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One good thing (I guess?) about the high price of eggs...at least in terms of my own experiences... The white eggs were pretty close to the brown, cage-free, organic ones in cost. Since I had never tried those, I figured what the heck, lets see if they are any different. And evidently, in American grocery stores at least, the latter are more often locally sourced and much more fresh. And in fact, they taste better, and I had no idea. I might continue buying them, at least unless the price on the regular old white eggs goes down to about where it used to be.
I was on vacation with my husband in Colorado Springs all last week. After all the work we've been doing with his father's affairs, we really needed a break. It was pretty great to get away. We got together with a ton of old friends. A wild thing happened...we were visiting with a woman he had worked with for like 17 years, and she was preparing for a pretty rushed move to Florida just days after our visit. So after we had dinner we went to her place, I had actually offered to help her with any last minute packing but she said she didn't need us to. But anyhow, she pulls out this one box of stuff she was planning to give to Goodwill, and she holds up this thing (the stuff had belonged to her late husband's family) and says, "Do you know what this is??? It's an IDOL! I was raised Christian, this stuff creeps me out!" and what she was showing us was this gorgeous bronze figure that hangs on the wall, it looked maybe Hindu, definitely Asian and probably quite old. It was about a foot tall, of a female figure with a serpent's tail for her lower half (mermaid style) and seven snakes rising over her shoulders, holding a heart (anatomical) in her hands, and she had wings. Incredible detail and coloration. And the rest of the stuff was definitely Hindu (Like Ganesha) and Buddhist stuff. We enthusiastically offered to take the whole box off her hands, and she enthusiastically gave it to us. A couple of pieces look like they might be actual jade!
And I made the horrid mistake of boarding my cat at a "Pet Resort." As far as he was concerned he'd been abandoned in Kitty Jail and he refused to eat the first few days. But he gradually and begrudgingly started eating, still I was very anxious to get back to him. I'm definitely hiring someone to come care for him next time we travel, instead. That place was much better for dogs...the cats there didn't look happy and mine sure was not. But he survived and he's overjoyed to be back home now.
** I decided to do a little searching around on the internet, our lovely snake goddess statue is not holding a heart, but rather a conch shell. She is a Naga Kanya figure.
I have been struggling to find a doctor...I moved here a year and a half ago and have yet to find a doctor for just regular care stuff, every time I tried I got fed up because my insurance company's website had a ton of wrong information, like weird specialists listed as primary care when they weren't, doctors not taking the insurance or not taking new patients, you name it. Hours of frustration until I finally just gave up.
"We're sorry ma'am, we are not a primary care practice, we are an infusion therapy center. The insurance websites have us listed wrong." WTF even is infusion therapy?? Nevermind, I don't care.
Argh! I'm in Phoenix of all places, where there is a ton of every kind of business everywhere, this just shouldn't be so difficult.
But I finally managed to find an office that fit what I needed and got scheduled, YAY! Though first I followed their recorded wait prompt to visit their website and try to book an appointment only to have it show me every conceivable doctor that was located absurdly far away, including two who were supposedly at a WALGREEN'S clinic of all places, and NOT the office that was three minutes from my home, got annoyed with the website and called and waited on hold for twenty minutes. I think this process would have gone quicker if I'd walked down there, and talked with a receptionist face to face.
I swear I cannot wait to move back to Colorado. I don't know if it's just random stupid bad luck or if it's Phoenix, but so many things that seem like they should be simple have been absurdly difficult since we got here.
Sonic: Cats are finicky. And you are trying to make one happy, too. LOL
The problem wasn’t with the doctors in AZ. Or that you moved. It’s that EVERYTHING is weird.
I have two theories that probably won’t be too popular:
1. There are no social rules.
And/Or
2. Everyone got COVID and it gave some people breathing problems and it gave the rest of the people thinking problems.
Correction: 6 months. Personal attacks or some goofy thing reserved for trolls and dic heads as you put it. Actually, if someone don like ya, you’re out. Ask me how I know.
My mil, Mrs Chow's (aka Seaofgrass's) mother passed last month.
Mother's Day this weekend is something we've been thinking about. Many of you may know that she'd been battling dementia. I've been reluctant to mention her passing as it's not my mom. Mrs. Chow is ok with me talking about it.
Her mom was such a vibrant person. She was gone a yr ago, Alzheimer's disease hit her. I, Mrs. Chow lost her then. We'd visit her, but she wasn't the woman we knew.
I've talked about her often. I've known her 30 yrs. She was one of the best women, mothers, persons, I've ever known.
Happy Mother's Day to all of the mothers out there, best to you.
Best to all the mothers.......
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Condolences to you & your family, Chow. I've walked that road with a beloved relative, and it's a painful one for sure. You lose them long before you actually lose them. Wishing you healing and peace.
I am annoyed with myself because I forgot to send my Mom (or anyone) a Mother's Day card. I will make some phone calls later. My Mom won't be bothered by not getting a card, I have helped her a lot in recent months because she had bariatric surgery and there were complications and she's had a rough time...and I have sent her, too, some quilts and cat knick-knacks from the stuff that we've inherited from my husband's family (with his permission of course.) Things we would just have had to sell, and she would love. But I'm annoyed with myself anyways because I have been trying to be more on top of sending cards to people for special occasions. After all...my late mother in law hoarded blank cards and assorted stationary and I've got piles of them. I don't even need to buy them, so I feel like there's not much excuse...
Oh, well. I've been very busy. My life has been a blur for quite some time it feels like.
Thank you, everyone. I'm trying to celebrate today more than mourn. She was the absolute best. (And I hope this doesn't bring everyone's Mother's Day down.)
Fleetiebelle, I'm so sorry about your mom. Please let me know if I can ever help, with support, advice, anything like that.
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My condolences to you and Sea, Chow.
We've just started down the dementia path with my own mom. Mother's day is a bittersweet day, for sure.
Happy day to all the CD moms, and hugs to all having a hard time today.
Yes, same here.
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Ask me how I know.
(And I hope this doesn't bring everyone's Mother's Day down.)