All righty then. Water pumped into tank and more water being made. Yard mowed, with associated leaf mulching. I’m a dusty, dirty mess, but my chores are done, so yay!
Nice surprise in the mail - a refund check for $246 and change for an excess tax payment when we refinanced. Money is always a welcome surprise. Daughter is stopping by on her way home this evening - I’ll get her to drop it at the credit union tomorrow.
I think I need a shower…
They wonder why I keep my hair short… It’s so I can’t pull it out.
I’m no great fan of Heisenberg or uncertainty, but I’ve got loads of it. They tell us that the ranks need to be thinned, and my group is no exception. We’ll find out by the end of September who the unlucky ones are, but until then, they’re not letting on what the parameters are - shortest length of service? Highest paid? Lowest evaluation score? Left-handed? Born in even or odd years? Until then, it’s “Keep calm and carry on” business as usual.
I think it is love, or at least they think it is. But they’ve known each other 4 months! Now, I knew I was going to marry KT as soon as we met in person, but we didn’t actually get married for a year and a half. And I know it can work - I think FCM and FCD got married pretty quickly after meeting, but that didn’t involve the same immigration issues, age difference, his young kids, etc. It may work and be great, but they’re facing a lot of challenges with a person they barely know.
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Long days at work this week. Getting stuff done, but not really enough. Which is nothing new. Looking forward to the long weekend. I’ve got a short week next week because I’m off Friday and the following Monday. Really need the time off to recharge.
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Definitely long week. I was noticeably stressed at a team lunch so my VP called me into his office to ask if I was ok. I almost started crying. I can handle the stress, but once someone’s nice and asks if I’m ok I lose it. I’ve never cried at work (at this job… I was younger at my old job!). 
At least I’m off tomorrow too. And at least Big Boss cares. I appreciate that a lot.
Gotta finish up and get out. Enjoy the long weekend everyone!
Yes we’re finally making our way to the end of a very looooong week. Yay!
I hope TPTB have sense and you escape the ax, gotp-words!
I hope your son pays you a visit, tara! While my mom was still alive, I’d never miss celebrating my birthday with her. The fact that she made the world’s best butter cake with chocolate-cream cheese icing was merely a fringe benefit.
You’ve got some mad cartooning skills, doggio! My favorite was the obedience school one. Not that I can ever be accused of having a high-brow sense of humor. Thanks for sharing.
Speaking of air shows, ours will be Sept. 9th thru the 11th this year. They always close off all the roads by my office when the Thunderbirds/Blue Angels/Sky Kings or whatever practice. It can be fun to watch but the noise can make you have an accident if it catches you by surprise.
Today was a very rare day. The good kind. Have you ever had a craving and then by some twist of fate managed to get it satisfied?
I decided to do my good deed for the day and flip my cubicle-buddy’s recipe calendar from August to September and wouldn’t you know it, but September features a huge picture of hot dogs! Well the kind where you split the franks, add cheese and wrap it all up in a crescent roll, but close enough. Then I go and sit back down and see my menu for Six Packs-N-Dogs up on Mt. Washington with a little drawing of a hot dog on it. Now I’m craving a really good hot dog big-time! Nuking Oscar Meyer franks will not cut it.
So I thought about stopping off on the way home at the Original Hot Dog Shop in Oakland which is kind of on the way, but parking there is impossible. So I resign myself to not satisfying my hot dog craving as the PennDOT semi-annual You Can’t Get There From Here festival is still in full swing.
I get home and realize I’ve got a pack of Giant Eagle (Jint Iggle in Pittsburghese) natural casing hot dogs in the frige. Now I never figured these would taste anything close to the hot dog I was craving, but I plugged in the Foreman grill and had those puppies cooking in no time. I waited until I could hear the casings split and pulled them off. They got dressed with Heinz ketchup and brown Stadium mustard (yeah I know, it’s from Cleveland but it’s the best!). I also grabbed a jar of pickles and sat down to chow. After eating a nice dill pickle, I was smiling again and I reached for a hot dog. Now usually when I cook dogs, they don’t even come close to the good ones I get at a hot dog shop but daaaaannng!!! By some devine intervention or perhaps desperate hunger, these puppies tasted exactly as I remembered those famous Big O dogs did!
Perhaps it was all in my mind, but now I feel like things are on the up-swing. And all because of a couple of hot dogs.
Still licking my chops,
Bri2k
Computer Boy is going to be moving out at the end of the month. Culinary Boy and I are going to have to talk to the rental company about finding a cheaper one bedroom somewhere. This sucks because of complicated money issues.
I really hate moving.
{{{spaz}}}
I read the rest but retained little other than…yay the likker is OK in doggio’s hood! And whoohoo for partial payments fcm!
Made it back to OKC…brain fried. Steak for supper.
Howdy Y’all! The yahd is all mowed and otherwise spiffed and I am all showered, shorn (got a haircut) and clean. Plus tahrd! I don’t want dindin even. :eek: OYKW had some leftover jambalaya and was happy cause he lurves him some jambalaya.
lieu I gather you mean Lake Dahlonega in northwest Jawja aka in the mountains. Thus, I have heard of it but never been. I have, however, been to Dahlonega a loooooooong time ago with the parental units and siblin’s. It’s a touristy type place known as the home of the “Jawja gold rush” and one of the touristy things to do is pan for gold. I was not really impressed but when the parental units drag ya on vacation watchu gonna do, right?
Spaz sorry about the movin’. I agree.
gotti shall we cross appropriate/inappropriate appendages?
Brick one of life’s most wunnerful pleasures is a good dawg.
doggio Thank Og! The tragedy may have been too much to bear! 
Whew - what an afternoon!! **FCD **came home early and we decided to crash daughter’s open house at school - mainly because we wanted to see her classroom. It is FABULOUS!!! Any kid who goes in there and doesn’t get excited about science is a lump! Afterwards, we took her to Pancho Villa’s for supper - quite yum!
**FCD **is now adding sand to the aquarium - I don’t entirely understand the master plan, but it’s his tank, so he can do it up as he likes. I’m just his gofer when it comes to the tank. He’s taken off tomorrow, so I get him for a 4-day weekend - yay!
And on that note, I think I’ll hit the knit position and chill the evening away.
MWAH!
I’ve had dinner (a couple of quesadillas, some pea pods and some fruit) and gone for a walk and am TIRED.
Walk was pretty: there was a really spectacular sunset. It looked like crinkled pink and grey iridescent wrapping paper around the sun and then there were fluffy clouds with pink highlights around the edges and light streaming through the whole thing, radiating out. Tried to take a picture with my phone, but it didn’t really capture it.
Also, for the second night in a row, the moon was lovely. Last night, it was the teensiest sliver of moon and tonight was only the least little bit wider. Eid (the end of Ramadan) started the night before last and I really don’t know how anyone could have seen the moon that night. (Eid mubarak to anyone out there who celebrates, by the way.)
I’m going to knit for a bit, too, then off to sleepy bye.
Hugs all.
GT
I have a headache. My back hurts. And I’ve missed another few days of work.
Aside from being in pain all the time, I am clinically depressed and that doesn’t help matters. So, I take all my meds and I see my docs, and that’s about it.
I’ll have good days, but mostly I feel like I do right now - extremely apathetic and very blue.
Sorry you’re feeling blue, Rosie. hugs If it makes you feel any better, whine away. Og knows I do.
Survived work.
swampy, in the event of a real likker sto fire, I would have mounted a recue operation.
{{{{{rosie}}}}} Wish I could make it better for ya.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ YAWN ‘Tis 67 degrees Amurrkin outside and feels sooooooo good! I sat on my back porch with a cup of coffee for a bit enjoyin’ the weather and smellin’ fresh cut grass. AHHHHHHHH! The predicted high is 97 so no chance of me freezin’ today.
{{{Rosie}}} like doggio said, wish I could make it better for you too.
doggio I have no doubt you would mount a rescue if the likker sto’ was on fire for real. My local favorite likker sto’ recently expanded. More of everything! I shall make a visit there today. Beer and vodka must be purchased for tomorrow’s doin’s. I also need to mix up a batch of Bloody Mary mix as that is a requested adult beverage. Much food prep must ensue also this evenin’. Glad it’s a three day weekend. I may need Sunday and Monday to get over tomorrow.
Yay for FABULOUS classroom MOOOOOOM!
Ok, now I go in search of more caffiene and brekkie for a very rumbly tummy. Then, alas, irk purtification must commence.
Happy Firday Y’all!
I hope those people whose bodyparts, cars, appliances and so forth are misbehaving can get it all fixed soon. Would’a listed it, but seriously guys, half the MMP seems to have something broken!
1:13 till quit o’clock.
Rainy morning here - in fact, t-boomers woke me, followed by a cat climbing over me and a dog barking to go out. It just occurred to me that when I’m on the cruise in January, I won’t know when to wake up without animals…
Another day of water-making ahead - we’ve got 90 gallons so far. Which makes me think we’ll be putting the tank back together on Sunday - SUNDAY - SUNDAY!!! Depending upon how the chemistry of the water settles out, we could start adding fish in as little as 2 weeks… or as long as a month.
The afghan I’m knitting for my brother is looking really good, but I keep making stupid mistakes. Fortunately, I catch them when correcting them is merely annoying and not hair-tearingly impossible. I don’t think I’ve ever made a complex afghan sans errors, but most require a very critical eye to find. So I’ll just pretend that I do it right. 
Caffeination has begun. I need food. Where’s that breakfast fairy when I need him/her/it??
Happy Firday!
I’m sorry** rosie**. Hope things start looking up very soon. Hugs.
Wow, that does sound complicated, taxi. Hope they’re able to face all those challenges successfully. And hope the work stress lets up, too. You sound like you’re in a really similar place as I am at work. I came close to tearing up when I heard on Monday that there was going to be a big meeting on one of the days I’ve already scheduled off. Fortunately, I talked to one of the organizers and they’d already talked about keeping all of my stuff out of the meeting. All I want at the moment is to be able to take a few days off. I’m thinking I might take the first week of October off.
Thanks, lieu. That sounds yummy. I’ll put the various post excerpts together in the blog tonight.
Glad you got to see the kid’s classroom, FCM. Sounds fun.
Guess I should pretend to be awake now. Wanted to say more, but I don’t remember what.
Hugs all and happy Firday!
GT
Happy Firday! I’m at irk, but Fridays are easy peasy with half the group gone on their Friday off. Even more this week because of the holiday weekend.
I have plenty to do, but not too much. It’s like Goldilocks! Just right…
This morning I took a shower in the guest bathroom. I just realized that’s the first time I’ve ever done that in over ten years of living in this house!
The reason: We’ve been planning to remodel the master bathroom anyway. We’ve been gathering up materials like new cabinets, a new window, new fixtures and such. We both knew there must be mold behind the walls, due to the mold that forms in the grout and under the caulking. Anyway, Mr Rebo is in the habit (I did not know this!) of placing his foot on the soap dish thing on the shower wall when washing. Guess what tore off the wall? :rolleyes:
So yesterday he ripped out the tile and the NASTY plain old sheetrock (!!!) that the tile was stuck to, and put up new cement board. He’s gonna do a temporary fix with some plastic/vinyl beadboard stuff, until it gets cooler outside and he gets some time off.
I knew it would be bad, but not how bad. This house was built by Idiocracy morons on crack. There is not one square corner, no level surface, no consistency or professionalism at all, anywhere.
::deep breath::
Anyway - Happy Firday!!!
Howdy from irk. I’m bein’ receptionist right now. It was either that or sit in on a conference call.
Good morning everyone. I’m here at work, but hopefully it’ll be quiet since it’s a DONSA.
I’m sorry for everyone’s sad news and stressors. It seems life has been very stressful for many of us lately.
I still can’t shake my funk and that scares me a little. I try to put the stuff out of my mind, but it just sneaks back all the time. I really don’t want and can’t afford the added expense of meds because my mind/body want to give me grief. Yes, I have insurance, but meds still cost. And, I’m sure that’s exactly what they’d give me; pills. I’m the worst when it comes to taking meds anyway; I always forget.
Well, at least it’s Friday, right? My weekend is jam packed. I really just wanted to just hang out at home, maybe take a bike ride, but now we’re going to dinner at someone’s house tonight, canoeing around UW and then walking the waterfront in Seattle on Sunday, and biking with a friend on Monday.
I really don’t want to go to this person’s house for dinner tonight. I’m only doing it for my husband. Right now, I genuinely dislike and am totally disgusted by this person. I considered him a friend, but now, not so much. It’s a looooooooong story.
Taters I hate goin’ to someone’s house when I don’t like that person, so I feel for ya. Spill wine on the carpet and maybe you won’t get invited back.
In other news, I’m hongry!