First off I want to wish everyone a very Happy Easter regardless of
how you chose to spend it or what your beliefs are! Around here it
should be a quiet day. D will go to work today as usual and unless
D brings the grandkids by, we have no real plans. I didn't even try
to put together any kind of a family gathering because of D having to
work today. It is so hard getting everyone together early enough in
the day to allow him to not have to rush eating & such before he
leaves.
I've gotten all 3 pair of socks past the heel portion on the 3 pair I have on the needles. So they are all coming along. Yesterday I got 2 eBay purchases in - 2 different Vera Bradley bags in the retired Nantucket Navy design. A few years back, A & J bought me a bag in a red design and a wallet in the blue Nantucket Navy design. Well the red bag has developed some rips & worn spots, so I decided to see if I could find matching bags for the wallet. I have found 3 recently. 1 is good for times when I won't be taking my knitting, a book or anything like that with me & the 2 newest bags will both allow me to take something with me. One is identical to the red bag A & J bought me, but in the navy and the other is an adjustable 1 strapped bag that looks more purse than general bag. So I have both in washing them right now.
Last Easter I had bought some collapsible Easter baskets & grass at Wal-mart at a greatly reduced price. I don't remember why, but I had the 3 grandkids with me when I was buying them & they wanted to know why I was buying 5 of everything. Well, D was dating J and it was beginning to look like it could be serious, besides, if they didn't stay together, then I could always save the extra 2 for another year. So Friday night I bought the items to fill them. Either the kids will get their baskets today or I will take them to the kids next weekend. J's kids wouldn't get theirs until next weekend anyway when J has them again.
Speaking of J's girls, I have decided to start having D's kids for 2 nights on their weekends, rather than just 1. Then that will allow us to each only make 1 round trip each weekend. I will pick up J's daughters from his ex-wife every other Friday night and take them to him, take 1 of his girls to dinner with 1 of D's and then drop that daughter back off before coming on home with the other child. Then on Sundays, when D or J brings back his daughters, they will pick up whatever child I have with me. This will cut down on driving & miles since it is a 60 mile round trip for each trip - so instead of the other idea where we would alternate the weekends that 1 of us drove 2 round trips, then will cut out 1 round trip entirely per weekend, so 120 miles a month will be saved between the 2 of us.
I think I made my mom group on yahoogroups upset with me this week. I have been a part of this group for at least 10 years now, maybe 12 or 13. But in the last year I have rarely posted. Maybe even closer to 2 years. There is 1 woman in particular who is a moderator of the group and who is very vocal about her religious beliefs as well as her political beliefs. During the time that President Obama was running for President, she was very likely to be passing on all of the internet garbage that was seeking to destroy him on speculation - including things that if you looked them up on sites like www.snopes.com, they were false or unproven. Then once he became President, she started in sending more things about stuff like this - but in this case, things that supposedly he had done in a sneaky manner, etc. But if you researched them, you would find that they were things that had been happening for a long time, weren't quite the way the emails were spinning it or were totally false. All the while continuing to also send messages that support her religious beliefs. And these are never things that she is writing. They are always things she is forwarding to the group. So I had been enjoying the group less & less because it had pretty much become her solitary group. Hardly anyone else ever posted and I don't know if it is because they also had similar feelings or if it was like the woman that we had who joined us for a while and it became apparent that she had different religious beliefs & was maybe from the middle-east somewhere - but it wasn't too long & she was gone. Probably because of feeling that her opinions wouldn't be welcome. Anyway, Friday I posted a message - after another one of the forwards, about personally wishing we could keep the religion & politics out of the group and that this was the reason I had stopped posting. That evening the woman came back with a message about how she knew I was referring to her and that she would stop posting all together. I sent a reply, that has never come through, about not wanting anyone to stop posting, but feeling like there were 3 things that would be sure to damage a friendship - loaning money, talking religion & talking politics. But like I said - that message has never come through, so I am pretty sure I am now being moderated. But yesterday bright & early - there was another forward from this other woman. This time it was about Easter and was not religious or political in nature. Which I have no issue with. I don't even have a problem on an occasional basis, but if that is all that is coming from the group, it gets old. There were 3 other replies to the whole thing. One from a long-time personal friend saying she misses my posts & that she doesn't have an issue with the things the other person posts - in fact, she is usually the only one who responds to this other person's postings. Another saying that is what the delete button is for - which I have been using for well over a year! And the 3rd is from a woman that A & I met after our first cruise who had called me a while back saying something about not wanting to lose contact with me, but I never figured out what the true issue with that was - I just know that she doesn't hardly ever post either, but saying that the older she gets the more religion & politics becomes more & more important to her. So at this point, I still don't know if I want to stay with the group or not.
Well, guess I had better get off here. Have some dishes to get in the dishwasher, etc. before I start getting things organized for another week of work. Hope everyone is having a great weekend!
I've gotten all 3 pair of socks past the heel portion on the 3 pair I have on the needles. So they are all coming along. Yesterday I got 2 eBay purchases in - 2 different Vera Bradley bags in the retired Nantucket Navy design. A few years back, A & J bought me a bag in a red design and a wallet in the blue Nantucket Navy design. Well the red bag has developed some rips & worn spots, so I decided to see if I could find matching bags for the wallet. I have found 3 recently. 1 is good for times when I won't be taking my knitting, a book or anything like that with me & the 2 newest bags will both allow me to take something with me. One is identical to the red bag A & J bought me, but in the navy and the other is an adjustable 1 strapped bag that looks more purse than general bag. So I have both in washing them right now.
Last Easter I had bought some collapsible Easter baskets & grass at Wal-mart at a greatly reduced price. I don't remember why, but I had the 3 grandkids with me when I was buying them & they wanted to know why I was buying 5 of everything. Well, D was dating J and it was beginning to look like it could be serious, besides, if they didn't stay together, then I could always save the extra 2 for another year. So Friday night I bought the items to fill them. Either the kids will get their baskets today or I will take them to the kids next weekend. J's kids wouldn't get theirs until next weekend anyway when J has them again.
Speaking of J's girls, I have decided to start having D's kids for 2 nights on their weekends, rather than just 1. Then that will allow us to each only make 1 round trip each weekend. I will pick up J's daughters from his ex-wife every other Friday night and take them to him, take 1 of his girls to dinner with 1 of D's and then drop that daughter back off before coming on home with the other child. Then on Sundays, when D or J brings back his daughters, they will pick up whatever child I have with me. This will cut down on driving & miles since it is a 60 mile round trip for each trip - so instead of the other idea where we would alternate the weekends that 1 of us drove 2 round trips, then will cut out 1 round trip entirely per weekend, so 120 miles a month will be saved between the 2 of us.
I think I made my mom group on yahoogroups upset with me this week. I have been a part of this group for at least 10 years now, maybe 12 or 13. But in the last year I have rarely posted. Maybe even closer to 2 years. There is 1 woman in particular who is a moderator of the group and who is very vocal about her religious beliefs as well as her political beliefs. During the time that President Obama was running for President, she was very likely to be passing on all of the internet garbage that was seeking to destroy him on speculation - including things that if you looked them up on sites like www.snopes.com, they were false or unproven. Then once he became President, she started in sending more things about stuff like this - but in this case, things that supposedly he had done in a sneaky manner, etc. But if you researched them, you would find that they were things that had been happening for a long time, weren't quite the way the emails were spinning it or were totally false. All the while continuing to also send messages that support her religious beliefs. And these are never things that she is writing. They are always things she is forwarding to the group. So I had been enjoying the group less & less because it had pretty much become her solitary group. Hardly anyone else ever posted and I don't know if it is because they also had similar feelings or if it was like the woman that we had who joined us for a while and it became apparent that she had different religious beliefs & was maybe from the middle-east somewhere - but it wasn't too long & she was gone. Probably because of feeling that her opinions wouldn't be welcome. Anyway, Friday I posted a message - after another one of the forwards, about personally wishing we could keep the religion & politics out of the group and that this was the reason I had stopped posting. That evening the woman came back with a message about how she knew I was referring to her and that she would stop posting all together. I sent a reply, that has never come through, about not wanting anyone to stop posting, but feeling like there were 3 things that would be sure to damage a friendship - loaning money, talking religion & talking politics. But like I said - that message has never come through, so I am pretty sure I am now being moderated. But yesterday bright & early - there was another forward from this other woman. This time it was about Easter and was not religious or political in nature. Which I have no issue with. I don't even have a problem on an occasional basis, but if that is all that is coming from the group, it gets old. There were 3 other replies to the whole thing. One from a long-time personal friend saying she misses my posts & that she doesn't have an issue with the things the other person posts - in fact, she is usually the only one who responds to this other person's postings. Another saying that is what the delete button is for - which I have been using for well over a year! And the 3rd is from a woman that A & I met after our first cruise who had called me a while back saying something about not wanting to lose contact with me, but I never figured out what the true issue with that was - I just know that she doesn't hardly ever post either, but saying that the older she gets the more religion & politics becomes more & more important to her. So at this point, I still don't know if I want to stay with the group or not.
Well, guess I had better get off here. Have some dishes to get in the dishwasher, etc. before I start getting things organized for another week of work. Hope everyone is having a great weekend!
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