Wow, I have been away from home for far, far too long. It’s hot. HOT. It is going to be somewhere around 75°F, for comparison it might get up to 55°F today in Kodiak. The California Experiment isn’t feeling well, and I should have just slept in the family room last night. Dang sure that I will tonight! My allergies are kicking up, and while I know that it is grass allergies I keep looking at my flowers on the deck with suspicion.
laughing I am honestly thrilled to be home, and I will hopefully acclimate to the weather. Until then, I may spend today sitting over the sprinkler out on the lawn!
Home to a house that smells of yummy 'mater sauce. I just took my hand mixed to it to moosh the still-intact hunks of 'mater. 3 or 4 more hours, I think, and I may just have it for supper tomorrow.
I had my first exit interview today and got several lines signed off. Tony and I talked about a bunch of things, not all retirement related. He, like many, is worried about what’s going to happen after people are let go. Then I signed the paper telling me I’ll get a lump-sum incentive bonus for retiring. That’ll pay off the truck and part of the car. Then selling my vacation back will pay off the rest of the car and give us a few thousand to shove in savings. Which is good, because I’m not sure when my pension payments will start and when they’ll be correct. I’ve been warned that initially, then send less so they don’t have to come back later and demand a refund. So the leave sellback will buy groceries in the interim.
**donkeybear **- maybe pregnant girl will decide to be a full-time mommy and you can keep her job! It’s not unheard of - we had a secretary who did just that. We were pretty sure she didn’t plan to come back to work, but until she officially said so, we couldn’t fill her job. She was being a bitch about it… but that’s another story. Anyway, it happens.
Gotta go downstairs shortly and bring up the computers and empty the cabinets in my studio. The crew is supposed to come around 5 to uninstall the cabinets and take them away. Then renovation begins in earnest.
But I also have to come up with something for supper. PB&J mebbe?
Home from irk and waitin’ on the bugman. He’s comin’ to ensure I stay bug free at four p.m. edt which we all know is really God’s time. So There donkeybear!
Dindin shall be grilled chikin sallit. Got the sallit made up last night and as soon as bugman is done I shall grill chikin strips. Nice and easy Summer dindin. I have a loaf of french bread so think I’ll make some cheesey toast cause, well, cheesey toast!
**FCD **came home and we moved all the stuff that needed to be moved from the cabinets. Yay! The cabinet buyers should be calling in half an hour or so. As Forrest Gump said “One less thing.”
Always a plus, Lili, always a plus. I spent some time with the mother of a five month old and a two year old. Poor baby! I can relate. At least when the baby started crying, I could hand him off to someone. Plus her husband was there.
I’m going to my board of directors meeting tonight, to get sworn in.
Oh, shaddup. It’s pushing 100° again today, with no letup in sight for the next two months…
Just kidding. It must be a rough adjustment, and you’d think I’d be used to this by now.
It’s HOT!
Okay, it’s only 89F, but for me that’s hot!
Have a customer who wants me to make 300 bars of Hazelnut soap. With ground hazelnuts in 'em! :eek:
So the other day I dumped a bunch of hazelnuts, (which she supplied), into the blender to grind 'em up. There’s a very fine line between ground up and nut butter. I crossed that line. I now have a bunch of hazelnut butter. :smack:
Fortunately she gave me way too many hazelnuts to begin with.
Other than that: It’s HOT!
Oh. In case you were worried, I ground the rest of them up in my little food processor. Worked just fine.
Huzzah huzzah! The cabinets are gone from the basement and we’re $500 richer. At least we are until **FCD **needs to buy the materials for his new workbenches and cabinets. Anyway, we can start to deconstruct the basement as soon as I get the assorted stuff out for trash/sell/save.
I’m all hot and sticky and sweaty - I’ll finish my jigsawaday then hit the shower. Boss is gone, so I’m in charge till the 18th. I’m drunk with power!!!
There was a loud crack from the bathroom a few minutes ago. A back-scrubber brush committed suicide - apparently it needed psychotherapy as it’s gone crazy and lost its head. The head just spontaneously fell off and crashed into the tub. At least it was good enough to die while we were awake, rather than at three AM.
The wondermutt managed to survive the fourth with needing only three pieces of magic cheese. Not so much for the fireworks, but for the thunderstorms. I just wish I could get the Xanax from the people pharmacy instead of the doggie drugstore as they charge handsomely for ten little pills.
gotti, unless your vet is also a dragon, you can get doggie meds at a regular pharmacy. We were used to seeing phenobarbital, Valium, prednisone, Prozac, hydroxyzine… Did we even do a buspirone once? I may be making that last one up.
swampy, if EDT is God’s Time, does that mean He forgets us to your west because He’s in bed already? (as an atheist, I use the phrase God’s Time completely facetiously ;))
MOOOOM, I wish that she would do that. Unfortunately, I am too adept at my Real Job ™ for them to move me like that, I think. And this is kiddo #2 for her, so she’s probably fine coming back to work. Aaaand, I think her husband is about to go back to school anyway. I don’t think it’s in the cards. Possibly for the best - a few months of that and I’d be twice the size and half as sane (Boredom, you see). It’s ridiculous that they’re cutting literally half the batch techs (well, to be fair, there are only two) who are responsible for filling around 1000 prescriptions a day, but the office (I call it the pasture, because that’s where techs are put out to pasture) is fuuuull of redundant jobs.
[TMI] Finally, after complaining about a lack of sex drive for the last several months at the support group tonight, I went and did a bad thing. Now I kinda feel like a big fat liar. Oh well! [/TMI]
Off to bed with me, I don’t have irk tomorrow. It’s video game day!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ YAWN 'Tis 75 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 97 and, so they say, a fifty percent chance of rain and tstorms. Again, no breath shall be held.
donkeybear is it my fault you live an hour in the past? Also, that was not exactly TMI. Really good TMI would involve all the lurid details of the “bad thing” you did.
I need to find more caffiene and some brekkie and get my considerable behind in gear and irk purtify alas.
[B(((((Doggio)))))** - I’m sorry to hear about Nellie, she had a wonderful life because of you and that is definitely something to be proud of.
Nothing exciting happening here today. I had a boring morning at irk, was just looking forward to seeing my friends for lunch in the café over here when the fire alarms went off. Definitely not a test, so we all trooped outside and spent 15mins lurking in the car park.
My friends turned up, the alarms were still ringing, so we walked round the corner to the shiny big new horsepistol. They have a fancy restaurant in there so we got lunch and had a natter. I am now stuffed full of chicken rogan josh and rice. Yum.
In other news, I have been using my Wii Fit thing this week and have finally unlocked the free step programme I wanted - that’s because I can set that off and be doing some exercise while I change channels and watch the telly! Well, I have a weight-loss goal of 6lbs in 64 days ready for my Jamaica trip.
And now we’ve booked a holiday to Vegas for new year. Woot!
Working on it. Today’s a bit better, although I’m kind of expecting to (looks around furtively, makes shushing motions) start feeling very sick all the time very soon. I’m not supposed to tell anyone yet, but internet friends don’t count. Err, don’t tell anyone else.
So, yeah. #3 is due sometime end of February. Found out on Tuesday. Girl? Girl this time?
