Anne N. Mouse: Blog

No this isn't about dog sex... Goodness, is sex the only thing on your mind? Oh yeah, this is supposed to be a sex stories site... Well then, today ye shall remain unsatisfied if you're reading my blog but not my work...
So one thing I maybe haven't talked about is that where I'm bundling moulding (at the Longe Woode Lumber Co [name changed to protect the <s>inno</s> err guilty] all of the moulding id is tied with a nylon twine that is flat.... using a stopper knot (supposed to be figure 8 knot...) I'm half remembering the knot from working at the Shorte Woode Molding company in the '90's where most of the bundles were done with stretch wrap but I learned to tie the stopper knot anyway for various reasons...
So relearning the knot makes me the slowest tieup person on the team, which is part of why I ended up doing the 'lift' a while ago. Once I get this knot down though that will change. Indeed it is already changing when I make the knot right and it doesn't become the great tail eating knot!!!

Vs Emergency
Vs wants....
So one of the issues I'm dealing with is that I sweated my boots to death. I was warned that getting them wet would be bad for them. The work I've been doing lately means that my feet are sweating badly enough that I can see the moisture on the outside of my boots... Needless to say my boots are coming apart. So it has become at least urgent that I replace them with a new pair... $160~ which is like 1/3 of a week's pay for me... But I didn't want them to become an emergency, like having a sole come off while at work.
So they were edging from the urgent into the emergency category in my mind.
Now for the wants... My computer (lappy) battery has apparently died. But I can still use the lappy just have to have power and can't be away from it. That is a want that can wait for a while.
Another want that I decided couldn't wait (as winter is coming) is a pair of house shoes or slippers to wear as floors and what not become colder in the morning.
Then there are the 'needs' I have been informed that I should buy wool sox for my boots to help keep my feet dry. And maybe protect my boots... So I spent $13 and change on a pair (Ouch one pair?) yes one pair of sox!
So I dipped into all the categories of spending today. The problem is that I'm having a hard time putting together a budget because I keep running into these 'urgent' issues that I treat like emergencies.
So far as I can tell the only one that came close to that category today was the boots.

Ah yes my ability to creatively spell once again showed its head. I do know Mr L'Amour's work and am a fan. But when tired and not thinking... Well creative misspelling is a symptom of a larger issue, known commonly as dyslexia. If I am very tired sometimes I can't remember a word (or name) closely enough for the spell chequer in the browser which seems to use the dictionary from my WP to make a good guess at what I intend.... Ah well, such is life!

And the dead, with apologies to Louis LaMoure... (spelling not checked...) So I'm not so quick, and my car is most definitely dead. I need to be shopping for one but am busily reading stories here...
Note my priorities are such that I may end up among the dead!

I've been sleeping in a camp trailer for a while. It is borrowed and I knew it was in pretty sorry shape. Well last night the rain hit and drove me out as I discovered at least one leak right above the bed. I'll get the thing tarped for the winter, though I really would like something a bit more durable. But we live with what is possible.
On another front: I'm jealous of Mina (name changed to protect those who don't wish to have their name broadcast to the world) I don't know how old she is or anything about her except that I've worked with her a couple of times now and she is so much faster than me that I feel like a turtle... So I have to recall that getting the job done requires keeping at it... Mina is about 5' nothing and makes the lifts I'm complaining about look easy too... GRRR getting older hurts. Of course when I worked for the plastics company for the last ten years the most I ever had to lift would have been about 60# and that would happen no more than about 4 times an hour....
So I am decidedly out of shape for a job as physical as mine.
Oh and Mina seems to maintain a slight pouch like she either recently had a kid or lost a beer gut. I'll be generous and go with the first. Anyway I just want to keep up with Mina as far as work goes. She can harass the guys all she wants. I have all I can do to just do my work!