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Sorry Madge, I remember those days. Pulling a jacket over my jammies and heading out to the nursing home. Stay alert and take care.! Give them a large piece of your Viking mind.
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For crying out loud, is there not one person there with the initiative to give you a cell phone number for emergencies?
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Reading a new author- as in one I’ve never read before. This is another author who uses ‘smirk’ instead of ‘smile’. It’s driving me crazy. As I’m reading, she keeps using smirk. I automatically stop because it doesn’t go with the story. I will need to leave a review that the author doesn’t know when to use smirk or smile.
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😏😏😏
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Book, I know what you mean. A pet peeve of mine is when the author spends pages and pages describing the setting or scene rather than getting to the plot. It makes it really hard for me to get into a story.
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I know what you mean about the unending descriptions. I used to love Stephen King, but he got so ,,, wordy. I could skip ahead pages and pages, still no advance on the plot. And I am one of those who could not get past the first few pages of 50 Shades.. Her writing was terrible!
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James Michener I used to skip the first few chapters of his books because they were usually about how the land formed
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I've been a voracious reader my whole life, but the pages and pages of description, or of a character thinking wrongly about the situation, or using the same word that doesn't fit, didn't bother me much until I began writing myself. Now I notice EVERYTHING, and books aren't as fun anymore, since I find myself skipping whole sections. Too bad; wonder what other's think of the ones I do?
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I used to love reading Danielle Steel. I would buy her books at the used bookstore or at flea markets (several years ago when paperback books were the IN thing.) I got tired of skipping pages and pages of descriptions. I stopped reading her books... Or what about buying a book (or freebie) that claims to be sci-fi. Instead, it's mostly the main character ogling, swooning over some guy in the space ship. Really?

From what I understand on those books that have lots of 'smirking', the reviewers who raved these books love how the characters are 'sarcastic.' Uhm.. when offering condolences on the lady's husband's death, the main character smirked and offered her condolences.... Misuse or inappropriate use of the word 'smirk.' One does not smirk when offering condolences. A sad smile, a sympathetic smile - yes. Smirk? No.
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So once again my car didn't want to start tonight in the dungeon parking lot - it seems to start up in the driveway at home

the Viking is out of diaper ointment- I buy her special lanolin not Zinc oxide - shall I try to get to hoca tonight?

this morning I cleaned the bathroom sink before going to work and when I couldn't get the plunger back up I pulled it out and looked down the pipe with a flashlight- the rod that goes through the pipe to hold it in place was gone - where did it go? Is our water so harsh it eats through metal?
do they sell these things at HD or do I have to call a plumber?
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I guess I'll be going to HD for Friday night fiesta
sink stopper rods for $7
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It is much more fun to do without the rod/sink stopper, imo. I have pm'd you the solution.

Can you get your car parked closer to a safe place? With the heat, and a battery over 3 yrs. old....it might be time. AAA delivers batteries. Please be safe.

Good luck.
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Ms Madge have another look. The rod is held in place by a nut of some kind, usually screwing into the sink filter in the basin. Vigorous plunging might have dislodged that nut, so that the rod will have slipped sideways out of direct sight. The most likely location of the the nut is now the U-bend. These are not difficult to take off, but examine yours carefully before you get too enthusiastic because they can be difficult to get back on and properly sealed (they shouldn't be, but it depends on the quality of the fittings and some are better designed than others). If it's a good stout piece of kit with plastic seals fore and aft, you should be able to unscrew those, remove the U-bend, retrieve your nut, replace the U-bend (firmly but don't over tighten or you could crack or distort the seals), then using a narrow screwdriver make the rod stand up and reattach the holding nut.

Do not do any of this while in a hurry, drunk, or if nervous.
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Oh woe, Frazzled. This prejudice would put you right off Bleak House, which I've shortlisted for when my children lock me in a nursing home and I'm only allowed ten books.

"London. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snow-flakes - gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another's umbrellas, in a general infection of ill-temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke..."

Sometimes the setting IS another character, and in the right hands the description is almost cinematographic.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

It was a cold, bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a fortune must be in want of a wife.

The past is another country. They do things differently there.

And, of course, "Call me Ishmael." Though I have to confess that even though I long to know how Captain Ahab and the whale finally came to terms I have been unable ever to get past the cannibal with the pointy teeth in the bedroom, and skip past Moby Dick no matter how desperate I am for some bedtime reading.
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Page 28 of the godfather

i have no idea what happens on page 28 - just remember as a kid everyone snickered like it was taboo
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That isn't where they discuss Sonny's legendary, er, prowess, is it?
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Hmm
or his activity at a wedding?
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Oh goodness! What have I sunk to? I'm watching Smokey and the Bandit on TV. Recovering from this burnt out phase, my brain is mush!
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Haha CM, Moby Dick truly IS bedtime reading material. I'd definitely be bored enough to go to sleep. I remember years ago, I tried to get into it, I believe it was assigned reading for a class I was taking, and just couldn't. Not at all. I think I like the dentist's office better.

I really should be a more patient reader. There are some truly beautiful descriptive phrases. It's just I find myself thinking, "Ok, what happens? Let's hurry up and get on with it already!" if it goes too long and I either skip ahead past the description stuff or I lose interest altogether.
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According to Wikipedia "Smokey and the Bandit was the second-highest-grossing film of 1977 behind Star Wars", there's nothing wrong with a little bit of good old fashioned fun.

Burt still looked pretty good back then too.😉
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Yes, indeed!!! 😊
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Princess Bride now. Love that Movie!
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Princess Bride now. Love that Movie!
No whines about it, just about my brain needing light entertainment, but, as you say, cw, nothing wrong with that sometimes.

Wish it was clear when I have posted. Mushy brain didn't check.
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I love Princess Bride,, my 30 YO dd and still watch it at least once a year. I was hysterical at work a few weeks ago when the attending was going on and on and on... and the resident said "As you wish".. Quite a few of us got that one!!
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I have never been able to finish watching “The Princess Bride”. I watched “Anne of a Thousand Days” this evening. Watched “The Lion In Winter” the other night. Loved Katherine Hepburn in that movie. Tonight I’m reading Twisted Prey by John Sandford - latest in the Prey series. My favorite author. Have a new David Baldacci to start next and then a new Catherine Coulter, FBI series book. I made a trip to Barnes & Noble in Portland. I know Kindle’s are less expensive or shopping for books on Amazon, but I love going to bookstores and picking out new hardbacks. I on line shop, but I still like to shop in person. Going to Bar Harbor to boutique shop tomorrow.
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I never tire of the African Queen with Kate
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Was Smokey before or after Burt's Cosmo centerfold ?
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Note to self

don't take the Viking outside for Friday night fiesta - I've got bug bites on both legs
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The Princess Bride is a favorite movie of mine. It's just so fun and fanciful and sweet and endlessly quotable. Maybe if I were a bit older, I'd appreciate the appeal of Burt/Smokey more. I do recall the centerfold lol.

I have an anti-whine. A friend is coming to town for a week stay in 10 days and we are going to see Hamilton while he's here!!!!!!!!!!

Ms. Madge, you suggested I do this with the reimbursement money a year ago but I'm happy to finally be going. I'm very excited! I'm almost as excited for a chance to dress sharp as I am to see the musical. I never get to wear fancy duds anymore.

All this talk of movies and I can't remember the last time I went to see one in a theater... it's been a couple of years, maybe. I don't even know what's out there right now.
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Ali
you are going to have so much fun at Hamilton and afterwards your thoughts will be consumed by the experience- so glad you're not going to miss your shot !!! 😂

In in the meantime- go see Mamma Mia - it's silly and fun, and a good escape on a hot summer afternoon
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