ltc is going to freak out about Thanksgiving and Christmas. I'm trying not to think about it. She's home with a slight fever today, no sign that it is Covid, so I'm trying to stay calm.
Do you see any goats around? No, because I sacrificed them.
Willow ,'Showtime'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sj - Sep 17, 2020 7:06:52 am PDT #26306 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 17, 2020 7:40:16 am PDT #26307 of 30019
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
We had a BIG Thanksgiving gathering for my dad's side of the family in Kentucky last year, so I think we'll be good just doing Mom & me this year. Christmas with my cosuins is most likely on as usual, we'll just be careful. (Luckily the two households with children each have a smart medical professional, so I think they'll be as safe as humanly possible to share a meal with.)
sj - Sep 17, 2020 7:44:33 am PDT #26308 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
ltc is having cheese and crackers for lunch and I'm having a frozen burrito.
msbelle - Sep 17, 2020 7:47:28 am PDT #26309 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I feel like it is Friday. Alas....
I am gluing on new nails - ALL GLITTER!!
Also following up on work stuff. THE TIMESHEET IS IN!! HA! Off my plate for 2 whole weeks.
-t - Sep 17, 2020 7:59:35 am PDT #26310 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
HOORAY TIMESHEET BEING DONE
Health~ma for ltc
I am trying to motivate myself to go to the grocery store. I am out of canned cat food, so that is pretty strong motivation, but I am just moving pretty slow. Fortunately, not much of a deadline on it.
askye - Sep 17, 2020 8:36:29 am PDT #26311 of 30019
Thrive to spite them
So I discovered I accidentally mailed in an extension form for my taxes not my actual taxes so while I'm on my vacation I will be mailing out my taxes.
I got my SC taxes back and I was very adult and responsible and put the majority of it towards a big credit card payment and that card is almost paid off. I'm going to use the rest to renew my costco membership and get more stuff in the freezer. I've been doing fairly well with getting my credit card debt under control. Maybe not as fast as I would like but I have been paying more than the minimum and doing extra payments on one card to chip away at it.
This is my big adulting thing. I buy lunch too much for work so I have to get back to taking lunch.
I have just over a week off, which is nice. I spent the last three days working 7-3 and that's over. The company has been testing all the stores with new plans on how to deal with online order fulfillment (they are getting really serious about it and creating new corporate and store level roles for this). I was a support person, doing second looks for things that couldn't be found and trying to keep people within their time frame. I got good feedback on it and I found out that when the managers found out about this test and were planning I was someone they thought of for this and the store manager asked me if I was interested in doing this when it's peak season.
I really liked it, it was oddly less frustrating than just pulling the orders, it's kind of a leadership role and a support role. Not only was I looking for things but I was being asked to make judgement calls about when to give up on a search for items and tell whoever it was they could just go ahead and submit their lists as finished or if I needed to pull in a manager to check behind me.
Also even running around the store and walking over 15,000 steps I wasn't as tired or as achey as I normally am.
I haven't thought about Thanksgiving beyond - the mall will be closed and we still don't know if our store will be closed. I guess M's family will do something and I will try to stay away from that because they aren't taking precautions and 3 of his extended family members now have Covid.
If the hurricane hadn't happneed I would have been very very very tempted to drive down to FL and see my Dad from a distance and stand on the beach because I miss it. People from work keep going on their break and coming back from vacation somewhere and I want to go but I'm also not going to risk it.
I want to hug my parents damnit. I want to see my Dad face to face. He doesn't do any kind of video chat so I haven't even seen his face since last year.
Shir - Sep 17, 2020 9:09:41 am PDT #26312 of 30019
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Oh, 2020. I, eh, did not have a colleague who is suspected of terrorism on my bingo card.
Xenoethnography
I do not know Transformers (I heard of it, not sure if I watched it), but I'll give it a look. Thanks! (For the record, I'm not an anthropology student. I'm just a qualitative research person in a school of public policy. Who loves anthropology).
Hil, I am so sorry. This is a lot.
msbelle, I'm sorry.
{{{esse}}}
And hi, DebetEsse. Can I have some details on the Zoom thingy please? I don't have Facebook, so I can't see the details.
msbelle - Sep 17, 2020 9:22:41 am PDT #26313 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
are FB and IG down for anyone else?
msbelle - Sep 17, 2020 9:24:47 am PDT #26314 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
nevermind
Tom Scola - Sep 17, 2020 9:31:37 am PDT #26315 of 30019
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
are FB and IG down for anyone else?
They're acting flaky for me.