Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 67 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 91 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. We shall launder today. Also we shall do some weedin’ around the storage buildin’s, but that will not be a huge task. We shall reward ourselves by goin’ for the geezer special at the hog trough Golden Corral.
VanGo it is definitely wine. Port wine to be exact. I think red is right. We should probably have bizkits. I think Jesus would approve of bizkits.
Cookie conga rats on the sale! 
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah,
Happy Tuesday Y’all!
Afternoon, mumpers! It is a beautiful day in Prague, and we are back in the airport ready to go home. We have had a fab few days here and will definitely visit again.
Bumba so sorry about Vinnie, he looked like a real character.
Cookie congrats on the house sale!
Swampy I do love the way your mind works, I hope you have room in your handbasket for me…I am picturing a service conducted by Robert Knepper (T-Bag, from Prison Break) in an appropriate accent 
metalmouse happy travels, I am looking forward to hearing about it!
Back to reality and irk tomorrow although my first order of business will be a trip to the eye hospital. I have had something ulcer-ish in my eye since Saturday, been using some old medication but it is still extremely sensitive to light so it needs professional help!
It took me a week to get back to what passes for normal for me. Then again, I’m older than you and less active, but don’t be too discouraged - we ain’t teenagers any more.
If this turns into an earworm, I will hunt you down!!!
Day 2 of Prepping the House for the InLaws… My kitchen has been a disaster for some time, so that’s today’s target. Plus I bought some strawberries yesterday and I need to clean them and cut them up for noshing. And I think I’ll do the last batch of dino crayons for Roxy’s party.
Tomorrow, FCD will be teaching a space hardware lesson for Daughter’s class, since he designed some stuff that went into space. They’ll swap cars - he’ll get their HHR for us to fetch the inlaws, and Daughter gets the Caddy. The HHR will go to the fancy inside/outside car wash, since it’s pretty gross. SIL isn’t big on keeping his car clean.
My sketty sauce batch yielded 5 bags of sauce for the freezer, plus a cup or so that’s in the fridge. I’ve already decided that one meal with our guests will be ravioli bake with my sauce. I just need to get some mozzarella. I’m going to make my own Italian bread with my machine.
I need to find the bag of coffee in the freezer and figure out if it’s enough for a week. We don’t drink the stuff - I keep it for the inlaws. They use a Keurig at home but I’m not buying a fancy machine. I have a 4-cup coffee maker that should do fine.
Thus begins my day. According to the weather-guessers, I can open windows again. Huzzah!
Happy Tuesday!
Morning all. About 24 hours before I leave the house and head out. At least I hope to. Got up from working at the computer last evening and almost fell over; my right knee was aching something fierce (about an 8 on the ouchdammitometer) and I could barely walk from one room to another. Slept poorly between that and my earache, it seems I have a pretty full range of motion without any pain, but when I try to straighten in completely…ay yi yi yi… Would see a Dr. if I had any time, instead I’ll try to walk it out and maybe look to buy a cane. Hope nothing else starts falling apart. Supposed to get to 83F today, so might have to turn on the AC.
Did get the laptop set up with all the newest passwords and such, so it’s ready to go. Made an appointment for Thursday in Seattle for a COVID test (cruise line requires it) that’s only a couple blocks from the hotel.
Cookie, congrats on the house.
hippy, cupcakes, Roger Miller and Rudyard Kipling are two favorites of mine; thanks for the references.
BBBoo, sorry to hear about son’s spoiled vacation/proposal. The Grand Canyon is definitely a good place to do it. Hope he comes up with something else.
Boo Fae, Prague and Vienna are both on my ‘to do’ list one of these days. Glad you had a good trip.
OK, need to get up and walk/limp around some more. Take care all.
RCCL had an option where you could buy a test and an appointment thru them - done on line! We had to set our phones so they could see us do the test and we had to zoom in on the results so they could see it was negative. It took less than 20 minutes start to finish. If we have to test before our October cruise, we’ll do the same… if we go on the October cruise…
Good morning, everyone.
It’s currently 47 with an expected high of 57 and clouds.
Bumba, I am so sorry about Vinnie. Biggest hugs to you.
I gave the lawn a haircut on Sunday and it’s a good thing I did because it was raining by that night.
BBBoo, I’m sorry to hear that not only is your son sick, but his vacation/proposal plans went awry. And a big boo to his company for being so damn inflexible. That’s ridiculous and very short-sighted.
Congrats on the sale of the house, Cookie. It’s not at all surprising given the market here in the PNW. House prices are stupid up here in Washington too. I bought my house for around 245,000 grand in 2003 (and that was considered pretty damn nice back then), it’s worth about $625,000 according to Zillow. It’ll be worth more if I put a new roof on it, which I’m probably going to have to do.
I was going to go into the office yesterday but ended up just taking a day off. I have way too much leave accumulated and I’m burned out. So, I extended my weekend. This month will be crazy busy for me, so I decided I needed a day. I am taking two additional days this month; the Friday after this coming one, and the Friday before Memorial Day. I’ll be out of town for three days prior to that and I know poor Polar will be beside himself. I have to go because I’ll be part of an outreach team as part of my organization’s national project.
I hope you have an awesome trip, Metal Mouse! I hope your knee is feeling much better too!
Well, I suppose I should finish my coffee. After that, I’ll tidy my kitchen and then head upstairs to start my work day.
I decided to cancel our October cruise. There’s a good chance FCD will need another spinal surgery before then, and even if not, he can’t walk far or fast due to the neuropathy. I have to be very aware of not walking too fast. I don’t want to spend another week just sitting on the ship, especially considering the conditions we encountered (and it’ll be the same ship.)
I also found out that he really hates cruising. Why would he not say something? I know it wasn’t his favorite vacation, but dang… It’s no fun for me if I know he’s miserable. So I’ve sent off a message and I’m waiting to hear if they can just refund me or if I have to put in a claim thru the travel insurance. So that’s that. Unless we can book another Antarctica cruise, this may well be the end of it for me. Oh well…
Thanks, folks for sympathizing with my son’s Covid ruined vacation and proposal. It’s a minor thing but I needed to kvetch about it. Thanks for listening, us mommas never stop worrying about our babies and wishing we could fix things.
@FairyChatMom sorry about your cruise hopes being let down. Here’s hoping an Antarctica cruise comes along after his spinal troubles improve. Have you ever done an Alaska cruise? That’s the one I think I’d like.
Otherwise, I just sitting here in the chilly upper Midwest, under gray, gloomy skies, wishing I hadn’t taken the down comforter off my bed what is turning out to be waaaay too early. After living here 68 of my 72 years you’d think I’d learn about Midwestern trickster springs.
We talked about it, but I don’t think he’s interested. There is one we saw a while back that starts in Rotterdam, hits a few spots in the British Isles and/or Norway, then stops in Iceland, Greenland, and Canada before ending in NYC. He’s also interested in that, so I’ll investigate. Maybe next year?
Oh, that one sounds nice too. 
for you.
Thanks all for the conga-rats. A nice surprise was that the high offer was $80K over asking price. 
After broker fees and other fees, we’ll end up with about $20K over asking in the bank. Now where’s that '63 split-window Stingray I’ve been drooling over?
Cookie I told ya it would sell in a week. Sari the house you linked to kinda scares me. It’s waaay too big even for the Gilbreth family.
Today is the last Toosday of irk. It’s 50 degrees and raining. Seems fitting,
I woke up happy which is not usual for me. I will irk til noon ish then go the barn. The horses will be in today on accouna rain so I have to spring the red head from jail.
I don’t know where the Stingray is, but would you like to send mooom and me on a cruise? $20,000 would cover that lovely sounding Europe-Iceland-Greenland-NYC one. We could share a stateroom as long as she doesn’t mind me mostly reading and watching the world go by.
The person who made the offer is an executive who is being transferred here by his company. He’s probably in no mood to be messing around with counter-offers after looking at 15 properties in one day (according to his agent).
Oh, Bumba, I’m so sorry. He was absolutely beautiful.
And congratulations, Cookie!
The garage saga continues - garage guy was not able to make it yesterday, but I did manage to get him to commit to an actual timeframe today, so we shall see. It’s just as well he couldn’t make it yesterday. What I’ve found with my mom’s chemo is that you really can’t depend on a schedule - you receive a schedule for each cycle, but that doesn’t mean your body read the schedule. So we went to mom’s oncology appointment after her first blood draw (which was nearly an hour late) and found that she’s approved for treatment, but her electrolytes and hemoglobin were both outta wack, but not so outta wack that they felt like they needed to admit her or delay treatment, which is scheduled for Wednesday. So we went to the infusion room for saline, where we hung out for an additional three hours.
Poor guy across the way from mom - a big, hulking, extremely muscular dude who looked like he body doubled as a wrestler - was vomiting for about half that time. Those meds really hit him hard. I felt awful for him.
I did indeed work most of the time with more limited guilt than last time. Anyway, mom gets her chemo tomorrow, along with a blood transfusion to bump up her hemoglobin, but the electrollytes were priority #1 yesterday.
It was raining yesterday so tree guy couldn’t come either so today we shall be crawling with contractors. Presumably. Also, while I was working yesterday, I got a mass email letting me know that I was “encouraged” to go into the office Tuesdays & Wednesdays every week starting today. Today was a no-go, but I’ll probably go in tomorrow before I’m told instead of encouraged. Time to buy some new pants and a lunchbox.
FCD is already telling me to find someone else to cruise with - if you’re ever seriously considering it, let’s see what we can do! He’s quite relieved that I’ve canceled this one.
Just found out that the aunt who’s hosting my inlaws doesn’t have a guest room for us. We’ve decided we’re getting a hotel room. No way we can sleep on a hide-a-bed or an inflatable bed then launch into a 10+ hour drive, so we’ll book a room. Plus it’ll be nice to get away - his aunt does like to talk… and talk… and talk…
I’ve cleaned the strawberries, trimmed some radishes, boiled and shelled some eggs, and I’ve got crayons in the oven melting. Once they’re done, I guess I’ll start some serious kitchen cleaning. Good times!
dogbutler and the Blueberry Who Couldn’t Even
So the belt in Secondary was down, so they took Panamanian Vince, and gave us the Blueberry who didn’t want to work. So she wandered off, and never came back.
Sorry about your son’s vacation/proposal, BBBoo.
Interesting morning so far. Got my Credit Union account unlocked and scheduled a taxi pickup tomorrow morning at 5:30am. Paid my inflated water bill, they promised to send someone to check the readings and gave me a couple pills to detect leaks in the toilets (the pills say they leak, but I see and hear nothing, will turn them off tomorrow before I leave). Then went a bought a cane at Wal-Mart and wanted to buy ear drops, but all the stuff on the shelf was homeopathic (or homeopathetic IMHO–YMMV) so I’ll live with the sore ear. Then to Edward Jones to sign some paperwork since I won’t be in town for them to mail it for me, then to the bank for vacation loot, and they tried to give me an extra $20 (being the nice guy I am, I had them take it back). Am now chewing on a Subway sammich, and will shortly head out to mow the lawn (thinking about mulching it rather than bagging it this time). And packing for the travels still remains to be done…
So yeah, a busy day. Moving around seems to have helped my knee some, I can walk pretty good but still get a sharp pain now and then to remind me of it.
FCM, BBBoo, I could use a cruise roomie for my Antarctica trip… And if you two do go on that Rotterdam-NYC trip, let me know, that sounds nice.
talkie, sometimes size and strength don’t matter when it comes to medical reactions. Hope your Mom wasn’t intimidated by that.
OK, need to finish my sammich and decide on mowage. All y’all take care.
This is one I’d really love to do, but apart from it being this summer, it’s just too much and too long to be away from my sweetie, and he’d hate being gone that long. On the plus side, it’s round-trip from the same port, so no transatlantic flight required.
Some day… some day…