Monday this 'n that

I finished January-July!

The inside color of each square is the high temperature for that day and the outside of each square is the low temperature. (The navy squares are in between each month.)



I have August mapped out now on my spreadsheet and may go ahead and do it while I wait for a couple of new blanket instructions to come down the pipeline.

After days of debate on various recliner-ish chairs, I finally decided to get a relatively cheap one on Amazon. In addition to the couch, I have a brown faux leather and the one that my ass is currently in - chairs from Ikea. I'm over them both. So if the new recliner is fine but not whatever enough for every day use, I'll probably keep it and get another more robust one like the one that fflo has.

This is the recliner I bought yesterday. It's being shipped by FedEx which is kind of a PIA. UPS will bring it to my door. FedEx will drop it downstairs and leave me to figure out how to get it up here. (There are hand trucks downstairs that I can borrow, I'm not worried. Just wish it was UPS.) The tentative arrival date is Thursday which would be great. It's only coming from California so that might even be right. (FedEx tracking says 'estimate' "The delivery date may be updated when FedEx receives the package.")

Last July, I left a Yelp Review for that cat behaviorist I paid way too much money for. She left a reply last week. Prompt.

And speaking of Biggie, he's quit sleeping with me. He's gone back to sleeping under the bed. Weird. And, last night, he was on the counter while I was cleaning up and I opened a package of wet cat food and he ate the whole thing! He hates wet cat food. He's actually been eating a lot in the past week or so. Cooler weather? Storing up for winter?

I have two more cookie recipes and a biscuit recipe I want to try but I have cookies in the fridge to bake and cookies in the freezer to eat and biscuits in the freezer. So making more seems kind of silly. But, there is still room in the freezer...

I might pop into Amazon Fresh. I have a return and I could pick up lunch/dinner. And an orange that I need for one of the cookie recipes...

We play Boston tonight. They haven't been great lately and neither have we and the playoff possibilities loom for both of us so it will be an interesting three games.

spendy spendy spendy

All of a sudden I'm spending money like it's running out of the kitchen tap. Hot Cold and Cash.

A few winters ago, I got some Skeechers ankle boots that were outstanding. I wore them every day for 3 winters straight until the died. I cursed myself a million times for not buying a backup pair. A week or so ago, I found a very similar pair (SKECHERS
Easy Going - Buried Treasure) on Zappos. The first try arrived and were too small so I reordered. The second try came today and they are very nearly perfect. Perfect enough that I just went right back to Zappos and ordered another pair just like 'em. I also ordered a pair of Propet Madi Ankle Strap. But their shoes have such a weird fit. I had to send them back an reorder a larger size but I have my doubts even the larger size will work. Thankfully, Zappos makes it easy.

I went to Amazon Fresh to return an item and spent $20. Yep. They have my number. Then I went on to Safeway and spent $4. The Safeway trip was to test out my GPay which failed the other day. I wanted to make sure it wasn't broken (and Amazon Fresh does not do GPay or Apple Pay). It wasn't broken.

Plus, I can't quit ordering shit on Amazon.

In another month I'm going to be shelling out a truck load o' cash on a new phone. I need to save some to fill the truck!

I got an email today that the Emergency Vets is no longer going to be doing surgeries. This is where Biggie went for two of his three surgeries. I don't love them but I was sure grateful they were there. My own vets were not high on the alternatives. He seems to have grown out of his eating stuff he shouldn't (I hope hope hope) so hopefully we'll never need the surgery that they no longer do. Vets are having quite the time. Last month my own vets sent out a letter saying they were short staffed, couldn't find staff and so would be curtailing their hours substantially and begging for understanding. Here's hoping Biggie stays mega healthy!