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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Went to the gym and worked out, then walked errands. I got a Save the Date for my cousin’s wedding (first cousin once removed). It’s in Vegas. I do not want to go because 1) I’ve been to Vegas twice, and that’s plenty. 2) It’s in summer. I know everywhere is air conditioned, but…ugh. 3) It’s going to be pricey, and I’m still trying to save for Italy. If I don’t go, though, his mom will be hurt and angry, and I don’t have a good excuse.

Mooooom, so glad Roxie’s better, poor mite, but glad Tobias didn’t catch it, or you and FCD.

Boo, hope your grandson is on the mend, and REALLY hope with your health issues, you don’t get it from him. I got a chuckle out of you reading a book to him 47 times. I bet you can recite the book by heart now. I can still recite My First Counting Book (“How many nuts did you find, little squirrel, sitting in a row? Chitter chatter, what’s the matter? Don’t you know?”), and Never Tease a Weasel (“You can buy three frogs some sailing togs, and a yachting cap or two.”), and it’s been 25 years since I’ve read either. Crud like this takes up brain space, which is why I can’t remember stuff like Seanette’s cat is named Allie.

Seanette, as long as I already feel like an idiot, I may as well confess: I’ve never had a Shamrock Shake. I always thought they were vanilla shakes dyed green. Are they mint flavored?

Cincinnati chili…I’ve never had it. Mom sometimes made chili stretch for another meal by mixing it with macaroni (“chili mac”). I liked it, though I had to pick out the beans. I know it was an abomination onto the Lord chili aficionados, but maybe no worse than taco or Hawaiian pizza is an affront to Italian pizza lovers. Of course, that’s a low bar…

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I got out the leftover pork chops, mashed potatoes, gravy, and mac’n’cheese for dinner. SWMBO decided she only wanted the mac’n’cheese. So I made myself a turkey/provolone/lettuce/tomato/avocado sandwich. Also, I ate the rest (¾) of the avocado that didn’t go onto the sandwich.

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Keep laughing and enjoying the good days, may the two of you enjoy them often for many years to come.

No grated cheese? Yes, that is very wrong.

Doesn’t matter that you wash them after every use, they still smell like you and Buddy lurves you.

VBC used to be able to get into Hub’s sock drawer and anytime she was left alone, she would pull out all of his socks and drag them to the back door and make a nest with them. I thought that meant she wanted a kitten, so we gave her George. I swear there are days that she looks at me and asks if she can please go back to socks.

You are not a horrible person and your feelings are valid. He’s pretty much a stranger to you and taking time off, booking flights and hotels and all that is kinda expensive. Of course you don’t want to break your fun plans to pay a bunch of money to have a not so fun time, that is pretty normal too!

Welcome home FCM, I’m glad the fever finally broke. We always worry so much more about that sort of thing when it’s happening to a child.

I like to sit with my stitching facing the window so I can look back and forth from my work to the feeders, kinda like many folks do with hobbies and the TV. Now that I’ve started paying attention, it really surprises me how many different species visit every day. I am so looking forward to it being warm enough to move back out on the porch again.

You have yet another eye surgery scheduled that year and you will not be able to attend due to prep/recovery doctor visits. Bonus if it is this year because you will have already had the surgery and now need to recover. (My mother was told to not fly after having cataract surgery because the change in pressure could delay the healing. Of course, that restriction was only for a week or so, but nobody needs to bring that up.)

I’ve got the towels finished from GG’s great adventure and we have almost everything back on the shelves. Hubs has gotten offers on some of his stuff which is causing a slight conflict because he keeps looking at the boxes in my car that are meant for the produce surplus folks. He’s kinda cute, I’ll probably give him a couple…

While we aren’t quite ready to “Good Kitty” GG over the beerplosion, we are pretty happy with how well the hobby room works now.

Hubs is setting up to cook beer tomorrow, his schedule has been messed up and it will take a while to get everything back in order. It’s possible he might even have to go to the fancy booze sto and buy beer to drink to fill the gaps in his production this has caused.

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  1. Don’t have a good counter here. 2) Tell her you can’t tolerate the heat when going between buildings/cars. 3) Tell her (truthfully) you don’t have the extra money to spare. She doesn’t need to know WHY, so don’t give her a chance to bully you out of saving for YOUR goal to meet her demands on your time and resources.

Yes, and I like them. Tasty (IMO) and can be very nice on an unhappy stomach.

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This is really the correct response. It’s tough to do because we are so conditioned to want to please others, which is why I picked on your poor eyes instead.

Part of tomorrow’s cooking process is to fill a big ice chest with an ice bath to quickly cool the beer. GG always wants to help with this process and hubs opined that this is because GG needs to get more familiar with the ice chest because it mostly lives in our big outbuilding. I thought it was not the best idea, but it’s his cooking process and who am I to interfere? (Plus, his results are often very entertaining)

GG has been having much fun jumping in and out of the empty ice chest. He’s also managed to knock the lid closed enough that now he knows how to open it again. He’s going to have a much easier time taking a polar bear bath now.

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Did burgers and fries, with an Old Fashioned, as ususal.[quote=“Misnomer, post:16, topic:979378”]
I’m definitely feeling guilty about all of this
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Then no need to be guilty.

Bojangles has a fish sandwich during Lent. which is impressive, since it Bojangles in is mainly Baptist states.

Vegetable, hense “N.O.T.”

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Lost our Internet connection. The light on the modem was white, which means it’s on. I unplugged the modem and reconnected it, and there’s no light. So no Internet. (Currently connected through my phone.) I pay Xfinity over $200/month. Xfinity sucks. (But the only alternative iz Ziply, which sucks more.) I’ll have to leave work early tomorrow so that I can be home for the technician.

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I’m sure you checked the status page to find out if there’s an outage in your area. :slight_smile:

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Way back when streaming services were young, our modem used to die on a regular basis. The interwebz folks blamed it on where we lived and signal strength and all sorts of things which just came down to your modem is fried again.

After taking time off work more often than my sup liked, I managed to convince our server folks (this was way back) to let me bring the modem back after hours and then call and wait in the parking lot for one of the techs to make the exchange. I always feel pretty edgy when I do parking lot deals, it reminds me of the early days of my misspent youth.

Back when I was active in cat rescue, I would meet up with another rescue lady in a gas station parking lot so we could exchange critter filled carriers and often a hug because we were friends who were happy to see each other and then go our separate directions.

One day she was running late, so I risked leaving critters in my car long (windows down) enough to go inside and buy a bottle of cold water. The clerk made an offhand comment about wondering if something was wrong because we were so cute.

Apparently, many parents of human kids used that parking lot to pass children back and forth and the clerks got used to that sort of thing. When my friend and I started passing critters back and forth, nobody really paid attention to what sort of critters they were, they just figured out that we were a lesbian couple who had divorced but had agreed to shared custody of the pets.

My friend and I started wearing matching rainbow t-shirts after that because how could we possibly disappoint our fans?

Oddly enough, I have never once had a parking lot drug deal…except for that time someone delivered some cat clavamox.

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Up. caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.

When I had AT&T U-verse, there was a bad junction box, but they wouldn’t fix it they just made us change modems when we complained(6 different tech confirmed this). I no longer have U-verse for this reason(nobody has time to reset 15 different devices every time they changed it.)

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 40 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 72 and N.O.S. for the day. Today is laundry day. It’s all I can do to contain myself. I also have to take care of some errands today. None of them are really big things, but they must be done and they will take a couple of hours to complete. Still, they will require me to be amongst the great unwashed and I find that grievous. Sup shall be bbq sammiches made from the leftover poke tenderloin, coleslaw, and oven fries. At least I have yummy vittles in my future.

Nellie IMO, sayin’ you can not afford the cost of the trip to the weddin’ should be enough. You can wish the happy couple well, and, if desired, send a nice gift. The fact that you are savin’ up for a trip to Italy has nuttin’ to do with any of this. Italy is a thing you want to do and should do.

JtC one must never disappoint ones fans. I am glad GG has found joy in the empty ice chest.

We went through a series of problems with modems a few years back. Finally, one tech came out and said we needed a better modem and hooked us up with what I surmised is a super duper deluxe one, cause we have had no problems since then. Yay for that tech!

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, alas, alack, and oh so much bother, I suppose I must needs purtify and don attire appropriate for bein’ amongst the great unwashed. Oh woe is me! I guess I might as well start on laundry as well. Such drudgery is my life!

Happy Tuesday Y’all!

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Good morning.

It’s going to be quite warm-ish around here, today. I can’t complain. It’ll be getting up to around 60F, today. It’s currently a cool 48F. If that was as warm as it ever got, I’d be thrilled. But, no. Things like ‘weather’ refuse to work with me, like that.

The day will hold hovelwork, for me. I also need to order the dog food, and cat treats, from Chewy. There are dishes to be put away. Where do they all come from?! It’s like they breed! Ugh.
I don’t know what dinner will be. Probably just something simple, and low carb. A salad. Whatever.

I ended up making 5, individual chicken pot pies, yesterday. Four for the freezer, and one for my daughter. She told me that I needed to add more chicken. Damnit. Ok. I’ll keep that in mind for next time.
I think I’m done with making OTR meals for hubs, until I can restock stuff on Thursday, when I go grocery shopping. I’ll have to pick up Rxs that morning, too. I just wish I could get them ALL, in one fell swoop, instead of this silly business of getting three one week, and a week later, get another one, and a week later, there’s another one that needs refilled. Good grief, it’s annoying AF. I’ll be 61 in a month, and I’m just not into this crap.

I need more coffee, and then, the day will begin. Have a good one, folks.

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Really? For a cousin? I’d send a card and my best wishes and that would be that. Then again, I have a particular hatred for destination weddings. But even if said cousin lives in Vegas, I’d respond the same. Then again, again, I’m an old grouch. :wink:

First night home was a bit disorienting, which seems weird because we were just away for 3 nights. I woke around midnight and was confused because I didn’t see the outline of the windows that faced the ocean!! But apart from that, I slept pretty well, even tho I woke ahead of my alarm.

Busy couple of weeks ahead. We ordered a new TV for MIL and it will be delivered here tomorrow. We’ll get it to her apartment and set it up before she comes back. Weds, he goes to her bank to deal with some credit card accounts (canceling and getting a new one, among other things.) Thursday is closing on her house sale. Sunday, FCD drives to Indy to fetch her, and he’ll bring her back the next day. He asked me to come with him, but I’ve got a dental appt next Moanday, and frankly, I really don’t want to make the trip. I feel bad leaving it to him, but not bad enough to call the dentist. Anyway, then next Weds, we’ve got an appt with our money guy to discuss our retirement investments and what to do with the proceeds of MIL’s house sale. Then next Firday, I see my eye doc.

I thought the only dirty clothes we had were in our suitcase. HAH! Both baskets in our room are overflowing. But doing laundry is pretty easy with the Tobester, except for the part where he keeps trying to close the washer and dryer doors while I’m loading/unloading… Open doors apparently offend his toddler sensibilities!

And we’re looking at temps in the low 60s for the next few days - if the rain holds off, we’ll get some playground time! Fingers crossed!!

But for now, I need to get back to a normal routine, plus I need to get back to eating properly. It’s amazing how much one gains in a short time of eating, um, less than optimum selections. I don’t think I had many veggies all weekend, apart from the spinach in my calzone. Tho chocolate comes from a bean, so that’s a veggie, right??

Fine. Happy Tuesday!

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Good morning everyone.

It’s currently 47 degrees with an expected high of 49 and rain/light rain/showers/rain/light rain all day. It rained pretty much all day yesterday too. The passes are going to get slammed with snow all day today into tomorrow, so I’m very glad I’m not traveling to one of our Eastern Washington offices. I do need to make a trip to two of those offices soon, but I’ve been putting it off because I just don’t want to deal with stupid drivers who can’t drive for conditions.

pearl, I’m so very sorry about your loss.

nellie, I tend to agree with others about the wedding. If you don’t have the extra funds, you don’t have the extra funds and that should be the end of the story.

I just had to buy a new modem the other day. Turns out the one I have no longer supports the internet speed I have for my plan. It seems like the modems only last a few years anyway, and the old one is around four years old. Since my husband does a lot of internet gaming and VR, plus I work from home, and we’ve got all these devices I have to keep those internet speeds up. I have yet to install the new modem; it’ll wait until the weekend. I kind of get tired of being tech support for myself, but on the other hand, I am not going to pay my ISP rent every month on a modem and router. It’s bad enough I have to pay for the cable box.

I worked at the office yesterday, am working from home today, and then tomorrow it’s back to the office for both one of my regular in-office days and an in-person Executive Leadership Team meeting. :roll_eyes: Frankly, I don’t want to be part of the meeting; the deputy set up some training that is absolutely useless to me, and will suck up 2.5 hours of the meeting. I just don’t see the point. I could use that time to be productive, or at least train on something I need.

The good news is that Friday is my RDO, so it’s only a four-day week. I guess I can live with the annoyances.

FCM, I’m glad Roxy is feeling better.

BBBoo, I hope the grandson is feeling better.

Okay, time to finish my coffee and get the kitchen cleaned up. The husband left it a disaster, and it’s getting on my last nerve.

I hope you all have a good day.

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One of the perks of moving into the Overlook Hotel and Retirement Community is that our Xfinity bill dropped from $250/mo to $80/mo (group rate). That’s a savings of nearly $2400/yr. Makes me more willing to pay for streaming services.

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Good morning everyone. Up, coffee(-ing), and getting ready for another day of retired-but-still-busy. It’s 62F outside, but thankfully supposed to go all the way to 63 by this afternoon – with rain, rain, and more rain predicted. This is a good thing, btw.

I’ve got most of the tasks involved in the truck replacement done, except the small lingering chore of getting the money for the totaled truck from the insurance company. However, they continue to assure me they’re “reaching out” like a bunch of deranged octopuses. I’m sure they’ll eventually manage something, but I’m already filling out the complaint forms at the Texas Dept. of Insurance. Perhaps this state level department can “reach out” to them and slap 'em upside the head. I’m really growing sick of that phrase and am ready for its permanent retirement from the lexicon.

Still awaiting an estimate from the folks about installing the truck’s alarm, kill-switch, and catalytic converter guards. The installation of the running boards is scheduled for Thursday afternoon (only a week late from the original schedule).

I successfully sold an old, specialized trailer hitch for $500, but must box it up and ship it. With a total weight of 190 lbs., this will be quite a task. I assume it will be similar to the time a company shipped me a boat anchor. It arrived with only a few tatters of the box left, but the anchor itself was unharmed. Like then, I should remember to put the “To:” address on the item itself, as the packaging may not survive the journey.

My attempts to sell the no-longer-needed auxiliary tank on FB Marketplace have at least been entertaining. “Is item still for sale?” “Can pick up item today?” “Please call XXX-XXXX about item” and other assorted scam responses clutter my response box (or whatever it’s called on FB). It’s amazing how much scammers have polluted our communications networks.

Interesting news to share about kiddos: Pullin-daughter is headed across the pond to continue her diving work. She worked on a portion of this effort before the pandemic, and is anxious to resume (although a different project this time). Pullin-son has been re-assigned to deliver relief supplies to the earthquake victims in Turkey/Syria. He’ll be operating from Germany for the next month or longer. He volunteered (bid for the trip), and is looking forward to helping out. Hopefully y’all can tolerate a bit of parental pride here – they’re good kids and we’re quite proud of 'em.

Today? PT, phone calls to prod various delinquent “reacher-outers” toward actual progress, and getting started reading my marvelous new book (signed by the author no less) that I got for birthday! I want an emoticon symbolizing rubbing your hands together gleefully while saying “Excellent” like Montgomery Burns. Or maybe a meme.

Hope everyone has a better week.

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Congrats to Pullin-daughter! I can’t wait to hear more. And that’s incredible news about Pullin-son. I don’t blame you one iota for being so proud of them.

Today started out grey. Well, black since I got up at butt-crack o’clock to waddle with my friend. I almost bailed because overlyboy’s throat was sore and I was awakened at midnight by my husband yelling, “his throat is constricted!” Which apparently translated to, “his throat is uncomfortable and very snotty.” After giving him some water, kidding his (still-cool) head, I left and he promptly started snoring. 16 years later and I still get nervous and fitful when they catch the slightest bit of a cold. Oh, well. It was probably his run yesterday because he felt fine and went to school this morning.

Today will be wrap up day before my day off tomorrow. My brain is already like being on some treadmill of doom, waiting for my mom’s oncology appointment. We all know the news won’t be good - the only question is how bad is bad? It hardly makes sense even to attempt working.

I’m hungry despite having chugged a smoothie. Sometimes you just need to chew your food, I guess. Welp, off I go.

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Heaved. clerked. Went to Aldi and bought pre and post birth chicken. I stopped at the mailbox. Right when I turned around to get back in the car the local hawk flushed a small bird out of a bush. For one horrifying instant, a small bird, a large, sharp apex predator, and my face were on a high velocity collision course(I did say “shit” out loud), before the avian apocalypse banked left and went into the trees. I couldn’t tell by the chirping whether Mr. Hawk was enjoying his breakfast, or Mrs. Sparrow was telling him to F- off, from behind a stout branch.

But nellie could hit the Strip the night before. Because is it a Vegas wedding if someone doesn’t show up late and hungover at the chapel(bonus points for hornking in the baptismal font)?

S.O.P. for heavy solid objects. Single wall cardboard does poorly, so we just cut the old label off, and tape it to one end of the thing.
And yay for the kids doing good!

Some pharmacies do the “save a trip” where they try to sync up all your maintenance medicines.

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Very glad roxy is better mooooom

Thank you all again for your kind words. I guess its BAU here until the service. But I don’t know when that will be. Irk did excuse me for Friday & will give me 3 additional days leave. Is it bad to say part of me is excited to see some friends and family I don’t normally get to see?
I always heard a death in the family is a family reunion minus one, I guess there’s some truth to that. My sister said to tell you all how much she appreciates you and sends her love and thanks

As an aside, I like Cincinnati chili and pineapple pizza, and Shamrock shakes. So there! Have a good Tuesday guys

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Good Tosday/Toosday/Twosday/Tuesday. Knew I’d get it sooner or later. Good luck non Enlish speakers learning English; the homynyms will get you.

Up early to walk with a former co-worker who lives several blocks from me. We did 2.7 miles around the outskirts of the neighborhood.

Had a blueberry bagel with cream cheese and put a whole bunch of blueberries on it. The cream cheese hold them in place so there was only one escapee who jumped from the bagel to the floor. Also had half a baklava. Forgot to mention yesterday that Hubs took his car to the shop to order new tires. A Middle Eastern bakery is across the street from the shop and he brought home a tray of a variety of baklava. Yum.

Going to wrap presents today. Daughter’s birthday is in March but we’ll take to Chicago with us next week. My best friend’s BD is next week after we leave for Chicago so I’ll get together with her this weekend. And my daughter’s nephew’s BD is also in March so taking a gift for him for her to deliver; he lives on the side of the Mitten nearest to Shoe (GR). Hubs wants to go see the Avatar movie. We FT’d with Daughter and SIL last evening; they told him that it’s not good but he wants to see it anyway; I’m passing. Dinner will be leftovers from last night. Haven’t worked in 3 weeks; just got a call that they want to meet with me when I get back from Chicago to train a new guy.

Definitely like hearing about the great things that the kids are doing. Reflects well on their parental units.