Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's back to work we go – a miserable MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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BelZ try reading the MMP as if the last post is the OP and the OP is the last post and then respond. Fun for the entire family!

I’m makin’ dindin tonight. I’m so nice. Ok, so it’s steak which is easily grilled, microwaved up N.O.T. and onions and bag sallit. Still, it requires efforts and I just woke up about thirty minutes ago. The N.O.T. and onions are quite easy, btw. Take sliced up N.O.T. and onions, toss 'em with a little salt and pepper, arrange in a microwavable dish (duh!) in one or two layers, drizzle with Worcestershire (Whassizhere) sauce and some little glops of butter on top. Place plastic wrap over the top of the dish and nuke on high usually 10-15 minutes depending on the size of your nuker. They’re always nummy. Of course, it goes without saying that they are best served with a big glop of sour cream on top.

Oh, and that was my cousin in Joisey not me. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Don’t ask how much they just spent on my stroller. Aagh.
My baby shower gift from them (apparently a separate thing) is a Pack’n’Play. A playpen with a bassinett that converts to a change table. And it’s portable and folds up easily. Pretty cool.
We had a nice lunch. And now I feel horribly, horribly guilty.

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Little Johnny heard a strange noise in his parent’s bedroom. He walked in to see what it was and saw his mom, naked, bent over the dresser, with his dad behind her doing the nasty.

Dad noticed little Johnny, winked and smiled at him, and kept goigng at it with his wife.

Little Johnny left the room, looking very upset.

Afterwards, Dad went looking for Little Johnny and found him in his own room, with Grandma. Granny was naked, bent over the dresser, and Johnny was doing the nasty to her.

Little johnny saw Dad and said, “It hurts when it’s your mom, doesn’t it?”

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Oy. The folks at the office are not letting me catch up! Every time I get back to the now-insanely-late job that I’ve been trying to get done all week, they dump something else super-rush on me! I shouldn’t feel guilty because it’s not MY fault this job is insanely late; I keep pointing out to them that I’m trying to get it done, but they keep ignoring that. But I feel guilty anyway – I do not like being late with work even when I know it’s not my fault. Grrr!

How much did they just spend on the stroller, LiLi? :smiley: :smiley: (And won’t tinyninjachef be worth it?) Speaking of which, is this the first grandchild or something? That’s always a good position to be in, producing the first grand-offspring. snowbunny scored double, first on both sides of the family. We made out like bandits. :smiley:

I do not understand our mail order prescription company. One of my meds is fairly large pills, and so a 90-day supply takes up usually 3-4 bottles. This time? It came in five bottles. Four reasonably full but with ample space left in them – and the fifth with exactly SIX PILLS in it. Why on earth wouldn’t they just put the last six pills in one of the other bottles, fer cryin’ out loud? :rolleyes:

The dog park was that easy to escape from, canine servant? Wow, I’d like to see a critter try it at the one locally – the fence around it is seriously stout. And it’s got a double-gated entrance so they can’t sneak out that way, either. I’m just glad you found Nelly, though! Stoopid dog.

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First on my side. I’m an only, and my parents are elderly (I’m 29, my Dad is 76 and Mom is 64). It’s the second on Mr. Lissar’s side, but his parents like me better than they like my SIL, so that’s why I think we’re making out like bandits. Actually, they were quite generous to BIL and SIL (and Nephew), but they hadn’t fallen in love with an absurdedly expensive anything, and so the stuff they got was a little cheaper.
Plus, they love me. FIL has said that if they ever get really pissed off with Mr. Lissar, and disown him, that they’re keeping me. :smiley:

If I were producing a girl, we’d be getting diamond-studded everything. I wash the only girl on both sides of my family, and there’s only been one girl per generation in both sides of Mr. Lissar’s family… if the next kid is a girl, she’ll be worshipped by everyone.

I’ve got coffee cakes, bread, and monkey bread rising (little balls of dough, covered in cinnamon buns filling). We’ll see how it all goes. Dinner will probably be mostly bread.

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LiLi congrats on the shower gifts and all! Sounds like tinyninjachef (is that right? :)) is going to be well provided for. :slight_smile:

Yay for VWife and Tater’s MIL being home & doing well! At least I hope they’re both doing well. Um, I don’t want to think about the picture that BBBBobbio nursin’ VWife conjured up in my mind - gawd, what was I thinking?! EEEK!

Swampy it sure sounds like you and ACBG done et good last night!! And tonight’s dinner sounds delicious as well. I’ll have to try that N.O.T. recipe, thanks. :slight_smile:

It’s -almost- Friday - woo hoo!!! FCM, sorry you were sick, but at least tomorrow is Friday now, right? Hope your meetings haven’t been too bad, btw.

Well, I was right - I was late for work today and ended up having to use one of the credit hours I’d earned earlier this week. :frowning: Oh well, I’ll try to make up 30 minutes tomorrow, hopefully.

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For your viewing “pleasure” ( I got flickr to work–I am so proud!)
Me, last spring
kindergartenpic I loved that dress.
Me, 1994at MIL’s Daughter was4 and #1 son was 2.

Gratutious snide remark: the lamp in the background is hideous.
And those are all the pics I have on flickr for now. You all might get sick of the sight of me…

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I know it cost a lot, LiLi, but I think that with the amount that you walk, it’s more important to get a really good stroller - kinda like getting good running shoes. You’ll have more than enough chances to overuse muscles and injure yourself without adding the possibility of odd strains due to a stroller that isn’t adjustable and otherwise well-designed. And, hey, if it’s a gift, all the better!

And yes, it’s tinyninjachef, tarra. I think swampy named him…

That is a bad bad joke, Sean.

I’m kind of down in the dumps tonight. I found out this afternoon that one of my cousins died last week. It’s the side of the family that we’re not terribly close to, so we didn’t even know he was sick. I’m sad because he was a really bright guy, but his career never went quite as well as it could have. And now he’s out of chances. :frowning: We really need to keep in better touch with my uncle and cousins.

Off to watch something cheerful.

Back later…

GT

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Hubba hubba. How you doin’?

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Sorry about your cousin, GT.

I am aggravated–I cannot get this one album to load into flickr. It keeps telling me that it cannot find the file, but the pics are staring at me and me, them. I’ve tried renaming the damned thing and moving–whatever it is, it is moving with the pics…
I have to go study cardiac algorithms now. ACLS is much simpler now, thank god.

Older kids off to Texas to spend the weekend with my brother. #2 son stays here with me (and the Husband who is apparently not speaking to me today.)
Half a day tomorrow and then the weekend! (and housecleaning and homework–Tgiving is not too far away! yikes!)

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Whew - home, and the stoopit meeting/working group thing is done!! I actually got a chance to stand up and provide some legitimately good info during the meeting - a couple of people mentioned something and I knew it to be a less-than-optimum suggestion, so I waited for my moment and said my piece. When I was done, the liaison officer in charge of my group literally gave me a thumbs up - go me! And toward the end of the stupid meeting, I briefed one of the 2 facilities I was assigned to research. As it turned out, pretty much everyone there agreed that there really wasn’t anything of value in that location. I’m glad I wasn’t the one who decided we should present that one.

**MamaTigs ** - be glad you aren’t transcribing my stoopit meeting - we had a couple of guys there say “tersherary” for tertiary. :rolleyes: I know what you mean about mispronunciations. Drives me nuts!

Thanks, all, for the concern, but once I got up yesterday, I was fine - tummy back to normal and all that.

It was freekin’ cold here this morning - upper 20s!! :eek: I heard that on Saturday, it won’t get out of the 40s. Brisk and invigorating, right?

I know there was more I wanted to share, but my brain is shutting down. I have decided to make an early exit of it tomorrow - I’ll bail at noon. That’ll give me a slightly longer long weekend. And 2 extra hours of clay time. Yay!

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Every time people complain about cold in this thread, keep in mind that I can one-up you. Though today was weirdly too warm, it got up to 60. But it’s supposed to get cold and snowy (at least off and on for a few days) starting Sunday, highs in the upper 30s and lows in the mid-teens. Now that is getting cold! And it’ll get colder! Sorry, FCM, but upper 20s ain’t freekin’ cold. It’s just a bit coldish. :smiley:

Glad your meeting went well, though.

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Home from rehearsal and eggs-aus-ted!!! My goal tonight is to fall asleep by midnight (even without TDS/TCR, there are still Good Eats and Scrubs reruns to be had).

It sux royally that I cannot log on during the day, because I can never adequately catch up in the evening.

Yay for VWife being home - how is she doing? feeling? etc. I’ve hit a plateau in my PT but I keep pluggin away - I even got in 20 minutes of aerobics (5 on the treadmill and 15 on the bike) last night and plan to do so again tomorrow - but I still struggle with stairs and armless chairs

Hugs, pats-on-backs. smacks-upside heads, gropes, etc as warranted.

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I have joined another online community. (not that I’m going anywhere).

Off to bed–I am now reasonably sure that if faced with a deadly arryhythmia tomorrow, I will handle it with aplomb.

:cool:

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Home from the game, we lost. :frowning:

rigs, how ya doin’ ?

Ya for you, FCM.

Mama Tigs, the dog park has a double gate, and a good fence. Nelly just dug a tunnel under the fence.

I am sorry about your cousin, gt.

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drunkjnesss! I ams mashed. Cloudmaiden adnI decided tonight was afgood night to get drunk. $5 martinis atnthe local bar! teehee

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Isn’t tonight a school night?

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not claases on Firdays! :stuck_out_tongue:

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{{{GT}}} Sorry about your cousin :frowning: I gather he should have been too young to go just yet :frowning: :frowning:

**Rigs **-- I don’t care what you think, you’re gorgeous! Seriously.

IOW, how you doin’? :smiley:
(yes I know I’m about 17th in line – sounds like you could use the ego boost, though :))

Regarding the pictured that won’t load – have you tried copying the pictures that are doing that to a different location/name and trying again? Some file properties follow along when you just rename. Copying creates a new file from scratch.
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How’s the head, Haze?** :stuck_out_tongue:

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Very sweet photos of baby Noor, she had a rough beginning, as did you and her daddy, but the good news seems to be that she is doing so well. I am sorry that you have to go back to work, especially as the job is taking advantage of you in regards to your salary, and I missed the mid to end of last week’s MMP but it sounds as though you had a bad child care experience, and I am so sorry for that as well. Returning to work is so poignant when it’s your own child, at least in my experience

I agree completely! As far as movies go, Disney: Fantasia / Non-Disney: A tie between Watership Down and The Last Unicorn. Believe you me, I have watched a lot of animation over the last 26 years!

If I tried to tell you all about what has been going on in my life you would probably think I was telling stories, but it has been crazy. The Bad Crazy has been minimal, which is good, but even the Good Crazy wears one down after a while. It is so hard to find any time when I am able to be alone with my thoughts; once I get the kids off to school I have skiffman loitering around me until one of his buddies calls and then Honey Do chores get done either at our home or the buddy’s. A shower, make the bed, do some laundry, tend to the critters, skiffman and buddy take a lunch break which is generally spent here. As soon as they take off for the afternoon the teens get home from school and then it’s all about homework, skiffman comes home and then it’s time for supper, then showers for the kids and skiffman, a bit of family time, bed for the kids, and we have been having a lot of drop-in fishing friends for evening visits before the non-residents take off for the winter. Brother Brad has been over a lot, he will be flying to spend Christmas with his family in South Carolina, and I’m gonna miss him the most. One of the hardest things about living here is that so often good friends leave; sometimes for a season, sometimes for ever, and it hurts. It makes it difficult to open my heart and care, but like the song says “I could have missed the pain, but I’d have had to miss the dance.”

sniff kaiwik is feeling maudlin, stupid autumn.

Tomorrow I am gonna make pumpkin pie cake, that will cheer me up. Both the baking and the eating. Y’all take care now, hugs and kisses to any who need/want them.