What's on your agenda for today?

Holly - I know you will have a great time when your daughter and s-i-l come to visit - and to think you'll get to see them again soon after! I always love to visit my daughter and her family which isn't always easy since the grandkids take up gobs of parental time. Is it me, or do today's kids take part in waaaay more activities than back when I was a kid. My grandkids belong to stuff like Robotics club, Chess club, Science club, Choir, Dramatics (which is put to good use at home :rolleyes:), plus every kid is active in at least one or two sports teams. None of the grandkids drive, which means their mom or dad has to drive them to wherever. Sometimes it seems that everything else has to be squished in between all the other stuff. Sorry to be kvetching and also I'm probably kvetching in the wrong forum. Have a fun visit!
 
Kath, I think more clubs are offered than when we were kids.

We visit my family in Michigan for a month every year. But this years trip will be 5 weeks as we'll be including a trip to New England.

Bank holiday here today which means my gym doesn't open till 10.
 
Hello all; I'm going to a friends grave site (he was my best friend for a quarter of a century, 35 years older than me he passed 13 years ago) and I am going to finish cleaning up the stone. It is buried ground level and was overwhelmed with grass, clay and mud. I got the grass and weeds but now I need to use a stiff brush and water to clean the clay and mud. I usually visit only once a year as it's too painful. But today I'll return with tools and happily clean up his head stone and remember our good times.
 
Skyking said:
Hello all; I'm going to a friends grave site (he was my best friend for a quarter of a century, 35 years older than me he passed 13 years ago) and I am going to finish cleaning up the stone. It is buried ground level and was overwhelmed with grass, clay and mud. I got the grass and weeds but now I need to use a stiff brush and water to clean the clay and mud. I usually visit only once a year as it's too painful. But today I'll return with tools and happily clean up his head stone and remember our good times.
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That's very nice of you. He must have been a very good friend.
 
Thanks Kath I'm really looking forward to seeing the two of them, and this year with the holiday so soon as well, I'm for a change, being spoiled by seeing them so often. I'm desperate to get over to Spain to see the grandfurkids..I get updates regularly videos and pictures , but I haven't been with the dogs for almost 3 years, and I'm so anxious to find out if they will recognise me when I get there. they were very attached to me as I was to them.

I don't have grandchildren and I never will, but I know from friends of mine that they are always driving the kids to all sorts of clubs..but then I did the same with my daughter when she was a teenager in the 90's ..she was a Bass guitarist in a Band from age 16 so I was always driving them to Gigs around London and the Home counties..she was a School Hockey Captain , so she was always taking part in matches, and further to that she was training in several different methods of Martial arts.( Bu jitsu, Karate and kick boxing) but even from the time she was very small around 6 years old she was a majorette until about 12 years old, and she also had to attend Guitar and woodwind lessons... these were her choices, I never pushed her into them, she was very focused on managing her leisure time after school and on weekends. She's 40 next year and if anything she's even more focused than ever on everything she does.

Bank holiday here today too, so I'm not back to work until tomorrow..thank goodness, and for the first time in years O/H has got a BH off too..he's just been doing some maintenance on his car this morning and I've been in the garden trimming the small shrubs back. The 100 feet hedge is being given a short back and sides later by hubs it's such a big job..just trying to get all these things done before we go back to work, and while we have no rain..and o/h won't have any time off now until we go away on holiday
 
My goodness...all the activity. Who sez old people just sit and rock?

Had fun in the garden yesterday, but today it's back to real life so I'm getting ready to go to work.

Holly, glad you have another day off to REST your back. Rest. Are you paying attention?
 
LOL...bless you Georgia...I know honey, I know...but too must rest is as bad as not enough with this damn back...I just have to be as careful as I can.. have a good day at work and don't work yourself into the ground I know you will, so I don;t know why I'm wasting my breath but have a good day anyway.. :love_heart:
 
Holly, this client has just gone from every two weeks to every three week. She said she wouldn't lie...she missed having me there last Monday. They are very tidy people so I bet the house will look just the same to me after three weeks as it did after two. I'm thinking she'll ask to go back to every two weeks.

Just curious...I think it's been addressed already but don't remember what was said and too lazy to read back...do you go to physical therapy for your back now that you're recovering from the surgery?
 
I don't go to PT since having the surgery Georgia...I'm afraid to do any damage to it because the surgery doesn't seem to have worked, so rather than get more PT (much as I feel I really need it) I'll wait and see the consultant at my follow up..unfortunately 6 weeks yet,:( and we'll see how I go from there, but thanks for asking.

I hope you're right about the nice clean house...do you get paid hourly or a flat rate? the trouble with people who keep their house immaculate is that if you're on an hourly rate you have to stretch out what little work there is to ensure you get paid something decent.. and that can make for a very boring day.
 
Let's hope your back improves between now and six weeks from now:)

All my houses are flat rates now, thank heaven! If it takes me longer, good for them; if it takes less time, good for ME. It's an incentive for me to work fast because I get paid the same whether I work fast or slow.
 
hollydolly said:
I don't go to PT since having the surgery Georgia...I'm afraid to do any damage to it because the surgery doesn't seem to have worked, so rather than get more PT (much as I feel I really need it) I'll wait and see the consultant at my follow up..unfortunately 6 weeks yet,:( and we'll see how I go from there, but thanks for asking..
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So sorry your surgery was not effective, Holly. I do not know what they did....but, it seems like you were being so stoic and back to your routine too quickly. Did you give yourself enough time to recuperate from it?
 
ndynt said:
So sorry your surgery was not effective, Holly. I do not know what they did....but, it seems like you were being so stoic and back to your routine too quickly. Did you give yourself enough time to recuperate from it?
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Same here, Holly. Sorry it didn't work.
 
Holly, it still might be working, it takes time to heal, give it more time and take good care of yourself. :thumbsup:
 
Bless you all for caring, I had a double discectomy Nona.. but it really hasn't worked. I had this same surgery back in 97 and I know how the recovery process should go..and how long before I should see some improvement , ..the surgeon did tell me there was a small chance it might not work, but I dismissed it because it was such a low chance and also because it worked fine way back then...the pain relief for the first 2 days was Euphoric, but I came to realise that was just the effect of the anaesthesia and as soon as that wore off the pain was back with avengeance...but that's expected for potentially up to 2 weeks..but after that the pain if any should be minimal . Everything is just as painful if not more so as it was pre surgery 6 weeks ago..so unfortunately I know it hasn't worked ..:(...so I'm back onto taking strong meds every day and using ice-packs as I have been for the last couple of years. :(

Anyway enough of the misery....I'm just getting ready for work...so I must get on..working a little closer to home today so I get to leave an hour later than usual.

Have a good day everybody ...and Georgia..good about the flat rate..hope you didn't have much to do yesterday.. :D
 
Sorry Holly! You're tough. Hope you can have a good day at work.

Gym and shopping today. Might start on deep cleaning another room.
 
Good morning. It's going to be another sunny summer day here. Yippee.

ronaldj...early and often. Right. I'd do that but it's not election day here.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Good morning. It's going to be another sunny summer day here. Yippee.

ronaldj...early and often. Right. I'd do that but it's not election day here.
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Good morning everybody. Hope you are all having better weather than ours! It's chilly and very wet. I stupidly wore my waist length raincoat instead of my mid calf Scottish raincoat and I got very wet.

It's big election day here in the UK on Thursday. Don't know if I'll stay up late and watch returns as I do with US prez elections.
 

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