I just popped in to tell you all that the recipe for Texas Caviar that Ellen posted…last week or so…is AWESOME.
I decided I didn’t want it cold, so I popped it in the microwave for about a minute. Oh God was it good. Yay!
I really like that sofa–I like that color, sage. I also like the pillows–do they come with?
I am thinking (now) of naming my Kitchen Aide mixer as well. If Matilda isn’t a hit, then I will christen her Matilda (and I’ll name the handmixer Stephen and they can duke it out! Oh, Christ, flight of ideas…)
Got an email today from a woman who is on the committee as an advisor (we are changing to a de-centralized power structure at work, and there are a number of nursing professors here to help the process). She wants to talk to me about it all and gave me her home number to call her. I did so, but had to leave a message.
I would have felt better about the whole thing if she had dealt with it all in her email. She has no power over me–she’s just a nice lady who is also writing me a reccommendation for grad school. <sigh>
And now for mundane and pointless stuff:
Went to get youngest’s hair fixed. He got it cut on Friday and it was late and we were in a hurry and he left there with wet hair…WELL. Once it dried–ugh and blech and no way. So, we went back and asked for re-cut. (I am amazingly assertive when it comes to my kids.)
Well, she did fix the original problem, but now he is almost bald! :eek:
My daughter just got her PSAT and whatever the pre-ACT is scores back. Yay! She did very well. 
whynot --I now feel very good. Look at all the time I have since I don’t have to fix bottles, play with baby, feed baby! I feel like I just found 4 more hours in a day.
I do need a rota, like you have set up. It would make life much more organized (I dunno 'bout easier). I will assess the situation and the do some planning. (yeah, right)
I LIKE these: 
but too many… :rolleyes:
I wish the embarassed one looked better–my other bb has a nice embarassed emticon.
The GF sells Ashley Furniture at the place she works at. I couldn’t have gotten you a good price, though - she’s not able to cut deals. And the shipping costs would be less-than fabulous.
And yet there is no fortune cookie at which we can snerk? Meany!
Lightingtool how did you do in that tournament?
ShibbOleth Do keep us posted on your travel plans. Me, I’d love to see Europe, but I doubt I’d be willing to sit thru a sporting event to do so. I’d feel obligated, having won (or been given) the tickets to attend at least one game. If it ain’t baseball, I ain’t interested.
what does this “(but N.O.T.)” that I keep seeing next to the mention of ‘smashed taters’? Near as I can figure it means “but not our taters (the doper)” Am I close?
elenorigby I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you.
Spatial Rift 47 - “chorus” actually, of the Sweet Adelines variety. If you’re interested here’s our website.
and
Whatever happened to Amy and Ryan? When you find out you must tell us. But it sounds like you had a much better time anyway.
gt RIght now we’re rehearsing for our regional competition at the end of March. It occurs to me that there might be other dopers in SA. Please speak up if you are.
Lissla Lissar I second "Sir Mix-A-Lot’. If I ever get one of those, it’ll be decorated like Alton Brown’s. I love him and his show. Too damn bad he’s married. And lives 5 states away. And I will likely never get to meet him IRL.
gotpasswords you need to post pictures of your newly renovated family room.
swampy I love! those throw pillows! Retro 60’s geometric prints are my thang.
It’s now 3:40pm - (yeesh, it took over a half hour to read all your replies. But I love the attention :D) - I’ve been awake for 3 hours and I am ready to go back to sleep for a while. I’m safer in bed, anyway. I don’t eat. Plus, I get to cuddle the kitty. She’s not much for laps when I’m in a chair. Those times she likes my shoulder.
from my op
should have read
and I previewed and everything. Serves me right for starting to type this Saturday evening just so I would remember everything I wanted to say. :rolleyes:
Here I am! Great OP, anyrose! Since you did, I’m linking to a kiddie picture of myself.
Here I am at age 5. Angry Mika. (I’m the one with the crazy curly hair and the sullen look). I don’t have many baby pictures, since I was adopted, and I was in India for my first four years, and cameras weren’t within easy access to my poor family in the 70’s. Those are my adoptive parents, on the right, and the people on my left are their friends and my best friend when I was growing up. At the moment, I was extremely jealous of her because she got picked up by her daddy.
Other news: I finally set up my sewing machine! And this weekend I did two projects…a tiny doll’s pillow on Saturday, and a duffel bag today, all from a little book I bought. Anybody know where and how to buy string in quantity, and in different colors? JoAnne’s only sells one color at a time, and I’d rather have packs if I could, for various reasons.
Also, we FINALLY threw out the old futon. The SO has been clinging to this thing forever, whereas I have hated it from Day 1. It’s metal, see, so the arms are cold and it creaks horribly. But that’s not why I wanted to get rid of it. I wanted it out because it was broken! Shouldn’t you throw broken crap out? It took me six months, no lie, to convince him to get rid of it, and the only reason it worked now is because I needed the spare room to put my sewing machine table. So, nyah!
Since I shared one picture, I’ll share a couple more, too. Snowed here over the weekend, and it looks very pretty. Here’s some pics:
From my balcony
The lake at the park - Ok, it’s a pond
Waves in the snow
And me, freezing my butt off
That’s my camera strap, BTW.
More later!
Perhaps I am autistic.
Mika --you do not look angry in that photo–you look a wee grouchy and caught off guard.
I swear I am hopeless at reading photos for emotions (hence the autism reference).
Where are you that it is actually winter? I am looking for winter because here it seems to be lost. Anyone have any winter they don’t want, please send it to Chicago (south of city). Thank you!
And thanks all for the nice words re the job. I hope it turns to nothing (the incident, not the job!). Believe me, I’ll let you know (whether you want to or not).
Thanks. I do know how to fix it. It’s just that it didn’t used to default to upside down. (Default used to be duplexing off.) So I keep forgetting that it’s messed up now. And that bugs me, especially when I have to throw away 3 sets of color copies. Plus, the settings got totally mixed up - it used to be that Side Binding was the right setting for letter size paper. Now it’s Top Binding. But 11x17 paper went the other way - top binding used to be right but now Side Binding is the correct setting. The whole thing’s just annoying the hell out of me.
It’s c-c-c-cold here. The sun is out and I want to do things outside but then I end up looking like this 
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No, I could be grouchy. Generally, I was pouty. Which was rare for me, as I was a pretty sunny baby and kid.
As for where I am, it’s Upstate NY, and Winter. Is. Here!
I’m in the same area as taxi and Mika, and it is most definitely winter here. The ground is covered in snow and slush and the only warmth in the air is coming from the heater in my dorm room.
anyrose, what’s the difference between a choir and a chorus? And how can there be a bass part in an all women’s chorus? I still have no idea what happened with Amy and Ryan, for the same reasons I couldn’t contact them Saturday morning. From what Amy told me online about her trip, she’s now heading west to see more of the USA, and she won’t be home for a couple of weeks. I suppose I should send her another text message asking her to call me, on the off chance her phone is working. I promise I’ll keep y’all updated on that as soon as I know more.
Nothing to report about the weekend other than it wasn’t much fun working. I did have chinese food for lunch today so here ya go:
A long held ambition will soon be met
snerk away!
Hm, no snow here. Just rain. We received a brief reprieve from the rain yesterday, but it’s been raining all day today.
swampy, your sofa sleeper looks lovely. I hope you many nice long naps on it.
We’d like to get a sofa sleeper for upstairs in the bonus room too. In time, it’s not a huge priority.
I guess that’s all I’ve got for now.
Great MMP anyrose, From the wall paper I’m guessing you grew up in the late 60s-early 70s, right? My first husband bought the red flocked whorehouse wallpaper for our travel trailer. Need I say why he’s ex?
Seattle didn’t break its all tme record for consecuitive days of rain. The record was 33 days, yesterday would have been 25, but it didn’t rain between midnight and midnight. It stopped at 11:30 the night before and started again at 12:05 this morning. Do you know how wearing 24 days of rain can be? I hate going out for the mail. Can you say cabin fever?
All the kitties are getting along now. The kitten is calming down a little. He still insists on my haed as a pillow.
I’m going to go take a nap.
You’re close enough to be right on the money!
Whew - I’m pooped. We organized about half of the basement storage area. We’ve got a “boat stuff” pile - to go out to the shed, a “sell” pile - to be advertised and sold, a trash pile, and a Goodwill pile. Plus there are a few miscellaneous to-be-sorted piles, and lots of trash paper and boxes strewn about. I’ll be able to do some more sorting evenings this week, and the trash pile should be big enough for a dump run on Saturday. Then we can take the excess crap out of the laundry room and put it under the stairs. That will give me room for my future pottery studio. Yay!
I also packed breakfasts and lunches for us, and ran the dishwasher. My sweetie ran the vacuum and got up the big chunks of stuff from the rug. I’ve got the last load of clothes in the dryer. We’re both pretty much crashed for the day.
Oh yeah - I got knives today! Our credit card gives us points for every dollar we charge, and I had enough points to get a set of Chicago cutlery knives in a block. They were delivered today. Good thing they were free - so far, I’m not too impressed with them. Maybe I’m just too accustomed to my Cutco knives.
And that’s all I’ve got for today. Back to work tomorrow - woohoo. Feel the excitement. Yeah. :rolleyes:
This weekend, while reading last week’s thread, I came across ‘smashed taters’ and ‘N. O. T.’, and suddenly the image flashed into my mind of our Taters passed out on the floor with an empty rum bottle beside her. Unfortunatley, I couldn’t get that image worked into another one of my lame jokes…
Today was the first day back to classes after a month-long break. I was frantically trying to print my schedule last night, but my printer decided to be tempermental and not work. Finally, in the middle of my trying fixing stuff, it finally decided it was okay and began to work properly. It’s a good thing, too, because I was about to just give up and do it this morning, and the internet (where I was printing it from) turned out being down!
Speaking of the internet being down, while it was down, the tech guys sent us an email with information about the lack of internet and when it would be up. An email! Come on, now- how am I supposed to access that if I don’t have any internet? We have some brilliant tech guys, oh yes we do.
I woke up at 7:30 this morning. Well, to be more exact, 7:30, then 7:35, then 7:40, and so on. Apparently my roommate had a 9 AM class or something, but that whole pressing the sleep button five million times thing? It’s quite annoying to the roommate who expected to actually be able to sleep in until her class this morning. I can go back to sleep if the alarm goes off once, but it’s difficult to get any sort of sleep when the damn thing’s going every 5 minutes. I have an 8 AM class tomorrow, though, so now I may decide to have some fun with the sleep button…
I feel for ya, but I know what it is to be that roomie. My first college roomie had to come over to my side, turn my alarm off and then wake me–and the alarm was about 5 inches from my ear!
Upstate NY–Ihave a cousin in Syracuse. Snow tonoc here and dropping temps. Yay! (hey, I’d rather have it now than in March).
Just back from a lovely dinner with my 3 kids. We went to an Asian restaurant–more Japanese than Chinese, but it did give out fortune cookies.
Mine said: It is easier to fight for principles than to live them
Which, given my currents circs seems positively oracle-ly!
It doesn’t <snerk> well, though.
Did clean the bathroom and while I was, that lady from work called and said that she doesn’t think that I have anything to worry about. (easy for her to say). But she says that she and the other two consultants both stood up for the points I was trying to make and then that a whole bunch of people stood up and basically told TPTB that they were mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore…so, I’ve either inadvertently fomented a revolution of sorts, or I have managed to completely piss off (and corner) a very dangerous enemy.*
Ain’t we got fun?! I figure no news is good news. I go back to work on Wednesday.
- I don’t want to get into particulars, but the discussion in the meeting was about poor communication and lack of respect from management on down. I used an example of something that had happened to me recently. This was taken straight back to the party involved and it was brought up in another committee entirely. Sadly, the example part was (of course) not mentioned, but the “dissing” of said person was exaggerated and taken out of context. (I would never “diss” either a coworker or a boss in any type meeting–I am not that stupid), So, now it’s a big mess…
Argh, eleanor. Good luck for Wednesday.
So sleepy. So sleepy all work. Alternated thinking about naps and thinking about baking naan and foccacia and brioche and cinnamon buns. Too sleepy today. I’ll go to bed early.
I’m thinking seriously about the names.
OK - I can’t believe this is still out there…it’s been hours, people!!!
in bed!
<snerk>
I’m leaving rigs’s out there for some other lucky person…
Not much more done than earlier, although I did buy groceries in the hopes of eating more healthfully this week than last.
Off to read for a while.
GT