Home at last. I’ve made the executive decision to take off next Thurs and Fri and Doug has OK’d it, so yay! Naturally, **FCD **needs me to do drafting for him. Guess my weekend and the last of next week is full.
Good excuse not to do manual labor, tho. 
Supper will be a variety of leftovers with a side of Amish green beans/sweet onions/white mushrooms all sautéed together. Yum!
I ordered a used paperback from Amazon last week. It arrived this afternoon.
It was left in my doorway. It was in a cardboard box that was taped shut. So I got some scissors and cut the tape.
When I opened the box, I found that the book was inside a mailing envelope which was also taped up. So a little more scissor work and I opened that.
When I took the book out of the envelope, I found that it had been taped between two pieces of cardboard. I used the scissors to remove the cardboard.
When the cardboard was removed, I could see the book. Inside of the taped plastic bag it was in. I removed this plastic bag and at last I was in physical contact with the book itself.
I’m thinking of leaving a review of the seller on Amazon, suggesting that they should put a little more effort into their packaging in the future.
Hahaha! 
**Nemo **- what? No styrofoam peanuts??? :eek:
Howdy Y’all! We have supped. I decided on spinach sallit as the vegetative matter to go with the shrimpies 'n grits. I knew y’all were worried.
MOOOOOOM I have a thing for a hunnert percent cotton shirts, thus I ahrn. I have plenty of pullover shirts as well, but when I want to look real adult for the public I go with the button up one hunnert percent cotton. Also, spoiled brat likes one hunnert percent cotton shirts but somehow seems to ahrn even more wrinkles in when he attempts to ahrn, so I ahrn his shirts as well. Spoiled. Brat. he is!
Appalachia: Five million people. Fifteen last names. 
doggio, Nelson usually settles in curled up in the crook of my knees or the small of my back.
Happy birthday Ripple!
Moooooom, swampy and his love both attend church, increasing the liklihood of wearing button down shirts.
I had to reboot three times within the first fifteen minutes of irk this morning because of thunderboomers. I had my semiannual review and got some good feedback. Now, it’s just getting things closed out for month end and vacation. Yay!
It looks like I’ll be spending the fourth at a friend’s birthday party. His birthday is the fifth, but the celebration is usually on the fourth when everyone has a day off irk. This is an important one, as he’s in hospice now, so I’m making an extra effort. Nelson is invited too, since it’s a cookout at the farm and he likes to hang out with Jim’s lab Jack. 
Worked, went to hockey practice.
Mostly off tomorrow.
Sadist.
Exactly. You spend $2.79 for a shipping charge, you expect a little effort.
Sorry to hear about your friend Red. I hope the day is a happy celebration.
Every now and then I think of that video you posted of Nelson and his pet Froggy (I think). His expression when you tossed it out to him was just priceless. The thought always makes me smile.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 72 Amurrkin out and clear (twinkle, twinkle, little star!) with a predicted high of 94 and rain/tstorms/apocalypse this afternoon. We shall see. I need to brave :eek:Wally*World:eek: this mornin’. ‘Tis undies buyin’ day. Due to a gnawin’ and a cravin’, we shall sup upon chili/cheese/onion/slaw dawgs with fries. Veggies are involved so I say it’s healthy.
Red sorry about your friend but glad you’ll be able to be with him to celebrate his bday. As I have said before, I cannot say enough good things about hospice.
Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then I suppose I should purtify since I am to go about the public. Since it’s :eek:Wally*World:eek: I shall don jeans shorts and a pullover shirt. One does not wear one’s nice button up one hunnert percent cotton shirts there.
Happy Thursday Y’all!
**swampy **- I thought required Wally*World garb is a tank style undershirt with assorted stains down the front and an optional hole or two. Did I miss a memo??
Weather-guessers this morning said we’re in for about 10 days in a row of 90+ temps. ugh. Not amused at all. Altho my laundry should dry fast in such heat, so there’s that.
I’ve got to make some deviled eggs for the 4th at Mom’s - she asked for a dozen anna half and I’ve got just enough eggs in the fridge to cover that. I’ll probably stop on the way home and get another carton for other uses. Plus Diet Coke’s on sale. And Turkey Hill Ice Cream…
Other than that, just work work work work work work. Good thing I love my job!
Happy Thursday!!
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Gotta go in to work for an hour, then I’m free the rest of the day.
Don’t forget the skin tone, one size too small spandex pants.
**doggio **- worn over underpants of a contrasting color, of course.
Red, sorry about your friend. Hope his birthday is wonderful.
Juliet Jr. lost her first tooth last night. She woke me up this morning by running into the bedroom screaming, “Mom! Mom! It happened!” Before I could try to figure out what she was talking about, she shoved a tiny little tooth about 1.5 inches from my eyeball. I didn’t have my glasses on and whatever she’s showing was practically in my eye, so I couldn’t figure out what the heck had happened. I honestly thought she was dying or something.
So I need to get some tooth fairy money for tonight. Good thing she’s a sound sleeper.
Sunny, I’m calling it a participation trophy because I’m always in the top ten of my random group. If they put me up against every one of their six (or seven) figures of people then I can see some idea of where I really stand.
Of the two below me, one didn’t upload anything (0 steps) & the one must have walked down the hall to the bathroom sometime early last Moanday & uploaded there & then not again; how else does one do a whopping 13 steps for the entire week? 
Swampy, please pick up a case of brain bleach whilst your there. :mad:
Speaking of which, did you take a trip to the biiiggg (Hotlanta) airport this week? There were reports of some guy running around on the tarmac in his underwear. :eek:
You know, I would take that comment in a wide variety of ways. 
What can I say? My mind is in the gutter because my body likes the company.
Having known a few of our third-party vendors they probably would. 
Or kevlar.
Happy Thorsday!
I think we may have to close the windows and put the AC on today.
I had a horrible night’s sleep, woke at 2 and couldn’t get back to sleep. I slept through the alarm this morning. Fortunately the company calls us a few minutes before we have to log in to remind us. The phone woke me.
So far it is nice outside, but is supposed to get hot.
I’ve only had one snuggly cat, my Whiskey Kitty. He would sleep curled around my head and I had to hold my thumb by my head so he could suck on it while he fell asleep.
My horse let me hug him but he never hugged back. He was my enforcer and protector though. If we were out on the trail and I yelled at one of my dogs he’d put his ears back and give the offending dog a little nip on the rump. Once some man at the barn was giving me a hard time over some bs and my horse put his ears back and tried to bite him.
I may or may not have shared this, but too bad - here goes:
When my daughter was losing teeth, she once left a note under her pillow saying “Look on the window” where her tooth sat on a note that said “Here it is!”
Not long after that, she came to us telling us she knew there was no tooth fairy because she’d given us the “ultimate test.” She didn’t tell us when she put the tooth under her pillow, so, naturally, it was still there in the morning.
We pointed out that she’d lost out on cash at that point!
Lunch time!!! And I’m meeting my daughter at BJ’s after work today - she got a membership and we need critter stuff, so I’m going along to let her know what’s a good deal and what isn’t. Good times!
blurf Irking. We are having the Blue Angels Air Show next March and I was supposed to attend the first meeting today but I begged off. I know my role and it is always the same. I help people use the website to buy paid seating and merchandise and then at the actual show I police those paid areas and make sure folks have tickets.