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As predicted, work has been really quiet today (yay for it being a scheduled day off for most of the program!). I’ll admit to some slacking this morning, but after lunch I’ll be hunkering down on a couple of projects that require concentration: it’ll be nice to be able to focus, and also to get some things accomplished.
Today’s excitement has been an InstaCart delivery. I’d been wanting a Wegman’s organic turkey sandwich* but didn’t really need any other groceries, and then this morning I noticed that I was running low on Gatorade Zero. I thought up a few other things I also “needed,” and my order was delivered a little while ago. I’m looking forward to having the sandwich for lunch – and dinner, since I’ll only be able to eat half of it now. And the other day I realized that I hadn’t made tuna macaroni salad in forever, so among the other “needed” items were elbow macaroni and light mayo (I already had tuna). Since I already have dinner, I think I’ll make that tomorrow. For someone used to simply nuking a Lean Cuisine it’s a lot of prep time – boiling a pot of water, cooking and straining the macaroni, etc. – but I know it’ll be yummy and I’ll be able to eat leftovers straight out of the fridge for a few days.
*I don’t care one bit about the “organic” part: I like the way it tastes, and the fact that it requires minimum deconstruction (I only have to remove the greens, not any sliced tomatoes or other evil things).
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that WifeBFF will be up for the outdoor arts festival tomorrow (the weather prediction is good!), but either way I’m looking forward to my friend’s jazz show in DC on Sunday evening. Should be a nice not-completely-solo-but-not-too-busy weekend.
Vanity is exactly why I got contact lenses at 13. Was that not an option for you?
Ugh…
I get six bananas at a time so I buy them 2-3 times a week, and I get the yellowest ones I can find. Mostly yellow with a touch of green is ideal, because I can eat them right away but they won’t get overripe too soon. Lately, though, all I can find are green bunches that take two or three days to be edible.
Headphones were a blessing to me at work. Not mine - everyone else’s! All them young 'uns could listen to whatever they liked and I could work in blissful silence! I find music mostly to be a distraction - especially if some song I really like comes up. Even now, I’d rather be in a quiet house. The inlaws had a TV going all the time and it drove me crazy!
I don’t like any green on my 'nanners, and I’m OK with a few brown freckles. FCD likes a touch of green, so when he has some ripe 'nanners that he’s ignoring, I grab 'em. It doesn’t happen often, so it’s a nice once-in-a-while treat for me.
I just finished making some sugar free fat free chocolate puddin’ and some sugar free cherry gelatin. The fridge is now full of minimal calorie snacks. Or it will be when the gelatin sets.
Laundry is done. I’m not much motivated, tho I should rollsuck. Eventually…
This is very wise. I always take a number of pieces of paper re our travels, everything from reservation info to menus and places to eat to packing lists to list of things to do, etc. I’ve always put the stuff in a manila folder but I like your idea of a pocket folder. I’m going to look into getting one next time I’m at the Dollar, er $1.25 store.
Please Stay safe and healthy red!
IME, accounting is accounting no matter where you work; what makes the difference is who you work for and who you work with. Likely pizza making is pizza making or retail is retail no matter where you work. So, it’s important to work for and work with people whose work ethic, values and personalities are the same/similar to yours or ones that you can enjoy working with.
So that tells me your building has a boiler/cooling tower. Once the system is switched to cooling, it can’t be switched back and forth to heating. I experienced that in my last FT job. They would wait until at least the 3rd or 4th week of May to switch to the cooling tower in case of frost which made the building too cold to work in.
How do I know this? Hubs used to work selling/servicing boilers/cooling tower systems.
We’ve Krogered and now going to Daughter’s to drop off Hubs so he can install the replacement showerhead. Then I’ll go on to the native plant sale at Cranbrook. Will walk Bella when I return to pick up Hubs.
I tried contacts for a bit. I never got comfortable with them, especially since back then I only needed 1. Now my glasses serve double purpose as safety in the shop. Polycarbonate lenses for the win.
I just got reminded that I agreed to do…something at one of the schools tomorrow. It apparently involves me bringing my hammer drill. Can’t for the life of me recall what it is I’m supposed to be doing, but I’m getting paid.
Home.
They sprayed cold stuff on my toe. Shot it with lidocaine ( needle was in for more than a minute).
Its wearing off and I took an acetominaphen.
I go back in 2 weeks.
40 years of improvement is certainly something. Glad you don’t have to wait much longer.
Ack! Hope it’s not too bad.
Isn’t grape just what purple would taste like if one could eat purple?
IMHO root beer is the best popsicle flavor.
I shouldn’t be laughing. I really shouldn’t.
Getting paid’s good. And probably somebody there knows what they want you to do.
Yesterday evening I picked up my coat from the tailor. The lining needed repair and I had done it once, but my sewing skills are not up to par. I then took the bus to Aldi to pick up salad and yogurt. Walking back home I got to see the Swiss version of @The_Stainless_Steel_Rat and co - dozens of kids with coaches playing soccer (football). Weather’s perfect for it - it’s been relatively warm and dry.
Because it’s so warm and dry, I had to water the plants on the south side. My pink rose is blooming like crazy and the peonies are about ready to pop. Tomorrow I have to water the rest of the yard.
Hubby’s watching Murderbot, so I think I’ll join him.
A rainy day in the Cities for a change. I hope this helps out the firefighters up north of us.
I’m awaiting packages that Amazon promised me yesterday. Nothing crucial except for the T-fal pot that I ruined yesterday. I needed hot water to flush out some drain cleaner so put a pot of water on the stove. Then got distracted and it boiled dry, so it’s likely not safe to put food in now. Off with its head! Luckily I smelled it before there was a major problem.
Did the breakfast thing and the exercise thing and the puzzles thing. And now the housekeeping person is here, so off I go.
I don’t mind noises around me at work at all…in fact, I miss the ambient sounds when I’m working from home! No one listens to music in the office without headphones, though. The ability to focus that I mentioned was referring to the lack of incoming emails and Teams chats.
My preference for a quiet house comes and goes: while working I generally want quiet, but every now and then it’s too quiet and I’ll put some music on. On the weekends, the house is typically quiet until I’m ready for lunch and I turn the TV on. When I’m reading or building Lego sets I also like to have the TV on: very low during the former, and nice and audible during the latter.
I just learned about that show a little while ago, and am planning to check it out this evening!
Yeesh! We only have a severe thunderstorm watch here, starting in about an hour. With luck, it’ll be all over by dinnertime.
(Ooooo, I should take Bailey out before the rain/storm starts…)
a long line of storms came through. it is odd being in a high rise during a storm. due to the windows, thunder is on the edge of your hearing. first you wonder if some one on a higher floor is moving furniture about. you do notice the lightening. my area doesn’t have windows. when all the alerts went off i had to get up and look. yep, serious storms coming in from the west.
Are any other homeowners experiencing this: In the last couple of weeks we’ve had 2 pest control sales guys, one tree/landscape guy, and just now, a driveway paver guy - all came to the door looking for work. In the past, at most, we’d have a guy stop and give us his card, asking if we wanted any trees taken down. But 4 in succession has never happened before.
I can’t help but wonder if it’s a coincidence or a reaction to the current economic weirdness in this country.
FWIW, we hired a couple of the tree guys a couple of different times and they done good. But at the moment, we’re good for tree stuff.
Anyway, is this a local weirdness or a national wave?
Just heard a rumble of thunder. Oh, and the driveway guy asked if we want to sell our truck! That’s a first!
I’ve golfed a couple of times on social outings, but I definitely have more fun playing putt-putt.
Got my usual get-meds check up done. My A1C was slightly up, likely due to steroids and lower activity levels, but still well within goal. My cholesterol was down, meaning that the high one last time didn’t last. I stopped at Bojangles for a chicken biscuit and some coffee after to break my fast.
On the way home, I swung through the 'Boro to the grocery outlet for some chicken (they also have a butcher counter that has good meat), graham crackers and snack nuts. While I was there, a box of 4 ice cream bars ($1) jumped into my cart. I can get away with portion packaged ice cream like that if I don’t do it too often.
The seagull died. Mrs. L.A. went back to the restaurant about 15 minutes ago and found him. I thought that if the bird died, the tide would take it out or a coyote would find it. Mrs. L.A. called to ask what she should do, since there were families visiting the beach. (The Humane Society said they’d like to see it, but no one answered when she called them back.) I asked if she had latex gloves (knowing full well that her gloves are nitrile), and she said yes. So I told her to put them on and put the gull into a plastic (grocery) bag. What to do then? I didn’t know. She said she’d try to find a dumpster.
I kept checking until I saw that you were safe. But now I’m really sad for you. Hard jobs are fun with the right people. They suck with the wrong ones.
I’m fairly sure there are a bunch of misunderstanding happening and a few of them might be deliberate on the CA side. You don’t have to have a DL to get a vehicle registered, but it is best to have a valid DL if driving the vehicle to get it registered. It is very possible that the vehicle can be registered online for a three day plate to get it to the repair shop and then submit the inspection reports online for perm tags.
CA likes cars to be registered and do their best to make it easy for folks.
Listen to your doctors. I don’t care that you are feeling better, they went to school for this, they probably know more than you do. What you do now will affect how you feel at my age, mobility is important and you need to do everything you can to keep yours.
But it certainly is easy to not-work when that happens, LOL! I’ve know folks who could work at home, I knew it would never work out for me because cats. Couldn’t do it now because cats and forest.
When I was 40, I could drive at night. I could do 28g white on white lace work and I could tat. I could sort colors and could see different shades of white without needing to hold them next to each other.
I really hadn’t realized what I’ve lost over the years and I’m really looking forward to doing all of those things again.
I shouldn’t have said that passion dies, it doesn’t really. It just turns into something else which is even better, even if it is more predictable.
Yanno all of those romantic movies where they ride of into the sunset and are happy forever? Yeah, that never happens. But, despite times when I the only reason I haven’t murderized Hubs is the lack of a good place to put the body…and knowing that he’s probably felt that way about me more than once…I’m really glad we have each other now and for the rest of our lives. I’m going to miss him when he’s gone.
LOLOLOL!!! Ya ain’t never gonna convince me that prize wasn’t rigged, LOL!
I love nasty weather as long as I don’t have to go out in it. You have a nice home, sturdy and strong. It’s a great place to sit inside and watch the weather or even go out and come back in. All will be good and you might have a fun nature show.
I don’t know why I asked, of course you have already scoped that sort of thing out. I hope you never have to spend and extended amount of time on the landing with a whole bunch of other frightened folks, but I have heard that interior stairwells are pretty good places to shelter.
Timers are your best friend. Fill the pan with water, put it on the stove and set the timer. Go do other things. When the timer dings, check the water. If it’s boiling,turn the heat down two clicks, put the mac in and set the timer for the recommended time and go and do other things.
So many non-cooks mystify the process far too much, it really isn’t that much bother as long as you remember to use your tools.
I guess you wouldn’t have agreed if it wasn’t something you could do. I hope you negotiated the correct payment!
When I was in Okinawa, there was a drink called Purple Haze. It was made with absinthe and it tasted purple. Drink two of those and you didn’t care how hot it was up there because you were down on the nice cold tiled floor.
Our tomatoes are dying from too much water. Next time we get a few dry days, I’m going to dig the dying plants out and add peat moss and river rocks to the soil to help with the drainage. I know that tomatoes are a very popular crop out this way, all the other ladies in the group with tomatoes are not having problems at all.
I got distracted and boiled a stainless steel pan dry a couple of years ago. Now nothing gets put on the burners without the timer being set. I had the attention span of GG when I was working, it’s much worse now that I’m spending my days smoking weed.
Of course! I’m glad your house was OK. Dang about the clean up though.
We had a tornado warning a couple of days ago. Or maybe it was a hurricane warning, I didn’t pay enough attention, I just knew we were in for a big wind storm. We have a long internal hall way we could shelter in if needed but we bought this place after researching the weather patterns.
Which is why I buy half pints of B&J at an outrageous markup. If Hubs only has half a pint of ice cream, he stops at half a pint and doesn’t go after another one. If I give him a pint, he eats the whole thing in a day. Half a gallon? Gone in a day. I’m not being controling, I’m being caring because he really doesn’t want to eat that much ice cream at once. He just can’t stop if it is available.
Yes, but she’s very casual about throwing useful things away. She wrapped the gull up in a towel, and threw it into a public bin. (The Humane Society said they’re not going to test it for avian flu.) Now, I just bought that towel less than 20 years ago. It still had a lot of life left in it! But The Missus said it was worn out. (It wasn’t.) She joked that she was just looking for an excuse to get rid of it. She said I could donate a towel to the poor bird.
Oh, well, she used your Towel. That is different and rather concerning. I would never leave Hubs without a Towel, even if he doesn’t really know why he always has one.
And a good late afternoon all. Spent a lot of time at the gym, got 500 calories burned in the pool (2,000yds of backstrokes) and a similar number of kcal’s on the bikes and treadmills, so eating a couple of cups of chocolate pudding just now does not have me feeling guilty at all (besides it’s sugar-free and only 70calories per cup). Will prepare my Big Bowl O’Sallit in a little bit and then watch the weather to see if soccer tomorrow gets rained out or not. It’s 82F now.
Looked into detailing my car, it’s nearly an all-day procedure and costs some $$$, but may do it if I get closer to purchasing a new set of wheels and plan to trade it in.
Pavo, glad you’re fine, St. Louis can get some nasty weather at times (lived there 1986-1997)
Oopsie, never used Insta-Cart, may have to look into it one of these days. And I get 6 bananas too, then 8 apples on Monday so my weekly intake of fruits is planned for.
Dicey, glad the coat is repaired; there are few things better that a coat/jacket that fits…I mean really fits you.
FCM, occasionally get someone looking for work like that, usually they have some other job in the neighborhood and the boss takes time out to visit the neighbors, but not very often and never in a large bunch like you had.
red, last time I played Putt-Putt was in Myrtle Beach about 3-4 years ago, which has 50-60 mini-golf places, usually with 36 holes at each.
flyboy, sad about the Seagull, but major credit to your wife for trying to do the right thing. And a dumpster is probably the best solution, and a 20-year old towel has probably seen better days…
Awwwww… Seriously, you have a keeper there, and I think he thinks the same of you.
Knew you were a frood who really knows where her towel is.
And it’s after 6 pm, so need to get the Salad fixings out and assimilate that. The we’ll see what the evening brings. Take care all.
I’m looking forward to having the sandwich for lunch – and dinner, since I’ll only be able to eat half of it now. And the other day I realized that I hadn’t made tuna macaroni salad in forever, so among the other “needed” items were elbow macaroni and light mayo (I already had tuna). Since I already have dinner, I think I’ll make that tomorrow. For someone used to simply nuking a Lean Cuisine it’s a lot of prep time – boiling a pot of water, cooking and straining the macaroni, etc. – but I know it’ll be yummy and I’ll be able to eat leftovers straight out of the fridge for a few days.
Was that not an option for you?
