Must be a flat tire week in the MMP. Glad you have the temporary fix in place.
I lol’d! That had to have been a hoot to watch.
I just finished editing my monthly budget. There are always expenses that don’t fit anywhere, like sympathy and get well cards. Also, I don’t separate out clothing expenses, which are fairly low, since I mostly wear tee’s and yoga pants, but then, I usually get the pants hemmed, since I don’t own a sewing machine and am all thumbs. Anyway, as a friend used to say whenever she balanced her checkbook (Remember those?), “I’m poor right now.” She wouldn’t let her husband do it because then he’d decree survival on stale bread and creek water for a week at a time.
I was going to go to the store today, but phone calls ran long, so I did InstaCart, as I needed bread, milk, and frozen vegetables. Dang it, I forgot to put the gate code in the messages part. The driver texted me once, but I didn’t hear it, so he left the groceries beside the driveway. It’s on me that he couldn’t get in, but I thought that was odd.
swampy, I laughed until I had tears in my eyes at the squirrel story. I can’t wait to tell my sister tomorrow. Oh, and my daughter will want to hear it, too. She’s already a swampy fan from past stories, plus she loves your swampy-isms. You’ve got groupies!
That’s an intriguing idea. I think if anyone is doing this, it’d be the management, but I guess there’s no reason they couldn’t be. Hmm…that just might be it! I’ll let you know after I talk with management tomorrow. Thanks!
That’s what I was going to say! Plumbing and Tires Week! I hope next week is Cute Puppies and Rainbows Week.
He’s a good guy to have a crush on…a musical genius and a real gem of a person, I understand. One of my all-time favorite songs is “Southern Cross.” I was just thinking the other day how cool it’d be to go back in time to Laurel Canyon in the Sixties. What an incredible time and place! Didn’t Stephen Stills live there with Peter Tork before The Monkees were formed? In fact, I think Stills recommended Tork audition for it. I’m sure you know way more about Still than I do. Good choice!
Been a wicked bad week for tires in Mumperville. Sorry it has struck you too.
I decided to shower tonight instead of tomorrow when I combed my hair and bits of mulched leaves fell out. So I’m clean and shampooed and in fuzzy robe and slippers till I’m tired enough to sleep. Shouldn’t be too long.
Rain promised tomorrow and I just may finally dust, if the stars align just right. Stay tuned!
And a good evening to all. Ended up spending several hours at the gym working off all that Olive Garden pasta, it just beats sitting around the house watching tackleball and snacking too much, and I can watch the game(s) on the in-house TV’s. Once home I had a couple sammiches and have been slothing over my You Tubes for the evening until I finally get tired enough to head off to bed again. Started raining about 3pm and is still doing so and looks like it’ll stay wet most of the night, at least it isn’t snow…
Unlike utterly fearless Mumpers sipping Wild Turkey from a glass…(nice pic though).
wet one, glad you didn’t have a big plumbing problem, between JtC and I we have enough, I think.
nellie, I’m beginning to think that apartment is haunted or hexed. Maybe you should volunteer to move there if they cut your rent by 25%… ETA:Oh, I like reds suggestion. And yeah, I always try to put a ‘misc/WTH’ line on my budgets.
Swampy, congrats on your Dawgs making the college tackleball playoffs; I see that Ali-bama didn’t, so I expect calls for secession tomorrow… And yeah, taking a small oops and making it a FUBAR always gets people on The List.
And it’s getting close to 9pm and I still have several You Tubes to finish, so take care and I’ll catch up with you on the next MMP.
I cleaned, I watched Pro Handegg, I napped. I changed Spot’s litter, and took out the trash and recycling to the big bins. I had a martini to go with the poke loin and baked **N.O.T.**s.
They got the guns, but we got the numbers - the Doors
That is one of the most ecumenical things I’ve ever read. And I’d love to go to a mariachi Mass.
oopsie, not political, just a bad pun. But UHC tried to deny things for Roomie like “routine colonoscopy for person over 50” and “shoulder replacement with both ends of both shoulder joints disintegrated”, so I don’t shed a lot of tears
A Similar Tale:
So a smol bird flies into the store, and manager spends Friday night chasing it around with a toy lacrosse stick.
Saturday morning:
Me: < stands at register >
Bird: < hops up behind counter, looks at me > “Sir, I wish to go home.”
Me: < gently shooes bird near door, waves door open >
Bird: “thank you kind sir.” < hops out >
I used to shoot 101(The Kickin’ Chicken) and and chase it with a PBR.
Took me till around 4 pm to get outta bed (minus a coupla quick trips to the throme room) but it was my 1st Blessed Day Off in a friggin’ week, and I pretty much just wanted to loll under a pile of blankies with a house panther snuggle buddy, and pretend to be a RDOS.
It stayed up in the 40s all night. Unlike SuntanLotion this displeased me.
Last week in was down into the 20s at night: I clicked off the heat, left a few strategic windows open just a bit, and slept like a damn bebeh.
It was glorious.
Now that it’s after 10 p.m. I have GOT to get my shit together poop in a group, and haul half a metric buttload of assorted household trash out to the bin, and then haul THAT out to the curb.
I managed to accumulate quite a bit of garbage over the past week, and that reminds me OHMAHGAWD I have got to root out some leftovers from the fridge.
Those eggs have been in there so long, I’m afraid we’re gonna reprise the “Life …Uh, Finds A Way” scene from Jurassic Park.
Meanwhile, my drinking buddies rats got their water bottles refilled … plus a (to them, probably not so much for y’all hyoomins) big treat: a scoopful of corn/sunflower seeds/dried mealworms mix.
Wally World sells it as chicken treats. Little do they know …
They are currently going TO TOWN on the stuff and much squeaking is ensuing.
It’s kinda fun watching a pair of them fighting over a single sunflower seed when there’s a whole entire pile RIGHT THERE.
Okay. They don’t really fight; it’s usually just lightweight bickering.
But still, entertaining, if you enjoy seeing critter interpersonal relationships play out.
The grown adults do make sure the littles get a share, which is kinda heartwarming to watch.
This reminded me of when Roxy was maybe 3 years old - her word for sandwich was “mich” - we’ve got a video somewhere of her saying it’s a good mich!
Dang - it’s almost 11!! I need to haul my butt to bed. FCD is staying up for the midnight dose of meds - his mom is still hanging in there, but her breathing is very labored and barely 4 breaths a minute. Selfishly, I don’t want her to die on our anniversary for some reason. It’s not that we make a big deal about it, but FCD doesn’t need a regular reminder. He’s a bit of a mess - this week has been hell for him.
OK, I need my sleepytime. Let’s have a cheery MMP when I awake! MWAH!
Sending you all the night nurse karma I’ve got for 27 more quiet, peaceful, uneventful, easy, nothing but calm sleep hours.
Congratulations on the anniversary~happy lasting marriages are much easier intended than achieved, good on you both for setting such a good example for your daughter and grandchildren.
Gotta add my flat tire story in here. I had a slow leak, needed to top it up about every two weeks, came out one morning and it was totally flat. Drop the spare, but I could not get the lug nuts loose. Call AAA, they send out a dude, he changes the tire, all is well. Until I start driving, half an hour up the lake, and starting back down, at which point the wheel feels funny, so I pull over. All the lug nuts had gone away, and it was only the force of something nice in the world that the tire didn’t run away too. It was sitting on the lugs. Sorta.
Cat glove, I asked what caused the clog and the plumber said just everyday stuff. No roots, no wipes, just soap scum, etc. he told me he’s doing a $10,000 plumbing job on someone’s new kitchen because the family likes to pour bacon grease down the drain. Insert horrified look.
I emailed it to my daughter. Her response will likely be that her pup, Bella, should have been there and she’d have taken care of that squirrel.
Our daughter said that she thinks Bella is wondering why they had to bring their own furniture to an Air B&B. They’ve only been in the new home for 6 days, well Bella was only there for 3 since she was with us over the weekend, and Bella apparently doesn’t realize that they left Chicago for good (well time will tell on that).
I know! So, I have a movie or documentary on Laurel Canyon saved on my DVR. Just looked and it was recorded on 5/31/20. I’m going to have to watch it again real soon. CSNY is my one of my fav groups. My daughter bought Joni Mitchell’s autobiography for me a few Christmas’ ago and she related a lot of stories from that time.
Tubberville may propose legislation to get Ali-bama in. It really says something about your state that folks voted for him for US senator. At least Georgia folks seem to be a bit smarter.
I only got about 4 hrs of sleep Saturday night so last night I was in bed about 8:30. Woke up an hour later with some acid reflux, drank a lot of water and sat up for about 1/2 hr then back to sleep. I slept in until about 6:45. Wow, that’s more sleep than I’ve had in a long time. I felt very rested and well after that.
Went to the office cause I had to enter the account numbers and descriptions for the maintenance worker’s Pcard receipts that he had shoved under the office door. Did a little other work and as I was about to punch out, the building phone was ringing. So, I picked it up and am very glad I did. The caller said her Mom had just passed and she was looking for a place to hold a wake. First I expressed my condolences. The restaurant/banquet facility of our building is being remodeled so that wasn’t a possibility but I gave her several other suggestions, one of which she’d already tried and they were busy with Christmas parties, but she’d never thought of the other suggestion and was going to try it.
Had a turkey with muenster sandwich. Now need to get motivated to wash dishes, address Christmas cards, filter water, make Christmas cookies, wrap presents, work out on the NuStep. We’ll see how much I actually get done. But at least I’ve made a list, that’s the first step.