What's on your agenda for today?

AS: Wow! You have six varieties of daffodils - how gorgeous that must look! Before we moved here, I had rockeries on each side of the house with lots of different flowers in them. The daffodils were first up each year but mine were all one kind; I would have liked some of the pink ones to add to the yellow but we moved before I could plant them. I truly miss gardening and I didn't realize until we moved here that it would take a minor miracle to get the HOA board to OK every single seedling, twig, or shrub we wanted to plant! Major pain!

Georgia: Hallelujah to the gal with more time off! How cool is that! It's pretty obvious that you needed some downtime and I'm so glad that it's all worked out for you. My sister, a nurse too, would definitely agree with your grandmother about the chicken soup benefits. She totally swears by it! I'm gradually getting back to where I was prior to getting clobbered by this nasty bug! Just need to get some more energy - is stuff with caffeine in it the right thing for increasing energy?

Holly: I hope you are doing fine after the MRI, especially since your back didn't much care for the whole deal. Sometimes I get claustrophobic during an MRI but not so much now that they pipe in music while I'm getting scanned. I try to get some kind of dreamy and slow music because if I ask for them to tune in some rock music I want to bounce my feet to the music - that's an MRI no-no, of course!
 

Kath, never mind the caffeine. All that will do is give you coffee nerves. Campbell's chicken noodle soup. And chocolate, of course!

I had a thought about today's client...what if he has to get a another place in a hurry and just moves in with the girlfriend while he's either looking or building? OMG! She had already asked me to clean for her, but I told her not unless God creates an eighth day. It could happen that he'd expect me to just continue cleaning every other Wednesday at her house! No. No. No. No. And h*ll to the No!

Old ladies get tired. I'm old. I'm tired even if I'm not a "lady".
 
I've started the agonizing job of packing for my trip. I put stuff in the suitcase, I take stuff out of the suitcase. Yes, I'm going to take it. No, I'm not. I am the world's worst packer. I either pack enough for a 4-month safari or I run out of underwear half-way through the trip. Sometimes both. Too many tops, not enough bottoms. Vice versa. Forget my swimsuit....take two swimsuits and never get in the pool.

Reminds me of when my cousin's husband's elderly and somewhat senile parents were coming to the US to visit. His sister went over to their house the night before to make sure they were packed. In his dad's suitcase was $3000 in cash and 9 belts. That was it. In his mother's suitcase was a thesaurus. When asked why she had a thesaurus in her suitcase, she answered, "Well, I couldn't find the dictionary." That has become the answer in our family to everything....."why did you do that?"....answer: "well, I couldn't find the dictionary." It's ok, though, I'm packing neither the dictionary NOR the thesaurus. I'm sure I'll forget the phrasebook, though. So when I want to know where the ladies' bathroom is, I'll have to revert to charades. It won't be pretty.

I wish we were going to a nudist resort....really I do. Flipflops, a sunhat and a towel; wow. No, actually, really I don't; I have too much respect for my fellow vacationers to do that to them. Maybe a nudist resort for the blind?

Maybe I'll just buy a burqa when I get there. Wouldn't have to worry how my hair looks, wouldn't have to shave my legs...or my pits...and I could wear my pj's underneath. Heaven. Do fuzzy slippers and a burqa go together? I'll have to watch the next edition of "What the Mullah Says Not to Wear" and find out.

Oh, doesn't matter actually. They'll probably lose my luggage anyway.
 

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Jujube... :lol1:...soooo funny..... well that's cheered me up at 6am in the morning when I'm feeling sorry for myself before facing another 12 hour day.. albeit my last day for a week or 2

Thanks everyone for your sympathies...you're right about the Music in the MRI Coffin Kath, they played Classic Rock yesterday, and I kept going to do a little lying down jig..but stopped just in time. I get claustrophobic too but I'm proud of myself that I've never pressed the panic tube thing...I just suffer in silence LOL.

Georgia woohoooo...the money might be handy, but yo do need sometime off ya know...so every other Wednesday is better than nowt... perhaps you could take up a hobby like errrmm... ... brass rubbing :p:D:D
 
I had. MRI last year gee I get all hot just thinking about it , I just closed my eyes and hoped for the best ( I had it to look at my heart, Kidneys to find out it there was somthing causing my BP going up to over 200
Our part time neighbour ( they live in Adelaide and come up every two weeks ) had one last week he took 8 Valium and still had a panic attack and still has not had the scan.and has to as X-rays showed his spine is crumbling
 
I finally got my vitamin D3 level back.. 37.5 which is up from 17. So I'm good.. Guess the amount I am taking is the right amount for me. I take 5000 units daily.
 
Good grief, QS. Your post says you were here at 5:33. If you're in the Midwest, that was 4:33. What on earth were you doing up at that hour of the morning?!

I'm working at a neighbor's house today. I wish she wouldn't be such a chatterbox because it always takes an extra hour when she's home:(

Raining here today and our temp right now (50) is as warm as it will be all day. Spring can come back now.
 
Going flying this morning again. I took this part time job as a favor to my friend, who does this on the side. He flies a corporate jet for a large company here in PA (Harley Davidson). I was supposed to be his backup, in case he could not fly the corporate jet because of other things that come up in his life. Now, it is becoming like every other week he needs to back out and calls me. Today, I am sitting in the left seat and we are flying to New York City for the day. We should be flying home either late tonight or early tomorrow morning. Today, the President is returning to New York where he has a home along with his main home in Wisconsin, I believe.

I think I am giving my friend my two week notice. I love to fly, but he always calls me at the last moment and I am having to put off doing something that I had already planned. I got this call at 9:30 last night.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Good grief, QS. Your post says you were here at 5:33. If you're in the Midwest, that was 4:33. What on earth were you doing up at that hour of the morning?!

I'm working at a neighbor's house today. I wish she wouldn't be such a chatterbox because it always takes an extra hour when she's home:(

Raining here today and our temp right now (50) is as warm as it will be all day. Spring can come back now.
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I work and I am up at 4:15 every morning. I start at 6am..
 
jujube said:
I've started the agonizing job of packing for my trip. I put stuff in the suitcase, I take stuff out of the suitcase. Yes, I'm going to take it. No, I'm not. I am the world's worst packer. I either pack enough for a 4-month safari or I run out of underwear half-way through the trip. Sometimes both. Too many tops, not enough bottoms. Vice versa. Forget my swimsuit....take two swimsuits and never get in the pool.

Reminds me of when my cousin's husband's elderly and somewhat senile parents were coming to the US to visit. His sister went over to their house the night before to make sure they were packed. In his dad's suitcase was $3000 in cash and 9 belts. That was it. In his mother's suitcase was a thesaurus. When asked why she had a thesaurus in her suitcase, she answered, "Well, I couldn't find the dictionary." That has become the answer in our family to everything....."why did you do that?"....answer: "well, I couldn't find the dictionary." It's ok, though, I'm packing neither the dictionary NOR the thesaurus. I'm sure I'll forget the phrasebook, though. So when I want to know where the ladies' bathroom is, I'll have to revert to charades. It won't be pretty.

I wish we were going to a nudist resort....really I do. Flipflops, a sunhat and a towel; wow. No, actually, really I don't; I have too much respect for my fellow vacationers to do that to them. Maybe a nudist resort for the blind?

Maybe I'll just buy a burqa when I get there. Wouldn't have to worry how my hair looks, wouldn't have to shave my legs...or my pits...and I could wear my pj's underneath. Heaven. Do fuzzy slippers and a burqa go together? I'll have to watch the next edition of "What the Mullah Wants You Not to Wear" and find out.

Oh, doesn't matter actually. They'll probably lose my luggage anyway.
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I am the Queen of bad packers!! I hate packing! :p
 
Holly, I've never had an MRI but O/H has and he did NOT like it. I would get claustrophobic!

Chilly but dry today. And a bit hazy right now. Out on the porch with my camera in my nightie this morning (but not barefoot - was wearing my new PF slippers).

Went grocery shopping this morning and went in the store the same time as a woman who was wearing a heavy, obnoxious perfume. I kept running into her in most of the aisles as we shopped about the same speed. Even if I wasn't allergic to perfume I would have found this one overpowering. :playful: April's photos of chicken yesterday made me want some, so I bought a packet of sliced chicken breast for my sandwich at lunch instead of the eggs I planned.

Sunrise:

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Kath said:
AS: Wow! You have six varieties of daffodils - how gorgeous that must look! Before we moved here, I had rockeries on each side of the house with lots of different flowers in them. The daffodils were first up each year but mine were all one kind; I would have liked some of the pink ones to add to the yellow but we moved before I could plant them. I truly miss gardening and I didn't realize until we moved here that it would take a minor miracle to get the HOA board to OK every single seedling, twig, or shrub we wanted to plant! Major pain!
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A collage I did. But if you want serious overload of daffodils, here's my April garden album:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/anniedanny/sets/72157626288859545/

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Lovely flowers, Annie, I also enjoyed you photos of your community, the church was lovely.

I've always been an early morning person, kinda fizzle out around 2 pm though, I've started laying down for an hour or two and read my book.

Today is my day to help mom....everyone have a great Thursday.
 
Warning: short rant ahead!

Sometimes I really don't like clients, even clients that I've always liked and probably always will. I spent 45 minutes of my time today picking up kids' toys and other stuff that the client really should have taken care of and that she knows irritates the daylights outta me!

I feel better now:)
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Warning: short rant ahead!

Sometimes I really don't like clients, even clients that I've always liked and probably always will. I spent 45 minutes of my time today picking up kids' toys and other stuff that the client really should have taken care of and that she knows irritates the daylights outta me!

I feel better now:)
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That's okay. Sometimes you need a good rant.
 
Jujube - I have to agree with Holly's laughing emoticon because your packing description was totally hilarious! I really identify with your feelings re packing - I also agonize over whether to take multiple bathing suits and then end up using only one or even zero! My former mother-in-law used to pack like she had taken college courses in it - she would put layers of tissue paper between garments and made cloth bags in which to put each shoe. It was amazing to watch her go at it!

Kadee - Hope your BP and kidneys turned out to be OK. Last year I had bad kidney numbers after a blood test - the doc searched and searched to find out why my kidneys were showing abnormal and finally he discovered that 2 of the meds I was taking back then were interacting negatively with each other. This caused the kidney blood levels to go down but now going back to normal since the nasty meds were trashed. Sometimes I have to take a valium for the MRI if I'm having a jittery day - truthfully, I'd prefer intravenous vino to a pill.
 
Kath! What a perfectly marvelous idea for an IV. It's an idea whose time came long ago.

Yanno, apropos my rant: when I was paid by the hour, it wasn't often that toys and other crap were left lying around. Now that I'm paid a flat fee... Well. Was it just a coincidence or might this particular client be taking advantage of me? Or am I just a paranoid old biddy?
 

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