# It's almost 7AM, why the heck am I starting the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [June 26, 2017, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898 "2017-06-26T10:57:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/141 "2017-06-30T02:09:25Z")
And then my head esploded. I heart puppies. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/142 "2017-06-30T02:12:09Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > How do you sleep at night? :dubious: I don’t know ----- I never stayed up to watch how I do it. > [@Spiderman](#): > > Just a WAG, but: on his back. Maybe (see above) but I usually start off and end up on my side. I’m fat. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/143 "2017-06-30T02:15:35Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Well, since you’re quoting [Spock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock), who was a famous pediatrician & you’re supposed to put babies to sleep on their back, so it all ties together. 😛 I haven’t thought of this in years but Spock was indeed a baby doctor -------- or as Johnny Carson always loved to say it “a little teeny tiny doctor”. :smack: Doing a double tomorrow and then we may run out is Jack is going to have visitation Saturday. Then drive back for Sr. Marilyn Sunday. So if I’m not around you’ll know why. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/144 "2017-06-30T03:27:19Z")
Worked, went to watch hockey practice. Looks like I’ll have to replace the truck. ?Too much gone wrong at once. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Pumpkin hair = jack o’lantern wigs and toupees. How do you not know that??? 😉 You should make a devil wig. You know, a Hell Toupee?😃 ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/145 "2017-06-30T05:37:34Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > I am finally back. **Pixel** -pup ran so late that I will have to go back and get him tomorrow, poor little guy. I’m sure he’s bummed to be back at the shelter. > > Here is the new [puppeh](https://www.flickr.com/photos/133093217@N04/34811743883/in/dateposted-public/). She needs a name. I like Honey, because she is very sweet. My daughter is shocked my mundanity. :rolleyes: AAAAAWWWWW!!! She’s adorable! She can come take over my lap any time she wants! As for my life, today was a normal day off. Yesterday, wound up having to call out (and I’m out of PTO, dammit) to get DH to a dentist for a badly broken tooth. He’s recovering very well from the extraction. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/146 "2017-06-30T06:49:11Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > Worked, went to watch hockey practice. Looks like I’ll have to replace the truck. ?Too much gone wrong at once. > You should make a devil wig. You know, a Hell Toupee?😃 Arg! I just got that. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/147 "2017-06-30T09:41:24Z")
It’s my day off, so naturally, I woke at 2:30 and pretty much couldn’t get back to sleep. Higgs started barking around 4:30 and I gave up at 5 and got up with her. After the morning puppeh routine was complete, I tried to go back to bed unsuccessfully, so I’m up. dammit. Today’s only plan is to clean up some branches and leaves in one area of the yard. I’ll work outside till the heat gets to me. Beyond that, I’ll just fake it. Yeah, yeah, Happy Firday… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/148 "2017-06-30T10:09:11Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. _YAWN_ ‘Tis 73 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 87 and rain/tstorms/apocalypse for the day. It really should be a stormy, rainy day beginnin’ late this mornin’ and throughout the afternoon. Tomorrow should be a lot better, I hope, cause folks are comin’ over for quality cee-mint pond time and feastin’. This mornin’ I shall clean the smoker, make N.O.T. sallit and make a mandarin orange sheetcake. Dindin shall be majik intartoobz pizza cause, well, I want pizza. I shall also at some point go to the sto’. I may do that first to get done before the alleged rotten weather commences. **Butters** chee-hoo-ah-hoo-ah, just like it’s spelled. 😃 Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then I suppose I should purtify and go forward into the day. Rah. Happy Firday Y’all! ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/149 "2017-06-30T10:27:39Z")
Up, caffeinatede, and sheveled. Gotta run to work, come home, then run back to work. But I’m off this weekend. **Sunny** , I tried to cure my pun addiction by writing rhyming poetry , but I only made it verse. ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/150 "2017-06-30T10:30:03Z")
**Sunny**! The puppy is soooo cute!! Oh no, **doggio** , sorry to hear about your truck. I’m up and have already had breakfast. In a few minutes I’ll head out to run. I just bought a new training app and a new hydration backpack that I’m eager to try. On some level I think it’s overkill, but my meds are significantly affected if I become dehydrated so I figure it’s either this or setting out cups of water on my front porch and running by every so often. And where’s the fun in that?? Plus, the backpack is purple. What’s not to love? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/151 "2017-06-30T10:36:42Z")
Higgs is snoring on the floor next to me. I should bark and wake her up for some sweet, sweet revenge… 😃 I’s so tahred… ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/152 "2017-06-30T11:38:59Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > I am finally back. **Pixel** -pup ran so late that I will have to go back and get him tomorrow, poor little guy. I’m sure he’s bummed to be back at the shelter. > > Here is the new [puppeh](https://www.flickr.com/photos/133093217@N04/34811743883/in/dateposted-public/). She needs a name. I like Honey, because she is very sweet. My daughter is shocked my mundanity. :rolleyes: BUPPY! The Computer Gnome is coming up for the holiday weekend today and he’s bringing Zeldadog with him. I’m really going to try to take her for a walk in the park this time. Everyone else goes to the park with their dog. I want to fit in. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/153 "2017-06-30T13:32:43Z")
I have been to the Pubic Sto’, peeled and diced N.O.T. which are now cookin’ away, boiled aigs (which are coolin’ so’s they can be peeled) for Satanic ovaries, and have a cake in the oven. Go Me! Of course I still have to make N.O.T. sallit, demonize the aigs, and frost the cake once it’s cooled, but still that’s a lot of stuff. Oh and I cleaned the inside of the smoker. The racks are soakin’ in the laundry room sink and will be washed and returned to the smoker in a while along with the water pan which is already cleaned. I am so productive and domesticated today! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/154 "2017-06-30T14:57:19Z")
Lessee - in the last 90 minutes or so - maybe longer, dunno - I’ve watered my outdoor planters, set up the sprinkler for the front garden, hauled 3 loads of branches and debris into the back of our yard, trimmed a bunch of branches overhanging the path to the back of the yard, and got \*\*FCD \*\*to fire up the chain saw and take down a couple of small but annoying trees. Much rakeage remains, but I need a break. And by my calculations, my daughter is a married woman again - the wedding was supposed to be around 9 and she hasn’t posted on FB so I’m guessing they’re having an after party. It was actually more of an elopement than a wedding and only a couple of friends were invited. I’m not all that thrilled with the choice of groom, but maybe he’ll grow up. Don’t get me wrong - he’s a nice guy, but no direction in his life that I’ve seen. If my daughter is OK with supporting him, it’s her life. We sent a card and a check for a honeymoon, and I’m assuming we’ll see pics on FB eventually. Weirdness prevails. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/155 "2017-06-30T15:04:07Z")
It’s a done deal. Ariel is now legally mine. Equine overlord joins feline overlord. I alternate between smiling and crying… ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/156 "2017-06-30T15:39:06Z")
Off to work. And gonna look at a car tomorrow after hockey. I’ll take my axe, in case it’s a serial killer.:D;) > [@peedin](#): > > It’s a done deal. Ariel is now legally mine. Equine overlord joins feline overlord. I alternate between smiling and crying… : throws confetti with wild abandon : ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/157 "2017-06-30T16:19:23Z")
I quit. I gathered another load of sticks and debris, raked a little, dumped the load of sticks and put the mower and wagon away. I’ve showered, donned clothing appropriate for being in public, and I’m about to have lunch. Manual labor is tough when you sit at a desk all day… ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/158 "2017-06-30T16:36:57Z")
**Blurf** Overslept and didn’t get to work until way late but since I am irking all weekend tis not a big deal and I am the boss. **mooooommmm** I just came from the post office. Yarn ensues soon. TGIF for those who don’t have to irk tomorrow. Now I am hungry. Off in search of food. May have to go to the Pubic store. **Sunny** I’d call her Sweetness and Light. She is very precious. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/159 "2017-06-30T16:57:08Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Lessee - in the last 90 minutes or so - maybe longer, dunno - I’ve watered my outdoor planters, set up the sprinkler for the front garden, hauled 3 loads of branches and debris into the back of our yard, trimmed a bunch of branches overhanging the path to the back of the yard, and got \*\*FCD \*\*to fire up the chain saw and take down a couple of small but annoying trees. Much rakeage remains, but I need a break. > > And by my calculations, my daughter is a married woman again - the wedding was supposed to be around 9 and she hasn’t posted on FB so I’m guessing they’re having an after party. It was actually more of an elopement than a wedding and only a couple of friends were invited. I’m not all that thrilled with the choice of groom, but maybe he’ll grow up. Don’t get me wrong - he’s a nice guy, but no direction in his life that I’ve seen. If my daughter is OK with supporting him, it’s her life. We sent a card and a check for a honeymoon, and I’m assuming we’ll see pics on FB eventually. > > Weirdness prevails. 😃 I just now saw the pic and went “Bwuh?😕”. Um, he sounds a bit like the first one doesn’t he…no direction, etc. If I’m wrong tell me to shut the hell up. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898/160 "2017-06-30T17:01:45Z")
Thanks, **Butters**! \*\*Taters \*\*- It is similar to the first one, the difference being this one is in his 20s, and the other one was over 30. At least this one isn’t as annoying as #1 - he’s really quiet, at least around us. Anyway, she loves him and he loves her and love conquers all, right? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-almost-7am-why-the-heck-am-i-starting-the-mmp/789898.md?page=9)