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1 hour ago, Temperance said:

A couple months ago, I saw a priest having drive-in confession. The priest was sitting on a bench in the parking lot. The penitant was sitting in their car with some distance between them. Another car was waiting several yards back. There were orange cones helpfully marking out where the cars should be. 

If they are smart they will buy some sort of drive thru speaker. That way the priest can wear a headset and people can confess into the speaker. We're all used to drive thrus for food. Why not confessing your sins?

Maybe Drive-In Churches will become a thing. Like drive in movies used to be. 

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16 minutes ago, PikaScrewChu said:

Maybe Drive-In Churches will become a thing. Like drive in movies used to be. 

when my daughter lived in grand rapids mi probably 10 years ago, there was a drive in church down the road. they did their broadcast over an AM radio channel to the cars.

it had been a thing for a long time and they are still in business.

 

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2 hours ago, PikaScrewChu said:

We've been having some funky things going on in our complex since self isolation started and management moved off site. They are staying that way regardless of what the government orders. Even a leaky faucet is enough to set someone off because there is now a huge list of protocols to follow rather than "Just make sure the repairman can get to your sink". A guy just posted about drinking an entire bottle of whiskey yesterday evening because his anxiety is so bad. 😬

I started binge watching Mom. I'm not entirely sure why I find that show endearing. I really dislike Chuck Lorre and shouldn't find it endearing. Yet I do.

I kind of hate myself for enjoying 2 1/2 Men.

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My frustration overflowed yesterday when I went to pick up groceries curbside. It started when they didn’t give me any update on timing, no status was available on line. So, I pulled into pickup area at appointed time next to my cousin who has the same name as my dad (order in his name)..first and last, long story. So, I called and gave name on my order. Anyway, they gave part of my order to my cousin, I think. I called twice from the parking lot to check status and was told they were working on it....  Then, I waited for 50 minutes when another car pulls up and they bring her order to her after 5 minutes!!! I then got out of my car and voiced my displeasure through the 2 masks I was wearing. Lol I’m not returning to that store. Plus, they didn’t have 1/3 of what I ordered. I bet that’s the part they gave my cousin. Lol

I need to get my mom a Mother’s Day gift, but little time to order. Any suggestions?

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15 minutes ago, SunnyBeBe said:

I need to get my mom a Mother’s Day gift, but little time to order. Any suggestions?

is she a person who sends cards to lots of people?

my mom is,

my sister ordered her a huge set of cards for mother's day. I am on a rural USPS route and can buy stamps from my mail carrier so we are giving mom that for mother's day.  mostly in hopes she will stop driving to the dollar store for cards and post office for stamps every week

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1 hour ago, sixlets said:

There was a drive-thru strip club about 20 minutes from where I grew up.  I just wanted to feel included 🤭

I'm willing to invest in this business venture, except we would have to do Venmo payments for tips. And couldn't serve alcohol. 

1 hour ago, DangerousMinds said:

I kind of hate myself for enjoying 2 1/2 Men.

Ryan Stiles was the best part of that show. I will grudgingly give Chuck Lorre credit for that.

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1 hour ago, crazy8s said:

is she a person who sends cards to lots of people?

my mom is,

my sister ordered her a huge set of cards for mother's day. I am on a rural USPS route and can buy stamps from my mail carrier so we are giving mom that for mother's day.  mostly in hopes she will stop driving to the dollar store for cards and post office for stamps every week

She is and that’s a great idea! On it. 

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I watched way more of both 2 and a Half Men and Anger Management than I am strictly comfortable admitting IRL when i was working on my thesis. I also watched a lot of The Young and the Restless and the movie Predator on repeat at that time as some weird coping mechanism to deal with the stress. 🤣

Sorry for all of you having bad days. I may have reached my peak pandemic snapping point earlier this week when I ventured into walmart for the first time in 6 weeks. If that wasn't the peak, I shudder to think about what hissy fit the world is in store for. 

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I think you all would understand. I had to place 2 grocery orders because my regular store doesn't offer alcohol for curbside pickup. Walmart does, but they were out of stock when I picked up my order. I went to the store just before they closed and picked up 2 bottles of margaritas and some Mike's hard lemonade.  I'm trying to alternate between hard liquor and malt beverages so it doesn't seem like I'm drinking all of the time. Walmart also has those theater size candy available so I have Mild Duds and Mike and Ike's too. 

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11 hours ago, magpye29 said:

I wanted to share this because I thought it was adorable, and also to snark on the Duggars a tiny bit because their kids could only hope to be this cute while quoting scripture.

 

OMG, she is precious and definitely knows her scripture. She has left the little Duggars in the dust. I loved when she said "my brother and Miami" and how she followed the words with her finger and turned the pages.  We will have to watch for her on the preaching circuit in years to come. 

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12 hours ago, realityfan26 said:

I think you all would understand. I had to place 2 grocery orders because my regular store doesn't offer alcohol for curbside pickup. Walmart does, but they were out of stock when I picked up my order. I went to the store just before they closed and picked up 2 bottles of margaritas and some Mike's hard lemonade.  I'm trying to alternate between hard liquor and malt beverages so it doesn't seem like I'm drinking all of the time. Walmart also has those theater size candy available so I have Mild Duds and Mike and Ike's too. 

I had to give up on ordering curbside at Walmart.  TOO many items were out of stock or store purchase only.  It was ridiculous.  All their meats had to be puchased in the store!  Facetiming with friends yesterday, let me know that there are some upscale stores in certain Raleigh locations that have plenty, though, they are expensive.  So, I'm going to plan a trip there this week.  Just a lot of extra driving, since, I'm staying out of county due to covid. 

I'm trying to stay positive, but, I'm emotionally exhausted trying to keep my parents focused on the restrictions and safety.  Then, I heard that some of my friends are violating social distancing laws!  I just don't get it.  A few of my friends are like me and really put it as a priority.  It seems there are those who are committed to the restrictions and those who just do it when it's convenient, but, ignore it when it suits them.  I fear this behavior. 

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i gave up. we are all thankfully healthy so i let my daughter and her husband and my sweet granddaughter come over yesterday to celebrate her birthday. it was great because we cleaned off all the dirt and grime from the patio, re-arranged the furniture out there, turned on the ceiling fans and ordered sandwiches for lunch. we didn't touch each other and i sat at the opposite end of the big table from her family.  the weather was lovely and it was so sweet watching sweet granddaughter chalk up all my concrete.  then, they were gone. it has bolstered my spirits.  

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I need to share this story which happened to me over the weekend.  I live with my mom and both of us are still working.  She sells cellphones and her job is deemed essential.  She had to work on Saturday.  I had a lazy morning and then went to clean my bathroom.  I usually clean practically naked especially when there is water involved.  I had just finished and usually i hop in the shower after cleaning it out, but decided not to.  I was chilling for a few minutes when my doorbell rang.  I hastily found my bathrobe, threw it on and answered the door.  It was my  church secretary and her son dropping off some strawberries.  

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Assuming nobody gets sick between now and then, I'm spending next weekend at my daughter's house. My state is no longer under stay at home orders and I'm still staying away from everyone else as much as possible. At some point, everyone is going to have to decide what their personal safety level is.

All 60 of the cases in my county have  been linked to care centers and everyone who has died has been over 60 and living in a care center. Which is still very sad, because these are people who deserved better. But, it means right now the risk is pretty low.

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My state is still under sheltering in orders and we are complying. Masks when out in public have been added to the order. We finally saw another person wearing a mask on our walk yesterday. Most people in my neighborhood are social distancing when walking or chatting.  We're going to continue to order groceries online and pick up curbside.

I understand the urge to be with loved ones. I feel it too, but I don't feel safe yet doing that. I understand that this may go on for up to two years. That's heartbreaking! Today our twin granddaughters turn one. How I would love to be there! But it will be an online celebration. A friend of mine told me yesterday that they went to drop off birthday gifts for their 3 year old granddaughter, who cried because Grandma couldn't (and to her 3 year old brain, wouldn't) pick her up. She's just too young to understand! My friend also told me that there is a Covid case in the very nice assisted living home where her father lives. Terrifying!

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24 minutes ago, galaxychaser said:

Why are people wearing masks under their nose/chin? Why even bother wearing anything. 

This is the one I don't get. I was at the store yesterday, wearing my mask, and several people had a mask on, but not over their nose. I get the damn things are hard to breathe in, but it's an incentive to get in and get out so you can take it off in the car. 

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Yeah, I'm in this for the long haul, understanding that I may be distancing for a year or more. I'm willing to do it. I can facetime, meet at a distance, text, email, etc. If I got sick, I'd go to one of the best facilities in the country Duke or UNC, but, still......I just don't think I'd survive it. I'm not in the higher age group, but, do have Type I diabetes, which, I recently read if well controlled, not considered to be like Type II diabetes for purposes of the virus.  But, I must consider how to run my law practice and that will require time and work, but, I can do it with online conferences, and in person meetings when necessary in a disinfected office with proper PPE and distancing.  

One thing that is now bothering is that eventually, I'll have to go to court. I have some cases that are set for May....I'm really dreading it. I saw some footage of people in the courtroom last week and they were not far apart and had NO masks on!  A colleague told me that she went down and NONE of the courthouse staff had on masks!  So, I'm not sure why they are so clueless.  I'll wear mine into the courtroom as a courtesy to others.  Not sure why they aren't doing it.  ODD.  I'm attending a teleconference tomorrow hosted by local Judges. I hope they address this issue.  Do you know how many people go through that place?  Thousands every day!  I'm really going to have to raise my fees to risk my life like that. lol 

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I'm still staying away from my mom, but I am ready to say "screw it."  My birthday is Friday and then Mother's Day is Sunday so normally we would spend time together on Saturday as a combination celebration. But we are still staying apart from each other. We do see each other occasionally for a brief period of time if one of us has been to the grocery store and we have something for the other person. But that consists of one of us staying in the car and the other person getting whatever was bought.  
My hair is getting as long as Jessa Duggar's so I'm ready for a haircut but I will be waiting. It looks like the numbers are increasing in Georgia since our stupid, idiotic governor reopened things.  I'm tired of attempting to work from home.  Yeah I'm just over it, but I'm not over it enough to risk lives just to get back to "real" life.  The struggle is real. 

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I just ordered flowers for Mother's Day for my mom. Lied that I accidentally sent a parcel to the wrong address and to watch the porch. I never changed my billing address so it is plausible.

I would call the cemetery to put flowers at my grandparents' grave but they are so effing expensive to use their florist. I will see if I can get my sister to drive over when she needs a break from my parents.

I'm starting to feel human for the first time in three weeks. It has been really hard to sit down and put words to paper. My migraines are getting pretty bad but I'm wary of going to see the doctor. They took out all the chairs and you have to wander around outside until you get a phone call to come in. Yeah... No...

I will never take those uncomfortable plastic chairs for granted again. I feel sorry for pregnant people who are stuck in that situation!

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6 minutes ago, PikaScrewChu said:

I just ordered flowers for Mother's Day for my mom. Lied that I accidentally sent a parcel to the wrong address and to watch the porch. I never changed my billing address so it is plausible.

I would call the cemetery to put flowers at my grandparents' grave but they are so effing expensive to use their florist. I will see if I can get my sister to drive over when she needs a break from my parents.

I'm starting to feel human for the first time in three weeks. It has been really hard to sit down and put words to paper. My migraines are getting pretty bad but I'm wary of going to see the doctor. They took out all the chairs and you have to wander around outside until you get a phone call to come in. Yeah... No...

I will never take those uncomfortable plastic chairs for granted again. I feel sorry for pregnant people who are stuck in that situation!

My mom's 88th birthday would've been yesterday.  The weather was gorgeous, sunny and mid 70's.  I put the dogs in the car, stopped at Walmart to buy some flowers and drove out to the cemetery where my parents and other family members are buried.  It felt good to be out driving around.  Stopped at a nearly-empty park to walk the pups then we went to Dairy Queen where the young lady working the register took a couple of sundae lids, put a dab of soft serve vanilla in them and topped each with a dog biscuit.  The pooches were delighted, as was I.  Nice to be out doing normal stuff.

I am still working daily.  Ohio is now allowing routine doctor's visits, so we are seeing people for annual exams and such as of today.  Prior to this, it was all pregnant ladies, problem visits and birth control like IUD's and implants.  Our waiting room is being re-vamped to make it impossible not to social distance.  An employee in the lobby is taking temperatures, issuing masks (my employer requires them for EVERYONE.  If you don't wear a mask, you don't see the practitioner.  No exceptions, not even allowed past the screener to the elevator).   No able bodied adult patients are allowed to have anyone with them for their visits.  Elderly ladies who have someone to help them get from point A to point B, minors and people who don't have any other options for childcare are the only exceptions.  

I'm wearing a mask all day, every day, except when I am alone in my office.  It sucks, but gets more tolerable over time, I've found.  One of the nurses in my office has gone crazy with the mask making and I donated a bunch of my quilting fabric to the cause, which, if you quilt, you know it was a bunch.  Today, she handed out Star Wars masks to half the workers ('May the 4th be with you').  I've got one with doggies, one with Cleveland Indians print and several in pretty fabric including one with some fabric I bought in a market in Cusco, Peru that I love.

We're opening up for surgery next week at the surgery center where I do mine and I've got a bunch of cases we hope to get done.  One is for a patient who is developmentally disabled who has been calling the office or sending me messages multiple times a day asking when her surgery was going to be done.  At one point, I suggested she contact the governor since it was his order we were following.  She asked for his number, which, fortunately for him, I didn't have.

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29 minutes ago, doodlebug said:

My mom's 88th birthday would've been yesterday.  The weather was gorgeous, sunny and mid 70's.  I put the dogs in the car, stopped at Walmart to buy some flowers and drove out to the cemetery where my parents and other family members are buried.  It felt good to be out driving around.  Stopped at a nearly-empty park to walk the pups then we went to Dairy Queen where the young lady working the register took a couple of sundae lids, put a dab of soft serve vanilla in them and topped each with a dog biscuit.  The pooches were delighted, as was I.  Nice to be out doing normal stuff.

I am still working daily.  Ohio is now allowing routine doctor's visits, so we are seeing people for annual exams and such as of today.  Prior to this, it was all pregnant ladies, problem visits and birth control like IUD's and implants.  Our waiting room is being re-vamped to make it impossible not to social distance.  An employee in the lobby is taking temperatures, issuing masks (my employer requires them for EVERYONE.  If you don't wear a mask, you don't see the practitioner.  No exceptions, not even allowed past the screener to the elevator).   No able bodied adult patients are allowed to have anyone with them for their visits.  Elderly ladies who have someone to help them get from point A to point B, minors and people who don't have any other options for childcare are the only exceptions.  

I'm wearing a mask all day, every day, except when I am alone in my office.  It sucks, but gets more tolerable over time, I've found.  One of the nurses in my office has gone crazy with the mask making and I donated a bunch of my quilting fabric to the cause, which, if you quilt, you know it was a bunch.  Today, she handed out Star Wars masks to half the workers ('May the 4th be with you').  I've got one with doggies, one with Cleveland Indians print and several in pretty fabric including one with some fabric I bought in a market in Cusco, Peru that I love.

We're opening up for surgery next week at the surgery center where I do mine and I've got a bunch of cases we hope to get done.  One is for a patient who is developmentally disabled who has been calling the office or sending me messages multiple times a day asking when her surgery was going to be done.  At one point, I suggested she contact the governor since it was his order we were following.  She asked for his number, which, fortunately for him, I didn't have.

If your family is buried in the same Catholic cemetery as mine, I know you had a drive to get there.  A nice drive in the sunshine going by Lake FarmPark and the site of the Murder Barn.  

I can't get into the whole Star Wars thing today.  I'm a graduate of Kent State, and lived there for a few years after getting my degree.  I worked with a local who's mother was one of the police dispatchers back in 1970.  The ex-hippies who moved there in the 70s and the yearly commemorations really make May 4th a very specific day not related to Star Wars.  

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26 minutes ago, Ohiopirate02 said:

If your family is buried in the same Catholic cemetery as mine, I know you had a drive to get there.  A nice drive in the sunshine going by Lake FarmPark and the site of the Murder Barn.  

I can't get into the whole Star Wars thing today.  I'm a graduate of Kent State, and lived there for a few years after getting my degree.  I worked with a local who's mother was one of the police dispatchers back in 1970.  The ex-hippies who moved there in the 70s and the yearly commemorations really make May 4th a very specific day not related to Star Wars.  

I didn't realize the Kent State shootings had happened on May 4 until earlier today when I saw a 50 year commemorative article. 😞

I never could get into the "May the 4th be with you" stuff anyway because I'm not a Star Wars fan, but I can definitely see how living there and knowing people who were involved/lived through it would leave a lifetime impression. 

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54 minutes ago, doodlebug said:

My mom's 88th birthday would've been yesterday.  The weather was gorgeous, sunny and mid 70's.  I put the dogs in the car, stopped at Walmart to buy some flowers and drove out to the cemetery where my parents and other family members are buried.  It felt good to be out driving around.  Stopped at a nearly-empty park to walk the pups then we went to Dairy Queen where the young lady working the register took a couple of sundae lids, put a dab of soft serve vanilla in them and topped each with a dog biscuit.  The pooches were delighted, as was I.  Nice to be out doing normal stuff.

I am still working daily.  Ohio is now allowing routine doctor's visits, so we are seeing people for annual exams and such as of today.  Prior to this, it was all pregnant ladies, problem visits and birth control like IUD's and implants.  Our waiting room is being re-vamped to make it impossible not to social distance.  An employee in the lobby is taking temperatures, issuing masks (my employer requires them for EVERYONE.  If you don't wear a mask, you don't see the practitioner.  No exceptions, not even allowed past the screener to the elevator).   No able bodied adult patients are allowed to have anyone with them for their visits.  Elderly ladies who have someone to help them get from point A to point B, minors and people who don't have any other options for childcare are the only exceptions.  

I'm wearing a mask all day, every day, except when I am alone in my office.  It sucks, but gets more tolerable over time, I've found.  One of the nurses in my office has gone crazy with the mask making and I donated a bunch of my quilting fabric to the cause, which, if you quilt, you know it was a bunch.  Today, she handed out Star Wars masks to half the workers ('May the 4th be with you').  I've got one with doggies, one with Cleveland Indians print and several in pretty fabric including one with some fabric I bought in a market in Cusco, Peru that I love.

We're opening up for surgery next week at the surgery center where I do mine and I've got a bunch of cases we hope to get done.  One is for a patient who is developmentally disabled who has been calling the office or sending me messages multiple times a day asking when her surgery was going to be done.  At one point, I suggested she contact the governor since it was his order we were following.  She asked for his number, which, fortunately for him, I didn't have.

That's the hardest part about moving away. My parents will be buried in the same cemetery when the time comes. I won't be able to ensure everything is maintained and drop in for occasions. The funeral home that owns it does maintain the grounds. My other relatives are buried elsewhere and it is expected that you will maintain the grounds yourself.

I remember sitting next to a woman on a plane to Europe years ago. Her daughter had given birth and she came to stay with her daughter and the baby for a few months. Both of her daughters came here temporarily for work and met men. They both got married and didn't go back. The woman told me never to travel because I would meet someone, move away from home, and break my mother's heart. 

Well, in my case it was finding my passion and this is yet another stepping stone. Now the love part, if that pans out REALLY sorry Ma.

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