Hoping we don't have to deal with thieves. No petty theft in my area, really. We aren't on a cut through street and a lot of the sticky finger crap misses us. We have a 2 story house with pillars out front. Even with our jumbo extension ladder, it's tough to even reach that place. Plus with everything wet ... We are just doing real lights inside the windows and in the bushes on the ground.
That works perfect. Shrubs are Christmas light putter-uppers friends. You can use lots of light in a small space with little effort and still looks awesome at night. the trick is not making it look like shit in the daylight hours, THAT is where it gets tricks. Icicle lights, web lights or anything with white cords look like ass in the sunlight hours.
I have used Clint Eastwood's character "Walt Kowalsky" as an avatar here and on another site for as long as I can remember.In a kind of tongue in cheek sort of way. But more and more, I get the character and identify more and more with some of how he saw the world. Minus the frequent racist slurs. There's probably a topic for a thread in there somewhere, I'll have to give it more thought.
I have a ton of string lights on green wire I got when Mom was cleaning out the attic a decade ago. I also went ahead and bought a full set of green outdoor extension cords and cord connector covers to put away with the lights and to use for nothing else. I want to have a holiday decor kit rather than a huge bin of shit I have to rediscover every holiday season. Because right now that's where I'm at, and it's a nightmare trying to organize to the point of even putting the lights up.
We just have the outdoor party lights that change colors hanging under our carport. I originally wasn't going to hang them up but there were already screws to hang them from when we bought the house. I set them to alternate between red and green and we are done. We also have a single strand of actual glass, clear lights I put on the deck over a year ago, The neighbors across the... ravine?... can see them as well as the people driving by on a road behind us* *Our neighborhood is mostly full of retirees, so no one is going way out of their way to do a whole lot of decorating.
so we’re dealing with latching issues, and supplementing with formula. Last night Dad didn’t put the nipple on the bottle the right way, and turned little NatCH into a three-hour screaming gas factory. But the four-hour sleep we all got as a family afterward was very nice, especially without nurses around to keep me from falling asleep holding him. today is better. “Sleep when he sleeps” is wonderful in theory but we’re struggling to get it into practice.
Yeah the nurses and lactation consultants can seem pretty detached, but don't take it personally. Figuring things out as you go is a huge part of the reason you're exhausted. You'll make it through.
Well, I'm giving most people more than 1bar. I have 23 people when I count my immediate family: parents, siblings and their families. Plus some on husbands side, friends and neighbors. "Merry Christmas, here's a bar of soap you filthy animal," But seriously, I've started testing some out and a few are standout good so no regrets. I think they will be used.
Boy I fucked up in a meeting yesterday. I have a coworker, who is the temporary boss. He just turned 67, but you would never know it because he looks and acts about 80. At home I refer to him as ”grandpa coworker”, or these days ”grandpa boss”. Guess who referred to him as ”grandpa boss” during the meeting yesterday.
I put lights on both the front and back of my house. We are on a hill, and our back deck overlooks a big chunk of our neighborhood as well as the lake beyond. We have a beautiful view of the lights on the homes below us, so I hang lights on the deck to give them something to look at as well. A neighbor we’re friendly with can see them from her living room window and looks for them every year.
I've told the story before but it's been 6-7 years so I can retell it. Back when I was a GM and at the company managers meeting, one of the GM's was talking; GM - yada yada yada will go down. CEO - GTE goes down GTE - Yeah, ask your wife. CEO and other GMs - silence
I would love to be in the rooms when stuff like this was said, i can picture their faces but being in there would be amazing.