At least Instacart got my order right today, from the store that’s had problems with that lately. Maybe things are sorting out (even managed delivery within an hour of ordering). I did feel bad that an order involving a fair amount of heavy stuff wound up with a smallish woman (that store now has a small surcharge for heavy item delivery, which is fair), but she did get a good tip.
Moby II.
Ishmael.
Queequeg.
Starbuck.
Carni*, if you’re going to Starbucks I need a Cold Brew, plz and ty!
(*nickname…I still can’t remember your mumper name. I think I have a mental block :))
Becks, just remember a carnivorous plant is a Venus Flytrap.
Bumba, maybe just call the truck “The Beast”. Or Godzilla.
Nut, glad the bees are ok and hope they get about getting a queen sooner than later.
FCM, your planned home improvement sounds a lot like what I did in Feb-March this year. It’ll look great, but bring money.
My lawn mower worked fine for the front yard, then decided it wasn’t going to start again. I think I’ve had it, plan to go to Home Depot this afternoon and buy a new one. Anybody want a occasionally functioning old Toro mower?
Also need some hamburger buns and sallit, but I think a nice hot bath will come first; don’t want to insult delicate senses…
I wound up mowing, since it’s supposed to rain tonight and tomorrow. I wish I’d worn a mask - it was a dusty mow.
We did pizza last night, so tonight will be empty-the-fridge for supper. I may need someone to feed me - I’s tahred…
Hubby has been admitted and saw two doctors. They gonna keep him a few days and maybe do a biopsy, maybe. He was tested for Covid and was negative. I guess they test all patients. We had that talk Mooommmm We have it often.
It is so quiet here just me and the critters. Our office girl came by but office is downstairs so no bother to me. I am still watching The Handmaid’s Tale. I am too invested to stop now. It’s actually very good.
Since I didn’t sleep much at all last night I am tahred and may take a nap. I had a phone call for a reference for a former employee and that’s the extent of irk I have done so far today. There is always tomorrow and the weekend.
Stay well everyone.
I have phone calls to make and I keep forgetting them.
I need a week off, just to sleep and catch up on necessary things.
Well that was quick.
Left a message for one aunt, don’t have the number for the other aunt, and the vet’s number is busy, busy, busy.
I feel like I am forgetting something.
Going to make my son some eggs, and then go take a shower. I need to wash the crap out of my hair that I put in yesterday for my irk picture.
My son takes horrible pictures… took him 6 tries to get something that was suitable, and it isn’t very good at all.
But now my employer has a pic of me for the files.
I asked my son to clean the bathroom for me. He did the sink, the sink looks nice and clean, except he didn’t do the faucet and knobs.
He didn’t do the floor, he says he will scrub the tub when he takes a shower.
He’s been out of school for a week, vacation time is over.
Bumba I’d keep the Scion for now if you’re enjoying it and you don’t need the truck yet. No need to deal with the hassle and risk of selling at the moment.
Mooommm make sure FCD keeps on the colace AND the Miralax. The Miralax will get things moving, but he’ll be really glad it’s softened when victory is attained. Trust me on this one.
I slept until noon, with a brief break to get the kids ready for school. I don’t like it. I don’t wanna sleep until noon.
My folks are coming for dinner tonight. I made some carnitas and should have enough for everyone. I just realized that I forgot garlic. I’ll see if I can remedy that in the final steps.
We’re taking 'Beamer’s dog to the vet today. Pixel has a lump that’s growing between his shoulder blades. I hope it’s a fatty tumor, but in my experience it doesn’t feel like one.
I had my appointment with the Neurologist/MS specialist yesterday. He ruled out MS, but believes that there’s something going on. More tests have been ordered for lupus and lyme disease and probably a few other things. Onwards, I suppose.
Take care everyone.
I have a suggestion. Since nettie and nellie are such similar names and nettie has been here far longer than I, what if my nickname were nell or nells? I’m OK with nellie and as I’ve said, it’s a compliment to be called nett****ie, however mistakenly. Would a shortened form be easier for everyone else? Just a thought.
I have nothing new to report. Slept well and have been doing laundry. I’ll head out for a walk in a bit.
nuts, a belated congrats on finishing exams. I’m learning a lot about beekeeping from your posts!
Bumba, since it’s Moby’s brother, I vote for calling it “Darryl.”
FCM, cleaning the filter sounds like a yucky job. How often does it have to be done?
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swampy**, I’m not planning on having the antibody test because my odds of having had COVID are miniscule. Docs keep telling me if I get it, I’ll probably end up in the ICU (or dead, but they don’t say that), so I figure in the extremely unlikely chance that I’d had it, I’d definitely have known it. If that’s stupid thinking, I hope someone will let me know.
I know who Nellie Bly was, of course. But when I see it spelled nelliebly I keep seeing ‘nelly belly’. (I’m probably mentally ill.)
Well, certainly more often than never… 
I’ll try to check it periodically.
As for nicknames, I’m sorry, but you’re not allowed to pick your own. It’s up to all the rest of the Mumpers, or just one, to bestow your designation. Just be thankful no one stuck you with PookyButt! :eek:
I had coddies and some sweet potato for supper. Apple later. And I pulled out a meatloaf for tomorrow’s supper, after a frantic search for it. I forgot which part of which freezer I stashed it. But I found it, and thawage has started.
Time for some serious chillage now.
I haven’t had a coddie in ages. I love them.
I don’t even know where to find them anymore.
Did you make them yourself?
I kinda like Belly, for Nelliebly.
Seems like it works for some reason.
Feel better Sunny, I hate indecision around about diagnosis.
Evening all. New mower has been purchased, assembled and back yard is mown. Just in time, as there are clouds moving in and there is a 90% chance of tunder-boomers tomorrow.
I have no trouble figuring out **nellie **and nettie, but if you want to change, “circumnavigator” would be accurate but too long, “journalist” would be true but not pointing at you…I think sticking with ‘Nellie’ is fine.
Sunny, sleeping until noon is my goal in life…but I’m sorry about the pup’s lump. Hope it’s treatable.
Butters, sounds like you have too much time to worry. Hope everything goes well.
OK, need to fix the evening Cheeburger and then return to internettin’. All y’all take care.
It rained most of the day. Gordie went out twice. Made chipotle chicken with rice and corn with cumin and tomatoes.
Belly works.
{{{{Butters and Hubby}}}}
Bumba, Richard.
That’s my dog’s nickname (nellybelly or pookiebutt 
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butters, I’m in a ponytail for as long as I’m in a mask. I was overdue for a haircut when this whole thing began and looking for a new stylist. As far as color, I have just used a couple of spritzes of lightening spray everyday for as long as I’ve been blonde, so the stylist doesn’t have anything to do with that.
Welcome to the 21st century Mooooooooom!
WTG boofae (and if I neglected to congratulate you, to you too nut)
sunny, it may be a chihuahua wart or cyst. Most of the chihuahuas that I’ve ever been around (my chi mix included) get them. But have it checked just to be safe.
Irked, came home and am chilling.
Stay healthy y’all!
nellie, I have no strong feelings on nicknames. Confusion is the MMP’s natural state, you know. 
It’s also not unusual for the same person to have two or more aliases. I tend to refer to swampbear as “the Ursine One” or variants, for example.
We have opened up our home to FIV+ cats so that they don’t have to spend their last days in a cage, averaging two at any one time. As of an hour ago, we have only one currently.
Goodbye, Mr. Puma Man-You were loved and will be missed.
Hola, muchachos i mijas. My feet and back are taahhhred but I am otherwise content. It helps that tomorrow I get my first (partial) paycheck from New Job, so I’ll finally get to see what kind of tips the other budtenders typically bring home. Well, extrapolate from 2 days’ worth of data. But that tip jar gets full by day’s end - and we are busting our collective butts; I promise we earn any tips people feel like throwing our way.
The friend who let me stay with her for a couple months while I was looking for a place had an order today, and I grabbed her bag and took her stuff to her car. That was fun! She’s literally the only person I know in the state, so I don’t usually get to casually say, “Oh, I’ll take her, she’s a friend of mine.” I got to be one of the cool kids today, I guess.
Absolutely beautiful weather last couple of days. Mid 70s, a few poofs in the sky for visual interest. I am so glad I moved up here.
Dinner, hmm. Oh, I have homemade chicken stock I boiled last week, and I am determined to make myself egg drop soup. I know how, I just keep getting lazy and heating up the soup as-is.
Oh! Day off tomorrow!
Oh, that’s right. Pretzel appointment. Imma take her to the vet in the morning (hence my somewhat unseemly preoccupation with the damn tip jar) and I’m hoping to be told a quick course of antibiotics will fix her up.
Then day off.
Cheers, Mumpers.