Family Get-Togethers - A Holiday-ish MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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When I was living in Georgia, I had a cat with me who was a native Californian, from the LA area. We got snow about every three years. I spent one afternoon while it was snowing sitting around drinking hot chocolate laughing at my poor confused kitty, who was going from window to window, wondering WTF that white stuff was!

I have to say, living somewhere they are prepared for snow does seem to make the whole thing easier (except for the school bus drivers maybe, MBG you really do have my sympathy) and I can’t remember seeing snow being regarded as a normal thing before, and not a cause for PANIC!!!. I prefer it this way. I also like having snowplows. This town has a ton of snowplows.

I think it’s safe to say that winter agrees with me. It seems odd it getting dark so early (barely after 5, now) but it doesn’t bother me. Today it got up to just over 40F, which is really weirdly unusually warm, and it felt weirdly too warm. I should have to at least zip up my jacket in December, for crying out loud!

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They should be afraid. And so should you, my pupil. VERY afraid.

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All in favor of Haze for teacher of the year say “Aye”. :smiley:

Yay snowbunny!!!

Ok, young man, you quit messin’ around on that message board and get back to work! Don’t give me that look! I said GET BUSY NOW!!!

I’m such a slave driver!

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The other two demons were boring. The first kind is just your run of the mill evil demon and the second was the one that drives people crazy. :rolleyes:

Ack, just got rejected from vampire interivew school. Ah well. I was depressed for a few minutes, but I’m sure there has to be another school in this city that will love me for who I am. :sniffle:

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Um… Hazel? Do you see any kind of problem with you posting disparaging remarks about a pupil who believes in the evil demons of cancer and then you whining that you didn’t get into vampire school? Hmmmm? No dichotomy there? No surreality?

Ok, just checking… (note to self: never be in dark room with HazelNUT without at least a turtleneck on…)

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Hey, the school wasn’t a vampire school. The school rejected me for the interview in which I revealed my secret desire to become a vampire! It’s discrimination!! (Not lack of experience. Nope.)

Besides, vampires are real. Cancer demons are not. QED. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Congrats, SnowBunny!

I’m tired.

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Israelis celebrate all the major holidays (those that are actual paid vacation days), and then some – like *Hanukkah *(it’s only a school holiday, not a work holiday), Purim, etc…

Most of the holidays (except for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur) are basically secular anyway, with a think veneer of religion over them, which we can choose to ignore. And even those two are developing a secular way of being celebrated (Yom Kippur – on which it is customary, even for secular people, not to drive – is now semi-officially “Bicycle Holiday” because all the kids make use of the deserted roads to ride around all day.)

Hanukkah, in particular, is a rather minor holiday, and would be even more minor if it weren’t for the fact that it’s a week-long school vacation. So the commercialization of *Hanukkah *pretty muich extends only as far as pushing special shows and movies and attractions for pre-K->6th children (who can’t really just be left at home alone.) No mass gift-giving or shopping sprees (although very lately some large malls have started making use of the fact that parents are there with their kids for a movie anyway, and the other stores there have started targeting them; but it’s still pretty minor.)

Hope this answers the question – if not, ask away some more :slight_smile:

**Snowbunny **-- Yay!! on the job.
**Haze **-- Boo :frowning: for not getting the Vampire Job. Maybe you should apply for a Demon Job instead?
Take consolation in the fact I’d be willing to let you bite me anytime :stuck_out_tongue: :wink:

Doggio… :eek: yet again.

Skimmed… Appropriate emotions to everyone else whose posts I didn’t even have time to read! And Happy Humpday :slight_smile:

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OMG, I’m so sorry Haze! LOL I had no idea it originated in one of your obligatory drunken posts; I thought Rosie had come up with it! Mea culpa!!

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Roads is checked, kids are going to school.

Me? I’m napping before I have to make it to work.

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Ah, so you’re the Grinch who steals children’s Snow Days?

:stuck_out_tongue:

:smiley:

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Haze, I’m not sure, but I think that you must be making those sentences up. Sorry about the vampire school.

Noone, thanks for the insight into Israel’s take on holidays.

We’ve got 2-3 inches of snow here today. And for some reason…

I’ve got flaming cheeks of fire! (on my face)

Since I woke up this morning my face has been itching and my cheeks are bright red. Don’t know why, but it may drive me crazy soon. But what I’m trying to figure out is which demon from Haze’s story I should blame. The second one that makes you crazy or the third one, maybe it is the spirit of heat rash?

Ok, guess I need to go get dressed and dig out my car.

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She’ll sic demon #2 on you for that.

Vertical, caffeinated, and off to work. I hope to avoid accidents.

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I like Anne Lamott very much, too, and I’ve put Operating Instructions on hold at the library. I would have ordered it through work, but it looks like it’s out of print.
Yay, Alice!

Drat, Haze. I’m sure you’ll find another, even better job, where they appreciate vampires.

Pie, if you’ve pissed off the Demon of Heat Rash, I’d try to placate it somehow. It’s a nasty demon. :smiley:
Why am I awake? When can I go back to bed?

Oh, two things- one, I think Mr. Lissar is more excited by the baby clothes than I am. He got all giggly and adorable while we were sorting them. Two- it looks like his work doesn’t have flexibility regarding leave time (because it’s really easy to predict exactly when you’re going to have a baby :rolleyes: ) so he’ll probably schedule a month instead of two or three weeks off. It would suck to have him take Jan. 8-20 off, and give birth on the 18th, or something.

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I am exactly that Grinch. I get to go out and scout roads, then make a few phone calls: Snow plow people, local cops and one or two neighboring school districts. Then a couple of the bosses and I decide. But me being the only one that’s actually been outside, I carry more weight.

The little brats ought to be in school anyway!

Keeps 'em off my lawn

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Good morning, everyone!

Yay for Snowbunny! Boo for Haze. You’ll find something better, I’m sure. Stoopit vampire-haters…

All you poor people with your snow - scouting roads, digging out cars… Yuk! It’s gonna be 74° today! I lahks the South… :smiley:

Ok, I need some sympathy. Yesterday they laid off a guy at my husband’s work, and now Mr Rebo has to work nights. Boo! He’ll be working approximately 2:30 to 10:30, starting today. I’ll never see him! Wah! He says it will give him time to find another job closer to home, which is a good thing, but in the meantime - this sucks!

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Morning, all. The stupid dog whined and whimpered and yelped outside my bedroom door when it was barely light outside till I gave up and got up. So now what’s he doing? Snoring behind me. :frowning: Stoopid dog, thinks he’s scared of a weather front.

But the nice thing about getting up early? When I looked outside, it was SNOWING! Yay, snow! We’re supposed to get 1-3 inches; we’re kind of on the edge of the actual accumulation area, so we shall see. In the meantime, though, we have white stuff falling from the sky! Yay!

And, amazingly enough, the only schools around the DC area actually closed are those where there’s lots of twisty turny mountain roads and it might actually be risky for school buses. We have never, ever forgotten the year Young Tiger, who was attending a high school in Montgomery County, Merryland, was given a snow day based on a prediction of snow – but not a single flake fell from the sky! That was a real popular one amongst the parents, as you can imagine. :rolleyes:

Yay, snowbunny! I looked online, though – whatever other employee benefits you get, they probably won’t give you a free season lift pass; they start at just under $2,000! :eek:

Boo, Haze! Sorry the vampire school didn’t hire you. What’s wrong with them, they didn’t want a teacher with blood dripping off her fangs? :dubious: :smiley: Love the sentences, though! Please keep sharing them, laughing at students’ idiocies is one of the joys of life!

Yay, Rigs! Getting through a presentation is always cause for celebration. Especially when it’s with an intimidating teacher. Yay for not being (too) intimidated!

And yay for Mr. Lissar getting all excited over baby clothes! It’s so fun to see men getting all goo-goo over babies. I hope tinyninjachef times his arrival appropriately. Although, if he follows the tendency of most other babies, he’ll probably arrive at the single most inconvenient time imaginable. (snowbunny timed her arrival for an influx of tornadoes, as an example; we were driving to the hospital with tornado sirens going off all around us. :rolleyes: )

Back to absorbing more caffeine and contemplating the SNOW! falling outside. :smiley:

ETA: Sorry about Mr. Rebo’s new schedule. Involuntary assignment to night shift sucks. :frowning:

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:cool:

I just got the invite to the Christmas party for my old cohorts at NASA. I miss those guys, but not the job.

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::yaaAAAaawn::

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Didn’t wanna get out of bed. It’s cold out there. -15C/5°F with the wind chill. A good day to sit at home, drink coffee or tea or hot chocolate or flaming Sambuca…

Work has been hectic. Bad weather is good business but sad Mindfield. Why can’t snow be warm? I’d love warm snow. If I could invent it, I’d be famous and make billions. (Fake stuff doesn’t count. Someone already invented that, but does anyone know who? Is he in the Fortune 500? Noooooo.)

ReBo - Do me a favour? Stand outside and fan your arms in a northerly direction, up towards the Great Lakes. Some wiseass way up north has been doing that to the south and now we’re frozen solid. We need to retaliate.

Sorry to hear about hubby though. But at least he won’t have to take time off work to attend interviews – that’s actually a pretty handy benefit, and I wish I had that luxury when I was looking to change jobs. I hated taking time off work on the sly to go to interviews.

One Who Brings Pie - Cheeks of Fire? I think I remember that one from way back. Starred Sir John Feelgood, I believe.

Hank - Hehehe. Hehehe! “Foul demon of heart disease, I command you to LEEEEEAVE this body! Exorcizo te, omnis spiritus immunde, in nomine Dei!” You know, if you keep working there long enough you’ll be able to rival vivalostwages in his assessment essay gems. :slight_smile:

Snowbunny - Congrats on the job! It’s always a great feeling landing one. :slight_smile:

Shadow - Congrats on the graduation, too. The only John Denver I can stand is his (lukewarm) performance in the movie Oh, God!.

BusGuy - Us winter-haters need to band together. There are too many people around here that have an unhealthy fondness for the season and all the crap it dumps.

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BBBobbio I think you should show off your nuts at that Christmas party.

Haze, don’t vampires usually teach night school?

Up and caffienatin’ here. I got almost everything done last night. I saved some stuff to finish up at the place this mornin’ cause I ain’t got much else to do before we give the infamous “exit interview”.

Then tonight I get to meet Shadow! YAAAAAAAAY!!!