Are you looking to the future ?

Ruth n Jersey said:
We missed celebrating Easter with the family and also our anniversary. I want to see the grand kids and have dinner out. that would satisfy me.
Looking ahead my daughter wants to do another mother/daughter trip in the fall. Hopefully by then we will be able to do that.
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my daughter wants to do a mother daughter trip to Hawaii... she's been looking forward to it for a long time, it's been her dream destination even tho' she's travelled to many other parts of the world including the USA and Canada several times, South Africa, Australia, UAE.. and many other places.. Hawaii has been her dream . it's enormously expensive from here to go there, and of course there's no way that will happen this year now and probably not even next... but I do hope the world doesn't change to such an extent that it never happens... :(
 

Pecos said:
I am pretty tired of the restrictions and look forward to being able to move about more. I was already dealing with
the effects of hormone cancer treatment therapy which includes hot flashes, and serious fatigue. The stay at home order just piles on and eliminates all incidental local travel. For me these two inconveniences are running simultaneously. The hormone therapy will affect me until about August of 2021, so I have a long way to go on that. Hopefully this COVID-19 will be long gone by then.
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Oh pecos and @Mahatma .:(.this is the side of this pandemic I keep harping onto everyone I know about... cancer patients and chronically ill patients who need constant treatments and aren't always getting them during this pandemic .
Urgent hospital appointments (including my own which was supposed to have been 3 days ago ) have been cancelled, until goodness knows when...best case scenario will be 3 months , serious hip operations, kidney dialysis, liver and prostate problems, MS patients, heart problems ... so many other people living with illnesses which are steadily worsening for lack of regular medical care currently... I wish both you guys lots of luck in continuing to get the treatments you need..
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Someone on another forum posted a question asking what worries do we have and which of those do we consider silly (not verbatim). Do you think that additional worrying comes with the age?
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I've always been a worrier.

Now that I'm retired I have more time for worrying than I did when I was working.

Once I turn a problem over in my mind and understand the worst that can happen and how I'll deal with it I'm fine.
 

Aunt Bea said:
I've always been a worrier.

Now that I'm retired I have more time for worrying than I did when I was working.

Once I turn a problem over in my mind and understand the worst that can happen and how I'll deal with it I'm fine.
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I agree that "Idle hands etc etc etc" I sure do it. But I also find I have gone both ways on this. There are things I let go of more easily, and stupid things that I cling to as tattered security blankets that should have been turned into dust rags eons ago.

It's sort of the the way I've become with people. There are some I am way more patient (compassionate) with than I've ever been, and others who I won't tolerate the way I used to.
 
My husband is doctoring here....We are not home in New Jersey....Planes are not going to NJ till maybe middle of May..
We've been here since December.....Today was the day we were supposed to go home....Can't Go.....

We just sit tight...It's beautiful here.....Know Mouning….We've had worse in our life.....So what will be, will be....
 
I do miss the Grands and the Great Grands

The Grands are getting bigger.....too big to hug almost

The Great Grands are getting regular kid size

We'll take a trip north once this crud has run it's course

My squeeze fix hasn't been available for too long


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I like the best of both worlds. I do like spending time on the couch with a glass of wine watching a movie, but I also like going out with friends for some dinner and some music. Being 75 years old I am not taking any chances with this virus, but I am going a bit stir crazy. There is only so much house cleaning, cooking and baking, and gardening I can do.
 
I've been working in a hospital since 1966. So I'm use to masks, sick people, sterile technique. Some think that the government is going to blow a whistle, say it's over, and we'll all come out of out holes in one big hugging fest. When I go into the grocery store I see the fear in people's faces. People are terrified of one another. It's going to take a while to get over that fear. How are people ,who haven't worked in hospitals since 1966, going to understand the difference between prudence and fear. Who is ready to trust their kids to large crowds, again?
 
Furryanimal said:
The first thing I want to do is go out for an entire day without having to think about it.To go where I want,when I want with actual people.I want to see my rugby team play,my cricket team play,attend concerts.
But I fear that we will never be able to do anything that remotely resembles freedom again.I want to move to Sweden where they have not put the entire country into lockdown

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a park in Stockholm last week.You aren’t even allowed near a park in Wales.
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Yup. Sweden has the right idea. No lockdown. No shutting down businesses. No masks.

I just want to see faces again; eat a peach, and go out for an ice cream cone with BF. Hug and kiss my family again. Simple pleasures.
 

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