Originally Posted by Jsmth321

If there is anything I miss the most, it's Mexican food, So. California style, there is simply nothing remotely close to it here.

Originally Posted by Danny B

Those poor kids.

Originally Posted by BristolUK

Are you familiar with Mexis - Mexicali Rosa's Authentic Mexican Cuisine

Originally Posted by Jsmth321

I am not, never heard of them but they don't appear to have many locations and none out west.

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Originally Posted by BristolUK

The rest of the family asked me what was for supper tonight.

I answered them in morse code

Originally Posted by Jsmth321

I really don't like this new thing that some websites do now where you need a password and a text code, sometimes I need access to a website but don't have access to the cell phone, so annoying.

Originally Posted by BristolUK

I don't have a cell phone. I take the audio option via the landline.

So far it's only a couple of banks doing it and I'm not accessing the accounts outside the home.

Originally Posted by Jsmth321

I tried to use the landline (this is with Capital One) but they wont let me use our landline, and some places (especially US based) wont even use landline, text or nothing.

Originally Posted by BristolUK

So 'nothing' then. I leave it blank when they ask for cell/mobile number.

So far, it's only been a random, once in a blue moon thing.

Originally Posted by Jsmth321

My parents pretty much operate on a if the kids want to talk they will contact us, my dad will send a Christmas and Birthday email but otherwise unless I call, I don't hear anything, my mom will write every couple of months if she hasn't heard anything from me, but never have long or in depth calls.

Originally Posted by Gordon Barlow

The thing is, they will make their own decisions - and, really, that's the way it should be. My Mum and I were close all her life, but spiritually (if that's the word), not physically. We exchanged two or three letters (aerogrammes, mostly) every week, back when international phone calls were unspeakably expensive. She survived at her end, and I at mine. Mum's worst moments were when I backpacked for three months through the Middle East (this was in the mid-'60s) with a girl companion whom I met "on the road". She and I later married in Canada, and were introduced to our respective mothers-in-law in Australia almost four years after that.

I have always felt a strong admiration for all those English mothers who in the 1800s watched some of their children emigrate to Australia and other colonies (voluntarily, I mean!) in the almost certain knowledge that they would never see them again. Imagine what a terrible "Mum thing" that must have been, Piff. Yikes. We have it a lot easier than they did!

Originally Posted by scilly

My daughter tries to phone once a week, usually on a Sunday as that fits both our schedules best, but will call on a week day if she's missed it. Then we have irregular email contact, and I look on her private FB page.

She discusses all kinds of things with me ................ in fact, despite what the OH says, I listen far more than I talk during a call that can last over an hour. She even passes work worries by me, not that I know anything about her work, but she sometimes says I spot some common sense possibility that solves a problem, and that just talking to someone else other than her OH and partners about it helps.

We always have talked a lot ........ and her "flipped lid" doesn't last very long


Gordon ........ those mothers in the 1800s probably responded very much as my father and OH's parents did. "We wish that we could have done it when we were young. You'll have a better life than here."

Originally Posted by Siouxie

If she gets a Presto card it will be cheaper for her - after x number of trips the price reduces / can be free. https://www.prestocard.ca/en/

As to housing costs in Guelph - it's a Uni town, so prices aren't generally that cheap.. however, there's lots of pubs, restaurants and 'stuff' to do there

Originally Posted by Jsmth321

Capital One has been requiring a phone confirmation for the last couple of months, they just wont accept the landline only the cell phone. There is no way to sign in without text verification, enter password, then says enter code being texted.

Originally Posted by BristolUK

I was just looking at various discussions about this (after googling) and I see reference to three choices - cell/mobile, landline or even email.

Of course I can't say whether it's UK, USA or Canada arms of Capital One so if it's the wrong one for you it may not apply.

Originally Posted by Jsmth321

They don't give me the email option which would be nice...lol