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Tony the Tigger
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Fit for Life was mostly about diet, proper food combining, etc. (Eat meat with veg or carbs with veg but not meat with carbs.)
I think I remember Body For Life, but wasn't into it. That guy (Bill Phillips?) had a magazine, also, which I used to read occasionally (in the 90's.)
AFAIK, they already have the next SB. I wouldn't go if you paid me - unless the halftime show was somebody I absolutely loved, and then I could leave afterwards. Ha!
Songbird76
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So would it be accurate to say you are cautiously optimistic? Isn't the job he interviewed for with the same company that he works for now? I think it's really low of them to ask him to be a devoted employee by working all the extra time, and then NOT reward him with a fulltime contract. It just seems so sketchy to me. I hope he can find someone who will appreciate him more.Sorry for the late reply, it's been a long (but productive) day.
The eye doctor seemed to go well. He said overall it looked good, emphasized that he was still in the early stages of healing and he should still be laying flat about 70% of the day for the next few days. (Of course, he's working a full day tomorrow. I told him to make sure he takes breaks and puts his head down for a few minutes. He won't listen. LOL. But he only has this week to work, and then the mortgage is due. They asked him to come back two days in June to work job fairs for the upcoming season. They have the Super Bowl this year, if he is still working there.)
One issue was the pressure in his eye was too high - even higher than before the surgery. He was already taking 3 different eye drops a few times a day - an antibiotic, a steroid, and the third one...I forget, oops. (Rick Perry - ha!)
He prescribed another eye drop to reduce the pressure (so I believe two of them do that now) and discontinued the antibiotic. Because of the high pressure, he wants to see Brian again on Monday to check on that, then again two weeks from today.
The gas bubble (which they inserted during the surgery to keep parts of the eye in the right place in order to heal) is dissipating as it's supposed to. It went from 90% coverage on day two to 45% coverage today. So theoretically it could be gone in another week(?) Or reduced down to half of what it is now, so about 20%? He can see a bit over the top of the bubble, but he's telling me it's not very clear yet. That has me concerned.
In the meantime, while we were sitting there as he was being examined, I missed a call from my trade rep (I'm in a business barter group.) She was able to find a hotel in the Keys (we've been there before) that takes pets and had availability next week on trade. (I only have to pay cash for the taxes.) This covers a few bases: we have a recurring termite issue in the attic, and it's time to get the house tented. It happens to almost everyone down here eventually, and our neighbors on either side had it done in the last year, so not entirely unexpected. We have to get out of the house for 3 days. We have also been saying how we could use a nice break - not a Disney "break" where you come home more tired than when you left, but a few days of quiet with the pup. So that should all work out perfectly - follow-up visit Monday, friends from Atlanta visiting Thursday and leaving Sunday (that should lift his spirits, and his sight should be significantly better by then) and we will drive down to the Keys Sunday night. We can chillax until coming home Thursday, and he works the job fair on Friday.
Booking that made it just a smidge easier to call WDW afterwards and cancel our Illuminations dining package for Friday.
In the car on the way to the endocrinologist, I was asking what do you see - what color is that car - what are the letters on that truck, etc. He did much better than a week ago.
Doc #2 went fine. She mentioned something that kind of got my hopes up until I just came home and started researching it. Apparently they can do transplants of cells from a part of the pancreas (the Islets of Langerhans) that then cause a type I diabetic to start producing insulin again. She said another of her patients had it done and doesn't take insulin anymore, but needs to take drugs for the rest of her life to prevent rejection of the transplant. I thought - why doesn't everybody do this?
After reading up on it, it's not as simple as it sounds. Results have improved dramatically since they first started doing it about 30 years ago, but the anti-rejection drugs can cause cancer, infections, and actually can reduce insulin production and cause kidney failure (which is always a concern for diabetics anyway.) His liver and kidneys are great, and we don't want to jeopardize that. I'm sure we'll look into it further, and hopefully the procedures progress and improve quickly. It's pretty fascinating, really.
Songbird76
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Well, I have time NOW. Now that I got it all settled. It would have been nice not to have had to do it all in a 24 hour period, but at least it's out of the way now. And picking up the passport should be easy-peezy.
I did have several non-alcoholic cocktails last night with dinner. We went to La Cubanita and I had a couple of sans-sangrias (sangria sans alcohol) and a couple of Cuban splits, which were to die for. Watermelon and vanilla syrups in orange juice with freshly squeazed lime juice. Sounds weird, but they were sooooo good. DH did not like them. He doesn't do sweet drinks.
Now I'm on the hunt for Monin Sangria syrup, and Watermelon syrup so I can make drinks at home.
Songbird76
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Being brave isn't about feeling courageous or taking risks or not being scared. It's about doing what needs to be done, even if it means doing things that are difficult. You are so strong.I don't feel half as brave as you guys seem to think I am. Thank you for this
Songbird76
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Probably. Which is dumb, as we're not planning on upgrading. We are just going for the plain ones and we'll order skins somewhere, but if we can't even get colored ones, I will have to call them.
Rista1313
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I just panicked a few minutes ago for my upcoming trip to MN. Usually I just take my drivers license, and I'm all set.. but because I recently got approved for TSA Pre-Check, they have my whole name (full middle) on my file. I had to change all my tickets to my full name and not just my middle initial so my Pre-check will work...but I realized just a minute ago, at some point the DMV put just my middle initial on my drivers license and it doesn't match of course. So now I made an appointment to fix my license. Not a huge deal as I can just use my passport. I just didn't really want to lug it around! And now I need to bring all my docs to the DMV to get them to change my license... grumble grumble.
Songbird76
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So can you change plan A to Saturday while the boys are at the cookoff? Kind of a trade off on days. Extra work today, but then a day off on Saturday instead.View attachment 377572 Today plan A yoga walking and a bit of sewing, in other words a nice easy slow day, doing what I want when I want. I even have enough left overs for the boys to eat todayChange of plans my dh and the guys he works with are going to have a BBQ and grilling cookoff Saturday and made no provisions for any food other than meat, guess who was asked to make some healthy sides
I was going to say no but he's taking my boys with him
MySmallWorldof4
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Those drinks sound good to me. Watermelon works so well with lime. Now I want one!
MySmallWorldof4
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Well at least you found out now. Bureaucracy stinks.
MySmallWorldof4
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I tried food combining for awhile. I don’t eat meat so had no issue about how to combine it. The problem is so many different food combining gurus have different opinions on what can and can’t be combined. I just gave up on doing it.
Tony the Tigger
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I'm optimistic about the eye. Less so about work.
They've been almost about to make him full time for six years now, since the company split. (He had been working for the same company at the Convention Center, full time with benefits, then when they split, he was assigned to the football stadium and told to basically just start working hourly and they'll get him something F/T asap.) I have no rose colored glasses about my husband, if he stank at his job, I'd get it. He is a workhorse and he knows the restaurant business as well as I know retail. And he's a lot nicer than I am LOL.
The interview the other day was with a craft bar/bites franchise. But he is theoretically being considered for an open position at his current job as well.
I do wonder how legal it is for a big company to say, "we're not firing you, but you're off the schedule for most of the next two months, specifically so we don't have to offer health benefits."
Songbird76
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I'm so sorry! I hate having to run around to get something like that done...it just seems like so much effort and time for something so minor. The difference between your middle initial and full middle name...like, is it REALLY that important?
I got a survey today about my experience picking up my resident card. I complained that the effort to get there is too much. To have to drive for an hour and a half to two hours, working around work and school schedules, or having to take public transportation which takes even longer....all to spend 2 minutes picking up your card. Why? My husband and kids were able to do everything for their passports at City hall...why can't they take care of the resident card there, too? Or at least be able to choose the immigration office closest to you! Why have to drive halfway across the country several times? You have to go one place to turn it in, another place to get your fingerprints and picture taken and give them your signature, and then another place to pick up the finished document. It's ridiculous. They are doing the background check and such on you anyway. By the time you are approved and get your document, there's no reason to make you go to an immigration location to pick it up....send it registered mail if you have to.
So you are fixing your license soon and then you should be good to go for your travel without the passport, right? I hope it's an easy process to change it!
MySmallWorldof4
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That really seems unfair. How are you guys paying for the medical? Does he get it through your business? Can he collect unemployment while he is laid off?
Songbird76
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I would never have thought to put them together, or with vanilla, but it was sooooooo good. DD didn't like it as much as I did. She does love the sans-sangria, though. I get the non-alcoholic ones so I can share with her, and I'm not a huge fan of alcohol. There are a few things I like, but not much. I prefer the cocktails without it.
Songbird76
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Well, I don't know about where you are, BUT it's definitely illegal to do that here. The problem here is that when they wrote the law, they didn't make any provision for people who only WANT to work seasonally, so there are some businesses that don't have work all year round, but would hire the same people every year when they opened, like campgrounds or swimming pools. But now they can't hire those people more than 2 years in a row, because they can't offer year round positions, etc. But I can't imagine it's completely legal there, either. It's certainly not ethical and I'm surprised Brian is willing to do that. I think I'd have left a long time ago. If they want the workhorse with specific knowledge in the business who is willing to bend over backwards for them, they'd better bend over backwords for me, too. It sounds like they like that Brian is willing to do whatever they ask him to do without expecting any loyalty in return. He gives and they take. It's got to be beneficial to both parties, and this doesn't sound like Brian is getting anything out of it. I hope he gets the other job!
Songbird76
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Man....I'm sitting here with an open window and I keep hearing the neighbor girl, who is probably....6? screaming "What the F***!" She probably has no idea what it means as she's Turkish and lives in the Netherlands and therefore doesn't speak English, but really, her parents need to tell her that's not a nice thing to say. Although they don't speak English either, so maybe THEY don't know what she's saying. But then they shouldn't let her say something in a foreign language that they have no idea what she's saying. I corrected DS just Tuesday because he said something about not being able to see the "God d***ed" something or other, and I asked him why he used those words and if he knew what he was saying, and he didn't. And I told him it wasn't a nice thing to say and that even though we're in the Netherlands, there are things in English that Dutch people say without really knowing they are bad in English, and I compared it to if someone said a particular Dutch word, what would he think, and he agreed that he wouldn't like that. But he really didn't know what he was saying was anything inappropriate. I told him he was absolutely allowed to say "Gosh darn" instead, just like we say fudge instead of the F word. He thinks it's nuts that it's fine to say one and not the other, since you mean the same thing...I have to say, I get why he feels that way. But still...some things are just not appropriate, and hearing a 6 year old throwing F-bombs is one of them!!
MySmallWorldof4
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So dh is on a lunch break and driving around and saw this car. The license plate made him laugh because of the BM. BM for us stands for bowel movement, so his plate says “sonic bowel movement”. 
We assume it is supposed to mean “sonic boom” though. That isn’t as funny.
We assume it is supposed to mean “sonic boom” though. That isn’t as funny. 
93boomer
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Same here. All we can do is wait until it works.
Tony the Tigger
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I'm sorry, I have no short answers for anything LOL.
We have been on Obamacare since he got laid off from Margaritaville (another company bought the hotel and completely wiped out all management - "nothing personal.") We were on it for a few years before Margaritaville (Coventry) and it was great. Coventry since bowed out, and Ambetter "am not" better. Way more expensive, way fewer benefits.
This will be a couple of months of "debt spending." We're more or less used to it by now, every year. It always sucks. We try not to worry about the credit card balances and try to pay them down when he is back on regular pay. Hence any Disney trip is all on points, our Key West trip is on trade. The house tenting is going on the credit card and there's no way around that. We make the best of it. OTOH, December and April are usually great months LOL, and that's when we make some headway. But I'd love a year without pay interruption.
I'm glad I don't have to go on job interviews now - it's so different from what I was always taught to do - go in person, follow-up, etc. It's all on computers now and scanned by computers.
My business has been too small to cobble together health insurance better than he would get working for a big company.
Theoretically, in years past, he could collect unemployment while laid off, and many stadium employees did. He always had some kind of side gig, he would work temporarily at a Broadway-type venue during their busier time (after football season) etc. So he filed for unemployment but never ended up actually unemployed long enough to collect.
The trick is - this time they did not lay him off. They just told him "you can only work one week in May and one week in June." That's sticking in my craw.