Hi, friends!
It’s Thursday night. We’re so close to the weekend. Almost there.
Do you have any decisions you’ve been mulling over lately? They don’t have to be important.
I’m not sure if I want to start making kombucha again. It’s not hard to make or anything like that, I would just need to get a new scoby. I got enough local cool folks that I could probably just ask in the local facebook group and get someone who could peel a layer off theirs. I’m needing to drink less diet soda, and I do enjoy the kombucha. Homemade doesn’t have the cool flavors I can buy at the store, but it’s still quite good. But also? I do enjoy iced tea and could just make more of that.
Less a decision I’m mulling over and more “immediate Red Alert decision time”: my wife’s car died this week very much out of the blue. (Vaxxed?) So I’m several thousands of dollars lighter but we got a new one coming from Carvana early next week. I don’t love another bill but what are you going to do, rely on public transportation like some filthy European!??!
Ugh that’s frustrating. My favorite kind of car is paid off, I’m not looking forward to having to replace mine eventually.
Yep, 100% same, all I want is my current paid-off car to last another 5-10-15 years!
Same. Six-year-old Hyundai, paid off, less than 15,000 miles. (Work from home, mostly a hermit.)
😂 glad I’m not the only one. I’ve got a ten year old Kia with less than 25k miles on it. I don’t drive more than a couple miles a day.
I just need my 18 year old car with over 240,000 miles to last five more years and I’ll be able to buy the next one with cash.
Chrysler or Mitsubishi, right?
Honda
I have a big decision coming up. I’m getting an MRI done at the end of the month for the partially dislocated hip. Turn out I was born with bilateral hip dysplasia. I injured my hip two years ago and it has deteriorated significantly this past month. Will I tough it out and continue to live with reduced mobility and pain for a few more years relying solely on PT and exercise to keep it together or opt for a periacetabular osteotomy and hopefully rehab won’t be as long and arduous as I imagine? I have three kids under 6 and no “village”. Though my husband is amazing and can solo-parent, he can’t take that much time off work. So the answer is not as obvious to me right now. If we had no kids, I’d get the surgery asap.
That sounds painful and a tough choice. I hope you have a doctor who is good with not just the technical issues but can talk about the bigger picture issues around what options there are.
When my wife had major ankle surgery a couple of years ago, her surgeon was about to get his own hip replaced, and he was a good source for some of the nonmedical, general lifestyle issues to think about.
I’m gonna ask the bad question, I’m sorry for being uncouth.
Is there still a chance that you’ll end up needing a hip replacement and is it better to just wait a few years and do that?
That’s a possibility. After my MRI, I’ll go through all the game plans with my surgeon. I have an appointment scheduled in September for a second opinion with a surgeon that I biasedly feel more comfortable with because she’s a woman… even though I haven’t met her yet. We’ll see if I can wait that long.
I have a friend that is one of the best physical therapists in the state but might be a little far for you. Message me if you want a link. She is way better than any of the big groups.
@hammerzeitgeist, I’m so sorry to hear of this. Chronic pain, full life, the medical-industrial complex . . . it is all a lot. Hugs.
Decision already made. Gotta do work on my parents house as there is water damage on the floor boards from a leaking toilet. Dad neglected the house for several years but now is the time to end the dithering or it gets worse.
Got a contractor lined up and now setting up the timeline.
At least this time mom and dad won’t/can’t freak out about replacing the tiles.
2nd stage will be upgrading the upstairs bathrooms.
Has to be done to make the house liveable again.
I have a US dollar bill that I saved – intentionally – when I quit my career (although I went back twice and bailed in Canada since then, but it has been nine years) because I made a promise to myself that it would be the last one I ever earned…
…that’s a whole $1.36 CAD!
…yet I wake up every morning thinking how much easier my life would be if I were to just… sell my soul to the devil like any true American would – and does – and sit on a board, contributing as little as possible in order to play the long game. What I could actually accomplish in months would rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash while slithering with serpents on the taxpayer’s dime.
I wish there were more people like me while, at the same time, struggling to forgive myself for things I did before wishing this.
I’d consider myself a martyr, but, in all honesty, I really don’t want to go back down there and get shot.
What were we talking about again?
Here it is:
Hey wait a second. C78153301C?
That disappeared from my wallet nine years ago. How did you get that?
Fucking Canadians, not trustworthy. Stole your dollar! What else did they steal???
definitely not dignity
And that stain, sorry, that was me. But any coke residue was definitely a Canadian, us Americans only use $20’s like god intended.
Everyone knows the 403/401 in Ontario is basically the coke and meth pipeline of Canada.
i have 5 years to decide if i want to stay british or take on the dutch nationality
brexit is a huge pain in the arse…and i dont see them reversing course any time soon…
but on the other hand…changing my nationality is surprisingly pricey….and with the current gubment…im not so sure i want to be affiliated….
any chance of a moon colony happening in the next 5 years?
being a lunatic is sounding better by the day
@Farscythe, so you cannot be/remain a dual citizen? I suspect you would prefer to keep your options open.
@elliecoo nope…brittain expects me to renounce my british citizenship if i apply for a dutch one
unless i marry someone dutch…then its okay