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Post by karen54171 on Jun 19, 2020 11:27:24 GMT
Whether you are regular poster or a lurker, we encourage you to talk with us. We do talk about books, but also about our lives, and Weight Watchers. We are women who are spread around the country, and eventually you will learn you we are, and what books we like to read.Don't be intimidated, just pop in and tell us who you are, and what you are reading now.
This is a thread we had on the WW 50 Year old board, so even though most of us have moved beyond our 50's, I am keeping it here. Some prefer to post on Facebook, but for those who may also like to post on something that resembles our old format, I decided to start this. Although we were brought together by our love of books, and we love to share our ideas about books and authors, our friendship has grown, and we know a lot about each others lives. We are spread across the country, and that adds a bit of interest as well, learning about other people's way of life through the "book" they write on the thread.
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Post by karen54171 on Jun 19, 2020 11:58:06 GMT
Good morning. Lots of clouds out there this morning. Expecting rain later this afternoon.
Marsha, about the Badger/Notre Dame game, I saw a bit of a video on IG last night, with Barry Alvarez, saying nothing has been changed at this time, and at this time the game will be played at Lambeau. Did you walk Mitzi this morning? It seemed more humid this morning, when I opened up the windows and patio door. Very cloudy out, but interesting shapes to the clouds. Of course it is supposed to storm when we are going to DD house.
Gareth, what are you going to do with all that stuff you brought home from work? Lol, you could go on FB marketplace and sell it! I am still surprised they closed your store, since it seemed to do so good. I still need to check out the robot vac's, was going to do it months ago, and of course something else got in the way, and side tracked my mind. Where did you buy yours? I am going to do that; keep a mask in the car. I normally have one right by my purse, so I don't know what happened and of course if I do not remind DH, he will not think of it.
Robin, I made the 3 layer brownie, and wow, it is so rich and sweet, plus it called for 3 TB. of bourbon. We tasted it afterwards and decided we will bring some for the parents, but I will stop at my most favorite bakery and get something for the kids, as I do not think they should eat them with the bourbon in it. Way to go on not being responsible for that meeting!!! Sometimes we find out that people don't care about a certain thing, when there is no one to run it.
Carol, I am sorry about that former member of your church. We still do not know anyone that has passed due to the virus. As you all know, we have had 2 deaths, but not from the virus. Refresh my memory, how old is your DGS? I am guessing 2? Good luck to his parents on potty training. We were lucky with our girls, but our grand daughters were another story! I am going to stock my console today with masks.
Hi to Pinky and Anngie!!!!
Starting later today, for the next 7 days is a chance of rain. Our dry spell is coming to an end. It sure was nice, but I am happy to have the rain water my plants for a change.
Am looking forward to the fish fry tonight at DD. DH took a lot of fish out of the freezer and fileted them yesterday, so it should be good, as DSIL is such a good cook. I just might surprise everyone and forgo my usual wine, and have an old fashion instead.
Of course my weigh in this morning was not good, as expected, as this week has not been good. So onward!
Have a wonderful day everyone.
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Post by pinky on Jun 19, 2020 14:05:19 GMT
Hi to all!
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Post by mikendanni on Jun 19, 2020 14:05:32 GMT
Karen - interesting about the badger game. I must have heard a rumor or perhaps someone was speculating. I did walk Mitzi and it was a bit warmer than yesterday but I still wore a light jacket so I would have a pocket for my phone. DH left at about 8 to take her on her 2nd walk and it was much warmer by then. Have fun tonight.
I have at least one mask in my purse and one in my car. Not that I ever go anywhere, but if I do, I am ready.
Carol - so sorry to hear about your friend from church.
We didn't have fish tacos for dinner last night so I guess that will be tonight. DD called (several times) and we couldn't get her off the phone. the first time she needed to vent about her roommate. They are deep into the BLM movement and dd is very analytical, needing to discuss all points of views and understand all the arguments. Her roommate is very black and white, if you question anything then you are against the movement. Apparently they had words, roommate walked out of the conversation, dd went in her room and slammed her door, they did not do their planned dinner together, and roommate went to work. Hurt feelings all around. Anyway, she had to vent about that for maybe an hour and a half? before we finally got her off the phone. then I didn't want to cook so we had leftovers. later she called again because she wanted to talk about an email she was writing to one of her professors and that turned into another can't-get-her-off-the-phone event. Basically she had finished everything she needed to do for class, her roommate was gone, she was home alone and lonely and bored. Tonight she is going to a friend for a murder mystery game. I'm glad she's getting out with other friends. I think being at home with just one roommate is really hard.
Still working on an indoor chores list for this weekend since it's supposed to rain. DH went to Walmart and couldn't find my dawn dish soap or Fantastic, but he bought 2 large bags of Uncle Ben's Converted Rice so we will have rice for a while. And a big bag of Alpo dog treats so Mitzi will be happy.
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Post by mikendanni on Jun 19, 2020 14:05:45 GMT
Hi Pinky!
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Post by RobinS811 on Jun 19, 2020 14:55:26 GMT
Pinky, it is good to hear from you even if it is just to say hi. I would imagine you also have to curtail some of your work in the office. Can you get someone else to help out?
Karen, that is what we often forget, that people die when it is from something else. I am still trying to find out what is going on with my next door neighbor. If I don't see my other neighbors, I can't ask. They are the only ones who I could really stop and ask. I saw one of her friends getting into her car outside her house, but I couldn't get her attention to ask. I know her because her oldest DD was in school with my youngest DS for all the years.
Carol, it does hit closer to home when you find out you know someone who died of it, or who has had it. The people we know who died were either clients, although one couple was someone I knew quite well, because I helped him out with a lot of the things we had to do for them, medicaid renewals and pooled trust info, but the other not as well. One of my older DS's friend's father died of it, but he apparently had been sick for the past number of years, and they thought he was going to die last year. All the others have had it and recovered, only one had to be hospitalized.
Marsha, I always found that my friends' DD's were more dramatic than the boys were. My older DS lived with someone all 4 years, they were friends from camp, but were not really close, but they roomed together freshman year in the dorm, joined the same fraternity, lived off campus the next 3. After the first year off campus, this other guy basically didn't speak to any of the other room mates. I heard the basic story, which took him all of 2 minutes to tell me, end of story. As far as the BLM protests, I can obviously see them protesting, I had certainly done enough of that back in the day, but I can't see the violence. It is funny around here, not that people have self-segregated, but if someone had 1 black family living in their community, everyone wanted to talk about how they were friends with that one family, like it was a status symbol. But, more than one? No one wants to admit that they really didn't want that. If they weren't a professional, higher up in a large company, celebrity or ball player, no one wanted them, but just wouldn't admit it. And still won't see that side of them.
Our parking lot in our office is getting resurfaced today through Sunday, so we did not go in. We share the parking lot with a restaurant next door. He wanted to do something so he could have outdoor seating. He did build up a patio area right off the back door, but that can only have 2 tables, and he wanted more. Right now on our anniversary at least there is no rain expected, and the high is down to 85, but let's see what my DH will agree to.
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Post by carol2 on Jun 19, 2020 15:38:47 GMT
The man who died was in his 70s. We didn't know him real well. I don't know if he had other health problems, but now that I think about it, he may have been a smoker or someone who used to smoke. I asked about a checker at Walmart since I haven't seen him in weeks. Well, he has heart problems so he quit. He is a nice, friendly guy, but he has to take care of his health.
Robin, I know what you mean about people claiming they are not racist because they are friends with that one black family. That is how it was at the church we attended when we lived in Dallas. There were 2 black families and people would point out that we were all friendly to them. However, these same people would tell you how they were run out of their neighborhoods because of blacks moving in. What happened is one black family would move into a neighborhood and by the next weekend, there would 5 or 6 houses for sale. No one was forced out. The white families didn't want to be a minority. It was crazy. Of course, that was almost 40 years ago so I don't know how it is now.
Yes, there seems to be much more drama with girls. In college, DD shared an apartment with 3 others and 1 of them abruptly moved out. We were helping move out DD after she graduated and there was stuff going on then between 2 other girls. Until she got married, she lived alone because she didn't want to have to deal with roommates.
DGS is 2. They were trying to train him by him going diaperless and having him sit on the potty every 15 minutes or so. It didn't seem to click that he should go to the potty when he needed to pee. I told her later that they might try putting him in underpants so when he did pee he would be uncomfortable with wet pants. I think I did this in a nice way where they didn't think I thought they were doing it the wrong way.
Hi to all especially Pinky!
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Post by gareth on Jun 19, 2020 16:25:08 GMT
Karen, what's your plan B if the weather doesn't cooperate later? What do you all think I brought home yesterday?!..lol. No, I don't need to sell anything. It was just a few things that I could use like TV trays and ice melt, most being edible.
Pinky, always good to hear from you! Can't wait until you're back to your chatty self again!
Marsha, too bad about DD's roommate. Is it someone different from last year?
Robin, hope the weather cooperates for your anniversary!
It was my never ending laundry again this morning. We had a thunderstorm that woke me in the night. It's cloudy and has looked like rain all morning which is predicted so I didn't chance walking outdoors. Rain chances every day in the 7 day forecast with the highest chances today and tomorrow. Looks like indoor walking again tomorrow.
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Post by mikendanni on Jun 19, 2020 16:31:45 GMT
Gareth - same roommate as last year. But right now they are the only 2 living in the apartment. Plus classes just started and dd gets very stressed and a bit less flexible when she's in class. I think it's too much time one on one just the 2 of them. I'm glad dd has other plans tonight.
Re potty training. When ds was little my cousin gave me the best advice which of course I didn't take. She said he will potty train when he is good and ready and nothing you can do as a parent will change that. Sure enough, I spent a year trying to get him to go potty - sitting on the potty, singing potty songs, reading potty books, m&m rewards. (One of his daycare teachers told all the parents send them in underwear and she will change them as many times as necessary so we all went home with 3 sets of dirty pants at the end of every day). I drove myself crazy for a year until he decided it was time. With dd, I didn't even bother to try. One day she was potty trained.
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Post by Anngie on Jun 19, 2020 17:00:18 GMT
Hello everyone! Getting hot and humid here. No rain in the forecast either. For Father’s Day we’ve always had a small family get together - DBIL/DSIL, nephew, DS2 and DGF, so I just got back from the store hopefully for the last time.
Karen, that dessert sounds delicious! Pinky, glad you stopped by! Take care! Gareth, it’s always nice to have gift cards to put towards something you really want, isn’t it! Marsha, wow, what drama! My friends with daughters are always talking about all they have to listen to! Boys, for sure, deal with things much calmer and “get over it” much quicker. I’ll bet your son was this way too. Robin, good to put your foot down on those networking meetings. I’ve always found once you start something, it’s yours forever! lol It doesn’t sound like that guy would have been dependable. Carol, sounds like you have one smart little DGS!
What do you think of this! Yesterday we spent an afternoon with long-time friends on their boat. By the time 5:00 came around we thought we stop for a quick pizza at a sit down restaurant. Apart of what we ordered for ourselves, they ordered a small pizza for their daughter to bring home. When the bill came DH said to split the check - and that’s what we did! The point being, we paid for their daughter’s pizza. They didn’t insist that we not! Just to point out, they’re good friends and this certainly will not become a problem, but we would never let someone pay for our kids dinner.
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Post by RobinS811 on Jun 19, 2020 17:47:32 GMT
Anngie, that must have been a beautiful day on the boat. My DH definitely would have done what yours did, but regardless of the outcome, the other couple definitely should have said something. At least offer to pay the full tip. Aren't you proud of how our state is doing?
I decided to go out to a bagel store to get something for lunch, one that I have never been to, and I they had my ideal bagel that I have never seen before, pumpernickel everything. I had a half with veggie tuna.
Carol, as far as potty training for boys goes, it's like a lot of other things, they don't have the fine muscle control at as early an age as girls do, so it is harder for them to learn to hold themselves. Think about it also, girls can hold their legs together, boys, not sure what happens. Same reason that there is usually a difference in how boys and girls color, and write, at a certain age.
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Post by RobinS811 on Jun 19, 2020 22:17:55 GMT
Anngie, you know where my DH told me we can go for a few days? I lawyer friend of his has a house on Saranac Lake. And he thinks it is a good idea, kind of a shlep from Long Island.
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