And I sat here and thought, are they going to eat the ice cream with the screwdriver?
I’m great fun at parties!
Common household tools notwithstanding, I had the ice cream and will have the screwdriver later. I cleaned out part of a closet. I have no idea why I am so ambitious today, but I hope it wears off soon.
I have a new signature line!
Hello. Monday again. I went to the doctor today, had some shortness of breath and chest tightness. The verdict? Dunno. At least if I go out sick, someone else gets to work triple shifts till I get back.
Meeks, cool pics. I went to the N.C. Zoo when I was ten. I think I had a good time. Blue Man Group was an answer on Jeopardy today.
FCM, I hate cat hornk. Lucretia eats Milk Bones, but they don’t make her sick.
Nava, I’ll take a slice of cheesecake. mmmmmm…
gotti, there is a guy at Canes games who wears a kilt.
bobbio, Loki is a great name. Next you could get a pair of Chihuahuas and name them Juan…and Two.
MBG, I’m having a Sam’s Oktoberfest right now.
SCL, interesting sig.
Any yet again I start a thread in Cafe Society that drops like an anvil…I’ll take pity posts at this point…
I, too, wondered about the common hand tool and what it had to do with ice cream. I pictured SCL prying the ice cream out of the carton. Probably due to the part where I’m really not a mixed drinks kinda person.
Loki is a very cute puppy dog. So is Maddy, for that matter.
Sounds like everyone’s had a productive day. Me too.
I’m on the third load of laundry today (one before work, two since I got back). Got my hair cut. Put together FCM’s french toast casserole this morning and it’s currently in the “let it cool for 5 minutes phase.” Smells yummy.
I worked 9-5 without a break for lunch (ate while I worked) and still have more to do tonight, but I’m currently taking a break. I am living for our implementation. Hoping to take a few days off just after. I’m guessing I’ll accumulate enough comp time to cover it all…
Off to check on the French toast casserole…
GT
Cool question, rigs. I’ll let you know when I get back to reading HP. I don’t think there are many hints about what you’re looking for, but it’ll be fun to read with economic structure in mind (yes, I am weird, why do you ask?).
I’ve eaten yummy casserole. Thanks for the recipe, FCM.
Now it’s time to get back to work; I’ll talk about zoo stuff tomorrow.
GT
Thanks, GT - I appreciate your interest. These are the kinds of questions that haunt me late at night.
I am very wrapped up in Harry at present. I think it’s a comfort zone with everything else going on. Sadly, I am on book 5 and closing in on 6-I’ll have to find another 'fun" book soon.
The daughter came home from school and I had to take her and her psychology project partner over someplace for a survey they’re doing. After I dropped them off, I ran to Safeway and picked up a few groceries. I also picked up ice cream.
Once I hear from my daughter, I’ll start dinner. Dinner will be a baked salmon fillet, garden rice pilaf, and some sort of some vegetable. Maybe some sweet white corn.
My son needs to go to my neighbor’s house and babysit their kids for a short while. It seems they’re little dog escaped the yard on Friday and got ran over. She’s going to lose her leg, poor thing. Anyway, they need to go to the vet and learn after care instructions and what not.
I wondered why I hadn’t heard her yapping in the last few days. Frankly, she’s an annoying little dog. She doesn’t listen…AT ALL. She’s constantly running off and won’t come when she’s called. She barks constantly, and they leave her in the yard all day. So, if we happen to go outside in our yard, or I’m home sick, it’s constant yap-yap-yap-yap-yap for hours on end.
All the same, I feel bad she was hurt. I wouldn’t wish that on any animal.
Oh, I forgot to mention that some of you lead very sheltered lives! A screwdriver is a common “well” drink.
Yeah, I know, some of you think I’m a big lush, but really I’m not. I’ve currently got Jaegermeister (yuck), vodka, spiced rum, and several bottles of wine out in the kitchen. I have yet to touch any of it. You just gotta feel like a drinkie-poo. I rarely drink anymore. The hubby likes his beer, but I can take it or leave it.
I’m trying to decide if my treat tonight will a root beer float, a bowl of vanilla ice cream, or a bowl of chocolate ice cream. Choices, choices, choices…
I’m not an everyday drinker, either - and I haven’t had a vodka and orange juice in ages. I just felt like having one. So I am now trying to keep the cats from sampling it while I type.
::swats at cat::
Sugar Magnolia was a bit of a lush when we lived in the other house and she had access to Mr. SCL’s beer. She would lick the top of the can when he wasn’t looking, and knock it over if he left it unattended. She is very interested in my screwdriver.
I like Mimosas, but not screwdrivers.
I have 2 bottles of white wine in my fridge at present. I had one glass of each a while back and there they sit.
I am so exciting…
I like the look on Sugar Magnolia’s face: “If I had an anvil, she’d be soooo unconscious!”
My computer will run Sims 2, so that’s where I’ve been since Friday. I think I like creating families and building and furnishing the houses more than I like actually playing the game. Now, when I dream, everybody has little plumbobs over their heads. 
I do not have sleep apnea, so we can cross that off the list. I felt ok today until about 2, so I came home early. I was going to leave no later than 2:20, so I didn’t get out of there until 4. I dropped my laundry off at the fluff and fold. $40! But well worth it, IMO. It would have taken me over 3 hours to do all of it, and about $15 in quarters, plus I would have had to buy a chai and a blueberry scone (is there anything yummier than a hot scone, fresh out of the oven?), so $40 to drop off and pick up the next day isn’t all that bad, actually.
I submitted requests for maid service today. I have one estimate back, $160 for the initial and $160/month for bi-weekly. That seems a little high to me, but what do I know?
I feel guilty paying someone else to do housekeeping type chores, but 1) I would like a clean house, 2) I hate housework, and 3) I pay people to wash my car and change the oil, both of which I could do myself, but don’t want to. So, once my house gets respectable, I will post before and after pictures for your amusement, since the Cool Kids are [del]nosy[/del] caring like that.
Today is, more or less, the ninth anniversary of my father’s suicide and I didn’t even realize it until mid-morning today. He’s still dead, and I’m still glad. You were not a good person if people wake up years after your death with screaming nightmares that you are still alive.
My mom’s cats, Cuervo, Anejo, Cabo and Wabo love margaritas. Other booze they don’t care about, but they looooovvvvvve tequila. Yeah, the cats aren’t the only ones in that house that like tequila.
A neighborhood cat nearly got smushed today in front of me. His buddy strolled across the street to be petted, and he got jealous and started running into the street to get petted to, right in front of an oncoming car. I swear, that cat teleported from under the car’s front wheel. He looks like **MBG’s ** Cuervo, but is still a teenager. Buster, his buddy is a HUGE Manx with a stubby tail that he wags like a dog when you pet him. If you scritch his butt, he has to frantically bite his left front paw and sometimes he doesn’t stop biting after you’ve stopped scritching. It’s hilarious.
My neighbors, not the across the street loonies, but the ones on the other side of me, had a nasty fight tonight. Two guys, one who owed the other money, but didn’t have it, so the first guy took it out in, ah, flesh. Beat the shit out of him. Beat up guy stormed to his truck and shook for a bit, then an older man comes out to start yelling at him for wasting money, “You have a family, a kid, now, you promised you’d stop wasting money, you owe everybody money” etc. All in all, quite a day.
Training night for the Mayberry VFD was interesting. I sucked and blew 11,000 gallons…
I drew tanker duty…
Actually, it’s the main reason I’m terrified of having kids. If it had been one generation, ok, I might have been able to close my eyes and pray hard that I didn’t do the same… but two generations? I wouldn’t want to treat an enemy like that!
It will take a man with great skill at hypnosis to get me married and in the family way 
Morning y’all! The right side of my face is swollen. What did that dental hygienist do to me! It’s not all that bad but it’s sore. Ima call the dentist when they open and tell 'em. He’ll take a look at it and prescribe antibiotics I bet. Anyways, I got to get this swelling down. I can’t go off to Ioway next week with a swollen face. That would be tacky.
Off to ingest more caffiene, read the paper and shower.
I’m up, certain parties wished to use the facilities at 0500. Maybe I can nap later, before work.
Pooooooooor DB! I hope you get a nap before work!
Pooooooooor Swampy! Tell the dentist to give you pain drugs, too! Mean old dental hygienist!
Whhhhhhhhhhy am I up at 6 am when I was making clay beads at 2 am? I made some really cool ones, tho.
I am going back to bed. Later, ya’ll.
The thing is it’s just sore. Sore I can deal with. Puffed up face I can’t. It’s happened to me before. I have really sensitive teeth and sometimes I get swelling like this after a cleaning. I’ll call the dentist, go in, he’ll look at me and give me antibiotics like always. In a couple-three days I’ll be good as new again. In the meantime, I look kinda like I got socked in the jaw.
FedEx is messin’ with my head! GRRRRR… I get this email from FedEx about a delivery exception carryin’ on abut a local delivery restriction and a delivery had been attempted. It’s to a prison. So I get all panicky and call only to be told it’s on the truck for delivery today. :dubious: Don’t make me have to go smack somebody at FedEx! Especially since there are twenty cases of mopheads (the bane of my existence) goin’ out FedEx today. GRRRRRRRRR