I’ve discovered that if I do any grocery ordering at night, I end up with things I should not be buying. Last night, for example, I ordered 6 pints of ice cream. I found it a new home in the clear light of day.
Butters I hope things keep improving. You’ve had a lot on your plate. hugs
Gotti good luck tomorrow. I’m glad they got your appointment sorted out.
Where 'bouts in Central Orygun? Did I miss a memo? I thought y’all bought a place on the coast.
:dubious:
I feel like utter hell today. Just because haid. Stoopid haid.
Yoshi-pup is awesome. He’s not perfect in the house, as far as housebreaking, but he’s making rapid progress. He sleeps in our room at night, and we’ve got a slider straight into the yard. We’ve been leaving it open, and he’s been taking himself out. He and Akiko keep each other very entertained, which is a good thing.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 70 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 74 and rain/tstorms/apocalypse predicted later this mornin’ and into the afternoon. TWPTB are callin’ it THUNDERSHOWERS. :dubious: No big items on today’s agenda. I foresee much sloth for both of us. Nowhere we need to be, so a stay in da cave day it shall be. I do have a bunch of readin’ for CDI that I need to do, so I could do at least some of that I reckon. Sup shall be bacon cheeseburgers with fixin’s 'n fries, just cause.
Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy demands sustenance. Then, onward into the day. Rah.
It’s wet outside again today, 43 and cloudy, supposed to get up to 50.
I thought about going to the park this morning, I think Echo is out of heat. However, my bladder woke me at 4 and it took forever to get back to sleep.
I’m tired, but tomorrow I am setting the alarm and we will get up and go.
I don’t know what to do today, the list is long, but the donwannas are strong.
My good buddy Mel knocked me out pretty good last night - I think I got better’n 10 hours of sleep - HUZZAH!! And this morning, I discovered that the issues on our company website are resolved, so double HUZZAH! And it’s raining again, but I don’t really have to go anywhere. My new glasses are ready for pickup and I was worried about taking Roxy when I went for them, but daughter gets off work early tomorrow, so when she gets home, I’ll run out for my specs - problem solved!!
I bought a nice ham yesterday, and that will be tonight’s supper, and many leftovers for future meals. My only other major chore will be finding the closing documents from our HELOC for our accountant. I know we didn’t pay any closing costs, but she’d like to see the paperwork anyway. Now, where did I put that stuff?
Daughter’s bestest friend since kindergarten is in a bad situation - she and her husband are living with his folks till they can get on their feet. Apparently his father is verbally abusive and controlling. Would the people who deal with domestic violence be the ones they could contact for help? They’re halfway across the country from us, so we can’t do much to help.
And on that happy note, I need to find those closing documents.
Morning all. The garbage can has been transported to the curb and that is the only major duty that I needed to accomplish today. Rest will be hanging and moving stuff when the urge strikes me (or perhaps I should say if). The rain yesterday brought cold air in, it’s 45F now and that’s as high as it is going to get, will get down to near freezing tonight (oh joy).
FCM, every once in a while, you need one of those 10-hour sleep-ins, haven’t had one in awhile. And looking at the NWS radar, I’d say it’s a good day to stay inside–looks like rain most of the day.
Sunny, hope head is feeling better. And what’s wrong with 6 pints of ice cream, anyway?
flytrap, always knew you were a dirty old man…
Bumba, you are a much nicer person that I. That jumping spider would have been a steamroller spider in my presence, as in 'looking like it was run over by a steamroller".
Now need to decide what to have for the morning meal, then on to the day. All y’all take care.
Morning. Hubby announced he is feeling much better today so tomorrow I shall go to irk. Just in time for a three day weekend :D:cool:
Bumba they did zap him but this was right before the poisoning was recognized and they couldn’t give him any meds so it didn’t hold. Once he is strong enough and his labs are all normal I think they are going to do another ablation. Right now is just a wait and see.
My last day of sloth. I think I shall binge some Netflix. I also have to bathe Hellion and he is not crazy about baths. Happy almost weekend all.
**Mooom **yes, have them contact a domestic abuse hotline. At a minimum, they should be able to provide them with information on additional resources for their situation.
Bleah - I have things to do today, but I feel yucky.
Daughter suggested I try finger painting with Roxy. I found a simple recipe on line made with cornstarch, so I made up half a dozen little cups.
Turns out Roxy doesn’t like messy hands. She preferred when I gave her a spoon to mush around the gel-goop. (It wasn’t a thick liquid like I expected.) So we’ll see about getting paint and brushes for her to mess with. Meanwhile, she’s down for a nap, so I have a few moments of peace.
It’s so dreary out - kinda hard to feel cheery today. Stoopit weather.
**Sunny **- I looked up the services in their area. I’ll have my daughter pass along the info and hope they take some action. What’s really maddening is that her friend is dealing with a lot of issues, medical and emotional, and she doesn’t need this abuse, not that anyone does. Unfortunately, they weren’t able to stay with her folks because her brother and his 3 kids are living there.
Sometimes it feels like that generation is half a step from homelessness…
The credit union where we got our HELOC came thru with flying colors. I needed a copy of our closing documents, and they were able to send them electronically within hours of my request! So all our stuff is together for the accountant. **FCD **will drop it off tomorrow after his MRI, and we’ll await the bad news. His business did well, but he also had a lot of expenses, what with building the shop. I don’t understand taxes well enough to know how much will be written off this year, how much will be amortized or depreciated, and how it will affect what we owe. Guess we’ll find out.
IMHO, taxes should not be this difficult. Why can’t we just have a flat tax on amounts after a given personal deduction? Except that it means rich people will pay lots more… or something. I don’t know, I never understood the whole thing. I don’t mind paying my share, but it shouldn’t cost me money to pay my share, dammit!
Well, the garbage has been picked up. Will go out in a couple of hours to reclaim the can and also check for mail. Did hang one thing on the wall, an abacus I’ve had for years but never quite figured out what to do with. It actually looks pretty good.
Temperature is still 43F.
FCM, glad you took Sunny’s advice, I concur with it and you done what you could. It’s up to the abused couple now to make their own decision (they could always come live with you…:eek::eek::eek:)
And the kid doesn’t like to be messy? What’s wrong with her?? Butters, enjoy you one-day work week.
I’ve been sluggish all morning and dealing with the ol’ lupus arthritis. I think I was overtired or something because I could NOT get to sleep last night. I’d try for awhile, then get up, then try for awhile. I finally drifted off around 4 a.m… It’s so odd how most nights you lie there confident sleep will carry you off, and then one night there you are, confidence turning to concern and then a sort of dismayed determination: I WILL TOO get carried off. Carry me off, dagnab it!
I’m doing laundry, which will need folding in a bit, and the fridge needs cleaning out. That’s probably as far as I’ll get today.
Thinking of gotti today and hoping for good news–ditto rubles.
Moooom, I hope your daughter’s friends find the help they need. Knowing first-hand how impossible it is to change the abuser, I’m really hoping they can somehow find another place to live. Having to shoulder all those difficulties and an abusive parent must be awful.
Just finished hacking up the ham I bought yesterday. There’s one nice chunk for tonight’s supper, another in the freezer for a future supper, and the bone and a baggie of cut up pieces for a future bean soup. Plus Higgs and Cozmo got bits to nosh on while I was playing butcher. Even Taz came up to beg!
Supper will be the ham, and I think I’ll dump a can of pineapple over it before I throw it in the oven, plus cabbage-n-onions, and I’m not sure what else. I’ll figure it out.
Maupin. In case you don’t remember it, it’s a little town (<500 people) on the Deschutes river about 40 miles south of The Dalles.
We used to have a little cabin on the coast up in Washington, but we had to sell it after the economy went into the dumpster in 07-08.
What can I say? I like spiders. It’s not always true that ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’, but in this case I think it applies.
I’m sorry. I must have missed that, and it’s none of my business anyway. I hope it goes well for him next time.
I was pretty sick last night. Vomiting and diarrhea for about 90 minutes. I feel better today though. Maybe food poisoning.
Got a couple of chores done today. Put up a thermometer on the front porch that we can see out the window, and put up some nicer house numbers in a more visible location. Still want to go down to the basement and assemble a storage rack and organize several boxes of screws and nails with just a few items in each box that the previous owner left. I’ve got a feeling that the basement is going to become my ‘area’ and I don’t want it to get away from me right away like the garage did in the valley.
I wanted another spiral ham with this grocery order, but they were sold out. I guess because they were on sale for 99 cents a poumd. They had spiral ham pieces for 69 cents a pound, also sold out.
I feel for your daughter’s friend FCM
Was there once.
**sari **- we talked this evening. Her friend’s MIL claims she’s going to kick FIL out. Daughter doesn’t believe that will happen, nor do I. I told her they need to get on the record with… someone… in case the guy turns violent. I hope they seek some help somewhere.
Supper was good. Dishes are washing. I’m about to dig out some yarn and assume the knit position. Chillage shall ensue.
Good luck bathing Buddy, butters. Nelson doesn’t mind baths too much, but absolutely doesn’t like to have his nails trimmed.
Moooooooooom, I’ve had a lot of luck with paintbrushes by Crayola for the little heathens. Crayola® Art & Craft Brushes, 5 Count | Brushes | Michaels . They fit little hands well and don’t shed. Shoot, they even survive toddlers and small dogs chewing on the handles.
They gave out packages of four assorted Lindt truffles to us today at irk. The training session scheduled today went well enough that I’ve been asked to give it to evening and weekend shifts next week. I should see some results in their accuracy metrics if it took.
I survived Buddy’s bath. He fought it tooth and nail then got the zoomies after and was all happy. He loves clothes I had bought him a couple shirts and put one on him the other day. Today after he was dry I put a different one on him and he doesn’t mind at all. It is rainbow striped so he has his gay pride shirt on. It is very appropriate for the KW area. Somehow, it seems to make him better behaved. I also bought him a smaller crate for his compound and he wouldn’t use it until tonight. He is in it all clean with his rainbow shirt on.
For some reason I am actually nervous about going back to irk. I know at least one of my employees is giving me the cold shoulder. I shall have to check that shit immediately. I know she did a few things extra for me but hey- learning experience, she is still on probation and her PD says “other duties as assigned”. I really think they think I have been laid back eating bonbons. When did everything in the world become a damn contest? A pissing match? The only person that matters about the amount of time I was out is the acting director who pays me and he is good with it. Babies really should not have adult jobs.
