Thread: Everyday Chatting & Waffling {2020} Let's get to know each other!

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Oh Sherri! I hope your page made it in time! That would be so frustrating!

Elynnia - I'm sorry you are having to go through all that storm craziness with everything else that's already going on with covid! There's only so much stress we can take, right?
 
Hi All,

I will definitely do another Zoom meeting. It was WAY fun. I am so sorry I was not more clear on the date at the beginning of the post. It was further down in the post, but easy to miss.

I have today and tomorrow and I am RETIRED. It is sort of anticlimactic, but the least of our worries in these times. I am sure that when this is over, I will go back in and see everyone to say goodbye.

We had online church yesterday and it was so awesome. I was in my pajamas, feet up with tea and chocolate, enjoying the church service, singing away with the songs and saying the responses and prayers out loud. It was absolutely awesome.

I am attending an online conference, while I am working, which is wonderful. It has been almost a week long and well put together.

I got up and went for a walk and enjoyed the sunrise this morning.

Life is good...
Lynnie
 
Oh SHOOT Sherri, I hope not!

Elynnia, I hope your property is good. Those storms looked terrible, yet again. You're just getting hammered down there this season. I'm sorry. I have so many friends in the south/south-east.

Well, I survived the first day of stay-at-home work. Didn't get a lot done. Organizing, answering emails, figuring out what needs to be done. Thankfully, I simply have a lot of busy, data work that needs doing and will keep me busy even if I don't get answers from my boss(es). Just sorta frustrating not knowing the direction they want to take. It's not as simple as filling a switch from face-to-face services to telemed services on my part. They seem to forget my part of it. But that's okay. I'll manage and pick up the slack on the back-side, I hope.

Someone is going to need to teach me how to "quote" more than one person in my responses. I love that, but I have no idea how to make that work. Alas.....

Finally changed my siggie so y'all know my real-world name too. That's all I have for today.

Stay safe. Stay healthy. Wash your hands. God Bless.
 
Hi Ya'll...I'm still around. It's weird - I have more time as I'm fully inside the house except for the grocery store - but I seem to get NOTHING done. How about you?

Is everyone's families and loved ones still Covid free? So far so good here, but my MIL is in a nursing home and is cut off completely from visitors. She can't use the phone either as she's nearly deaf. I made her a book of the family for her to keep with her so she can at least see us.

I'll put some pictures in another post. I've got to squash them down. They're huge.
 
Here's some pictures of the book after I printed it. 10x10

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This is breathtaking, Susan. These turned out so well. She will be so happy to have this.

We are all COVID-19 free, with the exception of my cousin's son, Rikki. He is a nurse in England and had a rough time of it, but is due out of isolation in a few days. He says it is nothing you want to mess with. My daughter talks to him most days and says his spirits are pretty good.

We are really doing well. We are hunkered down with lots of supplies. I received a case of hospital grade disinfectant today. We were out and it was all I could source. Sadly, I have no idea what I will do with so much, but will share with family and friends. I am looking forward to Wednesday, my first day of retirement when I will disinfect the house from top to bottom. We will disinfect all doorknobs and what have you daily, just on the off chance. Plus my place is ready for a good clean.
 
FormbyGirl said:
This is breathtaking, Susan. These turned out so well. She will be so happy to have this.

We are all COVID-19 free, with the exception of my cousin's son, Rikki. He is a nurse in England and had a rough time of it, but is due out of isolation in a few days. He says it is nothing you want to mess with. My daughter talks to him most days and says his spirits are pretty good.

We are really doing well. We are hunkered down with lots of supplies. I received a case of hospital grade disinfectant today. We were out and it was all I could source. Sadly, I have no idea what I will do with so much, but will share with family and friends. I am looking forward to Wednesday, my first day of retirement when I will disinfect the house from top to bottom. We will disinfect all doorknobs and what have you daily, just on the off chance. Plus my place is ready for a good clean.
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I will keep Rikki in my prayers. This stuff is scary - the media is making it worse too. I've had anxiety attacks about it.

We are doing a full antiseptic cleaning this week! It's spring cleaning time!
 
I am still not used to not being a slave to the time clock at work. It has been a full two weeks since the last time that I worked and though I have adapted well to not being in the stores, it is still odd to me to not have to get up before the sun is up.

As far as I know, I don't personally know anyone that has fallen ill with COVID-19. However, one of the people that I follow on facebook is ill right now and was tested for it today. They said they won't know the results for 3-5 days and I really worry because she has 6 kids, three of whom have special needs.
 
I used to be a night person before I got my job at Panera (furloughed now). I had to be in at 5 in the morning. The last three days I've been having a tough time falling asleep... not because of worry, just because... I've been getting up at 9 because that's when my husband gets home from work (he works graveyard as security) than we have breakfast together and he goes to bed. Than the kids and I get to our school work (I help my son with his work).
I used to see the sunrise every morning. LOL! But I'm happy as a night person that I'm becoming again. I like being home on my computer. Not like my husband who gets stir crazy if he is in too long.
We are all good health wise, thank goodness. Hope you all are too!
 
Pachimac said:
I will keep Rikki in my prayers. This stuff is scary - the media is making it worse too. I've had anxiety attacks about it.

We are doing a full antiseptic cleaning this week! It's spring cleaning time!
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Rikki is on the road to recovery and will be doubly valuable now as a nurse, since he may be immune. (That is still an unknown, but high likelyhood!). He is very fatigued, but anxious to get back to the frontlines.

Don't be anxious, remember your scriptures!! I know you love them...

  • You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Isaiah 26:3
  • I’ve told you all this so that trusting me, you will be unshakable and assured, deeply at peace. In this godless world you will continue to experience difficulties. But take heart! I’ve conquered the world. John 16:33
  • Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. John 14:27


dorannmwin said:
I am still not used to not being a slave to the time clock at work. It has been a full two weeks since the last time that I worked and though I have adapted well to not being in the stores, it is still odd to me to not have to get up before the sun is up.

As far as I know, I don't personally know anyone that has fallen ill with COVID-19. However, one of the people that I follow on facebook is ill right now and was tested for it today. They said they won't know the results for 3-5 days and I really worry because she has 6 kids, three of whom have special needs.
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I love not being a slave to the alarm clock. My boss called me this morning and woke me up, then made fun of me because I was practicing being retired before I actually did!

Keep us posted on your friend.

LilyAnn said:
I used to be a night person before I got my job at Panera (furloughed now). I had to be in at 5 in the morning. The last three days I've been having a tough time falling asleep... not because of worry, just because... I've been getting up at 9 because that's when my husband gets home from work (he works graveyard as security) than we have breakfast together and he goes to bed. Than the kids and I get to our school work (I help my son with his work).
I used to see the sunrise every morning. LOL! But I'm happy as a night person that I'm becoming again. I like being home on my computer. Not like my husband who gets stir crazy if he is in too long.
We are all good health wise, thank goodness. Hope you all are too!
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I have been a night person with early hours for as long as I can remember. I love working into the night when everyone has gone to bed. I still wake up really early most mornings. I am trying to find a balance so I get enough sleep and still enjoy my peaceful times.
 
My multi-quote abilities are not working today. Here goes from memory.

Yikes- on storms. We don't need another stress.
Rikki- will be added to my prayers.

Yes, Susan- a distant cousin of mine is tested +. She's in nursing school. Felt terrible horrible for a couple days, and coming out of it. I love the pages you are doing for your mother in law.

I'm still sewing masks. My daughter took a set for her unit in today. They posted a group picture on FB mentioning my name, but it didn't tag to my FB [I don't know why]....Well on Megan's page people are asking for more.
I'm trying, can only do so much.
More sewing tomorrow.

My prayers for all.
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Good evening ladies,

I am working unpaid OT to try and get newspapers ready to have a higher digital subscriber count. I used photoshop all day for work today to do some graphic fixes and I was FED UP and ready to close out my computer and be done, and I got not one, but TWO CT packets. They were so cute it did some mood adjusting, and I can't wait until they're live released so I can save to the gallery. I had to borrow a friend's bunnies, but gosh are they photogenic.

My partner has to go into the office tomorrow because they have to have someone physically there to do some monkey business on the servers, and he has promised he'll do the shopping so I don't have to go out, which makes me calmer. The idea of shopping itself isn't scary, but the aggressive rules and standing in line waiting does a number on my nerves, so I am glad it's his week. Usually it would be me, anyway, because my car has Ticinese plates, and his has Italian. There haven't been any aggressive actions against Italians here, but he worries that someone might try to report him as he is TECHNICALLY breaking the law for his permit (His work permit allows 6 days in, 1 day out, and he has been hiding with me up here for 2 weeks). The border controls did say before, though, that if people are willing to hunker down and NOT go back and forth, then it's better for everyone involved, so I think it's not a problem.

We are waiting for the mail man to bring me a better office chair, as mine just about makes me cry at the end of the day.

We have fortunately not had any more deaths in near acquaintances this week.

Night-person-forced-to-work-early-day-hours is a frequent affliction, I think.
 
So it was rainy today I got really bored. A friend of mine posted a thing on FB about making sure you wash your gaming dice, as a joke, which gave me the idea to get mine out and play around with a dice style photo shoot. So my dice, soap and water, and a fun martini glass had some quality time with my camera today. I had fun, I’ll have to scrap my results soon so y’all can see the crazy! ��
 
I'm feeling a little bummed today because it has been another day without sufficient transcription work. I went ahead and applied for a few more projects through Appen though, so hopefully I'll get approved for some of those to make a little extra money. We are definitely blessed that we still have Todd's income coming in, but at the same time, it worries me and I wish he was at home too, as it is just more exposure.

Michi - that is so awesome you are sewing masks! I have been thinking about it, but I am not sure how to go about it. I did order some filter material (vacuum bags with HEPA filters to cut into pieces), so I'm thinking about how I'm going to make some.

Anyone else holding their breath waiting to see what the next Survivor challenge is going to be? I can't wait to get started on it!
 
We just had what they are saying is a 6.5 earthquake in central Idaho. I felt it here in Southeast Idaho. We have not heard if any damage was done yet. It was located in the wilderness area but several of the closer cities felt it more than we did. Life can get pretty interesting.
 
Katharine, I hope the aftershocks are barely felt! Stay safe in these crazy times!

Awesome 2 challenges this week. Got started on one tonight!
 
Glad you are alright Katherine, earthquakes are scary!

Saw the week 2 challenges are up! Went ahead and did the layout for the immunity... ugh I hate blending..! This week's challenge is gonna take some time... Good luck all!
 
I guess that quake was felt as far north as Calgary. I’m just north of there a little.

more snow coming down and accumulating, April Fools....not.
 
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I've made 32 masks since the weekend, the style that the nearby medical center wants, with a pocket to put in one of their good masks, so they can hopefully get more than one use out of. I'm frustrated that the elastic I ordered was supposed to arrive yesterday and it didn't, their 5-7 day shipping is well over that.....fabric is not my issue, LOL, but elastic is.....dug through my stuff yesterday and came up with a bit, going to have hubs check at his mom's today, not particularly easy to find anything there. I will keep my fingers crossed. Heard on news this morning that they may go to requiring everyone to wear one out in public. This style, I've heard people stuff tissues in as well, I've even thought batting would supply another filter layer.
 
practicing being retired!!! HAHAHA! That's great Lynnie! I wanna practice being retired! Pretty please, ma, can I? Can !? Can I?
I'm so glad Rikki is doing better! True, he could be very valuable, not only as a nurse but as plasma donor, if they allow that and if he is actually immune! PTL! There's just so much we don't know that we don't know...


This working from home stuff is gonna get old FAST! I am WAY too easily distracted!!! OMG...
I'm generally a morning person. I can never sleep late although I'm not an EARLY riser. I'm up around 7-8 every morning when school's out. But I do stay up WAY too late at night for that kind of behavior and lately I've been getting only 6-7 hours sleep and that's been giving me headaches again, when I wake up. I went to setting an alarm to remind me to GO TO BED. How sad is that! But I had to to make myself leave the computer or leave the living room and actually go to bed and go to sleep to get a good night's sleep.


OH Elynnia! That sounds amazing! Can't wait to see the layout!


I heard about your earthquake Katherine! Yikes.


I am no good at blending... we'll see. Good luck to everyone.


JEANNE!!! Where are you? (I feel like we've had this conversation before, although never here on this thread... I'm in Lakeville) Wonderful masks. Thanks for doing that. I'm jealous of your mat. I'm trying to get one from Joann. Just a 24x36, but they're out down here. I need to get busy on my tshirt quilts and get the danged tshirts outta my closet and off the floors!


Stay safe. Stay healthy. Wash your hands. God Bless.
 
Good morning, ladies. I've been scrapping more and online more this wk. This "new reality" we are all living has seemed to settle in my head and I'm still worried and scared but coping better. It helps for me to not have the TV news on too much as that inundates me with all the sadness, sickness and fear.

One wonderful thing is the neighborhood has fully embraces the changing of the shift at 7 pm for essential workers. They are honking horns, banging pots, blowing whistles, etc. I was just coming back with Taz from a walk and it scared the crap out of him LOL. He doesn't handle loud noises well and this really scared him. Good thing we were almost home so he could quickly run into the house.

I got my 50 mm lens on my camera and am going to take random candid shots around the house for something fun to do. Of course, lots of shots are going to include Taz :)

I'm getting to work now but will be working on my survivor immunity page later. I am really enjoying my first survivor experience.

Jeanne - that is awesome that you are able to make the masks. I finally found one on amazon to order, no one around here has any. I'll feel better grocery shopping with a mask next wk if it comes.

Carla - ya, I get really distracted now too with my hubs being home. It's too easy to chat, to sit down and start watching a show with him, when I should be working. I'm used to a quiet house during the day when hubs is off to work but now the TV blares all day, his phone is constantly ringing and he's watching YT vids all day. Good luck with the blending. Hope you create a page you are happy with. I love blending so this was in my wheelhouse but I know something will come up later that I'll struggle with.

I'm getting another coffee and getting to work. BFN
 
OMG Rae, your page is GORGEOUS! I actually did make a page last night that I think I'm okay with. We shall see what others think. I'll upload today.

I heard that one of the neighborhoods in our state is doing the same thing Rae. Clapping and sending them off with loud applause, clanging pots and pans, at 7pm our time too. It's a wonderful gesture. Apparently it's a "global" thing. I can imagine that it would send out Chug into barking fits too! lol

Stay safe. Stay healthy. Wash your hands. God Bless.
 
My husband works security for CitiField on the graveyard shift. He told me a little while ago that two people on the 4 to 8 shift, the shift just before his, was officially diagnosed with Coronovirus. Now I'm scared and sniffling the tears away quietly.
Also, the EMTs in Nassau County was told if someone goes into cardiac arrest in the field that if they can't bring them back to life in the field, leave them for dead. Wow! Just Wow! Chances are they will die anyway while those in the hospital have a better chance of survival. Now they are playing God! Just wow!
My husband left for work and the kids are sleeping and I'm here sobbing quietly.

Hope all is well in your homes.
 
LilyAnn said:
My husband works security for CitiField on the graveyard shift. He told me a little while ago that two people on the 4 to 8 shift, the shift just before his, was officially diagnosed with Coronovirus. Now I'm scared and sniffling the tears away quietly.
Also, the EMTs in Nassau County was told if someone goes into cardiac arrest in the field that if they can't bring them back to life in the field, leave them for dead. Wow! Just Wow! Chances are they will die anyway while those in the hospital have a better chance of survival. Now they are playing God! Just wow!
My husband left for work and the kids are sleeping and I'm here sobbing quietly.

Hope all is well in your homes.
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LilyAnn, I am so very sorry. You must be terrified. I cannot imagine. All you can really do is make sure you take all the precautions you can and then say a lot of prayers, then have everyone you know say a lot of prayers.

And remember, if you can't get your mind of the disease, look at the recovery numbers. There are so many people who do get it and recover. We are here and I care! Please bring your tears and fears to us and we will do our best to virtually hug you, let you vent and help think of all the good ways it will all turn out.

I am so sorry you went for so long without a reply to this. We will do a Zoom call soon and see if we can help lift your spirits.
 
Good morning, day off today and I am feeling lousy. I have not been sleeping because of anxiety and for the past couple days I have been having spasms in my neck. I really need my massage therapist!

Hearing everyone's stories...so far my family is all still well with no symptoms. We are not taking chances with Mom so it has been a bit lonely for her. I have been going once a week to disenfect, bring fresh goods and help her with cleaning like vacumming and bathroom duty. We cancelled our family Easter which will be so sad bu I am hoping to pop in and provide her with a dinner of some sort.

Here in Manaitoba we have a smaller number of cases (167) but now it is community transfer and I worry about that as the numbers climb everyday! We do not know of anyone personally that has the virus but it feels like we are waitng for a time-bomb to go off!

I have lots of virtual hugs for all of you and you are always in my prayers! Let's #staysafe #stayhealthy and #scraplikecrazy!

Have a wonderful day and I look forward to everyone's LO's this week...gotta get cracking on mine!

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Good morning everyone. Busy wkend ahead. We are moving my daughter back in during the pandemic and then will see if she is going to move back in permanently. We don't have a spare room available so I'll have to pack up my photography/scrap room as much as I can to accommodate her with a bedroom. The other spare bedroom upstairs is full of my clothes and my moms stuff that I haven't sorted thru since her passing, so I'll leave that and just move her into the basement. She'll have her own bathroom down there and privacy. It'll seem so weird to not only have my hubs home everyday right now but also my daughter and her cat. We'll have to be extra careful with her going out to work, to not bring the germs home to hubs who is at risk but we'll take as many precautions as we can. It will be nice to have her here so I don't worry about her alone in her little apartment and the bonus will be that she will clean a lot (she's a clean freak, I'm not) and I'll do most of the cooking. So tomorrow we start packing up what we can out of the scrap room, take down the tables and empty out some cabinets for her stuff. If we get enough work done tomorrow, we'll get her moved in on Sunday.

I'll get my immunity page done today b/c I probably won't get much, if any, scrapping done tomorrow.

This morning I dropped my (beloved samsung 10+) phone and it completely stopped working. I sent in a repair request online but who knows when I'll hear from them or how long it'll take during this pandemic time. Good thing I have an old iphone i can use in the meantime. Ugh.

Carla - that's wonderful to hear that everywhere they are doing that. Such a great gesture for sure.

I just noticed my super comfy soft sweat pants have a big hole along the seam so I'm going to go sew that up now. I love these pants so am getting off the computer now to go fix these up so I can continue wearing them today.

LilyAnn - so scary to hear. I'll be sending healthy prayers for your hubs to stay safe.

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OMGosh, LilyAnn, that's TERRIBLE and terrifying. Extra prayers for you and everyone there.

I'm just a wreck today. I started work this morning. Went fine. Even had a quite virtual meeting with friends and then I was on a break and on FB and found out a DEAR, online friend had passed away this morning! NOT Covid! She was not ill. We have no details at all, just her hubs got on her page and announced that she'd passed away. I stared at the screen for what seemed to be an eternity. I truly thought it was some CRUEL, WAY LATE April Fool's joke! I talk at least once a week, but I hadn't talked to her directly this week. Now, that makes me even more sad. I really have nothing more. I can't really deal with anything more. So glad I got my layout done last night.

Stay safe. Stay healthy. Wash your hands. God Bless.
 
I am a little bent out of shape today. Our county board of supervisors has decided to put a COVID-19 facility in a hotel right in the middle of our retirement community of 18,000 residents. The facility is to house homeless COVID-19 patients.

While I have some sympathy with the need to house homeless people who have contracted COVID-19, it seems the height of stupidity to place them in the middle of a community of high risk people. Almost all of our people are 65 and over, a high percentage in their 80s, 90s and over 100.

This is a community that has embraced the social distancing with cheer and respect. When we are out walking, folks wave and make sure they move so folks are not crossing within 6ft. They wait patiently at the grocery store, saying hello to people and treating checkers with respect.

So what does the county board of supervisors do! They invite the disease to our doorstep and showed it where we live.

Watch for us on TV - there are protests (socially distanced) and an email campaign like you would not believe.

Laguna Woods - we will become famous for our protest or our death rate - I sure hope it is the former.
 
LilyAnne...prayers for your hubby and family to stay well.

I actually got a shock too when I revceived an email from my local grocery store advising that a worker has just tested positive. The store is now closed for intensive cleaning. Now we wonder...were we exposed?

Lynnie, Good God...what are they thinking!!

Rae, Sorry to hear about your phone especially at a time like this. It will be nice for you to spend time with your daughter even if it means sharing your scrapping space. I miss my elder son, D-I-L and grand-daughter so much but thankful that my youngest son is still home waiting to go back to school in the fall to study massage therapy...lucky me to be his test subject.

Hubby is high risk and he has been waiting 18 months to see a surgeon and finally last month he recived an appointment for his Dr. to do an updated MRI for the surgeon...now it has been postponed to later in the fall. Poor guy can not catch a break!

On a happier thought...how is everyone doing on their Survivor LO's. I know my mojo is low these days but have submitted my Immunity LO and was pleased with it. Now off to do my week 2 submission.

Be safe everyone!
 
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