I've Lost My Shower

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I just finished. I’m sitting here all hot and sweaty.

You know that stupid saying: Horses sweat, men perspire, women glow. Well, today, this woman is sweating. And scratching. My legs got et alive by lawn critters of some sort. ick.

While I was mowing, Bernie the lazy hairbag decided to explore the yard and roll around in stuff. As I was ready to let her in, I saw all kinds of stuff hanging from and entangled in her coat. So I grabbed her brush and set about de-gunking her. I got most of the stuff off, as well as 20 pounds of hair. She’s crashed on the floor now - poor baby. Brushing is so traumatic…

My sweetie leaves tomorrow for a long weekend in San Jose - did I mention this before? Anyway, it’ll be me and my critters alone till late Sunday. Except for Friday night when I’m taking the dog and going to my mom’s… I’m sure I must have mentioned this. But for those who only read random posts, this could be a revelation.

Whatevah.

Puggy, thanks ever so for the sweet thought. Your bribe will be in the mail shortly. :smiley:

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There are ants in my shoes. No, not ants in my pants, in my shoes. Specifically running around on the shoe shelves, bustling hither and yon, doing I know not what. So now I get to go in there and spritz them with ant killer, which makes me sad. Why do they not leave when I ask politely?

Hey swampy, I’m getting my hair cut as well. Only friday at high noon. Maybe she’ll cut most of the little knots on the ends off then. I don’t do anything strange to my hair (that you guys know of) and still it’s like mean little sprites come in and try to macrame my hair at night. I’ll bet they’d macrame your hair into a nifty plant holder if you let it get too long, so it’s good today is hair cut day in swampville.

Happy anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Puggy! Plus ouch ouch ouch with the skinning. It’s always a fear of mine to do that.

Count me as not so happy about vibrating razors. First, the science behind it seems a bit off and second, I don’t like anything electrical or batterical when I’m all wet, standing in more wet.

Small zucchinni are the best kind! Those big old swollen ones are mooshy. No matter what size though, they are suitable for zucchinni bread, minestrone, little sticks on salad, and frying, that’s it.

Do you have to do the dishes by hand Draelin? Because I think that’s not allowed under the Geneva Convention rules and commandments. Not many people know about the hand washing because it happened on the last day of the convention and you know how a lot of people leave early.

It rained one and a third inches deep according to the very accurate Radio Flyer measuring method. If it happened more often, I would’ve probably opted for not knowing how much it rained, so’s to avoid dumping all that water out. Wagons filled with water are heavy and wiggly.

Somebody call the cable guy for me and make him come out here. Thank you.

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Well, I’m sitting here all sweaty and icky too. I just got done pre-treating the stains on my stairways and steamcleaning the stairs. Did I mention I hate steam cleaning stairs? What a pain in the arse, or more appropriately my back! I feel like I have the back of a 105 year old woman about now. Two sets of risers two landings and the top of the stairs. I should quit being so damn cheap and just *pay * someone to do at least the stairs. Late tonight, I’ll steam clean the hallway that leads from my entry way to my kitchen, den and garage. I figure there will be less walking on that carpet while I’m trying to get it to dry.

I need to get a haircut and coloring job, very, very badly. I haven’t done anything with my hair since April. Maybe after I’m done here I’ll try and make an appointment. The problem is I only let one lady do my hair. Since I found her last fall, my daughter and I refuse to let anyone even touch our hair. My beautician/stylist (what do they call themselves now) is a gem among gems. What’s even better is that she work on me, and ONLY me when it’s time for my appointment. I hate when the stylists are trying to work on two or three people at once. This bodes ill for someone’s hair, usually mine!

Ashes, there’s just no being polite with ants. I tried, it doesn’t work. Fortunately, none have gotten inside my house, but we had a huge infestation in our backyard a couple of years ago. We finally discovered the source when we discovered this humongous ant pile between our fence and the neighbor’s fence behind us. We tried everything, and finally ended pouring a couple, three cupsful of gasoline on the antpile. That took care of the buggars toot-sweet! This probably wouldn’t work for you, nobody wants their shoes to smell like gasoline.

The sun has not come out to play today. I’m kind of glad, actually. I needed a break from the heat.

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Oh, yes I do. See, I grew up with a dishwasher. I am therefore spoiled. I did not have to wash dishes until I was nineteen years old. To this day, if something is bad enough, I will throw it out and buy another saucepan/casserole dish/fork if I have to, rather than clean it. I own five frying pans. I don’t know why. But I can tell you that the most chintzy of them is in my sink right now, growing alien life forms.

But my best friend came over tonight, and we’re going to order dinner again, so I’ve beaten the dishes once more. :slight_smile:

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Hey, cable guy! Ashes needs you. Get over there right away! That’s what you meant, right?

I’m bummed today because I came home and found that my favorite neighbors put their house up for sale. We’re not close, but we’ve done each other favors from time to time and they’re unfailingly pleasant, and he shovels the front walk in winter (I sweep in summer). And it’s just nice to have pleasant people next door. Anyone need a nice little house?

Mom’s coming tomorrow night and I’ll have brother, niece and nephew here as well through the weekend. Then I get a few days respite and then a few more days of company.

And now I have to go clean and do laundry some more.

Oh - I almost forgot:
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO THE ANACHIS!!!
GT

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What?! Working on more than one person’s hair at a time— I…I…I need a moment. Okay Taters, you hold onto your current stylist with both hands if others in your area work on multiple clients. Good gravy! Sure, you can wash one client while another’s drying, to help out in a rush, but cutting on more than one person is just wrong.
[sup]Note to self, don’t act ant-like around Taters. Remove all gasoline from the area just in case.[/sup]

I’m your opposite on the dishwashing Draelin. I grew up washing by hand and I hated it. Now that I live in civilized parts, relatively, everything goes into the machine because I will wash by hand no more, forever. Wood spoons? Into the machine. Fancy non-stick pans? Into the machine. Cutting board? Into the machine. The only thing I had wash are my new glasses, because their glass is eggshell thin. But I’ll deny hand washing them if anybody asks.

That’s perfect gardentraveler. If their office had been open. Ah well, tomorrow’s another day and it’s just a stupid dvr anyway.

Gah! Laundry! I forgot the load out in the machine.

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Just finished steamcleaning the the downstairs (main level) hallway. It took me over an hour and a half. Gah! I hate steamcleaning. I still don’t feel like the carpet looks brand new again, but it does look better.

I let my sister borrow my steam cleaner a couple of months ago and she broke off the little tab thingy that locks the hose in place. Grrrr…now the damn thing keeps falling out which makes the process a whole lot more of a pain in the arse. It’s an upright steamer with the extension hose and attachments for cleaning upholstery and scrubbing spots on the floors.

Tomorrow (today actually; I just looked at the time) I need to make sure I get up somewhat early so I can clean up my kitchen, wash the floors, dust and vaccuum the great room, make a dental appointment for hubby, scrub the bathrooms, and maybe, just maybe, I’ll get to make a hair appointment.

Well, I better try and get some sleep now.

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Why am I insane? I don’t know. I volunteered to work some 6-12 and 6-1 shifts at McD’s, since I’ve got some 1-10 shifts and 2-11 shifts at WM. It’ll probably be worth it when I hit that paycheck jackpot, but maaaaan, am I tired right now.

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Good Morning Y’all! Here I am all freshly haircut. It feels good! I like it when my haid is all newly buzzed and I feel the breeze on my scalp. It’s all cloudy and ick lookin’ here. I think it’s gonna rain big time today!

ACBG and I have agreed we need to time our going away stuff better. See, he was gone from Friday til Monday and I’m leaving Sunday and will be gone a whole week. He says he’s sad cause I’ll be gone six days. AWWWW! I’m supposed to get back home around 11:00 P.M. next Friday and he’s gonna pick me up at the airport. We’ll prolly go to his house cause it’s closer. Be ready for a special welcome home, says he. Hmmm… almost makes goin’ away worth it. :smiley:

Was that TMI? I’m not sure. We haven’t been really TMI at all this week. Course with last week being among the most TMIy MMP’s ever, I guess it’s good to slack off on it for a week.

Oh, and we went to the Quickie for dinner last night. Or, as we like to say it:

<snerk> Wanna have a Quickie? <snerk>

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The drywall portion of the Great Bathroom Project is all done now. The Little woman came home and looked at my work and she said it was good. Then she asked if I thought “we” should sand down the walls where there are brush marks from where the people before us painted. I told her she could if she wanted. Suddenly the brush marks became much less noticable. It as weird.

There is drywall dust everywhere. I have to wash all the bedclothes today. I’m very excited about that.

And I get to start the painting portion of the GBP. My enthusiasm for this cannot be measured. Really, it’s that high (low).

And I should go to Sam’s Club today because we’re low on peanut butter, ibuprofen and paper towels. And some other stuff, but it’s on the list and I can’t remember just what we need right now. What else we need is actual paint. I have the primer for today, but then I’m stuck. I should go buy paint so the GBP doesn’t bog down. The goal is still Shower By Monday!

Prime, hardware store, Sam’s Club. Plus a load of laundry. (Or two. It depends.) That’s my day. (Plus feed the boys a couple times each.) Makes you wish you were me, huh?
And happy happiness to the Anachis. I forget why, but I’m sure they deserve it.

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We’ll be headed for Costco this weekend ourselves. TS Irene is brewing near Bermuda, and there’s a pretty decent chance it will become a hurricane. The forecast path has it coming up the Chesapeake Bay in one scenario, and that means fun for Chez Bobbio.

Time to get battteries and huge-assed coolers, since we haven’t had a real hurricane scare since getting here. Lots of tropical storms last year, but those were like 3 hour long severe thunderstorms. It’s silly to be stocking up on food and ice until we know that it’s gonna hit, but it makes sense to buy the durable stuff now, ahead of the raggedy-assed masses.

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They hired a receptionist! Wooooooooooo! Today, we’ve got a former employee that sometimes comes back to help out answering the phones and beginning the new lady’s training, and new lady is officially starting on Wednesday. The end is in sight.

You can’t see me, but I assure you I’m doing the dance of joy.

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ashes, seems to me I remember that ants set down little pheremone (sp?) trails to get to sneakers and such. I can’t give a cite but maybe you need to folly they’s little asses back to the start and then paint a detour line summit like the Road Runner (RoadRunner?) useta do to the coyote, and then they would all folly it off a cliff and voilly la, no more antses. :smiley:

taters, I feel for ya.

bobbio, get yer 'caine supplies well in advance. Trust me on this.

rue, are you paintin’ the whole bathroom?

donkey, yes, you are insane…but among good company.

The rest of the anniversary was kinda anti-climactic. Mr. Anachi spent most of the evening putting together a computer desk he’d ordered. Like swampy I’m gonna cut him some slack this time but I did go to bed kinda ticked. :frowning:

Pizza and ice cream cake to be had at work today. Can’t decide whether to stick to the diet or just say the hell with it. Decide for me.

Tupug

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Oooh, that sounds good! I think we should have a bread exchange. I’ll send you some zucchini bread if you’ll send me some banana bread!

Happy anniversary (a day late!), Anachis!

Our day at the track yesterday was pretty good. One of our interns won $800 late in the day. And a couple other people won some money here and there. (I don’t gamble so I neither won nor lost. I’d rather save my $2 for a cup of coffee. At least then I’m *guaranteed *some satisfaction.)

**KeithT **and I are starting to try to think of where to look for jobs for him for next year (after he graduates from grad school). Anyone have any ideas of engineering jobs (mechanical) in the Northeast or northern Midwest? Or non-engineering jobs that need technical/analytical skills? And where there’s just a good job market in general so I could find a job too? (Also of the non-engineering - despite my two degrees in the field - but technical/analytical type.) Oh, and we want to stay away from all the big cities like NYC, Boston, and Chicago. It’d really really be nice to be able to be together next year. This long-distance thing is starting to get old.

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Free pizza and ice cream?? To hell with the diet! :smiley:

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Oh, I must protest, highly! Fried, breaed zucchini is definitely some god’s gift to us, particularly with a ranchy-creamy sort of dip. Yum!

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I’ll be the stick in the mud, and say stick to the diet. If I was in your office, I know I couldn’t gorge on pizza and ice cream cake, because I don’t have the stomach for it.

<snerk> I made a funny <snerk>

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Puggy have some pizza and ice cream. It ain’t like you have to eat a whole pizza and a half gallon of ice cream. That is unless you just can’t control yourself once you start. Then don’t do it. Unless it’d be funny to watch you doin’ it. Oh, live a little today.

Bobbio <snerk> I actually did <snerk> when I read it. Then again, when have I ever passed up a chance to <snerk>? Go get them 'cane supplies. Besides, having a couple of big coolers around is always a good thing.

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Oh yeah, and I meant to add that sauteed zucchini with garlic and some soy sauce or oyster sauce is really really yummy too. Just make sure the pieces are big enough not to get mushy. Mushy zucchini is the WORST.

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C’mon, everyone knows zucchini belongs in salad with sundried tomatoes, chickpeas, crumbled feta cheese, and a light, zesty vinagrette! Sheesh…

(Did I make it a fourth-page party yet?)