Good Mornn’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 70 Amurrkin out and foggy with a predicted high of 90 and maybe mostly N.O.S. It’s Spring/Summer (Sprimmer? Suming?) in south Jawja! My plan for the day is to do as close to nuttin’ as possible. Seriously. I have no reason or desire to leave da cave. I have no desire to be productive. I think any need to feed will be accomplished via forage.
MOOOOOOM enjoy your day with your mommanem! Mommanem is a southern U.S. term that means your momma and everybody else, as in, How’s your mommanem?
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.
Afternoon, mumpers! It’s grey and overcast here. Weather app says “Dammit” Even the sky looks fucking stupid!" so I think it’s less drunk than it was yesterday, nellie! It also promises me 9C/48F up to 10C/50F, partly cloudy. I’m debating whether that means it’s a good day for a walk round the park avoiding the usual idiots.
Mooooom great to hear good truck news, enjoy the day out!
My school doesn’t have reunions, or if they do they’re not something I would ever bother with. I’m facebook friends with a few people from the grammar school but the rest of them I really don’t care about. I left there at 16 when we moved out of the area and then went to another school to join their sixth form for a couple of years. Really bad move, and I should have gone to the local sixth form college instead as I absolutely hated the school and pretty much everyone in it, and couldn’t wait to get out.
What to do today? No idea, and no plans either. Sofa time with a book sounds good, I’ve got nowhere to be and nothing to do. We had no need to go into town today either so no Chinese yumminess for lunch. That means I must forage instead.
Work schedule got revamped, and I no longer have today off. In fact, I won’t have another Blessed Day Off for a solid week.
I’m trying really hard to re-frame this perspective (more money! less time to sit around bored-drinking!) but hot damn am I getting burnt out.
Ah, well. Between the stimulus payment and yesterday’s paycheck, I have more money in my checking account than I’ve had in a long time. And it’s not all already earmarked/spoken for!
That’s at least one (big) blessing.
Hey man, Fran was the best night sleep I’d had in a long time. Of course, it helped that I lived across the street from Dix Hospital at the time, so I never lost power.
Good morning one and all. I think it’s supposed to rain today, although it hasn’t started yet.
Continued hugs, FCM. I hope MiL sees some sense soon. Enjoy the day with your mother!
Other than some tidying, I didn’t do anything yesterday. I had plans for getting out in the yard, but just never made it.
Next year will be my 40th HS reunion. I have no interest in going (if they even have one) and haven’t been to a single one. I am curious about a couple of people, but not curious enough to even look them up on FB. I am not in touch with anyone from high school. It was cliquish and I wasn’t a fan. I managed to be one of those people who could move among the groups, but I was never a part of the groups and they made sure I knew it. It was stupid. I had many friends outside of school and spent most of my time with them. My middle sister keeps in touch with a number of people, but I don’t think she’s ever gone to a reunion either.
I am still waiting to hear the results of the interview. I am pretty sure I bombed it, but it was good practice. As of yesterday noonish, I was still waiting to hear if I had even been referred for the job I actually want. There haven’t been any updates to the job status though. It’s highly annoying.
Well, I need to look up quilt patterns and colors. My step-mother wants to make a quilt for me and has asked me to choose a pattern and two or three colors. It’s like being in the world’s biggest book store; too much to choose from, although I have narrowed things down quite a bit and should be able to let her know the pattern and colors soon. I like order and don’t like a lot of business to pattern or color, although I want it to be striking too. I am also not really into floral/grandma-looking stuff. She sent me links to patterns and I’ve been looking there. It’s been interesting!
Well, I think I’m going to do my weekly real estate hunt. I want to move so I keep up with the real estate in the area to which I want to move.
Decided sitting around feeling sorry for myself wasn’t working out, and since mornings are my “free” time, I got some crap accomplished:
Load of clean laundry is in the dryer
Gently washing the electric blanket, for the first time. We’ll see how well it survives - had to be done, Nikki barfed up a hairball all over it
Both litter boxes dumped & refilled
Rats have water & food
Now I just need to figure out a hot, cooked meal that sounds appetizing. Filling (but not too much! Can’t get all drowsy right before work.) and hopefully with some protein and staying power.
Grilled cheese or ramen with two eggs ‘egg drop soup’ed into it. A handful of veggies dropped into the ramen if readily at hand. Next grocery shopping trip see if they have preshredded carrots to drop into ramen-they cook in a couple minutes. Preshredded coleslaw mix is good for soup quick-enriching, if you like cooked cabbage.
Howdy Y’all! I have not been a sloth all day, just most of the day. I say that is an accomplishment! I took some chikin livers out of da freezer early this mornin’. They thawed after sittin’ out a mere two hours. We then had a late N.O.L./early sup of foies de poulet frits, smashed N.O.T. 'n gravy, peas 'n carrots, and rolls. Foies de poulet frits sounds much fancier than fried chikin livers. :
Nellie I use a little finely shredded cabbage as a thickener for stews. It will pretty much disappear and is a good thickener.
shoe for mornin’ productivity!
Taters We use a thinnish quilt in a funky star pattern on the bed when it’s cold. It is sto’ bought however.
red a jammies day is always good. I’ve had a jammies day since I am wearin’ the tshirt and shorts I slept in last night.
Howdy all. The weather pulled a fast one and all the rain and tunder-boomers we were supposed to get last night and this morning got delayed 24 hours, so soccer did get played (refereed one game, helped a new ref on a second, and coached my two teams (the girls won 6-1 and the boys lost 2-4). Did it all on a can of Mountain Dew and two cupcakes, so will shortly be loading a lot of calories in me.
Tonight we’re supposed to get the rain and Bad Weather, so Sunday will be damp. Looking at the weather map, I think FCM is going to get some of the storm I was promised.
Home and exhausted. Those of you who are FB friends with my sister may have already seen these pics. And since she made them public, I’ll share her link.
Roxy seemed to have fun with her cousin, and they both ran my sister ragged hunting for zombies and vampires and ghosts (I have no idea…) The weather was about perfect and my bro and nephew were the only ones missing. Bro was golfing, nephew was self-quarantining since he just got back from work travel. And nephew-in-law had to work. Anyway, lots of pics - I’m the one in the jeans and bright pink polo (and occasionally white sweater over it.)
The ride home seemed especially long. We stopped so I could get the truck, and I ran into WaWa to gas it up a bit. Daughter and Roxy have gone home, Higgs has been fed, and I’ve eaten leftover pizza. It’s raining, and we’re promised more overnight and maybe more tomorrow. I’d like to make a convenience center run tomorrow - maybe between showers? Other than that, I plan to do some laundry and mostly veg.
In-law update - feel free to skip if you’re tired of hearing about it.
FCD finally got to speak with the doctor. His dad has partial blockages in 2 of the arteries in his brain. Because of his Parkinson’s and his cardiac issues, they won’t do surgery. So they can maybe put him on another blood thinner, but if he should fall, he could bleed out in his brain and die. Or they could do nothing and he could have a worse stroke and die. I think they were waiting to talk with his cardiologist to decide the best course of action. Meanwhile, he’s spending another night in the hospital. Maybe they’ll know more tomorrow, and maybe he’ll be discharged then - we shall see.
Thus endeth my day. I need to figure out how to wind down. I think there’s some wine in the fridge…
taters, I’m envious of the quilt giftage. I have a double wedding ring one on my bed in pink, cream and green and love it.
swampy, chicken livers used to be one of the more popular snacks to accompany beer when I worked in a bar.
Finished up some chores in the studio, finished the laundry and allowed the good BBQ place fix me a brisket plate with collards, white beans and hot water cornbread. Buuuuuurp!
The Roku remote died, so when I get out to go to Staples tomorrow, I’ll swing through Tar-jay for a replacement. Meanwhile, I’m stuck with the channel it was left on or OTA TV tonight.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 64 Amurrkin out and partly cloudy (partly moony?) with a predicted high of 85 and alleged rain/tstorms/apoclypse predicted for this afternoon/evenin’. The big plan of the day is to deheathenate, followed by N.O.;L. at the local good seafood/fish place. I am in the mood for catfish filets. It’s Palm Sunday and the big plan is for an outdoor service at ten a.m. which is doable since it won’t be rainy then and the temp will be in the low 70s. This is also the plan for next Suncay (Easter). I got a text last night askin’ me to fill in for a sick usher, so I shall. I’m nice dammit!
MOOOOOOM glad y’all had a good time yestiddy. I shall look at the pics over on the book of faces. Looks like some hard decisions wrt FCD’s dad.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, purtification for deheathenization must commence.
Slept semi-crappy last night - my right foot was/is aching badly. I’ve been told since I was a preteen that someday, I’ll have to have surgery for my bunions. (My toe bones angle outward.)
I really, really don’t want foot surgery.
So, I have these bunion braces that physically yank your big toe into perfect, straight alignment. Usually I wear 'em for an hour or two while assuming the chillage position, but I wound up sleeping (well, “sleeping”) in the damn thing out of sheer desperation.
Also dreamed about Other Shoe again. Snuggly, happy dreams.
Now I’m awake, and alone, and in pain (physical AND emotional) and I’m almost certain we’re short-handed at work again today.
Yay.
I see there’s a light freeze (with snow!) forecast for tonight, so I gotta drag the plants back in, plus roll the big bin around to the curb.
Poor Higgs crashed hard last night. She didn’t get any sleep all day! She won’t sleep in the car because she hates the car - any car! And she didn’t sleep during the festivities because there were new smells and lots of food and noisy toddlers… well, you know. So after she was fed and had a visit to the yard, I assumed the recline position and she planted herself on my footrest and commenced to some serious snorage! And since I was tahred, too, that didn’t last too long before I crated her and crashed myself.
For reasons unknown, I woke just after 4:30, but I lounged under the covers till nearly 7. I’m now showered, dressed, I’ve tended to the critters, and I’ve had some toast. It’s raining, as predicted. So today’s plans will include some laundry, and if the rain breaks, I’ll run to the convenience center. I came home with some more donated yarn, but it’s really unattractive and it’s mostly dribs and drabs of scraps - I honestly don’t know if I can get a non-hideous lap robe from the scraps. I was tired last night when I dumped the bags out and removed the embroidery yarn, which is useless for my purposes. Today I’ll try to figure out if what remains is of any use. I already told my mom I don’t want to do any more. So this will be it.
Long range forecast is showing more rain and some freezing nights later this week, but beyond that, we should be freeze-free. So one more week at least before I can move my seedling outside. I got sunflower seeds and some green bean seeds in the mail yesterday - I need to find a pot so I can start them inside. So today will be miscellaneous easy chores and stuff. I’ll probably push the vacuum around, and I need to empty the dishwasher. Good times…
The clocks changed here last night, so I have a pretty bad case of blurf. No one else in the house appears to irk Sundays, so they were being loud last night- not quite to the point where I could call anyone out on it, but talking and the doors are all unnecessarily slammy fire doors, so yeah, not a lot of sleep.
Did I mention we appear to have a new tenant? I’ve not actually spoken to him at all, and I’m not 100% sure I want to. He looks a bit like someone googled ‘dodgy geezer’ and used the search results as a dress and mannerism model.
Oh well, at least it’s all nice and springlike outside, so I shall head out for a brief lunchtime walkies and maybe that’ll make me feel less grumpy. This area is nice at least, even if the house is highly questionable.
Morning all. The rain that was supposed to arrive Saturday showed up about 3am with Thunder and Lightning, so sleep was interrupted on several occasions, but managed to stay in until 7:30am. Outside of going to the Texas Roadhouse for dinner, nothing much on the agenda for today, do have to take a couple of on-line courses for soccer, but that will take about 90 minutes, so not a major timetaker.
Nut, haven’t lived in an apartment-type setting since 1997, so hard to imagine what you living quarters are like. And I wonder how many of us would qualify as dodgy geezers…"
{{Shoe}}. Hold on to the happy dreams.
FCM, looks like it was good times. Yeah. you’ll pay for it today because we’re old, dammit, but the lids look like they had a lot of fun. And hope the doctors can get through to MIL where FCD can’t.
OK, need to finish waking up. All y’all have a great Sunday.
The rain continues and I heard thunder a bit ago. I’ve got a load in the washer, and at least 2 more to go. I emptied the dishwasher and changed out towels in the bathrooms and the kitchen. If I get really motivated, I’ll tread the mill… later. Maybe.
I’m not in an apartment- it’s a step down from that; all I have is one room in a big badly converted probably Victorian terraced house with shared bathrooms/kitchen, with no say whatsoever about who lives in the other rooms.
It’s not ideal, shall we say.
Unfortunately the combination of having almost no notice to find somewhere, only having a short contract and the housing market in the area meant I basically had no choice. It beats a cardboard box.
I’m just hoping the other two on my floor- a couple sharing one room- get their asses in gear and move out before they have a baby, which is due in a few months. That really would push it over the edge.
And I don’t think most of you look like you might nick my watch, if it wasn’t a £3 plastic casio.
In fact, I won’t have another Blessed Day Off for a solid week.
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for mornin’ productivity!