(Old) A Good Read in the MMP

i still laugh over the reaction to “high school cheerleaders”. a great series.

i don’t read horror, but i do read thriller. preston and child, rollins, reilly. lots of cozy mysteries, andrews is my favourite. nora roberts, jd robb, jayne krentz, jayne castle, linda howard are writers i have in physical books. i always get the latest.

usually history and biographies in non fiction, sometimes science.

this weekend i mostly puttered, read, and watched some videos. i started a cozy series by dawn eastman. i’m on book 3 of 4.

I arrived a tad earlier than their 15-minute-before-your-appointment time because I had a bill to pay. My 10AM appointment became a whole minute with the doctor at 10:30. I literally could have called it in. She did order a 90-day supply of my meds with enough refills to get me thru a year, and she doesn’t need to see me again till next August, so I need to put a reminder in Outlook.

I made a quick stop at WalMart, then dropped off some books at the library. FCD called and said his mom wants to go to Penney’s, but when I got home and asked her, she said no. She’s crashed on the couch right now, talking in her sleep. We did find out that we’re supposed to call Hospice when she falls, so now we know.

I cleaned the kitchen floor - it was kinda gross, but now it’s not. Shortly, I should be able to put everything back in there. And I found out the Mastercard portal is being upgraded and it should be available at the end of the week. So I guess I must be patient. Dammit.

My book order has shipped. That’s pretty much all the excitement here.

Why do I have to tell a grown woman not to empty the bathroom garbage with urine pads into my kitchen trash can???

WHY???

Filled out my paperwork.
I come in Wednesday; I am to memorize the menu.
Off to get strawberries and tomatos.
Took my bp at a Higi station. Its off, as it said 99 over 70.
My at home one said 114/74 a few days ago.
The higher amlodipine is working!
Weight 147. Not bad for 5’10".
Dr. Appointment tomorrow and then more casting at dentist.

Today I am doing Meatless Monday and hope to continue. You’d think I had been asked to prep for a colonoscopy. I’m acting like there is no food I can eat. For lunch I had a grilled cheese with tomato. That is a perfectly fine lunch but I’m feeling deprived. Get over yourself Peedin.

Tonight will be spinach and ricotta mini tortellinis with pesto sauce and an ear of corm.

Because she has dementia, as far as I can tell. Her memory and thinking are impaired. It’s a rough time for everyone and I’m sorry it’s stretching out so long.

Thanks for starting the thread, boo fae! I’m constantly reading - on good days, it’s literature and on bad days it’s Reddit AITA threads. I used to be a literature snob (no doubt from the insecurity of being the only one in the family who didn’t finish college), but nowadays it’s almost anything.

Coppertone, I always intend to read nonfiction, but half the time, I get about two chapters in and then abandon it. I check out almost all my books from the library and read them on Kindle, so I don’t have them laying around chastising me.

Right now, I’m alternating between mysteries and literary fiction. I’m not snobby about genre fiction anymore, but a lot of it, especially series, has way too much bald exposition in it for my taste (“Her meticulously kept apartment, which she had inherited after she solved her Aunt Ginny’s mysterious death the previous year and which she shared with her on-and-off boyfriend Hal, a gifted detective on the Murder Squad…”). I’ll read a few of those and then dive into a better-written book as a palate cleanser. Some of the genre ones are really well-written, of course. Tana French’s books are great, and I’ve just finished “The Hunter.”

Hippie, I first read “The Godfather” as a Reader’s Digest Condensed Book when I was probably too young. I remember how surprised I was by all the graphic sex when I read the unabridged original book! The same thing happened with “Jaws.”

Nettie, are you giving Buddy a treat every time he responds to the Tile? It sure sounds like you have him mostly trained!

Cookie, I was very sorry to hear about Q’itih. It’s utterly unfair that our little guys don’t have longer lifespans, and knowing you gave her a great life doesn’t make it hurt any less. Maybe a neighbor could use the supplies, although I’m sure neither you nor the missus is in a mood to go around asking.

On the subject of “The Milagro Beanfield War,” since John Nichols was a New Mexican, we read it in high school and I’ve read it again since. One of the principals I worked for was Nichols’ son-in-law, and when I found that out and he realized what a fan I was, he mentioned that to his father-in-law, who inscribed several paperbacks for me, so I’ve also read many of his other books now.

WetOne, when my brother and I cleared out my mom’s house, I let go of an entire box of worn Christie paperbacks, all of which I’d read at least once. Now, 14 years on, I find myself regretting that.

Sticky_Buns, have you read Joanna Fluke’s mysteries? They won’t win any literary awards, but they’re fun light reads.

Flyboy, I’m glad Wifey, RN is following up on the lesions. Fingers crossed that she’ll decide her gut deserves a little attention as well!

FCM, you’re a saint for hanging in there. I cleaned puddles off the bathroom floor for four years because no one was up to asking a very old man to sit to pee, so I have absolutely no advice about dealing with pee pads in kitchen trash.

We had an exceptionally tough week. Mr. Legend’s oldest friend died from a heart attack on Monday. Mr. L texted him to say happy birthday and ask him to lunch, and his daughter called with the news after she saw the text on his phone. They became friends in junior high, he was the best man at our wedding, we were godparents to each other’s kids, and we were there when he went into liver failure and had a transplant decades ago. We didn’t see him all that often, especially since covid hit, but when he found out about Mr. L’s cancer, he got into the habit of calling him periodically and taking him out for lunch to cheer him up now and then. It’s hitting us very hard. I got out some old photos, but Mr. L isn’t ready to reminisce quite yet.

Didn’t occur to me to do so, since his responding to it was so unexpected. I’d probably better not, though. Boy’s getting chonky.

Nice story. I’ve never laughed so hard at the written word as I did with that book. The whole interlude between the Americorps (I think) worker and the girl he was trying to have sex with had me in tears.

MIL fell again, this time in the kitchen. She hit pretty hard on her left shoulder. That’s 3 falls since Saturday morning…

Meanwhile, we got our replacement credit cards and I started to set up the autopay accounts. They were declined, so I need to straighten that out. Always something. Dammit. It can wait till tomorrow - I can’t deal tonight.

I prefer history books, specifically about WWII Pacific war. Usually get Kindle versions because they aren’t commonly carried in local book stores.

I used to read a lot more nonfiction books as well but I haven’t read as such lately.

Good news is that my temperature has remained lower for 20 hours now. Maybe I can get clearance to pack up today.

School starts next week and I had anticipated using this week to prepare for classes. I let them know I may have to cancel classes the first week.

I’m still in kind of a daze.

That’s pretty close to my reading faves, except that I’m usually up for a well written kid’s book.

It was a busy, but sleepy day at irk today. Now I’m home and chilling.

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

Currently I’m re-reading The Conquest of Gaul for one hour a day when the fuzzbutts are napping so I can pay attention. It’s the only way I can keep my Latin because it has never really been useful in my life and I certainly don’t use it now.

It is not my favorite book.

My favorite book is The Call of Cluthlu and I just adore all of the tribute works. The Mountains of Madness is my favorite short story. My favorite movie is tied between the Re-animator and the original Heavy Metal. I’d really like to see a performance of Rocky Horror Picture Story again, but I doubt that is in the cards without driving to Charleston and I don’t drive after dark anymore.

Hubs went to the water company and they agreed that a thousand gallons a day did seem a little excessive, so they are sending someone out to read the meter again tomorrow. Hubs also called the window people with the rest of our questions and the one we picked was the one who would take the longest to start working.

We aren’t thrilled with that, because we want all this done, but it is what it is.

Bella is still in heat and I have called a local vet to make an appointment. As the bloodwork I want done isn’t that common, the receptionist said she would need to check with the vet before scheduling. It seems as though they will have to send her blood to a different lab and we won’t have the results for five days.

Sometimes I’m not a big fan of being patient.

One of the younger generation reached out to me today and asked if I could help her learn how to embroider. Of course I agreed right away and we discussed logistics and then I asked how she knew I stitched because we hadn’t talked about it.

Her reply made me pretty verklempt. Unbeknownst to me, Hubs has been sharing pics of my work for years!!!

She said she was worried about asking me because she didn’t want me to think she was stupid but once she met me in person she knew that I was nice enough to not be mean about it. She just didn’t want to ask in front of the crowd because that would be rude.

I never knew. I really had no idea that he even cared about my work, he never asked or admired it unless I showed something to him so he knew he had to say nice things.

Are eggs considered to be meat?

Mom on phone again, bbl.

I thoroughly enjoyed the link you posted for the SF short story. I’m making a bookmark! In the past I was an avid reader of SF (Heinlein, Niven, etc) but lately I’ve been reading more haunting stuff “A Riveting Haunted House Mystery Series” on Amazon.

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I’ve always been a reader. I have three main “things”: music, words, and language. All for as long as I can remember – e.g., reading at a 2nd-grade level when I was in kindergarten. I’m mostly a contemporary fiction person, and if I had to name a favorite genre it would probably be legal/police thrillers: my favorite author was P.D. James, and I’m currently 18 books into the Chief Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny (#19 comes out in two months!). So, I enjoy the whole John Grisham/Scott Turow/Michael Connelly/David Baldacci/Patricia Cornwell/James Patterson shebang, and I’m a fan of J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith (as well as herself). But I also love Stephen King and his son Joe Hill, I’ve read all of the Dresden Files books (and some other fantasy), and for a long time I was a huge Dean Koontz fan. A while back Koontz’s books started leaving me feeling “meh,” but my all-time-favorite book is still Watchers.There are many books I love, from various genres.

Right now I’m reading What’s Next, a nonfiction “backstage pass to The West Wing” that was just released last week (written by two actors from the show, Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack). I’m a Wingnut – the nickname for superfans – so I’m enjoying it.

Yesterday afternoon I got a bee in my bonnet and did some Lego-based furniture rearranging. The 3BR 1BA single-level house I rent has a small eat-in kitchen, and I’d recently started toying with the idea of putting some display shelves in there. But doing so wouldn’t leave much room to actually use the kitchen table, so I decided to try some rearranging first. It involved moving lots of books, a set of glass shelves, and a big glass curio cabinet (full of the Swarovski crystal figurines I’ve collected over the years) between the LR, kitchen, and home office; then, I moved all of the completed Lego sets that were on the home office bookcase to the set of glass shelves (newly in the LR). The whole endeavor took somewhere around 90 minutes, but a chunk of that time was spent cleaning the curio cabinet shelves and contents for the first time in several years. I’m happy with the new location of the cabinet – the contents get more light, and now can be viewed from the sides – and am very happy to see everything inside it clean and sparkly again! Anyway, now all of my assembled Lego sets are in the LR and there’s room for a few new ones…which is good timing, because my staycation is just 3 weeks away. :grin:

I hope he’s recovering well!

I’ve driven faster than that.

( :smiley: )

Yay! :tada:

Ooooo, thank you for sharing: my nephew’s GF is into both Lego and puzzles, and now I’m wondering if she might like one of those for Christmas. :slight_smile:

I sooooo know the feeling! I decided to get tough with myself about how much snacking I do, starting today, and it’s ridiculous how strong my craving for chips and cookies is right now. Sigh. I know from experience that it will pass after a few days, but…why, brain?!?

Oh no! Oh, I’m so sorry.

:crossed_fingers: !

That’s just so sweet!

Howdy Y’all! Home from men’t night over to the church house. We had a good crowd, and as usual, solved all the world’s problems. Of course, no one ever listens to us, so the world’s problems remain. HARUMPH! One of the guys used RDOS in describin’ his day today. I had forgotten that I had enlightened the group on the term a few months back. Made me smile, especially cause most everybody knew what RDOS means.

Nettie* that could be a good thing that Buddy associates the sound with “get your furry rump home, now.”

Hippie the mental image of the look on that nun’s face gave me the giggles.

MOOOOOOM it does my heart good to know your grandmother did her part in corruptin’ your innocent youth.

Cookie sorry daughter canceled on you, but yay for plague restrictions bein’ lifted.

MetalMouse you should call the hearin’ aid folk and say real loud, WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH MY HEARING AIDS! and when they respond say, WHAT??? I CAN’T HEAR BECAUSE i DON’T HAVE MY HEARING AIDS! The idea of that amuses me greatly. Now I see you have an appointment. Go in and say I’M HEAR FOR MY HEARING AIDS! and then when they say stuff to you, say WHAT??? I CAN’T HEAR A THING WITHOUT MY HEARING AIDS! I would still be amused.

Coppertone hope this job works out for ya. You deserve a break.

Legend so sorry about hubby’s best friend. It’s always such a shock when a good friend goes like that.

JtC how cool that a member of the younger generation of hub’s fam reached out to you to learn embroidery!

Not complaining. :slight_smile:

Up from naptime, having an Old Fashioned, cheeseburger and fries. I need to give Spot a good brushing, he’s starting to shed out his summer coat.
Spot: “I DO NOT SHED, I EMIT MAGICAL FIBERS OF JOY!”

When he walks on the couch, does he leave impact craters like Spot?

< crosses fingers >

I’m sorry.

“He’s never done anything illegal…UNLESS YOU COUNT ALL THE TIMES HE SOLD DOPE DRESS AS A NUN!”

Awwww.

The doctor was seen and wounds examined. Questions were asked and answered.

If the test results come back clean tomorrow then I can be freed.

I like Japanese food. I like Japanese food typically served at home a not restaurants.

But I’m not particularly food of brandish Japanese hospital food with rice three meals a day.

I’ll often cook rice for breakfast for the family but I’ll have cereal or toast. I finally resorted to having SenWife bring me some melon bread and such. I also had her sneak in some coffee.