A Murderously Fun MMP

Urgh. Poor Noor, and poor Dotty. I hope she gets better today.

I should put the kettle on, and contemplate which chores I’m going to do first. I’ve got three days off, and the place is not very clean, plus I should fill a couple more boxes with books. I’m going to make a crockpot full of pasta sauce with stewing beef, go through the freezer and throw out ‘adventurous buys’, the canned goods, ditto, vacuum, box books, and maybe start packing my desk up. Plus cleaning the kitchen. Whee.

We talked a bit last night, and Mr. Lissar said we maybe shouldn’t do the trip if it throws my parents into overwhelming anxiety, since it is their car. It depends on the test on Friday, and whether he can get a reasonable amount of practise on the big highways close by, doing merging and lane changes. Sigh.

Well, they aren’t serious guesses - more like humorous parodies. You should go back and read them once you feel it’s safe. :wink:

Morning, all! Must go drink coffee and draw up lesson plan for today. Inspiration at 12:30am doesn’t help much if it’s gone by 8am, when you actually have to work. :stuck_out_tongue:

Good morning! I’m up and caffeinated, looks like I survived the storms and the flash flood warning. I don’t think wee will be going to the dog park today, it will be a mudpit.

Nava, we used to go to Lake Michigan when we visited my grandma. My cousin and I got our pictures take for the newspaper one year.

Roo, 36 isn’t exactly “young”. Besides they were second hand marker fumes.

Dotty, send your MIL a bad of used diapers, to show your true feelings. :mad:

Morning, all. I’ve actually been up and working for some time; I tried last night, but got really sleepy sooner than I had hoped. Oh well, I was at least able to drag myself up this morning in plenty of time to get this thing done on time, presumably; I’m at least making excellent progress.

Sorry about Noor still not doing well, Dotty! How about you suggest to your MIL that if she doesn’t want you taking Noor places, she should come over and babysit her whenever you need to run errands? Because if you don’t take them with you, life really comes to a standstill with a baby. Not to mention babies love seeing new places/things; the stimulation is good for them. Even if they do pick up bugs! Just wait till she starts school, if you want bugs. :frowning:

I love beaches, but I’m totally a wild, cold beach person. i grew up going to the beach in Oregon during the spring storm season – we’d go for a week every spring and stay in these little cottages atop a cliff, and then my sister and I would put on rubber boots (Wellies to you Brits) and raincoats and go play on the beach in the chill and rain for endless hours, clambering over rocks and over and under and through huge piles of driftwood, building bridges across the little streams and poking the anemones in the tidal pools, and just having a lovely time.

And best of all, Oregon has since made all beaches public property, and that particular beach is now a recreation area; where the little cottages used to be is a parking area with bathroom facilities, and otherwise it’s entirely untouched from my childhood. It’s the only place from my childhood that hasn’t changed, and still looks as big as it did when I was a child. In fact, I’ll be visiting there in September, so you all will get to see pictures then. I cannot wait to breathe that lovely air again!

Back to work; I’ll be a good girl now so I can goof off later.

Dotty, would you like me to send the ninjas after your MIL? She deserves it.
Gee, tea with caffeine is about 10000000x better than tea without.

We can send my grandmother, whose answer to anybody being sick is “what did you do to catch that?” Of course, she gets angry at the world the few times she’s sick herself, because she knows she hasn’t been doing anything unusual, so how can she be sick? She hasn’t done anything to catch it!

Mika I’m the same as you. I won’t read any of the possible spoiler threads, in fact I’m not reading any of the HP threads. Can’t wait until Saturday!!

Heh, we’ve robbed Arabic and use it in Hebrew, too… only we’ve messed it up a bit and it comes out as “Koos Emak” or “Koos Emek.”

But this is what you should be saying to your husband, isn’t it? :smiley:

You can always use “Ya Sharmuta” on her, if it means the same over on the Gulf Coast as it does Palestinian/Israeli Arabic (literally “You whore.”)

And I definitely second the “You want to decide how to raise her? You take her for a while!!” attitude, too.

In the end, flowery language aside, I just hope you all get better fast…

Morning, 'Murkins! :stuck_out_tongue:

I got so mad when once, on the front page of Yahoo! news, they had this possible spoiler:

Someone dies in Harry Potter 7!

Or something similar. (If you read it, you’ll see it’s a guess and an obvious one.) But still. I don’t even want it to be hinted at, to me anyway. The very least they could have done is write “Breaking news on Harry Potter!” And made you click on the link. I read faster than I can really stop myself most days. Grr.

Noone Special as long as you continue to refer to me as a Murkin, I will continue to ignore you! :stuck_out_tongue:

Have him stop by the hardware store on the way back for an assortment of corks, just in case… :wink:

**'Mika ** - the Top5 lists are humor lists - on a variety of subjects - they’re going to have part 2 of that list tonight - I’ll post the link, but with a more desciptive title.
But really - you should read the Top5 list - it’s very funny. my favorite is

and, oh yeah.
It’s freakin wet out there today

Gah! Please stop! Funny, but I still don’t wanna read it!

save the link(s) - read them after you finish the book :smiley:

I will, dear. :slight_smile: Thanks.

I have to say you’re not doing a very good job of ignoring me, so far… :stuck_out_tongue:

I’d say “Good morning, Indian!” to you. But you might Sioux me… (rimshot, d&r)

That’s not even worth a groan, it’s enough to puke over.

Mission Accomplished… :smiley:

I do tons of highway driving every year. Interstate, state roads and highways, etc. Stay alert, take a break when you need to, and you’ll be fine.

Speaking of lawyers, I’m going to need one. Just got a call from a lawyer representing my ex-wife. She says I owe her more money. I say I don’t.

“Cry havok, and let slip the dogs of war!”

Good Mornin’ Y’all! I finally have enough caffiene in me to be somewhat coherent.

Dang what a shift yesterday! Picture it, Albeeny, second shift at the brewery. Two lines runnin’ pretty smooth. That’s a scary thing I’m told cause it can only mean sump’n big is gonna eff up real soon. Lo and behold! First on C7, the filler (where the beer gets put in cans) is doin’ some serious underfills which means 12 ounce cans of Old Milwaukee beer (yeah, I know, we got some class stuff, what can I say) are bein’ rejected right and left. Now, rejects travel by conveyor and <snerk> vibrator <snerk> to a dumpster, which, when full, gets taken back to recycle cause cans (and bottles) can be recycled and we’re all green like that. Well, sooooo much is bein’ rejected that it fills up the dumpster really fast (an empty bigass dumpster in two hours!) that rejects start flyin’ everywhere. Remember, children, these cans have beer in ‘em, though not twelve ounces like they’re supposed to. Flyin’ beer cans are like bombs. They puncture and beer spews everywhere! Not as bad as bottles when it comes to bombs though cause bottles can and will explode. :eek: Thus, there’s like four of us dealin’ with flyin’ beer cans and gettin’ covered on Old Milwaukee beer. ICK! Then, C6 filler decides it does not want to work at all. Nope. Ain’t gonna do it. You can’t make me. It mocked us all night. It sent out a bunch of empty beer cans before that was discovered, which meant that somebody was not doin’ quality checks like somebody should have, cause if it had been done as it should be, which consists of yankin’ random cans off the line once they go through the filler and are sealed, it would have been noticed well before oh, about eight hundred freakin’ 16 ounce cans of Miller High Life had gone through pasteurization and started bein’ sent down the line to be packaged. That’s where I caught it. Ummm… it don’t take a genius to figure out there’s empty cans comin’ down the line cause they rattle like hell. There ain’t nuttin’ in ‘em! Thus, da bear gets to stop a production line and commence to removin’ empty cans off of the conveyor because we just do not want empty beer cans a’ flyin’, which they will. Again, one big ass dumpster filled with empty beer cans. This is why I did not post when I came home last night. Matter of fact, when I got to da cave, I went around to the back porch and took off my clothes there. They were literally soaked with beer. Oh, and I have a profound new respect for safety goggles. There’s a lot of pressure in those cans of not full beer, needless to say. Hee! Last night I was callin’ 'em my beer goggles. I do not want to be squirted in the eyes with beer.

So, that’s my report from the brewery. Excitin’ huh? :smiley:

I’ve read through the past two and a half pages (geez, folks, give the keyboards a rest! :stuck_out_tongue: ) so appropriate, yays, boos, feel betters, awwws, woohoos, etc where needed.

ETA: Sic 'em Sean!

Greetings, Yall!

It’s my first post to the MMP. (yah, 'nother noob)
I’ve been reading the mumps for the last 2 weeks, but have only gotten to page 3 or 4 both times :so does that really count as only 1 week:? I have promised self to finish the threads but decided to jump on in and post!

Wow. I am so staying caught-up with this thread this week. I am feeling a much higher comfort-level here becuz of this, which is probably why I am finally posting. I truly enjoy this thread, and all you who post here!

BTW - :reaches into bottomless-vest-pocket[sup]TM[/sup]:

…“Here’s a selection of caffeinated (and non), as well as potable beverages; plenty O’ chocolate; as well as some meat and also sweet (pecan, blueberry, cherry & apple) PIE!
(including sugar-free for us diabetic, sugar-intolerant).”