Good luck with that LiLi. I’m sure he’ll get the hang of it after a few days.
Poor Dotty’s MIL. I feel sorry for anybody that happens to in public.
I’ve actually been productive today. I worked on work stuff and straightened up da cave. I even have a roast with carrots cookin’ away in the slow cooker. It’s makin’ a nice gravy too. Ima cook some rice cause I just lurve me some rice and gravy. I’ll also steam some lima beans so we’ll have a nice green veggie also. I’m cheatin’ and usin’ frozen biscuits tonight. They’re good so I don’t feel so bad about not makin’ homemade. Besides I’m out of buttermilk and didn’t want to go to the store. Matter of fact I have been no further than my mailbox today. Tomorrow I shalt go to the workplace for a couple of hours then come home to do stuff. Plus I’ll go to da sto’ and get stuff.
So glad that it’s Thursday. Got shopping plans for this weekend, but not big ones. I need to go to Trader Joe’s, but may have to settle for Whole Paycheck. We’ll see.
Dotty, :eek: about your MIL! Hope she’s feeling better soon … and has no more accidents!
On that note … we’re having turkey wings for dinner.
Dotty, what an . . . unfortunate incident. :eek: Must’ve been uncomfortable for all involved, to put it mildly.
Tonight, after class, I’m going to order in (or get take-out) and watch Steel Magnolias. I haven’t decided yet if I’m going to do anything exciting tomorrow night. I completely forgot it was my birthday until New England Gentleman emailed me and asked me if I had anything planned. Somehow I feel like I can’t be bothered. Maybe I’ll invited people over and make lasgna on Saturday.
Whew - another crazy day. As soon as I got home, I took the doggies out, then left for WalMart. I did my shopping, then came home and fed the critters. About that time, **FCD ** got home, and we decided tonight was Mexican night, so off to Leonardtown we went. We just now got back.
He had a great day off - futzing on the boat all day. I had a boring day, plus I was still tried, even tho I did have a decent sleep. More melatonin tonight - I could use another restful night. I’m seriously considering making tomorrow a short day. Heck, I shoulda taken it off altogether.
The weather is wunnerful, and the house is open. Tonight’s low may be high enough to permit some of the windows to stay open. We shall see how it feels once the sun sets.
I feel like my posts have been exceptionally dull this week. I feel exceptionally dull this week. I’m thinking the pre-wedding stress is catching up with me.
Dotty, that is indeed unfortunate. Did your MIL just try to play it off?
I’m currently waiting to go work out. Our friend should be here any time now and then we’ll head to the Y. I’m glad we’re going early. We can get the workout done and still have a little time to relax this evening.
My daughter came home with her cap, gown, announcements, etc. today. I guess that means we’ll have to start sending them out. They’re only giving out six tickets per graduate, so that means we’ll have to purchase at least 5 more. Maybe only 2. We may only have to purchase two because I’m not sure if my sister, BIL and nephew will want to come. I’ll have to find out.
They finally captured the bear that has been wandering around our neighborhood. They treed him, tranquilized him, and hauled him off to the Olympic Mountains for release. As it turns out, it wasn’t a juvenile bear, but an older one who was apparently wise to the way of human traps. He’s been evading capture since early this month.
Hmmm, there’s nothing else exciting to report, so I guess I’ll close for now.
Too tired to post much. Read about the recalcitrant baby sleeper–I say go ahead and try it, but also I might give him to daddy for the actual put into the crib. This may sound weird, but after 3 kids, I am convinced that small babies sense hesitation and wishy-washiness from us in our handling of them. Brave face, confident manner and no nonsense. Continue everytime you interact with Baby while putting him down (that and the fact that whining to him ain’t gonna work).
You could check into a book by Dr Ferber called Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Baby. I don’t agree with everything he says, but he did show us how to get #1 son to sleep at 8 months old. He is “controversial”–as if any advice re parenting isn’t. :rolleyes:
As for the rest of the thread: yay, boo, too bad and oh dears as needed. I dealt with several very nice people today at work and one complete jerk. I did get to see a neurologist who I used to chat with a great deal–he gave me a hug and said he thought I’d left. It was nice to see him again. I work with Lisa the Bitch tomorrow–good times.
Whew! My daughter and I have just returned from our workout. I’m still waiting on hubby to get home and then we have to figure out the whole dinner thing.
I did lots of various weight and resistance training and ran two miles on the track. Well, I didn’t run one lap of the two miles, but I ran the rest of it. My stamina is definitely building up.
I wanted to do some abs on the mat at the Y, but the mats were full up, so I came home and did the abs. I was lying on the floor and would lift my legs and had my daughter throw them straight and to the sides. This way, I was working both my abs and my lats. I should do some crunch type stuff, but my abs are a little sore because I did abs on a couple of the resistance machines too.
It’s too bad you have to work with Lisa the Bitch tomorrow, rigs. Maybe she’ll actually be a little decent tomorrow. You can always hope, I suppose.
I’ve not caught up, but I’m working on it. Since I posted last we had a huge storm, with winds recorded at 135+ mph. Airplanes were blown over at the airport, at the float plane dock planes had broken wings and struts. Boats were beating up against each other, causing much damage, and several boats broke their mooring lines and were free floating in the harbor. A couple of large spruce trees were downed, and trash cans, street and business signs, boat gear and other things went missing, to be found in odd places. There were some power outages, but we kept our power. No damage to casa kaiwik, but the wind kept sucking a couple of the window open, and it was very cold.
Also this seems to be my year for friends from the past to resurface. I won’t bore you with the details, but a friend I haven’t seen or heard from in a couple of years called last night, and then came over. I’ve known her since I came here, nineteen years ago, and around ten years ago we both were dx’d with lupus and other various autoimmune crap. We were never not friends, but she kinda went a little crazy for a while, and I finally had to stop enabling her. It has been a few years, and she is in need of a friend right now. She is having a health issue and is scared, and doesn’t want her family to know, so I listened to her, reassured her, and told her to keep in touch. We hugged again and I told her that I love her, and she began to cry again and said that she never stopped loving me. I may have quoted this line from a song by Gay Allen before, but here it is again, “Life ain’t always beautiful, but it’s a beautiful life”.
Also, I found an internet friend who I had lost contact with. We connected when he was only 17 and still in school in Britain. He went to the University of Liverpool and became a surgeon, and is now in The Royal College of Surgeons of England, as he has decided to switch from being a surgeon to General Practice. He is a really nice guy, and I am glad to have reconnected with him.
Very long day today, very short on sleep. I’m so glad I only have a few more days left of this and then I can go back to sleeping at night (and for longer than three hours at a time) like normal people. I can’t nap just yet because I’m waiting for my brother to call me back. He left me a worried-sounding voicemail a couple of days ago, which I did not get until today because AT&T hates me and never tells me when I have voicemails or missed calls. And my brother doesn’t have an answering machine, so I can’t even leave him a message to tell him to call me tomorrow.
mouse, Sears wants you to come into the store to order the vacuum online so that the sales people can upsell you all the accessories and add-ons and whatnot. When I worked for Bed Bath & Beyond we did a lot of online ordering like that for our customers, and received much training in the ways of getting people to buy extra bags, belts, attachments & special powder to sprinkle on the carpet to make your house smell like rainbows and kisses when you vacuum. Also, if you come into the store you’ll have to walk by all the other bright and shiny things in the store that you didn’t know you couldn’t live without until you saw them on the sales floor. They’re just trying to maximize the potential for impulse buys.
Okay, Spazcat, I’m reminding you.
Happy (early?) birthday, Haze!
Am I missing something? Too tired to scroll back through thread…
Whew, light at the end of the tunnel time! My fish pills came in, a friend scolded me for not calling sooner and dumped some painkillers on me and right after I started the antibiotics the abcess ruptured. Couldn’t possibly have had better timing, really! So there’s MUCH less pressure on my face, and it even waited until after I had dinner to cut loose so that was all to the good as well. Phew!
Speaking of dinner, I made this curry last night, and it was absolutely delicious. I actually doubled the recipe, and the SO ate probably about 8 servings all by himself! Can’t blame him, though, because it was really yummy. The only PITA part of the whole deal was grating the onions and ginger, but aside from that it was easy-peasy. I had a nice bowl of it for breakfast and it was even better reheated.
I’ve been fairly well immersed in politics for the last few days, especially because I’ve been too sick to get out much and I ran across this very interesting blog post which tackles the issue of the class warfare that’s been waged over the past decade or so that’s had such a profoundly negative effect on so many of us in this country. I find it baffling that otherwise sensible people will nonetheless defend economic measures that benefit only those in income brackets that they can never hope to attain–it’s like body dysmorphic disorder for the pocketbook, I guess. I’d sure like it if Obama would tackle this issue in the same sane and logical way he tackled the race issue so many people insist isn’t there, because it’s time that we normal people start standing up to the fat cats and refusing to allow them to write themselves blank checks any more. I don’t care if it’s “not fair” that someone making millions per year pays a higher percentage in tax, because it is RIGHT that they do so. I have no problem forcing some rich bastard to have to downsize to a smaller Learjet in order for several hundred people like me and you to have access to health care and be able to afford gas to get to work AND food for the kids. Somehow, that’s an inequity I can not only live with, but I’ll sleep like a veritable baby at night, too.
So hugs and nye-nyes to all, I’m-a gonna watch a movie and fall asleep–I need the zzzzzzzz’sssss!!!
My brother finally called back. He called because my sister went to the hospital this week because of chest pains and dizziness. The doctors couldn’t find anything wrong so they’re thinking maybe it was an anxiety attack, which wouldn’t be surprising. I get them, (thankfully, not nearly as often as I used to) and I was diagnosed when I was about her age. She’s home now and seems to be all right. Gotta call her tomorrow and make sure she’s doing okay. I’m happy it wasn’t anything more serious. And now I can sleep. zzzzzzzz
Hi all, sorry I haven’t been able to come in this week.
I’m in a hotel in Bilbao. Great location, but my computer was acting up, which totally sucked as it’s the new one. I’d have it plugged into the wall, the light on the transformer would be on, but it would insist on eating up its battery instead of using that nifty AC. Changing plugs didn’t help. Then I realized that I’m in the old part of Bilbao… electricity here doesn’t go off often but it rollercoasts, specially during the evening. Lo and behold, the computer is just fine with being used in the AM! Phew.
Hello to all the nice folks who came in this week, we’ll have to get Haze to host more often, although we already knew she’s a Great Hostess.
Please distribute your own yays, ows and best wishes, I haven’t had time to read it all!
Happy Birthday Haze!!!
I slept about 11 hours last night. And I feel weird today. The doctor’s office called back and they are referring me to a urologist. Which, thank heavens for clients in the medical field, I called up one who sells items to urologists and got his recommendation on who I should see.
Also, it’s not very clear, but I think I had a dream about beebs last night.
I need to go to Trader Joe’s, but may have to settle for Whole Paycheck. We’ll see.