What's on your agenda for today?

Linda, no didn't have Indian although we love it as we are big curry eaters. We were headed for a brewpub.
 

Annie, I can see why you'd move along to the brewpub. I need to take my husband to one of those. I only like light tasteless beer but he loves the heavy dark stuff. :) So are you feeling a little bit homesick yet? I always do after being away from home 1 week.
 
Linda said:
Annie, I can see why you'd move along to the brewpub. I need to take my husband to one of those. I only like light tasteless beer but he loves the heavy dark stuff. :) So are you feeling a little bit homesick yet? I always do after being away from home 1 week.
Click to expand...

I eat good curries often but when in Ann Arbor in warm/hot weather we hit the great brewpubs and sit outside. Good food too! My taste in beer has changed gradually so now I love IPAs, and even discovered I like porters and brown ales. I still like some lagers but you couldn't force me to drink Bud or Miller etc.

I'm only here seeing family once a year so don't get homesick, at least not until about 3rd week. I do miss my organised house though!

Start on our trip as tourists on Tuesday.
 
Linda - I'd very much like to see the picture you spoke of! I chose my avatar because I love trees and forests - I've seen the redwoods in California and was awed by them!

It might be a few days before I can get back online as I just got a call from my husband's doctor saying that he's having breathing trouble and his liver and kidney enzymes are not too good. He's being moved from where he is now (VA Hospice/Long-term Care) into the adjacent hospital so I'll be going there a lot. My friends up the street are taking me because I have a hard time driving with my foot pain and the hospital is quite a distance from where I live. I have to admit, I'm kind of shaken up but best just get a grip.
 
Prayers and positive thoughts for you and your husband both Kath. Let us know how he's doing. You must be like me and not have one of those smart phones where you can be online everywhere you go, including a public rest room. The best I can do is travel with a laptop and hope I find wifi somewhere.

Early in the a.m. we are leaving to go down south for a week or so. Our youngest son (41) is getting married (hoping the 3rd time is a charm like it was for our daughter) Tuesday. The kids all have internet at their homes though so I'll be in business if I have time to get online. :)

I enjoyed reading what everyone was doing but now I have to rush and get packed and spiff up the house a bit. I told my husband if I get everything done within 2 hours I'd make he and I and my brother all a Tequila Sunrise, so I think he'll help me. I've never made one but I saw the recipe on an old sign so I'm going to give it a try.
 
Kath, keep us posted, k?

Linda, have a fun week visiting. I like your "going down south" reference:D

Annie, hope your pup is better. I hate when our furry friends are sick. It's not like they can tell us where it hurts:(

Nowhere to go today and all the time in the world to get there... Y'all enjoy Labor Day.
 
Kath, please keep us informed. Linda enjoy visiting your family. I am making a beer and maple marinade for pork chops which I will be grilling later today. Labour Day Canuckistan style. Nanaimo bars for dessert. Georgia, how is your perfectly good cat?
 
Oh Lord Annie get little pooch to the Vet ASAP...hope they can mend her very quickly!!


Almost 2pm here , started out as a very sunny warm morning, and as I'm working from home today I got a lot of work done really early to make plans to go out later and have a nice walk in the woods with the pooches from the kennels where I volunteer once a week . Got the washing done and all the dusting done downstairs, and just as I was getting the last of the washing out the sun was gone and now we have deep dark clouds.

Oh well...I'll still go and take the dogs out for an hour in a little while but I'll have to put a coat on and take them over to the fields , don't want it to rain in the woods, we'll be up to our knees in mud!!

Yesterday we went for lunch at the Yacht club...glorious sunny day and people had come with their boats from far and wide. because it was the annual shin dig....got a load of pictures, and then by the time I got home I was in a lot of pain...wasn't concentrating...downloaded the pictures to my PC, and clicked Delete All instead of Upload!!! DUH!!!! :oops: I laughed out loud...couldn't do anything else really..they were gone!! Fortunately I have loads of photos of the yacht club and it's members already from every summer..so it's no real biggie...thank goodness there was no one off pictures in there :D
 
Annie, how is your dog? I hope you have good news for us.

I'm in Burbank now and getting ready to go out to eat for our son-in-law's BD. Our 2 little dogs are happy as they get to visit their dog cousin, Shaun, and play with his toys. :) I'm glad it's just a small simple wedding tomorrow so I don't have to be nervous about that. I'm looking forward to the wedding dinner at some restaurant with a name I can't pronounce.
 
Meetings.... training.... and other such nonsense ALL the rest of the week. Getting trained for the new Medicare coding system ICD-10.. Not looking forward to it... especially the commute.. which should take about 3 hours out of my day... bleh...
 
I'm afraid working again is only wishful thinking. I could try to find new house cleaning clients and gear up again for doing that, but as much as we all hear about people who are, according to them, "desperate" for a cleaning fairy, good clients are very hard to find. There's a difference between a cleaning client and a good cleaning client. It's a variation on kissing a thousand frogs before meeting the handsome prince:D

I've thought about trying to get a job at Home Depot's or Lowe's garden center. The problem I foresee with that is my age. They both hire retirees, but think about it...presented with more than one older candidate, maybe between the ages of 55 and 75, it's pretty unlikely that they would be inclined to hire the one who's 75.

There are three major supermarkets here that hire older workers, and they don't really seem to give a rat's rear whether you're 50 or 90. The problem with all three of them is that their required training is conducted at training centers many miles from where I live and would require being there by 8 or 9 am and lasting until 4 or 5 pm from Monday through Friday. In one case, there's also a half day of required training on a Saturday. While I don't object to those hours, getting from where I live to where their training centers are would require more than an hour on very busy interstates during the worst rush hours.

Any other kind of retail work? Not for me. I'm just not a retail sort of person.

I also thought about doing holiday baking for friends and neighbors. After some serious number crunching, I've had to face the fact that it would not be profitable given the cost of ingredients and the tremendous amount of work involved, even though I would have access to ingredients at much lower prices than from a supermarket or from Walmart, Sams Club or Costco.

The baking is something that I would really like to do. Unfortunately, my friends and neighbors aren't in a position to pay the kinds of premium prices that I'd need to charge in order to make even a small profit.

Sigh. I never should have quit working in the first place! Hindsight and all that...:(
 

You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top