Thanks, I needed that. I’d also like to add what I just read…
I read that last word as ‘nipples.’
Oh, and Good Luck, Haze! I’m sure you’ll do wonderfully!
I’d like to see shimmering nipples…
And good luck HAZELNUTCOFFEE. I hope you get the job.
It’s been a while since I’ve had an interview, so I’m somewhat out of practice, but when I was in high school I had a billion college interviews - to the point where it became almost a weekly routine for several months. I was always a little bit nervous, I guess, but after a while I kind of did it an autopilot. Plus I’m pretty good at bullshitting. It’s something I learned after getting called on numerous times in literature classes when I hadn’t done the reading for the day. 
I usually freak out AFTER the interview. :smack:
We had that problem in our last apartment. I scrubbed the kitchen within an inch of its life, but the flies just kept coming. The bastards.
Thanks for the good wishes y’all. 
I’ll definitely post afterwards and tell you guys how it went (it’s not until 3pm).
Oh, good, so it’s not too late to wish you luck, Hank!
Sorry things still aren’t going so well, Kid. Hope they get to the right balance of meds soon!
I’ve been randomly surfing all morning and need to stop and get some stuff done! Maybe I can build up some motivation.
We’re having a small Thanksgiving too, Puggy. Just got a Cook’s Illustrated e-mail about preparing for Thanksgiving and am planning to try the gravy (sorry swampy, it’s not giblet gravy - I’m sure you wouldn’t approve) and the rolls because they’re both make-ahead items. I’ll report back on how they turn out.
Guess I should go clean the fridge and contemplate other household stuff.
GT
rigs, I’m sure you’ve already done this, but just in case- have you poured bleach down all your drains, and let it stand for fifteen or so minutes?
I hate fruit flies, too. I find the homemade glass with vinegar and plastic wrap traps work pretty well, but they take at least a couple of days. If the glass is clear, your can watch them drown, gloating.
Rigs - Ugh. I hate fruit flies. Hate, hate, hate those unholy little bastards. I go on a crusade to kill every damn last one of them whenever I’m somewhere that’s infested by them. The only bugs I hate worse are mosquitoes and spiders (except, inexplicably, for large fuzzy ones, not including camel or huntsman spiders, whose freakish size just cause me to wig out again.) Those things fly all around your face and ears and relentlessly try and land on your food and – UGH! Killkillkillkill!
Hank - Heh, I’m kind of the opposite. I get a bit neurotic before the interview, and I’m still nervous during, but I tend to calm down a bit as it progresses and unless I made an ass of myself or stumbled over my own tongue throughout, I usually come away feeling like I probably did fairly well. I can BS with the best of 'em too, but I’ve also tripped myself up a few times with that, so I have to be careful.
PKid - Hee. Hehee. Ha! Shimmering nipples. ::giggle::
A moving OP, Special One. People are strange animals.
Good luck with the interview, Haze.
Hang in there, Kid.
I have my appointment with the specialist in an hour. If anyone who feels inclined wouldn’t mind sending good thoughts my way, I’d appreciate it.
Hi, all. I’m vertical. Beyond that I make no warranties.
Shimmering nipples? Isn’t that what Janet Jackson exposed in her “wardrobe malfunction”?
And I have to agree with Mork – although I didn’t believe it was possible, I once ate a dish that had too much garlic, too. It was in Japan. I ordered a pizza with fresh garlic. Turns out that in Japan (a) you have to order cheese separately to get any at all on a pizza, so there was nothing to cut the garlic flavor, and (b) they not only sauteed the fresh garlic in a little oil, but they poured it all, oil and garlic, onto the pizza. I took a bite and thought my head was going to asplode!
Good luck on the interview, Haze!
Well, Papa Tigs is fixing some yummy food, so I guess I should go eat it. And then we’re going to take the Idiots for a swim – it may be grey and chilly and gloomy, but they don’t care. I may care after I freeze my behind off, but that’s a different issue! Later, y’all.
Ugh. Death to fruit flies.
You did check all the locations where someone might have stashed some fruits or vegetables and forgotten about them, right? I had a fly infestation from a forgotten bag of potatoes once. I will spare you the details.
Do you have pets that you feed wet food to? We had a fly infestation in our apartment in California a couple of years ago, and the only thing that made it stop was when we stopped giving the cats canned food and went back to dry food only. The problem was that our cats didn’t eat all the food at once- they like to leave a little for later, and that was attracting the flies. I don’t know if the flies in question were technically fruit flies, but they looked a lot like them to a non-bug-expert like myself.
Nothing like a naval barrage to add a little excitement to lunch time.
You were assaulted by a destroyer?
Evening all.
Great OP Nooner. I have to say that Rabin’s loss is still mourned from this side of the Arab-Israeli fence as well. Many Arabs recognise that Rabin’s gentle touch and willingness to compromise wrought a change in the Arab-Palestinian approach (a softening, particularly from Arafat) that hasn’t been seen since Rabin’s passing. Perhaps that was another reason why the Rightists felt Rabin had to die. :rolleyes:
{{{{Kid}}}} I hope you can get the help you need to get your emotions and life back on track.
Haze, good luck for the interview!! Hope my wishes don’t come too late! If so, I hope it went well!
Or did something nasty come out your belly button???
I am not going to bother boring you all with the ins and outs of my day (again) - just refer previous posts in last week’s MMP … lather, rinse, repeat.
On a brighter note, I do have a job interview tomorrow (telephone interview) with a smaller, regional law firm (I currently work for a regional office of a global law firm). Whilst the salary might not have the range I could get with another international firm, the likelihood of managing a decent work-life balance is much higher. I think any possibility of shooting for the stars career-wise passed me by when I decided to have a baby, simply because aiming for partnership requires that you put work ahead of everything else (hence the reason why most partners are male). So, please cross appropriate appendages for me that it goes well (swampus, feel free to cross anything else, as you see fit, if you think it will help! )
I work on a Coast Guard base, and they just fired a 21 gun salute for Veteran’s Day. This is a cool place to be if you like guns and bombs.
I have bad news:
given that no hip-hop video to date has included shimmerin’ nipples, it is highly probable that such a thing does not exist.
Sorry.
Good morning everyone. I’m finally awake. Well, I was awake at 3:30, then 4:00, then 4:30. I kept trying to sleep until about 9:00 am or so, but gave up in disgust.
That was a very thought provoking OP Special One. Like Rigsy, I’m kind of conflicted about the whole Israel/Palestine thing.
With regards to the politics of my country, well, let’s just say I am well and truly disgusted. I continue to vote, and vote my conscience. I hate campaigns. I want candidates and people to talk about the ISSUES, dammit, not about their religious beliefs, who slept with who, who’s a bad person because he believes women have a right to abortion, etc. Gah! I want to know the realistic goals for fixing things in this country. I don’t want bullshit and lies. Oh Og, I better stop, because I tend to get worked up.
Haze, goood luck with the interview! Fingers are crossed for Dotty, too!
Continued hugs and good wishes to our Mumpers who are feeling down.
They are talking about high winds today. I have yet to see them. I am hoping that our weather folks got worked up into a lather about something that will turn out to be nothing.
Oh, wait-I just checked the news- I guess the wind did strike in some place already, but they are further north of me. Trees down, power out, etc.
Oooh! I need some more coffee. Tootles for now.
Good luck Haze!
I took a nap. Now I’m all groggy like and trying to wake up. Maybe I’ll go jump in the shower. That always helps. Then I have to get ready for work. I’m thinking purple pocket t and blue jeans. The temp is back to the mid 70s movin’ into the low 80s later in the week. For some reason it gets warm again the week before Thanksgiving and cools down again Thanksgiving week around here. Weird. Then again, who knows, we could be in shorts on Turkey Day.
gt it’s ok if you don’t have giblet gravy cause I bet you’re one of those [del]heathens[/del] type people who doesn’t do cornbread dressin’ either. 
Cornbread dressin’ without giblet gravy is a felony offense or at least cause to get a real nasty paper cut.
OK, off to get work ready. Y’all be good while I’m gone. There’s money on the counter to order pizza for supper. The chcolate pudding is for dessert and no you cannot eat that first. Do your homework. Take a bath. Go to bed at a decent hour. Wear clean underwear but put your pants on before you go outside.
Later Y’all!
You’re a sick, twisted pervo of a man - I like that about you!
Back from breakfast and erranding. The pot roast is roasting in the crock pot - it already smells yummm! Din-din will be good tonight.
I’m about to gather all the dirty laundry and drag it downstairs. Oh yes, I know you wish you had my life, but sadly, there’s not enough of that glamour to go around, so I get it all.
Yep, I said glamour. That’s the word I live by. As if you hadn’t figgered it out already.
Stoopit dirty clothes. <sigh>
And welcome, **Anne ** - you *are * new to the MMP, aren’t you? I don’t recall seeing you around here before, but with my memory… 
Hi Anne! Don’t remember you stopping by the MMP before. Did you bring chocolate?
And…on preview I see that FCM and I are sharing a brain today…
You are correct, swampy, no cornbread dressing here. Although the family we had Thanksgiving with growing up always served a cornbread dressing that I loved. Haven’t been able to duplicate it so I’ve come up with my own. At least it appears that I’ll avoid a paper cut this way.
Good luck with your interview, Dotty and good wishes on the specialist visit, Shadow.
Apparently I needed a nap. Now I’m really getting up and going to do stuff. Really.
GT