Thanks, **Sean ** and LiLi! I’d have been saddened beyond words to be the only Holy Grail mumper.
It’s not even 5:30 and it’s DARK!!! I am not amused!!! :mad: But the lasagne was good, I have another piece for lunch tomorrow, and now I’m about to have at a grape popsicle. Such is my life…
Alas, I am not Monty Python fanatic, so I missed that reference, and can be counted to miss just about all others, too.
Maybe it wasn’t a mongoose. Maybe it was some kind of nasty weasel or something. I can’t remember exactly, and apparently Papa Tigs is inside Sam’s and doesn’t have a cell phone signal so I can’t verify it right now. But the rest of the tale is true; I can take a photo of his lovely scar if you doubt it. :eek:
My animals are also trying to persuade me that they are STARVING, I tell you, STARVING. I don’t believe them. Especially Rusty, who three minutes after he has licked his bowl clean is the saddest, most pathetically hungry and underfed creature you will ever meet. Like we believe him. 
But that never stops him, needless to say. Early on, the dogs actually did con us into a couple of extra meals by informing a different person that they hadn’t been fed, so coordination of meals is the name of the game today. Stoopid animals!
I assume that the Pembroke Hamster <snerk> has been appropriately vaccinated; I can’t imagine snowbunny’s allowing an unvaccinated critter in her shop. She’s kinda picky about things, which when you’re dealing with other people’s animals is probably a Very Good Thing.
Is it bedtime yet? Have I finished both congressional hearings yet? No? Well, why not? Huh?
Ah-hah, I knew it started with an M! It was a muskrat. Not that far from mongoose, right? :dubious:
<heaves huge sigh of relief that the entire ecosystem of North America hasn’t changed THAT radically due to global warming…>
Still, that sounds horrible.
The husband has taken it upon himself to cook dinner. Hamburger Helper, anyone?
I’m bored. Amuse me, please.
I could juggle the various items on my desk - once the Slinky gets into the mix, it should be really amusing. 'Specially since I don’t know how to juggle. So it’d just be me throwing stuff to an Ed-Sullivanesque soundtrack.
<moderate applause> Could I light the stuff on your desk on fire?
I must suffer from perpetual ennui. I’m at loose ends and don’t know what to do with myself. Am going to the sports award banquet for my daughter tonight (it’s not really a banquet–and I have to make dessert). Dessert is made–marble brownies.
Ho, hum. <twiddles thumbs>
Cloud Maiden and I are running out of food but are too lazy to do anything about it.
I really should be grading papers. Instead I’m curled up with Olive, reading trashy books.
Hi folks.
Know what I’m doing right now? Trying to find a reasonably priced wedding photographer. I know I know, stop laughing.
It’s amazing how much one could spend to have a photographer at your whim for 8 hours or so.
(I’d just like to say that I don’t need EIGHT HOURS OF PHOTOGRAPHY for any event in my life. I hate being photographed to begin with. Sheesh.)
I’m not worried about whether the hamster got its shots, I’m only going to keep an eye on it because of various other nasties that could have gotten in. I don’t think I’m going to have a problem, though, it’s settling down nicely.
Dang, it’s getting dark early and getting light late suddenly. And it’s only barely November!
Would it be weird to ask a friend or two to take photos instead?
Olive has discovered paper bags. She is fascinated.
Home. Dinner is et. Chillin’.
Christmas has taken hold at my local mall. Several stores have decked themselves out in yuletide finery, and Santa’s village is halfway built. (Structurally it’s there, they just haven’t added the trees/fake snow/furniture/etc.) Oddly, the Canadian Tire, which has reliably been the harbinger of the holiday season before the mall has decorated itself, haven’t even got their window display done yet. Laggards.
Can you tell I’m excited about the season? 
I say you just import pulykamell from Chicago to take your pictures, scout. You’d probably pay just as much, but your pictures would be cool. (Did you catch his “ask the wedding photographer” thread a bit ago?) The other thing to think about though, is that you’re not necessarily going to want pictures of you, but pictures of the people who attended your wedding. And that’s something that might be hard to get if you just asked a friend or 2 to take pictures.
Lovely OP, Dotty. HRH is so cute!
Wow, Shadow perhaps you should ask Deliberately Incompetent Coworker to work on one of those nice on-line map quizzes until she can tell Japan and Australia apart. Um…they look nothing alike and aren’t all that close to each other. :rolleyes:
I really like how you coordinated your maternity leaves Dotty and LiLi. I guess we have a minimum requirement for one Mumper on family leave at any given time. Who’s on deck for when LiLi goes back to work?
Fingers crossed on the job Hank. That would be awesome if it worked out.
I believe a wet trout is called for in your circumstances, rigs. But yay on the practicum, even if it did take them a week to figure out what we already knew. (I still think we should hire ourselves out as all-purpose consultants; we could be in charge of the world.)
I’m tired and considering a nap. Had 2 long meetings today that required lots of discussion and thought and pretty much wore me out. Also I’m suffering from fall allergies (leaf mold, presumably) and hoping for a nice hard frost.
Had a really nice lunch after the first meeting. Grilled rainbow trout. Yum.
I got my hair cut today and the salon had it’s Christmas decorations up already. Very odd. (They’re under new ownership and pushing gift certificates, so maybe not so odd…?)
GT
Haw haw haw haw haw haw haw haw haw haw haw haw haw haw haw haw haw haw haw!
Sorry.
Don’t even think of looking for a reasonably priced wedding cake. They Don’t Exist.
Hm. A co-worker of Mr. Lissar’s is out of money ($13 in bank) and can’t afford food until the next paycheck. The 15th. Mr. Lissar is thinking of giving him some money. I’m thinking of giving him food, instead. My normal generous impulses are being throttled by not receiving a regular, full paycheck for the next year. I’ll send him soup and homemade bread on Wednesday. Or chili with lots of TVP.
It’s not that I don’t want to help, I’m just really feeling impoverished myself. We’ll discuss it when Mr. Lissar gets back from the dojo.
Speaking of which, I should make dinner.
Helllo everyone. It was a very long day at the hospital. We arrived at seven a.m and Mr. Taters and I didn’t leave until after 3:00 p.m.
Surgery started at 9:00 and the surgeon finally came out to talk to us at 11:30. The surgery was only supposed to last until around 10:00, so we were a might bit concerned.
The surgeon said the surgery went well, and they are planning on releasing MIL tomorrow. He then told us she’d be in her hospital room in about an hour. As it turns out, MIL had some serious pain issues, so they had to keep her in recovery longer. She finally got to her room at about 2:00 pm. Once there, she promptly threw up. They gave her some meds to counteract the nausea and soon she was sleeping again, so we went home.
I’ll call tomorrow morning to find out when I should pick her up. I really think they should keep her for at least a couple of days, but it seems they can’t kick the patients out fast enough.
The surgeon asked us if anyone would be home with MIL, and we told him we were under the impression a nurse would be coming to drain her lines. He told us that her lines would have to be drained at least three times a day. Well, crap. Guess who’s on caretaker duty? Yup, good ol’ me. I’m hoping that she really won’t have to be drained all that often.
I’m glad to see some of the old timers checking in again. Congrats, scout, on your upcoming nuptials. I hope you can find a reasonably priced photographer. We had some friends take pictures at our wedding. They turned out very nicely.
Last night I made something for dinner that was a big hit with the hubby. The funny thing is, it’s so very simple to make. You just take cube steaks and dredge them in some seasoned flour and brown them in a frying pan with some butter. Next, you put them in a baking/casserole dish and top each cube steak with an onion slice. Next, sprinkle some Lipton’s Beefy Onion soup mix over that. Finally, pour some beef consomme over the top; enough to give you some gravy, and bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 50 to 60 minutes. Serve with some smashed taters and some vegetable side dish.
I’ve been informed I’ll be making that again.
Speaking of dinner, I guess I should figure out what we’re going to eat.
Ooh! I wanted to add that I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you Haze.
I’m a bad girl - I barely read any of the thread - but I know you all will forgive me.
I did look at Noor’s pics - she’s aDORable!
I had a very bad day - I’m so grrrrrrrrrrrr - they told me that the Rituxan is supposed to keep me from feeling every weather change, but we had good weather Friday, bad Saturday, good yesterday, and changing to bad today. I feel crappy.
Orientation got better this afternoon, since we had a different trainer. However, I can always count on getting a migraine if I spend all day in a training room without natural light. So, yep, migraine. I came home and took a Maxalt, and I think it’s time for bed, before this tuns into a druknae post. too late.
I read through the imaginary dopers thread and was surprised to see me represented in there.
So, **rigsy, ** you think I look like a goof?! :dubious: 
I laughed out loud at Swampy’s image of me and my family. Let’s face it, there’s not much you can do with my user name. It doesn’t evoke an attractive image, does it?
Dinner has been eaten, and we even fed a friend of my daughter. He’s here using one of our 'puters because he doesn’t have internet at home.
I’m sorry you’re not feeling well, Blue. I hope you feel better tomorrow.
Off to peruse my e-mail. Finally got it working on this PC again.
Nice pictures, Dottie- Noor is so cute!
Stayed home today - the Princess is sick with the flu, and so is my mom. So I had to be Nurse Lucky for the day. Right now I just gave the Princess her medicine, and she is currently next to me drawing Pokemons as I type. I’m taking lots of Airborne (yechh) so as not to catch the flu. So far it seems to be working.
Have any of you mumpers ever tried Zycam? Does it work?
Cousin has this uncanny ability to always get sick right before we go away, so I told her to get some, but never having tried it myself, I couldn’t vouch for its effectiveness.
Meanwhile, it’s past my bedtime, so off to selfmedicate and fall asleep.
Worked, went to the gym, showered, ate, went to a meeting until 8:30.
I’m packing it in. Ya’ll get by without me for the night, 'k?