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So instead of new articles from experts about newer changes and innovations in elder care the site has opted to present a reddit style thread devoted to AMA (ask me anything)🤔
Do we get to have an AITA too?
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Hi MD, you asked how I am today. It’s better to ask on a general thread, and not on someone else’s personal thread. “General Topics” for example.

I’m doing fine. I’m way behind in solving my problems. It can’t be solved in one day, or one week.

It’ll happen.
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Just talking to myself here…Don’t mind me. Just need to get it off my chest:

I feel like I took a wrong turn in my life :(.
But there’s nothing I could have done about it. I couldn’t have chosen any other way. No matter how many times I would re-do my life (if one could have several lives), I would always have chosen to help my mom for the years I helped.

However as a consequence, I have a huge backlog. So much trouble in my work, in my life.

I guess I didn’t take a wrong turn. I just feel…like one is punished for being a good person. So many people out there, doing so well, because they help no one.

But I wouldn’t want to be any other way.

I guess as a conclusion, I didn’t take the wrong turn in life. But boy do I have a lot to catch up on.

I had to have a check-up yesterday. Perfect health. In the waiting room was a dad with his child (9 years old). I remembered when I was 9: I never would have imagined my life in so much trouble later, and as a direct consequence of having helped others. Made me sad.

I’m also so surprised by the number of bad people I’ve met in the health“care” business, while helping my mom. I’m surprised every time by how bad some people are. Surprised also that they treat my mom and I that way. When you treat people well, you kind of think people will treat you well, too.

I don’t know what I need to change. Maybe nothing. Maybe I just need to keep solving my work troubles. Then I’ll feel better, and I won’t feel like I lost.
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Cwillie, I agree that low flights are unnerving. We live about 15km from a helicopter training facility. I finally discussed their flight path with them. Now they rarely buzz my house. (we’re surrounded by forest and fields - why did they have to pass directly over my house?)
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I'm getting buzzed by a crop duster tonight, it's kind of unnerving to have a plane repeatedly flying so low over the house. The field's not even that big, how the heck many passes do they have to take?
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New Orleans is the greatest city in the world. If a person can't find a good time in New Orleans they might as well go live in a convent or monastery because they won't find one anywhere in the world.
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Site is loading very slowly! Will check back later and see if it is running faster.

Have a good evening everyone!
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Sattari,

Sounds like a fun plan! I have been to a bazillion Mardi Gras parades. Our jazz and heritage festival is fantastic!

I would definitely travel. Would you drive the RV yourself or hire a driver? I know that I would wreck an RV. My oldest daughter loves RV’s. Youngest daughter and husband would rather fly. I could go either way.

They have the fancy RV’s that have a built in garage to store a car. Very cool! They cost a fortune though. Hey, you could afford it if you won a bundle of money!
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Sattari,

Good luck! We buy one ticket! I don’t know what I would do if we won. I guess the first thing would be to hire an attorney!

I would definitely take the lump sum. I am too old not to! Does anyone take the payment in increments? LOL 😆
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Sad Satarri, you won't be able to tell anyone that you won!
Hope you win, but do not tell.
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cw,

Yep! We were hiking all day and I wanted a cold drink (gin and tonic) before going back to our hotel room.

The hotel had a nice bar. Friendly enough until I asked for a ‘go cup.’ The bartender said, “What do you mean by a ‘go cup?’

I said that I wanted to take the rest of my drink back to our room because I was tired and wanted to rest before showering to go out to dinner. Apparently, I was an oddball! LOL 😆 He quickly told me that TN doesn’t give ‘go cups!’ That’s when he asked me where I lived. Then the eye roll.

One time in New England at this quaint B & B this woman asked me where did I live. As soon as I said, New Orleans, she started asking me about voodoo. 🤣 hahaha, I was all set to tell her a wild story until my husband looked at me like, don’t you dare! LOL People have these strange stereotypes about New Orleans.

I guess my husband was my calming force when I was young. He didn’t always appreciate my sense of humor! He has more of a dry wit.
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NHWM,
I knew that!
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They probably thought you came from Sodom or Gomorrah NHWM.
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Send,

I wasn’t talking about DH being handsome. I was talking about my knowledge of drink ingredients!

Let me tell you, the first time I went to cities that didn’t have ‘go cups’ for booze was interesting. In New Orleans, it is legal to get a drink to go.

I found out that isn’t typical in Tennessee or Arkansas! LOL 😆

Geeeeez, people in TN have you join a club to order a glass of wine with dinner! Is it still that way? When I went to buy wine in the grocery store in Arkansas, they looked at me like I had two heads! They sent me to a liquor store.

We stayed in an adorable cottage on a lake in Arkansas. All I wanted was a bottle of wine to have for dinner one evening that we cooked in the cottage.

People in both states, Arkansas and Tennessee looked at me and said, “You aren’t a local. Where do you live?” When I said, ‘New Orleans’ they rolled their eyes! 😆

We were young! No kids! And just wanted some wine!
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NHWM,
No, I cannot tell from here if he was handsome, but I will take your word for it. Lol.
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Send,

I wonder if it’s a Mai Tai or some other kind of tropical drink! Made with rum.

Pina colada’s have pineapple and coconut 🥥 &🍍 ! Plus rum!

Chi chi’s have pineapple, coconut and vodka.

My husband was a handsome bartender when we first started dating. Can you tell? LOL 😆 He was just about to graduate from Tulane.
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NHWM,
What is in the coconut?

Maybe a Pina Colada?
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cw,

Just in case Send didn’t send you enough…

🍺🍻🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🍾🥂

You better eat something to balance out the booze! So…🥨🍔🍕🌭🌮🥜🍤 🍿

Wait, you need dessert to go with your food…

🧁🍦🍰 🍪🍫🍨🍧🥧🍭🍮🥮🍬

Enjoy!!! 😊
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Here ya go, Cwillie!
🍺🍻🍷🍷🍹🍹🍹🍸🍸🍌🍾
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I keep running into headlines telling me that just one drink a day can influence blood pressure. Why is it that makes me want to have a cocktail?🤔🤪
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It's too bad we can't put the weather in a blender, after a few gloriously hot days we are back to cooler than normal temperatures here. And I'm sure some of that rain in Nova Scotia would have been welcome over in BC.
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Sitting on my patio…

Just need a few moments by myself. It’s so hot though that all I can think about is the fall weather can’t get here soon enough!

I will definitely make another pitcher of iced tea today.
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I hereby confirm, with first-hand experience: there is no non-painful way to bang one’s head against the wall.
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I love popping bubble wrap! It’s very satisfying! LOL 😆

How many rolls do we need? My daughter got upset with me when I helped her pack! She had to go buy more bubble wrap! LOL

Hey, she had a lot of crap to pack and I was getting tired and bored!

These young women and their cosmetics! Geeeeeez! Her bathroom had so much stuff to pack.

Books! My kids inhale books!

She must have at least 25 different types of water bottles! Crazy! She drinks tons of water from her long walks with her dog but no one needs 25 water bottles! Some from work, company logo, some birthday gifts, some in her favorite colors and so on.
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Wallpaper the wall with bubble wrap ?🤪
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cw,

I bet there was a bit of alcohol 🍺 involved in that activity! LOL
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OK maybe a motorcycle helmet then..... I knew some guys who used to butt heads with their billy goat wearing one. (there was probably alcohol involved) LOL
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cw,

Are you sure about that? LOL 😆 I am thinking about all of the concussions that occur in football!

I think screaming into a pillow kind of therapeutic!

Punching a pillow too!

I love chopping veggies when I am frustrated! As long as I don’t miss and chop my fingers off! LOL 😆
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Football helmet? 🤪
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sounhappy,

I don’t think so. It sounds like you are in enough pain but I get what you’re saying. There were times when I got in the shower and cried my eyes out so no one could hear me.
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