:: hugs for SCL :: We miss you!
Went out and had some margaritas with a couple friends, wearing my new red dress. I love wearing red, but it is a rather conspicuous color. Plus it’s the color of being slutty 
{{{{{{{{{SCL}}}}}}}}}; praying for your cousin and hope things work out better at the assisted living facility. I’d been wondering how you were doing and had asked about you–glad to hear that the job is going well.
Apologies for the double-post ::shakes fist at hamsters:: it definitely was unintentional–I got an IE error message, so didn’t know that the post had gone through the first time. Then I couldn’t get SDMB to come back up for me.
I’ve got a lot of congestion in my head and my throat is sore; I haven’t been sleeping well because of this, unfortunately. Right now, I’m up and drinking hot water with lemon and honey (LOL I should probably put a shot of whiskey in there, I guess!). I’m sure glad it’s a holiday weekend; except for a trip to Target and the grocery store, I’m probably in for the weekend. Oh yes, it looks like my old friend and I aren’t going to meet up this time. 
We did talk for about 45 minutes, though, and agreed to stay in touch and will probably meet up next time she’s visiting the area (she’s returning to the west coast in a few weeks).
I’m going to try to rest for a bit…whatever this is, it is trying to kick my butt!
Me three! I love it when I have the kind of boss who’s able to say “ok, you don’t have anything to do so get the heck out of here” but they’re unusual. Had a job where I was 2 months ahead of the project calendar at one point and the boss still insisted on having all of us there 6x12… finally I was able to get my teammates to give me something to do by begging the nicest coworker “I’m way ahead, the boss doesn’t let me do not-work-related stuff, he’s even forbidden me to talk with the client, give me some monkeywork or something! There has to be something I can help with.” So I ended up reviewing manuals for Finance, which I don’t understand anything about, but that means if I can understand the manual anybody can.
I missed the missing post entirely so I’m not very sure why we’re hugging Taters other than she seriously needs it. I like internet hugs because when you give them to people, people don’t look at you funny, like they sometimes do irl, you know?
{{{{{Taters}}}}},{{{{{MBG}}}}},{{{{{SCL}}}}},{{{{{anybody who needs hugs}}}}}
gt, the firm that was subcontracting me to the Big Consulting Firm has consultants of their own. The boss has asked me to prepare a 3-5 day course in “Quality Concepts” (both “in the real world” and in SAP) for the week after next, to give it to his consultants, so even if I don’t have a project I do have work. I hope I’ll do a better job than Tater’s unwise teacher.
Okay, maybe I should use my new superpower to summon some other Dopers I miss.
Eve
Eve
Eve
Sapo
Sapo
Sapo
Inigo
Inigo
Inigo
Very valuable
Although you don’t realize it
Until you have none
A good cup of Joe
The healing spark of java
Or mud puddle buzz
Flat tire young lady?
Why yes I’ll give you a hand
And my phone number
Come here sweet kitteh
Closer, closer still, come on
Who’s a good cat? BANG
Marianas Trench?
Hmm, I have not heard of this
Did we discuss it?
Got drunk in Beefang
No one even noticed me
Says a lot for them
To write the haiku
Five syllables are needed
Then seven sylla
OK, enough already with sad stuff in the MMP! All you people whose lives aren’t all lollipops and sunshine better just start having better lives, dagnabbit. We’re nice, dammit, and we deserve nice lives.
Yeah, I know, like it’d be that simple… Can we at least enforce a limit on the bummerification, please? If things are going well for you, keep it that way, dammit! <sigh>
{{{**SCL ** & cuz}}}
So, yeah, I’m up way too early on Saturday. Bernie has already been on walkabout and she just got back. Taz has been running wild, and right now, he’s stalking the cookie Scruffy “buried” next to the front window. (It’s hilarious to watch the little dog go thru the motions of burying her treats - she pushes her nose along the carpet as if to pile it up to cover her treasure.) For some reason, Taz wants the dog treats, and he’ll approach while Scruffy is standing guard. Scruff growls, cat leaves, then sneaks back. Very entertaining.
Speaking of Taz, he has a new trick. We’ve got a water dish with its own water bottle so I don’t have to worry about the critters getting thirsty. The other day, we watched kitteh leaning in the water dish, wet up to his elbows, trying to reach inside the reservoir. And of course, when he tired of that game, he left a trail of wet footprints across the kitchen.
And that concludes the latest animal updates. Except to add - yay for kittehs, snowbunny!!!
Plans for the day, you ask? Laundry. Maybe some dusting. Maybe some vacuuming. Maybe not. I should probably get my car to a car wash to get the salt residue removed. I was gonna do it yesterday, but I couldn’t find the scrubby thing to do it at home. So I’ll let **FCD ** take it to his favorite do-it-yerself place like he suggested.
This is the week my baby comes north for a job fair/interview. She flies in on Thurs, and her interview is on Friday. I’m hoping they hire her. Now. Immediately. To the school she wants and the grade she wants. Is that asking too much?!? I ask you…
Next Sat, we’re going to the world famous WalMart photo studio to get a family pic done - probably the last one for the 3 of us as a fambly. Before that interloper who intends to marry my baby becomes part of our lives. 
Anyway, it’ll be the first real protrait we’ve ever had done of the 3 of us. I’m thinking I may ask for a shot of just me and my sweetie, too. I should probably get a haircut before then.
So, Happy Saturday, all!
Bravo! 
**Beebs **is a master
He can write a great Haiku
About anything.
Parties went well… She-twin had 5 girls over at our place; we managed to get them into her room at midnight, and actually slept until they started singing at the top of their lungs at 7:30 this morning… :rolleyes: 
He-twin was shipped out to another February friend, and they had their party together (also a sleep over) at the ther friend’s house 
All in all, it wasn’t to bad…
Thank you everybody who wished them happy birthday
{{{SCL}}}
Good morning! Up and caffeinating - I was able to get back to sleep last night, fortunately, and am feeling a bit better this morning.
FCM, I told you that Mr. Taz would be trying to steal Scruffy’s biscuits! LOL He really does sound like a delightful cat and quite intelligent, if at times vexing. 
And definitely living up to his name!
GT, I’m still drinking my coffee first thing in the AM, but now have either the Irish Breakfast or English Breakfast tea if I have a second cup of caffeine. LOL That is some good tea! Also, I’m thinking of trying my hand at an OP–what dates are currently available?
Whew, happy weekend, all. It’s SHARE day in my area today, then my daughter and I are probably going to Tarjay.
Mornin’ Y’all! I’m about to go purtify and go into work for a little bit. Then I’m comin’ home and make gumbo. Havin’ some friends over for dindin tonight. I have a desire for gumbo, thus they are gettin’ gumbo.
Ok, off for purtification.
Yays, boos, hugs, as needed.
Up and off to work.
{{{{SCL and cousin}}}}
well, you and the PM I sent her last night after you brought her absence to our attention
what he said. Ta.
You know what? Hell with that conference. I really don’t want to go, to the point of almost having a panic attack about going. Hence I stay home and work on other things. 2% ain’t worth it. I’d get more than that just doing my homework for the week.
In other news, it’s a beautiful, chill sunny day.
{{{{SCL & Family}}}}}
Okay fine, so my superpower is my excellent search function-fu. We all can’t be Batman y’know!
Wow, I’ve been trying to catch up. But it just hasn’t been working. You see, I finally got a return email from my long-term ex today. He and I dated off and on for about 10 years. Things pretty much ended 2 or 3 years ago and we’ve remained friends. As a matter of fact, TVMan and I went to visit him on vacation last year. But today I got an email saying that he’s got a girlfriend and she just moved into his place on Tuesday. This is the first girlfriend that he’s had since we were together. Since he told me that he figured he’d always be alone, etc., etc…
I’m ashamed of how much it still hurts. He was a lot of ‘firsts’ for me and while I knew it wouldn’t be likely that we’d ever get back together even due to distances (we live about 8 hours apart), I still have the desire to curl up into a ball and start crying irrationally just about now. And I’m here in TVLand, so there’s really no one else that I can tell about it other than you guys.
But the good news is that the last batch of cookie dough was safely scooped and is residing happily in the freezer right now.
We are creeping up on the one year mark of when I had to leave my ex-girlfriend. Still a tremendously profound experience for me (as you’ve seen me glurging at Fathom). Talk, I guess. I don’t know what else. She was the worst thing that ever happened to me and I still miss her everyday.
Details being spared, we were killing each other and it’s good that we don’t have any contact.
Don’t know what to say, all we can do is talk.
Well, beebs, should we commiserate together?
I’m thinking, maybe the best thing right now for you is to find a corner, curl up and have a good cry… give yourself 10 minutes to completely let go and just bawl your eyes out, and tell yourself that once those 10 minutes are over, you’re getting up, and not looking back.
It could even work…
I second a good cry Cutie Pie. Sometimes that really helps.
{{{{Beebs}}}} Anniversaries like that are really hard.
On another note how many panties are too many??? I can go into details if you want…but I’m curious how many is too many…
6,000?
Hey, the more you have, the less often you need to do laundry (I hate laundry).
Sounds like most of us are having a bummer week (month, year, etc.)** {{{{Mumpers}}}}**
To be wearing at any given time? I’ll say two is definitely too many…