Me three.
Fourth cap done - gotta email **MamaTigs **and get her address. But first, it’s bedtime, and I need my beauty sleep.
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D’oh, I reupped last weekend too! And oh yes, thank Og, three down, two to go! 
Hope you’re feeling better Rigs, sending healing vibes your way. I need something to jog my brain, but I don’t want to drink anything caffeinated!
I haven’t been to the Star Trek movie yet, but am going on either Friday or Saturday. I also need to make a run over to Tarjay this weekend - I’m in need of general basics that I usually get there. I surely hope it won’t be raining. ::knocks on wood three times::
I reupped last week too! Seems we’re all in sync here!
Hope you get to feeling better soon, rigs!
I read, but retained little. I’m sorry, but I think my brain is just on overload right now. I can’t think straight.
AAARGH.
Gas company decided to give us notice today that they need to have someone home for a whole freakin’ day next week so that they can install a new meter. Problem is, we’ll be halfway across the country at that point, which kind of makes it hard for someone to be home.
AAARGH.
Oh, and did I mention my 38 yr old cousin is in the hospital with an infected heart valve? The docs are trying to get the infection under control, but in the meantime it’s caused enough damage to his heart that they’ll have to operate as soon as he’s stable. My aunt’s already lost her only grandchild… if she loses her son in the same month, I have no idea how she’ll be able to cope.
AAAAAAAARGH.
Vacations aren’t supposed to make life MORE stressful, are they?
Aaargh! Oh, lord, Muppet, I’m so sorry!
taxi, I think we have a sort of symbiosis? Maybe? We’ll cook for each other! 
And yeah, Chinese grocery stores are awesome. Any ethnic grocers, actually, but I like knowing I can get duck tongues, thinly sliced lamb shoulder, and pig’s blood if I need it. And Grass Jelly Drink. Anyone had it? I’m scared to try.
Oh, and Meat Floss.
Sleepy. Waiting for my Kitchen Slaves to finish the dishes so I can demand a backrub and then go to bed. It’s a rough life.
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HRH slept until 6:20am today! Yayyyy for no drinks after 6pm! First thing she did when she woke up was demand to go toilet, where she proceeded to do a wee that a baby elephant would have been proud of! (Note: the wake up at 10pm to go toilet thing was a bust - all it did was wake her up and leave her confused and distressed, but no wee! End result: Dotty spent another hour getting HRH back to sleep)
Big hugs being sent your way, Muppet! I hope everything goes alright for your nephew. At any rate, I’m keeping you and your family in my thoughts.
I’m very pissed right now at a jewelry store at the local mall here. It seems some idiot sales rep conned my son into filling out a credit application. It was very predatory.
I have a call in and I plan to talk ro the manager re: the predatory practices. The sales clerk refused to pull the app. So, my sixteen year old son will of course be denied the credit and receive a ding. My mother works at a jewelry store down the hall from this one. She tried to get them to pull the app, but the sales clerk was very jerkish and claimed he was “doing his job”. My son told me the clerk was begging him to do it, and my son, not knowing any better, was trying to help him out. Now, my son is upset. He was worried I was going to ream him out, but I wasn’t there to stop it, so I can’t really fault him. He knows better now, but damn, what a tough lesson at a young age.
I know, I know, we should have talked to him about these types of things sooner.
I don’t know how they can even do that; he’s minor, and not legally old enough to sign a contract, right. I’m not a lawyer or anything, but it doesn’t seem right.
I am good and pissed right now.
Wow, that stinks, Muppet. Hope your cousin is better very soon. Hugs.
Glad HRH slept so well, Dotty.
From what I recall, a contract isn’t valid unless the parties to the contract are adults, Taters. Hope it gets cleared up really quickly.
Hope you feel better soon, rigs. Hope it’s actually Lexapro-related, because that means it’s likely to take care of itself.
I reupped back in April because I was afraid I’d forget.
All that talk of restaurants made me hungry, too.
Can someone tell my allergies to pipe down, please?
Should have been asleep about an age ago. Guess I’ll try that again.
Is it Firday yet?
Even more hugs.
GT
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN Actually I slept pretty good last night so not so blurfy this mornin’.
Muppet I’ll be keepin’ your cousin in my thoughts and prayers.
Taters IANAL but I can’t see how they could possibly hold a minor to a contract. If anything, that clerk should be in a world of trouble for acceptin’ an app for credit from a minor.
Listen up allergies, leave gt alone! I mean it!
Feel better rigs.
Yay on HRH Dotty. May she continue to have weeless nights.
Time for more caffiene and some brekkies. Tummy is rumbly.
Later Y’all!
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{{{Rigs}}} too.
Taters – This is something that would cause me to go medieval on the asses of both the salesperson and their employer :mad: :mad:
**Lili **and **Taxi **-- you need to have a cook-off! And you should invite all of us to taste the results
OK… mountains of work await 
Zooooommmm!
Morning Mumpers! Gonna go watch the Canes play tonight.
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: smacks gt’s allergies with a wet trout :
Yay for HRH!
Hang in there, rigs!
Huzzah on the overnight toilet training success (so far), Dotty! Sounds like you’re on the right track … and so is HRH - a very important part of that equation.
I hope the 'Canes have better luck than the Caps, Doggio - we’re out of the playoffs again.
More hugs for Muppet and sending antihistimine to GT, if that’ll help. And healing thoughts for Rigs!
Is it -almost- FIRDAY?!
Good morning!
Yay for being almost potty trained, HRH!
{{{Rigs and Muppet}}}
The Rockets play the Lakers tonight (in Houston) - they have to win to tie up the series. **Go Rockets! **
Blurf.
VWife and the dogs did not conspire to keep me awake last night, so I got more than the night before, but there was a humdinger of a wreck (I didn’t go because of Frankenfinger the Sequel) and the radio traffic kept me up longer than intended.
Four people in a car that hit a bridge wall; one ejected, two pinned, and 3 of the 4 flew. Mr. Ejection had extremely life-threatening injuries.
On to much lighter stuff. I’ve had a bat take up residence in Outer Manland, the workshop in the garage. On two other occasions the last two weeks, I’ve gone out in daylight hours, opened the door, and saw him flying around because I disturbed it.
This morning I went out to get something on the way to the car, and spotted him hanging in a very conspicuous spot. It must have been dark enough that s/he wasn’t startled.
What to do? I now know where the bat lives, and killing it would be trivial. I don’t think it’s trapped, because there are plenty of holes in the ceiling for him to pass into the garage attic and get out; if it was trapped, it’d have starved by now. I don’t mind the bats I see flying, because the skeeters in Cottonfield County are as big as Loki and watching them in action is fun and beneficial.
I have no reason to belive it’s carrying rabies, either. Do I kill it, try to evict it, or welcome my new Chiropteran overlord?
To me, their reaction to “sorry, I’ll be away on that date, it has to be between (this date) and (this other date)” “no, there isn’t anybody who can be there” “in (insert foreign coountry)” is one of the marks that distinguish a good supplier from a pile of mangataur dodo.
Piles of magnataur dodo insist that it’s got to be on the day they want, even if I’m going to be in another continent on that date :smack:
Hello. Not going to bother skimming because I haven’t been keeping up that well. Appropriate gestures and emotions to all.
Welcome your new batty overlord. It’s your personal mosquito repellent.
I was downtown last week and I saw a flock of something flying overhead. I thought they were birds at first, but they didn’t sound like birds. That’s when I realized I was watching a flock of bats. They were cute!
I think I’m going to go clothes shopping this afternoon. I was going to work a few extra hours on the Dreaded Piles of Photograph Folders, but I have to work my last Thursday Night Shift today (:):D:cool: … :() so I think I’ll catch up next week. Hopefully Ross won’t be full of Bored Housewives again like it was last time. (That’s how I know we are in Harsh Economic Tymes–the women who used to shop at Tarzhay are now in my way at Ross. MOVE, dammit!)
By the way, Nava, do you know what you’re breathing?
I’m with Spaz. Welcome your new batty overlord, bbbobbio. Bats are good.
I think **Muppet **needs to be included in our cookoff. She’s a much more advanced baker than I am! Boss keeps saying that Manager and I need to have a bake off at work… in which he and our other teammates get to be the judges, of course.
I do have to bake something for work for tomorrow. We’re having a kickoff to summer bbq/potluck tomorrow for lunch. I think I’m going to make these cheesecake brownies, which aren’t exactly foodie-worthie, but my coworkers aren’t foodies so why bother making something all fancy and from scratch when they won’t appreciate the extra effort anyway?
bobbio, okay, it’s only one little bat right now but it’s going to tell all it’s batty friends about the new digs and before you know it, you’ll be renaming the building Guanoland. Any chance of Wildlife or Animal Control removing it?
This is my Firday and I wish it was Quit-O-Clock right now!
I go for the Moment Of Truth[sup]TM[/sup] blood test tomorrow morning. We shall see if the thyroid med is working well enough and if the old cholesterol has gone down as well.
I am looking forward to a very cinematetic (is too a word) weekend with my visiting brother. His birthday is also coming up so I’ll be baking a nillar cake from scratch.
Yay for HRH sleeping dry, dotty.
Back to work.
Tupug