Recent Comments

1. about 7 hours ago on The Buckets

   No memories of it at all – and I grew up in the 1950s to 70s. (Well, technically I am not sure if husband have ever actually grown up.)

2. about 7 hours ago on Drabble

   Our neighbors on either side are much younger than us and have daughters. We have what husband and I consider a good relationship – we all wave and say hello and Merry Christmas and leave each other alone.

   We live on a 4 lane main street. There is one house on the block facing us and is actually in a different community. We are “waving neighbors” – when we are both out we wave hello – it is a man living alone – he had lived with, what we presume – was his mother and she died some years ago. This past Christmas I looked up his address on Googlemaps and wrote and mailed a card to him – mention being “waving neighbors”. Card came back. Go figure that googlemaps would have the wrong address. Will try again next Christmas.

   Living on a 4 lane main road we don’t know any of other neighbors at all – neighbor behind us – they play instruments and wake us up early with same. But the neighbor back there before them killed our vegetable garden by spraying their fence with something.

3. about 8 hours ago on Lola

   Neapolitans? Husband’s family is and eats same.

4. about 8 hours ago on JumpStart

   The door slam makes me wonder if the event is shown as he is explaining it to her and then she says no and pushes him out the door?

5. about 8 hours ago on JumpStart

   Actually it was that it was understood what I was asking about that made me think that.

   By coincidence last Friday I got an email from her business’s alarm co. They only bill by email – so, again, she does not have one or use a computer at all, so this is why I set up an email address for her and I check it for her. When a bill or other item comes in I print and mail it to her. They said that they did not receive the payment for her April billing (talk about waiting to contact her). I emailed them back and explained the situation that I was going to call her and tell her to contact them directly, she has been with them for decades (well over 50 from what I know) and to please not shut down her alarm monitoring.

   By Saturday afternoon when I again checked email I had a polite reply from them and they understood the problem and assured me her service would not be shut off. Similar to the cc acceptance company- they just seemed to understood what I meant too well and I am not sure if this was AI either. (I called her Sunday – did not want her worrying all weekend about it and she was going to call them Monday – nothing received since then about it, so I presume she resolved it. )

6. about 8 hours ago on Stone Soup

   No sports here either – husband has never been interested in same. (Though he has been to World Series back in the day one with his dad and the other with college friends – 1-Yankees and 1-Mets.)

7. about 8 hours ago on Pluggers

   Depends on where one is volunteering and what one does there.

8. about 8 hours ago on Pluggers

   I have always worked until the work was done – whether at home or at client or in office. NO overtime.

9. about 8 hours ago on Pluggers

   I am an accountant and have worked in the field since I was 10 years old – helped my dad, an accountant, by adding payroll books. (Mom was trained as an accountant also as was one of my younger sisters – other has her degree in management – she was not going to get caught.)

   Over the decades my clients – almost all of them my parents age or older – mom is 95now – started to pass away. Business clients as well as tax clients.

   I am down to 5 tax clients and 1 business client (plus husband, me and our craft business) . I end up with a loss doing this. Husband tells me to stop doing so – I can’t. First of all I hate to leave this people in the their 80s (90s?) plus it is what I do and have done for 60 years.

   He was burned out at work (children’s mental health counseling/school director and the two state agencies never agreed on what could be done/had to be done) in his mid 50s. I suggested he take a leave of absence with an eye towards maybe changing careers. We are also craft artists and do craft shows – idea was if he was not working we could do more and better shows and make money at it. He took the leave and decided to quit (too early to retire). I would keep working – had more clients then, so we would live on my income.

   Now he is bored all the time as he quit working online. So we are now together daily, all day since start of Covid. Furthest apart is when he is upstairs on his computer and I am my laptop in kitchen – right now – and when I go to my embroidery meeting once a month. But having been best friends since before we started dating – we have not killed each other yet.

10. about 8 hours ago on Pluggers

    Donuts too greasy usually! Ice cream is it for me!