The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Cesar R M]

That sounds like a pretty crazy dream. Hopefully there are no quakes in your future.

Single dreams do not worry me, but this is a very recurrent dream. I see it but with small variables..
In one it was even apocalyptic like (the entire earth crust cracking, violent tornados nearby as the building I was was shacking violently). Not fun.

 

[Gabe1]

I wish they're in rehearsal every weekday except July 4th all summer. We were thinking about going to DC for July 4th leaving on Friday and coming back late on the 4th and even that won't work because they have to be at the school on the 3rd

I'd like to peek into the cobwebs of the person mind who thought up these timelines.

Dang don't miss others over-scheduling our kids. Most survive.
Then there is sadness like this today from my DD University.

University of Illinois student from Gurnee committed suicide by setting himself on fire early Wednesday morning at the campus' performing arts center, according to the Champaign County coroner.

21 year old

 

[donaldtoo]

All my parents had were Canasta cards, and you didn't touch them for fear of catching old person cooties. Or incurring their wrath.

I remember my folks playing a lot of bridge in No Cal, as well as dominoes when we were in Texas on vacation, and after we moved back.
The cards we used for our bikes were actually old cards our parents gave us.

 

[Cesar R M]

And we will expect lots of pictures.

Indeed!

 

[Cesar R M]

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In his defense.. he could have absorbed so much alcohol from his "clients" he became drunk XD.

 

[Cesar R M]

It's probably just the "wall" falling over from the weight of everybody climbing over it while laughing. That type of dream can be just symbolic of a different collapse.

hu... can you rephrase that?

 

[Cesar R M]

I never enjoy a nap even when I'm extremely tired. Now that I have a part time job the runs until 12:30am, by the time I drive home, unwind and get to bed it is around 2am. I usually hit the sheets at around 11pm and wake up at around 6 or 6:30am. Now I am still waking up at 7am. Fortunately, it's only 3 nights a week, but, I hate getting up later then that or taking a nap during the day. I do doze off occasionally while watching TV in the afternoon, but, like getting up late I always feel like I am throwing away a part of my day.

I probably got that from my mother. My dad loved to nap, she hated to and always yelled at him when he did take one, which was almost daily. She would say... "Wake up!... your wasting your life... you will have time to sleep forever soon enough". He ignored her, of course, but, some of that same attitude must have washed over and affected me too. She felt justified when he died at age 76 and she lived until she was 87.

You do not waste your days, you just start using the nights

 

[Songbird76]

Oy. I'm sorry. Having gone through all this with my Dad's passing less than a year ago and my Sis going back to Cleveland it wasn't an easy task to get it all in order.

So how far is your brother from where your Dad lived?

He's about a 4 hour drive. But, as I'm the one who has the access to all the financial stuff, I kind of need to be here. My dad and my brother didn't really have much of a relationship. Not like my dad and I did, so most of it falls to me.

 

[donaldtoo]

Last year right before our trip my dh and I needed to renew ours and my older ds got a picture ID. We were in and out in under a half hour. I hope you have the same luck. We were there at rope drop

Our DS also has a State-issued picture ID. He wants a drivers license someday, but, not sure if that will ever happen.

 

[Songbird76]

@Songbird76 How is your Hubby surviving being a solo Dad???
Let alone the kids? Thinking of you as you have to plow through all you are dealing with *pixie dust* floating your way.

Oh he's fine being solo dad. I left him detailed instructions about laundry. And they have vacation starting Friday afternoon for like a week and a half, so he's going to go stay with his parents so they can watch the kids while he works. It all works out...it's just frustrating. And right now we're just playing the waiting game.

 

[Gabe1]

Single dreams do not worry me, but this is a very recurrent dream. I see it but with small variables..
In one it was even apocalyptic like (the entire earth crust cracking, violent tornados nearby as the building I was was shacking violently). Not fun.

I do night terrors. They come in clusters and usually in spurts when I'm very stressed and mixed with insomnia or total lack of adequate sleep. My night terrors leave me rattled and I always always remember them. Most dreams leave my memory very quickly if I wake at all so my night terrors are a totally different animal.

 

[donaldtoo]

FB is banned in my house. My older ds for obvious reasons and different obvious reasons for James

Yea, I just simply have no interest in it. Plus, I, obviously, can't even keep up here...!!!
DWifey actually has an FB account, but, only because the girls set one up for her several years ago. She uses/checks it very minimally. She's, generally, not into the internet or social media, anyway.

 

[Songbird76]

Sympathy like. What about getting a phone line run into your brother's house in your name? Would that be cheaper than what it would cost you on your side of the pond to get a license? Would they take a cell bill? How's everybody holding up? Look on the bright side at least you don't have a knife shortage

Ha! Definitely no knife shortage. Though our supply has dwindled a bit as we run into people we know who don't have good knives. My brother has no land line at his house at all. I think what I'm going to do is get my license when I get back, once the estate is settled. I would love to get it here because it's cheaper and easier, but it's too much hassle to prove residency. Right now, I'm too stressed to worry about anything extra. We found out the person my dad told me would help me with selling the cattle and everything is basically trying to cheat us. And my brother doesn't seem too worried about getting anything done...he is working during the week, and only helping on the weekends, but we're not doing anything this weekend because we CAN'T really do anything on weekends except clean the house because businesses are closed. I'm wanting to get home, but can't until things are tied up, which we can't do until 30 days have passed anyway, but we need to get things appraised, which has to be done during business hours...it's just kind of a mess.

 

[Songbird76]

HA! I wish! Work and vacations are not considered excused. Maybe next summer we'll be able to schedule something but he can't as an incoming freshman It's not part of the regular course work so it's their way or the highway. We may do a very short weekend depending on my dh' crazy schedule leaving Friday night and getting home late Sunday but even that may not work out with my dh I may be spending a lot of time at the pool by myself with an adult beverage or 3

Call him in sick and take a vacation?

 

[Gabe1]

And they even have CMs come clear it away for you! Not this stuff where you have to take it to the trash yourself.

In all seriousness, I took environmental economics on college, and based on that class, I'm pretty sure that Disney gets some sort of benefit, tax break or otherwise, by doing it without paper plates and plasticware. California is famous for environmental regulations.

California is awesome when it comes to championing bold laws for education, ADA, truth in labeling and of course their love of the environment. We shall see what tax breaks withstand the new EPA 2017.

 

[Gabe1]

And they even have CMs come clear it away for you! Not this stuff where you have to take it to the trash yourself.

In all seriousness, I took environmental economics on college, and based on that class, I'm pretty sure that Disney gets some sort of benefit, tax break or otherwise, by doing it without paper plates and plasticware. California is famous for environmental regulations.

California is awesome when it comes to championing bold laws for education, ADA, truth in labeling and of course their love of the environment. We shall see what tax breaks withstand the new EPA 2017.

 

[donaldtoo]

@Gabe1 , I recall as a kid, wearing those stupid bathing caps in our local Y pool. (I swam a lot as a kid.) Not only did I hate those (they were too tight), but the water still managed to get inside, and your hair would still be soaked. I think they made us wear them to keep some hair out of the pool drainage system. Apparently nowadays, they've come up with better filters or whatever for pools.

Yep, that's what I've always heard...it was all about long hair getting into the filter system, just like cutoff blue jean threads doing same, thus cutoffs not allowed.

 

[donaldtoo]

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[donaldtoo]

Yes to all the above. I only wore a swim cap to swimming lessons-never after that. Loved the ice cream. We got that at school on special days. The wooden spoon made it taste better. lol We had one of the swings. My favorite! My sisters and I would have fights over who got to sit in the seats. Since there were three of us, one had to stand up.

Hahaaa...!
We never had one of those swings, but, had friends that did. If you were standing in the middle during the "flight" you were definitely the "pilot"...!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

So, Yesterday started as a nice day. And then we got nailed not once, not twice, but four times by torrential down pour, thunder, lightening, and hail. During one, my DH called. He works a few towns over, and didn't know what I was talking about. Street flooded, make shift pond open for ducks. And, as an added bonus, I now have a coyote roaming about, at 4 in the afternoon. It looked like he was stalking a particular yard. So, need to be mindful of that with our pup.

@Gabe1 Did you get a hit, or miss?

And for good measure, right now, 48, real feel 42.

Verrrrryyy late sympathy like...

 

[Gabe1]

Ha! Definitely no knife shortage. Though our supply has dwindled a bit as we run into people we know who don't have good knives. My brother has no land line at his house at all. I think what I'm going to do is get my license when I get back, once the estate is settled. I would love to get it here because it's cheaper and easier, but it's too much hassle to prove residency. Right now, I'm too stressed to worry about anything extra. We found out the person my dad told me would help me with selling the cattle and everything is basically trying to cheat us. And my brother doesn't seem too worried about getting anything done...he is working during the week, and only helping on the weekends, but we're not doing anything this weekend because we CAN'T really do anything on weekends except clean the house because businesses are closed. I'm wanting to get home, but can't until things are tied up, which we can't do until 30 days have passed anyway, but we need to get things appraised, which has to be done during business hours...it's just kind of a mess.

Ugh. I'm sorry. I wanted to pull my hair out when my Dad passed this past year and he lived in the same state-my Mom's way of helping was just to throw anything she could lay her hands on out. I didn't have half the stuff you have to cope with. Lots of pixie dust flying your way.