This week, Busy has felt a shift in something. The atmosphere, the energy in the Universe. Something! Meanwhile, Caissie shares a professional memory of Paul Reubens while Busy’s got a personal one. If you haven’t listened yet, you can HERE.
We want to know, have you recently felt a shift? In something, somewhere? What are you doing YOUR best at this week?
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Caissie- I love all the stories you share about yourself as a child and teenager. Would you ever share pics from that time? I’d love to see little kid Caissie or cheerleader Caissie.
Hi All--
It's been a minute, so if I ask questions that have already been asked, please excuse me. However, for the last several weeks, it seems like every time I want to write in, something else comes up and we just get further and further behind.
First, while I do mourn the loss of the pig pots, I'm glad that Busy wasn't badly hurt in her fall a couple of weeks ago. I felt better when I saw a later post of her back out walking. When I saw that post, what came into my mind was the old song "You'l Never Walk Alone", but not the version by Gerry and The Pacemakers that a lot of us are familiar with, but the version sung by the fans of Liverpool FC at their matches. You can see versions on YouTube and the best version, in my opinion is the one sung in Melbourne when Liverpool was playing friendlies there a few years ago. Which brings me to a question that I might get in trouble for not knowing the answer to. Does the podcast merch include colorful scarves with your sayings on them? I know it's August and hotter than blazes out, but soon it will be scarf weather again and a nice colorful scarf that says "Just Doing My Best" or "IYKYK" or any of your other colorful sayings would be nice. Just a suggestion.
I also appreciated Caissie's bug deterrent suggestions. I purchased one of the Safer Home Flying Insect Traps and boy to they work well. In a bit of serendipity as I read that post, a gnat flew into the soda I was drinking making getting one an imperative. Have to say I'm greatly impressed. No more flying insects have been visible in the house. I had to change the collection sheet sooner than expected, but it was full. This thing does its job and I join Caissie in recommending it.
I'd also seen a couple of ants wandering through the laundry room and so I tried the borax/syrup mixture. I didn't see any ant bodies in the container I used, but I also have to say, I've not seen any ants either, so while I don't have anything definitive, there is circumstantial evidence that it worked. I also found a spot so that if I ever need to try it again, I can set some out on a piece of aluminum foil in a place that my cat can't reach.
Caissie, I would like to comment that tiles may actually be a good option for your bathroom. I had my bathrooms updated a couple of years ago and I had some of the same concerns, but luckily when they pulled stuff out there had been no leakage into the subfloors. Before they put the new tile in the shower, they put in several waterproofing materials and moisture barriers, (flooring, wall protections and such) that added time to the job while everything cured but all that was done before the tile was put in. So far, nothing appears to have leaked, I can actually see the underside of the bathroom floor if I carefully stand on a chair or something in my laundry room, and tile feels strong and firm. As to cleaning the grout, as a single man, I appreciate your concerns with your sons, but if you get a cleaner with bleach in it and use it once a week or so, it should be ok, or at least it works for me. And nowadays, there's the added bonus of having a use for all my unused KN-95 masks when I clean my shower. The label on the container says to use it in a well ventilated area, but their test bathrooms much be much different than mine, or once again in my opinion, most of America's.
I do have one thought of encouragement for Busy as she prepares to take Birdie to boarding school. While I don't have kids, I did have a niece come live in Pittsburgh to attend school and my experience watching her at first via text and later via text and FaceTime, she and her mother probably had more interaction than they did when she was living at home. I know it's not the same, but modern communications make it a whole lot easier to talk with your loved ones than in the olden days when i went to college and due to long distance telephone rates was limited to calling my parents once every other week on a Saturday night when the rates were lowest. I could call them other times, if there was an emergency, but if I called during a week day when the rates were highest, the emergency better have included the loss of a limb or something just as dire. You may find that you'll be talking with Birdie more than ever. And besides, we'll all be around to do our best and fill the gaps. As an aside, the only time I can remember the "only call on weekdays if there is an extreme emergency rule" was ever broken was when my mom called me on a Wednesday morning to get some help with her math homework. Yes, we went to college at the same time, though thankfully at different schools, as I don't think I would have survived if we had gone to the same school.
So what have I been doing my best at lately. Well I bit the bullet and admitted that I had a dresser full of ill fitting clothing and so all of it was donated to the Goodwill. I replaced it with jeans and shirts that fit better and that are made of much lighter materials and so in a way it's a win-win. I've also continued to take little steps as I reintroduce myself into the world, something that I continue to find harder to do than expected. I'm taking an art history class at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh and it's going well and I'm meeting people, though as I sit in the back of the room in the not as comfy chairs that have lots of legroom that my knees appreciate I continue to be irritated when someone who needs to cough that instead of leaving the room, they just come back and stand next to me. Also, I will say the only thing worse than not silencing your phone at the beginning of a presentation is to ignore it when it starts ringing in the hopes that it will stop sooner and causing an even bigger disruption.
I also have to admit that I haven't seen either of the big movies that recently came out. But this is not pandemic related. It's more of a the last time I went to a movie, I went to a matinee. There were probably 8 of us in a theater that sat 200 but the two people who came in late just had to sit right in front of me. Luckily, they used the flashlights on their phones to help them navigate to the seats they chose and as they sat down, they spilled most of the food they brought with them and so there was the whole recover from that to deal with and then there was the guy who talked on his phone through the whole movie. Nope, I'll just wait until they come onto one of the streaming services I subscribe to and watch it then. I did watch the third Guardians of the Galaxy movie last night, and found it much bette than I anticipated.
Take care everyone. Be kind when you can. Keep doing your best.