Ado Annie

So glad you found the hearing aids!

My "boys" enjoy the comics-based movies. I can enjoy them to a certain extent but wouldn't go out of my way to see them if not for the guys. We finally made it to see Coyote vs. Acme and I have to say that I laughed out loud a couple of times. Other than that, I did very little over the weekend. Was feeling weak/fatigued... OLD, I guess. Hubs and I went to church. I did a little bit of laundry and cooking and cleaning but only the bare minimum. I'm probably repeating myself. Hey, I did say I'm feeling OLD. But tonight my book club meets. It was my turn to pick the book and the location. So we read The Honk and Holler Opening Soon which is by an Oklahoma author. And we are meeting at Fuzzy's Tacos. Wednesday night is choir practice and Thursday night is band practice. That's a lot of busy evenings for one short week. I did plan ahead a little bit and bought frozen Chinese food, some other easy-to-fix meals so I won't have to worry about what everyone is going to eat.

Exactly what I was thinking! 🤣

OU won that football game 51-0. I only watched a little bit, then opted for a soak in the tub before bed. I have laundry going but so far that's all I've done today. Hit a new low weight, which means almost 21 lb lost since May 1. Yesterday I was struggling with symptoms of the ketogenic diet but doing better today. Just lazy. It is of course still HOT and dry outside.

Stars, I do think you need an agency that can look at your situation and let you know what opportunities there are. Hubs and I were a little concerned about the place where stepson is, where his rent is income-based. His little apartment is not bad but some of the people seemed a bit sketchy. Since stepson is relatively healthy right now, he doesn't fit the profile of "sketchy" but I'm sure he would if he had a crisis. OU's football season starts tonight.

I also wondered if that was some kind of scam, Stars. Had a recent situation with a patient who was getting messages saying he owed a 4-digit bill to the hospital, yet we couldn't see that at all. Now that I am reading about MyChart scams, I wonder if that is what happened to him. It seems the most likely explanation. I had the strangest dream last night/this morning where I was in a big hotel in Chicago, trying to find the conference room for a meeting, when an elevator door opened and there was my mother-in-law. Tiny, disheveled, and soiled. I picked her up -- she weighed next to nothing -- and carried her around as I tried to find my way back to my room so I could clean her up and call Hubs and make plans. Of course, we just got more and more lost. Then I looked at her again and it wasn't Gma; it was a kitten or other small animal and I realized (in the dream) that I must have dementia. Well, that was unsettling.

The calendar says it's the first of September, and sure enough when I went to get coffee this morning someone had left a pod in the Keurig with "Pumpkin Spice" coffee. It's going to be a few weeks before it feels like fall around here. This used to be the time of year when I'd start listening to Jimmy Buffett songs and feeling melancholy. I don't do that so much anymore. I still like Buffett songs, though. In Indiana I guess the end of Summer had more impact.

Tweety, that was a lot going on in a couple of shifts but at least you didn't have poor staffing to deal with as well. Joe, there's a Facebook group where people post pictures from their nature hikes in Oklahoma, and there are usually some really nice bird photos. It tempts me to try to get Hubs interested in doing something like that. But mosquitoes... ugh. It is so dry here right now I don't think there are many mosquitoes but Twin B and I sprayed ourselves with repellent before going out to watch the eclipse the other night. Just in case. Twin A has pretty much taken over my digital SLR so all I ever have to take photos with is my phone. Hubs used his phone to take a photo through the telescope lens the other night and it actually looked pretty good. J22, that is a long ride and in that weather it sounds pretty miserable. Glad there were no medical issues. My weekend was mostly spent doing very little. I just did not feel up to much. That said, the kitchen is CLEAN and I've washed more loads of laundry. But I didn't feel like making a mess in the kitchen again to prep low-carb foods for the week. Maybe tonight.

I hope the software issue gets resolved, Joe. At least by Monday? Tweety, yeah, my mother would never leave things overnight. I do and feel her disappointment every time. LOL. I hope things improve at work. dianah, your recipe sounds good to me. And keto. It would probably be cheesy enough the guys would like it, too. I need to prep and plan some meals. With the beginning of the fall season, we need quick meals on both Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Can't have pizza all the time! (though we did last night) We watched the lunar eclipse last night. By the time Twin B and I were driving home from band practice, it had started. I am sure I read we would see a total eclipse, but it wasn't quite. There was a sliver of silver moon 🌖Still, fun to watch. And Hubs got out the telescope so that was fun, too. There's a dinner after the church service Sunday and I signed up to take a side dish.

Safe travels, J22. Glad the laptop is behaving, dianah. Joe, I agree they should have let everyone know the event was canceled. Did you and the other committee member have dinner or just skip it? Very little to comment on here. Choir practice was good, wish we didn't have to drive so far for band tonight (other people drive a lot more -- it's about 20 miles for us).

Also saddened by the death of Dolly Parton. She did good things with her celebrity. And wrote some pretty good music. Today we hear that Tim Curry died at 80. A very naughty part of me would like to select the next 80-year-old to go. 🦹‍♀️ After yesterday's high of 105, the high temp today is supposed to be 91. And we had a little rain. Choir practice tonight. Concert band starts again tomorrow night. So it goes.

While Tweety is glad he can eat carbs without guilt, I was thinking this weekend how it is nice to eat bacon-wrapped jalapenos stuffed with cream cheese -- without guilt! Doesn't mean I don't crave cookies, cake, and brownies, though. I tried a low-carb "brownies" recipe that used avocado for the fat and ... it was really, really bad. Let us know what you think of the long movie, Stars. I'd like to see that one in the theater but not sure I can talk anyone into going with me. Ah, yes, I do remember Hawkeye Pierce singing about Lydia the Tattooed Lady -- wasn't Hawkeye always doing Groucho imitations? J22, the beach sounds lovely. Even with cooler weather. Glad it was a good trip. The laundry can be worked through ... hopefully with no rush. dianah, sorry about the computer woes. How annoying.

Hubs' ex-wife (mother of my stepkids) died yesterday. I think I had told y'all that she had stage 4 lung cancer. Only 63. Depending on what the kids and her husband decide about her service, either Hubs will fly up there for that or we will plan to go spend time with the kids and grands later this year. We have made a lot of funeral trips back to Indiana. Today is overcast though so far no rain. The clouds have kept the temp down but we're still expected to get up to 102 by late afternoon. The church was opening a cooling center because there was a heat warning but since that has been lifted the decision was made to shut it down for today. My weekend plans involve continuing the work on Twin A's room. I've been working through the laundry we collected from it last week and both guys seriously need to weed out things they can't or won't wear. I also hope to finish the book I'm reading which was recommended by a friend. It is The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett, who wrote The Help. This author is really good at conveying a sense of injustice (enough to justify a poop pie, I guess 💩) so we'll see where this goes. I learned that apparently the clinic where we've all gone for years does not respond to requests from the pharmacy for refills. That explains a lot but why we didn't know this before now I don't understand. Sometimes I do think about switching to a provider closer to home (this clinic is 18 miles away -- was very close to the place we were renting before my mother died and we moved here to take care of Dad).

I think it's only fair to extend the same kind of wariness to the health care provider as they do to you, Stars. dianah, I agree with you about computers! I got an email alert from Capital One that I expect is legitimate telling me that my email address is found on "the dark web" and I should, at the least, change my password. I did that on the laptop, then went to reset the saved password on my phone and got it wrong. A series of errors led to my account being locked with no way to retrieve it except call AOL and -- here's the kicker -- PAY them for a support contract, essentially. I think it's pure extortion. I can cancel this little "support plan" at any time and, believe me, I will. I would just dump AOL after all these years and use another email service (there are still free ones, right?) except that there are some important things that are tied to that email address and making that change would be a lengthy and difficult process. How old did you say Bleu is, Joe? Past the stage where his appetite could just be a growth spurt?