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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Unless you have a crosscut shredder, in which case, you get…

…confetti!!! Automatically!

TGIF! I am so ready for the weekend. Here’s hoping I get some sleep.

I woke shortly after 3 this morning from a dream that I was in prison. I don’t know why I was there, but I do know that I was terrified of some guys who were looking for me and no one would help me. Needless to say, I didn’t fall back to sleep, so it’s gonna be a long day. Alas.

But it is Firday, so we’ve got that going for us, and by us, I mean those of us who work a normal M-F/9-5 sorta gig. Those on weird schedules are on their own!

Happy Firday, all!

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One of my friends went to Iceland last January; yes I know it’a dark and freezing all day, that’s sorta the point, it’s totally different from here, and I’d only be going for a few days…

Flights to Spain from my local airport: from £35
Flights to Iceland: from £90
Flights to Brazil: from £620.

Maybe not for a long weekend/week :wink:

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 42 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 82 and N.O.S. for the day. The big excitatement of the day is waitin’ for delivery/installation of the new dishwasher. Fun times ahead! I shall take care of a few errands this mornin’ and grab a bizkit for brekkie. Dindin shall be sammiches as part of my errandin’ will be gettin’ some deli stuff.

Spidey, like MOOOOOOM’s shredder mine is cross cut thus instant confetti!

OK, I need more caffeine and then I shall purtify and venture out. Rah!

Happy Firday Y’all!

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::Looks over at “bullets” I have for a Confetti cannon::

Yes, flytwerp, yes I do; I am a confetti flinging coordinator. What’s your address again?
P.S. Confidential to Swampy: Could you spare a roll or two of TP for the trees in his yard?

Sleep? Wuzzat? I have to leave no later than 5am the next two & four of the next six days (which means up even earlier to shower, dress, & eat). :eek:

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I am Carnivorousplant, and I approve this message. :slight_smile:

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Well, that was fun! I just had to run down to the main office to pick up my turkey. For whatever reason, I didn’t get any of the 3 emails telling us they’d be in yesterday. But no biggie - it was still mostly frozen and there’s space in the office fridge. I’ll let it thaw in my fridge and either rotiss or roast it next week.

So now, back to work.

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No; that’s just me. And a few beard-cutters I know. :wink:

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Blurf and it is Firday thank goodness.

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I have a very important announcement; well, it’s important to Ruble.

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I would go to Diggerland but I don’t wanna go to Joisey.

Today’s forecast is 68, with heavy winds and rain possibly snow moving in. Tomorrow’s high is 39. I just ordered Miss A. a blanket. I hope she doesn’t die of frostbite before it arrives. J/K, she’s a hearty little horse. But I feel like a bad mom…

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Upper thirties over night. Finally gave in and set the heater to run first thing in the morning, so everyone would get out of bed. :stuck_out_tongue:

Today I will go see about getting the “rainbow unicorn” out of my hair. I also got my severance check, finally, so I can pay some bills. :slight_smile:

Happy Firday all!

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When I went to get my lunch out of the fridge, I saw my turkey in there and decided I should write myself a note so I wouldn’t forget it. There’s now a post-it stuck to one of the shopper tags on my key ring - hope that does the job. :smiley:

I’m thinking I’ll bail a little early today since I got in stupid early. I’ve got a check to cash - tho I could do that tomorrow - but mostly, I don’t have that much left to do. I think. It could take some time to figure out what the heck is going on with this last package of changes.

If I had the vacation time, I’d leave now…

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Well, this is a fine mess… I have a pile of drawings with part numbers from 3 different projects that I think I’m supposed to combine into the current project. But the redline notes are cryptic at best and worthless at worst. Naturally, the engineer in charge of this project isn’t here at the moment and the reference list that would answer a bunch of my questions either doesn’t exist or is buried in a cyber catacomb that a search will not reveal.

So lalalalalalalalala let the thumb-twiddling begin!

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rosie, when I was at the [del]old folks’ home[/del] rehab center a few years ago, my favorites were the staff on graveyards. I worked graveyards back then and was actually awake a lot of nights. They tended to be bored and enjoyed hanging out.

Am I the only one who gets FB friend requests from dogs? I got one today from my SIL’s Chihuahua. He now has two FB pages. :stuck_out_tongue: She’s off on medical leave and is bored. :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: I think butters might appreciate his cover photo: he’s wearing a crown.

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I’d probably friend a pet :).

Still home and coughing. Things are improving a bit, so I should be able to irk Monday.

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Well, new hairstylist refuses to remove the color from my hair. Says it will damage the hair. I know this. I just don’t want to look like a rainbow unicorn. I would rather look like I have straw hair for a while. Sigh. I told her I would try it her way just a little longer and then I would probably be back and demand that she fry my hair. She can’t say she didn’t warn me…

I stopped and bought snerk quickies for lunch. After we eat then I will try the new shampoo, which is supposed to even the color out, so I don’t feel like a little pony[sup]TM[/sup] anymore. We’ll see.

I think we’ve decided NOT to go to California next week, which is super awesome. We’ll go over winter break, when the DH and the kids have time off. This means the kids won’t miss any school and I don’t have to figure out what to do with the pets, since I have yet to find a pet sitter…

Back to my previously scheduled program of eating Halloween candy, while waiting for DH to finish his meeting so we can eat!

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I’m home. Turns out both people who give me stuff to do took the afternoon off, and neither told me that’s what they’d be doing. I sat waiting till 1:30, then asked the guy who shares an office with one of them… So I burned 2 hours of leave, made a quick stop at Food Lion, and now I’m home. May as well twiddle my thumbs here as at the office.

I got punkin pie fixin’s so I can have some punkin pie ready when my sweetie gets home. It’s one of his favorites and I’m nice, dammit, so there ya go! The turkey is in the fridge - I may put it in a big bowl of water tomorrow to speed thawing, then roast it on Sunday. I’ll do it low and slow, so if it’s still a bit frosty inside, it’ll still cook thru. And that’s the plan.

I’ve got plenty of time to go out and suck up some leaves, but I don’t want to. I’ll do it tomorrow. :smiley:

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Happy Firday!

It’s a N.O.S. 66 today, going up to 71.
We should be outside doing things but we aren’t.

I had a horrible nights sleep

I got awakened around 4 am by *:slap: pause :slap: pause :slap: pause *. The dog’s ear was bothering him and with every swipe at his ear his paw was slapping the floor.

Now the that brain is awake, the bladder is complaining - loudly, and I’m hungry too.

Then I hear the CRASH - THUD, from the kitchen, the sound that means the cat has caught a mouse. He comes charging into the living room, mouse in his mouth, and deposits it (still alive) between me and the bathroom.

Now I’m stuck where I am because if I get up and try to walk through he will likely lose the mouse, who will crawl off and die somewhere, thus stinking up the house. So I have to wait until he finishes playing with the mouse

at which point I will leave out the gory details and sound effects

he decided to make the dead mouse an early morning snack.

I still have to pee, but I’m not so hungry anymore.

By now Sah-so is up and asking me what I’m doing and I tell him I’m afraid to move and disturb the cat and I don’t know which is worse…
having the mouse get loose
finding a dead mouse
or finding a partially eaten dead mouse

at which he snorted and said I guess you are in a LOSE-LOSE-LOSE situation

And the whole time the cat is chowing down he is looking at me and meowing.
I wasn’t sure if it was an invitation to join in or a warning to leave him alone.
Thankfully it was dark enough for me not to see what he was doing.

Finally he is done and comes over for his good kitty scritches, he opens his mouth to talk to me and OMG! dead mousie breath.

Then I get to go potty, Sah-son put medicine in the dog’s ear and he settles down. Cat thought it was a great time to chase his jingle balls up and down the hall.
When everybody settles down, now I can’t sleep because it’s too quiet.
If I don’t hear the dog snoring, I think he isn’t breathing and I have to check to make sure he hasn’t died in his sleep.

I tired taking a nap after irk, but then my mother called.
She wants us to come for Thanksgiving but the HFH are going to be there so we aren’t going. We’ll probably go down either Firday or Saturday for leftovers.

So I’m a mess this morning, I feel like hell and my brain is mushy.

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‘Tis now right at three thirty on Firday afternoon. Guess what? No dishwasher yet. So much for between one and three p.m. Lowe’s called to ask me if I am happy with the installation and service. I told them no bein’ as I have neither one yet. They are checkin’ on it for me. :dubious:

Sari sorry you had a rough time there with Sah-dog, Sah-cat, and Sah-cat mouse but I laughed. I laughed hard. I’d say I am ashamed of myself but I’m not. :smiley:

Lo and Behold! I just answered the door. They are here! Now let’s see how long it takes for this all to happen.

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Swampy congrats on the new kitchen gizmo!

Sari I feel your pain. I posted on Mooom’s other thread about “hero” dogs an experience we had the other night with our non-heroic dog. One of the smoke detector batteries died about 1 am. They chirp, loudly, so that someone will fix them. This woke up my dog. My 100lb wuss of a dog. He responded by trying to climb over the bathtub in the master bath, which knocked over the water bowl we keep next to the tub for the dogs. This woke me up. While I dealt with the smoke detector, and the kids, the dog kept up his determined effort to climb over the tub. He made it to the ledge on the far side of the tub, and perched there, where he promptly took a dump. :rolleyes: He then needed to hide next to me for the rest of the night, in case the scary beeping came back.

Yesterday my cats brought me dead mouse number two. At least they haven’t started eating them, they just play with them until dead, then leave me the mangled carcass.