It's a Beautiful Morning Tuesday

[Twins' Mom]

Rats! I got nearly to my workout and realized I was wearing a bra that was ill suited to working out, and I would have been miserable! So I had to cancel and reschedule. I still have my 4:30 body work today tho.

I napped for 45 min with dog.

This morning I did a good round of filing, scanning, discarding papers, and re organizing some laundry room things to go back in there.

[Kathryn-in-Canada]

Apparently I'm running behind and never posted yet today.

Thought about you guys a lot, though!

And won't be posting now cuz I have a popup meeting in 10 minutes!

[Nancy]

TY LadyM for that compliment.

I have walked the ddog the sun did not come out till after we got home however.
Glt my steps in for the day.
I got the dead rose bush from lh memory from his work place, I will replace it with some thing I love that has no thorns!
Got the can of leaves I cleared out of the flower bead out front in the trash can ready to go out next week yea for that progress!

Happy for that progress I was not up to the errands I had planned it was just to cold out they can wait.
The house is pretty good yea.

[MysteryWoman]

Good afternoon!

It’s good to get a chance to be here! I’ve finished what I think is the last draft of the document due at the end of this week. (At least, I will be very surprised if the expert has any changes to make.)

But I’ve pretty much wasted the day since finishing that. I did a couple of things regarding this upcoming Saturday’s girls’ night. One of the women wanted pictures of everyone’s dogs for some sort of project. Our last dog died long ago, so I needed to look through old photos to find a picture. But then I was looking through old photos, so that took a while. Lots of pictures of the kids when they were little.

Then I needed to check out what I’m supposed to bring along. They usually put the info up on FB (we’ve got a group page there), so I looked there with no luck. I texted this month’s hostess. She replied that she appreciated the reminder; she’s out on the West Coast this week — she had pix up on FB of where they’d been. This led me to look at FB to see for myself and confirm one of the reasons I don’t use FB. In the first 100 posts I scrolled through, 14 were from individuals I knew. Of the rest, there were some from groups I belong to, but the bulk were “promoted posts” or out-and-out ads. I scrolled through another hundred posts, and none of them were from people I knew. I’m not even sure there were any from my groups. In all that hunting, I did find one post of a couple of her pix from the trip. But of course, all that scrolling took a while. And then I was online, so then I was reading, and I was in full Sidetracked mode.

DH is off picking up DC, so I should get dinner going. Tonight will be pork stroganoff; I should get something to put in the fridge to thaw for a crockpot tomorrow, too. I need to decide between beef for beef vegetable soup or a roast that will have leftovers turned into shredded beef. Have a lovely evening, everyone!

[Harriet]

It's a beautiful day. Gardening today ✿ in wonderful weather ☼ , mostly able to work in patchy shade, which was ideal. Lots of digging, water-toting and walking for exercise.

Have gotten the rest of the plants I had on hand into the ground with soil amended, and watered-in, save two.

These two were supposed to be identical plants of a known hybrid variety. One is, but the other has now bloomed and is obviously not what its label says it should be. So now I have one that is somewhat intended, although it won't get much attention alone, and another that is a very light color, smaller blooms, AND a mystery. Is it hybrid or not? How tall or how wide-spreading? Lots of blooms or very few? Sigh. I paid a pretty penny for it and it's not what it's labeled - the money bothers me more than I'd have thought, partially because it's not enough to go get my money back from the distant place. I realize it's not some huge loss. I could stick it somewhere like a basket and wait to see where to put it, but I wasn't going to do baskets this year because they need such constant watering. We'll see.

... to find a picture. But then I was looking through old photos, so that took a while.

Mystery, you can't look through photos and stay on track, that's for sure!

HRH has had a bad day because the pharmacy says he will soon be owing a lot more money for prescriptions than he thought. He's been on the phone with the insurance guy who says it's not so. Pharmacy, insurance and Medicare all say talk to the other guys. He's discouraged. Got to the end of the workday without any closure on this. Pharmacy says there is a "donut" of higher percentage he will hit soon and stay in for, perhaps, rest of the year.
But insurance guy says our policy has a provision that protects us from what they are talking about. His eyedrops are just so costly.

About feeling someone condescends because of age:
I'm with LadyM on this - I bristle at it a bit. Our HVAC company continues to mix up our house with dd43's and call her when we have a visit upcoming. I've gotten this "corrected" 10 times, no exaggeration. It happened again and I had to call, and the receptionist insisted on calling me "Miss Harriet". That was fine for Sunday School children I taught, fine for the all-grown-up-now childhood friends of my kids, but NOT for a stranger. I told her that my daughter was certainly not in charge of receiving phone calls for me or making decisions for me and I was the one to call regarding my home. I might have been curt, but she simply doesn't know me at all and I found her attitude inappropriate. She wouldn't have had a cute way of addressing a man of any age, I doubt, and surely there's an age of women she wouldn't have spoken to that way.

Gee, I'm sort of complaining today. Sorry.

[Twins' Mom]

Yes, I hate that "Miss ____" for my given name. DD says it's just a southern thing, but I don't care for it. Feels condescending.

[Kathryn-in-Canada]

Mystery said:

But I’ve pretty much wasted the day since finishing that.

Don't we all do that? I get that perhaps 'normal' people can have two huge accomplishments finishing two big projects in one day, but I am pretty sure none of us here will lay claim to that expectation. In fact, prepping for Saturday night counts as an accomplishment.

For me, it isn't just finishing up a project, it is completely finishing a project, for instance filing the papers away after all or getting the tax payment actually made after the tax return is filed. I have the year-end paperwork for 2 years ago and last year sitting next to me here, waiting for me to put those away in the binders (which means scanning 12 and 11 years ago and shredding those documents to make room in the binders for the past two years.)

In the meantime, our income taxes need to be filed and then I need to do our corporate year end (that just finished on March 31.)

In other words, this is my busiest time of year and I'm avoiding the things I should be doing and not accomplishing anything.

Today was busy but not with the important and urgent items, just important.

I spend before 9 answering important emails, 9 - 10 s2s and out the door to dh's blood draw and my walk at the farm, picked him up at 11 and we went to Costco. We needed milk but had other items on the list as well (not important or urgent.) There were no parking spots in the first 1/3 of the lot I checked, and there were 10 cars I saw waiting for spots to open up. I pulled out and drove home. I didn't have the patience to struggle with parking, then unexpected long lineups inside, especially when I was hungry (I don't eat breakfast until 12ish but it was 11:15 and things weren't looking good for a quick trip AND dh had nixed having breakfast out, he just wanted to get home after being poked three times and ending up with a hand draw.) Going home seemed the best idea.

Picked up milk at the tiny grocery store nearest us and was home before noon.

I had breakfast, then prepped for my 1:30 meeting and was not the last to arrive on zoom.

After that, I did the followup emails from that meeting, started another sensitive personnel project, and then after posting here, headed downstairs for a surprise meeting. Then dinner and more emails from this afternoon's meeting. I'll head to bed soon.

The evening was basically wasted except now I understand why I couldn't tell which of my Turn signals were on in the car. When I signal a lane change I often botch turning off the blinker. The switch is tricky and not instinctive - it is better to hit the turn signal in the direction you first hit to turn it off, there is no easy way to get it back to 'off'. (It was the hardest physical part of learning to drive my EV.) When I'd glance at the screen I couldn't tell which turn signal was blinking and was confused as to why. Turns out our update on Sunday moved where on the screen the blinker is indicated and the two directions are no longer a good distance apart, both instead being closer to the middle of the screen than the edge of the screen. So it wasn't where I expected it to be and thus I couldn't tell which direction the blinker was indicating. Sigh... BTW: this is the fourth time the location of turn signal indicator has been moved on the screen in the 31 months I've owned the car.

Thankfully, tonight I found someone commenting on the new placement of the turn signal lights on the screen. An awful lot is hidden behind where your right hand is when you have your hands on the wheel, and this is just one of the hidden items, so I can't glance at the screen, I have to turn my head away from watching where I'm going in order to look directly at the screen.

Honestly I think all the engineers at Tesla spend too much time high on drugs and don't believe everyone else isn't also playing with the screen making the seats make fart noises (yes, a 'feature' of my car) instead of actually driving the car by holding their hands on the wheel and looking out the windshield. They also don't test the car with different height drivers. The shorter ones (read: female) are the ones who have the most trouble seeing the screen because important stuff is hidden behind one's hands on the wheel.

[lucylee]

It was a beautiful day here too — dmom did well at the endoscopy and got a great report. Doctor said he saw no problems at all, esophagus looked perfectly well healed, and there is no need to follow up with him. “There is no reason for her to come tell me she feels good. She should enjoy her life. Of course I will be here if she needs me.”
Best news I could have heard.

I finished the credit card stuff, except for one thing that ds will need to take care of, and I caught up with daunt and uncle and had a long phone call with them while I waited. Sat in car with windows down, weather was perfect.