What are you doing today 2023

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Mizmo said:
Like some of you I have small apartment and limited cupboard and freezer space so it really irks me to see food
at "two for the price of one" in some of our supermarkets. The price in buying only one is ridiculous. Sometimes it works to my advantage but mostly.. not.

I really do not need two bags of mixed greens and in fact find one bag is too much.

I find the same with clothing stores in my neck of the woods. Two sweaters or whatever for the price of one. Why not just give 40% off. They would get much more business that way.
Just my rant for the day

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I sometimes split overly large quantities of perishables with my daughter or the son whose baby comes over 3 days a week.
 

I love those, @Sassycakes Thanks for sharing them with us.

It also makes an interesting and wonderful combination, those 3 viewed together.
Gives me ideas about a different way to organize some of mine.
 

Mizmo said:
A nothing day.
Was planning a shopping trip but more snow....been stuck indoors for almost week now.

I wish I could make scones or something but the thumb that isn't there won't let me ...and.... am running low on potato chips:unsure:
so will have to come up with something else to nibble on while watching TV.
I might get the knitting needles out again and see if I can get along with them any better than the last attempt . It has been a while since I tried.
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@Mizmo, I have both thumbs but still the occasional swear word comes out when knitting so I guess it’s an occupational hazard, haha
 
Funnily enough I was just thinking yesterday I might get the crochet hook oout and attempt something.. I don't know what I would make, don't really need anything, but I've not done any crocheting or knitting since I started to get the painful OA in my fingers..
 
hollydolly said:
Funnily enough I was just thinking yesterday I might get the crochet hook oout and attempt something.. I don't know what I would make, don't really need anything, but I've not done any crocheting or knitting since I started to get the painful OA in my fingers..
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I also gave up crocheting when OA showed up. The repetitive motion is so stressful and painful on joints whose cartilage had deteriorated.
 
Continue to work on plans for spring trip... One possibility is the ballet Coppelia in Birmingham, AL in early June; another (which would help me to avoid the BIG city, of which I'm not fond) is either a Broadway show of Gloria Estaban's music or a string quartet a couple weeks later in Oxford, AL. At this point (much as I love ballet) I think the music events are winning. Anyone from that area with thoughts?
 
Got another 10" of snow last night, and still snowing hard at noon. Got out of the drive way without plowing for a trip to town where we had breakfast at our favorite place. We both shook our heads at the $50 with tip bill. Did a small grocery shopping, as we are trying to eat down what is in the fridge due to vacation coming up. Heading out to the shop soon to get back to work on my milling machine.
 
Yesterday I mentioned the monthly deep clean in my living room. I have a way of signalling when was the last time I did it (even month vs. odd month). Well, it turns out I already did the deep clean this month! So I'll just do a regular living room cleaning today.

I did the monthly paperwork.

I also did some exercise. I didn't feel like it, but I made myself do it. This will be an ongoing struggle until winter is over.

So ... dishes, vacuuming, more exercise, talk to language partner. If I have extra time, I'll continue compiling trivia questions.
 
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Kaila said:
And I am too far North, probably, but thank you for asking us, @Right Now :D

Oh, oops, you didn't ask us? :oops::rolleyes:

Well, just excuse me, then. ☺️🥳😏😁
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You ladies are always welcome. Next time, I promise to give you each a heads up before I make final plans for the movies! One question: Can you sit quietly and drool at the younger onscreen men with their shirts off, or will I have to sit up and say, "SHH"!.......Oh, I do bring lots of tissues for the drooling.:sneaky:
 
Right Now said:
You ladies are always welcome. Next time, I promise to give you each a heads up before I make final plans for the movies! One question: Can you sit quietly and drool at the younger onscreen men with their shirts off, or will I have to sit up and say, "SHH"!.......Oh, I do bring lots of tissues for the drooling.:sneaky:
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Oh gosh, honestly, they bore me to tears! :LOL::ROFLMAO::LOL:
But that means I will not be drooling. Therefore, I will be able to hand a dry cloth over to you!:giggle::D:ROFLMAO:
 
Hi! I'm here! Everyone is ok, including The Girls and Andy.

Tue night the ice storm hit. By morning we had 10 inches of snow on top of the ice. There were trees down everywhere and we had no electricity.

The next few days were very primitive. We are very fortunate though. We have a woodstove in the living room, so there was a source of heat. But it needed to be tended during the night, so we didn't sleep well.

Our generator is big enough to run the refrigerator and the chest freezer. So we had food, but I couldn't cook anything on the stove or microwave. We had to put precooked/leftovers on top of the woodstove to heat our food.

We also had no water heater, so no showers. We heated pots of water on the woodstove to use for brushing our teeth, washing dishes, and washing ourselves.

The rest of our time was spent removing branches and trees from the electric fences.

I called the electric company everyday, to "remind" them that we still did not have power. I think that I heard that 30,000 people lost power from this storm!

I'm happy to be back! 💖.

Now that things are back to normal, we have decided that we are going to go to the roller rink over the weekend. It'll be good to get out for a while....Monday they are predicting another ice storm for my area!
 
Today I went on another hike (they have hikes on Fridays) with a dozen or so similar old people in one of the clubs I joined. We walked all the way around a lake. It is so nice to have joined this group because I had no idea there were all these nice parks with trails that are near by.

Tomorrow I'm meeting the garden club leader at my garden plot. Monday I hope to go join the woodworking club, I want to make a standing coat rack because I've discovered I am too lazy to hang up my coats on hangers in the coat closet.

I didn't go to the mind/body tai chi thing this week because one of my shoulders was very painful from all the arm circling the week before, but one of the people on the hike used to be a nurse and she thought I should try again but make smaller movements. So maybe next Thursday I'll try again.

Life would be a little better though if I would just get to bed earlier and get up earlier, I barely arrive to these activities. But it is so sweet to stay up late reading and then sleep until noon. I'm enjoying retirement a lot.

This is the lake we hiked around today, not very pretty in January but lots of trails (luckily one person knew them and led us around expeditiously):
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This morning I decided to treat myself to a pancake breakfast in a local restaurant. My waiter Chris was so pleasant, attentive and efficient that I decided 20% wasn't enough of a tip and wound up tipping him 67% of the bill. We chatted a bit when I was on my way out. I asked what kind of music he likes. Being he's a young man, I started not to ask, assuming he might prefer Hip Hop and/or Neo Soul. Turns out he likes old school R & B (like what's often playing in the restaurant) and Smooth Jazz so I told him to check out my website and music. I also mentioned that my son is a well known deejay in the area. He said his father is a deejay too and he also does the sound set up for others. So I got his fathers deejay name so I could mention him to my son and told Chris to mention my son's deejay name to his father. If his manager had been there, I would have told him what a wonderful server Chris is.

After breakfast I went to the supermarket to pick up a couple of items. Oh...who am I kidding! I needed my ice cream fix, so that was the main reason I went. I put everything away when I got home and made sure to make additional room in the fridge and freezer because my son was bringing home more groceries from Costco this afternoon. I made a couple of calls and finally put away the rest of the laundry from a couple of days ago.
 
@HoneyNut, I am so pleased for you. You have already made friends, joined activities, become a part of the community. To me, that is a really big deal. I would probably have taken year to jump in.

I am still up most of the night and in bed until noon or later. I fill like I miss out on so much. Once I do get up, it takes me hours to get moving. Just not a lot of time to get things done while the sun is up.
 
Yesterday I had my hoa board meeting and we got the bad news that our hoa fees were probably going up significantly because of everything costing more and the expensive repairs we have needed. We won’t know how much until our next meeting in March. The management company is working on it now. Then went to dinner with a couple of other board members.

Today I did my monthly grocery shopping and walked the dogs. It was nice that it was sunny and in the 40’s. Then I spent a few hours organizing my closets.
 
Sunny again today☀️ Yippee. Cold but sunny.

There are two kalanchoe plants on the kitchen windowsill that are blooming:)

Walmarting needs to happen today. Anybody out there wanna volunteer to go with DD so that I don't have to?

Rant.

Work yesterday was...a day. First crack out of the box, here came Sir (on his day off no less!) and deli manager looking all pitiful and begging me to please work on Sunday. I'm so good at telling other people that "No." is a complete sentence, but when it's my turn? LOL I caved (of course I did!) because if I'd uttered that complete sentence, it would have meant that Sir would work alone two days in a row on a weekend, no less.

Working alone is a b!tch, frustrating and hectic and mostly spent fighting fires and being up to the hips in alligators.

And then? New Lady pipes up and says "Oh, if you're busy call me anytime." Um. No. He won't call "anytime" and certainly wouldn't call someone who has declared that they would never, under any circumstances, work on a weekend because it would interfere with their catering business. WTH?

New Lady will probably be okay, at least until she has the knee replacement surgery and then is gone. I loathe trying to teach anybody anything. In this case, I know that it's an exercise in futility because she won't be there long anyway. So what I'm trying to do is to give her simple jobs and just be grateful that it frees up time for me to get other stuff done. Sigh.

She keeps telling me that she does something "this way" in her kitchen. Yeah, well, I do things "this way" in my kitchen. It doesn't matter how we do anything in our own kitchens. We work in Kroger's kitchen, and we're paid to do things Kroger's way in Kroger's kitchen. More sighs.

Talk. She talks. And talks. And talks. And all her talking interrupts her concentration so that the "count" is off on at least one tray on every single rack of whatever she's supposed to be setting up to bake. It means that if I don't check every tray, that when it's time to package whatever's been baked, the count is off so a waste of (Kroger's) money because not enough product or too much.

When I point out that the count is off, there's an argument from her that it isn't. Continue sighing.

Kroger wants products packaged Kroger's way. New Lady says "Yeah, but it makes more sense to package it this way." Kroger doesn't give a rat's rear what she believes makes more sense.

The tail doesn't wag the dog!

I have this thing about working for somebody else: I'm offered a job. The employer tells me what to do and when to do it. I accept the job and do it when and how I'm told. In exchange, at the end of a specified period of time, the employer gives me money.

I just haven't been blessed with the patience to teach.

Rant over for now.
 
Addition to previous rant and then I'll STFU about it.

New Lady was listening when deli manager and Sir asked me to work tomorrow. When they were gone, she asked why I said I'd do it. I told her because working alone is hard and working alone two days in a row, especially on weekends, is nigh impossible.

Her response? "Kroger needs to hire another person."

My response? "Kroger did hire another person. You. You refuse to work weekends."

The reason she's gone from one department to another in the few months since she was hired? In the words of Hercule Poirot, "all will become clear." Hercule was right. It has become clear.
 
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