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Beatty,

Thinking of you and your mom and dad during this stressful time. I hope you will be able to get the rest that you need and that your mom’s ankle heals quickly. So sorry that your dad is experiencing heart issues.
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Beatty sorry to here about your parents. Please take care of yourself .
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Beatty, prayers for your parents.

That sounds like she did a "good" job breaking her ankle. May The Lord guide her care team and touch all of you.
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Beatty
So sorry about your moms fall. Hope you are enjoying your sleep by now and wake with a plan easily at hand for your day.
Big Hugs
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((((((Beattie))))) I'm so sorry. It must be overwhelming, with both mum and dad suffering. Does dad have a diagnosis for his swollen feet? Look after yourself in all if this. Do something good for you today,
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Mum fell. #ankle. ORIF planned. Dad has health concerns - swollen feet...heart?? I am 'person on the spot' although siblings supportive.. No complaints. Just the heaviness of life. Sleep time here. Always remember the brain can crcle problems at night but problem solving mode is offline.. Always wait until the sun rises to assess the day.
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golden: I hear you about simplification! I do not need to text with my Amazon Fresh driver! Good gosh.
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Cw: Enjoy the wedding. I am sure that you'll look fabulous!
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Need: Thank you. She is!💎
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pamz - that's funny too. I could never abide those sorts of things. It was girdles and garter belts in my young days, I was Ok with the garter belts, but girdles - no way!!! Then it was panty hose, now it is shapewear. No thanks.!!! I'd rather do a few exercises to keep things in place.

97 - heels just might help!!!
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Cwillie
try diff shoes. Sometimes a higher heel creates a shift in the torso.
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Cwillie,, just a thought I had a few years back when I was unhappy with a wedding outfit, No one will be looking at me,, they will all be looking at the bride and bridesmaids! So wear whatever makes you comfortable. I once wore a "bodyshaper" to a nephews wedding, I was so miserable I took that sucker off in the ladies room, and it was a complete activity do that! But boy did I feel better once I wiggled and squirmed my way out of it,, and no one seemed to notice I suddenly jiggled a bit more, and I never wore that sucker again!
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Llama,

She deserves the title of deacon! She sounds lovely.
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Need: Evelyn is/was my mother's friend, who became mine. Once when she invited my DH, my mother and me to lunch, she had basically made dinner (a pork roast with gravy, potatoes and green beans). I thought it was lovely and a heavy lunch, but you have to take into account that their noontime meal is the heaviest for some elders. Evelyn became head deacon at her church at 100 years of age.

You're so right about some aged folks, who have lost the ability to fully live life. It brings to mind many conversations that my mother would repeat, e.g."Mrs. Jones lived in that house." The thing was that statement became her iteration. That said, many people up in their years actually have very little to converse about, as their world shrinks.

Btw, Evelyn knew my special day was in January, but never sent me a birthday card, opting to send a person who is deceased one.
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cw,

LOL! Eat your cookies!
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cw - That's funny. Let the cookies decide!
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I'm going to pack both dresses and decide tomorrow.

And there's no point denying myself those cookies tonight 😉
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Does your sis know what the bride's family are wearing?

What is your sis wearing?

Personally I am past the age where I care to be uncomfortable in my clothing. Have been for a long time, but you are younger.
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Sit? LOL

I didn't buy the dress for the wedding, it was something that was supposed to be perfect for every occasion so I wouldn't have to keep buying clothes I never wear.
I wish I had a clue what the bride's family are wearing.
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cw.

I see. Do you have a long dressy sweater or kimono style jacket that would cover up where it is a little snug?

It sounds like it is a very pretty dress. You bought it for a special occasion. It would be a shame not to be able to wear it. Can you sit comfortably in it?
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It's snug through the hips NHWM. It's a very fitted style little black dress that already showed every curve so even a little weigh gain is noticeable. I can still get into it but don't want to look indecent or foolish... I've got a couple of other options but I don't like them as much.
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Sorry, I missed the part where you said tomorrow. Goodness, start shopping!

Where is it snug? Some people use body shapers or I guess they were once called girdles. I’ve never tried one of those things before. I guess they work if a dress is snug.
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Tomorrow is pretty soon, cw.

Nobody knows but you if you can pull it off.
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cw,

When is the wedding? You can pick out a new dress as a backup. Do you wear a lot of dresses? Would you use it for other occasions?
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I thought I'd better try on the dress I picked out for nephew's wedding tomorrow and it's.... really, really snug. Dang it, I knew I'd been putting on weight and should reign it in but I couldn't seem to care. I don't know whether I can pull it off or I should make a change.
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Exactly. cw.

Ah I just found out you have to find your "autocomplete list" and then you can delete the list, but not edit it, according to this information which was not recent. They warned you once it is deleted you have lost it the whole list.

I saw similar questions for gmail as well so it seems to be widespread problem.

Surely it should be possible to make an autocomplete list that can be edited.

When I have the brain cells for it, I am going to keep looking and see if I can find my autocomplete list. I think I would rather delete the whole list than have this pesky problem. Surely you build a new one as you send more emails.
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I've had similar problems with my hotmail/outlook. When people change their email address I always have to check to make sure the software is using the correct address which can often mean I have to open up my contact list and check because I don't have that stuff memorized.
And seemingly the addresses from every email I've ever gotten are stored somewhere because they will be offered as suggestions when I start a new email, but they are not on my contacts list so try as I may I can't figure out how to edit or delete them.
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Too much in many places. Computers were supposed to make record keeping easier. In fact it seems to be more complicated and prone to errors. Mother was given records that belonged to some one else obviously but had her name on them. She had a hip replacement, this lady had a knee replacement on the other leg. R was shown records that were supposedly his, and they were for his father. Yes the last name is the same but that was all. He hardly looked like an 80+ year old 10 years ago.

Places you buy from want feedback and rating and keep bugging you about it - at least some do. Then they set up the choices for responses so they can control what you say and can reject the response if they want to. That's hardly honest feedback!

I was setting up a new contact in Outlook on my laptop this morning. I made an error and the program remembered it. I tried to edit it but Outlook didn't acknowledge the contact so I couldn't edit it. So I set up a new contact without the error and every time I tried to send an email to the new contact the program inserted the wrong one. When I go to contacts the wrong one doesn't show so I can't delete it. The right one shows but the program won't acknowledge it when I want to send an email. Aaaargh!!! Not a good start to the day.
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I agree, Golden

This type of communication is unnecessary. They should only contact you if they need your opinion on a substitution for a particular product that they are out of. Otherwise, they have the information that you provided for them to shop.

It’s the same thing with surveys. There are so many questions and then we return to our doctors only to repeat the same answers over again. Where is the record of the bazillion questions that we already answered? I mentioned this to my nurse one day. I said, ‘Why are you bothering to give me a questionnaire to fill out if you’re going to repeat the same questions to me when I arrive? How does this make anything easier? It’s a waste of my time.’

I do understand the purpose of some surveys, to gather data but they can go overboard and it becomes time consuming and tedious for us to answer their abundance of questions.

And then we have to update records occasionally as well! Why not just ask us to update when changes occur, such as a new address or phone number.

It’s constant and becomes quite annoying when this happens so frequently.

I find that we have to repeat things over and over again when it is totally unnecessary to do so.
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Having my groceries delivered is a luxury I guess. But why, oh why, does this shopper need us to write a book, He tried to convince me to buy another brand of something than what I asked for, and later told me he would be a little longer as he was going to wait till they put out fresh chickens. Just do the shopping - I don't need to know blow by blow. He is already ahead of time. I like communication with the shoppers but within reason. The best ones, IMO, just do the job and communicate only when necessary and then the minimum.

In the meanwhile I am getting texts from another source that I need to answer. Always seems to happen that way.

Having one of those days with a lot of little annoyances!!! I will take that into account when rate him.🙂
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