Not quite the day I had planned… I took the day off work to go hiking off the blue ridge parkway. But first, my usual workout at oh dark 30… I put my car in reverse and back into H’s Jeep (not Parked where it normally is, but I knew it was there!) His car looks fine, but my bumper is cracked. It’s almost 13 years old, so I’m not upset about mine but more about his!! He loves that thing. And I knew it was there when I walked out the door.
Finish workout and a couple hours later we are on our way out of town. An hour later and a deer runs out in front of us. H slows up, it’s passed us, but I’m shouting “second!” And he hits the brakes, but not fast enough to miss the second one. The headlight, bumper, etc is crushed/gone, but the air bags didn’t deploy. And we are ok and the car is driveable. (And this is our new 2021 Subaru!)
Decide we should keep going. Get to the cute new lunch spot that I picked out, and it wound up being sort of a bust. Keep going and it gets foggier and foggier. Soon we can barely see the yellow line on the parkway. Do we dare hike?
Well we did and the weather wound up being a non factor. But this was the first hike that we did where it was all DOWN steep and rocky and tree rooty terrain the entire way there and my phone - which usually measures short - got the distance a good 25% longer than they said. I was ok, but coming back H was not amused. He mostly hikes just to humor me. He says never again does he want one like that. Went into the big city for dinner and semi fast food took well over 30 minutes to arrive. At least it was good.
But the biggest thing to be thankful for - aside for not getting killed in a car accident - is that younger S got the official notice today he survived the RIF. He doesn’t work for the Feds, but his company is a consultant for the feds. They were cutting the company 10% this week and being new and just having relocated and all - this mom has been super nervous. So the kids are all good. That’s all that matters right?
Why would you use it as your wedding dance song? Please look at the lyrics!
I was in junior high school when this song came out. I didn’t know the meaning of affair back then. But I do know it now.
I am assuming that you will have a couple of people in their 60s that know the song.
We don’t know which one of you three young millennial couples have picked it for your wedding song but we’ve tried to hint.
I was singing this song because I like the singer and I like the tune. And when I asked aloud at the dance studio, “why is this song in the dance queue? It’s about an affair.” The young millennial dance instructors looked shocked. They later looked up the lyrics and have tried to hint to change the song. I guess you are continuing with it?
When we go back to dance class tomorrow, should I again say, “oh this is the affair song?.”:
“Me and Mrs. Jones,
We got a thing going on.
We both know that is wrong, but it’s much too strong to let it go now.”
Watching Love it or List it reruns & feeling a bit confused about how the kitchen can be called “small.” How much room does the average person actually need?
Update from dance class: our class was at a different time than those couples, but from what I understand one of the teachers brought out the lyrics. He was very sly about it and said “when do you want to do this turn? During these lyrics about their affair, or during these lyrics?”
The couple does not have a last name of Jones. The bride picked the song because she likes the song, and the wedding will be in Italy, so she said no one will understand the words. She just likes the song because of the “Me and Mrs. Jones” lyric. The husband-to-be was unaware that it was about an affair, but he’s willing to go along with whatever his bride wants. Ohhhh Kay!
During Spirit Week in the HS where I taught, the student council was allowed to play music over the PA during Spirit Week between classes.
One day the kids slipped in the Humpty Dance. Then they played it again the next day. A fed-up colleague of mine went online and printed the lyrics to the song, threw them on the principal’s desk, and asked her if she thought these lyrics were OK.
Ummm, we did NOT hear that tune again for the rest of Spirit Week.
My online account had been unused for so long that it had been deactivated. BUT not entirely deactivated because I could not create a new account because there was already (duh) an online account associated with my email address. But deactivated enough that the system wouldn’t send a link to my email (that they clearly had) to reset the password. NO option to purchase online as a guest - perhaps because I had registered an online account at one time?? Not sure. Maybe they never allow purchasing as a guest??
The only way I could make my online purchase was to call them. The person was able to reactivate my existing yet inactive account and then she sent a link to reset my password to my email.
So, because of lack of use I had neither a way to log into an existing online account nor reset a password for that account, but I also had no way to set up a new online account because there was already an email account associated with the not recently used but existing online account.
Were I not purchasing off a baby shower registry and wanting to reduce the risk to the parents of receiving a duplicate Pack ‘n Play AND also needing to ship this gift, I would not have persevered.
for all people around the world suffering bc of greedy, selfish, ignorant leaders.
