Mumping for Dollars (or writing an MMPOP when you have no ideas)

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I have long hair my hubby likes long and I look much better with it long. My sister has long hair also. When we were kids my mam made us have short hair - really really short hair. Boy short. So short that we used to get called ‘sonny’ etc. All I ever wanted was the pigtails and bunches my friends had. As soon as we were old enough to say no we both grew our hair long and it will stay that way!

Must get to work - I have a couple of slides for a presentation to complete then I am going to the movies this afternoon.

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!

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I’ve had all different crazy hair colors and I’m trying to get back to my natural one… I’m not there yet, I think the next color job will get me much closer. But it surprises me how much of my hair is coming in gray since I had it colored last. Frankly, I like it. I wish I didn’t have to dye it again to get back to ‘normal’ but I know that once I finally get there I’ll have the beginnings of a nice salt and pepper thing going on. Early gray hair runs in my family, though. My grandma started going gray at 18 and my dad, not much later than that. At 35, I guess that makes me a late bloomer. :slight_smile:

I woke up after not much sleep this morning. I’m not sure what all is on today’s agenda other than the usual trip to Sam’s Club. Ugh.

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!

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**rosie **- it was the original version. But shortly after I posted, **FCD **got bored with it (he played Hugo in his high school production, so he likes the show) and he switched over the The Guns of Navarrone. That’s when I went to bed.

Plans for today include cleaning the traffic areas of the family room and dining room carpets. That shouldn’t take more than an hour or so once the furniture is moved. And I can turn on the ceiling fan in the fam rm, so it’ll dry pretty fast - as long as I can keep the dogs out.

Gonna go see if my sweetie wants to take me to breakfast.

Oh, and handy-dandy kitteh tip - apparently dog kibble makes great cat toys. Ziva carries it into our guest bathroom and bats it around. She’s playing kibble hockey right now in the kitchen. Goofy cat!

Happy Sunday!!

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Another tale coming later. Gotta go to the fahr department and inspect equipment.

Blurfs on a Sunday.

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Got sketti sauce simmerin’ away for lunch after church. Makes da cave smell yummerific!

Speakin’ of church, we have a guest Priest this mornin’ and OYKW does not want to go as he does not like this Priest’s sermons. The heathen! Thus he shall have watch the sauce duties and get the sketti noodles on at noon duty whilst I am out deheathenatin’. Sounds like a fair trade off to me! :smiley:

I need to go purtify for deheatenization.

Later Y’all!

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Need to get up and purtify. I can do that, right?

Off in search of caffeine.

Hugs.

GT

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I forgot earlier…
HAPPY VD!!!

gt of course you can purtify, tho I imagine it takes no more than a fluff of the hair and brushing your teeth to bring you to your natural stunning beauty. :smiley:

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And happy Mr. Lissar’s actual birthday.

Must run and clean up kidlet before church.

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Happy Birthday** Mr. Lissar**!

Right now I have nothing else worth mentioning.

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Happy Birthday to Mr. Lissar!

The shortest I’ve ever had my hair as an adult was chin length. I did that in the mid-90s. I was immediately sorry I’d done it.

As a child, up until the end of first grade, I had a pixie. I then decided I wanted to grow my hair out, and my mother obliged me.

It got to the point that I could sit on it. It was also extremely thick and heavy.

My senior year in high school, I cut it off to about shoulder length so I too could have feathered hair.

Since then, I’ve run the gamut from clear down the middle of my back, to chin length, as I said earlier. Right now, and for the past several years, it’s just very slightly past my shoulder blades.

I don’t think we’re doing anything for today, other than getting a new phone for our landline. Our stupid landline phone doesn’t work right anymore. It’s most annoying.

Happy Valentines to those that celebrate and happy Sunday to those that don’t!

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I’ve had short hair several times in my life. I rarely keep it that way, because it’s a giant pain in the ass to take care of, in that it needs to be washed daily (right now, I can get away with washing it every 2-3 days), needs to be styled with product to look presentable and you can’t rely on a ponytail to deal with the dreaded bad hair days.

Also, when my hair is short, I look exactly like my mother… and that’s never a good thing.

Hope y’all are having a better V-Day than I am. The Boy worked pretty much all day yesterday, and he’s at work again today. To say I’m peeved would be putting it mildly… I know it’s not his fault, but it’s a long weekend and I probably won’t see him at all except for dinner tonight (and that’s mostly because he knows I will commit bloody murder if he doesn’t show up).

I think Ariel can tell I’m in need of snuggles, because she just crawled into my lap and fell asleep. She does this about four times a year (most of the time, she just tolerates me because I feed her), so it’s always extra-special when it happens.

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EMS, redneck style.

Y’all have seen the pictures floating around the Intarwebs of “Redneck <something>”? An examplehere.

I had one of those nights. We had a page for a 2 car wreck, with 4 patients. I answered the page to bring a second ambulance.

As always at a big rescue, the scene was bedlam. One car was on its side, and the driver was trapped. I never saw the other car that was involved. One occupant of the second car had a possible pelvis or hip fracture, and left for the Norfolk trauma unit soon after I arrived, in the first unit. The trapped driver was flown to Pirateville to the other trauma unit we use.

Lots of equipment was in use, and unbeknownst to me, most of it came out of my ambulance. After the driver flew (I got an IV on her in 1 stick, boo-yah!), the remaining 2 walking patients decided they wanted to be transported. :rolleyes: They had been walking around for 45 minutes at that point…

OK, get them in the truck and on backboards. Where the hell are the headblocks and tape? We’d been cleaned out. Even our IV supplies were low; had enough to get then done IF we could get them on the first attempt. Protocol says wreck, they have to be immobilized. The girl got the last headblocks we had, but in the process the tape used to hold the head down broke, and we were screwed.

“Is there any duct tape on the rescue truck?!?” There wasn’t, but a roll magically appeared from somewhere, and both patients were duct taped to their respective backboards. Both were hard sticks, so the IVs were tough, but fortunately we had plenty of catheters, and they were finally set up. They went to Suffolk without incident.

We got back to the station around 1 AM. Literally as soon as the wheels hit the driveway, there was a page for back pain. I hopped out and went home. I found out this morning that the back pain call was for that same jerk I complained about a couple of stories back. <snerk>

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Paris is full of couples making googoo eyes at each other…can’t imagine why :smiley:

Just back from the movies where I saw the George Clooney ‘In The Air’ movie and really enjoyed it. George is also YUMMY!

Starving and I am waiting for my lasagne to heat through in the oven, then reading, then bed.

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There’s reason to be optimistic: I saw my first robin of the year while taking a load of trash to the dump.

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But, of course, swampy, it’s really quite simple, being me. :smiley: :stuck_out_tongue:

Happy Birthday, Mr. Lissar!
A Valentine card for all my Mumper friends… (It’s a publisher’s site that has a good privacy policy. Plus they have an interesting selection.)

**:heart: Happy Valentine’s Day, all! :heart:
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Sounds like an interesting run, Bobbio. And :rolleyes: on the transports… Glad you missed out on the additional guy. Also, your robin report sounds…well…not that spring-like. :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

Sorry The Boy can’t be home today, Muppet.

Gotta get some work done in the kitchen, then in the bath. Woo hoo.

Back later with a progress report. (Certainly don’t want swampy yelling at me for shirking my duties.)

Hugs.

GT

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Link has a video that automatically starts up (unless you have flash block, like I do…):

**OMG **This is from last week’s TED conference (it’s an 8-minute talk; the coolest stuff is in the 2nd half or so, so watch all of it). I’m not a big Microsoft fan, but it looks like they’ve done some really cool stuff with Bing maps.

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Wow, gt! The stuff that’s coming is so awesome.

Happy Valentine’s Day! And Happy Birthday Mr Lissar!

Been a quiet day at home for me. Went grocery shopping, and sent Mr Rebo to the bar to watch the Daytona 500 race. Yawn. Nascar does nothing for me. He’ll be back this afternoon.

I have some ribeyes marinating. Hopefully the cold front we’re getting will hold off until after i grill them. Supposed to get down to freezing the next three mornings. But right now it’s sunny and beautiful! We’re also having loaded baked potatoes, sauteed mushrooms, and steamed asparagus. Yum! Whitmans’s Sampler for dessert. :wink: (There’s also a King Cake. This store is so funny - they give you the little plastic baby and some Mardi Gras beads in a plastic bag outside of the cake! The whole point is to find the baby in your piece of cake. Choking hazard, I guess…)

See y’all in the next MMP!

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Whew - I’s been bizzy!! After breakfast, we came home and attacked the floors. I used the steam cleaner in the family room, part of the dining room (the part that was horked upon) and in front of the aquarium where someone keeps dripping salt water. :rolleyes: Meanwhile, my sweetie cleaned the kitchen floor, my second most hated job after scrubbing the shower.

Once that was done, I sat down to crochet (doing the next afghan in strips) and watch some Olympics. Then I adjourned to my studio. I reclaimed some clay and threw 4 pieces, then cleaned it all up, and here I am. Pooped, but rather satisfied. Tomorrow, I’m going to work on a sculpture for over the aquarium.

Scruffy is whining next to me - she wants to be fed. I need to figure out supper. And I need to get the dirty laundry downstairs so I can wash some clothes tomorrow.

Oh yes, I have a wild life. :wink:

I also notice that ***NO ONE ***sent me chocolate love offerings. That’s fine. I know how I rate… :stuck_out_tongue: