(Old) Getting caught off-guard n the MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Topped off Monkey’s box - I really ought to scoop the whole thing, but, sorry, buddy, that ain’t happening tonight.

In better news, noodle sides are simmering, and I’ve managed to get all the old stuff off the bed (no thanks to Monkey, who “helped” in the traditional manner of felines when bedding is being rumpled) and even got as far as stretching the fitted sheet over the mattress.

Still need to do the pillowcases and retrieve blankets - supposed to get chilly starting tomorrow night - but that can wait a bit.

I need a break!

“Repeatedly?” What a lunatic.

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I’m sorry about your friend, nellie. It’s also got that valence of being frightening to anyone else who’s had breast cancer before.

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This is what her person does and wants me to do. I think it helps her feel secure. She has separation anxiety, and being alone in a bigger space seems to make it worse. It’s kind of like putting a dog in a big kennel. She did stop barking right after I left, according to neighbor. I ut two throw rugs together and cover them with her bunched-up favorite quilt. I’m pretty sure she sleeps. Still hard on ME, though!

It’s from our chums, the British. There’s an old coal mining town in Wyoming called Newcastle, and that got me in the habit.

I sure hope you feel better!

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I’ll say a prayer for your friend. Tell her my mom had spots on her lungs, and after chemo and radiation it did not advance any further, and she lived several more years. Thank goodness for bowel obstructions, that’s why mom had a lot of x-rays and they saw the spots.

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Evening all. Dinner was dined upon and trivia played and wonder if wonders I ended up $25 ahead in blackjack. Watching tackleball now but will be heading off to Dreamland soon.

Red, sounds like idiot was looking for someone she could intimidate…she chose poorly.

hippie, beautiful work.

shoe, hope you are feeling better.

flyboy, glad sister understood the math.

Nellie, happy for your eyes, sad for your friend.

OK, need to retire, our last stop before LA (after another three days cruising) is tomorrow so need to be up bright and early for my tour. Take care all.

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Not a phrase you hear often, but I got your drift.

Thanks for the good wishes, all. It’s 11:30 pm which is normally damn early by this new pizza-riffic schedule, but I’ve already brushed my teeth and am packing it in.
Finally got the bed all made, noodles were ingested along with half a pudding cup and some vitamins (plus an anti-inflammatory supplement that seems to help me feel better when I remember it) and …

… yanno what? Imma take another (much shorter) shower, just for the sheer pleasure of sliding into clean sheets with clean skin.

Should be worth the effort.

I need to make more little efforts like that.

Goodnight, sweet (and not-so-sweet) Mumpers.

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Thank you so much! I’ll pass that along.

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15/10, can highly recommend.

It’s been really windy all day - I assume that’s the impending rain and chill blowing our way - and while the howling around my windows is always an anxiety-inducing sound, having this damn half-busted tree hanging over my head bathroom roof ain’t helpin’ me sleep.

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Up, cafffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave and slide.

That would be all of my dogs.
And hope you feel better, too.

Nifty blocks, hippie.

{{{{nellie and friend}}}}

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Morning, mumpers! It’s a chilly 5c/40f with a predicted high of 9c/48f and partly cloudy. Weather app seems to like the colder temps and says “Mild weather is fucking perfect for pansy asses.” It was definitely a bit brisk walking across campus this morning, but the winter sun is making the place look bright and shiny.

hippy I am continually amazed by your quilting talents!

{{{{{nellie and friend}}}}}

Red looks like that silly mare messed with the wrong person!

JtC have fun poking around Amazon UK :slight_smile: It usually gives me snarky messages if I look at anything on the US version as if it’s trying to explain that I don’t live there and have the delights of their close-to-home site too. I don’t order much from the overseas sites as the shipping delays, extra charges and customs delays make it not really worthwhile unless it’s something I really can’t live without. Saying that, quite a lot of stuff (mainly CDs) comes from their EU centres anyway.

Nothing exciting in my day today, it’s Friday and I am in the office all day. I’m meeting a friend for lunch, as I was coming to the office I saw the lady who works in the Education Cafe where we go for lunch, had a nice chat with her, and she said she’d make sure there were a couple of jacket spuds put aside for us. How fab is that?

Got lunch sorted out before I’ve even had my breakfast :slight_smile:

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 60 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 73 and mostly cloudy for the day. No plans to be out and about today, so yay for that. The biggest item on the agenda is to make the fancy chikin sallit for tomorrows apres funeralizin’ N.O.L. over to the church house. Beyond that there will be sloth, general overall uselessness, nappage, and day drinkin’. Sup shall be majik intartoobz pizza and sallit just cause.

Nellie so sad about your friend.

wordy and shoe hope y’all are feelin’ better soonest.

red she sounds like a piece of work. Also, she definitely picked the wrong person to pick a fight with. Hope she’s gone soonest.

MetalMouse we went on a cruise waaaaaay back in 2004. There were six of us, three who had just turned fifty and three about to turn fifty. We went on a six day cruise and just acted fools the whole time. We called it our mid-life crisis. When we got off the ship, we were over it. Seems a good way to have a mid-life crisis if one is inclined to do so.

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.

Happy Firday Y’all!

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It’s not humid this time of year - just mainly in the summer. And while a vaporizer probably would have helped, I didn’t see your post before I went to bed. I’ll keep it in mind, tho - thanks. Which reminds me - I should put a pot of water on the pellet stove while it’s running…

It truly was, especially considering what an ass BIL was to her because she dared to marry a black man and bear his children. Just the reaction one would expect from an ordained Southern Baptist minister… :roll_eyes: (And no, I’m not dissing SB ministers, just this particular one who spewed Bible verses and hate with equal ease.)

Sillier still, if one is fed such “information” from a young enough age, it’s almost impossible to shed the notion. Like: men build and do repairs, women cook and clean. To this day, I’m ever-so-slightly jolted when a man talks about cooking. Yeah, I know, I know, but in my formative years, Mom cooked, unless it was on the grill. So that was the rule. It took a lot of years to accept that my brother is a pretty good cook, even away from a grill. Of course, FCD is not allowed to touch the stove or oven, but it’s not due to being male, it’s because he has no idea what he’s doing in there and has no desire to learn…

Dang, doggio, that Blueberry sounds like a major piece of work! I agree with the HR guy - don’t be shy about reporting her if she goes off the deep end again. You’d be doing everyone there a favor!

I took a snort of generic nyquil around 8 last night and was unconscious by 9. I may have awakened ever-so-briefly a couple of times, but pretty much slept thru till 6. I feel pretty close to human this morning!!

Last night, I hacked up the smoked turkey. Half is in vacuum-sealed bags in the freezer for future meals. The other half is in a zip bag in the freezer for next week. I’ll thaw it on Weds and pop it in the oven briefly in Thurs to warm it before we eat. So that’s the first Thanksgiving chore done. I’ll have Tobias on Moanday, but that’ll give me all day Tues and Weds to do the sides and desserts. And it’s looking like we’ll wait till SIL is off work and have our dinner in the evening instead of mid-day as was our tradition. No biggie either way. In fact, probably safer this way because I won’t spend the afternoon and evening fighting the urge to pick at leftovers.

I think I’ll make potato soup today and send some to MIL. She said she seems to be able to eat larger portions if she has soup, and potato soup can be calorie-rich, which she needs. Poor thing is down to 96#!!

BIL tried to break out of the behavioral unit last night. That does not bode well. On the plus side, maybe it’ll hasten his placement in a controlled environment where people know how to deal with him?

FCD is going to do a convenience center run today. We also need gas for the mower/mulcher. Our yard is overwhelmed with leaves. So, as you see, we’ve got an exciting day ahead!

Happy Firday!!

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If they weren’t before, they are now.

And yet, most of the big-name Michelin star chefs tend to be men. And the loudest, most ego-driven @$$holes, too - I wonder how they practice and even get their start in what’s traditionally a women’s sphere?

The brashness makes some sense, though. Running a big, noisy kitchen is not for the meek.

The original meaning of “appetizer” was intended to be a tasty but very light thing, to make you hungrier for things to come!

Such as, yanno, yummy potato soup.

Of course, the meaning has shifted over the years. (There are apps at places like Applebee’s or whatever that I’d consider a full meal.)

Oh, good lord.

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Good morning.

It’s 31F outside right now. There will be areas of fog in the morning, with temps warming up to 52F with partly cloudy skies. I need to get the lawn mowed before the rain moves back in.

I am hopeful this will be the last mow, dang it. It’s November for goodness sake! However, I want to get the grass cut, so the pups have an easier time of it when they get here. I plan to lead them to a designated potty spot back on the side of the house as part of their potty training. It should be easier to avoid land mines that way and will hopefully, be easier on my lawn.

nellie, I’m so sorry about your friend. Your corneal specialist is kind of a numbnuts isn’t he?

shoe and wordy, I hope you’re both feeling 100% soonest. Being sick sucks!

red, yeah, watch yourself. That woman sounds like a nutcase and a half.

FCM, I really hope they can get BiL into a controlled environment sooner.

nellie, there will be pics when I actually get the puppies. I still don’t have a pick-up date, but found out yesterday the current owner is sending me home with waterproof mats and leashes too. I think that’s nice, she doesn’t have to do that. I ordered an indoor pen for the pups yesterday. Today, I’ll go to PetSmart for a couple of crates. I want to see the crates in person.

Welp, gotta do a restart on the PC. Running some updates and they require a restart.

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Happy Friday!

Up, caffeinating, breakfasted, bed stripped, a load of towels / sheets in the dryer, a load of jeans in the wash and fixing to do KP and clean the apartment. I plan on doing two weeks worth of grocery shopping today so that I won’t have to brave stores on Thanksgiving weekend.

Thanks for the moral support re the nutjob blueberry. Even though I can hold my own with her, it still bothers me that someone at my irkplace would try that shit.

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

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I haz a confused. What does blueberry mean in the context of place of employment?

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Ooops - I saw blueberry and immediately assumed it was doggio’s post. But, yeah, she’s a nutjob!

At doggio’s workplace, n00bs wear blue vests (I think) to show they don’t yet know what’s happening.

And I’m sitting here with ice on my right knee, having whacked my left knee against the trailer hitch on the truck, causing me to fall on my right knee and elbow. Plus I must have also done something to my left wrist. Walking is extremely painful, but it’s a bruise pain rather than a fracture pain. I expect purple knees before too long. Dammit.

All because I went to the convenience center with FCD.

After icing, I will try to walk around a bit to keep it from seizing up. Too much to do to be laid low by owies…

Dammit.

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Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
UPS: Doing different things, and getting the same screwed up outcome anyways
Yeah the belt overloaded, I wasn’t running it, SSDD.
One of the things they do do right is open up a temp facility to take some of the smaller routes for Peak Season. The call it “The Village”
Me: “You’re going to The Village?”
Deb: “Next Tuesday.”
Me: “Take Shaggy, every village needs an idiot.”
Deb: “No.”

You’re thinking red’s Blueberry.

They should give them to half of management for that reason. :wink:

You need more than a vaporizer, then. :wink:

Oy vey.

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Slept plenty, plus there’s noisy “BEEP! BEEEEEP!” work happenin’ on my block, with much grinding noises, so I’ve given up on falling back asleep after bio-break.

So, taking a cue from FCM I decided to be productive. Sorta.

First batch of sheet/duvet cover/etc is in the dryer already, thankyouverymuch, plus the fitted sheet is running on a “small” load on its own (tired of finding random items rolled into a wet ball of dubious cleanliness in a twisted-up corner) and Monkey has even gotten some Squeezy-Crack for being such a snuggly sweetie.

I have also thoroughly scooped his poopin’ box, so YOU’RE WELCOME, MONKS!

Me too. (Too-quick skim?)

Anyway, I think we have a new Mumper term.

“Blueberry = Newbie co-worker” :blueberries: (omg there’s a “blueberry” emoji now? whhaaaat? what techno world are we living in?)

It took a while to draft this and they’re STILL making a racket out there. Peeking out the window, they’ve upgraded to a cherry picker and are doing .. things .. to a giant oak next door.

Watched the top guy DROP a chunk of branch a several yards down to the guys looking up watching for it. The “thunk” was audible.

Took two guys to lift that chunk. Damn thing (the branch chunk) is bigger’n’me, but solid wood. Easily 4 ft but double my width.

More chunks ensued. I stopped watching.

Jeebus, and I thought my job came with hazards? I mean, I could easily lop off a finger or wind up in the burn ward, but if that chunk fell on me, I’d be a squished greasy spot.

Well, I have a few bucks in my wallet, and a cat who won’t stop eating … and pooping. (Weird. Think they’re related?)

Since I hafta close this weekend, and next week brings the OMG-Thanksgiving-stravaganza (not me, I ain’t cookin’ but it’s “all hands” at work till close the night before, plus I’m invited to Sweet Manager and her momma for T-Day the day after “kill me now night” and they eat their turkey at noon or some ungawdly awful early hour) so to plan ahead, imma go to Wally World now, and get the Monkey supplies in advance.
(Out of context, that could get me in trouble with exotic game wardens.)

I may reward myself with yet another cup of soup from the local place right next to Wally.

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Breakfast burritos this morning. We were going to wait until Monday to pick up T-day ingredients, but decided to do it this morning. Glad we did so, as the shelves are already emptying. I got the last two turkey drumsticks (to make stock with).

I’ve been taking two Excedrin every night to help with knee discomfort while sleeping. I decided not to take it last night and of course regretted it. Had hip pain most of the night and woke up with knee pain. It could be because of the big cold front that pushed in last night, of course. We went from a high of 60 yesterday to a high of about 45 today. Also had a nightmare about my cat being crushed in a sewer pipe while I wandered about lost in a giant mall (seriously, WTF?). Gave her extra skritches (or is it ‘scritches’?) this morning.

Broke out the Swiffer and dusted all the window blinds, which hasn’t been done since we moved in here for some reason. I think that having room cleaning service has made us lazy. They do clean, but they are NOT very thorough about it, and the windows and blinds don’t get touched at all.