Where's The New MMP!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 42 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of < snerk > 69! < snerk > and N.O.S. for the day. The big item on today’s agenda is cleanin’ lady comin’ around ten to spiff da cave. Other than that it will be a day of sloth and the usual general overall uselessness. Sup shall be poke tenderloin, peas 'n carrots, smashed N.O.T. and rolls.

OK, that’s all I got. I figure some folk might be sayin’ “Where’s The New MMP!”, so here it is. Hijack away!

Happy Moanday Y’all!

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I noticed the lack, and as a lurker, I was so excited to start the thread I accidentally clicked on the Factual Questions forum and started it there.

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Mornin’ all! I’m a little late getting started today. My feet hurt. Don’t know why. Off to the shop to build some stuff.

Stay safe, y’all!

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Well, longhair. I hereby nominate you to start it next week. Howzzat?

Thank you all again for your prayers for me, my sister, my nephew and my family. Also much love on behalf of my sister, who truly appreciates you all. Going back to irk today and I dread it, but I can’t miss too much time as we are going to have to go out of town for the service, although I have no idea when it will be. I did get laundry washed, groceries bought and taxes done yesterday, so there is that. Happy Moanday. Hopefully this will be a better week for us all.

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I’m here! It’s Moanday. Today I get my hair cut and catch up on laundry. Three loads done yesterday. One chugging away now, and at least one more later. These include sheets and towels but fortunately I gotz lots of clothes. The weather forecast is kinda sunny and high in the upper 30s. Dinner is chicken with artichoke spread and provolone cheese which I buy at TarJay plus some sallit.

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So in spite of us being short staffed, SSLAWs breaking, belt being of, no one knowing about the E2Dc/ERA switchover, and maintenance having cleaned all the traps resulting in the building looking like we were downwind of Mt. Vesuvius, things went OK. Today would have been Gordie’s birthday/gotcha day. I’ll miss seeing him unhinge his jaw and swallow an entire Frosty Paw like Pretzel swallowing an ASF.:smiley:

swampy I did poke tenderloin and N.O.T. s last night.

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Poke tenderloin sounds delicious. We wound up with pizza last night - by the time mom got here, both of us were so down we just didn’t feel like cooking. Funny enough, just the prospect of not having to cook made us both absurdly happy, so at least the night was a lot of fun.

Doctor’s appointment is Wednesday, but it sounds like whatever is in her mouth is indeed more cancer, otherwise it’s unlikely it’d be growing so quickly, even though it looks totally different from what’s already there. Cancer is indeed a shitbag disease.

It’s sunny and beautiful outside, but cold. Luckily it’s supposed to warm up later today to almost 60F. I didn’t waddle this morning, but hopefully I’ll get a waddle in later.

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Afternoon, mumpers! It’s 12c/54f with a predicted high of 14c/57f, and cloudy. Weather app says “You might be chilly. There’s still time to crochet yourself some fucking leg warmers”.

It feels quite warm to me, and it’s sunny here in Spain. We are having a good break, doing some professional level slothage. Nothing planned for today apart from watching films, drinking tea amd deciding where we want to go and eat tonight.

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Good Monday!

Up, showered, broke fast, stripped bed. Now need to start laundry and have a look at the work laptop. We’re planning to go to TarJay, then I’ll go to the Fitness Center and will pick up some mideastern from Sahara for dinner.

{{Pearl and family}} continuing the :pray: RIP young nephew.
Condolences for comfort for you and your children, his cousins, your sister, his Mom, and his Dad, your parents, his grandparents, and any others who are grieving his passing.

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Up, ate, and exercised. Now for some Wordle and then some shopping for vittles and other stuffs. 27F and some snow on the way. Have a good week, all.

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I’m gonna have last night’s leftover chili on top of scrambled eggs and call it brunch. Is that wrong? Seems wrong but what the hell, I’ll live dangerously. I’m gonna spritz some Tobasco sauce on it.

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I take the view that any food can be any meal of the day, depending on the eater’s whim, convenience, etc.

Kind of rowdy morning over here. DH reported that Princess Allie and his desk chair had a collision. Took us a while to capture her for detailed examination, as far as we can tell she’s fine. She’s certainly feeling up to making very rude remarks to Buddy if he enters her field of vision, which he’s not happy about, as concerned as he was while she was being melodramatic about the chair. I also cannot seem to keep him out of my underwear drawer for very long. BP check this morning, need to pick up some dry-cleaning I should have picked up a week ago. Rest of the day TBD.

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For today’s annoyance, I got a new (to me) wood sealer/top coat. It’s a two part thing. Amazon cleverly put a sticker over the instructions, and upon peeling the sticker off, the ratio of how much part A to part B came off with the sticker.

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I am absolutely no good at saying the right thing, so {{{{{Pearl}}}}}

You can prolly look it up on the innerwebz. I don’t know how many times I’ve had to do that.

Dinner last night was meatloaf, mashed spuds and green beans cooked with bacon pieces. With Pop Corners ‘Carmel Corn’ chips for desert, and meatloaf sammies for second desert.
For some reason my BG was 142 this morning. :thinking:

It’a 43f here right now and threatening rain, according to the weather guessers. They’ve been mostly wrong lately though.

Wifey has expressed an interest in attending her company’s morning meeting today, so I’m supposed to hurry this up. I think she’s gone back to sleep though.

I could go use my own 'puter, but it’s cold in the basement.

I shoud go get some kind of dead critter out of the freezer for dinner. When I think about it, I feel bad for the critters who died so’s I could eat them. They aren’t treated very well.

Maybe I’m growing up?

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I made wonton soup for last night’s dinner after assembling a Gazelle strider and reorganizing a room to set it up in. We went through all our cookbooks and made an okay-sized donation pile. Today is more picayune tasks. I’m looking forward to getting them off my list.

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I’m always irrationally happy when I’m able to start a week by participating in the new MMP. :smiley:

I might be losing an uncle soon. My father is the second oldest of six kids, and his big brother – who’s about to turn 76 – has had mental and physical health issues all his life. He’s been living in a group home in NJ for several years, with chronic Crohn’s disease (among other issues). Anyway he’s currently in the hospital, and has been for almost three weeks: dealing with COVID and pneumonia and kidney failure and something that’s requiring him to get regular blood transfusions (his docs claim to not know the cause). He has already been on and off a ventilator once, and is now back on one after crashing this morning and needing to be revived. Every time he needs a ventilator, the odds of him ever getting off it decrease…and they were never great to begin with. He could still recover, but the end might be near.

Here’s the part where I’m a horrible person: I won’t care much when he goes. Because of his mental issues we never had any kind of relationship, and I will really only be sad for my father (and his other siblings). Paving my way to hell is the growing “don’t wanna!” feeling that I’m really not up for a funeral on that side of the family: the travel, the drama that will absolutely accompany one of my aunts, etc. And, guaranteeing that I’ll be on an express train to The Bad Place is the voice in the back of my head whining “but I have so many plans this month!” I’m definitely feeling guilty about all of this…and like the worst niece ever. :frowning: My therapist will get an earful on Thursday morning.

In other news, I’m about to leave for a physical. Because I’ve been getting regular surgery-related labwork and checkups, it’ll be my first primary care doc visit since July: I’ve lost 1-2 pounds since that visit, but I’ve gained 4-5 pounds since my last bariatric center appointment (in December). Seems like my current “let’s see what/how much I can eat now!” phase – combined with a lack of exercise – is starting to take a toll. It’s not a big gain, and I’m still a healthy weight, but I hope this experimentation phase ends soon and I’m able to settle into some new habits that don’t wind up reversing my 80-pound weight loss (therapy has been helping). I’m a little low-key worried about what my doc might say about my current weight, but mostly I’m hoping that my blood pressure will still be good! :crossed_fingers:

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That was my life exactly one year ago when my dad passed. My dad and I were pretty much estranged even before he got dementia… the funeral procedure and accompanying aftermath was… interesting.

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The mystery of the water bill has been solved. It seems I missed last month’s payment. How? I don’t know. Anyway, it’s paid now.

So I opened the crawlspace access, checked for leaks, and made it easier to remove the access panel next time for nothing!

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I hear you on that and wish you luck finding a good balance. I’ve been playing with exercise and food after getting an Ozempic baseline so I can see what happens when I change the variables.

You probably know this, but keeping a daily log of weight, exercise, and food is a good cognitive-behavioral motivator. I also find that participating in an online exercise tracking program or challenge increases my consistency and makes me push for specific goals. During the early pandemic, I started using The Conqueror challenges, which had the best-looking finisher bling: The Conqueror - Virtual Challenges & Medals | Virtual Challenges. Today I’ll finish The Eye of Sauron and send for my finisher’s medal.

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Happy Moonday! I know it’s supposed to be Moanday, but I thought this sounded more romantic. Also, maybe you’ve been wanting to moon someone but were waiting for the right day. Today is it.

I’m headed to the gym in a bit, then to a couple of stores. I have a few small projects to get to today, and then Old Flame is supposed to call. Tomorrow I have an eye appointment which, with walking, will take up most of the day. I should find out what’s next for me peepers then. Wednesday is the same, but with the retinal specialist, who always peers in, says hmm, no changes, and that he’ll see me in six months. (I’m grateful for the “no changes” bit.)

I forgot to say yesterday that I told son and DIL that my Pretend Friends on the Interwebs were saddened by Old Very Good Dog’s passing, and they were really moved. Thank you all for your kindness. You’re a Very Good Bunch, indeed.

Oopsie, there’s nothing wrong with not feeling sad about the death of someone with whom you had no connection and not wanting to travel and go through the whole emotional funeral. Of course, you feel sorry for your dad and his sibs, but you’ve also been to a couple of funerals within the last several months, so you naturally don’t want to go through that yet again. Good luck on the physical!

Seanette, apologies if I’ve asked this before, but when one has an uncaged bird, what happens when it’s, uh, potty time? When we were studying Thomas Jefferson, I always told my students about Dick, TJ’s favorite mockingbird, and how it followed him up the stairs and pretty much had free range, and they always wanted to know about the potty situation. How little I know! Glad Allie was unharmed in the bird vs. chair collision.

BooFae, glad you’re having a good time on holiday!

MetalMouse must be beyond the reach of the internet. I hope he’s having a wonderful time and taking lots of photos.

{{{doggio}}} Swallowing an entire Frosty Paw is an impressive feat, especially for a dog Gordie’s size.