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.
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.
I swear Caissie has told the Nitroglycerin story before!!! Does anyone else remember that?!? Busy did not, which makes me wonder if I made it all up (IYKYK 😂) but seriously, it's not a story I would ever forget!
Great podcast!! Cassie I’m crossing my fingers for your bathroom Reno! After the car debacle, you deserve a win!
Side note: Nitro paste, tablets and spray are all use to dilate/open arteries in the heart during an episode of angina (chest pain), also during a heart attack. It is meant to maximize the oxygen going to the heart muscle. But, it dilates blood vessels all over the body, not just the heart, so that’s when blood pressure can plummet quickly and cause fainting, especially if you’re in an upright position.
I definitely felt a shift as well. I think it was the Nodal axis shift that moved into Aries/Libra which happened around 18th July. Felt like a breath of fresh air!
I'm sad I didn't feel more of a shift. But last night the air was cool & we turned off the AC & opened the windows & that felt a little like a shift, so I'll take it, LOL!
Thank you for another fantastic episode! I loved the Paul Reubens story, thank you for sharing it.
Regarding Busy pricing her pig pots, she could look at Katie Kimmel's (as in Jimmy's daughter) ceramic work for an idea - https://www.katiekimmel.com/ceramic. It's campy and fun too.
What a joy. When Busy said “no skips on these ads” I assumed she meant as a listener (not herself as an ad reader). I hope advertisers know how engaging you both make the ads.
I for sure felt the shift. For me it was with the supermoon. Everyone started being more direct about their needs. It’s been great.
Paint party looks like it will be late August? Busy's got to get Birdie to Sweden, give herself a week or so to cry her eyes out & then we should be in business. Promise we'll keep ya posted.
I was recovering from leg surgery at the beginning of last month and the DAY before my surgery, my wife had just been discharged from hospital with what doctors were convinced was MS. After a month of waiting for a neurologist, we finally found out last week that they misdiagnosed it (yay!) and she just has Essential Tremors. Still not fun but not scary at all and treatable.
So all great news but it life took a major shift one way while I was completely couch ridden and then took the opposite shift and I’m doing my best to weather the emotional whiplash. Is that ok? To have a hard time recovering from good news after adjusting to bad news? It’s a confusing feeling!
That mention of Pioneer Girls--but for me it was just Wednesday night church without the scout activities. How did you get involved in that?--that’s an evangelical deep cut.
OMG the bathroom remodel story, I so feel you. We once ended up doing a full gut kitchen remodel because when we went to replace the broken garbage disposal, the entire sink broke in half when we were trying to wrench the rusted connector loose. Glad we did it but what an expensive disposal! 😳
This week I am doing my best at making the best of really bad weather while on our one week holiday to Ireland. It has rained every day. Also doing my best (though sometimes failing 😞) to be a patient wife while spending the entirety of that week with my husband's various extended family members 😐
I was laughing when Busy was so surprised a cream could lower blood pressure, wondering if she realized it was a compounded cream with the blood pressure medication mixed in, not just some random cream that does this. That in her mind people are just unknowingly buying it and passing out all over the place haha. Of course I probably got her understanding wrong but the image of this happening to randoms made me laugh on a day I had cried a few times already.
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.
I swear Caissie has told the Nitroglycerin story before!!! Does anyone else remember that?!? Busy did not, which makes me wonder if I made it all up (IYKYK 😂) but seriously, it's not a story I would ever forget!
Great podcast!! Cassie I’m crossing my fingers for your bathroom Reno! After the car debacle, you deserve a win!
Side note: Nitro paste, tablets and spray are all use to dilate/open arteries in the heart during an episode of angina (chest pain), also during a heart attack. It is meant to maximize the oxygen going to the heart muscle. But, it dilates blood vessels all over the body, not just the heart, so that’s when blood pressure can plummet quickly and cause fainting, especially if you’re in an upright position.
I definitely felt a shift as well. I think it was the Nodal axis shift that moved into Aries/Libra which happened around 18th July. Felt like a breath of fresh air!
I'm sad I didn't feel more of a shift. But last night the air was cool & we turned off the AC & opened the windows & that felt a little like a shift, so I'll take it, LOL!
Thank you for another fantastic episode! I loved the Paul Reubens story, thank you for sharing it.
Regarding Busy pricing her pig pots, she could look at Katie Kimmel's (as in Jimmy's daughter) ceramic work for an idea - https://www.katiekimmel.com/ceramic. It's campy and fun too.
I loved your Paul Rubens story! I was so sad about his passing! And it’s ok to repeat stories, though the cream story was new to me!
What a joy. When Busy said “no skips on these ads” I assumed she meant as a listener (not herself as an ad reader). I hope advertisers know how engaging you both make the ads.
I for sure felt the shift. For me it was with the supermoon. Everyone started being more direct about their needs. It’s been great.
Everything you said is such music to my ears, Kevin. You are a gem!
When is the paint party? Can’t wait!!
Paint party looks like it will be late August? Busy's got to get Birdie to Sweden, give herself a week or so to cry her eyes out & then we should be in business. Promise we'll keep ya posted.
Thank you! This sounds like good sequencing. 💚
Thank you for another great podcast, my work friends. I love Wednesdays.
We love YOU, Nadene!
I was recovering from leg surgery at the beginning of last month and the DAY before my surgery, my wife had just been discharged from hospital with what doctors were convinced was MS. After a month of waiting for a neurologist, we finally found out last week that they misdiagnosed it (yay!) and she just has Essential Tremors. Still not fun but not scary at all and treatable.
So all great news but it life took a major shift one way while I was completely couch ridden and then took the opposite shift and I’m doing my best to weather the emotional whiplash. Is that ok? To have a hard time recovering from good news after adjusting to bad news? It’s a confusing feeling!
That’s totally ok & understandable!
That mention of Pioneer Girls--but for me it was just Wednesday night church without the scout activities. How did you get involved in that?--that’s an evangelical deep cut.
We were a church family. Southern Baptist but in the North! 🤣
OMG the bathroom remodel story, I so feel you. We once ended up doing a full gut kitchen remodel because when we went to replace the broken garbage disposal, the entire sink broke in half when we were trying to wrench the rusted connector loose. Glad we did it but what an expensive disposal! 😳
Whoa.
This week I am doing my best at making the best of really bad weather while on our one week holiday to Ireland. It has rained every day. Also doing my best (though sometimes failing 😞) to be a patient wife while spending the entirety of that week with my husband's various extended family members 😐
I was laughing when Busy was so surprised a cream could lower blood pressure, wondering if she realized it was a compounded cream with the blood pressure medication mixed in, not just some random cream that does this. That in her mind people are just unknowingly buying it and passing out all over the place haha. Of course I probably got her understanding wrong but the image of this happening to randoms made me laugh on a day I had cried a few times already.