ems, I’d love to join you for some grilling, but I’m pretty far from the Middle of Nowhere. I’m right here in the middle of Somewhere. I like being Somewhere, but sometimes it’s nice to be Nowhere.
My MD weekend is so far not too booked up. I’m going to a party tomorrow night, and then I have nothing the rest of the weekend. My big, exciting plans involve sleeping late and doing whatever I feel like. And working on job applications.
puggy, good luck with the suit shopping! I’m sending you some of my good luck from my last suit-shopping trip–hope it helps!
Hey! Guess what! I have my vacation plans all set for this year!
This year, for vacation, we’re… getting a new heat pump. Yay. We might also swing a few daytrips and maybe a long weekend, but it looks like we’re vacationing in HeatPumpVille. At least it’ll be cool.
Two weeks ago we had our system inspected for the season. It wasn’t good. The worst part was the… thingies inside (coils?) were way dirty. They could be cleaned, but to clean the gunk off them (the people who lived in this house before us didn’t believe in “maintainance”), we’d (well, they’d) need to pretty much take the unit apart. The 17 year old unit. The 17 year old unit with a life expectancy of 15 years. If the whole cleaning job went really well and bits of the old, old heat pump didn’t break, it would cost roughly 1/3 the price of a new system.
Last week we got estimates on a new heat pump. (This was as much fun as it sounds.)
Next week the heat pump guys are showing up to put in the new unit. (It’s a good thing we want one before it really gets hot around here and the A/C guys get busy.)
So, Monday is a holiday, so no MMP. Tuesday the heat pump guys show up bright and early to get to work. Will I have time to get online? Dunno. Maybe. If the MMP doesn’t show up on Tuesday (The Holiday Edition), will it show up on Wednesday? Who knows? What I’m saying is: I may not get around to MMPing next week. But then again I might. You have been warned.
In other news: The Little Woman might be getting a new puppy. A puppy way better than Elysian’s.
In other news all about me: I’m getting a new shower curtain liner.
The house gets a new heat pump. (Which I benefit from.)
The Little Woman gets a new puppy. (Which I benefit from.)
I get a new shower curtain liner.
Man! It’s good to be me!
Now I’m gonna lay down the boogie and play that funky music til I die.
Ok, Puggy since you were not paying attention on Tuesday when I posted the above, I am instant replaying it so you can know what I intend my weekend to be like. Course, tonight I need to get the grass all cut and everything edged so it’ll look purty over the weekend but since it’s not horridly hot (high of only 83 expected today) that won’t be a problem. Heck, if I get real energized I’ll even go over and get ACBG’s yard cut too since his is kinda small and won’t take long. Hmmm… I could even spend the night there. An idea is forming in the ol’ swampbrain.
I like swampy’s idea of taking a day off just cause you don’t feel like going to work. I shoulda done that today. After the un-nice phone calls yesterday, I really don’t feel like making any more today but that is what I need to work on. Bleh. A rainy cold day like this woulda been perfect for sleeping in and then just sitting in front of the tv.
I’m going home Saturday/Sunday to visit the parents. That’ll be nice. They’re promising some form of grilled food which is good since I have no patio or porch or outdoor space to do my own grilling. So Dad’ll brave the rain to cook food outside for me. It’s great being a spoiled only child!
I just found out we’re getting a 1/2 day off tomorrow. They used to always do that before long weekends, but the newer-ish boss isn’t all that into giving extra time off. Even though NO work gets done on a Friday before a long weekend. Actually most Fridays, especially during golf season, are really slow. But anyway, that makes a 3 1/2 day weekend for me which’ll be really nice! (Even if it does rain the whole time.)
Ooooh oooh ooh! And I’m going to Wisconsin for the 4th of July weekend! Yay!
It’s going to be 86 degrees here today! Why, oh why, must I work today? It is absolutely beee-yooo-ti-ful here.
picunurse, as far as I know, I was the only besides you with a camera at Chinooks. Janxx borrowed my camera to take some pictures. Bumbadid have a camera at Doc Maynards, but some jerk stole it. His camera was way fancy and probably took some very nice pictures.
Arrggh, the numbers on my datacall, which supposedly come from the same source, DO NOT MATCH up! Apparently, I am a magic wizard or something and am supposed to come up with some way to make them match. :dubious: :rolleyes:
:o DOH!!! :smack: I was so payin’ attentions. It’s just my advanced case of CRS that made me forget. So there!
I just found out that in addition to the company luau tommory, they’re lettin’ us go at 3:00 so I can buzz up to Ross and suit shop. Iffen I don’t get lucky up there, I can go get malled. All onna way home. YAY! An iffen I get real lucky, then I can go do my grocery shoppin’ early so that’s outta the way. I usually do it Saturday but I’ll be movin’ the grumpuses. So, YAY, maybe I’ll get to go to the beach with the Princess afterall.
rue, what kinda puppy??? What kinda puppy??? I luuuurves little puppies!
taxie goin’ to Wisconsin for the fireworks, right?
Mr. Taters and I saw some cute puppies, but we’re not getting any. I have a cat and a black lab. They are more than enough. I just can’t handle any more pet hair. I love my animals, they are both so happy to see me whenever I come back and the dog just thinks he’s a big ol’ lap dog, but I think one more animal would drive my cat crazy.
I want the day to end. I just want to enjoy the sunshine. I was really hoping the boss man would give us 59 minutes, but I don’t think it’ll happen. I just want to be outside or anywhere other than my windowless office. Besides, I’d love to use the gift card I received for my birthday. The hubby gave me a $100.00 gift card for Pier One and I want to use it.
I went to Wisconsin once, when I worked for The Corporation From Hell[sup]TM[/sup], to a place called Sauk City. It really was in the middle of nowhere. (Wisconsin nowhere, not Wyoming nowhere, which, as nowheres go, are probably just fine nowheres. Not that I, myself, am somewhere either.)
What I remember about Sauk City, Wisconsin:
a) They like to drink there. A lot.
b) They have really, really good cheese.
c) I had a pork chop there that had to be an inch thick! Proper!
Did I mention that they drank a lot?
That’s all I remember about Sauk City, Wisconsin. (I liked it there.)
Rue, you sound like my first wife. If it benefited her it was by definition good. If it didn’t benefit her it was stupid and probably sexist.
Puggy, you go girl!
I probably have CRS too, but I don’t remember what that is.
I’m thinking about applying for a programming job at a hospital 100 miles from here. Not as much fun as making soap, but it pays a whole lot better. I’m conflicted.
I almost had to go to Ft McCoy, Wisconsin once for a TDY. A week before I was supposed to leave they cancelled my TDY. My understanding is that there is nothing by Ft McCoy either, other than cranberry bogs. Oh, funsies!
Sounds like you have a tough decision to make Bumba . More financial security, or more happiness. I’m sure you’ll make the decision that is right for you and Den Mum . You never know, your soap business could take off and be as big as Bath and Body Works. Lord knows, I’m praising your products far and wide and to everyone else in between. Would taking the job mean moving or would you actually commute?
Can everyone tell I’m just not interested in actually doing my work today. I’m working, just not as hard as I should be.
Uh, oh, bumba, sounds like your CRS has escalated into CRAFT. :eek:
Well, the HR dude called me this morning to set up a face-to-face. It’s at one on Tuesday. :eek: Ah, hell, it’s not like I don’t already HAVE a job. I should relax on this, right? :eek:
So, anyways, I rethought my strategy for the weekend and now I will do the grocery shopping after I get out of work at 3:00 tomorrow, move the grumpuses on Saturday, go to the beach on Sunday, go suit shopping on Monday, and Tuesday’s the interview. I predict that not much housework will get done.
rue, iffen you don’t do an MMP on Monday, you simply must designate a second-in-command. It’s in the rules.
taxi, erm, I was thinking more about the kissey smoochie kinda fireworks. But, hey, if that’s not your thing…
Sorry! I missed this WI-related post when I posted last time! I don’t *think *I’m going to the nowhere part of WI, but there’re plenty of nowheres in Upstate NY so I can certainly handle nowhereville. Or nowhereburg. Or nowheretown.
I am looking forward to the CHEESE. And have I mentioned that **KeithT **can cook?? A man who can cook. I’m in heaven.
I’m just a teeny bit jealous. It’s nice to have a man around who likes to cook! I’m still looking for one, so if you know any single men who like to cook, send 'em over here!
Way back when we were first married, I wanted to get a terrier dog. The Little Woman said “I don’t like terriers!” so we got a Schnoodle. (Ha ha! The joke was on her! That’s half terrier!)
When it was time to replace the Schnoodle, I wanted a Jack Russell. (Actually I wanted a Norwich, but they are way-spendy. So I got a Norwich with a really bad coat, which is a stubby-legged Jack.) She wasn’t all-fired keen on the idea, but she “let” me.
Now, it’s her turn to pick the puppy (although technically it’s still too early since her old dog is not yet deceased). She wants a Cairn terrier!
I’ve turned her to the Dark Side of Dogdom! Bwa! Hahahahaha!
Tag! You’re it!
And try to work the word “ubiquitous” in there sommers.
But Bumba, what benefits me is by definition good. But things are only “stupid” if I’m no good at them and it seems like too much bother to learn. Like golf. Golf is stupid.
magic, you can have the Klingon. He’s single and is a very good cook. He even lives in SC. Course, he’s a savage alien, but you DID say single man who likes to cool, din’tcha? His son, Lil Lestat[sup]TM[/sup], is also a good cook but he may be a tad too young and buttheaded for ya.
I’m also in the ranks of those longing to be idle today. Must be a bad case of holidayweekenditis. Where’s lissla with the clorox???
Argh! Somebody buy me a new car! Yesterday after work my car wouldn’t start. My mechanic said it might be the alarm thingie so I drove twenty miles to have the alarm looked at. They say it’s the battery, no, the starter, no, some other whosit. My mechanic says go to Pep Boys and make them give you a new one and then he’ll check things today, so I do and got home at nearly nine. I’d been dealing with that garbage for six hours!
At least I now know that the readers of Hot Bike magazine are nearly evenly split over the addition of chicks in bikinis pics being added to the format. Also, two celebrities are getting way too skinny and people are worried.
Everybody should take a well day on their birthday at least, if at all possible. There’s nothing better than playing hooky. Unless it’s golf. You may not be doing it properly Rue. Did you play with rowdy crazy women who buy lots of drinks and snacks? It’s not proper golf unless other people stop and stare at your antics.
I’m sure one of us can manage to jump-start a bogus holiday edition of the MMP. I, for one, am not going anywhere. We don’t do boating at any of the summer holidays because those days seem to bring out all the stupid people on the water around here and we don’t need the aggravation. Plus we’ve still got some work to do to get the boat ready. So we’ll be at the marina working on the boat while others are out on the bay getting in each other’s way.
We are having an longer long weekend - my sweetie and I both took tomorrow off. That’s 4 days to sleep in. He’ll really sleep in. I’ll be up around 6 to let the dog out. I can’t sleep in anyway - I think I’m physically unable to be in bed after the sun comes up. So while he snoozes, I’ll probably be on line. So maybe I can do the aforementioned jump-start, if no one beats me to it and if no one objects.
That’s what I get for responding before reading the whole thread. Tupug, it’s all yers. I’ll be standing by to respond.
My MIL has a cairn terrier. That dog is a total mental case. Come to think of it, all of my MIL’s dogs, at least the ones I’ve known, have been mental cases. Hmmmm, what’s the common denominator here?? <snerk>
I got moved into my new cubicle today. The one with the window! And I have my computer. So once I get back to the office on Tuesday, I can start working on my last training exercise. Go me!
