Wrapping up July in the MMP

We must have had a power outage at the office - my computer was off when I came in, and I never turn it off. Then the heater came on!! Thus beginneth my day.

And I just remembered that I didn’t enter my time yesterday, so as soon as I post this, I’ll take care of that. 'Cause I kinda like getting paid. I do like my job, but not enough to do it for free… :stuck_out_tongue:

**Midget **- you’ve gotten some good suggestions here. Deep cleansing breath, then pick a path - that first step can be a bitch, but you’ll get your momentum going and we’ll be here to cheer you on!

**Red **- doncha love them poor, overworked, downtrodden folks??

Happy Tuesday! Send chocolate!!

Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 75 Amurrkin and cloudy/foggy out with a predicted high of 86 with an eighty percent chance of rain/tstorms/apocalypse beginnin’ late this mornin’. Looks like the forecast for the rest of the week as well. The yahd needs mowage sump’n fierce, so I hope maybe tomorrow or Thursday that can happen. Laundry is on today’s agenda along with the ahrnin’ of shirts. Rah. Sup shall consist of my world famous Eyetalian chikin, squishes, baby lima beans, and rolls.

Midget re grief counseling. Others have said this, and I shall chime in along with them and say as well, it could be a start. Please consider this if the opportunity is there.

Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, onward into the day! Rah.

Happy Tuesday Y’all!

Happy Toosday!

It’s starting as a grumpy day. I woke around 3am, thanks bladder, and couldn’t get back to sleep. Then I woke again at 5, then slept through the alarm at 5:30.

The cat came in all meow meow meow, wanting attention, and I needed to log in to irk. So he got pissy and started clawing the couch. I told him all those damn trees outback and you claw my couch?! I don’t know why he thinks he can run the streets all night and then I’m just supposed to fawn all over him in the morning.

Ripple usually sleeps in, but he was up and raring to go this morning.

It’s a humid 70 degrees outside and supposed to rain all day.

I need some breakfast, and Ripple agrees that it is time to eat.

:eek:I have been remiss!:eek:

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Sing all you want - he hasn’t been here in eons… Guess he thinks he’s too good for us. :stuck_out_tongue:

Midget, if you are considering grief counseling, call a hospice. They often have counselors available at a minimum cost. I did that when my brothers and horse died within a 3 month period.

Midget, can’t add to any of the suggestions, but this place and we people will be here for you.

Up early awaiting the remodel crew (again) and need to put a bunch of stuff outside for Purple Heart to pick up. 74F going to the mid-80’s and a 50-50 call on rain, so we shall see.

Nut, Milan sounds nice, hope the trip works out.

Right now my refrigerator has three Lean Cusine Fettuchini Alfredo packets in it, and I’m debating if eating them for breakfast would be too much conspicuous consumption.

We’ll see.

Flight booked. Milan for 4 days, just before the term starts. It should give me a bit of a de-stress before the re-stress.

I’ll sort out the rest closer to the time- the flight itself was cheap enough that if I can’t work it out, no real worries, though it should be fine- it’s after the schools are back, so work should be OK with me being off. That’s from the airport I used to work in, bit early in the morning, but I can maybe crash with a friend near the bus route, as that runs all night.

Now to work on my Italian a bit. I only know coffee descriptions and I can’t live for 4 days on espresso.

Gonna spend the day working on the shop floor today. Anticipated high of 90 and humid. Ugh.

Picked up my new swimsuit yesterday. It’s a two-piece (tankini style with a high-rise bottom, so my gut isn’t hanging out), and I’m a little intimidated by it. But I’m super pear shaped (like, my bottom is a size bigger than my top) and rather tall, so one-piece suits just aren’t working for me. If it fits in the butt, it’s too big in the boobs. If it’s good in length, it’s too big everywhere else. And so on. But I’m a bigger girl and I’m still kinda afraid to wear it out in public, even if it’s the best fitting suit I’ve worn in years.

Well, I’ll just have to schedule a beach day and get it over with, eh?

Juliet, listening to your slight reluctance to wear your new two-piece out in public, I was reminded of this oldie but goodie…:):wink: Brian Hyland - Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini - YouTube

The remodel team is here and have erected a large plastic canvas so I can’t see what they are doing (actually, they did it to keep dust out of the other half of the house). Various hammerings and drilling are taking place, but I’m half-afraid to look (plus I am a bumbling amateur when it comes to home stuff, so staying out of the professional’s way is my preferred mode).

Need to call Habitat for Humanity who I’m donating the cabinets and appliances too.

I can already tell this is going to be a lot of fun…

Nuts - when I went to Italy, the only Italian I knew was musical terms. (And I was there with my youth orchestra.) Some members of the orchestra thought it was neat when they saw the musical term “Adagio” painted on a road. Adagio is a musical term meaning to play slowly, so I suppose it meant to drive slowly on the road.

Wow, Tues morning & already to pg 2, this is like old times.

Read a little, comprehended less.

Looks like a week of mini-Mumperfests…
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[li]Mooommm you & FCD still coming this weekend? Bring Bobbio, too. Sari (& others), you are of course welcome, if you feel like making the drive.[/li]
[li]Doggio, next Thurs @ the brewpub?[/li]
[li]Ruble, next Sat (11th) for my run & gun again.[/li][/ul]

Nuts, Italy is nice, Milan especially so…and many of 'em will smile politely at our attempts at the language, and then answer in English :slight_smile:

It is August tomorrow and that means three weeks until we leave for a short break in Hungary - another country with an almost impossible language. I can manage half a dozen words but that’s about all I can do. Fortunately one of them is “beer” and the other is related to thermal spas so I think I’ll survive. Juliet, I suffer with the swimmies/tankini problem, largely due to being a bit of an odd shape all over. They’ll just have to get used to it.

Irk is irksome, students are not doing what they ought to when they are supposed to do it. I have been on the hunt for missing bits of work from them but haven’t found anything so I am busy emailing people who expect to have stuff to mark, just to tell them they won’t get any.

metalmouse - I’ve seen Breaking Bad. Are you sure they’re remodelling behind that canvas and it’s not a giant meth lab in your living room?

Haven’t read much or kept up with a lot but it seems like a lot of hugs are required this week already :flings hugs around with reckless abandon:

It was offered, included in the price of the funeral. I’ll look into it.

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Up and adulting. Post-vacation laundry which is always a case of wrong on several levels; we almost always bring home more clothes than we take. We went to Knoebels the day before we planned and helped with some cleaning and one of the owners hit me with a couple staff shirts as a way of saying thanks. And then of course we saw a couple new designs we liked. And we visited French Azilum and ----- so laundry just grows. With luck we’ll wear out some stuff in August when we basically stay home.

French Azilum has a cool history. While they never got there it was a planned community for King Louie and Marie to escape to in the event of revolution. Tallyrand and a few other big names did live there for a while but it just sort of appeared, thrived and disappeared all in the matter of like 10 years. Ever know a place where you can’t get there from here? As the crow flies its about 25 miles from Danville to French Azilum but the drive takes almost 2 hours. If you don’t get lost. And you will get lost. I’ve been there before and know basically where it is and I still had to call and get talked in the last 5 miles. All in all an adventure worth taking for Francophiles and strange history freaks.

**Spidey **- is this the balloon weekend on the Eastern Shore? Can you link to it again, pretty please? I know my daughter was really interested. And getting **FCD **away from working for a few hours is always a good thing.

Lunch time is also a good thing. :smiley: Baby Engineer comes back tomorrow. It’s been so nice and quiet here… <sigh>

Er, how did that work out?

You mean link to it like I did four posts above yours? :wink:

It was faded out - apparently from when I followed it last time. Back off, Jack! :stuck_out_tongue:

Lunch is over. Back to work. Busy busy busy!

Morning hasn’t been too hot on the shop floor. They have the big shipping dock doors open and, fortunately, the machine I’m writing on is near such a door. We’ve had a good breeze and the morning was still rather cool. But I can feel the humidity creeping in, and it’s gonna be warm after lunch.

Regarding mumper fests… do y’all really live close enough to each other that you get together IRL? On the whole SDMB, I think there’s only one person who visits my city with any regularity (and it weirds me out when he posts Green Bay stuff before me). Otherwise, I don’t really know any SDMB members who live in my neck of the woods.