Weather report: Considerably cooler, normal night fog. That hot spell and those fires took it out of me.
In the News: The headlines are making me happy, after all the stuff.
Neighbor Report: So far, so good. The home health nurse came yesterday, and instead of the usual 45 minutes, he stayed 3 hours! And Mrs. Neighbor really felt good about it, liked the nurse, was getting the message about needing to give his meds at particular times and push fluids. Keeping in touch with their daughter, too. But another older neighbor a few doors down -- the one who fell and got checked out at the ER and returned home the other day -- she was having really bad pain, so the ambulance came yet again this weekend.
Have a battle plan for the cleaning blitz before my houseguest arrives.
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Things you’d think an Ivy League school would teach their students:
1) When going to an interview, wear a suit and/or a tie.
2) if you can, stay at your first job for at least a year.
3) don’t wear a fleece vest from the job you worked at for 2 months to an interview at a different company.
Liz on iPhone after interviewing a guy who graduated from a school in NYC this past May.
Rolling my eyes so hard, Liz. I think I learned all that in high school.
W: dying friend is still dying. I texted with her husband last night, and hospice says 1-3 days. So hard.
AW: 140th anniversary party was fun! And exhausting.
AW: so I'm hibernating today
Question: does anything say "I'm a pastor" more than eating leftover church reception food for lunch the next day? Finger sandwiches and crudite!
Oh, the leftovers are definitely one of the benefits of doing heavy lifting on an event, Esperanza! Sending love about your dying friend. xxoox
Wow, Liz. Glad that was just one person, and not 3 separately misguided applicants. Some kids are just determined to learn the hard way. Pretty sure that your advice was stuff he'd heard from guidance counselors and any adults in his sphere...
Oh, I didn’t tell him. Someone else can have that pleasure.
One can hope that his school encouraged critical thinking skills. Eventually those might outweigh his awesome individuality. Obviously, you can't tell an applicant directly, "Dude! Dress nicely, and you have no significant job experience yet, so be humble!"
kathy, I'm glad the neighbours are all receiving appropriate and quality care.
Liz, I can't even...especially the fleece vest from the last job. :)
I'm glad the anniversary party went well, esperanza. I love the dress you wore (saw it on book of faces) and the scarf. Very fetching!
Leftover church lunch food - been there, done that. :)
So sorry about your friend in hospice. xoxo
We had news yesterday that my husband's aunt passed away. She had a stroke on the weekend and never regained consciousness. She's as far east as you can be in Canada, so my FIL (it was his sister who died) could not be there, but most of the family lives nearby and were with her. She was a truly wonderful person.
It's travel week for me. I'm heading west on Thursday for a few days of chunky meetings, then east on Sunday for my appointment with a bunch of needles. I'm home for less than 24 hrs on Sat/Sun - just long enough to conduct worship and get on another plane. Time to conjure up some stamina!
Sue, please accept my condolences on the loss of your sweetie's aunt. She sounds like such a wonderful person.
Oh, my -- that's a lot of travel!
Stupid marital argument division: Mr. Dog Man has done some research suggesting the dog's food should be divided, not all fed at once. Which makes total sense. So my beloved said he thought noon sounded like a good time for another meal; and I felt like being tied to the house all day every day sounds like a terrible plan (for me). So I suggested the other feeding be in the morning, but by then he was upset because I don't know why exactly. Maybe I sounded too grumpy hearing his "offer" before I even had coffee? Bleah.
Bad form for dog man to have voluntold you and then gotten pissed with you for not appreciating it, Kathy
I’m so sorry about your sweetie’s aunt, Sue
Sue, I'm sorry for the loss of such a special aunt for your husband and all her family.
Morning and evening is sufficient for dog feeding, and the person who is going to do it gets to decide when that might happen. Ahem.
W, family version: Mr. E's brother's fourth marriage is breaking up, with ugliness all around. Here is my shocked face. (Hint: I am not shocked in the least). He has made some dumb choice that have left him with legal trickiness and vulnerabilities. Mr. E is sad and professes to be surprised, but mostly hurting for his brother.
I'm sorry to hear of this, esperanza. Mr. E's family has had a lot of heartache, hasn't it?
Hugs about the loss of your aunt-in-law, Sue.
Kathy, that is definitely irritating that your husband would come up with a plan that commits your time like that, Kathy, and then that he'd be grumpy when you came up with a new plan that worked better for you.
Happy Halloween, pixies! I'm already exhausted, and it's still the afternoon. (Hyped-up preschooler had an epic meltdown this morning, and candy hasn't even been added to the day yet. At least it's just a normal school day at preschool: they're doing the costumes later next month, so that those who don't celebrate Halloween for various religious reasons can still participate. On the way to school, we repeated, "Today is just a normal day. It isn't Halloween until after school." And then when a parent asked E how she was doing, she piped up, "Today is a normal day!")
Ugh, the Halloween meltdowns. Teachers nicely did not assign any homework. Which is great and all, but leaves more time for obsessing about "is it time to trick or treat yet?" and getting into fights.
LOL! "Today is a normal day!" Like that. Also, having an alternate costume day, because do little persons really like costume occasions.
All is repaired with the dog feeding mis-communication thing. Making progress on the sprucing up of the house for a houseguest thing.
((esperanza and Mr. E))-- sorry for all the sadness
((Sue))) sorry about your aunt-in-law, and best wishes for all the travel...
((Kathy)) hope you don't sweat the housecleaning too much.... people will just love to visit regardless
W: I stayed home to hand out candy, and Neighbor Girl has a big test tomorrow (she's in 10th grade, so OK I guess.... but still....). She was going down the steps to our front door (which was open, and screen door is glass), and slipped and fell down the steps. She is bruised but ok. The worst part is there was a whole group of young teens on the stoop, and one of them was laughing at her (in a really mean way), and calling out to friends behind him to make fun of her. Right. in. front. of. both. of. us.
I sent her upstairs and gave him a whole heckuva teacher rant about his behavior. He left without candy.
(amazingly to me, some of his friends stayed and took a piece of candy.... and said thank you, at least)
Not one. not. one. asked if she was ok.
I shut off the light and shut the door right after to go check on her, and I guess some kids had been coming across the yard I didn't see. I could here them yelling rude stuff at me through the door.
Sheesh.
(I, of course, opened the door prepared to give another lecture, but they ran off...)
Sigh.
It's not so good when studying for a big test is more fun than handing out candy.
But, there were lots of little cuties who saved the night with their absolute good manners, and lots of polite teens too..... so.... all is well here now.
Meanwhile, Neighbor Boy is out with a group of teen friends (and two dads), and his costume is a guy riding a kangaroo. (He loves Australia). Hope he is having fun!!
Happy Halloween to all who celebrate!!!!
Passing lots of virtual leftover candy.
--Neighbor Lady
NL -- Those little jerks deserved a full rant! And I hope NG is OK; super hope she does well tomorrow. xoxo
Poor NG!
Sorry to hear about Mr. E's brother's troubles.
(((NL))) ((((NG)))) Yes, those little creeps deserved a full-on Mama Bear rant!! Grrr...
Because there isn't enough heartache this week - our son who lives in the Big City is coming to visit for two days (while I'm out west) because he's attending a memorial service for a friend from his university radio days. His friend wasn't forty yet, and leaves behind a partner and two young children. Fireplacing cancer.
Oh, Sue. So sorry about your son's friend.
We got zero trick or treaters...
My cousin called. He was riding his bike to work last week, hit by a car, knocked off, his bike and helmet were damaged, and it turned out he has a concussion. Tried going back to work today, and that wasn't going well. The person gave him $500 and said she didn't want to report it to her insurance. Now he's thinking he needs to make a police report, anyway; that maybe he messed up by taking the money. My beloved and I agree he should go to the police; and he should maybe talk to a lawyer. We don't think accepting the check (while concussed) means he has no other recourse, but aren't 100% sure.
I'm glad the person stopped and helped him, rather than just taking off. But I'm not comfortable with the kind of person who knocks a rider off his bike just continuing to drive w/o some consequences for that major driving failure.
Oh goodness, I hope your cousin reports that!
Hugs for you and your family, Sue. Fireplacing cancer.
Yikes! Hope your cousin is ok Kathy!
Sue, so sorry about your son's friend.
--NL
p.s. I've been thinking about KLee.... If you are reading this, hope you are doing ok.... thoughts and prayers continuing for you.
I'm so sorry to hear about your cousin, kathy. I hope he's feeling better soon. Concussions take time, as you know.
My cousin's doctor said to take off work until Monday, see how things are then. He's trying to take it easy. Is following up on reporting this -- has filled out the DMV form, been in touch with the police.
Oh, this is unbelievable. My cousin sent an email saying he had to report the accident, he's having a lot more trouble than he thought. He asked for her driver's license # and insurance information -- which she was required to give right at the time of the incident -- and she refused to turn that over unless he gave back the money she gave him! He talked to a lawyer, who advised no further contact with this person. But I'm going with him to the DMV today, because he doesn't have all the info they want on the form, because she wont' give it to him. And he's really having some trouble with vision, dizziness, etc.
Old Skool: I do not own a single pair of non-annoying jeans.
Kathy, I hope you can help your cousin. This is sounding sketchier and sketchier.
W: I was so inefficient in running errands today that I left little time to accomplish (a) housework; (b) work work.
AW: So I took a short nap instead.
AW: My ridiculous congress critter is retiring!
Huzzah! Now, hoping for a good replacement.
AW: school picture proofs just arrived, and they're just too sweet. Oh, my heart.
W: snow. Piles of it. I'm not ready for snow. Nothing's been put away in the backyard, and somewhere under this blanket of snow are all my carrots, still in the ground. This had fireplacing better melt and not be it. (The long-range forecast is not promising.)
Okay okay. AW: at least it mostly stayed away until after Halloween. (And it JUST BARELY stayed away. We had no snow for Halloween, and then a giant pile of it, late that night.)
Um, I guess QWP has pointed out an AW for me: it was 85F here, and the Baboos were playing in the hose.
Y'all win the weather. I mean, 85F vs. need to shovel snow?
AW: My other cousin's daughter is applying to colleges for next year. I offered to review things she is writing for the applications, and she sent an essay! I just love this kind of thing; hope she sends more. So, this is Cousin Week.
W: Am a tiny bit stalled on the "clean everything!" project. But AW: it's all broken into smaller tasks, so it still seems manageable.
AW: We might get rain today!
Esperanza, how are you all doing? I know you're some distance from the church shooting, but isn't it fairly near to your old town?
I'm in nervous Mama mode tonight: E currently has a high fever, and she's only had two fevers before in her entire life (once, with a throat infection, and once with an ear infection). She went from running laps to listless and high fever in a few hours. What on earth!
(((E))) and (((QWP)))
Hope E is feeling much better soon! And hopefully the fever responds to medicine quickly.
((esperanza)) have been thinking of you and yours.
--Neighbor Lady
Hi friends, thanks for checking on us. Sutherland Springs is about 40 miles from the town where my church is and probably about an hour from our old town. The whole situation is hitting close to home, emotionally. My people are all ok, though it is close enough that there are sure to be connections to the wounded and killed. We are trying not to watch or listen to the news much, so as bot to unnecessarily frighten the Baboos. In fact, I only heard about it when a former pixie messaged me to see if we were ok. I had been busy at church all morning and didn’t turn on the radio on the way home.
Anyway, thank you for being here
Esperanza
Thank you for checking in, esperanza. So many hugs.
(Tiny AW: E responded quickly to the ibuprofen and lukewarm bath, which brought her temp way down to the low-grade fever range. She's asleep, and hopefully that's it. I've never seen her -- nor my own -- temp spike that high before, and I panicked!)
Glad E is better, QWP.
((( Esperanza ))) That whole thing is horrifying, and I am so sorry. Nobody in the area -- or from my point of view, anyplace -- can rest comfortably with such a horror. All I've got to send is love. But my congress-critters are going to hear from me one more time.
QWP, glad you got E settled, and that her fever came right down!
xoxo
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