Success!! Appointment resked for 1 at an office closer to the crabber’s marina, so we can do both at once! Yay!!
I’m going to scald, peel and chop some peaches now for another load of jam. This time, I’ll do it with some sugar - the sugar-free just wasn’t all that good, altho it’ll be good in other stuff - like pancakes. Maybe a peach upside-down cake?? hmmmmmmmmm
I can drive, I can haz 10 bikini girls? 
Clothes came for next week’s race. I’m a good designer!
I am full of grump today, too. I never even got a givadammer in my welcome package!
We did a little bit of weeding, then UPS showed up with FCD’s new airbrush, so weeding was all done… 
We’ll be leaving in about an hour - I should probably do something about lunch for us.
I tells ya, being retired isn’t for the faint of heart!! 
So I knew if I waited the choice would be made for me. A contract was put in on one of the two houses I was debating so the choice has been made for me, except another new one came on the market. I think I am going to just go make an offer though.
I talked it over with Sah-son finally got him to talk about it and he told me which one he preferred.j
One thing I know about him, he is stubborn and sometimes it is better to sit back and let him decide when he is ready and then it goes smoothly.
Lieu I hear you.
He really needs to get his license but sometimes having a kid that isn’t out there trying to set the world on fire has it’s benefits.
Vorlon, mine turned 18 in May and I’ll be happy if he gets his license before his learners expires and he doesn’t have to take driver’s ed again.
I wish my mother would back off, the harder she pushes the harder he resists and I get stuck in the middle.
I am so looking forward to when I have my days back to myself, when the twins start kindergarten and the baby is at daycare. Does that make me a bad mother? I sometimes think I need more time away from my kids than most mothers.
**Apie **killded the MMP!
Wow. I thought that was Swampy’s job
Once again, I haven’t read much and retained little, other than sticky and I, once again, have overlapping grief.
Leaving out the family drama, when I went to the hospital almost two days after mom was admitted she was gone in so far as she never again regained full consciousness, and never recognized any of us. She was combative and in restraints because she kept getting out of bed and falling, and ripping out the iv’s. Getting an iv in her was horrible to begin with, the last time they had to get an iv specialist. She was thrashing and in pain, but the hospital doctor didn’t want to give her any more morphine because he was afraid her liver wouldn’t metabolize it!!!
So my sister, aunt and I got all up in the nurses face and when I went back the next morning she had been moved and was receiving palliative care. In other words, she was given all the morphine they could without actually killing her.
Saturday the 13th, I sat next to mom, holding her hand, as her breathing slowed, each breath was one less per minute than the last, and when she took her last her heart beat for another 30 seconds or so, and then she was gone.
Her service will be August 3rd.
My mom is gone, and I am truly bereft.
She died on the same day by brother died last year, and the service is also on the same day.
Thanks for listening mumper friends, it means a lot.
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Dearest Mumpers,
It is I, $2.99. I haven’t posted in a MMP in a very long time and I am so sorry about that. The last for weeks I was travelling a lot, and while I had time for some Dope, I never made it around here to post and read. I hope everyone is doing well and if you are not, I hope it gets better soon.
Please find enclosed my sincerest regrets for not being around much. I am back on the boat now for 4 weeks starting today, and will have more time to post and read others’ posts, theoretically.
For those who may be concerned, life is fantastic for me. On my last 4 weeks off I went to Oregon, relaxed with family, travelled to Rochester NY and saw Niagara Falls and other things and visited with an old college friend there for 5 days. I then spent a week in Houston with my friends and had an amazing time.
And, here’s the crazy part… a few days before shipping off to the boat… a friend of mine and I have become more than just friends. He’s probably way too young for me but I wanna give it a try anyway. We’ve been really good friends for several months now, and when we met up in person last week it was the first time both of us were single at the same time… and, stuff happened and it was pretty freaking awesome. So, we didn’t know exactly what it meant the first time it happened, but by the 2nd and 3rd time, we agreed to date exclusively for a while and see how things go. We are kinda keeping it between us for the time being, and it sucks it had to happen just before going out to the boat, but I’ve got someone really sweet and awesome to look forward to when I get home again so that’s nice.
Glad to be back and hope you all will have me 
Sincerely, your friend,
$2.99 (Drew)
Do you ever use it?
I guess I should count myself lucky that I’m only fighting the skwerls where I am. Big Boss and Maintenance M both had teenage bears in their yards this past week. I guess the roving gangs of wild turkeys in the Rich Neighborhood might come by, but there’s a Major Thoroughfare 'twixt they and me so I don’t think I’ll have to fight turkeys any time soon. Them’s some big birds.
Off to battle the Neverending Teal Blanket again.
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Aww, that’s sweet, 2.99.
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{{{{kai}}}}} There are no words, just lots of hugs coming your way.
Yay for $2.99 - I hope things work out for you. Don’t want you to be hurt again.
Things went pretty well this afternoon, altho the crabber was about an hour late getting back. Still, it was nice just sitting in the marina waiting for him - nice breeze, nice to be by the water. And it turned out that today was a spotcheck day for us - one of the folks from the main office was here to see how we did - well, how **FCD **did, since he handled the monitor today. The only excitement was that the captain’s shorts were ripped over the left cheek from waistband almost to the hem, so I got to see his tighty-whities!!
Supper was hot dogs for me and brats for my sweetie. We’re both fed and chill time is upon us.
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Took a nap and almost overslept for work. Sah-son got the grass cut, I got hellpup walked. I had Subway for lunch because I forgot the bridge down by hellpup is closed and it’s miles and miles of detour to get around it so I couldn’t get to where I wanted to go.
Yay **2.99 ** I hope you will be happy.
It feels so much longer, but today marks three weeks post-op.
I think biology is finally on my side. My Betta has been cursed with green water so bad the poor fish was invisible. I bought some live plants and a moss ball that looks like a soft green Tribble, and at long last, the water is clear!
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Yes. A summer Thursday last year…
T.G.I.W.!!! v Woop! Woop!
I am off tomorrow.
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You go, $2.99!