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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{{{Mumpers}}} It sounds like everyone needs them.

My weird dream involved deep frying pork in a cast iron skillet, only the pork refused to fry, even though the oil was boiling (!) and then we had to evacuate the building **before **the alarm went off, which required several elevators, and it was all very weird. I was glad to wake up.

I put my high school diploma and social security card back in the lockbox, now that I’m gainfully employed. Then I wrote a nice check to one of my favorite charities, the Quaker Center, also due to gainful employment. I used to go every year for a week-long personal retreat. It’s a lovely location, very peaceful.

I’m off to drop off my laundry, then go to the mall to return the [del]mask[/del] makeup and buy underwear. And then I need to go buy cat litter and gushy food. Envy me!

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Ok, just ick! My sinuses hurt. I need to clean off the back porch but stirring up dust will only make it worse. Le Sigh. Perhaps a couple Benadryl and a nap will help. Sounds good to me! :smiley:

Hope everyone’s feeling better. Prayers and good thoughts still goin’ out where needed.

Snakes maybe I can this year. I keep sayin’ that I know but hopefully I’ll be all settled down again soon.

Ok, nap time! Later Y’all!

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**rigs ** - Veterans Day is one of the few which hasn’t been consigned to a closest-Monday-off holiday. It’s always Nov 11, and the Federal holiday is the 11th or the nearest day if it falls on a weekend.

We had breakfast out, checked on the boat, and **FCD ** bought 3 boxes of screws for the bathroom vanity he’s building. I just spent a couple of hours in my studio, and I’m taking a break before getting back to work. I need to make 50 little lumps of coal to decorate my little snow people. I also need to make some little carrot noses, 2 more little snow people hats, and some snow people scarves. Plus a scarf for the penguin. Busy busy…

Back to the grind with me. I think I need to take some water to drink - all of a sudden, I feel thirsty.

Dang, that’s almost too mundane even to share with Mumpers!! I’m going back to work.

TTFN!

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Ugh.

How many times do I start my posts with that word? I left TVMan behind and headed back home since he was working and I was being ignored anyways. I needed to stop at my shop to make a couple of French Silk pies for a family get together tonight. When I walked in the door I could smell 3 day old rotten chicken because PurpleDad hadn’t been into clean yet and the trash hadn’t been taken out. So in the midst of pie-making I have been doing some of the cleaning. (That sounds gross, but it isn’t. You beat the filling for a total of 25-30 minutes.) So I was cleaning in between scraping and adding ingredients.
I still think it’s the ‘miserable MMP’ week. Noone, it’s you doing the MMP tomorrow, right? Make sure to make a cheery title for us, will ya? (No offence, Dotty)

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hi. I am typing this from lil lestat’s new iphone. I can has one?

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I wish… if possible, my OP is even **more **depressing than Dotty’s :eek:… sorry, but I had something to share, and it’s not cheerful.

OTOH, maybe it will make you feel better in comparison. (and before anybody starts consoling me, it’s not a personal issue – everything is normal here)

And… you, or anybody, suffering wee-hours’ blues… I’ll usually be online (if you’re in the Western Hemisphere. Offer not valid in Europe and Asia :p). Don’t hesitate to vent – I’ll generally be here to listen.

{{{PurpleKid}}} – hope next week is better for you.

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Lunch, you are so nice to all of us who need to vent. {{{{hugs}}}}

I did go to church, well part of it. Debating about going out for a walk with my camera. I think I will…need some time to think on things. :slight_smile:

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Back from the mall. It was packed at 10:30, but it doesn’t open until 11. So I went to Starbucks and bought an eggnog latte. Yum! There is no Starbucks close to where I work (shocking, isn’t it?), so this will probably be the only one I have this season. To return the makeup, I had to resort to the broken record technique: I want to return it. No, I want to return it. No, I want to return it. Since everything was still sealed, they didn’t give me *too *much trouble.

I fell in love with a sparkly sweatshirt at Torrid. It was a nice zip hoodie, but it was hand wash, dry flat. What’s the point? It’s a sweatshirt! Obviously, you’re not supposed to sweat in it. And what’s up with all the weird sleeves this season? Dolman sleeves are back, as are those weird puffy things. They can be cute on the right body type, but they really don’t look good on women with big arms and big bosoms. Seriously, my arms are big enough already, without my clothes trying to make me look like a linebacker.

When I was leaving, this guy had been waiting and waiting for a space. He’d been there a while, so he got my space when I left. What I don’t understand is, 5 spaces past my car, there were about 40 parking spaces, and I wasn’t parked that close in the first place. :confused: I must be missing the parking lot gene or something, because I do not understand waiting and waiting for a space, when there are a ton of spaces a few feet away.

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But it wasn’t the closest space Shadow. :rolleyes:

Speaking of parking spaces, everytime I go to WallyWorld all the closest to the door non-accessible parking spaces are always full. No biggie to me cause I usually park further out anyways. I’ve always wondered why though. NO Matter What time of day or night they’re always full. I think WallyWorld puts cars in those spaces to make it look like they’re always busy. It’s a theory. I didn’t say it was a good theory though did I?

I cleaned the back porch instead of napping. I feel so accomplished and virtuous right now. In a little while we’re goin’ over to a friend’s house for supper. If it’s at six it’s supper. If it’s at seven or after it’s dinner. Don’t ask me why, it just is.

Ok, off to read stuff for a bit before purtification commences before leaving the house.

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Thanks for the hugs and advice. :slight_smile: MamaTigs, don’t worry too much - I wasn’t upset when I started drinking last night, and I rarely seek solace in alcohol. Yesterday it was a bunch of friends playing drinking games and generally having a good time, but it ended with That Guy and I falling into bed again and then having The Talk. I was the one that brought it up - I always am. Anyway, the despair and misery came after the talk, and I just unfortunately happened to still be pretty drunk.

Things always do seem better in the morning, though. :slight_smile:

I really do need to pull myself together. When I view my situation from an objective standpoint it’s so utterly ridiculous. And yet here I am. I just wonder what it’s going to take to break this vicious cycle.

On a lighter note, last night, That Guy and I were having The Talk in the living room, all somber and angsty and emo, when the cats decided to have a series of fits right in front of us. It was prettty funny - both of us were desperately trying to ignore the yowling and hisses and quacks and maintain our sense of dignity, but I had a good laugh about it afterwards.

Hugs to rigs and Kid and McUne.

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Done for the day. I trimmed 4 snowfolk and adorned them with “coal”, “carrots” and scarves. I also added all the detail pieces to the penguin - he is Teh Cute!! I’m going to have to make more of them, but I don’t have enough time to do it before the next show. Oh well…

I threw 2 kitteh kibble dishes. One is going to say “I can has cheezburger?” but I don’t know what I’m going to put in the other one. I also threw a small pitcher and a closed cone that will be a Christmas Tree if I can decorate it properly. I was thinking of punching out little stars all over it, then put a candle inside. We’ll see if it works.

I also made 3 snowfolk hats, and I’ll make the 4th tomorrow. And I’ve started loading the kiln - but I may not be firing till the end of the week. Then it’ll be a quick turn-around - cool, dip in glaze, back into the kiln, and fire so it’s done and cool before Thanksgiving. OK, no more clay talk.

The last of the storm windows are dropped in place. Tomorrow, I need to get the 2 windows that go into the front storm door and the one that fits in the back garage door. We were talking about wrapping the basement windows in plastic, since they’re single panes down there. Maybe we could wrap the screens in plastic, then pop them back in place, ya think?

Critters are fed - dunno what we’ll do for food. Grilled cheese mebbe? **FCD ** wants French toast - that’s pretty easy, too. I’ll have some cereal I think - I’m not in a french toast mood. I’d like a steak, but I just don’t feel like doing that much cooking. But I think I’ll plan on a crock pot roast for tomorrow.

mmmmmmmm pot roast :smiley:

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I just got back from a nice walk. I decided that with everything going on, I was going to take my ipod, camera and go for a nice walk. Hubby wasn’t too happy about me going by myself, but I went anyway. He walks too slow for me, lol. It was a bit cooler out there than I thought so it was only about 45 minutes long, but in that time, I managed to take 130 pictures. Yup, if you want pictures, just give me a camera and let me go, lol. They are uploading as I type and I can’t wait to see how they turn out. I love my digi camera.

Haze, {{{{hugs}}}} Speaking from a bit of experience here, although my situation was a bit different than yours was to break it off and then to cut all means of contact. Block his phone number, email, etc. Sorry for more unsolicited advice there, and I don’t even know all of your story with that guy. {{{{hugs}}}}

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McUne, share the pics!

I can’t cut off contact with That Guy, unfortunately. We both have all the same friends and don’t really socialize outside of that particular social circle. Our mutual friends all know about our situation - or did, anyway; most of them think we’ve stopped seeing each other - and I feel bad making them choose between us. Plus we work together, although hopefully that will change next semester. Blech.

Okay. Must. Do. Work.

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I have the weirdest, most wonderful husband! He went to Lowes, mostly because looking around there is his idea of a good time but also because I needed trash bags for used kitty litter. I use the contractor grade bags because the used litter from 4 boxes is heavy, and the slightest nudge will cause a regular trash bag to rip. So he’s leaving Lowe’s and notices the West Point Stephens linen store is having a going out of business sale. I have new towels! Also washcloths and hand towels. Really nice big super fluffy bath towels that were on sale for $5.59, reduced from $18.99. I love new towels~!

Today was bed laundry day and it is an all day affair. We have a blanket and mattress pad in addition to the sheets, and we have 4 blankets on top because we do not share well.

Off to forage for dinner.

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I’ve read my way through the MMP and offer hugs as well to everyone…

Hope someone else will come along soon to distract you from That Guy, Haze. (LiLi, don’t you have a spare husband you could send her way?) I’m thinking that’s what it’s going to take. (Of course, it’s always easy to theorize about other people’s relationships…)

Thanks for all the additional good wishes, everyone. (Tell BusWife I say hi and thanks, MBG.)

Had a nice, low-key birthday. Watched nephew’s team win their last game, then went to CiCi’s pizza buffet for lunch with the team (and, it turns out, several other teams in the league). Not a great place to eat, but fun for the kids. We watched Wallace & Gromit, had a nice little dinner (baked pasta) and then had a flan cake decorated with less than 50 candles. Niece was very proud of herself for having made the cake. Turned out nicely. One of my cousins and one of my uncles called, as did Mom.

Came back today and found a hysterically funny card in my mailbox. The return address was my own. It’s signed by about 12 people who claim to be close friends from way back. But the names don’t really go with any of the people I know and the anecdotes aren’t real (unless I really am getting old and very forgetful). One person reminisced about our time at UCLA (I’ve never even been to California). Another said I’d been her favorite supervisor (I’ve never supervised anyone named “Kim.”). One of the messages gives away the fact that it came from someone at work, but I’m still debating the likeliest author of this deed. They were very very careful not to give themselves away. None of the people whose handwriting I’d recognize immediately wrote anything on the card. :smiley:

Went to the Columbus Museum of Art this afternoon with one of my friends. They have an incredible Monet exhibit right now (till January 20). If you live anywhere near here and have even a passing interest in Monet, you should see it. It’s only going to be here and in Paris. Here’s the exhibit Web site. It doesn’t give lots of information about the exhibit on that page, but there are images linked from the top of the page and here’s the press release. It’s set up beautifully. My only complaint was that it was very crowded. (I’ll go back on a weekday…)

Well…gotta skedaddle…

More hugs for all…

Back later.

GT

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Here are a few of the pictures that I took. I hope the Flickr! link works, this is the first time that I’ve shared on here. Here’s the direct link to the set.

Autumn Walk Pictures

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Cite?

Nice pictures, McUne. I especially liked the ones of the leaves on the ground.

Not too much happening here. I spent most of the afternoon crying, making pie, and sulking. I’m a little bit better now. So that’s good. Just sitting here at home catching up on my DVR’d shows and waiting for Pizza Hut to bring dinner.

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I do have spare Husbands, but the nicest ones are all taken (married, engaged, serious dating). I can send Lazy Husband, though. He’s nice, just Lazy. And scared of girls. I don’t count, because I’m married.
QD was over for a little bit, discussing Christmas plans and baby shower stuff. I’m all sleepy, but I’ve just been told that evening Mass at the cathedral is at nine, so I have to stay up. Sigh. It’s only seven thirty, but it feels like ten.
Hugs all round, guys.

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I went to Mass, did laundry, took a long nap, and walked Nelly. My joints are hurting, but otherwise a nice lazy Sunday.

Neat pics, McUne..

Glad the birthday went well, gt.

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Oooh, pretty pics, McUne. I love the one with the red leaves.

I just had a talk with my mom on Skype and almost broke down in tears talking about money issues, which my mom must have thought was odd, because while I am struggling to become completely independent from my parents, it’s not like my financial situation is that dire. I couldn’t tell her the real reason for my emo-ness. Or I could have, but she would have had a heart attack.

I feel better after talking to her though. And after singing a few songs on my guitar. That always makes me feel better.

I promise I’ll be more cheerful tomorrow. :slight_smile: