I'm really sad about this one. Naty's was on West Street at the end of the strip mall with Zip's dry cleaners.
I have to admit it's a really bad location for a restaurant, but Natty's had really, really good Tex Mex. I know we inundated with Mexican places here, but they stood out asa favorite of mine.
I need to take a friend who was hard of hearing to dinner. (Alternatively, I pick up the food and bring it to her.) Can anyone recommend any restaurants near Odenton that might be quiet enough so we have a conversation?
In addition, any places that might have a really good crab soup (she loves it) or crab cakes near Odenton?
Thank you!
That's it. That's the post.
These burritos have been so good when I find them in stock. I wish they carried them year round.
My TV does not save passwords and nor does my Roku. No, I don't want to go looking for my saved password in my phone, because it's a bunch of gibberish and it's going to take me 20 minutes to enter it on my TV.
This is insane, why can't we have codes like other tv apps do?!
Due to heat. Fireworks may be delayed as well.
So just FYI for everybody, I tried to pay my monthly premiums this weekend on their website, and could not access the portal.
I just paid it again online and my credit card was declined on their website, but it shows that it went through on my credit card. It's pending so I'll see if it actually goes through. I could not get anybody on the phone and I'm going to try again tomorrow.
The other is that I went for a routine thyroid sonogram last weekend, and my claim was denied, because the person who did the sonogram was apparently out of network. 🙄 $322 if I have to pay the whole thing for a literal ten-minute visit.
I don't understand how that could have happened. I didn't get to choose who saw me. Do I need to talk to an ombudsman at the hospital?
u/darthfruitbasket inspired me to finally zero out my own sink.I'm half done as of this post, but what you don't see are the things sitting on the stove, waiting their turn. 😅. I have given myself till 7 p.m. to get this done, and to keep it clean today, I am just eating leftovers and those plates and utensils will go straight to the dishwasher!
I asked you to check out "Campfire Cooking In Another World with my Absurd Skill". (2 seasons, so far)
Neither of them are very high stakes, it's just slice of life with isekai for Campfire, and slice of life with suspension of disbelief for Garden.
I truly enjoyed these as a laid-back anime. No tear-jerking trauma dumps. Just gods that like food and the humans that cook for them. :-P I think I kind of need these right now. :-)
I have an older model electric oven that I am having the worst time trying to clean. I finally got around to trying to steam clean it today (distilled water and vinegar in an oven safe dish and while that sort of worked it didn't really do the job. I don't know if I didn't leave it in there long enough or put it on high enough heat, but the results were disappointing.
I have done the baking soda and vinegar trick before and while that does work to an extent, cleaning this oven by hand is an absolute nightmare because I can't remove the door. My short little arms ache after a while trying to clean the baking soda and vinegar fully out of the oven.
I do have some Easy-off, but I am afraid of the fumes.
Any success stories here?
DHS building evacuated on West Street with fire alarms going off. Fire dept on scene, police directing traffic.
I have been getting phone calls for the last week and a half that were coming up as potential scams on my phone. Most are probably political calls, but I have been ignoring them either way.
Before everyone jumps me, I also have three friends battling cancer.
I got a phone today from an unknown number. It called once, and hung up when I didn't answer. They immediately called again, and thinking it was someone in one of my friends families trying to reach me, I picked up. I would have ignored it otherwise.
"This is so and so, badge number xxxx, to talk to you about your legal issues."
FUUUUUUUUUUUU.
"I don't have any." Click. (And no, I honestly have no issues with the law!)
Blocked and reported as a scam.
I'm so mad I picked up but it did not come up as spam on my phone.
You will be forced to turn around and take an alternate route.
The other end of it that is closed is that Jennifer Road. You will be forced to turn onto Jennifer Road and detour. Definitely looks like some of those old trees came down in that storm.
We had a neighborhood get together on Friday evening and someone alerted me to the fact that the county was having a hazardous waste disposal the next day (they have them every three months or so). A few days before, while I was looking for a spade, I found a number of bottles of Roundup under the crawl space and the garage. My Dad had apparently gone to war with the weeds at some point, armed to the teeth. So I grabbed a couple boxes Friday evening after the party, gathered up as much as I could, and drove them to the drop off point.
Had I bothered to check the hazardous waste website earlier, I would have had time to gather more up, but it's a start. But now I have a head start on the next collection which is in September. I should take a before and after video, because my war on the garage starts *now*.
Unfortunately not a lot to show for today.
The grief monster has popped back up and I suspect fluctuating hormones are at least somewhat the cause of that. I had terrible dreams overnight of friends that had terminal cancer, that I was on sinking ships, etc. I woke up with a sinus headache that has not stopped and a result of all that is I feel like I've run a marathon and I barely got out of bed. I was hoping that I was just dehydrated. -_-
I did clean part of the sink out of the dirty dishes that were sitting in there. Now I'm faced with the giant pots and pans that don't even fit in the sink properly. 🙄
I did find my checkbook and wrote the checks out that I needed to. So yea, win there!
I also found a slow cooker recipe for tomorrow, that I have most of the ingredients for, I just have to pick up a few more and dinner (and leftovers!) are done!
How are you guys doing this weekend?
And please don't answer with P.F. Chang's. Just, no.
I won't call them out here, because that's not fair without talking to them directly, but I had a really flavorless Chinese dinner last night from a place I hadn't eaten at before. It wasn't as bad as the last overly greasy meal I had at another Chinese restaurant in town, but there was just no depth of flavor in it. (I'm NOT being a food snob here, promise!)
So before I try some others (Peter Chang's and Jack's Fortune) in the future, what do you recommend?
While most of the house is fairly under control in terms of clutter (at least I keep telling myself that!) the places I use the most seem to get the most cluttered (Um, duh.) As you'll see, today I tackled the kitchen, tomorrow will be my bedroom (shudder) and the dining room.
I have been going almost non-stop for 3 weeks with work and other activities that have been eating up my time, and sometimes it was just easier to dump-and-go than put away as I went. The kitchen has a ton of flat surfaces so those became clutter magnets.
I also worked a little bit in the front room, where the front door is (you'll see it in my previous post), because that had become a dumping ground for mail and other things as I was dashing in and out (No pictures of that, nothing to show really, I promise - mostly non-perishable groceries that just hadn't been put away!). But my main focus today became the kitchen.
My main problem is paper. I did go through a lot of it and I threw a lot out, but there's more to deal with. My goal today was to try to find my checkbook, because I have three bills to pay.I didn't find it, however I'm sure I will lay my hands on it tomorrow.
Also doing laundry, which I am very far behind on. 😜
The short backstory to my posts is that I am living in the house that my parents bought in the '90s. Major renovations were done when they bought it, and a half-hearted renovation (never finished) was done in the early 2000s.
My mother passed away in 2019 and when we went into lockdown in 2020, I determined that I was going to make this house safe for my father (he passed in 2024). And again, this is a longer story, but there was stuff/clothes/furniture everywhere. We got a lot of it cleared out (40 contractor bags of clothes!), but I finally burned out when I got to the dining room and living room. I had done so much and by the time I got to those two rooms I just didn't have the energy to finish.
Today I got something done that I had been meaning to get done since lockdown. I paid to get rid of the living room couch by a junk company. It had been destroyed by cats, but it was also falling apart on its own. My mother railed that she spent a ton of money on that couch and bought it from Woody's. There may have been some misplaced guilt as to WHY I didn't get rid of it sooner. 🤷♀️
While the picture I'm including is after the couch is gone (I would have been too embarrassed to show that publicly, it was *bad*!) having that space again is bringing me so much joy. It is filthy, and the dust and cat hair is embarrassing, but I have that space back and that's what matters. I now have room to organize and sort in that room and use it as a landing space for anything that needs to go to the landfill or be given away, because it's right by the front door.
This has been a 6-year ufyh project, and it's nowhere near complete, But I post this to celebrate the wins, when I am feeling low and I have to remind myself there /are/ wins here!
To my fellow ufers, you can do this! One step is one step closer!
I don't have any pictures to share because it's really boring. But I have been without overhead lights in my TV room because the ceiling lights burned out. My bedroom light was down to one bulb from three. I broke one of my smoke detectors in December trying to replace the battery (I dropped it. Twice. Whoops.) My flood lights outside needed replacing.
I finally broke down and hired a handyman/electrician for help. Even though my house is a mess and I haven't vacuumed in several weeks. The gentleman I hired replaced the smoke detector and help me replace all the bulbs, inside and out. Oh! The joy I feel at having LIGHTS again is something indescribable!
Also I got the lights I wanted this time. My brother insisted the last time he helped me replace lights that soft white was better than daylight. Ha! I learned hate soft white. This place is so blindingly bright right now, you can probably see me from space! 😁
UFYH is about clearing your space but also making your space joyful. :-)
I have a lovely little tortoiseshell kitty that likes to bring up hairballs. Cleaning them up is not my issue but it's when she vomits whatever digested food with the hairball onto furniture. Can anyone recommend cleaning products (I'm not looking for brand name recommendations, just what I'm looking for in terms of cleaning products) for fabric like on chairs and foot rests and rugs (rugs may have their own cleaner, no?) If there are home-made ideas I'll take those as well.
Thank you!
This is going to sound ridiculous but please keep in mind I am the executor of his estate.
I have collected a ton of Dad's (and Mom's - passed in 2019) medical bills and related paperwork from before he was sick and while he was sick. Right now they are sitting in a giant box. No one has come after us for payments of any kind since he passed away.
Any medical bills that came up after he died were paid. I'm not exactly looking for permission to throw this stuff away now, but I kind of want to be given the all clear. We're having a shred day at work next weekend, and I'm afraid the moment I get rid of them, someone is going to hold their hand out and say "hey you owe us this!" Like they are just lying in wait. :-p
I am holding onto his tax documents for now simply because we've run into a few issues in that dept. But I think I'm okay to get rid of the medical bills, right?