The Early Morning MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Howdy All. I remember when gas was .39 cents.

I dropped my Ipad, which was a Christmas gift from Hubby last year, and cracked the screen. I could just cry. I can’t tell hubby so I will just pay for a repair or a new one.
Damn the luck.

I have a huge event at irk next week and I just cannot get into the groove. It is the 11th annual Fall Fest. Since the commissary is closed due to gov’t shutdown:rolleyes: I have to find and buy 80 pumpkins and haul them. Sore back in my future.

I have to organize and oversee and maybe drive the Fantasy Fest Shuttle to keep our sailors safe. I did not want to do it but do it I must. This entails 4 busses on two different bases and a very late night. It is a money maker for my program but I need a break. I have major BURNOUT.

sorry to come here to bitch but I don’t have anywhere else to bitch.

Hugs to all that need em. Maybe I will have a better outlook tomorrow. I fear I am getting an anxiety disorder where irk is concerned. Whine, woe is me.

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**Butters **- if you don’t quit whining about whining, I’ll give you something to whine about!!! :stuck_out_tongue: You know the rules - whine away - it’s MMP therapy! Rule 7, I believe…

I just put in about 2 hours of hot, sweaty labor. The hill where I was planting was bone dry and incredibly hard to dig. I’d break the surface, then fill the shallow hole with water and let it soak in. Eventually, I could dig deeply enough to plant. Then I’d mix in some mulch and wet dirt, soak it all again, then add a thick layer of mulch and soak some more. I think I planted 8-10 assorted lilies and black-eyed susans. Some were in pots, some were in bags. My goal was to plant everything in bags today (except the pachysandra) because the stuff in pots will hold as long as I keep them watered.

**FCD **had brought me a full cart of mulch, so after all my plants were in, I dumped the rest of the mulch around the new and older plants on that part of the hill. Then I set up the sprinkler to help it all to settle in. It’ll run another hour or so.

My sweetie helped me unload the rest of the stuff from the truck and I hauled it all around to the back yard. The bags of pachysandra are on the wagon and the cart is full of pots. I watered everything, but I think I’m going to put the pachy into 5-gallon buckets of water to keep the roots wet - I don’t know when I can get it all planted - there’s a LOT of it to go on the hill. Anyway, everything is put away, and I just finished a medicinal Klondike bar. It worked - I’m cooled down and my pulse is approaching normal. Yay for chocolate!! :smiley:

Shortly, I will hit the shower. I expect most of the rest of my day will involve knitting and TV. And I should thaw something for supper - I’m thinking maybe shrimp scampi? * hmmmm…*

Oh, and I remember gas at 24¢ - I wasn’t driving then, but I remember my dad choosing one station over the other because the gas was a penny cheaper. When I got my first car, gas was 49¢, and when I went to college and the oil embargo hit, I remember people panicking about gas going all the way to a dollar a gallon!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: Then yesterday, I was all excited to see it at $3.17 at a station I passed on the way home from Mom’s. Of course, when gas was half a buck, minimum wage was $1.75-ish. Tho at that ratio, gas should average just over $2 right now. :smack:

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Mom, you’re messing up lazy day for the rest of us.

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I sold seven butterfly Pulchers today. To the pet store, Swampy, not a restaurant. :rolleyes:
A fellow who bought four yesterday is driving 250 miles to buy them.

The guy who tried to rib Mrs. Plant (v.3.0) last year got off with boot camp. He was arrested for burglary on the third, so now he has the seventeen years from accosting Mrs. Plant (v.3.0) and whatever he gets from the burglary.
I hope is has a purty mouth. :slight_smile:

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Medicinal chocolate exists? Can I get a doctor to prescribe it for me? Although I’d be at risk of overdosing. :smiley:

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Today is not lazy day for me- just back from day two of work with no empty car parks involved at all. Yesterday I was busy being the person what told everyone to stop filming in a show, and today I spent at the rugby ground, askin’ people nicely not to go out on the balcony with their drinks.

One was askin’ politely for two reasons- 1, for some reason all the rugby fans are terribly nice, and 2, some of them were Very Important People like the person what owns the place, and ex-England players an’ suchlike, and because I have no clue about rugby, I didn’t know which was them and which was just common folks. Except the ex-players were MASSIVE. I think I shall hire two of them to walk round with me instead of dietin’, as I looked tiny next to them.

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Chocolate is important.
Sometimes it’s the only thing that keeps the other people in this house alive.

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I have finished the t-shirt rag rug. Pics to follow once I get it washed and blocked.

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Howdy Y’all! Deheathenization was really good today. Our Priest Associate (she’s the one with three and a half month old twin boys) gave a great sermon and first Sunday brunch was yummy as usual. There was a Blessing of The Animals this afternoon but I did not hang around for that as I have no animals to be blessed. Firday was the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi (Patron Saint of Animals) so the custom is to have the Blessing on the Sunday followin’ the Feast Day. Anywho, I came back to da cave and nappage ensued. Since then I’ve messed around on the 'puter and such. ‘Tis gettin’ cloudy out. Rain may be here soonish.

Baker I bet you couldn’t stir the folks in Grace Cathedral this mornin’ with a stick. I’d love to hear her preach. She was in Savannah once but I didn’t make the trip.

flyrap did you at least call the fish market as well as the pet store to see who would offer the better price? :stuck_out_tongue:

Spaz I’m makin’ jambalaya on Wednesday. It’s a good, easy, early dindin thing to make. Tomorrow is leftovers from yestiddy, Tuesday is cubed steak, Thursday will be a sammich night and, of course, Firday will be pizza. I feel so organized knowin’ all this already.

Butters one may always whine, moan, bitch and/or complain in the MMP.

All chawklit is medicinal Midget.

Laterz!

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I didn’t eat it. It was overcooked, so I sent it back. :p. (:arrow_backward: yuck emoticon)
I paid $3.11 for gas yesterday & they pumped it.

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Do What?

I awoke this mawnin and the exterior thermostat had been reset, I had to put on long sleeves

Summer is over? I can only hope.

Happy Sunday all

Jim

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Supper was quick, easy, and quite yum. I used a 4-cheese pasta side and added shrimp, onions, and spinach. There’s just enough left over for my lunch tomorrow. Yay! :smiley:

And that’s a wrap on the weekend. I’ll do some knitting and try to crash by 9. Back to fun and games tomorrow. rah. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I never heard of a guy driving 250 miles to buy gefilte fish. :slight_smile:

I put my Dionaea muscipula, Venus FLYTRAP :rolleyes: to you guys to bed in the refrigerator for it’s Winter dormancy. A bit early, but it is getting puny, and Lord knows what the grower did to it before it went into my terrarium.

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Wooooooooo!

:slight_smile:

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I just made the executive decision to not put my trash can down at the road tonight. We may have some kinda rough tstorms overnight and I don’t wanna deal with a blown over trash can if’n the wind gets up too high. Tomorrow, obviously, is trash day. Of course this means I may get to roll a biiiiiiiiiiiiiig trash can down to the road in the rain early tomorrow mornin’. Life is hard!

flytrap a true gefilte fish afficianado might drive drive 250 miles. Is there such a thing as a gefilte fish afficianado. I mean, I like the stuff but Publix which is five miles away is quite far enough to drive to get some.

Shall we say, next person to post starts us off tomorrow? :smiley:

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swampie, there was an interdenominational Blessing of the Animals at Gage Park today, in the early afternoon. Two Episcopal clergy, one UCC, and one Disciples of Christ. Well, the latter guy had to bow out at the last minute, a parishioner was in the hospital for an emergency.

Lots of dogs, one or two cats, a monkey, a snake, and so on. One hymn, three Scriptural readings, a few prayers, and then the blessings.

It’s a lot of fun, and the surprising thing is that in all the years I’ve gone to this thing I’ve never seen any pets get into fights. I told the priest who blessed my Nathan that he should have invited the Presiding Bishop. Now, that would have been cool.

PB Schiori has an interesing voice, if she sang I’d say low alto. She did preach the sermon of course. I hate to say this, and may God not strike me dead, but it was just okay at best. I was tired though, so maybe it was my problem and not hers. I’ll read it when it goes up on our church website. I shook her hand afterwards though and said it was an honor to have her there, which it truly was.

Not a Phredite it sight, I’m really starting to think he IS dead.

What did everyone have for din-din? I had homemade pasta salad, with leftover pieces of pita bread and hummus from the Greek food festival I went to yesterday. Now that was nummy. I bought two meals, one to eat there and one for supper. Falafel in pita as the main course in one, and chicken souvlaki in the other. There were also dolmades, spanifopita and Greek salad with feta and olives. I bought baklava separately. Envy me.

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No, surely not.

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I know they do eat hemepterid bugs in some places (cite). I don’t fancy them myself - but I imagine cooking them must make them more palatable than they seem when they are alive.

Not high on my list of things to eat, I’d say.