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Take time to figure out what you really want to do. Three years into retirement I am still figuring it all out but loving it.
 
*Bette breaks out the special stash of single malt just for Pinga. There's also a tray of sliced fresh Ace bakery baguette, and a beautiful ceramic bowl containing the best Stilton pate ever. Improbably decorated with sage flowers, because this is virtual, and I jump ahead to July...*
 
Thanks Tabitha.

I played euchre quite late last night (didn't leave until 12:45pm), and don't think I got to bed until almost 2am!
Now, normally I can sleep in very easily but today? Woke up at 7:22am. Ouch.

The euchre was at a local United church and their games night, might have already mentioned it. It is every Friday night, and a lot of fun.
Good people, good fun. Cheap night. Cost me $8 including admission, a soda and some nachos/dip.

Today, my husband & I, his sister and her husband and his brother and his wife are going out for dinner to the Keg. I will use some gift cards to pay for all our meals, or a good chunk of them. We will be celebrating that I am joining the ranks of the retired. All but my brother-in-law's wife are also now retired.

Hoping everyone has a good day.
 
Hooray for you Pinga. Congratulations on your retirement. I hope you have a great one. Now you'll have time to rest and relax. Maybe take up a new hobby, like collecting Trump cards.
 
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Happy birthday to Pinga! Take a bow, you're the star today! Hope you have a great celebration. All the best for the coming year. Hip-hip-hooray for Pinga!
 
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Primarily relax ... I've been retied since 55 (15 years) and I still find cereus people cause me to wake up in the morning wishing I could work on getting them to know institutional knowledge is not all there is ... but I have no control over their crazy desire to run life on the power of wile, wishes, and desire alone ... so virtue of co operation is also required but in rare form in a world build on assertiveness and its variants of degrees thereof ... consider the source of road rage!

When questioned on the topic they say its just the way it is on their side of the road ... which they say they control all of ...
 
Happy birthday Pinga.
Just got back from a seriously long wait at a walk-in clinic. The doctor is only a doctor-in-training so he needs to connect via video with a Toronto doctor to make the real decisions. I was worried that I had Shingles due to a rash on my leg. They think it's because I had an allergic reaction to aloe vera, which I used to treat myself when I fell and hurt my leg. The aloe vera is from a real plant in my kitchen window. I thought natural was a good way to go...Anyway, the young doctor in training was as cute as a button. He was from Egypt and told me he has a sister named Nancy so he really likes my name! Cute, cute, cute. And younger than my kids. As was my dentist earlier in the week. I thought growing old would take longer...It snuck up on me!
 
I don't think that Fredericton is as isolated as Nancy's hometown, but a few years ago, a few weeks after my first cataract surgery my eye started swelling, turning red, and hurting - especially in the light. I couldn't phone my ophthalmologist. I went to the hospital emergency room. The ER doctor who saw me was very kind. He got in touch with the ophthalmologist on call, in Saint John, and discussed my case. Diagnosis: imflamation. Simple treatment. Relief within hours.
The next day my ophthalmologist called to check on me. We went ahead with surgery on my second eye a couple of days later, as scheduled - something that couldn't have happened if the inflamation hadn't been dealt with in a timely manner through the modern miracle of electronic communications.
 
I am doubting my diagnosis, and now wondering what to do next. They said it was an allergy to aloe vera, but I had put the aloe vera on the other side of my leg. Today, there are new patches of bubbly rash. I'm still thinking shingles.
 
Oh dear - sorry to hear that Nancy - is the rash painful, itchy? I'd probably go back to the doc for a second look. There are effective medications for shingles, but they need to be started quickly once the rash appears - which is what influences my inclination to return to the doc. They can also take a culture from the rash to double check - perhaps they might consider starting the meds just in case & waiting then for confirmation by culture.
 
Oh, Nancy. I agree with Carolla. I know rashes are hard to diagnose, so the changes will probably alter the diagnosis.
Hoping you can get it resolved.

I was wide awake at 7am this morning...got up...had breakfast. Did a bit of housework. Went through clothes to take on vacation. Sat down to read a book around 10:30 ....and woke up at 2:30pm. Guess I wasn't ready to get up after all. Hah.
 
Nancy said:
I am doubting my diagnosis, and now wondering what to do next. They said it was an allergy to aloe vera, but I had put the aloe vera on the other side of my leg. Today, there are new patches of bubbly rash. I'm still thinking shingles.
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My rash (see a few posts up) had me worrying, too, but things I read seemed to say otherwise. Everything I read said shingles should be painful and mine wasn't, just itchy as all hell and that intermittently. When I saw the doctor who actually diagnosed it (as opposed to my family doctor who just looked at it, scratched his head, and pulled out a referral form), he said right away that it was not shingles and that it was just a bad flareup of an existing condition (something my family doc had actually thought was not the case). So, get thee to a doctor, a different one if necessary, and see what they say.
 
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