Let's all have a better week in the MMP

Is this the world of reality suggesting to us that hubs ribs might benefit from some ‘percussive maintenance’?

That might convince him to go to the doctor and get checked out and perhaps rib-wrapped. At least then YOU might get some sleep.

ETA: this from the Mayo Clinic suggests that rib wraps are often no longer used but it does suggest things like anti-inflammatories (because of his blood thinner meds hubs might need guidance and/or a script for appropriate meds) and ice. It also talks about the importance of breathing deeply enough so that pneumonia is avoided (being in less pain would help hubs breathe deeply). Maybe icing those ribs once or twice a night would help both of you sleep.

Broken ribs are beastly no matter what. Hugs to everybody at your house.

Hmmmmm…

At least the wicked impulse of percussive maintenance to hub’s rib gave me a giggle for my afternoon.I can be such a sh*t sometimes and I have a twisted sense of humor-move over doggio and swampy!

My coif has been tamed. It was an old-time beauty salon with the big hood dryers and they didn’t take plastic, but they did take my check. There were two older ladies getting their hair done - one getting a perm, or maybe just a set and style, the other getting color. No loud rock music, no pictures of wild hair styles, just two women who have probably been cutting hair since the last century. And she listened to me!! I think I’ll be going back there in the future.

Afterwards, I stopped in the thrift store to look for clothes for Tobias. It was 50% off everything day, so the store was crazy and the line was looooooong, but I scored 3 pairs of pants and 3 shirts for a grand total of $3.15! I’ll keep the clothes here to change him into when he gets too cruddy to take home as is. Heck, even without the sale, kids clothes are .99 each piece - kinda hard to beat!

Once home, FCD and I headed south for lunch, then a stop at his folks’ place to get his bro to sign the medical documents. I’ll be taking him to the Dr on Moanday while FCD takes his folks to see the lawyer. So I’ve got that to look forward to.

Last stop was CVS, and now we’re home again. I loaded the dishwasher and it’s sloshing away. There’s a chickie in the rotisserie which will be hacked up and frozen for future meals. And I still have to bag the pulled poke I pulled last night. But I didn’t get any of the yard work done.

Tomorrow is dermatologist appt at 10, then maybe I can get some yard work accomplished after. But the rest of tonight is mainly for chillage, methinks.

I’m tickled to have contributed to various jingle earworms! :smiling_imp:

I feel like I’ve spent all day either working on or giving presentations/instructions to people, including leading an ethics training session (required annually by my company). I’m very tired of adulting. But I just shut down both work laptops, and am about to let the doggy out, eat something, and be a couch potato until my NAACP branch’s general membership meeting starts. Tonight they’ll be announcing the slate of candidates for 2023-2025 officer positions: I’m on the list, so I figure I should attend. :wink: I don’t plan to turn my video on, though (no more adulting!).The election isn’t for three more weeks, but it’s a formality for my position: by Thanksgiving I’ll be able to call myself an “executive committee member-at-large (elect)”!

I keep forgetting to make a hair appointment for myself. I haven’t had a haircut since before the pandemic, but I’ve been thinking I might make an appointment for during the week I’m taking off. That’s coming up pretty quick, though, so I need to get to callin’. I have a very simple/basic style and have been managing alright on my own, but I’m sure the ends could use some trimming. And it would be nice to have a pro cut my bangs again! I’ll add that to my list of calls to make tomorrow.

Now, to decide what to have for dinner…

To my knowledge, it’s the only Blues Alley – at least, the only one with a national reputation. :slight_smile: But it’s definitely the place where Eva recorded her live album.

The club is now saying it will reopen on/about November 1st, which would be great! Unfortunately, the Yamaha grand piano was a total loss. I’ll be interested to see what they replace it with.

No Cleo Lane or Streisand, but add the Beach Boys and yep!

Sometimes you make it hard for me to love you… :cry:

Howdy Y’all! Been a nice day of sloth and general overall uselessness. Sup got made and et and fartfest now ensues. Actually I guess that would be more like fartfest issues.

Oopsie I have been told on more than one occasion that I am best loved from afar. This would be especially true durin’ a fartfest.

One of my favorite McDonald’s jingles…

McDonald’s Is My Kind Of Place

These are my favorite lyrics for the jingle:

McDonald’s is your kind of place!
Cheese burgers in your face!
French fries up your nose!
Pickles between your toes!
They serve ookie gloopy shakes!
Made from polluted lakes!
McDonald’s is your kind of place!

I am also fond of:

The last time that I was there,
They fried my underwear.
Told them I didn’t care.
It was a dirty pair.

Put together a new bid/estimate on a project. It’s dependent on the client getting a pandemic recovery grant from the county, so we shall see how that goes. A different client paid the deposit on something, so the wolves can shut up for a while.

I kinda have a soft spot for Barry Manilow, not his music, but I did work the debut of a musical of his. A quick google shows it’s apparently going to broadway, some 25 years later. Painted one of my favorite drops for that, it was supposed to look like a newspaper photo, so we used woven chair cane to spray paint through, giving the little dots. Back in the day painters had to get creative, now they just print stuff. Harumph, I say.

GREAT GOOGLY-MOOGLY!!! Somebody else on this planet who admires Cleo Laine (or has even heard of her, for that matter.) Several someones, in fact.

Somehow the world is a slightly brighter place now.

(Call me a heretic, but I prefer the Ray Charles/Cleo Laine version of “Porgy & Bess” to the one done by Louie Armstrong/Ella Fitzgerald.)

Evening all. Did pedal to nowhere at the gym for 70 minutes and then came home, where I have stayed for the balance of the day. Got a slight backache, don’t know if it’s from the exercise or the sitting, we’ll see. Did accomplish some nappage, and now need to fix some supper.

Have read all but absorbed little, so I’ll be more chatty tomorrow. All y’all take care.

Happy Thorsday!

It was a chilly and windy 53 degrees at the park. I wore a light jacket, because when I let the dogs out at 1am, it was nice out. I was cold at the park.
I left early because of 1) the cold and 2) Barky mom. I almost lost it on her twice this morning.
Once when she asked if I got Cerby a shock collar and I said no. I said he is doing better (he is) and she said he doesn’t seem to be any better to her. While her dogs are barking their fool heads off. I started to say, like you would know anyway.
Then a couple of us were talking about being cold, none of us were expecting it. When nobody else was around (off picking up poop) she snaps at me that maybe I should get my heavy coat out and keep it out instead of complaining about the cold.
I was so damn close to saying F’ you and going over to the small dog side with Lucy dad.
I wasn’t complaining, it was a statement of fact.

Humpy jumped on me so hard, she is a stealth jumper, and it hurt. Humpy also jumped up on a new person and startled her, and Barky/Humpy mom just laughs and says she is such a loving dog.
Barky and Humpy barked so damn much that nobody could talk.
I have just had enough.
All they do is bark bark bark, and she defends it.
Her dogs just want to play; your dog shouldn’t be hiding under the table.
If two dogs are playing, it’s her dog’s job to referee. Her dog is so kind, she doesn’t want another dog to get hurt.
What the F’ ever.

Cerby went on the small side with Echo and Ripple. He barked a lot because he wanted to be with her.
At least he shuts up when I tell him to.

Cerby is going upstairs now. Echo lets him. I think I liked it better when he stayed downstairs. He is like a whirlwind; I don’t even see him coming. Every time I roll over, he is there beside the bed demanding attention.

I think my downspout got replaced. I suppose I should have stuck my head outside and looked, but I hate opening the front door. The dogs get excited and I don’t want to deal with that today.

Ripple is sick, so he isn’t doing much of anything. He was fine at the park, but I noticed he got a bit quiet. I thought it was because of Barky and Humpy, he gets very quiet and clingy when they bark. He was pretty slow walking out of the park. By the time we got home, you could see he wasn’t feeling well. Probably an episode of shar pei fever. I had to force an aspirin in him, he wouldn’t even eat a Vienna sausage. I hate forcing a pill in him, shar pei fever makes their jaw hurt and I know forcing it is painful.
He seemed to feel better for a while, then I could see the droopiness starting again. More aspirin for him.

Have to agree with you Swampy on Barry Manilow, just no. Neil Sedaka, Paul Anka, and Perry Como too.

Welcome back Sticky

I hope you feel better soon Taters

and Mr JtC too

I’ll be so happy when the elections are over. I very seldom get snail mail, and I have been getting a ton from everybody running. Especially the one I can’t stand, I have to wonder how many trees has he killed sending out all this crap.
Then there are the emails, text messages, and phone calls. I got those for both Washington County and Anne Arundel County. And I get stuff in my mother’s name too.

sari, it really sounds like Cerby is doing well with you. I’m with you: Barky / Humpy Mom needs to eff off.

Welcome back sticky!

teela, here in Tennessee, campaign signs have to be a minimum of 100’ from the polling place. In the past, I’ve assisted with putting said signs up at 12:01am with the local DP.

Irked, dogparked and et. Found out my printer has more issues… :angry: Egads! I thought I had it fixed a week ago and now I can’t print from Excel, although I can print a test page. Oy!

I have an 0900 appointment with the PCP tomorrow, so fasting for the bloodwork shall commence shortly.

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

Waves hand in agreement. Me three!

One of my sister’s children could do no wrong and she hated me because I didn’t want her kids in my home because something got broke every single time they were. “It’s not their fault, they were only playing.” Of course she was right, it wasn’t the kids fault they didn’t know how to behave , it was HER fault for not teaching them.

At least you are trying with Cerby (and it sounds like progress is being made every day). Barkie’s mom? Not so much.

I am also in the I’m so sick of political ads camp, but I did bring some of it on myself by getting reserved tickets for a couple of The Fat Guy’s rallys and that required a phone number. I’ve been thinking about getting a burner for that sort of nonsense.

The man who lost his leg was up and moving today. They can’t fit him with a prosthetic one yet so he jumping around with the aid of a walker to keep him from falling over. Their financial situation sounds to be a little better, she thanked me for my advice as to applying for cash and food assistance but I used to work on the other side of that desk and I know she isn’t getting much. I sure hope propane stops going up, I’m fairly sure we will be filling their tank again.

When my BFF came over for her produce box, she couldn’t see the miscounted area on the piece I am doing for her even after I pointed it out, so I’m not ripping it out. I might go back and overstitch a few things but not tonight.

Hmmm, did anyone notice that I sound kinda stoned…that’s because I am very stoned. Hubs now has a really weird ridge running up his chest, right under his bypass scar. He says it has always been there. I say I look at his naked chest more often then he does. He says its nothing.

I know that he was strapped down and his chest was opened up like an Aztec sacrifice but after the priests stopped his heart and had their way with it for a while, they shoved everything back in and closed his rib cage with metal staples while starting his heart again. That was almost 20 years ago, I am positive that his rib cage has healed AND he still has the extra metal reinforcements. I really don’t think it is possible for him to have broken his sternum open but of course I’m fretting.

Scratch that idea about percussive maintenance on his ribs then.

It’s not possible, right? Those bones have to have knitted by now, right?

I had my surgery on Monday, and got released on Tuesday. My sliced open abdomen makes moving painful, laparascopic surgery notwithstanding. As per usual when I get prescribed pain killers, they did sweet eff-all for me. I switched over to ibuprofen.

I just want to not be in pain again.

Oh, ouch. I can still remember the amazing amount of pain I was in after I had my tubes tied. I only had one stitch, how could that possibly hurt so much?!?!

Have someone get you a reacher grabber thing so you don’t have to bend over if you drop something on the floor.

Does misery really love company? I’m going under he knife on Halloween. I loathe the usual painkillers, which make me itch.

We can absolutely be miserable together.

Painkillers often didn’t work on mom - including novocaine. I inherited that. Yay me!!! They prescribed me Hydrocodone. Might as well be sugar pills.

At least the surgeon thought he got everything out.

Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave. WB is off today, so I may be at the 200 slide. Or they may send me over there after it’s FUBAr, and expect me to clean it up.

Remind me of the Bloom Coun ty where Opus had a dream where an axe wielding Ronald McDonald was chasing him around screaming
“MCPENGUIN BURGERS!
EXTRA LETTUCE!
SPECIAL ORDERS DON’T UPSET US!”
:hamburger: :penguin:

sari, sounds like you’re the right person for Cerby. And hope Ripple feels better. < skritches >

I’m in the same boat(skin biopsies on the head are fun when you can feel them!). Hope you stop hurting soon.

Too bad I’m not closer, I have a rubber mallet, bungee cords, and a hand truck. We could get him checked out without him objecting. :wink:

Woke stupid early, then drifted in and out for a couple of hours. Probably my own fault for going to bed so early last night, but I was tahred! Gotta break the stoopit sleep cycle, tho.

Dermatologist today is the only gotta-do. After that, we shall see. I got the rotissed chickie dismembered and into freezer bags last night, but I still need to divide the batch of pulled poke - guess that’s on today’s agenda.

Onward, then! Happy Firday!!