Daily Ooo's: Tuesday, February 6

[faerywings]

I am giving everyone a heads-up that my typos and grammar mistakes might get worse from now on. I used Grammarly to help with proofreading but Gary said that it is tracking all of your typing info, so I deleted it. I apologize in advance from now until forever for not making all that much sense.

OK, that said-- how was everyone's Monday? I don't honestly know how I survived ShopRite. Everything is moved all over the place, you couldn't get your cart in some areas, it was chaos. On top of that, the music, while bringing back tons of memories from High School, was way too loud.

Update: I just read the article that Gary had read, but it looks like Grammarly already put a patch to fix the bug. yay!

Look at how nice to be distracted from my complaining about ShopRite.
I deep-cleaned my kitchen, even moving the oven out and got behind that, but no idea where the smell is coming from. The only thing that I can think of is that I am getting Phantom Smells again. Lyme affects the brain in some really weird ways including hearing things that aren't there- I have had sounds and sensations happen for no reason before and smells were part of it. No one else in the family smells anything off. I wouldn't have sworn that a tomato or something like that had gotten pushed behind something. But the good news is that my kitchen is clean. :first:

Today, I am going to scrub out the refrigerators. I did that before the holidays but as long as I scrubbed the rest of the kitchen, it can't hurt to do the fridge.

Hoping that your day is more exciting than mine will be. Unless I encounter something really old and fuzzy in the fridge. hahah!!

Love and hugs!

 

[faerywings]

Nancy- I thought I was going to blow away yesterday! It was cold, but today so far doesn't seem as bad. But now we might be getting snow and sleet tomorrow? Yuck! How fun that Luther is getting really good at fetch.
I can't wait to see what Scott's DNA results are and to compare.

Trudy- uh-oh! I hope that your Gary isn't getting sick. Strep is not fun.
It must be so cool to see how different your sisters' DNA was. Were you able to get any scrapping done?
I am really happy-- I got a comment from Lynne Anzelc about how she loved my Fantasy page that I made with her stuff and she added it to her Favorites. Thrilled!! The last few pages I have done have taken a long time but I have been happy with how they look

I feel like I must be the only person alive who doesn't watch This is Us or Game of Thrones *giggle*

How did your appt with the Dr go? Do you take Turmeric? Very good for arthritis and inflammation. It is on my list of supplements I am supposed to be taking daily but it tends to be one of the first that I give up when I am on Pill-Overload. (which is often LOL)
Hope that the dr is able to help and not have to do surgery.

Rae- Darrell gets 7 weeks of vacation? Wow! When Gary was still working, with thought it was great when he finally reached three weeks of vacation. I never worked a job that got paid vacations or holidays. Hope he doesn't get underfoot especially since Mondays are so busy for you.
That sounds like a good solid plan for Bailey. I hope that she is getting through the rough stuff ok. It has to be so hard on her and on Jen.
Ahhhhh! I love it!! Taz must have been sniffing so hard in the bucket.

jean- Bills, shmills. Ugh, I don't want to deal with any of that! And taxes, I need to get going on taxes. *grumbles*
OMGOMGOMG!! I would never leave the library if they had a hedgehog!!!! Caitlyn follows
hedgehog owners' Instagram accounts (of course she does!) and we get such a kick out of seeing some of the creative ways that they pose them for pictures. I hope that the webcam feature works soon.
Thank you so much for liking the LO of Kib. It really was so therapeutic.
One thing that I really want to see if I can dig into is the migration patterns of my family. I know that almost everyone on both my mom's and dad's sides came over from Italy at the near the turn of the century. That fit with what my DNA suggests. Almost all of us settled in the NYC area- also common- and then moved out into the North Jersey area. I know that one branch of the Iantoscas moved to the Boston area at some point too, but it looks like I have some DNA matches that are in the Michigan area. So fascinating!

(I love history and this is really fun for me!)

Felis- I wish I knew how to better organise my time and to prioritize what needs to get done too.Good luck with all of that and I hope that you figure it out.
Pictures of the snakes-- Oh wow, I have to get Cait to share some of the ones that she took the other day, they were great. They would make some good scrap pages.

W is whining at me again-- better take her out. xoxox

 

[nancyr]

good morning - It is grey and damp but not supposed to get rain and snow until tomorrow. I am hoping it is one or the other and not some disgusting mix of sleet. Made a yummy dinner, spicy pork with bok choy rice cakes. It was so good. There was nothing left over. They are my favorite recipes. Luther and I have been out for a walk and he was good. No other dog friends but still he found lots of good smells. Today I am going to try and find some time to scrap. Watched hockey and teams from the west did my team a favor as both the Rangers and Islanders lost. Tonight my team is in Ottawa playing the Senators. They are a tricky team and so my team had better be on their toes. LOL.

Chris no worries about typos I do it all the time. My brain moves faster than I can type so I know I have written weird things. I was at one of the Devils autograph signings and a woman had a pet hedgehog. It was so darn cute but not sure it makes a good pet. That is the pits about shopping. How are you supposed to buy when you cant get the cart through or when you cant find what you want. At the Acme the store employees are amazing good at telling me where to find things I just cant locate. Glad it is over for the week.

Felis your translation is so amazing. I cant imagine having to translate to your language. I took Spanish in high school and maybe with a lot of help I might be able to translate in to kindergarten Spanish. Hope the new continues as the year continues.

Trudy oh no I hope your MG is not sick. Maybe he was just mouth breathing. I know every once in a while I awake with a soar throat. But if he is sick hope he goes to the doctor and does not get you sick. Have fun scrapping.

Rae the day I hit 6 weeks vacation I was so happy. Merck capped vacations at 6 weeks. A lot of the senior staff never took their vacations that was never a problem with me. I enjoyed my vacations. I bet your D does too! Must be fun to have those extra long weekends at your trailer. Hope your weather is better.

Jean I hope the snow I am seeing on the weather map of Ohio is not hitting you. Too bad you are not near Chris you two could have fun with this DNAs stuff.

Have a great day all!

 

[taxed4ever]

Good morning everyone... well DH is home from work and his throat is very, very sore! Ugh Strep throat!! He keeps saying it must be the flu, but I read all the symptoms of strep and he fits every single one. Now will he get to the Dr. to get meds??? Probably not :gaah: MEN!! Oh well I guess if he suffers enough he will go. I will not be face timing with Heather today, they have Jonah's grandfathers funeral and Celebration of life today. So I am going to hit the pool and try to get some exercise. Oh I have to tell you what happened at the therapist yesterday. I get there and fill out all of the forms, give them our extra Insurance from DH's job with the Municipality and they say oh that should cover everything. So while I wait to see the therapist, they are trying to process my Insurance. Well of course it won't work (nothing ever goes smoothly) so they want me to put out $80 before I even head in to see the therapist. I said no way, my coverage is full and its not my fault that you can't process it!! Well they insist that I have to pay. So being the stubborn grump that I can be (its the Irish in me LOL) I said take your appt and shove it!! I walked out and told DH what happened. He said good for you, there is no reason why they should not be able to process it. So he contacts the woman in charge of our Insurance with the Municipality and she says its there fault, they haven't updated their system with the new info. The Municipality changed providers a few months back. So I don't know if I will ever go back to have my finger looked at. It doesn't hurt and I know that it is caused because sometimes I overextend my finger or lift things with my fingers that are too heavy. The lump has actually gotten smaller now that I know what causes it, so I am not too worried about it. I know that I probably should have just put out the $80, but its the principal of the thing right?? Ok I will shut up about it now :tape: :becky:

Chris - Sounds like you had a very productive day of cleaning! Isn't that weird that lyme disease can effect the way you smell things!! Now today you are cleaning out your fridge too, you will have the cleanest kitchen in town! Hope the smell goes away soon what ever it is! How great that you got a nice comment from Lynne Anzelc! So nice that she loved it so much and put it into her fav's ! It really was a beautiful page!

Ok I will pop in later and catch up with the rest of you, DH is wanting some broth to try to choke down his sore throat. Its going to be a long day LOL! :wave:

 

[scrap-genie]

Sorry I have to be super quick as leaving soon for the monthly board meeting of computer gen. group. We got a little more snow overnight, enough to get the drive plowed. I've done the week 5 LO but don't have time to post right now.

Wish you all and spouses are/get healthy & Chris get rid of smell (phantom or real) and have fun with DNA.

Later!

 

[felis]

I had such a horrible evening! I hate to be so cowardly! But past few day at the news had so terrible cases, so tonight I easy gone afraid.
I hate to be outside in the dark! I can't see good enough at the dark. But the weather was warm, so I take Tiny on a dog walk at 7 pm. It's a later for us, but I was busy and no other was come yeth to take her out. So we go to the dog park which is just across the street. But there already have another dog who run free, owners controlled him and he is nice dog, but there always have a possibility bigger dog to step on the smaller by accident. So I prefered to go to the near open space, where dogs also are allowed to plays. The road passes by shop, where have a tables too and people can drink. So two drunk men argued very loud on front of it. We crossed fast and continued, but outside of the road have a bushes and small garden. On a morning walks my mom allow Tiny to play there, so she start to smell around and to go between the bushes, instead to follow my comand (I realy hate how this woman spoils dog's discipline, it's so sissy, but the dog is actually hers, so no one listen me). When I looked back one of the drunk men stop on a few meters away from us, so I immediately start to pull the dog leash and change the direction to the near playground where still has many people with playing children. The drunk man throw one of these little noise party bomb in the garden where my dog was just before a second, so I hugged her and almost start to run to to the crowd. He throw one more in other direction and fortunately don't followed us! But it was enough to scare me! On my language we have proverb which sounds similar to "It popped out my mind".

Jean, have a fun on a meeting! I'm curious to see the page later!

Trudy, Ohh, here they do the same trick, system don't work pay now and will receive your money back on a next visit, but after that have the other problem with the system or sudenly doctor is charged you for some procedure outside of the list and no have rights to give you the moneys back, so the money just burned. Good you not paid! I think next time you can ask on a phone and to get new appt only after they are fix the problem, so to not waste your time.

Nancy, so great that you had nice walk! And I hope tonight game to be good too!

Chris, If other said there is nothing that smells I would trust them ! Except if you don't search reasons to over cleaning.

Rae, :wave: !