Ignored chores in the MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Tugig!!! {tacklehug} Long time no see; more visits to the MMP please!

shoe, I let the Burger King do dinner tonight, after coaching soccer for about an hour or so. And I had to google that name too, the only Worzel I know was a Science Fiction alien from a series written in the 1930’s/40’s.

yankers, makes me glad I got my trees removed 20 years ago before they developed stumps. Smark move on the lawn guy.

Only got half my swimming done, I usually take a 20-minute break in the whirlpool and then do the second half-hour, but the lanes got filled up while I was out, and even after a 30-minute sauna they were still full, so I made it up by spending about 90 minutes out on the soccer fields, about 20 minutes of it refereeing scrimmages, so that killed off a few calories. Also completed my annual training for the soccer association, took about 2 hours on the computer to clean that up. So a moderately active day for me.

Some more internettin’ and they off to bed. All y’all take care.

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Happy Moonday!

It’s been a rainy day.
No park, my knee is killing me. It kept me up all night. I couldn’t get comfortable, Adam decided to sleep on the bed and I didn’t want to kick him off.
I called the doctor and I am supposed to have a telecall at 4:00.

Ripple is being a bit bratty because he didn’t get some park time. Nothing horrible, but he is more inclined to look out the windows and bark at stuff.
Gets on my damn nerves.

Taters, I know you are right about Barky mom being a narcissistic. There is another park, although we don’t like it as much. Its further away, no trees, no shade, no water fountain.

My ToDo List is horrendous, and gets longer every day.
A friend lost her brother in February, I just donated money to his kids’ fund yesterday. It’s been on my list for months, and I finally got to it. It wasn’t hard, but a pita to find the info. I had to scroll through FB pages to find the site. Then I had to set up a Zelle account.
I need to get a blood test for my next appointment, but now it hurts to walk, so that’s not happening. I was supposed to go to the doctor the week of my mother’s funeral, that got pushed back. I’m trying to pay off a bill, but the company has screwed it up so badly, and every time I call, I get a different person, who tells me something different than the last person. Now they want me to send proof of May payment, but they found April and June. Two weeks ago, they told me they had May and June, but not April. I’m pretty sure I sent all this shit already. But if I haven’t, it means digging through credit card statements to find the payments. I have the confirmation numbers, but no, they want to see statements. WTF is the purpose of a confirmation number if you can’t use it?
This is EVERY FUCKING THING, everything.
What should be a simple phone call turns into multiple calls with incompetent people.
Then I don’t want to deal with the next phone call because I know it is going to be more of the same.

It’s not so much ignoring as avoiding, because nothing is easy.

Nothing gets done, and the list gets longer.
I think I need to take a few days, and just sit down and get all this crap done. All the paper irk, phone call stuff.
Right now, just putting a load of clothes in the washer is agony, so probably a good time to do non-physical stuff.

The doctor is giving me some pain meds, but now I have to go to an orthopedic doctor, one more GD thing to add to the list. And it won’t be one visit, it will be multiple visits.
Even talking with the doctor was a pain because I needed DUO to do it. I couldn’t find it on my phone so I had to download it. Only to find out I have it but it’s been changed to MEET.

I’m so done with it all.

All y’all make me so tired just reading about everything you do.

I’m thinking of getting a housekeeper. Right now, it’d take me a week to clean enough to let a house keeper in.

I think the desert sounds pretty after rain, JtC.

Interning at a zoo sounds like fun, Sunny

My son just texted that he might get out early tonight.
Only three more weeks of overtime and then we are heading to the MVA for a learner’s permit.
It’s on the list, and it’s a big one to cross off.

Now I need to climb the stairs to go to bed.
I’m really regretting not having a couch in the living room.

{{{2gig}}} Where have you been?

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I have decided on poke chop, with onions (of course!) and thus, a piece of piggie is absorbing a flour coating in the fridge as we speak.

I have a flat pillow on the floor in front of my papasan, so I can follow Nurse Boo’s advice and lay flat on my back with my feet propped up.
… except Monkey took over:

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ETA: I can see one of my ankle bones again! Righty is better; lefty, well, still too smushy to see ankle bone. But hey, 50% success!

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Up from naptime. Had chipolte cheddar burgers with fries and corn for dinner. and an Old Fashioned.

I wanna try putting Linux on my laptime, to see if it works. If not, I’ll just buy a chaep one for travel.

Yay!

Tugig!
: tacklehug :amphora:

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Don’t think that way. Your new housekeeper will be charging by the hour, messy houses take longer so she will make more. Plus, nobody expects someone who has to use a walker to keep a sparkling house. I’m sure that once you have your house in order, you will start to feel better and not so overwhelmed.

The desert has a stark beauty all of it’s own which makes the lush post storm landscape even more precious.

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The semi-pseudo-quasi-modo chicken cordon bleu was good. Goo liked it too.

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Attempted deviled eggs, which I had not previously made (DH had a craving). I could NOT get those yolks to mash properly, so had kinda chunky filling. He said it tasted good, but I do need to figure out that texture issue. I tried a fork, a wooden spoon, a potato masher, and a pastry cutter. None seemed to really help a lot. I was using eggs that had been cooked via Instant Pot (a stovetop boiling set of directions from Food Network didn’t even get the eggs SOLID) a very short time before (this also caused some divots when peeling. I find that refrigerating hardboiled eggs for a while before peeling helps a lot there).

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When I make deviled eggs for hubs, I put the yokes, mayo and stuff (finely diced onions and pickles, salt and pepper) in a ziplock bag and squeeze until it is all mixed, then snip off a corner and use the bag to squeeze the mixture back into the egg whites. If you want to get all fancy pants, get a cake decorating tube and use a ribbed nozzle, then sprinkle some paprika on them for the contrasting colors.

I did that once and nobody ever said a thing about how pretty they looked, they just gobbled them down like my ugly ones so I didn’t bother with that again. I do still use the paprika cause that’s how how I was taught by my mother, who was taught by her mother.

I was thinking about going to bed early tonight but half an hour ago someone totally ignored our stop sign* and blew across the T-intersection and hit the neighbors’ concrete steps up to his yard, then threw his car door open and puked then passed out. I didn’t see that part, the neighbor told us as we all gathered around to point and laugh.

People like him are why nobody out here complains about the potholes in the roads anymore. We kinda like them, if you know about them, you know to drive slow so you can avoid them. If Mr SpeedyMcGofast has to speed around our small residential community, he or she has a very good chance of damaging their vehicle.

Currently its 2330 and 75F. I fed the yard flock around 1900 and it was so humid that the windows will not be opened tonight. It is so odd to have to think about humidity again, that hasn’t happened for a very long time…

*At least the poor stop sign didn’t get hit this time. We bought this place in 2017 and have seen three stop signs get mowed down. The speed limit is only 25 mph but some people are…not as thoughtful as they could be.

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Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.

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Morning, mumpers! It’s 18c/64f with a predicted high of 22c/71f and cloudy. That’s a much more acceptable temperature for me but it’s still very humid and sticky in the office. Weather app says “It’s overcast and fucking shitty outside” which is a fair assessment. We had all of five minutes of rain last night which was just enough to dampen the ground but nothing else.

I wouldn’t have known it was raining at all except that Spare Cat came in to see if we were home from our travels. The catflap had been locked shut for four days so he knew we weren’t in, but now it’s open again so he came into the living room and looked pitifully at me. I gave him some treats which ensured he got close enough for a little bit of head fuss, and thus I knew it was raining as his fur was damp.

I’m at irk, it’s irksome and is a day full of pointless meetings for me. Oh well, pays the bills, I suppose. Grocery shopping is in my future, we didn’t go last week as we knew we’d be away for a while so only stopped off for essentials for our trip, and now the fridge is bare.

2gig :tacklehug: Where’s ya bin?

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Dammit, I’d just finished typing out pretty much the same thing, then I saw you’d beaten me to it. That’ll teach me to answer as I go along…

Our street speed limit is also 25, tho I tend to creep up to 35 when I’m not paying attention. We live on a corner and the intersecting roads are on slopes in each direction, so the actual intersection is a mostly level bit. Oddly enough, it kinda makes it like a speed bump, especially along the side road, because you’re going up (or down) a bit of a hill, and suddenly, the incline flattens. It can be a teeth-rattler.

We’ve had our mailbox taken out twice by some moron (I’m pretty sure it was the same one both times) who came speeding around the corner and didn’t straighten out in time. It’s been a while, so either he grew up or moved away (I think it was the spawn of someone further down the street.)

Moving on…

I’ve got a couple more hours of quiet till the Tobester is delivered. Dunno if we’ll hang upstairs or in the basement. Either way, I won’t be able to get anything done. All laundry has been laundered, and that’s the major chore I do when downstairs. Maybe I can sort thru the kids’ toys and cull some, since Daughter wants to bring some more over here. I need to figure out a barrier in front of the fireplace - last week, Tobias crawled over and tried to grab the axe. Plus I don’t need him doing a faceplant on the brick hearth. He’s getting harder and harder to distract when he sets his stubborn little mind on something.

After I fetch Roxy, I’ll drop them both off at school, then run by CVS for our assorted drugs. So all in all, a really exciting day ahead…

:rofl:

Happy Tuesday!!

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN Actually been up for a while, but I read through everything from yestiddy, so that took a bit. ‘Tis 73 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 92 and mostly N.O.S. Today is laundry day, be still my beatin’ heart! I also foresee some quality cee-mint pond time, nappage and sloth. Sup shall be pot roast in the crock pot with baby N.O.T. and carrots. I shall also cook some peas, butterbeans 'n okra together and make corn bread. YUM!

MOOOOOOM I’ve never done much with my smoker after usin’ it other than degunk it, clean the grills, and water pan. It probably would not hurt to clean really good around the element, but I ain’t sayin’ that will happen anytime soon.

gigity ::tacklehug:: come back and play some more! Regale us with tales of unfinished chores. We live for stuff like that.

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah,

Happy Tuesday Y’all!

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Morning all. A balmy 77F already but ‘only’ getting to 86F (hey, anything under 90F is good in my book). Not much on the agenda for today, so will probably take a swampy-sloth day. Do have some soccer stuff to do this afternoon and may make it to the gym for some pedaling to nowhere. Weight yesterday was 280.2lbs (I try to weight myself each Monday at the gym on the same scale at the same time), so still trying to get into the 270-range.

FCM, enjoy the day with the Tobester.

boo fae, there are people who live for pointless meetings; just go with it and humor them…

JtC, hope Mr. Collide - n - Puke has good insurance (for your neighbor’s sake).

shoe, yeah for the ankle bone sighting. And Monkey is a cutie.

{{Sari}}. Deep breath and have at it again today. Sometimes life S****.

Hmmmm, just had a shadow cross in front of my shades; not a spectre but just the Cook’s Pest Control guy sweeping for webs. Such is life.

All y’all take care.

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MetalMouse - I’ve been meaning to ask you - what is soccer for 4-5 y/o kids like? Do they even play games or is it just learning skills? Are the parents crazy people?

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Today I am waiting for the water damage repair to start. Last night we emptied the pantry, and today they’ll rip out all of the damage.

Take care everyone and happy Tuesday!

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Managed to grate my thumb whilst shredding potatoes this morning. Nothing serious, and no potatoes were lost in the encounter. I think I’ll hang some more artsy things today.

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@ work - will drop in later tonight to post for real

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Just saw this and had to respond before dressing and heading for the gym.

At that age they do play 3-on-3 games on a small field (about 25’ x 15’) with 7-8 minute quarters. The coaches are on the field to help direct traffic and the parents help by keeping the ball in-play on the sidelines, since once they stop moving the kids get interested in other things. They practice only once a week for about an hour and we try to keep the teams at 4-5 kids so all of them get to play 1/2-2/3 of the game.

Being we are a all-volunteer ‘recreational’ league, a lot of parents are needed to make things work and most of them behave very well. Oh, we get the occasional ‘win or else’ coach and a few parents have taken it too seriously, but we’ve never had a major incident or the cops called, as some ‘club’ level teams and other sports have had. And hopefully we never will.

We also have a U4 (Roxy might just qualify) that does not play games and only does it for skills and fun.

OK, off I go to pedal a bicycle nowhere. Take care all.

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Today is the 35 anniversary of the harmonica virgins. I was wondering whatever happened to them, but apparently they became a band.

You’re not going to make any money peddling your arse at home!

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Not if her mother has a say. She wants Roxy in gymnastics and swimming. There’s a definite anti-soccer bent there, for some reason. I’ll go to meets or games regardless, tho I know nothing about soccer rules.