It is just after two and AJ has the new day up and running! I have been awake since one and I have a full day of work ahead of me….oh it’s gonna be a long day!! I guess I’ll head back to bed and try to get some sleep….enjoy you’re snooze everyone 😛
Sports Day was great, thanks for praying. I am tired after a whole day in the sun.
The roads here remind me of the dustbowl. No matter how slow you drive you leave a cloud of dust behind you. I almost don’t want to take walks for fear of a car driving by and covering me with dust.
No rain in sight. Washing dishes with a damp sponge and rinse in a trickle of water, showers are much less frequent and not much flushing. A whole new way of life, but it does strengthen my prayer life.
I was surprised to see the site up already. Usually I just go back and catch up on yesterday’s thread.
IT’s Friday!
You know what that means?
No Lions today. FBCHNC is having a luncheon for couples who have been married to each other for 50 years or more.
We qualify.
Chas, I’m curious why you need a GPS since you have a smart phone? I use Google maps (although I know there are others), which is much nicer than a GPS because it’s always up to date plus it incorporates traffic information. Have you tried it?
Linda, I don’t know how to use the MAP App on my smart phone. I messed around with it one time on my way to Myrtle Beach and she thought I wanted to go to Columbia. I had to listen to her trying to turn me around until I stopped at a MB visitor’s center and had a young guy turn it off for me.
Chas, you might try Google Maps – I’m terrible with that kind of thing, myself, but found it quite easy and intuitive. Like I said, it will offer to re-route you based on traffic, which is quite helpful.
If Google maps is “always up to date” then my name isn’t Peter L. Maybe in large urban areas, but Google maps leaves a lot to be desired in rural areas. In my town it has a county highway running through an empty lot and going down an old stairway that is labeled as a street. It also places my bank 1/2 mile west of where it should be, in a corn field.
Good Morning Everyone. I bought two GIANT mums yesterday have have them on each side of my front door.
I has become apparent that I am going to have to take my grandmother’s frying pan to the back of my husband’s head. 😉
He has an opinion about everything I do to the house. I solved my giant blank wall problem last night and this morning he told me he was going to undo it today. Does he not realize he is a STRAIGHT man and straight men have no opinion about where furniture goes. Perhaps if you are a gay man you can have an opinion, but straight men should not.
My new matalesse bedspread and shams came yesterday. They are white. I am switching all the bedding over to white. I found some lovely curtains at a shop in Gulf Shores, but I am having a hard time justifying the price. For what four panels would cost me I could buy an inexpensive sewing machine and the fabric to do them myself. Curtains are easy.
Kim is correct about men not knowing where furniture goes. I just do as I’m told.
I use Google maps on my computer, and a program for planning. But in my car ,I use the GPS system. I’m going to start using it all the time. Even when I know the way. I used it coming home from Williamsburg. It tells me the speed limit on the road I’m on and when I’m to arrive at my destination.
I need to learn to use the MAP App on my iPhone. I can use it when walking in an unfamiliar area.
We were just given a Garmin recently. It was an interesting experience at first. Like all computers, it is only can respond with what is put into it. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to know exactly what needs to be done where.
We tried it out locally to see how it would be. I would not want to drive most of the way it did take us—or want to take us. We have been AT the site we programmed and still had it telling us to go somewhere else. I would hate to rely only on it.
We use a combination of preplanning on the computer (or atlas) and then the Garmin as we go. It is helpful to find what and how far away gas stations, restaurants, motels etc. are from where we are.
Yes, I do like to see the speed we are going. Easier for me to see when my husband is driving. 🙂 The speed of the roadway has been incorrect, though, according to signs we pass. This is only a couple of months old and the speed limits have been the same for a long time. Not sure why the discrepancy.
It is also nice to get a head-up on the next intersection.
Last week I was taking the granddaughters out to dinner and I clicked on the GPS in my car out of habit. Emmy said, “Grammy, why did you turn that on? You know the way to Pizza Hut.”
Re GPS, we have one stretch of road (20 or 30 miles) we’ve traveled twice in the last couple of years where apparently the old road isn’t used anymore, but our GPS doesn’t have the new road. So visually we’re driving through fields, not on a road, but most of the time we’re parallel to a road. Once in a while she shows us back on the road for a mile or two, and then we’re back blithely driving through fields. And of course she keeps telling us “rerouting” or otherwise attempting to get us back on what she thinks is the road.
Kat6hleena, I noticed that Garmen didn’t always know the best way to get there. It tries to take the shortest way and will have you going the wrong way down a one way street if you aren’t careful.
But it has been quite useful at times.
But it lied to me twice, hence the upgrade.
I love the google map GPS app, it’s been very helpful on work assignments out of the area and also for taking Carol around in the various areas where she’s lived throughout L.A. (finding out where the closest stores that I need to take her are, places to eat, etc.).
The system does get “confused” at times, though, even here in our large metropolitan area — once it said we could get to Griffith Park by taking a shortcut through the Hollywood Hills (Carol lives at the base of the hills so it was the quickest way to get there, so said the app), but we wound up going up and down, over and back, through all the narrow, winding roads (several times) before giving up.
Either the short cut was no longer in existence (there were some roads that had no entrance barricades) or something … But it was a nice enough drive, we got very close to the Hollywood sign and there were some popular lookout points we found (and passed by several times in our wanderings which had us repeating the hillside loops), but not Griffith Park (which was close by, but not accessible somehow — we managed to take another route later and got there easily).
I have learned to turn on the mic for a google search and say, “OK Google, navigate to whatever address” I need. It usually works. You have to have location turned on to get it to work of course.
On my phone, to turn it off , i hit the lower left button and all open apps show and I can close them. That saves power, too.
I generally look at a paper map before I leave and take it along if it looks complicated. But I love to look at google earth and see my camping spots and the contour of the mountains and the lay of the land around our place.
We’re off to help sift ashes, down trees with a chain saw, build fences and minister in Lake County tomorrow. (Mumsee and crowd really should be coming with us). It promises to be exhausting, emotional, difficult work.
And now it’s supposed to rain.
Trying to maintain a thankful heart on a day which already has turned upside down several times. Sigh.
Yes! I want rain. I’d just prefer it on Sunday . . . ingrate that I am. 😦
Usually men learn to be good sports, like Chas: They let their wives do their thing in the domain of the home and they stay (pretty much) out of it.
I can imagine it’s hard to be married to someone with strong opinions that don’t always match your own when it comes to decor.
I remember my dad bringing home a dining room table-and-chairs set once that my mom really didn’t like. But she lived with it, got used to it, we had that set for a very long time.
Some men are very artistic and have a good eye for decorating. I don’t think it has anything to do with SSA.
Tastes that match are another issue. Most men don’t seem to care or have other things they would rather do. Hopefully, a home is somewhere both spouses feel comfortable. I would suspect many men do not and hence, the rise in ‘man caves’. My husband thinks those are crazy. Our home is probably not the way either of us would have it were the other not around. You can see both of us in it, though, and that is as it should be, IMO.
Kathaleena… I think I have done very well…The GIANT L shaped sofa is in the living room as is the GIANT TV. His mother’s china cabinet is in the dining room as is some sort of low chest that matches it. I came up with a plan to showcase his “more valuable than rubies or diamonds” shell collection. I am hanging his grandparent’s ornate gold mirror in the foyer behind the shells to reflect the dining room. I drew the line when he wanted a giant tropical fish aquarium in the living room. I simply want two club chairs in the living room on a blank wall. This is a leather chair and ottoman that Lulabelle has chewed the legs on.
I feel like I have made most of the compromising here. The giant gold mirror that belonged to my family is leaned up against a wall in the garage.
What I would really like to do is release some more of the stuff we have into the world to bless others and make them happy. Some of what I have that I am using I don’t care that much for anymore and I am over the sentimentality of it.
So I’m not the only one who thought the duck was headless at first. I was looking at it, wondering where its head was. Then, when the eyes came into view, it scared me! I jerked my head back a bit at the startle of it.
Remember our dear EYG, former regular from WMB? Some of us are friends with her on Facebook. Her daughter, Holland, has an adorable baby girl named Willow, about six months old now.
Holland has a blog that is quite lovely, called Willow’s Whisk. She writes a little, & shares a recipe, & the accompanying photography (her own) is very lovely.
“Welcome to Willow’s Whisk. I am thrilled to have you here, my name is Holland. I am a wife and a mama who lives on chai lattes, and licking a chocolate covered spatula. I enjoy creating pastries, taking pictures, drinking tea and twirling in a skirt.”
Am I the only one who uses the microphone to google navigation? It works great when you are on the expressway traveling and want to find the nearest Wendy’s, etc. You speak what you want so you do not have to take your eyes off the road to type in an address. Try it and see if it works for you. We have no other GPS and rely soley on our Smartphones for this. And again, to turn off the navigation, bring up the screen with all open apps and turn them off. On my phone that button is at the lower left just to the side of the phone off and on button. I have learned a few power saving features such as turning location and screen rotation off as well as turning all the apps off when not using the phone or charging it. Some of you, maybe Kim, helped me learn some of those power savers.
Kathaleena, our home reflects my taste, my husband’s tastes . . . and his late wife’s tastes. When the girls move out, I plan to generously offer them their choice of some of the family Christmas decorations (most of which will not go up once they have moved out and aren’t here to put it up–sorry, but a big stuffed rabbit doesn’t say “Christmas” to me, and I don’t like female angels). But much of the decorating choices I like, and more I have quietly and gradually replaced.
…I would still bet that no GPS would do any better in that area.
Correct! I give specific directions to our house and tell the Gen-Xers not to use GPS. The I get a phone call for directions when they use GPS. My nephew asked where we were in relation to the cemetery. It’s on the South side of town on our street. We’re on the North. Another called and asked if he had to drive up the stairway.
It’s cloudy and cool outside (I’m told). Can’t wait to leave work today. 🙂
Monday can wait.
We had a tradition of Christmas (female) angels topping our trees so they don’t bother me. In fact, one of the old ceramics I got from Norma’s place, along with 2 black-and-white cats, was a pretty blonde angel.
Photo caption:
“Mama said the stork dropped me head first into a can of paint. She took pity on me and kept me as a scare-man.” Works on women, too. See how Karen reacted?
Donna – I’ve actually bought two things from that list you linked to. We bought the Air Purifying Himalayan Salt Lamp for Emily last Christmas, & the Turtle Star Projector (or something very much like it) for Forrest when he was a baby.
I got a call tonight that my new progressive lenses came in. I might pick them up tomorrow, if one of the other drivers in the household can be with me. It sounds like they might be unavailable for a lot of the day, though, and I don’t want to drive myself home with the new ones just yet.
On the other hand, maybe I could just wear my current ones home, but I don’t know how much time the people at the optical place are going to spend with me, helping me get a little adjusted to the progressives before I leave. In other words, will it mess up my vision to promptly put my old glasses back on when leaving?
Wandering Views 
It is just after two and AJ has the new day up and running! I have been awake since one and I have a full day of work ahead of me….oh it’s gonna be a long day!! I guess I’ll head back to bed and try to get some sleep….enjoy you’re snooze everyone 😛
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So Aj, did you decide to try my time zone for a change or are you going fishing???
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Sports Day was great, thanks for praying. I am tired after a whole day in the sun.
The roads here remind me of the dustbowl. No matter how slow you drive you leave a cloud of dust behind you. I almost don’t want to take walks for fear of a car driving by and covering me with dust.
No rain in sight. Washing dishes with a damp sponge and rinse in a trickle of water, showers are much less frequent and not much flushing. A whole new way of life, but it does strengthen my prayer life.
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Up and at em, Chas! 🙂
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OIK! OK! I’m with it.
Just waiting around for Ol’ Slowpoke to get ready.
Good evening Jo.
Everybody tries to boss me around today!
😉
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I was surprised to see the site up already. Usually I just go back and catch up on yesterday’s thread.
IT’s Friday!
You know what that means?
No Lions today. FBCHNC is having a luncheon for couples who have been married to each other for 50 years or more.
We qualify.
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Chas, I’m curious why you need a GPS since you have a smart phone? I use Google maps (although I know there are others), which is much nicer than a GPS because it’s always up to date plus it incorporates traffic information. Have you tried it?
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Linda, I don’t know how to use the MAP App on my smart phone. I messed around with it one time on my way to Myrtle Beach and she thought I wanted to go to Columbia. I had to listen to her trying to turn me around until I stopped at a MB visitor’s center and had a young guy turn it off for me.
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Chas, you might try Google Maps – I’m terrible with that kind of thing, myself, but found it quite easy and intuitive. Like I said, it will offer to re-route you based on traffic, which is quite helpful.
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A busy Friday already! Slow down and read the funnies.
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If Google maps is “always up to date” then my name isn’t Peter L. Maybe in large urban areas, but Google maps leaves a lot to be desired in rural areas. In my town it has a county highway running through an empty lot and going down an old stairway that is labeled as a street. It also places my bank 1/2 mile west of where it should be, in a corn field.
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Good Morning Everyone. I bought two GIANT mums yesterday have have them on each side of my front door.
I has become apparent that I am going to have to take my grandmother’s frying pan to the back of my husband’s head. 😉
He has an opinion about everything I do to the house. I solved my giant blank wall problem last night and this morning he told me he was going to undo it today. Does he not realize he is a STRAIGHT man and straight men have no opinion about where furniture goes. Perhaps if you are a gay man you can have an opinion, but straight men should not.
My new matalesse bedspread and shams came yesterday. They are white. I am switching all the bedding over to white. I found some lovely curtains at a shop in Gulf Shores, but I am having a hard time justifying the price. For what four panels would cost me I could buy an inexpensive sewing machine and the fabric to do them myself. Curtains are easy.
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The bird above looks headless
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Kim is correct about men not knowing where furniture goes. I just do as I’m told.
I use Google maps on my computer, and a program for planning. But in my car ,I use the GPS system. I’m going to start using it all the time. Even when I know the way. I used it coming home from Williamsburg. It tells me the speed limit on the road I’m on and when I’m to arrive at my destination.
I need to learn to use the MAP App on my iPhone. I can use it when walking in an unfamiliar area.
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We were just given a Garmin recently. It was an interesting experience at first. Like all computers, it is only can respond with what is put into it. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to know exactly what needs to be done where.
We tried it out locally to see how it would be. I would not want to drive most of the way it did take us—or want to take us. We have been AT the site we programmed and still had it telling us to go somewhere else. I would hate to rely only on it.
We use a combination of preplanning on the computer (or atlas) and then the Garmin as we go. It is helpful to find what and how far away gas stations, restaurants, motels etc. are from where we are.
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Yes, I do like to see the speed we are going. Easier for me to see when my husband is driving. 🙂 The speed of the roadway has been incorrect, though, according to signs we pass. This is only a couple of months old and the speed limits have been the same for a long time. Not sure why the discrepancy.
It is also nice to get a head-up on the next intersection.
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Last week I was taking the granddaughters out to dinner and I clicked on the GPS in my car out of habit. Emmy said, “Grammy, why did you turn that on? You know the way to Pizza Hut.”
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Re GPS, we have one stretch of road (20 or 30 miles) we’ve traveled twice in the last couple of years where apparently the old road isn’t used anymore, but our GPS doesn’t have the new road. So visually we’re driving through fields, not on a road, but most of the time we’re parallel to a road. Once in a while she shows us back on the road for a mile or two, and then we’re back blithely driving through fields. And of course she keeps telling us “rerouting” or otherwise attempting to get us back on what she thinks is the road.
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Kat6hleena, I noticed that Garmen didn’t always know the best way to get there. It tries to take the shortest way and will have you going the wrong way down a one way street if you aren’t careful.
But it has been quite useful at times.
But it lied to me twice, hence the upgrade.
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Peter L (that IS your name, right? haha), I would still bet that no GPS would do any better in that area.
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I love the google map GPS app, it’s been very helpful on work assignments out of the area and also for taking Carol around in the various areas where she’s lived throughout L.A. (finding out where the closest stores that I need to take her are, places to eat, etc.).
The system does get “confused” at times, though, even here in our large metropolitan area — once it said we could get to Griffith Park by taking a shortcut through the Hollywood Hills (Carol lives at the base of the hills so it was the quickest way to get there, so said the app), but we wound up going up and down, over and back, through all the narrow, winding roads (several times) before giving up.
Either the short cut was no longer in existence (there were some roads that had no entrance barricades) or something … But it was a nice enough drive, we got very close to the Hollywood sign and there were some popular lookout points we found (and passed by several times in our wanderings which had us repeating the hillside loops), but not Griffith Park (which was close by, but not accessible somehow — we managed to take another route later and got there easily).
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That photo cries out for a caption contest. 🙂
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I have learned to turn on the mic for a google search and say, “OK Google, navigate to whatever address” I need. It usually works. You have to have location turned on to get it to work of course.
On my phone, to turn it off , i hit the lower left button and all open apps show and I can close them. That saves power, too.
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I generally look at a paper map before I leave and take it along if it looks complicated. But I love to look at google earth and see my camping spots and the contour of the mountains and the lay of the land around our place.
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We’re off to help sift ashes, down trees with a chain saw, build fences and minister in Lake County tomorrow. (Mumsee and crowd really should be coming with us). It promises to be exhausting, emotional, difficult work.
And now it’s supposed to rain.
Trying to maintain a thankful heart on a day which already has turned upside down several times. Sigh.
Yes! I want rain. I’d just prefer it on Sunday . . . ingrate that I am. 😦
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Kim, I feel your frustration. 🙂
Usually men learn to be good sports, like Chas: They let their wives do their thing in the domain of the home and they stay (pretty much) out of it.
I can imagine it’s hard to be married to someone with strong opinions that don’t always match your own when it comes to decor.
I remember my dad bringing home a dining room table-and-chairs set once that my mom really didn’t like. But she lived with it, got used to it, we had that set for a very long time.
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Chas, stick to the GPS. The app on the phone is awful and pretty much takes two people to use it.
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Some men are very artistic and have a good eye for decorating. I don’t think it has anything to do with SSA.
Tastes that match are another issue. Most men don’t seem to care or have other things they would rather do. Hopefully, a home is somewhere both spouses feel comfortable. I would suspect many men do not and hence, the rise in ‘man caves’. My husband thinks those are crazy. Our home is probably not the way either of us would have it were the other not around. You can see both of us in it, though, and that is as it should be, IMO.
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Kathaleena… I think I have done very well…The GIANT L shaped sofa is in the living room as is the GIANT TV. His mother’s china cabinet is in the dining room as is some sort of low chest that matches it. I came up with a plan to showcase his “more valuable than rubies or diamonds” shell collection. I am hanging his grandparent’s ornate gold mirror in the foyer behind the shells to reflect the dining room. I drew the line when he wanted a giant tropical fish aquarium in the living room. I simply want two club chairs in the living room on a blank wall. This is a leather chair and ottoman that Lulabelle has chewed the legs on.
I feel like I have made most of the compromising here. The giant gold mirror that belonged to my family is leaned up against a wall in the garage.
What I would really like to do is release some more of the stuff we have into the world to bless others and make them happy. Some of what I have that I am using I don’t care that much for anymore and I am over the sentimentality of it.
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So I’m not the only one who thought the duck was headless at first. I was looking at it, wondering where its head was. Then, when the eyes came into view, it scared me! I jerked my head back a bit at the startle of it.
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Remember our dear EYG, former regular from WMB? Some of us are friends with her on Facebook. Her daughter, Holland, has an adorable baby girl named Willow, about six months old now.
Holland has a blog that is quite lovely, called Willow’s Whisk. She writes a little, & shares a recipe, & the accompanying photography (her own) is very lovely.
http://www.willowswhisk.com
The first paragraph in the “About” section…
“Welcome to Willow’s Whisk. I am thrilled to have you here, my name is Holland. I am a wife and a mama who lives on chai lattes, and licking a chocolate covered spatula. I enjoy creating pastries, taking pictures, drinking tea and twirling in a skirt.”
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Am I the only one who uses the microphone to google navigation? It works great when you are on the expressway traveling and want to find the nearest Wendy’s, etc. You speak what you want so you do not have to take your eyes off the road to type in an address. Try it and see if it works for you. We have no other GPS and rely soley on our Smartphones for this. And again, to turn off the navigation, bring up the screen with all open apps and turn them off. On my phone that button is at the lower left just to the side of the phone off and on button. I have learned a few power saving features such as turning location and screen rotation off as well as turning all the apps off when not using the phone or charging it. Some of you, maybe Kim, helped me learn some of those power savers.
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I just did my Day 4 blog post if anyone is interested. It is about priority setting.
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My hat is off to you, Kim. 🙂
Since Christmas is right around the corner, here are some different ideas for gifts:
http://dodoburd.com/best-christmas-gifts-2014
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I also thought the duck was headless. 🙂
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I would hate to have to care for a giant aquarium.
We had a nice luncheon and program. Them we went down main street to see all of the bears. They will be auctioned off on Oct. 24.
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Kathaleena, our home reflects my taste, my husband’s tastes . . . and his late wife’s tastes. When the girls move out, I plan to generously offer them their choice of some of the family Christmas decorations (most of which will not go up once they have moved out and aren’t here to put it up–sorry, but a big stuffed rabbit doesn’t say “Christmas” to me, and I don’t like female angels). But much of the decorating choices I like, and more I have quietly and gradually replaced.
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Oh, and I didn’t think the duck was headless. I immediately thought “merganser.” 🙂
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I’m so ready for it to be Monday . . . .
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“I’m so ready for it to be Monday . ”
First time in my life I’ve heard that.. . .
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…I would still bet that no GPS would do any better in that area.
Correct! I give specific directions to our house and tell the Gen-Xers not to use GPS. The I get a phone call for directions when they use GPS. My nephew asked where we were in relation to the cemetery. It’s on the South side of town on our street. We’re on the North. Another called and asked if he had to drive up the stairway.
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Caption conetest for the picture? Okay.
“Hey! Isn’t that the AFLAC duck over there? Does he give autographs?”
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The cat would love an aquarium.
It’s cloudy and cool outside (I’m told). Can’t wait to leave work today. 🙂
Monday can wait.
We had a tradition of Christmas (female) angels topping our trees so they don’t bother me. In fact, one of the old ceramics I got from Norma’s place, along with 2 black-and-white cats, was a pretty blonde angel.
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I once had an angel tree topper that had lights on her, and I had to quit using her because she was too heavy and might’ve become a fallen angel. 🙂
Monday is when we go back to the docs office. It can wait.
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“Mama said the stork dropped me head first into a can of paint. She took pity on me and kept me as a scare-man.” Works on women, too. See how Karen reacted?
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Donna – I’ve actually bought two things from that list you linked to. We bought the Air Purifying Himalayan Salt Lamp for Emily last Christmas, & the Turtle Star Projector (or something very much like it) for Forrest when he was a baby.
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I got a call tonight that my new progressive lenses came in. I might pick them up tomorrow, if one of the other drivers in the household can be with me. It sounds like they might be unavailable for a lot of the day, though, and I don’t want to drive myself home with the new ones just yet.
On the other hand, maybe I could just wear my current ones home, but I don’t know how much time the people at the optical place are going to spend with me, helping me get a little adjusted to the progressives before I leave. In other words, will it mess up my vision to promptly put my old glasses back on when leaving?
???
Or am I analyzing things to death? 🙂
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6 Arrows, I can’t imagine it would be a problem to wear the old ones home, if you don’t have another driver available.
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My husband just assured me of the same thing, Cheryl. 😉
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