As I always say: Bring your passport and your VISA: buy everything else you need as you discover the need while you’re there.
Last weekend GF & I spent 4 days 40 miles away from our homes armed only with the clothes on our back and Visa. Not even a toothbrush or comb. Worked great. Once you try that approach to travel you (probably) won’t go back to needlessly lugging your house along with you.
Ok no, at least bring a toothbrush. Those little airline travel kits - you’re saying you didn’t get to retire with a crate of them?!?
We have a “trip list”. We’ve mostly memorized it because in both our families we are the ones who travel to see other people, not the other way around (health reasons mostly, no knock on anyone intended). So we have a shared list in our phones where we check things off if it’s a big trip or just know if it’s a small trip but we pack fairly light with the mentality that anything forgotten can be borrowed or bought (or stolen, but that’s an admittedly very desperate situation we’ve never encountered!).
All bleeding stops in its own…eventually. 
It obviously went tits up a couple of days ago. The freezer was full; there was one ice cream container on its side, along with some handheld ice cream (Klondikes, Chipwhichs, etc., a whole turkey, & some seafood. I was about ready to call in the Ghostbusters to clean up that goopy mess. Everything is in the trash can in the garage until the next trash day (unfortunately, they had already come today {holiday delay}, which I’m sure will smell like rotting ass by Monday morning 
Occasionally I have the dream where I’ve flown halfway across the country and I’ve checked into my hotel room, and then I think “why the heck did I bring the cat?”
Time has taken its toll and I’m decrepit and falling apart, so I have a requisition for two imaging procedures, an ultrasound and an X-ray, to see if there’s any hope of getting me glued back together again. The ultrasound appointment is on Tuesday at a nearby place called “X-Ray Associates”. They do everything – utrasounds, every imaginable cardiac diagnostic, nuclear medicine, bone density scans, etc. There’s only one thing that “X-Ray Associates” doesn’t do: they don’t do X-rays. At least, not at that location.
Apparently their X-ray technician buggered off, perhaps to work as night manager at McDonald’s, and they can’t find another one. I was informed in somber tones that there is a widespread shortage of X-ray technicians. I mean, how complicated could this be? I’ve had ultrasounds before and they involve careful manipulation of the sensor over the affected body part and capturing an image at just the right time, and doing this hundreds of times. But for an X-ray? Don’t you just cower behind a lead curtain and press a button?
So I have to drive to another location to get the X-ray. Trouble is, I have a single requisition form that calls for both. The call center informed me that the first “X-Ray Associates” location would be pleased to make a photocopy of the requisition that I could take to the other “X-Ray Associates” location that actually does X-rays.
We had met in the middle to go out to dinner, and only dinner. Expecting to separately drive back to our respective homes immediately afterwards. Then “immediately” turned into 4 days later. 
Any decent hotel can give you a small amenity pack upon check-in if you ask. Toothbrush, toothpaste, mouthwash, and deodorant are typical. That’s enough to get you through going to bed, and getting cleaned up tomorrow morning for your impending trip to buy some clean clothes and toiletries.
And no, I have no such souvenirs from work. Back in the day it was pretty common for FAs to have a complete set of dinner for 8 on company logo-ed china & flatware. Pilots? Not so much.
That is frustrating. So much of the medical infrastructure in my area is experiencing similar disruption.
I believe I have had to do something similar for a mammogram and another kind of Xray. I had to get a copy and schlep over to another site. Lucky thing it’s all free parking and not too far away from where I live.
That’s quite cute, that level of spontaneous trip taking. Kid and cats don’t make that possible for us.
I was thinking you’d planned to take a trip but neglected a toothbrush because you wanted to pack light, and that’s just not something I could choose to do!
I had a Qatar Airways kit in my purse for a while, but eventually did need to use it and threw it out some time ago. I once had flight delays and Air Canada gave me a kit, and for some reason it was gendered with men’s deodorant and shaving cream. I used the deodorant but why wasn’t unscented an option? It stank.
I managed to lose my cute cap during vacation. I even have a picture of me wearing it, but it didn’t make it back home.
Went to the same store yesterday and they don’t have that style in stock. So I have a different cap to keep the sun out of my eyes.
Still annoyed with myself for losing my cap.
I hate when things like this happen.
Maybe you can find one on Ebay?
So I put some dish soap in my washing machine.
Just a squirtish I think.
Not the dishwasher - I know better.
I do this occasionally - maybe a few times a year.
I also might have done it yesterday…I blame this all on lingering Covid brain fog for the record.
I have a bathroom with double sinks one of which has unattached itself from life many years ago and I use it for random storage.
I love having free range open circle storage space.
Started to clean my bathroom and noticed some bubbles coming up into the sink with the broken, unattached drain.
I initially thought that maybe I had vigorously hurled some stray bubbles from the tub into this sink area but it seemed a bit too much for that explanation.
Explored under said sink and there was a circle of foamy bubbles around the pipe at the bottom.
Not an avalanche but enough to startle me.
But no water - just a blinking, kinetic GIF of bubbleage.
No clue why this happened other than I was doing a lot of laundry, running the dishwasher and cleaning out the tub with some powerful, bubble forming Dawn dish soap.
Bubble storm?
Anyways I cleaned everything up just fine and I have installed primitive towel surveillance underneath the sink.
Meaning I wrapped an old towel around the bottom of the pipe and will probably check obsessively the next few days.
I have a plumber and and a handyman I could call tomorrow for rescue but I think it was the overload of dish soap that created this annoyance. They are good but expensive.
If the towel surveillance picks up any water I’ll call them.
Silly me…never use dish soap in your washing machine or dishwasher.
Do you store the two sorts of soap together? Don’t. All my laundry supplies sit in the cozy closet that hides the clothes washer/dryer. All the dishwasher supplies live in the cabinet next to the dishwasher.
If you make it a short reach to do the right thing but a 20 foot walk to do the wrong thing, you’re a lot more likely to not try to do the wrong thing in the first place. Or if you do try, at least to wake up from your mistaken fog in time.
There are a lot of little physical things like that I do to reduce the probability of error.
Great advice.
I usually keep everything pretty organized but instead of using Oxi Clean I squirted Ajax into the washing machine!
Mental foggery.
I have banished the Ajax bottle of dish liquid back to under the kitchen sink.
I have a hypothesis. I am slightly brain damaged (my mother smoked heavily while she was pregnant - don’t judge it was the 60’s and the OB didn’t want the baby to get too big.). I have always had an issue with labelling the dishwasher and the washing machine. I wonder if there is a spot in your brain where those item names are in proximity and it causes a subconscious confusion. Unfortunately, you put the dish soap in the wrong machine instead of embarrassing yourself by asking someone to put the dishes in the washing machine.
Jerkface junior cat lost one of his electronic tracking tags (the Pebblebee. I could have done without spending $40 to replace it, but such is life. His Tile is still present and accounted for, but we like the redundancy of having two that use different app networks.
Can’t you find it with the tracking app ?
We tried, but couldn’t find a small black plastic object that seemed to have dubious reception in the app on either of our phones. We think it somehow broke free of the ring that held it on his harness, so IMO it’s questionable that it could be adequately repaired to stay secure.
We’re discussing things like reflective tape to make the replacement more visible.
Ah. I thought you probably would’ve !!
Does your Jerkface wear the harness at all times, or just when outside? … or something else?
I’m dealing with Mr. Twerp (my beloved Monkey) who has wandered off twice, for a couple of days - and this is sooo not a safe ‘hood for a black cat at night - so I was looking into a glow-in-the-dark LED harness, but was unsure of the logistics.
Years ago I got one of my besties a set of Tiles (love that gurl but she canNOT keep track of things like keys) and started wondering about how well something like that would work on, for ex. a dog collar.
Just curious.
We’ve been doing decently with the electronic tags on Buddy’s harness, which he nearly always wears. We do take it off him periodically when we can be certain he won’t be getting out unless one of us has opportunity to dress him first, and use that opportunity to recharge the Pebblebee. The Tile does not have a rechargeable or replaceable battery, so when that battery dies the device will have to be replaced. I’m not sure I have a strong preference between the two brands of tag we’ve been using (DH might have more to say about that).
Might be cheaper to find a harness with reflective material such as you’d see on hi-vis safety gear, and you wouldn’t have to deal with keeping batteries charged.