TGIF. How about you? Glad it's Friday? I'm super glad we went and got our groceries yesterday afternoon. Now I have my weekend free. Plus it's supposed to snow some over the next few days. But, for some reason, taking off a bit early from work yesterday made it seem like it should've been Friday, haha. Now I still have today to work :/
It was about 10 degrees colder in the city and only 10 degrees out. I had on a hat and gloves while loading the cold food into our coolers (dh gets all the dry stuff put in the truck and organized) and I should have thought to wear some long underwear. Even though I was only out about 5 min it was cold! The 2 guys who brought out our order were super nice. But, it's just way easier to just have them hand over the bags, rather then let them try to load it. We have a system. We have 2 coolers at the tailgate of the pickup (with a canopy) and I have them set the bins of cold next to me and I load. Our pickup has a large backseat area where dh has the seat folded down and some collapsible bins he has set up to put the bags in and also get big items placed like cases of water and soda and ensure none of the bread gets smashed. LOL.
First stop was at our HVAC's little office/warehouse to pick up furnace filters. There's 5 in a case and I think dh replaces them every quarter, so we shouldn't need more for 15 months. They are not cheap filters and dh could probably change them a little less often, but whatever. He's got his quarterly and semi annual system of house maintenance and that's how he wants it.
After our grocery pick up dh wanted to stop at Harbor Freight to see if they had the dust collector shp vac thing he wants. According to online you had to order it in store and then pick up when it comes. Well, they had some of those little tickets (for big items that are in back) that you take up to the register, so we thought oh, they must have some in stock (there were like 3 tickets left). Apparently we got the new guy, who didn't know anything, he rang it up and called in back for someone to bring one out. Well turns out the ones they had in back were all pre-ordered for pickup. So, another employee had to figure out what the deal was and ended up having to void the sale and re-ring it up as a "pre-sale", they will order it and call us when it's ready for pick up - like in a month. At least we did have a $50 gift card, that dh got for Christmas, to put towards the purchase.
It was dinner time after that so we stopped at Wendy's drive thru. That was a disappointment - it's usually really good and their buns are always so fresh. But, not this time, for some reason. We got home around 5:20, so not bad - a 2 1/4 hour trip with 4 stops ;)
OMG - Amos is being extremely annoying this morning. Keeps meowing. I keep trying to distract him by playing with him, giving him a new catnip mouse, letting him outside (but of course he doesn't want to stay out, it's too cold). He's been fed. He's had treats. Usually by now he's ready for a morning nap.
It's payday, so at least today also has that going for it. I got a couple bills paid, that aren't on auto pay, so that's all done, first thing this morning. And it's now snowing. Finally, I think Amos went to take a nap. Nope...I see him sitting right outside my office door - like he's waiting for me to try to come out and attack me! LOL.
Yesterday I had to try out a AI headshot generator program, for work. They are looking to add professional looking photos of employees to our company website, so my boss wanted me to try it (after one of the other owner/managers tried it, and hers looked really good). It was kind of scary LOL. I had to upload 10 pics (ugh) and then wait about 90 minutes for the 40 headshots to generate. They looked ok (I mean, who much likes pictures of themselves) but the weird ones were the ones that made my hair shorter. And the funny part is the one that turned out to be my favorite has me in a turtleneck and in real life you'd never find me in one - I can't stand anything touching the front of my neck LOL. It will also be kind of odd having everyone looking all "business like" haha - as we are a very casual company, dress code wise. It's mostly a jeans and tshirts kind of place.
Yep, It’s v-necks for me too. I used to wear turtlenecks when I lived Nee England, and even had my passport photo taken in one. (I called it my “Jerry Brown” shirt, to give you an idea of how much younger I was!) But after I moved to the southwest, I couldn’t even bear crew necks! And now, even necklaces bother me!
ReplyDeleteWe got about 1/8 inch snow…just enough to cause trash pickup to delayed for the second week in a row, I am sure. They canceled last week too, but didn’t bother to put an update on their website. I had to call. , and got a woman in the south. She told me we were cancelled, and then said she didn’t know why my region wasn’t updated. When I checked the website this morning , it still shows the cancellation for last Thursday (our pickup is on Friday) They never updated last Friday’s cancellation, and nothing for today. Gah, they are very vexing, as you probably remember! In any case, I am not even going to bother dragging my can back up the 2 acres width drive if they don’t come today. It’s not as if I can fit another bag on top. We will just have to double bag and pile the bags on our garden wagon outside the garage door if they don’t show this week. Yeah, that’ll be a pretty sight.
-Meg B.
weird that they don't just come the next day to pick up, like with a holiday schedule. Here....they just put on chains if needed LOL.
DeleteThe AI program is new to me. I cannot imagine me in a turtleneck. I am too warm-natured for a turtleneck. Kids hated them, too. Daddy would only wear V-neck t-shirts because he felt like he was being choked putting on a regular t-shirt.
ReplyDeleteI thought you were complaining about a burger not being fresh after hours. So, I reread.
When I am in electric cart and employee loads it in the back of SUV, I am frustrated with the way they load it all. We cannot get it out if they shove is all the farthest regions of the back. We, too, have our systems.
Funny about Amos waiting to attack.
That would be really interesting to see AI pictures of yourself!!! When I see some of the pictures that other bloggers have generated I'm amazed!
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