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Post by lesserknownpea on Feb 13, 2024 7:43:13 GMT
Great game, loved the tension right to the end. I thought zusher and friends were great,especially Alicia, she’s one of my faves.
As to past favorites, yeah, Prince for sure, 2022, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were fantastic.
Loved the mullet commercial, the Arnold “ neighba” one, and of course the T-Mobile with my boyfriend Jason Momoa. I’m sure I’m forgetting some that made me laugh out loud, I did a lot of that, and I don’t even drink anymore.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Jan 6, 2024 9:14:50 GMT
Boom Chicka Pop popcorn in the purple bag
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Post by lesserknownpea on Jan 4, 2024 10:33:13 GMT
I get vestibular migraine, vertigo and dizziness are some of the symptoms.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Nov 11, 2023 10:43:30 GMT
I'm gobsmacked at the items people give away on Facebook's Buy Nothing group for my town. Stuff they could sell for hundreds of dollars but don't want to go to the bother. I have scored some lovely items and I'm getting ready to put a bag of size small clothing together to gift. These bags get taken by someone who keeps what they want, add things to the bag and pass it on to another person. Your score sounds awesome! My DD tells me all about her buy nothing group and its culture. The unwritten rules, like don’t turn around and sell something you got for free. Do pick stuff up and bring it to someone in need. It amazes me what she can get, and how this group looks out for each other. When my friend started falling frequently due to Parkinson’s, DD asked about a walker, and had one in great shape at my friend’s house within hours.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Nov 9, 2023 11:07:25 GMT
I find Patrick very handsome. Those smile wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and that twinkle in those eyes…uuuummmm, yeah.
My first pick would be Jason Momoa, though.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Nov 3, 2023 7:40:57 GMT
I’m so glad no one was hurt. Two years ago a car crashed into my brother’s house in Ogden , and pushed a wash into my brother, hurting his shoulder badly. Extensive repairs were made to the house, and my brother went through a lot of pain.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Oct 29, 2023 9:47:51 GMT
Every person is free to care for their body and looks in the way that makes them happy or fits their values. For myself, as I age, I dress and groom myself more for me, and less for what others may think. I’ve embraced my grey hair. I’m more interested in comfort than fashion. And usually makeup seems more trouble than it’s worth.
I agree with OP in the sense that presumably the procedures these actors are doing are in the hope of looking more attractive and youthful. Sadly, in many cases, IMO, the results are the opposite, jarring, unnatural looks that are distracting and draw attention to the subject of aging. I’m guessing that at first they were able to stay youthful looking with minimal work. Botox, mini lifts, a little filler. But as the years go by, they try to keep their face the same age, and things get drastic.
Maybe there should be psychologists specializing in helping those who live in large part from their looks to accept what decade they can pull off, and improve their self esteem in that youth obsessed world.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Oct 29, 2023 8:59:42 GMT
Sorry Guys, but I have to:
Could I BE any sadder??😢😢😢
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Post by lesserknownpea on Oct 13, 2023 21:52:59 GMT
I’m another one who’s had to step back from many things I feel strongly about. It’s hard, but the physical symptoms, ( including migraine), just disable me. I even tell those close to me to please not discuss certain topics when I’m with them. Not because I disagree with them, simply because I find the subject distressing.
I think the word I would use for myself is spent. So if there are situations I cannot do anything about, I need to avoid thinking about them.
There is still plenty distressing things I’m still dealing with. After frequent out of state trips to help with medical emergencies of my elderly father, this time he fell and broke his hip and back. I’m here helping my 90 year old stepmother deal with all of it. He’s in a rehab center, and last night he fell trying to get out of bed and go to the bathroom, and had to be taken to the hospital for a cat scan. Amazingly, he didn’t break anymore bones this time, just bruised and sore.
So like you, OP, there are things you MUST do. And you preserve your mental and emotional reserves for those.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Sept 23, 2023 9:59:08 GMT
THE NAMES! I agree with the previous poster. I’m constantly saying who thinks up these names?
I’m completely mind boggled by the ads for chemotherapy drugs. With the very specific type of cancer it’s good for. I truly do think that’s the sort of thing for doctors to know. Imagine if someone missed out on the right chemo drug because they did not watch TV with commercials?
I’m disgusted by the distribution of the American medical dollar. How much goes for prescription medicine, ( including research and development, paying shareholders, actual production, and advertising). Same thing for hospitals, clinics, dentists, ambulances, everything is owned by big corporations, with shareholders. There’s a reason we spend almost three times as much per capita as other developed nations, yet receive sub quality care. We are behind in so many crucial areas, like maternal death rate.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Sept 22, 2023 8:29:41 GMT
I had that LP referenced in the Snopes article as an obsessed young teen. I remember reading both Paul’s words about his song, and Art’s written on that album cover. I didn’t know what to say when I read this thread originally, so I’m glad things were cleared up.
This is my favorite song. And I love the cover by Disturbed very much, also.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Sept 13, 2023 9:56:16 GMT
I’m so sorry. A lot of life’s big stressors recently. Treat yourself accordingly.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Sept 8, 2023 7:53:02 GMT
The photos of his work on the website are just thrilling. Thank you for the thread and the link.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Sept 8, 2023 7:38:14 GMT
I just came from 3 weeks of hospitalization and doctors visits with my near 90 YO father in California, he is in late stage COPD, his wife is closer to 90 and is very limited due to arthritis. He uses oxygen and a wheelchair, she has her own placard, also.
when Dad was in the hospital, my Stepmom and I took turns staying with him while the other went to their home for a break. I would park in the disabled spots, ( when one was available, if not the best I could get ), as my stepmother would be the one hobbling on her poor crippled joints to that spot to drive home for some much needed rest.
When dad got discharged , but had to go to many appointments, I’d drop them both off at the entrance, and then hope like crazy that a disabled or at least close parking spot was available, as I needed to get back to help them as soon as humanly possible. I would’ve run if I could. Also, when the appointment was over, then we could push the chair to the car.
I felt totally comfortable using the spots if I could find one in those circumstances.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Aug 21, 2023 1:58:24 GMT
I totally missed this story first time around. Heard about it on the dinner thread today. So I went google-hunting and found this link (among many others). (1) I wish I’d saved my old SU catalogs so I could go back and look at the family photos they used to include. (2) I see a Dateline in the future. I read the linked article in Keith Morrison’s voice 😀. But that DM first article was a really sort example of “journalism”. Ugh
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Post by lesserknownpea on Aug 8, 2023 3:33:24 GMT
OP, all of that sounds very interesting. I’m definitely a TR nerd. I’ve read so many biographies of him, and watched every documentary I could find. Fascinating man.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Aug 8, 2023 2:43:26 GMT
These are just lovely.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Aug 8, 2023 2:42:04 GMT
I would know immediately.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Aug 6, 2023 9:35:16 GMT
Y’all are speaking my language 😍. I love all the fruits and veggies. Right now I’m eating my home grown tomatoes. Love them.
But my favorite is a yellow summer squash, round , ready when it’s the size of a large grapefruit . I adore them steamed, I could eat them every day.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Aug 4, 2023 11:37:10 GMT
I’m. Not surprised at all. I read that the southern drawl is in fact the closest American accent to the English spoken by the early Colonists.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Jul 26, 2023 11:36:12 GMT
This is so timely, OP! It happened to me for the first time today.
I was at the pre-op visit for my second cataract surgery, and my day had gotten off to a bad start. My migraine meds caused me to oversleep, making me late to the appointment, which messed up their schedule, I looked a fright, my healing eye was dry and had inflammation, but through the whole appointment the Doctor spoke soothingly to me.
And then, as he was saying he’d see me next week in the operating room, it happened, he called me Dear. He’d never done it before. Nobody I was neither related to nor close friends with ever had. I’m 65. I swear, I must be giving off some kind of old vibes or something. I’ve had to endure so many indignities this last couple years, when I always imagined myself getting older but really not actually aging. HA!
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Post by lesserknownpea on Jul 26, 2023 11:01:28 GMT
I don’t blame you for rage cleaning that disaster. I can envision the whole thing, including the hiss of the suction on. And then it’s so maddening that they schedule the meeting so you can’t sleep when you want. I’d like to see how they’d like it if the meeting were scheduled for 11 or 12 at night!
I used to be so tired after my night shift at the care home I worked at that I’d fall asleep on the bus on my way home. Once, I slept right through not just my stop, but all the way to the end of the bus’s route, ended up in downtown Portland, had to get on a different bus and head back out to the suburbs.
Anyway, that was a right proper rant!
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Post by lesserknownpea on Jul 24, 2023 10:12:27 GMT
You stood up for yourself and your kids. Next year will be even better. I love seeing the classroom walls.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Jul 24, 2023 9:57:51 GMT
I’ve walked it once. Unfortunately, on that occasion, directly below us, there was a coast guard boat retrieving the body of a jumper that kept getting bashed against some rocks under the East side of the bridge. That was in 1979, I don’t know if they have made it more difficult to jump since then.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Jul 24, 2023 9:52:28 GMT
Skillfully done, Joy. Tell him I said so.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Jul 23, 2023 19:04:14 GMT
I grew up in a small town of less than 10,000, went to college in a small town and have lived in a town of 4,000 for the last 15 years. I understand the loyalty to small towns. I love that when I go to the library, the librarian knows me by my first name and asks about my boys by name. We can't go to the recycling center without running into someone we know. And I love that whenever something bad happens, we rally around and support each other. I understand the community, loyalty, support and perks of living in a small town. And I'm a big fan of country music. My objection is the overt racial message that small towns are safe places, cities are not. The song is basically about small towns defending themselves from outsiders. It only adds to the rural/ city divide and falsely creates a moral one - cities are immoral, places of crime, promiscuity, financial ruin etc. The picture that the song paints of city folks invading the country, bringing violence with them, carjacking, pulling a gun on a store owner sounds a lot like Republicans railing against immigrants (invasions, bringing drugs across border, they're rapists, murderrs etc). The call for vigilante justice is really dangerous. The thread of defending small towns from big cities and the people in them ties into Republican efforts in Texas to control voting in Democratic counties or Tthe Republican controlled state legislature trying to exert control over Nashville. www.npr.org/2023/07/22/1188908968/jason-aldean-small-town-vs-cityAs Andrea Williams, a Nashville-based author, journalist and cultural critic, told me, "The video reflects a desire to control the actions of people in and outside of these towns, people who have grown tired of the exclusionary, oppressive antics of Aldean and his ilk — people who are, most often, Black."And this opinion writer has an excellent point. "For a second if you could, take away the left or right, liberal or conservative and ponder this question: Is the only way to push our values to fearmonger about the other side?"http://instagram.com/p/Cu7a8aMrZO0
Nailed it. I’ve lived in large California suburbs, Oregon suburbs, and tiny towns, and a rural area. I’ve experienced the most theft when I lived in the tiny town. I felt like everyone knew what I had, and when I was home and when I was gone. And the tiny towns I lived in had horrendous drug problems. And this was not a new thing. Goes back for many decades.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Jul 23, 2023 7:17:59 GMT
I was wondering if someone else would bring up the smell of those cases. That would surely bring those memories back.
my stepsister taught me to sew when I was 9 using my Barbie. I remember it clear as day, one of those light bulb moments in life. It was a simple gathered skirt with a waistband and snap closure, and a blouse with set in sleeves.
and I was off running. My mom had lots of fabric scraps and pretty soon I had the best dressed Barbie on the block.
oh! And about making cardboard houses, a cleaned up sardine can made a great sink. One in the powder room, with an aluminum foil mirror, and two for a double kitchen sink.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Jul 23, 2023 6:47:54 GMT
Thank you for taking the time to update us, but no need to apologize, you’ve been very busy.
the time we are able to spend with our loved ones, as well as helping support their caregivers is an absolute treasure. There’s a couple lines in the movie Marvin’s Room, where a woman who had dedicated her life to caring for her ill father mentioned the love that had nourished her. The person she spoke with misunderstood and said, yes of course, her father must have loved her very much for her devotion and care. She looks at him surprised, and says no, it was that I loved him.
I’ll never forget how I felt when I saw that, because I had recently went through caring for my mother, who died too young. And it was so true. Every thing I had been able to do for her during her life was a balm to my soul in my grief.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Jul 23, 2023 6:28:40 GMT
Y’all just made me Google cinnamon brooms. Yet another thing I’ve never heard of. Clearly I don’t get out enough 😆 LOL my kid HATES those things and she refuses to go with me to Michael’s or JoAnn’s once they show up in the entryway of the stores in the fall. She hates that overpowering fake cinnamon smell. I’m totally with your kid on this, but strong fakery smells like that often trigger migraines for me.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Jul 22, 2023 7:38:41 GMT
Seattle based coffee chain. we have a couple here in MO and they're building one very close to my house which is going to be dangerous for me. Are you sure they’re from here? I’ve lived in Seattle for nearly 60 years and I’ve never heard of them. T they originated from Grants Pass, Oregon. Here in the greater Portland suburbs, there’s one everywhere. I’m not a fan. I like my coffee strong and flavorful. They excel at the sweet drinks, from what I hear.
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