sorry double post
There will be pics of this, won’t there? 
I’m just off to get purtified then we’re going out to party the night away in Brummyjam with friends. The activity club we belong to has hired out a venue for us and there will be a couple of hundred of us making fools of ourselves and drinking more than can possibly be considered healthy. Well, it’s a party, innit?
Tonight we’ll be staying at a friend’s place and will be back sometime tomorrow when we’re fit to travel, and when she can bear to give up the fuzzbutts again.
Have fun tonight, all of you!
can’t read
must run
overslept
gotta go
see ya later
I’ll e back in time to say HNY and to post my deathpool list (thanks, sean)
geez, olives, just rub you good year in our faces, whydoncha??? 
As an engineer, tho, I have to ask - what’s the margin of error in your make-fun-of data??
I’m about halfway thru the living room. It’s all dusted, my plant shelf is scrubbed, it’s partially vacuumed, and I’ve only got one more plant that needs a haircut. Once I put all the plants back, I can finish vacuuming, and I’ll declare the room done. Then I’ll have some leftover sketties.
Our NYE plans will be just as they have been for years gone by - maybe we’ll make it till midnight, maybe not. Whatevah…
An early Happy New Year to all of you!
FCM, that was a good and interesting OP. I was just waiting for the poke in the ribs concerning some of us never having started an OP and sure enough, it came along.
Alright! Alright! Someday I’ll start one, when I can think of something to post.
This past year hasn’t been truly awful, but it hasn’t really been super great either. Just a so-so sort of year. I guess that’s better than being a bad year.
As far as I know, we don’t have plans for this evening. This suits me. I don’t feel like going anywhere and I don’t feel like hosting a to-do. We’ll have a couple of drinky-poos and toast the new year and that’ll be good.
My oldest child will turn 18 on Friday. I can’t believe it! Where did the years go?!
I love her razor sharp wit and the loyalty and steadfastness she shows to her friends and family. It’s hard to believe that I brought home a tiny five pound baby and already she’s morphed into this adult. I’m pleased to see her grown, but on the other hand, I miss the little girl with the tiny little voice that called her Dad a big turkey and wanted everyone to have tea parties with her.
Time for another cup of coffee!
*:: throws pie at rosie…::
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Just cause. I’m bored.
ARGH. T-Mobile just called me and told me that I have a $250 unpaid deposit on my bill.
W. T. F.?
Argh. I hate being endlessly on hold with customer services. What a way to end the year.
Need more coffee.
Okay, they took the bogus charge off. I can breathe now.
:Hands coffee to Haze:
There will be pics. I’ll charge the camera. I’m hoping for a repeat of QD’s “I’m nooooot drunk! I’ve only had half the bottle! I can’t feel my ass!” performance a couple of years ago. Apparently I was heavily encouraging her, but I don’t remember because of the amount I drank. 
I’m the Designated Sober Girl and Embarrassing Picture-Taker this year.
Mr. Lissar has just disappeared with the other Husbands in search of cheap electronics (oh please don’t let him come home with any ‘bargains’) and I’m going to lie around reading stupid novels until dinnertime. The boys are in charge of booze. Which could be very dangerous.
I am back and I’s tahred.
Made it home late last night and I am at work today. I am only staying until revenue closes today at 3PM then I am off home.
Libby the crazy kitty missed me it makes me feel loved when I walked in and she is mewing and purring with happiness at my presence. So she got lots of skritches. She did wake me up at 2.45AM by wanting under the covers but she was forgiven as she is to cute!
I need to grocery shop. I have no real plans for NYE…not my favourite evening out. I have always either been at work, on call for work or in bed with flu for the past 15 years or so. The couple of times I did make it out everyone talks about these parties and how much fun it it and what a great time they had - where do these people go? I always ended up cold, waiting 3 hours for a taxi and you couldn’t get near the bar for the crowds! Plus the crazys will be on the road and crazys + alcohol is not a good idea.
And I am tahred. So I think I will get some bubbly and drink mimosas and watch TV.
My New Years Resolution this year is to re-decorate my house.
1st on 2??
YAY!!!
Anyways I forgot to mention that 2007 was a pretty good year for me - big promotion, move across country and an engagement.
Happy (almost) New Year!
:: chugs it gratefully ::
Damnit, my brother borrowed my camera. Ah well, it’s all for the best. Drunken photos usually involve me being in front of the camera, not behind it. Never a good thing. I hope we don’t get too wild tonight, though. (Wishful thinking.) At least not so drunk that I can’t feel my ass.
Holy Fuck --there, I swore in the MMP. I am just back from the grocery store and I have a sexist, agist rant to deliver.
WHAT is today? National take your husband to the grocery store Day or send the Man to the store Day?
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Don’t wear the baseball cap–you look stupid. We ALL know you’re losing your hair.
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DON’T clog the end of the aisles–why are you (and you and you and YOU) just standing there, blocking the carts? There is nothing for you at the end of the aisles. You will obtain nothing by just standing there. No one will bring you stuff. Really.
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YOU don’t own the parking lot. Please drive through it the way the designer intended you to. Especially don’t drive through it, narrowly missing clipping my parked car, as you use the slot next to me as a short cut.
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Rules of the road apply in the parking lot–you don’t get to cut in front of me when you are turning left out of an aisle. I am on the access road–see? I have the right of way, dork in the stupid “not your father’s Oldsmobile sedan.”
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Do you see this counter? Do you see my stuff on the counter? Do you see ALL the stuff left IN my cart? Well, even an autistic smurf could comprehend that I am NOT done putting my stuff up on the belt for the checker to scan. So, what the HELL is your stuff doing on the belt, eh? And don’t stand so close to my cart OR my purse.
I HATE grocery shopping–and I picked the wrong day to go. Instead of the 1946 HS reunion that I usually get, it was wall to wall men. I have tend to LIKE those odds, but these guys make Beavis and Butthead look like Einsteins. Gah. Ack. Bleh. Argh.
<deep breath>
I HATE EVERYBODY.
B8 = very long beard
c+ = definite cub
e+ = gets attention
f = furry in a bearish sense
k+ = likes most things, will try almost everything
m = some definition, blue collar
q+ = out, way out and love every minute of it
r = spends some time outdoors
t = tallish, but not very tall
w = bear with a tummy
Ok, your turn gotti!
B4 dc-v f g++ k m q- r s w+
Taters you do not have to have an idea for an OP. However, if you must, might I suggest you do an OP explaining 99 sometimes. It’s sump’n you do and you could enlighten us all. See? Easy!
rigs sand and grit do float to the bottom. I know. I saw all the ick in the bottom of my kitchen sink. Looked like I was tryin’ to make a beach.
All the cookin’/prep for tomorrow is done. YAY!
Poor DH just called and said he’s escaping the house - apparently we’ve been having strong winds and intermittent power failures, so the bleeping of several UPS units around the house is driving him bats.
Strange as it’s calm in the city and our utilities are all underground so they should be immune to wind.
I feel your pain, rigs. Someone should write a book called Grocery Shopping for Dummies. Honestly, it’s not a task that requires a lot of mental effort. It’s like everyone’s brain switches off the minute you touch a shopping cart. Sheesh.
Thankfully I did all my necessary shopping yesterday. The store was actually pretty much empty.
Ack - don’t tell me that rigs. I have to go to the grocery store later.
Ah man…I will kill someone if they get in my way. I have a list I know where it all is. Get out of my damn way!
Lissla, YOU may not be sleeping and puking next year, but I guarantee you that you’ll be responsible for someone who will!
Ooh! I’m with you on the grocery store mouth-breathers. Good Lord! Do they pop stupid pills before entering the store?
When I say mouth-breathers, this applies to BOTH sexes, as I’ve seen both doing the same stupid things; blocking aisles, etc.
What I hate is the “family” shopping expedition. You know, six kids, four under age seven, three screaming, two trying to “drive” the cart, and mom and dad oblivious to it all because they’re arguing the merit of saving five cents by choosing one brand over the other. As an added bonus, they’re blocking the aisle AND the product you need.
I am being truly slothful today. I haven’t even taken a shower yet. I should do so, especially since I was going to TRY and get my son in for a haircut.
On edit: Hello scout and Happy New Year! Glad to see you stopped by to visit your old MMP buds.
I went to the grocery store once on NYE, rigs, and it’s a nightmare. It’s on my list with the day before Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve as Days Not to Grocery Shop.
No real NYE plans here. We’re both still exhausted from the trip, and we really need to start packing tomorrow for our move. We’re closing the 11th so it’s coming up soon! We did an initial walk-through on Sat, and it looks great. The kitchen is beautiful - really warm and cozy. I can’t wait to get in there to decorate a bit. (With the help of our interior decorator because the two of us couldn’t figure out curtains and paint colors and art and stuff to save our lives.) Just another week and a half and it’ll be ours! And a whole lot of our money will be theirs! OK, so that part’s not so good. Oh well.
2007 was a good year here. We made it through our first year of marriage without too many “disagreements” especially once KeithT learned to go along with whatever I say. 
And we found a house, although we’ll be buying it in '08. But it was still exciting. And we’ve started to make friends and to have people to do stuff with around here. That’s fun.
Overview of 2008 plans:
Close on house 1/11
Move by 1/31
Tentatively go to Chicago over Memorial Day Weekend
Maybe go to San Fran in June
Possibly take the train from here out to Seattle in the fall with friends
It’s looking like a good year. What’s everyone else got planned (tentatively or firmly… we won’t hold you to it) for '08?