
Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
Has anyone seen SP around? I am missing her or she isn't around? Today a bunch of old February and April messages that I had already erased started to appear in my private message mailbox; they were from when her sister was so ill. Reminded me I haven't seen her of late and so went to leave private message and her messaging is off.
Thanks all--hoping someone knows her and communicates off grid.
Margaret, I have family in Sydney. I don’t dare call them - I fear I am that stupid person you speak of!
Nacy, Fun! Well, OW first, and then fun. What made you choose a lizard? I’m not a tattoo person but my DD has 2 and they are beautifully done. I am not dyslexic but I always used my wedding ring to remind me…first marriage anyway. 2nd marriage I don’t wear one.
Alva, math makes me cry. I wonder if it’s the way they teach (or taught) it in the Bay Area. I grew up in Redwood City.
To all who are bored, I think some of us have more restless minds? I feel I have never caught up with all I have to do, tho some of that is taking on stuff such as fostering a dog. Otherwise, at 82 it is the garden, walking, shopping, cooking, the library, reading, an episode of Survivor, podcast by the bedside, and falling asleep like a baby. Oh, yeah, AC as well. That and FB good for a couple of hours in the a.m.
While I adore the "fantasy" of a coffee klatch I am not having one. I do the internet so I don't have to deal with real people! I can turn y'all off (and I am sure I DO) anytime I want. And you are easily rid of ME.
I am not reclusive in that I don't go "out" as I do the museums and such. I am reclusive in that I am a loner. It's just me and my busy brain and it is often too busy to fit people in. Next life I come back as "social". For now, the computer takes care of those needs very well.
The time around the world finally made sense to me on the night of the Millenium. January 1st 2000 started more or less in New Zealand, then us in Oz, then all of Asia, then Europe, and more or less finished in the USA. Those fireworks remain a good memory to make sense of it all.
Now I'll have a genuine glass of red wine, but I appreciate your imaginary coffee!
Yours, Margaret
: )
Anyway, I know I’ve been supremely lucky to have landed in the right places at the right times with the right opportunities after having been somewhat of a stray myself.
I was just throwing out things I have found engaging over the years in case any would spark cw’s interest.
I also love to be alone but I’m pretty sure I’m going to get more of that than I want before too long.
I’m finding that joining two seniors classes has been particularly good, one exercise and the other aqua-aerobics. It helps if the person running the class knows and accepts that part of ‘good for you’ is the social stuff, because seniors can get very isolated – like you when a partner dies. Volunteering can be good, as long as you aren't sitting at a counter by yourself. At a regular weekly class you get to know the other people with no pressure or expectations, and can gradually have more to talk about, perhaps a coffee afterwards. Then if you run into them shopping, or at the library, you can stop and chat for a few minutes. It’s like an old shampoo ad, “It WON’T happen overnight, but it WILL happen”.
But as I said, I’ve been at it for 20 years and have had a lot of practice. I’d say start slow. Maybe sign up for a class in something you’re interested in. The most important components of my retirement (besides DH and our families) have been my dear and diverse girlfriends. Many of them are neighbors and women I’ve met in the classes I’ve taken. Sharing interests has led to sharing lives.
Basically they have no answers. Total mystery.
Drs are busy, shortages etc, so spent five minutes talking to her this week and as this is long weekend not much will be done.
I am guessing they will decide on Tuesday what to do?
I am lost and really have no idea.
I can't imagine how frustrating this all is.
What answers ARE they giving you? They have to be saying SOMETHING here?
I am so sorry this is still but to be honest it is good they are keeping him in this long; they must be concerned as well because no one gets to stay in hospital anymore.
Alva - I believe it was send who wrote about real estate appreciating.
Send - not going there is a good idea.
Hi Anche. Hope you are doing OK.
Hothouse - sounds like you have good new owners for your parents' place. I too hope the new owners get along well with the neighbours we knew. They are a nice older couple.
jlynn - sounds like the good, the bad and the ugly. For me I really don't want to know about the changes that will be made.
Way - that must have been a pretty unpleasant experience. I am glad I was able to be out of the house while it was being sold.
Hubby still in hospital, less or no pain after all the painkillers.
Few tests done, all good.
Frustrated as it seems to me they are not willing to investigate further what causes all of this.
My bro's San Francisco two flat with cottage in back was purchased in 1960 for 74,000.00. Today it is valued at 4.5MILLION. So this happens. Especially in San Francisco. Just saw a home like my parents, bought for under 5,000 in 1942, and it has not quite appreciated that much, but is 400,000.00 so not nothing. I love to watch real estate stuff. My brother's last little home was in a historic trailer park In Palm Springs with wonderful redone trailers from the 60s and 70s for the most part. He purchased for 30,000 and put in about 15,000 in 2018. Sold for 100,000 in 2019.
Real estate is a fascination. It is my personal opinion that without buying real estate we really cannot appreciably save over the course of our lives. I guess some folks are good at stocks. I never personally was. I mean we SHORTED Starbuck if you need an example. Back to real estate, it DOES appreciate. I remember our buying our home, a two flat in SF, back about 35 years ago. What it has done in appreciation (yes with a lot of work put in as well) is amazing; SF is perhaps a outlier in terms of how things work (or don't) but I think real estate is the answer. Now......what was the question?
One home on Zillow valued at over a million dollars in today's market, after new owners have remodeled.
Factoid:
That has absolutely nothing to do with me.
Nothing to do with the value of my current home.
So many neighbors move in and attempt to gain some kind of social status by saying how much they had b e f o r e ....
OK, that's it! I am not going to go there. Cannot look at photos of the inside of my Condo I owned online/not for sale, but double the value of when I sold it.
Not a good feeling at all. Brings up memories of living alone.
Things are better now.
You cannot, and don't need to go back to the past. imo.
So good to hear from you. I am not in Florida but thanking you for thinking of those who are. Wishing you well there in Italy.
The wife asked for a picture of my sisters and me with her after the closing. I thought that was very sweet. I hope they are as happy in that house as my parents were.
Im hoping they have a decent relationship with the neighbors. The lady next door has three adult sons and one of them continually blocks the driveway. He is a real piece of work. But that’s no longer my problem.