Hey folks, welcome to the new whine/general topic thread. Feel free to use this thread to discuss anything that is on your mind. Caregiving- related stuff, life after a loved one's death, your own emotional wellbeing. Whatever..........anything on your mind.
Not sure about ivory, except that it is controversial, you are right.
That is a great haul for very little money! imo. Hope you had such fun.
Tried your recipe for apple cider vinegar, water, and honey. I felt better overall.
I usually fly in the summer but.... younger brother said best to go in October.
Oh, today fave sis and I went shopping. Fave niece in Texas says her kids want island wears. Her kindergarten son wanted to wear Hawaiian print shirt for his school picture. We had fun shopping for the kids. Then we went to a Chinese store. We bought some pretty Chinese dresses. I found a cute all black Chinese shirt and shorts for my nephew. It had subtle Chinese design and a dragon in front central. My little nephew would love that shirt. We went overboard. Got us some costume jewelry (oriental). I was shocked it came out to $143.00. The owner then gave me a 20% discount. Whew! ... there was a pretty ivory pendant. I didn’t buy it because isn’t ivory illegal? Plus buying it is encouraging the poachers to kill more elephants just for their tusks.
You could go in June, or even sooner.
You could fly to L.A., then to Texas?
I haven't bought my ticket. The lowest airfare is $1700.00, Non-Refundable and minimum penalty of $300 + any additional airfare. I spent hours trying to choose dates in October where I can do the GRT figures, print the forms and have it for my bosses to just cut the check and make payment before the due date. BUT, because school is still in session, I need to arrive in El Paso on Friday so that I can spend the whole weekend with my niece and her kids. One of them is in kindergarten? .. When it's time to fly home, I Have to leave Saturday morning in order to arrive back home on Sunday at 10:30pm or Monday at 2:00am. And still go to work on Monday. That's taking off for 11-1/2 days, round it off to 12 days off.
I'm so torn about buying the ticket. I've been getting sick so quickly lately. I hate to end up using my vacation leave for sick leave. It's bad enough that I'm spending $1700.00 for only 2 weeks off-island! Such a waste... And that I won't be seeing little nephew most of the time because he will be in school. I'm struggling with my money-conscience mentality.
My prepaid mobile won't work in the US mainland. One of my fears is traveling in the US and getting stranded at the airport. I just realized that I will do what I did when I first traveled to Colorado. I went to Walmart and bought a cheap mobile and prepaid minutes, activated using my sister as the account holder because she has a US address. It only cost me $39.00. I can ask fave niece to buy one at Walmart, activate and mail it to me. Then I won't worry about getting stranded in Denver both ways to El Paso. I can just call my niece who lives in Denver for a favor. She did stay in our home on her visit here.
PS I don't use WD40 on delicate things like computers, just mechanical things
I took the MacBook apart and using video on YouTube, saw where my battery went to the rest of the laptop. I was able to reconnect some things and voila, it started working again.
Even if you aren't comfortable taking apart to see what you can see, it may not be a big issue, a minor fix, if you know someone in electronics who would take a look at it for you.
But also - I hope the charger is the fix. ;-)
Ohhh.... Strange... We're one day ahead of the mainland US. We're the same time zone as Sydney, Australia. It's Friday, Feb 23rd at 9:30pm. The tracking system says that it was received by the post office on Saturday, Feb 24th at 2:01am... Hmmmm .. That's 4-1/2 hrs from now... Yay! My charger is finally in... Let's hope it works. If it still doesn't work.. that means I need a new iPad. (ugh!!!)
Google Translate. I don't speak Welsh. Lol. (My curiosity got the better of me though.)
Fresh meat includes pork butt and bison
Uhh, next...
Is it safe to drink the water yet?
I have just received the following email message from my water company:
"Mae hi bron a bod yn bryd i ni bostio'ch bil blynyddol.
Ond cyn i ni wneud hynny, roedden ni am roi cyfle i chi newid i filio ar lein. Ar ôl cofrestru, byddwch chi'n gallu gweld eich bil ar lein yn hytrach na'i dderbyn trwy'r post. Gyda Fy Mil, cewch weld eich balans cyfredol a'r taliadau rydych chi wedi eu gwneud ar lean."
I hope they don't want me to do anything about it.
Then I thought that if I added 3 more quarters I would have $1. Surely you can't buy much if anything for $1 these days.
So I went looking in the grocery store. a loaf of generic white bread, an apple or orange, 2 pounds of bananas, hot dogs, a head of lettuce,a couple of medium tomatoes, cans of fruit or veg, a frozen chicken pot pie, a pound of frozen veg a greek yogurt, and occasionally a whole pineapple. Have to add a dozen eggs.
Now I need to rest my few remaining brain cells