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14:32 Jun 30 2014
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Same old same old. Clean house, clean the turtle tank, cook, relax, rinse, repeat.
Cleaning the new tank will be different.
13:56 Jun 29 2014
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I guess it is that time of the week.
Go outside, write a personal journal entry in my actual paper journal and then play in the dirt a little. Maybe this time I will drift off to Never Never in my brain and lose all track of time. Last weekend it just didn't happen.
23:32 Jun 28 2014
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Rare second entry for the day.
I am being lazy. I know I need to get off my duff and make dinner but I keep putting it off. This entry is part of that process.
We went out today to a little flea market not far from home. I got a new cookbook, bought a copy of Taxi Driver for my son, a new book and a new purse. I used the old purse until the straps were ready to fall off.
I got the box o' Ramen before we headed out. Very pleased with my purchases. Green Tea Pocky tastes like...green tea! Who would have believed it! My peach flavored bubble gum was a nice treat. So good, I wished there were more than three pieces to a pack. The Jasmine rice, the varied packaged noodles. I will be shopping that online store again. They also sell a wide variety of Yam noodles, Nori, seasonings and snacks. Well worth the $7 shipping.
Some may have noticed, my husband is back to visiting us on VR. His userprofile is Myth. He will stay as long as he feels comfortable and happy and will leave without notice when he gets bored. I thought VR would be a good place for his poor brain to socialize and release itself. Also, the man is spending too damn much time on ebay.
I love him and I worry that he spends too much time shut up in our room on his days off looking at the cameras for hours on end.
I hope people will make him feel welcome without suffocating the shit out of him.
Now I will get off my ass and start dinner.
I am being such a lazy bitch.
18:29 Jun 28 2014
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My box of Ramen arrived this morning!
22:56 Jun 27 2014
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Went into town this afternoon for the weekly forage; grocery trip.
Actually it began with a trip to the VA Clinic. Annoying as always.
I took my young lady to Sally's for a resupply on fingernail polish and a few other things and we went a little berserk. Luckily my man is very understanding and won't be too upset.
Well, actually, he kind of choke coughed when I told him the sum but quickly recovered when I assured him that our fiscal asses are covered.
02:12 Jun 27 2014
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I woke up way to early this morning. I have a policy, unless it is Sunday morning, I do not get out of bed until after 7am. This morning it was 6 and after sleeping poorly too.
I woke up and the Big Man is making coffee. I get dressed and my son comes walking out of his room. It isn't even 6:30!
So instead of drinking my coffee over Minecraft or Sims I turned on the computer. Log on to facebook, VR, check the weather and the emails. Not really into this crap and the coffee wasn't working. I finally hopped into the shower to get ready for my visit with Granny.
My daughter calls and says she is on her way home so she can come with me to visit Granny. since the start of the summer she has been spending a week at home and then a week with her boyfriend's family. Really, super nice down to earth people. We were already running late but ok.
The Big Man comes in from outside and says he has a splitting headache so we decided not to go anywhere today. No sooner had we decided not to go anywhere the VA called to let us know they were closed for the day because of a water main break.
I called Granny to let her know we would visit tomorrow and she is coming down with something. We can't visit until after her next round of chemo.
11:52 Jun 26 2014
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And just like that, my morning ritual is screwed.
12:58 Jun 24 2014
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Last night I actually did buy Ramen, rice and pocky online. The Ramen was in flavors I cannot get in the grocery store and the rice was just too good a deal.
I have heard that the Asian Market in my town has closed and needed to find a new supplier for my specialty ingredients.
12:58 Jun 23 2014
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Last night, with both kids away AND the man off at work, I felt listless. I didn't have to cook because I had plenty of left overs. At midnight I shut off the tv and went through the motions of getting ready for bed but found myself unable to sleep. I finally did around 1 after reading The Apocalyptic Rock Fight in It.
18:48 Jun 22 2014
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I dislike slovenliness and I dislike failure to bear responsibility and most of all after years of customer service experience which covered several different types of food service including short order cooking, special order preparation and face to face customer service I really dislike a lack of professionalism and decorum which also extends beyond the workplace environment. I am all for pride not only in the work I perform but in the company that cuts my paycheck but
but
BUT.....tsk tsk
When a person comes across a complaint or criticism of their employer or workplace the appropriate thing to do is blame the bad experience on the customer and tell them it must be their fault? To make excuses for why it must be tolerated? In written speech that would be corresponded by deciding that abbreviation of entire words is best. What?
No.
Even if the customer is a monstrous douche bag, if you wish to represent your company in the best light possible and possibly win the favor of a new client, apologize and explain that it must have been an aberration because your company strives to always make the customers happy in order to ensure repeat business.
I don't like to argue with people on the Internet. It is stupid and it is so beneath me. I just needed to say something so that my headache will go away.
Of course I am abandoning that discussion.
03:17 Jun 21 2014
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We took this picture of our neighbor's dog Brownie a few years back. Back then this was the closest we could get to her. She spent most of her life afraid of people but my neighbor Bobby is a good guy. He loves everyone even if he doesn't quite understand them. He told me that when Brownie first came home with him she would hide whenever he came out with the food. She wouldn't let anyone near her, she just barked and growled. Over time she slowly learned to trust him. My son spent time close to the dogs and one day I watched that antisocial creature hunker down next to my antisocial creature. In the last couple of years I have even been able to pet her a few times.
Tonight we were on our way to get dinner and Bobby stopped us to say that Brownie had passed away today. She was 14 years old and happy.
sure gonna miss that dog.
16:58 Jun 20 2014
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I am a little nervous folks. Today we are getting something done that quite honestly is a long time coming. When a person lives in a house, most specifically a house with a septic tank, certain maintenance has to be done. We literally had to scrimp and save to come up with the money for this. Now that the call is made and the folks are on their way I am just looking forward to getting an earful. Probably some education and I expect a little annoyance with us from the people doing the work.
It could not be helped. No one does this on easy payment plans.
01:16 Jun 20 2014
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The number one reason I don't stream video's when my husband is home; I cannot even get through 10 minutes of video without stopping it a dozen times in the length of an hour because the man who wants to be left alone wants my undivided attention.
I love him, I do but damn it he has been allowed to finish multiple anime series and I can't even get through one damned episode.
23:12 Jun 19 2014
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It has been a long day. Long but not bad or tiring, except maybe for the trip to the grocery store.
I woke up at my regular time, fed the cats and started coffee. Played Sims until 8am and then woke up the boy. Went to Granny's house and had a nice visit. I think it was long overdue. We talked about the Cancer and her plans. I did some light housework and we needed to pick up a few things from the shop so we drove the truck. It felt like riding in a roller coaster, bumpity bumpity!
we had to ride into town to get pet supplies and made a pit stop at the goodwill. The one in town is pretty terrible and we never find anything we like but strangely enough today we did.
The damper on the day was that we did all of this without bothering to eat. By the time we got around to the grocery store all three of us were tired and hungry.
I think it is time for a sandwich.
02:31 Jun 19 2014
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Got the new truck home today!
18:41 Jun 18 2014
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I just finished watching The Daisy Chain.
Some reviews that I have seen would have the reader believe that it is not a very good film.
As far as Horror goes, it is not so much Horror as it is Intrigue and Chiller. Done up much in the same way as Bernard Taylor's The Godsend, which I really enjoyed.
It didn't suck
04:06 Jun 18 2014
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Just spoke with my husband. tomorrow he is bringing home the new truck! It has been years since we had more than one car and we sure could never have afforded this if it weren't for a wonderful coworker of his.
I am very excited!
06:05 Jun 17 2014
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The only air conditioning is in my bedroom and my son's room. The day has been hot and uncomfortably muggy and as I spent a good deal of it in the main part of the house, I was thoroughly drenched. This made all the better by the thunder storms that came through, I had to shut the house windows for well over an hour, nearly two. Finally around midnight it is cooled enough to even consider taking a shower. The bathroom is like an oven, unless someone is showering. When a person showers it becomes a sauna, even if cool water is used.
A bit miserable.
19:16 Jun 16 2014
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Suddenly I smell tangerine peel.
17:00 Jun 15 2014
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Well piss all.
I just got off the phone with Granny. She is doing chemo right now but her Small Cell Carcinoma is Stage 4. She is making arrangements so as not to leave to much burden on family and friends and she said it is time for my husband to come and get his tools and things from the shop. The financial burden is heavy and amidst her prayers for a miraculous self healing she is also praying for a miracle of another kind. She is trying to sell a '59 Chevy for $10,000.
Everything on it is sound but it needs a lot of elbow grease to get going. I just don't know anyone who will pay that much for a car that hasn't been cranked over in more than 5 years.
13:25 Jun 15 2014
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Woke up with a splitting headache. I hope a coffee can knock it back. I can't call my dad until it's a low ache he is just to annoying to deal with when I feel like crap.
04:46 Jun 15 2014
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If I was a single mom I would smack the asshole who told me Happy Father's Day.
01:40 Jun 14 2014
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I am a nut.
Ever since moving to South Carolina I have searched and inquired about a specific Gorgonzola. Going on 8 years people!
My quest? To engineer, from scratch, a pasta salad.
A Chicken Pasta Salad with Gorgonzola; to be precise. The grocery store I worked for sold it in the service deli. I made this salad 3 days a week and loved it but it always tasted best with the Belgioioso Blue foil wrap.
My local grocer finally ordered it and we just happened to stop in for some little thing that we can't get at Sam's Club so I made the pasta salad components and am waiting for the pasta to chill enough to mix them together.
16:29 Jun 13 2014
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As of today my daughter has been at her friend's house for one week. She calls and checks in but I haven't seen that face. Last night I went in to feed her turtle, Sheldon. The little critter is about 2 inches long and cute as heck. We don't know the gender yet so I try to refer to it as either it's name or something non-gender specific.
My daughter hand feeds it and every day this week when I go to check on Sheldon it comes run/swimming out of it's very hiding place and start jumping on the side of the tank, begging and also wanting attention. My daughter places with it too.
Last night Sheldon saw me as soon as I opened the bedroom door and tried to greet me. Tried but had trouble getting through the opening of the turtle cave. The little bugger had a growth spurt!
I guess it is time to clean the new tank and get a new cave/basking rock.
15:37 Jun 12 2014
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Sifting through emails this morning. There was a message from the photography company that worked my son's graduation, letting me know that the deadline for ordering at the current price is the 18th of June.
What? The paper they sent me says the 20th. Liars.
I had planned to pay on the 20th in order to maximize the budget for this two weeks because of added expenses.
It doesn't hurt badly but it is a huge pain in my ass.
I went ahead and sent the order but only because I promised my son that I would. The photography was not fantastic, the solo picture was actually pretty horrible. Next year I am just going to take my daughter for pro photo's in her cap and gown.
03:10 Jun 12 2014
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I thought today's visit went well. I finally came face to face with the first person I made friends with through Myspace in 2007. We have been close friends through a lot of personal stuff including major life altering changes in her life and I am happy to say that it was in no way awkward. Sometimes meeting in real life is awkward.
15:43 Jun 11 2014
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Nothing new or interesting happened yesterday, additionally my laptop has been giving me fits when it gets hot. sometimes I can't keep an Internet connection. This is the hazard of having an old laptop and there is no fixing it.
Today is exciting for me though. A longtime Internet friend is vacationing in the Blue Ridge Mountains and is coming down our way! We will be meeting her about half of the distance between us after my Husband gets home from work. Pretty stoked.
17:55 Jun 09 2014
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My greatest hurdle in completing any task is nothing more then the getting started.
23:43 Jun 08 2014
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Tonight I decide to make a tuna noodle casserole and not feeling particularly creative I looked for a recipe online. I am missing a few ingredients that some people might consider crucial but eh, I can live without them. As I look for recipes I am struck by how absolutely awful they look! They don't look good at all! They are captioned with statements of how the family loves it or it is a favorite and all I can think is,"What shit on a shingle hell do these people hail from?" Not to actually knock SOS, as a kid it was one of my favorites. I always ate the ground beef chunks first. When I want a casserole I want it to bear some resemblance to a pasta with add ins, au gratin potatoes with a pea stuck in here and there. The toppings are a nice touch but I like them to garnish, not cover up.
Perhaps I am too judgmental, last Thanksgiving I actually made my own cream of mushroom soup It isn't hard to prepare a tasty and visually appealing meal that doesn't look like it got pried from the corner of a dumpster.
Again I suggest that I may be too picky or judgmental. Yesterday a nearby grocer was grilling ribs(actually yesterday two stores were grilling and one of them actually was enticing)and as soon as we pulled into the lot something just smelled burnt. I am one of those weirdo's that can tell by the smell that the fryers haven't been filtered or need to be changed. The burnt smell was BBQ sauce from ready to heat and eat pork ribs that already had sauce on them. The air reeked of charred BBQ sauce. It was horrible.
A lady behind me said to her friend,"That shit smells good."
No, it really didn't. It just smelled burnt.
So picky me with no decent recipe online. I will fashion a nice subtle sauce that will compliment the flavor of a fish with a small side of shelled crab.
I am thinking something in a sauteed onion and butter. Maybe a little stir of sour cream or yogurt while the noodles are hot. No topping, I don't need to hide it.
00:59 Jun 08 2014
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We decided to cook out tonight because of the heat of the day and the horrible humidity. No sooner were the coals lit and the potatoes baking on the grill, the sky began to darken.
As the sky got darker and rain began to tentatively fall I made light jokes and the Big Man got a "well fuck" smirk on his face. I sat in that patio chair making conversation even as the cats began hiding under the car, only moving when it actually did begin to pour.
I thought maybe this won't last....a check on the radar shows it growing and not moving from above us. I wonder if he still wants to put steaks on?
14:01 Jun 07 2014
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Yesterday was a busy one. Senior pictures for my daughter first thing in the morning. It was fun and she got to spend time with a friend because the friends father is the school photographer.
She had big weekend plans so I tagged after her with the money while we went from store to store looking at bathing suits. Last years was outgrown. She hasn't grown an inch in over four years but she is developing bodacious curves.
Got home well after noon and it was hot and sticky weather. Waiting all day for storms that hovered but never came. It was another sandwich night because cooking just would have made the fellas grumpy.
Today it is off to forage(grocery shop)and make the last payment on the computer!
Maybe I will renew my Prem too.
01:34 Jun 07 2014
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I just got the butt dial from Hell. It was my mom and once she realized she had accidentally rang me she wanted to sit and talk! Then she said she would call me later to spend time.
I wonder if she could be ill.
19:43 Jun 06 2014
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I am having a little trouble deciding what I want for my birthday. I could renew my VR Premium or put money onto my PlayStation account.
This is very difficult.
14:45 Jun 04 2014
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I woke with a headache.
Organized, intelligent thought translation to mouth or fingers; OFF position.
14:36 Jun 03 2014
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Everything in my head is jumbled right now. I don't think I slept as well as I think I did. I was up way to late talking to a friend on the phone because I was completely annoyed with my husbands medical situation. He had a doctors appointment yesterday and while he talked to the doctor about his ailments she just looked at her computer and typed. Even when she asked questions she never looked at him.
I feel like they have badly neglected his care. He came to them as a Diabetic with a high A1C. He had high triglycerides too, so they sent him for a stress test. His heart is fine. He has been using a machine that checks his blood pressure and records his blood glucose information and sends all of that information to the VA. Why have they not checked liver enzymes until now? Now his liver enzymes are high. Last month after an annual blood draw they discovered that he has a severe vitamin D deficiency. He also has bone and joint pain which has increased. The bone and joint pain could be attributed to the arthritis in his back. He has also been having cramping and twitching in his legs. He also has a digestive issue.
They are talking about things that they can rule out before they can treat what is actually wrong.
None of this feels right at all. I think he needs to use his work insurance and actually get help.
This is the conversation my poor friend had to deal with. She really is a very kind and patient lady.
13:55 Jun 02 2014
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Last nights pizza was perfect as always. I really do believe that I am done using tomato sauce. Butter and garlic is definitely better and none of that nasty heartburn.
I spent the entire second half of yesterday, until after midnight watching Season 6 and 7 episodes with my son. He actually stopped watching anime and Achievement Hunter episodes to watch with me. It was a fun series. After such a relaxing day I slept extremely well but I woke up with a charley horse. Not comfy.
Plans for today?
Walk the dogs, feed the cats, wash the dishes, clean, cook, maybe squeeze in a little Minecraft. If my brain is not too tired maybe I will try to catch up on the current series I am watching; Doctor Stranger, Angel Eyes and New Leaf. I have slipped a little more than a week behind and lost more time because I got caught up in My Love From the Star. Too many good things! It is like being in a candy shop and trying to pick from all the sweet treats but having limited funds.
18:07 Jun 01 2014
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I awoke at 5:15a to assist the big man in preparing for his work week. So tired was I that I went back to bed after he left and slept until the phone rang around 9a.
It was Granny calling from the hospital, she has been there most of the week. She was admitted for fluid in her lungs and they have removed quite a lot of it. When doing the scans they found a few spots and biopsy showed a small cell Carcinoma. They are doing more tests but staying optimistic, it cannot be removed surgically so they pan to start Chemo in the next week. All very scary stuff but we still managed to have a decent discussion about current events.
Her health is nothing I can do anything about but I can help with her mental state.
Life goes on and tonight life demands BBQ chicken pizza.
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