A virtual gift-giving MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Yes, phoukaroo, it was very scary and surreal at times. Especially when the traffic was backed up due to the accidents and I was walking with the traffic wearing dark clothes on a major road in the dark trying to get to the accidents to see if my grandparents were involved. By the time I’d walked a bit the traffic started moving and my dad came by and picked me up. He almost didn’t stop, though. He didn’t think it was me because he didn’t think a woman my size could move so fast! :stuck_out_tongue:

I didn’t think I could either.
I’m sorry that you’re having to deal with the same thing. It builds character, right?

It also sucks majorly.

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Quite. :smiley:

Although, I hope your knee starts cooperating soon!

ETA: Hey! This was my 4000th post. Too bad the first 3000 or so were complete rubbish! :smiley:

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It’s more balanced between the two hands and once you get good you can type faster than on a Qwerty (all the speed records have been on a Dvorak.) I just stuck stickers to my laptop keyboard, so if I need to switch (or somebody else needs to use my keyboard) it’s not hard.

Well, I’m down to one party. Not going to the work party next weekend because I thought I was going to my RenFaire Guild thing. Decided I didn’t want to drive three hours for what was going to be mostly business and was going to go to the party at the club. Turns out that’s a murder mystery thing that I’m totally uninterested in.

I wish I was a bit less of an introvert. I’d got to two parties tomorrow, but last time I did that I was dead for the whole next day. I swear I’m still socialed out a little from Thanksgiving.

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Yikes. So glad they’re ok.

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I have a hard enough time with QWERTY -why would I want to change?

Actually, at the moment, I’m getting used to batting my fingertips against smooth glass. If anyone asks, no, you don’t want to type more than a few lines at a time on an iPad.

Remember Timmy or Billy or whatever his name was from Family Circus, and how there was often a dashed line behind him to show where he’d been? I was making my owned dashed line tonight at the grocery store. While making my way up and down the aisles, I’d come to the pop aisle and pot to boxes of pop cans on the bottom shelf of the cart, then went along my way.

I got to the milk area when I noticed that I was on a wet floor. I look down, and see that I’m in a puddle of brown liquid, and it’s getting larger. :eek: I look back, and see yards and yards of brown drops of pop on the floor, reaching all the way back to Aisle 7. Oops. I put the leaky box on the floor and went off whistling that tuneless “no, not me. I’m not doing anything…” tune. So, to the porter at the local shop - I’m sorry.

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Whoa. So when I moved here 2 years ago I had some big problems adjusting to new everything in my life, so I was getting bad panic attacks and anxiety and was put on some new meds. One of those was Seroquel (quetiapine) for a sedative effect and to help me sleep. Now that I’ve been stable for a long time, my doctor told me to try starting to taper off it. I took my first half dose last night.

Holy crap, I went to bed early because I was feeling tired, and after ~7.5hrs of sleep I feel refreshed and ready to run around doing ALL THE THINGS! Unfortunately, ‘early’ means I’m now up at 6am and it’s still dark outside.

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Some of us ain’t retired yet. : jumps up and down on FCM’s lawn : :stuck_out_tongue:

Hockey tonight, and my “just friend”:slight_smile: will be there.

Glad the grandparents are OK, Sticks.

Enjoy the day.

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN 'Tis 33 Amurrkin out with a predicted high for the day of <snerk> 69 <snerk>.

StickyBuns yikes! Glad the grandparents are ok. I’m so glad my father realized on his own he couldn’t drive anymore. It made that transition a lot easier. kanga ah yes, the battle of the thermostat. With dad he was always too hot so mom would wear a sweater in the house at all times. Heck, sometimes when I was up visitin’, so did I.

Ashes[sup]2[/sup] maybe you are meant to embrace the mullet look. :smiley:

HEE gotti! I’m picturin’ horrified looks on people’s faces and givin’ the man with the brown trail of liquid a wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide berth.

This mornin’ we are goin’ to a pancake breakfast sponsored by a local Kiwanis club. MOG is a member of the club so OYKW, JDD, Partner and I are goin’ when she’s supposed to be on duty as a “waiter” just so’s she can wait on us. Tickets are purchased ahead of time but the idea is also to “tip” the waiters with the proceeds from the “tips” goin’ to Toys For Tots. Thus we are all givin’ twenty dollar “tips” cause that’s TFT is a really good reason. OYKW also wants to go to :eek: Wally*World :eek: to get some stuff. This evenin’, MOG, JDD, Partner and another friend are comin’ over to grill steaks and chill. Should be fun.

Now I must needs more caffiene and I soon need to purtify to go eat pancakes, sausages and bacon to my little heart’s content.

Happy Sattidy Y’all!

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Oh, my, Sticky! That’s terrible. I’m so glad the grands are OK.

Ashes, I know you only meant for Sticky to giggle, but I did too. :smiley:

Welcome back Taters! And thanks for the present!

If you need to type a lot on the iPad, gotti, I recommend getting a keyboard. I looked at several online and wound up going with the Apple one because it had the best reviews. It’s very nice. It’s a little odd to combine typing and swiping, but much easier to type long stuff. (I have a couple of apps that have perfect uses requiring more typing than I can stand on the device itself…)

Hmmm…I seem to be contributing to the post shortage. I was going to post yesterday, but…got distracted knitting. I blame the holidays. (I’m all about blame, of course. :stuck_out_tongue: )

Ooooh, very cool.

Guess I’m up…

Off to find coffee.

Hugs.

GT

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All purtified for pancakes. Ok, as purtified as one in jeans and a sweatshirt can be I reckon. I’s hongry! Bring on the pancakes, sausages and bacon! BACON! BACON! BACON!

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Home after :eek: Wally*World :eek: and pancake breakfast. PANCAKES! PANCAKES! PANCAKES! SAUSAGE! SAUSAGE! SAUSAGE! BACON! BACON! BACON! BEAR FULL! FULL! FULL! :smiley:

Welcome back Taters!

Now I shall go tackle the monumental task of :eek: cleanin’ out my closet. :eek:

If I’m not back by this time tomorrow, send a search party.

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mmmmm bacon…

Welcome back taters!

And I am glad your G’parents were OK sticky

I was awake and up at 4.30 this morning. I did go back to bed for a couple of hours after mr ems got up. He is watching hunting and fishing shows and eating bacon & eggs right now so I am gonna go hit the showers.

Weather is crappy here today - bit warmer but has been raining and thundering since about 8AM. I believe I will be staying at the house all day today. :smiley:

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It ups your geek cred?

The swearing in the kitchen has already begun. Dad made pies this morning. I don’t know why (I was defending my claim to my parents’ bad / playing with the cats), but I heard him swearing. The man gets stressed way too easily.

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Smokey likes to curl up next to me on the side of the desk, usually right on top of something I know I’m going to need in about an hour, at which point it will be almost impossible to move her without getting a hand full of claw. sigh =^.^=

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How inconsiderate of you Rosie! Smokey is helpin’ you by bein’ a paperweight and you want to move the very thing she’s helpin’ to hold down. Poor Smokey!

I survived closet cleanin’. YAY!

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Sorry FCM. It’s finals week starting Monday. It’s been hell, hopefully I can innundate the MMP with… whatever after then. Sorry. Will try to do better. :frowning:

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Back from breakfast and erranding and craftshowing - whew!

**Sticky - scary about the g-parents - glad it ended well, tho. I worry about my inlaws. They’re both in their 80s now and ever-so-slightly stubborn - I know where their firstborn gets it from. :wink: Anyway, I fear they won’t surrender their independence willingly, and we’re too far away to be able to help them out.
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A[sup]2[/sup] - your pug-walking imagery cracked me up. My daughter has a psycho pug - 2 years old, I think… or not quite. Except for his love of peeing in my dining room, he’s a good pup, if nutso.

**Taters **- I love your gift idea! Truly inspired!

**doggio **- if you’re stomping on my lawn, your shoes are probably covered in bird poo, courtesy of the roving band of guinea fowl who keep coming back to the front yard. :stuck_out_tongue:

And the craft show - what a crowded place that was! I was surprised by the number of jewelry vendors - at least 15 tables of them. Lots of kitschy kuntry Krismas stuff too - I’m not big on ruffly, glittery, once-a-year stuff, but that’s just me. There was one potter there - her stuff was really pretty. I may do that show next year - we shall see.

**FCD **is futzing downstairs again. Daughter is coming over for dinner tomorrow. Today, she’s redoing her computer setup because she didn’t listen to her mother and got a virus. Luckily, it was more of a nuisance than a malicious virus, and she found info on line that allowed her to clean it up. That’ll learn her to set up a password-protected admin account like her mom said. :stuck_out_tongue:

Tomorrow, we’ll winterize the boat. That involves putting antifreeze in the waterlines of the engine, the sinks, and the head. It’ll take maybe half an hour. We were going to do it today, but we forgot to take the antifreeze and tools with us when we left. Dumb!

So swampy, I hear you like pancakes??

Happy Rest of Saturday, all!

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Sticky, I’m glad the grandparents are okay.

I’m going to have get myself cleaned up and head out to the stores. I need to pick up a couple of little things and pick up some cash for tonight. We’re celebrating our friend’s birthday. I feel bad about having to put my dogs in the kennel when we leave tonight because I haven’t been home all week. They’ve been sticking to me like glue since I got home yesterday.

It’s cold and clear outside.

I’m glad you like my gift idea, FCM. That’s one of my dream vacations. I’ll probably never get to go, but a girl can dream, right?

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We went to a third-grade basketball game at 8am this morning. I would just like to say that our grandson is a star basketball player. I like to say that, but I can’t. But he does show potential.

We’re at the Public Market now. For brekkies we had a brie and pear crepe, with raspberry jam and walnuts. :smiley:

If anything exciting happens I’ll let you know.

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But you no longer have any ticks, Mooooooooom.