The Shack-just really didn't get into it. Concerning Moby Dick and Pride and Prejudice, I think if I had tried to read the books, I wouldn't have enjoyed them. However, listening to them on audio while driving to work made them a better experience. I really don't think I could have slogged through. Same for Count of Monte Cristo and Great Expectations.

We had fried fish, sweet potato fries, and potato salad. Tomorrow after morning service, we'll have beans with ham bone, rice, and cornbread. I have to leave to take my parents to the doctor, but dh and ds will probably have cornbread and buttermilk for dinner tomorrow night.

Mine is Restore-as in spiritual and physical primarily, but anything is game. What is everyone using to help yourself achieve what you want to achieve in reference to your word of the year? I'm thinking about some kind of goal oriented app, but I'm open to suggestions. Love all the words

MIL had to go to ER Christmas Eve-her blood pressure was stroke stage and she was having visual disturbances. (She refuses to take her meds.) ER treated the blood pressure and sent her home-no ct, mri or anything. Christmas Day, she hadn't even checked her bp and didn't take meds. The 26th, I had just sat down at my desk when I got a call to take her to the walk in clinic. They sent her to ER. BP was stroke stage and her visual disturbances were worse. She's already had TIAs and at least one stroke. They did all kinds of tests (different hospital) and we are waiting on results. She's pitching a fit to go home-she just wants them to treat and release-wishes she hadn't come up there. I'm pretty fed up with her. Take your medicine lady.

Dh is working today and ds is driving to visit my parents, so I have the day to myself. make taco soup for a neighbor with a broken L1 floors laundry dishes-dishwasher broke Christmas eve I may work in my classroom

Next year I won't put as much candy in the stockings. Way too much candy.

I am doing the majority of the cooking for tomorrow-maybe all the cooking. I hope that is not the new normal, but mil and aunt in law are really not up to it. If this is the new normal, I'm going to need a bigger refrigerator and a double oven.

I just listened to a podcast about fax machines the other day. I think they will hang around.

Haven't heard of it, but I will ask him-thanks!!

My son has trouble cashing the checks his grandpa sends him. He has a bank account, but not where he lives, so it's understandable. Our trash service doesn't have debit option. At least they didn't six months ago when we moved here. I write out checks for them.

Most of the bread eaten here is toasted, and I especially like the heel toasted with butter. Yummy and crisp.

While driving home from church today, I passed a dry cleaner and wondered how long those will still be around.

You are very lucky indeed.

First day of Christmas break here. I have a long list on my phone, but I will be happy if I get the following done. Laundry Shop for next week Cook dinner Read a Christmas story Clean bathrooms Start on deep clean of one bathroom

These may be too big, but today in my son's stocking I put- Harry's razors Harry's shaving gel-they also make other body care products. Tim Tams The new mint chocolate kit kats A new ornament

We would go hang out in a bookstore.

This is exactly what I have been wanting to post. OP, my heart hurts for you. I hope you and your dh can figure out what you want as a couple/family-not as a continuation of his Christmas ideas. It needs to be a partnership. No wonder you are bitter.

Another yes vote

I slept in this morning-it's been a rough week. Worked in my classroom a few hours Shopped at dollar store Still need to: clean the floors remake the beds dust put away "stuff" cook dinner (rueben sandwiches) decorate the tree drink hot chocolate with dh laundry

1. Being left out of schedule changes at work-I'm not part of a grade level team, so sometimes I'm left out of the loop. I understand it, but it still bugs me. 2. Service people who don't do their job. 3. That my mom expects my dad to do so much around the house when she is perfectly able to do more herself.

Hope you went and they gave you meds so you can feel better soon.

Leftovers are in the fridge, but no one wants them today. We went to Tacos4Life for lunch, and I'm making eggs, bacon, and toast for dinner. Ds will leave sometime in the morning hours. His sleep is messed up so he'll wake up and drive 3.5 hours back to college. Dh works tomorrow and i will go in and write lesson plans and whatever else i find to do. Got some of the Christmas decor up. Ds told me I didn't need to fill his stocking. Sniff sniff

Just that it would make me think of heart problems. The only symptoms my dad had was shortness of breath and jaw pain. He failed a stress test and had a quadruple bypass the next day.

Any shortness of breath?

I've been coughing for over a month. Started with slight sore throat and cough. Went to walk in clinic, got a steroid shot and cough syrup and it just wouldn't go away. I went back a week ago-he did chest x-ray and labwork. Labwork was fine, chest xray showed a granulo something that was completely walled off-just calcium. He sent me for a ct scan- I thought that was a little bit overkill, but i went anyway. Scan came back unremarkable. Have you ever coughed this long and what can I do to make it stop. I've tried Histex (RX), some kind of little rx pill that deadens the throat, Mucinex, elderberry capsules and most recently prilosec because a doctor told me once I was coughing because of GERD.