A Happy Memorial Day Or It's Just Another Moanday MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Morning, mumpers - another lovely sunny day over here, apparently we’re having summer this week.

{{{Tonka and Family Flyboy}}} sorry to hear that Tonka is down to his last few days, but it’s good to know that your vet gave you something definite to help with the decision. I hate the idea that I could be prolonging our pets’ suffering unknowingly because nobody told me what to look for.

Pearl those are cute ratties!

Shades sorry to hear you had such a rough day, let’s hope today is better.

It’s my day on campus so I am in the office in glorious isolation. I know there are a couple of other people in the building, I’ve heard the front doors open and close, and I can occasionally hear the bathroom hand-drier on one of the other floors. I suspect it’s the 4th floor as I now one of the ladies in the office up there comes in most days. I have to go up to the 2nd floor to get something from the print room, and that is about the most excitement I will get today.

Grocery shopping tonight, so I have taken leftover chilli out of the freezer for dinner as I want something quick for when we get back from the supermarket. Other than that, life goes on as usual.

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 61 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 89 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. Today is laundry day. WHEE! I shall also haul the biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig trash can all the way down to the road for pickup shortly. Forgot to do that last night. OOPS! Plus the dishwasher needs to be emptied. I am exhausted already. Sup shall be tacos 'n fixin’s. OLÈ!

FlyBoy hope the wine did not hurt the computer, or cause it to make drunk posts all over teh intartoobz.

MG if you decide to stay home you could compose rock music.

shades sorry you had such a sucky day!

MetalMouse I got food poisonin’ at an IHOP many years ago. I now call it The International House of Puke.

Pearl cute rattie babies!

Nettie here’s hopin’ you are through with Hades Annex soonest. Sounds like the place gets more toxic by the day.

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. But first, trash can haulage must be done. I can hardly contain my excitatement! Rah.

Happy Tuesday Y’all!

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I don’t recall if I shared my IHOP story here, but they lost me when I’d finished about half of my diet soda and saw a huge glop of cheese stuck inside the glass! :face_vomiting: Plus I think they do Pepsi instead of Coke products, so that’s a definite point against. But the cheese thing definitely put a particular location off my list.

It’s a Roxy day and New Water Heater Day! I’ve been thinking about moving a few things around in the basement. We talked about getting a big TV for down there since it’s a big enough room. And to make space for the playhouse (no, it won’t take up pool table space) I’m thinking I’ll roll the old coffee table back in front of the futon. Anyway, things will be shifted to make room for storage and new stuff and new baby. I expect I’ll be spending a lot of time down there once Tobias shows up.

There are 3 houses in our little neighborhood on the market, tho one has a contract. I’m most interested (nosy) in the one closest to us. It was on the market for over a year because it was way more expensive than any other property in here - they started out asking something like $700K when most of the neighborhood was in the $300K range. It finally sold a few years back for a bit over $500K, making it the most expensive house in here.

So I’m dying to know what they’re asking for it this time, but the listing hasn’t shown up on line yet. It’s a big house, and if I recall, the decor took gaudy to a new level. Anyway, yeah, nosy. :rofl:

But if one of you want to live down the road from me, the other house is priced more in line with the market. :wink:

Happy Tuesday!!

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Good morning everyone.

Well, it’s back to work today. I know I’ll be slammed because I was off Friday AND I only have a three day work week this week. Hopefully, everyone will be so busy catching up from the long weekend that I will be left alone. A girl can hope anyway…

I made significant progress in the area surrounding the bird feeding station. Now, I’ll have to either build a couple of planting beds or buy some. As we all know, lumber is in short supply and expensive, but looking at what I need and the availability, it’s still less expensive than buying some of the premade raised bed kits. I still know that I want a potted laceleaf maple, but I may abandon that idea if the size I want proves a little rich for my wallet. Past a certain age, they become really expensive. I get it, they’re slow growers, but that’s exactly why I want a potted tree.

I could really use another day off. Two and half days of toddler wrangling, plus all day in the yard yesterday have beaten me down. But, the reality is I’d probably head right back out to work in the yard. Besides, I have too much going on with work as it is. Still, the weather is supposed to be nice, and I’d sure like to take advantage of it. Rain is supposed to move back in just in time for the weekend. ::

I’m sorry about Tonka, Flyboy.

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Check your local Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace (and 5 Miles, and similar apps, if you’ve got 'em) first, real quick, just to make sure nobody’s giving away what you need.

So, hey, shoe needs a job (yeah, I was vague about it) and has a year’s budtender experience.

Buddy of mine moved to a different dispo, offered to help me out, emailed him my resume yesterday afternoon, and BOOM interview this afternoon.

1A: “it’s who(m) you know”

2B: I’m kinda freaking out. I mean, I need the job, but NO WARNING CRAP CRAP I suck at this.

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Haha, good one! I’ve written some rock-influenced music, and arrangements of rock songs. I wrote a piece of music called “Song of the Chocolate Rocks” but it’s not really rock music.

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My friends got around that by buying 110 gal. stock troughs and using them as planters. I didn’t need quite that much height, so I am using 3 ft. galvanized steel fire rings.

Told my students that midnight last night was the absolute deadline for any late work to be turned in. Checked my work mailbox this morning: 167 messages, at least 150+ of them late work. I want to get these kids graduated, and distance learning is a bitch, but really? Although if I do the math, that adds up to basically 1 late assignment per student.

Hot day today, but we have a predicted cooling trend for the week. Everybody stay cool and safe!

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Morning all. Took my medicine (I’ve got a 2-month streak going on remembering that stuff) and am getting ready for the great-donation-check-writing spree. I usually do all my annual donations at once when my account is…robust…enough. Looks like my old HS Soccer program, Alabama Public TV, the local NPR station, the Galapagos Conservancy, and Doctor’s without Borders will get money this year. I’ve dropped the USO because while all of them send me mail, the USO was the absolute worst in bugging me for more donations. So they can sit a year.

Outside of that, nothing much planned. Will begin to consume all the edibles I bought yesterday and since rain is due this afternoon and evening, no particular reason to go out.

quietly, well, at least they got the work in…now to see if it’s any good. Have fun.

shoe, you can do this, no problem.

Seanette, I didn’t think Hades could get more toxic, but looks like they’re doing the best they can do get that way. Good luck.

FCM, be interesting on how long it stays on the market. Housing down in North Ali-bama isn’t quite that high, but it sells fast down here.

Pearl, Awwwwww, rats! Just don’t bring them to visit shoe…

boo fae, sometimes a quiet office is just what is needed to do work. ANd scritches for your kittehs…

shady, I don;t often parse your messages well (my failing), but I gather it was not a memorable Memorial Day. Take care.

OK, need to seek sustenance. All y’all have a good 2sday.

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shady sorry about the weekend. Sometimes holidays are less fun, and more PITA.

BooFae congrats on new kitty.

shoe you’ll be great! Interviewing sucks, but be yourself. It’ll be fine. :slight_smile:

quietly Water troughs! Dadgummit. Shoulda thought of that. I’ve used them to make fish ponds before, but not planters.

I have also forgotten to have the trash taken out (by my children). oh well.

Not sure what to report here other than hot. rah

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Best of luck on the interview, shoe!

I. Am. Tired. We were busy all weekend for the first time since the pandemic hit and then I made the mistake of drinking a 16-ounce coffee yesterday at 4 p.m. and was up until 2 this morning. Fortunately my brain isn’t super critical until my meeting with my boss in an hour or so. Until then I’m giving feedback on people’s presentation dry runs. We’re in between presentations so I’m futzing around. Which is nice because just the agenda on the previous presentation took more than 5 minutes for the presenter to review with the audience so I could use the breather.

Anyway, 'til grey and cooler than usual today. Overlygirl and overlyboy are in the home stretch of the school year - it all ends at 11:30 Thursday. Thank goodness. What a brutal, brutal year.

Ugh, presentations are starting up again. I’m teetering on the edge of the slippery slope that is late afternoon.

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Thanks for the good vibes, Mumpers I did good (aided hugely by a good recommendation from my buddy, who is an asstnt. mgr. at Other Dispo) the hiring manager seemed to like me - what’s not to like? I smiled sweetly, and wore pot-themed leggings - and now imma smoke a joint and cross-stitch until my eyes cross, or until this latent anxiety goes away, whichever comes first.

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Took the cat’s scratching contraption apart and replaced the material with new burlap. She had completely shredded the really heavy-duty stuff that was on there over the years, so I hope the two layers of lighter material will last at least for a while.

Today, June 1st, is not a good day. It’s never a good day since that awful day three years ago when my boy Keith died. It’s bearable now, but just. Just so you know, time does NOT heal all wounds, whether it’s a pet that’s died or a family member. The fact that it was self-inflicted and preventable makes it even worse, as you naturally wonder if there was any more you could have done to intervene, even though I know that I did what I could. Sorry for the downer, but this is where I can come and unburden.

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Cookie - I can’t even imagine what you’ve been thru, but accept some {{{hugs}}} from an imaginary internet friend!

Back from the Wharf playground. Roxy ran herself ragged, I hope. She had a bad night and was cranky much of the morning. Here’s hoping she’ll sleep well tonight. She cracks me up - every time someone walks by, she has to yell “HI!” and wave. A couple paddled up in a canoe (turns out they’d started from there and had returned to load their craft into the truck.) I pointed it out to Roxy and she said “Let’s check it out!” I don’t know why that cracks me up, but every time she says “Let’s check it out” I about lose it!

It appears it takes about 6 weeks for BCBS to process claims because all of a sudden, I’m getting bills for our deductibles and/or copays. So far, the worst one is almost $500 and the cheapest is under $45. The total hospital bill was almost $65K - I only know that because they sent a letter saying it will be another 15 days before they finalize that claim. So in a couple of weeks, I can expect another bill. Guess it’s a good thing we canceled our Antarctic cruise. We couldn’t afford it now anyway.

FCD is napping. I’m not sure what I’ll do now, but there are things in the basement that need my attention. So we shall see…

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Later start heaving because of the holiday. I had to help load a pig today, 40% stuff for Da Jungle, 60 for some electronics company, that had to be stacked by stop. But came down the chute mixed. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Oooooo, then I could have a beer at Steve’s Pool Hall every day!

Congrats and : crosses appropriate and inappropriate appendages : for the job.

{{{{{{Cookie}}}}
And it’s not a downer, we’re here for you.

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you’d of hated me as a student lol every year on the last acceptable day of high school ot turn in late work id walk in cherry pick the easiest assignments to do and finish enough to get a b/c I had a few teachers ask why i was in their class and not doing the version of home school back then … the official answer was " i needed to be around people "

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Sorry you had a crappy weekend shady.

You have some cute ratties there pearl

Keeping appendages crossed for you shoe

{{{cookie}}}

I called out of irk today. Something that I ate made me sick as a dog last night. I wound up stripping the bed and showering. Today, I’ve stayed in bed mostly with some selzer and crackers. I’m feeling good enough to eat some chicken broth and rice now, so I take that as a positive.

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Cookie my condolences to you about your loss. I hope there are some good memories to ease the pain. {{{hugs}}}

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{{{cookie}}}

Feel better soon, red

shoe, hope you hear some good news soon.

FCM, I’m impressed that a 3-year old can say 'let’s check it out" clearly enough to be understood. And hopefully Roxy sleeps well tonight. Hope the bills aren’t too bad, amazing that anyone without insurance can get anything done health-wise…

OK, Mac-n-Cheese is happily assimilating in my stomach and letters are ready to go (tomorrow) for the donations, so all is right with the world (so far). All y’all have a good night.

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Today was busy. I went to the gym this morning, worked out, came home, showered, and went to the mammogram/ultrasound appointment for the lump the oncologist PA found. Let me tell you, the tortilla press is NOT a fun experience. (Fun fact: the 3D mammogram was invented by women, and you can tell because it IS more comfortable than a regular mammogram.) However, the radiologist said everything is fine, so yay for that.

I then spent the afternoon on the phone: Old Flame, sister, etc.

It’s 86º out at 6:40, I do not like heat, Sam I Am.

shoe, it’s in the bag. I hope you’re feeling nice and relaxed now. Is the new dispensary closer?

pearl, those are some cute rat-kins. I’d spoil 'em rotten. Is that even possible?

FCM, is Tobias the new baby?

cookie, I’m so sorry. My friend whose son died by his own hand would agree with everything you wrote. It’s a special and undeserved hell. I have no comforting words, just deep sympathy.

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cookie some more {{{{{ }}}}} from an imaginary internet friend. Come by and kvetch and unload as needed. That is what we are here for.