6:13 pm, and the heat index is a lovely 97°F. Blurf indeed. Weather dudette says that Saturday will bring some relief and maybe some rain. I’ll believe that when I see it.
And the funny noises might be the sound of a growing puppy. Cookie Monster went for his last puppy shots today. At ~18 weeks old, he weighs 29.9 pounds! (He was 9.9 # on his first vet visit, August 2.) I’m gonna need a bigger Vittle Vault.
1521 and 60ºF.
The Left Coast is cool. Just sayin’. 
Shenanigans? 
Congrats on OYKW’s retirement swampy.
I’m sorry about your uncle sari.
We had a cold snap today: only 97 when I got off irk.
Irked, went to AT&T to get a few things straightened out, only to find out that I will have to make a phone call to get billing’s head removed from its posterior. Came home, played fetch with a certain little dog and had supper. Once KP is done, it’s chill in the studio.
Tonka’s due for his booster shots on the 12th, so I made an appointment for the 12th. We’re also taking Goo in for her initial visit. The records from NOAH Spay & Neuter Clinic say she’s current on her shots.
ETA: Pic from today.
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Well, I convinced my son to go on the group assignment tomorrow.
It’s a bit of a convoluted mess, but he is going.
So no dog park.
Also, no funeral I suppose. I haven’t heard anything. I’ve been checking FB for information and there is nothing out there. My cousins’ pages don’t even mention that he passed.
Pretty sure that in both directions, I shared my commute with the worst of the sorriest excuses for “drivers” in the area, and there were an overabundance of them.
DH is now walking around the apartment sans walker or cane pretty well. He thinks the repaired left leg is now slightly longer than the right.
Would love to cuddle the cute kitties. The Princess is being a non-sociable brat lately.
Multiple call outs, so I had to work a double instead of tailgating. 
Flyboy, 
Congrats on OYKW’s retirement. I figure I can retire any time I want, and live comfortably for the rest of my life. Assuming I’m eaten by wolves during my retirement party.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 76 Amurrkin out and partly cloudy (partly moony?) with a predicted high of 98 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. IOW, still Summer. Not a whole lot on the agenda. I do have to take care of some chores over to the church house and will make a run to the Harvey’s Sto’ as Coke products are on sale there. Sup shall be majik intartoobz pizza and sallit. The sallit is to make it a healthy meal.
Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy demands sustenance. Then, alas, alack, and bother, I must purtify and don appropriate bein’ about the public attire. I shall endure however much I must suffer.
Happy Firday Y’all!
Yesterday, driving home from irk, changing lanes to the right at 65 mph, nearly side-swiped a poor lady driving a CRV. The lady was coming up fast from behind me, on the right lane, and I suppose she was momentarily in my blind area. Anyways, no harm done, except for an outraged blast of sound delivered to my ears. Then the same thing happened to me a few miles later - a dude driving a Jeep blatantly changes into my lane while I am bearing down at him at 70 mph. Managed to slow down in time, but forgot to honk at him. :smack:
Karma is real, yes.
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to work.
You’re obviously not putting enough effort into finding yourself a Sugar Mama, or Sugar Daddy, whatever… 
Awakened in the middle of the night by the text from VISA saying they paid our cable bill. It’s a dilemma - I want our credit card monitored for higher purchases, but, dammit, why do they process those things in the middle of the night? And I don’t want to turn the phone off, lest something happen to my mom or inlaws. And we know if I turn off text notifications at bedtime, I’ll forget to turn them back on when I wake. It’s *soooooooo *hard being me!!!
Later this morning, I have an appointment with the dermatologist. I’m kinda waaaaay overdue in getting a general look-over for skin cancers. Not for fear, just because, well, yanno, Dr appts are not fun. You’re scheduled for a time, and 45 minutes later you *finally *see someone. Not fun. Fortunately, our family practice is not that bad, but most specialists I’ve seen are.
Anyway, I’ll be seeing the PA - I don’t have specific concerns and I figure he/she is qualified to tell me if anything looks scary. :eek: :eek: :eek:
And this afternoon, I get Roxy time, since it’s SIL’s brother’s b-day and they’re going to do something together. Not sure what we’ll do - I’ll figure it out later.
Happy Firday!!
69 <snerk > degrees in the house this morning. It feels good after the cinnamon bun weather. Last night Ursala Kitteh decided she needed to drink from my glass of water despite her water bowl being 10 feet away. Yes, I scrubbed the glass and got a clean glass.
Happy Firday!
Up too early, I should have been able to sleep in this morning. However, lil shit was pressed up against my back and I couldn’t roll over. I tried easing her out of the way, but that woke her up and she was ready to PLAY!
It’s 61 degrees outside, supposed to get up to 70. According to my phone it is N.O.S. outside, but according to my window, it’s cloudy.
My son has to be at his assignment at 8:25, so we’ll leave here around 8:15.
Nobody in the group seems to know what they are doing except to show up at 8:25. Even the group leader doesn’t know what they are doing.
There was also some confusion about my son being in the group. The group leader didn’t have his name on her list, but he was put into the same message board group. There are five people in the group, but it is supposed to be three. Three assignments, each person taking a turn at being the leader. So I volunteered him to be the one to ask the professor if there will be five assignments for his group, or how it is going to irk.
Nettie, you could come and cuddle Adam, he is extra demanding lately. Gave me a good whack with his claws yesterday.
Mandala - should we call you guru? I think people who come up fast in the right lane deserve getting cut off. It’s a dangerous thing to do.
Congrats on OYKW’s planned retirement.
I am thinking about when I can do it myself. Once the house is paid off I should be able too. However, since I can irk from home and can irk whenever I want, I will probably continue to irk as long as I can.
Then again, since it appears my son will never get a life and move out, he can pay the bills and I won’t work. He has to get a job, because much to his dismay, I am not wealthy enough to leave him set for life. He would like very much for me to win the lottery, so he never has to irk.
Funny how I never wanted my parents to win the lottery,* I* wanted to win the lottery. I know they would have shared, but not enough that I wouldn’t have to irk. They would have quit irking and spent their time cruising around the world. I would have had quite the “My Parents Went to XYZ and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt” collection.
Better than key rings and fridge magnets.
Morning all. Only getting to 90F today sez the weather folks. We’ll see. Stayed up late watching the tackleball and the baseball on the TeeVee, so stayed in bed until near 8am. One more soccer practice tonight.
Fall break (here it lasts a whole week) begins Saturday and a lot of the kids are going out of town on vacation during the time, so I’m going to cut back on practicing to only one per week.
Sari, I’m like you, I’d rather win the lottery. Hope Sah-son’s assignment worked out.
Mandala (I second Sari’s suggestion of guru for your MMP name), it’s almost second nature these days to check the right lane for speeders when I make the change. Some folks cannot adjust to waiting for the left lane to go as fast as they want to go…
Now need to decide on sustenance and get about life (which means solving the Sudoku problems in the paper today).
Howdy. Made it to Firday finally. I am finally gonna leave the Sat girl alone tomorrow for the first time. My other two girls will be available should she run into any problems but it is way overdue that she can work alone. It is slow anyway.
Happy Weekend All!
I dropped my son off and he seemed fine. The group leader is an older lady, probably not much younger than I am, and she seems really nice. He seemed comfortable with her right away. I have to leave in a few to go pick him up.
Very cool and breezy, windows are open. Blow the stale air stink out of the house.
Very productive morning. I was at Hair Cuttery when it opened, so I was first in the chair. Since I don’t have a fancy cut and I don’t bother with blow drying or mousse or any of that crap, I was out the door in 20 minutes. That gave me time to run to Food Lion for a few things - nothing dangerously perishable, plus I had a thermal bag in the car, so it was a good stop. Then over to the Dr office where I was able to park in the shade. The CNP was on time, gave me a thorough going-over, didn’t find anything of concern, and I was out of there by 10:30.
Groceries are all put away. Roxy is napping, and when she gets up, I’ll lunch her, then take her to the playground. It’s loverly and cool and a tad breezy out - the house is open. So far, a very good day. 
**sari **- glad you got your son to get his butt in gear. Here’s hoping this group project gets him to venture forth some more…
I sure hope so.
It wasn’t so bad, all they did was take a tour of the facilities and then pack food into bags. He talked with his classmates. It seems all of them are confused about exactly what it is they are supposed to be doing. This is a class in leadership and management, and the professor doesn’t seem to be too clear in what she expects. This whole group is confused about what is expected, and they heard the other group from this town, who went to the same site, is confused as well.
Back ti irk for me I guess. I was in the middle of doing laundry when I had to leave. Hard getting stuff done with the little shit around. She wants to stay outside all day and I am not comfortable leaving her out there without keeping an eye on her. I saw on the shar pei group on fb that somebody had their 8 week old puppy outside with their kids and a man walked by, reached over the fence, grabbed the puppy, and took off with it.
Echo is not like Ripple, he always stuck close to me and would run from other people. Echo is super friendly and will walk up to anybody. She will happily run around the yard without caring where I am. I have a feeling that when I start taking her to the park, I am going to be one of those people who has to chase their dog and put a leash on them to get them to leave.
**FCD **and I took Roxy to the playground, and she had a good time again. Flat wore me out!! It’s gorgeous out there!
I’m going to rotiss a poke roast for supper. That’s the extent of my plans for the rest of the day.
Gave up getting anything done in the house and irked in the yard.
It’s too pretty to be indoors anyway.
Echo finally got so worn out that she started scratching and barking at the door to be let in.
I cut down the bush that was next to my deck. It is part of a row that goes in front of the neighbor’s patio, but it is on my side and I got rid of it.
It was a nice bush, very pretty and healthy. I hate cutting down healthy plants, but it was in my way and I was tired of it. I have a feeling it will grow back, which is fine as long as it doesn’t get too tall. I’d like to cut down the ones on her side, I don’t know that she would care. She never comes out back and she told me to do whatever I want.
I guess I should head up to the shower. I got bug spray all over me and you’re not supposed to get it on you. I should finish what I started up there anyway. I have clothes on the bed that need to be put away, and my bedroom and the hallway need to be vacuumed.
