Well, since she’s not my actual daughter, I’m fine with it. The thought of some of my actual relatives joining gives me minor heart failure.
swampy, that’s an ugly bird.
So you have proof that they really do exist after all…
Mornin’! It’s pre-Friday!
I’m also an idiot. I forgot to shave last night. I can’t shave on a daily basis, y’see, because my face is uber-sensitive to sharp blades being dragged across it, so I tend to shave every other day. Only I missed this other day. So this morning’s pre-work supermarket trip had to include some disposable razors and some shaving gel. The razors were Schick Extreme III Extra Comfort (because the only other ones they had were those two-cent Gilette “Good News” razors) and some Edge Extra Protection gel.
The packaging on the razors is a lying sack of cow chips. Comfort my lily-white ass. Maybe in comparison to their other razors – which I guess means these ones at least try and leave some of your skin intact. They were like trying to shave with twine and maybe twice as effective. The shave was close – in the same way that Mercury is close to the sun – but at least it got me looking halfway respectable, if you ignored the several little red beads on my neck. :rolleyes:
LiLi - That wasn’t a scary kitty, that was a cute kitty! Licking his paws and all…
Taters - I’m glad everything worked out. You seem to have a pretty level-headed daughter, even if her emotions still control her like they do with every other teen. Smart move on Mr. Taters’ part though. Those unexpected concessions I think took away whatever fight she had left in her, and her sudden gratitude probably made her a lot more amenable to your wishes. Congrats to you both! I hope things return to normal now. 
Nava - Before she passed away, my grandmother on my mother’s side got Alzheimer’s. My father and I visited her in the retirement home she was at when it was only just beginning to set in, and at that time she was perfectly fine and lucid. The next time we visited her though, which was maybe a year later, she … well, wasn’t herself. She had no idea who we were and thought she was still living in the 1970s and running her fabric store. A long-forgotten cookie sat in her lap with a bite out of it. The whole time we tried to sort of “make contact” with her, and while she’d say this or that about things that happened decades ago as if they’d just occurred, sometimes even mentioning one or both of us in passing (and the third person), we might as well have been just a couple of nice, random people stopping by for a bit of a chat. We didn’t stay long. It was disheartening to witness her in such a state when my last memory of her prior to that saw her in good spirits and clear of thought. It is indeed a scary disease. Not in the way cancer or other such malignant illnesses are; there’s no pain involved, really. You just sort of slowly … forget. Everything. Everyone. In some ways, it almost seems worse.
In other news, I just had someone order an air filter elbelbow kit. Because that’s what it says in our system. Elbelbow.
Morning!
Yay for the Taters family! She sounded like a good kid, and not the kind that wouldn’t be reasonable when you all sat to talk. And good on the husband for getting reasonable too. You know how husbands/dads can be sometimes… :rolleyes:
Just driving by - I have to run to the admin center in a few for the first negotiating session with my drivers union. It’s not going to be a pretty next couple of months. This group has managed to tick off the school board, and they are - let’s face it - the only truly expendable group of employees in the district, they can be outsourced at the whim of the board.
I’m only in the room for the first couple sessions when language and work rules are under discussion. I’m OUT of the room, at my own request when they talk wages and benefits.
See ya guys!!
Glad to hear things are better.
Off to work in the library!
Glad to hear things are working well, Taters!
Off to belly-dancing class.
So Haze and LiLi are our resident belly dancers now?
I recently started using an electric razor. I don’t know why I didn’t years ago. I likes it. I likes it a lot. Takes me like a minute to shave da face. Course most of the face is encased in hair, so big deal, right? Still, I like the way it shaves.
In other news… I have a pain. In my left lower back and left leg. Feels like a pulled muscle. Thing is, I can’t figure what the heck I coulda done to myself to have a pulled muscle. Then I do remember when I woke up I was on my left side, whereas usually I sleep on my right side. Maybe I just slept all funny and now I’m feelin’ it. I’m considering home going and ibupropfen taking. With a side of hot tubbing.
Driving by after driving home. Exhausted. Lost pronouns. Palebunny following, will arrive shortly. Snow in southern Virginia. Long, looooong drive. Repeating: Exhausted. Got home in time to see doctor. Getting new knee as soon as it can be scheduled. More later.
Taters, I’m so glad things worked out. I felt a sniffle when I read that last posting.
Maybe Haze and Lili are our resident belly-dancers, but I claim the title of resident All-Around Dancer. I mean, I can’t ballet or jazz or tap, but ballroom dancing, spanish dancing, indian dancing, folk dancing, square dancing, you name it, I’ve got it. Wanna see? shakes booty
I got my iFrogz case yesterday so I brought my iPod with me in the car for the very first time! I don’t know if I said but I can be a bit of a klutz so I promised him (and myself) that the iPod would not leave the house until I got it safely into a rubber case. Once I figured out how to use it properly with my car it was lots of fun. And no, I didn’t wear headphones, as someone thought. I got the car-tape-deck-thingie and so it plays right out of my car’s speakers. Sweet!
We have a long journey next weekend for the baby banquet. I need to load stuff on there for the trip. Wow, the trip will be SO MUCH COOLER!!!
Tired tigs must rest now. Look forward to trip tales later. Sleep good. Fire bad. 
Glad to here the good news in re the Taters household!
I already have a couple siblings that read and post on here so I have long since accepted that even my online existance is under scrutiny.
Speaking of being under scrutiny I managed to discover my girlfriend’s SD account name within hours of her signing up. She made the mistake of mentioning a series of odd dreams and an affinity for Antonio Banderas within her first two posts. The combination of the two gave her away (It’s Amelioration). She has started reading the MMP, mostly to spy on me I imagine (Hello dear!), now I just need to get her to start posting here.
On a side note, an hour and a half morning drive to work is not pleasent in a non-heated car in Michigan (I really need to get that looked at this weekend).
Hey, I can swing dance, square dance (sort of) and goth dance (violent kicking and waving arms around). Wait. Mika still wins.
What type of belly dance do you take, Haze?
Oh, and I passed 5000 posts without even noticing. Go me.
Hi, Amelioration! waves Come join us, the water’s fine. I promise not to let the resident old farts hit you with their canes.
I am posting this now, during what would ordinarily be my class time, because we all arrived there to be told that the start of class is delayed by 1/2 hour. Leaving us all with nothing to do. All of us except me, that is, who always has this wonderful MMP.
Glad to hear that the Taters household is done being scalloped and mashed. Speaking of puns …
Last night I ran my first lab session as a TA. It was a very small section, only 8 students, and an easy lab. So everything went well.
Yiiiii!!! :eek: And I thought tribbles were only in the mind of Gene Roddenberry!
taters, so glad there has been detente. A wise friend once told me that all of the teenage sturm und drang was the lord’s way of making it easy for us parents to let them leave the nest. Take some deep breaths and get some rest before Act Two. 
ali, yay for your girl joining up. She’ll just luuuve all us kool kids! 
I’m betting your heater problems are the thermostat.
rosie, that is indeed a must have. I wonder what it costs to use all the functions, especially Internet.
This morning was very sad with Dad. He’s demoralized but is worrying about leaving Mom alone. He’s afraid she’ll think he “left her.” 
I told him we would take care of her and to be at peace…but…MAN!!
Tupug
No, don’t worry about that, Amelioration. This one will just hit you with his wit. Awful puns, that is. 
Puggy, all I can say is {{{Puggy}}}.
Hi Amelioration! Come join us.
::Whacks Spats in groin with cane on the way out::
That’s the down side of marrying another Doper. Can’t talk about him here.
Jeebus! What an icky commute! Ice and snow everywhere. But, I made it. It took me over an hour, but I made it.
The kids have another snow day and hubby called in to work. Road conditions further northeast of us are much, much worse. I wish I could have stayed home.
I need to get me some go-juice. Have a good day!
Fortunately we’re not married, and ‘im indoors is far too busy playing with that soddin’ gnome to be reading the MMP. After tonight, he’ll also be far too busy playing with our new cat…
Hi Amelioration! Don’t mind this lot, they’re completely barking!
Hmmm, thermostat you say? That certainly sounds automotivy enough to be the problem. I plan on making an appointment to get it fixed or at least looked at today after work. Thing is that I truely have no idea where to take a car that has a generic problem. I know of transmission shops, oil change shops, and a few other specialized places, but no generic car trouble places. I guess I’ll try to Midas near my apartment, I know that they do more than just mufflers so perhaps this falls within their purview.
My lack of knowledge about cars is quite legendary. Last summer when I was visiting a friend his car started having problems, and while we ended up correctly diagnosing and fixing the problem our long debate wasn’t whether or not the problem could be caused by low stearing fluid, but whether or not there was such a thing as stearing fluid at all.