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.
Are you a gypsy too? I am a gypsy at heart! We need to become friends with Dolly who posts on this site. I so envy her! LOL. Pam, can I please be your gypsy twin?
My favorite Mardi Gras costume as a kid was a gypsy. I had the peasant top, long ruffled skirt. The big bangle earrings and tons on bangle bracelets. Mom let me wear some of her make up and fixed my hair. I rocked it!
Wouldn't that be nice?
I want a Roadtrek or Pleasureway, the older models are smaller, both in height and in length. Length can be 19 ft., like a van.
The next time there is a power outage, I would be gone on vacation. My food would not spoil, and I would have air conditioning. And Tweety could come too.
I saw a car with what appeared to be no door for access to the gas tank cap; the cap was open and visible. Probably not the same as the one you described, that can be opened with just a push.
Sometimes there's no real common sense behind some of the features on new cars.
But for a $63K truck I would expect not only a protective device for gas, but probably a massage unit in the seat backs for tired backs, extra heat at the base of the feet for cold feet in winter, tinted windows, or in states where they're illegal, at least some protection from the sun.
Something to heat coffee and cool water might be nice as well.
But then, I'm just a car user, not a designer.
My husband and I are married 41 years. We definitely don’t load the dishwasher the same. As long as the dishes are loaded and get clean, mission accomplished is my attitude.
My engineer husband rearranges after I load it! Drives me crazy! He has to have it all aligned perfectly! Who cares? As long as they are clean. Not me! He does care.
We do put dishes away the same. My cabinets are organized. Cutlery too!
Just today, the kitchen guy at my work was tisking over the (unsorted!) plastic cutlery someone dumped into the teaspoon section. It was truly offending him.
Yes we all have our little ways... he he.
My DH couldn't understand why I replaced the red patterned tissue box he bought for the bathroom with a green one. It's summer for one thing - we need something like a cooling fern print. Red is definately to be cozy in the lounge - in winter.
He thinks I am bonkers...
I would love your MIL, too. It makes my ears tingle when cutlery isn't sorted and aligned. Also cup handles must all face the same way. My dishwasher stacking - though I do say it myself - is a thing of geometric beauty.
I'm not blowing my own trumpet, mind; what I can't understand is how other people can just shove stuff in higgledy-piggledy and not be twitchy about it all morning.
I am currently having a silent, unacknowledged war with a fellow worker. I have been doing lunches this week, he or she has been doing evenings. The client has a display stand, next to her kettle, for her rather nice everyday cutlery - six each of forks, knives, dessert spoons and teaspoons. And SOMEONE keeps putting these in the drawer with the rest of the kitchen and dining cutlery. And I keep taking them out again and hanging them neatly - and, I assert, correctly - on the stand.
As this crucial point does not appear in the care plan I may have to bring it up at a handover meeting.
She's an impossible person. Very moody and needy. It just would not work.
The words that jumped out was *our home*.
*Our home* would become HIS home!
State it fancy or state it plain... "We would all get along so much better if we lived separately from your Mother 😊" or "Move her in & watch me move out, take half the furnishings, demand the house be sold & my half paid out so I can downsize elsewhere👢 ".
I don’t blame you. It’s too hard. It just is. Don’t take on that responsibility.
You’re a smart man! Having said that we have all had our own circumstances.
Sometimes it is unavoidable or emotions have interfered in our decisions or we just didn’t look far enough ahead. No one can tell the future. For some, it does work out and good for them.
Great question! Empty nesters?
Nope! And it’s harder too. Children grow up. The elderly go backwards becoming more and more needy. It’s tough!
other whine moment about this car.....it has a bad fuel injector and I have to take it to the dealership on Wednesday. At first they said there was nothing wrong with the car but they asked to keep it i Er night so they could start it in the morning when it’s cold and see if something pops up. So I already had to leave the car overnight once and now I have to take it back on Wednesday to get the fuel injector replaced. Apparently New Chevy and GMs Have bad fuel injectors. They had to order the part which is why it hasn’t been replaced yet. Hopefully the gas mileage will be better once the fuel injector is replaced!
The first death was because the parade goer was drinking too much. Not sure about the death yesterday. They have to investigate it. People get carried away with partying here.
Some people go where there aren’t barricades that protect the crowd. If the crowd pushes trying to reach for the throws they fall and get run over by the float. Some people foolishly aren’t being careful trying to catch the throws. That’s crazy.
It’s not the driver’s fault. It’s not the police’s fault. Our cops are great with crowd control but we have a shortage of policeman now. They need to pay them more.
I have never been a person uncomfortable or afraid of crowds but this is making me uncomfortable. Not sure if I want to be close to the floats Mardi Gras day.
I don’t go where there is a ton of drinking. I go in a section of mostly families uptown but still. They are banning tandem floats. They are trying to prevent these tragic accidents.
We really are fortunate. It’s part of our culture. The talent seems to run in families here. We also have NOCCA here now New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Students have to audition to be accepted. It’s a fabulous school for musicians, artists, actors, etc.