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Howdy Y’all! I survived 
Wally*World , but needed nappage and a cocktail to recuperate. Sloth and sup were also accomplished.
Happy BDay to FCD! Hope the DMV was not too bad.
red glad Nelson is better today. Give him some skritches from Unca swampy.
Boo whatever it was you did to get the Lindt truffles, find out, and let me know so I can score some too.
The only thing I have ever slammed in a car door is a thumb. I was in kolledge the last time that happened, so a loooooooooooooooooong time ago.
We supped at Texas Roadhouse, then stopped at a wine and booze store for some Moscato and egg nog. I just pulled FCD’s b-day cake out of the oven - it’ll cool overnight and I’ll frost it in the morning. Tomorrow, I’ll get the chuck roasts in the oven low and slow early, then add the veggies thru the day. Daughter and fambly will be over around 4:30 tomorrow.
The rest of tonight is for chillage. I hope. I’s tahred…
Nelson is back on his feed today. 
I took him with me when I went to vote (it was cool enough to leave him for the 10 minutes that it took). After I took him back home, I headed to the discount grocery in the 'Boro, brought that stuff home, then got the bike out of storage and spent ~3 hours doing wind therapy along Tennessee Route 141 up through the old stomping grounds to Center Hill Dam. It’s a nice curvy road that’s pretty popular with folks who ride. Now for chillage.
And here I am thinking that you are a likely suspect to be the stealth sender, cause you are just nice like that.
Happy Thorsday!
A little drama at the park today, and ask me if I care.
Tired of the shit.
I’ve been in a grumpy mood all day. Irk was particularly irksome.
I have a client that I absolutely can’t stand.
My son says maybe I just need a break, I already took a week off, maybe I needed two.
Or three, or four, or a year off.
I’m already only working four days a week; I usually work seven.
I used to like it, I don’t know if I’m too stressed, or burnt out, or just feeling ill about everything anyway.
Sorry MetalMouse, I think it was an autocorrect.
FCM - it’s not just that they want me to refinance my house, they want me to refinance and take cash out. I don’t owe enough on my house to get a mortgage.
Last time they worked out a terrific deal for me where I could get cash back and my mortgage payment would go up more than 50%. That is not a good deal to me.
Happy Birtthday to FCD
I’m glad Nelson is feeling better.
Watching hockey, and drinking a martini, with the Hendrick’s gin [Theater geek]The Scottish gin[/Theater geek]
Good luck to you and Mr. Hedgehog!
Glad Nelson is back on his feed.
Good luck with the chemo!
First fire of the season. It took some tending, chopping some kindling, and a dash of charcoal lighter, but I got it going with one fire-starter. I’ve got some wet wood on top of the wood stove to dry out.
Evening all. Gym got skipped in favor of reading and soccer-watching (the Euro soccer championships are on break until February, so I lose that excuse…). Did make it to my soccer meeting and got several non-soccer things done while listening to the same stuff I’ve heard pre-tournament for many years. Did score a $20 debit card as a door prize, so guess it was worth it. Have signed up for seven games (1 Firday, 4 Sattiday and 2 Sunday) so that should keep me out of trouble for the weekend.
Sari, can you trade the client to someone else in the network? Maybe for someone nicer? {{hugs}}
red, glad nelson is doing better and sounds like a pretty ride here in the fall.
Nettie, I finally got a wrist-BP monitor, mine tends to go from something fairly normal like 126/78 to today’s reading of154/69. Try to do it at the same time (around 4:30pm). Guell I’ll just have to live with the Dr’s. worrying about it…I feel just fine.
Good luck on the chemo, kitap.
shoe, like BBBoo says, don’t let it get to you, be the nice people we know and they’ll have forgotten about it by night’s end.
OK, late and need to head off to bed shortly as the tackleball game is over and the Worlds Serious doesn’t particularly interest me. Take care all.
I’m always up for a late night/early morning phone call, shoe! The only thing I would ever bitch you out over is being too hard on yourself cause you really are a wonderful person.
I hope FCD enjoyed his day after the government foolishness at motor vehicles.
I promise that you did not miss a thing! I only did it once and like FCM, I was really happy that there was nobody there to see me being an idiot.
I hope you recover from your crud faster than poor Taters and Taters I hope you finally kick it as well.
Wait, what, you can’t just drop it like that and not give us the juicy details!
I’m sorry you had a bad day and I hope you have a better one tomorrow. I agree, the refi folks were pretty tone deaf.
I think that’s one of my fav cartoons of yours.
So I like to sit in front of my stitching room’s window and watch the birds while I play with thread. Today I watched a Red-tail hawk nab a dove off the bird feeder. It all happened in the blink of an eye and a bunch of flying feathers. I’m guessing the dove was dead from the impact because it wasn’t moving when the hawk flew away.
The temp dropped last night and it is going to freeze tonight. I’m so glad the little monsters had a warm Halloween, trick or treat isn’t much fun when you are wearing heavy coats and gloves.
We both get notifications when our plastic has been used and today I got a notification that we had bought more propane. Hmmmm, says I, we are all electric and I toodled out to ask hubs about it. Apparently the propane company had a promotion going where hubs could buy a tank of propane at today’s price and have it pumped later when it is needed. He’s going to ruin his Grumpy Old Man rep if he’s not careful.
Buddy disapproves of outside temperatures in the 30s. He keeps going to the door and fussing to be let out. When I open the door, he stares outside, then gives me this “are you INSANE?” look. Hey, goofball, I don’t set the temperature out there, and it’s probably not going to get any warmer before it’s light out.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 53 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 81 and N.O.S. for the day. This mornin’ I shall take care of stuff over to the church house. Sunday is All Saints Sunday plus there will be a Baptism and it’s also first Sunday brunch. I need to deal with candles, plus set up for the Baptism, plus get the Censer thingy all set up as All Saints is a major feast day meanin’ we must have incense. The incense we use is allegedly hypo-allergenic and does not have a very strong smell, but I still don’t like it. Anywho, OYKW is goin’ with me and afterwards we shall go to Eggs Up Grill and be bears who brunch. Any other need to feed will be via forage. After that it’s sloth all the way!
Boo 'twerent me who sent the chawklits. I do like MOOOOOOM’s smitten butcher theory, however.
red glad Nelson is feelin’ his usual self and that you had a good bike ride.
sari interestin’ that the dawg park drama is human drama. The dawgs just wanna hang out and play, even the misbehaved (who haven’t been taught better) ones.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, bother of bothers, I suppose I must purtify and don attire appropriate for bein’ amongst the great unwashed. Life is so difficult sometimes!
Happy Firday Y’all!
I ran into a “deal” like this once some eons back. It was pretty skeevy. After I did all the paperwork and such, they came back with closing documents that had me declaring my house was worth about 25% more than the neighborhood supported, so I’d have to lie to gets some non-existent equity while watching my monthly payment go up. I stopped just short of asking the guy “Are you F-ing kidding me???”
We did do a refinance a couple-three years back and got our interest rate under 3%, and by combining the original mortgage balance and the balance of a home equity line of credit, the new payment was considerably less than the previous payments combined. But even if the rates were still low, I see no reason to refinance and take out equity - that way lies insanity!
Some years back, I had a coworker who was constantly refinancing and I honestly have no idea what she was doing… maybe lying about the value of her house to get cash out? Meanwhile, her 30-year mortgage kept getting reset every couple of years. Seemed stoopit to me, but not my circus, etc…
I should bring in a load of firewood to dry in the basement so it’s ready when we need it. Despite the chilly nights we’ve been having, the basement seems to be holding around 72°, but history tells me that won’t last. Better get ready.
After multiple cards getting compromised, I LOVE getting those notifications! And FCD has learned to let me know when he makes an unusual purchase so I don’t chase him down and ask.
Terrible, terrible night. I was up late finishing my latest trashy historical romance novel (OMG are those things cheezy!!!) and it was nearly 1 when I finally went to the living room to see why FCD hadn’t come to bed. He’s so stressed over his parents and I don’t know what to do to help him. He’s also worried that he’s going to wind up like his dad - what do you say about something like that? I promised him I wouldn’t be like his mom and I’d seek help if it came to that, but I think his biggest worry is losing his mind. Aging ain’t for sissies.
I did get his cake baked and frosted last night. In a little while, I’ll find appropriate bakeware to start the roasts - they’ll cook low and slow all day. I want to push the vacuum around and set a nice table for dinner. There are many dishes to be washed and I might even wave a dust rag around… maybe… So, a busy, but not stupid busy, day ahead.
Happy Firday!!
Hello, again. Jeez, I’ve been away for a long time! I do keep up on things here, though! So, there’s that.
Nothing has really been going on around here, other than my daughter, nearly hacking her finger off with a machete. She was out back, trying to chop up sticks, for a fire that she was going to have later that evening.
Well, she did have her fire that evening, but not before she came in to tell me that she needed to go to the ER. Blood EVERYWHERE. I had to tell her to contain it better, as she was dripping onto the floor. That would NEVER come out of my rug, you know.
I’m joking. Jeez.
Anyway, away we went. They stitched her up. She had some wicked pain, running up her arm, into her chest, neck, and jaw. She went to her regular doctor a couple of days later. That doctor sent her to see a surgeon. Apparently, she had VERY NEARLY severed her tendon on the finger that she cut. So, she had to have surgery to reattach it. She’s off work until December, now.
My husband is still OTR, but he had to go get some tests done. I’m quite concerned about him. It’s always something. No rest for the wicked. I must be wicked AF.
He had to have a CT scan, with contrast, and a stress test, with contrast. His legs were weak, and he couldn’t walk far, without resting. The cardiologist gave him some pills, which have helped him tremendously. But, we’re waiting to hear if, or more likely, when, they’re going to need to install some stents, or give him, Deity forbid, open heart surgery.
As for me, I’m doing ok. I had some sort of three hour hot flash, yesterday. I don’t know why, exactly. I’ve had a hysto, and I thought they removed ALL the pertinent bits that would cause that. Anyhow, after the hot flash was over, I had to take a nap, as it totally exhausted me. I had just went to bed, and I started shivering. Good grief. Pissed me off. Why couldn’t I have started shivering three hours before?! Ugh.
I’m fine now.
Here I am, having my coffee, trying to figure out what is on the agenda. That’ll be laundry, and making my daughter a batch of Dr Pepper/Chocolate cupcakes. We’ll see how that goes. Ugh. Doesn’t sound appetizing to me, at all. But, I’m not the one that likes Dr Pepper. So, whatever.
Have a great day, everyone!
I hope I don’t disturb you by saying this, but this IS the same fly, so it MUST be a ghost because it remains little despite the passage of time. Flies grow until they die so, were it actually a physical fly, it would be the size of an eagle by now.
It must have suffered a traumatic death, so there is something holding it in this realm. You slaughtered it in its childhood. Confess, and purge yourself of the repressed guilt that is undoubtedly fueling this haunting. 
Good morning everyone.
Thank goodness it’s Friday and my day off!
It’s currently 59 degrees and wet outside. We’re under a wind advisory and temps will climb to around 57. It’ll be wet all day. One of the main mountain passes was closed down overnight due to traffic accidents and spin-outs.
I am still fighting the crud and am so sick and tired of this BS. The giant lump in my throat disappeared last week, but my throat constantly flares up and I still cough. Yesterday was a week since I’d see the doc. If I’m not doing better by next Thursday I’m going to get another appointment. I can’t believe this crap is hanging on this long.
I hope FCD enjoys his birthday dinner and cake, FCM. You’re both under a ton of stress, and I think having the in-laws nearby probably has worsened the stress in some respects because now you are right there and can respond immediately to each crisis.
I’m going to have to drag out the steam cleaner and steam clean the den. This morning, as I walked into the den in the dark, I step into something that didn’t feel quite right. By the time I realized what it was, I’d tracked it to my side of the den. So, there I was at 4:30 in the morning, spot-cleaning the carpet and washing poo off my slipper. Polar was mortified and clearly nervous. At any rate, I got everything up, but I would just feel better if I steam-cleaned the carpet. It’s well overdue, so I’ll get it done today. I would like to enjoy my coffee and relax a bit before I charge into it though.
I’m sorry about the dogpark drama, sari. I truly hope you find a new park and the folks you enjoy go with you.
Well, onward with the day. I hope you all have a good one.
Good to see you somewhere besides FB ace!
I hope that Polar is feeling better soon taters. I know that we worry about the critters when they’re feeling ooky.
Up, caffeinating, breakfasted, a load of towels in the dryer, a load of jeans in the wash and a load of everything else on deck. I’m fixing to do KP and the usual Friday housecleaning. Such excitement!
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
The dishwasher is doing its thang - NOISILY!! I suspect the pump may be getting ready to fail, judging by the gawd-awful sounds it makes. We installed it 18 years ago, so I’m guessing it’s geratric by now. Which means it should fail in time for Thanksgiving, right??
I’m sorry to hear about your daughter, ace!
Fever came back last night. Sadly, AssBad McHankerchief did not show up to swim, apparently it was just coach Tyler. Bummer. I didn’t go anyway (see fever). I’ve had more advil than food the last 2 days. I think I’m about to turn a corner though. Yay!