I hear the stress and strain in your voice after a year and a half looking for a job in your field. I have all the faith in the world that you’ll look back on these early 20’s years and tell this part with a laugh. But I know you don’t have that same faith right now.
I’ll just have to have enough to share with you.
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Years ago I was shaving my face and the razor blade nicked the bottom of my nose, causing momentary bleeding. It became a joke in our family: the caution not to “Nick the nose” became my pretend gangster name.
Yesterday my wife was harvesting from our garden and announced she was going to blanch some green beans.
So now we can be gangsters together, Nick “the nose” and Blanche “the beans”.
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Well, my poor record in righting injustices continues. My CPA agreed that the treasurer took advantage of her position and there are certainly issues with the books, but he said there really is no way to fix them now. Without a revised P&L report to present to the road association, there really isn’t anything I can do. She would just protest that she’d done nothing wrong, and all the mathematically-challenged neighbors would give her the benefit of the doubt. Wow. DH says karma will get her at some point. I sure hope so. LET IT GO, MLH!!! 
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TFW you get to spy on your adult kid via their IG story, and they seem SO happy. 
Can’t wait to meet the girl!
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Friends, check your voters registration status. My cousin and her H, who have voted in every election for years, just found out that they have both been dropped from their state’s voter rolls. Voter Registration Status | NASS
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DH, please stop eating all my “safe” food. I don’t want to go to the store every day. Love, your wife.
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I love my Spotify playlist. Ahhh…
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I KNOW this is a “good” problem to have…but a long planned Galapagos vacation just got cancelled on us as the boat will be taken out of service for a brief repair during the time of our cruise. So disappointed and frustrated. Doesn’t look like any other trips will work (either already sold out, dates don’t work with other plans, trip doesn’t go to islands we hoped to visit, etc.), Will look again tomorrow with a clearer head. For now just annoyed. We’ll figure some vacation out I’m sure but H and I had been talking about the Galapagos for years and were so excited for this trip.
But on a happier note, and WAY more importantly, grandchild #1 is due in less than a month.
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Take the job if it is the right job. Don’t take another job that is a pile of problems and despair. The rigt one will come along, so don’t panic. You are gonna be fine; I want you to be HAPPY , not just employed.
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I have always considered myself very organized. As I get older, I am realizing how close to OCD I may be in that regard.
I don’t pack for a trip without using my standard packing list that I have on my computer. I just tweak it for the number of days, weather, and location. When I recently told this to some people, they thought I was crazy. They just pack the day before or morning of their trip without any list! I can’t imagine living like that (and they can’t imagine living like I do).
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I think we live in a really weird neighborhood (have I said that before, ha?). I opened up the front door this afternoon, and wedged at the bottom was a folded piece of paper. I opened it up, and found it was a timesheet of my husband’s - from 2010!! It wasn’t pristine, but it wasn’t dirty or torn at all, just a little damp.
I looked at our camera footage, and saw that a car drove up to the door this morning, while I was gone (but DH was here). If I’d been here, I would have gone to check who it was.
Unfortunately, the video ended the second the person was opening the car door to get out. But looking at the video closely, I think I know which neighbor it was. But how and why…??? Wouldn’t you think they’d leave a note, “Hey, I found this in our backyard and thought I’d get it back to you,” or something?
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ESPN, you are so screwed ip.
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Shame on you Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The way you treat elderly patients is borderline elderly abuse .
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People do this. You can do it,too.
Meanwhile you are stressing everyone out.
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I think it might have been for the best if you had started that anti-anxiety med a while back. You’re only going to have more of these episodes, you know.
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S bought me an Italian ice cream maker (Musso Pola). It works great! Too grreat. I. Must. Stop.
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Bring back 2015. 
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A tee shirt that is dry clean only? Yup. Confirmed. Not washable. Over my dead body!
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If you are trying to reach my husband, call HIS phone. If he doesn’t pick up, do not start calling mine multiple times because you can’t reach him. And do not leave HIM multiple messages on MY phone.
And please, please, please don’t forget we are not in the same time zone. We are not out and about at 7:30 am on a Saturday. He isn’t picking up your call because he’s still SLEEPING!
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For pity’s sake, stop grimacing and snapping and sitting with your fist balled up to support your back and get off the couch and exercise. FFS, of course your back hurts, you manage combine doing things you shouldn’t with no effort towards building strength on.the.daily. I am no exercise whiz but yet am totally and absolutely out of patience and sympathy. They fiddled w your spinal cord, did you think it would be easy? You gave up the PT, you gave up the elliptical, you’ve given up the bike, you just give up after two weeks! For five years now! Give me strength…
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