Mmm cupcakes. I’m eating about a half-pound of strawberries for breakfast because the store didn’t have any good looking (read: smelling) cantaloupes yesterday. When is it supposed to be summer? They also didn’t have any good peaches or pineapples! (These strawberries are heavenly, especially for mass-market-came-from-California strawberries).
I, too, hate ironing. In fact, I don’t even own an iron right now. I take my clothes out of the dryer and hang them up, and if that’s not good enough for you too bad. If it’s not good enough for me, like I need to get all fancied up for something, I take it to the dry-cleaners, who do a better job for me, for something like $1.25. (Yes, I know that’s higher than other places, but they have exactly one competitor in this town.)
Last night I was so tired for some reason that I just passed out laying in bed watching a movie. I woke up in my clothes, glasses still on, computer laying beside me and went 
Panicked a bit because I thought I might have slept too late to go to work, but I still had another hour’s sleep in me. 
Mahna[sup]2[/sup] (I swear, I’m going to set that to a keyboard shortcut so I don’t have to deal with all that coding every time), SHIRTLESS FIREMEN? Are there pics of them them too? 
The snow cone place in town is open now. ::ponders leaving for work early so I can go into work with electric purple teeth::
Wait, SHIRTLESS FIREMEN??? Cite? How did I miss that post?!?!?!
takes one cupcake and sits in her corner eating it slowly so she doesn’t grab them all and binge on sugar till she’s sick because today seems just as bad
I don’t even think naked firemen could cheer me up at the moment. I just hope the rest of the week goes better, because I don’t need to be stressing on top of my driving test Saturday.
That’s easy – just call her Muppet. Voilà, no coding!
My innards are becoming seriously displeased with me again. This is Not Good. Can someone please tell them to settle down?
That is correct. Hunky, muscly, half-nekked firemen. Almost as tasty as the free martinis. 
Hmmm… seems no one got pix of the shirtless ones. We got a couple that were close enough, though.
{{{Flutterby}}}
It ain’t me. I’m not going to flash my mooters.
That’s a great dress, and dear lord, you look just the same. Except with better glasses. We both have better glasses.
Okay, I might take my aunt’s grill thingy, except a) it’s big, and b) I’m running through fun grilling ideas, and not getting a whole lot. Burgers, steak, chicken, veggies. Anyone have anything really cool that they do with one of those?
Can they be used for paninis?
Or cats?
I still don’t have a deep fryer solely dedicated to cheesecake, but I Will One Day.
Why not? :: innocent look ::
:: waves to Shadow :: Don’t be a stranger!
The dress and the boa look faaaaaaaaabulous, Muppet.
I awoke to a call from my mom, who then proceeded to give me a huuuuuuuuuge guilt trip about not responding to her emails. Mom, I’m going to see you in two weeks! And I’m not going to see my friends for months and months. Forgive me if I’m a bit distracted. Argh.
Need coffee!
Oh my, hunky firemen AND virtual cupcakes? pinches self
Yup, I’m awake all right–dammit! Got a call at 0630 from a company in OH that I need to get invoices from–do these people NOT check area codes before they blithely dial up? Really, totally unprofessional but then again these are the little charmers who NEVER send an invoice with my orders and NEVER tell me what the shipping charges are and NEVER update my online account with that info so what precisely am I expecting here?
It has been pouring rain nonstop ALL NIGHT FRAKKIN’ LONG and I’m SICK OF IT!!! Jeeze Louise, we’re now 19 days away from the summer solstice and we’ve barely seen the sun–it seems as if the PTB want all us PNW types to slash our wrists or something equally florid. Somebody pass me a large tray o’cupcakes, I feel an attitude adjustment coming on…
Mahna[sup]2[/sup], you look like you’re having quite the fun time there–but then again, who can be grumpy with shirtless firemen and booze, really?
Lysi, my boy cat does that too, he just wants to go out and play with the other kittehs but he’s not allowed. So he beats up the window blinds and bitches and yowls in protest until sleepy Himself gets up and soaks him thoroughly with the spray bottle. He’s a very opinionated cat… Huh, speak o’the devil–just as I was typing this he gave this bizarro ululating yell and I had to go spray him down; apparently a kitteh he doesn’t like was in the yard. Cat makes the weirdest noises!
I need to go do stuff but it’s wet and yucky out there and there will be a-holes on the road–yesterday I saw some numbnuts almost flip his car after he missed his freeway exit and swerved over the median curb. Luckily nobody else was around at the time or it coulda been REAL messy. Sheesh, how bad could it be to go to the next exit and turn the fuck around? People are stoopid…
grumpgrumpwhere’sthedamneddaystarwhenyareallyneedit,huh?
I hate normal weeks after short weeks. They seem so looooooooooooong.
I actually like ironing. It was my preferred chore growing up. Back in the day, we ironed sheets…without a steam iron! (I’ll stop short of saying we heated the iron on a wood-burning stove.)
We finally got some rain yesterday. I could still smell smoke this morning, though. Apparently we need MORE!
Good to see you again, shadow!
Tupug
Maybe the firemen and cupcakes did help.
I remembered I took Thursday off already (for other reasons) and should be able to hit the bank then and get things fixed. That’s one stress down.
It’s so true! I once heard a cat yowl just like the creature from The Thing. You know, when he’s melting out in the snow. Ugh, it sent chills up my spine. Weirdos.
My stupid white cat Elliot has furball poops and sometimes he just yells the whole time he poos. It’s funny in a sad way, and I of course give him some Laxatone to help things through. But man, that’s gotta hurt to make him MOW! like that.
LiLi, we have one of those grill thingies and we use it for paninis on the regular - the triangular multigrain buns from Costco are perfect for that purpose, BTW. We also use it for back bacon (it cooks faster that way) and all the other stuff you listed already. It’s surprisingly useful.
We have yet to try cooking one of the cats in there, but I suspect they wouldn’t fit.
(and yes, the glasses are definitely much better… I had some pretty awful glasses back in the day, didn’t I?)
Haze, it’s a mother’s duty to hassle children who don’t respond to communications within 24 hours. This is the only way to assure her that you aren’t lying dead in a ditch somewhere (because it’s the only possible reason you wouldn’t answer right away, dontcha know)
ETA: Eels, I love the bicolour eyes on your kitteh! He’s GORGEEEEEEEEEEOUS!
can’t be any weirder than the one I have in mind to send
Papa Tigs has this nifty wire rack he uses to cook fish on the grill. Nom nom! Most excellent.
You look exceptionally demure in your awful glasses there, Muppet. Although, trust me, you don’t know from awful – when I was growing up my sister and I were lucky enough to get the cheapest plastic frames made. They were pale blue with points in the upper corners. Yuck, yuck, and yuck.
Pugs, I remember ironing everything without a steam iron, too. You’d splatter water over stuff and then roll it up so the water would spread around, and then you’d iron it. My father had to have creases ironed in his hankies, but insisted that his cotton shirts (no permanent press, natch) be ironed with no crease in the sleeve. Why I know not. Fortunately, thanks to his navy days, he insisted on ironing his own suits, to spare my mother, who wasn’t the world’s greatest ironer. Fun, wasn’t it? :rolleyes:
Gorgeous kitty, Eels!
I’m finally feeling just enough better to eat something bland. I’m starting with yoghurt. Keep your fingers crossed for me. 
Just making sure comic depictions of shrimp will not upset you…
Cupcakes, shirtless (or not) firemen (That second one looks scared! What was your friend saying to him??), and a beautiful white cat! Great MMP this morning!
I stubbed my toe this morning and thought for a little while that I might have broken it, but it stopped hurting so I think it’s ok. But at the time… YOW!
Yesterday was KeithT’s birthday yesterday and we went out for dinner to a pasta bar. I had an amazing crab lasagna. I really want to figure out how to make that. And I made those brownies for him… they were so fudgy and gooey and yummy. Yesterday was definitely a good food day!
:eek: just how perverted are your shrimp? 
Not very, it’s a G-rated shirt. I’m making sure you’ve not joined the ranks of the professional offenderati.
