Like the one with Rock Hudson and Doris Day? I just saw that a couple weekends ago on TCM or AMC or something like that. I liked it. Silly old movies are good.
I somehow agreed to do two things tonight. I’m supposed to make goodies for a bake sale and I told someone I’d be at the cross-stitch group get-together tonight. Hmm… not sure how I’m going to do both. But I’m going to try because I’ve cancelled on the stitch group so many times that I really shouldn’t cut out on them any more. They’re threatening to give my seat away.
Sheesh, I can’t believe I’m double posting with more than a 1/2 hour in between my posts. C’mon people! We’ve got to get posting. It’s Thursday and we’re only on page 4!
Anyway, I just discovered a great new time-waster: customized stationery. You can customize online and preview! It’s very exciting. I can’t afford to actually BUY anything, but it’s fun to look at.
I know how you feel. This morning, I’ve surfed the board, emailed with friends, laughed about my office’s community lottery ticket numbers (which will amuse Lost fans), and downloaded new ringtones for my cell phone.
I am hoping my day becomes better. I overslept, but managed to get myself and kids out of the house on time. Dropped the son off at school, only to realize that I forgot my stupid security badges, so had to drive back home to get the badges, then the traffic sucked even that much worse. I managed to squeak in to work on time, but have just been informed that I have a VTC at 0800. I know, I know, it’s just minor, trivial stuff, but it’s annoying all the same.
My back still hurts, but it is slowly (very slowly) improving. Tomorrow is Mr. Taters birthday. He’ll be halfway to 84 (that’s 42 for those of us that are mathematically challenged). I am hoping that my back is better tomorrow. If you have to ask why, then you’ve led a sheltered life.
One of my pcs at home is acting up again. It’s the same pc I had problems with a couple of months ago. I’d like to just take it to the shop to get it fixed.
Tee, hee. I just emailed the link for the kitty litter cake to The Princess[sup]TM[/sup] asking what she thought about making it for her brother’s birthday what is coming up. Tee, hee.
What is going on??? I am bored out of my skull at work today. We did have our popularity contest breakfast just a little while ago. No Mimosas.
Taters, I hope the rest of your day is better! What the heck is a VTC?
I’m not working very hard today. I have to format a stupid report, and I don’t have all the sections yet. And I just found out that someone is still editing one of the sections I already formatted, so I’ll have to do it all over again. :rolleyes:
Should I have a biscuit for lunch? I know, biscuits are for breakfast, but today just feels like a biscuit day. Chicken? Sausage and egg? It’s a hard decision. Puggy, now you’ve got me in the mood for mimosas. Although coffee would probably be better with a sausage biscuit.
Morning, all. Yes, I know it’s almost noon. This is morning in the Lissar household, because Mr. Lissar got home from work at 2 a.m. and we got to bed at 3. That makes it time for tea and breakfast.
I’m thinking of doing Italian poutine for lunch. I have frozen spicy fries, and meat spaghetti sauce, and mozzarella. I’ll eat lunch at maybe 4 or so. That would be good. In between I should go to the laundromat and wash the eiderdown and maybe our dining chair cushions.
I knew that! But you see, the last time I checked your profile I clicked on the website first and then some shiny things popped up and somehow I ended up looking at house decorations for christmas. By then the soap brain cells had gone back to sleep and only mumbled strangers’ names when Bumba soap was discussed on various ocassions.
My soap brain cells really shouldn’t have smoked all that pot in college, especially because they didn’t share any of it with the rest of my brain cells. Which isn’t so bad really since I retained other important brain cells, like fire is bad brain cells and this is your home brain cells. I may be smelly, but my house has never caught on fire. Except for that one time when I decided to see if our living room carpet was flammable (it was).
*Pillow Talk * is a book too gardentraveler? Well, *Please don’t eat the Daisies * was a book first, too so it shouldn’t surprise me. I confess to owning a copy of both movies. Doris Day movies are oddly soothing sometimes. Another kind of Pillow Talk book might not be though, so you’d have to be careful which one you bought for Great Aunt Mathilda’s birthday present. Or not, depending upon your personal variety of Great Aunt Mathilda.
Well zelie, the sad fact is we’re not allowed to communicate directly with the IT guy, we are only allowed to speak with the adminstrator in charge of IT. Even if I could, I’d have to learn the IT words in spanish and then somehow manage to leave a message on his permanently full voice mail. I tried going to their office but they don’t answer the door and you can’t slip messages under the door anymore since they put a new gasket on the bottom. Too many people were leaving requests that way, you see. Which is all for the best really, since the IT guy is afraid of teenagers and my classroom is chock full of them.
So my computer is still crashing a half dozen times a day and my monitor turns everthing green and I have so little memory I have to do a disk clean up every couple of hours. Did you know that it can take a day and a half to run a security scan when your computer is this sick? The good news is that my e-mail is spontaneously cured. I should have the program opened by this afternoon.
Magic Eyes, biscuits aren’t just for breakfast anymore. Biscuits have a long tradition of being okay to eat any time of day, honest. But even if they didn’t, don’t let anybody tell you what to do with your biscuits. Let your biscuits breathe free! Hmmm. Does that sound a little dirty to any one besides me?
That’s why I didn’t ask for poutine when I was in Texas. Could have gotten ugly.
You’ve never had poutine, scout? That’s sad. I’d mail you some, but I don’t think it would ship well. Your instructions are: get some cheese curds (if you can. Cubed mild cheddar is heretical but tastes okay). Get some decent beef gravy, preferably homemade, but if you can find decent canned stuff, that’s fine. Get a lot of real (not frozen) good french fries.
Heat the gravy up, put the cheese ( a generous handful or so per serving) on top of the fries, and then drench it in gravy. Let the cheese get soft (30 seconds or so if the fries and gravy are both hot), and eat.
You now have enough calories for a Canadian winter, or for one month in a warmer climate. Variations include with chili instead of gravy, onions rings instead of fries, several different types of cheese (mozzarella, montery jack), with bacon, with lamb or chicken gravy etc.
Go forth and spread the gospel of ultra high fat food.
I should point out that a couple of weeks ago I sauteed some little powdered sugar doughnuts in butter. I cut them open and fried them until they were crispy. In my defense, I did not come up with it on my own. John Thorne (author of Outlaw Cook) did it first. They were damn good. Salty sweet. I’m not doing it again for at least a year- maybe to go with deep fried cheesecake.
My credit union has really bad hold music. It’s about 60 seconds of cheesy electric piano music, and it’s really loud. It’s a good thing I don’t have to call them very often. But they have good customer service, so that makes up for the bad music. Much better than a bank! Now I have to go listen to some good music, before the bad hold music is implanted in my brain forever.
Window guy #3 was here, and he was the first to give us a price. Just over $4K for 7 windows and a sliding patio door. Choke-gasp-wheeze… Then again, our rough estimate for the cheap windows from Lowe’s is just about $600 less, so unless returning Window guy#1 offers a great deal, we’ll be going with #2, I think.
FCD found an article about lighthouses for sale, and now he wants one. Yeah, there’s a good idea…
I really want a lighthouse. Really really really. I’d be a little nervous living in the one that has a ‘slight tilt’ from when it got hit by a tug boat, but I still really want a lighthouse.
I wonder how one would tie up a boat to one of those things. The pictures don’t really show any handy moorings.
