Good luck with the job search, Spaz. I’m hiring, but I doubt you want to move to MN, huh?
That’s awesome that you handed out kits to the homeless, rebo. My church serves dinner at a homeless shelter once a month, and the timing doesn’t work out for me to go, but I often make desserts to send. This month I included a small package of granola bars. I’ve heard from people who have gone that the men (It’s a men’s shelter.) often take brownies or cookies with them because they won’t have food during the day the next day. I thought granola bars would be a healthier option than a cookie. But before I make/buy a lot of them, I wanted to find out what the volunteers think of the idea and/or how it goes over. So we’ll see what they say.
Home, tired, day 5 of being boss is done, 4 more to go. I am so ready for Al to come back. I took in brownies and had to beg people to come eat them all - stoopit people watching their diets.
Meatloaf is in the oven, and shortly, I’ll peel some N.O.T. to be smashed. I’ve also got a head of cabbage that I’ll cook up with some onions, and a can of gravy, because I don’t make real gravy.
And that’s about all. It’s Monday - it’s the best I can do…
Okay, that took five tries to type. That’s how much sleep I got. TomKitten has given up sleep and we had Gnat’s clinic appointment today. TomKitten is getting put in his own room and brutally ignored for many hours tonight. I might nurse him once. We are not playing in the middle of the night. No.
He remains adorable and cute, just not at night.
Everyone pray I get more than two hours of sleep tonight, please? It’s been about a week.
My cousin in Georgia (the one who cracked her head) is improving after some setbacks in March. I mention this now because I wanted to share this bit from today’s CaringBridge update written by her husband*:
Kind of reminds me of Older BIL’s response when people asked him why he and Older Sister, who are both dark-haired and dark-eyed, have a daughter with blonde hair and blue eyes: “I don’t know, but I’m still looking for that guy.”
*Backstory: she’s not too good on remembering names yet, even for close and immediate family.
Sounds like your cousin’s sense of humor is intact, Spaz. (Or at least her husband’s is.) Glad she’s doing better. Good luck with the job hunting, by the way. Kelly Services got me my very first job with my current employer. I’ve been there almost 21 years, 19 or so of them as a permanent employee.
Welcome, CP! Very cute kid and outfit. We’ll need a better nickname for you. (Don’t get confused if you see references to people you haven’t seen posting. Some of the nicknames are…hard to connect to user names.)
Hope the Lissar household gets more sleep tonight.
Rebo, I volunteer for a local park system, and in the garden at church. I also participate in our justice ministry. Most of it involves work with this organization, which is made up of 52 congregations. It’s the most religiously, economically and ethnically diverse group I know of (there are synagogues, a mosque, pretty much every main-line Protestant denomination, Unitarian Universalists, and a bunch of non-denominational congregations). There is a research group for each year’s new issue that identifies ways to begin attaining changes. I mostly attend meetings (we help identify issues to be addressed, narrow them down to the year’s issue, and then propose solutions to the people who have the power to initiate changes), but hope to participate in the research group eventually. Our church also has several ministries that provide food and other necessities for the homeless. I used to participate in a program that feeds homeless families, but they’ve changed the structure of that program so that it’s much harder for me to volunteer (the times are inconvenient). All of this is part of what I’ll be doing more of when I retire; in the meantime, I try to participate in at least one new program every year, even if it’s only a one-time thing.
MMMMMMM… good dindin! I did a roast with a bottle of salsa and some rotel tomatoes. I also steamed cabbage, cooked some peas and made some rice. Oh and frozen bizkits which I thoughtfully baked. The good thing is leftovers for tomorrow!
Rebo I serve on my chruch’s Vestry (like y’all didn’t know that), do Meals On Wheels twice a month (the “volunteer” part of my current irk gig), and assist a local food pantry by stockin’ their shelves with donated items once a month. In the past I have done volunteer work for Habitat for Humanity and need to get back again because I really enjoyed that.
I play board games once in awhile, but not often. There was a point in time when nobody would play Trivial Pursuit with me because I always won. The funny thing is, I just read A LOT and the stuff sticks with me. I have a mind cluttered with useless facts.
It was a Monday for sure, and I’m glad to be home. Hubby was good enough to heat the leftovers from last night’s dinner and feed us. I think it was mainly because he was hungry, but I’ll take what I can get.
Welcome, CP. I am not a seamstress, which is odd considering that my mother and her father owned and ran a tailor shop in Germany. They created beautiful suits and clothes. I just didn’t inherit the skill for that, and can’t sew a straight seam to save my life, lol!
Just filed my last taxes. Local ones where I owed a little bit. It took an entire 15 minutes from beginning to end, including pulling out my folder with W-2 and re-setting my password. I liked it better when all of my local taxes were offset by the withholding at work, but…other than actually having to pony up some money, it’s not terribly painful.
“sometime” was at about 3 PM, after I’d gone to a different Sears location to see if they could look up the account. Note to self: Sears Outlet is a Sears in name only and they can’t look up anything that wasn’t bought at that location. (But they were happy to sell me a cheap freezer for the garage. It’s in the garage - who cares if it looks like drunk forklift operators were playing shuffleboard with it?)
At about 3, an email pops up thanking me for my payment, and then all was well with the online accounting. Must have been a transaction batch hung up somewhere between here and Toledo.
As for volunteering - nothing regular, although participating in Student Days at the Ren Fest qualifies and gets me K-12 education credits at work. Other than that, I’ve been giving assistance to South Carolina Fire and Life Safety Education, aka SC FALSE. I don’t care for the name though. False just has the wrong connotation, even if it is a direct acronyming (acronymification? acronymitizing?) of the full name. And when we were still in California, I did some sporadic ongoing tech support for the local JDRF office. I remember how their network was the modern equivalent of a small working TV sitting on a large, non-working TV with LAN cables run from one corner to the other of the cabinet, bypassing failed devices that had been left where they died.
I haven’t played a board game in eons, unfortunately. I used to be fair at Trivial Pursuit, but other than that my favorites more recently have been (and were) Scrabble and Monopoly.
Wow, do we have some good folks! Good on you, Rebo, for helping out the homeless, and to others as well who help with charities. Unfortunately, I think the need is going to increase; the cost of basic necessities keeps increasing yet wages remain static. There are so many unemployed who aren’t even on the radar too. My daughter has helped bag food stuffs for the needy.
I definitely had a Monday today! First, I got into a minor disagreement with the bus driver this morning, and then she didn’t lower the bus when I went to get off (I am disabled and use a rollator/walker to get around). It was just bizarre! I ended up reporting her, although I don’t feel good about doing that, but I could have been injured if I had fallen. Then when I got to work, I was ladling some oatmeal into a bowl in the cafeteria and a glob of it fell onto my thumb. Need I say that it burned me before I could wipe it off?! Fortunately, it wasn’t a first degree burn even, but I did end up going to the nurse, who applied ointment and a bandage. It was still hurting until earlier this evening. Gah! So now, I am glad that it’s Tuesday. LOL
I’m tryin’ to get stuff fixed around the house and stuff. Wanna get budgets for an electrician and painter. May need to call someone to fix something with the heater too: the dude who did the checkup is a complete ass and some of the things he tried to scare me with were directly untrue (some of the “defects” he found are not illegal, they’re pre-brand-new-code and work fine thank you much) but others sound like they may need correcting, mostly because he wasn’t the first one to mention them - the others were more polite about it.
Mind you, I already found it irritating that I had to stick my head out of the window and yell at him to come up. At 8:30am; he was half an hour early and this is a house where many of the neighbors are here only if they’re on vacation, I’m sure they don’t appreciate yells of “HEY! Just come up! Come up! It’s open! goddamnit, you have pushed the door open what are you waiting for Yes, come up!”
Happy Passover, Holy Week/Easter and so forth.
Thank you for the niceties! I sewed it just for Pesach.
He sang the Four Questions! Okay, he got a little shy, but we went to his best friend’s/friend of family’s house and the two six year olds were huddled over a Haggadah they couldn’t read (they were nervous at the adults staring, I suppose) with their cute brown wayward hairs sticking out from their kippas and I was all smotherymotherysniffly-like with pride.
Passover is “our” special holiday because I told him that Hebrew moms hold their first born sons extra close since they were passed over in Egypt. So yeah, I’m oozing all kinds of domestic goodness right now. Just don’t let it cloud the fact that I am tuff stuff.
I hope my nickname is a nice one. :dubious: I automatically reject any nickname that is of a fictional animal, such as Dodo or Yeti or Unicorn or some such. CitizenPained is a play off of “Tom Paine” and “Citizen Kane”. A little bit of genius and a little bit of crazy sauced with some linguistic creativity can’t be a bad combo, nu? And I rather liked being cloaked in a masculine name…er…well…until someone calls me a bloviating ahole. Then it’s kinda awkward.
I hope everyone had a good Monday and I’m sorry I’ll have to wait another 8 hours or so to get to know people and remember faces (er…screennames…lack of photos here) but y’all are bonkers if you think I’m sharing my chocolate. Now that that’s settled, we iz all gonna be bez frenz.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 57 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 89. Alas, all the humidity is also returnin’. Hyooomid is pretty much the norm here though. Thus endeth the south Jawja weather report.
CP I shall not rest until I have the chance to call someone a bloviating ahole. I imagine the opportunity will present itself sooner rather than later.
Herbs good on you for reportin’ that bus driver. She deserves to be in trouble for that. Of course this is from someone who recently got somebody in trouble for not doin’ her job. I’m a rabble rouser!
gotti ain’t technology wunnerful!
Hope your ears have popped Soapy.
Ok, that’s all I got for now. Must find more caffiene and must feed a very demandin’ rumbly tummy. Then irk purtification must commence.
