Work and DETHKLOK!!

The work week was a weird one. I spent Monday in Arlington at a conference, so hubbs and I met up at an Indian place we like for a date night. After we wandered Costco and got a few things. Tuesday I had to go back but only for about an hour, so we met up for a full-on Costco date (dinner at the food court, then shopping). We got a bit more that time. Then hubbs went to clean out the fiat and I went home. Wednesday and Thursday were normal work days for me. Friday I took off because we had to drive down to San Antonio to meet up with friends to see Amon Amarth and.... DETHKLOK!! Hehe.

Breakfast of a Southbound Texan! Hehe. So good!!

Air bnb had a CANOPY BED!!!

Snacks for ALL! 

Dinner taco truck

I had the quesadilla, hubbs had 5 mini birria tacos. They were SO GOOD!!!

Trying to pay for parking while D and W got the wheelchair situation sorted out.

C won the parking standoff. Lol. Too many people trying to use their data.

Castle Rat was the opener. Very good band, entertaining stage presence, and the plauge doctor didn't take his mask off once. 

Amon Amarth was INCREDIBLE.

... as always, I mean, they always put on an amazing show.

Obligatory grumpy face selfie

He couldn't stay grumpy in the face of my relentless smile.

DETHKLOK!!! They stayed almost unseen as the videos played behind them, maintaining the illusion of the animated band.

Facebones even made a couple appearances!

the coffee jingle!! The episode that made me love them!!

at the end we saw the real people 😁

Saturday we got up and checked out of the air bnb, met up with bestie for brunch, and then headed north again. We stopped in west again for more yummies. Ended up with a bunch of sausage rolls with cheese and kolaches. Then headed home to the kitty cat. We were both SUPER sore still. We walked over 11,000 steps on Friday. EXHAUSTED. Hubbs and I relaxed with the kitty for a while, then he had to get some sleep since he works on Sunday. 

I got up on Sunday and checked my plants cuz, why not, and...

Miney has a friend! We have a random egg.

Eenie and Sheri are also looking good, and pricklepuss obs didn't wake up to detour the momma bird. Lol.

Today I'm gonna head to Mass, then meet up with a friend for ice cream, then relax with the hubby. Hugs all, have a fabulous day!!

Out on the Ranch

A nice week out in the country. Just a hop, skip, and a jump from work. 😁

Little lambs

Queso likes her bottle

Big ol longhorns 

Gotta love when a pic looks like a painting.

Someone had an itch!

Snuggly pupper

Sweet and spicy kitty. She's fuzzy and SHARP!

But sooooo cute!!!

Obligatory peacock pic

Snuggle butts

Cutie pie

I have renamed this one The Mad Pooper.u Tuesday night he stopped sleeping thru the night, instead needing multiple trips outside and he STILL had accidents tue and wed nights. So I've written his owners a story about it all. It's called "The Sad Tale of Wheeler, the Mad Pooper." He is the reason for my sleep deprivation.

Found this poor guy SOAKING wet on thurs evening. Dried him off and tried feeding, no luck. So I locked him in with his momma, hopefully she'll get him to nurse. Sigh... unfortunately it was all for naught. Poor thing passed away that night.

It seems like time is different out here. Maybe it's because my routine has been hijacked. Maybe it's because I don't have a mental list of stuff I have to do with the apt. Maybe it's because I have to get up early every AM for feeding/letting the indoor dogs run around for an hour before i have to lock them in for work. I don't know why (for sure) but a day and a half out here felt more like 3 days. It's weird, but in a good way. It's fun hanging with the puppers, but I do miss my hubby and cat. It's been REALLY nice seeing hubbs in the evenings.

I also a few d'oh moments I'd like to share with you. We have a miniso in burleson. I was surprised how much it was like daiso. It took me WAY longer than it should have to realize it's a mini version of daiso. It's LITERALLY in the name. My "ranch boots" are officially kaput as I had VERY wet feet one dewy morning. I've ordered actual rain boots (finally) and just in time for LOTS of rain (per the forecast). I also need new ballet flats as I tend to run my shoes into the ground. Bringing workout stuff does NOT ensure you will in fact work out and the infinity hoop causes pain in my Achilles tendon of all places. I decided to take the week off to heal. Unfortunately I've been waking up hungry all week, which is weird for me. I keep hearing my trainer and hubbs both saying "you're gaining muscle, you're gonna need more food." My phone made a noise on Wednesday and my immediate response was "Oh HELL no" and back to vibrate only. 

Easter was tougher this year. I don't know if it's because I was solo at the ranch or just missing what used to be my norm (Easter with gma and gpa) but the loneliness hit. Missing all my people and wishing we lived closer together. Need to look into this teleportation technology... if it can get that one dude to waffle house it can get my bestie and family to me!

In other news, I DESPISE having to download new apps because SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE decided to make one obsolete. Samsung messages have been replaced by Google messages. Sigh. (And don't come at me with "get an iphone" I swear y'all are a cult.) Also stop offering for AI to help me write. I don't like this... I don't like this at all. I may be a crotchety old woman when it comes to tech, but I don't trust it, I don't like the data centers, I think nothing really good can come of it, and I think "removing human error" translates to "removing humans" which is terrifying. I just don't like when technology tries to be better than humans. 

Friday my friend A came out for margs and mayhem. I finally broke my Easter fast with a margarita. 😁 Then my hubby was able to come and visit me on Saturday. We went to baked for breakfast and then wandered the square for a bit before taking hubbs back to the ranch and then going to HH for lunch. 

Breakfast: blueberry Danish, bear claw, and a goat cheese/mushroom Danish. 

Lunch: lawsuit dip

Loaded potato skins

Brisket tacos

Dessert. Chocolate chip cookie and ice cream. Then hubbs went home to finish getting ready for the week and I went back out to the ranch.

Last cuddles with the Harley this time. He was pouting earlier when I was cuddling wheeler. Lol

Sunday I needed to be home to give the person-eating couch away. So first was mass at gbury, then back to the ranch to play with the pups, then home to give away the couch. It's gonna be another weird week work-wise, but it's also gonna be nice to be home. I miss my hubby and our cat.

Back to Normal

After all the car drama, it's back to the usual. For a week, any way. We had work and home time, which was very nice. I'm enjoying having hubby home in the evenings. He doesn't enjoy the commute, but otherwise he has also been enjoying being home.

Saturday I went out to the ranch. Got a right telling off by the new indoor pup, wheeler. 

He was NOT thrilled his people were gone. Eventually he calmed down. 

He has the BEST angry face, tho. 

Harley sits with me on the couch, wheeler mean mugged me until he decided to go lay on the ottoman.

Still unhappy, but resigned to his fate.

Sweet kitty gets wet foods.

So many sheep's!

Cuties.

Queso was hungry

The new lambs. Only a week old!

Sunday was mass at St Francis Cabrini, then Mexican food for margaritas! That's right, I got to have margs for the first time since... really national marg day. Lol. Cuz I made that exception before I gave up hard booze. Learned my lesson... give up a specific kind of booze, not all booze. Letting myself have beer and wine was good for my (and others) mental health. 

I went to Mass in Granbury today, and got to see some of my CRHP sisters, which was quite nice. Then I went to Kroger to get dinner (pizza and ceaser salad) and went back the ranch to cook! Talked to dad for a bit, and now I'm gonna enjoy. 

Main course

Supplemental salad and leftover carrot cake. 

Happy Easter, everyone!! Hugs and love from the whole ranch!

And off the cliff

I didn't fry the transmission control module. I fried the transmission. Apparently they are incredibly sensitive to power surges and the one I used to jump the car was just TOO POWERFUL for it. All my zen about the car is gone. The transmission had to be replaced. It's a 7 hr job. I am SO... just all the things. I'm angry with Ford, with the engineer who designed the damn thing, myself for thinking jumping it wouldn't be a big deal, the shop because they told me the bad news. I JUST paid it off. It was supposed to last until I could build up a down-payment for when it broke. You know, in another 50,000 miles or so, not to have to replace the transmission because i had to jump start it!!! Instead it just... broke. I. Am. Gutted. After some time to reflect, the transmission has always been a bit wonky and was probably going to die. I just wish we could have scheduled it properly!

I am also blessed with an extremely kind, understanding husband who ran me out to the hospital on Monday so I could get my passwords and prep my boss to run my patient safety meeting. My boss ok-ed my continued WFH status, hubbs got to finally see my office and laugh at the pix I chose to put up (and how many are of the cat). We even stopped for dinner in Joshua on the way home. So even though my car is kaput, it's going to cost double what I was initially quoted, and things are gonna be kinda lean for a bit... we are ultimately ok. 

I have tiny tomatoes!

Also, tomato plants are THIRSTY.

HOW COULD I NOT POST PIX OF THE CUTEST VOID CAT?!?!??

The rest of the week was business as usual (as much as WFH can be). I am VERY glad my hubby wasn't home to hear my outbursts of frustration. All I can say is that some people are VERY lucky I don't actually know how to curse their bloodline to the 15th generation. 

I got a notification that my fitness tracker was down to 10% battery. That means the battery, when fully charged, lasts about a month and a half. Not too bad. I set it up ok 2/8 and it notified me on 3/24. 😁

I also am planning my next tattoo. It's gonna go on my left forearm. First tattoo I'll see all the time!! Hehe.

Turned out the car was ready on Wednesday. So hubbs took me to get it and I gave him back the jumper box. I'm never doing THAT again. The mechanic said that the transmission was probably going out anyway and the jump was just the catalyst. Sigh. Hubby keeps telling me it wasn't my fault, things just happen. I do know that, but it still sucks. I'm so grateful that he is an understanding man. 

Thurs and Fri I was able to be a real person again work again! I had to put on CLOTHES and DO things. I was glad to be home on wed, since the cat decided to throw up on the bedspread and I could put that STRAIGHT in the washing machine. Still, humans are creatures of habit and since IT has made it so my VPN kicks me out every hour, I was happy to be back at work.

Saturday hubbs and I hit the farmers market, then went to visit his mom, then meandered home.

New dumpster fire earrings 

A little treat on the way

The beers at lunch were brewed back home! Also featured WY bison (burger and... meatloaf?!?!)

When I have a problem, and my husband enables me. 😁

Sunday hubbs has to work, so I'll do mass, lunch with A, cleaning and such. Hopefully we can go grocery shopping after he is done with work. Its back to normal for a week.