Smooches to Spats --(um, er–matronly, motherly smooches…I’m old enough to BE his mother, I think!)
A white kitchen aid mixer? <runs, checks her own kitchen, phew, still there!>
I thought for a minute that you had stolen mine. I’ve had it for 17 years and I loves it.
I christen your mixer “matilda”. It’s feminine, there is a small (bad) pun re “tilling” in it, and the things are sort of awkward and heavy, sorta like a human Matilda would be.
These things cannot be gainsaid–it is done.
Glad to hear the SIL was tolerable. (Really, that’s all that’s required in the long run…)
I am SO ENVIOUS of you for getting the mixer!
GT
Morning, all. Getting my post in under the wire.
I didn’t see any tornadoes this weekend, but I sure heard a lot about them. They shouwed up with the snow (measured on hundredths of an inch, but still snow.) Looks like weather (considering the earlier post from Alaska - howdy way out there!) all over is screwed up this year.
Lissla it’s another of them American Holidays, honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Except in Arizone, where a previous governor outlawed it, and in Virginia, where it’s known as King/Lee/Jackson Day. Not in honor of Spike Lee and Michael Jackson, but in honor of two Confedarate Civil War generals.
arg! I just lost my whole post to a bad keyboard command. It was a really interesting one too. Really. I hate that.
What?! So, it’s not MLK Day in AZ or VA? And for VA to name it after Civil War generals is a bit insulting, IMO.
:eek:
Off to run errands (can’t I pay someone to do this for me?)
WhyBaby’s decided no matter what time she goes to bed, she’s up at 7:30. But I guess it’s better than last month when it was 5:30.
We just got a new sofabed, swampy. It’s this one (though they don’t list the sleeper on the site, they mention it.) I like it a lot, except that they delivered the wrong color. Which I only discovered after the poor delivery giys lugged it up two flights of stairs, back down those two flights, around the building, up three flights, moved my stove and got it through to my living room. Tore off the wrap - voila! wrong color. They brought camel instead. So we get to have all that fun all over again tomorrow when they bring me my sage sofabed. Still, I highly recomend them - unless, of course, you have actual money to buy real furniture. We’re still broke college students. Yes, in our thirties. Get off our back.
In happier news, I made a housekeeping schedule for myself and stuck to it for a whole week! The place looks almost civilized. Today I mop the kitchen floor. Whee!
Ooh, the baby just farted on my leg. It was quite impressive - the kind that is a Portent of Doom. Guess I’ll go find those diaper wipes and get ready.
Just looked on Wikipedia for more of an explanation. It’s got a link for King/Lee/Jackson Day where it says they’ve been split up so that the holiday honoring the Confederate generals is now observed the Friday before. Looks like Arizona might have given in too. It says that the holiday was observed in all fifty states for the first time in 1999. Yep, here’s a page from Arizona’s state website.
Really, now I’m going to stop reading the Dope and start getting something done…
GT
My faith (in what exactly, I am not sure) has been restored.
whynot -once your done with latrine duty, perhaps you could come over here and organize me. Lack ambition and maturity to apply myself to housework…
I really am going to run those errands, now.
That is one great MMP, anyrose! And congrats on 24 years at one place of work, good lord that is amazing to me.
We have been busy at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Some good flicks, some not so good, overall lots of fun. We saw Jake Gyllenhall in person! In a weird twist of fate, Mr. beckwall met JG’s grandfather, who is an MD in Orange County, several months ago while interviewing doctors for his PBS show.
Last night, we were being our usual silly selfs (selves?) and doing our stream of consciousness humor thing. Mr. beckwall came up with the idea of “Baby Cirque”,
with babies in painted faces doing tricks and such to a sold out audience. And then, of course, I had to counter his idea with “Blue Baby Group”. We were goofy, I tell ya.
Have a great week, and enjoy your day off if you are lucky enough to be off today.
Beckwall, YOU SAW JAKE IN PERSON?!?!?!?!
I envy you.
It’s probably your printer settings that got wonky on you. Word just sends words to a print driver, then the printer has fun. Sounds like it’s set for “flip on short side” duplexing. Stick your pages into a clipboard, and it will make sense.
You should be able to go to the printer directly - Start button, Settings, Printers then right-click the printer and select Properties. Hit Printing Preferences, and the duplexing options should be there. Select Flip on Long Side (or None if you simply despise two-sided printing) and OK your way out. Now, Word should meekly print the way you want without making you pick any settings. Another useful setting on the Preferences page is page order. If you have something like an inkjet that puts the pages out face up, select “Back to Front” and your prints will come out in order and you won’t have to shuffle pages into the right order.
My family room floor is DONE! Dee Oh Enn Eee! DONE! And it looks amazing! My freaky-expensive compound slide miter saw made flawless and easy work of cutting baseboard moldings to all sorts of goofball angles. (Were the carpenters that built the place on dope? Must have been, to make a corner come out to a 94-degree angle.)
I’m thinking of putting my antique Western Electric apartment phone in the family room and wiring it so it’s usable. Wood wall phones are cool, but this thing is considerably more rare, and certainly no slouch in the coolness department!
Swampy - I wish I’d known you wanted a sleeper! Just yesterday, we convinced a furniture store to break a set as we just wanted the love seat. Could have bought the combo, then spent far too much money to ship the sleeper to you.
Welll. I don’t know if it would be helpful, but here’s my schedule, more or less. Feel free to steal/use/adapt:
The neat part is: anything I finish early gives me guilt free time to Dope (and pump milk and eat and stuff like that.)
I’m afraid I can’t help with the ambition and maturity part, though. But I will say it’s WAY easier and faster to clean a bathroom that’s been cleaned already in the past week than to clean it once a month when it’s really nasty. Voice of experience here.
It’s another blechy day here, but at least I’m off work
I don’t get to laze around, however. I do have stuff to do, so I’m a gonna do it.
I tried sleeping in today, but I couldn’t do it. I was up around 8:00 or so. This is sorta sleeping in, but a nice long, deep sleep would have been nice. Even though I can’t sleep, I’m still yawning like crazy.
Great job anyrose.
rigs, that really, really stinks. I hope everything can be worked out. Office gossip can be a vicious and painful thing. Throw office politics in there, and it really sucks.
Well, I’m gonna cruise the net some more, then I need to get busy.
Same here - I do have a green coffee maker, but it only comes out when the inlaws visit, as we don’t drink coffee. And I have a grey rotisserie. And I think the blender is almond. My small appliances aren’t color-coordinated.
BUT my family room drapes are hanging. We got pleater hooks this morning, so the fam room window is done! Yay. We’re taking a break before heading downstairs.
I read this as “belchy” at first. I did a double take!
We don’t get the holiday, so here I sit at work. Oh well, traffic isn’t so bad on a day like this. But I guarantee that tonight I will make it at least halfway to the mailboxes before I realize that there is no delivery today.
rosie, that’s a very cute outfit! You’re very coordinated. The wallpaper, not so cute. But it was the style at the time.
Lissla, if you decide not to name your mixer “Sir Mix-a-lot,” I’m going to steal that name when I get a Kitchenaid. Which won’t be for a while, because my kitchen’s too teeny for more gadgets. I might have to get rid of my microwave, because it takes up too much counter space. I don’t use it much, but sometimes you just need to cook something really fast, so I’m still hanging on to it. I’d be dangerous if I had a Kitchenaid!
rigby, sorry about the job situation. Other people suck sometimes. I hope the people who really matter will understand that you didn’t do anything wrong.
Great MMP, rosie!
I’ve been lurking but I don’t have much to post about. I worked overtime Saturday, then Tom and I went out for the first time in a month or so. A little trivia at our bar, then out to dinner at Joe’s Crab Shack. That’s where my son is working. We had excellent service! 
I tipped him $20. On the way out, Tom told the manager that we had great service, but I didn’t hear him. I, of course, mention to the manager that “that’s my son!” I’m such a dork.
Sunday I degreased the kitchen - floor, stove, counters, cabinets. And did laundry, and meal planning and grocery shopping.
I’m so busy at work - it seems that I’m the only one who can do a certain thing right and the managers keep making me do it - instead of making the others do it right!
So I’m thinking about you guys and lurking, but no time to post much…
anyrose that picture of you in the purple outfit is just adorable! It is so 1960ish in a purply plaid way.
If our scanner worked ( it hates us right now) I would scan some FAAAABULOUS pictures of me in sweet baby girl glory. cause I was the cutest baby evar until my kids were born. Don’tchaknow?
Right now, I have four girls in my house running amok. One is mine. Two are sisters and one is nearly a part of our family.
I farmed my son out to a boy house so that his penis doesn’t drop off from all the barbie doll and princess tea party stuff.
I’m back! The sleeper sofa is bought (ok, ordered) and will be mine in two weeks! Ain’t it bee-yooo-tee-ful? The price is right, the size is right, the color is right, it’s just like it was sitting there on the floor waiting for me to come along and order it. The one on the floor is not a sleeper but it comes in a sleeper. YAY! gotti thanks, but see, this one was just meant to be mine. I also bought a curio cabinet because I just could not resist it and I needed one. I really did! It’s replacing a wicker etager thing in my study. Shut up! I needed it. BTW, gotti the phone is tres cool! 
rigs sorry about all the work mess. If you want to really get me going at work, just let me hear a bunch of petty office gossip. Gossipers and me don’t get along, so it always end up with them being called on the carpet. I started to say with their butts in a sling, but sometimes that’s a good thing. 
ivy your daughter has been in school half a year and is just now getting a second period? What has she been doing all this time during that hour? And on a Saturday? Why would a school schedule a class on a Saturday? 
Lissla yay for the SIL being tolerable and for the KitchenAid Mixer. I got one of those. It’s green. It’s nameless. I didn’t know they needed names. Did you get the splatter guard? That’s probably the best of all the attachments cause it causes me not to make a real big mess. Just a regular ol’ mess, like usual.
Oh, ACBG did not die from furniture shopping. Yesterday we were visiting some friends and I casually mentioned about going to look for a sleeper sofa. They told ACBG he was in for a day from hell furniture shopping with me cause I look at everything in every store. HUMPH!!! I only looked in one store. ONE! He even got lunch out of it. I took him to the good Chinese buffet place. To my friends, I say, So There!
-swampbear (could I have used any more smilies?) :rolleyes:
Why, yes, you could have.
But, gosh that would be tedious.
Nice sofa. Did you order one for me? Of course, it probably wouldn’t make it through my front door. I have abnormally narrow doors (which is what I get for having a modest 1929-built home). I have futons for furniture, so I’ve never actually had the challenge of wide sofas.
I’ve gotten a few things done - went to the library, added stuff to calendars and to-do lists, become depressed that it’s nearly 3:00 and I still have non-fun things to do before I can do fun things. I’m tentatively scheduled to go to a movie at 5:20, but I’m thinking that won’t happen.
Off to attempt to be productive. Or something.
GT
