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Hello all! I had a great Mother’s Day with my kids and DH yesterday. I did think about my Mother some. She is deceased and we did not have a good relationship. She was a controlling mother when I was young and a very vindictive person as I got older. I moved away so I did not have to deal with her one on one. Somehow distance did help us at least talk without arguing constantly. I swore I would be a caring parent while not a best friend or ‘helicopter’ parent.
We will get a few more days of nice weather before the heat moves in. My cellphone died yesterday. I spent part of the day researching for a phone that would be modern and not too pricey. We have had several things break recently so our stimulus money is close to spent already! Today is house chores and getting the phone thing worked out.
Sandy, sorry about the cat bite. You are smart to watch closely for infection. NM, sorry about the wintry weather. It does make the cabin fever hard to deal with. Jazzy and Goldie, when I get a plan for the trip, I will run it by you both for advice. Hope everyone has a good start to the week
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Morning DahhhhlinKs,
Just pooping in to check on my bff's. I've read a smidge and wanted to clarify...I am not doing any traveling anytime soon. Had to cancel the AZ trip with mese daughter cuz we are both 'immune compromised. Hubs and I just hung out in our house yest. Hubs went driving all over to try n find a pizza place but none were open...Damn virus!! I'm liking the new onco son far. He pays more attention than the previous doc.
It's getting close to 100o, which I don't really mind, but when I need a smoke I have to go to garage....hubs got me a 2nd portable a/c unit so it's not all that bad.
Also, finally get my nails and toes done tomorrow...it will be a relief to type norml again.
Lubs lubs lubs
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Thanks for everyone's concern about the cat bite. I decided to leave it open to air, just clean and ointment it twice a day (and put on a band-aid loosely so the friction of my pillowcase when I toss & turn doesn't irritate it). Maybe it's wishful thinking, but the redness appears to be fading.
Bob's coming home late tonight (getting dinner at the office), so with Chinese leftovers tonight I'll have a little bit of that King Rabbit rosé.
Our state's models predict we won't hit peak till mid-June, so I'd bet my nail salon won't reopen till after then. The NE IL region will be the only one not to go to phase 3 of the reopening May 29, because our positive-test rate is almost 25% (goal is <20%--things may change if we hit that goal by then). And I don't care enough about my nails to go to, say, Rockford or Valparaiso, IN to get a mani-pedi. My salon owner might not like this, but I'm second-guessing going back to no-chip gel polish because it has to be soaked off with acetone. I'm keeping them short and using Nailtiques to strengthen them (and I remove it with non-acetone remover every week and then start again).
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Good Afternoon, Loungettes!Happy Twofer Tuesday! Sadie and I had a lovely sleep today after I got home from work. The night was uneventful, very pleasant. The sun is shining, the snow has melted. Still a bit chilly in the breeze, but I can feel the warmth of the sun when I stand out on the deck. AND--I saw a ruby throated hummingbird at the feeder, and I found the singing male cardinal againthis morning!
Librarian--sorry about the phone dying. That stimulus check has been good for you from the sounds of things. I just got mine the other day. Relationships with mothers can be complicated things.
Mema--I'm surprised you had trouble finding pizza--here in Maine pizza places, especially with delivery, have actually done pretty well, as have places that can do curbside delivery/take out. Restaurants didn't have to close completely if they could do take out/curbside delivery or regular delivery and work with a limited number of staff. Most places already do some form of this and were able to ramp it up. It's funny, one of the restaurants closing permanently is a Denny's in a town in a county that can open up on Friday.
Chi--sounds like the cat bite is healing up nicely. It sounds like we are all heading into an interesting few months as places start opening up again. You know there is going to be a spike of new cases, and that will happen with every step, we just need to keep it under control. Still no word when anything will change for nursing homes, and families are getting very anxious about when they can visit in person again. Some of us are wondering if we will be wearing masks and screening visitors indefinitely, or if there will be a no visitation unless vaccinated ruling once there is a vaccine. In New York all nursing home staff must be COVID-19 tested twice a week now, which means a lot of staff are going to end up in 14 day quarantine as time goes by, and health care workers still don't have pay protection for that. Funny, though, in Maine there is ruling being put forward requiring meat packing plants to test workers and give full pay during quarantines, but nurses, CNAs, lab techs, etc have to use vacation time or go without pay if quarantined.And there is one estimate that puts hospital based health care workers on furlough as high as 50%.
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Bob is about to lose two nursing home patients to COVID (no, he doesn't go into the nursing homes)--one in her 80s with end-stage dementia, the other in her 60s, developmentally-disabled, whose guardians declined to have her hospitalized and intubated, so she's on hospice. He is off for a second weekend in a row, but a week from this Sat. he will have to do two weekends in a row at Little Company (traded call with his interventionist, who will be celebrating Eid al-Fitr on the 23d). He will likely see a spike in COVID cases, because the Oak Lawn Red Lobster (on the border with Evergreen Park) was crowded cheek by jowl on Mother's Day with people picking up takeout--no social distancing, no masks, no security guards.
Today the Blue Angels flew over Chicago & the W. and SW 'burbs to honor first responders, health, & essential workers. I went out on the deck, and saw them twice--they flew north over the lake up to Evanston and then looped around to fly over the Sheridan Rd. highrises--I could hear the clapping & cheering a quarter-mile away. But they started down near Oak Lawn, and flew directly over Christ Hospital. Bob was up on the roof garden and had a fantastic view. (Neither of us thought to take video). He reports that the parking lot was jammed with local families (not distancing, of course--and some were tailgating after),
Gordy & Leslie got a landline--I fear, like that GEICO commercial, they're turning into us. People rag us all the time for not giving up our landline--especially since it isn't even really a "land" line but rather VOIP. AT&T is no longer installing nor servicing traditional landlines.
Dinner was the second night of Chinese leftovers, which I mixed together and re-seasoned. Bob brought home a nice unoaked Chardonnay from Costco: "ZOLO" 2019, from the Mendoza area of Argentina. Poured myself a second helping. (Don't tell my M.O.).
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Sue, you need your nails did to be able to type? LOL!
JCS, glad to hear you had a nice get together with the kids. For your trip, are you driving? How long are you thinking?
NM, seems ironic that they want to test staff twice a week, when just recently they were saying that we didn't have test kits to test those that needed it! I like that Hummingbird cocktail. Kind of like a smoothie with a twist.
Have to head out this morning, DH has an appt with orthopedic, hoping to schedule the surgery for his back. I finally got a few things done in the house yesterday. Bathrooms cleaned, that was a big one! They were starting to look like a J John! Kitchen floor washed and some laundry done.
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Good afternoon, Loungettes!Happy Hump Day (I think)! I had forgotten about the challenges of keeping track of dates and days of the week when working overnights. That's ok, after tonite only 4 more shifts to go.The gov extended the state of civil emergency to June 30th, or maybe it's June 29th since she extended it for 30 days from the May 30th end date and there are 31 days in May. Whatever. The reopening has taken an interesting turn. There have been lots of protestors wanting all the restrictions eliminated, and people wanting hair cuts being one of the biggest groups being very vocal. Hairdressers are now reporting being afraid to open, feeling they don't have enough information or support, and point out that the COVID case number is still rising, not plateauing or falling, and feel like they are being used as experimental subjects to "see what happens".Many hair dressers are in high risk groups, or live with high risk family members.Most are very small businesses, and if one employee gets sick and sues (that being the big concern out there right now with people being afraid to go back to work but will be losing unemployment and any other assistance once their industry is allowed to open and so feel they have no choice) that will be the end of the business AND all the owner's personal assets as well. It's just getting more complicated every day.
My cousin wrote on Fb that she wanted to make a ball pit for one of her dogs to play in, and was asking if anyone had any plastic balls, so Sadie sent a box of plastic balls to her cousin Coco via Amazon. New we're waiting for a video, will share when we get it!
Chi--Hearing about the people picking up food on Mother's day scares me silly. I was reading last night about a couple of clusters that were traced back to one person going to a couple of family gatherings (a funeral and a party) and how many people got sick and how many died. The index case was traced back to one person who was not ill at the time of the gatherings and no one was wearing a face covering--this was early on in the whole thing before face coverings were a thing. The Mainiacs (Maine Air National Guard, the folks who do the inflight refueling) did a fly over most of Maine yesterday. I didn't see or hear any of it as I was asleep, but I've heard about from people who did, it was pretty remarkable.
Goldie--Yup, New York is requiring twice a week testing of nursing home staff, but NY has a lot more testing ability. Although Maine's testing capacity has increased greatly recently, I don't think it will support twice weekly testing of nursing home staff. I hope Maine doesn't go down that road, or maybe I do. When nursing homes are opened up to visitors again there WILL be a surge of cases. People will lie about symptoms in order to get in to visit a family member, we see it happen all the time during flu season. Visitors will take off masks once they get into a resident's room, "Mom needs to see my face to know who I am" and there goes source control. And the jump in cases will be blamed on staff, of course. So maybe the testing will be a good thing, if a resident comes up positive but none of the staff is, it would be clear where it came from!
Cardinal Martini
Ingredients
- 90 ml (3 oz.) cognac and passion fruit beverage (like Alizé Gold)
- 45 ml (1 1/2 oz.) vodka
- 45 ml (1 1/2 oz.) red cranberry juice
- Ice cubes
- Lime slice
Preparation
In a shaker
Combine the passion fruit and cognac beverage, vodka and cranberry juice in a shaker filled with ice.
Shake vigorously for 8 to 10 seconds.
Strain into a martini glass using an ice strainer.
Garnish with a lime slice on a pick.
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Kim, that Patient Zero super-spreader was a South African national visiting in Connecticut. He said he likely was exposed on a flight to JFK from Europe. When the silent carnage began, he was tested and it came back positive. By the time he returned home to S. Africa after self-isolating, he tested negative. But the damage was done.
Here in Chicago, two weeks before the first shutdown order (even before the NBA was shut down and Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson announced they had COVID), a synagogue ("Conservative" denomination) in the West Ridge neighborhood held a massive Purim service and celebration dinner, which 700 people attended, including many Orthodox Jews whose small congregations couldn't afford such events. (Our Reform synagogue erred on the side of caution and canceled its own festivities scheduled for the following week). The Orthodox attendees then went home. One attended a large funeral. And the Orthodox families tend to be very large though relatively affluent--their homes were insufficiently spacious to allow for distancing. So they returned and spread the virus throughout their neighborhood. For at least a week, that ZIP code had the highest total of confirmed coronavirus+ residents, and the ZIP on its southern border the second highest--with the impoverished S. Side Auburn-Gresham neighborhood (a "feeder" for Little Co. of Mary Hospital) a distant third.
Rebellious county leaders are citing a need to "strike a balance" between public safety, "Constitutional freedoms" & the economy. But the virus doesn't know or care about "balance;" and they are too shortsighted (or delusionally libertarian) to realize that the next wave of this pandemic that could happen sooner rather than later will overwhelm so many hospitals and kill so many people that the economy will be permanently ruined, with entire industries disappearing. They learned nothing from the two opposite experiences of St. Louis & Philadelphia during the 1918 flu pandemic. St. Louis continued to cancel all large gatherings, but Philadelphia went ahead with a huge parade. Guess which city kept its curve flat and which one was devastated? (BTW, both 45 and I lost our respective paternal grandfathers, who were relatively young, in the 1918 pandemic in NYC).
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With potluck (BBQ pulled pork from the freezer & various leftovers), 2017 Decoy (by Duckhorn) Sonoma County Red. Grape varietals not specified, but tastes like mostly Zin, with a bit of Cab. Sauv. & Merlot thrown in. Not bad.
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Wow, quiet up in here!
NM, how sweet of Sadie to get her cousin some balls for the ball pit. Who would have thought, a ball pit for dogs? It IS getting complicated and more scary. We had the biggest jump in cases for our 2 counties yesterday in a 24 hour period. What is your last night for this late shift? Hopefully you will be able to get back on track over the weekend, changing your sleep schedule
I was pretty surprised at how many people were out and about without masks. We will continue to stay in, shop every 3 weeks and that's it! DH has to have another MRI and then the doctor will decide if he should do the surgery or not.
In London they have a Ball Pit bar! These are their signature cocktails.
Dibbie Dabberson – £10
With loads of strawberry gin, a touch of cranberry juice and a whole heap of nostalgia, our best seller will take you straight back to your school yard days… this time with booze!
Strawberry Gin/Sweet/Cranberry/Dip Dab
Hubba Hubba Bubba – £10
This bubblegum margarita is super sweet but packs a powerful punch. Topped off with the sweetest little scrunchie so you can hit that '90s vibe extra hard.
Tequila/Sweet/Lime/Bubblegum
Skittle Sour – £9
A sweet gin cocktail with a delightful tangy twist and the all-important goody bag of sweets—you've never tasted the rainbow like this.
Pink Gin/Limoncello/Sweet & Sour/Skittles
Vanilla Ice, Ice Baby – £11
An adorable diner-style milkshake with a vodka and Bailey's twist. Topped off with a sweet wafer roll and pink whipped cream, we're giving you real old school summer vibes.
Vodka/Bailey's/Whipped Cream/Sweet Wafer Roll Contains nuts
The WTAF – £9 This sweet and sour little vodka 'tini takes a wild turn after you munch on the little Miracle Berry. Just read the instructions to find out what to do… or don't, we've always liked a little rebel 😉.
Vodka/Strawberry/Lime/Sweet & Sour/Miracle Berry
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Good morning ladies, I'm not even going to try and make excuses for being gone so long cause I have none... well, except that I think about it and mean to and then something comes up and I forget because I seem to have the attention span of a gnat lately. I haven't been here since April 22 which is absurd but I did read and catch up and I'm glad to see everyone is for the most part safe and free from Covid. So glad to see Illemae and Susie are doing ok, good to hear from you both.
Ill, glad the pool helped you, looks nice and relaxing, one day it may get warm here altho it seems it may never happen. Hope you notice improvements in your throat even if it's just a little each day.
Sue, wow 100 degrees! We had snow on Mother's Day! I had just started getting acrylic nails before all this lock down chit and now they have fallen off and my nails are a mess. I bought everything to do it myself but am not good at it, can't get the lump and bumps out.
Lori, sorry to hear about your little buddies' mom, who will care for him when she's gone? Hope your medication change goes ok for you and brings those TM's down. Mine remain normal, my MO is now doing them every month. Sorry to hear your DH is not feeling well, hope he can get the surgery soon and has good results with it.
NM, I was reading the crazy stuff with the reporting on Covid to each and every family member in 12 hours, craziness! No sense in it at all! We have not had the snow you have but I am also so tired of this cold spring! I jumped the gun and bought some tomato plants and have grown a lot of lettuce from seed. Dying to get them in the ground but I have to keep hauling them in the house each night because of freeze warnings. As of today I think we are turning the corner, 60's and 70's in the forecast for the foreseeable future.
Sandy, congrats on reaching your goal weight, oh what I wouldn't give to weigh 149! I moved my bathroom scale upstairs so I'm not tempted to step on it because that damn thing can depress the hell out of me. I've even told the nurse at my MO not to tell me how much I weigh. I just cannot diet during all this, plus with my DH home everyday and the things he cooks I can't stick to low carb anymore. Glad to hear the cat bite is healing up ok and no signs of infection.
Jazzy, glad you got to see your kids on Mother's Day, my husband has a contentious relationship with his mom, all was fine till we let her leave Florida and move here, HUGE mistake! I had a great relationship with my mom, she died at 74, MIL is 92 and going strong. (sigh)...
Jazzy, I was reading about your mouse problem, we have been inundated by chipmunks ever since my cat died. My DH had our air conditioner serviced just because he felt it was time and they found 2 dead chippies in there, they had chewed through the wires and got electrocuted. Service guy said it would've probably tripped all our breakers if we had tried to turn on the air.
Cami, sorry to hear you are still losing weight, wish I could give you some! Woman cannot live on jello alone tho. I am so sorry to hear about yor cousin's sudden death, way too young! and I'm sorry to hear that Joey is sad, everything is so multiplied with this damn virus, especially hard for teens I think.
I did go and watch Nora and Evelyn last Thursday, their mom is back to work so I hope to watch them most every week. I'm on my third week of the Ibrance right now and I'm finding that that's my roughest week. This is my third round and I get so fatigued, sleeping 2-3 hours in the middle of every day, I hate it! I get a rash on my stomach every month and mouth sores altho I don't have them so far this month. I have 3 more pills then I get a week off and usually rebound a bit. Then I'll get my injections and start the whole mess over again, hoping symptoms diminish as I go on. I get bone and CT scans on June 15th to see if it's all working. I cancelled babysitting today, hoping I'll feel more up to it next week, it's a 12 hour day and I just don't have it in me today. New dog, Boo is doing great, he's a gentle giant and has become best friends with Harvey. I got to golf on my league yesterday, it was a bit cold and windy but nice to see everyone again. I'm starting another league on Tuesday mornings, a more serious one where we actually keep score and can't just have do-overs whenever you want. Not sure if I'm going to like it or not. Anyway, that's about it for me, love to all!
Misty, Karen whoever else I'm missing, hope you're all doing ok.
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So, you know you have a problem when?..?! Nora drew this portrait of me while we were having a Facetime chat. I asked her what was in my hand, she said "yer wine". Notice my gray teeth!
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Harvey and Boo
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And finally, me and my girls...
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OK I lied, I cut Nora's hair, sorry if I took up a whole page! Before...
And after
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Hi there, genny. Cute pics. Nice job on Nora's hair - what a perfect bob! You should post a pic of your dogs on the topic "dogs, dogs, dogs" - they are such lovely looking beasts.
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Mornin' ladies, Warning, the following post is filled with gripe andboring, just skip it, I did it for , cuz I've been a mess>myself
Here I am, ugh I had another bout ofwithdrawal, which never happened to me with Xanax. I honestly didn't know what was going on <literally>. There was so much confusing, chills, vomiting weak, no fever tho for a couple of days then I realized why. I was out and couldn't get them til this Sat. Then membered Jodie takes them, well she had a conference call, Les and Mrty were in the hospital for some shit so my granchildren figured everything out and Cheyenne brought me some pills and Joey took care of me til they talked and had a plan. He was so F''kin good doing that, finally settle down yesterday after finally sleeping for not sleeping 3 nights, boy am I a junky it was horrible, Oh well it;s done.
You know I don't watch all of this stuff about Covid and now it seems things r going to fast to me. It's scary how everyone wants to march for these rights. I just don't get it, I think til they really have something that works, why would u take a chance. It still amazes me all the people who HAVE to be there and they are. I think if it were me that had to work, I couldn't, the fear is just piling on with more fear.
I love ur attitudes. Kim u never miss work, Jazzy nd Lori u take care of everything ur suposed to, LC ur planning what u can do with enthusiasm. Sandy u have everything under control <sorry about the bite> and all r doing pretty good under this cloud of crazyness and SusyQ it's so good to see you, I think of u often.
Still no one can figure out what's going on with Les, I guess that's good in a way, I don't even know anymore.
Boy I really let it out on you gals, but thank you, even if u don't read this <I don't blame you>My puter is a mess 1/2 the time and the phone the other 1/2. When I want my phone togo out it doesn't. My BIL called on speaker to sk me if I membered something from the early 60's...he talked for almost 1 hr anf finally I told him I wasn't interested in his life then and nothing has changed I just ssid goodbye and hung up. <oh I always do that to him> so does my sister and I love the guy.. Well if I didn't I would have hung up the first minute.Believe me I know this week could have been worse so I'm thankful for that.BTW I'm still mad at Nicky. it'll pass I know.
OK I need a shower more than an elephant in the mud needs one. SoI have to get ready. Thank you all
LUBS U ALL
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Just heard from my primary care doc's office and the news isn't good: he is, in the words of his staff, "gravely ill" with COVID19 and in the ICU (they didn't say whether he is intubated); his PA tested negative at the time he fell ill, but now she's feeling sick (has already had both types of flu) and is being re-tested today (and she has little kids at home). Pray for them both.
Cami, here's your local update: IL's testing rate has ramped up dramatically (the difference being that there are many more sites now in Black and Latino neighborhoods, and one site where healthcare workers & first responders can get tested without having to show symptoms) and for the second day in a row the statewide positive rate is below 20% (yesterday it was 17%). But we had our deadliest day yet: 192 deaths. Chicago & Cook County are still hot spots, and there is little to no chance that we will move to the next phase of gradual reopening when (and if) the rest of the state does June 1; and the city's move to phase 3 will not reopen the lakefront. Too many stupid people insisting on gathering and exercising their "rights." IMHO, those demanding everything open back up are selfish idiots with their fingers in their ears going "la-la-la, I wanna get my hair cut, go to church, and go back out to brunch again;" and those officials who give in to the demands (including the WI S. Ct. and likely its legislature) are murderers.
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Hi ladies- just popping in to say hi. I have been out in the garden this morning pulling out the last of things that I just don't think are coming back, and finishing some new plantings. Looks good out there, and a bit more to do the back yard. I have had some real adventures in this yard lately with things in the back yard that have NEVER been there before, including a rabbit that got under the fence and two gigantic lizards/skinks that were like nothing I have ever seen. Plus we have a moth explosion here in the city too. Who is winning in the pandemic? Wildlife and insects!
Been busy working with this volunteer collaboration with a couple prof orgs I brought together. My effort to help during this time and until I can get back to work. My mom used to build bombs in a factory during WWII so I am following in her footsteps to offer what I can to help. My parents were both very service oriented people and taught me to step up when called upon. It's been a great experience (although a lot of work too.....)
Found out this week one of my first cousins is Covid positive. She has been in a group home living situation for awhile now (mental health issues) and we are all worried.
Our Gov did a press conference yesterday and doing a bit more slow opening here with some non essential retail that can open at 25% occupancy as well as small amount of in person at church. No bigger things yet, this is the two week trial to ease out a bit more and they will be tracking to see if cases go up. They still will have the counties on the western border locked down into June. She is also mandating everyone wear masks now if they are outside of their house for any reason. I see more people wearing them, but many don't. My sister has sent me some, she is my "dealer."
Goldie- you asked about my SIL recently. Still in the rehab and my sister has not been able to visit here in a few months now. I had a very vivid dream about her recently running through a meadow and was happy she was free. My sister told me today she did a Facetime with her and she looks very peaceful. I don't know what all this means, but keep in touch with my sister and know one of these days, things will change again.
I hope you are doing well out in AZ, and that your temps are good. It's been nice here again after all the heat a few weeks ago. Gardens are flourishing.....
Cami- oh those bad kittens. My sister told me her two young cats (under 2 years) get up in the morning, eat breakfast, want to go out but she waits because of coyote time (she has a fenced yard, but lost a couple cats to coyotes when she first moved back to CA), so they fight with each other because they can't have their way. They go back to sleep after they fight, then get up and go out when it's later. The life of a cat......
How are you doing?
Genny- that picture of you and those beautiful children is so lovely. Nora got a cute haircut two. I am sorry you are feeling tired from the Ibrance. I have a BCO sister friend that did a trial for Stage 3 ILC and has told me a lot about that drug. I hope it keeps the beast at bay so you have many more fun times with those cuties. I hope your DD is doing okay and staying safe at work. The pic of you with the wine glass is hilarious!
Chi- I still have a land line, it is tied to my home alarm system and always like to have a Plan B for my phone. Lots of people have let go of their land lines and then if a phone breaks, gets lost/stolen, they are SOL. This just happened yesterday to someone I know. If my power goes down, then the cell is my only phone. We had an incident a couple years ago where all the telecom here went down, not sure what happened but suspect someone hacked all the phone companies. We too have people caveching about not opening up more broadly yet. I am in the "lets be careful here" category, especially given our hot spot to the west.
Ill- checking in here to see how you are doing?
Teka- what is going on in north country? Are you nice and green now with spring blooms?
NM- I think we all have problems with what day it is anymore. I have tried to keep my days organized by getting up in the morning and figuring out what day it is and making a simple list of to dos. I have had daily calls on my volunteer work as the point of contact so that helps me with the weekdays. I opted out of it today and trying to get more people to step up by being on the call in my place. I hope your night shifts are going well and so nice for Sadie to share her toys.
Wishing everyone a good slide in to the weekend. I have a cute rabbit photo to share with you.
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Our Gov. is holding the line on reopening, and with good reason. Though statewide, IL's testing rate is way up and its positive results down to 17%, that is an average of all counties--and NE IL (espec. Chi. & Cook County) is still above the 20% needed to move to phase 3 (nonessential retail open to limited indoor shopping, indoor gatherings--with precautions--up to 10 people; personal-care services like salons & barbers, etc). on June 1. And the number of new cases has to drop for two weeks in a row before any region can move to Phase 3.
Folks, this is REAL. If my doc (who was doing only e-visits) and his P.A. can both get COVID--as can an NBC infectious disease expert who took all the right precautions but had to take a crowded flight (with mask, gloves, wipes but no face shield)--ANY of us can. People demanding the economy open back up and yammering about their "rights" to not wear masks and not social-distance are shortsighted selfish idiots--and the government officeholders who oblige them are murderers. If only they could infect just each other, but that's not the way it works. (This is not politics, Moderators--it's SCIENCE). I will not get on an airplane, or mass transit, till I can get immunity--and that may likely be never unless there is a vaccine in my lifetime (or the unlikely event I survive a bout of the disease).
I'm certainly not risking my life for a haircut or a mani-pedi (which is probably moot, as salons will not be reopening in Chicago till at least July).
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Hi ladies, just me.
Thanks Sandy for making things clearer for me. But as much as I hate ALL OF THIS, I just can't understand why people want to hurry to get out just for the sake of getting out. I can certainly empathize with people for working but it seems that most of the people just want to do protest, to do things. As much as I want to leave the house sometimes, I'm not going to go out til I think it's really safe and it doesn't sound like it to me. And now ur Dr.??? I'm sure they are always vigilant in their garb so u wonder how it happened. U must worry so much and I am sorry for that. Oh wow.
Jazzy u r smart to have so many things under control to do. It just keeps u busy, but I do know u love the spas and just general sight seeing in all areas. It always sounds like u've adjusted well to this, in fact most of u gals have.
Why is it so quiet in here today.
Oh I just got back, phone call emergency of course so it's all set.
Anyway, just thought I'd poop in to see what's happening.
LUBS U ALL
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Mary, I think my little buddy goes with one of his care takers if something happens to his mom. I think she will be ok tho, I was told stage III, so at least it's not terminal. Hope you are able to get your plants outside for good soon. Love the pictures of the girls and the one Nora drew with your wine, too cute. And those furbabies, OMG. I still think you should change Boo's name! I like Beau, cuz it's sounds so similar. But not my dog, just my opinion...LOL! I think Nora looks like her mom and Evelyn looks like your son. Funny that you moved the scale. I hate how some of these meds make us feel. Are your blood counts low? I hate that fatigue feeling, makes me feel like I'm lazy. Hoping that goes away after a time. So far I'm doing ok on the increased dose of mine.
Cami, you poor druggie, going through withdrawl again. That has to be horrible for you. And you can gripe all you want here, you know that. Joey has your back, that's for sure. I hope Les and Marty are ok. This girl is staying put, not going anywhere unless I have to. Funny how you just hang up on your brother.
Sandy, sorry to hear about your doc and pa, hoping they recover. I have a friend who is like what you call "murderer". She posted this on FB and thinks Covid 19 is all government scam! Her comment to it was "Exactly!"
Jazzy, a moth explosion? So sorry to hear of your cousin, I hope she recovers soon. They say long term care and probably group homes too, have seen the biggest increasse in cases. Interesting dream you had about your SIL, of course that would be the way we would want it to go. Temps here are good, not quite as hot, but a tad on the windy side. Nites are wonderfully cool!
NM, it's strange to not see you in the mornings!
Nothing new on my end, just another day.
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Good morning! Starting to warm up here. Not much planned for today. Will probably tie up some loose ends and start my weekend early.
Goldie - My plan is to fly into Las Vegas, rent a car and drive a ‘circle’ through the various sites. I would like to spend 7-10 days on this adventure. I would like to take routes that have something to see while driving and maybe have a hike each day.
Sandy - So sorry about your doctor. Chicago seems to be getting into the thick of the virus now. We had to go to the local Verizon store yesterday. It was packed with people. Most without masks. The employees all had masks and sanitizer on the desks. We were in the store for about 30 minutes and washed thoroughly after returning home I would love to get my ‘post chemo hair’ trimmed and styled, but will wait a while longer.
Cami - Great to hear from you again! I miss the cat memes!
My DH finally upgraded his 20 yr old flip-phone to a smartphone. He is technology challenged and I spent most of yesterday trying to teach him how to answer the phone! Downloading apps and closing them is the task for today. He hates passwords and never remembers them. During any instruction, he wants to know if there is an easier or shorter way to do the task. By the end of any lesson, I have a raging headache. Such fun!
Hope everyone has a lovely weekend!
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JCS, so that really just gives you 5-8 days of site seeing, since 2 days will be for traveling. Are you planing to stay in Vegas for any of this time? Def. lots to see near there and the western end of Utah. You have Bryce Canyon, Grand Staircase Escalante, Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, near Vegas you have Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and of course the Hoover Dam. For the Grand Canyon I think I would recommend the North end.
Oh I ordered my wind spinner yesterday.
You can see it in motion on this page.
https://www.wayfair.com/outdoor/pdp/marshall-home-garden-spring-reeds-spinner-mrsh1091.html
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Good Morning, Loungettes!Happy TGIF day!I woke up a little bit ago and had a total confusional episode--I could not figure out if it was morning or night! I was trying to figure out if I needed to wake up enough to go get dressed and go to work, or if I should be making breakfast! Sadie just sat and laughed at me until I figured out that I could look at the phone and the computer and saw it said 9 ayem.It's cloudy this ayem, so when I was waking up at 7:30 I was thinking it was getting light out really late in the evenings already. It is staying light longer, butnot this light this late! Total disorientation, it was not fun.Only 4 more overnight shifts, then back to normal work hours for me, yeah!Poor Sadie, she either gets fed twice a day due to my time confusion, or doesn't get fed until she knocks over the dog food bin and feeds herself. I think she'll be glad to get back to a normal routine, too.
Chi--I would hope that we as a population would learn from past mistakes and current information and be able to find that balance. With the majority of Maine dependent on summer tourism we are at risk of bankrupting most of the businesses, then then the state itself, but we aren't in a good place to handle a huge surge of cases, either, not with half our healthcare workforce furloughed or laid off. I wish I knew what the answer is, I really do.
Goldie--not quite the end of the night shift cycle, tonite, Monday nite, then Thursday and Friday nite, then a 3 day weekend, then back to days on Tuesday the 26th.At work we are all starting to wonder what will be required of us as other parts of the state open up. Nursing home residents will still be at high risk, letting visitors in means the virus will get in, will staff be blamed? Will staff be required to continue lock down standards? No going out for social things, just for necessities to minimize our exposure to minimize the chanced of bringing it into the facility? We're anticipating wearing masks through July, and wondering if it will become standard after that. Oh my goodness, those drinks are fantastic sounding!
Genny--Yeah the reporting stuff was crazy, fortunately it got changed before it was finalized.The end results is that we have until 5 pm the next day after finding out about a positive test to notify, and we don't have to call every family, we can post it on a website or use a listserveto e-mail families, or have an update line family can call into for recorded messages. We've finally gotten temps to kiss 60 a time or two, but still going below freezing overnights. I'm glad you are getting some time with grandbabies. I hope the side effects do settle down and aren't so disruptiveover time. I love hearing about Boo. OH,my, the gray teeth! What a handsome couple! Nora has gotten so big!Doesn't she know she's not supposed to grow between pictures???Her hair looks great!
Cammy Cat--drug withdrawal is not pretty. I'm glad your family could get together and figure something out for you. It's people like us who NEED the meds who are hurt by the regulations put in place to deal with people who misuse the drugs, and they always have more than one source just to avoid withdrawal!So not fair. Some days it just feels like everything is a mess and totally chaotic. Some days it's not worth adulting anymore!
Good morning, Celia!
Chi--prayers for your doc and PA and all the other office staff and everyone's family members. I'm with you, all those people insisting on their rights had better be ready to exercise their responsibilities that go with the rights and be paying for the care, lost wages, funerals, and taking care of the families of every person they infect.
Jazzy--thanks for your stepping up and helping where you can! Praying for your cousin. May she be in the majority who have mild illness. About your SIL, the dream and her looking more peaceful makes me think that she has come to terms with things and ready for whatever is next, which may mean time is short now. When her time comes I hope she's one of the 30% of heart patients who die suddenly and quietly, often in their sleep, and not in a long, drawn out hospital stay with procedures and strangers.
Chi--Maine's Gov has caved in a little, she's allowing hotels/motels to accept reservations for June 1st and after for Maine residents and out-of-state visitors who have completed the 14 day quarantine. Of course, the 14 day quarantine must be conducted in a private residence, not a public accommodation. People with camps can quarantine in their camps. But people with a private residence to go to (camp, camper in a campground) don't usually book hotel rooms! And there is no way to verify if a visitor has quarantined, so I just do not see this working out well at all.
Cammy Cat--it is nutso times, isn't it?Or maybe I'm just having a not-coping-so-well day. Maybe I should go back to bed for a while and deal with the world later!
Goldie--well, if the person cannot tolerate wearing a mask, he/she has a serious respiratory problem and if infected with COVID will probably end up in ICU on vent (and believe me, intubation is WAY worse than a mask!) and eventually dying. Darwin wins again, but only after the idiot has infected how many other people and cost how much in medical care that I bet they don't have insurance to cover!
Librarian--oh my, you have your hands full teaching your DH how to use a phone!
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Sea of Confusion
Ingredients
• 1 oz Hamilton Jamaican pot-still gold rum
• 1/2 oz Clear Creek pear brandy
• 1/4 oz Yellow Chartreuse
• 1/4 oz Cappelletti amaro sfumato rabarbaro
• 3/4 oz Passion fruit syrup
• 1/2 oz Fresh lemon juice
• 6 dashes Angostura bitters
• Lemon Hart 151 rum, to top
• Garnish: Mint sprigs
Steps
1. Add the first six ingredients to a footed pilsner glass over pebble ice and swizzle.
2. Add the bitters and Lemon Hart 151 rum to top.
3. Garnish with 2 mint sprigs.
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NM- I am hoping too that my SIL will quietly go in her sleep. With all the things that have been done to keep her going, it is the best way for it to happen without my sister trying to do anything else. We are all amazed she has lasted this long. Seven months on a respirator? It will be hard for my sister if it happens during the pandemic given there won't be a chance to have services etc.
Thanks to everyone about my cousin. As far as I know, she was not symptomatic (just tested because of the infection in her place) as of Monday. I will do a call again next week with my cousins and find out more. I sent her a really cool card she can color today, and hope she likes it. She is an artist and thought having something like that would be something she would enjoy.
Cami- hi!
Working on the mice situation here today.
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https://apassionandapassport.com/utah-national-parks-road-trip-one-week-itinerary/
Goldie - This is a link to an itinerary from Las Vegas. Let me know what you think. Hopefully the link will work.
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Praying for your cousin, Jazzy. Many asymptomatic people who test positive remain asymptomatic and eventually clear the virus from the body. Hope she's one of them.
My housekeeper's DH re-tested negative for the second time, so their quarantine is over! He now has to go back to the V.A. for his dialysis, as the facility to which he's been going the past 3+ weeks is strictly for COVID+ patients. She is coming back to work on Mon., albeit with both of us masked and gloved while she's here. The kitties will be doing the happy-dance, because they miss her so!
No news on my PCP, but out of an abundance of caution (and a throwback to my childhood as a Girl Scout) I have requested PCP (FP, GP, internist or geriatrician) referrals from my GYN, who is in the N.Shore system where I get my cancer, orthopedic, weight mgmt. and G.I. care. My PCP and his P.A. are part of the Amita system. If he survives, I can't imagine he'd be well enough (or inclined, at his age) to go back to practice; and I don't want a P.A. as a primary unless she is working under an M.D. or D.O. I fully trust. The two health systems share records under the Epic system, and I can access one system's patient portal through the other.
IL's positivity rate over the past 24 hr. was 9%. I only hope the Covidiots who poured over the state line last night into Kenosha & Walworth Counties' bars (it's always the bars, not restaurants) to exercise their "freedoms" to infect us don't give us a spike in cases. Our Gov. has now ordered that all health care workers, essential workers, and high-risk individuals be given access to testing regardless of symptoms (or no symptoms). So Bob will likely get tested. My PCP, before he fell ill, deemed me "medium-risk." (But AFAIK, he had no more risk factors than I, except he's male).
DOTD last night, with grilled salmon (me) and meatloaf (Bob) was 2018 LaGalope rosé, from Gascony (FR). And today's DOTD thus far is seltzer from my new Sodastream. (Bob broke our 7-yr-old one when he fell Tues. night after losing his balance and falling when he came downstairs for a wee-hrs. snack and couldn't reach a dish on a high shelf).
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ChiSandy - I agree with your sentiments about "Covidiots." Here in N KY, my neighbors across the street are currently hosting a grad party with at least 20 currently in attendance & others coming & going - no masks, no social distancing. Probably underage drinking as well. What is wrong with people?
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