Thinking how lovely it is to always have this place to come back to. Seeing familiar faces in the photos and catching up on what everyone is talking about and just feeling that familiarity that something has been around long enough to feel cozy. ♡

Life...things.....etc
 

Sounds miserable. We also have a neighbor who gets in a nod setting off the ear piercing fire alarm at 0400. Stand out in the cold with little on waiting for fd to clear the building. Our cats get terrified!
Thankful that I am a nightowl. Don't go to bed until dawn usually.

Internet problems. I really don't need this today.

I guess it could be worse.

Hello's Given :)
 

I just gave thanks to the last 10 visitors to my page here :) You are most welcome to visit any time!

Enjoying your visits :thumbsup:

Ks-

p.s. :loveBFP:

A small measure of relief....

My cousin Ron is still in ICU, but they were able to stop the internal bleeding, and he is breathing on his own.

Ron was the passenger in the car that killed his brother, but wound up with many injuries that will take a while to recover from fully.

Collapsed lung
Broken ribs
Broken sternum
Internal bleeding
Many soft tissue injuries

To me, it seems most of his injuries were probably caused by the airbag, but I cannot imagine the extent of his injuries had it not held him in place as the car rolled over multiple times. THAT is how hard and how fast the drunk driver hit the car.

Scott had no chance, not even with a nurse seeing the accident and performing CPR

Please don’t drink and drive, please.....

Work—I’m finally home and relaxing. They wore me out. I’ve been up since midnight and have been working since 6am. Today I’ve been exhausted, grumpy, and obstinate—but I met the deadline.

A high-level manager asked me something for the third time in two days and I snapped. It was a small but noticeable snap—done in the presence of someone else. We’ve bumped heads in the past and she has a rep for being rude and nasty, though she wasn’t rude nor nasty with me today. She was just annoying at the wrong time. I’m not too concerned, but I’ll need to tell my manager.

And, I’ve been pigging out for a few days—it’s been delicious. Today I had a burger and fries and this morning it was donut sticks. Last night it was pizza. Tonight’s dinner will be a couple of vodka gimlets and some purple urkle.

I think I’ve gained 2 or 3 lbs., but I can live with that.

And I still think about her.

Still, things could be worse.

:poc-cool:

Orema, sounds like you have been handling yourself well under extreme pressure ... infinitely better than I do. I usually invite him (it is always a male) to join me in a little excursion to the warehouse. I then chew him out.

Hugs to you, sweet lady! (f)

That I should have taken out the trash sooner, so to speak, when she decided to act like the victim all the time, when she allows herself to be controlled by someone else.

Ron has been moved to “medium care”, and will be airlifted to California either today or Tuesday.

He has a long road to recovery ahead, but it looks like he is going to make it!

Thank you all for your kind words and your prayers (f)

Yet another job change. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. I'm grateful that companies want to hire me, but it has been quite a whirlwind in the job arena the last two years. I just want this one to be what it promises to be. I'm tired of getting wined and dined to find out that it's all bullshit.

On my mind
 

Etiquette.
I fear that etiquette and manners are being lost these days.

Social etiquette
Dinning etiquette
Conversation etiquette

There were rules on how to conduct yourself in social situations that seem to be disappearing.

We the mentors, should set examples for appropriate social etiquette.

:tea:

Etiquette.
I fear that etiquette and manners are being lost these days.

Social etiquette
Dinning etiquette
Conversation etiquette

There were rules on how to conduct yourself in social situations that seem to be disappearing.

We the mentors, should set examples for appropriate social etiquette.

:tea:[/quote]

Have please, thank you, you're welcome, pardon me, excuse me, "go ahead, you were here first" even if it's a fib to someone obviously busier, holding too much, struggling with young kids, and one of my favorites, " I'm sorry" to someone accidently victim of a slight disappeared?

How about phone ettiquette?
Hello, no, may I take a message, hold a moment please, thank you and goodbye. People observing my immediate family are astonished at the formalities. Not formal, just polite...to the cats, too. If they've curled up in a common spot, like a chair, well, its theirs until they get up. If spot really wanted, there's always the offer of bribes like cat treats. But if they choose to stay in the spot, an alternate needs to be found by/for the human.

Sure hope common courtesy can be resurrected!:soapbox:

meetings

emails

decisions

packing

moving

not necessarily in that order

On my mind is that it's less than 18 months before the election in 2020.

*tick tock, tick tock*

J is on my mind. She has a growth, and had to have a biopsy. It's affecting her thyroid and they've decided it has to be removed. They're thinking they should be able to leave enough of her thyroid untouched for her to not have to be on on medication. Of course there's the chance that she will but her insurance will cover it and even if for some strange reason it wasn't covered the generic is really inexpensive. Anyhow the plan is to hold off on treatment until after the baby is born. Since they don't suspect cancer I'm not sure why she needed to have a biopsy. Maybe it's just a standard procedure thing, a case of being doubly cautious because she's pregnant.