So that's my dream. That and some stuff about cigars and a tunnel.

Faith ,'Get It Done'


Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Laura - Sep 28, 2024 10:15:50 am PDT #2759 of 4155
Our wings are not tired.

Speaking of soup! This was in my email today with 6 soups. Including my favorites, tomato, butternut squash, and mushroom varieties. [link] As always, I suggest looking at several recipes and picking and choosing what looks good. I would not recommend combining tomato, butternut squash, and mushrooms together though. That would be very tricky.


askye - Sep 28, 2024 4:52:35 pm PDT #2760 of 4155
Thrive to spite them

Dad got power back.

Main Street businesses here are open. We don't a have power. I got to work. Only had one close call with a car...came half a car length of hitting me. Managed to skip ahead of the line and turn to get into work. Almost everyone was in line for the Gas station..

We ran out of bread, about to run out of water , peanut butter, no candles etc.. most wal marts are closed due to no power. If it wasn't for the power outage Tuesday and the generator we got our store would be closed.

At home we have few candles. One flash light. My phone. I have a portable charge but it needs a micro USB to charge it and I left that charger at home. So it's for some power but not sure how much.

I don't have enough gas to get to work tomorrow. Or enough gas to wait on a long line for gas. M may get up early in the morning to see if the line would be shorter. I'm hoping. If he can get me gas I'll probably go into work.

I got hot from all the running around but I had hot food which was nice


Laura - Sep 28, 2024 5:48:15 pm PDT #2761 of 4155
Our wings are not tired.

Power~ma! Did you manage to clear out your freezer/fridge before the power went out? My sister starts going down to as little as possible refrigerated in the spring. I clear as much as I can before I go north for the summer. Summer in Florida means you will lose power at some point.


Sheryl - Sep 29, 2024 7:40:08 am PDT #2762 of 4155
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Got my covid shot yesterday. My arm hurts and I'm feeling a little blah. Of course I haven't gotten enough sleep because silly boy had to come into our room and be disruptive. Sigh...


meara - Sep 29, 2024 10:47:04 am PDT #2763 of 4155

Today much better than yesterday already. Got up felt ok and went and met my friend and her 2.5 year old at toddler soccer. Hilarious. Then we walked around a bit with the dog (toddler insists on having the leash, which is super cute), hit the grocery store, about to do some laundry, and then a soccer game! Yesterday I sat on the couch the whole day.


Laura - Sep 29, 2024 11:20:12 am PDT #2764 of 4155
Our wings are not tired.

beekaytee, I'm no help on the legal stuff, but please send Todd my love and let her know she is missed.


Pix - Sep 29, 2024 1:13:58 pm PDT #2765 of 4155
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Also the finance person. ND is always willing to listen, but it can be hard to engage about it sometimes. It was incredibly hard these past four years when money was so grim and there just weren't any solutions. We've turned that corner now finally with the closing out of Dad's estate and ND's business thriving again (finally, post-Covid!!!) due to his hard work and tenacity, but woof.

We do have an existing trust we set up before we got married, but we never actually put anything in it (never had any assets!), but now that we have paid down a lot of debt and have equity in the house despite the mortgage, we need to revisit it. It's on my list for early next year. I also need to talk to a financial adviser about my TIAA-Cref retirement investments to make sure they are what they need to be so I can retire in 12-15 years.

Friends, things are a shitshow at work. Being very vague on the extremely unlikely case anyone could find this post, we are 90% sure our Big Boss (BB) just fired our secondary Big Boss (SBB), who had been at the school 25 years and was beloved. SBB has been disappeared. No one in lower admin knows where she is, but she's been removed from email lists and her work phone has been turned off. No announcement has been made. If this is true, a LOT of people are going to leave this school by the end of this year. It's...it's not good. SBB was the only one putting guard rails on BB, who has gotten more and more rigid and scary the longer she's been in power.


Pix - Sep 29, 2024 1:17:38 pm PDT #2766 of 4155
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Cereal: Beekaytee, I'm so sorry to hear about Toddson. Thank you for helping her. I don't have any connections beyond recommending doing what you probably already have done, which is to do some googling to find local attorneys who can help. Durable POA isn't too expensive to set up, and I'm sure those of us who are able would contribute to help pay for it.


Steph L. - Sep 29, 2024 1:18:40 pm PDT #2767 of 4155
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I'm sure those of us who are able would contribute to help pay for it.

Absolutely.


beekaytee - Sep 29, 2024 2:58:05 pm PDT #2768 of 4155
Compassionately intolerant

Cheers, Laura, Pix and Steph. I will figure something out. The case worker may have ideas and, at the very least, I can check with the Legal Services for the Elderly, through AARP for her.