Sunday has rolled around again, I was up relatively early and have already done the vacuuming and put some dye on my hair. Once I’ve washed that off, I’ll do the ironing. Then there’s bread to bake and cakes to make…and then I think I deserve a little bit of time on the sofa before I have to get that wi machine out and do half an hour on there.
I made meatloaf for dindins last night, it was done from a Fat Club recipe so it was ok but not brilliant. Needs a bit of tinkering, and the accompanying barbecue sauce wasn’t too inspiring so I’ll have to work on that. I have some left that I’ll have for lunch with some veggies today so that will be something to look forward to.
Tonight’s dindins will be Chinese chicken curry and egg-fried rice (made at home, not from the takeaway) which will be very yummy and I fully expect to have to fight at least one of the cats off for that.
Of course I’m up before 6 on Sunday morning - why wouldn’t I be?? :rolleyes:
Last night was fun - apparently Ziva’s fear of coming out when there are strangers in the house led to her peeing on my side of the bed and on the floor on my side of the bed. Too late, it occurred to me that I could have put an auxiliary litter box in there for her use (which I did, and which I heard her use later last night.)
Anyway, we had to strip the bed, then I used the last of the Nature’s Miracle on the 2 pee spots. I fear my memory foam mattress topper may be history. Then I stacked several towels on the wet spot on the bed so I could sleep last night. The sheets and mattress pad are being washed this morning. And after **FCD **is out of bed, I’ll drag out the carpet cleaner and do my best on the offending spots. Then when the mattress is dry, we’ll flip it over and, I hope, start shopping for a replacement. This one, after all, was bought in '97 and has been thru 2 moves and several months in storage - it’s in pretty rough shape.
I’d suggested we get 2 extra long twin mattresses since I like memory foam and he doesn’t. When the bed is made, it’d still look like a king, but we’d each have the bed we prefer. We shall see what happens.
Meanwhile, here’s how knitting went yesterday evening. I did manage to finish another hat, so there’s that.
Still raining. Daughter will be leaving some time today and life will return to normal here. One of my sisters emailed me that her MIL died - it was probably a blessing - the lady was 85, a widow, and had been in poor health for quite some time. Of course, this is the sister who has been furloughed because of our inept governing body, so that’s one more thing dumped in her lap…
And so it goes. Hope you got some sleep, LiLi. Happy Sunday.
It’s a wet cloudy 70 degrees with a projected high of 70.
I guess this is as good as it gets.
I’m up too early although I should stay up to irk since I didn’t work at all yesterday. I didn’t get to sleep until after 2 so I feel like crap right now.
So today I have to irk, send some more forms off to the realtor, and see what I can find out about the new doggie wash around here. For now I am gong back to sleep if I can.
Well, I got to sleep between four and seven, with only two interruptions. The girls fell asleep about three but then Nat started having nightmares and kicking the wall next to our room REALLY LOUDLY until four. I didn’t kill any of them.
I am so extremely fried this morning.
And it’s Canadian Thanksgiving today. My parents are coming over and we’re having Ye Olde Traditional Chinese Take-out. I haven’t slept in two weeks and my mother may have Alzheimer’s or possibly a brain tumour. Neither of us are up to cooking a big dinner.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN ‘Tis a sunny 60 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 87 for the day. Fall with a little bit of Summer tryin’ to peek in.
I forgot to mention one bit of excitatement from yestiddy. After mowage and before pizza ingestin’, both of us got haircuts. The fun never ends!
{{{LiLi}}} sorry about the lack of sleep. Here’s hopin’ for the best for your mom. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!
Now I need more caffiene and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, purtification for deheathenization and ush duty must commence. I really don’t wanna ush today but I’m up, so duty calls.
Don’t know what N.O.L. will be today. Mayhaps grab a burger at Steak 'n Shake. Haven’t done that in a looooooooooong time.
Not much going on in the Stately Manor today. I’m going to make bean soup and, if I’m feeling adventurous, collards as well. It’s fall. That’s a good time for beans 'n greens.
But first, there is more coffee than air in my cup. Must rectify that situation.
Daughter is on her way back to Orlando. **FCD **is napping. Mattress and rug have been cleaned and I’ve got a fan on high in a feeble attempt to dry the areas - mainly the mattress - the carpet can dry at will. And since I had more stuff in the steam cleaner, I spot cleaned a couple spots in the dining room and living room. I also washed the sheets and mattress pad that were peed upon, and I’ve got a fan on the memory foam pad that had been soaked in Nature’s Secret - I hope I don’t have to toss it.
Poor Higgs is lonely with Cozmo gone. Ziva, on the other hand, will be glad that the interlopers have left and she can have run of the house again. I’s tahred, but I’m not going to nap - I’d rather be exhausted at bedtime and sleep thru the night. So I’ll surf and knit and watch TV to kill the afternoon. So goeth things at FairyChatEstates.
Something is wrong with my computer and I don’t know what it is.
Whenever I try to send an attachment, say like a document to the realtor, it sends hundreds of photos along with it. So I had to rescan all my documents and put them in a new file.
I also have dozens of copies of the same pictures along with all other kinds of crap that I have no idea where it came from. Well I know where it came from - the burstly cache stuff from words with friends - which by the way is not working well either. I keep getting the black screen of death on my phone. I don’t know if I delete the app and reinstall it if I will lose all my information or not.
Lunch was my left overs from the wedding. I felt kind of weird wrapping up my sandwich and piece of cake but they would just get thrown out anyway so I brought them home.
FCM I need a new mattress too. Only I have a spring poking through mine. I’m waiting, or hope I can wait, until I move so that is one less thing to move and I’ll have a new mattress delivered to my new house.
HFH is having another little temper tantrum and saturating the house with air freshener again. I hope she chokes on the stuff. She’s all pissy because I got home right behind her last night and she had to put her dogs up after just letting them out. Oh well, maybe if she taught her dogs some manners and got them under control she wouldn’t have to put them up.
I hear her husband is coming here for Christmas - oh joy and happiness.
I’m thinking I’m just going to offer the seller in Harpers Ferry the full price and be done with it and I’ll pay for the repairs myself.
I’m in da cave, all deheathenated with ush duties dispatched with, had N.O.L. (Steak ‘n Shake aka the Shakey Snake), and got a load of towels in the washer. Soon as they are tossed in the dryer nappage shall occur. OYKW is hangin’ here today (YAY!) and has some laundry that needs to get done. He has retired to the bedroom where I shall be shortly.
I have six quarts of beast stew cookin’ away. Some for a couple of dindins this week and the rest to freeze for later use. Also, I have a small ham bakin’ in the oven, and some chikin boobs and laigs cookin’ away in the convection oven. Go Me! It’s like my inner Martha Stewart has surfaced.
I wish I could organize my cooking.
I was when I was married, Saturday and Sunday had both crock pots going to make the meals for the rest of the week and freeze some too.
Of course it’s hard to cook here, I never know when I can get in to the kitchen, and Sah-son is such a picky eater.
I need to email my cousin, I keep forgetting.
I guess I should start calling my aunt too, she asked me to keep in touch more often.
Tomorrow shall be an exceedingly silly day. Yesterday, I decided I had too many chestnuts, as I had over 2 kilos, and I’m not a massive fan, so I doubt I’ll get through very many. It seemed a shame to let 'em go bad, so I asked on facebook if any of my friends locally wanted some… I had so many people getting so excited about them that I’m going to have to go forage some more tomorrow so I have enough for everyone
