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Musings, Thoughts, and Ponderings of various sorts.  

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Your Parent's Finances (lessons learned from becoming my mother's keeper)

This is cross posted here:  Worried Children Sharing Circle Okay while I wait for a really large spreadsheet to recalculate.  I'll do a brief fly by on my knowledge of elder related things to deal with.   POA (power of attorney) - you need two.  One health.  One financial.  If both parents are living I recommend having them anyway for both in case something happens to one.  If you suspect or are worried about dementia - going to say it here - get the POA prior to the diagnosis.  Because after
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Watergate & My Crazy Aunt

So The Impeachment of Trump 2.0 - and my ability to pay attention to it due to Covid Pandemic Work From Home World is generating some memories for me.  And I'm returning to my long neglected blog here to record (and share) this one. I was 9 or 10 years old in 1974.  Fourth Grade.  My parents marriage was dying - Mom Divorced Dad that year.    We moved that summer.  But before we moved, I have this very vivid memory of being highly upset one Saturday morning, because the next Saturday mornin
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I'm Sorry, I Can't Call Him That

Sorry folks.  I'm having trouble calling President Loudmouth by 45.  I just can't.  45 reminds me of a song by Shindown.  And I don't want to ruin the reference to 45 in my mind.  
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Traveling with a Grown Kindergartner (Breakfast)

Now that I have made Boss 1 and Boss 2 laugh at my stories of eating with Boss 3 (they have both had the experience of traveling with this man) it is time to share it with you. We all know that Boss 3 has an attachment to certain chain restaurants.  it borders on legendary.  We have not had a Chik-Fil-A here that long and the staff already knows him.  One coworker has vowed never to eat at Chik-fil-a without him.   We flew to Connecticut on Monday.  Tuesday breakfast at the hotel was a
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You're A Mean One...

I am not really a Christmas person.  It might have helped had I had children.  Maybe even a spouse.  But with a sister (also single and childless) over a thousand miles away (and currently hiding under a rock or something) and a mother who now has a dementia diagnosis (put her in memory care back in June) the season is a giant ball of meh.  Oh I can fake it.  But over the last several years really I have chosen to stop faking it.   For me, Christmas is the height of what I've long called the da
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Apocolypse? Okay. Works for me.

So one of 'those things' rolling around in my often warped, twisted brain lately has been the pondering of Trump as a sign of the apocalypse.  I'm coming at this as someone who used to be rather into eschatology (the study of the end times) (blame Jerry Jenkins/Tim Lahaye and the Left Behind series - which I now consider to be drek for the writing alone).  And over the last 17 years or so I've seen A LOT of finger pointing at various political or religious figures (usually Catholic) being the an
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When Someone Calls You a Workhorse

So on Monday a coworker (the one who moved to a corporate project assignment but is still located in Hooterville) asked me to go to a working lunch.  Yes, the mental drawbridge went up even though I accepted because she is heading the transfer of power knowledge transfer of accounts payable being outsourced (to India, a lovely country but on the opposite side of the world presenting logistical issues).  And last month end (really quarter end - which meant I had more to do) which was their first
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Another Bright Lights Mally Newsletter

There's a thread on this but I believe it's been achieved and I've decided that I would rather blog these instead.   link to the thread. In short - I used to co-teach Bright Lights.  A program for girls written by Sarah Mally.  I've had to listen to records with both Grace and Sarah Mally speaking.  And I'm perpetually on their email list.   I've gone back to church recently and discovered that Bright Lights has died out.  The person I cotaught with who championed it let it
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Oh Look, A T-Shirt

I got beckoned to the boss's office yesterday afternoon.  Mind you I was in the middle of month end related activities.  The reason?  Here's a T-shirt.  Fine.  Really?  I had to stop my work to come pick up a T-shirt.  With a nifty company logo and something about safety on the front chest area.  Fine.  Nice.  I'm not wild about printed t-shirts at this point in my adulthood.   And I'll be honest - I tend to toss most corporate printed crap given to me after I leave a company.  There are so
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Rally Mantis and Music Loveing Kittens

Okay - I am not a baseball fan.  But the ongoing story of Rally Mantis - a praying mantis rescued from the trash by a KC Royals player in the dugout a week or so ago that is now a good luck charm/mascot of sorts is amusing me.  Rally Mantis is now going on the road with the Royals.  Yay Rally Mantis.  http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/for-petes-sake/article95260647.html And yes - I think Praying Mantis are interesting.  To this day I feel bad for not pulling over one d
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Sold! (More Adventures in Mom's Car)

So, I've sold Mom's car!  Yay!  For less than it's value.  Not concerned.  This might have been an easier and more profitable adventure had the car been where Mom lives or where I live.  However that last adventure Mom took in the car landed the car in Springfield, MO.   About 3 hours from me.   And Three (!!!!!!!) from Mom (and actually she finally stopped in Mansfield, MO I believe).  I have cousins in SE Kansas where Mom is originally from.  I love my cousins.  They totally bailed me out on t
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Soul Portrait

Yay another blog for me to start and ignore later (sad but true).   I spoke briefly in the What Do you Identify with philosophically thread of my beliefs.  A couple of months ago I commissioned a small soul portrait from an artist Wendy Smith Sedona Soul Portraits or here https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002617003936&fref=ufi  I 'found' Wendy through one of my cousins (get used to that phrase.  Mom was 6th of 9 and although not all her siblings had children, there are 14 of us in
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Continued Cranky (or stupid stuff people say in front of me)

Adding to the ongoing cranky I that has set up residence (note, I have a depression diagnosis and actually do see my doc on Friday.  The angry/cranky I have going on is on the mental agenda) is something stupid/insensitive that was discussed in front of me.  Yes, I know/figure - logically at least - that they weren't aiming this at me.  However to convince the inner negative voice that lives in my head and over analyzes EVERYTHING is a whole nightmare of impossible. I walked into a conversa
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Cranky, Unless I am Not

I found a moment to not be cranky.  In an hour or so I get in the car and drive which will likely make me cranky again (in time to discuss said cranky with the doc). In the meantime,  I stumbled across the gem. Larger version can be found here:  http://slowrobot.com/i/58358  
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No Clues Today

Not a single clue in sight.  Nope, not here.   I'm having one of those mornings.  I had hoped that maybe the stupid that chased me around on Firday would have ran off and gotten lost, but no.  I believe it lurked here all weekend waiting for my return.  
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Secrets of the Castle

I'm going to blame @HerNameIsBuffy for this.  Last year around Christmas she shared a link about Tudor Christmas on YouTube.  And I watched.  I enjoyed.  And discovered all sorts of documentaries on YouTube.  And since Jill Rodriques has now discovered Facebook Live, the Rodriqguii videos seem to have dried up so my YouTube forays have landed me into Secrets of the Castle.  Ruth, Peter and Tom (the same folks from Tudor Christmas Farm) are visiting a working model 13th century castle building ex
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Sorry, I Have Plans

It is my busy season at work.  Said busy season is not over until late January (when the auditors have vacated the premises) or early to Mid-February (when the bosses have gotten back from round 2 of budget load).  It happens to coincide with 'the holidays.'   Also with winter and therefore shorter (darker) days.  All of which feeds my stress level.  And the stress feeds the depression at times.   I'm an introvert.  And frankly, I feed people draining.  I may like you, I just want to like you
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Nanowrimo - mid month update

First off, my new interest here at FJ is Miss Raquel   - to the extent that I am following her at nano (buddy lists!), twitter and her blog.  Devious mystery/suspense writer that I (usually) am, I can feel the beginnings of a character forming.  Antagonist if you really want to know.  Yes, there are benefits to writing darker, twistier things.  One of them being, if you annoy me (or in this case intrigue me in some way) I can spin you off and kill you.  We'll file this tidbit under 'stress relie
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Start The Car

I've been surfing Youtube lately.  And I encounter music from back in the ay (the 80's) that gives me the happies   I need the happies this week.  A few times so far this week I have wanted to leave work, go home and revert to sucking my thumb and twirling my hair.   Adulting has sucked.  Work has sucked.  I have another canker sore.  But I drag myself through.  And music has helped. I had found some Black N Blue videos over the last week or so.  I'll be shallow - the bass player was cute.
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Moar Cellos!

Oh my!  This is Jill Rodriques' fault.  I go to YouTube intending to see her latest video.  And get all sidetracked by the crazy Fins in my subscription listing.   "cover' of Metallica's Battery by Apocalyptica.  4 Cellos.   Yes, 4.  Because the man of mystery - Antero! - is back for this one.      
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Singer Sewing Machine Manual Advice from 1949

This just appeared on my Facebook feed.  And I had to come here to share.   My mother sewed.  And, sorry Singer, she didn't have a Singer  Nope hers was a Necci.  I don't remember her dusting her fingers with chalk.  I don't remember her putting on a clean dress.  Nope, she cut the pattern/fabric on the kitchen table and did her sewing without worrying about what she looked like.  She still managed to enjoy her sewing.  
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Stake-Out

I'm not a parent.  This means that I've missed out on all of those parental brag moments.  My sister doesn't have kids either so the Aunt moments aren't there either.  I have a pair of almost nieces.  And I have a select group of kids that I consider spiritual children from my days as  a small group leader (the entity formerly known as Sunday School Teacher).   One of those kids is pursuing her dreams.  And finding them at times.  I find myself making comparisons between her and Raquel - my p
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I'm a Wee Bit Cranky

Yes, this is a work related ramble.  And I am about to spew on a likely unpopular opinion.  However, I'm cranky (which seems to be routine lately) and not sure I can work up a dang about caring about said upopular opinion. My boss came in late today because son needed to go to orthodontist.  Okay.  Same son has a track meet.  wife is sick.  So boss is now leaving early because son.   I'm single.  I do not have children.  Can I just randomly take afternoons off.  Even just half an hour.
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I win!

I have officially validated my novel.  It is, to be nice, crap.  But it is my crap.  Granted it will not see the light of day.  That is not what this exercise was about.  I've needed to get back to my writing.  At some point while struggling with this group of characters in search of a plot (thank you for that line Dave Berry) I found myself missing and thinking about what I've dubbed the 'novel that won't go away.' and plan on returning to it     While I work on getting that one printed out (t
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Census Reporting

So today I thought I was going to plunge into my favorite work duty this time of year, double checking standard costs for next year.  But no.  I walk past my mailbox, see an envelope and someone from Corporate has sent me a census form.   I have no one but myself to blame for my doing these.  Not just for my plant, but for the platform I work in.  You see back in 2011 or so the bosses said to me:  hey, would you mind taking the census reports from grumpy tax accountant and getting them taken ca
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