Forgot to pass on congratulations to you, Dotty! Hope the sinus trouble goes away fairly soon though.
Haze - the clock says it’s not Firday yet but it feels like it ought to be. And I still have half an afternoon’s work to do, and then go home to see the decorator, and then run off to see Enzo at our language class. Arrggghhh!
I’ve been doing project stuff most of the day and I’m bored rigid. I think I’ll slope off for a cup of tea and see if that improves my disposition.
Ok, my chef has been found. Her power went out last night and her alarm didn’t go off. I’m just glad that she’s ok.
Is that the best way of fighting boredom?
I’m trying to stay on good behavior today so I won’t be more explicit… 
It’s past Quit-o-Clock, and I’m still at work. Ah, the wonderful life of a Hi-Tech Geek :rolleyes:
At least the weekend is coming up 
ETA: Glad your chef is OK, Cutie!
HAHahahahaha.
I don’t know why this struck me as so funny. Probably means I need more coffee.
Glad to hear your chef is okay, Pie.
Argh. Someone make it be Firday.
Heh… that completely blew right by me until **Haze **responded. Whooooosh!
I need the weekend :smack:
Evening all!
Woohoo! Nathaniel is here (or there, well, you know what I mean!!!). Congrats LiLi and Mr Lissar!!! I can’t wait to see some pics of the little ninja!
My sinuses are no better yet, although my nose is constantly running. I have yet to feel that [TMI Alert] icky drip-drip down the back of my throat feeling that signals clearing sinuses[/TMI Alert]. I just hope the CT scan they did doesn’t show up anything serious, otherwise my doctor said I may have a sinus lavage in my near future! BLECH!!!
Well, I have now been home since lunch (NOL) time on Tuesday and the weekend begins tomorrow, followed by Sunday and Monday off as public holidays for Ashoora (which is actually tomorrow and Saturday). So that will make 6.5 days off, and hopefully by the end of it my sinuses will be better behaved!
Hugs to all who need them and thanks for the good wishes on the job. Now I just have to serve out my 3 month notice period!
I can think of better ways! At the moment I’m swapping emails with a guy upstairs in the International Office about eastern philosophy and Kitlers so my afternoon is improving. Sanity is almost restored!
HAPPY NEW BABY LI-LI!
I drove it around the development on Christmas, mainly in first and second gears. It came right back, but I am going to have to figure out where the clutch likes to be released so it doesn’t make nasty grinding sounds. It also has cruise control in fifth gear, which is Strange and Unusual to me.
And yes, we can all go for a ride. Me, Noon, Haze, Pie, all of us. We will ride through the hilly back country listening to varieties of rock, maybe wreaking a little havoc, scaring the locals with our wild and crazy ways.
(I’m swiping Quit-o-Clock, by the way. It’s my favorite time of day after Bob o’clock.)
:mad: ENVY :mad: It was just nasty and rainy here.
I didn’t want to come to work today. Yet here I sits. Meh.
Yay for LiLi and little Nat! I was getting worried, too.
Yay for the job, and boo for sinusitis, gummibear. I hope it clears up soon!
Boo for those who hate the cold and snow. Yay for those who like it!
Assorted other yays and boos as required.
I found out I did something wrong at work, and purchasing bought the wrong raw material - but it will work anyway! That saved my ass - we would have had to pay to cancel the order of the wrong one. Thank Og for small favors.
Tomorrow’s Firday, and I’m off! I have to go to the doctor though - and I’ll finally get this stupid ankle looked at. (It’s my regular diabetes checkup.)
Busy, busy - have fun y’all!
Give it 10 minutes more; trust me, you’ll find the “sweet spot” almost instantly.
I vote for adding some Symphonic Metal to the music selection, other than that – you’re on!
I learned it right here, so you’re welcome to swipe it from the swiper.
What’s Bob o’clock!? ( again)
Clearly this means we should go out for a ride!
My time of day…
Congrats Dotty but wow 3 months notice???
Yay for babies - Many many congrats to the Lissar family. And wow for a little lady she makes big babies!
I want a baby suddenly feeling very broody after I jokeingly told my boss the other day that don’t worry I don’t plan on getting pregnant as the ink is dry on the marriage certificate!
Today will be a different twist on ‘Meeting Day from Hell’ today will be ‘Conference Call Day from Hell’. Envy me. :rolleyes:
Oh and I will be working on appraisals this weekend seeing as I haven’t done them this week. However I can do that at home in my jammies on the couch with the TV on and chocolate.
Yay!!! Baby!!!
We now return to your regularly scheduled hangover.
Yay! We have a baby! Welcome to the world, Nathaniel – now keep your mom and dads awake for the next six months and you will have achieved success!
Congrats on the new job, Dotty! But boo for the sinusitis, and another :dubious: about the three-month notice! Around here it’s only two weeks – makes it much nicer to get the h-e-double-hockey-sticks out fast!
It’s snowing here! Of course, it’s only supposed to snow for part of the day, then turn to rain, and generally be nasty and icky. It’s supposed to stay above freezing here at the house, but in the District, where Papa Tigs is, it’s supposed to hover around freezing all day so it will probably be extra-nasty and icky. He drove the SUV instead of his econo-mobile just in case he needs the extra traction. Which means I can’t take the dogs anywhere since the econo-mobile is a dog-free zone. Not that I want to go anywhere except maybe the half-mile to the gym today, in any case!
Off to do something or other.
It’s only Thursday morning and you have a hangover? Even I usually wait until Firday mornings.
It’s snowing here as well. The weather is supposed to drop to below zero F this weekend. :eek: I was going to go to a party, but now I’m not so sure.
It’s gotten down below 0F a few times here this winter (that I’m aware of, there could have been more) but only at 3 AM when I, at least, am in bed and toasty warm. Monday night the computer says it’ll get to -9F! Brrrrrrrrrrr!
WELCOME NATHANIEL! CONGRATS LILI!
Sinusitis sucks, there’s no two ways about it.
I’ve never driven a manual with cruise control before. I didn’t know it was possible to do that. According to my BIL it only works in fifth gear, so that explains part of it.
8:08
Looking up thesis articles is boring, but must be done. I need to chase down my thesis director and set up a time to discuss deadlines and outlines and other such lines.
Realizing that one of your old buddies is turning into a shallow twat is depressing. Especially when she has an online entourage who exist only to boost her ego and tell her what a [profanity deleted] hero she is for raising her kids on her own and refusing to take her asshole ex to court for child support. These people can get married, divorced, and start dating again almost instantly and I can’t get a date. (Note: have not actually tried to get a date since break-up. Have noticed a few “how-you-doin’” looks, though.)
I need to weigh in at the gym. Last time I checked (right after Christmas), I’d been holding steady at the same weight since mid-October. I’ve noticed my jeans getting tighter, so it’s definitely time to start up the yoga again. I’m not EVEN going back to the gym until February to give all the sorostitutes time to give up on their resolutions. Then it’ll be the weight room for Spaz until she is toned up enough to comfortably wear her old size 14 jeans or she loses another thirty-five/forty pounds, whichever comes first.
I feel AAAAAAWFUL! I thought all these drugs the doctor gave me would make me feel better, but so far I just feel even more cruddy. Way to ruin a long weekend!!! I hate Teh Sick! 
:mad:
To make matters worse, Noor is now coming down with another head cold. Her nose has been running like a tap/faucet all day and come nightfall, she really started to breathe more heavily. Nasty cold weather is knocking us all about (temps in the low double figures Celsius, i.e. low 50’s Fahrenheit all week, with outside wind chill dropping the ambient temp to single digits - :eek: )! But I managed to spritz HRH’s nose with some saline spray and aspirate some of the goo, before setting up both the electric radiator and the ultrasonic humidifier in her room. Here’s hoping she manages to sleep okay!
Unfortunately, 3 months notice is about standard for lawyers in transactional roles - I work in project finance, so to account for existing deals and handovers, notice periods tend to be lengthy. Fortunately, I don’t have much on and don’t expect to be given much work now I’m leaving (or will be in mid-April), so I will be a dedicated clock-watcher for a while!!! Mind you, my boss could decide to let me go and pay me out three months salary in lieu of notice. Not a bad option, although it would mean careful budgeting (aka penny-pinching) to get us through to the end of April, if that were to happen, particularly as I still have 6 months’ worth of employee loan instalments to repay.
Spaz, I should get my arse in gear soon too and lose some weight as I am losing the post-baby excuse for being flabby. The little darling has now been out longer than she was in, so I really need to do something. Hopefully once I change jobs, we will have some more time (and money) up our sleeves.
Then I might also be able to afford a live-in housemaid (salary for a decent housemaid is only about $300/month) and stop feeling guilty about not doing the housework!!
Congratulations to **Lili **and Mr. Lissar!! And welcome to the world baby Nat!
I was just thinking yesterday that I need to start exercising again. I don’t think I’ve gained weight, but I just feel all creaky and flabby and gross. I think of how much in shape I was when I just began grad school and sigh. So hard to get into shape, so easy to fall out of it.
Spaz, I have friends like that as well - friends that have inexplicably changed into people that make me try to remember why I was friends with them in the first place. Sometimes I think that it’s not they who have changed but rather I. :: shrug ::
:: blows get-well kisses to Noor and Dotty ::