# (Old) Pole Dancer and Dasher and Comet and Cupid! - A MMP For The Rest Of Us **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [December 23, 2024, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pole-dancer-and-dasher-and-comet-and-cupid-a-mmp-for-the-rest-of-us/1012043 "2024-12-23T05:03:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 321
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pole-dancer-and-dasher-and-comet-and-cupid-a-mmp-for-the-rest-of-us/1012043/321 "2024-12-28T14:46:58Z")
Thanks to some of our British friends here (yes, I blame YOU!) when I awoke I had a gnawin’ & cravin’ for … a hot cuppa tea. 🤨 I wasn’t chilly or feeling blurfy; I just really, really wanted to sip on some piping hot, lightly sweetened Lipton. … and so, gentle readers, I did. What is it about dried leaves (tobacco, cannabis, tea, herbal “tea” infusions, etc.) that make human beings so damn happy? Truly, we naked monkeys are strange beasts indeed. * * * **Backup Manager** was horribly hoarse yesterday (barely able to croak out “I’m not sick!”) and the grandma on the crew has had a horribly runny nose for days now (“damm allergies!”) so I’m bringing some Luden’s drops with me today. That’ll totally help, right? 🙃 … must remember to grab a bottle of O.J. while I’m there, too. Get some vitamin C in me. I like to stash them in the freezer for a few hours (after taking a few sips, to allow expansion room) until they’re nearly frozen. Shake the shit outta them to break up the ice crystals & you have a sorta-healthy sorta-slushie. Also coming in with me: a bottle of coffee & a bag of gummy fish, half a baked potato, plus a jar of salsa, a mini thingie of guac, and some tortilla chips for scoopin’ all that. Oh, and some chocolate covered coffee beans - mustn’t forget the caffeine! In my locker there’s still a bag of peanut M&Ms and some Chex Mix, and the walk-in has a few slices of ham & a pudding cup with my name on them. There’s a solitary low-dose edible if I need it (e.g. emotional support blankie, it’s been there a while now) in my apron pocket, and my vape battery is on the charger. Long Night requires being _prepared,_ dammit! (I doubt it’ll all be consumed today, but 1a.) I close again tomorrow, too, might as well stock up, and 2b.) I feel better knowing I have backup supplies.) * * * It’s stopped being drippy, so I’m letting Monkey have some outside time while I finish my tea and contemplate some sort of breakfast. (Might as well fuel up now, since it’ll help me nap some more, and - judging by my lunch pack - I clearly have the munchies anyway.) Did a load of laundry last night, mostly socks and undies and work shirts, and although I have retrieved the clean/dry items from ~~the depths of hell~~ my basement, the chances of them getting sorted/paired and put away anytime ~~soon~~ uh ~~today~~ erm, this year, are decidedly low. Not nil. But if you shook a Magic 8-Ball (remember those?) the answer would be “Odds are not great.” * * * That took so long to type out, I may hafta make _another_ cuppa tea! ETA @Taters when I was roughly that age, I inadvertantly wandered too close to a swan nest. Didn’t know it was there and then suddenly there was a commotion of this horribly loud honking noise and white feathers and utter terror and me screaming & running as fast as my little legs would go. When you are a very small human, those fuckers are bigger than you, and indeed, scary as all hell. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pole-dancer-and-dasher-and-comet-and-cupid-a-mmp-for-the-rest-of-us/1012043)._