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This would make a lovely cross stitch sampler.:smiley:

Howdy Y’all! Home. Supper Et. Tahred. Pronounless.

Spaz forgot to say this earlier, glad sis is ok. Yikes! :eek:

I have corned beef bubblin’ away in a dutch oven atop le stove. MMMMMMM… also I have cabbage, N.O.T. and N.O.C. all peeled and chunked up and ready to dump into the corned beef bubblin’ away shortly. It’s one month shy of St. Patrick’s Day but I got me a hankerin’ for some corned beef and cabbage. YUM! So, I figure get it all cooked tonight and have it for dindin tomorrow.

Speakin’ of St. Patrick’s Day, my church, St. Patrick’s (big surprise!) will have it’s annual SPD dindin on March 14th, bein’ as that is the closest Sattidy to the actual thing. I get all psyched about it. I love cookin’ all day to get ready for it. Plus, there’s green beer that must be sampled by the cooks prior to servin’ to other parishoners. It’s a sacrifice me make to ensure it is of suitable quality. We’re all thoughtful like that.

Ok, need to check on the corned beast and do other stuff.

Later Y’all!

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I, too, forgot to send good wishes out to SpazSis. So glad she’s OK.

I’ll e-mail you my address in a bit, FCM.

I like that as a cross-stitch sampler as well. I suppose I could embroider it onto something I’ve knit, too… :smiley:

Nat is adorable. He looks so proud of himself striding along.

I’m tired today, probably from staying up too late last night. Although it wasn’t THAT late. My horoscope today said I should get more sleep if I can. Clearly, it’s acquainted with me (and with the average American, but we’ll pretend it’s speaking to me personally).

Dinner was Chunky Soup (Sirloin Burger) over noodles. Yes, I am lazy.

Should have something else, but I’m not sure what yet.

Back later.

GT

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Belated first on page three! WOOT!

Da cave smells soooooo good! In about an hour it’ll all be done. It’s makin’ me hongry even though I et supper already.

Just thought I’d report on the corned beef progress.

Carry on.

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Woo, Hoo, & Yay!!!

Wow, he’s upright already? That seemed quick.

Oh, hell yeah!!! Add another double thumbs up from Lawn Guylandt.

actually, that sounds tasty.

OK - home, tired, mostly caught up (close enough for jazz) about to crash for the night.

Laterz

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Long long day and I have another two hours before I’m off work. I did a lot of work on my thesis this afternoon. I’d be typing it up right now but I left my flash drive at home and the copy saved on my school drive isn’t the most updated version. :smack: It’s all good, I’m too tired and sore to really care right now.

Here’s a box of appropriate emotions. Distribute as needed.

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You all seem content with your lives. It’s nice to read on a Tuesday evening.

I am full of grrr at TH, but that’s old news. I’m getting over it. Work (library) was nice today, except I was apprised of a certain political situation which seems potentially problematic for my future there. Oh, I’m staying, if they’ll have me; it’s just going to be not the cakewalk I imagined it would be. Is that obscure and twisted enough for you all? Good.

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How did I miss VBob’s news? CONGRATS!!!

Nat being upright? Cool. But I have a coworker whose son is nearly 8 months who is already on his feet holding onto things trying to walk. Seriously. As in, he props himself up with the sofa and goes sideways holding onto it. Yikes!

Hey, I have some Sirloin Burger soup on hand. I’ll have to try it on noodles. Or at least adding noodles to it. Sounds interesting.

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I sat on my butt all weekend, feeling totally sloth-like. Today was a flurry of running-ness.

My tummy is full of cheese ravioli.

What?, it’s supposed to be mundane, right?

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Good news: Girl Scout cookies are in. I’ll soon have my very own box of Samoas and Thin Mints.

Bad news: I was going to pick them up in person, but I have to go to a conference this Saturday. That means I can’t see the kids and I have to rely on Internet to see how Art Teacher Sister’s doing. (Sore, last I heard.)

Good news: I figured out 99% of the presentations I want to go to at the conference.

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Nat took his first steps when he was 10 1/2 months. He motors along cheerfully now. He still gives the toddler impression of being slightly drunk, and only accidentally not falling all the time. I’ll see if I can record him at full tilt sometime.

Cruising is fun, snowbunny. It’s more controllable than walking. :smiley: Until they start trying to climb. Eight months is about barely-starting-to-cruise time. I miss it.
rigs, sorry about the continuing grr at TH. :frowning: And the work politics.
I am re-reading Emily Climbs, by L. M. Montgomery, and Dean Priest is really damn creepy. I forget how damn creepy he is between re-reads. He’s got to be forty, deeply in love with a 13-year-old girl, and possessive, jealous, and creepy.

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Ugh! Home at last! Work today was pure suckitude. I am not a happy camper, but must hang on in the hopes that there will be improvement or that something better comes along.

I’m glad your sis is doing okay, Spaz. I hope she recovers quickly and I’m very glad things weren’t as serious as they could have been.

I’m sorry about the grrr at TH, rigs. Hang in there. I really hope the “politics” don’t bog you down at work. I don’t do politics well. I’m direct, and it’s not always appreciated.

Well, I should see about fixing chop-chop. My Daddy is on his way over. It’ll be nice to visit with him.

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Razzies on the bellybutton: some of the best times to be had with a toddler. That was about 19 years ago, too. :frowning:

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Thanks, guys. And please know that even if I don’t post it, I am reading and (trying) to keep up with everyone else’s issues/concerns/good news. I just don’t always remember to address the individual poster.

If Gnat gets any cuter, there needs to be a vaccine against him available. :slight_smile:

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Yes. Yes he is. Even when he takes his leave he’s creepy. I’ve always thought that he shows up twenty years later and peers in the windows to watch Emily and Teddy’s happy artistic life and leave letters under the door saying “You would have been happier with me.”

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Sirloin Burger Chunky Soup on noodles is an old comfort food from my good old poverty days. I’m not sure that the veggies count, because they’re mushy and overcooked, but it all tastes good together and is filling - and cheap.

Now I want chocolate.

It’s late and I should go crawl into bed. Gotta catch up on sleep; my horoscope said so.

Is it Firday yet?

GT

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Canes crushed at home again. : bangs head against desk :

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Gratz on still having a sister, Spaz :eek:

Those pics of Gnat are supermegacute, LiLi.

Next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, so this week is Carnavales. The Nephew will be Peter Pan (a gift someone gave them last year, but last year he had the clothes the Proud Uncle had brought from China) and the Niece Tinkerbelle, but I may not be able to see them in 3D due to travel times. I’ll try to extract pics from the Proud Parents.

Busy as hell work week. There’s a guy who’s supposed to explain something to me. I’ll call him Tadpole because he’s so slippery he reminds me of hunting for tadpoles and frogs in irrigation ditches… it’s eels who are traditionally used as a comparison for slipperiness, but the thing is, eels give you a shock when you grab them and this guy don’t give you nothin’. His information is like Wikipedia: it can be used as a starting point, but you absolutely have to check it and it can be terribly out of date.

So anyway, he’s supposed to explain something to me, and today’s plan includes grabbing him, saying “I know you’re now from the client and stuff (he’s a consultant who “hired in”) but I need you to explain this to me because otherwise I can’t do the work I need to do for you guys, and by the way I may not be here on Friday so it’s today or tomorrow and it better be today, just so I have time to process it and ask questions while I’m here, pretty please.” Would it be terribly unprofessional if, in case he can’t find the time today, I just stick to his ass tomorrow?

(Why miss Friday, may you ask? Cos there’s a yearly tax which my town-of-residence doesn’t appear to have charged me for and I may need to go there to pay it, I tried emailing to ask but their inbox is full so I have to phone and ask.)

Yesterday “only” involved about 3 hours total of explaining to Sheboss stuff I’ve already explained to Sheboss (some of it I explained several times) and of hearing “I don’t believe it.” Supermegaboss was nearby the whole time and the look on her face when hearing Sheboss whine “I don’t believe it” during the second bout of it was priceless. Sheboss believes anything a “superior” says, if Heboss or SMB said Santa isn’t the parents she’d somehow manage to believe it (with nagging doubts, but she’d silence them because “the boss said so and bosses are always right because they always have all the information except for me cos I don’t always have it but it’s my subordinates’ fault”); at the same time, if a subordinate tells Sheboss something can be done, her response is “:frowning: I don’t believe it” and if a subordinate says something can not be done, her response is “:frowning: I don’t believe it.” Le sigh. So far I’ve refrained from telling Sheboss that I find her lack of faith disturbing.

I read up on ESFJ (Mom and Sheboss), as I find those thingees kind’a useful as an “instructions manual,” sometimes they give me ideas.

ETA: isn’t crushing canes a necessary step for making sugar? (duck)

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Grrrr. Damn CSS anyway. Web design was so much easier when you were allowed to use tables. I’ve got another page more or less set up, but it looks funky in Internet Explorer (giant freaking surprise there. :rolleyes:) The rest of the pages should go easier since they use the same format. I’ll ask my teacher about it on Thursday. I still don’t know when this project is due.

Oh, and I got the assignment due on Monday done. Now I just have Photography.

With any luck I won’t have hardly anything to do at work tomorrow morning.

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Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ here. Need to get my hairy hiney in the shower soon and get to work. Le sigh. Oh well, it’s my Thursday, so there’s that.

It’s supposed to get stormy here this afternoon/evenin’. Weather report says strong storms, lots o’ lightnin’, heavy rains and even possible golf ball size hail. :eek: The really bad stuff is not supposed to be here until early evenin’ and I intend to be home with Big Red parked safely under shelter by that time.

Such is life.

Yays, boos, hugs, trouts, icks, yums, woohoos, awwwws and congrats. Distribute as needed.

Later y’all!

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Morning all - up and caffeinating here too … although no hairy heiny like Swampy - thank Og! :wink:

Gnat is growing into quite the handsome fellar, LiLi, congrats!

I’m not quite caffeinated enough yet, so more later. Rosie’s sig applies for me too, apparently! :smiley: