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@lindaleryou leave Mobile on the 11th, and I arrive in Mobile on the 11th, really just missed each other! @0106I too had no idea how healthy cabbage was for you. I'm going to have to step up my cooking game. @StLouisCruisersthe dog's mom has never acknowledged my departure. I texted her today and told her that while I said the first I am more than willing to finish out the week. To text me back if that was not her plan. Have not heard from her. So guess I'm still walking today. And tomorrow will be my last day. yippee!

I looked at my papers on the desk and realize that I have thousands of notes to respond to what's been going on here over the week, and didn't get time to send them, so I have been reading and posting pics. With 3 gingers living here, the day will be celebrated. Gingers are known for their loyalty to their owners. But actually they own us, and the love is reciprocated every day. I love cherry turnovers, what is a cherry pop over? Is it the same thing by a different name in different parts of the country? @ger_77 I loved your line the other day of wanting to be Queen of the Universe, that could transport us all to @kazu to help clean. I guess you could transport us to @dfishto have helped with the painting, but I would have to bring my car, as the designated driver for the paint, and extra wine. And actually the car is having surgery this morning. I think I told you guys about hitting the traveling trash can while driving over to Penny's a couple of weeks ago. I broke the glass on the turn signal in the front of the car. In order to fix it, the bumper needs to be taken off, so that is what DH is doing this morning before our drive to Mobile next Sunday. This will just about be the amount of time I think to do such a large undertaking by a man who doesn't see well with only one eye of vision. I opened the back porch door, so in case he has a crisis, I can run out there if I hear him yell. I had 5 sales in the CA campaign yesterday. My best day ever I think working for this company. New leads with people who really love theatre. And we threw in free parking for half of their shows as an incentive. Well, off to fix breakfast, I hope you all have a wonderful day!

@Cruzin Terri

I was hoping to find a good picture of drunk painters, but think this will do. But when you need to go get paint, give me a call, cause you need a sober driver!

Happy Wednesday Morning Dailyites! We had a wonderful walk yesterday. Even if we didn't feel better physically, mentally, it was a nice break. We parked, we walked the first part of the woods, crossed a bridge heading towards the meadow, and there were two deer. The meadow was full of flowers, the grass on the trail had just been mowed, and the air was sweet with the smell. It was day two of the California campaign, I've had a sale each day. DH has taken over the cooking of the dinner, but still asks me questions, and while I will serve him dinner when it's ready, he calls me and tells me to fix my own plate. Cant wait for that cruise, when my plate is placed in front of me. I'm a lost yankee living in the south. I hate hot weather. Eating outside during the summer months does not appeal to me at all. In September and October it's a bit better, but the yellow jackets get on the food, and into any canned drink you are drinking. So, that's not too much fun either. December and January sound good. California campaign is inviting me to work on the Holiday. I think I will for 4 hours. This current week will show on my next pay check, the day before we leave. Next week will be on the pay check when I get home. Which will help, because the next pay check will be 0.00 due to vacation. But I work for the vacations. Well it started out that way, now it's the extra cash to be split between the cost of bills going up, and planned vacations. Have a great day! Thank you for all that you do, every day!

Good Tuesday Morning Dailyites! I love all the days. Not sure how to celebrate grief, other than without love there is no grief. So we can celebrate love, and we can celebrate coming through the grief. Beach day? I'm on it! Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors. Fahrenheit 451 should be mandatory reading for every young person with a reread when you get to your 50's. I told DH we have to get outside and walk this morning, we are both up, I'm fixing breakfast, and off we go. Have a great day!

Gosh, and I thought I had a terrible doctor, who wouldn't treat me for my cough, because I hadn't done anything about seeing someone else for my cough. My friend Debbie has told me about how much she loves her doctor, and when i asked about it this last weekend, she told me that her doc, has quit office visits and doing telemedicine only. Now, a doc can see so much about your health when you are in the office with them, just by looking at your hands. What if the lighting is off. In my zoom meetings i look like one of the Bluemen group. I am not blue. I think telemedicine is great for psychiatry, but not for health related problems. I think this world has gone to Hades in a handbasket. It has a pretty bow on it, and that bow is called apathy. @Horizon chaser 1957 You waxed poetic tonight with the swallows and the bats. It was beautiful, and I read it to DH and he loved the imagery. When we were not so addicted to TV we would sit out, and count the stars as they appeared, and any thing terrestrial. We would say when things appeared in the sky..., star, star, planet, meteor, bat. Star star, satelite, bat, bat....owl! Now we stay inside and hide from the mosquitoes this year, as West Nile has been found in our county. Cant wait for cooler weather, less humidity and a breeze! @Sharon in AZI have to admit, we aren't flying anywhere, but driving from Atlanta to Mobile, a five and a half hour drive (not including stops at Cracker Barrell for breakfast and lunch). When they check me in I can show them my vaccine status-very up to date, with two boosters. I did get the reservations changed from earn a 1K points night to Park and cruise, which cost 64 dollars more, but they drive you, parking at the hotel is cheaper, and they feed you breakfast, and once I get to the hotel, there is a restaurant right there. In the hotel. Not sure if they have a pool or not. But while I love to swim after a long drive, it's not mandatory. The money is now moved and tomorrow we can order our tickets to fly to Vancouver and back for next May, on my very first HAL cruise. I am so excited, but wish you were all coming with me!

@aliaschief It's nice to have you home. I truly loved your photographs of your trip. Except for great food, and being pampered, I felt like I was walking along with you. It's OK to wake up at 4:30 this morning, nap time will call you back later.

Good Monday Morning Dailyites! @kazu Don't know if you can do this with your bum knee right now, but my old neighbor taught me to clean the floor with towels and my feet. Get a towel (large) wet and plop in on the floor. Put down some cleaning agent, and shuffle across the floor with your feet on the towel. Rinse out the towel with clean water, plop it down again, and shuffle across to get all the soap up, and then one more time. Take a dry towel and shuffle across to dry it up. Then place fan on floor to finish drying. Wash towels. My DH thinks i am crazy doing it this way, but I don't have to get on my knees. I can cling on to the counter so i don't fall, and I can watch tv or listen to music while i do it. I do hope your knee is doing better. We are off to the bank this morning. And then to work. DH started his new meds yesterday, I hope that they don't make him too looney, cause yesterday was not the best. A mini bagel for breakfast, and I bought some Tillamook cream cheese. Trying something new today. I have to call the pre cruise hotel, as I noticed that they sort of got my request wrong...got the directions printed, and I have started packing by putting everything in a drawer, so I can throw it in the suitcase the night before (this is not my style but my available hours are minimum) Have a great day, I like bats, just not if they are trying to eat me, we have bats in the yard at night. Less salt, great idea, love herbs and spices, and when it comes to motorists, I often consider buying a tank, and blasting most of them. Something about how the world went when covid appeared, more red lights are run, more speeding, more recklessness. I also consider not getting in my car most days.

Good Morning Dailyites! It's a Formula 1 weekend. We had dinner with our friend Debbie last night, and rushed home to catch up on all of the F1 racing that we had missed yesterday because of work. Ahh the life of a couch potato. @Cat in my lap The longer I stay in one place, the more it hurts to leave it. I cannot sleep straight through the night. The bed is comfy when I get in, but after about two hours, I wake up (probably because of flying cats) but when I do, I have to move. My Dad would go to bed, wake up after two hours, go sleep in his recliner for two hours, and then go back to bed, and then go back to the recliner. He said the pains were due to aging. Sad, I think I have reached that point too. We have no race day donuts, because we both started work early on Friday morning. I just checked my schedule for this week, 44 hours of work. All starting at noon our time. Start with the west coast calling, and then in the evening, the east coast calling. I need to use my morning time to my advantage. DH is going to be the cook, and I keep telling to choose things that dont need anything added to them, just meat and veggie. Other wise he always asks me for advice, and I will be working. He knows how to follow recipes better than I do, I cook through memory and creativity, and try to use little extras, veggies, spices, etc. So after the race, we need to hunt and eat something, create a grocery list, go pay some bills, and come home and get the house straightened out, oh, and buy DH some slacks for dining in the MDR. Two weeks of work, and then we are on our cruise. Our boarding time is 12:30, and we got all the paperwork and boarding passes printed last night. I noticed that we were supposed to do something through VeriFly, but if we get to the port, and all we have is our passports and vaccine history card, will we be OK? Have a great Sunday!

Happy Saturday Dailyites! My friend Penny came over yesterday with her DH. They had just come from seeing his new doctor. Jesse has had a lump on his neck for more than a year, he went to see one doctor, and they did a cancer check, and said they could not determine anything from the results. He started getting a new lump on the other side of his neck, and they went back and they ran other test, and again, inconclusive. He changed from the doctors at Piedmont to Emory, and there were no tests, they looked at the medical history file, and it was cancer in his lymph nodes. He has surgery on September 2, and will start chemo and radiation. Could you please add Jesse to your prayers. Jesse has been our kitty sitter for years, and Penny said she would take over this time. What a wonderful friend she is. We leave in two weeks for the cruise that has been changed and postponed, and changed again, and she knew we couldn't cancel it this time. Maybe getting out of her house for an hour or two will make her day better? I cant wait to see the pictures of Mykonos, we will be there next October. I love the quote. Now music on the porch? Front porch or back porch? Every weekend, there are celebrations of some kind in our neighborhood. Music every day. I've got gospel to listen to down the hill in front of the house during the week, and Mexican music to my right down the hill on Saturday afternoons. At least they are not at the same time. I love it, but it would not sound good at the same time.

well, I'm as trained as I will ever be, and the new boss paid me for 2.25 hours of work, even though it took, one hour to print the information, one hour to read the information, one .25 hours of personal training...somewhere I got cut a bit short, and I still have to watch a 45 minute video, and that too is part of the 2.25 that he gave me. I had better sell a whole lot to get those 2.00 bonuses per sale. Hmmmmm. I had a dog for 12 years, she was a terri poo. Looked like Benji. I loved her. She unfortunately loved a great Dane across the street, and ran out when I got home one night from work and got run over. The man i was married to at the time, told me I was not allowed to cry. And I didn't, until i divorced him, and truly got to cry over my dog, and my parents. I am a whole lot more fiesty now, and if someone told me that, i would tell them to blank blank themselves. I have loved all of the dog pictures. The only dog, that I really dont like is that beast I have to walk every day. Again, her mother forgot it was Friday and left me a note, "sorry I forgot it was Friday, oh well. " One last week with this dog. Ahhh, cant wait. Today she went after the neighbor. While he was in his car. He stopped and looked at us, and said to me, as the dogs hair was standing up, and she was growling..."oh you are walking the dog, she and I are great friends." right.... @JazzyVI hope you feel better soon. @irishjimGreat news on those biopsies @aliaschiefthank you for the great pictures, and @StLouisCruisersI truly enjoyed the pictures of Petra. My brother lived in Jordan, and I think he went one time in 3 years.

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Good Friday Morning Dailyites! I start my training today, printing my paperwork this morning, watching a video this afternoon, and a training session this afternoon. BUT, I didn't get totally kidnapped. Turned out that the person who told the new boss I was only working for him, and traded me, lied to the California boss, and the VP found out when I copied her on a good bye email to my Louisville campaign. So, no 40 hours with one boss, which would have lead to time and a half, and extra bonuses. Just lots of work hours, but I am glad, because I really like the boss that wouldn't let me go. And I have a job with him when I get back from the cruise. The sad part is that he lied about "he had no problem letting me go for two weeks" because as of the 6th, I wasn't his anymore, I was going to the Asheville campaign. Callers are just pawns for the bosses bonuses. I do believe in equal rights for women, but in reality I have yet to actually see it in action. I also believe in Karma.😉 Who would have thought-Toilet Paper Day- my current fur babies don't celebrate this.

Good night Angels.

Happy Thursday Dailyites! It's raining this morning, with a chance of rain all day. Well, it is my work all day day. So I'm ok. I have been kidnapped by one of my old bosses for two weeks from my other campaigns. This will be starting on Monday, 40 + hours a week, getting over time, plus bonuses on sales. Supposedly the highest paying gig in the company. One boss will be overjoyed, the other, I am sure who fought so hard to get me on his campaign will not be happy, but how do you fight with the vice president of the company? So my good bye letters will go out this morning, and I will be working 80 plus hours for two weeks. And then get on a cruise ship. With a pay check that will let me pay my bills when I get home from the cruise. And then, I will have to look for another job, as I am blowing off the new gig I was supposed to start the week after labor day. Oh well the sad part is that I will only be able to say hey in the mornings and not catch up for the rest of the day. The Daily is my favorite place to be. I like the idea of a banana split, but I don't like to mix my ice cream flavors up. I'm one of those weird people who open a bag of M & M's and separate all the colors. And then eat them. I will eat one flavor of ice cream with hot fudge on it. Banana not included.

@Quartzsite Cruiser I loved Howard Johnsons. That was our go to stop when we headed up to Boston, the Cape, or the grandparents in VT. I loved the 3D burger. And then, McDonalds happened to my father. He was going up to see his dad in VT, and he stopped at McDonalds, and had a Big Mac. He come home and told us about it, how it was just like the 3D burger, and less expensive, and much faster, and we never stopped at Howard Johnsons on our trips again.

Happy Wednesday Dailyites! It's very humid in Stone Mountain. I was watching the weather for today, probability of pop up showers. And then they showed a large green blob over us for tomorrow. I spent yesterday shopping, but not buying , our flight to Vancouver, a hotel in Vancouver for two rooms, and some excursions in Vancouver before we do the cruise. I called our BFF and told him that we would be staying south of Vancouver because the hotels were too expensive on the north end, near the pier. Sometimes I just get baffled by the onslaught of information that I don't need when I am looking for one thing. So I guess it was good that I had the day off yesterday. The computers got fixed just when I was to start my other gig, so low on hours, high on information. When I was young we often dined at Iconic American Restaurants, because of where we were when traveling. Long Trail Lodge comes to mind. But overall the Iconic restaurants that were important to our family in America, didn't serve American food. They were just Iconic in the part of the country that they were. Not sure if that makes sense, but thinking PaPa's in Tarpon Springs. It isnt there anymore. There was a place on Harwich Port on the cape, famous for clams, not there anymore. Too often new management wants to change the menus to bring in younger crowds, and the old patrons stop coming, and the new patrons, aren't impressed. And then the restaurant closes. Sorry, too much rambling. DH has an eye appointment today. He only has vision in one eye, but that eye really needs glasses! He cant read the subtitles on the TV, and I wont be a passenger when he drives.

My last painting scheme was never fulfilled. I live on a hill, I wanted to get a really large canvas, pour paint all over myself and then roll down the canvas. Of course this would have to be in the middle of the night, and my friend Elizabeth was going to have to hose me off when I got to the street. And of course we would have to do this in summer. It never panned out. The hose didn't go all the way to the street.

@Horizon chaser 1957 OR, perhaps @jphkshas been reading us, and finally realized that with all the wealth of knowledge you all have, it's a good group to ask the question of. So my answer would be never. Unless they are in dry dock, but I am used to cruising on Carnival. A ship returns to the port after a cruise. They throw every one off, and tell them it's over-go home. Then immediately, the beds are changed, the floors are vacuumed, the ship takes on fresh food, and the ship is refueled. Once every one is off, then they start boarding the new folks for the next cruise. They leave that night, so you get thrown off by 9, and the ship sets sail again around 4-7 hours. I cant even get my laundry done in 7 hours.