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Dear Bettie! Sorry you’re feeling yucky! Sorry you didn’t get either of those accounts. And that Jen hasn’t heard about the job yet. Either way, it’s nice for employers to let the people know, whether the candidate is successful or not. Has she applied for other positions as well? If I find a guy that runs circles around me and jumps up and down because he’s so excited to see, I’m sending him to you. Never mind asking him if he has a brother! lol! Carole
Hey Bettie! Thursday evening, you must be at your GA meeting, and didn’t have time to post. Has Jen heard about the job she interviewed for? I hope she gets it as she could use a bit of good news. I’m starting to feel a bit saner. Gambling, in response to stress, can make a person feel like they are losing their grip on their sanity. Some of us have to hang onto our sanity really tight. lol! I am looking forward to just relaxing when you are here. You probably could use some down time as well. Margaritas and bbqs, a campfire, and fresh country air, and floating down the river on our inner tubes. I’m going to go to the tire shop and get two of them, one for each one of us. There’s a chance that we may see otters floating down the river as well. Did you know that they hold hands when they float so they don’t get seperated. We might even go fishing. They have walleye (pickerel), jack, and trout in the lake. As well as tubing being pulled behind the boat. I hope the weather will be nice. Carole
Dear Larry! I saw the question you posed in Sherrie’s game, and thought to myself, I wouldn’t touch that question with a ten foot pole. lol! I wondered who would. Carole
Dear Bettie! The days here are getting cooler and produce is ripe to pick so that tells me that we’re slowly easing into fall. Probably not what anybody wants to hear. Flowers have bloomed and the only ones left are the die hards it seems, like marigolds and petunias. I was planning to weed my memorial garden today but it is overcast which means mosquitoes so am not going to do that. May do some cleaning. My toe is still swollen and bruised but it is less painful as long as the dogs and cat don’t accidentally touch it. I have not taken one day to lay in my yard on a lounge chair and read a good book this summer yet. No roadtrip, no nothing! I haven’t done anything for me it seems, thinking I don’t have the time. We are not going to do a lick of work other than dishes (have dishwasher) when you’re here. I’m going to take the whole 5 days to enjoy your visit and meeting Cat. Carole
Dear Bettie! My mother would tell you that it would not be a good idea to get to know the neighbours because they might come over wanting to have coffee. I learned that lesson well, so I keep far away from my neighbours. We wave at each other and look out for each other, but have never socialized with them. After hubby left tonight, I gambled as I was feeling too overwhelmed. For the record, I accept that my life had become unmanageble but I have yet to totally surrender to the idea that gambling beat me. I’m still using it sometimes as a coping tool. I am totally messed up these days. Carole
Dear Bettie! My hubby has an IPAD so you two can teach each other. Don’t know which of you knows more about the tablet and the applications. lol! Today I slammed my foot into the metal leg of a bed and injured it. it’s the same toes that I broke on 2 previous occasions. They aren’t broken this time but are injured. And I was mentioning that I thought you were accident prone. lol! Hubby and my son-in-law started putting the laminate down today and all kinds of things had to be ripped off like my baseboards and a half wall of vertical pieces of wood like a fence in the room when you first come in. I thought I was making progress but this is going to be a long time before this unit is completed, because hubby is gone so much. It’s a bit discouraging. Today hubby was being a bit of an ass, so I decided I was going to go gamble but that I needed to vaccum the house first. Then I decided that why should I go do something harmful to myself because he’s being the ass? So I didn’t go and had a nap instead. He leaves later tomorrow to go back to work.
Dear Bettie! I see that I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t get on site. Thankfully it is repaired now. Maybe you are having urges because you are going on a little vacation, and are stressing a bit about that. If that’s why-stop! Everything will be fine! Remind me when we’re in the city that I want to buy a cross stitch pattern of flowers. I have never cross stitched but I like hand sewing so this seems like the perfect hobby for me. The idea came to me out of nowhere. Someone will have to show me how but I remember my mother doing it, so if my mother can learn that, so can I. Cleaning my cat’s litter box is enough to give me urges. Have to shower and get my work pjs on and walk to the rental. Hubby leaves to go back to the city tomorrow to fly out Tuesday morning. I won’t see him until I see you. Carole
That is so sad and so senseless a 6 year old being shot in a movie theatre. My thoughts go out to this family who are reeling in shock now and will experience the deepest grief from losing a child in this manner. A parent’s worse nightmare has just come true for this family. Carole
I’m exactly like you in that I won’t let things go, until I’ve vented to the rooftops to others. I would have gathered my camp of fellow workers who thought I was in the right until I thought that others understood that I had been wronged. How sick is that? Good thing I don’t work anymore. Hopefully your situation will remind me to take the high road. Carole
Dear Bettie! That teller is definitely in the wrong, and had no business telling you how you should be doing your job. And in front of a customer; she should be reprimanded for that. Sounds like she could be a reason for the customer satisfaction score to be low. Like I said previously, it sounds like you work in a shark tank. Carole
Dear Bettie! Nothing to be nervous about. It’s not like we’re strangers who haven’t met before. Is this your first time flying? I always get nervous about doing something for the first time, whether there’s anything to be nervous about. The next 3 weeks will fly by for me with the amount of work I have to do. lol! Carole
Wow Bettie! You sure seem accident prone. Hopefully you’ll have medical insurance when you visit, though I think that most insurers don’t cover anything to do with pre-existing conditions. I have a friend who has diabetic neuropathy in her feet and she is in chronic pain like you are. Nerve pain they say is the hardest to control. It was thoughtful of my granddaughter to bring me the cupcakes but I’m already eating a red velvet cake with cream cheese icing I bought yesterday. lol! What are your plans for the weekend? Hopefully rest and don’t get re-injured, or another injury. Maybe stay in bed. lol! Carole
Hey Larry! Sounds like you have Bettie and I figured out about the margaritas. More than one or two, I’m very sure that we could and would get ourselves in trouble of some sort. Does a beer mug full of margarita drink count as one drink? Carole
Yup! Hoping that this hot weather will end, though I’ll probably be the first one complaining how cold it is in the winter. Thank God that your niece could be admitted so quickly to a treatment program. As parents, and I know as grandparents, when our kids and grandkids hurt, we hurt for them. Even though it has been 10 years since Frankie died, the acute grief lessens, but we still grieve for our loved one. I am thinking about you. My FIL called me to go for supper with him at a Chinese food restaurant tonight, so seeing as I forgot to eat today because of the heat, I decided to go. He told me stories of how he met my MIL and about her work history before they got married. He asked me at some point if I was getting bored, and I told him it was fascinating, which it was, as I miss my MIL also. So glad I didn’t say no to going. I’ve got another ice pack on my head trying to cool down. lol Carole
Geez, that banking business sounds like a shark tank. Liz unfortunately is not coming as her husband has to return in a month’s time for stents in his other leg, plus they are going to Legoland with their grandson. You are the undisputed Queen of meeting people from GT. lol! Cat will be the 5th person I meet. I eventually want to go meet with Vera in Ireland. I didn’t get much done today as it’s too darn hot! Supposed to have temperatures of 30 C or over the rest of the week. Think I’ll crawl into my downstairs freezer to cool down. Carole