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You gave me a much needed smile and laughter, this evening, thank:D:LOL::love: you for those!
But now I am drooling for some of your lasagna!:giggle:
And well you should, dripping in glorious cheese, so rich that you have to stop and take a bite of garlic bread and salad between bites. I am glad you had a good giggle at my expense but I must get to the kitchen to find something for dinner tonight. I forgot to take anything out of the freezer!!
 

Spending too much time this morning posting on here! it's 10'C today, no heating on and despite some rain earlier, it's now sunny. Off out today, nowhere exciting just a walk, quick visit to the surgery and picking up a couple of bits from the supermarket. I have started using my spin bike again so, probably going to find a bike tour on YouTube this afternoon and go for a cycle, with Christmas fast approaching, I need to get fit for the New Year sales! :) ;)

Have a good day everyone. (y)
 

I'm up, I get to go to work today! Woohoo and stuff.
Well that makes two of us: This raincoat, it's called a trenchcoat, along with the hat, always gets, "here comes Rick Blaine," from an older lady in the office. Most of the youngsters look bemused and type Rick Blaine into their screen. Even then you hear: Humphrey Bogart? Casablanca? None the wiser!
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oh the horror, the heartbreak, I was so looking forward to burning my mouth on that hot molten cheese.... You are a very cruel woman to show me the picture of heaven and deny my entry!!!!
Didn't realize there were calzone fans out there. My love affair began with them when I was quite young. My family would go to Manhattan's Little Italy for the Feast of San Gennaro every September. The food... oh, the food. Heaven for all, but particularly sublime for those of us with Italian roots. We ate our way from one end of the feast to the other.

Calzones were my hands-down favorite. Food vendors deep fried the calzones at the feasts. I'm a little kinder to my family and friends' arteries (and waistlines) by baking them, but can't resist stuffing them with yummy cheese.

Tis the season...
 
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Dio was working outside for over an hour yesterday, when he came into the house and put my old tablet on the table....WORKING!!!. Boy, was I ever surprised!!! I had thrown it out, and thought it was already gone! Luckily for me, I'm lazy and had not gotten around to de-registering it, yet. So, I'm back on my old tablet today, going through some of my pictures that needed to be backed up, etc. Of all of the tablets that I have had over the years, this one is is my favorite. Of course, I certainly liked all of the upgrades on the one that I've been using for the last week or so! LOL. Anyway, this one is still glitchy so it's good that I have a back-up now. 😉

The weather looks good for our bonfire today, so we will be celebrating Solstice all day today and well into tomorrow. 🔥 I remember one winter when the weather was so bad, that we didn't have our Solstice celebrate until Feb!

So today will be spent sitting by the bonfire, with hotdogs, marshmallows, and adult beverages!
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Today I had to get up early to be ready for plumbing work, so right now the water is off and the plumber is fiddling around changing valves in multiple spots (kitchen, laundry, bathroom). This is to conform with an upgrade the condo association decided on years ago, but residents had the option to put it off until they sold their units. It got forgotten until the last second, so the previous owner escrowed the funds so the condo association would allow the unit to be sold.

I've started feeling a little more at home here. Yesterday I sent off $5 dues to join the Baby Boomers Club, they go on hikes in local parks and have a movie night at the clubhouse once a month. And I got the application to join the Gardeners Club, which requires me to list my top three choices for garden plot; the lady at the office in the clubhouse gave me a list of the available plots and recommended I go look at them because she said some are nicely fenced and some aren't. So today I plan to find my way there and 'shop' garden plots. So ironic that when I had 10 acres I decided I was too old to plant the garden anymore, and now I'm going to pay $10 a month to rent a little garden plot! ha ha

Last night I attended a Hanukkah celebration in the clubhouse auditorium. I didn't think I'd enjoy it but I did, I hadn't sung any Hanukkah songs for many years but it was fun and brought back memories. Also I left with a plastic cup full of donut holes! Score!
 
Raw, overcast day; may even get some sleet today (yuk)

Bean soup with ham is simmering on the stove. I plan to make butter chicken for supper with fresh greenbeans and jasmine rice.

The Christmas tree may get set up today. I'm keeping it minimal this year (long, boring story)

There's knitting to work on, a good cozy mystery to savor and (if the roads are ok for driving) I plan to go this afternoon and spend some time with older granddaughter. Her younger sister requires pretty much constant supervision, so since a sitter will be there for her, I can give older sister some undivided attention =)
 
I have a long, varied to-do list for today. Everything from sorting out Christmas Eve & Christmas Day menus and shopping lists, to wrapping some gifts I've already bought, to driving to Walmart to pick up an order that's ready. The list is at 10 items right now. Problem is, as I cross off completed tasks I add two more to the bottom of the list.

This is why I rarely make lists...
 
I made my daily walk out to the dumpster a few minutes ago. I skipped it yesterday so knew I better do it now while I can. Someone left some sugar free Christmas cookies in the lobby so I sampled a few. They were okay. Stopped in to the manager's office and had her explain the paper she left for me. I could not make any sense of it. The bottom line is my rent went down $18. So that is good news indeed! Every little bit helps. Now I can buy more eggs.
 
Recently my neighbor told me about some "government money" I might be eligible for. Yesterday I looked it up, and I am.

So today I have to get started on actually applying. I have to register for an online account, fill things out, and (probably) produce rent receipts, which I don't have. The latter might involve going to the landlord's website, and then I don't know what.

This will not all happen in one day.

In this forum we discussed how people can end up homeless. It's things like this. I'm serious. I've been denied my pension and other things I was "entitled" to, because everything is an obstacle course and you need to know the system.

Also, I never would have heard of this if my neighbor hadn't mentioned it. My finding out about it was a fluke.

This kind of thing breaks my spirit. I'll try to at least do some exercises today.
 
Recently my neighbor told me about some "government money" I might be eligible for. Yesterday I looked it up, and I am.

So today I have to get started on actually applying. I have to register for an online account, fill things out, and (probably) produce rent receipts, which I don't have. The latter might involve going to the landlord's website, and then I don't know what.

This will not all happen in one day.

In this forum we discussed how people can end up homeless. It's things like this. I'm serious. I've been denied my pension and other things I was "entitled" to, because everything is an obstacle course and you need to know the system.

Also, I never would have heard of this if my neighbor hadn't mentioned it. My finding out about it was a fluke.

This kind of thing breaks my spirit. I'll try to at least do some exercises today.
Don't let it get you down, NL. Most government programs are a little swampy to traverse and people who are eligible generally hear about it by happenstance - often through casual word-of-mouth, an internet article, or similar unexpected source. The govt isn't usually deliberately being obtuse, departments just don't repeatedly publicize all information to everyone who might qualify.

Similar situation: when wrapping up my FIL's estate a few years ago, DH contacted the pension company to advise them of his dad's passing. The woman who took the call expressed her condolences and said something about FIL's wife being eligible for partial pension. DH explained his mother had passed 4 years earlier. The woman said she showed no record of that, which didn't seem odd to my husband. His father would have had no reason to tell his pension company of his wife's passing.

Turns out my FIL was entitled to a $15,000 death benefit when she died. FIL was obviously unaware of that fine print benefit, as were we. DH sent a copy of both his parents' death certificates and the estate received a check for $15K.

You never know what might turn up when you keep your ear to the ground, and employ due diligence and dogged determination.

How nice to know you're going to receive some unexpected financial benefits!
 
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Recently my neighbor told me about some "government money" I might be eligible for. Yesterday I looked it up, and I am.

So today I have to get started on actually applying. I have to register for an online account, fill things out, and (probably) produce rent receipts, which I don't have. The latter might involve going to the landlord's website, and then I don't know what.

This will not all happen in one day.

In this forum we discussed how people can end up homeless. It's things like this. I'm serious. I've been denied my pension and other things I was "entitled" to, because everything is an obstacle course and you need to know the system.

Also, I never would have heard of this if my neighbor hadn't mentioned it. My finding out about it was a fluke.

This kind of thing breaks my spirit. I'll try to at least do some exercises today.
Maybe worth checking if it's backdated although, you probably have already thought of that (y)
 
Recently my neighbor told me about some "government money" I might be eligible for. Yesterday I looked it up, and I am.

So today I have to get started on actually applying. I have to register for an online account, fill things out, and (probably) produce rent receipts, which I don't have. The latter might involve going to the landlord's website, and then I don't know what.

This will not all happen in one day.

In this forum we discussed how people can end up homeless. It's things like this. I'm serious. I've been denied my pension and other things I was "entitled" to, because everything is an obstacle course and you need to know the system.

Also, I never would have heard of this if my neighbor hadn't mentioned it. My finding out about it was a fluke.

This kind of thing breaks my spirit. I'll try to at least do some exercises today.
I think you should try again to apply for your pension. It may be helpful to speak with a free counsel
service to help you with it.
 
It was so nice to get off my como se llama and go to work today. I didn't get everything done, but Retired Lady was there today and said she'd finish up for me. Yay.

She made big gingerbread men using cupcakes this morning...shaped to resemble gingerbread men, then iced them over to make it obvious what they were supposed to be and decorated like gingerbread men. So cute! She only made two to see if they sell. I'm betting both will be gone when I go in tomorrow.

Dang! It is cold and rainy here today and going to get colder and rainy-er through Thursday. Then? Thursday night we'll probably see some sNOw flurries. The good news is that the sNOw won't last long. The bad news is that we'll probably have black ice. Eeek!
 
I think you should try again to apply for your pension. It may be helpful to speak with a free counsel
service to help you with it.
Thank you, Pinky. I did eventually get both of the pensions they weren't going to give me. But it was an extremely stressful year and a half!

I did seek help from the MP's office and the advocate, but ... long story, but never mind.

Turns out the government has an "escalation" process. They make a note of your call, but don't do anything until you've called a certain number of times. How is a person acting in good faith supposed to know these things?
 
Rushed around this morning to get to a dental appointment at 10:30 only to be told when I arrived that I had no appointment. I produced the appointment card with the right date and time on it but if you are not in the computer you don’t get seen. Receptionist was extremely apologetic but they were booked solid and she couldn’t offer another time. I have an appointment in February (and it is in the computer) so that is soon enough. Dentist wants to repair some thinning enamel on a tooth so no really big rush. The receptionist made me take a gift card for my trouble (Amazon $10) which was nice. So, with the extra time, I went to pick up a smoked turkey I had on order and a Panera Bread gift card for a friend. Planning to bake my cake later today.
 
Well, I've been semi-busy....got the laundry sorted and partially
finished...laying around a lot, cause I did not sleep well at all last nite, danged rash bothering me again, dunno why doc's cannot figure it out....ah well...going to have a big mess of a storm here sometime tomorrow and thursday, so will be interesting to see that play out......
 
Turns out the government has an "escalation" process. They make a note of your call, but don't do anything until you've called a certain number of times. How is a person acting in good faith supposed to know these things?
That’s interesting to learn - just in case. One never knows with these things. If I complain to the local government about something like icy sidewalks, nothing is done until two more complaints have been lodged.

Dentist wants to repair some thinning enamel on a tooth
I didn’t know they could do this. Hmmm, another thing for me to keep in mind.
 
Recently my neighbor told me about some "government money" I might be eligible for. Yesterday I looked it up, and I am.

So today I have to get started on actually applying. I have to register for an online account, fill things out, and (probably) produce rent receipts, which I don't have. The latter might involve going to the landlord's website, and then I don't know what.

This will not all happen in one day.

In this forum we discussed how people can end up homeless. It's things like this. I'm serious. I've been denied my pension and other things I was "entitled" to, because everything is an obstacle course and you need to know the system.

Also, I never would have heard of this if my neighbor hadn't mentioned it. My finding out about it was a fluke.

This kind of thing breaks my spirit. I'll try to at least do some exercises today.
Be patient and careful filling out forms. Is there an office you can go to for help? Remember the goal: Get that to which you are entitled.
 
Went to the gym. Did paid work for a while. I'm in a mentoring program and I spent some time on my mentee's resume. Grocery store, cleaned house, walked dog. I have no idea where the rest of the day went but I "wasted" some of it on SF.
 

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