Lounge in bed together for an extra hour or two, have a coffee, and watch a show or college game day. Make some breakfast. Work on little projects or hobbies (today we need to go empty a storage unit before the next billing cycle), maybe go swimming, run some errands, maybe haircut or nails, maybe have friends over in the evening or have a date night.

ETA- forgot to mention my favorite weekend activity-the rerack! Wake up early, browse my phone or read for a bit until you start to feel the sleepies, and then go completely back to sleep for an hour. I don’t know why, but it feels like the best sleep ever, and you wake up feeling so good and rested.

I hate the glass screen protectors. Naked screen. Single layer medium plasticy case with the mag circle on the back because my last car had the magnetic attachment thing.

I cook spicy breakfast sausage, scoop most of the meat out of the pan, add some butter to the sausage grease (i know 🤷) and stir in a couple of tablespoons of flour. Whisk it while it cooks to browned. Wisk in some milk, take it to just below boiling (tiny bubbles at the edge), and turn it down to thicken a bit. Mine is always a bit brown, never the bright white they have in restaurants, but my family likes it.

Biscuits and gravy. Shrimp and grits.

I tried to buy part of a cow but i landed on a website that made you choose your cow, like a lobster. Nope! Not doing that!

$40 to park a half mile away.

I love the fun stuff that occurs at these - the mascot races, T-shirt guns, etc. That’s the shit you can’t get from watching it on TV!

All of the things that were supposed to help us by making our lives easier really helped them and now our lives are harder. I don’t see an end to that.

Good luck. Be gentle. They know they’re aging and have likely talked about things between themselves. Old age doesn’t really sneak up on you but it’s hard to know what’s right when. I feel guilty every day for not being more gentle and understanding with my mom.

Knees are hard. It seems like surgery should be the answer but it doesn’t always help much, so then you’re stuck with meds/shots which are also only moderately effective. I had three scopes, several years of meds (biking, PT, and celebrex were more effective than the shots), and finally had partial replacements on both last year.

They’re the same ones who drive up the shoulder to leapfrog because their time is more valuable than yours.

I love the Eternity. It always smells so fresh and light.

I have the Hypnotic Poison. My husband always calls it poison apple because if the round red bottle.

If it’s warm out i wear Eternity or a Joe Malone or a cheaper, lighter scented bottle from Victoria’s Secret. If it’s chilly out i wear Code or Poison. At night i wear Coco or Valentino. I have an older bottle of my mom’s Channel #5 that i wear when I’m missing her.

Do you take an antidepressant? When i did, i had a feeling of insignificance - being an ant, one of a bajillion beings who have lived or will live on earth and whose death will mean nothing once my immediate circle is also dead. I wasn’t sad about that, just very matter of fact. Here today, gone tomorrow, no biggie. In 120 years the earth will be all new people.

This is my first post about the work - though i probably have a few about the frustration. They wanted to do 42 piers to level but we settled on 29 to stabilize. It was about $30k. We probably could have found someone cheaper but i went with a company with a good reputation. It’s a 2000 sq ft house and it had a 4"drop corner to corner. The doors had been trimmed over the years and were trapezoids. To do the work they dug 2’ holes about 6’ deep. A guy gets in that hole and stacks 1’ cement cylinders.

I do give. Just wondered if there was a way to get them a little extra.

I give, but also looking for a way to make YouTube (or meta or any of those algorithm fuckers) give them $.

I love the good part of my job - playing with kids with disabilities. I hate the stupid assholes that i work for and might not make it through another school year because of them.

I can sometimes get a wireframe image of a general shape like that - not solid, no color or details.

This is how i describe it. I can remember my dead dog - small, black, cute, foxlike tail- but i can’t picture a dog. Sitting in my living room i know where my bedroom is, what it looks like, and what’s between here and there; but i don’t ‘see’ it.