Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off today, so the ususal chores. There’s a DENSE FOG ADVISORY right now.
Alex Catt uses the back of the sectional, despite a scratching post being 36 inches away. At least nobody around here poops in their drinking water(although my last roommate’s dog Teddy used to drink out of toilets, so technically I did.
Happy Sunday!
Up, caffeinating, breakfasted, fixing to do KP and putting supper (butternut - chickpea soup) in the crock. After that, I’ll purtify and head out to drink coffee with some heathens.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
The household is awake. I was starting to get worried, as MIL is normally up by 7, and I didn’t see her till after 8:30. I was afraid they might have died overnight… yeah, my mind went there.
Anyway, I’m dressed and I just made my Aldi list. I started the pot roast, cut up a cantaloupe, made coffee for the inlaws, fed FCD, and loaded the dishwasher. I’ll leave for Aldi shortly. The rain has stopped, but we might get more this afternoon. Oh, and I’m making ice. Quite a bit before 9AM. And I just set a reminder on Alexa to take the car over this evening.
WHEW!!
My mind does things like that to me too. I’ve been known to go check on DH to make sure he’s still breathing, especially when he’s ill.
We do the same with Taz - he’s such an old kitteh and I honestly don’t expect him to live much longer. Weird…
It is raining.
Luckily Gordie snores, so it’s easy to check on the old man.
Morning all. Woke up at 4am, said several bad words and rolled back over until 7am. Since I did my weekly Sunday Dining yesterday, think I’ll go to the gym in about a half-hour to burn a few calories and get home in time for a bath and watching tackleball. At least that’s the plan at this moment. Rain due for most of the afternoon according to the weather wizards.
I always check if I’m still breathing when I get up in the morning…
shoe, loved you’re conversations with Monkey and yourself..I’ll go on one of those sneezing jags once and awhile and often tell myself "that’s got it..oh no, here’s another one…
Sari, be well and {{ }}
JtC, sorry to hear of hubby’s distress (the IBS, not the lack of internet). Take care.
OK, need to dress for the gym and go pedal a bike to nowhere. All y’all take care.
Mine doesn’t do well during outages (OK, I don’t really either).
Back from Aldi. FCD is on the way to CVS to try to get one of his dad’s prescriptions refilled, because apparently they couldn’t manage to make sure he had enough for the trip here. Yeah, that snark was unnecessary, but dealing with them makes one weary and snarky. And FIL is off again this morning - I assume because he got his meds late.
Anyway, he’ll have to stop at the Tire Kingdom because his right front tire keeps going flat. I hope it’s a simple plug to fix it.
It’s been raining on and off - thankfully no deluges, but nice showers, which are supposed to continue on and off. I just want to sit and read in peace, but that can’t happen with them. The TV is never off, and when they’re watching it, there’s so much “What is that?” and “What did she say?” and “Is that the cop?” - all repeated multiple times because he can’t hear well and she doesn’t seem to listen. OMG < headdesk>
I just want to read in the quiet… 
Good morning everyone.
It’s currently 63 degrees with an expected high of 82 and mostly cloudy skies. I dunno, I can’t tell if it’s smoke or clouds, really. They say the wildfire smoke will be scrubbed out by this evening, but we shall see.
The smoke got pretty bad on Friday. When I left the kids’ place yesterday late morning, it didn’t seem as bad, but by 2:30 or 3:00 in the afternoon, it was dark at my house due to the smoke. I live south of Seattle and north of Olympia. There is a fire north of Seattle that shut down US 2 and prompted evacuate now orders and there is a fire south of me that shut down Hwy 12 and also prompted evacuate now orders. I guess the good news is that’s not offensively hot. I feel for those who have homes and property near those fires. It’s got to be horrendous and scary for them.
The grandkids were happy to see Grandma and between Uncle B and me, we kept them occupied, fed, and happy. My son and I took the grandkids for a walk/bike ride/scooter ride before my daughter and son-in-law arrived home and timed it so they would get to the house and be able to gather themselves before the onslaught of their kids. As soon as the grandkids saw mommy they were stuck to her like glue.
sari, I’m sorry the dog park continues to be a source of drama and non-enjoyment. I hope you can find someplace different. I’m sorry too, for the continued drama with the family. We no longer have anything to do with anyone from my husband’s family. The drama and nastiness while trying to close my mother-in-law’s estate were terrible and some unforgivable things occurred. We don’t miss any of them.
swampy, I’m glad you’re still alive and breathing. Please keep it that way!
I hope the car and tire repairs are simple and fast, FCM. Also, I hear you on the peace and quiet! It’s only me and the husband here, but even he is too much sometimes and I just long to have the house to myself and for it to be completely quiet! Sometimes I just don’t want to “people”, you know what I mean?
Well, I need to tidy up the kitchen.
I’m sending hugs, yays, and boos as appropriate. I hope you all have a pleasant and relaxing day!
It seems less smoky here this morning. I can see blue sky, and some clouds.
My ham/tomato/cheese omelette is almost done. I need to put Mrs. L.A.'s scrambled eggs on. We have bacon, and she’ll get toast and jam.
Still grey but lighter. AQI isn’t improving.
My property manager and lawn company both finally started accepting online payments about a year ago: these days, the only checks I write are to the cleaners (I just leave them on the counter). They could collect my credit card info and charge me automatically, but for some reason I’d rather write two checks a month. Having to mail checks always bothered me more than writing them.
Speaking of money, I got a really nice surprise on Friday: it was payday, and when I looked at my bank balance I saw a second deposit from my company…a pretty big one (69% of the amount of a regular paycheck)! I figured it had to be a mistake, so I looked up the paystub: turns out it was the referral bonus from when a friend joined the company three months ago. I’d forgotten all about it! Drinks and chocolate are on me! 
…well, once I’m feeling better. It’s been six days since my last post, and I still have this chest cold thingy (which means I’m on day nine). At least I know it’s definitely not COVID: I did a drive-through PCR test at my local CVS on Thursday afternoon, and got the results on Friday. I had all kinds of music-related plans for this weekend, but decided it was better to skip everything. My symptoms remain mild, but constant: so no coughing, but I always feel like I could cough (if that makes any sense). I’m grateful that I can still sleep/rest and that I don’t feel worse, but I’m out of patience with not feeling 100%. I’m supposed to meet a friend for lunch on Saturday, so I need to start feeling better this week. I will be quite grumpy if I have to cancel plans for a third consecutive weekend!
In good news, though, my 9-month bariatric surgery follow-ups with the nurse practitioner (on Wednesday, in person) and nutritionist (on Thursday, via video) went very well. 
My current lab results are outstanding, and so far I’ve lost a total of 86 pounds since my initial consult (78 pounds since surgery). These days I’m up to 6-oz meals and I’m able to tolerate a wider variety of food, so eating properly has gotten easier. Next month I’ll advance to 7-oz meals; in late November I’ll increase to the lifetime max of 8 oz. My only issue right now is that I’ve started snacking again – because I can, and because old habits die really hard – so I’m working to get on top of that. The surgery-related mental/emotional work will never end, but this is when it really needs to ramp up if I want to ensure long-term success. I’m determined! 
When I realized that I was going to be staying home this weekend due to my cold, I said “yes” to helping with a(nother) proposal that I’d recently declined to support. Luckily, this one isn’t nearly as bad as the previous one: I worked for 7 hours yesterday, but only put in 1/2 hour this morning. For the rest of the day I’m “on call,” in case the person leading the section identifies anything else I can help with, but everyone seems to agree that I’m done. Whew! It’s usually harder for me to focus on work when the weather is dreary/rainy: I’d rather be curled up on the couch with Bailey.
I’m not personally saddened by QEII’s death, but I do find myself reflecting on/respecting the end of an era – both the good and the bad. Because the king is 73 he’ll likely only reign for another 15-20 years, then William can settle in for a spell. Today, though, royal coverage has been temporarily usurped by the 21st anniversary of 9/11. I plan to largely avoid both topics.
This will come as a shock to no one, but my weather is similar.
Right now the sun is trying to come out a little, but it’s gonna stay mostly cloudy and kind of damp with a high of 77…which means it’ll be just humid enough for me to keep the a/c on all day.
Well, it’s 12:40pm: time for some lunch, and to decamp to the living room. Lately I’ve been binge-watching M*A*S*H, and I look forward to finishing S5 – just one episode left (Margaret’s wedding) – and starting S6. I’ve seen every episode once already, and most of them twice, but for whatever reason this show is exactly what I’ve been in the mood for.
FCD’s tire was screwed, literally. It cost $55 to patch the screw hole - when did that get so expensive? I knew it wouldn’t be the $10 I paid 40-ish years ago, but dang!!! Anyway, it’s fixed.
Pot roast is about half done. I’ll add the spuds shortly, and I’m hoping we can eat around 3. Meanwhile, I’m getting tired of making polite conversation and hearing the same stories again and again. I just want quiet…
We bought some non-washable pens for writing checks and signing documents after friends asked for donations toward a honeymoon for their wedding and the honeymoon donation box was stolen and checks washed and re-written. We had to to change our bank acount numbers and cards, and add additional passwords for in-bank transactions. Now we at least write checks that can’t be altered.
Howdy all. I have been non stop watching the Queen coverage. I had to shut it off. I think it’s nap time. First, I shall start something cooking in the crock pot. It will be either beef stew or some chicken of some sort.
Still hot here but maybe a smidge cooler. I have yard work that needs doing but I just can’t with this heat. We are supposed to get rain this afternoon. Here’s hoping that happens.
I watched another Falcon 9 launch last night. It was cloudy but I saw it for a minute. SpaceX has it right.
Everyone have a great Sunday.
What does this mean? Is that the total amount of food in a meal, regardless of what it is? Or is it spelled out more specifically?
Yeah, it’s a drippy day here in western Mitten State, too. Fine by me, though Monkey is annoyed.
It’s raining, it’s pouring,
The old man 
is snoring …
Jeebus, people really can be little shits sometimes.
The little stinker got himself some squeezy crack:
It was a guy who was sneaking into weddings and stealing gifts during the ceremony when they were unattended. He was caught a ew weeks later.
