Carolyn

Carolyn

@newscarolyn.com

Mktg/Comms•MPS in Emergency Mgmnt•disaster volunteer•used to do news on the TV•Childless Cat Lady•From Panama City•UF & Tulane grad•While I’m alive, I’ll make tiny changes to 🌎 Arabi/NOLA/Cone of Uncertainty

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Waiting on the LG-certified repair person to come fix the fridge. He said on the phone that the line of fridge I have is known for compressor issues. Something about Louisiana being so hot and the fridge not being hooked up to wi-fi. Why would a fridge need wi-fi?

AI-generated flyers are like cockroaches: indistinguishable, ugly, and popping up everywhere. 😭 Get rid of your ✨drugs✨at this fun event!

I bought a fridge new when I bought the house in 2021, and when I went to get something from the freezer tonight, everything had thawed. Some internet troubleshooting tells me it’s likely the compressor. I don’t remember my parents ever having to repair our marigold colored fridge when I was a kid

Does anyone have an appliance repair person they recommend? The internet says LG will likely cover the parts in the 10 year warranty, but I have to find the repair person.

Thank you for the recommendations! I’m going to call these places today. I bought a dorm fridge at Walmart just to get by in the interim, as this doesn’t seem like it’s going to be the quickest fix.

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I'm launching MYFT again y'all! I have the Invoice app.I can generate receipts so y'all can write it off. I still the track rate to the airport and check Uber Lyft for regular rides. Pay a hardworking Black woman cancer survivor as opposed to a soulless corporation. Text me! 504-233-3080

Grande Dame Joie Minette has been sneezy & stuffed up since Thurs, so I wanted to get her to a vet ASAP. I made an appointment online at Metairie Small Animal Hospital’s Marigny at 3 this morning & they’d already pulled her vet records from her regular docs by her 10:50 appointment. That’s amazing!

She’s on oral medicines and nose drops, but the pretty princess seems to be feeling much better already. Now I wait for the bloodwork results, and then she needs more dental work. 💸💸💸

This is looking like another Opal. Between that storm (Cat 3, October 4, 1995) and Hurricane Michael (Cat 5, October 10, 2018), the Florida Panhandle is cursed with these late season storms.

Along the coast, life-threatening storm surge from #Isaias is expected from the Mouth of the Mississippi River to the Suwannee River, Florida. The deepest water will occur along the immediate coast in areas of onshore winds, where the surge will be accompanied by large and dangerous waves.

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omg the cost of gas being like this during a possible evacuation has me wanting to scream

I just did my storm prep run because I had the mental capacity to handle Walmart at its current state, but there’s no way I’ll want to go after work later this week should the cone of uncertainty become more certain.

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Y'all! MYFT IS BACK! Hit me up for rides! AMANDA 504-233-3080 I do rides based on app prices. Except airport, I do the fixed taxi price. #MYFTRreturns #MYFT #MYFTGivesBack

Knowing information about planes in the sky tickles my brain, and this is my new favorite app. Mexico City to Madrid going right over the metro! 🤓

I gave Chloe her anti-anxiety drugs at 10 am for a 2 pm vet appointment, but she was still too wound up at the vet’s to let them trim her nails. Now I’m trying to walk her at 6:30 pm and her bones are made of jelly.

The first Saturday without out heat advisories or storms in what seems like forever, so I used it to finally tackle the now two invasive Chinese tallows rapidly growing in the empty lot behind the house. Not on my watch! 🪚💀

I took a break of watching lions on the livestream to watch Turning Point: 9/11 Generation and I also ran out of sertraline yesterday, so now that my anxiety is up to 110%, I’m going back to watching lions acting like giant house cats.

I’m obsessed with branded clothes I find in the bins at the New Orleans East Goodwill outlet, and brought Mr. Blanchard’s jacket to work today because my office is absolutely freezing. I realize now that someone might think I’m here to fix the broken elevators.

Today on the camera, these three little lion cubs are wrestling and playing with each other. Two of them were using mom’s tail as a toy but then they tried to start a tug-of-war and mom wasn’t happy. 🫠 I have died from cute. 🥰

These two elephants keep scrapping with each other and I so desperately want to yell at them like I yell at my cats, “BREAK IT UP!”

I just finished this through the Libby app, and this is much much different from what I was taught in my fifth grade class (Florida panhandle) when we studied that whole war over “states’ rights” by watching the television miniseries North & South.

I do think it’s kind of hilarious that my teacher just put on a VHS copy recorded from the TV with the commercials and sex scenes sloppily edited out and called it a day on that whole period of American history.

If anyone needs to stock up on sunscreens, including face sunscreens, the Chalmette Walmart (and probably other Walmarts) has many brands on clearance. I got some Cetaphil and Cereve face sunscreen for $3 each.

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Roll call for all the animals I saw on Africa wildlife cameras yesterday: lions, elephants, water buffalo, rhinoceroses, hyenas, giraffes, monkeys, antelope, and many, many birds.

First screen: what I’m actively working on Second screen: email and Teams Third screen: a trio of young lions play wrestling

Saw this on Facebook and now I’m here at Sam’s telling myself I don’t need this sweatshirt just because it’s so ridiculous.

From about 30 minutes before the storm. Now as the power keeps going off and on, I’m like, “Does that sky look green to you?!?!”

Well, it’s a good thing that I bought a new mini chainsaw this week because that storm broke half of my redbud tree in the front yard.

My over the range microwave died and will need to be replaced. On a scale of DIY to hire a professional, how hard is it to replace the microwave if you have to replace the wall bracket too? We’re not super handy.