This introvert is probably playing with pets or kids if either is around. 😂 While also wondering when I can leave, of course!

I got an email from the lawyer (well, his paralegal). They've submitted the notice to creditors to the local paper and it'll start running next week. So...we're off and running. It'll be such a relief to finally get this all taken care of. I should have started this long ago, but the crippling

Holy crap. That mid-season finale of #Rivals was crazy. I'm going to die trying to wait until the rest of the show airs later this year!

Well, crap. They got me good. I'm bawling at #1...

So I'm doing a few errands around the house and I hear a mower going. I think it's my guy finally coming. Nope, it's the landlady's son cleaning up the empty lot. When he finished, he came by my house and asked again if I wanted it mowed. I said yes please, because my guy has just flaked out, and

My half sister sent me a fundraiser page our niece set up to help pay off their mortgage, and I don't know how to react. Is she expecting me to contribute? She knows we're estranged but she doesn't know why, at least not from my end. I've been trying to keep from influencing the half siblings about

Late evening emails from work are never good. The good news I can theoretically sleep in tomorrow. The bad news is that my 30 hour (which was nice since my usual week is about 20 bc I'm technically part-time) has been carved down to about 13.

Yay! 🙌🏻 PBS will continue to air in Arkansas after all!

When it absolutely, positively has to be there quickly, but it doesn't necessarily need to be in one piece - choose Ramsey!

Yikes. I'm sweating at the thought of it.

I just noticed something very strange. I took my trash can to the road and noticed a tiny part of my yard has been mowed. About 2 passes deep from the road in, the entire length of the front yard. It wasn't like that yesterday when I did the weed eating. V. curious. Who did it, when, and why? 🤔

I'm home. Didn't die. 😂 He was very nice. He wasn't even supposed to be here. Someone had booked a 200 mile trip and ended it part of the way there. He hadn't left yet when he got the alert and took my trip. So I gave him a big tip to show my appreciation. And now I have officially been named

Sixth Uber request is the charm! Hopefully I don't end up murdered. 😂 Just kidding. I honestly don't even care. As long as he kills me quickly, I'm good. 😛

I called a cab. They were too busy. She said around the first of the month you pretty much have to pre-book a couple days in advance. The other company I found has really bad ratings, and I'm kind of worried about getting a ride into the city and getting stuck if they're super awful, ya know? It's

Today's shift got cancelled again 🙄, so I slept in a bit. I'd gotten the fans set up perfectly last night and slept so wonderfully! I've had a leisurely 2 cups of coffee this morning and am currently watching a little tv. In a bit I'm going to go freshen up and get dressed, then call for a cab so

I forgot that Richard Harrington appeared in the last season of Larkrise to Candleford. It's funny now to see him and Ruby Bentall together before they were Verity and Captain Blamey. (I feel a Poldark rewatch coming on. At least a partial rewatch...before Ross does the awful, unforgivable thing.)

Done with yard work for now. I also did the mailboxes (even the chicken neighbors' box - not that they ever do mine or do *anything* nice for me). And I had some battery left so I was able to take down most of the front yard. So basically I've got a mullet yard now. 😂

I'm a bit over halfway done weed eating around the house. I cut a path about feet wide around 2.5 sides of the house so far. The battery died, so I'm using coming in to get the back up as a good excuse to cool down and hydrate. I'm not going to really worry about properly trimming around trees and

Hey. I get it. I used to absolutely not fall asleep just like that in college during particularly boring lectures early in the morning. I was definitely not sleeping. Totally awake. I know every word the professor said... 🙄

Just ran up on an ugly old knot in the middle of my skein of yarn.

Work was easy but a bit annoying. About 90% of my calls were mislabeled. So I would read the prompts thinking someone was placing an order, but they wanted to pay a bill, etc. Not hard to change, but I feel silly when I go through the whole spiel only to be told they were calling for something else.

Well, I've risen for my 1 hour morning shift, but I'm sure not shining. I wish they'd just canceled the whole dang thing. *Yawn*

The chicken neighbors' teenage daughter is mowing their yard, and she's holding one of their small dogs in her lap as she does it. And their bigger dog is jumping and chasing her as she goes, and neither parent is correcting her or even corralling the dog. Bad parenting and bad pet ownership.😡🫣🤦🏻‍♀️

I got an email saying my shift tomorrow has been reduced due to slow volume (funny since my phone was hopping today). So instead of working 8:30 to 4:30, I'm working 8:30 to 9:30. One hour? And that early in the day, so I can't even sleep in. Ffs. 😒

Dogs enjoying ice cream is the purest of beautiful things in the world. 🥰 When I was a teen, about once a month my dad and I would load our dog up into his truck and drive into town to the dairy bar for cones. He always had this expression on his face as he enjoyed his. Pure bliss. 🥹

Wow, what a shot! 😍

Another great shot of last night's storms as they crossed the Arkansas River at Dardanelle. Thanks to Grace Earnest for sharing this beautiful picture. #ARwx

I got a text from my half brother that started "sweet baby Jesus..." And I don't think I've ever felt closer to him. 😂 That's basically my catch phrase m

I heard a mower going and got excited, thinking that jerk yard dude had finally showed. Nope. It's the chicken neighbors. So now my yard is going to look even worse now that theirs is getting mowed. Dang.

I followed up dinner with another ice cream sandwich. Because I'm an adult and I can do what I want. 😂 Also, my throat is super sore after an 8 hour shift and the ice cream felt really good. I wish I.had some plain ice cream. A soothing, slightly runny milkshake sounds really good right now.

Did I just eat an ice cream sandwich while standing in front of the microwave, waiting for my dinner to heat up? I did. All I've eaten since I got up at 6 was 2 granola bars this morning. I'm starving and my leftovers and taking a while to heat. So I had an appetizer. 😁

Morning is trucking right along and I've made it to my first break. Gonna need to grab a glass of tea to fuel me for the next 3 hours. Yay caffeine!

I woke up almost an hour early this morning. 😩 Today is the first day back after 11 days off. And it really sucks it's a full 8 hour day (which I almost never get during non-peak season). It's gonna be rough. J never came by for the rent check like he said he would 😒, so after work I'll call the

Yeahhh, I gotta find a new mower. I called V to ask if my neighbor, J, had returned from his trip yet, because I wanted to ask if he'd run my rent up to the landlady with his. The way our houses are situated, I can't tell if his car has been there or not, and I didn't want to walk over in this heat

When you watch enough British tv, you not only play Six Degrees of Separation with the actors, but also the filming locations... I'm rewatching Larkrise to Candleford on Peacock, and I just realized the manor Laura is delivering mail to is Trenwith from Poldark/The Priory from Rivals.

It's not technically summer yet, but f*ck summer. Guess it's time to start closing up the front of the house again, to help keep the most used rooms cool.

In Issue 132, Kirsten Chervenak follows the foot and hoof prints left by the Pack Horse Librarians, local women from eastern Kentucky who delivered books on horseback to help New Deal goals of literary expansion in the 1930s. Read here: https://shorturl.at/NosnS

This week's episode of Rivals was certainly a treat for Aidan Turner fans. He emerged naked from an Irish lough. He rode a horse with his shirt open. (Makes me want to do a Poldark rewatch). He wore some slutty 80s short-shorts. 😍

Well, today was the last day of unexpected vacation. This week has felt both too long and too quick. I didn't do anything fun. I didn't really get much accomplished. I cleaned the house, but just a regular clean. And I never heard from V, so not starting my deep clean was for nothing. At least I

I can't be 100% sure, but most likely it was either Doom for Nintendo 64 or VHS tapes of some of the Peter Sellers Pink Panther movies off of eBay. I remember ordering both of those as gifts for my dad back in college, but I'm not sure which was first.

Today the remains of a young sailor killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor were finally brought home to the Arkansas River Valley. Saturday he'll be laid to rest by his family. Thank you for your sacrifice, sir. Welcome home. May you rest in peace now. www.kark.com/news/state-n...

Is there anything better than being freshly bathed and laying on freshly changed sheets? It just feels so nice. I bet I'll sleep hard tonight.

Is it totally weird that I still have an (unused) stick of my dad's deodorant? It's part of a cologne set, so it smells like him - before he got sick and started smelling like illness and medicine (if you've even been around a dying person, you know what I mean). It's nice to be reminded of the

Oh my goodness. That's not even a big stretch. It's downright massive! Biggest stretch ever! 😍

ACAB but especially the Arkansas State Police. They are the literal worst.

I decided that because it's summer and most of my shows are on hiatus, it'd be smart to downgrade my Hulu live plan. I haven't been watching the news much. And I really never watch Jeopardy live anymore, so it's not a big deal to watch it on a delay. So why not save like $70/month for the next

I was never an ACAB person, but they're making it really hard for me to not think they are. The fact that he kept on and wouldn't just admit he was wrong. He even ticketed her for something she literally could not do...😡 I hope court just embarrassed the ever loving fuck out of him.

Beautiful shot of a rainbow rising from the trees in the River Valley this Tuesday evening. Big thanks to Janna Virden for sharing this picture from Petit Jean Mountain near Morrilton. #ARwx

Dogs with their grandparents is always the cutest thing..🥰

It's always stunning here in the tri-peaks area of the River Valley! 😍