Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Talking Husband

Do you have a talking husband? Mine is pretty quiet at home but put him in a car and he becomes a real chatterbox. I don't mind him talking while I drive but I do mind having to answer every statement. This week as we drove by a new apartment building he said "I wonder how many of those apartments are rented?" How am I supposed to know how many have been rented? If I keep driving and do not answer he says "You never listen to anything I say." My favorite is in springtime when the cherry trees are blooming. I say "Oh, look at those beautiful cherry blossoms," and he says "But look at the mess they make on the ground."

I attacked my closet this morning. I'm ready now to do a Goodwill drop off sometime later today. Now that I've conquered that battle I'll move on to looking at all the yarn stored in that closet. I heard a woman say that she had invested all her retirement funds in sock yarn. I can relate.
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I'm really getting tired of these scam phone calls. I always forget what I'm supposed to do to block those calls.

The other day a young man called and referred to me as "grandma." Said he'd been to a wedding, had a little too much to drink, gotten arrested, and needed a little money. I told him my only grandchild was 14 and I knew for sure he hadn't been arrested after drinking at a wedding.

Today I had a call from a young woman, very excited, to tell me their records showed I'd stayed in one of their resorts and therefore I had won some big drawing. She was a recording so I couldn't tell her anything. Given I haven't spent a night away from home since 2009 I'm sure it wasn't me.

Not fatal, just annoying.
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I'm having fun with Susan (daughter). She lives in Texas, not exactly the heart of liberal thinking. She ordered a tee-shirt from the Women's March but did not march. After the march she's become excited and decided to make herself a "pussyhat." I'm going to make one too. Neither one of us will probably ever use one but it keeps the spirit alive a little longer.

Anna Navarro was asked on CNN last night if she thought the Women's March was a moment or a movement? She said "The moment you hear I began knitting to make my own pussyhat, it's a movement."

I'm convinced President Trump is off to a good start now shooting himself in the foot. I can now turn my thoughts to happier subjects. He no longer needs my supervision, he's doing good.

I learned about a new website yesterday that I think is pretty cool for the 2018 House election. It's called Swing Left, enter your zip code, and it will give you the nearest swing district to where you live. You can then support the Democrat running in that district with a donation of your time or money. The nearest swing district to me is in California! I will definitely take a look at that race but I'm most interested in the district represented by Rep. Darrell Issa. He was almost defeated in 2016 so I will definitely make a donation to the Democrat opposing him in 2018 to see if we can't make this his last term in the House.

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  1. Funny you should mention wanting to knit one of those pink hats. I put it on my shopping list to find the yarn. My niece and her daughter want one, too. I susppect there will be opportunities come along to wear it. I read somewhere that there is going to be another march April 15th to demand that TD show his taxes records, not sure who is organizing it though.

    My husband never stopped talking from the minute he got up until bedtime and then he talked in his sleep. Then the stroke came along and took his written and spoken language for the next 12 1/2 years. People used to kid him that they never heard me talk until after he couldn't. Fortunately, he had a high IQ and was interesting to listen to before his stroke.

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    1. Yes, I'm reading that other marches are planned. Don't know if they'll require a pussyhat but we'll be ready if they do. I might even get my son to take me to the next one. He loves marches. I hope they don't go over board planning marches. They have a time limit on how effective they will remain. It's hard to come back with anything close when you had a march as grand as this one.

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  2. I phoned our phone company about six months ago, asked for directions for blocking calls, received the emailed directions, printed them and tucked them in our phone book, and life has been relatively balmy since. Blocked yet another guy who wanted to fix our computer just last week. I'm disappointed in some of my FB friends who've been critical of the Women's March. Obviously they voted for Trump, but don't they want their rights protected? I don't get it.

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    1. It's interesting to me that the very first thing Republicans attack is women, and particularly their reproductive rights but they never introduce legislation holding men also accountable in the reproductive act, only women. I also think that because Republicans don't have much constructive to offer their party they quickly run out of juice. When that happens they yell ABORTION, which sets their base on fire again and all the Christian evangelical super saints that voted for Trump will jump back on their piety pedestals and scream bloody murder. Already, one week into this administration they're already beginning the assault on women's reproductive rights. Have you ever seen a room full of women signing legislation regarding men & their reproductive organs?

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  3. Darrell Issa sends my husband's blood pressure through the room. :) I will check out the Swing Left site.
    Hope your daughter enjoys her t-shirt. I put a "Nasty Woman" mug in my DIL's stocking. Interesting how women are claiming these disparaging phrases that are meant to demean women for their own, and turning them into something else.
    Cudos on cleaning your closet. I did the guest room closets after Christmas, but our closets still need a cleaning. All in good time.

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    1. I detest Darrell Issa. If I lived close enough to his district I would go there and walk door to door in opposition to him. Women adopting these disparaging phrases remind me of when blacks declared the N word was acceptable for them to use but no one else could use it.

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    2. When I read that first sentence, "I detest Darrell Issa" I thought you wrote I dated Darrell Issa. Ha! I almost fell off my chair.
      I'm not sure how I feel about adopting those phrases. Especially the "P" word. It's strange to hear it bandied about. But I do think they are claiming it as their own. Maybe it will pass, but I don't know. Trump has let the cat (no pun intended) out of the bag.

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  4. My friend's husband is like that and he drives her absolutely nuts!!!

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    1. Bob doesn't bother me much because he seldom tells me how to drive. On the other hand, his twin was awful, really awful, with his wife when she was driving. I told Bob early on not to start that with me.

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  5. Oops. Forgot to say that my husband got a call the other day. The guy said, "I understand you have a bad back." H said no and hung up. I'm sure he was going to try to sell him something or get his info. My friend's mother got the "arrested grandson" call. They prey on older people.

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    1. All that is a scam used on the elderly. Another one is the call about problems with the Windows program on your computer. I think those calls come from India.

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  6. You are one very busy young lady! I told one of these scammers, "You are making an illegal call and you should be in jail." He hung up before I could hang up. Here it's illegal to make any add calls.

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    1. I guess those calls are not illegal here. A real annoyance.

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  7. Very funny!
    My husband could have written a post titled "Talking Wife"
    I would talk non stop while he drives to our son's family. He calls himself "captive hostage". I know he blocks my talking. I just couldn't help myself. He put up with me so...

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    1. I seldom talk in the car. Of course I don't get a lot of chances to talk.

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  8. I forgot to tell you that if I have the time I mess with the scam phone callers by pretending to speak a foreign language I make up on the spot or I'll say to the dog, "We got a live one, start the tract." But I do like the idea of printing out how to block callers because I get 1-2 a day around dinner time, but then again it's the only way I know if the phone is working. LOL

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    1. Bob is totally fascinated by the phone and will go to drastic lengths to see who called. I seldom answer a call when I don't recognize the number, only if it's less trouble to answer it than risk Bob missing it. When that happens he heads to the computer to see if he can find who the call was from. Not me, I hate talking on the phone. It's entertainment to Bob.

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  9. My husband doesn't talk to me much either, but get him around someone else and he won't stop talking.
    I'm still reacting to Trump. Each day i say I will back off. In time I will weary of it, I'm sure. In the meantime, the issues keep piling up with each new announcement. There is so little that I can do.

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    1. Never have I been so frustrated with politics. Never have I felt a stronger need to be an activist, and keep spreading the word to my limited audience, that we must not close our eyes for one minute to this man's actions. Stuff is happening so fast I feel like I'm being sprayed with a firehose. How are we going to keep up with it all?

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  10. Ha! We must have not stayed at the same hotel together.

    I wrote down the steps to blocking calls for my landline on a sticky note and keep it next to the phone.
    I only have the cell here in FL though. It is a lot harder to screen calls simply because so many use cells with out of state numbers from all over the place. But I still use the notion that if it is important there will be a message and I can call back.

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    1. I agree. If I don't recognize the number or name I don't answer. However, I've gotten in trouble with Bob a few times when someone in his cardiologist's office apparently used their personal cell phone to call us about something.

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  11. I also wanted to say the pink hats served a vital function. If not for them, it is entirely likely that the aerial photos of the march would have been passed off as the inauguration crowd.

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    1. I love that! Going to quote you in my blog post today.

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  12. Louis Dean is a BIG talker! Just last night (while I was writing my blog post) he came in and pulled up a chair and just started talking and talking! It's taken me a while to get used to having a talking husband. When I was married to my first husband, I distinctly remember telling someone that talking was the most dangerous thing I could do. We could be talking fine and then in the blink of an eye, he would be verbally abusive and it was awful. I learned to mostly keep quiet. Now with Louis Dean talking is such a joy and not stressful at all. We are going on 12 years of marriage and I still love the sound of his voice!

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    1. Oh Linda, I can't even begin to imagine what you and your children went through in that first marriage. Do your children have any relationship with their dad today? I'm so happy LD came into your life to show you what real love is all about. Your children and grandchildren seem to adore him. I can understand why you never tire of listening to LD talk.

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  13. Issa is the one in Caif that needs to be relieved of his legislative duties for sure this Californian agrees.

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