lookeyloo

Yesterday I had a senior coffee with two creams, a plain english muffin with a round egg. Relatively healthy and inexpensive.

I love McDonald's.. Was there today.

Thanks. will look for that too. Turns out my roku box has a free movie channel called filmrise.

Hoping this is the right thread - found a 1990 movie starting Whoopi and Sissy Spacek called "The Long walk Home" about the Montgomery bus boycott. Good movie and Whoopi also very good.

Our pharmacist speculates that so few people are getting reactions to either one of the Covid vaccines is because the virus is circulating and we are building up immunity. Or resistance. But, that is a good thing. We had no reactions to the Covid shot and the flu shot just made me sleepy for a day. Easiest ones so far.

All sounds great! I am snake phobic so that made me gasp! Glad it is coming together!!

Well they had to leave us something to snark on! 😁

That's great. I live in the land of peaches and voter suppression so it is always a crap shoot on whether I can vote. Once recently I was almost denied because my hair was a different color. Went to DMV for a new picture and people there said that hair color doesn't matter. Well, to some people it does.

Too funny. Maybe modest porn? 😄

I listened to a podcast a while back and the fellow on it was discussing recycling (not composting) and the pros and cons of paper vs washing, styrofoam which is forever, etc. and that to use regular dishes and cloths and wash them vs. disposable perhaps that would degrade over time sometimes is a wash as far as resource usage and eventual benefit or not. He said he was not taking a position at all. It takes energy to produce the paper, etc. and then if one uses washable stuff, energy to get the water, make the soap, then if a dryer is used, etc. Not very easy to ferret it out. Then, the grandson did a paper on recycling in college I think and he decided that individual community recycling is great, but to make a real difference everyone as in all, would need to do it with a general overarching plan. That being said, in our family, him included, we do what we can on an individual/family/household basis. If nothing else, makes us feel good about it.

Wondering if either GoodRx or Cost Plus Drugs are any help for future prescriptions?

The trump could sound at any moment...???

Mine is the ubiquitous silver and it doesn't show dirt at all. But, there are a lot of silver cars. I had a red car, loved it, a green car, meh, a blue car, fine, and a silver one before this one. I guess I like the silver now. I did love my red car, a 1984 Chevrolet Cavalier. It got too expensive to fix, finally.

Very rude. It is my major pet peeve. I am trying to break some family of doing this to me. When they start to talk over me I stop talking. then they talk and say "what were you going to say" and I say "I forgot" and then they act annoyed and I don't say anything else on the topic. Slowly they are improving.

Maybe Janelle can spend her "dotage" living with her grown children on a rotation. That way she won't ever need her own house and she doesn't seem to mind not having a permanent residence. Some people find this a nifty way to handle old age. When and if she ever gets to the point of needing a nursing home there is the Medicaid ones and she won't have to spend down to qualify. Maybe that is her plan. I always said I wanted to become a burden to my children in my old age. Not really though.

Shortly after my brother passed, I was standing in a Sam's warehouse on a weekday morning. It was virtually empty. I was still in a grief daze and was between the displays and the checkout lanes. No one was around me. I felt a cold rush of air on my face and strong scent of brother's cologne. I turned around and around to see if someone passed me wearing it. No one. Then a short time thereafter, Mr. lookeyloo, not a believer, walked into the hall in our house and said "Come here, I can smell (brother's) cologne - can you smell it?" I couldn't. We didn't have his cologne.

I didn't say it was good sense in my post. I said it was very common. They are doing what is common in their culture, whether they realize/recognize/acknowledge the risks or not. And, most people say "well, it won't happen to us/me", etc. And of course it does happen to us/me.

I have lived in the south for over 40 years. I am a city girl by nature. But these activities are very common and very popular. Even among people not like the Forsyths. I remember riding a bike in the small city I grew up in. No helmets back then. No monitoring. Rode all over even in streets. Today my parents would be reported. Of course there are accidents. And of course helmets are a good thing. And of course safety lessons important. Don't know what the Forsyths do but he is wearing a helmet which looks like it is on mostly correctly.

I appreciate that you know those people but I know there are many for whom that is not the case. Me specifically and my friend group in two states. I retired at age 60 on a state pension. I have had one semi job - since - 3 hours a week for about a year. I am still active at age almost 81. I do not lead a sedentary life. So I would say there are many variations in the retirement theme and in life in general. I am guessing many people who keep working can also have the attributes you describe. Hoping Janelle can figure out something good that works for her in the long term.

Agree. Those folks are really "Alone". We watched that and then finished Australia.

Does anyone watch "Alone"? Those folks are really Alone.

Back in the olden days we called it a tape measure. same thing.

Wow. Jana has a lot to say. She shrugged and said a word or two in all the talking heads back when. Then speculation that she raised enough children and liked her alone time. Go know!

Y'all are lucky. My mother was depressed and put up not a one decoration for any holiday or season. I tried with my children but it was a chore even though I wasn't depressed. Lucky for me the daughter in law goes all out for the season changes and I enjoy her decorations. PS her walls are beige but there is still color everywhere.

Also have those problems. There is so much product left when the pumps don't work or tubes won't squeeze. I got those tiny cosmetic spatulas on a long stick and now can get everything out of a jar or bottle. I cut tubes in half and get the last bit out of those too. I'm paying for it, after all!!!