I Want to Be Underwhelmed 🎃 Fall 2024, Continued

Five weeks until Daylight Saving Time ends on November 3rd and we "fall back" an hour.

I doubt I'll buy a pumpkin this year. But maybe.

I feel under the weather today. Chilled and listless, I only had coffee, cheese, and crackers for breakfast. For lunch I had a protein shake and strawberries. For dinner I might have Ritz crackers with potted meat, which I love. If I die, you can have my stuff.

I got a new med at the pharmacy today, and the new baby pharmacist was called over to explain it to me. He fumbled with the box for a bit, and ended up reading me the instructions off the label.

I can't decide whether I should buy an indoor smokeless grill.

[quote] He fumbled with the box for a bit, and ended up reading me the instructions off the label.

I worked in a restaurant that had a pretty fancy wine list. I knew nothing about wines. I asked my co-worker what I should say when someone asked me about a certain wine. He said to just re-read what it said on the menu (each wine was followed by a brief description). E.g.,: Fruity with notes of peach and apple.

So, I should say: "That wine is fruity! It has notes of peach and apple!"

Today is a terribly unremarkable and very underwhelming day.

Could be worse.

It’s a new month.

I made Biscoff cheesecake bars, and they turned out amazing.

I’m going to buy a pumpkin 🎃 but I’ll probably not disembowel it and slop around all the innards

I don't like River's tiara or outfit today.

I was disappointed when I opened DL this morning and none of my watched threads had any new posts and there were no notifications that any of my comments had been liked.

Sorry r12, but we're just not that into you anymore.

I’m thirsty

R19 are you a child?

Hey r15, there is no r 19 yet. Are YOU a child?

Ok r14 eat my ass!!

I’m having an exceptionally bad day

👶🏼

I had just put on clean socks when I accidentally stepped in stealth cat barf.

The cat totally knew that.

I turned my heat on today. It's 68 degrees outside but feels damp and chilly. I like hearing the sound of the baseboard heater coming back to life after having the past four months off.

R18- Why?

Please explain in detail.

Fall foliage is coming on beautifully in northern New England, the colors are vibrant.

I cut down the hibiscus on the side of the house.

The leaves 🍁 are fallin’ all around,

time I was on my way

Practicing my hog call

I have a pain in my shoulder this evening

Oh god me too and my right foot and left wrist r28

I didn't like today.

I feel like I'm going to throw up.

I've been seeing a lot of skeletons in people's yards. Tall ones, it must be a thing.

It’s called Halloween fool! 👻

Jesus, fuck, I’m watching a new show on TLC. This woman is completely covered in tumors.

Her condition is truly horrific.

You think you have problems? Just look out the front door. 🥺😧

I can't find sugar free NeoCitran anywhere.

I just discovered that The Mummy 1932 is on Amazon Prime, I'll be watching it this month.

[quote]I have a pain in my shoulder this evening

Probably arthritis because of your old age.

Dracula (1931) was on TCM earlier. What a great movie! Still holds up.

Woke up to 3°C. It's fucking cold! Will have to change the car tires soon😭

Several years ago I bought two economy sized boxes of Bounce fabric sheets. They were on sale and I had a coupon. I finally used up the first box and opened the second box this morning. I recycled the first box.

I had to catch an adolescent possum in my back yard this evening. I just walked up and stuck a bucket it over it, then flipped the bucket around and put a trash can lid over the bucket to cover it.

I then walked to a nearby vacant field and released it.

I've read they're not dumb, but they sure do know how to act dumb.

That possum story is kind of whelming.

I got a very annoyed look from the barista when I asked for an iced pumpkin spiced latte. Sure, the weather was in the 50's but I like crunching the ice when I'm at work since it annoys Pam, my cubicle mate. She's a Christian but a real phony one and I know gay people make her nervous so I'll do little things to annoy her. It really sets her off when I click my pen multiple times so I tell her it's a nervous habit I picked up in school and I just can't help it. I am really hoping she moves soon, I miss looking at porn when I'm at work.

I'm slightly whelmed by your story, R43, and may have to put myself on Team Pam.

Wait until she eats the food you bring to work for lunch, r44, you'll see.

R43, Can't you just fart silently like a normal cube mate?

People still use pens at work?

Silent farting is not all that it's cracked up to be, r46.

Enjoyed a nice walk in the forest with a friend. It rained last night, so the woods looked perfectly refreshed and autumnally moody. Lots of moss, mushrooms, birds you don’t hear in the city.

It was a good day.

Informed Delivery tells me I'll be receiving a package from the Passport Office. I'm not expecting anything from the Passport Office. Are they sending me someone else's passport by mistake?

It's a scam.

I remember when Halloween lasted a few days.

[quote]I remember when Halloween lasted a few days.

I remember when Halloween lasted one day.

I remember when the five-second rule was the thirty-second rule.

In Catholic elementary school they would "kiss it up to Gawd". I was already an agnostic in the making so I didn't kiss anything I dropped on the ground up to anyone.

r46, a silent fart may seem silent but sometimes it produces something liquid. So, I'd rather not risk it.

r47, you mean the lower classes aren't using pens these days? That's so sad.

I fucked up a recipe. I think it can be saved.

In the Catholic school I went to, All Saints' Day - November 1 - was a school holiday, which was nice. We always went trick or treating, stayed up late, organizing our candy, then had the next day off.

R58 Didn't you still have to go to Mass on All Saint's Day as a Holy Day of Obligation?

R59, I went to Catholic school, but I wasn't Catholic (so, no, I didn't go to mass). I seriously doubt that my Catholic classmates were going to mass on All Saints' Day.

I decided to cut it off with scissors

I've become addicted to the Honey Jalapeno Hummus I mentioned in the previous thread. I don't think I should buy it again as I can't leave it alone.

When some fucker drives past my home blaring their car stereo bass so loud it rearranges my wall hangings.

I’m so over whole body do commercials

I'm watching the SYFY channel.

"Van Helsing" starring Hugh Jackman is on.

I don't know why, but VH always draws me in.

It's stupid, corny, not the least bit scary, and the special effects are bad.

I guess it's one my personal so bad it's good movies.

I have a badly formed rant about personal cleanliness that has been bugging me.

I have siblings that believes that they are by some Aryan (they are not Aryan) genetic lottery, they are clean and immune to bacteria, dirt, viruses, etc.

The concept that clean people are people who clean themselves is foreign. These are the people who leave streaks on the wall when they turn on and off light switches. Flames. Flames up the side of my face…

I know someone who just won $250,000 on a $20 scratch off ticket.

A cousin of mine won a million dollars on a scratch ticket. Before taxes, of course.

Maybe your cousin will give you $18,000, which is the maximum for tax-free purposes.

Fat chance, r69.

$18K per year.

Be greedy. Get $18K now and another $18K in three months when it's 2025.

R67 &. R68 How are these underwhelming?

Should I take my walk first or go to Whole Foods first.

I think I shall take my daily constitutional first then do my shopping at Whole Foods.

I ordered a Chantilly Cake online at Whole Foods last night but it won't be ready until Sunday therefore I shall have to make an additional trip to Whole Foods on Sunday just to pick up the yummy cake- which I'm buying just for me.

The Canada Goose migration is fully on, you can hear them coming a mile away. They rest on the lake and leave at sunset.

R68, ask your cousin if I can have fifty bucks.

Tell your cousin I would gladly pay him Tuesday for a hamburger today.

I imagine there’s been a run on Chantilly cake at Whole Foods after this article from Wednesday.

Well fiddle-dee-dee

Ordered a new desktop PC to replace the current 15-year-old one because it started crapping out, and I tried redirecting it into a parcel box and it worked! Can't wait to pick it up tomorrow, it's very near my flat. No human contact needed or wanted, even though those delivery boys are usually sexy af.

I'll miss Windows 10 and I VOWED – on DL, where it counts the most! – I'd skip 11, but I just can't bring myself to install it on a brand-new computer. So Win 11 it is. Looking forward to not having to wait fifteen minutes for the whole thing to fully boot up anymore, I genuinely don't know why I waited so long. 😑

R79 incredible on many levels

I would go nuts if my computer took 15 minutes to boot up.

I just went to the CVS drive-through and there was no one in front of me.

I'm going to upgrade my phone plan to unlimited data. Most people probably already have this. I had unlimited data several years ago, but had to give it up in order to get unlimited talk and text.

This will probably cost me an extra $20 to $25 per month.

I'm sick today, but it isn't Covid. Just a plain ol' cold.

R77- I just had a craving for that cake. I had not been aware of the NYT article even though I read the NYT online frequently. It is just a coincidence. I do agree with this article in the NYT there will be a run on the cake. I ordered it late last night. If the article had not been published I probably would have been able to pick up the cake sooner than Sunday.