I Fall To Pieces: An Autumn MMP

You’re in good company. The junior high (or middle school) experience came up often in the many years I taught high school. In all that time, I only had one kid who had anything good to say about it, and then I had to interfere so the other kids wouldn’t beat the crud out of him with their Trapper Keepers. Every other kid, even the most popular, depicted it as a sort of Lord of the Flies with passing periods.

That’s exactly how I remember it.

Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave. I wonder what insanity awaits today?

That was middle school, junior high, and high school for me. No wonder I’ve never gone to a high school reunion.

Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 47 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 55 with rain comin’ in late afternoon. ICK! Thus I shall betake myself over to the church house early(ish) this mornin. to deal with church janitor Junior Warden duties. Other than that much sloth is planned. Sup shall be majick intartoobz pizza and sallit.

Nellie the website states (still!) that appointments for the booster shot can be made at any of the offices/clinics. I was told I would not get the shot after I was taken back. I still have not heard from anyone regardin’ my complaint. Hopefully I will today. Hope your sis is OK and that this is nothing major.

flyboy hope the heater situation gets worked out.

I hated, detested, despised and in general did not like junior high at all! Whenever I am in Ye Olde Hometowne, I still get the willies drivin’ by that buildin’ even though 'tis no longer a junior high school.

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, alas, alack, woe of woe, and bother of bothers, I suppose I must then purtify and don appropriate bein’ about the public attire. How I suffer!

Happy Firday Y’all!

actualy junior high was pretty good for me … but then everyone who was friends in jr high decided to ignore each other and that included me …

Good morning everyone.

I am up, showered, dressed, face and hair fixed and ready to go for the Jeep appointment. Someone up-thread mentioned I should learn to plan my appointments better. The thing is, much as I griped about having to get up early, I prefer first thing in the morning appointments so I have the rest of the day to myself. I hate midday appointments because I can’t really plan anything for before or after, and the same goes for end-of-day appointments. So, when it’s all said and done, early morning is best for me.

I hope your sister receives good news, nellie.

That heater situation sounds pretty dicey, flyboy. Hope you get a refund and a SAFE heater.

I am not friends with a single person from junior high or high school on FB. I hated junior high, and high school was “meh”. I did well academically, but was one of those kids who everybody talked to, but didn’t have a specific clique. There were the mean kids too, of course, who picked on anyone whose parents had less money (my mother), and for any other stupid reason. I was an early developer and I can’t tell you how many times I was slammed up against a locker and groped. NOBODY STOPPED IT from happening, not even the teachers. Some smirked. The seventies sucked in that regard. Anytime I run across someone from that time, I inwardly cringe but put on a good face.

I don’t think I have any solid plans for this weekend, and I’m good with that. I have to go to a celebration of life service for my sister’s MiL on the 20th and need to pick up my mother on the way since my sister will have a full house and can’t let her stay there. I am so not looking forward to that drive; it’ll be long, and my mother will kvetch the whole way. Maybe she’ll surprise me and just be a good passenger.

Which reminds me, her birthday is in five days, so I’ll have to take her to lunch or something.

It’s supposed to be another wet, dreary day with an expected high of around 53. Depending on when my Jeep is done, I’ll either head over to the mall in that area (I need some new slacks), or just head home and do some reading and laundry.

Thanks for the reminder - I’ve got a couple of small Dr bills that came while we were away - I need to get them paid today. Our other “big” plan is to go to the thrift store and hope to score some good stuff for our goofy Christmas exchange.

It’s 33-freekin’-degrees this morning - glad I brought my spider plants into the garage yesterday. It’s been staying in the 60s in there, and I don’t think it’s ever gotten colder than the mid-40s, so if I forget to move them into the house, they won’t die. Speaking of spiders, boy howdy, have those plants been prolific. If I had enough pots and potting soil, I could start a spider plant nursery! Wish they were hardier - I’d plant them in the garden. But as it is, I have 3 of the beasts, and they’re huge! I used to take the babies to work and people would take them. I hate to just hack them off. Oh well, circle of life and all that.

The other plan involves kitchen work. After I was done with Roxy yesterday, I ran across the street to Aldi and got, among other things, 2 big packages of ground beef. They will become two meatloaves and several freezer packs of chili. Plus the leftover rotissed chickie will become chicken-grape-pecan salad. Busy, domestical, gastronomical day ahead.

Junior high (actually, 9th grade) was my first year in public school after 8 years with the nuns. It was a bit of a change… :open_mouth: I don’t remember social studies, but I do remember the student teacher in French I - his name was Thomas Dominic Miller. He was so good-looking and he was only 7 years older than I was, so that’s not creepy, right? (14-21) :open_mouth: His dad died during that school year, so our regular teacher gave us M. Miller’s address to send a sympathy card if we wanted to. Thus began a number of years of correspondence between us. I even visited him in the first school that he taught at when he was a full-fledged teacher. And we continued writing till I was at Purdue. Then, for some reason, our communication ended. I often wondered what became of him But his name is too ordinary to be Googled with much success. If you’re out there, I had a serious crush on you!! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

Yanno, I’ve never told anyone about my crush. I think I’d be mortified if one of you turned out to be my unrequited love of eons gone by…

On the really good news front, I think I got 10 hours of sleep last night!! I crashed before 9, woke briefly with a cramp in my foot that was resolved with a quick walk to the bathroom (the walk being more significant than the bathroom), and I think I may have looked at the clock during the 4AM hour, but I didn’t actually achieve full consciousness till nearly 7! Huzzah!! :confetti_ball:

Happy Firday! Stay warm or cool as required! :wink:

I hope that the outcome for your sister is good nellie.

Like Mooooooom, freshman year of high school was my first public school experience after being taught by nuns. The school system had a separate facility as a freshman high from both the middle school and the high school. It sucked. Seventh and eighth grades were OK, but there were several mean girls at the freshman high that never let me forget that I was a nerdy fatso and even went so far as to get physical when waiting for the bus. When I went to the big high school, it got a little better and I made new friends, but yeesh! Freshman high sucked.

Up, caffeinating, breakfasted, a load of towels ready for the dryer and a load of jeans ready for the wash. After that, it’s KP, housecleaning and grocery shopping. It’s 32 freaking degrees here and I really need to trim the elephant ears back this weekend. I think that chili will be on the menu for Sunday.

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

FCD asked me to do laundry, so the first load is washing, and there are at least 3 more to go. At least it’s an easy chore - throw it in the machine, then throw it in another machine, then sit down and fold.

Guess I should start on the chili. Or the meatloaves. Or the chicken… no, wait, I need to get some pecans first. Decisions, decisions…

This morning started out with a bang. Or a bump, rather. I went to my desk, turned on the lamp and, as is customary, pulled open the curtains. Well, I tried to anyway. The curtain rod fell right onto my head. Fortunately it was light. Even better, I didn’t break yet another window, though I did curse a whole bunch while gathering up the curtain rings and re-attaching everything. I don’t know whether to take that as an omen for the rest of the day or my lowest point and assume it can only get better.

Anyway, 'tis clear and cold again, below freezing and I realized as I sent my kids off to the bus that they have no winter coats, so we’ll be doing that this weekend. Given that neither of them went to physical school with any regularity until March-ish last year (and overlyboy didn’t have to go anywhere at all since he was fully virtual) it simply slipped my mind.

On another note, I really want to want to cook, but I am sick to death of bothering with food procurement and, more importantly, processing of said food these days. I had croutons and fish sticks for lunch yesterday. I managed to fix the kids some grilled chicken, pasta & fruit for dinner, but it ain’t easy finding a rat’s patootie to give these days. The kids are the only thing preventing me from eating fistfuls of popcorn for dinner every night. Thank goodness for rugrats.

I took a probiotic/prebiotic last night, and those bugs are really going to town. I guess that means they’re working.

Well good morning all. Stayed in bed until 8am, then went shopping for gloves to wear in the cool (cold for us Southerners) temperatures in the evening. Found the perfect pair at Kohl’s, only $12.61. Will see how they work this evening, I referee soccer at 6:30 and 7:45pm, when the temperature is supposed to be 45-50F (ok, that’s merely cool for those in Northern climes, but I’ve lived in hot weather for the last 25 years so it’s cold for me).

Apparently Middle School/Jr. High left it’s mark on a lot of us…glad we all survived.

OK, need to fix some lunch (grilled ham-n-cheese) and plan for Sattiday (coach 3 games, referee 2, be out for 12 hours). All y’all take care.

Home from heaving. Things went smoother, although the one belt started smoldering after the sort. :fire_extinguisher: Doing a load of laundry before naptime.

Add some toast, and you’d a have a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving dinner. :bread:

nellie sending good thoughts for your sister. I hope the biopsy yields good results.

flyboy have you contacted the manufacturer in addition to Lowe’s? It could be they’d be more help at this point.

doggio redneck stir fry? Frito pie? Help.

talky I am all too familiar with the curtain rod falling problem. If I’m “lucky”, I’ll also get the dogs barking frantically at the fallen curtains. It adds a certain je ne sais quoi to the scene.

Pixel’s vet visit went well. His liver values are back to normal. His kidney values are high normal. The plan is to keep doing what we’re doing and see if we can keep him balanced and happy for a while longer.

My mom’s dog is doing a little better today, but her dog is still very grumpy about all the pills. My mom isn’t able to feed her all of them, so we’re picking and choosing. I’m headed over to her place shortly to see if a I different person might help.

My sister’s FiL did pass away. My BiL is having a kidney stone procedure and then he’s headed out there to help his mom. My sister and the kids will head over for Thanksgiving.

We’ve got a few more waves of rain coming through and I’m enjoying Fall. I like the cold(er) temps, and the cloudier skies, and the chance of rain. Also, Halloween, Thanksgiving, my birthday, etc. :stuck_out_tongue:

I guess I’m tired and my head hurts - so life as normal! :slight_smile:

This is SWMBO’s baby. The heater is sold exclusively through Lowe’s. She received an email yesterday, so ‘something’ is in the works.

I’ve got 3 meatloaves in the freezer. There’s a big pot of chili cooling prior to be bagged for the freezer. Two loads of laundry are done, third in the dryer, fourth in the washer. We’ve lunched.

I guess it’s time to start chopping up remaining rotissed chicken for the salad. I hate that part, but it’s gotta be done…

Happy Firday!

It’s a bright 47 degrees outside, but it was a dark and cold 28 degrees at the park this morning.
I forgot to plug in my hand warmer last night. I also didn’t wear my boots. I need to put something on the zippers, I can barely zip them. Everybody forgot to bring water. We don’t know if the city turned the fountains off or if they are just frozen.
I ended up staying 2 hours. Some of our little group were coming later and so I stayed to visit with them.
All of the dogs are enjoying the cooler weather.

I’m going to get my son to take Mike upstairs today. My bedroom window gets the best sun, so he can live up there.

I think popcorn makes a nice dinner. Very filling.

Junior high was okay for me.
My junior high was in a rough section. Even though it was within walking distance, we still had to take the bus. Partly because we would have had to walk across a rather narrow bridge, and partly because there were three bars that were open early in the morning that we would have had to walk past.
I had people who liked me and people who didn’t. I had someone run up behind me and hit me, but I just kept walking like I didn’t notice and I think it freaked her out. I suppose I had it coming. She used to copy off my tests in class, and one day I took my test in pencil. I put in all wrong answers, waited until she copied them and turned her paper in. Then I erased the wrong answers and put in the right ones.
I also got picked up and thrown into the boys’ bathroom one time, but I just turned around and walked out.
I don’t know if I was super stupid or super confident, but stuff like that didn’t bother me. I just kept on keeping on.

I feel like I’m falling to pieces. I was at the restaurant site at 8 am and then spent the next 5 hours climbing up and down ladders trying to retrofit some streaming tv boxes onto their big screens. When I originally installed them, I was assured that the coaxial cable would be perfect, but was given fake news. My legs are sore, my feet are sore, my back hurts. Ugh.

But, soft opening is sunday, and I think I’m done with that one.

Now perhaps some napping.

Stay safe, y’all!

Supposed to meet up with a local friend tonight. Maybe I already told y’all that? It’s been the “light at the end of the tunnel” for me since she mentioned it. I can look forward to getting IRL huggzz in a few hours!

(This is my former dispensary co-worker who has seven cats. I love her cranky ass all to pieces.)

You know what? She had a long conversation w/the vet and that is precisely what she was told. It was essentially a freak occurrence, not a known side effect or foreseeable outcome.

She told me she feels (slightly) better, at least re: the guilt stuff. So that makes me feel better - I know she’s still hurting, but am (slightly) less worried that she’ll relapse or go completely suicidal.

The world is so full of beauty & magic, and also pain & terror.

And having @purplehorseshoe as a friend sticking close by in dark times is clearly part of the the beauty & magic.

Enjoy those real hugs~ :x::o::x::o::x::o: