roadfix
Chef Extraordinaire
Building a simple mouse trap here at work. A rat has been chewing at my bags of cereal and trail mix which I keep here at my desk.
What are you doing?
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Aunt Bea
Master Chef
I would let the rat have the cereal and the desk, they would be scraping me off of the ceiling!!!
cjmmytunes
Head Chef
My mom has My chart for her Dr's also but something called e-Chart for the hospital. I have her entire hospital chart from when she was in the hospital in Norfolk for the aneurysm. Mom still likes to go to the Dr for the results to be explained to her after tests, though.
Addie
Chef Extraordinaire
The average person needs some medical education or have a very high IQ to understand medical procedures and the language. It can be confusion to some folks.
I still haven't received the results of my Cat Scan. It was done when I was in the middle of a really bad chest cold. So I if I am not mistaken, my lungs must have looked like I had walking pneumonia. That was two weeks ago and I was so sick. I still am at the tail end of this cold.
Cooking Goddess
Chef Extraordinaire
Munky! I'm surprised that you or Mr. Munky haven't tossed your crazy neighbor on the grill by now. 
I think you need a bigger grill...
I'm so sorry it took me so long to post, but I kinda forgot about it because of all the posts that followed her photo - which looks like all personality.
Speaking of posts, I started another thread called The Sick Room for us to gather and share our aches and pains. We're all getting older, achier, and crabbier. Well, I qualify for item #3. Anyway, I'm hoping that rather than complaining in multiple threads, we can have one "room" we can hang out in talking about our aches and pains. This way we can keep other threads more on topic rather than turning them all into "Petty Vents" threads. As if we stay on topic around here.
With a little luck, maybe the Sick Room visitors will share some of our old magazines to read while we're hanging around.
I'm surprised that you or Mr. Munky haven't tossed your crazy neighbor on the grill by now. I think you need a bigger grill...She is absolutely adorable, LP!
I'm so sorry it took me so long to post, but I kinda forgot about it because of all the posts that followed her photo - which looks like all personality.Speaking of posts, I started another thread called The Sick Room for us to gather and share our aches and pains. We're all getting older, achier, and crabbier. Well, I qualify for item #3. Anyway, I'm hoping that rather than complaining in multiple threads, we can have one "room" we can hang out in talking about our aches and pains. This way we can keep other threads more on topic rather than turning them all into "Petty Vents" threads.
As if we stay on topic around here. With a little luck, maybe the Sick Room visitors will share some of our old magazines to read while we're hanging around.
cjmmytunes
Head Chef
I totally understand that, Addie. Hope the results turn out good. Colds seem to hag on longer as you get older.
Cooking Goddess
Chef Extraordinaire
I am enjoying a sense of accomplishment. In addition to three loads of laundry (blankets and quilts - season change means bed covering change), I got a small batch of lemons preserving (only three Meyer lemons), got the last batch of pickles brining (only 9 cucumbers), and made a yummy supper - with enough soup left over for tomorrow night. Now I'm getting my alcohol rubdown (inside-out) and nibbling on a piece of bagel. All in all, a pretty good day.
I am never ever moving again!
I am looking for my passport so I can go with TB on Friday to pick up our puppy at the Seattle airport.
I had surgery just before we moved and the office was, of course, one of the rooms I didn't get done before. TB's co-worker packed it and we haven't a clue where anything is as she just marked all the boxes "office" no matter what was in them. I am a crafter, TB is a techno geek so there are a LOT of things in our office!
I am looking for my passport so I can go with TB on Friday to pick up our puppy at the Seattle airport.
I had surgery just before we moved and the office was, of course, one of the rooms I didn't get done before. TB's co-worker packed it and we haven't a clue where anything is as she just marked all the boxes "office" no matter what was in them. I am a crafter, TB is a techno geek so there are a LOT of things in our office!
Cooking Goddess
Chef Extraordinaire
Oh no, LP! Nothing like a scavenger hunt when you have other things to do. I hope you find it sooner rather than later.
Kayelle
Chef Extraordinaire
Hope you find your passport LP!
This wouldn't work for you, but I keep my passport in the handbag I use exclusively for airline travel. I made the mistake of packing that handbag in our luggage once when we were being transported from the overnight hotel to a cruise ship. What a mess that was!!
This wouldn't work for you, but I keep my passport in the handbag I use exclusively for airline travel. I made the mistake of packing that handbag in our luggage once when we were being transported from the overnight hotel to a cruise ship. What a mess that was!!
Thanks, CG and Kayelle!
Yes, I did find it in the fourth place we looked. The upside is that means four more boxes have been emptied and most of the contents have new homes.
So, I can go across to get our new fur-baby and also with one of my new friends to do some shopping once in a while.
Now I am resting up as we are going to Costco tonight - for dinner with TB's brother and our niece, and for a few items, we need to pick up. It has become our regular Monday thing now that we live close to family and it is nice that our niece is in town so we can catch up with her.
Yes, I did find it in the fourth place we looked. The upside is that means four more boxes have been emptied and most of the contents have new homes.
So, I can go across to get our new fur-baby and also with one of my new friends to do some shopping once in a while.
Now I am resting up as we are going to Costco tonight - for dinner with TB's brother and our niece, and for a few items, we need to pick up. It has become our regular Monday thing now that we live close to family and it is nice that our niece is in town so we can catch up with her.
rodentraiser
Head Chef
I'm trying to figure out what to do with the rest of the day. I made the second of two visits to the Social Security office in one week this morning. They took out the lawyer's fee and say they gave it to her already. She says she didn't receive it. Problem is, what they withheld and gave to her is more than I signed for in the contract, so I am now owed almost $2000 by the lawyer. I'm wondering how long this game of you-got-the-money-no-I-didn't is going to play on.
But it's nice to think that for once, a lawyer owes me money instead of the other way around.
But it's nice to think that for once, a lawyer owes me money instead of the other way around.
Cheryl J
Chef Extraordinaire
Glad you found it, LP!
RR....I hope that mess gets straightened out soon.
I'm ignoring Tyler right now - he got in trouble at school today for talking out of turn (continuing to interrupt his teacher), and now he's got an attitude.
RR....I hope that mess gets straightened out soon.
I'm ignoring Tyler right now - he got in trouble at school today for talking out of turn (continuing to interrupt his teacher), and now he's got an attitude.
Cheryl J
Chef Extraordinaire
I've never gotten a text - usually I have to call the night before to see if my number came up for the next morning.
Our county has a pretty nice system. You can do all your "paperwork" online, and the evening before scheduled Jury Duty, you can log on or call an automated system to find out your status, or, when you register online the first time, you can opt to receive text notification of whether or not you need to appear.
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Andy M.
Certified Pretend Chef
Our county has an option I like. Not too long ago I got a jury duty notice. They listed reasons why I could opt out. One was my age, so I jumped on it. No more JD for me.
Kayelle
Chef Extraordinaire
Meee too Andy. I've served more times than I can count through the years, and I've retired.
Cheryl J
Chef Extraordinaire
I'm not quite at the opt out age yet, but last year I got a jury summons and I checked "yes" when it said "do you have any family members in local law enforcement?" (my son-in-law). I thought I'd be disqualified for that but for the first time, my number came up anyway. I was actually kind of hoping to be selected to sit on a jury for the first time ever.
I'm in a fairly small one-judge town, the courthouse is only a mile away, and the judge's wife has been my best friend for 20 years. I went the next morning, thinking the odds were slim that my name would be called in that random bingo-type basket of 60 or so names. Well it was, my name was the very last one called and I had to sit there and answer questions from not only my friend the judge who was just doing his job, but the defense attorney for the accused, who happened to be the one who represented my ex-husband 25 years ago in our divorce. Holy cow, needless to say I was disqualified.
I'm in a fairly small one-judge town, the courthouse is only a mile away, and the judge's wife has been my best friend for 20 years.
I went the next morning, thinking the odds were slim that my name would be called in that random bingo-type basket of 60 or so names. Well it was, my name was the very last one called and I had to sit there and answer questions from not only my friend the judge who was just doing his job, but the defense attorney for the accused, who happened to be the one who represented my ex-husband 25 years ago in our divorce. Holy cow, needless to say I was disqualified.
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buckytom
Chef Extraordinaire
I've had to serve Grand Jury once, but I've gotten out of every other jury duty by stating that I work for CBS News. No one, not the prosecutor or defense attorneys, like people who follow current events.
