Soooo....

[MerryPrankster]

Drinking a Diet Pepsi. Thinking about how I wish I didn't comit to a catering job today. I feel even more jet-lagged today than yesterday. Okay, now I'm remembering how freakin' expensive beer and food was in Japan. Must get ready for work. :rolleyes:

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Laughing at Gn2.

Realizing that GD and I had the "screenname for our future child" talk years ago. We are a bunch of dorks.

Now realizing that I really like the name Leota. But of course I'd never put that curse on a child. Perhaps a pet.

Wondering if, after all this talk, people now think I'm pregnant. I'm not! :p

Looking forward to the meet on Sunday.

[Matterhorn Fan]

Wondering if, after all this talk, people now think I'm pregnant. I'm not! :pYou mean you two haven't considered a Dismaying Observation?

I could have sworn I sensed a Disquieting Metamorphosis.

Have we frightened you prematurely?

[lashbear]

Leota isn't such a bad name - after all Mme. Leota WAS named after a real person.

I'm sitting here having MY first coffee of the day and getting ready to enter the latest good news into my Livejournal - I weighed in this morning.

Send me a PM if you're not on my Friends list already in LJ and I'll add you, so you can view it !

[Mousey Girl]

...sitting here, waiting for laundry to be ready for the dryer, drinking a diet Dr Pepper (love am/pm having ddp in their fountain)...also waiting for the daily invasion of the monkeys (while wishing for a monkey-free day).

[UvaGirl]

Still tired, still grumpy and now my throat hurts. What a crappy Friday:(

[Ghoulish Delight]

Leota isn't such a bad name - after all Mme. Leota WAS named after a real person.Yeah, so was Kermit. Some names just don't work anymore.

I'm reading on the road while I wait for things to finish installing so I can run some tests.

[Mousey Girl]

I just found out I have a reprieve from invading monkeys!!!! The only monkey I will have today is my own!! YEAH!!!!!!

[Matterhorn Fan]

Send me a PM if you're not on my Friends list already in LJ and I'll add you, so you can view it !What...you won't post good news here?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

What...you won't post good news here?He just wants to suck more people into the eeeevil world of LiveJournals. It is beginning to consume me...it's eeeevil I tells ya! :p

[Matterhorn Fan]

I know nothing about LiveJournal. I cannot imagine wanting to post a journal for others to read. Nor can I imagine really wanting to read someone else's journal. If I write in a journal (I haven't lately--unhappiness & journals seem to go hand in hand for me), it's for me. Speaking of which, I have some journals I should probably destroy.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Speaking of which, I have some journals I should probably destroy.An evil journal bonfire sounds like fun. :D

[Matterhorn Fan]

Oh, I don't know if they're evil.

[Mousey Girl]

...Wondering what I did to deserve the lone monkey having a total hissy/melt down over a freakin' Pokemon game. Smart monkey, when I asked what game he was playing he knew my intentions immediatly...temporary bye-bye to the game.

[Prudence]

I mostly use my Live Journal to keep in touch with distant friends. It's easier than writing letters, a sadly dead art form but one at which I suck. They post what they've been up to and I read it at my leisure. And I post what I've been up to. And post silly things like "what intentional tort are you?" (Which is much funnier to me than it needs to be.) You know you want toread it (http://www.livejournal.com/users/ethelberga/) ... you can't resist.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Oh, I don't know if they're evil.Oh, no prob, whatever you want to call them is cool. ;) Me, I love the poignant past too much to banish my frustrated/depressed/horrified writings permanently. Reading them is actually very cathartic, as it teaches me that no matter how bad you think things are, you'll eventually get over it and move on.

So no book burnings for me. :)

[€uroMeinke]

I know nothing about LiveJournal. I cannot imagine wanting to post a journal for others to read. Nor can I imagine really wanting to read someone else's journal. If I write in a journal (I haven't lately--unhappiness & journals seem to go hand in hand for me), it's for me. Speaking of which, I have some journals I should probably destroy.

The thing about Live Journal is that it's such a misnomer - think of it rather as a blog - your place to essay about the world, your life, and the people in it.

Those hard copy journals can't be electronic becasue they just are not cumbustible. That is where you hide your scandelous secrets that friends and family only discover after you are dead (or careless and happen to leave it out somewhere). Everyone should have one - or at least some scandelous secret to conceal somewhere.;)

[blueerica]

I'm listening to some swanky flippin tunes right now.. Oh, I wish you could all listen with me...

[€uroMeinke]

I'm listening to some swanky flippin tunes right now.. Oh, I wish you could all listen with me...

Can you share your playlist ;)

[Gemini Cricket]

What CP and GD are gonna have kids? Little Loungers in Training?
Mamma Pallor and Daddy Delight.

I think that would be so cute.
:)

[Baileykat]

Mamma Pallor and Daddy Delight.

I think that would be so cute.
:)


You think with enough peer pressure we can talk them into it? ;)

[Gemini Cricket]

You think with enough peer pressure we can talk them into it? ;)
I see a black baby stroller with bat wings on the side...
:D

Gomez: He has my father's eyes.
Morticia: Gomez, take those out of his mouth.
:D

[Ghoulish Delight]

Daddy Delight.
That's a gay porn screen name if I ever heard one.

[Gemini Cricket]

That's a gay porn screen name if I ever heard one.
Totally. :snap:

[Cadaverous Pallor]

OMG, Gomez and Morticia? Craziness! I love how our names make people think we're all gothy. :)

Peer pressure ain't gonna work, cats and kittens. We'll have our little Dismaying Observation and Disquieting Metamorphosis when we're good and ready. So there. :p

[Kevy Baby]

We'll have our little Dismaying Observation and Disquieting Metamorphosis when we're good and ready. So there. :pComments like this usually make Mother Nature wield her power to show you it happens when SHE wants it to!

:D

[wendybeth]

Comments like this usually make Mother Nature wield her power to show you it happens when SHE wants it to!

:D


Lol! 'Tis true.

[MerryPrankster]

Lol! 'Tis true.


Ditto!

[blueerica]

HAHAHA!!

See what trouble you have brought upon yourself, GD? LOLOL

[belleh5]

I hate my computer!! For the past 2 days I couldn't get on the internet :mad: . I'm at my bf's house, so I have alot of catching up to do.

I need a new computer ASAP!!!

[lashbear]

I hate my computer!! For the past 2 days I couldn't get on the internet :mad: . I'm at my bf's house, so I have alot of catching up to do.

I need a new computer ASAP!!!

You're at your BF's house and the first thing you want to do is use the internet ??

I hope you 'caught up' with him first.... :D :p ;)

[belleh5]

You're at your BF's house and the first thing you want to do is use the internet ??

I hope you 'caught up' with him first.... :D :p ;)



:eek: :eek: He's at the gym!!!

[lashbear]

Not the easiest place to 'catch up' with him, I'll admit. :blush:

[lashbear]

PS: For those brave enough, my Livejournal's Here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/lashbear/) :p

[Matterhorn Fan]

:p

[Mousey Girl]

Comments like this usually make Mother Nature wield her power to show you it happens when SHE wants it to!

:D

I have walking (and at times unfortunatly) talking proof of that.

[lashbear]

:p

Hehehehehe.... Join ussssssssssss........:coffee:

[Matterhorn Fan]

I can't . . . I have to go work out now . . .

[blueerica]

Waking up and thinking about how cruel I am to myself to pick up a job that requires me to wake up this early to drive down to San Clemente.

Not that I wouldn't have been up this early for any other workday, but dammit, this is my day off (kinda) -- ARGH!

[Gemini Cricket]

My office has a 'no gossip rule' in the books. How boring is that?!
:D

[wendybeth]

My office has a 'no gossip rule' in the books. How boring is that?!
:D

Lol! How in the hell do they enforce that? I'm glad I'm a hairdresser- I get paid to gossip!;)*


*(Truthfully, I prefer to argue religion and politics. Less dangerous.)

[Mousey Girl]

My office has a 'no gossip rule' in the books. How boring is that?!
:D

I wish mine did...it would make life a lot easier.

[Mousey Girl]

...I have been suspended for 2 weeks, stopped off at my fav hangout, feeling a bit numb and have no large motor skills right now, currently sitting in a monkey free home, enjoying the silence.

[MerryPrankster]

I am so unfocused today. I can't seem to get anything accomplished. I feel like a slow motion pinpall bouncing from room to room. Maybe I should just roll with it and quit fighting it.

Mousey Girl~ Suspended?

[Baileykat]

...I have been suspended for 2 weeks, stopped off at my fav hangout, feeling a bit numb and have no large motor skills right now, currently sitting in a monkey free home, enjoying the silence.

Suspended? Is this good or bad?

Oh hell...here's some hugs just in case!!!!!!!!

Oh...we don't have a hug smilie....here just have one of these :cheers: :cheers: and then these will appear :birdy: :birdy: and all will be well!!!!

[mhrc4]

just got home from work and shopping for valentines day for the wifey..... :D

[Mousey Girl]

Suspended, both good and bad...no pay, but 2 weeks off...but I am getting my annual Team Preformance Award in 2 weeks and that will more than make up for any loss of pay.

as for the monkey-free home, I spoke too soon, I now have 3 monkeys, eating chips, drinking Capri Sun and playing video games.

Monkeys are going home at 5 so the Lone Monkey and I can go to din din (well, he will eat, I will drink).

[MerryPrankster]

Suspended, both good and bad...no pay, but 2 weeks off...but I am getting my annual Team Preformance Award in 2 weeks and that will more than make up for any loss of pay.


Well, here's to that! :cheers: :cheers: Have a maaahvelous suspension, Dahling! :birdy:

[Mousey Girl]

Thanky!!!! I am feeling very Swanky!!!

(ok so I hit my drinky place before I picked up The Lone Monkey)

The extra monkeys are on their way out the front door!!! Time for more tastey beverages!!

[belleh5]

Sooo...

I have no idea what to get my bf for V-day?

I'm looking online for some ideas, hopefully I will find something before Monday night.

[Baileykat]

Sooo...

I have no idea what to get my bf for V-day?

I'm looking online for some ideas, hopefully I will find something before Monday night.


Well, when you figure it out, let me know! I'm at a loss as well....


We just got back from Blockbuster...where the clerk tried to talk me into getting "Notebook" which I know I want to get..but I'm pretty sure my children don't want to watch...well Kat might like it..she likes those kind of movies!


We ended up with "Mr 3000" and "First Daughter"...

I've got cookies in the oven and it's raining outside...I'm actually thinking of making homemade hot chocolate as well!!!!

[FEJ]

getting ready to start my vacation by putting "vampire red" hair dye in

[belleh5]

We just got back from Blockbuster...where the clerk tried to talk me into getting "Notebook" which I know I want to get..but I'm pretty sure my children don't want to watch...well Kat might like it..she likes those kind of movies!


We ended up with "Mr 3000" and "First Daughter"...


I went to Blockbuster too :D

We rented "Shall we Dance" (for my mom :rolleyes: ) & "The Grudge".

I still wanna see Mr 3000, Baileykat is it good?

[Tito's Kitten]

Originally posted by ubergeek42
getting ready to start my vacation by putting "vampire red" hair dye in


Well so am I...... ;)


My significant other has decided upon hearing on the radio the insane amounts of money spent on this "Valentine's Day" that he is now boycotting the holiday. I insist that he is cheap. Yet he promises me that he wants us to have a non Valentine's holiday two weeks from the 14th with a special surprise for me. I still think he is just cheap.

[Baileykat]

I went to Blockbuster too :D

We rented "Shall we Dance" (for my mom :rolleyes: ) & "The Grudge".

I still wanna see Mr 3000, Baileykat is it good?

I fell asleep halfway thru! But Kat watched it all...I think she liked it...


The Grudge was good...

Tonight she and I are going to the Drive In...we still have one here...they show 8 different pictures a night...It's always a double feature and kids are free...Adults are only $5......We're going to see "Hitch" then I think staying for "Racing Stripes".

[Matterhorn Fan]

getting ready to start my vacation by putting "vampire red" hair dye inWanna share? My hair is currently normal & boring.

[Scrooge McSam]

Scrooge is doing the happy dance all around the office.

I finally found those cool dice plates Alton Brown uses on Good Eats. I've been looking for them forever. They've been unavailable except for serious coin on ebay, but Restoration Hardware has started making them again.

...designed for no-shake, no-roll, high swank hors d'oeuvres and canapés for six.

:snap: :snap:

Next swanky cocktail party, watch out! (http://www.restorationhardware.com/page.jhtml;jsessionid=0VP0PCPLS3XVBLAWCQASPJVMCYKA CH20?type=product&id=prod2660038&categoryId=cat210031&_requestid=8888)

:cheers:

[mhrc4]

Scrooge is doing the happy dance all around the office.

I finally found those cool dice plates Alton Brown uses on Good Eats. I've been looking for them forever. They've been unavailable except for serious coin on ebay, but Restoration Hardware has started making them again.



:snap: :snap:

Next swanky cocktail party, watch out! (http://www.restorationhardware.com/page.jhtml;jsessionid=0VP0PCPLS3XVBLAWCQASPJVMCYKA CH20?type=product&id=prod2660038&categoryId=cat210031&_requestid=8888)

:cheers:

yeah, i saw those there a fwe months back.. theyve got a whole section dedicated to off the wall dice/poker stuff, those included, they also have a nice set of things to go with them too! very cool!

[Scrooge McSam]

yeah, i saw those there a fwe months back..

I ordered 2 sets. :cool:

I mean, what if I get a chip in one set? ;)

[€uroMeinke]

Sooo...

I have no idea what to get my bf for V-day?


I suggest you buy yourself lingerie...

[€uroMeinke]

So, I'm at home - Happy to be here after a bouncy flight. Chicago was fun, but it's so good to be home, back sipping coffee (Peets!) catching up on LoT and everything else, wondering what we'll do today, but enjoying the lazyness of the moment.

[MerryPrankster]

So, I'm at home - Happy to be here after a bouncy flight. Chicago was fun, but it's so good to be home, back sipping coffee (Peets!) catching up on LoT and everything else, wondering what we'll do today, but enjoying the lazyness of the moment.

There's no place like home! :)

[Not Afraid]

So, I'm at home - Happy to be here after a bouncy flight. Chicago was fun, but it's so good to be home, back sipping coffee (Peets!) catching up on LoT and everything else, wondering what we'll do today, but enjoying the lazyness of the moment.

I think we will be spending the day at home and calling the plumber. :mad:

[Baileykat]

I think we will be spending the day at home and calling the plumber. :mad:

That didn't sound good! :(

We're home after our usual Saturday Drive All Over Town Fest! Bailey has a sleep over tonight at a friends house, John is out of town...so it's just me and Kat tonight....

We're going to throw on comfy clothes, throw some blankets in the car, pack a picnic and head to the drive-in to see "Hitch". Girl time! :)

[Matterhorn Fan]

I think we will be spending the day at home and calling the plumber.
So, was that too much coffee?

[Not Afraid]

Never too much coffee!

But, old houses have plumbing problems. Anyways, a plumber just showed up! After several calls, I found one on-call. He was supposed to call first, but he didn't, he just showed up. I'm not complaining.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

He was supposed to call first, but he didn't, he just showed up. I'm not complaining.So you weren't in the middle of something this time? And if not, why the hell not?? ;)

[libraryvixen]

[QUOTE=Baileykat]Bailey has a sleep over tonight at a friends house...QUOTE]

I think it's an epidemic!! My Bailey has a Valentines Sleepover party tonight!! :)

[Not Afraid]

So you weren't in the middle of something this time? And if not, why the hell not?? ;)


Let's see. Back last night. Tapped out anyone? ;)

[Ghoulish Delight]

Let's see. Back last night. Tapped out anyone? ;)P'shaw, he's only good for one night? You need a backup. If only you had, like, 4 or 5 husbands...

[€uroMeinke]

Steal Water-Wiggle of Death

Never realized the insane deadly power of a plumbers snake unfurled and on the loose. I hope our satelite still works. We never cared too much for that awning anyway.

[blueerica]

I'm beat.

Interesting weekend though...

Wiped.

Beat.

:snap:

(But I got some awesome jewelry!)

[Not Afraid]

P'shaw, he's only good for one night? You need a backup. If only you had, like, 4 or 5 husbands...

Well, I could call on them if I really wanted too. But, I like mine.

[wendybeth]

Pardon me, everyone, but I need to vent:


ARRRGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

I frikking hate financial entities, my credit union in particular. I just came home to find my stupid credit union has charged my account about $150.00 in fees for debit purchases, etc- even though I had plenty in there to cover it. What's worse, they note that I have money in there, and have deducted the fees and purchase charges, but say I have no available funds. (Actually, the recording says I have a specific amount in my balance, but no available funds.) The only thing I can think of was an insurance check we deposited last week is screwing things up, even though the funds were listed as immediately available. The insurance comapany is clueless, and I know I can get it straightened out on monday, but in the interim I can't use my account. I am so pissed.....:mad:Why do these things always happen on a saturday, when you can't do anything about it until the next business day?:rolleyes:

[Ghoulish Delight]

Look on the bright side, at least it happened THIS weekend and not next...you'd be SOL for Presidents' Day sales.

[Prudence]

Currently watching "Cry Baby" on the telly. I wish that was me singing "Please Mr. Jailor." Sigh.

[wendybeth]

Look on the bright side, at least it happened THIS weekend and not next...you'd be SOL for Presidents' Day sales.

You're one of them glass is half full kind of guys, aren't you?;)

[BarTopDancer]

I'm beat.

Interesting weekend though...

Give me the pillow!

[Kevy Baby]

Steal Water-Wiggle of Death

Never realized the insane deadly power of a plumbers snake unfurled and on the loose. I hope our satelite still works. We never cared too much for that awning anyway.OK, THIS is a story I'm dying to hear!!!

[mhrc4]

OK, THIS is a story I'm dying to hear!!!

in 100% agreement

[€uroMeinke]

OK, THIS is a story I'm dying to hear!!!

http://www.livejournal.com/users/cemeinke/

[wendybeth]

Rotfl!!!!!!!

"Steel Water-Wiggle of Death".

:D:snap::D

(Sorry for finding humor in your plumbing woes, €uro! I'll write of my karmic payback as soon as it happens....)

[€uroMeinke]

Rotfl!!!!!!!

"Steel Water-Wiggle of Death".

:D:snap::D

(Sorry for finding humor in your plumbing woes, €uro! I'll write of my karmic payback as soon as it happens....)

Of course on of the most amusing things is discovering that a Francophile-Plumber is reading my LJ.

[Matterhorn Fan]

Of course on of the most amusing things is discovering that a Francophile-Plumber is reading my LJ.It's aaaaall about the beret.

[wendybeth]

Karmic retribution was swift today. I just got a call from the parent of one of The Girl's friends, inviting us to Chuck E. Cheese's this afternoon. That will make it twice this week- I really hate winter.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Karmic retribution was swift today. I just got a call from the parent of one of The Girl's friends, inviting us to Chuck E. Cheese's this afternoon. That will make it twice this week- I really hate winter.TWICE in a WEEK? There oughta be a law.

[wendybeth]

The owner knows me by name. Isn't that sad?

It's too cold for the kids to run around outside, so our choices are limited. They could come over here, but I don't feel like cleaning the house just to have them mess it up again.:rolleyes:

[belleh5]

I wish I can go to Chuck.E.Cheese's:(

But sadly I'm too old and I don't have any kids.


My bf is at work and once again I'm by myself. I have no idea what to make for dinner? and nothing is on tv. I'm sooo bored!!!

[Baileykat]

I wish I can go to Chuck.E.Cheese's:(

But sadly I'm too old and I don't have any kids.


My bf is at work and once again I'm by myself. I have no idea what to make for dinner? and nothing is on tv. I'm sooo bored!!!


The Grammy's are on! And Los Lonely Boys just won for best something or the other...I didn't see the category....Love them! Since they are from San Angelo, Texas which is not far from where we moved from!

I'm stalling from finishing Kat's room...She's putting together her "gift bags" for Valentines Day....Why my children, well just my daughter, have to be such complicated gifters I'll never know!!!! She has like three different Hershey kisses, Hershey hearts, suckers, rings, stretchy dinosaurs, sweet tarts...they barely fit in the bags!!!

[wendybeth]

Bellah, you missed out on a wall-to-wall kiddo mosh-pit. Seriously! I've never seen the place so crowded- The Girl even wanted to leave. We stayed, mostly because by the time her friends showed up we'd finally managed to secure a table.

[belleh5]

They have the best pizza.

Grammy's? Maybe.....

[MerryPrankster]

I'm rearranging my Blockbuster Queue...I have three movies to mail back tomorrow. I've lined up "Napolean Dynamite" and "Garden State". Any recommendations?

[Mousey Girl]

I am watching Grease, getting ready to turn off the 'puter and tv in favor of a good (well I hope it is good) book.

Yesterday I read 3rd Degree by James Patterson. Tonight it looks like it will be a Deen Koontz book. Tomorrow it will be Angles & Demons.

I am planning a lot of cleaning and organizing type things for my 2 weeks...Should be interesting to see how I can avoid doing any of them.

[belleh5]

I've been online so long that I forgot to watch the Surreal Life 3 and Strange love.

I think it will be on again later tonight, I hope.

[Mousey Girl]

I watched SL 3... changed to Grease about 1/2 way through Strange Love. Could only take so much 'Gite.

[belleh5]

It's on again at 11, so I'm taping it. And If Strange Love gets to wacky, I'll just fast forward it.

[Mousey Girl]

2 mins left!!

I really am gonna turn off the tv, but it is blasphomy to turn off Grease.

[blueerica]

.... I'm waking up, reading the boards (as usual), thinking about things, what I have to do today. Thinking about my first cup of coffee, but drinking a cranberry juice.

... Realizing that last night I was joking about coming close to three-hundred posts, when in reality, it is something a little more like 350.

... Wishing I had taken the day off anyway.

... Glad she had a fun weekend, despite the not so fun parts of it. It's good when things end on a high note!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I woke up at 4:30am for no reason, after having gone to bed at midnight. After the prereq half-hour of trying to sleep, I got up. :mad:

Soooooo glad I have a half day today. I'm totally napping later on.

[mhrc4]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/cemeinke/

too bad there is no STUNNED emoticon...

glad it all got worked out, sounded like an ordeal and a half...



FOR TODAY -

I am up and about, its 7:50 and I will be headed into my office in about an hour, ah the perks of a job like mine..

anyhow, looks to be a slow day at work today, took care of the stuff I had been thinking about over the weekend already, knocked some good stuff off my TODO list last night...

oh well, heres to an interesting day at work and hopefully a peaceful valentines day evening.... :cheers:

[Ghoulish Delight]

too bad there is no STUNNED emoticon...:eek: <----- ahem

[mhrc4]

:eek: <----- ahem

shush you... i didnt look that closely :p

[Baileykat]

I'm doing what I do best...procrastination!


Should be cleaning the kitchen, taking a shower, cleaning Kat's room...but I'm here instead!

Bailey is home sick today...he sounds like a toad! He has a nasty chest cold...which means he's fine..til he talks, sneezes or coughs..then he sounds like, well, a toad! So he's in bed playing Lord of The Rings on PS2...

Hubby's on his way home from being in Phoenix for a week...we're doing taxes today..which is always fun because we always get a refund!

Then I'm at school for Valentines Parties..being the room mom is SUCH :rolleyes: fun!

[€uroMeinke]

At work, cleaned up my laptop of any "non-standard" software, only to discover my Company has finally discovered and shut down my access to webmail. Ok, I guess these guys really want me sending my personal stuff over their network - sigh - it wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to work for the department that is supposed to be responsible for championing these initiatives.

In the meantime it appears everyone took the day off - a bittersweet stiuation which give me a chance to lazily catch up after my week in Chicago, but makes me feel bored and unmotivated at the same time. There is so much I'd rather be doing right now.

Oh well, time to draft a new to-do list I guess...

[MerryPrankster]

After a few days of feeling winter blah-like, I'm feeling good and motivated today. :)

I have folded a load of clothes and washed another that needs to go in the dryer now. I'm baking an Apple Crisp that should be done in a about 20 minutes. I will then get in the shower and go out to do a bunch of errands; grocery store, bank, library returns, etc. I'll see if my husband wants to go to his fave Mexican restaurant for a late lunch, if not, I'll get take out. Oh, maybe I'll pick up a Banana Cream Pie too (sounds unswanky, but I promise you, it is swank in moderation) at Baker's Square...a little V-Day treat.

A bike ride later might be necessary if it's not raining.

[wendybeth]

I woke up at 4:30am for no reason, after having gone to bed at midnight. After the prereq half-hour of trying to sleep, I got up. :mad:

Soooooo glad I have a half day today. I'm totally napping later on.

I hate it when I do that- it always seems to happen when I have to be up early, and have a really busy day going. Here's some wake-up stuff::coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee:!

I am going in to do battle with my credit union- try and figure out how they'll blame this latest snafu on us. They used to be very reputable, but they started getting rid of long term employees several years ago, in favor of cheaper (and stupider) labor. It shows in their service, and all the weird account mix-ups we've been having.:rolleyes:

Next, I'm probably going to be bank- shopping.

Eric has to work late, so I may just put the lavish dinner I had planned on hold until tomorrow- crab just isn't as good re-heated.

Oh, and it's 'exfoliate the house' day- the animals are all shedding up a storm, and there is a disgusting layer of fur over nearly everything!

[mhrc4]

Oh, and it's 'exfoliate the house' day- the animals are all shedding up a storm, and there is a disgusting layer of fur over nearly everything!

dont you love that? every week or so for us, with 2 cats and a dog.... Fun times, lemme tell you.

[wendybeth]

dont you love that? every week or so for us, with 2 cats and a dog.... Fun times, lemme tell you.

Lol- we have three cats, two dogs, four birds and a fish. I love them all, but the fur really gets to me. I have to vacuum (or I should) daily just to keep ahead of it.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I'm enjoying the fact that things are finally working properly here in my test environment at work. These last couple of weeks have been fraught with annoying little roadblocks to getting any actual work done. But I seem to have finally worked all the gremlins out. Plus, my department has finished a complete rework of our documentation procedures, which has just made my job a lot nicer since it's now clearly defined what I'm doing. Things had been kindof aimless for a while, it's nice to actually have some results and somewhere to record them for once.

I'm also drinking a cup of tea, having stayed at Disneyland until closing last night.

[mhrc4]

Lol- we have three cats, two dogs, four birds and a fish. I love them all, but the fur really gets to me. I have to vacuum (or I should) daily just to keep ahead of it.

tell me about it, those 3 animals of ours are in a 710 sq ft condo!

Thankfully we just got tile floors in our living room/dining room / kitchen, so we can sweep and swifter that pretty easily, but the pain is the bedroom carpet and the bed... the cats sleep on the bed, and never leave, except for the litter box and to eat, so needless to say, we have cat sand all over the place... also, our vaccuum is broken :( and we need a new one...

[mousepod]

I'm sitting here at work. Last night, I had every intention of recording my podcast early and getting to bed at a reasonable hour, except I got sucked in to watching the stupid Grammys. I have no idea why I'm so fascinated with awards shows, especially when I have no real interest in the nominees (I think our household currently has a grand total of 4 CDs from this year's batch of nominees). I wound up pulling out my microphone at about 1:30 am and wound up going to bed at about 3:30.

Three hours later, I was downing my first cup of coffee and walking the chihuahuas (that's not a euphemism for anything sordid - we actually have two chihuahuas). Then I waiting for my lovely wife to listen to the MousePod, because I wanted to see her reaction to my Valentine's dedication to her.

Finally made it into work. Absolutely exhausted and not ready to deal. Many of the other people in the office carry guns. Monday is not a good place to be around so many guns.

[Mousey Girl]

...I am doing what I do best, housework avoidance. I did manage to get all of the dishes caught up first thing this morning. Now I need to be working on the living room.

Since it is too busy to go out tonight I am using my crockpot for spagetti sauce. I think I prefer the stovetop for this. In the next hour or so I will get my garlic butter cooking for the bread.

The Lone Monkey is aware that I am off so he is expecting me to pick him up at 3. I think I am gonna make him sweat it out until 3:30. I may take him to Coldstone for icecream as a VD treat (plus I want good icecream). Or I may put that off until tomorrow.

The other Monkeys are home from their dad's house so by 5 I should have a housefull. *sigh* It was such a quiet weekend...

[wendybeth]

Update:

I got all tanked up on coffee, then called the credit union. The gal there started giving me the standard speil "I'm sorry, but it's our policy..." and I interrupted her and said "You will take off those charges and free up my funds..." So, she did.:D Actually, she claimed she was going to anyway before I said anything, but she just wanted me to know that inter- bank transfers...blah, blah, blah. I thanked her, and told her I wasn't in the mood for a lecture. I am going to send a ty note, though, simply because it's rare these days when you can accomplish anything by phone, and so quickly.

So, then we went shopping. Well, first to Denny's, then shopping. I think the Girl is growing up, because she wanted technology rather than toys, namely a AM/FM Radio/Alarm Clock/CD player. She also got a pack of Pokemon cards, so there is still some kid in there....

[blueerica]

I am in my Visual Basic class again, and zzzzz.. :coffee:

[UvaGirl]

I just had a brownie. I'd forgotten how much I like brownies.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Downloading the new MousePod. Wondering what to do for dinner. Annoyed that VDay is a Monday night and we already celebrated it this weekend.

[Prudence]

In contracts class. A case about a cow. Yee-haw. Wondering how I'm going to drive myself all the way home without falling asleep.

[Mousey Girl]

I just got done feeding my Monkeys and then walking them home. I ate to much sketti so the walk did my tummy good.

It is nice and quiet with my Lone Monkey (and its dad).

So far nadda for VD, but then I told him before not to worry about it. He wants lovies but I told him that my actually cooking was all the present he was gonna get :evil: .

[Scrooge McSam]

Planning an Amtrak trip to Chicago for the next government holiday 3 day weekend. I've never reserved a sleeper compartment on a train, so that will be something new and fun I hope. I'm bummed that the Monets will still be in Vegas during that time, but I can't wait to see the Thorne Rooms again and a lot more of the Institute. I have to see Wright's home and studio on this trip. NOT NEGOTIABLE.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Planning an Amtrak trip to Chicago for the next government holiday 3 day weekend. I've never reserved a sleeper compartment on a train, so that will be something new and fun I hope. Awesome! I would love to do that.

Aladdin is on the Disney channel right now. :) Flipping between that and the Dog Show.

[Name]

for the next 24 hours.......sleep - coffee - class - study - lunch - class - return any phone calls from class/study time period - dinner - meeting - sleep.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Aladdin is on the Disney channel right now. :) Flipping between that and the Dog Show.

What ever happened to dog and pony shows? I want ponies!
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Just got home from rehearsal. Oy. Every show I've done has its stories, this one's got some doozies and it hasn't even opened. Sat. night/Sun. morning, 1:30 AM, the angel's flying rig failed and I had an actress fall 15 feet to the stage. She's okay, but she shouldn't be. EMTs came, she went to the hospital, people freaked out, including me. My immediate thought was that somehow I'd forgotten to hook her to the rig. It was weird how in my panic I had absolutely no recollection of the preceding 10 minutes. Fortunately, another actor was up there with me, and, together, we were able to piece together the sequence of events. I knew, by the time I went to bed at 5:30 AM, that I had done everything correctly, and had a theory about what went wrong. By that time, we had received phone calls from the hospital and knew that she was a little bruised, but otherwise just fine. I mean, if you saw what I saw, you'd know this borders on the miraculous. Tonight I had a chance to look at the rig and the harness, and very easily see how the really stupidly designed hook was able to slip itself off when a little slack was on the line. They'll be making some changes, or they'll be looking for a new stage manager. I'm so grateful she's okay, if a little stiff. I was absolutely terrified that I'd somehow caused someone to be killed or seriously injured. I love theatre and I love my friends but I didn't know that there could be a combination of the two that would make me feel like I wanted to die. I'm better now, she's opening in the show on Friday, and I know what went wrong.
On the plus side - I was able to get them to use Pete Renaday for a recorded bit in the show. Makes my heart swell with pride, it does.

Goodnight.

I'm currently considering never using the phrase, "off the hook" again.

[SacTown Chronic]

Seriously considering going and disrupting a candlelight vigil scheduled for tonight to protest a Sacramento couple who have hung an American soldier uniform in effigy along with a sign saying "Bush lied, I died" on their home.

Apparently, there are a bunch of angry "America lovers" who wish to deny other Americans their basic constitutional rights. Loving America around here means blindly supporting the government and being pro-war, I guess. One bitch has even gone so far as to ask the cops to investigate the effigy as a hate crime. I'd like to go and open up some "dialogue" with these people.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

:(

STC, most of what I've seen you post recently is angry stuff against Bush and the war. I myself am rather unhappy with all of that, but seeing only your mad side is making me sad.
:( :( :(

Be happy, Sac! It's the 50th, we have a successful new board filled with wonderful people, and life is good, at least on the micro side of things. Have one of these. :cheers: :)

[UvaGirl]

I'm currently planning my evening, which I have all to myself:)

I'm thinking yummy dinner, glass or 2 of wine:cheers: & DVDs. Maybe a magazine. Can't wait!:)

[Not Afraid]

Planning an Amtrak trip to Chicago for the next government holiday 3 day weekend. I've never reserved a sleeper compartment on a train, so that will be something new and fun I hope. I'm bummed that the Monets will still be in Vegas during that time, but I can't wait to see the Thorne Rooms again and a lot more of the Institute. I have to see Wright's home and studio on this trip. NOT NEGOTIABLE.

The train will be fantastic! We've taken it to Seattle from LA and it was a wonderful experience. And, you're going to CHICAGO!!!!!

I adore that city. There is so much to do, see, eat and play with. FLW's house is incredible - do the guided tour and be in awe of the Ginko tree. Take the walking tour of the neighbourhood, too, it is incredibly rich in history and visual pleasures.

It may be too cold, but if you get a change, take one of the architecture riverboat tours. Simply a wonderful! Also, if the Jackie Kennedy exhibition is still at the Field, go see it. I loved it and it really gave me a new appreciation for the early 60's - and fashion.

Oh gosh......food. Chris and I have been making our way through the swankiest and most delicious restaurants in Chicago. Our hobby is not cheap, but it is oh so well worth it. Ask either one of us if you want recommendations.

I could go on and on about this City. It is really in my top 5 cities of the world.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I'm studying the board's code, trying to learn just what I need to do to tweak the next hack I plan on installing to make it swankier than it already is...

[BarTopDancer]

Seriously considering going and disrupting a candlelight vigil scheduled for tonight to protest a Sacramento couple who have hung an American soldier uniform in effigy along with a sign saying "Bush lied, I died" on their home.

I think you should go and have a candlelight vigil for the people who have the uniform up. Signs "Bush lied thousands died", "exercising the 1st ammendment is patroitic", "support our troops, bring them home".

Signed,
an anti-war protest veteran.

[Mousey Girl]

I am getting ready to take my Monkeys to Cub Scouts. I switch off with the mother of 2 of my Monkeys. It is my turn this week. She and I talked today, the middle Monkey has been trying to play us lately so we have agreed to talk before agreeing to any of his plans.

[mhrc4]

just got home from work *ugh* 7pm....

seeing what is happening tonight, Erin has girls night, so shes gone to a friends house in 30 minutes, i think ill put on a movie or some TV, browse the boards, and finish my cleaning that I started late last night....

Oh, and open a good bottle of cabarnet savignon... ;)

[wendybeth]

Cooking: Steak, Dungeness crab and steamed fresh veggies. It was supposed to be artichokes, but the ones at the store looked sickly, so I passed. Belated VD day meal.:D

[belleh5]

Seriously considering going and disrupting a candlelight vigil scheduled for tonight to protest a Sacramento couple who have hung an American soldier uniform in effigy along with a sign saying "Bush lied, I died" on their home.

Apparently, there are a bunch of angry "America lovers" who wish to deny other Americans their basic constitutional rights. Loving America around here means blindly supporting the government and being pro-war, I guess. One bitch has even gone so far as to ask the cops to investigate the effigy as a hate crime. I'd like to go and open up some "dialogue" with these people.

Where is it at? Downtown?

[Gemini Cricket]

"Livin' my life like it's golden
Livin' my life like it's golden
Livin' my life like it's golden
Livin' my life like it's golden..."

~ Jill Scott

[€uroMeinke]

FLW's house is incredible - do the guided tour and be in awe of the Ginko tree. Take the walking tour of the neighbourhood, too, it is incredibly rich in history and visual pleasures.

Plus everything else that Not Afraid said - also, about one or two El stops away is Wicker Park (Damen) which is the "Melrose" of Chicago - lots of cool, swanky shops and eateries - Cafe Absinthe was awsome, and if you like shoes (or even if you don't) check out Fluvogs - coolest shoes ever.

[Mousey Girl]

I now have an extreme case of the Heebie Jeebies... As I sat at the computer, trying to control a hyper rat, something moved into my vision. It was a big icky spider. I jumped and squashed it. As I moved in for the kill the thing was tracking me. EWWWWWWWWWWW!

Now, if I could just calm the hyper rat down I might stop EWWWWW'ng.

[SacTown Chronic]

Where is it at? Downtown?
Land Park.


I didn't go.....Crystal says I'm not stable enough to behave myself in these types of emotionally charged situations. I'm unstable? Look who was crazy enough to marry me. :eek:

[Scrooge McSam]

Thanks NA and €uroMeinke! I just may be hitting you up for more detailed info as we get closer to go date.

[BarTopDancer]

Land Park.


I didn't go.....Crystal says I'm not stable enough to behave myself in these types of emotionally charged situations. I'm unstable? Look who was crazy enough to marry me. :eek:

Smart wife you have. ::hugs:: I would have gone down there and gave them an example of exactally how patriotic an anti-war person can be. It's probably for the best that you didn't go down. I still think you should have a candlelight vigil for the couple with the uniform and all the people who have died over there.

[MickeyD]

I'm doing something I haven't done in weeks! Goofing off at work! Sure, there's a load of stuff I should be doing....but right now I'm not doing any of it! And peole keep walking in and out of my office, seeing me doing absolutely nothing, and I don't care! Ah, good times....

[Baileykat]

I'm just sitting here, staring at my Motley Crue tickets!

Thinking I have the best Mom in the whole world since she bought them for me!

Now I just have to make it til March 19th! Whooo hooo! :D

[Scrooge McSam]

My dice plates (http://www.xenarchy.com/LoT/showpost.php?p=9480&postcount=557) came in!!!

They're gonna be perfect as appetizer plates. Hmmm, might be time to learn to make clams casino.

[Not Afraid]

I just love those plates, Sam! It's fun how just one or two unique items can make a "look".

[Scrooge McSam]

I just love those plates, Sam! It's fun how just one or two unique items can make a "look".

I'm getting there. I never realized it would be so hard, really. Slinging things around in an apartment is one thing, decorating a house is a whole something else entirely. Yeah, I cliched out and went leather in the great room and now I'm slowly digging my way out of mancave slash pub with a few fabrics, pillows (GASP), art and incidentals. I'm having a blast. It's fun, and most importantly, it's MINE!!!

[Not Afraid]

Pillows, table coverings and curtains play an amazing role in softening furniture and making a original statement.

[Scrooge McSam]

So, tell me if I'm crazy. I want a course silk floor length drapery and valance set over dark matchstick blinds. I'm thinking a wide vertical stripe or possibly different colored panels shirred together. I need the shade in the windows on the west side in the afternoons, and I like the shadow potential with the matchsticks. I also like play of the fine silk against the almost primitive blinds. Too much? My best bud says, yeah, go for it. My lunch ladies are divided. What say you?

[blueerica]

Oh, today..

I have been on this kick lately: Taking long drawn baths in the afternoon. I swear, nothing has been as luxurious as taking a deep soak before going on with the rest of my day. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, though I do go to class on that day, and do computer lab work (mostly goofing off on the boards as opposed to real efficiency), are sort of like vacation days to me. I get a chance to really pamper myself. So I soak.

Today, as I was washing my hair in the tub, I let the warm water coming from the tap rush over my head. And then I realized; I found a tiny slice of nirvana. So I blissed out under that tap for a while, as the steamy water enveloped the rest of me. OH YEAH!

I did eventually turn off the faucet, but ended up losing track of time anyway. After 50 minutes of listening to jazz, reading a book, and nearly total immersion... It dawned on me that I should probably leave...

Here's hoping everyone got to be as blissed out as I was at some point today...

:cheers:

[Not Afraid]

So, tell me if I'm crazy. I want a course silk floor length drapery and valance set over dark matchstick blinds. I'm thinking a wide vertical stripe or possibly different colored panels shirred together. I need the shade in the windows on the west side in the afternoons, and I like the shadow potential with the matchsticks. I also like play of the fine silk against the almost primitive blinds. Too much? My best bud says, yeah, go for it. My lunch ladies are divided. What say you?

I immediately pictured dupioni silk in one of the rich color/drapes available over a bamboo blind. That was after 20 seconds of thinking, so idea are not fully flushed - and are incluenced by my own projects.

I just bought a piece of bronze/gold/red dupioni silk with embroidered bees on it in the Garmet District. I will be making a valance over a 6' wide dining room window and replacing the metal blinds with wood. I also bought a remnant of dupioni silk for a runner for my buffet which sits below the window.

[Scrooge McSam]

Tell me how I knew I was talking to the right person ;)

Dupioni? That's the stuff, I believe. I had a blazer a few years back of something similar in a pearly white and gray.

http://www.bridalfabric.com/images/dupioni.htm

I'm loving a pale yellow and gold combo, with narrower stripes of red between.

[Sheila]

I just bought a piece of bronze/gold/red dupioni silk with embroidered bees on it in the Garmet District. I will be making a valance over a 6' wide dining room window and replacing the metal blinds with wood. I also bought a remnant of dupioni silk for a runner for my buffet which sits below the window.

Wow. That is so impressive. I don't have the decorating gene at all. I can pick out nice-looking furniture and stuff, but taking it to the next level is just not my thing. You're gonna show us pictures, right, so I can be pea-green with envy? :)

[UvaGirl]

Here's hoping everyone got to be as blissed out as I was at some point today...

:cheers:

That sounds amazing ~ I felt relaxed just reading about it:)

[Ghoulish Delight]

I'm staying late working. It's not so bad. This is CP's late night anyway, I've got a lot that needs to get done before the weekend here at work, I came in a little late this morning, and took a long lunch with CP. So this is hardly torture. It's actually kind of nice to be here in the lab as people trickle out and it gets emptier and emptier. Far less need to have my fingers hovering over "Alt-tab" while I read the board. :evil:

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I have been on this kick lately: Taking long drawn baths in the afternoon. :eek:

You did NOT just tell me that. On Mondays and Wednesdays I do have enough time for such a thing....I'm in so much trouble now. :evil:

I love a long hot bath. It's going to be hard to not succumb to temptation!

[Scrooge McSam]

LOL

Alt-Tab? Drawing a blank here. Yeah, have no idea what you're talking about ;)

[Ghoulish Delight]

LOL

Alt-Tab? Drawing a blank here. Yeah, have no idea what you're talking about ;)Or the ultimate emergency, Windows key-D. I've got so many systems going that I'm on a KVM switch, so I can often just switch over to another system view.

[Baileykat]

:eek:

You did NOT just tell me that. On Mondays and Wednesdays I do have enough time for such a thing....I'm in so much trouble now. :evil:

I love a long hot bath. It's going to be hard to not succumb to temptation!



I have time on Monday's!

We could start a club....Afternoon Bathers!

Sounds so decadent! It's usually late morning when I make it to the shower anyway...I might just have to change that to LONG dreamy bath, with wine, candles...of course this might not be a good idea for afternoon baths... :rolleyes:

Today I finally broke down and called the Arizona DMV to get the costs of registering our vehicles here...We've been here since July...I guess it's about time! :rolleyes:

HOLY FREAKIN COW! It's triple what I paid in Texas for my suburban and my husbands car! $300 bucks for both cars! I asked the girl on the phone if this was a one time registration...Nope! Every year...OH..but it depreciates every year at 2%! Ahhhh!

I know California pays more...but this was a shock for me! It's a good thing I'm getting a hefty tax refund! Geesh!

I need :cheers: !

[Mousey Girl]

The Lone Monkey just read me his library book. He wanted to read it to me last night but with CS we ran out of time. This is the first book he brought home in a while (other than his weekly reading assignment). He was so pleased with it. I collect mice and he found a book about Owen the mouse. He did a really good job too!!

Right now I am drinking a glass of Sprite, thinking about turning it into a Margarita cooler, and he is making a book about the girls. So far he has the title page: Twitch and Sniff by Nick and Carin and is drawing pictures on the cover.

Hubby (aka Father of the Monkey) is off checking on a friend who left his wife today.

[Not Afraid]

Tell me how I knew I was talking to the right person ;)

Dupioni? That's the stuff, I believe. I had a blazer a few years back of something similar in a pearly white and gray.

http://www.bridalfabric.com/images/dupioni.htm

I'm loving a pale yellow and gold combo, with narrower stripes of red between.

Yes! That's the fabric! This lucious fabric also comes in a few patterns of stripes and these awsome colors that flash to another color depending on the light. I have been in love with this fabris for a while now and can't wait to work with it. Now, (Sheila) the goal is to actually do the sewing.

[Sheila]

Now, (Sheila) the goal is to actually do the sewing.

That... I can help with. :) I sewed a lot of my own clothes when I was a teen. I was so stylin' with my Betsey Johnson outfits and palazzo pants. I've still kept the BJ patterns because they still look really fashionable!

As for what I'm doing right now? I just finished "not watching" American Idol. Because to watch trash television, well, that would be just *wrong*. :cough:

Do I get any make-up points from the fact that the pup just liberated my prized Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Coney Island of the Mind" book from the bookshelf and customized it for me? I'm going to kill that dog....

[mousepod]

I was so stylin' with my Betsey Johnson outfits

That makes me so happy to hear that... from 89-96 a certain very close friend of mine was a designer at BJ.

[Kevy Baby]

I've got to stop staying away from LoT for so long.

It is quiet daunting to come back to 1,045 unread posts :eek:

[blueerica]

I have time on Monday's!

We could start a club....Afternoon Bathers!

Sounds so decadent! It's usually late morning when I make it to the shower anyway...I might just have to change that to LONG dreamy bath, with wine, candles...of course this might not be a good idea for afternoon baths... :rolleyes:

I'm down with the club.

We could give pointers and work out problems such as:

1.) Devise new ways to ignore telephones.
2.) Book recommendations for tub-reading
3.) Best bath salts.
4.) How to deal with residue from bath oils.
5.) Music to soak by.
6.) Loofah vs. Scrub Bud
7.) Cucumbers vs. Tea Bags

Oh, the things we could discuss at our meetings....

:cheers:

[wendybeth]

You forgot one thing:

Bathtub Books

No, you didn't- I just missed that in your post! Okay, I get to handle the Bathtub Books discussion. Dibs, whatever- that's my area of expertise. Expect the unexpected......

[blueerica]

I am reading this one book -- And really it's the one that made me think I should take a bath, that has a plastic cover & binding.

[wendybeth]

I am reading this one book -- And really it's the one that made me think I should take a bath, that has a plastic cover & binding.

No, no , no... A good bathtub book is a paperback, swollen from repeated accidental immersions. One that you are a bit sorry for getting wet, but not too sorry, because you know you will be able to find it again, or you have something even better lined up....

[blueerica]

Ahhh -- Yes, I have a few of those, as well...

I also like to read magazines in the tub...

Magazines to read by....

I also like bathroom remodeling magazines while I'm in the tub... Hmmm..

[blueerica]

Oh, and I mean not that I put a plastic cover on the book, but that the book came that way... it's meant to be beat to sh1t.

[wendybeth]

I have some weird bathtub books... I'll have to go and take stock- my latest was Catch 22, by Joseph Heller. The one before that was Anna Karenin, by Leo Tolstsoy.

[belleh5]

I'm just sitting here waiting for my bf to get home. He went out with the "boys" some where. We were suppose to go to the mall, but no he gets a phone call and he's out the door!

[Baileykat]

I'm down with the club.

We could give pointers and work out problems such as:

1.) Devise new ways to ignore telephones.
2.) Book recommendations for tub-reading
3.) Best bath salts.
4.) How to deal with residue from bath oils.
5.) Music to soak by.
6.) Loofah vs. Scrub Bud
7.) Cucumbers vs. Tea Bags

Oh, the things we could discuss at our meetings....

:cheers:


Ok...we'll need a cool, swanky name...matching towels, we'll all join the Loofah of The Month club, WB will organize the book of the month...We'll have to figure out a way to surf LoT while bathing....


My favorite bathtime book is Divine Secrets of The Ya Ya Sisterhood...It's soooo beat up...paperback of course...the back has literally given up and the pages are beginning to fall out one by one....but I love it!

[mhrc4]

meh, its morning, its early, and I dont wanna be awake!

anyhow, just sitting here browsing the boards, having my coffee, need to get ready for the day, need to be in the office by 10am... blah....

[Mousey Girl]

I kept the LM home from school today, he wasn't feeling well yesterday. I slept in. It was a good thing, I am fighting a full-blown migraine.

The kid has been trying to wake me up with rats since 6:30. I finally got up and took someting for my head. It is my own fault that my head hurts... I O.D.'d on Sees yesterday.

[wendybeth]

Heading off to work in a few. (Sigh). I am not in the mood to work, which isn't good when you have to be creative. That also means that everyone who is scheduled today will want something new, different, etc. I usually kick into hairdresser mode when I walk through the doors at the shop, but on those days when I am really off, I just tell them "Not today, you don't..." Doesn't happen often, but I feel it's best to be honest about it when it does- lol.

[MerryPrankster]

I woke up in the crappiest mood this morning. I was feeling mean, nasty and contrary...:( Thank goodness this doesn't happen very often. I have no idea what caused it, nothing in particular that I can think of. Maybe the garbage truck rumbling down the street and waking me out of a sound sleep. Anyway, I read some Buddha. And now I feel as if it has shifted me into a different mood; peaceful. I'm going to do some ironing and meditate. Yeah, I know that sounds weird. Some people soak in a tub to find bliss, I iron. :rolleyes:

[Not Afraid]

I woke up, turned the coffee backo and sat down to check up on the boards and who hops up on me but my sick boy, Buster. I think the antibiotics must be working (I still don't have test results but we think it is a UTI) because he attached himself like a koala to a tree and started purring loudly. He just left, so it's coffee time for me.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Hmm, is this a good lunch day or a cheap lunch day?

Oh, I love the bath club, but man, that would knock a hole in my schedule...I just may fall into it though. :cool:

[mhrc4]

Hmm, is this a good lunch day or a cheap lunch day?




dont you HATE those days??!? I know I do... :)

[Cadaverous Pallor]

dont you HATE those days??!? I know I do... :)Yeah, cheap lunch days aren't the greatest, especially if you're in the mood for something better.

At least two days a week I eat fast food or something similar. Often, what I choose depends on where I want to run errands. There's a nice variety of places to choose from near my morning job, the mall, my evening job, and everywhere in between.

The weather affects it too...it's kind of odd today, warm and cloudy. Hmm. Maybe Quiznos? Definitely not a burger. I'm leaning towards splurging on Boston Market. I looooove Boston Market. I think it's not that much more than Quiznos.

Now I'm checking where the closest thrift shops are to fill my long lunch gap.

[mhrc4]

meh, im hungry, but not motivated to go anywhere for lunch.... we have some light food in our kitchen here at work, sandwhiches and other fried/mircowave food that is sure to give you a heart attack....

though dinner is being catered at our meeting tonight, then going to ANOTHER dinner at a friends house tonight, so ill be fed well tonight!

[Gemini Cricket]

I woke up in the crappiest mood this morning. I was feeling mean, nasty and contrary...:(
Everyone's entitled to a little moodiness now and then. Iron away, MP!
:)

[mousepod]

Currently enjoying a microwaved Campbell's Select Beef with Portabello Mushroom and Rice. It's as close as I've come to solid food since last Tuesday.

Soup is good food ... I guess.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Trying to resist the urge to just put my head back and take a nap in my chair, while simultaneously resisting the urge to grab a cup of tea or coffee because the last time I had tea every day in a week, I ended up with the chills and a headache on Saturday.

[Gemini Cricket]

because the last time I had tea every day in a week, I ended up with the chills and a headache on Saturday.
What kind of tea are you drinking there, GD?
:eek:

[Ghoulish Delight]

What kind of tea are you drinking there, GD?
:eek:Caffinated.

[Gemini Cricket]

Caffinated.
I've been getting headaches from my tea drinking, too. I drink Green Tea. But I think it's because I went from drinking a lot of soda to just drinking 2 cups of tea a day. So I think my headaches are from a lack of caffeine and yours is from too much. Hmm.

[Ghoulish Delight]

No, mine was from lack. It was Saturday, when I was at home, NOT drinking tea. It was total caffine withdrawl, don't want to go through that again.

[Gemini Cricket]

No, mine was from lack. It was Saturday, when I was at home, NOT drinking tea. It was total caffine withdrawl, don't want to go through that again.
Ah.

[UvaGirl]

I'm currently revellingin the fact that it's Friday here & a beautiful day too. Friday holds so much promise....the weekend stretches out in front of you, with infinite potential. All too soon it's Sunday night, but I'm not thinking of that now.:)

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Went to Boston Market. Had decaf. Fooled myself into thinking I had coffee. Bought a few things at the thrift shops. Went to the wrong branch for work - got to the right branch 3 minutes late.

The right branch is the dead branch so you just might see me a lot here for the next few hours. :)

[Gemini Cricket]

The right branch is the dead branch
Watch out for those dead branches. They could break and make you fall from the tree...
:D

[Mousey Girl]

We just got back from the grocery store. I had gone back to bed this morning, after taking a couple of drugs. After the 2nd time I woke up with rats in my bed I bribed the LM. If he let me sleep we would go to the store and get ice cream. Right after we unloaded the car it started to rain.

Now I am happily drinking a Diet Dr Pepper and watching him play tug-of-war with the Roaming Rodent. She is trying to stash stuff under the couch and he is stopping her. The other girl is alseep on my chair, under her blankey. Ah, bliss. :)

[Prudence]

I hatehatehate my job. Much evilness. Boss constantly sets me up by giving me one set of instructions, then revealing once completed work has been passed along that "real" instructions differed, thus making me look incompetent. I hatehatehate that. And deciding not to replace the 1.5 FTE staff we're missing, because I'm overtime exempt so she can just assign all that work to me. And then sits on a 4 week jury and doesn't even pass her work on to me at the time -- but now that she's back she's "too busy" to do her work that piled up so she's giving it to me -- only now it's overdue and she tells people it's my fault for not doing it while she was gone. She tells me to shut my door so I can work uninterrupted and get work done faster -- then five minutes later knocks and orders me to open it because people are seeing the closed door and going away, thus not interrupting me. And I need to be available to all people all the time for whatever they need. I'm an overtime-exempt, salaried employee, the only other such employee there (besides her), and I'm the one filling people's printers with paper, taking documents downstairs for them because they're "busy," and making photocopies on demand because apparenly everyone else's arms and legs have been amputated. I used to love it there but now I resent all of them. I get indigestion every Sunday evening because I dread Monday morning. Yesterday I actually felt what I'd have to call a small stirring of homicidal rage. Today was better, but only because the boss was in a meeting most of the day and I didn't have to look at her or feel her presence across the suite. But then as I was leaving she complained again about how busy she is, assigned me work I know full well the dept. chair gave to her because I already had a full plate, then when I told her I couldn't meet the competing deadlines said "I don't care about that" and walked away. Wants me to skip classes that start well after the end of my scheduled work day so that she can attend her kids' mid-afternoon sporting events, because I don't have kids and therefore my after work life is irrelevant and she can require my presence any time that suits her. I spend all day seething at her. I'm so happy to have a three day weekend. Although she wants me to work on something Monday that the chair said she wanted Monday, knowing full well that the chair only said Monday because she forgot about the holiday and won't be in herself on Monday.
Hatehatehate. I have so many applications out. Please oh please interview me and let me not reek of desperation.

[MerryPrankster]

^^^ I'm sending you good vibes for finding a new job, Prudence! :) Your boss sounds like a total psycho. Ewww...I hate it when that happens! Just reading your post gave me knots in my stomach.


Anyway... I'm watching Vanity Fair and eating Conversation Hearts. Must stop eating CH, I'm feeling ill.

[Scrooge McSam]

Prudence,

Sending best best bestest wishes your way for some good news on the job front.

I've had bosses try to pull crap on me like this. I wish I had advice for you, but I realize not everybody is as likely to jump up and yell "Oh HELL No!" as I am. I would suggest documenting assignments via email though, if that's possilble.

[wendybeth]

I woke up, turned the coffee backo and sat down to check up on the boards and who hops up on me but my sick boy, Buster. I think the antibiotics must be working (I still don't have test results but we think it is a UTI) because he attached himself like a koala to a tree and started purring loudly. He just left, so it's coffee time for me.

I'm glad he seems to be better!!! I've been worrying about him. Have you heard back from the vet yet?

[Not Afraid]

No word from the Vet yet. :mad:

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

At home. Packing up the old suitcase. Getting ready to head up to San Francisco tomorrow for a weekend of fun!

Nothing to watch on TV but Michael Jackson.

Blech!!!

[Baileykat]

I'm heading to bed! ALONE!!!!

John is out of town and usually when he's gone, Kat just moves into my bed! We always joke when we buy our house this summer, we'll only need Two bedrooms...one for Bailey and one for Kat, me and my husband!

BUT..I actually cleaned her room for her today...moved her furniture around..threw out tons of stuff...washed her comforter, clean sheets, put away her 400 stuffed animals so she can actually get into her bed.....


and what thanks do I get.........SHE ditches me for her bed!

"MOM..I haven't slept in my bed in forever!"

Yeah..but that never stopped you before!

Who's going to hog all the covers..who's going to sleep half-way down the bed, who's going to increase the heat in the bed so that I'm sweating halfway thru the night...who's going to wake me up at least twice for water?

Huh...how am I supposed to get any sleep tonight without all that?

Guess I'll just sleep alone! :eek:

[Gemini Cricket]

I'm heading to bed! ALONE!!!!
I love it when I have the bed to myself when what's his name is gone.
:D

No snoring.
No cover stealing.
No elbows in my back.
No weird pillow configurations.
No talking in his sleep.

Yay! Celebrate having a liberated bed. Made for one for tonight. Ya Hoo!

:)

[Baileykat]

BUT it's lonely!!!1



"No bears in the bed and the little one said..."I'm lonely...come back!"



I just love Kat and me snuggle time! I cherish every single moment cause I know it's going to be gone before I know it....Like tonight!!! :(

Wahhh!



BUT...I'll get all the pillows to myself...tee hee hee! :evil:

[Mousey Girl]

**yawn**

Goodmorning!

[Mousey Girl]

**yawn**

Good Night!

[mhrc4]

BLAH - work :(

[Kevy Baby]

I woke up, turned the coffee backo and sat down to check up on the boards and who hops up on me but my sick boy...Knowing that € has been sick of late caused for a double take on this line.

[MerryPrankster]

I'm doggy sitting Jasmine the terrier (or my little loaner Coco or Winky). I made the mistake of letting her go out in the backyard unsupervised, forgetting how muddy it's gotten back there from endless days of rain. So now, after a doggy bath for her, we are watching Best In Show together. OMG...I'm really getting a kick out of it! I forgot how much I love this movie. It's even more funny after watching The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show only days ago.

It's another rainy day here. We'll probably watch movies all day.

[blueerica]

I'm waking up to pleasant thoughts, and pleasant people; hoping my day will stay this way. But not counting on it.

[€uroMeinke]

Morning coffee watching the rain and sunshine.
Smiling to myself about last nights mojitos, music, and more.
Fotune cookie delights - but out of bed too soon.
Oh the hedons we had and the feet scoundral hearded.
The morning was bacon.
Hugs goodbye and promises of seven futures.
Mmmmm, have another sip.

[blueerica]

:coffee:

[Prudence]

I'm having chocolate for breakfast. Well, I guess by now it has to be lunch. Annoying jerk next door left his music on really loud and left for the weekend. Again. I should be doing homework. Or cleaning. Probably will get up and do something useful in a moment or two. Have to shake off the apathy.

[Scrooge McSam]

Mr. Lazy Bones here! Nice to meet you!

I struggled out of bed at 7 this morning. Quickly wore myself out making a cup of tea and reading the paper to the point I needed a nap around 10. Breakfast at 1PM (I love Saturdays) and then a little lightweight RCT3 action. I've spent the last little while virtually visiting DL via http://visionsfantastic.com/index2.html. DL's POTC puts WDW's to shame!

[mhrc4]

oye, day 2 of a photo shoot for a movie we are doing still photography for, Yucaipa and Calimesa, here we come.... woohoo another 7 hours of shooting in the rain and mud

[Kevy Baby]

*grunt*

[MerryPrankster]

Just got back from walk/jogging the dog. Perfect timing too. It's starting to rain again. :rolleyes:

Looks like another movie day! Maybe some cleaning and ironing too, that might be a good idea.

[blueerica]

I'm busy pondering.

And drinking coffee.

:coffee:

[Baileykat]

Recovering from last night...

Last night we had a couples only Bunco night..it was a blast! Great friends..ended at 11:00 which was nice...had lots of great wine and champagne, :cheers: great appetizers...John and I won the big money! Whoo hoo!

Then He and I stayed up to watch "Saw"...freaky, weird, good movie!

We actually had NOTHING to do today! Which is soooo freakin nice!

Got up at 8:30am...sent hubby back to Phoenix for the week (he was home for a whopping 15 hours!)...made biscuits and sausage gravy for breakfast...a ginormous pot of strong coffee :coffee: (Oy! I'm not as young as I drink I am! )

Kids are playing outside together, I'm chilling, watching the DAYTONA 500 baby!

[Kevy Baby]

Got up at 8:30am...sent hubby back to Phoenix for the week (he was home for a whopping 15 hours!)I get to GO to Phoenix tomorrow

For 9 hours.

[UvaGirl]

Grrrr. It's Monday and I'm at work. I envy those of you for whom it's still Sunday. On the bright side, it's a beautful day here:)

[MerryPrankster]

I'm watching the the Daytona 500. My husband sucked me into it...he has it on the speakers throughout the lower part of the house. Nothing like having cars whizzing by in my living room. OMG...Baileykat's right! This is exciting...oooh that crash! :eek:

[Baileykat]

I'm watching the the Daytona 500. My husband sucked me into it...he has it on the speakers throughout the lower part of the house. Nothing like having cars whizzing by in my living room. OMG...Baileykat's right! This is exciting...oooh that crash! :eek:

I can barely watch anymore! My guy is Tony Stewart...I think I've gained 20 pounds this afternoon alone with my nervous eating! Cant's stand the suspense! I'm getting a :cheers: !

[Matterhorn Fan]

I'm sick. I feel rotten. And a little bit faint.

But I do have a sexy voice today. :rolleyes:

[Baileykat]

I'm sick. I feel rotten. And a little bit faint.

But I do have a sexy voice today. :rolleyes:

My husband loves when that happens! :rolleyes:

I lose my voice about once a year...it gets all raspy-Demi Moore like!

Since he has this whole Demi Moore crush thing going on...he takes great joy in my suffering! :rolleyes:

[Not Afraid]

I spent the day in the Urgent Care Clinic. I seems I have a bad case of the real flu - throwing up uncontrolably and such. So, form about 10 until 4 that's where we were. Fun day. Apparently, there were 4 or 5 other cases of flu in there today. I just thought I had too much fun over the weekend, but, nope, doc says it's flu. I'm still nausious and haven't slept in much too long.

NOT HAPPY!

[blueerica]

I spent the day in the Urgent Care Clinic. I seems I have a bad case of the real flu - throwing up uncontrolably and such. So, form about 10 until 4 that's where we were. Fun day. Apparently, there were 4 or 5 other cases of flu in there today. I just thought I had too much fun over the weekend, but, nope, doc says it's flu. I'm still nausious and haven't slept in much too long.

NOT HAPPY!

:mad:

[MerryPrankster]

NA~ That sounds awful! Cuddle up with the kitties and get well soon.

[Mousey Girl]

I just got up from my nap. I only have 2 Monkeys. No mass invasion today, which is nice. They seem to have been taking turns. When 1 Monkey leaves another Monkey shows up.

The rain seems to only be hitting here at night. The last few days have been beautiful, sunny and upper 60's. Right now the storm seems to be moving in, the winds are picking up and the sky is wonderfully dark.
The weather has also cleaned up the air, the Kern Canyon has snow on the top, we can also see Tehachapi with snow. Even the Grapevine is nice and clear.

This has been a nice weekend, very lazy. Tomorrow I am taking my 3 (HA) boys to see Son of the Mask. I only wanted to take the LM, but I had promised the other 2 I would take them too.

[Gemini Cricket]

I spent the day in the Urgent Care Clinic. I seems I have a bad case of the real flu - throwing up uncontrolably and such. So, form about 10 until 4 that's where we were. Fun day. Apparently, there were 4 or 5 other cases of flu in there today. I just thought I had too much fun over the weekend, but, nope, doc says it's flu. I'm still nausious and haven't slept in much too long.

NOT HAPPY!
Ay Carumba! I'm sending good vibes your way to help you get better.

Here goes...

GC ))))))))))))))))))))NA
:)

Hang in there. :)

[Not Afraid]

THank you one and all. This is the THIRD time I've been sich with some sort of fluish thing. I really must stop it. I don't like having IV's and such.

[Gemini Cricket]

THank you one and all. This is the THIRD time I've been sich with some sort of fluish thing. I really must stop it. I don't like having IV's and such.
Me too. It's the needle into the top of my hand that bugs me. It just feels wrong.

Ralphie had the flu, too. But strangely enough (knock on wood) I haven't got it yet. His lingered as well.

:coffee: <----hot tea with lemon & honey

[Prudence]

It was a beautiful day today. I recall reading somewhere that we've had less rain this month than we did last July. Apparently we shipped all our rain to CA. That's what you get for shipping your lousy drivers north!

Today we went to the Aquarium. I haven't been in ages. My friend and co-worker volunteers there and we got to hear her do her spiels on harbor seals, northern fur seals, and sea otters. One of the northern fur seals is 24 and the oldest one in captivity anywhere. She's blind and spends lots of time sort of standing on her head with her flippers sticking out of the water. No one knows why. We got to feel various pelts, too. Sea otter pelt is possibly the most luxurious thing I've ever felt. No wonder they're endangered.

Also rode the waterfront streetcar 'cause it's been a long time since we've done that. Stopped at Krispy Kreme on the way home for no good reason.

Boris tried escaping out the front door when I opened it. Took off down the walk and crossed in front of the garage. Now he's sitting in front of the front door crying because he wants to go have an adventure and mean mommy won't let him. It's really quite annoying. Silly feline. He keeps forgetting that he's a fraidy-cat.

[Baileykat]

THank you one and all. This is the THIRD time I've been sich with some sort of fluish thing. I really must stop it. I don't like having IV's and such.


I think the Dr. needs to prescribe you some down time with your King of Swank on some warm, tropical beach somewhere...

I recall vaguely something about the healing powers of suntan oil and Mai Tai's!



:)

[mousepod]

Hey NA, I'm sending swanky "get well" vibes your way...

It's been a very up and down weekend up here as well. I spent all day yesterday at "WonderCon" with one of my pals. Bought a few cool Disney items and saw Kevin Smith do a 90 minute Q & A. Heather gave me permission to go geek out as long as I got her Adam Baldwin's autograph (secret crush, anyone?). I wound up chatting with the local Universal Pictures rep who took me back to the press room where Adam was getting ready for a signing session with Joss Whedon and two other Firefly cast members. Long story short, I was allowed back into the house last night with a 8x10 signed to Heather by all three actors and Joss.

Today was a less exhilirating day, unfortunately. Violet, our cat, who at 15 is normally a vivacious and healthy cat, has taken a mysterious turn this week. He's stopped eating and drinking and all of our efforts to coax him into health have been unsuccessful (canned pumpkin, salmon, goopy hairball stuff). Our vet is open tomorrow, but I was too stressed out to wait, so we took him to the emergency vet. They ran a bunch of blood tests, and now he's spending the night there with an IV. The bill is not going to be pretty (the estimate was from $700-$1000 just for the next 24 hours), but hopefully we'll be able to figure out how to treat the little fella.

I guess it's all about extremes.

SYRS,
Jesse

[Gemini Cricket]

Monterey:
Rain rain rain. Wind. Rain rain. Wind wind.
Power outage? Almost, not quite.
Rain rain rain.
:)

It's kinda fun! :D

[BarTopDancer]

Why are there ducks swimming in my parking lot? I guess because it's flooded.

[CoasterMatt]

I'm nursing a wound from a flying windchime - I stepped out my door and WHAP!!! Right in the face. I don't know what house it came from, but I hope I can return it (it's still reasonably intact)

[blueerica]

Pondering life over a cup of coffee. Just started another pot at work. Stealing moments to be here right now.

[€uroMeinke]

Sleep finally triumphing over wakefullness after a long day of aggrevated waiting, sad memories, and old resentments. The rain never ceasing - or it's ceasing just a teasing. Gratefull that this day is commitment free - except for taxes. So today we'll take on the government in the hopes of many happy returns in the future.

Oh, and coffee - there always must be coffee...

[wendybeth]

For €uro, whilst doing the tax thing::coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee::cof fee:

And, for after the taxes::cheers::cheers::cheers:

[Gemini Cricket]

Enjoying having the house to myself. Ralphie's at work.
Playing on the computer and on eBay.
Drinking tea and listening to the Spice Girls.
Life is decent.
:)

[UvaGirl]

I'm nursing a wound from a flying windchime - I stepped out my door and WHAP!!! Right in the face. I don't know what house it came from, but I hope I can return it (it's still reasonably intact)

LOL! For some reason this made me laugh:) Hope you're okay CM!

[MerryPrankster]

Sunny, cloudy, sunny, cloudy! Busy, rest, busy, rest, busy, rest, rest, rest! :rolleyes:

My sinuses feel all crazy today. My head feels like a balloon ready to pop. Lots of pollen everywhere! :eek:

[Claire]

I started off the day with great intentions.....made myself a pot of tea (cool new tea set and woven tray from Target!), read the newspaper (Sandra Dee died :( ), then a chapter of my book (The Vicious Circle by Margaret Case Harriman--written in 1951 while the Algonks were still alive!), then put in a load of laundry, picked out my clothes, had the girls clean their rooms, so we could head out....need to get a quote on a 3X3 mirror framing and I want to um, gobacktoTarget, I mean, um, getalatteatStarbucks, no, I mean run some errands.

I need to run some errands and gotoTargetwherethere'saStarbucksthuskillingtwobird swithonestone.

Alas, I decided first to check my email for auction updates....and got sucked into LoT and MC as a result. I suck.

[Baileykat]

Arrrrggghhh! It's finally happened!

I'm sick! Bleck!

The kids both had nasty colds last week...it decided I'm next!

Throat feels like I swallowed a cheese grater! Everything aches! Stuffy nose! A little fever! Urk! I hate this!!!!!!

To top this off...Best Buy STILL has my computer..they have totally been giving me the run around...

Hopefully I'll get it back this afternoon...which means I must make a yearbook collage page for Bailey's class by tomorrow! Bleck!

[Baileykat]

Arrrrggghhh! It's finally happened!

I'm sick! Bleck!

The kids both had nasty colds last week...it decided I'm next!

Throat feels like I swallowed a cheese grater! Everything aches! Stuffy nose! A little fever! Urk! I hate this!!!!!!

To top this off...Best Buy STILL has my computer..they have totally been giving me the run around...

Hopefully I'll get it back this afternoon...which means I must make a yearbook collage page for Bailey's class by tomorrow! Bleck!

[Gemini Cricket]

Deja vu!
:D

[Baileykat]

:eek: Oops!

[MickeyD]

Oh ugh, Bailykat! I feel for ya about the computer thing...Best Buy + computers = nightmares for me. Although that didn't stop me from buying my last one there.....but I did refuse to get the extended service plan for it.

[Baileykat]

Oh ugh, Bailykat! I feel for ya about the computer thing...Best Buy + computers = nightmares for me. Although that didn't stop me from buying my last one there.....but I did refuse to get the extended service plan for it.


Argh..Thanks! Everytime I call, I get a different person who has NO idea what's going on...They have to look up my account 4 or 5 times before they can find it...then they ask ME what's being done to it? Hello..I thought you were fixing it...No notes on anything...argh!

Soooo..I had the husband call. He's the best about getting to the point of the problem...his people skills get tested in situations like this...and I feel sorry for the person he spoke to ! BUT...I can pick it up anytime tonight as it's suddenly ready! :D





P.S. I've read the reviews from the first Motley Crue shows...they are kicking A!!! Whooo hooo! March 19th! Still think you should head out to Phoenix and go with me! I'm sure you'll be more fun than hubby...last time we saw The Crue, he didn't speak to me for two days...something about my over zealous attempt to get Nikki Sixx to look at me!! Oops!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Giving up on catching up here after nearly a 3 day absence.

[Matterhorn Fan]

I feel like crap.

[lashbear]

I feel like crap.

I've got some you can have.


:evil:

[Matterhorn Fan]

<insert clever retort here--mojo to the best one>