The weekend was different because the stupid downstairs a/c died sometime late Friday afternoon, and no one noticed until we were sitting down to dinner and thinking "Gee it's kinda warm in here". Normally it wouldn't matter by the first week of November, but summer has continued to chug along in the south with highs over 80°. We've had precisely ( Read more... )

Debby is Florida's problem anyway; we had a severe thunderstorm warning on Saturday night and it came down pretty hard for about 10 minutes, but it blew in and out real fast. I think it was worse north and west of us, we didn't even lose power. It happened during dinner when Mom was watching the news, and they were acting like our storm was the ( Read more... )

Saturday was the usual: breakfast, shower, grocery store. I washed a load of towels and cleaned my bureau; like, really cleaned it, taking every item off and dusting them individually, then using glass cleaner on the mirror and glass top. I also tried a new vodka that was on sale. It was fine; it gets filtered 10 times, and repeated filtering is ( Read more... )

Saturday was of course New Year's Eve. None of us are party-on-NYE people, even before the 'rents increasing age and health issues rendered it moot. (Also, going back even further, by moving to rural areas beginning in the late 1990s.) I did the food, Jamie set off a few fireworks, we had some wine and prosecco but nobody went overboard. Phil ( Read more... )

The 'rents are gone for a few more days, so mostly I'm just enjoying being lazy. I slept until nearly 10:00, which I haven't done in years. Actually I think it was too much, because I've felt groggy all day, and after coming home from the grocery store and having a couple of chi chis, I feel asleep for about a half hour ( Read more... )