Weekly Chat - Monday 10/6

Bingo!!  Guess I got off lucky that mine was only out of use for a couple days.  Altho.....at PT today I did beg off on the second set of exercises for that side!  Honestly, getting rabies injections directly into the back of my knee wasn't as painful as this darned thing!

Well, Oscar has figured out how to unroll the toilet paper even though I put it on the spindle backwards. Now if I could just get him to do dishes...

Tracy, I hope your boss is understanding and gives you the increased wage to boot!

Karen, if I didn't know better, I'd think you worked for the same company I do. It's constantly demanding here, too. They think I have a magic wand, but I don't.

Jackie, I hope your kitchen is back in order soon.

I have an appointment for a massage after work and I really need it.

Wow, Oscar is one smart cat!  That's really amazing that he figured out to reverse his "paw technique."   With that kind of dexterity, you might come home and find he's put those ponytail holders in Missy's fur!!     

Enjoy your massage, Tina.  That sounds wonderful.  DH gave me a gift certificate on our anniversary for a massage at a nearby salon.  I haven't had a chance to use it because we've been too busy with houseguests.  

SIL #1 left this morning, and SIL #2 arrives on Monday.  SIL #1 offered to put new sheets on the bed before she left today, and I took her up on it.  She also wiped down the bathroom a bit, and even though it's not up to my standards, it'll do for SIL #2.  I need a little break from playing housemaid lately!

The most soreness I ever felt after a shot was when I had some childhood vaccination re-done as an adult a few years ago (I think it was measles/rubella -- something about the batches used way back then not being effective anymore).  I could hardly use that arm for 2-3 days!

Honestly Tracy, I have no idea how Oscar unrolled the t.p. The waste basket that sits underneath was knocked out of the way and stuff was knocked off the tub. He may have pulled on the piece hanging down behind the roll and voila!

The last shot I had was about 2 years ago - a tetanus-diphtheria when I stepped on an aluminum shard from a pipe. They still give that one in a butt cheek and man was that sore for a few days afterwards.

Just popping in to say hi and to give a quick update on Ginger and her hubby. He just got out of the hospital. I guess he didn't get released Friday, as hoped. She didn't say much else in her text. I'll try and give her a call this evening.

Work is crazy. I guess it's better than no job but sometimes I wonder.

Tracy, I hope your boss does the right thing.  

Oh dear....not being released when expected is a bit scarey.  Will continue to keep both of them in my prayers.

I've decided that the next time someone tells me I need a vaccine to stay healthy I'm gonna run, very fast, to the nearest exit.  I was out with DS today, getting the replacement window for my car finally and started feeling the ominous signs of an allergic reaction.  THREE benedryls later, called the doctors office, told them what was going on and they sent me to the ER.  I told the nurse that it wasn't severe yet and I very likely just needed prednizone but they wanted me seen.  I could have kissed the nurse at the hospital when she came in with PILLS for me to swallow and not a needle!!  I've turned into a pin cushion in the last few days.  The vaccine site, which is in the back of the arm, the flabby part on me, was red and swollen in the circumference of a baseball.  Now it's down to golf ball size.  Grief, it's hard on the body staying healthy!

Tracy, can't wait to hear how it went with your boss!  

No update yet on my pay raise request, and my main boss will be gone tomorrow.  I'm giving him a week, then I'll follow up.

However, good news today at home.  SIL #2 sent DH a message that she's not coming next week.  That's a relief.  DH wasn't looking forward to it either.  No guests scheduled now until early November.

Geesh, my memory is so bad that I forgot Ginger's husband had been hospitalized.  Sure hope both of them are feeling better each day!

Work has been busy, which seems to be a trend for many!  Tracy, from last week (I think)--I do walk the dogs together. It goes well until they see a rabbit.

Good thoughts for Ginger and Mr. Ginger. Jackie, I'm glad you're in touch and are able to keep us posted.

Doug, the girls must have had a blast. I thought of you, because I just got a huge bag of Northern Spy apples for my Dad--an old variety from upstate NY. Good for pies, etc., so I just made an apple crisp for Dad. Pie this weekend.

OK, I need to finish a report for tomorrow morning so I best get back to work.

Mmmm, apple pie...I'll be right there, Kate.

Oh ditto!  Everything always tastes better if I don't have to cook it!

The allergic reaction is staying under control, thankfully, with no return trips to the ER.

Bright sunshine and beautiful today.  Bit bit brisk, but, it's that time of year.

Momma squirrel was teaching her four babies how to jump from tree to tree this morning.  One *almost* didn't make it and my heart just stopped!  Suppose I'll have all five of them hanging out on the deck soon!

Glad your allergic reaction has stabilized, Glenda.

Squirrels are amazing little gymnasts, that's for sure.  Watching them run across a telephone wire is like watching a professional tightrope walker at high speed!

Kate, sounds like you better make enough apple crisp to serve to a few out-of-town guests who are going to show up at your door this weekend!

So happy it's Friday.  I'm feeling worn out this week -- partly due to the routine being goofed up with houseguests here for a few days, but also due to some mental fatigue from the worry (and now relief) over giving my boss my salary increase request letter.  

I'm still trying to catch up at work from all the time I took off while my Mom was in town.  Ever have so much to do on your desk that you don't know where to begin because the volume of the work is overwhelming?  That's where I'm at -- so instead I'm procrastinating here!  

Kate if I had the time I would be arriving for apple crisp!

We are still pretty warm here

My work life is insane. I said it I'll move on. I get paid by the hour.

Making the most of my Saturday: took B to the lake, did yard work, watched an episode of Bones, bought a cheap monitor (I bought an inexpensive desk I can stand at the other day, work related crap), ate chips and salsa, now I am sending emails, paying bills and getting back to work.

DH and stepson have had a nice visit, I haven't been around much.

HOWEVER, NEXT WEEK I WILL BE AT THE BEACH FROM FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING!!!!!!!!

OK that helps me feel better

Jackie I hope that sink is in good!

Ginger we are thinking of you

have a great one everybody!

Glenda, I sure hope you're feeling better!

Dad has about finished the apple crisp. Tomorrow, I'll make a pie and some apple preserves. And, more crisp and pie for anyone who shows up :-) It's rainy and cool here today, so I made some pickled corn relish.

Tracy, a weekend without guests sounds good. Let us know how the salary increase request transpires--I am awful at that stuff, for sure.

Does anyone do Hoopers with their dogs?  It seems like a good way to work on building skills, etc, without the jumping of agility.

Karen, I can just imagine how much you're looking forward to your beach getaway.  Which reminds me -- I keep meaning to ask you if the beach area you visit is Wilmington.  My mother and two friends spent about a week there in August, and she raved about what a great town it was.  She said it would be a nice place to retire.  I've never been anywhere in NC, but I think I'd like the beaches there better than the cold, windy, rugged ones in the NW!

I've not heard of Hoopers for dogs.  Is it just like it sounds -- having them running through hula-hoops?  We bought a hula-hoop for Ruby to use in the backyard, but I always forget to bring it out with us!

Rain this AM, but some clouds and sun now.  We took Ruby to a big park for a nice walk, and she was going bonkers wanting to chase the squirrels.  A couple times DH didn't see one she tried to run to, and she jerked the leash pretty darn hard -- luckily, it wasn't his "bad" arm! 

Tonight I'm going to a painting party with a friend.  You pay a fee and a teacher/artist instructs you to do a specific painting (everyone paints the same thing).  The fee comes with a glass of wine and you get to keep the painting.  Another acquaintance organized it and got the artist to agree to donate a portion of each fee to our local shelter.  Should be interesting since I can barely draw a straight line!  I doubt I'll have something worth hanging on display, but we'll see!

I tried to find a new week, but no luck.  If there is one, perhaps the mods can move my post.

I'm still shaking my head over something that happened yesterday.  In the "how to win friends and influence people" category.......long story short, a bit at a time I've been doing some exterior painting.  This carried over to the inside of the overhead door and yesterday I was doing a bit of detail work on it..  The door had been up and down several times as I worked....after all, the door is easily movable and MY ups and downs sometimes creak. So the door is opened, barely, and I've got a gallon paint can as a "door stop".  Suddenly, I've got company in the form of not one, not two, but all three of a neighbors dogs AND their 10 year old daughter.  In the rush to get IN, somehow I got knocked back and sat in the paint tray....naturally, it was full.  I'm trying to make sense of what just happened, while the dogs tear in circles around the garage and the little girl screams at them and cries because she got paint on her clothes.  Next thing I know, the door opens all the way and the mom starts screaming....not at the dogs who are in MY garage, but at me.  Her dogs and kid are paint covered, and I'm going to pay for the dog wash and a new outfit for the child.  HUH???  And I'm sitting in a darned paint tray with paint oozing through my jeans wondering how in the heck I'm going to get up without making even more of a mess.

I should not have had the garage door open.  I should not have enticed her dogs into my garage, and certainly not her child, who crawled under the door in pursuit of said dogs, who are often at large.  HER husband is law enforcement and is going to make sure that I pay for my irresponsibility.  And she just can't believe that I'd behave so foolishly.  Again, HUH?????  She finally stalked off with her child, I got the dogs chased out of the garage, dripping paint every where I walked, and got the door shut so I could take the darned pants off without an audience.

To his credit, the law enforcement hubby did come over later in the day to apologize for his wifes behavior.  I let him know that "her" dogs run the neighborhood, that the golden menaces people, and that the wife declines to pick up after the dogs when they poop in someone elses yard, because, gee, it'll go away in time.

Unbelievable!  Guess I'm now at the top the the neighborhood meanies list!

And how was YOUR Monday??