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  1. Good Monday Morning Dailyites! I did wake up thinking it was Sunday, but i think that was because of the time change. This morning we take Tigger to the vets, so a lot to do this morning before we go. Its somewhat sunny, and 37 degrees. We watched the Holdovers last night. And we really enjoyed it. @Denise TI hope your cat feels better soon. Debunking news? There is a lot to debunk, mainly because the news started reporting things out of context and wants to make that the news. Have you not lost someone due to Covid? COVID-19 global excess mortality While 1,813,188 COVID-19 deaths were reported in 2020, recent WHO estimates suggest an excess mortality of at least 3,000,000.
  2. @smitty34877I hope that you are being financially compensated for the inconvenience of the filming on your street. @SusieKIslandGirl I am sorry about the fridge. I would probably wait until my return to get another one. Because with my luck, I would order one and they would deliver during my vacation. And it gives you time to procrastinate making a major decision.😸 I wish we could stay in this permanent time. The kids here are out in the dark now when they go to school, and they dont get much time outside in the light when they get home. I love the being light later. Cuts down on the bill. One of the strays that has shown up and tries to fight with everyone has a collar on it. I call him/her Collard Greens. It seems to know its name now. But it goes after Tigger when he is off the porch, it chases Chumley (a stray that has been with us for about 5 months) it goes after Clown, a really large very scaredy cat cat. Terrified of everything. I now take a tray of paper plates out at meal time as I can no longer carry them all. Clown eats in the back to the right, Chumley eats under the shrubbery, Tigger gets fed on the porch, and Collard Greens now sleeps at night in the box, that we put out months ago for poor old Bubbles. Pleasant dreams every one. @JazzyVSpeaking of dreams, I cant sleep on my back anymore, my sinuses will drown me. I cant sleep on my left side anymore either, I cough all the time,. I'm good sleeping on my right side only. with one leg out from the covers, a cat on my head, and a teddy bear holding up my left arm ( i broke the tip off the elbow May 2020) After the surgery I got used to either sleeping sitting up or on my left side. And that's about it. I do understand.
  3. Good Sunday Morning Dailyites! I did not spring forward. Well the clocks did, but I think I found the mystery of waking up earlier and earlier. DH has begun talking in his sleep. After he yelled Annie! I woke and said-what? And then he mumbled something about the guy from TX that I was texting to, has gone. They are all gone... zzzzz zzzzz..The only guy I was texting with in Texas was my old boss, who was a girl anyway, and she didnt live in TX anymore, so I have no idea what is going on in his head, so I didn't spring forward, I was pushed. Honest. Dinner with Debbie was fun last night. But while I love the food at this restaurant, there is nothing for a diabetic to eat. They do have salads, with raw beef. Not for me. I dont eat raw things. Reminds me of survival tv shows. I used to eat raw oysters, but found out I like them smoked better. @grapau27 I am sorry of the lost friendship with your brother in law, that was not resolved before his death, and was sorry for Sarah on losing her birth father. Seems to me that you and Pauline have been the better parents to her, but loss is still loss. I too hope that Pauline and her sister can become closer. Hugs to you all. @kazuRelax today, and I hope you feel better soon. @JazzyVYou are always in @catmando's and my prayers, especially when you were living off of 2-3 hours of sleep a night. You are amazing! I am so glad to read that you are sleeping better. Sleep is a healer, unless it hurts to sleep. @AroundWithMAPTravels I love your meme today, it was a coffee spewing moment! @RMLincolnIt sounds like you are adjusting to your new home and life. I think at your new home with all they offer, you could be busy 24/7! If you wanted to be. You are much better at getting your health checked than I am, and you are in a new "country". The minute a Doctor wants to send me north of town, I refuse, due to the drive. I need to learn from you. from one of my favorite movies- The Princess Bride Sunday-the day we go with thousands of other people to purchase food at the Dekalb Farmers Market, watch an INDY car race, and -
  4. Good Saturday Morning Dailyites! Thanks everyone who got involved with my medical conundrum yesterday. An interesting discussion about medicine in America. Which as we all know -sucks. But apparently the Krogers pharmacy was giving me a discount, because they were giving me 90 days at 675. When I was first given the drug, I didnt always take it, so I have a months worth in the cupboard still. But that was at 1 a day, now I am taking 2 a day. This should last until my next pay day which is the 23rd. so enough about my problem, but if I didnt work part time, I would really not be able to afford it at all. I tell people who say they were retired, that I was too, but it didnt work out that well. The computer says it mostly sunny and 54. I look out, and it is cloudy! 100%. Cloudy. It's weird, three weeks ago I was sleeping until 9, then two weeks ago it was waking up at 8, and this past week, I was wide awake at 7. The last two days I was up at 6:45. We did have a really big thunderstorm last night that woke me up! And there was an owl hooting at 7 this morning. But I am not sure what is waking me up earlier each week. Of course when I was sleeping until 9 I was confused. They have extended our calling campaign for another week, they have changed who I am calling there is hope for a sale in a week. We made an appointment for Tigger for Monday morning at the vet. We are trying a new vet service as we are so unhappy with the offices we have used for years. New vet, new cat. Work today, and then meeting up with our friend Debbie at Vietvana for dinner. I will then be stupid and have the coffee and stay up too late, and watch the F1 race tonight.
  5. Good Friday Morning Dailyites! I think we have looked at the name game all week. First the meaning, then on a name tag, and now pride in our middle name. Maybe tomorrow will be, if you could change your name what would it be? @NickelpennyI have been thinking of you and the bugs. Why not create some kind of slide show "Bugs of the Amazon" and share it with the schools where you sub? I get very depressed when I go to the pharmacy and realize that I cant afford my meds. But the other day I saw an elderly couple walk out of DH's oncologist office and the wife's question to him, was "why did you walk out?" and his response was that "I didnt want to have to read and sign all that paperwork". I found that sad, but I am repeatedly seeing people trying to get their must have meds, and they cant afford them . I went to get my refill of Januvia and it had gone from 475 to 675, and I had to walk away. Told them to put it back on the shelf, until I could get a decent pay check. Life is just getting weird. I even considered cruising back to Cozumel to the pharmacy there, but checked and Carnival is not going to Mexico's east coast on 5 day trips anymore. At least not from Mobile. Last night when I sat down at the home computer, I found a black cube on the floor. It is a solid black cube. I didnt know what it goes to and neither the DH. We decided that it was intraterrestrial and it was a black hole that had cubed itself and land in our den. Well both of us are up way too early -practicing for getting Tigger to the vets on Monday morning.
  6. I have been in a calling vortex that I am dialing the same people, day after day since I got the internet back. These are people who have basically not done business at where I am calling since 2019. These people are being called every day, by the same two people. Me and someone else. I closed three accounts today because the people finally answered, they had moved, they were in the hospital, they no longer want to put themselves in a place where there are other people. I finally said to my boss that I had been in this vortex. I thought it was because I had been out for so long. Apparently he didnt know and told me that he would change my calls tomorrow. I was his 14th best seller last year, and I have had no sales in 5 weeks (and two and a half weeks I wasnt there) At the same time he was texting me of the change, his assistant informed me that I was getting commission on sales I had made at another arts center from August and September, and they would be on the check I get this weekend. Gosh, that only took 6 months to get. Thank heavens!
  7. @cat shepard Very glad to hear of your sister's improvement!
  8. Happy Thursday Morning Dailyites! It's 52 degrees and sunny and we are supposed to have a beautiful day. And then tonight the bottom falls out again, and back to rain. Lots of rain. On one hand, I do get sick of the gray skies and rain. But I have to remember that water on this planet is finite.The water we have now, was the water we had a thousand years ago. Evaporation does not go beyond our atmosphere. This is why we really need to protect our atmosphere. If that is destroyed, who knows where the moisture will go?? The dermatologist was a new one for me. Our favorite dermatologist moved back to TX during the time when Covid had shut down everything. He was one of my favorite people, because he did listen when I spoke. He got DH an oncologist. He did emergency surgery on my leg when I got MRSA. But apparently his husband left him, and his mother wanted to move home, and he was gone. (He also was the one who warned me about Covid, before it was a real situation). If he saw a skin tab he would immediately burn it off. If he saw a new mole he would try to treat it immediately. This doctor did not. She took out some kind of magnifying glass that could see through the first layers of the skin. Nothing serious she said. All looked good for a person my age. There is a sign on the front desk that you can only have two problems at a time to discuss. So I guess she wants to get paid a lot. Or often. Apparently the only thing I suffer from is oily skin and dry skin depending on what part of my body we are talking about. No helpful hints to treat either. The only bad part of the day was the DH forgot where I was going, and even though I told him I would bring back lunch, he ate lunch. He didnt realize that I would be gone so long. He seems to have a problem with time. He forgets the amount of time of driving to a place, being at a place, and driving back from the place. If an appointment is an hour, he figures I will be gone an hours. I have to remind him of what hours he can work, based on travel time. Add at least two hours to the being gone. I apparently cant read a calendar as I emailed our friend who attends the Choral Concerts with us reminding her about the concert this Friday night, only to have her email me back, that the concert is next Friday. Oops. Have a wonderful day every one!
  9. @RedneckBob I got one of the cats to wish you a very Happy Birthday!
  10. I am now off to my dermatologist appointment that has been changed by both myself and the doc. It's been at least since the first week of Covid I have seen a dermatologist. I am curious about my right arm which has a rather scaly, hard and sometimes bleeds patch on my arm. A place of a nervous scritching place when I was in boarding school years ago.
  11. Good Wednesday Morning Dailyites! It's rainy and cloudy, but we are going to get a break tomorrow...and then back to rain for the weekend. I know I was asleep before 11, and got up once, and slept until 7. Due to the fact that lying down for too long hurts the entire body, I got up. We hae shutters in the bedroom, and when the temps went down to near 0 in January, I put a dark colored towel over the shutters on the east side. Our bedroom stays so dark now. If there wasnt the pain of lying too long, I would probably sleep until the afternoon sun came through the slats . Meaning of my name, well, Ann means grace. I should have been born on a Tuesday, but no, I was born on a Friday (Friday’s child is loving and giving). I am not that graceful. But I have God's grace. I have nicknames that make more sense. The most popular one is Mouse. In fact the gentleman at Wild Birds Unlimited refers to us as the Mice family. I keep telling him that I am the Mouse,and he says that since two of us show up it doesnt matter what DH's last name is. It's more than one mouse. Another one of my great nicknames, and one that I do understand is "Runs with scissors" . I have not been to Hawaii. Nor is it on my "list". I saw on the news this morning, that Atlanta's most iconic restaurant-Mary Mac's Tea Room, had their roof collapse last night during the storm, and they will be closed for quite a while. Our favorite bakery and German restaurant had a fire last month, and they too will be closed for a while. If this keeps happening, we will have to eat all our meals at home. 🙀 Being a cat mom-Are we the only ones who say-Get your tail out of my coffee?
  12. Thank you all for your well wishes for Catmando. They just called and said he was ready for pick up at 2:30. And I dont pick him up at the pick up place, but front of hospital. Could his nurse Brenda be confused? I slept for a little over an hour, I was hoping for 3, as I only got 2 hours sleep last night, but this means I can go to bed early. ( I hope).
  13. @rafinmdI was so happy to read the report from the doc. @ottahand7I am hoping that the arm hurts less, sounds like it is, and great news on the truck! @MISTER 67 Sounds like you are doing well on the move. I moved in here 20 years ago and still have unpacked boxes. @HeartgroveI am so sorry to read about Sam. I am glad that you got to be a dog dad to him, and that in his end of times, a true friend to him. We left the house at 5:30, and the minute I opened the door Munchkin came running for breakfast and love. Neither did I have time to give her, but I thought I would be back at 8. Registration was at 6. The desk personnel showed up at 6:15. Then there were blood tests. And then prep. Then signatures. The doc was late. DH was finally wheeled out to surgery at 8:30. I got home a little after 9:30, turned the coffee back on, walked the dog at 10. DH's surgery is supposed to last 1.5 to 2 hours (unless there are problems) Then he gets to sleep off the drug from being under, and then he has to lie flat for 4 hours. They will call me when he is ready for pick up. So he should be out of surgery by now, and I am going down for a nap. It's dark and cloudy and about to rain. I lived next door to a woman who had over 32 personalities back when I lived in Decatur. Most of her personalities were children. And she had married, and had 2 children. She was divorced. It was after she tried to kill her son that she lost custody of her children. Some of her personalities could explain why she was the way she was. Child abuse starting when she was a baby at a rather sick church. Based on the amount of the abuse at certain ages explained the ages of some of her personalities. Trust me, she put Sybil to shame. Sybil's problems were created by her mother and a rather dumb father. But imagine an entire group of adults including the parents abusing a child. What kind of church is that? Are cheese doodles what I call cheezy poofs? I love them. I love being orange, and leave my paw prints everywhere. Off to nap for 3 hours.
  14. Very early in the morning. Up to take Chuck to the surgery. So I may not post early on today's Daily. Hugs to all. We showed up to get our taxes done at 2, which is the time I showed on their computer when I stopped by to let them know that we couldnt email back two weeks ago. Turns out they changed our time to 8 am. So we missed our appointment. Had to reschedule. and our tax guy that I had seen for more than 20 years? He retired. I was not a a happy camper yesterday. Yes they emailed me, but the header said, you are all set for your appointment, so I didnt read the emails. If the header had said, your time has been changed, please verify, It would have had a different outcome.Ah I love the lack of the ability to actually communicate correctly.
  15. I completely understand the quote of the day. In Janes' time, and pretty much until the 1960's, a womans goal and purpose was to marry . However my imagination goes about two week further, and goes into, well this wont last. What a jerk. In other words, my imagination slaps back back to reality.
  16. Good Monday Morning Dailyites! It's 54 degrees and cloudy. I checked NOAA last night, we are to have rain every day except Thursday. @ger_77Oddly enough I am jealous of your snow. I know that you have a lot of snow, and are housebound for a while, but even that I am jealous of. I love the silence of snow. Especially here in the south. No cars, no trucks flying up the highway. No buses going up the major road near us. I call this time the scream of silence, and I enjoy it. I used to take vacations (cruises) in February just to get away from the gray skies, now it seems that I need to start planning vacations in March. But this year that wont happen. I had to tell my BFF Dan last night that we will not be able to make our planned trip up north to see him. DH was off the entire month of February, and I missed 3 weeks of work due to illness and the Internet conundrum. The one month of the year where we both made lots of money? didnt happen this year. And I will probably not be offered a return for next year. Still have no sales. Im not even sure I will remember how to process one on the computer. Tigger stayed out way too late yesterday, but was very glad to see me with food this morning. Munchkin was here this morning, and Chumley (the long haired black cat) came to feed. I put his plate on the edge of the car port, as he does not play well with others. DH suffered a brain injury in 2016 when he fell on the pavement outside Macy's. Medication, and self medication was to blame, and he spent a week in the hospital. After he came home he only watched TV shows that were from the 60s, he couldnt remember much of his past, or our anniversary. His sense of humor had changed, he lost vision in his right eye (which never returned) . I took him to a neurologist who said that he would not ever let him drive again, but because he wasnt walking correctly he put him in physical therapy. DH does drive, but I wont get in the car with him when he does. It took almost 2 years to bring him back to normal, but every time he has surgery and gets put under, we go through a brief repeat period. But it was during this time that I remembered there are angels on earth. Our air conditioner had gone out, and one day when I was talking with one of the nurses who called for a weekly check up, and she asked if I needed anything. I said air conditioning. (you really cant be comfortable in Atlanta in July and August without it). She knew a young doctor who had purchased two window units, but his neighborhood covenant would not allow him to install them. She told him about my problem, he came over when I was at work, and when he saw DH's condition, he installed them, one in the den, and one in the living room. I had left a check out for him, and told Chuck to fill it out, and I guess he did, but he couldn't remember for how much. ( it was under 100) We used those units until 2020 when we put in a new furnace and air conditioning system.
  17. I'm wondering about the quote today, was it regarding him, or a line from a film? I think he explored this idea in Midnight in Paris. When the main characters believed they were born in the wrong time. (one of my favorite films for the soundtrack).
  18. Good Sunday Morning Dailyites! Currently it's 50 degrees and cloudy. When I turned on the computer the weather block said "limited visibility". I thought it was an eye test, as I had to put my glasses on to read what it said. Today is farmers market day. Since @dfish taught me how to roast veggies, DH and I try to get a new veggie every time we go to the market. I also need to catch up on the F2 and F3 races that we missed not watching yesterday as I was working. @grapau27Thank you for Father David @cruising sister How nice to read that Baby Murphy has gone home. DH's surgery is at 8 am on Tuesday. We have to be there at 6 am which means that I need to get up by 4. The hospital is not far away, but my stomach is not a morning person. And @catmando is not a morning person at all. I'll get him up, but he will probably be back asleep, before they put him under. I scoured the program information from Fridays concert, and saw that there is a free "with registration" cello concert-Bach under the stars at our local planetarium featuring Zuill Bailey. How fun! I registered yesterday It's not until April 20th, but something I will love. I used to go to the planetarium every Saturday Morning for the "Whats in the sky this week" talk and show. Things I did in my "singlehood". Have a great day everyone!
  19. Good Saturday Morning Dailyites! It's 46 and cloudy. And guess what the weather forecast for the whole week is? Rain. I'm not so sure that the majority of my stray cats want to be rescued, I think they just want to be fed. I did however let Tigger off the porch last night, so that he could get some hours of wandering in, and then I got nervous that he didnt come back. He did eventually show up, looking terrified. He got on the porch and was very nervous about something that was following him. A baby possum. One of the strays finally moved into the big box with blankets, he is a noisy creature, and picks fights with the other cats. But he is wearing a collar, so he/she was a dumped or deserted cat. He has been around for about a month now. @dfish Your pictures of the meal of the day look really good. Warm and filling! The F1 race is on in 15 minutes, but for some reason, the new formatting on the TV isn't allowing me to watch the prerace show. Oh, I understand now, the prerace show will start soon. Dh was off an hour when he said the race would start. I heard on the Today show today, that hard wired home phones are going to be a thing of the past, and that the phone companies will no longer support them within the next two years. They obviously are not concerned for the hard of hearing, who need attachments on their phones in order to use them. Like my neighbor. After the race, I need to work -I have had no sales since this campaign started, and it ends next Saturday. Abd then I have to find another campaign to work for.
  20. Well after attempting to talk DH out of going to the concert, I got it. He has not worked all month, he is bored, and he didnt care if it was pouring, so off we went. And it was more than what I expected. I have always thought of the Noon Concerts as piano, and I was not disappointed in that. It was all Faure music, they were celebrating 100 years to the day of his death. But the second half, they brought out the Vega String Quartet (three out of 4) and low and behold, the fantastic cellist we heard on Tuesday was performing again. Double treat this week!
  21. Rabbit, rabbit, white rabbit! Good Friday Morning Dailyites! It is 40 degrees and raining cats and dogs! I need to walk around the house and change all the calendars. We had planned on going to a free piano concert at the Noon series at Emory, but when I get done with walking the dog, I may not want to go out again, and have to walk in the rain. It's quite a hike from the parking to the museum and concert room. Taking my dieticians advice and having some cottage cheese, and two slices of pineapple, (that was my idea) and my sensor went off the charts again. She is allowing me 30 gm carbs per meal, and that was only 20. As she said, it's not the food. I know my food. I watch my carbs. I am just not excited about having to spend 1200 a month on another med. Money I dont have. As my friend Elena said yesterday, I could take a cruise to Mexico, and get the drugs, for less than what we pay in the US for the drugs. Sorry about the whine. @kazuI know you dont complain when you are ill, but if you are in need of some help right now, please let us know. I had noticed you had been rather quiet since my return from internet Hades, so adding you to my prayer list. Please get well soon.
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