Your son or the dog?
Hmm, my birthday is on a holiday this year. Labor Day.
Majikal Intertoob Pizza was ordered and ingested. Gordie sang The Song of His People to the Majikal Intertoob Pizza Lady.
No, please continue. 
I may be off in celebration. I shall pet kitties in your honor.
Aww, kitty petting.
I invited one of the neighbourhood cats up to my porch today, so I got in some kitty petting today.
Bumba - your pups are adorable!!
I now have a key to daughter’s house - I’ll find out tomorrow if it works. I’m going over to help her tape up prior to painting. Or I’ll clean - either way. She’s picked out all her colors - lots of greens and purples. Her spousal unit is blue-green colorblind, so for him, it’ll be shades of gray I guess.
A week from tomorrow, they should be all moved out - how will FCD and I deal???
Hint: easily!
butters, glad hubby sat up for a couple of hours today. We won’t get hurricane damage this far north, but will have a rainy week. Sis in Houston has her window boards up, but she’s on pretty high ground and flooding is usually what does the damage there.
herald, you have / had a good looking bunch of critters there.
What?! No squirrel in the stew swampy? I haven’t had Brunswick stew for a long time. My late great aunt in NC used to make it. My mom’s people in east Tennessee always did burgoo, which has some common elements.
bumba, Vinnie and Gibbs look like sweeties!
Irked, came home, walked the dog and et. Yesterday, I found a bump on Nelson’s right shoulder. At first, I thought it might be a tick, but it wasn’t. It’s a little touchy (not too much though) and hard, so likely not a small cyst. I don’t know if it’s a bug bite or another chihuahua wart. If it starts to bother him, I’ll call the vet.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Fence guys were here.
There is more fence out there today than there was yesterday, but I think there should be more than there is. However I am not the fence expert.
They also, unasked, put up some boards in my shed and hung up all my garden tools.
Very nice of them, and much appreciated.
They got to meet the crazy b two doors up. She is very happy they are putting in a fence because they just don’t know how traumatized she has been by my dogs.
Realtors came and went. They pointed out the things I already know about that need to be fixed in the house. They will work up some numbers and I will then see what I want to do. I still want to wait until January I think.
Happy Birthday Nettie!
Cute pups Bumba.
We had pizza tonight. I did not feel like cooking, and I ordered extra for the fence guys. They went home before it got here. I was going to offer some to the realtors, but didn’t. So we have lots of leftover pizza.
I now know more about bees than I ever wanted to know.
I’m allergic to bee stings, so I prefer to keep my distance.
Evening all. Got all prepared for soccer coaching so of course the Ali-bama weather waited until 4pm to start storming, so I had to cancel it (bah!). Looks like most of the storm is past or heading off to the Northeast, now it’s up to when the hurricane that is (by the weather maps) currently soaking Arkansas turns right as predicted.
A Big O’Bowl O’Noodles has been assimilated for dinner.
Sari, know how you feel. Told myself this morning to go by/call the medical place I took the COVID test since I haven’t heard any results, and I just remembered that as I was typing this. Try again tomorrow.
Bumba, nice pups; I like bigger dogs, but those look like they’d be a nice lapful.
nellie, hope the bump goes away. Let us know.
Nut, thanks for the bee lessons…I seem to remember a Wonderful World of Disney once that talked about bee behavior, but that is the sum total of my knowledge.
Can’t recall ever having Brunswick stew, my mom used to fix stew new and then, but I can’t recall it ever having a name attached…except “Ewwww, stew” from brother and I…
All y’all take care now.
Pretzel shed the other day, and has been more active & nosy than usual, so dropped her a meal. Gone in five seconds. Her wounds have all but disappeared - reptiles have amazing recovery abilities. I cannot believe my dumb ass thought she was a euth case. Clearly, my judgment cannot be trusted.
Washed some dishes, obtained - and cooked - a small hunk o’cow, and in an attempt to purtify, I have painted my nails.
Let’s see if that lasts into (let alone through) tomorrow’s shift.
I’ve somehow lost nearly all interest in purtification. I got these blue clip-in hair extensions, and they look cute as hell, but … meh, what’s the point.
Yes. 
Things accomplished today include having made a PT appointment for tomorrow (or did I do that yesterday? I have no idea. The appointment is tomorrow, though) and ordering groceries. They should be here between 7 and 8.
Food is an issue. I know that’s stupid. I can stand the idea of eating some things and not others. It’s not because of the calories. I don’t know what it is. It’s not really to do with what food I like and what I don’t. I need to figure out some kind of… compromise meal plan? Something that is more complete than “nothing but grapes and watermelon” and more manageable than “what’s the big deal, you’ve got a freezer full of meals you made yourself, just eat a fucking curry, you love curry, that’s your curry which you made and of which you chose every aspect yourself, jesus christ just get over it and eat it you stupid cow”
So… whatever. The Walmart order is 90% produce and soda water. I did put cottage cheese on it because that seems doable. Maybe I would be able to manage my life better if I were eating better, but… I just can’t. And then I get into this mental fight with myself where I’m like… on one hand, I can think of or find a handful of things through DoorDash or Uber Eats that either fall into the “familiar enough to be ‘safe’” category or the “unusual enough to be tempting” category. On the other, I really can’t justify paying to have food delivered when I have a freezer full of food and am also paying to have groceries delivered. I mean, come on.
Anyway… also called the driving school. I’ll call them again tomorrow after PT. They can help me determine whether or not I’m safe to go back to driving. I already know how to drive and have a license and a car and everything. I’m just not sure about the coordination/strength/reaction time/etc. and live on a street way too busy/dangerous to venture out on my own without it being immediately very high stakes. This way, I can at least have someone take me to a parking lot or subdivision or cemetery or whatever before I try. If I can get back to driving, it may have a significant impact on my quality of life.
So that’s pretty much what I’ve accomplished today. Pathetic, yeah, but… it is what it is. My little black cat is lying half-flipped-over with her head on my thigh and purring like there’s no tomorrow. I think she’s happy the roommate’s cats are gone. I think she misses the dog, though. Or maybe I’m the one who misses the dog. Yet another motivation to get better/stronger, I guess: I can’t have a dog until I can take care of one.
Anyway, groceries arrived and have been put away. My cats both keep following me around all 
acting like there’s something I’m forgetting to do for them and I’m really not sure what it is. They have food, water, and clean litterboxes, sooo… 
It sounds like you’ve accomplished quite a few things today. 
Are your eating issues more no appetite or no motivation? One of the things that I found to keep my butt out of the drive thru every night was to make a meal plan, cook a full meal on the weekend, have that fresh , save a portion for later in the week and freeze individual portions. Then I pull two or three main courses from the freezer for the rest of the weekdays. Side dishes can carry over. For someone living alone, it keeps the cooking to a minimum and gives me variety. I make a grocery list when I make the meal plan too. YMMV.
metal mouse, we’re getting your T-boomers right now. Should be a good night for sleeping.
The ones I bought are PAW CBD, all natural, no GMO, human grade. There are 30 in the bag at 5mg each for dogs under 25 lbs. Buddy is about 15 lbs. I didn’t get pills, I got a pack of soft chews and a pack of hard cracker like treats. Both say one a day so I shall alternate. I think I paid about $80 for both…
We did not hear back about the MRI but we have the CT report and disc plus I have already lined up the two strong neighbor boys ( men ) to help get him into daughters vehicle. I have to irk tomorrow as it’s payroll day plus new director sent me another list of training that’s due by Sept 4th. He is an ass. I can already tell. I told him what my situation is.
Hubs was up and down a few times today and sat up for a bit. Just now he needed my help and his daughters help to get on his feet from the bathroom. Thank god she was here as I couldn’t do it alone. How does one basically become paralyzed in a matter of days? I think I shall have his daughter drive him to the facility where the MRI machine is with our local doctors orders and pay out of pocket if necessary. Probably about $3K. First I will call the insurance myself in the morning.
And the cherry on top of this shit cake is my washer has died. Got a new one being delivered on Moanday. The only way to get one so fast was to buy from a local business and pay more but could not wait for Home Depot. Washers are expensive now days. Over $800. It’s only money says hubs. It is not even a fancy front loader but a mid range top loader. They will hook it up and haul away the old one. Plus the microwave works intermittently so I figured out if you beat on it near the key pad it will come back on so a new microwave is needed too. So I guess I am waiting for one more appliance to croak. We have had a freezer on order since March. Our old one sits on the porch and is rusty to the point hubs thinks it could die at anytime.
Y’all I didn’t cook daughter Lol (Really got a chuckle out of that one) but we did send her to the bank and grocery store and she cooked us some beef stroganoff which was excellent. Any one else’s cooking would be good at this point. She is an absolute doll for driving down at the drop of a hat. I am tahred as I didn’t have my nap today so I guess I will sleep with Mel tonight.
All those healing vibes and prayers are still needed. Happy weekend to those who celebrate. It has been one long ass week.
Dots, you’ve done more today than I’ve done in 3. Don’t beat yourself up.
Irk wasn’t unusually irksome today, but I’m in quite the mood. Got out to the car at end of day (late, thanks to a long call that blipped in on me about a minute before I could officially log off the phone without getting in trouble) to find notifications from the local transit system that protests are expected to cause enough traffic mayhem that service is being suspended this evening in the area in question. Considering the looting/vandalism/arson we saw a few months ago, this is a bit scary. On the way out, saw the aftermath of an apparently nasty crash, with one offended car on its roof and a big hole in a nearby brick wall.
Lousy traffic on the way home, with much stupid. Most conveniently located Walmart has apparently taken at least one level-up in aggravating (doesn’t help that half the parking lot is fenced off for solar panel install over said parking). McDonald’s app interfaces bizarrely with Google Maps and the combo tried to send me to Home Depot over 2 miles from the McDonald’s in question (didn’t help that I neglected to make sure I’d selected the right location, so wound up at one that I would not have chosen for myself).
On the plus side, DH reports his leg is feeling better, and I’ve seen him doing some toddling around sans cane (we agree he should probably not do much of this just yet). The Princess has been in a royal feline snit lately because she hasn’t been allowed outside (air quality was just not acceptable for tiny kitty lungs), but did come get snooze-button snuggles this morning, which she hasn’t done in days.
Dunno whether to wallow in my current mood a bit and watch “1984”, or try to find something more cheery.
This is me 100%. I cannot figure out what to cook and eat for myself. I’m all over the place. I do something in my Instant Pot for a while, then I’ll get Door Dash or Favor, then just get frozen Stouffers from the grocery store. That’s one reason why I started the thread in Cafe Society on salads. I cannot get organized on meals.
Dot, speak kindly to yourself. Or yell at yourself and call yourself names if you absolutely must, but then apologize to yourself afterwards. You don’t deserve to be called names, even if you’re not doing your absolute very best every minute. Cut yourself some slack.
I feel pathetic, too, when I come here and complain, because others seem so busy and active with projects and even minimal socializing (with family, of which I don’t have any)… and people assure me I’m not pathetic… what do they know? I mean, I got a hug from my hairdresser yesterday and it made me cry because I’ve been longing for human contact. How pathetic is that?
I’m guessing you’re saying, “That’s not pathetic at all. It’s perfectly understandable.”
To that I say, “Right back atcha.”
I’m off to bed. 'Nighters! 
Indeed it has. And yours has been one of “when it rains it pours”. I’m hoping it is all downhill from here for you and hubs. Glad your daughter came down and can help. I agree your boss sounds like a horse’s ass. In my experience if they are one, they never stop being one no matter what you do.
Wishing all a good night’s sleep.
Dot, if you can’t manage using freezer food, use Uber. You have official permission. The freezer food will keep. The important thing now is to get enough nutrients into you. In your next grocery order, get some Boost or Ensure. I doubt you’ll love them, but they’re not bad if they’re icy cold, and at least then you know you’re getting some nutrients you can’t get from watermelon.
Do bees have knees? I’ve been trying to entice bees to my back yard, but the widlflower-garden-in-a-bag seeds appear to contain some variety that I and the dog are allergic to. I think next year, it will be butterfly bushes and bee balm.
Remember Doug and Wendy Whiner from Saturday Night Live? Remember the malady they suffered from? YouTube remembers. (and so does Pepperidge Farm!) Seems I have it. Oh joy. What else can go wrong? First my heart tries to explode, now it’s my gut.
I guess I spoke too soon. I’ve been up for the last hour (since 2:30 am). G.I. and stomach distress that I alluded to earlier. And no, I didn’t take my new CBD oil yet, so I can’t blame it on that. Of course, as many of you know, if you get up at an unscheduled time, the animals in your household figure it’s time for the day to begin. So both cats are out in the back yard. Sweetie just visited there and is in the office here with me. I’m so sleepy and tired, but too crampy and queasy to go back to bed. I made some stomach-calming tea-- hope that helps. Ugh.