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#1
12-05-2011, 05:19 AM
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No topic, off-the-cuff MMP
Looks like no one wanted today. I'm up, so I'll throw out the first pitch.
It's a foggy Monday, and my big chore for the day is hauling the garbage and recycling to the convenience center. And maybe knitting. Taz was batting around a pen a few days ago, and I can't find it - I think he swatted it into an alternate dimension, stupid cat. While my sweetie is recovering in the hospital next week, I've got a hot dinner date set up with the guy who took me to my 8th grade dance. I haven't seen him since 1968 - it should be interesting. Oh yeah, and I'm becoming a Netflix addict. I'm so ashamed... Happy Monday! Toss your random thoughts in the pile!
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#3
12-05-2011, 05:32 AM
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I taught myself how to make beaded ornament covers for my Christmas bulbs while wrasslin' with a cat!
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#4
12-05-2011, 05:42 AM
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conurepete, what is a beaded ornament cover for a Christmas bulb? Or did I just get whooshed? It's early and I'm not caffeinated yet, so it's not my fault...
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#5
12-05-2011, 05:50 AM
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Blurf.
Going through my morning news routine, I spotted this article. This kind of call doesn't happen to just me...
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#6
12-05-2011, 05:55 AM
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BBBobbio - I thought of you this weekend - we were headed north on 235 near Hollywood and we saw a metric buttload of fire trucks and emergency vehicles headed south, sirens a'screamin'. I thought the trucks said Bay Ridge, but I'm not sure - I don't think that's a local company. Anyway, what amazed me was how few idiots were pulling over to let the trucks pass. Seriously, dudes, lights flashing and sirens blaring - I'm pretty sure you need to know that to get a license.
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#7
12-05-2011, 05:59 AM
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Good Mornin' Y'all! Up and caffienatin'. *YAWN* 'Tis a foggy 54 degrees Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 74 for the day. We're havin' what appears to be an early Spring day in Fall today.
Not much else to say. Need more caffiene and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, alas, 'tis Monday so irk purtification needs to commence soonest. Le Sigh. Happy Monday Y'all!
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#8
12-05-2011, 06:52 AM
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Arrg! Too much internet to read, don't wanna sleep.
Hey Swampy, how did it get more cold here than where you are? It's those clouds hiding heating pads, huh? It's my yearly adjustment to 'winter' weather. Just four days to go from a/c to heater! Plus also, have you ever had to get a zipper unstuck from anyone Bobbio? I saw that on tv ages ago, when a woman had zipped about four inches of tummy into her pants. Lesson learned-- when you need pliers to pull the zip, the next size up is calling your name. Everybody's seen the 8 million dollar car crash in Japan right? That would have been one for your scrapbook VunderB. Ooo-ooooh! FCM's got a boooyfriend. Don't catch any cooties by sittin' next to him. What was I supposed to do today that I've forgotten? Last edited by Ashes, Ashes; 12-05-2011 at 06:52 AM.
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#9
12-05-2011, 07:39 AM
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12-05-2011, 07:59 AM
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Eerily quiet here, too. But that's because Taz the Troublemaker is sleeping.
The convenience center doesn't open for another 30 minutes, but I'm all showered and dressed and breakfasted and ready to load the truck. Sorta. Gotta do what ya gotta do, right? ugh
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#12
12-05-2011, 08:12 AM
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I'm have the dreaded "I'm supposed to worry about something but I do't remember what I'm supposed to worry about" feeling.
Finished putting up my Christmas tree and other decos at home. My electric bill goes up at least $20 during the holiday season. I wanted to make white chocolate peppermint bark yesterday. However, the raw materials would have cost over $10 so I just bought a bag of Hershey peppermint kisses. And ate half the bag while watching the Harry Potter movie-thon last night.
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#13
12-05-2011, 08:17 AM
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It's not quiet here. I can ship any not-quiet to people who need some chaos and noise.
We're in the last few days before our Christmas rush starts- this weekend in Niagara. Gnat and I are scheduled to make Smitten Kitchen's Crack(ers) and a couple of pans of chocolate cinnamon buns, and I still have to buy and wrap presents before we go. Since I'm very pregnant, what I'd like to do is sit around staring into space. Off to the kid's drop-in in a few minutes.
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#14
12-05-2011, 08:21 AM
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If only I could convince myself to get off the couch and get dressed I might be able to get something done. The place where I bought the tumbler doesn't open for another 40 minutes, but it might be efficient of me to already be dressed and have eaten breakfast before I call them and hopefully head off that way.
Off I go, I guess... 
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#15
12-05-2011, 08:59 AM
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There is a story that goes around the Navytown Rescue Squad about the call where a rather rednecky couple tried to convert a Sawzall into a vibrator, and the, uhhh, business end #1 was cut throught by business end #2, causing some severe lacerations. It made the news wire.
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#16
12-05-2011, 09:24 AM
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Well, so far I've gotten dressed and eaten breakfast. I've been temporarily grounded, though, as it appears the sump pump has given up the ghost and I can't go anywhere and leave my grandparents here alone until my dad gets here.
Working on cleaning the kitchen and I'm on the 'net to look up a particular company's return policy.
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#18
12-05-2011, 09:58 AM
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Cold and rainy here, supposed to turn to snow by end of the day. Off to work, although I really should be working on Christmas presents at home. Would that be an excused absence? "I'm sorry, I really need to go home and sew." Have two big blankets done and wrapped, but the felt food for the kiddies needs a lot of work. I also have a craft show this weekend I'm not ready for.
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#19
12-05-2011, 10:08 AM
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My kind of MMP. Nothing to remember!
The lady whose job I'm taking over and whom I've been working alongside until she retires on the 21st has all but checked out. Today is Throwing Crap Out Day. This week I'll move into her chair (which will be replaced soon as its about ten years old). So it's time to work I guess.
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#20
12-05-2011, 10:21 AM
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My morning keeps going downhill and fast.
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#21
12-05-2011, 10:44 AM
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Trash and recycling have been disposed of and I've just finished my sammich. I've got towels in the dryer and they should be done soon. So I think it's time for some Netflix-n-knitting!
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#22
12-05-2011, 10:50 AM
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This is my first MMP post!
On my way to work I have about 4 different Dunkin Donuts I can stop at if I run out of time to fix breakfast and/or a latte at home before I leave. This morning I stopped at the closest one to my house. I usually get egg and cheese on flatbread, but I noticed they had ham and swiss on flatbread on the menu, so I asked if I could get egg and swiss on flatbread (I'm a vegetarian). They said no, because the ham and swiss ones are premade. What? What's the point in that? is it so hard to slap ham and swiss onto bread in the store when you're already building all the other variations there? Bizarre. Disappointing but oh well, I ordered my usual egg and cheese. Then I go to order my latte and they tell me that they're out of espresso! How can Dunkin Donuts be out of espresso!? They said the manager forgot to order it last week. So I ended up getting a regular coffee with a squirt of gingerbread syrup in it and faking like it was a latte. Alas. I should have gone to one of the other DDs.
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#23
12-05-2011, 10:53 AM
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FOUR DD along your commute??
 I think we have one in our county. By that, I know we have one, and I think it's the only one. I've never been there, tho. There's a local grocery chain that makes much better donuts. Dammit, now I want a donut.
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#24
12-05-2011, 11:14 AM
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Docs this morning for me for a BP check - all is good. A few more lbs off and they will take me off the BP meds. Which is good as mr ems and I want to start trying for babies next year and I can't take the medicine if I am preggo. Anyhoo they also took some bloods while I was in as I am new patient good job I hadn't eaten brekkie so they could do the fasting blood sugar check!
Then working then I have a flight to Houston for an early meeting tomorrow then back tomorrow night. Busy week of meetings this week. I supposed I had better get a bit of work done before lunch. Forgot to mention 32 degs here with a windchill of 22 degs This is Oklahoma fercryinoutloud. Way to cold. Brrrrrrrrr
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#25
12-05-2011, 11:25 AM
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I am honored to be your first MMP reply!
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12-05-2011, 11:34 AM
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12-05-2011, 11:40 AM
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Opal I think I see the problem here. I'm wonderin' if'n the DD inside the gas station is one of those places where they deliver a lot of donuts, sammiches etc from another location. Around here we have Krispy Kreme aka the donut of God and the KK location's in convenience stores and the like all have donuts delivered from a free standin' location. Thus, the inability to make a sammich on flatbread.
It's N.O.L. time! Chikin sallit sammich and N.O.T. sallit. YUM! All homemade by yours truly even.
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#28
12-05-2011, 11:44 AM
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12-05-2011, 12:06 PM
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#30
12-05-2011, 12:07 PM
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'Tis Monday.
'Tis Monday, which means Mr. Chord and I do not see each other again for another five days. (Boo.) 'Tis an alternate Monday, which means we were up in the early wee hours preparing for me to travel over 80 miles via four methods of transportation, public and otherwise, to get to work. 'Tis Monday, so tonight is the weekly round of roach-sweepup, in which I gather up the energy to whisk down the garbage chute all the little crawly critters in the apartment that are no longer crawling due to a multi-pronged attack of poison, baited poison, and genetic poison...just in time for the exterminator to spray another round of poison tomorrow. Unrelated to today being Monday is my ongoing Battle With A Public Storage Facility over a $7 bogus charge, which they are rapidly winning by the simple expediment of not answering their phone, thus persuading me to consider this whole issue a waste of my time. 'Tis Monday. Work is not slow. I would very much like it to be. 'Tis Monday and I want a vacation. Quote:
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#32
12-05-2011, 12:16 PM
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Happy Monday y'all!
I have decided that I hate Salvation Army bell ringers. One showed up at the Public Market Saturday afternoon and rang her bell non-stop for four hours! I think my ears were bleeding!The market manager came around and told everybody we were closing 2 hours early. I think it was so that the bell-ringer would go away.  My big job for the day is replacing the bulb in the sodium vapor lamp over the driveway. Not that big you say? Well, it involves a ladder, and much cursing, so it's big enough. If anybody has been following along, my order from Amazon has made it onto a truck, but it's still in Indiana. Welcome new MMPers! Place your chocolate offerings on the table by the door and line up over here.
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12-05-2011, 12:25 PM
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#34
12-05-2011, 01:08 PM
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Friends of yours, Swampy?
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#35
12-05-2011, 01:12 PM
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Mid-afternoon blurf. Busy morning. Crisis was averted after a few frantic phone calls. Now proceeding to waste remainder of afternoon.
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#36
12-05-2011, 01:40 PM
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You know, Opal, it doesn't take long to slap a ham and swiss together, but it just might take awhile to weigh out the correct amounts of ham and swiss. Just a thought...
All I can say about this day is that it thoroughly sucks. If I could run away and hide somewhere, I would. Apparently, though, I get to be the responsible adult instead.
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12-05-2011, 01:50 PM
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12-05-2011, 01:53 PM
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The grocery store by my office closed a few months ago. They were the best place for me to get breakfast muffins and lunch salads.
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#39
12-05-2011, 02:18 PM
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I just finished knitting one hat, started on another, folded the towels, and watched 3 episodes of The Tudors. If my sweetie feels up to it, I'm taking him out for Chinese tonight. If not, we'll probably do sketties or something easy. BBBobbio - considering there's only one local grocery chain in this county, we're probably on the same page. I'm very familiar with their Leonardtown location. OK, new Mumpers - you need to know that chocolate love offerings are due to me at your earliest convenience... or inconvenience. Either way, I need chocolate!!!!
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#40
12-05-2011, 02:21 PM
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Still on my psychotic homework binge so just a quick drive by to say two things.
1. self applied acrylic nails - one of the hardest things I've ever done. Left hand looks ok. Right hand looks......not ok. Neither hand is horrifyingly bad but mayhaps the money would have been better spent at a professional. 2. TMI SPOILER:
And on that note - back to my research paper
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12-05-2011, 02:32 PM
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12-05-2011, 02:40 PM
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I've had it done professionally enough times that I have a pretty good idea of how it should go. The rest of it is a whole lot of time, patience, and a whole lot of touching up. I have a battery operated thingie that does the shaping and buffing so between that and the buffing spongie thing and the really coarse file, I got them pretty smooth and even. I did have a couple fingers that had acrylic way over the nail boundaries but the file works pretty well for getting that off.
The biggest issue is that I like them fairly short - way to short to really bother with acrylic normally but still longer than I'm capable of growing them. I accidentally trimmed a couple too small at the start so after the shaping and shit, they ended up so short that they don't actually look any different than they did when I started. 
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#43
12-05-2011, 04:10 PM
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*hack* *koff* *snrfl*
If Nature hadn't called, I might still be in bed, but I decided some chicken soup was in order, so here I am. *hack* *koff* *snrfl*
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#44
12-05-2011, 04:25 PM
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I guess I should head off to the grocery store soon. That would require putting on pants, though.
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#45
12-05-2011, 04:27 PM
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<Stands outside of room and sprays Lysol all around before enterin'>
Howdy Y'all! Irk is survived. No more crazy happened. BBBobbio even though I encourage, nay outright demand that everyone keep a proper supply of tp on hand, I do not encourage the stealin' of said tp. Besides, they ain't real smart are they? Dindin is grilled chikin sallit. The chikin is grilled. The sallit is not grilled. Opal then my guess would be they didn't want to make your sammich, the slackers!
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#46
12-05-2011, 04:42 PM
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Blurf is right Sticky... I remembered what I have to go do. My knee, which was just fine relatively speaking, the last couple of days, is locked up again.
That helped my memory to barf up the fact I need to go pay rent. I do wish I didn't have to drive it over and my crystal ball would tell me when I should just mail it instead. Our DD is gone, replaced by cell phones, then an optometrist. The old Dairy Queen is now the doughnut/sandwich/bus stop. The fish place was many things before it turned to check cashing and then burned mostly. It's still open in a van in the parking lot. Methinks that isn't a good block for businesses. The cigar guys should have known not to even try, though. It's a pizza place now, after being a mexican restaurant that advertised women's torsos on platters. Enough procrastination! Off to pay rent, hopefully without losing control of the clutch.
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#47
12-05-2011, 04:57 PM
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Back from not-bad-Chinese. I got scallops and broccoli, and I swear, they used an entire head of broccoli on my plate alone! Now to settle in for an evening of knitting and chilling. We'll be leaving around 9:30 tomorrow for Baltimore - gotta get the pre-op stuff done at the hospital.
So if you don't see me early tomorrow, don't panic. I probably won't be abducted by aliens overnight...
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#48
12-05-2011, 05:18 PM
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Looks like I will have a busy weekend in the not-so-fun context. The mortgage company called today, and deed-in-lieu (N. O. Lieu) is approved in principle. The bad part is that I have to go back to the Mark 1 VunderLair and dispose of everything that isn't nailed down. What we deliberately left behind isn't much, but this includes the garage attic that I've never set foot in, the woodshed where I had my fahrwood, and the lean-to full of antique lumber.
No shit, I'm trying to find a dumpster by Firday.
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#49
12-05-2011, 05:35 PM
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I'm sending a complaint letter today to both the head manager and the head pharmacist at my local CVS because they lost a prescription of mine (the handwritten piece of paper). I don't know what they'll do about it, but I felt that my wussy complaining to whoever happened to answer the phone wasn't enough of a statement. The prescription was for a controlled substance, and so it's easy to imagine a less than scrupulous pharmacy worker filling it on the sly and then using it/selling it. I had to go to my doctor and get a new script to hold me until our next scheduled appointment, which makes me look bad to my doctor (though he made sure that I understood he believed me.)
I have no idea what CVS can possibly actually DO about it, but I think they need to know (at the higher up levels) that it happened, in case it becomes a trend and they find out that they have a bad employee.
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#50
12-05-2011, 05:41 PM
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 I blush.Offerings of chocolate are duly made. To make up for delinquency, I can even up the ante and offer these alcohol-filled mini chocolate bottles I got over Thanksgiving. It's quite a big box, so even the chocoholic slush in me is happy to share. Also up for grabs: chicken soup for anyrose, ham and Swiss sandwiches for Opal, and a heating pad for Ashes. Another Monday has been survived!
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