Actually not needing validation right now, but thank you.

Buffy ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

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.


askye - Mar 12, 2024 10:56:57 am PDT #29132 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

I have a Drs appointment tomorrow. It's my quarterly yes I still need Vyvanse please refill it appointment . But I'm going to be like 'did you see my blood work and how it has improved?" . I'm also going to brag on my improved strength. I realized today that as much as all my muscles were aching from inventory prep/6 days working my knees didn't hurt at all. And they had been bothering me after some days.


-t - Mar 12, 2024 12:44:36 pm PDT #29133 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That's excellent, askye!


Steph L. - Mar 12, 2024 4:57:32 pm PDT #29134 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Dentist appointment went fine and the filling is repaired (but now my mouth is a little sore), and the meeting with the financial planner went fine, so much adulting has been achieved. And I edited an article in starts and stops in between those 2 appointments. Now I think I'm going to make mashed potatoes for dinner. Or scrambled eggs. Something soft for my sore mouth.


JenP - Mar 12, 2024 5:24:31 pm PDT #29135 of 30000

Aw, poor sore mouth with a better filling. Enjoy the soft goodness.

I am out of words. No more wording. I can still read.


Steph L. - Mar 12, 2024 5:56:31 pm PDT #29136 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Mashed potatoes were had, and they were quite tasty.


smonster - Mar 12, 2024 6:16:20 pm PDT #29137 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

I am not built to work ten-hour days. I am built for maybe five-hour days. Someone fix it. Dinner tonight is goat cheese on sourdough toast with preserves and I need to be in bed in, oh, 20 min.

Also, we are a month behind on everything because my bosses believed that a mediocre white dude could do what he claimed. He was also creepy as hell (stared at my 19 yo coworker all the time, touched me unnecessarily and inappropriately twice). It’s a tiring week. In better news, my bosses seem to have… listened to me? And adjusted their expectations around my productivity to allow me to actually train and supervise and (most importantly) QC my two coworkers?

Gold star, Steph!!

Jen, wishing you effective treatments both mental and physical.

I have eaten my toast so I fall down go sleep now. Just wanted to pop in for a minute to say hi.


Laura - Mar 12, 2024 7:30:25 pm PDT #29138 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Dinner tonight is goat cheese on sourdough toast with preserves

That sounds pretty yummy to me. I hope you have achieved renewing sleep.


meara - Mar 12, 2024 9:33:42 pm PDT #29139 of 30000

Agree the toast sounds yummy!! Sorry about the creepy coworker but hope the new boss attitude helps/continues!

Thankfully found friend who can take dog, though hopefully he gets along with her dog who he has not met. Haven’t heard frpm dogsitter guy alll day, after he responded to my last text of "are we still on for dogsitting" late last night with "yes!" bit then didn't respond at all since. i requested on venmo that he send the money back i sent him—need it to pay the new sitter! ugh.


Laura - Mar 13, 2024 7:03:04 am PDT #29140 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

That's a relief about the dog, sorry about the stress.

I've arranged for Skinner to go stay with a friend for 4 days, well 5 nights and 4 days. He is staying with our friend who we lived with for some time after we sold the house but hadn't found this place yet so Skinner is well acquainted with the house and yard. Kevin is Jamaican and has opinions about dogs living in the house, but he makes an exception because he loves me and tolerates Skinner.

Since Brendon doesn't come in here I can share my weekend details!! As you know, my anniversary is on St. Patrick's Day (34 years!), so we like to go to different places and check out the variety of celebrations. This year it is New Orleans! (be jealous of the smonster hugs) I haven't told DH where we are going, just that we are flying out at 7:30 AM on Friday and arriving home at midnight on Monday. Unfortunately the forecast calls for rain pretty much the entire time, but warm and raining isn't really unfamiliar to us. eta: I did spoil him and upgrade the seats so he won't be miserable for the flight duration.


JenP - Mar 13, 2024 8:25:24 am PDT #29141 of 30000

Yay, that sounds like so much fun, Laura! Happy early Anniversary to you.

Just got off of the call with my doctor about Wegovy, so we'll see what happens with insurance. She didn't think insurance would be an issue. Supply, on the other hand... we'll see.

I had a productive morning yesterday, especially once I remembered that I could use ChtGPT to do scutwork like weeding out dupes, and arranging testimonials in alpha order by name, and then putting them in Excel-pastable format. Now all the random Word docs with random testimonials are organized into a database!

It's no great shakes at creativity, but it is a damn fine assistant sometimes. I'd say it got the project about 90% done. I'd be happy with a live human who got something that far along for me. It sucked at pulling out useful keywords from the testimonials, so I did that, but it took no time once everything was organized.

It's going to be 75 today! I should go work on the porch. Hmmm...