I am dogsitting my nephew’s dog this weekend. She’s a sweetheart. I’m getting tons of puppy kisses. Though I had to put her to bed a little while ago. If I picked my phone up, she would run off to act like she’s going to do something naughty in order to get me to put the phone down and give her attention. Such a smart little stinker. But I was trying to finalize some travel plans for next month and she was having none of it.

I’d like to just say that this thing is awesome and YOU are awesome!

Thank you!

Going to the doctor does this to me too, kitty.

Yes, hi, we do exist. And we were trying to get CEO to implement a hybrid policy for years before covid. He hated the thought. And he was the type of person that would not hesitate to fire an entire department if they felt bold enough to complain about it. When I started there, I didn’t immediately report to him. Anyone there who had a layer of management between themselves and him had a pretty ok work experience there. Direct reports to CEO basically had to manage a toddler who was also the emporor with new clothes. I took the promotion to be his whipping post because I wanted to leverage it to move on. Instead now I have PTSD from an abusive boss and am not able to work full time.

tl;dr – the C suite does discuss things amongst themselves with and without the CEO. But CEO already knows what they want to do, usually can’t be swayed, can only be warned what the consequences of their decisions will bring.

My mom’s exasperated “shit a fiddle!” when fed up with something / something broke. When I was younger, she didn’t really say curse words around me except for this.

I’ve never heard any one else ever say this. Not in Appalachia, or anywhere. She probably made it up herself. But in the 80s she also dated a Korean War fighter pilot/POW (crashed, survived, & captured, unsure of release details). And he could have had a creative catalog of swears that she borrowed from.

I love this! What is the language? Danish, Swedish, or am I totally off base?

I’m now inspired to make a cross stitch of this accordingly.

That’s pretty common in my area. Tell your wife she needs to get out more!

You can mix it up by saying “six of one, baker’s dozen of the other” and see if she catches on.

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My honey downloaded the Oblivion remaster for me. I think he was waiting for a bigger sale or for us to play through some of our other unopened games, but I really really wanted to start it and he obliged. 😍

My FIL is worried about being able to pay the balance of the bill for the hvac people installing his new heat pump today. My SIL has been keeping him at her house following a short hospital stay, so I’m on deck at his house to let hvac people in, etc. I tried to tell him that I don’t think they’re gonna hold me up by my ankles and shake the money out of me if he can’t produce a check this evening. He says that exactly why he’s not coming to the house himself and instead “sacrificing” me. It may have been one of those you had to be there moments, but it really had me cracking up.

There’s a whole island on the west(I think?) coast of Australia where you can visit little quokkas!

The last time we visited Australia, we were only in Victoria and Tasmania, but found a wildlife park that had platypus encounters. They let you put on wetsuits and get in a tank of chest high water to “play” with a youngish female platypus (no spurs, no venom). By “play” we had to stand pretty still and let her explore us. She was very curious. And then they let us hand feed her. My soul left my body. It was the best day ever.

I just spent a few days sitting with my FIL in hospital. We binged Gunsmoke. I am a reluctant fan of Festus now.

• do they have you scheduled for any sight-seeing like CT or MRI scans?
• can you order UberEats to your room? I watched them come and go frequently and wondered if it was for employees, inmates, or both
• do you ask all the nurses for crunchy ice?
• have you asked that one nurse for a bed bath?
• are most of the nurses pregnant like they were at my hospital? Wtf is in the water?!

Fall risk?

** CAUTION: may incur relocation to a different wing

If I can’t leave work because important meetings I can’t get out of, I’ll go sit in the car and breathe, or excuse myself to the bathroom if I have to (including going to another floor sometimes) and try a quick grounding exercise like rainbow grounding or the one where you visualize a warm light filling you from first your toes, then calves, then knees, so on and so on. I can usually hold myself together afterward until the end of the day, but I know I will be falling apart that evening. I will prep the honey to pick up pizza or order DoorDash and plan on playing Playstation.

I am in Virginia. My Lidl has good traffic but isn’t crowded, so I don’t come home cranky like I do from the big American grocery stores. I primarily go for the meat section (and the fun random household goods section) but it has enough of my other regular products that I can usually keep my other store visits down to once a month. It feels like I’m shopping while on holiday in Europe. And let’s not forget they stock wayyyy better chocolate.

Maybe I haven’t bought truly massive “butts”. 😅 They fit in my 11" vacuum sealer roll (also from the Aldi aisle). I shop in Lidl more now but I still see circulators and vacuum sealers in the middle aisles every so often.

And here I am without a pocketknife.

I am a huge 🍭 for kitties.