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Any plans for this "BLANK" Monday?

BevG said:
Just a day at home. Walked the dog around 7:30am. Cleaned up the kitchen and started the electric slave dishwasher. Started laundry with those 2 electric slaves - 6 loads later I am almost done. Did yoga class via Zoom. Read my Bible. Played Animal Crossing. Vacuumed almost the entire downstairs (one room to go). Converted some templates into .page format for a designer. Made dinner.

Now that the dd is moved into college, started corralling her stuff from downstairs and carting it to her room. I am also looking forward to eating the foods I like that she doesn't and not having chips in the house to tempt me. The men at my house will eat anything.

And for tonight? I am thinking I really should scrap since I have not done any pages yet in August.
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Bev, Did I already asked you who you see for Yoga? I need to be pack in my practice!
 
Cherylndesigns said:
It's just another Manic Monday - wait - what? It's just another "Daily Rain Monday". I did get one big walk in with the walk, but now it's major thunderstorming! We call it "The Daily Rain"!
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We were just about an hour ago in our basement with the Tornado alarms blazing!
 
gonewiththewind said:
Well, this morning I headed off to be tested for COVID before my surgery on Wednesday. I had to go to a specific location near my hospital. I had to follow this extremely long and winding path, and I had to drive by the entire line of cars that were already in line. They were open from 9 to 1. I got there at 9:40 and was finished at 10:50.

It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. She said it would feel like I got chlorine water from a pool up my nose and that was a pretty accurate assessment. Had a little bit of eye watering. Just the **thought** of having the test makes my skin crawl, but it was super quick after I made it through the line!

Here's where I started:

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Here's near the end of the wait. The arrow on the right shows the tent where they took my ID, insurance card, and surgery information. And wouldn't you know it? The car ahead of me had some engine trouble, so I had to wait for them to try to work that out and when they couldn't, had to maneuver my car around them.

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After that, I put gas in the car because the gas light came on as I was leaving (thank goodness I didn't run out of gas!) and I ran through the car wash, too. Then I had lunch and finished reading the book that I started in the car rider line. :)

Now I'm off to finish up a bunch of administrative and design duties to give myself some time off for surgery.
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OMG... thank goodness the gas light was after you left because you would have had an extra stress.
 
gonewiththewind said:
@Dalis Thank goodness y'all were able to get to safety quickly!
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"quickly". I would have failed the 2 mins plan we usually have in place (including bringing water). Bringing those dumb dogs downstairs was ALMOST impossible. Hubby is going to have to train them to come down the basement stairs. I thought I was going to CHOKE to death one of them! Seriously, at some point I am screaming to Bianca to "STAY THE HELL DOWNSTAIRS" because bless her heart she is "trying to help".
 
@Dalis I can remember my Mama's dog Bubba was equally as stubborn when you NEEDED him to do something or move somewhere. He was only 60 pounds, but geez Louise, when he dug in his heels, you couldn't move him. Sorry they gave you so much trouble!
 
gonewiththewind said:
@Dalis I can remember my Mama's dog Bubba was equally as stubborn when you NEEDED him to do something or move somewhere. He was only 60 pounds, but geez Louise, when he dug in his heels, you couldn't move him. Sorry they gave you so much trouble!
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These two stubborn animals are WAY under 60 but 100% PURE MUSCLE. The only saving grace is that our floors are wood and they were pulling back and sliding forward... LOL!!!!!
 
Dalis said:
I just heard about the looting AND the winds not too long ago. GUESS WHO WENT IN HIS MOTORCYCLE TO WORK TODAY. He can't be reached while at work, so I hope someone tells him about the wind. I have a mess in my stomach!!!!!! How is Clara doing at Target? I hope people are leaving her alone!
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Ack! Did he make it home?
 
tkradtke said:
I am sooooo over today. Woke up to news of more looting in the city. Clara's work (Target) closed until things die down again. I shattered my phone. And in the next hour and a half we're supposed to have 100 mph winds, so we had to bring everything we could inside from our roof deck. Good times. Good times.
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That storm just blew through here too. It wasn't awful though. Some people are out of power, but happily we don't have power. I'm guessing you lost power because my friend who lives up the street said her power is out. Sounds like you need to just go to bed and try again tomorrow. Sorry about your phone. I hope you had insurance?
 
gonewiththewind said:
@jk703 Oh my gosh! I snuck out of the house with a friend when I was 13. And of course we got caught. We were meeting two boys to drink wine coolers. LOL We got the middle of the field in front of my mom's house and I was wondering why they had sleeping bags and blankets. DOH!!! They had more on their minds than drinking, and I was too young and stupid and sheltered to know any better. Thank goodness for my mom being awakened by a party going on behind our house and checking on us only to find us gone. She turned on the light in my bedroom, we saw it and ran back to the front steps and were sitting there calmly when she opened the door. She thought we had been or were going to the party, which we knew nothing about. I wouldn't have gotten in so much trouble if we hadn't agreed to flash the bedroom lights to let our two male friends know we were OK and they flashed their lights back. Mama opened the door and said, OK, who's in the car? And I, being the fabulously wonderful teen that I was, innocently said, "What car?" Bwahahahaha! Oh the silliness of it all now is cracking me up, but it was SO dramatic back then. I was on phone restrictions and TV restrictions and friend restrictions for 6 weeks. It was terrible.

I hope your son and his friend realize how dangerous it is, especially these days, to leave the safety of home in the dark of night, no matter how remote the area is. Sending you loads of ((HUGS)) as you handle this!
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Hahahah! What car?! I would have pry said the same thing! Thanks Cheryl! He's a relatively even keeled, smart kid, and the area is well lit and a nice little shore town (I know it's not all pretty and people are bad, but for the most part) so it was more the sneaking out and possibility of getting hurt. It is harder this summer, there is a town curfew of 9, so that was another issue. This pandemic has everyone going nuts. I haven't punished him, as my mother did. She gave the boys manual labor all day yesterday before I got there - cleaning out the outside shower, weeding, and garage cleaning out. "giggle

It was pretty funny how he blundered his responses too! I asked him what happened... and he said "I thought they were asleep so we went for a bike ride." Hahahahaha! Walked right into that one! I don't suspect drinking, possibly girls though! :giggle He knows I'm upset and we didn't say much yesterday on the ride back home. I had previously said what I needed to, so I didn't need to keep going. He will think again before doing something like this.
 
How did my Monday go?
Well, I babysat the 11 year old granddaughter all day and when she left I picked up the 3 and 1 year old grandbabies and kept them for a few hours. Then I crashed.
:imok
 
gonewiththewind said:
@jk703 Oh my gosh! I snuck out of the house with a friend when I was 13. And of course we got caught. We were meeting two boys to drink wine coolers. LOL We got the middle of the field in front of my mom's house and I was wondering why they had sleeping bags and blankets. DOH!!! They had more on their minds than drinking, and I was too young and stupid and sheltered to know any better. Thank goodness for my mom being awakened by a party going on behind our house and checking on us only to find us gone. She turned on the light in my bedroom, we saw it and ran back to the front steps and were sitting there calmly when she opened the door. She thought we had been or were going to the party, which we knew nothing about. I wouldn't have gotten in so much trouble if we hadn't agreed to flash the bedroom lights to let our two male friends know we were OK and they flashed their lights back. Mama opened the door and said, OK, who's in the car? And I, being the fabulously wonderful teen that I was, innocently said, "What car?" Bwahahahaha! Oh the silliness of it all now is cracking me up, but it was SO dramatic back then. I was on phone restrictions and TV restrictions and friend restrictions for 6 weeks. It was terrible.

I hope your son and his friend realize how dangerous it is, especially these days, to leave the safety of home in the dark of night, no matter how remote the area is. Sending you loads of ((HUGS)) as you handle this!
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WINE COOLERS... BWHAAAA!!!! LOL!!!! You were so lucky, mamma knows best.
 
IntenseMagic said:
How did my Monday go?
Well, I babysat the 11 year old granddaughter all day and when she left I picked up the 3 and 1 year old grandbabies and kept them for a few hours. Then I crashed.
:imok
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I bet you crashed... you were probably exhausted! but yay to seeing your grandbabies!!!!!!
 
Karen said:
I'm guessing you lost power because my friend who lives up the street said her power is out.
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Nope! Our lights never even flickered! I heard power was out all over though due to downed lines. Were they out of power long? Clara and I got this bright idea to go up to the roof to watch (we have an "entertainment room" that the deck is attached to). We had the chairs in from the deck, so we each pulled one up and decided to watch what happened through the sliding glass door. No sooner than we sat down, the wind caught our grill and sent it flying across the deck, it knocked our gate open. Clara opened the door to grab the grill because it if went through the gate, it would crash onto the skylight for her room! So, like crazy people, we were out in the worst of it trying to get the gate closed and the grill wrangled. Clara got hit with some flying debris, but it just scratched her leg. We got the grill back to the corner and secured it with weights but that meant we had to get the stuff we had previously confined with those weights into the house. It was scary watching big pieces of plywood fly past!! After the storm we went to help clean up with the neighbors. They're currently rebuilding all of the roof decks and the construction crew left everything out when they left for the day yesterday. There were screws EVERYWHERE because their buckets of them had all turned over. Their plywood went flying and jagged pieces were everywhere, caught in the air conditioning units. Just wood pieces all over. No major damage though. Our neighbor's flower pots were all smashed though from where someone else's grill flew into them. It was a wild ride for a short period of time!
 
@tkradtke Yikes! That sounds scary! I'm glad there were no serious injuries or major damage.
 
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