
I find it fascinating that she wrote and sold so many books in her day.
The only books that sold more in that time frame were the Bible and Shakespeare!
Her books are still selling today. Not to mention the movies made from her books. Theatre as well. She was quite successful!
There is a special on tonight about her life in England.
It’s on PBS. Agatha Christie’s England.
At first, I could not go to DMV to renew my driver's license.
The DMV automatically renewed it until 2021, adding a year!
So, I dreaded the driving test coming up. And worried over the eye test. And totally stressed over going to the DMV during Covid if it should allow appointments by my birthday. They said I must come in.
So, I went online early and found that I could renew and pay all online, no eye test, no driver's test, no waiting in Covid lines.
This window of opportunity exists now. Time changes everything! (Maybe since Dec. 31st since the surge is now.)
Another happy thing for 2021.
Counting my blessings!
Yep! I miss my cat. She had an independent spirit, for sure!
Cats don’t live with us. We live with them!
Thanks so much!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTEhll0zF9M
So now I am making dog bandanas. They are so cute!
I made a couple for my daughter’s new pooch.
I don’t know if my oldest daughter wants bandanas for her kitties!
They sew up quickly. I might make a few bow ties for him too! I found a pattern online.
Does your niece use the expression, ‘adulting’? My youngest daughter uses that word and I have to laugh 😂 because it sounds stupid to me! LOL
My kids tell me that I am out of the loop. Maybe I am! English is a living language that is always changing.
In my case, I would like “she seized the day”.
My cousin that I loved so much had a wonderful sense of humor and truly a man ahead of his time in many ways.
He lived well into his 90’s but put on his tombstone, “See, I told you that I was sick!”
His 90th birthday party was so much fun.
He married and had six children. His wife died.
He remarried a widow who had four children and together they had two children.
So, they had a ‘Yours, Mine and Ours’ situation.
They were all at the party. I have a bazillion cousins.
all those 80, 90, 100 + years. It would be a wonderful thing if everyone could leave a life changing message for those left behind on their tombstone.
What do you want on your Tombstone?
I'll have pepperoni, sausage, extra cheese.....
[It will be the cheese that killed me]
d i s c l a i m e r : joking