Isn’t amazing how a good many people will spend 20 minutes looking for the remote instead of simpling getting up and changing the channel manually? Don’t get me wrong, I’m very guilty of doing the same thing.
I also find, that I continually surf through the channels. This didn’t happen back in days before remotes.
I am SUCH A SLUG today. I haven’t done a thing but surf the net and play WoW . It’s actuallly very nice. I was exhausted yesterday. I was on the run in my house from 8:00 am until almost 9:00 pm last night. My feet were actually hurting from standing so much. I couldn’t believe it.
Welcome to the new MMPer’s.
In our earlier tally of remotes, I forgot to mention the remotes upstairs: one for the TV, one for the cable box, one for the non-functioning VCR, one for my son’s stereo and one for my daughter’s stereo.
And we had to walk five miles in the snow up hill both ways to reach the tv. Was it at least naughty underwear? How bout threeway lightbulbs? If if was three way lightbulbs you got for Christmas, then it’s special.
I got socks. I was happy. I got industrious and cleaned out my sock drawer a while ago. That’s one chore I don’t have to do tomorrow now. YAY!
Cheecake bakeage is happening in my kitchen. As everyone will recall, I get banned from the kitchen during cheesecake bakeage because of my tendency to sound like a herd of rampaging rabid elephants in heat walking through the kitchen. Or so I’ve been told. The cheesecake is for a bday celebration for two friends who both have bdays Wednesday night. Since I’m off tomorrow, I’m making jambalaya for dinner Wednesday which I can let sit all day while I work Wednesday and then reheat. It tastes better that way. I think a salad, jambalaya, some bread and cheesecake will make a nummy bday supper. I also gotta start planning for New Year’s Day dinner. It’s going to be at four o’clock Sunday afternoon, so it’s kinda more late lunchish early dinnerish, which is ok cause there will be munchies beforehand. It’s the munchies I’m not sure of yet. I’m tired of cheese straws so maybe it’ll be a bunch of dips with chips, crackers and veggies. That’d be good.
I think I’ll go stand in the living room and make elephant noises now. That’s always good for a laugh while cheesecake bakeage is happenin’.
I didn’t even have a chance to read the MMP last week, what with one thing or another. But this week I made a point of it. (I mean I was, like, shaking from missing the MMP.) Not that I have anything to add, but I thought I’d drop in and say “hi”.
I didn’t even have a chance to read the MMP last week, what with one thing or another. But this week I made a point of it. (I mean I was, like, shaking from missing the MMP.) Not that I have anything to add, but I thought I’d drop in and say “hi”.
Oh, and we only have 5 remotes, 3 in the living room on the coffee table, (mostly 'cause I lost the directions for how to program the universal remote.), one in the bedroom, and one somewhere for one of the stereo components, that we never use.
(we never use the remote that is, we use the stereo.)
Just a newbie question, but what does MMP stand for?
Here we have four remotes in the living room, one for the TV, one for the satellite receiver, and one for the stereo receiver, and one universal remote that controls all three (thank Og!). Well it does all the normal day-to-day operations of all the equipment, if you hit a wrong button, the only recourse is to dig the real remote for that component and fix it :rolleyes:
Only one remote in my bedroom, and that’s for the XM radio.
Three in the other bedroom: TV, fan/light, satellite receiver.
And three in the den: TV, satellite, DVD
That’s a grand total of 11 remotes. What would we do without modern technology?!
Howdy LiQUiDBuD and welcome! MMP means Monday Morning Post. It was started by Rue DeDay the original Cool Kid every Monday morning before he had to become a responsible working man instead of a bon-bon eatin’ stay at home dad. Since he started being all grown up and stuff, we have been carrying on the tradition with “Guest” MMpers each week. We are the Cool Kids. You are a Cool Kid if you post here. The main object of the MMP is to hijack the OP as far as possible by week’s end. Poop and puke comments and jokes are always welcome. Finding something to <snerk> at is always good. Everybody gets nicknamed so as to make vanity searches confusing and because, well, we’re all kinda lazy so we give everybody a nickname. So far I think you’ll either be Bud or Quid depending on what the consensus it. I’m leaning toward Bud myself Bud.
Whew what a weekend! Friday I had to work the overnight shift. Then I had to finish the grocery shopping on the way home. Between 5:15PM Friday to 10:00PM Saturday I had a total of three and a half hours of sleep.
Hubby[sup]tm[/sup] had been feeling a bit down about not being able to see his family in Milwaukee for the holiday, until we got a phone call Thurs night from his brother and his new wife. They got tickets to the Packer game at the last minute, so they were able to spend Christmas here, which was extremely wonderful. They came back here to crash after the game, and headed home this afternoon. Hubby[sup]tm[/sup] said that it was the best Christmas since we moved up here in 2001.
Now that we have our own house, my Mother has decided that she isn’t going to host the holidays anymore, so we’ve got it now. Mom is starting to get a bit frail, and these things have been getting to be too much for her, so we are more than happy to do it. We would have done it years ago, but it’s hard to do a gathering in a tiny one bedroom apartment. So we had me and Hubby[sup]tm[/sup], my Mom and Dad, my brother and niece, and his brother and SIL We all had a great time and my Mom finally got to meet new SIL.
Let’s see…remotes… Living room tv, satellite, DVD, VCR. Computer room tv and satellite. Basement tv, satellite, and VCR. that makes 10. Nope 11, there’s one for the stereo. Yup, I was the remote as a kid, but we had 4 channels if you want to count PBS.
Hi, Rue! Hi, Rue! Anything [del]neat[/del] gross pop out of a pet lately?
Bumba, how have you been feeling?
Bobbio, I’ve been sort of considering the same surgery, but I’m chicken. Stories like yours do help. 92 pounds in 6 months? Thats awesome.
If you have serious questions about it, let me know, and I’ll answer them the best I can. Maybe not here, because that would be getting too serious a topic for the spirit of the MMP.
Veuve_CliquotNJ is another Doper (but not an MMPer) who’s had this done, and she helped me a lot when I was in my chicken stage.
Hi Rue! Hello Rue! I thought I’d change it up a little, but still greet you twice.
I am very, very tired and really could just lie down and go to bed right now, but I need to cook dinner. Well, I don’t really have to COOK per se, I need to heat up leftovers from yesterday’s dinner.
Tomorrow I’ll get the fixin’s for my prime rib soup. I need to buy some carrots and such. I already have the prime rib leavings, prime rib ribs, the egg noodles and the barley. It is going to be YUMMERIFFIC and I’m really looking forward to it.
Walking uphill in the snow both ways, pshaw. Here in Washington, we had to swim uphill, against the current, both ways, because of all the rain.
Oof. It was Boxing Day today. You Americans don’t have Boxing Day, do you? It’s the official Let’s Buy Stupid Junk We Don’t Need day. I was working. You never saw so many people buy stupid books they don’t need before. Very busy.
The dress is done! I’ve taken some pics and Mr. Lissar will put them online if the computer cooperates. It looks a little funny because my dress form isn’t really the shape of my friend, but it’s still pretty. I’ve got the veil done, too.
Please pop over to my thread about my best friend’s husband. They have had bad stuff happen over Christmas, and they need prayers and good thoughts.
Lessee, remote count at the Sneezy hiusehold: one for the t.v., the cable box, dvd thingy, stereo, and the universal remote from when my hubby lost the remote(again).
He takes the remote with him wherever he goes, and so it ends up in weird places. Places like: the bathroom, the glove compartment, his pocket, and the weirdest of all, the freezer. Put down remote, pick up popsicle, close freezer door. Logical.
Was it at least naughty underwear? How bout threeway lightbulbs? If if was three way lightbulbs you got for Christmas, then it’s special.