Hi! Bye! Off to make pizza. And clean fryers. Probably working on a cash register tonight.
Man, I hope this new dude works out. We haven’t met yet. I’m too diluted to post details. Off to go make some money to throw at the howling wolves. (I’ve chased off a few, which feels fantastic.)
Started the day well with buttermilk waffles and bacon. The wife wanted to go to a local Native powwow, but I think she got her wires crossed on it. We ended up in a funeral procession somehow. Once we got free of that, we went to an area called Dinkytown and stopped at a Slavic meat market. Had lunch there and bought a few things. Tomorrow the daughter and grands come over. Looking forward to it.
Chefguy, do you read Lileks.com? He’s a columnist with the Minneapolis Tribune, and often writes about Dinkytown and other local places on his blog. He throws in lots of interesting tidbits about the area.
I’m not from Minneapolis, but my mom was, so I like to read about her hometown.
is that he who has the “regrettable foods” website ?
Yep, that’s him. He also has a Monday through Friday blog called “The Bleat” which is only on his website and is just daily observations and musings about things in Minneapolis and beyond.
Howdy Y’all! We did go do N.O.L. at our favorite Mexican place. Nellie if we had not any need to feed would have been via forage. I had a chikin enchilada and a cheese enchilada with rice and refried beans. OYKW had a taco, a beef enchilada, a beef tamale and refried beans. We both had a margarita. Fartfest has ensued.
Mrs. L.A. and I went to Discount Tires for her new car shoes. She’s not happy they cost $600 (balanced and installed), but she needs her wheels because she goes to her patients’ homes. I made a late breakfast when we got home.
Breakfast was actually later than I thought it would be. I got out the potatoes, and they smelled musty. The ones on the bottom of the bag, which I bought a week or so ago, were wet and rotting. So I pulled out all of the dry ones, washed the ones that were wet but not rotting, and threw the rest away.
Went back to Bellingham to get Wifey’s car. She went to PetSmart for dewormer for the cats, since there was a tapeworm segment on Abbey’s butt. I went to Fred Meyer to get mushrooms, Cream of Mushroom Soup, onion soup mix, and bread. May as well pick up some Friskies Salmon Dinner Paté, since PetSmart and the grocery stores were out. PetSmart was out of dewormer, so Cat Mom returned empty-handed.
Anyway, the rot post is assembled and in the oven and we can eat around 4:30. Abbey’s had flea drops, and de-wormer and gooshy food are ordered.
DH and I elected to skip the picnic. I don’t seem to tolerate hot weather well lately, so of course this is being held not long after peak high temp for the day (sigh). We’re also both feeling tired and draggy. Did get the recycling taken back and had lunch.
Tomorrow morning, I start prep for a cardiac CT scan Tuesday morning to check out the blood vessels around my heart. Could be a rough couple of days, since they’re going to have me on a med that will lower my heart rate. Also gotta remember no caffeine that morning (hope they don’t object to a slightly zombie patient).
Afternoon all. Sitting here listening to my feet complain every time I stand up…was a pretty busy day at the fields and only got to sit down maybe 25-30 minutes over 8 hours, so just a little sore. Coaching (we lost twice) and refereeing (good games with good parents) went fine and the weather was nice (but did get into the mid-80’s without clouds, so a bit more sunburn. 60% chance for rain tomorrow so that will be a nice change.
Flyboy, $600 ain’t too bad, think my set was over $700, but they should last for however many years she keeps that car.
Cookie, sounds like a fine weekend up there.
nellie, regarding the new Eye Doc, cautious optimism seems to be the best bet; he might know some cutting-edge things that can help you, but not knowing your total history…he needs to read a bit more before you commit, IMHO.
Ok, I really hope it doesn’t sound like I’m bragging, one of the trips has been in the planning stages for years and the other came as a complete surprise but…
1, Going to Antarctica in February 2023 with a day in Buenos Aires and another in Ushsaia, where I catch my ship. Have planned and saved for this for years, it’s my 7th continent as my 7th decade of orbiting the sun draws to a close (70th B-day in April).
2. And then my friend who does the travel agency thing for a group of us came up with a Cruise in November 2023 (pre-Thanksgiving) leaving Los Angeles and, with 4-5 stops, ends up in Miami–with passage via the Panama Canal. Been wanting to do this for awhile and the price was pretty low, so I booked it and will handle the airfare and hotel (if needed) later on in 2023.
So now what the heck do I do in the summer months? (Maybe MMP visits?)
OK, need to try to move (ouch) and check the mailbox and consider sustenance beyond a small bag of Lays chips and a Mountain Dew (have drank plenty of water while outside and had some Pepsi on ice since I got home). Take care all.
Back home finally. Manning the table at the fair was a bust - it was in an empty building, so people would look in the door, then turn and leave. I was talking to the alumna who had arranged for the table. OMG - what a flake! She started out telling me about when she had alopecia and the only one who was able to help her was a holistic healer. She had her put her hand on this mouse-like thing and it did a full-body scan. Yeah. And apparently this healer kept her from having to go on thyroid meds for the rest of her life…
Then there was the old woman and her daughter who stopped at the table to chat. We heard all about when the daughter’s spleen had to be removed. So it wasn’t entirely boring, but it was a freekin’ long 2 hours.
After, FCD wanted fried chicken, so we came home via the deli, only to find the line was really long and there was a wait for the next batch of chicken. We did wait because he really wanted it, and when we go home, I made myself a bowl of soup because I didn’t want fried chicken.
We had to drive back to Daughter’s to get FCD’s car because we forgot about it till we got home and saw the empty garage. So I dropped him off and ran to WalMart for some generic NyQuil. Did you know you can’t buy that unless you’re over 18?? I’d gone thru self-checkout and I had to wait for an attendant to tell the machine I was allowed to buy it. Sheesh.
So, anyway, home again, tahred, done for the day. And the prospective buyers want to see the house again tomorrow - the realtor asked if we could close in 6 weeks. So it looks like it’ll happen. Tomorrow, we’ll try to work out the schedule. And hope the hurricane doesn’t mess up the truck we want to rent…
It’s so hard being me.
Took a trip up the lake to drop another piece at the gift shop up there. He sold one, so I had to replace it. Then took a little side drive to go around the Montezuma bird refuge. I went there back in the spring when my folks visited, and saw a wide collection of different birds. Today, nothing but Canada geese. No clue why it is called Montezuma up in central NY. I even asked some locals.
Dinner shall be pork chop over scalloped potatoes. Unless I get lazy and do something different.
Great! I loved Antarctica. If I’d had the option, I’d have immediately done exacty the same trip a second time. Which company are you going with?
Happy Saturday!
It was a chilly 43 degrees this morning. The dog park was closed, no idea why, so Urban dad invited some of us over to his place. He has a few acres with about one acre fenced in. It is a beautiful yard, I would love to have one like it, until I have to do the irk to keep it that nice.
No dogs fell into his pond.
He could put out 20 water bowls and Echo still insists on drinking pond water. She gets so close to the edge, and the rocks are wobbly, one little slip and she’d be in.
Lui almost went in. Jax dropped his ball in. He would have gone in after it but for the wobbly rocks.
The skate park is busy, skaters are there in the dark when we get there for the dog park. They sometimes take the dog park parking spaces, but not too often in the mornings. I hear it is horrible later in the day.
Poor Natty Boh is scared to death of the sound of the skaters. He sat leaning up against his owner’s legs, with his tail between his legs and trembling. None of the other dogs seemed bothered by it. Ripple was mildly curious the first day.
Life has been a mess lately. I had a spaz out and did something I haven’t done in my 10+ years at this company. I took a week’s vacation. I don’t get paid for it, but at this point, I don’t care.
I have a list of 43 things I wanted to get done, I think I’ve done about 12 of them. Fortunately, my son has done some as well.
I’m tired, irritated, lack motivation, and I hurt.
Every day has brought something new.
My mother’s left a mess. A total mess.
She told me she left two accounts for the grandkids, one divided 1/3, 1/3, 1/3, and another that was divided 50/25/25. I told my niece about it, neither are mentioned in the trust.
She found one of them by accident. She emailed me the forms, 13 friggin’ pages, the first five telling you how to fill them out. The top of the form says life insurance, so we were going to take the lump sum. Then my niece said something about it being an IRA, so now we have to figure that out. I say we, because while my son and I discuss it, it mostly falls on me.
Now she found another account, but the person wouldn’t talk to her, so she thinks my sister and I are the beneficiaries on that one. It’s also an IRA. The company is sending out the forms.
We have no idea how many accounts she has, or where they are.
Some company is making monthly deposits to my mother’s checking account and nobody knows who it is. When you goggle the name, some kind of gaming site comes up.
My mother was not rich, but I guess she didn’t want to put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak.
My niece said the lawyer is going to send random letters to companies looking for more accounts.
I think my son and I may need a financial advisor.
After all this crap I thought I’d better update my trust. Mine mentions my mother in it as trustee if my son should die before me. I don’t know if I can change that myself or if I need a lawyer for this.
Add more shit to the list.
I also found a bunch of statements from when she opened an account for my son. I sent all of those names to my niece. Some of the companies had changed names, and some don’t exist anymore. My mother moved her money around a lot.
And my basement is leaking, and the squirrels have chewed a hole into my house again, and the check engine light came on (turned out to be nothing, I had just gotten the emissions test and that can screw with the settings or something), and I’m supposed to be going to physical therapy three times a week (like when?), and my knee is hurting bad again, and I have to find a new cardiologist since I don’t want to drive to the armpit anymore.
My house is a mess, the yard is a jungle, my truck is filthy.
The appraisal was done on my mother’s house and my sister backed out from buying it because it appraised for more than she thought. She used to be a realtor; you would think she would have known the value. I wasn’t off by much. But that throws a kink into everything. I had to spend over an hour on the phone with ATT with a SR I couldn’t understand. I think my phone is fixed. I had two problems (actually three, but I forgot to ask about the third one)
One is that my text messages are out of sequence. People replying to me will appear above my text messages. I had to scroll up to see responses. That got fixed.
The weird one is, only with one person that I know of. If she texts me first, I will never get it. If I text her first, the text goes through and her responses to the text come through. AFAIK, that has been fixed.
I forgot the problem with my phone going off in the middle of the night and I’ll get like a dozen text messages that are repeats of old messages. It’s annoying, but I can live with it.
We had to bring all the plants indoors, it seems too soon for that.
On a good note, the hospital finally got my bill fixed and I was able to pay it off.
Then out of the blue, my son’s paternal grandfather called. We have not talked to or had anything to do with that family in at least 10 years.
His grandfather doesn’t like me because of a lie my son’s father told him.
It seems that at some point my son’s father got beat up, badly enough to be hospitalized. He told his father that I paid to have it done and they needed to stay away from my son or I’d do it again.
WTF?
I never even knew about the beating, and never wanted to keep my son’s paternal family away from him, and if I had had my ex beaten, I wouldn’t have had to pay for it.
I only found out about it at my son’s father’s funeral.
His father believed the lie, his mother believed it, his sister told me she knew exactly what her brother was and she knew better.
So now they have come out of nowhere and my son’s cousins want to meet him.
I called his grandfather back and said I’d have my son call him, but I wanted to let him know ahead of time that my son is very shy and probably won’t talk much.
His grandfather told me something interesting though. One of his cousins was outgoing and friendly, until he got to be a certain age a certain age (same as my son) and now is shy and doesn’t want to be around people.
I had my son call his grandfather; they talked for about 15 minutes. His grandfather did most of the talking.
My son really isn’t interested in getting to know them.
I finally convinced him to get his learner’s permit. I told him, I’m not asking you anymore. If I drop dead, or need surgery and can’t drive for 6 weeks, you are on your own. Don’t ask me for help, because you are on your own.
I scheduled an appointment, then I rescheduled it so he has a chance to study the handbook first.
I took the online test and failed it. In my defense though, all the questions I missed were about provisional licenses, which didn’t exist when I got my license. And I missed the school bus question because the little drawing made it hard to tell what way the car in the middle turn lane was going.
Now I may have to reschedule because his appointment may conflict with my doctor’s appointment.
This is stressful for me though, one more thing to deal with.
I’m not that fond of his paternal family at all, they are very haphazard and kind of rude.
When they were taking my son for the day, they would say we’d meet at a certain place at 7. They’d show up around 8 - 8:30. They’d want to take him on Christmas, but Christmas morning they still didn’t know what they were doing and when. My son was supposed to be in his aunt’s wedding, we were supposed to go for a tux fitting on a certain day and time. Right before we were to leave, she called and said it was cancelled. Then about a week later, she called and asked if we could be at the bridal shop in a half hour. I was 45 minutes from home. No, I can’t be there in half an hour. They wanted him to stay in a hotel the night before the wedding, but I worked nights and couldn’t do it. Then they said he could share a room with his grandfather, but he would have to pay half the cost. None of us was invited to the wedding, but they wanted me to drive him to Annapolis for the wedding, then wait and take him to the reception, then wait and take him home. They want him to pay for half the room with his grandfather? They can’t take him from the wedding to the reception? But neither I nor my mother was invited so we could just sit outside and wait.
I don’t have time for that shit.
Isn’t the latest Gex Z nonsense cooking chicken in Nyquil?
Whatever happened to swallowing goldfish and sitting on light poles? Cramming into phone booths and cars?
Whatever you do,
don’t swallow a cat fish
I hope all goes well with CT scan Nettie
I hope the hurricane avoids you, Butters.
I’m glad your in-laws are doing the right thing FCM
I hope all goes right with your eyes Nellie
Happy Belated Birthday Nellie and Butters and Ooopsie
Very nice work Hippie
No squirrels’ nests in my yard. Why build a nest when you can chew into my house?
I know I missed a bunch of stuff. Y’all have been very busy and I haven’t had much time to read.
I think I’m going to the armpit tomorrow. It’s been planned to go get some stuff from Niece1, and a curio cabinet from my mother’s house. Nobody wants it, I’m going to see if anybody wants the bookcase and take that too. Niece2 had a root canal today, so she may not be up for company tomorrow. However, getting all this stuff knocks another item off the list, and I can use my Cold Stone gift card while we’re down there. All the Cold Stones up here closed down.
Watching Home Alone and eating a pizza. I believe it is Jack’s. Thun crust with pepperoni.
{{{sari}}} It sounds like life has handed you a durian fruit of late. Hope that you get everything sorted.
Had a good time at SIL’s today. We went up to see the house that my niece got (just the outside, they’re not moved in yet). It has a nice big fenced in yard for their pooches. 
Read all, retained some, so rosie’s sig to all!
Imma hafta fire up the furnace. Tis chilly.
sari I hope things turn better for you. {{hugs}}
F’ing squirrels, I know all too well about that. I fear they have made a hole under the porch, which would mean taking the porch apart, as it is only about a foot off the ground, so there ain’t no crawling under that thing.
I did not get my COVID booster and flu shot, because Walgreens had no record of my appointment. Even though I had a confirmation number and email. 
These 2 sentences in the same post make the FDA twitch. 
{{{{sair}}}} Yeah, you need the week off to deal with all that.
The Spousal Unit did. She’s been feeling ‘frumpy’ (her term) for two days.
Rot post was good. Plenty of leftovers.
Buddy’s pulling a kind of reverse "Door Into Summer". He’s going between the two doors getting upset because neither one has weather cool enough for him to go out in.
I might be able to hook you up with a squirrel assassin. He’ll carry away the corpses one at a time.