Bad Manners and Brimstone

I love making this fudge for holidays:  https://www.food.com/recipe/easy-2-ingredient-chocolate-fudge-192509

I'm single by choice (at 51!) and have found "I'm not available" covers a lot of situations.  Depending on context, it can mean "I don't have time for dating right now," or "I have a partner," or "I'm not available...TO YOU."

I am the creator/admin of one music-related Facebook fan page, and a moderator of another.  Sharing photos without permission has been an ongoing problem taking up my admin time on both. 

On the page I created, the top two rules are as follows:

1.  No sharing of private photos or videos without a) giving credit to where you got it from; and b) asking permission of the original owner.
2.  Please respect [musician's] privacy and the privacy of his family.  That includes photos and videos on his sons' accounts as mentioned in #1.

NOTE:  Photos that were meant to be public, such as those from the band's official page, are OK to post on my page provided credit is given to the photographer, e.g. "Photo by Henry Diltz."  Giving credit where credit is due is just common courtesy, and not "high maintenance."

My FIL sends cash gifts to me and DH for our birthdays and Christmas.  I don't take it as weird; he can't get to a store easily and doesn't know our taste, so we can pick out something for ourselves.  It could also be thought of as "funny money" for a weekend trip or nice dinner out.

My stepmom sends me cash for Christmas and my birthday--and I'm almost 51!  Not only because she doesn't know my taste, but because she knows I have ways to stretch a small cash gift (e.g. shopping at thrift and consignment shops).

The two most REALLY important and valuable gifts you can give to any nurse or other medical or care worker (or come to that a teacher, or people employed in many other roles), are:

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2. A letter to their management saying the same thing, and that this person is a treasure to their organisation.

Especially this!  My late father was an RN and one of his most treasured memories of his nursing days was when a patient wrote a letter to the hospital where he worked commending Dad for his thoroughness, kindness and professionalism.

Homemade vegetable fried rice, with bell pepper, green beans, and carrots.  First time making it and it turned out great!  I'm adding it to my regular rotation.

I started a new job yesterday!  The official job title is "Raiser's Edge Admin," and it's an admin assistant role at a blood bank with some database admin responsibilities.  I'll be adding and updating records in the database; running reports; and sending acknowledgment letters to donors.

Best of all, the job pays well (more than my last year at Head Start, when I was an HR department head); has flexible hours; is less than a mile from home, so I can walk to work; and is a potential temp-to-hire job depending on how good my "fit" for it turns out to be!

I just got the word about it earlier this week--and I cried tears of relief when I heard I'd gotten the job.  Having this kind of income will change a lot of things for me pretty quickly; I'll be able to pay off some debt and visit my mom in Michigan a lot sooner than planned, and replace my old laptop with a newer and better one.  (The old one died a little over a week ago, and I've been using an ancient Mac I got from a neighbor since then, until I can afford a replacement.  Hence not being on as often as in the past.)

Tuesday night's dinner:  A one-pot meal--groundnut stew with some quick-cooking farro mixed in.

Wednesday night's dinner:  Comfort food night--Sunflower-seed cutlets from Field Roast with mashed potatoes and vegetarian country gravy--and a slice of white chocolate cake for dessert.