I am off all week. Yay! Company gave us Thursday and Friday and I took the rest as vacation days. Yay!
Today is marketing day for the stuffs I need for the cheesecakes and a turkey bag and maybe some turkey injection gizmo and such. Oh, yeah, and The Princess[sup]TM[/sup] wants to make Rainbow Mac and Cheese so I need to get her stuff, too. Then I may see if I can find brown shoes to go with the Thanksgiving outfit, or maybe beige or camel??? I dunno.
fcm, ah, yes, gainfully employed and driving is a good thing in a BF. The Princess is currently between BFs and may stay so for a while but yesterday showed me an engagement ring she likes. I pointed out prospective fiance would need to be very successful in order to afford it. She decided that was too much trouble and would buy her own ring. :rolleyes:
Getting quite cool down here. Wouldn’t you agree, ivy? But it will be good weather for the visiting relatives who are planning on braving the theme parks today.
bumba, even though it was a lotto work, aren’t ya glad it WAS plaster and not rodents?
Good to hear the picus are doing better. Y’all keep it up now.
puggy why would you want to steal a camel’s shoes? I didn’t know camels had shoes.
FCM so is this like ThePerfectChild’s[sup]TM[/sup] boyfriend dujour? Good for her! I like the idea of her keepin’ a string of men to pick from. Smart move. Just ask picunurse who travels with a male harem.
The steak cookout went well. I made my famous company smashed taters (but not our taters. However if she chooses to be smashed who are we to judge) and my equally famous tossed salad from a bag. Also, I grilled some smoked sausages to have as an appetizer along with some spicy and some beer mustard. I was even nice and put out some salsa and chips to nibble on also while everyone was grilling steaks to each individual’s liking.
I had a very mixed evening yesterday. All afternoon I was feeling kind of “meh”. I thought maybe it was not getting food, but my 3 pm lunch didn’t fix that. Then I got home and saw the results of The Boy’s parent teacher conference. This was for his advanced math, and it was all stuff like “Excellent” and “Why can’t all the other children be like C?”. He’s got 100 on all of his stuff except one where he mysteriously got an 87. Then my daughter had to show me that she’s also getting an A+ in math, and all of her scores are 98 or higher. So I was a very proud papa. But soon after that feeling “meh” turned into chills and fever, and I kept waking up all night feeling either very hot or very cold. At one point my arm really itched and I was a bit delirious and just SURE that I somehow got poison ivy at the picnic this weekend. Now, in the cool light of day, I’m fairly sure it was just a couple of mosquito bites together with dry skin.
KeithT’s coming in today. But an hour earlier than I expected. Soooo… I’m going to try to leave work as early as possible, but he may have to sit at the airport for a while. Why do airlines change their schedules??
My parents have already met KeithT, but none of the rest of the family has. So he could have quite a few people to meet. Or not if no one shows up due to possible snow. We’ll see.
I have nothing to do at work this week. How come I can’t just stay home when there’s no work?
I understand the feeling. I come in and work till 11 or so, and then there’s not a whole lot to do for the rest of the day. Sure, there’s phone calls and e-mails, but come on–none of my customers actually expect me to answer them right away (which is why they all seem so pleased when I do), so why can’t I just leave at noon and call it a day?
It’s been very cold in the office the last week or so, and this morning I wore a wool sweater to compensate. Today is the day they turned the heat on. The lady who sits next to me pointed out that I’m wearing a blouse under the sweater, but if I take the sweater off, I’m covered in little brown fuzzy sweater remnants, and I’m not positive, but I’m pretty sure I’m wearing a black bra under a white shirt. No sweater removal for me today.
Now that I’m slightly more awake, I can address various peoples.
Feel better, Shibb!
Same to the picus, if they check in.
FCM, employed and able to drive is better than most of what I’ve found in the last several years, so your daughter’s ahead of the game.
Feydeau, there’s no shame in not writing the novel. But I’ll take a small waitressy part in your movie when it’s made.
Welcome to all the new people!
You guys have Thanksgiving on a Thursday? Americans are so weird. You’re supposed to have it on Sunday and then take Monday off to recuperate. And having Thanksgiving in October means more time in between turkey gorging, which is to my mind a good thing.
Today is my weekend, so I should be doing housework. I wonder what I’d like to eat this week. I have Nigel Slater’s Real Fast Food out from the library, and it mostly makes we want to eat fried eggs and croissants with strawberry jam.
I made poke chops last night. And zucchini with tomatoes, onions and 'shrooms. I love 'shrooms. We went to bed so early that I woke up early. So I got a pot roast going in the crock pot for tonight.
I heard from my (21-year-old) son yesterday. He’s staying with a friend - who lives with his parents. (If some of y’all aren’t aware, I had to kick him out last year for drug use and breaking major rules like bringing over unsavory types while we were gone.) He has no job, no running vehicle…makes me sad. But he still has dope and cigarette money somehow. It’s real hard to not keep helping him, but I have given him so many chances, and he just doesn’t get it. I have to stay tough.
Anyway- I’m off tomorrow and looking forward to making pies, and cornbread for the dressing. And boiling the giblets for giblet gravy. Mmm… And… oh yeah, cleaning.
Happy Birthday, Donkey
I got a whole lot of nothing going on here today (sold two thermowells. Whoo-hoo) so I was able to get my input for the company’s Christmas card list done in one fell swoop. I’d like to add all y’all, but the list goes through a rigorous screening process. At least that’s what they told us.
Ow! My bones! (Just kidding… but you understand that a hug from a giant bear would most certainly be bonecrushing, so I assumed that you were using it as more of a phrase than a literal “here’s a giant bear who is going to hug you”)
What’s wrong with you? Didn’t you read the manual? Sheesh.
Things I Am Thankful For
or
Things For Which I Have Thankfulness
(because I care about grammar)
I’m kinda happy the MMP is still afloat. I’ve made a lasting impression on the Interweb thingy. Like Al Gore, only better.
When I started this thing, it was all about me. Just stuff I wanted to post, and you know I posted about nearly anything (like forgotten toast). It was my way to “lower the bar”, make it easier for other people to post without worrying about someone yelling “cite!” at them or other things you have to worry about (like “facts” and “spelling”) in some other fora I could name, but won’t.
So the MMP became, what? A refuge for the easily distracted? Something like that. But we are all friends here. And If anyone ever wanted to show up (and who wouldn’t?) (“whom” whouldn’t?) they were met with a hearty “welcome!”. Or a spleeny one. You can’t always tell when it’s just type on a screen. I’m pretty sure no one ever got a pancreasy “welcome!”, but I could be wrong.
Anyroad, the MMP is very special to me. The whole concept, not each individual OP. (Oh, nice one by the way Puggy!) I’m happy the whole magilla is still chugging along.
And we give people nicknames here on top of their screennames, which is like a nick’ anyway. Just to confuse people (the non-Cool Kids). That cracks me up.
I’m also thankful I have this morning off. I’d be way more thankful if I had tomorrow off since we’re gonna get hammered with people dropping off their dogs (and a few cats) for boarding. It’s not going to be a Best Day Ever tomorrow at work. And since I have to be there tomorrow, maybe I’ll learn something. (Like a good hiding place would be a Jake thing to learn.)
I’m thankful for my family and that they are all (fairly) healthy and all that other trite crap you’re supposed to be thankful for.
I’m probably thankful for more stuff, but I can’t think of anything right now.
-Rue. (who knows the True Meaning of Thanksgiving- not having to eat at the Kids’ Table)
There was this dog and this cat who came in to the vet’s yesterday. Actually there was a whole whack of them whats came in yesterday, but I’m just going to tell you about these two. What made them so special? They both had a giant hematoma in their ears. Not both ears each, but one ear per.
The ear is special because it ain’t got no “meat” to it. So if you (or in this case a dog and a cat) bump it hard enough, you get a giant blood blister (which is what “hematoma” means in doctor-talk) that just fills up the whole inside of the ear flap (pina). Like a little water balloon, only full of blood.
When this happens you should take your pet to the vet. So the vet can knock them out and slice the ear open. This lets the blood gush out and the ear feels a lot better. (It still looks real bad, because it’s been shaved and the sliced open (on the underside so you don’t have to look at it while it heals) and then drained. It’s really quite spectacular.
And that’s the best i got right now. But it’s only Tuesday. We’ll see what happens the rest of the week. (This evening and tomorrow, so don’t be holding your breath.)
Another bearhug from me. And… There’s a paddle with your name on it, if you ever come out this way. <G>
I’ll have to introduce you to my neighbor’s husbear - he could grab both of us at once.
Our house is filling up. Someone from the east coast is here for a couple weeks, and someone from LA is here for a couple days. Oddly, they won’t be here for Thanksgiving. Just as well, because our friends from Reno are due to arrive tomorrow, leaving us just enough time to change the sheets in Guest Room #2 and wash towels.
The home warranty people are dispatching a plumber today to look at our water heater. Don’t know why they didn’t just look at the numbers - 17 year old heater making loud banging and thunking noises, and not much hot water, and the drain valve is clogged since the previous owner never did any maintenance - and simply replace it. Nope. They have to schedule someone to look at it first. Then, schedule someone else to replace it. Whatever.
I’m just glad someone else will be doing it as my back is killing me. It’s at the “turn over while sleeping and wake up with a stab of pain” level that a “prescription” from Dr. Jack Daniels doesn’t help.
I think he just made up all of that other stuff so that he could become transcendant like Cecil Adams and get everybody freaked everytime he pokes his head in.
