N.O.L. has been consumed. BBQ sammich (homemade), baked beans (homemade), cole slaw (homemade), chips (from the sto’), and brownie (homemade), washed down with a biiiiiiiiig cup of iced tea. YUM!!! Da bear is stuffded. Good thing we had already agreed that dindin this week would be sammiches and stuff cause I have a feelin’ I won’t want much of anything. I’ll do good to stay awake the rest of today.
Irk is irksome. Assistants and I have been callin’ all our host agencies and participants to remind ‘em of the one timesheet that is due today, today bein’ the end of the fiscal year. So far, everybody has been all nice and thankin’ for the reminder. Let’s just hope it all happens.
{{{lucky}}} feel better soonest!
BBBobbio hope things are better for ya today.
{{{Nuts}}} that sounds ick!
Spidey ewwwwwww!!! You win today’s ickiest post.
Ok, back to irk. Now we get to start inputtin’ casenotes about the phone calls. Everything must be documented or it didn’t happen, after all.
Happy Monday all! Yeah, I know, Monday but at least it’s a “short” work week this week. Holiday on Firday. It is HOT here, forecast to go to 100 degrees :eek: At least it’s not humid.
As dry as it is here, there are firework stands, usually in the parking lots of the many strip malls, often near one of the local grocery stores. I don’t know what they sell in there, or where people can even set them off, but just about every kind of firework is banned here because of the drought; there have already been several forest fires and today some of the most used hiking trails in the Sandia foothills were closed off. Makes me want to send Smokey Bear after some people! LOL Speaking of Smokey - have you seen the newish commercial for the Forest Service starring Smokey? The one where he hugs the man for putting out his campfire? As he is walking away, Smokey is whistling the Smokey the Bear song!!! I’m certain that many folks of a certain age (ahem) will totally recognize it, as I did right away. The original Smokey went to live at the National Zoo in Washington DC, and I remember seeing him, unfortunately just before he passed away. They have a new Smokey now, I think. The original is buried back here in NM, near the Lincoln National Forest where he was found in 1952 after a wildfire, clinging to the upper branches in a tree, with burnt paws. Awww!
Hello all. Back from the trip north. It could have been better, but anymore I’ll take what I can get.
Spidey I am so stealing that picture. It’s perfect for life at irk after a week off.
BBBobbio hang in there. And eat a sandwich or something.
As Jynx pointed out above, we’re lined up to receive some/all of what might be known as Tropical Depression/Tropical Storm/Hurricane Arthur by the end of the week. So we’ve got that going for us.
Hope everyone else is doing well. Did I miss anything?
Back from getting gas, and I only got 30 cents off each gallon instead of the 60 cents I was expecting. I guess I should call Safeway.
I got a pretzel chicken sandwich from Wendys and Sah-son got his tacos, so we both have full bellies.
I washed the dishes that needed washing.
I heard from the realtor and tomorrow is a road trip to ride around and see what looks good from the outside. Then she will set up getting inside.
I have to return a call to OAOASO, well I don’t have to and it will probably irritate me if I do but sometimes we all have to do things we don’t like. I want his phone out of my name and Sprint is willing to transfer the account without making him pay a huge deposit. It’s time we start getting the stuff that needs to be divided done. He’s dragging his feet and I just want to be done with it.
He just doesn’t get it, if he wants to stay in a relationship with me then he needs to modify his behavior, the first thing being to stand up to his racist bitch of an aunt. The second being to get his finances under control. Once again he wants to borrow money from me and I’m getting tired of it. He needs to live within his means and learn to tell his kids NO once in a while.
Don’t even get me started on that one though, because he is far from the only parent I know who never wants to tell their kids NO and then they complain about not having enough money. They tell me I’m lucky because my son doesn’t ask for much, well maybe because I taught him from an early age that you don’t get to have everything you want when you want it. I taught him early to eat off the dollar menu. I taught him early that if you spend $X on this then you won’t have enough money for that and sometimes you have to choose.
One friends kid always says she wants to be my kid because I let Sah-son have his own laptop, and smart phone and stuff. One, he doesn’t ask for a lot of stuff, he gets big things because he doesn’t waste money on little things. Two, he has shown me by his behavior that he can be trusted to take care of nice things and not go over on his minutes and data. Three, he has his chores and he does them, he’s responsible and makes my life easier. I don’t have to run behind him reminding him to feed the dog or take the trash out.
I’m afraid that some of these kids who think I am the cool mom wouldn’t think I was so cool if they had to live with me.
Not much going on here. I hate the 4th of July and in the past have spent it going back and forth to the barn to sedate Bob the Wonder Pony, plus many years ago I found about my then-husband’s affair on the 4thof July so we got divorced. 4th of July does not hold pleasant memories for me. I decided to do it differently this year. I am going to my friend’s cook-out. My fuds contribution are my two fave noms: chips and dip AND home-made pee-kahn pie.
Howdy from da cave! I have survived Moanday. YAY!!! It’s hawt out but the weather PTB say we will have early evenin’ tstorms. We shall see. ‘Tis rainin’ in Ye Olde Hometowne and that is allegedly headin’ down heah.
OYKW is still at irk and will be for a couple more hours he says, poor thing. He says when he gets done he’s just gonna go to his place and crash tonight. Can’t blame him but boo on not seein’ him. Thus I am sans adult supervision the whole evenin’.
WetOne homemade pee-khan pie? You’ll be the hit of the partay! Just does not get much better than homemade pee-khan pie!
Sari good on you for raisin’ a good kid and raisin’ him right.
Herbs fireworks are sold around here as well. Ok, they’re not really fireworks as the only legal kind are the sparkle kind. Still, people go over to Alabammy or down to Flarduh where they can get other kinds.
Ok, gonna go surf around and see what’s up on teh intartoobz.
Ok, so Hardee’s has a new thing called cinnamon pull apart buns or some such. Think monkey bread. The commercial, which I have been unable to find yet, is kind of disturbin’. The tag is “pull one off.” A guy in the commercial said sump’n to the effect of, “I can’t wait to go huntin’ with my buddies and pull one off.” Ok, it’s <snerk>worthy. Still kinda disturbin’. Besides I think they have the bright idea that this will replace their cinnamon raisin bizkits which are da bomb. If this is true, Hardee’s will have committed an abomination above and beyond all abominable things.
Back from Memphis and rested up. Only three days of irk this week.
I’ll likely spend the fourth at a squirt gun parade jn a neighboring town. Everyone takes squirt guns, super soakers and water balloons and the 45 minute parade (d) evolves into a water fight. The only rule is that there is no firing on unarmed people.
Today I had the fun of a nerve conduction study and an EMG on my legs. Let me tell you how much fun that wasn’t. I think, perhaps, the worst part about these tests is not having them done, but remembering what happens during. But I have to say my damn foot still hurts where they stabbed me.
Moving on, hopefully tomorrow will be better and pain-free. I think we’re heading north to do some museum stuff including the Rock Hall of Fame.
Back from Mexico. Had a lovely time, although it was way too short. Garden mainly survived without me and is filled with flowers. Yay! Also,the veggies are thriving, mostly. (Cucumbers aren’t very happy.)
Off to bed so I can get up early and go to work. Rah.
Yeah, I know, Monday but at least it’s a “short” work week this week. Holiday on Firday. It is HOT here, forecast to go to 100 degrees :eek: At least it’s not humid. 
Makes me want to send Smokey Bear after some people! LOL Speaking of Smokey - have you seen the newish commercial for the Forest Service starring Smokey? The one where he hugs the man for putting out his campfire? As he is walking away, Smokey is whistling the Smokey the Bear song!!! I’m certain that many folks of a certain age (ahem) will totally recognize it, as I did right away. The original Smokey went to live at the National Zoo in Washington DC, and I remember seeing him, unfortunately just before he passed away. They have a new Smokey now, I think. The original is buried back here in NM, near the Lincoln National Forest where he was found in 1952 after a wildfire, clinging to the upper branches in a tree, with burnt paws. Awww!
Just does not get much better than homemade pee-khan pie!