I Want to Be Underwhelmed: Indian Summer Edition 🍂🍎

Link to previous thread. Please fill it up first, thank you.

Last night I rented Weapons. What a great movie. I gasped a few times. Josh Brolin looked good, as usual.

I bought a bottle of fall leaves scented Mrs. Meyers hand soap. It's kind of disgusting. I might try putting something in there like a cinnamon stick to make it nicer.

Yay, it’s the most overrated season of the year! Let’s all go be fraus!

Just go ahead and throw it away now, r3.

[quote]Yay, it’s the most overrated season of the year!

Bite your tongue! Autumn leaves, cool weather, football, soups and stews, sweaters ... I love fall.

r6, I'm with you! For all the reasons you listed, except football.

I made the Korean Street Toast for lunch that I mentioned at the end of the last thread. I also made one for the guy next door as he happened by as I was cooking. He thanked me profusely.

r8 and this is how most gay porn begins.

"Here's a sandwich, stud"

Cut to sandwich maker being railed on the floor.

He's married and looks like Lord Grantham from Downton Abbey. Then he opens his mouth and all delusions of posh are gone. He's also the grandfather of the pesky little kids I've mentioned many times.

I lit a new scented candle today. The smell it left in the room was exquisite.

I’m on Zepbound. How am I supposed to consume my share of Pumpkin Spice treats? I’m going to let the team down. Sorry.

I had to Google R8's dish, it does sound great.

I'm annoyed that "indian summer" is lingering around longer than it needs to...I BETTER NOT SEE ANY FUCKIN' 70 DEGREE WEATHER IN OCTOBER!!!!!!!

r13, the video link I added from Chef John on the previous Underwhelmed thread is easy and delicious, I make it often.

Goddammit, why in the 80's in L. A. next week? It's even in the upper 70's in San Diego next week.

I bought a larger ramekin, and I used it to make a mini Oreo cheesecake. It tasted delicious. The part I'm most proud of is that there wasn't a recipe to follow -- I just made it up as I went along, and it came out great.

I have to get an MRI on my brain tomorrow. I expect to have a headache afterward.

In Arizona the high is 95°F. Although it's not an Indian Summer, I'm glad it's under 100°. I can drive with the windows down.

In case you're wondering, 60°F is officially winter here.

Well got my Covid jab, shoulder is already sore after 5 hours.

Why the fuck is Kathy Hilton on QVC??

Who the fuck wants to see her entitled pampered ass on this channel?

She’s there in addition to the regular QVC host.

Who’s embracing their inner lumbersexual this fall season?

R21 Also begs the question, 'why the fuck are you watching that ghastly channel?'

I’m sitting in my chair in the living room with my dog watching a show on my laptop. I leave the doors open and one small light on which inevitably attracts moths into my home.

As usual, they flutter around awkwardly and fast in the background while I’m watching something . Tonight, they were really distracting and relentless so I looked up to yell at them.

But they weren't moths —they were bats!

The door was ajar tonight and not wide open but they managed to get in. I had to crawl on the floor to the door and open it wide then crawl to another door and open it. Eventually they got out.

Bats are never underwhelming, R24.

Very whelming.

I took a six hour nap this afternoon.

My dog has turned the right corner from her invasive removal of an absess on her face. I've been giving her the meds prescribed faithfully and now the wound is just a large scab. Yes, gross but better than it was. Healing is a wonderful thing.

Yeah,I see your point, R23 but, sadly, it’s my go to channel when there is nothing else on.

Besides, I was waiting for the LeCreuset hour to come on. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I hate Josh Brolin.

Fall leaves usually smell like moldy cheese tastes.

Why r29?

The Coyotes are extra loud tonight. They mostly sound like women screaming at one another but I did get to hear a few good howls like they're supposed to be doing.

@r24, two bats got in last night. It was whelming. I was feeling Tippi Hedronesque. But the cats thought it was Christmas and that I had given them the best toys ever.

What is happening gere?

I think it was raining on prom night, r33.

I'm whelmed that R24 would deliberately attract moths into his home, and beyond whelmed about the bats.

I woke up thinking it was Monday. But it's Sunday. *happy dance*

I increased my SSRI dosage and now I have a horrible headache.

R33 and Batboy: These are not underwhelming!

Bats are the good guys- they eat mosquitoes.

I enjoy watching youtuber Harrison Webb review London restaurants. Today for some reason he changed into a suit mid video to review breakfast places and he looked mighty fine. Mighty fine.

The hospital plays the Hallmark channel in the waiting room even on the weekends.

It could have been a C. Kirk memorial, r41.

r27, so happy about your pupper!

I watched the horror movie "The Home", starring Pete Davidson, John Glover, and Bruce Altman. It's about a man sentenced to 4 months of community service at a retirement home.

I don't think much of Pete, but the movie was thoroughly enjoyable. An original horror movie, which is hard to come by these days.

The world is a better place with dachshunds in it.

I got a complaint from my HOA that my driveway needed to be edged, so I've been trying to do that all day. I would prefer being inside edging myself. Next time I'm going to hire someone to do both.

“With regards to the HOAs request to edge my driveway, you can edge me!” ✍️

Josh is a wannabe MAGAt redneck living on his dad’s million dollar ranch in Paso Robles. He kills things and hits girls.

We had bats in the attic of our old Minneapolis house. Sometimes they’d miss the attic and land on my bedroom floor. I had a friend over and was showing her my toys. “Is that a toy?” she said pointing to it on the floor. It ended in shrieks.

[quote] It ended in shrieks.

And then the killing began.

[quote]Bats are the good guys- they eat mosquitoes.

That may have worked out well for Batboy, who was probably attracting mosquitoes along with the moths and the bats.

r44, I saw an early preview of it in an actual theatre, and there were too many closeups of Davidson and his giant nostrils. It was an okay movie.

Being told what to do has never been up my alley which makes it unlikely I'll ever live anywhere with a HOA.

My HOA sent me a letter about grass growing in my yard. I went out and looked and looked and couldn't find it. Finally I found a few blades growing around the water meter. I pulled them out, but jeez, they were sure being picky.

I think I'll make a chicken pot pie this week, haven't had that in a long while.

R54 I would have NOT pulled those weeds and waited to see if they escalated and if they did, I'd insist they come show me the offending weeds in person.

If it was indeed something that insignificant, I'd snap at them, "THAT'S what you're pestering me about?!?!? Pick them yourself!"

I'm watching Reversal Of Fortune for the first time. The opening scene of all those Gilded-Age mansions in Newport, R.I. made my jaw hit the ground.

Damn, Philip Bailey is looking old.

Hell they all are 🙁

I didn't even think about it being the 21st night till way too late.

I've decided that Eleanor Rigby is one of the most brilliant songs of all time.

Damn, the Jonas bros were great!!

Shining Star, indeed. 🤗

HOAs are the worst KARENS in the entire world.

I try not to nap in the afternoon because it keeps me up until all hours. I gave in today.

Two of the maple trees in my yard have completely orange foliage now. I wish they could look like that all of the time.

I saw Air with the Hollywood Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl tonight. It was a perfect night. I didn't know that Air was actually a stealth jam band. The crowd was super mellow, everyone in their seats, just nodding along.

I don't particularly care for thick, plush bath towels. I prefer a thinner bath towel. Easier to work with and get the job of drying done.

I'm craving a twice baked potato.

I'm tempted to go to Trader Joe's to see their fall selection, but I'm afraid I'll lose the battle of wills with my inner fat whore.

The Joe-Joes, the Joe-Joes are calling.

I went to Trader Joe's last week and only spent $50. That has to be a record low.

Gotta love Monday lawn care day here at my condo complex. First, it's the lawn mower. Then the edge trimmer comes through and THEN the leaf blower to blow the grass off the court yard parking areas. I can't hear myself think!!

R70 To minimize my spending there, I only use a basket.

R72, to minimize my spending there, I don't use a basket, only my hands.

That's a really good idea, R73. I did put back a lot of stuff before I checked out. But I'll probably just go back in a couple of weeks and buy it all and more.

r66, I thought I was the only one!!

The big, plush ones just don't dry you off well.

Happy Fall!

I don't get too carried away at Trader Joes because there's so much I WON'T buy there...I don't buy their produce or meat. The only bread I'll buy is the baguette; the rest goes stale in a day. I will sometimes buy a half gallon of milk and some cheeses.

I will buy nuts, breakfast bars, cereal, tuna and other canned goods. Condiments.

The frozen aisle is the danger zone for me.

I rarely log on to my bank’s website but when I did today I found an “urgent” anti-fraud message in my inbox from July. I had paid a friend back about $1,000 using Apple Pay. The letter said they had been unable to reach me and had put a limit on my Apple Pay. I appreciate their diligence, but wtf “unable to reach me?” As far as I can tell, they never tried.

Seems to me that kind of message should not be communicated solely by a message sent to a website mailbox.

I went to a used bookstore today and saw Drew Barrymore's "Little Girl Lost". It was $40, which I thought was insane, but then I checked on Amazon, Ebay, and ThriftBooks and they all charged between $52-$1,000.

I didn't buy it. I also saw Ron Jeremy's "The Hardest (Working) Man In Showbiz."

I didn't buy that, either.

You need a better used bookstore.

So I finally got around to watching the first episode of the Interview With The Vampire series.

I had resisted watching because of all the ridiculous changes they had made.

It seems okay so far. I do like the actor playing Lestat, so that’s a point in continuing to watch.

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I am whelmed- there's a Great Horned Owl in the tree in front of my apartment- in West Hollywood! It's living in the same tree as the hummingbirds that I feed. it's been in the tree for the last 2 weeks- neighbor and I were just watching it stalking a squirrel in the tree. I took a couple of videos and photos of it.

R80 I'm going to take your advice and find a better bookstore.

Ugh. I had trouble falling asleep last night. When I finally did, I had another dream about going back to work at my old office.

Whelmed today. Found out a friend has Stage 4 Prostate Cancer.

Fuck cancer.