“When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out - because that’s what’s inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.” - Wayne Dyer
I just wanted to say that I feel very good lately. I feel like all the anger and stress that I’ve carried with me most of my life over something so stupid as other people’s judgment on what I freaking look like and weigh is finally gone. Other positive changes may come in time, but for now I’m happy with who I am and I feel amazing. And I also feel grateful for having a job that I like and a wonderful boyfriend who loves me and supports me in all my endeavors.
And so today I am a happy little orange.
I hope you are one, too. But if not, feel free to hijack away or else this wouldn’t be the MMP, now would it?
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN 'Tis 68 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 89 for the day. We are promised a cool down this week. We shall see.
StickyBuns I’d squeeze but that’s RT’s job. I am so glad you’re in a good place with your life and your job! You deserve it all!
doggio Amen Brother! Can I get a witness!!!
So, today is a day off for me. I’m up because in a few minutes I have to make “real” brekkie because I promised. So, sausage, scrambled aigs, grits, and toast shall be prepared for ingestion. That is, now that the caffiene has kicked in.
To all the Canadian Mumpers…
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!**
To all the Amurrkin Mumpers off for the day Happy Columbus Day!
I’m a fairly happy little orange myself, for the most part. My sweetie and I have made some changes that have made life a bit easier for us. We’ve got a tolerably comfortable retirement going, with some plans for future fun. We’ll be seeing our daughter later this week - yay! - then meeting up with a friend we haven’t seen in almost 20 years - yay! - and spending some time with the inlaws - yay?
I do like my inlaws, really. I just don’t relish hearing tales of people I don’t know who are sick or who have died. Sadly, that’s pretty much their life now - health problems and dying friends. That makes me never want to live in a retirement community. How depressing to always see “For Sale” signs, knowing it means someone else has died.
I’m going to bake cookies today. It’s overcast and icky - perfect for baking! I want to take a big batch with us - my FIL lurves oatmeal-raisin cookies and since he’s getting a knee replaced, he’ll need medicinal cookies. Tomorrow, I’ll do laundry and we’ll pack. And I’ve got to remember to write a check for our pet sitter. And we need to take the trash and recycling. I should probably make a list.
But first - Happy Thanksgiving to our neighbors to the north. Happy Moanday to the rest of us. Columbus doesn’t deserve a day - he got lucky by accident!
I am generally a happy little orange, occasionally a frustrated little orange and there are days when you would not want to get anywhere near the pointy-stick-wielding orange. Today I am a “why do I have to deal with so many stupid people?” orange.
Never mind, got a holiday to look forward to - we are off to Transylvania next Friday for a week. I guess that’ll be a happy little blood orange then.
Wherever you are, happy whatever day you’re celebrating!
I had typed out a post and it went poof.
It’s going to rain so once again I can’t take any big pieces with me. I wanted to take my TV with me today, along with a desk and a love seat.
Not going to happen,
We hung around all day yesterday because a friend of Sah-son was supposed to come by. No word from her all day, then late last night I got a text that her father is in the hospital. Had I known sooner I could have left yesterday when it wasn’t raining.
I don’t want to waste a trip so I’ll pack some more clothes and books and stuff to take. It’s amazing how much crap you think you don’t have until you have to pack it up and move it.
I’m so far beyond sick of the job situation that I’m kind of running out of ideas. I just doin’t get why I’m finding it so hard to get anything. I have a job, officially, and have dine for over a year, and I have a perfectly sound reason for leaving (not getting offered enough shifts for a few months, along with everyone else in the company). I’m reasonably competent, literate, numerate, smart, I’ve not shown up for any interviews with my underpants on my head, and I don’t think I stink. I’m mostly going for entry level stuff, or stuff I have demonstrable experience in… And no-one wants me.
I’m going to have to borrow from emergency savings again for rent money. And I’m really, really not happy about doing that. I’m doing pretty well everything I can think of to make money in my spare time short of pyramid schemes, but it’s just not enough.
Maybe I should make cookies as well, might cheer me up. Doesn’t help that it’s cold, soggy and miserable outside.
Happy Columbus Day, or as I like to call it, Happy Free Day Off!
The sprog is off school, so we’re going to do some fun things. We have to go to the Scout Shop for some Scouting things, we’re probably having lunch with the lovely and talented Airman Doors, who did not get the day off, and depending on the weather, we may do something else, not sure yet. I also have to hook up my radio today, and I’d like to do that before it gets dark, which happens at an annoyingly early time.
So it’s time to get my happy butt going. Scout handbooks don’t buy themselves, y’know!
I’ve vacuumed the house and we’ve done a run to dispose of trash and recycling. I’ve got butter softening for cookies. One load of afghans is in the dryer and the other is in the washer. They’ll be bagged up for the AARP.
**FCD **just ran to the dentist’s again - the tooth he had crowned is really hurting and he wants to be sure it’s not cracked or anything before we head to FL. Fun times, eh?
And it’s almost lunch time, so I need to think about what I want to have. Probably a sammich because I’m boring that way. And it’s easier than cooking.
sari, why don’t you just rent a small Ryder or U-Haul truck. They’re covered, you can haul your stuff to your new place without worrying about rain, and, you could probably drop it off somewhere near your new location once done.
I have a couple small errands to run today, that’s about the extent of any doings for me.
Howdy Y’all! I’ve been a productive bear this mornin’. I did fix brekkie for OYKW, as promised. I even packed him a N.O.L. of a roast beast, turkey, and cheese sammich, with lettuce and mater in a separate baggie to apply when he eats, and some really good N.O.T. sallit I got from the Pubic Sto’. Also, I made up a beastloaf and some mac 'n cheese for tonight’s dindin, and have blackeyed peas in the slow cooker. Plus, I got out the push mower and ran over a few spots in the front yahd that needed a little mowage. Go Me! I’s a tahrd orange.
Now I am takin’ a well-deserved rest while munchin’ on a cheese sammich and drinkin’ some lemonade.
