The Old Folks Home

[pennyJo1960]

@chickisoup yup old fogies here also suppose to be down to 11 here
winter aerobics is us putti8ng chickens away checking outside kitties box
making sure clean water and food for them keep the heater on in the Shasta
more for me than them

 

[bruceha2000]

Nothing more fun than pulling a ton of snow down on your feet (and hopefully not your head)! Then, of course, you have a massive pile of snow that turns to ice all around the building.

I need the opposite of a roof rake, I need a pusher. It would be far easier to push snow on part of the front porch roof from the bedroom window that opens just above it than to try and reach it with a rake. You really need to be standing on a ladder to clear a fairly flat roof from below.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I have an interview tomorrow.

I hate clothes shopping.

I dislike most people. I hate talking to them. I hate listening to them.

I hate being out in public.

I wear dumpy scrubs every day for work. Jeans or sweats and a t shirt most non work days.

I realized 2 weeks ago with the interview looming that I'll need to put my big girl panties on and go suit shopping so that I could look nice and professional. I thought about it every day and how I should just go get it done.

Naturally I waited until the last minute (tonight). In an ice storm.


I'm built like a linebacker. I can split firewood with a maul. I carry feed sacks around. Saturday I chopped a partially fallen tree the rest of the way down, put the pieces of trunk on my shoulder and walked it up my hilly driveway. I'm not petite. I'm sturdy. And ok I'll admit it, fat.

And apparently suits are not built for female linebackers.

I already hate clothes shopping. Add to it putting on a suit and then looking in the mirror and trying to figure out why I look like something the cat threw up on the rug.

After 90 minutes of "this can't possibly be real," I bought a nice sweater, instead.


Al and I should go shopping together and tape it. That'd be comedic gold.

 

[perchie.girl]

I have an interview tomorrow.

I hate clothes shopping.

I dislike most people. I hate talking to them. I hate listening to them.

I hate being out in public.

I wear dumpy scrubs every day for work. Jeans or sweats and a t shirt most non work days.

I realized 2 weeks ago with the interview looming that I'll need to put my big girl panties on and go suit shopping so that I could look nice and professional. I thought about it every day and how I should just go get it done.

Naturally I waited until the last minute (tonight). In an ice storm.


I'm built like a linebacker. I can split firewood with a maul. I carry feed sacks around. Saturday I chopped a partially fallen tree the rest of the way down, put the pieces of trunk on my shoulder and walked it up my hilly driveway. I'm not petite. I'm sturdy. And ok I'll admit it, fat.

And apparently suits are not built for female linebackers.

I already hate clothes shopping. Add to it putting on a suit and then looking in the mirror and trying to figure out why I look like something the cat threw up on the rug.

After 90 minutes of "this can't possibly be real," I bought a nice sweater, instead.


Al and I should go shopping together and tape it. That'd be comedic gold.

good luck

 

[getaclue]

Good luck with the interview!!

 

[ronott1]

I have an interview tomorrow.

I hate clothes shopping.

I dislike most people. I hate talking to them. I hate listening to them.

I hate being out in public.

I wear dumpy scrubs every day for work. Jeans or sweats and a t shirt most non work days.

I realized 2 weeks ago with the interview looming that I'll need to put my big girl panties on and go suit shopping so that I could look nice and professional. I thought about it every day and how I should just go get it done.

Naturally I waited until the last minute (tonight). In an ice storm.


I'm built like a linebacker. I can split firewood with a maul. I carry feed sacks around. Saturday I chopped a partially fallen tree the rest of the way down, put the pieces of trunk on my shoulder and walked it up my hilly driveway. I'm not petite. I'm sturdy. And ok I'll admit it, fat.

And apparently suits are not built for female linebackers.

I already hate clothes shopping. Add to it putting on a suit and then looking in the mirror and trying to figure out why I look like something the cat threw up on the rug.

After 90 minutes of "this can't possibly be real," I bought a nice sweater, instead.


Al and I should go shopping together and tape it. That'd be comedic gold.

Maybe this will help?

I hope the interview goes well

 

[pennyJo1960]

@superchemicalgirl I think most of hate something about us in suits and sweaters are great

 

[Alaskan]

I have an interview tomorrow. 

Al and I should go shopping together and tape it. That'd be comedic gold. 

And how would that be funny?

You would never get me in the store.

We could go window shopping, yeah, and I would say "ha! Not going in there!" At every place we passed.

If somehow you bribed or tricked me to get inside.... no way would I try on the clothes!


Last time I tried to go clothes shopping...I went with my niece...I hoped she could help me out...lots of my t-shirts have holes, I thought a new one without holes would be nice. So we walked into the place where I had bought two t-shirts 25 to 28 years ago. I still wear them, and I like them...but they have a few holes.

So, I looked...none of the shirts looked at all like the ones that I bought there 25 to 28 years back...whenever that was.

I sighed deeply, and said I guessed we should leave.

Niece said "but this one looks nice, or what about this one?", but since I was moving out the door, she gave up and followed me out.

I am telling you, they did NOT have the same shirts. I wanted replacements. guess the old ones will have to do.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I know just what you are talking about I bought a very nice wool coat ankle length very conservative
close to 12 years ago still have that coat but I seem to have developed a bit in the shoulders, maybe
a bit more in the gut and you gals know what else can get larger when we gain wieght
Think I could find a replacement of that under 500.00 took me 4 hours I cheat did it all online
and only 139.99

 

[Latestarter]

Sorry you (feel) you look like a linebacker SCG, Sorry (like most of us) you hate clothes shopping. Sorry you think you're fat. Sorry (like many of us) you tend to be a loner. Super happy that you are physically able to do all the chores around the homestead that you do. Nice sweaters are, well, nice. Best of luck on your interview