Oh and just because I lurves me all my Mumper friends, I offer to y’all this Irish Blessin’…
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life’s passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours!
They say that everybody is Irish today but I would never claim it. I have a seven-greats grandfather who was born in what becaome NORTHERN Ireland, in 1681, but that’s as close as I come. Rabid Protestants they were, his grandson who fought in the Revolutionary War was court-martialed for refusing to fight with the French soldiers that Lafayette brought over. They were (gasp) Catholics, and my ancestor didn’t want to be associated with them.
Thank you Swampy
I’m not Erin but … as you wish and NO there will not be pics!
FCM big soft pretzels are good when topped with crab imperial.
I am dreading tomorrow. I was warned to play nice but that depends. Any snark from either of them and the gloves are coming off and game on.
The day that bitch called my son a retard was the final straw. You got an issue with me keep it with me. I’ve got two years of rage stored up and it won’t take much to set it lose right now.
My mother and her bf are going to the ocean. She says so the couple can have some alone time but I am going to be here and if they want alone time they can hike their butts on down to a hotel somewhere. I think she’s going because she knows mr pussy pants can’t help making snark and she knows I am ready to blow.
Everything from the (expletive) calling OAOASO a nigger and calling my son a retard and calling me names and telling me I’m a loser and waving her fingers under her wrinkled up nose and saying something stinks every time she walks past me… I’ve put up with two years of her childish bullshit and nastiness and lies and running to mommy like a little tattle tale. She acts like a four year old and I have so had enough.
They think they are better than everybody else, well they aren’t shit to me, I think they are both losers as human beings because normal, intelligent people don’t act the way they do.
Sorry just needed to vent.
I think most people have no idea how angry I am. It’s hard to deal with adults that act like self entitled little bitches that have to go around putting other people down in order to make themselves feel better. I’ve seen both of them, sitting on the couch together and laughing at their friends and family. How this cousin is a loser because she never got married, how she couldn’t get a man. Or another one because they didn’t finish college.
What kind of normal people do that?
Of course in front of people they are all nicey nice and suck ass.
Even Sah-son asked me one day how did they have any friends when all they do is sit around and talk shit about people?
I’ll cool off eventually but I am dreading tomorrow because I know once my mouth stats running it won’t stop. Been holding back on too much stuff for too long.
“May no new thing appear.”
This morning when she left at 5:00 Ante Meridian, Mrs. Plant (v.3.0) wrote in the snow on the side of my car, “I LOVE YOU”.
I told her this evening upon returning from work that was very nice to see at 7:15, and I loved her very much.
She responded, “If I loved you more, I’d have brushed the snow off your car.”
Three years, and I am still the happiest man on earth.
=)
Worked, ther’s ice on the truck. Is it ungodly hot yet?
Nah, I use Harp. 
{{{{sari}}}}
Happy Tuesday!
sari, I’m so sorry you’re having to deal with that crap!
FCM, those pretzels sound delicious!
Swampy, your older gentleman friend sounds like a hoot!
I went to bed entirely too early, I guess. I was wide awake at 2:30am. I’ve had my coffee, and I’m thinking about trying to get a little more sleep. We’ll see what happens with that.
My aunt called, and asked me how to make Bagna Cauda. She wants to make it the way my grandma made it, which is the only way I make it. She always adds tuna, cream, and all that silliness to hers, and she’s not happy with the flavor. No wonder! It doesn’t need that stuff in it!
So, I told her to come over on Thursday afternoon, and I’ll show her how to properly make it. Then, we’ll eat it. 
I’m trying to come up with some other stuff to have with it, and I’m thinking about making some roasted garlic mushrooms. Yeah. That sounds like an awful lot of garlic, but in my house, there is no such thing as too much garlic!
Anyway, I need to come up with some sort of meat dish to make with it. I’ll have Italian bread, and assorted fresh veggies to have with the Bagna. I still feel like I need some sort of meat, though. Maybe some thinly sliced, sauted, lean beef, instead. I don’t know.
I “napped” with the TV until about midnight - I’ve been awake since - I think I’ll just stay up. I’ll brew the first pot of coffee in a little while, the second one as soon as I’ve finished drinking the first one.
so this Tuesday is a very blurfy Tuesday indeed
Morning all! I am at irk, it is irksome because I still don’t have access to something I need. Sri Lankan spiders will be heading on a stealth mission to the IT dept very soon.
Managed to avoid any green-related hysteria yesterday, today I am off for lunch with the girls I worked with in the School of Education, and tonight it’s Fat Club so that is about as much excitement as I can deal with for one day.
Morning!
Blurf!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 47 Amurrkin out and drizzly which is supposed to be goin’ away, with a predicted high of 64 for the day. All in all not too shabby. Ima spend my day in the south forty makin’ visits to worksites to see how folks are doin’ with trainin’. Rah.
{{{Sari}}} Just thought you could use a hug. Here’s hopin’ things aren’t too bad today.
Ace that sounds yummy!
flytrap may no new things appear seems somehow appropriate. Oh and Mrs. Plant v.3.0 sounds like a definite keeper.
And now this…
<AHEM> CLEARING THROAT <AHEM>
**
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY DEEEAAARRR AAAPPPEEESSS!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
**
Now I need more caffiene and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, alas and alack irk purtification must commence.
Happy Tuesday Y’all!
Blurf. With sugar and cinnamon on top.
{{{Sari}}}
Happy birthday, Apes, wherever you are.
Happy Apes Day!
Regular Tuesday Blurf, nothing exciting to see here, move along.
I thought it was going to be a good day. Higgs didn’t wake us up - in fact, I let her out of her crate about 6:45. She went outside dutifully, then came in and ate. And then peed on the floor in front of the fireplace. :mad: idiot dog. So that’s how my day has gone so far.
We’re running to WalMart later today - **FCD **needs some paint thinner or some such and he says it’s cheaper at WalMart than Lowe’s. I want to get some plant foods to feed my gardens once the damned white stuff goes away. I’ll probably run the vacuum later, too. Yep, big plans at FairyChatEstates!
**sari **- don’t go doing anything that’ll get you arrested - at least not till after our meet-up on Thursday!! 
I don’t suppose you can just consider the source and ignore that pair? They probably get their jollies getting a rise from you… or not - but they sure sound toxic.
Happy Apes Day!
And Happy Tuesday, one and all!
Happy birthday, Apes!
Up, caffeinated, off to work through the icy wilderness.
Happy Birthday Apes!!!
Happy Apes Day!
I have nothing interesting to say today, really. Last night I went home, I watched tv, I crocheted, I went to bed. Today I got up, I came to work. Nothing noteworthy has happened yet.
It’s only Tuesday? Ugh.
(Sunday) Spent the day hanging out - watched Stripes on tv in honor of Harold Ramis. Midafternoon fired off a mid-sized kidneystone (I have them so often I barely notice them now).
(Monday) Awaken to the snow, but by 11am the drive in is easy. Spend the day in the station editing. Find out I am going on a 4 day trip next week (they happen rarely in my shop - only once or twice a year at best).
At 4pm fired of the second, larger, sharper, scrapier, jaggadier, crystalier, knifier, (you get the idea) kidneystone.
Ow.
Want to end this week already.
Happy Toosday!
Although probably not so happy but I think I will fake it. Make them wonder what I am up to. I remember when they got married. I did not want to go to the wedding, I had disowned her then over a bunch of shit she had pulled. She’s always been a sniveling snit cry baby about everything and once she got with him and his supposed money :rolleyes: she became a snotty sniveling snit.
My mother wasn’t having any of me not going to the wedding because people will talk, so they found and paid for a baby sitter and they went out and bought me some wedding clothes and finally I gave in to make my mother happy.
Well, I found out later that the snotty sniveling snit was a nervous wreck the entire time waiting for me to do something to ruin her big day.
I didn’t, I’m not stupid enough to do that in front of the entire family and make myself look bad. However, my mother got little tipsy and embarrassed my sister so there was that. My sister really needs to pull the pole out of her butt, she is not the little miss perfect she tries to project herself to be. Many a night I had to go out at 1am and drag her half nekked table top dancing drunken ass out of a bar because she told her husband she was out with me. He’d call me and wake me up to find out where she was and I’d go look for her before he’d call our parents and really start an uproar.
It’s my fault in a way that she is the way she is, I always covered for her and protected her. One time when she was maybe 13-14 she came home drunk, loud, sloppy, cheerful drunk. I hurried her off to bed before our parents caught her and you know what the ungrateful little bitch did? The next morning she told me that if I didn’t give her my new sweater that she’d tell on me for covering up for her. Even though she would have gotten grounded for coming in drunk, I would have gotten it worse for being the older one and covering for her.
So I think I should just put a big old smile on my face and let her wonder.
Anyway, warmer to day that yesterday. I think up into the 40s today. Then warmer the rest of the week which is a good thing.
Thank y’all for all the hugs. I do need them.
Happy Birthday Apes!
Today is laundry day, pizza day and put in a contract on a house day. I talked to the mortgage guy yesterday and he made me even more confused than I already am. The realtor gave me some wrong info, but so did the mortgage guy. Seems there is a HomePath Mortgage and a HomeStyle Mortgage, similar but not the same.
What I need for him to do is take each house, calculate how much I would have to put down and how much the monthly payments will be, excepting the home owners insurance.
FCM I guess drawing an outline of a body with a bleeding heart in the center with a butcher knife sticking through it on her bedroom door is right out then? I won’t do anything illegal, she is not worth going to jail over. I know you are right as far as them trying to get to me and for a long time I did consider the source but when it’s everyday and she ups the ante (like a few weeks ago hiding my toothpaste in the back of the closet) every time she doesn’t get attention
it gets harder to ignore. It’s small stuff but after awhile the small stuff starts to add up and you just want to punch her face in.
On the positive side, she won’t do the childish stuff in front of her husband. They will both do the nasty smarmy stuff though.
I think I’m mostly angry because my mother said she wasn’t letting him back here, that when he got back they had to move out. One of their rental properties is empty and she said they can go there. Of course the sniveling snit stated whining about how he won’t have a job when he gets back and they don’t know what they are going to do and my mother gave in.
There was a light at the end of the tunnel and the light has been snuffed.
They own 5-6 rentals, they have money, or at least they are always bragging about their money, :rolleyes:. They could go live in the rental but I knew they wouldn’t. It’s just a little two bedroom townhouse and it’s not good enough for them. They have to live in a McMansion because they are special. If they can’t flaunt it they don’t want it. Every thing they do is about trying to impress other people, pretty sad way to live. One of my friends (one of the few who has met them because I won’t subject my friends to those two) said they pick at me because they are jealous of me and I said jealous of what? They have everything, she is the thin pretty one, and he said yeah but you are basically happy and that is the one thing they don’t have and they don’t know how to get it.
I try to hold on to that. That they deserve my pity more than my contempt.
They sure don’t make it easy.
Can you at least want it to be Thursday?? 
Back from erranding. As usual, we went to WalMart for a couple of things and came out $80+ dollars later. But they had Fruit of the Look t-shirts on sale - under $5 each, 100% cotton. I needed a few to make the “Not my circus, not my monkeys” shirts, and **FCD **got himself a few because he’s rough on t’s.
**sari **- good luck with the house - any house at this point, right?? I assume your sister won’t be getting the address.
Time to accomplish something, but I don’t want to. It’s so dreary, I just wanna veg…
Happy Apes Day!
Slightly annoying start to the day today- decided to be all organised, and cycle into town to pick up the train tickets I need for this weekend. I booked them online last week, but the tiny local station I’ll be getting on at doesn’t have a ticket collection point, so I have to go to the main station to pick them up (or pay for them to be posted).
Last time I did this, you just went to one of their machines, stuck in the card you used to order, it came up with a list of the bookings made with that card that hadn’t been printed yet (a list of one, for me), and then printed the one you selected. Apparently though, that’s now ‘not secure enough’ so it asks you for the booking number. The number I completely forgot to note down, because it never asked for it before. Bah.
Oh well, I still have until saturday to pick it up, it just means I get a bit more exercise.
I’m busy being green in the planting things sense again- I’m going to have more tomato plants than I know what to do with again this year. Knowing this is not going to stop me planting more 
Hope you get outta there soon Sari!