INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours
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Spookie, I thought you talked a about moving out of where you live at one time.... ? No, I KNEW you wouldn't move out of Florida.... I thought you said to another neighborhood.... I must have been dreaming.....
Jazzy, I think the storms that develop, are coming in from South West of here.... And you are driving back to NM from there? Be careful!
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I think Janie would move down to Florida if she could! I mean when she retires, and she won't leave until we are gone.... We would move there too, but not leave her here.....
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Eyeore said it's too hard to move. Old fart!!!!
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ah-HAH! I KNEW I heard it somewhere! I know how stubborn they can be.... The older they get, the more they dig their feet in..... It's hard on him when I move the furniture around in the living room.... Not to MENTION the bed-room.... they get " lost" when you do that....
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wish he would get lost somewhere, like the Gulf.
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Chevy--that's a really great story about documenting the Coors history. I drank a lot of Coors light in college. Sadly, I'm now a wine drinker and if I do occasionally have a beer, it's usually a fancy schmancy microbrew.
Funny that you called Sassy Nurse Ratchet--that's what my siblings and I call our mom! Not only does she have an uncanny resemblance to Louise Fletcher (the actress that played her in the movie) but she began her career as a psychiatric nurse at Camarillo State Mental Institution back in the days when shock treatments, lobotomies and Thorazine were standard treatments.
Jazzy--be careful coming home
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⬆️⬆️⬆️ More man candy because he's bald and beautiful and most of my hair came out when I took it out of a my ponytail this morning when I got home from work at 2 a
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Marla..... You are beautiful! Just remember that.... ! And remember .... Everything is temporary....
Isn't he some hunk of a man? I mean SERIOUSLY!
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thanks, Chevy!
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The Rock is far from being broke now. Love the tattoos on his left side, the design and meanings come from his Samoan heritage. Did a paper once on the Polynesian culture and tattooing in Samoa for a Cultural Anthropology class. In Samoa, both sexes are tattooed. The male's tattoo tends to be more bold and striking, while the woman's tattoo is more lacy and feminine.
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Mom2... Yes, I read about him on IMBD..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_Johnson
He just sounds like such a nice guy... Not like a lot of the Hollywood spoiled celebrities....That article talks about his Mother, also!
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His eyes. You can get lost in his eyes.
Oops, morning everyone. Sleepy head me. Got a solar pool heating system installed yesterday -----so---I will swim more. Bad me, I've already talked myself out of swimming twice. My excuse that it was too cold is hx now. Definitely need at attitude readjustment.
Patty hootie hooo---do you like chocolate? any nut allergies in the house? When are the kids coming home?
I'm Nurse Ratched? One of my paramedic classes called me the Iron Lady. Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister then and that was her nick name. I thought it was pretty cool. Fear LOL. All those tough guy firefighters and little ole me.
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ohhhhh nice for winter!!!
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Spookie, yes, supposed to be able to get 300 days of swim time. Now I just need to get in.......
Chevy, I love your stories about Coors. Did you ever hear if Coors still publishes your book? Did Coors ever do anything nice for you for all the effort? They should have. Is Coors still family owned?
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Well, it's been Miller-Coors for a long time now.... When I retired, my boss threw a big party, and a party-bus took us up gambling, and dinner!
She gave me 2 hard-bound copies of the book, but the ones our print-shop were actually better.... They put them in like a spiral-binder... It was just plain fun to do that.... When I started there in 1980, I was so impressed with the "family".... I saw them all the time, and they were the NICEST people you would ever want to meet.... So respectful of all of us.... Pete's Daughters worked in our department at one time or another.... just fun kids! One time Melissa didn't have enough money for her hamburger, when we ran over to Sam's for our lunch.... So I bought her Hamburger...
The next day Pete said "You cost me $20 because I didn't have the right change to give her to pay you back!" Hah! I wouldn't take any money.... I worked part time for 18 1/2 years, and they gave us a PENSION! Not many companies do that.... But it all changes..... all companies change.... I'm just fortunate I got to work there.... and loved my job.
And Spookie said "Winter?" Hah! She don't know Winter! Winter is like 65 degrees... But honestly the pools stay cold! Even at 92 degrees out....
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Chevy, that was very nice. They sound like wonderful people. AND a pension for part time, so unheard of. Too often companies make sure workers can't qualify for benefits by hiring part time.
Rosie girl, How you doing?
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benadryl and hydrocortizone and things are looking up! My arm is less hot and red. I definitely am setting off a bomb at the cabin. We get some pretty amazing spiders up there.. that despite my live and let live attitude they are going to be gassed. ... I'll probably come back as a spider.. Reminds me of that far side cartoon where the 2 spiders made a web across a slide and a little boy was at the top - the spiders say to each other -"If we pull this off we'll be eating like KINGS!"
Dear Chevy your house sounds just wonderful! I hope you get to stay there until you get called home. When we were first married my DH and I rented a house on "O Street" in Sacramento. It was a 2 story Victorian all made out of redwood, built in the 1880s. Even the flooring was redwood! The bottom story was just barely 7 feet tall made to raise the house up from flooding before the levies were installed. DH and I rented the entire upstairs 3 beds, parlor with pocket doors, tall leaded glass windows, gorgeous woodwork, livingroom and kitchen. All the plumbing was added to the back of the house. There was no heat in the bathroom and in the winter.. taking a shower was brutal. We had a freeze and all the pipes burst - frozen waterfall! There was a lovely back porch and front porch. It was a great house but the furnace was scary and the plumbing was scary and when you plugged in the airconditioner everything dimmed. I was glad I didn't own it as lovely as it was. It would have taken a small fortune to upgrade all the utilities but the lot and location was to die for, right downtown and walkable to everything. Old houses have such charm if you can afford them.
I made california rolls- sushi this morning.. huge tray of them fake crab etc.. my Asian DDs love them. Then off to the last clay class..boo hoo. Doesn't start up again until Sept. Glazing today.. whoo hoo! I like glazing it's so fun.
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When we moved in here, this house had a floor furnace, and a vent that was upstairs where the girls room was... That's how their room got heated... and later on it was condemned, and the Landlord put in a floor furnace.... Then DH put in an outlet from the pipe up under our bathroom floor, and into the bathroom, and like you said it FROZE in the winter! We STILL leave a drip running when it gets down to around zero....
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Rosie, glad the arm looks better. DH one time when he first came to Florida. Was taking a run on a hammock trail. First experience. About a third of the way in he ran into a Silk spider web. They can be several feet in diameter. It hit him in the face . He started flailing and turning and got wrapped in it and all the dead things already in the web. Then he saw the spider. Scary buggars
Couldn't get it to copy. Lot's of silk spiders in this link.
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Off to Ruby Tuesday and to see Jurrasic Park in 3D Imax. Should be plenty scary
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Sassy--for our area, we have an RN that works for our fire department and she over sees them and us EMD's as well. Ironically, a former co-worker (dispatcher) is now an RN and she's in charge of pre-hospital care at our local hospital.
Chevy, my brother lives in So. Dakota in a house built in 1920. He put in a wood burning stove shortly after he moved in. Or I should say, my dad put in a wood burning stove--our "handyman" is willing to travel 2300 miles and does more than garbage disposals! He heats most of his house that way. Of course, when Matt got an Alaskan husky a few years back, he keeps the house at 60* because the dog likes it colder.
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This one is my favorite--I even went dressed as Hal one Halloween way back when I was in college and the Far Side was still being published. Even so, only 5 people knew what my costume was:
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My little house up north had one of those floor heater things. Had a vent hole in the 2 bedrooms upstairs. Yeah, it got chilly up there. The bathroom had NO heat, a cast iron tub that never got warm. As soon as we got a tax refund, we had central heat and air put
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Rosie i worry about u
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Blondie- Ha you are so cute! You are the one in hospice my dear, worry not! Focus on your trip and filling up with memories and fun with your family.
I am worried about my brother who dearly loved his little black cat Sabrina. She was 15 and dragging herself around having lost her ability to move her back legs from a spinal tumor. He put her down. This must have been awful. She was like child to him. He's divorced, no kids zip.. all the world for a beloved pet. It's very sad.
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Rose, Sympathies for your brother. The kindest thing we can do for them is the hardest on us. I firmly believe they will be with me again.
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Morning gals........ You are right Wren, but it's amazing how much it does hurt... It STILL does, when I think of Lacee... I try and remember her being a healthy, happy little girl, but all you can think about is her going down-hill... and how we tried to help her....
Rosie.... that's true... "All the world for a beloved Pet"....Sorry about your Brother and his Sabrina... I know..........
Wasn't it fun though to grow up through all those years without technology? And getting your first TV? I thought it was like a miracle.... And even talking "Long Distance!" I worked for Mountain Bell as a Long Distance Operator from 1955 until 1958, when Direct Distance Dialing went in...
I know I'm older than most of you guys, but those years when they were just coming out with these new "inventions" were the best! And we spent all of our time outdoors... playing with friends even when it was DARK out, running all around the neighborhood, not afraid of anything. Never locking our doors!
It was even nice with our girls growing up in the 50's and 60's.... Just seems like life was easier and more calmed down then.... But glad we survived.... Ha! People have to have so much more money now-a-days, to survive... Or else it's remembering how we DID'NT have to have all the phones, cars, and things we are used to now... We couldn't afford a PHONE when we first got married... I stayed at home with the girls, and DH was working to support us all... But those were the happiest years of our lives!
When you start out with almost nothing, and then somehow make things work, it just makes you appreciate the little things in live that come to you... Okay... that's enough being serious for awhile....
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