What are you doing today?

[hollydolly]

Trying to make sure everything is complete at work this AM and finish packing so I can head out early Thursday morning to fly to Nevada to visit my sister for Easter

Fabulous, I wish I was going somewhere ... hope you have a great trip CS, are you going for long ?

 

[ronaldj]

not arguing with strangers on the internet.

 

[CinnamonSugar]

Fabulous, I wish I was going somewhere ... hope you have a great trip CS, are you going for long ?

Less than a week, @hollydolly the thing I’m *not* looking forward to is the two days of air travel… wish someone could just fax me

 

[hollydolly]

Less than a week, @hollydolly the thing I’m *not* looking forward to is the two days of air travel… wish someone could just fax me

I understand that completely..2 days of travel for less than a week's trip will be extremely exhausting ..try and sleep on the plane, I always do, and I find I can hit the ground running when I get to my destination

 

[hollydolly]

Further to my rant on here yesterday about my GP ( doctors' office) and the inability to get an appointment under a month, etc...

Here in today's news...

• Survey of 2,200 GPs in England shows 58.4% are working three days weeks
• And 33 per cent are planning hang up their stethoscopes by 2026, poll shows
• Country's top GP said the figures should be a 'wake-up call' for the ministers

Sally Gainsbury, of the Nuffield Trust think-tank, said: ‘Record numbers of patients have joined the waiting list for NHS care...With this difficult situation in mind, patients are likely to be asking why – if the health service has the staff and operating theatres available to carry out these private procedures in NHS hospitals – they are not being used to reduce NHS waiting lists and waiting times instead.’

Miss Gainsbury added that health officials now seem to be ‘capitalising’ on the surge in people paying for private treatment.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10713219/Third-GPs-quit-five-years-study.html

 

[hollydolly]

Well if things in my life aren't already weird...this morning I had both ex husband's texting me .. how surreal !

actually one is Ex, the other is estranged

 

[Capt Lightning]

Hollydolly, I got a phone call from the health centre yesterday inviting me to come for an annual health check. They could offer me any day I wanted, but I'm putting it off till after the holidays and my daughters have gone home. I haven't been near a GP for a couple of years because routine appointments were off during Covid. I'm sure they'll do their best to find something wrong.

Went shopping in Morrisons today. Bought a whole salmon on offer at £5.99 / kg. No problem getting fuel - except for the price. Petrol is £1.57/ ltr and diesel is £1.71. On opening hours, Morrisons and most large stores are open as usual over the Easter weekend. This includes Sunday as Scotland doesn't have the same Sunday trading laws as the rest of the UK.

 

[hollydolly]

Hollydolly, I got a phone call from the health centre yesterday inviting me to come for an annual health check. They could offer me any day I wanted, but I'm putting it off till after the holidays and my daughters have gone home. I haven't been near a GP for a couple of years because routine appointments were off during Covid. I'm sure they'll do their best to find something wrong.

Went shopping in Morrisons today. Bought a whole salmon on offer at £5.99 / kg. No problem getting fuel - except for the price. Petrol is £1.57/ ltr and diesel is £1.71. On opening hours, Morrisons and most large stores are open as usual over the Easter weekend. This includes Sunday as Scotland doesn't have the same Sunday trading laws as the rest of the UK.

well I suspect you weren't seeing your GP... and if you were I'm moving to Aberdeenshire....

None of our supermarkets including Morrisons are open on Easter Sunday but the 'express Tesco' et all all are

 

[Pappy]

Hoping to get a haircut today. There is a food drop at the clubhouse at 1pm today. May try to get to that. Free food is always a good thing..

 

[Aneeda72]

I am fine, but not ready to come back yet. I have not “kept up” with the forum. I finished all my picture sorting and gave them all away, except for the really old family ones. I rejoined ancestry and am going to post all the pictures there and then give the originals to my nephew. I will be sending a lot of my time on my ancestry Project.

This project should take a few months.

My daughter is much better. Her husbands mother lives in LV, NV and we met there a couple of weeks ago for the baby’s fourth birthday. Seems just yesterday the baby was, well, a baby.

Joey refused to come along saying he just gets too tired now to walk much . I worry constantly about him. We take him out to lunch every Saturday but he wants to go home right after. My oldest son is fine and my middle son got through Covid just fine.

I miss everyone here. Thanks for the PMs. But I am less sad off the forum, I notice. I hope everyone is well, happy, and staying safe. Life is back to as normal as it can get in Utah. Gas is 4.50 to 4.85 a gallon and was up to 5 in LV. Now that we can travel, it’s too expensive to do so.

 

[hollydolly]

Good to know you;re ok Aneeda.. sometimes the forums not just this one, does affect people in a certain way and they feel that a long break is needed, or even not for them at all.. so this might be the case for you, but good to know you're doing well ...

 

[MickaC]

I am fine, but not ready to come back yet. I have not “kept up” with the forum. I finished all my picture sorting and gave them all away, except for the really old family ones. I rejoined ancestry and am going to post all the pictures there and then give the originals to my nephew. I will be sending a lot of my time on my ancestry Project.

This project should take a few months.

My daughter is much better. Her husbands mother lives in LV, NV and we met there a couple of weeks ago for the baby’s fourth birthday. Seems just yesterday the baby was, well, a baby.

Joey refused to come along saying he just gets too tired now to walk much . I worry constantly about him. We take him out to lunch every Saturday but he wants to go home right after. My oldest son is fine and my middle son got through Covid just fine.

I miss everyone here. Thanks for the PMs. But I am less sad off the forum, I notice. I hope everyone is well, happy, and staying safe. Life is back to as normal as it can get in Utah. Gas is 4.50 to 4.85 a gallon and was up to 5 in LV. Now that we can travel, it’s too expensive to do so.

So HAPPY to hear from you.......MISS YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!
I do understand what you are saying.
Glad your family is doing better.
Please take care of yourself and your family.
Be good to yourself.

 

[Mizmo]

finally after much aggravation with phone calls to every doc involved etc IT comes off April 20th....almost on my birthday ..22nd!
pre op date still to come.
some relief but anxious about what is ahead....

 

[Betty Boop]

I am not doing much other than later going to a routine doctors appointment.

 

[hollydolly]

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finally after much aggravation with phone calls to every doc involved etc IT comes off April 20th....almost on my birthday ..22nd!
pre op date still to come.
some relief but anxious about what is ahead....

Oh thank Goodness you've finally got a date a week today. I can only imagine how anxious you are, but after all this time, and stress you must be somewhat relieved , if nothing else to stop the pain, and any chance of it spreading throughout the rest of your body.. bless your heart, you've been through horrible times with this..

 

[Capt Lightning]

Hollydolly, during lockdown it was possible to see your GP at our local health centre if a face-to-face consultation was necessary. To avoid unnecessary contact, you would wait in your car outside with your mobile. When the doc could see you, they phoned and you went to the door where the GP would meet you and escort you to the surgery. Mrs. L had the occasion to do this and it worked fine.

 

[Kaila]

@Pepper
I have been thinking of you, and I wonder if your sore throat and other related symptoms, have improved or not.

 

[Jules]

@Aneeda72, so happy to see you drop, even if it was a quick visit.

@Mizmo, thankful that you finally have a confirmed date!

@hollydolly, emails from both of your exes - you better make sure that you haven’t won the big lottery and forgot to check. I’m shocked at how many contractors your daughter managed to line up and actually have started working. Nothing happens here for weeks, if you’re lucky.

 

[StarSong]

Did some business work yesterday and have a few more hours planned for today. Then the follow-up paperwork will need to be done, of course.

Need to organize myself so I can bake on Friday for the traditional big Easter egg hunt and lunch on Easter Sunday.

 

[Geezer Garage]

The dog and I are in the shop working as usual. Going to make a new batch of southwest soup this afternoon.

 

[hollydolly]

@Aneeda72, so happy to see you drop, even if it was a quick visit.

@Mizmo, thankful that you finally have a confirmed date!

@hollydolly, emails from both of your exes - you better make sure that you haven’t won the big lottery and forgot to check. I’m shocked at how many contractors your daughter managed to line up and actually have started working. Nothing happens here for weeks, if you’re lucky.

LOL..well they were texts from the o/h's one is an a-hole, but I'm still married to him... and the other is an a-hole from a long time ago and my dd's father , but he's now suffering badly with long covid so I'm tolerating him more..lol...

As for DD..my o/h christened her 'golden balls'' many years ago because if there's any luck to be found she will be in the middle of it.
In truth if her next door neighbour was looking for the same contractors they wouldn't find them, she just has that type of fortune.. but tbf to her she doesn't stand on ceremony and she's like me and very impatient so if she wants something done, she is like a dog with a bone and she won't take no for an answer. ...but sometimes we're just aghast at how she gets things done so fast!

 

[Pepper]

@Pepper
I have been thinking of you, and I wonder if your sore throat and other related symptoms, have improved or not.

Thank you so much (((Kaila))). Unfortunately no, I feel worse. No covid though and my DIL is nagging me to take a strep test as my grandson had it, I think 2 weeks ago.

 

[Trila]

Yesterday we went into town to walk in the park, and to make one quick stop for some pesticide.

Long story short, we came home with no pesticide. But we did have 4 baby chicks and a duckling!

 

[Pappy]

I did get my haircut as planned and came home and filed our taxes electronically. Good to have them done again. Order in pizza tonight.

 

[Trila]

Pretty much took the last 3 days off, which is a big deal for me, but my body was talking to me. Back to work on the shop today. Got about 4" of snow last night and, and more due today and tomorrow, and then warming up again. Glad to get the moisture, but it was kind of nice to have the mud dried up for awhile. Oh well springtime in the Rockies. My Grosbeaks returned from their winter homes yesterday. Pretty bad pic, but gives you some idea. Really need to clean that window. They are one of my favorite birds, very well mannered on the feeder.

https://imgur.com/l0sAj6L

https://imgur.com/0YxULDd

Beautiful pictures!