What are you doing today?

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Georgiagranny said:
I so look forward to my days off, but about halfway through the day I get so bored and lonely that I want to cry. What is the matter with me?

The day started off badly with the blankety-blank Christmas tree. Piddled around for a while, checked the work schedule for next week which didn't help a bit! Then figured I'd feel better if I moved around so mowed the lawn. Nope.

DD insists that I should trim the tree before I decide I don't like it. I don't wanna trim it because I don't like it. It's still up. Naked. Or, as we say in the South, nekkid.

Appointment tomorrow afternoon for the annual wellness check that I only go to because Kaiser demands it. Tried to skip it one year until they threatened to cancel me. It's a nuisance.

@horseless carriage What sweet and kind words for @hollydolly. You're a treasure! and one of the many reasons I appreciate this forum.
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awww sorry you feel bored and lonely on your days off Geegee... even tho' I know you live on your Daughters' property, it's probablly difficult for her to find time to spend with you other than shopping.. and that can be hard ..so it's a blessing you have your job even tho' it tests your patience, it gives you something to fill the time, pays money and gives you someone to talk to as well..

I'd love to have a job again.. I have no-one here.. so I'm lonely every day of the week.. and very often bored witless.. I've still got to figure out how to manage this.. I wish I'd had more notice it was going to be this way
 

Georgiagranny said:
Would you mind baking my cookies, too? I'm just not feeling it, but Christmas can't come without Christmas cookies.
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Georgiagranny said:
Would you mind baking my cookies, too? I'm just not feeling it, but Christmas can't come without Christmas cookies.
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Absolutely Georgiagranny, I baked three dozen, wonderful Oatmeal cookies (soft and chewy) and added
walnuts and diced dates, I am asking Santa to drop some off to you soon; he can make special trips before
Christmas, I've just contacted him, and he said "yes of course, she will have the cookies at midnight tomorrow
delivered to her front porch, nicely packaged in a lovely holiday tin, and with a sweet note saying "from
Emeraude to Georgiagranny 😇
 
hollydolly said:
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I'd love to have a job again.. I have no-one here.. so I'm lonely every day of the week.. and very often bored witless.. I've still got to figure out how to manage this.. I wish I'd had more notice it was going to be this way
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Me too....would love to be out in the work force or even Volunteer force again.
Perhaps you could do the volunteer thing too. I met so many great people in that time.
Some of them still friends but all old codgers like me now

My family are scattered in other parts and looks like a Christmas alone again.
My daughter and I usually have a lunch few days before but that is it now.
I do have friends of course but not the same feeling as family.
Sister in the U.S feels same way.
Might as well be living in Timbuktu as they say....
Ah well...guess we had our happy times in days gone by.
 
hollydolly said:
I did a silly thing...if you remember I bought a ton of fancy Christmas chocolate biscuits , cakes and sweets so I could share with my Daughter.

She rang tonight and I told her about these things and I would send her a pic of them and she could decide which of them she wanted... It was only after I went to the cupboard and pulled everything out that I remembered she hates Dark chocolate and 90 % of those sweets are Dark chocolate.. awww.. I feel rotten now. I'll have to go and hunt down some special milk chocolate treats..
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Don't feel rotten. Your heart was in the right place.
 
hollydolly said:
thank you my dear friend.. your thoughts are very appreciated 🧡
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we always are thankfull to people who understand our pain, divorce or death, we are parted from a normal life. I think divorce might be harder. Death is not chosen, just delivered. Divorce, so much harder, you have built a life, made the dream come true, then someone walks away.

Then what to do, I don't know but I think you are doing a hell of job. There you are, daughter far away. No one else in the home to cling to, to give a grounding effect. I had a grounding, son still at home. Then he brought the girlfriend and and her litlle boy(baby) into the home. That filled up my life along with my Mother that I moved in a month before. She was 85 and having health issues.


away.
 
Georgiagranny said:
I so look forward to my days off, but about halfway through the day I get so bored and lonely that I want to cry. What is the matter with me?

The day started off badly with the blankety-blank Christmas tree. Piddled around for a while, checked the work schedule for next week which didn't help a bit! Then figured I'd feel better if I moved around so mowed the lawn. Nope.

DD insists that I should trim the tree before I decide I don't like it. I don't wanna trim it because I don't like it.* It's still up. Naked. Or, as we say in the South, nekkid.

Appointment tomorrow afternoon for the annual wellness check that I only go to because Kaiser demands it. Tried to skip it one year until they threatened to cancel me. It's a nuisance.

@horseless carriage What sweet and kind words for @hollydolly. You're a treasure! and one of the many reasons I appreciate this forum.

ETA:*This is a perfect example of an emotional, spur-of-the-moment purchase...loved it in the store, after seeing it in RL and thinking about it, it was a real bad buy. You'd think I've been around long enough to know better...
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“What’s the matter with me?”. Well, pregnancy hormones can really mess you up. 😳😂
 
Georgiagranny said:
@Mizmo! I'm so glad to "see" you. Where have you been? I've missed you. Every time I try to pick up my coffee mug with my gimpy wrist, I'm reminded of you finally finding the perfect mug for your tea :)

And now, boys and girls, it's bedtime because 4 am gets here really early.
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Oh thanks for thinking of me.
Yes I had to stay away for few days. I just tend to overdo things, the computer being one of them .
The thumb that is not there was screaming the loudest. It is such a bitch . All nerve damage of course and I do tend to forget my grand age but ya know I think that is what keeps me going. Overdoing, recovering, start again.
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nite , nite
sleep well.
 
I finally got the condo papers to review. It looks like they have a big enough reserve fund, and it says they had (in 2014) an outside company make a plan for future repairs/replacements, so that sounds professional. The list was a little overwhelming, and a great deal of it would need to be done within the next 20 years (in my hoped-for lifetime), but one big item was already done and they still have lots of reserve funds (and constantly add to it from the HOA fees). They also listed the types of securities the money is invested in, and it was all very conservative and safe (thank goodness none in crypto!).

I haven't found minutes of meetings yet but I've been reading through all the rules.

There are a few surprises, such as that TVs and other things that make noise have to be turned off between 11 PM and 8 AM if they are bothering any other people. I don't think I have to worry since the living room has the bedroom between it and the adjacent apartment, and the other adjacent apartment is only the back wall of my kitchen. I guess no watching loud movies while working in the kitchen late at night. Though, it would be their kitchen on the other side of the wall so probably would not bother anyone.

Another wrinkle is that they have a rule against moving vans arriving on the weekend. Since my closing is supposed to be on next Friday, I was hoping to have a bed delivered on Saturday, I hope I don't have to sleep on a air mattress until Monday. I guess I don't even know if the mattress store delivers on the weekend anyway.

They have some rules I found funny. All residents can use the restroom in the party room even if there is a private party going on. I guess old people gotta have their bathroom rights! Also, female dogs in heat are not allowed to cause a "nuisance". Ha ha. It's been almost 60 years since I've seen that nuisance happen. Memorable.
 

What are you doing today?​


Well, today I worked on a live edge bookcase

...but screwed up;
Strolled into the house
asked my woman a couple questions
like.....'what's for lunch?'
Thought she didn't hear me
asked a couple more times
talked about the date and year
Gazed her way
she was knitting socks
really really gorgeous, comfy socks
Christmas gifts for her sister and others
aaaaaand.......counting

I'll be in the shop tomorrow
 
Gary O' said:

What are you doing today?​


Well, today I worked on a live edge bookcase

...but screwed up;
Strolled into the house
asked my woman a couple questions
like.....'what's for lunch?'
Thought she didn't hear me
asked a couple more times
talked about the date and year
Gazed her way
she was knitting socks
really really gorgeous, comfy socks
Christmas gifts for her sister and others
aaaaaand.......counting

I'll be in the shop tomorrow
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Bless Mrs Gary O’… the struggle is real. Maybe yarn shops should sell little signs that can be posted when knitters are in the middle if something intricate ..
 
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