It is casserole night at the Holts tonight. This one is a quinoa/chicken/broccoli with enchiladas sauce variety. DH can add cheese if he wants but it is off my list.
Yep, she's a rebel. Go -t!
May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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.
Laura - Oct 21, 2020 10:42:28 am PDT #27940 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
Sheryl - Oct 21, 2020 10:58:34 am PDT #27941 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
It's been one of those days. The nanny/aide had a doctor's appointment this morning, so we had to handle Zoom school on our own. Started out fine, but by the reading class Mr. S was behaving badly. I didn't handle it very well.(It probably didn't help that the first dose of Adderall was starting to wear off by then.)
chrismg - Oct 21, 2020 11:46:01 am PDT #27942 of 30019
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
I don't know about Austin, but here in San Antonio the city keeps up a series of pop-up locations for testing. No charge or appointment, just first come, first serve.
-t - Oct 21, 2020 11:52:44 am PDT #27943 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Heh. Just got an email saying don't send that letter yet it didn't save correctly. Oh well. But I hope that means the actual letter will make more sense...
askye - Oct 21, 2020 11:57:37 am PDT #27944 of 30019
Thrive to spite them
Today is a freaking shitshow of a day because I am cursed when it comes to getting technology to work. I decided to get a new phone with spectrum and I came home to get the wifi password and the wifi stopped working. And anyway long story short I'm now on the phone with spectrum to see if there is an internet issue.
And I was going to make dinner but M's mom started something because it was "getting so late and nothing was started" . That was at 4:15. I don't know why I can't remember they eat so freaking early. But they will eat breakfast and then nibble on things and then eat early dinner and then snack when I get home.
I still have to order groceries and I don't know why but I have to make the list and do the order even though I don't do most of the cooking. I buy the groceries (M pays the utilities).
So my day off has been as frustrating as if I was at work. M is currently is currently napping because even though I'm cursed with electronics im still better at dealing with this.
I wanted a lazy day. Maybe Saturday. I feel like this all started when I turned the router over and I only did that instead of asking where we wrote the password down because I didn't want to hear M bitching to whoever he was playing COD with about how he was being pestered
aurelia - Oct 21, 2020 12:05:49 pm PDT #27945 of 30019
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
We dropped our ballots off at least three weeks ago, and Matt is tracking them. They've at least been accepted; I don't know if there's anything beyond that.
Accepted should be good. Anything beyond that gets into counting and I don't think any state starts counting votes before election day.
I pre-ordered from the Happy Lobster food truck for dinner tonight! I do miss food-truck Fridays downtown.
Theodosia - Oct 21, 2020 12:13:03 pm PDT #27946 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I found out that something like 22% of eligible voters in Somerville have already voted, either by 'early' or mail-in. ::waves tiny pompoms::
Dana - Oct 21, 2020 12:18:56 pm PDT #27947 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I feel like today should be Friday. Can we get on that?
esse - Oct 21, 2020 12:30:26 pm PDT #27948 of 30019
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
+1 from me too, Dana.
I voted! I dropped off my ballot into the ballot box yesterday. No stickers for mailed ballots, but the spirit it there.
It was tough. Honestly I left the Portland mayoral election for the last of the ballot, and it took a fair amount of analysis to come to a decision on that vote. It's an incredibly important election for Portland Mayor.
Steph L. - Oct 21, 2020 12:51:08 pm PDT #27949 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
So, hey, remember how Tim had a 100% collapsed lung 5 1/2 years ago? (Really, when I lead off with that, you know where this is going, more or less, right?) He already had a doctor's appointment scheduled with his primary care doctor today, and before he left, he mentioned to me "I'm having some chest..." and then he made a vague circular gesture over his sternum, like I would know what that meant. He clarified that he meant discomfort (but over his sternum, not in the heart area), and had a wee cough. And because this is 2020, I was like "Probably not a heart attack but maybe Covid???"
Yeah, so, his doctor had him get a chest x-ray, and he has a small pneumothorax (NOT a 100% collapsed lung...just a *partially* collapsed lung). And his doctor was like "If your pain is resolved and you aren't having difficulty breathing, you can work," so Tim, of course, is at work right now, because he's like that. It seems that with small pneumothoraxes, it's pretty common to just keep an eye on them and the air resorbs on its own. He does have to have a follow-up chest x-ray on Friday. And since this is just a small pneumorthorax, my reaction is basically kind of numb, or like a shrug, like, this might as well happen. Jesus.
I do, however, already have therapy scheduled for tomorrow morning, so it was a well-timed pneumothorax. JESUS CHRIST