Muffin - what in the world was that?
Many, many thanks, DB, for the new additions to my hockey wall!
Got more antibiotics for the cats and some stuff for me - hope this works. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
A muskox hanging about at my cousin’s hubby’s front door on northern Ellesmere Island (up near the north pole).
Busy Monday with lots of new people, I see! I’ll take any leftover chocolate, thanks.
Glad to hear the surgery went well, palebunny. Give our regards to MamaT.
I learned to knit (European style) when I was about 5, but never became very good at it. I found a sweater I wanted to knit when I was about 12 and even bought the yarn and got started, but never finished. Maybe someday I’ll pick it up again. Faraway Best Friend knits quite a bit, but still hasn’t managed to convert me.
Welcome back, BibKitty! Congrats on the award. How long will you keep working both jobs? (Sounds like a handful and a half.)
So where’s CelloDude been?
I’m home with my lovely new haircut. Well, actually, pretty much the same haircut as always. Had sketties and grapes for dinner. (Sketties were one course; grapes were dessert.) They were yummy, of course. (I make yummy sketty sauce.)
Now I’m contemplating what to do for the rest of the evening…Suggestions?
Back after a while…
GT
I made chicken tacos. Wife is on the couch, sniffling from the cold she blames me fr giving her - Evil, Fat Scarlett on her blanky with her.
Cuervo peers around the corner but won’t come in the family room because it’s Scarlett’s room. Silly girl cat, got possessive about this room, giving up rights to the rest of the house to him. He’s more or less become the Alpha Male around here, he struts and chases the others anywhere else they are in the house except this room.
If I bring him in, he’ll stay next to me, but he doesn’t venture in.
And I remember when he absolutely terrorized by her.
GT, I’m a gonna pop a beerverage in a minute, you could join me if you need something to do…
Cuervo sounds like my Dad in Mom’s kitchen. 
Wonderful OP, Jahdra; some beautiful yarns in there and glad that you had a good time over the weekend. I crocheted a very little bit during college (self-taught); I’m not very craft-oriented, unfortunately, so I sort of dropped the ball on the crocheting, so to speak. One of my cousins quilts and does a really good job at it; she’s currently teaching a couple of classes out of one of her local fabric stores.
My daughter and I ventured out to a nearby Whole Foods market on Saturday. Because of the weather forecast, I think there were more folks than usual in all the supermarkets, but that place was packed! You could hardly maneuver your cart down the aisles. We went there because I wanted to pick up some of the “Amy’s Kitchen” brand frozen dinners - they have a wider selection than the local regular grocery store. I also picked out a small chunk of Sage Derby cheese which I had with my Egg Beaters yesterday morning - and it was tasty! We stopped off at the regular grocery on the way home, so we were all set for the weekend. Thankfully, because we got about 3-4 inches of snow yesterday!
Equally thankfully, the snow is already melting. Did make for a bit of slipperiness this am, though, getting to the bus stop and back.
MamaTigs, hope you’re doing okay by now! Hello to everyone else!!
So… I have something to confess. I committed an indiscretion last night, the kind that made it necessary for me to go hunting for a certain pill one takes the morning after such indiscretions. It was frickin’ expensive and the side effects are making me remember the time I crossed from Liverpool to Dublin in a boat one stormy morning… which has helped me learn my lesson, let’s hope. Ugh.
Had an unspectacular Monday; got a moderate amount of work done. Only good thing that happened was that my Korean professor praised me for my insightful presentation last week. I shall do a bit more work, finish up my laundry, and crawl into bed.
She had a spinal plus sedatives, so she wasn’t entirely unconscious. Her choice. She’ll be in to tell everybody all about it soon, I’m sure. And we’re talking saws and drills and things. I’ve read up on the surgery. :eek: :eek:
Oh, my. That’s hilarious. I love it.
WH - please give my good wishes to Tigs. I hope the surgery went well and tell her to behave and do everything that the rehab professionals tell her to - it will hurt immensly at first but is more than worth it to have a straight knee afterwards!
Jadhra or other knitters - quick question from an amatuer knitter - I am making a hat for my brother (2nd item I have ever knitted) and I want to rip out some rows so I can add more of the main colour - can I just take the knitted yarn off the needle, rip it back and then put the stitches back on? So far I have been removing the stitches one by one and it is painfully slow - I wanted to stab out my eyes in a Learian fashion.
TMI warning: I have seen a bunch of knee and hip replacements - the floor is like a slip and slide afterwards, the surgeons where rubber boots - no joke. And the saws/drills - black and decker. Orthopedic surgeons - the carpenters of the human body.
Toodles everyone
Hi QD! Lovely to see you drop by. Well, except for the slip 'n slide thing. Ick. I see you’re no longer a guest. Yay!
Didn’t get much of anything done. But I’m still tired and trying to get over this silly cold (still draining…), so I figure just lolling about is a good idea.
Toddling off to bed again…
GT
As long as I have to. My husband and I are separated (since Christmas), and I need the money. It’s not too bad, but sometimes the hours are really long. I usually get off at 9:00, but tonight I didn’t get off till 10:30. The overtime is nice, but some days I’m just exhausted.
I’m pretty much living on coffee and protein bars and yogurt.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
QD, you can take the knitting off the needles and rip. Taking out stitches one by one is called tinking, (knitting backwards). You usually only do that if you have a few stitches. If you are paranoid about going too far, you can run something called a lifeline, that’s a contrasting waste yarn or thread, I’ve even seen dental floss used, anyway, run that through the last row that you know is correct, you want to keep, then rip away. When you get to the lifeline, the stitches will stop unraveling, and you can pick up your knitting and start again. Just make sure your stitches are all oriented correctly, or at least all facing the same way, on the needle when you pick them up, otherwise your stitches will be twisted.
Hello everyone and welcome to the new folks. I didn’t get a chance to say that earlier.
We had jambalaya with chicken and smoked sausage for chop-chop.
I hope MT is on her way to a speedy recovery. You know, I have a pretty strong stomach, and can pretty much handle gore, but that sounds kind of icky, QD. Ummm, thanks for sharing, I think.
Hang in there, Rigs. It’ll be worth it in the end.
I am not an artsy-craftsy person. I started many projects in my youth, but didn’t finish half of them. I tried water color, latch hook, cross-stitch, and a couple of other things. I finished a couple of water colors, and one really big latch hook thing that I gave to my mother.
At this point I don’t have the time or patience for any of that. I’m much to busy with everything else I do. When I do have down time, I really prefer to read a good book. I have a couple waiting for me and I need to get to them.
Work was rather, “meh” today. I finished a couple of reports that I had to put on the back burner, and I cleaned up someone’s provider scheduling spreadsheet. I have to send that to their Chief. I needed to use some of the information from it, and they hadn’t bothered to update it and pull the formulas out for the entire FY under various categories. I’ll send it to their Chief, and he can publish it on his Sharepoint.
I refreshed, updated, and published another report as well. In between, I took care of some piddly stuff. Tomorrow, I need to download the latest enrollment database, compare it to another section’s and clean that section’s DB up because they can’t be trusted to keep it straight. :rolleyes: Freakin’ pathetic and annoying. I created it for them and made it extremely user friendly. However, the doofuses keep entering duplicate records and they’re screwing up name spelling and/or FMP/SSNs. I told them repeatedly to CUT AND PASTE this information from another database, but they insist on hard entering it. :smack: When will they learn? Probably never, because my boss insists I babysit them and keep it cleaned up.
Nothing much going on at Chez Taters. We received a link to the album with the photos from the Wigs and Wine party; unfortunately, they posted it to snapfish and I have to order prints, rather than just download a few of the pictures. So, I don’t think I’ll be able to share them with you. Suffice it to say, we looked
DAY-UM silly.
Time to catch some TV before I enter snore-land.
Grad school does suck sometimes. A lot of time, actually. Sometimes I feel it’ll be a miracle if I make it through with my sanity intact!
No wonder my surgeon was so happy after he’d finished my second knee op. I wasn’t quite asleep during surgery and when they got me to recovery, I decided I wanted to go for a walk. Got out of bed and fell straight over onto the nice new knee and external fixators.
So that’s a quick trip back to surgery for me…well, it wasn’t my fault, they didn’t tell me I couldn’t get up!
Gives a new meaning to playing doctor, though. muahahahah
Pb thanks for the update on Tigs. Let her know we’re all thinkin’ about her and are anticipating some waaaaaaaay TMI posts on the surgery. She’ll like that. Really.
QD yay you’re a member! Oh and the TMI fit in quite nicely here. FCM will be especially pleased 'cause she just loves reading TMI stuff. 
Haze hope everything’s ok. That’s just all I know to say.
Rigs like I said, that’s grad school for ya. Now are you convinced the purpose of grad school is to make you hate every second of it?
Doggio when you say the other side of Miss. the places that spring to mind are Natchez and Greenville. I know there’s other places but those are the only two towns I know. Meridian is just inside Mississippi, so it’s not like I’m venturing real far into Miss.
I’m up and caffienating. Soon Ima go purty up and hit the road. I’ll holler at y’all this evenin’!
Morning! Time for another exciting day at work. :dubious: At least it buys hockey tickets and nerve tonic.
swampy, Greenville is the correct answer. The bridge to nowhere goes somewhere now, though.
Haze, you can’t, you gave it up when you signed the sanity clause in your grad school paperwork.
QD, all that TMI, and my mom only has a little scar on her knee from her surgery.
This is so going on her class eval. She (the prof) is in love with the sound of her own voice–if I hear one more story about her bikini (she does book talks on the beach, dontchya know) or how her Papa read her effing Hemingway as bedtime stories…I’ll puke. This assignment was in the syllabus from the first day of class. And now, 3 days prior to the due date, you change the parameters?
I don’t think so, sweetums.
Off to be a nurse and Make a Difference. Ha!
Orthopedic surgeons are considered the Dumb Jocks of Medicine–thought you’d want to know.
Hazenut --do I have to drive north and smack you upside the head? I don’t have time for that, young lady–and because I don’t, that smack will be all the more forceful. Word to the wise and all that. <keeps eye on Rockefeller Chapel and surrounding area>