This.
I buy the Velveeta slices. Each one, torn into three strips, is good for three doses…
Hey, I like candy corn! Velveeta can have some uses, too. Gotta agree about the brussels sprouts, though.
I’m actually quite well stocked at present :). I do appreciate the good wishes.
Yeah, I know. I’m rather chatty today, and Discourse can just bite me on the subject of multiple posts. 
DH wound up bringing the car to me at irk today, then Ubering home due to severe leg pain. Surgery scheduled in two weeks, hoping he can hold on that long while doing the light-duty gig, since it’s good for his emotional health. He’s also gained about 10lb in the last month since starting that and dropping the Lipitor right at the same time. His appetite has picked up, which is good. We have him up to 145lb now, which still isn’t great for a 5’9" man, but is an improvement.
Irk was slightly less irksome than usual today, but I still really didn’t want to be there.
Been a messed up day.
I got into it big time with the neighbor two doors up.
She threatened me, so I am expecting either the sheriff or animal control to show up at my door.
Later I was out on the deck talking to my other neighbor, he called me out for some warm from the oven brownies. The crazy b two doors up came out and was taking pictures of me and the dogs sitting on my deck. I’m sure at least one of them has a middle finger salute in it.
Then she took pictures of the neighbor’s fence, the neighbor’s patio and the neighbor’s boarded up window.
I’m not sure how that is supposed to hurt me.
Years ago a friend had a housewarming party. Everybody who came brought a roll of toilet paper. She didn’t have to buy any for over two years.
Velveeta is good for dip, there is nothing that can make canned green beans taste good.
I love fart blossoms, but I agree that circus peanuts and raisinettes belong in the trash, along with the candy corn and cauliflower.
My great grandfather lived (to be almost 102) on circus peanuts and RC Cola.
Ugh, just thinking about that combo makes my stomach churn. He always gave them to us when we came to visit.
Ruble was one of the best. I wish I could have met him in RL.
I should be in bed, but I am still wired after getting into it with the crazy b two doors up.
I was holding off putting up a fence until I have some more money saved, but the fence is going to have to go up.
I also need to apologize to Friend1. I said something that hurt her feelings, but Friend of Friend1 said if I do, we’ll probably just get into another argument. She’s been arguing with Friend1 too and there is not much that can be done. Friend1 seems to be hell bent on arguing with everybody.
Also, thinking about changing doctors. I’m not dealing well with a doctor who wants to see me every 8 weeks. I’m also getting tired of the covid emails that are over the top.
My mother called today, she is in Myrtle Beach with Niece2, her ex-bf, and the two youngest boys. The oldest boy is in the hospital having surgery on a broken thumb, the second boy is into football? and can’t miss a practice or he will be kicked off the team.
Can you apologize to Friend1 by text, so you can’t get sucked into an argument?
DH and I seem to have had a “worst dinner” contest tonight, in the sense of neither of us feeling like bothering with anything with actual nutritional value. I grabbed potato chips, he grabbed caramel corn, we both had ice cream. I think he “won”, though, since I did take a multivitamin and finish the V8 Energy I started this morning. Neither of us felt like being grownups today.
Acting like a grown up is waayy over-rated.
Boo
PWAISDN wasn’t in a cooking mood, so Popeye cooked. Seems odd that they don’t sell spinach to go with the chicken.
Off to see a new doc about my busted up back tomorrow. This one’s more of a pain specialist than the last guy I saw about a month ago, so I’m hopeful.
gotti
Hope the pain specialist doc visit goes well tomorrow. I saw one recently when a cervical spine injury was causing intractable headaches and it helped a lot. Sure beats trying to live on opioids. 
Boo
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to sort.
Morning all! The sun is out, and it looks like it’s going to be warm for the next few days. I managed to get blisters on the back of both heels while going walkies yesterday- it was a really nice spot, so worth it, but still, not ideal.
Today’s thrilling plan is to do the washing, check on the bees and maybe go to the supermarket later.
I’m not a canned vegetable fan- I like almost all veg fresh or frozen, if cooked well (or just raw in a lot of cases) but canned is for emergencies only.
Anyway, happy… uhh, let me check… Friday all!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up stoopid early and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 75 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 95 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. No big plans for the day though nappage is a high possibility due to gettin’ up this stoopid early. In my defense I went to bed at eight-thirty last night cause I was tahrd. Sup shall be majik intartoobz pizza and sallit just cause.
I like Raisenettes. Fart blossoms, however, are Satan’s veggie and can go right to the dump.
gotti hope the visit to the pain specialist works out for ya. We may have to do Popeye’s soon. Haven’t had it in a while and I do like their red beans and rice and their bizkits.
nettie junk, it’s what’s for dinner.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.
Happy Firday Y’all!.
It’s starting to seem like my sleep requirement is about 6 hours. I can’t seem to stretch it out much longer - weird…
We did get some rain after 8 last night, and there’s a 60% chance for later today. Temps are supposed to hover in the 70s or maybe low 80s - very odd for this time of year, but I’ll take it!
My phone seems to lose charge awfully fast these days - I don’t think I have anything running in the background killing it off. I even uninstalled the couple of games I’d downloaded. When I got back from my walk yesterday, the charge was down to 2%! 
And it’s set in extended power mode… I’ll need to play with it some more.
As for Velveeta, my daughter makes a killer mac-n-cheese with 4 or 5 different cheeses, including some of that cheese-like product. In my younger days, I used to like snacking on the stuff, but I like to think my palate has become more refined. 
You assume we’re all on FB… or would friend each other… silly person!
sari - you seem to live in an, um, interesting neighborhood.
Not sure what today will hold - I’ll probably just fake it till I make it!
Happy Firday!
Just the usual Friday at work. One of our sprinkler techs and I run the fire pumps at a large office building every Friday morning. This afternoon is my annual visit with my Cardiologist.
[Sly Stone] Hot Fun In the Summertime [/Sly Stone]
Mrs. L.A. nixed the visit to opening day of the brewery. She was afraid she’d get bloated and then get intestinal difficulties, and she didn’t want to deal with that because she has a patient today. So this afternoon, I guess.
Got an email from my nephew, asking me to call my sister. I shouldn’t have. Sis was crying, BIL was intoxicated and shouting (and apparently I’m a piece of shit because I reminded him that he owes the house account $1,700), toxic BIL’s niece is STILL in the house – years after she was supposed to be gone – and being abusive. I was going to call the cops or Adult Protective Services, but sis told me not to. I wish sis would let me sell the rental house. I could get out of debt, she would have a couple/few hundred-thousand bucks (until they piss it away), I’d no longer have to deal with California taxes (and I’d get tax refunds instead of bills), and it would remove a big pain from my posterior.
Sorry to be a downer.
Afternoon, mumpers! It’s another day of scorchio! here, which we are definitely not used to. My phone tells me it’s 81F here in my little upstairs office/spare room/junk repository and even with the windows open, it feels much hotter than that.
No word from yesterday’s interview so I am guessing that’s another “no”. The role looked interesting and it’s timetabling/space management from the opposite side of my current view of it, which would have been even more interesting to me. Nice campus, good area, small student numbers and a real push towards sustainability too. However, the possibility of having to leave my job in four weeks and move up to Scotland is kinda daunting. Not that I don’t want to do it, it’s just a huge upheaval.
Somehow I also managed to miss getting one of the cats vaccinated in January, the vet usually sends a reminder and I either didn’t get it or forgot about it in the trauma of losing mum, or just neglected to do anything about it. Anyway, the poor boy is booked in for Monday afternoon so I shall prepare myself for wailing, gnashing of teeth and a long rendition of the Song of His People.
On a cuter note, mama raccoon and her three kits came to the yard to forage for bugs just now. We don’t like them in the yard, but they can’t get into the catio. Tonka just reclined in a chair and observed.
Why animal control? Is the neighbor threatening your dogs? They better not, or I will personally come up there and kick their asses into next year!! What was the outcome of this fracas? (I am so sorry…getting into it with neighbors is the worst. 
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I note that you have all the important food groups represented. No prob. 
Nettie, potato chips and ice cream sounds perfectly reasonable to me…
Sari, neighbor sounds nuts. Be careful and document. And maybe let a day or two pass with friend 1, then call…might just be a bad streak right now.
Boo fae, of course, they might be figuring out how they can pay someone as awesome as yourself more money…
flyboy, do you and sister co-own the house? If it’s yours, might be some need for tough love one of these days.
hippy, gotti, hope the Dr. visits go well.
Boo, Nettie, I try to live by the motto “Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.”
Alrighty, according to the weekly list, it’s BLT day, so need to start fixing them. All y’all have a good Firday.