Let's all have a better week in the MMP

Winnie [Whinny] the Pooh.

The bonked lip is only a tiny bit swelled, to my relief. Someone who isn’t as familiar with my face as I am probably wouldn’t even notice. :slight_smile:

Doing lots of laundry to get the sweaters freshened up and ready for winter wear. Buddy seems to view closet cleanout with some suspicion. Pretty sure Allie’s hiding under some furniture. Poor Buddy won’t be able to hang out in the dryer for a while, since it’s going to be busy.

Otherwise, the closet’s doing a lot better. Gotta plan a trip to the thrift store to drop some donations. I had no idea I had that many old purses I’m not using, and since I dislike switching bags unnecessarily, I really don’t need spares that no longer suit my needs anyway. Also decided to face reality about some outgrown jeans. If/when I get back down to those sizes, I can buy more then, no need to clutter up the closet with unwearables.

The physical therapist says my fingers are improving. I haven’t been wearing my splints, and he wants me to. He says I’ve been doing a good job on the exercises. (Imagine if I was doing them four times a day like I’m supposed to!)

Laundry progresses. I’m already discovering I shouldn’t need more dark green turtlenecks for a while :slight_smile: .

Did manage to find DH’s missing torque wrench, in a storage bin in the closet (must have seemed reasonable at the time), and I can now easily lay hands on our blacklight.

Buddy has decided that the top of a 6-foot bookcase is a great kitty hangout. Little furry weirdo. :slight_smile:

At least FedEcchs got my Target delivery to me on time. Let’s hope OnTrac does as well tomorrow. Let’s also hope Amazon will at some point stock DH’s Sqwincher again (I haven’t been able to get that Subscribe & Save for a month or two now). I do have alternate sources, but it’s still a pain.

Judging by how fast the litterbox needed scooping, the cats are having an excretion contest.

From last week’s MMP:

That’s a good idea. I might have to try that, the onliest problem would be the beachball that some miscreant seems to have glued to the front of my body.

I’ve been in cognito since Firday and just got caught up, for some values of ‘caught up’. We went to the valley and just got home last night and decided to leave the laptop at home.
We were supposed to go to a big deal charity auction for the cultural center back there. It’s the one thing we wanted to keep doing ‘cause Wifey was instrumental in getting and keeping that project going. (Except that they’ve been messing with the format lately, but that’s another story.)
Anyway, since we were going to the valley anyway, we scheduled a visit to Gibbs’ old vet, and a trip to his old groomer 'cause we know she’d make allowances for his health issues.
Well, we did a Costco visit as well as the veterinarian on Saturday, and all the walking around wiped Wifey out and we ended up not going to the auction. It was a costume ball this year, which didn’t thrill us anyway. We keep nice clothes around for various occasions but costumes are not something we have closet space for in a tiny house.
Sonday we went to TJ’s while Gibbs was getting shorn and purtified and came home. Got here about 9pm.
Had to turn on the heat when we got in! :scream:
Today all I need to do is find someplace to put all the stuff we bought over the weekend. Mostly foodstuffs.

Hope everybody who’s sickly gets well soonest and all y’all keep on keepin’ on.
Have a great week.

That should say MissRed in my quote and does in my preview. I don’t know why Discourse did that.

My son is embarrassed
I’m not embarrassed.

I called unemployment and sat on hold.
I’m sitting and waiting and waiting and waiting and finally somebody answers and I hear (what I thought was a recording) ‘The unemployment office closes at 4, please call back tomorrow.’
I look at the clock and it is 4:01.
I’m pissed because I have been waiting and listening to the stupid music and the stupid messages that repeated over and over.
I said, F YOU C, only the real words
It was a real person, not a recording.
Ooops.
Sorry, not sorry.
She laughed anyway.

My son is driving me nuts. I told him to get his ballot filled out because I am mailing mine tomorrow when I send my taxes. So, he had to go over the entire ballot with me, looking everybody up and discussing everything. I just did all that and I didn’t want to hear it again.

Everything was a pita to get done today.
You can’t imagine how many people can’t spell Cerberus. I am thankful that is what was on all the records. Nobody can spell Cerberlicious, although one person thought it was cute.
Still waiting for daycare and physical therapy to call me back.

I feel like I got something accomplished.

I now know where the mystery $99 from SS originated. Apparently they’d miscalculated what FCD was due each month and they made up for it with that deposit. I had to adjust our budget spreadsheet to reflect the new amount - a whopping $11 extra per month!! WOOHOO!!!

The smoked chickie is yum! Some was ingested, some is in the freezer, some is in the fridge to be converted into chickie salad. We ate early because we were hungry - OMG - before you know it, we’ll be having supper at 3!!!

Time for chillage.

That was scary nellie!

metal mouse, when my Uncle Charles shaved his beard for his second wedding, his youngest daughter (with 4 kids of her own) didn’t remember him without a beard and the grandkids had never seen him clean shaven.

JtC, GG cracks me up.

Happy Diwali!

Flashed, came home, walked the dog and et. Such excitement!

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

when most favorite cat of all was first found and nursed back to life I didn’t have a pair of glasses at that time since mine were lost and awaiting replacement …well 8 weeks later kitten was way better and I had my glasses and when I came in wearing them and picked up kitten for hellos she was pissed because I had glasses on and she did not like them at all on her servants

So for most of the rest of her life spent a lot of her time making sure in any way she could devise I wasn’t wearing those glasses including hiding the wire frame pair in her " super secret stash" spot (where she hid pens, paperclips, cat toys, and even bits of food she snitched, etc) where she was sure I couldn’t find them … the look of shock and disappointment when I did …

She liked when I had a beard growing because she loved to rub up against it and would clean and didn’t care for the stubble/ 5 o clock shadow I have even after I shave

nighty that’s a cute story.

Rain is predicted aaaaalllll day tomorrow. Blech.

Howdy Y’all! Da cave got spiffed, sloth etc got accomplished and sup got fixed and et. Instead of sallit, I decided on bacon wrapped spareguts cooked in the oven. Instead of cheesey garlic bread, I decided to make cheddar bay bizkits. Good choices. Now we commence evenin’ sloth.

Nettie glad you didn’t hurt your face too bad.

Nellie hope all went well with the itch doc. Weird sounds in the dark make most folks jumpy. When I am by myself and in the kitchen, I jump if’n the ice maker decides to dump ice. I never notice that sound unless I am alone.

shades how ever did you discover kitty’s super secret stash? You must be some kind of detective genius!

Itch doc went OK. She wants me to get the shots every 2 weeks but said insurance will squawk, so we’ll have to see. I’m just about out of options if insurance refuses.

I am SO frustrated about this stupid PRC test. Since I can’t drive, I really needed the test to be in my town. Every single place here, including the county health department, says it takes up to 3 days to get results. Surgery is Monday, so that’s a no-go. (Also, I have no car, and all the sites are drive-up only.) And I can’t have the test earlier than Friday. Surgeon’s office said without the results, surgery will be cancelled. They insist I go to their facility in another city 40 miles from here. That’d be 4 bus rides, with walking in between, or a $100 Uber fare each way. I finally found a friend who can take me. Why does everything have to be so complicated? [Stomps foot and sulks.]

I’m off to the gym to burn off some petulance.

That just sux. If I lived near you, I would drive you.

I got this year’s version of the ‘Jack Skellington’ jack-o-lantern carved. None of them have been as good as the first one.

The Spousal Unit carved her first jack-o-lantern last year. She’s not inclined to carve one this year, so it’s up to me. I guess I’ll do it; though it will be a much simpler, more traditional design.

Crazy day at the 2gig home - after living here for six years I am finally in a position to replace the gravel / grass / mud driveway with asphalt. A local company had dropped off an advertisement last week, so I decided to give them a call. This was 12:30 this afternoon.

The lady at the office took my info and said an estimator would call me back. He did so 30 seconds later.

I tell him what I want and where I live. He says “I’m doing a job right around the corner, can you meet me?” Five minutes later we’re out front discussing what I want.

He says “What’s your timetable?” “Anytime.” “How about today?” “Sure, what’s the price?”

He tells me and it’s not too bad. It was 20% off because the machinery was already nearby. I had a quote a few years ago and I’m asking for more so I am comfortable with it. We shake hands.

“Go ahead and move your cars.”

Ten minutes later a grader rolls up. It didn’t come on a trailer, he wasn’t kidding it WAS local.

By 2:30 the paving machine was in the driveway and the first dump truck of asphalt had arrived. By 4pm they were done other than cleanup and by 4:30 they were gone. All on a handshake.

Weird day.

Evening, all. Just spent the last couple of days not getting selected for jury duty. Two days of driving into the anus of California, Southern Section to sit on an uncomfortable bench while they called and questioned everybody but me and a couple of others. Wouldn’t have served, anyway, as I had some serious problems with being objective. Both ways. Both Prosecution and Defense would have rightly bounced my ass in a heartbeat.

Bought half my Halloween supply today. A quick trip to Smart & Final on Saturday will top up the bowls. Doing my best to be the “Weird Guy Who Gives Great Candy.”

Thanks for the reminder that I need to get some Halloween candy. We’ve seen trick-or-treaters ONCE in the ten years we’ve lived here, but the way my life goes, the one year I don’t get candy, they’ll swarm me.

Up from naptime. Making bacon chesseburgers with Bojangles seasoned fried and an Old Fashioned.

I’m thinking the new PM will push Elections up to the legal limit. Assuming he last long enough to make it till they can a vote of No Confidence.

Indeed.

Yay!

Glad the fingers are better, Flyboy. Just in time to rent a wood splitter for the fireplace wood. :wink:
And I do like the Jack O’Laternes.