Chicken lady
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Did he sound happy or panicked?

Nope, this is my closet! If administration tries to take it, I will leave my stuff all over the hallway, classroom, and student storage. I have lost...

An example of this is what happened with our taxes this year. Dh was working on the taxes and I was entering donations. I got done and moved on to...

So, tomorrow is the last day of school. none of this happened. it all seemed very simple and reasonable when I started out, but I have spent most...

Yep, everyone is different. All that stuff after “the trouble of” would still translate to me forgetting about the bills. We have already...

I have been buying maple syrup in glass bottles with plastic lids. This morning I opened a new bottle - trash = plastic safety wrap over neck/lid...

Zoe girl, i’m glad for your Dd. This is a long hard trip. My heart Dd went through a similar time 6 years ago. Keep telling her how amazing she is...

So, happystuff, how do you completely avoid buying plastic? What does your grocery shopping look like? That is the biggest problem for me (second...

Today at graduation: refreshments. i ate some of the fruit being served directly from the plastic packaging/serving container. i used a plastic...

Well, today I attended graduation. Moments of laughter, moments of tears. A lot of joy at their growth a successes, but a lot of regrets too - the...

Have you considered shooting Harlan so that you don’t have the expense of his upkeep, the concern of his care while you travel, and the inconvenience...

So, THAT is the sort of thing I am afraid of as far as space issues go when dh retires. He will be home. My mail will be driving him nuts. He will...

Too much stuff, I call her my heartdaughter because i did not give birth to or adopt her, so I am not her legal mom. I did not marry her parent, and...

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Iris lilies, he is only our boy. He lives with his father four weeknights a week during the school year. (honestly, i’m not sure why he even gets...

My three children had chicken pox one at a time 19 years ago. The were first exposed shortly after Halloween. I did not take them away from the...

I will completely allow myself to be bossed around in order to see my grandchildren. If I ever get any grandchildren. I will share my thoughts and...

I pretty much want to be around dh most of the time. I follow him around the house, I bend my schedule to his, I hate to sleep alone. If I want to...

So, here is another insight from my dh and retirement thread. I do not like change. i know this, but I lose sight of it. this week I have been...

Lol mschrisgo2, i hate change.

This is a little more complicated because dhd is bi and gf and the woman she has been having an affair with have been poisoning the local lesbian...

My mother made a comment when she was here that she doesn’t understand these couples going on separate vacations (dil is going on a service mission...

I love dh company, I just don’t love the idea of him running every minute of my life. When he is home, I tend to plan everything around him. ...

Lol, iris lilies, I feel like we just built a second house on the back of the first one!

No, HE is the responsible one! I don’t want to be the responsible one! I don’t want to be the one who says “I have to go to work tomorrow.” But I...

I’m concerned that it is GOING to be a sudden radical change - because he doesn’t really want to talk about it, and the cutting the timeline by 4...

Yeah, so the thing that is bothering me is that I can’t get him to talk to me. He seems to think the only important conversation is the money. For...

Iris, cross post - upstairs: bedroom - my dresser and shelf are crammed and messy - I tend to leave clothes on the bed and floor, his shelf,...

In my case it was parents house to firetrap apartment with no functioning adults (interlude in car) to minimum wage job supporting husband apartment,...

I do encourage the golf and the guitar. I am totally behind him not doing his job. If he came home tomorrow and said “i’ve Had it. I quit.” I’d...

Our “farmhouse” (it’s a house, it’s on a farm...) has always been decorated mostly in a style we call “midcentury American attic” (stuff our parents...

Well, I don’t intend to record all of it! Just sharing my thought process for conversational purposes.

I have been contemplating a “rating system” for my time rocks. i - important (to me or to someone who is important to me) u - urgent (must be done...

So, as posted in another thread, I made it through the show. And dinner and a concert after with dh without even falling asleep. But I got home and...

Yep. If they are serving as advertising, you can factor the time you spend at the craft fair into the total time spent to make the money from those...

Jumping in, hope it’s ok. sale yesterday - 1.5 hour total commute, hour set up, hour break down, single register sale so no messing with check...

Cambridge dictionary: Insubordinate: refusing to obey orders from someone in authority, and not showing respect for them he may be aware that...

So classes actually went off well today. i am currently “tutoring”, but tutoree needed a bathroom break. i want very badly to set up for my...

So, that started out well enough, then dh took me out to dinne4 and I haven’t even thought about the sale. i’m not Ready for my classes tomorrow,...

It was just meant to be an example of a want, not the semantic deconstruction I followed up with. and yes, needs first, wants second, and learning...

No, “should” is a thing that carries a perceived consequence imposes by external judgement: “I should wash the dishes.” (Why? Because it is socially...

Sorry for the many choppy posts. I am popping in between other activities. tomorrow’s big things are: work - unload kiln, reload kiln, fire...

The thing about my todo list is that it has been largely purged of “shoulds” but is still over full of “musts” and “want tos” (“must” get gas on the...

My job is one of my hobbies. The roses are some of the things I work to fit in (I don’t feel guilty about the second cup of coffee, but I get angry...

We went to my dd’s Senior show Friday night. They had these little paper fidget twisty things they had folded with the event, date, and location...

We have 28 acres. When the kids bring their dogs, I have them use a small shovel and a plastic bucket to relocate poop to abrushy area in the woods....

I feed my cat cheap crap cat food that i’m Pretty sure is mostly grains. He likes it. He also gets “table scraps” (dh meat trimmings that can’t go...

Make cat bells while you sit at your booth. You can still stop and talk to customers, but you are less “threatening” than a salesperson staring at...

The owner of the pottery studio here does a pricing workshop before the sale every year. He always says: you can have ONE item under $5. More will...

Tybee, it is a trade off. Like “your money or your life” - we have a limited amount of time.. so if having your environment clean and neat and...

Yes, many of you are getting the point exactly. It is about what matters to you and why and the effect that has on your life. It’s about WHY you...

You guys are very kind. I think I am “better” online than in person, because I can think about what I want to say for as long as I like, and I can...

I survive the work thing. Heart daughter thanked me for coming. She also apologized for stranding me when she had to leave early and the other...

I am finding my voice. this week, I lobbied for money for equipment upgrades - and I got it. i explained to dh why I was resistant to his...

You didn’t offend me, it just bothered me to not understand. So now I think that you were serious and arguing for the more expensive cardboard box....

If it were furry, would it be an herb?

Summer, interesting point. What makes “the economy” so important? I would propose that our assessment of “the economy” is an easy substitute for...