Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. It was 40 when I got up this morning. They are having some contruction done on the pool, and are jackhammering away. I keep expecting to hear singing.
I’m spending my time creating an army of cyborg lemurs TO DESTROY YOU ALL!!!. Or at least my Mirror Universe self is, best to avoid dogbutlers with goatees.
Gordie thinks a broadside of these would be perfect for dealing with The Invisible Mole People.
Yo. Still sneezing but finally got some proper allergy pills so maybe it will stop. Nothing different today from yesterday. I have a bunch of laundry to do and need to cook later. Same shit, different day.
**Blurf **
Well, crap on a big ol’ soggy cracker. **FCD **was exposed to COVID when he had his blood drawn 10 days ago. Apparently the tech was infected. So he’s supposed to self quarantine for 14 days from the time of exposure, which was, as I said, 10 days ago. Which means we were all theoretically exposed since 10 days ago.
So far, everyone is asymptomatic. But it still sucks. I don’t know if he wore a mask then - I need to ask. I would hope the tech did, but I also need to ask that.
Dammit.
And on top of that, I bought 2 boxes of strawberries at Food Lion, but only one made it home. Dammit. They owe me!!
Still alive here in the middle of Orygun. Having a touch of hypochondria.
We’ve been doing little projects around the house.
Did I mention that I rebuilt the bottom two steps on the front porch?
We’re going back to the ‘big house’ on Moanday so that Son and his wife, and no doubt their ill-mannered dog, can spend some vacation time here.
I’m sure the grass there will be wanting to be mowed by now.
I hope FCD didn’t get infected Mom.
All y’all take care and stay safe.
Tech wore a mask and **FCD **wore a mask, so I hope we’re fretting for nothing.
FCM, did the strawberries get left behind? Could they give you another? I sure hope you all aren’t infected. Mys sister is a pharmacist in a hospital here, she usually isn’t right up close to people, but who knows?
Buttercup, does anyone ever think you are infected, when you sneeze? Glad to hear you got the meds you needQ
I suspect the strawberries were put in a separate bag and the clerk missed giving it to me. I’ll take my receipt next time I go and I’m pretty sure they’ll give me another box, or a refund. Works either way.
It got to be 10:15, so I thought I’d have breakfast. I put a low-carb tortilla in a pan, put in some salmon salad (salmon, mayo, celery, & dill), topped it with a slice and a half of American cheese, folded it over, and had a grilled… whatever.
I think I’ll make fajitas and margaritas for dinner tonight.
On the other hand, it would be nice to be one of those people “with a mild case who never knew they had it”, and be immune. Shop with impunity upon recovery!
Well, I’m not gonna steal Cupcake’s crown, but my little braided challah attempt is definitely edible, and the texture’s OK. That pan-o-water in the oven trick worked great, I normally have trouble getting a decent fast rise, as I tend to have a cold house and the lowest oven setting is still too high.
Other’n that, the day’s excitement has been watering the houseplants, chugging away at the assignment, and generally doing not a whole lot. At least with the rain I don’t feel so much like I’m missing out, and the bleedin’ lawnmowers shut up for a few hours. Around here at least, the lawnmower has been the sound of the lockdown; lawns have never been so short.
Thought you all might want to know what the dictionary thinks of you: mumper
Happy Firday!
It was a friggin 28 degrees here this morning, Lily came over for a play date anyway.
I think she is still coming tomorrow, even though we are not supposed to plan playdates or visit with friends.
We are also supposed to wear masks in public starting tomorrow and if we don’t, we can be arrested and put in jail.
I guess the state has to find a way to fill all those empty cells since they let out a bunch of criminals so they wouldn’t catch the virus.
Yeah, I’m still in a pissy mood.
I would love to plant the hanging gardens of babylon in my yard, but adding another floor to my house would be a bit much.
Finishing the attic into another bedroom or office wouldn’t be a bad idea, if you don’t mind sharing the space with the bat. I guess he/she/it still lives up there, I haven’t been up in a while to see.
However, I have no time or money for such pursuits because I am still irking 80+ hours a week.
That is part of my grumpiness. I’m tired.
Adding to it is…
I bought a new laptop, put it on the store card which is supposed to be 0% interest if I pay it off in 6 months. They are charging me interest. I sent an email inquiring as to why. Over a week later I get an email back telling me that I still have to make minimum payments each month, that I cannot go 6 months without making a payment. That was not my question. I was all set to call them when I got a follow up email explaining that the interest will be removed from my account.
Then, I needed NextGuard and HeartGuard for the dogs. I get emails from the vet with a link to some pet med company, so I go through them. The NextGuard is approved but the HeartGuard isn’t because Ripple needs a heart worm test. However, he can’t get a heart worm test because that is not considered essential. However, the vet would approve a lesser quantity, so now I have to get in touch with the pet med company to reorder a smaller quantity, but I want to combine it with the NextGuard so I am spending enough that I get free shipping, because I am a cheap ass who doesn’t not like to pay shipping charges.
HumpDay is bill paying day for me. Bill pauing has become annoying because 1) I am not making what I need to be making. This means instead of paying everything at one time like I normally do, I have to make sure I have enough money to cover everything, so I am only paying what is due that week. That annoys me because I like paying everything ahead. 2) Every damn website has a covid-19 page come up, and they all say the same damn thing about my safety and how they are short handed and call wait times are longer than usual. I’m not calling you, I am on your damn website, so I don’t give a flyin fig how long your wait times are, and please stop with the bs about caring for me and my safety. You only care because you want the money I owe you. I know it is only one extra click to get into the website, but I am damned tired of the one extra click. Even more annoying are the ones who tell me what they are doing to protect their employees or compensate their employees or whatever. That is between them and their employees, I think it is very nice that you are giving them extra sick leave, or extra compensation, or whatever the hell else you are doing, but I just want to pay my damn bill. It’s like standing at the cash register with money in your hand and the cashier is telling you all about her mother’s gallbladder surgery, just take my damn money and shut up.
And every day I still get emails from my doctor’s office (even got a text from them asking me to update my email address so I can get the emails in case I’m not), and the medical center letting me know that I should stay home, and not go anywhere except to pick up food and prescriptions, and I should wash my hands a hundred times a day, and not to come into the office as they are doing teleconsultations blah blah blah. In addition to their emails I have gotten multiple emails from every company I do business with, have ever done business with, and ever thought about doing business with, letting me know they care about my safety and what steps they are taking to protect me and what steps they are taking to protect/compensate their employees.
Also, my doctor’s office let me know that even though cases are down in our county, we should not relax and we have to be prepared for the peak that is coming mid-May or June. Funny, because Lily’s mom got a text from a store she frequents saying they were closing for this week because this is the week cases in the county are supposed to peak.
In other words, nobody knows wtf they are talking about but they are still going to talk anyway.
I got the bill for my car insurance and need to call them because I sure don’t see the promised discount for April and May.
I checked the IRS site to see about my stimulus check and was informed I an NOT eligible to get one. I have no idea why, because I meet all the criteria to get one and none of the reasons why I shouldn’t apply to me. Just another damned annoyance I have to find somebody to call to find out wtf is going on.
Irk is making some changes that I am NOT happy about. I understand why they are doing it, and while it will probably help some people, it will probably end up hurting me. I am still cussing the new website and they are still irking on the issues.
All small annoyances but still tick me off. Nothing can be easy, there is always a hiccup in the process.
The dogs are still hyper and getting on my nerves, my son is getting on my nerves, proofreading his school irk is getting on my nerves, listening to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNmpIA_bLcE a hundred zillion times, because he had to write a paper on it really got on my nerves - so glad that paper is finally finished and turned in. Pissed me off too because I had to go look up the lyrics. It is the earworm that won’t die. I think his next paper is jazzrock.
He should have taken the new laptop and left me with the old one because the old one keeps locking up. It only has to last a few more weeks.
Friend1 has a bad case of tds to the point that she is angry all the time, friend2 has gone over the edge with conspiracy bullshit (especially the 5g stuff). I’m worried about both of them, but nothing I can do about it but try to change the subject.
Don’t even let me get started on the chaos that is my pantry right now.
I buy food in an organized way, like I know one bottle of taco sauce goes with two packs of ground beef and one pack of tortilla shells. I buy things in quantities that match up. I know what I have, how many meals I will get out of it, and everything has it’s spot in the pantry, freezer, and fridge. Now everything is out of sync.
It’s bad enough when my son gets in there and moves things around and doesn’t put them back where they belong, but now I can’t even buy things the way I used to because I never know what will or won’t be in stock.
I hope FCD will be okay FCM.
That sucks WetOne.
There comes a time though, where I start to wonder how much of this is being done to ‘protect’ us and how much is being done to test ‘how tightly can we pack the herd before they revolt’?
But that is my inate distrust of anything governmental talking.
You can preach it Dot.
That whole thing came from MEMA which is Maryland Emergency something something.
Afternoon, friends.
We just had a video chat with a good portion of the third grade. The kid thought it was great. They’re supposed to do show and tell next week, so she’s agonizing over which of her things might be show-and-tell worthy. Her favorite stuffed owl is out because she used it for an essay on something they’re lucky to have. Her slime doesn’t glow like it did when it was new. Her phone is her favorite, but not that interesting- lots of kids have phones. The buckyballs are in the running along with a new stuffed thing she got (a large, soft, and very round… insect?). I suggested the birds at the birdfeeder because she’s been learning those along with me and has been excited every day to tell her mom what she saw and learned, the feral/wild cats, or her pinball machine. She wasn’t sold on any of those. It’s a big decision, you know.
What would you bring/use for show-and-tell? Your own, not on the third grade video chat.
The writers of that dictionary are a bunch of poopy heads! 
We’re nice, dammit!
Ughhhh…slow day at work today! I wanna go home! Oh, wait…I wanna go out!
Yesterday, work was extra irky and before I threw a keyboard out the window, I checked online and soon found myself at the food bank sorting oranges. Oddly therapeutic - just me vs a huge crate of oranges, and my brain turns off, saving my keyboard from destruction. Not saved from destruction was a wall at the food bank warehouse. The day before, someone drove a forklift into a doorway. :eek: They didn’t quite leave a cartoon-style forklift-shaped hole, but it is more than a “bit of spackle and Dad won’t notice.” I’m told it was just as loud as you might expect.
Must be a big drinking weekend coming up - there’s a line down the street of cars waiting to get into the liquor store’s parking lot.
Goll durn right!
FCM I hope that you all make it through quarantine without COVID-19 making an appearance.
I’ve joined the bread making club. So far I’ve been able to buy just enough flour to avoid running out. I’d like to find a bigger bag somewhere. My experiments have turned about fairly well. I think to do exactly what I want I need to pull the dough out of the bread machine and put it into the oven. I’ve avoided that so far. 
The kids are still doing well with online school. They’ve also started playing DnD online with their friends. My son misses his friends, but being able to interact online helps.
In the middle of all of this, I’ve been referred to an MS specialist. I am worried/freaked out/scared. I consulted Dr. Google and apparently MS treatments have come a long way and things might not be as bad as I think. Nonetheless, I worry.
Hugs and hellos to all.
Mooooooom, I hope no one in your household comes down with the virus.
gotti, over the years of working in quality or inventory management in manufacturing and logistics, I’ve seen (and on occasion, had to do the paperwork for) some doozies on forklifts, cherry pickers and scissor lifts. One of my guys at the car plant took out a water fountain once. When facilities replaced it, they put a guardrail around it. At one warehouse, we had a maintenance guy go off the dock in one. And if you’ve never smelled a pallet of garlic oil dropped from thirty feet up, you’re lucky.
Irked, came home, walked the dog, then went down the street to Fat Mo’s drive thru for a Mo burger deluxe and some deep fried mushrooms. I should have gone with a smaller burger. At least I have lunch for tomorrow.
Off irk until Wednesday. I’m going online for some seeds tonight so that I can play in the patio garden some more. I’m also getting creative with some scraps in the studio. I have an idea for some really cool bookmarks that I think might be an order filler for free shipping with the online card biz.
That Mumper description suits me. I am about as grumpy as Sari. That is a lot on your plate. Me and hubs have been at odds as he just had to go out a couple times today. To irk. I am thrilled he feels well enough to go do minor things but with his issues he should not be leaving the house. I can’t tie him up.
Baker I have only left the house twice this week for the grocery store and was able to not sneeze there. My issues are allergies. I have it every spring and fall really bad. Since I got my Allegra D in me it has calmed down. My son did ask if I have a sense of taste and smell. I do not have the virus and have not been exposed I don’t think. I have had a couple times I felt short of breath but that is panic attacks I think. It is also allergy related too. I am very nervous about all this because I know if hubs gets it he won’t survive and me either probably.
Happy almost weekend everyone.