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Prudie Day
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Much-needed Friday Eve. What a week. How’s everyone?
Re: Prudie Day
My sisters are having some drama (youngest is sharing middle’s nanny a few hours each day, effective two weeks ago). I’m trying to stay out of it, but I’m hearing both sides. Middle is definitely right but I feel for the position youngest is in.
I Have really mixed feelings on the medication aspect but will hear the doc out. I'm not against them but I think Chiquita thinks she's going to get magic beans and will be setting herself up for disappointment.
Good luck at the pedi this afternoon @banana468. DD is considering having one of the twins evaluated. I told her it couldn't hurt and it should would be better off knowing a diagnosis than not. It wouldn't necessarily mean medication but perhaps more therapy. Her best friend from high school was recently diagnosed (37 years old) and put on medication. She said it has made all the difference in the world for her. She wishes she had been diagnosed earlier but the symptoms for females are often so different than males so it is sometimes more difficult to diagnose in females thus treatment is harder. I'm sure you and your H will make the best decision for Chiquita and your family.
I've been giggling. My FB feed is full of articles/people claiming Chappell Roan and being so excited about her VMA award last night. She's not really from my hometown, more of a suburb, but a lot of her references are nods to things here. I did enjoy her speech. She's not my jam, but I love that the younger generations are getting their queer pop diva too.
Not too much going on. I'm going to hang out with a friend this weekend. I need to get back on track with normal life activities and I'm looking forward to it.
Well, California is Californiaing. Fires and then this morning a 5.1 earthquake. H had plans to go under the house today to work on some stuff but now he's freaked out.
I am tired and feeling off today. I think it's because I feel like I'm spinning my wheels on a few things. I have a busy day ahead though. It cooled down noticeably today which is nice. It might even be in the low 70s next Tuesday. What a huge swing from the 115 a few days ago. I'm actually cold this morning and used the heater in the car.
I'm glad you're feeling better! @VarunaTT
We're getting the remnants of Francine today, and it's nice to have some rain, but the dreary weather is just matching my mood. Nothing much else going on today, I'm just a fucking ray of sunshine over here.
SIL/BFF was in town last night due to taking care of some stuff for her grandma. She stayed for dinner. She's coming back tomorrow because she's starting the process to move her grandma to a facility closer to her. Nephews have a day off school, so they're going to come hang out with me and other SIL. SIL is going to have her mom and grandma in the same place which will be so much easier.
We were supposed to get Francine remnants this weekend, but no longer. It's going to be hot again. Ugh. I'm always annoyed that summer hangs on after Labor Day. I'm beyond ready for fall.
Prudie coming up.
We do have a generator that we previously hooked up to our natural gas line. But for reasons I REALLY don't understand, my H had already "packed" the contraption that hooks it to the whole house. So we had to run a gazillion extension cords for the things we wanted to stay plugged in. But at least we didn't have to worry about our fridge/freezer/mini fridge. We could have lamps on and charge things. Our tenants next door plugged their fridge in also. We still had plenty of power left and told them they could plug in other things, but they chose not to.
I spent Wednesday night hanging out on my porch with my H and our tenants. Watching the torrential rain pouring sideways down our street because it was so windy! A mini hurricane party. It actually ended up being a really fun night. We drank. Imbibed some other things. My tenant R was playing tunes from her phone. She and I were singing it up because our neighbors couldn't hear us above the storm noise anyway.
Then it hit me. "F**k! I might have to go to work tomorrow." When we finally shut it down for the night, I checked Entergy's outage map (our electricity company). My workplace never lost power, smh. Those MF'ers. Sure enough, a mass text goes out at 6:15am this morning that the office would be open. But most of the stoplights on my route were without power, so I asked and my boss gave me permission to at least WFH today. I ended up being super busy. Thankfully my cable/internet was fine, even though I didn't have power.
I'd say about half the city lost power. There are still a few neighborhoods that are out tonight, but most people got their power back sometime today.
My favorite memes are the ones where a dog or cat runs to hide or shakes their head no, in "response" to the footage where Trump is talking about immigrants eating people's pets.