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.
"... sharper than a serpent's tooth, to have a thankless child."
I've been wondering if the discussion took a wrong turn somewhere that might have had nothing at all to do with whether she thought it was incredibly nice of you to get her a high-end phone.
I am still SICK of the wind!
Send, I'm still eating the raw cookie dough. What can I say, I live on the edge, ha!
It was a great deal and the only way to go for us Senior Citizens! You can practically buy a new phone every year for that price! Those home shopping networks have those type sales on all the time and its definitely worth looking into!
Merry Christmas Everybody!
I got my (sort-of) stepdaughter and her fiancé a half-size album with hand-made paper leaves from the slightly arty-farty interiors shop up the road and thought I was being generous.
I should get her a Hello Kitty case instead, and she can think herself lucky. Just the case, n.b.
I had planned to buy my 22 yo step daughter an I Phone 7+ for Christmas. (She broke the other 2 cell phones we bought her). I was going to buy a military tested, drop resistant protector case also. Hubs texted her then talked to her about this. I thought this would be a great idea-wrong!
Stepdaughter texts back that, unless SHE can pick out the protective case, she doesn't want the phone with "conditions attached".
Well, La..Te..Da!
Guess who isn't getting a new cell phone for Christmas? What nerve!
We won't be seeing her for the holidays.
It's OK though, there's $600. left in my wallet for me!
I figured I'd treat myself to an updated model (my I Phone 4 is obsolete and the battery doesn't last for nothin').
I feel like Scrooge-
Ba Humbug!
Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.
Some reason the spam robo calls ring louder and trying to set this phone is no easy task. My 12 year old God-daughter saw the phone and said "what's that?" so I can't ask her what to do.... [sigh]
Well, either it's really boring or we played it wrong :(
Snap on the building things with the pieces. My grandmother's tiny apartment was not child friendly and the only thing I was allowed to touch was her mah jong set, pink and white tiles with clear perspex in the middle, like a kind of sandwich. I've still got it now.
Niece: Ohhh. WhatsApp.
Me: Yeah, that's what I said.
Niece opened her mouth, stopped, and then closed it again. =)
CW- we play scrabble every night here, every night. Only we play that you can only use words from the Bible. Moms idea. She loves that game, some days are good for her other days it is difficult, only she still wants to play every night before she can go to bed.
We love her so we do.
On rare occasions she wants to play Mexican Train(domino game) instead of scrabble, But then it always turns out that we have to play scrabble too. :)
She's a funny lady.
Another tradition gone.
I do remember
-cats cradle with two people, sis and I
-clackers - for once my parents bought me one of the cool toys while it was still cool!
-double dutch (and any jump rope) - being a country girl I had nobody nearby who would help me practice so I was one of the perpetual rope turners
-chinese jumprope - those of us who couldn't skip had fun with that game
As for knitting, crochet, and sewing - been there done that and am not interested any more, I just don't have the patience these days and trying to take shortcuts always results in disaster.
In the meantime, learn to text on it, the favored form of communication by our adult and teen chiildren. It may be the only remaining way to get a response out of them. Text this message: " Hi all, I am baking the favorite chocolate chip cookies of the season tonight at 6 p.m." "Come on over..."
I still want to see the cell phone leaving in the back of the trash truck, really soon.
It would be hilarious ending up in a dump, barking away every time someone called you.
Hands up, I picked barking dog because it sounded a little bit like my poor old boy. But he was *never* this demanding, not even when he came back from the vet high as a kite on methadone.
Whatever alert you use, those alerts can wake you up at night. If an alert is subtle, very quiet, and near your bed, you may be wondering about insomnia at 3 a.m.
Enjoy your new phone. !!! I would have picked "barking dog" as my first choice, thinking it would be fun. I do not own an i-phone.
All three kids sending me helpful tips at once, the alert is set to "barking dog," by the time I've answered one there's another six, it also vibrates which I did NOT tell it to do - it's absolute f***ing bedlam here.
I'm turning it off and going to bed.
The other thing I can't do (yet) is use WhatsApp.
I think I have just sent a picture of my foot to fourteen people.
At times like this I remember that when I first saw a sudoku I wrote out every possible solution for every possible line and worked away at it for ages. Daughter 2 glanced over my shoulder and said "no you've gone wrong already."
You're never too old to learn (at your own pace).
I crochet when I get a chance. Right now I am working on a blanket for my DH. I made my Mom a few things. I too prefer sewing, but if traveling a long distance crocheting keeps me sane. :)
I tried crocheting. I'm terrible at it. I would forget the count or the place I was on. In the end, I threw away the instructions and just crochet my own yarn 'shoes' from my imagination. After that was done, I decided I just didn't have the patience to crochet anything. Too long and kept losing my place.
So, I moved on to sewing. Took a beginner's class on sewing - how to make your patterns. I don't have the 'brain' to do all those numbers and wooden stick drawing. In the end, I just bought McCall's patterns at the store. Had a hard time understanding the instructions. So, I just looked at the finished products and the black/white pictures that's beside the instructions. I, then, altered the dress by adding another V-neck on the back (used the front V-neck pattern to also be the back) and made some high slits on the sides of the plain body-hugging dress. FYI, buy a beautiful Hawaiian print material - and.. ahem... You have a very sexy high slit sides dress with V-neck front/back .. sexy dress! =) {I made this for fave sis - who is a very very pretty person.} … After a while, I lost interest in sewing. … Turned to drawing.. etc....
Made a mistake in double knitting and didn't spot it 'til two rows later and it's a black and white pattern aaaaarrrgggghhhh no way out.
Froggit. Start again.
I think this pattern is too hard. I will have to come back to it when I've had another forty years' practice.