pouts
ETA- you can’t place “pouts” between colons-- how funny!
Good morning!
Good luck today, Pie. Calm down, everything will be fine!
I will be so glad when I figure out this corrupted model. This has been a boring couple of days on a borrowed computer. At least it’s in my own cube. I should be finished today. :: crosses fingers::
Let us know how it goes, Pie! Good luck!
Hmm. Mild TMI? My lowest vertebra is slightly swollen and sore. I don’t remember banging it on anything. It would be memorable. I hope it goes away.
I am glad I missed donkey’s TMI, thank. 
You wouldn’t want me just to wave at you, would you? We’re not going to go into details on a public message board, right?
**Spaz **-- you, too, are cute when you pout 
**Flutter **-- think long term… Also, isn’t 16 already Age of Consent up in Canuckistan? 
For the first time ever, I’ve broken down and I’m wearing a wrist brace… Wrist started hurting me bad two days ago 
Gotta say – a trainer (not my trainer, I don’t use one) at the gym where I work out (not nearly often enough) told me 2 freaking months ago to go by a brace because “he could tell” I would “need one soon” – when he shook my hand one time! Are these guys good or what? :eek:
**Pie **-- if I send you some dirty thoughts, and they’re on your mind during the inspection, can that cause you to fail? 
Oh, OK, then I won’t… :halo:
morning folks - caffeinating at work. And thank goodness I wasn’t taking a drink of my coffee when I read DonkeyBear’s very TMI post! :eek: Oh yeah, hands down (LOL!!!) the TMI King (or Queen? ;)) of the week.
My fog seems to have lifted–I don’t know why, but hope that it stays gone. I’m feeling a bit more energy too, so that’s good. Yay for it being Thursday - one more day!
Morning. I’m off today. My list:
Laundry
Walk beagle
Clean litterbox
clean floors
clean bathroom
watch hockey practice
LiLi, maybe Gnat is practicing his ninja skills on you while you sleep?
Nava, that’s nothing. I missed several electronic Cingular bills because my intarweb provider(BellSouth) deleted them as spam. BellSouth owns Cingular, so they were considering their own bills spam. :dubious: Oh, I proclaim myself official Pie taster.
Good luck on the inspection, Pie
Sorry about the wrist, Lunch.
Have read all and forgotten all but chaosboy’s TM FREAKIN I post! :eek: Darling, retreat from the wild side before your colon prolapses!
It’s supposed to be the hottest day of the year so far today so I wore a dress. Now I am frikkin freezing! Me-----> Why do we have to go through this every year??
dots and nooney, what’s the scuttlebut in your neck of the woods about the Iranian missile launches? I think it’s time for the benevolent super race aliens to intervene and bring Planet Earth into the Federation of Peace. Okay, I didn’t say I actually believe that could happen.
Bad Don Juannas today.
Tupug
It’s PreFriday! I’m awake (mostly) and caffeinated and already busy at work. And I’m already looking forward to Quit O’Clock.
Ursus Chaoticus definitely wins the TMI of the week award by a wide (uh…) margin. Possibly of the year, if there are no contenders between now and the end of December. (It’s gonna be tough to beat. I would like to make a specific point of noting however that the preceding statement was in no way intended to be a challenge.)
Puggy - Ontario has a fairly sizeable grower’s industry, so we’re fortunate to get lots of fresh stuff. It’s pretty seasonal though so we only really get the good stuff during the spring summer months. The rest of the time it’s mostly imports, with some (expensive) hydroponic goods available in some places. I do like me those sweet peas though, and the sugar snaps, though those are usually a lot smaller and more expensive.
Mahna[sup]2[/sup] - I MADE YOU BUY PEAS! HA! Now you’ll just have to eat them, won’t you? I bought more today, plus a couple of nice white flesh peaches.
time for break.
Mornin’ all.
It’s ice cream day! Yeah! Every Thursday, our cafeteria has an ice cream sundae bar in the afternoon. One of the BigWigs is supposed to be here today, too. The Office Manager and Admins kept sending out emails yesterday telling everyone to clean their desks and around the printers. I’d think one would be enough, but no.
Good Luck Pie!!!
I’m probably the only who took a few seconds to realize what donkeybear was saying in his TMfrickinI post… Sometimes I’m more innocent than I realize.
Have a good day everybody!! Tomorrow’s Firday.
I love this song. Pretty sure the Brobdinagian Bards have a free mp3 of it on their website…
Muppet Yay for Tim Hortons! Now that I drive I could even potentially go and buy some while at work (it’s too far to walk…). If I have too many though I get really jittery (once I had two XL DD plus my usual home made large mug in the space of four hours… man I was hyper). I think the flirting will be happening. He’s cute, fairly mature though he has his moments, and yup he is easy on the eyes.
It is, but I am nearly 26… Plus I have a personal rule to not date anyone younger than my brother and just considering it is blowing out of the water. Even if we get together in two years.
I have to wear a wrist brace from time to time. I try to do it before it starts to kill me because otherwise it aches for longer.
Takin’ a break. I’ve been workin’ but I kinda sidetracked for a while. See, I looked at the weather report and we’ve got a big chance of rain this afternoon. I thought about the yard and how it needed mowin’ which is what I was gonna do tomorrow but it would be better if I did it today since it’s supposed to rain. Thus, at 7:30 this mornin’ (yep that was me donkeybear ) I got out and mowed. I was finished by around nine and took a quick shower then got started on work stuff. It ain’t goin’ too bad. Not so many mumblers so far. I should still finish up by early afternoonish.
Ok, back to work.
Just decide that when you made that rule you meant “will not date anyone chronologically younger than my brother’s mental age.”
Sounds different now, right?
FTR, I’m 44, my younger sister is 37, and I wouldn’t see a problem with dating a (not completely childish) 26 YO.
Granted, my wife might have a problem with that… :o :smack:
I think I caught it in time – it’s not killing me, and in fact doesn’t hurt as all as long as I have the brace on.
It was really more a remark on how freakishly good at assessing one’s physical condition some of these gym, trainers are!
Thanks for all the sympathetic thoughts from everybody, though
**CutiePie **-- let us know how it went as soon as the [del]Jackbooted thugs[/del] inspectors are out the door, m’kay!?
This is why I decided years ago that all the cute summery dresses stay in the closet unless we’re going to an outdoor event and/or going to eat at a restaurant that has a patio. Work is just too frickin cold. So all the other women are in their cute little dresses and sandals and are practically turning blue (Here’s them being blue: 
) and I’m in pants and socks and a sweater and I don’t look as sexy (but it’s work! Who cares!), but at least I’m not cold!
OK so it still sometimes bothers me that I don’t look as nice. (Hey, there are some hot guys around here! 
) But in the end, comfort wins out over impressing my coworkers. Besides, how sexy do the other women really look when they have to put on a big baggy sweater or fleece over their cute little dress??
Someone just mentioned thinking it’d be fun to have a twinkie cake for one of the upcoming birthdays. Has anyone made a twinkie cake? The kind that’s a yellow cake that looks like twinkies, not the kind that’s made of twinkies.
Oh and I meant to mention weeks ago that I made pbbth’s chocolate chip pie. It’s really really rich. (I used the 12 oz of choc chips.) It was good, but it’s probably better to make for a party/get together and give everyone a really small piece than to make it for just 2 people. It took us DAYS to eat it because we were slicing of tiny little pieces each day, and by the end we were kind of sick of it. Just too sweet and too much butter ( :eek: What?? There’s no such thing as too much butter!) for regular consumption.
Morning, all. Things have been, er, interesting here this morning, haven’t they? DonkeyBear’s TM FREAKIN’ I is definitely the winner of the week and the month, and please, please, no contenders for the year – I’ve already read the entire TMI thread, there’s not enough brain bleach in the world for that one! :eek:
What’s a Spanish electron, Nava? And for that matter, what’s a Spanish maestro? Something is definitely lost in translation here. Between your words and my brain, that is.
I hope that guy at the Y turns out okay, Taters. That’s always so scary when someone collapses like that. Will you be able to find out?
And, by the way, did you know that the soon-to-be-ex-commander (as of tomorrow) of Papa Tigs’ place of work is heading out your way next week, to fill in there for a while with her shiny new stars on her shoulders (she just made general) before returning to become the Chief Nurse of the Army? She’s very nice, by all accounts, but also very demanding. As one would expect, in her position. She’s also an extremely admirable person in her own right – when the Pentagon was hit on 9/11, she was the very first medical person on the scene, and ran triage for 12 hours for all the injured. Which also helps explain her shiny new stars.
My brain is not functioning well this morning. But I have a very, VERY good reason. You may recall we’re re going to that big Native American pow-wow next week, hosted by Papa Tigs’ ex-boss’s tribe, the Lac Courte Oreilles Chippewa. So why am I sitting here stunned and non-functinoal? He just called me to tell me that we will not only be attending, but we are going to be participating in TWO CEREMONIES, an eagle staff** presentation (to Ex-Boss) and an eagle feather*** presentation to her nephew, who just returned from Iraq with a Bronze Star! I am freaking out! What am I supposed to DO? What am I supposed to WEAR? HELP!!!
No shit, I am literally sitting here shaking. Ex-Boss is from the tribe’s medicine family, and the LAST thing I want to do is accidentally offend anyone through ignorance!
And to add I am incredibly, deeply honored goes entirely without saying!
Anyway. Okay. Calm down, MamaT. Deep breaths. It’ll be okay, really. They’re nice people. I’m sure they’re doing this as a way of honoring guests. The guests just have to find out what to do to honor their hosts now!
I think I’m going to go drink some more caffeine and see if its medicinal qualities will help. Either that or I’m going to run around the house screaming in a panic. I haven’t quite decided which yet!
**From a quick googling about eagle staffs, I found this information:
***Eagle feathers are illegal for anyone but Native Americans to possess in the U.S., and they’re not just owned by anybody; they’re given out as a special honor. Ex-Boss already has eagle feathers of her own.
What? Has none of you kids frickin’ missed me?
Actually, I got back from Vermont mid-week and I thought I would skip this MMP and wait for the next one (it’s easier to keep up that way), but then I realized a terrible flaw in that plan… which I shall reveal later.
So without further ado, I have read this whole freaking thing!
GT, those were gorgeous pictures on page #1, I enjoyed them considerably.
picunurse, oh God I’m so sorry. I can’t imagine. I actually went to Vermont this past week to try and escape some terrible feelings myself. Nothing close to yours though.
We are still waiting for **phil’s **pics.
Spaz, wicked sorry for your frustrating situation. If it makes you feel better that was one of the more entertaining posts to read this week.
Rosie, if I could bring you some booze I would. I can confirm to the rest of the MMP that she is a very entertaining drinking buddy. Speaking of which, thanks again mousie for the dinner invite last week. A lot of fun.
Chaoticbear -> :eek:
Now why was it so important to come in and say hi? Because for a little while it will have to be “bye”. My subscription runs out on the 12th and for now I will not be re-upping. So that means this will be my last MMP for a little while. I’m not saying bye forever, I just want to wait until someone up top straightens out the pay-to-post vs. free posting thing. Even if they decide to stay PTP I’ll come back, but it’s all this confusion that frustrates me.
We’ve already lost a couple other members I like because they’re holding out for an answer, right now it seems like the right thing to do.
Your resident Pie stalker,
beebs
Will miss you.
Wow, Mama Tigs. That’s a pretty cool thing to be able to witness. I have no idea what to wear to such an event though.
Chicken and Provolone paninis with pesto and sundried tomato from the Trader Joe’s freezer section are teh YUM!!! I usually don’t like such things, but these are most awesome!! Also good are the BBQ soy crisps–they taste like the child of potato chips and rice cakes. They have two grams of fat, two grams of fiber and some other stuff I don’t remember.
Laundry
[del]Walk beagle
Clean litterbox
clean floors[/del]
clean bathroom
watch hockey practice
: waves at beebs :
Visa electron is a specific kind of debit Visa card. Maestro is MasterCard’s debit cards.
Why is it illegal to own eagle feathers in the USA? Don’t eagles shed?
Good grief, donkeybear, do I have to link to a “goatse” pic? Puh-LEASE, young man!
Pie, by my clock the infectors should have left by now, what’s up?
Nava, what the hell is a “visa electron?” And what makes it Spanish? ETA: Ah, that makes more sense!
Nooner, we all know why your wrist hurts, you’re not fooling anybody! Now pry your ear away from the door of Rm 304 and button your pants!
That sounds way cool, **Tigs, **you’ll be fine I’m sure…
smacks beebs with remaining chunk of trout Just 'cuz you probably missed it when you were gone and I’m sure you’ve done SOMETHING to deserve it…
Flutters, that’s what “catch and release” programs are all about–just make sure you mind Dan Savage’s campground rule and don’t worry about such sillinesses as age differences. Younger men can be lots of fun… evil old lady chortle
Tacklehugs Haze, just because she’s so kyoot!
S’okay, Taters, if you’d been needed you would’ve done your best and that’s all any of us can do…
Hi, Kosh!
Whaddaya mean, I oughta be productive? I’ve gotten a ton of RMA and rebate stuff ready to mail (now I just have to get to the Post Orifice, bleah) gotten all the movies and library books together to return, shit-showered-and never you mind-ed, and have a whole string of stops on my way to work to pick up supplies (don’t forget Office Depot, dingbat, the printer needs ink!)
It’s gonna be hot today again, SO not looking forward to it… and SpaceDawg has managed to hurt her foot in some way, she’s limpy and growls if we try to touch it. I’m suspecting she got a thorn or something up there since her feet are very furry between the pads, she’s done it before and it usually heals up on its own. I REALLY can’t afford a vet bill right now so I’m gonna get some chicken jerky to lure her into the kiddy pool, see if giving it a good cold water rinse will help out. The other possibility is that she sprained something wrestling with the little dogs–she doesn’t take into account that she’s a giant sized old lady and they’re little teenaged whippy dogs less than half her weight. Send good healing thoughts her way, 'kay? 'Cuz if it doesn’t improve some I’m going to have to take her in this weekend and that’s gonna suck. Just getting her into the van will be an exercise in too much fun… :smack: