Hey gabby - if you hang with us, you’re automatically a cool kid. stick around
Yet another early riser, although today I was almost late - it was after 7 when I dragged myself out of bed. I need to leave for class in a few minutes, but I had to get my MMP fix after 2 days away.
Welcome, gabby!! You are now officially a cool kid, as rosie said, and because of that, it’s officially your turn to bring the donuts. No, we don’t take advantage of the new cool kids - it’s just the way it’s done. Honestly. Would I lie? Would this face lie?? 
My kiln is still heating up - maybe another couple hours to go, then the next batch of FairyChatPottery will be ready for glaze. Um, when it cools down from 1900-ish degrees… And now, I’m off to throw clay in Annapolis. Clear the roads, Mama Tiger, I’m coming your way!!!
Welcome gabby the cool thing about bein’ a cool kid is that all you gotta do to be one is post in the MMP. So, you are a cool kid.
I’m considering going back to bed for a couple hours. My sinuses hurt. Pretty much everything’s done for Joe Dawg’s soiree tonight. I mean, I don’t even have to go get anything from the store and ACBG is picking up the cake with Joe Dawg’s pitcher on it. He had to go see a couple patients this morning.
-swampbear (lazy on a cloudy, coolish Saturday morning)
Good morning. I think I’ll do a little cleaning before work.
Happy Birhtday Joe Dawg! enjoy the party swampy, hope the guest of honor doesn’t pee on the floor.
gabby, of course you’re a Cool Kid! Drop in anytime you like.
doggio heck, I’ll be happy is some of the invitees don’t pee on the floor.
I like those kind of parties, at least when they are at somebody else’s house.
Oooh, gabriela! The Straight Dope’s coolest icky body party lady!
I mean that with respect and admiration. Not in a pejorative sense.
It is Fall Back time tonight. Cool! That means, at two a.m. tonight at the club, it’ll suddenly be one again. Awesome.
I need to go to Costco. Maybe this Friday. I think I’m going to buy Mr. Lissar several batches of all-matching socks, so I don’t have to spend several hours sorting socks. We have at least thirty unmatched socks right now. That is crazy. We are going to toss most of them and start over.
I’m going to run upstairs and find out if our neighbours can take some pics of me in my Hallowe’een costume, so I can post 'em. I think I look cool.
gabriela: a) you are already cool pretty much by definition, b) you’ve posted here before so you were already a Cool Kid as defined in the extensive set of rules that govern the MMP. c) interesting dream. ::falls over in awe::
Excellent sock idea, LiLi. I do that with white socks and it works well…
Happy Birthday, Joe Dawg! Do we get to see pics of the birthday boy?
I couldn’t fall asleep for the LONGEST time last night. Wound up sleeping in a little, but I figure I’ll be napping later on.
I’m off to clean up and do laundry and then paint a couple of pumpkins for my stoop. And I’ll be getting some work done today because I just want to have it done!
Back after a while!
GT
Good morning everyone!
I really slept in today. I kept waking up, but after the hubby left the bed, I slept for another couple of hours. It felt good, actually.
gabs, hello! As many others have already stated, you are already one of the Cool Kids.
Remember how I mentioned that I had hoped I didn’t have any plans for the weekend, but they always change? Well, guess what? They changed. Apparently, we’re going out to dinner tonight with some friends. They want to try out the Chinese buffet that we recently discovered. To be frank, I’m kind of sick of it, but they want to go there, so go there we shall.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOE DAWG!
Other than the above, I got bupkus for now.
Completely forgot to mention: Meeks sent me stuff in the White Elephant exchange! Yay!
Off to clean…
GT
I can’t rise early except for work. I totally, way overslept this morning. Noon, in fact, and I could have slept longer except I’d been denying a powerful urge to visit the loo and I was rather past due.
I still need to pop out for coffee yet. I’ll do that once I regain the ability to move in anything more than a groggy shuffle.
And [bHappy Birthday, Dawg!**
Did that really just happen? Did I really miss an entire MMP? It would appear I have. Let’s get the puns out of the way.
So, this week was interesting. As much as I wish I could report the same success as our resident Cello, things are playing out a little differently over here. We went to a couple of Halloween parties last night, and had a great time, et cetera, et cetera. On our way back as I was turning up the charm she told me she was involved with someone already. fwump BUT. Even after two weeks of missed emails, of stress and worry and agita, of questioning my approach and my feelings, and now this, all is still not lost. You see, even as she was telling me she was “involved” she was stressing that it was up in the air. It’s long distance, you see, and she emphasized that they’re still deciding if they want to continue it.
So there’s still potential here. I just have to continue doing the one thing I’m worst at: be patient. We’re going to see The Prestige tonight, if all goes according to plan.
Welcome gabriela! You’re definitely a Cool Kid. 
Spats, hang in there kiddo.
On the medical front, we will be taking my MIL to the hospital on the 31st for her surgery/surgeries. I’m not clear on when they’re actually going to do the masectomy. The first surgery consists of deflating her lung and then scraping it out so she won’t retain fluid in there anymore.
My SIL was going to come over from Spokane and stay at my MIL’s house while MIL was in the hospital. Unfortunately, those plans have fallen through. SIL, although retired, started up a new job, and her boss won’t let her take time off. SIL is in a panic about income because she’s going through a divorce and soon to be ex ran up numerous bills. It’s a shame really, because SIL has her own medical problems.
I’ll have to head upstairs soon to dye my hair, again. Dammit, it just grows to quickly! I’ve got serious gray roots showing, so I need to hide them, again. Curse my family and its early graying genes. My Opa (grandfather) never grayed. Why couldn’t I have gotten those genes, huh? My Oma was completely white by the time she was 35. My Dad’s side of the family all gray early too.
I’m on my third cup of coffee, but I still don’t feel fully awake. I slept too long.
Hang in there, Spats. You know you’re in a good position since you’re the one who’s nearby, right? And, if nothing else, you’ll have a new friend who will have other friends… And patience is always a good thing to work on. (Am I good at finding silver linings, or what?)
Back to getting stuff done between posts. I’ve almost emptied the dishwasher and have started to clean off the dining room table.
GT
I’ve got chili cooking in the slow cooker. It smells soooooooo good! I want some now, but it ain’t done yet. I might just end up eatin’ chili tonight instead of chili dogs.
I love making chili in the crock pot. Mix everything together, cook for 6 hours or so, and you’ve got some damn good eats, enough to last a good while.
I should make me some. It’s been a while since I have, and I think it’s about high time I did. Mmmm … chili.
LiLi, I wonder if your dryer has a space-time continium like mine does? I always have a pile of unmatched socks in the laundry room. I usually go through them about every six months, make what matches I can and make cat toys out of the rest.
I have the cakes baked and the cookies crumbed for the litter box cake. It takes a long time to cumb a whole large package of sandwich cookies. Pudding is chilling - all I have to do is assemble it, which I will do later.
I’m still hyped over our win last night. I hope they do as well tonight on the road. We’ll be listening to the game at the Halloween party tonight.
I have tried to take a nap twice and the phone keeps ringing. Grrrrrrr. I don’t really have time now!
I’ll check in after the party.
Here’s Joe Dawg!
We go to the laundromat, so it’s entirely possible that the dryers are connected to black holes.
A hopelessly computer-illiterate question- if I have photos archived in my email, which pop up in separate boxes, without any appreciable link between my actual email account and my pics, can I post links safely? I’m fairly sure the answer is no, but I have pics of my costume that the Upstairs Neighbours took, and I am too hopelessly ignorant to transfer them to our photobucket account.
I don’t even know the password.
QD is coming over about six, and we’re going to hang out and get dressed up, and then run off to the club.
You know, I talk exactly like this in real life. Like the thing about computers, posted above. That’s frightening.
Oh, QD is going as Chi from Chobits.
I lead such an exciting life. :rolleyes:
My hair is adequately colored. By that, I mean the gray seems to be covered. We shall see…it’s still wet. Once I go upstairs to blow dry my hair, I’ll see the true results. I went with a different brand of hair color than I normally use, so I’m a little worried about how it will turn out. Not to worry, I didn’t go all crazy and color my hair some really off the wall color. I stuck to my so-called “medium golden brown”, which ends up giving my lots of gold and red highlights.
I’m feeling slightly peckish. I may have to rustle me up something to nosh on.
I need to do some laundry, especially if Mr. Taters wants to wear jeans tonight. This is a 99.99999999999999999999999999999% possibility.
Where the hell have welby, ex, and Bumba been? I’m beginning to think they don’t like us anymore…::sniff::