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katlupe said:
Just got my grocery delivery put away. This shopper put the bags right in my kitchen on the counter for me! With Instacart I always met them downstairs at the ramp door. I might change the directions on my account there to have them bring it to my door too. So much easier!
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here all the delivery drivers will bring the groceries into the house for you.. and even put them away in the fridge and cupboards if you need them to do it... I have only ever ordered groceries 3 or 4 times to be delivered, and each time I just took them at the door... but of course I'm healthy enough to do that...
 
StarSong said:
Good morning all! Starting to turn the corner with this flu, but still have quite a way to go and am undoubtedly still contagious. No fever so far this morning, but other symptoms persist. The cough is only just starting to appear but it's likely to be a doozy because my lungs feel heavy and congested.

It's been decades since I faced a cold, flu or other URI without OTC or other meds and am here to tell you, it's extremely unpleasant. Thank heavens I had a flu vaccine because this could be worse. A lot worse.

DH will do a quick grocery store run this morning for some perishables. Am hoping to get a load of laundry through the machines today and will possibly make a batch of carrot-ginger soup that a GF swears has some healing properties. If I can get those two things done the day will be marked a success.
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Glad you're feeling better, SS. I believe that soup will help... I think it's the ginger. I make one with parsnips.

How is the baby?
 

Georgiagranny said:
Everything is planted, including the spring bulbs, and I even divided the asters. So far, the part of the garden on "my" side of the house is tidied up. Next nice day will be DD's side.

One load of laundry is done and waiting to be thrown into the dryer. Next load coming up. I work as hard at home as I do at work!

It's 70 here and sunny. Ahhhh.
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Georgiagranny said:
I work as hard at home as I do at work!
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Yes, and if you're like me you'll be as busy or busier when you retire! 😊
 
hearlady said:
Yes, and if you're like me you'll be as busy or busier when you retire! 😊
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Ha. I've retired and retired and retired. The first time was in 1990. I can't abide just sitting, traveled more than my share during my "real" working life so don't care to travel anymore. No golf, no tennis, The Hovel is so tiny that "keeping house" is a 30-minute job once a week (if that!).

However (she said), it looks like my working days are coming to an end because I just don't have the stamina to keep it up much longer unless they'll let me work as few as four hours a day.
 
Georgiagranny said:
Ha. I've retired and retired and retired. The first time was in 1990. I can't abide just sitting, traveled more than my share during my "real" working life so don't care to travel anymore. No golf, no tennis, The Hovel is so tiny that "keeping house" is a 30-minute job once a week (if that!).

However (she said), it looks like my working days are coming to an end because I just don't have the stamina to keep it up much longer unless they'll let me work as few as four hours a day.
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well IMO they would be fools not to let you work around your preferred hours. Where else would they get someone with your work ethic, and in your 80's at that.. they can't get younger ones to show up for work and work hard like you do... so if they don't play ball with you, it's going to their loss...
 
I've urged myself to come here this evening, and to write a post, to say hello to all of you.
(That's Northern speak, for y'all ;))

Seems high stress days and nights for me, repeating for too many days.😕 I'm trying to hang in here; it's my main task, presently.
Today, I've continued doing paperwork forms that are confusing and stressful, and trying to ready the apartment in tiny ways, for a stressful inspection.

I've managed to read a few of your posts. I'm glad to see the updates and learn how each of you, is doing. Take care, all.
(That's very short for y'all.)☺️
 
Just a few pictures from today:

I love Mockingbirds because they sing so beautifully. I can listen to them for hours at night. They seem to be the happiest birds on earth
Crows are the most common birds in our area. I saw two hawks but couldn't get a picture because they were too fast
The pups can differentiate between anything else and when I get ready for our walk; that's when they get excited and start dancing
We follow the [pack] leader, the leader, the leader -- We follow the [pack] leader wherever he may go [children's song?]
My Big Guy is getting stiff; so, I am giving him nutritional supplements and it works wonders. Ross walks again without needing rest.
Dogs are fussy; they spit out pills. Tablets must be pulverized and mixed with something tasty, like canned dog food.

We were barely back from our evening walk when thunder, lightning, and rain started. Right now my big 95 pound Ross is telling the thunder to shut up. Well, he has to keep barking for a while till the thunder obeys.

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Hello there all of you. My day consisted of feeling lousy mentally and physically. Then I felt somewhat better and made myself do some grocery shopping 🛒. I got some of the store delli roast turkey and Swiss cheese 🧀

I came home and cleaned the stovetop and some dishes. Having a hard time keeping up with doing laundry but I'll get to it one of these days. Have a good night everyone 💤💤
 
Georgiagranny said:
@packleader, yeah, dogs are fussy about pills so mixing them in with canned dog food is a good idea. Do you mix yours with canned dog food, too?:ROFLMAO:

@hollydolly, meh...I'm just an employee number in the overall scheme of things. All my job really amounts to is unskilled labor that anybody could learn to do, yanno, provided they can find somebody to do it;)
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that's exactly my point..no-one else wants to do it other than you..
 
Nothing exciting but I did have a good sleep by way of Ambien. I took it about 11:30 last night, went to bed at 12. Hours later I am still awake. Little girl dog needed a pee so we got up. Dogs out to potty and I hade a little bowl of cold cereal, this was about 5AM. We all went back to bed and finally sleep, good sleep until 2:20 pm. It was glorious!!

Got up as I needed to take little girl back to the vet for a check. Things are improving and they were able to express her anal glands. They want here to stay on medicine for another week and come back for another check next week.

Had some food prepped and ready for dinner. All I had to do was decide what I wanted and into the microwave. I need to chop up some veggies and cook some rice. I want to make a teppanyaki dish tomorrow with chicken and shrimp.

It has been raining pretty well all day, I enjoy a good rainy day, the dogs not so much LOL. I will hold off doing the floors until it drys up so I won't have puppy prints all over the house.
 
I had to go to the bank this morning because the phone rep I spoke with yesterday wasn’t able to resolve my issue. The bank declined my Cash App deposit for no good reason. The gentleman who took care of me was very helpful and the issue is now (allegedly) solved. I’ll see by Monday. Afterward I went to the supermarket.

Came home, ate a couple of the French toast sticks I bought (I’d been wanting to get a box of them for a long time) and they were good. I watched Night Court and fell asleep. I had to call my brokerage this afternoon because they still hadn’t processed a distribution I requested in person a week ago….or so I thought. The message I saw today stating I needed to call the retirement section before they could proceed was probably generated at the same time I talked to Nick who said he would facilitate the distribution yesterday.

I've cleaned up my kitchen and the rest of the evening will be catching up with SF posts and watching shows, movies or whatever. I have a couple I want to fast forward through using the tablet. The good time to that will be after my son goes to bed. I'll do so using earbuds so as not to disturb him.
 
Ruthanne said:
Hello there all of you. My day consisted of feeling lousy mentally and physically. Then I felt somewhat better and made myself do some grocery shopping 🛒. I got some of the store delli roast turkey and Swiss cheese 🧀

I came home and cleaned the stovetop and some dishes. Having a hard time keeping up with doing laundry but I'll get to it one of these days. Have a good night everyone 💤💤
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Hi @Ruthanne take care of yourself and try to keep up with things. They can really snowball and feel insurmountable if you leave them too long.

At least you did get yourself out and get those groceries, and that's very good.

I hope you get some decent sleep.
 
Just as I was going to bed last night, I went to renew some items on my online library. It said my card had expired. They had changed my expiration date without telling me. I had just checked it in Aug. of last year and took a screen shot. I use my online library every day. I've been to that library for many years. I've lost count of all the times that people in that library have infuriated me with their incompetence, so I slept poorly last night thinking about it.

Sure enough, when I called today to get my library card renewed, she told me that she was making an exception for me but if I renewed again, no one else might. She told me that my card was renewed for 3 years but a glitch in the system said that it was renewed forever. She called me a couple hours later to tell me that the card renewed for a whole year with the emphasis on whole, after she had just told me that it had renewed for either 3 years or forever. Then she reminded me for the 5th or 6th time that she was making an exception for me and that other people might not, so don't expect it next year.

I'm renewing a library card in a place where I pay taxes. She made it seem like she was giving me free money or something.

That messed up the whole day. I was thankfully able to get a couple hours sleep in after that.
 
Good morning, Invisipeeps. I'm ready to lick my weight in wildcats today after a solid 8 hours of sleep last night. Wow. I didn't even get up to pee :)

Off to the bakery to make 🥐 for the masses and put up with more corporate :poop:. Whatever made me think I'd get away from it in a part-time job? Sigh.

DS and his husband coming for lunch today and bringing enchiladas. Woohoo!
 
Good Morning everyone! Sun is shining here and I hope it stays out. I have a hair appointment at noon and will be walking to it. It was a good thing I chose a hair salon when I moved here in 2018 that was within walking distance of my apartment. I am doing that every time now. It does me good. I haven't been walking much lately unless I have to do something. That is going to change. I am getting back into my daily walk activity starting today with the walk to my appointment.
 
Messing around procrastinating on exercise. When this happens I say I will just get up and move around in front of the TV. Usually, that will get me going. Like an engine with a cold start. 🚜
It's Friday. I still get excited even though it's another day. The little girls are coming this evening so that is why this Friday is special! Let's hope no one woke up with any bugs! 🤒
 
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