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My helpers

 

If we let you near the stove do we get some of that food?

 

Are you shopping on black Friday?

     Some poor fool actually asked me that question.  When I finally stopped laughing, picked myself up from the floor, and was able to choke out the answer, which went something along the line of, are you effing kidding?  I hated it when I had to work it in retail and I hate it even more now.  They had the nerve to look surprised. 

     Oh, yeah, they LIKE IT.  :O  They actually PLAN for it EVERY year.  Oh My effing Goddess!!! 

     I won’t go anywhere near a store from Thanksgiving to after New Years if I can help it.  I even cringe at the thought of having to go to a grocery store during that time. 

     I swear Black Friday is when they release all the mental patients, give them credit cards, cars, and maps to all the malls. 

     I DO NOT GO SHOPPING on Black Friday.  I stay home where I only have to put up with one crazy man and two crazy dogs.

     You all have a good one.  Happy Thanksgiving.

 

Our non traditional traditional dinner

Our Thanksgiving dinner is a simple fare with only the two of us here.  I’ll take turkey breast cutlets, pound them flat, lightly bread  and quickly sear them.  I have some frozen chicken gravy that I’ll heat to serve over the cranberry Stove Top Stuffing.  We’ll have sautéed kale and whole berry cranberry sauce will top things off.  Then I’ll thaw some slices of cheesecake for dessert.

I’m not sure if I’ll post on Thursday or not.  We’ll see what happens.

You all have a good one!

My dentist is a pain. (Not really)

     “Just a couple of stings.”  He said as he injected the Novocaine into my mouth.

     “Ow ow ow ow ow.”  I said without much enthusiasm.  I know that good dental hygiene is important for heart health.

     An hour and half later, my roots were planed and teeth were scaled on one side.  I felt nothing.  I have to go back next week to be tortured again and get the other side done.

     I hate when the Novocaine reaches the ‘I’m going to make you itch but you can’t feel anything to make it stop’ cycle begins.  That happened around six last night.  Thankfully, it is soon followed by no itch and normal feeling again. 

     However, there is that pain in the injection sites that is always a drag.  Thank goodness this is only the second time in 7 years I’ve had this done.

   You all have a good one.

Happy Birthday Gavin!!!

Eleven years ago he looked like this.

This is my sweet baby boy today.

New shower.

 
     Our new shower head.  The Curmudgeon actually was able to install the contraption the other day.  I did buy a longer hose for his ease of use. 
     It is a nice product made by Moen, but I do have one complaint.
    
     The darned thing is not made for someone who has limited eyesight.  Without my glasses I am as blind as a bat.  I don’t shower with my glasses on so I have trouble seeing the controls, and, of course, The Curmudgeon has them set weird so I have to change them for my shower.
     You all have a good one.

Another cute flashdrive? Gimme!

     I’m addicted to cute flash drives.  There, I said it.  I have quite a collection of them and use them all the time.  I’ve backed up the back ups of my backed up back ups.

     Why?  Well, I lost an entire book once because I’d neglected to back up my files.  I swore then it’ll never happen to me again.

     I cracked up The Curmudgeon at Staples when he caught me drooling over the racks of novelty flash drives.  I saw a dozen or so more I’d add to my collection.  I’d kill for a bull terrier one.  LOL!

     You all have a good one!  And don’t forget to back up those files!  😀

A USB flash drive in the shape of a piece of i...

A USB flash drive in the shape of a piece of ikura (salmon roe) sushi. Photo taken by Tokugawapants using Konica-Minolta Maxxum 5d with Minolta AF 100mm Macro lens. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Time to cut back on Facebook

     I was scrolling down my Facebook page thinking about what to post here tonight, when suddenly the page was not there.  All I had, was an error message from Facebook, and I sort of panicked.  That’s when I realized that I spend entirely too much time on Facebook.

     It is time for me to drastically cut back on the time I spend online and mostly the time I spend on Facebook.  I do not need another time drain in my life.  To all my dear Facebook friends, I will be around but not nearly as much as I have been, I hope, if I have any sort of self-control that is…

     You all have a good one!

 

A squirrelly sort of day.

     They are taking over!  The tree rats are invading the yard again.  Everywhere you look there’s another one.  Gavin and Patty are beside themselves over the numbers they are seeing outside.

     These are brazen squirrels who stand their ground and only run from the dogs when they are almost upon them.  Cheeky boogers.

Those MS organizations? No, they don’t help him.

     In all the years since The Curmudgeon was first diagnosed with MS to now,   I don’t think there’s been but one time the MS society was ever any help at all.  I’m not real sure how much or if they had something to do with the single time we got a useful item for free that actually aided The Curmudgeon.  His ice vest was/is a wonderful thing for him.

I do wish the MS society was of help.  They aren’t.  All they do is send us magazines with articles about relapsing remitting MS and nothing about his secondary progressive MS.  The other thing they do, is ask for money that we don’t have.

     He has a mobility scooter that is out of commission and no one will even look at it or attempt to fix it for him.  Therefore, taking the dogs out more than twice in the morning is impossible for him since he no longer has a scooter to use.  He misses being able to go beyond the confines of the house.

Getting him over to a place in another city  to pick up a much-needed walker is turning into a logistical nightmare.  There are days where disappearing somewhere to have a good cry is a necessity.

     You all have a good one.

 

New monitor

     I finally got off my butt and went to buy the new monitor I needed.  The curmudgeon grumped at me as soon as I got downstairs yesterday.

     “Took me 40 tries to get that damned thing going today.”  (Speaking about how we have to turn the old monitor on and off many times before it works.)

     “Let me have some coffee and then we’ll go get the new one.”  I wandered into the kitchen in search of sustenance. 

     After an infusion of caffeine, I got him and his walker loaded into the car and off we went in search of a new monitor.

     We went to Staples where a sweet young man practically pounced on us as soon as we entered the door.  “May I help you find anything?”

     “Monitors.”  I replied.

     He led us to an area where they had several set up, none of which were any that I’d seen in their online store.

     “Um, you had a Viewsonic and a Gateway online that I was looking at.  I don’t see any Viewsonics here at all.”

     “Sorry, but the online store often has things we don’t have.”

     Now I was fixing to whine.  ‘But I want to see the product in person before I buy it.’  That is until I spotted a couple of real nice ones that were cheaper and bigger.

     “Show me these, and do you have a measuring tape?”

     “Um, what do you need a measuring tape for?”

     “I forgot mine and I want to see if these will fit in the desk opening.”

     Meanwhile the Curmudgeon was looking at some I knew were too large for the space.  After I found one that I liked both the size and price, The Curmudgeon pointed out a larger, cheaper one that had a lovely picture.

     “I think you should get this one.”

     “You serious?”

     He nodded.

     “Hey, kid.  Go get me one of these.”

     You all have a good one!

A Picture of an Staples, Inc. easy button

Bring back Firefly

     I enjoyed watching a marathon of Firefly on the Science channel yesterday.  I do wish they were still making the show.  I found it ‘after’ they cancelled it.  I discovered the show on reruns.  I became a fast fan.

     It’s unbelievable  that I became a fan,  it is a melding of space and western, and I was never a western fan.

     I do wish they would bring Firefly back.  It is so much better than many of the horrible shows on TV today.

     You all have a good one!

(From left to right, top to bottom) Adam Baldw...

(From left to right, top to bottom) Adam Baldwin, Ron Glass, Summer Glau, Alan Tudyk, Sean Maher, Jewel Staite, Morena Baccarin, and Nathan Fillion at the 2005 Serenity “flanvention”. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)