Ladies and gentlemen, we have an historical and a important announcement to make. Our agonizing and drawn-out election is concluded at last, and the winner is… Hamster, shown here “humbly accepting mandate of the people,” says sender-inner Tracy R.
Weekend Open Thread
Thank goodness it’s over at last. Hamster, a president I can really get behind. Good hair, too.
What an intellectual upgrade this cute new president is!
Hamster would have been the perfect National Unity candidate.
I definitely would have voted for Hamster. I just hope we don’t have to batter the doors down and drag the orange one out. Now all my anxiety about the election has latched on to the new virus numbers so I’m on another news black out for my mental health. Thank goodness for this place to help me keep going, a little bright light in a very crazy world. We had a division Zoom meeting at work yesterday, and we were told we probably won’t be back in the office until Spring. Can’t believe we’re coming up on a year working remotely, and we all thought it’d be only a couple months.
Today is my day to take pictures of all the goodies from my FL storage unit and see if any of my nieces and nephews want nothing. If not, time to start selling on EBay or an auction house. Plus a few errands to get the last of the stuff for Thanksgiving, still deciding who might becoming over. The friends we were planning to join us have been sick with a cold all week and I’m a little nervous about having them over. So far it looks like it will be warm that day so food will be set up buffet style and we can eat outside.
I feel ya–the news is just depressing as all get out. Fortunately, President-elect Biden is poised to hit the ground running, no matter what the orange one does or doesn’t do.
I’m back to WAH too; no more working onsite 2 days a week. I’ll be stunned if that arrangement changes before the end of the year. This is great in many ways. But it also means that yesterday was probably my last day working with my bestest office buddy, who leaves on Dec. 19. We had an emotional goodbye yesterday, with no hugs. I’m still verklempt. It’s a wonderful thing to have an honorary little brother at work, who’ll engage in dinosaur noises with you when the stress gets high. I’ll miss him terribly.
Hail to the chief!
Happy Caturday, everybody! I applaud our new president-elect, who’s gloriously beautiful and clearly the cat for the job.
Any word from Squiddy on sweet Bertie? I’ve been wondering about him all week.
Hope everybody has pleasant plans for a quarantine Thanksgiving. I’m not making truffles this year, so I’m donating money to local food banks. This means I’ll have 4 days to knit, dye, spin, and maybe even weave! Can’t wait!
Bertie had a bit of a setback, and is on extra medication, pushing back his “recovered date” by a week. On the other hand, the full force of his crazy and charming personality is finally coming back. He is playful and deeply affectionate, both to me and his sister, Cheshire. They are both snuggled on my lap as I type.
Bertie is now officially my most expensive cat ever (by a lot!), but I can’t imagine not doing everything I can to save my precious fuzzy little boy.
Oh sweetie! Kisses and cuddles to Bertie and to your wallet. Hope you’re both hanging in there.
Been there Squiddy – the expense can be painful. But not as painful as losing them. Just thinking of him now on your lap I know you feel the same…it was worth it!
Welcome to the weekend. Not sure how many are happy about that; we sound rather down today.
Duckieville is a mess, as we are attempting to move furniture around (and some out). Our deep freeze died, so we had to get a new one, and I chose an upright this time. Moved that in, filled it, moved the old one out, and sent a few other unwieldy space occupiers with it. Now I have to clean.
Duckie is permitting her heated perch to be in the cage. Little does she know that, every time I change her food and water, I move her wood perch down one bar. Today will be the last move, and I’m hoping she will step on it without realizing.
Busy week ahead, but good busy. Have a good one, all.
Little Duckie seems to be a cat with her resistance to change! You’re sure she doesn’t have murder mittens?
I am aggravated because I ordered a new phone last Sunday, and they screwed up my address (left off the unit number, which is not missing from the shipping information they sent me, so it was definitely not my doing) so UPS sent it back to them…on Tuesday and the estimated delivery date now isn’t until Monday (was originally yesterday). (It originally shipped from Pennsylvania and is being returned to Texas….?) So they told me when they get it back I’ll get a notification and they’ll have to redo the order. At which point I’m going to tell them they need to ship it to my parents’ house (which I was trying to do in the first place but the “edit shipping address” button wouldn’t work) because I can’t guarantee I’ll be home to sign for it. (If it had been delivered on Wednesday like it was supposed to be I would have been home.)
Sly Duckie! Hee hee.
Oh baby.
Those muzzle-puffs! That is all.
smooch smooch smooch I want to cuddle him!
Look at the EYES!
Saturday night is fish and chips night at the Shortcakery. Instead of waiting outside the shop in the cold for my order I decided to go for a short walk round the narrow streets nearby, and noticed an adorable fluffy black kitten with big yellow eyes sitting on a window sill silhouetted against the light. Naturally I couldn’t resist crossing the road to attract its attention by making silly noises – and then I realised it was just a plastic decal stuck on the window! Fortunately there was no-one in the room at the time…
🤣🤣🤣 Alice!!
That’s fantastic. I probably would have done the same thing.
Uh-hmmm, teacher here…
“ a historical and an important”
If it was intentional, my pardons.
That is all😋
That was on purpose. Once and a while I see “an historic” used as a flourish, so I decided to go that one better (or worse).
👍🏼😉
I swear, as soon as COVID is conquered, I’m going across the border to the closest US library, taking out all the Doctor Who River Song audio books and having a marathon listen. My local library doesn’t have them, and I’m desperate to hear them.