It took me an hour to get 'Beamette to her appointment. It took me over 3 hours to drive back. I hate the Bay Area with the intensity of 1000 burning suns.
I need to work on the Christmas tree tomorrow. Looking forward to it. 
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 47 Amurrkin out and clear (well, dark) with a predicted high of 64 and cloudy for the day. Rain allegedly moves in sometime tonight and all day tomorrow and tomorrow night. We shall see. Today I shall lay in some provisions. I envision shrimpies ‘n grits along with tbd vegetative matter for sup. I got productive after seein’ the tooth doctor and doin’ candle duty yestiddy. Did a lot of laundry, dusted, vacuumed, and mopped da cave, and made sup. Thus I was tahrd last night and went earlyish to sleepy bye. Even pulled an all nighter! Didn’t wake up even once to pee.
MetalMouse sometimes a visit with the Millers lasts a long time. They tend to just want to hang around and linger.
George hope the IRS thing comes out fine and yay for lawyer refund.
I always kinda detested irk holiday thingys. Especially when TPTB decided it needed to be an evenin’ thing. I mean, I had to deal with ‘em all day already, so why would I want to all evenin’. However I would go and be a good bear.
Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy wants sustenance. Then, alas, I must purtify and once again don appropriate go about the public and act adult attire. Such a trial!
Happy Hump Day Y’all!
On the plus side, I remembered the deviled egg stuff and a platter to serve them. And I’ve got a box of snack mix that **FCD **can’t eat, but the ravenous hordes here should polish off.
On the not-plus side, I had a terrible night! I could not fall asleep, and I blame the Bad Chinese. I swear, they must load their food with caffeine!!! I finally dropped off before 1 (but I was awake at midnight when Roxy started crying… 
) and I was awakened not to much later when my phone informed me it needed to be charged. I had to plug it in or it would have beeped all night. But I fell back to sleep, then woke a bit after 4, and that was that.
Bottom line - maybe 3 hours of sleep. blech.
Today’s the facility holiday luncheon. I’m wearing the festive Santa T-Rex sweater that **FCD **wore to the company party, specifically at my boss’ request (OK, I was going to wear it anyway.) Thus begins my day. Wonder if I’ll survive the day.
So, yeah, Happy Wednesday.
Mornin’ (checks; yup, still just about morning) all!
Got back from my elaborate dental trip yesterday evening. Teeth OK, shopping mostly done, met up with intended friends and didn’t stab any fellow shoppers, so that’s all good. Got back pretty well exhausted though.
I just have a few miscellaneous cousins to shop for now, and they can all have chocolate. I’ve got the stuff for kids and complicated people.
Oops. It’s no longer morning. Oh well! I don’t have much to do today that can’t be done in jammies, thankfully!
Drinking milk and Pepsi this morning in tribute to the late great Penny Marshall (It really is good, I promise!) In other news… blurf. Mooooooom, you need to sneak in a nap later!
**Pearl **- I’ll probably just go to bed early… with Mel… 
I caught teh ick from swampy. Staying home from irk, close to a terlit. TMI.
Happy Hump Day!
It’s freezing outside, was 21 degrees when I took Ripple to daycare.
However the sun is shining and it’s supposed to get up to 48 later.
He thanks you for the skritches, I guess he was just tired last night. He slept all evening and all night, but woke up full of piss and vinegar this morning.
Nothing much on the agenda for today other than the usual.
Hope you feel better WetOne.
I desperately want to go back to bed but irk must be irked.
Ick, I’ve gotten sick.
I think it’s just a cold, but it’s not fun. Especially since I didn’t get much sleep last night due to my coughing.
And right now I’m drinking coffee but I have almost no food left. Boo.
And I finally got myself an avatar here.
Yay! Trump made the 24th a federal Holiday so I don’t have to use leave. The only thing he has done I can get behind.
I am doing clerk duties today dang it. Hate it.
**Butters **- I thought you had use-or-lose - aren’t you trying to burn hours? Tho this gives you 8 more hours to burn.
The boss was playing Santa today. He gave me a book called “How to tell of your cat is plotting to kill you” He’s also wearing an ugly sweater, but not as ugly as my Santa T-Rex.
Shortly, I’ll assemble the deviled eggs. After I wash my hands. They’re not food-ready at the moment - my office is filthy.
I think I related this here before but back in the early 70s I had a girlfriend who was stuck babysitting her little sister every Saturday morning while the mother and middle-sister were off doing whatever-it-was. Little Sister LOVED Super Chicken and for that half-hour was glued to the floor in front of the TV totally entranced ---------- so basically me and the girl could do anything we wanted until the closing theme came on. Then it was get dressed fast and back to what passed as normal for us.
To this day I can sing the entire thing; and sometimes do at work. It is that tattooed in my brain that it will never be removed or forgotten.
Too tired to catch up really. We have hovered around 250k packages a day all week; 30k of which down towards Maryland in our cross-dock. Some really good checks will result but its been an effort to say the least. Yet another time when I’m feeling a little old for this shit. Did volunteer to work Christmas Eve because its an early shift.
Memory is a funny thing. When I was in high school, one of my cousins, who was a couple of years older, was playing lady MacBeth in a school play and spent a lot of time rehearsing her sleepwalking scene. She never did get it right, but I could recite the whole thing from memory for many years afterwards, and probably still could today, though it’s fading, along with the rest of my memory.
Started to make tuna-noodle casserole last night and discovered that one of my cans of tuna was actually a can of chicken, so we had chicken noodle casserole instead. I need to start wearing my reading glasses when I go to the pantry. :o
Nothing else to report. Happy Hump Day!
Howdy all.
Nothing much to report, like swampy it’s suppossed to rain here starting tonight and into tomorrow (which is my travel day to brother’s house, of course). Need to do packing tonight.
{{{}}} (but at a distance, please) for all the illness going round. Everybody get well by Xmas.
Midget, colorful avatar. I likes it.
Pearl, I don’t think I;ve ever had Milk and Pepsi, but I will on occasion add Pepsi to a chocolate milkshake, so close…
FCM, good night’s sleep tonight. Hope the day goes OK.
Nut, glad teeth are fine and shopping is done. I just have to remember to take mine along in the luggage.
Sunny, how many miles was that? 3 hours seems outrageous, even for major city traffic.
Can’t help but notice spidey hasn’t checked in; that must have been one impressive Clan of Millers…
And that’s about all from here. All y’all take care.
Stuffded! The party is still going on, but I’ve had enough. I shall attempt to get a little work done in the next 2 hours.
Far too many desserts out there - another reason I had to come back to my desk.
Oh, yeah, almost forgot to mention - one of the newest baby engineers was wearing a sweater that had reindeer humping all over it! :eek::eek::eek:
Got my emissions test done, well the truck’s emissions.
Passed and good to go for 2 more years. One more thing to cross off the list.
I saw a laundrymat on the way that advertises large washers, I have some big things to wash so nice to know there is one close by.
Also saw a car wash which is closer than the other one.
What else would reindeer do on Hump Day?
Like the avatar Midget.
Milk and pepsi, sounds gross. I don’t like either one and I can’t imagine combining them would improve the taste.
Happy Packing MetalMouse, don’t forget to pack the gifts!
Back to irk around here.
Granmamamama used to say she slept with three men. :eek:
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I once heard someone describing someone else. “He got drunk…on Coors [del]Diet[/del] Lite; had to have two cases of that shit to get drunk off of it.”
Miller’s better, but not that far behind so it took me a while to ingest all of that liquid. :o
*Actually, I didn’t have anything to drink since I had some Santa’s Butt whilst watching the Iggles handegg game on Sunday.
I looked outside and saw a tree moving and I thought damn, it must be getting windy. No, the neighbor came over and finished cutting down the tree that my niece’s bf was afraid to finish because of the wires.
I also found out that my niece’s bf fixed a squirrel hole, but not the one I wanted fixed. I didn’t know I had two of them. So the neighbor said he’ll be back when he has a ladder and fix the other one.
He wouldn’t take anything to do the work so I’ll send him something.
Just found out that our family friend - the man who lost his wife and daughter this year - may have had a stroke. My sis and mom went to his place and found him staring and incoherent. He’s in the hospital and his brother is flying in to see him - the last of his family.
So very sad - Jim is such a sweet, gentle soul.