Went on the shopping trip today. Got some fun things from Michaels for the summer lobby decor.
In the winter we have a deer that goes on the grand piano in the lobby. This year when we were switching out from autumn to holiday/winter, we came across 2 red cardinals. They were the type to clip on the tree.
Instead we put the cardinals on the deer (who I named vixen as she is laying on the piano. Yes we have other deers around the lobby to round out the 8.).
The cardinals were a hit in the building. People found them amusing.
So when we did the spring decor change it was decided to keep the cardinals and add in nests. In April I had found tiny little cardinals so the eggs “hatched”. We added in some other birds here and there in the floral arrangements. Once again big hit. People enjoyed discovering them.
For summer I found some parrots that look like they are wearing hawaiian shirts. These should be fun. I also got palm branches and monstera leaves to add to the huge hydrangeas for the floral displays. We will clip the new parrots and toucans to various bits of decor. The cardinals and spring birds will join in.
I’m a bit excited about this switch. I hope the building enjoys it.
Howdy Y’all! Been a day of high sloth as predicted and as is our wont. No quality cee-mint pond time due to cloudy weather, but we did enjoy beeverages out at the gazebo. I made the corn casserole a little while ago and it’s coolin’ down on the kitchen counter as I post. I also made the tea. Now it’s time for Netflix and chill.
shoe go ahead and play fast and loose with the tp supply. One day you will feel loose comin’ on fast with only half a roll of tp. Then you’ll be sorry.
There was a 2.8 earthquake in Lake county Ohio today, near the city of Madison.
They’ve had a few this year.
Dorito salad for supper and got my People magazine from the library so I am happy…did you know J Lo and Ben are living apart now? I don’t care either but…People.
Also got a cute book called Red Scared by Michael Barson and Steve Heller.
This is a yummy recipe. But be smarter than I was and read all the instructions first. I almost forgot the milk…
FCD just got back from the boat. I fed MIL despite her insistence that she could do it. Um, she couldn’t tell what was in the fridge, she can’t reach the microwave, and even if she could, she can’t see the buttons. But, yeah, she was going to make her supper.
Daughter took the grands to the pool again. They have started locking the gate to keep neighborhood kids out. Some people seem to think it’s a public pool. FCD said a person came to the office asking for the combination, claiming they were told they could swim there. Yeah, not likely. Boat owners pay several thousand a year for slips and use of the facilities. It’s private property.
And the day is winding down. Stoopid meds keep me dopey. I will be discussing this with the neurologist. I can’t continue like this. Stoopit brain.
My sisters and I got hand-me-down Barbies from our cousins and Mom sewed outfits for them from patterns available for that. I don’t think any of the dolls ever wore shoes.
Yep! He had to settle for going in the car with me to the post office and to pick up supper.
I has a bit of a sad. On the way home from getting supper, there was a doe that someone apparently had hit and her half grown fawn was licking her face where she lay in someone’s driveway. I did make a call to the PD to let them know. I know that they’re overpopulated and all, but seeing her baby with her kind of got to me.
Thank you for your kind words. I know there is an Embroiders Guild of America group in Logan, which is only five miles away instead of an hour’s drive, so that means there are ladies who know where the good stores are. Due to the charter rules, I’m like a red headed step-child to the EGA, but stitchers are stitchers so the actual members won’t shun me because I use open canvas instead of fabric. I haven’t found a tai-chi group, but that is on my list of things to get done post-haste.
This is really my concern. I have spent so much time looking at listings that when I see something priced lower than it should be, I don’t think “Such a deal!”. I think “Hmmmm, I wonder what’s wrong with it.”.
Hubs has agreed that he will pay attention to what our realtor says because he’s the one with the experience.
Drugs will be used for both of us! He’ll get them in the car and I’ll smoke it up after we are stopped for the night.
You are retired, you are allowed to spend the day in bed but it might not hurt do use it for sleep at times.
I sure do wish I had gotten this message earlier. I guess I assumed (and how stupid is that?) that buying and selling long distance was common enough that the people we are paying to do the things would understand that someone wiring money from AZ just might not be in WV.
At least FedEx was only 70 bucks for two day delivery. For a fucking piece of paper that the office will scan into a file and then shred. I could have done that at home, email is free.
Same! Have you seen the latest Transformer toys. HOLY COW!!!
I have been a life long stoner. I like being high. I also know that being high means not a whole lot of good judgement, with often inconvenient/unpleasant outcomes. As a result, I have learned to plan EVERYTHING first. I also try to plan for other people’s lack of planning. I am actually pretty embarrassed that I didn’t plan for the paperwork involved in not being at the closing, I’ve never had to be at one in the past. Heck, we bought our first place long distance with neither of us at closing and that was more than 35 years ago.
We went out to Drayton Harbor Oyster Co. for dinner tonight, for a dozen oysters on the half-shell (7 to 5, my favour) and local beer. Then we went to Smuggler’s Tunnel for Hemingway daiquiris (2 each) an a six jumbo-shrimp cocktail (4 to 3, my favour). We stopped at the bakery around the corner from Gateway 1890 so Mrs. L.A. could get her pastries. (No lemon drop cookies, unfortunately.) And now, some wine…
At a position a number of years ago, my boss and I had an expression that we used when we didn’t want the rest of the staff to know what we were talking about: ATA - Anticipate The A$$holes ie put in fail safe procedures/plans that would significantly lessen the chance that the employees couldn’t cause things to be F’d up.
Plus you work, so you can stuff toilet paper in your pockets before coming home. My BFF did that during the Times of No Toilet Paper.
While I would love to stop for a visit, I’m going to have GG with me so my focus will be on getting to the next hotel as soon as possible. I’d really like to get there in three days, but I can’t drive after dark anymore and I’ll be losing time along the way.
I was VERY proud of you for resisting the cookies as long as you did. Hubs couldn’t have done that unless I hid some of them.
I think that your decorating sounds so much fun, I’m glad you keep getting compliments about it now that the paint wars are over.
I know several folks who are on those sort of meds and know that they can be adjusted or changed pretty easily. However, stopping them cold turkey is not advised.
So more stuff just left our home and they are coming back with a truck for the rest. I had forgotten how big this place is without furniture!
am I going to hell becuase as someone who deals with disabled relatives and knows this all too well I still sniggered?
although in my case it’s a mentally 8-year-old cousin asking… here’s our typical vitamins/medicine routine: "Why? " "Because mom wants you to take these "Oh ok "
5 minutes later when they arent taken:“What’s wrong”? : “Take them,” says I more firmly “Are you mad ?” " yes, I’m getting there " "Why? " "Because you didn’t take them as I told you to " " said with a sigh “Oh alright”
Usually she takes them after that but sometimes line 2 is said 3 or 4 times before she does
Evenin’ all! Pissin’ away time readin’ and respondin’. Hope everyone has had a fine first half to their weekend!1! Mine was productive at a reasonable pace. And had a fine Mexican lunch. Yaay me!
And if JtC takes a really wrong turn in Albuquerque as Bugs Bunny so often did and somehow ends up in Miami, she can room w me for awhile. We’ll have a blast! I promise.
Not to worry. IMO it’s a reasonable question deserving a reasonable response.
Speaking solely for me, I was ready for a new, albeit uncommitted, woman-adventure the day after I walked out. I knew what I wanted, I knew I wasn’t getting it, and after the de facto if unintentional gaslighting of the previous two years I wasn’t sure anymore I knew how to get it. But I was sure gonna try; at 65+yo time’s a wastin!
I have to assume she is semi-similar about wanting a successful man-adventure to wash the bad taste out. I reiterate: she is not evil and I don’t mean to speak ill of her. We were just a spectacularly bad fit and her being happy will make me vicariously happy for her whether I know of it or not.
As to your Q itself … We share a lot here routinely. I don’t think that was oversharing. Anyone?
If I was disinclined to answer someone’s question for any reason it simply would have gone unremarked. I truly just forgot about this one. I do some MMP-reading on my phone to kill wait time when out wherever (and more than that to try to keep up w all y’all’s never-ending stream of yabbering vitally important posts), and I then try to re-hash those pre-read posts later on my PC when I’m in a position to reply substantively, but some stuff gets skipped / skimmed over that way. Your Q was one of those skips.
And I did 2 loads of laundry today: one was my regular weekly wardrobe and one was some new clothes to de-bleed them. Yaay me.
I also proved yet again that no project involving a hardware store can be accomplished in only 1 visit. I got everything I had thought of on the first trip correctly. Then when I went to assemble everything back home I realized I needed some more crap. Or at least strongly wanted some more crap; there’s a difference between a slap-together minimum-OK job and a first class one and I do usually care enough to send the very best.
So another 10 minute trip downstairs, down the road 3 miles to Ace, find my tidbits, then 3 miles back for $2 of parts and $4 of fuel, brakes, and tires plus 45 minutes of silly “entertainment”. But the project succeeded totally and the parts were just what I needed. I also bought some extras just in case I lost some. Which for an incremental 70 cents was only sensible. Said extras are now contributing to the landfill burden of our (my actually) modern consumerist society.
Now enjoying a Gimlet, Romantic Latino music on the TV, and a quiet night at home w y’all.
Tomorrow will be a late morning drive to Miami to meet up with an old pilot pal, probably my best friend. He lived and worked in Miami with me for about 7 years and now lives and works up north. We talk often on the phone, but I miss our face-to face drinking sessions meetings. We’re coming up on 30 years as pals. Gosh he looks old.
Based on my recommendations, he and his lovely and talented wife are taking two Virgin cruises back to back out of Miami. Tomorrow they’ll have about 5 hours of in-port time after the first cruise and before the second. She’s fully committed shoreside with her pals, so he and I will go have guy-time. Then I’ll go to BBs house, pick her up, and take her to our suite at JW Marriott Miami - Iconic Brickell, Miami Hotel for a severe but very affectionate thrashing until noonish Monday. . We talked an hour-ish ago and after a lot of sleep today and more tonight and tomorrow she’s about back to OK.
Then we check out, she goes back to work overnight, and I go back home to resume my useless life of gleeful aimless excess.
I might rephrase that as
It’s certain to rain tomorrow; this is the PNW.
Back in my IT era I spent a few days every couple of months year-round for a couple of years at Redmond or Bellingham working with a small software company you may have heard of. Gosh was that a wet damp experience. Less soaking rainy in the Midwestern style I was accustomed to, and much more just drizzly & always wet everywhere. Ugghh. Not for me. Glad some folks love it.
That’s why showers were invented. Just hop in and hose off.
I recall a horrid self-inflicted food poisoning event from college. I laid naked in the tub spewing from both ends for what seemed an entire afternoon, periodically turning on the shower to wash the chunks down the drain and rewarm myself. Think of it as a whole body bidet and it kinda makes sense.
Best of luck with the meds. IANA expert of course, but IIRC most brain meds require a) getting used to, and b) dialing in the dose for your particular brain. Good bet they gave you the “big, just in case, don’t want a repeat episode soon” dosage and soon they’ll be titrating that to what works enough but not too much for you.
Are you by any chance from Arkansas?
Or she’s increasingly deaf.
My cognition is fine. But I can hardly understand half of what live people or computers say to me. Losing hearing sucks.
I need to know to be focused on paying attention to the audio source before it starts talking. If it just blurts out [whatever] (a favorite HL habit) I have no clue what was said. If it said “Attention please; I’m about to make an announcement; please listen up” and then said [whatever], I’d probably understand every word. Late wife and I had decades previously established a standard way of opening a hailing frequency so we knew the other was tuned in before we spoke anything substantive. Seems basic courtesy to me, regardless of one’s hearing or cognition status. HL was uninterested in altering her habits.
For most of my life if I didn’t understand some unexpected speech I could mentally “play back the tape” and quickly recover what was said. I recall doing that in high school and before. So long before I had any hearing issues.
I can still replay that tape today. And often do. But now it “sounds” like “Murfl burfle blah umble wah wah mmm”. Which is not useful even the second time. Gettin’ decrepit sux.
I sleep just fine alone. As does she. When we’re together there’s also lots of sleeping in small bites between thrashing. But our together time is rare and quite valuable to both of us for certain shared experiences.
Today she went out w Mom for shiny new nails. They do a lot of that and massages and spa treatments together. Anyhow, I requested the long sharp nails so she could carve her initials in my back. She demurred as she can’t wear impractical nails at work. Oh well. She can still carve; she’s just gotta try harder. I’m sure they’re real pretty; they’ll be a surprise tomorrow.
Sorry I wasn’t more timely with that. I plumb forgot.
You’re dealing with people in rural WV who can’t imagine the idea of anyone not living out their life within 1 mile of where their great grandparents were born. If you were buying in a growing metro area there would be no such ignorant assumptions. Provincial yokels be yokels nationwide. Sorry.
But yeah, my entire personal and professional life can be summed up in your fine phrase:
I also try to plan for other people’s lack of planning.
IME / IMO it’s the only way not to be stymied at every turn.
I love it! Thank you.
ATF = Anticipate The Fools is an alternate formulation that describes so many workers. You have your listless idiots and your active saboteurs. Different problems but similar solutions.
About time to wrap up here. G’night all and happy Sunday manaña!!
Agree 1000%. Dad always said you must get the person’s attention you want to speak to before you start speaking. It’s just common courtesy. Also when speaking to another person, face them and enunciate clearly. I appreciate the lessons I learned from Dad.
Good evening all. Did make it to the gym (between raindrops, it kept up until after 5:30pm) and managed to pedal away enough calories to make the Fettuchini Alfredo dinner a moot point. Heading to Metro Diner for a meatloaf dinner on Sunday, so more penance will probably be due. All clothing and towels are done and put away, but my blue jeans are still drying (I read somewhere years ago not to dry jeans all the way in the dryer and now it’s become a habit). Will hang them up and put them away before I retire for the night.
rocky, sounds like a nice display.
swampy, you’ll be happy to know that my t.p. supply is now 85 rolls in reserve, so barring a case of dysentery, I should be good for the rest of the year.
FCM, you sure don’t sound dopey; must just be how your feeling.
red, that is a sad story, even if they may be pests at time deer are just too doggone cute to ignore.
JtC, Good luck in finding a Tai Chi class in rural W. Virginia–but then again, I have been surprised more than once, so you may surprise me again.
Pilot, thanks for the info. And…
Amen!
Enjoy your time with your pal and BB…each in their own way, of course…
Also you remind me I have to contact the audiologist I was referred to for an appointment. Like you I can hear pretty well, but if my attention strays or they are not clear, I can lose most or all of what they are saying. If they address me clearly and to my face, no problems. Still need to get it checked out.
OK, after 9:30pm and I still have to finish reading the Firday NY Times before I acquire the Sunday edition. See y’all tomorrow.
You are right, I forgot about that part. The local yokels out thisaway aren’t as well established as the ones in older states, most everyone here came from somewhere else.
His family has suggested we move into the ancestral home which isn’t nearly as pricey as our new place. That is probably because it is a two room log cabin with wood heating and an outhouse. It is also on the important old buildings list so no changes can be made without lots of paperwork.
And when it comes to hard of hearing folks, use their name first. Don’t go “Blahblahblah, don’t you agree name?” because most folks can hear their names pretty well so that’s all they will pick up on if you say it last.
Awww, jeez. Nature ain’t cushy sometimes mostly, but pathos like that still tugs the heartstrings.
You’ve got a square to spare?
Fan him with some … ah, never mind.
This is brilliant.
I may or may not have done the same.
When ya gotta go, ya gotta go, and ya gotta do what ya gotta do to get by.
Jesus fuck we got slammed from the git-go today. Turns out there was a local event (the Pub Pedal, for bicycles) of which I was unaware, but holy godDAMN did we crank out those large deluxes tonight!
(“I’m sorry, you want how many? Four large deluxe? Okay. Plus four orders of fried clams and … the fried mushrooms, too? How many? Four. Yes, of course it’d be four …”)
That’s a >$150 order ^^ there BTW.
There were some … uneven hiccups, courtesy of some crew just … man, I dunno. I mean, we were busy, but there were some really crap times.
We had pizzas absolutely piling up from the ovens, waiting to be sliced & bagged - the poor Oven Mistress kept having to stand there holding hot pans, because there was literally nowhere for the pizzas to go.
I heard Sweet Manager muttering under her breath - and I’m fairly certain she was venting to me, in her way, otherwise I doubt she’d say anything in my earshot - and I feel for her. There’s only so much you can do with the employees you’ve got.
We all have our strengths & our weaknesses but it seemed like a lot of individual weaknesses came out at the same time.
Whelp, it’s been pouring for hours and shows no sign of stopping. Time to find some non-pizza food, and some way of entertaining Monkey since his ass ain’t going out in this weather.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 70 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 86 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. The big item on today’s agenda is deheathenization, wherein I get to plop in a pew, followed by first Sunday brunch. Thus we will get fed well today. I foresee an afternoon of quality cee-mint pond time to include sloth, nappage, and day drinkin’. Have I mentioned lately how much I like bein’ a retired drain on society?
And the award for this week’s most TMI post goes too…
red good on you for lettin’ the police know about the deer.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then purtification for deheathenization and the warmin’ of foodstuff must commence!
On one hand, I’m sleeping long hours thru the night. On the other hand, I always feel tired and I can’t read without nodding off. Damned meds. I will be discussing this with the doc tomorrow. I can’t function all fuzzy-headed. Dammit.
Depending on which weather site you believe, we’re either in for 5 days of rain or maybe 2 days in the coming week. I’m guessing they all make random predictions and eventually someone will be right. 'Cause nobody ever knows anyway…
FCD will be the good son and take his mother to church again. He really hates having to sit thru the service, especially when the preacher gets semi-political - he struggles to keep his inner smart-ass in check. This is a very red county…
Beyond that, I’m not sure what the day holds. I have some dishes to load in the dishwasher. And I think I’ll do some reading on seizures before my appointment tomorrow - I’d like to be somewhat educated. Mostly, whatever happens will happen, I guess.
. We talked an hour-ish ago and after a lot of sleep today and more tonight and tomorrow she’s about back to OK.
