Speaking of salads, as we were, I recall when I was about six years old. We were visiting my maternal grandmother in Anaheim, and we went out for lunch at a local diner. (There was a go-go place across the street. Lincoln Avenue was a little seedy back then.) The waitress asked if I wanted soup, or salad with my meal. I misunderstood her and said, ‘Super salad!’
Well, I’m not the oldest Mumper, but I’m pretty far up, at 68+.
Wow. I’ve read everything but not sure how much I’ve retained. Today was a day for lots of running around and I’m actually tired enough that I’m probably not going to be making a lot of sense.
I had a dental appointment to get another very loose tooth pulled. After this tooth, I’m now down to 8 in my head. I really need to get dentures, but those will need to wait until next year when my dental insurance refreshes. I did find a place that does inexpensive ones though, so that’s all to the good. I also went to my chiropractor. The place I go to has a lot of different offices around the area so you never know who will be working on you. The guy that I had last Friday and this Friday is phenomenal! He’s also the only one that’s really taken the time to help figure out what’s wrong. I’ve got my appointment with my PCP on Tuesday so I’m really hoping that I can get back to having feeling in my fingers.
Tonight, Hubby and I had a stay-home Date Night. We watched several episodes of Doctor Who (11th Doctor’s first series, “Vincent and the Doctor”, “The Lodger”, “The Pandorica Opens” and “The Big Bang”) while staying cuddled up on the couch. It was just the kind of night that we needed, I think.
Next week isn’t as big with appointments, but I do have to pack for my trip to see my partner next Friday. I’m really looking forward to it, even if I’m flying with only the things I can fit in my purse/bag. I do have to take care of a few e-mails during the week, vote (which is INCREDIBLY important, especially here) and make sure the kids don’t destroy me or any of the hard work I’ve done.
I’m starting to look sideways at the words, which is telling me I should probably get some sleep. I do want to say Happy Doperversary, Hippie!!!
And now, I think I’m going to fall asleep. Gonight all!
Our pomegranate bloomed today in honor of @LH75 doperversary.
I spent a happy 10 minutes watching a hummer enjoy itself with the flowers.
All of those flowers are female and if you can see the flower bud with a waist, that is also a female. It makes sense that the females would bloom for our gentle hippy 
It’s great to know you hippy, I’m so happy you are here.
I’m going to pinch off the male buds (which don’t have a waist) tomorrow. I think the bush is too young to have fruit this year. Maybe next year. Or maybe never because I really don’t care about the fruit, I just want the female flowers.
Trying to figure out what’s wrong with me. I just completed a negative Covid test, so that’s ruled out. Major symptom is that I’m feeling hot in a normal-temp room, with skin sensitivity I associate with a fever. Temperature checks are ranging from 97.5F to 97.9F, which is about normal for me. Fair amount of crud in the throat, with slight sore throat probably caused by dislodging said crud. Sneezing a bit more than usual for July (might just need to change the HVAC filter). Been at this for a couple of days or so.
Jesus on a pogo stick, am I exhausted. I opened (going in at 3) expecting to be early-out tonight. But one of the closers had a chilcare emergency and asked me nicely to close for him.
So I have Long Night 2 shifts in a row, and started extra early today so that’s 11 hours on my feet.
I’m so tired, I might throw up.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 76 Amurrkin out and rainy with a predicted high of 93 and partly N.O.S. for the day. It stormed durin’ the night. Woke me up twice even! Needless to say plans for mowage this mornin’ ain’t happenin’. Oh well. I shall be forced to go into sloth mode instead. Any need to feed today will be via forage as we have plenty of sammich makin’s etc. Maybe mowage will occur late afternoon(ish). Or not. I would not advise the holdin’ of any breath.
Hippy belated happy doperversary.
Nettie if this persists beyond today, I say hie thee to the doc in a box aka urgent care.
shoe that was a loooooong night. Hope you’re gettin’ some much needed sleep as I post.
RealFish sounds like a great stay in date night to me!
doggio here’s hopin’ the strike can be avoided, but if’n it does happen, here’s to a short strike.
red glad Nelson and you made it safe and sound to Indiana. Enjoy the stay with your dad.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.
Happy Sattidy Y’all!
Well, it’s gonna be a day. It was after 2:20 the last time I looked at the clock and I still woke around 5:30. ugh. No clue why, except my brain was trying to figure out flights to South America and back. Dammit.
We’ll be leaving shortly to go to the school - guess I’ll need to wake FCD. I’m hoping he’ll want to make it a fairly short day, but we shall see. I’m also hoping the couple that will be working with me will actually help. I want to avoid the ladders myself and they’re younger. Wonder if they’ve ever pulled wire before.
And so it begins - in exhaustion. Happy Saturday, I guess. 
After 3 for me, but otherwise, same. I feel like utter crap. Hafta get more sleep somehow!
Thank you. The tree is lovely
Yes, that’s a darn nice pomegranate.
Truefish sorry to hear of the teeth troubles. When you get that low on natural teeth it’s probably better to get rid of all of them. Somthin’ just ain’t right about how yours are built.
I’ve blew much of yesterday reading Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For Old Men. Can recommend. The guy really has a feel for salt-of-the-earth dialog & sensibilities.
Balconating this morning. Here 90 minutes after sunrise it’s 84/29 on the way to 96/36. And nice and humid; heat indexes projected to hit 108. God’s weather.
I’ve got a guy’s-only lunch planned at a beachfront place. The goal is to come home happy, not wasted. Not always an easy outcome to engineer. We shall see. Her Ladyship’s plans for the day are, as is so often the case, rather inscrutable.
Good morning!
It’s 57F and cloudy at the moment and the expected high is 83F with sunny skies. Clouds will turn to partly cloudy around 9:00 am and fully sunny around noon. At least, that’s the forecast. We’ll see. It took a bit for the sun to emerge yesterday.
lily, loved the pics!
JtC, that is really pretty! I love the blooms.
Happy Belated Doperversary, Hippie!
doggio, I really hope a strike is avoided!
truefish, good luck with the dentures.
shoe, I hope you can get caught up on your rest in the coming days.
FCM, you and FCD need a rest! You two are constantly on the go or doing projects.
I was five at the time of the moon landing and living in Germany. I have the faintest memories of watching it on the American network, but nothing stands out.
I must do chores today and go to the grocery store and that’s probably my whole agenda.
My daughter and her family, along with my son, are coming to my place tomorrow. The plan is to grill, so I need to buy some meat and some ingredients for side dishes. I was thinking of doing pulled pork on the grill, but that’s a low and slow operation and would mean constantly manning the temp and adding charcoal and wood. I’m not sure I want to get that complicated because it’ll be the last visit from my daughter and her family for a good long while. I would rather spend time with them and not be on the grill or in the kitchen the whole time they are here. They leave for Missouri on the 26th, and I has a great big SAD about that.
When I had lunch with my son on Thursday, I found out my daughter’s departure is really bothering him too. They have a very tight bond and spend a lot of time hanging out. He’s not been sleeping well and that also makes me sad.
BLUF: None of us can do anything about it and will have to deal with our feelings.
Yesterday was a hectic and frazzling day, and I was so tired when I signed off my work computer that I took a two-hour nap. Daytime naps usually only happen for me when I’m really, really ill. I must have been truly exhausted.
I need to get another cup of coffee and get my day started. Huzzah to caffeine!
Morning, all! So far the humidity is quite bearable (
), with an expected high of only 86°F, and it looks like my friends and I will be going to the outdoor acoustic Beatles tribute this evening. It starts at 7pm: we’re planning to meet in front of the venue at 6pm, when the doors open, because we like having time to chat and eat before the music starts. I love the Beatles, I love these friends (and haven’t seen them in a while), parking and the show are free, and the venue is only 3.5 miles from my house…I’m looking forward to this.
When I don’t have Saturday/Sunday plans until late afternoon or the evening, I tend to put off showering until shortly before I have to leave the house. I prefer slow/quiet* starts to my weekend days, which often means only pulling on some lounge pants, tending to the doggy, brushing my teeth, and making a coffee protein shake before putzing around on the computer all morning. Today, I’m working on a small project: the other week I noticed that my PDFs of Bailey’s veterinary records only go back to 2013, so I’m gradually scanning all of the older records. I have a big red binder with hard copies of everything going back to when my ex and I got her in 2008, including the adoption application! Once that’s done, I’ll throw away the hard copies – except for said application and some other artifacts from her adoption (for sentimental reasons), her current dog license, and her current rabies certificate. Those will all get scanned, but the hard copies will be moved from the big red binder to a folder.
*Quiet = I have no background music or anything on. The house isn’t silent, though, because Bailey has been barking her head off: lots of people and dogs are out in the neighborhood this morning. She can see the sidewalk/street from one of the bedroom windows and also a window that’s right behind my desk chair, and the barking has been fairly continuous – with her going back and forth between the two spots – since I started typing this post. It’s only driving me slightly insane, though.
Hope everyone has a great day!
Now you tell us… *exhales*
Sounds like good planning. 
Slept a bit more in drips & drabs. Helps that there’s no sunlight to wake me; it’s very overcast and clearly rained earlier.
Still feel like poop, though, but at least I’m holding down liquids. May cautiously upgrade to applesauce soon; my.blood sugar is tanking.
Blurf.
Feels much better without the staples, thanks. I actually had a decent night’s sleep last night, between the Tylenol and the lidocaine patch. I can’t imagine trying to close a wound like that with steri-strips. Those are just a temporary protection for a wound and have very little holding strength; unless there are different degrees of same. I know there are dissolving stitches that work very well.
Two more days to the big trip! Getting very nervous now!
I’ve skimmed most of the posts but didn’t have time to respond
After my grandmother died, with something like $90 in her checking account, we covered her funeral expenses in Utah and someone in her family covered the burial in California.
One of sisters subsequently died, without children or a husband. That estate was divided up by the eight siblings, and because grandmother was deceased, her 1/8 was divided among her three children, less Grandma’s burial cost.
As my father had already pass, his share was divided among the five of us. This was back in the 80s, and I think my 1/120 share got $45 or something like that. I was a student and $45 was $45.
Interesting! I didn’t realize there were many dragon boat races in American. (Technically, we are called paddlers instead of rowers because we face forward.)
We were planning to take the kayaks down to Lake Padden today; but 'Yakwife only got about three hours of sleep last night, so we’ll try next weekend. I’ll keep an eye on the tides today. If the water’s close enough, I may go for a paddle in the bay.
Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 17c/62f with a predicted high of 20c/68f and cloudy. Weather app says “Thus weather is like weak fucking sauce.” We haven’t been outside yet, just contemplating where to go for breakfast.
Yesterday we picked up a rental car and left Arcata to drive up to Bandon by the Sea. We stopped at Trinidad Beach and had a look at the water, and the starfish! Then on to the Redwoods Park where we stopped to pick up a map. Our drive to Bandon took us through one of the scenic byway routes where we stopped to enjoy the cool air and peaceful forest before continuing on the Pacific Coast Scenic Byway which lived up to the name. The views were beautiful but we weren’t able to stop. I think 'im indoors took some video as I was driving.
We arrived in Bandon about 5.30pm, checked in to our accommodation and then went for a wander in search of an early dinner. Food was achieved, adult beverages were consumed and we settled for an early night. No real plans for today, I think a walk around the bay would be good.
I hope you get feeling better soon. I have had the occasional bouts of feeling like I have a fever with the skin sensitive but my temp coming up normal for me. I never did find out what it was so I can’t give suggestions on what to check, but I did want to let you know that you aren’t alone.
{{{shoe}}} As important as it is to show up and be there, don’t forget to take care of yourself too.
swampy, it really was. Who says you need to spend money to have a great date night?
If they don’t want to get up on the ladder, pull the Mooooooommmmm look on them.
Pilot, that’s my plan eventually. It’s just trying to keep enough to work with until I can afford the dentures. At the moment, all of our dental coverage has been used for the year so I need to wait for January. As soon after that as I can, I’m going to contact one of the inexpensive denture companies and hope they can do the pulling and the dentures quickly.
taters, thanks! I’m glad that you’re getting a chance to have this last good visit with your daughter and family before they go.
Oops, the concert sounds like a lot of fun. Have a great time! I’ve got several small jobs like yours with Bailey’s records that I need to do. Though most of mine are already on the computer and I just need to organize them here better.
No need to be nervous, Sensei. I’m a firm believer in the positive power of Dopers, and you’ve got a lot wishing you well on your trip back to the US!
(Though, to be fair, I do get the nervousness. I’m not traveling nearly as far but there’s a nervous excitement that I’m dealing with already for my trip to see my partner next Friday.)
Today was originally going to be a day of recycling, early voting and getting stuff done around the house. But both Hubby and I slept badly and have backs that are aching too much for any kind of lifting. I’ve been enjoying the heat of my heating pad on my back. The recycling can be done Tuesday after my appointment with my doctor, and early voting is still open through the rest of next week. I’ll probably go Monday, either before or after Storytime.
Hubby went to Second Harvest this morning. Usually we get a lot of canned goods, a little frozen protein, and a metric butt-ton of bread. Maybe some onions and potatoes. This time, we got two gallons of milk, along with even more fruit (grapes and oranges), and more sweet potatoes than we know what to do with. I think I may suggest cutting a bunch of them into cubes and freezing them for making dishes. The oranges, I’m thinking of squeezing a bunch of for some fresh OJ. I had planned on making bread this weekend because I wanted to make something yummy, but as Hubby put it, we went from hoping that BtY wouldn’t eat the little amount of bread that we had to hoping that he would eat enough before it went bad.
I was considering playing computer games todays, maybe checking out Diablo Immortal as JtC suggested. But the numbness in my hands is making me think that taking a break might not be a bad idea. I’m considering sitting in the living room with a show on that I haven’t watched in awhile/been wanting to watch, and trying my hand at crocheting again. Or something else semi-crafty. Or maybe just doing some writing. I don’t know, but I think it’s a better idea than sitting in front of the computer where I an feel my hands getting more and more numb.
Hope everyone has a great day!
I hope those who feel poorly feel better soon.
Mastectomy was dissolving stitches and steristrips, but no hardware was added.
(My favorite teeshirt, ordered from Australia.)
Bandon’s a lovely little town. Very peaceful for wandering.
Off to clean cat boxes, haul stuff to the street, sweep the garage. Good days to all!