I Want To Be Underwhelmed. The Extended Dog Days Of Summer 🐕☀️

Trump has signed into law that it be officially called, "Indian Summer"

Cheryl Crow singing “Sweet Child Of Mine” makes me think a residency at any Hammond, Indiana casino is in her future…

I worked O.T. That means I can afford the patty melt(s) on dark bread that I’m preparing.

The bread looks like rye, but rye flakes are listed as the sixth ingredient. The side will be a salad because my carrots and cucumber are starting to die in the fridge.

Oh goody.

I just watched my next door neighbor's son drop off their grandkids for the weekend.

That means that bright and early tomorrow morning (SATURDAY) I can expect those two little moppets knocking at my door wanting this, that or the other thing.

I have leftover lasagna noodles. I might make a chicken broccoli bake with them, or maybe a chicken alfredo.

Thanks OP for starting the new thread.

I'm the one who posted on the last thread about doing some TV shopping. I did buy one today. I got an LG OLED 65". I was rather restricted on where I could shop because 1) I have to have it delivered; and 2) I have to have them pick up and recycle the current old TV. So, I was stuck buying from Best Buy. Thought I'd be overpaying but the same TV about the same over on Amazon. Still probably paid too much, but dang it's a nice picture (in the store anyway), and seeing as I keep things like this for over 10+ years, I thought I'd treat myself.

Taylor Lautner was only 16 when he"dated" a 20 year old Taylor Swift in 2009. Looking back at google images of these 2 from that period, makes me cringe because Taylor appears so innocent/ timid/ childlike.

Why didnt anyone say or do something?

It's not like they were fucking, R6.

[quote]Why didnt anyone say or do something?

I'm certain there were plenty telling him to stick their dick in his mouth.

R5- I still watch tv ( I only use my tv a bit nowadays- only a few minutes per night- most of my action is on my full sized desk top computer) on a Sony 20inch Wega television I bought at the Wiz in November 2000.

Today's weather was perfect. Sunny, low eighties and no humidity.

My newly adopted dog had hardly any hair but somehow sheds SO MUCH.

* has hardly any hair

Seattle is having weird weather for August...drizzly and humid.

It's nice it's not hot but I hate humidity.

Though it makes my hair look great...

My internet page scroll stopped working.

I'm annoyed having to use my mouse to click on the side bar thing.

As predicted, my next door neighbor's grandkids (aka the Buffy & Jody doppelgangers) came a knocking this morning.

As they were racing across my driveway, I simultaneously received a text from their grandma asking me not to give them any "lemons". They each took turns ringing my doorbell, I answered with one dachshund in my arms and the other one standing at my side and peering at them, they asked for lemons, I said "sorry, I don't have any", they left dejectedly.

Hurricane Erin grew from a Cat 3 to Cat 5 overnight. They say it won't hit land and I sure hope they're right. That sucker is fierce.

I'm going to karaoke tonight for a friend's birthday. I hope we have a private room.

I made birthday cake cookies: white chocolate chips with sprinkles and a special cake batter flavoring.

I feel the need for fruit cake for some reason, or perhaps rum cake, or perhaps just rum and a hostess ho-ho…..

The a/c in my car went out and it's 95 during the day where I live. Anyway, I'm making brownies tonight.

Kids who pester neighbors/strangers are weird and annoying.

They're going to grow up to be the people in your office who bring you a birthday card for another employee you don't really know or like and insist you sign it.

I started reading a library book only to realize I'd checked it out a couple of years ago and hadn't liked it.

Have OReillys or someone check the Freon in your car.

You buy a little canister, easy peasy, you have air conditioning again in your car. 🤗

I picked up a prescription and they offered me a flu shot. The pharmacist that gave it to me was quite handsome. It didn't hurt at all.

I picked a Medicare Drug plan. They are incredibly complex and opaque, but Medicare lets you enter your prescriptions and it tells you which plan will be the cheapest for you. There’s a huge variation in what a couple of my meds cost between plans. More than 400%

Isn't it too early for a flu shot?

I have the same question, r26.

yeah...I thought the new seasonal flu shots came out in Sept or October.

Are we even GETTING new seasonal flu and Covid shots this year? Because of idiot Kennedy and Trumpf?

My first filled injectable drug prescription in January costs me $40. I don’t pay anything for the rest of the year because the full cost of the med wipes out the Part D deductible. It sounds complicated because it is complicated, R25 but when it works, it works.

I usually don't get my fall covid/flu boosters until September or October but since the attractive fellow seemed eager to shoot me up I agreed. I assumed it was because they'd gotten in a shipment of the new vaccine. If they just gave me last year's leftovers I'd be very irritated.

Go back and ask the hot guy if he gave you sloppy seconds.

Thank you for the reminder, R30. I'm booked for the flu and Covid shots tomorrow morning.

AI spells it “grizzly” instead of “grisly” half the time.

I know R21. Dusty old bones full of green dust.

I cooked cauliflower today but couldn't eat it all so I put it down thinking my dog would turn her nose up at it. Wrong. She loved it.

I can count on one hand how many Hallmark movies I've ever watched and have fingers left over. Same goes for Lifetime and all those other sappy movie channels.

My stash of junk food is gone. I ate what was left over the weekend. I'm not sure where to go from here.

To the store, obviously R37.

R33 what about gristly?

I made a three and a half pound roast last night. I wanted it pink in the middle so I followed online directions for medium rare and cooked it for about 48 minutes. I let it rest and lots of very red juice emerged and you could smell the blood and for me, that's not a nice smell. I cut a bit off one end and it was quite pink so I knew it would be red in the middle of the roast. Stuck it back in the oven for another 20 minutes and it came out just the way I wanted.

I had my shots (flu and Covid booster) at CVS on schedule at 9:45 this morning.

Monday morning, up and at 'em. Retirement is so exciting.

I hope you flu bitches aren't jumping the gun.

Unless they've changed the formulation the flu vaccine is most effective for about 6 months. Waiting until October is (IMO) suggested as that'll give protection through April, which is around when the flu season ends.

I got taught in primary school that one of the Apollo astronauts left a Coca Cola bottle on the moon as a symbol of American culture (in addition to the flag, obviously). Google has just told me this isn't true. I've spent decades wrongly believing there's a fucking Coke bottle on the moon.

I yearn for this time last year.

This summer was brutal heat and humidity in NYC. To be honest I'm sad to see it go, not the humidity but summer. However, by this fall I will be 30 pounds lighter and back in my good clothes. Thank you GLP-1. Already down 15 since the end of June, 31" inch waist jeans in my closet here I come! Will be good to see you all again. Sorry I left you behind.....34-36 was not my friend.

I don't think the latest Covid booster is out yet. Everything I see for "25/26 Covid booster" indicates "Fall of 2025.

It's not fall. You just got another 24/25 shot apparently.

[quote]To be honest I'm sad to see it go

Are you on crack?

I slept until noon Saturday and Sunday. Today my neighbor decided to mow his lawn, right outside my bedroom window, first thing in the morning, so I guess my regular sleep pattern can return. I guess that's good.

I got road raged because I didn’t pull out of the automatic car wash fast enough. I’m using all my countdown seconds easing thru the blowers so the whole car dries. This guy roars out after me with his car dripping. It’s not my problem if he doesn’t care if his car doesn’t get dried off.

No Coke, R44, only Pepsi.

[quote]Are you on crack?

Gasp! Are you saying a coke spoon was left on the moon, R48?

I don't understand r50. Wouldn't the guy behind you be on the conveyer thing?

Yes, not a conveyor but a drive thru that tells you when to stop and go forward during the process. I just don’t get it. Like I was impinging on his timer. There was a line of about 5 cars ahead of us and you can’t really change your mind and back out, but my God it’s not my problem. Him and soaked dripping car… He had a baby honk so I didn’t even know it was me he was honking at. My new but used Benz must be sound deadening. He had to stop and curse at me.

We could have all spent decades actually believing we were on the moon.

I have spent decades believing I am on the planet Koozebane.

When I go to Dollar Tree I always pick up a bag of Russell Stover SUGAR FREE peanut butter cups.

They are good to have on hand in case things get backed up, if you know what I mean... Just eat a few or even the whole bag. Problem solved. Other flavors of the sugar free will also work but I prefer the peanut butter.

r56, that's thrifty and creative.

And just a tiny bit nauseating.

I have been accruing cash-back rewards for years on my credit card without thinking about “when do I get the cash?” I just realized you have to go claim it. I found I have over $3,500 which I am taking as a statement credit.

It’s my birthday this week. Maybe I’ll buy myself a present since god knows nobody else will.

R56, a McDonald’s shake works the same magic.

Hmmm leaving for Greece on the 28th- should I get my Covid and flu shots?

R61 We’re sailing next week on a cruise and have another booked for November. We got the shots in order to have some immune boost, maybe less than ideal given the timing but better than nothing. We’ll be with 3000 people from all over the world for almost two weeks in ten days. The COVID booster hasn’t changed since last year but the flu shot has.

I love the people who just have to chime in here about how someone’s not doing something right. If my doc says I need another shot in January, I’ll get one.

I wish companies that have replaced their customer service chat personnel with AI would stop pretending you are talking to a real person with a name (“Christine Joy” just now with my health insurance company.) I feel like an idiot being polite to a robot.

It would save a lot of time to just be able to cut them off without all the polite chit chat.

I watch a comedienne from India on YouTube. She's not funny. All she does is shout. Her husband and teenage kids are also in the act. None of them are funny. I don't know why I watch. I do like accents, maybe that's why. British accent is my favorite.

The weather has been absolutely heavenly lately.

Physical therapy this morning, R65, was not.

Despite the lovely walk to and from the therapist's office.

My USPS Informed Delivery email no longer comes at 7:00 a.m. It now comes mid-afternoon, around 3:00 p.m.

I hate when my USPS Informed Delivery arrives just to tell me I have 0 mail pieces and 0 packages. I believe they titter a bit when they write that and suppress the desire to begin the email Hey Loser.

I want to attend a late summer fair in a hick town

Lately when I come across nostalgic things from my 1960s/70s childhood I feel sad rather than the usual warm and fuzzy feeling. Whether it's tv shows or photos of toys, fashion, events, food, neighborhoods, etc., doesn't matter, I just feel sad.

Why? The end is nigh?

r70, I grew up in the same time period, and though some good things came out of it (the civil rights movement, all that great music) a lot of it was ugly and shitty and scary. And the fashions were gross, which is why so many young people just grew their hair out and wore jeans.

hmmmm....the young people are the ones responsbile for the ugly fashions.

The young tend to dictate fashione trends.

Today was irking me so I took my easy way out...Mexican Valium.

My mood is soooooooo much better!!!

Viva la Mexicano Valium!!!!

People don't read actual books anymore. Am i old fashioned for wanting to read a physical book rather than an ebook?

No, r74. I own a ton of physical books and go to library every few weeks to check out new releases.

r71, the fashions of the '80's were worse.

I just had a girl pounding on my door in a towel because her bikini bottom fell onto my balcony. I didn't ask any further questions.

R74, I hope you are able to read books forever. I only made the switch to kindle when it became impossible for me to read the small type in most books.

Did you return it, r77?

Confession: I prefer carrot over basil in my pasta sauce. It goes so well with the garlic followed by fish sauce.

[quote] Did you return it, [R77]?

I allowed her to retrieve it. I didn't want to touch it.

I would have asked for proof that the errant bottom was hers. You wouldn’t want to be accused of being an accomplice to bottom theft.

I would have called her a whore and yelled it repeatedly.

Are you crazy? I wouldn’t have let a towel-clad, presumably bikini-bottomless female I didn’t know into my home. Fuck knows what you could be accused of doing to her.

R84, someone went off on me because I gave a female coworker a ride to her car repair shop.

“Are you crazy? She could say anything happened!” WTF? Am I going to make fun of her shoes?

You knew your coworker and presumably drove her because you trusted, based on your observations, that she wouldn’t accuse you of anything untoward, R85.

That has zero in common with a half-dressed stranger of the opposite sex at your door.

Curiously, filing a false rape report isn't the surefire path to riches you might expect.

I've never made a pot of soup. Why should I bother when they have rows of them in the grocery store?

uh, well, because:

1) Making most kinds of soup is actually pretty easy

2) Homemade soup is far more delicious than canned soup

3) Making soup is a great way to clean out your freezer/vegetable bin

[quote] I just had a girl pounding on my door in a towel because her bikini bottom fell onto my balcony. I didn't ask any further questions.

Now that’s a Walk of Shame.

Something about sorbitol…

Re flu shots: I get mine when they first arrive at my pharmacy and then if I think another is needed due to many flu cases around me, I'll get a booster.

Both cost nothing.

Well got my flu shot for my vacation, the Covid one isn't avail yet. Unfortunately it won't kick in until 1/2 way through my vacation, but I'll be covered on the 14 + hour flight and layover on the way back.