Can't decide if I want to drink, smoke, fight, fuck, dance or sleep. You know?

The challenge is figuring out the proper sequence.

Can't decide if I want to drink, smoke, fight, fuck, dance or sleep. You know?

The challenge is figuring out the proper sequence.

One I quit a long time ago, by choice. One elludes me on a semi-regular basis. One hasn't found me in too long a time, damnit. One I choose to do in small doses. And the last, well, I'm not much for fighting. Not that it helps you any.

I fight all the time. Not by choice.

Well, I estimate that I have put in about 7 solid hours of yard sale prep and moving clean out today. Yard sale tomorrow and Saturday. I am too old for this shit, but we need to get rid of this shit and we need the money so work my ass off I shall.

The Small Girl is holding her own "sale" of lemonade and coffee. I bought her the teeny little creamer cups and a sugar shaker and some mini-donuts and M&M cookies to serve alongside. So cute. She sorted all of her stuff into bins for $1, 50 cents, and 25 cents. I'm really proud of how much she has worked, too. In being serious about her purging and her excitement about the sale tomorrow. Hopefully, she won't fade off by noon.

I need to make lemonade so it's cold for tomorrow.

Aims, go you! And go Em! I hope the sale goes really well tomorrow.

I thought I might have a stomach bug today, but now I seem to be feeling better. So, I'm hoping it was just too much fried food on vacation. G was also having stomach upset when we were out today, but the upset over the mean kids seems to have dissipated a bit, and he is excited about starting kindergarten again.

Bonny, how are you feeling tonight?

Smonster, I hope you're doing better tonight as well.

Gingerale:

I will have a new place to live in September. It's not final, final, but it should be final on September 4 and then I'll move around the 9 or 10th. My new place is going to be on Hemlock Lane and that amuses me immensely.

Yay, Askye!

I still haven't figured out the order to getting things done. H mentioned that she almost showed up a half hour early today, and I told her she would have found me running around frantically trying to get dressed. It was the first day back from vacation, and, of course, I haven't unpacked yet. So I was all where are my clothes? Where are my vitamins? Where is my shampoo? Instead of getting everything together in a orderly fashion before I needed to get ready.

We live a damn charmed life. Power went out at 5:40 today. This is, of course, August 15 in the Ohio River valley, otherwise known as Hot As Hell And Twice As Humid.

Except it never even got out of the 70s, and basically no humidity. Perfect weather to lose power and not have a/c.

I had a quiche in the oven when the power went out, and there were about 10 minutes to go (we have an electric stove). I figure, when you turn an oven off, it doesn't go from 350 to ICE COLD in 10 seconds, so I left the quiche in for about 15 minutes and hoped for the best.

It baked all the way through.

This way we didn't need to open the fridge or freezer to dig out dinner, and we wouldn't have been able to cook anything anyway.

So we ate dinner on the front porch and talked to the neighbors for a while. Tim really wanted hot coffee, so he pulled out his camp stove and and reheated leftover coffee in the backyard, while I spun glow poi (interspersed with whacking myself painfully in the face with the glow poi).

Most of the websites I've seen have said food will keep in a fridge without power for 4 hours, as long as you don't open it. We didn't open it.

The power came back on literally exactly 4 hours after it went out. We live a damn charmed life.

Bonny, how are you feeling tonight?

sj, I'm okay. I'm super sore...all over, it seems. I tried not to take the pain meds today and that has been hard. I'm going to take some tylenol pm in hopes of getting some sleep. I am well and truly worn out.

I took one of the bandages off and that was a mistake. I'm still not clotting, which is worrying.

Not being able to use my hands is more troublesome than even I would have imagined. I think I'll need to use rubber gloves tomorrow if I'm going to get anything done!

People have been lovely, though. I am truly grateful for the validation and support. Thank you so much.

Wow. That has to be the best power outage story ever. Definitely charmed!!

bonny - I'm glad you're feeling okay, but no more removing bandages!! Get some good rest tonight. Amazing hw much good rest can quicken up the healing.