Supply line shortage this and supply line shortage that. If I hear supply line shortage one more time I'm going to shit the bed and die. It's just a buzz-phrase to get away with holiday price gouging and/or click-bait. The Republicans are, of course, using it to blame Biden for everything.

Meanwhile, I found a 12 pound Butterball turkey for just $ ( Read more... )

At least 15 degrees cooler than yesterday and windy so I'm happy. Jungle heat just ain't right when you're trying to get your Autumnal groove on. You can't watch a spoooooky movie if you're sweltering in shorts. The Masked Singer coming on at odd times is also distracting me. I love that stupid show. Even if my favorites lose I don't feel badly for ( Read more... )

Went to the pharmacy in Target yesterday in the hopes they could squeeze me in for a flu shot. An hour later I got both the flu AND the Pfizer booster, yay!

My arms are falling off. Boooo. Ouch. Not as painful as my Shingrix horror and I'm very glad and relieved I was able to get it done but vaccine patches can't come soon enough for me. (I saw on ( Read more... )

...and scattered it around so no one has to reach into a potentially germy bowl. Now people are fighting over the butterscotches in every corner. (I amuse easily.) I love Halloween and I'm gonna love this one even more. I go on vacation Friday the 29th and I ain't coming back for a week. I've also planned ahead for Thanksgiving, making sure to get ( Read more... )

So I'll use my foggy Autumn icon. Just because. .

Here it's mid-October and it continues to be in the mid-80°s and muggy. Bleah. I wanted to use my beautiful fireplace all weekend long but it was too hot to even cook mashed potatoes on the stovetop. Next week will be better so I ordered extra logs from my grocery store. I also ordered a bag of apples. I got a box of firestarter gel cubes and a bag ( Read more... )

The internet outage is a pain but as long as Dreamwidth stands fast I'm happy. I do hope Gmail comes back, though, I have years worth of family pictures stashed there. .

The heat has broken and the days are cool and fresh. I can breathe! My landlords put out a call for everyone to test their heaters and the burning dust and pollen in my apt set off the smoke detector. Cough! They changed the filters twice over the summer but the airborne gunk was especially bad this year.

I'm decorating for Halloween this very ( Read more... )

My mother has RSV, respiratory syncytial virus, which she caught from her great-grandbabies whom she can't stay away from no matter how often I beg her to love 'em from afar. Ridiculous effort on my part - trying to get between a Granny and her bebes - but I'm trying to keep everyone healthy long distance. I guess I'll send them all some soup. .

Autumn cleaning has commenced. I spent all day Saturday tackling the monster that is my walk-in closet and LO! It was defeated. I took out four full garbage bags of clothes I'd worn out or outgrown, shoes I never wear, another garbage bag of old papers, and a printer that had died. It killed me to bag up clothes that I'd bought just last year but ( Read more... )