(Old) It’s Moanday Again In The MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Quick late night final. Did do a little work at the gym, garbage bin is at the curb awaiting pickup, late night snack eaten and bedtime beckons.

flyboy, that speed is only for 20-30 minutes, I can’t do the longer walks you do, but I’m trying to get there.

nellie, life kinda messed you over early on, and it has carried forward. You haven’t failed, you have a roof over your head and people who care about you, so keep on keeping on and working on getting things straight.

Oh, and a pox (many poxes) on that ()&*^&^%&^ ex-Husband of yours…

And it’s late in evening so off to bed I go. Catch up with y’all tomorrow.

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Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.

That’s why you’re not a loser. If someone doesn’t have a really strong local support base, it’s really hard to bounce back from any setback.

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Not familiar with this one … ?

One of my co-workers started using leftover Thanksgiving N.O.T. to make a shepherd’s pie (on a pizza, so it’s a pie, ha!) pretty tasty.

Nope.
You are not a loser.
Do I hafta come over and smack some sense into you?
You are a lovely, kind soul and have a wickedly smart sense of humo(u)r.

Loser. Pffftttt.

I spent a lot of time the last day or so, ugly crying about my friend, until I realized I was mourning her, yes, but really more for her freshly-made widow.

She was a deeply kind and very intelligent person, and it’s awful to lose someone like that when there are so many dumb assholes crawling around.

But … I remember those first awful days after my Other Shoe died, and … my god. There are no words sometimes.

I’ll reach out to her widow - we were also friends - in a few weeks. My friend was part of many communities so I’m sure people are inundating.
But IME they tend to … dwindle away … after a while.

I need a break from tears, and from worries (still gotta call the IRS! $$ !) and it’s snowing like a mo-fo here tonight, so I think imma decompress with this half-killed joint, shove some chicken and taters and onions into the oven, and maybe take my sorry old ass on a walk in the snow.

In my “I’m not joking” parka, cuz the wind out there is atrocious!

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Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 11c/51f with a predicted high of 12c/54f, and cloudy. Weather app reminds me that “You may feel like walking around your fucking yard naked. Your elderly neighbour, however, wishes you fucking wouldn’t.” No, don’t think I’ve ever done that before!

You are far from being a loser - you got yourself and your daughter out of the most horrendous situation, you’ve stayed on your feet, you’ve tackled everything that life’s thrown at you, and you still have supportive family and friends (real and imaginary!).

I’m a member of the losers club too. I bailed on an abusive relationship too, we’d only had the house for a couple of years so selling wasn’t going to help me much, I signed it over to him and cut my losses. Looking back at things, I feel like I’ve moved house at every significant point in my life, far enough away to leave friends behind and it’s become harder and harder to make new ones. Now I’m kind of settled, 'im indoors owns the house and I just live in it - I would have a partial claim to it if he died before me, but we really need to get on with making Wills instead just for the sake of security for both of us.

{{{{{shoe}}}}} sounds like you are mourning the loss of your friend, and also mourning for her newly-made widow. You’re right, someone who was a part of so many lives will have a lot of people around for the survivor just now, but they will tail off eventually and that’s when they’ll need someone like you to keep propping them up. I hope the walk out in the snow helped your head a little.

{{{{{FairyChats}}}}} it’s good to hear that the nurses/aides etc are all agreed that it really won’t be much longer, but the waiting (and planning not to leave her alone) is taking such a toll on all of you. I am glad FCD got someone new to listen to his tales :slight_smile: It will be a relief to all of you when the time finally comes.

Same here, and still many things that the younger generations apparently can’t live without which are simply not part of my daily existence. One of my younger co-irkers has been grumbling about property prices and the amount you need to save in order to get a deposit together, and didn’t take kindly to the suggestion that buying lunch and over-priced coffee every day on campus was just throwing money away.

Oopsie I lived in a shared house when I first moved out of home, it was an interesting experience and certainly taught me that I much prefer not to do that!

Today is my first day back at irk in a week, and I’m on campus. Naturally, the Travel Gods decided to taunt me. The 6.45am bus didn’t show up, but wasn’t a great loss as I still got to my local station in time for the Nice Train. It was running slightly late and was re-platformed but I got on it and found a seat in the quiet carriage at the back of the train. Then it sat in the station for 20 minutes, apparently due to signalling problems which meant the automatic signal wasn’t working and had to be manually operated from the signal box…and every train had to be guided through two faulty signals. Eventually got to the Big City station, only to find that the train to campus was delayed by 20 minutes. I walked out to the front of the station and got a bus instead.

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Hugs to the MMP!

When living in a 150 year old house you are accustomed to certain idiosyncrasies like the occasional strange noise when it is windy. However, when you’re sleeping under the staircase and the strange noise is coming from directly in front of you in the foyer and it lasts for 2 hours at an intermittent pace, it’s not the most funnest thing.

Nonetheless, I am up and curled up with a poodle planning on getting dressed and finding breakfast soon.

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 48 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 61 and cloudy. It’s a heat wave compared to the last few days. We have nowhere we need or want to be today, so a day of high RDOS inactivities is planned. Even sup will be slothful as soup shall be heated up.

shoe so sorry for the loss of your friend. Her widow will appreciate your bein’ there for her in the days to come.

Nellie you are not a loser. You did what you needed to get out of an abusive relationship. Plus you have a great support system of family and real and imaginary friends.

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.

Happy Thursday Y’all!

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When I first got to Jacksonville, I shared an apartment with another Ensign, and her dog, and her cat. Thankfully, it only lasted a couple of months, because, well, because. Her cat used to make itself at home in my room. Her dog used to poop right outside my bedroom door. And she, while only being a little bit younger than I, was much more immature. Thankfully, I found a house that I could afford to buy and I was gone with all due haste. I married to my next roommate…

Very very windy last night, and it’s supposed to be as bad this morning. There’s a slight chance of flurrying, maybe. This morning has started in the low 40s, but it’ll be getting colder as the day progresses.

I need to run to Food Lion for milk and maybe some other stuff - I don’t know. It’s hard to think straight and logically these days. I’m not sure when Jessica will get here and I don’t know if we’ll get a nurse visit or not, tho I do know Cathy is off today. We’ll just play it by ear.

I’m afraid I’ll need to go see an orthopedist about my shoulder. Granted, I haven’t been totally diligent about doing the exercises, but along with the pain is weakness, and I don’t trust my self-diagnoses of frozen shoulder. So I’ll make an appointment for after the first of the year to have a professional look at it. Here’s hoping PT will be sufficient. I don’t want surgery. I was just thinking this morning, my last surgery was gall bladder in 1999.

Food Lion is open, so I think I’ll head down there and get that chore over with. Then, well, we’ll have to see.

Happy Thursday (Thursday???)

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Laketran is delayed cause of weather.
Its windy but I look out. My phone says blizzard but I don’t see any snow coming down.
Feeling irritated tract after I finished my antibiotics.
Lingering pain or is it back that quick?
Trying to find someone to drive me to Urgent Care to find out.

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Good morning.

It’s 30F and mostly clear outside. The morning will become partly cloudy, and by afternoon, it’ll be cloudy with a high temperature of 47F. The last couple of days have been pretty foggy throughout the day in some areas, and there may be some fog this morning, too.

Shoe, I’m very sorry about your friend.

Nellie, you are not a loser. You actually have a lot of guts for getting yourself out of an abusive situation and moving on with life.

JtC, I hope the plumbing is fixed as soon as possible.

I have never lived alone. I went from living with my mother to moving out with my then-boyfriend/now husband. I sometimes think it would have been better to live independently for a little bit.

The last three days have been incredibly busy, and Tuesday included a lot of driving. I have some new problems to fix, and I’m not happy about that, but I don’t have a choice. They’re not problems I created, but unfortunately, I have to fix them because I’m the “easy button” and can be relied upon.

Okey-dokey. Time to finish my coffee and get the last of the dishes in the dishwasher. Hugs to all.

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Okay, its snowing, but the winds are blowing it around.
Gonna be so happy Sunday when its clear and 40.

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Back from Food Lion. There were absolutely no eggs - I didn’t need any, but that surprised me. There was also no non-fat milk, so I had to get 1%. Not a huge deal, but dang!

I remembered to go to the ATM - FCD had no cash and I wanted a little extra for the Hospice fundraiser on Saturday. It’s free admission, but I expect they’ll be selling stuff. They’ve been so good to us, I want to support them.

I drove thru a little sleety/snowy/rainy ick. It was the kind of cold that just creeps deep into your bones. Glad to be home. Oh, and Wendy’s is no longer offering sodas for a buck. Luckily there was no line at the drive-thru, so when I found that out, I just drove thru and went to McD’s - a buck anna half is better than two bucks anna half.

Guess I should empty the dishwasher.

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Good morning all. 44F now and supposed to get colder as the day goes on, so heater will get a good workout. At least there is no rain/snow until the weekend. Need to visit the Mart of Wal for a couple items, but nothing much else on the agenda. Have noshed on the morning apple and will take more calories on-board in a little while.

{{{shoe}}}, just because.

boo fae, yeah, the Travel Gods can be right bastichs at times, but at least you have options.

FCM, concur that you should get the shoulder checked out. Had my gall bladder out in 2004 and can do without any more, thank you very much.

Be well, coppertone

And the school and early morning traffic should have died down and I heard the garbage guys outside, so need to bring the bin back in, so guess I need to do the ‘responsible adult’ things. Have a good Thorsday all.

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Sticky buns can you re explain why you are sleeping a la Harry Potter?

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If everyone else you knew jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?

You are not a loser, you are a survivor and a winner. So many women wouldn’t have been strong enough to escape, you should be proud of that.

Back before Hubs, I could afford a home payment by myself and still have money left for food and gas. I could have made the payments for our second place by myself as well. Once cheap singlewide trailers became quarter million dollar purchases, well…I wouldn’t have been able to afford those payments alone despite my income being much higher.

Repairing our water pipe has taken three days so far and will end up costing slightly less than two grand. Putting the pressure regulator under the house later will be another five hundred.

It looks like we are going to need a hundred feet of chain link fencing replaced too.

I’ll bet you don’t feel so left out now, LOL!

Jolene is just beside herself. The plumbers both came inside before starting and nobody even looked at her. She was meowing and rubbing on Hubs and he didn’t notice and pick her up! She doesn’t know what to do when she’s not the center of attention.

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What’cha gonna do? She’s just a little attention whore! She balances Ziva who spends all her time under the bed, unless I’m home alone - then she’ll venture out.

Cats - there are no answers.

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Happy Thorsday!

It was 36 feels like 29 degrees, and raining this morning. Much better than 23 feels like 16. Now the sun is shining in my office windows and it feels great. I can take my jacket off. It’s very windy outside, I won’t enjoy being out there later today.
The trash truck was picking up our trash when we got home this morning, and that is a good thing.

I have to go out for a doctor’s appointment this afternoon. I think the office made a mistake and I wasn’t supposed to go back until January.

My son brought home some ham, turkey, mashed potatoes, corn, dressing, pumpkin pie, and apple pie. Lots of it too. He said there were more leftovers sitting out when he left this morning, but he didn’t want to be too greedy.

Other than the dr appt and irking I don’t have much planned for today. Tomorrow is when we hit THE LIST!
Which btw, I forgot to say Thank You Doggio!

Sometimes the brain thinks but the fingers don’t type.

I’m a little worried about Echo, she didn’t eat her treats this morning. She’s due for a checkup, so I’ll need to make that appointment.
No matter how bad she is feeling, she had no problem defending her treats when the GR tried to check them out. She has the fastest lip curl, and the boys know who is boss.

BooFae I don’t know how y’all handle public transportation. All the delays and scheduling… I guess you get used to it. When I lived and irked in Baltimore I used it, but I both lived and irked on busy routes so often the buses were back-to-back. I gave it up after the company I irked for moved us into a not so nice part of the city, (we had to step over the drunks sleeping it off in the doorway to get into the building), and I had to walk a bit further to catch the bus. One night I had to irk late, I didn’t want to bother my father to come and get me, and there was a little incident. Nothing serious, but enough to wake me up a bit. Several of my co-irkers had been mugged, and I thought maybe the expense of parking was worth it.

I need to get busy, I just unpacked a box of stuff and it’s like omg, where is this stuff coming from?

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How the heck does one raise funds with free admission?

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The trees and wreaths there are for sale, as are, I assume, other things. I’ll find out on Saturday. Plus I expect to see their usual donation buckets.

It’s been crazy windy and I just looked outside - there are huge swaths of the yard that are leaf-free!!! I can’t tell if they’ve been blown into the woods (YAY) or against the house (BOO) but I’m not interested enough to go out there. I’ll find out soon enough.

FCD found his mother SITTING UP on the side of her bed, trying to get to the bathroom, despite her inability to stand. So we got her in there - she absolutely refuses to use the depends/diapers/pads, opting for the pain for getting up and moving around. Did I mention she’s just a tad stubborn? Once we got her back in bed, she got a dose of morphine for the pain and she’s sleeping again. We’re waiting for Jessica to come and I’ve been crocheting.

Another exciting day…

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So only one person showed up in Blue 134, so they put me over there, along with 2 other people. So it was me, Jersey girl, Nosering Girl and Flatfoot. I was rathern non chaotic for a PDC. At least, once we cleared everything off the floor, and got rid of the stuff from the 2 routes they decided to switch to 128. Oh, and after everthing was finished, they decided to not used the rental trucks on 100 south, and just drag 800lbs of furniture over to 134, and heave it into one of the trucks I had loaded. :roll_eyes: Also, one truck I had had 4 vacuums on it, including 2 going to the same house. I dunno if that was “I own 3 Grand Pyrenees” or some dude is committing Suicide By Wife this Christmas. They even fed us Bojangles egg biscuits, first time in a couple of years.

Bird flu? Pre-Tariff hording?

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Okay campers, rise, and shine, and don’t forget your booties 'cause it’s c-o-o-l-d out there today. Still stuck in the teens this morning, but they tell us warmer days are coming soon.

Orange zest French toast this morning for a change, trying to use up a tasteless loaf of bread our niece gave us. Making white bread in a round shape doesn’t make it any better.

We had Sadie on a cancellation list for tooth extraction and got a call that we can bring her in on Monday instead of in January. That will run in the $1K to $2K range, depending.