Happy Moonday!
or for those of you who prefer
Happy Moanday!
Yes, it’s another Monday/Moanday/Moonday!
Which brings us one day closer to the end of summer, and one day closer to the end of 2020.
It’s a dark and cloudy 70 degrees outside. Suppose to get up to 88.
The lawn guy should be starting my fence this morning. He’s supposed to bet here around 9. I should be back from the park by then, but he doesn’t need me to get started. First thing he’ll be doing is cutting down a tree and cutting branches off other trees to clear space for the fence.
While he’s doing that he is also going to cut the dead branches off the big maple tree. It’s going to cost me a bit more, but better he cuts them down before they fall down.
So that, and irk, and house irk, is on the agenda for today.
The realtor still wants to come by to look at my house and talk, so I need to prepare for that. I’m going to clean as though I am preparing to move, even though there is no place I want to move to right now.
I told him I think he is wasting his time, but it’s his time to waste.
I have no idea what is going on with OAOASO.
He says he’s still bringing some stuff here for safe keeping.
Yes, MetalMouse, I think he did reach the end of his patience. I hope he doesn’t fall back into letting his family use him.
I hope all goes well with Hubby today Butters.
Guess it’s time to start getting ready for the park. I don’t want to get there too too early.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 76 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 85 with rain pretty much all day. Accordin’ to TWPTB it should start to rain anytime now. The big item on today’s agenda is to spiff da cave. Sup shall be sketties 'n meatballs, sallit, and garlic bread. Easy peasey to do as I have skettie sauce and meatballs all made up and in da freezer. I suppose I should take 'em out.
Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy demands sustenance. Then, onward into the day! Rah.
Morning, mumpers! It’s sunny but cool here today, just the kind of weather I like. Cool enough to not need all the windows open, but pleasant enough with just the big landing window open for some breeze. My boss was surprised to find me working today, I’d got two more days leave booked but decided not to take them. Technically I should not be working because she hasn’t approved the cancellation of my two days, such is the faff of our online HR system.
Nothing much going on, I am catching up on things I missed last week and poking around to see what’s been achieved in the time I was off. Then I have meetings to catch up with and I need to talk to my minions over the next few days to see how they’re doing. Still no date to go back to campus although 14th September is now being mentioned but there’s still work to do in our building, and we have to sort out a rota for who comes in when.
Aside for irk, I have to go over to my friends’ house later to check up on the ferrets while said friends are away for a few days, and then it’s outdoor bootcampy thing later. 'im indoors is making dinner tonight, and my favourite singer in the whole entire world has confirmed he’s doing another 2hr acoustic performance from is living room on Thursday so my week is looking brighter already.
OMG, what a horrible night… Roxy woke and threw a major tantrum around midnight and I didn’t fall back to sleep till nearly 4. Then a bit before 7, I heard daughter getting ready for work, so I got up. She’s gone and I’ve breakfasted, and caffeination is ongoing.
Stuff going on today:
Push-mowage
Call around to get front door replacement estimates
Call closing attorney to make sure the funds transfer is complete
Thaw sketty sauce (thanks swampy!) for supper pasta-bake
Water plants in greenhouse
Pick up molding at Lowe’s and stop at Aldi or Food Lion on the way home
Go to Forest Hall Farms for peaches - YUM!!
Not sure how much I’ll actually accomplish - I’m soooooooo tired.
BBBoo - from the pics in the last MMP, it looks like you had a lovely day out!
Butters - good thoughts coming to you and your spousal unit, from one who knows what it’s like dealing with husband back issues. Plus I hope the storm tracks stay clear of you.
Another Cloudy/ overcast day here, but no severe weather yet, pretty sure all the fuss and hullabaloo is going to be on t’other side of the Gulf.
Wishing I didn’t have to start irking and could just go back to beddie bye land… I’m still feepy. Maybe some caffeine would help.
What was Roxy so upset about in the middle of the night, Moooom? Bad dream? (((Butters and hubby)))
It’s my first Blessed Day Off in days, so of course instead of sleeping in a bit, I awoke … at precisely alarm o’clock. At least I slept well last night, in no small part due to tasty new Rx from work.
I’d like to swing by The Office Of Post today, as I mentioned last MMP that I have fun new (local!) postcards I’m itchin’ to send. Domestically, I have got to sweep the floor, and change out the litter box, and accomplish laundry.
If I manage also to scrub away that mildewy spot in the tub where the faucet always drips, I shall crown myself Queen Goddess of Accomplishments.
Thankfully, I also have tomorrow off irk - that’d be a lot for one day! When would nappage and chillage happen?
Bee pics are waiting on acceptable weather; the forecast this week has been nicer than the reality every day bar the one I decided to go out garden visiting. Today was supposed to be sunny, it’s currently chucking it down. At this time of year they don’t need much attention (in theory they might need more honey storage space, but not with this weather), but with any luck I’ll be able to dodge the showers to go down there in the next few days.
I also have an inordinate level of blurf- I slept about 12 hours last night, right through til nearly midday, and frankly I could just go straight back to bed after having breakfast. I hope I’m not coming down with something- I have to start back at irk next week, and it’s going to be chaotic enough without me being off sick, and enough of a shock to the system without me being only just well enough to come in.
She’s going thru a phase - daughter thinks she’s on the verge of another growth spurt and it’s messing with her little toddler brain. She still doesn’t want a bath - not even with bubbles!
When she wakes during the night, she tries to get into bed with her parents and they put her back in her bed, resulting in a tantrum. They’re bracing for what will happen when they move into their new house. At least it won’t keep me up.
At this moment, she’s “reading” Go Dog Go. As is typical for a toddler, she has it memorized, so she’s just narrating the pictures. It’s toooooooo adorable!
Mowage and weed-whackage is done, and I watered the plants in the greenhouse. Cleaned the cat box and loaded the cat-litter bucket that SIL will take to the convenience center when he does trash and recycling this afternoon. I sent him back to bed and told him when I put Roxy down for her nap, I’ll be leaving to run my errands.
For now, I’m hydrating and cooling down. It’s going to be a hot day - glad I got the yard work done before 9.
My sisters told me I did that with The Story of Ferdinand – they thought I was actually reading it out loud until I forgot to turn the page but kept on “reading”.
Hubby had hired a roofer for I don’t even know what for and he came by to take a look. Of course dude shows up today. He goes up on the roof. I ask him to not do whatever today when he came down and damned if he didn’t go back up there. We are under a TS warning, it’s raining off and on and our house is very tall. I finally went out there and told him I didn’t want him on my roof. He says but I’m counting…I screamed at him “I don’t care what you are doing I want you off my damned roof now”. Now hubby says he probably won’t come back. There is nothing wrong with our roof that I know of. I don’t care if he never comes back.
Hubby is now in touch with the Dr. I don’t know if he will make a house call or just call in meds. I wanted to call an ambulance days ago. One of us is going to die and at this point I don’t care which one of us.
I know I am a horrible wife but I just can’t anymore.
Good morning all. I’m awake, but just barely. Drove my 7th housemate to school, but it’s aalll the way across town and crazy Monday morning drivers can be soooo annoying. Some school dropping off parents demand that the road is theirs alone and the rest of us need to get out of the way. One missed me by inches.
Ok, my grump is done now.
Not many expectations of myself today. Don’t forget to pick the kid up at the right time.
This year still sucks mightily. Kopek went to heaven 6 months ago today. And when I logged on at work this morning, I had an email telling me that a former co-worker died on Friday.
I am going to have a giant weenie roast with my 2020 calendars on January 1.
In good news, I finally got to see one of my aunts on Saturday. I haven’t seen her since late last year. She’s in a convent and they were totally locked down for quite some time. They’re still not allowing visitors but they’ve recently been allowed to go out if they choose. She turned 87 in July, but she drove to my place, picked me up, and we went to Eat 'n Park for lunch, then back here for ice cream (her favorite food) and a long visit.
On a lighter note, last week’s MMP reminded me that I haven’t yet posted photos of Twister (a/k/a Kitty No. 2). As soon as I can get the photos to Imgur or whatever, I shall rectify that oversight.
Morning all. Stayed up late so I put on the Mask of Darkness which let me sleep in to almost 8:30am. Finishing my to-do & menu list for the week, thinking about going to the Wal-mart eye center for glasses based on the new prescription I got a couple weeks ago. Also need bananas and milk, I’ll get them when I go forth for the Monday Jersey Mike’s sub sammich.
80F already heading for 88F and 60% chance of rain tomorrow. Might regret not doing the mowing yesterday.
OW, doesn’t seem like six months have past since we lost ruble; and good on ya for taking aunt out and about.
Butters, you can only take care of yourself it Husband-unit refuses to listen; don’t lose it. Take care, we’re hear for you.
FCM, I’m tired just reading your to-do list. Take it easy one yourself!
OK, need to make myself presentable and forage for sustenance. All y’all have a good Moanday.
It doesn’t seem like six months that Ruble has been gone.
The lawn guy has really gotten a lot done this morning, the trees are looking bald. The backyard looks so open with all the branches trimmed way back. I hate to put a fence in and close it back up.
I bought a different kind of dishwasher detergent because I couldn’t find the kind I like. I hate the way this one smells.
Thanks y’all. Y’all are the only ones I can talk to. Doc is going to make a house call sometime today. Our little community is just that small. Of course, hubs has been to his home and office many times on weekends and the middle of the night to keep his A/C working.
We are starting to get squalls and a littler thunderboomer that passes quickly and gusty winds.
ECT is messing with my brain in a billion different ways. I begged the doc to slow the treatments down. She asked if I could promise to keep myself safe. I can’t. Or I sort of can. I don’t know. The thing I can’t get around is that someone would have to find me and that’s not okay to do to anyone. But tbh if I can figure that out- a way to put in a delayed call to emergency services or someone who is generally equipped to handle it- I’m out.
Got home today and the house is a mess and I can’t remember how much of it is my mess/doing. I would swear a good portion of it isn’t and am sure my roommate was here while I was at the hospital today, but there are certain specific parts I’m not sure about. And some parts that might be mine, but just… idk, I’m stupidly overwhelmed. I used to keep this house nice and tidy and it’s just a disaster right now and some parts of this (like those portions that involve moving furniture or carrying things up and down stairs) are things I can’t do on my own, so I just sort of want to curl up in a ball and hide.
The kids started virtual school today. Wheeee!!! I’m so glad I took the day off - so. Many. Technical. Problems. Especially with the elementary students, who are young enough they’re not as equipped to deal with them. I’ve been running a help desk for the last four hours. Oh, well - I guess it could be worse.
To blow more smoke into the universe…I hope to hell I fully funded my FSA, because we have a trip to the orthodontist this afternoon for overlygirl and we’re getting to the point where braces are imminent. Overlyboy will also require them, though even though he’s older, his teeth are falling out more slowly.
Anyway, hands are shaking from too much coffee and trying not to throw my daughter’s chromebook through the window. Mission accomplished…so far.
At least I slept well last night, in no small part due to tasty new Rx from work.
