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.
Today I had to give an important speech. I started off well, and then totally messed up towards the end (kind of like stage fright).
I’m very, very embarrassed.
Whether that is for a temporary time, or forever, I do not know.
Hoping everything gets better up Canada way! 🇨🇦
Love from the U.S.A. 🇺🇸
Not sure exactly what happened. I heard the banks closed.
Are the banks dependent upon a digital provider (a cell phone company?)?
How widespread was this-all the banks, all the cell phones?
What caused this, does anyone know?
Apologies if I got this wrong, my source is iffy, waffely, and not always correct.
Can this happen to the U.S.?
Why is this not in this morning's news?
CWillie, thanks for that reminder about keeping some cash.
I have had Verizon internet for almost a year with no outages to speak of. My previous provider was awful, outages would last for days and they were frequent.
Get your tims? Tims coff ee?
And there is still no timeline for things to be fixed either.
Speaking of mammograms, I had mine yesterday. It was a diagnostic mammogram because last year's led to a biopsy. I felt nausea when she kept going over and over the same area but she said nothing's changed since last years so that's good at least. I need to be extra careful cause my mom had breast cancer and my dad died of pancreatic cancer.
Reception was great. I rode there with my son and his darling 5 yo daughter. So I had an excellent excuse to leave early. Both twisteds were there, actually chatted with ts2 quite a bit. Ts1 a cordial hello. I wait for ts2 to say how she really screwed everything up by letting ts1 get too close. It will never happen, in reality, I know that. Her oldest son is doing well, finally, touring the country with some band. He loves the genre, I know nothing about it, but hate it, don't even know what it is called. But, success and he is so excited about it.
cw - sorry about the cyclist So sad
anche - I think any of us could have had a meltdown going through what you are. (((((hugs))))
ali - any congrats on your great mark once again. I guess a childhood of juggling issues prepared me to be a survivor. I'm not one to back down from challenges but I do feel the stress at times and need down time.
llama I am glad your UTI wasn't worse
My whine - I am too tired today but figured I had enough energy to tidy up before the realtor came - especially the kitchen, And then I discovered my dear Rocky had peed in the basement bedroom. I normally keep that bedroom door closed so she can't get in but took a chance and had it open after the flood to dry and air it out. It had to be recent as I was checking that room daily. She (Rocky) certainly senses when things are happening that she may not like and makes her protest.
So instead of tidying up, I had to identify where the smell was coming from, (found it on the bed) and then strip the bed and start doing laundry as I didn't want the laundry room smelling of cat pee either. I opened the window and left the fan on and the room smelled OK. Then I found an extra queen size bed cover and extra pillows and arranged the bed so it looked OK but certainly not as good as it had been.
Aaargh, Not as bad as a sewer break or a flood but still bad enough. The kitchen was a mess and I know it affected the realtor as she said the kitchen is the only room you haven't renovated which was not true at all. I pointed out the new cupboards, etc - but it didn't look good at that point. I will show it to her again after it has been cleaned up and the renos done (pantry doors redone). She figures the appraisal I had done in March is "a bit too high". I agree so that is no surprise. The question is by how much. Oh well.
She didn't think the house needed new paint so that was good. The only thing she suggested that we hadn't thought of was cleaning the front deck treated wood which has some moss in parts. I gather vinegar or peroxide will work. Rocky caught a vole and started eating it leaving a small blood stain on the deck. I poured some cola on the stain and that worked well.
I could not get into the bicycling comments because my dH rides, it scares me when he goes out. I have prepared myself. 🚲