How is your day Today? Chat about your plans and achievements 2025....

A beautiful and balmy day! Sparkling clean 99F water in the hot tub. Blue Birds and Starlings came by to check out potential rentals.

SO is knee deep in paper work.

A quick dash through the house will do for today. Then going through seeds to dream about a bumper harvest and lots of color.

What did the ground hog say?
 

Depressed today, not deep yet, just headed downward about 50% on the spiral.
Filed taxes, sent mega $$$$$ to Uncle Sam and State of Arizona.
Shuffled money around.
Am far from rich and I just need to remember and thank God am blessed to even have the $$.
It just feels painful, none the less.

Still eating like crazy not sure if the spiral is what spurs the eating or vis versa - a vicious circle either way.
Am not an alcoholic, but over the week, last week, I drank at least a dozen of my home made margaritas (with salt) as if tomorrow was naught. So odd...perhaps there was a full moon? None this week.

Hoping I can get a grip on food consumption once again.

Home staging is still going on, getting there step by step.
DH never believes in throwing anything away, so it is one of us pissed off after another and tense days the last two weeks.

To avoid the reality be simply goes shooting (pistol range or trap/skeet) to avoid the reality that his junk either needs to go completely, or be boxed up and placed in storage NOW or I will not list this house.

SO I do what I can sit and end up eating due to the silence between us...as we avoid more irritations.

Going to go easy on myself, I hope.
Needing a road trip to escape this spiral, SL hardtop down, Moody Blues...Eagles....
 
Well my food stamps came in and so I decided to go a little crazy and got myself 18 large eggs $8.02 then I got some armor treat which is similar to spam and that was $2.28 luckily I already had bread so I fried up a high value meal and had coffee with it.

Also picked up a gallon of Sunny delight I have some vodka so I'm going to have some good nights for the next oh week or so....🤤🤤🤤
 
Georgiagranny said:
@hollydolly Since Alexa has nothing to do with how much money he's going to have to part with, why does he even care? What an arse! He needs a good dose of ugly toenail fungus and warts, not to mention a "social disease."
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You know, I just don't understand it Gigi.... I could have totally understood if I had been the villain of the piece.. but it was HIM..not me.... so what he's getting out of being such a bad barsteward I have no idea... 😡
 
CooCooforCoCoPuffs said:
Depressed today, not deep yet, just headed downward about 50% on the spiral.
Filed taxes, sent mega $$$$$ to Uncle Sam and State of Arizona.
Shuffled money around.
Am far from rich and I just need to remember and thank God am blessed to even have the $$.
It just feels painful, none the less.

Still eating like crazy not sure if the spiral is what spurs the eating or vis versa - a vicious circle either way.
Am not an alcoholic, but over the week, last week, I drank at least a dozen of my home made margaritas (with salt) as if tomorrow was naught. So odd...perhaps there was a full moon? None this week.

Hoping I can get a grip on food consumption once again.

Home staging is still going on, getting there step by step.
DH never believes in throwing anything away, so it is one of us pissed off after another and tense days the last two weeks.

To avoid the reality be simply goes shooting (pistol range or trap/skeet) to avoid the reality that his junk either needs to go completely, or be boxed up and placed in storage NOW or I will not list this house.

SO I do what I can sit and end up eating due to the silence between us...as we avoid more irritations.

Going to go easy on myself, I hope.
Needing a road trip to escape this spiral, SL hardtop down, Moody Blues...Eagles....
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What made you decide to sell after you're used not to build?
 
Twostep said:
What made you decide to sell after you're used not to build?
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The builders have all raised their build price beyond our budget - the idea began four years ago and we were four years younger. My DH has more of an issue with that than I, but his brothers and sisters back in Texas are older than he and he wants to go back there now. I do not, but if I can go back there and have animals and acreage I will go. Is a trade off. Just praying I can bear the Texas humidity; I was raised in Arizona with no humidity and heat + humidity makes it so I cannot venture outdoors in Texas very often.
 
CooCooforCoCoPuffs said:
The builders have all raised their build price beyond our budget - the idea began four years ago and we were four years younger. My DH has more of an issue with that than I, but his brothers and sisters back in Texas are older than he and he wants to go back there now. I do not, but if I can go back there and have animals and acreage I will go. Is a trade off. Just praying I can bear the Texas humidity; I was raised in Arizona with no humidity and heat + humidity makes it so I cannot venture outdoors in Texas very often.
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Oh dear! Family and Texas. The humidity is not as bad as it is made up to be. "I was raised" has been a while. What area?

All I knew about OK was the musical and that SO disappeared to that place from time to time. It turned out to be a good place. Not perfect but good.
 
Ken N Tx said:
A taste of spring!!
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Are you also posting these in the How's the Weather By You thread? Just so ya know...I'm jealous! 😆
 
This morning, I washed the rest of the laundry I intended to do in the mini machines. I had to coordinate getting it done around my son wanting to occupy the kitchen to do his juicing, since I didn't want to wait too late to get started. I'm glad he didn't mind being in there with the dryer going, because it can get quite warm. Then I decided to take the machines down a little earlier than planned so he could shower before going out.
I'm letting the spinner dry out in the bedroom before covering it up and the washer with lid open in the studio, where it's kept.

Went on FB again today to wish my youngest grandson and a former work friend happy birthdays. In 1984 my friend from worked took me to get my first car from a private seller in another town.
 
Twostep said:
Oh dear! Family and Texas. The humidity is not as bad as it is made up to be. "I was raised" has been a while. What area?

All I knew about OK was the musical and that SO disappeared to that place from time to time. It turned out to be a good place. Not perfect but good.
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We lived in Georgetown for 6 yrs; DH lived there 20 yrs; I lived in San Antonio for 9 years. We are hoping to move to north east Texas if possible, so that I can be near the Ozarks and mountainous areas of E Arkansas. Will miss the Rockies here in AZ.
 
CooCooforCoCoPuffs said:
We lived in Georgetown for 6 yrs; DH lived there 20 yrs; I lived in San Antonio for 9 years. We are hoping to move to north east Texas if possible, so that I can be near the Ozarks and mountainous areas of E Arkansas. Will miss the Rockies here in AZ.
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Alexandria was great! Union Street Public House threw and paid our going away party. I hope this will work out for you. It is a beautiful area but what commutes do you have to his people and to yours?
 
Twostep said:
Alexandria was great! Union Street Public House threw and paid our going away party. I hope this will work out for you. It is a beautiful area but what commutes do you have to his people and to yours?
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My people are in Colorado and Michigan..we have kids and grandkids scattered in 5-6 different states. I could live in Colorado as both my sisters are in Southern Colorado, and my youngest son, but DH doesn't want to try living in Colorado due to the cold and I don't need to due to the cold there...but I do like the dry air and state of Colorado. DH thinks it is going too liberal.

My building plans here (which I'd drawn up and paid to have done up into building plans) was for a main house with two master bedrooms plus an independent casita near the main house. I was going to offer two suites for aging widows or widowers for some income. Now will be looking for an already built place on acreage like we had bought here to build on. Just getting stressed over selling both this home and the 4 acres here in Tucson.

Thank you for asking.
 
Received this email today made my day. Hello John,

I met you briefly on Veterans Day in 2024 in Brigham City, Utah at the dinner. I was serving and I asked you about your great accent and you gave me a disc of the book. Well, I figured if you went through all the work to write a book then I should support you and buy a copy for a Christmas present for myself.

I just finished reading it and wanted to Thank you for sharing your life. I found it very interesting and I enjoyed your writing style! I am a born again church attending Christian living in Utah so I was very interested when your family ended up in Utah. You are very brave and I am glad you finally found some happiness! Thank you for your years of service and the great sacrifice you made for our country!
Blessings to you and your family
 
john19485 said:
Received this email today made my day. Hello John,

I met you briefly on Veterans Day in 2024 in Brigham City, Utah at the dinner. I was serving and I asked you about your great accent and you gave me a disc of the book. Well, I figured if you went through all the work to write a book then I should support you and buy a copy for a Christmas present for myself.

I just finished reading it and wanted to Thank you for sharing your life. I found it very interesting and I enjoyed your writing style! I am a born again church attending Christian living in Utah so I was very interested when your family ended up in Utah. You are very brave and I am glad you finally found some happiness! Thank you for your years of service and the great sacrifice you made for our country!
Blessings to you and your family
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Well that was nice!
 

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