NASTY!!

So, here it is, half-ass warm and I'm ready for the first grill out of the season. Someone (not I) left the grill out all winter with charcoal in it. When I opened the lid.........yuck!moldy wet charcoal. So a half hour and half a gallon of bleach later, I am finally grilling some ribs. One day I may break down and buy a gas grill, but to me charcoal is better even if it takes longer.

Not much going on a work today, or on the home front, so ........

friday night

yawn....went to watch a bluegrass band last night at the pub, they were okay, but not what I'd call bluegrass. More like they took more rock songs and played them with a banjo and mandolin.
I had some beers, which for some strange reason (like greed) Norman charged a quarter more for. Now sitting at the bar for 3 hours doing the math, I figured old Norm was raking it in. I counted around 75 people in there - at 3 bucks a cover (225) and for every drink he was adding a quarter. I'm sure he sold over 400 drinks last night (1000 on top of his usual profit margin) He had 3 bartenders instead of the usual one (-80 bucks), who were making killer tips. Probably paid the band about 400, (-400) so on top of his usual Friday night haul, he probably raked in about 750 bucks. It's a wonder he doesn't get band s in there more often.
At least this time I drank smart and alternated beer with water. I was getting tired of waking up with headaches everytime I have more than 2 drinks. Plus my old body can't hang with the after effects of alcohol as good as it used to.
Well, guess it's time to start the day. What to do? Clean, cook, compute?

on getting older and perimenopause

Okay- now I know I'm getting older. My womanly cycles could be timed almost to the hour even when I wasn't on the pill, to every 28 days. These past 3 times I've gotten the unhappy surprise of every 3 weeks. My mother has long passed on, and she had a hysterectomy at 38 anyway, so I couldn't ask her about her history of such matters. And since my sis took fertility shots for 2 years in her early forties, it's screwed up her cycles, so the only thing I surmise is it's perimenopause.On the plus side, I only have to put up with this crap another 8 years or so.

My sis-in-law cracks me up...because of a tumor on her (whatever) gland that is in our foreheads, she didn't even start having a period til she was 37. I remember her first one after the operation she asked me, "how long do these things last?" Just last month she said she can't wait for menopause. I told her to quit complaining, you missed out on 25 years of it.....lol

Have a great day :)

Yuck, morning already and I have to go back to work for the third time in 24 hours. For some reason, (I live the closest) when the alarm at work goes off, I get the privilege of hauling my ass out of a nice warm bed, driving bleary-eyed up the hill and meeting the police. Then I reset the alarm and come back home. By this time, I'm wide awake and can't get back to sleep, but I still have to work this morning. Oh and did I mention it's going to be sunny and warm? That's great for all the folks who don't have to spend the day watering with pruney feet. Oh well, off I go.

tossin and turnin

yack, what a crappy night's non-sleep. I fell asleep at my normal time but for some reason (a certain someone I married burning a pizza perhaps?) I woke up with a lovely dry cough. Which kept on going throughout the night along with some wonderful bouts of sweating. So I got ummm maybe 1 hour's sleep in 5 minute intervals. I don't need this chit during what is going to be a busy show change, plants for outside and the conservatory arriving, plus trying to get figures together for last year's cost analysis oh and don't forget to call and try to find a bgillion water plants to arrive in April.oh yeah and call the new exterminating company to arrange a schedule for roach control (hey! that's my boss's job dammit!) oh weel, strong coffee let's go! It's another glorious day!

the mind is willing...

well, more so than the body anyway. I hate waking up sore when I have to work by myself, which is happening alot more these days (the sore part) since I'm getting older. Think I'll spend as much time as possible doing paperwork, but I'll still have to drag hoses around since it's not supposed to get cloudy until later this afternoon. Time for a quick cup and I'm outta here.