G’morning. Not awake yet.
GT
Sorry, can’t have coffee; I got real sick the first time I tried it, so rather than get used to the taste I find it revolting. But I’ll lick any HazelNut so long as the amount of chocolate wrapping is enough for it.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. I’m also all dressed for work. Shorts and a sleeveless tshirt. A perk of workin’ from home sometimes is nobody cares how ya dress. 
I do need to forage though cause tummy is rumbly.
Gotcha Nava. I have laterally reproduced several times then. Four nieces and a nephew. They in turn have produced 3 great nieces and four great nephews. I spoil 'em all. That’s my job.
I’m not sure if it’ll be cloudy and hot or sunny and hot today. One thing’s for sure, it’ll be hot. If I get myself real busy this mornin’, I could probably have most everything done by afternoon. Then I could cool off from the hot by floatin’ in the pool. That sounds like a plan!
Ok, goin’ in search of foodstuff and then to get busy. Really. I promise.
Later Y’all!
Marnin’.
{{{{rigs}}}}
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All this talk of chocolate. There wouldn’t happen to be some Cadbury’s in that pile, would there? If so, steals and runs away
Time to start heading to workification.
{{{{Rigs}}}}
Some1, yer Foreign Minister is cute. I have no know clue if she’s a shreiking bitch ala Hillary, though.
Haze, I can do a convincing moo, have a mosquito bite that’s oozing a little gunk, and know a custom candy maker. Does that put me in the running ahead of CanineServant?
Blurf, obligatory Firday shout-out, yada yada yada. I get to leave work early today for a trip to the eye doctor. What fun.
Up and off to work.
{{{{everyone}}}}
Gotta go take a shower before the doctor’s appointment. Depending on how much time I have after, I think I’m also going to get a haircut, and apply for Medicaid. I don’t know what the income requirements are, but my coverage on mommy and daddy’s insurance runs out in November when I turn 22. 
I can get regular big-boy insurance through work, but it wouldn’t take effect until January, and what if I get sick during that month and a half? And also, one of the medicines I pay 35 dollars every 3 months for on mail-order is covered on Medicaid, so think of the savings!
I keep forgetting to say- Haze, Nat spends a lot of time [DEL]chewing on[/DEL] reading the Peter Rabbit book you sent him.
Geez, anything any of you Americans post about medical bills and insurance makes me frightened. I am completely unused to the idea that you would have to pay to go to the doctor. The marvels of a Communist government. ‘White for snow, red for Communism!’
Didn’t get to see it last night… DVR’d for tonight-- please, please let it have been good!
Mornin’ all!
Mornin’. Happy Firday all.
(((Rigs)))
(((Rebo & Blaze)))
grrr to work.
:: tosses a Cadbury bar to Spaz ::
Doggio–that made me laugh. I do hope the disease is treatable. 
I am up and not at work–this day sort of fell from the sky and my morning is FREE. Yahoo! I have laundry going and need to organize myself. Or maybe I’ll just read lightweight mystery novels…
I loves me some Cadbury choc. I am going to make a HUGE batch of choc chip cookies and deliver them to my friend. Serious, deep grief needs serious chocolate. In fact, you know how people say “in lieu of flowers, a donation to X…”?
Well, when I die, that better say–EAT CHOCOLATE.
Supposed to be a weird day, weatherwise. And I just got an email from my parents–they’re arriving tonight(?) and wondering about dinner(?). I thought we were going out to dinner Saturday night. Gah.
LiLi–I’ll think of you in the kitchen today. Soon, very soon, Nat will not sit quietly while you bake bread. And then, after a time, he will want to “help”*. Pepperidge Farm looks better all the time…
*some of my favorite mom/kid moments involve doing stuff in the kitchen with them.
Cadbury’s? That’s dog chocolate, that is. Green & Black’s. That’s the only stuff worth eating.
I’ve got an ear infection thingie. It even hurts to walk. How wrong is that?
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I’ve not seen Green & Black’s over here. I didn’t see it when I was over there, either, but I wasn’t looking then.
New York is falling apart. Seriously, two in two months?? WTF?
{{{rigs}}}, sorry for your friend.
Feel better soon, boofae.
We are due for hot and humid for the next few days which will accommodate lounging in the pool tonight after work with some cocktails.
I think I have an injured rotator cuff. I demonstrated my natural inborn [del]lack of coordination[/del] grace about a month ago by falling on my butt. My shoulder didn’t hurt that day but it did the next and has gotten progressively worse. At first it was only certain positions but now it just aches all the time. I hate going to the doctor but I think I better make an appointment. With any luck, it’ll be better by the time they can schedule me.
We are having our going away/retirement lunch for our department head today (his last day). That’s at Noon (not our Noon) and then there’s a company-wide celebration at 3:00. I don’t think too much work will get done today.
Here’s to the weekend!
Tupug
{{{{Rigs}}}}}
Some of my favorite memories with mom and grandma are in the kitchen. I loved helping back and help in any way possible. Especially as taste tester, LOL. Once when I was younger, I think I was about 6 or 7 Grandma was in the kitchen mashing potatoes, it was a big family gathering and my mom and aunt were there as well, and I remember asking her innocently “Grandma why does your butt shake when you mash potatoes.” Everyone just about died laughing. I remember being so embarrased. Now it’s funny and it gets brought up all the time when someone is mashing potatoes.
I’m off today. I should go do laundry and I’m in the mood to bake something. I need to find a cream cheese frosting recipe for cinnamon rolls. Hubby notified me that he doesn’t like the hard powdered sugar frosting on cinnamon rolls.
Awwwwwwwww. :: melts ::
Why is Nava licking me? And why am I covered in chocolate? I’m so confused.
Where’s my memory??
Well, we all know the wetware is a hopeless case, but I’m looking for some RAM that I ordered for one of the laptops and UPS claims they delivered at almost 7 PM on Wednesday. Strangely, I got home at 6 PM and stayed home. Nobody rang the doorbell, and there was no package at the door when we took the dog for a walk at about 8:30. So now I work with the vendor to trace and hopefully replace quickly.
Ughh… too early to think about it. Off to forage for coffee.
Pugs, Go. I’ve been having shoulder problems outta the clear blue sky for the last couple months, and it only gets worse. You use that damn joint for everything. Right now I can hardly lift a paper clip over my shoulder in my left arm.
I found a bag of Reese’s itsy-bitsies in the pantry last night. Nummmmmy.
All you Chi-folk, hang on to your hats, out here in the western burbs, we already have thunder and rain. It’s gonna be ugly.
I’ve been blogging my blogspot like a madman the last few days. Where’d that all come from?
You wouldn’t need to be covered in chocolate to get most men to line up at the country fair “licking booth” to get the opportunity. We’ve seen your picture.
And just so I don’t get my favorite message board crush jealous… Pie, I would buy a ticket to the the Old Time Country “Neck Nibbling” Booth for you. Rawr!
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ITD**, halfway through Lost. So far, so very good. No spoilers.
Your resident troublemaker,
beebs
OMG. It is not often I am incensed by listening to something on the radio, but I just heard this interview by Claire Bolderson of the BBC on BBC Newshour. She was talking to an American male–someone in the current admin or associated with it(I think). I didn’t catch the name. I can’t find the interview on their website–I even tried to relisten, but don’t have time to sit through the Spanish fishing issues etc.
He was so abrasive and rude and generally horrid. He was dismissive about the Iraqi problems of just living every day life. I was yelling at the radio. He has a book out–but I don’t know his name (pretty sure it wasn’t Scott McClelland). He said the Iraq war was a complete success. :eek: I just want to know his name, so I can mutter imprecations about him all afternoon. Did anyone else catch the interview? NPR here replays the Beeb newshour at 10 am our time.
I made the cookie dough, but it’s hotter than hell outside and looks somewhat ominous. It’s nice and cool in the house, so in the interest of staving off global warming, I’m not going to run the oven today. I can make them tomorrow.
Laundry in dryer. Transplanted yew and other sundry plants watered. Mail sorted. Next is the upstairs bathroom. Such a life I lead!