Hey all-

Working on a glass of wine and OMG what a MONDAY is was. I handle SO dam much more than most there. My boss looked at me during our huddle and said - Hey can anyone help "Jaz". Everyone piped up. I had me some help. It went OKAY!

That was awesome. It actually was a fun day. But If ya don't ask it is not offered. I don't want to be the one always asking KWIM......

Go my license done! Got that LLC issue resolved. Good for both those issues.

Now I WANT THE LORI LIFE........ except I hate chasing little balls around a big field! LOLOLOL Talk about stress!!!! I will just take the part you (Lori) go to the pub after and get a beer and dinner- chilling!

I am tired ya'll............

Trig- Did you get that new roof????????????????

Nic- You traveling? Home? Jersey??????? LOLOLOL

Zonked

Good Morning!

Just after 4AM and here I sit. I woke up at 2, slept a bit more....awake at 3....laid there with my mind whirling and finally got up just past 3:30. Long day ahead. I'm playing with my best friend at the course(not the B), so it'll be a nice day. Chilly start....it's only 44 degrees right now and foggy according to my weather app. This afternoon I have a dentist appt. for a cleaning etc. I was supposed to go tomorrow, but they called me to come today instead. Whatever.

I got my flu shot yesterday at CVS. The doofus at the counter forgot to tell the pharmacist that I was waiting so I sat there for 20 minutes before I finally went back to the counter and asked if I had been forgotten. Sure enough....she came right out and gave me my jab. She kept apologizing that they hadn't told her and she was sorry I had to wait. Sigh.....incompetents. Then I went to the UPS store to have some docs printed. It was chaos in that place. Lined out the door. On my way out I saw my ex DIL. I hadn't seen her since she and our son split up a couple years ago. I hugged her and told her that I miss her...she said she misses me too. I always liked her. DSon's new partner is nice enough, just not real warm & fuzzy IYKWIM.

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Jaz......So glad you got some help at work to make the day go better. I hope that continues! Is your plumbing issue working out?

Trig....Roof repairs lined up? I'm sure you'll be glad when that is done. So DD is coming home for a bit. What a shame that her school has to be closed for so long. The destruction in that area is just horrible. Hard to believe the pics we see. I can't imagine what those people are going thru.

Nic....Home and getting settled? I guess you have another quick trip this weekend. Hope all goes well.

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Well, I have lots of time before I have to get ready for golf. Good grief, why do I wake up so freakin' early?

Hey all late day post

It's after work-

Lori- OMG girl 44 degrees I would be FREEZING. It is still SUMMER here! Truly 90's and warm.

Fun though you got to play with some different people not the just the B! LOLOL-
You hit up the pub?

I so get ya on waking up at all hours and not getting back to sleep. When you get that figured out please let me know. I am on the same struggle bus on that one!

Trig/ Nic- - hey thinking about ya!
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Work was fast/ steady/ and I am tired.

Later

Good Morning,

Wow we are into Wednesday already. Time is FLYING. Seriously flying.

Just sorta working and taking every day as is. Still battling a jacked up neck issue. I have an appointment with a guy who does this massage for necks. It is a technique specifically for necks. advanced massage and craniosacral therapies. I got his info from a gal at work.
I will have ya check out the link.

I also have a regular doctor's appointment on Tue. I had to get a doctor here as I am here for a minute. I am going to ask for a xray and blood work. I am sorta afraid of what that xray is going to show. I know what one looked like 2 years ago. My neck has chronic issues that come and go. Trust me I am not going to run to an Ortho guy. I just want to know how bad it has gotten.

Along those lines, staying off sugar, processing, and eating a low-inflammatory way is key for all issues like the aforementioned! (ya love that word?) LOLOL

Yesterday and today are PRIME days. A dangerous thing for me! LOL stuck in Okie with nothing to do but click away! LOL
I did buy a bathrobe for 20 bucks. I need one, and I didn't have room to bring mine. When I leave, I will leave this one here at the Goodwill.

Whats up with ya'll?!?!?

Lori- You up?

Waiting for ya to check in-

Off for more coffee.......

https://urmassage.com/

Good Morning!

Oh yes, up early, as usual. Not as early as yesterday....thank goodness. Gabby came and got me at 5:15 or so. I had a cup of black coffee and then went to the hospital lab for some routine blood work. I got the results online already! All looks good to me. See no need to go to the Dr. and have him argue with me about statins. Total chol and LDL are both down a bit, so he should be happier. Total 253, LDL 143, HDL 110, Trig. 65. My trigs are always low and my HDL always high.....as long as that stays, I think I'm doing fine.

Did a grocery store run right after the lab, so I'm in for the rest of the day. All my golf buddies have baled on me for the rest of the week, so here I sit. I really should at least do a YouTube video for some movement. Lazy!

Have good days!

Lori, looking good on all that, ya happy we happy LOL

Rest up Jazz and check in later Nicco.

--------------I gotta take kiddo to buy new laptop. Issues with her MAC but I am gonna do just 'buy new what she wants' and then address with Geek Squad later about the MAC.

I ain't got it in me to do both LOL

I got like $900 in rewards cash on credit card so cash that in, feel like free laptop from the bank as it should be HAHA and worry on fix etc and what is wrong later.

Yea, last night, near midnight we meet in the kitchen and she says, OH MAC bad, I wanna take ya up now on buying new Uni laptop, OK whatever, bleck

Ate up link sausage and cheddar and out in a bit cause she don't wake and I AM WAITING hardly.....gonna driver her out of this house very soon, told her tops 10 out the door, we shall see HAHA

ok chat up later, off to do things I don't do anymore, LIKE FRIGGIN' SHOP

SO out the door at $1300.
Mac Air M3 something which had a $250 sale on it. take it.
and then I bought her the cheapest Apple watch. Yea. Remember the one that never showed but they sure took my money? Ugh.

-------------THEN IN THE CAR I GET THE HEMMMM AND HAWWING.....and I think oh hell no.

I get this: Mom I wanna tell ya something but it is good, not bad......ok, thinking I might as well drive off the road at this point.....whenever kiddo says this I tend to go brain dead instantly and wonder what bus is coming at me full speed and am I going to survive?

I said, say it, don't say it, I don't wanna know, say it fast, no don't say it LOL Honestly I wanted to bail from the car at 60 and take my chances on survival........ahhhh

She wants to go to medical school and be a Dr. and basically specialize in Pediatrics.

WTH???

I said you never said one word. She said she never thought she could do it ever but it was a dream and never to be realized kinda.... again ????.....and I said what changed? She said with her chem and bio and all be so easy but so interesting she feels she can tackle med school etc. and I am still in total brain dead mode.

I said you are going to literally lose the next 8-12 yrs of your life literally going after a medical career. She said if she has to work for the rest of her life she might as well be what she wants to be, and then early retire....lol....omgosh

THEN IT HIT ME ON COSTS. OMGosh I am checking, cheapest I can get is about $25k per semester, with Duke Medical coming in at $75K per semester. So 4 yrs med school should be around $200k with tuition only....top off living and expenses and I am screaming in the old noggin.

I don't know.....she has 2 more years on top of finishing this year to decide truly if she wants medical school but I told her she has to 'start to gear at admission requirements' for med school now, like 100 hrs voluntary health care hours that must be completed before acceptance to a med school....who knew....not me.

Plus MCATs....wow, perfect score on MCAT is 528. Like Duke requires lowest score of 520, whew, but Brody Medical as part of Carolina Uni in Greenville NC requires only a 506.

ANYWAY I told her get with her 2 counselors at WCU. The regular counselor and the major counselor in physics, chemistry and bio. Discuss it all with them and see where ya stand.

I can only say YES. I can't say NOPE. Key being if she changes her mind even in the next 2 yrs or whatever, she still graduates with a Bachelors of Science and I feel she will be fine with that in the health care field of science work she wants anyway, or she might tackle the next yrs going straight at med school? I don't know.

SO key being who knows....but also a priority now is if she really wants this Dr career then SHE must start immediately ya know. So will see what path she goes. Next 2 yrs she either does ALL SHE must do to get into a med school or ??

So I told her to move forward full speed and put in all the key values for admin to med schools and that is kinda all I can do for her, well, plus pay the bill LOL shoot me, but key being it will be all her, all her efforts, and all her planning, I can't do anything other than pay for it all and say GO GIRL.....right? hey it is what it is

OK who knows.
will see what goes down.
thank heavens I put all that other money into annuities that will be coming due and can easily cover the $250k or so of 4 yrs of med school. But also I am thrilled I know right now cause I am gonna handle finances differently immediately and arrange to cover med school costs if she goes actually that way.

brain dead, just brain dead here HAHA

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Last week the Chop comes and says he wants to split the land, sell this house and 2 acres, and keep our bigger 3 acre pasture and build a house there and 'set a bit'. He doesn't want to move now to coastal living. Which I could tell he didn't yet. He is only 59 and got a ways to go til 'real retirement' and he said he ain't ready to go move to the beach and do any type of full on retirement so he wants to sell this house, dump and run, and deed off 3 acres and put a smaller brand new house on that. I was like, eh, think about it. WTH right? sell this 32 yr old home, with minimum work and cut and run and get my azz into a brand new smaller home on my own land? ugh, what could go wrong on this decision?

I thought, ok I could easily build $300k so with all totaled like a very long ashphalt driveway would be required to a high tune of price but I got it to spend and then I get from kiddo.......I want to go to med school.

Yea put the brakes on my new house. Instantly. That is why I gotta do some financial stuff. See I never count my chickens if I ain't got actual chickens in my hand with my name stamped on their azz for ownership....in other words I am not counting any future money from that commerical land sale or even Rachel's house sale until it is IN my hands and I OWN it. I don't bank ever on I might get money type person LOL SO I need to make medical school work paid in full against how my fiances are sitting right now, plus keep some, hmmm, say for our retirement LOL

But I thought, omg I had an ending on Uni costs, knew I could put X amt of money into new house and just live free and easy still and travel etc. but then I get the kiddo time bomb.

OK my brain is flipping a bit. Between hubby spending a friggin' small fortune for his 'new house' with oversized garage for mega truck and rv storage and blah blah blah and then now med school costs? my brain can't keep up.

So now for me who wanted to move ahead on things, I am now putting on the brakes for a bit. Gotta wrap the head around it all.

eh, whatever, what happens, happens I guess

ok can't chat no more
chat up with you guys tomorrow for a check in on ya'll

Good Morning!

Trig- Ya got my head spinning! Med school huhhhhh.. wow I didn't SEE THAT coming! Wow...... well... It truly is possible she could change her mind.
Not to pry- but is school a Cart Blanche????? I put the brakes on my kids after the bachelors. Anything after those 4 years was on them.
I think it's cool she has a dream- but you are so right. She will give the next 12-15 years for it.
Maybe she might go in another direction. I could see her as a vet. She has time to think about it all.
BIG BREATH MOMMA

Wowsa on the new house and sell the old one. He doesn't want coastal? Hummmmm Clearing land and building in the late 50's early 60's might be a grand idea if you plan to STAY there. I dunno- lots to consider!

I think ya got a good deal on the laptop!!!

Lori- Your labs looks great!!!!! Nothing to worry ya on those! You are keeping it all on check!!
How many weeks till ya sail?

Nic- I have lost track. I know you are traveling again!
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Nothing new here. Just waiting for the weekend and nursing my neck. I am so looking forward to this "treatment" on Saturday. My aches come and go. As does most people. Hell getting older! LOL

Burgers today. just gimmie the beef.

Later ya- waiting on my Friday afternoon!

Hey Lori and Nicco, waiting on updates

Jazz, sorry on the neck and hope treatment goes well My neck was a mess and only neck surgery helped, but it wasn't my neck, it WAS the mess but it made my right arm go dead. Dropped everything out of my hand, no power, elbow area in pain all the time and that 'tearing, ripping' feeling in the lower neck muscle on top of my shoulder area on the right side too. I ONLY WAS forced to have neck surgery cause my arm went totally useless and dead. But I got fixed. I had the 'good trouble' the surgeon said and by gosh the guy fixed me so......
I hope you aren't having any bigger issues!!! I never thought I had a neck issue to that level.

Yea, med school is cart blance for kiddo. I will pay it all. I said OMG on costs and she said she could take out loans and I said NO friggin' way. You want, you got it. Not like this is a bad thing for her if she truly pursues it, I can easily do the cash and will never deny it cause when I had my one and only I said I would cover all career n college costs for her to go into whatever field she wants debt free. I can do it easily.

Also key being I don't 'want' actually for anything anymore. I got house, rv, trucks, had my horses and other life I actually enjoyed, I am kinda content other than I DO want coastal but without the Chop on board I can't just move....or could I??; hmmm but jokes aside, I can do 'stay here for life' in new house and do one of 2 things. Do real rv travel and months on road doing what we want and 'come home' here OR I can sell rv and big truck, grab a $100k from that rig and just go buy a small condo right on the beach. I can handle an HOA charge LOL but key being I would just drive there, live for a month or so, whatever, how I want and 'come home'. So a small beach condo as secondary vacay home would cover me on 'living at the coast' ya know and I would be fine with it in a way.

again in a bigger pic I don't care about it all but I kinda want what I want but in the end, I know compromise is gonna have to go down ya know......but also in the end I don't really put tons of value on it as in make me or break me kinda thing.

YOU KNOW what I do want. A clear vision that is OVER!!!! I want to 'have what I will have' and be settled into that lifestyle til the grave and then just let kiddo sell it all, cash out, and live just as she wants in her retirement yrs.

I don't require much, but one thing I do want, is JUST HAVING it settled and not in a friggin' flux all the time.....getting on my nerves LOL well, last nerve, don't have many left to be strumming and annoying me from anyone now HAHA

eh, like I said, I will just let it happen as it happens
what else can I do in the end. More I try to control, being the super control freak I am, the more out of control I get......time to think gypsy/hippie time and let it all go and say screw it....whatever eh

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boy cats to vet soon for rabies
kiddo going to cause we gonna stop at Dollar General for a few items she wants for Uni.

the home to do ---- nothing for me LOL I don't wanna, ain't gonna

then tomorrow is hair cuts for us at 11 and after I think kiddo said she wants to head back to Uni maybe. Next week classes cancelled also but after that she should be back on full regular.

ok off I go to let more trouble find me, honestly people I don't look for it, it just happens to set right on my doorstep and waits for me to open the door. Doom at Your Service

be good today

Good Morning!

I've been a busy bee this morning. DH has been bugging me to make applesauce and came home with a big bag of apples the other day. He went hunting this morning and I got started on the sauce. He will be disappointed cause he wanted to "help". Oh Lord....easier to do it myself! He makes such a mess! Men! Anyway, that is done and cooling, washer is spinning and bed is changed. All that before 8:30AM!

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Trig.....OMG on everything possibly going down for you! Exciting and terrifying! So awesome that you have the $$ to just let DD follow her dreams without the worry of debt over her head for YEARS! What a gift to her.....big time. Oh man.....sell old and build new to spec. That sounds great, but will be stressful too. You have a lot to think about!

Jaz....I leave 3 weeks from today!!! I'm not ready!! Well, I am, but have to think about packing etc. I also have to wrap my brain around letting DH figure things out for himself for a week. I hope I have a house and cat to come home to! He leaves for his Ohio hunting trip with DS the day before I get back, so I won't see him for over 2 weeks. Hope your appt. Saturday helps your neck. You've been suffering with that for too long.

Nic.... You may be heading to Chicago today.....safe travels if you are.

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Ok....time for another cup of coffee and kick my feet up after my whirlwind of an early morning.

Lori, omgosh you had me laughing on the DH wanting to help but it IS SO much easier now to do it ourselves, but remember the old romantic days, like making clay pottery at the wheel with Ghost, when ya did things together and enjoyed it???? HAHA now at our age it is get the hell out of my way LOL omgosh too funny, so there with ya.

Yea kiddo got me jacked out of whack but talked to her more about 'what role' she would play and she MIGHT specialize in Pediatrics, but not a given in that I found out at the vet chatting with her while waiting, she wants to be a Diagnostic MD in a hospital and coordinate treatment with patients with a specialist and I SEE WHAT she is saying. She was always one to tackle 'how to figure out' and 'conquer' issues and I can see her wanting to be the one to 'figure out what the patient' has and be first to diagnosis. While she is a softy artsy mushy type personality she has a hidden vicious kill the mystery type side to her that is very determined, rarely shown, but always there. So I kinda get what she is saying now and I told her I can see her doing just what she explained to me.

oh well more I chat about it all better I feel on it I guess LOL
hell let the kid go and do what she wants, best I can do and fingers crossed for her along the way

WOW 3 wks. Your trip seemed so far off and now it is gonna be right on ya soon. Cool, eh, leave Gabby and DH behind, believe me men survive somehow LOL let it go, let it go, come on, say it along with me, let it go, let it go!! lol

hey all I have some catching up to do as I'm behind. Headed out the door to go to Chicago with M in tow to the funeral.
will try to check in when I can. Hugs to all.