In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Hey 6
I'm sorry to hear about your mom's MS. And nothing to do with anything, I hope your job is going well.
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Hi Brenda!
I think green is easier to walk through. So, as the song goes "and may all your Christmases be ... green"
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Hey 6
I'm sorry to hear about your mom's MS. And nothing to do with anything, I hope your job is going well.
Thanks Kiki.
She's actually one of the "Lucky Ones", as far as MS goes.
My friend Kim's mom was in a motorized wheelchair for as long as I've known her. I guess my mom had it for about 10 years before she was diagnosed. Finally figured it out when she lost sensation in her legs and fell down the stairs about 12 or so years back. At least she had really good health insurance back then and they put her on some experimental shots that would have cost $50k/yr without the insurance. She's actually in "remission" now, but she doesn't get around all that great. At least she's still walking though all these years later. Only rarely does she ever need a cane. :)
It kind of sucks they're so far away since my relationship with my Mom and Step-Dad is probably better now than it ever was, even when I was a young teenager. But I'm happy she doesn't have to deal with the humidity up here, and it's also good knowing she won't be slipping on any ice either.
They showed me pics of the mountain range view they get right out of their back door. I've never seen a mountain in real life before. Looks pretty amazing.
The job is actually going pretty well. Sure, I wish it paid more and there were benefits, but it pays the bills for now and it's getting me out of my house and I don't feel at all agorophobic anymore. I'm actually getting some of my assertiveness back as well, which is a nice feeling. 2 weeks ago I got them to give me Christmas off. Everyone gets Christmas Eve off, but since I don't have kids and my mom and step dad moved away that means nothing to me. Christmas night we always get together at my Dad's house and all 4 of my brothers will be there. I haven't seen the ones that live in Baltimore or L.A. since last Christmas. They know I bust my ass there and show up 15-20 minutes early everyday, so they accommodated me.
Just tonight I had to tell them that I could only work one of the days this weekend that they added to my schedule without asking me too. I already volunteered a few months ago to give my disabled brother a place to crash most of the days he's in town, and had the schedule all worked out with my other brother until they did that. He's the one who's alcoholism was 10 times as destructive as my own, and most of the family doesn't want him staying at their place much or at all unfortunately. It's not that i don't trust him... he's been sober for 3 or so years now. It's just that I don't want him to have to walk on eggshells all day while I'm sleeping and then I'm gone all night. I don't get to see him much, and it will be cool that he's around for a week or so.
A few people have been fired since I started, and 3 others have given their notice. They're scrambling right now. One of them was the team lead of the overnights. I'm thinking there's a pretty good chance they might ask me if I want it. I figure if they make it worth my while I'll take it. Finger's crossed.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Yesterday was cloudy and cold, but no predicted rain. But on the tail end of the disturbance that made the weather so threatening, we had a small rain band come thru. Went in the store to do grocery shopping and when I got out again there was water running in the street gutters, puddles on the sidewalk, and my (leaking) windshield had leaked- which it only does with wind-driven rain.
So, there it was: an unexpected reprieve of much-needed water from the sky. Although the official rainfall was 0.01" (at the airport) I estimate that we got 0.1". It doesn't sound like much, but when you haven't seen rain for over 10 months, it's a lot!
I had JUST sown a bunch of CA poppy and cosmos seeds and watered the property twice; so this additional water will give all the seeds a great start- I hope! In a few months, I should have a yard-full of pink, white, purple, orange, butter-yellow, and rose-colored flowers.
KIKI, if you see this .... we live in the flatlands, and you live nearer the foothills I believe. If anyone gets rain, it should be you. Did you get any?
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uggggggh... more freakin snow. I see the plows out right now.
Hope the little engine that could feels like making it to work and back tonight. She barely wanted to start after work on Wednesday morning.
Really looking forward to next week when it stops dipping in the low single digits at night. My car can't take much more of this, and I'm getting tired of having 3 layers of clothes on inside my house all day and night.
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I've had a few times in my life like that. I really hate snow ... except I know it's how you pay to have green the rest of the year.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I hear ya Jack.
The place I live in is like an ice box. Hot water bottle in bed for my knees for starters. Then move it around to warm things up general. Sleep with the blankets over my head.
Man... that sucks Brenda. I thought I was the only one that did that to myself. Even with the low temps, my last elec/gas bill was about $140, but that was all before the cold hit. I think my ancient furnace is going off 2-3 times as much now, so my next bill should be well over $200 bucks. It sucks getting that $400-500 2 week paycheck only to piss half of it away on the heat when it's so freaking cold in the house.... but at least I'm making money to pay it this year instead of just draining what's left of my savings.
My car made it home tonight.... I think I'm going to buy a burner phone in case of emergencies. The tires aren't great, it doesn't start so well in this cold, and I'm dumping a quart of oil every 60 miles or so.
I don't want to pay some mechanic to rape me on it, so I'm gambling and just putting oil in it for now until it warms up and I can watch some youtube videos and fix it myself.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
I've had a few times in my life like that. I really hate snow ... except I know it's how you pay to have green the rest of the year.
I'll trade you. Green is overrated.
The only thing I like about the cold is that it kills the bugs every year and we don't end up with monster sized ones like they do in the Bayou.
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My blood sure has thinned! We didn't turn the heat on until a week ago, and I thought it was COLD ... but it was still 55 deg F in the house. I can't imagine how I'd do in really cold weather anymore. I used to love snow ... I'd prolly hate it now.
This time it looks like the midwest got the "polar vortex". Thanks to global climate shift, the jet stream is taking bigger loops south and bigger loops north, dragging arctic air farther south and warm air farther north, and staying remarkably persistent .... for weeks and weeks at a time, instead of precessing from west to east over the course of a week or so, like it used to. That's why we've had record highs over the past few days, and you're having record lows.
It looks like a change in the weather is coming in a week or so for you SIX. I wish it were better news for everyone: it's really hard to sleep well when you're cold.
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I'm sleeping fine... plenty of covers. It's just everything else that sucks right now. Gonna be -7 on New Years Eve and New Years day.... Looks like I'm going to get that really expensive energy bill a month or two early this year.
Here's hoping for a reasonable January. And that my car starts the next few days.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Our snow isn't going to melt at all for the foreseeable future. :(
My car started fine today though, even though it wasn't any warmer. I just went out at lunch time and ran it for about 10-15 minutes and it seems like that did the trick.
I LOVE coming home and it's freaking freezing though. I'm actually pretty happy about the work situation right now. Even though I'm part time, they aren't scheduling me like I am. Got 4 days this week and next week and my first 5 day week after that. I don't mind working so much when it's a hell of a lot warmer in the store than in my home.
It'll be known at my 90 day evaluation that this isn't going to fly with me though. If they want me full time, they've got to pay the price. If they don't, that's fine with me too. I only signed up for 20-25 hours a week, and at this pay rate that's all I'm willing to work for them 3/4 of the year.
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