Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave. Yesterday when I went to work, it was 60. Today it is 38. “No matter how confusing life can get, you’ll never be as confused as a thermostat in the South in March”
Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 12c/54f with a predicted high of 14c/58f, and cloudy. Weather app cheerfully tells me that “At least you won’t fucking freeze to death when you lock yourself outside in your fucking underwear.” As if…
Wheelie glad you made it safely and you’re getting some decent sleep!
JtC looks like you have a lot of good reasons to look for somewhere else to live. Losing your support network and your friends will be a wrench, but sounds like it’s an adjustment you’re willing to make for all the other benefits a move will bring you. Good luck house-hunting.
doggio that looks like a very nice beer 
shoe sorry to hear about the freezer death, that’s a tough one. Getting it out of the house might be hard too - can you ask carless co-irker to help with that, in return for a ride to work?
nellie sorry to hear about the new downstairs neighbours. Shame you can’t swap for the upstairs apartment instead!
Miss Owl meatloaf lasagne does sound strangely appealing, even for someone like me who’s not that fond of lasagne in the first place.
Today’s big excitement has been hauling the biiiiiig recycling bin out to the kerb for collection and it’s already been picked up. That means going downstairs to make a cup of tea and going out to haul it back to where it lives. There are some grey clouds out there so best do that before it decides to rain.
Today’s my last irk day until 10th April. Hurrah!! I’ve got a list of things to do today that absolutely must be done, then when I log off this afternoon, I can start on the list of things I need to do before we leave on Thursday afternoon. The list is on the fridge door where I’ll see it several times a day, and keep adding to it instead of crossing things off 
'im indoors is having problems with some cable that he wants to run from up here to the meter cupboard in the hallway downstairs. He measured the correct distance and drilled a hole, but it appears to not be in teh right place. We’ll have a look at that today, or tomorrow, and see if we can get that sorted out.
Other than that, I have a minion meeting this morning and grocery shopping tonight. We are only here for a couple more days but he needs to spend a certain amount at the supermarket to qualify for a decent bonus on their loyalty scheme. We’ll be stocking up on cat food, and bulk items like coffee, tea bags and TP.
Right…off for a cuppa and bin rescue.
Mornin’ folks. Awoke extra early (like 0515) and have some time to spend w y’all before starting my day.
Yesterday’s flight home was nominal, with some delay after we landed. Ended up grabbing a quick bite at the airport then Ubering home and arrived a bit after 10pm. Short yak w roomie, load the washing machine, and off to bed.
I did just now this morning add 2 more pix taken Mon morning.
One was a dolphin swimming offshore. It was part of a pod of about a dozen all told traveling north in pairs or triplets about 100 yards offshore.
It’s not a great pic, but it’s a dolphin! They’re hard to get pix of because they’re visible just about as along as the delay on the camera shutter. By the time you see them break the surface, aim, push the button, and the camera finally fires, they’re almost gone again. They’re a fairly common sight along there, but folks always stop and stare. Me too.
The other was sitting at a traffic light amongst the palm trees with freshly snow-capped Mt. Baldy in the distance. Taken just a few minutes after the dolphin pic at the beach. Part of the fun of SoCal is the juxtaposition of snowcapped mountains, palm trees, and ocean stuff.
I did look down at about the right time and saw nothing but clouds too. But you did get a thought and a wave. 
With Aged MIL we found that a lot of the problem was Arizona insurance driven-medical care. Once we moved her to Missouri suddenly insurance worked very differently and much more reasonably from the patient POV. You might find the same after your move. Here’s hoping.
Heck, checking out the insurance situation, part D formularies etc., in states you’re considering is another wonderful interwebz thing you could do.
Oh, you’ve said that very loud and clear in so many ways. Just not using quite those words.
Nellie this apartment situation just goes from bad to worse. I like the suggestion to move to the now-empty upstairs apartment.
Perhaps Daughter could be persuaded to take Higgs now. She gets the dog she wants, you get your footrest back, and nobody needs to spend $3,000 on a AKC whatevery-poo. Everyone is made happier.
Pro tip: on the way from counter to table, stop by the trash can and pour half the fries right in there. Yep, even from a “small” order. You can then finish your portion at your table with gluttonous glee and also without busting your calorie budget. Or in my case, sending my blood sugar into orbit.
As to me …
Time’s up! Gotta get sheveled then go give some blood to the lab. Then roomie and I have a loose plan to rendezvous for breakfast someplace. Be good to yak a bit. Then my usual boring errands.
Happy Toosday!! Cheers all!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 37 (BRRR!) Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 60 and N.O.S. for the day. Today is laundry day, be still my heart. Outside of that high sloth, general overall uselessness, nappage and day drinkin’ are on the agenda. Plus, no need to leave da cave today, Yay! Sup shall be boxed lasagna (don’t judge!), sallit, and cheesey garlic bread.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.
Happy Tuesday Y’all!
Daughter has a dog - a geriatric pug who’s deaf as a stone but mostly in good health. She also has 2 cats, 2 kids, and no job. So, no, she doesn’t need another dog, and FCD wouldn’t part with Higgs anyway.
Good morning! I’ve been up for hours. Dishes have been washed, cuke salad was built, and MIL and I sorted a bunch of her boxes. It was kinda sad - she didn’t want to give up anything, but her room is so crowded as it is. I think there are 3 things she said can go to the thrift store, and half a boxful that stayed wrapped and will go sit in the basement till she dies. There are a few items that she wants to give to her sister.
Anyway, shortly I will go downstairs and try to put the basement in some semblance of order. Easier said than done.
swampy - no comment on the dad joke I posted for you??? I’m crushed.
Happy Tuesday anyway.
Off to work.
Morning all. Got my eight hours of rest, up and ready for a new day. It’s only 32F outside right now, where did those 70F days go, but supposed to be much warmer tomorrow. More soccer tonight with the 10U girls, had small turnouts the last two times, hopefully more today, so I can start making up teams. Some pedaling at the gym is also planned, we’ll see how that goes.
Pilot, getting rid of the excess fries at 5 Guys would be…sacrilegious, but I managed to stay within my calorie budget anyway, Sunday and Mondays are my major eating days, the other times I can usually fill up with fewer caloric concerns. And nice pictures.
boo fae, hope the travels to this continent go as planned.
Wheelie, glad you made it in at a decent time.
JtC, the mysteries of Credit card score determination surpasses all normal understanding. Hope it goers smoothly with VBC.
OK, fast has been broken and rooms are warming up, so a little more morning internetting and then on with the day. Have a good one all.
Mornin’ everyone.
It’s 41 degrees Fahrenheit and mostly clear outside. The forecast calls for sunny skies and a high temperature of around 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
nellie, I’m sorry to hear about your noisy neighbors. Besides moving to an entirely new complex (which means busting your lease), can you move to a different apartment in this complex?
Still, that would be a pain, and why should you have to move to escape people who don’t respect shared walls?
Metal Mouse, yes, we’ve bathed the puppies a few times now since getting them. The first time was in the kitchen sink, but when the need for a second bath rolled around, both were too big for a sink, so we had to take them upstairs to the bathtub.
shoe, I’m sorry about your freezer’s death. Boofae had a good suggestion about getting the freezer out of your house.
sari, the kennel (the vet’s office), won’t bathe the pups unless you set up an appointment for that too. I tried several times to get Polar bathed there but could never get in. I heard various excuses for why, so I gave up on getting Polar groomed there and haven’t even considered it for the pups. When we dropped the pups off yesterday, another lady came in to pick up her dog from boarding, and apparently, her dog did get a bath. I don’t know. Maybe I’ll try again, but getting them in and out of the Jeep is so traumatic, and I’m not sure it’s worth it. They HATE riding in the Jeep.
red, I hope your insurance woes are sorted soon.
We had a great visit and dinner with my daughter and son-in-law. I was so happy to see them. They are only here through Thursday, and it’s strictly work-related. My husband, son, and I were the only non-work-related people they were seeing. The son-in-law has a lot of work meetings to attend, and my daughter has a lot of stuff going on in the office.
They talked about coming out here again with the kids, but I am unsure when that’ll happen. They break ground on the new house sometime in May, and there is a lot going on for them. We plan to fly out and visit them again, too, but I’m not sure when. Maybe in the summer, although it’s hot as hell in Missouri in the summer, and I don’t do well in heat.
I’m going to pick the pups up later this morning. I know they were terrified when we left them because of the barking dogs. It was hard to leave them, but both pups and I need to get used to being separated occasionally. I’d like to be able to take a trip or two. I spent a lot of time tied down because of Polar, and I don’t want it happening again. Polar was ill, and I wouldn’t trade that time, but all the same, the pups are young and healthy and also need to get used to new situations.
It’s weird and quiet not having the pups here at the moment, but, I am enjoying myself immensely. It’s nice not having to jump up and down to tend to the pups’ needs. I’m savoring my coffee, instead of rushing through it.
boofae, I hope your trip goes smoothly and you have a blast.
I had to take my garbage and recycling to the curb early this morning. My garbage company has decided to switch my day back to Tuesday. They sent me an email last night, which is kind of short notice. It’s a good thing I’m an early riser, or I would have missed it.
Alrighty then, onward with the day. I’m going to finish my coffee and savor some more quiet time before I get in the shower and get ready to pick up the pups. My husband mentioned wanting to take them to the park. But, I think we’re just going to take them home because I’m sure they’re stressed and scared. I know they’re receiving good care, but it’s not like the individualized care they receive at home.
It’s certainly time from Day One to be complaining to management about these folks’ disrespect for the part of their 30 page corporate-approved lease that says “Do not make noise that annoys your neighbors”.
Well, you’ll all be pleased to know I survived both getting blood drawn and breakfast at better-than-Denny’s. And made my mini-groc run and put away my laundry. About to launch off for my other daily erranding.
Enjoy the day!
OMG - How many extension cords does one couple need?? Not counting the couple that we needed to use, I think there are at least a dozen from various and sundry boxes. Most were coiled up in a compartment in the desk, and most will go to the thrift store.
I also unpacked the box of stuff that came out of MIL’s bathroom - so many almost-empty tubes of various creams and ointments. I tossed them all. Along with a really sorry-looking bar of soap and a few things that were unidentifiable. I also hauled a bunch of stuff to the basement to be sorted and stored or tossed.
I feel sorry for MIL - so many memories among these things and not enough space for them all. She’d ask if I wanted this or that, and pretty much, the answer was no. I know the Wedgwood vase was a gift to her from FIL, but to me it’s something else to dust. And there are the two (to me) tacky gifts they’d gotten from their middle son and his wife - one a statue of the sailor kissing the nurse from that WWII photo, and another a couple of mountain lion heads. Both are about a foot tall and I don’t want them in my living room, tho I didn’t say that. I got the impression MIL really didn’t want them either, or maybe she was just sad thinking about her late son. It’s all so difficult.
I haven’t even started on the basement yet and I’m already exhausted. So I’ll take a break, have a sammich in a bit, then head down ther to figure out how to deal with our crap, her crap, and the grands’ crap (which should be removed in a couple of months, I hope.)
It’s all emotionally draining.
As usual, everyone was short handed. We got everything done, but just in the nick of time. I did my Qldi run after work.
Also, it is World Sleep Day, so Spot is celebrating by having Screaming Tuxedo Zoomies all morning.
But I thought you enjoyed dusting. 
But yeah, that is a lot to deal with.
Moooom, if it were me, I’d say there’s no harm in hanging on to stuff that MIL has an emotional connection to; if it brings her comfort at the end of her life, that’s a good thing. You can dump it all when she’s gone.
Of course, it’s not me. You know what works in your home, and I know you’re making plenty of concessions in your life already. It’s a tough situation all around.
She’ll keep what she wants - even tho some of it will be in boxes in the basement. I’m certainly not going to make her throw things away. I’ll just be making a big haul to the thrift store after she dies. I know it’s difficult for her to have pretty much lost everything and I try to be patient. It’s wearying…
I had to run to the store for bay leaves for my bean soup, so I got to get out of the house for a bit. I’m hoping to get some yard time tomorrow - weather-dependent, of course. If all goes well, next week when Roxy is on spring break, she and I will plant my veggie patch.
Somewhere along the line, I’ll attack the disaster that is the basement - maybe when we have a rainy day.
As if it wasn’t bad enough my white cells were a little low when I had my bloodwork, now the results of my pap came. Hpv high risk 16.
I think I tested for it last year and had my painful colposcopy.
Only thing that clears it is your immune system.
I am also mad at myself for having sex with people who didn’t deserve it. I won’t have sex again until/ if I marry.
Now I need to find ways to strengthen my immune system.
Work. Got there at 10, they open at 11. My task was to put chips in their bags. Seems I put them in the wrong size bags so they were thrown away.
Anyone who asked for them were told we were out.
Standing and bending made my back hurt.
I asked boss for a 5 minute break to sit down and he made me sign out for the 5 minutes.
Still no word on when my check will come.
I did get $3 in tips so I have bus money for tomorrow.
This job is cursed.
Back from the CPA. Looks like I’ll owe a bit under two kilobucks to our favourite uncle, and a few hundred to my native state.
A Cessna was landing at BLI on the way home. Its shadow pretty much hit my car. Maybe the shadow of its port wing. Maybe it missed, but I’m calling it. Anyway, being hit with an airplane shadow is good luck. So I bought a Mega Millions ticket. 
‘When the wife’s away, the husband will play’… in the kitchen. I saw a can of chicken in the cupboard. I think I’ll mix it up with some mayo, curry powder, and cashews. And give the cats some chicken water. Wifey always says I give the cats too much tuna water. ‘You’ll make them sick!’ So I need to give them the chicken water before she gets home.
I made the curried chicken salad. I went and got some celery. Since I had extra celery (obviously), I reckoned I’d luncheon on celery spread with potted meat. I can’t believe we’re out of potted meat. So I’m having an avocado, cottage cheese, and a pressed-beef sanger.
FCM, you probably won’t have to haul to thrift stores. See if Goodwill or similar will carry stuff out, or at least get it from your driveway.
NO JOB?!?!?!?!? What happened to the Principal or Headmistress job? You likely don’t want to recount it so if you would kindly give me a hint on what week’s MMP to go look at.
Stayed up late last night looking at Instagram so didn’t get to sleep until 12:45ish. Was hoping to sleep in but NO. Yesterday I ran up to Kroger to get Stouffer lasagna for dinner along with some chicken broth for Hubs and zucchini bread for daughter’s breakfasts. She had taken my car to Chicago. I drove it to Kroger last night. When I got in, I saw the notification that said the oil needs to be changed. So, I called our former neighbor who owns a shop and left a VM asking if I should bring it in today or tomorrow. He called then texted (since I didn’t answer the phone) at 6am waking me up that tomorrow would be better. Then I couldn’t get back to sleep.
Took care of Bella’s needs, made breakfast for Hubs and gave him his pills, then broke fast self. Washed a heck of a lot of dishes, pots and the stove. Folded sheets from yesterday’s laundry then put towels, washclothes and dishclothes in. Have to use a different dishcloth everyday as directed by Stem Cell Transplant clinic; towels must be changed twice a week, sheets once a week.
Started trying to get Hubs infusion going but I must have been too stressed because I kept getting no-go messages from the infusion pump. First I tried using a different tubing but still no-go. So, I called the Infusion people, the supply guy said the nurse was on another call and he’d have her call me back. I really needed to take care of something else so I gave my phone to our daughter and asked her to see if the nurse could help diagnose the pump problem. Before I left she asked if I had primed the tubing. I had mixed up the steps and was thinking that needed to be done after the tubing was put into the pump. Shucks, I should have kept using the step by step booklet. Anyway daughter got the infusion going and I took off to go pay for the storage unit.
I got the storage unit after Hubs went into the hospital so I could store a whole bunch of crap er valuable stuff that needed dusting, etc. The storage location manager was not very communicative and didn’t tell me some info I needed to know. Last month when I went to pay the monthly fee, which she had initially told me was going to be $62, she said it would be $74. I asked why it wasn’t $62 that she had initially quoted me and she replied that insurance was $12 a month. I said I don’t need any insurance and besides you didn’t say anything about that when I initially got the unit. She said she did. Well, she didn’t but there was no sense arguing as I wasn’t going to win. Then she said that if we had homeowner’s insurance, she could take the insurance fee off. Well we definitely do but she needed proof. So, today, the due date, I fished the proof of homeowners insurance out of the big pile of crap on Hubs desk and made my way to the Storage Unit office which was locked. No manager. A guy in the parking lot said he heard she has COVID. So, I went home and called the number she had given me last month and told my sad tale of woe to the gent who my call was routed to. Since he was in another state, he was unable to take the insurance off the account, only the manager can. He said there’s a 5 day grace period before the late fee kicks in so I’ll have to make another trip there tomorrow morning after the oil change.
With all that went on today, I just can’t deal with making dinner for daughter and self, so am going to pick up a steak fajita carryout with side of guac and chips. Will need to heat up some broth for Hubs.
First two NCAAA games in Dayton tonight so I need to get moving so I don’t miss the opening tip.
Enjoy your evening.
An hour after I arrived in L.A., the surgeon called and cancelled BIL’s surgery due to a small abrasion on his knee. I could come home early but my sister is so glad I’m here. I have some exciting plans including going to Buc-ees.
I would, LOL!!!
That is very hopeful. I went to the pharmacy to pick up my meds and instead of paying 43.00 like I did in January, they wanted 71.00!!! I protested the price jump and they sold them to me for 50.00 and said they probably wouldn’t be able to do that for me again.
And that’s all I’m going to say about that lest the dam break and the damn words start coming out.
Heretic!!!
It’s just very confusing. If either of us had bills or plastic that the other didn’t, I would understand but with the way our finances work, our credit scores should be identical.
Thank you. She is home now but she’s still groggy and GG got annoying so he’s locked out of the bedroom to give her a little time to recover.
I’ve got a load of towels going in the washer, she’s had a hard day and deserves some warm towels to burrow into.
Are you sure you have dogs? All the dogs I’ve ever know have loved going for rides.
I’m glad you have a good time with your kids, I hope you can see them again sooner than summer.
The end of days is always hard on everyone. I’m wishing you all peace.
I did not know that 
Tuna water is not good for cats due to the high amounts of mercury. Chicken water is marginally better for them. Ours always get a small drink of chicken stock when I make it, but I do worry about the salt content.
I’ve never been in one, but I’ve heard they are well worth visiting!