It’s raining! And it’s only supposed to be 80 today!!!
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It’s not raining! And it’s supposed to be 92 today!!! I guess it is a good day to work all day, at least I get the next two off.
I have found the Coffeeshop of the Gods, where I get fifteen minutes of free internet access with a cup of coffee. And a brownie I’m told to eat veeeeeeeeery slowly. As in, take one bite, wait an hour, maybe take another. I think that’s the best five bucks I’ve ever spent. 
Also, it appears this place is also a hotspot, so I might be able to upload more of my pictures (when I take them, that is), for cheaper than it would be at the hotel.
Roomie got tattooed this afternoon (I’m still thinking about mine–it might have to wait until Friday, when my direct deposit takes hold. After my coffee and one bite of brownie, we’re going to Madame Tussaud’s, which will probably be the site of much giggling and many inappropriate pictures with wax figures (and judicious brownie hits). I’m having a fabulous time, and I can’t wait until we’re a little more rested and can really get out and see stuff. My feet are already killing me, and my legs are a little upset at what I’ve put them through so far, but me and my body will persevere. 
Drive-by, sorry, one more week of this no doubt.
Ellen Cherry, I just saw the new pic of you and hubbie in the photo thread. The one where he is looking at you and you are smiling? Awww. Such a sweet picture, you can really feel the love.
Unfortunately, most are earth tone like mud. And some that I’d hoped to be a deep emerald wound up looking like something you’d find in a diaper… :eek: The color, not the shape.
Some are attractive, and the face jar came out as well as I’d hoped. Anyway, after I get caught up and read the funnies, I’m going to take some photos and post them.
We breakfasted in town, and I came home via the grocery store. **swampy ** will be glad to know that I stocked up on TP (my brand was on sale), seein’s as how I was down to my last 12-pack.
**FCD ** is at the boat, working on electrical stuff. I’ve got a load in the washer and a load in the dishwasher. I cleaned the kitchen sink and put away the groceries. I really need to clean the fridge - we’ve got glass shelves and some are pretty icky. And I need to run the vacuum yet again, as Bernie the Shedding Machine is marking her territory with clumps of black hair. Daily.
I’ve got at least 2 more loads of clothes to wash, and I’m thinking I’ll make us a nice dinner. Plus I need to brew some tea for my sweetie, and maybe iron a few things for the coming week. And I’ve got to pack and mail the pots my kid and my nephew made. Busy busy. At least I slept in till almost 7 - that’s pretty remarkable for me!
We lived in the Jax area for the better part of 20 years, and grew to hate it greatly. Southern Maryland is much more to my liking! I’ve never been to the PNW, but the more I hear about it, the more inclined I am to visit. Perhaps one day, I shall. In fact, we’ve discussed doing an Alaska cruise, and several of those start in Washington, I think.
Dang, I hijacked my own post! :eek:
Drae is posting from Holland! How exciting!
FCM, good luck at the show.
You know, if someone’s cell phone goes off during church, I have a thoroughly evil desire to make them eat it. Am I a bad person?
Today is lots of chores and then work. Mr. Lissar is going to a memorial service for the friend of his who died in Taiwan in a motorcycle accident a few months ago. I’m working, so i can’t attend. 
FCM, I’m sorry that your glaze didn’t turn out the way you envisioned. I’m sure your next batch will turn out more to your liking because now you’ve figured out what you need to do. Also, you’ve GOT to come up here to the PNW. I think you’d love it. It’s lovely up here and you’d love Puget Sound and the Hood Canal. If you ever do make it up here, be sure to let me know.
Drae, your trip sounds just awesome so far. I read your posts to Mr. Taters, and he’s officially jealous. He was laughing about the brownie part. Unfortunately, we cannot take part in any of the wacky tobacky stuff. As kids, we did, but of course our jobs prevent us from being able to do this. I have to admit that brownie sounds awesome. Your pictures were cool and I can’t wait to see more.
kai, thank you very much for validating me. My husband and kids did not believe there was such a thing as lingonberries. I had some lingonberries on my crepes while at IHOP in Anaheim, and they thought I was making stuff up. So, I read your post to the hubby and he claims you’re making them up too. :rolleyes:
He just hates being wrong, usually because I’m almost always right.
Swampy, it sounds like your funeralizin’ and reception went very nicely. Have a safe trip to Miami. I don’t think I’d like to live there.
We’re going boating today (what a surprise :rolleyes: ). Today is supposed to be beautiful, but starting later this week, we’re finally going to get some rain and lower temps. We could use the rain.
Well, off to cruise the Dope for a bit and finish loading the boat.
Sounds like drae’s having all kinds of legal fun! We want incriminating photos!
Taters, my mom lives in Issaquah and my sister in Redmond. It makes me crazy talking to them and they rub in their lovely weather. I really, really want to get back to the PCN. So does Papa T., but alas, he hasn’t been able to swing a job in that part of the world. Oh well, retirement isn’t that far off. I really, really miss mountains.
FCM, I’ve seen enough baby-poop-brown colored objects (outside of diapers, that is) to know that lots of people enjoy that color. So what’s hideous to you may be ideal to someone else. And handmade always sells well, right? But I hope you get the colors you want next time around. Have you figured out exactly what it is you need to change?
kai**, can I come pick and eat berries with you? One of my favorite childhood memories was one year in grade school when we lived in Seattle, and there was a vacant lot ten feet deep in wild blackberry bushes that I passed regularly. Those berries, fresh off the bush, were the sweetest and bestest things in the entire universe. It sounds like you live in berry heaven!
I’ve had a very quiet day, just doing a bit of work and ignoring the pile of laundry waiting for me. I can successfully put it off for another day or two, since I’m not out of underwear yet and still have some clean PJs. I’ve definitely joined the wear-PJs-for-comfort-around-the-house crowd; I refuse to even walk out to the mailbox in them (Stacy & Clinton from What Not To Wear would jump out from behind a bush and kill me if I did!), but for relaxing, there’s not much better.
And now back to work, alas. I was planning to have another lazy week – it is slow season, after all! – but life is conspiring to prevent it. Plus I was supposed to go into DC and have lunch with some friends Tuesday, but now I can’t spare the time for the trip since it’s an hour plus each way, plus a long chatty lunch – nice in a slow week, but not a busy week. Phooey. I miss having my regular chatty lunches with my friends! Not enough to commute regularly again, but it’s still always fun to be a Lady Who Lunches for a couple hours.
OK, pics of my stuff are posted. And if you would be so kind as to pop over to my thread here, I would be grateful for any suggestions you might wish to share. The link to the photos is there, too, but I’ll put it here also. Because I’m nice, dammit.
I’m trying to hold down the fort! Cherry Boy has a friend over, and it sounds like they’re going to come through the ceiling at any moment. God, help me be strong in the face of 9-year-old boys. Amen.
Yesterday was incredibly busy. I ran all over town. I went to a million consignment and resale shops, trying to dispose of my maternity clothes. I was highly annoyed by the staff at these places. They claimed my stuff was out of style (it’s two years old!). One nasty woman even had the gall to tell me, “women today want to be in style when they’re pregnant.” BITE ME. What do I look like, some giant frump? The problem, I suppose, is the majority of pregger ladies shopping at resale shops probably are young, in their 20s, and think they’d die if they werent’ clad in bell-bottoms and a flirty top. My Land’s End navy and khacki pants werent’t good enough! Pfft. But then again, I’m 40 and probably frumpier than I realize. Even though half of the pants were capri pants for god’s sake. :mad:
OK, mad over. Thanks Meeks for the compliment on the picture. I had it on my computer as wallpaper a while, and a friend stopped by and said, “Look! He adores you!” 'Tis true, we’re happier than I ever imagined possible.
BAM. That was a loud thump. I better investigate. :dubious:
Nonono, I don’t even *have *kids and I know it’s when there’s deathly silence then it’s bad.
Deathly silence or loud thump, at either end of the noise spectrum, is bad. It’s the medium noises in between you can (sometimes) safely ignore.
“We just dropped something.”
So, it just sounds terribly loud down here. Nothing appeared broken. I’m just hyper because the baby’s asleep. LET THE BABY NAP.
We had a bad plane crash here this morning. If you look on CNN you’ll probably see it. There’s a thread on it here, too. About 48 people were killed, and they’re probably all from here.
This crash, Ellen Cherry? That’s so awful. 
Just in case the sky starts falling or space-time collapses or something, I’ll 'fess up - it’s my fault.
I cooked dinner tonight. :eek:
Sorry.
It was yummy! Ham, cabbage-n-onions, tomatoes, and french bread. Then my sweetie did the dishes. Life is good!
Too bad I gotta go back to work tomorrow.
Yeah fcm, my parents had moved from a nice house with a fabulous flower garden (over 80 types of roses, plus just about everything else that will grow in Washington) in Marysville to Oahu. They lived there for two years before my dad, who is so tight with money he pinches pennies until they scream, decided that while Hawaii was Paradise, Florida was Paradise on a budget. My mom wasn’t happy, but she went. The final straw for her in Jacksonville was that people kept getting hit by lightning on the beach, so she told dad that she was going home to Washington, and he could come with her or stay, but she was gone! As for the cruises, I took one of the Alaska Marine Highway ferries up here from Seattle, which threaded it’s way through the Inside Passage. That’s the route the cruise ships travel, and it is breathtakingly beautiful. If you get the chance, go!
hehehe…Taters you tell your husband that there are too lingonberries, and if he wants to sample some of my make believe he can come up here and I’ll send him on a hunt for the rare Kodiak Sea Owl! (it’s the sound of the wind through bouy 4!) Oh, and I am wondering if you are a transplant to the PNW as I have never heard of it referred to as The Hood Canal, just Hood Canal. I was traumatized there by an oyster when I was a little kid! Just from your postings I am guesing that you are in the mid southeast area, the dry side of the Cascade’s. I was born in Seattle, and lived in North City and Lake City growing up. I had grandparents with a small farm in Stanwood, and I also lived in Lake Stevens, Marysville, Arlington, Sultan, Brier and Everett. My mom tells me that I would not recognize any of the podunk places now, the Navy came to Everett after I left for Alaska, and apparently all of the strawberry farms have sold off their land, and even the cow pastures and corn fields are housing tracts and mini malls. Sad, it was a beautiful place to live, out in the boonies. Here is a link from my friend Fran Kelso’s site: lingonberry proof!
Sure thing Mama Tiger! I miss blackberries something awful, every once in a while Safeway will get some fresh blackberries in, but I won’t buy them if they are moldy, which they usually are. I remember picking so many blackberries as a kid, and after all the mom’s in the neighborhood were done making blackberry pie, cobbler, jam, etc. we would have blackberry fights and get in trouble for coming home with our clothes all purple. There were the kind that grew huge brambles and would even climb up the trees and dangle berries down like clusters of grapes, but even better were the elusive, tiny ground vines that had tiny sweet berries. My grandma always paid me to ramble through the woods and find those for her. Oh oh oh, and huckleberries, the red ones, they grew everywhere, and the thimble berries that you could never find enough of to do anything more than eat them out of hand. sigh I miss that part of my childhood.
Yeah EC nine year old boys are a handful and then some! I am glad I don’t have to deal with “let the baby nap” any more, but I do occasionally have to tell everyone to “let the mama nap”!
I have to cook tonight, The Son has requested Swedish Meatballs, and since tomorrow is the first day of school happy dance I will fill his request. I am gonna go look at fcm’s and Drae’s pictures first though!
Mmmmmmm…I love berries. Pretty much every kind.
That crash sounds awful, Ellen. I was sorry to read about it.
Haven’t done quite as much as I’d hoped to today, but it’s been nice. Did exciting stuff like get a new wastebasket for the bathroom as well as a new toilet seat. Envy my exotic life.
FCM, I think the colors look fine, even if they weren’t the ones you intended. I like the heart-shaped dishes.
Oh, and LiLi, your post made me set my phone to vibrate, even before I went off to church. But I think having to eat your phone would be appropriate punishment.
Had rotisserie chicken and mashed potatoes for dinner. Now I need to hook up to work and get the presentation we’re giving in the morning… And then maybe some laundry.
Woo hoo!
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Martini time! Fun day at work, hordes of lost souls searching for sold out school supplies. Time for dinner and a Dope.
:waves beerverage at MBG :
FCM, the pieces look good to me. I’ve seen similar colors in commercial pieces.
Drae, we want [del]incriminating[/del] fun-filled pictures!
EC, I hate silence from kids, it means they are up to no good.