(Old) Silly Songs In The MMP

It’s Tuesday! Where did the days go?

It’s been really windy here today, and it was garbage day, so my song is The trash cans, my friend, are blowin’ in the wind/The trash can is rollin’ down the street. I saw the neighbor take her still unemptied recycling cart in after it blew over. I did the same ten minutes later, before all the light things in it could get blown all over the neighborhood. And the recycling truck came three minutes after I put it away for next week.

There’s no way I’m going to catch up, so I’ll just stay in the middle, approximately.

“Have you thought about helping your patients find workable solutions instead of just telling them to lose weight?”

“Have you tried getting younger?”

Fifty calories??? But they’re so teensy! You could always send me half the bag…

I’ve had to train myself not to jump when Mr. L swears at his computer or whatever he’s working on. The dramatics are so intense! He says it’s because he got used to being the only one in the house, but I’ve asked him to try toning it down so I don’t think there’s some major disaster and come running every time. We want to be sure that if he falls and breaks his other hip I don’t think he’s just had a minor work setback when I hear the yelling.

I’m glad your husband is getting treatment! It makes me happy to think of our tax dollars being put to such good use.

Whew! Happy new mattress! Good luck on the paint colors. I’ve never had to deal with an entire committee when choosing paint. It’s hard enough with just three or four people having to come to a consensus. If it matters, I think the Norway Spruce is the best of the colors.

Someone on social media (here? Or maybe Twitter in the pre-cesspool days) said she carries a bill (whatever she can afford) specifically for the first person she sees who asks for money that day, and that was a revelation to me. Ever since, I do the same. And it’s like any other gift: once it’s out of my hands and in theirs, it’s none of my business what they do with it.

I hope the injections are doing some good!

Roxy puked up a hairball this afternoon, but she was kind enough to start urping right in front of me and I was able to get her onto some tile. I can tell it’s getting to be spring, since this is the second hairball in the past week. Fluffy fur may be pretty, but it’s a pain.

I hope you were able to work that out. You’ve worked so hard to get a decent job; actually working should be a breeze once you’re able to get through all the work of getting hired!

And… it’s one a.m. and I’m still up! I love all you wonderful folks, and I’ll see about getting up to date tomorrow!

How’d that work out for him?

I’ll admit, the “theory” behind acupuncture seems like a steaming load of post-digested cattle feed to me …

… but I have an old shoulder injury, and years ago, the first time I tried acupuncture, it HELPED on a level I hadn’t even dared hoped for.
And, again, highly skeptical about the ideas that back it, so the placebo effect was definitely not in place.

But my gawdz, the pain relief was … there are no words.

I hope it helped him?

Might?!? For anyone who’s truly down on their luck, twenty dollars means so friggin’ much. That’s a lot. A hot meal, plus a whole entire pack of cigarettes … hell, in some places, if you know the right people you can split a hotel room with a few others - get a warm and more importantly SAFE place to sleep, a nice, hot shower … have change left over for a brand-new package of socks …

That was my Inappropriate Crushy-Poo from a while back. Absolutely nothing ever came of it, but it was fun, passed the time more pleasantly, and made me feel like not a decrepit old bitch.

Multiculturalism at its finest.

Okay, mom.

I did not.

Does the way their “arms” grow have anything to do with it?

Who taught him that, you, or VBC?

And how was the lesson shoveled into his little head?
(Asking for a friend. Who has a cat. Who can be a little twerp a lot.

… okay, it’s me. I’m the friend with the twerp.)

For some reason, this reminded me of “Miss Suzie.”

… and her steamboat.

Which had a bell. :musical_note: ding! ding!
There were rumors of heaven,
… and a much naughtier place that rhymed. :musical_note: ding! ding!

SO subversive for sheltered 8-year-old girls.

Welcome to my cross-stitch. I have three current active projects, and two-three more that are still knocking around my imagination, mostly, although the bones have been sketched out. Sorta.

That’s so fucked up. I join you in your anger and frustration.


Well, since I’ve been firmly admonished to eat, imma go sear up the pork chop that’s sittin’ in the fridge and calling my name.

I made a “glaze” for it, but it’s kinda thin still.

… it’s also disappearing rapidly, cuz I keep “tasting” it. Very yummy, just not the texture I wanted.

I did make a pizza for snackin’ at work:

I’m not sure but that’s either non-enforceable or totally illegal

Woke. Its between t’storms.
I am to go in tomorrow 8-2 where my boss will help me fill out the onboarding.
Hope you all are okay and sheveled.
Back to sleep.

As if I don’t have enough nonsense to deal with, now it’s BIL’s rent. The apartment complex uses Rent Cafe for rent payments. Rent Cafe did some sort of update, and all of a sudden, the credit union here in town is no longer on their list. Dammit. Which means I can’t set up automatic payments thru them. Dammit.

I’ve written a check to pay for March. And our other credit union is on the list, so I can set up automatic payments, but it’ll involve moving money between the two credit unions - pain in the patoot. Especially since Rent Cafe used to connect with Cedar Point FCU and now they don’t. Like I need something else to make me stabby…

Speaking of MIL, I heard her in the bathroom this morning and got there in time to keep her from falling. WHY WHY WHY can’t she do us the courtesy of calling us when she’s up and about?? Yesterday evening, she was so shaky, she could barely stand - we had to wheel her to the bathroom and to her bed because she couldn’t walk. But at 4:30 this morning, she managed to get herself into the room full of hard surfaces. Luckily, I had awakened at 4 (stoopit bladder) and I was messing with my tablet when I heard her. Dammit.

Worst of all, I fear this is a sneak preview of how her eldest son will be one day.

On the plus side, it’s warmer out today - almost 60°, which is good, because I want to clean the fireplaces. The pellet stove burned out this morning, and it’s cooling down now. I’ll be able to vacuum out the ash and clean the glass while the temps are mild.

On the way home yesterday, I picked up a ham steak so I can make the ham-potato-onion casserole for supper. I need to get MIL to eat some protein. Apparently at Cracker Barrel all she had was a veggie plate, and last night, all she ate was a dish of ice cream and a handful of croutons. Yeah, she likes to snack on dried hunks of bread. What’s wrong with her? She’s got chocolate in the pantry and she wants to eat croutons?? The woman is losing her mind for sure. <deep cleansing breath>

Heckuva way to end February - well, almost end - not till tomorrow.

Happy Wednesday!

Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 62 Amurrkin out and mostly cloudy with a predicted high of 78 and mostly cloudy. The big items on today’s agenda are to procure provisions and then facilitate the Lenten study group over to the church house this evenin’. Since it’s a soup ‘n sammich thing, that takes care of sup also. The usual sloth, general overall uselessness, nappage, and day drinkin’ will be accomplished.

doggio I see a piece of cake by your name, so Happy Doperversary!

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, alas and bother, I suppose I must purtify and don attire acceptable for bein’ amongst the great unwashed. Woe!

Happy Hump Day Y’all!

My brother Dave in Tucson has a ten foot tall Saguaro named Bob. He has moved Bob three times. He hires a company that specializes in this and it is more expensive to move Bob that it was to buy him in the first place

Good morning, everyone.

It’s around 45 degrees Fahrenheit and drizzling. The expected high temperature is 49 degrees Fahrenheit, with a 100% chance of precipitation later in the day. We may or may not see snow overnight.

FCM, I have no words. I am sending you hugs and fortitude.

nellie, I’d be super pissed too. I also question the legality of this waiver.

JtC, yes we got the VR situation sorted. I found a whole new headset and the controllers came with it. We got it through Wally World, so I was worried it wasn’t the correct version, but it works, and the hubby is happy again. He and my son play games virtually almost daily, making him happy.

Fortunately, we haven’t had computer issues for quite some time. He has two gaming computers; one is hooked up to the VR headset upstairs, and there is one in the den. Shit, I may have just jinxed things.

Huh, who knew that a cactus was so finicky? They are pretty large, so I can understand why it’s expensive to move them.

I had a very trying day yesterday. I also worked late. I’m irritated about many things at work, but I have tamped it down and am just plowing through the job at hand. Being pissy and moaning and groaning doesn’t get the work done. Because the work keeps coming down that avalanche chute, and I’m furiously shoveling at the end of the chute trying to clear it.

Another program requirement has superseded my request for a new FTE to help out, and I’m just pissed. We are hiring three new FTEs, and in my opinion, one is unnecessary. My boss knows it, too. I keep telling him my program is being set up for failure and our needs must be addressed. He nods and agrees, but nothing happens. Other things are going on, too, but what irritates me the most is how hard and work-intensive everything has to be. There is no reason for some of what I do to be so difficult. They have not joined the 21st century regarding automation, and people like me pay the price. Bah, whatever. It’s a job, and I’m paid fairly well, although some days, it just doesn’t feel like enough. Hopefully, Congress gets its shit together and passes a budget, or I’ll be on an enforced vacation starting Saturday. I almost wouldn’t mind a few days off.

Turn on the dishwasher and let the pups out for an extra potty session before their breakfast. Then it’s time for another potty session before I head upstairs, grit my teeth, and turn on my work computer.

Everyone take care.

That school district takes the music program seriously, which is really great. Their high school marching band wins the competition nearly every year. The concert band has a ton of percussion instruments including congas, tympani, xylophones, etc.

Morning all. It’s still 68F outside this early morning, but rain is expected in a couple of hours and I am debating doing the Great March Shopping trip early, so I would have to look moderately presentable real quickly. I could easily manage until tomorrow but it’s on my list for today and I hate to leave something on my list for another day. A check that I wrote for some handyman services two weeks ago just got cashed and my bank balance shows I have $10 more than my hand-written register shows, so I’ll probably spend way more time than needed figuring that one out. But I’m not obsessive about things, oh no, not me…

nellie, I’m with the others, I doubt that waiver is enforceable, but hopefully the ongoing lawsuit will benefit you. I’m guessing movement to some place a little more amenable is not in the cards.

IL, that is quite a breeze, love the music you choose for it. And get your own Dum Dums, hands off mine!! :wink: :wink: :smile:

shoe, share your opinion of acupuncture, but I agree, if placebo can lessen your pain, go for it. But nobody is sticking big long needles in me without a fight…

FCM, wonder if MIL even remembers that you told her to call for help.

doggio, happy anniversary.

Hippie, that’s quite a plant. Wonder who was brave enough to put the Santa head up there…

Taters, as I think I noted before, you have the curse of being a very good worker, so the problems don’t get bad enough for the big bosses to see (and your boss seems to lack a strong backbone, IMHO). Of course, when things eventually go south, it’ll be your fault, of course…can’t be the powerful peoples fault. Hang in there, your frustration is felt.

OK, looked at the radar, if shopping is to be done this morning I need to go now, so see y’all a little later.

Mornin all!’

Awoke to my alarm to take my housemate to the train. An odd feeling these days. Then off to my favorite Latin breakfast joint nearby where I’ve been caffinatin’ & readin’ and feedin’ for an hour now.

It was 71/21 at sunrise on the way to 80/27 with a couple of puffies here and there. Should be an ideal early Spring day here.

While waiting for Mike to get ready I bought baseball tickets for this afternoon at the other local stadium I didn’t attend on Mon. Have Big Boy dinner set up for tonight at a Brazilian steakhouse, one of those all-you-can-choke-down carne-fests. Once I post I’m going to try again to get my senior train pass. Gonna be a full day that might enjoy a brief nap after baseball before late-ish dinner.

I was supposed to have my first appointment with a shrink to talk about my depression (hah!) 3 weeks ago but I had to reschedule it to this morning because I was going on my last cruise over the date we’d picked at random back in early Jan when my world was utterly different.

She (the shrink) called me after hours last night to tell me she’s got an emergency with her daughter and needs to cancel this morning’s appointment. She called again this morning to suggest we meet Fri. I’ve not met the lady yet, but she seems to be appropriately customer service-oriented. Yaay! Of course I was more concerned for her daughter’s welfare than my mental state. My depression lifted the day I told HL we’re done. I’ve never experienced miraculous healing (mental or physical) of that magnitude in my life.


As to y’all …

When that happens, click [Ignore]. You won’t lose your typing that way. That happens when your internet connection is flaky. I deal with that a lot while traveling. Counterintuitive as it seems, [Ignore] is always the right answer.

Also, just before saving, do a select all and copy of your whole post. Then click [Save]. If the save process hangs up, you can close the tab, go to your drafts page and it may be there in a nearly completed state. In which case you can paste your copied text in to get the last bit. Or if somehow there is no draft, just start a new reply and paste your whole post into it.

I lose far fewer posts now that I always Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C just before clicking [Save] or [Save Edit].


This.

It is your moral duty to work diligently and competently.

It is not your moral duty to make up for incompetent cow-orkers, insufficient workers for the workload, and any/all shenanigans of Congress.

When you have been handed more work than can be done in 40 reasonably diligent hours, failure on 100% of the overflow work is inevitable and is 100% NOT your fault. They did it; they can suffer the consequences. Your nights and weekends are yours, not theirs.

It is a difficult mindset to adopt for many people. Myself included back in the day. But dammit, you and your mental health are worth it. The fact your bosses already tolerate so many useless losers amongst your cow-orkers means there’s no downside to you becoming less than a miracle worker. It’s not like they’ll treat you worse than you already know they treat them: decent annual reviews and seniority-based raises on schedule.

Only you can look out for you. The good news is you get to choose. The bad news is you have to choose.

It was a wild night in no. Illinois. The daytime temp hit 72. The storms rolled in around 5. Four tornado touchdowns in my county. Tons of thunder, lightning, and hail. I spent many minutes in the powder room (the only inside room). Damaging winds. Fortunately the weather cleared by 8:30. At 10 ish the temps started falling and it snowed. 30 mph winds today and cold. Fortunately I have no reason to go outside.

Ursala riding out the storm

I walked to the store a few minutes ago. It was 60 and nice. On the way home, I almost got blown over. It will go down to 30 later.
Damn cold front!

I don’t detect any concerns about the weather - she’s a portrait of strength!

So sad this morning - MIL asked FCD if she’d ever live in her apartment again. He had to fib and say he hadn’t even considered that. But I think she realizes that she’ll never live on her own again.

Worse still, her weight is down to 89#. She’s wasting away…

On a less depressing note, FCD went by her apartment and emptied her freezer. He brought home about 5# of ground beef in freezer bags. Why in the name of all that is holy would one person have that much ground beef just to feed herself? It’s all now crammed into my freezer - I foresee a big batch of sloppy joes being cooked up this weekend. Oh, and some of the stuff he brought was so freezer burned, I just tossed it - one container was unidentifiable - honestly, I have no idea what it was. So now it’s garbage.

She’s sleeping, he’s going to Annapolis to buy some boat stuff and get time to himself. I’m going to read for a while.

It was warm and hyoomid here in western Mitten State yesterday, too. I actually got a bit if good-natured ribbing at work for claiming it was forecast to get very cold and possibly snowy.

I barely needed my sweater even leaving work after midnight, though the winds were certainly picking up.

Just awoke to a newly-whitened world and temps in the 20s. HA! TAKE THAT, NAYSAYERS!

Love being right … almost as much as I like chilly weather. So glad winter rallied for another round!

I thought for a second you just re-posted your avatar.

Ursula is … consistent in her poses.

I’ll say this, and then I’ll shut up. (Yeah, right.) You don’t feel a goddamn thing other than the vague, light brush of someone’s fingertips fluttering over your skin.

I was lying face-down so I couldn’t see what was happening. (My pain complaint is for an area near my shoulder blade.) When they announced that they were leaving me to rest for a few minutes, I was like, “But … you haven’t, like, done anything yet?”

I heard them leave the room, and I very gingerly glanced over in my peripheral vision.

Folks, I looked like a damn porcupine. All down my legs, even.

I had NO IDEA never felt so much as a single pinch.

And that damn injury didn’t hurt me for almost a week. Understand that at the time, if I was conscious, I was in pain. It became this constant background noise, in a sense. Being free from that, even just for a bit, was euphoric.

Still don’t believe a damn word about qi and such - other than it being a popular crossword puzzle choice - but I know what I experienced.

We actually had some snow yesterday. I ran into some at the weigh station on the way home from Burien. It’s on a hill. There was a dusting of snow on the deck when I got home. We’re supposed to have rain/snow Saturday through Wednesday.

I posted about the wind blowing the empty wood stack cover and frame over. Since I have Friday off, I thought I’d buy a sheet of OSB and make a top for it to keep it from sagging and collecting water. I have a piece of OSB for that, but it’s too small. So the plan was to get an 8x2 piece and put 2x2x8 runners on the bottom that fits between the PVS pipes, and another 2x2x8 runner on top to lift the top of the cover so water will run off. The other half of the sheet would go on the bottom of the back to provide more stability, and the 1.5x6 foor piece that was on top would be cut for some side supports.

But with the weather, I won’t be able to do that yet.

wet one, coppertone and the rest riding the storm out, take care. Storms are about 15 miles west of me so I’m glad I did my shopping/got gas for car/refilled plumbing/ before it arrives. Larder is re-stocked and any missing bits and pieces I’ll get on Firday (4X fuel points!). Except for swimming sometime today nothing much else is on the agenda, will break my fast here in about an hour, have already had an apple and a Dum Dum (IL, I erred, Dum Dums only have 25 calories per sucker)…

And the rain just started. My timing was impeccable (so far)

Pilot, I expect the shrink will, after maybe 15 minutes, tell you that you’re well balanced and come back when you have a problem. And you said to Taters what I did, but you said it so much better.

{{{FCM}}}, because I sense you need it.

Shoe, that’s a very interesting tale. Much thanks for sharing.

Flyboy, had to goggle OSB (it’s Oriented Stand Board, right?). Admire your do-it-yourself ability, never developed most of those skills myself.

Alright, need to do a little internettin’ and then fix First Meal. Take care all.

Even with a new label shooter, SSLAW #2 keeps going down, thus almost causing a FUBAR day. At this point they should admit science and logic have failed, and just have a Santeria priest run a couple of chickens through it. Anyways, Spot is happy to see me, and I am happy I have a non puking cat. Also, it is currently 64, with a light wind.
Happy Doperversary to me, 23 years of fighting ignorance and wasting time. :cake: :cocktail:

“If you stare into The Void, sometimes The Void stares back. Other times, The Void wants gooshy food.”

Yeah. Have you considered a hospital bed with restraints? :wink:
{{{{FCM}}}}

Those people couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the bottom of the heel.
Speaking of politics, I saw an actual political sign on the street corner. For Nikki Haley. Bless her heart.

Correct.

Most of it comes from something that needs to be done (or a thing I want done), and learning how to do it as I do it. I think I’ve made a few posts where I’ve done something that turned out well, even though I didn’t know what I was doing. (Turning the patio into a catio, making a mid-century inspired slat table, building a new roof for the 50-year-old shed, building a wood shed out of salvaged materials… I think next up ‘thing I’ve never done’ will be painting plastic motorcycle parts. I’ll have to post an IMHO thread for that.)