I’m home! The dog is walked, and is crashed in front of the fan. I’m pondering what to eat with my burgers tonight. Decisions, decisions.
gt,rosie, we started putting out the Christmas in July. Which reminds me, I need to buy a Festivus pole this year.
swampy, dark chocolate rocks. Especially if it is covering expresso beans. taxi, you were in Cary? I thought I sensed a disturbance in the Force. Or the beans from Sunday were acting up.
MamaT, you want dumb? Maggie Wonderbeagle thinks rock is a food group. :dubious:
:waves at MBG:
My ads are chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, free ice skates
taxi, we still love you.
Do I want to change into a skirt for work? I think I’ve been wearing jeans a lot. I have thousands of skirts. Well, not literally, but I have at least eight. They should probably get used.
Oh, yes- I was in a clothing store today, musing over the fact that babydoll dresses are back. I remember wearing them in grade nine. This, plus the return of leggings and skinny jeans, has made me feel old and sad.
Don’t forget gauchos. Talk about a stupid fashion fad. I know some are calling it a split skirt, but the leg isn’t wide enough for that. Next platform boots will be back. And white polyesther disco suits. And 'fros. And glitter on glasses frames. and long lines at the gas pu . . . oh, wait. we already have that…
<snerk>One of my ads is for naked chocolate. <snerk>
My eyeballs are officially bleeding. I’ve been entering statistics into a research presentation all day (when I wasn’t trying to format the spanish translation of a press release). I have earned my twenty-five cents today.
li-li, you old and sad? Think how you’d feel if you were around back when hip huggers came around the first time.
::Waves to mbg, taxi and scout:: Stop in and set a spell.
Well, I answered the call of the vacuum cleaner, alas. I HATE running that stupid thing around. By the amount of dog hair it picks up on a regular basis, I am left regularly scratching my head trying to figure out why the dogs aren’t bald. They should be. Either that or I should start knitting dog hair sweaters. Heaven knows I could come up with enough dog hair once a month, easily.
dogbutler, Rusty the Idiot Golden Retriever tends to only eat dog food; but Isaac the Bottomless Yellow Lab will eat anything that’s not nailed down. He once ate a box of erasers my son had purchased to use for school. The reason I knew he had is that first the box went missing, and then a few days later there were white rubbery chunks mixed in with the yard deposits. He hasn’t eaten any rocks yet that I’m aware of, but of course that doesn’t mean he hasn’t.
At least both dogs have learned that if they drink the salt water at the dog beach, they lose everything in their tummies and then some. And amazingly enough, it only took them one time each to learn that lesson; I guess trying to barf up their toenails made an impression on the functioning brain cell.
My ads are now ringtones. Where did that come from? :dubious:
At the moment, I seem to the Clipboard King here. I’ve got a sack filled with 24 new and free clipboards that I snagged as a donation for our guild.
Also, I’ve become the Court Jester of Golf Pencils. Four gross of the silly things - nearly 600 stubbly little yellow pencils without erasers. We have no need for those at Faire, but they came with the clipboards. What to do with all these pencils??
Alice screams to her husband Bob - “John’s car is out of control! He just hit the theater!” Bob says “Relax, dear, he’s just going through a stage.”
My mother’s surgery went swimmingly. The tumor had not progressed to her nodes, so they did not have to remove any. She woke up feeling sick from the anesthesia (doesn’t everyone?) and they gave her drugs to counteract the nausea, along with a percocet. She ended up puking an hour later. In the meantime, they gave her another drug through her IV to counteract the nausea and that didn’t work either. That’s when she got sick. Then they gave her another drug through the IV to counteract the nausea. We left her recovery room for awhile so she could sleep. An hour later, they wheeled her out and she left to spend a few days with my sister and BIL.
They have to wait for the path report to decide how and when they’re going to proceed with the radiation. I’m sure it all be fine.
My dog is all black with a splotch of white on his chest and a little white on the tips of one of his back paws. He’s as dumb as a box of rocks, but we love him dearly.
I am being swamped at work with new projects from the new boss. Everytime I think I’m done, he comes up with something new. Oh well; I’m paid to work.
Hi Rue! Hi MBG! We miss and love you both.
So, the out of town visitor flies out today. I’m glad to have the house back to normal. I’m tired! By the way, it’s very obvious that my daughter and he like each other very much. Ain’t nuttin’ gonna happen though. I’ll see to that. If they still feel that way toward each other when she’s 18, then alright. But for now; nope, nuttin’ gonna happen.
Last night we went out to eat. I was too brain-dead to cook. Today I’ll have to go to the store and buy some groceries. I really don’t want to; but I need to.
By the way, this morning, I had to buy gas for the rig. I paid 2.83 a gallon with the ten cent discount I received for buying fifty bucks worth of groceries from Safeway. When I drove by the gas station today, they had lowered the damn gas prices. Dammit! Too bad I couldn’t have waited until then.
Well, off to cruise the Dope a bit, then head to the store.
I filled up in California this weekend (that’s California, MD, not the state) for $2.599!!! I can’t remember the last time it was that low. I’m about ready for a fill again - I wonder if it’s still that cheap? The thing is it’s 17 miles from here and we generally just go that way for big shopping or heading to the boat. I don’t need to do either just yet. Or do I??
I just met our new forecast manager. Yay! This means next time we forecast I won’t have to do all the forecast crap that I did a couple weeks ago. Major yay for the new forecast guy!!
And I got a call from the airline delivery person that they’re bringing my wandering luggage to me tonight. Also yay!
I was. I visited Cary’s major employer… the one that’s got its own campus. It always makes me a little suspicious of a company that has a campus. Like they’ve never quite left the college mentality.
I am in my new space. I’ll take pictures tomorrow, maybe. It’s not as bad as I thought it’d be. After I got my computer set up, I went right over to IT and picked up a privacy screen. They were puzzled about the run on privacy screens until they remembered the move. We’re not used to sitting all together in a group.
Pros:
Secured floor
Sit closer to the restroom
Sit far, far away from AC
The ice maker works on this floor
IT walkup desk right down the hall
Vending machines are on this floor
Cons:
No privacy whatsoever
Vending machines are on this floor
Paging volume is loud
My cube neighbor over the wall has “Remember to speak quietly and softly” posted on her monitor
Color scheme is tomato and lime
Coffee maker has air pots, not single serve
So far, haven’t heard more than a peep or two out of AC. She’s bringing *everything * with her, garbage can, recycle bin, everything!
My boxes just got here, guess I’d better go and unpack.
taters, I’m keeping your mom in my thoughts.
Oh, I just remembered: I saw the most hideous striped batwing sweater in the Lane Bryant Juniors section. I’m not linking to it, you could go blind from the ugly.
Glad the surgery went well for your mom, Taters.. I’m keeping her in my thoughts and prayers.
Gas around here is somewhere between $2.53 and $2.79. I’m about to go out to a friend’s. The gas station near her house alternates with one near mine at being cheap. We’ll see which one wins.
Thanks for the well wishes for my mother all. I’m thinking good thoughts, and it seems to be working.
The gas at the station I usually fill up dropped to $2.89 a gallon. That means I COULD have gotten it for $2.79 if I had waited until this afternoon. I haven’t seen it that cheap around here in quite awhile. I would be thrilled, thrilled, I say, to see it for $2.53 a gallon. You’re a lucky duck, FCM.
I’ve returned from grocery shopping. Tonight’s menu consists of chicken cordon bleu, spinach tortellini filled with cheese, and alfredo sauce for the tortellins. I guess you could say our meal is a very cheesy meal tonight.
Mama Tiger, I *told * you not to look. Yes, it’s this thing. There’s this, too, which is not quite as ugly, I suppose. Then there’s this, which is pretty Flashdance. Same with this and this. Beware the fugly!
Ice makers are very cool (ha!), when they work. Or when they are cleaned appropriately. When they run the cleaner through, but forget to rinse, the ice doesn’t taste too good.
I’m almost completely unpacked. I can’t believe it went so quickly. My feet are killing me, though. I should have worn sneakers today, instead of sandals.
My husband accuses me of not owning any shirts that don’t have “Columbus Cottonmouths” somewhere on them. Clothing like that is one of the reasons he is close to being correct.
Yuck!
Would someone please explain to the 5-toed Chair Sloth that I am entitled to lean my head back once in a while without getting a cold nose stuck in my ear? It tickles!
I was. I visited Cary’s major employer… the one that’s got its own campus. It always makes me a little suspicious of a company that has a campus. Like they’ve never quite left the college mentality.
