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Right Now said:
What have I missed? What kind of job are you accepting? Congrats, I hope it's law enforcement of some type.
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Nah, the electrical industry. This is the company I worked for during “The Million Dollar Da$h, the title of my book. HR looked at me funny, she remembers me well, lol. All good though, I’m a changed person these days. For now, lol.
 

NorthernLight said:
Yes, but Canada is boring and lonely. I have lived in other countries, where socializing was much easier and more joyous -- for seniors too.

I don't want to play cribbage or learn to knit at the senior center. I want to chat with expats in an outdoor cafe, or have a conversation at the gym (or anywhere) with a friendly local. And, look out the window and see something beautiful.

I did have a version of this in my previous location (an island in Canada), but I can't afford to live there now.
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I will tell you something.. My husband hated Canada.. he worked in Banff.. and around Lake Louise for 6 months filming a TV show.. he hated it, and said it was Boring, and nothing to do.. ( and this from a guy who never parties at all) and he couldn't wait to get out..

I on the other hand..LOVE the sight of Lake Louise and Banff.. and would give my eye teeth to go there

My daughter used to have to fly to Toronto, several times a year when she was International Executive for a Well known Mobile phone company.. outside of the tourist traps.. Niagara Falls. etc.. she didn't like Canada at all.. ( sorry to my Canadian friends )

I'm the only one whose never been.. and the only one who really wants to go.. :D I just feel it's such an enormous country where variety must really be the spice of life
 
PamfromTx said:
We went to vote.

Yes, Texas does offer early voting. You can choose whether to vote on Election Day or during the early voting period, whichever is easier for you. This can be especially helpful if it would be difficult or not possible for you to vote on Election Day. Early voting locations may be less crowded, as well.

I must say it was WILD!!! People were voting.
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what are you voting for over there at the moment ?
 

hollydolly said:
I will tell you something.. My husband hated Canada.. he worked in Banff.. and around Lake Louise for 6 months filming a TV show.. he hated it, and said it was Boring, and nothing to do.. ( and this from a guy who never parties at all) and he couldn't wait to get out..

I on the other hand..LOVE the sight of Lake Louise and Banff.. and would give my eye teeth to go there

My daughter used to have to fly to Toronto, several times a year when she was International Executive for a Well known Mobile phone company.. outside of the tourist traps.. Niagara Falls. etc.. she didn't like Canada at all.. ( sorry to my Canadian friends )

I'm the only one whose never been.. and the only one who really wants to go.. :D I just feel it's such an enormous country where variety must really be the spice of life
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Yes, there are many beautiful places. For travelers. The tourist traps are great. But who can afford to live there?

I was talking to a man who worked as a cook in Whistler (ski resort). He said a small apartment was $2500 a month.

People see photos or videos of Canada and get the wrong idea of what it's like to live here. Sure, I'd love to drive around and look at the lakes and mountains for the rest of my life, but that lifestyle is expensive too.

Enough complaining. I think I need to find a country to go to. I did belong to a forum for low-budget travelers, but most of the members were in fact rich boomers, with resources to fall back on and homes to return to. And I didn't like some people's attitude.

Thanks for the chat, everyone. It's helped me realize that I need to do some research and perhaps make some changes.
 
Aneeda72 said:
Hmm, does constrained mean I ate the whole thing? Cause I would eat it all. Going to go buy myself an ice cream cake, supposed I’ll have to share with husband ☹️
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Buy 2 ice cream cakes: one to share, and one for you!

I once bought a big bag of licorice allsorts. My boyfriend reminded me that he didn't like licorice allsorts. I said, "I know."
 
My treadmill is prefect! I used my husbands CBB and an Amazon coupon so it came to 222 dollars. It’s the size of a 4’ lifetime fold up table, only slightly more narrow. It’s for people who weight less than 220 and it only weighs 40 pounds.

No more walking outside in Utah’s cold winters. No more dogs sniffing my, hmm, well ok, butt. So nice.
 
Aneeda72 said:
My treadmill is prefect! I used my husbands CBB and an Amazon coupon so it came to 222 dollars. It’s the size of a 4’ lifetime fold up table, only slightly more narrow. It’s for people who weight less than 220 and it only weighs 40 pounds.

No more walking outside in Utah’s cold winters. No more dogs sniffing my, hmm, well ok, butt. So nice.
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I got a red one last year ..small like yours ..but ideal for me because I live on the top of a hill, and walking up and down steep hills are really agony on my knees, so I chose the treadmill so I could still exercise.. mine is this one.. and it folds down should I want to store it away...

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After a busy morning of returning a pillow that didn't "fit" in the area I'd hoped, picking up stuff needed at Lowe's, cleaning and having lunch with a long-time friend, I came home and couldn't keep my eyes open. So I just woke up from one of those 'Gary O'h-I'm-retired-isn't-it-wonderful?' naps =D
 
hollydolly said:
oh that's interesting.. here we don't get to vote for any of the Party except for the leader...
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The senators serve 6 years, the house members serve 2 years, the president, vice president serves 4 years. I think the governors serve four years. Course all the cities have mayors and city officials.

If someone dies, there are special elections depending on when they die cause sometimes the governor can appointment someone to finish the term. If the president dies, in office, the Vice President become president. Then that person can run for office twice. So it’s possible to have the same president for 10 years. But it’s never happened.

Seems we are always voting for someone as we vote for everyone.

It’s terribly expensive-elections. Since Utah is a red state (Republican) This year the Democratic Party did not even put a candidate up for election-saving money. So another Republican registered as an independent and basically two republicans are running against each other.

I don’t believe this has happened before and it is very amusing. But then all politics are extremely funny.
 
Aneeda72 said:
Bought a new coat at Costco yesterday, have decided to exchange it. I got the grey one and decided I’d rather have the red one. 😂

Got my treadmill today, really excited for him to get up and put it together. It snowed while I was walking this morning, ugh, just ugh.

Lastly, I had an email from my sister in law. I had decided, finally, to not interact with her and my brother anymore as they are very toxic people. It has always been very hard for me to give up on anyone; and I always have had to contact them, they never contact me. But surprise, there is an email.

Since it’s my birthday week, I thought they might be wishing me happy birthday which they never do and didn’t do. The email was mostly about my mother. My mother, her entire senior life, has repeatedly stated that she did not wish to be put in a nursing home or any institutional setting. She is 98 and has resisted any placements attempts. A nursing home is her worst nightmare.

The e-mail said that she had a serious heart problem in July, was taken to the ER where my brother (who should fall in a toilet and drown along with his wife ) and his wife had her resuscitated. Then she was hospitalized for 6 weeks and, yup, moved to a nursing home where she is bedridden.

The email continued to say that they were cleaning out her apartment, throwing all her stuff out, and the photos I wanted, I wouldn’t get cause they were busy and couldn’t look for them. Plus they couldn’t tell me this information before, cause they were busy.

My son pointed the timing of this email out to me-my birthday present from them.

As many people on here know, I am no fan of my mother. But I would have let her die, not dumped her in a home. She is 98, blind, deaf, and now stuck in a bed in a nursing home. My brother has her POA. I can do nothing.

So, what am I doing today? Wishing I had a couple of stuffed dolls, a bunch of sharp pins, and a couple of locks of my brother’s, and his wife’s hair. After all, it might be worth a try. I am so very sad for my mother who deserved a simple, fast death.
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So sorry Aneeda, Take care.
 
hollydolly said:
you had me going the... I thought you were getting to see Roger and Pete .. for$45... I was about to protest at the unfairness of the hundreds of pounds they would charge here if they played a venue .. but then I see it's not really ''The Who''.. .. but I didn't know that Zac Starkey played drums for the touring version of the Who.. that's interesting..
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Not the full classic band since Moon and Entwistle passed away years ago, just half the members. I did see them twice during their prime. Like many old Classic Rock bands today missing members, there was just Pete and Roger up front and behind them the band members in the link plus a whole lot of orchestral musicians. Lots of violinists. So songs like Quadraphenia and Rain On Me were well duplicated. Roger did well banging his tambourines. A couple decades ago Townsend could play amazingly close to all their released records while now the sound is more of a jam band sound.
 
My eye did something weird at breakfast today, all of a sudden there was a bit of a line as if I'd looked at a bright lit line and it was an afterimage. Both eyes seeing it, so I don't know if they share a nerve or if it was in my brain or what. Then it became more of a half circle, jagged and sparkly bright. Not in a significant way, but weird and scared me to the point I went and brushed my teeth before continuing to make my breakfast, just in case it would turn into an emergency.

The image slowly expanded out of my vision field and faded away after 10 or 15 minutes. The good result was that it reminded me that life is precarious and so I decided to pay the extra $9.20 for weekday parking and weekday subway fare, and I went downtown back to that vast museum. I thought for sure today I'd finish seeing it, but no, it is like a big wheel with a tiny hub, I walk into the hub and I see that there are archways 20 and 40 feet away and I think therefore I can accomplish those sections, but as soon as I go thru an archway it branches out to multiple spokes and rim of the wheel.

But I had a good time today looking at skeletons, so many skeletons, all types of creatures (except hummingbird, that one was 'temporarily removed for restoration'), and then mummies (both adult and child and cats and snakes etc), and then a lot of interesting ALIVE bugs, furry spiders, scorpions, insects that looked like leaves and twigs, etc.

I love it here, I don't want to leave, I will anyway in December I'll head south, but it is kind of awful to think about eventually returning to and being stuck in Nebraska the rest of my life.
 

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