Yay on the job apps shoe!
Well, the nausea pretty much left last evening, but then began the don’t-get-too-far-from-the-commode phase. (TMI, I know), so I took the day off again. The headache is gone, given that I’ve been drinking black tea with some caffeine in it today. Still going with fairly bland food though. We’ll see about irk tomorrow.
Whilst home, I’ve binge watched Lou Grant. It’s surprisingly watchable for a topical show 40+ years old.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Home from irk and enjoying the last rays of sunshine out with the cats.
My silly, ridiculously underage work crush was in an exceptionally good mood today - chatty, showing me pictures on his phone.
He just got back from a hunting trip with his dad, and seemed genuinely pleased that I (truly, genuinely) enjoyed his offerings of wild duck & wild goat.
He offered them to everyone, of course, but did make a special point of telling me what he brought.
He also jumped on something I needed done before I even asked - he’s worked there long enough to be very good at anticipating these situations - and when I thanked him, he replied, “Oh, you liked that, huh?”
The fact that I know I’m reading waaaayyy too much into tiny, innocuous moments does not in any way stop me from enjoying them!
Ah, yes, I think I told y’all about the black puppy that randomly showed up, and a neighbor offering to take him?
I saw him playing with said puppy on my way home. Wandered over to say “hi” and to get fawned over by a crazy-sweet pup. His new name is “Duke,” and he has enough energy to power a small electric plant but is friendly as all hell.
Now I’m watching two children playing with Duke, and it just makes me smile.
Cats got catnip. Now I just gotta figure out dinner.
Sounds like Duke landed on his paws in his new forever home. Great job finding him his family!
Happy Toosday!
Was nice this morning, but it’s raining and the temp has dropped to 51.
No park again this morning. My leg felt a whole lot better yesterday until I went to put my shoes on. It hurt, a lot.
Not like when I was 18 and could walk it off.
The dogs are being bratty. It’s to be expected, they have energy to burn. If/when I buy another house one of the requirements will be that I can have a place to irk where I can see outside.
I could sit at the kitchen table except there are no outlets near it and eventually I’ll have to plug in my laptop.
Ripple is in and out and in and out because he wants Echo to come in. Echo wants to stay outside all day. I don’t trust her there alone for too long, if there is a way to get out, she will find it or create it.
My friend request acceptance was accepted, BooFae, so I guess you were right.
I have only ever unfriended one person. Real life friend who said some things that were… well, she pissed off a lot of us. Then she came out all nicey nice to our faces, then posted something shitty again. WTF?
A little worried for another friend. He just had a murder right by his house the other night. This morning his neighbor got robbed at gunpoint as he was leaving for irk. My friend has a big dog he takes everywhere with him, so he will probably never be approached, but is still scary.
We all thought his dog was yellow lab mix. Turns out she is Great Pyrenees, Staffordshire Terrier, Australian Shepherd, and… Chihuahua. We all love her to death, but she is not a dog to mess with.
The mayor made a post about the murder, and says she is going to do something about it. There aren’t enough eye rolls for that one. She’s real good photo ops and not much else.
All glitter but no gold.
Nothing wrong with younger men Shoe.
Some men like a little more mature woman.
Even Benjamin Franklin wrote about it
in praise of older women
I think he’d be cancelled if he wrote that today.
Howdy Y’all! We laundered, slothed, napped, made and et sup and cleanded the kitchen. Thus was the day in swampland.
Flyboy hope you get the kitchen put back together soonest.
red hope you feel better soonest.
MOOOOOOM glad y’all made it safe to Flarhduh. Since somebody has to be there, well, better thee than me.
Awwww…shoe! I’m happy for Duke (my late sweetie had an English setter named Duke, so I’m kind of fond of Duke doggies).
sari, that’s one ambitious chihuahua!
Needed something from the Gettin’ Sto’ and saw a cop car outside. Oookaaay. When I went in, the greeter advised me to steer clear of the refrigerated section.
“Why?”
“There’s a fight.”
She was oddly (to me) nonchalant about it.
No shit there was a fight. Couple of people screeeeeetching at each other, dozens of people standing by with their phones.
I stayed the hell away (after 30 years in Texas, I simply assumed someone was gonna get shot) but 90% of my list of a half-dozen or so items were in the vicinity of the ruckus.
Things cleared shortly after I got there - when I walked through, I was amused at nseeing not one, but two weave braids on the floor. Bitches resorted to hair-pulling!
My sentiment precisely.
Neighbor-eeno did mention that the pupper reminded him of a childhood dog named Duke & that’s why he picked the name.
The legend lives on!
Just took my son to irk.
It is so windy, and cold.
I was leery of parking out back under the tree so I parked out front.
I had a dream last night about a tree falling, only on my house. But I said in the dream, this is the third time, the insurance company is going to kill me.
There were three open spaces in front of my house so I could just pull in and didn’t have to parallel park.
The dogs were very confused, made worse by having to get back in the truck so I could back up a little. We not only have to park between the white line and the curb, but we have to park between the lines in front and back of us too.
shoe - Congrats all around! The puppy is What Will Get You Into Paradise. As for the young’un…ask him if he knows what they say about older women: (spoilered because it is rude, sexist and ageist.) They don’t yell, they don’t tell, they don’t swell and they’re grateful as hell!
The cats are fed and catnipped, the trash has been put out for tomorrow and a pot of unstuffed cabbage is cooking on the stove. Sorry, kitties! Tonight is going to be loud and stinky.
Evening all. Girls lost their first game of the season 4-6, several of them got knocked down and this incensed my Assistant Coach, who argued a bit with the other coach–given Chuck is 6’4" and probably near 400 lbs., I tried to cool things off and no voices were raised. Then went up to the boys practice for the last 20 minutes and came home to some Mac-n-Cheese.
shoe, glad the puppeh found you and your neighbor. Hope it’s a long-time relationship…speaking of relationships, y’all keep us updated now, y’hear? I’ll check You Tube to see if anyone has posted a fight in a grocery in Michegeen today…
FCM, glad you guys got in safe and sound. Rest up while you can.
Hope you get to feeling better soon, red
Good luck with the Infernal Revenue Service, Sunny
talky, know what you mean, have worn glasses since I was 7-8 and never have considered contacts, putting things on my eyeball just seems…wrong to me.
boo fae, sounds like a great trip. Where are you staying in Vegas, if I can ask?
OK, back to internettin’ All y’all take care.
You can get more with a kind word and a looming presence than you can with just a kind word.
Got woken up from naptime by hichichicHORNK 
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Cleaned that up, now it’s dinner time. Italian chicken with orzo, asparagus, and a martini.
“The humming food obelisk.” - Gordie
Love, Barry White, and a trebuchet conquers all. 
Sounds like weekend at my dorm.
It’s raining hard. Again. I don’t mind, though. I just keep remembering the drought of a month or so ago and heave a sight of relief. The sun is supposed to reappear [checks] Saturday.
The dog across the hall is barking and howling again. I guess they decided not to ask me to dog-sit, which is fine. I just feel bad for the pup.
Sari, yikes about your poor friend. Must make it harder to sleep at night.
It’s the Chihuahua in her, no doubt.
flyboy, sorry about the discombobulation. I knew a guy whose fridge was in his living room for 6 months while his kitchen got remodeled. (Was supposed to take 2 months, but you know how that goes.) I guess the upside is you get a nicer kitchen out of the deal. And Mrs. LA has to run out of remodeling ideas sometime. 
Sunny, if you talk to the IRS people, you’re a lucky woman. When I went through that mess a couple months ago, all I got was a message saying, “Due to extremely high call volumes, we are not taking calls.” I hope the re-fi snafu’s smooth out soon.
red, sounds like what ails you is working its way out of your system. Hope so, anyway!
A very rational, sound attitude. [Puts friendly arm around wordy.] Let me buy you a drink and tell you my story.
Because you’re so good at what you’re doing!
If there’s one thing horror movies have taught us, it’s never to go to weird spaces you don’t want to go.
For my next trick, I predict the gender of Mooooom’s next grandchild.
Things seem to be progressing. The wall next to the fridge is problematic, but we think we ca just sane it downl The doorway is also problematic. I see an obvous solution, but my ideas don’t count so I’ll keep mum (aside fro one mention). Mrs. L.A. and I have different approaches. I plan and plan and pan and then execute the plan. Mrs. L.A thinks of what she wants to do, then runs into obstacles and gets frustrated. But she’s screwing the cat, and I’m just holding the tail.
Discretion is the better part of valor! Just have a medicinal cocktail and think about something else…football or unicorns or glow-in-the-dark cars or something. 
Couldn’t sleep last night so I caught up on last week’s and this week’s MMP.
The day before I got up at 3:30 so I could talk to a coworker on the other side of the planet. It was voluntary, but I think it will take a few days to get my sleep schedule back on track.
flyboy, hope your kitchen is back in normal operation soon. As long as the fridge works and it’s possible to cook, it works, but not as much fun.
Nettie, hope your rain helps fill up the reservoirs and the snowpacks, without wiping out roads and falling trees.
FCM my mom’s on the list to get one of her knees replaced, assuming the hospitals in Washington empty out a bit. Not sure how likely that’s going to be. Hope FCD doesn’t overdo it while in Floridah.
Maybe not as dark as you wanted, shoe, but the hints of color sound like fun.
My favorite from See’s is their peppermint patties, especially the dark chocolate - think York, but fancier. Yum.
Time for breakfast. Have a great Hump Day!
Up, caffeinated, and sheveles. Off to heave, assuming we have power. The only See I know is the Holy one. 
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 52 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 78 and N.O.S. for the day. Fall is here! Today we procure provisions for the week and I, of course, have church janitor Junior Warden duties over to the church house. We kicked around the idea of bein’ retired drains on society who N.O,L. Goin’ to our local good Mexican place appeals greatly to me. I shall lobby for that. If we don’t then we must figure out sump’n for sup. If’n we do, then any other need to feed for the day would be via forage. I want fajitas.
doggio I think die is tellin’ us that the dark chawklit peppermint patties are the Holy See.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, bother of bothers, drat, and dread, I suppose I must purtify and don appropriate bein’ amongst the public attire. Woe is me! I must look appropriate and deal with the masses.
Happy Hump Day Y’all!