I am not even sure I will be able to get this up but my laptop is suddenly working again. So I need to reach out to all of you while I can if I can. I am starting to wonder if I even need a new laptop or if the gods are just trying to kill me. I have very expensive lap top that should work fine already. I do not know. I am full oLof all these FUCKING FEELINGS from people being nice and trying to help.
So here we are on the struggle bus. I honestly have the least amount of problems. I already work from home. I have the best job in the world. I thought I would be fine but then having to reset my whole computer kinda keeps me from being able to to my job and publicize my site.
I could lose this connection at any moment. So I am going to try to get this open forum up. Frankly all posts are open forums. Someone emailed me at my new temp email address [email protected] about Wendy Williams. She is losing her shit too. She lives in NYC and that must just be terrifying. Love to all. I think it is the whole dying alone thing that is getting to her. Um, us. xo~tt
Also, I love all of you and can’t thank you enough for coming here.
Love you, too, TT! Thank you for all you do here.
<3
I hope you’re feeling better.
So far, my notebook is still working well enough, but I’m thinking about getting a new tablet to relieve the burden I always place on this notebook. So yes, I totally get your struggle. I can’t even decide whether to get the tablet, because I worry I’ll buy it, buy other stuff, pay my bills, and suddenly spend way all my “corona check”.
I’ve been drinking more of my Trader Joe’s Chardonnay, so I’m a bit out of it. At least my shipment of “fancy wine” is supposed to come tomorrow, but I even worry about that.
For the first time ever I allowed my son to claim me this year, as a dependent I don’t receive a stimulus check. No he contributes nothing. Going to ask him for the money since he saved so much on his taxes. I’m ticked I have to ask,, he should had offered.
Yeah I get the dying thing … I have been cleaning out stuff in bags & boxes. The donation places are closed. LOL Feel like this is all surreal. Realized the stuff I had saved as memories my boys don’t want and will just toss. All my cloths I don’t wear, it’s all going.
You live in a place 40+ years and there is stuff. Anyone collect anything? I’m not going to PO so I’ll by carrier pidgin.
*send by …
Oh, this reminds me of that book, The Gentle Art is Swedish Death Cleaning, which is not as morbid as it sounds. Good practice at any age.
Some places are accepting donations, or you can post on FB marketplace as “free” and find a place to meet. Take your son with you. I, too, have a ton of stuff to donate and it feels like it’s bogging me down.
All I want to do now is shed my excess belongings, sell my house this summer and live in an RV for a few years.
Calipatti – You can also sell your items on Ebay to make some extra money. I have been selling items during this time. Also once this is over you can donate your stuff to a Women Shelter.
Thank you great idea
That book is so good. I want to make the rise hips marmalade on the last page. I guess that’s our reward for paying it forward by cleaning now so others don’t need to. Reminds me of a column by our Seniors Page writer. The mother had been so proud to leave her children the collection she had spent TENS OF THOUSANDS of dollars on — Beanie Babies. I think they may be selling for a few bucks again, but in 2010 they best would have been dog or baby toys.
ROSE hips marmalade.
Katherine 2.0 sounds like a god plan. Maybe ?? Rent house out at first. I will ck Amazon got book Thank you
Fingers crossed that your computer was making you take a nap.
Keep reminding yourself that if you are doing everything right – social distancing, staying home, etc. your chances of having it are LOW. It is what I have to do. I have an old N95 mask – I’ve been spraying it down with hydrogen peroxide whenever I go out (which isn’t much) and I’m dipping my grocery deliveries in a bleach solution or wiping them down with bleach water. (before you think I’m an ass – I work for a construction company. It was one I used for dusting at home or going into a demo site. It has been out of the box for a while.
Actual food of course, gets emptied out into a bucket and the plastic bags thrown away immediately (I do this outside). Then washed and/or rebagged.
Today I drove up to the bank IN A MASK! It felt weird… but I started to think about the car ahead of me and if the person didn’t have a mask on and they coughed when the window was open.
Oh, ordered cloth masks with a filter pocket on Etsy. I’ve always reacted a bit to the respirator masks. Now I need to figure out a filter. Best bet is those blue shop towels from what I’ve read, and bonus, we can throw these masks into the laundry.
I should go up and clean my room. I have a video conference in the morning. I have to be SEEN BY PEOPLE. I HAVE TO WASH MY HAIR TOO.
I have several tube type pull up elastic cloth material mask. I distance so odds are small. Mostly mask is bc I touch my face often. Good enough for a single use. Wash my hands a lot. I don’t drive in it thou.
Only put it on for the drive through 🙂
Yes, I’m on the lookout for shop towels now. I think my cloth masks will take a couple of weeks anyway.
Thanks for the hints!
Check out motorcycle sites, construction dust masks, motocross gear sites.
Awesome designs too
Hard to find those towels now. My order won’t be here till May. You can use coffee filters or even paper towels for now. I made some with a pocket for filters for my daughter who works in an organic grocery store.
The General Store carries those kind of towels as well.
When I googled seeing masked ages ago, a doctor in Taiwan had his tailor make him masks he uses in the regular. He wets tissues and then stuffs the reconstituted tissues in the pocket. I guess it makes the tissues more matte and better at filtering. It may be a little easier to get tissues than shop towels.
Erica, I’ve heard some people are using a bit of furnace filter to slip in their mask if they don’t have shop towels. One furnace filter can be cut up into several little parts that you slip into your mask. Then you throw away the bit of furnace filter after you’ve worn the mask.
ok Tamara…where is the Beverly Housewife recap? I love your site but you need to pull up ur big panties and regroup…everyone is going thru this but I depend on your site everyday w your snarkines…now buckle up and give to us!!!!!!
HELLO….. COMPUTER ISSUES.
Hello WINDOW LICKING FUCKING Section. WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?
I can barely comment on my own site things are so fucked up. I am SOFA KING TIRED of people telling me I better hurry up an do shit for them. GO DIE IN A GODDAMN FIRE. I do not live to do what you want. THIS IS MY SITE I CAN BARELY GET TO. I AM NOT HERE TO SERVE YOUR FUCKING ASS. I run this site when and if I can. GO TO HELL.
sorry. But my laptop is working for a minute and this is not the first moron to demand I recap something. I haven’t watched RHOBH yet because it is one of my favorite shows. SO I am trying to figure out all the bad shit first.
What about the wedding? have you broke of the engagement with Cindy…I sooo wanted to wear a hat.
Yes, save it for when you have everything else. Thing is… my own schedule is so weird now on TV watching (because now I watch old people shit with my parents like NCIS, Blue Bloods…). I kind of LIKE that your recaps are delayed because it gives me a chance to catch up! (I like reading them AFTER I’ve watched so I can see if I disagree with you.)
Off to make comments on other stuff I have caught up on. I still have (I think) 2 Karma episodes. It is growing on me!
Are you fucking kidding me? How self entitled can you be? Trumper no doubt.
Entitled people come from all sides of the political spectrum and I think I have met most of them.
Hey Deb, let’s leave politics out of it right now.
This is hard enough.
This is all about politics. What’s it going to take? 34,180 effigy Donald’s ,stacked like cord wood to get it through his thick sckull? We’re talking reefer trucks.
Or a Bernista.
@artistang, please get your parathyroid checked. Bitch, please. Wtf is with you? I’m sorry you’re so fucking selfish, entitled and rude. Great job putting salt in a ginormous open wound. SMDH
TT, I’m just now checking in and I cannot believe what you are going through! OMGGGG! I’m so sorry! I wish I could do something to help!
And whomever sent you the groceries is an ANGEL. I’m sending prayers and good juju that this nightmare gets fixed soon. Love you lots and I know it’s frustrating when SHTF and you have no control over it. I empathize with you, sympathize with you and I’m sending you a virtual hug. xo
Also, major thanks to Nanette for helping you! Always knew you were a treasure!
Love everyone here and so grateful we have each other! The cuntsatchels seem to ruin everything and are clearly clueless, but there are waaaay more good peeps here. Hugs and prayers for strength and good health to all the non-assholes here! 🙂❤️
Just wanted to re-post this for Nanette – “The best kind of people are the ones that come into your life and make you see the sun where you once saw clouds…. NANETTE ROCKS
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Who gives a rat’s ass about that shit now? Get a clue. This is so much more than a recap site and TT is doing her best under trying circumstances.
Can you read? Go away, you won’t be missed. Make sure the door hits you in the ass on the way out. Asshat.
Artistang- here’s a recap of RHONYC- if you don’t like the room your given, don’t stay in the house.
GOSPEL. AMEN.
Snap.
SNAP. and spot on!
I got up to try and tell you all something. But now I fucking forget what it was. Because some cunt came along.
I’ve lost ALL of my social media, my gmail account who could let me back in to everything, all of password clues for everything. My business expenses year by year are in that account, my imaginary husband or 20 years who bare reads here. Lots of frinends who are not from here… it’s a fucking lot of loss.
I can’t help your computer issues but it sounds to me like it will all be recoverable. I hope it happens soon! I know how awful it feels to lose computer access, especially in quarantine. And fuck those selfish cuntsatchels.
my whole entire life was in that gmail account. and now … I can’t talk to a person to get it back. If I could they would see it was my website. And it’s ME! Going back to bed.
TT have you tried signing up for Google One and then contacting their experts? I can’t help as I went full on Mac back in 2000 and have never looked back.
YOU ARE A GENIUS OR A GODDESS OR BOTH!
Expert help with a tap! YES.
Are you a Google One member? Have you ever used the expert help?
I just “spoke” to Sherwin on Google One. They can help Tamara!
If she calls me to tell her what he said, we can have Peace In the Valley Tonight!
I am almost afraid to be this excited.
You deserve ALL OF THE THINGS!
Boo hoo. Google One team can not recover your email or send you a link. I joined for a year, oh, well… I can use the other benefits, such as storage.
But I did find out for sure that trying and trying and retrying again to recover your account will not cause any harm.
A cell phone seems to be the last best hope. A cell phone residing at Tamara’s house. She disdains them more than I do. So … we shall see …
Once you go Mac, you never go back! Well … in my case, it always was Mac. Graphics… PC keyboard KILLS your hands working in the Adobe programs (and Pagemaker and Freehand Quark -RIP).
Ha! My computer professor mocked the PCers in the crowd (fyi, this was 1991. I was still using my Tandy 1000, just like the one on Young Sheldon!!!). Talked about how we were going to be teachers and should switch to Apple shit because it was uncrashable.
He stopped doing that when I somehow crashed the entire Mac lab.
I was very proud of myself.
Soooo sorry to hear about your computer woes. Nothing makes me crazier than a crashed computer. I’m not sure exactly if would help your situation, but we have Carbonite back-up on our PC’s. We have crashed and lost everything for our small business and with Carbonite, everything is restored in minutes. Very much worth the couple hundred bucks a year.
I also have an old school telephone card catalog that I record all of my passwords in as I don’t trust the online password retrieval sites. Best of luck.
I’ve never figured out how to save email (that have been downloaded into a program) on Carbonite.
I guess I should do that now that I’ve put this in writing.
I’m not too sure about email with Carbonite either. I wasn’t sure if would help TT with her gmail issue, but it would save any other work she has and her records.
Been out in the BIG wide world for 7 days after working from home for 3 years and this is what I have been dealing with, my problem is no longer Covididiots my problem is Corporate Covid FECKING ARSEHOLES.
The verbal shit that I have had to listen to this week went something like this.
1. Basically, you can’t leave the house for any reason, but if you have to, then you can.
2. Masks are useless, but maybe if you have to wear one, it can save you, or maybe it is useless, but maybe it is mandatory as well.
3. Stores are closed, except those that are open.
4. You should not go to hospitals unless you have to go there. Same applies to doctors, you should only go there in case of an emergency, provided you are not too sick.
5. This virus is deadly but still not too scary, except that sometimes it actually leads to a global disaster.
6. Gloves won’t help, but perhaps they can still help.
7. Everyone needs to stay HOME, but it’s also important to GO OUT.
8. There is no shortage of groceries in the supermarket, but there are many things missing when you go there in the evening, but not in the morning. Sometimes, I think
9. The virus has no effect on children except those it affects.
10. Animals are not affected, but there is still a cat that tested positive in Belgium in February when no one had been tested, plus a few tigers here and there…dogs could be super spreaders.
11. You will have many symptoms when you are sick, but you can also get sick without symptoms, have symptoms without being sick, or be contagious without having symptoms. Oh, my..
12. In order not to get sick, you have to eat well and exercise, but eat whatever you have on hand and it’s better not to go out, well, but no…but well, but no
13. It’s better to get some fresh air, but you get looked at very wrong when you get some fresh air, and most importantly, you don’t go to parks or walk. But don’t sit down, except that you can do that now if you are old, but not for too long or if you are pregnant (but not too old).
14. You can’t go to retirement homes, but you have to take care of the elderly and bring food and medication.
15. If you are sick, you can’t go out, but you can go to the pharmacy.
16. You can get restaurant food delivered to the house, which may have been prepared by people who didn’t wear masks or gloves. But you have to have your groceries decontaminated outside for 3 hours. Pizza too?
17. Every disturbing article or disturbing interview starts with “I don’t want to trigger panic, but…”
18. You can’t see your older mother or grandmother, but you can take a taxi and meet an older taxi driver.
19. You can walk around with a friend but not with your family if they don’t live under the same roof.
20. You are safe if you maintain the appropriate social distance, but you can’t go out with friends or strangers at the safe social distance.
21. The virus remains active on different surfaces for two hours, no, four, no, six, no,72 we didn’t say hours, maybe days? But it takes a damp environment. Oh no, not necessarily maybe a hot environment.
22. The virus stays in the air – well no, or yes, maybe, especially in a closed room, in one hour a sick person can infect ten, so if it falls, all our children were already infected at school before it was closed. But remember, if you stay at the recommended social distance, however in certain circumstances you should maintain a greater distance, which, studies show, the virus can travel further, maybe.
23. We count the number of deaths but we don’t know how many people are infected as we have only tested so far those who were “almost dead” to find out if that’s what they will die of…
24. We have no treatment, except that there may be one that apparently is not dangerous unless you take too much (which is the case with all medications).
25. We should stay locked up until the virus disappears, but it will only disappear if we achieve collective immunity, so when it circulates… but we must no longer be locked up for that?
TT send me that cheap MERLOT ASAP….These emotionally draining FAT CAT FUCKERS and I will be having a COME TO JESUS moment.
JUST GET PPE equipment and shut the fuck up politicians, celebrities,
Silver lining: Isn’t that 99 year old WW11 vet in the UK fecking AMAZING. He will inspire so many more World Wild.
Maybe you should send this to health officials and Trump. It makes more sense than their words. And it’s funny. But not funny. But it made me laugh.
Ugh sorry it didn’t work Nanette. Yeah, I don’t really do Google. Too much censoring of content for their agenda.
This just made my night!!! SO funny😂🤣 Also, Nanatte-you are a rockstar along with Sherwin and NavyMommy for suggesting ‘Google One’ in the first place(which I had to google to find out what it was). Honestly I feel like this group gets things DONE. Let’s form a task force….’TT’s Team’ we can take over the world & make it nice in the words of Dorinda Medley. Hugs to everyone. Thanks for being my virtual best friends❣️P.S. I also think I’m losing my mind but at this point-who cares??? Also, the person who said earlier that your son won’t give you any money-that’s BS!! Give us his phone number.
Florida’s unemployment website is a colossal clusterfuck.
Floridians have been trying for a month to sign up for benefits and are unable and forget trying to call anyone.
It has been a month and hundreds of thousands are unable to sign up.
No sign up, no one to talk to. You call the number and get hung up on.
For a good laugh, google this.
Ha. Ha. Ha.
Grrrrrrrrrrr. When I was trying to get on California state disability, its phone tree would take you through about 18 steps, THEN tell you to try back later. No option to wait, no option to leave a message. It took me 433 calls to get through. I DROVE to the office in Alameda, when I could barely SIT. Finally, a person called me. I could barely hear her; Cindy (Tamara’s fiancée) couldn’t hear her — she was WHISPERING so she didn’t disturb her fellow WORKERS. On a WORK call! After this crap is over, we need to figure out where our state taxes are going. How many EXTRA UNNEEDED people are on OUR payroll and how antiquated the equipment and processes are. Before a tsunami or something.
I’m so sorry Nanette! You deserve so much more!!
God is restoring my faith.
The Jewish Community Center was giving out facemasks today and these are the first hubs and I have been able to get! Lines of cars down Las Olas Boulevard. Tears were streaming down my face.
We got ToGo food from one of our favorite restaurants and sat outside and waited for food and drank draft beer.
We did four miles of cardio, leg workout, then; BEER.
My disability problems were solved years ago. But the system still is broken. I need to do what I can about that when this is over. There were so many things I couldn’t do when I was sick that I FORGOT that one. I don’t want anyone to go through that when they are sick. There is no good excuse for that crap.
You are definitely finding good ways to get though this. Lots of mental fortitude you have there. And a sense of humor. I was raised believing — and still do — that it is one of the best defenses against the crap. My family on both sides used that to get through major shit. They never lost that ability to laugh and passed it down. I think many people here have that in common. Except a few impatient for recaps. MeMeMe.THEY WANT THEIR MTV.
I was definitely on the struggle bus last night! I was purge venting about a former close friend who has morphed into a judgey conservative political figure. They have turned into a truly horrible person and I’m sad I lost my friend.
I went through that with my old college roommate in 2016. Love her/him from a far and maybe you guy’s can eventually get back together. If not just remember some relationships only last a season or two. Cherish the good times, mourn the relationship and keep it moving.
I’m on the struggle bus, train, and plane at this point. I’m trying to homeschool two children with special needs and it’s not going well to put it mildly. The school keeps switching platforms and meeting times and basic requirements. (And they use this educator’s lingo on top of it. I feel like I spend a solid 15 minutes just trying to decode each email. ) I’m also a mental healthcare provider. I’ve got patients that may not make it through this crisis. I can’t send them to inpatient treatment because they are all closed. They won’t go to the hospital because they want do die but just not from Covid. I’m at a loss a lot of the time right now. But one thing I keep telling myself is that we just have to survive this. Just survive it. We can rebuild our lives when this is over but to do that we have to survive. So, just do what you need to do to stay alive and get through the day. Eat, sleep, pray, cry, yell, meditate, stare off into space sometimes. Whatever it takes to come out of this with a basic ability to function and all of your body parts intact. If that’s all you can do, it’s enough. Truly, it’s enough.
If we lived in the same city I would send my son over to fix your laptop. He is an IT guru and he has made all my friends laptops sit up and behave at one point or another. Anywhere from software conflicts, blue and black screens of death, Trojan viruses, regular viruses, web redirects and so on.
Oh wait, even if we lived in the same city I couldn’t send him over for the a few weeks because he has Covid-19. Fortunately he is young, he is healthy and he seems to be recovering. I sold my house last week, transferred jobs, took a pay cut so I could move 300 miles from where I was living to be in the same town as my son and his family. I am living in an Airbnb with my cats and I haven’t seen my son and his family because they are under quarantine and I probably won’t see them for a month or so.
So here I sit in this lonely (but lovely) Airbnb with my cats working from home every weekday. I can’t house shop because it isn’t a good time to buy yet but will be soon. All my beautiful things are in storage. So I am on the struggle bus for different reasons. I don’t drink while here because I am afraid I won’t stop for days and I still need to function. I just watch TV after work and go to bed early.
It is very strange finally living in the same town again as your child after he moved away years ago and not being able to see him. I do see his house because I drop him off family meals in his driveway from local restaurants every few days. Fortunately I live in a state who seems to be flattening the curve.
Hot damn. I hope your son is well soon. Everything else is temporary. As long as we keep healthy, we can get through the other stuff. It will be SO GOOD once you and your cats and your treasures are all in place near your son and his family. What’s ironic, is I bet your son was so relieved that you were close by in case he needed to take care of you. A mother’s work is never done …
Hi Tamara! I have been here forever but have never commented. My husband is a healthcare worker (rotates between 5 hospitals) and I am terrified. Because of the risks and my health we have not been able to see each other for 5 weeks. I’m so thankful I have this site to come to and I pray for you and everyone here.
Right back at you Emilee, our health workers are kicking ass and Cockwomblers are interfering with getting the PPE equipment that they need, for all essential workers.
Hi Tamara,
Office Depot/ Office Max are still providing laptop repair. Their website says they have curbside drop off and the diagnostics are free, plus there’s a $25.00 coupon for repair on their website.
Staples is also offering a one day PC repair service (just go to their website and enter “PC repair” in the search menu and it will bring you to their PC repair service page).
Best Buy is only providing on-line or telephone guidance to repair your computer, however their in-store services have been suspended. You can still purchase a computer through them by ordering on-line and they’ll bring it out to your car.
And of course if you have a MAC you can chat or talk with them to help diagnose your problem.
Also, could slow WiFi be your problem – because of so many more people working from home right now? Is your computer working better during off-peak hours (very late at night) and not working as well during the day? If so, if could be WiFi. Make sure your router is set to channels 1, 6, or 11 as a default as those channels don’t overlap, giving you less interference. Or call you local cable/ internet provider and they can walk you through correcting WiFi issues and also tell if about usage issues in your area.
Good Luck!
Love this website. Havent commented in a while. shit has been crazy. I have a 6 year old I’m homeschooling. Live on long island nothing is open. Just kinda struggling. Hope all is well with everybody else!!
I’m homeschooling a six year old too and I am an old lady. It’s not easy. I’m right there with you. What a crazy time we are living through.
If there’s anything I can do to help on the back end or front end, let me know. I know I’m really busy, but I’ll try my best to help.
It is so weird to read all of the dispatches from all over the map. Jane says nothing is open in Long Island. Friends in Tahoe temporarily had store supplies wiped out because of desperate people escaping to their mountain cabins. The only thing SO FAR we have not been able to buy is toilet paper. I’ve been a TP hoarder since EVEN BEFORE the fake shortage that became real in 1973. But we are on the last roll. I have become a tissue hoarder — square toilet paper in a box. Works for me.
Something must be wrong in my head. Maybe because I have lived in fear for most of my life — since the age of 3 — that I would be alone and poor. I hate moving more than any person I’ve known. Not being able to afford rent as it increases; had to move five times just for landlords selling the place and twice for moving family in. For whatever reason, the coronavirus doesn’t scare me. FOR ME. It scares me about other people — their health, finances, etc. IF I had kids or my parents were alive, I would be TERRIFIED for them. But my life is the same EXCEPT I can’t get food and coffeee samples at Trader Joe’s. Big deal. But that is how small my life has become since I got chronic pain. But it’s good, way better than I feared it would be. My family is careful. As long as my furry and feathered friends are OK and have food, I’m OK … if that changes, all bets are off.
I am just fed up with having to deal with COCKWOMBLERS !!!
It was so much easier when working from home as they did not see my facial expression, now my face is fixed on COCKWOMBLER.
( Scottish Noun )
A person,usually male, prone to making outrageously stupid statements and/or inappropriate behaviour while generally having a very high opinion of their own wisdom and importance.
I just want to slap them into the backend of next year.
So, there should be a photo of Trump next to the definition in the visual dictionary.
I think cockwombler is a synonym for one of my favorite words!
Cockalorum: a self-important little man; a man with a small penis.
This cracked me up! And used in a sentence: My husband is a cockwombler!
Do you know any hacker type people who can maybe get into your account? I’m sorry, google support is worthless for gmail.
Imma have a drink. ChicagoHousewife, my daughter has learned to speak and translate fluently educator speak. They use it when they don’t want to have to report a case and fill out reams of paperwork. I can’t really blame them although it is their job. Perhaps she should hire herself out? MsCarlyTx it is a brave and determined woman that ups sticks and moves by her kiddos. I wish all posters who are dealing with issues related to the unprecedented and godawful situation much love and luck. We’re all rooting for each other. We will make it through! I’m just grateful my 98 year old daddy passed a year ago. There would have been crime scene tape for trying to keep me away from that precious man. I think this calls for some brown likker. Some Maker’s Mark, diet cherry coke and a maraschino to finish will do just fine.
Have another! You saved the day! I liked you before, now you are my hero.
Please put politics aside- the virus doesn’t care if your A democrat, republican or independent. United we stand divided we fall.
Sorry Kerry, I have spent the last week attempting to remind Europe that Spain and Italy are also part of Europe and finally they are releasing medical aid, I needed to vent, I am emotionally, mentally and physically exhausted.
Tuatha12- vent away, that’s exactly what I was doing. That’s the good thing about opinions sometimes someone else’s can expand your own. I hope you can recharge your spirit and feel better.
I call things that you can no longer find, unicorns. So I was told at Rite Aid that they were getting a shipment of disinfectant spray (unicorn) today and to come early. I went and of course it didn’t come in. I kick myself cause I say it last week and bought one for my mother. But I couldn’t for the life of me spend $8 for a can of disinfectant for myself. I went to five different places and no one had any. I finally got into Costco and was able to get toilet paper and some small stuff. They are still out of cleaning products (unicorns), I just needed dish washing machine detergent. My last stop was Walmart to get some items. Now I cannot find eggs (unicorns) and I wanted to do some baking this weekend. I will venture out again tomorrow to hopefully find some eggs.
I am riding the top of the struggle but holding on with my fingertips. My husband still has covid, he has been unconscious on a vent for a long time, and I already had to go and say good bye to him then they said they can do abdominal surgery for a separate issue that can help his recovery. The surgery was 2 days ago, too early to tell if it will affect his whole system. I got to see him again before the surgery. my cry boogers filled the mask.
The positive thing is ALL my friends and family who express their love for him, for us, bring us food, offer to do chores, his work friends chopping down trees in my yard and telling stories about my husband to my son, and the edible fruit bouquet. Who though chocolate covered pineapple was so good? (I guess if it’s the only thing you eat in one day it will be good).
I have people praying for him all over the world in every denomination. It amazing how people step up, and though it may not bring my husband back (I am told he is very strong though), It is great to know that there are people I can count on.
Sending prayers from the backsliding Baptist contingent. xo ~tt
I’m taking any kind I can get, even a few Buddhist blessings, all are appreciated.
More prayers from the Catholic Lite in California.
The Agnostic from the Pacific Northwest who celebrates Christmas, but also celebrates Hanukkah with her adopted family is sending you and your hubsters love and light and strength. Keep us posted!!!
(And as for your analogy about being on top of the struggle bus? Just remember that is how Buffy got out of Sunnyvale in Buffy the Vampire Slayer after activating all the potential and defeating all the vampires!!!)
Ingrid- scream, cry and stay strong! Sending peace and hope to you, your family and mom,
thank you so much everyone, I promise not to complain too much, we all have our shit….
Complain all you want. That is what this place is for now.
TT I’m with you.
I am terrified.
But I have been terrified for years.
I am a good Catholic girl with a bit of a twist in my thinking.
I believe our destiny is written in the stars.
It is incredibly freeing!
I am here for you and Sir Banjo.
Watching the Shahs as I peck! 🙄
-Ms Liz from H’Town
I love how so many of us are supporting each other. But drugs and alcohol are not the answer if you are an addict. So even our savior Nanette needs to stop with that.I am trying so hard to drink less and hydrate more and eat all my special food gifts. I don’t want to see you all in my AA meeting when we can have another one or in the apparent NA meetings that a lot of us should be going to.
PLEASE DO NOT ADVOCATE DRUG USE ON MY SITE. No one gets special treatment here. And let’s all try to drink less alcohol and more sanity water.