How is your day Today, plans and achievements 2024....

Status
Not open for further replies.
Teacher Terry said:
@hollydolly, I don’t see how it’s his business if you work or not. The law says it’s a 50/50 split. What a jerk!!
Click to expand...
yes not quite as simple as that unfortunately... altho; that is the law by and large... when one person has hidden most of the assets.. and left a pittance to be halved. then that's when the fight is on... and if we can't find where he's hidden it.. then I will have little option but to accept half of almost nothing...unless I want to take up the offer of the lawyer to pay £30,000 for the services of a lawyer/forensic accountant... ..




My Lawyer didn't make me feel any better today when she recounted the story of a client who had a husband who was hiding assets.. he owned 50...yep 50 High end Cars... but he'd been so clever , or sly as one might describe it.. he'd hidden them so well.. that they couldn't find them, and the poor woman got 1/2 of nothing..

total tragedy..
 

I thought for sure I was going to finally get to that shredding today. Well...my shredder has apparently died. :( I'll have to look for another now. If I order from Amazon, I'll have to have it sent to my son's job and I hate to do that. So I'll also check MicroCenter and have my son check Costco.

I spent an hour and 15 minutes, most of which was on hold, to make two reservations for our timeshare; one for my son and one for me. I tried doing it on the website, but they do not have a feature that allows adjusting the price for we 5 Star owners. The online price, which charges regular owner fees, is $20 more a night for a studio, not including taxes and fees. So I'd have to call anyway to have someone make the adjustments. One reason I'm going next week is to attend the annual meeting and I will certainly bring up that issue. Another surprising thing I found out, as a one bedroom owner, I cannot book a studio using my annual "free" (really prepaid) week.

I cleared the clutter off the dining table this morning. I also had conversations with my BFF, another good friend and my son, watched T.V., played games and of course a took a nap.
 
Last edited:
VaughanJB said:
I don't want to hijack the thread with my nonsense. We spoke, and she said she wanted to come back. I bought a ticket. I got a call from her mother saying she hadn't go on the plane, which indeed was the fact. Ticket went to waste, and things have not changed. I, perhaps foolishly, thought I was going to make things better once she was here, so replaced/bought some appliances. It's probably the folly of man struggling to make things "right", whatever that is. The boxes have been there for a few weeks. Just stacked up.

I think we can surmise, I've no idea what I'm doing. I've no idea if she will return, and I won't pressure her to do so. I'm trying to be understanding, and caring. It's taking its toll, but that's for me to deal with. I shall continue to de-box. :)
Click to expand...
VJB...I've always thought that good phone or in person conversations sometimes veer off topic. Lord knows it happens here too. So you're good. :)

@Georgiagranny Re: cats loving boxes. You got that right. I just "upgraded" Deja's bedding. She stopped using the porpoise bed I paid $25 for and started using this box we got at Costco. My upgrade uses the insulation material that came in the box my eyedrops, that have to be kept cold, were shipped in. I covered it with a zipped pillow cover so she can't get to the insulation and bite pieces off. The bottom picture is from today, before I did the "upgrade".

20230509_043632.jpg

20240618_001927.jpg

20240617_101509.jpg
 
Last edited:
My employer agreed to allowing me today off. We are going to capitalise on the weather and make the journey up country (about 80 miles,) to visit a relative. We had planned to go last Saturday, that is, until The Heavens opened up. I did consider taking the MG, but a 160 mile round trip might be a big ask.
 
Good morning all. Woke up to a lovely sunny morning although, my weather app predicts it will be cloudy later which, actually, is quite convenient as it means I won't feel like I am missing anything later when I have plans to get a few chores done including popping out to pick up some more hayfever tablets 🤧.

So, coffee drank, it's time to get a move on. Have a lovely day :)
 
Trish said:
It's difficult when relationships get rocky, especially when love is still alive. I hope your marriage is salvable and that you and your wife will be able to fix whatever it is that is broken.
Click to expand...

Sickness and in health. This is the sickness part. I've been frustrated, annoyed, and desperate at times, but I never think of ending our marriage. I never, ever, thought it would become this way, but at the very least I can be there and show willingness to work at it. I hope, eventually, we will find an adequate resolution.

Pepper said:
Does where you live have anything to do with the breakup of your marriage, @VaughanJB? Did she want to stay here in the states?
Click to expand...

No, that's not been an issue. My wife has spent a lot of time outside the US herself as I worked in various places (she never worked after we'd married). Of course, my giving up work changes the dynamic financially. Without going in to details, the erm, political climate in the US is - if anything - something she'd rather get away from. Clearly, we both love the US, but it has its good and bad points. I just want to be a normal couple at this point, together, laughing, watching movies, and so on. My travel days are essentially over, I think.
 
Starting off fresh - I found out last night that my neighbor (the drummer) has been unwell. I did notice his car hasn't moved in a few weeks. I don't know what the issue is, but once I've typed this I'm going to go knock on his door and see if there's anything I can do for him.

Other than that, I have groceries being delivered midday. My dog won't be happy, his snacks are STILL out of stock. So they substitute them for something else. Grocery stores run out of the weirdest stuff!!!
 
When I got up at 6:30 am temp was 73,there was a breeze when I took a short walk before breakfast
Yesterday, Patrick {real estate agent} sent me pictures of my empty co op apt it looked so strange to see it.The last time it looked like this was 36 yrs ago when I bought it. Tammy who works as housekeeper at apt building, she&her brother really cleaned it out,looks great, I paid her to do so
Patrick is coming over this morning for me to sign the papers to put the apt up for sale. My hope is it will sell quickly,keeping my fingers crossed
I've been invited by one of the residents,Sara{has been living here since the start, 2017}, to dinner with 2 other residents in dining room. I don't know her that well, one of the other ladies I do ,Marie.She&her late husband, Fred lived in the penthouse at the co op complex for a few yrs before they moved here. My parents also lived in the same penthouse from '86-'92 The other woman, Barbara{ has also lived here since 2017} I haven't seen in yrs, she& her family lived 6 houses from our family home as my siblings&I were growing up in the 50's/60's
This should be interesting, looking forward to it
 
Right now, just finishing my ☕, and watching Goob play on the porch.

After breakfast it'll be an in town day. Gym, errands, etc.

More exciting news, as it develops!
emoticon
 
Friend has indeed, been rather ill. He's not back to normal (visibly so) but he says he's much better than he was. He's having some blood tests next week.

I let him know to always knock if he's in need, and I'm glad he's still with us. Hopefully, he'll be back drumming with his band soon.
 
It's 2pm... its been a glorious sunny morning, but cloud is gathering now a little...I really have more ''sleuthing'' as my lawyer calls it to do as a matter of importance today... but in reality I'm just so tired of this.. and I don't feel very well today..just generally under the weather, nothing specific... altho' you won't believe it but I cut my pinkie finger right where my finger joins my hand .. quite severely on an M&S carrier bag yesterday. They are thin cardboard rather than paper.. so it cut me pretty badly. I won't be buying those again....


Anyway as to the sleuthing.. I can't face it today, maybe tonight..... I had to fire off a sharp retort to his lawyers, after a legal eagle who was standing in for his lawyer who is on holiday, made a personal remark of accusation toward me and the demise of my marriage... I was appalled.. not only at her unprofessionalism but at her accusation without merit... she's clearly fallen as they all do for his charm, and status...and has believed whatever she's been told.... however the fact she believed what he told her about our marital demise, whether fact or fiction ( and in this case fiction).. didn't give her the right to use it in an accusation to me...
 
Last edited:
OneEyedDiva said:
I cleared the clutter off the dining table this morning.
Click to expand...
If you suffer from HSD--horizontal surface disease--it won't take long to clutter it back up ;) HSD seems to be a problem of mine. Or maybe not mine. Maybe there are gremlins who come in the night and clutter up the countertops, top of the bookshelves, etc...

It's cooler today and not going to hit 90. 89 is "cooler"? Gotta go water the flowers and do stuff in the garden. When that's done, I'm gonna sit around on my dead center and play solitaire. ETA: I was gonna blow some leaves, but DD said the blower died and probably wants a new spark plug. That's fine. My motivation was last seen somewhere in Scotland...maybe not Scotland, somewhere that starts with an "S." If you happen to see it anywhere, please don't send it home.

Cookie was scheduled to work yesterday. We can't figure out if she even showed up because Sir left when inventory was done around 9, and NL was only scheduled until 1. Cookie was supposed to work from 3:30-7, but there weren't any cookies baked, no cookies put out on the shelves and tables, but...the trash and cardboard were gone. Hm. I'm thinking one of the folks from deli took it with theirs. Because? Nothing else was done. WTH?

She's scheduled off today. Go figure. Sir said he'd do cookies today because we're woefully low on cookies. There's a new "sheriff" in town (new assistant store manager) who takes no prisoners when it's time to call out those who aren't doing their jobs. Sir has asked him to have a "word" with Cookie. Doubt that it will help one iota. As long as g'mother is there, Cookie is golden and doesn't have to do anything. I've said before that g'mother wanted her to have a job, not that she wanted a job:rolleyes:.
 
Dodging the heat. Put the solar trickle charger on the car.

I wish I could use the cigarette-lighter port and just have the panel inside the windshield but my car disconnects that while shut down. So I have to clip onto the battery under the hood and put the panel on the outside of the windshield. Not waterproof, so I need to keep an eye out for rain coming later on. Minor inconvenience but it beats running the car and burning gasoline just to avoid needing the car and not having cranking power after a week or more.

However the cable is thin enough that I can probably even put the panel inside and slam the door on the cable running from there to under the hood. The apparatus was a cheapie so ultimately I may upgrade to a waterproof product.
 
Georgiagranny said:
As long as g'mother is there, Cookie is golden and doesn't have to do anything. I've said before that g'mother wanted her to have a job, not that she wanted a job:rolleyes:.
Click to expand...
How old would you guess Cookie to be? Is she in college or doing something else to build a future? Surely her GM isn't thinking this will serve her well as a career?
 

Status
Not open for further replies.

Back
Top