Tuesday Try, Try Again

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Tuesday Try, Try Again

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Good morning, villagers ~
Looking at the list of goals that I posted yesterday morning, I can see that I succeeded at ... not one of them.
Instead, I had a vacation day with DH since he was home.

Therefore, today I will Try, Try Again to accomplish those items
with the additions of
* Go to City Hall this afternoon to vote
* Pick up mail from the Post Office

But first -- coffee. 8-)
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good morning book... I am happy you had a vacation day with your dh! A nice way to spend the day.

and good morning to each of you!!! It's a new day... I love that try try again - starting new again and know that things get done a bit at a time is so hopeful and positive. Thank you d book for starting our day!
it is always a joy to be here with you!
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I got to yoga today. nap this afternoon

will try for a bath tonight. Need to be otd early if I go to tia chi, or timely if I just go to seminar. Wed and Fri seminars on transition / rules of age pension, and fri on superannuation rules. I need do something w mine within the next few years.

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Booksaver: relabel yesterday Sabbath and you're all set. Taking sabbath is incredibly important.

Happy Election Day! You will all get to celebrate the end of campaign calls! From that point of view, everyone wins!!!

I'm up. Bedroom is tidied, my clothes for the day are laid out.

I've tidied the front hall closet a little bit. Really, really, need to sort through coats, etc. And my clothes closet(s) and drawers as well. But that will have to wait a week. One plus to being in an apartment, my winter things are in storage in the basement so I can put off the seasonal clothes change but not freeze/melt. I'm still trying to figure out how hot/cold/drafty the apartment will be. That will influence how many of my clothes I put in more difficult to reach drawers.

I'm struggling through my breakfast now. Toast is down, berries are next.
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I've been in that mode -"try, try again"! Finally got all our health insurance materials yesterday. We only have until November 14th to have our changes into the insurance outfit. But paint me VERY confused! All along we've been hearing that Medicare Advantage is going away for us on our health plan and that the insurance would go up 45%! If I read correctly!!! -not only has our insurance gone done $45 but we're still enrolled in the same plan as last year with the Med Advantage. Dh will call them tomorrow to make sure I'm right.

Secondly I missed a call last evening from dh's cardiologist's office. The gal who does the ultra sound called to give him the results of that test. We assumed there was no change so who knows. Dh will call her back this morning. Think they open at 8, so he'll try then.

We're leaving around 9 for Sebring for dh to take the truck he drove down -back to its owner. Hope to meet up with another couple from the campground.

Will be extremely careful driving my new car. Yesterday as we were driving to dbil/dsisil's I had stopped at an intersection to make a left turn. Looked to left & then right and there was a car up the road -but plenty of time for me to pull out and I started to go. Dh yelled at me and there was a car turning left in front of me. I couldn't figure out why I didn't see that car and watched carefully at the next intersection -only to realize that there's a second of a blind spot on the right windshield/door window with a car coming down. That car must have been in that blind spot just as I looked & I only could see the car up the road. Scared the living daylights out of me and the other driver was none too happy with me. Understandably. I just couldn't understand it. I was telling my dh later -not making excuses but wanting him to know that it could be either of us and need to be aware that we need to look twice. Usually if it was just me I would have waited anyway.

Can't wait for dh to get the new pump mounted on the water system out here. We've only had it since probably the beginning of last March (or possibly February). Someone had stolen their pump from the water system last season and dsonil kept putting off building a 'housing' for it so it wouldn't be stolen again. :roll: The water quality and odor will be much improved once that's on. I need to start a list of things dh needs to do -my only fear in doing that is that he usually tries to get everything done 'right now'. :roll:

I will be so glad for you when you're through this trying period, Kathryn.
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Dee: At four way stops I've been amazed at how large a vehicle can disappear into that blind-spot. I check to the right when approaching the stop sign and often see 'nothing' for multiple checks but that's because the vehicle approaching from the right is in my blind spot and traveling at my speed as they slow down as well. Extended cab pickups, are one, cargo vans are another. It is one thing to lose a Smart Car but a 20+ foot long vehicle? It is only a few inches of metal on the window frame.

Actually, they say that when you get a new car, you are to sit in it, adjust your mirrors and then have someone walk around the outside so you get a sense of how little you are actually seeing of what is around you. Not that I've even done that but tossing that out there as something we can add to our to-do lists!

Just checked my fitbit and there's a reason I'm dragging this morning. I slept poorly. Dh slept poorly and I wondered what effect it would have on me. On the other hand, I'm currently at #38 (my goal is to be at 50 this month.) Of course, we are only a few days into the month AND my position isn't just based on what I do, it also depends on how active the other are. For instance, I was only 15K steps away from #1 last night when I went to bed but am now 20K out. Obviously the leader walked to work or went for an early morning run so boosted his numbers.
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It is only a few inches of metal on the window frame.
Think this strip is wider than on my Town 'n Country, but nevertheless, know I have to check more carefully -50 years of driving and I'm startled to realize this! Glad I'm not alone, Kathryn! Funny (sort of) because that's the same intersection that I nearly crashed some years ago when dgs was only 11 months old. He was right behind me in his car seat and I had stopped to turn left and 'believed' a car coming toward me, who had slowed down, & had his left signal on. Just as I started to pull out he speeded up and went straight ahead. I have been evermore mindful to just plain wait and I really don't trust those signal lights (which in most cases down here are non-existant -not talking about anyone here however!). We've decided signal lights on a lot of southern cars are an option. :roll: Dsonil is one of the great offenders I'm afraid. He'll often ask dd why she turned on her signal light when she's in the left turning lane, etc, etc. Just a good habit.
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Glad we have mail in ballots in our county! Did that. Our state approved pot but city officials are trying to ban pot shops on the city. Trying to revoke some taxes that we have that were not voter approved. More gun laws on ballot as well.

Neighbors dog woke me up @ 5:30a got the light on for the hens while coffee was brewing and fed em, took my am meds.
Split shift today for toddlerN.

Ordered my kniddy noddy to go with my wheel it is in the mahogany colored stain. I have a swift reserved as well. So h has Christmas shopping nearly done!
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Good morning Kathryn and Dee and Booksaver and blessed and nancy and Lynlee! I'm up a little late, s2s-ed, and drinking tea. Dd16 doesn't have school today - b/c the schools are used as polling places, I guess. I haven't seen her yet. Dh is studying/working at the dining room table.
((Kathryn)) Also looking forward to Monday (is that the day?) when you'll be done with the meds.
Glad you were careful and there was no accident, Dee.
Nice to get voting done early, nancy.
Maybe a vacation day will make you more productive the rest of the week, Booksaver!
Love your positive attitude as always, blessed.
Yoga and a nap sound wonderful, Lynlee.

I have payroll 1:30 - 5:30 this afternoon, so I'll be out from around 12:50 - 6:00. We're having tacos tonight, and dh is happy to start the meat if he gets home before I do.

So, this leaves me about 3 hours 20 minutes before I need to leave. I need to:
- do a.m. routine
- do load of whites
- prep for R/W class
- make up writing form for R/W class
- prep for S/L class

I can vote en route home from payroll.
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You will all get to celebrate the end of campaign calls!


Ours are so bad here that when my dOldestGirlCousin left a message on our machine she started her message with a joke saying she was from the committee to elect (HRH's name). :lol: Later she called back to say she had rethought the message, worried we would hear the first few words, delete, and never know she called!

I'm thinking about 10:30 or 11:00 is a good time to go to my polling place, with commuters and early birds finished but lunch folks not yet arriving.

News from the school is that dd16 made it into the internship program in the first round, with the word "interesting", used alone, as the reason for choosing her. Other students had sentences for reasons. :? (Her Daddy wonders if that was the only word the gentlemen interviewing could get in edgewise.) Dd admires the very prim Mrs. W, the engineering dept's coordinator, so much that when she locked eyes with dd and nodded briefly after her name was called, dd almost cried.

This means a hard-to-refuse paid internship is likely assured this summer (which dd believes makes up for all the gasoline and time her parents will spend being chauffeurs - meaning basically that my time is worth whatever pittance a 16-year-old intern makes). Dd34 says (on her way to football practice), "This is one of those opportunities to sacrifice for our children, Mother dear!" Supposedly, the powers-that-be try to match teens with geographically close companies, but being realistic, there just aren't many engineering firms outside Big City. Other types of employers are in the mix. Who knows.

Off to civic duty.
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