Yes! My shingles vaccinations last year were awful. The injection site was hot and sore for days, the second shot I was feverish and had all over body aches.
I got rid of the shoes after I toppled over getting out of my Jeep, and I replaced my super-baggy pants with more fitted (but still comfy!) ones. The hairdo is actually much less fussy than it was, but I like for it to stay in place with a minimum number of clips or bands. In other words, I like seeing it the mirror, not when I tilt my head down to work on something. 
I was minding my own business this afternoon backing out of my driveway, and notice in the mirror three GIGANTIC wheeled plastic containers at the curb where I normally set out the garbage. I mean GIGANTIC. It appears that the city will be automating their garbage trucks and we’re now supposed to start using these gigantic dumpster-like vehicles which can be automatically lifted and emptied by robotic arms. One is for garbage, one for recycling, and a slightly smaller one for compostable kitchen waste.
All well and good, but where the fuck am I supposed to keep these monstrosities? The garage is already overflowing, and if I’m going to still keep a car in there it’s going to take some major re-arranging. And I very much doubt I’m the only one with this problem. Did I mention that these things are GIGANTIC?
Reminds me of the instant Cafe International cans I bought from my local in the sticks grocery store a decade ago. It came with X-Mas stickers? In July. And it tasted okay but when I went to buy another can… I had learned by then to check expiration dates from that store (moldy dairy) and the same promo cans were there from… years before.
Just kinda let me know and read up on what expiration dates really are for food and meds in case of… zombies 
But really, any kind of apocalypse other than religious because… I’m Agnostic so I guess I’d be fucked anyways.
Once again, I have to replace the passenger side mirror on my car. In order to clear my neighbor’s hedge along my driveway, I have to swing to the right when backing out. And it’s a tight squeeze between the passenger side mirror and the pillar of my garage. The mirror will collapse if I hit the garage going IN, but not backing OUT.
It’d probably be a PITA, but why not fold the mirror in before backing out, the unfolding it once you’ve cleared the pillar?
It’s been kind of a long week and I’ve been pushing myself right up to the physical limit. Last night, I got to sleep around 4 am and had to be up around 6, so it was not a big surprise when, by the time I finished my main obligations for the day, I felt like I might die.
Anyway, I didn’t want to take a nap and then not be able to sleep, so I pushed through like a wounded zombie til 10 and then headed for the merciful embrace of my bed. Only to find that my cat had puked on the sheets. Greeeeeeaaaaaaat. So I’m in the guest bedroom, which will do for the night. I’m lucky to have that option.
The annoyance, though, is that I really thought I would fall asleep easily for once. I know, I know- is it my first day on Earth? But I’m SO tired. Except now, lying in bed, everything still hurts, but I’m like ten times more alert than I was a few hours ago. I went all day thinking the one silver lining to feeling like refried garbage would be easy sleep at the end of it and instead, it’s hours of ceiling-gazing til I get bored enough to look for distractions here.
Oh well. Off to continue my staring contest with the ceiling. I’ll let you know who wins.
My city went to standardized large wheeled garbage/recycling cans several years ago. They had a one-time option of a smaller wheeled can, mainly for people who were physically unable to handle the larger can. You might check if your city has a similar option.
And - I’m amazed at how many of my neighbors fill these large cans to overflowing EVERY WEEK.
One thing (maybe the only thing) I’ll miss when I retire is access to my dumpster at work. Any time we have a full bag (or just a semi full stinky bag) I take it to work and put it in my dumpster.
Are they like my neighbors, who never break down their boxes and also try to cram yard waste into any available container? (The city had really cracked down on the yard waste thing, but I still see some poking out of the large bin sometimes.)
I suspect that applies to some of the neighbors. At least in our city, boxes go in the (green) recycling bin. But I see a lot of (grey) trash bins overflowing week after week. (And, just to complete the explanation, small businesses get a blue bin.)
I’m trying hard to NOT be the “Serial Mom (1994)” here.
I’m my neighborhood, blue is recycling, green is compost, grey is garbage. (They recently swapped green and grey, it used to be the other way around, and they had to give us new cans with different labels.)
Wow, I really do live in Hippie-ville. On garbage day, most of my neighbors will only have their recycling bin* out.
I asked our next door neighbor, and she said “Oh, I have so little trash that isn’t compostable, I only put the garbage can out once or twice a month.” But her recycling is full every week. Go, Hipster Earth Chick!
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*We don’t have compost pickup, but I bet every one of these Flower Children have compost bins out back. We do! (Peace, man)
The three arrows in the “recycling” symbol stand for (in order of importance): reduce, reuse, recycle.
So HEC is at least not throwing shit away, but probably needs to move up the hierarchy to reuse or reduce (and reduce is probably actually easier).
Full disclosure - we (two of us) tend to put out about 1.5 bags of garbage a week, along with our recycling. So a lot of room for improvement there.
Amazon deliveries generate a LOT of cardboard.
I woke up to an alert this morning from my credit card company, asking me to verify a suspicious charge. The name of the company didn’t look familiar to me, so I looked it up and it turned out to be a hookup site for gay men. Definitely not a charge I initiated. So now my account is closed and I have to wait for a new card to be delivered. Joy.
I also wonder what percentage of credit card charges to sex sites are fraudulent. This has happened to me before.
Minor but I wanted to kvetch anyway.
I had 2 packages of bracioles for dinner tonight. I had my sauce cooking and it was time to add the meat.
They are 3 per pack on Styrofoam trays and plastic wrapped. No problem. Oh Sh!t, F&*^& d%^&%$! They are also vacuum packed. No peal backs, need to be fought open with a knife. I’m sure I never learned to open these shitty packages but how damn wasteful do they need to be. Plastic wrapped on a foam tray and covered in plastic wrap. A$$holes!
Also, is there a trick to opening vacuum packed meat?
I always snip off a corner of the packaging with kitchen shears to release the vacuum, walk away for a minute or two while the seal loosens, then come back and slit it open lengthwise with the kitchen scissors or a knife.
Often, one of the corners will have a small triangle where the sheets of plastic haven’t been sealed together. It can be difficult to find, and easier all around to pierce the vacuum.
I’ll try that next time.
I really checked for it, I was expecting that. It did not exist.