(Old) It's a matter of taste in the MMP

I was wondering if possibly you’re no longer swimming miles/wk is that you’re now in weight maintenence rather than trying to continue to lose weight. Seems to be true. Happy for you that you’ve reached a very good weight for your height and are maintaining it.

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Is that kinda like stud muffin? :wink:

{{Herald}} so sorry to hear Angel’s time has come. Same thing happened with Dakota with having difficulty, then unable to go up and down stairs, then last day not being able to stand up on own. It’s heartbreaking, particularly when the pup wants so much to please. Hope Angel’s passing was peaceful.

Made a pot roast in the crockpot with potatoes, onions, carrots and a little cauliflower; seasoned with Mrs. Dash, pepper and rosemary from the garden. Almost time to eat.

Howdy Y’all! The things got done and we had a nummy brunch at Eggs Up. I really enjoyed my traitorous crabs. The rest of the day has been spent in nappage, day drinkin’ and watchin’ stoopid stuff. Now it’s time for some ice cream and the watchin’ of more stoopid stuff.

Sticky_Buns have fun on your trip!

Coppertone inappropriate attire depends on where you’re goin’. Places like :astonished_face:Wally*World :astonished_face: and Dollar General are anything goes. As long as you are not in your skivvies anything else is fine. The same can apply to Waffle House at three a.m. This may also apply to other dollar type stores. Today, since we were goin’ to brunch, I made sure my attire was acceptable for a respectable restaurant. Had I not been doin’ that afterwards, I wouldn’t have minded bein’ over to the church house by myself in tshirt, shorts, and maybe even flip flops or sandals. However, I would NEVER be dressed like that on Sunday mornin’. That would be inappropriate. However, if someone showed up dressed like that I wouldn’t judge. It’s just sump’n I wouldn’t do. I wore shorts, a pullover shirt with a collar, and sneaks this mornin’ because that’s more apporpriate for Eggs Up. It wouldn’t be at a fancier restaurant or store. The rules I have for appropriate/inappropriate dress are a combo of how I was raised and my own internal weirdness. Hope that makes a little sense. I am fine with button up shirt or pullover shirt with collar, slacksand loafers or lace up leather shoes on Sunday mornin’. However, a funeral or a weddin’ demands a suit. I would be judged and probably haunted by generations of southern women who taught me better if I didn’t put on a suit.

Knotty glad the neurologist visit went well. Are you happy about the switch to the long-release version?

Taters the fireworks stands are up here as well. I hope we remain fortunate this year and there are not tons of explosions. It’s been that way the past few years. I gather the pyromaniacs who lived behind us moved and that’s why it’s gotten so much quieter.

Cat_Glove a change in one’s irk or other routine can get one all discombobulated. Duck Day sounds like a hoot! That pot roast sounds divine!

Nuts tell them what I always say: I am organized. It’s organized chaos! YIKES! Glad the poor guy got out. You could run away to the woods and fight the squirrels over the acorns and not compromise bein’ a vegetarian. There’s always a way!

Rocker koritza really loves the fish flavored water! Have I mentioned that we have a WaWa here? It opened a few months back. I sometimes stop there to get a snack when I go over to the church house since it’s kinda sorta on the way back if I detour about half a mile.

{{{Herald and Lady Herald}}} the both of you gave Angel a wonderful, safe, and loved life. I hope that’s some consolation. Doesn’t lessen the hurt at lettin’ her go though.

BrightTree hope you enjoyed lunch with your friends. There’s a fifty mile or so yahd sale around here once a year. It stretches through a state highway across many little towns. Fortunately it is a state highway nowhere near me.

52 may your new robotic overlord be merciful.

doggio one day we are goin’ to put up a plaque in a designated corner that will be your corner and yours alone to go sit in and feel shame. Not that you would actually feel shame.

JtC yay for hubs findin’ your phone! Glad the weed and ice are helpin’ with the pain. Hooray for gettin’ to take a shower tomorrow! It’s progress!

I’m sorry, herald. RIP Angel.

Yay for pain control and show!

Towels are washed, dried, folded and in the linen closet. Nothing more exciting today.

Ive had 2 people today tell me I look tired.
I’m not. Okay..
Laundry is done. Its my favorite chore.
Just finished a book about John Candy.

{{{Herald}}}

If your skin can tolerate it (try a tiny little test patch first on skin that doesn’t have the ouchie on it), lift up a corner of the tape (or bandage)just a smidgen and dab on with a q-tip good quality fingernail polish remover, let it soak for 30 seconds or so and then gently lift it another smidgen (1/8inch) and dab on so more fingernail polish remover (acetone) and gently pull back as the remover softens the adhesive. Keep repeating. This is an instance of where you don’t want to buy it from the dollar store-their remover can be cheaper because the acetone is watered down.

As you do this move from the outside edges in, rotating around a bit at a time. Don’t free one end of a bandage and then pull it all off, like bandaids are ripped off in cartoons. That puts shearing tension on the wound or healing incision and can pull apart healing tissues, perhaps disturbing the scab and causing bleeding as well as opening an entry point for germs that might cause infection. Also that sudden, shearing tearing off hurts like hell. This is not the time to “get it over with”.

If the polish remover isn’t working, move up to Goo Be Gone (again, do a small test patch on your skin first). Using to same q-tip technique ever so gently and gradually.

In a pinch WD-40 can be used too. Use a drop of Dawn dish soap after the last two to wash away the oily residue. Obviously keep all three out of the wound or incision.

If you have to re-dress the wound, use a different size dressing or bandage so adhesive isn’t being put on the same skin repeatedly. If you’re using strips of tape switch them to running vertically if previously they were running horizontally, again to rest the skin, give the irritated skin a break for a few days.

{{{Herald}}} It sucks, but you gave Angel a great life.

Delightful day today, har har. Had a “2” hour zoom call with a Chinese corp we’re creating a travelling exhibit with, starting at 8am, which meant I had to get in at 7am to do opening. Said 2 hour call turned into 3.5.

My sleep schedule is still screwed up from Ms Peach being out until 4:30 last weekend. I just need to sleep in tomorrow.

I’d just clocked out & was gathering my things when I heard at the window - clearly someone else on speakerphone - " .. and I said, ‘Bitch, that’s some fuckin’ bullshit right there!’ ya know?" and I out of instinct/reflexes glanced over.

When we made eye contact, at least the driver had the grace to look sheepish.

That’ll probably be my last human interaction of the night. Good grief.

I went to the farmers market. As I was sitting there, a woman came up and gave me a pizza and lemonade, with lemons in it.
Now Im having reflux. Pretty sure its the lemons.

Evening all. Taking a break from the World Cup to catch up. Did the necessary sweating at the gym while doing the NY Times puzzles during break time, then home to a Big Bowl of Salad with some Garlic Cheese Toast so appetite is whetted. Nothing else planned for today, may do a braunschweiger run tomorrow morning, we’ll see how I feel about that at 7am tomorrrow. Otherwise a quiet weekend with no Youth soccer on the horizon until August, so will need to find other activities to keep me moving.

Nut, enjoy the Great Outdoors… :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Shoe, hope Friday work isn’t too nerve-wracking…or if it is, please tell us all about it… :wink: :smiley:

JtC, glad Hubs located the phone, I thought a couple of times that I had left it at the gym but it was squeezed into a corner of my gym bag. Hope the shower was nice.

Cat Glove, you are right in that I have been in the weight maintenance business the past two years or so, been fluctuating between 197 and 207 lbs. I stopped the swimming mostly because I was doing weights and it just seem more natural to be on the treadmlll or stationary bike amid the weight work. And thanks for pointing out my typo, but I prefer Cinnamon Raisin Muffins…

Swampy, speaking of inappropriate attire, I almost went into my back yard this evening in my underpants, it would not have been a problem as it was dusk and I have a 7-ft wood privacy fence around the back, but still ended up putting on a part of shorts because ‘you just don’t do that..’

Coppertone, have had the same thing (people say I look tired when I’m not) and then had people say I look good when I’m deep-down tired inside. Guess we do a good job fooling others…

VanGo, hopefully the long call will bear some fruit in the near future.

And no new goals in the World Cup games so will browse a little longer.

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Bog witch? Shrubber?


(As a hockey fan I am obligated to post this)

If he looked sheepish, then he was definitely exaggerating the level of fuckin’ bullshit there.

Thank you, everybody. Angel was the last of our older cats – Lily and her sister Eraser, who will be five in August or September, are now the eldest.

She turned out to be in somewhat better shape than she first appeared. Definitely problems with her hind legs, especially the left one – Lady SCAdian thought perhaps she had had a stroke. We took her to the vet in an open-top box, rather than a carrier, and she kept getting out of it and walking across the room; obvious problems with her left leg, which kept sliding off to the side. Discussed her condition with the vet, and decided that the euthanasia was the best way to go.

Raining and thundering after a major league toad-soaker a few hours ago. Theoretically, all rain will be done by noon. We’ll brave it earlier when we go to Tequila Grill for breakfast. I think they do generic American brekkies, sans tequila, but we’ll find out.

Till then, I’ll try to get some sleep with Ben’s generic cousin.

That and you never know whether the Google maps satellite is photographing your back yard. :stuck_out_tongue:

Tequila with brekkie is too much, even for me. A red beer (weird thing I learned about in San Diego) or maybe a bloody mary might do on a weekend.

One of my cow-orkers was out (sick?) today, and my manager went home at 14:00. Fortunately, it was not a busy day. I did have two people, one in drive-up and one on the phone, who I had to help minutes before closing. I put the caller on hole and helped the person in front of me, then took care of the former. Past due on a loan, the collections person gone for the day, etc. We left a little late today.

The Spousal Unit got Thai food for dinner. She suggested I have Thai BBQ chicken, which is good and plentiful. I hinted I’d rather have my usual Yum Beef salad. She got the chicken. Only… I had Trader Joe’s Just Chicken with Sriracha sauce for lunch. Still good, though.

Wifey got lemon grass chicken. Now, I am forbidden to share my dinner with Goo, because Goo has a thyroid problem (she’s going to the vet for a blood draw tomorrow). So Goo took it upon herself to steak two pieces of Catmom’s lemon chicken from her uncovered container. She apparently just licked them and gnawed on the ends. But there’s two pieces of excellent chicken in the trash. And she got sauce all over the run that Catmom had just washed yesterday. The rug needs to be washed again.

We’re shorthanded at irk. The guy who started a week after I did ghosted. We have a temp person, but she’s not taking on full MSR (Member Service Representative) duties. We’re changint over to a new operating system in the coming months, so TPTB don’t want to train someone on the existing system only to have them have to learn the new system. (We’ve undergone training on the new system. How much will stick, I don’t know.) And once of the Financial Service Representatives (FSR) left for a position at an Edward Jones office today. After three months, I’m comfortable with most of my duties. There are others that happen infrequently enough that I still need assistance. Also, two of us MSRs do not have access to the system to see credit card transactions, because of the upcoming changes.

The old insulation has been cleaned out of the attic. New insulation will be installed tomorrow. (I assume 'mostly installed.) And the vet visit is at 13:30.

I’ve had to make that choice for my cat. I’d had Kotten when I was ten. When I was twenty-four, and trying to finish my degree while working two jobs and attending school full-time, she’d gotten throat cancer. Dr. Lewis told me she could go a couple of months on canned food which she could lick and swallow easily, and I could not absolutely afford. She then said the throat tumors would allow her to swallow solid food for another two weeks.
“After which, we’ll have to come back here.”
“Or she’ll starve.”
I knew I wouldn’t be able to make the trip a second time, so Dr. Lewis took Kotten to the back while I cried uncontrollably in the exam room.

That was thirty-two years ago, and I still regret not being strong enough to sit with my cat to comfort her in her final moments.

Right. Time to watch some RobWords and learn wierd etymology facts to get my mind off my general failings as a human being.

WELL SINCE YOU ASKED …

Actually it wasn’t that bad, BUT … I enjoy naming things, and y’all have been most helpful in the past.

This blue fake nail has been under the drive-thru window for at least two WEEKS now, and when I cracked a joke I realized, nobody else had noticed it. (Everyone looked at me like I’m the weirdo.)

So … Name. That. Nail!!!

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Are you looking for a proper noun or a general name for a painted artificial nail that broke off while reaching for a pizza at the drive-thru and has been sitting on the pavement for several days?

If the former, may I suggest “Jerry”? That nail definitely carries Jerry vibes.

I’ll have to think about the latter.