# A Cancer- and Surgery-Free MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [December 7, 2009, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300 "2009-12-07T05:51:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/181 "2009-12-11T03:29:52Z")
Dang, **Nava.** That sucks. Sending best wishes for a speedy recovery to your grandmother. It does seem rather stupid that you can’t at least Skype. Did you get the car started, **whiterabbit?** My daughter brought us dinner tonight. She was lamenting on Facebook that she was really, really, really wanted a cheeseburger. I regretfully told her that I had just gotten home and didn’t feel like going back out, so she took it upon herself to get burgers and fries for all of us. Works for me; I didn’t have to cook and now I can kick back. If I was to use my time wisely, I’d start putting decorations out. Eh, maybe Friday. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/182 "2009-12-11T04:50:49Z")
I survived work, more tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/183 "2009-12-11T08:51:41Z")
Could someone tell the sun to come up already please? I’ve tried but he ain’t lisenin’… ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/184 "2009-12-11T09:28:27Z")
Yo Sun! It’s like late mornigish in Scotland. Get busy already! Howzzat **Nava**? 😃 Prayers and good thoughts headed out to your grandmother. Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. _YAWN_ I have more super high intense training this mornin’. Woo and Hoo. I wonder what will crash and burn today. **snowbunny** you tempted fate! Fate does not like to be taunted. 😛 A “Ho Ho” cake **CutiePie**? What’s next, Ding Dong muffins? HAH! I crack me up! Ok, tummy demands to be fed. Happy Firday Y’all! ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/185 "2009-12-11T09:33:43Z")
Sending good vibes for your grandmother, **Nava** but no joy on the sun yet. I am sure it’s out there somewhere but I can’t see it for the fog. In fact I can’t even see the next building yet! Uneventful evening, I cooked a huge coley fillet and shared it with Shadow (largely because he was stalking me and then spent 10mins camped out in front of the oven door while the fish was baking). He was very lucky because instead of a few scraps, this time he got his own plate of fish so he was a very happy cat. Ophie had a look at it and turned her little pink nose up, so she didn’t get any fish but that’s not so bad since the vet said she was turning into a bit of a porker, Tonight will be groceries and Chinese and tomorrow 'im indoors is off for an xmas gathering of his ex-workmates from a job about 20yrs ago. He’s promised to stay overnight so I am happy with that idea. I get the bed to myself! The weekend will be busy, I am picking up half a Christmas cake on Saturday (I’m sharing with a friend because neither of us wants an entire cake and she had a recipe she was desperate to try) so that will need to be marchpaned, and I am planning to make some baked mincemeat doughnuts too. Then there’s presents to wrap, cards to write and stuff to sort out. ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/186 "2009-12-11T11:57:55Z")
I am being watched by a fish. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/187 "2009-12-11T12:28:58Z")
> [@Always Brings Pie](#): > > I am being watched by a fish. 😃 Are you staring back? This could be entertaining. 😃 It’s Firday!!! I’m up and contemplating breakfast. Back later… ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/188 "2009-12-11T13:11:16Z")
Blurf. Dinner today with The Usual Suspects. We haven’t decided where, yet, and have two different reservations… hopefully someone can step up and make a decision about which one we’re going to, because I really don’t care either way and I can’t afford two expensive dinners in one night. 😛 I’d send the sun over to you, **Nava** , but he’s only just shown up here… and seeing as it’s been way too long since we’ve had a sunny morning, I’m not inclined to send him away just yet. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/189 "2009-12-11T13:50:36Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > A “Ho Ho” cake **CutiePie**? What’s next, Ding Dong muffins? HAH! I crack me up! Put a candy cane on it, and it’d be a Ho Ho Ho cake. Decorate it with fish net stockings would make it simply a Ho cake. **Muppet** , you’re having dinner with Kaiser Soze? **PaleBunny** , if it’s that cold routinely in the winter that you have trouble starting your car, I strongly suggest a new battery and an oil heater. If the temperature goes up 10-15[sup]o[/sup] Amurrkin and it still doesn’t start, go for the battery first. Blurf. Bambilance shift tonight; I hope I have a story worthy call early on, and nothing else. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/190 "2009-12-11T14:25:52Z")
YAAAAAAAAAYYYYY!!! It’s FiRDAY!!! Neck still hurts. 😛 **bunny** , methinks you need a new battery. **nava** , boo to uni spoilsports and good vibes to granny. That is all. Tupug ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/191 "2009-12-11T14:36:27Z")
I just got a new battery a year ago. If I need a new one again I’m gonna be PISSED. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/192 "2009-12-11T14:37:04Z")
Yay for Firday and short workdays! I’m eatin’ mac-n-cheese for breakfast. Mmm. I’ve got two major things to do before I leave for vacation on the 18th (thru Jan 4!!!) but… DonJuanna is here whispering sweet nothings in my ear… ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/193 "2009-12-11T14:57:10Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > That needs to be on a mug. > > : Thanks Spaz and everyone else. I’m not fully ordained, so to speak; I’m a worship leader/supply leader. Sort of the Lutheran version of a triage nurse. Between funerals and the Holidays and everything, I’ve been asked to bless so many things that it was sort of a knee jerk reaction. I read the post and just sort of winged it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/194 "2009-12-11T16:09:54Z")
Howdy Y’all! I’m sneakin’ in a post from super high intensity training. 😃 Happy Firday! ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/195 "2009-12-11T16:33:08Z")
Yay for Firday and a short Firday at that. It’s our Xmas party for work so CEO decreed that the office closes at 3. Yay! The party should be fun. It’s a good group of coworkers, and KT likes everybody so it isn’t even painful for him to go. And we get to dress up, which we both enjoy. Food may only be so-so this year. We’re at a different venue, and they require use of their own caterers. Which is too bad because in the past we’ve gotten the best catering company in the Cities so we’re used to a pretty high standard. We’re hogging the sun a bit here too. But yesterday’s high was 6 and today’s supposed to be 12. So I think if we have to put up with temperatures like that, we deserve to see the sun. So, sorry, I’m not sharing! **Snowbunny** , you’re making me very very thankful for my garage! That sucks about the Uni policy, **Nava**. Can you get an off-campus apartment? And {{hugs}} for your grandmother. Yay for big vacation coming up, **Rebo**! Do you have any plans for your time off? ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/196 "2009-12-11T16:34:07Z")
Off to work. {{{{ **GrandNava** }}}} ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/197 "2009-12-11T16:56:11Z")
I’m looking for health insurance quotes for 2010 to include GilaMonster and family. Ugh. How does ANY small business afford this sort of thing? ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/198 "2009-12-11T17:00:02Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > **Muppet** , you’re having dinner with Kaiser Soze? Not quite. Just a group of girlfriends that I’ve known practically forever… we used to get up to all sorts of mischief back in the day, but nothing quite on the level of Kaiser Soze and his merry band. 🙂 Just found out that today we’re having a pizza lunch, courtesy of Awesome Director. I suppose I can start eating sensibly tomorrow. On second thought, maybe not… I’ll wait til after the holidays, because who wants to eat sensibly for xmas and new years’? ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/199 "2009-12-11T17:28:49Z")
Today is remarkable: Firday and my Firday coincide! :eek: Yesterday one of our guests gave the entire staff a box of oranges. Some people are really good people. And those were good oranges. 🙂 I need to get a pair of tights. It is entirely too cold outside. I got spoiled by ten years in Pirateville–winter starts a month earlier 2100 feet up. There’s sleet in the forecast tomorrow and I have to get a present at the Folk Art Center on the Parkway. There’s a sale tomorrow. I hope it’s not closed due to weather. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cancer-and-surgery-free-mmp/520300/200 "2009-12-11T18:35:10Z")
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