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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Howdy Y’all! I got my 'script and then proceded to sloth away the rest of the day as is my wont. We et up the leftovers for sup. That is the sum total of all the doin’s in swampland today.

Nettie hope DH’s case of the plague is mild and that you don’t get it as well.

Bumba can’t remember if I said this already, but yay for the new doc. She sounds like a keeper.

We generally get tag notifications about a month before they are due. OYKW has to get his by the end of December bein’ as his bday is January 2nd and tags must be renewed before one’s bday. I can loll about until July 28th to get mine.

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FCD stopped at a local retirement apartment complex, just in case his folks get smart and decide to move near us. He said it’s really nice, with a nurse practitioner on site, lots of activities, and a free bus to various local businesses. And it’s maybe 20 minutes from us. So we shall see…

Next Weds, I plan to take the grands to visit my mom and sister. Weather permitting… I won’t drive 2+ hours in rain. But the long range forecast looks good so far.

OK, back to chillage.

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This is odd. DH and I are noticing that his hands are rather cold (from both his POV and mine). He reports normal sensation in his hands and I saw no dexterity issues when he was doing his insulin. Poor guy has a horrible sore throat and his head is rather warm to the touch. He’s also VERY tired.

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Evening all. Gym went as planned, followed by nappage. I got to the soccer fields about 5pm, it was cloudy but not raining, so I set things up and got ready for the kids, but as they started to arrive there were a few drops of rain, then it became harder and steadier. We waited for 10-12 minutes and it appeared to be slacking off, but when we started practice it got wetter again, so I just called the whole thing off. Had to wait around as one kid’s Mom was with their younger child (she had 3 kids practicing tonight) and had the kid sit in the car and I sat under the open back door of the SUV. So finally made it home and clothes immediately went into the dryer, and it is still raining outside.

And the irony is that when I left home at 4:30pm I checked the radar and there was nothing much there…the storm came up all by itself just to torment me…

So anyway I’m inside and dry, and plan to stay that way the remainder of the evening.

flyboy, hope the medical bills get resolved in your favor.

So, you’ll be a Yakty-Yaks family (don’t talk back…)

Oopsie, I try to watch the Premier League on NBCSN (and now and then on NBC) on Saturdays and Sundays. Been to Arsenal (old park), West Ham, Chelsea and Newcastle stadiums so yeah, I guess I’m a supporter. And yeah, most Brits (I think) have a good feeling for their hometown club, but root for one of the bigger ones (like Americans who root fro their local High School but follow the nearby NFL team).

Wheelie, I believe there is hope for humanity; this place and people like that confirm it. Thanks for the story.

OK, Mac-n-Cheese have been consumed and are assimilating in my belly, so onward into the night. All y’all take care.

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We are getting fairly good internet ATM. Poor hubs doesn’t know what to do without spending most of his time killing monsters so I hope this continues. I don’t have a lot of faith, though.

Good thing, we just bounced around again. Get better soon to everyone who’s ailing and stay safe to all.

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I’ve lost track. Are you having to not be at home? What about the kitties?

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I meant the internet is bouncing on and off. We went out yesterday to camp for internet for a few hours because hubs was so bored, I didn’t go with him today because I was stitching and just didn’t feel like hanging out in a loud bar again. I think I’m getting old or something.

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I see she doesn’t visit here much but wring just posted over on the Raffe that Snookie is in the ICU and it’s not looking good. Figured I’d let y’all know.

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Hi. all. It’s been a busy day, and I just haven’t had a chance to get here earlier.–“busy,” I should add, as in “people calling and stopping by,” not as in “I got FCM-level stuff done.” I am feeling better, though, and hope to be up to a short workout at the gym domani. I sat on the balcony while chatting with my brother, and TWO hummingbirds came by, even though I was talking. So cool.

nettie, I’m sorry Covid has invaded your happy home. I hope your husband is OK. I don’t get why some people still refuse to be vaxxed, but he’s your main squeeze, and you love him, so I’m sure his reasons make sense to him… I hope even more that YOU come through OK. I SO wish you weren’t going through this at all. You’re such a good person.

flyboy, as if it isn’t bad enough you’ve had to endure the suffering of the injury, now you have lingering issues and medical bills. I know this means little, but if I had a squillion dollars, I’d pay all your bills and then some. You and Mrs. L.A. are good people who work very hard and deserve to be free from financial worry. I hope this gets resolved in your favor.

JtC, I love those cocktail selections! Next round’s on me.

Thank you for letting us know. I can’t access the site: " Your connection is not private. Attackers might be trying to steal your information from www.giraffeboards.com (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards)." Learn more I’ll be cheering on “wring.”

Wheelie, what a great story! That wonderful woman made an impact on many people. Some years ago, my aunt and uncle worked at Legoland and got us free tickets. We couldn’t use them all, so Mom told me to give away the extras. After watching many well-dressed moms jog past in designer strollers, I finally spotted a man with a ragged buggy and four kids. I gave him the tickets and explained why they were legit, then hurried off, as I didn’t want to be thanked. (I’d done nothing to deserve it.) He was too stunned to reply. Then I heard a distant “Thank youuuuuu.” If I won the lottery, this is how I’d spend my days, but that’s easy. The woman you encountered was a wise and kind soul who dispersed love like it was confetti. Blessings on you both.

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:two_hearts: Thank you!

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It seems to be a version of FuWeather. I have it and I think it can be localized but I haven’t bothered.

Weather conditions: Seems to be fucking cloudy. At least it isn’t raining yet!

Buddy has been too easy. You need a couple of kittens now.

Being VERY TIRED is how I was able to diagnosis hubs last time he came down with COVID. It’s not normal tired, it’s so much different but so hard to explain because they can wake up and be coherent, just like normal but they are too tired to go to bed.

Hub’s joints hurt a lot and his temp was all over the place.

I hope your DH recovers well. Once he is all better, start rubbing catnip over his under ware just to keep him on his toes.

I’m glad you are feeling better nellie. I was doing a lot of cringing and feeling badly for you while reading your posts.

Despite all my big talk, I’m not that much of a drinker. When I do drink, I do like to try different things, so I often spend more time reading the drink menu than the food one. The cherry moonshine drink was pretty tasty and if we ever go back there, I will order a different moonshine drink to see what else they can do.

Total change of subject but in keeping with the thread title , but hubs has IBS and often has a chapped ass…err butt. After hearing folks talk about bidet toilets and attachments, I ordered one from the jungle. My intention was to have my BFF’s husband install it on hubs’ toilet, but hubs got all sorts of REAL MEN DON’T USE THAT SORT OF SISSY STUFF, so the heck with him, I was going to have Herk put it on my toilet. Then hubs got upset that I thought that hubs couldn’t do a simple plumbing job like that. OK…

The bidet thingy arrived last Thursday. I will be seeing my BFF tomorrow which was my mental deadline for hubs to have it hooked up before having Herk stop over. (If hubs doesn’t want to do something, he says he will, but he won’t. Now that I know this, I set a deadline in my mind and then move on without him.)

Today I read the installation directions and looked at all of the pieces and installed it myself while hubs was camping out at a bar for internet. My only issue was that I can’t kneel so had to do everything bending over and kept getting dizzy. It doesn’t leak and it works nicely. I wish I had done this a long time ago.

The only issue is that hubs (besides hubs getting all butthurt about me doing it without him) tried it and will be using my toilet until one for his arrives.

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Another fast close. :grin: It was my first night working the register, too, and when I asked the manager how I did, after she was done counting down the till, I’d been off by a whole three dollars. Not bad for my 1st time dealing with this particular POS system. (I’ve worked a LOT of registers over the years. Every place does things differently.)

Plus, I got to play D.J. the entire shift and had a terrific Pandora station rockin’ and rollin’ along.

There was, like, one song I didn’t wanna hear (sorry, Boston, but it really IS more than a feelin’) and suddenly I was like, duh, the music is from MY phone, I can skip whatever I want! Full control & veto power, muah-hah-HA!

Okay, I gotta scroll back up and catch up with you chatty Kathys. Might pop back in with a selection of witty retorts … might not.

Meanwhile, Monkey is being a drama llama and requires attention.

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Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.

Sure. Although with relegation, things might get awkward occasionally.

I know a few. And a good bar to watch, if you are ever in Raleigh.

:frowning_with_open_mouth:

Alex Catt, also
“Why will you not sit down and let me sit on you!”

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Buddy does that. :slight_smile:

Speaking of, little stinker insisted on going outside several hours ago and is not back in yet. Brat.

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Mine is called “What the Forecast”, you have to go into the settings to pick your preferred level of profanity :slight_smile:

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Morning, mumpers! It’s 20c/67f with a predicted high of 21c/70f and cloudy out there. Weather app says “Calm your tits, it’s not that fucking bad outside”. True, we’ve had a few spots of rain and it’s looking grey but not the worst weather ever.

SmartAleq thanks for the news on Snookie, I’ve just paid my first visit to the Raffe for years to post on that thread. I also got the warning about the connection, I clicked the thing and it gave me an option to proceed to a very unsafe site.

Wheelie that’s a lovely story, sometimes we all need to be reminded that we have much to be grateful for.

flyboy I hope you manage to get the medical bills sorted out too. It’s an extra hurdle you just don’t need. I put a claim in for an eye test and a very small contribution towards the cost of new glasses (which should be acceptable, and paid by my employer) but they are just making such a fuss about it, I am tempted to cancel the whole thing and mentally tell them to get stuffed.

Oopsie over here, you’d normally be rabidly supporting one team and one team only! I have no interest in football although watching Ted Lasso amused me no end. Most of my friends support their most local team although some who’ve moved around a lot and have no real roots, will choose to support one of the premier league teams.

Nothing much happening here today of any excitement, I have a meeting with my boss this afternoon so I need to put some info together for that, but there’s very little else worth commenting on. Such is the mundane and pointless state of my day.

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Sometimes I’m surprised you don’t cane him! :rofl: Then again, my thinking when FCD makes me crazy: I’m too old to train another one, so I guess I’ll just keep this one.

I got that warning yesterday - it was something about a license being expired?? I’m pretty sure it’s not a huge deal, but what do I know…

Anyway, OMG, what a sad tale, and something many of us could be facing any time. Geezerhood sucks sometimes.

Spousal unit is: My favorite team is Dallas and whoever is playing Washington! I can’t make myself care under any circumstance.

In somewhat improved in-law news - the reduced dosage seems to have taken care of the hallucinations, but FIL is more forgetful now. However, MIL is better able to deal with forgetfulness than his seeing things. Plus she retrieved their cash stash and put 80% of it back in the bank - I had no idea they had that much hidden away. Not sure if she hid the remaining in the same place or somewhere else. Anyway, not great news, but better.

And so begins another day. I’m looking forward to the day when Tobias can get around without me carrying him. I worry constantly about stumbling and dropping him or falling on him, so I’m extra careful about what’s underfoot. When I take him to the basement, I go down the steps backwards with one hand firmly on the handrail - it feels more secure to me. With luck, in another month, he’ll be able to go down himself (with help) and I will just be the help.

This is why menopause exists - women my age absolutely do not need babbies!!!

Happy Wednesday!!

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I feel that way about DH at times, TBH.

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Good morning everyone. Up and through one cuppa (coffee). Breakfast later I guess. It’s 74F here and predicted to be 86 later. Huge improvement over the past few months so I’m happy with it. My weather station (at my house) recorded 8.04" of rain on Monday, which was also the day I discovered the eye problems (mentioned upthread). We managed to ford (literally) rivers of water in some low-lying areas on the way to the ER and emergency Ophthalmologist office. This is one of the few times I can actually claim our giant 4WD truck really was necessary. Other cars were drowning out or giving up in some of the flooded areas.

Anyway, after 2 days of poking, prodding and pointing various frightening instruments at my eyeball, the conclusion is: I caught a possible retinal tear very early and saved myself a lot of heartache by scampering immediately to the docs. The vitreous (sp?) has shrunk and pulled a lot of blood vessels away from the retina, resulting in the blood and strange black objects floating in my eye. Any strenuous activity in the next few weeks could have been bad.

I get to spend the next month doing almost nothing, and being evaluated periodically re: healing, deterioration, etc. The good news is no diet restrictions and I can read and enjoy Netflix all day if I want. Just nothing with impacts or straining.

So, I begin my 30 days of couch dwelling and sloth. I shall be successful in this noble quest for enlightened laziness!

Hope everyone has a good rest-o-the-week. Will try to post between episodes of binging various shows. :grinning:

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 74 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 86 with " light rain" predicted. We shall see. TWPTB say the next three days will be stormy, as well. Thus, today, along with procurin’ provisions, mowage needs to be accomplished as da yahd looks awful. We are on the verge of bein’ the worst in the 'hood and that just cannot be. Sup shall be boxed lasagna (don’t judge!), sallit, and cheesey garlic bread.

The lady that lived next door to me at the first house I purchased was a widow and had been for some time. She had no inclination whatsoever towards re-marriage or even havin’ a gentleman caller. She told me she was fifteen years tired of the one she had before he died, so why would I want another one. She was a character!

Nettie sorry DH is havin’ such a rough time with the plague. Hope he’s feelin’ better soonest.

Wheelie what a cool story about the lady you encountered!

flyboy hope you get the medical bills resolved in your favor soonest.

Oopsie I have no clue about English soccer/rugby (not sure which one you’re talkin’ about) leagues. I somewhat follow UGA football (Go Dawgs!), but that’s it as far as sports teams are involved. When the various Amurrkin pro sports teams went on strike, I went on strike against them and am still on strike.

yanker It will take a lot of work, but I am certain you can attain sloth nirvana.

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, at some point, mowage must begin. On the plus side I can start that while OYKW procures provisions. The plus part of that bein’ that I will not need to venture out amongst the great unwashed. Instead I can be one of the great unwashed until after mowage.

Happy Hump Day Y’all!