OW! OW OW OW OW OW!
Yikes. I’m recoiling in horror just thinking about it. ::shudders::
I forgot to mention that the Amish farm where we might get the quit has a teeny little dog. Nikita (our cat) is a small cat at 6 lbs, and this dog was even smaller. It’s just so weird to see a dog that small.
It was soooooo cute though. It barked like crazy at us but then when we knelt down to say hi to it, it came prancing over. Just so cute!
Sorry, remember, I’m under the influence. And I’m married to one. 
It was an AMR BLS unit, not that it matters. They were great to me. I really mean no disrespect.
The percoset isn’t working all that well. It still hurts. A lot.
Thanks for all the sympathy.
I have to go back to bed now.
Oh, I’m all for it-she set herself up but good. And good on you for setting her straight…
I have some upsetting news. I have lost my dark brown leather jacket that my sister bought for me about 6 months before she died. Somehow, I have a black leather jacket instead-lighter weight and not the styling of the other one. I am sick about this. And I can’t htink where I’ve been where I could have had it swapped out. I only go to the lib, grocery store, Target and gas station. Yes, I need to get out more, but seriously, how many placed do you take off your jacket? Not that many.
I don’t make Liz Claiborne leather jacket money-and won’t. It was supposed to last me the next 30 years-and then she’d buy her lil sister another one–that was our joke, when we both knew that she wouldn’t live the year out…I am seriously crying about this. Sorry if that’s materialistic and shallow. too bad.
I figured as much. 
I didn’t know you were married to one.
I’m one, too. Just BLS level, so I couldn’t do much beyond cleaning it off, bandaging you up and whisking you off to the ER for suturing and drugs.
A question for the MMPers. A car in my neighborhood has the following vanity plate. I can’t figure it out. A little help, please?
SWTEMTN
Sweety Mountain?
Sweet East Mountain?
Southwest East Mountain?
Sweet Motoring?
That’s all I can come up with.
It’s on an older-model purple Saturn that’s seen better days, FWIW.
OK, please tell me I’m not the only one who thinks this is a bad idea: a coffee maker that you can use in your car. :eek: Like it’s not bad enough that people talk on cell phones, spill coffee on themselves from their mugs, etc., now you can brew coffee while driving?? What happens when you go to pour your cup o’ joe and spill it all over your lap? Holy $&*(% that’s a bad idea!
Do you hang up your jacket at the library? If so, could one of the coworkers maybe have accidently taken yours instead of theirs? My only other thought is one of the kids? It’s not shallow at all. It’s a link with a loved one who’s gone.
Nope-the lib was the first place I checked. These are all such nice people and none of them have a black leather jacket to begin with. I find it so odd that they got switched…
thanks for not saying-for heaven’s sake, there are people w/o any jackets at all. <sigh>
I feel like I let down her memory. Irrational, maybe, but I just want to say sorry to her… OFf to lokk for kleenex.
Sweet Emotion?
I was on the phone with Papa Tigs when I read this, and exclaimed in horror, to which he assured me that he sees them all the time now. He said, “Oh, yeah, it’s for the carpool. You pull up to a traffic light and see them passing around the carafe.” :eek: :eek: :eek:
Sweet Temptation
rigs, I don’t think it’s shallow at all. That was your last link to your sister. I find it reprehensible that someone would take yours. Have you been anywhere else recently where you might have left your jacket? How long has it been missing? If it’s very recent, perhaps you could make a fuss about your swapped jacket everywhere you’ve been lately. Maybe that would flush the guilty party out. I find it hard to believe that someone wouldn’t notice that they had swapped their crappy jacket for your nice one. Have you been anywhere where people were grabbing their coats in the dark? Maybe they didn’t notice the swap until they got home? Did you have your name or any identifying marks in the jacket?
BiblioCat, Sweaty Mountain? 
So Tempting? Yeah, I got nothin’. I like Sweaty Mountain best, though.
I’m helping to plan a retreat in Reno in April. Anybody have any fun ideas for 300 people? Besides drinking and gambling, I think we’ve got that covered.
That was my first thought but then I thought of the song. Then I realized if you removed all of the vowels and left only the consonants, Sweet Emotion fits.
Hey, where is everybody? It’s been an hour since the last post. With all the stuff that went wrong here at work today, I can’t get to the stuff I need to do so I’m BOOOOOORED! ::whine::
I laundered underwear, walked the beagle, and am cooking a Cornish Hen. Still no FedEx guy. 
SCL, Maggie D. Beagle has three looks she gives me:
So I found out about a job that I’d love to do. The catch? It pays, uh, let me get the calculator (I’m never switching jobs again without using the calculator) and find my current comp statement. Ah, yes, it pays just about 50% less than what I’m making now. Sigh. I really can’t afford to do that. I mean, I suppose could, and I would if I had to, but I’d be living on the edge again, with no extras whatsoever, and I hate that. There is a long-term payoff, assuming that I’m good at it, but it feels awfully risky to take such a huge paycut with no guarantees. I know, I know, there are no guarantees, but still. That’s a lot of money to not have coming in.
Jahdra -no ID in the jacket. And believe me, I watch it like a hawk (I almost never take it off-and I never leave it on a chair. I take care of this jacket-or I did).
I am having trouble remembering stuff. No, I don’t suffer from blackouts, I am old. I know I had it on campus, but here’s the thing-I know I had it in the car on the way home (or what I thought was it? I dunno). I have certainly been wearing a leather jacket for the past 2 weeks or so-it got cold here in Chicago.
but here’s the thing: I have been literally nowhere. And I mean nowhere. I have been to the grocery or to Target ( in neither place do I take off my coat). If I am not there, I am at home, working on grad school stuff. Now, I know I need to get more, but I don’t have time or money to do so. So, where could it be? I checked the lib. Not there. I am going to post on the bb at school, but it’s a long shot. I just can’t imagine what I did with it. I do not wear it to my nursing job-too many things have been stolen from me there.
TMI: it was about $450, IMS; it’s a Liz Claiborne genuine leather jacket, bought at Field’s (another grief–I will NOT shop at Macy’s for anything). Yes, it was extravagant as hell, but that was my sister. She didn’t do that type of thing often, but when she did, she did it up. <sigh>
I find it so weird that it was swapped. I mean, I now have a black, Liz Claiborne leather jacket-the styling is different, and it’s a bit too big (but not huge-I just thought I had lost a lil weight, and I have). Grrrrr.
Sorry to go on and on about it.
Man, whenever the “Sweet Emotion” song comes on the radio or something I always try to hold the note like Aerosmith does. Sometimes I can just barely do it.
SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET
Emooooooootion. 
rigs, sorry about your jacket. It must be rough to lose something so important.
Man, am I late to the party.
First, great OP! My mother never rearranged anything in my house, but whenever my grandmother visited me, she couldn’t just sit and visit. She *had * to clean. I didn’t take it as an insult - it’s just the way she was. It’s one of my fonder memories of her.
Second, **picu ** - Owie ow ow ow! That’s all I can say about that. OW!
Third, what a day I’ve had. My supervisor and I managed to convince the LCOL that I needed to attend the training class, so that was good. But the guy who’s teaching it really sucks. And when I got back to the office after class, my team was on me for a bunch of decisions (it took a while for me to get my brain realigned) and I had a phone message from the one guy who isn’t in our office who’s on the team - he needs to meet with me before Thursday. Then the Senior Engineer, who I absolutely cannot stand, was all of a sudden asking me for stuff that I don’t think I can include in the writeup. My work day ran longer than 10 hours, and I fear tomorrow will be worse.
Plus I need to make my reservations for travel for next week, but the place I have to call closes at 4, and it was after 4 when I tried to call. So I need to call at 7:30 tomorrow. And add some slides to my presentation. And correct a map so the format matches all the rest. And still get to class by 8:30.
This would be a good day to hit the lotto, ya know? I suppose I should buy a ticket to make that a viable option… <sigh>
rigs, sorry about the jacket! I can sort of relate. Two years after my dad died, I was still wearing one of his overcoats - one of those long trenchcoats guys wear over suits. I left it in a closet where i worked downtown since that’s the only place I ever wore a suit.
It was summer when I left that job, and weeks before I remembered leaving the overcoat there.
I still have my grandfather’s bathrobe. It’s nothing special and I hardly ever wear it, but I have it. My cousin gave me a pair of earrings when she got married. She was 19 and I was about 10. I’ve had the earrings for almost 40 years (they’re not actually that little-girly) and one of them flew off the other day when I took them off. It has to be somewhere in my house (and yes, I’ll be regretfully going through the contents of the vacuum cup the next time I empty it), but it makes me really really sad that I can’t find the earring because my cousin died about 5 years ago (and she was my favorite cousin; one of the kindest people ever).
That’s a long way of saying, I understand why you’re upset. You’ve lost a connection to your sister.
Excellent OP, Nava. I think we should collect several of our Moms and send them on a tour together. They’d probably get along famously. My mother is famously snoopy and would rearrange stuff just to see if she can learn any information I may be keeping from her. Yes, I am over 12, thankyewverymuch.
Oh, and every time I read Tudela, I thought Midela (just a little leftover from one of Nava’s previous posts…).
Almost forgot, picu: OW! OW OW OW OW OW!. Hope you feel better quickly.
So, Spats, are you even a little bit excited about going out to dinner on Thursday? Just wondering, because it wasn’t clear. 
Did everyone see that SurrenderDorothy checked in at the end of the last MMP? Thought I’d post a link since someone asked about her in last week’s MMP.
I have to do some QA on the data I cleaned up over the weekend. I think I’m done, but I pulled a sample and found some stuff that didn’t quite make sense. I’m hoping I just joined something oddly in the sample (I didn’t actually pull it for QA purposes). Thought I’d double-checked my way through everything, but now I’m scared to death I may have messed something. That would be not good.
I know I’ve forgotten stuff; I read every post, but I’m tired and really need to go re-validate numbers, not to mention eat dinner…
Back after the numbers are clean.
GT