An April Foolish MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Afternoon mumpers! Another exciting day here in the hell created by Tin Knickers. How I have stopped myself from throttling the old witch is anybody’s guess. Nothing exciting happening here, I have done a pointless job with spreadsheets and printed out 285 pages of something that she couldn’t be bothered to do herself. I guess she’s just too important for that, right?

Tonight I’m cooking something with beef, haven’t decided what, and then we’re off to the pub for beerverages. I predict I will be spending the night in the spare room as 'im indoors snores like an asthamatic rhino when he’s had a few beers. And I need my sleep, dammit.

Yays, boos, hugs and get well kisses to the sickies…use as you need!

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Howdy all. Lazy day so far. I took the morning off work to chauffeur my friend’s mother around. FM is visiting for 3 weeks and wanted to buy some fabric and get some clothes tailored while she’s here, so I took the morning off work (well, I just didn’t turn up, actually) and went with FM to the haberdashery (aka fabric shop) for her to buy stuff. I couldn’t resist and bought some nice suiting fabric, some heavy cotton twill for casual pants and some really nice cotton shirting fabric for a new blouse (to go with the new suit). Cost me a bit over $50 for all the fabric, but the tailoring should cost about the same (probably less, more like $30-40), so it will still be a bargain for a new suit (jacket and pants), casual pants and a new work blouse! We then went to Starbucks for coffee then to the tailor. FM’s new pants and blouse will cost $20 to make! Yayyyyy for cheap tailoring! Then I dropped FM back to the house and decided (it was about 12:15pm by this time) that I wasn’t ready to go to work yet, so we sat down outside in the sunshine and I had a beer before tootling back to work by about 1:15pm! All in all, it was a very productive, enjoyable morning!

{{{MamaTigs and snowbunny}}} sorry I forgot before, but I am thinking of you and Gramma Tigs!

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**Dotty ** - I like your idea of a work day. I wonder what my boss would think if I…

:eek:

Yeah, right.

I’m giving my baby 30 more minutes, then I’m making her get up so we can get done with trailer-loading. I’d appreciate good karmic wishes for a successful shopping expedition this afternoon - I hate shopping but my mother-of-the-bride outfit hasn’t just materialized yet, so… I’d also appreciate if certain folks don’t send karmic wishes that include tube tops, sequins, and platform shoes. This is a respectable wedding, dammit!!!

I figure if I can’t find something around here, we’ll be in Ocala tomorrow, and since there’s a lot older demographic in that city, I may have a better chance of finding clothing less trendy and more to my taste. Maybe.

Have I mentioned how much I hate shopping??

More caffeine - I need more caffeine.

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:: incoherent grumbling noises ::

I just wanna sleep for half a day. I think the boys went out for a drink or five last night - I’m actually glad they didn’t bother calling me, because I’m one of those people who can’t say no, and I had way too much shit to do yesterday for going out to be a reasonable option (ah, how I miss grad school).

MamaTigs, whitebunny, y’all and GrannieTigs are in my thoughts.

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I got a chance last night to use my super new weather spotter skillz on the way to a rescue squad meeting.

A thunderstorm went north of the VunderLair. I could hear an occasional rumble, but over all, it didn’t seem like too big of a deal. However, if I looked to the northwest, there was a very suspicious cloud formation that attractred a lot of attention. From where I was standing, roughly 2 miles away, it sure looked like a funnel cloud, and traffic was stopping along the road to watch.

I observed it for a bit, and could see no tell-tale sign of rotation. Finally, I whipped out my super-secret Skywarn card and my trusty cell phone, and called the weather service, telling them that they may get calls about a funnel or tornado, but there was no rotation to be had. They thanked me, and I hung up.

Not 4 minutes later, they declared a severe thunderstorm warning, but for the torrential rain and winds, not what i called them on.

Another crisis in Cottonfiled County NC handled by yours truly…

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Morning al. I’m up and caffeinating, and going to watch hockey practice after breakfast.

You say that like it’s a bad thing. :smiley: We miss you.

{{{{Shadow}}}}

{{{{Soapy}}}}
:waves at MBG:

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I was as vague as possible when replying to the IM. Not so vague as to be unhelpful, but nonspecific enough that they had to do their own work. Ha HA!

Stories like yours combined with my own experiences are why I’ve vowed I Will Never Again Use Peer Reviews with any future classes. When I was teaching last year we all were “strongly encouraged” to use peer reviews with our freshmen without really understanding how to properly use them. I tried conferences my second semester and those worked much better.

Must go to de sto’ today. We’re out of cheese. This is a travesty that must be corrected.

Here’s a box of yays, boos, and confetti. Apply as needed. Oh, and there’s a sequined tube top for Mom in there, too. :smiley:

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Mornin’ all. I’m up and working…of course, by working I mean reading the MMP and surfin’ the Dope.

Me thinks I need to visit Dotty for cheap clothes that are custom tailored…if they’re custom tailored, the have to fit right, right? I hate shopping too, FCM. It’s really hard to find clothes that fit me…I know of one store that has pants that sit at my waist and not under my boobs. Ugh. $50 for one pair of pants. I went to the mall for sheets and a pair of pants and to target for printer ink last Sunday. While I was at Target, I decided that I didn’t want to do any shopping for two months, so I bought extra of the stuff we run out of…I hate shopping.

But, Ty Pennington’s Bamboo sheets from Sears are teh wunnerful. (OK, Ty Pennington is the wunnerful all by himself.)

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Morning, all. I slept well, and I think Papa Tigs did, too, finally; the doctor gave him a few samples of Ambien to try, and if it works for him, he can take it more regularly. Heaven knows he needs it; I don’t know if it’s psychological or what, but every time he lies down, his head stuffs up so badly he can barely use his CPAP. He’s been through every form of allergy testing known to man and he’s not really allergic to anything, so we’re mystified. Whatever the case, if the stuff knocks him out enough to make him sleep comfortably – and, thanks to the CPAP, snore-free – we’re both much happier. Because a tahred Papa Tigs is a really, REALLY grouchy Papa Tigs. :rolleyes:

Cheap tailoring would be lovely. It’s quite a ways to Bahrain, though; I’d have to have a lot of clothing made to make up for the travel costs! :eek: :smiley:

It’s good to see you pop in, SCL! We miss you!

Yay for Super Weather Spotter Skillz, Bobbio!

Good luck finding a MotB outfit, Mooom. I hope you find something that you like and that’s not identical to what FMIL will be wearing. Although I agree with you that would be a hoot, even if FMIL might not appreciate it. :smiley:

It’s still too early to call my sister, so I guess I’ll have to wait for her to call me to see how things are going with the maternal unit this morning. I would really appreciate it if they figured out what was causing her GI bleed, rather than just stuffing her full of transfused blood – although, mind you, she needed that yesterday, by all accounts. My sister said when the ambulance guys arrived and they helped her out of bed, the whole bed was covered in blood, too! :eek: So my sister was going to go clean that up, unless Friend already beat her to it; she cleaned up the mess in the bathroom, bless her heart, and apparently a mess it was. She’s a really good Friend; Grandma Tigs is lucky to have her. (She’s the one who, after Granddad Tigs died, got Grandma Tigs up out of the chair she’d collapsed in for six months, having given him 24-hour-a-day care for 15 years for his Parkinson’s – that “for better or for worse” thing really applied in her case! Friend got her active and busy again; we all think she’s a wonderful woman.)

Anyway, enough babbling. I guess I should try to get some of that work done today that I didn’t get done yesterday. Before the phone starts ringing again.

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I so got totally taken in by that pregnancy test. I mean it seemed logical. I was even wondering if you could use it as a flash drive after. :smack:

Okay, fcm, I guess I’ll just have to park the RV in your driveway then. :wink:

<snerk>Mt. Penis <snerk> Is that a new oxymoron??? :smiley:

boofae, I thought you were a vegeratarian??

Hope gran tigs continues to do okay and the horspital gets to the bottom of it.

Meatballs sound nummy.

Today should be the last day for the presentation from hell for a while. :stuck_out_tongue:

Tupug

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THE TRAILER IS PACKED!!!

And we’ll most definitely have to drag it back down here again. I think we have it balanced pretty well - the tongue weight is liftable by me, but not so easily that I’ll worry about fishtailing. The whole shebang is covered in plastic held in place by pink duct tape, and I most definitely have to get a tarp. I wouldn’t get 2 miles down the road before all the plastic would blow off, but we were just tacking it in place, not sealing it for the highway.

I’ve got 2 dressers, a mirror, a chest, a small cabinet, a smaller cabinet, a bookcase, some shelves, and boxes, as well as the frame for the papasan chair. All of the drawers are full of clothing or stuffed aminals :smiley: and I got the kid to take the brackets off the shelves so the shelves were just boards. We’ll get a large, heavy-duty tarp and some cord while we’re out shopping, and we can finish securing it all tonight.

I’m going to have many purple spots on my person, but nothing is bleeding, so there’s that. The kid just finished showering, so I’m off to cleanse my stinky self. Laterz, Mumperz!!

:smiley:

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Morning folks… up and caffeinating and at work now.

Didn’t want to wake up, as I am still fighting off this durned cold. It’s not too bad though (thank you ColdFX). Tonight I have an appointment to get contacts! I’ve been wanting them since I was a teen (so, ten years?). I like my funky glasses, but I want some options y’know?

All this talk of babies and pictures makes me want another. I have to keep reminding myself that I can’t, I couldn’t do it. Single parenthood is tough enough with one kid, and I was so darned tired for months (sometimes still am).

He is. Now I wouldn’t mind having his babies… as long as they didn’t have quite his energy.

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yes, and look what happened to you. :wink:

Yay for babies, jingl! Stop by on your way to or from MI–I take the Bishop Ford to work. 'Ware potholes…

Don’t read further if you don’t want to become depressed.
I am very near tears and if I drank, drinking myself into a oblivion. The oven is installed–I do hope the smell of gas is just residual or the new cooktop burning shit off or else I’m destined to be an inpt soon for CO poisoning. But that is not why I’m upset. They called about the car. There was NO power steering fluid in it AT ALL. I need new tie rods and a new rack and pinion. Never mind the other stuff if this doesn’t do the trick. We cannot (I cannot) afford a car payment right now. The choice is either trade the car in (how? It no workee), junk it or fix it. The Husband won’t hear of junking it. I decided on fixing it, since I was not prepared to “just fill it up and see how long it lasts”–NOT the mechanic’s idea. It’s going to be about $1400.

I am sick to my stomach. I really do want out of this relationship, but how to do so? Do I take the kids and live in a trailer park? I wouldn’t do that to them. Leave them behind? I don’t think so. I have been putting aside money, but now I can’t with this expense. I thought this was it–I thought I could do it in June (I said May, meant June–due to graduation). We decided June. We just used most of our savings (ha) to pay off one credit card. That’s a good thing, but now we have a growing balance on the our other one (we only have 2. I have an Amex I use for travel).

I feel like every time I feel like I have my feet on the ground and can make progress, something happens like this. I am frustrated and angry and scared. I feel trapped. :frowning:

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{{{rigs}}} I can’t offer you any useful advice, but I am praying for you to get through this. I was actually thinking of you this afternoon, driving behind an ass-ugly GMC van, with a sticker on its bumper for Sullivan’s GMC dealership in Champaign-Urbana! Yes, in Bahrain of all places!!!

Ya know guys, if there is something you would really like made, all my tailor needs is a good picture and accurate current measurements. I can buy the fabric locally and mail the lucky person their tailor-made article(s) of clothing!

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Oh Eleanor. hugs

You know what? Trailer parks aren’t that bad. Kids are resilient. It’s tough, as the child of divorced parents I won’t lie. I saw what my Mom had to do to keep our head’s afloat (I was the oldest, so I helped when I was old enough to get a job). But sticking it out and feeling trapped does not help, you or the kids. Maybe you should just keep it as June, find a place for you and the kids, take the leap. When you’re out, you get your head on better and can deal with things easier.

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I’ll take one too!

It’s gone from Teh Sick to Teh Gunk. Doc put me on antibioticals and the color has at least become more subdued and less frightening, but no diminishment in ah, amount.

I’m still trying to figure how **swampy’s ** dinner of pancakes, eggs and bacon is square. That’s all round, long or lumpy. And breakfast for dinner? That’s not square - it’s weird. I know, food is food, but eggs and pancakes for dinner is somehow wrong to me.

A little encouragement WRT getting DH into the academy. His recruiter let on yesterday that he would not have been called to Sacramento to take that exam a couple weeks ago unless he was pretty well along the process.

Mom! Get jumper cables! You never know when you’ll need them!

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That is the weirdest thing I’ve heard in a good long time. And you’re Aussie! How do you know about Champbana? You must really read my posts. (now I’m paranoid…heh)

I am better. No, twitterypassingmovement, no trailer park for me. 1. not taking the kids out of their schools. 2. not losing this house–which TH agrees I can keep UNTIL the kids are gone (#2 son is 9, almost 10) and 3. I will get through this–it may delay some of what is going to happen, but not by much.

I just felt the whole world crash down when I got the news. Now I will need to pick up hours this summer (which means a sitter for #2 son) so that I can save more money. We both agree we need to end it, it’s just a matter of when now. It was actually a relief to make the decision and we deal with one another fine (civil etc).

The irony is that I cannot go make the money I need to pay for the goddamned thing because I need a car to get to work. :rolleyes:

Ima make cookies and mainline chocolate–that does a body good. Thanks for “listening” to me whine. I must say the thought of tailored slacks does make me pause…
ETA: I love breakfast food for dinner! (but not dinner food for breakfast unless it’s cold deep dish pizza).

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Yeah I have those moments too, where everything comes crashing in and you just want to scream and have to share so you don’t feel so alone. Somehow we manage to pick ourselves up again and keep moving forward, maybe the path got changed a little but we’re still walking it. snugs Whatever happens things will work out. :slight_smile:

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{{{Rigs}}} :frowning:

I don’t know what to say… just that we’re all here for you.

Maybe one thing. I’d say you should try not to prolong the waiting for the separation – even if things are hard afterwards, you’ll feel better about yourself and about your ability to get through, I think.

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{{rigs}} Hang in there. And come vent here whenever you need to. We’re here to listen because there are times when we’ve all come here to vent.

FCM, my mother and MIL both picked out black pant suits with gold-accented black tops for our (Christmas-time) wedding. They both looked lovely and were different styles even though they were such similar colors. No one minded or probably even noticed. But I know there are people who worry about such things. Whatever.

Speaking of moving, my office is moving in May. Ugh. I’m looking forward to being in the new building because it’s a lot closer to home (compared to my current ~7 minute commute!) and because we’ll actually have enough conference rooms to have meetings once in a while. But the move itself is going to be a major PITA I’m sure.

gotti, I was going to reply to your comment from yesterday, but now I’ve completely forgotten what I wanted to say. Ugh. I hate when that happens! That and getting to Target (It’s always Target.) and *knowing *we needed something else from there but having no idea what. That happens All. The. Time.

To whoever mentioned the Super Pii Pii game on thinkgeek, I loved it. That’s hysterical.

McUne, those cookies look sooooo good. I made some of those at Christmas. My coworkers today are helping me to eat up the butterscotch-chocolate chip cookies I made on the weekend. We finished the pecan ones the other day. Now I have to decide what I should bake this weekend. I’m on a baking kick.