Took Bernice for her walk, and we encountered her BFFs on the trails. . The owners are women I run into while walking, we proceeded to walk together (I love how Bernice plays with their dogs and gets tired). I had walked an hour before we saw them, and I was getting very tired near the end. My new Physical Therapist told me that people with MS cannot exercise to exhaustion, and I was exhausted! They were sweet waited for me. They suggested that I take a shorter route home at a certain point, I agreed. They also told me to have Mr. Lefty pick me up, but I told them I could make it, and I did. But Mr lefty is doing the afternoon walk, no way I am going back out. He is cooking dinner, I suggested take out on me, but he wants to cook and says he can do both (he has to get up early). I was told by my PT that people with MS may want to push themselves, but that is a no no. I tend push myself a bit, but today I am embracing the malady and resting.
So, an HISTORICALLY prosperous economy following the fiscal horrors of COVID as well as a record of behaving with consumate honor and integrity isn't good enough for ye?
“But Biden’s presidency didn’t turn the page ... He wasn’t a good enough leader.”
That's about the biggest crock of shit I've ever read. Joe Biden lead us out of the biggest pandemic of my lifetime and did a damn good job of it. Indeed, FUCK YOU Chuck Todd!
I'm confused. Why's anyone paying attention to Chuck Todd? He has a lifelong error record and failed to pursue important leads. Plying it both ways mean that nobody benefits and everybody is lessened somewhat.
I'm so lucky to be strategically located between two churches. When their bells go off every Sunday their peals barely tickle my ears instead of driving me crazy.
"Republican allies quickly amplified her message. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said he was “deeply concerned,” while Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) warned the flights were “absolutely unacceptable.”
"After the State Department’s decision on Saturday, Fine gave Loomer “massive credit” for forcing the issue."
Any country that allows Loomer to dictate any policy whatsoever, is a country that should hang it's head in shame. And those republicans high fiving her should be removed from congress. First we cut off Ukrainians now, Gazan children. I hate trump's fucking country.
BREAKING NEWS ALERT: After much deliberation, I’ve selected the polishes (from my personal collection of 157 bottles) for today’s mani/pedi. Gold (with sparkles!) for toes, and bronze (with sparkles!) for fingers.
My nail technician of 17 years, M, has been absolutely amazing in dealing with the problems caused by my non-diabetic peripheral neuropathy that extends from my toes to just below my knees (it’s also in my hands, but not so bad). Specifically, because I wear thong-type sandals all the time now, but can’t actually feel my toes, there is a lot of dead skin from contact blisters to take care of. I’m actually her only client now, because she’s had an entirely different FT job since December 2019. She just comes in every few weeks on Sundays to take care of me. And yes, I tip *very* well, but she’s told me multiple times that she just likes talking with me, and the break from her kids. 😂😺😺
ElastiGirl became ElastiMom. Thus continuing the great debate of whether a feminist superhero can further the cause of JUSTICE while raising children and keeping food on the table.
Sue Storm also grappled with the dilemma. But only Wonder Woman successfully threaded the needle by saying "FUCK the patriarchy! All I need are my bracelets, my truth lasso and my badass self and I am set."
All of the morning chores are done but it took me too damned long to complete them. Last night I took a legendary fall in the kitchen and suffered a nasty impact. Just getting up to visit the loo and then gimping to the kitchen to grab a bottle of Frappuccino mocha was a MAJOR undertaking.
I am hoping that the caffeine in my coffee drink will perk me up a bit, clearing the proverbial cobwebs and bring an end to this annoying double vision I'm intermittantly experiencing. THAT is driving me crazy.
I can honestly say that the only good thing about losing one eye is that I no longer get the occasional bout of double vision. I barely have single vision.
Sorry you have to keep rediscovering gravity the hard way.
I've lost about 3/4 of the vision to my right eye secondary to a retinal bleed many years ago. Thus I can empathize entirely.
I'll be all right. Here a couple hours post impact I hurt like hell and am having a few issues in regard to ambulation, but all things considered I'm doing all right.
I am empathetic about the double vision. I have some double vision every day, but all day every day. When I go outside it takes about 1/2 hour for my eyes to adjust. Fortunately I don't drive, so I am not a risk to life and limb. Intermittent symptoms are simply unfair, because we tend to think we cause them, instead of blaming some amorphous auto-immune response. I used to blame my bad typing on having picked up the wrong hands in the morning, because my hands would never make that many errors.
Affirmative. Smacked the back of it smartly, as a matter of fact.
I'll be all right. I HAVE to be. paul will NEVER properly care for my plants if I'm in absentia for any extended period of time. Yesterday I spent a considerable amount of time pruning back a substantial ficus tree, repotting a coleus paul accidentally knocked over, and tilling up soil in the pots of a few of my larger plants, tasks it would never occur to paul to attend to.
I was a bit frantic to demonstrate that the plants are NOT "...taking over the fucking living room!" as paul angrily asserted yesterday. They're lovely; he's just being a grumpy old poop.
I convinced myself, since there was no more coffee, to get up and get dressed.
Made it it the bedroom.
Now laying in bed debating the pros and cons of getting dressed and starting my day, or hanging out non commenting.
And please, dear friend, take care of yourself today!! I know you're a nurse ( once a nurse, always a nurse) but be careful, take care, and don't push yourself after your fall!
paul went to work this morning, I remember opening my eyes and seeing him clipping on his badge and leaning down to kis my forehead. He didn't ask me about anything in regard to that fall.
I know that should be evaluated but I've no transportation. If these vision issues get any worse or if the dull headache I've had since that fall increases in its' intensity I may just call an ambulance. Truth to be told I'm not doing so well this morning.
Call Paul. Tell him what is going on. Please, Skepti, don't hesitate for things to get worse. If it turns out to be nothing much, that is a best case scenario.
If this continues or gets any worse I will call him. I just do NOT want to make him angry. He's been VERY cross at me since I dropped the heavy end of a computer plug-in cord on the monitor screen of his laptop and cracked it. He's brought it up at every opportunity, making nasty remarks that he believes I did it deliberatly.
Beg pardon, but why in the HELL would I do that? If I wanted to break the damned thing it would've made more sense to just pick it up and toss it out onto the kitchen floor? It would be a considerably more efficient method of destruction. And why would I deliberately attempt to cut him off from a device that maintains what little sanity there remains hereabouts?
By the late morning I've gotten the computer desk tidied up nicely and then offered the space to him, reminding him that it would be MUCH more comfortable to create a back-up digital persona to engage on my device on my channel in the event of such inconveniences.
I LOVED this movie when I was short! For a variety of weird reasons I identified with the monster, viewing him as a misfit as opposed to a malign threat to those around him.
Noticed Clooney was on Colbert last week and was disappointed that Colbert didn't ask him about the fallout of his NYTs opinion piece that helped fuck us all. Irony alert: Clooney was on to plug his Broadway Show "Good Night and Good Luck" in which he plays Edward R. Murrow.
Loved the movie, but that was in better days. I'm still pissed off at Clooney whom I used to adore and watching him on Colbert the other night was annoying and cringe worthy.
Late: I bet he had to go on Colbert as tickets sales may not be all that great, cuz reasons, good reasons.
Though the ones I really want to hear from are all the "free speech absolutists" who have suddenly gone silent as a government- not a social media account, but an actual government- uses its might to silence universities, ban books, and deport people who write articles they do not like.
Those are the real vipers. The vapid celebrities were just parroting what everyone else was saying at the time.
I stopped watching Colbert during the run-up to the election. Every single night, he banged on Biden for being old. Like Clooney, he thinks that he didn't help fuck us.
DATELINE: EDGEWATER, CHICAGO -- MID-MORNING, SUNDAY, AUGUST 17 -- It rained almost two-and-a-half inches last night. The thunderstorms went on for hours. I would wake and see the lightning flashes, then count to myself, "one one-thousand, two one-thousand . . ." and I would hear the thunder, coming from lightning as far as two miles away as I drifted back to sleep.
Just had a brainstorm! We are swimming in cucumbers here, and I can't freeze them. But we have a block party at the end of the week, so I am going to make cucumber appetizers to bring. I'm thinking a tortilla or lavash bread, spread with cream cheese, thinly sliced cumbers and dill. Roll it up and slice it into appetizers! Maybe some diced red pepper or red onion for color. People will eat that.
Is there a movie about President Epstein?
Or his BFF Jeff?
All the King's Hens?
Lol!
Took Bernice for her walk, and we encountered her BFFs on the trails. . The owners are women I run into while walking, we proceeded to walk together (I love how Bernice plays with their dogs and gets tired). I had walked an hour before we saw them, and I was getting very tired near the end. My new Physical Therapist told me that people with MS cannot exercise to exhaustion, and I was exhausted! They were sweet waited for me. They suggested that I take a shorter route home at a certain point, I agreed. They also told me to have Mr. Lefty pick me up, but I told them I could make it, and I did. But Mr lefty is doing the afternoon walk, no way I am going back out. He is cooking dinner, I suggested take out on me, but he wants to cook and says he can do both (he has to get up early). I was told by my PT that people with MS may want to push themselves, but that is a no no. I tend push myself a bit, but today I am embracing the malady and resting.
Maybe you pushed a bit but you did it smart, pushing it with someone else around. Though srsly :hugs: be good to you
Thanks, I am sitting in air conditioning, summoning the gumption to take a shower. Then I’ll read this great mystery in bed.
heee sounds like a day!
I need to do grocery. I do not want to. Not sure I am really up to it. But I HAZ to do it so I shall
Fuck you hard into the fucking sun Chuck fucking Todd.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chuck-todd-joe-biden-legacy-donald-trump-came-back_n_68a18949e4b07702299b3b98
You had me at “Fuck you Chuck Todd”. Into the fucking sun is all bonus.
Ass licking toady Todd says whut?
So, an HISTORICALLY prosperous economy following the fiscal horrors of COVID as well as a record of behaving with consumate honor and integrity isn't good enough for ye?
Toad is a bitter, two-faced shit disturber.
“But Biden’s presidency didn’t turn the page ... He wasn’t a good enough leader.”
That's about the biggest crock of shit I've ever read. Joe Biden lead us out of the biggest pandemic of my lifetime and did a damn good job of it. Indeed, FUCK YOU Chuck Todd!
Always and ever, only Democrats have agency.
I'm confused. Why's anyone paying attention to Chuck Todd? He has a lifelong error record and failed to pursue important leads. Plying it both ways mean that nobody benefits and everybody is lessened somewhat.
Because the people who did not vote for Kamala need some salve that this is not their fault.
Just a guess.
got a 404 error?
Thanks! Fixed!
Gracias. Also, fuck Chuck Toad
The press bending over backward to pretend their constant negging of Biden for 4 solid years had nothing to do with it.
They are just innocent lambs
I'm so lucky to be strategically located between two churches. When their bells go off every Sunday their peals barely tickle my ears instead of driving me crazy.
"Republican allies quickly amplified her message. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said he was “deeply concerned,” while Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) warned the flights were “absolutely unacceptable.”
"After the State Department’s decision on Saturday, Fine gave Loomer “massive credit” for forcing the issue."
Any country that allows Loomer to dictate any policy whatsoever, is a country that should hang it's head in shame. And those republicans high fiving her should be removed from congress. First we cut off Ukrainians now, Gazan children. I hate trump's fucking country.
Fine and Loomer are both incredibly sick puppies.
Remember when our government did NOT cave in to some rando who did not even work for it?
She is the single-handed brain trust of the GOP
Single celled brain trust .... FIFY
A scapegoat to sacrifice if and when the scale of justice needs balance?
Also an easily forgotten woman if that time never comes.
"HER? How dare you say a woman had anything to do with the birth of our new fascist utopia?"
Evidently, she's also the heart and soul. Sick, twisted fucks.
Rabbits with ‘horns’ in Colorado are being called ‘Frankenstein bunnies.’ Here’s why
https://apnews.com/article/rabbits-with-horns-virus-colorado-tentacles-papillomavirus-98b1ad95ba3a0f308bf884d79d1eea7c
Because jackalopes!
The jackalope has been a fixture of postcards from tourist places in the desert Southwest since the 1950s.
I have one! It was bought at a Rexall drug store in Clovis, NM in my youth.
The only reality show I would ever watch is one that highlights WEIRD AMERICA.
There's a squirrel/chipmunk outside pip pipping away, and I wish it could just ENJOY THE PEACE!!!
He's airing his grievances.
Is there perhaps a bird feeder atop a unadorned aluminum pole nearby?
Don't worry. The neighbor with the weed-whacker will scare it off.
https://y.yarn.co/79d6e0ea-7497-4202-8e5e-07819add6c60_text.gif
I can't see Binky without thinking of Shakes the Clown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZhk4KgY_QU
EDIT: Wait, it's "Beaky"? All this time I thought Nigel Bruce was "Binky".
BREAKING NEWS ALERT: After much deliberation, I’ve selected the polishes (from my personal collection of 157 bottles) for today’s mani/pedi. Gold (with sparkles!) for toes, and bronze (with sparkles!) for fingers.
My nail technician of 17 years, M, has been absolutely amazing in dealing with the problems caused by my non-diabetic peripheral neuropathy that extends from my toes to just below my knees (it’s also in my hands, but not so bad). Specifically, because I wear thong-type sandals all the time now, but can’t actually feel my toes, there is a lot of dead skin from contact blisters to take care of. I’m actually her only client now, because she’s had an entirely different FT job since December 2019. She just comes in every few weeks on Sundays to take care of me. And yes, I tip *very* well, but she’s told me multiple times that she just likes talking with me, and the break from her kids. 😂😺😺
That's a win-win
ElastiGirl became ElastiMom. Thus continuing the great debate of whether a feminist superhero can further the cause of JUSTICE while raising children and keeping food on the table.
Sue Storm also grappled with the dilemma. But only Wonder Woman successfully threaded the needle by saying "FUCK the patriarchy! All I need are my bracelets, my truth lasso and my badass self and I am set."
Also, she now has time for that awesome Curator of Cool Ancient Art job at the Louvre.
That'd certainly make childbirth easier. Just sayin'...
Young Diana learned about the birds and the bees from Amazon Warriors.
The basic lesson was "No Way Jose!"
That was my first thought as well.
The invisible airplane is handy, I bet
A gift from that Gotham City playboy! I hope he did not attempt to emotionally blackmail Diana into doing anything in return for it.
His dental bill might put a dent in Alfred's carefully planned household budget.
All of the morning chores are done but it took me too damned long to complete them. Last night I took a legendary fall in the kitchen and suffered a nasty impact. Just getting up to visit the loo and then gimping to the kitchen to grab a bottle of Frappuccino mocha was a MAJOR undertaking.
I am hoping that the caffeine in my coffee drink will perk me up a bit, clearing the proverbial cobwebs and bring an end to this annoying double vision I'm intermittantly experiencing. THAT is driving me crazy.
So how the hell are 'ya, most esteemed comrades?
I can honestly say that the only good thing about losing one eye is that I no longer get the occasional bout of double vision. I barely have single vision.
Sorry you have to keep rediscovering gravity the hard way.
I've lost about 3/4 of the vision to my right eye secondary to a retinal bleed many years ago. Thus I can empathize entirely.
I'll be all right. Here a couple hours post impact I hurt like hell and am having a few issues in regard to ambulation, but all things considered I'm doing all right.
I am empathetic about the double vision. I have some double vision every day, but all day every day. When I go outside it takes about 1/2 hour for my eyes to adjust. Fortunately I don't drive, so I am not a risk to life and limb. Intermittent symptoms are simply unfair, because we tend to think we cause them, instead of blaming some amorphous auto-immune response. I used to blame my bad typing on having picked up the wrong hands in the morning, because my hands would never make that many errors.
Damn girl, sit down, chill, rest!
aw Skep, sorry to hear that. hope you're back in fighting shape quickly.
i'll find out how i am after i do the yardwork. :)
Adding my concern to comments down below.
Did you hit your head, Skepti?
Affirmative. Smacked the back of it smartly, as a matter of fact.
I'll be all right. I HAVE to be. paul will NEVER properly care for my plants if I'm in absentia for any extended period of time. Yesterday I spent a considerable amount of time pruning back a substantial ficus tree, repotting a coleus paul accidentally knocked over, and tilling up soil in the pots of a few of my larger plants, tasks it would never occur to paul to attend to.
I was a bit frantic to demonstrate that the plants are NOT "...taking over the fucking living room!" as paul angrily asserted yesterday. They're lovely; he's just being a grumpy old poop.
All right Skepti you know you need to go get checked if you had your head hit
Call Paul or somebody to get you in to get evaluated, please!❤️
"yes, they are! And it is part of my fiendish plan to have....pretty things! Muahahahahaha"
Dammit, Skepti!
Take care of yourself!
I hope the caffeine works!
The rain beat the petals off the flowers, but I made it OK.
Double vision is concerning, even intermittent...
I convinced myself, since there was no more coffee, to get up and get dressed.
Made it it the bedroom.
Now laying in bed debating the pros and cons of getting dressed and starting my day, or hanging out non commenting.
And please, dear friend, take care of yourself today!! I know you're a nurse ( once a nurse, always a nurse) but be careful, take care, and don't push yourself after your fall!
Do what I do.
Drink coffee, and non-comment at the same time!
My morning until the coffee ran out!!
I know I can make more....*contemplates new plan*
Ice Tea!
Double vision? Get evaluated for concussion if you can
paul went to work this morning, I remember opening my eyes and seeing him clipping on his badge and leaning down to kis my forehead. He didn't ask me about anything in regard to that fall.
I know that should be evaluated but I've no transportation. If these vision issues get any worse or if the dull headache I've had since that fall increases in its' intensity I may just call an ambulance. Truth to be told I'm not doing so well this morning.
Call Paul. Tell him what is going on. Please, Skepti, don't hesitate for things to get worse. If it turns out to be nothing much, that is a best case scenario.
If you had a friend or a loved one who had had this happen to them, what would you advise them to do Skepti?
I believe you would tell them to get in and get checked, And that’s what I’m asking you to do. Please, we love you.
If this continues or gets any worse I will call him. I just do NOT want to make him angry. He's been VERY cross at me since I dropped the heavy end of a computer plug-in cord on the monitor screen of his laptop and cracked it. He's brought it up at every opportunity, making nasty remarks that he believes I did it deliberatly.
Beg pardon, but why in the HELL would I do that? If I wanted to break the damned thing it would've made more sense to just pick it up and toss it out onto the kitchen floor? It would be a considerably more efficient method of destruction. And why would I deliberately attempt to cut him off from a device that maintains what little sanity there remains hereabouts?
By the late morning I've gotten the computer desk tidied up nicely and then offered the space to him, reminding him that it would be MUCH more comfortable to create a back-up digital persona to engage on my device on my channel in the event of such inconveniences.
SOME people's kids, I tell 'ye...
THIS!
Feeling a bit achy and fuzzy this morning.
What Saturday evening activities brought about one of "those" miserable Sunday mornings?
Speaking of boating Down Here in Florida yesterday...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/7c4723e0-d682-4094-a31d-955eb1dc29d4.jpg?strip=all&w=442
It's the "Unknown Wildlife" that concerns me...
Even worse, this is unknow wildlife... the worst king.
The unknown unknowns?
Like this?
https://images.app.goo.gl/9S1D4JYdKzKp6iPJ7
I LOVED this movie when I was short! For a variety of weird reasons I identified with the monster, viewing him as a misfit as opposed to a malign threat to those around him.
Part of which was filmed at Silver Springs, Florida...
actually, it's "Unknow", which is even worse.
My eye missed that!
eyes are funny things
I only have the one…
Ha!
Me too, I always think that I'm missing out...
Nessie. Ogopogo. Kraken.
I want to move to Ogopogo's lake...
Well, given Florida's propensity for cryptids...
Ah, the Skunk Ape! Beats the Jersey Devil!
And the Pale Thing (I don't think it's ever been named) that's been seen in the St. Johns River for the past century or two...
"Marsh gas. They're all marsh gas."
~The Official Line
Nessie could be Zygons. Just saying......
Same theory I subscribe to.
Lincoln Square calling out Clooney and Reiner.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/a-year-after-george-clooney-told?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3561893&post_id=171052677&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=oew9u&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Noticed Clooney was on Colbert last week and was disappointed that Colbert didn't ask him about the fallout of his NYTs opinion piece that helped fuck us all. Irony alert: Clooney was on to plug his Broadway Show "Good Night and Good Luck" in which he plays Edward R. Murrow.
Loved the movie, but that was in better days. I'm still pissed off at Clooney whom I used to adore and watching him on Colbert the other night was annoying and cringe worthy.
Late: I bet he had to go on Colbert as tickets sales may not be all that great, cuz reasons, good reasons.
Later: fixed link
That link took me to my gmail
Oh sorry will try again:
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/a-year-after-george-clooney-told?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3561893&post_id=171052677&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=oew9u&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Danke!
And that raises a good point.
Though the ones I really want to hear from are all the "free speech absolutists" who have suddenly gone silent as a government- not a social media account, but an actual government- uses its might to silence universities, ban books, and deport people who write articles they do not like.
Those are the real vipers. The vapid celebrities were just parroting what everyone else was saying at the time.
At least you watched him.
I'm watching old ERs, (the youngs want to see young Noah Wiley after "The Pitt") and he's such a cad in that.
Maybe this article will light a fire under some Hollywood butts.
Their silence is seen as capitulating.
I stopped watching Colbert during the run-up to the election. Every single night, he banged on Biden for being old. Like Clooney, he thinks that he didn't help fuck us.
Oh yeah, now that you mention that, I stopped watching Colbert for the same reason and started again after the firing hullabaloo.
"I hold 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 in extremely high regard, I just don't understand when 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵."
George Clooney
He peaked with "On Wings As Eagles."
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou
Glad that was in the "before times."
Ok all you lovely people. I'm peacing out for the day. Remember, sandwiches are meant for flinging at MAGA now.
hey, that's a felony offense! you could put somebody's eye out with that lettuce.
baloney offense! Ham on white crime!
Sandwiches are the new soup cans!
DATELINE: EDGEWATER, CHICAGO -- MID-MORNING, SUNDAY, AUGUST 17 -- It rained almost two-and-a-half inches last night. The thunderstorms went on for hours. I would wake and see the lightning flashes, then count to myself, "one one-thousand, two one-thousand . . ." and I would hear the thunder, coming from lightning as far as two miles away as I drifted back to sleep.
The Lightning Alert! feature of the Weatherbug was losing its electronic marbles...
It wasn't a fun night.
Good practice for tolerating the air and water show, though.
"It wasn't a fun night."
Are you a cat?
Crap.
I gave it away.
Again...
Just had a brainstorm! We are swimming in cucumbers here, and I can't freeze them. But we have a block party at the end of the week, so I am going to make cucumber appetizers to bring. I'm thinking a tortilla or lavash bread, spread with cream cheese, thinly sliced cumbers and dill. Roll it up and slice it into appetizers! Maybe some diced red pepper or red onion for color. People will eat that.
Cucumbers, seeds removed, diced green bell pepper, pan roasted corn kernels, yogurt, buttermilk, ranch dressing mix (or Penney's Buttermilk Ranch mix)
I have always loved a cucumber salad, dressed with sour cream and a little vinegar, and lots of fresh dill and/or paprika.
hell, don't bother rolling it up, just cut it in slices. there, i saved you a lot of work!
That sounds delicious!
Also, too, bread and butter pickles are quick and yummy and everything happens in the fridge overnight.
I would eat that 'til I made myself sick.
Each Pimm's cup takes 3 or 4 strips of cucumber
If you can't freeze cucumbers whole is it possible to freeze them cut up or diced or shredded or something like that?
Could you make big batches of some type(s) of cucumber salad and freeze that stuff instead?
Cucumber mint lemonade is right tasty, and sometimes vodka finds its way in there too!
I looooove cucumbers with cream cheese.
I know that I would eat that!