I’m baaaaa-ack! Now to go sniffing around the MMP, back arched, jumping at imaginary stuff. Maybe I’ll hide under the sofa and watch the proceedings until I get the hang of it all again.
Oh how I’ve missed all y’all!
Ashes[sup]2[/sup], how I’ve missed you! 
Hell, I was even in Sandy Yeggo this spring, and was thinking about a mini-Dopefest, if only you were around here to contact.
Wow! **Ashes!Ashes! ** It has been an incredibly long time! I hope you’re doing well.
Work was indeed irksome. 'Nuf said about that.
Mmmmmm, pieroges! I love those. We are having pizza at hubby’s request. It should be here any time now.
I’m glad the sale is going through, ems!
That’s quite the fish mystery you got going on, FCM.
I read, but didn’t retain it all. Hugs, smooches and gropes and wanted or needed.
:zzzbap bap: goes a paw from under the sofa. Oh wait, it’s a Let’s Play goose. In that case, c’mere and lemme sniff yer butt. Ah, what a delish bouquet yer rear has!
A Dopefest would have been an og-send, just about any time the past few years, that’s for sure.
::waves enthusiastically at Ashes[sup]2[/sup]::
so I saw the footdoc today - he wants me to avoid footwear for another week. I’ll post a pic in the a.m. I have a “tetonic plate shift” in my toe.
Man alive, this Spanish stuff is hard. I may have to take Nava up on her offer. But then, I’ll be so tempted to lick her verbs… oh, well. I’ll be glad when this test is over.
Made lasagna for dinner. Was great, as always.
Need to study. Would rather do the Dope. 
Well thanks fiat. You’ve reminded me that I have a quiz tomorrow. Ugh. I have 22 hours to figure out the preterite tense. And here I was all proud of myself for doing my Nutrition homework.
: waves at ashes[sup]2[/sup] :
{{{{rosie}}}} : avoids stepping on foot :
Yah for houses selling!
Swampy, I love Ag Fairs. Much more fun than the crappy expensive “carnival” which is all Columbus gets anymore. I did get to see the Tennessee State Fair with Tennessee Friend.
This week is crammed-with-hockey week; after this it slows down to mostly one or two games/events per week. I am so glad hockey season is here! *does little happy dance, carefully dodging The Burned One’s paws.
Did I mention I am in charge of making picture buttons for the booster club to sell? I get to take pics, get them printed, cut them into 3 inch circles and somehow (with a machine I haven’t seen yet) turn them into buttons. Oh joy. The fun part is I got an all-access press pass, so I can take pics from different spots around the arena.
I need sleep. G’night, ya’ll.
What’s tripping you up about the preterite tense? I might be able to help, or make it worse. Your choice!
Everything! 
Actually, I just have a hard time remembering the endings.
Then break out the flash cards, babykins! Also, go around narrating your life in Spanish, using the pretorite. Be juvenile to up the fun: Ellos comieron moscas, pero nosotros comimos pantuflas bien asquerosos.
Take heart in knowing that -asteis and -isteis will almost never, ever be needed.
Deadline is over, we can finally close the books on 2010. It’s now officially 2011. Happy New Year? We staggered through, but we made it.
Tisiphone had to go back to the vet this morning for an x-ray. They didn’t find anything on the x-ray, but there is clearly **something **going on, so she’s getting an ultrasound on Wednesday.
Well, the crust helps, but you also grab it with both hands and eat it over a plate so any stuff that drops off can be returned to its proper place.
Gratz on the short sell, mmmmmmmmmmm
Congo and Bert, if you wanna practice your written Spanish, my mail is in my profile.
Preterite, maño, and there’s more than one. The one you used is pretérito imperfecto del indicativo.
Had a 20 min phone interview for the job(s), the interviewer wants to meet me in person. Since I’m going to BCN on the 1st for The Youngster’s 98th birthday, I’m going to ask to have the 2nd off so I can meet the interviewer.
With my hair flat, I look like a brunetter* version of Middlebro. With it sort of ruffled up, like Mom’s sister.
- is too a word
Yes indeedy Nava, Pretorites are meteorite-like people from Pretoria, well known for their willingness to fly in from South Africa and help folks practice Spanish verbs. Pays less than bodyguarding, but not so dangerous.
I’m on my sixth cup of coffee. It doesn’t show, does it? Here’s hoping I don’t have to cancel my dentist’s appointment due to excessive wall caromming.
If congodwarf a.k.a. shortdrum was a realtor, would she specialize in short sales?
Congrats on the house, ems!
And rosie I hope your toe shifts back to good health soon!
Bri2k
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ grudgingly. YAWN 'Tis 59 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 79 and rain/tstorms all over the place this afternoon. Perfect time to be at an Ag Fair. :rolleyes:
Ashes[sup]2[/sup]!!! How the heck ya been!
Snakes I like ag fairs too and this one is chock full of farmy type stuff. However, what this has to do with Medicare is way over my haid. Thus, the prediction of a day of thumb twiddlin’. I just have to remember it all pays the same.
And now this…
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HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY DEEEAAARRR BBBRRRIIICCCKKK!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
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For whatever I missed, yays, boos, hugs, noogies, trouts, chitlins, wedgies, how you doin’s as needed. I has blurf.
I need more caffiene and then, alas, I need to irk purtify. We’ll be grabbin’ a bizkit on the way out of town this mornin’ cause we (co-irker and I) decided we would.
Happy Tuesday Y’all!
I totally missed out on the double-MMP goodness yesterday! Well, to be fair, I read stuff but didn’t post because I was too busy chasing up some idiot woman at an employment agency that I need to fix a meeting with. Just because I’m doing something unconventional, she’s getting her knickers in a twist over it and hadn’t returned any of my calls/emails until this morning when she grudgingly left a voicemail on my phone…and now she’s out of the office until 11am. Hmm…that’s just the time of day I have to go to the jobcentre and explain to them why I’m still a workshy layabout.
Hopefully I will be able to meet with agency woman today and then I will be back in a job, albeit a temporary one, at the uni in the building I started in three years ago with a bunch of tremendously lovely people.
mmmmms, congrats on the house but boo! to being naughty with the knee!
rosie - is there a toe update today?
Happy birthday, Brick!
Up, caffeinated, off to irk all day.
Yay! It’s A[sup]2[/sup]! We’ve missed you! ¿Qué tal, chica?
I’m up and off to get ready for irk. Woot.
Hugs all.
GT