I was planning on doing a post on the whole moon shuttle thing. I am not so sure what is happening with all of that though. Lawn Kid has a job that he can’t get to and of course he waited to tell me until he was already late on his first day. Le sigh. Teenagers are difficult. And the drama is continuing as I type this.
Well, it looks like it is not going to happen. The two astronauts are already on the ship, but it was called for weather. Wow. The next day it is supposed to happen is May 30th.
Elon Musk had somehow figured out a way to send two men to space on a PRIVATE mission. Is he insane or a genius?
Mission Aborted
Are you going to watch? When I lived on Saint Simons Island, Georgia, we ustacould see the space shuttles launch and it would always rain afterward. At that time my mother swore that every time a shuttle launched it would rain. She was correct. That has nothing to do with today, but it always rains afterward. So we can pick up this post on Saturday.
Anyway. How are you guys doing? I hate going outside to touch things other people have touched. But I am waiting for something to come in the mail soon. And it was trash day. So I ventured all the way to the sidewalk. lol. Got the mail (just junk) and took the trashcan in. Then since I was in my garden gloves already (because I don’t want to waste my final few latex ones) I decided to brave THAT ONE TOMATO PLANT. I don’t have a well tended garden. SHOCKER! lol. The tomato plant closest to my door is a strange one. I cage all my plants when I plant them. Then I can just ease them in to the crate as they grow.
In Other News Lazy Mabel Is Tryna KILL ME! ( I suspect she is in cahoots with the rats)
Well, Lazy Mabel just wants to lay down during the pandemic. She produces really big tomatoes, but apparently she would rather leave hide them for the hoodrats. Like literal hoodrats so she keeps them covered up. Lazy Mabel just wants to spread out and cover the fruit with her big fat fucking leaves. So I went in an picked what was there to ripen in the window. Whatever is eating them and THEY TAKE RAT LIKE BITES waits for them to be all red and juicy. Anyway. I got some sort of poison ivy or something on my wrist searching for what is underneath all that stuff. The rest of the plants are complying with the cage. More on Lazy Mabel later.
Lawn Kid Update
In other news lots has been going on with Lawn Kid (AKA I am raising a teenager). He was to report to a new job today and has no transportation. He waits until he is already late to tell me this and seems to forget I am on quarantine. The thing is he has no shoes. He has a pair of Tommy Hillfinger prison shower shoes and sneakers with holes. I noticed this last week. So I ordered him shoes that have not arrived. He will be working in a warehouse if he manages to keep this job. He did not ask for shoes but I wish he would have brought it up in conversation because it took me a while to notice. We have gone through this at least three times with him getting a job and no way to get to it. So I had to put my foot down and tell him I am not his chauffeur. At least I think I got rid of the girlfriend so he can’t get her knocked up.
He still shows up asking for something to drink while cutting yards. I finally got some Gatorade for him. Raising a child is expensive! LOL. I told him told he needed his own gmail, his own paypal, his own Uber account and that he is a grown ass man who needs to handle his problems.
FINISH LINE SUCKS!
ALSO DO NOT ORDER ANYTHING ONLINE FROM FINISH LINE. He would have already had fucking shoes but I got an email that just said, “Sorry we cancelled your order.” WTF? Are they going out of business? I Googled and this seems to happen a lot with them. I reordered via Champs… fingers crossed that they are okay but they probably are not as malls are closing left and right.
Super cool of you to get him shoes!
Well it hasn’t happened yet. And I am going to make him work his ass off all summer for them. 🙂 He seems to think I have an endless supply of cash to pay him with. I may or may not but I decided to make him work for his shoes instead. He has very expensive taste. I must say he emails me every day asking if I need anything.
Actually, he texts and I got an… IP phone number???? or something so he can text me. Kids today.
At least he checks on you
I just saw the commercial for Marriage Boot camp and Mrs Phaedra Parks will be on it. Who,is she gonna be on it with? Did get remarried. I’m really need some tea to make it make sense.
Famous Footwear is a great place to get shoes. Good luck and hang in there!!
He’s a male teenager. Shoes are ordered. No help needed but thanks.
Try Amazon if this doesn’t work with the shoes.
Should we call you “Sugar momma”? LOL! Our quarantine here in Michigan was extended until June 12th. Both kids home from college since March taking courses online. We are all stir crazy at this point. I had the kids and our pup climb in the back of our pickup truck and we drove around our town for entertainment today. Anything for change of scenery!
I was really looking forward to the launch which would have been @ 3:30 CST. Super disappointed they called it off. I don’t even know the last time I was excited about anything to do with space(it seems like high school which was in the 80’s). Cracks me up the things that I find interesting and funny during this time. Thank God for humor as it’s keeping me somewhat sane-thanks TT.
So something spurred me into thinking I should take the dog for a short walk. The idiots in this hood walk their dogs a million times a day but I have to wear a mask and essentially that means I don’t get enough oxygen. I am always rebreathing the same old air unless I wear the scary expensive mask. So I spent about fifteen minutes tearing the house apart and unable to find the leash. It has been long time since I have walked Banjo. His leash is old and he’s 80 pounds and I have been worried it would tear for months. Also, I was just being cheap about not buying a new leash for an old dog. So I could not find it so the W A L K was off (in case he is reading.) So I tried to make it up to him, with opening the Chewy box and saying, Hey! At least I am still feeding you. I ‘ve been to Romania and no one looks out for those dogs, you live a priveledged lifestyle.
And Lo and behold there was a retractable leash in there. I must have been upsold or something and thrown the other one out. So it was not our best walk. But it was a nice one nonetheless. And I live next door to a school that I used to work at. and I had forgotten about the benches outside in a nice grassy area. The least I could do is get out in the sun with Banjo over there if it ever stops raining.
So happy to hear he got a job. He sounds like a nice kid & I wish the best from him. I think its wonderful you are helping him. I know it gets frustrating at times but he will eventually mature & hopefully thrive. He’s lucky to have someone like you on his side. Hope you & Banjo are well. xo Marc
Just like Forrest’s. Hope they’re magic shoes!
Ha! I didn’t know there was supposed to be a moon thing. Now the conversation with my son makes sense. LOL. I should pay more attention to what he’s saying. He always wants to be chatty Cathy when I’m busy with something else. Last mission I watched was the Challenger one when I was in middle school and maybe one after that.
I went out of town to visit family. I must be losing my mind because I never visit and visiting during a pandemic is plain asinine. But yet I did it anyway. I live like a hermit mostly and I guess I couldn’t take the isolation anymore. I don’t care if you judge me, I do it to myself everyday, lol.
I hope the lawn kid keeps this job. And yes, parenting is expensive more so when they’re young adults.
Yes, it was Jan of 1986, I was a grown woman pregnant with my second child, my husband was in the army in Ft. Bragg N Carolina. It was shocking, we heard and felt the explosion, and no one could believe it.
I remember I was pregnant with my 1st child and on my way to work when I heard. Was in shock. Remember Chernobyl?
Lantana and portulacas await planting as the shoemaker’s children go barefoot. Two pair of shoes for lawn boy. One to run his ass to work on time and a sturdy pair of boots so he’ll able to run his ass home when his shift is over.
I love you to pieces, but every time you post I misread it as TC and think she is back. She was one of my favorite people I lost over politics… 🙁 And I still could not be friends because I imagine she will be voting for him in November despite it all. Or else she won’t and she would not like me being right.
GDIAF TeeCee with the great recipes? Wondered what ever happened, damn!
I still wonder all the time what happened to English Rose. I loved her posts
English Rose showed back up yesterday or the day before… they all run together. But she is back and all is well.
So glad English Rose is back! She popped in my mind last month! Happy to hear all is well with her! Welcome back!
TC is a Trump supporter and we just couldn’t take each other anymore.
Lawn Kid is VERY charismatic. He keeps getting jobs he has no transportation to and and from excepting me to take and pick him up on third shift. Um them is my drinking hours. Tonight I made him get his own Paypal, Uber and Gmail accounts ALL WHILE HE WAS LATE TO FUCKING WORK. He’s going to be getting a second lecture from me after the first one about being a young black man and the GODDAMN FUCKING POLICE. Sorry. I know there are great cops out there, but I also told him that the shoes we were getting should not be something he would be robbed for in the hood. Then I broke down and bought him the ones he wanted and Timberlands to work in. Is that wrong? I will once again tell him to GIVE THEM SHOES! I got him a bicycle for the last few jobs of Next Door. There are rich people in my area so they gave him a Schwinn, a brand new helmet and a NorthFace jacket and a fancy lock. He was attacked withing a week. So I am in a precarious position of wanting to give him what he needs and worrying about him getting jumped.
And the latest news stories are terrifying me. I do think I am better at parenting a homelessish 19 year old than say a middle schooler. At least I missed those years.
I understand. I have mentored a young black man for 5 years now and it terrifies me to know he may be hanging out with friends who keep drugs in their cars. He got popped that way once already. My somewhat son now lives about 2 hours away with his gainfully employed boyfriend and continues to grow. The city he is in is far less racist than where I live and his hometown but has a higher crime rate. I just have to keep believing that the emotional growth he’s undergone since we met and the stabilizing influence of his boyfriend will keep him aiming for better every day.
I read The NY Times briefing every day and knew NOTHING about a rocket launch. I wanted to be an astronaut back when the X-15 took off and the Weekly Reader had a giant article about it. Next came my aspiration when all the other little Catholic girls wanted to be nuns. Why nuns, I thought, I am aspiring to be a saint! NO, I DID NOT think I was that special — just that we should aim for the highest. Whoever says she wants to be a junkie whore* when she grows up?
*Not to be confused with a prostitution whore.
Well it is rescheduled for Saturday. Weather permitting. And IT IS A PRIVATE LAUNCH from Elon whats his name. NASA is merely assisting because they have no funding. Elon wants it to be his next travel industry. NASA is basically no longer funded.
Also, I am in the middle of trying to get a neighbor I have never met into committing a minor crime with me for the good of the hood…
Haha. I would love to be your partner in crime.
I will drive the getaway car.
At least you won’t stand out as crooks because you’re wearing masks!
Elon Mush is both insane and a genius. He is also a apparently a total and complete jerk. Billionaire problems. Greedy capitalist. Twitter nut job. My husband asked if was going to put the launch on for the kids to see and I really didn’t want to. I really can’t stand Musk.
Side note, I am buying a lottery ticket cause I want a pool. We are still very quarantined and the natives are restless.
Elon is America’s biggest welfare queen.
His Mom is super cool, though! ?
Great explanation on one of the round the clock news channels about why NASA partnered with a private company like SpaceX, including the fact our government space program is more interested in pursuing Moon and Mars landings and eventual colonization. Today’s space exploration venture by this private company is simply an extension of previous U.S. government ventures into more localized space travel. As to Elon Musk, he’s kind of a brilliant heel. Wouldn’t want to work for him or get to know him but I’m glad he’s working for our side.
I was disappointed the takeoff was postponed so I watched History Channel’s “Grant”. A 3 part miniseries about Ulysses Grant. Hate war and all the testosterone it bubbles over with but am finding this docu style series fascinating.
I just saw that series in an “also watched” and wondered if it were good. Back when wars/battles were planned like chess games.
Barkskins started on Nat Geo on Sunday — two episodes. Pretty good so far. Reviews say it diverges greatly from the book.
I was looking forward to Barkskins, very different to the book, It was more like a adaptation of a show called Jamestown.
Not sure if I will continue watching however I did enjoy the documentary-series Grant.
Musk and his partner named their baby after the rocket I think. It was something weird and unpronounceable. Poor kid
TT, it’s beautiful that you are helping out a teenager in need, but could you explain what a Lawn Kid is? Urban Dictionary is all over the place on that one. Please pardon my ignorance.
That’s just what I call him online for his privacy. He’s the kid who cuts my lawn, and earns money in the hood by borrowing a lawn mower and making his rounds. He’s recently left the borrowed lawnmower in my driveway which is a bad idea. I used to have a lawn mower and it was stolen out of my yard. Ditto lawn equipment, ladders, rakes shovels, etc. I need to tell him to come return it to the owner but it’s apparently going to monsoon here for a few more days (this will keep him from earning money as well).
Thank you for explaining this to me, my mind was all over the place. That’s awesome that you are helping out a neighborhood kid.
I am going to give you guy’s a good laugh. Yesterday I got up super early because I needed to go to Home Depot and didn’t want to wait in a line. I went looking for paint primer. A woman who worked there asked if I was okay. I said “yes I just can’t find the primer I am looking for”. I thought it was weird but kept it moving. I was also on the hunt for self rising flour. At this point I have been to 4 stores. My workout pants were fitting a little weird and I thought I had gained weight. As I was driving to the fifth store and looked down, I noticed my pants looked different. As I left the fifth store I realized I had MY PANTS INSIDE OUT. I laughed my ass off in the car. I felt around to see if the label was out, it wasn’t. Now I am on my way to the sixth store and I realized that not only ARE MY PANTS INSIDE OUT WHAT I ALSO HAVE THEM ON BACKWARDS!!. I laughed for 5 minutes in my car. When I got to the next stop I changed my pants. At this point I cannot find self rising flour and I was told that the store will get some the next day. So this morning I get up super early. I make sure my pants are on right and I leave. I go to 4 stores and I end up finding the self rising flour at $4. As I am leaving and heading home I noticed that now MY SHIRT IS ON INSIDE OUT. At this point I have been to Home Depot, Food4Less, Sprouts and Trader Joes. I have been to different parts of LA and not one person told me I had my shirt inside out. Did I give a shit, hell no. Plus I was wearing a mask and at this point people should be happy I have clothes on instead of pj’s. I laughed my ass off all the way home. So yes, I guess I am not okay.
I hope this story brought you a laugh with the craziness of everything that is going on right now.
This was a good laugh. Especially because you laugh at yourself. Better than toilet paper hanging out if your pants!
It seemed like I was always the one who had to get up early for work after a big party. My friends would come in and I would serve their hungover asses. (At least they were good tippers.) More than once, they waited until they were on the way out the door to YELL “by the way, your blouse is inside out!” But then I got big tips from the other tables because I would turn red and laugh.
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.
Thanks for the laugh!!!!!
That sounds like something I’d do.
OMG, yesterday afternoon I was working in the yard after reading all morning and putzing around the house when I went to put something in my pocket and had the hardest time…until I realized my pants were on backwards! We must be sistahs!
I too put my pants on backwards this week. They are sort of a black drawstring yoga type pant. So I got ready to tie the drawstring and it was at my back. I didn’t leave the house though. 🙂
This reminds me of the time I put my underwear on sideways. It had been really uncomfortable, and when I finally went to the bathroom I noticed it was on sideways – one leg was through the waist hole, the other leg was through a leg hole, and the other leg hole was around my waist/hips!
OUCH!!!!
Thank you. I laughed so hard I cried.
We are still in Phase 1 – 1 hour excercise, shopping every 2 weeks but you can go out and spend all day in the pub getting drunk while maintaining social distancing and then get a fine for drunk driving. REALLY!!!
As an Irish person I think that madness is an interesting concept.
I’ve noticed it in my life recently when I am in a certain scenario in a certain set up i.e. behavior habits as we deal with social –distancing and how our lives are having to adapt to this new-normal adjustment.
Other people are getting a handle on these new ways, and other people are lying their asses off i.e. COCKWOMBLERS.
I have noticed that although I am living in these new ways I don’t know if that is really me, or really not me.
I just try and get use to it, on this track: I am this and that is the way I now behave.
I just thought it would be really interesting, if you go mad, people give up on you, they don’t really have any expectations..
People are like…she’s mad, he’s mad and you can kind of go mad secretly, pretend mad, but really mad, and then understand after all – FECK – I am Mad – Thank God as an Irish person I am genetically mad.
I can normally make some sense out of madness however in these crazy times I am actually finding this difficult.
My brain cannot grasp how moving on anyone can actually socially – distance… Is that actually going to be possible? Do we actually have the space to socially- distance in our daily lives?
During this Spanish MILITARY lockdown ( March 10th ) I have not received any mail, been given access to my bank, online banking or found a ATM machine in Spain that actually operates, that is starting to get me a tad angry.
I had to go into Gibraltar yesterday to get access to my UK bank account and shop there ( 3 hours in a queue to get into the supermarket- imagine my shock when I saw all the British holiday makers arrive at the airport.
WTF is going on – The borders are closed suddenly Europe is open for the summer season while we are all still getting told- possibly July and 14 days quarantine on arrival till June 8th and then review it.
I am removing myself from their madness and will now be doing my own normal Irish madness as it makes more fecking sense to me.
It is no longer about health and safety, slow the virus down, now it is FECK IT we know a second wave is coming, we will deal with that when/if it arrives so let’s just party and concentrate on the economy as Europe does not have any money.
I wonder what 3 months ahead will look like and I wonder if I will be in Spain or back home in Lake Clear, let’s see where the madness takes me.
Wow. How different it is over there. No access to online banking; some of our branches have remained open throughout the pandemic, and after a few blips, online banking is smooth. The drawback of our technology working is that Fuhrer Trump can Tweet his nonsense nonstop. He makes fun of Biden for wearing a mask (setting a good example). We’ll see what happens with one wearing a mask and one not.
Food here has been ALMOST normal, prices a bit higher, no chicken a few times, fruits and veg are plentiful. Yesterday, on my IG, I posted a photo of a large display of toilet paper at our Trader Joe’s captioned “Things are looking up.” When we can so easily communicate here, I start thinking things are THE SAME here for everyone. They are not.
In many counties in California, we entered Phase 3 Wednesday. Our governor locked down early and has stringent requirements for each phase of reopening. His emphasis is on OUR HEALTH FIRST, the economy’s health afterward. But on The TeeVee, I see some COCKWOMBLERS in Arkansas and Alpharetta, Georgia partying like it’s 1999. They WANT the virus to go away, therefore, they think it will. Brats. Some will die.
Stay healthy and sane, and Irish mad too. Just not cockwombler mad.
Irish mad is my new sanity and you lot are stuck with me…… I am keeping busy we have 278 local families who we are collecting food for…. We did have access to a restaurant kitchen, we cooked meals and delivered them however as of yesterday if we continue to cook we will get a fine.
We are opening our St.Georges Charity shop once we get into Phase 2 so that will generate funds.
Spanish Govt building the economy on fining the disadvantaged, over 30 thousand families still not received their cheque for March/April as Spain waiting for the EU to send them money.
You stay healthy to as TT and I may need you to come bail us out next year when we go Mad In Morocco, create Chaos in Casablanca – unless you are coming with us?
I plan to be the Designated Driver when all y’all go Crazy in Casablanca. Maybe Lawn Kid can come as muscle in case anyone tries to mess with us. Or one of you ladies pulls a Leah! The previews for tonight’s RHONY look like a Bagatelle of Bizarre Behavior!
Lawn Kid is scrawny and would not hurt a fly and “yes mam’s” be to death. He just came by to check on me. Unfortunately, his slutty girlfriend was with him. She literally hid in the bushes while we chatted through the window. He tries to pretend like he is not seeing her but i think he is LIVING with her. I didn’t even know she was there. He left and she walked about a block behind him. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. He’s going to knock up a bitch and I am much to hot to be a Grandma!
Start small, knit yourself a shawl, then you can knit some booties while you’re off your rocker.love and hummingbird cake.
I’m inviting myself. I can’t find my passport though so I need to get on renewing it ASAP!.. SO glad we have a DD, Thank you Nanette!
Whoop!! Whoop!!
Hey Nanette-if you don’t mind my asking, what Califoria county are you in? I’m in Sonoma, we’re in Stage 1.5 (my interpretation) of reopening ?
As most of y’all know I am a big proponent of staying at home regardless of what your governor says. I only go out once every few weeks to get prescriptions and supplies that I can’t get online or delivered in a timely manner for my mom that I take care of at home. It’s been doing a number on me as I am separated from my kids who are sheltering in other states. We are becoming a hotspot and numbers on the rise yet people are going out without masks to restaurants, galleria, bars, beaches as if everything is normal. This causes me even more anxiety as those people don’t understand how the masks etc are to protect people like me who are immunocompromised and caring for elderly at home instead of protecting themselves. I’m angry that the media messages have been so confusing for many that people still don’t have the correct information. The situation is fluid and they’re being irresponsible in reporting things like virus doesn’t live on surfaces yet then come back to retract/clarify that it does (this is just one example as the CDC even had to clarify their statement on that one as the way it was worded was easily misinterpreted) I’m also angry about this becoming political. I’m honestly not trying to preach, I’m just venting. Half our grocery stores are even going back to normal except that now meat is rationed. Does anyone else understand that if we keep this up, many others will die, and even if they survive this is a serious illness with lifelong effects for many. Just because you don’t have symptoms and can pass a temperature check doesn’t mean you’re not infected and spreading it to others. IJS
So, here’s my second issue… a lot of us have put off other healthcare issues that needed tending to during lockdown & were considered elective. Tbh, I had been putting off the dentist since before the pandemic so I only have myself to blame. But, I had 2 crowns pop off during lockdown and therefore made dentist appointment as soon as they opened back up. I had so much anxiety about going but my dental office was overboard on the protective measures. I am now going to have to pay an absolute fortune to get my mouth healthy again since I put it off for so long. Most hospitals/clinics etc have separated their covid patients to completely different buildings so that the non covid visits/procedures are not going to expose us. So many people have been afraid to go in for routine stuff (myself included) that they’ve had to furlough and lay-off many of the non covid providers. I wish I had the balls in hindsight to get seen sooner because it would’ve saved me a ton of money. Had it been something more serious, it could have lost me precious time in finding something early enough to be treated. I hope people will read this and if you also have been putting stuff off, please check with your providers and see what safety measures they have in place to protect you so you can get seen before we face another wave and possible subsequent shutdowns. Only you know what is going on in your own communities and what you’ve been putting off. I’m not going to lie…it was scary and anxiety producing to finally go, but once I did, I’m glad I did and mad I hadn’t done it sooner. A bad situation can only get worse over time untreated. And I also am concerned about kids not getting their vaccines on schedule before many schools will inevitably reopen in many parts of the country. The pediatricians and family medicine docs have come up with some really innovative solutions on how to safely immunize and do well checks even in rural areas like doing part of it over telemedicine and then doing a quick vaccine in & out in a safe and quick way; some are even doing it in a drive through system in their parking lots.
Again, I apologize if this comes off as preaching—it’s not my intention. I am Pissed at myself for not taking care of my own shit sooner which would have saved me money and saved me from the multiple procedures I’m now going to have to get back to what could have been an easy fix. I just wanted to share information if I can save one person from making the same mistake I did!
Thanks for letting me vent and…
Stay safe and well everyone! ?
High 5 IJC,
This is not a vent in my opinion, you are just processing the madness and I agree with you 100%
Stay Safe and best wishes to you and yours.
Thanks, Tuatha. I am so incredibly mad at myself and I just don’t want anyone else to be in same situation as me if it can be avoided. Now is not the time I wanted to be dealing with this crap and the financial stress of my own denial is making it even worse. Grrr! But at the same time, it could have easily been something more serious than the dentist, so there’s that.
Hope you are staying safe and well! ?
Unless I have to go out I am being a Quarantina Queen.
I am also requiring a visit to the dentist first available appointment October, he is a great dentist so I will suck it up and wait.
It is strange to be in lock down and angry at ourselves over circumstances that are beyond our control and I have a sneaky feeling that when I do get access to my Spanish bank account the govt will have depleted it as the word on the street is they are taking funds to pay “taxes.”
I am getting a better understanding what they mean by the country is under martial law. even private companies are now regarded as being nationalised.
I am now owned by a state and under their control so I think a little Irish madness may be necessary…the neighbours are quite excited over my plans.
I have taken back the Community Garden, getting it ready for the summer, opening the pool, spent this afternoon at the town hall screaming like a banshee and got the paperwork signed off.
My community will be having a summer of fun while using our common sense and create our own little bubble of sunshine.
“Tbh, I had been putting off the dentist since before the pandemic so I only have myself to blame.”
SAME! I wanted to break up with my dentist and find a new one. I am desperate for a cleaning that must happen before I can get all the other things fixed. I hate cleanings. The soon to be former dentist told me I needed a root canal. He has done root canals on me previously. But this time decided to send me to some sort of Root Canals R US place. I don’t have anxiety about the root canal, but CLEANINGS CAUSE ME EXTREME ANXIETY. I have extract bone in my mouth that makes the xray painful, I gag easily. I have very old veneers on my front top teeth that are coming apart so I need to have them redone. My family genetics are for bad teeth. Depressed people also do brush their teeth anywhere near as much as we should. It’s a constant nagging anxiety about how much longer I can put off the dentist. Covid cases are trending up in the ATL again… SIGH.
“I am now going to have to pay an absolute fortune to get my mouth healthy again since I put it off for so long. ”
SAME!
I always pay extra for the nitrous oxide even for a cleaning bc I have same issues as you. AND, “I have very old veneers …“ ~~SAME! Now I get to have multiple root canals and replace TWELVE veneers. (6 on top and 6 on bottom) I’m so pissed at myself because I knew I was putting it off and now it’s just going to cost me even more. Plus the veneers cost way more now than when I first got them. FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!
I was young and fairly poor when I got mine. I understand now they are insanely expensive. I only have six on top at the moment. And why do we need root canals?
Idk, but the alternative is evidently looking like a toothless meth head and a risk of infection. Just get it over with girl so I have someone to commiserate with!
So true! My story… my mouth was already a mess due to genetics, etc., and I had a few root canals, crowns and 2 bridges under my belt before 40. Then the cancer hit and now I only have 7 of my own teeth left on the top (the closer the radiation is to the neck and mouth area, the more it affects the teeth, insult to injury). Add bone loss from the chemo and thousands (30+) of dollars later, I am now left with only 2 implants holding the entire bottom appliance (not permanent which sucks for a multitude of reasons) and now those are failing. I’m not a candidate for an old fashioned denture as I have no ridge left, it has sunken down too far. At this point, I can’t even bite into a pizza and pull without the appliance lifting off which is indescribable. I’ve seen myself with no bottom teeth and how it changes my whole face but it also changes my speech and just feels all around shitty. Implants are the end all be all so I feel fucked at this point. Everyone, please go to the dentist and yes, Nitrous Oxide all you need, it’s worth it.
Root canals save your teeth so you can get a crown instead of teeth in a glass next to the bed. (I flash back to Clockwork Orange.)
I had my own dental drama a couple of years ago-2 crowns for $10K
( with insurance!!!!!) & other stuff I’ve blocked out. EXTREMELY painful & very expensive. Swore I would both brush/floss twice a day. I think I brushed once last week.
Going to brush/floss/rinse now…
I’m not a complete nut but we have been taking things seriously since we are in what will probably be the second to last state to open….I mean I only go out for necessities like groceries and booze and I mask up. Weeks ago I was showering, wiping down stuff etc… now I just wash my hands and go.
But.
THE TOURISTS ARE HERE LIKE LOCUSTS.
While my area depends on their $$$ they are the most obnoxious, self centered OBNOXIOUS people I’ve ever seen.
My quick well planned Aldis (Who might I add was a stellar store during the ‘Rona) run was a shitshow of tourists who apparently has never seen blueberries before. Or how ONE WAY AISLES have little arrows to keep it flowing. And had no idea how “Corona shopping” works. Definitely did not know how far 6 feet is. They were a danger to us upstanding citizens.
Ive been good about waiting until 5 to drink but I’m about to be drunk before Judge Judy.
Gah. The world is too people-y today.
*by tourists I mean BENNIES. A certain table flipper is one. I rest my case.
It’s damn near ten pm in Spain. Since Tuatha is a regular here it would be rude not to start at her five o’clock… which is like 11 am. So you’re good. 🙂
Yes, it would be very rude if you did not start at my five o’clock, or go for Irish time which is any time at the moment.
I might try Baileys on my cornflakes next.
Same issue here with the tourists. Since we were one of the stupid states to open first, all the people traveled here to shop at the galleria, get their hair/nails done, stay in our hotels and crowd our beaches. Meanwhile, I look like a fucking caveman and I know that they are part of our numbers rising. Don’t get me wrong, we have plenty of our own rude idiots, but it surely hasn’t helped matters, especially when they flippantly ruin our grocery store systems we finally got streamlined. It’s all gone to hell in a hand basket! But, tourism dollars and economy more important than lives. Does anyone else ponder how the economy does better if the population is dead because there are no hospital beds? SMH.
Sorry. I’m having a really shitty couple of days. Aside from the covidiots and my trip to the dentist, the storm knocked out our power and since I’m in a hi rise it somehow cutoff the running water/toilets too. So, no electricity, no water, no cable or WiFi or a/c when it’s 90+ F and raining outside. Thank goodness one of the kids left their mophi (sp?) and told me to charge it just in case, or I wouldn’t even have a phone. Using my precious bottled water to wash hands and I just gave my mom a sleeping pill bc I cannot take much more. Thank God I took my monthly shower already since I was going to the dentist and seeing actual people I know although they barely recognized me in my current state of beauty and mask/goggles.
#Shittinginthedark
When I lost the plot a couple of weeks ago ( DO NOT DO THIS ) we had bad storms and lost electric.
It was around 2am the thunder and lightening is going crazy, palm trees doing that downward dog yoga position, winds howling, garden furniture blowing all over the place and I thought FUCK IT.
I was like a coiled wire and I had to go outside, thunder, lightening, rain is bouncing over the paving, I am rolling in the mud, front crawl, back crawl, breast stroke dressed in my wolf Jim Jams, full on feral child in my happy place.
Shit – have I called up my ancestors- Have the Tuatha de Dannan arrived due to my miserable week.
I woke up around 6am Friday morning as my bed was bunny hopping across the floor to a total shit show, squashed tomatoes, peppers, butter- nut squash, ( I was cuddling that ) soggy wet pomegranates, mud, string, bamboo poles all in the bed, God knows what else.
I am looking like Swamp Thing, my hair was the same color for the first time in weeks -bird shit brown and really gunky but I was more confused about the bunny hopping bed –
Spoke to hubby Friday night – Conversation from him was OMG you had a little earth quake of 3.2 – OK that explains the bed bunny hopping. OH by the way hubby I lost the plot and moved the garden into the bedroom.
Hubby- Love your coping mechanism – Did the neighbors get it on film?
GOD How I love that man everything to him is a minor hiccup.
Still not got round to the painting however there is a teenager I could blackmail into doing it.
I saw a space shuttle launch in the early 2000’s, Endeavor. It was an amazing experience. Hilary was running for office in NY so we wrote to her to see if we could get tickets since we were going to Disney that week. Our tickets were so good we were sitting two rows in front of Jeb Bush. We met James Cameron, had a private tour of the space center and then saw a night launch. It was incredible, just an amazing evening. Thank you Hilary.
Hi Ingrid. I hope things are still going up for you.
You were IN FRONT of Jeb Bush. HA! That made my day.
I KNOW! We had better seats! Thanks for the kind thoughts, Nanette
Since this is open forum…has anyone else watched Jodie Arias : The Friends Speak on Reelz? I watched it this wknd and the friends, mainly Chris Hughes, creeped me out. I think because all the friends were male it felt off…very bros talking about their boy and that crazy bitch he’s screwing…then they would have commentary from a domestic abuse expert. I would love to hear what anyone else that watched it thought.
FINALLY, today is the day I can say what for months I chose to keep private, though I needed you all.
Back in March my mom went to get a calamine lotion and walked out of the doctor with Stage 3 ovarian cancer. She never has been sick, she’s 84 and she had her tonsils out, at age 7, THAT IS IT!!
Surgery postponed due to virus after a very very successful chemo. Only thing left, one more chemo then surgery.If not rescheduled for today and can go ahead with, just nothing else.
She had a shorter surgery, cancer was removed, just no one can go in or visit her. I wrote her a email to be read to her when she is alert. She doesn’t know that it is waiting for her.
This site is what gave me the nerve and confidence to email her every single Friday for five years till she answered. We limped into a relationship.
I once said how she said she couldn’t help it she just didn’t like me. I was 5. My sister,older, and younger brother at about age 30 I called them to drinks to plead with any ideas why.
Never figured out but they knew it was a take to the grave secret. What else, I was disowned more times than imagine, for unknown reasons. They chickened out.
Point being, so what. I have not a doubt in the world she loves me.
She said in her pre surgery email “Cheryl, My Dear (and my brother and sister,) you have my heart”
SHE said ME FIRST!!!!!
I forgive her and I was angry she’d leave me never knowing. It no longer matters why. It just doesn’t matter.
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Oh Cheryl I am happy and sad for you all at once!
Thank you TT. ?
(Be happy, it’s easier)