Wednesday

short+sassy

How are things going?  I'm extra glad I'm WFH today because it is going to be pouring rain all day.  I woke up two hours early this morning for no reason and now I'm really tired.  It's like even when I stay disciplined and go to bed at a good time, I can't win!

Not much else going on.  Just trudging along.

VarunaTT

Going to see Pitch Black at the theatre tonight.  I'm so excited about it, I love that movie, such exquistely overacted scifi and VIn Diesel.

Otherwise, not much else going on.  I've started a new morning routine that I feel good about.  I'm kind of ready for the weekend right now.

CharmedPam

Slow week here because all my peeps I support are away for business.  Which was great yesterday, as I got my grass done during the day. 

I was up early too @short+sassy, but because of the damn birds.  Is my fake owl losing its touch? I’ll have to
buy more bird reflectors.  I can’t stand how early they wake me up!

charlotte989875

Not too much here. MIL is hanging with the baby and I’m
trying to purge some clothes and winter things. I’m about a month away from my return to the office and I’m not feeling it. I miss some of the work but not ready to give up being home with J all day. I’m lucky I had as much time as I did but does it ever feel like enough? 

Casadena

Yuck to early wake ups @short+sassy and @CharmedPam. I don't know what is wrong with the birds in IL but I have lived quite a few places and never experienced such loud early bird chirping.

I slept in a bit though and have been spoiled the last week with no middle of the night wake-ups to deal with (i've been sleeping in the guest room on another floor). Mom left this morning and is coming back next week to watch G for a few days before his re-scheduled surgery. His NP recommended we keep him home for those few days to try and avoid delays due to sickness. I'm feeling a ton better today, just kinda tired so i'm back on the bedtime grind with H. It was pretty awesome having no bedtime duty for 9 days. 

short+sassy

@CharmedPam, birds can be crazy smart!  They probably laugh at the fake owl now.

My friend has a bird feeder for blue jays in the neighborhood.  She feeds them peanuts.  One will come down and check for the food.  Then he makes a call to let the others know they are there.  The birds will sit on a wire nearby like a waiting area.  They each take turns flying down to get one peanut and none of them go for a second peanut until they have all had one.

My friend slept in one morning.  She woke up to this tapping on her window.  She went over to see what it was.  It was one of the blue jays!  Purposely tapping on her window as if to say, "Hey!  Where's breakfast?"

short+sassy

@Casadena, I'm glad you're starting to feel better!

I did remember to take a COVID test last night and it was negative.  I'm going to take it again later tonight, just to make sure.  I have a whole bunch I've gotten for free from various places.  I know the expiration dates got extended, so I was on the FDA website checking.  I threw out about six of them because they were "for real, for real" expired now, lol.

levioosa

I'm glad you're starting to feel better @Casadena

I hope you feel better soon! @short+sassy

Well, the letter "E" fell off my keyboard on my laptop this morning. So that's how today is going. I am sleepy. I had a funky dream and of course it was my last dream of the night so I woke up in a funk. I did get to catch up with BFF this morning which was nice. 

Otherwise SSDD. I would say I'm looking forward to the weekend but my mom has sprung something/guilt tripped me about something on Saturday, and then on Sunday we have family brunch where I'll be seeing SIL A for the first time since my birthday. We still haven't talked. Oh well. 

It's going to be 87 here tomorrow. Help I'm not ready for summer. But then on Saturday and Sunday it drops 30 degrees and is raining. Spring is unsure here lol.

short+sassy

@levioosa, I had a laptop years ago that kept having a key here and there that would be broken off.  I just figured it was a poor quality laptop keyboard and it was getting old.

Then I came into the living room one day and caught my cat Nip sitting on my computer.  She had one claw out and was studiously catching it under the same key and flicking at it.  I was not impressed!  But at least that solved the mystery of what was happening to my keyboard, lol.

levioosa

short+sassy said:

@levioosa, I had a laptop years ago that kept having a key here and there that would be broken off.  I just figured it was a poor quality laptop keyboard and it was getting old.

Then I came into the living room one day and caught my cat Nip sitting on my computer.  She had one claw out and was studiously catching it under the same key and flicking at it.  I was not impressed!  But at least that solved the mystery of what was happening to my keyboard, lol.

You weren't impressed? Or were you very impressed lol. 

Squish has this thing for cords. Not a cord in the house is safe. They all get chewed to bits. So we have heavy duty protective coverings or we buy specialty cords for our electronics. It's maddening. Also Jack figured out ages ago how to turn on the oven so we have child protective covers for the oven knobs. We don't  have children and we don't ever have children over at the house but yup, we sure do have child locks on everything. 

CharmedPam

short+sassy said:

Then I came into the living room one day and caught my cat Nip sitting on my computer.  She had one claw out and was studiously catching it under the same key and flicking at it.  I was not impressed!  But at least that solved the mystery of what was happening to my keyboard, lol.

SIB

well, this one’s on you.  She wants some QT with momma and you want to work instead? That’ll show ya!

Casadena said:

Yuck to early wake ups @short+sassy and @CharmedPam. I don't know what is wrong with the birds in IL but I have lived quite a few places and never experienced such loud early bird chirping. 

It’s crazy! My room faces my many many tree lined  backyard!

short+sassy

levioosa said:

short+sassy said:

@levioosa, I had a laptop years ago that kept having a key here and there that would be broken off.  I just figured it was a poor quality laptop keyboard and it was getting old.

Then I came into the living room one day and caught my cat Nip sitting on my computer.  She had one claw out and was studiously catching it under the same key and flicking at it.  I was not impressed!  But at least that solved the mystery of what was happening to my keyboard, lol.

You weren't impressed? Or were you very impressed lol. 

Squish has this thing for cords. Not a cord in the house is safe. They all get chewed to bits. So we have heavy duty protective coverings or we buy specialty cords for our electronics. It's maddening. Also Jack figured out ages ago how to turn on the oven so we have child protective covers for the oven knobs. We don't  have children and we don't ever have children over at the house but yup, we sure do have child locks on everything. 

One of my friends in college had a pet rabbit that she let roam freely in her apartment.  It was litter box trained.  But NO cord was safe!  It could strip one in no time flat.