I can't get my act together and I don't know why

Isabella4

Wonder why the slippers are only in WOMENS sizes only ??

Talking of cleaning ladies, mine came last week and announced she is flaming pregnant..aaaarrrgggghhh. So it'll be no lifting this, and no reaching under there, great big spend on baby clothes, then, no doubt, the new baby will be screaming for hours in my kitchen while its mother is supposed to be cleaning.

I need a real big, good, sound excuse to part company with this young woman, but without any discrimination lawsuits flying my way !!!! Any ideas, my brain isn't thinking at all this week. Oh, and of course DH mentioned the pregnancy thing when I set her on, and me being clever, said no, no way will she do that !!!! Well she has, and I am thinking of sharpening my shovels this week !!!

Isabella.

Daffodil

Isabella, I don't know the laws in the UK, but if you are thinking the worst, you just may be right.

The first time she plays the pregnancy card, I would play MY cancer card! While you wish her and her baby well, you have to put first things first, i.e. your recovery. There are too many stages for us to get through with "work" restrictions to have "help" that WE are waiting on~~~even if the help is the DH!!!

With endless gratitude to my "help"........

Anonymous

I kinda like those slippers.  But, I'd rather MULTI-TASK!  Yes sir.  I took the upright vacuum cleaner that we keep upstairs downstairs to vaccum.  Bunch of cat hair down there and that vaccum works better.  Well, then I decided to look for a label to put on a box I've been needing to send to my dd.  Well, I then went through the junk drawer.  Started throwing some things out and there's other stuff on top of the counter.  I closed the drawer half way cuz I wasn't done.  I then decided to clean the kitchen...the vaccum is still standing there.  So, I came up to tell dh something and now I'm on the puter.  I multi-task real well.  I'll NEVER get kicked off this thread.  LOL

Shirley

Anonymous

Isabella, do you have to let the woman bring her screaming baby while she's cleaning?  Is that the law in the UK?  Geez! 

Shirley

SherriM

Shirley--sounds like you're afflicted with what dh and I have dubbed my "ch-add", chemo attention deficit disorder.  You just described my life. 

sueper13

Well, I cleaned one closet, waiting for the results of my CT scan of my chest. Got the results, and the areas are unchanged, which means they weren't cancerous. Granulomas are what they think they are. Nothing to worry about. YIPPEE!

My closet looks great, and did indeed still have a floor.  I got rid of a bunch of stuff and organized everything else.  I am FLAUNTING the fact that I cleaned, because Patrice told me I could while I was waiting for the scan results. So there. 

Shirley, you sound like me, flitting from room to room starting projects.  I have about five quilting/sewing projects going at any one time and something going in the wood shop in the garage, too.

kes

Sue,  Your news is great from the scan.  I have about 4-5 piles of papers and bills that need to be paid. And also about 4-5 books that I have started to read and have not finished.

Shirley,  Your multitasking skills are perfected. You will never get thrown off of this thread. We need you too much.

Tomorrow is my last day before my vacation to work. Then off for 2 weeks. I can't believe it. I will be off work for 2 weeks and not have to go for surgery. First time in 1 whole year. WOW!!! I am not looking forward to the drive to Maine, or the drive home. But I will love it when I get there and see the ocean.

Take Care All,

Kerry

gsg

Hi, girls.  Just a quick checking in.  Kerry, enjoy your well-deserved surgery-free vacation! Hope you're able to enjoy the drive to Maine.  I kind of like long drives like that, but I usually make no sense...so that's just me.  Most people, I know, hate that part.

 Shirley:  Your post about your husband painting your toenails was heartwarming.  I got this great visual.  It's really sweet.  I know there is no way my husband would do that.  He'd rather scrub the kitchen floor on his hands and knees than paint my toenails.   :idea:   maybe I SHOULD ask him to paint my toenails and then offer the floor scrubbing as an alternative.   hmmmm.

 Sue:  You should post a pic of your closet so the rest of our closets can live vicariously through yours.

 Hope everybody is feeling good...Harley, how are things? 

I have to go to D.C. today...my husband and I are taking his convertible and I'm gonna blast the music all the way there and enjoy the wind in my face.  He's gonna drive so I can chill....also, this week I got one of those photo speeding tickets in the mail from the District and neither one of us trusts me at this point to be able to drive speed limit.  I find it very difficult...so he's driving as a precaution.

gsg

Miss S:  So very, very sorry about your dog and hope you are doing okay.  I know firsthand your sadness and how difficult it is.   Like everything else in life, only time makes it easier.

((((((Miss S))))))) 

gsg

Isabella:  You have a point about those slippers...WHY are they in WOMEN'S sizes ONLY?  It doesn't get any more sexist than that.  Picturing a guy walking around in lime green slipper genies will be my laugh for the day.

I had something really sexist happen to me several years ago.  I had my own Sears credit card for years and years.  Decided to add my husband to the account so he'd have his own card.  At some point after that, I needed to call their customer service regarding something on the account and they told me they couldn't talk to me...that they'd have to talk to my husband first to get his permission to talk to me about the account.  I told them it was MY account, not his, and that I had merely added him to it.  They said when they added him, they made him the primary on the account.  I was so friggen outraged I cancelled the account....well, I must have had him cancel it.  I thought that was awful.  

Harley44

gsg,

Sorry to hear about that photo speeding ticket... I heard that they do those in DC!  My dh got a red light photo ticket in Wilmington, just before I started chemo last year.  He was driving me up there to talk to the onc about which chemo I was getting and the schedule, etc...  Well, on the way back home, he ran a red light! 
About a month later, we got this ticket in the mail...  He was Laughing his A** off, thinking it was MY ticket!!  I kept saying, in my chemo fog... "But I haven't driven up to Wilmington, because since I started chemo, people drive ME up there for my chemo!"  Finally, after reading the date of the alleged offense, I realized that HE was the one who was driving!!  LOL 

Anyway, he posted the picture of him speeding thru the red light on our fridge!!

I am feeling much better now, and have only occasional bleeding, still from the D & C.  But, I am so glad to know that the pathology is benign!!

Thanks for starting this thread!!  

Well, I gotta go back to work today...  I had a nice, one week vacation.  The most work I did was the last couple of days, I have to confess I weeded our garden a couple of times.  I'm still not finished, though.  But, since Wish has weeded, and she is still allowed here, and weeding isn't really housework, since it is outside, I think I'm ok.

Edited to add:

I think that is horrible, the Sears Charge people not wanting to discuss YOUR account with you!  I would have cancelled them, too!!  In fact, I would NEVER buy anything from Sears again!!

althea

gsg, re your sears account, I had a similar experience with a phone company.  Back in the days of dialup, I had a second phone number for getting online.  Somehow I had different providers for each phone number, and I had always been the one to take care of paying bills when I was married.  Somehow my ex's name not only got on the bill, but also got listed as the primary.  

In the beginning of my marriage, we pooled our money but I was always the one to take care of bills, paperwork and the checkbook.  By the time things unravelled, my ex wasn't bringing in any money at all.  When my divorce finally was official, I took back my maiden name.  That f*$*#ing phone company wouldn't change the name on the account.  My options were to have him call and make the change, or send a copy of my divorce papers.  They also wanted my social security number.  

I didn't have any problems with any other utilities.   I ended up withholding payment until they disconnected the damn phone.  Just an encounter with a sexist policy is plenty offensive all by itself.  If they only knew what a disproportionate share of the responsibilities I stupidly shouldered during a marriage that was a mere shadow of what a marriage should be, they would have never have listed his name as the primary account holder.  

Shall we compose a scathing letter to Sears and rip their sexist policy to shreds?  where's an evil grin icon....

sueper13

kes

Hi Ladies,

gsg,  Funny how men get all the glory. Especially at Sears!!!!  I too am a lead foot. 3 speeding tickets in the last year. Yes, I am always in a rush with work. And it takes 2 years to have them removed from your record. I am now at 7 points and if I go up to 9 points then I get to have a talking to, and if I go up to 15 points then I will get an automatic suspension of my license. I am really being careful NOT to speed. The DH will do most of the driving. I am sure that I will ask him if he can drive any faster. And also needed new brakes on my car (I wonder why?) So this will be really weird to be off work and not have surgery. SHHHHHH please don't say it too loud as I am waiting for the other shoe to drop, and just hoping that I can get out of Canada without any of my Doctor's noticing. I think that I have seen 3 out of 4 in the last week, so all is O.K. They are all pleased and so am I.

Take Care All and Talk to you all when I get back. And remember to put your feet up and DO NOT CLEAN!!!! Let the DUST BUNNIES GROW UNTIL THEY GROWL!!!!

Kerry

gsg

I wonder what Sue was trying to say.  LOL.

althea, I have an evil smiley somewhere on my computer, but my computer files are as messed up as my house. damn!  after hanging up the phone with Sears, the letter i wrote in my head but never got around to putting on paper and mailing to them was a beaut.  one of my best mental hate mails ever.

Anonymous

Okay, this is the LAST post I'm writing for now..it's 12:45 AM here and I HAVE to get up and start cleaning again tomorrow.  No, you cannot kick me off this thread!  I'm ONLY cleaning because my dd and gks are coming.

Hmmmm....I don't remember if that small counter still has some stuff on top from the drawer I STARTED cleaning.  I'll have to look when I go downstairs.

Sherri, I think I had "deficit disorder" before chemo. However, I like to blame it on chemo. 

Patrice, how'd you enjoy your topless car ride.    I can't believe Sears did that to you.  I second Harley..don't shop there anymore.  I haven't been in that store FOREVER!

Tickets?  That's nothing.  Back in 1999, and after leaving my dh in the hospital and I was soooo tired, I ran a red light.  Yep.  Just like that.  Never saw it.  My head was up my All I could say was, Look at my car..look at my car...I totaled it!  I didn't even ask how the other people were.  I plowed into that car going 35 mph.  All the electrical stuff went off, the airbag deployed, and I couldn't see where I was going.  All I could thing was, hope I don't hit anyone else.  My car came to a stop right on the curb...nice car.  Then I forgot how to open the door because my windows wouldn't roll down..does that make sense.  I forgot how to open the darned door. LOL  And a woman came over to check on me and saw all that stinky powder in my car and yelled that my car was on fire.  I yelled back at her that it wasn't...then I finally got my head straight and got out.

THEN, two nights later...after leaving the hospital late AGAIN..and I was tired...I ran a blinking red light.  Yep, I did.  And would you believe a cop was there to catch me.  Yep.  I didn't even realize I ran a blinking light.  I told him of my horrid experience two nights before.  I BEGGED him to have mercy on me.  You know what he said?  You need to go to driving school.  I was numb.  I had NEVER gotten a ticket before.  Now two!  Lucky for me my dd new the prosecutor and wrote him a letter.  They cleared me of my wreck, but couldn't on the blinking red light one cuz the officer wrote down on the back of the ticket that I had done a bad thing two nights prior.  So, I payed a lot of money and went to driver's school.  What a joke!  At least it kept the tickets off my insurance...more points.  I ONLY got points on my insurance for the totaled car and messing up the other people's car and, I believe, that had a medical problem.  I could have killed someone!  And I was worried about my car!  Geez!

Kerry, you're going to Maine!  And you don't have to have surgery!  I've got a quote from you from one of my paper towels...Secrets are best when whispered.    Well, that's close enough.  I didn't write it down.  Have chemo induced deficit disorder..LOL

I need to get my tail to bed!

Shirley

Anonymous

Okay, this is the LAST post I'm writing for now..it's 12:45 AM here and I HAVE to get up and start cleaning again tomorrow.  No, you cannot kick me off this thread!  I'm ONLY cleaning because my dd and gks are coming.

Hmmmm....I don't remember if that small counter still has some stuff on top from the drawer I STARTED cleaning.  I'll have to look when I go downstairs.

Sherri, I think I had "deficit disorder" before chemo. However, I like to blame it on chemo. 

Patrice, how'd you enjoy your topless car ride.    I can't believe Sears did that to you.  I second Harley..don't shop there anymore.  I haven't been in that store FOREVER!

Tickets?  That's nothing.  Back in 1999, and after leaving my dh in the hospital and I was soooo tired, I ran a red light.  Yep.  Just like that.  Never saw it.  My head was up my All I could say was, Look at my car..look at my car...I totaled it!  I didn't even ask how the other people were.  I plowed into that car going 35 mph.  All the electrical stuff went off, the airbag deployed, and I couldn't see where I was going.  All I could thing was, hope I don't hit anyone else.  My car came to a stop right on the curb...nice car.  Then I forgot how to open the door because my windows wouldn't roll down..does that make sense.  I forgot how to open the darned door. LOL  And a woman came over to check on me and saw all that stinky powder in my car and yelled that my car was on fire.  I yelled back at her that it wasn't...then I finally got my head straight and got out.

THEN, two nights later...after leaving the hospital late AGAIN..and I was tired...I ran a blinking red light.  Yep, I did.  And would you believe a cop was there to catch me.  Yep.  I didn't even realize I ran a blinking light.  I told him of my horrid experience two nights before.  I BEGGED him to have mercy on me.  You know what he said?  You need to go to driving school.  I was numb.  I had NEVER gotten a ticket before.  Now two!  Lucky for me my dd new the prosecutor and wrote him a letter.  They cleared me of my wreck, but couldn't on the blinking red light one cuz the officer wrote down on the back of the ticket that I had done a bad thing two nights prior.  So, I payed a lot of money and went to driver's school.  What a joke!  At least it kept the tickets off my insurance...more points.  I ONLY got points on my insurance for the totaled car and messing up the other people's car and, I believe, that had a medical problem.  I could have killed someone!  And I was worried about my car!  Geez!

Kerry, you're going to Maine!  And you don't have to have surgery!  I've got a quote from you from one of my paper towels...Secrets are best when whispered.    Well, that's close enough.  I didn't write it down.  Have chemo induced deficit disorder..LOL

I need to get my tail to bed!

Shirley

gsg

CrashHughes:  Thank God it all ended up okay and that nobody was hurt.  Frightening!  I guess you've learned your lesson on telling the cops anything if there is a next time...hopefully, there won't be.  I don't think it was very nice that that cop wrote that on the back of the ticket.  He should have given you a break.

 My aunt is the worst driver ever.  About 10 years ago (she was in her 50s...so age was no excuse) she was driving home from work, evidently weaving, and got pulled over for drunk driving.  She is a nondrinker.  The cop couldn't believe she was driving that way sober.  He told her she was the worst driver he had ever seen. 

Hanna60978

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gsg

LOL@Hanna Mason.  Can't you wear a Richard Nixon mask or something when you're driving around?

One time when I had to go to traffic school, I asked the officer teaching the class how far over the speed limit I could safely drive without fear of getting a ticket when being followed by a cop.  He couldn't give me a definitive answer.   But I kind of lol'd that he did try to answer the question.

Hanna60978

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gsg

lol@the edit.

:inside joke: 

althea

Dang, hanna, it sounds like you would've been better off paying the ticket!  lol

sueper13

Hanna, you're never better off paying the ticket!  I LOVE what you did!  But, do you live in a small town?  And you pissed off the whole police force?  Hope you are driving slower!

I have now had clean CT and bone scans.  I don't have cancer. And a good echocardiogram. Chemo didn't damage my heart.

I feel like me again.

Anonymous

Patrice, I forgot about this one.  It was YEARRRRSSS ago.  I wasn't even 50 yet! 

I had to take my dd to the ER.  Got a call from the skating rink that she had hurt her arm.  My sil went with me.  Of course I was upset.  Anyway, we went to the ER and yes she fractured it.  They wrapped it with so much crap no ice could get through to relieve the swelling.  And the darned Orthpedic dr wouldn't come out on a Friday night!  So, we had to wait ALL weekend before she could see a doctor.  I got so mad that I cancelled the doctor who wanted come out to see her.  I took her to another doctor!  OH, I'm off topic.  Anyway, the night of her accident I got pulled by a policeman for weaving.  When he told me that I WAS LIVID.  He was ACCUSING ME of DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE!  I told the cop that I DON'T EVEN DRINK..HOW DARE YOU!  The poor YOUNG cop must have been scared to death of me. LOL  I told him LOUDLY that I had just gotten out of the ER..that my dd had been hurt!  Anyway, nothing happened.  I didn't get a ticket.  I asked my sil if I was swerving.  She said no.

Hanna, too funny!  Poor fellers.  Be careful when you're driving around. 

Sue, YAY...clean scans.  That's the BESTEST news!

Now, back to my cleaning.  And, remember, I can't get kicked off.  I have company coming.  Besides, I see this cleaning as exercise.  I'm sweating my butt off!  Sweat just drips in my eyes.  And Wish goes out in the heat and pulls weeds!

Bye ya'll.

Shirley

gsg

My god...Sue is clean inside and out...Shirley's on a cleaning terror.  Oh, the humanity.

p.s.  Congrats Sue on the clean reports....you DEFINITELY get dispensation for those. 

Shirley, all your company is pushing you dangerously close to being written up.  Your only hope at this point is that they leave your house trashed the way my company usually does.  I love the way you tell stories.  It's just like you're talking to us.  LOVE YOU!

Anonymous

Patrice, I'm 'bout dead.  I worked hard on my stairs cuz they needed...you know, cat hair and residue of vomint.  Now my dh is going to help me make two of the beds..him on one side and me on the other.  Only one person can make the twin..it's against the wall.  Damn, I'M TARED.  Oh, I've got to clean their bathroom.  I don't think I can get to mine.  I just don't care.  It's so dirty.  Hell, this is the only time I clean.  AND, YES, THEY DO LEAVE MY HOUSE DIRTY.  And I say, why do I knock myself out!?  I mean, with young'uns it's got to get dirty.  And to think I had three!  Oh, but I was soooooo, soooo much younger.

Really, I'm only exercising.  And not doing the best job of that..sweating...resting...sweating..resting.  You may ask, Why do you care?  It's just your dd and gks.  I dunno.  I'm crazy.

Shirley

Oh, I had to go into my closet to hang some thangs.  I could hardly get in there.  Did not look like Sue's.  Plus my closet is small.  I have my small suitcase in there in my way.  I have shoes on a rack and on the floor.  I have clothes still in a bag that I haven't worn....SHHHHHH..don't tell dh...he doesn't know what the heck that stuff is.  I almost took a pic of the mess and posted for all of you to see.  But, I'm too embarrassed. One day I may take pics and post my 70's house with the dark paneling and the ugly kitchen floor and the ucky wallpaper that is coming down.  Oh, I want someone to paint!  At least we had our foyer wallpaper taken down and had IT painted. Now I need a new chandelier.  Do I sound ungrateful?

Bye again.

Shirley

Hanna60978

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wishiwere

{{{{{GIRLS|||||||  That sucks that you're all having problems, except sue and her clear scans!  YEAH!

Shirley.... tell that family to just suck it up and clean their own rooms before they leave, so it's clean for the next visit!

My family just left.  Actually without all their animals! UGH!  Dd's household is 1/2 in our workshop, CAT included.  1/3 in my spare room, with the rest in a storage unit.  I went to mom's up north sunday last, and worked on her weeds day 1, day two on her weeds up at the garden at the cabin, day 3, on dbro's 2 car garage with over 1047 pop/beer bottles counted and ready for returns   Home with mom on wed, to catch up on my gardens, then friday, dsis and her S/O came with their blonde lab overnight.  Left this afternoon with mom but (without the lab) which I'm sitting this week! Can anyone say....STRESSED OUT!

Kerry?  I fought a ticket one time.  I was 17, and driving a 69 mustang convertible. Started out at the bottom of a hill at a stop light.  About a mile up the road, I saw a friend in hot rod and we kind of pushed the limits by about 20 m/p/h...I know, not smart, but.... the cop pulled me over and the kid took off.  The cop saw him down in the hills, grabbed my license and told me to sit till he returned and off he went to get him.  Gave us drag racing tickets.  Well, to say we were drag racing and worth 4or 5 pts he had to prove point of start.  Since he was coming over the hill we were heading for, there was no way he saw our start, so i fought it. Got it reduced to 3 pts for careless driving.  The other kid had dui's so just paid it. 

Worse case..... my 18th bday...drinking age, back then.  Was Drunk on my butt by the time the bars closed. Got pulled over, and they took 4 of a 6 pack that my gf tried to hide under her seat.  Saw it was my birthday and I said I was taking her home and going home.  They said, do that, but if we see you on the road again tonight, you're busted! OMG!  If he'd asked me to get out of the car, I'd have probably falling against it!  What a scare!  TG I didn't kill us or anyone else that night!

Hanna60978

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