Annie G

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116574851788219801

Oh YES. Hence the metastasizing load of time and aggravation every ordinary working person must cope with for every post-purchase customer service interaction, every effing day. We're trapped in a cycle of purchasing affordable stuff (cheap crap) to make our busy lives tolerable, and then spending our spare time trying to straighten out the bills, instead of rioting - or even a serious boycott.

One problem is, percentage-wise, it seems like more of us are a lot more materially "comfortable" than previous rioting generations, and we're too stressed to think about endangering the comfort we're captured by.

Ah, good. The old dog, who ate too much and vomited a few pieces back up, has cleaned up the mess before I could get to it. Not surprising, considering the pace at which I'm moving this morning.

There are occasional mornings when I stop myself just short of dumping a teaspoon of salt into my tea (and yes, some days when I don't catch it in time). That's a good indicator of how the day will go.

Today's 'first' - mug in hand, loaded with water to be heated, I head vaguely in the direction of the electric kettle. Lift the lid, bring the mug up to pour, and notice it's the food-scrap recycling bin.

My world is in chaos.

I feel bad for the guys who keep taking the fake Trump assassination jobs - no trump contact is worth the collectible edition TP it's printed on, but they have to realize the hardest way possible that it's literally a dead-end gig.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/116470566667001541

No comment.

RE: https://sunny.garden/@Her_Doing/116402880933274008

So neat!

Not a fan of sweets for breakfast - or "breakfast food" in general. But this is tolerable...

One of those mornings... when every little thing catches my attention. Slimy film on the clear panels of the AirSeal pet door catches my eye, have to clean that NOW - and oh, one of the flexible plastic hinges is beginning to break...

[AMAZING company, btw, every single part is easily replaced and can be ordered on their website https://www.idealpetproducts.com/air-seal-pet-door/]

... in the process noticing that the screen on the sink strainer has antique sludge embedded around the rim (it's in a saucepan, boiling now), and the combo floor attachment for the Henry vacuum, disassembled yesterday and waiting on the kitchen table, needs to be cleaned and put back together before someone moves it and all the little parts get lost ...

I guess I'm feeling better 🙄.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jensorensen/116426732013509616

There should be a last panel with the pundit-guy saying "excuse me while I...." and pointing a gun at his own foot.

Earlier this afternoon, Dear Hubby was frantically searching for his training kit bag. I was away last week, and came back to a certain amount of what I call "man-splaying" - miscellaneous crap spread out on every flat surface in sight. Also came back with a terrible cold and a head full of mud. So I had done some vague, unfocused straightening a few days ago, and I had a hazy memory of seeing the bag somewhere it ought not to be, moving it, and thinking I'd found a diabolical hiding place, serve his lazy ass right!

I still have the cold, and the memory of what was possibly the bag in question is even hazier now, so after I realize what he's been searching for a while I feel a bit guilty but can't for the life of me remember what I did with the damn bag. He's getting frantic and mad, especially after I confess that I might have moved it. We're both tearing the house apart. He did get to fuming and threatening murder; I suggested that was extreme, given that I hadn't killed him for taking my car keys OUT OF THE PLACE THEY BELONG for no reason at all last year when I was away and losing them forever ($300 to replace!).

We had searched everywhere, every closet, chest, basement bin... twice. Then I looked around the back of the couch, where the stationary bike sits, next to a table. There's a nice little visible, out-of-the-way nook with a green kit bag in it! And I realized why I'd thought it was so diabolical.

Serves his lazy ass right, all right. Now let's talk about cutting off my nose to spite my face...

Something that's baffled me about using the Mastodon interface, in various apps/browsers: if there's a post which is just a picture, with no initial comment/text, what TF do I do to see the responses or subsequent comments? Where do I click? Am I blind?

RE: https://esq.social/@LeslieBurns/116658465027670010

Wow.

Is this chair mocking me?!?

Sorry, I'm making a nuisance of myself over here. I caught a cold from the grandsons...sick as a dog now (wait, do dogs even GET sinus infections? Maybe I'd be better off as a dog.. ) and have no appetite cuz no sense of smell, stomach's upset (it's pretty empty, and also, drowning in phlegm), falling behind on my water consumption and getting dehydrated, meanwhile my empty stomach is gurgling and bubbling like Yellowstone so I can't even nap well!

"Carry on" I say, to everyone and no one, my ever-quiet public. Chocolate ice cream seems to have soothed the growl beast and I might just get a little rest!