{{{Sticky}}}
I am so sorry to hear of this.
Afternoon all. Back from pedaling a bike to nowhere at the gym, in about an hour I’ll get dressed to go coach soccer, then some Ham-n-Cheesers for dinner, I think. Day is nice and clear, but only 60F, and it’s going to stay cool for the rest of the week. It will warm into the 70’s by next Monday, but they are predicting rain almost every day next week until Friday so whata yah gonna to do?
Sticky Buns, I grieve for your loss, but as you say, his pain is ended and I am sure your memorials to him will be special.
talkie, glad things are slowing down some, and congrats to overly boy on his graduation.
Shoe, take care, deal with the things you can deal with and you can always cry (via electronic means) with us…we have plenty of hugs left.
FCM, not sure how high your volume goes, mine is around 35 on the TV with some smaller number on the soundbar, hope it isn;t deafening the neighbors (or you).
Have taken on board a small load of calories to get me through to 7pm or so post-soccer, so will check back in this evening. Take care all.
Howdy Y’all! Things got did and we were bears who brunch. MetalMouse I had pancakes, bacon, and scrambled aigs. I was hongry! Nappage and day drinkin’ have since ensued. Now 'tis time for some Netflix and chill.
{{{StickyBuns}}} so sorry for your loss. Your father, the family, and of course, you are in my prayers. That sounds like a wonderful idea for a memorial.
I am so sorry for your loss. That sounds like a very nice memorial for him, I hope many pups will be helped.
Would she consider cordless headphones?
I went to Tai chi today and wow, did I ever need it! I brought my tablet with the house listing so I could brag to my friends and was surprised that nobody knew we were moving. I told TC friend last week, she had plenty of time to tell all and sundry. That girls falling down on the job!
After NF looked in my surplus box I took it into the library and made them give me the empty box back because it had flaps. Hubs bought a bunch of boxes yesterday, but probably not enough. I can’t really start packing because I need bubble wrap, but we should be getting a big roll of the stuff tomorrow.
Yes we are going to have movers come in, but we have a lot of small, mostly valueless but still very precious things that I want to pack myself.
I have started gathering things for our Dallas trip. I could probably start packing, GG hasn’t figured out the connection between suitcases on the bed and one or both of his slaves leaving. VBC was a smart kitty, she figured it out the second time I left for training and would turn into a clingy PITA as soon as a suitcase came in the door.
She’s nearly blind, so no. And even with the volume up, we frequently get “what did he say?” It comes with being nearly 93.
And we have cordless headphones but she doesn’t like them. If it gets too bad, I go to another room.
Laundry tomorrow - woohoo!
Yes. That is difficult.
Well, dang. The home inspection just came in, several of the deck supports and one of the house’s supports are rotting. This is very disappointing, but we will keep looking.
MusicMan is like this and he’s only in his 50s!
Thank you, everyone, for your kind thoughts.
Preparations are underway and I’ve talked to many, many people so far who had great memories of my dad. I’m going to try to have the memorial at the little lake that we used to live by when I was growing up because he always loved being by the water. Of course he preferred the sandy beaches of Hawaii, but I’m not ready to travel that far yet!
MusicMan’s issue at work seemed to have turned out ok. All that I got so far was via text but he said everything was cool.
Ok, now off to figure out what is for dinner.
You can always request an adjustment to the sale price to cover the cost of repairs.
Oh dear. Structural issues are tough.
I have to do that at Dad’s sometimes.
Good to see you back sunny and sensai!
I’m sorry about your father sticky buns
Thanks for reminding me that my next automotive purchase will need to be replacing my original batter JtC
TGIT! (I’m guessing that taters has been saying this all day too 
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Irked, came home, walked Nelson, et and trying to get the apartment warmed up. During our brief foray into spring, I’ve turned off the heat, even turned on the AC and had to turn the heat back on. It’s getting there, but still not as warm as I’m comfortable with.
Tomorrow, I need to text the dealership to make sure that my car will be ready on schedule next Wednesday (I’m taking a couple of hours off irk), then call Enterprise to make sure that I can leave the rental at the dealership. I am so ready to get my car back, can ya tell?
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Up from naptime. Maintenance had to fix the bathroom GFI outlet, after it permanently interrupted. I’m having a Mexican Firing Squad, and Bo seasoned chicken for dinner.
{{{{sticky}}}}
That sucks.
TokyoBayer I’m sorry, I’ve forgotten your mmp name. I was thinking about you when I heard the news about the earthquake this morning. Glad to learn that you, your family, your wife’s family and your friends are all ok, only some things might have been damaged.
mine was with Children’s St Joseph baby aspirin. took almost an entire bottle, Mom took me to emergency and they pumped my stomach.
morning started with heating kielbasa and a waffle for Hubs breakfast. I inhaled most of a banana while running around getting his OJ and pills and sheveling. Then off to a 9am appt. My favorite nurse was the one who did the intake, drew the blood and changed his dressing. Then I went down to the pharmacy to get the scrip that was supposed to be ready; the cute pharmacist looked it up and could see the notes from the weekend that the pharmacy close to us had entered. He said that he never received a new scrip from the clinic pharmacist I had spoken to on Monday so I went back up to the Stem Cell Transplant clinic and found my fav nurse and asked her to let the on clinic pharmacist know that she needed to send the scrip down to the pharmacy again. Then we waited and waited. Finally a Dr and the clinic pharmacist came in. I gave her the inventory of Hubs meds that we currently have at home and she complimented me on it. Unfortunately the clinic has 4 Drs and they rotate who is in the clinic and who is doing rounds in the hospital. The Dr that we had today is the one of the 4 that I don’t care for. She gave me a hard time about one of Hubs meds, asked why we had that particular one (because that is what we were given when he was discharged from the hospital) then she sort of harangued the pharmacist to tell the people in the hospital not to ever give out that particular strength of the med. There are 1mg and 0.5 mg of that particular med and she told me that many people confuse them and too much is toxic. So she told me to throw out the remaining 1mg pills. Heck if I’m going to do that. I have a very detailed excel spreadsheet of all the meds and I know how to tell one from another. She didn’t ask much, said the lab results were not back yet and we could go and they’d call when the lab results were in. Didn’t give us a chance to ask questions.
While driving home, I called the middle eastern restaurant that I like and left a message ordering a Shish Kafta sandwich. Stopped at post office to drop off the heart monitor that Hubs refused to wear then picked up a circular at Kroger. Went to restaurant and the employee at the counter said they’d gotten my order so I stood there for about 5 minutes (I thought it would have been ready because it had been about 15 minutes or so) but then the cook said that no, he hadn’t been given the order. I asked the counter guy if he had checked the phone messages and he hadn’t. Ugh. The cook said it would be about 7-8 minutes so I asked for my money back as I needed to get home.
Got the infusion bag out of refrigerator then made Hubs lunch, soup and sandwich, then got him some more water at which time he asked for pie. I said “after I eat my lunch” which wasn’t even made yet. Then it hit me, nothing had been said about Hubs infusion medication at the appointment this morning so called the clinic pharmacist; she said she would call in the scrip right away.
When the PA was the person accompanying the Dr, I never had to say anything or ask about the infusion medication, she just took care of ordering it. Why I had to call and ask is beyond me (and my pay grade as just the 24/7 caretaker).
Started his infusion; the gosh darn monitor beeped and had to be reset after 6 minutes then again after another 25 minutes, luckily the third time it beeped, the infusion was complete. While the infusion was going, I first tidied the living room a little bit because his buddy who had gone to Surprise, AZ was stopping on his way back then started doing dishes, only got through the glasses, dishes, bowls and about 1/4 of the silverware when I had to go complete the infusion process. I was kinda beat so I laid down. Next thing I know my phone was waking me up; it was the clinic pharmacist who said they needed to change the dosage on one of the meds and the Dr wants Hubs back in on Monday instead of next Thursday because one of the blood results was elevated. Well I’m not coming home until Monday afternoon and Hubs hasn’t been cleared to drive so I asked if I could bring him on Tuesday, NO, how about Monday afternoon, NO. So, I called our daughter to ask if she would be able to take him Monday morning. She didn’t have any meetings scheduled until 3pm on Monday so she agreed to do so. Then I went down and visited with Hubs, his buddy and buddy’s wife. Next was leftover million dollar pasta casserole and mixed veggies and TX garlic toast. Now I’m doping then I have to get back on washing dishes and throwing a load in the washer. I’m a tad envious of those who are able to sloth about.
{StickyBuns} my sincere condolences. good to know your Dad’s not suffering anymore.
JtC can you ask on NextDoor (or whatever the local iteration is) if anyone has boxes and/or bubble wrap that they don’t want? That’s what our daughter did when she moved and she didn’t have to buy any since people came out of the woodwork with plenty.
Oh heck on the structural issues.
Evening, mumpers! It’s dry, cool and cloudy here. Can’t be more specific as I am not sure where I am 
We are on a train back to Chicago (metalmouse it’s the Amtrak 355 Wolverine) but we’re still in Michigan, I think.
{{{{{Sticky Buns}}}}} I am so sorry to hear about your dad, the memorial plan sounds perfect though.
Sunny and Sensei good to see you back again, hope you get time to stay around for a bit.
shoe ranting, venting, crying and general unloading is part of what we’re all here for. Take advantage of it!
I know I have read more but as usual I have retained little. Rosie’s sig to all!
boo fae, found you on the map, you should be at or near Kalamazoo, Michigan as I type this at 8:55pm your time. And the train is actually on-time, which is not something often seen on Amtrak. Hope your hotel is close, it’ll be late evening in Chi-town.
Cat Glove, Tokyo Bayer is Sensei as he is a teacher in Japan. And Wow, I wish there was someone to give you a break, when this all settles down you need to sleep for a week.
JtC, that’s bad news on the house, but better you find out now before the papers are signed. And hate being the bearer of bad tidings, but there is a chance of cloud cover Moanday in Dallas…(fingers crossed that they goes away).
red, I’m in the same spot, thought my Gas bill would be getting a break, but looks like it’ll be doing some extra duty this spring. And you should provide us pics of the car when you finally get it home.
Swampy, may try the Sunny Street Cafe this time, much like Eggs Up it is a breakfast/lunch place, not quite as widespread but good and their pancakes take up the whole plate.
OK, dinner has been dined upon and is being assimilated, so back to internetting. Have a good evening all.
I used to take the Wolverine to and from Chicago before March 2020. Haven’t done so since. Seems it was always on time going to Chicago, give or take 5-8 minutes but coming home from Chicago, it was always late, generally 10-15 minutes late was considered on time.
Thanks metalmouse, our daughter is coming home tomorrow night after work. I’m going away Saturday and Sunday to relax by myself to an airbnb that is close to the beach and has a sauna. It appears I’ll also get to meet an mmp’er. Bonus 
JtC, my daughter called. I gave her the bad news about VBC, and she was genuinely aggrieved, as she’s heard so many stories. I said, “I can’t recall what VBC stands for, maybe Very Beautiful Cat? Very Bad Cat?” And my daughter said, “Well, that’s better than Vacation Bible Cat.” She’s got a point there.
Oh, sticky, I’m so sorry. Wishing you strength and a gentle grief.
shoe, I’m relieved your folks aren’t coming.
I didn’t go anywhere today. It was cold and breezy and drizzly, so I decided to hunker down.
Happy Thorsday!
It was wet and chilly 37 degrees this morning, but we went to the park anyway.
Just us and Petey dad. I didn’t ask Barky/Humpy mom. I figured since it was so wet she wouldn’t want to go and I wanted to talk to Petey dad without interruption.
B/H mom is leaving for a short vacation tomorrow.
I’ve been very very very annoyed with her.
It seems like every time we talk, she has something critical or nasty to say.
My son got off early again last night, at 130.
I had just gone back to bed and was getting comfy when he called.
I got up before 1 because of the sciatica pain. Niece1 gave me a massager for Christmas that works really well for pain. I’ve been doing some stretches every day which seems to be helping.
Echo is better, my son is not. fully recovered.
Several people have told me there is a nasty stomach bug going around.
{{{Sticky}}} I’m sorry about your dad.
I’m sorry about the house JtC
Good to see y’all again Sunny and Sensei
Oh, and when I asked about the skin cancer
I watch YouTube in between calls when I am irking.
In one of the AITA videos the OP had a friend who had had skin cancer. The cancer was removed through a simple procedure and all was good. One of their mutual friends was diagnosed with a more serious cancer and the OP’s friend was telling mutual friend all about her cancer experience. The friend was making it out to be much more than it was and was referring to herself as a cancer survivor. The OP called her out saying that it had been a simple procedure and the friend was not a cancer survivor.
This, of course, led to an argument between them, with the other friends agreeing with the OP.
However, somebody in the comments said that nobody has the right to judge another person’s cancer experience and if the friend considered herself to be a cancer survivor, then nobody had the right to challenge that.
Anyway, I have known many people who have had skin cancer removed and I have never considered any of them to be cancer survivors. All of them considered it to be a mild procedure and they just get their skin checked yearly.
I never want to insult anybody though, so I thought I would ask.
The inspection only shows visible damage. Once work actually starts, the cost will double right away. We’re too old to buy a fixer with foundation issues no matter how lovely the view.
I do appreciate all the sympathy, I was already hanging drapes and buying patio furniture in my mind.
Hubs has family all over WV, we will be able to find something we like with a built in support system back there.
That’s why we paid for the inspection. A thousand dollars now to save many thousands later.
I know. I have the weather map up atm and I need to stop checking. Cloud cover can break and all I need is three minutes at the right time.
Credit should go to Hubs, I would have forgotten about it until I got stuck somewhere. I know I bitch about him probably too much, but he does do his best to take care of me. He’s a good man, even if he did lose his mind.
Thank you for the suggestion and yes I probably could do that. Except that I have issues and think that using random packing materials given to me by strangers sounds kinda squicky. Normally I’m all about Reuse, Repair or Repurpose but I’d rather use new garbage bags than used luggage. I’m quite sure that anything I was given would be perfectly good, but I don’t just have issues, I have whole subscriptions when it comes to that sort of thing.
Your days sound so exhausting, how much longer do you think this part of your husbands recovery will take?
Hubs is planning on going back to WV after I get back from trying to see the eclipse. I’m not going this time so he can stay at a home his family is getting ready to sell. I am of course welcome to stay there as long as I want, but the little place only has one bathroom and we can no longer share.
Good lord, I’d forgotten about those from my bartending days.
I’m sorry about the house JtC.
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