She has one. She can ignore it as easily as she ignores timers or Alexa reminders. As long as I’ve known her, she made her own decisions about meds if she didn’t like what she was told.
Anyway, she’s home and doing better. FCD is home and fed. I think I’ll head to bed shortly. Tahred…
Had Redneck Stirfry with a Manhattan tonight.
Miss Owl!!
: tacklehug :
I was thinking about you every time I saw an anvil during Peak Season.
{{{{FCD and MiL}}}}
after which you’ll never have another cold winder for 5 years
Sari I had a cousin like that … anything his family wanted to buy was a “waste of money or time” well she was tired of him being a slob and charged him for a housekeeper and when he complained she dug out an old box she had and when he asked what its for she said with al seriousness "well buying a casket for your burial is just a waste so ill be dumping your remains in the woods so ill need the box …
We believed her and he never commented on paying for anything ever again see she all ready had one boyfriend who just "disappeared"and she never quite convinced us …
Well, this has been a day. My nephew called. He’s the one with severe OCD, among other problems, and aside from his mom, I’m about the only person he calls. My other two siblings love him but get way too frustrated to talk with him. His OCD is bad enough to keep him from working, but he doesn’t try too hard, and it doesn’t bother him a bit that he’s living off mommy. This angers his sister, so she’s not talking to him, either. My siblings get mad, too, as do all his cousins. Work ethic is big in our family. I’m more sympathetic, but I also tell him the unvarnished truth. Anyway, my siblings and I being tight doesn’t mean all is sweetness and light.
My appointment with the optometrist was long and frustrating. 45 minutes (literally) of “Which is better, one or two?” had me ready to scream, “They all look the same! Leave me alone!” I was hopeful she’d be able to correct my vision, which I guess was quixotic of me. I’m better off when I concentrate on how amazing it is that I can see at all .
I took Uber home, as I really can’t see in the dark, and headlights and streetlights make things worse. The driver was so cool! He offered me water and Mexican lollipops. The lollipops look like schooners of beer, complete with foam! They taste like fruit. He was a smart, happy guy and made up for some of the optical frustrations. 
I am having a mini-martini to further de-stress.
FCM, I feel so bad for her FCD because everything falls on his shoulders, since he’s the most responsible and even-keeled of the siblings, and he’s too good a guy to shrug it all off. Good thing he has YOU to come home to!
Sari, your sister sounds like a boil on the behind. What a…um…postule. What is her problem? How could parents who managed to produce logical, compassionate you manage to create such an egocentric human? Also, I was touched by Ripple’s efforts to cheer you up. He’s a good boy. Cerby needs to chill. There should be cannabis for dogs. Also, how do you manage to keep yourself from breaking every window when you’re so frustrated with Unemployment?
Ms. Owl! So glad to see you, and congrats on retirement! It’s a big adjustment but a happy one. I can’t help thinking Rubles is relieved.
JtC that was thoughtful of hubs. Glad you got your cravings slaked!
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It seems like it takes awhile for a cast to gel. Maybe give it a few weeks?
kdad, glad you survived the trip with the psycho-sis. You’re a good person.
There’s one that I’ve occasionally seen advertised on Facebook/Instagram, with the brand name “Hero”. Something like $100 to purchase it. then you have to pay $50/month for the privilege of continuing to use it. F••• that!
The basic concept seems sound, and if it were well-engineered, I couldn’t rule out thinking that it was worth $100 to buy, but once I by such a thing, I expect to own it, and to be able thereafter to use it indefinitely without having to continue to pay for the privilege.
Yeah, I’d be inclined to skip the subscription fee myself, especially one that steep.
BTW, gang, Bob’s my DH. You’ve all heard a lot about him, he just sort of followed me over here. Kind of a grumpy old guy for someone who’s only 60, but he’s a good teddy bear and otherwise worth keeping.
Welcome Grumpy Old Guy. Maybe you and hubs and our little grumpy cat can get together to share tips and hints on how to get the most grumps out of each day!
Hi, Bob! And welcome! Any friend (And of course you’re a friend as well as a husband) of Seanette’s is a friend of ours.
Just had my birthday a few months ago.
In two years, I’ll have a birthday that will only last a minute. That will be my sixty-second birthday.
Cracks up! How long did it take you to come up with that one?!?
Also jealous, I’m too old to steal it.
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave. Will SSLAW #2 work? Will SSLAW #1 go FUBAR? Is dogbutler gonna stress over it? (Answers: No, yes, no)
Welcome, you’ll fit in fine.
Thank you everyone for the virtual hugs and well-wishes. It really does help. We’re getting used to the new normal of an empty house (amazing how much a small animal can fill a house, isn’t it?).
Feeling much better and more upbeat today. Mizpullin finally got to see the docs about her back, and got ultrasound (or MRI, or something that hummed a lot). They were very thorough and are leaving no stone unturned, as back pain can come from a variety of sources. And one amazing development: We drove across 40 miles of DFW last night returning from the scan, and all the other cars on the road were polite and drove carefully, and even allowed merging. I’m pretty sure we were in an alternate universe and will snap back to our own shortly. But it was really nice while it lasted!
I’m 37 (F) today – so this ad is more likely to get responses, right? 
All the weatherfolk’s claims of doom and ice from the sky didn’t pan out, and it’s supposed to be sunny today. Maybe we can get out and enjoy it some.
Hope everyone has a great rest-of-week. Thanks for cheering mine up some. You guys really do help.
metalmouse, per your request, here’s the new ride. Kinda basic, but it’ll do.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 60 Amurrkin out with light rain and a predicted high of 65 with rain/tstorms/apocalypse predicted until mid to late afternoon. This is procure provisions day, which I think will wait until the rain goes away. It is definitely comin’ our way, so stayin’ inside and dry until it’s over sounds like a good plan. I made a biiiiiiiiiiig slow cooker of chili yestiddy and planned on that for sup, but I’m thinkin’ a later afternoon trip to the Pubic sto’ will result in a couple of fried chikin sups from there instead. Thus we shall sloth and be our usual useless drains on society for most of the day.
{{{Miss_Owl}}} :: tackle hug :: welcome back! Yay on retirement. It is da bomb! Hope you find the part-time gig you want if’n that’s what you decide to do. I sincerely love bein’ a retired drain on society!
Bob welcome. Jokes like that are a definite fit up in here. Also, welcome fellow grumpy old man! I wear my grumpy old man title with pride.
Yanker nice truck! Hope they find the reason for wife’s back problems and ways to make it better soonest.
nellie nice of you to be patient and listen to nephew. Also, good that you will tell it like it is. I can understand OCD as a disability, but the not bein’ able to work at all thing because of it is just a bit suspicious to me. The Uber driver sounds like a hoot. Glad you got a good one like him.
sari hope things are a bit more chill for ya today with Echo and Cerby in daycare. Maybe you can get the answers about unemployment today.
MOOOOOOM glad they got a handle on what was wrong with MIL. Hopefully a solution to the meds takin’ problem can be found.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.
Happy Hump Day Y’all!
Good morning.
It’s currently 43 degrees and dark. The expected high is 50 degrees, and we’ll have cloudy skies all day.
I’m glad your MiL is okay, FCM.
I like your truck, pullin.
Welcome back, Old-Wench and congrats on retirement!
Welcome, Bob!
Not much other than work awaits me today. One more wake-up, though and it’ll be the weekend.
Working on my second cup of coffee now, but it may be a three-cup day.
I hope you all have a great day!
{{{MissOwl}}}!!! Sorry I missed your post yesterday - I was a tad preoccupied… Welcome to retirement! I think part-time employment isn’t a bad idea at all - it worked for me for about 8 years, at which point I was truly ready. Plus the grandkids thing… Anyway, Happy Retired Drain On Society!!!
I got pretty decent sleep, tho I’d have liked another couple of hours. Apart from the Toddler Tornado, I’ve got a tech from our HVAC/Plumbing company coming over to give us a complimentary plumbing inspection within an hour or so. Not sure what it entails (yep, those are pipes!) but I’m here and it’s free so why not?? 
It’s supposed to be cold and rainy today. I may or may not start a fire downstairs. It tends to stay in the mid-60s down there, and if Tobias and I wear long sleeves, we’re fine. Plus yesterday, he was only interested in going down there so he could climb the stairs. I’ve started to let him go down on his own (yes, I’m right there to catch him) and he loves it! Once he gets to the bottom, he turns around to go back up again. He tries to hold the handrail, but it’s too high - I should mount something a little lower for him - I think we have some lengths of PVC that might work…
But not today. We’ll just figure it out as we go along.
In the short term, her sister, the retired nurse, will nag her. They’ll be heading back to Indy probably on Saturday. Once she’s back here, we’ll figure something out. I hope.
Happy Wednesday!
Afternoon, mumpers! It’s 6c/43f with a predicted high of 8c/46f and rain showers. Weather app says “It looks like someone’s going to smell like a fucking wet dog today and that someone isn’t me”. Nor me, I have been out briefy, it rained a few drops on me, and I am back in the dry office again.
I am having a mixed day today. Last night I had a message from a friend to say that her husband passed away in the early hours of yesterday morning. It was a shock, but also not unexpected since he’d been diagnosed with (and treated for) cancer, which returned and spread. He went into hospital on Sunday and passed away peacefully. She hasn’t yet got her heart high enough to let the farcebook world know about him, she sent a message to group of us to let us know and asked that we keep it quiet until she is ready to tell everyone. I understand that, she told me privately that whilst she appreciates the condolences from those who were close to them both, she is not ready for the outpouring of love that she will get from farcebook. That, she says, is too much for her today.
Logged into irk, the boss asked how I was, and my first response was that I’d need a couple of days off to go to a funeral 
before asking how she was as she’s also not in great health and had to take most of yesterday off after disappearing out of a meeting. Makes me grateful that the only serious issue I have is general tiredness and menopausal insomnia.
Thus my day progresses, trying to do three people’s work (boss is overwhelmed, and my oppo is currently off sick with stress and depression) so someone has to pick up the pieces. We have a staffer leaving next week, she’s been offered a fantastic research position in Athens so she’d be crazy to turn that down. We are redistributing her work, some of it is coming my way because it’s big and complicated, so I was meant to pass something else over to the boss who of course has not yet done the very urgent job that needed to be done last week. I did it after a brief chat with her earlier, took me all of five minutes so that’s one thing progressed slightly.
Miss_Owl welcome back! And congrats on becoming another retired drain on society! You will have a long way to go before you achieve swampy’s olympic-level slothage but I am sure you’ll do your best.
Mooooom sorry to hear about MIL, I hope someone can nag some sense into her instead of everything falling on you and FCD. My mum had her daily pills in a blister pack from the pharmacy, she thought it was a fantastic idea and propped it up by the kettle so she would see it whenever she went to make a cup of tea as a reminder to take them.
sari I’m sorry to hear about your family woes, you really don’t deserve these people. It doesn’t sound like they deserve nice either, and it’s a shame when family has to be so horrible. I would also be telling your son to get his big boy drawers on and get out driving. Tell him a less-than-70 Brit told him so! I’ve spent a fair amount of time in your country, and I can tell you it’s definitely not fond of people who can’t drive.
seanette…I think you have a stalker Welcome, Bob, I think you’ll fit in pretty well around here!
Two meetings already this morning, bucketloads of things to do, and two more meetings this afternoon. I don’t know how I’m going to fit in my required amount of tea!
We had our plumbing inspection this morning, and it appears the sink in my studio has a leak around the drain - guess we didn’t use enough putty when we installed it. Easy fix, tho. But there’s some concern about our water holding tank - we didn’t replace it when we got the new well. That means it has some residual dirt/gravel/stuff in the bottom and since it’s 18 years old at the very least, there’s probably a certain amount of corrosion, too. Just under $3600 to replace it - it’ll happen some time this year, Always something.
Just back from a Food Lion run - I was out of 'nanners, and that just won’t do for Tobias. Now to tire him out before shoving a bottle in his face and getting him to nap.
Morning all. All the rain fell last night so it is supposed to be dry today, but only getting to 50F. Swimming-n-Sauna are planned, I spent the morning checking the bank balances (they are OK) and re-checking all my reservations for the Great Trip South (less than a week now) and everything looks good to go. Need to forage for sustenance here in a bit.
{{{Ms. Owl}}}!!! It’s always good to see a MMP’er who’s been away for awhile drop back in. Get yourself comfy and stick around awhile. And I also retired at 62 and never have regretted it.
Boo fae, sounds like the job may become irksome, hopefully they get some more help for you. And condolences to you and your friend.
Yanker, much thanks and I agree with swampy, that’s a nice truck; I like Dodge pickups.
Bob, welcome, had no idea that Seanette was your dearly beloved, and that sixty-second birthday line shows that you’ll do just fine here. Just need to work out a Mumper name for you–BB is to close to BBBoo, IMHO, and we have a Bobbio, even if we haven’t seen him for quite awhile. I’ll leave ti to wiser heads to determine.
nellie, I just tell the optometrist I can’t see a difference, and usually they’ll just repeat it again but slower until I give them an answer.
shady, we seldom have ‘cold’ winters here, but I do try to keep the thermostat low and since I’m usually in just one room about 50% of the day…
Sari, guess Cerby is just too 'High strung" (I guess dogs can be that). I presume some type of training is out.
Yep, two lines, less than 7-8 seconds.
OK, need to forage for sustenance and double check a couple more things on my trip, then onward into the afternoon. All y’all take care.
Thanks, everyone. I’m glad to be back among my [mostly] imaginary friends.
There were numerous other reasons for retiring when I did. I really didn’t like a lot of what I was doing any more, it wasn’t at all challenging or interesting most of the time, and a couple of my co-workers were immensely frustrating to deal with. We were supposed to be in the office 3 days a week but many people ignored that and I was one of the few who did go in regularly. I started to hate working at home and resented going into the office. Some things have happened there in the short time since I left and I’m really glad to not be in the middle of that mess.
As part of my plans, I made lists of where I’d be willing to work. I had my “maybe” list and my “nope, never” list (driving as the job, fast food, health care, child care, too far away, etc.). My “maybe” list includes such exciting things as local grocery stores, Target, the library, volunteer things, etc. There’s a grocery store at the end of my street (part of a small chain) and I’ve been told they’ll hire me on the spot. Another possibility is one of the local Adult Marts [commence to pearl clutching!], which Mike & I called “pornaterias.” I’ve heard they sell many interesting things and I may or may not have made purchases there.
I’ve got projects around the house, lots of stuff to sort through, etc., so I’ll probably be able to keep myself out of mischief.
I’m looking forward to amusement park season (Knoebels opens at the end of April - yay!) and I’m planning to go to Dollywood and Carowinds in June for CoasterCon. Who knows where else I’ll end up?
One of those days where everything broke, sometimes all at once. And it’s raining. it’s also Burns Night, so drink some Scotch, and address the haggis.(I’d suggest addressing it to the plaid hell from whence it came).
Well,you said you have a bunch of stuff to put on it, so a blank canvas might be the best start.
the house and the vacuum cleaner. {{{{Pulley}}}}