Sean, I guess I owe you a public apology. We got to the Convention Center at 11, and were leaving by 11:30. I didn’t see your e-mail until we were home for a couple of hours, 'cuz Cox was blacked out all morning.
Most of all, I want to apologize for making you deal with Mercury Boulevard without having the pleasure of meeting me. 
No snow here in the desert, but a nippy morning - probably low 60s right now at 8 AM.
No miracle recovery from injuries related to my Subaru vs. insane man in big truck incident last Friday. I am sore and purple from head to toes.
I’m still going to Coachella next weekend. Mr. Beckwall is helping me make a sign for my wheelchair that says “Weezer or Bust”. I’ll be the oldest, gimpiest person there. Tough shit. I’m gonna be crazy wheelchair lady, and those damn youngsters will just have to deal with it. Maybe I should get a horn that goes
“a-ooh-ga” so they’ll get out of my way.
Have a great week, whether or not it snows at your house!
No snow here (no kidding, duh).
I went to a wedding reception on Saturday (the actual wedding was a few weeks ago on the beach in Hawaii) and the bride had a man as her “maid of honor”. I’m not sure what the masculine term for that would be…
I was going to ask you if it was in a little chapel up on a mountain in Colorado, right by the old stagecoach road, because that’s where my brother got married with a girl Best Man. (Later that night, Grandpa was in the hot tub wearing her pants, but that’s another story. And I’m not making a long story short neither. That’s about everything to tell about that particular incedent.) Only I know it wasn’t you because he picked his bride out himself at the library. (They both worked there. It wasn’t a library-loan dealy.)
There were only two ways up to the chapel:
I think a male “Maid of Honor” would be “Butler of Honor” Scout. But I’m not sure.
Makes sense.
No snow here, either. In fact there’s been no snow here since 1920 something. The weather is that annoying sort that starts out cool enough for a very light sweater but is hot in the afternoon and then just barely okay by bedtime, but not really.
A couple three years ago my cousin had a best woman at her wedding. Plus the girls were all barefoot 'cause it had been raining and their heels would have stuck in the grass, and a very friendly doggy was running around. Then we ate and danced in the garage. Best wedding yet.
This weekend I slept. I didn’t think I was all that tired, but there you go. I did cook me some asparagus risotto, but it was the heat 'em up kind from Trader Joe’s. Yum. Otherwise, dust and fur continue their campaign to take over my home. Little do they know the mighty Swiffers will rain terror upon them this afternoon.
That snow was just wrong, just plain wrong. It should not be cold this dang late in April, I don’t care if it isn’t summer yet, it’s just too dang cold.
My Og, I sound like a bitter old man. Luckily I was able to stay inside this weekend, and do work to the house. Daughter Ministriker had her new bed delivered Sunday, so we had to clean and re-organize her room on Saturday to make the big honkin thing fit. That was a good time in itself, but on top of that, we were able to enjoy cleaning out her playroom/ exercise room, because we swapped the torture device elliptical machine for a recumbent (sp?) bike, good times, good times.
Ashes, barefoot dancing girls make everything better.
Chicken and some kind of noodle concoction for lunch today, lo fat and somewhat tasty I guess.
The snow lasted two minutes. Now it’s just sunny and cold.
On a completely unrelated note, how is it possible that I didn’t know about this until today?
No snow here either. In fact, Saturday started off gorgeous, but then the hubby washed his truck, which brought rain. This is the rule in Washington. If you want rain, just wash your car. Yesterday was the same thing, the hubby and I washed my rig and it started raining later that evening.
The daughter and I went and had our hair done on Saturday, then I had to go to the mall to buy jackets for the hubby and I, then I had to go to Home Depot to buy paint. That night we went out to dinner and went to a casino. Both the hubby and I won! The evening’s entertainment was paid for and then some. I was so excited, I NEVER, NEVER win when I gamble. I was smart and didn’t put the money back into the machine. I just cashed out my ticket and so did the hubby.
Last night we went to Seattle for the U2 concert. I wasn’t real excited about going, but I had an absolute blast! I worked up a bit of glow from all the dancing and clapping I did. The place was jam packed (sold out crowd) and everybody was dancing and singing along to the songs. They played some of the old material too, which was nice because those are the songs I like. Somehow, though, I managed to cut the inside of my left hand pinky figure with my wedding band. Well, actually it’s an anniversary band. I have a horrible gash on the finger and my ring was all crusty with blood. We had incredible seats (not that we sat once during the time U2 was on stage).
Swampy, on our way to the Key Arena for the concert, we drove by the hotel you’re staying at when you come to Seattle. I waved to it for you.
I have this week off. I’m glad I took the week off, not to mention today. We didn’t get home until close 1:00 in the morning. There is no way I could have gotten up for work today.
I sent Swampy pictures of my paint job. He was really nice and said he liked it. I mean, I had to get approval from our MMP In-House Interior designer, didn’t I? I’m going to put the pictures up on a site for you all to look at, just haven’t had the chance.
Today promises to be busy too. The hubby (who also took today off) want to go to the credit union to check out some financing. After that we come home and paint. We have really been slacking in the ol’ painting department these past three or four days. We need to get cracking and get at least the main areas done! We figure if we’re diligent we can knock the rest out.
Well, I must clean myself up now.
Eh, Mercury wasn’t that bad. It was me driving up and down Jefferson Blvd, 12 miles away from where we were supposed to meet, that was annoying. But that was my fault, having the wrong directions. I explained what happened in my e-mail to you that I just sent.
So we got a lot of rain Friday, nice-ish weather Saturday, but it got cold yesterday. Nothing bone chilling or such, but still a bit of a shock after last week for shizzle. (White guys trying to be ‘with it’ and ‘hip’ are allowed to use that word now, because Snoop says it’s an old word. I checked before I typed it.)
Ex, you saw snow this morning?? I didn’t see any around here. I was hoping we’d missed that whole thing.
I’ve only been an “attendant” once at a wedding and that was the kind of thing where it was the couple plus two of us as witnesses and the justice of the peace. I don’t think I’m ever going to get to be a brides maid. I just don’t have very many girl friends. But that’s ok. It just means no ugly dresses for me.
I’m making Anaamika’s recipe for tandoori chicken tonight for dinner. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I did it right!
Ex do women in football uniforms excite you? It’s ok, cause men in football uniforms have been known to excite me. Especially when said man in football uniform lets me take it off of him. But that’s not a story for the MMP is it?
I have indeed approved Tater’s choice of wall color. She was real relieved she didn’t have to re do it. 
A Tale of Major Appliance and Furniture Moving
By
swampbear
I have a big ass upright freezer. It’s REAL REAL BIG! It has resided in my study since I bought it and the burly delivery men from Sear’s put it there. FTR, that was 5 and a half years ago. I now am in possession of a slightly smaller upright freezer which I got cause I swapped a smaller chest freezer I own with a friend who wanted the small chest freezer and wanted to get rid of his bigger (the slightly smaller) upright freezer. Everybody with me so far? Good!
I made space in my garage for the smaller upright freezer. Said friend and I loaded up said freezer on my truck Friday evening and brought it to my house whereupon it went to its new home in my garage. We then loaded up the chest freezer and took it to his house and its new home. So far so good.
I then decided that big ass freezer needed to sit next to smaller freezer in the garage. ACBG said “Oh hell!” And he was right. In order to get big ass freezer out of its home in the study, we had to take down the door into the study and take the door off the freezer, then manipulate it out of the study into the hall, angle it into the bathroom, then through the door into the living room, then out the front door of my house, around the walkway to the garage and finally into the garage whereupon the freezer door had to be put back on. However, we first had to move all study furniture that was in the way out of the way before we could do the freezer manuever. This necessitated moving a file cabinet, a tv and tv stand and a chair. So, all got done. Then food got put back in the freezer (Of course we removed all the food from the freezer to start. That’s a given. I didn’t think I’d need to mention that. SHEESH!) Oh, and to make room in the garage, I had to move this really big cabinet I keep canned food stuff in which also resides in the garage. We had to take all the cans out to do this then put them all back in. But it all looked neat and good and fine when it was all done.
Then I had to put the study back together. Door, put furniture back, all that good stuff. Well, see, I have this really cool solid oak cabinet that was living in the garage for now til I decided where I wanted it. I decided it would make a fine liquor cabinet and a place to hold all my f-aaa-bu-lous wine and cocktail glasses. Of course, it would be just perfect where the freezer once resided in the study. So cabinet gets moved into the study and liquor and f-aaa-bu-lous wine and cocktail glasses gets put into it.
This was done over the course of Friday night, as well as Saturday morning and afternoon. ACBG is still hanging around me. Y’all reckon he kinda likes me after all that? Course he did remind me about a couple of big ass heavy pie safes he owns that he wants to refinish which will require much moving and hard work. I think he was hinting that I would be expected to help.
Anyways, that’s my tale of major appliance and furniture moving.
THE END
Make sure you cook him something with potatoes. That way he will fall in love with you forever! 
Good luck!
swampbear, have you ever considered making your own posts, like Rue?
Only it shouldn’t be a Monday Morning Post, that’s not fair to the Board Bard. How about a Tuesday Evening Post or something? 
Heh. Would be nice. I could use him for my breeding program, if nothing else, since he is tall and good-looking. We shall see what happens.
Ginger, my Pug, is ready for the rain now that she has her new raincoat.
WARNING: CUTE DOGGIE PICTURE
It was just a few light flakes and didn’t last very long. Really easy to miss if you didn’t happen to be looking out the window at just the right time.
Duh.
Okay, bear, I know you have a penchant for “stocking up” an all, but, really two freezers? I mean, zactly how much frozen cookie dough must you keep on hand? 
It’s hard enough to keep up with the MMP. If there were two, it’d be, like, twice as hard!
