Short nap, watching hockey
Earlier:
Neighbors: < make noise >
Spot: “There are people. Why are there people?”
I use Speed Stick. 
Running from axe murderers. Either way you lose weight.
Probably. But the local FedEx building send out their drivers the smae as ours, so I could imagine gang signs being flashed at each other.
{{{{Coppertome}}}}
< laughs in 2009 era apartment decor >
Hugs and even more hugs.
Hang out here for Memorial Day. Maybe we can get swampy to send us a picture of his cee-mint pond and eats-a virtual Memorial Day Mumper picnic.
The only one in my family that I know of who died in action is my great-(great-?) uncle Captain Chaplain Thomas Leroy Kirkpatrick, who was killed on USS Arizona on December 7th, 1941. He made Captain on 1 July, 1941. He was the first chaplain of the United States military killed in World War II.
I lost one uncle and one cousin in Vietnam. One of my cousin’s son-in-laws was killed in Iraq. I also have two great great great uncles (brothers) who are buried at Stones River National Cemetery after being killed in the battle of Stones River during the ACW. Other than that, everyone else came home with a heartbeat that I’m aware of. Some were wounded though.
Hello, and also, thank you to those who checked in on me.
I was … really overwhelmed by a lot of adulty/life things recently, so I lurked but did not post. Anyway, knowing there were some non-judgemental folks in my corner helped pull me out of quite the funk.
Now I have eaten … and am still eating … and might also be munchy-shopping online …
I swear to 
with you people!
{ snerk }
I’m so sorry, luv.
I’m the same way about Labor Day weekend. Husband, not son, but still … everyone else is going all “Lah-deeeh-dah! Have a great holiday!!” and inside it’s just a … crappy reminder of a really horrible day.
But it’s not like you can just tell people that, so you … bottle it up to be polite, I guess.
Whelp { slaps knee in Michigander } on that cheerful note, I really am doing better than I have been in days, so imma go stuff my face more.
Also, tariffs be damned - and I may start a Cafe thread, but I’ll ask you nice people first - who wants to recommend their favorite orange marmalade?
It’s my favorite to go with brie cheese on Triscuits, but this local grocery stuff is too damn sweet.
I’m willing to cough up stoopit money for some import that will spoil me forever.
Ask me what I’m willing to do for oscypek cheese. Started at least two threads here about it over the years.
Have kissed my mom’s ass to get some.
Will probably do so again; the woman has connections, man.
@JaneDoe42 ooooohhhhhhh have you ever worked with smoked sheep milk cheese?
It’s amazing how much fun a cat can have with a Q-tip that fell on the floor!
How many people sleep 6 hours straight? Its happened to me a bit recently. Not a bad thing, but I like changing position at least once. Its good for circulation.
Of course I check the SD.
I shall try to return to sleep and check again when the sun is out.
Its 42 and almost looks like frost on car windows!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 70 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 88 and cloudy. There could be rain or not. TWPTB are bein’ all willy-nilly about the chance. The big item on today’s agenda is deheathenization in which I have Verger duty. It’s also Rogation Sunday, a day to bless crops, gardens and such. After the service we will gather in the Memorial Garden and walk around the property to the veggie garden which will be blessed. The pee-kahn trees will be blessed as well. In addition some trees that have been planted in memory of folk will be blessed. After all that it will be back to da cave to snarf down leftovers and accomplish nappage. RDOS inactivities are definitely in store.
{{{Coppertone}}} just remember we are here for you.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then purtification for deheathenization shall commence.
Happy Sunday Y’all!
Up, caffeinated, and sheveld. Off today. Morning cleaning followed by wall to wall motor sports today(Monaco GP, Indy 500, Coca-Cola 600). Spot is watching The Young And the Wrenless in the sunroom.
Spot loves ice cubes, and fidget spinners.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Give Up The Funk!
Glad you’re back posting
Appropriate for Towel Day
Best I could do for you was a place that makes it with cow’s milk instead of sheep’s milk - not sure if that’s satisfactory. Baltimore’s Polish community ain’t what it was when I was a kid - the neighborhoods where my grandparents lived are either gentrified or Hispanic. St. Stanislaw Church closed decades ago…
I found a lamp at the thrift store:
Tobias will love it. I need to get it to Daughter. The finial is a traffic cone (hard to tell from this pic.)
No idea what the day will hold. We’ll figure it our as we go along.
Happy Sunday!
Up a bit early today. Sadie is fed and is perched on the arm of my chair, making it devilishly difficult to type. I can’t believe the blizzard of hair that comes off this cat. I’m sure our lungs are coated with the stuff at this point. Brushing does very little.
Dear Dawter is coming over later today which will be nice.
That is hilarious. It sounds like the UPS driver just got the water just to piss off the FedEx driver. 
They are tweet.
{{{coppertone}}}
Glad you’re eating.
Not sure if it’ll be the same as the one here, but this is definitely less sweet:
Went for a walk before the main rains come. Got a little bit of drizzle, but we’ll dry out. Made Chicken Tikka Masala from a spice mix which wasn’t as good as the jarred stuff I used last time. Now if I could just remember where I bought the jarred stuff. 
Need to clean the sinks, do laundry, and try to find my desk. Seems to get buried quite easily.
Of course, tomorrow is not a holiday here. But Thursday and Friday are. 
Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 15c/59f with a predicted high of 16c/61f and partly cloudy. Weather app says “An optimist would say it’s partly fucking sunny outside. That optimist is a fucking idiot.” It’s not sunny just now, but it was, and it’s quite breezy too.
Happy birthday, Herald! 
Same here, I am a morning person whereas 'im indoors is a nightowl and is often up much later than me. If we’re going somewhere any distance away, I usually tell him we are leaving half an hour before I really want to go, just because he’s always faffing about doing something else instead of getting ready to leave!
I hope it went well, there were lots of protestors, nobody protesting the protest, and you managed to find a parking space!
That is definitely a WOW! I’ve been to a handful of the places on that itinerary and would love to visit more of them but not until I have a massive win on the lottery!
I guess that answers the question as far as my family’s concerned! I’m happy to be the weirdo, I like it and I appear to be in good company with doggio in the mumper family 
There were no psychotics involved, although the kettlebells instructor can be a bit of a psycho at times! I did have a long discussion with a gym friend about menopause though.
I’m glad you are ok and have been eating too - that’s some decent adulting already!
Ophelia was like that, she had pure white fur so everything was coated in it! Sometimes as she walked, you’d see a puff of white fur come off every time she put her paw on the ground.
We had a fun night out at the Giffard, saw some friends, chatted to bands, had bizarre conversations with random strangers, and danced to our favourite songs. We left about 2am and got a cab home. Sat up for another hour drinking tea and then finally made it to bed.
Bit of a late start this morning although 'im indoors did get up at some point for a bio break and then fed the cats because he was up. It’s nearly lunchtime for them and us now, so I’ll do the next lot of food. We haven’t got much planned for today, he said he needs to do something with his freezer (he’s got a chest freezer in the cupboard under the stairs that’s getting a bit ice-bound so it needs help) and I should get the rollsuck out either today or tomorrow.
I did a proper adult thing today already and have ordered a new mattress for us. The one we have now is many years old and although it gets flipped and rotated on the bed, we can’t do that any longer because it’s got a spring poking through somewhere. Seemed like a good time to get a new one…so I have ordered one, they will deliver it in a couple of weeks, and take the old one away for recycling.
Time for more tea, and some lunch!
Good morning all. Slept well outside of two trips to micturate, but up about 6:30am and have picked up my NY Times and have broken fast (a banana, a 100-calorie bag of mini-pretzels, and two Oreo cookies–nothing like a healthy start to the day. It’s comfortable (66F) and the sun is shining, but rain is expected by noontime, so I’ll enjoy it while I can. Outside of dining out at Texas Roadhouse and (maybe) heading back over to the gym, nothing much on the agenda. Have cleaned my terlets for the week, so have done the minimal housework needed. Maybe do more later.
Cookie, enjoy the visit and hope the aches and pains are not that bad.
red, I really need to vacuum, but really hate my vauum cleaner (the cord attaches to the vacuum at the bottom, not hear the top so it is always clumsy to handle–IMHO).
Sticky Buns, hope the pants are OK.
boo fae, my mattress is about 7 years old, it still does the job but keeping an eye on it.
And off into the wilds of the internet. Have a good Sunday all!
JtC, loved the feuding delivery drivers story. And I have carpet in about 60% of my house, I think I am happy with it, but you never know…
red, the cards look great.
{{Coppertone}}. And somedays I get 6-8 hours straight, most days the bladder allows me 4-5 hours uninterrupted slumber.
shoe, glad to see you back (and eating). Life gets that way sometimes. And {{ }} for you too on your remembrances. Sorry I can’t help on the marmalade or oscypek cheese…my palate is definitely plebeian (mostly from being a ‘fussy’ eater when I was a youth).
swampy, happy Vergering. And I am all for blessing pee-khan trees.
FCM, interesting lamp
@FairyChatMom: that is the coolest lamp; the fact the finial is lit from inside is the kicker. As a 5yo I’d have loved that thing. Congrats on a great find!
When I was a teen we had an Old English Sheepdog. In SoCal. To say he liked to shed his excessive coat was a massive understatement.
We said he was “furdioactive”. With a real short half-life.
This was always my favorite.
Been a few years since I’ve been able to eat it, so they may have cheapened it beyond recognition since then. Or sweetened it beyond recognition. It used to be easy to find in ordinary grocery stores; maybe it still is.
They also used to make a grapefruit marmalade that was very un-sweet & tangy. But this was back when “grapefruit” meant a large yellow fruit with pale yellow-white flesh and a puckeringly tart taste. Not those pink-skinned red-fleshed sugar-encrusted abominations we now see. I’ve not seen their grapefruit marmalade in years, and Amazon’s ideas for “grapefruit marmalade” are all pink = sickly disgustingly sweet.
Oh yeah, welcome back from the state of Overwhelm. I’ve sure been there, albeit not recently. {{Hugs}}.
As to me:
Been a string of lazy sunny summer-like days here. GF had a grllz-only event for a woman in her posse on Fri night and was busy yesterday with productive stuff driven by somebody else’s schedule so we missed out on our usual Fri Night + all-of-Sat togetherness. She’ll be up later today for a much-needed overnight. Last time I saw her was Thu morning after a 3rd-rate romance low-rent rendezvous Wed overnight at a hotel near her place. Which midweek tryst is fast becoming a habit and an essential part of getting through a whole week without each other.
Sorta hard to believe it’s now been just been over a year since I moved in here. Lots has gone on in that time, and 98% of it good. Almost time to renew the lease.
In a couple more weeks I’ll have outlived my Dad. Which is a weird sort of landmark. Good news is it’ll be a bunch more years until I hit any similar milestones with dead relatives.
As to the Memorial Day reminiscences …
My extended family was never very close-knit or geographically convenient. I lost a cousin I’d never met in Viet Nam. I was a few years too young for Viet Nam myself. My Dad, one brother, and I served without becoming statistics. I do know a handful of men who were my friends and co-workers who gave it all for the cause. Geez that was now a long time ago; nearly a lifetime in fact. And well more than their lifetimes ago.
Good morning, everyone.
It’s 52°F and partly cloudy. Partly cloudy skies will become mostly cloudy by afternoon, and our daytime high will be 71°F.
shoe, I’m glad you’re doing a little better.
Happy Birthday, Herald!
Coppertone, I am sorry you lost your son.
JtC, amusing story. Who knew those drivers felt so strongly?
I met my friend for a walk yesterday and walked around four miles or so. We had a nice time catching up, and the weather was glorious.
On the way home, I stopped for dog food and went to the grocery store. I picked up the fixings for salad and a few other things. I like nice crunch tossed salad, and usually use romaine, and then spinach or butter lettuce as the “base”. I add snap pea pods, cucumber, yellow or orange bell peppers, colorful grape tomatoes (yellow is my favorite), avocado, and sometimes chopped apple. I added apple last night because my husband asked me to do so. I don’t require dressing with the diced avocado, and the taste of all the lovely veggies doesn’t get buried under dressing.
My Dad served in Vietnam, and while he wasn’t lost during the war, he came home with Agent Orange exposure, which eventually helped kill him.
I’ll probably hang around the house today and just putter here. I may run out for an errand, but I doubt it.
Alrighty, time to get my hiney in gear. I hope you all enjoy your day.
Not sure if this is what you’re after, but this is my go to when I get a hankerin’ for marmalade. It comes in sugared as well. My all time favorite was my mom’s, which, when you think about it, wasn’t actually orange. She used kumquats that we’d pick up when we would go to Florida or the grandparents would bring back when they came back to Indiana in the spring (they were snowbirds).
That’s a cool lamp.
Happy birthday herald!
Up, caffeinating, breakfasted and fixing to do KP. The big chore of the day is cleaning the bathroom and setting aside one hour to sort stuff in preparation for the move. I also need to change out printers, given that the current one just stripped the feed gears (happens more often than the rest of the printer wearing out). I have a back up printer that I’ll install. It just pisses me right off that I just changed ink and replaced the stash of said ink.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Me: < strips bed, flips mattress, begins making bed >
Spot: < appears, attacks flat sheet >
Me: < walks off to do different chore >
Spot: < runs after me > “Impudent fool! Do not walk away while I am interfering with you!”
I love it(Almost as much as the leg lamp)
I get the reference
(probably a better hotel than the local hourly one in the shopping center with the Chuck-E-Cheese and nail parlor that got raided by the po po.)
A post on the protest yesterday said:
One rather cranky man started chewing us out until a protester told him that it was about Social Security. After that he honked all way through the intersection. He didn’t like our politics but his own S.S. mattered. How many people are unaware of the threats to their own livelihoods?
I dropped one of my airpods into the toilet that had pee in it.