A Mysterious Mowing MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Happy Sunday, folks! I am back from my week away with the doting parent - did you miss me? Did you even notice I’d gone? :wipes away single tear with crumpled hankie:

We had a good trip and did all the stuff we needed to do to make sure the family graves are ok and in good condition, so that was all fine. My uncle’s grave has settled a bit and needs some attention so we visited the stonemasons and have arranged for them to go and look at it and let us have a report with their recommendations as it probably just needs relevelling. The other graves were fine, they have been weeded and we planted new stuff in them so they are back to looking quite respectable.

I got home to find in the mail I’d had a missive from the University about the restructure of the programme that I work on and it looks like I may well be out of a job in the next couple of months. They are having a 90-day consultation period and then they’ll be deciding on the redundancy issue but I’m not holding out much hope. Time to start looking for something new, I fear.

Oh well, after a largely unproductive day (your lists are making me feel quite ashamed…) in which I managed only to do the grocery shopping and some ironing, I am retiring to contemplate the future from the safety of a nice warm bath. Then I may consider re-painting my toenails while I wait for 'im indoors to cook dinner later.

In other important news, 'im indoors has now moved back home as his job’s finished so he’ll be busy getting under my feet again. Oh joy.

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Woke up at 5.30am again today. Wide awake. So I got up and steam vac’d the tile floors, flipped the mattress in the guest room, put towels away, changed the sheets on my bed, sorted out the closet in the guest bedroom so that my sister and boyfriend have some where to put their stuff, took a shower and went to get coffee. And it is only 9AM here. I am going to be lazy for a bit before I head out to the sto’ to get food and stuff.

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BooFae- if it makes you feel any better - I did nothing yesterday and it’s more of the same today

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I just made a pasta primavera for lunch based off a recipe that Culinary Boy told me he made yesterday. Mine is like his only in that there’s vegetables and pasta. He had a whole restaurant kitchen to work from whereas I just have the refrigerator. It’s good, though. First time I ever made it and it will make its way into the Mental Folder of Stock Recipes.

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Spaz, I haven’t made pasta primavera for awhile, fMIL says it upsets her stomach, sigh moved bedrooms Friday, moved my friend yesterday (till 6 AM!) doing housework today to get house straightened before Ma comes home. Plus I had a strange dream that isa worrying me.

NIcknames? Do I get one?

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idk - I’m not feeling creative - all I can come up with is “Jan”

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swampy, we are in the process of moving all of our spices over to labeled 4 oz tins so we can mount them on the inside of our pantry door with magnets.

Alphabetically.

:eek:

I’d be happy to give you some tips :stuck_out_tongue:

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Whew, home and cooling down at last. It was hot and humid out on the river, so we only motored around for an hour or so. Nephew drove almost the entire time, so he was happy. When we got back to the marina, we hopped into the pool, but it was almost bathwater warm. I told the marina manager he needed to chuck some ice in the pool. He declined. Ol’ poopyhead! :stuck_out_tongue:

**FCD **is crashed out in bed - I think the heat really got to him. I loaded some stuff into the car for a give-away at work tomorrow, plus I threw some other stuff on the trailer for a trip to the dump - probably next weekend. There’s still a pile of metal to be loaded, but that’ll go into the truck to be kept separate - there’s a metal recycling pile separate from the dumpsters.

We’re in and vegging for the rest of the day. I may run a load with the towels and swimsuits we wore today, but that’ll be as productive as I intend to be.

**Donkeybear **- I don’t have Dope access at work. The computers on my desk are to our intranet and 2 classified nets, none of which get even close to teh evul intrarwebz!! :eek: We have a shared unclassified terminal but the Dope, among many other things, is blocked. We’re only supposed to use it for our time cards and certain research. Since it’s shared, I can’t park myself there all day, alas.

**doggio **- they’ll finish deprogramming me on Friday. I’ve already had a read-out, whereby I was told that even tho I’ll be retired, I’ll still be subject to the same laws regarding protecting classified information. Which I knew. But I don’t have to inform anyone if I travel out of the country. Anyway, it doesn’t matter what cool classified stuff I supposedly knew, I honestly forgot a lot, and other things change so quickly, what I knew is no longer of much value. It would be like if I had been privy to top secret plans to kidnap Saddam and photograph him in women’s clothing - since he’s worm food now, those plans would be pretty meaningless. And lest you think I slipped up here, no I never had anything to do with Saddam or naughty photos. Of course, you’re all now sure that since I brought it up, I must know something, and the louder I deny it, the surer you become… crap. The men in black are peeking in the window now… :o

**BBBobbio **- if you’re going to feed crabs, they prefer chicken necks. :stuck_out_tongue:

I think it’s time to knit.

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I finally got off my lazy ass and worked out on the treadmill. I am seriously out of shape. I wanted to go longer, but it became so hot in the garage that I was getting a little woozy. It’s not good to be woozy on a treadmill.

Anyway, I’m just about done sucking down a large glass of ice water and will change into shorts and a non-sweaty tank top and go work out in the yard. It’s hot out there too, but at least there’s a slight breeze.

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Mooooooooooooom, I’m shocked! SHOCKED! that you forgot the very first thing they teach you in Classified Informashun Skool:* “I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.”*

Solves a lot of hassle and heartache, even if your plans to do a photo spread of Saddam dressed as a French maid are a little dated.

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JanCo

Why am I so tired? I guess I’ll have to try to nap.

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[QUOTE=swampbear]
I just have to ask though, why was there a hole over the fireplace? This just sounds like a good story. :smiley:
[/QUOTE]

The goobers that designed this house were stuck in the 90’s - they put in a hole suitable for holding an old-school 32" or so non-widescreen CRT TV over the fireplace. Nearly square and quite deep. The stupid thing is that a: over the fireplace is a bad place for a TV, and b: the house was built well after they stopped making big non-widescreen TVs, so who’d have anything to put there?

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Marsha[sup]3[/sup] ?

Inc ?

I got nuthin else at the moment.

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Brain Bleach STAT!!!

I dunno - it’s a little close to RonCo… But wait - there’s more!! :eek: If you recall, Janis (or was it Janice?) was part of Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem of Muppet Show fame - so she could be Mayhem. That’s not stretching it, is it? :smiley:

Sunday is winding down with me knitting away. I’m almost done a scarf/hat, and I started a afghan yesterday. It’s therapeutic, right? Whatever. Weekend almost done. <sigh>

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Mayhem, I’m kinda likin’ that. :smiley:

It’s been a semi-productive day. I did make lunch (baked chikin boobs, succotash, steamed squish and rolls), do some yahd irk and washed, deied and put away a load of towels and undies. Now I’m chillin’ and watchin’ teevee.

Alphabetized spices? I don’t need no stinkin’ alphabetized spices! :stuck_out_tongue:

Nitey Nite Y’all!

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I vote Mayhem, just cause i like the Muppets.

So I:
did laundry
walked the dogs
backed up my crackberry
updated the big computer
did pool based sloth at M’s Pool and Grille.
We were so slothy(it is too a word!), we had to order OK Chinese food. At least that’s what the sign said:
China Wok

gotti, sure it wasn’t a hidey hole for the transvestite midget hooker?

You rock!

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Isn’t that the dude in the Allstate commercial?

:wink:

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Well, I do think he’s kinda sexy… :stuck_out_tongue:

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how very Alton Brown of you

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Ooooh, I have a friend who has that very same hole above the fireplace, gotti. (Well, not the very same one; just the very same design. You know what I mean, right?) I think she put a flower arrangement in it or something.

Started weeding stuff out of my closet so that I can either take it to the second-hand store to be sold or to Goodwill to be donated. I imagine I’ll also have a few items that will just be pitched.

Also watched some movies (Definitely, Maybe and something else I’m forgetting.

Went for a walk once it stopped raining, too. It was much more pleasant out after the rain.

Now it’s time for beddie bye, but I’m really quite awake. Guess I’ll try watching another movie and hope I fall asleep.

Hugs all.

GT