I gave up on them, Lilly. I boiled some rice instead. Refrigerator had all my eggs frozen. I am trying to turn it down. The smoke is clearing now after I opened the door, lol.
About 2 years ago my wife and I were on a cruise through the western Mediterranean aboard a Princess liner. At dinner we noticed an elderly lady sitting alone along the rail of the grand stairway in the main dining room. I also noticed that all the staff, ships officers, waiters, busboys, etc., all seemed very familiar with this lady. I asked our waiter who the lady was, expecting to be told that she owned the line, but he said he only knew that she had been on board for the last four cruises, back-to-back.
As we left the dining room one evening I caught her eye and stopped to say hello. We chatted and I said, "I understand you've been on this ship for the last four cruises". She replied, "Yes, that's true." I stated, "I don't understand" and she replied, without a pause, "It's cheaper than a nursing home".
So, there will be no nursing home in my future. When I get old and feeble, I am going to get on a Princess Cruise Ship. The average cost for a nursing home is $200 per day. I have checked on reservations on a Princess and I can get a long term discount and senior discount price of $135 per day. That leaves $65 a day for:
1. Gratuities which will only be $10 per day.
2. I will have as many as 10 meals a day if I can waddle to the restaurant, or I can have room service (which means I can have breakfast-in-bed every day of the week).
3. Princess has as many as three swimming pools, a workout room, free washers and dryers, and shows every night.
4. They have free toothpaste and razors, and free soap and shampoo.
5. They will even treat you like a customer, not a patient. An extra $5 worth of tips will have the entire staff scrambling to help you.
6. I will get to meet new people every 7 or 14 days.
7. T.V. broken? Light bulb need changing? Need to have the mattress replaced? No Problem! They will fix everything and apologize for your inconvenience.
8. Clean sheets and towels every day, and you don't even have to ask for them.
9. If you fall in the nursing home and break a hip you are on Medicare; if you fall and break a hip on the Princess ship they will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life.
Now hold on for the best! Do you want to see South America, the Panama Canal, Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, or name where you want to go?
Princess will have a ship ready to go. So don't look for me in a nursing home, just call shore to ship.
ps: And don't forget, when you die, they just dump you over the side -- at no charge.
Wow, you must got one of them women with the strong teeth, lol. I would be careful with those ones Allen if they can chew through net and duct tape, lol.
Yeah, and I bet anything it was chocholate my favorite and I don't have any recollection about it. I guess that is what I get for missing my own wedding, lol.
Oh, wow, I got married, jeez, why I am always the last to know. I bet it was a real nice wedding with cake and pie. Jeez, it ain't fair. I didn't even get invited to my own wedding, lol.
Pedro and Maria got married. Pedro was a "man about town" so to speak, but Maria was very naive and uninformed about the birds and the bees.
Pedro was a poor working man and could not afford to take time off for a honeymoon. So, that night they retired to his little shack. When Pedro was undressing Maria said,
"Oh Pedro, what is that?"
Pedro being very quick thinking said, "Maria, I am the only man in the world with one of these." And, then, he proceeded to show her what it was for, and Maria was happy.
The next morning Pedro went off to work as usual. When he returned home that evening, Maria was on the front porch obviously upset about something.
"Pedro, you told me that you were the only man in the world with one of those, and I saw Gonzalez the gardener changing his clothes behind the shed, and he had one, too."
Thinking fast, Pedro said, "Oh, Maria, Gonzalez is my very best friend. I had two of them so I gave him one. He is the only other man in the world with one of those"
Maria being very stupid accepted his answer and they did their thing again that night.
Pedro went off to work, again, the next morning and, when he returned home, Maria was very upset, stamping her foot on the porch.
I got the directory list and can do Sunday morning 10am, Sunday griefshare 4:30 pm, Monday night 7pm, freak out till Thursday 7pm and Friday 7pm. I go to work and am okay till I get home and I just want to scream, lol. Fortunately, we are getting to work overtime. It gets where I would rather be at work than come home somedays. I am glad I got my dog but jeez, lol. You know some days are okay and some days are real terrors.
Gee, Sharon, we are almost the same. I haven't used or drank since 11/11/83. Did you ever go to meetings or kick it on your own? I got a meeting tonight at 7pm. I have to make more than I used to cause you know the grieving thing plus the isolating problem, too. We got more in common than I thought we did, Sharon.
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RE: whats everyone eatting at the moment?
I gave up on them, Lilly. I boiled some rice instead. Refrigerator had all my eggs frozen. I am trying to turn it down. The smoke is clearing now after I opened the door, lol.