ACHOO!!! Good Mornin’ Y’all! ACHOO!!! Up and caffeinatin’. ACHOO!!! YAWN ‘Tis 67 Amurrkin out and cloudy (well, dark) with a predicted high of 83 and rain/tstorms/apocalypse this afternoon and evenin’. ACHOO!!! I shall spiff da cave today. Rah. I have Vestry meetin’ this evenin’ as well. ACHOO!!! Sup shall be country fried steak, rice ‘n gravy, squishes, green beans, and rolls. ACHOO!!! Have I mentioned sump’n has stirred up the ol’ allergies? ACHOO!!!
Now I need more caffeine, ACHOO!!!, and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day. ACHOO!!!
Is it tree orgy time in Jawja already??? We may see 80° today, with rain this evening. Yesterday I moved my spider plants from the garage to the front porch, since I’m pretty sure it won’t freeze again. Which means we’ll have a blizzard next week. I’ve showered, dressed, and tended the critters, except for cleaning the cat box, but that’ll come next. Right now, I’m breakfasting and caffeinating.
I need to get dog kibbles, and I’ll run the vacuum, but those are the big plans. Other little stuff will come up for sure. And with luck, the engineers heeded my email last week and I’ll have some work waiting on my desk tomorrow. That’s my excitement.
God Bless You, Swampy
Fortunately, no sneezing over here. I have my allergies, but pollen doesn’t seem to be one of them.
It’s a N.O.S. 59 degrees outside, supposed to get up to 77.
I think I can pull out the shorts and t-shirts now.
I got the seeds out yesterday, we had a good rain last night, so they should be off to a good start.
I hope.
We didn’t take the yard waste bags out because it was raining so hard. I’m afraid if they get that wet the bottoms will fall out and I’ll have big piles of sticks and leaves to clean up.
Lots to do today. Irk is being irksome.
Actually, life right now is being a bit irksome.
Roxy is down for her nap. She and I had a nice walk around the back and front yards earlier and it tired her out - YAY! So I have a little time to myself. We’ll have another walk after lunch since it works so well.
Heck I’m already feeling some of it up here in Yankee Pixburgh Land. I think its going to be one of those seasons where the local pharmacy feels I’ve watched one too many episodes of Breaking Bad.
Other than that cleaning up some things from the weekend and running some stuff we don’t want to ever try again to Community Thrift. And then irk and yet another romp through Da Jungle.
I had my Dr. appt and vampire visit. Doc said my lungs have never sounded better and noted I have not really been sick since I quit smoking. I also have the allergies thing like Swampy but a pill a day keeps that at bay.
We just need to make sure my cholesterol is in acceptable range as it was not last time and he changed my pills so he did not renew the script until we get the blood results in a couple of days.
My right hand is out for two weeks so I shall have to be here. The auditors will be here one day this week and I must get started on the budget. Just pulling together all the reports and stuff I need will take more time than the actual plugging in of the numbers. And that’s all the news that’s fit to print from here.
Miss Patches got to spend her first night outside last night because my dad accidentally let her out, and I assume couldn’t find her again. I bet she had fun. She loves outside soooo much! And she gets shut inside on Sunday mornings cos she likes to walk into the church and meow during services. Now she’s eating her last breakfast and doesn’t seem any worse for the wear. Just very hungry!!!
yeah be careful once they get used to partying shell come home and you’ll notice she’s dragging a bundle
today is going to be obnoxious day since my aunts in one of her "things must be done moods " of course theres a ps to that that means “by someone else”
tomorrows gonna be interstin as my worker finally straightens stuff out…… and cousins gonna be in for a shock… be back later ……
Went to Costco Saturday 'cause Wifey wanted them to adjust the frames of her new glasses. They kept sliding off her nose. Yes, I know, going to Costco on a Saturday is a foolish thing to do, but we did it. :eek: While she was getting that done I pushed the cart around and filled it up. At least the aisles at Costco are wide enough that stoopit people can’t block them when they leave their cart and wander off to look at something.
I’ve been known to hide unattended carts.
Butters, glad the Dr. Appointment went well. So did mine, and instead of a colonoscopy, there is some type of ‘do it at home’ kit they’re order for me that gives the same degree of accuracy as having a camera shoved up your…bottom part.
Shady, you write some of the most cryptic posts here…hope you survive aunties moods.
Scribe, glad the cat came back.
FCM, just wait; soon enough it’ll be you coming back in and needing the nap after walking with Roxy!
ruble, haven’t heard many new stories from Da Jungle; things settling down there or just a new bunch getting broken in?
Bumba, don’t you worry while hiding their carts somebody will come along and hide yours?
Still raining or fixing to rain later today. Good day to be inside. Where I am and plan to be.
Attempt at nap 2.0 failed. Roxy was making all her sleepy signs, but once she finished her pre-nap bottle, she decided it was time to play. Kids! Sheesh!!
**MetalMouse **- I’ve seen the commercials for the DIY kits - when it’s my time again, I intend to ask about that option. I expect I’m a good candidate since there’s no history of colon cancer in my fambly. Yeah, I know, TMI…
It’s mid 80s and breezy. The house is open getting the winter stink blown out. YAY!
Patches is fixed, luckily. We kept her inside 24/7 until she was so we wouldn’t have to worry. And she doesn’t seem to be a wanderer, so far she sticks pretty close to home. But she has lots of room to roam right here, so that helps, I think.
Have to get signed up for food stamps today cos my dad keeps hassling me for money. He seems to think I should be paying something for room and rent and food and stuff. Not sure where he got such a crazy idea from. At least they quit charging me the gay tax when I quit being gay and became straight again.
Life’s been busy and odd lately, and my head doesn’t help matters, so I haven’t been around much.
Akiko-pup continues to grow and charm. She learned how to open doors yesterday. She’s been trying to get doorknobs to work for a while now and yesterday was the day she finally put it together. I think we’re going to have to baby-proof a few things.
Howdy Y’all! Da cave is spiffed and sup prep is underway. Go Me! No real rain so far. Just keeps threatenin’ to and I hear far off thunder rumbles. The other excitatement of the day has been readin’ financial reports, meetin’ minutes, and the annual parochial report in advance of vestry meetin’ tonight. They were so rivetin’ and thrillin’ I could hardly contain myself!
Scribe, I’ve decided I like that nickname, gay tax? I’m gay and I do at times tax other people, even gay people. Heck, especially the ones that are drama queens. Ain’t got time for all that. Anywho, glad kitteh is back and seems to have enjoyed her night on the town.
{{{Sunny}}} ::tacklehug:: Come back and play some more!
Butters and MetalMouse glad the doc appts. went well. I get the giggles when I hear do it at home colonoscopy. Invite your friends! Fun for the whole family!
teehee I like Scribe, too. And cools on being gay. I’m an asexual lesbian, but since I don’t want to have any lesbian sex I can technically count as straight as far as the folks are concerned, since nuance and the spectrum are kinda lost on them.
The gay tax was back during the great gay scare of 2011. I was working part time at Kmart, so was already paying regular rent. I was just deconverting myself from all my childhood indoctrination and brainwashing. Lesbians had always attracted me. I’d always thought they were cool and had always wanted way more from my female friends than they wanted from me. I wanted one female friend to love me forever and always, more than she loved anyone else and to be my best friend and live with me forever. But sadly as I got older all they wanted to do was talk about boys. Sooo boring. I even told a few people that if I wasn’t a Christian and didn’t know that being gay was wrong that I’d be a lesbian. I’d always get very strange looks when I said that.
But then as the brainwashing was slowly leeching out of me and the internet saved me and showed me what the rest of the world was like, I met a cool girl who lived overseas, and we had a wonderful 3-month cyber affair, where we pretty much lived on Skype talking to each other all the time. It was super fun, and I proposed to her, and she accepted, and we had all these grand and glorious plans of me moving to be with her and raising her daughter together and living happily ever after. It was a beautiful dream. Totally unrealistic, but it was basically the height of my existence.
Anywho, during this time I tried to use my dad’s computer to print out a fiance visa form, but it came out with ink blotches all over it, and like an idiot I didn’t think anyone could read it, so I threw it away in my dad’s trash can. Then one day my dad found it and told mom, then she went through my room and found a card SHE had sent me that said yes, she’d marry me.
So then Mom comes and picks me up from work, cos I don’t drive, really bad eyesight and attention issues. And she’s all really quiet and like won’t look at me, but she did stop at Burger King like I asked, so I could get lunch. I wasn’t really sure what was up with her, but sometimes mom gets in mood sometimes, and I was really hyper and cheerful for some reason that day.
So then we get home and we go into the house and Mom is all, “sit down.” So I sat down and she asks if me and SHE are just friends or something more. And I say we’re just friends. And then she’s like, “Liar,” and pulls out the card she got from my room. And I really don’t know how to lie. I’m pretty bad at it, and I’d been having a really hard for a while, living a lie, trying to keep secrets, worrying about what would happen if they found out, and how they’d hate me, cos mom already said they would want nothing to do with me, if I was gay. And I’d just been really struggling with that, so I just said that I loved HER.
Then I went back up to my room and waited for the boom to fall. Dad finally came home and said I had to leave since gay people couldn’t live with them, of course, but he knew that I only had a part time job and couldn’t afford to live anywhere else, so they weren’t kicking me out to the street, I could stay until I found somewhere else. So they weren’t like super mean about it. Mostly, I don’t think they wanted me to leave they just wanted me to stop being gay.
So then I tried really hard to find a second job or a new full time job. Dad changed the wifi password so I couldn’t talk to HER anymore, so I would just go to Burger King every day after work and use their Wifi to try and find work and talk to HER. I applied everywhere, but no one was hiring. And all the money I’d been saving to go and be with HER kept dwindling down smaller and smaller cos I had to pay for lunch every day to be able to use the Wifi.
Plus, I had to pay the gay tax while I continued to live with them, which was just an extra $100 a month on top of regular rent.
I tried to stay away from the house as much as I could cos mom got the bright idea to go through the Bible and find all the “gay people are evil verses” she could find, or just general verses about sin, and she printed them out and taped them to my bedroom wall over my bed, my door, on the wall going up the stairs to my room, and on my bathroom mirror. And then she’d turn up Christian music really loudly in the next room. teeeheee
Dad ignored me after that, wouldn’t talk to me, look at me, or anything. And for a while mom wouldn’t look talk to me, either, but then she started lecturing and witnessing at me instead. I definitely preferred it when she wasn’t talking to me.
The best part about the great gay scare of 2011 was when I wasn’t allowed to go to church. That part was pretty fabulous. I just was too wicked and evil to darken the doors of his church. But then dad felt like I was having too much fun so mom started taking me around to other people’s churches on Sunday mornings. We visited quite a few in the area, which was sort of funnish.
Eventually though, I ran out of money, and had no job prospects, so I just told them that Her and I broke up and that I wasn’t gay anymore, and things went back to normal. Dad gave me the wifi password, and I got to start going to church again. Yaays?
A little later SHE broke up with me, for real, and I discovered asexuality, and lesbian romance, and I continued to grow and develop in one respect while shrinking and diminishing in others. But the important thing I guess is that no gay sex will I be having. Hope that answers your question swampbear !
well im glad the cat is fixed and well on the other subject ill refrain from an opinion other than if you have an option to leave don’t be dumb like I was and not take it …
