It IS a luxury, agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
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It IS a luxury, agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
Okay---Yah, going to an auditorium to see a tribute band rates criticism from littlebittymee. Hippie music is best suited to an outdoor venue. But, you left out the dollar amount for the tickkicks & also the mileage driven & of course---the drive-N-eat factors. So no, I don't know how much criticism to dish out, here. Nope. Plus, leaving the Catts home alone is very troubling. Yup. Hope that helps you some.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
Okay--I shop at Dollar Tree & Dollar General, depending on what I'm shopping for. Both stores handle TGI Fridays Tato Skins. But yeah---Dollar General is higher-priced, but if you live a few miles out & DG is the closest, then by all means. Traffic is murder & driving costs $$. Hope that helps you some. Thankk mee.Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetana3
To assist you in criticizing with greater precision:Quote:
Originally Posted by littlebittybobby
- Ticket face value was $49.50 each, but as I recall, Ticketmaster fees added another $15 or so per ticket. Next time we will go to the box office to buy the tickets, but we decided to go at short notice and box office has limited days/hours.
- Venue was only 14 miles away.
- Parking cost 25 cents.
- We ate at home before the show, and we did not buy any food or drink or merchandise at the show.
- The cats don't seem to mind if we leave them in peace for a few hours, as long as we don't forget to feed them before we go.
The only thing I have any regret about is the Ticketmaster fees, and would take steps to avoid those next time.
I have lived in old houses that had bedrooms up and the one bathroom downstairs. Good thing I was young and only had to get up in the middle of night when pregnant.
Wow. Long gone are the Christmases when I bought DH clothes at the Princeton, NJ Ralph Lauren and he bought me clothes a block away at Ann Taylor.
Look what I'm so excited to buy him for Christmas now!!
https://www.northerntool.com/images/...acker-2022.gif
I'm so psyched!
Catherine, that is so cool! I bought my husband a new Case knife, but I may have to get this for both of us!Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
That looks like a great tool. I hope it’s as easy to use as this demo shows.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
Very cool. Makes splitting kindling look easy!
Very cool, Catherine!
As of this morning I don't know if it a rant or a rave, but for three and a half days last week I combed out all my eight year old dreadlocks! I had been kind of tired of them for a long while, and had stopped caring for them like I used to; they have been looking pretty ratty for a while and not very attractive as I am going pretty grey these days. I hadn't "planned on" doing this particularly, but one evening last week as we were sitting down to stream our show I was idly picking at the end of one dreadlock and it started unraveling fairly easily. So I started on another and then I couldn't stop for three days!
It was a very difficult process - each lock took between 30 minutes to an hour to unravel all the way to the scalp! Plus piles and piles of old hair and old lint that had been trapped within the lock! I finally finished yesterday morning and took a blessed hot shower where I used a ton of shampoo and conditioner. My hair is still fairly long (a little past my shoulders, and it actually decided to curl up as it was drying! I had no idea if it would do that out here in the desert without the Michigan humidity like I was used to.
So now it is back to having to do daily haircare, which I am not used to. I am going to have to buy a wide-toothed hairbrush, and curling conditioner to keep it looking decent on a day-to-day basis and to prevent natural dreadlocks occurring during the night.
Even though I had been thinking about a hairstyle change for a long time, I didn't want to go the route of actually chopping off all my hair and being practically bald and having to grow it out. Plus, I HATE having to blow-dry and style (which I have to do when I have short hair, otherwise I look like bozo). This way at least I have some options going forward. I do need to get a professional trim because the ends of my hair are pretty dry and damaged.
So, I guess I'm raving because I actually went through with it and it's nice to know I still have my curly hair! I'm just going to have to get used to actually caring for it on a daily basis, unlike having dreadlocks which are pretty darn care-free!
Yesterday was my last day of work until Jan 3rd.
Nice! Enjoy your time off!Quote:
Originally Posted by Klunick
Had the women’s club Christmas party today. Got the best present ever at one of these things … homemade candy and single bottle of liquor….. not the usual throw out Christmas crap. I thanked the giver! I gave a nice multi-use/emergency flashlight that was well received also.
I’m in FL for a week of cave diving. Don’t go back to work until the 27th. Will be home the 25th. Will be nice to have a recovery day. Have an Airbnb little cottage that sleeps 6 for the week for $450 and all this space for me.
That’s good Tradd,and have funQuote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
Enjoy your vacation, Tradd!
Thanks! Having to keep an eye on the weather as there’s supposed to be snow and bad cold later in the week, but looks like it’s going to be Thursday/Friday. I’m driving home on Sat & Sun.
For the first time ever, I kept my Christmas tree alive and still drinking water all the way through Christmas. Normally it stops wanting water about 2 weeks after getting it and is losing needles like crazy by Christmas morning.
When did you buy your tree?Quote:
Originally Posted by Klunick
Dec 3rdQuote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
I sent my first question to a local city councilman. He responded with a very clear answer and we had a short email discussion. Wow.
Turns out he is now the Vice Chairman of the Council and slated to become the Chairman. I liked him before and more now.
The question was about some misinformation that a city employee provided during a televised advisory meeting regarding "Christmas bonuses". I used to watch these meetings a lot and might need to see more of them.
I’m glad that you’ve got a clear answer and I hope the answer was what you wanted to hear.Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetana3
I remember when one of the tax supported institutions in St. Louis came out with “year end bonuses” based on their own defined metrics.
I thought that was stupid. Aping the business world that gives out bonuses based on productivity i.e., financial bottom line of a company, does not seem a good role for tax supported organizations that do not have a bottom line they have to earn. Well, they don’t directly earn it anyway.
Turns out there were no "Christmas Bonuses". However, I found out they are getting two 13% raises to help get more people to work in hard to fill areas. This means permanent money and not any one time bonus (which did not exist anyway). THis was city government anyway and the employees in question were under a union contract. No idea where the employee got their info or maybe someone was playing a trick on him/her. Sigh.
ps: they are also trying to hire homeless needing jobs and those with a criminal past. Jobs need strong back, compassion for animals and common sense.
It suddenly occurred to me today as I was letting my mind wander that the professional guys who make me laugh the most are all named “Dave.”
Dave Chapelle. David Spade. David Letterman. David Sedaris.
Dave Rubin doesn’t make me laugh exactly but he provided a bright spot in conservative discourse a couple of years ago for me although I am kinda off him at the moment.
For me it's Dave Sedaris, Dave Barry and my husband Dave.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
I thought sbout .Dave Barry too even though I don’t read him nowadays but I have in the past. Probably I would find your husband Dave funny too!Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
I wanted to buy a specific item for my youngest's birthday in April and since I am trying to be more proactive this year, I started looking for it now. I wanted to buy it from a reputable place since I believe in the "you get what you pay for" principal and since this was a fairly expensive item, I was hoping to find a good sale. And I did! Item is regularly $175 and I got over $50 off so I snagged it!!
Nice savings!Quote:
Originally Posted by Klunick
New mouse trap… DH took picture from our back yard here in TX. Attachment 5125
Lol. Love it! Beautiful bird.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
Haha, nice bird.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
https://friendsofblackwater.org/camhtm2.html
I check the web cams on this site daily and see eagles on the osprey platform and an owl on the eagle platform. It makes me smile every time one shows up! Sometimes two!!
Your DH got a great shot!Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
Ah, the rich pageantry of life, as Barney Miller's Fish would say.
Last night we went to see Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock in concert at a huge arena. We are very old and I scanned the crowd of thousands for people my age or older, and I’m telling you folks, out of those thousands I didn’t see anyone older, although I saw a few who might be about my age. Stay with me because my gray hair figures prominently in this report.
The show’s opener, Rick Ingram, worked the audience. Because we had the best seats in the house, middle of the first row, we were targets. He kidded us saying “You two probably don’t even know which show you’re at, you probably think you’re at the Tim Allen show “then asked DH “what do you do for a living? “DH replied he was retired. Ingraham asked him “:What did you do when you worked? DH replied “I was a handyman. “ Ingrahm then countered with “wow! I didn’t know handymen could afford those tickets! “
When David Chappelle finally came on stage, he started a story about Chuck Barry and leaned over the stage to say to me “YOU probably know who Chuck Berry is.” “Ha ha. so this gray hair of mine made me a target for Dave Chappelle and I got recognized by the great one. Worth it!
All of this was captured on the Jumbotron and later one of our former neighbors in the city sent us a message saying “what the hell were you two doing in the front row at this show?!!!”
Chris Rock did extra long set because Chappelle had plane problems and was stuck on the tarmac. Rock is smooth, solid, and his extra long set flowed. He is a consummate professional. Chapelle was… Not on fire. We didn’t get any of his insightful comments about society, but instead got long raunchy stories about Chuck Berry and porn and stories about Chapelle himself and strip joints.
Rock did some nice work talking about wokeness, woke crowds, and the problem of free speech today. Both of them referred to their unfortunate incidents of being beaten up on stage, Rock by Will Smith at the Oscars, and Chappelle by a crazy person.
it was nice to see these two on stage, even though Chappelle was not at top form.
Okay---Attachment 5133Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Don't you know that you NEVER sit in the front row at a comedy show??? You are asking to be made fun of! In our early dating days when we were both working in NYC, DH and I went to Rodney Dangerfield's place, and we got similarly roasted (Rodney wasn't the comic--I can't recall who was).Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
But it sounds like you had a fun time!
well now I know!Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
Sometimes you didn't get roasted, some times you got splattered. (siblings honeymoon was front row at a Gallagher show)