I guess I should get my sorry ass in gear and start doing some chores around the house. I really don’t want to because the peace and quiet around here is just sooooo nice, but it needs to be done.
**Mr. Taters ** took my rig to work today so I’ll have to wait until he comes home to go grocery shopping. I’m seriously thinking about hitting Costco. It’s been a long while since I’ve been there. I’ll have to control my impulses while there, though. I always spend way too much at Costco, and since it’s been awhile, I’m afraid I may go overboard.
Not much else going on here, I guess I should get a move on…
Ughh… The dogwoods have exploded. At least I think they’re dogwood - the trees are covered in blobs of fluffy white sneeze-causing crap that blows all around and forms miniature drifts on the street.
Odd goings-on at the weapons station. Looks like they’re rebuilding the entrance to the marine access portion with some access control more formalized than a bunch of concrete “Jersey barrier” blocks that force vehicles to navigate a slalom. The guard hut has been replaced with a tollbooth type thing and a large section of the pavement has been cleanly removed at both ends - perhaps they’ll be installing pop-up bollards or maybe even some of this stuff?
I made N.O.T. sallit and coleslaw. I’d say that was bein’ industrious. Yeah, they’re both for Sunday but stuff like that tastes better when it sits in the fridge for a couple days, IMO. I think I’ll make LiLi’s easiest cake tomorrow and serve it with strawberries and fresh whipped cream for dessert. 'Twas a big hit last time I did it.
gotti that thing in the link looks like what they installed at the local Marine Base. Maybe that is what’s goin’ on.
CutiePie I considered makin’ your baked N.O.T. sallit but went with the basic one instead. It’s on my list of nummy things to make though.
I’ll have to ask our friend that works for that company. Or not. Something tells me that the mix of hazardous materials detection and military installations results in “I can’t say” - type answers even if it is only about 700 feet down the road from our driveway.
gotti, the pictures in the link look just like what we have at the military installation I work with. They’re used to inspect trucks to make sure the stated cargo on the bills is what is in the trailer.
Although, they don’t say it aloud I’m sure they’re used to check for bombs and stuff too.
Here, but not caught up yet. I left work early and took the van to have the tires rotated. **FCD ** left work early, too, and we went to have lunch, followed by a quick jaunt to the boat where he removed the raw water strainer. Once we got back home, we did a quick yard mow - I did the ditches (ick) and he did the back and side yards. Just finished that, and I’m having some water before getting back to laundry and packing.
Whew.
So anyway, I’ll read and post more later. For now, I need to rehydrate and breathe.
Pie, are you saying that you’re the Gyro Fairy in disguise? If so, I’d like delivery for two, stat.
It’s been threatening to rain all frakkin’ day and I’m in full migraine prodrome - woozy head, minor aphasia, and nausea. Needless to say, I don’t feel much like cooking dinner. Can has thunderstorm, pls? I’d feel ever so much better.
beebs, no one commented on mine either, and I posted my purtiest one. So there. Sniff.
I have some good cheese; would you like some Mama T?
Mr. Taters got home pretty early today. He is currently sitting in front of the other computer taking a nap and not watching the news that’s playing on it.
I need to flat iron my hair and finish cleaning up around here. We may be going out tonight, I’m not sure. **Mr. Taters ** is trying to set up a date between a co-worker of his and our friend. Said friend is supposed to call her tonight at around 5:00. We shall see what happens.
I’m feeling a little hungry, but nothing I have here at the house is appealing to me.
I made something quite easy and tasty for dinner a few nights ago. Does anyone else have an addiction to ajvar, the red pepper/eggplant spred? anyway, here’s the recipe:
Pasta in Red Pepper Cream Sauce
Boil enough pasta for two or three people (I used rotini, but anything curly would do), and mix together a cup of heavy cream, a quarter cup ajvar, a minced garlic clove, and a quarter cup grated Parmesan.
Drain the pasta, mix the sauce in.
Very easy. Very good.
I’m starving. I think I’ll go eat something random. Here, kitty…
Okay, I just got done gluing a bunch of generators together with ABS cement and now my head is kinda looooooOOOOoooooOOOOoooOOOpy! WooT!11! Cheap high, right arm…
I think somebody just took my picture while I was doing it so I might post it in the pic thread in all its gluey glory.
Weather is kinda nice today, it’s threatening to sun–PNW people know what I’m talking about. It’s pretty warm, too, high fifties at the moment.
swampy, does your social life EVER slow down for even a minute? Dang, I’d be nuts with as many people trooping around my house as you seem to deal with on a regular basis…
Pie, you’ve seen “Office Space,” right? Well then, you KNOW WHAT TO DO!!
LiLi, sounds yummy–what time is lunch again? I fear I need to fire the Gyro Fairy for he/she has failed me miserably today and I see no delicious gyros before me. I thought I did, but that was just the fumes making me hallucinate. Dammit.
Mahna[sup]2[/sup], I saw your pic, and I think you’re just cute as a bug, so there!
beebs, shoulda worn the matching hat 'cuz that woulda totally MADE the picture. It’s those little details, don’tcha know…
swampy, we have a whole bunch of big toothpicks with frilly ends - they’ll be positioned all over the food table as needed.
Third load in the washer, one more to go, then I can pack. I do have some things I can take out to the van already - just not motivated right at the moment. I need to find my lists so I can be sure I remember everything. Plus I have a container of strawberries in the fridge that I need to rinse and hull for my sweetie to nosh on while I’m gone. I’ve also got 4 cukes - I’m thinking I’ll make some cuke salad and take it with me for some florida noshing. Else, the cukes will go bad.
I really don’t want to make this trek tomorrow. But I gotta. So I will. Last time for a while, I hope…
rosie, it was mostly mock indignation. You look cute with antlers, BTW.
LiLi, I share your addiction. I’ve used ajvar as a pasta sauce straight-up, but the creamy version sounds super-yummy. It makes a tasty pizza sauce substitute too, when you feel like something different from the usual tomato.
Head’s feeling marginally better now. I think I just needed a rest and a snuggle with the kitties.
Though the snuggle was rudely interrupted by the doorbell. I walk over to see who it is, and there’s a guy holding up some kind of company ID badge on the other side of the door. He says he “works for the gas company” and needs me to show him copies of my utility bills so he can “validate my current rates” and “check the meter”. Ummm… no, my gas company is NOT called Direct Energy and I get my electricity from an entirely different supplier, and if he does indeed work for either, he’d have full access to my bills without me digging up some papers from my files.
Holy sketchy, Batman. Good thing I’d read up on the borderline scammy techniques of these door-to-door marketers. Even after I told him to get lost, he kept insisting that I should fill out a form with my info so someone could “follow up”… yeah, sure.
ETA: OOooh… laundry. I knew there was something I needed to do tonight. Thanks for the tweak, FCM.
Yeesh, Mahna, did you call your power company to inform them? This seems to be a very common scam and we see stuff on the news about this all the time up here.
I’m glad you knew he was a fake, and better yet, that he didn’t try anything that resulted in real harm to you. It’s obvious this was an identity theft kind of thing.
I should be more chores, but I’m enjoying goofing off too much.
I just had one of those awkward moments that makes you go :smack:
I was walking towards the water cooler, which is in a little alcove, and I saw a friend walking down the far end of the hall towards me. Since I’d be in the alcove before she reached me, I waved to her. Except that right as I waved, my boss’s boss popped out from around the corner in between friend and me. So she didn’t see friend, just that I was waving. Now she’s a nice enough person, but I’d like to maintain a slightly more professional demeanor with Boss’s Boss than to *wave *at her! :smack:
Yeah, they’re both for Sunday but stuff like that tastes better when it sits in the fridge for a couple days, IMO. I think I’ll make LiLi’s easiest cake tomorrow and serve it with strawberries and fresh whipped cream for dessert. 'Twas a big hit last time I did it.
Can has thunderstorm, pls? I’d feel ever so much better.
:smack:
You look cute with antlers, BTW.