Halfway through quarantine, and feeling better. Still very tired, though. Unless something else comes up, I return to Hades Annex next Moanday, the 6th. As of Saturday, I should be able to go among others without being a hazard.
As for today? Gotta do various government paperirk and hope to get my sleep pattern sorted out a bit. This business of being up and typing at 0200 local time is not good.
Take it away, gang, and virtual (thus safe) hugs to all who need or want them.
Ah, sleep patterns - mysterious and untameable!! I think mine is finally settling down after 3 months of retirement. I tend to fall asleep around 11, give or take, and I wake, mostly, between 6 and 7. I’ll go back to the bedroom usually around 9 and either read or stream something on TV. Sometimes I’m awake when **FCD **comes back, sometimes not. At the risk of jinxing myself, I seem to be sleeping thru the night.
Which brings us to the ass-end of March. Theoretically, **FCD **has surgery on the 28th of April. But it all depends on the plague in Baltimore. Meanwhile, he worries about catching plague before then, or one of us catching it, or it getting so bad that the hospital can’t take him as scheduled. But we just don’t know, we can’t control it, so I don’t think about it while he frets. What can you do?
We’re supposed to hit the low 70s today, no rain, so I’m hoping to get some raking done. I’ve already decided tonight we’re having meatloaf and baked russets - gotta pull the meatloaf out of the freezer. And I’m going to do a couple of loads of laundry. Full day ahead as you can see. 
Hoping that getting outside to rake will counteract some cabin fever.
Onward! Happy Moanday!
baack on the grind today. I have a large hotel on my schedule. It was installed by a competitor who programmed blocks in the service procedures to make it difficult for anyone not having the password to test. A tough day ahead. Stay safe everyone
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN I was a slug abed until around 7:15 this mornin’! :eek: 'Tis 61 Amurrkin out and N.O.S. with a predicted high of 84 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. TWPTB say rain tonight and tomorrow. We shall see. The big plan of the day is to defilthyfy da cave. Sup shall be leftovers from yestiddy. We live a wild life around heah!
My sleep pattern is pretty consistent. Well, both our sleep patterns are. Usually in bed around ten. I am the early riser and will arise anytime from around five-thirty to seven in the mornin’, today bein’ an exception. OYKW arises sometime betwixt eight and nine in the mornin’. We usually have a nap durin’ the day as well. What? We’re old and need sleep.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.
Happy Moanday Y’all!
Afternoon, mumpers! I have had possibly the quietest weekend ever 
I do miss being able to out and do stuff but at the same time, i am quite enjoying staying at home. We braved the supermarket last week and don’t plan to do that again until probably Friday. We have a little corner shop that is a couple of minutes’ walk from the front door, they keep us supplied with the essentials like milk and bread so we don’t need to go any further for those.
My sleep patterns are way off at the moment, which is why I feel very tired this morning and didn’t feel like there was much sleeping done last night. My usual daily commute is up to 1.5hrs each way, so I typically get up at 6am to be out of the house for the 7am bus to the railway station, train to Big City, then bus to campus. It’s not a great distance but when you include the hanging around time, it can be over an hour to get from door to door. So now I don’t need to get up until 8am to start work almost immediately, but my head still seems to think I should go to bed at 10pm. Nope…ten hours is too much!
We don’t have a huge amount of work to do either, I’m waiting for people to send me things, and some big academic decisions are being made about our students who should graduate this summer. Once that happens, there will be a massive amount of stuff to sort out for them. And I have a project due in six weeks that I need to write a report for.
But for now, it’s lunchtime…that means leftover curry from last night!
Since I’m doing a combo of irk at irk, irk from home and being on call, I’m rising about an hour later M-W and going to bed an hour later the nights before. It just makes it easier when I do have to show up at irk. I’m looking at this as a bit of a preview for retirement (although retirement will allow me to leave the house more frequently) and am using a task list to make sure vegging out doesn’t become an issue.
Today, I’ll go purchase the week’s groceries, come back home, do a couple of tasks for irk, have a Zoom meeting, clean the patio and play in the studio. Before this is all over, I may even have a regular dusting schedule. :eek:
My regular going to work sleep schedule is in bed between 9 and 10 and up sometime between 5:30 and 6:30. My going to work when I feel like it because my boss is an idiot micromanager but she’s at another location is bed between 10 and 11 and up between 6:30 and 7:30. On weekends I stick to the latter schedule with a nap around 2pm.
Tis sunny NOS and I have no idea what the temp is. I know it’s above 32F and below 45F.
Did some fridge mine-out, evicting stuff that had overstayed. Also have a beef roast in the crockpot. Still gotta get to paper-irk, have roughly zero concentration.
Not looking for sympathy or hugs here - just need a place to say this.
A cousin Laurie died this weekend of cancer. Her grandfather and my grandfather were brothers, so I’m not sure what degree of cousinship we shared. She was 49, married, no kids and I only know that because of her obituary. I doubt I saw her half a dozen times, last time being in 2004 at her grandmother’s (my great-aunt’s) funeral.
I recall years ago, don’t know exactly when, her mother (my mother’s cousin) posted on FB about Laurie’s breast cancer diagnosis. I also know from FB that she was very much involved in raising money for breast cancer research. From the photo in the obit, I saw how much she looked like her mother, who looked a lot like her father, but I doubt I’d have recognized her on the street.
Even tho there was no close personal connection, it saddens me that someone so young would be brought down by that horrible disease. I’m sad for her husband, but on one level, I’m glad there are no children left behind to deal with this. I’m sorry for her mother - no parent should have to bury a child.
Sorry - didn’t mean to bring down the tone, but I wasn’t going to put this on FB since her mother is my friend there. Thanks for letting me get it out. Carry on with the usual silliness.
Send chocolate!!
My son got laid off from work this AM. Yay, no more driving him to work at the OSHA violation printing place. We were in the pool for when the place caught fire and burned down.
Gas this am was $1.699
Good morning! I’ve got a heating pad on my (perpetually permafrosted) toes, and a heating pad on my sore neck. For the moment, I’m quite comfy!
I’ve heard grumbles from real and virtual friends about being “cooped up.” I laugh to myself and remember reading “The Long Winter” by Laura Ingalls Wilder when I was in grade school. In comparison to Laura and her family, we have all utilities, a selection of food, TV and Internet! We need to be glad we’re not burning hay knots for heat and eating rough-ground wheat muffins!
Seriously, I have no cabin fever. I have made mention here that this past January 17th, Mr VOW had a “Widowmaker” heart attack. He has completed the Home Health Care program (he says he was “honorably discharged”), and is doing quite well.
All I need to do is to look over and see him sitting next to me, and know that he is ALIVE.
Perspective.
~VOW
Whoever thought going to the store, or the vet, or the hair salon, could be fun?
For someone in quarantine, a late-night trip to the mailbox or dumpster can qualify as excitement.
Happy Moonday!
It’s a beautiful 63 degrees outside, supposed to get up close to 70.
Lily and Jax both came by for a play date this morning, a good time was had by all.
Echo has gotten much better about not flipping out when they leave. I think she’s figured they will be back tomorrow.
I’ll still be happy when the park opens, there is a lot more room for them to run there.
Got an email from Weis that online ordering is back, so I started an order last night for us to pick up tomorrow. We don’t need a lot, just water, ground beef, pizza, and butter. Of course I’ll be adding more to the list, I always do.
My sleep is all screwed up. I usually wake up before the alarm goes off. This morning I kept swiping and swiping my phone and the damn alarm wouldn’t stop.
I was dreaming that I had my phone in my hand and was swiping the alarm.
Irk is all screwed up(I’m still cussing the new web design) and really really slow, I irked 83 hours last week and made about 2/3 of a normal paycheck.
Even though I irk from home and it’s mostly just waiting for phone calls, it still makes me tired and grumpy to irk so many hours.
It also means I am stuck indoors, which annoys me when it is so nice outside. Until the big mouth buffoon and screaming banshee come outside - yesterday I was looking at houses online because I’m not sure I can take another summer of them. Unfortunately, or fortunately, however you look at it, prices have really gone up around here. I only saw a few houses in my price range and none of them looked like something I would want.
So my whole schedule is a mess.
I’m hoping that by keeping regular play dates everything can get back to normal, but both of my friends are having schedule changes at their jobs, so everything is on a day by day basis.
Hopefully everything will be back to normal soon.
I’m sorry about your cousin FCM
I don’t know what I am going to do today. There’s a lot to be done, as always, but not much in the way of motovation.
Ah yes, sleep ‘patterns’… The last two days I’ve gone to bed at a totally reasonable time- 10.30-11ish, got to sleep abut 1,woken up about 3 too tahred to do anything constructive but not tarhed enough to sleep, finally got back to sleep about 5 and woken up at 10 (well, I think it was 11 yesterday, as our clocks changed and I was even more confused than normal). Most annoying. I know I don’t have a lot to do, but spending that long in bed is even more of a waste of time, and leaves me all dopey.
I suspect it’s the lack of exercise.
We are still permitted out for a walk, but my usual nearby nice relaxing woodland walk is heaving with dogs and kids. I’ll pass. I do try and do some stretches and the like inside, but it’s not the same.
Anyway, I still have essays to write, so I need to be on the computer rather a lot anyway. Oh well, it’s good to have something to do, aside from eat.
Morning all. Usually I’m to bed between 11pm and midnight and up around 7-7:30am (not counting the daily 5am trip to the bathroom), but on occasion (like today), I’ll sleep until 9-9:30am. Messes up plans for the day, but a once-in-awhile dedecance can be nice.
Made a list to do each day, today is dry cleaning (they apparently are still open) and Wal-mart for writing tables and picture frames (hey, trying to keep the economy going here). 66F going to 70F with rain coming in tonight and tomorrow.
Everybody have a safe (and illness-free) week now.
First load of laundry is done, second is in the dryer. I just finished my sammich and I’m having an orange now. I picked out a new book from the library, but I’m not sure I’m going to finish it. The prologue started with a body being pulled out of the water. The first two chapters have been mostly tedious. I may dump it if the 3rd chapter isn’t any better.
Sun is shining and Roxy is napping. Once the load of shirts comes out of the dryer, I’ll decide what to do next. Kinda depends on what SIL does - I think he’s going out to work on the swingset. Exciting, huh?
Well, that knocked out the census. I think I’ll tackle EDD (California’s unemployment/disability/family leave agency) in the wee hours when I suspect their systems won’t be as badly overwhelmed. Wondering whether time of day matters for the IRS site.
I’m sorry to hear about your cousin, Moooooom. With sibling grandparents, she would be your second cousin. I have a few cousins like that. I seldom see them outside of family reunions and funerals but still like knowing they’re still with us.
I went to Aldi and the Pubic Sto’ this morning. The shelves are slowly returning to near normal. I scored a gallon of bleach (it was on my list) and a loaf of old world pumpernickel flat bread. My German-Polish grandparents used to have that kind of bread around over the holidays and whenever my local Aldi gets it in (not often), I pick up a loaf.
I toasted a slice to have with some Gruyere and a bowl of the carrot-onion soup that I made yesterday. Twas yum! This afternoon, I’ll do the patio work, do another chapter in the MS course and mess around in the studio.
**Red **- would you share your carrot-onion soup recipe? Sounds yum!
Merryland is closed as of 8PM today. I’m not entirely sure how it differs from current conditions, unless it gives police authority to arrest people who don’t comply. You can still get groceries and takeout food, you can go to the doctor or vet, you can go to work, you can take walks in your neighborhood. I don’t see it affecting us a lot. But we shall see.
It’s a strange world we’re living in.