i have found my official “need a laugh” video. it is perfect, short and has immediate results.
scared my co workers laughing at this.
The owner recieved noise complaints, set up a nanny cam. This is what they saw LOL - YouTube
Home again, just before the temp dropped to freezing. I felt sorry for the Amish guy on the bike just ahead of me on my way home. Instead of the straw hat, he should have been wearing a balaklava! brrrrrrrrr
Plan for the evening: chillage. That’s all. Except I need to get a basket of laundry from the basement and put it away. Eventually. Not a lot of motivation here.
Well, damn! My post got eaten. Oh, well.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Evening all. Never made it out of the house this afternoon, slothage and soccer on the TV took precedence, but thinking of heading over to the gym in about an hour after dinner has digested. The little box on the bottom of my screen says temperatures will rise tomorrow…we’ll see (back to 36F now heading down to 22F).
rocky, didn’t laugh at the video but I did get a goofy grin out of it. Much thanks for that/
boo fae, enjoy the planning for the trip and if you ever get to the southern part of the US of A, I’ll have space available. And hope the tooth can be fixed.
Oopsie, I know what you mean. Have tried a couple of times to go to the gym around 5pm, have never been able to find a parking space anywhere close. By 7pm it’ll be better (I hope). And the coat sounds nice; I had a old, battered London Fog jacket that lasted me over 30 years, hope this one works as well for you.
Niner, happy for you being able to share X-mas with the family. Enjoy.
OK, need to visit the WC/Loo/Necessary/Bathroom/Smallest room in the house/(you can come up with your own now) and then try to talk myself into going out in the freezing weather to exercise. Take care all.
I knew it was very windy today, but I just read in the Washington Post that the National Christmas Tree blew over at around 5pm!! 
- "The tree came down as Arctic air poured into the Washington region, bringing the coldest weather since March. Winds frequently gusted over 30 m.p.h. Tuesday afternoon, with a maximum gust of 43 m.p.h. at Reagan National Airport.
Such winds aren’t particularly unusual in November. On average, the District sees 1 to 2 days with wind gusts over 40 mph each November, about 12 such days each year. An analysis published in 2022 showed the frequency of days with high wind gusts has increased somewhat over the past 15 years."
The story also said that at least three National Christmas Trees have been felled by wind, including one in 2011. The tree that fell today was planted just two weeks ago. The tree-lighting ceremony isn’t until Thursday night.
Trader Joe’s pizza dough. Tomato paste, water, pesto, dried basil sauce. Fresh mozzarella, grated provolone, ricotta, a little freshly-grated nutmeg, and some frozen spinach topping. Sweet Italian sausage. It’s in a cast-iron frying pan in a 475ºF oven.
I hope it’s good. I hope the Spousal Unit wants dinner.
So Midnight sort was screwed up. so bad they were still loading Left in Building stuff into a trailer at 0345. We were supposed to start at 3. also, Dispatch changed the door location of about 6 package cars and 4 Surepost pigs. After a chunk of it had been SPA-ed and sorted to the (now)wrong location. We were still loading at 10:00A.M., when the next sort showed up. “I’ve been here for 5 years, and this is the first time I’ve seen Day Sort.” - Irreg guy. After 12 hours of heaving heavy things, C and her hisband came by, and we carried a motorized chair down the hill for Roomie to use.
People: < exist >
Spot: < recoils in horror and hides under bed >
Roommie: < uses motor chair to satnd up >
Spot: “The furniture is now animated? Have I been flung into a remake of Beauty And the Beast? Will I have to break out into a musical number? THIS IS UNACCEPTIBLE!”
I would always accept free mystery pizza. And if you show up on my doorstep, you get what you deserve(and extra fifth of gin to shopping list).
You could head my posts from 10 years of managing a Dollar Tree to know that.
And now it’s out of the oven, and on a cutting board with the pizza slicer next to it.
Howdy Y’all! Laundry got laundered and put away. Nappage occured. Then we did late N.O.L./early sup at the Mexican place, where both food and day drinkin’ were accomplished. 'Tis cold out, so glad to be in da cave and warm. Thus has it been today.
Niner yay for seein’ family for Christmas!
Rocker after all, a doggo must practice piano and opera singin’ sometimes!
Cookie glad you enjoyed the tea. Always nice to munch on some good nummies.
BooFae glad 'im indoors and you made it home safe and sound.
The way the puppy looks at the music every now and again really cracks me up.
flyboy Your pizza sounds good! I’ve started letting my pies cool on a rack so’s the bottoms don’t get soggy. Hope yours is a success. Did ya drain the spinach first?
Time to do something for dinner…dunno what…maybe some tortellini with a quick alfredo? Feeling uninspired for cooking.
I knew a student at a seminary who had a Norwegian Elkhound named Kai. He saved the dog’s undercoat, a pale just barely tan color, and a friend of his wove it into yarn and it was woven into his ordination stole.
Wow, that is wonderful. I bet is was gorgeous.
Most of it was dyed red, a traditional color, but there were three narrow natural color stripes, kind of fuzzy like mohair. People complimented him on the stole and when they asked about the stripes he said “It’s all Kai,”
I have many words about what is happening at the junction, and some of them involve having a Dollar General and a Family Dollar less than a block apart. This is a low income area - we live a middle class lifestyle and are pretty much upper class as far as income is concerned. We have a small market that carries limited amounts of fresh produce, but I’m fairly sure this is still considered to be a food desert.
This has allowed the junction - which is coded differently than the lakes - to turn into a truck stop town. It is ugly and smelly and dirty and I hate drive through it to get to our quiet little community.
Stops with the words…I usually only buy dollar store greeting cards and storage containers, we are in the habit of buying food at the grocery store in town. I’m actually too fat to shop at the Family Dollar, I’m always afraid of getting stuck between stacks of boxes, but the Dollar General isn’t usually that bad.
Our family home had stucco and Dad made a chicken wire door frame for Mom to hang lights and stuff on. It was free standing, the bottoms were attached to wood blocks and the sides were wrapped around 2X4 uprights. He hated it and every year tried to “forget” to get it out, but Mom loved it and so it was used every year.
Oops! I forgot to order one, thanks so much for the reminder!
Awesome about the coat, I had a London Fog coat for decades before I outgrew it. They wear so well, I hope you love it for years to come.
You are so smart!
Well, I was all in until the no drop in visit stuff! We just bottled a fresh batch of mead, I’m sure it has healing powers!
Maybe that’s why the Mrs likes having you around 
How could the neighbors possibly want to stop the concerts after seeing the video, LOL!!!
Today was quiet. Our housekeeper was here and we went out for breakfast to get out of the way. Hubs tossed kitty toys back out on the floor and we both did pretty much nothing until dinner at which time hubs went to the junction for cheap tacos. I’ve started a new piece and I’m getting slight frustrated because I can’t make the counts work. I’m going to put it away until tomorrow and recount with good light.
Evening all. Did make it to the gym for 40 minutes of cycling and 25 more in the sauna, so that plus a hot shower has revitalized me…just in time to be thinking about heading off to bed in a couple of hours… Got the rest of my stopped mail, about 70% of it was various groups asking for money (to the shredder), 25% were ads to get me to buy things (shredder is gonna be working overtime) and 5% was actually information I could use and keep.
flyboy, don’t know if Spousal Unit was hungry but after that description I imagine more than a few MMP’ers were!
doggio, I imagine Spot will get used to the contraption in 5 or 6…years…
And onward into the night. Catch up with y’all on Hump Day.
Happy Toosday!
It has been a couple of days.
It’s friggin’ 25 feels like 14 degrees outside.
So much has been going on, and I have been sleeping a lot. I have fallen asleep in the middle or typing a post or an email.
Lots of weird dreams too.
I think the weird dreams may be a stress outlet.
My poor son had jury duty today, and he got chosen for a trial, a criminal trial. He didn’t get out of there until after 5. He won’t talk about the trial, but it seems that he handled it well. At the end of the deliberation the guy next to him smacked him on the shoulder and asked him if he had anything to say, because everybody should speak up. My son said that everything he had thought had already been said but he added one small opinion, with which everybody agreed with him.
As nervous as he was, it all went well and easy, and he said almost everybody there was nervous because nobody knew what to do.
He went outside to wait for me, but it was cold so he went back inside. Both the prosecutor and the defense attorney saw him and thanked him for his service and complimented him on paying attention during the trial.
They probably remember him because he was one of only two people who wore a suit.
My son said most of the men wore jeans, which is on the not to wear to jury duty list.
I felt horrible when I had to wake him at 330 this morning. I had put the dogs out at 3 and I couldn’t find Echo. Misiu came running when I called, but stopped at the door and ran back out. Rayleigh peeked around the garage and wouldn’t come. Echo was nowhere to be seen, but trying to find a black dog in the dark is just about impossible. My son put his shoes on and grabbed a flashlight. Echo was behind the garage and wanted something out there. She came in with my son when he told her too.
The GR are 8 months old today. No more daycare for them until they get neutered. I’m not ready for that. I think January at the earliest. There’s too much going on for the next couple of weeks, then Christmas and New Year’s. I have doctors’ appointments coming up and the pain doctor wants to do another procedure on me.
The house is still a mess and a lot of it is just too much stuff.
I usually buy in bulk from da jungle. I was pretty good at keeping inventory, but when my son started putting stuff away, which I appreciated, he didn’t always put it away in the right place. I would think we were out and buy more. I will not even tell you how many rolls of TP there are in this house. There are 12 containers of disinfecting wipes though, and 6 tubes of toothpaste in the box, and about 20 bars of soap, and 7 bottles of body wash of the kind I use.
It won’t go bad, and it will get used. Finding a place to put all this stuff is a challenge.
I tell my son; it all needs to be stored in the same area so we have an idea of what we have and don’t buy more until we need it. If it is spread out all over, then I have no idea how much we have.
Taters, Buster and Maisie are adorable! It’s a lot of work when they are young, but they grow so fast and soon will be trustworthy in the house.
I got a plumber in to look at the laundry tub situation in the old house. It is over $11,000 to fix everything. I am fixing my side only, and there are no guarantees it will work unless the whole line is fixed. The neighbor will not fix her half. The pipes are cast iron and clogged with rust. The plumber showed me pictures of the pipes on her side, they leak, and they are bound up with duct tape and electrical tape. I guess if the stuff coming from my old house goes into the neighbor’s house and leaks all over her basement? Or it can clog up and run back into my old house?
Closing is set for the 29th, but nothing is guaranteed so I’ll keep my fingers crossed that all goes well. I got an email from the title company and they need info from me. More shit to add to the ToDoList.
1030 already.
I slept most of the day today and I’m still ready for bed.
She had two slices. Two out of six. (I had two too.)
Top comment: “imagine being a world class pianist, and then being reincarnated into a fluffy dog.”
Same, lil’ buddy. Same.
Ah, shit, me too.
Then again, my current calendar is still on October after being flipped there directly from July, so I’m clearly not getting a lotta use out of it.
I have the wrong size hoop for one of mine (I had the right hoop, but it was old and crappy, and I bought the wrong size replacement) but you bet your ass I was NOT gonna brave Hobby Lobby or Wal-Mart during Black Friday weekend when everyone was gonna be buying Christmas shit. Hellz to the naw.
Might go tomorrow, though. I wanna finish the damn thing - it’s an autumn tree on black Aida, tons of different shades of orange and yellow and green, and I’m pretty happy with how it’s turning out.
If I told this story earlier, please forgive me, but I had the funniest customer last Saturday.
Pulls up to the window, wants to place an order. Cue extended "Ummmm … " and then she finally looks at me & says, “I’m sorry … I already had a few drinks. Girl, I’m lit.”
Me: “Honey, I ain’t the po-po, and I ain’t yo momma. I just wanna know what. do. you. want. on. your. pizza.”
I make notes on some of the tickets to help my trash-can memory keep track (“red pickup” “yellow coat, white hat”) and on hers, I wrote, “Oh she drunk” and got laffs from the kitchen on that one.
Had one who called in tonight, wanted a pizza with EVERYTHING on it.
Me: 
Everything?
Bitch on phone: “Yes! Everything!! {exasperated sigh}”
Me: “So you want … anchovies? Ground beef? Jalapeños, green olives, black --”
BOP: “NO!!! I don’t want any of that shit!!”
Me: “So … NOT everything.”
deep breath
Me: “How about you tell me what toppings you DO want?”
B.O.P. “I told you, I want everything!”
Me, internally: “No. You don’t. JFC.”
Finally get her to tell me what toppings she actually wanted (all four of them … B.O.P. did not, in fact, want everything) and to top (heh) it all off, she STUCK us with the pizza e.g. never showed up.
I started dramatically flipping off her pizza each time I passed it, until Sweet Manager finally marked the ticket “Stuck” and threw the damn thing into the trash.
I was supposed to be Early-out, which slow as we were tonight would’ve meant being cut before 7 or 8 and only working a few hours, but New Guy looked like absolute shit and a collective decision was made that we didn’t want to catch his cootie-germs and he got sent home, so I covered him for closing, which more than doubled the hours I was expecting to work - and get paid for - and now that I’m finally back home, sitting on my butt with a purring cat, a half a joint, and some snax, that’s A-O.K. by me.
Morning, mumpers! It’s 0c/32f with a predicted high of 3c/38f, and some freezing fog. Weather app says “This fucking cold day can suck it.” I haven’t been outside so no idea how cold it really is out there, but it’s sunny so that will help thaw out the car. I need to do grocery shopping at some point today, and should be out with friends tonight. Back to irk tomorrow, not looking forward to getting up at stupid o’clock for that.
shoe yay for extra hours and extra money, but boo for having to deal with people who don’t know what they want 
sari sorry to hear about the son’s jury duty, but good for him speaking up. Having other people agree with his opinion might be a little boost to his confidence too.
JtC surely what you really mean is that Family Dollar put their stacks of boxes so close together, you can’t get an adequate swing on the cane to make a decent connection to the back of someone’s legs?
Cats have been fed, medicated and litter trays tended to. I have a cup of tea, need to get showered and make myself presentable for dealing with the Great Unwashed at the supermarket later.