I am wearing semi clean clothes and dragging my sorry carcass back to work. I don’t wanna complain too much, since others are going through some serious rough stuff over there, so I’ll probably just shut down and run the fryers.
Bleh.
At least the teen who was being a serious recently was … in a good mood? I was asked to do things nicely (instead of getting muttered at) there was an occasional “please” and “thank you” and … yanno, sometimes it’s the little stuff that greases the wheels of social interaction.
Will no doubt hear about Sprinkles who does not deserve what her father and uncle have been pulling on her. Even a neuro-typical person would be flustered.
Hello all. Up early and had to move out quick;y to the soccer fields for my first game at 8:00am. The fields (there are 4 small fields where the U8’s play which also doubles as a larger field for the bigger kids) were not marked and the goals were scattered everywhere, so it took me about 30 minutes a lots of cones to set the fields up for the games. Then went to my U12 game and got to coach instead of referee and finished with a referee job with some U10 girls. So a pretty full 6 hours out and about. Inside now hydrating and catching my breath. Had a beautiful day for it, no rain in sight and temperatures in the 60’s-70’s F.
And now to engage scrolling mode and catch up with y’all…
VanGo, 50lbs is a pretty good-sized dog, hope she settles down some.
Bright Tree, have had my own plumbing woes as you may know, so far I still trust the company that has done the work inside, but I am beginning to wonder about them…
shoe, think I’ve mentioned the website “Not Always Right” before, you could be a continuing correspondent for them,
boo fae, enjoy the music: I wonder how many bands in England you haven’t heard by now…
FCM, I attended Kent State (Class of '75). Wonder if I would recognize it now…
Sticky Buns. I must admit a email like that will get you remembered…
{{nellie}} Feel better soon.
BBBoo, I trust there was no biting and many donuts.
OOpsie,
That is a picture waiting to happen (and possibly a nervous breakdown to go with it…)
flyboy, you just listed most of the jobs I have been ignoring in my kitchen. Will get to them…soon.
Yep, I cannot remember much organized stuff (except maybe Little League) when I was young and now there is multiple things for the kids to do every day.
shoe,. glad the teen is learning some manners..wonder who ‘taught’ him to do so…
And that more or less catches me up. Need to continue my recuperation with some tackleball watching. Take care all.
We only had the one, but the rule was she could do one extracurricular activity that required us to drive her. Over the years, she tried ballet, tap, piano, swim, softball, and drama. She never excelled at any, but she seemed to enjoy the sampling. She loved Chorus, but that required very few rehearsals outside of regular school hours, so no extra burden on us.
It remains to be seen what the grands will do, tho I see SIL hoping it’ll be basketball…
A nice rain shower continues. It’s 5:30 and I have no idea what to do for supper. I see a bowl of cereal in my future. And kids and Trevor most of tomorrow. So I got that going for me.
A true gentleman, for sure. I’m glad you had at least that much kindness in your life yesterday. May today be much better. And I hope things work out for Sprinkles.
That’s what pushed me over the edge. Trying to live without phones for 2-3 weeks at a time is simply not acceptable. CenturyLink’s motto should be, “We don’t care. We don’t have to.”
There’s just something about having to get up that damned early on a Saturday that galls me. Stupid, really. It shouldn’t matter at all.
I hope you feel much better soon!
She’s a very lucky girl. You’ve given her a chance at a future she wouldn’t have had without you. Very inspiring!
Plumbers in your life right now, too? I am so sorry. I hope you’re done with them!
I hope you feel much, much better soon!
I hope it didn’t go too badly. Sure doesn’t sound fun, boo.
You handled everything with such dignity, I guess the reality is starting to hit home now. After so many years, it’s a tough adjustment. But as you say, you will. Eventually. I hope it goes gently.
Yes, I’ve thought of you and your plumbing woes more than once as I have gone through this ordeal, metal mouse. The company you use sounds competent and fair. Locating leaks in existing flooring is much more specialized and difficult than what I’m dealing with. I hope your water leak woes are over, truly.
My water line into the house runs/ran briefly under my outdoor cement patio. That’s where it sprang a leak. But it’s easy enough to excavate and reroute the water line around the patio. It’s less than 50 feet altogether. So $2,500 to dig 3 holes seemed a bit excessive, with more work in the offing. I’m very grateful to my friend for his help, early hour start times notwithstanding.
I’ve spent the whole day wanting a nap, but it was not to be. Ollie kept barking like a mad thing at the squirrel who lives under a concrete pad near the house. It’s a bold little rodent, cavorting in front of the glass doors and saucily flicking its tail. All it needs is some pom poms.
My Ducks play soon against Penn. It’ll be the first true test of their skill this year. May they do well!
Got the towels done today. I also hung most of the rest of the pictures. The only things left to hang are the strip for the broom, mop, etc and a couple of clothes hooks that I’ll put in the bedroom for PJs and clothes that can be worn again. I’m still sorting family pics and got the rest of the Thanksgiving cards done. Oh, the life of RDOS!
Howdy Y’all! We et Mexican and had a nice ramble down some backroads that kinda led us in a loop back to da burg and to da cave. Nappage was needed after that. I’ve watched some kolledge tackleball off and on as well. A little while ago there was a flock of blackbirds in the backyahd. They hung around for about half an hour and then all took off at once. Don’t know how many there were, but it looked like enough to make at least two pies accordin’ to the recipe. I didn’t try to catch any because I am pretty sure I would not like blackbird pie. Plus I prefer my pie to be more hearty than dainty. My DAWGS start their game shortly. I doubt I will stay awake for the whole game as I feel a little droopy even now.
{{{Nellie}}} hope you’re feelin’ better by now.
VanGo so glad Ms. Peach is healthy, happy and continues to thrive.
BBBOO I could be bribed into behavin’ for Lemon heads and donuts.
Had to spend a solid 45 minutes re-inputting all my credential into a new Roku device, since Ms Peach chomped up the remote for the old one. I tried to get the other remote to connect, but no joy.
As I was doing this, a little thingy popped up on the tv about the roku app on the phone…d’oh! I perhaps could have made that work. But then she’d probably chomp the phone. Better a $30 investment than a $500 one.
Booo Much like swampy I could also be bribed by lemon heads and donuts. Or just one or the other.
Most of our issues had a cat involved. VBC couldn’t jump on the counters so George never got interested in being on the counters because VBC wasn’t there. Jolene was raised in a shelter. Nobody ever says NO to cute lil shelter kittens they are trying to socialize.
Hubs keeps forgetting that Jolene feels very comfortable jumping on the counters to see what is going on and leaves little things loose instead of confined.
We spent far too long looking for tiny little screws.
Big difference, he was in Charleston and had no idea what to expect. But I was a very good wife who didn’t say “I told you so.”
Rambunctious is good. That means she will sleep all night. I’ll bet she never outgrows her cute looks
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Is that how it worked, no sex means no babys?
Dang about gouging repair guys. Do you think they treat everyone this way or just the customers with boobs and no man around?
I used to smoke tobacco. I would never in a million years do something like that to anyone, especially not a place I want to return to. Flicking asshole.
Dang for Sprinkles. Families shouldn’t be kicking young folks out in these times, the safety net is gone.
Predictable can be a bonus. I like to drink icewaterwithlemon. I used to squeeze the lemon over the ice and then rinse my hands before filling my cup. I learned that Jolene will NOT bite me if she can smell lemon on my hands so now I rub the lemon skin on my hands and don’t wash them until the next restroom visit. She hasn’t bit me for a very long time.
She still bites Hubs, who has still not learned to not use his hands as toys.
I sure do hope you feel better soon. I’ve also never had a reaction to the flu shot, but every dose is different. I guess I’ll find out tomorrow.
That’s about when I start hallucinating. I do hope you sleep well.
What do you put in your savory oatmeal?
Safe travels. I hope things stay calmish at work and that Sprinkles situation has been sorted.
Squirrels know when the dog can’t reach them. They are born jerks and use it all the time.
So we went out and did things today. First stop was the annual Apple Butter Fair. There were only a few people selling apple butter this year, but there were a whole lot more people selling stinky stuff. It wasn’t just pumpkin spice, it was all of the candle scents at once.
Thank goodness it was mostly outside, I didn’t want to go into the building because I’m having a lot of problems with heavy perfumes anymore.
Folks were selling local honey and I tasted some whipped elderberry honey that was really good. The tartness of the elderberries took the edge off the honey sweetness, I think it will be very nice in tea.
(Coffee has been bothering my stomach lately. I used to almost live on the stuff and now I’m limited to a cup a day which makes me very sad. I still like drinking warm drinks in the morning, so I’ve moved to tea. Same caffeine, not so much stomach upsets.)
We were all the way at the end of the vendor’s section when I looked behind the bandstand and saw a booth with wood bowls. Of course I went right over to take a look. I found a nice wood vase to replace the one Jolene broke, but then changed my mind and bought a smaller piece.
It doesn’t fit the table, so I’ll probably go back tomorrow and get the one I originally wanted. I’m sure it will still be there, they were hidden in the worse spot in the whole fair.
After we were done there, we went into town and did errands, then stopped for a frozen custard on the way home. I’ve never had one before moving here, I had a very deprived childhood!
Once we got home and stuff got put away, I did a couple of loads of laundry and then made shrimp fettuccini alfredo. Well, that’s what I was going to do but then I realized that all we had was linguini noodles so once again I demonstrated to myself why using the proper sized noodle was so important.
Have accomplished nothing worth reporting, it’s gotten dark outside (observant I am…) so will be an indoors guy the rest of the evening. Have dined on my Big Bowl O’Pasta for Saturday and followed it with two Entenmann’s mini apple pies for dessert. I see Ali-bama is leading Georgia early 7-0 so hope swampy’s yellin’ and screamin’ isn’t disturbing the neighborhood…
Bright Tree, far as I can tell all my problems are in-house, outside seems to be behaving. And squirrels can be odd neighbors, seemingly fearless no matter how out-sized they are. And no score in the first period, so best of luck to the Oregans.
JtC, sounds like you had a lovely Saturday in the Fall.
Yup. I once had my meds switched and the doctor wasn’t clear than which ones were to be started immediately and which were to be be started after the old ones ran out.
It turns out that one med was supposed to wait until another had finished. Both meds had side effects of lowering my blood pressure and I wound up collapsing on the street.
SenWife doesn’t get that, and encourages the kids to sign up for everything, but the driver.
Well… it was short-lived. Even as you were typing, Penn’s kicker made a career best 49-yard field goal to put 3 on the board. Oregon is controlling the ball better and have had possession much more than Penn, but this game isn’t going that well for the Ducks so far. They just barely managed to get within field goal range themselves. And muffed it.
It’s early. Still, this looks like it’s going to be a field goal sort of game. Exciting, though!
ETA: Oregon made their second field goal attempt and it’s all tied up now. First half over. Whew!
I see Alabama is ahead of Georgia, but not by much. Good game there, too!
I’m trying to not think that, but it’s hard to not draw this conclusion. I think they just figured I wouldn’t have any other options. Lucky me, I did!
I’m sorry about the new coffee restrictions! I’d feel just the same.
Some writer about my age wrote that kids our generation raised ourselves.
I did scouting through the church, but it didn’t involve any driving from my parents.
I also had paper routes and part time jobs from the time I was 12, which gave me a lot of independence. If you knew my family, you could understand the desire to be anywhere but at home.
You do know that you can buy replacement Roku remotes by themselves, don’t you?
I agree! At my old place, the squirrels knew that Nelson was attached to a fat, old woman by a leash and, when he was young, would torment him. They later came to a truce once he realized that they knew just how long the leash was.
Holy Cow!!! I’m glad you didn’t get badly hurt in the fall, concrete is never forgiving.
At least I just wiped my eyes a whole lot.
It is honestly horrible. I like coffee, I’m used to drinking coffee and I have all of the fancy gadgets to make coffee just how I like. I did try to move over to decaf and the buzzing headaches were even worse than the stomach problems.
This getting old thing just bites at times.
At least I can still eat dark chocolate when I can afford it.
The squirrels behind the house just love to get Jolene running from room to room. They know she can’t get to them and will even tag team her to get her all fired up and banging on the windows with her paws.
Yes, I am feeding them, what else would you expect?
They don’t get the very pricey flying squirrel bark, though. That stuff has doubled in cost since last year, the sticker shock was real.
I’m heading off for the night, my shoulder is screaming at me. I probably spent too much time stitching but I was counting goddamnit!
But hey … toilet flushy, so .. as the kids say .. I got that goin’ for me!
I LOL’d.
You just thought it quietly.
Thank you to you, and the other Mumpers, putting good thoughts out for someone you don’t know.
She is now in a (very temporary) stable housing situation, while her family stuff gets sorted. Basically, she’s got a boyfriend, but dad & uncle don’t approve, and .. yeah.
My position is, she may have mental health issues, but she’s a grown-up woman (22? I think?) anyway, she can decide for herself if she wants a boyfriend, she is more than capable of that much.
Local Asian joint kindly provided Mongolian Beef to “Yeah, no pizza” me, so imma scarf down as much as I can.
Y’all have a lovely evening. Sweet dreams, Mumpers.
We had guestage, a woman who attends the pro-immigrant banner displays over the freeway. I made Costco garlic pesto salmon, and traditional-recipe fettuccine alfredo. We kvetched about Trump, and then we watched South Park ‘Sickfancy’.
I usually make alfredo with heavy cream. This was my first try without. I’m glad everyone liked it!
recently was … in a good mood? I was asked to do things nicely (instead of getting muttered at) there was an occasional “please” and “thank you” and … yanno, sometimes it’s the little stuff that greases the wheels of social interaction.
