How are you today?

@Ruthanne OK is better than not OK! ;)

I ate. Washed up dishes. Watered garden. Transplanted some flowers as an experiment to see what they'll look like if they're planted in the same spot next spring.

Now I'm resting and telling myself to be upbeat about my interview this afternoon. Resting is fine. Talking upbeat to myself doesn't seem to be working very well. I need to try harder.
 

I feel pretty good. It's been so hot and humid that waking up to an overcast, breezy 70° is a welcome relief.

I'm about to toddle off to eat brunch as soon as I decide what I want to eat. After that, I believe I'll take a nap. Hey, I'm retired, so I can nap anytime I want to. Y'all go about your busy, productive day. I'll be over here snoozing. 🥱

If I'm feeling inspired this afternoon, I might go through some boxes in the garage filled with stuff I'd like to donate.
 
IrishEyes said:
Found a vet office that is working with me on my dog with Rage Syndrome to avoid other client's dogs in the waiting lobby.
So it's vaccine and rabies day. Be so glad to get this off my list of need done. Then it's indoors to wait out this heat advisory for the day.
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Never heard of Rage Syndrome before. Looked it up. Oh my goodness what a sad thing that is for dogs! I hope yours is cured from it. May I ask what breed your dog is? Hoping for the best.
 
RadishRose said:
Never heard of Rage Syndrome before. Looked it up. Oh my goodness what a sad thing that is for dogs! I hope yours is cured from it. May I ask what breed your dog is? Hoping for the best.
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Thank You, he is a Jack Russell Terrier. We just got back from the vaccine visit and this new vet was so great understanding my concerns and appreciating letting them know ahead so they could clear the lobby of other animals. Very Impressed. There is no cure, I simply have to keep him safe from himself, like being loose around other animals. He is nearing 15 years old, I want him to pass because it's his time not because he attacked somebody's pet and I am ordered to euthanize him. It means no more public walks, or dog parks or being kenneled for a trip away.
He is always at least 2 feet from me, has been since I got him. Terriers seem to be most likely to get it. I noticed the signs of it 2 years ago and educated myself on it for his sake. I see a dog barking madly now at another animal and it appears older, it makes me wonder if the owner knows about this syndrome. Most people will just think your dog is not trained.
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IrishEyes said:
Thank You, he is a Jack Russell Terrier. We just got back from the vaccine visit and this new vet was so great understanding my concerns and appreciating letting them know ahead so they could clear the lobby of other animals. Very Impressed. There is no cure, I simply have to keep him safe from himself, like being loose around other animals. He is nearing 15 years old, I want him to pass because it's his time not because he attacked somebody's pet and I am ordered to euthanize him. It means no more public walks, or dog parks or being kenneled for a trip away.
He is always at least 2 feet from me, has been since I got him. Terriers seem to be most likely to get it. I noticed the signs of it 2 years ago and educated myself on it for his sake. I see a dog barking madly now at another animal and it appears older, it makes me wonder if the owner knows about this syndrome. Most people will just think your dog is not trained.
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Thanks for the info. He's very handsome!. Sorry there's no cure, but you're on top of it.
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Welp. The job at Dollar Tree that I was told I was hired for...nope. I looked at the website and the job is still posted so what the manager told me yesterday about 4-6 weeks while they're changing their computer systems was a crock of :poop:.

I mean, geez, he told me last Monday that I was hired, and while I was there I saw him ordering the background check on his desktop.

I can't imagine whatever on earth would have been found on a background check. I've never been arrested. For anything. The worst that ever happened was that I got a traffic ticket on my 40th birthday. All I can think is that when doing the check, they figured out how old I am and decided they don't want old people.

Whatever was there is probably the reason why, after three really positive interviews for other jobs in the past two months, I was slammed right out of the running. What's wrong with just telling me yesterday that he was rescinding the offer? And this is why I like people less and less:mad:. I hope he gets warts and ugly toenail fungus.

I'll go to the McD's interview this afternoon. Whatever is in the background check will show up for McD's, too, so not likely to be offered a job there, either. Dammit.

ETA: Wait! That DT manager already had a pretty good idea of how old I am. After all, he interviewed me, and it would be a stretch for him to think I'm young! Another thing, yesterday he said he still had to interview a couple of other people. After hiring me last week? I didn't imagine the offer. He made it. I accepted. Liar👖🔥
 
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IrishEyes said:
Thank You, he is a Jack Russell Terrier. We just got back from the vaccine visit and this new vet was so great understanding my concerns and appreciating letting them know ahead so they could clear the lobby of other animals. Very Impressed. There is no cure, I simply have to keep him safe from himself, like being loose around other animals. He is nearing 15 years old, I want him to pass because it's his time not because he attacked somebody's pet and I am ordered to euthanize him. It means no more public walks, or dog parks or being kenneled for a trip away.
He is always at least 2 feet from me, has been since I got him. Terriers seem to be most likely to get it. I noticed the signs of it 2 years ago and educated myself on it for his sake. I see a dog barking madly now at another animal and it appears older, it makes me wonder if the owner knows about this syndrome. Most people will just think your dog is not trained.
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He's a cutie. He has a good Mom too. 🤗
 
Georgiagranny said:
They both schedule employees for when they're needed. Dollar Tree employees are pretty much reliable and show up when scheduled and work extra hours if asked.

There's no way on God's green earth I would or could work two jobs.

McDonald's employees are "scheduled" but aren't usually very reliable and are as likely to blow off a shift as turn up for one...at least that's the way it is here. Also at McD's, you're asked what hours/days you're available, but that doesn't mean a darned thing. They'll schedule employees for shifts at times/days when they've insisted that they absolutely cannot work, then expect the employee to find someone to fill that shift, something that should be the manager's job. And that's just one of the reasons that I don't want to work there. Another one of their favorite things to do is to retaliate by cutting an employee's hours if an employee so much as looks sideways. Ugh.

Add to that, the smelling-like-a-French-fry thing. And the ridiculous uniforms.

They probably won't offer me a job anyway. Seems that people look at me and see a frail old lady. A 98-lb weakling. Actually, I probably weigh 110-120 lbs, and as for "frail," oh, hell to the NO!

If hired at McD's, I will absolutely walk if Dollar Tree calls me.

The search continues.
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Goodness McD's sounds awful! I hope Dollar Tree can get their act together and offer you something soon, it sounds much better 🤞:)
 
I did some Google digging. Although my name is very unusual, there are at least five other women with the same name. One of them lives in Vermont and has bankruptcies, lawsuits, DUI convictions, property liens... I give up.

Then...I checked the McD's website. Seems all their "crew member" jobs aren't the same. If wanting to work in the kitchen, that's called "kitchen crew, but since there weren't any kitchen crew jobs listed when I applied, kitchen crew didn't appear on the list of jobs available. Oy.

So now I have an appointment to waste the time of the interviewer because I only want to work in the kitchen. No customer-facing job.

I gotta go. DD is hollering at me.
 
Imagine my surprise. That McD's is nice. It's spacious and super clean...maybe because it's a franchise and not a McD's-owned store? I dunno, but it was very nice and the people there were friendly and seemed to all be having a good time. The manager I met with couldn't have been more than 25-30 years old. Her shirt said "Hamburger University" on it. I asked, and she said yes, she'd been to McD's university.

Their early kitchen crew is staffed right now, but there are openings for kitchen crew during the day. Shifts are 4-6 hours, part-time employees can choose how long their shifts are and how many days they work each week. They don't wear silly uniforms, just the McD's shirt and dark blue or black jeans/pants.

It was a very positive interview. Maybe they'll even hire me? Or not. She said she'd be in touch by the end of the week. We'll see. I've heard that before...

So. Y'all face the East for a moment of silent prayer on my behalf. I really, really need to be doing something besides fiddling in the garden, especially now that our gardening season is winding down, so that I won't be sitting around all winter getting depressed.

Oh...and the pay is more than at Dollar Tree.
 
Georgiagranny said:
I did some Google digging. Although my name is very unusual, there are at least five other women with the same name. One of them lives in Vermont and has bankruptcies, lawsuits, DUI convictions, property liens... I give up.

Then...I checked the McD's website. Seems all their "crew member" jobs aren't the same. If wanting to work in the kitchen, that's called "kitchen crew, but since there weren't any kitchen crew jobs listed when I applied, kitchen crew didn't appear on the list of jobs available. Oy.

So now I have an appointment to waste the time of the interviewer because I only want to work in the kitchen. No customer-facing job.

I gotta go. DD is hollering at me.
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Yeah, There's not too many people named Georgiagranny. 😋
 
Kadee said:
I’m good, the suns shining today that makes it better …much better …my poor bones are still thawing from our trip to Canbera ACT and the snow trip while there (Canbera is the Capitol city of Australia) it’s location isn’t a State as such …of Aust it’s ….Australian Capitol Territory

Ive just been outside doing a few little jobs inspired by @PeppermintPatty planting tomato / capsicums/ lettuce seeds for spring plantings in disposable drinking cups

Hopefully we will get a few more warmer days as I want to transplant cream clivia seedling I’ve grown from seed
in a mini plant tough, the garden centre told me last year if you plant seeds there’s no guarantee you will get yellowly/ Cream flowers in return …they did the same on got green/ cream striped very unusual stunning flowers

My plant I split up after flowering last year and sold a small one for $25

Ive got the orange ones as well , but they are more common ..pity they only flower once a year cause they make a nice show of colour

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Cor, that's a beaut Kadee!
 
hearlady said:
I had something like you are experiencing so I went to the eye doctor. I had/have Posterior Vitreous. It is pieces of the gel on the back of the retina falling off (?). I had spots and lace seemingly on my eyes but you are just seeing them. I was told it's from aging (how could that be? 😉) There's nothing you can do but I did get some eye vitamins and they seemed to help but that may be a coincidence.
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Hiya hearlady... I've had PVD too with the lacy 'spider web' and like a rainbow type light appearing as a flash and the gel floating. T'was in the COVID days and I remember the 'optiwhatsit' man being right in my face without a mask and I had to take off my mask and look into the machine. He had too squirt a double load of stuff in my so I wouldn't feel pain when he shone the bright light into eyes (I suffer with photophobia).
He asked if I bent from the waist or from the knees. Told him I bend from the waist and he told me not to do that but keep my head up and bend from the waist for a period of time (think it was 4-6weeks).
 
IrishEyes said:
Thank You, he is a Jack Russell Terrier. We just got back from the vaccine visit and this new vet was so great understanding my concerns and appreciating letting them know ahead so they could clear the lobby of other animals. Very Impressed. There is no cure, I simply have to keep him safe from himself, like being loose around other animals. He is nearing 15 years old, I want him to pass because it's his time not because he attacked somebody's pet and I am ordered to euthanize him. It means no more public walks, or dog parks or being kenneled for a trip away.
He is always at least 2 feet from me, has been since I got him. Terriers seem to be most likely to get it. I noticed the signs of it 2 years ago and educated myself on it for his sake. I see a dog barking madly now at another animal and it appears older, it makes me wonder if the owner knows about this syndrome. Most people will just think your dog is not trained.
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AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, he's gorgous! 😍
 

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