FCM I just read about Higgs. I am so sorry. It’s one of the hardest things folks have to do, to let a beloved pet go. I’ll give Mauser extra scritches. Maybe our pets have a group across the Bridge and talk about us together.
FCD kept saying “She trusted me. She trusted me!” Yes she did, and in the end, she trusted him to take away the pain. I wish I could have been with him at the vet’s - had I expected this, I’d have gone with him.
We’ll be OK, but for now, it hurts. We brought her home 12 years ago this month…
FCM So sorry to hear about Higgs. The little buggers get into our lives and never last long enough.
We’ve never lived anywhere with enough ToT to make buying candy worth the bother. Especially now that I’m not working and don’t have handy places to drop off opened bags of candy. I should see if there are going to be any Trunk or Treat events, I like looking at the lil monsters.
I understand that WV takes high school football far too seriously. I’ve always felt badly for deaf folks who have never been able to get rid of frustrations by yelling bad words at them.
All of those are on my list for when I become Queen of the World.
I used to watch the evening news in Hawaii and wonder if the weather person just used their same clip over and over in full confidence that nobody would ever notice.
We have long agreed that the one with the cat on their lap always gets refreshments served by the catless one. That’s just how life is!
That’s good to hear, it seems as though Milton is not planning to play nice anytime soon.
I’m sure you are right, how silly of them to ignore your wisdom and insight?
I used the liquid blue stuff, his shorts could stand up by themselves when I was done. I don’t remember why I was so mad, but I do know that he never did whatever it was again.
Oh gosh yes, that horrible screech on the phone lines.
Thanks for the kind words, but honestly? I didn’t even have time to think, I just reacted like I had been trained. Had I thought about it for even half a second, I probably would have hesitated long enough for things to really go bad.
I did want to get on the witness stand and tell the court how horrible it was. I’ve been there in the past, but that was just because people like to sue the government and a flunky must sent to testify as to the correctness of our decision. (I once had to stand in front of the BOS and explain why I didn’t open the office early despite seeing people standing out in the snow waiting to come in.)
It says something about people who can say that with a straight face and also about the people how read it and nod understandingly.
Everyone should do this. It is easy and free. If anyone needs links to the big three, just ask.
At least she didn’t starch his unders 
I am so very sorry.
My cousin just texted me. She’s been hoping for years to become a gramma. Today is her younger son’s birthday, and her DIL is having a C-section this evening, so their son will be born on the same day. My son was born on my brother’s birthday and my daughter on my middle sister’s birthday, so I guess we believe in sharing birthdays! My cousin is so excited, she’s texting literally every 3-5 minutes. I hope she doesn’t collapse before the new baby arrives.
Does anybody else here share a birthday with a family member? (Pets count.)
Back to laundry and packing. Amtrack now makes you check bags that aren’t carry-ons. My boarding station doesn’t have baggage check, so I guess I have to stuff everything in a small suitcase.
Hope I can finish packing between texts!
Oh, FCM, I am so sorry to hear about Higgs; that it was so sudden like that has got to be hard on both of you, I hope you have/take time to mourn. I’ll miss those little stories about him. {{{{{{{hugs}}}}} for you and FCD and the rest of the FC Family.
Never is.
Cookie, best wishes to the Missis. Have to look into the MSP traffic story, ours is bad at times but they seem to manage the construction pretty well.
Hippie, nice story and I presume you got her back…
Shoe,
Great line…sorry it went right over her head.
Sticky Buns, you mean you don’t know the story of how Jane the Cane came to be? She can tell it better, but it involves a line at the store, an abusive husband, and a cane Jane needed at the time…
nellie, good luck with the thermostat. Just tried to turn my big TV on and…well, the sound bar and satellite box are working, as is my bedroom TV…appliances apparently hate me… And great news on the latest addition to the extended nellie family.
Swimming is done and since there is no soccer to be coached today, will be fixing my Cheeburger here shortly and then getting the garbage out to the curb. After that nothing much on the agenda for the rest of the night.
I have two cousins, brothers, who share a birthday. It was not happenstance though, my aunt’s second pregnancy had troubles so the child was born just a little early by C-section.
And in other news I saw a small pro-Trump demonstration today on a busy street corner. All men of late middle age, bellies hanging over their t-shirted midriffs. Signs like “Kommula Harris” and “Put Trump back where he belongs.”
Are you related to my late granny? I honestly think that she believed that she’d go to hell if she sent her man and kids off in the morning and they didn’t crackle when they walked.
I would go for that!
If anybody asks, you were at Hop Springs with me drinking a Jackalope.
As would my dad.
I’m so sorry about Higgs, Mooooooom. Hugs to you and the rest of the FairyChats.
JtC, I’m sorry about your hubby. Hugs to you both.
My big brother used to say that about Texas. 
My dad’s youngest brother was born on his oldest brother’s 12th birthday. By coincidence, my mom’s youngest sister was born on her oldest sister’s 20th birthday.
Irked, etc today. Thank goodness tomorrow is Thursday (end of my irk week).
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
The manager here is strange. She always looks grumpy, but to be fair, I’d be cranky, too, if I worked for a corporation that was screwing people over on the daily AND in a complex where the rent increases, etc. have left so many apartments vacant. Still, she never makes a pretense at a pleasant greeting. I’ve succeeded in getting her to be more pleasant by treating her as I used to treat grumpy teens, but why am I doing all the work?
Anyway, she was leaving the office when I went down there earlier today to a) ask about the thermostat and b) whether or not my rent was going to increase by much if I renew my lease at the end of February. I went in a month ago to ask, and she said to come back in October, as her boss would know by then. Today she said she’d call me to tell me, but she hasn’t so far, so I called and left her a voicemail and said I’d call again just before 5.
Nelliebly, a PITA since asses were invented.
It’s cool learning about families with shared birthdays! I used to tell people my siblings and I were all born on Thursdays. It sounded better when I didn’t add that that was the OB’s operating day. (Mom had four C-sections. She used to tell the doctor to just put in a zipper.)
{{{FCM}}}
Me again. Just heard from my brother that my SIL is in the hospital. She got a sudden, excruciating pain in her leg, so he took her to the ER. They gave her pain meds, but even fentanyl wasn’t cutting it, so it was pretty bad. They admitted her and did an MRI and found some issues with her spine (She’s had several back surgeries.), but they’re not sure if that’s the whole problem or not. The doc thinks it’s medical, not surgical. They’re keeping her until they can get the pain under control.
About three weeks ago, she fell on the stairs. Luckily, she was only a couple steps from the bottom, but she landed on her hip and couldn’t get up. She was pretty bruised up, and it’s continued to hurt her, so I’m wondering if that’s part of the issue.
She’s diabetic, which may be part of the issue. I just don’t know what to think. That poor gal can’t catch a break.
Would an MRI catch a blood clot? Or don’t blood clots cause such pain? I’m trying not to second-guess doctors.
Howdy Y’all! Home (well, been home for a little while) from Wednesday doin’s over to the church house. We had fried chikin, mac & cheese, green sallit, pasta sallit, green grapes, strawberries, and chawklit chip cookies. The confirmation/formation class is growin’ in that we had five new folk show up for it tonight. Priest (I’ll just call him that even if he is the youngest Priest we’ve ever had. I have accepted the fact that from hence forward all Priests will be baby Priests) asked me if I would consider takin’ on a group if it comes to the point it needs to be split into two groups, which I, of course, would. It’s the kind of church nerdy stuff I really like.
{{{MOOOOOOM AND FCD}}} I am so sorry about Higgs! I know y’all are devastated. Take comfort that she lived her best puggy dawg life and knew she was much loved.
Salads for dinner tonight. I cut up some Romaine lettuce, sliced hard-boiled eggs, baked chicken breast tenderloins w/taco seasoning and cut them up. sliced half an avocado, and diced a tomato. There’s also shredded medium cheddar, and I think we both had blue cheese dressing. Would have been better with bacon.
AND was in West Virginia advising me how best shop at dispensaries.
Honestly? We don’t care much about proper form, just post once in a while OK?
Oh how cute that must have been. She lurves her second mommy!
Thank you. It sucks. When he starts sounding peevish, I take away choices and distract him with ice cream or cookies. This is not his fault and if I could make it better, I would.
I did a little looking to see if I could find the week it happened but no luck.
So…before I met Hubs, I had been dating a guy for around 8 months and we had been talking about moving in together. We were at a biker bar (both being bikers) having a beer when he told me that of course I’d be getting rid of my cats when he moved in!!! I told him that I’d get rid of my cats when he sold his beloved Harley.
Words were spoken and I basically told him that his dick was short and he didn’t know how to screw (OK, exact words were “my cats are better in bed than you”) and he back handed me. A few big bikers jumped in to throw him out of the bar and escort me home.
I didn’t want to have to depend on men to protect me from other men, so I took up kick-boxing and took regular self-defense classes. (Kick boxing was great, I could go to the gym and killkillkill a sandbag for an hour after work and all of the stress would just go away)
When this happened, the kickboxing was long gone, but the years of self defense classes stuck.
I use a carbon-fiber self defense cane that has gripping places on the shaft.
So…to the story.
I’m standing in line at a c-store, not really paying attention to anything but of course am not looking at my phone. I noticed a car come flying into the parking lot and screech into a parking place, but didn’t really pay attention until a man came running in and SLUGGED the woman in front of me in the face.
I did not think. I don’t remember saying anything. I just wound up like a baseball player and gave the asshole a mighty whack on the head. I was aiming for the center of his head, but he saw me move and turned his face enough that my cane connected with his head (small fracture) and slid down his skull (tearing flesh and mangling his ear) before breaking his shoulder.
He went down. Store clerks got involved, police were called and the back story came out.
The asshole I had hit was her ex-bf. He got violent and controlling so she broke up with him and then he showed his true colors. His stalking was so bad that she sold her home and quit her job to move to a different county. Sadly, she couldn’t afford to buy a new car.
He just happened to be driving by the c-store, saw her car and saw red.
Last I heard, she left the state and he failed his mandatory anger management class by attacking the instructor.
Mom had me ironing sheets before I was in grade school. She’s the one who taught me how to starch creases in Dad’s boxers when she was mad at him.
That was my first worry as well, but I think an MRI would. I’m so sorry she is in so much pain, I hope they get it figured out soon. and congrats on the new baby, how exciting!
Everything is better with bacon.
nellie, the blood clots that I’ve had were diagnosed by ultrasound and, for the pulmonary thrombosis, a chest x-ray. And yes, they hurt like a son-of-a-bitch.
Thanks for the replies, JtC and red. I’ll ask my brother is the docs ruled out blood clots.
Do not listen to my conflicting opinion, I’m probably wrong. I know that MRI’s show tissue damage but don’t know if they show blood clots. I just think that they would because my doctors use them to tell me about how much worse the fluid filled bursa on my hip is doing.
even tho there are a few things I dont care for in it … it sounds so good I’d eat it anyway lol
Happy Hump Day!
I woke up at 2am and couldn’t get back to sleep. I had two naps today, but they were short and I’m feeling spacey. My temper has been a bit short all day. I think it will be an early night.
There was a black cat sleeping on the chair outside when I got home this morning. I rolled down the window to say hello and it took off like a bat out of hell. Echo went berserk.
I love black cats. I’d put out some food except we finally gave away all the cat food and treats we had.
When I left this morning, Rayleigh got excited over the deer across the street. They usually don’t pay much attention to the deer unless they run in front of me.
{{{FCM and FCD}}} I am so so sorry about HIggs. Poor little girly, but she had a great life.
Shoe and Doggio, unfortunately, my son just ignored what I said and tried to change the subject.
I hope you feel better soon BooFae
I don’t know what it is going to take to wake up my son.
MetalMouse, it’s not so much that my bedroom is small, the room is bigger than my last bedroom. It’s the dimensions. It’s long and narrow, only 8 feet wide. If I put it so that the head board is on the long wall, there isn’t much room to walk around the bottom of the bed to get to the closet. I can’t put it on the closest short wall because the door is on the middle of that wall. I have it on the furthest wall, but it is only 5 feel long because the other three feet is the opening to the closet. There’s not enough room to put a night stand next to the bed. I bought a very narrow table and put it against the wall, but I have to sit up and stretch to reach anything on it. If I put it next to the bed, then the cord to the charger will be stretched across the opening to the closet. Having a cord stretched across an opening is never a good idea, but especially bad when you are older, or you have dogs.
I also don’t like the bed against the wall because that makes changing the sheets a pain in the ass.
I didn’t see, is your AC fixed?
Shoe, one day we will have to chat and compare mother notes.
I feel for you.
I have a shit ton of stuff to do starting tomorrow. The dogs will go to daycare in the am so we can get a bunch of it done without their help.
The truck badly needs a bath, and a good vacuuming. I have new floormats that need to be put down, and I need new seat covers as the old covers don’t fit. We need to go to the post office and to see the accountant. I have a bunch of phone calls to make, still, but I can handle only one a day. Phone calls are way too frustrating anymore.
I hope we can make it to the dump this weekend. That has been on the list for several weeks. I’ve been slacking off.
I have been trying to solve chess puzzles on Facebook and YouTube. Years ago I played much better than now. The puzzles are helping. It is much easier to solve the puzzles if you have a board to set up. I still have the small portable set I had in high school and it has now earned a permanent place on my desk.
In high school I played really well. The Chess Club blackballed me due to my attitude and discipline problem, but that didn’t stop my money games. Just like everything else, if you stop doing it your skill set disappears over time.
I can’t shoot pool like I used to either…