My bank used to, back in the before times, have a machine similar to a coin star you could dump your coins into. It’d ask if you wanted a payout for some fee, or if you wanted it deposited into your account. I have no idea if they are still there.
My coins are all loose, maybe Coinstar would be worth it.
baker, my CU is much like VanGo’s. You dump the loose coins in the hopper, it prints out a ticket and you can either deposit the total or get folding money (my CU doesn’t charge to take the paper option).
Hiss on the pun 
VeryBadCat is the gray stripy cat almost always seen in GG pics. She showed up on our doorstep around eight years ago. She pretended to be a nice kitty so I got her a place in a rescue and hubs was supposed to take her in while I was at work. She sweet-talked him into taking her to our vet for a checkup before coming inside instead. VBC showed her true colors shortly thereafter. One of her worse habits was to drag our hand towels into the living room and yell at them. She has bad influenced GG into dragging bathsheets into the living room to yammer at. Of course the dragging and yelling always happens in the middle of the night.
NotSoGoodCat came to us when I was volunteering at the local rescue group. He was inbred with a curved spine and crocked legs. He can’t jump or sit up on his back feet. Until a couple of months ago, his name was VeryGoodCat because he always used the litter box, never got on the counters or tables, never scratched the furniture, never tried to escape out the door, he was just that great. He was also our invisible cat, it was a year before our housekeeper saw more than a retreating tail. When faced with a camera, he becomes VeryHideyCat.
Then, for whatever reason, after GG had been here for a month, VGC took it in his mind to kill the kitten and we had to lock him up in our bedroom and his name got changed to NotSoGoodCat. NSGC is perfectly happy in his separate quarters and can’t jump the baby gate. NSGC likes to play in front of the baby gate to tease GG into jumping into his lair “Come on in, Gormless. We all float in here.”
Mine too. I’ve gotten pretty good with hacking my bangs off, but I do need to find someone to do a real haircut one of these days.
You are too sweet. While GG is a jerkface, he’s an entertaining jerkface.
If he survives his kittenhood, he’s going to be a wonderful cat. We can tell that he’s trying to be a good kitty now, but MOUSE!
We had a dawg back when we first got married. Said dawg would go after a skunk about once a year. I didn’t want to bring a skunky St. Bernard through our home to the bathroom so I would tie her to a porch rail and wash her there. The moaning and crying was so heartbreaking that neighbors would come over to be sure that nobody was dying.
The añejo is good, but tastes a little medicinal. I like the clear stuff in the link better.
I just contacted a local beauty school for an appointment. The students do need practice material and I don’t agonize THAT much about my hair. If what I ask the nice kid to do doesn’t quite turn out to be the right thing, it’ll grow out.
Yeah, it does take time to sort/count/pack. On a cost (my time, working)/benefit basis, Coinstar would have been more cost-effective. But 12.5%… Och, I canna stand th’ rape o’ me purse!
unknown The description of the kittehs dragging cloths around and yelling at them actually made me LOL. Thanks.
I’m one of the fortunate ones who can just take a #1 clipper to my head and be set for a few months. I just took a #2 to the beard.
Flyboy How did you gather that much change? I’ve basically only have had my Aldi cart quarter in my pocket for the past 2 years. I haven’t used much cash.
My kitties do this too. They have learned how to open the cabinet with the dining room linens and they pull out the runners and napkins and take their “kills” all over the house. They pause occasionally to rabbit kick those dastardly linens into submission.
Party was a solid “meh” though to be honest, I don’t know what I was expecting. It was basically a corporate shindig, with random people from a few other restaurants owned by the same guy all in a big room.
We played a few silly games, there was pizza. I had fun dolling myself up, though I’m 97% sure InCrPoo didn’t look my way.
I may just sleep in my makeup & see if it survives the night. If so, maybe tomorrow I’ll look cute at work for once. (I normally don’t bother, as I’m a sweaty mess soon into most shifts. I run hot.) But hell, I put a few minutes into eyeliner & fake eyelashes. Might as well get something out of it.
And special teams doom the Packers again. And the Canes got abused by New Jersey. I hate sports.
And Alex Catt does not do things(apart from occasionally tormenting Gordie by licking his tail). I suspect she may actually be a 5 toed sloth.
Carmen is my Kia Rio. 
Well, with the goatee, I’d be more Walter White than Uncle Fester.
sorry the party was “meh”. But you got to see InCrPoo.
Howdy. Watched both games. Brutal weather in Green Bay.
I made an offer on a house in Palm Bay Fl. I should know if I get it by 5 pm tomorrow. I know there are multiple offers but it is a beautiful Mexican hacienda looking place. It’s more money than I want to spend but location. I am in love already so hope I do get it. It’s 3/2 with a big privacy fenced yard and almost 1400 sq feet. My current house is just under a 1000. It needs absolutely nothing. Not even paint. It’s so pretty. I will have a big sad if I don’t get it.
Knee scooter came a day early yesterday so I was mostly off my bad ankle today. I am just hoping and praying I see some improvement prior to getting that MRI that has been approved by my insurance. First of the year and the deductible is not paid.
We have had rain off and on all afternoon and it’s going to cool off a bit.
Y’all stay warm and healthy. Those of you feeling poorly I hope you feel better soonest.
Cute little grandson there mmmooommm
Mwahahahha!
shoe I’m sure you’re always cute.
I was disappointed by the Packers loss. They are my NFC team, so, as my Pats are done I can just root for good games.
butters Best of luck on the casa, and enjoy the scooter. I wish I had gotten one back in the day, but I don’t think they really were a thing around 2000.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 28 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 54 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. The big item on today’s agenda is deheathenization (I have Verger duty), and the annual meetin’ at which I become a non-Vestry member and no longer church janitor Junior Warden. WOOHOO!!! When that is all over, we will return to da cave and chow down on chili and cornbread for N.O,L. Or, we might grab a McN.O,L. and have chili 'n fixin’s with cornbread for sup. One never knows with us.
butters appropriate/inappropriate appendages crossed re the new digs. Glad you like the knee scooter.
shoe sorry the party was meh. However you did gussy up and make the effort so you get a gold star for that. 
I get a haircut once a month. If I’m feelin’ all hippy (N.O.H.} I might wait six weeks.
And now this…
< AHEM > CLEARIN’ THROAT < AHEM >
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY DEEEAAARRR MMMOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
Ya Old Broad! 
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, purtification for deheathenization must commence.
Happy Sunday Y’all!
At my credit union, if you’re a member, it’s free to deposit the coins or get paper money back. If you’re not a member, they charge a fee, tho I don’t know how much. There’s a counting machine in the lobby, so no need to roll. In fact, they prefer unrolled coins dumped in the machine.
Regarding haircuts, I haven’t had a go-to stylist in decades. Generally I hit a place like Hair Cuttery. I always tell the stylist the same thing, and I always get a different interpretation of “layered, no fuss, I don’t use product” - and rarely am I really happy. But in reality, as long as it’s not in my eyes and I can wash-and-go, I can live with it. And if I go 3 times a year, that’s a lot. I lack the girly hair gene, I guess.
Awwwww, thanks you old geezer!! Tho technically, I’m not 68 till 11:47 AM Eastern time (actual birth was 8:47 AM in San Diego.) No plans for today as far as I know. Then again, birthdays aren’t a big deal to me - it’s not like I accomplished anything that Saturday morning. My mom and the hospital staff did all the work. So probably just another day of chillage.
And chill is right - 21° according to my outside thermometer. I think some precip may be in the forecast. Or not. Whatever happens will happen. (deep, huh?)
Happy Sunday!
I like the backstories for the cats unknown.
Hope that you get the house butters
Happy birthday Mooooooooom!
Up, caffeinating, breakfasting and fixing to do the Sunday chores and KP once fed. There’s a pot of charro beans in the crock and there will be a pot of turnip greens and some corn muffins made this afternoon. Such excitement!
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Good morning and Happy Birthday, FCM!
I managed to get in five miles at the park yesterday, although I forgot my knee brace and I definitely felt it later in the day. I plan to go back today. It felt good to get out there again, even if I was completely out of shape.
The next-door neighbors who don’t speak English and have a bajillion cars were having another party. At 4:15 when I got up, the music was loud as hell, even through closed windows and there was drunken singing to accompany it. It finally was muted at 5:30. 
Don’t let them talk you into another session of Junior Warden duties, Swampy! Don’t do it! Be firm! Be strong!
butters, I’ve got all my appendages crossed and hope you get the house!
The reason I have a stylist is so I don’t get 50 different interpretations of a style. Am I always completely pleased? Nope, but for the most part, I am satisfied. Before I succumbed to the gray, I had to go often to get my hair colored, I definitely go less now, but it is nice to freshen my hair and let someone else futz over it for a bit. I don’t really do much self-care; I get my hair done and in the summer I get pedicures because I suck at putting on nail polish. Also, pedicures are relaxing. If don’t have to wear make-up, I don’t do it. If I’m going out to dinner or to socialize, or even to the office, I put on make-up and put some effort into my hair. Other than, I’m content to be comfortable.
Not much on the agenda for today; the park and laundry. That’s about it.
I had one once. I hated it. My daughter loves them. It’s probably a good thing that people don’t come to me with their business ideas, because I’d tell them doing mani-pedis would be a huge flop. (She says as she recalls all the nail salons in this rural county…) I’m sure it’s related to that missing girly gene… 
FCD is up. I should probably drag myself to the shower, then don something other than fuzzy robe and slippers. I’m almost done with the afghan for my niece. I’ll try to get it packaged to mail tomorrow - just need to know whether I’ll send it to her or her mom. So there you have my exciting plans for the day!
It’s all from picking up pennies in parking lots and gas stations.
Actually… When I go to the office twice a week, I stop at a gas station for a couple of sausage logs. Or sometimes I’ll be about to take out my credit card, but whatever I’m buying is cheap enough I just pay cash. It adds up over time.