I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
Don’t be too upset with yourself. It was an accident. You aren’t a bad driver.
When I had my car accident (my fault, too) about 4 years ago, the damage to the car was too much, so the insurance took it and paid me the FMV for the car. It was enough for me to buy a used van, and still had some money left over. I was thrilled because we finally had a van for more space for the kids, and put away some money into savings. So, there was some good that came out of the accident. I hope there will be a silver lining for you, too.
1. Nobody hurt! Nothing else really matters.
2. You know what happened and what went wrong, lesson learned, you'll never do that again. Next best thing to its not having happened at all.
What did your MIL ever say when somebody had a bump? Even if she wasn't always totally sympathetic, I doubt if she'd want you to beat yourself up indefinitely. These things happen :)
CM I’m sure MIL is sitting on her cloud giving me THE LOOK. I can totally see her face, she gave that look many times over the years!
Polarbear, yes we have full coverage on the car. It’s a 2017 model so I don’t think the cost of repairing will exceed the value of the car but we will soon find out! For a low impact collision, the front end is really smashed up. I called the insurance last night and filed a claim. Found out our deductible is only $250. It’s always been $500. Hubby must have changed the coverage which explains why the monthly premium is so high! I just noticed it’s $230 a month, I don’t recall it ever exceeding $180. (We have 3 cars on the policy).
That was definitely something good that came out of your accident! I don’t think we will be that lucky, if the car ends up being totaled out, I think it’s worth $17k at most? It was in perfect condition except for the shattered mirror. I wouldn’t mind getting a used SUV, with 2 kids in sports it would be nice to have extra room for all their equipment.
Cwillie, yep it’s a lesson learned for sure. I won’t make this mistake again and I’ll think twice about being the courtesy driver who waves others through. I mean I will still do it but I won’t wave until I can see that traffic is clear and it’s safe for the other car to go. I keep thinking to all the times someone has waved me through or I’ve waved them through, and not given a second thought about whether traffic was clear!
At least this time MIL had something to give you The Look for?!?!?! - better than not knowing what you've done this time 😟
utilities are cutting power as a precaution against wind
Not sure which scares me the most, EQ, wind, or fire....
In a power outage, I would be so grateful to own an RV.
Ginger cookies too.
i envision them in there watching youtube funny cat videos . it isnt true though . the cases they are preparing often have tens to hundreds of thousands of pages of documents when its time to go to trial .
they are dedicated , brilliant , and hard working people - we just arent in a position to know whats going on .
i trust them but it isnt a default frame of mind . its a constant struggle to right my skeptical ' weak moments of doubt ' .
If I could change anything in my life I would erase many of the ‘what if?’ moments because they created more anxiety than I needed in my life.
My whine moment is that I woke up in the wee hours of the morning with a hellish nightmare. It’s almost like a haunting experience.
It always amazes me how our subconscious mind works while we are sleeping.
My husband says if I spoke to a dream annalist they would be totally baffled. I’ve had some bizarre dreams that I don’t know if they could easily be interpreted. Some say that our dreams are messages or our subconscious trying to work it out, especially lucid dreams which I do have. Not sure how I feel.
My husband is one who doesn’t even remember his dreams upon awakening so he can’t truly relate to what I feel. That’s interesting to me also, how some are able to vividly recall their dreams and others cannot.
Our subconscious minds are fascinating to me. Some even feel dreams are premonitions. We can have strong premonitions any time though.
Once while traveling through New England I asked my husband to drive down this beautiful winding road. He asked me why. I told him I didn’t know why but I knew that I had to see where it led.
You have to understand that my husband is a ‘decisive planner’. He’s an engineer. He sees things in black and white. He drives with a direction in mind and follows a map!
I am not at all like that. I tend to fly by the seat of my pants. I see gray areas. I am an explorer at heart. Anyway, he reluctantly took the detour for me. It led to an amazing sight just at the foot of Mount Washington in New Hampshire where we found our favorite bed and breakfast.
Hahaha. Sometimes my annoying ways with my husband pays off. They say that opposites attract. I’d like to think we balance each other. His logic has grounded me at times and my carefree nature has allowed him to be more flexible when needed.
a cute girl cop said she would do that , turned her behind towards me and told me i could even get the cuffs off the back of her belt . this started smacking of a dream so i chose to slow down time and play it out . my oldest son was there and sternly told me to " just get the damn cuffs " . i told him to totally fk off with his ' moment sullying BS .
guys such a buzz kill .
Yeah, sleep behavior is interesting. I have been known to sleep walk some. Freaked my husband out! Hahaha
Of course, I didn’t remember any of it. He travels with work. Early in our marriage we rented a two story apartment and he would fear that he’d come home to me crashed at the foot of the stairs.
He said my eyes would be wide open. I looked totally awake but did not answer him speaking to me and he realized that I was sound asleep, then suddenly would turn back towards the bedroom and get back in bed.
Don’t know how long I have experienced sleepwalking but as a teenager my mom placed extra locks on the doors. Hahaha.
You know how they say not to wake them because the sleepwalker will be startled? That’s true. Once I was in my kitchen and there wasn’t air conditioning in my parent’s home them. We only had a window fan in the kitchen. I was raising my arm and the tip of my finger hit the blade of the fan and woke me up. I didn’t know how the hell I got there or why I was there. I turned around to look at the clock and it was 3:00 in the morning. That was the only time that I awoke myself during sleep walking. What causes up to walk during sleep? I’ll have to research it.
Hahaha. You and I should keep dreaming journals!
One time when my daughter was an infant I had a dream that I was breast feeding my daughter and instead of milk she was drinking coffee with milk. Hahaha. My husband said, “Okay, that’s an easy one. You’re a caffeine junkie!”
I cut back on the coffee! Actually I gave up coffee during the pregnancy all together but my little stinker didn’t sleep well at night so I needed a jolt of caffeine to stay awake to care for her!
It’s a challenge to find him because of the danger of the building collapsing again. So sad. Search and rescue are trying to figure out how to get to the construction worker.
What states have good quality drinking water?
Dry cleaning solvents. That’s awful.
The hotel was under construction and unfortunately collapsed. Sadly, deaths have occurred and one construction worker is missing. Search and rescue are desperately trying to find him. It’s dangerous because they don’t want to risk another collapse.
How do these buildings collapse? Engineering issues? Builders issue? They had a question about the concrete. Just a mystery at the moment.
Right now the engineers are working on a plan to secure the building? The construction company could not be reached for comments. Man, what a tragedy.
of course they were ignored .
when youre paying 30 bucks an hour you can demand high standards .
im working on a 150 foot long shop building and the engineers couldnt seem to make it work ' block ' .
my math is so poor i get a different answer every time i count my balls but i've never had a problem making something fall on either 8 or 16 inches. its , kinda , denoted right there on the tape measure .
My grandfather was a shipbuilder. I know there is a difference between building a ship and the construction of a hotel.
He was a true craftsman though. He could build anything. I agree with you. Indeed qualified individuals make all the difference.
Thus far I've seen episodes featuring a canoe builder, basket weaver, metallurgist, saddle and hat makers, Windsor chair builder, weaver, quilter, and more that I can't remember. Oh, yes, chocolate makers! How could I forget chocolate?