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.
That’s nuts. There is no logic with some people, right?
We are not going to catch the ‘rona from someone walking their dog past or jogging by with their toddler in a jogging stroller!
My other whine moment is.....that irresponsible parents are still taking their kids to play at the park. Parks are still open. But we are advised NOT to let kids use the playground equipment. I live by the neighborhood park. All week I have seen people drive in to the neighborhood and let their kids play in our park. What I have not seen? Is a single city worker cleaning the park. As of today our county has 7 confirmed COVID-19 cases. There are probably more but they are being stingy when it comes to testing because we don’t have enough tests to test everyone presenting a symptom. So COVID-19 is here and yet people aren’t taking precautions when it comes to their kids. The irony of it....I can’t find cleaning supplies anywhere. Even simple household cleaners, there are none to be found. Probably because the same people taking their kids to the park are the same ones hoarding all the cleaners. Lot of good all those cleaners they hoarded will do when their kids pick up the rona because their parents took them to an unclean park!
I never realized all the places I touch everyday.
Da boss finally shuts down the office, so I lugged home office stuff that I needed.
What does my boss [who is 85] do? He's playing golf :P
Yeah. I am sure that my nephew will seek help but it’s still tough.
Toilet paper earrings! Now that’s funny! Thanks for the giggle.
Two tiny toilet paper rolls....lol.
The nephews may be sub-contractors, however, they should cite City, County, Providence, territory, Gov't guidelines and at least stay away from sick people. Refuse to work with them. Now is the time to take a stand, imo.
In Canada:
"Most workers in
Canada
- about 90 percent - are protected by the employment laws of their province or territory. Each province and territory has its own legislation. ... If you are such an employee, the Labour Program administers the federal labour standards that define employment conditions in your place of work."
NHWM,
A person in the film industry has protection by unemployment if they qualify. One could ask the SAG/Aftra for information.
Coronavirus will impact us more than we realize and it’s not over. We have several humps to get over. There are hoops to jump through. There are twists and turns.
This is all new to us. We are trying to navigate in new territory. I am not trying to be a ‘negative Nancy’ or a ‘Debbie downer’. I am facing reality for what it is.
I'm also glad my mom isn't alive to see this. I keep thinking how panicked I would be feeling if she was in nursing care right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU
Can she arrange delivery herself? If not, maybe you would consider arranging that once a week or fortnight?
If she calls your brothers - so be it. They can choose to listen to her complaints or not. They could also get it delivered if they choose to arrange it.
Her AFL is on lockdown!!
I am not willing to drive all that way to drop wine in front of the facility door and turn around for home. We've had snow all weekend and it's only 13 degrees out!
It's beyond comprehension that she wants me to risk life and limb so she can her alcohol fix!
She's calling my brothers and complaining about me. I have been busting my butt for weeks getting her room nice and cozy, running around trying to find her everything she needs!!
She started in with her crying game this morning so I took some previous advice from some of you, and told her to call me when she stops crying and can talk calmly.
No call yet! Sad to say, but I'm glad she hasn't called!!🤬
Stop repeating what you said to your hubs.
When all this became too much for me, and I was getting more and more frustrated, I tried some things.
I asked him to repeat to me what part of what I said he did hear.
I would ask him to repeat things he said to me, often saying "What?". That gave him a clue as to how it felt, but did not improve communication.
I would not answer when he said what? Found he was just buying time to formulate an answer. Waiting helped, in silence.
I started to say short things (can you get the pepper?) automatically 3 times. This worked, but do not do that in front of anyone, it will freak them out, thinking you are just mean.
He did tell me to say his name first, and wait. But he often would not answer, his mind elsewhere.
He sometimes says now: "I heard what you said, but I don't understand what you said."
I tried pointing, but this does not work with aspergers, it is not something that they can respond to.
So, we talk less as he is sometimes just not 'there'. The old saying, "the lights are on but nobody is home" too often applies. I think hubs would like to be left alone with his own thoughts, in his own world.
So maybe try that. Don't repeat yourself.
I'm getting hot again just thinking about it😖
One other quick idea - how about going to your internet history and returning to the page you were on when you last browsed? - or will it just go to the Log In page?
#1 is the Cloud library, which my library has switched to instead of Overdrive. I love my digital books, I don't have to leave my home and go the the library, I don't have to worry about overdue books, I can check books out at 1:00 a.m. if I'm so inclined, but the Cloud library is going to kill that love because it is so dysfunctional. There are options to browse books by popularity, by author, by publication date or by title but you can't scroll through all the A's and then bookmark that page so you start at B the next time (believe me I've tried), to get to B you must spend a half hour scrolling through all the A's once again. This means I shall never be able to see much more of the catalogue than titles and authors beginning with A & B (or C if I have that much time and patience) or whose publication date is no older than 2 or three years, or of course the dross that generally makes the best seller list 😤
My second whine is that every local business and service club - even my church - uses facebook as their main web address. Do they know how annoying it is to constantly have to bat away requests to sign in in? No I WILL NOT join facebook, nuh uh, no way.
RV's must be emptied or connected and reconnected to the sewer; or at the dump station, and someone's got to do it! Lol.
Try doing it in the rain.
Don’t rain on our parade! LOL Of course, we would have someone else do that job for us in our luxury RV. I would have to hire a driver too. Trust me, no one would want me on the road driving an RV!
A minivan was as large of a vehicle that I have driven. Parking an RV would terrify me, turning the thing, just driving the thing...
I have no business to be behind the wheel but with a driver it would be fun!
I keep seeing Steve Harvey doing the commercials for Publishers Clearing House. Who wins those contests? LOL The winner could buy a nice RV.
I operate on the assumption that if I don't know what they're talking about I either ignore it or click yes, or continue, or send me a reminder, or - ugh.
But that may be why all of my best music is sitting in the iCloud unlistened to by me since I somehow ended up with two Apple accounts and can't find anyone to tell me how I make them understand that they're both me.
Oh well, silence is golden.
You haven't got a cellphone registered with them, have you? Would they text you a security code? Like I'd know - !
It's been a while so I decided I should change the passwords on my email accounts. I'm asked for my "code". What code? Enter recovery code instead - I do have that. Then I am asked to enter an email where they will send a new code. Won't accept the alternate email because I've opted to link my emails on my desktop PC. Uhm, now what? And since Windows 10 makes me sign in every day if I f this all up will I be locked out of my computer too? It shouldn't be this complicated, should it?
Need,, come and join me! I was also the gypsy,, even when DD was little and we went to Halloween parties I dressed like that. Once I whipped up a long skirt with moons and stars on and played the fortune teller at a party! Or to be perfectly honest if I was short on time I threw on my scrubs and went as a "doctor".. LOL