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Honestly, I don’t know. Mary was, um, interesting back in high school, but she seems to have gotten more, um, quirky since then. We met in Biology class - we were lab partners and she couldn’t deal with dissecting the frog, or the worm, so I carried the load there. We hung out for a number of years, but I don’t recall when I last saw her - maybe 8 years? Her comment about books doesn’t surprise me, tho.

I remind myself that she’s a dying old lady. For many years, many times over, she helped us out in various situations. She’s a good person at heart, but very much a product of her generation. What I don’t get is that she seems to think everyone should look at things the way she does. She can’t imagine that I hate hate hate to shop - it doesn’t compute.

While we were eating supper tonight, she was asking about the health situations of my siblings, trying to figure out which one of them would take care of me. Um, none of them. They have their own families and I have my own husband and daughter. I don’t need my sister taking me in. Just because she’s close to her youngest sister, she thinks I should be too. Nope. It’s not like I hate any of my sibs. It’s just that we’re not close in that way. Her family dynamic isn’t mine. That’s just life.

Laundry is all done. FCD is still snoozing. I’m counting on early bedtime today to make up for the middle-of-the-night rude awakening. Stoopit cat. We’re supposed to meet Daughter at the fairgrounds around 9 tomorrow morning, I think. Must text her.

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poor you im surprised it opens that early …ours don’t open til 12 on weekends and 3 during the week cause of schools

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Fire codes. My aunt and uncle lived in a house with them and as small kids, we were fascinated by them.

:laughing: Nelson goes through the paws on the windowsill thing when I pull up to the postal box to mail things.

The house is cleaneded, groceries bought, Nelson dogparked and supper from the cheap Chinese down the street (house special soup and an aig roll) ingested. Now to kick back.

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I liked ladyhawke.

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That’s cause you is smart!

You are working what many people consider to be a low skilled job. They don’t understand how complex your job really is and that you probably know more about safe food handling practices than 90% of your customers.

Labs are so sweet that they don’t need to be smart :wink:

Jolene is so much smarter than GG. She figured out how to get her soft collar off once the drugs wore off. I put it on GG’s front leg just because I’m a mean kitty mommy and he wore it a couple of hours until Hubs rescued him.

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Argh! I know you gotta do it, but I would also hate it. At least you are only inviting folks to a free conference, not asking them to buy something.

Hubs was like that in AZ. That CT shit just sucks people into being afraid of everything. I haven’t killed Hubs (yet), you can put up with your aunt another year.

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My mom’s house has one going from the hall bathroom to the laundry room in the basement. We tried to find a way to put something in here, but the plumbing runs pretty much over the entire laundry room, and the alternative is a hole in the middle of the bedroom spilling into my studio. Which is why I carry my laundry down the stairs.

Really? I never would have guessed that. If we’d been able to do one, it would have just been an opening in the floor over a waiting basket. Alas, 'twas not to be.

I finally got my laundry put away, and I loaded the dirties in the dishwasher. The a/c is off and the windows are open again.

We need to leave here about 8:15 so we can stop and get cash at the credit union. Then on to the fairgrounds where I hope there will be some handicap spots available. The weather is supposed to be gorgeous - I need to remember to wear a hat. It’ll be nice to get out into the air, even if it does reek of cow poo! :open_mouth:

But first I need a good sleep. Soon, very soon.

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ell when ya do let me know so we can come up with a justifiable defense I could use too :laughing:

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Well, soccer has been practiced and now I need to makeup the lineups for tomorrow (which will change because someone I thought would be there will miss the game–just have no idea which someone it will be…). Eating my Big Bowl O’Sallit for dinner and maybe some applesauce for the evening snack, still 84F outside but with the sun down, it should cool off soon. Got $10 in the mail from the Nielsen ratings people for doing about a 20-minute Q-and-A with them on the phone, which was pretty nice of them.

Trying to add some treadmill time to the gym workout, I seem to be good for 10 minutes at 3.3mph with a 5% incline (at least that’s what the machine says). Doing it after about 40 minutes of pedaling and sweating, it’s been a good change of pace (heh). May try the stair stepper next (or not, don’t like climbing hundreds of steps…).

Dicey, didn’t see the bay of Fundy work it’s magic, but did see the St. John’s River change direction in New Brunswick. Keep having fun!

Taters, glad the pups are doing well, hope that work settles down once the fiscal year is done and dusted.

Oopsie, sloth and Lego assemblage sounds like a perfectly fine way to have a staycation day. And Ali-bama is the same, the metal plate can stay on your car for as long as you want, just change the tags each year.

I have 4 laundry baskets in my bedroom, one for shirts, one for underwear, one for jeans/slacks/etc. and one for towels/etc. They get hauled individually to the laundry room once full.

JtC, I need to check and/or replace my detectors, haven’t looked at them in years.

But were the chicks for free?

FCM, I’ve occasionally had a couple hundred dollars on hand somewhere in the house, but 5 Grand! Whooo. Right now the only cash not in my wallet is a $2 bill hanging on the wall and some pennies in a plastic cup. Enjoy the fair…I was going to go to the N. Ali-bama fair this year, but missed it by a week.

nellie, loved the Lab story, they are great dogs but not the brightest of the bunch.

shady, hang in there; family is what we get and not what we choose.

Used to have a laundry chute like FCM’s, going from the bathroom down to the basement. Sometimes we had to get a yardstick or something heavier to clear out the clothes jam in it.

And apologies for anyone I missed, it’s after 8pm and things need to be done so i can get up at 6:30am tomorrow (soccer games at 8:30, 9:45 (coaching) and 11:00 (refereeing) so a pretty busy morning tomorrow. Take care all.

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I could eat all day. Not really hungry, just eat.
This morning I tried a maybe 8 oz. Bottle of Oikos Pro.
23 grams of protein.
That was at 11.30.
I went out.
Felt uncomfortably full, like I might throw up.
I didn’t.
Walking home from the store at 6, I was like, what did I eat today? Whoa, nothing.
This thing is a great help for those on a diet!

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Erm… It’s actually $495 for the three-day event. Plus a hotel, if needed.

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You deserve an extra cocktail tonight. I’m sorry.

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Since they’re open on at least the basement end, they act as a flue in the event of a fire.

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On my third glass of cheap plonk. I’ll have some cheap bourbon in a bit.

A Carl’s Jr. opened in town, which is much more convenient than the next one down the road, 80 miles away. We had Famous Stars with cheese for dinner. Mine tasted like home, even though it was a lettuce wrap instead of a bun.

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I like Alaska books, and also pics. My cousin, her husband, a son and grandson just made a trip to the far north of Alaska. In the late 1940’s her father was stationed in the north and he took some wonderful photos, a whole lot actually, of buildings and people in Barrow and Nome. Cousin digitized them and has pass them on to some historians up there. One librarian especially was glad to see them, as it turned out she saw an old picture of a relation in one of them.

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Ok, we’re at a new level of WTF??

This evening, MIL was asking about the health and ages of my sisters. Apparently, she’s trying to figure out which of them will care for me in my dotage. Not my husband, or my daughter and SIL, or even, eventually, my grandkids. Nope, my sisters (and not my brother) , who I see maybe twice a year.

And she was rather appalled that I don’t know if they have any chronic issues. As if that’s any of my business. Since none of them have shared such information, I can only assume that either they’re fine, or they’re keeping the info private. MIL can’t seem to grasp such a concept.

I don’t know if it’s related to her decline or if she really thinks it’s her business. < deep cleansing breath >

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Spot and I napped. I dreamed I was wandering through a mall that was in a forest, and multiple (non-swampy)bears kept wandering up and sniffing me. I had a Pina Colada for cocktails, and salad with Aldi Aisle Of shame Mozzarella and [Bobby flay]Calabrian chilies[/Bobby flay] stuffed ravioli for dinner. Watching F1 practice.

Pic of that Lego tux with (non Spot)tux for scale:

Sounds like me after a good pub crawl. :wink: but {{{{nellie}}}} on the dreams.

Indeed! And Im glad somebody caught that.

I enjoyed it.

Reminds me of that joke about a lady who beat her husband to death with his guitar collection
Judge to defense lawyer: “First offender?”
Wife, chiming in: “No, first a Gibson, then a Fender.”

Yes.

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You may enjoy Sue Henry’s Maxie and Stretch series of mysteries then. The titular sleuth is Maxie, a retired RVer based in Alaska and her dachshund, Stretch.

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Well, if it has a dachshund I MUST try them out.

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Long Night wasn’t too bad tonight.

Saw a parade of cute puppers, which was fun.

A (likely inebriated) woman was so excited to get her pizza, she blew kisses at me, and seemed delighted when I blew one back. :kissing_heart:

We got stuck with one small deluxe at the end of the night - thanks, “Courtney” - and my manager was like, “Do you want your rats to eat like royalty tonight?”

I was like, “They’re not gonna know what hit them!”

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I had a wonderful birthday! Lots of phone calls, my daughter arrived safely, and some great gifts. We went out to dinner. I had an Olympia Manhattan (dry fly wheat whiskey, elderflower liqueur, sweet vermouth), and she had a Briar Drop (vodka, cassis liqueur, limoncello, fresh lemon juice, shaken, up, lemon twist, sugar rim).She had tower of veggies polenta, and I had fish and chips. Then we walked home and had German chocolate cake for dessert.

I showed her GG and Jolene. She thinks Jolene is the best cat name ever and couldn’t stop making maternal clucking sounds over the kitty Yin-Yang. We’ve been chuckling about George belatedly remembering he’s supposed to fall over ever since I read that bit to her.

She loved the photo of Spot and the Lego Cat, too. She said she’d keep the Lego cat on her desk at work and talk to it all day. She said Spot looked ticked off, but I said I think that’s just his resting bitch face.

Coppertone, have you been ill? I must have missed that. If so, I hope you’re better soon.

My family has difficulty with this concept as well. We yak so much, it’s hard NOT to know when someone has a hangnail. I do keep a few things private, mostly romantic things, and that’s largely because if you spend two minutes in the produce aisle talking with a guy about Casaba melons, they have you engaged and are picking out your china pattern.

Your MIL may be somewhat dotty, FCM, but she seems especially worried about you, doesn’t she? Wasn’t she worried about you navigating the stairs to the basement awhile back?

Me: What a strange dream.
Also me: I wonder if the bears wanted the Pina Coladas. Wait…Ohhhh.

Baker, that’s so neat about donating the photos and the librarian’s collection.

Ours had a little door on the basement end that we kept closed when not in use, so maybe it was OK?

I loved that house. It had a secret passageway, a secret room, and secret cubbies. It was built during Prohibition, and bootlegging was big in that town, as it was close to the Canadian border.

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