I'm late, I'm late! (a late MMP from Spain)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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you didn’t, but someone did. Someone broke the whole SDMB - it was down from midnight-ish til after 8am this morning

I had no cable/net/phone when I got home last eve around 7pm ish til early this am - first the net came back and the first thing I did was come here only to find the whole board was down, then the phone came back. The cable is on but wonky. I blame it on the gale force winds we had here. Apparently some of my neighbors called in also because CableGuy just stopped by to verify that it was, in fact, an area thing. So they are sending a crew and it should be fixed by this evening. But at least i have the MMP to keep me company

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I’ve just returned from dropping my daughter off. I left her with my cell phone so she can call me when she’s done.

The coffee is brewing as I type. I need me some go-juice, man.

It’s kind of cold and foggy out this morning. It’s supposed to clear up and warm up slightly, but that’s about it. At least there aren’t any blizzards or anything like that here.

Hubby is still in bed. This is quite unusual for him. He’s usually up at the crack of dawn. I’ll let him sleep.

I’m going to cruise the Dope for a little bit and then get myself cleaned up.

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I’m waiting for some bread to defrost so I can make a PB&J. I don’t know why, I’ve had a craving for PB&J’s lately, so I got some raspberry jelly, and I’m going to go on a PB&J binge. I was going to make bread today, but I don’t have nearly as much energy as LiLi, so I might wait and do it Monday. I need to sweep and clean up and work on my grad school application, so that’s probably enough for one day.

I need to go shopping for some stuff for the new bunny. SCL, that’s a great website! Rabbits are very subtle, but they have huge personalities. The House Rabbit Society has some good rabbit stories.

taxi, I hope your kitty is okay!

FCM, your Energizer bunny costume sounds tres cool. Did you wave the drumstick around and make whooshing noises?

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I occasionally crave PB&J sandwhiches as well. Raspberry jelly is my favorite. Have you ever done a grilled PB&J? They’re awesome.

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I guess I failed to point out that I didn’t wear the costume - my spousal unit did. And his drum actually said “Energize Her” - he’s so funny… :rolleyes: But I do recall he did the whole bunny schtick.

Back from class, and as it happens, it’s a good thing I found the new class nearer to me. Tina, the teacher who I love to pieces, is leaving. In fact, next week she’s moving to Harrisburg, PA, but she promised she’d finish the class with us. One of the people who’s been going longer than I have was quite sad. Alas, so goes life.

I stopped on the way home and did some grocery shopping, and of course, I forgot to get eggs. GRRRR! So I’ll have to go out again. And the fridge in the garage was smelling a bit funky, so I just went thru and cleaned it out. I found 5 cans of beer from 1997 in one of the crisper drawers. I’m not a beer drinker, but I’m assuming beer that old is not drinkable. But would it still work in bread or pizza dough? I hate to toss it if I can use it in a recipe. I also resurrected a bottle of Cold Duck - does that go bad? I’m almost afraid to open it.

Anyway, with luck, that and some foodstuffs I removed will solve the funky smell issue.

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What is “High Gravity” beer? We did the “Help the Hooch” river clean-up this morning, and one of our finds was several empty cans of “Steelhouse” beer, which had “high gravity” on the cans. We were all puzzled. Among the usual beer cans, liquor bottles and other debis we found a mini-license plate (Deleware), empty cans of mixed vegetables and a metal table. We then adjourned to the Civic Center where we put numbers on foam pucks for the Chuck-a-Puck fundraiser. A couple of the players came out after practice and were laughing at us until I reminded them that those pucks help put sheets on their beds! We met a couple of the new guys - they are so young! - and the kid who was such a standout at the exhibition game was very nice and friendly. He’ll fit in well with out team. The snobby goalie even came over and spoke to us!

Tomorrow is the Meet & Greet - I need to make cole slaw tonight and go decorate tomorrow at 1. The party begins at 4. I’m hoping our President won’t expect the board members to say anything when he introduces the executive board for this season.

5am is entirely too early to be awake! I am very sleepy even after an hour nap when I got home.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

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Back from a dump run - the beer is gone - I decided to just dump it. Something tells me 9-year-old Bud Light is probably really nasty.

So, what shall I make for dinner?

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Mr. Lissar has been on the computer until now, so I couldn’t pop in. picu, I think significant loss or scarring of any body part definitely deserves mourning. I’m glad it isn’t hurting so much.

Last night was a Comedy of Errors. The place we tried to go to didin’t take reservations, so when we got there they told us an hours’ wait. We took off for another restaurant, and *they told us an hours’ wait as well. Everyone was coming from different directions and there were people on streetcars whom we were frantically phoning as we changed location so they’d know where to go…

It was ridiculous. We ended up somewhere at 9:30 and had a decent dinner, and then went out to a quietish bar for dessert and drinks. It was fun, but crazy-making. Next year I am:

  1. Finding out how many people will be coming in advance
  2. Making reservations several days in advance.
  3. Issuing directions and a strict meeting-time.

Time for church. Mr. Lissar and I are both really tired, so we’re off to church, coming home, and lounging around for the evening. I will pick up some groceries on the way home. Whee!

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whee indeed
Tonight is Ruby Tuesdays because BFF and I are tired of Applebee’s, and I’m tired of the little Mexican place we like. We haven’t been out in a while because she’s been [del]unemployeed[/del] between assignments until recently. We really shouldn’t go ut to eat just the two of us because we co-enable each other into appy’s, drinks, and desserts as well as the entree. (but usually end of doggie-bagging anyway) But we do have fun.

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Back from Halloweening and the library and doing some organizing. Oh, and I ordered myself a bunch of DVDs. Started with one (I’m watching the BBC/A&E version of Emma for about the eleventy-thousandth time) and was going through my list of movies I want to buy and came up with 10. A couple were ones that I’d never seen on DVD. Also, Overstock was having especially good prices today.

Sorry about your finger, picu. Seems normal to be mourning it.

:confused: :confused: High gravity beer? :confused: :confused:
Perhaps one of our beerverage experts will know. Oh, and glad you dumped the beer, FCM. The only possible I could think of would be for killing slugs.

Sorry your teacher is leaving, FCM. Good thing you already had a back-up plan.

Need to actually clean out some garden and clean inside and do laundry and lots of other stuff.

Maybe I’ll go get coffee first. Sounds lovely.

GT

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So, you dumped the beer. Did you drink the Cold Duck, FCM? :stuck_out_tongue:

I dunno ‘bout this Hallowe’en thing. Usually we go to a party dressed up as sump’n but not this year, since the party ain’t happenin’. Guess I’ll figure out sump’n to wear.

I’m smokin’ chicken breasts. They have a good draw but man are they hard to keep lit! HAR! I crack me up. They smell good. I’m usin’ mesquite chips and put some fresh rosemary and thyme in the water pan along with some lemon and… water! They should be done in about an hour. They’re for lunch tomorrow. However, a couple of ‘em might get et tonight knowin’ us. I’m thinkin’ a nice green salad with some sliced smoked chicken would make a good supper. We went for Chinese for lunch today and so neither of us is real hungry.

YOU WILL DISCOVER MORE THAN ONE WAY TO BE CREATIVE

<snerk> away!

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In BED!!! <snerk>

Did I get it right this time?

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That’s brilliant! I’ve never had a grilled PB&J. I might have to have another PB&J tomorrow! Or for a midnight snack. They’re good any time!

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Hey, y’all.

Went to town this morning for provisions, and spent the afternoon tearing out an old climbing rose that went wild, and getting the workshop organized. I’m pooped. I still have a pile of [del]crap[/del] treasures that need to go up into the attic…

I’m about to head over to Hooterville, because their fire station is having a haunted house. I haven’t been to one in a very long time, so I think I’ll support them.

Oh, and I think I’ll get churchified in the morning.

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Hm. Long day here.

Needless to say, all away from the comfy laptop. Up early to knock on doors and tell people how important it is to vote YES for our school referendum on 11/7, then straight to the HS state marching band championships.

Yes, my kid’s been out of high school for two years, but I still know some of the kids, and it’s a fun day.

Now I’m home, watching the World Series with the sound down, and some music on.

I believe a beerverage is in order.

All in favor, say aye.

AYE

All opposed. ::crickets::

Thought so.

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AYE!!!

Another exciting day at work, nothing like cleaning up after people and their hell larvae. I too am getting churchified tomorrow.

SCL, gravity is a measure of alcohol content, malt liquors like OE and Steel Reserve are a tad stronger/more barfy tasting than average. The neighborhood crazy lady drinks Steel Reserve, hence her nickname: “211”.

FCM, Bud Light is nasty when it’s nine days old. :smiley:

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You know what’s better than PB&J? SunflowerB&J! Papa Tigs picked me up some homemade sunflower butter at the Amish market a couple of weeks ago, and I think I’ve found my new comfort food. Delicious beyond description!

Sounds like everyone has had a productive day, or not, as the case may be. Me, I’ve had the productive type – finally felt well enough to do stuff, so I stripped the bed and washed all the bedding, blankets and all; and then I spent several hours working on a quilt – it’s machine sewed, but then I have to clip all the seams to make it a rag quilt. I got the whole thing sewn together, so now have a good project to keep me busy while watching TV for the next week or so.

But I am TIRED. So I think I’ll crawl into those clean sheets and have sweet dreams. Or something. It’s good to be human again!

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Nava - Everytime I read “lilbro” I see “libro” and for a moment I am confused, thinking "What does a book have to do in this sentence! :slight_smile: Mothers are crazy, I had to move 1,500 miles away to a tiny place accesible only by either puddle jumper air taxi or fishing boat and insisted on 5 years of no communication before we were able to begin again. Now she’s one of my best friends, and one of my regrets is …I live 1,500 miles away from her. Best of luck with your mom situation, sometimes it gets better. Oh, and a very interesting OP, thanks!

db - Maggie just wanted some kitty roca…did she give you a big kiss in gratitude for the treat? :smiley: Oh, and the bumpy plane ride things you’ve been doing? Stop that!
You just don’t know how much I hate those little 8 seater air taxis I used to have to take on a regular basis when I lived in the village. Going to Anchorage is marginally better, but still bumpy. shudder
Oh, and I really love the song I Believe, how cool to “know” someone who has a relative who played an extra in the video! :slight_smile:

picu - Awww hun, you have my sympathy. I will massively shorten the story, but when The Son was about 18 months old he got the palm side of his ring finger pinched off in the car door right below the first end joint. With all of the kids trampling around in the dirt, screaming and crying, I couldn’t find the piece of his finger, so I just got everyone back in the car and sped all the way to the hospital. Being as it was Labor Day Weekend my Dr. was out of town, and the on call doc was ancient. He bandaged my son’s hand and told me to see my doctor on Tuesday. Well, by Sunday I could see green seepage through the gauze dressing, so back to the E.R. we went. My doc had come back into town as the weather was nasty, so he met me at the E.R… Mind, he has never made me leave the room for a procedure on any of my children, husband, friends, relatives, children of friends and relatives, etc. he knows that I am good during a crisis. Well, he examined my son’s finger, looked up and told my friend to take me to the cateteria for a coffee! :eek: When I was allowed to go back into the room my son was all bandaged up and tear stained. Doc told me to put out my hand, which I did, and he dropped a bit of something white in my hand, and proceeded to tell me that he had to clip off 1/4 inch of my son’s finger bone, :eek: then put stiches through the nail and pulled it over the open wound. I cried a lot, but it healed just fine, and unless you look very closely you would never notice that he doesn’t have 10 perfect fingers

spats - My daughter has recently dumped three short term date-relationships with guys who seemed wonderful at first, but moved far too quickly emotionally for her. I have the song from The Little Mermaid, You Got to Woo the Girl stuck in my head for you!

rigs - Losing the coat which your sister gifted to you and feeling emotional about it is not materialistic. I have a few items given under similar circumstances, and I would be beyond distraught if I lost any of them. I mean, life goes on, but there are some things that are worth having emotions about. I will continue to hold out hope that it was an accidental swap and that you and that person will connect and you will get your jacket back.

SCL - Ow ow ow!

mothercat - Did you win your bid on the serger? I love ebay, Retail Therapy and gambling all in one, and if I lose my auction, well, I haven’t really lost anything!

House bunnies + waterbeds = flooding and thoughts of bunny stew, IME.

tarra - I read the Chronicles of Narnia during the first part of my last trimester when I was pregnant with my first. I had very vivid dreams whilst preggers, and I dreamt of talking lions for the rest of that pregnancy! It was really wild, the dreams were so vivid.

MGB - Words fail me. TB is fortunate that I am not the mother of the child on the bus, as I would have gotten the details as to why he was late, and then I woulda raised all kinds of unholy noise far and wide.

Jahdra - I’ve said it before, you and I could have a nice long talk about a lot of commonalities. Go you on staying strong. I don’t work a 12-step, but I do take each 24 hours as it comes. If youi ever want to chat, my email is in my profile.

fcm - We had a pastor couple, and the husband, who delivered the sermons, had a very bad habit of repeating the word “wonderful”. It drove his wife absolutely batty. Our congregation is very small and so we tend to be a little more relaxed than congregations in more populated areas. Since she had tried and tried to convince him to use other adjectives in place of “wonderful”, which reminded her of the Lawrence Welk show, she threatened to sit beind him during a sermon, and every time he said “wonderful” she was going to blow soap bubbles, a la The Lawrence Welk show. He blew her off, as so many husbands tend to do, and darn if she wasn’t armed and ready the following Sunday, and his sermon was punctuated with flurries of soap bubbles with every “wonderful” he uttered. Needless to say, he began to use a thesaurus. (BTW my email is backed up, but I received yours!)

rosieposie - Back in the day I adopted a stray dog. He was mostly beagle, only black and white, and he was all freckled, so I named him Farkle!

And that, I believe, is a long enough post from me for now!

Or would have been, if someone hadn’t broken the Boards!

The word for today has been lethargic…can you kids say that word? Leh-thar-jik…I knew you could! :smiley: I managed to take a shower and put on a clean dress, oh, and I ate a boring skiffman cheeseburger with lukewarm oven fries. A skiffman burger, with or without cheese, is a challenge. They resemble a meatball more than a meat patty. At least the burger was cooked all the way through this time. I am a huge fan of rare beef, but my burger meat must be completely cooked.

#3 is at a dance up to the High School. It’s so close to Halloween that they were encouraged to dress up, so she went as a dog. She bought a tail, I did her hair up in cute puppy ears (just in sections up high on her head behind her real ears, with the rest hanging down. She asked me to do her face, which was easy, and then she said “Where is that Ace bandage?” I pulled it out of the drawer, and she asked “Mom, may I borrow that, so I can be the dog looking for the man who shot my pa?” (Obviously I share all of you imaginary friends a lot around the house!) So I have to sit up and wait for her to drag her teenage hiney back into the house before I can go to bed for real.

I’m closing now. No really, I am. hehehe…oh yeah, the new Stephen King is out on Tuesday, yay!!!

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I am up and getting ready for church.

kai, Maggie is, thank God, not a kisser. The cat puked last night, right in front of the dog:
Lucretia: HHHOOORRNNK!
Maggie: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:
Me: Ewww!

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I’m up, I’m up!!! But it feels really early. Well, actually, I’ve been up for a couple hours, sort of. I’ve even had coffee and pancakes with peaches and maple syrup. (Freezing leftover pancakes is a genius idea.)

Hi kai! Loved the bubbles story.

doggio, have you considered writing a novel? Maybe with Maggie and Lucretia as main characters?

Hi everyone else!!!

Maybe more coffee?

GT