On the way to the Y this morning, there were signs with arrows that said SET. I kept thinking, "What does SET stand for?" We get to the Y, and the windows to the pool were covered with black plastic. The main door had a sign that said "Crew not allowed in this area."

They're filming The Vampire Diaries there. If I were a swimmer, I'd be pissed, but I'm just hoping that the perpetually strapped Y got a chunk of cash for it.

No kidding! It also has a cooled glove box for beverages or sandwiches. I kid you not.

I want a cooled glove box! I'm actually still bitter over a decade later because when we were leaving for Arizona, we hit the big Coleman outlet warehouse sale (based out of Wichita) and there was one of those awesome cooler things you plug into the cigarette lighter. It was super cheap and would have fit between the captain's chairs in the van. But our partner at the time talked us out of it. He quit the next year, moved away, got married, moved back, had a kid, and is moving away again. In all that time, did I ever just go buy the damn thing myself? No, no I did not. I just bitch about it.

But seriously, yo, I'm on the road a lot. I spend a damn lot of money at gas stations and pretty much these days all I'm buying? Is the cold. I so should buy a cooler.

I just googled pineapple plant. That is the craziest fucking thing I've ever seen.

I have reached the part in exercise why I don't exercise. The muscle soreness blazes itself directly to my migraine. The best way out is through, but it's also the ouchy way out. Maybe I will buy Aleve at lunch.

Having had banana and pineapple plants in my backyard growing up, I don't know what you people are being weird about.

Today, the day my sister should be taking care of her house near the James River (sure to flood) and getting herself away from the coast, she's here helping her daughter pack to move, which of course has taken hours longer than planned, and today the new stove for the other daughter's house, also here in the mountains, will be delivered, and other-daughter doesn't get back from Berlin until Monday, and sister and I have to wrestle the built-in stove out of its moorings before the delivery guys arrive so they can take it away for us. We expect this to take much longer than we expect. I can't wait to see the delivery guys' faces when they realize they have to get the stove up a long steep driveway and they can't drive the truck up there.

And I slept badly last night, and like a wee little spoiled bairn, all I want to do is go back to bed.

I so should buy a cooler.

Dooooo it! There are occasionally things that I'm like "I should get a..." and then don't forever, and then when I finally do am like "OMG why did I not do this sooner?!" (example: iphone car charger)

I spoke with my mom yesterday. She lives about 40 minutes drive inland from Atlantic City, so she's safe, other than the possibility of high winds and lots of rain. She took down her ceramic and glass bird feeders and put her patio chairs into the garage, but everything else is staying put.

Dooooo it!

Right? This is the price of being a ditherer.

Oh, also, banana plants and pineapple plants galore. My grandmother's pineapples were legen...wait for it...dary.

There was a massive banana plant in my folks' yard, that the SO assumed had been there forever. No, it was in a pot when my folks moved in, and they stuck it in the ground. Huge. Many bananas. I kept trying to give away bananas while I was there but of course nobody wanted any because everybody had them.

Also, I have the feeders in for cleaning, and both the finches and the hummingbirds are completely bereft. They're hopping along the chain link fence looking for it to rematerialize.

I realize I anthropomorphize more than I should, but I swear yesterday the female finch was showing her mate how to get the nectar. She had just been at the (open, but designed to be for larger birds than her) oriole feeder. He came along and was sitting on the fence watching her. She hopped off the feeder, came toward him, and then dipped her head down on the fence so she was almost upside-down, like she has to in the feeder. He hopped along the fence, thought about it, and then tried.

I just googled pineapple plant. That is the craziest fucking thing I've ever seen.

DE is not wrong. I had no earthly idea until I myself googled it.