Roscoe said I could start one, so I did.
Since I'm present and all. And got the Covid cooties.
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:hi:
Good morning all. I am on a 10k calorie day I think. I'm on my second cup of calorie and sugar laden iced coffee (caramel Macchiato); and on my second donut. It's biblical. God sent the animals to Noah 2x2 and history records that the first evangelists went 2x2.
:hypocrite:
Do NOT confuse the issue with math and show me that if I continue in this mode, I shall surely be a 4x8.
:laughhard:
Not a lot to do today work wise. And I'm glad.
I know so many folks sick right now that I think Mel's title is fitting. :hi:
Me too. Half our church, a lot of friends on FB, a lot of people I follow on other social platforms, And me and all my coworkers are taking turns. One gets better and back to work just as another tests positive.
Yeah. I'm so tired of this.
My mom went to the doctor with a busted eardrum and tested positive for covid again
Sorry that everyone's feeling so rough and having it rough.
Jeremy's starting taking covid seriously again finally. He's updating me daily on how he feels since he's getting nervous at work with everyone getting sick. I think we might need to just go get tested, that would resolve the 'what if' questions.
@Work. I was going to go get my booster after work, but I realized I have blood labs next week and I don't want to screw those up JUST in case the findings can be normalized this time. Really want to stop taking iron pills and though I doubt my WBC count is normal, that'd be super great too. :)
Has anyone seen MJJ lately??
Got to work today to discover 3 of my photo machines were down. Was able to fix one machine. The other 2 Fuji has to send a tech to fix.
Remind me to never say " not a lot to do today" in regards to work. I wound up taking two newbies to shoot, and then drove what seemed like a quardrillion miles doing home visits across three counties to help out our neighboring office, which is nearly immobilized by Covid.
You should know better than to say that. We never ever ever say the S word at our job. Otherwise the whole city will show up and make you think it's S... lol!
Hi. It's snowing. I hate this stuff.
And I'm sitting in a Goodwill parking lot watching it snow while lou shops
Totally not my thing
I still have ptsd (post traumatic snow disorder) from last year...
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on January 15, 2022, 11:53:18 PMI still have ptsd (post traumatic snow disorder) from last year...
PTSD... That's where you freak out when you see something pure white, like a glass of milk or a paper plate, and start softly muttering, "White... So white... Trapped in the white..." until somebody takes the glass away, right?
I guess mines's not quite that bad. :lol:
I have to say it: Season 3 kinda stinks.
Pandemic season 1 was good, back when it was still new and innovative. Season 2 was... okay, kind of more of the same. But now it's season 3 and we're still using the same plot lines over and over.
I feel like the writers blew their whole stash of ideas in season 1. Remember in 2020 how everything just kept coming at us until we were kind of numb? "Oh look, it's another new thing... Yeah, sure, that may as well happen." We had so many new things coming at us so fast that, as Ryan George put it, "You could set a whole state on fire and we won't be talking about it next week." But they wasted all their ideas in one big blast of a season, so now they have run out.
They should have saved the murder hornets and mystery seed packets from China for season 3. Those would have been good third season plot twists. But noooo, they wasted everything on the first season. Now they got nothing.
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Well, despite two negative Covid tests, I'm still feeling rough. Fortunately we have shut down church until this coming Wednesday. I shared a post on the church fb page of one of my all time favorite speakers, Rev Victor Jackson. That man walks in a realm of the spirit that is amazing. Hopefully my people will watch that tonight. He is smooth preaching to me, I know that.
Got a text from a coworker. Another coworker felt bad Thursday, took a home test for Covid which was negative, and went to the health department. Yep, she's a positive today. We are off tomorrow, and I hope I'll feel better then. Slight head ache right now, as well as all the sinus junk.
I'm a whiner when I feel bad. :laughhard:
I have to return to work tomorrow.
And it's snowed here all day. It didn't stick all day, but just now when I let Oliver back in from when Justin let him out, there is snow on the porch!
Maybe they will shut down my clinic tomorrow cause of ice or something. One can only hope. 😉
Good morning everyone!
We didn't have church yesterday, lots of snow (for us). It was beautiful, and peaceful. Went out for a late lunch, drove around a bit later, and generally had a relaxing day.
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Hi. Wound up taking Nyquil and going to bed early for me. Woke up feeling much better. Still have a bit of a cough and my sinus' are raw from running so much. But, on the mend. I've got steak on the smoker and all is well.
I need to be out working on Sam in the shop. May wander out in a few minutes
There was a beautiful full moon earlier. :)
Yesterday was stupid busy.
We shut the doors and stopped seeing new patients at 3:30, and STILL didn't leave till after 8 pm. Had a 5 hour wait and 45 people in the parking lot in their cars waiting at one point.
I'm so done with this mess.
In other news..been straightening up this morning before work. Anyone else do a pre-clean before the housekeepers come in to clean? They better do it right this time...last time they did a cruddy job and we complained. Haha.
Isn't that like how you have to wash dishes before you put them in the dishwasher?
Also, what is a housekeeper? Us Tennessee hillbillies have never seen one.
Good morning. I woke up feeling somewhat better. Then, I got the text. One of our church folk went by church to pray on the way in. Surprise- water leak , this time in the ceiling. It didn't take much to isolate the issue. A hot water heater upstairs had began leaking badly and drowned the floor- which soaked through to the ceiling; which got the tiles in the foyer (old parquet style, we'd been planning to replace) soaked; which then leaked into -the sanctuary, soaking the carpet. I can't win for losing. Last week it was the urinal sticking, which with the rain, dowsed the sanctuary carpet. Fixed that- and now this. Lord. Thankfully the insurance is sending a clean-up crew. Lord knows what this will cost before it's over.
Man, I wanna cry. I'm trying to GROW the church and modernize it, but every bit of time and resources is going to just keep it cleaned up and going.
Well... Like an elderly man I know once said, "Don't count your raptors until they are hatched."
Of course at his age, and with his spunk, he might have been trying to say, "Don't just rap on a jerk's head when there is a perfectly good hatchet handy." But he explained that he watched Jurassic Park at an impressionable age, and what he meant was, "Don't try to anticipate how bad it's going to be until you find out how bad it will be, because the stress will tear your stomach up like a whole herd of raptors."
Sometimes I didn't understand what he said, but I sure got a kick out of hanging around him.
In the meantime, yay for insurance companies! Here's hoping they decide it was completely unavoidable and not at all your fault.
Quote from: Roscoe on January 18, 2022, 05:06:58 PMGood morning. I woke up feeling somewhat better. Then, I got the text. One of our church folk went by church to pray on the way in. Surprise- water leak , this time in the ceiling. It didn't take much to isolate the issue. A hot water heater upstairs had began leaking badly and drowned the floor- which soaked through to the ceiling; which got the tiles in the foyer (old parquet style, we'd been planning to replace) soaked; which then leaked into -the sanctuary, soaking the carpet. I can't win for losing. Last week it was the urinal sticking, which with the rain, dowsed the sanctuary carpet. Fixed that- and now this. Lord. Thankfully the insurance is sending a clean-up crew. Lord knows what this will cost before it's over.
Man, I wanna cry. I'm trying to GROW the church and modernize it, but every bit of time and resources is going to just keep it cleaned up and going.
Gives a whole new meaning to "Thank the Lord for a praying church!" lol.. It stinks, I agree. Glad someone found it before things went too far bad.
@Work. Grocery shopped and meal planned for the week on my lunch break. By grocery shopped, I mean I loaded my cart with my items and selected a pickup slot. :) I have to get home in enough time to make mini cheddar meatloaves tonight, so hopefully all goes well with that pickup.
My mom is back in the hospital. Getting old isn't for sissies.
Mini cheddar meatloaves? Sounds great!
Recipe? Please? Also what do you use for the mini part? Do you use muffin tins?
Lord, have mercy on everybody.
Quote from: Lynx on January 19, 2022, 12:12:56 AMMini cheddar meatloaves? Sounds great!
Recipe? Please? Also what do you use for the mini part? Do you use muffin tins?
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/15715/mini-meatloaves/
That's the recipe I use. I LOVE it. I don't like regular meatloaf at all (due to the onions and ketchup taste) and this I could eat for days. My husband takes the leftovers (I usually double the recipe.) and slices them up, puts them in a cooking pan to crisp them up some more, and makes a sandwich. I haven't done that yet, but I might try it sometime. Don't get me wrong - the mixing of the main pieces is kinda gross looking/feeling, but the taste is so worth it. ETA: For the mini part, you just shape them like little footballs, haha.
@Work. Contractor in the area hit a main water line so we are out of water now. It's so frustrating..happens daily in the area.
Supposed to get snow and ice today. I really like snow but I don't like slipping and sliding down the interstate to go home, hahaha.
I'm off today! And tomorrow! Yay!
I do love my job, but I'm so weary of this Covid stuff.
Making spinach egg bites in the instapot right now. Prepping breakfast meals for the next few days. I do lots of high protein low carb stuff and I've found that food prep keeps me on the wagon.
Taking Chey and myself for a Covid test at 1. Two kids in her class tested positive, and she's developed the cough, slight fever, headache- basically every symptom. Boss sent me home, along with another coworker because we have some symptoms too.
Quote from: Chseeads on January 19, 2022, 05:41:56 AMLord, have mercy on everybody.
Lord help me to have mercy on all the people who are getting on my last nerve. I don't think they deserve it, but I also don't want to wind up on Bobby's client list.
Quote from: Nelle on January 19, 2022, 03:28:44 PMQuote from: Lynx on January 19, 2022, 12:12:56 AMMini cheddar meatloaves? Sounds great!
Recipe? Please? Also what do you use for the mini part? Do you use muffin tins?
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/15715/mini-meatloaves/
That's the recipe I use. I LOVE it. I don't like regular meatloaf at all (due to the onions and ketchup taste) and this I could eat for days. My husband takes the leftovers (I usually double the recipe.) and slices them up, puts them in a cooking pan to crisp them up some more, and makes a sandwich. I haven't done that yet, but I might try it sometime. Don't get me wrong - the mixing of the main pieces is kinda gross looking/feeling, but the taste is so worth it. ETA: For the mini part, you just shape them like little footballs, haha.
I read the user comments below the recipe, because I am a nerd and I do that.
It was kind of amusing, because everybody loved the recipe but everybody changed something about it. And a lot of the changes were mutually exclusive. If they all got together to try to agree on a perfect recipe there would be squabbles and chaos.
My coworker shared the recipe with me (knowing how picky I am) which made me try it, haha. We make it almost weekly.
Well, crud. All three of us are positive- me, chey and Lou. So we are in until Monday. Thankful for full freezers, fast internet and a big screen. LOL
Roscoe's got cooties!! Roscoe's got cooties!!
I made some AMAZING keto zuppa Toscana soup tonight. And Justin almost made me hurt him.
HE sent me the recipe a few weeks ago. Said he wanted it. He has been dropping hints and saying how much he likes it for the past weeks...so I was off today, so I made it...I actually followed the recipe. I usually modify recipes but this one looked like it would be perfect and it was. So he comes home after working late, I was at church, and he texts me during service and asked why did I put mushrooms in it!? Ummm it's cause the recipe that YOU sent me and said you wanted called for mushrooms! Didn't you read the recipe?!
No he didn't. And he waited till I got home from church to even try it. But then he liked it so much he ate two big bowls. Yeah. Told ya!
I'm glad he didn't read the recipe though. He hates cauliflower, and the recipe calls for it instead of potatoes. Haha! I used cauliflower rice. He probably wouldn't have even tried that if he knew. But hey! I was following the recipe HE wanted so badly! He should read it before requesting it.
With a name like Zuppa Toscana, yeah it would have cauliflower. Probably shredded zucchini too.
No zucchini in this recipe. But it was amazing.
Basically it was ground sausage, onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, riced cauliflower, chicken broth, seasonings, spinach, butter, cheese, bacon, and heavy cream.
I think that was it. I have about a half of a pot left. And I'm thinking we need a rotisserie chicken in the crock pot for tonight.
Hmm. That sounds good. I got a hankering last night for beef stew. So with some left over ribeye steak, a bit more stew meat, some veggies and some thick brown gravy, the crockpot did its magic overnight. It's yummy.
Ironically, I'm quarantined and feel better than I have in weeks. It is very cold here though. I think highs are forecast to be in the 30s for the next couple days. I'm ready for summer.
That's a big nope from me. I'm enjoying the cold. Lol
Chicken turned out great and now I just need to fold my clothes and settle
In for the night.
Back to work to swab all of Chattanooga tomorrow. :roll:
I just need a few days in the 50s so I can wash my car, haha. By the time I get off work in the evening, it's too cold to wash a vehicle without getting frozen doors.
@Work. Had to go get bloodwork this morning. Really hoping my iron is steady, and I'd LOVE my WBC count to be normal, but I highly doubt it is considering I've still got sinus issues and all.
Stopped and got an iced caramel latte. I definitely needed the energy boost LOL.
My mom is still in the hospital. Liver enzymes are high and they want them to start going down. Some of the meds THEY gave her caused the problem. I hope she can go home soon, she's tired Of being there.
Again. Not a fan of cold!!!!
On the bright side, I've gotten my W2 and some other tax statements in. Email is a wonderful invention. With Lou's job changes and some other tax status changes I was very worried I was gonna wind up owing. Unless the two small forms I'm waiting on majorly changes everything, which is doubtful, I'm good. Still won't be cruising the US for a month in the bus like I'd like to, but at least we can probably pull away a few days and a couple states away on holiday weekends. (Lou won't have any vacation until October). Maybe I can persuade her a trip to florida for Christmas is a good idea...LOL
Well, ya'll spoiled me by numerous postings over the last week. Don't stop now!
I've done noting this weekend. Been glorious.
On a not so good note, another elderly member of my church was just hospitalized with Covid. She's one of the ones I've been concerned of- numerous health issues, overweight, and to my knowledge, did NOT get the vaccine. Praying for God to step in. She was transported to the hospital due to falling out, and had an 02 level of 55 when she got to the hospital. She's on oxygen now and they've got the numbers back in the 90s, but lord.
Nothing too exciting happening in Indiana other than the weather suggesting 2-5 inches of snow for tomorrow
Finally got mama home from the hospital.
It's cold.
Justin and I went to a wedding reception tonight and it was great! The couple got married in December and had a private ceremony and just had the reception tonight.
Church tomorrow and our connect group lunch after church. I love my church!
I caught a cold Tuesday. By Thursday I was wondering if it was more than a cold. Saturday I had a fever and wanted to be in a very warm place all the time. And now it's all cleared up.
If this is covid, it doesn't even hit as hard as strep throat. At least not for me.
I just wish people had kept wearing masks. I went a year and a half without so much as a sniffle. Then vaccinated people stopped wearing masks and I've had two cold-ish illnesses in three months. I'm SO not a fan of people around me not wearing masks.
Patoot.
Apparently some churches around here are afraid of 3-4 inches of snow. Several churches in the area canceled service including the one my parents attend now. We're expecting more snow tomorrow.
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Back at work. Don't feel too terrible, but busy as what catching up. Got good news in regards to the church disaster- insurance company is covering tile as well. This makes me very happy, as it means in all likelihood the replacement tiles will be installed by someone other than me, which causes my knees and back to want to shout.
My church member has turned for the bad and is now on a vent. I fear for her.
Hello, Cheesehead. Insightful remark there... :ugly:
Yay for the insurance and I'm sad for the vent part. :(
@Work.
Bridal shower went well on Saturday. I didn't get lost once on the way to or from. (Thankful for GPS!)
Quote from: Roscoe on January 24, 2022, 06:25:04 PMHello, Cheesehead. Insightful remark there... :ugly:
It's about all my poor soul can muster these days.
Quote from: Chseeads on January 25, 2022, 04:55:17 PMQuote from: Roscoe on January 24, 2022, 06:25:04 PMHello, Cheesehead. Insightful remark there... :ugly:
It's about all my poor soul can muster these days.
I definitely understand.
Shew, Lawd. Busy as what with paperwork. And unlike the days I was at home, when it was bitter cold and nasty rendering me a captive of my recliner and fireplace, it is beautiful out. All I can do is look out the window and dream.
@Work again. I'm thankful I have a job. I'm thankful I have a job.
Jeremy has his physical therapy evaluation in the morning followed by an MRI. I can't remember if I mentioned it before, but they think he tore his rotator cuff. We are praying that it will just need therapy - not surgery. Not only for his own benefit, but also because we really can't do with him being off work for 6 months at 80% pay. Whatever happens, God knows and will guide us through I know.
I'd also like a nap. I'm working on church statements trying to have them done for tomorrow night's church service.
I'm here and full. Went to my favorite Mexican place for dinner tonight.
I here, too. Not feeling 100%.
I'm here and not thrilled with going to work in below zero temperatures tomorrow morning
Cold here this morning. Got a few things to do today. Tired. I didn't sleep well at all last night.
My mom just went back to the hospital by ambulance. :(
Oh no Fuzzy :(
Hi yall. I just had to pick myself up off the floor. Melbs AND Cheese? What?! lol
Sorry I been mia. Bf takes up most of my time these days.
Covid is rampant throughout CVS also. I see the notifications for "positive" tests for 150 stores in my region. Whew.
Thankfully all good here..
Parents got in last night from Indiana for a funeral tomorrow. Will be the first time I'll see people from the church I left two years ago. Not really looking forward to it tbh.
Apparently my store is getting a visit from regional tomorrow. Management is going crazy over it and calling in as many as they can to help run freight. So much for having tomorrow off.
HI. Sorry Fuzz. Praying. Hi, Jenn.
Quote from: MsJennJenn on January 26, 2022, 07:25:19 PMOh no Fuzzy :(
Hi yall. I just had to pick myself up off the floor. Melbs AND Cheese? What?! lol
Sorry I been mia. Bf takes up most of my time these days.
Covid is rampant throughout CVS also. I see the notifications for "positive" tests for 150 stores in my region. Whew.
Thankfully all good here..
Parents got in last night from Indiana for a funeral tomorrow. Will be the first time I'll see people from the church I left two years ago. Not really looking forward to it tbh.
Oh JennJenn, you're still living.
Who told you you could have a boyfriend?
Your parents live in Indiana?
Did we know MJJ had a boyfriend?! I would LOVE to see a photo of you two. I love seeing couples. :) Also - I can only imagine my anxiety and awkwardness if I was going to be in your situation with the funeral at the church. I'm too awkward for people seeing LOL.
Backseat - That stinks. Hope it goes well for you guys' visit!
@Work. Finishing payroll, then I would love to say I'm going to work on my backlog of invoicing closeouts, BUT I know I have no such hope. Work is piling on and I have to triage.
I wasn't able to get my booster last week due to that shower, but I am clear this weekend that I know of, so I am hopefully going Friday afternoon to get it now.
Hospitalized parents are not fun. Been there. Lots.
I've been off a few days. Back to the grind tomorrow.
How do I get dreams out of my head?! Talk about people you don't want to see or associate with...but then I have very vivid and real dreams that I cant stop thinking about when I wake up. It wasn't a bad dream. But it's a part of my life I have put behind me for a reason, and I don't need to be thinking about these things and questioning my decisions. I know what I did was right for me and the situation that was present at the time. I need to keep on my current path and put away these "What if" junk rolling over and over in my head.
I would try specifically praying over your mind. Maybe place a Bible by your bed or under your pillow. Keep quoting verses that would be positive to your situation, like declaring those words for your mind and life.
Hi. Mel, it looks like for all the world the current path you are on is good for you. You seem happy, health improving, and you've found a good church. I agree with Nelle- if you know it was God's will, thrive in it and don't let "What if's" sap you. Pray over it, and try not to think about what could have been. It wasn't, for a reason, and if you don't think about it, chances are the dreams will quit.
And no, I knew not that Jenn had a significant other. We have ran no background check either. :pound:
BSR, sorry you are being worked to death. Lou says the best thing that has happened to her since Chey was born was leaving Walmart and going to work for the bank.
Walmart used to be great to work for. But the past several years, it's like the head is doing his best to run it in the ground.
I dreamed the other night a dream where my son was the leading person in a James Bond type action scene. :o
I ended up working in the Toy department today helping them run freight. The store I work at still seems to be one of the better ones in the area on how they treat workers. Management was good about bringing back cashiers to help Electronics (my area) during the Christmas season while we had coworkers out on various medical leaves.
@Work.
That's about it. :)
Yes. Bah. Thankful for my job. Thankful it is Friday. NOT thankful for the cold. Ready for my summer..:pound:
Ready for spring at least.
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:hi:
Slept in today. Only thing I did useful was hook up the ham radio in the motorhome. Semi-studying for tomorrow- funeral for a lady not a member, but who came a couple of times and her family wants us to do the funeral. I agreed we'd do it, but I'm not gonna cancel church...so 2pm funeral then church at 5.
I'm on a weekend vacation. Didn't do much today other than eat, sleep, and watch YouTube. Needed the extra rest.
Up and at 'em. Shew. Lawd, I need a vacation on a beach with plenty of money.
Fixing to go to church for the funeral. Then service. They are saying Wednesday through Friday of this week is going to be wintery. As in, depending on the track of the storm, possibly a foot of snow. Of course, that means we could get nothing. We could get flurries. Or we could get 2 feet. Meteorology- the field where you get paid very well to basically tell folks, "I don't know, wait and see". :laughhard:
I DO know this- I want my summer. If the Lord ever lets me retire and it is anywhere near possible, my butt will be on a coast somewhere. Hurricane, Smuricane, just don't freeze me!!!
They say we might get ice.
I thought we were gonna get snow. But I guess not.
We live in a hole. It tends to snow everywhere sufficiently in TN, but not Chatt.
the local tv station is suggesting 6+ inches of snow for my area later in the week. Hopefully the worst of it hits Thursday when I'm off work.
My parents church has IBC coming next Sunday. Apparently, their pastor specifically sent me an invite through my parents to come to the service.
Quote from: Roscoe on January 30, 2022, 06:30:36 PMUp and at 'em. Shew. Lawd, I need a vacation on a beach with plenty of money.
Fixing to go to church for the funeral. Then service. They are saying Wednesday through Friday of this week is going to be wintery. As in, depending on the track of the storm, possibly a foot of snow. Of course, that means we could get nothing. We could get flurries. Or we could get 2 feet. Meteorology- the field where you get paid very well to basically tell folks, "I don't know, wait and see". :laughhard:
I DO know this- I want my summer. If the Lord ever lets me retire and it is anywhere near possible, my butt will be on a coast somewhere. Hurricane, Smuricane, just don't freeze me!!!
I got up early this morning
Turned on the radio
The weatherman gave a forecast
That he didn't really know
He said we might have a little sunshine
We might have a little rain
We might have partly cloudy skies
And it might just snow again
- Mark Lowry
:hi: Back at work
:hi: I'm around.
I'm @Work. Got my booster Friday afternoon. Had a headache all day Saturday. Woke up nauseous and "ill" Sunday. Didn't go to church which stinks b/c we only have the one marathon service in the mornings. I am thankful I was able to watch online though, and God ~can~ show up there as well for you.
We're getting similar weather threats, and I don't like the ice being mentioned BUT I would be okay with snow. I just hate to miss work. haha..
We have our pastor's daughter's wedding this weekend, so I need everything to settle down by then.
I filed our federal taxes last evening, and I'm trying to spend my lunch hour submitting our state taxes on their site (for free!!), but I never can remember my username and password for their site, haha.
Is it wrong that I kinda want the mess? Like, not enough to make the power to go out, but enough to keep me from having to work Thursday or Friday? Because I really am feeling that way....
And man. At the risk of being whiner- this bout with covid was minor- but for the last three days I have zero energy. I don't know if it is due to that or what, but I'm genuinely having to MAKE myself do anything at all. :pound:
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I'm not too thrilled about the winter storm coming in on Wednesday. Looking like I may get trapped at work since the heaviest snow starts after I get to work and we're expecting upwards to 20 inches.
If you guys need a funny for today...
My kids are loading up to go to a pig show today, and at the school livestock barn. Some boys are needing a place to put some extra supplies, so they ask if they can put them in my daughter's vehicle. She says of course and hands them her keys.
A few minutes later, the boys come back in, red-faced and teary-eyed. She asks them, "What's wrong with you guys?!!?"
Well, after putting their stuff in her vehicle, they look at the keys and realize that she has pepper spray. So they go over to the side of the barn and spray it...into the wind.
BAM! They each get a face full of pepper spray and suddenly decided to walk the straight and narrow.
I am still laughing about it.
:ugly:
I'm off today, tomorrow and Thursday.
No plans for today really. Except go donate plasma and make dinner. Idk what I'm going to make yet. Justin is super picky and I'm trying to do low carb/sugar free so it's difficult to find stuff he likes that I can eat too without making the same meal every time.
I don't know what my plans will be for the next two days except church Wednesday night and plasma again on Thursday.
I slept later than I normally do on my off days, I made some breakfast and cleaned the kitchen. Got the dishwasher going and need to get dressed for the day.
Being lazy. :smirk2:
I'm paying bills. :(
Quote from: MelodyB on February 01, 2022, 03:09:37 PMI'm off today, tomorrow and Thursday.
No plans for today really. Except go donate plasma and make dinner. Idk what I'm going to make yet. Justin is super picky and I'm trying to do low carb/sugar free so it's difficult to find stuff he likes that I can eat too without making the same meal every time.
I don't know what my plans will be for the next two days except church Wednesday night and plasma again on Thursday.
I slept later than I normally do on my off days, I made some breakfast and cleaned the kitchen. Got the dishwasher going and need to get dressed for the day.
Being lazy. :smirk2:
Ok...I may be the only one who doesn't know...but whos Justin?
Haha! Justin has been one of my closest friends for 25+ years. We grew up together in Florida and he was on GP for a brief time when I had a group we called the Dingbats...we were all friends locally IRL and I introduced them to GP. About 2007 or so. He was also at the DOME meetup.
We parted ways when he went to IBC and then I moved to Mississippi. We didn't live close together for 13 years, but stayed in close contact and visited when we could. Back in November 2020, when my life in Mississippi was falling apart and I was making some bad choices, I was jobless and ended up homeless for about two weeks and had really messed up...he told me to move to Chattanooga where he would give me a job, let me move in with him, and introduce me to his church.
He basically saved my life. In so so so many ways. He's like my brother, and always has been. We share a house and a life and it's been the best thing being reunited with him. But just to clarify, we are NOT romantically involved. That's just EWWW! Our relationship has always been as siblings and friends. But he is my rock and I love him dearly. 😉
Oh...he is also the clinic administrator at the urgent care where I work, so he's my boss too. Lol
It's weird and crazy but it works and I love it!
That makes much more sense now!
Thanks for clearing that up.
:hi:
Mini, I wanted to know too, but I didn't wanna pry. I was considering texting and asking who in the heck he was...lol
Fuzz, pay my bills too. I have a stack I'll send ya. :P
Had court this morning via Zoom.
Now needing the next 3 hours or so to "zoom" by.
Hungry and no idea what I want.
I've had 4 crispitoes and 6 chocolate chip cooks- and a snack cake- and that's it for the last two days. Just no appetite.
Well, even *I* knew who Justin is.
And, no, Roscoe, I'm not paying your bills. God provides just enough for ours.
My apologies. I have known Justin for so long and he's always been a huge part of my life that I just took for granted that everyone knew who he was. I used to talk about him quite a bit in the past years when I was posting. Ruby, Chel, Seth, Tia, Brannon and all the Domers got to meet him in person.
But now you know.
I'm making salsa chicken. It's a go-to for us cause we love it so much. I didn't really want to make it yet again...we have it quite often, but I know it's something we both will eat, and it's great leftover. Plus I can make it in 30 minutes in the instapot.
I didn't officially know who he was, but I assumed about half of the info, LOL. Minus the details.
@Work still. Trying to prepare myself work-wise for possibly being off all day Thursday JUST in case.
Mini - Those boys learned a lesson I hope, haha. Probably more than one.
Roscoe - Please tell me someone used a filter on court zoom?
Quote from: Chseeads on January 27, 2022, 07:49:30 AMYour parents live in Indiana?
My entire family does just about now. Parents, bro and his family (niece and nephew), grandparents. They all live in Terre Haute. I'm there once or twice a year. lol
Quote from: Nelle on January 27, 2022, 02:51:51 PMDid we know MJJ had a boyfriend?! I would LOVE to see a photo of you two. I love seeing couples. :) Also - I can only imagine my anxiety and awkwardness if I was going to be in your situation with the funeral at the church. I'm too awkward for people seeing LOL.
I actually didn't end up going to the funeral. I just couldn't do it. My anxiety was too high.
And here's a pic. Not sure if it' attached right. Been a hot min since I tried to put a pic on here. lol
Bf.jpg
Awww.. You look happy! You also chose wisely with a bearded fellow, haha.
I'm heading home, you guys are all on your own, haha. I worked another hour beyond this last night and after dinner, I crashed in the recliner an hour before bedtime and also slept all night. I really hope I'm finally getting my sleep schedule (and love of sleep) back.
Howdy y'all.
I'm keeping busy ripping CDs to computer. I went to McKay's in Chattanooga last week.
There are some interesting thoughts in some of these songs.
"Love and pride can't occupy
The same space, baby
And only one of them makes you free"
- Sara Groves
"You can worry bout love
You can worry bout hate
You can worry bout the judgment day
But you can't praise God
When you worry that way"
- Lewis Family
I might possibly have occasionally made a sermon from a thought I heard in a song.
Excuse me? You could have told me you were gonna be in town...I would have met you for a meal. Lol
It was worth a try, Fuzz. :smirk2:
Nelle, no one used any funny filters. And Mel, I think now I remember vaguely you mentioning Justin in the past. Just suffered brain fade.
I'm probably going to bed early tonight. Try to actually sleep instead of toss and turn.
Hi Jenn. Your dude is not what I would have imagined. He looks a bit older than I thought he would. Not that it's a bad thing. Old is cool. Beats the heck outta the alternative. :lol:
Quote from: MelodyB on February 02, 2022, 12:00:31 AMExcuse me? You could have told me you were gonna be in town...I would have met you for a meal. Lol
I did mention I was going to raid the Chattanooga McKay's.
And I would have been no fun at all. I THOUGHT I was fully recovered from the previous week's cold. Apparently it was just shifting gears. I almost killed myself plowing through CDs at McKay's. I never, ever, ever want to be that desperately tired again. I wanted to keep going because I had already made the four hour drive and did not want to waste it, but I should have called it quits long before I did.
Quote from: MelodyB on February 01, 2022, 09:49:45 PMMy apologies. I have known Justin for so long and he's always been a huge part of my life that I just took for granted that everyone knew who he was. I used to talk about him quite a bit in the past years when I was posting. Ruby, Chel, Seth, Tia, Brannon and all the Domers got to meet him in person.
I was trying to figure out who Justin was too. GP Dome was so long ago I barely remember it.
Issac. I missed that memo. I knew you wanted to go, but not that you had an active plan of going.
Question: I saw a video recently of someone explaining they were from the UP or upper peninsula of somewhere...and that's how they started calling the people of that that area Yoopers. I had a flashback. Whose name on here was Yooper? Was it Thomas? I can't seem to remember his SN either.
They made a Chick-fil-a in town recently. I love having that option close. Especially for breakfast.
I meal prepped today. Made egg bites for my breakfasts. I blended eggs, cream cheese, spinach, garlic and a tomato in the Ninja and then cooked them in the egg bite mold in the instapot. I'll store them in the fridge and heat them and have a side of cottage cheese with them before work in the mornings.
I eat cottage cheese with everything nowadays.
Gonna have egg boil for lunch. It's just boiled eggs with melted butter and Cajun seasoning on it. Sooo good! Like the eggs you get in the seafood boil.
Again, don't know what I'm gonna fix for dinner...if anything. We have church so I may just call for a fend for yourself dinner. Lol
Or maybe I'll call my friend Kelia and see if she wants to go out before church.
@Work, for now.
Raining for a while but it's supposed to get below freezing around 4pm. Hoping I'll have payroll all done before then so I can head home safely. Planning on not coming in tomorrow unless things go much better weather-wise and the roads get cleared.
Quote from: Roscoe on February 02, 2022, 12:54:52 AMHi Jenn. Your dude is not what I would have imagined. He looks a bit older than I thought he would. Not that it's a bad thing. Old is cool. Beats the heck outta the alternative. :lol:
LOL well he's only 37. I'm 36. Not such a youngin as I was back in the day. I've been here a long time whoa.
Quote from: MelodyB on February 02, 2022, 04:30:27 PMI eat cottage cheese with everything nowadays.
Cottage cheese is an amazing source of protein. We grew up eating it, so I still occasionally eat it.
I hate cottage cheese. Period. It be NASTY.
Temp has dropped from mid 50s when I left at 715 to around 38 now. Slight mist. The question here is when the mess will get to us. I'm in a quandary- I don't wanna cancel church, but I don't want to risk anyone either. IF I cancel, I look like a fraidy cat and we get nothing. IF I don't, I run the risk of my people being caught out when the temp falls...:pound:
I'm consoling myself with ribs, and I cheated by getting a strawberry cream cheese danish.
Mm... Cottage cheese. The larger the curd, the better.
Do your people view you this way, or is it the rest of the population that does? I always worry that I'll have a situation where an elderly saint will fall and die (or nearly) of exposure outside because no one saw them fall. I don't know the weather there, so I think.. make whatever decision you feel safest about with what information you have. I don't know if most everyone can watch something online or not for your church, but if so - maybe do a devotional video online? I hope no one gives you grief, and I know it's enormous pressure a pastor has to make decisions like this.
I'm overly cautious a LOT.. so much that my husband calls me the family safety officer, haha.
We had an elderly man slide in the ditch trying to get to Sunday school before. I'd be even more cautious at night.
Quote from: Roscoe on February 02, 2022, 05:52:33 PMI hate cottage cheese. Period. It be NASTY.
Temp has dropped from mid 50s when I left at 715 to around 38 now. Slight mist. The question here is when the mess will get to us. I'm in a quandary- I don't wanna cancel church, but I don't want to risk anyone either. IF I cancel, I look like a fraidy cat and we get nothing. IF I don't, I run the risk of my people being caught out when the temp falls...:pound:
I'm consoling myself with ribs, and I cheated by getting a strawberry cream cheese danish.
People are going to second guess you either way, and sometimes both ways at once, and sometimes they will invent third and fourth ways to second guess you. Our pastor has mentioned to the congregation that no matter which way he decides something like this people will complain.
Make your decision and then invest in some good quality earplugs.
We've already shut so much stuff down here in DFW. lol
Schools are already closing for rest of week. My drs appointment got rescheduled. The groceries are insane.
I've already seen churches canceling for tonight.
It's 41 here and so far haven't seen any rain but it's supposed to start soon.
From what I see on the map it's moving more northeast then me and all I might get is rain. But rain=ice when it's supposed to drop more into the 20's by midnight. I'm just worried about the BF getting home from work.
Crazy weather :roll:
The winter storm is officially here. Thankfully I got off work and made it home before it got too bad. I don't have to work tomorrow. Already got enough snow to make driving tricky and it's still coming down.
All of the churches that I know of in this area were smart enough to cancel service tonight.
My county is on red status now because of the snowstorm
Being honest, I don't know that anyone "views me that way". Probably just my insecurity. LOL. It's just that with Covid, etc, it's alot more responsibility as a leader than as a saint. See, if I feel scared of covid, or the weather, I can make a decision that affects me and my family. As a pastor, it affects everyone in my church. That might be the last service some have the opportunity to make. Sobering thought for me.
We had a good service. I had to make myself shut up, cause I still wanted to teach/preach. Looked at the video- shew lord. I've gotta get a mirror up there. My hair, what little I had, looked like Einstein's. :pound: Got home before the weather hit, but it is sleeting and on the way.
And...it's slick as snot out. Took Lou to work this morning. Now I'm back home, Netflixin' Rust Valley Restoration and intend to bake bread and potato soup.
I have a pork tenderloin that would go well with that.
I've got a pot of pinto beans going.
And I got broccoli cheese soup simmering.
Looks like we are all eating good today!
It's drizzling and blah today. That's why the soup sounded like a good idea...but don't tell Justin that I used a bag of cauliflower rice in it. You can't tell, but I didn't have quite enough broccoli to make the amount I wanted so I dumped the cauliflower rice in there to stretch it out some.
It looks and smells amazing. That's one dish I never mess up and both of us can eat without complaint.
Tried to give plasma today. Got deferred cause my iron was low. That aggravates me. I take iron supplements and I've been eating a lot of spinach lately so idk what could be the deal.
Back to work tomorrow.
My neighbor guy helped me get my car busted out of the snowbank tonight. City plows had buried my car up to 3/4 of the tire on my Chevy Cobalt.
:hi: Still slick here. Got another free day off. Took Lou to work, put a big beef roast in the smoker, along with some cheesy bacon cheeseburgers. Not planning to do anything more productive than eating.
I'm ready for Spring. Up to 27* and I don't wanna go outside.
It's up to 31 here. Suns been out most of the day so lots is melting, but still in the 20's tonight so all this melting is gonna turn to ice.
I'm tired of doing snow status updates at work for 150+ stores.
9/12/4 is too many updates on the same thing. But my boss is on schedule to fly to Africa this afternoon so I am GLAD it's all melting!! lol
My feet have been cold most of the day.
Huh. Thought I posted again earlier. I KNOW I wrote it out. :pound:
Y'alls loss, I'm sure it was a deeply insightful and inspiring post.
The day was another free day off, which I enjoyed by- cooking.
Been a crazy busy day today. I had an anxiety attack early into my work shift and started slamming cabinet doors because I was getting frustrated. One of my older coworkers came over, put an arm around me and told me "it'll be ok."
Rumor at the store is saying the mayor had our store ticketed for staying open after the county went red during the snow emergency.
You can get a ticket down there for staying open when it snows? How is that legal? How much snow did you get, five feet?
My area got about a foot of snow between the 2 days. The plows weren't keeping up with the snowfall so almost every county in the area got put on red status which means travel is restricted to emergency management workers only.
o.O
Full on martial law for a foot of snow? Can they do that?
Sorry. Please excuse my fascination with this. I have never heard of it before. A lot of people in Tennessee don't know how to drive on snow, but the government doesn't lock us down. The ones who don't know how to drive on snow just stay home.
:hi:
Fixing to get ready for church. Couldn't sleep much last night, so I spent part of the night trying my hand at building a website for the church using WIX. It's temporary, but it will at least give us a presence, that is if google finds it.
Feel free to check it out and critique:
https://oldtimepentecost.wixsite.com/mysite?fbclid=IwAR3M4ulU-lkmmoUK1we_rJZSBBhZ42t_O1_2vCyKyBdW-ClVpiXMBj8brWc
Ended up making energy bars, cream cheese pound cake and coconut pies today.
Quote from: Roscoe on February 06, 2022, 08:47:41 PM:hi:
Fixing to get ready for church. Couldn't sleep much last night, so I spent part of the night trying my hand at building a website for the church using WIX. It's temporary, but it will at least give us a presence, that is if google finds it.
Feel free to check it out and critique:
https://oldtimepentecost.wixsite.com/mysite?fbclid=IwAR3M4ulU-lkmmoUK1we_rJZSBBhZ42t_O1_2vCyKyBdW-ClVpiXMBj8brWc
Where's the service times and location? Also if you plan to leave that "Let's Chat" button on there make sure someone is checking it on a real regular basis.
Quote from: Backseat Radio on February 07, 2022, 02:04:49 AMQuote from: Roscoe on February 06, 2022, 08:47:41 PM:hi:
Fixing to get ready for church. Couldn't sleep much last night, so I spent part of the night trying my hand at building a website for the church using WIX. It's temporary, but it will at least give us a presence, that is if google finds it.
Feel free to check it out and critique:
https://oldtimepentecost.wixsite.com/mysite?fbclid=IwAR3M4ulU-lkmmoUK1we_rJZSBBhZ42t_O1_2vCyKyBdW-ClVpiXMBj8brWc
Where's the service times and location? Also if you plan to leave that "Let's Chat" button on there make sure someone is checking it on a real regular basis.
We'll be checking it frequently, but that button may go away. Still working on it and will have service times and location up later...I finally got tired and went to bed around 545 this morning and haven't had much time today to work on it.
I'm getting around for another day at work. Would rather call off and just go back to bed but "I don't want to go to work" isn't a legit excuse to call off.
Quote from: Roscoe on February 06, 2022, 08:47:41 PM:hi:
Fixing to get ready for church. Couldn't sleep much last night, so I spent part of the night trying my hand at building a website for the church using WIX. It's temporary, but it will at least give us a presence, that is if google finds it.
Feel free to check it out and critique:
https://oldtimepentecost.wixsite.com/mysite?fbclid=IwAR3M4ulU-lkmmoUK1we_rJZSBBhZ42t_O1_2vCyKyBdW-ClVpiXMBj8brWc
You might want to look at it via a mobile phone. I noticed some of the headers on the minister bios are messing up or confusing when I visit the site on my phone. Over all the site looks good.
The "Learn More" button doesn't go anywhere.
Bobby you need to get somebody to take a picture of you without the sun in your face. Stand under a tree or something. "Stand out here in good light" is terrible for pictures.
@Work. I missed Thurs/Friday due to the weather event. I am definitely paying for it in leaps and bounds with stress today and yesterday. :)
Wedding on Saturday evening for our pastor's daughter & our piano player was beautiful. It was VERY cold outside, and I definitely had an interesting time getting in and out of the vehicle at the venue. It was like they didn't even think to plow their parking lot with a huge wedding happening. Thankfully the two ladies who rode up with me were good. I was able to pick them up and drop them off at the door, so it was just me ice skating. LOL.
Jeremy got a 1099-K in the mail last week that was NOT meant to be for us. I had to file an identity theft report on the FTC website today in order to get things really started with the company who was fraudulently used. They COULD have made this whole process less horrific, but oh well. One day at a time. I keep calm by thinking "They can't kill me - this is just terribly inconvenient." LOL. It's been a process since Wednesday and I don't know how close they are to figuring out what happened. I already filed our federal taxes before this happened. I am supposed to get the PIN today to file our state taxes online, but I don't know that I should with this all up in the air. I KNOW this isn't ours, so long-term shouldn't affect our state taxes either, but I don't want it to get more complicated than necessary for us either, or look like we're committing fraud somewhere. I don't want any extra red flags, haha.
THEN - last night I found out we needed to submit three years of tax returns and a very detailed, special form showing everything except our blood types so that our new pastor can buy a home closer to the church. It's been crazy and while I'm glad we can help, it's so scary giving all this info to some bank and being personally on the line if something crazy were to happen along the way. (There is also another board member having to personally guarantee as well.) Talk about TRUSTING a pastor! LOL.. Thankfully he and his family are incredibly easy to love, and I know that we can always just sell the home if something did happen out of everyone's hands.
I really need a day off though.. after all this ongoing stress.
My aunt tested positive for COVID over the weekend. She should be getting an infusion as I type this. We are praying this is only good for her and does not cause a reaction. She tends to have all of the side effects from medications, so it's a little scary. We are thankful for the slight improvements in her symptoms even just since Saturday.
When it rains it pours, eh?
Quote from: Lynx on February 06, 2022, 12:16:37 PMo.O
Full on martial law for a foot of snow? Can they do that?
Sorry. Please excuse my fascination with this. I have never heard of it before. A lot of people in Tennessee don't know how to drive on snow, but the government doesn't lock us down. The ones who don't know how to drive on snow just stay home.
I've never heard of this either. CVS doesnt even close for christmas, let alone a "snow" storm.
Walmart closes for Thanksgiving and Christmas and the rare occasion that a tornado or other weather event destroys the building.
Quote from: Nelle on February 07, 2022, 07:24:43 PMTHEN - last night I found out we needed to submit three years of tax returns and a very detailed, special form showing everything except our blood types so that our new pastor can buy a home closer to the church. It's been crazy and while I'm glad we can help, it's so scary giving all this info to some bank and being personally on the line if something crazy were to happen along the way. (There is also another board member having to personally guarantee as well.) Talk about TRUSTING a pastor! LOL.. Thankfully he and his family are incredibly easy to love, and I know that we can always just sell the home if something did happen out of everyone's hands.
Oh lawd. I'm REAL skittish about this after some of the horror stories I've heard. I have a couple in my church that did something similar, only it was on a loan for the new church building- a small church, I think the loan was around $100k. Long story short, within a couple of years things went sideways, the preacher got crossed up with the saints, the mortgage didn't get paid and it nearly put two of the most wonderful, Godly people I've ever known in bankruptcy court at the end of their working careers. Thankfully, when the church fell apart, they came to us, and didn't get bitter at God or the ministry. They are some of my biggest backers and are nothing but givers.
Personally, I'd live in my motorhome or a tent before I'd ask my folks to sign on a loan. And I'm not meaning to criticize your pastor at all, please don't take it that way.
And yeah, I got some work to do to the site yet,as well as need new pics. First time I've ever tried putting a website together. I'm not the most skilled. :lol:
Today was a long day. I did get some work done though. Dreading tomorrow- I have folks scheduled every 30 minutes all day long and a few intakes (which are more in depth and take longer) I have to "work in".
I'm with Roscoe, I don't think signing for the loan is a good idea. The economy is too volatile. Do you even own your own house?
Quote from: Roscoe on February 06, 2022, 08:47:41 PM:hi:
Fixing to get ready for church. Couldn't sleep much last night, so I spent part of the night trying my hand at building a website for the church using WIX. It's temporary, but it will at least give us a presence, that is if google finds it.
The fact that you have a working Facebook page for the church means you already have a presence on the web that Google knows about. Google lists the church's Facebook page as its website. Plus your church is the first one that comes up if someone Googles for an Apostolic church in Morrilton.
We were both uncomfortable with the loan situation, and I didn't really like for these others involved to see our tax returns. Not that we have anything to hide, but it was just weird that someone is seeing such private (in my opinion) information. lol.. My parents were equally NOT thrilled that we had done it. We felt like we had no choice without raising a huge stink. I just pray that God helps us and nothing bad happens. :) In a year or so, they are switching it all into their names so we would then hopefully be off the hook completely. We "own" our home as in we have a mortgage, haha. I always laugh when I have to put "own" on paperwork because in reality - we don't. But they consider paying a mortgage as owning apparently. I mean, I really feel like it'll be fine.. I just don't like having people looking at our information. Especially when I don't get to see anyone else's haha.
@Work. I'm going to go ahead and file our state taxes today at lunch. I'm praying this 1099 mess gets straightened out easily by them just sending us a corrected one since we gave them that identity theft report. We don't even know yet if it IS theft or just a mistake somewhere.. although having his social on there makes me feel it would almost have to be theft of some kind. I don't know. They picked the wrong people to mess with for sure. Jeremy doesn't have enough money to commit identity theft on.. lol.
I wouldn't be comfortable with my tax returns being needed for someone elses loan. I quit attending one church because of questionable things the Pastor asked the church to do when they were obtaining a new building to use for church and parsonage.
Morning all. Gonna be a busy day.
Praying for the best, Nelle. I went back and read what I'd typed- I sure didn't mean it judgmental towards you guys' choices, so I'm glad you didn't take it that way. I'd have told them gently "I love you, support you and will give sacrificially, but I can't commit to a loan like that at this time." I.E- I'd have stirred a stink. LOL
We had a somewhat similar situation a few years ago with a man who was in line to be pastor. They didn't ask, but it sure looked for a while like they would've jumped at it had it been offered. I told Lou I love, I give, and I'll help anyway I can, but for us, I couldn't risk our future. Not that I thought they would default intentionally, but things happen and the last place I wanted to be was having hard feelings toward a spiritual leader. We were different though- we had a child to think of too, and some family members who would love to borrow/use our credit if it ever got started.
Hope the IRS mess gets straightened out for ya.
I'm putting off filing due to having to pay in. I'm a tad salty over that. I'll get done sulking, file and send in payment in the next couple of weeks.
Yea I def would of raised a stink too. haha
It's a gorgeous 61 here today. Bf and I walked last night and prob will again tonight.
I made roast and potatoes last night. It was pretty delicious for the first try at crock-pot roast.
No clue what I'm gonna make tonight though.
Well, last night we ate hamburger helper. No idea what we will eat tonight. Difficult to find the want to to cook after work. And it's too expensive to eat out. :pound:
Beautiful here too- 63 degrees. I need 70s and free time, folks!
Very pretty outside. About 65* here.
35 degrees here. Temp when I left for work this morning was zero.
Was a busy day at work with new releases and recalls to do.
Ugh. Morning. Back at work. Lou could use prayer- having dental issues giving her pain. At the dentist now.
I hate dental issues. Praying for her.
ugh sameeee and i have so much i need done. and no money for it.
I am sooooo thankful for Care Credit and finally for getting some tiny dental insurance coverage from Jeremy's work. It has helped us tremendously to be able to slightly afford the dental care we have both needed. Dental work is TOO expensive for it being such a large part of your overall health. Whoever started the whole "this isn't medical health related care" needs to be taken out back and thrown a pie at, haha.
@Work.
Jeremy had his ortho appointment at the VA today. He came by my office afterwards and he has bursitis - NOT a torn rotator cuff! Hallelujah! They gave him a steroid shot and he begins his therapy next week. Bad thing is his blood pressure has been consistently elevated, so they're going to want to monitor that. He will hopefully be talking to a patient advocate soon to get a new doctor. They already have been having a language issue since way before his stomach surgery several years ago, so this will be a huge help for Jeremy to feel like he has been heard and knows what's going on in his care.
Just finished my third 12 hour day at work. I now have 4 days off! But now I slam into fast third gear and this weekend is gonna be BUSY!
My cousin is coming in to town and we have a big weekend planned. It's gonna be great!
Well- two root canals later, she is better. Now for the procedure to heal.
Went to church. Back home. Tired. Gonna go to sleep hopefully for the night soon.
@Work.
Hope your wife is feeling better today. That sounded rough.
I need a nap. I need to meal plan this evening.
Quote from: Nelle on February 09, 2022, 09:54:03 PMI am sooooo thankful for Care Credit and finally for getting some tiny dental insurance coverage from Jeremy's work. It has helped us tremendously to be able to slightly afford the dental care we have both needed. Dental work is TOO expensive for it being such a large part of your overall health. Whoever started the whole "this isn't medical health related care" needs to be taken out back and thrown a pie at, haha.
Agreed.
And I have a CareCredit. It was maxed with one procedure. :cry:
I budgeted money for my HSA this check so I'm using it instead at the dentist today for a deep cleaning.
Ugh. so. much. anxiety.
Hey friends! I was thinking of you and missing some of you that I haven't connected with on Facebook, so thought I'd pop in and say hello. :) I'll be polite and say hello to a few people I have not missed, as well. :hypocrite:
:beret:
Quote from: SippinTea on February 11, 2022, 12:49:18 AMHey friends! I was thinking of you and missing some of you that I haven't connected with on Facebook, so thought I'd pop in and say hello. :) I'll be polite and say hello to a few people I have not missed, as well. :hypocrite:
:beret:
:eek!:
'bout time the prodigal came home.
Glad you said hi to those you don't miss. I'd have been hurt otherwise. :biglaugh:
Was a long day today. Made even longer when I got nearly home and got a call from a dear saint. Her husband was at the E.R. They'd found him in a grocery store restaurant, disoriented. When the paramedics got there, his sugar was at 20. I raced back to the hospital. They got his sugar back up thankfully, and he was released from the hospital a bit ago. So I just got home.
Tuckered plumb out. Ready for summer. Ready for March and the ten hour shifts we are supposed to get to go to, which will give me Mondays off. I need my three day weekends.!
How scary, Bob! Glad they were able to get his sugar up
:beret:
Wow, hi, Ruby! :hi:
Low sugar is scary. I'm finding that out.
Big day today! Lots to do!
Happy Friday!
Yes. Happy Friday! Tons to do. Also- pray for another saint of mine and her family. She's been in the hospital with covid- older, overweight, health issues. They are placing a trach this morning and trying to take her off the vent. It's not good, and I fear I'll be hearing the worse. She's good people, but has been heartbroken since her husband of 54 years passed a few years ago. I fear she's given up. :cry:
I'm gonna go do a few home visits today. Ready for the weekend.
Wow Ruby?! :o
It's like a reunion!
I'm in Dallas, Georgia, at my cousins house. Tomorrow my other cousin comes up from Tallahassee and we are headed to Senoia, where Jennica lives now. We are going to do The Walking Dead tour again. I did one back in October and had a blast!
Currently watching Cocomelon with the baby cousin. :eyeroll:
Took the kids on a short geocaching adventure today. Rewarded myself with a latte afterwards. :P
:beret:
Woke up to find more snow coming down here in Indiana and warnings about slick roads from my mother
It's raining here.
Well the weekend had originally been forecast to be 60 ish. They missed it by 20+ degrees. It was 40 ish and windy. Miserable day. Got up and went to Conway with Bro Wilson to see the sick saint,, then off to eat, then a tad bit of shopping. Back home now, wore plumb out in every way, and dog tired.
Our rain turned to big fluffy snowflakes. It was 38*, so nothing stuck but it was pretty while it lasted.
Got some kind of sickness going through the Electronics department. My department manager took one of my coworkers to the walk in clinic yesterday morning cause she got sick at work. Had to send the coworker home. Strep and covid tests came back negative. Thought I was going to collapse in the middle of my shift yesterday too. Got hit with another dizzy nausea spell and the floor started moving.
Spent the 2nd half of my shift tearing apart the big FujiFilm DL650 printer cleaning it and trying to figure out why it kept saying there was paper in it when there wasn't. Finally found a ledge and sensor deep in the machine covered in paper dust.
Awesome message from a friend tonight. Awesome spirit of God moving.
The not so awesome is my right hip is giving me issues again, and the headache is back. Again. Took some ibuprofin, maybe it'll kill it through the night. Tomorrow promises to be busy
I'm going to get to see Chel and boys today. :)
Back at work. Sigh.
Same. Grumble grumble.
Happy Valentine's Day lol
It's been gorgeous spring weather here for weeks, which is nuts, considering where I live. Lol. But today it was hailing and snowing for while. Silly bi-polar weather.
Bella is off on an adventure with my parents. They're visiting my grandma in Idaho. I am thrilled I have only two members of the Ringo Circus to keep contained. :lol:
Engineer Teddy is tearing apart a non-working digital camera.
:beret:
Boys sure love to dismantle things. ;)
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on February 14, 2022, 11:53:23 PMBoys sure love to dismantle things. ;)
Surely not! *looks around at the disassembled truck, partially disassembled motor coach, half completed house remodel...
Nah. It's not that we love to, it's that we HAVE to. It's in our DNA. :laughhard:
As typical, 40s was the high the weekend. When I'm back at work and can't do anything- 70s. Sheesh.
Made it though the day. Hip still hurting, so I'm still crabby-er than usual. Went to meet Bro Wilson to install the new water heater at the church. Apparently, he forgot. So I manhandled the old one out and threw it out the back door of the church to be hauled off, and manhandled the new one into place. We'll hook it up later- I didn't have all the stuff I needed to hook it up. Came home and discovered the coach's battery was dead. I'm currently recharging it.
I'm suffering another miserable bout of keto flu. Trying again to boot added sugars from my diet. Hard to keep on the diet with how addictive sugar is and how pervasive it is in the food supply.
Morning.
That is all.
Yes. It was morning. Been busy. Not hurting as bad today, thank God. Little pain still, but not near what it has been. In keeping with my grumpiness, I am tired as what, though.
I am here. Nothing new to report, but I am here.
:couch:
:waving:
Stayed up until after midnight last night, brainstorming my latest hair brained business idea. I've come to the conclusion that I am a serial entrepreneur. And I am okay with that. It took me a long time to get here, but I'm here now. It's a nice thing to be content with how God made you, even if your family isn't always sure what to do with you. :lol: I can see all kinds of ways God has used my business connections as a ministry. It just doesn't look like what a "ministry family" is "supposed" to look like. ;)
Quote from: Backseat Radio on February 15, 2022, 02:26:39 AMI'm suffering another miserable bout of keto flu. Trying again to boot added sugars from my diet. Hard to keep on the diet with how addictive sugar is and how pervasive it is in the food supply.
One of my kiddos is affected by sugar in a HUGE way. All kids get a bit hyper after having sugar. My Teddy takes it to a whole new level. I have to be very watchful about his sugar intake as a result. And yes, it's hard to avoid!!
:beret:
:hi:
Grocery shopping makes me tired.
It's gloomy here. Gloomy outside = gloomy Jennifer.
Plus the bfs out of town doing inventories for work.
Did three 12s this week. Now I'm off for two days and work 4 hours on Saturday morning. I am gonna make a roast and have a friend over for dinner Saturday evening.
Tomorrow is laundry, giving plasma, and general house stuff to get my life together for next week.
I'm tired. Goodnight!
Quote from: MelodyB on February 17, 2022, 04:10:35 AMDid three 12s this week. Now I'm off for two days and work 4 hours on Saturday morning. I am gonna make a roast and have a friend over for dinner Saturday evening.
Tomorrow is laundry, giving plasma, and general house stuff to get my life together for next week.
I'm tired. Goodnight!
Three 12's? What are you, a nurse?
I didn't know they did shifts that long there. Bleh! I'd be tired too.
Do you use caffeine to keep going through the last half? Or do you just push through it with determination?
@Work. Eating Wheat Thins dipped in Chive & Onion cream cheese. I'm sure one cancels out the other.. LOL. It's yummy tho!!
Rough sinus day here. It's been raining since last night sometime. I woke up to a notification telling me (by voice, not just a pop-up notify) "There has been lightning detected in your area." I really didn't care at that time of night, but I'm glad I can let a weather app bypass my "Do Not Disturb" function just in case it actually IS bad weather. I hope to sleep like a baby tonight.. hopefully better than a baby, actually. I hear they don't always sleep LOL.
I found a recipe online for a quick/easy shepherd's pie for supper last night.. it was pretty tasty! Next time I'll use flavored/Seasoned mashed potatoes, but otherwise really good. We are having chicken quesadillas tonight from pulled rotisserie chicken. Then probably tomorrow night will have to be leftovers or something. I'm going to be eating leftover grape jelly meatballs today for lunch. It'll probably be another 3-4 years before I make them again.. LOL. The flavor/smell of the ACV and the picante salsa just don't ever get overdone by the sweetness of the jelly & brown sugar enough to not smell them. But they're fairly tasty either way. I might try them on a sandwich today.
I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but I'll remember it later if it's important.
Today is my Friday. Four day weekend and I cannot WAIT. My brain is already like peaceeee outttt.
Hi. Back at work. Been gloomy and rainy today, making it difficult for me to get going. Lou is wanting to take the coach on a brief excursion this weekend, maybe somewhat local and camp, maybe a 100 mile trip or so. We shall see. Depends on what the weather is doing. Ready for the long weekend, and even more ready for our shift change to 4 day work weeks. I'm beginning to wonder if it will ever happen and whine continuously about it to the boss. LOL
I would kill for a 4-day work week. lol
Quote from: MsJennJenn on February 17, 2022, 06:24:33 PMI would kill for a 4-day work week. lol
Fifteen years or more ago I had that at Morrilton PD. Absolutely loved it. Then they pulled us off of it, I changed jobs twice in the ensuing years and I've never recaptured this elusive dream. When it was floated at my current job, I nearly broke my jaw yelling yes so loud. But, as I work for a government agency, they have to "test pilot" the idea, and drag their feet. SO- long story short we are SUPPOSED to be able to start them around March. Hopefully the first part of march. I'll work 7am to 6pm, with a one hour lunch, Tuesday through Friday, and have a three day weekend every weekend.
I am ecstatic about the idea and badger the mess out of any superior about it. LOL
Yeah I'm kinda a nurse. Lol The patients think I'm the Dr when I come in the rooms sometimes. I have to tell them I'm just getting their triage info and doing their tests.
I'm not formally educated, I don't have letters behind my name, but I have been trained on the job for all the things I didn't already know. I'm an unofficial medical assistant. When I sign anything that requires me to put my title, I sign MA.
I do all sorts of stuff that we do in office. Drug and STD testing, Covid, flu, strep and RSV testing. I clean wounds and wrap them up. I've given meds, and they are about to teach me how to draw blood and give shots. Which I have some experience with that cause of my dad needing two shots a day of insulin. We test for mono, pregnancy, and run UAs. I do DOT recertification physicals and sports physicals. All the things pretty much that we do at our clinic.
We are open from 8a-8p and, most days it's almost 13 hours a day, sometimes we don't get out of there till after 10p...depending on patient volume.
So yeah. It's crazy. Especially now, but my work family is amazing. I've never ever worked in a place where I was involved or accepted among my co-workers like I am here. They truly are my family. I look forward to going to work even on the worst days. We have fun and work together. We actually care about each other.
The worst day at AFC is better than the best day I ever had a Burger King. Hands down.
Morning!
Headed out to give plasma and run errands.
I never left the house yesterday. Got all the house things done. Work tomorrow from 8-12 and then having company over for dinner.
Yay! Happy Friday!
:hi: fixing to see if there's any garage sales.
Way too cold for garage sales here.
Been quite a day here. Had a snow and ice storm last night. Went out to shovel the walk this morning only to discover my screen door latch frozen solid. Busted the latch trying to break the ice so I could get back inside. Then I miscalculated how long it would take to clean the snow/ice from my car and was late to work. Wasn't expecting 3 distinct layers of snow/ice on the car with the bottom layer unscrappable.
It was cold here this morning. Like 29 degrees. And it hasn't warmed up a ton, although it is sunny.
I've done home visits today and have a roaring headache.
Lord, it seems all I've done lately is complain/suffer with aches and pains. I'm sorry.
Glad it is Friday. Ready for the next 4 hours to pass so I can go home.
My dad fixed the screen door for me and sent me this message:
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Another project funded by cookies and white cake. No taxpayer funding was used for this project. I am Dad, and I approved this text. Paid for by the Cookies for Dad foundation.
That's one of them there subtle hint thingies.
It was 32* this morning but got up to about 53* today. I only found 2 garage sales but didn't buy anything.
:hi:
Got up and went to see some friends at breakfast. Came home and Chey and I went to Russellville, picked up some stuff. Came home and tinkered a bit with the motorhome, the stove in the shop and just generally putzed around, but now at least I have heat in the shop. Tired as what, probably going to bed early tonight
A nap is now a treat instead of a punishment. ;)
I wish I had back all those naps I refused as a kid. I'll take them now!
Morning! Time to go to church!
I am so thankful for my heritage. I was talking to a friend last night and sharing my grandfathers conversion story and I was overwhelmed with the power of the grace of God. I have such a rich Godly heritage that admittedly I have taken for granted. Some people are not so fortunate to grow up in this truth. I've never known any different.
Thank you, Jesus.
Everyone must be busy today. :hi:
Shew. Just got in. Lou drug me to flea markets today. She found a new consignment store that was huge and stayed in there for two hours. :pound:
Not looking forward to tomorrow's work- it's dreary and foggy, forecast to be rainy the next day or two, followed by possible winter weather.
:hi:
Morning. Busy one too. And lots of rain. Not really a fan.
Thankfully, rain isn't here, yet. It's 75* for now. :)
We got rain. But not a lot, just drizzly all day yesterday and today.
I don't mind really. It's not really cold. I didn't wear my big jacket today, just a hoodie. It's 69 right now with a low of 63 tonight.
I can handle that!
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on February 22, 2022, 05:25:06 PMThankfully, rain isn't here, yet. It's 75* for now. :)
They are calling for flippin' ice and cold temps again for tonight and tomorrow. I'm over winter, I tell you. If I thought the groundhog actually caused this, I'd singlehandedly cause a mass extinction of the varmint and laugh while doing so.
Flippin ice? I didn't know you lived anywhere near Flippin, AR.
Well the temperature already dropped about 20 degrees. :smirk2:
I tried to make my own funnel cakes. I found out my funnel is too small. They tasted good but didn't hold together as well as they should.
I just made lime boiled custard. I used three bottles of lime juice. It did not curdle! Gotta love fresh milk from a local farm.
I'm making liver and onions tonight. Gonna take some to Church for my Pastor.
He's so lucky! :hypocrite:
Yuck. LOL
Well, it is sleeting like no ones business and the roads are getting bad. Fixing to go beditate before the lord. :wink4:
Not impressed with liver.
Yea liver is a no from me lol
It's like 25 here. Or real feel like 19. I loathe it. No sunshine.
Kinda rainy but not really. They're still "expecting" more ice. :roll:
Bobby I'll help with said maiming of groundhog.
Got home. It is slicker than I've seen in a long time. Slicker than last month. And it's thunder sleeting here, which I did not realize was a thing.
The bank closed and let Lou come home. I'm stuck 13 miles north of her, no vehicle that will go get her except my forbidden state vehicle. Praying she makes it home safe.
One of the few times I wish that, instead of a low slung fat tired hot rod/sportscar. I had a four-wheel drive pickup.
Bobby? You don't have both? I have always been certain a guy like you would have both a sports car and a more serious get-things-done vehicle.
@Work.
Horrible night last night. Was sick off and on throughout the night. Came in late in the morning to work to do payroll and some odds/ends of things that need to be turned in. I feel better, but you always have that post-sickness feeling that makes you feel weird. Taking it slow and waiting my turn for a nap after work, haha.
We have weather moving in here as well, so I'm spending another Wednesday against the wall racing the clock and the weather, haha.
I think I'm ready for Spring
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on February 24, 2022, 06:55:42 PMI think I'm ready for Spring
I was ready for spring in December lol
I'd be happy skipping winter altogether.
I second, third and forth the motion to move to spring. Would strongly consider a direct jump to summer, too.
I'm at home. And they are showing another round coming through in the next hour..
On the bright side, I got notification today that my ten hours shifts actually have a start time. April. A month further out than I want, but at least it's somewhat firm now.
I'm about to fire up the smoker and put five little cornish hens on to smoke, along with steak
My pastor loved the liver. Haha.
It's been nice-ish weather here this week. Not too cold, but not hot either.
I was off today and had a great day hanging out with my friend and her kids. Work tomorrow and Saturday. Yay.
Winter dumped a few more inches of snow and some freezing rain here. Spent the evening making snickerdoodle cookies for a coworker's birthday.
Sun is shining bright here. But there's more rain on the way supposedly. I'm OVER it. I have packages that keep getting delayed and my Amazonian heart is grumpy cus I want them nowwww.
Happy Friday!
Quote from: Nelle on February 23, 2022, 07:55:48 PM@Work.
Horrible night last night. Was sick off and on throughout the night. Came in late in the morning to work to do payroll and some odds/ends of things that need to be turned in. I feel better, but you always have that post-sickness feeling that makes you feel weird. Taking it slow and waiting my turn for a nap after work, haha.
We have weather moving in here as well, so I'm spending another Wednesday against the wall racing the clock and the weather, haha.
Things did not improve as I thought they were.. I was sick yesterday again, but thankfully not the same level as Tues Eve/WedAM. I feel much better today even than I felt Wednesday during the day, so I'm praying it's done. I hate nausea.
@Work. Came in late today again due to sickly. The weather has removed itself from our roads, but our trees are still so pretty and glassy. I hate that it could possibly harm them, and I'm much agreed with spring coming. I just wish the stormy weather didn't come with all that.
Quote from: Roscoe on February 24, 2022, 07:28:45 PMI second, third and forth the motion to move to spring. Would strongly consider a direct jump to summer, too.
I'm at home. And they are showing another round coming through in the next hour..
https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2022/02/17
("Calf rope!" means "I give up!")
I feel lousy today. I got my 2nd Hepatitis B vaccine shot last night. Today's been irritable, tired, sore throat, heavy chest. Thankfully my last shot won't be until the end of June.
:hi:
Went to a youth service last night. Then to a widow lady who goes to our church's home and helped install a water heater. Went by Walmart and got a few things, came home with a major headache. It's cold here but at least there is no precipitation.
:hi: Everybody busy today? Last night was dreadful. Around 5 or so I started feeling poorly. The rest of the nigh, literally was a series of fast trips to the water closet, and that carried on until after 4 am. Zero sleep. I wussed out and requested Bro Wilson to cover for me. The trips are becoming less frequent, thank God, but still more often than I would like.
On the bright side, it is supposed to be in the 70s this week.
I spent much of my day resting after being up multiple times last night sick. Hoping to be better tomorrow.
Per my mother's request, I'm making plans to take my mom to the UPCI Indiana District Ladies Conference in April and stay in the same hotel with ladies from her church. Not looking forward to spending a Friday night in a Pentecost church service but I'm not going to deny mom the opportunity to do something special she wants to do.
Thankfully it didn't rain today like all day yesterday.
It was in the 60's yesterday and supposed to be in the 70's most of the week. This makes me super happy!
Having to wear a heart monitor thing for 48 hours. To track my heart rate/pulse for a solid 48 hours.
It's very itchy.
Why? Are you having problems?
/me send hugs to Jenn
Pretty nice here today.
At work. Dealing with headaches.
Headaches in your head or in the form of people?
We had an amazing church service Sunday. I worked today and I'm off tomorrow. Not too much to share today except today was the first day I've seen we didn't have ANY Covid positive tests AT ALL. And we ran 28 tests!
Just last month we had 30-40 positives a day. This thing is ridiculous!
Good morning everyone!
@Work. I was here yesterday too.
Feeling MUCH better this week thankfully! We had our annual business meeting (and first with our pastor participating). I have to say... I like this new regime, LOL. He read out my reports to the church and explained things. It has given me such anxiety to have to speak in front of people, so I'm thankful he doesn't mind talking, hahahahaaha. Jeremy's grandmother resigned as secretary after 40+ years, and I was appointed to take over her position as well as retain my Treasurer position. In our bylaws, this is allowed to happen. I'm excitedly nervous, but it's really not that much additional work to what I was already doing. Just glad skills I have can be used.
Anyway.. We have CPAs coming tomorrow and Thursday, so I better get back to work.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on February 28, 2022, 08:34:39 PMWhy? Are you having problems?
/me send hugs to Jenn
I had a blip on an ekg in October. She said that was okay but they did an echo.
And I'm wearing the monitor cus my pulse is very high. All the time. between 90-100. average is around 60-75.
Quote from: MsJennJenn on March 01, 2022, 05:18:56 PMQuote from: The Purple Fuzzy on February 28, 2022, 08:34:39 PMWhy? Are you having problems?
/me send hugs to Jenn
I had a blip on an ekg in October. She said that was okay but they did an echo.
And I'm wearing the monitor cus my pulse is very high. All the time. between 90-100. average is around 60-75.
That's nerve-wrecking! I had to wear one last February because I was having what was kinda like an anxiety/panic attack for like two weeks (coincided with my mom's COVID diagnosis after us losing Jeremy's uncle and our pastor to COVID). I was always nervous I was going to somehow rip it off my chest, but that sticky stuff is serious about its job, hahaha. The echo cardiogram was awkward but thankfully the staff was amazing, even if HE was a HE, haha. Probably more considerate of me than most female medical staff I've encountered.
I'm glad they're checking you out. It made me want to just get everything checked JUST to make sure. However, I got the bill before I started getting any ideas, hahaha. I need better health insurance I think.
The echo is expensive but the nuclear stress test was crazy expensive. :o
Urgh. Hi. Mel, in answer to your query- both. People who are headaches, and for the past several weeks I've had nearly daily headaches. Nothing blindingly painful, so I sure don't mean to complain, but just enough of an ache that I know it is there. :pound:. I know that probably doesn't make sense.
Glad you are feeling better, Nelle, and Jenn I'm glad you are getting checked.
It's beautiful and 70 ish here today. Ready for quitting time...
Quote from: Nelle on March 01, 2022, 06:42:49 PMI need better health insurance I think.
We as a country need better health insurance. It's not just you. Don't get me started lol
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on March 01, 2022, 07:48:05 PMThe echo is expensive but the nuclear stress test was crazy expensive. :o
Ugh don't tell me that lol
My 48 hours were up at 930 this morning. I ripped that thing right off.
My skin is soooo irritated. And i dunno how to get all this sticky stuff off.
It's such a nice day. I'm thankful for springish weather.
MJJ - Did you try Dawn? I'm not sure it'll work, but I guess it can't hurt, haha.
@Work. Eating my gas station burrito and corn nuggets for lunch. Not sure if I want to make spaghetti or meatloaf tonight.
Quote from: Nelle on March 03, 2022, 05:58:31 PMMJJ - Did you try Dawn? I'm not sure it'll work, but I guess it can't hurt, haha.
@Work. Eating my gas station burrito and corn nuggets for lunch. Not sure if I want to make spaghetti or meatloaf tonight.
Haha I'm actually leaning into the powers of dawn. I used it last night to get this sticky tape stuff off of my bathroom floors LOL. I did get it off last night finally, but I had to scrub. Which sucked since that area is already feeling raw from irritation anyway.
I see the heart dr today at 1:30 for the follow-up.
I put beef tips in the crock-pot for dinner tonight.
Oily stuff like WD40 or orange oil or peanut butter works well on sticky stuff.
Yea lemon EO is great for getting stickers off of glass.
Just didnt wanna use crazy stuff since the whole area of that skin was irritated. So I just use antibacterial soap and scrubbed lol ...
No cardio follow-up. Was a scheduling error. So irritated! Now I have to wait a week. Sigh
I got 15 bean soup in the crock pot today. Gonna slice an onion and eat with it. And some rice. Not low carb but that's ok. I'm craving it today.
Also my heart rate is low. The past three days I've not been able to donate plasma. And since I've now been turned away three consecutive days, I have a paper for my Dr to fill out before I can go back and donate. I'm so irritated about that.
At least I guess if you've already scrubbed it, now you can baby the skin to make it feel better.
Not sure how long the CPAs are going to be here today. Hoping we aren't here TOO late.
Lawd. Been too busy to log in...
Today was beautiful. Like almost 80. Perfect- but I was stuck inside! :pound:
I DID fire up Sam and take him for a short drive though, when I got home. It's a shame, as pretty as it was, I still had to MAKE myself go out and tinker with him and clean up a bit. Just have zero energy anymore. I've always been Lazy, but I will admit that I seem to be going to a new level.
Enjoyed my ride in to work. Seems like over the last month or so, I silently talk with God on the way in. I've done this for some time, but it's been a different feel lately. Like He sits down and talks to me. It's like having a Friend in the car. Don't know how to explain it without sounding like a nutcase, but it's like my brain forms a question or a comment- and instantly a response.
I thought it was just me, until the other day I formed the thought telling God I specifically needed to hear something from someone- and I nearly instantly got a text addressing that very thing. As in within ten minutes. With the mental stuff I've battled lately it sure feels good to have Him respond.
I love Him so much, and I'm so thankful He didn't throw me away when I was rebelling and being a heathen.
Yea I've just been putting Vaseline on it lol
Close to 80's here all week too. Been kinda overcast today though.
And 15 bean soup? lol that's a lotta kinds of beans. I didnt know that many types of beans existed.
Been a busy day here. Had to call Fuji help desk to send a tech to fix the big photo lab printer. Hoping the tech comes soon. Also had 3 older guys that ignored the memo about 3G being shutdown and had to buy new phones because their old phones stopped making calls.
:hi: Made it to the weekend...
Quote from: Backseat Radio on March 05, 2022, 12:32:41 AMBeen a busy day here. Had to call Fuji help desk to send a tech to fix the big photo lab printer. Hoping the tech comes soon. Also had 3 older guys that ignored the memo about 3G being shutdown and had to buy new phones because their old phones stopped making calls.
That's... Uh... A LOT of ignoring there! The telecom companies were getting very active with their messages and calls about 3G closing down. They even sent messages to some people with phones that would be perfectly fine after 3G closed. They called my uncle about every week to make sure he knew he needed a new phone (or that's the impression I got from the complaining he did about how much they pestered him.)
Pretty day today, although a tad overcast. Did a bit of work on Sam, go the bed off of it to start redoing it. Spent a few minutes with a politician friend who is running for secretary of state when he dropped by while out campaigning.
He's a good guy, I hope he wins.
Relaxing in the recliner now.
It's been a nice restful day.
Well. Spring weather is indeed here. Tornado warning. Had a 'nader pass several miles north of us while we were in church. On the bright side- warm weather. My constantly frozen old bones rejoice.
Your warm-weather decided to go to Florida.
It was nice and in the 70's yesterday. We are working on repainting the inside of the house, and suddenly the wind picked up. It dropped to the low 40's. And its supposed to be that way all week and a chance of snow Friday.
*sigh*
Yea this cold got the wrong memo. Wasn't supposed to be here in the south. I rebuke it! :noo: :nono:
Thankfully all the actual severe weather stayed north and south of our home. It was overall a BEAUTIFUL weekend! I enjoyed Saturday and Sunday weather SOOO much. Our two cats even were happier! I was able to sleep through night last night without them bothering me. Now.. I did wake up from being too warm a few times. We had the windows open and it was still warm for most of the sleeping cycle. Unfortunately that means when it was time to get up for work, it was super comfortable with the blankets, hahaha.
@work.
I went on lunch and bought several 2 liters of Blackberry Ginger Ale for Jeremy. He loves the stuff but couldn't find it for the longest. He was excited to hear!
I think we're having BLT for supper. Well he is.. I'll have just the bacon & mayo haha.
Last night I had to turn on the air for a bit because it was so stuffy in the house, today we have the wood stove going.
We have a good chance of snow Friday.
Listen, I love snow. But I am ready for warm weather and spring.
Wizard of Id comic strip had their yearly comment on March weather.
https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2022/03/06
@Work. Thankful for employment even if I would've rather stayed in bed haha.
Gas keeps creeping up. It went up $0.30 overnight to $4.59, and I mentally kicked myself for not getting gas yesterday. BUT - I was able to snag it for $4.29 this morning at another station in town. I have no idea why they're that much cheaper than literally every other station in 20 miles and I hope I don't regret it, hahaha. It's a recognized brand in the area so I'm not thinking it's subpar gas. Just odd.
I'm also getting tired of everyone getting admonished for complaining about gas prices. I can be frustrated about things happening that negatively affect me here at home AND also be concerned/prayerful for Ukraine people. I'm so tired of everyone popping into everyone's feed "judging" every little action or word we have. It's possible for me to be concerned about my situation and at the very same time, feel for and pray for and be concerned for someone else in a much worse situation. I'm not sure why we seem to believe they are mutually exclusive. Does it seem insignificant in light of others losing their lives? Yes. But it still concerns my life too. It may not be popular opinion, and maybe I shouldn't have ranted.. but.. it's what I feel and I shared it.
It's very popular to criticize people these days. And that is something very handy, easy to criticize.
It is useful though for pointing out the people that you really need to get some distance away from.
It's rainy and only 40. I'm ready for upper 60s, lower 70s.
:hi:
Been a long day. I actually called in yesterday and felt like doing so today. I went in because I had intakes to do and court in another county. It was business all day, then I didn't get in from court until 630.
Lou had an interesting day too. Their bank was the target of an attempted robbery. Lou and another teller's quick thinking got the police there very quickly and let to the capture of the robber before he could even leave the bank. Thankfully, there were no injuries.
And in regards to the snow- I'm done with it. Times 100. And in regards to gas- same. Done with it too. This is very not good. I told Lou, half laughing, that it's my fault. I bought a motorhome after wanting one for 20 years, so of COURSE gas will rise to levels unheard of. The furthest I'll be able to go is to Petit Jean. And ironically, even that short trip will cost me the better part of $100. And that's without leaving the county.
In blessings/thankfulness- the state is giving officers, myself included, a $5,000 bonus. It'll be July first before we get it, but I'll be thankful to receive it. That, coupled with my raise they gave, then took back to give again, will make a nice little bit for the savings account and remodel project.
Quote from: Nelle on March 08, 2022, 02:58:42 PMI'm also getting tired of everyone getting admonished for complaining about gas prices. I can be frustrated about things happening that negatively affect me here at home AND also be concerned/prayerful for Ukraine people. I'm so tired of everyone popping into everyone's feed "judging" every little action or word we have. It's possible for me to be concerned about my situation and at the very same time, feel for and pray for and be concerned for someone else in a much worse situation. I'm not sure why we seem to believe they are mutually exclusive. Does it seem insignificant in light of others losing their lives? Yes. But it still concerns my life too. It may not be popular opinion, and maybe I shouldn't have ranted.. but.. it's what I feel and I shared it.
Judging people have led to an odd self-defense habit though...
(https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/i_shouldnt_complain.png)
Quote from: Roscoe on March 09, 2022, 02:21:12 AM:hi:
Been a long day. I actually called in yesterday and felt like doing so today. I went in because I had intakes to do and court in another county. It was business all day, then I didn't get in from court until 630.
Lou had an interesting day too. Their bank was the target of an attempted robbery. Lou and another teller's quick thinking got the police there very quickly and let to the capture of the robber before he could even leave the bank. Thankfully, there were no injuries.
And in regards to the snow- I'm done with it. Times 100. And in regards to gas- same. Done with it too. This is very not good. I told Lou, half laughing, that it's my fault. I bought a motorhome after wanting one for 20 years, so of COURSE gas will rise to levels unheard of. The furthest I'll be able to go is to Petit Jean. And ironically, even that short trip will cost me the better part of $100. And that's without leaving the county.
In blessings/thankfulness- the state is giving officers, myself included, a $5,000 bonus. It'll be July first before we get it, but I'll be thankful to receive it. That, coupled with my raise they gave, then took back to give again, will make a nice little bit for the savings account and remodel project.
First, glad Lou is ok!
Speaking of remodeling, I'm on day 9000 of one. I've heard about projects snowballing...but dear lawd.
Let's see if I can make sense of this:
1) The gas line running into my fireplace rusted.
2) I get the gas line replaced, and they cut a patch in the wall to access the gas valve.
3) Wall is patched, now it needs repainting.
4) We decide on colors and decide to paint down the halls too.
5) Before we paint the halls, I decide to redo the hall closet and closets in each room. The closets were really badly designed and needed a major update. My son had basically a coat closet, I had a small closet, and my daughter had a coat closet and walk-in closet. Luckily the hallway coat closet and my son's closet shared a wall, so we closed off the coat closet and opened his up. And my closet and my daughter's coat closet shared a wall too. We doubled the space in my closet.
6) Bedrooms get painted. <We are at this step now...
7) Bedrooms get new carpet.
8) Closets get finished out.
9) Hall and living room get painted.
10) Kitchen and dining room get remodeled completely.
And who knows what else?
All because I decided to get the gas line working on the fireplace...
:ugly:
Whew... talk about a snowball! LOL.. It'll be GREAT once it's finished though. Keep your eyes on the prize! hahaha..
@Work. Eating a bagel w/ strawberry cream cheese. Dreaming of being back in bed asleep. I need the cloudy/dreary days to go. I don't mind rainy days.. but at least make the sun shine. Those two days of glorious weather temperature-wise this past weekend really ruined the blah days, haha.
I know what ya mean Mini- I started six years ago by replacing a piece of wet carpet with Tile. There is no end in sight. Lou still wants-
1) laundry room/master bedroom suite completed (working on this- it's a BIG project I'll have half the price of the house in)
2) kitchen cabinets repainted and new counter tops
3) new tile in the bathroom
And that's bare minimum.
I also NEED-
4) finish insulating the shop
5) build three carports
6) hire a dumpster and throw out 17 years of accumulated junk.
7) build patio with outdoor kitchen and POSSIBLY a "stock-tank pool/hot tub"- look those up they are really cool.
And all that is in addition to my annual landscaping and flower purchase. LOL
Quote from: mini on March 09, 2022, 01:28:49 PMQuote from: Roscoe on March 09, 2022, 02:21:12 AM:hi:
Been a long day. I actually called in yesterday and felt like doing so today. I went in because I had intakes to do and court in another county. It was business all day, then I didn't get in from court until 630.
Lou had an interesting day too. Their bank was the target of an attempted robbery. Lou and another teller's quick thinking got the police there very quickly and let to the capture of the robber before he could even leave the bank. Thankfully, there were no injuries.
And in regards to the snow- I'm done with it. Times 100. And in regards to gas- same. Done with it too. This is very not good. I told Lou, half laughing, that it's my fault. I bought a motorhome after wanting one for 20 years, so of COURSE gas will rise to levels unheard of. The furthest I'll be able to go is to Petit Jean. And ironically, even that short trip will cost me the better part of $100. And that's without leaving the county.
In blessings/thankfulness- the state is giving officers, myself included, a $5,000 bonus. It'll be July first before we get it, but I'll be thankful to receive it. That, coupled with my raise they gave, then took back to give again, will make a nice little bit for the savings account and remodel project.
First, glad Lou is ok!
Speaking of remodeling, I'm on day 9000 of one. I've heard about projects snowballing...but dear lawd.
Let's see if I can make sense of this:
1) The gas line running into my fireplace rusted.
2) I get the gas line replaced, and they cut a patch in the wall to access the gas valve.
3) Wall is patched, now it needs repainting.
4) We decide on colors and decide to paint down the halls too.
5) Before we paint the halls, I decide to redo the hall closet and closets in each room. The closets were really badly designed and needed a major update. My son had basically a coat closet, I had a small closet, and my daughter had a coat closet and walk-in closet. Luckily the hallway coat closet and my son's closet shared a wall, so we closed off the coat closet and opened his up. And my closet and my daughter's coat closet shared a wall too. We doubled the space in my closet.
6) Bedrooms get painted. <We are at this step now...
7) Bedrooms get new carpet.
8) Closets get finished out.
9) Hall and living room get painted.
10) Kitchen and dining room get remodeled completely.
And who knows what else?
All because I decided to get the gas line working on the fireplace...
:ugly:
You haven't said anything about your wife, so this is just a hunch, but I get the feeling a woman was pushing the snowball.
:hi:
Ole Mini has only himself to blame for his remodeling. Sis. Michel's remodeling involved gold streets and she probably has made acquaintances with my Mama. At least I hope she has. My mama and she would have gotten along fabulously in this world and I hope they are enjoying friendship in Heaven.
Me- my snowball is being pushed down the hill with me inside, by Lou. :laughhard:
Morning all. Back at work. Got a bit of brain fog going today. Hoping that the blueberry pie I got from Mcdonald's that I didn't need will remedy that. :ugly:
Looks like mini is going to get someone else to keep him in line before long...
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on March 10, 2022, 05:33:52 PMLooks like mini is going to get someone else to keep him in line before long...
I wouldn't want to spread rumors, but said someone else is a lady of amazing charm and is as full of pranks as he is. Only flaw I can see from the outside looking in is she has dreadful taste in men. She's with him- and actually speaks to me and pretends to like me as a friend.
:ugly:
She's an absolute angel... before him and especially for loving him, LOL. In the past, I've often wished I had another brother or cousin or someone that would scoop her up. Love her! I thought at one point "that would be a cute pair," but I didn't even realize it was in the works then! I couldn't have been happier when I saw.. :)
@Work. When am I not needing a nap?
I have two possible recipes for this evening's meal.. one involves artichoke heart and chicken, and the other involves pasta and chicken. I'm unsure yet which will happen! haha..
Oh lort.
:blush:
So anyway...yes.
Thank you Nelle. She thinks highly of you too.
Good morning. I'm sitting at a hotel in Kentucky this morning. Took my mom on a 6 hour road trip to be part of a surprise birthday party for her mom's 84th birthday. My aunts and uncles arranged the party and got my Grandma to the hotel without her putting 2 and 2 together to realize what we was up to.
Quote from: Roscoe on March 10, 2022, 05:27:19 PMHoping that the blueberry pie I got from Mcdonald's that I didn't need will remedy that. :ugly:
I am OBSESSED with those blueberry creme pies right now lol. They're so good.
And wait mini has a gf?
Quote from: MsJennJenn on March 11, 2022, 05:33:20 PMQuote from: Roscoe on March 10, 2022, 05:27:19 PMHoping that the blueberry pie I got from Mcdonald's that I didn't need will remedy that. :ugly:
I am OBSESSED with those blueberry creme pies right now lol. They're so good.
And wait mini has a gf?
Better than that. A fiancé.
:eek!:
Quote from: MsJennJenn on March 11, 2022, 07:25:00 PM:eek!:
Jenn, she is sweet as can be. Lou and I were privileged to meet her a few months ago. My thoughts are if you can't like her you gonna split the pit. :laughhard:
In sharing- started at 40 ish degrees this morning. Now low 30s and falling, windy, and snow is pouring down just to my west, and will be here within the hour. NOT. A. FAN.
It's snowing AND sticking here. What!!
@Work. I have an oil change appointment at 4pm, so I'm gonna leave here at closing time and head on down. Crossing my fingers they get it done quick so I can get home before everything is supposed to get dangerous haha. It is what it is!
Really need a nap.. have I mentioned that lately? LOL.. I'm hoping my iron levels haven't dipped again.
Mom and I made it safely back to our part of Indiana last night. The trip back was uneventful until we got near Columbus Indiana. Thats where we got into nearly whiteout snow conditions for a while. Thankfully the snow wasn't sticking on the roadway, so it wasn't slick.
I'm headed to one of the bigger Walmart's in the Fort Wayne area to try to get lamb chops for my family. The small-town Walmart's around here don't seem to know what lamb is and I'm tired of beef, pork, and chicken.
Glad you made it home safe, Tia.
Sometimes Aldi has lamb...
I don't know that I've ever had lamb...
Well, we got around 5 inches of the nasty white stuff. Roads stayed pretty clear though. Only issue I have is my shop heat is not adequate for me to be out there. :pound:
Got up and made French toast and sausage for breakfast. Probably not going to do much today.
Quote from: Roscoe on March 11, 2022, 07:47:39 PMQuote from: MsJennJenn on March 11, 2022, 07:25:00 PM:eek!:
Jenn, she is sweet as can be. Lou and I were privileged to meet her a few months ago. My thoughts are if you can't like her you gonna split the pit. :laughhard:
It would be interesting to see such a person working here. I have some coworkers who have never met a person they couldn't dislike.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on March 12, 2022, 02:14:12 PMGlad you made it home safe, Tia.
Sometimes Aldi has lamb...
since you mentioned Aldi I checked their website to see what the ones here have. Unfortunately all they have is pre seasoned lamb.
:hi: Today was decent, but a bit cold. Went to church and preached for the first time in nearly a month. Way things had worked out, I've had a visiting preacher, or other programs, rendering me a nice little break. Good service, good response. Then went to one of the few local restaurants, Colton's. A bit irritated- it took them 45 minutes to get us a table and they really weren't busy, then another 45 minutes to get food coming. Long story short, nearly two hours at the restaurant.
Stopped and put gas in the Corvette. That hurt- it took premium which was $4.50 a gallon. It won't be on the road a lot. LOL.
Back to work tomorrow. Ready for the weather to get decent...
And- back at work. Overcast and gloomy. Bah.
At a gas station up here the other day, the Premium was cheaper than the unleaded. I was so confused.. I probably should've said something to the attendants inside. I use the regular unleaded, but I was almost tempted hahaha.
@Work. Eating lunch. Saved the leftover meat off the HUGE Arby's sandwich and created another sandwich. I have enough for one more. That and a baked potato.. it'll do! :)
Church was good yesterday despite feeling like I had been hit by a truck and robbed of an hour of sleep plus some, haha. We had a wedding shower for the couple that just got married. It was so busy with family showers and all before the wedding that there wasn't time to have the church one. So we had that PLUS a potluck. Good food, good people, good day.
It's sunny here today, supposed to get to 60°.
It's beautiful and 73* here today but supposed to get severe storms tonight.
Man, I'm jealous of the pretty weather. Not cold here, probably mid 50s, but it's been just- dreary. Probably best though- if it had been 70 and sunny, I'd have been wailing about being stuck inside. LOL
Weather is nice enough here I went for a walk after work
We are in the middle of a severe thunderstorm.
Urgh. Back at work. Tried to go to bed early last night. Colossal fail. Dozed off, slept for maybe an hour before awakening. Unable to go back to sleep despite prayer and bible reading until 2 am. Rain storm came through around 1 am. Now, it's raining off and on here today.
@Work. Came in late due to not feeling well again. Lovely acid reflux and adulthood. I want to eat what I want!
Also feeling a nap, but I can't have one. The time change is affecting me oddly this time. I was sleepy and then when I actually went to bed - eyes wide awake. Obviously still not enjoying the darkness when I wake up. BUT the daylight at the end of the day is going to be exquisite.
We had a thunderstorm last night also.
All sunny and bright today though. Hopefully we've seen the last of winter.
And after catching up in this thread now I want an Arby's sandwich.
We recently got an Arby's somewhat near me and I recently discovered their fish sandwiches are awesome! They beat McDonald's fish sandwiches by about six miles.
When Arby's has their hawaiian bread option for their sandwiches... so good.
It's supposed to get to about 66° today. I got chilled here at work and turned my personal heater on. They have turned the a/c on at work today too. Not sure if it was on earlier and that's why I got chilled or what, haha.
I get to see Dina & kiddos this week. It's been a while since they got to come. I'm thinking I'll get to see Chel,too.
I did indeed get that Arby's sandwich for dinner lol.
and I could eat Hawaiian bread for breakfast lunch and dinner. So yummy.
:hi:
Beautiful day out today. Wound up taking dear Daisy-dog to the vet yesterday. Allergies were affecting the little thing badly. Two shots later and she's good as new.
Got church tonight. Edging closer to the weekend.
I got to see Chel for a few minutes today.
Ugh. McDonald's iced mocha is strong enough to lift a truck. Still failing at getting me jumpstarted. Majorly dragging this morning...
I feel that. I've been dragging too. zzz
So far today- Lost temper at least twice, although others didn't know it. Was encouraged by a call from a friend that may possibly result in her coming to our church. Answered the call of nature, and manage to trip - in a 4 foot square pink tiled bathroom none the less- and nearly knocked myself out on the towel rack.
So- how's YOUR day going? :lol:
Today is my day off. Got my teeth cleaned this morning. Then I made a batch of crock pot black beans and rice to try.
I'm running a special today, punch-for-a-pinch. To get in on this limited-time offer, just pinch me for not wearing green. I will happily serve up your punch, with alacrity and enthusiasm.
No, not that kind of punch. Put your glass down. You can't drink this punch... Though you can eat it, if I aim it at your mouth.
@Work. Sleepy. Driving to work in the full dark is weird and I'm not fond of it. Especially since there will be no "sunny afternoon" due to stormy weather.
We had our 10th anniversary yesterday and celebrated with Japanese take-home food! It was delicious. I will be eating leftovers this evening I believe.
I woke up to gloomy and clouds. But the sun came out in full force and I am happy.
It could be warmer but it'll pick back up by tomorrow.
I'm just sitting at my desk wasting payroll... bahaha...
Happy Friday!
Dina and kiddos are here! :)
Its been a busy day for me. Helped my department manager scan out boxes of movies to sent back to our warehouse. The big news around here has been the Walmart Distribution Center fire in Plainfield, Indiana. It was bad enough that firefighters were struggling to control the blaze. Total loss of the building and merchandise inside. Thankfully all the associates that were working that day made it out safely.
Wowser.
Hi. Spent yesterday in the foreign land to the west of me, totally dependent on Mini's sense of direction and navigation skills. Made it home about 7ish. Gotta go to church in a bit, and I am dragging....
You doing ok, Roscoe? Hubby was reading something about a shooting at a car show in Arkansas.
:hi:
Yeah, the car show shooting was in Dumas, down in South Arkansas. Glad I wasn't there; but truthfully the only car show I usually go to is Petit Jean's swap meet. I tend to drive my stuff more. And as an added bonus, I was in the land of Indian Territory Saturday. :lol:
Back at work this morn. Ready to get the next three days past and enjoy a few days off.
You made it out alive! Seems mini's sense of direction was up to the task.
Yesterday was the first day of Spring and it was soooo pretty. We grilled burgers.
Today? Not so much, I've been sneezing since I got out of bed and it's raining and gloomy.
Me no likey. Take it away. :noo: :nono:
Supposed to be raining here, either now or later today, but so far it's just overcast. Ready for the day to be over.It's dragging.
We are supposed to have bad weather.
A whole jar of chocolate peanut butter might seem a high price to pay, just to flavor a batch of boiled custard... But oh my goodness, chocolate peanut butter boiled custard is like heaven in a mug!
Aaaaaand that's the most exciting thing that has happened around here. Just in case you wonder why I don't post much.
I know, Isaac. Sometimes there just anything interesting to say, either that or it's not appropriate.
haha not appropriate?
Tornado of some sort went thru here last night.
Sirens were going off. Sky went SUPER dark. I snagged Keke (cat) and we got in the closet.
I heard wind and things banging and clanging. Then that was it. Trees all over front yard. Buncha stuff knocked over.
Got the most gorgeous pic of the rainbow after. It felt like it was SO close I could touch it.
It was mesmerizing.
:hi:
Understand the lack of things to say.
It started raining last night around 11 to midnight, and I bet we've gotten 3 inches or better. Not a fan....
Called and made arrangements for Chey's Sweet 16 birthday party in July.
https://www.allaboutarkansas.com/charlotte-teresa-plantation-arkansas/
We are going to have a birthday party for her on a Friday evening, and let she and 4 of her little girlfriends have a sleepover in this mansion.
Chey is a nut for plantation houses and vintage and although this one is not vintage it has all of the vintage style. She's wanted this for her 16th for the past three years, since we stumbled across the place and found out they did events...
Sounds fun!
@Work. Sleepy as always. Thankfully we just got rain here overnight and today so far. It's chilly again, but at least it's not freezing. Supposedly we're in for some "wintry mix" overnight tonight but it's not supposed to get below freezing.
I've been sick for the last few days with sinus issues. Sudafed kept me awake much of Sunday night. Then last night I slept so hard I didn't hear any of my alarms and was 2 hours late to work.
:hi:
Struggling through the day. Ready for the rain to be gone. It does appear to have cleared out but is a tad cold.
Bright and sunshiny here. :)
Bright and sunshiny here also, except its a bit chilly. I can't warm up today.
@Work. Headache and neck ache... what's new! haha..
Husband's been a bit under the weather. Had to get him some Dayquil/Nyquil last night, then made him take some allergy meds and some Flonase. Really hoping this helps him breathe better and get that gunk out of him.
:hi:
Beautiful today. I've had the last couple days off. So tired today I had no energy though. Maybe tomorrow will be better.
Man. Everyone's quiet. Like GP died. :sadbounce:
Almost through the day. Got ticked all over again when my boss came in today and informed me that we are holding off on some big wigs approval before going to 10 hour shifts despite being told they were starting next week. Really struggling to keep a good attitude- first they give me a bonus, then take it back to be paid later; then they give me 10 hour shifts, but keep pulling them back. I'd rather they just didn't say anything until they are ready to let things happen. They making me grumpy-er.
I had jury duty this morning. Thankfully I got out of it.
That's frustrating, Roscoe. Hopefully it'll be a swift decision.
I haven't had jury duty yet. Hearing other people's stories are so mixed. My husband was on the jury for a case from the local mental health hospital. He was very anxious when they read everyone's names out loud for the defendant to hear. They were originally told that it wouldn't be done. The defendant had been threatening to injure/kill/maim everyone from the judge to the jury. I wish we could remember their name to make sure where they are now. It's very scary that 'doing your public duty' could endanger yourself and your family.
@Work.
Got my results from my labs Friday. My WBC count has slightly improved, but I'm still not good. I was given the option of doing one more round of labs in three months or being referred to hematology. I asked for one more since things I had been doing seem to be helping some. I've been taking my allergy meds regularly as well as doing an allergy nasal spray. I've also been eating mandarins daily, sometimes more than 1-2 a day. I'm sure the vitamin C is helping whatever is going on. I'm going to go back to my Allegra D allergy meds and see if that helps more than the Zyrtec. I dunno. Hearing hematology is scary, as well as hearing my WBC count was elevated for so long. I probably should've just gone with the referral, because you always hope you can get to your issues before they get too bad.
We got our first Hello Fresh box in yesterday. I made the beef tenderloin with balsamic steak sauce, sour cream and chive mashed potatoes, and roasted broccoli last night. It was delicious. We have three more meals to make this week. Blackened chicken penne, Old Bay buttered chicken, and cranberry dijon pork tenderloin. I'm not sure which one we want tonight. I'm hoping Jeremy will make the Blackened chicken penne when I'm not home to eat it (on his day off) because I can't eat spicy foods much anymore, haha.
:hi: Been semi busy today. Not wanting to people. Or adult. LOL.
Some chat friend and I are having a meetup in pigeon forge in the last third of april. Let me know if any of y'all happen to be going through the area between April 19th and 26th.
Personally I'm still half expecting it to fall through, even though we have already paid for the chalet rental. I have seen too many meetups collapse at the last moment. But I'm hoping...
I love Pigeon Forge. Would LOVE to drive the motorhome up for a week or so. Unfortunately, Lou doesn't have time off for us to do that this year.
I'm gonna have to look and see what Hello Fresh is. I've heard of it, but never looked at it...
The bf and I have talked about doing one of those meal subscription box things.
I'm having carpal tunnel surgery Apr 21 (hand one) and April 26 (second hand). So I'ma be on vacation April 21-May 1.
I don't know. Seems like those meal subscription things are awful expensive for what you get. Especially for the next few months- around here in the country, we will have access to fresh tomatoes, cukes, okra- you name it. You'll nearly have to lock your car up to keep someone from loading it up with excess. Add the fact we buy most our meat in bulk like we do, and our biggest issue is getting the energy up to COOK it after work.
Feeling guilty- Church is canceled tonight because the tile being laid in the foyer can't be walked on for 24 hours until it dries and is grouted. I must confess that while I love church, I'm not even that unhappy, as I really feel like a long peaceful conversation with my recliner is appropriate, with the rain and all.
Quote from: Roscoe on March 30, 2022, 07:23:15 PMour biggest issue is getting the energy up to COOK it after work.
This is always my issue lol
Quote from: Roscoe on March 30, 2022, 07:23:15 PMI don't know. Seems like those meal subscription things are awful expensive for what you get. Especially for the next few months- around here in the country, we will have access to fresh tomatoes, cukes, okra- you name it. You'll nearly have to lock your car up to keep someone from loading it up with excess.
Yeah, yeah, yeah! Next few months I make sure to leave my car windows rolled down. Sometimes I put out a sign beside the car. :-D
I've thought about trying the meal subscriptions just to have an occasional fancy meal that I don't have to think about. Trying to come up with creative meal ideas for 1 is hard and finding ingredients in small enough portions isn't all that easy either.
I finally agreed to try the box because I was SO tired of being asked "What's for dinner?" It took the guesswork out, plus I really couldn't grocery shop for what I got for the price I paid and we aren't wasting food that we bought while grocery shopping and then neglected to use, haha. I don't know about doing this longterm. I'm a pickier eater due to medical issues and also personal tastes of course, and there's just only so many meals you have to choose from. We skipped this next week because I wasn't interested in eating any of the meals I could choose from, haha.
We paid about $55-56 for the first week which we only got 4 meals. That's 2 people eating four meals which is about $7 per meal per person and I couldn't eat out for that. I also don't have access to a garden or a freezer of meat, haha. So I doubt we'll do this longterm, but it's been a nice way to get a break from having to pick meals PLUS I get some new recipes to try out. I've been surprising myself with what I've liked that I didn't expect to.
@Work. Bit of a melancholy week for me. I have a birthday party to attend on Saturday for our cousin. She's turning 11! I won't be risking my life by skating, but I'll gladly eat some cake. I wish the hubs was able to go, but he doesn't want to after he gets off work.. which I begrudgingly can understand. When you pray, whisper a prayer for him. I'm not sure what's going on inside the brain of his, but I'm not the only one noticing he's withdrawn from people. He could be not feeling well (chronic back pain, shoulder, foot, etc), he could be experiencing effects of not getting the correct vitamins (won't get a blood test done), he could just be cranky, or he could be fighting God on doing what he knows he needs to be doing, or who knows.. maybe something I haven't even thought of. Either way - it's concerning me.
I'll be in prayer, Nelle. Sometimes one's mind is a rough place to be. I never understood or thought much about mental issues until I experienced some things myself, which really changed my perspective. I'm bad to withdraw from people even more than normal when I'm overloaded and stressed, which is rough when you are already an introvert. And when I was fighting God, everything was magnified.
Hang tight and trust God- I truly believe He is moving us towards an end time revival, and from what I'm seeing locally, I believe it will start with backsliders and people who have known Him intimately. I can't count the number of backsliders that I've spoken with recently that have things going on and they are becoming more receptive to discussing God.
Thanks. I appreciate it. He's just not the same person anymore.
@Work, but almost done for the day. ONE HOUR! I need a nap, but I have to go after work to Aldi to get the goods for our reception this Sunday for our grandma's service to the church for 49 years. She retired from being the secretary this year and they're doing a reception to honor that time. I'm making basically a charcuterie board (very basic one) and picking up 3 dozen donuts as part of our contribution. There will be chicken salad sandwiches, cake, and some other goodies to partake as well.
If I get home in time, I think I'm gonna take a nap, haha. Since I won't be home all day tomorrow, I'll have to do some chores tonight instead of putting them off until tomorrow.
Running in to ask for prayers. Yesterday,during home visits, my coworker, an AME member, and I were talking, church of course. We do home visits every Friday and she is like a sister to me. We talk church every Friday. Long story short I have waited and longed for a chance to go more in depth.
Yesterday, the conversation was such that I felt that I HAD to ask her if I could possibly teach her a Bible study on what we believe. She shouted yes so quickly it scared me, and began sobbing saying she knew there was more to God than what she has, she wants more of God and had been praying God would show her.
Long story short, she is on the way RIGHT now for me to teach a Bible study to her!
Praying you have wisdom.
Good morning to any that might still check in..
Progressing through the day. Not much to report.
Bible study went very well, she stated she really enjoyed it. Gave her a lot to think about.
Now to let God work.
Church involuntary remodel is going well. They got the new tile laid, walls painted...still some trim work to do.
And Bro Wilson and myself hung the first of 6 new chandeliers in the sanctuary before church last night. Depending on what the building fund looks like after the payment is made for the remodel, there may be some other updates too. I just wish I could afford to have our 30+ year old parking lot redone..
Why is it Monday again? :cry:
Weekends off go by too fast.
I'm here. Nice day today but supposed to storm tonight.
Sigh. Went to bed at a good time. Took a melatonin to help me sleep. Slept about an hour and a half and at 11pm, the phone rings. Nothing would do but a trip to the office for some information on an offender. Now back at home, it's nearly 2am, raining- and I can't sleep. Bah.
@Work again today.
Woke up with a sore throat. Not sure if I was getting it anyway, or if the coldness in the house from having the heat off caused it. It didn't get THAT cold last night, but it was chilly in the house when we got up.
Retirement service for husband's grandma went well this weekend. She was aptly honored.
Keep saying a prayer for him and me, us. Life is confusing sometimes and we all need a little extra Jesus to cope.
:hi:
Almost through the day. Been a long one. Had court today, so I couldn't play hooky despite getting just 3 hours sleep. Intend to snooze in the recliner this evening.
Good morning everyone.
:hi:
I used to not sleep well in a recliner, Bobby, but now I drift off easily. ;)
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on April 06, 2022, 02:21:48 PM:hi:
I used to not sleep well in a recliner, Bobby, but now I drift off easily. ;)
It seems like some nights a recliner is the only way I can sleep. Laying in bed, I hurt. And it's not the mattress, we have an amazing memory foam mattress, It's just laying down hurts. Getting older is not all I was promised. LOL
Morning all. Back at work paperworking my fingers to the bone. Stormed again last night.
Getting older stinks lol
I'm having issues with my feet like an old lady. I'm only 36!!
:hi:
Back at work, plugging along. Good service last night. Thankful for what God is doing. Thankful for the beautiful weather I see out my window
@Work.
Sleepy.
Not feeling great. Sinus/allergies and tummy issues are cramping my style, haha. I was afraid I was losing my voice last night, but it just sounds a little hoarse today. If I'm not better by the weekend's end, I'm going to set up a doctor appointment.
Slept in a bit this morning. Got up, went to a car show with Chey, then up the mountain to the museum. Came home, mowed the front yard and sanded a bit on Sam's bed, and a bit on Chey's car before coming inside. Trying to get something together for tomorrow night.
Lou went with some of the church ladies to Bro Holmes for the Easter play they put on, so Chey's in her room, and the dogs and I have the living room to ourselves..
Did you see hot air balloons? Someone said they were at petit Jean.
We have chess pie!
That is all.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on April 10, 2022, 02:36:46 PMDid you see hot air balloons? Someone said they were at petit Jean.
Yes. They have become quite active in this area. One landed on Highway 9 just south of the bridge Saturday.
Went to church, preached, back home. Work tomorrow. Edging gently towards vacation time.
@Work.
Not feeling better (not exactly worse either), so I tried to get an appointment with my doctor. She's out for the rest of the month, so I was like... sure I'll see her nurse practitioner. When I told her my issues, the lady says "Okay, You'll need to go to the Urgent Care to get that seen about." So I'm going there after work. I doubt there's anything they can do for me, but I want to make sure it's not worse than I think already. I want to talk normal and not cough anymore! Plus this is really gonna throw my bloodwork off in June if I don't get it straightened out. My WBC really will be wonky then, haha.
Man, I need to be a doctor. They make tons and it seems like they are always out of the office. It's like pulling teeth to get an appointment around here.
It looks like Arkansas is on deck for bad weather all this week. They are forecasting stormy weather, rain and high likelihood of tornados through Wednesday.
Church was different last night. Good but different. Holy Ghost really came down....
And then, the Chinese attack this morning (Jerm and I have always referred to Chinese disease as attacks) Chinese disease is NOT Covid- rather "Dragon' Butt" :laughhard:
And I'm trying to do better, so no sugary energy spike. :pound:
Eating that Chicken Alfredo Lasagna dish Lou made for lunch did NOT help I am sure, with all the calories, but man was it good...
I gots nothing.
Boss is back from Africa today. So I've been swamped all day.
I go out next Thursday though for carpal tunnel surgery. Super nervous.
Interesting.. one of my bosses is going out next week for carpal tunnel surgery next week too!
@Work. Eating my morning banana.
Went to the Express Care last night. I have a sinus infection - shocker. I have to wait until after work to pick up my medicine though since Kroger Pharmacy closed 30 minutes after my appointment ended.
haha that's funny
Almost everyone in my department has come down with a sinus infection in the last month
Quote from: Backseat Radio on April 12, 2022, 07:03:02 PMAlmost everyone in my department has come down with a sinus infection in the last month
o.O
"There's a feeling going round
And it's coming to your town"
@Work again.
Started my antibiotic last night. I feel like I slept a little better than I had been lately. Couldn't start my steroids until today due to them not letting you sleep well, haha. Didn't need that the day of payroll AND storms.
I need a vacation.
Another storm is headed our way, too.
We had a storm last night. But then it was gone as fast as it came.
I think there's another one coming too today but Idk
Well. Been storming all day here. I think it's finally past though.
Went last night after work and helped make chocolate covered peanut butter easter eggs. I think they wound up making over 100; at the 60-ish mark, I bought pizza for everyone to get in their good graces, and bailed to the house.
Been a busy day. Closer to the weekend, for which I am thankful.
I miss making (and eating) those peanut butter eggs at Easter. They are SO good in the fridge and then cutting a sliver off.. or a chunk. LOL.
@Work.
Survived the storms. Thankful they weren't as bad here as they originally thought.
I can definitely feel that I am on the road to getting better, but I am still in it. Glad to be able to sleep a little better for sure. Hopefully husband can say the same haha. I hope I'm not coughing through the night in my sleep like I had been.
:hi: Beautiful day here today. Plugging through the day.
Sames lol
Urgh. Took a sleeping aid last night. It worked but now I have a hangover.
I've gone on one of my get rid of fb kicks. I'll probably be back before the day is up. :laughhard:
It can be toxic. Too much anxiety inducing stressing posts for a hypochondriac worrier.
Glad it is Friday
@Work.
I always want to quit FB, but I'm too curious what people are up to, lol.
I haven't had a facebook since prob 21 or 22. And I'm now 36. lol no regrets. never looked back.
This may sound selfish but I hope at least some of my friends keep facebook. It's very entertaining to see what Facebook will pull on its users next.
Shew. Would up going to Little Rock to take a guy to a facility. Then, on the way home, had a close call. Car came across three lanes of traffic, cut us and the 18 wheeler beside us off, then continued weaving in the lane and finally to the left should next to a giant concrete median. Jumped out thinking it was a domestic or the like- nope. Driver had passed slap out at 70+ mph. Fortunately she had a passenger that was quick thinking enough to grab the wheel and get the car out of gear. Thought the woman was dead at first but was able to find a faint pulse. While my partner dealt with her, I called 911 and we managed to get her some help. Driver was conscious and oriented when we left, although she was still very obviously not 100%. Passenger told me she was so thankful we were there- she was scared to death and didn't know what to do.
Wow, that's crazy. I'm glad she's ok.
I only got Facebook to keep up with my kids and now they barely use it. I do keep up with a lot of community stuff and old school mates.
Ok, here's a funny story. Too bad Seth is never here any more.
I had a tiny bantam rooster that I was giving to a friend. I had loaned out the pet carrier I usually use to transport and didn't feel like digging another one out... so I just wrapped him in a towel to take him since my husband was driving. I remembered on the way out of the neighborhood that a gal on the corner had tomato plants she was selling. So I asked hubby to stop and let me grab a few. I asked him to hold the rooster (who is not used to being handled). Hubby does NOT handle my chickens, so he didn't grab him well. I had to grab a screaming rooster by the tail so he wouldn't fly out the window and just had to carry him with me to get the tomato plants. I'm sure my neighbor now thinks I'm certifiedly crazy.. and I was meeting her for the first time. :eye roll:
I've got my Facebook account back after they banned me for a while but I don't bother posting anything. Not anything interesting enough in my life to warrant a Facebook post
I have an uncle who talks about being in "Facebook jail" a lot. Apparently he keeps saying stuff that gets him temp-banned.
I never ask what it was he said that got him banned, because I know if I asked he'd tell me.
I got banned for creating a 2nd account even though lots of people have 2 Facebook accounts
Bit of rain today. Internet has been down since yesterday. Company can't get anyone out to fix it until Monday. Wonder if I'll get a 3 day credit on my bill this month? I doubt it. Kinda sour.
On the brightside ,I am watching my favorite movie. "Secondhand Lions "
@Work.
Service went well yesterday as well as dinner with family.
Leaving for the meetup tomorrow.
Most of our plans revolve around food. :clap:
Have fun, Isaac.
Haha that was a funny mental picture of you and the rooster Fuzzy :lol:
Shew. Well. Been absent as we have had no internet other than the phones since Friday. Finally got service again Monday afternoon. I had to take most of the day off yesterday for that, and also went to a nursing home to visit a church member.
Now I'm slogging along through the day, edging closer to the end of day. It's beautiful out.
I am in Pigeon Forge. It stinks.
I was looking forward to enjoying a breakfast buffet all week long. I like breakfast large and early. Well... They got the large, but they aren't too good about early. Nothing opens until 7am. I mean, like... They roll up the sidewalks and don't roll them back out until 7 in the flipping morning!
I could starve by then. >.>
@Work.
That was my main complaint about PF and Gatlinburg. I wanted to eat dinner and it was late... like.. 8-9. They were closing up everything. All you had to pick from was pizza.. and you'd better hurry with that, haha. I think we were there not during their bigger season tho. Hopefully they're changing some. I don't mind their 'late' breakfast. I don't want to see 7am on my vacation haha.
Drinking chocolate milk. Just ate a strawberry poptart.
I am not a morning person but that sounds odd to start that late. My hubby is an early bird. That would be late to him.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on April 20, 2022, 01:43:01 PMI am not a morning person but that sounds odd to start that late. My hubby is an early bird. That would be late to him.
Bless you for saying this sister. The people I am meeting from my chat group have been mildly teasing me about this. Bunch of sluggards...
I'm tempted to cue up my music program, connect it to my boombox and blast them out of bed at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow. I won't do it, but I'm tempted.
Well, I'm not human before 10am nor after about 9, so me and Pigeon Forge would likely get along just fine. Next time we go there, though, I plan to be in the motorhome, so I'll have an ample supply of my own food.
I wouldn't be up before 9 or 10 AM if I didn't have to work at 7 AM.
Learned something new last night that I didn't know about the Baptist faith, even though I've been Baptist for 4 years... Apparently some of the historical Baptist churches used to baptize in the name of Jesus Christ.
Good morning. Dragging exceedingly much today....
@Work.
What a stressful day. Lots of roller-coaster riding on state projects, haha. I wish that was literal... as in sitting in an actual coaster in a theme park, but no. Instead we have subcontractors refusing to do the paperwork that's required with state projects, so now we get to replace them mid-stream. No one wants to do the work for the percentage of project the state allows - even us.. but we still do it, haha.
I need a nap. So tired of the cloudy, dreary days. I need sunshine and a little warmth - minus the storms, haha. I don't mind some rain showers, but the lightning and thunder can skip rocks.
:hi:
Beautiful day. Stuck at work. Sent flowers to Lou for her birthday- 39 tomorrow. Ready to go home
Beautiful day here, also. There weren't many yard sales today for some reason.
I'm at the UPCI Indiana District Ladies Conference this weekend with my mother. Forgot how much I dislike loud church services, large crowds, and heavy traffic.
Certain church sound men do seem to be half deaf...
Always take a pair of earplugs to a church you've never been to before. Cut them in half and color the ends with a sharpie marker so they won't be visible.
Or at least that's what I do.
Ear plugs don't do much for bass that you can feel through the floor
Oh... THAT kind of loud volume. >.>
Sorry to hear that.
I'm glad to be back home in the peace and quiet. Mom and I chose not to do the Saturday services of the conference because she wears down easy and didn't think she could do back to back 2+ hour sessions.
Been a long day. Got up at 5 am because a brother persuaded me I needed to, in order to meet up with him. :pound:
Did have a good time with he and his soon to be in-law. Drove the 'vette, cause it was cool to do so. About 200, to 225 miles. Got decent mpg on the way over at 75mph.. Coming back, I hit the back roads at 55 and picked up a couple more mpg.
Got in, got the yard cut before the rain hits AGAIN tomorrow, and got the remaining fender off of Sam's bed. It fought me tooth and nail- 3 grinder disc and 3 Sawzall blades plus one wore out Roscoe, but I succeeded.
Day six of the meetup:
There were seven people here, but now there are six because one had to go home early. (Planned, not a sudden disaster.)
I am eating leftover french toast in a bowl, covered with leftover homemade chocolate pudding. I can technically call this egg soup. The french toast takes the place of crackers and there is egg in both the french toast and pudding.
We also have some chili, pork loin and various other leftovers that need to be eaten. I don't think we will cook anything today.
We have done an escape room, seen an aquarium, gone on an "Are You Smarter Than A Redneck" comedy bus tour and sat around and talked a lot. I wiped out all the good CDs at McKay's and a thrift store.
If this is what Heaven is like, count me in!
My new lawn mower came in just before Mom and I left for Ladies Conference. Spent yesterday evening getting it put together and getting the batteries for the mower and my weed eater charged up. Hoping the storms coming in today will be dried up by Thursday so I can go test out my new toy on grass.
I have done something for the first time, something I have never done and never expected to do: I dropped my phone and royally (and thoroughly) shattered the screen.
After some quick research a replacement has been purchased and should be delivered to my home by Wednesday. But I'm always so sure-handed and automatically careful with fragile things... This has never happened to me before.
The shard of glass in my finger was also a nasty surprise.
Chel's mother in law, Burrito's step mom, isn't doing good. Prayers appreciated.
Oh man. Praying.
Back at work. We had a ton of rain last night.
And I'm about to annoy my oldest church member I fear. She is 92. She has a recliner set at the rear of the church. We installed a new light in the course of our remodel- we are replacing our 40 year old lights with 5 bulb chandeliers. But, I'm doing it one at a time as I have time. The first was coincidently in HER corner. Last night, she moved her recliner, etc. with the help of another member to the OTHER side of the church, commenting that it was "too bright".
I'd already planned and had made arrangements to go over after work tonight and hang another light. Guess where the next light is "on deck" to be replaced? The one over her new seat. LOL
@Work again.
Remembered my bagels this morning, so I'm having cinnamon raisin bagel (toasted) w/ butter and regular cream cheese on top. It's very dessert-ish rather than morning breakfast, but it'll do! I think I still have a banana to eat from yesterday as well.
Made mini cheddar meatloaf last night. Made a double batch b/c last time they were all gone too fast and I wanted more, haha. So I'm excited that I won't have to cook supper tonight now. :) I think I'm gonna try my husband's version of leftover meatloaf this time maybe. He usually pan heats it up and then puts it on a sandwich after cutting it. It sounds interesting enough. I may have to make another side veggie since I don't think there are enough roasted green beans or carrots left. I may roast a sweet potato sliced up. That sounds yummy.
I'm eating leftover bbq (microwaveable) and diced potatoes for lunch again. It was delicious yesterday and I'm happy to eat it again today. I almost want it now...
We are still trying to think of what to eat for lunch...
Shew lawd. Busy day yesterday. After work, Myself, Bro Papa, and his grandson drove 2 hours to look at a potential church van. At our price range I didn't expect new, but it's have been nice to know before I made the drive that the front end was about to fall out of it, the radiator hose was rubbed nearly in two by the front end components, and judging from the sweet sickly smell of antifreeze, a cracked intake was probably playing with making its' presence known.
Long story short we passed on it. Still looking...
And if you ever have problems touching God, ride with Bro Papa. Bless his heart, I love him and he is amazing but he scares me to death with his driving. LOL
Now- church tonight. Life continues.
Please pray for Chel & Burrito's family. Her m-i-l passed this morning.
It's beautiful out today. I made some oatmeal cookies to surprise my hubby.
Someone said cookies and here I am. :clap:
I got most of my yard mowed and weed eated today. I'll have to finish the job tomorrow when my weed eater batteries are charged back up.
The meetup is over. We had a great time.
I think the reason we had such a good time is because we agreed to not dates and times for activities. We agreed on some things we wanted to do in Pigeon Forge, but we didn't say we would do X thing on this day at this time. We got up every day, "So what should we do today?" "Well I thought we might do that thing."
We ate well. Big pot of chili, big pork loin, big pot of chocolate pudding, loaf of french toast, Rodney's burgers, chocolate chip cookies, etc. I also found out Publix has really good sushi.
I made chocolate chip cookies with oat flour in the dough. Pretty good. They're like the cookie version of crack - you eat one, you'll eat five before you realize it.
Everybody got one when they came out. Then everyone got a second one. A few minutes later I looked at my wrist as though it had a watch on it and said, "Y'all are running a bit behind. Most people are on their third one by now."
A few minutes later they started going for a third cookie...
Urgh.
Good morning. Dealing with people who I wonder if they are not intellectually challenged. But- that's what they pay me for. LOL
Fixing to go to the Range and shoot things with department's ammo. :-)
Beautiful day. Wish it would be tomorrow but likely not to be. Had a decent day on the range. 488 points out of 500 possible- not my best but I don't think I'm ready to be put out to pasture yet.
Now to rush home from work and grab Rusty and the set of tires I have stored, and get them to Walmart to be mounted so I can actually get stuff done tomorrow.
I got my yard finished today. Ordered extra batteries for my weed eater so I don't have the same problem next week when it's time to mow and weed eat again.
Ah, weed-eaters...
These days I just spray poison around the borders of everything. Pump sprayers are much easier to operate than weed-eaters and I don't have to use them nearly as often.
Quote from: Lynx on April 30, 2022, 10:23:55 AMAh, weed-eaters...
These days I just spray poison around the borders of everything. Pump sprayers are much easier to operate than weed-eaters and I don't have to use them nearly as often.
My front yard has a steep hill that can't easily be mowed with a lawnmower so I do it with the weed eater. Spraying wouldn't help.
:hi:
Nothing interesting going on here.
@Work.
Good weekend. Making progress on the house detox haha.
I had carpal tunnel surgery on my right hand on the 21st. So I was off work until today. Back to doing my daily typing/mouse moving is DRAINING my hand. It's killing me at this point.
Left hand is scheduled for May 19.
I'm not a morning person either. I'm not functional before noon honestly. It's hard haha. But I can go full force until 3am most days. I don't but I could LOL
Speaking of cookies I got Tiff's Treats (cookie delivery) from the HR lady at work for Admin Professionals Day. Plus Uber Eatz gift card from the boss. But I already spent it LOL
And I loathe weeds. Rawr. My yards are awful. But me and the bf are working on that currently.
Shew. Wound up going to Texarkana today. Left about 9, got back at 330.
Court tomorrow. Never ending cycle.
@Work again. Stopped by Wendys for a breakfast sandwich.
Found husband's CPAP machine last night. The VA is wanting to replace it with a new one. He hasn't used it in like 5+ years, but they're wanting him to use it again. I was worried we weren't going to find it at first, haha.
Nothing much happening here, just work and rain. Looks like I'll have to call my internet provider again tonight to get my home internet back on. Did the internet vacation scheduler and it didn't automatically come back up like they said it would. Called them last night and they said it would be back on in an hour. Its still not back on.
It's like 60 degrees. I've been sneezing all morning. I rebuke it.
Well. Rebuke if you will, but DON'T REBUKE THE TEMPERATURE. I on wanna give Old Man Winter any reason to come storming back. :pound:
Rained a goodly portion of the day. Sick of rain. Rain- now that's something to rebuke.
Went to court, then came back to the office, just in time for my close friend and brother to call and ask "You busy?".
Never tell a Criminal Investigator that you aren't busy if you are an LE officer. Wound up doing a home visit and helping collect evidence. Some of which included the suspect using a bible for a very unorthodox purpose. Apparently, the onion skin paper pages- make for really good marijuana cigarettes. I told the dude he was probably hell bound for that and he said "But I just used the glossary and the concordance!!"
Now. I'm at home and feel like doing- nothing. Absolutely nothing. May spend Thursday evening working a bit more on old Sammy boy...
I'm tired. I had to take my mom to the hospital for a procedure today. I left the house about 7 am and just got home. *whew*
Back at work. The sound of a chainsaw right outside my window. Sheesh. Ready to go home. But- long way to quitting time and I have church tonight..
He cannot possibly be the first person to think of using a Bible's ultra-thin pages for that purpose.
Ask him what he would have done when he ran out of glossary and index.
Quote from: Lynx on May 04, 2022, 05:45:13 PMHe cannot possibly be the first person to think of using a Bible's ultra-thin pages for that purpose.
Ask him what he would have done when he ran out of glossary and index.
Oh no. There was a guy a year or so ago we walked in on in a home visit that was smoking weed in pages from the New Testament.
And in sharing. Made it through the day. Had an absolutely terrible, boring zoom meeting style mandatory training on mental health. I do not for the life of me understand why agencies thinking gathering everyone together and making them listen to some egghead blather on and on actually helps mental health. As someone who has dealt with some depression/ anxiety, I can tell you all it does is make me more anxious and irritable. :pound:
You wanna improve/assist with relieving stress and helping my mental health? Yeah, more money and/or more time off with pay is a good way to do that. Not forcing me to a pat on the back look at us caring video meeting. :lol:
Made it to church tonight. Bro Clayton preached. Great job. Turned it over to me, just didn't feel right. Wound up continuing his message some for a few minutes and God showed out. People praying, crying. Finally someone that I felt sure God had told me a few weeks ago the message was for, and a couple subsequent messages, responded. Made me overjoyed. They had sat on a pew seemingly unmoved except for an occasional tear wipe when no one was looking. Never could get a release to speak with them, and I have to KNOW "thus sayeth God" before I go speak to someone one on one in a service. So good to see them at the altar, hands lifted, pouring out their heart to God while the tears rolled.
I'm off to the dentist today to get some teeth worked on
I hate going to the dentist.
I dislike the expense of the visits to the dentist, but I love knowing my teeth are fixed, haha.
@Work. Ate a wendy's bacon breakfast sandwich. Now I'm eating poptarts. Never skip dinner, guys. It doesn't help you the next morning.
Storming here today already.
My windshield got pinged by a rock yesterday on the interstate. So I had to contact the insurance about getting it fixed. It started raining REALLY hard here, and I'm gonna go check to make sure I don't have a leaky hole in my windshield, haha.
Jeremy (husband) grilled chicken & burgers on Tuesday evening. I've been trying to save it for dinners, but my sandwiches aren't looking too hot as lunch, so if I don't finish the chicken tonight, I'm So bringing it for lunch tomorrow. I have zero clue what we are going to eat tonight. I have chicken thawed and I have leftover spaghetti pasta (not w/ sauce).. so I was THINKING maybe some chicken alfredo. Jeremy makes a REALLY good dish with that, so I need to work on convincing him to make that tonight. I just hate to waste that pasta, haha.
Oh! And our pastor is praying about starting a Celebrate Recovery program through our church. I think there's one in a town about 45 minutes away. Anyway, he's started doing a Bible study on the series as of last night. I LOVE IT. I am so hopeful that this will help me, my husband, our marriage, our church, etc.
I survived the trip to the dentist. My permanent crown should come in a few weeks. Went to the chiropractor too. Had a crick in my neck all week from the weed eater.
Quote from: Nelle on May 05, 2022, 02:54:08 PMOh! And our pastor is praying about starting a Celebrate Recovery program through our church. I think there's one in a town about 45 minutes away. Anyway, he's started doing a Bible study on the series as of last night. I LOVE IT. I am so hopeful that this will help me, my husband, our marriage, our church, etc.
I'm convinced that it is an under-harvested field. Christians get so set that they want the banker, the car dealer, the lawyer, etc. in church- and that's good, I do too- but the addicts and broken are going to be amazing. When God brings them out of drugs and they REALLY get a grip- they'll have a testimony others cannot touch.
Don't know about a bible study on it. I'd love to have that. I'd love to do a Celebrate Recovery meeting too, but being the Parole Officer in my secular job, I can't really do that. I fear my presence would effectively shut down sharing. Not too many are going to be candid and unguarded with the P.O. there...
And it is raining again today. SO over it.
Quote from: Roscoe on May 05, 2022, 06:34:57 PMQuote from: Nelle on May 05, 2022, 02:54:08 PMOh! And our pastor is praying about starting a Celebrate Recovery program through our church. I think there's one in a town about 45 minutes away. Anyway, he's started doing a Bible study on the series as of last night. I LOVE IT. I am so hopeful that this will help me, my husband, our marriage, our church, etc.
I'm convinced that it is an under-harvested field. Christians get so set that they want the banker, the car dealer, the lawyer, etc. in church- and that's good, I do too- but the addicts and broken are going to be amazing. When God brings them out of drugs and they REALLY get a grip- they'll have a testimony others cannot touch.
Don't know about a bible study on it. I'd love to have that. I'd love to do a Celebrate Recovery meeting too, but being the Parole Officer in my secular job, I can't really do that. I fear my presence would effectively shut down sharing. Not too many are going to be candid and unguarded with the P.O. there...
And it is raining again today. SO over it.
Very true. I could see the conflict there.
He streamed our service on Wednesday evening on Facebook and I think also on YouTube. I think this is going to be an 8 week series. Then he mentioned doing it in small groups this summer... I think. He worked in a correctional facility as a chaplain for a while, and I know they're on his heart. Plus .. we all really have hangups that we need healing from as well. I'm excited about the series.
Quote from: Roscoe on May 03, 2022, 10:31:59 PMWell. Rebuke if you will, but DON'T REBUKE THE TEMPERATURE. I on wanna give Old Man Winter any reason to come storming back. :pound:
Haha no way. Never at all. I loathe winter. My prayers worked. We're supposed to hit 100 this weekend LOL
Good. I've been waiting for warmer weather.
I spray weed killer around stuff in the yard instead of weed eating it every time I mow. Weed killer won't work until the temperature rises a bit. So I've been impatient for higher temperatures.
Sooo tired today. Supposed to go to Conway tonight to buy a new pair of dress shoes. Totally don't wanna go anywhere. LOL
We drove to Nacogdoches today for Burrito's step mom's funeral. I'm tired, too.
Well. Went last night and bought said shoes. Today was beautiful- I fired up the old truck, met up with Bro Wilson and we hit backroads looking at potential campgrounds
In addition to my motorhome, he's recently bought a camper trailer. We puttered all the way to Fort Smith, then came back home. Did a little work on Sam too.
@Work. Had a good weekend.
Tired on a Monday - shocker, I know.
Yes. I concur with Nelle's assessment of Monday.:ugly:
I DID enjoy the weekend. Saturday, as described above. Sunday- I preached what I thought when I was putting it together was a masterpiece . Came out like a stinker to me. LOL
But- after service, I had a young man who has came for a few services approach me. Former Jehovah's witness, walked away after having questions and being told "just do what you've been taught" without any answers. Told me he appreciated me and what I was preaching, stated he could see the Jesus name baptism plan of salvation, and stated he had some questions. I told him I didn't have all the answers, but the Word did and I'd be glad to sit down with him and find the answers he needed. Long story short, we are getting a date to teach a bible study to the young man at his request!
Now back at work, on standby for court, and ready to abscond said work and go home.
I mowed this weekend. Got my veggies planted in my hay bales. Cucumber, watermelon, lettuce, some kind of bean, and sunflowers lol. The boyfriend lovessss pickles and I've had success with cucumbers. So planted a specific pickling cucumber this time. We'll see what happens.
One of my girlfriends found a non denominational church she loves. I think I am going to try it next Sunday. Didn't yesterday cus mothers day. I feel in my heart I want to try to go back to a church, but I also don't want to experience what I went thru before. So we'll see how it goes.
I also concur with Nelle's tired Monday. Getting out of bed was hard hard this morning.
Been a crazy day for me. To start off with I got my nose stuck in a new book last night, so I didn't get much sleep. In case anyone wants to know, the book is "Pagan Christianity" by Frank Viola and George Barna.
This morning my oven quit working. Took 45 minutes to preheat the oven to what the readout said was supposed to be 350 but it didn't fully bake my eggs in the usual 13 minutes. Apparently, the bottom heating element went bad. Thankfully dad fixed it for me while I was at work.
Got to work to discover 3 carts and 2 pallets of stuff from last night's truck that still needed to be dealt with. Took 3 of us all day to sort through all that freight and we still didn't get all our backroom bins scanned. We're getting sent new freight for the mid May reset which is making quite a mess to deal with for the next few weeks. Thankfully no truck tonight.
Got home and started mowing my yard. Completely drained the mower batteries before I got the yard done. Got to recharge the mower batteries and the mower pusher and finish the yard tomorrow.
Went to prayer meeting last night. Good time. Made a new friend who is pastor of a church in the western part of the state. Happens to be a welder and also a bit of a car nut. He has a 16 year old son who was quite interested in my sweet daughter and her Miata... She protested to me that she is quite happy with her boyfriend, aka Opie, but I noticed a bit of blushing when she was teased about the apparent interest. I think she may actually find the boy a tad attractive and it doesn't hurt that he is a car nut as she is. LOL
Apparently she was the coolest girl there with the pink striped Miata and when she showed pics of her under construction Corvette she had all of the little boys drooling. It was good to see her coming out of her shell some- she is very much an introvert. I was overjoyed when she told me she is going to their youth night tonight. Coincidently, Marlon (little boy drooling over Miata and her I suspect) will be there. :laughhard:
Quote from: Backseat Radio on May 09, 2022, 10:39:10 PMThis morning my oven quit working. Took 45 minutes to preheat the oven to what the readout said was supposed to be 350 but it didn't fully bake my eggs in the usual 13 minutes. Apparently, the bottom heating element went bad. Thankfully dad fixed it for me while I was at work.
Baked eggs?
Quote from: MsJennJenn on May 10, 2022, 05:40:30 PMBaked eggs?
I wondered about that too, but I figured it was a breakfast quiche or something.
I've heard of folks baking eggs instead of boiling them. Like in a muffin tin.
Ohh I've seen that too.
I don't bother with a muffin tin. I just crack the eggs onto a small sheet pan and bake them 13 minutes at 350. They turn out about like over easy eggs. then I eat them with whatever veggies I want. Usually a bit of microwaved bell pepper and onion mix but I've also done mushrooms. Went the baking route so I can do other things while it's cooking rather than stand at the stove and stir a pan of eggs.
@Work.
We don't have water at said workplace. I can't live in the pre-inside plumbing days, haha. Hopefully it's all fixed soon.
Urgh. Back at work. And I've managed to burn my forearm some way while I was mowing last night, and it is sore as can be. Got a bit done on Sam last night after I mowed, while Lou and Chey fired up the Miata and headed to Russellville for a youth event.
Gas prices are insane- $4 a gallon here now. Not pleased.
Tonight is church. This, and the fact that after lunch, my coworker will bring a large pan of left over cinnamon rolls back to the office from the drug court promotion ceremony this morning, are the only things that keep me going today. :pound:
Getting out of bed is hard this week.
Quote from: Roscoe on May 11, 2022, 02:43:26 PMUrgh. Back at work. And I've managed to burn my forearm some way while I was mowing last night, and it is sore as can be. Got a bit done on Sam last night after I mowed, while Lou and Chey fired up the Miata and headed to Russellville for a youth event.
Gas prices are insane- $4 a gallon here now. Not pleased.
Tonight is church. This, and the fact that after lunch, my coworker will bring a large pan of left over cinnamon rolls back to the office from the drug court promotion ceremony this morning, are the only things that keep me going today. :pound:
"Leftover homemade cinnamon rolls" does not make any sense to me. How are there leftovers? In my experience those things do not do leftovers, ever.
Quote from: Lynx on May 11, 2022, 05:59:01 PMQuote from: Roscoe on May 11, 2022, 02:43:26 PMUrgh. Back at work. And I've managed to burn my forearm some way while I was mowing last night, and it is sore as can be. Got a bit done on Sam last night after I mowed, while Lou and Chey fired up the Miata and headed to Russellville for a youth event.
Gas prices are insane- $4 a gallon here now. Not pleased.
Tonight is church. This, and the fact that after lunch, my coworker will bring a large pan of left over cinnamon rolls back to the office from the drug court promotion ceremony this morning, are the only things that keep me going today. :pound:
"Leftover homemade cinnamon rolls" does not make any sense to me. How are there leftovers? In my experience those things do not do leftovers, ever.
They buy them from a local café. Things are huge and they buy them by the pan, as in 24 rolls per pan, and they are NOT small rolls. They buy two or three pans for each ceremony. The left overs from the ceremony come here where they are left over no mo.
Does the Miata get good gas mileage?
@Work.
Jeremy was sick yesterday and thankfully on his day off. Even had a 102° temp at the VA for his physical therapy appointment. Surprised they allowed him to keep his appointment. He never threw up, but he was feeling awful all day yesterday. He got up and went to work this morning, hopefully feeling better.
Tonight is my last night to get things done at the house until Sunday afternoon. We have a yard sale at the church on Saturday for Mothers' Memorial, so we are having to get that prepped tomorrow night and then working it Saturday of course.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on May 11, 2022, 08:32:04 PMDoes the Miata get good gas mileage?
Eh, it gets high 20s low 30s. About like the 'vette. Difference is it'll drink the cheaper lower octane and not complain while the 'vette demands the petroleum equivalent of Dom Perignon.
Back at work. Fuming over said gas prices while simultaneously thankful for a company car.
Church last night was sparse.
Tonight, got a few things to do, hopefully spend some time on Sam. Then tomorrow, off, and headed to Injun territory in preparation to see Mini hooked into a double harness..
My muscles are complaining loudly today about my mowing and weed eating earlier in the week.
Urgh. Off today. Fixing to head west...
So glad it's Friday.
Quote from: Roscoe on May 13, 2022, 04:41:07 PMUrgh. Off today. Fixing to head west...
give mini a hug from us.
Made it through the rehearsal. Got to enjoy some time with Mini, and another friend or two, and got to tour the church at Fort Smith. This made me sooo envious. It is beautiful.
Oh, and the hotel we are in- Very swanky. Bathroom is bigger than the one at my house.
Get up early in the morning and off to the church...
Shew. Back home. Absolutely beautiful wedding, and you could feel God's presence and blessings throughout it. I struggled to keep from bawling,' cause I'm emotional like that. The deed is done and the lovebirds cruised off into their happily ever after in a very appropriate chariot, aka Hank the '50 Ford. Hank was looking sharp in his new coat of dark green paint.
The bride was a vision of beauty, class and happiness.
Jerm was Jerm.
Handsome enough I guess, if ya like bald headed Sasquatches.
Brennen and myself showed off how to model suits and doubtless would have stolen the show had we not purposefully turned down our charisma to keep from upstaging everyone. :hypocrite:
It truly was a wonderful event though. At one point after the vows were said, they had ministers in the house come up and pray for them and the kiddos. God's presence during that especially was so thick you could cut it with a knife. It was like He just wrapped the entire family in His arms.
And Kim's brother. Lord, he was hilarious. Very heartfelt in his words and literally had the entire congregation laughing. That entire family is just as zany as Jerm's is.
Jealous that you were able to go! LOL.. I was doing church yard sale duty on Friday/Saturday and then helping care for an elderly neighbor/church member. Very busy weekend anyway. I meant to watch the live broadcast on the church page, but we were so busy that I completely forgot to watch.
@Work. Needing a little nap, but I'll survive I guess. Have to take the yard sale leftovers over to Goodwill tonight. Lucky I have an SUV and not still driving my Elantra, or someone else would've had to take everything instead.
Lawd. I came back to a mess. TONS of paperwork. I'm over people and want to retreat to my cave (shop).
Visited a church yesterday. The Pastor started a new series on "Church Hurt". Coincidence? Most def. not.
I want to go back next Sunday.
Say a prayer for me. My church fear is real.
It's been a good day for me. Got a petunia, a geranium, and a couple tomato plants for my birthday. Also got to share the zucchini chocolate chip pan cookies my mom made me with my coworkers.
Happy birthday, Tia.
Happy Belated Birthday!!
MJJ - We're doing the Celebrate Recovery at our church on Wednesday nights, and I know so many thing it's just for 'certain groups of people' - but I think we are realizing, we have just as many hurts and hangups and especially church hurts that we all benefit from it. It's good that they can recognize we aren't all doing it the right way, and we can do better. Praying for you to find 'home' for a safe place.
@Work. Eating my morning bagel w/ Tillamook strawberry cream cheese. Jeremy was able to find a couple of containers of it last week, so I'm back on my preferred breakfast, hahaha. It's SOOO good. Creamier than Philadelphia's. Yum.
I also made tuna fish cakes/patties last night. SO GOOD. I can't wait to eat leftovers for lunch. I also oven roasted some tri-color cauliflower and some broccoli, so I have that to finish as well. Lunch come quick!
Work. Bah. Currently between a judge and a supervisor via email, not a comfortable place to be. I am here not of my own doings either. LOL
Plugging through the day. Took an early lunch and picked Chey up- she finished the 10th grade today with a B average.
Seems unreal- just yesterday she was going to Kindergarten toothless in the front- now she's going to be driving to school etc. beginning next year. Growing up may be a fact of life, but it's awful hard on Daddies.
Urgh. At work. Last night I slept until 330, then couldn't go back to sleep. Finally dozed in the recliner around 530, just in time to get drug into reality and have to go to work. Over adulting, I tell you.
I want to goat. Just jump around, playing, and headbutt people that irritate me. :laughhard:
My phone decided the audio won't work any more. I don't make many calls but when you need it, you need it. Grrr
Thinking about switching carriers to get a new phone for free. We've been with ATT for probably over 20 years.
You can get some Bluetooth earbuds for a cheap workaround.
Downside is you will need earbuds to make or receive phone calls. Upside is you don't have to get a whole new phone.
Well, my Marco Polo or other things that use audio don't work either. So, it's a pain. I get a weird error messages.
Hi. Work. Bah.
So ready for vacation.
@Work. Barely made it this morning, haha. If it hadn't been for having payroll to process, I might have not come in today. Woke up at 3am with HORRIBLE hip pain that was radiating into my leg. It's been happening off and on more often for the last couple of weeks or so. I've had that occasional hip-only pain before, but very very short lived in the past. Like.. as soon as I would roll over, it would go away. It's not doing that now, and I can't even lay on that side. I have a doctor appointment tomorrow morning, and hopefully they'll be able to figure it out for sure and I can get better!! I'd love to be able to walk normally, sleep normal, etc, haha.
Well, I went to the Verizon store and was not impressed. Ended up staying where I was.
Got most of my yard mowed and weed eated today. The grass was thick so it killed my mower a few times and drained the battery...the fun of warm wet spring weeks. I'll finish the back yard tomorrow after my batteries recharge.
@Work.
Have a headache. Went to my appointment. She thinks I have bursitis in my hip, so I got a steroid injection. If that doesn't work, I'll be doing physical therapy.
I ate Sonic popcorn chicken for "brunch" b/c I was so hungry (hadn't eaten yet today) and grabbed a peach slush. I wish it had more natural peach to it, but it's still so sugary that it's yum, hahaha. Makes me want homemade peach ice cream.
I need a nap.
Beautiful day today. Fixing to head to the house and hopefully get some work done on my projects.
Supposed to have some wet weather tomorrow. I hope they are mistaken.
Mowed the rest of my yard tonight so the storms next week can make it grow again
We could use some rain and west Texas REALLY needs rain.
Today was a BLEEP of a day.
Yesterday morning the cops rolled up and told our maintenance man, "You're going to have to come with us." Good thing yesterday was pretty slow, because there was a lot of stuff to do. He hadn't gotten much done yet.
Today was not slow, we still didn't have a maintenance man, and today was when we got a supply truck that the maintenance man was supposed to put away. Today was not fun. Guess who got drafted to put up the truck order.
Those soda syrup boxes are HEAVY! And almost all the freezer stuff is almost as heavy as soda syrup boxes, and I was spending a while freezing my nose off in a walk-in freezer putting it away.
Okay. That's my complaining for this week.
Depending on the weather forecast you read, we will get 2 inches, no inches, or 8 inches of water. I'm strongly pulling for none.
Came home and done a little bodywork on Chey's 'vette after putting chicken and beef on the smoker. Then sprayed primer on Sam's bed, little by little he's coming along. Now I'm chilling in the recliner.
Don't get too chill Bobby. You'll probably see our maintenance man in a couple days. >.>
Whew. Made it through the weekend. Got a bit done. Went to church and preached. Fixing to go to sleep. Ready for next weekend- just so's I can be off. LOL
Good morning everyone.
Hi.
Been busy as what today. Coworker's fiancée wrecked his dirt bike. Broke his tailbone, so she is out today. Between her folks and mine, been running my shoes off.
Feel much happier after getting final word on my 10 hour shifts- they start the week of the car show. Our big boss's initials are E.T., and one of my coworkers quipped they would probably do a take back.
I let my inner 80s kid out and said if they did, E.T. would need to do more than phone home. :ugly:
Plodding through the day.
I'm on vacation this week. I should be cleaning my siding so I can paint it. Instead I'm sorting through historical documents trying to piece together my family tree. I'm not a fan of the state of Arkansas since they didn't keep birth and death records until 1914. That effectively puts a dead end on finding out anything about my great grandparents family that lived in Arkansas.
It's been so nice and cool the last couple of days. It's only 73* now and it was in the 90s.
Quote from: Backseat Radio on May 23, 2022, 08:01:05 PMI'm on vacation this week. I should be cleaning my siding so I can paint it. Instead I'm sorting through historical documents trying to piece together my family tree. I'm not a fan of the state of Arkansas since they didn't keep birth and death records until 1914. That effectively puts a dead end on finding out anything about my great grandparents family that lived in Arkansas.
My first reflex is to say you need a definition of "vacation." Or maybe you need an intervention.
But then some people would think my preferred vacation is tedious and boring, so...
Hope you're having fun on your vacation, whatever "fun" consists of for you.
@Work. again.
Getting SO close to finishing the purge/'great cleanout' of our living room and dining room!
Urgh. Woke up late. Had headache. locked myself out of the state computer system and had to jump through hoops to fix that. Still have headache. Wanna do-over. :pound:
Got some stuff done today. Went to the obgyn this morning for a check up and got a shot in the hip. Went shopping at Walmart. Got the fallen tree limbs cleaned out of my yard from the last storm. Cut the trees that was growing out of my foundation and sprayed the moss growing on my house with bleach solution to kill it. Now I'm parked on the couch debating if I want to push my sore hip muscle and go wash siding where there isn't moss growing.
Had my second hand carpal tunnel surgery last Thursday. Saw dr today for follow-up. This hands much more tender and very bruised compared to my first hand. Which it's my left hand and not the dominate hand thankfully. Looks pretty gnarly though haha.
Four day work week this week.
Four day work week next week.
Then I'm on vacation from June 4-12. haha boss is gonna kill me. Been off a lot in the last 2 months.
Taking my boyfriend to Indiana to meet the family. :freaky2:
Ready for Friday. Then I'm heading to Mountain View. Wanted to go to Oklahoma way, but gas prices. So I'm taking the motorhome about 60 miles and camping on the white river for two days. Probably without phone service, which doesn't exactly hurt my feelings.
It's weird being the same age as old people. ;)
I saw this poem newsman wrote in my timeline in my memories on Facebook. It's crazy to think he's gone.
Passage of time trades
Memories, wisdom for youth,
Where have the years gone?
@Work.
Long night w/ little sleep. It was SO warm, but Jeremy (husband) was comfortable and he's normally the cold one, so I didn't want to freeze him out, haha. Tonight tho - I am turning that a/c down!
Leaving tomorrow after work to go see my parents for a couple of days. The current plan is that I'll be headed back home Sunday evening. Trying to keep some of the weekend to spend with Jeremy if I can pry him away from his computer/friends. Keep praying for him. We need it.
While I'm in Arkansas, we are traveling to NW Arkansas to visit the cemeteries and some of my dad's family. Seems like a tradition lately, which is fine. I just want to see my parents. Haven't been able to see them since Christmas/New Years. Their house is almost always a peaceful rest for me. (Depends if my brother is there or not.. LOL)
Took my mom to visit her mom today
I need To go see my mom tomorrow for her birthday.
Count down to weekend. 30 minutes to go......
My daughter is bored to tears. I am relaxing. In the campground. Nearly no cell phone service and I managed to log on to wifi only when I am in a certain place.
So peaceful.
Steaks just came off the charcoal grill.
Burgers on it. And I have a new archeological/biblical novel I've not read before,just basking in front of the motorhome.
This is why I bought this thing.
I've felt like garbage most of the week so not done much other than sleep. I did spray bleach water on the moss growing on my siding to kill that off but haven't had the energy or motivation to scrub any of the siding. Finished "Reimagining Church" by Frank Viola. He has some good thoughts but his writing is way too wordy and repetitive.
Been a good day. Had lunch with my parents. Then spent the evening baking cookies for a coworker's birthday and preparing my lunch to take to work tomorrow.
My kids threw me a surprise birthday party this weekend. My son and his kids are still here. :)
Back @work. Feeling rough like I partied all weekend or something, haha. Woke up with a headache and feeling tired. Hopefully that goes away.
Saturday was a whirlwind. Left their house at 9am and didn't make it back until 12.50 hours later. Placed flowers on all the family graves, visited with extended family, ate at Western Sizzlin in Harrison, and a lot of driving time, haha. Had church with them on Sunday and it was a great message. Plus nice to see people. :) Drove home that afternoon and worked some more on the house yesterday. Hoping to start on the next room's purge on Thursday.
So close to our area, Nelle.
Fuzz, we had discussed coming to your party and wanted to, but fuel prices limited our travel.
Chey got "sick" and we wound up coming home early. I'm a bit ticked, still feel it was more "I am bored and no wifi, so I'll get sick" type of thing. I know part of it was real, but it was funny, once home, she asked about going to stay the night at two different cousin's houses. No, ma'am. If you too sick to let dad unwind at a beautiful Ozark campground, you too sick to go somewhere else. As a result I was not the most popular father in town Sunday and Monday.
Back at work dealing with folk again. Trying to be godly and give grace where appropriate, in keeping with "What would Jesus do?" philosophy.
I'm so glad God gives children to young folks and not us older folks. My energy levels aren't what they used to be.
Went last night and finished hanging the new chandeliers at church. Back at work today, tired as I can be. It's like my energy left early. Church tonight, then homeward bound. Thankful it's a short week this week.
Does anybody in your church know how to play a chandelier? I thought it took years to learn.
I can play 'em beautifully. Nothing to it after you get the hang of it and know which switch to hit. :ugly:
Morning all. Said chandeliers may be universally hated if crowd size is any correlation. Lord, we didn't have anyone there last night. Some of the regulars were sick, and not counting the musicians and preachers, I think we had four saints present, and maybe 6 or 7 kids. This out of a church that usually runs from the upper 30s to the low 50s.
I'm ready for people to not be sick and to put church and God as a priority in their lives again. :pound:
Back at work. One day closer to my week off.....
Friday again woot! After today I am on vacation!! Double woot!
I've got one more week before I can say that.
But I am thankful it is Friday. And it is beautiful.
Quote from: Roscoe on May 28, 2022, 10:54:03 PMMy daughter is bored to tears. I am relaxing. In the campground. Nearly no cell phone service and I managed to log on to wifi only when I am in a certain place.
So peaceful.
Steaks just came off the charcoal grill.
Burgers on it. And I have a new archeological/biblical novel I've not read before,just basking in front of the motorhome.
This is why I bought this thing.
Reminds me of this one comic I saw where these two friends were walking through the woods. One of them kept checking her phone and saying, "still one bar." Finally she said, "woohoo, no bars!"
Her friend said, "you know you could just turn your phone off."
She replied, "if I'm going to be out of touch I have to earn it."
:hi: Howdy, everyone!
Hello. It's Monday. Thankful this is a short week. I'm ready for my car show and some time off.
:hi:
Good morning, all. Off to court....Hope y'all have a great day! It's beautiful hot and sunny here but the weatherman says that storms are a'coming from the area Newsman lived at...
Supposed to be hot and sunny here, too. No chance of rain in our forecast, though.
@Work.
I'd like a nap, but won't get it in this corporate world, haha.
We were supposed to get a shipment yesterday from Sams with our cats' Temptation Treats, but either FedEx didn't quite deliver it or someone took it off our porch. Looked all over our yard and vehicles, but no package in sight. Contacted Sams today and they've shipped out a new one. Hopefully this one makes it all the way inside the house and no cats riot, hahaha. Thank goodness I try to order before I actually run out.
Morning.
Ate a huge cinnamon roll that I should not have.
Took a Tylenol PM last night for hip pain. Regretted it this morning when I woke with a hang over.
It's rained like 5 inches in the last two days here. I'm over it. As an added bonus apparently it's the weather that's causing my hip to hurt.
Spent all day in court yesterday. Having to people today. Being a grump naturally, with the added hip pain, is making it a trial. LOL
It's funny how the weather affects your body as you get older.
I'm still here. Nothing to report so I haven't been reporting it.
Here. Yesterday was a pain. Wound up in court in another county, was there until 6 pm, had to rush to church. All of my ministers and half my saints were sick. I think we had 18 present. I had to teach a bible study somewhat unprepared. Thankfully, the whole " instant in season and out" thing proved faithful. Now- tonight- wedding rehearsal. Tomorrow-wedding. Sunday- church- then I'm good for a week of antiques autos and friendship.
And I threatened the girl in the wedding. She stated they weren't writing their own vows, they'd just repeat after me. I told them if that was the case, I might sneak in, "I, (bride's name), do solemnly vow, to pay the pastor $200 weekly..."
I was a fan of the idea. Somehow it met instant resistance. :laughhard:
Last night I dreamed that I had to get by on 10 times the amount I contributed to church. It sure was tough getting through a whole year on $520...
I think I'd like that deal Lynx. 🤣
Hi all. Made it through the wedding. Got complimented by an aged attendee who said it was the best marriage sermon she'd ever heard. I blushed and "aw shucks" 'd it.
Got up today,picked up some chow chow.
Found that my usual spots at the swap meet were for all intents underwater.
So I traded up and bought swap meet spots. More level ground, not as wet...and now I might as well haul some of my excess parts up and sell them too.
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Home from Indiana. But without my car... sigh. The engine was shot. But thankfully for me Kia has a lifetime warranty on their engines. So it's getting replaced for free(ish). But it's in Indiana and will possibly take approximately 2 weeks...
There is a possibility that they will ship it back to Texas for me. Please pray that happens lol.
I can't afford to drive back to Indiana and back again in 24 hours. :(
Driving thru Arkansas I saw "state police hq" more than once. Made me think of Bobby lol
But boyfriend passed family inspection lol. Now he can propose. He says could happen in a week. Could be a month. :roll:
It's hot! Right at 100*. :shine:
Been that way all weekend lol. 100+ over here. Was 106 yesterday? I think.
Supposed to be in 100's+ all week here.
Yeah, well... Gotta expect that in Texas.
On really hot days I come in from sweeping up trash in the parking lot and go to the walk-in freezer to pull what I call a reverse-Shadrach. I sit down in the freezer and the ice can't touch me. I'm carrying so much heat that I make an instant and persistent fog.
Morning all. Fixing to roll out to get some things done. Swap Meet officially starts tomorrow.
What are you bringing to swap?
What are you hoping to swap for?
He will probably be knee deep in old cars the rest of the week. ;)
Fuzz is accurate. :lol:
I carried alot of my parts from past projects up- things that I'd hung on to thinking I'd use some time, but if it's been in my storage for 8 years and I haven't thought about it, I probably don't need it.
Long story short, I've actually sold enough to pay for my swap space for this year. If I can sell another $100 worth, I'll have paid for next years' spot too. :ugly:
Having a great time. Came off the mountan for church. Gotta take Chey for her driving portion of the driver's exam tomorrow, then back to the mountain.
So Moses came down from the mountain to preach to the people and train up a child in the way she should go (literally.) Then he did ascend again into the mountain.
:lol:
You ain't right, Isaac. :laughhard: But, you ain't wrong, either.
Chey passed her test. I got annoyed with my pitboss- put a pork loin on, smoke rolling, and went for a stroll. Came bck about 30 minutes later and discovered the auger had jammed up and fire had gone out. Pork Loin came home in a cooler, I took apart the Pitboss and finally got it fixed. Too hot for anything else, so I came home. Will go back tomorrow.
My week has went by too fast.
I made it through the week without punching anybody!
When you work with teenagers who don't give a *I like to use words that offend people. I don't think it's wrong, and I don't care if it offends people* in a whirlwind, that's about the best you can hope for. It's all relative.
The weeks seem to fly by quicker and quicker.
Wait, a word for passing gas triggers the forum profanity filter?
Who made that word list?
No idea. But it triggers on alot of words I use. :lol:
So, took Chey to get her "official" license. Went and got some lumber for the remodel projects and marked places for post holes for a car port. Had a replacement wheel for Rusty installed, as he had a warped wheel.
Now, I am smoking steak for dinner.
Enjoyed the ministry of Mini and his wife this weekend, as well as their company. He flat preached and spoke into our lives. I needed it all- the companionship, the correction, the counsel, the prayers, the encouragement, and the worship.
Now- forward.
Bro Wilson loves his ceremony. He brought a picture of me up and I thought for all the world I had died and they were having a memorial. He gave me an ordination ceremony/certificate. I love him immensly. I've told him repeatedly that I don't need ceremony or titles, but if it makes him happy....
Personally, I'd have been happier without it. I was focused on the bbq that was waiting upstairs.
Sheesh. Back at work. I really woulda made a GREAT rich man.
@Work as well.
Busy week this week. Yesterday lab for bloodwork and then work. Today, work then oil change. Tomorrow work and church. Thursday, work and dentist. I hope Friday looks free except for work, haha.
Hi. Swimming in Bureaucratic red tape. Sheesh. Sometimes, government annoys me. :pound:
Sometimes? lol
I got engaged last night! :hypocrite:
Oh Lawd. Congratulations, I guess. :laughhard:
Quote from: MsJennJenn on June 22, 2022, 06:14:11 PMSometimes? lol
I got engaged last night! :hypocrite:
Awww! Congratulations!!
@work. Eating a Crunch bar. I also had a slice of lemon cake earlier.. before lunch, haha.
Wow, Jenn! Congrats.
Good Morning. Dreadful start to the day. I awoke to the news that a friend, who was a jailer in one of the local jails, was killed last night by an arrestee who had a concealed gun. He was a good kid, just 21 years old.
I joked with him a few weeks ago about how this career was not fun anymore and too dangerous.
Praying for his family, while simultaneously wanting to go to the jail and end the arrestee with extreme prejudice.
Thanks ya'll! Happy happy!
Had dentist this morning for to cavities. Ugh.
Yikes Bobby that sounds scary.
Been stuck at home sick today.
Had slight fever, chills, headache, and nausea. Slept most of the day.
Hi all. Seems like I barely have time to run in anymore.
Got home last night, took my nephew driving trying to teach him to drive a stick. Kid did decent. He was excited. Had a talk with him over some of the things he has going on- it's hard to be a biracial 15 year old son of a single mother with no contact with your father. We had a good talk. Love the kid and hope he can get his head on right.
This weekend will likely result in a bit of work around the house. I really am not planning anything huge.
Hey, Jenn. How fast does your guy grow a beard? He's clean shaven in one pic and fully bearded a couple days later in those pics.
Shew, it's hot out this week. I've gotten a bit done around here. Dug some post holes for my carport. Replaced a bad porch post. Worked on Sam.
Now, watching "The Chosen" on the laptop,which I really like.
Keeping 2 of Dina's kids this week and will switch out with the other 2 next week. :)
What do y'all do when they stay there? Go camping? Go to Disney? Clean out the attic and put them to good use?
We just hang out. They help with chores while here and also play.
Morning. Back at work. Woke up early by a message from a saint. Dragging.
Having desires to deal others in a different meaning of the term. As in behind a pickup, down a rough rocky road.
Needing Friday. 😆
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on June 24, 2022, 10:03:20 PMHey, Jenn. How fast does your guy grow a beard? He's clean shaven in one pic and fully bearded a couple days later in those pics.
Haha it was full beard until we got back from Indiana. Then he shaved it for summer cus "its too hot".
But he literally can have a face full again in like a week or two. He will get a full on shadow in a day and a half.
So strange how fast hair grows for some and never for others.
Can you imagine your hair growing an inch in a weeks time? LOL
*sigh
I don't have to imagine it.
Quote from: MsJennJenn on June 27, 2022, 09:29:10 PMHaha it was full beard until we got back from Indiana. Then he shaved it for summer cus "its too hot".
But he literally can have a face full again in like a week or two. He will get a full on shadow in a day and a half.
So strange how fast hair grows for some and never for others.
Can you imagine your hair growing an inch in a weeks time? LOL
Waitaminute... I seem to remember you participating in a scruff thread, way back when.
You must be in scruff heaven now.
:lol:
Urgh.
I wish I could get hair to grow at that rate. But not on my face, just on that bald spot on my head. :laughhard:
Back at work. Totally done people-ing. Today is such a beautiful day, not too hot and not too cold. I really wanna take the day off but I've taken off so much I can't. :pound:
Bahaha i was gonna comment on bobbys bald head but i refrained :hypocrite:
and yea i'm sure i did participate lol i've always loved beardss!!
Quote from: MsJennJenn on June 28, 2022, 04:08:37 PMBahaha i was gonna comment on bobbys bald head but i refrained :hypocrite:
and yea i'm sure i did participate lol i've always loved beardss!!
:pound:
Somehow I knew Mini or I were in the crosshairs. No spiritual discernment needed. LOL
hahaha couldnt help myself
@Work.
Leaving tonight for Nashville, TN (have to clarify since there is a Nashville IL lol). Staying the night in Franklin and going to the zoo tomorrow as well as to see Top Gun in 4D. I don't even care for this movie series, but my husband does, so that's what we're doing, haha. Gonna pop in a few stores while we are in the area, and then come home tomorrow night. He's having a week of vacation this week thru Monday, so he's worked on the yard some and had some medical VA appointments. Glad this is a longer weekend so I can hopefully rest some AND have fun haha.
Just a couple of weeks I'll be headed to Eureka Springs, AR for a few days to be with my brother & sister-in-law. Since my husband can't go, my momma is gonna tag along with me. Kevin (brother) has had a tough year, so I finally just decided to go. Lian (SIL) says he's been homesick lately, so hopefully this will help him out. As long as we don't go hiking, I can handle it. :)
Quote from: Nelle on June 29, 2022, 04:49:29 PMJust a couple of weeks I'll be headed to Eureka Springs, AR for a few days ....
If you are coming from your state, through Jonesboro and to eureka, you will be within 20-30 miles of us. You should totally reach out to me and Lou if you have time and let us meet up with you and buy ya an ice cream...
Hi all. Another day down. Encouraged as we had 30 ish at church on Wednesday night- since Covid, it's gotten down to the low twenties.
Tomorrow will be nonestop all day...then Friday I will be the lone ranger in the office as every other officer has taken vacation. :pound:
I missed the "blue flu" memo. LOL
I'd forgotten how kids are ALWAYS hungry. These two want to eat constantly. Even after I've made them a big meal. I don't remember that part from my kiddos.
I love them to pieces, but I'm tired.
What's really fun is when you take them to a buffet, then you get home and they go straight for the fridge.
"Do you ever get full?!"
"No... But sometimes my jaw gets tired of chewing."
Just bought myself a new bicycle. Haven't ridden one in years.
Yeah, they say you never forget...
Don't believe it. My legs forget how to put out effort every time I stop riding for a while. They have to relearn every time.
Urgh. Morning all. At work. Kinda sore- my arm which was healing decently enough, well, my dumb butt decided yesterday it would be smart to move a 51 year old lump of iron (a to be rebuilt engine for Sam). Even with the assistance of a cherry picker, I tugged a bit on it. While I don't think I set myself back by any more damage, my arm sure made its displeasure known last night.
On the plus side- received my bonus today, a financial blessing. And I really do not intend to do a lot today.
Apparently in my city a license is required for anyone over age 6 to ride a bicycle. The licence is only $1 but it means the hassle of get a bell for my bike, get the bike inspected, and do the paperwork for the license
Wow really? Never heard of that LOL
So happy to have a 3-day weekend.
I wonder if that's because people are buying those newer bicycles that are gas powered or whatever it is haha. Not just using pedal power. So it's easier to just put all bicycles under that.
@Work. Quick trip didn't go quite as planned. Husband got into poison ivy and he is highly allergic. He suffered with it and hopefully he's getting a shot or something today while he's at the VA for his other appointment. I had stomach issues and didn't feel great Thurs AM. So we didn't go to the Zoo, but we did just mill around some between Franklin, Cool Springs, and Nashville area. The 4DX experience was a little rougher than either of us cared for, but at least we got to experience it I guess. Arrived home safely last evening and the cats didn't burn the house down, so that's good, hahaha.
We will either be in Eureka the 21 & 22 or the 25 & 26 of July. I need to talk to my brother and get him to choose which he would prefer so I can make plans around that. The weekend will be at my parents house in the Paragould/Jonesboro area.
I'm also VERY glad that Monday is a holiday. I am hoping to take some naps this weekend, haha.
Monday isn't a holiday where I work. Its a show up for work under threat of being double pointed for calling off day.
Quote from: Backseat Radio on July 01, 2022, 06:33:01 PMMonday isn't a holiday where I work. Its a show up for work under threat of being double pointed for calling off day.
Yeah, that. Where I w*rk they put a sign up at the time clock that if you call in this particular weekend your wage gets reduced by a quarter per hour and you might get suspended.
The bicycle license caught me by surprise. Which city is this again?
It's crazy to be expected to work if sick but so many folks lie about it. I can sorta see both sides.
Hi. Running in to wave. Nothing new to report, just working on home projects and Sam.
Switched kiddos. Now we have the older two. They will be here a week.
Shew. I need to go back to work to get a break. Despite my sore shoulder, I managed to dig a total of 6 18 to 24 inch deep post holes; set post and square them, then cement them in; two different rounds of body filler on Sam's cab corner and a round of primer; went to picnic at a friend's house;and drove Rusty to Russellville to get $200 worth of lumber, including aforementioned posts.
On the bright side, as soon as I can get time and help setting two 10 foot 2x6s, I can put up the supporting structure and be ready for the expensive part- the metal roofing material. All this work to protect my cars and keep from having to scrape windshields this winter..
Oh, and part of the lumber I bought was 2x4 for the framing of Lou's future bedroom/master suite. I haven't forgotten it, it just takes a bit when you are doing it as you can swing it.
A lot of money went up in smoke last night and my dog was a nervous wreck. Every year I feel more sorry for that poor dog on July 4th. This year, with the 4th on Monday, they were popping fireworks four nights straight.
Neighbors with fireworks are super annoying when you're trying to sleep cause you work the early bird shift
@Work. Just ate a peach donut for breakfast from a local orchard. Would've appreciated peaches in the actual donut and not just in the icing flavoring. But oh well! :) We also had a peach smoothie from another orchard, as well as a peach razzle (soft serve ice cream with bits of peaches in it) from the same orchard as the donuts. Both were tastier than the donut, hahaha. We also bought some fresh peaches. Can't wait to eat those.
Husband cut up our watermelon last night as well. Had to eat some of that last evening. I'm pretty sure I ate all day. I didn't get any naps this weekend, BUT I did sleep in a couple of days. We had a gumbo lunch on Sunday w/ family & church family. Everyone was happy. There were beignets. :)
Not sure what I'm making for supper yet. It may have to be quick since I have to run some errands to get ready for tomorrow night's kids church kickoff of "Watermelon Wednesdays" for the month of July. We're gonna be eating watermelon and learning stuff and singing songs and playing games and doing crafts, haha. I'll be spending lunch writing my list for the stores. I don't think my amazon purchases are going to make it in time, but that'll be fine I think. We can surprise them with it next week.
Didn't watch a single parade or fireworks show this year. I did hear all our neighborhood "shows" all weekend tho. Saturday night was my favorite though. I was so tired and wanting to go to bed, but the cats are scared of the firework sounds. So I was trying to stay up with them.. about 11:30 my prayers were answered - a storm rolled in! LOL.. They didn't go too crazy last night thankfully.
Well Nelle... That's just peachy.
Lord. You gonna become a peach. And not in the metaphorical sense.
Plugging through work. Went to court, now I gotta make it to 5 pm. Then home, and I'll throw a steak on the grill to smoke.....
Wisdom just now given to me by one of my uncles, in the family group text:
"Diarrhea is hereditary. It runs in your jeans."
I told him that was a dirty joke.
:eyeroll:
Hi.
Sorting out paperwork. People who have never been involved with criminal justice would be surprised at the manner some things simply get lost. :pound:
Church tonight. Still dealing with some soreness re: arm and general icky-ness in our house. And it is hotter than the devil's belly too.
@Work. Surviving, haha.
Sames Nelle. Sames.
Well my car that died in Indiana is finally on it's way back to me in Texas. lol
a month later... :roll:
But blessings I didnt have to go drive back up there to get it. :clap:
Quote from: MsJennJenn on July 07, 2022, 06:55:02 PMWell my car that died in Indiana is finally on it's way back to me in Texas. lol
a month later... :roll:
But blessings I didnt have to go drive back up there to get it. :clap:
Musta been a Ford. :laughhard:
Shew. This day is draaagiing. Just had an offender come in whose case was transferred to me. She told the receptionist she didn't know who she was supposed to see, then when told it was me, informed the receptionist that "he isn't my favorite person".
Well, surprise girlie, you ain't my favorite either.
The funny thing is, she came back here, joked and cut up with me, talked about Lou inviting her to church and was just peaches and cream to me. Snake.
She had no idea I knew what she had said. I just smiled, told her how much we'd love to have her come visit us at church and was super kind to her. She need to come. Need to get that lying conniving spirit cast out. :pound:
Oh well. Some folks are difficult to love, but as the lesson last night said- we gotta love our neighbor, defined as anyone in your circle.
Sometime, the human side wants to push people outta that circle though. :pound:
Found a little snake in my yard tonight. Based on the brown checker pattern it had, I think it was a garter snake of some sort.
Back at work. My work sistah is out sick so no home visits and a long boring day.:pound:
Boss just told me 10 hour shifts, four days a week start Monday, which means I begin my three day weekends today. I'm skeptical as they given us dates at least three different times. If I make it until 5 pm without them changing their mind though, they won't see or hear me again until Tuesday. I'll ghost 'em. LOL
@Work. Tired, as always haha. Our girl cat will NOT let me sleep through the night. Feeling like I have a newborn hahaha. Hopefully whatever it is, she stops it.
I'd for sure want that change of hours in writing. LOL.
I would never tell someone in the same office especially that I didn't really care for someone. I don't think I ever tell that... but then I've mostly learned to not say things that I wouldn't want spread around and especially try to only say kind things if I can, haha. Except to my momma... she knows all my real feelings.
Quote from: Nelle on July 08, 2022, 01:52:20 PM@Work. Tired, as always haha. Our girl cat will NOT let me sleep through the night. Feeling like I have a newborn hahaha. Hopefully whatever it is, she stops it.
I'd for sure want that change of hours in writing. LOL.
I would never tell someone in the same office especially that I didn't really care for someone. I don't think I ever tell that... but then I've mostly learned to not say things that I wouldn't want spread around and especially try to only say kind things if I can, haha. Except to my momma... she knows all my real feelings.
I'm very careful with what I say, especially now. Having said that, I know I have a receptionist that semi-likes/tolerates me, and another officer who does the same. No idea what I did to get on their bad side, but it is what it is. I smile, speak kindly to them and try to offer help whenever I can.
I can't change the way someone feels. And I can't change whatever I did to upset them if they don't tell me, so I just sail along, trying my best to be kind.
And re: hours in writing- does no good. The last two times I had emails saved where they put it in writing when we were starting. And they STILL hosed me. :pound:
Waaay to easy to overheat in this weather. Been working on the carport- about overdid it last night and got dizzy. Did I learn? No. Went and got materials today. Went to work. Easy, not stressful...Shoot. Got to the top of fthe ladder a few ago and nearly passed out. Sick to stomach, head pounding, dizzy. Yeah, I came in to the a/c with a bottle of water. It'll have to wait.
Quote from: Roscoe on July 09, 2022, 05:57:49 PMWaaay to easy to overheat in this weather. Been working on the carport- about overdid it last night and got dizzy. Did I learn? No. Went and got materials today. Went to work. Easy, not stressful...Shoot. Got to the top of fthe ladder a few ago and nearly passed out. Sick to stomach, head pounding, dizzy. Yeah, I came in to the a/c with a bottle of water. It'll have to wait.
It'll still be there in October.
Make sure YOU are still here in October. Be careful bro.
Shew Lord.
Yeah, Lynx, I slowed down a bit after that.
Well. Went to church tonight. Was in the office when Sis Lauren came in "Hey, there's like brown water or something coming up under the ladies' bathroom wall." Having images of toilet water in someway leaking, I went to check it out. Wait- that isn't watery. That's got a thicker consistancy, kinda like honey. Honey? I looked up the wall- a thin ribbon of a syrup consistancy. Walked around behind the church, there was a ribbon with ants... I screwed up my courage, dipped my finger in the ribbon, tasted. Yep. Honey. We have an active bee hive IN THE WALL OF THE CHURCH. God only knows what this will cost. I told a friend, I know He promised a land flowing with milk and honey, but I didn't think it was literal, from the walls. If I see a cow, I'm running. :laughhard:
Ooooooh... As soon as you said it's not watery I knew what it is. My cousin had a beehive in her wall.
My sympathy.
Quote from: Roscoe on July 07, 2022, 09:14:38 PMQuote from: MsJennJenn on July 07, 2022, 06:55:02 PMWell my car that died in Indiana is finally on it's way back to me in Texas. lol
a month later... :roll:
But blessings I didnt have to go drive back up there to get it. :clap:
Musta been a Ford. :laughhard:
Har har. It's a Kia thank you very much. The engine blew and Kia has a lifetime warranty on their engines so I didnt have to pay! :argue: :pound:
I guess Kia can do that, since it doesn't cost much for a couple of hamsters to spin the wheel. :laughhard:
My guy didn't call about the bees :pound:.
The more I think about it and am around, I'm agreeing with Bro Wilson. We don't have an active hive. Several years back, we had bees all around. Ladies made comments about it while making peanut brittle. Me, I just assumed they had a hive in the nearby woods.
They quit coming around abruptly.
Now, I don't hear humming as one would with an active hive; and I haven't seen a bee. You would think if the hive was active I'd at least see one now and then in the vicinity.
I suspect now that they had a nice hive and produced the honey; then for whatever reason abandoned the hive.
The honey remained sealed up with wax caps in the comb. This last week, we've had unusually hot- even for Arkansas- summer weather with temps over triple digits and heat index of 115 or better.
I think this caused the wax caps to melt, and the honey to flow.
Either way, We still gotta clean it. :pound:
Are you saying you have had a beehive in the church wall and nobody knew it?!
@Work. Sleepy after lunch. Finally finished the chicken broccoli alfredo leftovers that I first made Saturday. LoL.
Busy day today. Have to rush to the store after work to get the craft supplies and then run to church to get things set up for tonight's children's church. I'm running that solo tonight since our pastor and wife are out of town. I ~think~ I have things good to go, haha.
So tired. Sleep delayed visiting me last night until the wee hours. Today's ten hour shift is an eternity long. LOL
Thankful today for a friend who teaches Wednesday night.
We couldn't get to sleep last night while visiting oldest daughter so, as we were leaving early in the morning to come home anyway, we drove about 4 1/2 hrs home after midnight. Glad to be home.
:hi:
Morning. Made it. Slept pretty decent last night after church. Love my new morning time portion of my shift. Even though I'm not a morning person, being here before the hordes arrive give me much time to get things done without being bothered.
Sitting here trying not to bawl like a baby. Watching the livestream of Bro Darrell Thrasher's funeral. So many messages of my youth came from this man and his family. He was so young. Some reason I thought he was 15,20 years older than me. Nope. Just seven years older, at 52. What a life well lived.
@Work. Ready for lunch.
Not TOO busy of a weekend this time. Working on the house of course, and then teaching Sunday School on Sunday. The girls are out of town on a little trip, so I'm covering this one. Praying all goes well. I've taught SS a long time, but some of the newer children make me very aware that I need to keep learning how to handle children with different needs. They can be absolute sweethearts one minute and the next, disruptive and pretending like I'm not alive, haha. I hope Sunday is more of the first and less of the second for my sake at least.
Shew. Drove, or rather rode, half a million miles today. Manage to stop by out local Tyson Company store and bagged some Cornish hens and some Polish sausages; stopped by a local butcher house and bought a huge stick of their delicious summer sausage; then, just when we were heading back to the office, spied an old guy selling watermelons and some of the locally renown Esau, Arkansas sweet corn. It is amazing- The area it is grown is is flat prairie land farm land and I wouldn't want to live there, but it produces some of the best sweet corn in the world. Needless to say, my work sistah and I split a 50lb bag...
Yes, I DO work. But YES, I WILL take advantage of tooling around the countryside to add to my freezer. LOL
25 pounds of corn?
Shoot, you'll get the squirts till you fall over...
Corn on the cob sounds good.
Shew. Still warm out and forecast to stay that way. As in 115 degree heat index possible.
At church trying to get things together for tonight. Looks like half the church is sick.
Well. Decent church turn out. Didn't feel what I had was right, when I got on the platform and the worship started, God let me know in no uncertain terms what I was doing. Preached heart out for about 20 minutes, good response.
Came in today, working for coworker- we traded my monday off for her friday off. She was on a cruise and didn't want to rush back, and I need off Friday for the birthday party anyway.
@Work.
Just today thru Thurs working and then off to my parentals. We are driving down to Eureka on Sunday and rushing back on Tuesday. I have to drop Mom off and then head home myself so I can be at work on Wednesday morning.
How close are you to Eureka, Roscoe? I have no idea what our plans are while we are there. I need to find out from my brother what he has up his sleeve. Hoping there won't be any hikes.
:hi: I'm here. Nothing interesting going at the moment.
Been a miserable day for me. Apparently, I'm allergic to eggs. I'd been having problems with diarrhea that cleared up when I quit eating eggs for several days. Last night I decided to eat a few eggs again just to see. This morning the nausea, cramps, and diarrhea was back with a vengeance.
:flush:
Allergic to eggs? I have never heard of such.
Good that you know what to avoid though.
Quote from: Nelle on July 18, 2022, 07:44:51 PM@Work.
Just today thru Thurs working and then off to my parentals. We are driving down to Eureka on Sunday and rushing back on Tuesday. I have to drop Mom off and then head home myself so I can be at work on Wednesday morning.
How close are you to Eureka, Roscoe? I have no idea what our plans are while we are there. I need to find out from my brother what he has up his sleeve. Hoping there won't be any hikes.
Ah, we probably an hour, hour and a half away from Eureka. And I doubt you'll have to deal with hiking...Eureka is more of a resort town than a nature trail place.
Day two of the hostage situation, aka work.
The tire on my state car was flat so I drove the vette in.
The state can be so annoying. Used to, we could put a flat fix or an emergency tire on our gas card. Some idiot bought a coke with the gas card so rather than punish him, they rolled out a blanket rule. Got to get a purchase order for everything except gas.
I'm tempted to buy gas and buy a coke on the card just to show them their careful measures are ridiculous. Yeah making me get a purchase order which takes two weeks really keeps someone from buying a coke on the card
Ok, guys. I did something tonight that I never wanted to do. There was a smallish snake in our house. I don't like snakes but hubby is really grossed out by creepy crawlies so there wasn't much choice. I didn't want it loose where I didn't know where it was. I put on a rubber glove and grabbed it near the head. It was longer than I thought, probably at least 3 feet long. It tried to wrap on my arm and I didn't want it touching me. I only had on one glove, so I swung it in circles until I could get it outside and I threw it in the field next door. That's more excitement than I needed.
Alive? You let it live?!
Snake Lives Don't Matter! (Doesn't matter whether or not they are poisonous.)
You GRABBED it?!? Oh, no.Not gonna happen. Will scream and cry like a teenage girl.
And the rubber glove didn't help...
Last time that happened to me I literally beat a broom into splinters killing it,and swept the snake remains out in a dust pan.
It might sprinkle a bit today.
I am zapped too. Day three for the week...
It was not in a good place to kill and I sure didn't want it loose in my house where I didn't know where it went. Sometimes you have to just do things as the lesser of two evils. I didn't need hubby shooting the walls or computer...
I'd be shooting walls. LOL. You are braver than I.
Shew. Enjoyed some ribs and salad for dinner. Gotta make a trip out to the house in a bit..then back here until church time.
Poor snake :(
I'd be glad to send it to you, Jenn. ;)
I have zero sympathy for the snake. It got off a lot lighter than it deserved.
:hi:
It's Chey's party day. Lord the introvert in me will be glad when its over. Been up all night- cooked up about 15 lbs of pork butt, a pork loin, have another about to go in the smoker, a big pan of "cowboy beans", cake and cupcakes ready.
Fixing to go get paper plates, drinks, etc..
Sad thing is, Lou took forever to do the invitations. I dont know if I'll have 20 people or 60....
If you wind up with 20, there ain't a thing in the world wrong with leftover pork.
Ugh. I've got some sort of bug. Aching all over, headache, sore throat, cough, etc.
Well. Party was a success. About 35 or 40 people. Chey was a vision of loveliness as seen below. A bit "extra"
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But you only turn 16 once. Had enough food. Kim took the left over pork butt, which wasn't a ton.
My nephew had a fit and took what was left of the pork loin.
I'm now comfortable in one of the nicest places we've ever stayed. This will be a getaway for us when we can't afford to go far.
Just minutes from the house but might as well be in middle of nowhere
Man. GP DEAD.
Got church in a bit.. off tomorrow and if it isnt too hot, I'll do some much needed work on Sam.
I'm still here. Just got nothing to say.
Today is church homecoming, but I stayed at home. Today was uncle Fred's turn to go to church. Also he was needed to play bass for the Happy Heirs singing group.
I am busy playing Fallout: New Vegas. I already played through it as a nice, helpful guy. Now I'm playing through it as a jerk, mostly to get the Caesar quests that a good guy couldn't get.
Why do you have to take turns? Grandma?
Yeah. Next Sunday Fred will be here and I'll be at church.
I'm sorry, I didn't realize she was home bound.
Oh we can take her out places. We just can't leave her alone at all.
It's getting interesting. Three days ago she started asking where I was. I'm right here. She swore up, down, sideways and diagonal that I was not Isaac, even after I showed her my driver's license.
Things are a little crazy in my world. One of my morning coworkers is in the hospital with a brain tumor. The other morning coworker is on vacation this week. It's been me and the department manager keeping things put together with some help from a college student that works part time in Electronics.
Hi. Back at work.
Isaac, I hate that you are dealing with this with grandma. Alzheimer's/Dementia is truly a terrible thing and is both heartbreaking and physically taxing on family members. Proud of you for stepping up and helping her, though. It's great that y'all are able to. One of the hardest days of my life was taking my mama to the nursing home when we ran out of options and ways to keep her at home. Praying for ya.
And BSR- terrible bout the coworker with the brain tumor. And I hate that it means more work for you.
In my world- I'm loving my 10 hour days, with three day weekends. I actually feel like I have a little time to get things done. Still am considering taking an entire week off in September or October, just to focus on Sam. If I did that, and made myself treat him like a job, I could likely knock out most of his bodywork and paint that week...
And my department needs to get on the ball about two things- first the purchase order for tires for my state car. I NEED it and its paid for gas. And 2) our promised bonus- several months ago the governor approved a $5,000 bonus for active law enforcement. News said we would get it in July. News lied. They are still "verifying the qualifications"". Crooks need to cut loose of the money. I need it. LOL
Still struggling with the "crud" here.
I've been out of town for my birthday/bachelorette with my two girlfriends.
When are you getting married?
October 22 - we're doing a very small elopement type ceremony.
I very much did not want wedding. I cannot justify spending thousands of dollars that I don't have.
And I just turned 37 too so feels weird to put something like that on my parents even though I know they would help.
But I did want "wedding day" photos. So I let my parents buy my dress and we're having a few family members and close friends for an intimate elopement day.
Quote from: MsJennJenn on July 26, 2022, 07:31:19 PMOctober 22 - we're doing a very small elopement type ceremony.
I very much did not want wedding. I cannot justify spending thousands of dollars that I don't have.
And I just turned 37 too so feels weird to put something like that on my parents even though I know they would help.
But I did want "wedding day" photos. So I let my parents buy my dress and we're having a few family members and close friends for an intimate elopement day.
If you serve fruit at the tiny reception, don't serve canteloupe. Can't-elope.
Sounds like a great plan MJJ!
Roscoe - She looked beautiful and fancy!! Always a great idea to dress up and enjoy life! lol
Long weekend off w/ family. Wasn't quite as restful as I would have liked, but it was still time off work, so not all bad. :)
Hi. Well. I took off today. Went with Chey to renew her license. Then off she went to pick up a friend. Me, I'm a nervous wreck. I went to the church and prayed, then went and met a guy who was interested in buying the Corvette. Got a surprise when I told Lou; I wound up with a bit of an outcry, as she and Chey neither one wanted me to sell it. Both say I need it, and should keep it as it is nice, reliable and has a/c. I wasn't exactly jumping up and down to sell it, but it really isn't necessary, I'm NOT selling Sam or Rusty, so I figured I'd put it up, then buy a different one in a year or two. Yes, I have a problem. It's known as Automotive Attention Deficit Disorder. I get easily sidetracked.
The guy looked, told me he was actually wanting a different color (uh, you couldn't plainly see the red and white in the pic?) and decided to not buy it. So I guess I keep it....
I'm at home now, while chey drives back to her school, about 40 miles round trip, to drop off somepaperwork. She is, of course, manufacturing things to do that involve driving.....:laughhard:
Quote from: Lynx on July 26, 2022, 09:37:13 PMQuote from: MsJennJenn on July 26, 2022, 07:31:19 PMOctober 22 - we're doing a very small elopement type ceremony.
I very much did not want wedding. I cannot justify spending thousands of dollars that I don't have.
And I just turned 37 too so feels weird to put something like that on my parents even though I know they would help.
But I did want "wedding day" photos. So I let my parents buy my dress and we're having a few family members and close friends for an intimate elopement day.
If you serve fruit at the tiny reception, don't serve canteloupe. Can't-elope.
ba dum tis :ugly:
I don't like cantaloupe lol
Good morning. Beautiful cooler day. Bit o rain last night which we needed. I'm gonna be cruising the highways and byways today. Then a weekend, that I currently intended to dedicate to my car projects. Three day weekend, I am coming for you. :-)
This crud is taking a while to get over.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on July 29, 2022, 05:30:39 PMThis crud is taking a while to get over.
Fuzz, you didn't wind up with Covid did ya? I've got a couple new cases in our church- they've had it a couple times each, went to feeling bad about two weeks ago and skipped church. Text last night- yep both of them with Covid again.
In local news: The boss came through and took down the old, covered up fly traps and put up new ones.
I looked down at the full fly traps and said, "Hey we could make soup out of... Hush Isaac."
Quote from: Roscoe on July 29, 2022, 09:51:18 PMQuote from: The Purple Fuzzy on July 29, 2022, 05:30:39 PMThis crud is taking a while to get over.
Fuzz, you didn't wind up with Covid did ya? I've got a couple new cases in our church- they've had it a couple times each, went to feeling bad about two weeks ago and skipped church. Text last night- yep both of them with Covid again.
Not sure, didn't get tested. Probably, since symptoms seem to match.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on July 29, 2022, 10:52:52 PMQuote from: Roscoe on July 29, 2022, 09:51:18 PMQuote from: The Purple Fuzzy on July 29, 2022, 05:30:39 PMThis crud is taking a while to get over.
Fuzz, you didn't wind up with Covid did ya? I've got a couple new cases in our church- they've had it a couple times each, went to feeling bad about two weeks ago and skipped church. Text last night- yep both of them with Covid again.
Not sure, didn't get tested. Probably, since symptoms seem to match.
You be careful. It can take a while to shake no doubt, and can get ugly quick. Praying for y'all still.
Went out and done a bit o work on Sam. So much more to do....
Monday again. Sigh.
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Shew. Had an awesome prayer meeting last night-it was our turn to host the regional monthly minister's prayer meeting. Apostolic ministers from the entire western side of the state were there, absolutely amazing presence of God.
Then upon leaving the devil reared his head- Chey and her cousin went to the local sonic to get a drink on the way home and two drunken travelers walked up. They told her "nice car" which was fine- but then they went around and videoed her license plate. She was very attentive, left rapidly and called Daddy. Daddy called his friends with the pretty lights, then took his Corvette on a spirited sprint to the area, where he encountered the two and discovered that 1) They had indeed videoed her license plate (video deleted) and 2) Daddy's old man is not as buried as he thought.
A conversation was had in regards to probable outcomes should any harm come to the beautiful little girl in the cute car, the depth of the local river and interestingly enough, how human bodies behave upon submersion with bullet wounds.
They of course explained it was all a mistake, they meant no harm, and they too had daughters.
My friends with the pretty lights got their ids, their mode of travel and license plates, and spoke with them on the wisdom of transporting themselves to a different area and explained that southern fathers are a bit more protective than they might have known in their home country in South America or their current sunny state of residence. And now my daughter believes that maybe Daddy isn't totally stupid. And my nephew now knows I'm not the gentle teddy bear he thought I was, since he was with me.
I don't know that I've been that mad in years.
That's a good way to rile up a parent...
My boss and entire team went to Orlando today for our leadership conference thing.
100% taking it easy rest of the week.
Sad part is fiancé is out of town in Wichita Falls working this week. :sadbounce:
Quote from: Roscoe on August 02, 2022, 12:25:16 PM:hi:
Shew. Had an awesome prayer meeting last night-it was our turn to host the regional monthly minister's prayer meeting. Apostolic ministers from the entire western side of the state were there, absolutely amazing presence of God.
Then upon leaving the devil reared his head- Chey and her cousin went to the local sonic to get a drink on the way home and two drunken travelers walked up. They told her "nice car" which was fine- but then they went around and videoed her license plate. She was very attentive, left rapidly and called Daddy. Daddy called his friends with the pretty lights, then took his Corvette on a spirited sprint to the area, where he encountered the two and discovered that 1) They had indeed videoed her license plate (video deleted) and 2) Daddy's old man is not as buried as he thought.
A conversation was had in regards to probable outcomes should any harm come to the beautiful little girl in the cute car, the depth of the local river and interestingly enough, how human bodies behave upon submersion with bullet wounds.
They of course explained it was all a mistake, they meant no harm, and they too had daughters.
My friends with the pretty lights got their ids, their mode of travel and license plates, and spoke with them on the wisdom of transporting themselves to a different area and explained that southern fathers are a bit more protective than they might have known in their home country in South America or their current sunny state of residence. And now my daughter believes that maybe Daddy isn't totally stupid. And my nephew now knows I'm not the gentle teddy bear he thought I was, since he was with me.
I don't know that I've been that mad in years.
Sounds a lot like my uncle fred. You hurt him, he'll just hide it. If you want to see a good old southern boy come completely unglued, you threaten his wife, his daughter or his mama. I've seen it happen and it ain't pretty.
Morning. Plugging through work. Gotta run to Conway and get tires on the state car in a bit- that is, if I can make it to Conway on the rags on it.
I told Germ via text I was jealous of my tire this morning. It lost 13lbs on the way in.
Glad you're getting new tires.
Been an adventure the past 2 days here. Been without running water in my house while a new water heater is installed. Finally got the wash machine, dryer, and toilet back up. I won't have water in my shower till tomorrow evening. Thankfully I can go down the street to my parents house to shower.
Worked 2 hours overtime yesterday and another hour overtime today because of how short handed the electronics department has been. Had a ton of price changes to do both days.
Got tires. Thankful to return to the days of a state car and use their gas....
Now...two more days this week and back at my three days off. Have I mentioned I LOVE my new schedule? :laughhard:
Yeah you might have mentioned it once or twice.
You haven't mentioned ham radio recently. Was that just a phase or do you still use the precursor of IRC.
Quote from: Lynx on August 04, 2022, 09:55:24 AMYeah you might have mentioned it once or twice.
You haven't mentioned ham radio recently. Was that just a phase or do you still use the precursor of IRC.
I do still have all of my radios and enjoy it, but haven't had time to use them much anymore. In all honest, I probably should sell all of the equipment. I'm used to having no money; however, now I find that time is at a premium.
Fixing to head to Mayflower (about a 30, 45 minute drive) in about an hour. Our department is changing guns, and as a firearms instructor, I'm one of about 30 in the state that has to go qualify and assess the new guns, and setup the roll-out of them to the rest of the agency.
I have a few friends who would be very interested in knowing what happens to the old guns.
I have no personal interest, and I'm pretty sure the state disposes of them officially somehow that precludes selling them to civilians, but my friends are still very interested.
Quote from: Lynx on August 04, 2022, 02:07:39 PMI have a few friends who would be very interested in knowing what happens to the old guns.
I have no personal interest, and I'm pretty sure the state disposes of them officially somehow that precludes selling them to civilians, but my friends are still very interested.
They are traded in on the new guns and will likely be for sale by the dealer they are traded to. I will have the chance to acquire the one I carry, and being of the mindset one cannot have too many guns, will do so, but by and large they will be back on the market somewhere by the dealer.
The new guns are okay, I guess. I'm a .45 caliber fan and the state chose 9mm, but I can shoot either with no issues.
Urgh. Thank God it is Friday. Ready for my days off...
Tomorrow morning my paycheck hits the checking account and I can buy in on a great deal!
Red Pocket Mobile (an AT&T mvno) has an insanely good deal on prepaid service at 100 gigabytes a month (which is rather a lot) for less than $32 a month, if you buy a year at a time.
This isn't really a big deal for normal people, but I'm a nerd and I've been wanting to get this for a while. I could have gotten it last week but my backup car needed a new alternator.
Yup. That's what is exciting in my world right now.
I need payday to get here. Lawd,broke is me middle name. LOL
I had big plans for today. Nearly none of them have came to fruition. I got up, enjoyed breakfast with a group of friends and admired a new gun a friend bought.
Took a nap then dashed to Russellville and grocery shopped a bit.
Now, I've turned a couple of bolts on Sam, and I've stuffed chicken breasts with sauteed mushrooms, onions, cream of chicken soup and cheese mixture, and wrapped in bacon. They are now basking n the holy smoke. Healthy but tasty. We will say nothing about the pack of fig newtons I am consuming while they cook.
I threw a roast in the crockpot last night, so we had roast beef sandwiches.
I, on the other hand, have become quite lazy about matters gastronomic. The local grocery makes two-foot subs to order, so I've been ordering. So far my favorites are smoked turkey with provolone and hard salami with cheddar.
It's just too easy to cut off a chunk of sandwich and chew on it and keep going. I'm going through about six feet of sandwich per week.
lolol such a funny visual about going thru a six foot sandwich
Quote from: MsJennJenn on August 08, 2022, 10:06:27 PMlolol such a funny visual about going thru a six foot sandwich
It's really quite easy to do. Just take it nine inches at a time.
Well... For Grandma's meals it's more like 4.5 inches at a time. She don't eat much any more.
Nothing interesting going on here.
My Pastor and one of the other brothers from the church showed up at Walmart at the end of my shift to check on me since I didn't show up at church yesterday.
Most exciting thing here was, yesterday I finally got my debit card unlocked and the mobile service ordered.
Red Pocket is in California so my bank automatically locked my card down when I tried to order it last Saturday morning. Apparently there are a lot of scams coming out of California, Georgia and Ireland: Any online order I place that goes to any of those areas gets my card locked down.
Well it's nice knowing my money is safe, but when it's so safe I can't use it I get... disturbed.
Morning all. Back at work. Gonna be a lonnng day. May be a long week, in fact..
@Work.
Really hoping/praying that Mom & Dad can get their new a/c actually set today. The guy they've been dealing with has currently a TON of things going wrong in his life.. drugs, divorce, looking at possible jail time, etc. He also has been going on for months of not getting their a/c to them. He said he would come today. Hopefully he's keeping his word this time. He already had deposited their money in order to purchase the actual unit, so hopefully he actually did purchase it. We wouldn't have known anything was going on if it wasn't for public access to court records in Arkansas!
Husband's (Jeremy) birthday is today. I haven't really talked in depth about what we've been dealing with, but we still need lots of prayer, especially him. My main prayer need is less anxiety about the situation. I have the irritating ability to get up into my worries super quick and I overthink everything he says, does, or doesn't say or do. lol.. He's dealing with a lot (mostly stemming from military service and his grandpa dying) and he's slowly making some improvements. I'm still just proud of him for reaching out for help, I know that took quite a bit.
Also.. we are dealing with fleas. like... they're in our yard, pretty much every room in our home. Feels like we are beating at a loose fire with wet blankets, haha. We are hopefully gonna get pastor in next week to spray (he has pest control business) and hopefully hopefully this will be an irritating memory haha.
Quote from: Nelle on August 09, 2022, 03:03:33 PM@Work.
Really hoping/praying that Mom & Dad can get their new a/c actually set today. The guy they've been dealing with has currently a TON of things going wrong in his life.. drugs, divorce, looking at possible jail time, etc. He also has been going on for months of not getting their a/c to them. He said he would come today. Hopefully he's keeping his word this time. He already had deposited their money in order to purchase the actual unit, so hopefully he actually did purchase it. We wouldn't have known anything was going on if it wasn't for public access to court records in Arkansas!
Husband's (Jeremy) birthday is today. I haven't really talked in depth about what we've been dealing with, but we still need lots of prayer, especially him. My main prayer need is less anxiety about the situation. I have the irritating ability to get up into my worries super quick and I overthink everything he says, does, or doesn't say or do. lol.. He's dealing with a lot (mostly stemming from military service and his grandpa dying) and he's slowly making some improvements. I'm still just proud of him for reaching out for help, I know that took quite a bit.
Also.. we are dealing with fleas. like... they're in our yard, pretty much every room in our home. Feels like we are beating at a loose fire with wet blankets, haha. We are hopefully gonna get pastor in next week to spray (he has pest control business) and hopefully hopefully this will be an irritating memory haha.
Praying for y'all. I understand the worry/anxiety. Dealt with that alot myself and to some extent still have days.
Fleas are something else. I suspect that is what we are dealing with, and I'm going to have to get a pest control company in before long at the house as well. It just seems like every bill in the world has hit all at the same time, so I have to budget..lol
Fleas... Ugh!
When we had fleas I got a pump sprayer and some permethrin and went to war.
No mercy!
Happy Birthday, Roscoe!
@Work. Trying my best to stay awake with this dreary weather. Thank goodness for headphones and things to listen to! My "roommate" coworker is out on vacation this week, so I'm unfortunately a lot quieter and also more productive, haha. I wish this meant they might get me my own office, but that's a pipe dream never to become fulfilled here. One day!!
I am not sleeping well. Was up early for an all day on camera virtual meeting. I'm tired.
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Thanks for the birthday wishes. I've been a busy bee today. Got alot accomplished and have driven about a gazillion miles. Much paperwork...Gonna head to church in a bit.
Shew . One day closer to a weekend....Thank you lawd.
It's nice out this morning. In the 70s
Finally got rain last night! It was awesome.
I snoozed to many times after work yesterday. So then I was up till past 2am again. With a 730am conf call. Sigh.
I took a snooze after that call was over haha.
Stressing hard about my elopement ceremony spot.
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Been a lengthy day. Been a kinda rough mental health day too. Had an offender who recently started going to a neighboring church come in and cry, telling me she'd just received a bad cancer diagnosis. As I have done in the past, I went off script and switched from Parole Officer to pastor/counselor.
Wound up telling some of the battles I've been through as an encouragement to her. She thanked me, told me that I was one person who had managed to break through to her and make her evaluate life, and thanked me for caring and sharing. She left telling me I had encouraged and lifted her spirit, and made her want to succeed and change her life.
The same woman who last month felt I was "picking on her".
After she left, I thanked God for being able to share my story and potentially help someone.
On the other hand, if it makes sense, just reliving some of the things in sharing them mentally zapped me.
I don't know if that makes sense...
It made me count my blessings. Thankful I came through. And really in a funk just thinking of how many ways I failed Him, and grateful for the chance to try again to please Him.
Just talking to folks zaps me, so I can see it. ;)
Had a stupid raccoon in my chicken coop this afternoon. Grr
Poor little coon. And 'roundabout here, there are still folks who eat those little trash pandas and claim they are tasty. I've yet to try it, but honestly would given the chance.
Morning all. Back at work on a beautiful Friday. If we weren't short handed and me somewhat the acting supervisor today, I'd have stayed home.
I'm officially in overtime. Been a long work-week for me. And that's a lot cus I rarely do much LOL
Boss is on vacation next week though, and then I go week after. So excited!!
Fiancé should hopefully find out something soon about his future and getting promoted.
I sure hope so. I'm tired of it being up in the air. It's stressful all around.
Quote from: Roscoe on August 12, 2022, 12:27:43 PMPoor little coon. And 'roundabout here, there are still folks who eat those little trash pandas and claim they are tasty. I've yet to try it, but honestly would given the chance.
Mmmmm, barbecued coon. That was one of the staples at our men's wild meat dinners. Some things varied from year to year, but you could always count on squirrel and dumplings, rabbit gumbo, pan fried deer steaks, duck dressing, fried catfish and barbecued coon.
Ole coony is so fat that he cooks up nice and soft. One year I came this close to eating myself sick on barbecued coon.
It's hot out today. My back porch said 105* a bit ago, it's says 104* now. You can still feel fall in the air in the mornings. School started today in our area. Hubby heard the bus come by this morning.
One of the hottest days on record here. I went with Bro Papa to Salem, where he had a dr appointment. It's almost 3 hours one way and at 75, I wasn't crazy about him going alone. Had a good conversation, ate at a terrific little hole in the wall cafe, and accomplished nearly nothing. Back to work tomorrow....
I know y'all ain't THAT backwoods, that you'd have to drive three hours for just any ole doctor. Now I'm wondering what kind of doctor this was.
Quote from: Lynx on August 16, 2022, 10:32:37 AMI know y'all ain't THAT backwoods, that you'd have to drive three hours for just any ole doctor. Now I'm wondering what kind of doctor this was.
His doctor has several offices. Bro Papa needed to see him and it was wait for several months or take an available appointment in a satellite office. No biggie.
And lord, today is starting poorly. Chey begged to take the 'vette to school as it is the first day. I agreed although I worry.
Then- couldn't find my keys, work car had a dead battery, managed to stain my paints somehow, and realized I'd grabbed an old uniform shirt of a different style.
I told my coworker- I'm counting this as a win. I'm at work, I have pants on and a shirt on. Don't ask for anything more.
Uh oh. Chey be trying to impress someone. I'd be worried too.
"Managed to stain your paints" eh? :o :biglaugh:
Been a day here. Spent most of my shift by myself since my manager was out for a few hours taking care of family responsibilities and the time she did work she was in the backroom.
Was getting ready for bed only to realize I had no hot water. Investigation revealed that the gas company had changed out my meter and left the gas off till I called them. Thankfully my dad has connections with the local lady at the gas company and was able to have her come turn the gas back on at 9pm so I'd have a hot shower in the morning.
:pound: Jenn. Looks like an oil spot on the left leg. I don't need depends yet. But at the rate I am going- perhaps soon.
Morning all. REALLY considered calling out today. Rainy day, a perfect day to curl up with a good book. And I just so happen to have purchased, for $5 nonetheless, a box of Christian fiction at the yard sales Saturday.
But I made myself drag in. I have no one scheduled; a slight head ache..but I'm here soaking the taxpayers for my salary today. LOL
It feels nice out this morning. It's still in the 70s
We had a nice rainstorm last night. Those are few and far between these days. The outer cities always get em and I never do cus I'm inward.
Outside temperature is finally down. I have been dreading this because a shed needs to be cleaned out and I have been putting it off because of the heat. Now that it is no longer so hot outside...
Feh. Trash comes tomorrow so I gotta get it done tonight.
Well Lawd. Finally Friday. Half a million folks trying to give me something to do this weekend. No. I'm over everyone. Just no. I need me time with my antique so's I can actually think and feel like I've accomplished something. My grump index is off the charts from dealing with people who appear to be mentally challenged- offenders, and I must admit I am having concerns about some church people in the same regard, God love 'em. So many can't get it through their head- Pray. Put God First. Spouse second. 90 percent of the calls I've dealt with this week could be eliminated if people would just do that instead of "me first, God 5th or 6th, and spouse 19th or 20th, and I'll pray- or rather beg pastor to pray- when everything falls apart."
I've got a major sinus infection. Had to take 4 different medications to be close to functioning at work today.
Last day of work and then I'm off until the 30th. Headed to Florida with a gf and her fambam.
I came. I saw. I actually did some work today. I went home.
After about three weeks of really slow business, we actually had some customers today. It felt like a real Tuesday for a change.
Yes I know it's Friday. I'll take what I can get. If all we can get is Tuesday business level, I'll take it.
Urgh. Had to come in to assist with drug test this morning. Some moron high up decided drug court people should be tested on Saturday occasionally. It makes zero sense, as we test on Friday and Monday, and all the tests we use will detect approximately 2 weeks back in most cases, but never less than 3 days on ANYTHING.
Anyhow- ready to test these folks and get back to my weekend. I drove my 'vette in on the other hand, and this morning is cool and perfect- and it wants to RUN.Had to watch myself, caught me creeping towards 90 a couple of times on the interstate on the way in...
Bobby is getting testy and having delusions of being Jehu again. Pass it on.
Quote from: Lynx on August 20, 2022, 06:55:28 PMBobby is getting testy and having delusions of being Jehu again. Pass it on.
Oh, Ole Jehu and I woulda gotten along fabulously. Racing chariots, stripping them down to run faster, finding the proper octane feed to get those horses pounding... Yeah, I think we woulda been friends. :lol:
Well. Got home, began painting on Sam. The paint was laying amazingly, on coat four (thin coats, I'm averaging about eight passes per body part for smooth coverage)....ran out of paint. No prob, I'll dash to the paint store and pick up a couple more quarts, I've got a couple hour window to add coats without having to scuff.... Nay.
Chey calls. Crying. She'd heard a pop, and then the car jerked to the side of the road. She kept her wits and got it under control, stopping after she'd went in a slight ditch, before striking a fence.
So thankful for God's hand- if it'd happened about a half mile earlier, it would have been in a large curve with a deep ditch and being a convertible could have been very bad.
She was shaken but fine. The tire, which doesn't have more than about 4 or 5k miles on it- I put new ones on it when we bought the car- didn't show any damage. Tire tech said it could have been low and just popped off the bead. I didn't risk it and bought another tire. Scary.
By the time we fixed that the paint store was closed, so Sammy will have to wait until next week for a scuff and shoot the remaining 4 coats....
On the plus side, she had an object lesson in driving safely without getting hurt by the lesson. I wish I could arrange for all kids to have such a lesson before they have a more serious accident.
I'm glad she's ok, Roscoe.
Still trying to get over this sinus infection. Had to call off work yesterday because I was running a fever. Temperature is more normal today but the medicine to clear out my sinuses is causing a lot of mucus in my throat and chest that's hard to cough up. Didn't go to church today because of how badly I was coughing.
Since we can't leave Grandma alone for a minute, the only thing for me to do these days is play video games and listen to stand-up comedy on youtube.
It seems like these days almost every comic is contractually obligated to put in one joke about homosexuality being trendy and anti-homosexuality being old fashioned. I can't figure out if the comic is trying to get the crowd on his side or trying to prove to the crowd that he is on their side, or maybe both, but it's becoming so prevalent that I can't listen to stand-up comedy any more.
I also begin having serious doubts about the intelligence of the average comedy crowd. This homosexual line is becoming as predictable as a standard Hallmark romance-comedy plot. Do they not notice how scripted it is?
Oh well. I still have video games at least.
Plugging through the day. Ready for Friday. Been an irritating weekend. The crowd sunday was low....got paint for Sam and sprayed on his fenders, only to massively goof up by grabbing the wrong rag to wipe it down before paint. The rag I used had solvent. Beautiful paint became crinkled and has to be sanded off and reshot. Sigh. I just want ONE thing to go right....
@Work..
I have to leave in about an hour to get home, grab the cat, take him to the vet (again). He's having potty issues, so they're going to check him for UTI or blockages. I'm sad that I have to leave our girl home by herself, but I guess at least I have cameras where I can check on her if I need to - and we will only be about 15 minutes away at the vet. I just want my boy to feel better.. and so I won't have to keep hearing that scratching constantly in the litter box ORRRRR have to keep vacuuming up that litter 2-3x a day. We have bought a piece of furniture that is built to disguise the litter box.. and it has a small little walkway to get in or out - so I'm hoping my vacuuming litter long-term is over. LOL.
Jeremy is leaving for his gamer conference in Atlanta on Monday evening, and my momma is coming up on Tuesday to be with me until he comes home the 7th. I'm a little excited.
I'm here. Just got back from picking out new glasses. Everything is expensive now days.
Yes it is. Back at work here. In low gear. Got home last night and cooked some steaks out of the freezer. Didn't do much of anything else.
My washing machine has gone wonky. Grr
Nothing interesting to report here.
The most exciting thing to happen lately is I found three containers of cherry/cream cheese cobbler at the store, where they sell leftovers from their lunch bar.
And I seem to have developed a penchant for their two-foot-long sandwiches. I'm up to a three sandwich a week habit.
Morning all.
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Mini finally came up for air! :hi:
:hi:
Im on here nearly every day. I just don't post much. I stalk more than anything...muhahahaha
@Work. Eating lunch.
Started feeling all allergy-like on Tuesday afternoon, sneezing, etc. Felt worse yesterday. Didn't sleep well last night thanks to a constant runny nose. Today I have a headache plus runny nose. Every now and then I'll cough, but not enough to say "I have a cough" lol. BUT it seems slightly less icky than yesterday. I'm chugging the orange juice in the AM plus some 'behind the counter' allergy meds.. so hopefully allergy or cold or whatever - I'm hopefully kicking it out sooner. If I feel worse tomorrow, I'll have to get into the express care. I can't mess up my momma's trip to see me next week OR Jeremy's trip to Atlanta either. I'm wearing a mask if I'm away from my desk just for my coworkers' sake.
We had a big scare yesterday with our nephew. He's not completely out of harm's way yet today even. He was in PE class on the track and started having an accelerated heart rate with chest pain. They rushed him to our local (less than great) hospital since it was up the road. He was still with the high heart rate for 2 hours and counting after trying several things and running an EKG which looked normal, so they finally got him e-vac'd to Cardinal Glennon in StL. He has been SO scared because he was also tested for COVID and tested positive. We just lost our Papa last fall from COVID & pneumonia. He was so scared he was going to die like Papa (his words). So needless to say, we've been praying like crazy. His momma is with him in StL and they're quarantined together. He still keeps spiking a heart rate and fever, but has been able to eat. They're running more tests today. They think COVID is attacking his nervous system.
Around the same time this news hit, I found out my best friend growing up.. his wife was diagnosed with cervical cancer in the last year or so. They have found tumors all over the place and they're malignant. They need a miracle. Her name is Meghan. I was heartbroken to hear the news, and I cannot imagine what they are feeling.
Quote from: Nelle on August 25, 2022, 05:03:00 PMStarted feeling all allergy-like on Tuesday afternoon, sneezing, etc. Felt worse yesterday. Didn't sleep well last night thanks to a constant runny nose. Today I have a headache plus runny nose. Every now and then I'll cough, but not enough to say "I have a cough" lol. BUT it seems slightly less icky than yesterday. I'm chugging the orange juice in the AM plus some 'behind the counter' allergy meds.. so hopefully allergy or cold or whatever - I'm hopefully kicking it out sooner.
(https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cold_medicine.png)
We used a home test for COVID last night and I tested negative. Hopefully that's still the case at Express Care today, hahaha. I'm going after work. I'm having a VERY hard time concentrating at work tho. Every noise is magnified.
Quote from: Nelle on August 26, 2022, 03:25:07 PMWe used a home test for COVID last night and I tested negative. Hopefully that's still the case at Express Care today, hahaha. I'm going after work. I'm having a VERY hard time concentrating at work tho. Every noise is magnified.
Not to upset or worry you, but those home tests don't seem to be the most reliable. The ones I have, I tested negative twice on two different tests, and 6 hours later was positive at the local health department. :pound:
Whatever the case, I hope it's over quickly and you begin to feel better.
Beautiful here today. I'm bored stiff. My work sistah done took vacation , leaving me stuck at work looking at four walls. However they did make it a "jean day". Therefore, I am happy- my bosses know that jean day means Bobby looks like a farmer. Hey, overalls ARE jeans- well, jean material. I am in my comfy clothes...
You're doing 4 10's now right? Or has that started yet?
I'm going to that express clinic, so I may get to find out officially through them if they decide to check that too, haha. Which is fine. I'd honestly rather someone professional do the testing than trying to do that at home, hahaha. I also purchased a Navage system today from Target, so I'll probably be doing that tonight. I need some good sleep! And I don't want this to get into my chest system like it had started to overnight. Allergens here are super high, but they're staying that way for a while according to the forecast. My mom and dad aren't feeling well either 3 hours south from us, but I'm not sure what's going on with them. Hopefully we can all be well so everyone can do their trips. I'm just glad I'm not going anywhere, so.. I'll just be miserable at work/home if I don't get better quickly haha.
I think that if my headache would just go away, I could handle most of this better. Advil isn't touching it tho.
Oh yes, I'm on four tens now. Loving it. Went flea marketing with Lou today. Up late (1230am) because our bedclothes are in the dryer, and I don't wanna go try to find others. I need to stop being cheap and just buy several new sets of sheets, but lord they are high.....
If the two home tests were negative and the health department test was positive, are you positive the positive test was correct? I'm a bit negative about the accuracy of theirs as well.
Quote from: Lynx on August 28, 2022, 11:04:16 AMIf the two home tests were negative and the health department test was positive, are you positive the positive test was correct? I'm a bit negative about the accuracy of theirs as well.
Pretty sure in this case theirs was accurate, since the only reason I'd tested was I felt like crud and had all the symptoms.
Anyhooo. So, tomorrow I got to go in to work, tell the boss I'm taking half a day, and go preach a funeral of a man I've never met and know nothing more about than he liked to fish, liked to fight, and apparently either didn't have a pastor or the pastor can't be bothered to do the funeral. Fun times.
And it's 11 pm and I am not remotely tired.
When in doubt, read the obituary and extemporize from there. Or at least that's what I've seen most preachers do in such cases.
Pretty much what I'll do..
Morning all. Plugging through the morning. Getting several second looks from my coworkers- they are used to me in uniform or in overalls. I don't think they've ever seen me in a tie before...
Back to work today after being off 10 days. One of my teams wives passed away. They lost a baby two weeks ago and now her. Please keep the Koontz family in your prayers. She leaves behind a husband (my team member) and 2+ other children.
So sad. :( Will be praying for them. I can't imagine navigating that.
@Work. Feeling somewhat better, but i still have a cough, ear fullness, congestion slightly. Still better than last week tho.
That's terrible, Jenn. Was it complications from the baby?
:hi: Prayers as well...
Back at work. Got my work car aligned, chatted with the big, big boss, and now I'm chillin' til quitting time...
Quote from: Roscoe on August 30, 2022, 01:50:33 PMPretty much what I'll do..
Morning all. Plugging through the morning. Getting several second looks from my coworkers- they are used to me in uniform or in overalls. I don't think they've ever seen me in a tie before...
Tell them you will preach their funeral for 40 bucks if they will stop staring for the rest of the day.
Urgh. Back at work. I need to be rich.......
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on August 31, 2022, 02:18:43 PMThat's terrible, Jenn. Was it complications from the baby?
She had sickle cell? Also had covid/pneumonia. It just kinda all added up. :(
Morning all. It is Friday. A bit misty, and overcast- but FRIDAY! :clap: :clap:
Not sure whether to be overly happy about the holiday or not- I get a three day weekend as always, but so do the guys working 8 hour shifts. BUT- I also will get an extra day to bank I can take off later- if, of course I find time to do so.
We are supposed to get our long awaited bonus possibly this paycheck. I'm ready for it- it'll be nice to have a bit of money in the back again, and even nicer to complete my carport. Ready for my cars to be protected. That's probably the biggest drawback I have to collecting vehicles like I do. There simply isn't enough roof space to store them in...:pound:
Yeah laptops stack a lot better than cars...
Of course you won't see many people using a fifty year old computer. Fifty year old cars are still useful if maintained properly.
Computers barely last 5 years if that.
My car is a 2011 haha still trekking woooooo.
Its been so gloomy all week. Raining now again. I'm over it.
Just praying for no rain on October 23rd. That's all I care about.
Kitty cat hates the rain. She's hiding. lol
It's 12:30 and I need to clock out so i can use my full 8 hours of vac for MOnday.
but i doubt that will happen and then I dont get to use as much vacation. so irritating. :roll:
Got some company coming this weekend. Cooked a brisket and made a couple pecan pies. Will finish the rest later.
@Work. Counting down the minutes (there are still 79 of them) until the end of the day. I was SO tired last night, I fell asleep in the recliner while trying to watch Mysteries of the Abandoned on Discovery+ with my momma, hahaha. I was so grumpy, and then today is an early wake-up day due to work schedules on Fridays. I wanted to stay home so bad. Hopefully I won't be this tired tomorrow because we are going over to Cape for the day.
:hi: Hope everyone enjoys the holiday. Personally, I don't want to do anything..lol
We had two sets of company yesterday. I'm peopled out.
Aside from slightly more business at w*rk, this weekend has been much like any other for me.
I bet this week is gonna be slow. Everybody done spent all their money over the holiday weekend.
Quote from: Roscoe on September 05, 2022, 01:25:16 PM:hi: Hope everyone enjoys the holiday. Personally, I don't want to do anything..lol
What holiday? Its just another work day around here.
I been thinking lately about that woman who touched the hem of Jesus' clothes.
Every time I hear a sermon about that, much is made of her desperation and how she pushed through the crowd to get to Jesus.
One thing I've never heard mentioned is, all the people she pushed past. Reckon how many of them thought that was a bit rude?
I was on the freeway one day, doing about the speed limit, and a very large RV suddenly jammed its way into my lane doing quite a bit less speed. I honestly thought I was gonna hit that dude, but somehow I dropped enough velocity in time. Well that was rude! Then the RV pulled on over to the shoulder and coasted to a stop. Well that explained it - when your motor dies it really limits your options. Good thing he got it over to the shoulder.
Reckon how many people we think are rude, when they are really just desperate?
Bah. Back at work. Fixing to head to court. Lord, I ont wanna be here today...
Ran ragged this weekend. Felt like everything I touched malfunctioned, including breaking a weld on my tractor bucket...:pound:
@Work.
Been a long 'week' while Jeremy's been gone. I've enjoyed Mom's visit, but it's just been stressful not knowing what he's thinking. He hasn't communicated much, which I wasn't too surprised about, so hopefully we are still on the same page! :)
ONE last night w/ Mom before she goes home tomorrow. I've enjoyed her getting a break from cooking LOL. She gets so tired of coming up with meals for dad - he's on a self-inflicted sugarless diet, which means LOTS of items are cut out b/c they turn straight into sugar. I know he's doing what he feels is best for his health, just makes it really hard to feed dinners, haha. I've tried to give her ideas to cook, but they are a little not good at pre-planning (same here sometimes lol). If you fail to plan, you plan to fail!
Quote from: Nelle on September 06, 2022, 02:12:07 PMIf you fail to plan, you plan to fail!
Lord, I plan to fail as a default mode then, LOL.
I am the world's worst at fly by night in regards to meals, and much of life......
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry...
;)
Morning. Back at work. Church tonight. A day closer to the weekend...
Weekends that go entirely too fast.
Work is insane at the moment. Coming back after a 3-day weekend was awful.
We eat a lot of the same meals cus I hate meal planning. Some days I literally cannot make another decision and figuring out dinner is awful.
Grandma's game show channel is carrying advertisements for a history channel show, Mountain Men. Allegedly it is a reality show about people who live a rugged life on a mountain, with scenes of mountain lions and bears and taglines like "Live free or die" and "We're not willing to give up our freedom for convenience."
Every time that commercial plays, I wonder how much they're getting paid for this, and what accommodations the camera crew enjoy.
Took my mama home from the hospital today. Getting old ain't easy.
Work has been insane here for a bit. Not seeing an end game either. :sadbounce:
I cannot describe how much the 10 hour shifts have improved my mental health. I actually have a bit of time now.
Fuzz, getting old ain't easy, but it beats the alternative, at least in this life.
Y'all is silent again. Done my cruising of the state. Back at the office counting down the last two hours.....
Biggest thing I got going here is trying to get someone else to stay with Grandma so I can get up to the church and set up the new drum microphones.
I'm still at home though, so...
We've been running around today. I'm tired.
@Work again.
I've already had two pieces of toast w/ peach preserves. Now I've had a snack of those Cheetos Paws. I wore a sweatshirt today, but I'm already too warm. It's only supposed to get to the mid 70s, but it's warm in the office for once.
Well. Thankful, still, for my three day weekend. I took my broken tractor part to the local welding shop to be welded up. They say it'll be done tomorrow. Came back and got some work done on Sam. Beautiful day in the upper 70s, low 80s. this week is supposed to be beautiful. I'm wishing I could take some time off this week, but my coworker who works late with me is in a class, so it'd be difficult to do so.
I helped my son take the top off on his Jeep this weekend. He was hot stuff Sunday evening, riding around in the nice weather...Monday morning, it was 49 here. He realized it was COLD! LOL This morning, he was trying to talk us into letting him drive my truck. A few days of cold weather will toughen him right on up...and the nice afternoons are worth the cool mornings.
Yeeeeeeesssss. Just crank up the heat! LOL.. That's actually my favorite is to have the windows open (when it's cooler, and not freezing cold lol) and then have the heat on the feet. It's perfection.
@Work. Kept falling asleep in the recliner last night, so I went on to bed. Could've still slept another hour or so this morning, but work calls! Looks like I really will need to start taking my iron. Seems like the low iron is worse than before. Hopefully I can take it this timeframe and then it'll be up to normal levels.
:hi: Got a grand total of two and a half hours of sleep last night. Just flat couldn't sleep.
Back at work. Went and picked up my repaired tractor part. Ready for the day- nay, the week- to be over.
It was so nice this morning. Up to 84 now.
My Team Lead and I worked 7 AM to around 8:30 PM today getting pre counts done for tomorrow's inventory. Came home stiff and achy from all that work.
Ugh. Back at wok. Went to bed at 830, sacked out and didn't get up until 6 this morning. I needed that.
Hubby has a wisdom tooth that's bothering him. He's gone to get it pulled.
Never have got a clear answer on why they are called wisdom teeth. My two favorite theories are, either they come in when you are old enough to be assumed to have at least a little wisdom, or you gain wisdom through the suffering they cause.
Mine have been gone for years. Don't know if I'm wiser for having had 'em, or dumber for no longer having them....LOL
Made it through the majority of the day- just another hour and twenty minutes to go. Then off to church.
The Wisdom Of My People: Nuggets of insight shared in my family group text.
"Cow farts come from dairy air."
"Diarrhea is hereditary. It runs in your jeans."
"I invented a cheater golf ball that will automatically go in the hole if it gets within four inches. (Note to self: Never again carry these in back pocket.)"
"I don't think it's fair that only roosters are allowed to start the day screaming."
My reply: I may not start the day screaming, but I also don't start the day with people telling me they want to kill me. Lotsa people would like to strangle neighboring roosters.
"When my great grandfather went bald he built a machine to weave a wig out of yarn. When he died it passed to my grandfather, then to my father, and one day it will be mine. It's our family hair loom."
So now you know how I turned out the way I am.
I was talking to this farmer who said he got kicked out of the FFA (not to be confused with FAA.) He said he got kicked out for crossbreeding the wrong things.
He crossbred a skunk with a jack... Er, a donkey and got a lawyer. Then he crossed that with another skunk and got a lawyer, but this one worked for PETA.
He was going to cross that with another donkey, but he found out there are some things even a donkey can't deal with.
His uncle works at a restaurant that specializes in fried chicken. I asked him how he prepares all those chickens for cooking.
He said, "Well usually we just tell them straight up - dude you are gonna die."
If a drummer comes out of retirement, will there be repercussions?
I dunno, but I do know why he came out of retirement. He could no longer afford his hearing aids.
Okay I'm through... Until my family posts some more.
Lord. Glad I'm not allergic to corn. LOL
Hi. At work again. Seems to be a thing for me. Ready, as usual, for quitting time...
I tried a new recipe today, it was a butter pecan cake. I think it was a hit.
Good morning all. It's finally Friday!
Man. Gp finally died....
Morning if any actually come by. Busy weekend, did some paint on the old truck, did lawn work, went to church....working today for a coworker- we swapped so I'll get Friday off. I'll run up and check out the fall swap meet. :-)
If I can just get through the next four days..
I've been checking in but didn't have anything to say...
I'm checking in too.
Made a major push last week to finish our kitchen. All we have left is backsplash and touch-up paint. We are ready for it to be done.
We were able to cook last night though!
I spent my day outdoors scrubbing siding prepping it for painting. My Dad helped me replace siding tiles that were shattered.
Good morning. Hope everyone has a good day.
The wisdom of my people:
Be careful when you eat navy beans. You may earn a dishonorable discharge.
When I get to heaven and they tell me that I'm about to get my wings, I'll probably ask them if they are garlic parmesan or honey barbecue wings. Aaaaaaand... Then I'll probably get kicked out.
Guitars are essential for survival. The dinosaurs didn't have guitars, and look what happened to them.
Was planning to finish washing and scraping the outside of the house today. Having to wait for a surprise lighting storm to clear the area before I can start on the house.
Trying to decide what to do today.
Slightly irritable. My bonus, as mentioned before STILL isn't on my check..and Lou calls at 730. The battery is dead on her car. That'll cost me $160 plus tax...
I took a tumble off a 6 ft ladder today. Was coming down the ladder and thought I was at the bottom rung but when I went to step to the ground I was another rung higher than I thought. When my foot hit the ground I lost my balance and went tumbling in the mud. Thankfully it only injured my pride and gave me a few bruises.
Ouch.
Morning all. It's my Friday. I am very pleased with this. I get off for four days!!!
Don't spend too much at the swap. ;)
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on September 22, 2022, 07:35:55 PMDon't spend too much at the swap. ;)
Right now, if I buy a hot dog and drink there I've spent too much. LOL
Had to go shell out nearly $200 at lunch to get a battery for Lou's ride.
Installing it was a chore that caused me to have to repent, and to strongly condemn Cadillac's Engineering department to a very hot place. I went so far as to wish that every one of 'em have Mexican food for dinner, that it reacts on them like it does me, and they be unable to find relief, with the added wish that the habaneros burn their rears like their design burned mine today. LOL
Dina had a Volkswagen once that was a pain to do anything to. Just to change the headlights you had to know certain tricks.
Wow. Considering what mexican food does to Bobby, that is strong condemnation indeed.
What did you have to do to change the battery? Drop the transmission?
I have heard of a certain model Ford that has the battery behind the wheel, so you have to take the tire off to change the battery. Never did understand that.
Quote from: Lynx on September 22, 2022, 10:20:14 PMWow. Considering what mexican food does to Bobby, that is strong condemnation indeed.
What did you have to do to change the battery? Drop the transmission?
I have heard of a certain model Ford that has the battery behind the wheel, so you have to take the tire off to change the battery. Never did understand that.
The Cadillac engineers thought it was a grand idea to put a pack of fuses clipped to the hot post of the battery, secured by bolts and clips. Then bolt it down with two braces and a bolt at the bottom of the battery box that could not go in after the battery, but had to be put in before the battery.
Considering that it was like shoving a 10lb ham into a 5 lbb capacity bag, with no way to reach the area needed, it made me mad. Add to the fact that I was picking up a 50 lb battery trying to keep from scratching the paint on the fender all with my bad shoulder- and you get a recipe for the need to pray.
As far as the behind the wheel- several Fords and Chryslers did that. Chrysler also likes to hide batteries in the truck behind panels.
It didn't help that I was annoyed by the timing of the battery replacement. LOL
So you know more about cars than most of us. Is there any justification for it? Is it the best way to balance the weight distribution in those designs?
Or is it just to make it harder for us to change the batteries ourselves, so we'll pay the dealership to do it?
Oh and here... You might need this.
https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2022/09/23
I'm totally drained today. Guess all that scraping and scrubbing and that tumble in the mud took a toll on me.
Quote from: Lynx on September 23, 2022, 09:25:47 AMSo you know more about cars than most of us. Is there any justification for it? Is it the best way to balance the weight distribution in those designs?
Or is it just to make it harder for us to change the batteries ourselves, so we'll pay the dealership to do it?
I'm sure the legitimate justification is packing all of the required electronics for the luxuries expected in a high end car. Still makes it annoying if I'm working on it. LOL
Had the day off today. Went to the fall swap meet on PEtit Jean. Not alot there, but I did score somethng I needed. The '52 (Sam) was originally green, which I am painting now, with a cream colored dual pinstripe. Rounded a corner and a guy was selling pinstrips by the roll. I got 300 feet- enough to stripe 15 or 20 trucks- for $10. I put a small piece of the striping on a piece of scrap metal I've been using to set my paint gun u for spraying, just to see how it will look. Perfect. Exactly what I wanted.
Tomorrow, I have rare me time....Maybe a bit of sanding on the old truck and getting a bit more body work done on the cab.
HI. Church tonight. Tired. Gonna rest tonight.
The weeks go by fast, anymore. It's so nice in the mornings but still about 90* in the afternoon. I love the cooler weather but fall kinda makes me sad.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on September 26, 2022, 09:11:15 PMThe weeks go by fast, anymore. It's so nice in the mornings but still about 90* in the afternoon. I love the cooler weather but fall kinda makes me sad.
You and Katy both.
https://www.gocomics.com/adamathome/2022/09/06
Now that's a good one Isaac. Some folks look forward to fall but I miss the sun... not necessarily the terrible heat but the sun.
Morning. I'm mixed. Part of me wants the cooler weather despite being a heat lover. And part of me want the heat to stick around for another month or so, as it is better for my ongoing paint job on Sam....
Back at work. Plugging through the day. Ready for this weekend... which is a shame since it is technically my monday. :sadbounce:
Same here. I w*rk Tuesdays through Saturdays, so my next weekend is a loooooong way off.
We got to talk to two different sets of grandkids on FaceTime today. Sometimes technology is really nice.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on September 27, 2022, 04:54:26 AMNow that's a good one Isaac. Some folks look forward to fall but I miss the sun... not necessarily the terrible heat but the sun.
This is me. I hate winter because it's so dreary most days. The cold starts to get to me. My seasonal depression sets in. We'll see how I do this year since I'll be a newlywed. lol
We adopted a new kitten. Keko (my 12 yr old adoptee from last year) is not a fan LOL
But Binxy (the kitten) just wants her to love him so bad lol he's not even scared when she swings her paw at him.
He is a MENACE though. We've gone thru our entire set of sheets and comforters cus he's peed on our bed for two nights in a row now. He has pawed almost everything that will move off my desk. He keeps trying to jump from my desk to the fish tank to get at Rue (the fish), he's so rowdy!! Lord help me. lol
Quote from: MsJennJenn on September 28, 2022, 07:05:29 PMWe adopted a new kitten. Keko (my 12 yr old adoptee from last year) is not a fan LOL
But Binxy (the kitten) just wants her to love him so bad lol he's not even scared when she swings her paw at him.
He is a MENACE though. We've gone thru our entire set of sheets and comforters cus he's peed on our bed for two nights in a row now. He has pawed almost everything that will move off my desk. He keeps trying to jump from my desk to the fish tank to get at Rue (the fish), he's so rowdy!! Lord help me. lol
Coincidentally in one of the comics I follow, today's comic could have been about your two cats.
https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2022/09/28
Morning. Day three of the week. Lord, this weekend is gonna be busy.....Trip to Eureka to sell a car, back home for a wedding that I really don't wanna perform, but have to; Church Sunday, and out of town prayer meeting/minister's meeting Monday. I'm ready to unplug for a bit...
Spent my day painting siding on 2 sides of my house.
Sounds like you'll have sore arms, Tia. That's a job.
Beautiful day today. I stopped at quite a few garage sales but didn't buy too much.
I had a friend give us some deer meat, so I made chili. It was good.
Been none stop so far this weekend. Drove 3 hours to deliver the Miata to its new owne. Took in a Corvette show, rushed home and prepared for a wedding. Went to the wedding and preached/officiated it, back home. About to go to sleep...
You sold the Miata?
Yeah, jaw dropping time.
Apparently Chey liked the Corvette better...?
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on October 02, 2022, 03:44:24 AMYou sold the Miata?
Yep. Trying to cut down on the number of vehicles here, (maybe). Also Chey didn't like the stickshift in the mornings, with all the traffic she has to deal with, and wanted an auto. For now, she gets to use the Corvette and I'm considering a Cadillac CTS or the like to replace it with.
I think the incident with the front tire on the Miata blowing a while ago spooked her- from that day onward, she did't seem to enjoy driving it.
That... Could happen with any car.
But yeah, the stick shift in heavy traffic is more bother than an automatic. I can see that.
We went to see Chel today. It's always nice to get back home.
Shew, lawd I am tired. Been going all day. Got every bit of the woodwork done on the carport, ordered and paid for the metal roofing for it that should be in Friday. Got some stuff cleaned up in the yard. Little by little, it's coming along.
Y'all been quiet. At the middle of the week point. I'm considering taking a vacation day friday. Go pick up my roof material for the carport and prepare for a trip to Branson. Lou and Chey want to do some shopping with part of my bonus.
There's about 25 or 30 things I need to do, but I guess sometimes you need to set aside things and spend time with the family doing what they want.
I wasn't really impressed with Branson.
@Work.
Have to go to the doctor tomorrow since my blood tests haven't been improving. I know I have inflammation in my hip again, so hopefully we can figure out how to make that quit, haha. I always dread these appointments b/c I never know what she's going to do/ask.
I need a quiet vacation.
I hate going to the doctor.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on October 05, 2022, 02:14:24 PMI wasn't really impressed with Branson.
But Gatlinburg is so far away from him...
Yeah, Gatlinburg wasn't very impressive either.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on October 05, 2022, 02:14:24 PMI wasn't really impressed with Branson.
It's ok. Cheap motel, at least a get-away for a bit 'cause it's close. It has a few nice things- we've went for 19 years. Lou loves it for two reasons- Zadie B's and Klassy Girl Boutique. They both have stores there and have modest apparel. Me, meh. It's ok. If it makes them happy, I'm cool with it.
About to go teach tonight, in exchange for my assistant covering Sunday for me. Not sure if I'll make it back early enough to preach.
And Gatlinburg- I like a bit more due to the area. That and my family came from a small place just a couple of hours from there, in Monroe county. But the distance prohibits me.
And re: hip inflammation. I've lived with hip pain for so long it's became normal to me. LOL
I hate (sniff) having the sniffles in the fall, post-covid. Like we didn't have (sniff) enough ambiguity before.
Is it fall temperatures messing with my sinuses?
Am I coming down with a cold?
Is it the dairy I (sniff) ate yesterday?
Now I have to add "Is it covid?" to the list.
I can't even pretend to blow my nose on someone's shirt sleeve if he makes a smart-alec comment about me sneezing. It used to be funny and/or disgusting, either of which would work as a retort for a smart-alec. Now it can be downright scary.
True dat.
Got some stuff done today.Got the metal in for the roof of the carport and managed to get almost half of it installed. Wish I could have the time tomorrow to get it finished, but there's the trip to Branson. Earliest I'll get to work on it will be Sunday or Monday....
:hi: Nothing interesting happening here.
"Interesting" is hard to come by. Nothing interesting here either, unless you count Outcast (video game) as interesting.
I'm a big fan of "comfortable" though, which often conflicts with "interesting," so I'll take "comfortable" when I can get it.
Plenty to do here. I worked 7am to 7pm yesterday because our fall reset for the Electronics department dropped. Probably be working over other days this week too. Headed home from church today to try to finish painting my siding.
I feel you on the sniffles. I have winter allergies so when the temps start dropping I start sneezing.
Wedding in 13 days. Eek. :-*
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Took girls to Branson. Klassy Girls Boutique and Zadie B's got way too much of my bonus.
Got home, checked on a church member in the hospital, and today I managed to finish the carport. Took Lou to Conway to buy a leaf blower, my own splurge for me, picked up an antique wood stove for the shop, and came home- just in time to hear a tire on Lous car go flat. I attempted to plug it, which of course didn't work. Sigh. Oh well- I'd planned to buy new tires in a few months, but it looks like that's today. At the level of tire wear, I might as well buy the enire set and not just one. Ordered a set. Sheesh. Thankful for the bonus to make it possible.
Dreading tomorrow like a butt whipping.
Watching Netflix, which I rarely do- my nephew got me semi-hooked on Cobra Kai, a series that I never thought I'd ever like. It's pretty good and pretty clean.
Ever wake up in the morning after a good night's sleep and just be lying in bed thinking about nothing and everything at the same time... And then remember you forgot to wash the w*rk clothes you need to wear today?
Oh well. Thank you Lord I remembered in time to do something about it.
Urgh. I am back at work. Come on quitting time....
I'm over going to doctor appointments. That is all.
Doctor appointments will wear anyone out. Looks like we may have a small possibility of rain today. It's much needed so I wouldn't complain for a wee shower. I goofed around and wasn't sure if I was gonna take off any time this week for vacation, so I didn't schedule hardly anyone this week. Then, not taking off makes for a long boring day. LOL.
Gonna take off tomorrow to take care of some business and might spend some time with the wife, taking her to a giant thrift store she likes to go to in Heber Springs.
Looks like I'll be changing shifts in early November. One of the guys in my department got the team lead position over another department. I'll be taking over his old 11AM - 8PM shift.
Quote from: Roscoe on October 12, 2022, 02:27:06 PMDoctor appointments will wear anyone out. Looks like we may have a small possibility of rain today. It's much needed so I wouldn't complain for a wee shower. I goofed around and wasn't sure if I was gonna take off any time this week for vacation, so I didn't schedule hardly anyone this week. Then, not taking off makes for a long boring day. LOL.
Gonna take off tomorrow to take care of some business and might spend some time with the wife, taking her to a giant thrift store she likes to go to in Heber Springs.
*perk!
Giant? Like, bigger than goodwill? How is the CD selection there?
Wait, never mind. Lou goes there. They won't have nuthin.
Urgh. Took Lou to the aforementioned thrift store. She spent nearly two hours in it and was pleased to have located herself four "Klassy Girl" skirts. She went on and on about them being brand new and only costs $50 for all of them, instead of $50+ each. And one of them was the mustard color she had been chasing and trying to find. Why I don't know, to me that's the ugliest color she coulda chosen, but she will never hear that from me unless she slides on here. LOL
It was a nice day. Drove the '46, just right, not too hot or too cold, backroads, and all day with my sweetie. If this is a taste of retirement to come- BRING IT ON.
Sadly, I am back at work...lol
On the road again
Bobby loves to be
On the road again
Hangin' out with the truck
His true friend
And he can't wait to
Get on the road again
Stopped by and saw Chel yesterday. That gal never stops.
Mustard is a wonderful color! I don't enjoy the food item as much as I enjoy the color of clothing LOL.
@Work.
Quote from: Nelle on October 14, 2022, 02:02:54 PMMustard is a wonderful color! I don't enjoy the food item as much as I enjoy the color of clothing LOL.
@Work.
I am exactly the opposite. Love the condiment, hate the color. :laughhard:
w00t!
One of the slowest people I have ever w*rked with just went across the street to w*rk at Arby's.
Arby's opened across the street from us just a few weeks ago, and they have already been actively poaching employees. They also currently have a sign out that reads, "No McFibs. Just real ribs. Limited time only." Last week they had a snide comment about mcfries. (I know, I know. That's just normal competition. But around here it just ain't neighborly.)
I can deal with slow people if they try. This one was not only slow, but also did not care that she was slow and seems to think we should be grateful she graced us with her presence at all.
Maybe I should drop the Arby's management a word about it...
Nah. They have been trying to poach our employees. They deserve what they get.
All we need now is a bucket of popcorn...
Quote from: Roscoe on October 14, 2022, 08:50:30 PMQuote from: Nelle on October 14, 2022, 02:02:54 PMMustard is a wonderful color! I don't enjoy the food item as much as I enjoy the color of clothing LOL.
@Work.
I am exactly the opposite. Love the condiment, hate the color. :laughhard:
I hate both. lol mustard the sauce makes me want to gag.
And I'm a blonde. Yellow doesn't go well.
It's wedding week!! Eek. I think everything is good to go. Just need to do the flowers for my arch. But Mom gets here Saturday and I'm making her do it. lol
Morning everyone.
:hi:
Happy wedding week Jenn.
Back at work. Last two nights have been revival services. Awesome. Gonna continue through Wednesday. Preaching has been awesome- not as evangelistic as you would think, but very good. Like a slow soaking rain as opposed to a thunderstorm. Sure do love the evangelist too.
But for now, I'm caged at work...
It's been cool today. Only 63 at the moment.
Freezing cold today. Like 28 degrees. Not a fan.
Cold here too. Was 49 yesterday. Burr.
But of course in normal Texas weather supposed to be back up to 88 on wedding day. :roll:
Hope you have a nice sunny wedding day.
I'm still here.
Nothing to report.
Well... The price of eggs is getting ludicrous. That's the only thing to report here.
That's because the price of feed is getting ludicrous. :smirk:
I hope egg prices here aren't too steep. I'm about to cook with at least two dozen, maybe even three for breakfast for church Sunday AM.
@Work. I'm waiting on lunch time.
It's chilly here, but today I think signals a few days of more warmth than we've had lately.
haha I was gonna suggest he get a chicken. but i guess that probably wouldn't equal out.
My SIL lives in Indiana and she complains about the price of milk.
So I showed her a screenshot of this lady I follow who lives in NY and her 1/2 carton (not gallon) of milk was almost $8 lol
I just made a trip out to Aldi. Good old Aldi always has eggs at a third to a quarter the price of Walmart or the supermarket...
Nope. Their prices are about the same now. WHAT?!
Hmm... I have a hard time shopping at Aldi. I just can't get into the enthusiasm. Ours must be smaller, or maybe just crowded, or mix of both.. I dunno. I might try again tonight after work though. I'm needing a few more things and I would like to avoid the chaos of Walmart.. not that Aldi doesn't give me similar anxiety due to the amount of people in such a small space. :/
@Work. One girl is off today b/c she worked her three days Mon-Wed due to the others being out of the office those days. Now today, the one was back, but had to leave early due to not feeling well. So now it's just me and one estimator/project manager left in the office for the day. Thankfully he's mostly staying busy with his own work, so I'm able to do some of mine. The phone has thankfully not been TOO much of a bother today. I hope it stays that way.
I'm SO excited that the dish I'm making for Sunday breakfast in SS.. I can get it all together, chill it overnight in the fridge, and then just pop it in the oven on a busy Sunday morning.
Mom & Dad are getting to enjoy a night away tonight because their carpet cleaner came later than expected. I hope it helps him enjoy a few less stressful moments for once. Unfortunately, usually time away is when the cows know to act like crazy folks. lol
Quote from: Nelle on October 21, 2022, 07:04:58 PM..... Unfortunately, usually time away is when the cows know to act like crazy folks. lol
Lawd, I've had a Revelation. I'm not a pastor and a parole officer. I'm a cattle farmer.
'Cause that is EXACTLY what my sheep (church) and my wayward misguided chillun (work) do every time I try to relax. :ugly:
Absolutely gorgeous here today. If it were like this year round, I'd be perfectly content. Around 75, 80 degrees, sunny. Slight breeze.
So much I NEED to do this weekend, and so much I don't wanna do. I don't HAVE to do anything in particular. So I probably won't. Other than prepare for and preach Sunday of course. LOL
Well. Intended on breakfast at Waffle House. Lou didn't get up. Wound up finally leaving about 11 am. Intention- coffee and flea markets. Outcome- Coffee, one flea market and the rest of the day working at the church since a couple of the men in the church decided to fix the men's bathroom, which has bedeviled me for the last year with one thing after another. Now- everything in it is new and none-leaking.
Wound up spending an hour talking as pastor with one of them, which he needed, then going to dinner with them to the local chinese place. This took up most all the day. Now I'm smoking a pork loin and studying for tomorrow.
But... But... But the other flea markets!
Okay, yeah, no more toilet troubles is a pretty good tradeoff.
But I remember how much dad liked to amble around the flea market...
I love it too. But when a church member calls asking where supplies are, and he's a talented skilled worker willing to fix stuff for the church- pastor goes immediately. And once there, sometimes pastor doesn't get to leave. Perks of the job, no complaints. I'm in God's will and that is all that matters.
And tomorrow- I am off. So, I'll get some stuff done then.
Good morning everyone.
Its raining here. A beautiful soft rain that we desperately need. We haven't had much since July. Maybe a inch or two in 6 months? And they are calling for 2+ inches today.
THANK GOD!
I'm so excited! It looks like all of my kids and grandkids will get to be here for Thanksgiving! :D
Last week was busy for me. Had our Pastor instillation service Friday night on top of our usual Sunday and Wednesday services. The service was packed enough that some of the brothers had to bring in more chairs from elsewhere in the building so late arrives would have a place to sit.
Morning all. Back at work. It's actually raining. It's been so long, I stood looking like a cow at a new gate at it.:ugly:
This week promises to be busy, to say the least. Between stuff at home to do, work, and the various things of the church, seems like the chances of me having any time for myself and poor Sam are very low....
It's supposed to rain Friday, here. We need it.
It's rained the past 2 days here. Thankfully today is supposed to be dry. Got some work to do on my shed when it warms up this afternoon.
Back @Work today.
I started with a sore throat Saturday, and didn't find out until Monday evening that I had been exposed to COVID. I stupidly went ahead and prepared the breakfast for church Sunday AM and went to church. I've had so many sinus infections (literally, it wasn't covid) this year, i just assumed it was another. But I tested positive for covid very clearly on Monday evening. Been off work all week until today. Technically my quarantine isn't over until tomorrow, but no one is in the office with me today in this room, so it's safe. I promised I wouldn't go near the other girl's computer, so she wouldn't have to worry, haha. (We normally check her email on her days off.) I'll also be spraying things down after I leave and using plenty of hand sanitizer ALL day, as well as my obvious mask. This should help a diet.. less unmasked time means less snacking. Very thankful for a mild case.
I did let my pastor know immediately, if you were wondering, haha.
Urgh. Back at work. Been a busy morning, promises to be a busier afternoon. Sorry you caught the cooties Nelle. 'Tis sunny and a tad cool here- around 56 degrees. Ready for the weekend. Also ready for the upcoming holiday weekends which give me multiple days off.
Overcast. Been running the roads. Ready fer the weekend.....
It's been raining here.
I miss the days that fast food restaurants had advertisements covering their windows that blocked out the worst of the sun. Every restaurant I've been to lately it's been near impossible to find a seat that the setting sun isn't blasting me in the eyeballs or cooking my back.
Rained pretty much all day here today. Wet and looked at another church bus. Bah. So annoyed. Everything I've found is simply higher than a cat's back or ragged. Or both, as in today's case. the seller upped the price two grand since we talked on the phone last week, and convienently failed to mention that it had 330k miles on it. I'm prepared for 180, to 200 thousand or so given our price range, but I can't do 300k+. Every bolt on it would be badly wore at that point. We need to be able to get another 100k or so out of one, until things begin to move to get us where we can afford a newer model...
God's time.
Now, at 1130 pm, I've finished putting together what I feel God has for us (I may get stoned) and have a pot of beans on as well as two pork loins smoking, as tomorrow is 5th sunday potluck.
Feels weird going to work now at 11 AM rather than 7 AM.
Quote from: Nelle on October 21, 2022, 07:04:58 PMHmm... I have a hard time shopping at Aldi. I just can't get into the enthusiasm. Ours must be smaller, or maybe just crowded, or mix of both.. I dunno. I might try again tonight after work though. I'm needing a few more things and I would like to avoid the chaos of Walmart.. not that Aldi doesn't give me similar anxiety due to the amount of people in such a small space. :/
Ohh I loveeeee Aldi. Great place for many things. I went Saturday to make a spookycucherie lol
They have the best selection for charcuterie boards. And it's like 1/2 the price of the regular grocery or even Walmart.
Back from getting married and Colorado honeymooning!! :hypocrite:
Pic below.
I got excited when I saw you post b/c I knew you were a Mrs now!! lol Congrats!!
@Work. I missed half a day today thanks to an upset tummy. It's been an awful week and counting since last weekend. I was Covid+, Jeremy tested positive on Friday evening. Haven't been progressing to well quickly enough. Sunday I noticed some bumps in my mouth and today they are SUPER agitated. Probably some of that is b/c I was throwing up all night it felt like, haha. My stomach hates food sometimes. Anyway, that's not the worst of what's happened this weekend.
Travis (he's married to my husband's cousin Jennifer who lost her dad in 2020 to COVID, and then we just lost Papa Duty last year from COVID). Now that you know who he is... He got a call from the Chinese consulate yesterday at 10pm informing him that his youngest son was found dead from aspirating on his own throw-up from drinking too much alcohol. He's distraught as you can well imagine. Please be in prayer for Travis, Aric's mom, Aric's siblings. His youngest sibling is 6, and the next youngest is 11. They adored Aric and have already lost so much in the past two years. We don't know any details on how they're going to have him brought back or not, I imagine this is going to be a very involved and expensive process. So heartbreaking.
Well I tried to attach a pic. Idk if it worked. Forum is wack. lol
I didn't see any pictures, but the forum is weird sometimes, haha.
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Welcome back JenJen! Where did you guys go in Colorado?
Good picture JenJen.
Bit irritated at my local McDonald's. Apparently they clean the Frappe machine every Monday night at 7 but failed to mark the item as unavailable on the app. Can't be that hard to auto mark Frappe's as unavailable after 7pm on Monday cause they already do it with chicken sandwiches after midnight.
Quote from: Backseat Radio on November 01, 2022, 01:44:16 AMGood picture JenJen.
Bit irritated at my local McDonald's. Apparently they clean the Frappe machine every Monday night at 7 but failed to mark the item as unavailable on the app. Can't be that hard to auto mark Frappe's as unavailable after 7pm on Monday cause they already do it with chicken sandwiches after midnight.
Yeah, no, they don't have any control over that. We get it sometimes when something is down. The app is strictly McD's corporate. We can't affect anything on it.
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Just got out of court. Reluctantly cancelled our fall festival we had planned for next Saturday, as they are forecasting rain and apparently our area is getting slammed with flu right now along with another mild surge of covid.
Preached my heart out Sunday and enjoyed Potluck. My church members made me cry- they pulled out the stops for pastor appreciation. Knowing my people and knowing how close to the bone the majority are living due to the economy, made every canned good, every item and every gift card all the more special. I really struggle with accepting the gifts from folks who are barely getting by, but I can't hurt them. SO I accept it and pray that God will multiply the harvest they receive from their faithfulness and giving. I've got the best church ever.
Went last night and met up with one of our saints at the church to fix a water leak in the wall. Dear lord, plumbing is our nemesis. I'm half a step from building two outhouses out back. With my luck though, I'd build them on some kinda fault line and they'd erupt all over. :laughhard:
Quote from: mini on October 31, 2022, 08:48:23 PMWelcome back JenJen! Where did you guys go in Colorado?
Thanks ya'll.
Colorado Springs. We drove UP Pikes Peak. Scariest thing I've ever done in my entire life. Adam thought I was going to pass out. lol - for record to note - Adam is blind in one eye... so I was the one doing the driving.
It IS beautiful and scary up on those roads. I wish we had gone to Pike's Peak when we were there several years back visiting my SIL when they lived there. We could SEE the peak from her house, but didn't drive to it. Granted... I don't know if I would've made it in any higher elevation. Just walking the stairs at her house nearly were the end of me in that elevation. LOL. I was SO ill the first day from the altitude sickness.
Also - You guys look great. also really like the arch! Congrats again!
@Work. Feeling better day by day.
Quote from: Roscoe on November 01, 2022, 08:15:58 PMWent last night and met up with one of our saints at the church to fix a water leak in the wall. Dear lord, plumbing is our nemesis. I'm half a step from building two outhouses out back. With my luck though, I'd build them on some kinda fault line and they'd erupt all over. :laughhard:
Step one, do that.
Step 2, capture it on video.
Step 3, post it on youtube.
Step four, use the advertising revenue from millions of views to finance some plumbing repairs.
Quote from: MsJennJenn on November 01, 2022, 09:25:05 PMQuote from: mini on October 31, 2022, 08:48:23 PMWelcome back JenJen! Where did you guys go in Colorado?
Thanks ya'll.
Colorado Springs. We drove UP Pikes Peak. Scariest thing I've ever done in my entire life. Adam thought I was going to pass out. lol - for record to note - Adam is blind in one eye... so I was the one doing the driving.
We did that in May, only we rode the train. It was a spur-of-the-moment decision though. I want to go back in late summer to see the wildlife.
Here I am , never been to the HIGH plains of Colorado. I need to change that sometime.
Chey went home early sick from school. Flu is running rampant here.
Yea I wish as I drove up it that we had taken the train/tram thing. LOL
And Nelle the altitude didn't like me either. I had an awful headache by days end almost every day.
I built the arch with the help of a friend. My Mom did the flowers day before LOL
I have a photo, from when I was a kid, laying on a big rock on top of Pikes Peak feeling yucky from the thin air.
Was a super busy day for me. Worked 9-6 and then went straight to church.
Had an amazing service tonight. Pastor preached about the faithfulness of God and ended his message with a poem God gave him about 7 years ago. Don't think there was very many dry eyes in the building.
Welcome back everyone!
:hi:
So glad to be back. I know we don't post much, or have many, but I's missing y'all.
It's absolutely beautiful here today. Hard to believe that they are calling for cold, rain and snow flurries by Tuesday. So tempted to be ill tomorrow. Just ill enough to miss work, not too ill to tinker with Sam the 52...:ugly:
Who keeps paying that server bill?
Shouldn't we reimburse him or something? Technically this is more a Facebook friends group than a regular forum these days.
:hi: Glad to be back.
I'll admit... I felt like I had withdrawals even tho I post once a day maybe and lurk the rest of the time. lol
@Work. Stopped by Wendy's on my way to work for MY Friday. Day off tomorrow for Veterans Day. We have a youth rally tomorrow night. Hopefully Saturday I'll get with it in time to drop by the bank and then work on cleaning/purging/organizing my house for the holidays. Oh, and I'll sleep in - I hope. LOL. I woke up at 6am today when I normally only do that on Fridays for work.
Wish I was off tomorrow. But the boss is taking tomorrow off - so almost like a day off haha
If it wasn't for our company being union electricians, we wouldn't be off either. In fact, when I first started - I could take off Veterans Day or the day after Thanksgiving paid, but I had to choose. The past few years tho, we've been taking both, hahaha.
Spent the last nice day of fall painting my old shed. My mom came by to inspect my work and was teasing me about its a good thing I didn't have to paint on Wednesday since that's church day. Told her my pastor wouldn't mind if I showed up at church covered in paint.
Shew. I had high intentions today. I did none of them. Took some items back to Walmart- Black Friday sales were not kind, as both items I bought online didn't work, so back they went. On the way home, a friend called- I wound up meeting him at another friends house and we visited from 11 to 2. I did manage to go look at a Model A I am currently scheming for. I've decided I need it bad. Bad enough I'd consider selling my motorhome for it. It just calls my name.
Now- off tomorrow- hopefully my wife will go somewhere with me for an "us" day.
You change vehicles more often than some of my coworkers change socks.
Ah well. I change phones about as often.
Quote from: Lynx on November 11, 2022, 11:10:54 AMYou change vehicles more often than some of my coworkers change socks.
Ah well. I change phones about as often.
Who changing? I don't. I collect. 😄
Trust me...Rusty is cruising all the time...Sam is currently down for paint but is still somewhat drivable.
The vette is having miles racked on it, mostly by Grumpy Bear I must admit but I do occasionally get to drive it.
And the ONLY reason the motorhome might be on the block is for a cash infusion to acquire the A. The A would be an "in addition to", Not a " In the place of" :lol:
Dear wife went to breakfast with me, took Grumpy lunch. Then coming back, SHE spied a red 06 Corvette and WANTED to drive it. As in telling me, "Chey is pretty much driving everywhere herself,I don't need the SUV, and I DO like Corvettes too"
I nearly fell outta my seat.
She testdrove it and liked it....it hasn't came home yet, and likely won't, but for her to actually initiate looking...made me smile. She isn't immune to Corvette-itis. :laughhard:
I can dig it. I still miss my '90 Lumina. It was no Corvette, but it had acceleration to spare and it cornered like a dream... Or maybe I took corners like a nightmare, at least to hear uncle Fred tell it. Whatever, it was a joy to drive on back roads.
It was cold as what today. Not happy about it. We actually had snow flurries. I want my summer back...
Did very little today. Went and saw my kid brother's new little tyke, who weighs all of 5 lbs. Did some sermon prep at the church. Truthfully wasted a day for the most part.
Woke up to snow flurries here. Looking like its going to be digital church for me tomorrow. I've got a major sinus infection that's sapping my energy.
I'm not liking it getting dark so early. Blah.
Well that was a mistake...
Inspired by recent forays into the past to dredge up old Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy episodes for Grandma, I got courageous and started looking on Internet Archive for old episodes of the Gong Show.
I had forgotten how bad it could get...
And everyone in that studio was acting like, "This is normal. This is good stuff."
Bless their hearts, maybe that was all they had back then.
Still cold out. I'm still not a fan.
Ready for church!!
Had to watch church online today since I'm fighting a sinus/ear infection
Good morning everyone.
Busy weekend. Busy week. Im looking forward to the 25th and 26th. I have nothing scheduled for those two days! LOL
Internet Archive is fun.
@Work. Super busy weekend and I am feeling it. I just looked at the calendar here this morning at work and thought "Wow.. I can't believe Thanksgiving is NEXT week!!" I was shocked hahaha.
It is cold here today. Forecasted possible snow and sleet. Really not ready for that. As a result of the cold, I have spent my entire day relaxing. Put a pot of beans on...started cleaning up my ha radio room/library and got sidetracked. I'd recently needed some new work boots and finally bought some. While cleaning, I found two brand new pair, still in the box in tissue paper, in the closet. And here I was wearing boots that was coming apart..:pound:
Now, I find myself watching Mecum internet reruns and reading library books
I'm not a fan of the cold rainy weather either. We've been cooking today. I went ahead and made the dressing and put it in the freezer. I made two sweet potato pies to try out the recipe cutting the sugar in half of what it called for. They tasted fine to me.
About to leave the office for the day. If I had been on time today, I could say I worked a 12 hr day, but instead it's 11. Well, technically 10.50 because of lunch. Trying to help my Tuesday self out a little by getting some really tedious paperwork done for the state.
Here's hoping I (and thus my husband) sleep better tonight. I've GOT to get well 100% from this congestion issue. It's messing up all my sleep patterns, haha.
Urgh. Lawd. Morning has assaulted me. I'm defenseless. Have a ton of folks scheduled too...Please Lord let this coffee work quickly and efficiently. :pray:
Morning has assaulted me LOL sameeees sames. it does that every day.
Afternoon is my friend. As in, a local fish/chicken food truck brought free food to us. Wrecking havoc with my diet, but these are the best hushpuppies I've eaten since my dear old Daddy passed- he was tha bomb when it came to fish and hushpuppies.
And the slaw- KFC style. Nice. And did I mention the price is right- FREE?
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on November 15, 2022, 12:35:54 AMI'm not a fan of the cold rainy weather either. We've been cooking today. I went ahead and made the dressing and put it in the freezer. I made two sweet potato pies to try out the recipe cutting the sugar in half of what it called for. They tasted fine to me.
You must be working from a good ole southern recipe. They always have WAY too much sugar.
There ain't no such thing as too much sugar, ya YANKEE. :pound:
Morning all. Back at work. Moderately good mood this morning.
Still colder than I like though.
There is such a thing as too much sugar when diabetes fairly gallops through your family and you live in the land of sickeningly sweet desserts.
Don't get me started on McDonald's sweet tea... You can use that as sweetener for other things.
Right, I found out diabetes is hard when you like to bake...
No joke! Especially when you are trying to perfect a recipe and you have all these trial batches to get rid of somehow.
Mmm I love Mcd sweet tea. Not as much as Chicken E's but it's up there.
But I also love tea unsweetened. So I can go either way lol
My favorite restaurant tea is Slim Chicken's Raspberry sweet tea. And yeah, with diabetes, I guess there can be too much sugar.
Man, shortly before lunch, this creeping crud hit me like a Mack truck. Headache, sinus issues, and totally drained.
I think I am going home and leaving bible study tonight to my faithful assistant. God bless him.
Well if I had to pick I would pick peach tea first. H Tea O's peach tea is BOMB.
Rosa's Cafe has good peach tea too. Sonic's is okay too.
Morning. Or afternoon, rather. At work. Went home last night, took Nyquil and it knocked me OUT. Was nearly late for work. Still feel cruddy, but not as bad as yesterday.
Bahaha this morning must of been a struggle bus. Husband was supposed to be up at 430 to get to work by 6.
He ummm got up at 6:50 only cus I woke up some reason and looked at my phone and was like uhh why's he still here. :laughhard:
Mine doesn't like my 900 alarms, but little does he know... a few of them has saved his career. I have one that's set at 645am JUST so that I can make sure he's awake so he can get up and get ready. It also helps me ease into my wakeup routine. LOL.
Urgh. Struggle bus was not the name for it. I think I owned the whole struggle bus line at 7 yesterday morning. LOL
Today- no hangover, but still dragging.
I have alarms set at 5 and 530 because I'm guaranteed to sleep through at least one.
But you talk about oblivious- the award has to go to my daughter. She will set an alarm on her phone for 5 am. I've literally gone in a 630 and turned it off, it shrieking and waking everyone in the house up- except the owner who is snoring a foot away from it. :pound: And yes, it often is on my day off.
So. Gonna be on the road today. Drinking a diet 'dew and fantasizing about a Sonic loaded Dr Pepper. Sigh.
Lazy day today. Ain't done much of anything. Made chicken with Alabama White BBQ sauce. Went to church and worked on the sermon. Drove rusty there.
In local news the caramel came out just right.
I have found homemade caramel is delicious when it comes out just right.
I may need an intervention...
How do you make it, Isaac? I've always used the old trick of boiling a can of sweetened condensed milk. It's delish, but paranoid me is always afraid the can will explode.
Lazy Sunday. About to get moving and go to church, even though service doesn't start until 5pm.
Cold weather totally kills anything productive for me. Too cold for shop time, and I simply don't have much to do inside.
I've got a busy week of cooking and grandkids. Alex and his boys got here last night.
Quote from: Roscoe on November 20, 2022, 06:38:04 PMHow do you make it, Isaac? I've always used the old trick of boiling a can of sweetened condensed milk. It's delish, but paranoid me is always afraid the can will explode.
That's the kind of caramel restaurants use for caramel pie. Or that's what a local catfish-themed restaurant does.
I'm shooting for caramel candies.
Two cups sugar
One cup milk
One tablespoon salt
Put the sugar, salt and half the milk in a pan and cook until it is nice and caramel-brown. Take off heat and slowly add milk while stirring. Return to heat and cook until 240F. Pour into greased pan and let cool. Dump out on a cookie sheet or cutting board or something and cut into squares.
Alabama White BBQ sauce <-- what is this lol
I am out of vacation so no travels this year for holidays.
We're going to Adam's grandmas on Thanksgiving day, but Adam has to be at work at midnight Thursday for black friday. (he works for Academy Sports and Outdoors).
White barbecue sauce? Sounds like milk gravy to me. If it is anything like milk gravy, it belongs on BISCUITS, not on barbecue.
Nope. It's a real thing, developed in northern Alabama by a BBQ joint, mainly used for chicken.
Short recipe is mayo, horseradish, brown mustard, apple cider vinegar, garlic, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice and other seasonings...whisk it smooth. It can be cooked with, like I did; or used as a dip. I'd describe the flavor to be somewhat of a tangy ranch-style seasoning. I like it. Lou and Chey weren't big fans. Makes perfect low carb chicken wraps.
And I feel a bit guilty today. Didn't do much. Lou and I went and delivered a care package to my kid brother, then hit some of our normal flea markets. Stopped by a local farm that does farm to table sales, solely because they were selling their own home made premium Bologna. I had to try it. Very tasty. They advertise that unlike commercial bologna, theirs is not made with ANY byproducts only the best of the cuts of meat.
A short discussion later- and I found that the owner is a distant cousin, and the farm is located n the general area where our family lived from 1850ish or so to this day. Found out a bit of history I didn't know too, as in our old community, now known as Rabbit Ridge, was originally "Union Ridge" but was changed during the Civil War for obvious reasons. Makes sense, as I know for a fact my g-g-great grandfather enlisted in the Union Army, as did several of his neighbors. We apparently were patriots, or total traitors during the War of Northern Aggression depending on the side one happens to align with. :lol:
In regards to the bologna- delish. The way it should be.
Bobby's full of baloney. Pass it on.
Well, is that supposed to be something new? :hypocrite:
:pound:
Ya'll mean.
Morning. Back at work. I must've lost what little mind I have scheduling so many people today and tomorrow.
Very much ready for the weekend.
Made chocolate, pecan and sugar free sweet potato pies. I have to do some each day to get ready.
Bologna is so gross :girltongue: :smugno:
I'd try the alabama sauce though cus I loves me some ranch. :drool:
Morning. Last day before five off. I am looking forward to the time off. After coughing all day yesterday, I woke up with what felt like a plow in my chest and draining sinus. I truly want to go back to bed. Of course, I went to sleep after taking Nyquil at 8 last night and didn't know anything until about 4am. That's when old age and joint soreness woke me up. Oh to be able to go back to 17 and redo some things...I would NOT mistreat myself like I did.
I should have all my kids & grandkids here tomorrow. It's hard to get everyone together anymore, so I'm excited.
Happy Thanksgiving to all..
:hi:
Happy Thanksgiving!
We went to Adam's grandma. So I met a bunch of family I've never met.
There were no mashed potatoes, no green bean casserole, no ham, no deviled eggs. Seems blasphemous.
My first Thanksgiving that I was married and we went to his parents house. It was traumatic. No cornbread dressing, they used dirty rice. Table was full of food but I only had a piece of turkey and some bread on my plate. I don't like potato salad, or dirty rice, or English pea salad...
Well, this Thanksgiving was probably one of the worst I've had as a holiday in several years. Full disclosure, Thanksgiving has not been my favorite since I lost my father the day before thanksgiving in 2009.
This year though... sheesh. Started Tuesday, sickness attacked. Not bad, and I held it together until Wednesday night, when I got off of work at 6. By the time I got home, I was freezing to death despite the temp in the car being 80, running a fever, and congested. I took Nyquil, prayed, and went directly to bed.
Only to be awakened and told our hot water heater wasn't working. I dragged myself up, but all the begging and pleading in the world would not make it work. Went back to bed. Thanksgiving- still sick. Chey was too. Lou's family had decided to eat out. In an act of brilliance they did not have reservations.
Lou wound up eating at IHOP. Chey and I ate a bologna sandwich and I think she had some left over rice.
Today- still not feeling 100%. Removed water heater, went and spent $540 on a new one, mad because the none working device was only 6 years old. Installed. Now I have hot water again....but one of the pups is acting like she has hurt herself and will likely be vet bound.
Oh, and I cooked a steak today and made homemade dressing...and managed to ruin that by spilling approximately half a shaker of pepper in the dressing. First time in 19 years I've destroyed my dressing. I pride myself on my homemade dressing. :pound:
And I still feel sub-human. Bah. I'm ready for summer again.
We had all our kids and grandkids here. I was cooking all week. 9 grandkids were here yesterday. I love them and enjoyed seeing them. Now I'm tired. Back to an empty nest today and tomorrow we rest. ;)
Did you know that if you burn your mouth on hot pizza bad enough that the roof of your mouth blisters and peels, it can still be sore a solid week later?
It wasn't even really good pizza...
In other news, we're all benign here. Meaning we don't seem to be particularly useful for anything, but neither are we doing anybody any harm.
Hi. At church. Reviewing tonight's sermon and wondering if it really is what I should preach. Praying for God's anointing and direction
So... How did church go last night?
All benign here lol :laughhard:
Nothing interesting worth typing about here.
Urgh. Church went ok, although I felt so wore out at the end of it. Today I've done nearly nothing again. Tomorrow, back to work. Marginally better than last week, but not much. I'm looking into some vitamins. Maybe that'll help me out. For someone that is actually pretty healthy, I've sure dealt with minor sickness alot lately.
I'm not the only one though. Seems like half my church is, too.
Good morning, all. Back at work. It's a dreary rainy day here, with some chance of severe weather. My coffee is keeping me coherent. :sing:
Coffee only kept me semi coherent this morning.
I'm just now eating lunch, but I put a pork shoulder in the crock pot with some bbq sauce and a dr pepper for pulled pork sliders for dinner. Husbands at work till close today so no rush on dinner.
@work but barely awake. So sleepy.
Couple of days spent at my parents (Thurs/Friday) were nice. It's amazing how peaceful their house can be for me, and BOY did I sleep LOL. We didn't have the usual Thanksgiving meal - fried chicken, mashed potatoes, rolls, sweet potatoes (w/ marshmallows
Came home Friday evening, Saturday was chaos, but the bake sale #1 is done. Sunday we had our family Thanksgiving w/ husband's family. Seems like every holiday the past three years has been just sad. 2020, Rex (Jeremy's uncle/our pastor) passed, 2021, Papa Duty (Jeremy's grandpa) passed, and now 2022, Aric (Travis' son) passed. Considering everything that's happened, it was still a good family dinner time. Food was great of course.
Morning everyone.
Morning all... In my cave, aka office. Lost temper on one offender who couldn't tell the truth if he could have a million dollars for doing so. Made coworkers laugh when they overheard me tell him an obituary-his- would be the only excuse for him missing his appointment next month. Sheesh.
lolol bobby.
glad its wednesday
mad its cold outside
It's cool here too. And Wendy's has found my weakness. I've been doing really good with my diet...and today I met Waterloo. They have come out with a new sandwich. A garlic bun, a large fried chicken breast, a square patty made up of about 5 mozzarella sticks fried together and topped with Marinara sauce. Oh. My. Lawd. Yes, I'll take a dozen please.....
That wouldn't be quite my Waterloo, but it might be my Marengo.
Too bad there is no Wendy's here. I might have to make a trip, just to try that.
If your Wendy's is like ours, check your sandwich before you drive off. My boss ordered one Tuesday and ended up with a spicy chicken breast instead, LOL.
@Work. Trying to survive.
Gotta make some of our bake sale goodies tonight. Should be interesting.
Morning. At work. All of my ministry team was out last night so I was a one man show. Lol. Bishop sick, assistant who usually teaches Wednesday night sick, and I dashed from work at 6 directly to the platform. Came out ok, I think. Sitting in my office realizing that I scheduled half my caseload a week or two ago and now- I have no one scheduled until Wednesday. Tomorrow will be home visit day, but gonna be a lonnnnng day today. LOL
I'm glad I don't live up north. Cold is not my friend.
I do live in the north. Wish I could hibernate until these cold dark months were over.
Urgh. I'm back at work. Road day today. I need caffeine badly, because I am dragging like no one's business. LOL
@Work. It's been a day already. Was sickly this morning and missed two hours of work. I have to leave half an hour early because of an eye appointment. We didn't start on bake sale items last night, so we have to do them all tonight. Glad Jeremy's handy for that kinda stuff haha. I wanted to start on the cookies last night, but the oven was being used to fix our delinquent dinner. It was a cheat of a chicken pot pie, but the biscuits would NOT all cook through.
Jeremy's car broke down on the side of the busiest interstate, had to get my boss to go trailer it and take it to the shop to hopefully get worked on for less than a new car will cost, LOL. My Subaru goes in on Monday for brakes. Hoping it's not TOO bad between both vehicles. Thank the Lord for Papa's truck! We wouldn't have anything to drive by Monday without it, haha.
I loathe the cold and dreary weather. It's been rainy/gloomy yesterday and today and I am d r a g g i n g.
I am in such a gloomy slump.
Quote from: MsJennJenn on December 02, 2022, 07:50:29 PMI loathe the cold and dreary weather. It's been rainy/gloomy yesterday and today and I am d r a g g i n g.
I am in such a gloomy slump.
YES. Same here. Funny how the weather can jack with your attitude, too.
Completed my road tour. Stopped by a local shop on lunch, that sells chicken, etc. at wholesale prices. We get by a time or two a month....Wound up buying a box of 300ish McDonald's chicken nuggets - at $20 a box, it was too good a price to pass up. And they are the real deal too. I cooked some last week in oil and you would have thought they came from the golden arches. I wound up actually buying 3 boxes, but one is for Bishop and one is for another preacher friend. . And a double pack of thick cut bacon, like 4 lbs., for $16 so I drug those in too. I'm about out of freezer space. Fatboy won't starve to death....
Now to get through the next hour and a half..
:hi: I thought it was supposed to be sunny today but it was cloudy and misty most of the day. :smirk2:
Hi. Sunny today, but still coolish. Went and qualified a couple of old friends for their carry privileges as retired officers. Last night, Chey got a deer with the Corvette. Probably $2500 in damage. She was so upset. So was I but I didn't let her know...
Wouldn't it be cheaper to take Chey along and qualify her on firearms too? Then she could shoot the deer instead of hitting them with a car.
"There are three kinds of hunts. There's the stand hunt, that's where you wait in a tree for the deer to wander past. There's the stalk hunt, that's where you try to sneak up on the deer of your choice. There's the drive hunt, that's where you hit a deer with you pickup truck.
For those of you taking notes, the third one is the easiest."
@Work. Got dropped off here at 7am. Hoping they can for sure finish my vehicle today w/ her brakes. Then we will be just down ONE car but we won't have to carpool at all, haha.
It's 78 degrees and sunny here today and I am in heaven. Well... I would be if I wasn't so grumpy at work. :roll: :-?
Quote from: Nelle on December 05, 2022, 01:36:02 PM@Work. Got dropped off here at 7am. Hoping they can for sure finish my vehicle today w/ her brakes. Then we will be just down ONE car but we won't have to carpool at all, haha.
Car situation has gotten worse. Ellie the Elantra is going home to the junk yard from the auto repair. She needed way too much expensive work on a 300k mile vehicle, so we are electing to buy a new(er) daily driver for Jeremy. Hoping I can keep him as close to cheapest but good car as I can. Was NOT looking to buy a new car for a couple of more years. lol..
Now it's warm and muggy. The humidity is so high my weather station thinks it's raining. 😏
You shouldn't need to use an air conditioner in the winter. It was humid and muggy enough that I turned ours on for a bit.
Shew. Not been a good week. Yesterday, Chey calls. The Corvette, which was injured it the deer incident, died. Its transmission went out. Now I gotta repair it to the tune of $2500 or replace the car which would cost even more. I'm stressed to no end and people want to ask questions to which they know the answer but want to debate so they can justify doing what they want. I'm annoyed, and irritable, and the next few days don't look to have any relief in them.
What do they want to debate... er, "ask questions" about? Baptism? Democrats? Marijuana legalization?
@Work.
A married couple I'm friends with miscarried this week, but only found out yesterday at their sonogram. They were going to find out the gender then. Taking some food and stuff over tonight to drop off on their porch.
It's been so dreary this week. Cloudy, rainy, chilly.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on December 08, 2022, 03:22:52 AMYou shouldn't need to use an air conditioner in the winter. It was humid and muggy enough that I turned ours on for a bit.
Yup we def. turned ours on too. So humid. Bleck.
Had my drivers license appointment this morning to update to my newwww name. :hypocrite:
If you have the McDonald's app on your phone you can get double cheeseburgers for 50 cents, today and tomorrow.
No they are not paying me extra to say this in chat. I just thought you might want to know.
Lynx these are the kinds of updates we need. lol :thumbsup2:
I DEFINATELY need that update. 'Cause I's HONGRY and broke as a joke. :pound:
And Lynx, I probably shouldn't have said anything- this is just my vent place, because as far as I know, none of my locals know I am here and I can speak freely.
Good morning. Back at work. Lou has a Christmas party she is dragging me to tonight. And Chey talked me into letting her drive Rusty to school today since the Corvette is in the shop. I have been a nervous wreck all morning.
Haha whoa surprised you let her!
I told one of my gfs about the 50 cent cheeseburgers. She was like oh i should buy a bunch they can be my meal all weekend LOL
Quote from: MsJennJenn on December 09, 2022, 03:29:34 PMHaha whoa surprised you let her!
I told one of my gfs about the 50 cent cheeseburgers. She was like oh i should buy a bunch they can be my meal all weekend LOL
Years ago as a teen, my best friend and I had a Friday night ritual. Cruising was big in our area. We'd pull up to Mcdonalds, order 12 cheeseburgers and two giant cokes and cruise around munching on them. There were times we refilled the bag. :lol: At the time, I was 175 lbs and worked out constantly and had a metabolism that would digest a horse without leaving any fat behind. What I would give for that blessing now, at 46 years old... :laughhard:
Quote from: MsJennJenn on December 09, 2022, 03:29:34 PMHaha whoa surprised you let her!
I told one of my gfs about the 50 cent cheeseburgers. She was like oh i should buy a bunch they can be my meal all weekend LOL
Considering the quantities in some orders, I have speculated some people might be putting them in the freezer in bulk.
Quote from: Roscoe on December 09, 2022, 02:07:16 PMGood morning. Back at work. Lou has a Christmas party she is dragging me to tonight. And Chey talked me into letting her drive Rusty to school today since the Corvette is in the shop. I have been a nervous wreck all morning.
On the other hand, even if she does have a wreck... At Rusty speeds, she won't be hurt very badly.
Quote from: Lynx on December 08, 2022, 06:51:32 PMIf you have the McDonald's app on your phone you can get double cheeseburgers for 50 cents, today and tomorrow.
No they are not paying me extra to say this in chat. I just thought you might want to know.
Thank you for that suggestion. Made that my after work quick food order.
:food:
I don't eat at McDs enough to download an app...
Shew. Last night's Christmas party took forever. Today, I literally have done nothing. Walked to the mailbox and checked the mail, which is about the most productive thing I've done. It's cool and rainy, just downright dreary and depressing.
I've got a late dinner simmering, and no real plans for tonight, other than work on tomorrow's sermon.
Was this a church Christmas party? Office party? Police fraternity party?
Quote from: Lynx on December 11, 2022, 12:39:56 AMWas this a church Christmas party? Office party? Police fraternity party?
Na, this one was Lou's bank's employee party. I found two good things about it- she won $75 and the steak dinner for free was good. LOL.
Next Friday will be the church's party.
Yesterday was almost the perfect day. It came so close...
It was Fred's turn to go to church this Sunday so I stayed home all day. Last Sunday I went to church while Fred stayed with Grandma.
An uncle came by after church to visit Grandma. That was cool.
Aunt Diane came by with a relative of her husband's that Grandma likes to talk to, and that was fine.
The church youth group came by, singing carols...
*sigh
Okay! Fine! I'll put on some pants.
I changed right back though, just as soon as they were gone.
LOL.
Good morning. Yesterday for me- and Saturday for that matter- was a blah day. Overcast, cool. I lazed around until church time. Bro Long wanted to preach so while I worked on a sermon it's in a holding pattern until He tells me it's time. Back at work- unusual for a Monday, and I'm not a fan. But we are having the church Christmas party Friday, and they need me to smoke some pork loins, so I traded with a coworker. I'll work today and in exchange have Friday off.
Looking at the calendar, this month is rough. Christmas is on Sunday- and so is new year's. I typically would dismiss for Christmas, and we are having watch night service New Year's Eve. Almost a solid bet I'll have record low crowds both Sundays if we have service...
It's been cloudy and drizzly here but in the upper 50s. I'm just glad it's not freezing.
Yeah, about Christmas Sunday...
We're having church the 25th, but we don't expect many people. In fact the singers are usually listed by name for each week, but on the 25th Sis. Amy just wrote, "Whosoever will."
I plan to go because it seems a bit churlish to me: "Sorry God, we can't come over today. We're busy celebrating Your birthday at our house." Also I'll probably be needed to sing.
One thing for sure, there will be no shortage of people to be here with Grandma on THAT day while I'm out.
Quote from: Lynx on December 09, 2022, 06:59:18 PMQuote from: MsJennJenn on December 09, 2022, 03:29:34 PMHaha whoa surprised you let her!
I told one of my gfs about the 50 cent cheeseburgers. She was like oh i should buy a bunch they can be my meal all weekend LOL
Considering the quantities in some orders, I have speculated some people might be putting them in the freezer in bulk.
The app said limit 1 per day? lol did that rule not apply?
Quote from: MsJennJenn on December 12, 2022, 07:22:58 PMQuote from: Lynx on December 09, 2022, 06:59:18 PMQuote from: MsJennJenn on December 09, 2022, 03:29:34 PMHaha whoa surprised you let her!
I told one of my gfs about the 50 cent cheeseburgers. She was like oh i should buy a bunch they can be my meal all weekend LOL
Considering the quantities in some orders, I have speculated some people might be putting them in the freezer in bulk.
The app said limit 1 per day? lol did that rule not apply?
Dunno. I don't have the app.
That would explain why we were not flooded like I thought we would be.
I bring my lunch from home anyway. I may WORK there, but I'm glad I don't have to EAT there.
Urgh. I am not peopling well today. It's raining and cold, and suppose to turn colder. Totally not a fan.
Supposed to have storms in our area today.
Raining like a cow peeing on a flat rock. Keep hearing that we will get cold weather by the first of the week and potential snow stuff possibly around Christmas. Very slight right now, but a possibility.
The day, it is dragging.
We got awoken to tornado alarms this morning. Almost a solid 15 mins of them. Yikes.
It touched down, BUT not here haha. :clap:
Cold front is blowing in. I got a chill in my bones already. Burr.
Today must be Santa day for school. See the helicopter across the street at the elementary school.
Not wanting a cold front...
Meeee either. Ugh. I'm already ready for summer lol
@Work.
We went this morning to put a deposit to reserve Jeremy's new car. That kind of money (price of car) makes me so uncomfortable!
What's he getting, Nelle?
It's cold here this morning. In the low 30s. I'm not a fan, ready for summer too. The bright sun today is mocking me. Look outside and it looks like a beautiful summer day, shining bright. Then you walk outside and freeze ya huevos off. :pound:
Yesterday the sinus mess got me. I was wiped out, called in and burned 10 hours of the 798 I had on the books. Slept pretty much all day then went to church. Still not 100% this morning but I've got half my caseload scheduled to report in so at work I be...
Jeremy chose a 2023 Subaru Outback Onyx XT in Autumn Green Metallic. You'd probably be able to guess the 'name' of his car from his color choice, haha. He's an Oscar fan. This will be his first new car purchase (that wasn't for someone else to drive) in his life and he's just shy of 40. It won't come in until Feb or March since they're having to build it with the lack of vehicles at the dealerships. Thankful that we were able to find something he wanted that wasn't the Dodge Challenger he initially wanted, LOL.
@Work.
Quote from: Nelle on December 15, 2022, 04:09:02 PMJeremy chose a 2023 Subaru Outback Onyx XT in Autumn Green Metallic. You'd probably be able to guess the 'name' of his car from his color choice, haha. He's an Oscar fan. This will be his first new car purchase (that wasn't for someone else to drive) in his life and he's just shy of 40. It won't come in until Feb or March since they're having to build it with the lack of vehicles at the dealerships. Thankful that we were able to find something he wanted that wasn't the Dodge Challenger he initially wanted, LOL.
@Work.
Boy,he has wide ranging tastes. That's possibly the last car I would've expected someone who considered a Challenger to go for. :lol:
I can't say anything though. My hot rod loving, rear wheel drive enjoying, V8 and manual transmission obsessed self has strongly considered purchasing a Ford Maverick FWD for my first ever brand new car. It's the exact opposite of everything I enjoy...
I got to run around with Chel today.
Quote from: Roscoe on December 15, 2022, 07:37:17 PMI can't say anything though. My hot rod loving, rear wheel drive enjoying, V8 and manual transmission obsessed self has strongly considered purchasing a Ford Maverick FWD for my first ever brand new car. It's the exact opposite of everything I enjoy...
*Lynx starts singing an old country song about all his rowdy friends settling down.
It's 330 am. I can't sleep. I read Bible. Prayed. Still no sleep. Thankful tomorrow ,(today) I have nothing I HAVE to do
I think we don't appreciate things, like sleep, or breathing, until we can't do it. I hope you finally got some rest.
I did, a little. Fuzz, how far are you from Pittsburg, texas? I may be invading your state with rusty after church tonight. Car parts to repair Chey's deer vs Corvette incident await.
It's about 45 miles. Let us know if you need to stop for the night.
Quote from: Roscoe on December 18, 2022, 05:33:44 PMI did, a little. Fuzz, how far are you from Pittsburg, texas? I may be invading your state with rusty after church tonight. Car parts to repair Chey's deer vs Corvette incident await.
Y'know Grandma watches those old Price is Right shows from the '80s. Sometimes they have a Corvette in the showcase, and I think of y'all.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on December 18, 2022, 11:27:13 PMIt's about 45 miles. Let us know if you need to stop for the night.
Thanks.... Chey and I, and Rusty have made it to Mount Pleasant and grabbed a room at a local hotel. Long ride and Arkansas and Texas appear to be battling for the worse stretch of I 30. Lawd, I'm beat up...
Pittsburg, Texas is approx. 2 hours from me lol
Christmas week!!
My boss is in Africa. So work = do nothing ha
Mom and Dad come on Sunday from Indiana.
First Christmas as a married couple. Except I wont see him practically all week... cus retail. :roll:
oh and my black cat is crazy. Certifiably.
Dear Lord. Just made it in. I feel like Sasquatch has given me a massage. With a jackhammer.
Got home to find a "you've been selected for possible jury duty" letter in my mailbox. Not too thrilled about possibly having to serve but not like I have much choice.
Christmas shopping mania is stomping me half to death. I'll be glad when the holiday is over. On vacation the first week of January.
JenN, what was that about your cat again? What is the cat doing that is crazy?
It's being a cat. All cats are crackheads at heart. Chey's cat, "Blue", proves this every day. Running 140 miles an hour around the house for no reason, provoking the dogs, climbing on everything....It had the nerve to walk up and slap me in the face while I was reading for zero reason. Crackhead.
Morning ya'll. I took some Nyquil last night and went out around 930. Didn't know the world was turning until 5am or so when I woke up hurting, and remember saying, "God, my arm is killing me". I then passed out again and didn't wake until 615, and had to rush to get to work on time. A Wendy's Frostychinno is what has kept me away for the last two hours...
@Work. Last night was our work dinner at Red Lobster. 'Interesting' as always. I didn't really enjoy my food, but the food I took home to my husband from my plate - he loved, so it's ok. I would normally get steak, but my dad jokingly shamed me into trying some seafood/fish. I didn't enjoy it.
Tabby (our girl cat) was happily eating her "night night" treats when I went to bed. Jeremy got up about 10 minutes later to go get a drink from the kitchen, comes back in the bedroom, and tells me I locked Tabby in the kitchen (using our baby/cat gate - which they can fit thru the slats of, but that's coming up here). I said "No way... She was eating her treats in the living room (one big whole room away from said kitchen) when I came to bed. I didn't even go in the kitchen." He said "well, she was in there crying and I had to let her out." THEY CAN GET THRU THE SLATS! When they want to, they can.. they're unfortunately skinny enough these days, LOL. That brat went into the kitchen thru the slats of the gate and then got caught, and started crying like SHE didn't put herself in there. LOL. I don't know if Jeremy ever really believed me tho. LOL. She's lucky she's ridiculously cute and I thought it was funny. Of course, then she started crying after her dad came back to bed. So I had to go check on them and ask her to please go to bed. I gave them a few more treats to bribe her to hush.. and that did the trick.
I'm happy. We've had a restaurant open up in our little town that isn't MEXICAN. No it's not special, it's Arby's, but our town of 7500 has had a Wendy's, Pizza Hut, Domino's, Subway and McDonald's, and that's pretty much it apart from a couple mom and pops, A Colton's and a Chinese food place which I swear serves deep fried cat. That and four Mexican restaurants.
Today was their opening day. Lines out to the road. I went in, and within eight minutes, even as busy as they were, they took my order while smiling and joking, made it (a special order, 'cause I'm extra), and I was out the door in 8 minutes. And they gave me a 50% dicount. I am a fan.
I wish our town would get Arbys. I'm so tired of McDs, DQ, Hardees (which seems no one ever eats at, yet somehow stays open), two mexican joints, Pizza Hut, BK, Subway, KFC/Taco Bell, (good hometown) Chinese restaurant, hometown pizza places. The "fast" stuff w/ drive thrus tho... that's only like 5 places haha. Everywhere else you have to order like 20-30 min in advance.
Quote from: Lynx on December 20, 2022, 11:19:26 AMJenN, what was that about your cat again? What is the cat doing that is crazy?
Quote from: Roscoe on December 20, 2022, 03:00:42 PMIt's being a cat. All cats are crackheads at heart. Chey's cat, "Blue", proves this every day. Running 140 miles an hour around the house for no reason, provoking the dogs, climbing on everything....It had the nerve to walk up and slap me in the face while I was reading for zero reason. Crackhead.
Yes. This. LOL he's a black cat. He's NUTS. Goes round and round the house at 200mph. He literally jumps on TOP of Keke (my other cat). She hates him lol. He attacks everything. He's always in the middle of literally everything.
Sounds like an angel to me... LOL. :hypocrite:
Sounds like Lupin to me.
https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2016/11/03
URGH. Back at Work. Today and tomorrow to go. We are supposed to have a low of 5 degrees tomorrow. This is NOT my type of weather. And...propane has went up in price. No surprise, really. Last year, 100 lb bottle was $88. I just bought a bottle a few ago. $100. We are all electric and have a propane fireplace for back up heat. I noticed we were out and with the cold weather forecast, I didn't want to chance power going out and us sitting freezing....
It's always good to have backup heat.
So. Back at work . Ate a nice large left over cinnamon roll.
While it is still in the 40s here, the cold is definitely coming...the wind-chill is already much colder. They claim by 3 today it will be 5 degrees.- the temperature, not the wind-chill. They have issued a warning for something I have never seen in Arkansas- a "Flash freeze" warning. Basically one of my ham friends who is also a local tv weatherman says that it's when the roadways are wet and the temperature changes so quickly- as in the 30+Degree-in-an-hour drop they expect to see with the front, the roadways will nearly instantly become ice. I've seen all kinds of weather here- thundersnow, tornadoes in December, snow in April, you name it, but this is a new one on me. And I ain't a fan, for the record. I'm all about summer and the heat...
Yea the temp dropped to the 20's here in a matter of hours. It's supposed to be down to 10 degrees by tonight.
We've had some snow flurries but nothing major.
We are down to 34 but it's still dropping.
Its a nice toasty 37 degrees right now in Indiana. By early tomorrow morning its supposed to be down to about -8 degrees.
We're down to 26 for now.
Tis snowing in Indiana now. :clap: Rather glad I don't have to get out in the early morning for work.
We had snow flurries and it's down to 18. The chickens water was already freezing at 4 when I checked for eggs. :/
It's beautiful outside but it hurts your whole body instead of just your face now.
Jeremy had to stay at his friend/coworker's house tonight if he stood any chance at working tomorrow. I came home from work about 1:15, grabbed a few gift cards for gifts for Saturday night and then came on home. Spend the next 5 hours "working from home" and I still have about 2.5 hours to finish up tomorrow so I can get paid my full 8 tomorrow and not even leave my house!
Our lights have blinked a few times but me and the cats are holding down the fort so far. Hoping the power stays on and no one needs to stay here with us. Haha..
I also have our faucets and shower dripping (it's the only water line active in that back bathroom).. and I cannot even normally stand the sound of that dripping. I'm trying to keep the tv on or something.. somehow I'm still wide awake at midnight.
I'm wide awake at 3am. Fortunately I am off today. It is 3 degrees here. 21 degrees COLDER right now at my house than it is in Nome, Alaska.
I hate this. Give me summer and 100 degrees, I don't care. This right here is past disrespectful it's down right cruel
Yeah, this is that magical time of year when southerners say it's incredibly cold and northerners laugh at us.
It's -8 degrees here in Indiana. My county is under a code red status because of the high winds. My front screen door froze shut last night. Had to bust it open to get my mail. Figuring my car is frozen shut too.
I ready for next week when it gets back up to 69-70.
Even the northerners are saying, "Yeah, that's cold" now. The power went out at the church, and we have no water. Sigh. Just once I'd like to not have to work on something at the church all the time. We'd left the heat on all the cabinet doors open, everything. Looks like it froze up outside- and it won't thaw for us to check until later. Not supposed to get out of the 20s for several days.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on December 23, 2022, 03:48:21 PMI ready for next week when it gets back up to 69-70.
AGREED
But...at least the sun is out and there isn't any moisture. Husband drives an hour to work. I don't need him getting in a wreck.
I survived venturing out in the cold to go to work. Weather is bad enough that Whitley County Indiana had 5 snow plow engines ice up and stop runnkng. They had to pull all their plows off the road.
Quote from: Nelle on December 23, 2022, 06:11:57 AMIt's beautiful outside but it hurts your whole body instead of just your face now.
FYI I have stolen this. Some of my friends agreed emphatically with you.
I always gave proper attribution though. I told them it was from a friend on a forum.
Well. Made it to my inlaws against my will. Love them, hate gatherings. :laughhard:
Went by the church, located my busted water pipe, thawed it out to the point I could turn off the valve and I'll try to fix it when it warms up, maybe Monday.
It's at least gotten to 29 degrees today...
I survived being the one of the closers for Christmas Eve at Walmart. Most of Indiana is out of red status now but the roads are still iced over. Did an accidental donut with my car on the way home from work cause I took a curve too fast. Church unfortunately got canceled for tomorrow since the weather is still pretty bad.
:couch:
Snowed today.
This year I'm not a big fan. I can drive on it, but the lady who stays with Grandma while I'm gone does not. Gotta get aunt Lucy to stay with Grandma tomorrow.
No snow here and actually made it into the 40s. Spent most of the day working on the church's water pipes. I *THINK* I have it fixed. I HATE PLUMBING. But I won't complain (much) considering the local college, a furniture store and the local Assembly of God church all had a sprinkler line bust, which resulted in each of those places discovering they had 6+inches of water throughout their buildings. It was bad enough that between those leaks and the several broken water mains through town, our water company had to make a plea for customers to conserve water and not wash cars or clothing, etc. until they were able to get repairs made and refill the system.
Tomorrow, back to work..I really shoulda took the week off.
If you hate plumbing, try living without it. :biglaugh:
At this point, might not be too bad. One of my church members went by to check yesterday's work. He's a pro and came up to help me the last bit of repair last night, but it was dark by the time we got finished. We decided to let the glue dry and just leave it off until today.
He called a few ago. Our repair is great. BUT-he discovered another broke line, in the ceiling. Right next to the recently remodeled $18k foyer. Hopefully he got it shut off in time to avoid damaging that, but it'll still mean pulling some sheetrock again. I am beginning to doubt we will ever be able to move forward on some of my desires because we are busy repairing stuff none stop. Sheesh.... :pound:
:hi: Incredibly tired. Could sleep for a month. At work. I think that sums it up... :waving:
@Work. Last day until Tuesday. :D
Lots of things to get done before I leave town this evening.
Back at work today for me too. Mom and Dad are here from Indiana. Soaking up every bit I can.
Husband was off yesterday so that was nice for him to spend some time with them.
But he's back to work today. Since like 2am. :roll: retail is dumb.
I too, could sleep for a week. I didn't sleep well while the husband tossed and turned until he finally got up and went to work.
Sun is shining and it's predicting 70 degrees today LOL
Where does he work, Jenn?
Academy Sports & Outdoors. He's a manager. But he's trying to get promoted to store director so he can run his own store. He currently just runs it unofficially but not very easily because the expectations are crazy and his current store director is dumb!!
Seven. God's perfect number. And the number of leaks that were repaired today in the church's water pipes. Thank God for capable willing members.
And Jenn- I need to be his friend. surely there are nice discounts for firearms from an Academy Sports manager. :ugly:
It's supposed to be upper 60s and 70s here too next week. Someone posted on Facebook
"Look at this weather being all springy and cute like it didn't just try to kill us last week". :laughhard:
Worked a 2pm to 11pm shift tonight. I don't usually work on Wednesday night but the gal that was scheduled to work did a no call no show the day after Christmas and lost her job. Since my church canceled Wednesday night service for the holiday I volunteered to work the late shift.
:hi:
Just got word one of my clients, 37 years old, died of high blood pressure yesterday. Good guy, saw him last week. He, like myself, was thought to be in good health, just slightly overweight. Sobering.
I'm sitting here on a decent day, and treating myself to a 7 Brew German Chocolate Iced coffee. Very, very addictive..
Isn't all that sugar and caffeine bad for your blood pre...
Um...
Never mind.
Quote from: Lynx on December 30, 2022, 12:20:26 AMIsn't all that sugar and caffeine bad for your blood pre...
Um...
Never mind.
Probably. But Lord, I needed it...
Morning all. Last day this week before a nice 3 day weekend.
Yesss so excited to have another Monday off. Woohoo!!
About to head to church way early. Do some praying, some studying, and some cooking- then at 11pm, watch night service. This is an old tradition here, and I don't know if I'll do it again. Last year was the first one in many years, despite it having been an every year thing in my youth. We will see who all shows up and how much grumbling is done.
I was careful to not ask any of our ladies auxiliary or anyone to help prepare, as I know they have things to do and I figured I'd just go do the set up.
But they decided to help and went in today early to set stuff up. Some seemed a bit annoyed from what Lou said. It bothers me, all I want to do is get the church back to what it was in years past, with a bit of adjustment to move forward.
I am officially on vacation for a week. :clap:
/me thumps everybody in the head for New Years..... :pound:
Quote from: Chseeads on January 01, 2023, 04:19:53 AM/me thumps everybody in the head for New Years..... :pound:
So is that like a thump for good luck or something?
I'm eating dark chocolate covered pretzels... For New Year, for good luck. Yeah.
Wow! Hey Cheese & everyone.
My dad resurrected (put a new battery in) my old Dodge Stratus for me for Christmas so I've got it in the Walmart Tire and Lube getting an oil change and air back in the tires.
Hi all.
Absolutely gutted today. My Bishop , like another father to me, and friend was found dead this morning of an apparent heart attack.
I'm totally lost at the moment. I have to be strong, keep the church moving forward. I would appreciate prayers...lord knows I feel inadequate right now.
Quote from: Roscoe on January 03, 2023, 12:51:02 AMHi all.
Absolutely gutted today. My Bishop , like another father to me, and friend was found dead this morning of an apparent heart attack.
I'm totally lost at the moment. I have to be strong, keep the church moving forward. I would appreciate prayers...lord knows I feel inadequate right now.
Bishop = the senior pastor who came before you?
Reason I ask is: We call our senior (91 years old, ostensibly retired, but I think we forgot to tell him that he was retired) pastor "bishop" now. Not sure how that became a thing in the church world. Maybe to differentiate between the current pastor and the retired elder.
When he dies, the whole town is going to feel gutted. He's something of a local legend of goodwill. And he's been showing signs of ailing lately.
This is a long way of saying my sympathy, but yeah... I feel ya bro. :sadbounce:
Quote from: Lynx on January 03, 2023, 12:37:43 PMQuote from: Roscoe on January 03, 2023, 12:51:02 AMHi all.
Absolutely gutted today. My Bishop , like another father to me, and friend was found dead this morning of an apparent heart attack.
I'm totally lost at the moment. I have to be strong, keep the church moving forward. I would appreciate prayers...lord knows I feel inadequate right now.
Bishop = the senior pastor who came before you?
Reason I ask is: We call our senior (91 years old, ostensibly retired, but I think we forgot to tell him that he was retired) pastor "bishop" now. Not sure how that became a thing in the church world. Maybe to differentiate between the current pastor and the retired elder.
When he dies, the whole town is going to feel gutted. He's something of a local legend of goodwill. And he's been showing signs of ailing lately.
This is a long way of saying my sympathy, but yeah... I feel ya bro. :sadbounce:
Yeah, that title started sneaking around in our ranks a few years ago. Not sure how I feel about it, but if anyone deserved the title, he did.
Back at work. About to go to court...
Quote from: Roscoe on January 03, 2023, 12:51:02 AMHi all.
Absolutely gutted today. My Bishop , like another father to me, and friend was found dead this morning of an apparent heart attack.
I'm totally lost at the moment. I have to be strong, keep the church moving forward. I would appreciate prayers...lord knows I feel inadequate right now.
One of the finest men to ever walk in shoe-leather...
Praying for you daily friend.
Sending love and prayers Bobby. :smirk2:
We're both sick over here. I'm back at work today. But I "worked" from bed until almost 1pm.
Thanks y'all. Sorry you are sick, Jenn.
I'm taking the next two days off as holidays and preparing for the service on Thursday. Thinking of that old song from years ago- "One day at a time, sweet Jesus..."
/me *hugs* Roscoe
So sorry Roscoe! :(
Back @Work today. Came back home from the parents Monday afternoon earlier than planned due to the storms.
Good thing I did, because I had a little chill time before we got a very scary phone call. Jeremy's mom had been in a head on collision and we weren't sure what we were walking into at the hospital. Thankfully she did not cause the wreck nor was she drinking as she was on her way to work. The driver who hit her died at the scene and the other driver who had been in front of her walked away fine. She started off at a local hospital, but then was transferred to St Louis University (SLU) hospital that same night for surgery to put pins/rods/plates in her left leg from her hip to her knee. Her right foot/ankle is too swollen currently to do anything but pins from the outside to kind of 'set it up' for surgery in about a week. Her foot was basically completely disconnected bone-wise from her leg. She also has a broken arm and broken ribs. We are SOOO thankful she was driving her truck instead of her newer little car, or we might have been facing quite a different situation.
Jeremy's been going through some personal issues the past year and we have faced tremendous loss the last 2-3 years, and his other worst nightmare almost came to fruition, so we are thankful that God saw fit to spare her again. (She had a stroke in 2020 that was also taken care of at SLU.) She's in quite a bit of pain as you can imagine, but she's got some spirit back already. Praying that her swelling will go down so that she can get this surgery done sooner rather than later so that rehab can only be done once and she can impress us all again with her ability to bounce back! She's not financially in a spot where not working is really a possibility yet. We came home last night once we were assured she was safely out of surgery and all. Very tired since we only had about 3 hours sleep Monday/Tuesday.
Last night's sleep was soo nice. It's finally chilly again like it's winter instead of raining and 70 degrees, so I got to use my heated mattress pad. Quality of life has been much better since that purchase, haha.
Hoping all these issues get better soon.
Jenn, are you any better?
Lord. Sounds like 2023 is starting out with quite a bang for all of us. :sadbounce:. Thanks for the hugs and prayers, fuzz, Nelle, Jenn, and all...
Tonight we had church. More of a memorial time for the church to reflect on Bro Wilson and his life. Many tears, many laughs. Now if I can just get through tomorrow....tons of people coming.
And Bro Wilson got me one more time. His favorite verse to quote to me was be instant in season...
So, the family gave me one of his bibles. Tonight, I went to look up the verse where Paul says he has ran his race, finished his course, etc. Of course when I open his bible to read it- he had highlighted the "be instant" verse..I couldn't help but laugh. He's gone from this earth and still busting my hide. :laughhard:
Hi. At church, preparing for the homegoing service. Received a text from my church of God in christ supervisor telling me she had awakened at 2 am to pray for me and would continue doing so. It sure is good to have people praying for you even of other beliefs.
Quote from: Roscoe on January 05, 2023, 05:27:06 PMHi. At church, preparing for the homegoing service. Received a text from my church of God in christ supervisor telling me she had awakened at 2 am to pray for me and would continue doing so. It sure is good to have people praying for you even of other beliefs.
Oh...
At first I read that in a very wrong way. I was starting to wonder when your church had joined an organization, and why y'all had chosen that one.
You meant your supervisor on the job. Right. I got it now.
Quote from: Roscoe on January 05, 2023, 05:27:06 PMHi. At church, preparing for the homegoing service. Received a text from my church of God in christ supervisor telling me she had awakened at 2 am to pray for me and would continue doing so. It sure is good to have people praying for you even of other beliefs.
I think this is how it should be. Just because someone's beliefs differ than what one has doesn't mean their prayers mean any less. I think this is where we need to get to as a Christian movement. Is to stop being so focused on those tiny things and pull together as a whole to bind together.
And no Sandra. Felt semi okay yesterday. Other than being super congested to the point of a sinus headache.
But today man I cannot stop coughing.
:( I've heard of 3 folks I know that have died in the last few days.
Shew. Made it through today. I was amazed at the turnout and the people who came. I was so honored to see Mini and his lovely bride, although I wasn't able to speak more than a few seconds with them due to everything going on. There were a ton of people there. Gonna be hard to realize that I can't pick the phone up and call him anymore, but I know God will carry us through.
Quote from: Roscoe on January 06, 2023, 02:21:34 AMGonna be hard to realize that I can't pick the phone up and call him anymore, but I know God will carry us through.
On the upside, you shoudln't have any regrets. You made a lot of posts where you mentioned doing stuff with him. I get the impression you made the most of the time you had.
Yea what he said. You talked often of him.
Coughing has not subsided.
Last night was rough. :wah:
I am tired.
Quote from: MsJennJenn on January 06, 2023, 05:36:08 PMYea what he said. You talked often of him.
Coughing has not subsided.
Last night was rough. :wah:
I am tired.
Oh, yah. No regrets, we were good.
Back at work. Glad it is Friday....
Did a Teledoc thing after I posted that in hopes of some cough syrup with codeine. But no go. Apparently they wont (or dont) prescribe the cough with codeine over teledoc. :roll:
Then after the teledoc I took an at-home test and tested positive for covid. :laughhard:
I give up lol
I was wondering if your symptoms were that... b/c you sound like you felt and had what I felt/had when I had it, haha. Hope you feel better soon!
@Work still. I missed an hour and a half this morning and four hours yesterday due to not feeling super. The stress has my body out of whack for sure.
We are leaving tomorrow morning to go back up to St Louis until Sunday afternoon. Wanting her to not be by herself since she's waking up extremely disoriented due to meds and all. Hopefully we can get some good news from the docs soon.
Went shopping for a pair of SAS shoes yesterday so I'd have tie up shoes to wear at church that don't look like tennis shoes. I'd been figuring on getting the Free Time model since that's what I was familiar with. When I told the sales lady I was looking for SAS tie up shoes, she points to the Free Time and tells me I'm too young for those. :laughhard:
After trying on some various SAS models I ended up going with the Walk Easy in Nero color.
Hi. Been busy as what. Went yesterday and test drove a potential church bus purchase. If we can find an agreeable price, we will have a church bus, which may not seem like much to some, is HUGE for us and one of my long term goals.. Also, we are moving forward with a possible Celebrate Recovery ministry, which is another of my goals.
Went to church tonight, and for the first time, I stood in a pulpit without one of my heroes there or otherwise available. Sure do miss him, but he's happy and I gotta carry on.
Off tomorrow. Intend to rest up a bit.
I'm def. on the mend. Feeling much better today. Thank goodness.
We have our first region meeting this week and I have loads to do! :noo:
Welp, I called today and made a tentative deal for the bus. Attempted to figure out why Rusty has no head lights. Went and did a bit of learning of the church's bookkeeping system. Back to work tomorrow. Bah.
How much for the bus?
I'm curious because I'm the church bus driver. A church bus is a wonderful thing to have. A lot of times a minivan just doesn't cut it.
Quote from: Lynx on January 10, 2023, 12:12:13 PMHow much for the bus?
I'm curious because I'm the church bus driver. A church bus is a wonderful thing to have. A lot of times a minivan just doesn't cut it.
I worked a bit of a deal, I feel. '08 Ford E350 cutaway, seats driver, 8 passengers and 2 wheelchairs. Handicap lift, 123 thousand miles, V10, front and rear air and heat. I got it for $9500. Of course, we will have to spend a few hundred having it striped with the Church name, etc. It's a good start to what we want....
And lawd I is back at work. Bah.
For the price
That's pretty nice
@Work. Eating some toast w/ jelly.
I "experimented" last night with dinner using a TikTok video recipe someone made. Canned shredded chicken, queso fresco, and shredded Mexican cheese. layer it as a quesadilla in the air fryer and brush oil on the top one. 350 deg for 5 minutes. The tortillas crisped up well, but the insides were a little... canned chicken texture. I probably should've made my layers thinner so there wouldn't be so much "mush". Jeremy added fajita veggies to his, and I dunno if that texture of biting helped or not. I think tonight I may do an oven alternative or something. I dunno.. just don't want to waste the rest of the mixture. It's not my fave, but it was really quick which is good these days haha.
My MIL was supposed to have surgery on her ankle this morning, but they've pushed it off for now because the swelling in her ankle hasn't gone down enough. I was honestly surprised they were planning it so soon, but I know she's probably disappointed. Hopefully they can get her done and out in the next week.
Canned shredded chicken is so easy. But man it smells so much like my cats food :laughhard:
Grandson just left. God knows you needed to have kids when young.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on January 10, 2023, 05:09:47 PMGrandson just left. God knows you needed to have kids when young.
:laughhard: :laughhard:
I had some kind of Cabbage dish Lou made. It was ok..
Tonight, Chey has asked me to smoke a pork loin and do a gravy/onion/mushroom sauce for it.
And in further sharing- today has stalled out. :pound:
URGGH. Wednesday is kicking my tail. Totally dragging. I'm gonna go hide in my cave... fortunately I don't have folks scheduled today.
I'm trying to get going enough to function. :smirk2:
Me too. And not having any luck lol
Ribs from a local restaurant helped some. Fact of the matter is, I might just be lazy. That's a possibility I have to accept. :ugly:
The fact that none of my friends and brethren/sisters here rushed to assure me I am not lazy now has me self-conscious. Very unkind of you! :pound: - well, I might would :pound: you, if it didn't take so much energy.
:ugly:
And in a direct attack on my diet, my coworkers have a HAM in the oven cooking and are planning a feast. Apparently, our drug court program bought a full Christmas dinner, including a ham, for all the participants. One of the participants decided she didn't like us and ran off- leaving her Christmas meal to be picked up. It's either cook it or it spoils, so they planning a feast. We will lift a cup of Dr. Pepper to the memory of the thoughtless probationer who is on the run, for afflicting us with this delicious dilemma
Last day of work. I hit overtime around 10am. I fully plan on sitting here doing nothing until 4pm and then clocking out. On vacation next week with the hubs. We're having a staycation. I'm so excited!!!
Finally, someone posts. LOL. I was getting a complex.....
Come on 6pm
@Work still.
Been a day. Looks like I'm also coming in tomorrow to work on some State of IL compliance reporting instead of doing it at home since I don't have time today to get the paperwork all printed out so that I can type it into their website from home.
I really needed a weekend at home, so hopefully I don't have to spend most of my day here tomorrow.
We went to see Chel today. She hasn't been feeling good.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on January 13, 2023, 11:18:19 PMWe went to see Chel today. She hasn't been feeling good.
Praying for her. Trying to plan my weekend- go get car for Chey,and figure out the best time next week to drive 2 and a half hours and pick up the church bus...
Went to an ALJC rally tonight for the first time in years. Had fun locating the church building since I was driving there after dark. Their church sign and parking lot wasn't well lit. The service itself was good other than the music volume being a bit too loud for my taste.
Quote from: Backseat Radio on January 14, 2023, 06:10:50 AMThe service itself was good other than the music volume being a bit too loud for my taste.
Ya never know how hard-of-hearing the sound man will be. I always bring earplugs to someone else's church. (Even yours, Bobby, but I didn't need them.)
It shouldn't be so loud it's painful. If they're hard of hearing that's their problem. That's a pet peeve of mine.
Quote from: Lynx on January 14, 2023, 10:56:33 AMQuote from: Backseat Radio on January 14, 2023, 06:10:50 AMThe service itself was good other than the music volume being a bit too loud for my taste.
Ya never know how hard-of-hearing the sound man will be. I always bring earplugs to someone else's church. (Even yours, Bobby, but I didn't need them.)
Lol. It's a constant battle. Myself, I hate loud music...but about half of my church says the music is too loud and the other half complains they can't hear.
I'm about ready to have a locked box put over the soundboard to keep folks from adjusting it.
Bro Wilson, bless his heart was bad about it. He wore hearing aids and if he couldn't hear, instead of turning them up, he'd monkey with the sound board. Lol
Quote from: Roscoe on January 14, 2023, 02:36:26 PMQuote from: Lynx on January 14, 2023, 10:56:33 AMQuote from: Backseat Radio on January 14, 2023, 06:10:50 AMThe service itself was good other than the music volume being a bit too loud for my taste.
Ya never know how hard-of-hearing the sound man will be. I always bring earplugs to someone else's church. (Even yours, Bobby, but I didn't need them.)
I'm about ready to have a locked box put over the soundboard to keep folks from adjusting it.
Hard to tell if you're joking, but if you are serious then I say do it. There are some churches that do exactly this, for exactly that reason.
They even make cases specifically for locking up your sound system. Yep, it's so common that you can get a commercially made case made just for that.
Back when I was in the Church of Christ some of their congregations offered headsets that the hard of hearing could wear during church that had the sound piped directly to them.
Quote from: Backseat Radio on January 15, 2023, 03:06:07 AMBack when I was in the Church of Christ some of their congregations offered headsets that the hard of hearing could wear during church that had the sound piped directly to them.
That's an interesting option.
Shew. Preached today. Gonna rest somewhat tomorrow. Plan right now to take off thursday and get the bus home.
Need to sleep, but despite being tired, I really cant seem to fall asleep if that makes sense.
Quote from: Backseat Radio on January 15, 2023, 03:06:07 AMBack when I was in the Church of Christ some of their congregations offered headsets that the hard of hearing could wear during church that had the sound piped directly to them.
These days a bluetooth earbud would be more practical.
Probably want to have them leave the earbuds THERE so someone in charge can recharge, or they'll all forget. (That's not an observation about old age, just an observation about people... including me. I'd forget to charge mine if I needed one.)
Now my nerd instinct is triggered. As today is my day off, I'm gonna look for a bluetooth earbud solution for hard-of-hearing people at church.
https://www.amazon.com/EXMAX-Transmission-Simultaneous-Interpreting-Transmitter/dp/B01547SVMC/
How many people you got who need one? They have bigger packs for a crowd.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01547SVM2/
Yesterday was Vision Sunday for my church. Pastor shared some things he wants to implement this year in the church. Plan is to expand out our kids program, start small groups, and create a coffee and fellowship area in the lobby so the auditorium can be used for prayer before service. He's also starting a Christian Life class aka new convert class. First time around he's going to teach it to the entire church in the auditorium as our 10 AM session.
@Work. Had bloodwork this morning before work, so now I'm also drinking a venti Starbucks frappucino. The line was short, so I stopped haha.
Had a rough weekend. Worked Saturday most of the day here, went home and ate some pasta I didn't like. Got sick Sunday morning and missed Sunday School, but made it to worship service. Sunday afternoon I decided to try my massager on my upper back that had been hurting since Saturday AM. Bad idea. I made my back muscles SOOO angry. They start having constant spasms and wouldn't stop and it really scared me because I could barely breathe through it. Jeremy found me a muscle relaxer and made me go to bed early. Between that, the heated mattress pad, and forced rest.. I'm better but it still hurts. Thankfully no constant spasms tho!
Morning. At work. Much to do...
:hi: I'm thankful that it's nice and not freezing.
@work today as well, but not for much longer! about half an hour and I'm heading home.
I wasn't able to do many chores on Sunday or last night, but I'm going to attempt a few tonight. The Post-Christmas Cleanup needs to get started even if it got delayed due to work, MIL's wreck, my issues, etc.. lol.
She is having her ankle/foot surgery as we speak. They called Jeremy earlier and gave him the halfway update. She's SUCH a strong person. :) Doesn't hurt that there are so many people she knows (and many she doesn't know) praying for her. God has definitely saved her life so many times the past three years. I'm so glad I know Him!
Not been a fun day here. Went to the walk in clinic on my lunch to get antibiotic for what I suspect is a spider bite on my back that's gotten infected in the last 2 days and been making me feel sick.
Hi. BSR, that's terrible, hope you feel better soon. Nelle, same for you and your MIL.
It's been pouring off and on here today.
New kinda mad last night when I discovered Lou's grandpa, one of my rocks and the sweetest man you'll find, had been taken by a con man for $450. Con man was supposed to repair a roof and of course "needed money for materials up front".
Being from the "a man's word is his bond" generation, grandpa gave the man the money and the man ghosted him for the last three months. Unfortunately for con man, I now have his name...and the knowledge that he was 1) once on my caseload for this very type of mess, in two states no less, and 2) is still on parole with a friend supervising him in another county.
He's about to have a very bad few days. I called him last night- he remembered me. He was told he has until friday to return the money. He agreed. What he doesn't know is the prosecutor and I are communicating and he is likely to see the interior of the prison again...
Sometimes it's good to have connections. ;)
It was real good. Apparently, I was very convincing to him. I got a text about 20 minutes after I posted that. He'd left a money order in my grandfather in law's mailbox. Money back.
And in sharing....ya'll remember the old song "the devil's in the phone booth, dialing 911"? He actually did it tonight. Bro Clayton is teaching. My phone is in the tripod, fb livestreaming. All of the sudden, it lets out an emergency siren sound. Turned out, it spontaneously dialed 911. They sent the sound to alert. I took it down, stepped out, and talked with the dispatcher. Told her "We Pentecostal, but we weren't even excited at that point!" They were all laughing.
Then, after the lesson, I know why the devil called 911. Bro Clayton read a passage, called up a couple of men in the church, and began to pray for me, telling the church they needed to hold up me in prayer during this time. Friends, I've been in that church since I was 7 days old according to family lore. I've seen and felt God move in mighty ways. But dear Lord, tonight was special. Different. Overflowing...not enough words to describe the outpouring. Folks shouting all over. Devil gonna need more than 911, I do believe.
HA! I have that song by Walt Mills. Thanks for the story.
I'm hungry but I can't figure out what sounds good...
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Been a good day. Got to spend most of it with a backslider friend and talk church... and then, I picked up the church bus and drove it back. Just over 100-mile trip, it ran flawlessly. I went and tagged it, and called the graphics shop and left a message so they can call me back. Ready to get it striped and on the road. I sent a pic to a group message in which most of the families in the church have at least one member in- we use it as an informal prayer request/news sharing. Had a couple of the disabled saints that we will be picking up start crying, so happy and excited that they will have reliable transportation to church.
Unfortunately, I gotta go back to work tomorrow. :pound:
Finally got the antibiotic for my spider bite. Hoping it clears up soon.
The big question is usually, who will drive the church bus? Everybody wants it to run, but it's hard to find someone who has time to drive it.
Morning. Back at work...
Isaac, right now I have a young man willing to drive it and a couple backups, including myself if I have to. Hopefully it'll work out ok.
My pear tree is already blooming.
Wow... My boss may need your prayers.
This tuesday, January 24th, we are having a big corporate visit. They will be here for hours, inspecting everything closely.
The maintenance guy just got caught stealing a whole bag of frozen crispy chicken patties. He is no longer here.
No idea what they are going to do for a maintenance man for the visit, but I sure am glad I'm not a manager right now. I asked the manager and she doesn't know what we are going to do either.
I mean it's no skin off my personal nose. But all the managers here are pretty nice people who don't really deserve this kind of stress.
Looks like corporate should have enough sense to understand...
My church is hosting a rally Feb 10 so I texted a request to my assistant manager to see if I could work 9-6 that day rather than the usual 11-8 so I could go to the rally. Few hours later I got a notification that my shift for that day had been modified. She accidently changed my schedule to 9AM-6AM (rather than 6PM)...giving me a 20 hour shift.
:laughhard:
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Well. Yesterday was somewhat busy- got parts ordered for pretty much every vehicle that I have down except Rusty- he doesn't need parts; I just need warm enough weather to troubleshoot him. Sacrificed a bit of my study time today to go on the first bus route; my co driver came along. We made the inaugural run and made some elder saints very happy. Made me happy too. Preached, turned the bus driving over to Bro Billy, and went to eat dinner with Bro Long and family. Now, I'm chilling, wishing it was warmer weather where I could work on Sam. When it warms up I've got to get him done and back together, and I've got to get that woodstove I have installed so next winter, I don't have to sit and wish I had heat out there.
This morning I was an hour into work and was already to quit. :roll:
Already had an argument with my boss. We have a division vice president (so my bosses boss) coming tomorrow for a "round table" with our district leader teams and she wants me to "order nice food that's nicer then I normally do"...I asked her multiple times what she considers nice and what that means. She could not give me an answer. So I got irritated. She hung up. Then later texts me "not the great start I'd hoped for". Well...give me more details that I ask for. That I always ask for. :nono: :noo: :updown:
What foods do you normally order?
@Work. Jeremy's mom was transferred over to rehab Saturday evening. Had her first day of therapy yesterday. Jeremy went up to be with her for it. She was doing great at all of her stuff. Hopefully in two weeks she will be home and probably still doing in-home therapy as well.
Aric's memorial service was very sweet on Friday. Thankful that the family was able to have this in order to transition in their grieving process. I'm so thankful he was a "yes" person and went to China like he wanted. He was able to experience so much and saw so many things. If we knew our time was short, what would we do to enjoy life more? I'd soak up a few extra moments with my family I think.
I've ordered a wide variety. Mediterranean, Tacos, Pasta, Sandwiches.
We can't have a sit down dinner. The environment we'll be in won't be accessible for that. lol Idk what she's wanting.
Jenn- I'd almost ask if your boss was my wife, at the risk of getting whipped. Anytime we discuss going out to eat, that's the basic gist of the discussion. "I know what I want, but I don't know how to convey it to you". :laughhard:
Totally vegging, doing nothing. Too cool to do much outside and I am lazy. So today is a me doing nothing day. Got drafted into going to a minister's meeting tonight...I'm going but I'm plotting how to avoid future requests for a short while. Too much coming up and I'm gonna require some unplug time soon...
Gotta love technology. A few years ago Walmart rolled out what was supposed to be a new and improved way to clock in and out using a smartphone. Today that "new and improved" system was glitching and saying we hadn't clocked back in from lunch when the time clock itself clearly showed we had clocked back in from lunch. Because of the glitch several of us were locked out of running a register the 2nd half of our shift.
Quote from: Roscoe on January 23, 2023, 08:40:33 PMTotally vegging, doing nothing. Too cool to do much outside and I am lazy.
Duly noted that Bobby considers himself too cool to do any real work. :biglaugh:
Quote from: Lynx on January 24, 2023, 02:32:20 AMQuote from: Roscoe on January 23, 2023, 08:40:33 PMTotally vegging, doing nothing. Too cool to do much outside and I am lazy.
Duly noted that Bobby considers himself too cool to do any real work. :biglaugh:
I'M not too cool....even though it obviously looks like that's what I said. Too lazy I'll admit.
Back at work
It's raining like crazy today.
It appears it is starting to mist with snow flurries mixed.. Supposed to be snowing later today.We might get up to 5 inches or none- we are apparently right on the line. I'm torn because part of me hates snow and wants nothing to do with it...part of me wants a free day off...
We're expecting the snow tonight and into tomorrow. 4-8 inches of the stuff. Pastor is already talking about canceling church tomorrow night if we actually get the upper end of the snow amount.
If I don't get to miss work and get snow tomorrow.. I'm going to be upset. LOL.
@Work. Unfortunately if I do get enough snow to miss work, I won't get to "work from home" since Jeremy's day off is tomorrow and that computer will be in use by him. BUT I can at least take my timesheet home and take hours from our electricians for payroll! I could totally use the day to work on the house AND on the church paperwork, so I wouldn't mind it a bit.
Online Grocery Pickup was getting stomped on today because of the incomming snowstorm. Spent my last 2 hours of work tonight doing pick walks to help them get caught up.
The weather forecast had been predicting snowmagedon for today. So far all we have is a dusting of snow. :sadbounce:
Not wanting to go to work today after being up in the middle of the night sick.
Well. The weather :sing: :sing: "Came in like a wrecking ball".. :sing: :sing:
But it didn't do a lot. Apparently we were on the fringe...local roads got a bit slick last night but we had a slight warm up and rain that washed the roads down somewhat. We were put in inclement weather policy, meaning we didn't have to report in until 10, but my overachieving self was here at normal times.
Sitting here dragging though. May splurge today and eat out at lunch. I've really been trying to cut back on eating out.
Now to get through the day and get to church tonight.
@Work.
We got snow! I didn't get a snow day... but.. that's ok. I have plenty to do here at work that needs to be done asap anyway, haha. I'm just thankful I made it safely home!
Thankfully, no snow here. It's about 40 at the moment.
Yea no snow here for me either. Hubbs got it 30 miles north though when he was at work. He sent me a snap and it was pouring over there. I said welppp babe no luck at home we got nothing lol
It's so gloomy today and I'm about to murder my demon kitten. He's broken 3-4 items of glass variety in the last week or so and I am SO OVER IT. He's driving me bonkers. I plopped him in time-out (his room) this morning.
Quote from: MsJennJenn on January 25, 2023, 06:14:49 PMIt's so gloomy today and I'm about to murder my demon kitten. He's broken 3-4 items of glass variety in the last week or so and I am SO OVER IT. He's driving me bonkers. I plopped him in time-out (his room) this morning.
My mother has had indoor cats ever since I was old enough to remember, but she has never, ever had a problem with one of them knocking over breakables. Probably because they know that if they tried it, they would get impromptu flying lessons immediately.
Me, I don't have the patience to deal with it. When I have had a cat, it has always been an outdoor creature. Usually my outdoor cat stays warm in winter by lying next to the dog.
Church got canceled tonight. :sadbounce:
Binxy is a black cat and a kitten. He's beyond rotten.
He climbs on everything. In every window he can. Knocks stuff over everywhere. He's now broken one of my vintage cactus glasses :'( , a vase full of plant cuttings, and a plant in a pot that was a favorite so cute pot. Those aren't all of the things he's knocked over, those are just the broken ones. He's knocked over more plants but no casualties except the aforementioned one.
Keke is 12 years old. She's happy eating and sleeping. lol
Binxy..... is 6 months old and he's a literal tornado in feline form.
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Morning. Around 40 at church last night with several out. Good teaching from Bro Clayton. But that was last night- today I'm back at work. Sabotaging my diet by having gone by the local coffee shop and getting a oreo mocha frappe. SO good. Ordered a medium for me, and a small for a coworker. Comparing the two makes me think it is the same amount of product in each....
Cool out, only around 32 degrees, but sunny. Have I mentioned I am ready for summer?!?! :pound:
Now that holiday season is over, I finally joined the church choir. Got my first look at this month's song and my reaction was...you call that a choir song? That's just another repetitive congregational song.
@Work. Jeremy had nightmares last night while sleeping.. and between him thrashing, breathing weird, and saying weird things, sleep wasn't so great, haha. I didn't want to wake him because he has a hard time going back to sleep, but I hate that anyone is tormented by bad dreams in a time we are meant to be resting and allowing our body to repair itself some.
Busy day today at work. Snow is still outside BUT it's off the roads, so I'm good. :) I love how beautiful snow is.
I love how beautiful snow is too but man I'm with Bobby on this one I LOATHE the cold. I'm ready for summer. Just leave me in summer. I'll hibernate and sleep thru winter.
Had a dentist appointment this morning to finish off a bridge with the final bridge crown.
Three thousand dollars later...and the cost of food these days, I'll be eating dirt for the next 6 months.
Choir practice got canceled tonight because of potential black ice conditions :sadbounce:
Jenn, the older I get, the less I like the cold.
Morning all. TGIF. About to go check on my wayward work chilluns and make sure they are where they are supposed to be.. which is all over at least 2 counties. Ready for my weekend. Got parts in for Chey's car and the 'vette, and about a million things to do this weekend.
I have nothing to do this weekend. No plans with anyone. Hubbs closes all weekend.
Black demon cat broke another glass this morning.
Shew. Worked a bit this morning...got the oil changed in the vette. Went to church and cleaned out the office and arranged it to my tastes. Went and got some meat and put it in the smoker.
What kind of meat? Inquiring minds want to know.
It rained like crazy last night.
Quote from: Lynx on January 29, 2023, 10:57:07 AMWhat kind of meat? Inquiring minds want to know.
Well, I smoked some ribeyes. And while I was preparing, I got a call that a sister in our church had flipped her truck and she was headed to a Conway hospital with her daughter. Since Lou was in Conway, she went over to check on them. Knowing that the sister wouldn't feel up to cooking for a few days, I smoked a pork loin in Mushroom gravy and onions for Lou to carry by today.
Went to church around 2, to finish out my thought. Did so, and prayed- God smooth came down tonight and I nearly stripped a gear for me, but the power of God was terrific in that place tonight. Around 40- 42 there, which is good since we've seen 20s and 30s recently. The bus has received much love by the folks riding it. Made me feel good to see some of my ladies that otherwise couldn't come being there and worshipping God tonight. Made it easier to preach too.
Now...tomorrow, prepare for forecasted bad weather. And take the bus to the local sign shop and explain what we want, then get an appointment for them to do it.
Bus decals...
A local church got a medium red bus. So they doubled down on it and used flame decals. Real fire-and-brimstone preaching I guess...
@Work. I was early for once, but had to go air up my tires before work down the road at the gas station. It was freezing cold.. thought my hands were gonna bite the dust, haha. I ended up being about 15 minutes late, BUT my tires are supposedly back within normal range and I got some extra gas to fill up JUST in case. The weather is getting sketchy here. I had to cancel my dentist appointment this afternoon because it was right in the next system window. Didn't want to drive 15-20 min North, be there for the duration of my appointment, and then white knuckle the whole 45 minutes home when I can just get it rescheduled for another time. And just like that, my Monday brightened, LOL. I don't enjoy the dentist $-wise, haha.
I had my eyes checked this morning. I'm officially into bifocals. :sadbounce: Ordered new glasses and because they had a 55% off sale on prescription sunglasses for associates I got a pair of those too. Once they come in I'll be all set for spending quality time outside this summer.
Lots of ice blowing thru over here. Not at my house, but the hubbs is getting it at work 30 miles north.
So much is shutting down lol. We Texans do winter real well. :roll:
So do we, Jenn. :lol:
I went and bought a camp stove just in case I find myself without power. I have propane heat back up, but realized that without power, I have no way to cook!!!
Now I have. :lol:
Filled the bus up= it's a thirsty devil at just under 9mpg. The sign shop is going to email me with a design and quote.
Then I ate lunch with my beautiful wife and am now vegging watching Motor Trend's "Car Issues" one of my favorite Youtuber-turned-Motor Trend-star shows. So envious...he bought a '92 ZR1 Corvette for $16k. It's only around a $28k car. I'm drooling.
Just cause I'm focusing on church more than ever-does not mean I've lost my love for Corvettes or cars in general. :laughhard:
Quote from: Backseat Radio on January 30, 2023, 07:14:44 PMI had my eyes checked this morning. I'm officially into bifocals. :sadbounce: Ordered new glasses and because they had a 55% off sale on prescription sunglasses for associates I got a pair of those too. Once they come in I'll be all set for spending quality time outside this summer.
Ah, bifocals. For men they are the magic glasses. Put them on and instantly become invisible to younger women.
Quote from: Lynx on January 30, 2023, 11:10:37 PMAh, bifocals. For men they are the magic glasses. Put them on and instantly become invisible to younger women.
I got progressives so they won't have the tale tell line on them that shouts "bifocals". As for any magic they might have for us gals, I'm already invisible to guys anyway so not much more bifocals can do for that.
Quote from: Backseat Radio on January 31, 2023, 01:20:39 AMI got progressives so they won't have the tale tell line on them that shouts "bifocals". As for any magic they might have for us gals, I'm already invisible to guys anyway so not much more bifocals can do for that.
*Lynx runs off shouting, "BSR's gone progressive! BSR's gone progressive!"
Wait... Does that mean you're voting democrat, or does that mean you're saving money on car insurance? ???
Quote from: Lynx on January 31, 2023, 11:12:10 AM*Lynx runs off shouting, "BSR's gone progressive! BSR's gone progressive!"
Wait... Does that mean you're voting democrat, or does that mean you're saving money on car insurance? ???
:pound:
Only way I'm saving money on car insurance is if I get rid of one of my cars
I'm progressive too. Or at least some conservatives would think so, according to headlines. I'm lying around, doing nothing and being paid for it today. And I'm enjoying it. We got an unexpected bad weather day to stay home. Never mind that the roads are mostly clear here...we DO have more bad weather on the way. At any rate I'm enjoying being off.
Yea you might get what we're getting now. It's raining ice and snow here. Everythings white but you can hear the ice raining. It's wild. Everythings def shut down now lol... well except for CVS, we don't shut down for much of anything. World could be half on fire but CVS would be open. :roll: :o
@Work. I missed yesterday due to weather and not feeling well from the night.
Church got cancelled today due to our parking lot ice/snow not being a team player in melting. I honestly don't mind because I'm a fan of cancelled plans of almost anything.
The Elantra pickup by the salvage yard people was of course cancelled yesterday due to the weather, almost got rescheduled for today, but I opted to have it tomorrow instead. Hopefully we can keep this appointment, haha.
It's 34 according to my thermometer but it's still trying to ice on the trees and lines.
We're at 29 and still covered in ice/snow. It rained ice again this morning and is supposed to be doing it now per the radar but nothing is happening lol
We're not supposed to get above freezing until like Thursday. So not sure anything will happen until then. Just stay covered in ice.
Well, we made it to 31 degrees. They say we have ANOTHER round on the way tonight. Enjoying the day off. I have made a meatloaf and had potatoes boiling for mashed potatoes so Lou will have a nice dinner waiting when she gets home, since she didn't get the day off. She drove in, slowly and said the roads weren't real bad, just spotty. We cancelled church just to be safe with the forecasted round 3 coming in. Once more- I am ready for summer. :pound:
I'm off work the next 2 days. Plan is to take my mom to visit her mom tomorrow.
Power just died here.
Bobby and fuzzy, you need to take your weather back. It is not welcome here.
It's been raining most of the week. We are a soggy mess, but that's better than ice.
Not here - it's been all ice. Hubbs finally had to go back to work today. He was very grumpy lol
But it's supposed to be above freezing today so hopefully things start melting. Er well melting more.
@Work!
Said goodbye officially to my Elantra ("Ellie") after a good 13 years together. She was a good car! Very little large work done to her until the very end... when her problems became too great to be repaired and worth the value! lol.. It was bittersweet driving off without her today officially. She's been sitting there since December, just was still ours technically until today. They are towing her off for free (to a salvage yard) and actually paid us $225, so.. it was the best case scenario for us.
Then I went to the bank and cashed in my treasury bonds that I received on my high school graduation back in 2003. Granny bought those for me in 1992 when I was only 7. They matured last November and I just hadn't been able to make it by yet. So all that money is going towards Jeremy's down payment for his car. We have a tentative ETA of March something-or-other, so we still have time to build up this down payment thankfully.
We are going Saturday morning back to St Louis to pick up Jeremy's momma from her rehab stint. We will be learning how to properly help her up and out of chairs or bed. We are hoping she's able to do most of this on her own, because there's really not someone who can be with her 24/7. She's been doing so well with the rehab, so hopefully things work out well. She's SO glad to be coming home. She's been in St Louis in the hospital or rehab since January 2nd.
Hi. At work. We apparently were on the right side of the line this time and didn't get the icky mess. Now it is overcast and dreary, but otherwise ok out. I feel blah. Too much time laying around has now made me super lazy.
Tuesday we closed at 6pm. Wednesday we opened at 11am and closed at 8pm. Today we opened at 8am. All because we were afraid of ice.
How many roads got slippery? Zero. Nothing at all interesting, worth sliding on, in my whole area.
Feh.
I made a giant batch of chocolate chip cookies with pecans for my son & grandson's birthdays.
So much for plans to go visit Grandma. Got part way there and the alternator on my mom's van died stranding us half hour from home. Thankfully my brother was nearby with his vehicle so we could get mom home before her oxygen concentrator ran out of battery. AAA towed the van home a bit later.
Urgh. About to go cruise the countryside. TOTS- sometimes I wanna :pound: my child's head. She's been off all week due to snow. She's done nothing, and voiced complaints about doing dishes last night. Then today , she "doesn't feel like going to school" Yeah, it didn't fly for her. She went. Unhappy at Dad, but present at school..
I feel miserable today. My head, ears, and sinuses plugged back up for a 3rd time this winter.
@Work. Again.
Nursing a (now melted) frozen coke, a caramel frappe, (homemade) sweet tea and thinking it's time for lunch..
I need a nap.
Jeremy's been having bad dreams so often lately. I hate that he's being tortured by this PTSD. I don't know if his medicine is making it worse or helping something that could've been worse.
Jeremy's mom is coming home tomorrow as I previously mentioned. Pray for her mind. She's SO anxious about traveling in a vehicle. It's been a month and a day since her accident and she's still having some flashbacks. I can't imagine how she must feel.. just praying God gives her peace tomorrow as we travel the 3 hours home. She's asked to sit in the back of our SUV and is planning on covering her head with a blanket so she can't see what's going on outside the vehicle.
Quote from: Nelle on February 03, 2023, 05:04:24 PM@Work. Again.
Nursing a (now melted) frozen coke, a caramel frappe, (homemade) sweet tea and thinking it's time for lunch..
I need a nap.
You need a nap after all that caffeine? LOL
7-Brew. Lawd. They have a Raspberry Truffle Mocha Frappe. For some one that is not a fan of $5 coffee with frou-frou flavors...uh, I'm slipping. I NEEDED that. :biglaugh:
Now, ready for the weekend...
Called off work today since my fever spiked to 101.2 last night.
Hope you ae feeling better. Did family things today. Now relaxing. Studying a bit for tomorrow.
I'm feeling a lot better than I did yesterday. My temp has stayed below 100 all day.
Chel has been sick, too. Stuff going around. I think hers turned into pneumonia.
Ouch. We've just battled the normal seasonal illnesses. Lou has struggled a bit with the after effects of covid- the breathing issues, specifically, but that's become normal. I saw where Cheesehead was recently hospitalized too.
Went to church tonight. Got the surprise of a lifetime when my work supervisor, a Church of God in Christ member and her husband who is a minister in that denomination, walked through the door and had service with us. I felt as self conscious as I could ever be at first, but told God to use me and I'd say what He told me to say. Didn't feel bad at all, and they were "amening" the preaching. Told me after service, they'd be back to visit for sure. Really made my evening. She has been an incredible encouragement over the years to me, and her husband is becoming a friend- he actually did the concrete for my shop a bit over a year ago. I'd LOVE for them to believe as we do...
Quote from: MsJennJenn on February 03, 2023, 10:21:12 PMQuote from: Nelle on February 03, 2023, 05:04:24 PM@Work. Again.
Nursing a (now melted) frozen coke, a caramel frappe, (homemade) sweet tea and thinking it's time for lunch..
I need a nap.
You need a nap after all that caffeine? LOL
Yuuuup. LOL. The caffeine buzzes me JUST enough to help get rid of a headache usually.. but it doesn't and has never kept me awake. I wish it would! haha..
I'm also on the line for anemia.. but I take iron every day. Keeping me right on the line I think.
@work again.
BUSY weekend. I don't feel like we slept much and didn't relax much at all. I fell asleep on the couch and woke up at 9:30 on sat night thinking it was after 11pm. haha.. I went on to bed then.
BUT my MIL made it home Saturday. We woke up around 5-6am to get to St Louis on Saturday by 9am (with a few stops). We had to wait another two hours before she got fully discharged and then we almost didn't get her into our SUV. She can't walk or put pressure on her feet/legs yet, so she has to scoot or be helped from the wheelchair into the vehicle. A PT had to come help us get her in the vehicle. They had been practicing getting into the vehicle, BUT they didn't allow for our SUV sitting so high. She had a GREAT ride home. I'm so thankful so many prayed for her mind, because I was expecting a very emotional, dramatic ride home, but it was SO smooth. She's settled into her house for now and we are working on a schedule between the family and friends so that she's got someone with her or near at least. Her accident injuries weren't even the worst part of her issues in discharge, but actually she has bone spurs in her knee that's on the leg that she broke and they replaced with a steel rod, so it's been swelling and really hurting her lately. Otherwise she could've used that to transfer with. She does still have 1-2 surgeries left in her future and lots of followup appointments. Please keep her in your prayers. The other driver's insurance is possibly contesting the findings of the state police, so it could even be another year before she can get any help from that. She has lost any income for probably at least a year, along with the health issues she has now. God can do it! He saved her from certain death that evening, so finances would be no big issue for Him.
At the office today. I am ridiculously tired.
We just blew through $500 worth of sushi in 10 minutes.
Wow, that's some pricy eats. Sushi is not my thing.
So, ya'll ate approximately 10 pieces of bait. :laughhard: :laughhard:
Shushi is not my thing either. My daughter would have it every meal. Put a Mississippi pot roast on earlier. About ready to dig in. Did some spring-cleaning stuff today and have more yet to do. Ready for the dot gov to get off their can and return my money to me, the fat crooks. I got things to do they are holding up.
Picked up my bifocals today. Nice to be able to read without having to take my glasses off. Still waiting on my sunglasses to come in.
Off to court, then hopefully back to my "cave" aka office for the day. Totally not feeling the adulting thing today.
@Work.
We had 1st Monday family prayer last night. When I got home, Jeremy almost had dinner ready. We did lose a glass pan lid in the battle.. but that happens sometimes with sharp temp changes and (in my opinion) weak glass. lol.. We will be cleaning shards of glass up from the floor for months. I swept, vacuumed, even used a lint roller for tiny glass pieces when I busted our glass measuring cup a couple of years ago I guess... and I still found chunks of glass for months. It was ridiculous haha.
Jeremy's mom is an half year too young to quality of a TON of IL programs that could really help her and relieve us of some daily duties. You have to be 60. Not sure why that's a magical number here. BUT we will figure this out. Looks like I may be taking my own turn of staying the night here soon. I know Jeremy's had a ton going on already of his own issues, and I think he's feeling very overwhelmed with what he feels he needs to be doing for his mom. His sister already took two of the three nights and her son took the first one since she's been home. I'm going to have to have to discuss it with him again tonight to make a schedule so no one gets burnt out or has to do it all. It's hard when everyone's bodies are broken lol.
Quote from: Roscoe on February 07, 2023, 02:06:47 PMTotally not feeling the adulting thing today.
Meeeee either. lol
but then again I don't typically feel like doing it any day. lol
Quote from: Roscoe on February 06, 2023, 04:59:10 AMWent to church tonight. Got the surprise of a lifetime when my work supervisor, a Church of God in Christ member and her husband who is a minister in that denomination, walked through the door and had service with us. I felt as self conscious as I could ever be at first, but told God to use me and I'd say what He told me to say. Didn't feel bad at all, and they were "amening" the preaching. Told me after service, they'd be back to visit for sure. Really made my evening. She has been an incredible encouragement over the years to me, and her husband is becoming a friend- he actually did the concrete for my shop a bit over a year ago. I'd LOVE for them to believe as we do...
Church of God. Huh...
I used to think everybody who went to Church of God was an argumentative person who was always looking for an excuse to pick a fight. I had met so many of them and they were always trying to debate everything, with a most condemning, disparaging attitude.
Then just by chance I found out that this really cool, very large black guy I had been working with for 3 years - a real gentle giant - is a Church of God member.
Moral of the story, this is the reason I try to not talk a lot about things and groups of people I don't like. Well, one of the reasons. There's always a chance I could be wrong.
Praying for y'all Nelle.
I'm back in my cave finally. Very much not enjoying online training which is nothing more than bloviating and hot air. Thanks, my attorney at law brethren. Apparently the 20 plus years of experience is no match for a law degree and I must not have common sense. I suspect this is a direct result of the George Floyd incident. This particular training is on "de-escalation of conflict". That is basic common sense, and there is no way someone talking for an hour at a time about it is going to install that in someone...:pound:
And Isaac, this family is the farthest thing from confrontational that I've ever seen. Gentle loving wonderful people.
And fwiw- I learned that lesson years ago. At 18, I worked with a Assembly of God Pastor who learned that I was United Pentecostal. He wouldn't talk to me for a week. Finally he broke down and told me at a previous job he had worked with a UPC/Oneness man, who told him every day he was going to hell for believing the Trinity.
He and I agreed we knew each other's beliefs, and chose to concentrate of the things we agreed on, and not the things we disagreed with. It was obvious we would not change each other's minds.. As a result, he became one of my dearest friends and I still speak with him sometimes. And the time we worked together was some of the best I've ever had- spending all day singing gospel songs while we worked and talking about trucks, relationships, God- everything.
I'm reminded of the verse that says a brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city. We may be 100% in the right- but if we present our case in a negative way like that, we can effectively shut the door for ANYONE to reach the person we are talking to. And that, my friend is WRONG, and to me constitutes murder of a soul. Don't compromise- but don't be confrontational either.
Urgh. Work. SO necessary. So thankful to have a job. And yet, it is the bane of my existence. :pound:
And it is FLOODING here today. My yard and neighborhood looks like a lake...
Put up a "No Fishing" sign, just to see what people say.
Been raining and storming hard here since yesterday. Thunder and lightening was LOUD around 5am. Woke us both up. Alexa was glowing. The TV came on at random. The thundering booms were rattling my old house windows. I was like what in the world is happening.
Quote from: Roscoe on February 07, 2023, 08:15:15 PMWe may be 100% in the right- but if we present our case in a negative way like that, we can effectively shut the door for ANYONE to reach the person we are talking to. And that, my friend is WRONG, and to me constitutes murder of a soul. Don't compromise- but don't be confrontational either.
In my experience this is a piece that gets lost as a church gets larger. My experience with the church turned sour the older I got which is why I am the way I am now. It became about rules and do this or else and when my convictions began to not mirror the church I was in it was a very hard situation to be in. One that eventually became toxic for me.
Quote from: MsJennJenn on February 08, 2023, 05:35:30 PMQuote from: Roscoe on February 07, 2023, 08:15:15 PMWe may be 100% in the right- but if we present our case in a negative way like that, we can effectively shut the door for ANYONE to reach the person we are talking to. And that, my friend is WRONG, and to me constitutes murder of a soul. Don't compromise- but don't be confrontational either.
In my experience this is a piece that gets lost as a church gets larger. My experience with the church turned sour the older I got which is why I am the way I am now. It became about rules and do this or else and when my convictions began to not mirror the church I was in it was a very hard situation to be in. One that eventually became toxic for me.
It's a difficult thing to follow. On the one hand, there are things you can't condone, can't compromise on. And sometimes, as a minister, yes, I have to tell you that according to the Word, what you are doing is wrong and ultimately will send you to Hell. And, as an old time Pentecostal, honestly, I long to see the holiness I grew up with. But I know for a fact some of the outward holiness I saw was just that, outward. It manifest itself in their lives many years later when they got out of church.
And I've known people from my youth that would take pleasure in telling someone when they were wrong, and not in love, either. I can recall in my youth if a lady wore pants into church more than three times, someone would tell her she needed to start wearing dresses or she'd be lost. While I still believe in standards, and I'll take that particular example as a hill to die on per the Word, there is a way to show someone truth. And it CAN be done with love in a way that is not offensive. And ultimately, I can put the word out there. I can counsel. But I can't make someone live it. THEY have to get it for themselves. And if a lady comes to my church wearing all the paint in the world, in men's apparel, with jewelry hanging...I'll teach. I'll reach. And I'll remind myself I've got until they pass to possibly be the example and pray them through to an understanding of the Word of God. And if they choose not to- I can stand before God knowing I didn't knowingly hurt them.
**Currently, I have several ladies that have recently started coming, and this is something I am learning. I've noticed little changes. And I know when they GET it, it won't leave..
And y'all got to stop getting me worked up.
Quote from: Roscoe on February 08, 2023, 08:21:01 PMAnd y'all got to stop getting me worked up.
haha sorry not sorry. for me it resonates when I can see/hear someone else in the faith speak about how they do things/operate that is different then what I grew up in. It helps. In some form. :thumbsup2:
Yeah... If only people from a certain church in our town would learn that.
Shoot, they might have converted me to not using musical instruments, if only they didn't make excuses to argue about it every time they saw me.
I spent years very bitter and wanting nothing to do with the Apostolic faith because of how I was treated by some of the churches around here. Experienced first hand the high pressure churches put on folks to speak in tongues and the accusations of you don't have enough faith or you didn't truly repent if you couldn't speak in tongues. About 7 months ago I wandered into a Wednesday night service at ACW just to visit. The pastor and his wife latched onto me and begin to minister to the wounds in my spirit and restore my faith in God's promise to pour out his Spirit. I've been a part of ACW ever since then.
My church is hosting the ALJC Indiana Section 2 rally this Friday night. I'm looking forward to it. The guest preacher for the rally is staying over and preaching our Sunday morning service too.
Morning all. Back at work. Bah. Humbug. Wound up just having prayer meeting last night. Out of 40-ish people we had 7 adults and a handful of kiddos show up. The floods had many of my folks stuck where they could not get out their country roads.
Thankfully, sometime in the night the rain stopped and the wind began to blow..hard. It dried up SOME of the infernal water. And today looks to be beautiful.
And I am having to learn about "Create in me a clean heart oh God, Renew a right spirit within me" first hand today.
Yesterday evening I received a subpoena. Had a guy that was supervised by me for all of 2 visits before he quit coming in and absconded- which is what we call it when someone on supervision stops coming in and disappear- two years ago.
Now- I have to drive 3 hours, to be AT a courthouse at 845 am, which means I'll leave at 530 ish, sit in a court room half the day, just to say "Yep. He quit coming in, and yep, that's him." All this- ON Monday. MY DAY OFF. So not pleased. Of course I'll get the day back later, but it'll take some doing...
I'm mostly offended for you at the time of morning you have to leave.. lol.
@Work. Came in an hour and a half late. Got sick this morning. Pretty sure my nerves had worked up too much from the basement getting water in it last night. Jeremy acted like it wasn't bad this morning tho. However... I felt bad how he found out we had water in the basement. His dad (who needs a social filter x1000000) called him at 5:30am and woke him up. I would NEVER call anyone that early in the morning unless I was dying or knew without a doubt they were always up then. Jeremy can't go back to sleep so instead he was up 1.5 hours early. I apologized like 50 times. haha..
Quote from: Nelle on February 09, 2023, 04:12:14 PMI'm mostly offended for you at the time of morning you have to leave.. lol.
Same. Anything before 9am is offensive in my opinion.
Quote from: Roscoe on February 09, 2023, 02:34:17 PMAnd I am having to learn about "Create in me a clean heart oh God, Renew a right spirit within me" first hand today.
Yesterday evening I received a subpoena. Had a guy that was supervised by me for all of 2 visits before he quit coming in and absconded- which is what we call it when someone on supervision stops coming in and disappear- two years ago.
Now- I have to drive 3 hours, to be AT a courthouse at 845 am, which means I'll leave at 530 ish, sit in a court room half the day, just to say "Yep. He quit coming in, and yep, that's him." All this- ON Monday. MY DAY OFF. So not pleased. Of course I'll get the day back later, but it'll take some doing...
Worse yet, the offending party probably won't even notice the inconvenience. To him you will be just an accusing face in the crowd, verifying that he is guilty.
I am so over the constant 911 fires at work. omggggg its never ending.
I feel like all I am doing is following up and its literally the WORST.
Retail is the absolute worst.
I need a really chill like... month at work to catch up on backlog of just paperwork organization. I'm dreading our audit in a couple of months because I have nothing sorted! LOL.. I'm going to look chaotic and unorganized.. which I am currently. haha..
Billing is backlogged, filing is backlogged, etc etc. The only thing NOT backlogged is payroll!
Payroll is pretty important. ;)
I'm not thinking you could get away with a backlog there.
Urgh. Back to dreary with some spots of rain today. Not a fan. But it is Friday, so there's that to be thankful for..
It's dreary here too. Yesterday was really nice.
All I've seen today is the inside of Walmart. No clue what the weather outside has been doing other than being a bit chilly when I left for work this morning.
Spent all day today in Little Rock. :pound:
A church member's grown daughter is in the hospital. Lou and I went there to visit her and prayer for her. First she was in dialysis...so Lou had me take her Good will shopping. When we finally got to see her, she seemed monumentally uninterested. But we were there, we prayed, we did what we could. It was 6 pm before I got home- not what I'd planned for the day..
Don't ever take Lou to McKay's used bookstore. If she sees that looooooong rack of bargain cds, you'll never see her again. Takes me a good six hours to look through the bargain shelves alone.
Morning everyone.
I really don't wanna get going today.
:waving:
@Work.
Spent all weekend at church making chocolate covered strawberries. I'm tired.
I am going to spend some of my work day eating the dozen I bought for myself, hahaha.
Urgh. Sitting in a courtroom three hours from home. On my day off. Of course there is the plus that they moved the time to 1245...
Quote from: Nelle on February 13, 2023, 03:04:03 PMSpent all weekend at church making chocolate covered strawberries. I'm tired.
Do not miss church fundraisers at all LOL
Works been semi quiet today. Bosses Dad in Africa passed away this morning. He's been fighting a rough battle with ALS ever since I've been her admin (almost 2 years). Glad he's at peace, but sad for her. :-(
That is so sad. :(
Yay to Roscoe for later start for court.
Well. The court date meant I drove 3 hours; sat for 2 hours on the most uncomfortable pews I've ever sat on; just to have the guy plea guilty. Finally got back this evening. Boss says I can take off Friday in return.
Friday is a good day to have off. :)
Eh, it depends. I got last Friday off, but only because I had that stomach virus that has been going around.
Not a fan of the stomach virus. There are some muscles in my upper chest I need for breathing that got strained with vomiting.
I also noticed that for a 24-hour flu, it overstayed its welcome by a good 7 hours. I need to find out who's in charge of scheduling these things and file a complaint.
Morning. Made it back to work. Coffee is my friend..
Urgh. I am NOT a morning person. :pound:
The Dot Gov finally returned my money. Now counting down to vacation. No idea where we are going but we going SOMEWHERE. :lol:
I'm not a morning person, either. :yawn:
Walmart made me get around and come to work way too early this morning. Not used to working 7-4.
It's crazy how fast 40 years can go by. Our 40th anniversary is Sunday.
Congrats!
Im about to get to 1 year. Its amazing how fast that flew by.
Congrats Sandra. That is a long time.
I am 3.5 months in haha
Yes, congrats. If I make it to September without Lou collecting my life insurance, we will have 20 years in. And man, today's been a mixed bag at work. I had an offender come in who relates well to me, and is currently facing a long stretch in prison due to some unlicensed pharmaceutical enterprises he was found to be engaging in. :nono: During the talk, he expressed that he had "found God in prison and it changed him, but he had not known where to go when he got out and had gotten sidetracked. He then began to talk to me knowing I am a minister. Long story short, I stepped out of parole officer mode and with his consent stepped into preacher mode. Wound up teaching him an abbreviated one God bible study with him asking questions, and at his request, depending on the outcome of his court case next Wednesday, he either wants me to teach him a full bible study or have a UPC Chaplin in the prison system speak with him and teach him. Sometimes I wonder why I am in the job I am- and then I see why.
Then, as if there was a danger I'd let this go to my head, I had an offender with mental illness come in, blast me by telling me I was condescending and mean to her, and I triggered her. I was floored. The only time I'd ever been remotely less than kind was when she called me and I was brief on the phone due to being busy, telling her we'd discuss her situation when she reported in. After about thirty minutes of talk with a coworker and I, we got it sorted out- I think.
Now I just wanna go home and start the weekend.
Haha they cant all be like the first one Bobby. If only right?
I'm so glad its Friday.
Unfortunately my allergies woke up and chose violence this morning. :noo:
@Work.
So tired. Unfortunately I was looking at a free Saturday, BUT work will now win that competition. I'm currently planning to do that work at home, so at least there's that! I can work in my pjs with cat breaks in the main part of the house, hahaha.
Shew. Chey and I went mattress shopping yesterday. Our family needs new mattresses, as our memory foam is remembering more than it should. As in, in my particular case, it has settled to my body shape and is not providing support. Worse than a deadbeat dad. :pound:
I now know three things. 1) Mattresses are much higher than I expected and remembered. 2) My daughter has expensive tastes- instead of the $500 mattress, she wants one that is list price $1300- uh, no. And 3) our vacation is in jeopardy due to said costs. :pound:
I bought my last mattress at Sam's
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on February 18, 2023, 08:02:32 PMI bought my last mattress at Sam's
Well, we have a discount mattress place in Conway I went to. Basically factory seconds, stuff like a miss-sewn cover or the like, or last year's model, still new and with factory warranty. The one we have now, several years old, was a second and I sure can't complain about it After much shopping we went back there today. Wound up buying Chey a mattress that listed for $2200 for $600, and us one that listed for around $1800 for about the same. Spent a total of around $1250 for the two, with tax, but that should do us for a few years. Hated to part with the money, but sometimes ya gotta do it. Now chillin' in the recliner and contemplating tomorrow's service.
Been a crazy day here. Accidentally overslept so I was late to work. Then found out one of my coworkers went home early because her new blood pressure medicine made her dizzy. 2 other associates was off today so we ran the department just barely staffed on a busy weekend. Freight was a mess. None of the tvs that were on our truck list came in today. I fear they'll all arrive on tomorrow's truck.
No rest for the weary tomorrow. Got church in the morning. Then I go back to the church building in the afternoon to start training to join the media team.
It's turned out to be a beautiful afternoon. I'm thankful.
Been a busy but fun day. Had a couple awesome church services this morning. 1st session talked about God strengthening us when we find ourselves in a wilderness place like he did Elijah in 1 Kings 19. Second service was talking about ushering in the presence of God and revival. Don't think there was a dry eye in the building.
Had my initial training this afternoon for helping out with the ProPresenter program and other things in the sound booth. Next couple of weeks I'll be shadowing the brother that's been running things to get hands on training.
I told hubby since we'd spent 40 years in the wilderness (our 40th anniversary was today), we should be headed into the promise land now. ;)
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on February 20, 2023, 03:25:41 AMI told hubby since we'd spent 40 years in the wilderness (our 40th anniversary was today), we should be headed into the promise land now. ;)
:laughhard:
@Work.
Parents surprised me yesterday morning by showing up for church and then took me to lunch afterwards. We ate Japanese food for lunch. It was delicious as always!!
Jeremy took me to Don Sol (mexican) after he got home from work Saturday. It was good! Both Jeremy & my parents made me strawberry cakes lol. I may not eat any strawberries for a while now.
Bobby it's ridiculous what mattresses cost. And I don't think they last as long as they "say" they should last.
FedX delivered mine in this smallish box. I told them that's not what I ordered, I have a king size bed. She said you'd be surprised what they pack in that size box... and I was. It was folded and compressed and when it got the air back in it, it worked just fine.
Haha yea they compact those things in now! It is crazy :biglaugh:
Been there.
Those boxes are small, but HEAVY! And when you open the plastic and let the mattress out, it just keeps growing and growing and growing, like those foam toys in little pills that you add water to.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on February 20, 2023, 03:25:41 AMI told hubby since we'd spent 40 years in the wilderness (our 40th anniversary was today), we should be headed into the promise land now. ;)
The way I heard it, east Texas IS the promised land. WEST Texas is the wilderness.
Morning all. Requesting prayer for an unspoken situation.
Feel kinda blah today, not the best for sure.
Rainy morning here today.
Good morning everyone!
Was rainy here too. Husband said he couldnt even see the road lines when he went to work this morning it was raining so hard. Not the kind of thing you want to hear from your one-eyed husband lol... Suns shining now though. Thank goodness. My mental health cannot handle gloomy days, especially after a poor sleep night. zZZz
It was rainy this morning but pretty later on.
:hi: Dashing in at bedtime. Busy as what all day. Then church. Now, fixing to go to bed..
:waving:
Been a day. Ready to call it one and go home. Only an hour to go.
Been a busy couple of days for me. Had prayer meeting Wednesday night. When I pulled into the church parking lot I wondered if we was actually having service cause it was dark and almost no cars. Apparently if they're not feeding kids Wednesday night everyone shows up last minute.
Had my first choir practice last night. Was fun. We had more tennors and altos than sopranos. Pastor talked me into showing him a bit of what I can do on piano after practice. Glanced up and he was excitedly guesturing to his wife and pointing to me playing the keyboard. Later he was talking about teaching me how to read chord sheets since I don't know how to do that. Have the feeling that ability isn't going to be allowed to sit idle for long.
Also found out last night I'm scheduled in the sound booth much of the next month.
Nice.
Been a long couple of days. I'm frazzled. I would say I'm glad it is the weekend, but I don't see much difference in it, other than the change of work duties. LOL
We've been running around some today. I only found one garage sale but they didn't have anything that I needed. Then went to Sam's.
We also ended up buying a project 4 wheeler that hubby found somehow. :smirk:
You guys and your projects... :roll:
I got 8 dozen duck eggs! And a promise of a steady supply. So I'm happy now.
This is actually a pretty big deal because sometimes it's hard to find a supplier and the "eggs" at the store are weak, watery things.
Duck egg shells are tougher than I remember. I mean, I remember them being tough, but they are tougher than I thought I remembered them being last time.
Another busy day at Walmart. Folks are getting tax money back and buying plenty of unnecessary stuff. Seen more tvs and speakers the last couple weeks than I care to.
Quote from: Backseat Radio on February 25, 2023, 08:18:27 PMAnother busy day at Walmart. Folks are getting tax money back and buying plenty of unnecessary stuff. Seen more tvs and speakers the last couple weeks than I care to.
Yeah we're seeing a lot more double quarter pounders too.
The town where I w*rk is big enough to have a movie theater, bowling alley, etc. but has none of these. So when people get money the best thing to do in town is... sigh... go to McDonald's. And the double quarter pounder is their default "I wanna blow some money!" sandwich.
We sold a LOT of DQPs yesterday.
Wow, that sounds like overkill. A quarter pounder is plenty.
Wore myself out today. Was up at 5:30 AM to be to church by about 8:30 AM. Bro Joseph (my team lead at church) was showing me the process of setting up ProPresenter for the morning services. Sis Whitney (our pastor's wife) taught the lesson during first service talking about Sarai and Hagar. Second service God took over and started moving. Pastor didn't get a chance to preach.
Was in the 50's this afternoon so I took my bicycle out for a spin to the church parking lot and back. I'm pretty out of shape cause my leg muscles told me off real quick.
Shew. So...
Yesterday- drive Rusty to Conway, pick up mattresses; back home, then to Russellville where I bought a new recliner and Lou found a cabinet, I guess it's a pantry/wine rack, that wound up coming home too. Then back to Conway, for Lou and Chey to find new comforter set; and a new pink chair... and new pillows... finally got home around 8pm and was up until near midnight moving things around and getting the mattresses installed.
Today was getting stuff organized, working on a sermon for tonight. Our live stream services have apparently paid off. Had a guy start watching a few weeks ago. He reached out, saying he'd like to come but didn't have a ride. Turned out he lives around 2 miles from me, so I picked him up tonight. Moved here recently, has been in an apostolic church for years, and was looking for one when he moved here. Very good spirit, I hope he makes us his home church.
Preached, came home and I am finally going to have a day to rest..kinda.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on February 26, 2023, 10:25:16 PMWow, that sounds like overkill. A quarter pounder is plenty.
I wouldn't know. I never eat them.
But some order a double with extra meat and cheese. I call it the cholesterol special. Or the heart attack special.
I don't ever eat them, either. At least I haven't in years but it's still a pretty big burger.
A double quarter is usually what I order at Mcdonald's. I order it without ketchup and mustard, add Mac sauce.
Well. I guess it is 11 am, I need to do something productive. I confess I've simply laid around all morning listening to the wind blowing outside.
Quote from: Roscoe on February 27, 2023, 04:39:49 PMA double quarter is usually what I order at Mcdonald's. I order it without ketchup and mustard, add Mac sauce.
Well. I guess it is 11 am, I need to do something productive. I confess I've simply laid around all morning listening to the wind blowing outside.
lol that's how the hubs orders it.
I usually get nuggies.
ANd it's okay to rest lol your actual day of rest (aka sunday) isnt restful being a pastor I'm sure.
This may sound odd... but if I'm craving their little onion pieces, I'll order a cheeseburger. Otherwise I usually order nuggets as well.
@Work.
Busy, busy week. Working to catch things up before the auditors (our CPAs) arrived Wednesday. They'll power through two days of torture (with a lot of fun too.. because they have our sense of humor) and hopefully I won't have any surprises there, haha. Then Friday and Saturday is our Hyphen "conference" weekend at our church. Sunday church. Back to the work grind on Monday. I'll probably be working late every day except Friday this week.
Eww no way. No onions on anything except a Bloomin' Onion or onion rings LOL
Had another coworker tell me today she won't be coming back to my church because of what the church teaches. Sad because she was attending it before I even got back in church and had picked the church because that's where she felt God.
Quote from: Backseat Radio on February 27, 2023, 10:55:59 PMHad another coworker tell me today she won't be coming back to my church because of what the church teaches. Sad because she was attending it before I even got back in church and had picked the church because that's where she felt God.
It's sad, if the church is biblically correct in their teaching. I've had several over the years that just plain didn't like what was taught even though it was biblical. Nothing you can do but pray for them..
So, after my last post, I hauled off a ton of cardboard. Then Chey and I fired up the Miata, went and pulled a part from the church bus that I have to replace, and cruised around Petit Jean with the top down, drinking Boba Tea (her) and diet soda (me). I always enjoy those little moments with my baby girl.
Now she has just sauteed some shrimp in butter with all kinds of seasonings including smoked paprika, to make shrimp and broccoli alfredo. I don't like shrimp...broccoli...or alfredo, but man the shrimp be smellin' and tastin' RIGHT.
And she has finally put my long desired buttermilk pie together and in the oven...
Today is a day that makes me see I really could get behind retirement it's 73 degrees and beautiful.
Was the oneness of God that got her. She's still convinced the Trinity is biblical and somehow hadn't realized yet that we don't believe in the Trinity doctrine.
Quote from: Lynx on February 26, 2023, 11:27:55 AMQuote from: Backseat Radio on February 25, 2023, 08:18:27 PMAnother busy day at Walmart. Folks are getting tax money back and buying plenty of unnecessary stuff. Seen more tvs and speakers the last couple weeks than I care to.
Yeah we're seeing a lot more double quarter pounders too.
The town where I w*rk is big enough to have a movie theater, bowling alley, etc. but has none of these. So when people get money the best thing to do in town is... sigh... go to McDonald's. And the double quarter pounder is their default "I wanna blow some money!" sandwich.
We sold a LOT of DQPs yesterday.
You may appreciate this...after the conversations about DQP, I decided I would get one for lunch.
The employee asked me to pull up because they were "...waiting on quarter meat."
I know what she meant, but I immediately thought "What kind of quarter meat?"
Quarter horse? Quarter pounder? A quarter of beef? A quarter of WHAT?!?
I may not want a burger now!
:ugly:
Quote from: Roscoe on February 27, 2023, 11:20:47 PMdrinking Boba Tea (her) and diet soda (me). I always enjoy those little moments with my baby girl.
Now she has just sauteed some shrimp in butter with all kinds of seasonings including smoked paprika, to make shrimp and broccoli alfredo. I don't like shrimp...broccoli...or alfredo, but man the shrimp be smellin' and tastin' RIGHT.
And she has finally put my long desired buttermilk pie together and in the oven...
Today is a day that makes me see I really could get behind retirement it's 73 degrees and beautiful.
I love boba tea - sans the boba LOL... at my pho spot they have a "thai tea" and i get it often but without the tapioca balls. i do not like the texture lol
i really wish i could get the hubs to like shrimp. or seafood period. :smirk2:
Gorgeous warm 83 here. lol
I'm a "texture" person too. That's why I don't like shrimp unless they are fried. It ain't the taste. :lol: And the boba- Chey had me try it. Nastiness squared.
It's beautiful here too and I'm stuck inside. But when I get home I'm gonna throw a steak on the grill..
And today, I am mentally checked out. I want a cabin, away from everyone...:lol:
In my opinion shrimp can stay in the ocean
It's so nice to see Spring flowers blooming. Winter is not my favorite season.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on March 01, 2023, 03:37:18 PMIt's so nice to see Spring flowers blooming. Winter is not my favorite season.
SAME. I loathe winter. It's raining here today though. Boo.
I have a second interview today at 11:30 for a promotion. Send up your prayers! :great:
Well. I'm late to see this but I hope it went well Jenn. And I am tired of winter too.
And BSR, I usually agree on shrimp but if they are fried I can accept 'em..
Been a busy day despite me having no one scheduled. And it is raining. Nice temp though.
NOw, fixing to go to church where several have called out sick, and see what God has for us..
Urgh. And again I say Urgh.
I don't wanna adult today, again. I'm drinking Mountain Dew which I don't need...ate a breakfast burrito I don't need...and still wanna go to sleep.
And it's not due to lack of sleep. I slept well. I'm just lazy and unmotivated. :laughhard:
I'm super sleepy this morning. Choir practice was a blast last night. Pastor kept getting sidetracked and messing up what he was supposed to be doing on the piano. Also had some kids on the front row copying the choir director acting like they was directing the choir.
Storms supposed to be coming today here.
@Work. I'm "tarred." lol.. Monday & Tuesday, I worked 12.5 hours. Wednesday I worked 11.5. I'm hopeful today isn't like the others. Our audit (with our CPAs) (which actually is used for our taxes as well as our prequal for bidding State of IL projects as well) will be over after today! Back to the normal, scheduled chaos at the office.
We have Hyphen Weekend at our church this weekend. I'm going to the service Friday night to support, but I doubt I'll be going Saturday morning unless someone says they need me to help serve breakfast or lunch. I'm technically out of this age group completely, but glad to help if needed.
The interview went well. I feel like I did well anyway. The HR guy DEF liked me I think. He was like I have no doubt you have the skillset needed.
He said I was his first interview and he wasn't doing many. He made it sound like he had only one more besides me. So could come down to me or them. Now I'm just waiting (in agony lol) for the final and third interview with the Senior VP. Who I would actually admin for.
So more prayers please! I laid in bed last night (cus hubbs work until 4am) and just prayed over it too. Really feeling stuck at work. Starting to hate it cus my current boss is a mess. And I don't want to feel like that. Just really think the change would be good for me.
Ugh. It's Friday thank de lawd.
Had to go to Little Rock last night. Fifteen year old nephew in Conway, love the kid to pieces, has anger issues and has been acting out and skipping school. Made vague threats about self-harm and they sent him to a hospital. He didn't want to go, was a scared kid, but he trusts me, so we went up, talked him into going and took him there. I love the kid but I'm at a loss as to what to do for him. His mom is a single mom, does everything she can for him, but her boyfriend doesn't help situations and his mom does tend to react in kind- he yells- she yells. He stomps, she stomps and so on, and that doesn't help either. Add all of that with the fact the boy's father isn't in the picture and he is biracial which he has confided is a challenge in itself for him, well, it's bad. He's a sweet kid but lashing out at everything. Prayers for him please.
Oh, and if someone -looking at You, Lord- could turn off the water faucet around here, that'd be great. I'm at the point of using my stockpiled lumber I have for the bedroom addition renovation to start building an ark. It ain't gopher wood but it'll do..... :lol:
We had the roof blow off of a business in town last night. It got rough for a bit.
@Work, but I don't want to be. I'm exhausted after all these hours this week and cranky on top. :) We have the Hyphen service tonight. I don't want to go.. but I know I have to. Hopefully I'll be able to stay home all day tomorrow!
It's Friday, Friday, everybody get down on Friday! :hypocrite:
Still waiting to hear about the third interview and going insane. :noo:
:hi: Went to a ham radio swap meet. Installed new radio in Chey's Miata. Fixed an issue with the corvette's radio. Not much otherwise.
Saturday was pretty and sunny. :)
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Been a crazy weekend for me. Friday evening's storm knocked out partial power to my Walmart forcing us to close the store at 7pm. The lights inside the store started strobing and flashing like we was at the scene of some kind of accident. Apparently something went wrong in the power lines at the main intersection of the highways the store is at. Was told Duke Energy had to shut down the power twice that night doing repairs.
Church was good today. I got put on running the ProPresenter program during first session. By the end of service my finger was cramping from using the Apple mouse.
It's so nice and sunny it makes you want to plant a garden. We usually get a cold spell near Easter, I'm not sure if it's safe yet...
:hi: Been a busy couple of days. Been a week that church or things relative to church has taken up every spare minute of time. Friday night- ice machine at church died, I got called because the couple cleaning weren't sure how to turn it off. Went up, wound up there for a couple hours speaking with them. Sat evening- several hours there studying.... Church yesterday...then late last night my assistant pastor called with the news that his 81 year old mother had fallen, hit her head and was med flighted to Little Rock. This morning broke with the news that she was not expected to live, so I got up early and went to Little Rock. She finally passed around 7 pm. Thankful I could be there for him but lawd knows I've got little desire to be back at a hospital... now back to the OTHER job tomorrow.
Urgh. Morning unkind.
No coffee. Zero sugar Coke ain't doing it. I'm dressed up for the second straight day- potential court- and ain't happy. I'm a grump and to make matters worse I'm starving.
Potential court? Like, they can't tell you for sure whether you will even have to show up or not?
I would have a dress shirt, dress coat, tie and dress pants on a hanger in the back room at the office. If you need them, they are there. If you don't need them, you can be comfortable today.
My boss is back from Africa. Someone please rescue me. I can't handle it. I'm so frustrated.
Haven't heard back on the job interview either. Dying over here. :'(
I am here. It's hard to think what to cook all the time. It's even hard to think of something to pick up to eat around here.
Urgh.
Potential court means just that Isaac. Basically, they thought they might need me to testify, so they put me "on standby". Basically if they do need me I gotta drop everything and go. I wore the dress up clothes because they were handy. LOL.
And Fuzz, I feel your pain. I've got a handful of recipes it seems like I cook all the time; they get old. And when you are working all the time, it is hard to want to cook of an evening.
Plugging through the morning, me and Jesus- and a frappe. Got a semi-busy day ahead, and church tonight...
Got a busy day ahead for me too. Work 9-6. Then head straight to church. I'm on ProPresenter duty tonight so I'll be on my feet all service.
@Work. It's been a long year and a half... lol. I need a boring week at work to catch up on MY job duties that I already have planned out for work to be done on. I keep having to put out fires for a year and a half... I'm behind.
I also tried to work on church books last evening and got absolutely nowhere. I'm not sure what's wrong.. if it's me or the spreadsheet. I'm hoping to work on it today at lunch on a regular computer since my laptop hates its life and me. lol
Nelle: If your laptop was here I would install a new system on it. Sounds like the whole thing needs a reinstall.
Bobby: "Me, Jesus and a frappe" sounds like it should be a hit country song. Wouldn't hear it at church, but probably at a concert. Maybe even a Christian concert.
Quote from: Lynx on March 09, 2023, 11:34:10 AMBobby: "Me, Jesus and a frappe" sounds like it should be a hit country song. Wouldn't hear it at church, but probably at a concert. Maybe even a Christian concert.
Consider me as the singing artist. I'm ALL about my 7-Brew
In fact- got one this morning since I had to go to Conway to get new tires on my work car.
Bad news: lost my debit card. Good news- the local Colton's has it. LOL.
Got the wheel bearing put on Lou's car. I feel totally validated as it was the one that I had said it was. On the down side, the other side was making some noise too, and all the local parts stores can't get it. The dealership is even back ordered. Fortunately Rock Auto has it so I ordered another from them and will pay to have it installed next week.
Worked almost 10 hours yesterday at the office.
We had our team engagement survey feedback session on the boss. It didnt go well. :frustrated:
Still nothing about the job. Emailing them this afternoon to follow up.
Quote from: Lynx on March 09, 2023, 11:34:10 AMNelle: If your laptop was here I would install a new system on it. Sounds like the whole thing needs a reinstall.
It for sureeeee needs some tech medical help, haha. I'm hoping to get to a point where we can practically wipe it and start over. I just need to save files over to something else and make sure I have a brief amount of time I can do without it.
@Work. Eating mini corn tacos for lunch w/ sour cream. They need something else than sour cream, but it was a quick grab from the fridge this morning, haha.
Jeremy's car is arriving tomorrow! I'm unsure when we are going to the dealership to give the other half of our lives away yet tho.
Urgh . It's Friday. The moron of a pastor of our church scheduled prayer meeting tonight too. No recliner time.. :laughhard:
Seriously though...Like a bonehead, Tuesday I left my debit at the local Colton's, as I posted yesterday. Didn't discover it , but when I did Lou turned off the debit card. Our little country bank doesn't give me that capability on the app. So yesterday, I go and pick it up. She supposed to turn it on....
Guess who didn't turn it on, and thereby forced me into fasting my breakfast? :pound: Even, I shall get.....
I'm shocked they even give that option! Once they find out ours are not with us they're "We're sending you out a new one.. see it in 7-10 business days." LOL.. Also - NEVER leave them at Wendys overnight! Ours destroys them in the mornings. I found out the hard way one time.. Didn't realize I had left it there until the next day. They just never handed it back to me from the drive-thru and didn't put forth any effort into trying to let me know. (I would've looked someone up on FB.. I'm in there all the time.)
Anywho.. I'm @work.
Tis snowing again in Indiana. So looking forward to the weather warming up for the season. Not looking forward to the clock changing this weekend. Thankfully I'm not scheduled to work in the sound booth Sunday.
Quote from: Nelle on March 09, 2023, 06:30:36 PMQuote from: Lynx on March 09, 2023, 11:34:10 AMNelle: If your laptop was here I would install a new system on it. Sounds like the whole thing needs a reinstall.
It for sureeeee needs some tech medical help, haha. I'm hoping to get to a point where we can practically wipe it and start over. I just need to save files over to something else and make sure I have a brief amount of time I can do without it.
You could install a different system on a flash drive and run on that in the meantime. I have run on such a flash drive system for years. They are pretty easy to install and use, and only cost a flash drive.
My Capitol One bank lets me "lock" the debit card. If I lose it but then hope to find it lol
My little east tx credit union even lets us lock them on the app.
Also, Tia, I'm glad y'all got snow and not us. I'm ready for sunshine and flowers.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on March 10, 2023, 05:24:03 PMAlso, Tia, I'm glad y'all got snow and not us. I'm ready for sunshine and flowers.
I'm really to put the bicycle and the lawnmower to work
Sooooo ready for sunshine and flowers here too. It pourrreddd yesterday. I was supposed to go to this Tulip farm where you can pick your own and buy yesterday with my girlfriend who lives like 10 mins from the farm. But it poured so we didn't get to go. :'( :sadbounce:
Suns out and bright today though. Thank goodness. Definitely needed it after my year-end review. Boss made me cry and I told her she made me cry. 80% of my stress is because of her but she's the type of leader who turns her issues back around on our team being the ones at fault instead. I've not gotten the rating she gave me in 5-6 years. So it stunk hard. Super disengaging.
Shew. Been busy. Home visits, then took one to the range and qualified her.
And in sharing- had lunch with two minister friends. One, pastor of the Conway UPC, has asked me to really step out of my comfort zone Monday night, but it may be the open door I've been needing too.
He has, over the last year, gotten in good with the local halfway house- a place that people in prison with nowhere to go parole out to. He started a ministry there, and has baptized several, some have received the holy ghost, and he is sort of their unofficial chaplain, having services there every week. He asked for me to come up Monday night and speak, telling me he knows that I can both guide them from the parole standpoint and from a Godly standpoint. Told me they generally have 20 to 30. I accepted. Then he called back- "Oh, we talked to the facility and when they learned the speaker was a parole officer AND a pastor, they have made it mandatory for everyone in their facility to attend" With fourteen duplexes, each with up to 4 men- I may have 100 or so to speak to. Lord give me words to say.
We DO receive a lot of people from the facility into our county, so there is a chance we will be able to connect with someone and help them which could help our church.
Sounds like a good opportunity for you Bobby. You'll have the right words!! You always do!
Personally I'd rather have a big crowd than a small audience when I preach. Individual reactions get lost in the crowd and I can focus on what I'm supposed to say.
My 10-day vacation is just on the other side of today's work shift. I have almost made it.
I have never looked forward to a vacation as much as this one. I may have pushed it a little bit too far before taking some time off this time. Maybe I should have taken a vacation back in january.
Feeling a bit groggy from the time change. Forgot my tea this morning so I'm going without caffeine for a few hours. I'm not in the the sound booth this morning so didn't have to get up as early.
One of the ladies in the church that's mom/grandma to about half the church turns 95. Got a surprise party for her this afternoon.
Why is it Monday again? :cry2: :sadbounce:
The weeks go by so fast...
Done a bit today...mostly running. Little praying as well, in reference to tonight. Nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof. Funny, I don't get nervous teaching cops...or at my church...or dealing with offenders one on one. But this is new to me.
And.... done. Felt like it went decent. Bro Pearce called and told me several had approached him afterwards and said my words had spoken to what they were dealing with and needed, and one old guy came up wiping eyes and stated that I had confirmed everything he had been feeling and dealing with and everything I said was for him. So way I see it, if it helped ONE person, I was in the will of God and I'll take it as a win..
Now. To get some rest and go back to the secular job tomorrow..
Glad things went well, Bobby.
Good morning everyone.
Ready for a nap and my day is just starting.
I'm just not a morning person. It takes me a while to feel human.
Fuzz- this was on my door as long as I could get away with it. :laughhard:
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Shew Lawd. Very happy this morning. My coworker, Rena, who is like my sister, had came to church Sunday with us for the first time. She's AME, and the one I taught a bible study to a year or so ago...
We had a shout down service, with a visiting preacher. After service, she vanished before I could talk to her.
Today she came in my office- "I haven't felt God like that in a loooong time. That man could preach and the presence of God was all over. I have had a peace like I've never felt every since that service. I WILL be back.FREQUENTLY."
Yeah, i wanted to shout. God is moving....
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on March 14, 2023, 01:43:44 PMI'm just not a morning person. It takes me a while to feel human.
Meeee either. I told an admin yesterday "I'm just really not a morning person" and she laughed and was like "girl it's 10:30"... so? And? It's still morning. I don't like any of it. It takes me a while to get going.
Urgh. Lawd. Hardly any sleep last night. Sooooo tired.
I can sleep well and still wake up tired. ;)
Me too!
Good morning everyone. Looks like we are in for a rainy day here.
Rain. Bah. :pound:
I took a "sleep aid" at 10 last night. Baaaad idea. Knocked me out, true enough, but woke up with a mouth full of cotton, or so it seemed, and a hangover. Three hours later I still feel hungover. :pound:
I know it wasn't simply melatonin, it was some kinda over the counter pill that was labeled as sleep aid. I will not be a consumer of them again...
@Work. Tired BUT I slept better last night than I had the two nights before. Also a rainy day here which means no relief for the sleepy, haha.
We are supposed to get storms today.
Rain doesn't start here till later this evening. Supposed to rain tomorrow too.
Service last night was good. Pastor preached from Luke 5:19-20 about making it easy for someone to come to Christ and how Christ is concerned first and foremost with spiritual healing for a person. He did drop a few names of church members while talking about how the various teams help visitors feel welcome - including pointing out that I was running the ProPresenter last night.
Our sound system/ProPresenter was having a glitch last night playing music in the auditorium we didn't want playing. We'll be combing the system tonight during praise team practice to figure it out and fix it.
Whew..
I'm at work. I had to come in late thanks to a very flat tire experience yesterday on the interstate. Mechanic thinks I ran over a nail ON the interstate. Deflated as soon as I pulled off the road and parked. I was 3/4 of the way STILL up the hill when it happened and had to drive to the nearest exit. Called husband and had him come change it for me. Thankfully he was off work and not too far away since he was almost home. Went by this morning and they repaired the flat for me. I'm going Monday afternoon to replace my four tires. It's been about 2 years but have basically got my mileage worth out of them. Thankful things went well!
We had a screw in one of our tires this morning. We had to stop and get it patched.
Y'all keep that tire demon in those other states. I ain't needing to meet it. Been a busy day. Runing most of the day. But in about 45 minutes, it's Hasta La Vista, baaaaby! At least until next week. I am looking forward to it- just to be away for a bit. I need to recharge.
I am back from vacation.
That last day of it was starting to get a bit boring. That's how you know the vacation was the perfect length, if you look forward to getting back to life as normal.
Been a busy day. Bro Joseph (the guy that's over the media team) put me to work this morning teaching me how to put Pastor's scriptures for class and worship service into the ProPresenter. Then he had me run the ProPresenter during class. Told me later its a good thing I wasn't running it during the main worship service cause the battery on the Apple keyboard died in the middle of service leaving him scrambling to plug it in and get enough charge to respond to commands.
After service the church photographer snapped some photos of me working on the ProPresenter since my mother, who can't get out much now, wants pictures of what I'm involved in at church.
Protip: Always plug in the keyboard before starting service, even if nobody else dones. For mission critical events, always plug in everything that can feasibly be plugged in. Ya just never know when a battery may die or a wireless connection may break.
It's still kinda chilly out but warming up, thankfully. At least the sun is shining. :shine:
Back from Branson. Everyone had a good time and the Sight and Sound play "Esther" was great.
Glad to be home though. A few hundred things I need to do, most of which likely will not get done...
I've never been to S&S in person, but TBN showed Esther on their channel one night. She's my favorite Bible "story" and it was so amazing even just watching on the tv!
@Work. This work chaos just never seems to chill out. ONE day I'll be back on schedule and looking for things to do, I'm sure... I just haven't seen that day in over a year and a half... so I'm not sure if I'll recognize it. LOL
Husband is finally feeling better and going to work today. He was throwing up all night Sunday evening and most of Monday. Hopefully it was just a 24 hour bug. He hadn't thrown up since 1pm Monday and actually kept his meal down last night. Thankful that I haven't seemed to catch it. I ate carefully last night JUST in case, hahaha. Didn't want to trigger anything.
Didn't get the promotion. They went with an external. After both interviews telling me they were hoping for an internal.
What's the point of being internal if you can't get anywhere internally. So incredibly frustrating.
I'm sorry MJJ! I hope your current job situation gets less awful so that you have the mental space to find another spot to go if you need to do so.
Speaking of awful jobs..
I'm thankful for my job. I'm thankful to be employed. I am not however, thankful for the idiocy of the state of IL, some of our subcontractors, and those in-between. LOL. I am in literal need of a vacation where I can just relax and not be expected to do anything beyond breathe, eat, shower, sleep.. you know, the life functions, haha.
Quote from: Nelle on March 21, 2023, 09:37:23 PMI'm sorry MJJ! I hope your current job situation gets less awful so that you have the mental space to find another spot to go if you need to do so.
Speaking of awful jobs..
I'm thankful for my job. I'm thankful to be employed. I am not however, thankful for the idiocy of the state of IL, some of our subcontractors, and those in-between. LOL. I am in literal need of a vacation where I can just relax and not be expected to do anything beyond breathe, eat, shower, sleep.. you know, the life functions, haha.
About the shower part... Last week I figured out it is negotiable. With nobody else to offend, I didn't have to shower until I personally couldn't stand it.
I got to see Chel today. :)
It's my boss. She's the issue I have currently. And quite honestly I'm just bored. Which affects me a lot mentally cus I'm just home alone a lot (cus hubbs works closing shifts a lot in his own retail environment). My friends are non-existent these days (despite one living next door). I'm just not stimulated in many areas and it's affecting my mental health. I also probably need to see a therapist about a few things including my church past.
Some job stimulation would help. and not being frustrated on the daily with my awful boss.
It's hard to even think about leaving CVS because I've been here 22 years and I will NOT get 7 weeks of paid vacation which is what I have now anywhere. Ever. LOL. I'll be lucky to even get 2 weeks.
Yeah that vacation time would be hard to let go! I get two weeks only now and forever, haha. Jeremy will soon get four.. which means I'll be mad at him two weeks a year at least LOL.
Definitely start the therapy. That might help some.. two birds one stone. Dealing with your past as well as something to stimulate your mind! Some of that can be difficult to work through.
I'm officially back in 16W skirts. :clap: Wore 20W when I started back on the no added sugar/sweetener diet about a month and a half ago.
I don't know woman sizes, so I have no idea what size that is. I know there's something called a size zero and something called a size double zero, but I get the impression that is for people who starve themselves.
But I am vaguely aware that woman get happy when they go to lower sizes... So I rejoice with thee.
Good job, Tia. :great:
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Found myself busy today, but with time for me. Did a bit of work on my eternal project, Sam. Enjoying this vacation. So ready to have the old truck finished....
Just two of us in the office today. Our VP left for a comedy show with his wife earlier. Corporate Secretary was supposed to be on a trip to Kentucky with her husband (the General Manager), but their son-in-law is in the hospital still so they are having to stay and handle their grandchildren's schedules for their parents.
Hopefully getting released today or this weekend sometime. It's a huge complicated story and he still needs so much prayer. Started out they thought he had double pneumonia, but wasn't getting better with antibiotics. They checked him out again and thought he had congestive heart failure and lung cancer. God saved him from certain death by allowing him to secure a cardiology appointment BEFORE his lung biopsy appointment. If he had the biopsy done, he would not have made it off the table due to his heart issues. His heart is working at 10%. They're thinking he may have a virus-caused heart issue and sending him home with a vest defibrillator until he's able to get one put in. He's high risk for sudden death. Honestly, it seems just like the heart/lung issues caused by COVID infections, which he's had more than once. Anyway, they haven't been able to dive into his lung issues yet due to the heart being such a serious issue. We're hoping that's not lung cancer, but perhaps caused by the covid infections as well. His name is Ben. He (age 44) has a wife (Jess, 33 and my friend) and three kids, 19, 8 and 2. Young family!
Hopefully the storms aren't too crazy today/tonight, so I can get some laundry done. I have a "Ladies Day Out" service tomorrow that'll take up most of my morning/afternoon between the travel, service and meal.
I've been able to schedule an appointment with my dentist for them to fix my tooth that's started hurting this week. I get to go April 21st. a month away!
Hi. Been busy. Beautiful couple of days, and I've gotten a bit done. Church tonight....felt like the devil came too. Had a visitor that something wasn't right with her. Struggled a bit, then got the church praying. Was able to get through, but I felt the service was hindered greatly.
One more blessed day off, and I'm back at work. :pound:
Been a great day here.
I ran the ProPresenter during first session at church. Bro Joseph had entered the scriptures for the first session. Even with him and I both checking to make sure we had the scriptures in correctly, we missed that he'd accidentally put in 1 Corinthians 1:18-28 rather than 1 Corinthians 11:18-28 until Pastor got to that passage in the middle of class. Had a bit of a scramble to fix it.
During first session Pastor talked about communion and the importance of it since we're having our communion service the Wednesday before Easter. He also covered what the requirements are for participating in communion... that the person has to have repented, been baptized in Jesus name, and be actively seeking to receive the Spirit. He's going to give opportunity at the communion service for repentance and for anyone that hasn't been baptized yet to be baptized before we actually partake of the emblems. Also told us that they'll be using primarily wine for the communion but also have grape juice available for those that have convictions about drinking alcohol.
2nd session we got through 2 songs and God took over the service turning into a shouting and prayer service. Pastor didn't even get a chance to preach.
Was nice and warm out this afternoon (mid 50's) so I took my bicycle out for a ride.
It was a beautiful day here today, too.
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Shew lawd. Busy day here. Went and took the church bus to the stripers so they can see what they are going to do. Hopefully by the end of the week, we'll have it lettered with the church name, finally. Then met up with a friend and got an estimate to have a french drain built at the church, to redirect the water that has destroyed our parking lot. Got a quote for paving...$29k. Yeah, we will be parking on gravel or repaired surfaces for a long while. But we might as well fix the drainage problem. While I had him on the hook, I had him come out and get an estimate to solve some of our water problems at the house. That'll be done in a couple weeks. Then I went and got flowers for the window boxes and planted them, so now we have a bit of color like we should have in the spring. Finally- got some patch work done on Sam so I can move forward with the next phase on him. I tell you, I'm gonna have to live to 140 to get everything done I need to...
I thought you already got French drains for your backyard.
Or was that somebody else?
Quote from: Lynx on March 28, 2023, 11:02:44 AMI thought you already got French drains for your backyard.
Or was that somebody else?
Wasn't me. I did some work in the back yard, adding soil, etc, but the drain for the house was a last ditch thing, no pun intended. I didn't wanna spend the money.... and I still ain't. Just gonna have him do a ditch at the back of the property for now, and I'll work on the rest of it myself this summer. I neglected to buy a backhoe attachment for my tractor , and at $7k, I'm not gonna buy one now. :pound:
The actual French drain will be at the church. Water flows off that hill and destroys the parking lot.
Shew lawd. Back at work. It's rough coming back after ten days off...
@Work.
Been having tooth pain for over a week.. can't get in to get repaired until April 21st.. BUT I'm thankful for Advil and the occasional moments without pain that somehow are happening without medication.
I was SO sleepy yesterday evening driving home. If I hadn't been in my right mind and talking to my momma, I could've probably fallen asleep driving haha. I laid down on the couch when I got home and slept for about 2 hours. Could barely still keep my eyes open, so I went to bed early and slept thru the night for the most part. I'm not 100% today, but I don't feel quite like I did yesterday at least. I woke up this morning without tooth pain at its normal level, actually probably about 5% instead of like 40-50%. Hoping when I go for my cleaning on Friday morning they can assess it and see if it's super urgent or not. The pain isn't fun, but it's not unbearable - just really irritating.
Jeremy's mom graduated to a walker yesterday! I know she will enjoy more mobility than she had with the wheelchair. And hopefully by the end of April, she will be down to a cane! Therapy, time, and God have definitely been helping her!
I feel like I mentioned my friends Ben and Jess the other day about his heart. He was able to come home yesterday with the cardiac defibrillator vest. I'm not sure when he can get one implanted, but hopefully not too far away.
Feeling bleh today. Fighting some kinda cold or something. :smirk2:
Have absolutely no motivation today.
Day two of feeling like crud. Deep cough, all the symptoms of a bad cold, and I just ache. Probably should call in but I've just came back from time off and need to be there. Thankfully my schedule is light today...
I shifted my day off from Monday to Wednesday, so happy day off!
Chel came over today since I had a checkup at the heart doctor.
Hope the checkup went well, Fuzz.
After dragging through the day yesterday with this chest cold/crud I've had for the last four days, my boss told me "You've got over 800 hours of sick time. Take it." I protested I'd been out all last week on vacation and he said that didn't matter. So this morning when I woke myself up hacking up a lung, I took his advice and called in. I hope they don't drug test for Nyquil. I've been drinking shots of it. LOL. Well, not really. But it has stopped the coughing. Feel much better now, just laying in the recliner.
So glad it's Friday. Had to be on camera starting at 9. I'm already over it. :roll:
I have covid now. Bleh.
I just got back from a vacation, worked a whole week, and now I'm on the sidelines until the fourth.
I think they meant April fourth. If they mean something else, I hope they'll mention it.
That's no fun, Isaac.
Aside from the boredom it's not all that bad. My family doesn't seem to be hit very hard by covid. I think it's genetic.
For our family it seems to usually be like a mild cold that doesn't even bother to put out all the symptoms. But I have to stay home anyway. Some people get hit a lot harder, and I don't want them to catch it from me.
Well, having had it twice- and possibly a third time, undiagnosed- it wasn't bad for me either other than the tiredness afterwards. I did deal with that. But it really messed Lou up... she still has struggles and symptoms.
Got up today and installed a grab rail/handicap assist in the church's women's bathroom. A week or so ago, while in the church office, there was a knock on the door. Sweet little 80 year old saint who's been a member most of my life:" Bro Moses, do you think we could get a handicap rail in a bathroom stall? I was stuck in the bathroom for a while because I had nothing to grab and just about didn't make it up without falling". I'd never thought about it. So today there is a 36 inch long angle handicap rail in a stall in the women's bathroom. Then I went and saw an old friend, came home and did more work on Sam, and I sit here, considering tomorrow's sermon and smoking a pot roast...
It's amazing the sheer number of little things you have to consider as a pastor. Our church recently got a defibrilator unit hanging on the wall at the major hall intersection. I had never thought of that, but apparently someone mentioned it to the pastor and we decided we need it.
It's crazy what you never needed when you're younger but when you put on a few years it is almost a necessity.
Quote from: Roscoe on April 01, 2023, 10:57:28 PMWell, having had it twice- and possibly a third time, undiagnosed- it wasn't bad for me either other than the tiredness afterwards. I did deal with that. But it really messed Lou up... she still has struggles and symptoms.
Got up today and installed a grab rail/handicap assist in the church's women's bathroom. A week or so ago, while in the church office, there was a knock on the door. Sweet little 80 year old saint who's been a member most of my life:" Bro Moses, do you think we could get a handicap rail in a bathroom stall? I was stuck in the bathroom for a while because I had nothing to grab and just about didn't make it up without falling". I'd never thought about it. So today there is a 36 inch long angle handicap rail in a stall in the women's bathroom. Then I went and saw an old friend, came home and did more work on Sam, and I sit here, considering tomorrow's sermon and smoking a pot roast...
How did I miss this before?
*Lynx runs off yelling, "Bobby's smoking pot! Bobby's smoking pot!"
Snitch.
Had morning service today. First time in 15 years we've had a morning service on Sunday in regular worship. We, like many churches, went to one service a Sunday way back then and never changed it.
We will see how it goes, and if we will keep this or not.
I'm fixing to leave and go pick up a brother needing a ride. I stayed at church between services, ate at local Sonic and came back, to study and pray. I know what I'm preaching, I just pray His anointing flows and it comes out like I know it needs to...
We had a bit over 30 there this morning. Kinda surprised me, I know we have several that have to work on Sunday morning, so I had honestly expected low 20s... Now to see if the morning attendees show up tonight too. My worry doing this was that we'd wind up with 15 or 20 in each service.
Our reasoning was to change things up, return to a more traditional time since around here most churches of other denominations are still sunday morning and sunday night, and help some of our elderly who have night blindness be able to make services
Something recently occurred to me. I'm not sure if it's true and I have no idea what it means if it is true, but I can't remember anything that contradicts it.
I have seen a lot of places in the Bible where men are warned to avoid women who will bring them trouble. I can't remember anywhere in the Bible where women are warned to avoid men who bring trouble.
Any help here?
Monday again. Spend the weekend working in my garden and yard. I ache. lol
I've planted my amaryllis bulbs and a few tomatoes. Today I sowed a few squash and cucumber seeds.
I built 2 raised garden beds. Then did the layering approach to fill them.
I did tomatoes, cucumbers, watermelon, red bell pepper, basil, cilantro and jalapenos from plants. and did carrots, sunflowers, zinnias, and green beans from seed.
@Work. I worked yesterday too.. just in case anyone was wondering if I skipped out, haha.
Wendys is having their $3 breakfast deal (croissant bacon or sausage and their seasoned potatoes), so of course this hungry bear stopped this morning. I get the bacon b/c sausage always ends up grossing me out. I'm glad they also stopped peppering their seasoned breakfast potatoes so heavily. Much more enjoyable now!
Brought Sam's chicken salad for lunch. I have two days to eat the container's worth, so I'm sharing with a coworker or two. Hate wasting it when it's so expensive.
My main office coworker is completely hoarse today. She's been fighting this sickness for a month now. I would've thought she would've gone to the doctor by now.. obviously her body can't fight it off by itself. Hopefully she will get help soon or get better soon. Both for her sake and ours. I'll have to cover all the phones today since she's not able to speak and be heard, haha.
Urgh. Back at work. Spent yesterday running errands and doing yard work. Got some containers planted with my annuals. Flower beds next week, hopefully. Ready for the day to be over already..lol
The other night, there was some hail in part of our town that was a little bigger than a golf ball. :o
I was glad we didn't get much here since I'd just planted those tomatoes.
Man it stormed last night . Wind like no one's business, rain...woke me up. But this morning- calm. Very overcast and muggy though. I wouldn't put the idea of bad weather to day out of the realm of possibility. Dragging a bit today. And hungry. :pound:
Yeltz'pah!
Yesterday when I was allowed to go back to work, I found out a coworker, one of the nicest ladies you'll ever meet, lost her home during the tornadoes last Friday night. She and hers were in the house when the tornado started tearing it up. Her baby was actually sucked into the next room and buried under some debris. No major injuries, fortunately. But it's a good thing he didn't get knocked unconscious, because if he hadn't been crying they might never have found him.
So they were sitting in the car when the second tornado came through and really trounced the place.
Some things just shouldn't happen to some really nice people. :-\
I'm a nerd, so all I can offer is a backup laptop or spare phone if they need one. Yeah, that probably won't be much help.
That's sad. :-( We had storms roll through again this morning but we didn't get any bad stuff. The sun is shining, now.
Me too Sandra. I didnt even get any rain.
I've been back on the early bird 7-4 shift this week. Not used to working so early in the day so I'm tired.
Well I'm up early. Storm rolling through. Good thing I happened to go to bed a bit early last night.
Might sit out in the garage for a bit and watch the show.
"Oh I love a stormy night
Yes I do..."
You getting old, Isaac.
Overcast today. As is normal, I am dragging, but trying to make it appear I'm good. On the bright side- I'm currently listening to Kenny Hinson and Call me gone. So it's a good day. Semi dreading this weekend- gotta preach a memorial for my assistant pastor's mother. She used to come to church, then went to a Baptist church for several years and just recently before her passing started back with us. Like 3, 4 services. Not really sure what to say- I didn't know her alot as I was young when she left our church.
I demand a refund!
They said the storm last night / this morning would be even more severe than last Friday night. We didn't even get heavy thunderstorm. A little distant thunder and light rain all day long is all we got.
I oughta sue for false advertising.
I'ma sue for it too. It keeps telling me I should expect rain, alas no rain.
If no rain, I dont want the gloom!! I want sunshine!! :demand:
It's been raining here all day.
And I had to have the air conditioner on the other day and thought we were done with the heater but nope. Heater is on today.
:hi:
Thank God it is Friday. Been a long week. Overcast but not terrible here. Been cruising the highways and byways today. Ready to go home.
Shew Lord. Memorial service today for my assistant pastor's mother who died last month. The parking lot has evidence of work from the french drain installation which is half finished. They called to tell me the water was off- yes, I know, I will turn it on in a minute- the installer of the drain turned it off to move a water line and wanted to give the repair time to dry.
So, I stop and get all three hairs left on my head cut, get the water turned on and air out of the system, then realize no one has ordered flowers from the church, and my church secretary is out of town. I call the local flower shops, one in the next county is open. I shoot over, and discover that I'd gave Lou the church debit card to get things for the family's meal after the service. :pound: Thankfully, Bro Wilson had used that little florist before and the church has an account there. I ain't near the platform yet and I'm already done with this. LOL.
And Lou is singing, mainly old songs which she's not as familiar with and is trying to coax me into singing with her. Uh, no.
:hi:
Everyone disappear?
Quiet in here. Had 70 in church this morning. Most I've seen there in a long time. Made my day. Now, after the service, and after the hour wait at the restaurant..I'm glad to be at home chilling....
It was a pretty day here. No rain, for a change.
Good morning everyone!
:ugly:
Quote from: Roscoe on April 09, 2023, 08:50:27 PM:hi:
Everyone disappear?
I'm here. Just nothing much to say.
We sure need the sunshine the weather forecast says we will be getting this week. The yard is tall and I need to get it mowed.
Sun is shining here thankfully!! :clap:
:hi: I'm here.
Was beautiful here. I managed to get the flowerbeds cleaned out, diseased rosebushes replaced, new mulch put down. I'm very pleased with my window boxes. They are really showing out:
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And the overall front lawn view...
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I didn't get to work on Sam though....too busy. Back to work in the morning.
I've not had the energy to post much lately. Sunday wasn't an easy day for me. The rest of my family is sick so we wasn't able to get together for the holiday. The only good part of Sunday was church. Had 2 choirs in Sunday morning service. Adult choir started off the service. Then the ACW kids choir did the song "God's Not Dead" in the middle of the service.
UGH. It is my Monday. Not a fan of this whole work for your bread thing.
It appears to be beautiful out too. I would be much better served to be off enjoying the things that bring me pleasure instead of inside, dealing with things that bring me annoyance. :pound:
Hope everyone is recovering, BSR. Maybe when everyone is, you can have a makeup Easter holiday celebration for family. We had to do that last year or the year before since everyone couldn't be with the family that one weekend. It was a couple of months late, but it was still really nice.
Church was good Sunday. We always have breakfast with our Sunday School, but they wanted this one a little extra special. Our pastor's wife made ham, Jeremy & I brought biscuits & sausage gravy and scrambled farm fresh eggs. We had a platter of fresh fruit (pastor's wife) and of course the OJ & milk. It was yummy.
We did go to Jeremy's grandma's house for lunch. Didn't eat much there. She always makes a Schwans meal these days. I wish she'd let us help her out, but she refuses any help. She gets tired so quick, I hate that she's tiring herself to make a lunch.
@work. Yesterday I was cranky.. all day. Wasted half a day with trying to figure out why my work computer just stopped letting me do things. My profile is also being used on my old computer in the back room... and our IT (off-site) had decided they wanted us to get rid of it or update it, so the VP here unplugged it and then.. bam... I have zero connection LOL. IT is gonna fix it and upgrade us to newer systems to avoid any of these hostage situations other companies in our field are experiencing.
Looks like Jeremy's getting approved for his service dog. Makes me nervous, but I hope this helps him. I know these dogs come trained, but I'm nervous about how the cats are going to react. I'm nervous about the process of getting the dog.. where the dog's gonna sleep, eat, etc. LOL. Our house isn't tiny, but the layout makes it seem tiny in half the house.
I told Jeremy this morning that not one part of me wanted to go to work today.. then I said.. well, except for the "I have bills to pay" part. LOL.
I never want to work ever. This working to live thing is wack. :noo:
My demon cat is WILD today. Okay he's wild every day.
Yesterday he broke two animals off of shelves.
Today he's knocked a plant over. with wet dirt cus i just watered.
he's been literally climbing in a window UNDER the blinds chasing a bug on the outside of the window.
AHHHHH :updown:
I'm not much on inside animals. Too much mess.
oh boy. Ours lose their minds when bugs come in as well. I just had to save my window screen over the weekend from a bug-crazed kitty haha.
@Work. Headache and eye ache today. I'm pretty sure it's mostly just because I'm really tired.. this is day 3 of feeling this way. I probably should go to bed as soon as I get home tonight from church, haha. Hopefully I can get some rest.
Jeremy's headed to Arizona for Memorial Day week(end) to see his best friend. My momma is gonna come up and hang out with me while he's gone. I have got to get this house tip-top shape before his service dog is here soon.
Just feel drained today. Not sick, just weak and no energy. a touch of a headache trying to sneak in. But it is beautiful here today- sunny and 80.I'm loving the weather.
Quote from: MsJennJenn on April 12, 2023, 04:42:58 PMMy demon cat is WILD today. Okay he's wild every day.
Yesterday he broke two animals off of shelves.
Today he's knocked a plant over. with wet dirt cus i just watered.
he's been literally climbing in a window UNDER the blinds chasing a bug on the outside of the window.
AHHHHH :updown:
My momma wouldn't put up with that junk. She has four cats now, had indoor cats all my life, but she doesn't tolerate that stuff from an animal less than 1/20th her mass.
Urgh. Church last night, typical Wednesday night around 25 there. Back at work today. Thankful for my job despite my desire to become a hermit. :lol:
Man. Everybody got quiet. They up to something......
Morning y'all. Nice talk with God at 3am. And on the way to work. Thankful it is Friday.
Woke up yesterday morning with what I assume is a new full-blown cold. Yay. Been sleeping horribly. Had to spend half this morning on the couch thanks to my inability to breathe and sleep at the same time, haha.
I'm @work. Hopefully I stay at least above water today. I'm supposed to go to the IBC Praise rally tonight.
Tomorrow is Jeremy's mom's benefit. Gotta get feeling better asap.
Praise Team practice last night threw me in on the deep end with the ProPresenter. Bro Joseph had told me Wednesday night that he wouldn't be at practice but that I was welcome to come to practice if I wanted to. He set all the songs into the system for me, or so we thought. Got there last night and the Praise Team picked a different "I am not alone" than the one that had been loaded and "The Lion and the Lamb" had the title there but no slides. Had to scramble to figure out how to find and load the 2 songs into the system without my trainer there to help me.
Ah, miscommunication.
If anyone complains, tell them take it out of your paycheck. =^.^=
Lawd. Yesterday- much travel. Prayer meeting last night. About twenty five and absolutely amazing presence of God. Looked up, and there was my boss and her husband of whom I have spoken, praying and speaking in tongues... I tell you, I feel like they are not satisfied with their church and like ours. My Lord, if they came and got a grip on oneness and Jesus Name baptism, it would be AMAZING.
Got up today and hauled a load of trash to the dump- it's spring clean up so free dump day- and then went to Russellville and grocery shopped a bit, then back to Morrilton to pick up some meds for the K9 babies. Another couple of errands and I finally managed to work on Sam a little around 4pm while Lou worked in the house and caught a nap. I'd say I worry about her- lately she's had blood pressure trouble and the covid after effects. I just have to trust in God, but I hate that she is so tired all the time. She's always been a sleeper/nap taker, but she has done more napping lately than in the past.
Hail storm came through just now...and I have steaks on the smoker.
And now you are up to date with Roscoe's world.. :lol:
Dina said they had a hail storm earlier. It was only cloudy here. It got hot today. The thermometer on the porch said 91*.
Beautiful here today. Came to church. After Sunday School, I stuck around as is my habit, while Lou and Chey went home to nap. Brother-in-law brought by his newest acquisition for me to look at- a '54 GMC pickup. Now... church tonight, then home and tomorrow will be a Sam day, possibly.
A Sam day as in working on, or as in driving around in?
Quote from: Lynx on April 17, 2023, 01:48:44 PMA Sam day as in working on, or as in driving around in?
Unfortunately- a working on day. As this is Sam's current state:
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And that black fender has to come off again for final adjustments and primer, and the grill is about to go in for primer as well.
It's alot of work being done on the old guy. Today I finished the final known metal patch, sealed it with rubberized bedliner as it is under the fender, did some finishing work with some body filler and sander...
At this point I'm just praying I'll get it done this year. It doesn't look like much work, but what seems to be ten minutes work winds up being several hours, and leads to something else..
So, today I did that and took my daughter and niece looking for the niece a car. Kid is 18 about to go to college, and has what daddy called a "beer budget and champagne tastes." I'm trying to find a $2500-3500 car I can help her get, she's over here dreaming about $13k Lexus hardtop convertibles and $30k Dodge Challengers. :pound:
Wait, that's RUSTY that is currently in driving condition.
So all this time you've had two old trucks, not one. Or did you get bored with Rusty when you got it operational and sell it?
Uncle Fred uses that beer/champagne phrase a lot. He also says he has caviar taste on a cheez whiz budget.
Wow... What a week so far.
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I think I posted last week that I hadn't been feeling well. It went into my chest a little on Saturday and I had to stay home from almost every event over the weekend. I did go to worship service instead of that and sunday school due to how gross I felt I was sounding haha. I had a hard time participating due to my voice cracking and making me cough constantly, but I know I was meant to be there in that service anyway. Pastor preached about the 9 lepers not praising and the 2 Samaritan lepers going back to praise. He said WE are the 9 lepers and it's time to praise. We had tongues and interpretation after quite a heavy praise service. It was something like 'You have praised me, now anything you ask, I will give you." Boy. Our church has been raked through the coals the last three years with Covid, change and death. But this past year has been the worst. Our finances and our families have been attacked (or another word maybe since I don't like to give the-one-who-doesn't-deserve-to-have-his-name-said any extra credit) through our marriages and our health. I honestly can't think of a service where God hasn't shown out though. He's working through our church and the "world" doesn't like it. BUT.. That interpretation.. it was like a spiritual bomb went off. It was powerful.
I went last night after work to the clinic and received a steroid shot and antibiotics if I need them. I can tell that my body has appreciated that steroid shot through the fact that my energy level is unmatched compared to me lately lol.
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Flash over to Monday.. it's chaos when I walk in the door at work. Pretty normal for the past year or two, but things got serious and scary quickly. I'll preface with a little back information first before I tell you what happened on our business property yesterday morning.
My coworker/friend Janet has/had a younger brother Justin who fell off a pole barn (while building it with their brother Clay) and he never woke back up. That's been about 20+ years, but their pain/loss is fresh as if it was last month. Very understandable. Clay works here at the business if we need help delivering gravel or whatnot using our dump trucks or (like yesterday) helping us build a new pole barn to store our equipment. Clay fell 16' from the truss onto large gravel yesterday around 10:15am. He mainly landed on his hip area and he got life flighted out. Their entire family just had flashbacks, as well as us who have seen their grief over the years.
I'm praising God that Clay's life was immediately spared. I'm praising God that Clay only has minimal kidney area bleeding that the doctors are sure they can fix. I'm also praising God that although Clay has broken pelvic/hip bones and fractures in his back, there are no other broken bones. He is hopefully having surgery today or sometime soon on his hip/pelvic bones and they are managing his pain well. It's been sweet and heartbreaking seeing his kids and his wife by his side in St Louis at Barnes-Jewish (the other amazing hospital up there). His daughter Tiffany is up there with her mom and her brother, but she is literally due to deliver a baby next week. We've also been covering her with prayer so that there will be no issues arise for her. So if you get a chance.. please pray for Clay Shadowens and his family. He is in good hands, but has quite a long road.
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My mother-in-law had her fundraiser benefit on Saturday. I think getting to be with friends really perked up her attitude as well. Did her a ton of good. Although the weather knocked out the car show that would've raised a substantial few thousand for her, the rest of the fundraiser apparently went well. I haven't heard a total yet, but we are so thankful for the prayers and donations everyone gave in her name. She has been improving as well. I don't know if I mentioned it here, but she is able to walk with a walker instead of just stuck in bed or in a wheelchair!
Wow, Nelle. Will be praying for Clay. And I totally understand about the church and all being raked through the coals. To some extent, I've felt like we live in the fire. But that's okay, because I know the Fourth Man is still walking in those flames and we WILL walk out victorious. Don't worry about the smoke smell that's just the smell of victory!
And in connection with the praise- I got woke up at 3am Friday morning. I don't know why God likes that hour ???
Plain as day- "Tell My people to WORSHIP Me. Not just praise"
So I've been putting together a bible study for Wednesday night. It has gotten me carried away because every time I think I've completed my notes, I find something else. It may turn into multiple bible studies. LOL
Isaac- I'll always have Rusty. He gives me fits from time to time but he's my go to. At least as long as it is daylight. He's developed a headlight issue I've got to track down. LOL
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Back at work. It started poorly. Forgot my gunbelt. Went and got it. Got a few miles down the road- forgot my phone. Had to go back AGAIN. Grumpy as what. But life is good and I thank God for His blessings.
Quote from: Lynx on April 13, 2023, 01:33:42 AMQuote from: MsJennJenn on April 12, 2023, 04:42:58 PMMy demon cat is WILD today. Okay he's wild every day.
Yesterday he broke two animals off of shelves.
Today he's knocked a plant over. with wet dirt cus i just watered.
he's been literally climbing in a window UNDER the blinds chasing a bug on the outside of the window.
AHHHHH :updown:
My momma wouldn't put up with that junk. She has four cats now, had indoor cats all my life, but she doesn't tolerate that stuff from an animal less than 1/20th her mass.
Well tell her to teach me some tips. Cus Idk how LOL.
He's a cat he DOES NOT LISTEN.
Is he playing enough? Like getting enough energy out. He might just need to get worn out from playing.. like a kid who gets bored.
I know they say not to do it, but we sprayed ours with water when they were little.
I know one thing.. whatever it was that worked when they were kittens... they recognize that I'm their alpha and they'd better stop doing something if I tell them to stop, hahaha. Doesn't mean they don't wait until I'm not around to do it again of course, hahaha. I just THINK I'm in charge. Thankfully ours aren't too rambunctious. They sleep all day and all night long it seems these days.
Quote from: Roscoe on April 18, 2023, 05:17:38 PMSo I've been putting together a bible study for Wednesday night. It has gotten me carried away because every time I think I've completed my notes, I find something else. It may turn into multiple bible studies. LOL
Yup, you've obviously been preaching for a while. New preachers will have 20 pages of notes and preach five minutes. Veterans will have four lines jotten on a napkin and preach an hour and a half.
Quote from: Lynx on April 18, 2023, 09:57:00 PMQuote from: Roscoe on April 18, 2023, 05:17:38 PMSo I've been putting together a bible study for Wednesday night. It has gotten me carried away because every time I think I've completed my notes, I find something else. It may turn into multiple bible studies. LOL
Yup, you've obviously been preaching for a while. New preachers will have 20 pages of notes and preach five minutes. Veterans will have four lines jotten on a napkin and preach an hour and a half.
I was accused of being long winded on easter. I had no notes, other than the sunday school lesson I read the title scripture to and forgot. I would have been offended had I not realized I had indeed , er, been a minute.
:hi: Urgh. Dear Lord it is morning.
Happens to the best of us.
At w*rk when someone says "Good morning!" I'll reply "I'm trying to not think about that" or "Fake news!"
Quote from: Nelle on April 18, 2023, 07:58:52 PMIs he playing enough? Like getting enough energy out. He might just need to get worn out from playing.. like a kid who gets bored.
I know they say not to do it, but we sprayed ours with water when they were little.
I know one thing.. whatever it was that worked when they were kittens... they recognize that I'm their alpha and they'd better stop doing something if I tell them to stop, hahaha. Doesn't mean they don't wait until I'm not around to do it again of course, hahaha. I just THINK I'm in charge. Thankfully ours aren't too rambunctious. They sleep all day and all night long it seems these days.
Oh yea he runs like a tornado allll morning LOL then he crashes most of afternoon/evening.
And i do have a spray bottle too. lol
Urgh. Got firearms training today. And of course, it's overcast with a possibility of rain. And re:cats. That stupid thing of Chey's seems to be in everlasting heat again. All that creature does is yowl and act crazy. I've always been ambivalent towards cats- really didn't love or hate them totally- but this thing has changed that to absolute hate. As in I find no redeeming value in her.:pound:
Bible study went well last night. Had, if I counted correctly, and counting kids, 43 present. Taught the first section of my bible study, "The concept of worship, and what it truly is"
No one stoned me. I had to make myself stop though. I coulda been really long winded. :lol:
Studying for a sermon sometimes feels like triage. Which parts can we afford to lose and which parts do we absolutely have to keep?
:hi:
I'm SO glad I didn't have to live through my cats heat cycles. We got them fixed ASAP because they were siblings and boy/girl pair ... and I wouldn't have made it through all that weirdness. Amazingly, our cats are still not super vocal anytime. They meow sometimes while they're playing with a toy, or when they want us or treats, haha.
@work. Gonna end up partially by myself by the time lunch happens. I'll have to go to the store for snacks before they leave since I can't leave the office unmanned.
Tomorrow at 11 I finally have my dentist appointment. Hoping they can figure out what's going on with that tooth so that I can stop chewing weird. Thankfully the discomfort has been minimal as far as pain lately.
I really need a vacation or just like a couple of days quiet somewhere.. even if it's just at home, haha. I feel like I'm on a runaway train speeding towards a brick wall. Work just keeps staying stressful, combined with church activities and responsibilities as well as family issues.. it's overwhelming.
Yea I adopted my cats pre-fixed lol. Keke meows in the AM when she's hungry but that's about it. Binxy meows very randomly and his meows are so cute I'm obsessed with his meows. :updown:
Morning- It is once more unkind to the fat old bald dude I saw in the mirror when I awoke.
Came a downpour last night. As in batten down the windows one more time, Noah, we going for a cruise downpour.
Today however it appears to be overcast but decent.
Tonight- youth deal at the church. I intend to make a rather brief appearance after work and roll to the house.
Spent last evening experimenting with casting my screen to the living room TV. It worked well, so I completed a Power Point for Bible study Wednesday night, just to experiment. They better not get too used to it- I don't know if I will have the time to do Power Points for every Bible Study. I KNOW that Sunday night messages won't have 'em. LOL
I DO need to go buy the church's monitor as well, and the mounting brackets. That may be a Saturday project.
I got this today on a funnies list. Made me think of the cat owners on here.
THEORIES OF CAT BEHAVIOR
LAW OF CAT INERTIA
A cat at rest will tend to remain at rest, unless acted upon by some outside force, such as the opening of cat food, or a nearby scurrying mouse.
LAW OF CAT MOTION
A cat will move in a straight line, unless there is a really good reason to change direction.
FIRST LAW OF CAT ENERGY CONSERVATION
Cats know that energy can neither be created nor destroyed and will, therefore, use as little energy as possible.
LAW OF BAG/BOX OCCUPANCY
All bags and boxes in a given room must contain a cat within the earliest possible nanosecond.
LAW OF FURNITURE REPLACEMENT
A cat's desire to scratch furniture is directly proportional to the cost of the furniture.
LAW OF CAT COMPOSITION
A cat is composed of Matter + Anti-matter + It Doesn't Matter.
LAW OF CAT OBEDIENCE
As yet undiscovered.
I can personally attest all these are fundamental laws of cat physics.
I can attest to them also. lol
Roscoe it POURED here last night. Even hailed. Pea size. But sunny as can be today.
My garden loved the rain. Can't wait to see everything sprout up!
They had a small tornado touch down in Tyler.
It was nice today. A bit cooler, around upper 60s, but still nice. I wound up buying and mounting a 65 inch in the sanctuary. By the time I and my nephew got that done, it was off to Conway to check on a sick man who has came several times and who is the father of our assistant pastor. He's 83, and it was his wife's memorial service we had recently. Had a few mini strokes....
Long story short, pretty much all day today was church business, which I really had not expected. Oh well. Maybe Monday I can work on Sam a bit. Now to get back to studying for tomorrow night.
You gonna put words to songs up on the wall? Or would half the people revolt?
Man, the controversy when we decided to cast video on the wall in church...
Quote from: Lynx on April 23, 2023, 02:09:11 PMYou gonna put words to songs up on the wall? Or would half the people revolt?
Man, the controversy when we decided to cast video on the wall in church...
I would think a church would want the words and scriptures up on a big screen for those that can't read the tiny print in a hymnal or bible or for new songs not in the hymnal.
Seems like everyone is positive about it. Haven't heard controversy about it at all. Even the older folks are okay with it. At the risk of getting into standards and such, the internet and the way nearly everything in society is based has numbed the thought of a screen being wrong.
Personally, I still teach and preach to put no evil thing before thine eye- be it on a big screen, a phone, a book, an ipad...period.
Still working on apps and the like to cast songs, but I've got a PowerPoint I'm gonna try tonight. We will see how it goes.
Quote from: Roscoe on April 23, 2023, 07:41:02 PMStill working on apps and the like to cast songs, but I've got a PowerPoint I'm gonna try tonight. We will see how it goes.
I hear OpenLP is good, easy to use and freeeeeee!
If you try it and don't like it, you haven't spent anything.
https://openlp.org/
Thanks! I'll check it out. It went pretty well last night, although I quickly determined that while I can use PowerPoint for Bible study, it doesn't work for preaching. The kid that was going to run it was out last night...and with my tendency to expound on things a bit, no way the slides would've helped anyway. LOL So the title was put up...the initial scripture, and then I forgot about it and chased God. :laughhard:
And the only negative I heard- was "Can we get one on this side too? I see a bit of a glare from the lights on that side.."
The way our baptistry is and the giant honkin' ceiling fan and then the overhead speaker set up- they block putting the screen in the center, so I put this one on the left side of the platform. Now I need to put a matching one on the right side I guess..
And I have to admit being SUPER lazy today. It's noon. I just got up at 1115, and washed dishes. That's the sum of productivity today.
Hi. Back at work stuck in a cpr class...
Been washing eggs. I got 9 dz sold for this afternoon. I won't get rich but it helps with feed costs.
Sleepy @work.
Finally got my root canal appointment for next Monday! Unfortunately I'm going to have to drive myself and I've only ever driven on the interstate in Paducah. It's just so busy everytime we've gone that I never really know where things are, haha. Thank goodness for gps!
:hi:
Day two of some training. I hate it when they bunch trainings together for several days in a row. Makes it difficult to schedule. Last week it was Firearms...yesterday it was CPR. Today it's Defensive Tactics, on a day that my shoulder says "No". :pound:
Quote from: Roscoe on April 26, 2023, 12:45:20 PM:hi:
Day two of some training. I hate it when they bunch trainings together for several days in a row. Makes it difficult to schedule. Last week it was Firearms...yesterday it was CPR. Today it's Defensive Tactics, on a day that my shoulder says "No". :pound:
Let's see, I know I have those old drill sergeant notes somewhere around here...
Ah, here we go!
S-uck it up soldier! You think the enemy is gonna let you off easy just because your shoulder ain't feelin' it today? Now get out there and...
Oh forget it. All that yelling hurts the throat.
Busy day ahead for me. Getting my teeth cleaned this morning. Got to mow my yard this afternoon. Then got choir practice tonight.
We got a corporate visit today. Hooray.
I know my job and I'll do it just like every other day. But there will be a LOT of free floating stress.
The main thing is, if you take collateral damage from a stressed out person snapping at you, remember he's not really mad at you. He's just got a lot of pressure right now. Keep moving.
Isaac when you get a minute text me. I think the number I have for you is old.....
Good morning all. Yesterday training got cancelled. Got a call from the school that Chey had blacked out. It was brief, but enough I called the doctor. Had to turn around and go pick her up. Doctor says Inner ear infection. Spent most of the day doing that and getting her medicine. Thankful for the amount of sick time I have I can take when needed.
Last night- part two of Bible study. I think next Wednesday I'll finish it up. I got to a point on "submission", realized how lengthy it was going to be on that point and how I was going to break it down, and decided I'd wait until next week for the incoming airborne overripe vegetables. :laughhard:
Back at work
Had to go to office 3 days this week for team meetings. So exhausting. I miss my pjs lol.
But I hit overtime right about now so that'll be nice. Supposed to storm again by tonight. So over the rain. I know it's good for my garden but I need a few days of sunshine.
I'm over rain too. I'm also over adulting; over working; over people, and pretty much over everything. I wanna do an Elijah and crawl into a cave, preferably with a good book, but I really would prefer something more substantial than a Raven bring my food. I don't think they can carry enough...
I dunno... Was he fed by one raven or a flock?
We had that blue-cover bible with pictures when I was a kid, and it had a drawing of Elijah being fed by a whole crowd of birds like a bucket brigade.
More rain in our forecast, too.
So I found out I am identified by my jokes. Oh well. It beats the previous method.
One time when Dad was on his way back to Kentucky after a visit here, he stopped by the local salvage grocery to see if they had any more of the dried cherries I had bought there. He introduced himself as Isaac's father. "Who's Isaac?" "He's the guy that when he finds something he likes, he buys every jar or box of it." "Oh, THAT guy! Yeah, we know him."
>.>
What? I know I'll never find that item again.
Last Saturday I met Amanda's husband at Subway. Amanda is a coworker, a rather kindly young lady. Her husband seems kindly too, and quite intelligent. Later he mentioned to Amanda that he had met one of her coworkers. "Cool, which one?" "Well he was a middle aged man and he was telling jokes, had everyone cracking up." (His estimate of the situation, not mine.) "Oh that would be Mr. Isaac."
Oh well. I'll take it. It's better than my father's method.
Been a busy day for me. Had a new hire in my department walk off the job and quit 2 hours into her shift yesterday so we had to work with one less person today... plus our department manager has the weekend off. My church was doing a tenderloin dinner fundraiser this afternoon, so I took a late lunch to go get me some food from the church. :fork:
Been lazy today. Hurt a bit this morning...spent most of the day studying for tomorrow. Then this afternoon, I fired up the smoker for fifth Sunday potluck. Tinkered a bit on the eternal project and actually fired up the motorhome and drove it a few miles, just to exercise it. I may be cruising it over to Isaac's general area this summer- got a nephew highly interested in a museum not far from his place, and he wants to come see it. I figure we'll fire up the motorhome one weekend and roll over.
It ain't the Buford Pusser museum, is it?
Sad it's Monday again. I'm with Roscoe I dont want to work. Over being an adult.
It's a beautiful sunny day today. No one wants to sit at a desk on those days.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on May 01, 2023, 07:44:15 PMIt's a beautiful sunny day today. No one wants to sit at a desk on those days.
Agreed. But at least sitting at my desk at home is better. Technically I could take my laptop outside if I wanted. But then I wouldn't have my big screen lol
Morning. Didn't have much time to get on the forum this weekend. Isaac- yes. The boy watched Walking Tall and was intrigued to hear it was based on a true story and the museum was within easy driving distance.
Beautiful here today. I'm about to head to court, then back to the office. Been a busy weekend.
Ministry wise, numbers were up Sunday, two new first time visitors, good potluck. Phone blew up afterwards, pretty much nonestop for a bit from various people with prayer request/issues looking for advice.
Next weekend- Ladies conference. Wedding. Birthday party for friend/church secretary. Sunday. I *might* get Monday to myself, but at this point I'm not banking on it..
Mom text me that she missed me. Little does she know I'm about to surprise her for mother's day!! :hypocrite:
Eek cant wait. So excited!! Just praying for an easy path with the flights. Flights are so wonky these days.
Quote from: MsJennJenn on May 02, 2023, 02:24:42 PMMom text me that she missed me. Little does she know I'm about to surprise her for mother's day!! :hypocrite:
Eek cant wait. So excited!! Just praying for an easy path with the flights. Flights are so wonky these days.
What, your broom acting up?
:ugly: I keed, I keed.... :laughhard:
Lawd, that wisecrack will have Jenn beating me to death if she ever sees me in person. And I'd deserve it.
Out of court. Now to get through the rest of the day....
Quote from: Roscoe on May 02, 2023, 06:21:00 PMQuote from: MsJennJenn on May 02, 2023, 02:24:42 PMMom text me that she missed me. Little does she know I'm about to surprise her for mother's day!! :hypocrite:
Eek cant wait. So excited!! Just praying for an easy path with the flights. Flights are so wonky these days.
What, your broom acting up?
:ugly: I keed, I keed.... :laughhard:
Lawd, that wisecrack will have Jenn beating me to death if she ever sees me in person. And I'd deserve it.
Out of court. Now to get through the rest of the day....
*quotes said wisecrack so we can enjoy the beating Roscoe gets later*
:ugly:
Quote from: Roscoe on May 02, 2023, 01:22:29 PMIsaac- yes. The boy watched Walking Tall and was intrigued to hear it was based on a true story and the museum was within easy driving distance.
Rats. I was hoping you would say it was something else. The guy died in a car wreck, but his sister moved heaven and Earth in an attempt to prove he was murdered. To this day she tries to act like that small town revolves around her.
I guess I should shut up. It's a little tourism money. Heaven knows that town could use it.
New music video idea:
All the single quarter
All the single quarter
All the single quarter
All the single quarter
All the single quarter
All the single quarter
All the single quarter
Throw your buns down
(And toast 'em!)
Back at the Mac
Looking for a snack
Double quarter's too much for me
Looking for lunch
Something to munch
A single quarter pounder with cheese
If I start to cry
When I'm up on the fries
Don't pay it any attention
Single quarter pounder
With fries and a drink
That's the perfect meal for me
I just wish we could put onion rings on it
Yeah I wish we could put onion rings on it
I'm afraid we don't have onion rings for it
But I wish we could put onion rings on it
Please don't take
This off the menu
Any time soon
Cheeseburger is just too small
Double quarter is off the wall
Single quarter pounder's just right for me
I just wish we could put onion rings on it
But I'm afraid we don't have onion rings for it
No, no, no
:ignore:
Urgh. Back at work. Mild headache, probably from sinus pressure.
Quote from: mini on May 02, 2023, 06:54:01 PMQuote from: Roscoe on May 02, 2023, 06:21:00 PMQuote from: MsJennJenn on May 02, 2023, 02:24:42 PMMom text me that she missed me. Little does she know I'm about to surprise her for mother's day!! :hypocrite:
Eek cant wait. So excited!! Just praying for an easy path with the flights. Flights are so wonky these days.
What, your broom acting up?
:ugly: I keed, I keed.... :laughhard:
Lawd, that wisecrack will have Jenn beating me to death if she ever sees me in person. And I'd deserve it.
Out of court. Now to get through the rest of the day....
*quotes said wisecrack so we can enjoy the beating Roscoe gets later*
:ugly:
:pound: :pound: to both of you.
and yes my broom broke. Waiting on Hogwarts to send a new one.
@MsJennJenn:laughhard: :laughhard:
Well. Survived bible study. What I intended to be a short sermon turned into a three-week bible study. *shrug* Now- get through tomorrow and Friday; spend Friday evening smoking meat for a birthday party while the wife is at a ladies meeting; Saturday wedding and birthday part; Sunday church...lawd.... PLEASE let Monday be pretty and without anything I HAVE to do....
Ugh. Grandma got up at 3am, determined to make some cornbread.
I was half tempted to let her try... Been forever since I've had some good cornbread. But we have no buttermilk.
Today gonna be caffeine powered. I can feel it already.
Man. Lyn, I hate that you are dealing with this, but it's great that you are there for Grandma.
Morning all. My sinuses feel like a rake has been drug through them. Repeatedly. Got to do an intake, then
several "normal" PO visits, and run to the jail. I'm dragging....
You could always use regular milk in the cornbread. Sour it with vinegar or lemon juice... but I'm sure at 3 am that wasn't really appealing.
Don't got no lemons neither.
I just kept repeating that it was the middle of the night and go back to bed until she finally did.
Strangely enough, I don't remember Mama using buttermilk in cornbread, and I don't either. Use sweet milk. But for biscuits- now, that's a buttermilk have to...
Speaking of food, I'm starving. I left lunch at home. And by 6pm, I shall move from hungry and annoyed to full blown HANGRY. Today would not be a good day for a fellow motorist to try my on the way home...
All of that sounds like entirely too much work when great cornbread comes in a box called Jiffy. lol
And now I want a bowl of cornbread and milk. :fork:
Quote from: MsJennJenn on May 04, 2023, 06:00:08 PMAll of that sounds like entirely too much work when great cornbread comes in a box called Jiffy. lol
And now I want a bowl of cornbread and milk. :fork:
Jiffy is NOT "great cornbread" I'm athinkin' it ain't even BAD cornbread. It has about as much in common with cornbread as a Chihuahua has with a wolf...
:laughhard:
Lawd, deliver us good southern men from Jiffy and "Whop" biscuits.....
I dont think any of that statement is true. lol It tastes just like cownbread.
I'm sure I've had 'from scratch' cornbread before, but Jiffy sure does just fine too, hahaha. Especially since I don't want to spend all day or half a day making things, hahaha.
@Work. I'm surviving! Root canal went perfectly fine on Monday and I even survived driving in Paducah alone. Thankful to the peeps who invented GPS.
Getting closer and closer to Jeremy visiting Arizona and me getting to spend time with my momma at my house!
I like Jiffy cornbread. Now, whop biscuits, that's another story.
Oh lawd. Jenn- you has went around de bend.
Lou will use Jiffy for jalapeno cornbread, which means there's two things in it I don't like- jalapenos and Jiffy.
It's too sweet. Reminds me of what my mama used to make for my northern grandfather (from Upstate New York). Of course she also added a touch of self rising flour too...we always considered it, when we were talking about it, Grandpa's cornbread or Johnnycake.
But to be honest I am not fond of cornbread in any form truthfully. Mama made a pan every night and my Dad couldn't get enough of it. For me- nah. I like light bread- which phrase probably dates me- it's what we called store-bought white bread as a kid..
The only "whop" biscuits I'll eat is Grands, and I don't consider them biscuits as much as a place to hold a piece of ham or sausage. LOL
Quote from: Roscoe on May 04, 2023, 06:21:28 PMQuote from: MsJennJenn on May 04, 2023, 06:00:08 PMAll of that sounds like entirely too much work when great cornbread comes in a box called Jiffy. lol
And now I want a bowl of cornbread and milk. :fork:
Jiffy is NOT "great cornbread" I'm athinkin' it ain't even BAD cornbread. It has about as much in common with cornbread as a Chihuahua has with a wolf...
:laughhard:
Lawd, deliver us good southern men from Jiffy and "Whop" biscuits.....
Preach it brother! Preach it!
Jerry Clower even had a piece on it.
https://youtu.be/3syiTtZkfP0
I don't like corse cornmeal. My mother in law used to make cornbread that was gritty. It was yucky.
We don't eat much cornbread or biscuits unless the biscuits are for gravy for breakfast at church. We get the frozen Pillsbury ones for that. They're too dry to be without gravy in my opinion.
@Work. My eyes want to sleep.
Rode my bicycle to Praise Team practice last night. Got there a little earlier than some of the others so I could get the ProPresenter and projectors running. Our alto got there, looked at me, and asked "where's your car?"
Cornbread is supposed to be sweet!! That's the best way to eat it. Slathered in butter or drowning in a bowl of milk. :pound:
I don't even know what whop biscuits are....
I don't think I've had homemade cornbread ever either. I grew up on Jiffy lol
:hi:
"Whop" biscuits, according to the Right Rev Jerry Clower, are biscuits in a can, because it sounded like a war on his street every morning with housewives "whopping" the can on the counter top to open them.
Been out and about today. Ready to go home, where I'll be up all night smoking meat...
Quote from: Roscoe on May 05, 2023, 06:59:36 PM:hi:
"Whop" biscuits, according to the Right Rev Jerry Clower, are biscuits in a can, because it sounded like a war on his street every morning with housewives "whopping" the can on the counter top to open them.
My family calls those "idiot biscuits" cause any idiot can open a can.
:hi:
Stayed up until 3 smoking meat. Burned the mess outta my left palm when the meat shifted and the boiling hot juice poured onto my hand. Fortunately, I was able to get it off my hand quick, and poured vinegar on it. Then treated it with aloe vera. Woke up this morning without blistering and little pain.
Completed the wedding and the birthday party.
Tomorrow- church. Then Monday is mine...
I'm glad you're ok, Roscoe. Burns are no fun.
Duly noted that Bobby stays up until after midnight to smoke.
Quote from: Lynx on May 07, 2023, 08:46:01 AMDuly noted that Bobby stays up until after midnight to smoke.
:laughhard:
I'm on my own today running the sound booth/ProPresenter. Bro Joseph and his wife are out this weekend celebrating their wedding anniversary.
ProPresenter has caused more ulcers in my church, I think, than spicy food. The sound booth people are always fretting over it and arguing with it.
Quote from: Lynx on May 07, 2023, 12:59:00 PMProPresenter has caused more ulcers in my church, I think, than spicy food. The sound booth people are always fretting over it and arguing with it.
I have more arguments with the apple mouse we have in the sound booth than anything else. If ProPresenter gives me fits I can call Pastor to help me figure it out since he's the one that got us into that system. This morning he had to sign into OBS for me so we could do our livestream since half of the congregation was out sick today.
My internet is giving me fits. We are SUPPOSED to be the fastest ethernet connected internet out there, but they sent a hotspot basically, with a mode that is Supposed to allow me to have it function as a router and use ethernet connections for the wifi. But no matter how I try, the ethernet connection fails, which means the church is using the hotspot- and with a metal roof- it no work. It's been dropping out mid sermon, and this morning I couldn't even get our monitor to connect. :pound:
Woke up at 4 this mornong with a thought for tonight. Have direction. Have scripture. Can't get notes together for love nor money. Usually when that happens it's all God. I'm a note using preacher so it always concerns me not having something to fall back and look at. But-follow Him.
I don't know where everyone was this morning. Wild to me how we can have 70 one service 25 the next, back to 40s and 50s the next and back to low 20s the next. Very annoying
Quote from: Roscoe on May 07, 2023, 07:18:59 PMMy internet is giving me fits. We are SUPPOSED to be the fastest ethernet connected internet out there, but they sent a hotspot basically, with a mode that is Supposed to allow me to have it function as a router and use ethernet connections for the wifi. But no matter how I try, the ethernet connection fails, which means the church is using the hotspot- and with a metal roof- it no work. It's been dropping out mid sermon, and this morning I couldn't even get our monitor to connect. :pound:
Who sold you that?
Didn't they do any testing before they left it, allegedly, running?
Find a nerd friend and get him to retrofit the system.
Anything that promises "fastest connection" is a scam.
@Work.
Sleepy. It's been a very rough weekend.
Our nephew has been having some behavior events and tried to hurt himself and his parents Saturday night. This is not the first violent event. Anyway.. the cops were called and he was taken to the hospital for a psych hold. He was taken to Springfield IL (3 hours from here) to do a two week detox off of all his medications. (He has an array of medicines due to his ADD or adhd, plus just recently, he was actually prescribed lithium for his variety of medical/mental issues.) He's 12. I can't go into what all is going on, but he's a very tormented young kid. If as a UPC person can say.. "bisexual announcement" was the LEAST of what was said.. you know it's a LOT happening. He needs prayer very badly. He's had a rough life in his 12 years, and he's already started making bad choices - whether they were brought on by chemical/hormonal/medication issues, remains to be seen. I feel like he's got a lot of medical, mental, spiritual, and emotional issues that are making a 'perfect storm' of sorts. Hopefully this program is a good first step to a better life for him. (His mother and father are not married.. not that it matters, but there's been a long history of probably what should've been considered domestic abuse between the parents, as well as habitual drug use and abuse BEFORE even the marijuana was made legal in IL. Among other drugs and some that we will never know about.)
During part of this crisis, I spent Saturday evening cleaning the church since it was our weekend. It took me four hours due to having to clean it alone. Jeremy was with them at the hospital for at least 3 hours of that. I was physically very exhausted.. it's been SO hot and humid, plus I hadn't planned on being there so long, so I hadn't had supper or even that much to eat all day. I had to have Jeremy switch laundry over so we could go to bed at some point since our bedding was being washed. It was SOOO nice crawling into clean sheets tho. It was too warm to use my heated mattress pad. I was sad about that too lol.
Goodness Nelle that sounds awful. :smirk2:
Nelle this stuff is more prevalent in youth,even church youth, than most of us have a clue about.
I and many other parents have battled things of this nature to varying degrees.
I know of at least three Godly, church attendees whose kids have been raised in church, kids who received the Holy Ghost and lived in a Christian Godly home and still acted out and battled it.
It's a spiritual attack on the home and on the church, and no one really understands until they have to fight it.
Some of it may be mental.... some of it due to medications as well....but I'm convinced that a large part of it stems from the spiritual and the fact that due to the internet, there are more pathways for perversion and more normalization of perversion than ever before.
And it doesn't matter how holy the parents are...the kids ultimately make their own decisions at some point. All you can do is pray, live a Godly example, and prolong the time for their decisions as long as possible.
Even though my direct experience wasn't as bad as it could have been, I found myself lost as to how to respond. Too hard may alienate the one you live. Too soft and you are condoning.
It's rough to find a middle ground...
I'll be praying for the kids family and him.
So. Yesterday...preached heart out on desperation.
Today...chey and I went to Krogers. Thats about all productive I can claim other than throwing a roast in the smoker
In my experience it's also because it's not talked about at all. It's seen in such a bad dark light and we try to hide/push it away. So then those involved don't feel welcome anymore and that sets off a spiral that's even worse.
A LOT of my issues with the church stemmed from the fear of retribution and NEVER talking about ANY thing that I went thru or could have went thru out of fear of retribution. There is so much of a spotlight on what NOT to do instead of on what to do if you fail/fall.
What if I stumble
What if I fall
What if I lose my step
And I make fools of us all
Would the love continue
If my walk became a crawl
What if I stumble
And what if I fall
Jenn you are right and in that sense it's more than just kids dealing with that. Grown adults deal with that too...
I've said it before- Sometimes I think Pentecostals are the only ones that kill our wounded instead of healing them.
Be the wounds self inflicted by bad choices or trauma from other issues, its still a wound and needs to be healed.
I know we can't heal everyone. And some don't want to be healed and hang on to their hurt like a prize bone. But there's alot of folks who messed up, or have issues- and instead of shining a path back, we dowse the lantern.
I was so encouraged to see Sis Mangun speak at BOTT about mental health...it too is something that has to be dealt with appropriately, not passed off as a lack of faith or of God.
Exposure to the internet has been one of his issues. It's really easy these days to just let them have the access and not have to deal with the anger and all. It's so hard to monitor everything they watch and intake.
Jeremy got a phone call from the facility yesterday and got to talk to him for a little bit. You have to have a code word or they won't connect the call. That's the only way they can ensure who they're being allowed to speak to. Anywho, he's been being punched around by some of the older teens in the pod. He even got punched while on the phone with Jeremy. Thankfully we are 3 hours away one-way.. or his very angry uncle might have gotten into trouble himself. They are apparently understaffed and the patients are not being supervised as they should be. We were all angry by day-end. Hopefully on Wednesday, they can initiate his transfer back to Southern IL area.. probably to Cape. His mom and Jeremy both called the facility to ask that something be done for his safety. He hasn't slept because he's afraid his roommate (that doesn't like him) will do something to him in his sleep. As calm as I have the ability to be, if someone hurts him, they're going to have too many people to answer to on this kid's family for sure. We need prayers for safety and favor in getting his transfer.
I went last night and got the prep work for my crown that I had a root canal on last Monday. It was NOWHERE near as painful as the last prep I had, haha. I just am SOOO ready to be able to eat on both sides of my mouth. Food isn't very interesting when I can't fully enjoy the taste of it. I won't be going back for the real crown until the 25th. Two more weeks!
It stormed here half of the morning yesterday and then some of the evening. I slept thru the storms last night thankfully. Waking up tired tho.. not sure if it's the cloudy skies or what.
Went to defensive tactic class today. Came home and grilled a steak. Tomorrow will be busy city, and at some point I have to get a bible study together. Ready for the weekend. I'm hoping to get some more work on Sam done.
Hubby's cell phone bit the dust today... with nothing backed up. It's been an interesting day.
Uh oh. Even a nerd can't help you there.
How much did he lose?
It's mostly contacts. Some I had but others I didn't. Oh, and a bunch of inspirational memes.
I would be lost if I lost everything LOL I do literally everything from my phone. Plus sooo many pics including my wedding pics.
It's sooooooooo gloomy here. Ugh. I need some sunshine.
:hi: Rather annoyed today. They set up an extradition team a while back and solicited officers to join. They would be flying all over the nation to bring folks back. We were told that if we volunteered for an extradition, we HAD to make sure our calendar was cleared, or we couldn't take it.
One of our officers decided she would take a two-day extradition to California. Instead of clearing her calendar, she just left appointment slips for her offender's telling them to report in and "other officers would see them". So we've had a steady stream in between our own clients, of hers. Nope. I'm telling them to come back Friday.
Myself and the other officers agree- ridiculous. You have a sick kid and have to be out- no prob, I'll do ALL of your job. You are on a vacation and your people act up? I got you on the paperwork.
You maliciously send your people in knowing you are out and expect us to do your job for you? Not happening.
:hi: Good morning!
Back at work on a rainy Thursday. Got the call that my cow is ready to be picked up from the processor. Several pounds of fresh steak, roasts, hamburger meat...oh, yes. I am a fan. That payment for it kinda hurts though...
I'm a tad irritable. I wanted a coffee this morning and the drive through was backed up. Same with the donut I wanted. So I thought, " I have three people this morning, They'll be done by 830, and I'll go grab my donut then". Nay. ALL of them are running late.
SO... to recap- It is pre 10am- strike one, I'm grumpy by default. I am hungry. Strike two, moving into maximum annoyance. People are causing me to be unable to remedy this. Strike Three. Three strikes and- I'm knocking someone out. :laughhard:
And to make matters worse, my work sistah, who always has my back? She went by the donut shop. Did she bring ME something? Nay. I sat in her office and watched her with the most beautiful "pinecone" donut in the history of man. Now I know what my dog feels like when I am eating and ignoring her.. :sadbounce:
We've had quite a bit of rain lately. Chel had trouble getting where she needed to go this morning with water over roads.
I'm glad for the rain for my garden, but we're on day 4 or 5 now of gloomy and I desperately need some sunshine.
Today is my Friday. Flying tomorrow morning to Indiana to surprise my Mom for mothers day! :thumbsup2:
We have a yard sale on Saturday at the church for the city-wide yard sale day. Thankfully I'm going to have my mom here with me on Memorial Day weekend while Jeremy is out in Arizona, so we are celebrating then. I did mail a card for her tho.. it's nice to still get surprises haha. If they didn't live so far out in the country, I'd send flowers.
@Work.
Trying VERY hard to eat lunch after a super chaotic morning. This parmesan tho.. it smells so gross, it almost puts me off the meal completely.
Still having a bit of trouble eating since my teeth are on different levels LOL.. I'm trying to work through it. Hopefully my actual crown won't be this tall or I'll have to refuse it I guess.
The sun came out!!! :clap:
By siduses have hated be ever sidce the weather warbed up last Boday.
I thick I'b startig to see it their way. I hate theb too.
I biss gettig a good dight's sleep.
Boy do I sympathize, Lynx.
Friday. Thank de lawd. Even if I do have prayer meeting tonight and a ton to do this weekend.
Shew. You all is quiet. Prayer meeting last night. Today- some quality time with Rusty on the back roads, a bit of time working on Sam, and spent a few hours with my nephew at the local dragstrip. In short, a "me" day I needed...
Dad has been here since Thursday.
His old Straight Talk phone has been giving out for some time now. He has to reboot the phone to check messages and place calls, as it forgets about the cellular connection. Also it galls him that Straight Talk has no office he can go to if there is a problem, just a phone number he can call to talk to a person with an east indian accent.
I got him a modern Moto and an AT&T account. The Moto is unlocked so he could use it with T-Mobile or even Verizon if he wanted (it allegedly uses both GSM and CDMA, so it claims to be compatible with just any old service you want to slap a SIM card in for.) And if there's a problem he can take the phone down to a real AT&T store and talk to a real person face to face. They won't be responsible for the third party phone not working, but they are responsible for fixing problems with the AT&T account.
It's a bit of a leap for ole Dad. His former phone was an old, old, bargain-bin cheap android. I mean it was still an android phone, but... There are sooooo many quality of life improvements since then that we all take for granted, that Dad is just now learning about.
I also plugged a bluetooth/radio adapter in his truck. It takes audio from his phone and broadcasts it as an FM signal his radio can pick up. (His truck was made in that awkward time with no elegant solution. If his truck was older it would have a casette player, and those casette adapters are simple and cheap... If his truck was newer it would do bluetooth on its own.) That's something else for him to adapt to, as well as learning how to switch between his bluetooth earbud and the bluetooth truck adapter.
Also the old phone number porting failed. Something about the old number and new number are in different database systems, so they can't just slap the old number on the new phone account. So we spent a bit of time sending out text messages and vcards to his contact list.
It has been a trip. Fortunately Dad is intelligent and learns fast.
Did you hear about the mother who had to show ID to buy some spices?
She was picking up some of the usual things - garlic, basil, cinnamon, cloves and the like - but at the checkout the clerk asked to see her ID.
"I'm not buying liquor. Shoot, I'm not even buying sudafed. Just some spices."
"Yes ma'am, but one of the spices you are purchasing is cardamom. And as you are a mom, I'm going to need to see some ID please."
So anyway, y'all have a happy mother's day.
My dad still uses a flip phone. :roll: Then when something goes wrong, he wants me to fix it. It's a real pain. Those things are NOT intuitive.
When hubby's phone died, I got him the closest thing to what he was used to. It's still been... interesting.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on May 14, 2023, 01:35:52 PMMy dad still uses a flip phone. :roll: Then when something goes wrong, he wants me to fix it. It's a real pain. Those things are NOT intuitive.
When hubby's phone died, I got him the closest thing to what he was used to. It's still been... interesting.
I must be used to working with flip phones cause to me the new KaiOS system makes perfect sense. I mostly get irritated that every time they update the operating system they take away a feature. They've already removed voice texting, the Facebook app, and T9's understanding of the common English contraction "I'm".
If you need a Facebook app, you really need a smartphone. Or a laptop. Facebook on a flip phone is like riding a tricycle down the freeway. You'll get there eventually...
Quote from: Lynx on May 14, 2023, 06:20:04 PMIf you need a Facebook app, you really need a smartphone. Or a laptop. Facebook on a flip phone is like riding a tricycle down the freeway. You'll get there eventually...
Being curious...how do YOU know? Your dislike of Facebook is legendary. :laughhard:
At church. Praying for His anointing, gonna be unpopular. And listening to old cassette of Bro Wilson preaching.
The crowd is quiet for him too. So maybe it's not unusual for folks to sit like bumps on a log when some messages are preached..
Quote from: Roscoe on May 14, 2023, 06:53:12 PMQuote from: Lynx on May 14, 2023, 06:20:04 PMIf you need a Facebook app, you really need a smartphone. Or a laptop. Facebook on a flip phone is like riding a tricycle down the freeway. You'll get there eventually...
Being curious...how do YOU know? Your dislike of Facebook is legendary. :laughhard:
I don't dislike it. I don't use it myself, but I love the entertainment I get from how it keeps tricking users.
Plus my family uses it, and they often need tech support.
Quote from: Roscoe on May 14, 2023, 06:53:12 PMAt church. Praying for His anointing, gonna be unpopular. And listening to old cassette of Bro Wilson preaching.
The crowd is quiet for him too. So maybe it's not unusual for folks to sit like bumps on a log when some messages are preached..
They're not always sullen when they are silent. Sometimes we're thinking, "Wow, how did he know what I've been needing to work on? Did my mother tell him?"
Was pretty earlier but looks like a storm is coming in.
Morning. Busy yesterday. Back at work today, as usual. Tired as usual. Been almost hot, and otherwise beautiful here, but we have chances of rain through the next few days.
Trying to start my new lifestyle today. Two months in a row, I have gone to the walk-in clinic for other reasons and had my blood pressure be too high. So I'm trying to track my sodium intake as well as track calories and whatnot. Trying to really get into an exercise habit, some form of movement even if it's just walking in our neighborhood. I want to try this before I just have them try some meds. I know I can improve my eating habits, exercise habits, sleeping habits. I'm going to TRY to work on my stress, but most of that I can't really shut down unless a ton of external things go away. I just have to better prep myself for how to handle it on my side. I don't really know how to do that yet. Anyway.. my parents both have HBP, covid affects blood pressure, stress, sleeping, etc etc. Some of those I can't help.
I'm starting to get a little nervous about my hematology appointment in July. Everytime I really stop and think about it, I get nervous that I'm going to get a scary answer instead of something that I can fix. I know God can completely heal me, of the WBC issues as well as HBP. I'm trying to believe for that and receive it.
In other news.. that is still stressful... our kitchen plumbing has been the bane of my existence for three days now. Hopefully tonight we can quickly get some cuts done into the PVC and find the blockage, then patch it up, and all will be dandy. I'm thankful we have the basement so that we can easily access these pipes AND that they're only PVC. I just wish the piping wasn't all so old that we are running close to needing to changeout a lot of it soon.
My mom comes in a WEEK tomorrow, and Jeremy gets to go on his trip in the same amount of time. I'm hoping time with her can super soothe me down too... usually works like that when I go to their house. Kinda like a reset.
And then unless something changes between now and then, the weekend he gets back from Arizona, we are probably goin to Wisconsin to pick up his service dog. I'm super nervous. Athena is a Belgian Malinois. She's friendly to small animals and children, but I'm worried about my cats dealing with her in the house PLUS.. I'm a little nervous about dogs her size, haha. I'm also excited tho.. Jeremy's super pumped too.
Good morning, sleepyheads. :biglaugh:
Well. started my day off knowing I have a potential court case to testify in. This, coupled with the fact that my work clothes were all in the laundry, led me to wear business wear today- slacks, dress shirt and tie. :pound:
Tonight is Bible Study, and I am sure to be long winded. :lol:
Went last night to Chey's awards ceremony, and now, she is officially a senior, or will be when school resumes. It happened so fast...
And finally- the church bus is at the sign shop. FINALLY.
Whataya mean sleepyhead? I was up before 5am... And today is my day off.
I like 4:38 a lot better than I liked the first number when I woke up. 1:19 is MUCH too small a number. I like a bigger number like 4:38 a lot more when I get up.
I will freely admit that I am not a morning person. :yawn:
Same Sandra. Mornings and I do not mix well. At all. Ever.
My Mother's Day surprise was a success. Made Mom cry lol.
I came home Monday evening and spent yesterday with the hubbs blowing a thousand dollars on a new mattress. Sigh. Being an adult is awful.
Back to work today and I just dont wanna be here.
If taken out of context, that would sound terrible. "Yes! I made my mother cry! Success! Just what I was going for."
Okay I'll hush now.
I don't mind mornings if I've been able to allow my body to naturally wake up on its own. I dislike alarms incredibly much.
Quote from: Nelle on May 17, 2023, 06:14:39 PMI don't mind mornings if I've been able to allow my body to naturally wake up on its own. I dislike alarms incredibly much.
If I wake up naturally- it ain't morning unless my age related pain is considered naturally. :lol:
Chey just showed up at work. She had a cousin and a friend over and they no fit in a Miata. Guess what they drove to town, so she could get an application for a summer job? Yes. MY BELOVED '46, Rusty!!! :pound: :pound: Note to self, find and hide the spare key. Put it under a dirty dish or the laundry hamper. She's scared of work and will never find it... :laughhard:
ohh noo Bobby lol - is she not allowed to drive it? LOL
Quote from: MsJennJenn on May 17, 2023, 07:22:36 PMohh noo Bobby lol - is she not allowed to drive it? LOL
It's rare. I've never vetoed it and she did ask about it...I was hoping she'd forget. I always worry myself to death when she does. Parts for a 77 year old truck are a tad difficult to locate. :lol:
Good morning. Looks to be a beautiful day, and I am sure I will be busy. Totally ready for some time off. I've got 27 gazillon things to do and not enough hours to do them. LOL
I'm at work against my will.
Our cat Ted passed away last night curled up in his bed by one of his favorite windows in the house. We're heartbroken, but I'm mostly worried about his sister Tabby. I wish I wasn't at work so I could be home and able to monitor her better.
:hi:
Quote from: Nelle on May 18, 2023, 02:07:09 PMI'm at work against my will.
Our cat Ted passed away last night curled up in his bed by one of his favorite windows in the house. We're heartbroken, but I'm mostly worried about his sister Tabby. I wish I wasn't at work so I could be home and able to monitor her better.
Also at work against my will.
And that is sooo sad Nelle. Sending my condolences. Losing a pet is absolutely the hardest. :cry: :cry:
I also am at w*rk, but whether it is against my will is debatable.
I just figured out how to use legacy chests in a video game called outward. I would much rather be at home doing that right now.
On the other hand... If I missed a day of work my wallet would be apoplectic.
Sorry to hear about the loss of a "fur kid" It's always rough, they do become family.
And in sharing...
(https://i.ibb.co/K0vpBtd/20230518-110404.jpg)
So happy. We don't look like a reject from the short bus academy now... :laughhard:
Been a good day so far here. Got caught up on sleep since I didn't have to work today. Went to Mom and Dad's for a late lunch. I've got Praise Team practice tonight. Already know Bro Joseph won't be there. His daughter is sick so he's staying home with the kid so his wife can make it to practice. Means I'll be the only one in the sound booth tonight.
Urgh........ Thank God it is Friday.
I've already had to help another officer with an offender that was ready to fight, and not happy at all with her. I used every tool I knew to de-escalate and calm down the offender and was able to successfully accomplish our goals- that of placing the offender in a nice secure place without having to lay hands upon him in a not godly manner. I don't think he likes me much anymore though. :roll:
My work sistah had a dr appointment this morning. I am waiting on her to arrive so we can bust out a couple home visits..
It's been a beautiful day here. There were quite a few yard sales and I found some goodies.
Hey Bobby, remember that small town with the big stick guy?
Tell your friend next week would be a great time to go down there. The Buford Pusser festival is Thursday through saturday, May 25th through 27th. Basically a small carnival at the city park.
Next Saturday would be a good time for that....hmmm.
Today- bought 25 foot hdmi cable to take care of the lack of reliable wireless connection to the church monitor. That accomplished, I got some grocery shopping done- still miffed that no one in the area has Blue Bell's Dr Perrper Float ice cream on the shelf. Lou went with me to Russellville where I bought boards to fix Chey's bed properly since the 12 year old Chinese kid that designed the bedframe for Walmart had too much faith in small plastic parts.
Got that fixed and a little work on sanding on Sam.. Basically a wasted day with moments of progress. :biglaugh:
I've felt slightly yucky all day. Nothing much accomplished.
Yeah... When I saw that youtube commercial for Blue Bell Dr. Pepper ice cream, I figured Bobby would be out on the prowl for a new rendition of his drug of choice.
Have you tried asking the store manager? Some of them will place orders for you.
Lots of folks around here seem to be looking for it, too. Not me. I'm not a fan of Dr. Pepper.
:hi:
I liked Dr Pepper when I drank soda, but I preferred Pibb in my adult years.
@Work. Walked around our lot 5 times before lunch. Should've worn different shoes for it haha.
Doctors appointment in about an hour, hopefully we can figure something out to work on this BP with me.
I would try it. When we switched to zero sugar drinks I prefer the Dr Pepper zero over the coke zero now.
Boss made me cry again today giving me "feedback that I was rude and disrespectful" when I just simply replied to her question directly and to the point.
I am applying literally on the daily for internal jobs to move into (because I really don't want to lose my tenure with CVS - 22 years come August), but at this point I'm gonna have to start trying outside the company. So disheartening to not be able to get anywhere.
I am officially on vacation the rest of the week. :clap: Rode down to my mom's for dinner. Lost my balance on the way home and suddenly found myself and my bicycle laying in the neighborhood's yard. Not the most dignified way to end the day.
Quote from: MsJennJenn on May 22, 2023, 08:30:40 PMBoss made me cry again today giving me "feedback that I was rude and disrespectful" when I just simply replied to her question directly and to the point.
I am applying literally on the daily for internal jobs to move into (because I really don't want to lose my tenure with CVS - 22 years come August), but at this point I'm gonna have to start trying outside the company. So disheartening to not be able to get anywhere.
I can empathize. I tend to be more blunt/to the point and it can be considered rude, especially in an email where they can't hear your tone of voice. It's disheartening when you weren't trying to be rude.
Sorry, Jenn. I think we've all been in that position at some point. It's a tough spot. When Lou went through it at Walmart, it drained her. It was difficult to throw away her seniority, but she's a different person now with the bank job, even if it was a pay cut.
So, today, I enjoyed a ride with my daughter; helped my niece who thinks of me as a father locate her first car- a 2005 Mustang Convertible. Although older it was pretty nice and in her $3500 price range. There really wasn't much in that price range in this area. And after getting home, I worked on Chey's '79 'vette and got it running and in the shop. Think Sam's gonna have to have the pause button pushed for a few days. :smirk:
A mustang convertible for her first car...
My brain keeps playing "She'll have fun, fun, fun, 'till her daddy takes her T-Bird away."
Quote from: Lynx on May 23, 2023, 08:48:45 AMA mustang convertible for her first car...
My brain keeps playing "She'll have fun, fun, fun, 'till her daddy takes her T-Bird away."
Lynx, you know that no one around me can have a "normal" car. It just wouldn't be right. :biglaugh:
Morning, all. A gazillion things to do today...
MJJ - Will be praying for you. Peace sometimes can definitely be worth a lot. Either way, God will help you!
@Work.
I'm officially on BP meds. Pharmacist told me to ease myself into the meds, so I took one at bedtime last night, and will take one at bedtime tonight, then full on tomorrow. (I have to take one in AM and one in PM.) Really hoping this helps me!
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on May 23, 2023, 12:48:14 AMQuote from: MsJennJenn on May 22, 2023, 08:30:40 PMBoss made me cry again today giving me "feedback that I was rude and disrespectful" when I just simply replied to her question directly and to the point.
I am applying literally on the daily for internal jobs to move into (because I really don't want to lose my tenure with CVS - 22 years come August), but at this point I'm gonna have to start trying outside the company. So disheartening to not be able to get anywhere.
I can empathize. I tend to be more blunt/to the point and it can be considered rude, especially in an email where they can't hear your tone of voice. It's disheartening when you weren't trying to be rude.
It's more that she is just mad I was "direct" with her with other people listening. I'm direct to her all of the time. But this was with other people listening so her pride got mad.
I'm in a super tough spot. Cus I don't respect her as a leader or as my boss and it's becoming increasingly hard to even be cordial to her sometimes. When I ask for things 3-4 times over a span of 2-3 weeks and then when it escalates it's my fault even though I had been asking her multiple times. OF course I'm going to get direct with you...you've irritated me at that point.
Really appreciate any prayers ya'll can throw my way. I don't want to lose my seniority either Bobby but at this point I just need out. And that's scary cus I've never done anything else, or worked anywhere else. But my mental health when I'm working is in the tank. Some days I take it out on the hubbs and that's not fair to him.
I'm super sore today after yesterday's bike crash. Had planned to mow today but I think I'll wait a few more days on that to let my muscles recover.
Decided vacation meant I needed a Big Mac combo and chocolate shake on day one. Pretty tasty start to vacation. :food:
The McDonalds here has forgotten that table service means they bring the food to your table not set it on the counter and holler "table 39".
Mochi!
I found red bean mochi at the salvage grocery! Mildly sweet rice starch ball (soft but gummy, like a cross between marshmallow and soft jelly bean) with sweetened red bean paste inside. It's a Japanese thing...
And there are six in a box, and they are 49 cents a box, so I bought 36 boxes. :D
Sounds weird, Isaac...
Glad you didn't get too hurt from the bicycle, Tia.
I concur on both statements Fuzzy has made.
Made it through the day. Got home and while going through the church fb page, I stumbled upon Bro Wilson preaching one night a year or so ago on a night I was sick. His comments about me made me cry. Hearing his voice again made me cry. I'm just a ball of emotions tonight. :biglaugh:
Lord, I miss that old man more than he would ever believe. His preaching; his advise; but most of all the time spent with him and his friendship.
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on May 24, 2023, 12:24:26 AMSounds weird, Isaac...
Yeah the Japanese probably think the same thing about white gravy and biscuits. Don't get me started about poutine...
Never have got the poutine thing myself. But biscuits and gravy...
I wonder how Seth would like that Japanese delicacy you describe? He's all about red beans.... :lol:
Sitting at my desk strongly considering a run on a local restaurant. I am starving despite not needing to eat..
Biscuits and gravy YUM
Jeremy really likes mochi. I think it's too sticky for me.
@Work. Eating pears for lunch. They have sucralose instead of regular sweetener... and they taste not as good as normal.
First full day of bp meds. So far so good... I'll really find out tonight when I take my BP again.
Jeremy left last night to stay near the airport in STL so he could fly out early this morning to AZ. He arrived safely a few hours ago. Now I'm waiting on my mom to appear in my home. I tried to warn our cat, hahaha.
We have bible study & fundraiser dinner this evening at church. I'm really excited for some chicken tetrazzini. I work tomorrow, and then I'm off until Tuesday morning, which is also the day Jeremy comes home and so does my momma.
I forgot to add..
I sometimes go to our church facebook and listen to some old services to hear our uncle/pastor's voice. It's nice sometimes to hear that. Jeremy also will sometimes play voicemails left from his grandpa who passed the year after our uncle.
I wish I had videos of my grandparents.
This mochi is coated with powdered sugar.
Rather chewy though. If not for the powdered sugar it would be extremely sticky.
Hi. My day is fueled by coffee and unrealized hatred.
Otherwise doing well.
Completed my bible study last night, then ran off and left my work phone at church, thereby causing panic this morning.
People need to show up and then leave. Quickly, after seeing me. So far I've had two fail to show up out of three scheduled...
@Work. Forgot to grab lunch to bring today.
The chicken tetrazzini was yum last night. I still ended up over my sodium even tho I was trying to be super careful hahaha.
Tabby woke me up so early this morning.. and I can't figure out why she needs me to be awake when she had food, but oh well! lol.. She was sweet about it at least.
Dentist appointment at 4 today to get my permanent crown and then I'm off until Tuesday.. I'm hoping this is more relaxing than it sounds. We have prayer walk in Anna (where I live) on Saturday, church Sunday morning, surprise birthday party for a coworker's granddaughter Sunday afternoon, then Monday we have the church picnic. We have limited time to go do things, but we will make the best of it!
Quote from: Roscoe on May 25, 2023, 01:23:35 PMHi. My day is fueled by coffee and unrealized hatred.
Unrealized hatred forrrr??
mornings?
coffee?
people?
work?
:hypocrite: :pound:
Quote from: MsJennJenn on May 26, 2023, 02:51:37 PMQuote from: Roscoe on May 25, 2023, 01:23:35 PMHi. My day is fueled by coffee and unrealized hatred.
Unrealized hatred forrrr??
mornings?
coffee?
people?
work?
:hypocrite: :pound:
Yes.
All the above-except coffee.
Leaving nothing else out.
I should totally move to the hills and be a hermit.
And in sharing, went cruising today. Around 200 miles of back roads. As an added benefit, got to talk bible/God/ church with my coworker. I love these days- it shows me God is working on her...
Today has been a busy day. We went to some yard sales, the grocery store then had to rush home cause my mama was at our gate bringing me a birthday gift. Then tried to head back to town and my daddy called, so we just rerouted and headed by his house, then finally made it to Walmart.
Also, my daddy gave me a bunch of blackberries to make jelly with. :)
I now have more than 70 boxes of mochi.
What? I'll probably never see it again...
Yesterday we were really busy. Memorial Day weekend, you know.
I am a registered card carrying nerd, but even I know how to party better than just grabbing some McDonald's food on a holiday. That's sad. So many people in this town who don't even know how to party as well as a nerd.
Hi. Busy today with church things. Been a long day. Yesterday, I sprayed the first coat of paint on Chey's vette. Got some slight repairs to do, and another coat will be applied, but at least it's one color now.
Man. No one on?
Today, I slept in. Finally got up, did some corrections on Chey's Corvette, then spent a bit of the day using stored lumber and old tin to build a small 8 foot wide, by 6 1/2 foot deep, by 7 foot tall "smoke shack"- a place to put my PitBoss smoker. I'd had it in the carport forever, but Lou would always pull in so close I had difficulty using it. Now, with that smoke shack built in front of the new double carport I put up last fall, I have the perfect place to offer a sweet smelling savor to the Lord... :lol:
Quote from: Roscoe on May 30, 2023, 03:19:04 AMMan. No one on?
I mean... I could tell you the progress I made in a video game called Outward. I just crafted a coralhorn bow (real name, I didn't just now make it up) and got the jinx and torment skills. With all my speed boosting gear and stamina reductions, I can run around enemies forever like a lunatic and kill them from a distance without giving them a chance to touch me. Downside: Whenever I fight an enemy, Yakkity Sax keeps playing in my head.
That's all I got. I don't get out much these days.
Ugh. At work, where I've discovered the agency's planned 30 minute upgrade of our main system was started at 430...and still is down.
I'm really regretting not taking off today.
My son in law and 2 of my grand sons are here for a few days.
I dont wanna be back at work today.
Landlady has someone chopping down a dead pine tree in my yard today. One down 3 to gooooo hahaha.
I loathe those pine trees. The pine needles are awful year-round!
Back @work today.
Mom's still at my house but is leaving today. Jeremy's also flying back in today. His communication skills went downhill a little over his trip, so I'm not 100% sure, but I'm assuming he's on his flight and maybe even arrived back in our area soon. His original flight info said he would be back now. I'm hoping we can have a conversation about all the neat stuff he saw and did, since I didn't hear much about it while he was there.
I also really want some more rolled ice cream. It's super unhealthy but SOOO tasty!
I am tired.
Quote from: Roscoe on May 30, 2023, 11:56:37 AMUgh. At work, where I've discovered the agency's planned 30 minute upgrade of our main system was started at 430...and still is down.
I'm really regretting not taking off today.
Computer networks and church sound systems. Those two things can make a normally intelligent person look like a complete idiot, without warning, completely at random, for no apparent reason. My sympathy for the computer nerd who is trying to deal with it.
Well. System is up. But some of the important buttons no worky. I hope they fix 'em soon. All in all, I was worried the upgrade would be a disaster- while I don't see a great improvement at least it's not a total destruction of what had worked well...
But I'm still ready to go home. :ugly:
I had a good vacation last week. Unfortunately went back to work with a nasty sinus infection :sick:
Urgh.
Why do "short" work weeks that involve a holiday make the remaining 4 days seem so long?
Morning...
Back at work......steady as she goes...
Quote from: mini on May 31, 2023, 12:31:54 PMUrgh.
Why do "short" work weeks that involve a holiday make the remaining 4 days seem so long?
AGreeeed. It's already wednesday but i feel so behind. I just need it to be Friday afternoon already.
Is it Friday yet????
Sheesh.
Back at the hostage situation, aka work. Dragging as usual, fortified by an Oreo Mocha Frappe, definitely NOT on the diet list. Totally over adulting in general.
I wanna go back to high school, but ONLY during the summer. I could really use that 3 months off. Why can't my job do that??
I went in, kissed my baby girl goodbye this morning while envying her ability to sleep all day if he wants.
She needs to go find her a summer job, to ease the pain on my wallet.
:hi:
Hi. Busy day. Court...home visits...and I bought Lou a new clothes washer since hers died totally. Ready to start the weekend...
Been a good day for me. Spent much of the day redoing the laptop displays since the reset for those came down. Finally starting to get over this nasty sinus infection.
Hi. Spent the day tinkering with Chey's old Corvette and taking pics of her. We are at least where she can have pics taken with it for her senior year. It's a 20/20 car- looks great from 20 feet at 20 mph. :laughhard:
Regardless, I think the kiddo is pleased.
(https://i.ibb.co/Vtyhhv9/chey-ttop-wave.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/cww0whD/chey-and-oscar.jpg)
Brat.
Long, long way from perfect, but she likes it.
Now I'm laying in the recliner, tired and puny. Trying to get something together for tomorrow night.
I've made all of my girls happy this weekend. Lou got washer, curtains, and a new air fryer.
Chey's car driveable.
Daisy and Bailey, the dogs have had chicken nugs and cuddles.
My bank account hurts. :lol:
Chicken nuggets? Your dogs get chicken nuggets? Like, regularly?
I heard of one older couple in the checkout line at Walmart with three gallon-size tubs of ice cream. The wife told on her husband - "He gives our dogs ice cream every night, and if they don't get it they stand at the back door and whine."
My dog had a good week, but it's not regular. Aunt Diane's church did barbecued butt roasts, and multiple people I know bought one. So Monday the dog got the bone, skin and fat from my butt roast. Tuesday he got the leftovers from Anna, the lady who stays with Grandma while I'm at work. Wednesday he got uncle Fred's scraps.
Thursday he got dry dog food. He was not impressed.
We need a new thread. I'm tired of seeing the "C" word in the title. ;)
Quote from: Lynx on June 04, 2023, 09:57:53 AMChicken nuggets? Your dogs get chicken nuggets? Like, regularly?
My Kitties loveeeee chicken nuggies lol
Quote from: Roscoe on June 01, 2023, 01:22:46 PMIs it Friday yet????
Also this still applies today lol :sadbounce:
Our girl kitty has been sick pretty much all day Sunday. I'm taking her to the vet today at 1:30. I have a vehicle appointment at 4:30 to get an oil change and have them look at my brakes again to see how much it's going to cost me to have them repaired or replaced. Unsure how extensive the work will be.
Also.. my other tooth that didn't need a root canal last month, I'm going back to them tomorrow at 3pm to have them re-evaluate it because it is killing me like the other tooth did. I'm thankful I don't have to wait so long this time around.
We are also trying to get this house fixed up and in order. Athena (the dog) is coming home in about two weeks, and her trainers are supposed to come down as well to help train her and Jeremy together in her new environment. Jeremy will be gone for about 5 days with training up there and getting familiar with her.
I'm going to Arkansas for Fathers Day. Hoping I can relax a few days. haha..
Quote from: The Purple Fuzzy on June 05, 2023, 02:36:27 PMWe need a new thread. I'm tired of seeing the "C" word in the title. ;)
Started!!! :thumbsup2:
Rebels. :pound: :pound:
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