Good afternoon, fellow mumpers! Today’s good news is that my doting parent is being allowed out of the horsepistol at some point in the day. She rang me earlier to tell me and said she’d ring again when she was home - that could take several hours since it always takes the horsepistol a dog’s age to get medication organised. They have multiple on-site pharmacies and not all of them stock the same stuff so you have to wait for everything to arrive from wherever it’s located. Anyway, it’s definitely good news that she’s getting out.
In other news, I had a job interview this morning that went catastrophically badly, mostly because I’m jetlagged and not sleeping much at night. So this morning I’d had about three hours’ sleep, didn’t function too well and probably came across as a totally bumbling loon. While I was on the premises I called in to see a couple of friends, came home and had lunch, then went to do the grocery shopping as the fridge was nearly empty and we were down to the last bag of cat food. Fortunately we still had 14 rolls of TP so some level of disaster has been averted.
I’m contemplating whether or not to do some exercise. I should since we did pretty much nothing but eat and drink on holiday so I am way over my target weight. Then again, I don’t really feel like it just now so perhaps I will leave it for another day. There’s always laundry and ironing to stave off boredom.
Looking for reactions/opinions on this- not fishing for compliments. Spousal unit just finished painting it and he honestly wants to know if it’s any good from people who don’t have any stake in guarding his feelings.
I hit the wrong key and lost a whole post just now. At any rate, good morning all! It’s still morning here, at least.
It’s been a busy weekend here - lots of weather-related news, mostly in the eastern plains area and the southeast - severe weather warnings/watches/alerts and tornado warnings, and even a few funnel clouds/tornado set-downs. Oh and hail too, some as large as softballs but mostly smaller in size; still damaging. Not to mention the winds. Nothing where I live, and especially no rain. I wish we could get some of the rain at least that others have been getting!
Oooh, a couple of folks mentioned that stupid movie, “Day after Tomorrow,” we were watching it too. Geeze louise, what a DUMB storyline! The animatronic wolves took the cake though. LOL I’ll watch “Cutthroat Kitchen” marathon before I watch that movie again, let me tell ya. And why is it that there is NOTHING watchable on the so many cable channels?! Gah!
Went back to the Farmers Market store again and gots loads more fresh fruits and veggies. Last night we had fresh spinach and this morning I had a fresh peach on my shredded wheat. So glad that we finally found and went to that store; so much of what we’ve gotten there has just been delicious and is mostly less expensive than the supermarkets, including Walmart. LOL
Heard from realtor and just upped my offer. I knew the house was priced too low. The bidding is open until Wednesday and there are multiple offers going in. I’m not feeling hopeful.
I need to get some lunch and make some phone calls. I hate making phone calls from home, you never know who is listening in. Sometimes I’ll go take a ride when Ineed to make calls but I am going to need my computer handy for some of these.
Howdy from irk! Been a busy mornin’ for da bear. Gettin’ things set up for my new assistant to start next Moanday and gettin’ somebody into her present trainin’ site for hopefully next Moanday as well. I have advised folks that there might be a couple days delay in bringin’ in the new participant dependin’ on how much on the ball TPTB are. I see no reason why approval won’t come through this week, but then again I have sense, a property sometimes not present in TPTB.
MOOOOOOM I’ll check out the pic when I’m at da cave this evenin’.
**lieu **- it was sorta copied from a picture. He finds pictures he likes on line, then modifies them according to what he’s going for. I think he picked this one because, first, he’s trying to learn how to do hair - apparently that’s a challenge with an airbrush. And secondly, he wants to paint this on the back of his leather vest. He’d like to sell the painting, but he doesn’t want to if it’s not “good enough” - whatever that means. We may just take it to the store where I sell my pottery and see how it goes.
He’s still in the learning/experimental stage of his airbrush work, altho I think he’s pretty good. I think his bikelooks great! He’s hoping to make some money doing artwork on bikes, vests, chaps, and helmets or whatever else.
Frustration is the word of the day.
Or maybe it should be stupidity.
Stupid people frustrate me. They do stupid things then expect me to help them fix it when if they had listened to me in the first place they wouldn’t be stuck on stupid.
You know what else frustrates me?
Keeping my mouth shut.
There is nothing to be gained by opening my mouth, it will do nothing but cause trouble and piss people off but damn it’s hard sometimes.
I’ll take out all the HFH shit so it’s easier to follow
My sister doesn’t like my nieces husband. My sister is always telling my niece she should get a divorce, my sister and her husband sit and talk shit about the nieces husband, they make fun of him, talk about how miserable my niece is and if my niece denies being miserable they say she is living in denial because how could anybody be happy being married to the nieces husband.
However, my sister and her husband have no problem asking my nieces husband to help them out and do things for them. Talk shit behind his back and smile in his face, which to me is just sickening behavior, well lets face it the HFH are just disgusting people.
It is always on the tip of my tongue to say so sweetly to my nieces husband what a nice person he is to be so helpful to the sister and bil considering all the shit they say about him behind his back. There is nothing to be gained by this but damn if I don’t want to say it.
However, the real kicker is this. My mother doesn’t like my brother-in-law. Al the things my sister says to her daughter? She gets it honest because my mother says the same things to her, that she never should have married him, that he is no good, that how could my sister possibly be happy married to him, etc.
Every time my asshole bil chimes in with my sister about how horrible my nieces husband is, I sooooo want to tell him that doesn’t he realize my sister gets her behavior honest and that everything my sister is saying about my nieces husband is the same thing my mother is saying about him.
I bet that would wipe the smug look right off his face.
Silence is golden, right?
Keep your nose clean and your mouth shut, right?
Shutup Sari, right?
His bike does look great. I think he needs to go ahead and keep painting and it’s gonna sell, more and more as he continues to perfect his craft. Man, what an artistic home y’all have.
ETA: Speaking of customs, my El Rey tee and Austin Speed Shop (ASS)hat both arrived, now just waiting on Gas Monkey Garage.
**sari **- somehow I don’t think it’d affect them if you said those things to them anyway. From what you’ve told us, I expect they’ve made up their minds about your opinions and that will color whatever you say. Screw 'em - just ignore them till they go away. Yeah, I know, easy for me to say…
I just had some very frustrating studio time. One piece I’d made a while back and just brought out to finish broke in half as it was sitting on the cart, so I just broke it into little pieces and dumped it into a container with some water. I’ll reconstitute it and try again. I was going to put feet on the egg plate I did the other day, but it’s still way too wet. I also think it’s too thick - I may roll it out a little bit more.
The larger of the other two slabs has been cut to a giant egg shape and it will become a deviled egg tray. The smaller slab is now a rectangle with the corners turned up - it may also be a deviled egg tray. We shall see.
Anyway, it was frustrating, so I quit. Now I need to figure out what we’ll have for supper.
And Sean you don’t know how many times I want to tell all of them to shut up. Just leave people be. You don’t get to decide what makes other people happy.
FCM let me know when you are done with the deviled egg trays. I may want one. I like unique pottery pieces.
I keep asking my mother when they are going to leave because she says they are leaving.
My mother makes me mad though because she said she didn’t want him back here because there wasn’t enough room. His answer was he’ll slide in and make room. What she was really saying is she didn’t want him here at all but she is too nice to say it. I don’t know if he was too stupid to pick up on it or he just doesn’t care.
Apparently it got up to 103 deg F yesterday and is supposed to get close to that again today. The insulation must be working, because it didn’t feel that hot.
Also, the cat trapped under our house during the recent renovations has been trapped and released. He bee-lined for one particular house and yard and I’ve seen him there since. So that’s one less thing to worry about.
At any rate, good morning all! It’s still morning here, at least.
