Girls Week Out at the Beach: An MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Awww. :slight_smile: Thanks. At least the racism I’ve encountered so far has been in passing - random people on the street, rather than anyone I know or am acquainted with.

rigs, I never quite thought of it that way. Actually, upon reflection I think he may have been trying to pay me a compliment - the way a guy called me “Lucy Liu” the other day (also on the street). :rolleyes: Yes, because all us Asian wimmin look alike.

It’s lesson planning for today, and grocery shopping as well. Sundays are so exciting.

Have a lovely Sunday, everyone! Extra good wishes to dogbutler. :slight_smile:

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Oh, wow, you heard it, taters? It’s all over the news, but I’m too far away to have heard or seen anything, which is fine by me.

I can get online in the guest room/office, but I can’t in the living room. Whatever. I’m up and dressed (not entirely voluntarily, but it’s easier than arguing with her!) and trying to caffeinate. It’s hard to caffeinate here without making my own coffee, but the one time I’ve tried to do that Grandma said she wanted some too so I had to make it weaker than I wanted. ARRRRRGH! She thinks she likes strong coffee, but since I know what she thinks of as strong…no, no, she doesn’t.

I miss all my doggie friends! I’m going to get a good bit of kitty time with my aunt’s kitty, who doesn’t like most people but loves me, but no critters at Grandma’s.

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Oh yeah, palebunny, heard AND felt it! I’m telling you, it was something. However, compared to those who were mere blocks away, or even those folks at the foundry, ours seems minimal. My house is fairly large, solid, and usually, we don’t hear anything outside. To have actually heard the explosion is something.

The local paper says that a fireball from one of the explosions went one thousand feet into the air. Holeeee CRAP!!

I looked for updates for one of the injured individuals, haven’t seen anything yet. Last I heard, he’d been airlifted to Harborview and was in critical condition, having suffered severe burns. He’s the trucker that was unloading propane.

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I went to the Georgia National Fair in Perry yesterday. A friend called me Friday night and asked if I wanted to go, so I did. I got to see sheep, cows, horses and I got to hold a two day old baby goat! Such an adorable thing! I wanted to bring it home, but I was good. Fair food isn’t as good as it used to be. My back and legs were not up to that much walking - it is a huge fair - and I was hurting pretty badly by the end of the day. That goodness for pain pills. I ended up having to use my umbrella as a cane. We are not telling my chiropractor about this little trip, as I am definitely not cleared for that much walking.

But it was fun.

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snowbunny, next time just make your coffee the way you like it and boil some extra water for Grandma. Make your coffee straight up and water hers down with the extra boiled water - I do it whenever my weak-coffee loving friend comes to visit!

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I made pancakes, and lots of thick, crispy bacon.
:slight_smile:

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Well, aren’t we quiet today.

I should be writing a cover letter, but instead I’ve been practicing singing “Little Boxes” on the guitar. :smack:

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Okay, I was bored enough to record myself. It’s a cute song, if you’ve never heard it before. This is just the first verse though.

Little Boxes.

You may have to copy and paste the link for it to work.

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What are you, Official MMP Resurrector or something? :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:
ETA: You have a wonderful singing voice!

**Taters **-- :eek: I still remember hearing the blast from one of the most infamous terrorist attacks in Tel-Aviv (nearly 12 years ago – March 1996.) Took forever (I thought. In reality it was probably about 10 minutes) until the news started breaking on all the stations.

Li-li – if evert there’s a time you don’t have to worry about eating too much… :slight_smile:

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Landry is done. I didn’t bring home anybody yet, I want to see if the landlord wants another pet deposit first. They had a nifty old lady beagle there, though.

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Aww, you’re going to give another sweet doggie a home. You’re a good person, canineservant. And I don’t see why your landlord would want a new dog deposit since you aren’t adding a second dog. But landlords can be unpredictable. (We were lucky – everywhere else we looked, people wanted HUGE pet deposits. Our current landlord, however, on being informed we have two large dogs, said, “Cool! What kind are they?” No mention of a deposit, although obviously if the Idiots do any damage we’ll fix it up for him since he’s being so nice about it.)

Nice voice, Haze! If I may be a purist, however, your G string on your guitar (stop snerking, all you filthy-minded preverts!) sounds a bit flat; you might want to tune it up slightly higher.

Damn, I can’t believe I’m sitting here advising you on your guitar tuning from a thousand miles away. I love this here intarwebs! :smiley: :smiley:

I’ve been struggling to work all afternoon. Lord, will this committee EVER shut the f*** up? They all talk at once, and then when they do take turns I can’t hear half of what they say because they talk too damn fast, or someone coughs or sneezes over the mike and drowns out whoever is speaking. These people should NOT be allowed to record their own meetings! I’m making progress, but I still have about 25% of it left to do. And I want to get it done by suppertime because if it takes any longer, I may have to just kill myself to put myself out of my misery. :frowning:

So what have I been doing instead? I’ve been watching graphic medical shows on Discovery Health. Did you know that they can now do a complete transplant of the human digestive tract, from the stomach on down? And the patient survives? :eek: I mean, it’s good that they can, but nevertheless, :eek:!

snowbunny, do what I do – drink a cup of your grandma’s fairly weak coffee (it’s not as bad as it used to be, but it’s still weak, I realize), and then when she’s had her cup and a half or so, make another small pot for yourself. That’s the only way to survive. That or escape to a nearby Starbuck’s – the closest one is just up the hill right next door to the grocery store! :smiley:

Back to the salt mines. Envy me, people.

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We’ve returned from breakfast and the hardware store. I read the paper too.

We had to buy a new toilet flapper thingy with chain for the toilet in the master suite. I’m still waiting for Mr. Taters to actually install it. :rolleyes:

My son is at the movies with some friends of his, and my daughter has finally deigned to clean the kitchen.

Tonight’s dinner will be chili. I made a big-ass pot of it yesterday, so there are plenty of leftovers. It should be tasty. I certainly was last night.

I think you sounded very nice Haze. I can’t carry a tune in a bucket.

Other than that, I’ve got nothing.

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Wow, sharp ear. :eek: :slight_smile: Yeah, my guitar is not at its greatest right now. I really need a new one, because the board is so warped that I’m afraid to tighten the strings.

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All I get from both links is something called NAVER and a lot of what I assume is Korean writing? It’s cute, but a bit unclear for me…
<stamps foot> I wanna hear Haze sing!

I haven’t done any homework today. I’m going for a bike ride soon and then I’ll wash my hair. And then…I’ll read a murder mystery. It’s good to not care about your grades anymore!

Laundry folding also calls, as do the bathroom floors. What a life of glamour and elegance I live.

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Try hitting the “Go To” button (IE) or the green arrow (FireFox) beside the address box, after you’ve got this page. or just copy and paste the second line into a new tab/window.

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You must have missed upthread when I said when I tried that, she caught me in the middle of making it (not that I was sneaking in there) and said she wanted some too! So I had to make it weaker. She thinks I drink way too much coffee, I think, but what she doesn’t realize is that if I made my own, I’d drink a couple of cups (because all her mugs are tiny) and be done with it for the day! What with the strength of her coffee and the size of her mugs…arrrrrrgh!

On the up side, her mobility is excellent, and she’s just as annoying as ever. For all the complaining I may do about her, for a nearly 87-year-old woman she’s really doing very very well overall. On the one hand I love her, on the other I want to kill her…isn’t family fun? sigh

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Thanks, that worked for me too.

:: Wild applause for Haze!!! ::

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Nothing–I’m on Safari. I can try FF later, but first–a bike ride in hideous heat and humidity! I hate global warming!

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Well, this has been a busy day. I trimmed 5 critter bodies and heads and one big bowl. I threw 4 miscellaneous pots and a 6th critter body and head. I decorated a monster head with “hair” and put arms and hands on its body. In a little bit, I’m going downstairs to trim the last of the pots if they’ve dried enough, and put handles on the 2 coffee mugs and 2 bowls.

About 4 hours ago, I took a break and we did some running around. Late lunch at Boomerang’s (not bad) followed by a trip to the boat to check things out. Then we ran to Lowe’s and bought me a cabinet for my studio and some stuff **FCD ** needs for the boat. We ended up at McKay’s grabbing a few groceries - after all, we were out of milk!!

If I can get my trimming done today, I can do decorating tomorrow. I may have a kiln load by the end of the day. Yay!

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:: blush :: Thanks all. I am a shameless attention whore. :smiley:

I bought some hair dye today. Maybe it’ll actually work this time and I’ll become a redhead.