Dairy Wars - A Milky Morning Post

I could post a pic of me in my swarthiness inducing sunglasses but it might cause major bouts of [del]nausea[/del] swooning, so I don’t know…

EC an “I don’t want to stop lobbing my cars at the television set” tantrum sounds like it’d be fun to throw. Not so much fun to watch, I imagine, but it does sound like fun.

Bobbio around here at cotton pickin’ and ginnin’ time, there’s little bits o’ cotton all over the road sides. We call it “south Jawja snow.” That’ll be happening late September to early October. That’s how we know it’s Fall.

The good news is, I figured out what to do with the mopheads. The bad news is, we don’t have enough inventory for the order and won’t for three more days. The better news is it ain’t a rush order so if’n it ain’t shipped til next week it’s no biggie. The worse news is, with my luck, I’ll be gettin’ a ton o’ other orders. I don’t like mopheads. BOO mopheads!

Hee. Mophead sounds like a good insult for annoyingly stupid people. For example: “Man, I had to go to the DMV yesterday. What a bunch of mopheads.” I expect this will become the new craze in insults. :cool:

So, I was going to try to visit my cousins in Jacksonville. And this was going to be made easier by my host family driving to Daytona this weekend, meaning they could drop me off with my relatives on the way. However, their trip to Daytona hinged on the grandmother leaving her husband in temporary care (he’s not an invalid, but he needs someone to take care of him), and I was told last night she refuses to do this. So my transportation fell through. This weekend is my last shot at visiting them, since I go back to Jersey the following weekend. I guess I could look into a bus, but there’s complications there regarding travel times, since my relatives are Orthodox Jews, they wouldn’t be able to come get me after Shabbos starts on Friday night. Oy.

I hate to be the bearer of bad omens about bad ovens, but…

Our oven wears the Kenmore name, but it’s really made by Frigidaire, which is really made by Electrolux. You might think they just made vacuum cleaners, but they’re the European counterpart to Whirlpool - a ginormous international conglomerate of applicance manufacturing with a dozen or so brands.

Our oven decided it would spontaneously stop baking whenever it thought the food was cooked, and whether or not we’d set the timer. Actually, “stop baking” is too mild. The oven would crash and the entire display blanked out. It’s the first oven I ever had to reboot. The repair guy said we were very fortunate to have had the home-buyer’s insurance on the appliances as the main controller board was failing, and as a repair part, it cost more than it would to replace the oven.

Good that the repair was free for us, but if the part’s more expensive than the whole unit, why couldn’t they just swap in a new oven and be done in ten minutes, rather than dismantling it and having oven parts neatly arrayed all around the kitchen for the better part of an hour? :confused:

All of that to say - don’t be surprised if you wind up buying a new oven sooner than planned.
On the home front - what’s the point of involuntarily paying for unemployment insurance all your life if you can’t get it? The state sent a determination on DH’s unemployment, and because he “annoyed a co-worker” he’s ineligible. Annoyed a co-worker? I’ve met the person in question and they deserved more than mere annoying. He’d probably have gotten better treatment if he embezzled from the coffee kitty.

it was - it was my own fault for not reading the whole page when I looked at his profile - I’m not used to the MySpace set up

reboot an oven ?! yikes ! i hope i can keep my simple one with knobs …

If that blows your mind, Pixisis, chew on this: gotti’s oven has more computing power in it than the Apollo spacecraft that sent men to the moon.

Happy belated Birthday, Bobbio!!!
Sorry I’m late, I’ve been…away.
(I said happy birthday to Swampy elsewhere, lest y’all think I’m snubbing him)

I don’t get criticized for not sticking to The List that much. Wifey has given up on that as a lost cause. Mostly she doesn’t care too much what I buy as long as I cook it. Last night we had curried chicken fingers, corn on the cob, and a broccoli-cauliflower salad. It was yummy. Well, the corn coulda been better, but with corn on the cob, sometimes ya just get what ya gets, ya know?

I had more, but I forgot.

forgot about Stop n’ Shop…but as to the rest–where’re you-all from? (need uh-oh looking smiley here).

I am back and with only $130 worth of damage. I am [del]drooling[/del]looking over the Ikea catalogue right now. Some stuff I’m meh about, but most of it-- :eek: my bank account!

help me decide something: should I wallpaper today or clean and organize the laundry room?

Such a dilemma over here. Perhaps I’ll take a nap instead.

Oh–and here is great marriage advice-if your marriage is strained, have the female portion of it go away for 10 days. NOT the male portion–the female. Does wonders, lemme tell ya.

:: sits heavily and holds spinning head in hands ::

Good morning all, I’m here. Yesterday I I accomplished some things around the house, but then I was interrrupted because we went boating again.

Rosie, that really sucks. I have to add I’m certainly ewwwed out by this guy. What, does he think he’s in some bad french movie, where the men are always married and have mistresses?

Yay for gotti’s DH and getting a job! That is indeed good news. On the unemployment thing…you actually received a letter that said he was ineligible for it because he “annoyed a co-worker”? :eek: :frowning: With those actual words?! What a crock of shitf! :mad:

SCL, I really hope your oven decides to behave, but it’s sounding sort of grim.

All these oven stories are scaring me. I went and checked what brand my stove/oven is. Mine’s GE, with knobs for the burners, but touch pad controls for the oven. So far, it’s been alright. On the other hand, it’s only three years old.

Spats, I hope the logistics for the visit with your relatives work out.

On to the The List. My hubby rarely goes shopping by himself. In our early years together, I’d give him a list and he’d return with stuff that was not on the list, and stuff that was on the list, but much different brands.

Lately, he’ll go by himself (this is a very rare occasion), if he’s cooking something special for dinner and wants to surprise me. He LOVES, LOVES, LOVES, going to the butcher shop.

However, it’s when we go shopping together, especially at Costco, that we run into RED ALERT, RED ALERT spending. I’ll admit right here and now, that I like to try new things. I also don’t do the coupon thing. I used to, but I quit. Finally, I’ll admit that I don’t always shop for bargains when it comes to food. I like what I like, I can afford it, and I’m going to buy it.

With all that being said, going shopping with Mr. Taters is scary. I can count on my tab being doubled or doubled and a half, what I spend on my own.

I was going to make that pork tenderloin roast last night, but we returned from boating far too late. We stopped at KFC and got those gut-buster bowls instead.

Finally, welcome to our newbies. You must remember to send your requisite love offerings of chocolate to Fairy Chat Mom.

Pssssstttttt…If you want to send some chocolate to the rest of us, that’s okay, just don’t let FCM know.

rosie, did you kick the jerk really really hard? You should have. If you didn’t, I volunteer gladly.

20F is bitterly cold?! 20F is balmy! It’s great! There’s snow, and it’s all pretty! You can have your coat open!

Time for breakfast. I just finished Oracle’s Queen. It was good. I am hiding from the sun, inside, in front of the air conditioner.

you know what ups the ick factor? a quote from his last message (before I cancelled)

(non relevant text omitted)

EWWWWWW ICK Rosie! That’s just creepy. ICK! ICK! ICK!

Spats I’m sorry the trip to see the 'tives didn’t work out. It’s still quite a ride from PC to Jax. Doing it on the Greyhound sounds like it’d be horrible. Ok, I know it’s all I10, but still, it’s a ways. And boooooorrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiinnnnnnnnng!!! I10 is really, really boring.

And who you callin’ a mophead?! :stuck_out_tongue:

anyrose --kay, that guy’s stuff squiked me out. Bad. What an asshat and a half.

Blech.

The best part is I still can’t seem to get my cousins on the phone. I called their house Thursday night, and left a message. No response. Today, my mother sent me a text message telling me to call his cell phone. I did - and again had to leave a message. So, yeah.

The married guy rosie was talking to. He’s a huge mophead. :stuck_out_tongue:

You mean that clod has 3 cheeks?
:stuck_out_tongue:

When Lil Lestat[sup]TM[/sup] was in middle school he had that do where the sides of the head are shaved and the hair on top is really long. He was giving me some sort of teasing guff one day when I came back at him with “Okay, mop boy…” I don’t think he’s forgiven me yet. :smiley:

rosie, that shite sounds like he copied it offa some cheesey romance book. Bleh! :stuck_out_tongue: You should let him know he “ain’t all that.”

ain’t it grand to know that MMP’ers believe in real love (or at least real reomance)?

Four assed monkey!

HUMPH!

Hey, guys, I have a $10 free card for pokerroom.com. I don’t play poker, and don’t intend to start online poker. So this card is up for grabs. I thought I’d offer it to the MMPers first and then the general Dope. Anyone? Post here and then e-mail me your info at elenia25@gmail.com.

It is hot out there…like soup. Wouldn’t mind it if I was wearing shorts!

Rosie, maybe we should fix up Mr. “I Want A Mistress” with my whacko cyberstalker. They’d both get what they want, and we’d be left alone…