Weekend randoms

[1confused1]

Sat through my son’s football game last night during Northern California’s bomb cyclone/atmospheric river, despite a waterproof jacket, blanket and umbrella, I was very wet. They ended up losing, which ends his high school football career, I have mixed emotions but I’m ready to have my Friday nights back.

Going to have a very lazy weekend. Currently watching college football and the dog is asleep on my lap.

[rubytue]

Also, I was behind this car at a stop light and minivan, you made my day with positivity!

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[meowmaps]

After putting up the tree and working on some Christmas Lego sets we went out to run some errands.

I’ve been meaning to get the kids passports, not because we have any exotic international traveling plans but it’s good to have when/if you need it. DD2’s pic is an instant classic with her putting on a long, mopey face. She’s like Chandler in that episode of Friends where as soon as the camera clicks he forgets how to be natural. I’m so excited she’ll have it to look back and laugh at when she’s older!

[eb777888]

Nov 23, 2024 15:21:30 GMT -5 rubytue said:

I feel like tacokick , or someone, and I have discussed and lamented how hard rye flour has been to find since 2020. I finally gave up and found a great deal on 25 pounds of rye. I figure I’ll store it in the freezer and it’ll last me awhile. I won’t use it all for sure, but the price was like two 5 pound bags locally (oh, sorry, I can’t find 5 pound bags, only 2 lbs).

It should up yesterday! I was so excited. As I’m carrying it, I think to myself “this feels like it’s moving around more like rice than flour.” I set the bag down and read the label, “rye berries.” I look at my order, and yep, I ordered 25 pounds of rye berries, not rye flour.

Oh the plus note, maybe if we get furloughed in December I’ll work on a SM account that is middle age, atheliest, over achiever forced into trad wife making her way through 25 pounds of rye berries. 🤣🤣🤣

I think you can make rye flour out of rye berries.

[rubytue]

Nov 23, 2024 15:43:03 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

Nov 23, 2024 15:21:30 GMT -5 rubytue said:

I feel like tacokick , or someone, and I have discussed and lamented how hard rye flour has been to find since 2020. I finally gave up and found a great deal on 25 pounds of rye. I figure I’ll store it in the freezer and it’ll last me awhile. I won’t use it all for sure, but the price was like two 5 pound bags locally (oh, sorry, I can’t find 5 pound bags, only 2 lbs).

It should up yesterday! I was so excited. As I’m carrying it, I think to myself “this feels like it’s moving around more like rice than flour.” I set the bag down and read the label, “rye berries.” I look at my order, and yep, I ordered 25 pounds of rye berries, not rye flour.

Oh the plus note, maybe if we get furloughed in December I’ll work on a SM account that is middle age, atheliest, over achiever forced into trad wife making her way through 25 pounds of rye berries. 🤣🤣🤣

I think you can make rye flower out of rye berries.

Well, yeah. I just need to grind it. But.. but… that’s a lot of grinding. 

[SwimDeep]

I got scam called today. Sharing as a PSA as these types of calls increase around the holidays, but also putting it behind a spoiler because holy crap I was so triggered.

TLDR: Do not negotiate with terrorists. Hang up the phone and contact your loved one directly. I'm shocked at the level of emotion I felt.

SPOILER: Click to show

I was about to head out for the grocery run this morning when my phone rang. Looked like it was my sister (one I haven't spoken with over the phone in a while but she's in my contacts). I figure it's something about Thanksgiving and I might as well go ahead and get it over with, so I answered.

Static on the line, and I heard crying in the background. Then some jackass says my sister needs my help and if I don't do exactly what he says he'll kill her. I don't play. So I told him to fuck himself and hung up. And then processed approximately 10,000 levels of emotion for half an hour before I managed to actually leave to run my errands.

I immediately knew it was a scam, but it still affected me and made me doubt myself and my response. I texted my sister while I was out and found out my ENTIRE FAMILY was getting these calls 😳😡🤬

So... yeah. I know this is a fairly common scam. Guess it was my family's turn 😑
Just grateful everyone's okay and we're still connected enough to call bullshit on assholes like this 😮‍💨

[eb777888]

My poor H has had such a rough week. He was OOT for work this past week and got a really nasty case of food poisoning that had him puking for 24 hours. He was miserable. He just got home yesterday and today he woke up with a bad cold. WTF? Poor guy. As for me, I'll be finishing my Christmas decorating, wrapping presents and picking up the last of my Thanksgiving groceries. It'll be soooo nice to have the entire week to sleep in and no plans!!

[SwimDeep]

Nov 23, 2024 15:43:56 GMT -5 rubytue said:

Nov 23, 2024 15:43:03 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

I think you can make rye flower out of rye berries.

Well, yeah. I just need to grind it. But.. but… that’s a lot of grinding. 

Do you have a Kitchenaid?

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[eb777888]

SwimDeep, That is so scary. I'm sorry someone did that. And thank you for the reminder that this is a thing. These fucking assholes.

[maudefindlay]

eb777888 liked only for the sleeping in and assuming your DH improves.

[SwimDeep]

Nov 23, 2024 15:58:48 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

SwimDeep, That is so scary. I'm sorry someone did that. And thank you for the reminder that this is a thing. These fucking assholes.

If I believed in hell, these assholes would be in one of the lowest, shittiest pits. Partly because I hate that they made me feel this way, but mostly because I know this scam works 😓

[momin2013]

Nov 23, 2024 15:21:30 GMT -5 rubytue said:

I ordered 25 pounds of rye berries, not rye flour.

All you need now is a still…

[rubytue]

Nov 23, 2024 16:09:37 GMT -5 momin2013 said:

Nov 23, 2024 15:21:30 GMT -5 rubytue said:

I ordered 25 pounds of rye berries, not rye flour.

All you need now is a still…

Oooo. We do love whisky on this house. But, we prefer barley. Maybe next time!

[tacokick]

Nov 23, 2024 15:21:30 GMT -5 rubytue said:

I feel like tacokick, or someone, and I have discussed and lamented how hard rye flour has been to find since 2020. I finally gave up and found a great deal on 25 pounds of rye. I figure I’ll store it in the freezer and it’ll last me awhile. I won’t use it all for sure, but the price was like two 5 pound bags locally (oh, sorry, I can’t find 5 pound bags, only 2 lbs).

It should up yesterday! I was so excited. As I’m carrying it, I think to myself “this feels like it’s moving around more like rice than flour.” I set the bag down and read the label, “rye berries.” I look at my order, and yep, I ordered 25 pounds of rye berries, not rye flour.

Oh the plus note, maybe if we get furloughed in December I’ll work on a SM account that is middle age, atheliest, over achiever forced into trad wife making her way through 25 pounds of rye berries. 🤣🤣🤣

Ha!! Time to buy a mill! I have been tempted.

[TR]

I can’t believe it’s only 3:46pm. I’ve been going non-stop today getting ready for our vacation (leaving for the Bahamas tomorrow! 6am flight 😬) so it feels a lot later. I’ll probably be getting in bed at 7pm since we have to get up so early anyway.

We’ll have tomorrow afternoon through Monday evening with just MIL & FIL, which will be nice, then the rest of the family gets there and we’re staying until Friday. I’m really looking forward to just doing NOTHING for most of the time. We’ve chartered a boat for Thursday, but no plans other than that and I think the area we’re staying in is pretty sparse so not a lot to do anyway.

[tacokick]

The problem with having these niche interests is having to deal with these small companies for the supplies that don’t know how to communicate or update their websites/stock lists. The word salad + telling you it will take weeks to ship AFTER you paid and placed the order is exhausting. None of it is generally something I need in a hurry but then it becomes something I need to think about vs it just arriving and moving on.

[sadie]

I feel like a broken record. Younger kid is getting over pneumonia. Older kid came home friend's house early with chills, fever, and a stomach ache. Endless cycle of sickness.

I took off the whole week this week. Looks like I'll probably have at least one kid home with me.