(Old) How would you start the MMP...?

I hope that the meds do the trick. Pats carrots to Ariel.

Up, caffeinating, working on adulting re the SSDI claim and checking out how much it will cost to insure myself if I just take straight early retirement. I intend to remain employed (but on :snerk: STD / LTD) until they terminate me to continue company coverage. Once it’s a decent hour (for her), I’ll call Sis to see whether she’s coming Thursday or Friday. The pain has me a little nauseous at the moment, so it was tea and toast for breakfast to settle my stomach. I’ll need to get sheveled and head out for the MRI in a bit.

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

Nope - 7 here is 12 there - that would mean a 5 hour shift - much too long to risk, based on what I’ve read about my meds. I think I’ll start a gradual shift here so it’s not stoopit early or late when I get there. I’ve got enough time before departure to manage 15 or 30 minutes a day in my schedule.

I’m finally showered and dressed. I’ve been making ice all morning, but FCD puts so much in his drinks, I need to keep that up for a while. I’ve also tossed a chunk of chuck in the slow cooker for supper tonight. Veggies will be added later. So I guess I have made some plans for today.

Shame you didn’t say you’d “chucked a chunk of chuck in the cooker”. If you had we could have made a great tongue twister:

How big a chunk could a ChatMom chuck if a ChatMom would chuck chuck?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Today is brought to you by the word “mulch”. Specifically the 3/4 yard that was dumped in my driveway this morning. Now I just need to transport it to the beds and get it spread. Finished one a bit ago and about to head out to do the other.

OMG!!! A pair of Martens just made whoopy in our front yard! In broad daylight!!! Just shameless!!!

And the hotel job is gone. I figured that. I will never have income.

So today’s early A.M. commuting fun involved a thunderstorm and Bambi trying to commit sucide by Carmen. Work was the usual sorting on the 300 table till 7, then trying to load a set(Middle Blue today), then helping one of thee drivers on Bottom White load his car, since precicely 0% had been loaded, then helping the driver on Middle Blue finish his while he was swearing. I was not, for I burned out my rage yesterday.

Why? We have a surplus of idiots at the moment.

Bird porn!

I twisted my neck this morning, turning over in bed. That was six or seven hours ago, and it hurts worse now than it did when I got up. I took three ibuprofen. If it’s not better when I log off of work in two and a half hours, I’ll put some Tiger Balm on it.

Thanks, metal mouse. :slight_smile: I’d pay someone to do these pesky little chores, but getting someone out as far as I live often proves cost prohibitive – if they’re even willing to agree. It often prompts me to move outside my comfort zone with doing these irritating little tasks. I suppose that’s not all bad…

I decided to take a different approach. I could either continue to waste time trying to defeat that stupid stuck Phillips head screw, or I could investigate facilitating the gas line replacement without removing the table top. That worked out. It would have been easier to get at everything with the table top removed, but I just tipped the unit on its side and followed the instructions from a slightly different angle.

It’s all put back together now and seems to be working – but in a massive irony, it’s too sunny to see the flame to ensure all is properly installed. A house that sits in shade for 85% of the year in a climate that is overcast for a portion of almost every day, and I pick the one day where the sun is so unremittingly bright, I can hardly see anything! I’ll know by tonight.

Thanks again for the offer of hub’s help, JtC! It was kind of you both!

Sofa sectional bracket installation can wait till Friday. Or later. :slight_smile: I have fun things planned for tomorrow!

Just got off the phone with a nurse re: my anal probe. The prep ain’t gonna be fun. I can’t even take my Omega-3 capsules starting Friday. (The procedure is Friday the 30th.)

I’m glad you got it fixed. Your solution was a good one that didn’t involve buying anything or throwing packaging away which is great!

Hubs did ask about it first thing this morning cause of course you live two miles away from a hardware store. Doesn’t everyone? Well…not you and this is the first time in our married lives that we are…but whatever, LOL!

I highly suspect Hubs didn’t get dissolving stitches because his doctor doesn’t trust him any more than I do. The stitches are out and he has another appointment in a month for a re-inspect and to freeze a spot on his ear.

This is all his fault. He’s a dumbass who refuses to listen to his sun-allergic wife about skin protection. I gave up bitching at him about sun-screen decades ago.

How are horses about getting pills? Do you just put them in an apple or do you have to wrastle them down her throat?

Remember that if you don’t have income, you will be eligible for Medicaid. Last I checked, there are no resource limits for it, but of course I’ve been out of the field for years.

I’ve never been on it myself, but know from clients that it covers more than many self-paid plans. Once you are termed, you will not be eligible for unemployment because you won’t be able to work.

Yeah, I know, stoopid, right? You paid into it but one of the requirements to get UI payments is to be activally looking or work and available to work if offered a job.

I keep thinking that putting Warning Labels on things has been bad for the species. The dum aren’t supposed to breed.

You WFH, no reason to not put it on your neck while you are on a potty break. You will be the only one to smell you - unless the cats object.

So, the kitchen floor didn’t get mopped. Hubs was headed out to get doctored and noticed that our water pressure was really slow. He called the water company and they told him that there was a break in a line and it should be repaired in a few hours. I tried to tell him that I could hear water in the just flushed toilet and he mainsplained how the air in the lines was making things hiss. :face_with_symbols_on_mouth:

As soon as he walked out the door, I plugged the bathtub drain and filled it up so we would have water to flush with if needed. It offends me to use bottled water for flushing.

The water didn’t come back on for a while and Hubs came home and looked in the tub and left the door open. :face_with_symbols_on_mouth: :face_with_symbols_on_mouth: :face_with_symbols_on_mouth:

So, I spent my afternoon drying off our big jerkface and mopping water up off the bathroom, hall, bedroom and my rooms floor. Not because he was upset because he was wet, but because he didn’t want to be toweled off.

And then, once he knew that there was water in the tub, he opened the door :face_with_symbols_on_mouth: and jumped back in.

Now I have a load of towels waiting for the water to run clear again and need to mop all of our floors because the water GG was playing in was rather murky (what you would expect from a broken water main).

I opened a new bag of really terpy weed and now it is funny again. Asshole cat!

It sounds like I’m going to be looking forward to my procedure on the 30th much more than you will!

The MRI has been done and I’m even more sore, given that I had to lie on my back for 20 minutes (not a position that is remotely comfortable for me) on a hard table. I think I’ve got the prescription transfers corrected, although it will be tomorrow before I can pick them all up.

I did check out the ACA marketplace this morning and it looks like it won’t cost nearly as much as I thought. With a change to a less expensive apartment (Sis sent a couple of links for apartments in her neighborhood and a couple of them are not only bigger than my current one, but about $400 a month less.) I think that retirement will happen, one way or another, but I’m hoping for SSDI. I’ll be submitting my application tomorrow and calling the disability practice after I get back from the ortho. There are certainly a lot of changes on the horizen.

I actually did put some on. Didn’t feel like waiting.

Well Mumpers, I should have hung out with all of you again today instead of going into work. I was driving home for lunch and got rear-ended :face_with_symbols_on_mouth: Everyone was already stopped for a red light, but the guy behind me either let off the brake or hit the gas for some reason.

He followed me to the closest parking lot and was very apologetic, but he didn’t have his license or his insurance information on him :face_with_symbols_on_mouth: :face_with_symbols_on_mouth: I took a picture of his tag but the expiration sticker was so faded I can’t tell how far out of date it is. :face_with_symbols_on_mouth: :face_with_symbols_on_mouth: :face_with_symbols_on_mouth:

He gave me a name and a phone number and swears he’ll send me his insurance info and pay for the repair, but I honestly doubt he can afford either of those things. He appears to be in his 70s and his Chevy Blazer was pretty old and beat up. I did find a FB profile picture using that name that seems to be him, so hopefully it’s his real name and I’ll luck out and he’ll contact me tonight. Otherwise, I suppose that’s what I pay uninsured motorist coverage for.

My bumper doesn’t look badly damaged but the car is only 4 years old with far too many bells and whistles. I’m afraid there will have been damage to some sort of sensor so I don’t want to put off getting it repaired.

I stuck a bottle of wine in the freezer when I got home (yes, I’m a heathen and like my red wine slightly chilled). Hopefully that shakes the tension headache I’ve had all afternoon.

I hope she’s feeling better soon! And that she doesn’t put up too much of a fuss about taking the meds. I can’t get a pill down a resistant cat, I can’t imagine trying that with a horse!

Thank you for this laugh, I really needed it!

JtC and thank you too, I’m cracking up just imagining the chaos that giant wet doofus caused!

Good luck red, I’m sorry to hear how much trouble and pain you’re having. If you are going to retire, are you considering moving closer to your sister?

Administration of meds to horses depends on the med. One of her meds is a paste in a tube so just shoot it in her mouth. The other med is a pill that dissolves in hot water. That gets dissolved in a syringe and shot into her mouth. I can also dissolve it by soaking her grain and adding the pills. Then she eats it all up like a good girl.

And a good late afternoon/early evening to everyone. I guess I got lucky last night, driving out late this morning I could see trees that had been knocked down 3-4 houses away from me and huge amounts of branches at the curb all around me, but my house and the 4-5 others at the end of the cul-de-sac seem to have been spared. Checked the roof and all the shingles seem to be in place.

Got a good workout and my trainer got my muscles stretched, so a little sore but feeling pretty good. Weather is still nice, probably should do mowage as there is a 40% chance of more rain tomorrow morning, but I’ll play the odds this time around.

wet one, ah, I see–thanks for the info. And I’d like to see someone try to feed a 10-foot tube up my nose…and hope the medications do their job.

red, hope things work out as planned. Take care of yourself.

FCM, you know your meds much better than I, I can skip a few days with my two without problems, but I think your gradual time shift will help.

Pavo, mulch thanks for the information…

JtC, had to double check because for the life of me I couldn’t remember if a marten was a bird or a mammal (mammal is correct). And animals doing it can be shameless along with entertaining.

Coppertone, drat!

“Nothing can be made fully foolproof because fools are so ingenious.”

Flyboy, keep an eye on that, may need more than pills and balm if it stays sore. And good luck on the prep.

Bright Tree, sounds like Murphy decided you were being too clever and decided to mess things up a bit, just so you didn’t get too cocky…

52, glad you’re ok, I’m guilty of rear-ending a couple of cars over the years, both at a intersection where we were turning right on red and I was looking back and presumed that the car in front of me was moving (I chose poorly). And I do carry my license and insurance card in my billfold at all times. Hope the repair is quick and inexpensive.

And time to get the Chee-burger on the grill, See you later.

Well, not if they were martens, which are related to weasels. The bird is spelled martin.

I signed up for the Kit Kat tasting last month at a library.
You taste different flavors, some not in stores, and vote.
It said registration was full. I put myself on the waiting list.
I get an e mail at 5.54 saying I was open to go. It started at 6!
Besides which, its almost impossible to go out because of my toe.
I could wear a flip flop but the thing between the first two toes cuts into my skin.
I cant wear it if its raining.
My soft tennies hurt when it presses on it, though the dr office said thats fine and wont impede healing.