Dairy Wars - A Milky Morning Post

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OMG, slides! I’d forgotten about those! Then we;'d hang up a clean white sheet and click…click…click…

That is tough. Have hope, though. My best friend and I fell out over a life issue: she disapproved when I cheated on my boyfriend in college but then she got involved with a married man! :eek: but when we both grew older and much less judgemental, we got back together again. We are not at the same point yet, but as they say, there may be a wall between us but the roots go down deep under the wall and aren’t broken.

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Neat place, Meeks! I trust there will be more photos when you put your personal touch to it??

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They’re actually taupe. prim look

:smiley:

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Nope. :smiley: Never going to decorate it or anything.

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Nifty! I highly approve of the ginormous bathroom, among other things. The stove in the kitchen looks little, though.

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hi, everyone. I refuse to read the twenty pages y’all have written since I was here yesterday. Congratulations, good luck, my sympathy, that sucks, kick the bastard etc.

I only got to do one dance class, because partway through the first, something went in my knee, and now I can’t straighten it. I wasn’t even doing anything. I think I was kneeling. I hate my left leg. Tomorrow is going to suck if I’m limping badly, or can’t walk. Argh.

Whine.

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Good evening all! I got a lot accomplished, but nearly as much as I would have liked. I’ve got two more days to get this stuff done, but I also need to run some errands in that time frame.

Also, I’ve given up on sorting the bazillion-gazillion socks around here. Jaysus! I find two that match, only to find a hole in one. I’m not going to darn socks. My super-secret eveeeeel plan is to go out and buy new socks for everyone tomorrow and throw out all the old socks. Additionally, I’m going to make sure the son’s and hubbys socks are DIFFERENT from each other. Hubby keeps taking the son’s socks, and vice versa.

On the face of it all, this sounds very wasteful. I agree, it kind of is; BUUUUUUT, I refuse to spend any more time sorting socks. My times is worth more than the cost of a few packs of socks.

Meeks, that’s a cute little apartment. Well, actually, it’s kind of a big apartment, isn’t it?

FCM, yay on the boat stuff! Boo to you being down or grumpy. I think you need some ice cream WITH a side of luxurious DARK chocolate.

I know there’s more to touch on, but I’ve got to get some more stuff done.

Also, there’s another thread I want to check on.

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:smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: That first part of my post should have read "NOT nearly as much as I would have liked.

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So over the last few weeks I have discovered that it is not a sin to join in the MMP during the middle of the week, and so that is what I am doing!

Yay mika and SO finding what sounds like a nice place to live!!! Big hoorays, home hunting is so stressful, and now all you have to do is move! hehehe!

Hey SnakesCatLady if you are baking beads, are you playing with polymer? It’s one of my favorite mediums in which to express myself. Upon further reading I see that yes, you are. I had some seed bead jewelry photographed once, on a dark piece of cloth outside on an overcast day. I was pleased with the results.

I’m still jonesin’ for some cotton field photos, just sayin…I wonder what would be required for a fer real cotton boll (no weevils, please) to get shipped to Alaska… Oh, and bobbio when I last saw a photo of your canine, am I correct in thinking she’s a frenchie? Cute dog, whatever she is!

Oh, an happy birthday to all to whom it applies. In my world birthdays are for kids. Once my eldest turned 18 and I could no longer convince the two youngest that I was no longer 18, I simply stopped ageing!

Not a mullet, that’s short on top and sides, long, longer, or longest in the back, Billy Ray Cyrus being an extreme example. Not the rattail, that is when everyone cut the mullet off except for the chunk of rattail. The look had other, more demeaning names. What you are referring to pugs is the bowl cut. It looked as if a smallish cereal bowl had been placed on the child’s head, and everything beneath the edges was shaved. It morphed into a 'do where the top was grown out and ponytailed, but the sides and backs were still shorn. Very popular with the skater crowd in the '90’s. I have two girls who had the style for the better part of one school year.

Garden gloves are a must! I cannot abide touching slugs, it makes me scream like a little girl. However, before I put my garden gloves on, someone has to turn them inside out first to prove there are no spiders hiding in them, because spiders make me scream like a little girl.

I understand Jahdra, very well indeed. Among other nifty groovy stuff like chronic clinical depression, I come from a family who (well, most of us) referr to ourselves as wingnuts. At this juncture in my life it’s not all good, but it’s a hella lot better than it used to be. My email is in my profile, anytime.

pugs and EC I refer to my kids, husband, dogs, etc. as Klingons (cling ons) when they won’t give me my space. Also as warts.

I truly hope the boat deal works out fcm. We have been skiffless for several years, and I miss being on the water.

I am too tired to look at pics tonight mika but I will tomorrow.

There, I managed to catch up to Wednesday night in one swell foop, or something like that! Tomorrow I will tell you what I did today! I know, y’all are on the edgedes of your seats. Relax, it wasn’t that exciting, just a nice time.

Nighty night, Cool Kids!

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I got to sleep in all the way till 6:30. I’ve got some errands to run and some dock lines to splice - gonna have a fun day, you betcha! :smiley: I might check in a little later.
pffft - who am I kidding - might… I’ll check in later. Ciao for niao!

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Yay on the boat FCM and jake new digs there Mika. Splicing dock lines, while I’m sure is a good thing, sounds like something a pirate would do for some reason. :smiley:

Here I am, once again, in the joy that is my job. Today I get to work on a job description for the person who will be the new shop manager. That is, when we actually advertise and find said person. I’m changing some duties, adding some, moving some to another couple of positions and all that jazz. Actually, the way things are looking, I may be adding a completely new position. Heh. Ok, I am adding a new position and I know who I want in the position. There’s somebody internally who would want to apply but I don’t want her, though I have to allow her to apply should she choose to do so. I don’t feel bad about this either. I’ve noticed she’s kinda slack in her current job. That does not give me a good feeling. Know what I mean?

In other news, it’s supposed to rain a bunch today, then cool down for a few days. YAY! Oh, and a friend is turning the big 5-0 on Saturday and a big do is planned. That means I get free food and drink. YAY! Plus cake.

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Wiki, Maddy the VunderDog is a French Bulldog indeed. I won’t get rid of her, but I won’t get another one, either. I’m far too accustomed to a Boxer’s loyalty and innate desire to please it’s humans to put up with a 30 lb perpetual rebellious teenager.

I’ll get your pictures tonight. There are both cotton flowers and growing bolls on the plants now…

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Some random WTF observations from this week…

  • TFD[sup]tm[/sup] left me a supposedly working bug zapper. I gave it a good lookover last night, and it’s full of paper wasp nests.

  • I swam at the new Y this morning, in the outdoor pool. The water was warmer than the air, and the air temperature was 84F at 0530.

-I came across a new low in humanity today at the Y. Some moron decided to pee on the sauna rocks.

  • What is sad is not the heat, but the fact that the office AC is so cold that it actually feels good to go outside.

  • Somehow, I’ve attracted quite the herd of feral cats at the VunderLair. I knew about Sylvester from TFD[sup]tm[/sup], and we’re feeding Sylvester until TFD[sup]tm[/sup] comes to get him. With the rest, it might be time to thin the herd a bit. Especially after one of the little bastards attacked me while trying to clean up some of the junk last night…

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Morning, all! Just proving that I am here at 8:30!

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I’m bad - I just skimmed this page (oh, and looked at **mika’s ** pics) so sorry if I miss anything important.
**meeks ** - yay on finding a new place so fast! I’m having a realtor come by, maybe this weekend, because the apt is ready to rent - I’ll take pics of it empty. (Yay! Income!)
dinner was okay - I was right - he just wanted to make new friends - which is fine. He and his wife are both workaholics and they realized they don’t have any friends outside of work (and not too many inside) She wasn’t there because she was working :slight_smile: I’ll stay in touch with him - maybe he knows a single guy I’d like. . . :wink:

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Still no knee movement. I’ll be staying home from work and hobbling around reading trashy books. I should start The Idiot or re-read The Seven Story Mountain. I don’t think I have any trashy books around right now.
Time for tea.

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I’m tired. This past week, getting out of bed has been a chore. Dunno why. I’m not sleeping any less than usual. Today is more work on the computer code, which is better than going outside. Tonight I get to go to a restaurant the name of which is spanish for House of Meat or something. I plan on eating some stuff beforehand, getting the salad bar when I’m there, and ordering dessert. :smiley:

Mika, the new place looks fantastic. You’ve definitely found yourself a winner there. Why are the stairs taupe?

VBob, why are there so many feral cats around the new VunderLair?

Lissla, sorry about your knee. Limited mobility sucks logs. Hope it gets better soon.

Oh, I have a pun around here somewhere … just a sec … rummages through bag … where is it … ah, here it is:

For those keeping score, I have not heard back from my cousins. Considering that I would have to go see them tomorrow or not at all, it looks like it ain’t gonna happen. Oh well.

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I’m pretty sure they’re Sylvester’s harem or offspring. With a side helping of being attracted by Sylvester’s food…

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Mika posted here at 8:30 a.m.??? Unheard of. ::faints::

I decided it was smarter to stay home today than do a re-run of yesterday where I felt OK on the way in and by 9:30 or so had recognized that I shouldn’t be there. Sleep helped some, but I’m still coughing and now running a little bit of a fever. I’m lolling, then gonna do a bit more work (did a bit of coordination earlier), nap, water plants (it’s supposed to rain this afternoon, but there are several that look like they need water now).

Hope the leg is OK, LiLi.

No cheating on the pics, Meeks. We wanna see all the rooms! Just a bathroom, indeed! Nice place, though.

Of course it’s not a sin to start in on the MMP on Wednesday, kai. It’d be a lot quieter around here if that was the case. And not nearly as interesting.

Your WTF observations are just that, Bobbio. Gotta wonder about people sometimes.

Sounds like you have a rather varied job swampy. I don’t get into retail in mine, but one of the reasons I like it is that we cover a lot of ground and deal with lots of different aspects of our agency’s responsibilities.

Taters, I can relate to the sock thing, even though there’s only one of me. I’ve taken to buying multiple sets of socks so that I don’t have to worry about them matching up.

There was more, but I need to go out and water before it gets awful out. It’s supposed to get to the high 80s (better than yesterday, but still) today.

Back later.

GT

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Honestly, they look brown. the stairs that is. But when Lissla said that, I looked at them again, they are indeed a slightly off shade of brown.

I’m not sure why they’re taupe. I don’t mind, they’re just stairs.

The downstairs bathroom is a half bath, and it has the cutest, tiniest, little sink I’ve ever seen in my life.
I am supposed to be here at 8:30, gt. I usually am here by 8:35 or so. I am not usually awake, though.