Well, **swampy **- two employees = two meat gifts! 
So yay and yum!
Lunch is over - back to work with me. C’mon 3:00!!!
I may be a horrible person and a worse mother, but I do a little internal fist pump when my kids have to stay home sick, and they actually feel sick and lethargic, so they will sit in front of the TV, nap, and not ask me to entertain them all day and make themselves sicker by eating/jumping/whatever. I actually refuse to medicate fevers below 103 because feeling feverish makes them get rest, and Tylenol would make them do gymnastics, until they wore themselves out and got even worse.
Just had a very brief chat with Mom. (Not our Mom)
Despite the lengthy procedure (she slept through it anyway) she’s feeling and sounding well. She didn’t sound gorked, so I’m guessing “feeling well” isn’t a result of morphine or whatever post-op people get these days. Knowing her, she’s probably already walked down to the cafeteria for breakfast.
Yes, my family tolerates pain just a wee bit differently from most people… I’m not entirely convinced that’s a good thing.
Not horrible at all! Sounds just like me. I secretly resent them when they are “sick” but a few hours later act like nothing was ever wrong. Yet I just lost a whole day of work. 
StepDaughter v.2.0 was too ill to fly home to NH from Memphis, but was jumping up and down in the motel room I had to pay for.
Oh, hell, no!
Guys, this pot roast I’m cooking for dinner smells so flipping awesome, I wish I could share it with you. I had to go out to get my daughter, and I got all excited when I realized I would get to stop smelling it, then come back to the house full of beef-garlic-thyme-wine fragrance! I think I might make this for Christmas dinner, no lie.
But – did you put any cinnamon in it…?
Or is the cinnamon there unauthorized? 
Also, cool mom, awesome cook, must be a wonderful person (I mean, you’re a mumper!)… so, how you doin’?
Or check cheap bus fares and move onto the couch?
SWAMPY - I think the bartender was just beside himself because of how many Santas rushed the joint alone. Last year it was scheduled basically in the same time frame as BLUSH, a local titty-bar, which waived the cover charge for all Santas. So basically all the men and 70% of the women went there. The poor dude tending bar at Images then was the same fellow there this year and I think he felt — rejected? This year it was against something without free boobies and I talked it up a lot at the first five stops so 90% of the participants came there. The bartender just felt the love and ran with it. Made for a great stop.
Special1 gets turned on by pot roast! Yeah, that’s a big surprise. 
Eesh. Cinnamon in a pot roast would indeed be unauthorized. I do heartily approve of the garlic, thyme and wine, and I also add rosemary.
As luck has it, I’ve got a pot of beef stew simmering away right now. Sometimes it’s fun to play Grocery Guess & Grab for dinner. They had a small chuck roast on last-day clearance and a box of slightly tired mushrooms, also with a challenge to be sold today, or else.
gotti forgot to add, glad to know mom is recoverin’ from the robot.
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gotti forgot to add, glad to know mom is recoverin’ from the robot.
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I’m just glad she’s not a fan of Saturday Night Live.
“…when they grab you with those metal claws, you can’t break free.. because they’re made of metal, and robots are strong.”
I can now never have robotic surgery. :eek:
I’m home and I successfully crammed the ham and turkey into the freezer. Yay!
I came home to a bill from the jr college where I took the pottery classes. Apparently, I have a debt of $7.38 that’s been on the books for almost a year. The first I hear of it is a rather snarky letter threatening to send it to collections. They said I could go on their website and pay it. yeah, right… I was all over that site and there’s no way to settle an old debt - at least not one to be found with logical searching and random link-following. So I’ll just write them a check, and tell them how stupid their website is.
Daughter should be coming over for dinner. Little does she know she’s getting leftovers. But she’ll also get cake - I brought home what was left from the potluck - almost half a cake! There were lots of desserts, so I’m not too surprised. Oh well.
I want to sleep. Maybe later.
Did somebody say cake?
Head on down to St. Mary’s county and you can have 2 pieces - maybe even 3!!!
Howdy from da cave. OYKW and I got haircuts. Actually lots of hairs cut. I headed on home and he’s stoppin’ to swipe The General’s dindin cause he got him a gnawin’ and a cravin’ for some. Fine by me cause he’s buyin’.
MOOOOOOM pay it in loose change. They’ll love it. Everybody always needs change, right?
Mmm, cake!
Up, caffeinated. One more week of waiting to see whether I have a particular job here or not. If so, I stay, which will be crowded, annoying, but full of dogs and cats and MrTao. If not, then I fly up to Idaho where I will find real work, but minus all the animals and MrTao, but with immediate family to be around again. I’d hoped to take Mouse with me to Idaho, but not this time, if I go. The logistics with the weather just aren’t worth risking my dad’s old van, hehe.
I don’t do well not knowing wth is going to happen, so if I stay sane for the next week it’ll be a miracle. The last week has been the worst, as I thought I hadn’t gotten the job, but I called yesterday and was told they were still going through applications and that next week I could call them back and get an answer; I think I have calmed down a bit.
Also, I jinxed MrTao, joking about him playing Santa for Christmas. He growled at that.
Guess what he’s doing tomorrow night? His photography club has a ‘Pics with Santa’ fundraiser going on for the BoysAndGirlsClub, and their Santa for Friday dropped out. Buahahahahaha!! He’s pissed at me for jinxing him.
Today I went to class and spent the entire day making jokes with a classmate - jokes about Windex. Yes, we actually managed to spend an entire day joking about Windex.
Shows you how exciting my class is. 
Well? Share the jokes with us!