A Perfect Sunday - An Early MMP

::saunters over to cage, carefully avoiding tarp, picks up 10 foot pole, touches LOUNE with it a few times::

::resists temptation to say “it puts the lotion on its skin”::

::does NOT resist the temptation to say:: woo AND hoo - first on 5!!

Yep. We drove to Pittsburgh. Actually, it’s about a 3 hour round trip from where my boyfriend lives (warren) but we kind of took the scenic route traveling on a bit of the Lincoln Highway.

This has been a crazy week so far, but that’s good. The business cash flow was down to nil last week, but it has picked up again. Hurray!

Tomorrow we go to the neurologist for a follow-up appointment for my boyfriend. This is due to the seizure that he had about a month ago. Hopefully all will continue to be well.

BTW, what’s with all the darned kitty pics around here? Where are all the puppy pics???

(That’s my baby, Bubba)

Well, I really should be going to bed now, but I can’t seem to force myself to get up off the couch.

awwwwwwwwwwwww thud ::keels over from cuteness::
Is it the lighting or is the top of his head purple? and is that a trademark in your family?

Cute puppy!!

Aww! Bubba is adorable! Are his eyes really that green, or is that the lighting? And yes, what is with the purple patch atop his head? Do you have one to match? :smiley: And I show cute puppy pictures often, so not to worry, there are dog lovers here, too!

I’m nearly done with the first batch of congressional [del]drivel[/del] work, which is most excellent indeed. This will hopefully not be quite as late a night as I feared it would be. Of course, I have no idea how ghastly the next batch will be, so I may have spoken too soon. If that’s the case, please feel free to ignore me.

We have had lovely steady drippy rain all day long, and it’s supposed to last for 2-3 more days! I really hope it keeps up; it is so pleasant to hear the rain pattering down. Makes for lovely sleeping weather. I plan to test it out much of the day tomorrow, after staying up too late tonight!

If I come back here to play, someone please kick me back to my work, okay? Because playing with you guys is far more interesting than listening to the windbags who inhabit the Hill, alas.

::giggling:: Well, I was dyeing my hair purple one fine evening and he happened to wonder by. So… I thought that we should match! :smiley:

Ok, ok, you’ve twisted my arm. Here are babies two and three.

And, of course, a group photo.

SOMEBODY STOP ME!!! :stuck_out_tongue:

P.S. Additional puppies are Gizmo and Mickey (a girl)

Ever have one of those days where you are motivated out of habit? I had a day like that today. I got a fair bit of modeling done, but not because I was really into it (in fact I felt a little burnt out today) instead I was motivated because I felt obligated to be so. Ah well, at least I got some stuff done (which I am sure I will appreciate later in the week).

I realized earlier this week that I have a good problem. It turns out that I have 7-8 days of vacation saved up that I need to take by the end of the year lest I lose them. Now I just have to make sure that I work out what days I can take off in the next two months with my boss. Woo hoo! Time off!

Oh, and in RE the puppy pictures: Squeeee!

Forgot to mention that one year ago today (i.e. Wednesday) Meli and I went on our first date (which was detailed here that very evening). Though we aren’t considering it to be our official anniversary (that would be Nov. 10) it’s still nice to think about it… and about how incredibly awkward we were.

prompted by Ali’s comment

I just spent the last hour reading year old MMPs. I have saved every MMP since Jan’06 in case anyone needs one. I didn’t find his date tale, but I did get caught up in a few new pet tales.

I’m fairly certain that it is there somewhere. I would search my post history out of curiosity, but it is very late and I need to get to sleep. I just turned off all of my computers except my laptop, which I am posting from (and which, being a Mac, is almost completely silent) and it got very quite. I rarely turn off both of my PCs at the same time, and the silence in here is creeping me out a bit.

Ho hum…Don Twanna, the Italian Lobajob, is back today. Already she’s been whining because she can’t work out where the flash stick goes in the computer, then she couldn’t find it on the screen, then she grizzled because she’s got to do a presentation this afternoon (hence the flash stick, which is actually her husband’s, so I expect that means he did all the work). Oh, it was so lovely last week when she was on holiday.

I’m off to the cinema tonight to see “Ratatouille” - we have free tix for our local arty cinema and this was pretty much the only thing we actually wanted to see and the tix are only valid until the end of October. So tonight we’re off to see a fillum. What fun!

Cute puppy pics, but of course they’re nowhere near as cute as snoozy cat pics, right?

I just heard from Draelin - she’s alive and promises to stop by, if she ever has the time. I guess her new job is a lot more involved than her old one :smiley:

Well,** I **wouldn’t touch him with a 10 ft pole!

I’d tickle him, instead. <evil laugh; throws LOUNE a puppy biscuit>
I hafta go to work. What is this thing we call work? What is it for? I was happy sleeping. (actually had a dream about getting up to go to work-gah.)

Very cute puppy pics–is he a Bichon?

Howdy Y’all! Quick driveby before sleepy time. I’m home and showered and just took a melatonin so soon I’ll be in dream land.

Have a good day everybody!

Bluuu-uuuurf. Brekkie et, and on my 2nd drum of caffeine.

VWife sounded normal when she called and woke me up this morning. No zombie effects from lack of sleep, and no pain gasping.

So, you ask, why did she wake me? Weeeeell, I was so tired that I fell asleep watching Pushing Daisies :eek:, and I had a midnight fire run. Someone’s central air unit malfunctioned and was blowing smoke through the house.

It’s raining, too. The ditches in along the road at the VunderLair are full to the top, and they’re about 2’ deep. More to come, with projections of 3-4" before it ends tomorrow. Never mind that we’re about 16" behind right now. At least Cottonfield County won’t look like SoCal any time soon.

Need coffee have to get ready to go out and watch crazy parents at bus stop then come back and get flu shot then get 75 million hours of work done in 3 then meet friend for lunch which it is her turn to buy and after which I still have a lot to do but she likes to linger and chat over lunch so I won’t get away quick but that’s ok because she’s my pal and the fact that she’s really easy on the eyes helps too then maybe I’ll get .000001% more of the work done that I have to get done before my 6 PM meeting, after which I’m going straight home to find beer.

Tomorrow’s Friday, right?

munches on biscuit

Well, I got my teeth cleaned as I gazed into the beautiful blue eyes of Kathryn. That’s my morning so far.
Cute puppy!
Do we have any southern Cali Mumpers?

I’m about to make tea, and then decide what needs doing before work.

After today, I only need to not hit Whiny Idiot with a hammer twice more. He was soooo hungry yesterday, because he had to go to the pub the night before, and he got sooooo drunk and was hungover, and couldn’t eat yesterday, and did I mind if he took his fifteenth smoke break?
It would be so much better if he either didn’t try to talk to me, or could correctly interpret glazed eyes and a bored expression.

So Cal Mumper here. I am SO sick of smoke…

But I’m one of the lucky ones.

Good Afternoon, y’all!

Back from a morning on Reserves Duty, full of the excitement of [del]listening to the same training sessions for the 100th time :rolleyes:[/del] defending my country!

At work, we always have a Weekend Celebration thing on Thursday at 15:00 (since Friday is part of the weekend)… this week part of it was small glasses of some kind of lime-and-rum punch. With real rum. Lots thereof. So this qualifies as a semi-drunken post… Did I say already that this is happening at work? :smiley:

LOUNE, if we had some better-looking dental hygiene techs here, my teeth would probably be even cleaner than they already are… How did she get in the cage, though? :stuck_out_tongue:

Oh, and – as a (long time but who cares) transplanted Bostonian… Go Red Sox!!