The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Songbird76]

wow, that sucks!

so bad that you lost some of the mementos of your mother because of his uncontrollable spending.

Yes, but I have lots of others. He didn't want the family photos or our childhood books, or any of my mom's jewelry, and she had stipulated in the will that I was to get certain pieces of the jewelry anyway, like her mother's wedding band. So I have important momentos and my brother really doesn't have much of that. So it's ok. I was very upset at the time, but there's nothing I could have done about it anyway, and I still have lots of other things. I have the photos, which is a huge thing for me.

 

[Figgy1]

On ME bus. Obviously not going anywhere today minus hanging around the resort. Tomorrow Disney Quest and DTD for the day.

Have fun

 

[Songbird76]

that sounds one of the biggests "nope nope nope.. never again" tales!
I best the dog was adorable. Cookers are very cute. Now you add the tiny size.. :O

He was really a sweetie and he was kind of my baby. If all 3 of us were sitting in the livingroom, I was the one he came and cuddled with. Until my husband showed up, and then he would jump in hubby's lap before he was even all the way seated, so I couldn't lean up against him. Rascal was CRAZY about my husband. Good sign, they say, since dogs are supposed to be good judges of character.

 

[Figgy1]

Wonder how long Quest will be hanging around. Does your brother like it too?

It looks like sometime 2017 as the NBA pulled out of that location

 

[Figgy1]

Apparently Valentine's Day threw up at Target.

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Sugar rush.

 

[Songbird76]

My sister and I are really frugal, I can't stand to waste anything. If I can't use it anymore, I donate it.

I'm like that too. It kind of drives hubby nuts because he's one who would just throw it away to get it out of the house and make space. And to him, it's too much effort to box it up and take it wherever you can donate. I have to do the boxing myself and half the time he'll just say he's not going to mess with it, just throw it away. But having grown up on donated clothing and such, I understand that not everyone can afford their own stuff and if I have extra and can help someone out, then I'm going to! I donate all the kids' old clothes to either an orphanage in Romania, or a home for severely handicapped children in Sri Lanka. Toys are the same, or some things have gone to our neighbor because their youngest is only 3 or 4 and they don't have much money, so we've given her some of the bigger toys that would be hard to send to another country.

 

[Figgy1]

My bandage fell off while I was out today. I stuck my hand in my coat pocket and the cut got stuck on the zipper. Slusher Gusher again. I had a Sponge Bob bandage in the Glove Compartment. (Wonder how long he was in there?) He is sticking real good so I'm not taking it off until morning.

I'm so sorry to hear that. Yuck and ouch! Get well soon.

 

[Figgy1]

You still are allowed to pick out their clothing for the day?

I think mine were still preschool when I was cut off from that process.

Sort of. I have almost no say in the style of dress. Thankfully boys so it's jeans and shirts. But I can make them wear long sleeves, hats, gloves, scarfs and such.

 

[Figgy1]

Good morning. My street still stinks so my dh will have to go to work the long way. His commute last night was almost doubled due to the idiot who thought salt on snow was a good idea. BTW Salt on snow is a bad, very bad idea!

 

[Songbird76]

Yes just like that. Parents didn't take care of it until it was too late. My brain turned off looking out of both eyes at a very young age. Grandson has had two surgeries to correct the problem. I don't mind wearing glasses, I kind of feel it masks the problem. (Not really, but I like to think it does). I couldn't drive worth a hoot either. When you look out of one eye then switch to the other, it's as though the center line in the road moved by several feet. I couldn't tell if I was close to a stop light or sign either. I was pretty much a hazard on the road. Hubby has done all the driving for years. I'm so glad I can walk to the Emergency care center, or grocery store if need be.

Yep, my ex had a couple of surgeries to correct it as a child, too....I think the last one was when he was 4? But his was so severe they couldn't correct it all the way. I wish he would have recognized that it affected his driving so much. He really thought he was an excellent driver, but none of my friends would set foot in a car with him. He was quite a hazard, too...he was ok as far as staying in his lane most of the time, but he missed signs on the side of the road, so he'd miss stop signs, one way signs, etc...and because his depth perception was off, his turning left scared me to death. He'd say there was plenty of room when in reality, we'd miss a car by inches and the other car would have slowed down considerably just to even miss hitting us. I honestly do not know how he had a regular license. He should have at least not been allowed to drive at night.

 

[Songbird76]

I had the same upbringing, my Mom asked her sister if girls needed to go to college.

My dad brought me to his lawyer to have him tell me that girls didn't belong in college and that they only went to college to find a husband and even if by some miracle they graduated from said college, the degree wasn't worth anything because we are women and women are only fit to be teachers, nurses, or secretaries and only until we find a husband to provide for us. It's a waste of money to send a woman to college.

 

[Songbird76]

We just made our ADR's for June/July a couple days ago. I suddenly realized we were under the 180 mark by quite a few days. We got everything we wanted but the Dine with an Imagineer. Oh well, it leaves us something for another time. All our Christmas stuff is down now too. Except for the yard decorations and the stuff on the porch. But all that stuff is frozen in the ground, and I'm not spending much time on the porch in negative degree weather!

Thank you for the reminder to check how many days I have! I'm 193 out, so I can't make my ADRs yet....I should set a reminder on my phone.

 

[Songbird76]

I'm not a fan of game meat either. My family claimed they couldn't tell the difference between beef and venison either, but I could. Eventually my mom gave up trying to make me eat it, she cooked up some fish sticks usually for me instead. Which I hate fish too, but it was tastier than venison. I wish I could ask her why she picked fish sticks since I hated those too, I suppose she didn't want to reward me too much for being picky.

Also, when we went to Wyoming we tried antelope and elk sausage. The antelope wasn't that great, it had a different taste. The elk wasn't too bad though. We didn't buy any of either of those, we did buy some bison sausage. That was good.

Elk is a bit more mild, but we were in the wrong area of the state for Elk hunting. It was antelope and deer on my dad's ranch. But yes, bison is very similar to beef, just a bit dryer. My mother flat out refused to let me eat anything other than what they were eating. If she made stuffed peppers, she'd leave some of the filling out for me, but that was the ONLY alteration she would make, and I didn't like the filling either, but it was better than eating it IN the pepper. But not eating was also not an option with my mom. I had to eat it, even if I hated it.

 

[Songbird76]

I'm trying to defrost. Human Popsicle here.

Oh no!! Do you have a heating pad? I use my heating pad and my blow dryer, and I have big fluffy teddy bear slippers that I got for my birthday...I find if my hands and feet are warm, I stay warm. Baths are great, too.

 

[Songbird76]

Thanks, Bets!
But, actually, the heart condition hasn't kept me from any of my life dreams, except maybe the private pilot license one. I wasn't even diagnosed with it until my early 30's. When I was young, I thought about becoming an airline pilot, but, eventually realized if I wanted to get married and have a family, I didn't want to be away from them that much. As I mentioned before, I've been cleared by the docs to do anything anyone else can do, even thrill rides that a lot of other perfectly healthy people won't do, that I will, and love, and have no problems.
But, with the condition I have, although I haven't had an event in about 8 years, all it would take was one out of nowhere while I was piloting a plane, with just myself on board (in which case I could lose consciousness and take out myself and others on the ground) or with others on board and no other qualified pilot in the plane, which would be even way worse.
Maybe there is some provision that if you have another qualified, completely health-cleared pilot aboard, just in case, it would be possible. I don't know. Something tells me not.

Yikes. The more I think about it, no matter how much time or money I have, it is probably a dream I should, unfortunately, let go of.

Nothing says you would have to fly by yourself...you could make that provision yourself that you won't fly without another qualified pilot with you.

 

[Songbird76]

@Gabe1 , you'll appreciate this. Despite the hoops that Walt has made you jump through over the past few days, at least he has normal dog behavior. As you know, Jack's behavior often keeps us guessing.

Every night, he comes upstairs and hangs out with me in the room, until I go off to sleep. However, last night, he left the room before 9; and around 9:15, I was curious to see what he was up to, and went downstairs to look for him. And there he was . . . in the livingroom . . . watching the State of the Union address on tv . . .

Your DOG was watching the SotU? Is he an animagus?

 

[Songbird76]

My road still looks like carp!!!!!!!!!!!!! Last winter we got snow on top of snow on top of snow and the roads were always good. Last night about an inch and they are a mess! It was all snow but some how they put salt on top of the snow and it iced up! I'm not going out until I have to!

Sympathy like! We get very little snow here, so when we do (we're supposed to get some Saturday) everything just STOPS. And they are terrible at clearing the roads! Stay warm and safe in your house!

 

[Songbird76]

The first thing my DD did when she was launching this laptop for me was to take a piece of painters tape and put it over the camera. She explained and I was so creeped out.

I have athletic tape over mine. I've gone to skype a few times and forgotten to take it off and can't figure out why my camera just shows a beige nothingness.

 

[Songbird76]

Apparently Valentine's Day threw up at Target.

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Oh my! Yikes. I don't miss that.....the commercialization of every single holiday.

 

[Figgy1]

Your DOG was watching the SotU? Is he an animagus?

I think so