(Old) Make Me Proud! In the MMP

Is someone in trouble?

I feel like I should get this reference … but I don’t. Lil’ help?


Okay, time to yank on clean socks and go do this groovy thang yet again.
I was dead-ass asleep when my alarm went off - unusual for a late (4pm) start time - so I don’t ezzactly have a lot of pep yet. Some impressive sheet lines, tho.

Close with both S.M. and Alternate Manager so it’ll be just us gals, all grown-ups, and two Oven Masters.
Should at least be a fast close.

Oh, and gotta leave a few minutes early; Special Co-worker asked nicely for a ride in last night.

… matter of fact, she’s gained the nickname “Sprinkles” at work, so that shall be her moniker here.

Mmkay?

I’m still grumbling after church this morning. Not about the service, that was fine. But about what has happened to one of our members.

Her house burned yesterday. She’s our music director and was sad to lose her piano. But what happened last night is even worse. Of course the family stayed elsewhere, and sometime in the night someone came to the damaged property and looted stuff that was left. So she also lost most of her other instruments she said. Plus other stuff. That is so low. I’m sure she has insurance but that won;t replace family treasures. The congregation will be generous I’m sure but I wish I could turn back time, and if not save the house at least catch the @#$%^& that skimmed through what was left.

It’s almost 60 F outside and three days ago it was well below zero here. It’s amazing how much snow has melted on the ground in just the last twelve hours.

For supper this evening I’m going to make pizza. I like doing that sometimes, so I can get exactly what I want on it.

My sister has been telling me about some more genealogical discoveries she’s been making. She has had contact with a very distant relation online, from Germany, that provided some links to church records from the earlier 1800’s. Sis knows a little German but still has trouble with the style of handwriting used, but she’s very pleased to have gotten two new names, a couple that would be four greats grandparents. I forget the name of the town but it used to be German but currently is in Poland. Borders changed a lot.

Ain’t that the truth! My great grandparents, along with my 2 year old grandfather, emigrated from Poland in 1905. They were ethnically Polish, but sometimes the place they were from was part of Ukraine, sometimes Russia, depending upon who had invaded most recenty.

I finished a trio of dog themed cards this afternoon and am selecting the paper to make the next project.

Sunday dinner was hunter’s stew and most yum!

Oh what prince married what princess.

It;s amusing that Cologne is in Germany and Strasbourg is in France.

Here in NE Ohio, it is to be about 50 tomorrow. Its been a long time since it was last that warm.
Guy didn’t pick me up for church.
I said I told him and his wife I am always attending.
No, he insists I must text him.
The pastor sent him back for me.
I will be getting a vax tomorrow ( I get a $5 bonus for doing so).
Its been 3 weeks since I fell, my backs getting better.
I have spaghetti for supper.

Cupcakes - that’s just lower than low. I ache for your friend.

Supper was quick, easy, and early. In a little bit, I’m heading downstairs for some bike and TV time. And that will wrap up my weekend. FCD has a dental appt at 7:30 tomorrow and while he’s gone, I may make a quick run to Food Lion. Or not. I need to check on line to see if there’s anything on line that I want/need. But not tonight. I can’t brain any more.

Shoe. “wounds my heart…” was code to the French Resistance that D Day was about to start.

I did some poking and as it turns out the culprit is the aging pipe system. Whenever a pipe springs a leak, water pressure drops and the boiler shuts down. Sometimes the source of the leak is not readily apparent, and then it takes time to find, repair and get the pressure back up. They are now actively pursuing a preventive maintenance program to replace pipe joints.

Yeah, I had some fun in the Marine House in a number of embassies. In Moscow, there was also a Seabee House because of the permanent nature of the team there. Some wild parties went on, and some of the guys had girlfriends from places like the Finnish embassy. There was also the Embassy dacha, which had a sauna and where parties could get out of hand.

Howdy Y’all! We deheathenated and I attended a very loooooong meetin’. Lots of stuff to talk about what with Lent, Ash Wednesday, Holy Week and Easter. When I got back to da cave, I changed into comfies, et a cheese sammich and accomplished nappage. Decided to make dawgs and sweet N.O.T. fries for sup and ‘‘twas good. Now it’s Netflix, chill, popcorn and German chawklit cake time.

ETA

CupCakes I’ve always said Easter should always be the third Sunday in April, cause in these parts the weather is usually N.O.S. and warm by then unless it’s stormy and tornadoie, which is also a possibility. Also, grrr about your friend!

People are pushing back, the courts are getting involved, things are happening. You are not alone.

:people_hugging:

Harry told me that I should avoid doing laundry for a while to lessen the strain on the water system, so I’ll let it pile up for a week. We have three sets of percale sheets I rotate during the week and another set of linen sheets I can use if needed, so I think we will be OK.

I was thinking about it and I’ve been through my own share of natural disasters and must say that this has been the quietest one ever.

There was a named typhoon that hit Okinawa while I was there. The base commander sent all of the planes to Japan and when the typhoon passed, he brought them back. Unfortunately, the typhoon hooked back and wiped them all out. It was a huge mess, but being on a military base, everyone knew everything almost as soon as it happened.

I was in Hawaii when Eva came through and knocked the power out in Waikiki. Everyone knew what was going on then, it was on the radio and people knocked on doors and such. They even had take cover sirens.

Southern CA had several major earthquakes that were covered live and the communication for wildfires was pretty good in AZ. After the flood that wiped Mayer out happened, it was on the news and online.

Flooding here seems to be just another Tuesday as far as folks are concerned. There really isn’t much in the news and hardly anything online. We know a little bit about what is going on through word of mouth and personal observation. It’s kinda like when the forest was on fire during the summer. Nobody seemed to notice and life just went on around it.

I think I’m tired of living in exciting times.

That showed admirable restraint!

18461 8th St. One bathroom for one man and five women. Dad spent a whole lot of time in his garage, LOL!!!

(He did add on a wing that included a large bathroom for the daughters, but they didn’t have an on-suite bathroom until they were in their 60’s.)

I’m glad she’s feeling better and will confess to being rather concerned about your husband being out and about these days. There’s so much ick going around and his immune system isn’t as strong as it could be.

The pic is as fuzzy as my eyes were last night. It was a combination of bad light, bad eyes, good weed and not wanting to get close enough to really see what was on the floor that was the problem. I’ve watched enough horror to know when to not open the door or go up the stairs or touch something, my first response was to run away.

But it was cold outside so my next instinct was to tell all of my imaginary friends about it, LOL!

Dang about your washing machine. It’s good that she will get someone out soon, it would be a horrible shame if he didn’t have the right part and had to schedule another weekday visit.

It sucks that people are losing their jobs, I hope your daughter holds on to hers. And SIL, doesn’t he work on a base?

I’ve had to ration Hubs snacks for years. I will show him the reusable containers and tell him how many he can have each day and he can control his intake from there but otherwise all snack bags are single serving bags that must be eaten all at once.

Like you, I don’t really like it. He’s a grown man, it feels very controlling to tell him how much he can eat.

At least you got some good hard sleep. I’m sure you needed it. So, spill, why is she Sprinkles?

That is just sickening. I am so sorry for her, talk about kicking someone when they are down.

I agree because that’s when all of the little girls get their Easter dresses and don’t want to cover them with heavy jackets and coats. Or that’s how it was when I was a kid.

So not much has been happening around here. Before the last snow, a couple of dogs dragged a dead something into the middle of the across the street neighbor’s yard and rolled on it for a while and then went off to do other dog things. Since then, the ravens have looked at it, a dog that lives back on the other side of the gully looked at it but didn’t roll and the original dogs have come back and looked at it.

It thing must be pretty rancid if the dogs and ravens aren’t interested. I’m going to go over tomorrow and warn them, they can’t see it from their front windows and it won’t be much fun to discover when they start mowing again.

The NASCAR race in Atlanta is over. After a record number of lead changes, Christopher Bell led only one lap, the last one.

It’s 36F outside, at 7:40pm. Tomorrow is Monday Morning, almost Lent, for those of you into that sort of thing. See you tomorrow.

Evening all. My level of sloth for most of the day would have met with swampy’s approval, then did get out to return the key to the school gym for the older kids to play and then went over to my gym and did a little exercising. Didn’t feel like going home to a cold sammich, so I broke a 14-year grudge and went to Applebee’s. It was ok, nothing special and I won’t be in a rush to go back, but at least they are off my list (Alamo Rent-A-Car remains there). Home now and taking it easy before heading off to bed in a few hours. Temperature is still above freezing and the week’s forecast say we might make it to 70F by Wednesday.

red, regarding the love-stricken cat, I thought cartoons taught us that shoes are the proper cure-all…

52, may your clog go down the drain.

Oopsie, happy Lego-ing. And while I don’t use Trader Joe’s much, I do have several bags of Buc-ee’s Beaver Nuggets if you’d like to try them…or any Mumper, for that matter… And tough on you and the employee both. RIFs are not fun anytime.

I fear I would be a fellow irritant, I try to buy stuff in packs because I have little resistance to nibbling. That’s why cookies and potato chips are on my ‘do-not-buy’ list’

Correct, and best known as it was used in the old movie The Longest Day (or at least that is where I remember it from…)

Cupcakes, that’s an added blow they didn’t need; sorry to hear about it.

JtC, you’ve been though a lot more bad weather than I. In 2011 I was without power for nearly a week due to a level 4 tornado blowing high-tension towers down, but otherwise just the usual stuff.

And it’s nearing 8pm so need to do the end of the week internetting and be thinking about bedtime. Take care all and I’ll catch you on the next MMP.

Well, here’s hoping that your record continues! (It surprised me, considering your travels during your working years.)

Besides losing power and/or water for a day or so, the disasters didn’t really affect me. I mean, I spent a lot of time doing clean-up and caring for critters, but besides losing power and/or water for a day or so, “nothing that bad ever happens to me”.

One sock is done! The instructor was able to frog sock 2, so I don’t have to start all over. I’m not good at frogging. I can tink.

I have turned the heel on sock 2! I hope to finish sock 2 in a few days.

The week ahead will be interesting. I have mon. and tues. off, and will work from home on Friday. Should all go well, the new lobby chairs will be delivered on Friday. Tues and weds will be building meetings. As I said, interesting.

At sock class we got on a discussion of grammar. The table was team Oxford comma! So wonderful.

Mrs. L.A. made dinner tonight. She reheated the meatloaf and (canned) peas I made the other night. Yum.

Watching Gordon Ramsay on TV. Getting the urge for sardines (sprats) on toast for breakfast.

I cleaned. I napped. I laundered. A couple of weeks ago, someone moved out and left a pair of underbed sliding drawers that I grabbed. But my bed was too short for them. So I bought some wood stacking furniture blacks from Da Jungle. which were nice, but a combination of carpet and wheels on the bed legs mean that they tipped over. So a metric buttload of wood glue, a trip to the Freecycle zone to get a couple of 2x4 pieces that were discarded when the complex tore down the new fence to put up a new maintenance shed, and some sawing and now it works. but I have to undo it next weekend to raise my 6’x4’ Yuengling bar mirror up 4 inches, and move the bed back 2 inches. I’m having a Wisconsin Old Fashioned to deal with it.

No pint of the black stuff? :thinking:

If you’re a dude, that’s a feature, not a bug. :wink:

Spot always rides the ragged edge of danger.

I have that on VHS.

You wanna start a fight between the French and Germans, drop Alsace-Lorraine between them.

{{{{Taters}}}}

JtC - SIL works for MWR - Morale, Welfare, and Recreation. I could see that on the chopping block, too. Unless President Musk is unaware of its existence.

I biked while watching my show - I think it’s called After Paradise. Not all murders, but many hokey paths to solving the crimes. Harmless, brainless entertainment. Plus each episode is about an hour, which makes for a good warm up, workout, cool down, and a few minutes for my legs to return from the jelly state.

For now, tho, sleepy-bye.

Thank you. You and me both. But he didn’t go to church today; he watched on-line. As I mentioned earlier, I went to 6pm and there was no one within 12 feet of me. I meant to take my pyx to bring home a host for Hubs but I forgot it. I asked the priest afterward if I could borrow one and he graciously lent one to me. Hubs wears a mask every time he leaves the house. I’m going to try to get him to stop going to restaurants; he rarely does but every now and then he’ll go to breakfast. Reminds me, he’s going for blood draw tomorrow and that’s usually when he goes out to eat. I’ll have to have a talk with him when I’m done with this post.

I was able to sleep another 4 hrs late morning/early afternoon. When I got up, I watched the Spartan women take down the Hoosiers 73-65.

Dinner was Creamy Tomato with Basil soup and grilled ham & cheese sandwiches.

Since sleep was so upended, I’m starting to fade. Oh gosh, it’s after 10, I didn’t realize it was that late. All right, good night all. See you in the new mmp.

Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.

Well, saying “I always attend church” does not equal “I always need you, specifically you, to give me a ride, every single week.”

As far as he & his wife know, could be that you made plans with someone else that day, and they’re also giving you a lift.

Could be that you’re too ill or injured to attend that particular day.

I think assuming the ride without any prior notice (not even the week before, saying something like “Thanks so much! Could you give me another ride next week, too?”) seems … kinda presumptuous?

That’s … yeah. No.

Just, nope.

Alternate Manager came up with it, kinda off the cuff, and it … stuck.
Just suits her personality.

She’s on the spectrum, has ADHD, and some other challenges as well. Requires frequent nudges to get her back on track sometimes all the friggin’ time, when she gets distracted by … whatever.

But she’s sweet as hell, kinda glommed onto my cranky ass for some reason (she has a ritual of hugging “goodbye” her favorite girls on the crew - I forgot, ONCE, when leaving early … next time I forgot, I turned my car around and came back just for my hug. Wasn’t gonna break her heart again! I think it warms my soul almost as much as hers, or possibly more) and she does have her strengths, including a helluva memory.

If she takes someone’s order, and later we have a question about it, she REMEMBERS every detail.
Me? Ask me something about an earlier order (like, 45 seconds prior) and I’m like, “I dunno, maybe. Sounds vaguely familiar?”

There’s hope for humanity yet.

And good morning to you, sir!


It’s almost 2 a.m. here so I assume there are no nocturnal Mumpers around this thread anymore.

G’night, kiddos.