Alpaca, And Camel, And Musk Ox, And Yak, And Algae! Oh My! – A Fibrous MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Howdy Y’all! Been a busy day. Those folks are makin’ me earn my consultin’ fees let me tells ya! It was great though. See, I really get into this. Lots of talk, lookin’ at paper stuff, sharing ideas, making suggestions, lots of laughs… my kinda work. Plus we went out to lunch at this place called Village Kitchen, a southern cookin’ buffet type place. Food everywhere! Yummy home style southern cookin’. I was a good bear and didn’t overdo it but it was temptin’! Buffets are dangerous.

I’m havin’ a beerverage and chillin’ a bit. I think soon I’ll head over and get me some more good eats at Bridget’s. Think I’ll have some white bean soup for starters and maybe the shrimp stew or the cajun jambalaya. The jambalaya has rice, sausage and chicken. Since I had shrimp last night, maybe I should go for that. I could have the shrimp stew tomorrow night. They also have some good soundin’ steaks, but hey, Creole and Cajun cookin’ is too good to pass up. I’ll be sure and report back on tonight’s culinary experience.

Oh and maybe I’ll send a tanker load of TMI to a certain chatty fairy type person in southern Merrylande. :stuck_out_tongue:

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MT will be home tomorrow and be able to tell all sorts of gory details. I got to see her incision today; there’s something about stapled incisions that bothers me, even though stitched ones don’t. It looks so much more artificial, or something. She’s still refraining from cussing me out in therapy in front of all the old people, and is still doing really really well at it. I don’t enjoy torturing her…oh, hell, maybe I do, just a bit. There’s damn good reason for it, even if it hurts!

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Careful palebunny, enjoy it too much and Mamatigs will leave everything to the dogs. :wink:

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She’s coming home already? What about rehab? Was it a total replacement or just orthoscopic?

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Goddamnit!

I-hate-it-when-I-go-into-work-and-the-management-are-all-pleased-to-see-me.–Frankly-it’s-unnerving.–And-I-was-right–they-gave-me-a-driving-test.–:frowning:

In-other-news-I-took-my-spacebar-off-and-am-having-difficulty-putting-it-back-properly.–Turns-out-there’s-all-sorts-of-bars-and-doohickeys-under-there.

Curiosity-is-a-terrible-thing.

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Sorry about the spacebar zelie. Did the driving test go OK?

Dotster!!! Hi!!! Glad you stopped by.

Glad everything’s going well with MamaT, palebunny.

Happy Anniversary to Mr. and Mrs. Cherry!!!

That was fast, Bobbio! But it sounds like a great opportunity for Maddie.

Glad to see you’ve got all your work done, rigs. Here, have a gold star.

Purim sounds like a cool holiday. Hope you find a party, Spats.

Where’s Mork this week? I miss LiLi.

I’m tired. Long day and then picked up my car (thermostat was sticking, plus they found I had a nail in one of my tires). Then I ran a bunch of errands, baked muffins for work tomorrow and now, here I am, pretty much ready for bed.

Have a lovely evening everyone!!!

GT

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Happy Anniversary to the Cherries
Zelie? your? post? reminds? me? of? a? Peanuts®? cartoon? wherein? Charlie? Brown? is? writing? to? his? pen? pal? about? how? he? learned? how? to? make? question? marks? in? school? that? day?

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**HAPPY CHERRY ANNIVERSARY !!! **

Bobbio may I join you in wishing to be reincarnated as Maddie’s new owner’s dog? Sounds like she’s gonna have a great life. You can take a lot of comfort in that.

Ok, now for tonight’s review of Bridget’s Restaurant. Tonight I had the white bean soup and the jambalaya. The verdict… MUY MUCHO MAS TRES YUM!!! I added some original Louisiana hot sauce to the jambalaya (already spiced with cayenne pepper) and all I can say is daaa-yummm! Took a couple extra beerverages and a glass of ice water to cool da bear down. :smiley:

Ok, off to do a little work for tomorrow’s round of bein’ a consultative bear. I gotta say this, I am in da zone with this. It feels so good to be out there workin’ with these folks.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAY! Tigs is comin’ home! I anxiously await all the gory TMI details.

Zellie I’m glad things went well with the test. As if there’d ever be any doubts a cool kid wouldn’t rise to the occasion. :wink:

Nitey nite y’all!

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I am off to my on campus session. I promise to at least act immature for us all (if not do belly shots).

Just kidding about the belly shots… :eek:

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Hah, sounds like Swampy is having a good ol’ time in Mississippi! Glad you’re at least eating right, hon. :slight_smile:

Kai, take care with that infection. VunderBob, it sounds like Maddie really lucked out; hope things will work out with Loki’s training now. :wink: Happy anniversary to the Cherry’s.

I’ve been trying to set up DSL at home and having no luck, unfortunately. So if I’m a bit scarce, that’s probably why. sighs I’ve stepped through it several times; keep getting Indian customer service reps that I can’t understand, then I get frustrated and flustered, and … it’s just not a good thing all around. I’m >< this close to calling comcast and getting a cable modem. :frowning: Any good thoughts sent to my DSL modem would be greatly appreciated! LOL

Is it only Thursday tomorrow?!

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hello again! it’s time for a not-from-school no-real-time-constraints post!

happy anniversary, cherries!

FCM, I’m glad you’re feeling better. I have an entourage too! since winter started, my kitty and both dogs have become very clingy. My kitty because we’re each other’s favorite people, my dog because nobody else likes her or pays attention to her, and my mom’s dog because she’s just following my dog. I wake up every morning to at least one furry little face staring at me.

Zelie, you’re compensating very well for your lack of spacebar :slight_smile:
Anyway, my bit…

my bestest friend is about to have a baby. She’s great and I adore her, but she’s not the most responsible or grounded person in the world (not that I am. But she’s worse.)

Also, she’s seen my digs (I currently reside in a corner of the basement. I fixed it up, but it’s not a finished basement so it’s still kind of nasty and I have little privacy) and apparently told her parents.

So tonight, as her dad was driving me home, he proposed the following: After the baby is born, my friend will need some extra help and responsibility and since my basement abode kind of sucks and they have an extra room, it might be good to have me there at least for the first few months, and maybe through senior year.

Now… this would, of course, mean I’d be moving out of my house. Which sounds pretty good to me. And if I can continue to hold down a job along with school, dance, and taking care of the baby, I won’t be putting much of a financial strain on them.

My concerns are… do I want to play second-in-command mom while I’m in high school? If it ends up that my best friend and I can’t stand being together that much, would my parents take me back? who would be my legal guardian? What will happen to my dog? Will I have to switch jobs due to the fact that my current job is half a block away from my house, which makes it about twenty minutes away from my friend’s house (and I can’t drive yet)? What happens if my friend (who is seventeen) moves out with her boyfriend when she turns 18 and/or decides not to go to school her senior year? What if her parents decide that I’m more high-maintenance than they really want to deal with and I’m still just a kid and maybe not a nanny or as much as a stablizing influence as I may appear to be in front of them and kick me out?

and… lots more. But it does sound like a possibility.

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Awwwwwww. :frowning:

Are we congratulating Ellen’s anniversary early? I thought she said it was this weekend. Either way -

Happy Anniversary, Mr & Mrs Cherry!

Must! Do! Work! Tonight! Before! Bed!

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… but then it seemed possibly innapropriate following our dear SD’s serious post. SD, I realize that you aren’t literally asking for answers to your questions, and was rather just sharing with us the questions you’ve been asking yourself, but I’ll pop in to share what I’m thinking. You said that moving out seems like a good idea to you; besides your crappy basement dwelling why do you want to move and what would your parents think? It’s also very nice that you want to help your friend out while also getting a new room for yourself temporarily, but helping to take care of that baby seems like a lot of unneeded responsibility.

Anyways, I guess what I’m noticing in brief is that you have three lines explaining all the good things that could come from doing this, followed by eight lines of all the bad things that can happen in the next paragraph. Whatever happens though please do keep us updated. We’re nosy like that.

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Good morning, just a quick post before work. It’s supposed to be 65 degrees Amurikin today, with some showers/ thunderstorms later.

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Happy Cherryversary!

It’s been totally manic at work this morning, the section I work in looks after the approval process for new programmes of study that the University wants to set up and we have an approval group meeting next month. The deadline for submission of proposal for the next meeting was yesterday so things have been veritably flooding through.

Sadly they are never straightforward, the extra bits that are meant to be included are never there, the right signatures aren’t in the right places, people who should have approved things haven’t…you get the picture.

So I shall be looking forward to 4pm when I leave today and wave goodbye to the Uni before running off to the Ball.

Yes, Doggio, the faerie will be ferrying. Hopefully not across the Mersey though 'cos that means I’ll be going in the wrong direction.

Vundernuts - glad you managed to sort out the dog dilemma, sounds like the new home is perfect!

Kai - keep taking the pills…get better soon.

Oh, and everybody else with The Sick had better be recovered by the time I get back or there’ll be trouble.

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Mornin’ y’all! I’m caffienatin’ and soon will purty myself up. Looks like it will be a stormy day. Of course it will be cause I have to go out to the Naval Air Station. Looks like it rained overnight. No rain right now but there will be. And storms.D

Dotster looks like you have a lot of doubts about movin’ in at best friend’s house. I say don’t do it. I know you feel like your homelife is crappy now, but in a couple years you’ll be eighteen and can decide on your own what to do. For now, stay put, finish high school, look at colleges or whatever it is you want after hs. That’s just advice from da bear. Take it for what it’s worth.

Ok off to purty up and face another fun filled day in Meridian, MS.

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She’s doing outpatient PT, and it was a total replacement. She doesn’t need to go to a rehab place or anything, though her mother will next month when she has hers done. She’s got us at home to help out and make her do what she’s got to do, and they don’t like keeping people in hospitals any longer than they have to these days. The doctor said she could have left yesterday but she wanted one more day to be sure she was steady on her feet what with the dogs underfoot.

yawn Too damn early. yawn

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Got to get to work in a minute, but saw Dot’s post and just wanted to say…1) Seems awfully convenient for your friend’s family to have you there (may not be at all what they’re thinking, but it’s the first thing that came to my mind, so I thought I’d throw it out there), 2) Can’t you help out even if you’re living at home? Seems like that would always give you the possibility of leaving if it’s too much for you or you get on best friend’s nerves. Keep us updated on what you’re thinking…

There’s a chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. That doesn’t explain the thunder and lightning this morning (just passed now…).

Off to get ready.

GT

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I didn’t think you had that much time available… :stuck_out_tongue:

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Jahdra as one Knitizen to another, I applaud your efforts at spreading the news about Fiber.

Everyone needs yarn.

Everyone should knit.