Folks get fired for that here.If the store says employees wear masks then they better wear them.
This morning we went to Home Depot and WalMart. I would say in those two stores that at least 95% of the people had masks on.
You just gotta learn to ignore the idiots like her.
However, I'm just enough of a smart __ that I'm afraid I'd have responded to her along the lines of, "I'm wearing this so I can continue to stay healthy and do my job...which is a healthcare worker taking care of others, like you! What's your reason for not wearing one?"
I’ve been surprised at how respectful the folks are here. The few not wearing masks make sure to give mask wearers a wide berth.
I have RTAs for that. I would not find it so funny. Although, jigsaw puzzles are like, fun for me when my mind is broken. My mom loves jigsaw puzzles so we did bunch when I moved to Tucson.
I have to go in this afternoon and like, figure out getting my stuff from work.. The husband is coming. It's a lot of stuff. Etc. Turn in my computer. Etc. I have not heard back from credentialing lady and I want to email her and say, "Did you get what you need?" But I am scared to, so maybe tomorrow. Seems a more appropriate time frame, really.
My husband agreed (I have been thinking so for a bit) that my extremities and feet are all swole up for like, no reason. I also have a couple of those "lesions" you can get on your feet.
Of COURSE my antibody test turned up negative. I officially have no insurance as of tomorrow I mean it should be backdated and all. I don't even know what to do because when I went to the ER the doc was all worried about my hands but did hear testing and stuff, so meh. They SAY all kinds of dire things about swelling and how it can lead to blood clots and strokes and stuff but since TWO tests turned up negative AND an antibody test, even though I just KEEP on getting COVID symptom it's not like my PCP would be all helpful today. He just wouldn't. I think I am just gonna NOT worry about it and keep my feet elevated for a bit. If I get a stroke "even among the youth" they say and once you pass 45 you are "Elderly" well I'm like, "Meh, it's not me that's gonna have to deal with it really, I mean, yeah I might have to do PT or whatever but with strokes, it has been my observation that the treatment team does a lot of the work. I'm probably wrong I bet being the patient sucks too.
Okay. So I got a few things on the agenda, and I am just doing what they say like common sense stuff such as keeping my feet elevated above my heart.
It really SUCKS (although maybe not I won't be put in a 14 day quarantine when I move if I move) to have ALL these COVID symptoms and negative tests I mean people don't believe you and say stuff like, "You have a bad cold." Only IT WAS NOT A BAD COLD I have never been this sick. Jeez. So no red COVID badge of COVID man. This also means I don't get to see my kid. Oh well. My mom says as soon as there is a vaccine or a cure, well, she will put him on a plane to WV and come visit me and my brother.
Onward and upward.; POOP.
Anna
Rather hoping you move somewhere that has a doctor that can tell you exactly what’s wrong.
At Walmart and our local Safeway almost everyone wears a mask. Meijer, very few masks. Hard to figure why that happens. Maybe people who want masks stopped going to Meijer, like I did. I haven't witnessed any friction between pro and anti mask people but I've read about quite a few incidents locally. It's just become a political/tribal thing now.
I read about some research from Europe where different countries tried different tactics. They concluded that closing schools didn't appear to make much difference, but masks make a huge difference. So the US closes schools and scorns masks. Another finding was that where masks were universally adopted then lockdowns were mostly not needed.
I'm starting to understand the thought process of the people that I work with that downplay the virus and won't wear a mask even though we could get fined for it by the city. Each person that I've talked to at work like that says that they don't know anyone who has gotten it. So in their mind, it's not real since they haven't seen it first hand. I feel sorry for them if one or all gets it. My boss's wife has blood cancer and one of the other guys wife has stage four breast cancer that has spread. If either one of them gets it and takes it home then they could doom their partner.
I agree with everything except that your wife might disagree
You’re very easy going
And, you reminded me to mix more blueberry milkshake when I get home. A few of the mixes I brought are keepers, but the rest are vape through and be dones. Fortunately (unfortunately ???) I’m stuck with them as my choices
I would say your boss has a good reason to demand masks get worn.
I don’t know how it is anywhere else but most of the big stores here will fire any employee they catch not wearing a mask.
On the local Nextdoor forum lots of people were complaining about Meijer employees not wearing masks or having them down around their necks. Several said they had spoken to the manager or called Meijer corporate. All they got was a standard response that it was company policy to wear masks. Nothing changed though. Maybe the local manager is anti-mask. Maybe the employees just take them off and the manager doesn't want the aggro of disciplining people.
At Walmart they have an employee standing by the carts full time wiping down every cart before you take it.
Walmart is the same here as to wiping down the carts. I made it a point to thank the guy today. I would think your Meier store would start losing customers.
So i have kinda an odd observation to make.
Friend from the vape shop gave me this today:
Just 10 flavor e-liquids in a sample box,i said cool i can try some new flavors.
So these come in 70VG/30PG with no nicotine,so i thought meh I'll rewick my nano and give the first flavor a try.
Wow!! So bland,not the flavor but no ''kick'' whatsoever,kinda surprised me.
Didn't know nicotine made such a difference and I've been vaping lately at only 3mg but yeah it really does make a difference.
When i started vaping i started at 6mg but then a couple weeks back i toned it down to 3mg but even then those 3mg make all the difference.
Sorry if it seems im rambling,to be honest i never tried no nicotine e-liquid so it just kinda surprised me.
Can't imagine people vaping with 20mg or 30mg,that must have some serious kick to it.
Friend from the vape shop gave me this today:
Just 10 flavor e-liquids in a sample box,i said cool i can try some new flavors.
So these come in 70VG/30PG with no nicotine,so i thought meh I'll rewick my nano and give the first flavor a try.
Wow!! So bland,not the flavor but no ''kick'' whatsoever,kinda surprised me.
Didn't know nicotine made such a difference and I've been vaping lately at only 3mg but yeah it really does make a difference.
When i started vaping i started at 6mg but then a couple weeks back i toned it down to 3mg but even then those 3mg make all the difference.
Sorry if it seems im rambling,to be honest i never tried no nicotine e-liquid so it just kinda surprised me.
Can't imagine people vaping with 20mg or 30mg,that must have some serious kick to it.
Their logic is wacked. Any 1 person they know could have come in contact anywhere and with someone you don't know. Thats why it is so easy to spread. Do you know where even 1 person comes and goes during the day or night that comes into contact with you that you don't know. Nuts.
Okay: I am going to note, when I clean I do not use gloves. Ever. This is not because I consider myself "hard core" or better than the cleansers and anything like that, it's actually because when you use gloves, you can't "feel" the dirt and everything like that, which is really.... You have to feel it. I am also not really scared of dirt. Usually.
Now, I want you to forget that fact, as I am trying to do, although it will be a miracle if I do not wind up with giardia or something worse.
So, our house does NOT look l like our house even slightly except for the one bathroom that somehow escaped more or less unscathed, although it now looks like the "Terrible" bathroom, it is the BAD one because the master bathroom is all remodeled. Which is really better, that one happened.
So what goes down with contractors is, at first you are all like, "How lovely it all looks" only when you get all personal with it, really everything is also COVERED with fine sheen of patina of dirt/worse than dirt. They don't wash their hands. Also, when you remodel on a budget you get things like "Husband's bathroom vanity (because it mostly survived) now mysteriously covered in glue, and the original toilet which is NOT cool at all because it stands out INTENSELY and you are like, "Doood….. why did they not replace the toilet? I mean it just stands out like a SORE THUMB." Anyway I arrived and the husband was painting the house, the front, and trust me he did far more labor (well maybe not, probably but most importantly he did it OUTSIDE and that sucks. It was like 107.) There was much lamenting because something went wrong with the paint .and the sprayer was spraying unevenly. I told him when it dried it would be fine but he still hand painted all the bits he thought were bad.
So I immediately inspected everything and went into house cleaning mode extraordinare. If I ever had another kid, well, that is what I would do because I am awesome at it. I am extra awesome when dealing with "new'" Fd up houses, because I KNOW contractors, how intimately I know them. I told the husband to give me his "Razor blade tool" and got all the glue off the counter tops without ruining them. This is why you need to "feel" the dirt, like razor blade tool sometimes needed to gently skid, or like, just scrape, hard.
I cleaned the bathtub and that was easy. The contractors did not put the mirror back up for the sinks, after breaking two other ones. Jerks. Anyway it was time to TURN to the toilet.
Oh I looked despairingly at and also asked the husband like, if he was going to replace the "sit on" part, and he said yes, so I knew what I had to do. I gave some cleanser a shot. The got rid of SOME poop, I mean a reasonable amount but the dang toilet had ALL those mineral deposits and it just was WRONG I was like, "I have to get this GONE etc." I thought about what tools and cleaners I had AVAILABLE to me, and I knew there was only one way forward. I mean even bleach won't get those deposits up. So, I took a deep breath, and grabbed my razor blade tool and plunged it INTO the toilet. I kept saying, "Anna this was YOUR toilet and also, you have cleaned it enough that it's only your mind." It didn't matter much but I Tried Hard to Think It. Anyway, like that razor blade deal is my new favorite tool. It scraped off ALL mineral deposits, including the ones that like run DOWN from the side. Perhaps some of you with terrible water may know what I mean. They also freaking BOLTED it to the floor, without doing it correctly and there was all this visible rust, which I was ALSO able to remove. I was shocked I could, honestly but by the time I had FINISHED I had a toilet (if you forget the seat) that looked BRAND new. IT seriously did. The husband would up having to agree I was a better cleaner than he. In fact he was like "How did you do that?" After I cut myself IN the toilet, on my pinky and it just wouldn't stop bleeding even with pressure so I had to get him for band aids. I made him look, and he was cranky at first, then had to admit my usefulness. I told him "Sheer willpower." It kind of was. I mean.... I just looked at it and was like, "Yeah, we can't be HAVING that." I just experimented until I was able to "make it so."
It really was not great for me, but now our "new' master bathroom actually looked new. I mean, I cleaned the seat anyway, because I am well aware of the husband's unpredictable way of just SAYING "Goodbye house" when a few things like oh, emptying out the refrigerator and making sure all trash is gone is like IMPORTANT. Which is why I will be traveling with him to the house now, every time, to make sure he does not DO that. We have a REASONABLE shot at making some dough on this sucker, if we just FINISH etc.
Then, I smoked a cigarette. It was more I was trying to chill the husband out for a bit but also, I felt I deserved it after the toilet, I really did. It was a pall mall. It had a filter. I thought that brand was all unfiltered. It's not. It tasted awesome and I don't regret it. Because it probably saved me from some toilet borne pathogenic disease.
SO I expected the toilet in the OTHER bathroom to be easier. It was OFFICIALLY not. This is because this is the toilet the contractors used. Seriously, had I known the way contractors like, manage to express their passive aggressive hate for you via one of your bathrooms, well, I would have demanded a porta potty. I asked the husband if this was so, and he said, "OMG yeah, it is completely that way it was so disgusting I had to clean it." I was like, incredulously "YOU CLEANED IT ALREADY?" I started cataloging the poop on the floor NEXT to the toilet and how it had SPATTERED against the wainscoting he had put in there, etc. and how I was having trouble and going "My kid and husband used this bathroom" only I KNEW they would never perpetrate the horrors there. The husband had not looked closely in the cleaning arena as I did, because he was more focused on other stuff. He was like, "THEY KILLED my wall?" I was like "RELAX honey I got everything off." So the poop everywhere like on the nice wooden vanity and floor and all was easy to remove. I mean, really. The toilet was a lot more difficult because I guess every porcelain is different and this one really wanted to scratch. So I had to be masterfully um, careful thinking the whole time "I am never doing this again."
It's not true it appears to be my destiny to ALWAYS be moving but I am very sick of it and I don't want to do it ever again. I am going to have to, I bet, at least once. Anyway, so then I went after the bathtub which was also foul. My razor blade had gotten blunt, or I would have gotten the purple pain that has been there forever but before I go down next time I am buying a ton more bleach and 100 more razor blades and I will finish it. Because right now, it's not complete but I was like, "I can't do it. Not with what I have." I told the husband my recommendation was for a brand new "anti slip" covering that you can get, with the empty vinyl package next to it, as in, "Look we have lovingly cared for you by purchasing an anti slip covering." I told the husband the dumb people would fall for it, and the smart ones would be, like "Cheaters." I also told him I could manage substantial improvement and not that DAY. He does not believe me about the purple paint but boy am I ever gonna show HIM.
Then, I lay on the carpeted (it is surprisingly nice carpet) living room floor and whatever for a bit. I washed a few windows and attacked several of the old appliances. We HAD to get new ones for some because they had yellowed completely and were not looking great. NOW the new ones look GREAT (after removing the patina of contractor dirt/poop) compared to the old ones. I spent a LONG time on the stove for example and I am not even done. But by then it was 4 pm and it felt like the longest day on earth, longer than this post even, and well, I am now no longer afraid of ANY toilet. None. I can beat them, and I can vanquish them.
So we came back to Douglas and the husband was not that impressed at first with my awesome work. Probably because he had seen my toilets (although the ones here are fine) but as he woke up this morning he was more impressed with all my organization and cleaning. Which is quite lucky for him, frankly. As I told him, "I cleaned.... and then I cleaned HARDER."
But, I will have to go back with the husband we both will probably. There is no one you can hire who cleans like I do and I have a feeling the contractors will not want to do our front steps which the husband will have to do. I feel bad for him but facts are facts, there need to be stairs that don't stop the 1200 security gate door from hitting the railing.
I can clean it all.
My empire of dirt.
LOL
Anna
Now, I want you to forget that fact, as I am trying to do, although it will be a miracle if I do not wind up with giardia or something worse.
So, our house does NOT look l like our house even slightly except for the one bathroom that somehow escaped more or less unscathed, although it now looks like the "Terrible" bathroom, it is the BAD one because the master bathroom is all remodeled. Which is really better, that one happened.
So what goes down with contractors is, at first you are all like, "How lovely it all looks" only when you get all personal with it, really everything is also COVERED with fine sheen of patina of dirt/worse than dirt. They don't wash their hands. Also, when you remodel on a budget you get things like "Husband's bathroom vanity (because it mostly survived) now mysteriously covered in glue, and the original toilet which is NOT cool at all because it stands out INTENSELY and you are like, "Doood….. why did they not replace the toilet? I mean it just stands out like a SORE THUMB." Anyway I arrived and the husband was painting the house, the front, and trust me he did far more labor (well maybe not, probably but most importantly he did it OUTSIDE and that sucks. It was like 107.) There was much lamenting because something went wrong with the paint .and the sprayer was spraying unevenly. I told him when it dried it would be fine but he still hand painted all the bits he thought were bad.
So I immediately inspected everything and went into house cleaning mode extraordinare. If I ever had another kid, well, that is what I would do because I am awesome at it. I am extra awesome when dealing with "new'" Fd up houses, because I KNOW contractors, how intimately I know them. I told the husband to give me his "Razor blade tool" and got all the glue off the counter tops without ruining them. This is why you need to "feel" the dirt, like razor blade tool sometimes needed to gently skid, or like, just scrape, hard.
I cleaned the bathtub and that was easy. The contractors did not put the mirror back up for the sinks, after breaking two other ones. Jerks. Anyway it was time to TURN to the toilet.
Oh I looked despairingly at and also asked the husband like, if he was going to replace the "sit on" part, and he said yes, so I knew what I had to do. I gave some cleanser a shot. The got rid of SOME poop, I mean a reasonable amount but the dang toilet had ALL those mineral deposits and it just was WRONG I was like, "I have to get this GONE etc." I thought about what tools and cleaners I had AVAILABLE to me, and I knew there was only one way forward. I mean even bleach won't get those deposits up. So, I took a deep breath, and grabbed my razor blade tool and plunged it INTO the toilet. I kept saying, "Anna this was YOUR toilet and also, you have cleaned it enough that it's only your mind." It didn't matter much but I Tried Hard to Think It. Anyway, like that razor blade deal is my new favorite tool. It scraped off ALL mineral deposits, including the ones that like run DOWN from the side. Perhaps some of you with terrible water may know what I mean. They also freaking BOLTED it to the floor, without doing it correctly and there was all this visible rust, which I was ALSO able to remove. I was shocked I could, honestly but by the time I had FINISHED I had a toilet (if you forget the seat) that looked BRAND new. IT seriously did. The husband would up having to agree I was a better cleaner than he. In fact he was like "How did you do that?" After I cut myself IN the toilet, on my pinky and it just wouldn't stop bleeding even with pressure so I had to get him for band aids. I made him look, and he was cranky at first, then had to admit my usefulness. I told him "Sheer willpower." It kind of was. I mean.... I just looked at it and was like, "Yeah, we can't be HAVING that." I just experimented until I was able to "make it so."
It really was not great for me, but now our "new' master bathroom actually looked new. I mean, I cleaned the seat anyway, because I am well aware of the husband's unpredictable way of just SAYING "Goodbye house" when a few things like oh, emptying out the refrigerator and making sure all trash is gone is like IMPORTANT. Which is why I will be traveling with him to the house now, every time, to make sure he does not DO that. We have a REASONABLE shot at making some dough on this sucker, if we just FINISH etc.
Then, I smoked a cigarette. It was more I was trying to chill the husband out for a bit but also, I felt I deserved it after the toilet, I really did. It was a pall mall. It had a filter. I thought that brand was all unfiltered. It's not. It tasted awesome and I don't regret it. Because it probably saved me from some toilet borne pathogenic disease.
SO I expected the toilet in the OTHER bathroom to be easier. It was OFFICIALLY not. This is because this is the toilet the contractors used. Seriously, had I known the way contractors like, manage to express their passive aggressive hate for you via one of your bathrooms, well, I would have demanded a porta potty. I asked the husband if this was so, and he said, "OMG yeah, it is completely that way it was so disgusting I had to clean it." I was like, incredulously "YOU CLEANED IT ALREADY?" I started cataloging the poop on the floor NEXT to the toilet and how it had SPATTERED against the wainscoting he had put in there, etc. and how I was having trouble and going "My kid and husband used this bathroom" only I KNEW they would never perpetrate the horrors there. The husband had not looked closely in the cleaning arena as I did, because he was more focused on other stuff. He was like, "THEY KILLED my wall?" I was like "RELAX honey I got everything off." So the poop everywhere like on the nice wooden vanity and floor and all was easy to remove. I mean, really. The toilet was a lot more difficult because I guess every porcelain is different and this one really wanted to scratch. So I had to be masterfully um, careful thinking the whole time "I am never doing this again."
It's not true it appears to be my destiny to ALWAYS be moving but I am very sick of it and I don't want to do it ever again. I am going to have to, I bet, at least once. Anyway, so then I went after the bathtub which was also foul. My razor blade had gotten blunt, or I would have gotten the purple pain that has been there forever but before I go down next time I am buying a ton more bleach and 100 more razor blades and I will finish it. Because right now, it's not complete but I was like, "I can't do it. Not with what I have." I told the husband my recommendation was for a brand new "anti slip" covering that you can get, with the empty vinyl package next to it, as in, "Look we have lovingly cared for you by purchasing an anti slip covering." I told the husband the dumb people would fall for it, and the smart ones would be, like "Cheaters." I also told him I could manage substantial improvement and not that DAY. He does not believe me about the purple paint but boy am I ever gonna show HIM.
Then, I lay on the carpeted (it is surprisingly nice carpet) living room floor and whatever for a bit. I washed a few windows and attacked several of the old appliances. We HAD to get new ones for some because they had yellowed completely and were not looking great. NOW the new ones look GREAT (after removing the patina of contractor dirt/poop) compared to the old ones. I spent a LONG time on the stove for example and I am not even done. But by then it was 4 pm and it felt like the longest day on earth, longer than this post even, and well, I am now no longer afraid of ANY toilet. None. I can beat them, and I can vanquish them.
So we came back to Douglas and the husband was not that impressed at first with my awesome work. Probably because he had seen my toilets (although the ones here are fine) but as he woke up this morning he was more impressed with all my organization and cleaning. Which is quite lucky for him, frankly. As I told him, "I cleaned.... and then I cleaned HARDER."
But, I will have to go back with the husband we both will probably. There is no one you can hire who cleans like I do and I have a feeling the contractors will not want to do our front steps which the husband will have to do. I feel bad for him but facts are facts, there need to be stairs that don't stop the 1200 security gate door from hitting the railing.
I can clean it all.
My empire of dirt.
LOL
Anna
I purchased the Water-Malone with my order of the scale too. Plus blue raspberry and vanilla ice cream. I have heard good things about Water-Malone so I am excited to try.
In AZ everyone is wearing a mask now. But like, our numbers are skyrocketing because everyone was all NOT vigilant at first, and now things are reopening.
They are talking about reopening schools with masks and social distancing. A radio psychologist talked at length about how a lot of kids would be totally traumatized. I tend to agree. I mean maybe the high schoolers could manage it, but the elementary students? No way.
Anna
They are talking about reopening schools with masks and social distancing. A radio psychologist talked at length about how a lot of kids would be totally traumatized. I tend to agree. I mean maybe the high schoolers could manage it, but the elementary students? No way.
Anna
I would agree. I have tried without nic and it just doesn't work. I normally use 12mg in my rtas but have to mix 6mg when testing the high power mods and tanks for reviews. I don't know that I'll ever consistently go lower than 12. I started at 36, went to 32 and 24. From there I was at 20 for a long time and just gradually worked my way down to 12.
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