So. Much. Drama.
All.The.Time.
Sigh…
this is stupid:
in the real world, I would have access to Excel or at least a calculator
“Ace the Math
You don’t have access to a calculator in the case interview – your ability to do math and extract insights from the numbers will be tested extensively”
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Just stop whining!!!
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I can not believe I did this; I really am in need of a vacation! I purchased a Tuxedo Chocolate Mousse cake at Costco on Saturday to take to a small family dinner on Sunday. As I didn’t want to take it upstairs once home with it, I left it on the foyer table by my purse, so I wouldn’t forget it the next night.
We were cleaning up from the evening and I was putting the cover on the leftovers and told SIL I was leaving it with her as she was having a card game the next day. She said there should be room in the fridge to put it, and I replied she could leave it out; her reply was it is a refrigerated dessert. I totally forgot I took it out of one of the cold cases, and not off the table where I had also picked up cupcakes! 
The sad thing is, I have had this cake before and know it needs to be refrigerated.
As far as I know, no one got sick, and I also had a small piece and survived. If anyone had gotten sick, I would have felt terrible, but now the secret is safe with me! 
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Stress surrounding my aging parents is starting to get to me. Please let me age gracefully and save my kids from this same stress. I think every generation says this though!
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H’s retirement is going to be the end of me.
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Watching “Married at First Sight” season 14 on Netflix and now I feel like I am totally rocking it with this adulting thing right now. 
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C’mon, Costco! You know I love ya, but why the heck did you re-arrange the store since last week??? Spent twice the time searching for normal stuff: lemonade, cranberry juice next to the papertowels…petfood next to the ziploc bags…wine/alcohol in three different areas…the drugs/supplement area completely upended…etc. Me thinks it may have been wiser to wait until after Christmas…
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A brief moment where our cell signal is strong enough I can post!! Being without Spectrum for three days is a problem for our business. No business phone or reliable internet. I can’t even print from my computer. I guess I’ll try to dig up a cable for the printer tomorrow.
I shouldn’t complain, though. A lot of people were flooded out. 
Got my 86 year old, technology challenged mom a new cell phone. Pray for me when I try to teach her to use it tomorrow!
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How can you be 68 years old and not know the difference between the quilt, the blanket and the sheets on a bed?! Shams I’ll give you a break for, but geezzzz!!! 
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Oh, my gosh, we have power and internet now!! It was 2 3/4 days, but it felt a lot longer. Since our cell signal is so weak at the house, cable is our only connection to the outside world. It was better in the old days with a land line!
I had to drive to town to check emails and send messages. Ironically, a friend who is living at a cabin near ours, IN THE WILDERNESS, was able to send me Facebook messages but I couldn’t reply from our house in a Portland suburb.
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Day 1 without my old kitty here. I wish he’d had five more good years, but I’m glad he didn’t have one more bad day.
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We were in Prague at the beginning of this month. We’re shocked to hear of the mass shooter at the university today.
My husband commented that American news doesn’t usually cover these shootings overseas. I told him it was because they hardly ever happen.
Our wonderful tour guide in Prague posted on facebook that he passed the university building today and he will pass it tomorrow on his way home. That he has one kid in school there and another going next year. He’s heartbroken 
So are we.
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Ds2 drove up an hour ago and immediately asked whether it would be OK if friends came over to watch the game. OF COURSE. The thing I miss most about his being so far away is the energy he introduces to the house because when he comes here, others follow.
And s1 and DIL will be here in three hours!!!
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To the parents of the 18 year old that failed to yield, crashing into my car, I hope you can sleep at night teaching your 18 year old to lie on the accident police report.
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You really don’t need to have the last word, and BTW, you’re not always right.
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Argh!!! We have had so many issues related to H signing up for Medicare. He gave the doctor his Medicare & Supplement information, but the billing office screwed it up because his old insurance number is still active when they checked … but it’s active for ME. His company makes me use the same number he has (they tie all retiree insurance to the retiree). He had to make a bunch of calls to fix that, since he was going to have to pay his Part B deductible. Then when he picked a 2024 Part D plan with a different company than 2023, the new company made it effective 12/1. Because he didn’t ask for that and wasn’t billed, he hadn’t paid … which held up his approval for 2024. You can’t switch in December, by the way … so our broker got that fixed. In the meantime, H had an RSV shot. And guess what? Turns out the first company dropped him when the new company signed him up. So all of this happened without him knowing. Of course, the 2023 Part D is not through our broker (she recommended it but she doesn’t sell that company’s plans). He called the first company to get reinstated for the month of December & they told him that wasn’t possible. So I called. The nice lady from India & I had a very nice chat. I pushed back when she told me she couldn’t reinstate him. After 45 minutes, it looks like he’s going to be reinstated for December … if that doesn’t happen, I’ll be contacting the state insurance commissioner. The cost of the RSV shot won’t break us if CVS bills us, but I abhor incompetence and refuse to accept it.
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Goodness, who raised you? Oh, we did…
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