It's Monday, let's begin the MMP

I get some computer time this morning since I have a Dr appt at 7:30. Naturally, Higgs wouldn’t let me sleep in, so she’s been fed and the cat box has been cleaned and I’ve got a timer set so I quit and shower in time. Guess there are worse ways to start a day. There will be time to pack my lunch, too, so there’s that.

I do need to drink a bunch of water - the more hydrated I am, the easier it is for them to get my blood. I have one - that’s ONE - good vein in my arm and it needs every advantage it can get. And after, I can do a drive-thru or a convenience store for a breakfast biscuit and some caffeine before heading to the office. I figure I’ll shoot for a 6-hour day today, so 6 hours after I arrive, I can leave. Not having leave really sucks. :stuck_out_tongue:

I was dreaming of veterinarians and raw chicken - two unrelated parts of the same dream. The sleeping brain goes some bizarro places…

Happy Tuesday!!

Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN ‘Tis a really pleasant 57 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 71 for the day. Yestiddy mornin’ I left da cave wearin’ a jacket. Don’t think I’ll need to this mornin’. Yay for that.

MOOOOOOM interestin’ dream. “Hey doc! I think my chikin has salmonella. Can you give it a shot?” :smiley:

OK, Ima go purtify for irk now. Meetin’ OYKW for a bizkit this mornin’ just cause.

Happy Tuesday Y’all!

My supervisor is coming to visit today. It will be her first trip to my new placement. Hopefully it will go as smoothly as her other visits have gone. Although I did have a dream last night that she showed up and instead of having 6 students that I had 40 and I was not even close to being prepared. :eek::stuck_out_tongue:

I’m at irk and feeling kind of frozen…

blurf.
thanks for the 'nip, db. =^.^=

My arm veins gave up years ago. The only way to get blood out of me now is through my hands. I tell doctors this and will not allow them access to my arms. Some of them actually listen.

I guess I should probably head off to irk now.

Preach it sistah! I actually live in the damn state and am also sick of auto-phone calls at dinner time. Oh Ken(Doll) Cuccinelli auto-called me personnally, well, he definately has my vote for sure now…NOT!

In other news, after much hounding, the couch people are set to come out Friday sometime between 1300 and never. We shall see.

At least you’re getting robocalled for an election you can participate in. I keep getting calls for stuff in North Carolina, and nobody cares that I’ve been in Merrylande for 4 years and counting.

We went to dinner at a Japanese steak house (ala Benihana’s) with hubby’s station crew. We drove for an hour and forty-five minutes to get there. (We got a little lost)
I’d never met the whole crew, so there was that. The food was fun and tasty, but expensive. (3 one inch scallops, and 6 medium shrimp was $45)
Since there were 16 of us, we had two chefs, one was pretty good, the other one must have been in training.
They did the “toss the shrimp into the mouths” Our guy hit 6 out of 8 the other guy got shrimp juice on 7 people.
All said and done, it was quite fun. Even the drive wasn’t bad, since, for our whole life together, we’ve both said as long as we’re together, we’re never lost. We had almost decided to just stop at Wendy’s and forget the whole thing. The place was behind Wendy’s, duh.

Another rotten night’s sleep. I hates eczema, I do, even if it is a good scrabble word.

Very surprised though, my doctor actually had an appointment free today, despite me calling at 2pm (didn’t wake up til 1, as I didn’t get to sleep til about 6).

The cats today figured out how to open the drawer I keep the fish food in, which is in the same style packet as their kitty treats, so there was fish food all over the floor when I got downstairs, and two very smug looking kitties sat in the middle of it. I’m going to have to work out some way of stopping them climbing in the window too, as I like sleeping with it open, but if it is open, I get a 2am cat diving in onto my face, and/or trying to break into the axolotl tank. They’re lucky they’re cute…

First on 2!
Other than that I have nothing to add

A day late and a tooth short. I had a molar pulled yesterday, and it has been a surprisingly easy experience. Usually a tooth extraction leaves me crying on the floor for about sixteen hours, but either my regular dentist is more skilled than the oral surgeons I’ve seen in recent years, or it’s just less painful to pull a tooth rather than cut it out. Either way, I’m grateful, because there’s nothing wrong with my mouth that Advil can’t take care of.

In other news, I have nothing left on my calendar until Thanksgiving. It’s been a very busy year so far, and I am thrilled that November is so wide open. No parties, no weddings, no doctor appointments. I love you, November.

Except for the election robocalls. But I suppose I should thank them, because I probably would have forgotten to vote today.

Happy Toosday!

It’s a chilly 43 degrees with a projected high of 56.

I am tired and overwhelmed. Too much going on but none of it good or exciting.

Yesterday I woke up frigid because I didn’t close my bedroom window, and I was too tired to get up and close it.
Piddle pup was a mess to watch. She peed in the house 4 times in front of me between 4 and 11 and that wasn’t counting all the times I put her out.
The other dogs and cat at the other house were good for me.

So yesterday I felt like a zombie, but I still picked up a friend and rode out to Hagerstown to see a house. Yesterday was the only day I had time to see it and it was a foreclosure. It’s open to offers from Investors on Thursday and at the price I figure it won’t be on the market for long. I pulled up in front of the house and had an email from the mortgage broker that I didn’t qualify for the loan - sucks - so I didn’t even bother to go in. The broker said to call back in January so I guess I am just damn stuck until then.

However the scenery was beautiful, I always have fun with my friend and she bought my lunch. We are both what some people would kindly call ‘dizzy’, so we understand each other perfectly.

I said I wanted to go to a sit down place where we get waited on (before she offered to pay) and I wanted to try the restaurant next to IHOP. We walk in and it’s a buffet, but I was so tired and hungry I said let’s just eat here. So she said she’d pay and it was $13 for the two of us! The food was pretty good for a buffet, lots of good fresh veggies, light on meats. They were setting up dinner as we were leaving and they had a huge ham and roast sitting out.

This morning I woke up miserable hot, I can’t win, window open and freeze or window closed and roast.
I start a big pet sitting job today. I’ll be spending the night and as much time there as possible because their dog is getting old. I’d call her piddle pup II except she weighs 120 pounds and piddle is an understatement. Fortunately she is not losing her mind yet and will ask to go outside instead of going out, coming in and peeing on the carpet. Her owner said she left lots of towels for me and I can use the washer if I need to. The dryer is broken so I’ll have to hang to towels up.

Sometime today I have to get all my laundry done, now I regret going out to lunch instead of doing laundry last week. I have work to do, last week’s pay sucked because I missed time for my ear infection. This Friday’s pay will be sucky as well because I didn’t work enough hours last week. This week is going to be hard because of all the pet sitting. I can use my cell phone but it’s hard to work when the dogs won’t lay down and leave me alone. I’ll see how it goes.

It’s pizza day today as well, and Sah-son has his last driving lesson with the school tomorrow - so I have to fit that in as well. We haven’t been driving at all which probably won’t make the school happy. At least he will probably finish my laundry for me. He’s such a good son.

The check engine light is on in my truck and there is no way I can put it in the shop because I have too much pet sitting/driving to do until Monday. I can’t borrow my mother’s car because my niece has had it since May? when her car got totaled. I got onStar to run a diagnostic and it’s something with the exhaust system. They said if the light doesn’t go out after 7 more startups to get it checked. I did 4 of them yesterday. I checked the gas cap and filled the gas tank and light is still on. I have to put the truck in the shop too because some asshole keyed it. At least insurance will cover that with no deductible.
I can’t borrow my mother’s car because my niece has had it since May? when her car got totaled. My mother keeps bitching to me that she wants her car back like I’m supposed to do something about it. I want her to get her car back so I can borrow it for a few days. :smiley: Even when my sister was in Europe my niece drove my mother’s car because my sister won’t let her daughters drive* her* car. Nobody is allowed to drive her precious car. :rolleyes:

Maybe I’ll just rent a car.

Twosday flavored blurf

Need more coffee and I am out

::stumbles like zombie towards coffee store::

Jim

I hate when the heat is on.

I am getting sick to my stomach. My mother’s bathroom is under my bedroom. When the AC is on they close the vent because it gets too cold. Now they have opened the vent and I can smell everything. I can even smell the peppermint when they brush their teeth.

If that is not bad enough her bf saturates the bathroom with some kind of air freshener. I just got a whiff of it and instant headache and nausea. It doesn’t cover up the smells, it just adds a whole new level of gross. I closed my vent.
At least I won’t be waking up hot and miserable.

Maybe I should rent for a few months.

however you do it, you should get out of there

  • a few zillion.

Waiting for the car fixers down in the parking garage to finish up my car. It’s a pretty nice arrangement - a well-established local company has an outpost here on our secured non-public campus. No need to wait in some dank place that smells of oil and has flickering lights and an elderly pop machine that roars and rattles to life every four minutes.

I was expecting to pay $700+ for the work, but the final bill is only $460. Turns out the squeaky brakes are just squeaky, rather than worn out. But, they got me on the alignment as the car needed some sort of shim at $24 for the part and $100 for the labor to drop the axle and install it. I know car manufacturing is a cutthroat, to-the-bone game of what’s the least we can spend on making them, but saving a buck or two in the build ends up costing the buyer $124 later on.

And when did car prices get so goofy? I can remember prices like $8,995 but now, it would be $18,627 or some similarly random looking number. Would buyers really be put off if the car cost $18,629? Or just round it up to $18,995 and put half a moment’s more care into it?

  • a couple bajillion.

Howdy from da cave! It’s been a really tiresome, irritatin’ day. Obviously November brings out the whiny in folks. Dindin shall be a clean out da fridge night. I shall heat up all the leftovers. Neither one of us minds leftovers so that’s a good thing.

gotti four hunnert and sixty bucks is still a lot but I’m glad it wan not the seven hunnert + you thought. You should take DH out for a nice dinner with all the money you saved. :smiley:

I hate it when the heat is on too. Why can’t it always be summer.