My Misspent Youth - the MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Liberties? You would take liberties, just because the partners are away? Now, whoever would think such a thing of you, Dotty? Besides, everyone, that is? :wink: :smiley:

Boys, boys! Remember, Moooom may be away, but if your fighting leads to anybody crying, you’re in even bigger trouble when she gets back! Because I’ma telling on you! Pbbbbtht!

I feel semi-human this morning. My back is about a million percent happier, at least; it was such a pleasure to get up and sit down in my comfy new chair, I could hardly stand it! I can tell that buying the chair was indeed a wise decision. Of course, it would be more fun if I didn’t have to work whilst sitting in my chair, but I guess I need that tax deduction more than I need to goof off, don’t I? Sigh.

The Idiots done good this morning, kinda. We have a shed out in the back yard where we keep our big freezer, and Papa Tigs went out to get something out of the freezer while both Idiots were snoring away in the living room. Apparently they woke up to realize that Evil Lurks in the Back Yard Shed! Bark bark bark! They couldn’t see Papa Tigs, but simply alerted to the fact that there was someone in the shed – this is good! This is what watchdogs do! Well, except for it being their own human, of course. :rolleyes: Okay, they’re not the brightest dogs in the world, but it really doesn’t bother me that they protect our property by barking very, very loudly. The fact that all they’d do if someone actually broke in is try to lick them to death is beside the point. :rolleyes:

Okay, off to do something or other. And remember, boys, if anyone starts pulling hair, I’m going to have to send you to your rooms! I’m only a junior Mom here, but by golly, I’ll do it, just you wait and see! :smiley: :smiley:

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I’m just looking forward to the end of next week. We are having my leaving dinner at Señor Paco’s next Thursday - Tex-Mex with loads of jugs of margaritas! I thought about having dinner at a nice Italian restaurant, but we all make too much noise (absent the senior partners, we are a very sociable, rowdy bunch!). At the Mexican place, our noise will blend into all the other noise!

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'morning all, it’s just now 7:30 am in the cold north, but there are signs of spring out side, if one knows where to look for them. For one thing, the sky is already full daylight. It’s been another all night insomniac party for one again. One of the major issues keeping my mind turning is that my mom’s liver enzymes (or whatever they use to test whether to put her on the active or inactive transplant list) are up again, and she has been super sick recently. I mean like not-my-mom kind of not-all-there when I spoke with her twice last week. Dad finally forced her to the doctor, and she has abnormally high levels (amounts?) of ammonia in her brain, So, I stress.

The situations with my parents, brothers, grandmother, and bio-dad are all keeping my mind in a fog. Thus I haven’t been posting much. I hate all of this mortality stuff. I did happen upon an interview with Big Kenny Alphin (of Big & Rich) where he said (paraphrased) “Wouldn’t it be great if we were living and loving and it was all so perfect that when we pass over to the other side, we don’t even realize that we have gone.” I’ll have to find the interview again, just because it hit me so hard, and it did my ol’ heart some good.

So, I am going to work on grooming my pom Fat Tascha, as she is going to get weighed Monday prior to going to stay with my daughter’s mother-in-law’s Fat Blaster Camp for Pomeranians. Tascha is such a pretty girl, with a lovely temperament, who loves food. The mil (Trish) has two of my poms, and one of them I had given to her son, and they let him get very fat, and she has gotten him into shape in less than a year, so I hope that she is as successful with Tascha. I’ll take some photos of her after I groom her up all nice and pretty. While I am at it, they all need their feet and nails trimmed, and the spring shed is beginning. The upside is that I save this fur to put out for the birds when they return and begin building nests. I have some LBB’s* who love the stuff.

Okay, I’m gonna write my #2 daughter an email, she has been feeling blue and misses her family. I’ll come back later to comment on a couple of other posters, and not just whine. But first, a photo of Pretty L’il Miss at a playdate. She’s the sunshine in my day!

*LBB’s = little brown birds

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You even fight gay.
:smiley:

I am up (finally). I had big plans for getting up early and getting some stuff done and then leaving for the library, but I entered into a coma state and did not rouse until almost 10 am. Today I work at the library, see a not so new born baby, and go to the grocery store. Such a life I lead!

Baby is cute as hell,** kawik.**

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Sorry your mom is sick kai hugs L’il Miss is pretty, kids can just brighten your day don’t they? Mine is all hyper and sometimes irritating but when I come home after a crazy day at work and he runs up to me and gives me a HUGE hug I feel better (plus it’s amusing to hear him sing the alphabet to himself at random times when he thinks he can’t be overheard…).

Awake now, need some caffeinating. Going to see if I have any bacon around or else I’ll do a quick run across the street to Safeway to get some cuz I feel like scrambled eggs and bacon for breakfast. The plan is to put up my bookshelf today to get some stuff off my floor, and then to the library because I have a lot of books to pick up (mostly about house buying and condo buying because I don’t know anything about it and if I can I want to try and buy a townhouse style condo here, and a couple of others books by an author that had interested me). Velociraptor wants to go to the park too (which is what he almost always does after the library).

I had two weird dreams last night that woke me up. The first was I was wandering somewhere in the city and I was mugged by a group of tweens who had a gun. I was backing away with my hands up thinking I don’t want to be shot and die when I woke up. That wasn’t really weird, just out of place in my head.

The second was I was in a car with Velociraptor, I was in the back seat and he was in the front (which would never happen) and we were waiting for the driver to come back. Well somehow the car goes into gear and we start rolling down this hill, and up a hill, and basically all over like the car had a life of its own. I managed to get the car stopped (after climbing from the back seat to the front) and drive us in the general direction of where we came from but we’re utterly lost. I find us a house and knock, but no one is home and the door is open so we go in and as it’s late and we’re tired we start to make ourselves comfy for the night but two guys show up in the other room. Somehow they miss we are there, but I know if they spot us we’re in trouble and I’m afraid… and then I woke up again.

Dreams are weird.

It snowed again today, a few inches from the look of it outside (2-3) but I could be wrong. There’s some idiot parked in my stall again, and another one parked in the fire lane. Looks like they’ve been there most of the night since they are covered in snow and no tracks.

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Forgot to say earlier: I really like your hair, flutter.

Wrote you back, Pie.

Back from church and Whole Foods. Should clean out kitchen cupboards and make some bread. (I had so much fun making bread a couple weeks ago that I want to do it again. Need to modify a couple of old recipes to make a single loaf.

Also need to clean out the fridge and do something with leftover chicken. I know I’ma mix some of it into sketti sauce, but haven’t really thought of what else. Also planning to make some spinach calzones. (Do I sound like LiLi yet?) Suppose I should move kitchenward.

Back later.

GT

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Me too!

Special1, sorry, but Gay Husband and I have our lives planned out. We’ll have 10 kids (he’s on the bi-side of gay) that we can use as servants and he gets to have an affair with the poolboy while I have a dalliance with the gardener.

I told Gay Husband that in Korea it’s traditional to name your children according to what kind of hopes you have for them, to which he responded: “Then we shall name our first daughter FetchesDaddy’sCoffee.”

ETA:** kai**, baby is cuuuuuuuuute!

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So, question y’all–how do you guys decide who writes the MMP OP? Since I’m Left Coast USA pretty much everybody gets to Monday before me, but if anyone’s interested in the project I’m working on I could probably work something up…

Man, I slept IN this morning–it was pushing ten ayem really hard when I finally pried my drool sticky face off my pillow. Luckily the cat didn’t want to go out early (it was mega frosty last night–solid ice on the car from about 2230 on) and Widget was tired too so he was okay with getting his breakfast late. I haven’t slept this late in a year, probably. Feels niiiiiice!

I have a friend with celiac disorder who’s been audibly jonesing for a blueberry fritter for like weeks now and I find it’s catching–I totally want to drive to the damned Krispy Kreme for one now. How sick is THAT? Especially since they use those teeny tiny Maine blueberries that are so flavorless. Why anyone would use those crummy little things right in the middle of giant blueberry country I do NOT know… I need to learn how to make the stupid things, especially since I still have a bag of frozen berries left over from last summer, yum. We use them when the grandkid is over because he thinks no visit to grandma’s house is complete without blueberry pancakes drenched in syrup for breakfast. His mama doesn’t let him have all that sugar at home so of course it’s up to me to spoil the little punk rotten.

I think I’m going to veg out, watch movies and maybe–just MAYBE do a little work today. I have some info one-sheets I need to work up to be distributed in some upcoming Green product trade shows…

yawn butt scratch sips coffee, aaaahhh

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I love Krispy Kreme donuts. A hot one with a cuppa coffee, mmm. One thing I will enjoy when I get back to Seoul.

Smarty, we just assign OPs amongst ourselves, and gardentraveler keeps track. If you volunteer she’ll sign you up for the next empty slot. You can put the MMP up on Sunday night as well.

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Yeah…what Haze said. I keep the sign-ups in my signature so that you can see them if you look at my profile (and since I nearly never actually use my sig). I usually keep the last couple of OPs in there, too so that you can go look for previous MMPs if you need to.

Forgot to add a wave to kai and that cute little grandbaby of hers. (She looks so delighted to be at her playdate!)

Look, here’s my sig…

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Thanks! I like my hair too. :slight_smile:

Today is much busier than I thought it would be, we went into the freezer and discovered that it was defrosting. Stuff had fallen behind (after being put on top, I keep telling people not to do that but they do…) and knocked the plug half out. Happened sometime yesterday, so most things were still frozen but now I have a giant pot of chili on the stove, a roast in the crock pot, I have to pre-prep taco meat (I didn’t know we had so much ground beef) and refreeze it all (except the roast, that’s supper which was the plan anyway). I’m also going to have to do some baking with the cranberries and have a large pitcher of juice in the fridge.

What should I do with the salmon? Mom says it can be cooked and frozen again but won’t that make it mushy?

Dunno if I’ll get my bookshelf up today now, and next weekend is busy too.

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garden–Okay, in that case I volunteer for next week, 'kay?

Flutter–Cook the salmon simply, like bake it, then use it like tuna fish and make salmon salad sammiches, very yummy. It’ll keep a couple-three days cooked like that.

Well, the SO and I have aaaaalmost got ourselves talked into a trip to the KK, especially since there’s a drive through so we won’t have to get out of jammies and slippers…

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It’s a good idea Aleq, but I don’t much like salmon sandwiches. Not unless it’s something like grilled salmon and cheese, and that can’t be done at work. makes a face Ah well, we’ll eat it. Probably cook it today and then warm it up for supper tomorrow.

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Your home is a pleasant place from which you draw happiness.

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How about something like salmon croquettes? If you cook the salmon first you can then incorporate it into the croquettes the same way they advise using canned fish. Me, I love croquettes–salmon, crab, shrimp, you name it!

ETA:

…in bed!

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I swear, the people that makes these up MUST be silently saying to themselves, in my pants, in my pants, in my pants.

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Just say’in.

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I’ve been watching Eddie Izzard clips on youtube. I love Eddie.

CAKE OR DEATH?
Uh, cake please.

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:confused: Um…Haze, there is Krispy Kreme in Chicago, you know. Not to say that Chicago has everything that Korea does, but there is Krispy Kreme–I’ve been there.

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::Starts looking for Gardening Schools on the internet::

Well, picked up Silly the Ball-less from the vet this afternoon… I’m so disappointed in Modern Medicine! No “conehead”! :smiley:
Apparently, the procedure for spaying / neutering (which one is it for a male, anyway…? Every so often I realize I’m not quite as fluent in English as I usually think I am :o) is no so minimally intrusive, there are no external stitches that can be bitten or licked out, so no lampshade is necessary.
Hence, no pictures. Nothing to show!

He is, however, out for the count likely until morning due to the anesthesia’s after-effects – not asleep, but stumbling all over the place. He’s already waking up though… may be an interesting night if he decides he wants company!