Up from naptime, having burgers, fries, and an Old Fashioned.
Worse, the ghost of Joan Crawford shows up and screams at you about WIRE HANGERS!!!
I’ll keep that in mind. If my parents’ lawyer ever stops suing their church.
I could always post my cartoons there. That would lower expectations. 
Evening all. Coached soccer (boy does the temperature drop once the sun goes down these days) and replaced the forgotten Fettuchini and picked up a couple boxes that promise grilled ham-n-cheese sammiches from the toaster (we’ll see) more on speculation than anything. House got warmed up, but it’s down to 52F now and it’ll be cooling off soon enough. Still have to empty out the dishwasher, maybe tomorrow…
lucky, sounds like a lot of what I went through several years ago, not to move but just to change things around after 20 years. It will give you a new look to the house.
OK, back to watching some tackleball and then to bed. Take care all.
Out of Mumper peer pressure, I did a load of laundry. It’s back upstairs from the dryer, but not sorted or put away. I expect I’ll be dressing myself out of that hamper for the next week or so. It’s either laziness or efficiency; I prefer an even 50-50 split. What? I live alone; who’s gonna see, or judge?
Had an epic nap earlier, and once I was up had the weirdest craving for lemons, of all things. Kept trying to come up with snack/dinner ideas, and everything involved lemons. (Avocado? Needs citrus. Tinned sardines? Much better with citrus.) Finally { sigh } put on pants. Obtained lemons (YAY!) plus garlic and some perfectly small little onions, and … what’s this? Lamb chops on sale? Well, how did y’all know I was craving red meat?
So I’m having myself a little lamb-y treat for tonight. Sardines on crackers can wait till tomorrow after work.
Please do! Sounds like fun.
I routinely dress from the clean clothes basket, or the dryer, assuming I don’t have a cat holding the clean stuff hostage. 
Are you really going to want to move after you’ve made your home all new and stuff?
That’s a good idea, you are already going to be cooking and it is cheaper to buy and prepare large batches than small ones.
Do check into Meals on Wheels, when hub’s friend was using them, the meals were huge, enough for one person to eat for several meals. Friend complained to us a lot because they brought him rabbit food but he never said anything to them. I suspect that they would have gone out of their way to customize his meals for him if only he had asked.
I read the Pit, Mumpers are nice, some of the non Mumping dopers…not so much. It’s much safer here.
After completely redoing that stoopid backward ribbon a gillion times, it is perfect. Except for the part were I forgot to turn the chart over and reverse the direction for the two ribbons. Thankfully I caught that soon enough to do the same thing with the other two smaller ribbons which will make it look like that’s the way it was supposed to be anyhow.
Our last place had open shelves in the bathroom instead of a linen closet. The cats just loved being able to curl up on our clean linens and shed all over our towels. This place has a proper linen closet with a proper door and latch to keep the furry beasts out.
Look at you, willing to take one for the team! (I personally love your cartoons…and Halloween is looming…)
Back when I was working for the food stamp office, the sups once put a chart on the break room wall that showed everyone’s metrics to try to shame us into working harder and faster. It didn’t work for me, I figured that someone had to be last so it might as well have been me because I would be paid just as much as the hardest, fastest workers.
Hubs made beer yesterday and my nurse friend forgot to stop over for the spent grain so I took it to her place today because I thought she was working. She was at home, she actually got a three day weekend but she had totally forgotten about the grain. Nurses tend to give so much to their patients that they forget to take care of themselves.
She told me that she spread the last batch out in the sun to dry and her garbage gut dogs ran out and started eating it. It is just boiled barley, it won’t hurt the dawgs at all but still. It was for the chickens.
You’ve got my plan down.
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.
If only we knew someone who could stitch that on a pillow. 
I always enjoyed your cartoons Doggio.
Okay, I’ll see myself out.
Morning, mumpers! I completely missed the chance to post on here yesterday, bit of a bonkers day at work. It’s 5c/42f with a predicted high of 14c/56f (well, it’s only 8.43am), and beautifully sunny out there. Weather app quite rightly says “Oh, shut up and enjoy the fucking sunshine”, which I am happy to do.
Left the house before 7am to walk to the station, it was still dark as I went through the park and there were only a couple of other people around. Even the geese were still snoozing. It was a pleasant walk this morning and I was in good time to catch the nice train instead of the scabby one I usually have to travel on.
Yesterday at irk was definitely a day in crazytown with a prospective student. She’s in Hong Kong. We are in the England. She’s registered on one of our postgrad courses and until yesterday, she hadn’t completed the full registration process so she showed up on our student record system as provisionally registered (she should be “normally registered”). She’s been calling the office up to 20 times a day asking to be added to the course pages on our virtual learning site and seems to be having a lot of trouble with the word “no”.
We believe she’s trying to take this as a remote student but it doesn’t run as a distance learning programme so all teaching takes place on campus and in person. This has been explained to her by my admin team, the programme lead and now the head of department. It’s since been escalated to the head of operations and will be most likely shunted to the international student team as well. The student refuses to answer a simple question, won’t tell us if she’s in the UK or not, won’t give us a contact number so we can’t call her back, and only uses her personal email address.
Hopefully today it’s my turn to talk to her, I’ll be sending the pointy-stick wielding ninja spider attack forces, they’ll love a little trip to Hong Kong!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 59 Amurrkin out and mostly clear, whatever that means, with a predicted high of 84 and partly N.O.S., again, whatever that means. Today is avoid the ghosts of 20,000 judgemental old women and Joan Crawford day. We shall also partake of the usual sloth and general overall uselessness. Sup shall be pot roast with little carrots and onions, peas, butterbeans 'n okra, smashed N.O.T. 'n gravy, and rolls. YUM!
shoe nuttin’ like an epic nap! Hope you enjoyed your lamb-y treat. I like canned sardines, hoop cheese, and crackers. This appalls OYKW. However, every once in a while the gnawin’ and a cravin’ comes over me and I must have it. I hope the 20,000 old women and Joan Crawford do not visit you because you did not put the laundry away.
BooFae if every anybody needed to be visited by the PSWSLNS it’s that person.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah,
Happy Tuesday Y’all!
It’s efficiency unless you spend too much time searching for something. Then again, what else would you do with that time? Dust? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
They do have this program in our county - the question is: Will the in-laws accept charity?
They don’t have cats, so there’s that. Apart from the $600 pet fee and associated costs of critters, MIL doesn’t like indoor cats because she doesn’t want a litter box inside. Personally, I don’t see the point of an outside pet (OK, horses don’t belong curled up on the sofa…) It’s not like I consider the squirrels in the yard to be my outside pets.
Night of weird, tho not disturbing, dreams… well, except for the part where I was running away in my bathrobe trying to hide from a couple of guys for some reason. At least I didn’t wake up terrified, just perplexed. But I’m showered and dressed and fed and caffeinating. And I found out why MIL;'s laundry has such a strong scent of cleaning products. She dumps a full cap of the detergent into each load. She shouldn’t be using more than a third of a capful at most. I told her that - we’ll see if she remembers.
FCD will be running them around today - he needs to get durable powers of attorney for all of them, just in case. He’s going to try to take care of the car titling also. And he’s going to have his brother drive so he gets to know the area. It’s pretty straightforward from their place to the main shopping area, but BIL tends to freak when there’s lots of traffic, and there’s no back way, so he’ll have to get used to it.
Tobias and I will do laundry today. His help consists of pulling clean clothes out of the basket while I’m folding them, and spreading them around the floor. Kids, right?? 
I want to hang everything out to dry, but I can’t haul laundry and a not-quite-toddler outside, so I guess it’s dryer today. Dammit. I’ll miss the nice, fresh smell of sun-dried garments and sheets.
Not sure what I’ll make for supper tonight. I think there’s still a couple of mahi-mahi fillets in the freezer. Or I’ll just pull out a chickie tit and do something quick with it. Too early to decide at the moment.
Happy Tuesday!
Good morning everyone.
It’s currently 48 degrees with an expected high in the mid-60s and sunny skies by afternoon. The morning will have cloudy skies.
@nelliebly the smoke was really bad both here and in Tukwila on Saturday and Sunday. Tukwila was worse than here, I know that because when I left Tukwila Saturday evening the moon was orange, but down where I live the moon was slightly yellow. The smoke was bad enough to make my eyes water at some points. Sunday was bad here, although yesterday was slightly better. I hear it’s supposed clear off a little by this evening, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
Back to work today. There will be too much to do and not enough time. It’s the same old song and verse.
I hope the erranding with the in-laws and BiL go smoothly, FCM.
I had a really hard time falling asleep last night and was still awake at 2:00 am. My alarm went off at 3:15. It’s gonna be a struggle. I think that I will take a nap for lunch today. Luckily, I’m working from home and can tell my husband to wake me up in case I sleep through the alarm I intend to set.
My ottoman arrives tomorrow, so I need to make sure I run the roll-suck around the house. I meant to do it yesterday, but I was busy with the bird feeding station and various other outdoor chores. By the time I got back inside, I was over doing chores and just wanted to relax for a bit.
Well, it’s time for that second cup of coffee. I hope you all have a terrific day.
I’ve been awake with a headache since 3:00, but since I went to bed pretty early, I still got 6 hours’ sleep. My downstairs neighbor has a very loud, whistling snore. If I knew her name, I’d send her CPAP ads.
I have no real plans for today. Those of you who are still working may want to throw things at me, but I miss working. One thing I discovered about retirement is that nobody cares about what you used to do or how good you were at it, yet for all our adult lives, so much of our identity is wrapped up in our jobs. It’s weird.
taters, I hope you get that nap! All you really goths last night was a nap, and d that’s not good.
FCM, how cute that Tobias helps you with the laundry! OK, it makes for more work, but it’s adorable!
Maybe is they see it as something they earned instead of charity? My mom delivered MOW when she first retired, and all kinds of people got it. It wasn’t just lower income folks.
A friend of mine has an electric litter box hat not only self-scoops but somehow dehydrates the cat poop so there’s no smell. I’m amazed.
BooFae, wow, amazing the amount of work one stubborn person can generate for a bunch of people!
swampy, what’s hoop cheese?
I’m a big fan of the Bulwer-Lytton Bad Writing Contest, and your cats’ antics reminded me of one of the old winning entries. Dammit, I can’t find it now, but it was about someone feeling guilty for having cheated on her boyfriend, and “… feeling vaguely unclean, like fresh laundry that’s been shoved off the bed and been slept on by the dog”. (I always say that terrible metaphors are an important key to bad writing! 
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Maybe frame it more as visitors bringing a dish? Like a social call.
This is a very smart step.
Now I’m picturing a small child hanging by clothespins on a line, giggling.
The old-fashioned version of targeted advertising content!
Morning all. 54F this morning heading towards 80F later today. Rain is expected tomorrow, so might use that as an excuse not to water the lawn today. Need to get to the gym and pedal off some calories and then coach the 9-year olds later, but that’s the extent of my planned activity.
Do need to be a responsible adult here in a bit. Need to call the Edward D. Jones folks and set up an appointment to go over my stuff (they keep trying to get me to invest more, I tell them I can’t spend what I got, I’m happy with what I’m getting, but investors gotta invest, I guess). The call on of my annunities, trying to register on their website and it is not cooperating, so…
Need to feed myself her in a bit. Also dishes remain to be put away (already have several that need to be put back in for washing). We’ll see what else the day brings.
FCM, here’s hoping BIL and in-laws begin to settle into their new surroundings.
shoe, I’d like to live out of my laundry basket(s), but the need to fill them back up (and the fact I usually put the dry clothes baskets on my bed) usually impels me to hang them up.
boofae, I’d be suspicious too; can you get the number she is calling with from your system? Hope it gets worked out without having to release the spider ninja’s.
OK, need to be a responsible adult now. Take care all.
Good morning everyone!
taters I hope you can get through the day with minimal stress. Sleepless nights are awful.
BooFae Please keep us posted on the saga of the (remote) student. 
Yesterday I did most of my annual paperwork for my disability insurance and the social security folks. I also spent way too much time fussing with how to get my closing funds into the escrow account. They want a wire transfer, but my bank is in Oregon and I have to walk into a branch to get a wire transfer. I think I’ve worked something out, but yeeesh - it’s always something. We sign the closing documents on Thursday, but the house doesn’t close until the 20th.
Today we may be seeing “Avatar” with the kids after school. They’ve got the original re-released in the theaters right now and the kids haven’t seen it.
Take care and Happy Tuesday everyone!
Busy day yesterday. I got up at 06:10 and logged into irk. Still digging through the datalanche. And I also had some high-priority report corrections. (Big Credit Reporting Company has the information wrong.) For lunch, I took the kayaks off of the Jeep and put took them to the back yard and put them on the deck; then parked the Jeep on the street so I could pull out the MGB. Bows and hood out of the boot and on the car, and now I can drive it in the rain. More irk (and about a half-hour extra), then I went on my 3+ mile walk. Came home, showered, and make an oyster po’boy with the leftover oysters Wifey reheated.
Today I’m in the Burien orifice.
That was FCD’s suggestion…
Two loads of laundry are done, the third is in the dryer, and the fourth is in the washer. We’re finishing lunch. Tobias slept for about 30 minutes or so, but now he’s full of energy. kids…
We’ll be heading back to the basement shortly.