My Favorite Martian - Guest MMP

I’m glad you got your package, chaoticdear!! I don’t get the Wal-Mart connection (but I don’t suppose I have to). But I’m glad you like it! For those of you who may have wondered, the chocolate is in the shape of a thoroughbred … it’s Kentucky chocolate, and white at that. And drink your Rooibos Tea. Lots of antioxidents. It’s good for you. Did I put some popcorn in?

This morning I was in Narnia. It was cold there; I don’t think they had the heat on. Well, the Ice Queen and all, I suppose. The songs were pretty good, even though Lucy had rather fat ankles. I was surrounded by a sea of third graders (including my own). That was some trip through the wardrobe, lemmee tell ya. :wink:

BRRRRRRR! It was in the 30s this morning. I think we charged right from summer to winter… Rumor has it we’ll get a bit warmer next week, but dang, was it brisk this morning! I had to don a hat and gloves for my morning walk.

Other than that, nothing. Tomorrow, I get to have the oil changed in the Jetta - envy me my exciting life.

I want cake.

Um-did you go see the movie? Or did you drop acid with your morning coffee?

:confused:
I just read beer and cockies–I could have sworn that said beer and cookies earlier.
Vampire cape is DONE! (except for fastening strings, but that can wait).
Now, to vaccuum–or not.

Sean you make me laugh. That’s a long time to go dumpless. I bet you feel a lot lighter now.

Not that I’d know what that kind of thing feels like.

I am so cold that I have to keep looking down the front of my shirt to make sure everybody else doesn’t realize I’m cold. And…being cold makes me have to make a lot of water. I’m spending way too much time in the ladies room. I actually had to scrape frost from the windshield this morning. This is the first frost (that I’ve noticed) this fall. It’s definitely the first time I’ve scraped the windshield this fall.

See…now I have to excuse myself to the ladies room…again. Sheesh.

This is the very reason I loooooooooove my garage. :smiley:

I had my pants on the whole time I was with Ellen I swear! So, really she didn’t see “the rest of [me]”. Just sayin’.

Anyroad, this is the first chance I’ve had to be online since… whenever the last time was. A week anna half? Two weeks? Something like that. I don’t even get to check my e-mail. It’s just that bad.

But I’m learning stuff, so things are getting better. And I haven’t killed outright or caused anything to die through gross incompetance, so there’s that.

But you want some highlights? I got a few.

Last week this dog came in with a lump on its side. The Head Vet takes a look at the dog and gives the lump a squeeze and a big assed bug comes shooting out the side of the dog! It was very much the gross. (The wormy bug thing has some name, but I don’t remember what it was. Some fly or something lays their eggs on the dog’s hair and the little baby bugs crawl down into the follicle and then start to grow til they get to be the size of your thumb (if your thumb is two or three inches long and about that thick) and then go away. Or some such thing. I have to confess I wasn’t paying all that much attention to what the Head Vet guy was saying once Alien Bug popped out of the dog’s side.

Just yesterday we had this dog come in. A Husky mix dog. A big sucker. And we also have these free-range hospital cats. Well. Usually this one free-range hospital cat (FRHC) hides out and you don’t see her much. But yesterday she was hanging out in the “back room” where we stick the hospitalized dogs (the Husky was in for hip x-rays for displasia) and she decided it was time to stroll on out of there. Right when I was coming around the corner with this giant Husky dog. She wasn’t happy to see the dog, so she bolted. Right into his crushing jaws and snapping teeth. I didn’t even see what happened. One second I’m trying to get this big assed dog through the doorway into the “dog room” and the next there’s a quick jerk on the lead and the dog is shaking his head and there’s noises of a very unhappy cat.

What to do? I had a whole dog between me and the unhappy cat and I had to make things stop. So I just grabbed the dog’s head from either side and yanked up. When he let go of the cat to get a better grip, she fell out of his mouth and ran away. (She was fine. Not even chomped on too badly. We found this out after we coaxed her out from under the washtub by spraying her with a water bottle. The poor cat did NOT have a good day.)

And you know what? Except for wanting to eat all the cats in the world, he was really a nice dog.

Other than that, I haven’t been bitten, or seriously scratched up, or pooped on, or peed on or puked on yet. I give it til Monday.

Oh yeah! I saw my second college roommate last week. I haven’t seen him since the spring of '88. He just got tranferred down this way and he lives real close to the house, but I haven’t seen him around. Until he brought his dogs into the hospital for their shots. Right after I started working. What are the odds?

In other news, we now have an accountant of our very own (to make sure we get to keep some of the money the Little Woman is making with the freelancing stuff) and next week we get high speed internet (again, because of the freelancing). So even when I can’t surf the 'web, I can not be surfing real fast.

So that’s what’s going on with me. Cool, huh?
-Rue. (still yer pal, even if you don’t see me much)

sean, I hate to tell you what I read first when you were talking about those weiners. One should never reference bowel movements and foot-longs in the same sentence. :eek:

bobbio, you may pass the TMI award to sean. He can hold it briefly and then pass it to taters for her references to headlights and piddle in the same post.

Carry on.

Tupug

Yay! Hurray! Our beloved Rue checked in! I was beginning to think that some giant Great Dane decided to have you for breakfast…or something.

FCM, since we have wrassled the boat into the garage I don’t have room to park in there. Hell, I don’t have room to walk in there. Big three car garage and the boat takes up most of it. Yeah, gonna be an interesting winter…

I am currently snacking on Haribo Happy Cola Gummi candies. I can’t stop. This isn’t good. Quick, someone tie me up before I eat them all!

taters, please pass the TMI award to our pal, rue for the lovely story of the bug popping vet. :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue:

WE MISS YOU, RUE!!!

Wal-Mart connection? What? Are you talking about the glasses? I was referring to the fact that I had a package arrive last semester, whose arrival was not announced to me, so that I didn’t know I had a package. That package was from wal-mart.

I tried some of the tea last night, and I realized that I gotta let it steep longer. I looked at it and was like “yay, it’s darker now!” and removed the teabag nd was treated to vanilla-scented water. I’ll get it next time.

And yes, there was popcorn. Which shall be eaten. What kind of college student would I be if I didn’t? :stuck_out_tongue:

Well, maybe if I knew where you lived, and could buy alcohol, and had more than one cockie.

I was at WH for so long talking with friends and catching up with a friend who’s been living with her new man that lives in Geeeoooorrrrrgggiiiiaaaa. :stuck_out_tongue:

Yes, it is the Randy Mantooth for Emergency, he was on Street Smarts the night before last (I don’t know why I like Street Smarts so much, but I do).

Puggy, I think I had the same thought as you when reading Sean’s weiner post–great mind think alike.

If you are in an accident and your underwear is both clean and sans holes (as your mother always advised), but is on inside out, will you still make Baby Jesus cry?
Einstein dies and goes to heaven. At the Pearly Gates, Saint Peter tells him, “You look like Einstein, but you have NO idea the lengths that some people will go to sneak into Heaven. Can you prove who you really are?”

Einstein ponders for a few seconds and asks, “Could I have a blackboard and some chalk?”

Saint Peter snaps his fingers and a blackboard and chalk instantly appear. Einstein proceeds to describe with arcane mathematics and symbols his theory of relativity. Saint Peter is suitably impressed. “You really ARE Einstein!” he says.
“Welcome to heaven!”

The next to arrive is Picasso. Once again, Saint Peter asks for credentials. Picasso asks, “Mind if I use that blackboard and chalk?” Saint Peter says, “Go ahead.”

Picasso erases Einstein’s equations and sketches a truly stunning mural
with just a few strokes of chalk. Saint Peter claps. “Surely you are the great artist you claim to be!” he says. “Come on in!”

Then Saint Peter looks up and sees George W. Bush. Saint Peter scratches his head and says, “Einstein and Picasso both managed to prove their identity.
How can you prove yours?”

George W. looks bewildered and says, “Who are Einstein and Picasso?”

Saint Peter sighs and says, “Come on in, George.”

Zen Wisdom for the Cynic

Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire.

It’s always darkest before dawn. So if you’re going to steal your neighbor’s newspaper, that’s the time to do it.

Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you. And stay away from scuba diving as well.

We are born naked, wet and hungry, and get slapped on our butts. Then things get worse.

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. (for Sean)

There is a fine line between “hobby” and “mental illness”.

No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.

Kallessa (aka the “Why Be Normal” Kid)

Jesus H. Christ. The thought of an Alien Bug! :eek:

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In an oh-so-rare moment of seriousness, sounds like the vet did battle with a botfly. 'Cept I didn’t know any of those lived in Buckeye land…

I never once said weiner. I even went back and checked.

Thanks for the advice, Kalley. You must have read my mind to offer such wisdom.

And scout I don’t know if I’m lighter, but I can walk with my back in proper posture position now. So that’s gotta count for something. Still a little bit of gut pain as the rest of the, um, stuff, and gas, finds its way to the exit.

Someone rewrote my rewrite. I guess I didn’t do a very good job rewriting. Le sigh. :frowning:

But that’s one of the few good things about Winter. :wink:

BTW, We’ve got a BIIIGGGG box of candy here at the shop for Halloween, and Wifey gave me strict orders to KEEP OUT! But the other day I noticed that a mouse, yeah, a mouse had opened one of the bags. So all bets are off. I’m eating Skittles. The ‘mouse’ didn’t open the bag with the chocolate in it, unfortunately.

Hi Rue, <waves> I’m a little better’n you on the e-mail front. I read my e-mail, I just don’t answer it.
Until a month later, when I remember it.

What, I turn Taters headlights on?

And Taters, I’m flattered, but had no idea! So, um, how you doin’?

Bwahahahaha…this would be my HUSBAND’S dream come true, but, alas, it’s not mine…so sorry. :wink:

Yay! Rue was here! With an on-topic and TMI contribution, no less! That bug sounds gross, whatever it was.

No TMI here. I’ve been felled by whatever creeping crud is going around. I was supposed to get a flu shot today and instead got the flu. Or something. Mostly I felt tired and spacey and developed an annoying cough pretty quickly. I abandoned work when I figured out I was going to be useless and didn’t need to be playing Typhoid Mary to boot. (I kept to myself pretty well while I was there…)

Took a nap when I got home and then finished the mystery I was reading (The Summer Garden Murder, by Ann Ripley). It was pretty good - a little bit too clunky for my taste. I liked School Days, Robert B. Parker’s latest Spenser novel, a lot better. Just made some soup and am thinking about watching a movie…but which one?

Kalley brought jokes! Yay!

Don’t fret about the rewrite, taxi; there are always people who don’t think it’s good enough unless they wrote it themselves (I used to be like that a bit…).

GT