Jim Morrison Is God - A Love Her Madly MMP

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Hi everyone.

Today was much better at work, although I spent a good part of the morning in a bit of a funk and wasn’t overly productive.

However, after our staff meeting things got slightly better.

I am, I think, making my boss sound like an ogre. He’s not really, he just overly stressed with way too much on his plate, along with the requisite staff shortages. He blew his fuse yesterday, which will really threw me for a loop. Now, I’m a big girl, and can usually let a situation like yesterday’s wash over me, but I’d just kind of reached my breaking point. I’m stressed too, so his outburst didn’t help me any. He didn’t SCREAM at me (believe me, I’ve had those type of bosses), but he did yell. That is totally out of character for him. So, I guess all the planets were all incorrectly aligned or something and I just kind of lost it. I am still looking for a promotion, though. I think things will get worse before they get better. There are other things going on in the office, and I’m just getting worn down by them.

Unfortunately, it’ll probably take awhile. The grade I’m looking for is hard to find. I’m at the point where I can’t take a two grade jump, so it’s a bit difficult right now. Something will happen at the right time, I just have to be patient.

welby, good luck with the gall bladder thing. I had mine removed 21 years ago. Trust me on this one, stay the HELL away from mexican food for about a year. In fact, for about a month or so, be very sure to be near a bathroom after you eat fruit too.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY MELI!!

Li-Li, I’m thinking calming thoughts, BUT…WOOT! Grats honey!

tarragon, I’m sorry, but I laughed when I read your post about eating the horseradish. Now, that’s desperation! I hope it was good horseradish.

gotti, I’m keeping your mother in my thoughts. I hope all goes well.

Well, I think I’m going watch some TV.

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Sending calm thoughts your way, LiLi.

Just having a quick firk here this morning, got lots to do and it’s an exciting day at Faerie Towers!

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Dunno if it healed and I wasn’t seeking truth, but I mostly had a good night’s sleep, despite the stoopit cat. I’m up so doggone early because of my stoopit bladder (not gall) - in this house, if you get up to pee after 5AM, the little dog takes it as a sign that it’s time to go out. So the dogs have been out, and all critters have been fed, and their water reservoir is refilled.

Today will be a big day. First chore will be finishing the bedroom trim. Then I arm myself with a paintbrush and the quart of ceiling paint (goes on purple, turns white :eek: ) and I’ll touch up several spots in the bedroom and bathroom. By then, it should be time for me to take my car to Waldorf for its first free oil change. Other chores include ironing and hanging the curtains, moving the furniture back, installing the ceiling fan and new plugs in the guest room, and moving its furniture back, having the bedrooms measured for carpet by the company with the obnoxious jingle, and I think that’s pretty much it.

Which means I can play with clay tomorrow. I’ve got to put wax on the bases of all the pieces I fired last time, and start glazing. I’ve also brought home a humongo bag of clay from class so I can make the slab for my tile project. We should also get out and do the first lawn-mowing of the year, but that would have to be preceeded by stick-picking-up. ugh. We’ll see how that goes.

Meanwhile, it’s just after 6 and I have no Diet Coke in the house - how the heck am I supposed to become caffeinated?? Sheesh…

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I’m glad you’re feeling better, FCM. Wine has remarkable curative properties. It’s really good at staving off illness, too- you just drink until you no longer think you’re coming down with something. :eek:

How’s rosie? Updates?
Yawn. Morning, everyone, and thanks. I’m awake because MR. Lissar has a… a dojo thing, tournament or something, and he has the alarm on snooze. It isn’t very restful. I’m up, and grudgingly thinking about switching to green tea in the morning.

Today I swear I’ll do the vacuuming, unless I can convince QD to do it for me. :smiley:
We went to our favourite Indian restaurant last night to celebrate, with Driving Husband, who is deep in contemplation- should he buy whistles, or drum sets, for our kids?

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One of my BILs thought it would be funny to give our daughter a drum when she was 2. Lucky for us, her musical inclination at that time involved stabbing the drum surface with the drumsticks. hehehe - it didn’t last long. We couldn’t get our revenge, tho - he has no kids.

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Ah, yes, friends and family are always so helpful around children, aren’t they. I myself bought my nephew a little truck with all kinds of sounds. Of course, it had batteries, so the noise level could be controlled, if necessary. Or so I rationalized.

Your neighborhood sounds pretty, Jahdra.

Busy busy busy Saturday. Meeting, garden tour, church thing in the early evening. I probably won’t do the whole tour just so I have a little bit of time in the middle of the day.

Off to drop stuff off at the library and bank. Then it’s off to the park for our meeting…

Wheeeee!!!

GT

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Good mornin’ y’all! I’ve been up a couple hours myself. Then again I was zonked by nine last night, so I slept good. I’m caffienated, paper read, puzzles done and now I’m chillin’ a bit. Nuttin’ special planned for the day. Da cave is clean, the yards are done, pool needs no work, so I foresee slug day.

Drae any updates on BioRosie?

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I am up and caffeinating. Maggie has had her morning walk, and everyone is fed. My back is still hurting, so I’ll let Rod the Roomba clean the floor today.

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I use a big skillet and melt a stick of butter with “a couple of swirls around the pan” of olive oil. Put some flour in a gallon size baggie, and season with salt and pepper. Drain the chicken livers, and take off all the icky fat and connective tissue. I also split them all into two, but you dont have to. Dump them into the bag and coat well. Then turn down the heat a bit 'cuz these guys will SPLATTER! I totally crowd the pan and put all of them in. Then crank the heat back up to med high and put on a splatter guard. I cook them and turn a few times until they get a crunchy dark crust. That’s the way we like 'em! Kinda like frying meat balls, ya know? Drain on paper towels, obviously.

Now on to the rest of the MMP…

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Second test is positive. I’m trying to get hold of my Mum to tell her.

I just talked to QD. She hasn’t stopped hyperventilating, and she made very satisfactory horrified/alarmed noises. :smiley:

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Did she worry that you would give birth to Hitler?

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Yes, actually.

“What if your baby is a terrible, terrible person?”

“There’s really nothing I can do to prevent that, if it happens.”

“But shouldn’t you be WORRIED?”

She’s now terrified that she might be pregnant. Without having sex. That’s a totally reasonable fear since, you know, she could definitely have caught it over the phone with me.

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I do believe congrats are in order, LiLi – I’ll be sending good thoughts your way for the wee one! And I know that in the upcoming months, you’ll keep us [del]bored to death[/del] thoroughly updated on your progress.

When Lapin Blanc was two, her grandfather gave her a toy calliope. That worked off a balloon, so it was an air-powered calliope. The din was un-freaking-believable! It whistled and shrieked and sounded like a whole cadre of dying bagpipes! And it was the dead of winter so we couldn’t even send her outside to annoy the neighbors with it! Fortunately, in replacing the balloon after a couple of days, the coupling “accidentally” got broken so the calliope went bye-bye. I’ve since looked for one to give other people, but alas, they no longer make them. For some strange reason.

:smiley: :smiley:

I slept fairly log-like last night and woke up to find the cat graciously allowing me to have about 3 inches along the edge of my pillow. She would not be moved, either – she has that catlike ability to expand her mass to approximately that of the heart of a neutron star when she doesn’t want to be budged. So I apparently slept around her most of the night. That could be why my neck has a crick in it this morning, ya think?

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So QD has already predicted that your kid is gonna turn out bad??? Perhaps you should tell her not to worry cause y’all are getting a couple of wolves to raise the little nipper. :smiley:

So, can we get all excited yet?

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Hell, I’m terrified I might have caught it just by reading your posts!! :eek:

Morning all, 'tis a lovely day. Hope everyone has a good one!

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Yes.
At what point do you think I should tell my boss? I’m trying to decide if I should wait until I start showing, or give him as much lead time as possible.

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I say wait to tell your boss until you’ve seen the doctor and everything’s goin’ ok for sure. Or, don’t tell him and get really upset everytime he asks if you’re pregnant. I’m good either way.

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Did she actually say that? What a horrible, horrible thing to say to a pregnant lady! And if she’s actually terrified she might be pregnant without having sex, methinks the young lady needs the number of a good therapist. :slight_smile:

By the way, congratulations!

And a belated Happy Birthday, meli!

I’ve been trying to get on the board all day so I could participate in that silly Mafia game.

Gwen is still hangin’ in there.

Had a sad situation here - some teenagers drinkin’ and drivin’ and wreckin’ - one of them was dead at the scene and one of the others died last night. The third boy got off light with a broken ankle. There was a memorial at the accident site on Thursday where a police officer told the assembled kids that all three of them would have survived if they had been wearing seat belts. All three were ejected from the truck. Very sad for their families and friends.

Since the washer is working again I am washing all the covers and blankets and snooze pads from the cat suite. It will take all day and I will sit and surf while things wash and dry…

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Why do these things always seem to end with “if they’d just been wearin’ their seat belts.” Of course, here in the great state of Jawja, one does not need to wear a seat belt if one is drivin’ a pickemup truck. :dubious:

Did y’all read the sticky about how some poster(s) are abusing the search function so it’s been taken down temporarily? Search abuse… the next great tragedy of our times or does it just sound dirty… you decide… :smiley:

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How in the name of little green apples do you abuse a search function? By actually gasp searching for something?