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It wasn’t a low cholesterol dinner…
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Every once in a while I do have to make The Curmudgeon something special for dinner. I knew I wasn’t going to have time to get fancy last night because I had a dentist appointment in the afternoon.
My solution at 4:30 in the morning, was to slice some onions, toss them in the crock pot, put the frozen chuck roast on top of them, season it and pour a bottle of Guinness Stout over all. I set the pot on low and went to bed.
Right before I left for my 2:00 appointment, I dumped some baby carrots in the pot. The roast smelled marvelous.
Arriving home a little before four, I checked the roast. The carrots were almost done–we’d eat at five.
A quarter to five, I made mashed potatoes, pulled out the carrots and roast, and made gravy. The Curmudgeon enjoyed his dinner. I did too because this sort of meal is becoming scarce in this house.
I’ll make up for it during the rest of the week.
Posted in Food
Tags: Author, Bones, Caregiver, Dead, Disability, Doggoned, Food, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Letter to Me
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Dear Me,
Remember when you managed to write pages upon pages in your books every day? What happened? You really need to figure out the whats and whys, kick them in the ass, and get back to work. This is taking too long and it is too important to keep screwing up.
Sure, many things have happened this past year. In fact, for several years you’ve had a number of life changing events happen. Don’t take them for granted, use them.
Your Father, Mother, sisters and parents in law are gone, use all that sorrow, hurt, pain, and emotion in your writing. Stop bottling it all up inside and set it free in your writing.
Your Husband, Aunts, Cousins, and friends love you. Embrace that love and bring that joy back into your writing.
All my love,
Me
Just another day in in Paradise.
Posted by doggonedmysteries
I was happy as a pig in a mud puddle when I got up yesterday and heard that The Curmudgeon had gone to the drug store to get the dogs’ allergy medications.
I was almost ecstatic to find out he’d also gone to the computer shop and picked up my desk top. Almost, because I had a question about my lap top that I’d planned to ask my computer Guru. Now I’d have to make a trip over there another day since he’d have to see the computer to answer the question.
The Guru had loaded the desk top into The Curmudgeon’s truck and it was my job to get it out, bring it in, and hook it up. The Curmudgeon can’t haul heavy stuff, he has no idea how to hook up a computer, and it was getting close to his nap time.
To my surprise he’d bought a wireless mouse–um, didn’t I just order one the other day? Well, it hadn’t arrived yet. Okay, two computers & two wireless mice, that works, no complaints from me. By that time my grin had grown.
He tells me he’s going up for a nap. Oh, joy! I can work on my computer in peace. Working away getting things set up the way I wanted them when I heard The Curmudgeon coming down the stairs and cussing on his way down. This didn’t bode well.
He’d broken his new glasses and practically dragged me out the door to run to the shop so they could fix them. Even though the sign on the front of the shop said ‘open’ the posted hours for the day said ‘closed’ and so did the locked door.
Arriving back at the house, we found all the other things we’d ordered last week, crammed between the doors, except for the carrying case for the lap top…. Monday is looking good for that.
Posted in Misc
Tags: Author, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Dead, Disability, Doggoned, Life, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
On the road back to writing well
Posted by doggonedmysteries
I can pick up my desk top computer today. Yay! I hope he has good news to tell me about my data. I am glad we purchased the lap top even though it will take a little while to pay off that once clear charge. It did come in handy for the time it took to fix my old faithful desk top.
I will set the desk top up on my desk in the living room and take my lap top up to my bedroom. I’ll have a place I can escape to where I can write in peace once again. The antique desk from the MIL’s house is in the bedroom which will make it a decent writer’s retreat.
It will be nice to have the lap top to take with me when I find a new I-need-to-get-out-of-the-house place to write this summer. I used to go to our local Borders but now that is closed and I really do need to find a new place. The B&Ns here have tiny cafes and they aren’t very friendly to anyone who wants to sit there for more than a few minutes.
I am scoping out a small coffee shop that might allow long-term seating with coffee purchases. It isn’t far from the house and their coffee is wonderful.
Tags: Author, Craft of writing, Dead, Disability, Doggoned, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer, Writing
Yippee! New faucet!
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Old chrome faucet, leaky and full of hard water stains.
Lasted about 15 years.
Took longer to remove this than to put in the new one below.
New faucet, stainless steel and no leaks!
Maybe this one will last 20 years?
Thanks to Barry for removing the old one and installing this in an hour.
The Curmudgeon says that he knows it would’ve taken him two days.
Posted in Misc
Tags: Author, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Dead, Disability, Doggoned, Home, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Passwords, a touch of insanity
Posted by doggonedmysteries
How many passwords do you have? I’ve changed all of mine. If a psychiatrist ever saw my new ones, I’d be residing in the nut hut. I don’t have passwords by the ‘dozens’ but I do have several. Most places today require a minimum of 8 characters and at least one should be a number.
Creating passwords is interesting. Passwords are also a bit telling. Many people use the names of their pets–not a good idea folks. You need to find cleverer things than that. Don’t use your birthdays, anniversaries, or the grandkids names either.
How creative can you get? As creative as you want so long as you can remember them. I have had to change passwords a few times because I forgot what one I used for the account.
Some of mine can tell you exactly where my head was at the time of creation. No, I’m not spilling the beans. I don’t want to change them all again.
Posted in Misc
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Dead, Disability, Doggoned, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
A Gavin update
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Had Gavin at the vet’s this evening. He checked Gavin’s ear and wants to leave the stitches in another week to make sure enough scar tissue builds up to prevent this from happening again.
As usual, Gavin was not thrilled to be there no matter how many cookies he got. Yes, he’s a short bus dog for sure. His vet adores him even though Gavin will not look him in the face. Gavin will close his eyes to take a treat so he can’t look him in the eye.
When we got home He leapt about with Patty like a puppy. He was very happy to be home after the torture of having NOTHING DONE to him and many cookies.
Posted in Dog related
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Doggoned, Dogs, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer, Writing
Another day…
Posted by doggonedmysteries
We didn’t get as much snow as it had sounded like we were going to get, much to my relief. AJ came and had our driveway and walk cleared in no time. The street isn’t in bad shape so if we have to go anywhere we can easily go.
If I was on my desk top I would’ve taken and downloaded pictures for the blog but I have no desire to load my lap top with pictures now.
Each time the dogs went out they reacted differently to the snow. One time Gavin loved it the next he couldn’t get out and back in fast enough. Patty raced about eating snow on a few trips and on others she too would dash out and right back in. I have weird dogs. Another Bull Terrier owner calls these dogs ‘short bus dogs’ by cracky she has the right of it.
You all keep safe and have a good one.
Posted in Dog related, Misc
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Disability, Doggoned, Dogs, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
So they say we’ll be getting snow…
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Sometime in the wee hours of this morning we’re to get a snowstorm. I am not looking forward to it. The one we had in October was plenty enough for me. At least I have my winter boots by the back door so when the dogs need to go out I can switch from my flip-flops to my boots.
I had rather enjoyed the strange weather that was (so far) this winter. Weeks of fifty degree days kept me from complaining. Look out, because when the snow hits, it’s going to be bitch, bitch, bitch! Hehehe.
I won’t say how the dogs will react since they always make a liar out of me when I do try to predict their behavior.
Hey, all of you who aren’t getting this weather, enjoy what you’ve got. For those of you who are getting the snow, stay warm and drink some cocoa for me. You all have a good one! I’ll catch you later.
Posted in Weather related
Tags: Author, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Disability, Doggoned, Dogs, Multiple Sclerosis, Snow, Writer
I still want my old desk top
Posted by doggonedmysteries
I’m glad The Curmudgeon shies away from using my new lap top. This is a good thing because it means he’ll leave it alone all the time once my old workhorse is back home. Yeah, the lap top is cool, but I’m used to my desk top and I miss it.
I did have a difficult time getting used to the mouse pad, so when I am using the lap top at my desk, I hook my mouse up to it.
I have no idea how long my old work horse will be in the computer hospital–not much longer I hope. However, if he can save most of my hard drive he can keep it for as long as he needs to.
I still want to shoot the malicious turd who malware bombed me. I had some pictures on that computer I hadn’t saved to my flash drive yet. {Sigh} I hope they aren’t lost forever. Hell, just shooting them isn’t good enough–they should suffer through a bunch of torture first then get shot.
You all stay healthy and have a good one!
Posted in My blog
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Craft of writing, Doggoned, Multiple Sclerosis, Novel writing, Writer
Six month check up
Posted by doggonedmysteries
My cardiologist is pleased. He took me off of one medication today. The nasty one that was making me cough so much. However, he did raise the dosage on another. The one for my cholesterol.
Now if I can only take off the weight that I put on over the last few months. Comes with the smoking cessation the doctor said. He’s not worried about it but I am!!
I hope you all have a good one! I know I will now that the cough inducing med is off my list.
Posted in Heart Attack
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Dead, Disability, Doggoned, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Shoot them all — Yep, I’m in a rotten mood.
Posted by doggonedmysteries
I am NOT a happy camper since someone bombed me with a malware bomb and sent my computer off to the computer hospital for a few days. You’d think I’d be a little happy since The Curmudgeon decided that it was time for me to have a lap top as a back up computer.
Well, that sort of took a lot of the sting out of it. However, to those of you who think it is fun to hack, send viruses, worms, and malware out into the world I’m here to tell you that it causes heartbreak–I lost a couple of book chapters I worked very hard on thank you very much…I thought I’d backed them up as I normally do but I must’ve been over tired.
It cost us plenty money wise–paying for the repairs and buying the lap top. This means we’ll have to go without something this month–maybe a medicine. Did you even consider that? I doubt it because you only think of yourself. Personally, I hope all of you who do this rotten crap get caught and I wish they’d stand you against a wall and have a firing squad shoot you.
Posted in Misc
Tags: Author, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Dead, Disability, Doggoned, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer, Writing
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