I think I found a new escapee from the local educational system today at the deli counter. I asked for two thirds of a pound of stuff, and her head started swelling.
She shaves off a quarter pound. Then I get the look.
More. Two thirds.
More cutting ensues. When she was done, .8lbs was on the scale. Then the confusion of what numbers to punch in grew. After a long search of the chart, she asked her clueless coworker, who pulled numbers out of his rear.
I didn’t order Polish Kilbasa, but it cost less that what was in the bag…
Sorry, I went back to look for something else and realized I’d missed responding to this.
He’s OK. The welding thing is over - it was just a temporary project that needed some extra hands - but he’s starting learning how to row/crew on a nearby lake, which is doing good things for his core muscles.
His birthday is coming up in a few weeks, and then soon after that is the 1-year anniversary of The Mosquito Bite, so I’ll probably use one or the other milestone as an excuse to dig out the update thread and give more detail there.
Thank you for asking!
Ummm … for once, I have no rants. I’m sure I’ll think of something about which I can be bitchy in a few minutes, though.
Every morning I wake up with my left arm completely asleep, numb, cold. The chiropractor worked on me yesterday and only my hand went numb this morning.
But it’s bugging me right now as I sit here and probably will again when I get in my car.
It is not painful per se, but incredibly annoying and takes a while to wake up.
If you do decide to take it again, ask them to chill it. I took the one hour and found that greatly took the edge off of it.
Crazy Baby has a new love: nutella. Unfortunately she’s decided it tastes best with dry cat food. She washed the cat food flavored nutella down with about half a bottle of my favorite shampoo. Three hours after my husband told me this, I am still laughing myself silly over it.
Sounds wonderful, but that would prevent them moving it.
Boggle * What kind of car did that used to be?
Was stuck in stopped traffic for an hour and a half today and when they finally let us get by, driving down the shoulder, it looking like someone had taken parts off of a couple of semis and thrown them all over the four lanes of freeway. Turns out only one person was injured. Amazing.
You’d think, huh? All I can think of is they are driving in that direction and are too lazy to turn around before parking? Or because the tree in our boulevard casts a bit more shade?
Dang Filbert, that all sucks. I’m happy about your friend, but I have to confess that if someone threw my food out, I’d find my big heavy cast iron skillet and use it on him.
Lynn, I am so happy you are posting again. I hope you feel better.
OMG, it has almost been a year. Good on him for taking up a sport that involves him working the muscles he can use. His stubborn streak is a good thing when it comes to his recovery.
My not a rant: The reason Bill flew back to Oklahoma was because people were driving their 4-wheel drive vehicles to the job site and chaining themselves to the heavy equipment to protest the Keystone project. This is like the 5th time its happened.
Public opinion is really important with this sort of thing, so they can’t do anything but shut down and wait for the police to deal with the protesters. I bought him a pair of fireman’s boots for his birthday because he spends most of his time stomping fires out.
I reminded Bill that he has problems with certain foods, when he eats them, he gets lots of gas and will sometimes puke.
Of course, Bill didn’t want to offend anyone and just accidently ate those things. He was not at home with someone who watches his diet, and might have accidently FARTED under the equipment while he was steadying himself to kneel down and talk to them. He also puked under some of the equipment while he was doing it.
And this is just the sort of thing that makes me ignore the board problems
Cracking up with you.
I used to have a friend who had a toddler who always went straight to the cat bowls to eat the kibble when they came to visit. One day, we might have been smoking something and we tried the kibble. I can certainly understand why CB thinks that cat food needs something to flavor it.
I think that most people working in retail have to push keys and look at the display to see the correct numbers. Not because they are idiots, but because they are trained to do that. I remember how I was when I was slinging hamburgers.
The work environment was WORK HARDER!!! WORK FASTER!!! AND DON’T MAKE ANY MISTAKES BECASUE YOU ARE WORKING TOO FAST TO PAY ATTENTION TO SPECIAL ORDERS!!! FUCK THEM UP AND YOU WILL GET FIRED.
Over in another thread I’m advocating sustainable, healthy eating, my argument based on the biochemical nuances of factory-farmed food - at the same time conveniently overlooking that as I child I happily consumed mass quantities of Vaseline, Pacquin’s skin creme, and BBs.
Rant: I had to spend a good chunk of my work week preparing an application for an internal posting for which I am genuinely the best candidate. Management strongly encouraged me to apply, to demonstrate that I am interested in leadership. At the same time, it was heavily implied that another person is slotted for the job and that the decision was made long before anything was even posted. And I have to be gracious about it.
Because you’re just a mere mortal like the rest of us, EmilyG.
By the way, LacunaeMatata, I just looked at those pics. Holeeeeeeeeeee shit! I do like the one of your baby visiting him in the hospital, though. The others? Not so much, but it is nice to see proof of human resilience.
I just saw this and had to ask: what brand are the turnovers? I’ve never encountered raspberry versions and now I WANT! Especially since the apple ones have raisins in 'em.
Nutella, cat food, and shampoo… sounds like the “Chopped” basket from Hell!
My older niece used to eat the cat food too. We caught her a couple times chowing down from the cat’s bowl while the poor cat sat nearby looking on with the most pathetic expression on his face.
