Rantingjay

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

26 minutes ago, SAT said:

I just got an email from Apple. The subject line reads

"dear valued apple costumer"

It is almost Halloween.

1 hour ago, Ontarkie said:

Omg baking!! I'm two months behind with my Christmas baking I'm going to have to cram so much into one day it's crazy. 

 

Ok done using my inhaler. Dang bedroom was a dust ball. Need to get back to cleaning it out and getting the last of the Tornado's stuff out of that room. 

 

I need to get it stripped down and prepped for the Jedi. He wants a blue room, and then I'll need to buy him a bed. 

 

I was up super late last night canning my apple pie filling.  I only made it through because the kid helped peel the apples.  Geeez that was a lot of work.  What do you start baking this early?

 

Don't remind me about cleaning out things, I'm doing another magical tidying up sweep once my semester is over.  Still have too much stuff.

[NikLR 13,227]

Imma pull out the ol sewing machine and go to work on my old costume. 

[Ontarkie 14,207]

4 minutes ago, N-o-l-a said:

It is almost Halloween.

 

I was up super late last night canning my apple pie filling.  I only made it through because the kid helped peel the apples.  Geeez that was a lot of work.  What do you start baking this early?

 

Don't remind me about cleaning out things, I'm doing another magical tidying up sweep once my semester is over.  Still have too much stuff.

Oh ya without help it would have taken twice as long. I should try to make apple pie filling sometime. 

 

I get all my cookies, pizzelles, magic cookie bars, nanaimo bars, butter tarts, pies, peanut butter balls and a ton of other stuff too. Pies I do closer to Christmas and my snack mix I do before TG because I like to have some then too. I make a multiple batches too depending on what it is so it lasts awhile. My freezer gets filled up nicely. 

[SAT 9,609]

37 minutes ago, N-o-l-a said:

It is almost Halloween.

 

I was up super late last night canning my apple pie filling.  I only made it through because the kid helped peel the apples.  Geeez that was a lot of work.  What do you start baking this early?

 

Don't remind me about cleaning out things, I'm doing another magical tidying up sweep once my semester is over.  Still have too much stuff.

Can you can cans as fast as a canner can can? (3 times real fast)

[SAT 9,609]

41 minutes ago, NikLR said:

Is TNG getting fired?

I did a drug test and submitted to a background check for the new job.  

Had an argument with hubs about a $20 costume corset.  I asked him which style he liked. He asked why i was getting one.  So I said why... (mostly Halloween costume/cosplay but i can wear it otherwise...) He starts jabbering on about hallmark holidays and consumerism. (Mr bought an overpriced 1998 jeep cherokee...sure... ) so I said I asked your opinion about style not my ability to spend $20 on a manner I choose.  Last time I ask him if he likes a style over another one... I shoulda known better. Now he's not talking to me.  Whatevs

 

Yeah he's pretty much pissing me off to that point...

 

2- corset pic now...

34 minutes ago, NikLR said:

Imma pull out the ol sewing machine and go to work on my old costume. 

 

Seamstress pic now...

[SAT 9,609]

 

 

Stretch must be baking her brains out...

[Ontarkie 14,207]

24 minutes ago, SAT said:

 

 

Stretch must be baking her brains out...

No just finished cleaning out the room. All the girls stuff is in the bigger room now. The Tornado will have even more room when big sister gets her own room. 

Everything but one self is out of the soon to be Jedi's room. I'll start ripping wallpaper off tomorrow. 

Cleaned up the table as it seems to be a catch all from both rooms. 

 

Taking a break while I figure out what to make with the chicken breast. 

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

Typical comment made watching one of these shows on HGTV:

 

"We have 3 kids and our 1300 sq ft house is just so ridiculously small."

 

Shut the front door, no really.  You just have too much junk.

[SAT 9,609]

Yeah 1300 square feet is about 3 times the size of a typical fook apartment here...

[cdneh 3,112]

Beautiful day here, sunny, but not hot. Very cool overnight. The MIL has been sat in the garage all afternoon, going through trunks. She's got three huge old ones, full of mainly papers, and old photos of people she can't identify.  They've been out there for 15 years, and should really have been somewhere climate controlled. She says she was looking for her wedding photos.  I don't know which wedding, there have been several.

They, of course, were not there. More likely, they are in the 5 huge plastic boxes on the other side of the garage. She did drag heaps of bits and pieces into the house and dumped them on a heap on her desk.

She managed to get everything else back in the trunks, including her iPhone. I rang it, trunk number 2 buzzed. On the bottom tray of course.

 

Going to get new glasses tomorrow. It's either that, or get my books in LARGE PRINT.  I will probably try on 100 pairs and buy the first thing I see.

[cdneh 3,112]

21 minutes ago, N-o-l-a said:

Typical comment made watching one of these shows on HGTV:

 

"We have 3 kids and our 1300 sq ft house is just so ridiculously small."

 

Shut the front door, no really.  You just have too much junk.

My MIL is fascinated by those shows, lately the Tiny Houses one. She thinks she wants one. I can just see her climbing a ladder to get to bed, and sleeping with her nose 8 inches from the ceiling. She'd need an entire tiny house just for her shoes, for heaven's sake!

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

9 minutes ago, cdneh said:

Going to get new glasses tomorrow. It's either that, or get my books in LARGE PRINT.  I will probably try on 100 pairs and buy the first thing I see.

 

I've been getting mine on peepers.com.  They aren't my prescription, which is like +1.25 and +1.00, but having +1.00 in both eyes works fine.  I find the quality is better than drugstore ones and they are cheaper than getting them at the optometrist.  

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

9 minutes ago, cdneh said:

My MIL is fascinated by those shows, lately the Tiny Houses one. She thinks she wants one. I can just see her climbing a ladder to get to bed, and sleeping with her nose 8 inches from the ceiling. She'd need an entire tiny house just for her shoes, for heaven's sake!

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I've been fascinated by them for a while, and maybe I could have lived in one when I was 19, but I'll freely admit that I've just got too much stuff to pull it off now.

Edited October 18, 2017 by N-o-l-a

[cdneh 3,112]

4 minutes ago, N-o-l-a said:

 

I've been getting mine on peepers.com.  They aren't my prescription, which is like +1.25 and +1.00, but having +1.00 in both eyes works fine.  I find the quality is better than drugstore ones and they are cheaper than getting them at the optometrist.  

I wonder if those would work for astigmatism?

 

1 minute ago, N-o-l-a said:

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I've been fascinated by them for a while, and maybe I could have lived in one when I was 19, but I'll freely admit that I've just got too much stuff to pull it off now.

I think they are cute at face value if you are a minimalist sort of person. I am not. Part magpie here.  Now that it's cooler, and the garage isn't a sauna, I'll have to get out there myself and get rid of a lot of stuff. In only 8 years, nearly, I've amassed some more junk. It probably looks worse than it is, I hope, every time I need something from out there, I have a tendency to pull it out, and not really every straighten it up again.

[NikLR 13,227]

3 hours ago, cdneh said:

I wonder if those would work for astigmatism?

 

I think they are cute at face value if you are a minimalist sort of person. I am not. Part magpie here.  Now that it's cooler, and the garage isn't a sauna, I'll have to get out there myself and get rid of a lot of stuff. In only 8 years, nearly, I've amassed some more junk. It probably looks worse than it is, I hope, every time I need something from out there, I have a tendency to pull it out, and not really every straighten it up again.

They will help you read but they will not work for astigmatism.  You'll still get headaches because you can't see far away. 

 

So in good news, I got the new job.  It's a vet office btw.