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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Hello, hello MMP’ers!! Remember me? I had to rejoin the merry bunch, as I have been through Everyone In the Entire House is Sick. Oh lawsy mercy. Fortunately, everyone was at different stages on the actual day when EVERYONE was sick. But it’s hard being the mommy when you’ve got three sick kiddies, including your darling little infant, plus a sickie hubbie. At least he’s a good boy when he’s sick, just gratefully accepts the smoothies when I dole them out and sleeps most of the time.

But we’re all well now, and I’m back at work. Soon it’ll be time for yoga, then I will visit darling baby for his daily Nip from the Source.

And like FCM, I opened my eyes today with thoughts of Spring! This is the month when spring occurs! Typically, it’s snowing. Grr. But soon it’ll all be over!

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This one is from Nurse Debbie[sup]TM[/sup]:

A Doctor was addressing a large audience in Tampa. “The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. High fat diets can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water. But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have, or will, eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?” After several seconds of quiet, a 75-year-old man in the front row raised his hand, and softly said,

“Wedding Cake.”

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First:

WELCOME BACK ELLEN CHERRY!!!

Second:

Sean and Puggy:
BWAAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAA!!!
I’m through torturing…err… testing for the day. Got reports to get writ though.

I get to eat at the good Eye-talian place tonight. ACBG is treating me. He’s sweet like that sometimes. Wonder what he wants? :smiley:

It’s waaaaaaaaaaaay windy here. Sunny, clear, cool and windy. Gusts up to 35 MPH. I can hear the wind howling outside my office windows. I may join in the howling just for fun. Also, looks like I’m gonna win the office baby pool! New baby is on the way and today is the day I guessed. YAY ME!

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VunderWife wanted to eat good Eye-talian last night. We wound up at Olive Garden at her insistance instead… :smack:

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In reverse order:

Wife and I were watching a thing on FoodTV night before last about Tex-Mex so we made a date to go to Ixtapa (restaurant) tonight.

Hi Ellen <waves>

Ashes[sup]2[/sup], my little squash blossom, I’ve already made cucumber. I just sold a bar of it not 10 minutes ago in fact. I mentioned to Wife this morning that we needed to get an on-line merchant account going and she got this horrified look on her face and told me that “We have a whole lot of other things to do first.” We do have a PayPal account, but we haven’t used it for a while. I need to get some boxes from USPS and figure out shipping costs and stuff besides. It might be too expensive for people to want to do.

FCM, I just cut the cherry soap into bars this morning, it smells like cherry candy, and it’s the most beautiful pink color. :smiley:

An old man is laying in his deathbed, waiting for his time, when he is aroused from his dreaming by the smell of fresh cookies wafting up from the kitchen downstairs. For years his wife has been known as one of the premier bakers in the county, and for years he has enjoyed her bounty. Knowing that his departure is iminent, the old man worms his way to the edge of the bed and manages to stand up. With trembling legs he makes his way to the stairs and down, a quivering step at a time, to the kitchen door. Almost there! He hobbles painfully over to the table where the cookies, fresh from the oven, are cooling, and reaches out a trembling hand for one last heavenly morsel.
And his wife whacks his outstretched hand with a wooden spoon and says:
“Hands off! Those are for the funeral!”

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Hmmm…no snow here, although it finally rained yesterday. Today the sky is blue and the sun is shining. It was supposed to rain though.

I noticed yesterday that the Japanese flowering plum trees are already starting to bud and bloom. So, I guess spring is on the way.

I stayed home today, my tummy is giving me a bit of trouble. It started at work yesterday. Let’s just say I fought the lunch, and the lunch won. I thought I was feeling better, but it all started again this morning, so I figured I’d stay close to home.

Well, since I’m home, I guess I should actually try to accomplish something here.

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We had some heavy flurries this morning, but none of it stuck. I did hit several ice patches on the road when driving to work today. The police had some of the overpasses and bridges blocked or reduced down to a single lane to lessen the chance of accidents. Of course, there had to be some talented people that were able to have accidents in those areas anyway, one of them being a police car. You’ve just got to love Georgia weather and how people react to it.

-Belz

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A senior citizens’ group charters a bus from San Angelo, TX to Branson. As they entered Missouri, an elderly woman comes up to the driver and says, “I’ve just been molested!”

The driver felt that she had fallen asleep and had a dream. So he tells her to go back to her seat, and sit down.

A short time later, another old woman comes forward, and claims that she was just molested.

The driver thought he had a bus load of old wackos, but who would be molesting those old ladies?

About 10 minutes later, a third old lady comes up and says that she’d been molested too. The bus driver decides that he’d had enough, and pulls into the first rest area! . When he turns the lights on and stands up, he sees an old man on his hands and knees crawling in the aisles.

“Hey gramps, what are you doing down there?” says the bus driver.

“I lost my toupee. I thought I found it three times, but every time I grab it, it runs away…”

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OK, I just finished my taxes and I am not all that happy. While I was thrilled to get some of our house selling and buying expenses paid, I didn’t realize they’d be taxable - I just assumed they’d be a reimbursed expense. So anyway, it was enough to bump us into a significantly higher tax bracket. Even having claimed zero dependents and having an extra $50 biweekly withheld from my pay, we’ve still got to pay Uncle something over $900. That is partially offset by the $400 we’re getting back from Maryland, but it still sucks swampwater.

I have no problem paying my share. What irritates me is you have to know some kind of secret formula to make sure you have enough but not too much withheld. I don’t want a refund. I want to break even, which means paying or getting back less than $100. It shouldn’t be this difficult.

OK, that’s all. Not gonna turn this into a pitting. But Uncle is gonna wait till April 15 for me to write the check. That’ll learn 'em!

I need a hug. sigh

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Belz- Apparently too many of those Georgians have migrated north to Cincy, if it flurries here we get the same morons who act like they have never left their driveways in foul weather. Nevermind that we are in Ohio, and it snows every.Og.forsaken.winter.

In other news, young Mr. Striker has contracted his first serious cold, and it is all his fat little 6 month old self can handle. the boy sounds like Darth Vader half of the time because he cannot clear the congestion, then wails like a maimed cat for a while. Young Miss Striker has cleared her ear infection, and is currently on the way to Build a Bear to blow her allowance, because she does need another 25$ stuffed pelt (this will make 24).

Apparently we’re going homestyle for dinner tonight, pork loin, mashed taters, whatever veggies Mrs. Striker decides on. Not fancy, but fills the belly.

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An elderly couple, Stan and Mitzi, went to the doctor about their memory issues. He told them it was natural at their age, and they could help themselves by writing things down as reminders.

A couple of nights later, Stan got out of his recliner and asked Mitzi if he could get her anything while he was up.

“I’d like a bowl of vanilla ice cream,” she said.

“Okey-doke,” he replied, and headed for the kitchen.

“Hey, aren’t you going to write it down?”

“Calm down, woman,” he said. “I can remember a bowl of vanilla ice cream.”

“Would you mind putting some strawberries on it too?”

“Okey-doke - vanilla ice cream with strawberries.” And he turned again to go.

“I think you need to write it down,” Mitzi insisted.

“For goodness sakes, I can remember a bowl of ice cream with strawberries,” he grumbled.

“Fine. Oh, and some whipped cream, too. I think you should write it down.”

Stan was struggling to control his anger. “I can remember - vanilla ice cream, strawberries, whipped cream. I’m not a complete idiot!” And he left the room.

About an hour later, Stan came out of the kitchen and handed Mitzi a plate of scrambled eggs and bacon.

Exasperated, she said, “I told you that you should have written it down. You forgot my toast!”

Dedicated to my favorite old geezers in the MMP-crew.

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First, welcome Theodore Striker. Don’t believe I’ve seen you around the MMP before. Homestyle sounds good to me. Like I always say when folks come to my place for dinner (or supper as we say here), “You won’t get fancy but you will get good.”

BelZ snowin’ in Etlanner is it? I had no idea. 58 degrees and sunny but windy here in south Jawja right now. Just thought you’d wanna know. :smiley:

Bumba I buy shower gel that smells like grapefruit whenever I can find it. You got any soap that smells like grapefruit? I think that’d be good. Not to eat, but to bathe with. I also buy this shower gel that has aloe essence (whatever that is) sometimes. I like that too, so aloe essence scented soap would probably be good. All I know is, it made the bathroom smell good. And I smelled good.

VunderBob:

BWAAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAA!!!

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FCM, is that what you and the FCD sit around doin’ every evening? :smiley:
BWAAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAA!!!

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I’d make you some homemade chicken and stars soup- I have a cold, and I’m going to make some for myself tonight.

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Bumba, you’ve been holding out on the cucumber soap?! And it smells like actual cucumber and not sweet candy cucumber? Get stuff organized! Have you made up a catalog yet, huh? Where’s my copy? Where’s the website so I might point and click?Summer is nearly here, I needs me good smelly soaps! Oh and swampy, aloe essence is just beauty talk for succulent snot. I’ve got tons of aloe plants that I can wring out and lob yer way. Just say the word. Yeppers, have snot, will fling.

FCM, you’ve got to finally let go of that chandelier so that you can pay your taxes. Hey! Maybe you can mail it to Uncle Sam as payment! He seems a chandelier kinda guy. A couple of those wall-putti, if you have any left over, too.

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((HUG)). Well, I guess I have really have NOTHING to complain about. Sheesh, that sucks. I agree with you re: paying my fair share and all that, but the secret formula just seems to elude me too. Next year I’m sure I’ll be paying, so I hope to offset it by upping my TSP contribution. Hopefully, this will work.

We’re having baked humongo chicken breasts and chicken fried rice and hmmm, peas, I think. I don’t know how much of it I’ll eat. I’m not particularly hungry.

Theodore’s dinner sounds yummy. Oh, and welcome too!

Okay, “succulent snot” that is just…wrong. The pictures that are conjured up in my brain are just sickening. I need to go scrub it.

Bumba, I think you’re gonna have to tell the wife that we are ALL nagging you, constantly, about this whole website thingy. Maybe she’ll change her mind then. The clamor for your soap is getting louder by the day! Right now I’m using a green tea and clover scented lotion. Do you have a soap that is similar?

Well, I need to wash some clothes.

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Man, I’m all about smelly soaps. And it really doesn’t matter the fragrance, though I seem to have a preference for food scents, rather than florals.

I definitely think the MMP is a good source of business.

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Dear Mrs. Bumba,
We want soap! We want soap! We want soap!
Perhaps you could consider us your internet focus group?
Sincerely yours,
gardentraveler and other assorted MMPers who value scented soap

My cooking technique of the week is “scramble it with an egg.” Tonight it was rice with asparagus and Havarti cheese with dill. Had an orange on the side and a few little squares of milk chocolate with whole hazelnuts for dessert.

GT

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Yup, grapefruit/oatmeal.

Yup, red clover tea.

I’ll get to work on that pizza-scented soap right away.

It smells exactly like real cucumber.

Once I figger out the shipping costs stuff maybe we should do a mail-order sorta thing?

One more hour and I get to go eat Mexican food. :drooling smilie:

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Well, I wasted a $25 co-pay to have the specialist tell me it’s probably nothing but I need to be rechecked in 6 months, but not to worry… much. I won’t give any more details, lest it be considered TMI. Why my GP couldn’t tell me this, I have no idea.

I made salmon patties for dinner tonight as I fought off the hoard off cats. (They had already had dinner but I saved them some salmon juice and skin for tomorrow night.) I ate a salmon patty with a green salad and a dressing I made with mayo, lowfat yogurt, a tad of mustard and some herbs and spices. Not bad.
Rue, do you ever serve up a bowl of Chicken & Stars and exclaim, “My God, it’s full of stars!”