Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave. Spot is trying to eat my hand, to prevent me from leaving
Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 15c/58f with a predicted high of 22c/72f and cloudy. Weather app says “Just think, it could be fucking hot and humid as fuck outside. Be grateful that it’s not hot and humid as fuck.” Well, it’s still hot in the house so I’ve got as many windows open as I can at the moment. I’m just glad it will be cooler than yesterday.
I hope that is an improvement for you, but pins and needles would drive me potty 
I can just picture 'im indoors doing that too, he’s fond of using inappropriate tools for a job and then wonders why I get snarky with him about it!
That’s a lot of driving, but I can see why you’d want to do that instead of the flight nightmare. I hope you get some pretty scenery to look at too!
I am sorry you’re having to watch FCD go through this, it’s such a tough thing to do when you feel so helpless. If the nurse tells you that not taking meds isn’t going to affect anything, you know the end isn’t really that far off either.
If there was an RDOS hall of fame, you’d be right up there!
I hope it does her good to get out and talk to people, it does take a while to process grief but you’re right that she does need to pick up life again. And yay for a simple job at the doc’s!
Taters I hope you’re feeling better and more energised today, it would be a shame if you spent your time off work feeling grotty.
I was working at home yesterday and by the time I’d logged off, I was hot and uncomfortable so I decided the sensible thing to do would be to run the rollsuck around the house. After that I was considerably hotter and even more uncomfortable so clothes went in the wash, and I went in a nice cool bath. Felt much better after that!
Nothing exciting in my day today, I am working at home again and waiting for the binmen to come round. I hauled the biiiiiiig bin out last night in case they were coming early but it’s close to 9am now and no sign of them. After irk today, I have to prepare campus food for the rest of the week, then we are going grocery shopping. My turn to provide dinner tonight, and I have leftover chilli in the fridge so we’ll have that later.
Time to check the inboxes, put out the skip fires and have another cup of tea!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 73 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 95 and N.O.S. for the day. Today is laundry day. I can hardly contain myself. Since I am pretty much back to the land of the livin’ I shall also make sup, which shall be a poke roast in the slow cooker with carrots, N.O.T. sallit, baby lima beans, and rolls. I am ready for some regular foodstuffs.
Oopsie the Lambo is tres cool!
MG hope you feel better soonest.
Talkie back in the day when I traveled for irk, I would opt to drive anywhere I could make it in six to eight hours. All flights out of here are to The Etlanner LaToya Jackson Intergalactic Spaceport, Nail Emporium, Hot Wings and Panda Express. From their it was either to where I was goin’, or to another airport whereupon I would then board a crop duster to wherever I was goin’. I did not enjoy that.
Cookie I wish you smooth sailin’ with the VA.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.
Happy Tuesday Y’all!
MIL’s remaining sister is a retired nurse and she pretty much told FCD the same thing when they went to Indianapolis. Her decline has been really apparent of late, and that’s really hurting him. Plus he’s feeling guilt because he’ll be relieved when it’s all over.
Are you kidding? They’ll name it after him!
My laundry day will be shifted or split this week since we’re going to my mom’s on Firday and to the Dragon Boat Race on Saturday. I guess I’ll try to do a little each evening.
I think today is the only day this week I don’t have something to do that involves the grands. I’m hoping to take my nippers and loppers out front and do something about the random stuff growing along the driveway. There are little treelings that need to be gone, some forsythia that’s reaching out too far, and other weirdness to be tamed. I figure in a couple of hours I can clean it up fairly well. We shall see.
I’ll pull some chickie out of the freezer for supper, since I have so much. I have time to decide how to prepare it. That’s pretty much my plans. The rest of the day will be improvised.
Happy Tuesday!
Morning all. Foot is still a bit sore to walk on, but no swelling or bruising that I can see, so will take it easy on it today and see if it improves. Do have to get to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription, took the last pill in the bottle today so timing is pretty good. 75F now heading to 90F, so a typical summer day in N. Ali-bama.
flyboy, damn how life keeps interfering with having a good walk… 
boo fae, I have noticed that too, if I put the bin out the night before, they never pick it up early but if I wait I can hear them coming down the road at 7am. And being too hot in the house when outdoors is only 72F…hard for me to compute. Still, any excuse for a bath is good.
OK, have broken my fast and need to get the dishes in the dishwasher and finish the morning internettin’, so have a good 2sDay all.
I can understand that, I was the same with mum in her last weeks. I couldn’t spend as much time as I wanted with her because of work, but at the same time I also didn’t want to be there to see how quickly she deteriorated.
The strangest feeling was the day she died, that night I turned my phone off for the first time in years. I won’t say I slept any better for it, but it was an odd feeling knowing it wasn’t going to ring and she’d be on the other end demanding I came over and released her from hospital 
When you give a mouse a cookie …
If I had more free time & energy, I’d learn how to embroider, just to put that on a pillow or something.
{ quietly hides the good scissors }
Are you okay?
That weird sound you just heard was someone way up in Michigan laughing their ass off.
You totally had me at “Intergalactic Spaceport.” Scared the cat by the time I got to Panda Express.
Every ten-cent therapist has dealt with this. It sucks, for sure, but seems to be part of humanity.
I got about half of what I wanted done in the front yard before my legs started itching like crazy. I was afraid it was fast-acting poison ivy, but it looks like skeeter bites. Dammit. I scrubbed both legs and maybe after lunch I’ll find some bug repellant, then try to attack the other half. But for now I’m chillin’.
Lots of poison ivy around my forsythia that I need to spray or next year it will be out of control. Nassssty stuff.
But for now, back to my latest trashy book.
Good morning.
It’s 61F and cloudy. It’ll be overcast all day, and the high temperature is expected to top out at 71F. On the other hand, it was supposed to be much the same yesterday, but the sun did come out in the afternoon.
My husband and I went out to lunch yesterday and walked around the main street of the town down the hill. We also checked out a self-dog-washing location that also provides groomers. We may take the pups there since it’ll be easier on our backs.
When we returned, we released the dogs from their kennels, played with them for a bit, and then I took care of weed-whacking and mowing the lawn. It’s dusty work now, and twice as hard as it needs to be since the dogs knock all dirt, bark, and rocks into what remains of the lawn in their area. First, I have to rake through the lawn and get all the rocks, pebbles, twigs and sticks in piles and then remove them. On the side of the house, I have to rake and shovel all the dirt back into the “garden” and pick up all the rocks again. Next, I have to rake up what remains of the mulch from the bottom of the raised bed and then spread that again. Finally, I get to weed wack, mow the lawn, and then use the blower. It’s turned what used to be a relatively quick job into a time-consuming and dusty endeavor.
My husband wants to get mulch and spread it to cut down on the dust, but it’s not really going to solve the problem because they’ll just push all the mulch to the bottom of the raised bed and into the lawn and then be back down to bare dirt and rocks (they ripped up all the landscaping cloth). The pups tear through that area, and there really is no point in doing all that until they calm down a bit.
I miss my lovely yard; I worked so hard to restore it, and it was torn to shreds in a few months. On the other hand, the pups bring us much happiness and they won’t always be this way.
I wish I had the $ to hire a professional landscaper to properly tier the raised bed area and maybe provide a workable solution that allows the dogs to play and run and not make that yard area a dusty, barren wasteland. There is only a very tiny portion of the yard that is flat, and there is not enough space for a kennel that provides them room to run.
Ah well, it is what it is.
FCM, I know it must be incredibly hard to watch your husband wrestle with his feelings. I watched my husband do the same, and we both felt incredible guilt when we weren’t there for her last hours in hospice. At the same time, we felt relief because we had dealt with the slow demise for three years.
Once again, I don’t have any solid plans for the day. I may go to the mall because I need some new boulder holders. I would also like to go out to the nursery and pick out a replacement for the dead tree I dug up. I’m not quite sure what I’ll put there, but it needs something.
I like practicing to be a RDOS. I wish it were permanent. 
Since the weather promises to be cloudy all week, I’m not sure hiking is the thing to do. I tentatively planned a trail up on Mount Rainier that would have provided stunning views and beautiful wildflower meadows. I will check out the NPS cams and see what it looks like up there. Sometimes it can be cloudy down here and beautiful up there, and vice versa. Also, the weather up there can turn really nasty in a minute, so I need to be prepared for that too.
They broke ground on the kids’ new house in Missouri and built the forms for the foundation. This was last week, so I’m sure more progress has been made.
Time for some morning chores. I don’t really have much to clean up in the kitchen since we just had leftovers from lunch for dinner.
Johnny cakes for breakfast. Hot damn, but those are good!
Getting out to vote later, and I suggest you all do the same if today is primary day for you.
Johnny had bold aigs for breakfast.
Off to a probably fruitless interview.
Beautiful weather.
I am a HOUSE CLEANING GENIUS! Today I threw the dirty clothes down the front steps because it’s closer to where they were located upstairs. Then I went down the back steps. Just now as I came back up the front steps there were dirty socks that hadn’t made it all the way down. So, as I ambled slowly upward I grabbed each sock with the end of my cane and dusted a step! 
Smalls was overstaffed today, so I was on the 100 slide. Fairly easy day. I did have t do an address correction on one package, because they put in the wrong zip code. But the name on the package was Yahweh. So if you need to see The Almighty, He’s currently in Apex, N.C. I did my Aldi run afterwards, I picked up a magnetic fridge bottle opener and bottle cap catcher. Because sometimes it’s too much of a bother to turn around and reach 2 feet for the bottle opener on the kitchen counter. How’s that for RDOS level sloth? And Spot continues his hand gnawing thing. Apparently his love language is now Ultraviolence.
{{{{FCD}}}}
Yep. They want open availability. I have to take the bus. Done trying.
Afternoon all. Have been to Walgreens and got my thyroid prescription, walking was a bit painful but the limp is going away, so should be fine by tomorrow. Gym will be in about an hour or so, then sloth will occupy the rest of the day.
Shoe, if you fly out of your town, you’re going to Chi-town O’Hare, which is like Atlanta but even harder to get around in. And it doesn’t have a Panda Express. 
FCM, hope the itching goes away, nothing worse than itchy legs.
Taters, dogs gonna dog; hope they calm down soon and you can work on restoring the yard.
Sticky Buns, yep, whatever works is the best.
Or seeing if you’re ripe enough…
OK, need to do some mundane entry data and then prepare for pedaling to nowhere.
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Sorry about the employment challenges, Coppertone! 
I’m a bit out of sorts today: some of y’all definitely have it worse, but a little while ago I had a random nosebleed and all day I’ve had a weird headache that Tylenol is only just taking the edge off. Bleh.
Luckily, work is on the quiet side today. I might log off and go to Wife BFF’s a little early, and get a head start on setting everything up so I can work from there for the rest of the week. I’ll text her in a few hours and we’ll determine a plan for this evening. I’ll have a lot to set up – in addition to the two laptops I’m bringing a monitor stand, monitors, docking stations, external webcams, etc. – but it shouldn’t take long. I don’t have iMacs but I got a couple of these carrying bags, and I’m hoping they’ll work with my monitors as well as it seems like they should. 
Clearly this is something you’ve encountered in the past (or you wouldn’t have asked), but never in a million years would it have occurred to me that a hotel might care about how close to the place someone lives! I can’t imagine any of the hotels around here turning down my business just because I live in the area (even the Westin that is literally 1 mile from my house). Huh!
That’s a terrible, terrible system.
No, I hadn’t; I like it! 
I don’t read blogs or get newsletters or anything, but it’s likely just a matter of time…
That’s exactly what I said when I posted photos of it on Facebook. 
Yay for live bears!!
Genius! 
I thought so. But to them, what could be more fair than going in alphabetical order? Popularity, ethnicity, whatever are taken out of the equation. But they system discriminated against students whose surname started with letters after, say, ‘T’.
In other news, the TV is on. I’m not watching, because I’m irking. I heard a character say, ‘Don’t keep us in suspense!’ To me, it sounded like ‘Donkeypuss in suspense!’ I got this weird image in my head of a donkey-cat hybrid suspended in a gel.
We usually always cook with booze.
I’m glad you are feeling a little better today. I hope your wife starts feeling a little better soon.
Good luck with the VA.
None of my friends ever questions my marijuana consumption.
Aren’t you doing it in the wrong order? I always went grocery shopping so I could pick out things I wanted for the upcoming week and then got lunches ready.
You are!!!
Is MusicMan over the wrenching he got during the accident?
Have you checked your BP lately? Sometimes things go off kilter for no reason.
The motel at the Cordes Junction as well as several of the chain motels in Prescott Valley do not like to rent to locals because too many of them use the rooms to have loud parties with drunk people causing problems.
We first ran into it when family would come to visit back when we had that dinky single wide trailer. The junction motel wouldn’t let me book and pay, but if Mom called and booked using her out of state address, they would let me pay and check in for her. As time went by, they figured out that our retired parents weren’t going to hold wild parties and let us book for them, but I heard that not everyone passes their test.
Other folks told me about the other places.
Now that I think about it, I still have my AZ plates because I want the people driving behind me to understand that I don’t know how to drive, plus they cut the corner off my AZ DL when I got my WV one but if I had that in my wallet, the holder covered the notch. I could have easily passed for out of state if needed.
The Lowes window estimator was here today. Nice guy who admired Bella. He came in highest and would take two days. Both of us would rather buy local if possible so we are leaning towards the family owned company. Most of the reviews we’ve read have said “they were more expensive, but worth it”.
Of course, at our ages, life time guarantees aren’t nearly as impressive as they were back in the day.
As someone who was a T before becoming a R, I too have noticed that very subtle sort of discrimination.
3.21 mph today, and I met my PCP coming the other way. (He looked like he’s been putting on a little weight.)