Will 1/2 do? Is that considered coverage?

Sadly I think some women think so.

Left or right? Seems the right might fit.

They didn't cut that much out, damn them. Sadly, even after a partial mastectomy, I'm still not a B.

I realized it's kind of like looking at baby pictures. Awwww, look how cute and little!

Wow, you guys are great. To be able to have such disscutions openly without anyone getting hurt. I never thought I'd see such a thing!

Of course I thought Lisa was cleaning her hair "Tossing and cleaning," but I digress....

Here's to you guys :cheers: Cheers!

I kept my son's cast from when he broke his leg falling of the slide ladder at about 3 years old. How cute and small is right!

You haven't seen 'em? I thought everyone had!

I have my daughter's from when she was 2- can still smell the moldering tarter sauce she crammed up in it the last week she had to wear it.

My mom threw out my cast from 3rd grade. I was bummed. My x-rays are still around somewhere.

Suddenly I'm not feeling like so much of a packrat.

Anything to get it to stop itching!

Yes I have, but I never!

Oh, and my son's name is Kevin. I use to call him Kevy, but now he's 19 and hates me to.:rolleyes:

After hearing all these stories about casts and the like, I feel gypped that I never got one. (or perhaps lucky that I never injured myself seriously enough to get one)

The only bone I ever broke was in 4th grade, when I broke my pinky finger. But, the way I broke it was kinda cool...if you consider that I had it smashed by a kid who whipped a bowling ball right at my hand.

Ralphie's undersea adventure postponed to next week. He will let me know exact dates. They did send a sub down to pick up experiments at the bottom of the ocean though. They have live animals (deep sea tube worms) on board now.
:)

I am sitting here, dressed and almost ready to go to another job interview. I feel a bit cheated with my last one...I came in 2nd for the job with Direct TV. This one is for CleanSource as a CSR. The only good thing I can say is that at least the interviews I have been going to have been on my side of town, within 10 mins from my house.

Sooo...the phone rings yesterday, Office Team, one of the temp services I am signed up with calls. They have a 1 day job for me...for TODAY!!

I have decided that temp services have impeccable timing. The other service I am signed up with called me for a job while I was on assignment with Office Team. When I told them I was unavailable due to another assignment they got so ticked that they haven't called me since.

Has he visited the Maritime Museum in Astoria? It's a good one.

Not sure. I'll ask. :)

Eric's grandpa has some stuff in there- he was a sea captain around the turn of the century.

Juicy juicy mango!

There is a large moth on the floor of the women's restroom. And by large I mean approximately 1.5 inches long. It's a large moth.

Is it alive? If so, step away slowly...and watch out for sudden attacks...

It didn't seem particularly dead, but neither did it seem the slightest bit concerned with me and whatever business I might have to conduct in there.

When I lived in Hilmar we had a bug zapper at the entrance to a breezeway. The thing would attract Miller Moths. Those suckers were huge 2-3" on average!!


I am home from my interview...not sure how it went. the funny thing is that they hire through a temp service for your first 600 hours. Of course it is one of the temp services I am signed up with, and the one I ticked off 2 weeks ago. *sigh*

I did see an ad for Pleasant Hawaiian Holiday's call center. Everything in the ad was perfect, I would be a shoe in for it...until I saw that the call center supervisor was one of my old managers from SBC, and NOT one of the ones I got along with.

I havent either.
How, i have no idea, but I havent seen the scars even.

I've given up flashing for Lent. ;)

I get to take Nick to the dentist...poor kid has some serious work to be done. I really feel for him. I am just hoping I don't fall asleep in the office waiting for him to be done.

He is happy right now, though. He left 1/2 of his homework at school and I bought him some Yugioh cards and a new stuffed Pokemon today. I just wish he is as happy when we get back home.

Can I just say that 'While You Were Out' on TLC totally stresses me out. I'm sure it says tons about who I am as a person, but the whole time deadline thing is a total nail biter.
But it's worth it watching the cute host and cute carpenters...
:D

I can't watch those types of shows. I don't want anyone messing with my stuff, especially my WDCC and Enesco animated, mice music boxes.

We were done at the dentist within a 1/2 hour. He has 2 fillings in his permanent teeth and had 2 baby teeth extractions. The novacaine is wearing off and he is hurting. He is eating icecream with bananas and has an icepack on his face.

And in this show, they totally messed up a kitchen counter and weren't ready when the deadline hit. Oy vey. Enough to give a stickler like me a heart attack.

Dentist. I guess I gotta go see one of them when I get back. Bleh. I've never heard of a baby teeth extraction. Is that when it takes too long to fall out? Mmmm ice cream!

But did he pick up any more of those, "We don't know what it is"s?

Lent is over: flash away!

I got flashed at work today - I bet the managers were "reviewing" those surveillance tapes tonight...

Basically the baby tooth had gone bad and needed to be pulled before it infected the adult tooth. 1 of them was a part of a root that was left during a previous extraction. He is doing better now. I am still going to keep him home tomorrow.

Another TLC show I can think of that is just as stressful for the poor woman that is ambushed is "Take Home Chef".

Not only do they have to cook a meal before the family gets home, but imagine how the husbands feel when they see their wives cooking up a storm with ANOTHER MAN...who abducted them from a supermarket and lured them away with the promise of free groceries! OH THE HORROR!!!

........... this is growing up.

GC, some teeth, baby or adult, never pop up and get infected and have to be removed. Some people have been known to grow a second baby tooth that tries to come in and cause everything to grow crooked or doesn't come up and gets infected. It's not that uncommon.

Where the hell has summer gone? I just noticed the other day that nightfall is a lot earlier than the last time I checked and there have been some seriously sad looking kids moping about the salon this week.
:D

(School starting)

We've had lots of company the past few weeks and I feel like I've hardly been able to hang out here. How are you all doing? Is Scaeagles faring well at work, and what's with the Mr. Bill avatar? Bartop, what happened to make you realise you might be a grown-up? Has GC left for his whirlwind tour de l'ouest?

I'm so out of touch.:(

I'm still alive, not that anyone would notice.....

-Eeyore :P

Not true, Mr. I'll have you know, I saw that Chicago would be playing at a local casino, and I thought of you.:cheers:

Aw, quit putting happiness into my depressed life. Of course since that's not near me, that means I CAN'T go see them. :(

Go see them for me!! ;)

Could NA the cat whisperer change the heart of this cat?

Yah, sure. It's going to have a microchip implant......

It's name is Grumpy, and my cat's name is Dopey. No kidding, it is!

And my dog's name is Pooh, and the other cat is Tigger.

"Extraction" made it sound scary to me. :D

I washed Frodo last night. He looks like a toilet brush now. He's all spiky and fluffy. Gotta brush him some more...

Poor Grumpy. I bet he could be rehabilitated.

I think Grumpy needs a change of venue- Arizona, perhaps?:evil:

Nah, not scary at all. Today he is doing much better, and probably could have gone to school. Both of the areas where the teeth were pulled both have new teeth already showing. He has been eating nonstop this morning (cereal, waffles, graham crackers, ect...) so I know he isn't hurting.

Bring it on.

Irony of ironies.

I was finally given some real work at the new job today (been doing real work, but a trained monkey could have done it).

They have some 300 reports they are converting from one format to another. Currently they have an independent contractor doing it at a rate of about 1/day. My job is to learn how to do that so they can get rid of the independent contractor and save money.

Irony? I got the new job because I was an independent contractor that got the budget ax.

That is Irony!

Good luck to you! And may you get 2/day done and blow that contractor out of the water!

Not a trip report yet, 'cause I'm still on the trip, but I just heard two of the funniest Jungle Cruise lines I've heard in a long time. Apologies to APers who've heard these before:

To a guest who refused to play along and lean to one side to avoid the Falls:
"Lady, this isn't TV. I can see you."

"A downed plane! That can only mean one thing: HIPPOS!"

Having fun. Wish you were here.

*waves to Mousepod

Everest?

*waves to Mousepod

Jean-Jacques Perrey sends his regards :)

*waves to Mousepod

Have a great time!!

The corporate fun police have finally caught on to Vox. There goes my blogging during work hours. Damn.

Wow, it's pretty quiet in here today. Does everyone but me have fantastic Labor Day weekend vacations or something?

I don't.

Me either, unpacking more crud and website/podcast/newsletter work for me. Taking advantage of the long weekend.

Tonight is Phantom of the Opera at the Stanford, looking forward to that.

I do plan on packing the MUNI pass and heading out to a museum one day this weekend, weather's going to be perfect, so I'm gonna enjoy it.

I wish. I get a little breather today after playing last night, then gigs on Saturday and Sunday. Then, back in the office on Monday. I always seem to miss out on these three day weekends. :)

Not doing a gosh darn thing here.

Nada. Zero. Zip.

:rolleyes:

I'm busier than all get out this weekend. But, I take care of those left behin.

I'll be giving you a call right after the Rapture.

Please do. God know I'll be here with the rest of the fun folks. ;)

I'm just sitting in here with computer wires everywhere, a stack of summer associate applications, and a phone with mom's cell on redial. As days off go, this sucks.

David was given another P.O.S. vehicle. This time it was a 74 El Camino in really ugly shape. I think I mentioned it before, he isn't allowed to bring it home. Well...he has the thing running now and was given a good deal on a new windshield. He wants to get it done this weekend. I just got back from AAA. I had to pay $224 to change the title and register it. It hadn't been registered in over 2 years. David's reply was that the tags on it are 2005. 10-1 they were stolen tags. The previous owner (not the one who gave it to David) was a tweaker, so nothing with this car would surprise me.

Ill be shopping for a new car this weekend, but other than that, nothing planned.

We had a 'cold-front' come in yesterday, and so I'm going to do some much neglected yard work while the humidity and temperature are "reasonable"

Sorry, the Rapture happend during the 84 Olympics.


We're the leftovers....
:evil:

No plans here, either. Work tomorrow, then on Sunday the Girl and I are going kitty-shopping with my sis and her boy. They had a snow dog the last twelve years that liked to eat cats for lunch, so they have never been able to get one. The doggie passed away last week, so now they finally get to experience the joys of waking up at 3:00 AM with a kitten attacking their feet.:D

But it's a classic. Clean it up a bit and it will be worth the investment.

Yeah, all of his vehicles seem to be classics. None of them ever seem to look any better...

I think it is coming here, I have 2 things missing from in front of the house. He is probably switching it with his pickup.

So...I left something at my office Friday that I needed this weekend, so having been told that Saturday access was fine, I went in to pick it up.

As soon as I open ed the door with my cool security card thing, I heard a beeping and realized they hadn't given me an alarm code. So the alarm starts going off.

I had no phone numbers of anyone in the office. I called the alarm company (phone number was on the alarm), but I didn't have the password, so they wouldn't give me any info.

After about 20 minutes of searching for a phone number, I found and called the emergency customer support line we have for customers of our software.

The guy gave me his code to turn off the alarm. When I was ready to go I rearmed it (hopefully) with the same code.

Sigh. Not a good thing.

.....I was at Target today. During my journey I wandered into the clothing department. I found a really cute pair of jeans, found my size and then went to look at the price sign. $68. WTF I say?! I look again. Joe's Jeans. Um, ok. I've seen these in Nordstroms or Macy's. When did Target start selling $68 jeans?!

Monday Nickolas and I went to Petco to get the girls some litter for their cages and some food/treats. I saw a nice, large cage, complete with a built in wheel for Squigs. I should have bought it. The cage the babies are in is over 30 years old. I found some broken bars at the bottom of the cage, the bars that currently anchor the wheel. I just hope that when I go back they still have it.

Well I did it...

Old cage:




New cage:

Purple! Those are some swanky rat digs!

The day I pay $68 for jeans is the day I smack myself across the face for being incredibly stupid for paying that much for something that'll wear out in a year anyway.:rolleyes:

I bought a pair of $48 running tights today.

I bought a $4 slingshot monkey and a $2.50 windup sparking Nunzilla today

TY! So far they seem quite happy with it. The wheel was squeaking like crazy. I just got doen greasing it. They are all trying to lick off the veggie oil. The only one who doesn't seem too happy is Daisy, but I don't think she is feeling well.

Soooo.....Having a boring yet somewhat productive day. I'm now in the middle of my semi-annual Fawn Hall Event, in which I gather up the copious amounts of mail and such that has accumulated over the past six months and commence to shredding. I've mowed my way through two very large piles, and now only have to go through the mounds on top of our kitchen island and desk.

We're on vacation all week; we were supposed to be on a cruise going from NY to Nova Scotia but events conspired against us and we had to cancel our plans. Now I'm glad we did- between the restrictions when flying and the storm off the East coast (Ernesto, I believe) the fun would have been diminished. I checked in on our former cruise at Cruise Critic, and one person on board said the weather was bad, ocean really tumultuous and the Martha's Vineyard stop had to be cancelled. We're looking at a Hawaiian cruise or a trip to Europe next year instead.

Friday we're going to Seattle for the weekend- going to stay at a nice hotel in downtown and hit all the tourist traps like Pioneer Square, the Market and the museums. We seldom do that anymore- we either just stop off while flying to elsewhere, or we visit relatives and hang out at their homes. It will be nice to get away, even if it is for a short time.:cheers:

It's 8AM on the west coast and Ralphie has just boarded the sub to go to the deep sea trench. He just emailed me to tell me that he was boarding. I hope all goes well with the voyage.
Bon voyage, my love!
:)

I hope he doesn't implode...


I also hope he comes and post his true-life Captain Nemo adventures, and share some pictures of creatures yet to be identified. I'm very excited for him and sure do miss the Sub Lagoon right now.

Cheers Ralphie

On that note, I gotta pee.

If you feed a bunny parsley and mint, their breath smells like tabouli.

Curious George is running around with no pants on...

curious, no?

Woo-hoo! I just booked to go to my 20th HS reunion, which I was originally planning on skipping. Sat 23rd in Napa, CA. Woo-hoo!

That's not their breath, it the droppings. Mezze Potpourri............

My apologies to any Lebanese or rabbits that might frequent here...

He is sooo lucky! I'd love to see that! I hope it went well, and he got all he wanted out of it (with the possible exception of a private restroom of course!):snap:

[Rodney Dangerfield voice]"My boyfriend's big, you know what I mean? BIG. He's so big he just emailed me to tell me that he was boarding. BIG, I'm telling you."[/Rodney Dangerfield voice]

So, it was apparantly a slow news day in the Seattle area recently. My great aunt (101 years old) made headlines...because she got a frappuccino.

She was quick to point out to my mom that, while the article says she and her friend walked across the parking lot, she was actually pushed in her wheelchair.

She's one awesome lady and I hope to be as sharp as her when I'm...well crap, I hope to be as sharp as her when I wake up tomorrow.

Your aunt sounds like a great lady- I love cool old people and could talk with them for hours. Think of everything your aunt has seen and experienced in her lifetime! I don't think getting old would suck too badly if one could remain as sharp as she is, especially if coffee is still on the menu.

Ralphie has returned from the deep sea. All is well. He had a fabulous time. He will be posting something on the LoT when he returns in a week or so...
:)

Cool! I can't wait!

And GD, I guess your aunt has proved that coofee isn't all that bad for you!

So... I just choked.

I was eating a sliced heirloom tomato with cottage cheese, and I was biting one of the tomato wedges and accidentally bit through the front 10% while the back 90% slipped down my throat and got lodged.

My throat kept spasming so I thought it was going down, but it turns out it wasn't, so I ran into the kitchen where Tom was finishing the asparagus, and I gave him the international "tomato lodged in my throat" symbol. He promptly administered the Heimlich Maneuver (god bless Heimlich-- god bless Tom!) and sent the tomato flying out.

It was very, very surreal. I always thought choking would hurt, but mostly it was slightly confusing and uncomfortable. But damn, that Heimlich works!

LS, I'm so glad you're all right!!!!!!

I've choked a few times and it's very scary. I'm so glad you realised early enough that it wasn't going to move- many people just panic and try to deal with it until it's too late to find someone to help them. Kudos to your man!:snap:

Glad you're ok. Kudos to both you and Tom for quick thinking.

First off, glad to hear you're ok...

But I gotta ask, did you get any good distance from the tomato wedge?

Only you Matt. Only you.

H!!!!!!!!!! So glad you are OK!!!!!!!

Wow, thank goodness Tom was there to help you! I'm glad you're ok.

Hee hee. No, it only got spit as far as my hand-- so I don't know if it would've gotten much air.

I will say this: it was only about three minutes before I said to Tom, "do you mind if I go call mom... and post at LoT?" He said he knew I was going to say that.

Glad your ok H. I knew I hated tomatos for some good reason!! :)


On another note, Looks like a new job for the big B. Good $$ and I start on Monday~! Whoo hooo! I think I'll treat myself to some Ice Cream and the Little Mermaid tomorrow night. (the movie that is!) ;)

Glad to hear that you are ok, Heidi!

I had a strange experience with choking the other evening. I was sleeping and must have burped up a bit of gastric acid. For some reason, it made my throat close up and I woke up unable to breath. I was freaking out for a few seconds, as was Matthew, until I forced myself to relax enough to finally get some air in.

The adrenaline rush of the whole thing kept me up for hours afterwards.

Cheers to LSpoorEyorick - who almost made an untimely departure due to a tomato slice. I am happy Tom was there to read your sign language. I'm happy you're okay, and celebrate your continued existence tonight.

Tom is the hero of the day! 3 cheers for him.
We're glad you're still here, LSPE!
:)

When oh when will people learn that tomatoes are evil?

Gads I'm glad you survived your ordeal.

Lol, I anticipated this response from you after reading her post. :)

You're not preggers, are you?;)

The same thing happened to me when I was expecting, and it was very scary. I wound up developing acid reflux, which I still deal with to this day.

I *knew* I refused to take tomatoes in my lunch today for a reason! Yoiks! My mom recently had to give my dad the Heimlich at the Black Angus restaurant by them. You'd think that would get notice, but apparently no one paid any attention. Seems like there should be lights and sirens and chorus girls and so forth - all celebrating the not-dying. Did chorus girls appear for you?

Sadly, no. Unfortunately, I'm sorry to report that we had to have scaeagles fixed. He was popping out too many future conservatives. Something had to be done.

Yeah, all you wimps with your supposed throat problems. I laugh at your throat problems!

Actually, glad you're OK. Shouldn't you have posted this in some sort of "cheating death" thread and compared yourself to the perpetual death cheater CP?

And MBC, I stopped producing offspring of my own free will. While they will be fine future conservatives, all children are whiney little liberals, wanting you to give them everything for free without an understanding of the work or cost involved to give them what they think they need. :)

It's ok if she one-ups me. I've got the dislocated kneecap story GD mentioned. ;)

I have been up almost 24 hours. I just can't sleep. The laundry is folded, chicken is defrosting for dinner (so that I can get it marinating), I hard boiled the recently expired eggs, I have finally updated my anti-virus for the computer, and the trash has been taken out. *whew*

I also have company today. Nickolas has been complaining of a sore throat to the past few days. He said he tried to tell his teacher that he needed to go home yesterday, but she wouldn't listen. I did manage to get out him that this was after 2 other boys had left. So today he is home. He is driving me nuts.

I am watching Thudder dig up the bedding on their cage. Poor Fluffer's face is covered with the bedding Thud is tossing around. I scared her when I called her name, just like a guilty kid, "What, who me?" But she did stop digging. She knows Nick is home and she wants out.

I really need sleep.

I also sent out 7 resumes.

We did take the girls out, now they are all sleeping.


OOOO!!! Now I have a job interview for tomorrow morning! Yeah!

I am finally feeling the financial stress of not working, that is part of my insomnia.

Do not try to cut off and apply a large piece of cling wrap to a large bowl while standing 12" away from an oscillating fan. It will come around....:rolleyes:

My interview went well. The first thing I was told was that out of the 50 resumes they recieved mine was by far the best and most professional. I should know Monday or Tuesday.

After Nick got home from school I layed down for a bit. I got up to find a message on my voice mail for another interview, but their office was closed, so I will call them back Monday.

I also found a housefull of kids. We have both of Dawn's little ones. The first thing the 5 yr old said was, "My mom said you can cook us dinner tonight." All I could think was how special. I ended up ordering pizza.

*sigh* Gonna be a longgggggg weekend.

I ordered something from a guy on eBay whose seller name is "jartinafar". I think it's a derivation of "Fart in a Jar". Must be his hobby.......:D

I can't get Jafar out of my head when I see it, though. I then picture Jafar farting into a jar, trapping it in like a Genie.

[Robin Williams Voice in the jar] Okay, who cut the cheese? [/Robin Williams Voice]

Is there something wrong with me??

Yes. Yes there is... ;) Welcome to the club!

I think everyone has a little something wrong with them...it makes people more interesting to have some flaws.

True. It would be such a boring world otherwise....

:cool:

So...I get an email today.

A former college roommate, who was one of my best friends my freshman year in college, had been feeling sick for a while, and was admitted to a hospital for some testing. Yesterday he was diagnosed with advanced leukemia. He literally died a few hours later.

Blink.

How can someone have advanced leukemia to the point of death and not have known sooner?

While I hadn't maintained more than limited contact with him in the last few years, I am saddened by the loss of a great person who was a great friend during college. He is one of the few people I have ever known that truly had it as a goal to make the lives of everyone he had contact with better. Self sacrificing, caring, and compassionate.

He was 38 years old.

so sorry to hear about the loss of your friend. and thank you for the reminder of how important it is to cherish the time we have with family and friends.

ml

Sorry to hear that Scaeagles. Life is so weird. Each new day just amazes me.

I hope you cherish his memory.

Leukemia can be like that sometime. Happend to one of the managers I work with, vibrant exuberant woman who started feeling off so went to the Doctors and was dead within 3 months. It was unbelievable that something like that could happen, but I guess it does. I'm sorry for your loss, it's always hard when one of your contemporaries goes.

The whole thing is just rather surreal. Like I said, it isn't like we were close now, and only had the occassional email anymore. Like ML posted, it's important to cherish each and every moment, because who knows how long we have.

I realized I've actually discussed this friend before here or perhaps on another board prior to the creation of the LoT, and perhaps MBC might remember. He is someone who...discovered? realized?...that he was gay only somewhat recently, even though he had girlfriends and such during college and HS. In some thread or another I was saying how I thought that was odd that he was seemingly happy and....well, hetero, for lack of a better word....and then either came out or made a discovery or some such thing.

I'm sorry to hear about that as well.

It's a stark reminder of our mortality, isn't it?

Sooo....We went to Seattle for the weekend, and had a very fun and interesting time. I am no stranger to Seattle, but the past few years we have pretty much just zipped through it on our way to somewhere else. This time, we stayed downtown in a nice little boutique hotel and really got to absorb some of the atmosphere. As much as it pains me to say it, I truly love Seattle. (I just hate how much of our tax dollars, etc, they get as opposed to the Eastern side of Washington). Anyway, took a few pics and had some fun experiences that I will post in a mini-trip form here in the next day or so.

Prudence!!!! I got your messages, but too late to meet up! (My phone died and I didn't get your voicemail until today). We're planning on another jaunt next month, so hopefully we can arrange a PNW Swankfest then, okay? :cheers:

Sorry to hear about the loss of your friend, scaeagles.

2 interviews scheduled so far! w00t!

I got Garden Gnome cotton PJ's at Target tonight for $6.

I went with Susan shopping for shoes for her for her sister's upcoming wedding. We never got out of Nordy's.

I am such a mo: I love shopping for clothes for Susan. We found a cute pair of comfortable shoes for her that fit the bill - total "Wicked" (as in the musical) shoes. Comfort was import as she is the Matron of Honor and it is a full Catholic Mass ceremony.

How is it that two Atheists/agnostics (not 100% where they stand) could raise a devout Catholic and a Pagan?!?

I have to move because my landlord is a flake and I'm pretty sure my kitchen cabnet is rotting out and there is mold growing in it. School started and I am a week behind, I am exhausted from work and I have a constant headache because of the kitchen issues.

Gah.

I bet I can beat your landlord. At the last house we lived in, the owner sold the house WITHOUT TELLING US. The new owner showed up one day and said he wanted to be in within a couple of weeks.

It was 45 or so days and a lot of headaches for the previous owner before the new owner could get in.

Someone please let me know when Kevy changes his avatar, okay?

I got the LL Bean CHRISTMAS catalog in the mail today. CHRISTMAS! The funny thing is, my feet got cold and I had to put on socks. Is there a connection?

:sigh:

FINE... I changed my avatar

I changed mine, too :D

CM - I luv ya but your avatar makes me want to hurl :(

If ImageReady wasn't giving me fits, I would trim this one down and use it:

Wow, a small red x. !!

How's this avatar? :D

Sexy. Should make both KB and NM happy.

BOOBIES

It was either that, or...

Wow, my ignore list is getting long...

Sorry boys, I'm worried about someone glancing over my shoulder.

^ lol

I have yet another sinus infection. I was feeling better until the winds picked up on Friday. Saturday night there was a lot of dust (and 4500 people). By Sunday morning I was coughing up dirt.

I got a letter in the mail yesterday, I didn't get the job I interviewed for on Friday. I spent a very longggg night crying and depressed. Between not having a job and finances and everything else going on here at home (my b-day sucked~David ignored me~thank God I have a few good friends and my parents and Nickolas), my sleep cycle is all screwed up. I am waiting to be accused of being on crank again (he did this before during our last Laughlin visit).

*sigh*

Pitty Party of One waiting to be seated...

I am so annoyed for you. I cannot stand this type of behavior from men, or women. I just want to tell her to take a giant step back out of your life. Your husband is not to replace hers. :mad:

Hmm... I wonder what happened to it.

Can someone let Steph know she can un-ignore Matt and I? (I'm assuming we're two of the persons she has on ignore)

I guess the past year of hard work and marketing must've paid off, because it is supposed to be slowing down and I am busier than ever! This is crazy (but good). I'm just a bit amazed.

I am so b!tchy today.

Everything is making me want to scream.

I think it's probably related to the fact that

Spoiler-tagged for the girl-trouble TMI.

I'm not one to troll on a message board, but I'm feeling so grumpy that I want to find a message board full of stupid people so that I can bite their heads off. Not that I will. Just that it might make me feel better. Or worse.

I don't think women's bodies are built to do this.

I only wish I could go through it once, LS, so that I could understand what all women go through.

OK...that was a load of crap, but I thought perhaps it would give you cause to yell at me.

Leo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!! You little ****!

Thanks. That helped a little.

More chick TMI:

I am very proud of myself right now. I bought a toy net for Nick's room, for his stuffed Pokemon about a month ago. I had asked David to put it up since it required using a drill to make the holes for the anchors. He never did, so today I did it! I couldn't find the thingy to unlock the drill bit so I did have to go to my neighbor to change it, but I did it!! (I won't mention the trouble I had with the first hole because I had the drill going the wrong direction)

So....I just heard about a restaurant I had never heard of before...the "Heart Attack Diner".

I guess they only serve greasy, fat laden food, and the waitresses are dressed as scantily clad nurses, and after you eat, they wheel you to your car in a wheel chair.

Bwahahaha! I gotta eat there.

^ I want to see pictures!!

Congrats! :snap:

It's quite the feeling of accomplishment when you actually get something done that you didn't think you could do before you got it done. (Kinda like that sentance!:rolleyes: )

TY! I used to be quite handy around the house, but I fell into a married rut and let David take care of the repairs. With him not around as much I am having to relearn a lot of stuff. Sunday (my b-day) he was out and I fixed my toilet.

Not to mention I am the lone black widow killer. I just killed 4 more. They are really bad this year.

I've been doing the same, MG. I got tired of asking Eric repeatedly to do things he never gets around to doing, so I do them myself. I do a better job, anyway.

Ralphie's back from his voyage. He's regaining his land legs now. He's going to post about his experience when he gets a chance. The pictures he took are incredible.
:)

Cool! I hope he will share a few of the pics!

There's some cool ones. I'll help him post them. He even got shots through the round window in the sub. Very Submarine Voyage-esque...

But did he have a good time at DL? ;)

I am in a much better frame of mind today than I have been for a while. I got 6 hours of sleep last night, when comapred to the 2 I had been getting that is quite a bit.

I have Nickolas home with me today. He just stared at me when I told him we would be cleaning house today.

Those dinglecheeses at Subway put some weird sauce/dressing/liquid on my sandwich just now. Ugh. It made the whole Club Sandwich taste sweet. Bleh! I said deli mustard! I'm going to throw my sandwich against the wall and smear the sauce all over the place.

Okay, not really. But that bugs.

They'll regret the day they mess up a sandwich for me. Don't they know who I am?

I'm friends with innerSpaceman, dammit! He would riot with me.

Ahem.

Sorry. Donald Duck tantrum moment there...

:D

So, my pillow has been empty since Lyra died. She always slept next to my head. This morning, I woke up with fat Charles streached out over my head, snug as a bug in a rug, nestled deep into my pillow.


AWWWWWWWW!


Charles has been quite cat lately. He has started to bring us mousies in bed, meowing with the thing in his mouth. He doesn't seem to get that you shouldn't talk with your mouth full. ;)

So, I just realized I gave out WAY more information than I ever meant to. That this is a group of people I know and see on at least an occasional basis. I'm blushing.:blush:

Don't worry. The next party will involve pube-flashing. ;)

Well, if you couldn't tell, that's just not a possibility anymore.

OK, then. Lack of pube hair flashing. Or, "pubic region" flashing.

I'm making myself sick.

Hahaha... yeah... let's not discuss this anymore. Haha

It's kind of rainy here, and I'm bored silly

So....When's the next party?

I saw a worm last night. A freaking giant freaking worm. I guess it was an earthworm, it looked like an earthworm...except it was about a foot long and slightly thicker than your average #2 pencil! Freaking eeeeeew.

Was it white?

Why do I keep over-extending myself? Why do I leap upon every opportunity as if it could be my last? Why can't I sometimes say "no thanks, I have enough bullet points on the resume already"?

No. Nor was it in a lair.

Maybe it was a parasite. AN ALIEN PARASITE.

Wurm - as Hugh Grant would say.

I now have 2 job interviews tomorrow and 1 on Monday. The one tomorrow morning is with Nextel. I don't remember applying for it, but it is worth the time to hear what it would entail. I am just hoping it isn't a retail position, this is about taking steps forward and for me, retail is a huge step back.

Tomorrow afternoon is with www.howcool.com . They have several different office positions open. It would be the same type of thing I did at SociallyYours, phones, email, faxes, filing, ect... Only 1 problem, it is waaaay on the other side of town, and will take 30-45 minutes to get out there, but depending on which way I go it could be a very pleasant drive. Nickolas is a bit peeved because I told him I wouldn't be home when he got home from school.

Monday is with Colombo Construction as a data entry type thing, either in the office or on job sites. This one is one my manicurist/friend helped me get. The office manager is a client of hers and mentioned she was looking for office help. Deanna immediatly thought of me.

I just want a job, where I can go to work and get paid for it. We have enough money to pay bills with only David's check, but not enough to play with. My goal is to get something soon so that we can take a trip for Nickolas' b-day in December. I have already figured out where we would go and where we would stay, I just need to be able to pay for it before I finalize anything.

On another topic, I got a wild hair and we had meatloaf for dinner. I finally got an appitite and took full advantage by cooking a nice dinner. Even the rats are eating dinner, potatos and corn.

Actually, I think it was "Würm"
;)

You and your fancy smancy umlauts. Silly kraut. ;)

Break a leg!
:)

Why did fej start a thread that has 4,183 replies, yet he only posted in it once?

Other than to start it.....

Ah, but technically he did post in it. He was the first.
:D

So, where is he??? I haven't seen him around in a while.

GC, who's the guys in the photos you use in your avators? If you don't mind me asking...

He just wanted to know what we were all up to. Think how many hours of entertainment we've provided him, and all he had to do was ask one simple question months ago. The things we do . . .

So FEJ, what are you doing right now?

Earlier today, he was doing laundry and waiting for a tow truck. I tell ya, his life is WAY more exciting than anyone's here.

Cool. Did he get to pee?

Cuz that is just so Fej like.

And actually, Fej didn't start the thread: Übergeek did.

I have so much to do and no motivation to do it. Maybe if I ignore it, everything will go away.

I use this technique as well. I like to think of it as Scarlett O'Hara syndrome, "I'll think about it tomorrow, after all tomorrow is another day." Or something like that.

If anyone here ever hears me talking about doing another moot court, please whack me with something substantial.

Meet ya at Pike Place Fishmarket for the whacking.:D

Would that be making a moot point?

Now there's a plan!

Who? Is this his sock puppet? (With a lot of piercings, of course ;) )

Ubergeek and FEJ are the same person.

Ralphie needed to pee towards the end and did so when he got back on the ship.

The identity of the fellas in my av are unknown to me. But they are vintage gay folk photos that I find romantic from the top of my head to the bottom of my platformed shoes...
:)

Went to lunch, ran into one of my supervisors from my last job. Very funny. Boston's a small town every now and then...
:D

MG ~ How'd the interviews go?
:)

When's the Pumpkin Festival? I was there last year at that time. Might be a good excuse to make a visit...

OMG! A lil girl just totally wigged out when she saw Fiona - She's on the ground crying she's so happy she got her picture with Fiona, definitely a highlight for today :)

Sometimes I hate being right.

Just get her to stand in just the right place, and let a flying fish do the work for you!

:eek: I didn't know that!

On the port side, or starboard?;)

I thought so cause they looked so vintage and cool, but I didn't know if they were family, or reproductions. And frankly weren't sure they were gay, men were allowed to touch and stuff back then, you know. Even kiss. But these days if you show effection at all people talk. But that's fine with me, they can talk all they want, I still will hug men I'm close to. So there!:p

The nice man in brown just delivered my Lola Loves Lashes cake mascara (airplane carry-on safe!) and I had to share the sentiment in the outer packaging:

Lust Often, Love Always

Some days I'm not sure if I'm glad or regretful that there's not a gun in the house.

Well... I had my 2 interviews today. Nextel was pretty much what I expected. Main drawback is it is only $8.50/hr. The one this afternoon with HowCool.com was verrrry different. The fist thing I noticed (after spotting the workout equipment in the lobby) was people running around barefoot. They had already decided they wanted me in the customer service dept. I ended up being surrounded and interviewed by 3 different people, the 2 girls doing the hiring and the cust svc dept head. They told me the job only paid $8/hr and when I balked the girls took off and had a conference. They came back and said they wanted me to talk to the owner and see about giving me a manager title so they could pay me more.

The drive out there was very surreal. It is just over a hill from where I used to live with The Old People. It used to be out in the middle of nowhere. It ain't nowhere any more! I was shocked at the amount of building going on. Mesa Marin (Nascar raceway) was even torn out and it just had it's last race in April! It is already graded for more houses. The empty field in front of our old house (around 1000 acres) now has houses on it. I guess they solved the water issues (really bad water due to oil drilling).

It just kills me that all these open areas are no longer open.

My monkey got hired by PetSmart today!!! :D

Party time!

I thought she was working at the same place as you?!?

After summer, hours drop down dramatically for people without seniority...
She had a great time, and was just about in tears saying goodbye.

I came home from work, did 2 loads of laundry, paid bills, balanced the checkbook, put stuff away and ate dinner.

Last night when I was going to bed I decided that I was going to come home and take care of stuff.

Web traffic info for HowCool.com

So, I changed my avatar, but I don't think anyone noticed :D

I did :)

I have to do more moot tomorrow. *sigh* I was really hoping not to.

I did. I figured it was a preview of MA T-shirts

I'm doing back to back gigs tomorrow. One in San Dimas at the water park in the early afternoon, one in Santa Ana in the evening. Both are 4 hour shows. It's going to be a long day.

If you are around Santa Ana between 7-11pm, I'll be at Original Mike's. Free show, outdoor patio. Good eats! :)

I have officially been accepted into the PSU World Campus program. I am so excited.

University of Phoenix was just not giving me the education I was seeking, and the CalState schools are insanely hard to get into if you are not in high school or community college anymore.

Thank you! The link didn't work, but I was able to see the info. They are ranked at like 31,000. In contrast SociallyYours.com is 1,200,000. That just cracks me up for some morbid reason.

No way! MA shirts are always a secret. :D This was just something I threw together. Not a strong enough concept for a shirt.

We don't have a shirt concept yet. Hopefully after we decorate and move into the new place we'll have a moment to breathe and come up with something.

The LoT is 4,572,965.

I was curious about others. Found that MiceAge has been slipping in the last six months.

A wonder what the huge spike at MicChat was back in the end of August/beginning of September was?

Why am I amused by such mundane trivia?

So, today's panel feels I have "credibility issues." They couldn't articulate what they meant by that, of course or otherwise provide me with any useful feedback. It's just a "sense" they had. I guess I just look like a liar.

The good news is that I'm finally well on my way to acquiring the necessary skills to succeed in politics. All I need now is to master "morally questionable" and "soul selling" and I'll be all set.

The spike appears to be around the 12th of July or so- maybe a big meet, the birthday or just a Spider infestation?

I'm shocked to see we've dropped 2 million places in the last 6 months - how will we ever compete?
;)

We may have to lower our standards.

Maybe we can recruit some dead celebrities...

(Audrey's taken, but she would have classed the joint up too much).






Soooo..... brutal day at work today. I was dreading it intensely- not only had I scheduled my stupid ass to work nearly 12 straight hours without a break, but I caved in for a friend and agreed to style an entire wedding party in the a.m. I am not a morning person, and I had to be there by 7:30. Then, the bride turned out to be majorly OCD, which I discovered during the two practice styles we did prior to the wedding, and her call to me at home earlier this week. (Just to make sure I would be on time, etc). Now, I have been doing hair for twenty years, and have extensive experience with wedding styles. I also decided to only do friends and family in the past few years because, frankly, weddings tend to be a PITA and seldom worth the money, in that no one can pay me enough to put up with some of the crap I have over the years. Anyway, while I really like the bride and understand she can't help herself with regards to the OCD, I really did not want to show up today.

Imagine my surprise when she turned out all smiles and calm, and I was equally relieved to get the five elaborate updo's done in under three hours, leaving her plenty of time to get OCD on the photog's ass. I was exhausted by the time I was done, and I still had another 8+ hours to go. I am sooo glad I have the next three days off. I'm getting too old for this ****.

I just realized that "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and the ABC's song are the same tune.

I also just heard an eight-year-old tell this joke (NSFW and crude):

ew!! I can't wait to tell my dad that one!


I am off for my interview with the construction company. After that I get to go to the grocery store. I have a craving for chicken & dumplings tonight, so I need to get the chicken and veggies. After that it is home, get everything started, do dishes and take out the trash. Once Nick gets home we will run leftovers from Thursday's dinner out to The Old People. We aren't going to eat them and my dad loves meatloaf but mom won't make it for him. Then it is back home to clean the beasties and beat the boy into doing his homework.

Lots of sun today. I'm happy.
4 hours left at work. I'm happy.
Heartburn a little bit with lunch. Not so happy.
Now it's gone. I'm happy.
:)

As is "Baa, baa, black sheep." No wonder Salieri was jealous.

Don't reach up high with a dusting wand near an operating ceiling fan...
That is all.

No read on how my interview went this morning. So far everyone is saying they will get back to me on Wednesday.

Dinner is cooking, the house smells like chicken soup and I am hungry. Mom got irritated that I did a drop and run on her, and I don't think my dad has figured out what happened.

I am bored... so here is my Senior Picture from 21 years ago( we took the sr pics the summer before our sr year):

Great picture! (Check out the perfect feathering effect.....) I'll try and dig up mine- I also have some that I took when Mt. St Helen's dumped on us,* and looking at them now I can't believe I was ever that skinny.:rolleyes:


*Junior year

I babysat my little baby great-niece today- she's only six weeks old and looks like a feminine version of her daddy, who was my practice kid.:D

She's adorable, but I think the poor little thing has colic caused by her formula- her daddy, uncle and cousin Tori all had a milk intolerance and had to be switched to soy. I think her parents are afraid to switch her formula, so they are trying the Mylecon drops and such first, which are NOT working. She basically ate, screamed and slept all day; the little scooby was exhausted from crying and I felt so bad for her! I have her again tomorrow and I hope she has a better day. I really hate to see a little one having such a rough time. I'm glad I can watch her- I can't imagine putting her in a daycare, especially when she feels so rotten.

Poor little thing. I like the "little scooby" name!

Lol- me, too. Years ago, when Tori was a baby, a client used to always ask how my 'little Scooby' was doing. It stuck- she's been our Scooby Girl ever since.

Don't know what year, but I am guessing 1st or 2nd grade:

AGE 5

I love the pictures!!! And, NA, my Chickie had a dress JUST like that...and she was five, too! It is what she is wearing in her kindergarten picture.

I'd post my senior pic but then there would go my 'secret identity'...:cool:

I'd post a picture of me as a baby but I don't know if I want to see my big head on the internet....

And, I agree, I am glad you are taking care of the little one. I feel so badly for those who have to put their babies in daycare when they aren't feeling well.

Awwwwww! Cute! :)



I voted today. The trick is to vote for the dinglecheese that comes across as being the least corrupt.
:D

But wouldn't the MOST corrupt be the best at hiding it, making them come acorss as the least corrupt?

My answer might be yes and/or no.
:D

So, I'm hoping I'm not getting sick right now... :(

Vitamin C, lots of fluids, lots of rest, Airborne...

So, I'm looking at our road trip in November, wondering how concerned we should be about snow in the mountains (Northern CA, Southern OR). Anyone have any idea when it gets snowy and bad up there? It's not like we don't drive in snow up here all winter, but we're at a lower elevation than some of those passes we'll be coming through.

I had another sleepless night last night. After I got Nickolas off to school (I love that he no longer needs me to drive him) I decided to try to head to bedd to get some zzzs. I phone rang as soon as I started to doze off. No biggy, just Dawn. I told her I was trying to sleep so that got her off the phone pretty quick. She is calling me because I got word to her to stop calling David after I saw the cell bill and that he used 1447 minutes last month (we only have 850 between 3 phones-TG for Rollover).

No sooner was I head back into unconciousness than the phone rang again. By now it is 8:30. I have a job interview today at 2. It is for Builder's Showcase. Luckily I know the area I am going to because it is on a new street that hasn't been mapped yet.

Now, if only I get an offer or 2 I will be a verrrry happy camper!!

Poor Nickolas, I am leaving him a note on the back door. I expect my cell to blow up around 3:10 when he sees that I'm not home.

I would probably look into getting chains, if you don't already have them. With the way the weather has been acting I would be prepared for everything.

Where all are you going?

so, the dust has settled and out of 17 applications I have 7 interviews over this week and next. (Three in a row tomorrow! Eeep!) I have no idea if that's a good showing or a poor showing or what, but it is what it is.

We're coming down to Disneyland for MouseAdventure. Our winters up here have gotten warmer over the last decade or so. I seem to remember a lot more snow when I moved over here than we get now.

Could be that you have gotten used to the snow so it doesn't seem as bad?


It is 98 out there. I thought we were only supposed to hit 90 today. *sigh*

I think the interview went ok, it is just so hard to tell.
Boy isn't home yet, so he will never know I wasn't here.

Probably more important that my getting sick or not getting sick is my pal getting sick or not getting sick. For many reasons. :(

I'm also stressed out with school stuff. It doesn't end. ACK!

Well, as long as you stick to your convictions!

We are going North from San Diego next week. I had thought we were going to imss any chance of snow....Ah, there has been snow where we are going!!!

So, we are taking the SUV which has 4WD and chains while the more economic {gas wise} car will sit at home.

That is something about traveling within California. You can be in a hot spot one day and the next need a jacket! So, packing is tricky.

Last summer we went to Yosemite which normally would have been a 90 degree plus visit....took very light clothes....it was chilly and raining!!! Luckily the Boy had a jacket because, as his mom, I always pack one for him. :D

So, I've learned to be prepared. The weather can change pretty quickly.

Have fun on YOUR trip, Brigitte!

Mousey Girl~Dang that is hot!

Hard to say but I don't think it's that I've gotten used to it, I'm thinking of measureable snowfall. The winter Maddie was born, we had up to 4 feet from like October to March. I remember the sides of my driveway! We haven't had snow like that in years, though we do get some snow. Usually we have the first snowfall by Halloween, though it doesn't stick around. We'll just plan to be prepared for anything (the truck has 4WD too) and hope for an easy drive!

My first cigarette:

Sometimes I hate being right too...damn it

Baby B...

Oh, Bornieo!

That looks like the you I remember meeting!! So cute!!

You'd never catch me dead posting a picture of me as a baby on a chat board.... What? Oh..... Never mind...... ;)

But that would be a great trick......

Have you ever had the feeling that if the wind blows too hard your life would totally spin out of control?

That's why I don't live in Chicago......

Yeah, but what a way to go: death by blowjob

2 more interviews this afternoon. 1 is through a temp agency so I know exactly what the company is looking for, the other is an office position with a furniture store. I am really sick of interviews and feeling majorly discouraged.

Hang in there. Job hunting is the absoute worst.

This one was through the temp agency. After I got there I found out that I was an experiement. The Manager was trying to prove a point to the owner that if he wanted better quality candidates he had to pay more. She told me that I proved her point and she was going to go talk to him to get him to interview me.

So I'm watching what is possibly the worst show ever to air on broadcast television: Celebrity Duets. Why? Because after the week I've had I need to watch someone else humiliate themselves, and that is certainly what's happening. Every time I think it can't possibly get worse - it does. It's just astounding.

We were all enjoying watching 'Deal or No Deal'. I don't know why but my son said 'Eh, I hope she opens a million'. He said 'Hey, it isn't us'. And I said 'Yeah, but it won't hurt us if she does win'. Geesh.

So it ended and I don't know how the woman did. I hope she does well. It isn't MY money. Give it away, give it away, give it away now!

On my musical note...washing the dishes to what is rockin' my a$$....Soundgardens' 'Badmotorfinger'. Ah, the beginning of 'Jesus Christ Pose' and 'Rusty Cage'. Grrr Grrrr Grrr

And it is eleven o'clock at night...maybe I should have played that around 5 p.m. when I was dragging?

So, I think I'm just depressed today. Not sure if it's the cloudiness, or other aspects of my life... Normally, I find comfort on grey days, today, I just want to crawl back into my bed and hide. It's probably all the other stuff making this day different.

Many of my friends are going through rough times, and I guess I'm just affected. Maybe I just love my friends. :) *hugs*

Haha... OK, my alarm just went off. I've been up for almost an hour. I still got mad at it and hit snooze...

Just don't hit your friends when you're aiming for the snooze button and you'll be ok :)

What if I want to hit my friends? Maybe it'll make 'em feel better. (Well, maybe it'll make ME feel better, and this is what it's all about, isn't it? ;) )

I got a job!!!!! I start Monday! I am shaking!

It is with Walker Lewis Rents, through the temp agency. The woman I interviewed with yesterday was so impressed with me that I don't even have to do the 2nd interview with the owner! It is a temp-to-perm position, Monday thru Friday, 8:30-5:30 with rotating Saturdays.

Congratulations! Hurrah!!

YAY MG!!! Congratulations!

Woohoo!! Snoopy dances all around!

Congrats! The persistance pays off.

Sweet, Mousey Girl! Congrats... (though it's been interesting to watch your searching process on here.. ;) )

Thank you all for being so supportive. I have been pretty down for the past couple of months. This whole thing has really been getting to me.

I am on my way to fill out papers and maybe a drug test. Nickolas reminded me that I told him if I got a job this week I would take him to Target to buy a special Yugioh pack.

I just got back from the dentist. Nitrous is one of the finest things on this earth.

Funniest question at work today - "Do you know anything about Disneyland?" :D

Another weird work moment - a guest's cellphone started ringing, and it was a very unmistakable sound- "beep beep... blip blip blip blip vrooom" - it was a soundclip of a Rocket Rod!

Whoo hoo!!!

Congrats Mousey!
Did you study?

Based upon the latest crush of spam that I have been receiving, I have a lot of people who want to have sex with me.

Congrats, Mousey Girl! And so cool your son gets a bonus for you getting the job...

Kevy Baby...funny but I don't get spammed like that. Is it that I am so undesirable or could it be the websites you visit? :rolleyes:

Based upon my MySpace messages and friend requests, it appears several young women have recently moved to Long Beach who are interested in older men, or at least having them view their webcam - who knew being 44 could be such a turn on.

You're lucky. Most of them think I have penile dissfunction!:eek: :rolleyes:

Which I might add I certainly do not!!!:D

Well, we got Susan sister married off last night (well, yesterday).

She did an excellent job of planning and things went off without a hitch. She looked stunning as did her matron of honor (not that I am biased on the latter :) ). The church was beautiful and I actually enjoyed sitting through an entire Catholic Mass wedding (also: we were concerned that Susan might burst into flames when the priest gave her a blessing at the altar, but I am happy to report that she made it throughunscathed).

The reception was beautiful and everyone had a great time. Susan's other sister caught the bouquet and and her boyfriend (fiance - we're not sure if the previous proposal is counted since Dad said no when fiance asked for permission) caught the garter. I don't think Dad was pleased about that.



Now, a day of recovery.

Congrats to the bride and family!

In less happy news, Munchkin's been in a bad way today. This morning, I opened his cage and he didn't budge, just stayed in the back half asleep. A bit odd, but we did kinda keep him up late last night. But after a couple hours, it got worriesome, especially when he ignored fresh veggies. When we kinda hovered around his cage to encourage him to come out, he went and hid in the bathroom, shying away from any attempt to pet him. Even when at his most tired, he never refuses a good scrub. That's when I looked and saw that his litter box was suspiciously under-used. So while I went to Ikea, CP took Munch to the vet.

Hopefully this is just some hair blockage. He got an injection and some subcutaneous fluids. We gave him some hairball gook, and CP got him to have a nibble of food, which seemed encouraging. But nothing since. He's holed up in his favorite corner, ignoring food and water, and still not wanting to be pet. Definitely not himself. Hopefully a night of care will get him past this, if not, back to the vet tomorrow.

Oh Munchkin! Get better!

With thanks to Bart Simpson...

I didn't think it was possible but apartment hunting both sucks and blows.

Good luck with munchkin GD and CP! I hope he gets better soon!

To anyone who skips HS reunions....you are missing out. I went to my 20th in Napa on Sunday, and had a complete blast, but was disappointed at some missing friends. You must go to yours. Not optional. People will miss you if you dont.

Good to hear that you had a good time, Leo. I still don't think I will be attending mine. The wierd thing is the people who keep popping out of the woodwork and asking one of the organizers about me. The latest was a close friend who lives in Alaska. We were pretty tight until I got engaged. He had always though I would marry him and move to Alaska. He never understood that I didn't see him in that way.


I have 30 minutes until I leave for my first day of work. I haven't felt nervouse/excited until about 15 minutes ago. Now I am a bit of a wreck, but at least I look good!!

Munchkin is well on the way to getting better. <happy dance of relief>

All of yesterday was horribly stressful, trying to get her to eat, drink, take some of the recommended pineapple juice. She didn't move much at all. It was worrisome. I knew if there was nothing in the litterbox and she still showed signs of fatigue in the morning, I'd have to zip her off to emergency again. Then it would be an IV and overnight stay. Yeech.

Woke up and we have a bouncy bunny again! Small poop in the box, eating a bit, giving kisses. I'm so damn relieved.

I've never been so happy to see poop in my life (well, except for that one time...).

I avoided the stupid, overpriced, commoditized "Great Runions" prom-for-28-year-olds thing. Instead, a few of us who have kept in contact got word out to as many people as we could on our own and had a backyard bbq/swim party with about 20 people. Now THAT'S how to have a reunion.

I came home from Brunch yesterday about 5:30 and fell asleep. I woke up at 5 am. I guess I was tired.

How many times do we have to tell you, Ludes are not a brunch food.

I didn't even have champagne!

Mmm, 11.5 hours of sleep. I miss those days.

I'm trying to limit myself to one 20oz Diet Pepsi a day. Since I started that, it seems like I'm tired all the time.

:Yawn!:
:)

Yup. I gave up that fight. Coffee/tea at breakfast, Pepsi/Coke for lunch. At least.

Glad the Munchkin is feeling better, GD and CP! Maybe all the activity with the move is throwing him off a bit.

We had a rabbit in our San Francisco apartment when our daughter was born. When she was 10 days old, her little cousins came over. Everyone was in full voice. We looked over at Zelda rabbit, and she was gasping for breath. Pneumonia. Stress-induced, supposedly. That was it. Well, $1,200 later and talk of nebulizers, that was it.

Could very well be. He was doing fine all week, but the night before this happened, he was stubbornly avoiding his cage at bed time so we had to be a little more insistent than usual. That may have been the last bit of stress that put him over the top.

Yay Poop! Better out than in!!:snap:

Here, have a poop drink on me! :cheers:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGG

I disagree. I did not go (not that I could have), and chances are slim to none that I will go to any future ones.

If people missed me, they could have googled my name and found my work email/telephone number easily enough. They didn't. I conclude, then, that I was not missed.

I have no problem with that.

I just joined a kickline of people dancing to "New York, New York" :D

Problems, or are you channeling Charlie Brown?;)

I wish I could have gone to mine. It was this past weekend, and just between school/what-not... there's just no way I could afford the time off and the expense of flying out to the middle of nowhere and finding a bed and breakfast (the only kinds of places you can easily find near scenic otherwise emtpy-lands). Interestingly, the reunion wasn't expensive. Our class was smart.... we raised a crapton of money for our junior prom... took the rest, plus any other fundraising efforts, and just invested it smartly. Not to mention, things don't get too expensive, cost-of-living wise out where I was from in Michigan.

I take relief that I've remained in relatively good contact with those of my classmates I was friends with. We don't talk all the time, but it's enough, plus I've been able to see some of them. I will hopefully be able to go back to Michigan over the next couple of years.

I organized my last reunion. I tried to keep costs to a minimum, I ended up charging $40/person. I just about broke even. It was fun. It really is hard to track people down, especially the women as many have married and have different last names. If you've got a fairly common name websearches come up with all kinds of useless info, although I did find a few people that way.

I also went to a fairly small school, there were only 184 people in my class so you did kind of know everyone, or mostly who everyone was. I think reunions are fun, but I can see how some people don't. I got a lot of positive feedback after. One guy said he wished more of his friends had come, but that he had a great time catching up with a lot of other people that he was maybe better friends with in lower grades and didn't hang out with in high school.

I also found that no one really cared if you were fatter, balder, richer, poorer. They were just happy to see you and catch up, talk about silly stuff that happened in 3rd grade. That was what it was really all about for me.

I will probably never go to a high school reunion. I couldn't stand most of those people then, and from the looks of the photos posted after the last time, they haven't improved in any appreciable fashion. I'm still in contact with the people that were important to me - two local, one on some research ship off the CA coast, and one in Germany.

I moved away from where I grew up. So did other people. Life happened - work, marriage, kids, etc. You lose track. I kept in contact with a few. But the difference is emailing or talking to one person at a time vs. being with all the people I used to hang with. And they were all there (save one or two). Reminescing, looking at old photos (one of which I thought all copies had been destroyed of, and will certainly surface should I ever run for political office - I once went to a Halloween party as a flasher in a trenchcoat and g-string - you can imagine what the picture was). The time capsule, in which some friends (unbeknownst to me) had placed some items in with my name on them 20 flippin' years ago. And 100 other examples of great things.

I'm sorry that you feel that way. I would not have missed it for the world.

Leo just LOVES to see how talented we are, doesn't he? :evil:

I do not think you will ever find it. Like I said, it won't surface publically until I run for office or something.

Hey, MBC. PM me, K? I've got some ideas.

Is that a challenge, Scaeagles?

Three times today I have logged in to 42 new messages.

Oops, sorry. I was testing a new improbability engine on the boards.

I would not dare to extend such a challange to such talented individuals.

And a bit of clarification....it wasn't technically a g-string. I'm not exactly sure what to call it. It was an elastic waistband with a triangle.

A thong?

That's even better!

Two more stupid, pointless interviews to suffer through and then I'll be done with this wretched experiment. I know I said I wanted to do this for the experience, but I think I've had enough experience for a little while. I kind of wish I hadn't signed up for this many interviews, but it's not what you know but who you know blahblahblah so I'll go and meet more people. Whoopee.

I survived my first day of work. The only thing I forsee a problem with is just trying to remember all of the products we carry. Just because it is on the display floor or in the computer does not mean it is something that we have enough of to rent.

After work I was supposed to go to the Fair to see a free Smash Mouth concert. They cancelled last night due to illness. Instead I ended up seeing Pablo Cruise. They were wonderful!! 3 of the original members made for very good listening. One of the songs they sang they have never recorded. It is one they wrote when they were fed up with there kids. It was freaking hilarious! I could relate to the entire song (the title was something along the lines, "I am tired of you, you exhaust me."). The song got over and I realized I could hear the opening strains of AC/DC Thunderstruck. It was my cell going off. During that very approriate song Nickolas called my cell 22 times so that he could tell me goodnight.

Overall I had a great day!!!

Too bad they didn't record that song. Sounds like you could have a new ringtone!

But of course you do. :evil:

We must get this picture. I must have it as my avatar. It must be done.

scaeagles, why not save yourself from the embarrasment of us making it into a billboard and just post it?

I don't have it. The only copy I know of in existance is glued a photo album.

And I don't know if I'd call it a thong, either. Kind of looked like one from the front, but not from the back.

Yep! I was bummed when I found out they hadn't recorded it. 2 songs later they played Whatcha Gonna Do When She says Good Bye. I was there with my neighbor and her best friend. They both started to laugh and patted me on the back.


I almost forgot, I did learn something very important last night. Men who are pushing 60, balding and heavy set should not play air guitar, air drums and dance (think a spastic Chunk doing a hyper version of the Truffle Shuffle) in public places.

I'd rather not, thank you very much.

He was very entertaining to watch. I felt so bad for the woman sitting next to him.

I'm going to my 10-year college reunion in a few weeks. Unfortunately, the people I spent the most time with won't be there (at least I don't think they will). However, I will still enjoy myself. I love the campus and the area, and if everything is lame, I can hang out with Andrew and Jennifer more! :D

Why am I posting at work? I have WAY too much to do to be wasting time.

Hey look - my first post from my new MDA (Windows Mobile)

I'm done with my OCI interviews! I just have two more thank yous to get out tomorrow and then I'm really really done! Yay!

When I got to my car today I found ashes. Driving home from my claw appointment, it was dark, I saw what I thought were little bugs. Nope, more ash. The Day fire is now getting close to Frasier Park and the ashes are falling here. It is like what we had in Hilmar when Mt St Helen's blew in the 80's.

So, having been to the Home Depot website several thousand times over the past few weeks, I innevitably grew bored and my mind wandered and decided to see what would happen if I put in "homodepot.com". Turns out Home Depot bought the domain and it forwards to homedepot.com

What a waste of a perfectly good gay dating site name.


(and now, let the "GD was looking for a gay dating site" joke comence)

Where's SM when you need him?

By contrast, homedespot.com is available for the taking.

So... I've been cleaning up my iTunes music database and was updating a compilation CD that had a bunch of great bands, like the Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Massive Attack, etc. when I noticed the CD was produced in 1997. Heck - it's almost ten years old, and I still think of these bands as "contemporary" now I'm feeling doubly-old. Gotta find some new music...

You're doing better than me. I still swear I was born in the wrong decade.

You learn something every day.
I've been saying "reocurring" my whole life. It's "recurring".
Funny, no?

Last night I had the pleasure of calling 911 on the way home. BT picked me up after a night of revelry (it was a friend's birthday and 80s night at the local gay disco) and we were headed home on the freeway when we ended up behind this semi flatbed trailer thing. And it was drifting between lanes. Like it would slowly drift into the next lane, get more than halfway over, and suddenly correct. Repeatedly. Fortunately there wasn't much traffic. I dunno if they ever got stopped because we arrived at our exit, but at least I did my civic duty.

Here's another:

It's regardless, not irregardless. As in "Regardless of whether I pay or not...", not "Irregardless of wheather I pay or not..." I use to use it myself until someone told me the word isn't real. But then they said the same thing about "aint" and now it is a word.:D

Wow... I never knew so much vomit could be expelled from one small child - I hope his parents are proud of such a wonderful piece of modern art...

My peeve is when people say, "I could care less," when they mean, "I couldn't care less."

End of fiscal year is tomorrow.

I really need to get out of government work.

It's awfully quiet in here this morning.

silly ol' bear, why aren't you hibernating like the rest of us?

Oh, I know! When they say "I could care less," I tell them "Ok, go ahead!".

:cool:

My stupid laptop's stupid hinge is broken. So I have to take it to the repair place, which won't give me a timeline for repair, other than laptop repairs generally take two weeks. Which means I'll be around a lot less. Please try to restrain your enthusiasm until I've actually left the building.

I nearly destroyed the Cheeseburger 9000....

I'm gonna build a new machine - new name, new components, new cooling system.

I think I'll call the new computer "The Turbo Squid Electric Evisceration Happiness Machine"- I've got a great idea for the logo :)

It's that time in the afternoon, when, if work is dead (like today) I have to fight to stay awake. I've just put on the "Martini Lounge" station and am bongo-ing my desk. :cool: Seemed appropriate to stop on by and share the swank!

Heh, that's funny... it's martini hour for you, and it's beer night for us! We just boozed it up at work on a Wednesday evening and an interviewee walked in and caught us, beer and all. (In our defense, a coworker is leaving and we were celebrating with her.)

I was asked for my zip code today at a sporting goods store. Feeling a bit perterbed by the long line, I decided to give them a false zip code. I realized that the choices available in my immediate memory were 90210 and 60609. Thank you Beverly Hills 90210 and Spiegel Catalog.

Not a bad idea! I think I'll look up a few to give out. Like Watts or Fairbanks. That should get some attention in some office somewhere. I hate how they want all our personla info.

I think we should all start giving the zipcode to some remote small area from back east when ever we are asked here in CA. They'll think it's a movement or something!:cool:

I usually give out the Hilmar zip code. After 22 years it still rolls off my tongue. 95324 is much easier for me to say than 93309.

I like using 20500, the zip code for the White House

I either decline or give my work zipcode.

I use the zipcode for Zoom - 02134

Why I still remember that I don't know.

Haha, you guys are weird. I love it, though - it's about time I gave out false zip codes.

Chicago 60609.

How many TV-advertised mailing address were PO Box ___ Chicago 60609.........I can hear Bob Barker now.

Zoom!!!










Loved that show..

I deserve kudos.
I just hooked up my laptop to a wireless thingy and now I'm on the internet.
Cool, eh?
All it took was a couple of hours and a conversation with India.
Yay for me.
:D

Kool Kudos Kumming your way, King of komputers!!;)

Did they send you complementary papadams?

What's he talking about?
 

That would take 50 people a day. Let's site our sights lower; maybe an organization. That only takes three people a day.

No, that's a Menage-a-trois. :blush:

I remember their song for their address:
"Write Zoom, Z-double oh-M Box 234 Boston, Mass oh-2134!"
:D




Boss went home sick. Time to play. Hooray!
:D

I thought it was Box 350 Boston, Mass - hmmm

Nope, you're right. I've just been singing it wrong for the last 25 years or so... :D

Wow I just looked it up and they still have the same PO Box, 350. Interesing maybe I'm not as old and senile as I thought.

<<< My avatar has 4 naked men in it. I'm very proud of that.
:D

Yeah?

Well my avatar has a lot more than four, and I'll bet most of them have been naked at one time or another.

Oh? Where's the rest of the picture to prove it?:D

My laptop is still in the shop. BT's computer is old and slow. Further, it's difficult to surf the web with a desktop on your lap.

And you should be! (And while we're on the subject... I call dibs on the one on the far right...)

If it's TJ's that's asking, could you guys start giving out Florida zip codes?

Ugh. It started pouring while I was driving home. I almost took my shoes off to walk from the car to the apartment, but stupidly, I thought it would be safer to leave them on.

I was wading through puddles that reached my ankles. The shoes I was wearing have nearly 2" heels. What's up with that?

They were in good shape (not fantastic shape, but still good). Only time will tell how they'll be when they dry.

Darnit. Those were my favorite shoes. And now my feet are cold.

Wow, that is a lot of rain!

I wish it had rained while we were gone for two weeks. Maybe I wouldn't have come home to STICKS because I forgot to ask the kids to water my plants for me. :(

Damn but I am bad with dates. I was going to stop by Disneyland and look for the Mouseadventure crowd....only a month early! :rolleyes: So glad I didn't....we'd been driving {ahem, I mean the Hubster was driving} since Sacramento.

Loved the road but it is good to be home. :)

Glad you're home, and sorry to hear about the sticks, er, plants. Some plants will bounce back after watering them again. Oh, and have a drink yourself!:cheers:

Good luck!

Have you ever seen a wolverine riding a unicycle?

I see Wolverine riding a quadrunner at work all the time :)

Oh, I hope so. I haven't been out back yet to see if those are still alive...

Aye, yes, a drink for me! Thanks! :cheers:

I hope my computer is not dying... :(

Do tell...

Soooo, is it a good thing when radiator fluid is leaking out of the bottom of your vehicle like a waterfall? That means its working, right?

I love cars.

We planted bulbs. Lots and lots of bulbs. Tulips, some weird things that produce stalks with orange berry-looking flowers, grape hyacinths which have some other technical name, "real" hyacinths, some big flowers that look a little like peonys that aren't, a giant allium, and probably some others I've forgotten. Oh, and saffron crocus - fall-blooming, so we planted late. Still need to plant a bunch of irises, more tulips, more grape hyacinths, spring-blooming crocus.

Sounds like an old jeep. Worry when it stops leaking...

This does show that all is working well. To make sure that your car dries properly, you should immediately take the car out for a drive, going as fast as you can with the AC on full blast.

Soooo....

...I want to have post number 100,000...

YAYAYAYAYAYAY!

My laptop is home! I have my electronic baby back! I never want to leave it again!

So, I am not going to the Knott's Scary Farm but I wonder if anyone is going to DL on the 13th? My daughter is going and we may tag along...

Either that day or the 31st.

Are there any plans for meets? I am dying to go. Must clear up dates with work and kids' school so no guarentees. Can't get my hopes up....but looking into it....

so, now that my laptop is repaired my car stereo no longer functions. 2003 Corolla, factory radio/CD because I'm cheap, when you turn it on it lights up just fine and acts like it's playing, but there's one pfft! of static from somewhere in the back and then silence. Any ideas?

Keep a fire extinguisher handy.;)

Is there a CD stuck in the player?

I tried to frame some posters for Nick's room. I think I just figured out why Michael's frame dept dose so much business.

I would say that your radio is broken

No, no stuck CD. Yes, we'd mastered the broken part. This is not nearly as entertaining as the time only one side of speakers died in my old Sentra. Can't remember which side, but it was which ever side had the main vocals for the White Album. In-car karaoke. It was cool for awhile.

Any ideas that might allow us to pinpoint the specific broken bits and perhaps not spend hundreds of dollars getting some widget tightened or loosened or whatever?

Does the static sound come from the back of the radio, or the speakers?
Does it do the same thing with the engine on or off?
Is it repeatable?
Will it do the same thing with a CD inserted?
Has there been any work done on the car recently?

Sooo....

Last week the kid had a wellness check and had to get several boosters, which was not fun but she handled it much better than she did when she was smaller. They also tried to give her a booster for a shot that she'd never had, based on the fact that kids with cochlear implants have to have this shot, which is cool, except she doesn't have an implant.

The PA wasn't happy- they very nearly gave her the shot, and it is a risky one only intended for special circumstances. Luckily I was able to prove that she is in fact implant-free.:rolleyes:

So, monday she had an appointment with a podiatrist, for what we thought was a consultation. But, noooo.... they took one look at her ingrown toenails and decided to take 'em out. Many shots, much blood (she's a bleeder) and two big honking bandages later and she was able to hobble out of the office. I was really proud of her- it's really not a pleasant thing to go through, but she was a trooper. Cost me lunch at Sonic, a Halloween costume and no homework for two days, but she says her feet already feel a bunch better. Her cat keeps trying to attack the bandages, though.

It comes from the back of the car, so I'm guessing speakers.
Nothing happens with the engine off.
Repeats every time you attempt to turn the stereo on.
Yes.
Not really. New battery about a month ago, but that's it.

You GO Tori! Such a trooper!

After this happens, does the radio appear to be acting normally? i.e can you change stations, you just don't get any sound out of the speakers?

Does your owner's manual mention an amplifier and its location? The amplifier takes the signal from the radio and amplifies it for the speakers. If the radio appears to be working but no sound, it could be that there is a problem with the amplifier. Sometimes the amplifier is located under the driver or passenger seat. If you have one, and it's located under a seat, check the connectors to make sure they are fully seated, and haven't been knocked loose.

Wow! Glad she's doing okay, I don't know that I would be!

I'm asking, how'd she not get a deal for American Girl goods out of this? Lunch at Sonic? She's being a cheap date! :D

What the heck with the shot situation? Happened to me once, too. Poor kids, like they need extra shots AND the risk situations??? Yeah for you, Mom! :snap:

Poor kiddo. I always worry about the kids toes. Cutting the nails properly or remembering to. :rolleyes: Geesh, so many toes, how can I remember them all?

What a trooper. Tell her she has impressed this ol' MouseWife. :snap: :snap:

And, Prudence, sorry about the radio issues. Seriously.

Lol- that's because I've made her cut waaay back on the fast food crap.:D I had also told her she had to wait until closer to Halloween for her costume, because every year she gets one early, then changes her mind closer to Halloween.

Ha! 100% all girl, isn't she?

How's she doing today?

I have been a Janet Jackson fan since she was Penny on 'Good Times'. I love her. But her current CD sucks and her last CD sucked. I think I'm giving her up. Poor Janet. No creativity left.
:(

Oops. Double post. Uh... I like vanilla...

Really good! Right now she's trying to beat Crabbe in the HP CoS PSII game, and needs my assistance. :D

(She says her feet haven't hurt at all, probably compared to how much they were bothering her prior to the surgery).

This whole time at work I was on IE 5. I just updated to IE7 and nothing looks the same. I'm lost. :D

I hate computers.

putting off doing my last ad for the day...

The WWU catalogers must be bored because they finally processed my senior thesis. You may now refer to me as "LD5778.8 .Z63".

Oh God, I would be NO HELP at all. I'm so lame when it comes to computer games. No hand-eye coordination when it comes to using the spacebar and the arrow keys at the same time. Of course, I can't type for beans either

Congratulations!

Just when was it submitted?

1998.

(I was kind of hoping it was permanently lost, but alas.)

I traded in the Mercedes (that I hated) for a used Volvo V70 wagon. No mid-life crisis here. I've now got a Mom car. ;) However, it is dark blue with tinted windows and tan leather interior. It sort of looks like a fancy hearse. My payments actually dropped by $100 AND I can carry around 4 full-sizd people without those in the back having tobe amputees.

Glad to be in a Volvo again. It feels like home.

But does it have butt warmers? I want a car with butt warmers.

Yes, it has butt warmers.

:snap: :snap: :snap:

This is my own personal barometer for judging when a person has officially "made it." If you have butt warmers, then you have indeed arrived!

Well, to be fair, these butt warmers have warmed the butt of another previously.

Second-hand butt warmth?

Is that kind of like a warm toilet seat?

Ewwww!:eek:

As long as they don't short out you're okay. Otherwize you will feel like that poor woman who had lightening pass through her large intestine (and small intestine, colon, and everything else between her anus and her mouth!)

Strange saying intestine and mouth in the same sentance. Unless Screetch is involved that is!

What's with all the swimming pool avatars? Euromeinke's, Greg's, NirvanaMan's, Jen's, NA's... :D Love it.
Mine is in the shower after a swim... I was the one with the camera... and the soap.
:D

Oh, I pictured you as younger.......


;)


And Jen's does look painfull, doesn't it? :eek: Ouch is right!
Who threw that ball???

Speaking as a former custom framer, there's a lot that goes into framing. Each project can take a lot of time to accomplish. Especially if it's a place that knows what its doing.
Framing posters suck. They're so big. That's why dry mounting them first is vital. (I know that I just set myself up for KevyBaby, but it's the truth.) :D

Greg is just outside of the shot, about a foot a half back, repeatedly hitting my head at close range with the ball.

How romantic? :D


No one in my office has anything for me to do. I am so freakin' bored.
:(

LOL That is what I thought, too. Why aren't they showing pictures of you kicking his butt? 'Cause that must have happened....unless you are a better sport than I.....;)

I am no pro framer {nor do I dry mount my posters, I use double sided tape} but I can say it is HARD. It is frustrating to put it together and then hang it and the picture is crooked. I have framed quite a few posters/collages and I know there must be an easier way.

Well. It doesn't help that kitty likes to play with my projects or if I find cat hair in the finished product.....

I was trying out for a Busby Berkeley film - or to be on the Olympic Water Ballet team.

So. My chickie invited me and the boys to come up with her and her beau for Friday the 13th.

One son has to work and the other doesn't want to miss school. {whose kid is he anyways???? I'd take the day off for a cliffhanger soap....}

The next scheduled day is Halloween. The Boy doesn't want to miss that day either. WTH?

Today is my older sons birthday. I must go and pick up supplies. Regularly to feed just the guys in the house is a big job but now a bunch of young men? Better put the leaf in the table....

Oh. And...at work yesterday a woman/guest was having a bad day and I said to her and a co-worker sounds like a Disneyland ditch day to me! And they BOTH said what an awful idea. :eek: :eek:

What??? I said you have got to be kidding. She said that she had four kids and had been there enough. I told her that was the problem, ditch the kids and go alone. She said again, she'd had enough. I told her that if you go without your kids, you don't have all of that 'noise' that gives you the headaches {I wanna do this, I don't wanna do that, I want this, give me that, I hate that, I don't wanna use sunscreen} and it is wonderful.

*sigh* and you can look at all of the other people having problems with their kids and say 'whew, not me!' and the ones enjoying their kids and remember the good times with your own.

Must work on that Boy....:evil:

Sons of bitches added ding dongs to the vending machine at work. Evil bastards, I can't say no to ding dongs!

It's called "desperately clinging to summer several months after it's over".

You know, this has all the makings of a Kevy Baby sig... :D

Summer. (Insert iSm "Bah" here.) Summer was like a month long here in Boston. I pity you all not.
:D

On a whim today I purchased a lottery ticket (45mil or so.) for the first time in ages. How can you not play when the drawing is October and on Friday the 13th?

Should I happen to win, I think a private party in the HM would be called for.

It's good to know that, even 5 years out of college, I've retained my b.s. skills.

<<<<< I want arms like the guy on the left in my avatar.
Is there any way to do it without working out?
:D

That reminds me, Greg. That wallet I bought at Fossil at DTD totally fell apart. It wasn't stitched together. It was glued together. Bah!
I'm going to return it, I tells ya...
:(

I ordered my 5 year work award - I picked the Fossil watch :)

I also get a gold filled lapel pin with a 5 on it

Eep! Get thee to a Kohl's, and fast!

Sooo.... that's how you were able to knock Jen on the head with a ball over and over again and not walk away with swollen nuts. I see.....
:D

There was too much cold water shrinkage

probably. if you don't mind it being only your right arm.:evil:

I thought he said he wanted to do it without working one out.