I want to be underwhelmed - Back to School Edition 📚

Where were we?

The Back-to-School Edition already? I'm whelmed by how quickly this year seems to be going by.

My 2nd favorite time of the year

I want moleskin pants, but it may be too hot to wear them.

They even sound too hot, R4.

I saw the bus drivers practicing in my neighborhood the other day.

When I went to school be went back the Wednesday after Labor Day and got out on Flag Day. All twelve years.

Correction - we got out late May senior year and graduated in June.

Our schools start on Wednesday. So unfair when the pools are open just a few more weeks.

I’m watching 227 on Pluto

Late summer ☀️

These Walkers shortbread cookies are good!

The owls are hooting it up tonight and I noticed a couple of orange leaves on one of my maple trees today. I love summer and don't want it to end.

From the previous thread.

[quote]Everything was broken today. Luckily, an electrician was able to come to the house and now my stove works so I'm cooking!

Was the Datalounge plugged in at your house near the stove by any chance? Is that what happened this morning?

Yes, R14, it's all connected. Weird day but it got better.

This is how the instructions for the water filter in my coffee maker explained that it was no longer possible (or, allegedly, necessary) to adjust the filter’s water hardness setting:

“To install, simply follow the steps required with the original cartridge; the only difference is that the “aroma adjustment” has been omitted—blending and flow correspond to average usage and consumption and have been embedded in the design.”

Clear?

Is it fall yet?

Oh, just go ahead and cradle the damn mug.

Every damn site or business I deal with these days has to send me an email survey begging me to love them. And now, if I ignore it, they start sending nagging reminders to fill out their damn survey. No, I don't care to rate how my TollTag renewal was, thank you.

I find rating things to be very stressful. Everyone wants a perfect score, but nobody is perfect.

I bought a fantastic new coffee maker, and will need someone to peel me from the ceiling if I have one more pot.

I have to go back to the dentist for “deep cleaning” today. Ugh.

Ask for lidocaine or novacaine.

They give it to me before they start, which means the needle. Ugh.

I'm pretty sure I'm being catfished on Facebook, but I'm playing along because I'm bored.

[quote] They give it to me before they start, which means the needle. Ugh.

There's liquid lidocaine, which doesn't require a needle. It's topical. The needle w/the novacaine is more numbing, though.

^hmmmmm

I'm a big baby at the dentist, when I needed a periodontal cleaning I requested nitrous gas. BTW, is there anything more whelming than talking about going to the dentist?

Yes, R28, actually going to the dentist. I've had a series of appointments recently and I'm in a permanent state of whelm.

Sorry.

Thank you. Nothing new for me, really.

I need a new suit for a wedding a month from now. I lost weight during the pandemic, nothing fits, and I retired seven years ago so even if I had one that did fit, it's probably out of style.

You can be underwhelmed. I need to find a suit. Thus far it appears to whelm me.

So I got topical anesthesia before the shots. Only mild discomfort.

At least it’s not for a funeral.

Last night I started binging Billions with that hot ginger Damian Lewis. Anyhow parts of some episodes repeated in may dreams last night. Almost like my brain was set to pvr.

No R34, you’re right. And a closer look in the back of the closet revealed a perfectly-fitting and relatively narrow-lapeled ivory/tan cashmere and wool Hugo Boss jacket. Which I couldn’t wear to a funeral. White shirt, black tie, black slacks and shoes I have. I can’t believe I still have it let alone could find it let alone can wear it again. Keep anything long enough and it comes back in style. There was a bar receipt in one of the pockets from Christmas of 1999 so I know I’ve had it long enough.

I’m right back to being underwhelmed.

I went to Walmart's website to buy Doritos and here are my flavor choices (would you be whelmed?):

Nacho Cheese

Cool Ranch

Sweet & Tangy BBQ

Spicy Nacho

Spicy Sweet Chili

Flamin' Hot Nacho

White Cheddar

Flamin' Hot Cool Ranch

Chile Limon

Flamas

Tapatio

Spicy Pineapple Jalapeno

Taco

Hot Mustard

Salsa Verde

Flamin' Hot Limon

Sweet Chili Heat

Tangy Pickle

Zesty Cheese (imported from Canada)

Dinamita Flamin Hot Chile Limon

Pizzaroles

Incognita

3D (no clue what that is, but it's a bright yellow bag)

3D Crunchy Spicy Ranch (different color bag than above)

3D Crunchy Chili Cheese Nacho

Smoky Chile Queso

Screamin' Sriracha

Flamin' Hot Queso

Tangy Fiery Lime

Hot Honey Mustard

Hot Chicken Wings

Extra Flamin' Hot

There are three relevant choices for Doritos:

Taco

Nacho cheese

Cool Ranch

I wonder which is the better seller. Judging by the supermarket displays I'd say Cool Ranch. That's my go-to Dorito.

I would try the salsa verde.

It’s going to be house frau season in about a week. Overpriced spiced lattes will be talk of the town!

Doritos no longer give my body the trans fats it demands, so I’ve had to go off-label for my salty corn snacks.

Honestly, the number of choices has me paralyzed, I was just going to go for my standard Cool Ranch, but now I can't decide if I want to try some of the newer flavors. What if they're terrible?

R19, R20, I am right there with you. I have to create, review, and analyze surveys at work all the time (health research) and I feel like my surveys are important for the work I do, but I get so overwhelmed by all the “rate your Door Dash experience” type evaluations that come with everything that even *I* don’t respond to legitimate and necessary surveys a lot of the time. ☹️

But since I replied to your posts, please take a moment to provide feedback on my response at the link below. It will help me create better responses to you in the future!

Oh, and for dinner, I had street tacos that had minced jalapeño on them and then I went to use the restroom but didn’t wash my hands BEFORE I used it, only after. You probably know how that story ends. 😒

Or worse, what if I like a new flavor, and they stop making it because it's not a big seller. THEN WHAT?

The overwhelming variety of choices of Doritos reminded me of the book "Future Shock," which I read many years ago. One of the author's predictions was that there would be an overwhelming variety of choices for just about everything.

What the actual fuck is wrong with plain Doritos?

I celebrated a significant drop in my a1c after changing my diet with a bag of Sweet Chilli Doritos. They weren’t as good as I remembered them, left me feeling a bit queasy (of course I ate the whole bag in one day) and I gained more than a pound.

R47, I think they should ditch the plain Dorito and make cool ranch the official Dorito and the original can become nacho cheese Doritos. In every group, someone outshines the rest and goes on to be the biggest star. Cool Ranch Doritos are the Diana Ross of the Doritos lineup.

Wow, veterinarians have become expensive. I took my dog in for an exam, update of her vaccines and needed more heartworm and flea/tick medication. It cost me a little over $600.

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R50, that’s outrageous! I also just got back from the vet where I had TWO cats (that insisted on traveling in the same small carrier because the littler one loves his carrier and naps in it and the bigger one loves the little one and refused to get in his own carrier. I couldn’t get his big butt in so I gave up and he squeezed himself into the carrier with the other one). And exams and vaccines for both combined was only $392. And I do go to the most expensive boutique vet in a big city and ever time I walk out I say “that’s the last time I’m coming here”. I could definitely find a cheaper vet, but they have 5 vets on staff and I like 4 of them. And the last two times I’ve been I was scheduled with the one I absolutely do not like. She’s patronizing and I don’t actually think she’s very good at what she does. I had to email them that she had an error in the notes they sent me immediately after (she said one of my cats had been sneezing for a few days and I told her specifically he has been sneezing since he was adopted in March). I asked them to have her correct that and I specifically put it in an email because she says it’s just allergies and I said I think he has FVR. She looked at me like I was an idiot and asked “What is FVR?” and I said “Feline viral rhinotracheitis”. She doesn’t know me and she doesn’t know what I do for a loving. I’m not a veterinarian and I have huge respect for them because they have to learn the anatomy of a billion different species and breeds and their patients can’t speak, but I do the same thing she does for a living but for people 🙄. I don’t play that card anywhere with anyone (my doctors know because I get my primary at a hospital center I used to work at). I don’t want to influence their judgment and I want them to make the decisions and not let me steamroll them (but unfortunately I have steamrolled my primary care doc more than once.it’s almost his fault. He asks what tests I need ordered and what prescriptions and how I want them written if it’s something I can tell him without him looking up which is basically anything that has to do with infectious diseases.)

Long rant. I hate my vet but you need a new one!!

I paid $600 for my last vet visit. Just an exam and bloodwork. Private equity firms are buying up vet practices.

Pumpkin Spice in EVERYTHING! It annoys me; it makes me realize winter is coming.

[quote] She doesn’t know me and she doesn’t know what I do for a loving.

Better not tell her.

R53, ugh I hate that we have to endure pumpkin spice season and know that winter is coming and it’ll be White Walker season soon. Two of my least favorite seasons, back-to-back.

Baked sweet potato

🤭 R54, I’m assuming you’re referring to my typo. There is nothing I’d do for a loving from this woman. NOTHING. There will be no loving. I’m actually getting angrier as the day goes by about the whole visit.

The guy who cuts my lawn just told me his mower has died and he’s not getting a new one. Do I buy a mower and do it myself, or find someone else. Perhaps a strapping youth.

R58 just stop mowing and let grass and weeds cover your house.

Although, a strapping youth sounds like a fine alternative.

R70

Is it ok if it's a strapping trans youth?

R58, how big is the yard?

R59

Ooops. R59, not R70

Is it ok if it's a strapping trans youth?

It’s not easy finding a strapping youth. You can’t really say that’s what you’re looking for. People can be so sensitive these days.

It’s only 1/8 acre property. I could do it myself, but I’d inevitably spend too much money on equipment.

Just buy a mower and mow your own lawn. 1/8th of an acre sounds do-able. We could all use the exercise.

Feels like it was only yesterday that school was out for the summer and now suddenly it's back to school and Christmas 🎄 is around the corner

R67 Yeah, Christmas isn’t “right around the corner”. That is a marketing ploy you’ve been fed so you will spend $.

I went to the farmer's market this afternoon and bought 1.5 lbs. of green peanuts -- first of the season!

They are cooking in my pressure cooker as I type.

Christmas isn't around the corner, but I do agree that fall seems to go quickly. I don't even Christmas shop or stress out over the holidays. I do try to avoid certain places though (as it gets closer to X-mas): the mall, the Post Office.

At 69 it often takes me a little more time to get around corners.

At 69 it often takes me a little more time to get around corners.

R69 - I have never in my life heard of green peanuts - must go look at Google!

Tornadoes in New England are becoming a thing. Climate change is scary.

For my DL friend @ r73:

I'm out of coffee.

Well, that whelmed me.

I wouldn't be able to get out of bed if I knew there was no coffee in the house, unless I were to go out and buy some, which would be such a whelming thought, I'd just stay in bed.

listening to the new Randy Crawford compilation - You Might Need Somebody The Warner Bros. Recordings (1976-1993)

Minnie Driver could easily be made up to portray Meghan Markle in a future biopic.

The looks are there (it IS uncanny) but she's 53 and yacht girls age out at 30, R80.

OTOH, for a look ahead to what the Duchess of Excess might look like a decade or two from now with much less bronzer:

Watch this:

There's a guy at the gym I'm infatuated with. I don't know if he is gay or bi, don't know his name, not sure what his story is. He's is doing HIT training and has a rugby player build. We made eye contact in the locker room one time when I was going in to take a leak. He's likely 20 years younger than me ,I'm trying to quell this obsession. I don't get a vibe that he's trying to avoid me we seem to be at the gym at the same time frequently. Can't stop thinking about him. He's definitely not the most muscular or best looking but I'm attracted.

I need to clean so I bought some all natural cleaning stuff and now it’s still on the counter while I watch Casino.

Minnie Driver doesn’t seem to be mean-spirited enough to get involved with that bullshit. But, I only know her from comedy.

Fucking chiggers

[quote]Minnie Driver could easily be made up to portray Meghan Markle in a future biopic.

Could we please keep Meghan Markle off the "underwhelmed" threads? There are more than enough DL threads available to satisfy all the Klan Grannies who can't stop talking about how much they hate her.

Minnie driver is like 6 ft tall and had an enormous head. Huuge!!!

Don't wait until his fist hits your face, R83. I said the wrong thing at the wrong time. Been there, done that.

I wonder if DJT ever tries to contact Dyan Cannon confusing her with Aileen Cannon.

Point taken R89 I need to be sensible . Thank you for the insight .

I took a long nap this afternoon and now I'm wide awake at 11:30 PM eastern.

I don't particularly care for The Beverly Hillbillies episodes with Cousin Pearl and Jethrine.

Someone tried to steal my 9 year-old son's bike from the bike rack at school last week, and they messed up his brake cables. Now I have to hurry and find another decent used bike.

High quality used bikes are the way to go because you can get a used Trek bike that was $700 for $150, used. Or you can get a brand new, extraordinarily awful prison sweatshop bike (that will impale you via your diaphragm when the handlebars spontaneously slip out of the frame) from Walmart for $150. It took me a few. years to figure this out, so I am passing it on.

The four Canada Geese that I'm always chasing out of my yard were standing in the middle of the road a few houses down so I stuck my head out the car window and said "Shoo!" They know me and probably think I'm stalking them now. Good.

Watch out for cousin asshole!

Cambridge has announced they've OK'd cross-sidewalk EV charging, meaning you can park at the curb and plug into the car with a cable that comes from your house. You're supposed to use a cord cover as it crosses the sidewalk.

I'd like to be underwhelmed thinking, "Hey, good idea - not everyone has a driveway or a garage" but I know some asshole won't cover it, someone will trip over it and the city (meaning, of course, the taxpayers) will be on the hook for the insurance payout.

Careful r95. Geese can be vicious.

Why would the city be on the hook? If the driver didn’t use a cord cover, he’s liable.

R95, There's a large pond in my neighborhood and I used to like to slow down my car adjacent to their shade tree and scream at them to go back to their own country.

I've been crazy about birds, all birds, my entire life and I often slow down and yell at the neighborhood crows, grackles and Mockingbirds when I see them in someone else's yard after I put food out for them in my own yard.

I stopped after I downloaded the Nextdoor app and saw that half my subdivision posts security camera footage of anything out of the ordinary, which doesn't take much for these bores.

R99 Sidewalks are a public way owned by the city but here taxed as an improvement to the personal property of the homeowner whose frontage they cover and despite not owning the sidewalks the abutting homeowner whose clear passage (salting, sanding, and shoveling in the winter, sweeping in the summer) efforts to maintain that sidewalk are the sole responsibility of the homeowner.) They'll fix it if it cracks, but it's yours until they do

An attorney for someone seriously injured tripping over a unsecured cord across the sidewalk would investigate the assets and insurance coverage of the person charging the car. Since it's not a moving violation, it's not covered under the auto policy and one would hope that a home owner but especially a renter would have some coverage for the contents of their unit and for liability. If they don't, or if they do and the lawyers are seeking a larger award, any lawyer would go after the city for promulgating a potential hazard on a public way and not demanding and enforcing its correct placement. And rather than fight it in court, the city will attempt to come to a settlement so as not to risk going to court and having a jury find them liable for even more extensive and expensive damages.

I’m not afraid to give voice to my stupid ass thoughts

I have loudly lectured the neighborhood crows - I told them they can’t grow big and strong eating fast food shit.

They mock me.

Some little fuckers are just too good for tofu. When they come stumbling by begging for Boniva I’ll mock them. Assholes.

I noticed the difference in intelligence levels in the local birds.

One type of bird seems stupid. When a car is behind them, they hop forwards (still in the path of the car).

The other type of bird seems smart. When a car is behind them, they hop to the side of the road. They take their time, but they hop to the side of the road and out of the way.

[quote] I have loudly lectured the neighborhood crows - I told them they can’t grow big and strong eating fast food shit.

[quote]They mock me.

Don’t do that! Crows are very smart and can be trained to steal for you and attack your enemies. You want them on your side. Who doesn’t want an army that will steal for you and attack people you don’t like?

Yeah, crows are awesome and if they befriend you will keep less desirable birds from your property.

I have stye in my little eye, and now that eye has a twitch. Woke up with the stye on Thursday, twitch started today. Think I need to go see the eye doctor.

I just discovered my Siamese Trixie has a green tattoo below her 5th and 6th nipples !!! I am afraid she joined a gang !!!!

Is she a rescue cat r107?

Yes R108

Maybe she was tattooed because she was a show cat r107 or from her time in the shelter. Or was a breeder cat. But I like to think she was a show cat.

When I win a game of Solitaire and the little message pops up telling me I beat "99.9% of all players" I don't believe them. I think they're just blowing smoke up my backside so I'll continue to play.

Late mid August

I was in a doctors waiting room when a MAGA said Biden;s appointments are terrible and based solely on skin color and gender. I couldn’t help myself. I turned and asked “What about Trump’s appointments? He fired most of them and called his own people idiots.” He just smiled blankly and changed the subject.

I didn’t feel better, but it wasn’t my fault. He started it. There’s a reason they have the TV tuned to HGTV in waiting rooms.

I let a lesbian cut my hair. Mistake.

Do you have lesbian hair now, R114?

I have become disenchanted with my Coffee Mate Italian Sweet Creme Creamer.

I do have lesbian hair!

The chill in the air this morning is heaven.

It was, R118. Unfortunately I was up early to enjoy it this morning on my way to the podiatrist.

He's not hell, but he's not in heaven at 8 am, either. Which is fair enough. Neither am I.

Heavenly chill in the air notwithstanding.

I currently have a version of Jessica Fletcher’s hairstyle that makes want to pop a collar, put on some Keds, and go out to find a dear dead friend!

Sometimes we have to do more than merely want something to ensure it happens, r120.

R107, I’m not saying Trixie [italic]isnt’t[/italic] in a gang (she probably is) but vets put those on tattoos on spayed female cats so that if they get lost and picked up and taken to a shelter, before another vet tried to spay her, they’d see the tattoo and know she was already spayed and stop before they did something unnecessary.

My cat just had a little black X on her belly and after I got to know her I wondered if I could get the tattoo redone as a little skull and cross bones. Not seriously enough to ask anyone, but enough that I thought about who I would have to ask.

R122, why wouldn’t you try a few designs with a finer-point permanent marker?

“Mz Trixie Valourrrrrrr, it’s time for us to make A ART!”

My dear cat is going senile and has to announce everything it does with meowing. He's 16 and I love him dearly, but it's getting on my last gay nerve.

R124 meow back at him every time you are about to do something.

[quote]He's 16 and I love him dearly, but it's getting on my last gay nerve.

You sound like you really don't love him all that much, actually.

I cooked up, for the first time, some black-eyed peas. A DL poster in another thread said that he / she preferred black-eyed peas to pinto beans. Well, they're OK, but I think I prefer pinto beans.

I just finished off a small haggen Dazs strawberry cheescake flavored ice cream. It was melted. Felt like having a milkshake

I am somewhat whelmed by beans and black eyed peas. They remind me of serious poverty.

Now I've got tummy ache , burping and farting after eating melted ice cream like it was milkshake

[quote] I am somewhat whelmed by beans and black eyed peas. They remind me of serious poverty.

Bean cooker, here. I guess cooking dried beans is associated with penny-pinching and poverty. I am just relieved to have learned how to cook beans from dried. I like to think I'm a decent cook, but for the longest time, I just could not get the beans softened. I have noticed that my food / grocery bills have gone down since I learned how to cook beans (from dried).

I love making Tuscan beans. I soak a pound of cannellini or navy beans overnight, drain them, then cook them with a quarter-cup of EVOO, several cloves of garlic (unpeeled), some sprigs of sage leaves, a little tomato paste, and rinds from some Parmigiano-Reggiano, which I save in the freezer. I salt them after cooking.

Utterly delicious. Don't remind me of poverty in the least. Seriously.

R127, Hi. It ‘s me, I’m the problem, it’s me. I am probably the poster you were referring to you. I do use black-eyed peas in place of pinto beans all the time because they cook about 4 times faster than most beans. But I totally get it if you don’t like them. I love them in refried beans, soups, even baked beans. Sorry it didn’t work out for you.

[quote]I am somewhat whelmed by beans and black eyed peas. They remind me of serious poverty.

Well, smell Lady Astor at R129.

R133 - thanks for posting! No problem at all. I'm glad I tried black-eyed peas. Yeah, they did cook fast. I soaked them overnight & they absorbed a ton of water. As soon as they came to a boil (the next day), they were pretty much cooked, already. So, I can see why people like to cook them.

I wait alone in the heat…

Don't worry, in a couple months you will be able to wait alone in the cold.

[quote]You sound like you really don't love him all that much, actually.

Maybe it sounds like it attitudinally, but you are a presumptuous asshole who would be reduced to tears if I told you the full story of me and that cat. That cat has been behaviourally loved like you wouldn't believe. Shame on me for wanting to have uninterrupted sleep for just one night.

Took Cos for his annual check up on Monday. He's up a 1/2 lb. to 15 which is more than I'd like him to be. But he also has an intestinal virus. Since he's an indoor cat, the vet thinks he got it from something I tracked in on my shoes. I feel terrible. He has medicine that I have to mix with his food but he's not eating much due to the medicine. It's a liquid and I've mixed it with his wet food and and dry food. I don't think he's getting enough of the medicine to do any good. May have to call the vet to see if the meds come in a pill form I can crush up in his wet food.

Sorry to overwhelm. I just needed to get that out.

My cat has been waking me up in the night, too. And being very pushy demanding of my attention. It turns out that the robot feeder which takes care of her overnight feedings had been unplugged. It lasted on battery backup for a while, but eventually stopped working. Sorry, honey. And I’m sorry I blamed senile personality change.

Reason #348 Why It’s Best I Live Alone

Picture This: blackness, utter peace, breathing 53 degrees Fahrenheit (I should look up celsius in case this needs to look official some day) air from beneath a nicely weighted linen comforter.

At 4:05am PST, I was awakened by a THUNDER and shifting of my blanket, followed by a not un-pleasant splitting of my ass. As I moved my legs, a mushroom cloud of poison ascended to the ceiling and began disbursing the scent of death everywhere.

I made it to the bathroom in time. Clean shorts. Best fart in years. Would recommend. Yes, I whooped.

Lately whenever I overeat, I feel sick

[quote]Lately whenever I overeat, I feel sick.

There would seem to be a pretty simple solution to this problem.

I'm in the Cavern in Liverpool, waiting for a Beatles tribute act to come on.

I am making a yellow wax bean salad for dinner tonight. Lovely wax beans from farmers market. Just blanched beans, red onion and a red wine vinaigrette. Probably will have it with chicken breast.

It’s so hot and humid I’m melting melting, melting.

Our county has an automated phone alert system they used to notify people to be on the alert for an 80-year old advanced Alzheimer's patient that wandered away from home yesterday afternoon. Neat, except they decided to send it out at 3 a.m., scaring the Bejezus out of everyone.

I just heard on ET that Heidi Klum eats 9 calories a day

My friend was hit on by a seemingly straight, married female A List celeb. My friend is female

[quote]I just heard on ET that Heidi Klum eats 9 calories a day

What a glutton.

Don’t you pollute our thread with blind item bullshit!

Shoo!

I am irrationally annoyed that my next door neighbor came into my garage and commented that my garage is "pristine".

I'm going to the local sports bar later. I'm going to order wings and drink beer. Straight dick would be nice, too.

Seems like it was a compliment, R152.

Like I said, I know it's irrational. But he keeps using the word "pristine" and it's rubbing me the wrong way. He has previously come into my house and commented "oh my it's so pristine in here". I've brought a homemade dessert to one of his barbecues and he remarks how "pristine" the fruit slices on top of the dessert are. WTF with the word "pristine"?

Would you prefer him to use the word "fetid"?

R155, is it because "pristine" borders on "prissy"?

I think I know why you're irritated.

I once brought poke (raw fish cubes) to a pot luck w/extended family. I placed the bowl of poke in a larger bowl of ice, just to keep it cold. One of my aunts (who is a bitch and disliked me from the time I was a child) said: "You're so perfect," but the look on her face was negative and it was not a compliment.

Neighbor is probably a fucking slob who doesn't clean his toilet and doesn't change his sheets. Just ignore him.

Yes, r157, that's exactly why I'm irritated! I feel like he's saying "fussy" or as you said prissy.

He’s basically calling you a fag. Trust.

Yes, and this is where we sing our simple song:

“We are Siamese if you please. We are Siamese if you don’t please.”

I’m sneaking out to smoke a clove cigarette. It’s pathetic, but I’ll feel a little bad ass.

I kinda miss smoking clove cigarettes. They were harsh as hell on the throat & lungs, but the taste and smell were nice.

I think your neighbours has a limited vocabulary and uses "pristine" as his fancy complimentary word.

Some people get tic-like compulsions to use a word over and over, even when they're aware and growing self conscious of using the word.

It seems like when one gets a song stuck in one's head-- not in the usual way, where the song is simply playing in the background of one's mind-- but when it is aggressively blasts itself at all times. Once when I was under a tremendous amount of both mental and physical stress and very little sleep, I got Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves so invasively, loudly and persistently for three solid weeks-- I thought I might need to go to the doctor, I thought I might have had a brain tumor.

Sorry to change the subject. I was trying to humanize the neighbor. Is there anything else annoying about him? Does he say it in a smarmy way? Is he older? I'm in the minority but I don't think he meant anything bad by it, but we'd have to see the whole scene with audio to know for sure. Do you have dozens of security cameras with audio so we can see for ourselves?

Or maybe your neighbor just wants to give you a blow job...

R163, logorrhea can also be a sign of a brain tumor.

Yeah, maybe he's waiting for you to hit the garage door button and say "You know what else is pristine, Mr. Wilson?" and present hole.

Yeah, that’s when you wheel out the pommel horse.

You will need pink utility gloves, a green doctor’s gown, and very large pearls.

This heatwave is wearing me down mentally.

[quote]Or maybe your neighbor just wants to give you a blow job...

It will be a pristine blow job.

I refuse to name my coworkers. Once you start, it’s trouble.

My kitten is now a full grown cat but he appears to have perma-kitten face. I can’t stand how cute and sweet he is but he’s so incredibly bad that he exhausts me and I hide from him. Fortunately my other cat is totally obsessed with him and he’ll walk up if this guy is with me and give me a look like “I’m here to get my baby. Hand him over.” And then he’ll take him into the other room. Which is actually quite a relief, because this little guy spent all last night sitting on my shoulder and watched an entire horror movie. Like WATCHED. Never looked away, fascinated the entire time. And then when it was over, he turned to me and gently bit me on the nose and then took off.

Cute. Sweet. A real nightmare at times.

I just realized it's been a month and we still don't know Sinead O'Connor's cause of death.

I'm annoyed by the compulsive "Heartstopper" threads.

Facebook will put a hot guy in my "People You May Know" and when I try to friend them it's refused because "It looks like you might not know this person."

[quote]I'm annoyed by the compulsive "Heartstopper" threads.

At least they're not as plentiful as the "Our Dear Paul" fecal droppings.

I just polished off a 40-oz. bottle of Skippy creamy peanut butter.

My caramelised onions turned out to be more like onion jam.

r176 I condole you. I have such a weakness for PB, I just eat out right out of the jar with a spoon as a dessert.

I usually ride the bus home from work and I am not looking forward to school starting again. Teenagers are so fucking ignorant these days.

R174 Facebook is going the way of MySpace. But instead of whores. FB is comprised of a bunch of geriatrics screaming into the ether about politics. It hasn’t been fun to scroll in years.

[quote]Facebook will put a hot guy in my "People You May Know" and when I try to friend them it's refused because "It looks like you might not know this person."

Facebook once suggested that I "friend" Tab Hunter. I have no idea why. We had no FB friends in common. But I thought, what the hell, and sent him a friend request. A couple of weeks later, Tab Hunter suddenly died. I still feel just terrible about it, although I'm pretty sure I had nothing to do with his death.

R181, if you hadn't harassed Tab about being your Facebook friend, he'd be alive today.

R181 = ASSASSIN!

Maybe Tab was just overwhelmed by the fact that you'd finally recognized his unvoiced yearning.

I hear crickets for the first time this year, summer is waning.

I thought crickets meant that it's still summer.

Facebook has started putting actual gay porn stars in my "People You May Know." I know they're real because I friended a couple of them.

Instagram keeps telling me here’s some people to follow that you know! and then suggests Ariana Grande. Um, Instagram, I know *who* Ariana Grande is, but do you really think I KNOW her? Like personally? I’m only following 106 people and Ariana and I have no connections in common. I don’t think I’ve ever even googled her much less posted about her, so if you’re following me around the internet, your algorithm sucks.

I made banana nut muffins with Kodiak Protein Pancake Mix…not enough brown sugar. Watching HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT with Jean Arthur and Charles Boyer.

I've been in a bad mood all day. This made me smile, it didn't cure me but for the three minutes of the video I did forget my woes. I wish I had the rhythm of the tall dancer guy in the middle during the telethon scene. One second he is off stage just chilling in the background then music starts and he just snaps into action. I can't dance to save my life and envy those who can.

r189 I love me some Jean Arthur.

R191 she doesn’t always get her props. Very effective onscreen.

R152, you seem to know more about films starring Jean Arthur than I. Will you recommend a couple?

I'm not R152, but what about "A Foreign Affair"?

And THE MORE THE MERRIER.

R194 I could never watch a foreign affair. I just can’t! I’d simply die!

Here's a link to the movie "The More the Merrier" - it holds up surprisingly well.

It's a good movie - and Joel McCrea is hot AF.

Matte LeBlanc and Matthew Perry were so skinny and mid hot in.theor youth, during the Friends heyday. David Schwimmer was so/ so. Now noth Matt and Matthew are fat, slobby ageing messes (not trying to be mean, just stating facts) and David Schwimmer is ageing nicely.

Matte LeBlanc.

If that's not a DL confection, it should be.

I just got back from vacation this afternoon. My dog is at the kennel and I’m picking him up in the morning. I miss him but it’s nice to have some quiet time with the cat who was left home with a cat sitter. Kitty gave me the cold shoulder for an hour and now she is drool purring on my lap.

I am about to cook dinner and she is going to lose her mind when I give her some of the fresh scallops I brought back with me.

We’re firing our condo management company and removing our board president from the HOA board this evening and I’m very nervous because I don’t like confrontation. But my neighbors got together earlier this year and told me that they had all decided-I’m the next president. They did this before asking if I wanted to do it. At first I said hell no, but then the condo management company and the president pissed me off so badly, that I went from “no I don’t want to do it” to “ok we’re doing it but we have to be sure we have a plan and enough votes”. We’re a small building so I talked to enough people. We definitely have the votes. Everyone hates both of them so it’s happening tonight, we have more than enough votes to do it, and I’m nervous about the whole thing. But also apparently I plotted a coup.

Doesn't sound "underwhelming," R201.

It will be to a lot of people who just want to see these people gone. It’s borderline whelming and underwhelming and definitely about the most boring thing in the world. An HOA.

Ok. Here’s something truly underwhelming. I took an afternoon nap and I’ve been awake for an hour thinking it was Monday morning. I couldn’t figure out why it was still dark outside. The HOA meeting is TOMORROW.

Yeah, there's definitely going to be some drama in r201, even if the coup is successful.

R205, oh we know. The president dated another board member and he dumped her because she’s psychotic. She’s had screaming fits in the hallway and thrown things at people. 😳. She filed complaints against everyone in the building and leaves passive aggressive notes on people’s doors. We put up security cameras as much for security as we did to stop of her from doing it. Now she hides out of sight of the cameras and takes pictures of people’s doors and complains that a scrap of paper the size of a dime was spotted outside someone’s door and they haven’t cleaned it up yet. She’s too dumb to realize we still know it’s her because she’ll walk past the camera and then hide in a corner and snap a photo and send it to the management company to complain (and they’re ridiculous. They’ll actually a scolding email someone over a paper scrap smaller than a dime) and we can match the email time stamp to the video of her. Plus the management company has fucked up and forwarded her emails without removing her email address, and they are definitely supporting her or they would just tell her to stop and seek help.

We’re fully expecting her to have a meltdown. But it’s ok. She moved out of the building and rents her place out (but still comes back to the building every week! She has one friend here) but everyone hates her and has been asking me how we get rid of her. She’s not even supposed to be the president! Nobody in their right mind would have voted for her. We’re a really small building and it’s hard to get people on the HOA, so anyone who even hesitates to say no becomes a member. She was the vice-president which is the only position that has absolutely no power to do anything and then the president sold his unit and she’s been the temporary president for almost a year.

Her ex thinks she’s going to sell her place and literally 80% of the people in the building have said “I wish she’d just sell and leave us the fuck alone!”

It’s gonna be dramatic and I’m gonna be the one telling her we are voting to remove her. Fun times tomorrow.

Sorry to overwhelm.

Oh yeah, and the coup is pretty much certain. 80% of the owners want her gone. The only ones who haven’t complained about her are the ones who own a place and rent it out and have never had the pleasure of dealing with her. We have the majority. And the same 80% want to fire the management company. (Most of them want us to sue them!).

Unless a bunch of us get hit by a bus tomorrow (driven by the president) the coup is just a matter of hours.

It’s going to be so peaceful when she’s gone.

You don't watch Big Brother, do you?

R208, LOL! No, But we’re actually grown ups and not folks trying to get famous on reality tv. There are a bunch of people who just want to live quietly and in peace and one reality star wannabe who thinks Melrose Place looked like a fun place to live.

Underwhelming... I kind of miss the guy who was catfishing me on Facebook. We had some nice conversations before he figured out I was just playing along.

[quote]I want to be underwhelmed - Back to School Edition

After all these years, and I still feel as if I should be going with my mom to pick out a new Trapper Keeper.

I feel ya r211. This time of year I am compelled to buy a new pair of shoes.

I had a nice big poop today

No scat in here!

Shoo!

I'm waiting to hear about R201's hostile takeover of his condo HOA. It's an overwhelming topic, but I'm now interested to know the outcome.

For a few months, the profiles in my People You May Know all had to do with Keanu Reeves.

Does anyone know what was up with that? Was that some kind of trend?

The profiles had Keanu's first name and/or last name and/or photo, like 8/10 of them.

I asked my old friend who uses FB regularly what was up with the Keanu people and she had no idea what I was talking about.

My HOA board drives me crazy. They let me know if they think my door color is too bright, or if I leave the trash container out an extra day, or I wear too little clothing (a bathing suit) in my screened in porch. Last month I was swimming in the pool at 9:15pm; it closes at 9:00. I lost track of the time. An old lady comes to the gate and demands I leave the pool. I am swimming laps gently; I'm not generating much noise.

"It says 9:00 and so you must leave at 9:00. It's not rocket science. Get out!"

Good Lord, I'm not a twelve-year-old. I know how to swim and I am very healthy. The gate isn't even locked at night. I didn't tell her that for years, I skinny-dipped in the pool after midnight. One drunk lady caught me in the act once. I pressed my body to the pool wall so she wouldn't see me. She babbled there for over an hour and a half. Thank God she didn't join me. Why didn't the old lady come out to tell the drunk woman she should not be hanging out at the gate past 9:00?

R217, you’ve been spotted as a gay by your HOA.

Soon, your under-clothed gay swimming will attract naked meth users after 9pm.

“The nudist does it; why can’t we bring a propane torch and glass pipes down to the pool?”

It’s done. Part I of the Great Coup of 2023. The president was removed from the board. I am the President now.

And it was surprisingly underwhelming. This woman is a screamer so we thought she was going to go ballistic, but she didn’t.

This was the hardest part to accomplish but also the easiest deal with. She’s gone and she didn’t have a meltdown. She said she felt like a couple of people were conspiring against her and I resisted the urge to say “No lady, EVERYONE wants you gone. It’s not a conspiracy when everyone wants to get rid of you.”

Part II will actually be much easier to accomplish. I only need 50% of the board to get rid of the management company and I have 100%. But it scares me more because we need a lawyer. We probably are going to sue and I’ve never been in a lawsuit and I don’t want it to drag on for years.

But it’s coming. My coup is halfway done.

Tomorrow I will shop for polish sausage, sauerkraut, and steak fries. Tonight it’s leftovers.

In the middle of sleep rehabilitation on doctor's orders. Slow progress.

Metformin™ smells like fish food, but it is such an underwhelming idea that I can't be bothered to Google the reason.

I like the Coffee Mate Rice Krispie Treats Coffee Creamer I picked up on a whim.

They are mowing the lawn across the street. They shouldn’t run noisy machinery before 9 AM.

Sitting at my desk underwhelmed. If I were wfh I would probably.take a little lunch hour siesta.

I have a video meeting in 2 minutes, followed by another video meeting 30 minutes after that.

Idk, is 2 croissants too much for breakfast?

If you're on Wegovy, I guess the answer is "Yes."

But no worries: enjoy the taste. You'll vomit them up in a few minutes.

What if you're not on Wegovy

Not at all r227. Why do you think Burger King gives you a deal to buy two?

Is that sarcasm r230?

Air roasted peanuts. need I any more?

Prairie Farms low-fat strawberry yogurt is my friend tonight.

I bought Cherrios for dinner and watermelon for after.

I am tempted to buy jyself a JANSPORT backpack just for the heck of it. When I was in high-school , come Septemeber I yearned for one and all the cool kids were rocking a Jansport backpack. My parents always bought us kids the no name/ imitation type. Same for sneakers

R235 do it. you need this.

I still have my backpack from college. I was graduated in 1983. It's still useful.

I’ve got backpacks out my ass. I was in a walk-in closet yesterday and was shocked how many I have and 2 I’ve bought and never used. I shocked myself.

^same

I guess it’s a thing

If you don't need a backpack, don't buy one. There's enough unused crap in this world. Use that money for something else, though. Treat yourself to something you could really use.

I have been purging my room of krap. Slowly. It feels good to get rid of stuff and donate or give away some. The big cat was miffed that I recycled the giant flip chart paper he was enjoying shredding in the corner. Sorry Moose!

“MY ART IS DANGEROUS!”

I have a sizeable dumpster (which is collected weekly), but I never come close to filling it as I live alone. So why does it bug me when my neighbor puts his overflow into my bin?

I lit a Lemon Meringue scented candle. It smells like popcorn. I feel like I'm in the office breakroom. I've been in a pissy mood for days and now I'm even pissier. I don't know if "pissier" is a real word and I don't care.

The blade on the mango slicer is feckin’ sharp. My finger touched it lightly and my finger bled heavily.

Will you come over?

When my Mom was sick of talking about something, she'd end her sentence with: "Period!"

Where I live we've only had eight 90 degree days this year, the average is around twenty. Screwy times.

I’m remembering two much beloved amateur landscape painters in my family - both kind, loving, and welcoming, both happily painting well into their eighties.

Their technical skills and subject matter sucked balls in the later years.

I wonder if anyone collected their work.

The caramelised onions I ate last night have made an…erm…pronounced return.

No scat and definitely no whatever ^that is.

Shoo!

Sorry, not one to bring those topics all the time. Tried to be oblique, but I am genuinely underwhelmed.

I question your understanding of the word "underwhelmed".

[quote]Sorry, not one to bring those topics all the time. Tried to be oblique, but I am genuinely underwhelmed.

You're probably being sincere, but you have to understand there's at least one troll who thinks posting digestive details on the underwhelmed threads is the height of hilarity. I suspect that he's 6 years old.

Oh THAT'S what all those blocked posts are!

Often this thought comes to mind: .a day after the late Queen Elizabeth 2 officially welcomed Liz Truss as British prime minister, she died

I trust the thought, like Truss, passed quickly, R256

Bucolic scenes , inject them in my veins

Late summer fairs in the Midwest

I just called to reschedule a doctor’s appointment for Oct 2. They said the next available appointment was January 28, 2024. Nobody’s that busy.

My scratch-off lottery ticket just won me $200! (Well, net $170).

I hate when handymen have to enter my home but the work has to be done I guess

R260 you’d be surprised about specialist doctors. One of mine is booked until February 2024.

R260 dermatologist??

My cat decided it was not time for bed.

Trapped gas coming out as stinky farts

I requested derm referral in June. Appt is schedule for Nov. Also been waiting on surgical consult since Aug 2022 1 yr already. Very friatrating.

Jesus, are you in America r267?

R249 is it a sign for you to take up painting!

No. Canada.

Yeah, my dermatology appointments (HMO) are the hardest to schedule.

[quote]I just called to reschedule a doctor’s appointment for Oct 2. They said the next available appointment was January 28, 2024. Nobody’s that busy.

I called my primary care physician to schedule my annual check-up and was told that the earliest appointment was more than two months away. What?

End-of-the year scheduling is tough; there are holidays and people trying to get their appointments in for insurance.

R271 it's those damn cash-paying, vanity projects that clog up derma availability.

No. Nephrologist whom I see every 4 months.

I’m taking my son to the local gold, silver and coin store today. I’ve never been to one, but he’s a “collector” and thinks he just HAS to go. I put it off for a long time but I feel guilty about that., so today’s the day.

We live in Texas and I am anxious about getting caught in a stick-up!

Miss Childhood summers of watching Americn Galdiators and Technotronics

Pack your gun just in case R276

And have your son bring his gun.

R277, I don't know about Technotronics but VICE (cable channel) was showing American Gladiators last week.

Gonna change my name to Miss Childhood Summers.

[quote] [R271] it's those damn cash-paying, vanity projects that clog up derma availability.

Actually, no. The cash-paying, vanity projects are done elsewhere. I think there's a lot of skin cancer patients where I go, actually.

I was bored earlier waiting for a co-worker to get a document back to me so I decided to clean out my Yahoo throw away email accounts that I use to sign up for unimportant crap.

I came across not one but TWO Daily Mail emails from about a month ago reprimanding me for something I said about Tom Cruise. In the first email they said they received "too many complaints" and removed my comment. They quoted the title of the article however they did not quote my comment so I can only guess what I said. The second email said they reviewed the matter (apparently there's an automatic appeals process, lol) and decided they would "not reinstate" my comment. WTF, who cares. The DM tribunal is taking whatever sarcastic remark I made about little Tom and his little buddy Miscavige way too seriously. And that's probably exactly what my comments was "little Tom" and "little buddy Miscavige".

I've come full circle. I posted on DM when I was bored during a work lull and now once again during a work lull I've cleaned up the aftermath of my unacceptable DM posting.

In conclusion: no more DM posting for me no matter how bored I get.

The Daily Mail comments seem like the Wild West. I'm surprised it's ever moderated. Good thing you quit posting there. I'd rather embroider than post on DM.

Before my objectionable comment that so upset Tom's PR minions or borg members who patrol the DM, the last time I posted on DM was when Anderson Cooper had a baby, I think his first one. I posted exactly two words: Cute baby. I don't even like kids but I was trying to be supportive. I'm not exaggerating when I tell you that within minutes I had dozens of downvotes. It was bizarre and I thought never again am I posting in this cesspool. But I went it did it again and got a stark reminder.

On the drive, I had told my son that gold and silver bar people usually have weird beliefs, so not to be surprised if the shop had Rambo Trump posters and things. He said “Hey, ‘e pluribus unum!’” He’s funny.

The coin store had a sign inside the foyer that said no minors, so we had to move on. After running some errands, we found another coin store in a neighboring town. The guy running it looked like Ted Nugent and had the Don't Tread on Me themed decor, just as I had imagined.

My son got a “3-cent nickle” which I didn’t even know was a thing, and a peace dollar, which I also know nothing about. The guy running the store shook his hand twice and kept using his name and calling him sir and things, so now he wants to go back every two weeks. He’d better get a job.

[quote] the last time I posted on DM was when Anderson Cooper had a baby, I think his first one. I posted exactly two words: Cute baby. I don't even like kids but I was trying to be supportive. I'm not exaggerating when I tell you that within minutes I had dozens of downvotes

R283/R285 DM commentary are a combination of MAGAts, anti Harry and Meghan Trolls, and Royal family Psycophants

^*This should read sycophants

I’m amazed at how much time and energy people devote to their hatred of celebrities, or “celebrities” with big air quotes, as they like to describe them.

" celebrities"

R266 are you always scat-focused?

My friend has gained some weight the last couple months and I took him to the trails to join me for some early morning work out. We began Monday and 5 days later, he said he can actually feel the belly fat begin to melt. I'm glad

^^Outdoor fucking works wonders, doesn’t it?!

[quote]R266 are you always scat-focused?

He's the underwhelmed threads' resident scat troll and is best ignored. He's the only one who finds his posts amusing.

When I watched Gladiators, I wanted to do nasty, nasty things to Laser. A nip slip would send me rolling.

I told my boyfriend I was getting low on vitamins. He buys me some cheap vitamins. I open the bottles up and throw vitamins at him while yelling “cheap, cheap, cheap”. That’ll show him what a bitch can do.

Daily Mail is conswrvatrash and I'm disappointed in you people.

I said I posted on DM twice over a span of a couple of years. That hardly makes me a disciple.

I will admit that during the Gabby Petito case I did read their articles, they had better coverage, photos and video than local papers.

Nope.

[quote]I told my boyfriend I was getting low on vitamins. He buys me some cheap vitamins. I open the bottles up and throw vitamins at him while yelling “cheap, cheap, cheap”. That’ll show him what a bitch can do.

And you've shown all of us how quickly a bitch can turn a boyfriend into an ex-boyfriend. I hope he has better luck with his next boyfriend.

When an owl screeches it is one scary sound. It almost sounds like a woman screaming, creepy.

We used to have a flock of peacocks on our farm. They sound like a girl calling for help.

I remember the sound of peacocks in Rajasthan; I heard them before I saw them and I thought it was a gang of feral cats.

I have jock itch.

The sound of cats in heat has to be the most gut wrenching sounds

Someone looks like he may need CREATINA soon

The British National anthem is such a beautiful tune

Bed is the best place for me today.

I've been underwhelmed since I got up. I didn't water the containers until 10 (usually 6:30) and haven't done anything since besides taking a shower, drinking coffee and unloading the dishwasher. Everything I have done today involves liquids.

It's overcast outside. I may polish metal things this afternoon if they're not in the sun.

Put a bottle of wine in the freezer to chill it and forgot about it. I'll find out tonight if it's still good. At least it wasn't an expensive bottle of wine.

R310 as long as the bottle didn’t break it should be fine. I sometimes intentionally make white wine slushies.

I went from bed to living room couch to patio couch. Not doing anything I planned to. When I can muster the energy I will clean and fill the hummingbird feeder but there are plenty of flowers so it’s not like they’re starving.

Don't you filthy bitches clean your house/surrounding area/tents /basmeents on weekends???

My basmeent can fucking well clean itself.

It ended up being a 3.5 hour nap.

I do light cleaning daily and heavy cleaning once a week.

My house and garage are PRISTINE as previously discussed upthread.

[quote]It ended up being a 3.5 hour nap.

You're going to be up all night.

R312 I have a cleaning service come every Monday and pick up after myself during the week. Weekends are for R&R. Even before I had a cleaning service I would clean on Thursday or Friday nights so I wouldn’t have to on the weekend.

[quote]You're going to be up all night.

That's what wine and weed are for.

If you find yourself near a Walmart this pumpkin season, I highly recommend their Pumpkin Sandwich Cookies. Very good, nice cream cheese filling. I learned about them from this couple a few years ago and get them every year now.

Also, Walmart Bakery's "Decadent" line of cookies is very good. This couple has reviews on many of Decadent cookies. I like the Decadent Oatmeal Raisin which have regular & golden raisins and the Decadent Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk but they have a ton of varieties in the Decadent line to try. Beware the calories listed on the package are for HALF a cookie.

I'm watching Steel Magnolias on POP. They've stretched it out to 3 hours for numerous commercial breaks, which is annoying. But young Dylan McDermott was hot.

I recently watched, for the first time, "The Last Picture Show." I think I'll watch "Texasville" this weekend. Has anyone seen either or both movies?

A barista at Starbucks suggested I get one of their new warming pumpkin spice drinks.

It's 90 degrees outside. Can we wait until Tuesday to break out the pumpkin spice, late September would be even better.

I never cradle my mug when it's 90 degrees outside.

It’s time to trade out Summer for Fall.

My boots are tippy tapping under the bed. My heavy sweaters are bleating.

The corduroy demons have puckered my pants at the fly while linen clothing screams, “Roll me, Bitch!”

-stonad and blissed out

It's quiet on the lake so far this weekend. I was expecting a lot of people to be here as they were Memorial Day and July 4th. I guess the summer people are already gone.

Gentle moments with Myralax

Itty bitty titty committee

R325 can you send me some of this bucocli, melancholic air ?

It's after 11 at night, in the Northeast, late August and it's 72 degrees!

I imagine it's the type of weather serial killers a la the Night Stalker Son of Sam etc most favored. Something about this type of weather just screams middle off the night muder spree, or have I been watching too much ID channel lately

The kid is not blood related to De Niro.

Everyone went to Europe this year.

I didn't.

Going to Europe is so 2023.

I took a Lyft home from a bar. Lyft sent me an alert that my driver was deaf or hard of hearing and it gave me two helpful videos for how to say “hello” and “thank you” in ASL. So the driver pulls up and I signed “hello” and showed him my phone and got in the backseat and he immediately says “How’s your evening going?”

So I asked “I’m sorry, but are you able to hear me or are you deaf or hard of hearing?” And he said “No, I’m not deaf or hard of hearing. You’re like the 5th person to ask me that tonight! What is going on?!”

Great, appropriately underwhelming story R334.

I didn’t

I just heard them singing Happy Birthday next door. I think I counted three key changes.

The streets are full of crap left by renters who moved out this week. I assume the people moving in aren't tossing out their extras on the street in front of their new apartments.

One hand fapping

We have two new baby gay couples in the building and I refuse to contaminate them with genX bitterness. One has a furry belly that he rubs while they’re out smoking.

I feel like I’m spying on puppies.

R340 PEEP

Holiday time ending. :/

R338 must not be in Boston.

R343 Did you even read what I wrote before responding? "The streets are full of crap left by renters who moved out this week."

If you did, you'd have known what I was talking about, assuming you read the article. I don't live in Allston, so it's hardly "Allston Christmas" in Cambridge for me.

I'm going to make some egg salad.

I am low on blocks of cheese. I need to make a Costco trip soon, probably Tuesday or Wednesday. I'm making my list.

I'm going to a bar later to watch the LSU-Florida game. I'll probably order some wings.

Hooters?

No.

I hate wings.

I went to a student dance bar after the football game in this college town. Most of the guys were shirtless, and it didn't seem to impress the young ladies in the club. Some of the guys were really peacocking. I'll grant most of them have worked out and had a right to be shirtless. Thirty years ago, I would have approached a sad one who was passed over by the ladies that night. Getting a blow job is much better than not getting one. Some of these guys looked ripe for the picking.

Labour day Sunday is always so melancholic for me. Idk why

Labor Day marks the end of summer. When you're a child, that's depressing because you have to go back to school after three months of relaxation.

The roads are so so quiet. I feel like going for a drive around the neighborhood blasting Maggie May as loud as possible

"Maggie May" was huge as the school year started in 1971. The whole album, really.

There's hardly anyone posting on DL this evening - it's a bummer.

[quote]Labor Day marks the end of summer. When you're a child, that's depressing because you have to go back to school after three months of relaxation.

When I was a kid, after three months, I was bored with summer and looking forward to going back to school, especially if I had some new clothes and a new pencil box for the occasion.

Everyone went up to the lakes where there is poor or no internet

New sweaters were the things that made me want to go back to school.

God, you guys. I can't believe you wanted to go back to school.

“This year I’m going to be completely different!”

While I thought it was self improvement, I was scaring people with my Sybil shit.

I used to dread back to school week. Wearing new shoes and clothes felt so uncomfortable, especially after spending most of the summer barefoot and in a bathing suit. I also didn’t really have a bedtime in summer, went to bed when I was tired and slept until I woke up. That first week back and having to go to bed early and not being able to sleep, and then wake up at dawn was torture.

[quote]God, you guys. I can't believe you wanted to go back to school.

You must be anti-education.

I loved the smell of new books in September. Loved every thing about back to school. I looked forward to it. I was an A++++ student

In Texas, school let out for summer around June 10th and started again August 9th. It was well over 100 degrees every single day for all but about ten non-consecutive days during that span.

And if you went to school in Texas, until the 1970’s there were very few classrooms with a/c.

I miss the days when people weren't constantly taking pictures of themselves with their mouths open.

Completely underwhelmed by the hot and humid weather in September.

I feel a nap coming on.

I feel like blasting Wet Ass Pussy around the hood

My new neighbor is hot as fuck. How many days will it take for me to make a fool of myself?

I rewatched "Capote" instead of watching Texasville. Matt Damon, as he gets older, looks like Philip Seymour Hoffman in this movie.

[quote]I miss the days when people weren't constantly taking pictures of themselves with their mouths open.

I miss the days when people weren't constantly taking pictures of themselves.

I’m gonna flick it!

It's only 4:30 p.m. and I'm going to eat my dinner (Subway sandwich).

Summer have finally arrived in New England, better late than never. I'm loving the hot weather which is to last all week.

Don’t let a big fat shark eat you

85 degrees at 10:00 pm in the north east

Night sweats. Fun!

Have we taken a mome to thank our white shoes for a season of faithful service?

R379, but we can keep wearing them after Labor Day. Fashion has changed!

And I'm dead!

Does anyone wear white shoes, ever?

I had honeydew melon for breakfast.

I forgot it was Labor Day.

BECAUSE I'M A RETIRED TEACHER! Bwahahaha! 😝

R354, And 1971 was the year of both my college graduation and the commencement of my 30-year career of teaching high school English.

Hence, my gleeful post above!

I devoured a honeydew melon last week. I have bad luck with watermelons and didn’t feel like throwing $6 away again, so I opted for a honeydew melon. I hadn’t had one in years. It was so unbelievably good. I let it sit for a few days after I got it, until I could catch a faint whiff when I held it to my nose. I know this sounds sexual but I swear by it— it works for pineapples, and mangoes, and pretty much all fruit (within reason). If you can’t smell it but you go for it anyway, you’re going to be let down. I have this rule for restaurants as well. If it doesn’t smell like food when I set foot in there, I leave! I’ve never had great food at a place that didn’t smell like cooking. I’ve been charmed by the staff and stayed despite my instincts, and it is never good, just $30-$60 down the drain.

I have a lot of albums set up in Apple Photos. You can sort the albums at any time by name or date on a Mac, but the program that synchs your Mac with your mobile devices does not keep track of the sorting of albums. If the albums get out of order on your mobile device (which can happen easily if you add new ones or scroll through them because an accidental touch on the album name can wind up moving the album within its folder), the only way to put them back in order is to move them manually—one at a time.

Things got so messy on my iPad, my only option was to erase my iPad and start the Photos sync from scratch. It may take days to completely download.

Come on Apple.

Google photos is fantastic and tags using AI. I'll never use Apple Photos again.

Do you use Google Photos in an Apple environment? If I take a photo with my iPhone or download one from the internet, it automatically goes into Apple Photos. Wouldn’t I have to manually move them into Google Photos?

You need some storage on your Google account, allow the app access to your camera, and you're grand r389.

I haf a long exhausting dream, err nightmare where my thesis paper was due and I had not completed any work, was at risk of not graduating

Had*^^

What's up with those 'not graduating' dreams? I still get them and I'm well into middle age.

I don't have enough credits, etc. I never even got a bachelor's degree (wasn't necessary for my trajectory), so I never even felt this anxiety in real life.

I had a doctor's appointment today. By the time I left I had over 10 notifications on Grindr. I may have to start cruising hospitals.

Yes ! Tay Tay is starting to do something

I’m only grand if Google can import my albums intact and thereafter do a better job at keeping them organized than Apple does.

Not sure, but they use AI pretty well to auto-generate albums. I'm sure the extensive documentation they have will get you the answers you need.

Amy's frozen meals were BOGO so I got two Broccoli and Cheddar Bake Bowls.

Amy's food is crap.

Thanks for the input, r399! Bless!

Which store, R398?

r401, Publix, where shopping is a pleasure.

Pubic’s

When I was a kid my mother would say "It's the law" when she denied some request. I was always puzzled and a little scared that the U.S. government could mandate how much ice cream I ate or how late I could stay up. Thank goodness when I started school my classmates set me straight and exposed her little game.

Can I have more ice cream?

No.

Why?

Because I said so.

You’re a bitch!

I had forgotten that Jerry Springer died

My dog is ten now and healthy. I know this may end in tears but it's oh so worth it.

R393, I still get them and whenever I’ve mentioned them to someone, they always tell me they do too. The most common recurring one for me is that I show up to take a final exam for a class that I’ve never attended once and haven’t studied for. Those are anxiety inducing.

One time I had one where somehow I missed some critical classes in high school even though (in real life and in my dream) I’d already finished college. But for some reason that dream didn’t totally freak me out. I was going to be allowed to keep my college degree, but as a very old adult, I was sent back to high school and had to take some classes again because apparently there was a mistake and I hadn’t taken them so my high school diploma was revoked. It wasn’t scary like taking a test for a class you know nothing about. More, aw man, I know I already took this but you’re making me take it again? Fine. I don’t care.

I bet everybody in the world gets them except for Lauren Boebert. I can’t imagine what her bad dreams about school are. She didn’t finish high school and needs to go learn some stuff? How could that be scary to her? That’s her real life.

I don't have the college dream that much. Probably because I actually failed a required class my last semester. My recurring bad dream is working in a restaurant and suddenly having 10 tables and each one is problematic in its own way.

I was a terrible student and left everything to the last minute. I.e., I was a "crammer." My nightmares involve having exams the next day and I only read 3 chapters of a 20-chapter book. Stuff like that. Also, that there's one class that I forgot all about and didn't attend classes for 2 months.

[quote] My recurring bad dream is working in a restaurant and suddenly having 10 tables and each one is problematic in its own way.

Former bar / restaurant worker here. I have restaurant nightmares, too. Suddenly, my section is filling up. People / customers have been waiting for their drink orders. I have forgotten what their drink orders were. Etc.

I waited tables as a teens and and I still get those "in the weeds" dreams as well. Later, in my early 20s, I worked second shift in a nursing home as a CNA.

My duties included getting everyone up from their naps, getting them spiffed up and wheeling them down to the dining room for dinner, helping them eat, then wheeling them back to their rooms and putting them to bed for the night. We were always "short staffed", but those places always are, they have no intention of keeping a truly adequate staff levels, especially us grunts; it's all lies.

It was emotionally whelming for many reasons, including the residents (as they were called) either wanted to go to bed right this damn minute or they wanted to stay up, or they would go to bed without fuss either way and then confusedly keep getting up and getting dressed to "go to breakfast" every two hours after going to bed. I always felt like the reverse of the Little Old Woman Who Lived in the Shoe (with so many children she knew not what to do). I was the kid who was trying to be responsible for this ragtag crew of old people who were raising hell, wandering around with someone else's teeth in their mouth, dying (sad), getting into each other's beds, pissing in the clothes hamper, etc. I would run to help one and two more would be getting into trouble when my back was turned.

We had a lot of people who had lived through the Depression and as such, there were many food sneakers (would-be hoarders but we went through their things too much for it to get to that point-- a stash of old bananas and saltines in a drawer, etc). They'd glean from the dinner trays of others who didn't have an appetite as we were busy wheeling those who couldn't walk out of the dining room.

I'll never forget June walking down the long hall with her walker-- I could tell them by ear, I learned their gaits by osmosis, just like you can tell your dogs apart in the dark just by listening to their footsteps, you know who walks how. Anyway, June, at the very end of the hall, almost to her room, about seventy feet from me at the beginning of the hall, charting paperwork before leaving for the night-- I remember glancing up at her long enough to see her stop for a beat and then and triumphantly pivot her walker toward her door just as pleated baggies of ham salad sandwiches fell out of the bottom of her skirt.

I still dream of these people. I dream that the hallway never ends and everyone is crying to be put to bed. I miss them all and I will be happy to see them again someday.

Me and my charges

[quote]Does anyone wear white shoes, ever?

I still do.

Sorry Pat, but those shoes are soiled.

For breakfast I had Cream of Wheat. I prepared it with skim milk instead of water, topped it with maple syrup, a mashed over-ripe banana, more milk and butter. Delicious and the perfect breakfast for a construction worker or farmer with a day of plowing the fields ahead of him. For me, a person who will be sitting in my recliner and working from a laptop all day, totally unnecessary. But delicious.

I am eating broccoli, florettes, steamed sprayed with butter and dash

Don’t hate me because I’m sweet

Costco was crowded (yesterday) and didn't have a lot of things that were on my list. I fear that they are about to replace Kerrygold salted butter with their own (Kirkland) grass-fed cow butter.

Target, on the other hand, was not crowded, and had everything that I had on my list.

I put bag balm on my dog

[quote] I am eating broccoli,

What's that?

We’ll have four roast beef’s, medium rare, with mashed potatoes and Lima beans.

Heat really kills my hunger.

I think I'm going to start writing

I wanna go to the library

Random thought that long neck , giraffe like prison boss from. OiTNB looks a lot like Ann Coulter

R410, I have those same ones---but I'm the teacher!

I'm late to my class; I'm lost; I have no idea what the section's subject or text is! I am as unprepared as one can be!

Looks like I'll need a nap tomorrow.

You really should, R424. You’ve got it in you.

I'd write again, bit don't see the point beyond personal catharsis.

There's much to be said for that, I think, r430.

Maybe so, but I guess I'm in a living phase and may be less revulsed by the idea once I move to an analysis phase. Right now, it feels like a heartless third-round wank.

[quote]it feels like a heartless third-round wank.

Pics please.

Well take notes while you're in your living phase, R432. It's hard to really nail down the challenging times when the livin' gets good again.

I just learnt simething new today, that when older sick people are near death they relay stories of their deceased parents ..

I always say I'm going to start writing ✍️ and never get to it ..this time is for real. This is it. No turning back

Write on, R436, we're not gonna live forever.

I miss the black characters on food boxes. Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and the Cream of Wheat man. I grew up eating that stuff, and I found their constant presence comforting. I thought the most recent iteration of Aunt Jemima looked really nice with her stylish hair, pearl earrings and lipstick. It's sad that they replaced the Cream of Wheat man with a few staffs of wheat, Aunt Jemima unceremoniously labeled Pearl Milling Company and replaced with a generic image of a building. Uncle Ben's image is gone and they didn't even bother with an image of anything else.

It's worse, in a way. They had become more than that, over the decades. They deserved better. It's like they died.

Glad to hear it George R. R. (R496).

It's 94 degrees where I am in New England and currently 64 on the summit of Mt Washington with little wind. That's amazing since the average temp in September is 46 there.

I just checked the temp at the US Open and it's 94 degrees there also. The women playing tonight are going to be very uncomfortable.

It's so weird, last week (in the Mid-Atlantic/NE) the weather was beautiful. I had no a/c running, windows open and all.

And now this bullshit.

The person who's been catfishing me on Facebook for almost a month finally asked for money. Good to know my instincts were correct from the beginning.

[quote]I thought the most recent iteration of Aunt Jemima looked really nice with her stylish hair, pearl earrings and lipstick.

I thought the image update was to turn her into a savvy businesswoman instead of, well, essentially a slave. So I liked the change in appearance, but the name “Aunt Jemima” was always going to be a painful reminder of the history of the brand, so I think ending it was the right thing to do. But at least the product lives on under a better name (and being nostalgic for a racist caricature doesn’t sound very pleasant).

Pearl Milling Company

My back hurts!

Hello you crazy fool.

I can hardly wait for cooler weather. One of the highlights of Fall for me was the cool weather in early September, wearing long sleeve Fall sweaters.

Today I learned that softened butter for baking should be between 60-64°F. Creamed butter and sugar should be between 68-70° F and not go above 70° or your cake will not be airy and collapse.

What I don't understand is using browned butter. Supposedly, it makes every recipe (involving butter) taste better. If so, why not use it for every recipe. Also, it seems like it would flatten out baked goods (you have to melt the butter to brown it).

I hate mug cradlers

Banana bread made with browned butter is delicious r449.

Danny Masterson will be in prison till the age of 97, if he survives that

R452 - I think 47 + 30 = 77, not 97.

I’d like to change my first name to Hyman

Oh God I’m in rare form tonite

If you use the last name Hyman, you can go by the first name Buster. (I'm also in rare form tonight).

Hi. Will you be my moony moony r456?

I feel compelled to say BUSH

Why am I getting emails from Bed Bath & Beyond, I thought they went kaput.

A twelve or thirteen-year-old drove their grocery cart into a corner of the store. "Mommy! I can't get out!" she said.

"Go backwards", the exasperated mom replied.

I can't believe education in our country has come to this.

Teachers are supposed to teach a child how to "reverse" a shopping cart? What about the parents? Maybe the child is just stupid.

I was referring to the parents, and educators who should have picked up on the lack of reasoning.

Why didn’t you chuck a canned good at the child to teach Serpentine Serpentine?

Queen Letizia from Spain has mean eyes. Is that a botox side effect?

I don't know anything about such matters as I'm naturally ravishing and haven't had to partake.

Weather app says it's 66 degrees but why is it so humid

Baseball on one screen, football on another and tennis on the third

I need to go back to bed.

My husband just did, R467.

I’m having a tall iced coffee, so I think we’re going in different directions this morning.

I thought I ate too much yesterday but when I weighed myself before I’m only up about half a pound-yah!

Geeze, r469 wtf did you eat that made you gain a half a pound in one day?

R470- I had a sweet potato before lunch- that was the culprit. But I shall be more careful today. With time and persistence I will lose that half a pound in no time.

A sweet potato will not cause you to gain a half pound in a day.

Do not come to Maui. Come to Maui

I understood completely, R460. Nowhere did you mention schools or teachers.

R459, overstock.com bought the name and all the trademark and whatever else was left from Bed, Bath and Beyond and rebranded themselves. If you go to overstock.com or their o.co address, you’ll see if just redirects you to bedbathandbeyond.com.

I have a leak in my two-year-old roof.

Called roofing company yesterday and woman said she had a crew in my area today and they would be out first thing.

"Crew" turned out to be one young guy named Daniel who FORGOT HIS LADDER. I do not own a ladder tall enough nor does my neighbor. Daniel will be back tomorrow WITH A LADDER.

Can't make this crap up.

Thunder is rumbling, hopefully that’s the cold front moving in to end this week’s inferno of hell.

I’m under a severe thunderstorm warning, which means I’m supposed to be cowering in the basement, but there’ll be plenty of time for that if it becomes necessary. Sure is dark.

I have to throw out my favorite t-shirt. It smells musty and home remedies of washing in vinegar and baking soda or using a detergent for musty clothes aren't working.

I was hoping for more than a 15 minute nap.

I was on my way to go grocery shopping but a thunderstorm is coming through. I’m sure I can forage and find something for dinner so I can put it off until tomorrow.

I got carded buying beer today. The cashier looked at my ID and said "sorry."

When I was a kid, I thought there was a guy named Ron Bacardi, who had his own brand of rum. How casual, I thought — it’s not Ronald Bacardi, but just ‘Ron.’

Cute r483.

When I was a kid I thought the huge white house in my town that took up half a block and had big white pillars and massive beautiful grounds, fountain, circular driveway and limousines in front was The White House where the President of the United States lived.

When my uncle died, I learned it was actually a funeral home.

Also, why do Italians take six-year-olds to wakes/funerals? It's traumatizing for children, all the wailing, moaning and flailing about.

I always thought Bill Maher looked like Patrick Swayze if Patrick Swayze was squished into alternate dimension by the Phantasm ball.

“Yeah, this is Patrick. And the guy humping Granny’s leg is Bill. He has a big personality.”

Your fart was so powerful I could literally taste it

[quote]I have to throw out my favorite t-shirt. It smells musty and home remedies of washing in vinegar and baking soda or using a detergent for musty clothes aren't working.

Don't give up! Did you try Lysol laundry sanitizer or Fels-Naptha?

I have began writing . I am currently working on 2 stories

[quote] I have began writing .

Oh, dear.

"I have begun writing."

Give it a rest r489. You sound overwhelmed and this is not the place for that.

Thank you R490

I debated on what to post as my declaration of having begun the writing process. I may have done a bit of overthinking . I thought should I post " I am working on my stories now" I began writing" " I have started writing" all this overthinkin g led to me posting " I have began writing" and ultimately becoming bait for r489

Those spaghetti models of Hurricane Lee that show it coming to New England better be wrong. We've had more than our fair share of rain this summer. It's even raining now.

I got a shower scrubby (whatever those mesh balls that you put body wash on are called) caught on an earring while I was scrubbing my neck and behind my ears and had to finish my shower and then get out with it still stuck on my earring and cut it out with scissors. It made me feel like a dolphin caught in a tuna net.

I’m a guy but I’ve had pierced ears and worn earrings (just little silver hoops) for over 30 years.

If you have any piercings below your chin, I’d be particularly careful with those things.

It’s FASHION!

Look it up.

[quote]I have began writing . I am currently working on 2 stories

Blanche: What day is this? I've been up for 72 hours. I had a breakthrough. I discovered a new form of writing. I will go down in history. First I wrote all day, then I tore it all up, and then that night it came to me, and the words poured forth like liquid from a stream. It was almost a mystical experience. Somebody else was writing this.

Rose: Who?

Blanche: Everyman. This is everyman's work. It's all gold. Just open it anywhere and the magic will touch you. But I'm so tired. I must sleep. And I cannot sleep. I am too tired to sleep. I will never sleep again. I may die from this. What am I gonna do? My God, I'm hallucinating. I see little balls of sunshine in a bag. Does this mean something?

Rose: Those are egg yolks, Blanche.

Blanche: My brain's gone. My body is limp with exhaustion. I suppose all the greats knew this feeling. And the thing is, after all this I've decided not to sell my book. It's too good to sell. They can publish it after I'm dead, like Vincent van Gogh.

Dorothy: Van Gogh was a painter, Blanche.

Blanche: Whatever. It's all the same thing. We're all artists. We're all misunderstood. He cut off his hair. Maybe I'll cut off mine.

Dorothy: He cut off his ear.

Blanche: I have too many earrings.

Humidity causing sweats; feeling menopausal

I love you R496

Saw two magpies outside yesterday. Two for joy.

I invented a new lunch: a thick slice of tomato, chipotle mayo, a couple slices of turkey, top with a slice of cheddar and put under the broiler until cheese melts. Really good. I might have another.

I used white cheddar but probably any cheese that melts well would do.

R479, did you try “Tide Hygienic 10x”?

Hate to see a favorite shirt gone to waste.

Set off my fire alarm while making some grilled halloumi. :/

I wonder how difficult it is to get a book or short story published

My cats are napping with me. The big cat has his front paw flung over the little cat. We are in a sort of spoon. It goes: me, big cat, little cat.

[quote]I wonder how difficult it is to get a book or short story published

It's whelmingly difficult. That's why so many people self-publish their books through Amazon and vanity presses.

You know, I never understood the appeal of George C. Scott.

I have seen it and it is large.

I ate some nice, fresh pineapple. But it blew out my palate for the rest of the day. Nothing tasted good after that.

The dollar store in my area has begun selling Christmas decor

^ Were there any Dollar Store pound cakes available?

The Target in my neighborhood was selling Halloween candy by the entrance in mid-August.

For some reason when I went in yesterday, they'd changed the display to an assortment of laundry detergents and household cleaners.

Maybe they sold out of the candy and now they're selling customers clean-up supplies for egged homes and candy shart stains?

Or maybe detergents and cleaners are the trendy new trick-or-treats for this Halloween.

Where did the Dollar Tree cotton candy go? I've not been able to find it the past two visits.

I did get a mini-grater that is indispensable. And the last jar of sweet pickles-- they were good!

The hummingbirds are gone and I just took down the feeder. Sad.

[quote]Where did the Dollar Tree cotton candy go?

I find this interesting...

*but fat whores may find this whelming

Visiting my parents in my hometown. The place is so sleepy and quiet. I love visiting them in September when the late summer , early Fall ambiance feels like a blanket of nostalgia. It has helped with my writing. I just drove near my old high-school, parked the car , played Boys of Summer.

I get really nostalgic when I go to my hometown, too, though its a few states away.

Some nights when I can't sleep, I fire up the Google Street View on my phone and go up and down the streets of my childhood from the comfort of my bed. I wish there was a street view that went way back in time. I would love to have seen my neighborhood 50, 60, 70 years back.

I sometimes drive through the old neighborhood when I am passing by. It hasn't changed a bit. I can see things happening 60 years ago when I pass the houses. Now all of those kids are 65-75 years old. All of our parents are dead. The woman who now lives in the house I grew up in cut down the evergreen tree my parents planted on the day I was born. It reached 15 ft. tall when I went off to college. Dad would put strings of those large lights that were predominant at the time all around the tree. Our neighbors loved it.

My nephew-in-law could not believe my sister and I could name the occupants of those houses when we grew up when we went on a Christmas light ride. We remembered dozens of them.

I'm having pigs in a blanket for dinner. Not the little appetizers. Full size hot dogs. I'll probably stop at two and save some for breakfast.

R516 you are overwrought with nostalgia

Playing with my box underneath the covers. Listening to old shitty 80s music

Eating crackers without hands in bed

Saw this today and wondered if this is where my obsession for men with dark five o'clock shadows began.

Why do you have a box underneath the covers, r521? Is a 90s style boombox that you use to play your music?

R484, At 73, I've been to Italian funerals, Irish wakes, and points in-between. Never once have I seen "wailing, moaning, and flailing about."

Oh god, R518, I remember back when you posted about that. How devastating.

The weather woman on this small city tv news channel suggests holding a large mug of coffee and wrapping your fingers around it to warm them, hence “mug cradling”.

I had my fasting blood draw done earlier today. The technician who took my blood was really nice. She looked at both arms and chose to take blood from my left arm. I guess I have small veins. It was pretty painless.

We shall see what my results are. A couple of years ago, my cholesterol shot up. After that, I stopped going to McDonald's. I live close to 2 different McD's, so it was so easy to stop there (drive-through) on the way home.

Good luck with your blood work, R528. I was in a similar situation with my cholesterol.

I had started treating myself to a Taylor Ham (Pork Roll), egg, and cheese on a roll every other Sunday or so during the Spring. My doctor noticed my cholesterol was up and I told her I could get it down. I didn't tell her about the THEC fests. I have to get more blood work in November and I'm sure my cholesterol will be down significantly.

Thanks, Cosmo. That THEC roll does sound good, like an upgraded Egg McMuffin. Good luck to you, as well.

I'm switching back to Charmin Ultra Soft. They had reduced the sheet size, so I had switched to Marathon (very industrial-feeling, but larger sheets).

However, for some reason, Costco sells Charmin Ultra in the old, larger-sheet size. So, I got a 30-pack from Costco.

Just how large is your cloaca r531?

I just ate a Chef Ramsay frozen dinner from Walmart. It was good but a bit salty like Chef Ramsay.

I am having a second helping of salad. It’s really good

I have blood testing done every three months because I have a medical condition. I would always get light-headed when the blood was pulled out. Now I stare at it and dare it to take me down.

My Japanese maple’s red leaves have turned green. Sad.

R12 Is Julie Andrews. (See pic)

R536, does it need iron? My dad has some maple trees and the leaves were starting to yellow while the veins remained green. He treated them with iron that can be sprinkled around the tree, and it helped a little. The next year they were still looking week so I told him to get some iron injections for them. You have to drill a small hole in the tree, not too deep, and pop the "injection" in, it's like a little cartridge/capsule. That helped a lot.

Maples are known for getting anemic, at least in my neck of the woods. It will kill them eventually, if not treated. You can get the iron injections on Amazon.

*weak

I thought it might have to do with all the rain, but I’ll look into “anemia.”

My cholesterol, LDL, and HDL are all high. However, the ratio seems OK. We'll see what my doctor says.

My triglycerides are low, which is good.

I think I need to stop eating Skippy creamy (it has hydrogenated oil). The Skippy natural doesn't taste as good.

These fucking flies are working my last nerve

[quote]These fucking flies are working my last nerve

I know exactly what you mean - every time I cross my legs...those damn blow flies!

Cheryl, r543 It’s common knowledge nasty snatch draws flies just like a big pile of horse shit!

I’m not going back to Assissy Heights!

Today I saw an episode of The Simpsons that I'd never seen before.

Today I saw Thom Browne shoes at Saks - off 5th.

They are featured online - found between Stacy Adams and Cole Haan shoes.

At first I thought you meant Thom McCann shoes, R547.

Eating liverwurst and red onion on a bagel in bed. Don't knock it til you try it (in bed)!

Feels like Autumn this morning...should I cradle a mug?

I'm starting to think Tomato Pesto tastes better than Basil Pesto, which also gives me heartburn.

Do you peel and seed your tomatoes before pestocizing them, r551?

"Pestocizing", my new word for the day.

But I'm unlikely to use it much, so no need to be whelmed.

New slippers!

R554 wins best underwhelming post of the Back to School Edition!

Excuse me. They are lined with shearling.

[quote]Excuse me. They are lined with shearling.

What good fortune. Your family must be so happy.

Well, I wasn’t going to boast, but they are described by their noted purveyor as “wicked good.”

The future is unwritten

Made in Myanmar!

Beautiful sunset in New England thanks to Hurricane Lee's clouds. Mostly will be affecting the coast with high wind and rough seas. Downeast Maine and Nova Scotia will get the strongest wind.

I'm out of rice vinegar.

I have a large bottle if you need some.

I bought 24 wood pants hangers for $35 - no crease at the knees!

I need only 16. This means I will have to buy eight pairs of pants.

My back

Head and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.

R565, I say that many times daily!

My pussy and crack

Mallomars are in full bloom. It saddens me that their season is so abbreviated.

I just took a Xanax to remain underwhelmed today.

NYT crossword was tough today. I need another nap.

I like to bend forward and inhale the musky odors of my crotch greedily

I have felt tense all day for no reason.

I need to switch from Skippy creamy (hydrogenated oil) to Skippy natural. Sigh. The natural is not as good, but my cholesterol has shot up.

I'm getting a root canal Monday.

Root canal isn’t underwhelming. I hope it goes OK.

I've been bing watching "The Brady Bunch", and it's a lot better than I remembered it.

I think I have been unfair to cashews.

We know, and we accept your apology.

R574, try this peanut butter. I first discovered it at a farmers market and now order it online. The best I have ever had. They have all sorts of nut butter concoctions but the regular and crunchy peanut butter is unparalleled.

R578, cashews have a very satisfying chew, just a tiny bit soft. I can’t say that about other nuts.

Thank you, R580. That's very kind of you to give me a recommendation for peanut butter.

I’m tired from completing an exasperating survey regarding my attitude towards smoked meats.

I always quit surveys in the middle.

You're wise, R583. If you complete one and the ratings you give are decent, they'll never stop sending you more.

Sometimes you just know when enough is enough

I had a fun day but over did it. I went on a two hour hike this morning and then played tennis. This afternoon I rode my bike to the beach and swam a lot (but also rested on the beach). When I was ready to head home I wished I had my car.

I’ve been laying on the couch for a couple of hours and feel like I can hardly move.

I once wrote "I enjoyed it while naked" in the margin of a Nielsen ratings book after marking Here Come the Brides.

I wasn't looking at the brides.

[quote]I've been bing watching "The Brady Bunch", and it's a lot better than I remembered it.

You were right the first time. So sorry about the cognitive decline.

^ Your insult whelms.

A friend once told me that he had been watching "Gilligan's Island" episodes and was surprised to discover that it was a really funny show. And I thought, "The poor thing."

This thread will be played out soon, like Blanche DuBois. Here's the new one.

Multiple open "I Want To Be Underwhelmed" threads always threatens to whelm me.

^ maybe you are change averse

^ or maybe there really is too much change

The new thread has already been planted at r559.

Let's get...

Started...

On...

That new thread

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