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Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.


I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.

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Oh, I get it. I believe “amp” appears when a symbol is used and the system does not recognize it in that setting. I have seen it in place of quotation marks or commas too. The person on the sending end does not see it, only the person on the receiving end.
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Sorry--it is this that confused me:
it says "&".
I got the "&" meaning and. But the "amp"? What the heck are they talking? And it is very very common on AC right now. Which kind of makes me question what's up.
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Oh peasuep, that actually could be what's happening
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Is it possible that some autocorrect systems are changing the typed symbol into a word without removing the symbol? Seems weird as, to me, typing ‘and’ is easier than typing ‘&’.
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I have no clue. IMO if you want to be understood then write properly, it's not like the days when we had to use shortcuts because we were typing on our flip phones using the number keys
(old woman shaking her fist at the sky) lol
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Honestly Alva, I'm confused too . I thought that the & ment and . Like say me & Tom are going... But now people are putting &and, I'm very confused 🤔
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Not sure if this is simply ON MY MIND or if it is a WHINE for today, but I don't know what the words/acronym "&" means. I haven't a CLUE?
I am seeing this all the time in post questions now.
Who has the skivvy for me?
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Cwillie 😳😲 are you going to be stuck inside for a long time?

It sounds like time to curl up in your favorite spot and watch Hallmark with a bowl of popcorn.

I hope you are well supplied

I heard out towards Buffalo it's going to snow till tomorrow
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76 cm now....
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Ana, I will be about 20 minutes from Cleveland, so this is something I want to check out. Maybe on my second trip during Spring Break 🙂
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DoggieMom: If you’re in Cleveland and are into rock music, the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is very cool. (I was there late 1990s - fun road trip with my best friend)
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Peasuep, not unusual for us to have, an average of 2 feet on the ground though the winter. Now it's so hard to say. Not sure what true or not because I stopped believing in news ( 😆) but I read my area is one of the top 5 places, where the weather has change in the US, the most. Winters have most definitely been weird here

Cwillie, I think that is about 2 feet?
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62 cm on my deck and more falling.... not quite as much on the car as I cleaned it off yesterday. Thankfully I have a kind neighbour with a snowblower.
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Ana, nice to have an excuse not to send cards. My family has taken to texting personalized gifs for holidays and birthdays. I used to think it was terrible but now I like it. I honestly don’t care if I never talk on a telephone again.

Nacy, how much snow you usually get up (and over) there? And when it falls, does it stick around for weeks and cause havoc? I don’t miss the snow at our old place except seeing the morning sun on it before anyone had driven down the hill. And I loved studying individual snowflakes on the windows; such magical things. That doesn’t happen here.

Doggiemom, I can count on 1 hand the number of times a vacation has been absolutely perfect and my heart was in a place to receive it as such. Your Thanksgiving sounds like one of those times. I hope the Ohio trip is the same.
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Ho ❄️ Ho ❄️ NO❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️☃️ 😖
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On my mind : I'm very happy the snow in NY is west of me. 😎

Doggiemom, that sounds like a very nice Thanksgiving. Glad the pups did well! Boyfriend 💓 💓 I'm so happy for you.

Anna, a post office strike? That must be making annoying?
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I went to Arkansas with my Mom, brother, and sister-in-law to visit with my aunt and uncle. We stayed at an air b and B. It was very nice, multi-story updated log cabin. I was nervous because I boarded my dog with a sitter but they did great (Sky is still as calm as I've ever seen her!). We had a great dinner which I helped make. The house was in the woods on a lake even had a sauna!

I'm going to Ohio at the end of December to visit with my boyfriend. I have never been to Ohio so should be interesting.
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Canada Post is on strike. I’m off the hook for sending Christmas cards. I send about 10 to faraway friends and family. Uh-oh, what if people phone me instead! Gulp!
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Thanks Nacy, a lot more Thanksgiving action than I expected but nothing bad. One more day of having to keep clutter at bay for an out of town girlfriend just passing through, and then I can switch gears to Christmas. Hubby has been….quiet - falling asleep a lot. Better than agitation I guess.
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Nacy: Those Christmas letters are a bit much. I send a lot less Christmas cards.
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Llamalover, I got a few like that, those letters are so weird. People bragging about what the did that year. It's so odd!!

I don't send xmass cards either, just a few, very few
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Peasuep, well it's good to have you back. Hope you had a good few days, and hope things are going good with hubby
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About those Christmas letters: When my mother received one from the daughter of one of her friends, she exclaimed "they never asked how I was!" I felt sad for her.
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I step away for a couple days and there are Christmas miracles happening all over the place! Decorations up, closets cleaned, back pain cured, tortoise eating (oops- another thread)Wonderful!

Remember when people used to include those awful braggy letters in Christmas cards? ‘Daughter got her phD; grandchild graduated top of his class in Montessori school; whole family traveling together to save the rain forest for vacation’ etc. Put me off Christmas cards forever. Way, your small acts of thoughtfulness are so much more precious.

Alva, it’s been such a rough year for you. I can certainly understand you being eager to move on. I’m hoping for smoother sailing in 2025 for everyone.
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Way that's a lovely idea and in keeping with the spirit of Christmas. I gave up writing cards years ago, and started sending e-cards. I have given that up too.

Alva -you and yours have had quite a year. So sorry about your dd and that dreadful pain. It wears one down. I don't think the grim reaper is coming your way anytime soon.

Nacy they sound like a necessity for you. So glad your back pain is less.

send - awesome! But not the walking on eggshells. Can you let that go?

First Christmas miracle here. R has spontaneously cleaned out the floor of the front hall closet. (I could hardly get a boot in there when I came.) It's looking organized and much more user friendly. I am very grateful . He says next thing today he will get the Christmas stuff up from the storage locker. Looking good.
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The decorations are up! I was so surprised.
I said nothing after my first request, gave up.

Dh came through! It's a start, and may be finished at any time.
I can only hope. Or not, does it really matter?

Do the lights stay on overnight? Ours do.
This is a year of new behaviors (for both of us.)

Walking on eggshells, not sleeping at night.
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I realized this morning, my back pain since getting new orthopedic bras is like 80 percent better 😊, they are expensive but actually save chiropractor money in the long run. So I gotta stop putting off buying them.
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@Way,
my year started with my new cancer and ended with N.'s stroke.
I would say it has been the year from Hades, but looked at another way we are still standing if a bit more wobbly-ish. So, I'm very grateful for fabulous (this atheist wants to say "miraculous") care throughout both "incidents."

My daughter is battling massive chronic pain having found out that her back/hip pain comes not from her bulging back disc but from the fact that several knock-down drag-outs from the out-of-control "special needs" little ones she monitors in school, that occurred several years, ago resulted in torn tendons and two muscles actually torn from hip bone anchor and left a few years to flap in the wind.
FINALLY someone thought "better MRI the hip, too" and there it was. Said the Doc "What happened? You fell off the horse and then the horse fell ON you?".
She's working her way through it with PT, with with a new procedure come January (anyone have "tenex"?), but it is constant pain night and day and she is so far avoiding the "pain clinic" (yeah, talking the good drugs or the bad drugs) by every means possible. Nothing so depressing as chronic pain and at 63 come Feb. she still has to try to put in a few more years on SS. Add that she's had two women friends newly diagnosed with breast cancer and "dealing".

Seems to me this year was so heavy on medical for everyone I know. I lost a neighbor next door. I keep expecting the Grim Reaper at the door instead of Amazon these days. So far it's been Amazon. Knock on wood (door).

I hope all take care. I am looking forward to turning the page on this year, myself.
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Going over in my mind about some people near me who have had a rough year . My recently widowed neighbor , the elderly couple neighbors on the other side , my friend battling cancer , my nephew who’s a caregiver for my sister .

I’d rather cook and drop off a meal for them than sit and write Christmas cards to other people who I know are doing well and the card will be looked at for 5 seconds and thrown out . 🤔🤔🤔
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send - good luck with getting the decorations!!! I have to rely on R too as he has put them away in our storage locker and that's his territory. He likes decorations so I don't think it will be a problem.

cw - good luck with the car. I agree there comes a point. My last one was a 2 yr old demo which is what I like to get. It's 10 years old now and still driving like a dream.

nacy - early in our relatioship R once tried to tell me how to clean the glass surface of my stove. I think that was the last time he tried to tell me how to do anything in my kitchen. I don't think I said much. It would have been the tone and the look. He's not a micromanager by nature - rather the opposite.

Psue - We used a plug in thingy which is supposed to work for rodents, but we needed to keep birds from pecking at the front of the house - in between cats. It worked on sound waves I think. Got it on Amazon. It's great when your man is good at repairs. I am very grateful for R's various skills.

Over the years, the revolving restaurant has been a place we go for special events. The view is awesome and the buffet is great. Calgary will be a nice trip for a few days. R will spend lots of time with his youngest grandsons. The hotel has a terrific water slide feature. I will stay quiet which is what I need. Rambunctious boys, for any length of time, are a bit much for me.
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