Musings of a marginally sane feline-appreciating female.

I hope your weekend is as good as mine has been so far. I am very contented and full of food already.

Yesterday, I took advantage of the early work release and hit Target for the first time since before the pandemic. (I think? I don’t remember going any other time this summer.) Thankfully they have not rearranged the store in that time. Checked for headsets for work – they had some on display that you could try on – I picked up a set, and WHOA, SUPER COMFY. Looked at the tag – I had picked out the top of the line Bose that go for $300. HAHAHAHAHAHA, no.

Did score some new bedpillows – I’d ordered a pair off the internet and well, I’ll not do that again. (Return label is being processed on that lapse in judgement.) Should have known to just go to Target in the first place. Did manage to resist the urge to buy a few more bath sheets, but only because the stock was pretty low thanks to kids going back to college.

GAWD, I HAVE MISSED GOING TO TARGET.

Then off to Kohl’s to do the Amazon return dropoff – and they give you $5 of Kohls cash. Well, I couldn’t let *that* go to waste, could I? Got a nice pair of Under Armour leggings that will be nice for yoga. I have missed Kohl’s, too.

Finally Staples in the headset quest – found a nice pair of Altec Lansings – bluetooth, 26 hours on a charge, microphone, noise canceling that can be turned on/off and most critical, comfortable. I’ll give them a week tryout – keeping my fingers crossed that these will work. They are “full over the ear” style, so they look goofy as hell, but I’m never on video, so, it’s fine.

And today has been all about not cooking. Market for cheese and salami and crackers to snack on, then the butcher shop for 3 containers of their really great BBQ (one for tonight, two for the freezer.) They also have a wide variety of wild boar sausage, and I will say I am intrigued and may have to try some at some point.

And right next to the butcher shop is a Potbelly. Couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get my favorite Ham & Swiss, and some of their mac & cheese.

So, I am basically warm, fat and happy, and that’s a nice place to be. Debating if the next activity will be a stitching or a nap.

I really need to win the lottery so every day can be like this.

And you made it – and this week, that is certainly not nothing. Covid, Ida, and Texas just to name a few things trying to send us to the great beyond.

But, it’s a long weekend and management is booting us out early today, so it’s not all bad.

I’ve had a productive week on the non-work side of things. Car picked up, dropped off insurance, dropped off state/county registers, plates surrendered, and coverage seriously upped on the new Jeep.

Tons of progress made on the stitching! Even if I did just now manage to lose the back of the needleminder when I took the piece out for the picture…

Very grateful for the early out today, since I have to go to Kohl’s to do an Amazon return and that will definitely be easier than on a weekend. The quest for a new headset that doesn’t squeeze my head to the point of a headache continues.

Big plans for the weekend are stitching and housework and generally chilling the fuck out.

You have a great day.

Overcast Sunday here – not sure if it matches my somewhat subdued mood today or caused it, but here we are.

But, I’ve got coffee and hit up Dunkin’ this morning so I can stress eat donuts all day. Donuts are such a small-big joy – I seriously become a kid again when I walk in there – chocolate frosted WITH SPRINKLES?! YES, PLEASE! Also, I don’t know who needs to know this, but the maple bacon snackers are back. (I may have just sat in the car and eaten them before even leaving the parking lot.)

In “make this make sense” stuff – MetLife has processed my dental claim that was submitted on Thursday. Literally a 2 day turnaround. I’m very happy, but given that the time frame for them to process shit is 2 days to 5 months, it’s a little weird. (Watch it take them 2 months to pass the info on to the flex spending people…)

On a civic duty note, I’ve written the Governor yet again asking that they reinstate mask mandates. Our cases counts make it obvious that the honor system for masking isn’t working, and our vaccination rates are flat, so as much as we may want to vaccinate our way out of Delta, we don’t have time to wait for more employer vaccination mandates. I’m just so pissed watching the anti-mask/anti-vax asshats do whatever the fuck they want and causing this pandemic to just keep going when it absolutely does not have to.

And then there is Hurricane Ida – my lord, the universe is a cruel place to have it hit on the anniversary of Katrina. I’m so worried for the folks who couldn’t evacuate. On the radio this morning they were saying that they’ve made improvements to the levee systems, but no one wants this stress test on them. At least we don’t have a president who will throw paper towels at them.

Now, I am going to try to get some adulting done around here, since I got all the car stuff done yesterday, the to-do list is much lighter. (Thank you yesterday me.) Hopefully it will keep my mind off the awfulness of the world.

The car is all cleaned out. All you have to do Sunday evening is remove the license plates. Enjoy your day.

Very happy it’s done, took about an hour an a half all told (there was a LOT of crap in that car) and I had to do it in 10 minute increments because it was very fucking hot out there this afternoon.

Figured out one neat thing you can do when you’re cleaning out a car – even if you’re not going anywhere, you can still start the engine and run the AC so you’re not working in an oven. Wish I’d realized that right at the start.

It is not perfect, but it is well beyond good enough and it is DONE. And I am happy for that, because it means I can enjoy the rest of the evening with zero guilt.

Time to go draw some kitty faces on graph paper for the LilyMonster’s quilt.

Once again, you defied it all and made it to Friday – give yourself a pat on the back.

We’re off to a rip roaring start here with the cable being all effed up and – wait, it’s suddenly working again and I have BBC. Refresh & reboot did do the trick after all. I’d like to think the cable box went, “Oh shit, she’s gonna bitch on the internet about this, better get things straight!”

This morning on the way home from Starbucks, I found new buttons on my car! They’re very subtle, but they’re there, and they work – on the *back* of the steering wheel – you can switch the radio from AM/FM/Sirius/Phone, control the volume and switch the stations. My hand to god, I read the manual and did not see this. I LOVE IT. I’d actually been thinking it was a shame the radio didn’t have steering wheel controls – they were there the whole time. Glad I found them now and not, IDK, 10 years down the road.

And in other car & adulting stuff, the replacement title for the old car arrived, I scheduled the pickup for Monday, and my weekend project is clearing the last of the crap out of the old car. Wheeeeee! And possibly jumping the battery – I haven’t tried to start it in a month and I did tell them it was running when I scheduled the pickup. (I did say I wouldn’t try and drive it on a 500 mile road trip…)

Welp, time to go knock out the day so we can get the weekend started – you have a great and safe day.