# Keep a happy thought in the MMP! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [February 15, 2021, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950 "2021-02-15T10:44:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/121 "2021-02-17T21:45:08Z")
Finally got my pieces to the client, got paid, so yay! Almost got the truck stuck in the snow bank on the side of the driveway, so boo! Gonna try to cook “corned chicken” tonight, so yum? We shall see. Stay safe, all. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/122 "2021-02-17T21:59:53Z")
We are really regretting not going shopping last week. The road to get out of our neighborhood is pretty much unpassable. We have plenty of food in the freezer, so no worries there. Kale supplies, OTOH, are getting low. The rabbit may have to eat kibble. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/123 "2021-02-17T22:36:15Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > I like Costco chicken, but I already have dinner thawing and have no room in my freezer. Someone’s having chicken quesadillas tomorrow! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/124 "2021-02-17T22:42:37Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > What documents do you need? You can get a copy of your birth certificate from your birth state’s Secretary of State. I was born a poor black child. . . Not really, but I was born in another country - one that doesn’t speak-a da English. So a copy of my birth certificate (translated, with that version certified) is, let us say, an enormous, expensive, and time-consuming pain in the ass. Now, I’ll let Steve Martin explain my joke above: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5NeS4ueaU6w/hqdefault.jpg "Born a poor black child") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NeS4ueaU6w) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/125 "2021-02-17T23:11:23Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Now, I’ll let Steve Martin explain my joke above: I got it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/126 "2021-02-17T23:11:46Z")
Howdy Y’all! Did the Ash Wednesday thing, went over to the church house to take care of some [del]church janitor[/del] Junior Warden stuff, went by Sam’s to feed twuck, then sup got cooked (by OYKW) and et. Thus has been the day. FWIW I say OYKW means Ol’ Y’all Know Who. Like me, he’s fine with bein’ called anything except late to supper. 🐻 **MOOOOOM** glad FIL is OK, but yikes! **{{{Shoe}}}** wait a while and search again. Sometimes that’s what it takes. ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/127 "2021-02-17T23:53:48Z")
All this talk about chicken is making me decide that takeout tandoori chicken is going to be our dinner tonight. We have only one Indian restaurant in this town, and damned if they don’t make the best tandoori chicken I ever had. But their raita is not up to snuff. I do have yogurt and cucumbers in the fridge, so I guess I’ll be making raita while Mr. brown goes and gets the chicken and garlic naan. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/128 "2021-02-18T00:00:26Z")
**{{{FairyChats}}}** I hope that you can convince the in-laws to get some help. **sunny** , for some folks, no makeup WOULD be a disguise. 😛 **shoe** , once you find / replace your documents, find yourself a small fire box (they run ~$40). I have two. The bigger one holds the vintage family pictures and the small one holds my docs. Mine are both hunter orange, so it’s hard to lose them in 540 square feet. The plow and salt truck made it to my street ~2 PM, so I went to O’Reilly’s for two ice scrapers. They didn’t have any left that had a long handle and brush, so I’m keeping the old one for the brush part. When I took Nelson out for his afternoon crap, it was starting to sleet again. 🥶 😱 In about an hour, I’ll call the weather hotline for irk to see if I’m expected in tomorrow. They’ve already sent second shift home for the evening. Even da Jungle, the USPO and UPS haven’t run trucks all week. da Jungle has sent me several emails to let me know that there has been a delay for my orders. On the bright side, according to the weather guessers, it will be nice enough this weekend to take Nelson to the dog park. Gotta love Tennessee. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/129 "2021-02-18T00:22:15Z")
We’ll farts, I forgot a step in the corned chicken. It was brine the heck out of it for 4 days, then in brine for 6 hours. So un brineing now. Also the pain in the ass (and back and calf) is still here. Whoever it was who suggested sciatica, I think you were right. The suggested stretches help much. **FCM** good luck with the in-laws. Scary stuff. Stay safe, all ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/130 "2021-02-18T00:36:38Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > I am rather deficient in the area of Ms. Parton’s most renowned physical attributes (I’m only a B). I was going to start an excel spreadsheet for Mumpers names,nicknames, and real names, and other info, but I’m not sure how to put that in. ‘Additional info’ maybe? 🤔 Went to the dentist this morning for a teeth cleaning. While I was there the hygienist found a suspicious spot, so now I get to have another filling. Oh joy! When I got home **Wifey** was in the front yard with one of our friends chopping up debris from our downed tree. I went and got out my chainaw-onna-stick and his eyes lit up, so I let him play with it. We got almost all of the tree branches into the back of our old Ford Ranger, which we borrowed back from the grandson. The years have not been kind to that old truck, but it got us to the transfer station and back. I guess that’s as much as we should ask. If it lasts until grandson can buy himself another vehicle it will have fulfilled its function. 😄[quote=“Sunny\_Daze, post:110, topic:932950, full:true”] > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I better go put on a bit of makeup! I actually did put on some for my CA driver’s license and they made me take it off. Grrr. It’s a policy to make sure that no one is disguising themselves. Or something. [/quote] California just keeps getting weirder and weirder. Be careful out there. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/131 "2021-02-18T00:43:34Z")
Just got my first injection. Pfizer. Didn’t help any that the paramedics and ambulance crew were there treating someone who’d had a reaction! Didn’t feel the shot at all, but my arm is already starting to twinge. Scratch pizza for dinner tonight, then a video chat with a friend in Colorado and chillage. Everybody stay warm and stay safe. ---
**Author:** ![Old\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecccb3/32.png) [@Old\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Old_Wench)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/132 "2021-02-18T01:19:50Z")
[quote=“The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat, post:120, topic:932950, full:true”] > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > ( **swampy’s** gay, if you haven’t heard…) [Channeling **Ruble**] WHAT?? Swampykins is gay?? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/133 "2021-02-18T01:20:38Z")
The shrimp & grits were a success (as they were the first time I made it). I followed the directions on the grits box, but for the shrimp &c. I used the TLAR method. I could probably have done without the carbohydrates, as I know I’ve been putting on weight; but they were good – which is nice, since I can count the number of times I’ve had grits on one hand. Mrs. L.A. made Vieux Carré cocktails, She doesn’t do them right, but they were good. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/134 "2021-02-18T01:40:20Z")
Our pseudo-Thanksgiving dinner was good, as was the punkin’ pie. I declared that for dinner tomorrow, I’ll pull all the leftovers out of the fridge and everyone can fill a plate, nuke it, and eat. Looks like my well-planned meal chart has gone out the window, but it worked well enough as a shopping guide. Among the remaining meals I’ll make will be shepherd’s pie and chicken-n-dumplins. Plus we can order pizza or Chinese if we choose. Now I’m just waiting for the inlaws to finish their showers so I can go to bed. We insisted they use our shower rather than risk climbing in and out of the tub in the hall bathroom. I’m yawning like crazy but there’s not a lot I can do about it. At least I can work on my latest lap robe while half-awake. The nasty weather is supposed to start here in the wee small hours of the morning. The worst will have passed by noon (theoretically) but who knows what we’re in for - I think nasty sums it up well. As long as it’s decent on Saturday so I can get my second shot. No, **swampy** ’s _gray_ - he’s a geezer, yanno!! _\< snerk\>_ OK, time to get back to my recliner. _MWAH!!!_ ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/135 "2021-02-18T01:47:12Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Ash Wednesday. No caffeine. You, sir, are far more penitential than I could ever be (or was). I doff my hat to you. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > So, so frustrating that they refuse to accept that they can’t live alone… He has already had at least 3 terrifying close calls (and how did his tooth get broken? A fall perhaps?).This very experienced home health nurse of many years is telling you he has used up all his ‘9 lives’ and is playing with fire. The next event could be it or put him permanently in a nursing home and all this could happen 14 hours drive time distant from you and **FCDad** , leaving him, at best, at the mercy of a health care system that has no mercy. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > she doesn’t think we should pull FIL’s license till It’s time for you or **FCD** to email either his doctor, or better yet the Florida DMV and report him as a medically impaired driver and they will call him in for driving examiners to test him, ending the whole dangerous deal. You can do this absolutely anonymously-I looked it up a few months ago when you first mentioned it looming. This old nurse is scared for him and your mom from afar. Heck, blame it on me. I’ve got broad shoulders and I have done it many times for clients, whose families later told me they were glad I had. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/136 "2021-02-18T01:57:16Z")
Here it is~ > **[The Medical Review Process](https://www.flhsmv.gov/driver-licenses-id-cards/medical-review/the-medical-review-process/)** > > Language | Idioma English Español When the FLHSMV receives notification from a court, doctor, law enforcement, another state agency, or a concerned relative or citizen, a decision is made whether to initiate a review of the driver. If questionable,... It says not just because of age but medical conditions. He has displayed medical conditions-caused episodes, even if he has not gone in and been diagnosed. The bathroom fall, maybe the whatever caused the broken tooth, the wandering trying to drive to be vaccinated requiring **FCD** to drop everything and drive down there, the multiple episodes of forgetting where he was or being disoriented or ‘absent’ or unrespnsive. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/137 "2021-02-18T03:14:38Z")
Evening all. Just stepped outside to see if the predicted rain was falling yet and…stepped in about 3 inches of new-fallen snow. It’s supposed to get warmer this evening and rain, so it may be gone by sunrise, but I don’t trust the weather folks one bit right now so it may be another stay-in-the-house day in North Ali-bama. **VanGo** , glad you got paid and didn’t get stuck. And bad luck on the chicken. Maybe next time. > [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Kale supplies, OTOH, are getting low. The rabbit may have to eat kibble. **Rodent Wizard** , let them eat cake! **shoe** , got the joke too (another movie I’ve never seen but I know the basics of it). **FCM** , you and FCD are going to have to decide if you’re going to take stronger action that could alienate your in-laws, or face the real possibility of ‘that call’ in the not so distant future. I’ve been there (well, mostly my brother as SIL were there and my dad was more malleable after my Mom passed in '91). **quietly** , congrats on the jab. What kind of reaction, if it isn’t too personal? I still have to get my shots, and while I’ve never had a bad reaction outside of a sore arm to anything, you never know… OK, back to readin’ and internettin’. All y’all take care. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/138 "2021-02-18T03:15:35Z")
Add me to the list of those concerned for our southern Mumpers. My Louisiana sister says if they lose power, she’s SOL, as the roads are impassable. She grew up in Chicago, so if she says they’re impassable, they’re bad. I walked to the Catholic church (3 miles), but I was too late and too early for ashes. I can’t navigate well in the dark, so sticking around for the 5:30 Mass was not an option. It was a nice walk, though. 6 miles is pretty good for the day. We’re supposed to get rain tomorrow, so time in the sunlight was nice. I can’t do sunshine in the summer, so I really savor these sunshiny days. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I can count the number of times I’ve had grits on one hand. Why would you have them on one hand? Why not have them on both, or maybe in a bowl? 🙂 > [@Paintcharge](#): > > Whoever it was who suggested sciatica, I think you were right That would be me, but I was hoping I was wrong. Glad you’re finding relief through stretching! > [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Ash Wednesday. No caffeine. Do you get your caffeine from soda? Coffee is allowed. I asked one time. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/139 "2021-02-18T03:32:18Z")
So I got a Winter Weather Advisory (freezing rain), _and_ a Flash Flood Watch.Welcome to N.C. {{{{Shoe}}}. Hopefully you can find your documents. EEk on FiL, Mooommmm!! And I second the report thing. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950/140 "2021-02-18T03:40:20Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > > [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > > > Ash Wednesday. No caffeine. > > Do you get your caffeine from soda? Coffee is allowed. I asked one time. It’s my usual Lenten Purge of no caffeine and no alcohol. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-happy-thought-in-the-mmp/932950.md?page=8)