# (Old) Halfway through the month - Midway in the MMP

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Tags:** mmp\
**Created:** [January 13, 2025, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-halfway-through-the-month-midway-in-the-mmp/1012910 "2025-01-13T11:40:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-halfway-through-the-month-midway-in-the-mmp/1012910/14 "2025-01-13T15:10:24Z")

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> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> I chose to fill the pellet stove and make breakfast first. _\< shakes angry little fist at **BooFae** \>_

'Tswhatcha get for being all productive and stuff.

> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> packet of gravy mix (don’t judge!)

No judgy-judgy here.

I have half a jar of, well, jarred gravy in the fridge. At least your version involved “cooking!”

> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> Woke up to a really hot bedroom during the night, so opened the window to let in some of that sweet -26 air and was able to get back to sleep.

My kind of people.

> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> It’s so stupid, because I feel better when I eat better

What’s stupid? Of course you feel better.

But has anyone ever muttered, while barfing through a hangover, “Tomorrow, imma drink MOAR!”

… and then what do they do?

You’re not stupid. Just human.

> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> I’m creeping up on 71 - I really need to take better care of myself.

I initially misread this as “creeping up on 7-11” and thought briefly, “Yeah, convenience store fud ain’t healthy.”

> [@(Old) The Snowed In MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-the-snowed-in-mmp/1012614/454):
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> > [@(Old) The Snowed In MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-the-snowed-in-mmp/1012614/454):
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> > a hammer, saw, plane, and a box of nails.
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> I give up – what do those things have to do with a nuclear-trained peanut farmer?

He was highly involved with Habitat for Humanity, where volunteers build homes for the destitute.

Social media luuuurved pics of a 90-year-old guy smiling & hammerin’ nails with everyone else on the build crew.

Very humble, and by all accounts very sweet and dedicated to doing good things.

> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> Oddly enough, keeping the diary is kind of like a conscience.

Yeah, it’s one thing to snarf down an entire sleeve of cookies in ~~the bathroom~~ secret. It’s quite another to hafta admit, in writing, what you did.

> [@Taters](#):
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> You know what’s scary? Driving down the freeway and having the vehicle die…while doing 65 M.P.H.

I had an alternator go out on me like that many, many years ago.  
20-something woman, semi-sketchy area, driving alone at night, in a black car.

With no idea why my radio went dead .. then the headlights got super dim … then the power steering crapped out …

> [@Sahirrnee](#):
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> I don’t know it I’ll send the others back

If it’ll get you a refund, then … yeah, return 'em!

> [@Sahirrnee](#):
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> I wonder if my son would like it.  
> He has a bunch of sets just sitting there since Christmas.

“You don’t get seconds until you finish your firsts.”

> [@Sahirrnee](#):
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> I have a lot to do today, and don’t want to do any of it.… I need a secretary.

I felt that in the core of my entire being.

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