You can dwell upstairs where there are windows and the conveniences (mostly) of modern living and just spend lots of playtime in the basement (the Wi-Fi is surprisingly good down there). Please bring the dog, I could use some unconditional pet affection-my cats are so aloof.
Save room for me and my foibles, sundry and messy as they are.
PM me forthwith as soon as you figure this out. I’m tired of being tired yet awake too soon.
There’s a Mumper concert:
Headliner - “Me & My Foibles”
Opening - “Sundry & Messy”
Well, the call was quicker and less painful than I expected. Basically making sure that all of our documentation was in place, which it mostly was.
In the absence of Mrs W’s non-existent employment letter, they will calculate an annuitized income based on our retirement funds already in place, even if we don’t plan to dip into those funds yet to pay the mortgage. It sounds like we’re headed for an approval after all, but it’s not quite the slam-dunk it would otherwise have been.
Anyway, she said we’ll know within a week, so if it’s a no, we still have time to try other lenders.
I feel much better than I did, but damn, this is a stressful process!
I read a post in another thread that referenced an article that mentioned ‘Friday’. I wondered if it were Friday in Ukraine, but quickly remembered they’re 9 or 10 hours ahead of us (depending on DST). Eventually I looked at the clock on my computer, and it really is Friday. I woke up this morning thinking it was Thursday.
El Jefe says we’re closing at 15:00 today for Good Friday. Since I start work about 06:15 and log off around 15:15, I may just log off at 14:00 or so.
I went to the supermarket the other day, and looked at hams for Easter dinner. They were all too big for the two of us (as usual), but what struck me were the prices. They seemed very expensive for the spiral-cut ones. The non-spiral cut hams cost about half as much. I mentioned it to Wifey, and she asked ‘Why ham for Easter?’ I told her, ‘Tradition.’ She asked, ‘Why is it tradition?’ I said it’s because everyone does it. I suggested I could pick up a couple of lamb steaks, but she said she doesn’t like lamb. I could go to Trader Joe’s for one of their hams, but this morning I decided I’ll make chiles relleno.
Before work: “I love all people and just wanna make everyone happy!”
After work: “Oh, just 
off.”
So the late Air was late. As in, they were still unloading it when the package cars and pigs were leaving the yard. So after we labeled it, we had to cross out the labels, and scan it as late arriving. THEN we got to do the rewraps and overgoods. And one of my coworkers found a bad full of slashed open phone boxes hidden in a bag in the empty bag trailer. Somebody’s getting switched from Brown to orange soon. Then I did grocery shopping, since Yuengling was on sale. i got the last three in the store. I guess all the frickin’ Cary Yinzers bought the rest, since they can’t get IC Light for their Easter dinnerdrunken family brawls.
Get us one near the fire and brimstone. I’ll bring s’mores fixins’.
After 30 years in retail:
Before work: “Oh, just off.”
After work: “Oh, just off, and the horse you rode in on.”
I’ll bring Alex Catt, too. She’s weirdly affectionate. But she’s also probably a narcoleptic five toed sloth in a cat suit.
Happy Firday!
It was an annoying 39 degrees at the park this morning.
Yesterday was 68 degrees.
We are supposed to have more mornings in the 30s for the next few days.
Mother Nature is plucking my nerves. I had to turn the heat back on this morning.
Echo got out of the yard this morning, into the neighbor’s yard to go after a possum. Fortunately for the possum, once she thinks it’s dead, she leaves it alone.
I saw the black and white cat walking across the alley yesterday. From the look of his hind legs, he is old. I’m surprised he can jump to the window ledge.
No idea what is going on with my mother, she has no idea. She gets conflicting information and it seems like there is a communication breakdown between the various doctors.
I’m trying to keep up with y’all, but everybody is so very very busy.
For me everything is SSDD.
Nice quilt Hippie.
Dicy, the spritz was of the floral type, it makes me a bit queasy. I don’t handle fake smells very well.
I miss Ruble too. He was such a good and entertaining guy.
It’s Good Friday, and I’m missing my mom. She was a very compassionate person, and her religious beliefs were deep and sincere, so every Good Friday she got depressed because people crucified Jesus. Knowing this, I always called her on Good Friday afternoon. I miss those calls. I miss knowing she’s on this earth.
However, her general philosophy of life (and favorite Bible verse) was, “This is the day the Lord has made. Let us be glad and rejoice in it.” In honor of Mom, I’ll be glad and rejoice in today.
My oven is fixed, and my furnace wasn’t broken after all. It turns out that it works just like the heat in my classroom all those years: the thermostat only registers the temp of the air immediately surrounding it, so it “thinks” the room is warmer than it is. That’s why my students were so cold, they frequently wore coats and even gloves to class. I just made it a point to keep moving. 
OK, Mumpers, anybody make traditional ethnic Easter dishes? Usually I make calzone di Pasqua or Italian Easter cookies, but we had Easter dinner last Saturday, and my DIL, who’s Italian on her dad’s side, brought pastiere (a lattice pie with a sweet ricotta, farro, and custard filling) and the traditional (though not to me) pane di Pasqua, so I’m not making my stuff this year. I love to hear about others’ traditions, though!
sari, I hope you and your mom get some answers soon. Why don’t docs communicate with each other? It’s mystifying. And ick to groomers using floral cologne on dogs. Clean dog is a nice smell on its own.
Does this mean someone’s going to be wearing orange prison garb? I’m slow on the lingo.
flyboy, glad you have a full tank. And I read once that ham got to be traditional here in the US because it was ready after being cured over the winter, but there must be more to it, as lamb is traditional in Europe, and they cured hams, too. (“Arise and walk, oh ham!”)
Wheelz, glad you survived the dip in the house-buying roller coaster!
A message from El Jefe:
Good Friday greetings, good people:
Apparently, the Puget Sound Business Journal is returning to its pre-Covid form. We have once again been nominated as a “Best Places to Work” in the small business category. Yahoo Yippee! Woot! Woot!
On Monday, the PSBJ and its contractor, Quantum Workplace, will be emailing a survey to all of us to see what you think of working here. Presumably, it will be like the 2020 version where they ask various questions about [my workplace] as a workplace and compare us in some manner to other like sized businesses. Please take a few minutes to answer the questions and submit the survey. (Of course, when you get to the question that asks “Is your boss a butt?”, please check N/A.
“Eternity is a ham and two people.” - Dorothy Parker
We are not very traditional I guess. My girls decided on Chicken Parmesan
Ham used to be the traditional Easter meal at my Catholic home, these days it’s whatever I feel like eating.
Swimmin’ is done and I also picked up my new glasses on the way, so adjusting to them although the changes in my eye were minor. Need to get my park walk in and thinking about going to the local HS soccer game, kids from our league wearing their uniforms will get in free tonight. Since rain is expected most of the day tomorrow, it might be the only soccer action we get. Made it to 77F today.
flyboy, I think I would like your boss.
{nellie}. Know you had a good mom, I can see it in her daughter…
shoe, as doggio noted, such is life in retail…
That’s how I took it; I suspect there are cameras most everywhere in the place, so they probably I’D.'ed the perps already.
Wheelie, glad things apparently are working out for you.
OK, need to do my Firday Sudoku’s and Jumble’s to keep the brain activity going. All y’all take care.
We’re deep into this mortgage pain now. We were supposed to be signing documents on Part 1 of this whole funding procedure today or Monday. Today they asked for documents from the IRS that we can’t provide because the IRS sucks (short version). I think we’ll end up going with a different lender, but my chest hurts. Panic attack is perched on my shoulders just waiting to swoop in.
So true. Have a 
. I am and we can 
.
Not Fireball? (Oh, please, not Fireball.)
These sound delicious.
This is true. 
I’m just feeling wiped out from the stuff with the house and the stuff with Akiko and just life. 'Beamette is going back into the hospital for a week. COVID set her back and hopefully repeating her last treatment will get her back on track. I’m trying to get organized for that. I need to finish the income taxes, which won’t be too bad, if I don’t jinx myself just for saying that.
Take care everyone and Happy Friday!
nellie, growing up a choir kid in the RC parish, I can’t count how many versions of Psalm 118 that we tried whenever it was the psalm reading. I can still sing most of them.
As for traditional Easter fare, we generally went with ham, after a meatless lent. Asparagus was generally also on the menu, since the patch in the garden was producing that time of year. Mom always liked to do scalloped potatoes with the ham and the molded Easter lamb cake covered with coconut (I scraped the icing off because…blecccchhhhh…shredded coconut), egg shaped cookies and the candy from the plastic aigs that had been hidden for us kids. Oh, yeah, deviled aigs were always the appetizer.
As an adult, I’ve done ham or lamb with various sides when entertaining. With the exception of the past two years, my heathen group has a spring pic-a-nic on Easter, complete with aig hunt and games for the kids. The food tends to range from quickly purchased from the supermarket to healthy vegan stuff. I’ll be deviling aigs for Sunday.
And… we just got a call from the escrow company about signing tomorrow. Apparently the re-fi is closing tomorrow? It’s like watching a tennis match played with my money. Wheeeeee
Easter food is usually roast lamb and a roast ham. I love them both. We have an Easter egg hunt for the kids, even though they aren’t so little any more. They have so much fun together. It makes me happy that they are happy. I think we’ll do the family gathering next weekend. My sister and her family managed to catch COVID.
I have snacked on some Crumbl cookie pieces and sooner or later will have to figure out dinner. Decisions, decisions.
Howdy Y’all! We got coiffed, had an early N.O,L. at LJS, procured diet Poopsies, achieved nappage, and got our second plague boosters. I was Officiant (sounds fancy don’t it!) for the Good Friday service. It went well I feel. At least the buildin’ is still standin’. I call that a win. Soonish I shall retire to the budoir. I’s tahrd!
That sounds like a good dinner for two Johnny. I’m going to be baking bread tomorrow, one the soft braided egg bread, and one dessert lemon bread. I haven’t made the latter recipe before but it looks pretty standard, like coffee cake texture, and the heavy weight molded top was a gift I haven’t used yet.
Good Friday service this evening had it’s usual solemnity. Until I was fairly grown I didn’t think of the Easter cycle as being the most important, but came to realize it is.
swampy, I hope your priest gets better. This can be a stressful time.
Howdy all. Still alive. Read all. Y’all busy. Unlike myself, I just do nothing every day. We always had ham and I want ham but it’s just me. The only way I will spring is is the meat dept can cut it in half for me. Otherwise I don’t care.
It rained here today. Nice slow rain lasting a few hours. I made tuna salad for sammies for supper. Twas good. My son and his girl are camping on the ocean and me and Buddy Boy took a ride to visit. My son uses a cast net for bait ( finger mullet) and while I was there he pulled up a baby flounder. Strange fish. All it’s organs and eyes are situated on one side of its body. This one was just a 2 inch baby. We put it back. Funny thing is we were just discussing flounder as I have a bunch of metal fish on the dining area wall and one is a flounder. My son is a fishing fanatic.
Happy weekend to everyone.
Evening all. Got my walk in and went to the High School game, good crowd for a high school soccer match, one team scored 14 seconds into the game and defended desperately for the next 80 minutes to win 1-0. Dinner was a big load of Waffle Fires with cheese and an Ice Cream Sammich for dessert, so need to work that off tomorrow. Major rain and tunder-boomers are due from 2-5am next morning, so probably should go to bed early since I’m likely to be awakened early.
Butters, glad you got to visit son and girl and had a nice time.
Not sure if that is a spelling error or not, but all things considered, not a bad name for it…
Sunny, hope things work for the best for Beamette. And best of luck to you and Wheelie on the mortgage front.
OK, probably need to be thinking about bedtime here. Legs aching some and need rest.