MMP is Monday Morning Post.
A new thread starts each Monday morning
I don’t get all the nicks myself. I just use the regular poster names.
You don’t have to have a nickname if you’d rather not. It’s just an affectionate, claiming tradition in our friends group. After we get to know you better, a fitting one may just pop out. Far as I’m concerned you can post here as often as you’d like sans nickname.
Then again, no nick or no name might work for you.
MMP in my memory stands for mundane, miscellaneous and personal, moniker of the forum in years past before they were all edited and reordered.
You don’t actually need one – it’s just part of the fun and the family spirit we like to keep up.
It was 10ºF this morning 10! Obviously, there was no morning walk. I’m hoping today’s sun and above freezing temperatures will make my street passible. All standing and no yoga makes Maus a stiff… boy(?)… Person(?). I think I’ll be having to work on that for a while.
I have never wanted to move to West Virginia until now.
You don’t need one. I had one for a bit, but it didn’t stick.
Rivkah - as has been stated, you don’t need a nickname. It’s just something that our long-gone founder, RueDeDay, started doing shortly after his Monday morning posts became a thing, way back circa 2001. I had mentioned at some point that I liked Snickers, and that became his nickname for me until it eventually was replaced with a whiny Moooooom - well, maybe not whiny, but that’s how I hear it. 
Anyway, it’s just a thing we do because why not?
Temperature is up to 24. Coincidentally, so is the humidity in the house, which explains why my 2 tropical plants are unhappy. I’ve been misting them frequently and I just set 2 bowls of water out in the hopes that they’ll evaporate quickly. One is on the pellet stove and the other is in the living room. I’m thinking about boiling a pot of water, too.
FCD is home - he needs to make some adjustments to his panels. I’m pretty sure I’ve figured out the cover design - I’ll take it tomorrow and check fit.
For now, I’ll just keep the basement fire going and the stairway open. And I sense some chillage on the horizon.
As do I. I miss responses because of the use of nicknames, as it doesn’t show up as a notification.
Any new position.
With the “ch” pronounced as in German, rather than in English?
I prefer horizontal. (During field days on the boat, someone always emphasised the need for cleaning horizontal surfaces. My usual response was “I’d rather be a horizontal surface.”)
It’s 16F. Had my annual mammogram this morning then did an abbreviated workout.
I’m sad and very angry about what’s happening in the world. I ate 7 cookies last night in protest. This is not how we manage our feelings Peedin!
And there was a DUH moment - I have two humidifiers - one cool, one warm. The warm one is now going in the dining/living area and the cool one is in the kitchen/den area. We’ll see how much moisture they can pump into the air. They should be more effective than bowls of water, right? Certainly more active than passive.
The roads were better this morning. Of course the person in the Hyundai crossovers was speeding and weaving between cars on the icy patches. I guess they were late for their appointment at the auto body shop. Short heaving for most people, the drivers had to load their own package cars. I got 3 hours, since they kept finding damaged packages to fix. Among them was a human arm, and a a package for the local heavy equipment company that contained Legos. 
Lunch was soup(Progresso Creamy Chicken Noodle) and sandwich(poke loin, cheddar cheese, Duke’s may with Penzey’s Tuscan Garden seasoning). Naptime.
Talk about a frigid wife!
Tell him he needs to straighten up or you’ll bring a boy toy as a date to his funeral. But hope he slows down and feels better.
He has a thick layer of fatblubber, so he’s doing fine, along with the rest of the vermin.
{{{{JtC}}} about Mom and the sewing stuff.
I think you can be excused considering < gestures at everything >
Good on ya for doing your mammo!
I have put mine off for 9 years!
Received Sadie’s new electric water bowl today, which she took one look at and walked away. Cats. Maybe she’ll warm up to it.
Our outing didn’t pan out, as neither of us could gin up the energy for it. Chinese food delivery didn’t pan out, either. The restaurant is doing a large catering service today and can’t deliver. So it’s leftover jambalaya again. Maybe I should just learn how to make Chinese food. The wife gets these food cravings quite often and I can’t keep up with it.
Ours did, eventually. Findus took to it, but he spends all day except for gooshy food time hiding in CatMom’s room. He’s terrified of Goo. 
Evenin’ all.
It’s supposedly about 5 Centipedes out there, but I think any ferrets would blow away. It’s starting to feel like we may never see sunshine again; it’s been full on gloom of Mordor for weeks, only wetter.
I cannot wait to go on holiday in a couple of weeks… My brain needs a break.
As a person who had cancer found in both breasts via mammogram, which required mastectomies, chemo, radiation, and 10 years of a hormone suppressant that is now causing me to need a complete hysterectomy with removal of the cervix, ovaries, and fallopian tubes, and scar adgesions, ongoing stiffness, and constant low-level discomfort or pain, I wish you well and also strongly urge you to have a mammogram.
I grew up with Joyce Chen’s and Mrs. Ma’s Chinese cookbooks. Now I tend to use recipes online that meet our other health needs.
I kind of thought it was Hebrew, but nothing turned up in Google translate. The nicknames are just a fun part of being a regular Mumper. MMP stands for Monday Morning Post (see MMP FAQs thread).
cookie, online recipes and a decent non-electric wok will help you out on the Chinese cooking. Dumplings are still a pain to make, as they are in any language, but are well worth it.
That’s friggin’ hilarious.
Great, I’m gonna start getting the weirdest “suggested for you!” pop-ups now.
We have a 1200 foot driveway. It is gravel, full of deep potholes, and there is a long, steep hill with 90 degree turn. It is somewhat difficult to get up the driveway in the summer. With 14 inches of snow on it, it is… 
Someone plowed it a couple days ago. I think it was a neighbor. (I need to pick up a couple cases of beer for him.) Even then, we can’t get up it.
I just tried to start our only 4WD vehicle (2000 Ford F-150). Won’t start. Crap. Ran 200 feet of extension cable to it and connected a battery charger to it. Hopefully it’s just a weak battery, and not the starter.