I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
I would guess that a lot of people feel like you do regarding the holidays.
For some, it’s just another day or a day filled with stress. Holidays no longer hold any special meaning for them.
Also, all of the commercialization of holidays can be annoying. Some people end up spending a fortune for each holiday. Many are relieved when they are over.
I stopped hosting huge dinners and parties several years back. At one time I enjoyed it very much but it became overwhelming.
I have had years where some guests brought uninvited guests along with them.
If someone was having company at their home and they asked me ahead of time if they could bring extra guests I didn’t mind because I could prepare for them. If unexpected guests arrived at the last minute I didn’t appreciate it.
It’s weird because we as the sleepwalkers have no idea that we are walking around in our sleep. Nor do we have any memory of the incident.
I can tell you that I accidentally woke myself up one night as a kid by touching the blade of a window fan in my kitchen. This was before my parents installed air conditioning in our home.
I was quite confused, not knowing how I got to the kitchen in the early morning hours.
My husband said that when I was sleepwalking early in our marriage, he would talk to me and I didn’t hear him because I was sound asleep. It is a strange thing.
I am not sure how common it is for kids to continue to sleepwalk as adults.
Need, my son was an occasional sleepwalker from maybe age 6-9 within an hour or two of going to bed. So we’d still be awake to guide him back to bed. I was surprised to learn it was common with kids.
Yes! It’s always some sort of frustrating situation. It’s weird how those types of dreams keep recurring.
I have always been a sleepwalker too! LOL 😆 My parents placed extra locks on the doors so I wouldn’t walk out of the house in the middle of the night.
My husband was terrified when he first saw me sleepwalking. We lived in a townhouse when we first married. He was always afraid that I would tumble down the stairs!
I have recurring dreams . The most annoying one is where I am trying to use the phone and I keep dialing the wrong number or I cant get a dial tone
Sounhappy has stated numerous times that she doesn’t disclose the details of her situation because it involves a court case that is ongoing.
She is hoping that it will be resolved soon.
I am not one of these woo woo people who believe that every dream has a special meaning. Some psychologists believe that lucid dreaming is helpful. Who knows?
I think that sometimes our minds go haywire when we are sleeping!
My husband says that he never remembers any of his dreams. I have vivid dreams that are in technicolor! LOL 😆
I still have recurring dreams that I had as a child occasionally. It’s weird.
Sleep paralysis is fascinating. I have only experienced that once in my life. It’s a strange feeling.
Do any of you have recurring dreams? I have one where I’m being chased through a wooded area and they catch up to me. When I go to scream loudly my voice is silent. This one I have had since childhood.
Another one that I have is, I am traveling in another city and I get lost and can’t ever find my way back home. Sometimes I find myself at an amusement park and I get lost from the people that I am with. I’m wondering around in the crowd looking to reunite with my friends.
Why I dream about amusement parks is beyond me because I haven’t been to an amusement park since we took our kids to DisneyWorld and DisneyLand.
Do you get any sort of feeling for the way the pendulum is swinging, or are you still utterly in the dark.
Meanwhile, enjoy the holidays if you can.
We’re still pulling for you and if you find justice we will jump for joy with you!
Sending a bazillion hugs your way today!
The funniest thing that I have ever seen a chihuahua do was bark at a policeman riding a horse at a Mardi Gras parade!
Oh my gosh, everyone was cracking up and saying, “Look at that tiny dog barking at a horse!” Yippy Yappy little thing, he was adorable. They have spunk!
If a dog would show up in our yard and she would arch her back and hiss very loudly. Occasionally, she would go after them too!
She definitely wasn’t a scaredy cat! Oh man, I still miss my cat. I got her when she was 6 weeks old. She was the most lively kitten of the litter and I knew that she was the one for me.
I had just broken off a long time relationship and my kitten and I moved into a tiny apartment.
When I met my now husband, he wasn’t sure if he wanted a cat and said to me, “Honey, I don’t like cats. I grew up with dogs. Would you think about dropping your cat off at your mom’s house and then you can visit her?”
My answer to him was, “You have never owned a cat, so how do you know that you don’t like them? I love you but my cat and I are a package deal! Plus, she’s my cat, my responsibility, and she’s certainly not not my parents responsibility!”
He said, “Okay, that’s reasonable.” When we married the cat won him over. He grew to love her as much as I did. She lived to be 16 years old.
My cat loved all of my friends but she wasn’t crazy about my nieces and nephews, godchildren or younger cousins. She wasn’t used to kids being around all the time. So, I was a bit nervous to bring our first daughter home.
My husband’s insane grandmother kept telling me that my cat was going to jump in my daughter’s crib and smother her to death! I guess that’s an old wives tale or something. I never listened to a word that came out of that woman’s mouth. I wasn’t about to get rid of my cat.
Anyway, I think my cat figured out somehow that my daughter was here to stay and she loved our daughter. She still ran away from the other kids.
Cats are so proud of their accomplishments on catching prey, aren’t they?
My cat would catch birds, lizards, whatever…play with them and then bring them back to the porch to show us what she caught!
If you have dogs in an area with coyotes and foxes, inform yourself about tapeworms. Echinococcus multilocularis is now endemic in Ontario and Alberta Canada. (about 10 years)
Oh, I am sorry. Those do sound gross.
Oh gosh, I have never dealt with worms. Is that a common issue? Is it serious?
I am glad that you have a vet visit scheduled soon.
Oh, yes! The instinct to mate.
I had my pets fixed too. There’s a huge problem with overpopulation in animals.
Cute names. They sound precious!
We though it was so cute when late summer he brought his girlfriend over for some food. He even walked her home after.
Little did we know he was wooing her. Then a couple of weeks ago she showed up with an 8 week old kitten in tow who looked just like her daddy.
As soon as the daddy saw the kitten he was like hell no and hasnt been back since. I don't think he wanted to pay kitten support 😁😺
If he comes back he is on my list to be fixed too.
I already have 2 cats both rescues and wasn't looking for 2 more. But we will see.
The salt water issue here is continuing to be a main story on our local news.
Along with a fire that has been creating a dense fog that meteorologists are reporting as a ‘super fog.’
The fog is extremely dense and had caused deadly accidents in Louisiana.
It’s so sweet of you to take care of the kitty. Have you given her a name?
When I was a kid my neighbor used to entice stray kitties to follow her home and then she would tell her mom that they followed her! LOL 😆
Her mom wouldn’t let her keep them and she would drop off the kitty to my house! My mom let me keep the kitty, but after a couple of cats my mother told her not to drop off any more cats at our house.
A friend of mine actually named one of her cats, ‘Extra’ because she already had a cat and so she called the stray cat that showed up, ‘Extra.’ I thought it was a funny but cute name.
Not sure if we will keep her once she is fixed or let her go back into the world. Ironic that she was so good at the vet last week and let them examine her, take blood, etc all without sedation. Her being confined to a cage is making her crazy (and me too). I will be eating a lot of sugar this weekend just to get through it. I feel terrible, but it had to be done.
I wish you could just wave an imaginary wand at a cat, say a few magic words and poof it would automatically be fixed.
The ice "shelves" are melting way faster than they thought they would. (to say nothing of the salt water wedge coming into New Orleans). Let alone all the global warming that can send us into more controversy than religion OR masks and vaccines, the shelves are melting now at a rare that cannot/will not be stopped no matter we have NO MORE emissions from EVERYWHERE right now.
That is to say, it is over likely for more than a few of us with the oceans going up as much as perhaps 2 feet by end of this century. Would cause quite catastrophic changes. Sounds interesting and the only thing at 81 worth sticking around for is whether AI (artificial intelligence) will take us out earlier or later. I am hoping for earlier; think it could save a few other species, but who knows.
Anyway, the god and religion stuff is fun, but the global warming stuff is a riot.
I sure do recommend Peter Brannen's wonderful non- fiction book The Ends of the Earth. We have had so many of them before, and more are bound to come. He's quite certain mankind won't last nearly as long as the dinos did. Nor NEARLY.
I mean thinking back to when all of Washington State and Oregon were flowing lava. That before they became dense forests so dark you could not see. Before man wrote the bible, or any of the other texts about any of the other gods; before man, in fact. WAY before.
A fun read, if a tough tough one. As Carl Sagan said "Billions and Billions" of years. Now, THERE was somewhat a god to me. And that my religion. And just FULL of end times. Just CHOCK FULL of catastrophes. Makes Noah and the Ark look small. And if you read the bible as parable, it DID have it ALL in the stories of the floods. The prophecy of fire.
Anyway, my day for philosophizing. Y'all got me going good!
To all, I hope you are mending, and justice prevailing. My biggest whine today is what to do about my right foot's hammer toe. Suggestions? And don't tell me to pray about it!